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Among Monsters – Jamie McGuire COMING SOON!
October 13, 2014 Andrea Whittle Leave a comment
Travel back to Red Hill on Halloween!
AMONG MONSTERS will be here on October 31st!
Title: Among Monsters (A Red Hill Novella)
Author: Jamie McGuire
Among Monsters will be available in ebook and paperback on Amazon!
*Amazon Exclusive
Follow Jenna and Halle’s terrifying journey as they make their way to Red Hill Ranch. Head over to http://www.jamiemcguire.com/ for sneak peek!
When the world ends, can love survive?
For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can’t remember what it’s like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda’s biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals.When reports of a widespread, deadly “outbreak” begin to surface, these ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances and suddenly their fates are intertwined. Recognizing they can’t outrun the danger, Scarlet, Nathan, and Miranda desperately seek shelter at the same secluded ranch, Red Hill. Emotions run high while old and new relationships are tested in the face of a terrifying enemy—an enemy who no longer remembers what it’s like to be human.
Set against the backdrop of a brilliantly realized apocalyptic world, love somehow finds a way to survive. But what happens when the one you’d die for becomes the one who could destroy you?
Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.
Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with international bestseller, Beautiful Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.
Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.
Find Jamie at http://www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
Website: http://www.jamiemcguire.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Jamie.McGuire.Author
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamieMcGuire
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Responding to #DisabilityAfterDark #Podcast episode on #Disability and #Dating.
Posted by PhantomFemme in disability
"Liberation Phanship", "Phantom of the Opera", ableism, dating, disability, politics, POTO, romance
So I meant to post this for VAlentine’s Day, but I got running behind! I wanted to go ahead and post it anyway, though, as it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time now. It began, as the title of this post suggests, as a response to an episode of one of my favourite podcasts’ – Disability After Dark’s (see my links page) – episode on Disability and dating. Because, while I agreed with what was said, I also felt that there was another, important way to think about the issue that often gets overlooked.
The podcast episode focussed around the question “would you date a person with a disability”, because that was what came up when Andrew (the podcast host) Googled “disability and dating” in order to see what was out there on the subject. It is a question which many Disabled people, Andrew included, find deeply offensive because of the ways in which it conjures up and draws on really bad stereotypes of Disabled people as “difficult” partners – as extra needy, as burdens, and therefore as requiring extra-special, saintly courage and compassion to date or be a partner to. As Andrew points out, these stereotypes assume that the giving in the relationship goes all in one direction – from the able-bodied partner to the disabled dependent, and that the able partner receives nothing in return but the satisfaction of “doing good”. And he and other activists are absolutely right to call out these ideas! They are really problematic, and frankly insulting to both Disabled people and our partners.
I want to suggest, however, that there is a way in which dating/being a partner to some one with a Disability or Deformity does, in fact, require courage that usually gets overlooked in discussion of the issue. And that is that to date/partner a Disabled/Deformed person is, I would argue, an inherently political act. In choosing to date/partner a Disabled/Deformed person when you yourself are able-bodied, you are choosing to violate a social norm. You are choosing to do something society actively does not want you to do. Mainstream society prefers to see Disabled/Deformed people as asexual/aromantic – as perpetual children, or as hyper-sexual monsters. So by choosing to have a relationship with a Disabled/Deformed person as you would with anyone else, you are refusing both of these narratives (unless either one is your kink, in which case you are choosing to consciously and consensually embrace them for your own purposes). You are choosing to recognize that person as an adult, with an adult’s desires, who is fully capable of consenting to a relationship. And because you are choosing to defy deeply held beliefs and social norms, you will catch flack for it – very much in the way that interracial couples did in my Mom’s generation, or that the first generations of Queer and Trans folks to come out of the closet did! Mainstream society will use all the tools of shame and pressure in its arsenal to try to get you to fall back in line. You will watch your partner face inaccessible spaces, and you will have to choose whether to make a fuss in solidarity with them or keep silent. You will have to choose whether to put your foot down and refuse to go to inaccessible events that your friends invite you to because your partner can’t come too, risking being isolated by them for being such a “kill-joy”. You will have to see your partner be stared at, and you may find yourself stared at pityingly too. You will have people offering you their unsolicited sympathy for your partner’s plight, and for your plight in being stuck with them (though people will rarely phrase it with such overt rudeness). You will have people praising you for your saintly love/patience/forbearance – for your courage in taking on and sticking with such a burden, thus both insulting your partner and (not so subtly) implying that you “could do so much better”. In fact, you may even have some people come out and tell you that you could do so much better, and that it’s a shame to see you throw your life away like this. And they may further imply that you are doing so because you yourself have self-esteem issues.
(Note: all the examples referenced above are things that actually happen to partners of Disabled people, or that I have extrapolated from things my Mom remembers actually being said to or about interracial couples when she was younger, especially to White women dating Black men.)
As awesome Disability scholar and activist Loree Erickson points out in her essay “Revealing Femmegimp” (see my On-Going Annotated Bibliography page for citation info), shame is not merely a private emotion, but a political process. And all the instances described above that the partner of a Disabled person will face, though they occur at a personal level and come from a place of people’s deep personal beliefs, are part of this broader social/political process. They are part of defining who is desirable and who is not, and what kinds of relationships are acceptable. The purpose of these instances of shaming, then, is to get you to dump your Disabled/Deformed date/partner and re/ascent to the mainstream narratives about body-minds like theirs. And it does take great courage, love and commitment to stand up to and withstand that kind of pressure! It takes great courage, love and commitment to look society in the eye, as it were, and say “yes, I know you’ve declared this out of bounds, but I choose it anyway”, and to keep saying that. Indeed, I suspect that the reason so many people do end up dumping their Disabled partners is because they entered into the relationship initially without having thought through the political implications of the choice they were making, and were then surprised by and unprepared for the flack. They entered into the relationship without having really thought through whether they are willing to defy society and leave behind the safety of normalcy, and then found once into it that they were not.
Indeed, one of the things I’ve always found compelling as a Phantom Phan is that this, it’s always struck me, is the very choice Christine faces. This is not set out explicitly in either the original Leroux or the ALW musical. Rather, the story is portrayed, on its surface at least, as a straight-forward love-triangle. Yet to me anyway, the choice described above has always been strongly implicit. And this is one of the reasons why Phantom is at its most awesomely provocative when Christine is played as having genuine, deep feelings for and attractions to both men – feelings that could turn either way depending on the path she herself chooses. There is Raoul, who, though it would be frowned upon socially because of their class difference, is the safe option because there are, at least, cultural narrative precedents for such a choice (Cinderella, not to mention the many opera dancers to whom Leroux makes reference who married quite high aristocrats). Christine and he fit the “Prince Charming” myth. For her to choose the Phantom, however, would mean stepping into his outsider status, and foregoing all the familiar comforts of “normal”. In her time, there were no narrative precedents for the fair maiden choosing the beast that didn’t involve him being instantly and magically transformed into Prince Charming, and there are few such even today. And since he would not be so transformed, were Christine to choose the Phantom, her choice would be met, not merely with disapproval, but with revulsion and pathologization. And she knows this instinctively, because she has internalized these values herself. And in the end, when the Phantom releases her and Raoul, she does indeed go off with the “safe option”. But I’ve always felt that the story, especially as told in the original ALW stage-version, asks those who experience it to think about what choice they/we would make – what choice they/we will make? And it asks us/them to consider that making the riskier choice, the more defiant and daring choice, might, ultimately, be the path with the greater reward. But to make that choice, like any profound act of resistance, does indeed require courage! And as I’ve said elsewhere here, Phantom has always seemed to me to challenge, indeed to dare its viewer to have/find that courage.
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On self-duality of N=4 super Yang Mills theories
Where is the $OSp(N)$ Lie group used in gauge theory or string theory?
How to prove quantum N=4 Super-Yang-Mills is superconformal?
A Question about Wave-Function Renormalization Factor in SQCD
Intuition for Homological Mirror Symmetry
Is the U(1) gauge theory in 2+1D dual to a U(1) or an integer XY model?
Why is the dual photon compact?
Why is there an Euler density in SCFT $T_{\mu}^{\mu}$?
In what conceivable way can supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory help us understand traditional Yang-Mills?
Question about Monopole Operator
Why is Seiberg duality called an electromagnetic duality?
An electromagnetic duality is a duality that maps electric to magnetic degrees of freedom of two distinct theories. Apart from source-less Maxwell electrodynamics, other theories require magnetic monopoles. I am not an expert in ($N=1$) Seiberg duality but as far as I know there is no magnetic charges in it. So why is it called an electromagnetic duality? Where are the "magnetic" degree of freedom of the theories? My guess is just because it is also an S-duality such as the Montonen-Olive or GNO dualities. Yet their are much different. The EM duality in the sense of Montonen-Olive is exact in the sense that it is (conjectured) valid at any scale. The Seiberg duality however is a map valid only at particular regimes. The Seiberg duality maps the IR regime of the "electric" theory to an IR free regime of a "magnetic" theory. This map is not valid along the RG flow.
Note: I now that Seiberg assume magnetic monopoles in the theory. But how do these monopoles appear? If they are topological solutions, where is the spontaneous symmetry breaking pattern? Where is the homotopy condition for stable monopoles? Where are the field confiturations of these solitons? Where is the magnetic charge quantization? What are the topological charge or topological sectors of these monopoles?
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They're not different at all! Seiberg has used the term electric-magnetic duality in the title of his famous paper, too.
His duality is an electric-magnetic duality because the duality relates two descriptions and objects that are electrically charged under the gauge group on one side (e.g. quarks and gluons) are mapped to solitons (forms of magnetic monopoles) carrying the magnetic monopole charges under the gauge group in the dual description! So just like there is an "$SU(3)$-like" electric field $F_{0i}$ around a quark or gluon in the electric description, the same object looks like a magnetic field $F_{jk}$ in the dual description – and under the other description's gauge group.
Because this duality avoids an immediate contradiction, it must simultaneously be an S-duality, too. It couldn't be a weak-weak duality because the weak-coupling physics of any gauge theory is basically unique. "Easy to construct" excitations (quarks and gluons) may only be mapped to "complicated objects" (solitons) if the coupling is strong on one side.
Seiberg duality is just a generalization of the usual $F_{\mu\nu}\to *F_{\mu\nu}$ electric-magnetic duality of the Maxwell's theory, a generalization with different and more complex gauge groups on both sides, supersymmetry, and some quark matter. In Maxwell's theory, one can arguably "ban" magnetic monopoles but in non-Abelian gauge theories with complicated enough spectrum, they're basically unavoidable because one may construct them as classical solitonic solutions and these objects have to exist in the quantum theory, too.
In $d=4$, electric-magnetic duality and S-duality are basically synonyms. In different spacetime dimensionalities, these two notions become different because the electric-magnetic duality exchanges point-like charges with some branes of a different dimension while an S-duality should preserve the dimensionality (and location) of objects. To allow a more general symmetry that mixes the charges of different dimensions etc., one has to call it a U-duality.
This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2016-07-13 17:19 (UTC), posted by SE-user Luboš Motl
answered May 13, 2016 by Luboš Motl (10,278 points) [ no revision ]
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Thanks for your answer but I'm afraid I disagree. There is a fundamental difference between them. The EM duality in the sense of Montonen-Olive is exact in the sense that it is (conjectured) valid at any scale. The Seiberg duality however is a map valid only at particular regimes. It maps the IR regime of the "electric" theory to an IR free regime of a "magnetic" theory. This map is not valid along the RG flow. Also your second paragraph describes an EM duality in the sense of Montonen-Olive. I do not see any solitons in Seiberg duality. That is exactly my point!
commented May 13, 2016 by Diracology (120 points) [ no revision ]
Why don't you send your disagreement to Seiberg by e-mail instead? Just boldly inform him that his 1500-citation paper is rubbish - although he may be getting mail from similar senders. Already in the abstract, arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9411149 , he surely writes that the dual theory has magnetic monopoles, they're identified with the electric sources of the first theory, and that's why it's an electric-magnetic duality. Whether the map applies at all scales or just in the IR limit is irrelevant, the words electric and magnetic have nothing to do with these issues.
commented May 13, 2016 by Luboš Motl (10,278 points) [ no revision ]
Your point may be that there are no monopoles - but the correct, Seiberg's point, is that there are these monopoles, and that's really what this paper is all about, why it works, and why it's famous. The word "monopole" appears 18 times in the paper and there are specific formulae describing the superpotential, mass, and quantum numbers of these monopoles etc.
I never told Seiberg's works are rubish. Do not put words in my mouth. In fact I am a huge fan of Seiberg. The point is I do not see how monopoles appear in his theory. If you had answer they are ad hoc monopoles such as Dirac monopoles, it would be a better answer. But I do not see any spontaneous symmetry breaking nor homotopy conditions nor explicit solutions to the equations of motions. So where do these solitons come from?
OK, I can only recommend you a basic school in that case because you must clearly be illiterate. The paper is all about the monopoles, they're written everywhere. Are you able to read this sentence? All your questions are answered in the paper. If you are looking for confused laymen who share your basic misconceptions about the paper, you should go to a different server. This is a server with questions and answers about physics and I gave you the correct answer to your question and I expect to be thanked for that, not to argue with the very person who asked the question.
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But even if one could discuss magnetic monopoles without ever talking about solitons, it wouldn't change anything about the fact that the Seiberg duality is an electric-magnetic duality because it exchanges electrically charged objects with the magnetically charged objects.
I definitely know what a soliton is and how solitons appear in field theories. I also know the necessary conditions for a stable and charged quantized magnetic monopole. And I know how to explicitly obtain the solutions. In fact I might lack knowledge about Seiberg duality, but I have not seen any of these in his work. That is why I am asking, otherwise why would I be here? Well I will not continuous this unfruitful discussion. I hope there is no bad feelings =)
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Yapı Kredi Drives Mobile Banking Innovation with Big Data Analytics
By Chris Murphy
For customers of Turkey’s Yapı Kredi Bank, the dream of leaving the wallet at home and only packing a phone is now a real option.
Yapı Kredi has more than 5 million active customers on its mobile app and internet banking, and more than 90 percent of those customers’ transactions are done via mobile. They use phones to make payments at the cash register without a debit card. If they need cash, they can use a QR code from the mobile app to withdraw from a Yapı Kredi ATM. For online shopping, they can also pay via a QR code.
“As Digital Bank of Turkey, mobile is the heart of the digital channels for Yapı Kredi,” says Yapı Kredi Vice President Gülter Bedel. Mobile is also the center of Yapı Kredi’s innovation efforts. Most recently, the bank enabled mobile banking app access on both iOS and Android phones via eye-recognition software, which Bedel states was a first in Europe. “Your password is your eyes,” he says.
And if they need to contact a Yapı Kredi rep, they can call directly from the mobile app, or use the app without the security questions to find a branch and schedule an appointment. Customers do six times more transactions via mobile than they do through the bank’s more than 850 branches, the company says. By making innovation a strategic priority, Yapı Kredi Bank has become one of the 10 most valuable brands in Turkey, according to the annual Brand Finance rankings, with a “Dedicated to Deliver” motto and a customer-centric approach.
A Data-Driven Strategy
A mobile strategy like Yapı Kredi’s requires strong app design, of course, but data provides the real power. The bank’s mobile strategy is succeeding in large part because of big data analytics that includes monitoring customer actions to head off problems, spot new product opportunities, and data mining to better understand customers’ needs.
“Every customer click is an event, so we analyze it,” Bedel says. And so is every missed click. “If you apply for a loan but you give up halfway it’s an important event to take an action,” he says.
Yapı Kredi monitors and analyzes its data on Oracle Exadata X7, a software-and-hardware system engineered to run a database most effectively. Combining Exadata with Oracle R—an enterprise version of the open source statistical language—Yapı Kredi business analysts now can build their own models directly in the Oracle Database, letting them quickly explore ideas and get answers if they’re considering a new product or investigating a problem. “This converts them into more of a data scientist from a regular business user, which really strengthens our analytical strategy,” says Ongun Demirler, Yapı Kredi Big Data Analytics Manager.
The bank is about two years into its big data analytics strategy, having come along a “huge learning curve,” says Uygar Er, Big Data and Analytics Project Engineer at Yapı Kredi. For each new analytics project, the technology teams bring together people from finance, IT, and a business or product unit to set clear business goals and give the project a manageable scope. That’s one of the big lessons the Yapı Kredi team has learned: Don’t try to harness all of the possible data and answer too many questions at once; instead, focus on smaller wins and steady progress.
“It’s always best to dream big but start small, to get some quick measurable wins to attract attention,” Bedel says. “Don’t get lost in big data by trying to gather all the data, all the requirements.”
Lessons Learned, Where to Next?
Below are a few examples of Yapı Kredi’s early wins, lessons learned, and data analytics plans. (The Yapı Kredi team is presenting at Oracle OpenWorld, one of more than 2,000 sessions at the October 22 to 25 event in San Francisco.)
The bank improved its call center results with more sophisticated models. Yapı Kredi’s analysts were comfortable using SQL to query databases, but they were having some troubles in terms of performance, data and model management while using R, a more sophisticated open-source statistical programming language. So they tapped Oracle R, an enterprise version of the language that made R capabilities accessible to more people, letting analysts develop more sophisticated models, increase performance, maintain better data quality, and make data preparation more easily, Demirler says.
“They’re able to drive more value from data,” Demirler says. One example: Yapı Kredi implemented a new decision tree model to estimate the best time to call that increased answered collection calls by nearly 20 percent.
It improved an efficient ATM cash management. Using analytics, cash management optimization of Yapı Kredi determines when to re-stock its 4,288ATM machines and with the right amount of cash. As a consequence, Yapı Kredi manages the trade-offs between costs and service to make the right decision based on the cash management strategy of the bank.
For example, some of Yapı Kredi’s ATMs are able to dispense money that is deposited by other customers. This feature is called ATM cash recycling. “It’s important to place those machines in locations where the deposits and withdrawals are about equal, so those machines won’t need much extra, idle cash,” Bedel says.
Yapı Kredi will use unstructured data for better predictive analytics. The Yapı Kredi team is exploring applying text mining to call center conversations in real time, so its models can anticipate what a customer needs and provide the rep with the right information to help. “Based on what you said earlier in that call, we will try to predict what you will need and help you better during that call,” Bedel says.
Likewise, the bank is pulling in more location data to discover the market opportunities, better understand its customers and anticipate what they might need on the mobile app or through a call center.
These are just some of the examples of how Yapı Kredi expects its big data analytics will improve customer experiences, especially on its vital digital channels. “We want to be ahead of both our customer and our competition,” Bedel says. “Yapı Kredi is giving priority to the innovation and to do that we trust the power of data analytics.”
Chris Murphy is Oracle director of cloud content.
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Torres, Hutchinson and Trenado Run in Oakland District 5 School Board Race
Three candidates are actively campaigning for the District 5 seat on the Oakland Board of Education: incumbent Roseann Torres, Oakland native and school activist Mike Hutchinson and middle school teacher Huber Trenado, who is part of the slate backed by the pro-charter organization Great Oakland (GO) Public Schools.A fourth candidate, Michael Hassid, is on the ballot but has not appeared so far at candidate speaking events.
Torres, who practices law in Oakland, is married and the parent of a high school senior. Originally from Stockton, she has lived in Oakland for about 12 years.
Speaking of her accomplishments, Torres said she is most proud of the 14 percent teacher pay raise that the school board negotiated with teachers.
“This is very big accomplishment to give a double digit raise to teachers” in a district that loses teachers frequently to nearby districts that pay $8,000 or more a year than Oakland, Torres said. She is also proud of her efforts to initiate and pass an ethnic studies requirement at all Oakland high schools.
Torres began working with a teacher in 2014 to develop the policy. Before that, she said, there were only a few teachers who taught ethnic studies “under the radar, without permission.”
Ultimately, the policy passed the board on a 7-0 vote.
When she first ran for the school board, Torres said she had no idea what the pro-charter corporate lobby was or the role of GO Public Schools in Oakland.
“They thought I was going to be a blank check for charters and not just do what I thought was right,” she said. “I started getting checks from all over the country (to support her candidacy).
“I didn’t know they wanted to control what I did and how I vote. Their assumption was: we brought in all this money, and you have to vote way we expect.”
Torres said she supports charter schools and charter school renewals that she thinks are good for the students and the community but that she is not a blank check.
However, GO and other charter school backers have turned against her for taking an independent stand, she said.
Mike Hutchinson, born and raised in Oakland, attending public schools. He is not a teacher but has worked in local schools in many capacities, including as a coach and in afterschool programs.
Hutchinson speaks at most school board meetings, pushing the board and the administration to be more responsive to community needs, he said.
He says he has three top priorities.
First he wants to see the district adopt “authentic community engagement,” to listen to parents and the community to incorporate what they say into policies and decisions.
At present, he said, “district staff shows up and tells the community what they plan on doing,” he said.
Second, he wants to “reprioritize” the district budget, which this year is $792 million. About $80 million of the funds are spent outsourcing district functions to highly paid consultants. The saved money can be invested in improving neighborhood schools, he said.
His priority would be to stop privitization.
“Oakland has over 40 charter schools, but San Leandro has none, and San Francisco and Berkeley only have a few,” he said, emphasizing that the district is giving too many of its resources to charters.
Huber Trenado works as a seventh-grade humanities teacher at Lazear Charter Academy in the Fruitvale District.
His family emigrated from Mexico, and he was born in Los Angeles. He later moved to Oakland, where he attended school and lived in a small apartment with his mother and six siblings.
If elected, Trenado said he would be the first openly gay school board member.
The loss of teachers has lot to do with the lack of support they receive in their first few years in the district, he said.
“Teaching is a really hard thing, and it crucial to help them grow during their first years in the profession,” said Trenado.
He said he wants to improve the schools so all students get served. At many flatland schools, as many as 50 percent of the students do not graduate or have the coursework to go to college.
He has the backing of GO Public Schools but is not a member.
“I’m not pro charter,” he said. “I don’t support new charter schools being opened. I don’t think opening new charter schools is fiscally responsible.”
However, he said, “the whole debate is political,” not focusing on what is good for students and families. “It’s a lot of privileged people” who are complaining about charter schools, he said.
Great Oakland (GO) Public Schools responds:
“The GO endorsement process is driven by the recommendations of parents, educators, and community members evaluating school board candidates on a broad policy agenda, not a candidate’s willingness to support charter growth. GO did not endorse Rosie Torres because she did not do the job- for example, she has been absent or late to at least 1 out of 3 school board meetings. Attendance at school board meetings is the lowest bar you can set for a school board member and Rosie didn’t clear that bar. Our parents, educators and community leaders believe students, families, and voters in District 5 deserve better.” – Ash Solar, Executive Director, GO Public Schools Advocates
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City Guidelines Regarding the Installation of “Yield” Signs
Traffic Services Division of the Department of Public Works
1 Governing Document Reference:
2 MUTCD Requirements:
3 City of Overland Park Guidelines for Installation:
3.1 T-Intersections:
3.2 Roundabouts:
3.3 At Free-Flow Right Turn Lanes:
3.4 Conditions where “Yield” signs will not be installed:
4 Sign Standards:
5 Applicable Overland Park Traffic Ordinances – Chapter 12.04:
5.1 ARTICLE X. RIGHT-OF-WAY
Governing Document Reference:
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways (MUTCD), 2009 or latest edition and the Overland Park Municipal Code (OPMC), Title 12 – Traffic, Chapter 12.04, 12.04.032, 12.04.057 – 12.04.059, 12.04.080, and Resolution No. 4037.
MUTCD Requirements:
Engineering judgment should be used to establish intersection control. The following factors should be considered:
A. Vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic volumes on all approaches;
B. Number and angle of approaches;
C. Approach speeds;
D. Sight distance available on each approach; and
E. Reported crash experience.
“Yield” or “Stop” signs should be used at an intersection if one or more of the following conditions exist:
A. An intersection of a less important road with a main road where application of the normal right-of-way rule would not be expected to provide reasonable compliance with the law;
B. A street entering a designated through highway or street; and/or
C. An unsignalized intersection in a signalized area.
In addition, the use of “Yield” or “Stop” signs should be considered at the intersection of two minor streets or local roads where the intersection has more than three approaches and where one or more of the following conditions exist:
A. The combined vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian volume entering the intersection from all approaches averages more than 2,000 units per day;
B. The ability to see conflicting traffic on an approach is not sufficient to allow a road user to stop or yield in compliance with the normal right-of-way rule if such stopping or yielding is necessary; and/or
C. Crash records indicate that five or more crashes that involve the failure to yield the right-of-way at the intersection under the normal right-of-way rule have been reported within a 3-year period, or that three or more such crashes have been reported within a 2-year period.
Once the decision has been made to control an intersection, the decision regarding the appropriate roadway to control should be based on engineering judgment. In most cases, the roadway carrying the lowest volume of traffic should be controlled. A “Yield” or “Stop” sign should not be installed on the higher volume roadway unless justified by an engineering study. The following are considerations that might influence the decision regarding the appropriate roadway upon which to install a “Yield” or “Stop” sign where two roadways with relatively equal volumes and/or characteristics intersect:
A. Controlling the direction that conflicts the most with established pedestrian crossing activity or school walking routes;
B. Controlling the direction that has obscured vision, dips, or bumps that already require drivers to use lower operating speeds; and
C. Controlling the direction that has the best sight distance from a controlled position to observe conflicting traffic.
“Yield” (R1-2) signs assign right-of-way to traffic on certain approaches to an intersection. Vehicles controlled by a “Yield” sign need to slow down to a speed that is reasonable for the existing conditions or stop when necessary to avoid interfering with conflicting traffic. “Yield” signs may be installed:
On the approaches to a through street or highway where conditions are such that a full stop is not always required.
For a channelized turn lane that is separated from the adjacent travel lanes by an island, even if the adjacent lanes at the intersection are controlled by a traffic control signal or by a “Stop” sign.
An intersection where a special problem exists and where engineering judgment indicates the problem to be susceptible to correction by the use of the “Yield” sign.
Facing the entering roadway for a merge-type movement if engineering judgment indicates that control is needed because acceleration geometry and/or sight distance is not adequate for merging traffic operation.
The “Yield” sign shall be installed on the near side of the intersection on the right-hand side of the approach to which it applies. The “Yield” sign shall be located as close as practical to the intersection it regulates, while optimizing its visibility to the road user it is intended to regulate. Except at roundabouts, where there is a marked crosswalk at the intersection, the “Yield” sign should be installed in advance of the crosswalk line nearest to the approaching traffic.
If a raised splitter island is available on the left-hand side of a multi-lane roundabout approach, an additional “Yield” sign should be placed on the left-hand side of the approach. If a raised splitter island is available on the left-hand side of a single lane roundabout approach, an additional “Yield” sign may be placed on the left-hand side of the approach.
“Yield” lines, that are used to supplement a “Yield” sign, should be located at the point behind which vehicles are required to yield.
City of Overland Park Guidelines for Installation:
The reviewer should observe the intersection sight distance triangle to determine if adequate sight distance cannot be achieved according to the AASHTO publication A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, latest edition. “Yield” signs will be installed at locations as determined by the City Traffic Engineer to control traffic. A field investigation is required to determine if a “Yield” sign is to be installed at various types of intersections as follows.
T-Intersections:
If intersection sight distance requirements for the minor street at residential / residential street “T”–intersections with no control are not met based on Case A (No Control, but Allowing Vehicles to Adjust Speed), some type of control should be considered. The sight distance requirements are based on the guidelines indicated in the AASHTO publication A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, latest edition.
If the intersection sight distance triangle provides adequate sight distance for a yield condition for left or right turns, a “Yield” sign should be considered. According to these criteria, whenever the sight triangle is limited based on yield conditions for left or right turns, a “Stop” sign should be considered. Refer to the Intersection Control Guidelines for Residential Streets-Stop vs Yield Control for reviewing intersection sight distance for standard 28' back to back residential streets. (Also see Stop Sign Design Guidelines Regarding the Installation of "Stop Signs”)
When not called for based on sight distance requirement, a “Yield” sign may be posted at residential T-intersections (3-leg) to assign right-of-way. The leg (or legs) to be signed will be determined by engineering judgment based on driver expectations. A typical situation where assignment of ROW is needed is a situation where the major street is the leg of the T-intersection. An example of such a situation is the intersection of 164th and Ash. Ash, which is the connecting street between the neighborhood and the collector street, intersects at a “T” with 164th Street. Being identified as the major street a driver on Ash may assume the right-of-way at 164th Street. However, as Ash is the leg of the T-intersection, a driver on 164th may also assume the right-of-way. Thus the need to assign right-of-way arises.
Roundabouts:
“Yield” signs will only be installed on the right hand side of the approach lanes and not on the left hand side in the splitter island at single lane roundabouts.
At multi-lane roundabouts, an additional “Yield” sign will be installed in the splitter island on the left hand side of the approach.
See Roundabout Sign Design Guidelines for additional information and requirements.
At Free-Flow Right Turn Lanes:
“Yield” signs will be installed at locations where free-flow right turn lanes merge onto another street, e.g. at ramp terminals coming off the interstate or other highway.
Conditions where “Yield” signs will not be installed:
When not warranted unless otherwise directed by Council action or as determined by the City Traffic Engineer.
Typically, “Yield” signs will not be installed at any intersection other than T-intersections, roundabouts, or at locations of free-flow right turn lanes.
If not meeting any of the above criteria.
Sign Standards:
The standard size of the “Yield” (R1-2) sign will be 36” x 36” x 36” when facing traffic on a single lane approach and 48” x 48” x 48” when facing traffic on a multi-lane approach. It shall be a downward-pointing equilateral triangle with a wide red border and the legend YIELD in red on a white retro-reflectorized background.
Applicable Overland Park Traffic Ordinances – Chapter 12.04:
12.04.32 Duties of City Traffic Engineer
a) The City Traffic Engineer shall determine the installation and proper timing and maintenance of traffic control devices; conduct engineering analysis of traffic accidents and devise remedial measures; conduct engineering investigations of traffic conditions; plan the operation of traffic on the streets and highways of this City; cooperate with other City officials in the development of ways and means to improve traffic conditions; and carry out the additional powers and duties imposed by ordinances of this City.
b) The City Traffic Engineer, the Assistant City Traffic Engineer, or the Director of Public Works shall place, maintain, change, and remove traffic control signs, signals, and devices, when and as required under the traffic ordinances of this City to make effective and carry out the provisions of said ordinances, and may place, maintain, change and remove such additional traffic control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to warn or guide traffic.
(History: Ord. TC-1260,C §1,86;TC-1260 §31,84)
ARTICLE X. RIGHT-OF-WAY
12.04.057 Vehicles Approaching or Entering Intersection.
a) When two vehicles approach or enter an intersection from different highways at approximately the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.
b) The right-of-way rule declared in subsection (a) is modified at through highways and otherwise as hereinafter stated in this ordinance.
(History: K.S.A.8-1526; Ord. TC-1260PP '3, 98; TC-1260 '56, 84)
12.04.058 Vehicle Turning Left. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left within an intersection or into any alley, private road or driveway shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(History: K.S.A.8-1527; Ord. TC-1260 '57, 84)
12.04.59 Stop Signs and Yield Signs.
a) Preferential right-of-way may be indicated by stop signs or yield signs.
b) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering it. After having stopped, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction of roadways such driver shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within an adjacent crosswalk.
c) The driver of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall in obedience to such sign slow down to a speed reasonable for the existing conditions and if required for safety to stop, shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway before entering it. After slowing or stopping, the driver shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or approaching on another roadway so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection or junction of roadways. Such driver shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians within an adjacent crosswalk. If a driver is involved in a collision with a vehicle in the intersection or junction of roadways or with a pedestrian in an adjacent crosswalk, after driving past a yield sign without stopping, such collision shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the driver's failure to yield right-of-way.
(History: K.S.A.8-1528; Ord. TC-1260, KK §6, 95; TC-1260 §58, 84)
12.04.060 Vehicle Entering Roadway. The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a roadway from any place other than another roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on the roadway to be entered or crossed.
(History: K.S.A.8-1529; Ord. TC-1260 §59, 84) See: 12.04.002 & 12.04.080
12.04.080 Emerging from Alley or Private Driveway or Building. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, building, private road or driveway within a business or residence district shall stop such vehicle immediately prior to driving onto a sidewalk or onto the sidewalk area extending across such alley, building entrance, road or driveway, or in the event there is no sidewalk area, shall stop at the point nearest the street to be entered where the driver has a view of approaching traffic thereon.
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The long road to victory
The Second World War offered Britain the chance to imagine an egalitarian future, says Lara Feigel
Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937-41
by Daniel Todman (Allen Lane, £30)
In August 1941, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt met on the Prince of Wales in the middle of the Atlantic to determine whether the United States was going to help Britain win the war. During the voyage, Churchill had prepared by reading the heroic naval exploits of Captain Horatio Horn-blower in a novel by CS Forester, while eating caviar that Roosevelt’s emissary had brought from Moscow. Both leaders had high expectations but only Roosevelt remembered that they had shared an enjoyable conversation 20 years earlier. Awkwardness overcome, they cheerfully exchanged tales of military and political life, attended a Sunday church service and agreed that Roosevelt would provide naval aid to Britain and make a statement of common purpose. It wasn’t as much as Churchill felt he was entitled to expect, but it laid the groundwork for America’s entry into the war a few months later.
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Railnova Case Study
Railway Fleet Management through telematics
With strict regulations to comply with and a lack of component standardization to overcome, Railnova has developed a comprehensive railway fleet management solution that works across technology standards to benefit all players in the railway industry. As a leading technology company that provides telematics, hardware and software solutions, Railnova fully understands all of the obstacles and difficulties their customers face and has created a solution to meet the needs of a transforming railway industry.
https://www.railnova.eu/
End to end railway fleet management
Christian Sprauer, founder and CEO of Railnova, started the company in October of 2010 and since then it has been providing cutting-edge solutions for the railway industry throughout Europe. Railnova’s premier product, the Railster UG, is a custom-made railway specific telematics and GPS platform solution with exceptional GPS functionality, revolutionary connectivity, continuous performance, easy installation and removal and future proof capabilities.
Railnova’s Railfleet Software utilizes the data gathered by the Railster UG and gives customers full control and visibility of their fleets. The Railster UG features real-time tracking and exact positioning and can also detect events such as departures, arrivals, and timetable delays. Engine hours, fuel consumption and component fault codes can also all be measured and transmitted. In order to be able to report this information accurately, a secure, reliable data connection is indispensable.
According to Sprauer, the railway industry faces a complete lack of component standardization, meaning that a wide variety of sensor technologies have been developed to suit each different component type. This lack of standardization paired with strict electronics and device production regulations make Railnova’s objective of getting their product to market even more challenging than their freight fleet counterparts. For that reason, they need a fully agnostic data connectivity solution that will work with all the various component standards, making rollout of their product as quick and efficient as possible.
Large providers inflexible with a young company
Railnova needed data SIM cards to insert into the Railster UG to transmit approximately 200 fields of data to their servers and also use GPS for monitoring operations. “We wanted to get a grip on the full chain of data transmission, from capturing the fieldbus information on the train, to sending it through GPRS, to managing message queues and front end display on our web servers,” Sprauer says.
When looking for a data connectivity provider in July of 2011, Railnova spoke to several European companies, including PodM2M. “When I first spoke to Charles Towers-Clark (Managing Director of Pod Group), I had ascertained it was a flexible and knowledgeable company in its field. Some of our suppliers advised against taking a third party and insisted on staying with a premier operator. We were a small company at that time and had nothing to lose, especially as incumbent telcos were also refusing to do business with our six-month-old company,” explains Sprauer. “I spoke to Charles one evening and we were testing the SIMs the day after.” Compared to other SIM card providers, Sprauer says PodM2M was “unbeatable.” “We stopped there and bought the cards,” he says.
Continuous M2M Connectivity Across Continents
Throughout Railnova’s partnership with PodM2M, they have used several different solutions, which Sprauer says “perform superbly.” The main SIM they are currently using is PodM2M’s Best Signal Multi-network SIM which connects to the strongest signal as soon as the device is turned on. Because there is no “steering” on the Home Location Register (HLR), the SIM will automatically connect to the next available network if it loses signal on one network. Multiple networks are covered in each country, which means the trains can pass through multiple countries and potentially poor coverage areas with no disruption to the connection.
“The Best Signal multi-network SIM was a product that really fit our needs, with a flat fee and clear extra usage pricing. We can transmit a lot of data within a fixed price to our end customers, which is crucial,” says Sprauer. Flexible data packages were very important to Railnova because it is often difficult for them to forecast usage. Sprauer continues. “One of the reasons we chose PodM2M was because with our incumbent provider we were locked into the package.” PodM2M offers the opportunity to increase the package for each SIM based on the requirements of the customer. Therefore data is used efficiently and unnecessary costs are eliminated.
Railnova not only needed a flexible solution, but also one that they could control. “PodM2M – even before they manufactured their own SIM cards – was attractive in the sense they had a tighter control and transparency over the SIM cards,” Sprauer says. PodM2M’s FreedoM-2-Manage (F2M) SIM management platform allows for granular control of data limits, activations, alerts and connectivity status on all SIMs, including real-time data, location and billing information.
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Home Chef aims to move its headquarters to a 75,000-square-foot space in the building by December, The Chicago Tribune reported, noting that the new headquarters will feature a research kitchen and the customer support department in one centralized location.
The meal-kit company, which was acquired by Kroger in 2018, currently has 250 employees working out of three smaller offices in the Windy City, including its present headquarters within the Wrigley building. Home Chef also revealed plans to hire 150 more employees over the next few years.
Meanwhile, 84.51°, Kroger’s data analytics arm since 2015, will move into a 57,000-square-foot office in the Old Post Office this fall, with plans to go from 86 Chicago employees to 250 over the next few years in a space large enough to accommodate 300 employees.
Other future tenants of the building will include drug store chain Walgreens, in some of whose locations Home Chef is coincidentally selling meal kits, and Ferrara Candy. The 2.8 million-square-foot structure, at 433 W. Van Buren St., is being converted into offices in an $800 million-plus project undertaken by New York-based 601W Cos.
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What Happened on Telemetry?
by Kristin E. Sandau, PhD, RN, and Marjorie Funk, PhD, RN; April 2019
An elderly woman with a history of dementia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, and congestive heart failure (CHF) was brought to the emergency department and found to meet criteria for sepsis. Due to her CHF, she was admitted to a unit with telemetry monitoring, which at this institution was performed remotely. When the nurse came to check the patient's vital signs several hours later, she found the patient to be unresponsive and apneic, with no palpable pulse. A Code Blue was called, but the patient died. Although the telemetry technician had recognized progressive bradycardia and called the hospital floor several minutes before the code, he was placed on hold because the nurse was busy with another patient. While he was holding, he observed worsening bradycardia, eventually transitioning to asystole, and tried to redial the unit, but no one answered.
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Recently the translator of my psychopathy blog in Italian, Relazioni Pericolose (www.relazionipericoloseblog.wordpress.com), has conveyed to me some of the questions that Italian readers have about psychopathy. Since I think that these questions are equally relevant to English-speaking readers, I’m including below their questions and my answers:
QUESTIONS/ANSWERS ABOUT RELAZIONI PERICOLOSE/DANGEROUS LIAISONS by Claudia Moscovici
Has the psychopath a sort of addiction from emotions? Is his obsession for his prey similar to the obsession that a victim experiences toward him?
Yes and no. The psychopath is, above all, an emotional predator. He (or she, if the psychopath is a woman) gets high on the sense of power that controlling others, and seeing them addicted to him, creates. He also becomes obsessed with hooking new victims, and can invest a lot of energy in getting them to believe the fictions he creates: that he loves them, cares about them, and will give them everything that they want (be it happiness, love, wealth, etc.). However, the psychopath’s emotions are at the same time very shallow. A psychopath is incapable of forming real, caring and deep attachments to others. So even his obsessions—and thus the “highs” he experiences when he hooks new victims–tend to be shallow and fleeting. He moves from one victim from another; from one high to another.
What determines boredom?
A psychopath’s boredom is created by the fact he (or she) has no emotional depth. He can’t care much about others; he has no enduring bonds that aren’t based on mutual interest, or mutual using. Every human contact for the psychopath is a power game, one that he plans to win. Normal people avoid boredom by finding meaning in their personal relationships, caring about those close to them, caring about their jobs and endeavors. Nothing of the sort can root a psychopath, so he’s constantly looking for new relationships, new jobs and places, new sources of diversion and pleasure. But sooner or later they all bore him.
What determines the duration of the three different phases of the relation?
There are many variables in how the process of idealize, devalue and discard plays out in a relationship with a psychopath: such as whether the psychopath is charismatic enough to find many victims; whether the victim proves a challenge to him or is easy to get; for how long the victim is useful to the psychopath; and how much a victim accepts the eventual mistreatment. Some victims never leave the psychopath no matter how much he abuses them. The toxic bond becomes too strong; their self-esteem has been worn down; they feel like they are nothing without the psychopath. There are also some victims who begin to adopt psychopathic traits (lack of empathy, shallowness of emotions, pleasure in hurting others) either because they had such tendencies or because the psychopath encourages such behavior.
Can he feel happiness? What does it mean for him?
If happiness implies depth of emotion, caring about others, then no, the psychopath can’t feel that. But a psychopath often feels emotional thrills or highs when he gets his way, succeeds at a new conquest or endeavor, or wins some kind of battle with someone.
Why do psychopaths repeat the same mistakes relationship after relationship and why don’t they ever learn from them?
Psychopaths never learn because they don’t want to learn from their mistakes. They don’t consider them to be mistakes. Psychopaths are highly narcissistic and amoral individuals who take no responsibility for their wrongdoing. If something goes wrong, they blame it on others. If they hurt their victims, they blame their victims. Often they take great pleasure in hurting others. Sometimes psychopaths do go to therapy to “improve” a relationship, but that occurs only when it’s in their perceived self-interest to stay in that relationship and it’s always a ruse (they fool their partners, the therapist, their family into believing they can and want to change for the better).
Do psychopaths remember their protoemotions after the end of the relation or are they able to delete them completely?
Psychopaths may recall the sense of the excitement they felt at the beginning of a relationship, but they don’t feel any real, deeper attachment for the person who provoked it. In other words, they remember fondly their excitement, not their partner or relationship. This is why psychopaths tend to search for a new person or, more likely, persons, that can provoke in them the same excitement while forgetting about the past person or persons they felt excitement with.
You’re always talking about psychopaths. Are there deep differences between them and malignant narcissists?
There are differences between psychopaths and narcissists in that all psychopaths are narcissistic (self-absorbed, selfish) but not all narcissists are psychopathic (engage in game-like behavior, are pathological liars, etc.). However, malignant narcissists have such high narcissism that they’re very close to psychopaths on the psychological spectrum.
What does a psychopath feel after his prey escapes?
Very often, anger. Rage. This is why the most dangerous period of time for a victim is right after she’s escaped from a psychopath or any kind of abuser, when he’s likely to be very angry that his possession, or someone he controlled, has dared to leave him.
When he’s hovering is he always in bad faith? Does he hope to change?
A psychopath may feel that it’s in his immediate interest to make some changes to please his spouse, his family, his friends, etc. But those changes are momentary, and always based on short-term, perceived self-interest. They’re not other-regarding in any way. So my answer is that psychopaths won’t make any positive difference for the sake of others in an enduring manner.
During the idealization stage is he aware of the dramatic end of the relationship for his fault or could he hope to have found Mrs. Right?
Psychopaths have only fleeting feelings, so at some moments a psychopath may feel so excited by a partner that he may feel he found “Mrs. Right.” But, at the same time, psychopaths are always strategic and manipulative and their feelings are always very shallow. So the “Mrs. Right” of one day, or one month, or one year isn’t going to be the same one as the next day, month or year. The concept of “Mrs. Right” or “true love” has no real meaning for a psychopath because he can’t really love.
What is the exposure effect? What does he feel when a girlfriend expose him?
Anger and derision. In fact, often a psychopath will preemptively smear his victim—try to destroy her reputation to acquaintances and friends—so that when the victim exposes his behavior to others they won’t believe her.
The Italian blog Relazioni Pericolose has reached almost 20.000 hits in one month. It seems that Italian women need advice and counseling. Why is psychopathy is so little known?
Psychopathy is a big problem—affecting tens of millions of lives—all over the world. Although psychopaths constitute a small percentage of the human population—between 1 to 4 percent, depending which statistics you rely on—they are very sociable and promiscuous and therefore touch (and destroy) many lives. The popular perception about psychopaths is that they’re serial killers or murderers. So most people feel relatively safe, like they won’t run into a psychopath. The reality is that few psychopaths murder. So most people don’t realize that they have very high chances of interacting with more “ordinary” psychopaths: serial cheaters, serial frauds and serial liars, rather than serial killers. The blogs on psychopathy that are informed by research, such as this one, and now the blog in Italian translation, Relazioni Pericolose (www.relazionipericoloseblog.wordpress.com), can reach millions of readers because they bring the reality of psychopathy home. Pathological relationships can touch your life. If you’ve been in an abusive relationship, it may have been with a psychopath. Few people are immune from harmful relationships. Information can help all of us to identify dangerous relationships, or as the name of my book on psychopathy indicates, Dangerous Liaisons. Because, let’s face it, the most toxic relationships are romantic relationships with predatory individuals. They can cause unbelievable harm, but with knowledge we can heal and move on with our lives.
Today Italian Blog Relazioni Pericolose is one month old. We have already had thousands and thousands of visits. It seems like Italian women need help, through therapy, specific books and finding each other on recovery forums on the Internet. What is your first advice for a fast and safe healing?
My advice to Italian women is first of all to find well-researched information on abusive relationships, psychopathy and narcissism, in reliable blogs and books. Without such information it’s easy to “normalize” abuse. In the case of charismatic psychopaths, it’s easy to remember the excitement of the honeymoon phase, attribute it to “romantic love”, and then find reasons for its dissipation and later abuse in themselves instead of their disordered partners. In Latin cultures, such as Italy, France and my native country Romania, it’s easy to mistake even negative traits, such as jealousy, possessiveness and the controlling nature of psychopaths, for passion. But Don Juan is appealing only in opera and fiction. In real life, such personalities spell disaster. Accepting that the romantic phase of a pathological relationship was never about love or even passion, but about conquest, dupery and a new thrill for the psychopath is very important. Then, once victims seek information and establish that they’ve been roped in by a pathological partner, escape and go “no contact”. Each contact with a psychopath offers him an opportunity for him to rope you in, manipulate you and harm you again, usually even worse than before. This doesn’t mean living in fear of him. It means leaving him behind and never engaging again with others that share his personality traits.
Getting over a relationship with a psychopath can be difficult when children, even adult children, are involved. How can one protect them from manipulation and abuse from their father? How can one reduce the risk that they will grow up like him?
Psychopathy can be genetic, in which case there’s little that can be done. One sees some children who grow up beloved, and still turn out psychopathic as adults. However, it’s more common that psychopaths are made: by abuse, trauma, or bad examples. If one parent identifies a personality disorder in the other parent, the best solution for the safety of the children is to divorce the pathological parent and gain full custody so that the children have as little contact as possible with the pathological. Nothing good can come out of contact with a pathological parent. The risk of abuse is high and even if the pathological doesn’t sexually or physically abuse the child or children, he or she subjects them to manipulation and brainwashing which are also harmful.
How do you stop the psychopath’s devastating effect upon the society? Wouldn’t it be necessary to increse people’s awareness not only with books such as yours, blogs and the media, but also through the involvement of schools and legislative recognition of this social phenomenon?
Yes, certainly increasing awareness of this psychological phenomenon in schools and through laws would be very helpful. In the United States we’ve seen the success of such measures in the anti-bullying campaigns that have gained currency in public schools. The emphasis should be on the harmful actions of psychopaths, just as they are on the harmful actions of bullies (some of whom are psychopathic in fact). Actions are easier to identify than a diagnosis of psychopathology. Rather than labelling people as “psychopaths” we should be aware of the symptoms but above all focus on their harmful actions.
The sales of books about psychopathy and the popularity of blogs about personality disorders would indicate that psychopaths are far more numerous than the statistics indicate (that they are between 1 and 4 percent of the population). What does this discrepancy mean? The phenomenon is more alarming then the percentage would suggest. Maybe simple “assholes” are misread by psychopaths?
Sometimes they may be, indeed, just assholes. However we have to keep in mind that psychopaths tend to be very sociable and sexually promiscuous. One single psychopath can have hundreds of sexual partners, and feign romance and love to many of those. So a few psychopaths can touch many lives. Similarly, when psychopaths acquire political power—as in the case of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other evil dictators—their policies can influence the behavior of the entire population, degrading and even destroying human ethics. So sometimes it only takes a few psychopaths to adversely affect tens of millions of lives.
One of the main problems is the victims’ attitudes. Many victims choose to stay in the relationship even once they discover the pathology. They know perfectly well the cause, the pathology. They are perfectly aware that the psychopath is not going to change but they don’t leave him. Often when they’re left by him they still miss him. Is the main problem psychopathy or the love addiction? Which are the weaknesses that victims must work on to escape from the next predator?
This is a very good question, since we have no control over a psychopath, but we can have some control over whom we choose to be with and how we deal with the trauma that the psychopath causes. Psychopaths create love and sexual addictions. They come on strong, shower us with flattery, promise us whatever we wish. They tend to be far more romantic and sexual and tender initially than normal men. But it’s all an act to acquire power over us to do as they please with our lives, our property. So once we come to this realization, we must learn to let go of the past as well as examine what in our natures needed what the psychopath offered. Why do we need the exaggerated romance, or sex, or gifts, or flattery? Why do we fall for the individuals who offer it? Escaping the psychopathic bond involves identifying the pathological traits in the psychopath and our own propensity to be attracted to some of those pathological traits.
Is it possible to have a double personality: one, a psychopath with mistresses and lovers—cold, cunning, deceptive and uncaring—and another with the wife and kids—caring, a good husband and father.
A psychopath shows his true self—the cold, manipulative, cunning side—to those he needs less. If a psychopath feels he needs his wife and children for his image, he will put more effort in creating the mask of a good father and husband. When he wants to divorce his wife, he’ll show his true ugly self. Either way, a psychopath is “good” only as a fake act with those he feels he needs at the moment. None of his good—and by that I mean other-regarding–qualities are real.
What is the effect of his public exposure: shame, missing the victim or revenge?
Usually anger, revenge and ridicule of the victim. A psychopath doesn’t feel shame. He may fake shame in certain circumstances, when convenient for him, but he doesn’t feel it. And a psychopath misses using certain people at times. But he doesn’t miss people in themselves, for who they are rather than what they can offer him.
It’s very common for victims to feel a hunger for revenge. What is the best revenge and, above all, how can a victim get over it?
The desire for justice is well-founded. The desire for revenge, however, is self-destructive. It eats victims alive, makes them dwell on the painful past and, ironically, keeps them emotionally attached to the psychopath, even if in a negative sense. So victims must do what they can to get legal justice, when appropriate, but not foster feelings of revenge. Living well is the best revenge.
How should the victim behave in case he or she meets the psychopath by chance?
If the victim has been successful at implementing no contact, I would continue that policy and, if possible, act as if she never knew the psychopath and like he or she was never a part of one’s life.
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Exploring my Ancestral Past to Discover Where Home Is
When did we stop telling stories? In this personal essay, I explore my ancestral past to learn where home is and where my family comes from.
Photo by Clément M. on Unsplash
When did we stop telling stories?
Not stories of fictional characters or mythical beings- the stories that fill our books, our movies, our plays, and songs. Nor stories of our day-to-day, told over coffee to a girlfriend about what’s happening at work or what was experienced on the last vacation.
Stories of our past. Stories of our ancestors.
Where did they come from? What did they do? Why did they leave? Why did they stay?
I recently lost my grandmother. What a weird and strange phrase that is- lost, as if she was misplaced, set aside and forgotten. She past away earlier this month, at the age of 89. I was not close to her, despite her living with, or nearby, my family for most of my life. She did not teach me to cook, to knit, or other grandmotherly things. I never really knew her, even more so as she dipped farther into age, her thoughts clouded by time and decline. I never knew her stories.
Perhaps it was in an age of the modern wars- when families had to flee countries, hide religions, fight. Times that were not wanting to be remembered. And so it wasn’t talked about. Curious questions or hints of conversations were brushed off, subjects changed, details glossed over. Until no one knew anymore.
My dad loves to tell stories of his own, but I know very little of his parents. I know nothing of my great-grandparents.
It is a cruel trick, the wheel of time; aligned so that when an eager listener finally arrives, the mind of storyteller can often not remember.
When one starts to feel the need to know, to understand, to crave the story, they are left to pick up fragments and piece them together. Like pages of a book, tossed up to the wind- tumbled, scattered, torn. They are chased after and attempted to put back into their bound order, compiling the overall plotline, but missing the details and unsure of the exact order.
Or have these stories always been told, yet our modern lives- distracted by to-do lists and income goals and traffic and muchness, no longer allow us to slow down and hear them? Or perhaps, when the women left the practice of gathering together during their cycles, there were no longer daughters around to hear them? Or as they started to scatter across lands as they moved alongside their colonizing husbands, the words were lost to the wind with the distance?
I started to become interested in my own ancestral history late last year, when I started to feel a desire to move out of California. It no longer felt like home, and I was craving seasons- with snow (crazy for this CA beach-town babe), of ephemeral bursting from the ground, of heavy air of summer, or decline and dormancy of fall. Things I don’t feel in California. I had a feeling in my soul of a different environment, and it was calling to me, a feeling of a deep memory that I knew didn’t originate from my own life. It felt a land of my ancestors, a place that felt like home.
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash
Where did my family come from?
I knew I was a European mutt, some vague stories told by my dad about how he was from France, and I knew my maternal great-grandmother came from Portugal. But there were still lots of pages missing from my ancestral book.
When did the rest of the generations arrive on this foreign soil? Where did they come from? Why did they leave their homes in search of new ones?
Earlier this year, I did a DNA test, in hopes to piece some of that story together.
I used a test through the company 23 and Me, opposed to the also popular Ancestory.com, simply because I liked the website better and I came across a sales ad coupon code (thanks browsing history and targeted ad space….).
The findings showed that most likely, a woman lived in eastern Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago, who’s daughters slowly migrated north through Africa and the Middle East, until approximately 12,500 years ago after the Ice Age, gradually migrated to western Europe.
The genetic history that is left shows that I’m 100% European (no surprise there), with my ancestors coming from regions now known as France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and lands that are “Broadly Northwestern European”.
After my grandmother passed away, I started asking questions. Something I sadly wish I would have had an interest in doing when I was younger. So I asked my uncle and my mom, people who may have heard those stories and remembered them, but didn’t pass them to me. We found my great-grandmother’s immigration papers amongst my grandmother’s things- she immigrated from Portugal in 1920, headed to California on a steamship called Providence.
Last week, I sent my last remaining grandparent, my paternal grandfather, a letter, asking these questions about him and my grandmother. I talked with him on the phone yesterday, the first time we’d talked in over 7 years.
My grandpa had always been into genealogy, which I heard bits of growing up. But, as no interest in the past, ignored, instead fuelled with the desire to think of the future.
Like my other grandparents and many family members, I am not close with him, and it was awkward to rekindle a conversation. But I got off the phone feeling good- I could tell I brightened his day asking about the knowledge he knew, and I was able to add in a few more lines onto the page of the pasts.
My paternal grandmother came from Virginia by way of Scotland, but my grandfather did not know what generation made the trip across the sea. I know my maternal grandfather’s side came from Germany, but I do not know when or exactly where.
Stories lost, to be discovered in archives, of dreams, of remnant memories from other living ancestors.
Photo by Adam Bixby on Unsplash
In the early 1600s, my paternal side immigrated from the Champagne region of France to New Brunswick, Canada, moving over into Quebec in 1662. At some point, my paternal people moved into land that would later be known as New England. My great grandmother was born in Maine, my great-grandfather in New Hampshire. My grandfather grew up on a farm in Maine, below Forest Lake, outside of Cumberland. What generation first came to the land that became America is unknown, my grandfather couldn’t remember where his great-grandparents were born.
Why did people leave France in search of new homes in these snowy lands? I suppose that can only be deduced from history books and guesses. But it explains the strong pull that New England has on me. Portugal experiences a similar Mediterranean climate, but California is a new experience in cellular memory- the dry summers and the perpetual sun is not part of my genetic long history. Like the mass of people who call California home, many from Northern Europe, my people are not from here. We are living on stolen land, and in a climate we are not familiar with.
If you follow me on social media, you know that my husband and I have been searching for a new place to call home, outside of this state, but we aren’t quite sure yet.
My genetics are from rugged coastlines and snowy woods.
I think my body and soul will soon follow.
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Elkhorn Sports Complex
In the post below about the Snappers stadium issues and potential sale (stressing potential), there was a passage about a Chicago-based firm wanted to build a sports complex in Walworth county, which is just to the east of Beloit and Rock County in southern Wisconsin.
Here are links to two stories from the Janesville Gazette about this complex.
First there was: $7.5 million sports facility planned for Walworth County
ELKHORN-A Chicago-based television production and event marketing company has finished negotiations with county officials to lease county land for a 250-acre sports complex.
Intersport is willing to pay the county $35,100 a year to lease land on County NN behind the law enforcement center, judicial center and Lakeland Health Care Center.
"We definitely would like to do it here," Intersport founder and CEO Charlie Besser told the county board executive committee Tuesday. Early plans for the "Intersport Champions Village" call for a multi-phased project, with a $7.5 million initial investment to construct eight to 10 baseball diamonds and 25 player dormitories, said Dave Boblink, company chief financial officer.
The estimated economic impact after phase No. 1 for the greater Elkhorn area would be $6.3 million to $7.7 million, Boblink said. Phase No. 2 would double the size of the baseball complex and add soccer fields, basketball courts and possibly areas for volleyball and lacrosse, said Steve Colombo, Intersport president of baseball operations.
A possible third phase could include a minor league baseball stadium, according to a concept package presented to the county.
Then, there is this little tag at the end of the article:
Former University of Wisconsin Athletics Director Pat Richter is on Intersport's Board of Advisors. "I hope the people of Elkhorn feel just as well as we do," Richter told the executive committee.
Pat, get them to build it in Madison. Maybe the University could start up baseball again.
Story number two from the Janesville Gazette is a bit longer and has a lot more detail: Elkhorn sports complex looks to attract teams like New York facility does
ELKHORN-Investors who want to build privately-owned youth sports complex near Elkhorn may hope to copy a facility in Cooperstown, N.Y., where they gross nearly $1 million a week in player fees.
Copy Cooperstown? What do they do to get a million dollars a week?
Cooperstown Dreams Park opened in 1996 and shares many of the features proposed by Intersport. The Cooperstown facility has 22 diamonds, 96 player cabins and hosts weeklong baseball tournaments for youth teams ages 12 and under. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people are at the facility daily for a 12-week stretch in summer, said Mike Walter, chief financial officer and managing director of Cooperstown Dreams Park. About 1,500 players and coaches stay on the grounds each week while families and friends of the players stay at hotels and homes in town.
Intersport officials did not say how they intend to turn a profit at the Intersport Championship Village they propose for Elkhorn, but Cooperstown Dreams Park makes most of its money from player fees and product sales. The park charges $625 per player and coach per week, which includes lodging, three meals a day, uniforms, a commemorative ring, tickets to the Hall of Fame, personalized baseball cards and the chance to play championship-caliber youth baseball, Walter said.
A quick glance at my broadcaster math tables tells me that, "Yes, lunkhead, that is about a million dollars!" Here is a little more:
Between the Hall of Fame, Cooperstown Dreams Park and other attractions, the village of Cooperstown, population 2,100, draws about 350,000 tourists annually, said Polly Renckens, local chamber of commerce executive director.
The baseball park has had a positive impact on the local economy with increased spending in shops, restaurants and hotels. Many homeowners rent their homes for $1,200 to $1,800 per week to families of ball players, added Deb Taylor, tourism director for Otsego County, N.Y.
"I cannot say enough about Dreams Park and the way they handle people and the experience kids have," Renckens said. "Everyone regards it as a glowing experience."
Well, it's not all puppies, rainbows, unicorns, seashells, and balloons.
But the town has seen strain since its opening in 1996, particularly on infrastructure. The two-lane highway to the facility becomes clogged and state troopers have to direct traffic during busy baseball times, Taylor said. The added people in the community have put stresses on the village's water and sewer capacity and its ability to pick up garbage on a timely basis, Renckens said. There is also more cleaning to be done in public buildings and at parks. Come summertime, parking is at a premium.
A youth sports complex could give Elkhorn a new identity. "It might give an image to the community that's totally different than what it has been, and that could be positive," Tapson said.
"It could give a whole new take on the community. It could give us a uniqueness that we don't have right now."
Two things about this from my perspective:
1.) Elkhorn is a nice town. I've stopped there for gas and a soda on the way to and from college. I've even played American Legion ball at the current fairgrounds. Their high school team is nicknamed the Elks. Nice, solid Middle America nickname for a high school team in a city that starts with the letter "E". But, they seem to be forgetting that Cooperstown has one thing that Elkhorn is lacking at this moment. A little thing called The National Baseball Hall of Fame. Just saying.
2.) The minor league stadium mentioned below is a distant possibility. Usually, anything in phase three is quite a few years off. Plus, that whole territorial thing would rear up and say no way if they wanted that team to be in the Midwest League.
Here is a brief explanation of the rule from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the Gwinnett County in Georgia even thinking about building a stadium to lure a minor league team:
The project might be a tough sell to the Braves, because a Gwinnett team potentially could lure fans from the Braves' minor-league team in Rome, as well as perhaps from big-league games at Turner Field.
Not subject to Braves approval would be independent league teams.
Affiliated minor-league teams are bound by agreements with Major League Baseball, one of which stipulates they cannot locate in the "operating territory" of a major league team without permission, according to Minor League Baseball's director of media relations Jim Ferguson. Gwinnett County is inside the Braves' operating territory, Ferguson said.
Usually, when a minor-league team is placed in a major-league franchise's market, it is as a farm team for that major league club. Such is the case with the New York Mets' farm team in Brooklyn, the New York Yankees' farm team on Staten Island and the Washington Nationals' farm team in Woodbridge, Va.
I would also add the Cincinnati Reds' affiliate in Dayton, OH. If Elkhorn or Walworth County wants an affiliated team, it would almost certainly have to be a Brewer affiliate.
More on this as it winds its way through another county board.
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About Murray Bridge
The Rural City of Murray Bridge is situated 78kms east of Adelaide where the South Eastern Freeway meets the Murray River. It is the Regional Centre for the Murraylands with large supermarkets and a variety of specialty shops. Murray Bridge has large abattoirs and other industries, exceptional educational and medical facilities, and a variety of stores.
Home of three bridges, it is a vibrant oasis for water sports, boating, fishing & swimming and houseboating. The climate is “Mediterranean” with hot dry summers and moderate winters.
There is a heated swimming pool, immaculate golf course, an excellent horse racing complex, popular speedway and many other sporting centres.
Sturt Reserve on the town’s riverfront is a popular picnic area with a playground, cruises and is the venue for many functions.
A variety of restaurants & take-a-ways are available, with entertainment hotels & clubs. There is a cinema, ten pin bowling centre and regular old style dances.
BRIEF HISTORY OF MURRAY BRIDGE
ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME STORIES:-
Ngurundjeri shaped the Murrundi (Murray River) when chasing a giant Pondi (Murray Cod) through the countryside of South Australia which formed the river valley. When chasing Pondi near Murray Bridge Ngurundjeri threw his spear which missed the fish and was transformed into Lenteilin (Long Island) in the lands of the Ngarrindjeri people. Pondi was speared further South and the fish thrashed about while dying creating lakes Alexandrina and Albert. When Pondi had died Ngurundjeri cut the fish into pieces that became the different species of fish found in the Murray River.
The Ngarrindjeri Nation which includes Lower Murray, Fleurieu Peninsula and Coorong is made of many clans. Moop pol tha wong which means “haven for birds” was named by Ngaralta, the local tribe. Moop pol tha wong is known as Mobilong.
FIRST WHITE VISITORS OF MURRAY BRIDGE:-
Captain Charles Sturt and his crew rowed a whale boat down the river in 1830 to see where the westward flowing river went. They explored the large river which was named River Murray by Captain Sturt.
Where Sturt Reserve is now is where the party camped on the 8th of February 1830. The group was disappointed when they reached the mouth of the river as they saw it would be too difficult for ships to navigate because of the sandbars and the unpredictable Southern Ocean.
Rowing against the current, Sturt’s crew wearily returned. His report suggested the Murray Valley ideal for settlement.
In 1839 when a crossing of the river was established at Swanport (Thompson’s Crossing) drovers passed through the area. Later on in 1846 the township of Wellington was established then Monarto in 1847. Rural leases were supplied in 1851 and the first paddle boat was in 1853. In 1856 the first European Family settled near Hume Reserve. Nearby a stock crossing became known as Edwards Crossing.
Source: “A Profile of Murray Bridge”
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Soups, Stews & Broths bay leaf, black pepper, cayenne pepper, ears corn, fresh chives, fresh thyme, fresh thyme leaves, garlic, green onions, heavy cream, kosher salt, olive oil, red potatoes, sliced bacon, Water, whole milk, yellow onion, Zucchini Soup Modern Easy Soups, Stews & Broths 30-60 min Pressure Cook Corn, Heavy Cream, Zucchini 0 stars
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Multicooker - Shrimp and Corn Chowder
Fish & Seafood all-purpose flour, bacon, black pepper, chicken broth, dry white wine, extra-virgin olive oil, fresh flat-leaf parsley, fresh thyme, frozen corn, heavy cream, kosher salt, onion, red potatoes, Shrimp Soup Modern Easy Fish & Seafood 30-60 min Multicooker Corn, Heavy Cream, Shrimp 0 stars
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Meyer Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake
Dessert all-purpose flour, almond extract, cane sugar, eggs, graham cracker sheets, heavy cream, Meyer lemon, ricotta cheese, sliced almonds, unsalted butter, vanilla extract Dessert Modern Medium Dessert 30-60 min Vegetarian Pressure Cook Heavy Cream, Lemon, Ricotta 0 stars
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Brown Butter Steel-Cut Oatmeal
Breakfast brown sugar, heavy cream, kosher salt, steel cut oats, unsalted butter, Water Breakfast Modern Easy Breakfast, Seven Ingredients or Less 15-30 min Gluten Free, Vegetarian Pressure Cook Butter, Heavy Cream, Oats 0 stars
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Instant Pot Shrimp and Grits
Fish & Seafood bell peppers, black pepper, butter, chicken broth, dry white wine, garlic, grits, heavy cream, lemon juice, milk, Old Bay seasoning, onion, pepper, salt, scallions, Shrimp, smoked bacon, Tabasco sauce, tomatoes, Water Main Course American Medium Fish & Seafood 30-60 min Gluten Free Grits, Heavy Cream, Shrimp 0 stars
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Mussels with Red Pepper Garlic Sauce
Fish & Seafood dry white wine, extra-virgin olive oil, Fish Stock, garlic, heavy cream, mussels, parsely, red bell pepper, red pepper flakes Dinner Italian Easy Fish & Seafood 15-30 min Celiac, Gluten Free, Low Carb, Paleo Pressure Cook Heavy Cream, Mussels, Peppers 0 stars
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Keto Pork Meatball Bites with Cream Sauce
Meat almond flour, avocado oil, bacon, butter, cracked pepper, egg, garlic, ground pork, heavy cream, liquid aminos, onion, pepper, sea salt, tomato paste, Water, xanthan gum Dinner Modern Easy Meat 30-60 min Gluten Free, Keto, Low Carb, Paleo Pressure Cook Eggs, Heavy Cream, Pork 0 stars
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Cauliflower Potato Soup
Soups, Stews & Broths bacon, bay leaves, cauliflower, chicken stock, fish sauce, garlic, green onions, heavy cream, onion, Parmesan cheese, red potatoes Soup American Medium Soups, Stews & Broths 30-60 min Low Carb Pressure Cook Cauliflower, Heavy Cream, Potatoes 0 stars
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Single Serving Creme Brulee
Dessert egg yolk, heavy cream, sugar, Vanilla Dessert French Easy Dessert, Seven Ingredients or Less 15-30 min Celiac, Gluten Free, Low Carb Pressure Cook Eggs, Heavy Cream, Sugar 0 stars
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Poultry butter, chicken broth, chicken tenders, chili powder, cornstarch, garlic powder, heavy cream, oil, onion powder, paprika, parsley, pepper, salt, spaghetti, Water Main Course American Easy Poultry less than 15 min Low Carb Pressure Cook Chicken, Heavy Cream 0 stars
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Poultry butter, cayenne pepper, chicken thighs, cilantro, cumin powder, garam masala, garlic, Ginger, heavy cream, paprika, salt, tomatoes, turmeric Main Course Indian Easy Poultry 15-30 min Celiac, Gluten Free, Low Carb, Paleo Pressure Cook Chicken, Garam Masala, Heavy Cream 0 stars
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Player Ratings: Arsenal 0 – 0 Blackburn
Well, our season is going from worse to oblivion. It seems a distant memory when we were in four competitions and now it is more than certain that we will end this season without a trophy. Has the Carling Cup final defeat really caused more damage than it seems? It has all gone wrong since then. Every performance since then can be summed up by one word, pathetic! Only one win and that too against lower league outfit. Unbelievable!
Anyhow what’s done is done. Where we stand now is all up to our own mistakes and negligence of the basics of football. You can never win a football match by not scoring goals, by not showing urgency or desire and by not fighting for the win. And with the amount of talent we have, I am still at a loss as to how we couldn’t find one goal against a team that is just two points from relegation zone.
Realistically it is over for us because I don’t see Man United dropping points even if we win all our games. And even if they do, I cannot honestly say that we will win rest of our games. If we can’t get a result against 10 men Blackburn, when Man United got a result by being down to 10 men themselves, says it all where the title is going this season. And here I will add that I will be glad to rue my own words if somehow we do win the title. Results matter in football, good play and off the pitch talk doesn’t. We can all come up with words that we have grown up and moved on but as long as we don’t perform, we will always be chasing shadows.
Yesterday’s game was the best example of what our season has been. We started positively, the opening 10 to 15 minutes, but then we all went into our nutshells. After which we never really tested the keeper, never showed any desire, or any urgency. Movement and passing was not incisive and it seemed we were waiting for Blackburn to score an own goal. Almunia tried his best to give all the three points to Blackburn but thankfully we escaped another embarrassment. The final 10 minutes were somewhat better but you cannot win a match by playing for only 20 minutes. You have to give your best for the whole 90 minutes. Whatever happened, we are ourselves to blame and no one else.
Coming to the player ratings:
Almunia (3): What can I say about him? Tried his best to do what he does best. Enough said
Sagna (5): One of his worst games. His positioning was not good and didn’t defend well at all. Upfront his crosses were either too long or too short and never once it went to our player in the danger area.
Squillaci and Koscielny (6): Had a better than normal game as there were no noteworthy mistakes. Koscielny made his usual interceptions and clearance and did get a header on target.
Clichy (6.5): He was better than Sagna in defense as well as attack on the left. Looked lively and tried to create things. It wasn’t enough in the end.
Wilshere (5.5): Was really disappointed when he missed a sitter and on another occasion went for a pass when he should have buried the ball into the back of the net. Was decent in middle of the park but needs to improve his game in front of goal.
Song (5.5): Showed good work rate but not yet back to his best as he failed to make his presence felt in the middle of the park.
Nasri (6.5): Made a couple of very good runs and showed great creativity. Went missing on a few occasions as well. I don’t know how much the knock to his head had played a part in it.
Walcott (6.5): Looked dangerous whenever he had the ball and in the first half was one of our better players. Also went anonymous in the second half before he was substituted.
RVP (5.5): Didn’t get the support required as he had to come back to get the ball. Had a couple of shots on goal, one near the end when his header went over the bar, but never really threatened the Blackburn goal.
Arshavin (7): He was our best player out there. Created most of the chances and looked dangerous whenever he had the ball. Even backtracked and helped in defense. Was astonished to see him get substituted but I think it was more down to him getting tired.
Subs:
Fabregas (5.5) failed to make much impact as he looked rusty. Bendtner (5.5) and Chamakh (5.5) did their part and both of them went close to scoring but not close enough.
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Player Ratings: Leyton Orient 1 – 1 Arsenal
Well, that was very very disappointing from Arsenal after what we have seen in the past couple of weeks. I didn’t even want to write anything about the match as I felt that a team who is going for all trophies don’t show up to face opponents like that. Nonetheless, after having a good night sleep and analyzing, I guess there are a few positives to take. One, Ignasi Miquel is one for the future, two, we are still in the FA Cup and three, Rosicky scored a goal.
The negatives I will leave for you as it was a night to be forgotten to say the least. I tweeted after the game that maybe we need a performance like this after every great win just to get back on the ground (if you know what I mean). One thing is for sure, the players who started yesterday have to step up exponentially if they are to help the team achieve something because Wenger can’t play our regulars in every match.
Coming to player ratings:
Almunia (4): I didn’t want him to start yesterday as I said in my preview that we must keep Szczesny in goal. Why? Almunia demonstrated it with the manner he let that ball go past him. Didn’t have to do anything for the whole game and when the time came….. you saw what happened.
Sagna (6): Nothing special from the Frenchman. At the back wasn’t tested much and up front didn’t contribute significantly.
Squillaci (6.5): A good game from the centre back as he was composed and didn’t make his usual mistakes. A good block with his face to deny Orient a clear goal although he didn’t knew much about it.
Miquel (6): He is one for the future as I said before. Was calm and comfortable on the ball and did well on most of the occasions. Should have done better when Tehoue went past him to score the equalizer. I won’t blame him, though, because Gibbs was the senior player there and he should have done better than him.
Gibbs (5.5): I have a feeling that he needs a lesson in ‘how to defend’ as he demonstrated with his naivety in letting Tehoue go past him to score the goal. Upfront, however, he was useful as he made a couple of good runs and should have had an assist. Needs to improve his crossing through.
Song (4): He just moved up and down without any positivity.
Denilson (5): Did what he mostly does. Enough said.
Rosicky (7.5): He had a good game as he was one of the two better players out there for us. Moved around well and dropped deep to make things happen. Scored a very well taken goal and could have had another if not for the Orient keeper. Had the players around him been better, he would have had a very influential game. Keep it up Rosicky!
Bendtner (6): Poor finishing, poor first touch and add to that selfishness and arrogance (some may call it confidence) you get Bendtner. Again no end product. May be I am a bit harsh on him as he isn’t playing at his favored position but still, he needs to play for the team. I thank him for the good assist though.
Chamakh (2): No comment.
Arshavin (7): The second of our two better players. Despite not at his best he looked lively at times and moved around well. Could have gotten a goal, as he hit the post, and had an assist, keeper saved Rosicky’s effort.
So, another extra fixture that we have to play now and I hope, if similar players start again, they will play better at the Emirates. I would not want them to start together again but the timing of the fixture is such that we cannot play our whole first team. I hope when the time comes, Wenger puts up a good balanced side that can finish the job.
Time to turn our focus on the Stoke game now as we cannot drop points in the League.
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Arsenal 1 – 1 Leeds report: Should we be dissapointed or relieved?!!
I am dissapointed because we would have easily won this if we had taken our chances and yet I am relieved that we are still in it.
The way we started and had we been a little clinical in front of goal, this game would have been easily over in the first half despite us not really dominating the game.
Arshavin had the first chance to score from when he was through on goal, the ball provided by Rosicky. The keeper, however blocked his shot. It was followed by another stinging shot from Arshavin which was again stopped by the keeper. This was followed by three goal line clearance by Leeds in a space of only minutes. A minute later Denilson tested the keeper from range. Besides this we were looking dangerous on the set pieces. Bendtner was creating space for himself and taking shots. The goal looked imminent!!
At the other end Leeds had their chances to score. However, we went into the break with the scores leveled and the game for anyone to take.
We started the second half well. There was some good pressure, but somehow, we weren’t getting the end product. In the final third we were very wasteful. Leeds on the other hand got their breakthrough when Max Gradel was brought down by Denilson in the goal area. A simple penalty and Robert Snodgrass stood up to take it. Szczesny judged the direction but still could not stop it as Leeds took the lead in the 54th minute.
Wenger brought on Fabregas for Song, and we started pushing forward again. Walcott was brought on for Chamakh. We were still going forward and building up nicely but in the final third we were very poor. On the occasions where we got the shots on target, the keeper would save it. Time elapsed as we searched for the goal. Vela was brought on for Rosicky and we still searched for the goal as it grew really frustrating. Leeds in between would get their chances to finish the game off but Djourou did well on plenty of occasions to deny them.
The 90th minute was nearing when it appeared that the ref had given a penalty to us. However, in all the confusion it wasn’t as it was just an offside. I thought that this was the end. However, Walcott was held back in the final minute of the 90 when through on goal and this time the ref pointed to the spot. Fabregas stepped up to take it and nailed it. We were leveled and it was just over 90 minutes.
We still would have gone on to win from here had we taken the numerous chances in the stoppage time that we got. Leeds keeper, Schmeichel, still had time to make a brilliant save from Denilson’s long range shot. However, with Bendtner missing a couple of chances along with Walcott the game ended with scores level.
Well we are still in the cup and that counts. However, we need to score goals. These last two games have shown that if you do not score you can easily lose or drop points despite dominating proceedings.
I don’t know what to say of our attack. In simple word, we missed a lot of chances and were overall very poor upfront. Some credit by the way also goes to the Leeds defence and their keeper becuase they were excellent.
However, we need to be decisive in the final third. We were very wasteful today and some of the decisions upfront were just bad.
We have to play one extra fixture now, but we can handle it with our squad strength. However, if we are playing this extra game, we would need to be more clinical than we were today and make it count. It will do us no good that we play an extra match and still go down.
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Wenger on the team’s performance and his regret about the game
Despite dominating the whole game against City, it ended in a frustrating draw for Arsenal in terms of losing ground against United.
Arsene Wenger, however, is taking encouragement from tonight’s game as Arsenal did play well despite the game ending disappointingly. Wenger, after the game, said that the performance by the team was there, the result however is not. Mathematically it has ended in favor of Manu as Wenger said that the players are all disappointed. He further added that over all the belief has to be maintained and in the coming games the response should be with more quality.
With a flying start to the game by Arsenal, they struck the cross bar twice and Wilshere and Walcott both went close to scoring in the first half. However Arsenal failed to continue with the same momentum as the game entered the second half.
Wenger went on to explain that it becomes really difficult to keep the same momentum and freshness against the whole team back defending as the game goes on. There were long periods in the game where Arsenal had to find space among 10 players with even Tevez back in his own half. Wenger, however, regrets not taking the early chances to score. With Man City playing for a draw they got the result they wanted but according to Wenger had Arsenal scored one goal; the game would have changed altogether.
Wenger said that:
I feel we had the performance and not the result. But I take a lot of encouragement from tonight’s game, even if mathematically we are all frustrated and the players are very disappointed. But overall there is no way we should lose courage or belief in our team. It is the opposite. We should even come out with even more belief in our quality and be more resolute in the coming games because we have shown we have what it takes to be a serious contender in this League.
The regret I have tonight is that we did not take our early chances because that would have changed the game. They came here to have a 0-0 and they got what they wanted. I believe had we scored the first goal it would have changed the run of the game tremendously. We faced long, long periods in the game where we faced 10 men as Tevez – I have never seen him so deep. When we lost a little bit of sharpness and freshness in our movement, we looked less dangerous, because you need to play against 10 men like that in the final third. Quality passing, sharp movements… they became more difficult as the game went down.
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Randoms thoughts on: Arsenal 0 – 0 Man City
A disappointing result in terms of points but we played very well.
First things first. We were the only team that went out there to get the maximum points and we were good for the full ninety minutes. We were pressing, passing, looking for openings, organized in defense, the whole team was helping each other out and we had shots on target too.
Man City came out only to defend as they hardly challenged our back line or keeper. The credit also goes to our good pressing because as soon as we would lose the ball we would get it back. They were very organized at the back and at times when they were beaten the woodwork or their keeper came to their rescue. Their tactics, however, were pathetic with the amount of talent they have.
In terms of the chances created, I feel we should have done more regardless of twice hitting the post. We did play great football at times with intricate passing and movement. Some of the decisions in front of goal, on a few occasions, were disappointing; otherwise we were very fluent in our movement and took our shots on goal. I feel, at times, we should have opted to go for the aerial ball.
Anyways, It was good to see the forward and midfield players coming back to defend and this is where we have improved in the past 10 days.
The result is frustrating no doubt but I am delighted by the way we are playing. We can only try and that is what we did today. We deserved to win today after playing so well and Man City didn’t even deserve a point IMO.
We just have to continue with the way we are playing see what happens at the end.
One thing is for sure, Man Utd, after this result, sits very comfortably at the top. And as hard as I don’t want to admit it, the title is United’s to lose now.
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Stringing Women Along: The Psychopath as Puppet Master
Since, as we’ve seen in previous discussions, psychopaths enjoy sex and power–especially when the two are combined–they’re great jugglers of women. They especially relish creating rivalry and jealousy among their partners. They instigate feelings of mutual disrespect and even hatred. Watching several women fight over them validates their ego. It also offers priceless entertainment. To offer one notable example of a famous psychopath, Pablo Picasso unabashedly confesses to his partner, Françoise Gilot, his delight in having women assault each other over him. He recounts how Marie-Thérèse and Dora Maar had an altercation over who was his real girlfriend. Instead of diffusing the tension, he encouraged them to escalate from a verbal to a physical fight. Picasso tells Gilot, “’I told them they’d have to fight it out themselves. So they began to wrestle. It’s one of my choicest memories.’” (Life with Picasso, 211)
Jealous fights, as well as mutual insults and devaluation, offer an amusing spectator sport for psychopaths. It makes them feel in charge: like they’re the puppet masters manipulating all these women’s emotions. This rivalry also has the additional advantage of creating artificial barriers among the victims. The women’s aggression turns against one another rather than towards their real enemy, the psychopath who is using and mistreating them both, plus several others that they may not even know about.
Psychopaths tend to select trusting and trustworthy women whom they can manipulate and taint. They enjoy the thrill of getting them to collude in their lies and machinations against others, including family members and friends. They resort to emotional blackmail to get their victims, who are often decent human beings, to cooperate. This establishes a link of complicity in the psychopathic bond: something along the lines of, you lied to your family (or my family, or our friends, or your spouse) too, so therefore you’re just as bad and deceitful as I am. Furthermore, psychopaths need to have their sense of power over you constantly reaffirmed. Since they’re at core malicious human beings, the way you help confirm their power best is by colluding with their projects to deceive and hurt others.
By turning “their” women against one another, psychopaths make each of them simultaneously their co-conspirator and their dupe, the deceiver and the deceived. When she deflects her negative emotions towards other women, the psychopath’s wife or girlfriend remains blind to the real threat posed by her own partner. Emotionally, this perspective may be easier to accept than the truth: namely, that your supposed soul mate wants to destroy you and is using you as a weapon to hurt others and vice versa. Only when you’re strong enough to open your eyes and face reality do you begin to see the machinations of the psychopath as puppet master.
Françoise Gilot describes this strategy with incredible lucidity. She compares Picasso’s habit of stringing several women along to a Bluebeard complex and to a bullfight. Although these analogies may seem radically different, they describe the same phenomenon. In this process, the real enemy–the one who gores you in the end–is the man generating all the drama and rivalries among women in the first place:
“Pablo’s many stories and reminiscences about Olga and Marie-Thérèse and Dora Maar, as well as their continuing presence just off stage in our life together, gradually made me realize that he had a kind of Bluebeard complex that made him want to cut off the heads of all the women he had collected in his little private museum. But he didn’t cut the heads entirely off. He preferred to have life go on and to have all those women who had shared his life at one moment or another still letting out little peeps and cries of joy or pain and making a few gestures like disjointed dolls, just to prove there was some life left in them, that it hung by a thread, and that he held the other end of the thread. Even though he no longer had any feeling for this one or that one, he could not bear the idea that any of his women should ever again have a life of her own. And so each had to be maintained, with the minimum gift of himself, inside his orbit and not outside. As I thought about it, I realized that in Pablo’s life things went on just about the way they do in a bullfight. Pablo was the toreador and he waved the red flag, the muleta. For a picture dealer, the muleta was another picture dealer; for a woman, another woman. The result was, the person playing the bull stuck his horns into the red flag instead of goring the real adversary–Pablo. And that is why Pablo was always able, at the right moment, to have his sword free to stick you where it hurt. I came to be very suspicious of this tactic and any time I saw a big red flag waiving around me, I would look to one side of it. There, I always found Pablo.” (Life with Picasso, 242-3)
Psychopaths have an uncanny ability to turn even people who don’t know one another against each other through their egregious lies and smear campaigns. After slandering their ex partners to their new partners and vice versa, psychopaths sit back and enjoy the show. Aside from the entertainment value and the sense of being in charge, the psychopath gets something else out of generating conflict among his targets. He also gets back-ups to his back-ups. Given that he’s bound to mistreat every woman he’s involved with, he certainly needs them. It seems as if psychopaths know, through both intuition and experience, that the honeymoon phase won’t last long no matter how exciting and promising a given relationship may seem in the beginning.
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Victims often wonder: do psychopaths fall in love? So far I have explained that psychopaths can’t love in the normal sense of having genuine empathy for others. But they can, and do, fall in love. Now I’d like to delve more deeply into the subject of how they fall in love and with whom. As we’ve seen, because of their ability to charm people, their seductive skills, their penchant for pleasure and their intense focus on their most desired targets, psychopaths can be (for a short while) extraordinarily passionate lovers. Their passion, however, finds itself in a constant race against time. The time usually runs out when the balance of power in the romantic relationship shifts dramatically in the psychopath’s favor. Picasso describes this process quite poetically when he tells his mistress, Francoise Gilot:
“We mustn’t see each other too often. If the wings of the butterfly are to keep their sheen, you mustn’t touch them. We mustn’t abuse something which is to bring light into both of our lives. Everything else in my life only weighs me down and shuts out the light. This thing with you seems to me like a window that is opening up. I want it to remain open. We must see each other but not too often. When you want to see me, you call me and tell me so.” (My Life with Picasso, 53-4).
Basically, in a relationship with a psychopath, the sheen wears off when you’re dominated by him. When you accept to engage in demeaning sexual (or any other kind of) acts or behavior. When you readily buy into his lies because they preserve the rosier, yet false, version of reality you want to believe. When you accept unfair double standards, where he enjoys important privileges you do not. When you need or want him far more than he needs or wants you. Psychopaths may begin romantic relationships on an equal footing with their partners. But, ultimately, they aim to end up on top. For themselves, they tend to adopt a pseudo-Nietzschean attitude towards conventional morality. They violate, with an air of entitlement and superiority, all moral principles. At the same time, they generally expect an almost fundamentalist prurience from their main partners.
Even those psychopaths who enjoy demeaning their partners by asking them to violate moral and sexual values—such as by dressing or acting like a “slut”—do so only on their terms. If a psychopath’s partner cheats on him out of her own volition with someone she cares about or desires, he’s likely to explode in self-righteous indignation and defile her public image. At the same time, however, he will proudly proclaim his right to fall in love with and date whomever he wants. He will lack the self-awareness to see the inconsistency of his attitude towards conventional morality and the emotional depth to care about its unfairness to others. You can’t be above the moral norms of good and evil yourself while demanding that those you interact with abide by them. That’s called hypocrisy, not transcending conventional values or being independent. Also keep in mind that even if a psychopath appears to respect his partner while regarding and treating other women as “hoes,” his attitude reflects a deep underlying misogyny that touches every woman he encounters.
As mentioned, sometimes a psychopath may prefer to humiliate his own partner by “sharing” her with others: but, once again, only at his bidding and on his terms. By way of contrast to the scenario where she cheats on him by choosing her romantic partners, this kind of violation of conventional values is likely to be acceptable (and even highly desirable) to a psychopath. He enjoys her degradation. Of course, abiding by such grossly unfair double standards can only lead to humiliation and disaster for the victim. “Pimping” one’s wife or girlfriend, as it’s crudely but accurately called, represents the very opposite of granting a woman sexual freedom. Moreover, such self-abasement can never achieve the desired effect of winning the psychopath’s interest and affection. For, as we’ve seen, although psychopaths enjoy dominance, easily dominated individuals don’t attract them for long.
So then what kind of person can keep the sheen on the wings of the butterfly for a longer period of time (to borrow Picasso’s metaphor)? Only a person who does not agree to demeaning or unfair conditions in the relationship and only for as long as she does not accept them. As the study conducted by Sandra L. Brown, M.A. in Women Who Love Psychopaths reveals, like most people, psychopaths tend to fall in love with individuals who manifest self-respect not only in their professional conduct and with acquaintances, but also–and most importantly–in the context of the romantic relationship itself. That is where one invests most time and emotional energy. Consequently, that is also where one’s true character is tested and revealed. This applies to romantic relationships in general, not just to psychopathic bonds. It stands to reason that if you don’t see yourself as equal to your partner, he won’t regard you as an equal or give you the respect you deserve.
To be more specific, I’ll offer two examples. As we know, psychopaths derive great pleasure from brief sexual liaisons. But those are not likely to spark their passion for two main reasons. The first one is that an unending series of sexual encounters make the psychopath himself jaded to physical and psychological pleasure. Sexual addiction resembles other addictions. Any kind of addiction, which necessarily implies excess and sheer volume (of a substance or number of partners), dulls one’s sensibilities, including the sensory and aesthetic ones to which sensual individuals are so highly attuned. Sex addicts become increasingly jaded to both sexual activities and partners. Contrary to the modern connotations of the term “hedonism,” the ancient hedonists practiced moderation, to better savor their pleasures. Recall how poignant even a simple kiss can be with a person you desire and respect. I’m not making a moral argument here, but an aesthetic and psychological observation, which is quite obvious. Thousands of sexually explicit images and acts can’t replace the stimulation offered by real chemistry with a single person, which you cultivate, focus upon and appreciate. When you disperse your sexual energy and attention on numerous partners, you also reduce the chances of experiencing a more lasting and exciting pleasure in any of those so-called “romantic” relationships. Since sexual addiction is so central to psychopathic behavior, I will explore this subject further in the next section.
The second reason has to do with the partners psychopaths are likely to encounter in promiscuous settings. Because our culture remains “sexist” in the sense that promiscuous women are looked down upon more so than promiscuous men, the kind of women one casually hooks up with on adult websites, clubs and bars are unlikely to establish the balance of power that even psychopathic passion depends upon. Some truisms are true. If you don’t treat yourself and your body with respect, chances are, neither will anyone else.
As one would expect, the issue of a balance of power is even more pertinent in long-term relationships. Any wife, girlfriend or lover who accepts glaring double standards in the relationship–relating to important issues such as fidelity, honesty and trust–is not going to hold a psychopath’s interest for long. The relationship will turn into a toxic attachment that combines a strong psychological enmeshment, mutual utility and convenience. The dominated partner will oscillate between false hope, intense neediness, despair and resentment at the unfair conditions. The dominant partner will fall back upon a sense of entitlement that quickly turns into boredom. He’s also likely to play catch and release games with his partner–essentially, engage in a series of break-ups and reconciliations–depending on whether he’s more bored with her and their family life or with his other girlfriends at any given moment.
Ideally, in a loving relationship, passion entails a deeper bond that comes from being both physically and emotionally excited by each other’s personalities and having an enduring mutual respect. In a psychopathic bond, however, passion translates into an intense physical attraction, an equally strong attraction to each other’s personalities and–in lieu of any genuine empathy and mutual respect–a balance of power. Without these components, even physical pleasures become bland for the psychopath. In turn, life for his partner turns into a series of humiliating concessions that can’t bring her happiness or reignite his interest. When you give up your pride and self-esteem for somebody else, you also lose your power and sense of identity. And, needless to say, any man who expects you to violate your self-respect and values for him doesn’t really love you and never will.
I suppose this is one way of saying that even psychopathic passion requires more than just physical attraction to last more than a few days. It also depends upon chemistry, balance and equality in the relationship, for as long as these can be sustained. In a psychopathic bond, however, they can’t last long. A psychopath needs to dominate, dupe and demean even the women he initially desires and admires. Once these elements are gone, as Picasso eloquently states, the window that used to allow light into the relationship closes for good.
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Police under instruction to protect killer Fulani herdsmen — Benue monarch
King Abu Shuluwa
The Tor Sankera 1, King Abu Shuluwa, a first-class Tiv traditional ruler in Benue State, reveals the reasons behind the Fulani herdsmen attacks on his people to JOHN CHARLES
What in your view is the cause of the killings by herdsmen in recent times?
First, let me say that the attacks and killings have nothing to do with the anti-open grazing law enacted by the Benue State Government. The job of the state House of Assembly is to make laws because the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria empowers it to do so.
So, if you are Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or whatever tribe you may be and you want to live in Benue State, you must obey and abide by the laws of the state. You cannot just come from anywhere and say you don’t want that law. It is completely absurd for somebody outside Benue to say ‘no, we don’t want that law’ and for them to determine what kind of law we should have in our own state.
Having said that, killings were carried out by Fulani herdsmen before the law was enacted. The herdsmen killed people in Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Abia, Rivers and other states (before the anti-open grazing law). None of the states enacted the law prohibiting open grazing before the herders killed their people.
The point here is that the people, who are killing now, have an agenda and they are being sponsored by faceless people and the worst thing is that nobody is being apprehended.
Why do you think the police are not arresting them?
Those who were arrested by the state government agents while committing criminal acts in broad daylight and handed over to the police have all been released quietly, but Tiv men, carrying Dane guns licensed by local government authorities, are being arrested and paraded by the police as members of a militia.
What is their mode of operation?
They usually come out at night when people are asleep and attack them. They also slaughter their victims. They adopt the guerrilla warfare style. Imagine yourself sleeping at night and somebody attacks you and starts slaughtering your children, wives and relatives and they escape without traces.
How can you then describe those people as Fulani herdsmen?
Those who are killing us have no cattle at all. The police, who have statutory responsibility to find out the identities of those faceless people, are not ready to do so, and I am not surprised because the police know them but they are under instruction not to find and arrest them. We in Benue State are totally convinced that the police know those who are killing our people and they know the agenda. The police have been bought over to do their bidding; that’s all.
Do you then support the recent statement by the Department of State Services that those carrying out the killings are foreigners?
If the DSS says the herdsmen are foreigners, why are they referring to them as ‘Fulani herdsmen’? Why is the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore group angry about the law? Is the law in Benue State provoking foreigners to attack us? If our attackers are foreigners, why is the government not securing our borders?
There are security personnel at the borders. Are they saying that they prefer to protect the foreigners and their cows than the people who are the legitimate owners of their lands in Benue State? We will not agree with the DSS on that statement. If they are foreigners, why is the Miyetti Allah complaining? Is Miyetti Allah speaking on behalf of the Fulani herdsmen or they are speaking on behalf of the foreigners? The people (Miyetti Allah) think that we are fools and that we don’t understand what they were saying. We are very intelligent, hence we cannot reason the way they think.
Do you have an idea of the number of attacks on Benue State so far?
They have attacked Tiv and the Agatu more than 50 times.
What do you think is their agenda?
The leaders of our nation should find out if they are not responsible for the attacks and tell us why a foreigner should come and attack bona fide citizens of Nigeria. We have lived with the Fulani for so long and we never experienced this type of fight with them.
Why should foreigners leave their countries and come all the way to attack people in Benue? A policeman will see them with AK-47 and will not arrest them because they know they are Fulani, but if you are Tiv, Benue, Yoruba or Igbo, they will arrest you. That means that they have an agenda. If they can open the borders and allow foreigners to flock into the country to kill in Benue State, then there is an agenda.
Are you not worried that traditional rulers are not playing any role to bring peace among the herdsmen and farmers?
The Sultan of Sokoto, who is the patron of Miyetti Allah, has been speaking and he spoke in favour of Miyetti Allah. The Emir of Kano also spoke in favour of Fulani herdsmen. What did they say and what would you want me to say?
Do you expect the said monarchs to speak in favour of the Fulani or to condemn their act?
It is not right for you to know that somebody’s life is being destroyed and you fail to condemn it; everybody knows that it is not right. If my people should go to another region and they start killing people there, as a traditional ruler here, l will first ask my people why they should go there to kill.
Here in Benue State, especially in Tiv land, our greatest friends are the Fulani. The Fulani came and met the Tiv people here in this valley right from Taraba State. When they came, they would leave their wives and children under our care to graze their cows elsewhere, and sometimes, they stayed for months. Their families were with us and we looked after them.
Why do you think the Fulani are attacking your people now?
I can trace the cause to religion and politics. In 1804, when the Jihad broke out, it was the Tiv that stopped the war from spreading to the South and East and that’s why you will hardly see a Tiv man, who is a Muslim. It is only a few of us and we don’t have emirs. A Tiv is a democrat and a republican. We had a relationship with them but we didn’t want them to lord it over us; so, we stopped them at Ushongo Hill and because Fulani don’t forget and forgive easily, that thing is paining them to date.
If we didn’t stop them, the whole of Igboland would have become Muslim territory, but from the other axis, Fulani penetrated. That’s why you have emirs in some of North-Central Nigeria.
Another thing the Fulani hold against us is that during the First Republic, the Tiv, led by the late Joseph Tarka, formed an alliance with the Yoruba. We aligned ourselves with the Action Group, instead of being with the Northern Peoples Congress, which was a Hausa/Fulani party.
Lest I forget, the Fulani were not happy with the (Gideon) Orkar’s (foiled) coup, which exposed all their plans. Since then, they have been nursing all these attacks on the Tiv nation. The Fulani were not happy because we were a force to be reckoned with as a minority in the North.
A force in terms of population or military might?
We have a population of more than six million people scattered across Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Abuja, and so on. When you talk about the Middle Belt, which tribe has such population in the Middle Belt like the Tiv? And that is why we championed the Middle Belt Congress, which later came into Tiv land in the 60s.
Why did you follow the Action Congress led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo?
When Awo (Obafemi Awolowo) came to us, he asked what the Tiv people in Nigeria wanted and we said we didn’t want anything other than to allow Hausa/Fulani go as a separate nation. After our alliance with the AG ended, we later went into alliance with the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, an Igbo party, with (Nnamdi) Azikiwe as leader. It was in the Second Republic that the late Joseph Tarka, in his own wisdom, thought that for us to benefit from Nigeria properly, we must align ourselves with the North and he brought us all back to the National Party of Nigeria.
What was your experience under the NPN?
Former President (Shehu) Shagari treated us very well but when our son, the erstwhile governor of the state, Gabriel Suswam, pulled out of the Northern Governors Forum, it angered them the more. They said if they didn’t check us, we would spoil their agenda. They are cheating us and they are not giving us our proper share as Nigerians.
You have still not told us the Fulani agenda.
Part of their agenda is to stop recruiting Tiv people into the army, navy, air force, customs and all paramilitary agencies.
We went back to our farms when they started marginalising us but they still hired people to attack and kill us.
As a traditional ruler, have you received a report of how many people have been killed or attacked in your domain?
Logo Local Government Area is part of my domain, where several people have been killed and property worth billions of naira destroyed. You remember during the last regime, l was a member of the peace committee under General Atom Kpera and that committee was to bring Fulani and Tiv people together and we went to all these areas. We went to Makurdi, Guma, Gwer, Gwer West and Logo and these places share borders with Nasarawa. Because Nasarawa people are afraid of Fulani, they harbour them. That is why they usually come from Nasarawa to attack our people. Now, we have to be afraid of all those Hausa/Fulani engaging in menial jobs. The Fulani, who are moving with their cattle, did not kill us. What they did was to hire foreign herdsmen to come and kill us. Now, Makurdi is vulnerable to their attacks because of the river, and you know that some of these Hausa, who are into menial jobs like nail cutting, hawking water and selling fruits, could be dangerous.
As a traditional ruler, what efforts are you making to save your people since you no longer trust the police?
First, we have been talking to our people not to go to Nasarawa and other areas where there are Fulani. We also told them that if anyone attacks them, they should defend themselves. They should no longer allow themselves and their families to be killed like chickens.
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On Britain & New Zealand's role in the western alliance
by Wayne Mapp
Britain is divided, and the British Labour Party even more so, over its role in leading Western nations. So does it offer lessons for New Zealand?
Last week Britain voted for airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State. The parliamentary debate that preceded the vote was illuminating in the way it mirrored the divide in Britain about its place in the world.
Britain us a united kingdom of four nations. But that is likely to shrink by at least one.
Scotland is governed by the independence party SNP. Virtually all Scotland’s Westminster representatives are also from the SNP. They have no doubt where they stand; they voted against the resolution. In many ways Scottish representatives are already acting as if Scotland was independent. A small nation of 5 million people is unlikely to view the issues of Syria in the same way as a larger nation. An appeal from France for solidarity is only going to have real impact on nations that are its peers, as is the United Kingdom.
This brings the issue of England to the fore. England comprehensively voted Conservative in the last election. But much of the north of England, Wales and parts of London remained Labour. And it is the Labour Party that is divided. The division in Labour is not just about its internal politics, it also reflects a wider division in England. What sort of nation is it?
For Conservatives this is a relatively easy question to answer. England, and by extension, the United Kingdom is a leading nation in the West. This is partly based on the imperial legacy and partly based on British economic strength. But most particularly it is derived from England’s historic role as one of the most important nations in Europe.
Labour is more uneasy about this heritage. That is why Tony Blair is reviled by the Left in a way the GW Bush is not in America. The confident assertion of traditional international leadership by Tony Blair never sat comfortably with the left of the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn is a natural leader for this group. They see a new role for England. It would not be a nuclear power. It need not be a P5 member of the UN. It certainly would not be a leader of traditional western causes. Corbyn’s England would be a middle nation in Europe, perhaps much like Italy, Poland or Spain.
That is why Jeremy Corbyn can so easily say that he can see no situation in which British combat troops would be deployed overseas. Whether he would continue to hold that view if a NATO nation was actually invaded is unknown, but realistically that proposition will not be put to the test. The Syrian situation is a much more probable circumstance where western forces will be deployed. And in Corbyn’s world view, this will never justify the deployment of British troops or airpower.
But Corbyn and his supporters are not the whole of the Labour Party. Hilary Benn in a brilliant speech at the close of the Commons debate eloquently expressed traditional Labour internationalism. This does mean accepting the mantle of western leadership, not in the crusading nature proselytised by Tony Blair, but certainly if the case is clear enough, not to shirk away from this role.
So where does contemporary England stand? In many respects it is a country divided. A clear majority, including traditional Labour internationalists, see a role for England to be a leader in the west. There is however, a passionate minority who oppose such a view. It may ultimately mean Labour will divide into two parties, reflecting this disposition.
That is why the debate in England is so much sharper than in New Zealand. We are never going to be faced with a question of western leadership. Therefore, what we expect to do is much less. The deployment of trainers to Iraq is incapable of stirring up passions in a way that actually bombing another country will do.
There are of course issues that do stir New Zealand passions.
In the foreseeable future this is more likely to involve environmental issues than what happens in the Middle East. On these questions many New Zealanders, across the political spectrum, do see us being able to take a greater international leadership role. I suspect in coming years these issues will test New Zealand politics to a much greater extent than they currently do.
After all, even smaller countries can lead, so long as they know what they want and how they can influence others.
by Rich on December 10, 2015
why Tony Blair is reviled by the Left in a way the GW Bush is not in America
Bush is a Republican, last time I looked - he didn't get elected in the cause of a nominally left wing party.
by Voice_of_Reason on December 10, 2015
Hilary Benns speech was eloquent yes, but it is still wrong. Going back and repeating the same mistakes as Iraq isn't much of a strategy and although it may make politicians feel better about doing 'something' since when does bombing far to few targets with far to many bombs solve anything?
by Fentex on December 10, 2015
The confident assertion of traditional international leadership by Tony Blair never sat comfortably with the left of the Labour Party.
I don't think this is why people hate Blair. What he lead them into, not the mere fact of asserting leadership, is more the issue I would think.
by KJT on December 10, 2015
Britain should learn from their own example. Germany bombing the crap out of them, just made them more keen on fighting.
Which is why Benn, and our National party, are so wrong.
Murder/ (sorry, collateral damage) The West Bombing and killing and maiming people is the best recruitment tool Daesh have.
"Let's do more of it".
by onsos on December 11, 2015
At the moment, the leaders in the west have not got a plan for Syria which will deliver success. Until they produce that plan, the whole discussion is misplaced. A successful plan would involve Turkey changing its stance, which would give the NATO powers both a moral and a practical framework for success.
As three of the four key powers in NATO, Britain, France and the US have a key role in pressuring Turkey into properly supporting Kurdish and other opposition forces instead of actively opposing them. This could change a lot of the realpolitik of the situation. Until this happens, the current brawl will continue, and only Assad/Putin or ISIL look like winning.
That is what leadership in England, or the UK, would entail.
by mikesh on December 11, 2015
Does Britain want to pursue an indendent policy in Syria, or follow the US? The latter seem more interested in ousting Syria's legitimate government than in fighting ISIS.
by Wayne Mapp on December 11, 2015
There seems to be a view on the Left that it is impossible to defeat ISIS in the territory they occupy in Syria and Iraq. But local forces backed by air strikes can do that, especilly if special forces assist. that seems to be happening in Iraqwith the Iraqi Army and the Kurds slowly rolling back ISIS. It is abut more difficult in Syria given the conflicting agendas, but the West seems to be accepting the Russian view that the Syrian Army will be a player in defeating ISIS.
My question is what is the Left's solution. it certainly seems they oppose all military action against it. So does that mean they just accept that ISIS is effectively a new state, albeit that it does not follow international norms? And that the only response should be sanctions, and perhaps not even that.
And for major terrorism originating from ISIS well I guess we just have to deal with it as a normal police matter since many on the Left also oppose intelligence agencies as well.
People arguing that standing back and pissing fuel on a fire (meaning bombing campaigns without much strategy) are not arguing that an army supported from the air will not defeat Daesh.
The problem is there hasn't been much evidence of an effective army at work. The Shiite dominated Iraqis aren't much welcome, the Kurds aren't interested in advancing beyond protecting their population. and intruders will stoke resistance.
The Iraqi army is improving, it is gaining confidence from experience of success at Ramadi and will hopefully be Daeshs nemesis. But it will be some time before the arduous slog of re-taking urban territory reduces Daesh. Immediate bombing campaigns do not serve their progress but only occur as salving vengeance where not in direct support of tactical actions.
And the violent Jihadi Ideology feeding terror attacks will survive Daesh's occupation of territory. It is a related but separate beast not prevented but fed by a narrative of vengeful bombings.
Some hope, now a tacit understanding that Assad must retake control of Syria seems to be forming, that the Syrian army will become the local force that coalition forces can support in destroying Daesh. I'm not sure that's a good plan that will be realised, but if it is it's still a while away.
by Lee Churchman on December 11, 2015
My question is what is the Left's solution. it certainly seems they oppose all military action against it.
Not really. It's a problem of competence. The people in charge of "our" response don't have a credible, long term plan no matter how many times you claim otherwise. These are in most cases the same people largely responsible for the current mess.
I don't personally oppose military action to deal with ISIS. I oppose the people on our side currently tasked with organising it, but they won't go away and we systems seem incapable of replacing them, so forgive me if I don't support yet another Sicilian expedition.
by Stewart Hawkins on December 11, 2015
Bombing the vast areas of Britain's inner city Muslim controlled "no-go" zones would effect a higher kill rate of Islamists together with a lower collateral damage rate than bombing Syria. So logically.....
My previous post had a few spelling errors by virtue of being done from an iPhone.
I probably rather overstated the case about the Left view of ISIS. The moderate left clearly do want to deal with ISIS, and they recognize that it requires more than a conventional role for the police.
However, the group that is Stop the War in the UK (and similar groups here) certainly seem to think nothing should be done. And in my view, even if by omission, such groups get extremely close to tacitly accepting that ISIS should be able to establish their state.
This poses a real dilemma for the UK government. Obviously in a situation of deploying troops to actual combat it is always best if the two major parties support such action. However, under Corbyn's leadership the majority of Labour no longer subscribes to a view of western unity on such an issue. Thus if Corbyn becomes the PM, obviously in coalition with SNP, the UK foreign policy will radically change, though probably not to the extent of the UK leaving NATO.
Alternatively Labour cannot win with Corbyn, and a new moderate leader will arise. I imagine that this is most likely to occur after a defeat in 2020, since in my view Corbyn, given his mandate, will last through to the next election. The only real caveat to that is that he may find the pressure of being the Leader of a highly divided party too much and will resign the leadership prior to the election. But I suspect he is made of sterner stuff and will be able to handle the pressure.
New Zealand politics seems very calm in comparison, with the main debates being conducted essentially around the centre.
The fact that we feel we need to have a "plan" for Syria, Iraq or any other Middle East country seems to disguise the fact that these countries should be allowed to formulate their own "plans". Why don't we all just get out of the area and leave Middle Easterners to sort out their own problems.
However, the group that is Stop the War in the UK (and similar groups here) certainly seem to think nothing should be done.
Well, they are anti-imperialist organisations. It's not that they think that nothing should be done so much as they think that doing nothing is preferable to allowing our lot mess things up. Given the recent results of such interventions, they have a non-trivial case. In terms of raw consequences, the war on terror is/was an abject failure.
by Vanessa L King on December 12, 2015
"My question is what is the Left's solution. it certainly seems they oppose all military action against it. So does that mean they just accept that ISIS is effectively a new state, albeit that it does not follow international norms? And that the only response should be sanctions, and perhaps not even that."
Hi Wayne, your article on the cultural divide of Labour in the UK was interesting but in your comments you have taken a giant leap and tried to link it to an inferred divide on the left in NZ. As a leftie and a graduate of International Relations I have to say that it isn't the responsibility of the left in NZ to solve a problem with an extensive historical basis in European and US interventionism. This problem was exacerbated by the illegal war against Iraq by the US and the mess essentially spread to Syria. Sorry but what person in their "right" mind finds the bombing of innocent civillans in any way tenable. What is reflected here is the fact that the lives of "others" are seen as less valuable and merely as "collateral damage". Let's also not forget who is making money out of this latest escapade...the arms dealers and aircraft manufacturers. I also take issue with your broad statement that the left are opposed to intelligence agencies. The reality is that many are opposed to the use of the threat of "terrorism" as an all out excuse to invade their privacy. Many also oppose the overriding of national sovereignty using the excuse of terrorism.
Certainly neither the left in either Britain or NZ may be seen as not having a solution for the mess. They simply don't want to add to the carnage. Blaming the left for not having a solution to the rise in ISIS is also not a solution.
Talking about the Left is way of agglomerating widely varying viewpoints; it allows the simplistic assertion that they oppose intervention.
Most of the Left people I know are realistic enough to acknowledge the role that action can have, including actual military engagement. They are also realistic enough to know that the current model of air-strikes and ineffectual support for desirable opposition is not adequate.
Assad and Putin are winning this war, morally, at the moment. They are also winning it strategically and politically. If the western powers want to change this, they need to change the way they are operating. That's not simply more air-strikes; it also means stopping their allies from attacking the non-jihadist opposition.
by Andrew P Nichols on December 15, 2015
There seems to be a view on the Left that it is impossible to defeat ISIS in the territory they occupy in Syria and Iraq.
Doesnt sound like you've been lsitening too well. The antiwar left - not the faux war loving left.ask why the funding of ISIS and its oil sales arent attacked. Currently the limp US bombing campaign without dealing to the funders of the ISIS/Big Al the Kyder is like trying to fight a paetrol statioon fire without turning off the fuel. The reasons this is not done are two fold. 1. The US primary goal is the downfall of the Damascus Govt and 2. the funders of ISIS are the Saudis and the other Gulf Sunni theocracies - good US allies and customers for US/Brit weapons. This is why the Russian /Iranian campaign is a game changer. They believe the Syrians alone have the legitimate right to decide their fate and so with their coherent strategy are effectively dealing to the insurgents and showing up the duplicity of the strategy of US and its allies.
Bliar took the UK to war on the basis of deliberate lies. The UK public dont like their war criminals even if the Deep State wont prosecute them. The US openly celebrates theirs (Bush Cheney Rumsfeld Kissinger Clintonx2).
by gregfullmoon on December 27, 2015
I guess all this places you in the war-mongers club Wayne?
Do you comprehend what you mates in the war mongers camp have unleashed on the World with their infinite 'War on Terror?'
I have followed the War on Terror with much interest. I was aghast at our NZ Government's Countering Foreign Terrorist Fighter Legislation Bill in late 2014. More impositions on the public were suggested to counter NZers who might wish to join ISIS. The Government had about 70 persons under watch, so all known likely ISIS joiners were being watched by our GCSB and NZSIS, as well as Kimdotcom and anyone viewed as an enemy of business as usual.
One of the problems we appear to have in this 'post enlightenment' age of stupid period is the over abundance of information placed in the public space without historical (or even last year's) context.
From my evidence to the Foreign Affairs Trade and Defence (FADAT) Select Committee which considered under Urgency the above mentioned Bill (I appeared Friday 28th November 2014), link here:
http://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-nz/51SCFDT_EVI_00DBHOH_BILL60721_1_A414326/957750eb3c795a89a59f5d5c332a6e186f13bf1b
Here's what I said in my evidence paper about Iraq:
'Iraq War
Does the Foreign Affairs and Defence committee recall the fire storming of Fallujah during the later part of 2004 in Iraq by our colleagues the USA and the then remaining Coalition of the Willing? We were involved in the Iraq War from mid 2003.
That was a city of 300,000 people prior to the 2003 invasion. The people of that city were singled out for special treatment by the Coalition of the Willing. The residents were encouraged to depart the city as the USA and the coalition of the willing declared a free fire zone. Some people did not leave their homes. Imagine the death from burning in the fire, or shot in the stomach without medical assistance. Are these atrocities less than the alleged ISIS atrocities? Fallujah is a city similar in size to many kiwi cities, with all the infrastructure associated with a modern metropolis. Destroyed and levelled, bombed and broken. Why?
Declared enemies of the USA led Coalition of the Willing had used the city as their base. Why did they this? Because the USA had effectively destroyed other options for them to resist.
Why did the USA led Coalition of the Willing come to invade Iraq? What pretext allowed them to ultimately fire bomb Fallujah? Weapons of Mass Destruction? What else? A whim?
A mood? A feeling that it was the right thing to do at the time? From the Wikipedia in the preceding reference is this statement from amongst many under the heading 'Conclusions';
A study co-authored by the Center for Public Integrity found that in the two years after September 11, 2001 the president and top administration officials had made 935 false statements, in an orchestrated public relations campaign to galvanize public opinion for the war, and that the press was largely complicit in its uncritical coverage of the reasons adduced for going to war.
Do our leaders similarly lie to get our Assent? Lie by omission or by untruth?
How many Iraqis died, were injured or displaced since the 2003 invasion? Estimates range - however the Lancet report gave 600,000 dead. Financial Costs of the Iraq war range in the USA$trillions;
We in New Zealand did not sanction that dirty fight with troops. We stayed away till June 3 2003. What advice had the New Zealand Government from it's intelligence and defence departments that allowed it in good conscience to refuse to condone that resultant bloodbath?
Oil for Food – Trade and War
Interestingly the issue of the oil for food program caused consternation in New Zealand's agriculture and trade lobby when it appeared NZ commercial interests would miss out on an opportunity to feed at the trough. The resultant Hansard of the Parliamentary debate provides plenty of support for the contention that war and trade is intractably linked.' (all statements are well referenced in the above evidence to the FADAT - have a read)
You know about depleted uranium weapons Wayne? These are employed by our Allies in the coalition of the willing. I assume you also sanction these? Genocidal morons who appear impervious to the idea of blowback or consequences of destroying whole nations for imperialistic whims.
We the West have created war and mayhem in the post 9/11 wars that have possibly killed 10 millions and displaced many 10s of millions more. The cost on Western budgets for the war armaments is in the multiple trillions of dollars – hundreds of millions for New Zealand's oblivious taxpayers.
All premised on 9/11. Now all premised on keeping the 9/11 lie in the shadows. Carry on there's a profit to be made.
The Hon Phil Goff is a member of the FADAT Select Committee, and offered (28 Nov 2014) that he was part of the Cabinet that made the decision to not participate in the March 2003 war theatre in Iraq. In his discussion he offered the following comment paraphrased:
“We (all in the Select Committee room at the time) will be pleased to know that on that occasion our Intelligence Service provided advice (to Government) that there was no justification for the War in and on Iraq.”
We have Phil Goff's evidence that the NZ Security services knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction (or whatever else), yet our Allies; Blair in the UK, Bush in the US, and Howard in Australia - lied to their respective populations about the need to murder in premeditated genocide millions of people in Iraq. The proof is out there in the open for anyone with eyes to see. Why is it that no ethical government will call the West for its crimes against humanity? The only reason can be power - who has the power to prosecute the Western political leaders who continually involve their nations in genocidal war making?
There is no argument that launching aggressive war is a crime, and the West has now launched a number post the 11th September 2001. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Sudan, Syria etc., and Palestine if one regards the Israeli (Mossad) as part of the West, though they appear to be in the shadows everywhere.
Why bag 'Stop the War' in Britain for taking the only sane approach to belligerent genocide by war mongers? They call you out for your 'war-loving' approach?
http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2015/808-the-new-mccarthyism-keep-the-war-versus-stop-the-war.html
On 9/11 - read all 14 pages of my evidence to the FADAT Select Committee linked above, or try this if you can only get information from videos:
http://www.incontrovertible911evidence.co.uk/index.php?p=home
This movie from Tony Rooke who got off the charge of not paying his UK TV license fee. His evidence made an impression on the old Bailey.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284337/TV-licence-evader-refused-pay-BBC-covered-facts-9-11.html
But you might ask what has any of that got to do with ISIS?
Well Wayne it's a causal universe.
Western militarism and genocide is the cause - ISIS is the effect. Remove the cause and the effect goes away - keep adding cause, and you get - what you get.
As to the left - even the NZ Labour Party are confused on this issue - Andrew Little visits the Pentagon and comes out a war monger too:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1512/S00049/gordon-campbell-on-labours-endorsement-of-a-combat-role.htm
You must be real happy Wayne, happy new genocidal 2016 - may the blood of millions wash through your dreams.
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I’d like to classify this movie as an anime, but that would be a straight up lie. But, when you watch this, you’ll see what I mean. The plot, the action and special effects, everything in this movie is set up to be an anime. The stylistic violence explodes off the screen and Goemon skirts building tops at a Flash-like pace. There’s love and betrayal, there’s status, loyalty, and duty. Brotherhood plays one of the bigger roles in this movie to a point that really took over the movie. Goemon and Saizo, two ninja brothers at odds, rival and play to each other’s strengths, recognizing each other as friends in the end. And this is all supplemented by an amazing English dubbed cast from the Funimation studios that actually did a good job at dubbing a foreign film. Imagine that.
In a very overly dramatic style, this movie tells the story of a young ruffian who found the ways to honor and strength
The cast and its wonderful costumes that won it some awards.
through the teachings of his slain master, Nobunaga Oda. Slain by who you may ask? Well, the evil lieutenant, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (acted by Eiji Okuda, voiced by Chistopher Sabat). In a power move that succeeds, Hideyoshi plans to take the Princess Chacha as well (strange name, but all the same…) and all the power he can grab. With the exchange of a small box that was stolen from the royal coffers, Goemon is set on a chase that will reunite him with his sparring partner, Saizo (played by Takao Osawa, voiced by Troy Baker) and the aforementioned brotherhood is rekindled.
The rivalry rekindled!
What ends up happening leads to three huge fight scenes and the dramatic death of someone in the film. There’s some major slaughter, tastefully done I may add, and some traditional face-off scenes between Goemon and the big baddies. With a bigger political and army related plot at hand, the multi-layered elements of the plot may or may not be lost on you when you check this movie out. But, it also begs the question why a lot of the scenes in this movie weren’t as choreographed as I would’ve liked them to be. The special effects were geared more towards destruction than any sort of blood and kill scenes. It does leave you asking for a bit more than was offered, but the plot makes up for that lack of action sequences.
And for those American audiences who complain, “Why do I have to read a movie? I’ll miss stuff!” Whine no more. This is an actually well done dub. Yes, it’s always awkward to watch a film knowing that the foreign actors can hold their own and don’t need a voice actor trying to translate their feelings and emotions into another language, but this film does it differently. These aren’t any old voice actors. These are some of the best from the most well known English anime/voice acting company in America. Funimation. If you were a kid in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, you’ll know of their talent from Toonami. Dragonball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, all these anime and more from Toonami were voiced by those Funimation voice acting wonders.
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Set sail on this epic tale of battle.
Other than that, this is a well done live action… action movie. It has all the elements of an epic and almost feels like an overdone Japanese play or something similar. The special effects give a heightened stylistic element to it and may leave those of us more keen to a Tony Jaa film wanting a bit more fight oriented element to it. But for entertainment value, this movie delivers quite well. The music was well done and the comedy was on cue, and you may actually shed a tear at one point in the movie or another. Either way, check this out dubbed and let me know what you think. It’s at least worth a watch. 7.5 out of 10.
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August 2, 2009 [last update: August 10, 2009] Special edition:
Passed away, by cause of colon cancer, was Corazon C Aquino, former President of the Republic of the Philippines. She is considered by many Filipinos as an icon of Philippine democracy. She became President by people’s power revolution that replaced deposed Prime Minister and President, Ferdinand E. Marcos, who went on exile to Guam [and then to Hawaii], in the height of Edsa-I revolution in 1986.
No, Edsa-I Revolution did or did not happen because of Ms Corazon C Aquino, as attributed to her. Everyone who knew will agree, Cory never said anything like that or never thought of herself as that.
She is not the “Mother of Democracy”, either. Philippine democracy already existed long before her time. Restorer of Democracy is a little bigger than life. Fact is, the Philippines was already in an elective Parliamentary form of government at the time of Edsa-I and no longer under a martial law.
No, it is not true that Interim Batasan Pambansa did not have any oppositionists. I was old enough at the time to remember. I remember there was only one opposition party that stood the onslaught of the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, President Marcos’ party, at the ballots. Its name was Pusyon Bisaya, led by among them a young lawyer who much later became Supreme Court Chief Justice, Hilario Davide. Yes, there was an opposition party in the Interim Batasan Pambansa at that time, greatly out numbered though, and that’s a fact. I guess politicians always wanted to identify with the strong and mighty.
Lets go facts, sifting myths aside, giving credits where credit is due, no more no less, and so as not to twist young minds. Myth repeated a million times is still myth and won’t stand against a single fact or truth. [Some of them hurled against the one-time dictator are actually products of personal hatred caused by very deep wounds inflicted during martial rule.]
Fact is, President Marcos, under world pressure, was forced to call a presidential snap election in 1986. The oppositions had Ms Corazon C Aquino as candidate for president. In the course of the count, there was a walk-out at COMELEC over allegation of massive fraud in favor of the administration. That election was never concluded. The controversy was overtaken by a revolution: President Marcos was forced to leave the country, Corazon C Aquino was declared the new president. The issue of election fraud became moot and was soon after forgotten, truth buried with it.
Edsa Revolution showed Ms Corazon C Aquino in the spotlight again. The revolt started with defense secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and constabulary chief Fidel V Ramos standing up to Malacañang Palace. This was followed by the call of Jaime Cardinal Sin and the Bishops to support the revolt. People rallied in the streets. The rest is history.
As we can see, nobody has sole monopoly to own the glory of Edsa Revolution above anyone else. It came natural and never orchestrated. We have one social tension that had reached its breaking point that unfolded into history.
Edsa-I revolution was a culmination of a-not-so-really “bloodless struggle“as some people would like to call it. Ninoy Aquino was one victim.
People, and people alone, make history Mao Zedong.
Now, why would Mao Zedong be dragged in here and placed alongside Cory Aquino? I think they both have same things in common. No, I’m not comparing degree of greatness. I’m not talking about ideologies. I’m comparing qualities.
Both were seen as true. They never displayed selfishness. They never sought worship and praise, they never deified themselves – they just reaped them from the people. They found respect they never sought. Myth about them, if any, is by people captivated by them and never by them. That’s about them.
No, Corazon C Aquino did not force herself to people, to lead a revolution and to be their president later. By her own account, it was one of the hardest decision she made in her life – to accept the proposal, a consensus by people for her to stand the great challenge, of fronting civil disobedience. It must have took great courage for her to do it. A courageous woman as U.S. President Barack Obama simply conveyed. A gift from God to the Filipino people … as the Church in Vatican has preferred to put it. Destiny fell on her lap.
It’s been known that during her presidency, Cory was prodded by others around her to try to extend herself in power beyond her term and as interim President. She declined them all. I think Cory learned some lessons from President Ferdinand E. Marcos himself. That after two decades of presidential, later martial, and finally parliamentary rule, President Marcos failed to deliver his promises – making this nation great again – to the Filipino people. And he failed to see himself, still thinking he was doing great in the eyes of his people, which is what he was when Marcos first ascended in Malacañang.
Cory Aquino, after 6 years in power, giving her all, knowing herself and knowing history, never saw herself great. She had abhorred any notion of her perpetuating herself in power. I think it was honesty aside from unselfishness that was the driver in her.
Surely, she had shortcomings if we need to search for some. I guess we can blame them all to her limitations and never to any bad intention. And whatever, they were all absolved by her display of unquestionable honesty to herself, which I think is her greatest legacy. [One cannot be honest to people if she cannot even be honest to self. Ok, one is either honest or he/she is not.] And that, with all other virtues, spell high integrity that she had struggled hard to preserve forever.
Welcome to your place in history Ma’am!
Red, Yellow, and Blue flowers left by common people…may not look beautiful to some. But they are real. Heroes deserve nothing but real. No place for myth.
rltjs, on August 10, 2009 at 12:01 am said:
Throw a heap of myth on a heroic figure and what have you got?
She did not want to be a horse, either.
Cory as Saint, Time Fast Reverse « RLTJ’s Weblog, on August 17, 2009 at 1:02 pm said:
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Ex-Leicester Star Kermorgant The Villain In Defeat To Charlton
An unhappy birthday for the Foxes boss as Charlton look to 'do a Norwich City'...
Roger Domeneghetti
Not for the first time an apprentice met their master and came out on top. So it was at the Valley as Charlton Athletic beat Leicester City 2-1 and Addicks boss Chris Powell got one over his ex-boss Nigel Pearson on his 49th birthday. Some present for the man who set Powell on the road to management.
However it wasn’t an unexpected victory. Pearson had warned his players to be on their guard before the match pinpointing the partnership of Yann Kermorgant and Bradley Wright-Philips as a dangerous one and so it proved as they grabbed the goals in the first half that sealed all three points for the home side.
Charlton had been denied a win against Birmingham after Lee Clarke’s men grabbed a dramatic 94th minute equaliser on the opening day of the season. That they’ve followed that up with victory over pre-season favourites Leicester suggests they should at least come close to repeating the rapid ascent of Norwich, who won League One in 2010 and were promoted to the Premier League the following season and Southampton who returned to the top flight this season following two consecutive promotions.
Leicester themselves won League One in 2009 and only fell at the play-off semi-final stage the following season. That defeat was in part due to an infamous ‘chipped’ penalty from Kermorgant which was easily saved by the Cardiff City keeper.
It was his last action in a Leicester shirt (apart from holding his head in shame) and the visiting fans showed exactly what they thought of him at the Valley, booing his name throughout the match. He made his feelings clear, holding his finger to his lips after his goal.
Chris Powell got one over his ex-boss Nigel Pearson on his 49th birthday
It’s always hard to determine exactly what results mean at this early stage of the season but the signs are good for both teams. But for a period of poor defending during the second half, Leicester were the stronger side. Jamie Vardy saw two shots saved and Lloyd Dyer blasted wide before Wright-Phillips opened the scoring.
Following the double introduction of David Nugent and Andy King, who combined for Leicester’s goal, the visitors had several chances to secure a point or possibly more. That said they must not slip into the habit of being unable to secure consecutive victories on a regular basis.
For Charlton’s part, Kermorgant and Wright-Phillips have established a strong partnership and the team is still travelling upwards thanks to the momentum generated from last year’s promotion and four points against Birmingham and Leicester will sustain them on that upward curve. Don’t be surprised if both are in the top six come the end of the season.
The result further undermines the Premier League’s claim to be the best league in the world. Let’s face it it’s hardly what you’d call competitive. Nine months of effort and then a team from Manchester (or perhaps Chelsea) lift the trophy. You want competition? Check out the Championship.
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John Rubino edits DollarCollapse.com and has authored or co-authored five books, including The Money Bubble: What To Do Before It Pops, Clean Money: Picking Winners…
Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Currency Crisis Edition
By John Rubino - Aug 13, 2015, 6:17 AM CDT
A month ago China's stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common sense, was still promising to raise interest rates come September.
Fast forward to this week. China's surprise currency devaluation has sent the global markets into a tailspin, but rather than spiking on the sudden drop in a major trading partner currency, the US dollar is plunging against the euro and most other currencies. Why? Because a global currency crisis is just about the last situation in which the world's major central bank would be expected to tighten.
Suddenly, traders are concluding that maybe rates won't rise after all:
Fallout from China's yuan devaluation weakens dollar
(MarketWatch) - The dollar weakened against most of its emerging-markets and industrialized rivals Wednesday as investors fretted that China's devaluation of the yuan could cause Federal Reserve officials to delay an expected increase in their benchmark interest rate.
The ICE U.S. Dollar index DXY, -1.16% , a measure of the dollar's strength against a basket of six rival currencies, was down 1% to 95.9920.
China's decision to let the yuan drop caused emerging-markets currencies in Asia and elsewhere to depreciate in sympathy, as some investors anticipated central banks around the world will shift to a more accommodative monetary policy. This would push the dollar even higher, which could cause the Federal Reserve to hold off on raising interest rates for fear that the dollar has become too much of a drag on U.S. economic growth.
"The China move on FX, rightly or wrongly, is being seen as something that's muting the policy divergence theme," said Josh O'Byrne, G-10 FX Strategist at Citigroup.
Speculators unwinding bets on emerging-markets currencies also helped push the dollar lower, as they bought back the euros and yen they had used to fund those trades, said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank.
The euro EURUSD, +1.3222% rose 1.4% to $1.1197 from $1.1044 late Tuesday in New York, while the dollar shed 1% against the yen USDJPY, -0.94% to trade at ¥123.88 down from ¥125.07 late Tuesday.
So now we have currency turmoil in the developing world, equity corrections and possibly bear markets in the developed world, and deflation pretty much everywhere. None of this argues for a stronger dollar or higher interest rates.
Even before the latest shock, the Fed was starting to accommodate this view by sending out talking heads to make the soften the September rate hike. From MarketWatch over the weekend:
...But comments from Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer on Monday may have helped ease some of those concerns. He told Bloomberg TV he doesn't expect the first interest-rate hike by the U.S. central bank in more than nine years to occur until after inflation returns closer to the Fed's target of around 2%.
Another week like this one and the idea of any central bank anywhere raising interest rates will be laughed out of the room.
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San Francisco nightclubs are vibrant, diverse, and exciting. San Francisco has long been known as a city that night creatures love, meaning that once the sun goes down, things have a way of really heating up and taking off in regards to dance floor action. Nightclub life here varies as greatly as the city's population-there are massive spaces the size of football fields, and tiny ones no bigger than the average kitchen pantry. Here's our guide to some of the best San Francisco nightclubs.
1015 Folsom
1015 Folsom Street (at 6th Street) (415) 431-1200 Official Website & Events Calendar: 1015 Folsom
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Absolutely gigantic, much-loved San Francisco nightclub has three levels of fun to choose from once you get past the intimidating security guards and in the door. It also has what is probably the best soundsystem of any club in the Bay Area. Even when this space gets crowded-and it almost always does-there's plenty of elbowroom, and more importantly, room on the many dance floors for rump shaking. Definitely check out the upstairs chill-out room if you need a break to wipe down some sweat, or crash out on one of the many couches in the various lounge areas throughout the club. 1015 Folsom is the best place in town to witness local, national, and international DJ superstars working their craft-be sure to strap on footwear you can dance all night in.
Club Fuego at Space 550
550 Barnevald Avenue (between Oakdale and Industrial Streets) (415) 550-8286 Official Website & Events Calendar: Club Fuego at Space 550
Located in the industrial wasteland area near Bayshore Boulevard, space550, or Barnevald (which is what most people refer to it as), arose during the late '90s, right at a time when it was becoming painfully clear that San Franciscans needed another massive dance space due to the influx of hip dot.commers and the rise in popularity of electronica music. This is a state-of-the-art establishment that hosts not only DJ nights, but also private dinners. cocktail parties, and corporate events. There's one enormous dance floor, plus two other smaller rooms for grooving on the main floor, plus a cozy crash-out space on the second floor complete with couches, chairs, and even ottomans. You'll need a car to get there, and it's recommended that you don't just show up on a Saturday night expecting something to be going on. Always check the online events calendar at Club Fuego's official site!
San Francisco Nightclubs: Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street (at 8th Street) (415) 431-3322 Official Website & Events Calendar: Cat Club
Hip South of Market club is where all the town's thrift store-clad scenesters flock to for throwback nights like the popular 1984, which focuses on-yep, you guessed it-80s synth pop and rock. There's a nice-sized plywood dance floor, a mini-stage for go-go dancing, and a handsome, brick-walled back bar away from all the noise and chatter of the main floor. The sound here can get intensely loud-it's not uncommon to see people wearing earplugs while dancing. So if you have sensitive ears…While you can see people of all ages at the Cat Club, you're mainly going to find twentysomething college students mixing it up. Hopefully, they won't make you feel too old.
Endup
401 6th Street (at Harrison Street) (415) 646-0999 Official Website & Events Calendar: Endup
One of the coolest and most notorious after hours nightclubs of all of San Francisco, the Endup has been packing em in since way back in 1973, and has gained international fame for a variety of reasons, one of them being its place in Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" book and mini-series. This is high energy house music heaven, and the lovers of this music genre sweat it out just about every night of the week on the cozy dance floor. The back patio-equipped with plentiful seating, a waterfall, and a two-story deck-is a godsend for smokers. There's also a cozy ski lodge-esque lounge area inside right off the dance floor, with a newly restored fireplace to curl up next to for a chat with a friend. On the weekends, it seems like this place doesn't' even close-the long-running Sunday Tea dance begins at 6am!
San Francisco Nightclubs: Mezzanine
444 Jessie Street (between 5th and 6th Streets and Mission and Stevenson Streets) (415) 625-8880 Official Website & Events Calendar: Mezzanine
This brand new nightclub space-located in a particularly seedy section off the skid row section of 6th Street-was voted best new nightclub by the SF Weekly in 2005. It has the look and feel of a warehouse, but an incredibly chic and stylized one-there's a padded dance floor to groove on, upper-level lounges with different DJs spinning entirely different music from what's being pumped out on the main floor, and a highly exclusive upstairs VIP lounge for big spenders. The unique thing about Mezzanine is that it's not strictly all about DJ-spun dance music-live bands with heavy electronica and synth influences are playing here, too.
Ruby Skye
420 Mason Street (at Geary Street) (415) 693-0777 Official Website & Events Calendar: Ruby Skye
According to owner George Kaparty, Ruby Skye is a club for people who are "grown up, make money, and dress nice." So I guess if you're none of these things, don't even consider putting yourself in the mix. This relatively new dance club is housed in a gigantic space (it was the Stage Door Theater before its current incarnation) and has a very roomy dance floor, one that seems to be perpetually bathed in sexy red and orange lights. There's a billiards and stogy-smoking section upstairs for VIPs, and lots of velvety, oversized couches to flop on. Be prepared to spend a lot of dough if you come-cover charges are steep, and drink prices even steeper.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 Collection Artwork Revealed
by Rob Keyes
Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost upon us, with the official marketing campaign for Captain America: Civil War beginning yesterday (watch the first trailer here!) evening alongside the official start to production on Doctor Strange. These are the first two films of Phase 3, both releasing in 2016, but before we get there, Phase 2 is coming to an end in just matter of weeks.
Ant-Man may already be finishing its worldwide theatrical run, but its home video release happens Tuesday, December 8th, the same day the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two collection debuts as well, featuring 13 discs of content, including new exclusive footage and new sleeve artwork by Matt Ferguson, all wrapped up in a case featuring the Infinity Stone and Orb from Guardians of the Galaxy.
The package is exclusive to Amazon and after designing the disc sleeves for the 10-disc Phase One Collection, artist Matt Ferguson returns for the Phase Two set to design its packaging. We got a hint of the art in the above, previously released image, but now we have an official look at the complete sleeves which look spectacular and poster-worthy:
This Phase 2 collection also includes a bunch of neat memorabilia, including a gold-foiled page from the book of Dark Elves, an ancient drawing from the Morag vault, Avengers and S.T.R.I.K.E. uniform patches, a replica of the Tony Stark Tattoo from Marvel’s Iron Man 3, and more. There's 166 minutes of new exclusive bonus footage on the bonus disc along with these familiar bonus features from each film's individual release:
Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant w/Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg
Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s Hammer With Audio Commentary By Clark Gregg
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Avengers: Age Of Ultron: Preproduction Creative: Hulk vs. Hulkbuster
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two Collection releases December 8, 2015, available exclusively from Amazon.
Captain America: Civil War will release on May 6, 2016, followed by Doctor Strange – November 4, 2016; Guardians of the Galaxy 2 – May 5, 2017; Spider-Man – July 28, 2017; Thor: Ragnarok – November 3, 2017; Black Panther – February 16, 2018; The Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 – May 4, 2018; Ant-Man and the Wasp – July 6, 2018; Captain Marvel – March 8, 2019; The Avengers: Infinity War Part 2 – May 3, 2019; Inhumans – July 12, 2019; and as-yet untitled Marvel movies on May 1, July 10 and November 6, 2020.
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I meet people all the time who say things like, "I wish I could work from home, but I don't know anything about business." "I have this great idea, but I need to do a business plan...and ugh. That is just not my thing."
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June 2019 Update Summary
With yesterday being the second Tuesday of the month; it means it’s Update Tuesday again. Microsoft resolved 88 vulnerabilities (more formally known as CVEs (defined) with Adobe addressing 11 vulnerabilities of their own.
Adobe Campaign: 7x Priority 3 vulnerabilities (1x Critical, 3x Important, 3x Moderate)
Adobe ColdFusion: 3x Priority 2 vulnerabilities (3x Critical)
Adobe Flash Player: 1x Priority 1 vulnerability (1x Critical)
If you use Adobe ColdFusion, please apply the necessary updates as soon as possible. For that product, as per Adobe’s advisory, please make certain the Java JDK/JRE in use on the server is fully up to date in order to fully secure it. Please install the remaining updates for Campaign and Flash Player as soon as possible since they also resolve critical vulnerabilities.
For Microsoft; this month’s list of Known Issues is available within their monthly summary page and applies to all currently supported operating systems. Not all issues have workarounds at this time. Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 list known issues with McAfee products and should refer to the guidance linked to by Microsoft within the above linked to attempt to workaround these issues:
4493730 Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Servicing stack update
4503027 Exchange Server 2019, Exchange Server 2016
4503028 Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3, Exchange Server 2013
4503263 Windows Server 2012 (Security-only update)
4503267 Windows 10, version 1607, Windows Server 2016
4503276 Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 (Monthly Rollup)
4503279 Windows 10, version 1703
4503285 Windows Server 2012 (Monthly Rollup)
4503290 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 (Security-only update)
4503291 Windows 10
4503292 Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (Security-only update)
A further useful source of update related information is the Calendar of Updates.
News/announcements of updates in the categories of General Software, Security Software and Utilities are available on their website. The news/announcements are very timely and (almost always) contain useful direct download links as well as the changes/improvements made by those updates (where possible).
For this month’s Microsoft updates, I will prioritize the order of installation below:
Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer: CVE-2019-1038
Microsoft Speech API Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0985
Microsoft Scripting Engine:
Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0709 , CVE-2019-0722 , CVE-2019-0620
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: CVE-2019-0888
Windows Task Scheduler: CVE-2019-1069 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)
Windows AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC): CVE-2019-1064 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)
Windows Shell: CVE-2019-1053 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)
Windows Installer: CVE-2019-0973 (disclosed by SandboxEscaper)
As per standard best practice; I would recommend backing up the data on any device for which you are installing updates to prevent data loss in the rare event that any update causes unexpected issues.
I have provided further details of updates available for other commonly used applications below.
VideoLAN VLC:
A new version of VLC is available for Apple macOS, Linux, Windows (desktop and Windows Store), Google Android and Apple iOS with some great performance improvements and resolving 33 security vulnerabilities (2 of which are high severity) as a result of the EU-FOSSA bug bounty programme which opened in January this year.
Further details are below:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.7.html
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2019/VLC-3.0.7-and-security
Version 3.0.7.1 has since been released to resolve other non-security issues. The most recent version can be downloaded from:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Yesterday (11th June), Mozilla released Firefox 67.0.2 to address a single moderate severity vulnerability.
Further to the above updates, on the 18th and the 20th June; Mozilla issued 2 updates for Firefox version 67.0.3 (ESR (Extended Support Release) 60.7.1) and 67.0.4 (ESR 60.7.2) to resolve 2x critical zero day (defined) vulnerabilities actively being exploited in the wild.
Details of how to install updates for Firefox are here. If Firefox is your web browser of choice, if you have not already done so, please update it as soon as possible to benefit from the above changes.
Google released Google Chrome version 75.0.3770.80 to address 42 vulnerabilities in early June.
Google Chrome updates automatically and will apply the update the next time Chrome is closed and then re-opened. Chrome can also be updated immediately by clicking the Options button (it looks like 3 stacked small horizontal lines, sometimes called a “hamburger” button) in the upper right corner of the window and choosing “About Google Chrome” from the menu. Follow the prompt to Re-launch Chrome for the updates to take effect.
VMware:
Earlier this month VMware published a security advisory to address a single Important severity vulnerability in VMware Tools for Linux and Windows.
If you use VMware Tools on Linux or Windows, please review the security advisory and apply the necessary updates.
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A’s snatch second-straight win over Orioles
By Kalama Hines :: SFBay August 9, 2016
Reporting from Oakland Coliseum
The Baltimore Orioles mustered just three hits as the Oakland Athletics claimed a second-straight victory, 2-1 on Tuesday night.
Charged by a dominating start from Zach Neal, the A’s (50-63) turned the tables of their recent offensive scuffle, shutting down the Orioles (63-49) and one of the game’s most potent offenses. Facing the former Seattle Mariner Wade Miley (L, 7-10, 4.98 ERA), the Oakland bats did just enough, squeezing two runs out of their 10 total base runners.
This is the first time the A’s have won back-to-back games since July 26-27 against the Texas Rangers.
This story has been updated with quotes and post-game material from the A’s clubhouse at the Oakland Coliseum.
Neal (W, 2-1, 4.60 ERA) has been waiting to redeem himself after his May 25 loss in Seattle:
“That was kind of a weird game for me, and things didn’t go my way, but you kind of learn from it and go from there. That’s all you can do. If you don’t learn from your mistakes then you’re not getting better.”
Catcher Stephen Vogt, who went 1-for-2 with two walks at the plate, said his starter was visibly prepared prior to the first pitch:
“Before the game, in the bullpen talking with him, he was confident. You could tell that he was a lot more comfortable. A lot more ready. He’s been throwing the ball great for us.”
His second shot at a starting gig went much better than the first as he made the most of his 75-pitch allotment. After being pummeled for seven runs in four innings the first time around, the 27-year-old rookie lasted 5-1/3 innings allowing just two hits and one run. Though his sinker yielded just one strikeout, it earned him 11 groundball outs.
The righty, who did not face a three-ball count until the third and only two in all, was able to work early, weak contact continuously from an O’s offense which boasts the AL’s fifth-best batting average (.263). And he did so going repeatedly to the well of 90 mph sinkers.
Said Neal:
“That’s just my game — reliever, starter that’s my plan of attack — fill it up with my sinker. … That’s how my gameplan is every time.”
The only blemishes in Neal’s otherwise perfect night came in the form of a home run from Adam Jones (22), on what Vogt said was the only flat sinker from Neal all night, and a double off the bat of Jonathan Schoop. The latter was stranded at third by Liam Hendriks, who replaced the starter with one out in the sixth. The Aussie provided his mates with 1-2/3 innings of perfect relief.
Photos by Scot Tucker/SFBay
Like Neal, Hendriks has been on a tear, having allowed just three runs in 20-1/3 innings (1.33 ERA) since July 1.
Manager Bob Melvin said that his success has forced the 27 year-old into more high-pressure appearances:
“He’s been pressed into a little bit, based on performance. It’s been extremely impressive for a guy that, earlier in the year, had some command issues — you worry about him walking a guy. He’s coming into situations now where he has to be perfect. He’s pitching as well as he has all year.”
Leading the way for the offense was Jake Smolinski, who went 2-for-2.
The center fielder also added a walk between a single from Marcus Semien and an RBI double from Danny Valencia. He crossed the plate with the deciding run on a sacrifice fly from Khris Davis.
Ryan Madson (4-4, 3.59 ERA) sealed the deal with save No. 24.
The closer, who said he was happy for his bullpen mate Neal — “he’s not a starter in my heart yet” — summed up the current run of the bullpen, which has given up 21 runs in 80-1/3 innings (2.35 ERA) since the All-Star break:
“You’re going to go through waves, and we’re on a good wave right now — everybody is feeding off each other. It’s fun.”
Ross Detwiler (0-0, 5.79 ERA) makes his A’s debut in a starting role on Wednesday night, as the Green and Gold look for three straight wins. He will be opposed by Yovani Gallardo (4-3, 5.47 ERA).
Kalama Hines is SFBay’s Oakland Athletics beat writer. Follow @SFBay and @HineSight_2020 on Twitter and at SFBay.ca for full coverage of A’s baseball.
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What rides would you like to see get removed and why
by Ilovthevu' on August 25th, 2018, 11:26 am
This is the OPPOSITE of this topic, but I don't want to make a new topic.
ONE is the loneliest number (from a song), and it's NOT good right now IF Six Flags only owns 1 of a certain ride.
*Triple Play is worrisome. Six Flags now only has ONE Huss Troika (Triple Play) in their parks. They
technically own another one, but they have not put it back up. If you do like Triple Play, and you do worry about it going away, at least you have another one in Illinois at St. Nicholas Village, plus Cedar Fair has done the opposite of Six Flags, and put 5 million Huss Troikas in there parks. So you just need to visit a Cedar Fair park, or go to East Dundee, IL. The closest Cedar Fair park could be World's of Fun, Cedar Point, or Kings Island that each have a Huss Troika.
*Ricochet is the only Huss Swing Around at a Six Flags park.
*Sky Trek Tower - I believe this is the only sky cabin ride at Six Flags park. The good news though is that Intamin (the company that makes it) is still around & still sells these types of rides, but it's never good to be a ONE in the Six Flags corporation.
*Fiddler's Fling - I don't like it. I don't care if they get rid of it. However, if you are someone that likes this ride, ride it now. Don't wait until 5 years, and it's gone because it's the only Calypso Six Flags owns.
*The Lobster (which I don't really like), there are 2 of them at a Six Flags. The other one is in Six Flags Mexico called a different name. Still, it is a Shrawtzkof ride, and they are long gone. It being at Six Flags Mexico, doesn't really help it's case because Six Flags Mexico also has a double Chance Inverter, and not many American parks have a Chance Inverter whatsoever. When you don't have a lot of roller coasters, you rely on the smaller rides more, I guess. I suspect the next death of the Lobster = removal of the park. It already had a couple deaths more recently, and pretty soon, the park will get fed up with it, and removal. Because of multiple deaths already, I would put this ride in SEVERE danger. And yes, they moved it elsewhere, etc, etc, but things change if the thing dies again.
*Condor has a LITTLE better odds with 3 of them - at Great Escape & La Ronde plus at least Huss Rides is still in business.
Of course, with the recent getting rid of all the Enterprises, and soon the demise of all Huss Top Spins, this reminds me to mention this.
I will give a positive statistic right now. Scramblers are NOT a one. Six Flags Over Georgia is just one of the Six Flags parks that was dumb to get rid of theirs, but there are a lot of Scramblers, plus Eli Bridge Company is still in business, and an American company. The only reason I mention America is because an American company is easier to get parts than a foreign company. It takes longer if you get a part from Germany as compared to the US.
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by Mean Streaker on August 26th, 2018, 2:26 am
SFGAM_Hog wrote:
CoasterRiderSC wrote:
Mean Streaker wrote: Joker is the ugliest, most ill-placed, ride in the park! There were so many places it could've fit without disrupting the whole area. And on top of all that it's boring and underwhelming. I would love to see it removed in the next 5 years.
YES!!!!!!!!!!
Ugly? I think its one of the best looking rides in the park. I don't think it's placement is too bad.
The ride itself doesn't look too bad in the skyline. But everything on the ground doesn't fit my taste. The queue is a boring, bland piece of concrete, there is no landscaping anywhere around the ride, and even though there was some potential for awesome but cheap theming they decided to give it the worst in the park. The surrounding area just reeks of little effort, more so than what I usually expect from Six Flags.
I had a bad taste in my mouth from the horrible wait I endured on my first ride. I liked it a little more after reriding it. It's an okay addition to the park, but I don't think it will be a staple for very long.
Mean Streaker
by RBullFan97 on August 26th, 2018, 5:32 pm
^I actually agree a lot of what you're saying. First of all, let me just preface that I actually like the Joker and think it's a fun addition to the park. But yes, the ride just reeks of modern Six Flags with almost zero-effort in landscaping/theming. I remember when I first saw the station, my reaction was "that's pathetic," plus there's the very sterile, concrete feel of the area. When you compare the theming/look of Joker to its next door neighbor Batman, it's night and day.
by Ilovthevu' on August 26th, 2018, 11:28 pm
^The lines for the Joker are terrible. Who welds almost every line together like that? I'm not calling for it's removal, but that is just STUPID as can be. That's why you have chains all over the rest of the park. By doing that, they are asking for trouble with everyone go under all the lines to get to the real line. I've seen it like that. It's mass chaos. Than, the employees get mad at the people. Well, who designed it so horribly like that? You think the park would learn something as simple as that after 40 years, but NOPE!
by MrsTaxi on August 27th, 2018, 12:49 am
Ilovthevu' wrote: ^The lines for the Joker are terrible. Who welds almost every line together like that? I'm not calling for it's removal, but that is just STUPID as can be. That's why you have chains all over the rest of the park. By doing that, they are asking for trouble with everyone go under all the lines to get to the real line. I've seen it like that. It's mass chaos. Than, the employees get mad at the people. Well, who designed it so horribly like that? You think the park would learn something as simple as that after 40 years, but NOPE!
I hate that,too.
by Mean Streaker on August 29th, 2018, 12:25 pm
I'm not as disappointed in Joker now as I was when I made the first post, so I'm not calling for its immediate removal by any means.
But I have to say, it's definitely not one of our strongest coasters. And for that reason I don't think it should stay longer than most of the other coasters.
The only coaster I could see being weaker is The Dark Knight, it's fun but hasn't aged well in terms of popularity.
by CoasterRiderSC on August 30th, 2018, 8:08 am
I was agreeing with the comment about boring and underwhelming As for Dark Knight, I still really like the ride! (more so when the effects are timed right ) And my kids LOVE that ride! It's a fun family coaster and dark ride. That ride fills several niches. And, yes, Joker is an eyesore
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RBullFan97 wrote: ^I actually agree a lot of what you're saying. First of all, let me just preface that I actually like the Joker and think it's a fun addition to the park. But yes, the ride just reeks of modern Six Flags with almost zero-effort in landscaping/theming. I remember when I first saw the station, my reaction was "that's pathetic," plus there's the very sterile, concrete feel of the area. When you compare the theming/look of Joker to its next door neighbor Batman, it's night and day.
In my opinion, Batman is THE best themed ride in the entire park! I'm now appreciating that more and more each time I ride it. And I Know this is unpopular but I believe Dark Knight is also very well themed ride, possibly 2nd best after Batman.
by JT2002 on August 30th, 2018, 7:14 pm
I can see V2 getting moved to another park, like SF over georgia, which has no launch coasters at all
by SFGAM_Hog on August 30th, 2018, 7:22 pm
If Magic Mountain can have 3 launch coasters, why can't we have more than one?
by coasterkidd100 on August 30th, 2018, 7:33 pm
I can't think of a single good reason to get rid of Vertical Velocity. People still seem to enjoy it and it usually has a line. I know that it has maintenance issues and I also get that its capacity sucks but that is the same as a lot of coaster in the World. I think it is just fine where it is.
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SFGAM_Hog wrote: If Magic Mountain can have 3 launch coasters, why can't we have more than one?
Again, some parks like SF over Georgia don't even have a launch coaster, I can see it leaving in 2021.
by CoasterRiderSC on August 31st, 2018, 11:20 am
Ilovthevu' wrote: This is the OPPOSITE of this topic, but I don't want to make a new topic.
Take down almost any flat ride we have but do NOT touch Condor!! Or Triple Play! Hometown Fun Machine can definitely go though.......
coasterkidd100 wrote: I can't think of a single good reason to get rid of Vertical Velocity. People still seem to enjoy it and it usually has a line. I know that it has maintenance issues and I also get that its capacity sucks but that is the same as a lot of coaster in the World. I think it is just fine where it is.
I can think of 4 good reasons:
1) Super low capacity
2) Sucks down electricity
3) Never a line for the ride
4) Frequently goes down
by JaminOut on August 31st, 2018, 1:35 pm
There’s a line for this ride. You don’t see it because they pack everyone into the station. It’s a good 25 minute wait in there.
by coasterkidd100 on August 31st, 2018, 8:57 pm
I get the points that you make but they can still be argued to some extent.
1. Most theme parks have at least one coaster that doesn't have the best capacity.
2. Yes it uses a lot of electricity but I am not sure why we really care about that. We aren't paying for their electric bill. Well I mean I guess we do by going to the park but I am sure that you know what I mean.
3. Every time I go to the park there seems to be a decent sized line for it.
4. Yes,I will agree that it goes down a lot but I used to work for the park for years and can say that we have quite a few rides/coasters that go down quite frequently. I will honestly say Vertical Velocity does stay down for longer periods of time than most of our other rides/coasters do though.
by CoasterRiderSC on September 5th, 2018, 4:52 pm
JaminOut wrote:
Ben, then you accept 3/4 of my points!!
by coasterfanatic on September 7th, 2018, 1:27 pm
All I am going to say is that I am glad most of you aren't in charge of the park, as we'd have nothing left.
I went of Lex Luthor Drop of Doom at MM (a 400 foot drop tower) and you can feel the tower sway at the top. It was kind of a bit scary and crazy. I loved it.
Battle needs to go, but you definitely get wet on it. Last time I went on it, I got DRENCHED, and that's why I stopped going on it because I go too wet on it.
I personally am not a big fan of Condor. It's old and looks ugly. I would like to go too. Everything else is fine. I love STT and the flumes. Go-karts don't annoy me. I've done Dare Devil Dive before too.
I would personally get rid of the loop because I think its pointless
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by SFGAM_Hog on September 7th, 2018, 4:03 pm
How is the Hangover pointless? We needed a new thrilling flat desperately.
by CoasterRiderSC on October 10th, 2018, 4:55 pm
SFGAM_Hog wrote: How is the Hangover pointless? We needed a new thrilling flat desperately.
You consider Hangover thrilling?? It's the slowest and most controlled ride ever. The only thrilling thing for me is if I can ride it with my 8yo and wait less than 30 minutes!
by Sven18 on October 10th, 2018, 5:44 pm
It's pointless b/c it's a superloop. The millionth in the chain and a bigger one doesn't make it any less lame. There were a lot better choices of thrilling flats..ie..Zamperla Giant Discovery or Endeavour, etc..
by anewman35 on October 10th, 2018, 11:26 pm
Sven18 wrote:
Most people who go to Great America never go to other parks in the chain. The fact that other parks in the chain have the same ride doesn't make us having one pointless.
by Ilovthevu' on October 11th, 2018, 12:41 am
There’s a line for this ride. You don’t see it because they pack everyone into the station. It’s a good 25 minute wait in there.[/quote]
Rides that have longer lines are not rides to get rid of. People still like them, are willing to wait for them. Your "super low capacity" figure is not as low as a bunch of rides in the amusement industry. Six Flags just put in a roller coaster with only 8 seats PER a LONG train / a longer circuit (than even the Joker) called Wonder Woman. You have 16 passenger rides like the KMG Freak Out. Whizzer per train is not that great of capacity. It's only 12 seats, if 1/2 of them were only 1 person, that's only 18 people per train. When Whizzer runs only 2 trains (like it has the whole year), the Whizzer can't be sent until the last train hits the final break run. That's about 2 minutes of time. That's a long time for a coaster to be sent no matter what.
Little Dipper is not that great of capacity. Giant Drop is not that great of capacity especially with them running less than 6 sides at a time. Than, people say Giant Drop is a walk-on. That's the stupid ride that should go already! The problem is, is that they don't have anywhere to send it to because most likely every Six Flags park has some sort of drop ride, or S&S tower. The Joker has only 8 seats per car. Remember V2 is 28 people per train. Again, V2 was a much cheaper ride to build. It's not comparable in 1000+ capacity to the $20 million+ B&Ms of today. It is also in a small area.
Than, you sometimes have "super capacity" rides that are HORRIBLE loaders. They take forever. They get so much capacity per ride, but than you wait, and wait, and wait, and wait for the ride load. East River Crawler is one of those rides at Great America. It takes FOREVER to load that ride because they insist on having 1 employee for 25 cars (up to 50 people per ride), so loading for each ride might take 5 minutes or more, and no I'm not kidding. Rides like Max Air, and ferris wheels fall in this category. They load so many people, but than they take so long to load. So, than the "super capacity" is kind of negated with really long loading time. Sometimes, they only load 1/5 of a ferris wheel because they have too many cars. So, it takes forever to get on these rides.
So, lets say they get rid of it. They are only going to put flat rides in that area unless you get something like a Premier Rocket or an Intamin skateboard ride. It's such a small area for another roller coaster. To me, why would they waste that area for flat rides when you could put 4 flat rides in Buccaneer Battle or Giant Drop? In my opinion, you won't be happy if it's gone either because it's not big enough for anything unless you take the flumes away, but they NEED regular water park rides. You can't just have everyone only go in the waterpark.
^^ Yeah, and Joker is the FIRST ride I'd get rid of Not just due to the low capacity either.
V2 was fun when it first came out but it really does nothing for me now. In terms of inefficiency,
the Big Un-Easy Balloons is the worst! That ride takes like 5 minutes to come to complete stop and then ride op has to manually unlock each balloon.
by FParker185 on October 14th, 2018, 10:07 am
Joker would be better and worth keeping around if they took it out of family mode and put on more fins. Get it into the 8-10 flip range like some others.
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Favorite Steel: Expedition GeForce, SFOG Goliath, Olympia Looping
Parks visited: 201, Coasters Ridden: Steel: 713, Wood: 166, Total: 879
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Deconstructing B&B: Thomas & Sally’s love is targeted for termination
Linsey Godfrey, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood "The Bold and the Beautiful" Set CBS Television City Los Angeles, Ca. 06/06/17 © Howard Wise/jpistudios.com 310-657-9661 Episode # 7628 U.S.Airdate 07/13/17
We continued to see a variety of characters and situations on “B&B” this week, but once again the Avants have disappeared and Coco and RJ’s texting and driving story also went missing in action after Monday’s episode. Thoughts:
Consequences?
Well, Lt. Baker promised Coco would have to face the legal implications of the texting and driving incident, and Sally vowed to give her sister a ‘talking to’ but there was no follow up by the end of Thursday’s episode, so we’ve yet to learn what Coco will have to deal with. As mentioned previously, it’s odd that they had Coco of all people do something so stupid, but it was likely part of the message; it could happen to anyone no matter how conscientious or well-meaning they are otherwise. It also puts her on a slightly more level playing field with Sally as far as bad judgment goes.
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Caroline’s return.
Well, Caroline came back to Los Angeles seeking to reunite with Thomas now that he’s in a relationship with Sally…naturally. This is typical soap fare, and where viewers stand on the matter depends on preference and perspective. I liked the idea of Thomas and Caroline being together previously, but it never came to fruition as Caroline was reluctant after Ridge split with her, and ultimately decided to stay in New York. Thomas now has a genuine, and only slightly less complicated, love of his own in Sally, and Caroline has been brought back to cause conflict. Down the road I may feel torn, but with Caroline having come back at Steffy’s request, not entirely of her own volition, and without any great love story in her and Thomas’ past to revisit, it’s more a case of what might have been, and thus not as appealing as Sally’s current real feelings for him and what they’re creating together. Fans weighed in:
#BoldandBeautiful I am #TeamSally in this whole Sally/Thomas/Caroline mess..Caroline left month ago…she has no right for anything!
— Melanie Gnaust (@MelG1977) July 14, 2017
I'm torn because I liked Thomas with Caroline but also with Sally. #BoldandBeautiful
— Danielle (@BabyD2034) July 13, 2017
Yaaaas I love $bill and steffy campaigning to get Thomas & Caroline back together! I miss #Carmas so much!! #BoldandBeautiful I hate Sally
— ? Married 2 The ? (@SuckMyDreamz06) July 12, 2017
As far as Steffy and Bill conspiring to ‘get rid of Sally’ goes, this was expected to a point given the Spectra/Forrester history, though the bit with Bill caressing the skyscraper is a tad silly and ‘mustache twirly’. Steffy may be looking out for the family’s interests by trying to bring Thomas back into the fold, but this is an occasion where I feel the formidable Felicia Forrester would have slotted in perfectly to follow in her mother’s footsteps, or even have Taylor return. Not that Steffy isn’t up to the task, but a meddling matriarchal figure would be ideal.
Bottoms up.
In the last Deconstructing B&B, Eric went wild when he learned about Quinn and Ridge’s affair, and now he’s bottomed-out and is holed up, depressed and guzzling beer, in a motel room. Of all the motel rooms in Los Angeles, Eric ended up across the hall from Sheila. Ack. Anyway, it is what it is, and Eric sent her back to the Forrester mansion for his medication. We long ago gave up on the concept of security at the estate, so it was no surprise when Quinn encountered Sheila in her living room. While it was entertaining for them to debate who has the worst track record with Eric, and engage in a mildly threatening face-off, most of us really aren’t buying into this new version of Quinn that’s so easily intimidated and running to Ridge for help. At her worst, Quinn was deadly, so realistically, Sheila coming between her and her man should be spurring her to take lethal measures against the psycho interloper…and that’s what we are waiting to see.
More: It’s Christmas in July with Patrick Duffy’s Hallmark premiere movie this weekend
Friday notes.
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#sanctuary18 – Q&A with Ari Gurdon Lindey
For our #sanctuary18 campaign, we had the pleasure of working with Soho-based photographer Ari Gurdon Lindey and her talented eye for candid street photography. We sat down with her after the shoot to find out a bit more about the mind behind the lens.
How did you get into photography?
Just over seven years ago I downloaded Instagram, not really knowing what it was all about. I sussed it out and loved the whole concept of sharing solely photos (not very good ones to start with), finding exciting photographers, learning tips, etc. I really enjoyed the community feel of it all. In the beginning, I exclusively shot on iPhone and only invested in a “proper camera” a couple of years ago. So yeah, Instagram got me into photography.
Who were your early influencers? Who inspires you now?
I discovered the wonderful street photographer Vivian Maier early on in my photography journey and she has been a big influence on what I like to shoot. But I’ve also come across some amazing street photographers through Instagram, Paola (@monaris) & Zahava (@golden2dew) being two of my favourites at the moment.
We know you usually work with candid subjects, how was it working with models for our Sanctuary shoot? How did your street photography experience influence your approach for the shoot?
Working with models vs candid subjects was very different indeed. I hardly have any contact with the people I shoot on the street, apart from the occasional eye contact when I’m spotted in action (and those shots turn out to be the best ones actually) – so I must say that I was a tad apprehensive before the Sanctuary shoot! But as soon as we were on location and I started taking shots the anxiety went and it felt very natural and relaxed. The models were ace and pretty chilled which helped a lot. We were shooting in an urban environment, outdoors, on the street which made me feel more ‘at home’.
How do you choose the candid subjects in your work? Do you have a typical process?
I don’t have a typical process unless walking around, camera in hand, with my eyes wide open counts as typical. For me, taking a candid photograph is pretty much a split second decision. I look for a particular face, an expression or a pose. Even the way a person is dressed can catch my eye.
We discovered you through Instagram — how has social media affected your practice?
For me Instagram has opened up so many opportunities that I wouldn’t have thought were possible, so it’s affected my practice by increasing the variety of projects and campaigns I’ve worked on. Each one has been so different to the other — it’s rather challenging but only in the most positive way!
In the spirit of collaboration — who would you love to work with (alive or dead) and why?
Hmm, that’s a tough one. I’m very much open to all sorts of collaborations and I’m particularly attracted to working with small independent businesses. But if I could pick a big brand I’d like to work with at the moment it would be Adidas.
What camera do you use most often?
Even though I still use my iPhone to take shots on a daily basis (that’s how it all started!) I do love my FUJI X-T10 camera and its 56mm lens.
And finally — what’s your favourite Sanctuary t-shirt and why?
Another tough one because I do think all the designs are wonderful. But ok, I’ve shortlisted two, the first one — “BE KIND” by Pentagram. I love the simplicity of the design that carries such a lovely and strong message. I also really like Lewis Khan’s design with the swimmers in Marseille. I find the image calming and somewhat reassuring.
Ari will be working on a kids’ clothing website and going to the Costa Barcelona region to take photos for the Spanish Tourist Office in November – follow her on twitter and instagram to stay up to date with all things Ari!
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To get your hand on the t-shirts mentioned in this post or any of the #sanctuary18 t-shirts, please visit everpress.com/sanctuary. All profits from t-shirt sales will go directly to The Childhood Trust.
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Affordable Nashville: 32 Free and Low-cost Tips
October 15, 2014 by Janice Waugh
A Nashville Downtown Ambassador is there to answer your questions.
I’m not against enjoying a bit of luxury now and then. But… I do like a bargain.
I like to pay fairly for things and also save money when I can so that I can travel farther and longer.
When it comes to tipping in places like Nashville where the people in the service industry absolutely depend on tips (many don’t get paid otherwise) I like to be generous.
At the same time, when there are ways to save money, I like to do that too.
So here, as part of my 32 Free and Low-cost Tips series, are my suggestions for Nashville.
Save Your Money Getting Around Nashville
Free and Low-cost Music and Entertainment
Things to Do in Nashville that are Cheap
Eat on the cheap in Nashville
Take Nashville Transit. With the help of the bus driver and using their computerized system, you can buy a bus ticket on the bus with cash in any value you want. You then simply slide your ticket through the system for future rides.
The Music City Circuit bus is free and takes you all around the downtown area and a bit beyond to other points of interest.
The local bus service is $1.70 for a regular bus and $2.25 for an express bus. Watch for the hours of service as some buses don’t run late into the night.
The bus from the airport to town and back is $1.70 as well and only takes a half hour. Even if you’re not staying downtown, it’s worth the fare and then transferring to another bus.
Need help? Have a question? Ask a downtown ambassador. Look for the people in the yellow shirts and they’ll have the answer to your question.
Rachel Hester & The Tennessee Walkers playing at Roberts on Broadway.
Walk the length of Broadway. Take in both sides of the street. Listen at the doors and take in the country vibe.
Go to a Honky Tonk on Broadway. For the price of a drink and tips to both your server and the entertainment, you’ll have a great few hours.
Dance like no one is watching. Few people actually dance at the Honky Tonks but they do have space for a few people to get up and go for it.
Buy a Music City Total Access Discount Attraction Pass. For the price of this $60 pass you’ll get free entry into four attractions.
Kenny Rogers exhibit at Country Music Hall of Fame
Go to the Country Music Hall of Fame. This museum is a must for any trip to Nashville. I could have spent hours more in it. It’s not cheap – $24.95 for adults. But there are a couple of options:
Google “discount tickets for country music hall of fame”. When I did I found a Groupon price of $10.99
Use your Music City Total Access pass to get in.
Go to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop. Located on Broadway, a visit to this shop will get you just about any country album (CD and vinyl) you’re looking for as well as great information from the staff.
Check out our other 32 Tips posts.
Ask their opinion on where the best music is playing on Broadway while you’re there.
Be sure to get a coupon for $4 off the Johnny Cash Museum.
Check out their Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree & Special Events listings.
Go to the Johnny Cash Museum. The life of the “Man in Black” is fascinating and worth an hour or more of your time at this museum. You saved $4 getting in here from your coupon at Tubb Record Shop. Pick up a coupon here to save $2 off entrance to Ryman Auditorium.
Go to the Ryman Auditorium. The Ryman is the “mother church of country music.” You have two ways to save.
Use your coupon from the Johnny Cash Museum.
Cut a record. Yes, you too can record in Nashville. Just $20 for a solo recording in a studio with an engineer.
Take the Redneck Comedy Bus Tour. Get your country on, learn how to talk redneck and see Nashville in a hilarious light. And don’t forget to tip. It seems that anyone serving the public in Nashville doesn’t get paid so tipping more than just a couple of bucks is important. The tour is $35. The best way to save on this is to use your Music City Total Access pass. The tour is worth more than half the cost of your four-attractions pass.
Take in a hockey game. If you live in a hockey town and are willing to try to take in a game without much advance notice, you’ll find the tickets in Nashville affordable. When I popped into town, the tickets for a game that night started at $15 – too bad I couldn’t take advantage of them.
Free museums. The Tennessee State Museum, Tennessee State Capitol and War Memorial Buildings are all free to the public.
Talk to locals. Gramma Deb Deb is a bit eccentric. Most of the people I met weren’t. 🙂
Check out Nashville Guru. Recommended by a local Nashville Guru is where you’ll find everything that’s happening in Nashville that’s Fun and inexpensive.
Walk the bridge. The Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge crosses the Cumberland River and offers fantastic views of the Nashville skyline.
Talk to a local. Is everyone in the south this friendly? I chatted with many people. I even met one woman on a local bus on the Wednesday and then met two of her co-workers on the Thursday. It’s a small, big city.
Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge.
Wander through Music City Walk of Fame Park. Yes, see the stars honoring Hank Williams, Dolly Parton and other greats.
Support a musician. The musicians in all the Honky Tonks on Broadway are playing for your tips and in hopes that you’ll buy their CDs. For $10 this makes a great and inexpensive souvenir while giving a musician more of what they really need.
Drink a local beer. Small local breweries reflect the communities they come from. Try a Yazoo beer for $4.75
Drink a local Nashville beer.
Wander neighborhoods beyond downtown. The two that were recommended to me repeatedly are the Gulch and Germantown.
Take a self-guided walking tour. The Nashville Historical Commission publish a number of brochures you can download that give you free walking tours of the downtown and driving tours of greater Nashville.
Eat a Goo Goo. A Nashville original, the Goo Goo Cluster is a candy bar. There is a store dedicated to all things Goo Goo at 116 3rd Avenue South.
GooGoo Clusters shop.
The Gardens at Gaylord Opryland Resort. If you don’t have the pleasure to stay there you can still go and enjoy the amazing indoor gardens in this resort.
Are you driving? I was told that the library parking lot is the best deal for parking downtown.
If you’re driving. Make your way to Arrington Vineyards where the visit, a picnic (bring your own) and tastings are free.
The scene at Food Truck Thursday.
Food Truck Thursday. On Thursday the food trucks are located between 4th and 5th Avenues on Deaderick Street. That’s when I went. The biggest line was at The Grill Cheeserie. My sandwich of smoked gouda, caramelized apples and onions, fig mustard and crispy organic kale did not disappoint. To find out where the food trucks will be at any given time check out the interactive map on roaminghunger.com.
The Honky Tonks. They all have bar food but don’t expect to see a vegetable – unless it’s deep fried. Roberts has a decent vegetarian burger.
I’d like to thank the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau for some support with this trip.
View of Nashville from Shelby Street Bridge
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Soloists, Polish orchestra bring passion to national music at Kravis
By Alan Becker
Boguslaw Dawidow led the Opole Philharmonic Orchestra Tuesday night at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.
The Opole Philharmonic, if not exactly a household name among concertgoers, was founded in 1947, and became the resident orchestra of Opole, an historical city in Southern Poland. Appearing at the Kravis Center Tuesday as part of their first American tour, the entourage under conductor Boguslaw Dawidow, and two soloists, showed their special brand of performance practice from Central Europe.
To begin with, the orchestra is exceptionally disciplined. Like several other European ensembles, they quietly enter together and are fully seated within a minute. Only when the concertmaster, who makes no separate entry, asks for an “A” from the oboe do we hear some relatively quiet tuning up. The entire ensemble is quickly ready for action as the conductor rapidly ascends the podium.
Strauss’s Don Juan began tentatively, with a reticence hardly becoming to the self-confidence and swagger usually associated with this anti-hero. With cautious tempo, and strings lacking the refulgence needed to bring the work alive, it’s hard to think this Don capable of seducing even a single gentle maiden. A loving oboe solo eventually gives way to the most splendid of fanfares from unison French horns. Alas–no bravado, no stentorian tones to grab the attention, and no fortissimo demonstration of the Don’s confidence.
Marta Kowakcyk
Things improved greatly for Henryk Wieniawski’s lovely Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor. This romantic work has the free flowing lyricism of the composer’s compatriot and contemporary, Frederic Chopin. Violinist Marta Kowalczyk, age 20, need defer to no one in her technical prowess, emotional control, and ability to project her rich tone throughout the hall. Her intonation also held true during the most challenging passages of the piece. Once a Heifetz favorite, the concerto has fallen from grace these days, and is infrequently programmed. The beautiful slow movement Romance and Gypsy-like closing Allegro moderato reminded us of what we have been missing. Dawidow and the orchestra provided admirable accompaniment and the many woodwind solos were played in true partnership with the soloist.
Evgeni Mikhailov
Rarely in a concert do we get two soloists in two concertos. As a tribute to Polish creativity, the infrequently heard and performed Piano Concerto in A minor by Ignacy Jan Paderewski brought Russian pianist Evgeni Mikhailov to the stage. Better known as a pianist and politician, Paderewski cast his concerto in the same mold as Chopin and Liszt, but with a heavy dosage of Grieg and Tchaikovsky. The notes fly from the piano with dizzying rapidity, and the thematic material is bold, melodic, and strongly nationalistic. Mikhailov found much to savor in the quiet lyrical moments, but never held back in showing us the bravura that is at the heart of the Concerto. Once again the Opole Philharmonic seemed to live and breathe the music with their soloist. With the audience rising to their feet, Mikhailov played Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King as an encore. The arrangement was a real knuckle-breaker, but the pianist, managed to find all the energy and style to make it an experience to remember
Franz Liszt, creator of the “symphonic poem” produced 12 of them, although few are ever played these days. Mazeppa, the sixth, relates the story of a 17th-Century Polish nobleman who had an affair with the wife of a count. As punishment he was tied to the back of a horse and sent galloping into the wilderness. Half dead, he was rescued by Cossacks and eventually became their leader. The wild ride is depicted in the music, and the piece concludes with an heroic march.
Bombast reigns supreme here, and the piece can only be fully appreciated if the conductor plays it straight, without looking for profundity or interpretive niceties. The orchestra played at full throttle and poor Mazeppa was eventually redeemed. It made for an exciting close to an interesting program, with the orchestra establishing a positive reaction despite some occasionally imprecise chording, and over-enthusiastic trumpet playing. A nicely played Waltz from Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite served as an encore.
2 Responses to “Soloists, Polish orchestra bring passion to national music at Kravis”
Posted Jan 27, 2011 at 5:17 pm by ENeumeyer
An excellent review. Thank you!
Posted Feb 08, 2011 at 6:50 am by violinist
Beautiful Wieniawski. I congratulate!
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Paul from Essex writes...
Got a Fine from Essex police for M25 Cranham NR M/MPOST 5756B between junction 29 and junction 28. I often ride this stretch of road and I don't remember seeing any signs to indicate 50mph - the visibility was impaired due to snow but was getting better by time nearer to Brentwood. They dont' send any evidence. Unfortunately I hadn't got round to fitting my dashcam. I installed it the following day and got the fine a few days later so just one day out otherwise I could have played it back. There was certainly no danger to anybody as it was close to 1am. Not happy but not worth taking to court and risking further fines and points - I guess that's what they rely on in most cases even if their case is weak people don't want to take the risk.
Often I see variable speed limits on M11 and the incident has cleared well before and majority of drivers driving at usual speeds. Highways Agency should more quickly respond once an issue has been resolved e.g. animals on the road and if there is an issue don't have over 15 miles of roads at variable speed - just the junctions affected.
Anon from Carmarthenshire writes...
Handheld speed camera 10metres away from 30mph sign. Road is quite a few miles at 50mph until this point. Never driven the road before, saw 30mph sign, began to slow down, was caught doing 37mph by the hand held camera - fair cop - BUT, how many of these guys are sitting so near the change of speed limit signs? Surely they are bound to catch every new road user?
John from Northamptonshire writes...
Gutted! Speed camera in a disused bus bay facing down a very steep hill caught twice over a period of time! First time coming around a bend to pick up slight speed to climb hill caught going up hill and then 2 months later coming down hill footcovering brake caught again wrote a letter and a photo of my average speed 19MPH didn't want to know. Bought a Snooper now the speed works by GPS my speedo 4MPH faster so I think I would have got away with it???
Keith from Ceredigion writes...
They seem to be in places around here where people have braked for a limit, the road slopes down and your speed creeps back up and it is time to smile for the birdie. We have so many idiots in German cars around here tailgating and overtaking in stupid spots that need some serious attention. Those same cars also all seem to have faulty indicators.
T Fletcher from Yorks writes...
I can understand drivers being fined for excessive speeding, however, whenit comes to being prosecuted for being a few miles over the speed limit, then it appears that motorists are being scapegoated. If the real reason for deploying speed camera's was to cut down on RTA's, then why aren't fixed cameras in operation in accident blackspot, which are a fraction of the cost of employing someone to sit in van?
Lee Kennealy from Berkshire writes...
Speed cameras are only a money making exercise. Originally they were used to prevent further deaths on a particular stretch of road. Now they set a trap to make money.
David Clark from West Yorkshire writes...
Drivers with speeding points are the safest drivers on the roads. They are correctly using the mirrors and looking through the windscreen and can see everything ahead and to each side. They are responsible for a lot less accidents and deaths on the roads than drivers forever monitoring their speedo or satnav. Drivers who are basically driving without due care and attention.
I would rather pay £100 and take 3 points than serve 5 years for manslaughter, having knocked down a pedestrian or cyclist/biker because I was too busy checking my speed than the road ahead. The present legislation is seriously flawed using conscientious road users as cash cows for
underfunded local police forces.
Nick Band from Derbyshire writes...
It should not matter WHERE and cameras are, or ether they're hidden or not, if ALL vehicle drivers adhere to the indicated speed limit.
Paul from Warwickshire writes...
Why do different counties use different cameras on roadworks on motorways? I use a stretch near Coventry that is average speed but recently was ticketed in Nottingham M1 on a variable. I had no idea the two systems were different until today. I imagined it was a play on words variable / average. I took it that variable speed was just as it says in that you can vary it along that stretch. Come on police !! Let's read from the same page and be consistent. I believe the police are making so much money on roadwork stretches and that's why they are taking forever to complete. I wouldn't put it passed them. Money money money is all they think about otherwise they would turn off the cameras at weekends and nights when no one is working on or near the motorways. 10 miles of roadworks in Nottinghamshire has been in progress for years and the Coventry stretch at least 2. It's money, not safety!!!!!!
If it was a safety issue I could understand it but it's all to do with money and revenue. Stretches of motorways in UK have been under maintenance for years like Nottinghamshire and Coventry, Warwickshire, I have never known Notts to be clear in the last 4 years.
The roadworks should be flooded with bodies and machines but there never seems to be progress, the M1 didn't take this long to build in the first place it's a total scam for revenue. Motorist conned yet again something has to be done. It's a disgrace.
Gareth from Hertfordshire writes...
Let the police force camouflage the cameras in anyway they want, let them be inventive with their hiding places. If people don't have warnings of where they are then they will be following the local restrictions better in the first place. Rather than having 3000+ camera housings to maintain that could be drastically reduced saving huge amounts of money, by having a small number of regularly moved cameras. It doesn't really matter if the cameras are in a high risk area or a 'money making area',the only people who care about that are the ones who have been caught anyway.
Philip Haynes from Northamptonshire writes...
With over 85% of crimes commited against the general public, such as assault, theft, buglary at home, cars stolen, etc, etc, etc, WHICH ARE NOT INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE. Why are the general public having to put up with being targeted by the cash cow stealth camera vans being used under the banner of road safety what about our rights to have crimes committed against us investigated? Unfortunatly that would require some effort, other than hiding at the side of the road waiting for the next car to arrive.
Kelly from Worcestershire writes...
We have quite a few speed cameras in our area that are placed at the bottom of a hill and you have to brake to stay within 30mph. I Understand we have brakes for this reason yet is it fair for them to place the cameras in a place where your speed naturally gains momentum If these cameras were in the flat say, then you would be so mich less likely to go 35mph?
Benjamin Bryan from United Kingdom writes...
The cameras aren't for safety they're for profit... why not just points why does there have to be a money value atttached?
Plus they put a time frame on this so if you don't pay within certain time you'd be punished with higher rate.. forcing you to accept without fighting or questioning this because you're afraid of incurring more fees... absolute scam if I've ever heard one.
The Government laughed when they thought this idea up and laugh when they cash in and pay themselves.
Eli G from Bedfordshire writes...
You cannot see the speed cameras on the M1 in the dark even though they are in yellow - just one big money grabber!!
Vincent from Bedfordshire writes...
Last year, I was caught doing 79mph on the A1 north overtaking an artic lorry. Lincs Police admitted this. They failed to provide photo evidence until it was too late. There was no justification for having 3 points on my licence and the area was not an accident blackspot.
Mattias from Durham writes...
I drive over 36,000 miles a year, I estimate that I drive anywere between 2-4 hours a day in my job. Driving becomes so second nature, it's impossible with how powerful and effective our cars have become to stay 100% conscious of your speed. When you drive as much as I do and see idiots driving at 80mph+ weaving between traffic disregarding others freely and then I get done doing 36mph in 40mph zone changed to 30mph because there are cones setup with no construction workers. I feel annoyed, it is too strict, I've never caused an accident or injury and I'm being penalised for ordinary humans errors. If speeding was such an issue, why don't cars have speed limiters and automatic sensors to set speeds for you? It's a scam.
Michael Byford from Staffordshire writes...
They are a con just a way of raising money to fill the coffers after Govt cut backs to local funding. Derbyshire and Staffs roads are a disgrace full of pot holes collapsed roads and loose top dressing never swept off but they put out unmarked vans to raise money!
Giles from North Yorkshire writes...
I can understand why most commentators on here believe the purpose of these so-called 'safety cameras' is revenue raising, having just received a FPN for doing 58mph through a 50mph zone on the M1 at 06:30 am. Not a worker in sight!
As I was simply, at that time of the morning, keeping pace with the other traffic and all were at least below 60mph, safety has nothing to do with it. Hey ho. No use complaining if we don't take action.
What is needed is to vote in local elections and get rid of councillors who refuse to condemn these things and pledge to remove them. Another benefit of this is a campaign would help flush out the local supporters of these things and enable them to be identified.
In the meantime how about a campaign of passive civil disobedience to remind those behind these schemes that policing is by consent. For example, take your time getting out of their way when they have blue lights on. If you have a police vehicle behind you make a point of slowing to 20-25mph particularly if the road is a twisty one where they can't overtake. The number of local plod I see speeding in this rural areas is huge. Make a point of photographing every police vehicle you see parked on double yellows and, if you have a dash cam, those that speed themselves or go through amber lights, and always send in a formal complaint.
Make sure you also publish the evidence on social media. If you know where they park their vans, park something there first, if you can. If you work in a local business, consider refusing to serve those in uniform. They might actually get back to doing the job they are intended for then.
John from Cheshire writes...
I've lost my respect for the police. Total rip off, nothing to do with road safety, just a way to trick motorists and get more tax from them.
Mike Brunt from Norfolk writes...
Little to do with safety and all about money. Cause more accidents than they prevent by diverting driver attention from the road, where it should be, to their instrument panel resulting in sudden braking and erratic behaviour. Dishonest, punitive and misguided. I use a Road Angel at all times nowadays giving me prior warning of all these camera sites. At least technology exists to counteract the nonsense.
Matt from South Yorkshire writes...
Total rip off, it's about time they did what they are paid to do like catching criminals instead of making money from people who are struggling to earn a crust.
Andy from Merseyside writes...
Here's something I wanted to tell you guys. These speed cameras on all sections including rural should be taken down. The cameras should be yellow, bigger, turn on and come out of overhead gantries be able to come out the gantry in bad weather and normal traffic except early house middle of the night.
Raffaella Palmisano from Hampshire writes...
Speed cameras should be removed because they are placed in places that are not necessarily residential (where there is a risk of a kid crossing a street) and their only purpose is enriching the council treasure. Fines are ridiculously high and guess what? Speeders do speed away from the cameras, because they have memorised their locations so they are so useless! Let's not even mention the 3mph of allowance... if you go 34mph you get a ticket for £100 + 3-6 points off your licence. While the police drives like alcoholists in the middle of the road! (off my soap box)
Shaun from Northumberland writes...
If nobody exceeded the speed limit, the police force would struggle for funds, so ironic that they are trying to reduce speeding offences but they really need you to break it LOL.
Harry Wadsworth from South Yorkshire writes...
Just returned from holiday in Cornwall to find letter saying I was doing 71mph when signs on M1 said 60mph which I dispute.
After doing more than 800miles on holiday, all the time watching speed limits cameras are all over Cornwall I was constantly telling my wife that gantry speed limits were legally enforceable. I was therefore suprised to say the least on getting letter from Derbyshire Police .I was certainly considering appealing told it was a waste of time nice little earner for Derbyshire Police
Keith Perry from UK writes...
I have not ever, ever, been caught for speeding! I have been driving since 1973. It is quite simple. I don't break the law. I would welcome a comment from a bereaved parent who has lost their child because of a speeding motorist.
Clive from Northamptonshire writes...
These cameras seem to be put in places to catch people out who don't know the area not to catch truly dangerous drivers as they know where they are or are driving a stolen vehicle. Basically if you keep things in order and law biding citizen you will be caught and fined great for raising money for police and council not good for me who has three kids to raise. However great for the real crooks as they get away every time false number plates or cloned, stolen get my drift no police around to stop them and bring them to book. I spend more time looking at my speedo which takes my concentration off the road, I will be glad when cars drive them selves no reading conflicting signage just a rip off it makes money and does not save lives as they are never put in areas that really need them just ones that will make money. Young kids driving fast in built up area lots of kids around not a single camera or outside a school. I wouldn't mind if it put more police out there, instead of going into someone's back pocket.
Alan Wright from Hampshire writes...
As usual it is mostly the ones that have been caught speeding that have a moan on here about it being a money spinner. How about removing the fines and instead imposing a non-removable fixed 6 point penalty on the licence on any speeding offence. As I have said on here before it is only the law breakers that have to pay. Lets face it steal from a sweet shop and get caught you deserve to be fined so what is the difference. Well one thing comes to mind, you will not cause a multi vehicle pile up in a sweet shop.
Alan from Merseyside writes...
Speeding is a crime without a victim - nobody is harmed by speeding. The only harm is when you are involved in a collision, and then it is fair to be prosecuted, not before.
If it was really about saving lives then the speed limit would be 20mph - then there would certainly be fewer fatalities, so I wonder why the authorities don't do that?
Ahms from Hampshire writes...
Apparently according to a friend whom I know well but cannot be named of course 50% of cameras do not contain film. This is due to the expense incurred. But the speed cameras are also very inaccurate. They sometimes record well under the limit, and on contrast sometimes over. Luck of the draw. Naturally, the customer is always wrong. Taxed on fuel. Road Taxed on vehicle. Taxed on insurance. Three times taxed just to be on the road... surely that is enough without further financial unfair punishment because it's a small country with too many cars. This is not the solution. I have to say I'm glad I didn't elect to buy a diesel car recently... after a total u-turn on endorsing this.. now increased tax on this fuel is coming. The transport police needs to be fair and form a plan for the future and stick to it.. for environmental and financial fairness to all in the UK.
Craig from England writes...
SPEED VANS : I have recently been caught by a speed camera travelling at 37mph in a 30mph. My gripe is that the road is unclear to whether it is 30mph or 40mph. The speed van was sitting in the 40mph section so when I'd eventually seen the van I stayed to around 40mph, as I had seen the 40mph sign and then the van took my speed at 169metres away which is no way possible to be seen without binoculars! Now is it legal and correct that the van is able to take speeds so far away and not be visible to motorist? The idea of speed cameras is to slow motorist down not catch people for money.
Mark from UK writes...
I have recently been given a £100 ticket for doing 81mph on a clear motorway through the gantry cameras which were off on the M5 south just past Bristol.
The M6 and M5 until then most drivers are driving generally up to 85mph. To me this was no more than a money spinner as no warning are given to reduce speed as I have previously seen on motorways and also there is no consensus of opinion by other motorists in other parts of the country that around 80mph is unacceptable.
As I understand most laws are based on what is seen as normal practice and what is unacceptable behaviour. So why is it is acceptable that a national law is abused by enforcing or not enforcing in different counties?
A. Tax payer from East Sussex writes...
Stopped by 1xPC, concealed behind hedge, not on a straight section of road A22. Issued NIP. Wrong reg, false details, about me and my driving. Handheld speed gun, no tri-pod used. In between 30mph and 50mph. Got me at 55mph. Claimed he captured me at 87metres away and on a bend? What laser gos around a bend, I said to the judge. Why wasn't he visible to approaching traffic, as per there rules. Not even the reg changed my £420 fine and 6 points. System is set to support police. Whatever happens.
Mr Cope from Lincolnshire writes...
I was driving through Essindine in Rutland when I saw a mobile safety camera van parked straight opposite a speed sign which states the speed you are doing. I was watching the sign it said 26mph so I did not look at my speedo. 3 days later I got a letter saying I'm being prosecuted for doing 40mph which I know I was not!
I have emailed Lincolnshire police to see how to complain but they haven't replied. I would not contact Leicestershire because all they would do is reset the sign! A lot of people are being caught out this way most of the signs saying you speed are wrong and there's no signage saying working in location the vans must know the signs are wrong that's why they park straight opposite the sign?!
Anonymous from Worcestershire writes...
Most motorists vilify the use of speed cameras, but having dealt with numerous "accidents" including fatal accidents in my short career in the police many years ago, most motorist flout the law and are completely unconcerned about it.
Instead of complaining about the use of speed cameras, we should all of us recognise that this is the law.
If you don't agree with it, the do something about it and get the law changed - not break it!
Lobby you MP as much as you can; lobby your motoring organisation to get the law changed and whilst you're at it, stop the motoring organisations complaining about catching those who break the law!
Speed does kill. Reduce your speed and stick to the speed limits. That way you won't get caught!
Annoyed from Berkshire writes...
Had a nice christmas present from Thames Valley Police, speeding fine. Having looked at where it was collected, it clearly shows the camera van must of driven over a foot path and double yellow lines to park on a grassed area where the width of the vehicle would of easily had it touching the path..Views?
Peter from UK writes...
Is it legal for these cameras to be set at 60mph just so they can entrap the motorist to fund the local police force?! I was doing 68mph on the M1 and got flashed at 3:30am in the morning. Surely each local authority has not got the right to change motorway speed limits because their Police force is skint?
William from Wales writes...
I see Michael Howard has just got caught, and he was a signitory in support of the speed cameras - what a cruel twist of fate!!! I expect as a QC and Lord his appeal will be successful.
To all those who say ''well you deserve a ticket for speeding'' I very much look forward to the day they are served an NIP for doing 26mph in a 30mph zone, the NIP showing the speed as 36mph.
Oh how I will laugh out loud when they will then join this forum protesting their innocence, whilst others like them before say how ''they got what they deserved'' I know as I was one.
I am all for keeping to the speed limit, but these mobile lasers are operator inaccurate. There are some horrendous reports on these cameras and the people who are making so much money from them.
When are the Home Office going to sit up and listen.....NEVER......as this would be the next PPI with claims being made in the billions!!!
Kenneth Foster from North Yorkshire writes...
These so called cameras are being used to finance the shortfall in funding for the nations forces i.e. Derbyshire these cameras catching out motorist at the slightest increase over the set speed limit and can be lowered at the flick of a switch they don't give you any leeway think its disgraceful.
Steve Foster from Kent writes...
These cameras have NOTHING to do with safety they are money boxes to boost funds.
Glenn from UK writes...
First time in my life I have received a speeding fine. A route I use every day. 47pmh in a 40mph going up hill in my small car. Firstly I was impressed my car could do that. Secondly angry because I know I wasn't. Can't fight the law though. Handheld camera from rear of car. Lovely picture of my boot which wasn't flat to the floor.
My question, Handheld, what if a car was coming towards him down the hill? What if calibration was wrong. I can't afford court. But I am ashamed that I know I am right. See I am an undertaker and always drive slow. Ashamed that my 100% clean record been sullied. I went out at night to try and get to the speed they said. The 40mph is uphill less than quarter Mile from roundabout then 60mph limit. They only have the limit as 40mph on their website. Truthfully I have been screwed!
Trevor Littleboy from Norfolk writes...
I see speed cameras as a money making project more than a safety thing. I've also noticed that many of these new cameras are very well camouflaged. In fact one camera that is close to my house is positioned behind trees at the side of the road and you don't see the camera until you are on the 3 strips in the road. Now they are also positioned near traffic lights so largely during busy periods traffic is queuing, so I assume it probably makes most of its money when the roads are empty at night with minimal traffic?
Alan from Hampshire writes...
Most comments on here are about cameras being a money maker.
Simple answer........ Do not go over the speed limit at any time and there will be no revenue generated.
As for the people moaning about being caught speeding, well that will be their own fault then.
Michelle L Harford-Webb from Berkshire writes...
This week driving home from work, I noticed a police
speed camera van which was parked up on a slip road off the main road I was driving on.
The view for the police must have been great! They can see all the cars coming towards them on the main road yet none of the drivers can see the police van parked up.
My question is does the van have to be visible to drivers and does it have to be parked on the road they are catching people speeding on?
It may be legal - but it doesn't feel very ethical!
John Peters from Chelmsford writes...
I live in Chelmsford at one point doing some 50,000 miles a year, now I understand speed and safety etc. But could somebody in power explain why the few speed cameras in Chelmsford are on roads in places where there hard to see and at speed change sites and they are NOT outside schools, hospitals, old peoples home etc which are on main roads?
These are were they should be, and not were the powers to be think they will make the most money, and from what I've seen this follows across the country, there not for safety there to make lots of money I feel.
Andrew from Middlesex writes...
Speed cameras are a necessity but overall, are abused as a money making technique.
Carlos-the Camera from Yorks writes...
So many worrying about concentrating on your speedo when there is a camera about!!! You passed your driving test, aware that all roads have a speed limit (this is the MAX speed, you can always drop down a bit!). You should be checking your speedo regularly whether there is a camera there or not! and as for the lady who had no tickets down south (no cameras in her area) but moving up to yorks gets 3 tickets in 3 months... think you have confirmed that you are, a menace to the roads and incapable of driving safely.
Kev from Ontario, Canada writes...
I now live near Toronto. The provincial government got rid of all speed cameras here a few years ago and now there is a big and noticable difference in driving style. Lots of speeding and seroius collisions. Police can't keep up and we have more cops than you. We need these new cameras here.
Anon from UK writes...
Speed cameras of any type require a lot of concentration to keep within the limits especially when they change from one limit to another. This is a great distraction from the rest of what's going on on the road, very dangerous in my mind.
Michael Murphy from Lancashire writes...
If as they state that these cameras are there to save lives, what is being achieved by having a mobile one on an Industrial Estate on a Saturday morning on a mainly deserted road?
What lives are at risk, hardly any people about, mainly lorries and commercial vehicles. I would like to know if there are any cameras on the same Industrial Estate during the week? I doubt it!
The annoying part of this from my point of view is that in my road there are signs with stating it is a 20mph limit, that are a waste of money as there are very few that adheres to 20mph, 40mph to 50mph maybe. It's the same story on the main road with a 30mph limit both roads are un-monitored in a residential area, until someone is killed or injured, but it is considered it is required on an Industrial Estate with little or no people around at the time.
Albert Hesloo from Scotland writes...
These cameras are a fantastic innovation, they are put in place for safety reasons, if motorists in this country obeyed the speed limits, there would be no need for cameras, but the more irresponsible motorists that are removed from our roads, makes everywhere safer.
Jasbir Dosanjh from England writes...
Speed limits are set to save lives. Thus I abide by the limit and keep within. However, I too received a speeding penalty. They claim the signs were stating 50mph on the motorway and I was doing 59mph! However, I was so sure that the signs were stating 60mph.
They claim they have recorded data that shows the cameras stating that information. Data is no good to me, I need them to show me a picture of my car speeding through the sign showing the limit they say!!
The 3 pictures only show:
1. My number plate
2. My car entering marked area
3. My car nearly leaving marked area
Speed is how non the pictures to be 59mph. But no where on the pictures does it show the signs displaying 50mph. Next week they could send me another speeding notice saying it was 40mph. I don't feel this method is right and I wonder which police force is behind this idea, not South Yorkshire again is it??
Oh well, better pay it before they add more fees on it.
David Eaton from West Yorkshire writes...
I thought that in order for a speed camera to be located there had to have been a number of deaths or serious accidents within so many metres of camera location and the cameras were not supposed to remain sited if these numbers dropped. If speed cameras worked no one would get caught. As Drivers we should be concentrating on many things around us and not be obsessed with our Speedometers...
Dean Jackson from England writes...
Of course we shouldn't speed, but the amount of speed cameras in the UK is ridiculous and it is NOT about saving lives. If it were the money invested in speed cameras on motorways should be better used making areas outside schools safe and our residential areas too. That's where people are getting knocked down isn't it
I live in a town with a dangerous crossing two of our elderly friends were ran down there, one died, one brain damage. Two young girls were killed after that. It was horrific. This is in the space of a couple of years. Before that there were many others. The town had to PROTEST to get traffic lights put there. Oddly we didn't have to protest to get the speed cameras on bends where no one crosses.
What about the pot holes, hitting one of those not dangerous? In my view we have the money to invest in speed cameras on motorways, but not making school children safe, crossings safe and fixing our roads. Odd that, isn't it? Wonder why people don't believe they are simply not for revenue? I have never had a ticket for speeding, but am sick of being notified about them. There's that many its beginning to have the opposite effect on my driving. Just my opinion.
Stuart from UK writes...
I'm not against them, but I think some of them are positioned wrongly. For example there are a few on the M74 I would regard as operating illegally they are positioned about 20 meters in front of the national speed limit sign and others are on parts of the motorway where are no roadwork's happening so no need for cameras. This is in my mind just a way of generating revenue.
Another thing is that statistics can be manipulated. Speed does and can cause accidents but not the major cause usually it's down to bad driving hogging middle lane and pulling out onto fast lane without looking and judging other cars speed. Priority always goes to faster moving vehicle.
We also need to remember cars have changed now more cars are capable of doing higher speeds brake quicker now unfortunately some drivers can't handle these cars our roads need to change as do the cars.
Zo from West Yorkshire writes...
I feel speed cameras are a way of generating money.
I lived up south where there was hardly cameras in the area and barely received one speeding ticket since the nine years of living there now since i have moved to Leeds I have so far received three tickets in span of three months of moving.
The problem is there are camera signs but no near clear indication of speed limit which is confusing as on a long stretch of road speed limits keep changing so how are you meant to know especially if you are not familiar of the area of what speed limit you should be driving. It's cunning more so that cameras are not even visible in majority of places which is frustrating.
Philip Buckmaster from Middlesex writes...
I'm not against speed cameras per se, but more with the location of them. Most are placed where it is statistically more likely that drivers will go faster than the speed limit. Why will they? Because these are places where it is USUALLY safe - and logical - to do so.
There should be a law which only allows cameras to be placed where there have been accidents in the recent past. I am sure this would prevent more accidents than the current system, but it would sure generate less revenue from safe drivers.
Everyone, even police officers, will 'speed' accidentally from time to time, it almost cannot be helped. And that is not usually dangerous. It is careless, incompetent or reckless driving that CAUSES accidents.
Whilst speed does often increase the severity of accidents when they do occur, speed itself does not equal danger. One of the problems is that speed limits are inconsistent. Sometime they are too low and sometimes too high, so drivers cannot use their instinct or road sense to drive within the so called limit. The whole issue needs to be looked at with fresh eyes, not by those with prejudice or a pre-conceived standpoint.
Roger Burchell from Staffordshire writes...
If they are all about safety then they should be sited outside schools not on dual carriageways and motorways.
I have read many of the comments on here and there a lots that say the cameras are just a way of generating revenue.
If everyone obeyed the speed limits at all times nil revenue would be generated. So who is to blame for the authorities making all that money. I wonder.
Perhaps all cameras should be hidden to stop all the sharp braking when they are seen.
Nyge from UK writes...
I see that many comments on your page are basing speed arguments on GPS readings as being highly accurate ... I have read that this is not always so. Read "The Suitability of GPS Receivers Update Rates for Navigation Applications." In the first instance the roadside camera, when correctly used, will always be the accurate device.
How do you know you have a accurate speedometer - it suggested only a guide.
With GPS systems they commonly update readings every second for road vehicles... on older technology it maybe slower. In 1 second at 30 mph you will travel 44 feet and if you are going round a bend at the time you could typically be a straight line distance of 40 feet from your last signal reception point. Ignoring any errors in positioning by GPS.. your GPS speed is calculated from the straight line distance and could thus differ 10% from your wheel distance of 44 feet... this would show you as incorrectly travelling at 27mph.
Now roadside speed camera signals need very short time for them to work and will measure your speed more at an instant - at that point you are travelling at a speed of 30mph - but only travel a few inches during the signal time (when the road bend would have no consequence)... hence they would measure you at 30mph.
So the conclusion would be... when travelling slightly faster... the difference between being measured as being over the speed limit while thinking that you were under using GPS (given you were on a significant bend in the road).
The road bend radii which can create this type difference can often be found on our roads and would be only need to a few hundred feet.
So to compare speedometer and GPS use a straight road.
Alan from Caerphilly writes...
I was taking the wife shopping, January 2015. In no hurry, went around roundabout in Ystrad Mynach and was immediately flashed by other drivers. Camera! said the wife. Checked my speedo - 28mph/29mph.
We are way under I said. Sure enough, up the road a camera van in a layby on the side of the road with camera facing up the road away from me. About a week later I was gobsmacked to receive a summons in the post alleging I was doing 35mph in a 30mph. Wrote back disputing it and asked for evidence.
Two weeks later a photo of car arrived with 35mph in line underneath. It was a head on shot so they had a sneaky extra camera out the front windscreen. Had to take it across the carriageway in between down traffic as I was coming around a slight bend.
It's all about revenue when they resort to dirty tactics. First offence in 43 years. I paid £100 fine and dearer insurance just to get it off my mind but wish now I had disputed it in court. I shall hate them with a vengeance for the rest of my life.
Philip Strong from North Yorkshire writes...
I disapprove of the use of camera vans in North Yorkshire. They are too often parked on open roads like the A59 and A168 where they are clearly aimed at raising funds by catching law abiding motorists who happen to be doing 70MPH not 60MPH.
A lot of people I talk to feel the way I do which does nothing to enhance the reputation of the police. You should focus on areas of high numbers of pedestrians and around schools where clearly speeding is dangerous.
Sam from UK writes...
In a situation leaving a town. No 30mph signs one 50mph on the road on the way out of the town. Police camera in layby behind the 50mph sign which has 30mph on the coming into town.
So therefore catches drivers speeding up to leave the town when they see the 50mph sign That is not policing, that's taxation on a level folk cannot appeal without fear of reprisals from the courts.
Richard from Yorkshire writes...
I loathe speed cameras. The tax payer is paying to be caught speeding, and then fined!! Just yet again a government scam to earn more money from us, disguised as "safety cameras". If you crash at 70mph or 80mph what difference does it make? Drink drivers fair enough, but getting a fine and points for being a few miles over the limit c'mon. Disgraceful. Anyone in support of cameras should get a ticket and see how they like it. I don't care how careful you are we all go over the limit by mistake sometimes.
David from Yorkshire writes...
All 'safety cameras' should be painted yellow. Why paint them grey and hide them around signs and gantries if you're not deliberately trying to catch people out? Being sneaky is just going to wind up motorists.
Geoff Dyne from Northamptonshire writes...
No sympathy for speeders. There is no excuse.
Interesting the comment about being caught near a school. Doh! If you and others are caught then tuff luck. Stop your moaning and stick to the limit. Otherwise you are just selfish and deserve to be caught, fined and eventually prevented from driving.
Speeding IS a major contributor to road deaths. If you feel it is unfair then think on and consider how you would feel if a speeder killed someone you love just because they were late, tired or just lost concentration.
Paul B from Staffordshire writes...
I do agree, especially in areas of schools etc, that speed limits are there for a good reason. Hence, at the moment the trials and testing of driverless cars. Surely there is the technology out their to restrict vehicles to road speed limits via GPS. My next search will be patents pending...
Judd from West Yorkshire writes...
How many speeding motorcyclists do Truvelo cameras (and other such forward-facing speed cameras) detect?
How many drink-drivers, drug-drivers, uninsured drivers, driving on pavements who are "doing the decent thing by sticking to the speed limit" do speed cameras in general detect?
Pleeeeeease don't call them safety cameras!!
Gary from UK writes...
Approached a vairiable spped camera M25 junction 6 at approx. 70mph. The speed was changed to 60mph showing a lane closure. I came off the accelerator to reduce speed to 60mph as I was vertually under the sign it changed again to 50mph and caught myself and about four other motorists.
Other than hitting my breaks which could be very dangerous there was nothing I could do. It seems not fair that it could trigger the camera so quickly. Is there a timed gap allowed between changing the speeds as I'm sure some of the other motorists wouldn't have had a clue why they were flashed?
David Smith from Northamptonshire writes...
It's no wonder the public has total hatred and disdain for the Police. They go out to penalise the working man whilst letting the elite get away with the most unimaginable crimes. All you are is a collection agency for the worst scum on the planet whilst the government you collect for betrays you by cutting your jobs. It must be the most demoralising experience going after the poor whilst the rich that you collect for take your jobs away!! The laws you hand out are not even legal!!
Dave from Mid Glamorgan writes...
Although I think speed cameras are ok in the right places, I recently got flashed in my truck coming down the A49 in Cheshire. I am not a speed freak or speed for the hell of it, but what annoyed me was I just crept up on my speed without realising it, it was 04:30am when there is nothing about on the road at that time of the morning.
Some people speed because they are late or speed because they like going fast but it is unfair on drivers who do obey the limits but just get caught out for exceeding the limit for a few brief seconds. It is far easier to exceed the limit in a truck because the weight of the vehicle creeps the speed up very easily on the slightest of gradients.
James Jackson writes...
I was going to inform you about a speed camera site near where I live but saw that you refer to them as speed traps.
They are not traps and will not trap anyone doing the legal speed limit.
SpeedCamerasUK.com replies:
I'm sorry to learn that our website has caused you offence.
We do not refer in general to speed cameras as being speed traps. After all our website is called SpeedCamerasUK.com and not SpeedTrapsUK.com.
We use the reference 'Safety Cameras', 'Speed Traps' and many others as these are keywords that people use when using Google and other search engines to find us.
Andy Marsh from UK writes...
Do you have any data on motorway speed cams? As they are new from Feb 15 anyway, and more are planned - I've been driving nearly 30 years - and now the added nightmare of motorway cameras - I mean, on a long weekend journey - up and down the country - you could lose your licence in a day, very easily!!
IF THIS COUNTRY IS REALLY INTERESTED IN REDUCING SPEEDING - FINES SHOULD BE PROPORTIONAL TO YOUR MONTHLY WAGE - SO A BARRISTER , FOR EX , WOULD PAY A FINE MUCH MORE THAN ME , BUT IN THE END REPEAT OFFENDERS LOSE THEIR LICENSE - OR AT LEAST THEY SHOULD DO.
Malcolm from Berkshire writes...
The police these days are constantly whining on and on about 'the cuts' and lack of resources and there are many instances where they fail to turn up on time to protect members of the public from violence and other offences.
Yet somehow they do have the resources to sit in vans for hours on end eating doughnuts or whatever, catching people driving a few mph over some arbitrarily decided speed limit that takes no account of road/weather conditions.
But of course it's much safer to do this - no one is likely to stab or shoot them and they still get a 'conviction'. Apart from a tiny honourable minority, I think the police today are a bloody disgrace and most people no longer have any respect for them.
Richard Wilson from West Yorkshire writes...
In my option I think it is only fair that a casualty reduction van that is sign written should be in clear view before taking photo. Taking a picture and enforcing a ticket to a oncoming car / van, when there are so far down the road that the car or van driver can't see the camera van I feel is unfair. That really doesn't make sense, having a van sign written as you do get to see it or make out what it is until its too late.
Therefore it is pointless also when most if not all see a sign written van they hit the brake and assess their speed and ensure the casualty incident is lowered. That toe is the purpose of the van and ticket those who don't take note of warning / visual sign written van. But ticketing before human visual constant is made isn't fair and should not be allowed. CHANGE THE SIGN WRITING TO SPEED TRAPPERS not the sly tamp casualty reduction.
Chris Kelland from Bedfordshire writes...
I have this evening been stopped for driving at 43mph, according to the mobile camera held by a person in a yellow jacket on the Church Road on the A412, going north just before Rostrevor Gardens.
There was nothing to suggest there might be a speed camera on the road. It's 30mph there and then changes to 50mph. They were already dealing with one driver and when I drove off, they were dealing with another. Don't the police have to provide some advance warning?
I was told it was just part of the government's initiative to reduce road deaths, so is that location a known danger spot?
Tom from London writes...
I am an ex Police driver trained to know when you see the amber light from red, to gauge your ability to stop safely in the distance and if too close to the amber light, to actually increase speed to clear the junction quickly and safely (it's trained road craft).
In this case no other vehicles were present at the junction but for a car just to my right travelling just faster than me now if your travelling at approx. 30mph in a 30mph limit and the lights are green you are allowed to anticipate that the amber will give you safety time to react (as it happens these changed very quickly) the car just ahead of me had moved out and not signalled, and in that moment of watching his position on the road I was on the inside lane approaching the green light which turned amber leaving my breaking distance limited to severe breaking, so I chose to increased speed slightly and crossed the line to two flashes from the camera behind me (the camera puts my speed at 41mph at this point) which I refute as I immediately looked at my speed to be under 40mph the amber moved to red much faster than I would have normally anticipate now we know why this is in itself dangerous, as knowing I hadn't crossed the line on red (which is seriously dangerous) I was now partially distracted as I crossed the junction.
I have driven and ridden since 1967 without a conviction and now find myself looking at 3 points and £100 fine with increased insurance costs. I was not aware the cameras had been altered as mentioned or I would have just hit the brakes very hard and hoped for the best it seems that the machine is right and I am wrong.
I object to being criminalised by this change as my actions for that short duration were valid, considered and safe for the conditions I was aware the camera was at that junction so I wasn't being fool hardy I might add that my reactions at 64 years are still better than a class 1 driver in the MET Police today (I have my driving skills refreshed every year with reaction times).
Jonathan Ward from UK writes...
I have just received notice that I am to be prosecuted for doing 36mph in a 30mph zone. This is the second time this has happened to me in under 3 years. I really think that all fixed speed cameras should have the prevailing limit clearly displayed on the yellow cabinet. In both my cases I thought I was in a 40mph zone. What a scam these cameras are.
William Johnson from UK writes...
I have recently been on a speed awareness course, but i feel that the camera which spotted me driving at 38mph was incorrectly positioned as all the lampposts had 40 mph signs on them.
I have asked the safety camera unit for the exact/precise position of the camera van, but they will only give me the vague answer of "entrance to field" which i feel is not good enough. Perhaps they know that their van was incorrectly positioned.
My wife and I saw the van and felt comfortable with our speed and the position of the van does not equate with their position as it was in a layby directly ahead of us and to the left.
Carl from Staffordshire writes...
Driving between junction 26 and junction 25 southbound on the M1, I saw a sign warning of a vehicle fire, It was 11:40pm and the road was very quiet, an overhead gantry sign said 60mph so I slowed from 70mph to 60mph, the next gantry sign said 50mph so I slowed to 50mph. The next one said 40mph but there was no sign of a vehicle nor any traffic build up, I eased off a little then flash
I glanced at my speedo and saw I was below 50mph, then a few hundred yards on I saw a recovery lorry reversing up to a now burnt out car to take it away. As I said there was very little traffic on the road and no apparent danger.
Sure enough a few days later I had a letter stating my speed was 47mph. I have opted for an awareness course rather than a fine and points .Fair cop I suppose but not much further on I was repeatedly overtaken by cars probably doing 90mph or more whilst I stuck to 70mph.
My advice is if you see a gantry sign, obey it even if you can't see a reason. Happy motoring.
K Cissewski writes...
My son had to drive on the A303 in the firms van, he has been sent a speeding ticket saying he exceeded the COMMERCIAL SPEED LIMIT. He has never driven a van before and did not see any warning signs about this restriction? He is very upset as if he had known this he would have driven more carefully just wish there wss more information about this money spinner.
SpeedCamerasUK.com comments...
UK speed cameras are calibrated for different types of vehicles and at the different speeds. For example while the speed limit may be 60mph for cars, the speed limit is only 50mph for larger vehicles.
You can read more information in the Highway code and on the following government webpage.
Arthur from Merseyside writes...
More money is made from drivers who are just over the limited speed. The real speeders are up on where the speed cameras are and don't get snapped.
We live in a country with a government that aids and abets the police in the use of trickery to trap drivers, thus making millions.
Mohammed writes...
The problem with the variable speed limit and their cameras is that there seems to be no consistency at times. I'm wise enough to always follow the limit cause I can't be bothered to deal with the fine and points and then increased insurance. But I can see why others are getting sick of them. At times it's a joke, 60mph to 40mph to 50mph and then back to 40mph. At times there are signs for a traffic collision or stranded vehicle and you drive as normal waiting to see some vehicles on the side but nothing. Often the roads have been cleared and the speed limits haven't changed. The whole system is wrong, it is purely for money making and nothing else.
Anonymous from Wiltshire writes...
I agree with speed cameras at danger spots. But there is a 50mph camera on a dual carriage section of the A4 out of Bath, yet on a stretch of the A361 nearby where there have been numerous deaths, nothing! The dual carriageway has no pedestrians etc can only be a cash generator. With so many cameras around, how does one concentrate on all the other traffic and people??? Absolutely crazy...
Paul Glover from South Yorkshire writes...
I drive the A14 (A1-M11) twice a month and always stick to 60mph more or less. I know how the system works but am amazed at the number of vehicles that pass me and the number that brake as they pass the speed cameras. I wonder how many vehicles are issued with fines?
Keith Perry writes...
Why are you being so irresponsible? I have never been "caught" (i.e. broken the law) for speeding as I keep to speed limits, as they are there for a purpose. I would welcome a return to the grey hidden cameras and it being illegal to publish their location. Or even better still, no speed cameras, speed bumps etc. at all, as all motorists have grown up and realise the purpose of the limits.
The reason that speed cameras exist is to slow traffic down in accident black spot locations. The reason that they are painted yellow is to highlight the accident black spot location.
If cameras as you suggest were hidden or painted grey, motorists wouldn't have prior warning of the accident blackspot location and hence accidents would continue to occur.
Eric Richards from Gwynedd writes...
A 72 year old driver told me recently that he was "done" for 34 mph literally just yards into a 30 limit that comes as you descend a steep hill into a village with about eight houses, nice easy touch for the Police. Of course like many people I now see the Police as the enemy of the motoring public, as a past professional driver at the age of 58 and with more driving miles under my belt than any of these wet behind the ears coppers sneaking about with their cameras will ever see I have two observations to make
If this is all about road safety, why do I witness the local boy racers going up and down my home town of Tywyn's main street at very much more than 30 MPH, without so much as the single site of a copper, let alone a camera, yet last Sunday on a fine clear day on the A470 which is one of the longest and straightest roads in these parts do we have PC plod half way down the very long dead straight hill in his Volvo estate and his Polaroid camera at the ready taking his snaps of us law breakers, mind you that is a little unfair the cars do represent a very real danger to the odd rabbit, children, no none of those, pedestrians, no sorry none of them either, folk crossing the road, no sorry again not a house in miles, other vehicles, well drive this road in January and you may see one every five minutes or so, apart that is for PC plod.
Come on politicians treat us as adults, put cameras where their is a definite safety issue, near schools might be a good idea, or old folks homes, oh sorry that's too much like common sense.
Chas from Newport writes...
I have just seen an item on the BBC where a chap called Chris Haskins from Portland was forced to prove his own innocence by obtaining the photos and using internet software to prove his speed was only 13.4 miles per hour. I assume he did this using the white markings on the road... More significantly, however, the local organisation that runs the camera (on the A351) has admitted the problem was caused by a reflected signal but that this occurrence is "very rare" - the question is how rare?
Will from Middlesex writes...
As a new driver recently caught by a speed camera hidden behind a tree in Enfield, I am now half way to loosing my licence already, after only 3 months. I will now have my eyes glued to the Speedo, because if it happens again I've lost it. But I'm sure that the DVLA, DSA and the Government will be very happy if I lose my licence, because then they receive £30 for my new provisional licence, £20 for my theory test, £40 for my driving test, £12 for my new full licence, as well as the £160 in speeding fines. With this money they will probably erect more speed cameras.
And all this just for travelling at 43mph in a 40mph zone whilst trying to concentrate on the road ahead rather than constantly checking my speed.
anonymous visitor from Hertfordshire writes...
Bad driving, poor concentration and inappropriate speed aggression all in part contribute to accidents. I have a speed camera alert system - not to speed but to help keep up with constantly changing limits, as all the locals set low limits in there area. I am amazed that on wide open dual carriageways 40/50mph limits are applied to please the locals businesses and commerce that need good, efficient, safe road links city to city. Anyone speeding near a school or on a housing estate should get the fine, penalty points and have to attend a course run by the police...
anonymous visitor writes...
...I am a driving instructor and I teach all my pupils to stay at or just below the speed limit, just like I do myself. OK so there are people on the road who do drive far to fast for the road conditions, but a £60 fine and 3 points for doing 33 mph in a 30mph zone is a joke, its all about money. Your that busy keeping a check on your speed you tend to miss other road signs or hazards.
Nigel, from Mid Glamorgan writes...
I firmly believe in road safety and especially to pedestrians, however I believe vehicles today are far superior and technically capable than of years ago. I believe that the national dual carriageway speed should increase leaving the built up areas to be strictly monitored.
Craig, from Lincolnshire writes...
True words, as a pedestrian, cyclist and car driver I agree. However, I see some bloody awful cyclists and pedestrians too. Cyclists that race cars and buses, weaving in and out of traffic, heads down cycling as fast as possible in somewhat kinky cycling shorts, probably in the belief that they are in the Tour De France. Cyclists on the pavements, meant for pedestrians. Drunk cyclists. Cyclists ignoring perfectly useable cycle lanes and dedicated cycle routes. Pedestrians walking straight out in front of cars, buses cycles, etc. (About time we had jay walking laws)
Car drivers, well, we know about them...U turns where not allowed, driving in bus/cycle lanes, speeding etc. We are all to blame for something. This does not negate the fact that car drivers are cash cows for the government, (lets face it, its the car tax that pays for the bike lanes) and speed cameras set to trigger at 10% above speed limits or hidden behind trees are just a ploy to extricate more money from us.
I have been photographed, by a camera on the M4 in Wales, normally a 70mph zone, but in this case, there was a sign that said road works ahead, speed 50mph. There were no roadwork's, no cones etc.. but there was a working camera. Flash! Bugger! It appears the works had finished that day, but the camera had not been set back to 70! I phoned the local Police, friendly, informative, but could do nothing.
To get the fine quashed, would have meant two days off of work to visit an unknown town in Wales, in the hope that I could convince a beak (who probably breaks driving laws anyway) that I was `robbed`. Obviously, I just paid the fine. It was cheaper!
See the problem now?
Malc D, from Staffordshire writes...
...I have noticed that police forces persist in naming these cash cows "safety cameras"! I would have no objection to this if the cameras were placed at potential danger spots such as schools, hospitals etc., but when they are situated on a straight stretch of dual carriageway (A14 anyone?) I think they're having a laugh.
These cameras are being used to enable forces to re-allocate traffic officers to other duties in order to compensate for the continuing shortage of police officers throughout the country, so there is no benefit to the public with regard to increased prevention / solving of other, more serious crime.
Cameras are incapable of making judgements based on road conditions, weather, time of day etc., so an idiot speeding in fog will get the same fine as another motorist speeding in full sunlight! As ever, the motorist is being used by Gordon Brown as a cash cow to sponsor his government - perhaps we should have a logo displayed on his official car (that's what happens in Motorsport!).
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What we know about the mysterious benching of Patriots CB Malcolm Butler during Super Bowl
Shutdown Corner February 6, 2018, 12:48 AM UTC
One of the biggest mysteries from Sunday night’s Super Bowl was the benching of Malcolm Butler.
The New England starting cornerback who played on almost 98 percent of the regular season defensive snaps for the New England Patriots played zero on Sunday vs. the Philadelphia Eagles.
Butler was reportedly distraught after the game, and head coach Bill Belichick was typically obtuse when explaining the decision.
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“We put the players out there and the game plan out there that we thought would be the best tonight like we always do,” Belichick told reporters asking about Butler after the game.
Belichick also said that discipline was not a factor in Butler’s benching.
Malcolm Butler’s benching was one of the biggest stories of the Super Bowl. (AP)
Belichick addressed the issue again during a Monday conference call, but had little to add.
“I respect Malcolm’s competitiveness,” Belichick told reporters. “I’m sure that he felt like he could’ve helped. I’m sure other players felt the same way. In the end, we have to make decisions that are best for the football team.”
A Monday report from NFL Network’s Ian Rapaport sheds some light that a rules violation may have played a factor.
My understanding is the benching of #Patriots CB Malcolm Butler happened because of a perfect storm of issues: Sickness, a rough week of practice, and a minor rule violation believed to be related to curfew. A complicated matter. pic.twitter.com/TmUJgkHpsZ
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 5, 2018
Butler did not travel with the team to Minneapolis and missed media day with an illness. According to Rapaport, that illness along with a rough week of practice and a minor rules violation led to a staple of the Patriots defense and a past Super Bowl hero to miss Sunday’s game that saw Eagles quarterback Nick Foles throw for 373 yards and three touchdowns.
NBC Sports Boston’s Michael Giardi, meanwhile, reports that Patriots team captains were aware ahead of the game that Butler was going to be benched.
Pats captains were aware that Butler was being sat. But exactly when they were informed I can't tell you. Must say though, Butler is an emotional guy and he was nothing but happy as hell when we talked with him throughout the week.
— Michael Giardi (@MikeGiardi) February 5, 2018
Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy blasted Belichick on Monday for his lack of transparency over why Butler didn’t play in the most important game of the season.
“The Patriots lost a very winnable Super Bowl Sunday night in some part because Bill benched cornerback Malcolm Butler for some undisclosed infraction or violation of the Patriot code,” Shaughnessy wrote.
With no clear answer still available, Belichick’s decision to bench Butler is still one of the most baffling in the history of the Super Bowl and one that Patriots fans will have a hard time forgetting.
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• President Trump politicizes NFL player’s death
• At least 3 Eagles won’t make White House visit
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A closer look at Iowa’s star tight ends
April 19, 2019 · by Mark Simon · in College Football · 1 Comment
By Bryce Rossler
We’re less than two weeks away from the first round of the NFL Draft, and it seems likely that the University of Iowa will have two players selected in the first round. It is not particularly unusual for a Power 5 school to produce multiple first-rounders in a single year – plenty of recent drafts have had multiple programs do so – but it is interesting that both the players in question, TJ Hockenson and Noah Fant, are tight ends.
As Dan Kadar of SB Nation noted, this would represent the first time that two tight ends from the same school were taken in the first round. And while their paths will almost certainly diverge on April 25, it’s impossible to mention one without the other being brought up.
However, the two weren’t so inseparable on the field. The Hawkeyes were in 12 personnel on ‘just’ 35% of their offensive snaps in 2018, and Hockenson played 342 snaps with Fant on the sideline, while the inverse was true just 63 times:
Hockenson In Hockenson Out
Fant In 421 63
Fant Out 342 0
On plays where Hockenson was in and Fant was not (HIFO), the Hawkeyes ran the ball 54% of the time and averaged -0.2 EPA/rush on designed runs.
As one might expect, they ran less frequently when Fant was in and Hockenson was not (FIHO). The run rate in Hockenson’s absence dropped to 40%, but, interestingly enough, rushes were more effective (-0.02 EPA/rush), albeit in a limited sample.
But this is not to say that the run game was better because Hockenson was out of the game. It should be noted that Iowa’s coaches were less willing to run behind Fant than Hockenson.
Iowa dialed up C- and D-gap runs to Fant’s side on just 22% of FIHO run plays, whereas they ran behind Hockenson on 35% of HIFO plays. And indeed, the average yards before contact on HIFO runs to Hockenson’s side was 1.6, compared to just 0.8 on FIHO runs to Fant’s side.
Unsurprisingly, the EPA-based success rate on run plays improved when both were in the game (41%) as opposed to when just Hockenson (35%) or Fant (33%) was in. The team was, perhaps surprisingly, less successful passing than running, as they posted a 36% success rate on dropbacks. This mark was better than when just Hockenson (28%) was on the field, but slightly worse than when just Fant (40%) was. Additionally, the EPA/dropback on these plays (-0.07) is much higher than the plays that featured just Hockenson (-0.67).
The last two data points make sense because Fant is generally billed as the better pure receiver, but, once again, it should be noted the sample size is smaller.
Their route trees were very similar, but the average target depth on all pass plays which featured only Fant (9 air yards/throw) was higher than the average target depth on those which featured only Hockenson (8.2).
However, if you look at plays where they were both in the game, Fant was targeted 53 times to Hockenson’s 34 (33 if you exclude interceptions), but Hockenson’s average depth of target (9.4) was higher than Fant’s (8.7). Hockenson’s EPA/target of 0.77 was also well above Fant’s 0.46 EPA/target
Furthermore, Hockenson’s EPA/target across all plays was 0.77/target and ranked third of 99 tight ends with 20+ targets in 2018. Fant (0.46) ranked 22nd behind several other draft-eligible tight ends; most notably, Trevon Wesco (4th), Irv Smith, Jr. (6th), Isaac Nauta (8thth), Jace Sternberger (14th), and Dawson Knox (15th).
The numbers indicate that Hockenson is the more well-rounded player, which aligns with media consensus. In our inaugural Football Rookie Handbook, we ranked Hockenson ahead of Fant, with the two comprising our top-graded tight ends. You can purchase the Football Rookie Handbook at this link.
Editor’s note: a previous version had miscalculated dropback success rates. We regret the error.
Tags: Iowa Hawkeyes, Noah Fant, TJ Hockenson
Crys · April 24, 2019 - 7:52 am · Reply→
Which will force us to choose: who is the better Iowa tight end?
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Fukushima Vintage: Traces of Nuclear Plant Disaster Found in Californian Wine
© AP Photo / Elaine Thompson
After the incident at the Japanese nuclear power plant in 2011 World Health Organization experts stated that the amount of radioactive particles in food and drinks outside Japan remained low and posed no health risk.
California wines made in the years following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster contain the isotopes from the accident's fallout, researchers at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) reported. Scientists studied the samples of red and rosé wines made from the grapes harvested between 2009 and 2012 and found traces of Caesium-137 that builds up as a result of a nuclear reactor's operation.
The scientists resorted to low-background gamma spectrometry in order to detect the traces as the wine contained very low amounts of isotopes. According to CNRS' research, the amount of Caesium in the bottles presented no danger to human health and the level of the wine's radioactivity was lower than natural radiation.
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Several reactors at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a meltdown after a huge 15-meter high tsunami wave hit it and knocked out the reactors' coolant systems. The disaster led to several radioactive fallouts into the atmosphere and into the water. A certain area around the plant still remains uninhabitable.
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Posts Tagged ‘CNIB’
Stacking the digEcon Deck
Posted by Laurel L. Russwurm on July 22, 2010
[My digEcon problems are covered in this three part series, first, digEcon Backstory (Bill C-32) is in the wind, the second, digEcon scandals in Oh! Canada and the conclusion here in StopUBB]
The two month public Canadian Digital Economy Consultation ended last week. Canadians were asked for input on how we want our Government to proceed with Digital Economy policy.
Weren’t we?
The Digital Economy Homepage seems pleased so many Canadians participated:
“Between May 10 and July 13, more than 2000 Canadian individuals and organizations registered
to share their ideas and submissions. You can read their contributions — and the comments from other users — in the Submissions Area and the Idea Forum.”
—digitaleconomy.gc.ca
Until you contrast that figure with the more than eight thousand Canadians who made submissions to last year’s Copyright Consultation.
What happened? Why was there so little participation for this public consultation?
Probably the single biggest turnoff to citizen participation– the thing that kept Canadians away from the Government’s Digital Economy Consultation in droves– was Bill C-32. When this so called “Copyright Modernization” legislation was introduced in the house of Commons, it’s similarity to the American DMCA made it instantly clear that this Government chose to ignore the majority of citizen input from the Copyright Consultation. As a result, the prevailing feeling among Canadians seemed to be “why bother?”
Making it Hard to be Heard
The complexity of the Digital Economy Consultation leads me to the conclusion that it wasn’t put together in a day, rather it had been in the works for quite a while. Yet I didn’t see any publicity build up. It was announced and launched with lightning speed. By the Federal Government.
Was the timing a deliberate attempt to to distract Canadians from our outrage about “Bill C-32: the Copyright Modernization Act” ?
The Digital Economy Consultation made it emphatically clear that copyright would not be considered a valid topic. People who used the discussion forums complained that any copyright discussions were quickly shut down.
This position would have been perfectly reasonable if the Government kept of copyright and the digital technology issues separate. But the Government’s own draft copyright legislation Bill C-32 strayed from the realm of copyright into the world of digital locks– and in fact subjugates all copyright to DRM/TRM. First the Government dissolved the division between the two areas and then they refused to allow discussion of the ramifications. Clearly copyright should have been an acceptable topic for discussion in the Digital Consultation. Disallowing it resulted in a credibility loss.
After all, the magnificent response to the Copyright Consultation was not what the Government wanted to hear. Certainly they didn’t want to hear it all again in the Digital Economy Consultation. Did they set out to make this Digital Economy Consultation deliberately difficult, precisely to discourage ordinary Canadian citizens from speaking up? Certainly the Government raised barriers to participation for the Digital Economy Consultation.
First Barrier: almost no lead time.
The Digital Economy Website was announced and then it was underway.
Second Barrier: Quantities of prerequisite reading.
A lot to read onsite, beginning with the Consultation Paper Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage: Strategies for Sustainable Prosperity. Copied into Open Office it ran 32 pages. The digitaleconomy.gc.ca site was bursting with links to reference material (much of it government web pages). It listed rules and regulations, defined the terms of the consultation, provided News, FAQ’s and forums, although I never saw them since there just wasn’t enough time.
There was a fair bit to read and think about before participating in the online forums or making a submission. Which would have been fine except for the time limit. Either the consultation period should have been substantially longer, or the reference and background material should have been made available online for at least a couple of weeks before the Consultation even began.
Third Barrier
The last problem was the submission form itself. Unlike the Copyright Consultation where you could answer all the questions in one submission, the Digital Economy Consultation was segregated into different categories. You had to choose one category or another. Some people made submissions in more than one category, and some answered questions for all the categories in one submission. Either way the very process was awkward, and more difficult than it had to be.
Did they actually want submissions?
The Submissions Page
My submission was the first posted after the extension. I could have made it in under the wire– there was an hour left to submit when I finished– but once I saw the Consultation had been extended I chose to take the time to proof read.
When my submission was posted it was disappointing to see my summary wasn’t included. Instead a portion of the submission was extracted. So I uploaded it a second time. When my resubmission appeared it was added to the submission page without replacing the original.
Multiple drafts of the same submission appear to be separate submissions. A few submissions were made in both official languages, and both these appear as individual submissions to a casual perusal, again making it look as though there were more submissions.
It took quite a bit of effort just to separate the organizations from the individuals. Initially I thought it would be a simple matter to scroll through the submissions page. In many cases the extract didn’t clearly indicate if the submission was on behalf of an individual or an organization, making it necessary to read the entire summary, or even the submission. And even then there were some I still wasn’t entirely sure of.
When I noticed new submissions being added, I was curious if any submissions had been expunged, so I ran the URL through archive.org’s the WayBack Machine. This is an excellent online tool that makes digital snapshots of the web for safekeeping, and allowing for web searches into the past. But it seems the Canadian Government doesn’t allow this kind of oversight since they’ve elected to disallow robot searches.
The Government’s decision to lock out the Wayback Machine means Canadians have no way to tell if submissions have been quietly removed. Or not.
Even so, you don’t have to be a statistical analyst to see that there weren’t very many submissions at all.
Looking at the Submissions
Discounting duplicates, only 52 submissions were submitted before the original deadline.
Which sounds like an excellent reason to extend the deadline. After all, over 8,000 Submissions were made to the Copyright Consultation.
At the eleventh hour, the Government extended the deadline for four days.
During those four days another 206 submissions were made, bringing the grand total up to 258 submissions.
Before the deadline, individuals made 18 of the submissions while organizations made 34. Around half.
After the deadline extension, individuals made an additional 18 submissions, while organizations made an additional 188 submissions. That’s a stunningly different ratio, with only ten percent of post deadline submissions being made by individuals.
Four days was an odd amount of time to choose for an extension. Last year’s Copyright Consultation announced a 48 hour “grace period” to allow all the submissions to get in. Of course, the government site was being overwhelmed by the volume of last day submissions which resulted in an enormous backlog.
In a perfect world I would have liked a week to make the best submission possible, because I think it would probably have taken a week — full time — to do it properly.
So four days wasn’t really enough time for most people to come up with a comprehensive full fledged submission from scratch. But four days might be just enough time for a team.
Clearly this isn’t the case for organizations because they can spread the work around. I have to wonder why so many of these organizations came in after the initial deadline. Is it possible that some organizations didn’t even start a submission before the deadline?
Was the deadline extension to allow entities government friendly entities an opportunity to whip up quick submissions to slant the results of the Digital Economy Consultation in the direction the Government always intended to go?
Or perhaps some submissions came in deliberately too late for discussion in the idea forum? The Digital Economy Idea-Forum on the website was shut down at the same time as the submissions deadline, leaving no official place for discussion of these late submissions. Perhaps some of the late submitters hoped to avoid public scrutiny.
I don’t know the answer to these questions, but I am curious. Was this consultation doomed from the beginning by stacking the deck?
Stacking the deck?
A small trickle of additional submissions are being added. A new one today. There was one yesterday, none the day before, one the day before that. Why are submissions being added after the Consultation closed?
This is the digEcon, not the copycon. It isn’t like the government is snowed in under the response– far from it. The amount of digEcon registrants was a quarter the number of submissions made for the copycon.
Not only that, the copycon didn’t post submissions locked in PDFs (with the exception of the SOCAN submission, which asked for and received special treatment), they converted them to html so they could be easily read by anyone online without forcing citizens to use the proprietary Adobe reader. (And although PDF is quasi-open source, only the proprietary Adobe reader reads Adobe PDFs properly.)
It was plausible that it would take some time to get all of the copycon submissions online. That is certainly not true here.
If these submissions were actually submitted before the (extended!) deadline, there doesn’t seem to be any legitimate rationale as to why it’s taking so long to include them. Particularly as submissions were accepted via the digEcon site’s online form.
What possible justification is there for these submissions to be posted one at a time? The most reasonable supposition is that they are still being submitted. Is it possible that some organizations made these late submissions because the Government asked them to?
If submissions are closed they should be closed to everyone. If the consultation is open, it should be open to all. Doing it this way at the very least gives the appearance of impropriety: it appears that submissions are closed unless they says what the government wants to hear.
This simply further undermines any credibility of the consultation may have had.
Shuffling the Deck
Going back to the digEcon submissions page again tonight (Thursday 22, July, 2010) things have again changed. Duplicate submissions– or at least some of them, including my initial submission — have been removed.
I can’t say either way if there are more or fewer submissions, but my numbers seem a wee bit off. There are also menu options at the top of the submissions list which allows selection of a listing of submissions by Individual or Organization as well as by “most recent”, which may or may not have been there before. It would have been extraordinarily helpful had it been there/had I noticed before.
At this time I don’t have any more time to sink into this article, so I think it’s time to cut to the chase.
Who submitted?
The strangest submission I looked at was this: The Minister of Industry’s Advisory Committee on Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities, or ACAD. The digEcon is supposed to be a public consultation, but this submission was made by an Minister of Industry’s Advisory Committee. Don’t they already have access? Even more troubling, this Government Committee didn’t actually write the submission, it was made by an outside PR firm. What’s up with that?
My vote for the most incredible submission made by a corporation is the one made by Adobe Systems Canada Inc.. This submission caught my eye as one of the very few submissions made in plain text rather than sealed into an Adobe PDF requiring the use of the proprietary Adobe reader. It seems Adobe knows when it is appropriate to use PDFs.
Of the small number of submissions that were made, there does seem to be some variety.
Individuals made submissions.
Online News Media, Educational Institutions and Library Associations made submissions.
Industry Associations, Professional Organizations, Citizen Lobby Groups, Special Interest Groups, Corporations and Content Creators made submissions.
Carrier/ISPs and Independent ISPs
Carrier/ISPs
The Internet “backbone” is made up of “Carriers”, or the companies that control the wire that the Internet travels across, namely telephone and cable wire. Internet Service Provers, or ISPs connect to the Internet through the carriers.
Some ISPs are branches of the same companies that are carriers. In addition to being Internet carriers and ISPs, many if not all of these corporations are involved in other businesses as cell phone providers, broadcasters and content creators. This certainly seems to be a recipe for anti-competitive practices at the very least, and certainly is Canada’s largest barrier to net neutrality.
Bell in particular is appears to be many different companies on paper, but in reality these are a family of Bell companies, who share similar if not the same goals. I’ve included CTVglobemedia in the Bell/Telus group since Bell is a major shareholder.
Bell/Telus Submissions
CCICT, “an initiative of Bell Canada”
CTVglobemedia Inc.
Telus: A Future Friendly Digital Economy Strategy
Telus: A Future Friendly Digital Economy Strategy – Appendix 1
Cogeco Submission
Cogeco Cable Inc.
Rogers Submission
Shaw Submission
Shaw Communications Inc.
Videotron Submission
Submission of Quebecor Media Inc., on behalf of itself and Videotron Ltd.
Independent Internet Service Providers
Independent ISPs acquire Internet access through the same carriers and the same wire as the carrier ISPs. The Independent ISPs compete directly with the carrier/ISPs.
Independent Internet Service Provider Submissions
Canadian Association of Internet Providers
MTS Allstream Inc.
TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
Xittel The Coalition of Internet Service Providers inc. (CISP): The future of telecommunications competition in Canada
Total Bell related submissions: 8
Total Carrier/ISP submissions: 12
The disproportionately large volume of input from the Bell/Telus group in particular worries me.
Currently, Canadian Internet users are living under the threat of Bell introduction of Usage Based Billing. Although not yet implemented, UBB has been approved by the CRTC with the specific intent of discouraging Canadian Internet use. The CRTC approved this as a way for Bell the carrier to practice Internet “traffic management”. The CRTC approved Usage Based Billing because Bell Canada convinced them that the best way to manage the Internet was to curb customer use by imposing caps and high prices
Because Bell thinks decreased Canadian Internet participation is a good idea.
This seems like the absolute worst thing that Canada could possibly do in terms of growing a Digital Economy. Any proposal on how the Canadian Government should manage Canada’s Digital Economy from a corporate entity that believes reducing Canadian Internet participation is a good thing makes me very nervous indeed.
Back to digEcon scandals
Because Usage Based Billing will harm both Canadians and our Economy.
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Posts Tagged ‘Rogers Internet’
Canadian Market said NO to UBB
Posted by Laurel L. Russwurm on August 6, 2010
The Internet is an interconnected network of wires connecting computers all around the world. The physical conduit of the Internet is the telephone wire or cable and associated equipment that connects together to form the “infrastructure” or “backbone”.
Because Canadian communications systems must cover great distances to serve a relatively small population these systems have traditionally required special treatment in order to provide Canadians with the services we need to both exist and compete in the first world economy. Although Canada has never had a strict telephone monopoly, from the very beginning different telephone companies provided services in different geographic locations across Canada. Which means we have for the most part had a “virtual monopoly” because each geographic area had only one telephone provider.
Regardless of what Canada’s telecommunication regulator the CRTC seems to think, if you have to sell your house and move to a new geographic location in order to get a different Internet Service provider it does not qualify as “consumer choice”. So although we have different companies providing access to the Internet, a great many Canadians have only one possible Internet Service Provider.
[When discussing the ISP “carriers” I pretty much always say “Bell” for the phone carrier, although in many cases Telus should be included as well. In the same way when I speak of the cable carrier I say “Rogers” to stand in for all the Cable companies, which over all of Canada I understand to also include Shaw, Cogeco, and Vidéotron because from where I sit here they all appear to be marching in lockstep. I do not presume to know if, when or how any of these companies may be interrelated. I myself have only had dealings with Bell and Rogers.]
infrastructure and private property
Somehow Bell Canada never seems to mention that the only way the telephone system we have today could have come into existence was through the goodwill of private property owners and government cooperation. They like to take all the credit for establishing the phone/cable infrastructure, but they could never have done it without our help.
Because the thing to remember is that telephone poles carrying telephone wire cross private land.
Had stringing the wire been left entirely up to the telephone companies, we might still be using smoke signals. Because without government assistance, the phone company would have had to negotiate with every single land owner. Individual property owners would have been able to prevent the telephone wire from crossing their land. Instead of ending up with a system covering all of the settled portions of Canada, we might have ended with many small unconnected pockets of telephone service.
Because as sure as the sun rises in the east, even today there are people who don’t want telephone service.
Certainly some would decline for religious reasons, while others might try to pry excessive sums of money from the phone company in exchange for granting a right-of-way across their property. To prevent such snags which might have rendered the existence of the telephone system impossible, forward thinking government mandated “easements” along the road side portions of private property. This government intervention allows utilities like electricity and telephone companies to put up poles along these easements and then string wires along them, or dig up land to allow cables or pipes to run under this land for the public good. In this way, the government acted to ensure Canada’s technologically wouldn’t lag.
The “who owns the wire” problem is not unique to Canada. Even in countries with dense enough population to support telephone competition it only makes sense to string one wire. Property owners can be persuaded to accept one set of telephone poles running along their land for the common good, but would balk at 5 sets of telephone poles. So even where there are five telephone providers they share the wire.
When I was a kid, my Dad took us to a local university to see a gigantic machine that could solve mathematical equations if you fed it punch cards. Punch cards were exactly what they sound like: bits of cardboard with holes punched in them.
The computer programmer communicated with the computer via punchcards. The pattern of the holes made up the program. Back in those days of vacuum tubes, most people could not imagine the possibility that personal computers would ever exist. Computers were simply too big.
But then came miniaturization. Really, weren’t the first home computers was actually the digital calculators that swept over the world in the 1970’s? With the ability to achieve miniaturization, home computers were not far behind. The first home computers were DIY projects; if you wanted a computer you had to put it together. So naturally the first people to have home computers were the techies who could build them.
But it wasn’t long though before enterprising businesses began selling personal computers or PCs that anyone could use. Spreadsheet programs like Lotus Symphony revolutionized the accounting Industry. Desk Top Publishing was born. Games could be played. Calendars kept. The possibilities seemed endless. And they were.
Today ordinary people get personal computers in much the same way we get cars. We no longer need to know how to build or repair one.
In the early days of personal computing, people could purchase modems that would connect computers via telephone lines. When your modem was connected to the phone line, it took control of your telephone service. When your computer was talking on the phone, you couldn’t. It got to the point where some computer users would get a second telephone line so their computing time wouldn’t tie up their telephone.
Before the Internet became available to ordinary people, there were independent computer networks. My first venture online was in 1989 with a commercial service called Compuserve. Although the research possibilities were excellent, the fun part was being able to live chat with folks from around the world.
The downside was that it was terribly expensive. You paid by the minute, which can add up quite quickly. Learning how to do anything took a lot of time and every minute online cost money. Although it was fun, being fresh out of college, I simply couldn’t afford it. So I went off line again. The public library was a much more economical place to do research.
I just went to search out Compuserve now. I’m happy they’re still out there. Oh and look… the deal I see is 2 months free to start and after that $17.95 per month unlimited. Twenty years ago my bill for a single month exceeded $100, and that was using one of their more economical billing plans! Times certainly have changed.
Later I became involved with an early computer network, a BBS or “bulletin board system”. These independent computer BBSs were very similar to the Internet forums of today; you posted your comment and it stayed there. People would check in over time and join in the conversation. No live chats here.
But it was an excellent antidote to Compuserve, because it was free. Voluntary donations helped support the system by paying for improved equipment for the people running it. A BBS was not a commercial venture, they were communities… today we’d call them social media… started by a few people with computer know-how and equipment to run it on. People found out about a BBS by word of mouth. Then as now content was important for finding and then keeping an audience.
The people who owned the equipment controlled the BBS, and acted as the system administrators or SYSOPS. But it was the users who brought the BBS to life by beginning new discussion areas and posting conversations and content to the BBS. Because it didn’t happen in real time, the posts were often more thoughtful than live chat. But the owners held ultimate control; they could cut off anyone for any reason. Initially this power was only used to clamp down on abusive behavior; there were online Trolls then as now. Later on personalities and personal politics came into it.
My disillusionment coincided with one heavy contributor being cut off simply for having different attitudes and philosophies– mostly he annoyed the owners. But because he provided so much content and administered so many discussion groups, they didn’t want to cut him off for good, so instead they gave him small suspensions to keep him in line. That type of petty abuse of power is why I left that BBS, and has a lot to do with why I support net neutrality today.
That was around the time when the Internet became generally available to the public. Overnight there were Independent Internet Service Providers springing up all over Canada, and around the world. And although many people signed up, it was far from universal.
There were many seductive elements. Email and Instant Messaging held great appeal. Instant connectivity. Research, information… everything at your finger tips. But in many ways it was a luxury. A plaything. It was only later it became a necessity.
In my recollection, a lot people were initially resistant to going online because it was so expensive. There were many many ISPs, and so competition was fierce. Even so, it was still very expensive. ISPs charged by the minute. The most persistent and pervasive ISPs battling for customers was America Online.
AOL: Usage Based Billing
They must have mailed out hundreds of thousands of AOL sign up CDs. Maybe millions. I know I didn’t start keeping the CDs that kept turning up in my mail initially. Yet I still probably have around thirty of their CDs. Yet I never did sign up with AOL. I knew from my Compuserve experience how quickly the usage costs could add up, and how expensive it would be. Not to mention virtually impossible to budget for.
The AOL marketing campaign is writ large across those old CDs.
540 Hours Free
1000 Hours Free
3 Months Free
$9.95 for 6 months
AOL tried giving better and better introductory offers but it just did not work. After the early adopters, the techno types who would do whatever it took to be online — and more importantly pay whatever had to be paid– the mostly ordinary people just weren’t interested. It was a big cash outlay, after all. Just getting a reasonable computer system cost around three thousand dollars.
My first PC had a double floppy drive — not even a hard drive — a black & white screen — a dot matrix printer. Three grand.
After laying out the green, most of us weren’t ready to sign away the rest of our disposable income for the Internet. Because after AOL’s “introduction period” was over, it would be back to the very pricey Usage Based Billing options. It just cost too much.
And there wasn’t even the content available online that there is today.
Certainly finding what you wanted took work, and learning is very expensive when you’re being billed per minute. The point is, you didn’t NEED to go online. You could buy a whole encyclopedia on one CD, or a spreadsheet program, a word processor or graphics software or games, and your computer could do everything you needed it to. People didn’t need the Internet. It was just too expensive. A toy.
What happened to AOL? The king of marketing? At one point they were the one to beat. They marketed the heck out of the Internet. Who else could afford to scatter CDs across the land with such bold abandon. Or convince respectable venerated Canadian banking institutions… notably some of the most caution in the world… to partner them? What cataclysm could have done for AOL?
Wait a minute:
Canada had ISP competition?
Canada?
What happened to all those ISPs?
enter the carriers
Bell Canada and Rogers Cable entered the fray.
Bell Canada was the major telephone carrier; they controlled and maintained the telephone cable backbone. Telephone traffic traveled over this wire, and now Internet traffic did too. Up until this time, Bell Canada just had phone lines, they were the major telephone carrier who controlled the wire backbone connecting home computer users to the Internet.
But now, Bell decided they wanted to get into the internet game. So Bell hung out a shingle as an Internet Service Provider, or ISP.
When Rogers entered the market they brought their own backbone in the form of urban cable connections. The first time I recall hearing about Rogers as an ISP they were offering high speed Internet connections. I wasn’t paying much attention back then. One minute there were scads pf Canadian ISPs and the next there were only two.
Bell and Rogers introduced “Unlimited Internet” into the Canadian market
Bell and Rogers used their corporate might to introduce low cost UNLIMITED Internet service packages that the smaller ISPs could not possibly match. Offering unlimited Internet access made trying it much more palatable because learning how to use it was no longer prohibitively expensive. Not only did customers switch to Bell and Rogers in droves, but more:
elimination of usage based billing allowed the Canadian Internet Market to really take off.
Canadian consumers told the market in no uncertain terms that we did not want the Internet on a Usage Based Billing model.
Low cost entry into the Internet made Canadians embrace the Internet. This is why Canada was an early adopter, and a leader in Internet use. Even though it didn’t take long for prices to climb. Since the other competitors were gone, Bell and Rogers had the market carved up between them so prices began to rise rapidly.
The Internet has impacted on just about every type of business there is. We buy and sell on eBay or Amazon. We pay our bills online. We can read Canadian laws online. Get up to the minute weather reports. We watch TVor read the newspaper online. Canada Post is offering to deliver email.
the Canadian Internet market clearly said “No” to Usage Based Billing
Because customers overwhelmingly chose “Unlimited” over the usage based pricing model, Bell and Rogers got the added bonus of eliminating the competition. Bell and Rogers were vying for supremacy so they built good infrastructure to offer the fastest best service. Back then, Canada had some of the best Internet access speeds at some of the lowest prices in the world.
This is a very large part of the reason that Canadians embraced the Internet so whole heartedly.
But the upshot is that Canada was left with only two ISPs. It was such a monumental error that even the Canadian Government noticed, and stepped in and told Bell and Rogers that they would have to share the infrastructure so that competitors could enter the Internet market in an attempt to re-introduce competition.
I’m not quite sure why, but it seems that all the Independent ISPs seem to get their Internet connection through Bell. When Bell set up the “Gateway Access System” (GAS) through which they sell wholesale bandwidth to the Independent Internet Service Providers The CRTC allowed Bell to set their own prices. Naturally they set very high prices. The Independent ISPs could then redistribute the bandwidth however they saw fit.
At first Bell was happy since they were making money from their GAS business. They were probably surprised that the Independent ISPs provided low priced packages and good Internet service without gouging that have built loyalty for the Independents. It’s funny how just about anyone you ask has at least one Bell or Rogers horror story in their repertoire, but I’ve never heard any about the Independent ISPs.
Canada’s place as an Internet leader has been slipping badly. Although Bell has done basic maintenance on their phone/Internet infrastructure they seem to have neglected the continuous upgrading they should have done. In real terms that makes Canada’s Internet service of today hopelessly out of date. What was cutting edge 15 years ago is paleolithic today.
Although the service has stayed the same with little or no infrastructure improvements Canadian Internet costs have been climbing.
(Make no mistake: the inflated Internet costs that Bell and Rogers have been charging have been more than enough to cover upgrades.)
Many Canadians went online because it was affordable back then, but that is no longer true.
Now, at a time when it has become more important to go in the Internet– to do our banking, pay our bills, find jobs, do school work– today Canadian Internet rates are some of the highest in the world. The Internet is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity for Canadians. But not all Canadians can afford to even go online. The “digital divide” is yawning already, but now it’s about to get even worse.
Because the CRTC has approved Bell’s application to begin Usage Based Billing.
Real costs have nothing to do with it. Market forces have nothing to do with it.
The CRTC will allow our Internet rates to double to economically force Canadians to reduce Internet use.
CRTC #fail
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Taiwan Wire Service
News From Taiwan
Taconic Biosciences Announces Expansion of Key Alzheimer Animal Model
May 3, 2017 Asianet Pakistan Asean, General
HUDSON, N.Y., May 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Taconic Biosciences, a global leader in genetically engineered mouse models and associated services, announced it will expand the offering of a key Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) mouse model, APPSWE – Model 1349, to include aged animals.
Taconic will now offer off-the-shelf Model 1349 animals aged up to 42 weeks, saving months off the typical timeline to access Alzheimer’s models. This program addresses customers’ need to have critical disease models immediately available, as opposed to placing an order and waiting for the animals to age and express the desired phenotype.
Dr. Michael Seiler, Taconic Biosciences’ portfolio director for genetically engineered models, commented, “The addition of aged APPSWE animals demonstrates Taconic’s commitment to help researchers reduce discovery timelines. These reductions save both time and money, ultimately making it easier to progress towards life-changing therapeutics.”
APPSWE mice express a mutated form of the human gene for amyloid precursor protein (APP) known as the Swedish mutation (APPSWE). The mutated gene encodes a double amino acid substitution and is associated with an inheritable increased susceptibility to Alzheimer’s Disease. Resulting phenotypic manifestations in APPSWE mice include a progressive accumulation of beta amyloid (Aβ) in the brain, analogous to classic “senile plaques” of human AD, and correlated cognitive deficits. Mice that overexpress an Alzheimer’s-associated isoform of the human amyloid precursor protein provide a model for human Alzheimer’s Disease and an experimental tool for a diversity of cellular mechanisms.
Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias is expected to cost the United States $259 billion dollars in 2017 (www.alz.org), representing a major market and focus for pharmaceutical research.
Taconic also offers unaged Model 1349 animals, as well as a comprehensive neuroscience rodent model portfolio. To learn more about Taconic’s neuroscience portfolio, please contact Taconic Biosciences at 1-888-TACONIC (888-822-6642) in the US, +45 70 23 04 05 in Europe or at info@taconic.com
About Taconic Biosciences, Inc.
Taconic Biosciences is a fully-licensed, global leader in genetically engineered rodent models and services. Founded in 1952, Taconic helps biotechnology companies and institutions acquire, custom generate, breed, precondition, test, and distribute valuable research models worldwide. Specialists in genetically engineered mouse and rat models, precision research mouse models, and integrated model design and breeding services, Taconic operates three service laboratories and six breeding facilities in the U.S. and Europe, maintains distributor relationships in Asia and has global shipping capabilities to provide animal models almost anywhere in the world.
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Director of Marketing Communications
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Fashion • Giannis Antetokounmpo • Milwaukee Bucks • NBA • Nike • Sneaker Stories
The story behind Giannis Antetokounmpo’s first Nike signature sneaker — The Undefeated
ATHENS, Greece — The fitness center sits on the east aspect of central Athens within the densely populated suburb of Zografou. Nestled between collections of ample timber is a set of stairs resulting in a ground-level entrance, the place a small foyer provides strategy to the double doorways of a basketball courtroom. Behind them is the place certainly one of basketball’s best-kept secrets and techniques as soon as hooped.
It’s the place all of it started for a 12-year-old child by the identify of Γιάννης Αντεκουντούμπου.
Lengthy earlier than the world knew him as Giannis Antetokounmpo — the Eurostepping Greek Freak with the 6-foot-11, 242-pound physique and legendary athleticism — the reigning NBA MVP performed on the residence of Filathlitikos Basketball Membership.
“He was like a cricket,” says Takis Zivas, head coach of Filathlitikos B.C., Antetokounmpo’s first group. “His legs have been immense, however his torso was small compared to the remainder of the physique.” Zivas, a slender man sporting years of teaching beneath his eyes, nonetheless remembers the primary time Antetokounmpo got here into his health club. “I simply hadn’t seen a child like that earlier than,” he says. “His eyes, they have been shining.”
Antetokounmpo discovered the sport of basketball on the aged hardwood of Filathlitikos’ courtroom, its measurements, notably in width, extra becoming of a small soccer subject. The 2 unique hoops that when hung from the fitness center’s ceiling have been retired and completely raised to the rafters. A pair of stanchions took their place and now maintain baskets with rims slowly starting to rust. Atop one sideline, a wall of cloudy home windows permits the highly effective solar to creep inside. Within the coronary heart of summer time, not even the 5 towering air-conditioning models mounted all through the area can overcome the scorching warmth after a number of journeys up and down the ground.
For 2 years, Antetokounmpo educated right here a number of occasions a day earlier than being chosen to hitch Filathlitikos’ youth workforce. Zivas drilled the child in any respect ranges of the membership, together with with the ladies’s staff, whereas educating him to navigate the courtroom as some extent guard with velocity and self-discipline. At 14, he started enjoying with the lads’s group. After his two eventual brokers got here to see the phenom for themselves, they began to unfold the gospel of his loopy potential. By the point Antetokounmpo was 17, chairs have been lined up towards the wall on the close to sideline for throngs of NBA scouts, basic managers and house owners to observe the promising prospect work out.
“The best way Giannis would see issues from a younger age, the best way he was so critical about issues, the best way he perceived … he had a unique mentality than everyone else,” says Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Giannis’ older brother and former Filathlitikos teammate. “Like, ‘Pay attention, I do know I’m enjoying on this fitness center, however I’m working to be within the NBA … as a result of I do know, sooner or later, I’m gonna be within the NBA. And once I play within the NBA, I’m gonna be prepared.’ ”
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Greater than a decade after he walked by means of the constructing’s doorways for the primary time, Antetokounmpo, now an All-NBA ahead for the Milwaukee Bucks, returned because the NBA’s newly minted MVP. On the finish of June, 5 days after he was introduced with the Maurice Podoloff Trophy and delivered a tearful MVP acceptance speech, Antetokounmpo arrived at his childhood health club in Zografou, walked onto the courtroom and took a seat in a chair too small for him means again then and even smaller for him now.
Leaning between his lengthy legs, he started tying the laces of a brand new pair of sneakers: orange and navy Nikes, with an interlocking “GA” emblem on the tongue and one other emblem on the heel intertwining No. 34 with the flag of Greece.
They’re referred to as the Nike Zoom Freak 1s — Antetokoumpo’s debut signature sneaker. At 24 years previous, he’s the primary worldwide basketball participant to obtain his personal Nike shoe. A distinction that isn’t misplaced upon him.
“I needed my shoe to principally introduce me and my household to the world,” says Antetokounmpo. The outer midsoles of every sneaker function the names of his mother and father: his mom, Veronica, and late father, Charles, who emigrated collectively from Nigeria to Greece within the early 1990s to offer a greater life for his or her boys. Inscribed on the soles of every shoe’s heel are the names of Antetokounmpo’s 4 brothers: Francis, Thanasis, Kostas and Alex.
“I needed a handsome shoe that would inform a narrative that a child might relate to,” he continues. “A shoe that would make a child work exhausting. A shoe that would make a child consider in his dream.”
It’s a shoe he by no means might’ve imagined, in his wildest goals, calling his personal. Not when his story started again in Greece, inside this fitness center, the place the sneakers he laced up didn’t even belong to him.
Giannis Antetokounmpo coaching within the black/white colorway of his Nike Zoom Freak 1, which launched on July 10.
Initially, it took some persuading to get younger Giannis on a basketball courtroom. He dreamed of turning into a soccer participant like his father as soon as was again in Nigeria. However Giannis completely adored his older brother, Thanasis, and needed to spend as a lot time with him as he might. Lengthy story brief: “I didn’t select basketball,” Giannis says. “Thanasis selected basketball.”
The sport isn’t the one factor Thanasis launched to his little brother.
When Thanasis was 17, he signed a professional contract to play with Maroussi within the prime division of the Greek Basketball League, and the membership blessed him with a couple of pairs of free sneakers.
Giannis will always remember the day Thanasis returned house with bins containing prized possessions that had been exhausting to return by throughout their childhood. To offer for his or her household, Charles labored as a handyman and Veronica bought items on the streets of Athens, typically joined by their sons. “Our mother and father gave us no matter that they had, and it received the job finished,” Thanasis says. “However we didn’t have some huge cash.”
So basketball footwear, particularly new ones, have been a luxurious.
“I keep in mind … he had a pair of those Kobes,” Giannis says. “These are the footwear I needed.” However Thanasis huge bro’d Giannis, calling dibs on a coveted purple and white pair of Kobe Bryant’s signature Nike Kobe 4s. “Thanasis was like, ‘You’ll be able to have the ugly pair,’ ” Giannis recollects, “the heavy ones.” In fact, the youthful Antetokounmpo brother accepted the sneakers and performed in them. However he additionally plotted a approach to get his ft in these Kobes.
When Thanasis fell asleep, or left the footwear at residence, Giannis would take them to go follow. He’d make the trek from his household’s house within the Sepolia neighborhood of northwest Athens to the Filathlitikos health club in Zografou. The journey was roughly four miles on foot every approach, however lacing up the Kobe 4s was value each step and little bit of wrath he’d face from Thanasis when he came upon his little brother was sporting his footwear.
“Thanasis used to get mad at me,” Giannis says. “He was like, ‘No, man. These are my footwear. I really like these footwear. Don’t make them soiled. Don’t use them.’ ”
Giannis Antetokounmpo (left) needed his first Nike signature shoe to inform his household’s story. Right here, he’s pictured together with his father, Charles and his brothers Thanasis (prime), Kostas (proper) and Alex (middle). All of their names are included into the design of the Nike Zoom Freak 1.
Courtesy of Nike
Their father, Charles, overheard the boys’ change and interjected. “My dad got here out and was like, ‘That’s your youthful brother. You’ve gotta share footwear with him. If he needs to put on them, he can put on them. It’s not like we’ve a bunch of footwear,’ ” Giannis remembers. “That’s when me and Thanasis began sharing footwear.”
The Antetokounmpo household ultimately moved nearer to Zografou, the place each Giannis and Thanasis performed for Filathlitikos. Quickly afterward, sharing sneakers, which began out of necessity, turned a apply that the 2 brothers — separated in age by two years, 4 months and 18 days — perfected. Giannis would play within the footwear first for the membership’s under-16 staff. After his recreation ended, he’d give them to Thanasis, who’d put on the already sweaty kicks towards fellow 17- and 18-year-olds. Once they have been enjoying at totally different ranges, the routine was straightforward. However Giannis stored rising, and his recreation stored enhancing, permitting him the chance to start out enjoying up in Thanasis’ age group. Sharing the identical sneakers in the identical recreation introduced a special problem. It meant Giannis and Thanasis couldn’t be on the courtroom collectively.
“I do know lots of people would say, ‘Man, that’s exhausting.’ Nevertheless it was truly actually enjoyable, to be trustworthy with you,” Thanasis says. “We’d get to play quarter by quarter. If we would like a cease, if we’d like protection … a basket, I sub out, he places on the footwear, he subs in. … We nonetheless beat them, and the opposite youngsters are annoyed like, ‘We’re dropping to some guys who don’t even have footwear.’ ”
In the future again in 2011, Thanasis pulled as much as Ministry of Concrete, a sneaker and streetwear boutique in Athens, in quest of new kicks for off the courtroom. He’d saved up a bit of bit of cash, and the shop’s proprietor, Alex Segiet, gave him a deal on a pair of high-top Nike Dunks. “I had that one pair of sneakers for 3 years,” says Thanasis, who speaks gratefully, as if the footwear lasted him an eternity. “I keep in mind he was so fascinated by the footwear,” recollects Segiet, who cherishes that transaction from a number of years in the past for an additional cause. It was the primary time he had ever heard about Giannis.
“Thanasis stated he would deliver his youthful brother, as soon as they received the cash, and purchase one other pair,” Segiet says.
Giannis by no means made it into the shop. He had different methods to seek for sneakers.
“I used to be like, ‘OK, that is loopy … I could be like Kobe, KD, LeBron, all these guys which have their very own signature shoe, and play with it within the recreation.’ I used to be actually, actually glad.” — Giannis Antetokounmpo
“There was a interval the place he was operating round to seek out Jordans,” remembers Zivas. However Giannis would put on something he might discover. And he made most of his inquiries inside Filathlitikos’ fitness center.
“I used to be simply searching down footwear from teammates,” he says. “After follow, I’d go as much as them and ask, ‘Are you completed with these? Do you continue to need these?’ They have been like, ‘C’mon, Giannis … however OK,’ and take them off their ft. ‘You’ll be able to have them.’ I had nice teammates rising up. They took care of me like I used to be their youthful brother. There was plenty of different households and youngsters on the market that had it approach worse than me.”
Measurement didn’t matter to Giannis — particularly if somebody was gracious sufficient to offer him a pair of footwear. “To this present day … I’m so embarrassed by my toes. They’re curled up as a result of … there was a time that I wore footwear two sizes smaller,” he says. “And there have been occasions that I wore approach greater footwear. It was higher than sporting a measurement smaller.”
When Antetokounmpo was chosen by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 15th general decide within the 2013 NBA draft, he owned 10 or 12 pairs of sneakers. However that was about to vary. Earlier than his rookie season, he took the one supply he acquired for a shoe deal. It simply so occurred to return from the corporate that made his favourite pair of kicks to hoop in as a child.
“Nike was the one firm that took an opportunity on me,” he says. “There have been different corporations that didn’t care to signal me. … I wasn’t on the record … however individuals from Nike got here in and stated, ‘We’re gonna get that man. We’re gonna deal with him and his household.’ That meant rather a lot.”
Antetokounmpo’s dozen-pair assortment shortly expanded exponentially. “He was so comfortable,” Thanasis says, “like, ‘Man, I can hold this shoe, I can put on this one, I can change it up each recreation …’ I felt like he actually liked it.” One or two storage models at his condominium in Milwaukee turned to 6 or seven, all stacked with bins of sneakers. “I acquired, like, Three,000, four,000 pairs of footwear,” says Antetokounmpo, who up to now yr moved into his first home, the place he now has a sneaker closet. “And you already know what’s the craziest factor? I don’t even put on them. I put on like 10 or 15 of them.”
One thing else that hasn’t modified, which he admits with a tiny sense of delight: “I’ve by no means bought basketball sneakers, to today — ever.”
Rising up, Giannis Antetokounmpo shared basketball footwear together with his older brother, Thanasis. Now he has his personal.
In late September 2017, Antetokounmpo and his household met Nike at a downtown Milwaukee lodge. Antetokounmpo was coming off a 2016-17 season by which he averaged 22.9 factors, eight.eight rebounds and 5.four assists and dropped 30 factors in his first All-Star Recreation whereas sporting a pair of Kobe 10s. Nike pitched Antetokounmpo on a contract extension with a presentation targeted on him turning into simply the 22nd basketball participant in firm historical past to obtain a signature sneaker — and, much more monumental, Nike Basketball’s first signature athlete born and raised outdoors of america.
Antetokounmpo couldn’t consider it.
“That’s when it hit me. I used to be like, ‘OK, that is loopy … I could be like Kobe, KD, LeBron, all these guys which have their very own signature shoe, and play with it within the recreation.’ I used to be actually, actually comfortable.” He additionally couldn’t assist however assume again to his humble beginnings in Greece. “As a child, rising up, I by no means thought, I’m gonna have my very own signature shoe. I by no means needed to have my very own signature shoe. … That wasn’t a objective or dream of mine.”
However he doesn’t query how he arrived on the alternative.
“I do know why,” he says. “I labored my a– off.”
In November 2017, Antetokounmpo re-signed with Nike.
Household. Loyalty. Legacy. Excited to announce my long-term partnership with @NikeBasketball #FamilyOverEverything @Thanasis_ante43 pic.twitter.com/remyaTVuhZ
— Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) November 7, 2017
“I needed to act prefer it was a troublesome choice. There have been a variety of different corporations that have been prepared to offer me some huge cash, supply me a variety of stuff,” Antetokounmpo says. He turned down pitches from Li-Ning and Adidas (whose courting included sending him a whole truck filled with free sneakers). “On the finish of the day, I gotta keep loyal to the individuals who helped me. I needed to construct a model from what I began. … That’s who I’m as an individual. Deep down in my coronary heart, I do know I made the proper determination.”
Weeks after the announcement of a long-term partnership, the 18-month design strategy of the Zoom Freak 1 started. Antetokounmpo went to Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, for a brainstorming session with a 15-person product workforce consisting of designers, engineers, put on testers and specialists in supplies, coloring and advertising. He additionally met Kevin Dodson, Nike’s international vice chairman of basketball footwear, for the primary time.
“The factor that stands out to me was simply engagement,” Dodson says. “He was in from the second we sat down. He was targeted. He introduced out a pocket book to start out taking notes intimately, which I’ve by no means seen earlier than. Simply from that second, we felt snug. Like, ‘OK, we’ve a associate right here that desires to provide all the things he’s obtained, so we’re gonna give every thing we’ve acquired.’ ”
Antetokounmpo expressed what he hoped for out of his first shoe: dependable traction similar to what’s discovered all through Kyrie Irving’s signature line, the identical forefoot really feel of the Kobe 10, and the identical higher form and match because the beloved Kobe 4s he wore as a child in Greece with Thanasis. He needed his first shoe to characterize house and, most significantly, household.
“We all the time attempt to work in actually particular particulars to the athletes,” Dodson says. “We’ll at occasions as a staff go to them and say, ‘Hey, is there something particular you need us to have on a shoe?’ ”
An early sketch from the 18-month design strategy of the Nike Zoom Freak 1.
Antetokounmpo had a phrase in thoughts, “I Am My Father’s Legacy,” which is included into the traction sample on the soles of the sneakers in honor of the household patriarch, who died of a coronary heart assault in 2017 on the age of 54, six weeks earlier than Giannis re-signed with Nike.
“I needed my dad to be remembered. I needed individuals to know that he left a legacy behind,” Antetokounmpo says. “The one factor he cared about was his youngsters. We’re his legacy. His legacy lives inside us, me and my brothers. We take satisfaction in that. Each shoe I make, that phrase is all the time gonna be there. It’s not going nowhere. … I do know he’s wanting from above and actually proud of … the best way the shoe got here out.”
Thanasis, who lately signed a two-year cope with the Bucks to play alongside Giannis, was the final brother to see the ultimate product. He’d spent a lot of the previous two years enjoying in Greece whereas Nike labored on the Zoom Freak 1 and went to Milwaukee a number of days earlier than Giannis was named MVP.
“I walked in my room and I used to be like, ‘What sort of footwear are these?’ ” Thanasis says. “It was a special field. I’d by no means seen it. So I opened it, and I see the shoe. I used to be so excited as a result of it seemed so elegant and cozy and highly effective.”
It was solely proper that Giannis returned house to Greece to debut his first signature sneaker — in Athens’ historic constructing of Zappeion, a round, open-aired atrium is surrounded by three dozen columns and busts of goddesses. In 1896, the venue hosted the fencing competitors of the primary trendy Olympic Video games. Greater than 120 years later, Nike constructed out the area to unveil the Zoom Freak 1 and its first three fashions: a primary black-and-white model; the “Roses” version, designed in pink, white and gold, his father’s three favourite colours; and the orange and navy “All Bros” colorway, which turned the primary to hit retail on June 28, as a tribute to the robust bond of the “Antetokounbros.”
And, on the particular request of Giannis, the Zoom Freak 1 within reason priced at $120 a pair.
“Individuals are ready for the shoe like gnats,” Segiet says. “That has by no means, ever, ever occurred earlier than out there. I’m fairly positive that wherever it’s being launched, at any retailer within the nation, it’s getting bought out instantly. Who wouldn’t wish to have a pair of their closet? It’s the shoe of our native hero.”
A photograph of Giannis sporting the Kobe 4s that hangs within the foyer of the Filathlitikos’ health club.
Aaron Dodson
Inside Filathlitikos’ fitness center, behind one basket hangs an enormous banner depicting Antetokounmpo gliding for a dunk in his Zoom Freak 1s, overlaid by Nike’s iconic white script: “Destiny can begin you on the backside. Goals can take you to the highest.” The picture celebrates what could be the best week of Antetokounmpo’s life, which started with an MVP trophy and ended with a signature shoe.
“All of us dreamed of him having an awesome profession and enjoying on a excessive degree,” Zivas stated. “Immediately, he’s the motivation for younger youngsters to be concerned in basketball, to be comfortable, and hopefully they’ll be capable of obtain issues sporting Giannis’ footwear.”
Nike’s banner is positioned subsequent to some others put up by the membership to honor the three Antetokounmpo brothers who’ve reached the NBA: Giannis, Thanasis and Kostas. At some point quickly, an image of their youngest brother, Alex, now 17, will be a part of theirs on the wall of Filathlitikos’ courtroom. 4 of the “AntetokounBros” — which can take over as the brand new identify of the health club, Zografou mayor Vassilis Thodas introduced the day the “All Bros” Nike Zoom Freak 1 dropped.
Within the foyer, on a wall proper outdoors the courtroom, hangs a set of previous workforce portraits. Positioned within the middle of a giant picket body is a grainy photograph from the membership’s 2010-11 season. A better look reveals a younger but acquainted face, sitting second from the left on the primary row of gamers. A thin child sporting a saggy black T-shirt underneath his pink basketball jersey with knees standing taller than these of the teammates on both aspect of him.
On the ft of the then-16-year-old Giannis are the footwear he used to steal from his older brother Thanasis — the purple and white Kobe 4s that helped begin his journey from this small fitness center to basketball’s largest stage.
In February, Giannis Sharpie’d, “Thanasis Thanks For Sharing,” on a pair of these Kobes that Nike had specifically remade for him in his measurement 16 to put on for the NBA All-Star Recreation.
“Thanasis thanks for sharing” @Giannis_An34 tells a narrative of his brother @Thanasis_ante43 sharing basketball footwear once they have been youngsters. #ThisIsWhyWePlay #NBAKicks pic.twitter.com/Ka1GqDfQSP
— NBA KICKS (@NBAKicks) February 18, 2019
“I truly obtained actually emotional. He made me keep in mind,” Thanasis says. “Everyone was asking me, ‘ … Thansasis, you noticed what your brother wrote?’ That was our first legit, very nice shoe. I informed everyone that.”
Early in his NBA profession, Giannis additionally had an opportunity to share a pair of footwear.
After Giannis was drafted by the Bucks in 2013, his household got here to stay with him. Giannis would all the time take then-12-year-old Alex to basketball follow, like Thanasis used to do with him, and he additionally did with Kostas. As soon as, after Alex’s follow, Giannis took discover of one other child leaving the health club.
“Alex on the time was 6-foot. This child was like 6-6,” Giannis remembers. “He was big and large. He got here out, and I noticed his pair of footwear. They have been previous. I’m not saying that they had holes on them, however they weren’t new. They have been virtually ripped aside.”
“I needed a handsome shoe that would inform a narrative that a child might relate to. A shoe that would make a child work onerous. A shoe that would make a child consider in his dream.” — Giannis Antetokounmpo
If anybody might relate to that child, it was Giannis. He considered what number of occasions he needed to muster the braveness to ask somebody for sneakers. There was no disgrace within the hustle, however what was it wish to be on the opposite aspect of the change?
“I advised the child, ‘Subsequent time I come, I’ll ensure I’ll get you some sneakers.’ ”
Positive sufficient, he fulfilled his promise.
“I had two pairs of footwear. I gave them to him, and he was so, so glad …,” Giannis says. “What individuals used to do for me, I did it for him. … That was the primary time I used to be within the spot the place I might do this.
“Lots of people, you give them stuff they usually may … take it without any consideration. However numerous youngsters don’t take it without any consideration. I didn’t take it as a right.”
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Giannis will eternally be pleased about the chance to put on these Kobes, for what they meant to his journey. He understands how a pair of footwear may help a child chase a dream.
And now, together with his personal signature sneaker, he has the prospect to pay it ahead.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is surrounded by followers as he leaves a basketball courtroom in Athens on June 28. Antetokounmpo was again house in Greece to debut his first sneaker and host a Three-on-Three basketball event he sponsors together with his brothers.
Petros Giannakouris/AP Photograph
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Aaron Dodson is an affiliate editor at The Undefeated. Typically mistaken for Aaron Dobson, previously of the New England Patriots and Arizona Cardinals, he was one letter away from being an NFL vast receiver.
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Saturday (Errr Thursday) Morning Cartoons - Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
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Hi everybody and welcome to another edition of Saturday (Errr Thursday) Morning Cartoons, the series where I go back and watch shows that I watched when I was a kid to see if they hold up favorably to that warm and fuzzy nostalgia feeling that I have for them. This week we're going to look at an often overlooked show from the 90's Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century. I know that I skipped doing this article last week, but personal issues with work prevented me from having enough time to sit down and write this sucker out. So I apologize for the delay on this one, but here goes.
I need to preface my discussion for today with a disclaimer, since watching this show as a kid and apparently despite of it, I became a huge detective fiction fan, I've read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories and even took a detective fiction course in college, so I may be a little harsh on this one, but it's because I love the source material :3
This show had such promise to it in it's premise alone. The show focuses on the idea that Sherlock Holmes is re-animated in the 22nd Century to deal with a spree of crimes that are being perpetrated by his arch nemesis Moriarty. They start out with nods to other characters from the classic stories, like his partner being LeStrade's ancestor along with a robot who thinks he's John Watson. The Scotland Yard is still inept and Sherlock is still brilliant. However, everything starts to crumble from there. Sherlock's Deductions in the opening few episodes don't follow the most important rule of detective fiction, they don't follow directly from the facts given to the viewer. Some of the time he'll make a deduction that isn't readily apparent to the audience until it's actually explained and then the evidence for it will be presented. Already it feels as if the show is no longer going to rely on what made the books great. It focuses pretty heavily on the action involved in these future cases with hover car chases and brawls between Sherlock and the Baddy of the week.
Moriarty is described as the greatest criminal mind ever known and early on he completely is reduced to a mustache twirling caricature of what evil should be. He uses a single minion regularly through out the series who is more like igor than someone Moriarty would work with. It's really quite weird. One of my biggest gripes with the show is that it starts with "The Final Problem" my personal favorite Sherlock Holmes story and the one where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the famous detective by having him and his eternal adversary Moriarty fall together off of a waterfall. However the conflict leading up to this amazing climax is one of the most tense and well written mysteries I've read, which is why I'm supremely pissed that this show just ignored it completely, they used the waterfall as a plot device to bring Sherlock and Moriarty to the future. This also leads right into my absolute biggest problem with the series. It apes famous stories from the novels and reworks them to work in the 22nd Century. Which makes me wonder, if you're not going to come up with original mysteries for Holmes why not just animate the original stories and show that?! Surely the great detective would be able to deduce the patterns that these new cases are taking with relation to his previous cases.
It's a shame too that the show doesn't work on all of these levels because the voice acting is quite good and the actual setting of the 22nd century is nice and Lestrade is actually a welcome addition to the Sherlock/Watson team it allows for a strong constant female presence that isn't Irene Addler, so that's pretty cool. The animation actually holds up pretty well with the exception of the parts where they tried to implement CG into the show which is 90's CG so it looks like butt. Anyway I wish this show had at least attempted more original content because it did have promise, but instead it retold stories in a worse fashion than they had been told originally and with the much better retellings of Sherlock and the Robert Downey versions I can't in good conscience recommend this one to just about anyone:
5.0/10 T.T
Next week I'll be taking a look at another cartoon that I hope hope hope stands up because damn did I love this one. Batman Beyond!
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Bas Relief: The Big Picture amid Gay Demands
Posted on March 19, 2011 By Terrell Clemmons
Dear Mick,
They say fools rush in where angels fear to tread. This territory is contentious, but I’m neither rushing in nor fearful to tread. You have pushed me to the wall, all but demanding a response from me, so here goes. Yes, I have seen the news reports about gay teens who have taken their own lives, including the most highly publicized one, Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his sexual encounter was filmed and broadcast on the web. Yes, I agree with you that teen death is always tragic, and when it comes by suicide, it’s especially heart wrenching. Yes, I have seen the videos posted online by celebrities, calling for an end to harassment of gays, and yes, I have heard your cries for action.
I certainly won’t argue with, “Stop the bullying.” Aggression and abuse are never acceptable.
So why do you overlook the actual aggressors? Instead of calling them to account, you have leveled your sights on something else. At bottom, your demand really isn’t, “End the bullying.” It’s, “End the religion-based teachings about homosexuality.”
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It’s a chorus that’s been building for over a decade. In 1998, after Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student, was abducted, beaten, and left for dead by two local thugs, NBC Today show host Katie Couric also ignored the perpetrators and questioned whether Christian organizations such as Focus on the Family might be responsible, having created “a climate of hate.” As I read Crisis: 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay in America, I heard the same theme. The primary impediment to gays’ mental health and wholeness, according to Mitchell Gold who collected and edited the stories, is religion-based bigotry and religious intolerance. Not bigotry, but religion-based bigotry. Not intolerance, but religious intolerance.
Now the meme has gone global. That became apparent in the NPR article you showed me recently. “Christians?” you asked, one eyebrow raised. A lawmaker in Uganda introduced a bill imposing the death penalty for some homosexual acts and life in prison for others. I read the article, wondering exactly how Christianity played into this development. It didn’t. The reporter had drawn that conclusion for readers, adding in the final sentence, “The legislation was drawn up following a visit by leaders of U.S. conservative Christian ministries that promote therapy they say allows gays to become heterosexual.”
That conclusion dovetails with your grievance. I and people like me have the blood of gay teens and many others on our hands. I’ll grant you this, Mick. Where others stop at dropping hints, you do have the chutzpah to come right out with it.
About Intolerance
So I will be equally straightforward. As I write this, I am wearing a purple t-shirt. Today was designated by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) as “Wear Purple Day,” to raise awareness and “bring an end to intolerance” in honor of the deceased teens. As a mother of three, I am moved by the plight of troubled teens too, but there’s more to my personal “Wear Purple Day” than yours. I will explain.
My purple shirt also has a cross on it, and on the back you can read, “I’m souled out, are you?” Yes, Mick, it’s a play on words that refers to my religious convictions. I bring that into the discussion because you seem to have a bigger problem with my personal convictions concerning sex and morality than you do with the actual crimes that have been committed.
Fortunately, the legal system hasn’t taken your approach. The boys who killed Matthew Shepard are sitting behind bars, and probably will be for the rest of their earthly lives. Likewise, the students accused of webcasting the escapades of Tyler Clementi are under investigation by local authorities, as are the perpetrators of other crimes you’ve brought to my attention. (You call them hate crimes. I just call them crimes.) But this doesn’t seem to matter to you. What matters to you is that people like me be called upon to either change our beliefs or … or what, Mick? The cries are increasingly sounding like a threat, “Endorse homosexuality or else!”
About Harassment
I have not asked you to live by my code. But you are demanding that I adopt yours. To be honest, Mick, I’m starting to feel bullied. In recent months, you have called me, directly or indirectly, a bigot, a homophobe, a hater, an extremist, and now a virtual murderer. To the best of my memory, I haven’t called you anything but Mick. Honestly, who’s harassing whom?
I could make the dissension between us go away overnight by mouthing a blessing on your homosexuality. It would make my life easier, but I can’t do that. My conscience won’t let me. In fact, to be gut-level honest, Mick, love won’t let me. Love for you and for those teens struggling to figure out love in a hyper-sexualized culture. You see, I believe homosexuality is less than what God made you for. You may be content with it (though I would venture your escalating demands for affirmation suggest otherwise), but there are many who aren’t.
About Questioning Sexuality
College professor J. Budziszewski records a poignant conversation with a graduate student in his book, Ask Me Anything, that illustrates the soul-searching going on among today’s youth.
Adam had been living the gay life for five years, but he was growing disillusioned with it. He had no problem finding sex, but even in steady relationships the lack of intimacy and faithfulness was getting him down. “I’m starting to want … I don’t know. Something more,” he said.
“I follow you,” the professor said.
“Another thing,” Adam went on. “I want to be a Dad.” His gay friends couldn’t relate to that. Get a turkey baster and make an arrangement with a lesbian, they said. But he didn’t find the joke funny.
And there was one more thing. He’d started thinking about God. He’d been to a gay church, but something about it didn’t sit right. Adam was confused, and he’d come to Dr. Budziszewski to get the Big Picture about sex.
I don’t know what you might have said to Adam, but I know what one prominent gay author counsels. In Growing Up Gay in America: Informative and Practical Advice for Teen Guys Questioning Their Sexuality and Growing Up Gay, Jason Rich recommends making contact, anonymously online if necessary, with other gays. “You can also access the tremendous amount of gay pornography on the Internet and see, for example, if hot naked guys and/or sexual images of guys having sex with other guys actually turns you on,” he adds.
Adam had already tried all those things and found them wanting. Now he was thinking about leaving homosexuality. Which leads to a subject that is even more contentious for you. Ex-gays. Mick, you have a lot to say about gays being mistreated, but it appears to me the most abused and reviled group of people in America today is not gays, but ex-gays. The Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), a non-profit advocacy group, has documented a lot of incidents of hostility and blatant discrimination against men and women who have left homosexuality. Ex-gay Perri Roberts, in the preface to his autobiography, Dying for Love, pleaded with homosexuals to simply grant him the space to change his life if he chooses, and to allow him to help others who want to leave homosexuality do so freely.
Would you grant Perri that freedom? Would you even grant Dr. Budziszewski the freedom to explain the Big Picture? Or would you have them censored and silenced, effectively consigning young people like Adam to homosexuality with no way out?
About Acceptance
Mick, I respect your freedom to live out the sexuality you prefer, but I will not jettison the Big Picture. Adam is onto something. Sex has its place, but the human soul longs for more than sex. Things like intimacy and permanence. Becoming a parent and raising a family. There is a Big Picture about sex, Mick, and all those things are part of it. I will not withhold that from Adam or others like him.
I do not accept responsibility for the teen suicides, nor do I accept the charges of bigotry, intolerance, or hate. I realize my Judeo-Christian construct for sex causes you distress, but I can’t surrender it for you or anyone else. That would be giving you a cheap substitute for love. Still, I value your friendship, so I leave it to you to decide whether you will accept me as I am or jettison me from your life.
I leave you with one final thought. You may succeed in silencing me and others like me who hold to the Big Picture, but that won’t make the Big Picture go away. It’s part of the created order.
Even your protestations attest to that.
This article first appeared in Salvo 15, Winter 2010.
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16 Comments on “Bas Relief: The Big Picture amid Gay Demands”
Barb Hanson
Well said Terrell. I would like to point out ywo minor details: 1.) If you look deeply into the Matthew Sheppard case, past the media hype, He was a student who was brutalized by thugs, who happened to be gay, not because he was gay.
2.) The Baptist demonination was speaking out against the killing of gays in Uganda.
Terrell, Rick did a wired of the word, on Uganda, either last spring or summer.
Les Zendle
http://www.365gay.com/news/court-rules-ok-for-employee-to-be-fired-for-anti-gay-comments/
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/381487/april-12-2011/threat-level–rainbow?xrs=share_fb
More evidence that anti-gay, conservative “values” contribute to teen suicides — both gay and straight!
Study looks at gay teen suicide risk
Associated Press / April 18, 2011
CHICAGO — Suicide attempts by gay teenagers — and even straight teens — are more common in politically conservative areas that lack school programs supporting gay rights, a study involving nearly 32,000 high school students found.
Those factors were a substantial influence on suicide attempts even when known risk contributors like depression and being bullied were considered, said study author Mark Hatzenbuehler, a Columbia University psychologist and researcher. The study was published online today in the journal Pediatrics.
Hatzenbuehler’s team found a higher rate of suicide attempts even among youths who were not bullied or depressed when they lived in counties less supportive of gays and with relatively few Democrats. A high proportion of Democrats was a measure used as a proxy for a more liberal environment.
The research focused on the state of Oregon and created a social index to assess outside factors contributing to suicidal tendencies. Other teen health experts called it a novel way to evaluate the problem.
Rev. Ed Bacon
Rector, All Saints Church, Pasadena, Calif.
Being Gay Is a Gift from God
Posted: 10/11/11 06:06 PM ET
As a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show in January 2009, I said, “Being gay is a gift from God.” Those seven words — spoken to a call-in viewer from Atlanta — set off a ripple of response that lit up Oprah’s switchboard, almost crashed our parish email server and continues to bring people toward us here at All Saints Church in Pasadena. And that moment continues to be for me an iconic example of how important it is for people of faith to confront discrimination against our LGBT brothers and sisters by standing up and by speaking out.
It is why on this National Coming Out Day 2011, I believe it is no longer enough for LGBT people to come out and let the world know who they were created to be, although that continues to be a courageous and transformational act. It is time for Christians to come out and let the world see the Church as it was created to be: a vehicle of love and justice, not a bastion of bigotry and homophobia.
It is time for people of faith to speak out against the religion-based bigotry that has for too long fueled the fires of homophobia that perpetuate violence against LGBT people and plant the seeds of self-loathing in LGBT youth.
And it is time to take to heart the words of Rabbi Abraham Heschel, who famously said, “Few are guilty, but all are responsible.” I may not be guilty of the religion-based bigotry that has wounded countless members of God’s beloved LGBT children, but I am responsible for offering a counter-narrative to the lies that have been told about the God I serve — the God of love, justice and compassion.
My faith tradition teaches that the truth will set you free — and the truth is: God loves.
The truth is: love trumps.
And the truth is: Being gay is a gift from God.
Ken & Kenny Irwin
The Video was inspiring and hopefully will be widely diseminated ! The other comments by Les Zendel are insightful and on target. There is no room in our society for hate on any basis. Certainly not appropriate for anyone professing to believe in Christ’s teachings or teachings those who are atheists or believe in a God in any form. “By their acts shall you know them” Love your brother and neighbor as you would love me. NO ROOM FOR HATRED for any reason or purpose. Hate burns away your soul, even if some people might not believe that a soul even exists.
Keep spreading the word Les, Hopefully those who would replace love with hate are an abomination. Ken Irwin
KKI: There is no room for hatred. It is _never_ useful or productive.
There is also no room for condoning behaviours which are destructive of our culture, which (if you are created) violate your creator’s principles/rules or (if you are the end result of a collossal chain of incredibly unlikely accidents) end your reproductive ability (so you as a species).
Our Messiah (there is exactly one non-false Messiah) instructed us to (& exemplified) loving others — in the sense of being entirely trustworth for others, not in the sense of exchanging bodily fluids. He did not qualify that with “European,” or “African” or “Asian” or tag it with a specific gender, or specify sexually-confused or otherwise. Just do it.
If anybody hates you for making sexually poor choices (or for being male, or for having an odd accent, or supporting the wrong sports team, or whatever) what they have done does not define you. It defines them as being self-centred & insecure.
On the poor choices: scientists in the habit of making such poor choices themselves have for several decades attempted to pin such behaviour on genetics or chemicals, principally in order to Justify their own choices, & while drugs like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can lead to you doing some very bizarre things (sexually or otherwise) while under their influence (ordinary ethanol also does this), gender-confused choices always boil down to choice.
Some of the actions of others may _strongly_ prejudice you towards making dysfunctional choices (I know a few of those), nevertheless it remains a choice.
The time is rapidly approaching when dysfunctional behaviour of all kinds will end (be it violence, or theft, or deceit, or whatever), asit has been necessary to let it run on to make it absolutely plain to everybody that it cannot work. Your best plan is to make better choice _now_, so when that time arrives, you will want to survive it.
“The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”
A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman’s Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263
Les :
Another Christian who thinks he knows what God wants:
For the record, Les, I don’t know, & I know that I don’t know.
You will notice that I cited no authority for what I said, that every word of it follows from very basic principles.
I’m sorry that your self-righteousness became so readily obvious. Please take courage from the awareness that if you are unwilling to make mistakes, you are unwilling to make anything new.
Another Christian who thinks he knows what God wants: The suspect in the Sikh temple shooting who killed six in Wisconsin on Sunday has been identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, a Christian white supremacist.
The suspect in the Sikh temple shooting who killed six in Wisconsin on Sunday has been identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, a Christian white supremacist.
It’s a pity for your assertion that several witnesses observed four men dressed in black clothing carry out that attack.
I recommend abandoning the tactic of blaming everything on a particular group whom you happen to see as culprits for almost anything, realising that in general we are selfish & self-centred & driven by fear, & that tags like “Muslim” or “Atheist” or “Buddhist” are part of an Antithesis designed to produce a Synthesis which works out to be the ultimate dictatorship. World-wide.
Devaluing yourself (& others) by regarding yourself (everyone) as purposesless accidents is another component of that same Synthesis.
When you lose your partiality to false tags, you may be able to do something constructive towards averting (or at least deferring) that. It’s not up to me, it’s up to you.
Leon: I suggest you adjust your medication.
Thank you for demonstrating my point, Les.
Adjusting my medication should be simple, as there is none (unless you count kombucha).
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Proud Son
themercurian / July 30, 2016
By Shu Matsui
Translated by Kyoko Yosida and Andy Bragen
Volume 5, Issue 4 (Fall 2015)
Shu Matsui’s Proud Son: Collective Reflections about the Production and Translation Process
Joan: The English translation of Shu Matsui’s Proud Son (Jiman no Musuko in Japanese) by co-translators, Andy Bragen and Kyoko Yoshida, was commissioned by Ohio Northern University and produced there in the spring of 2013, under the direction of Desdemona Chiang; I served as both artistic director and production dramaturg. From the earliest stages of play selection and throughout the process, the translators were centrally involved, with the focus of the production placed on the development of the translation. This collection of reflections from dramaturg, director, and co-translators, aims to offer a window into that development, and into the ways in which the processes of translation and production, when linked, can offer reciprocal benefits.
An overview of the production…
Joan: Proud Son was produced as part of Ohio Northern University’s International Play Festival; now in its eleventh year, the festival has staged world premieres of plays from around the globe; professional international theatre artists have come to Ohio and joined with undergraduate theatre students to produce theatre from sixteen countries, and plays translated from no fewer than seven languages. The primary goals of the festival are twofold: to promote new work for the international stage, and to expand the horizons of the University community by creating an innovative, intercultural theatre experience.
Bragen and Yoshida’s English translation of Proud Son premiered at ONU in April of 2013; the festival parameters included a fully staged production on an existing festival set which consisted of a two-story, flexible wall unit, made up of paneled modules, some of which opened or moved in various ways (sort of Mondrian, without the color). Much of the translation process occurred over the winter, and we began rehearsals in March with a third draft. Andy and Kyoko spent several days in rehearsal (that experience is detailed elsewhere). The next and final draft of the translation incorporated the results of the rich exchange that had occurred between the translators and the company. Shu Matsui came to Ohio from Tokyo for the performance week, meeting with members of the company, attending classes, and audience talkbacks. Seeing the play performed in English was a completely new experience for him, and he seemed both amazed and excited by the cultural transfer. The Festival culminated with a reception attended by the company, Shu Matsui, and members of the Japanese community.
Some thoughts on play selection…
Joan: Once the choice of Japan as a focus for the festival was made, I relied on co-translators, Andy and Kyoko in selecting a playwright and a play. Kyoko’s knowledge of and contacts within the Japanese contemporary theatre community were crucial.
Kyoko: We wanted to introduce a young playwright, and this choice narrowed candidates down to several playwrights from Tokyo and a few from Kansai (Osaka-Kyoto). I also wanted to pick a play that reflects the playful experimentalism and energy of contemporary small theaters in Japan. I consulted several people before talking to playwrights and their managers–theater fans in Tokyo, my colleague Prof. Hirata (German Theatre) at Keio, playwright Masataka Matsuda, and the Saison Foundation in Tokyo. I considered many writers, including the recipients of the Kishida Prize in the past several years.
Joan: Despite Kyoko’s efforts, we faced a number of obstacles in finding a Japanese playwright willing to embrace the translation opportunity we were offering. In retrospect, the principal reasons for this seemed to involve cultural distinctions and distance, and differences in theatrical practices between our two countries. It seemed that the creation of a fully realized English translation of a Japanese play was not a significant attraction, and because we were so far away, there also seemed to be a suspicion on the part of Japanese managers as to our motives. Japanese companies were accustomed to having their work produced in Europe in Japanese, with added super-titles. Thus, the focus was on the original production of the play, not on the transfer into another language and culture. Kyoko was going to have to do some pretty hardcore convincing…
Kyoko: I was quite overwhelmed at how difficult the process of finding a playwright for this translation project turned out to be. There are two reasons: 1) Japanese young playwrights are almost always directors of their own theater troupes, and 2) the recent proliferation of performing arts festivals in Asia and Europe. One major frustration was that I could rarely communicate with playwrights directly. I first had to deal with their international managers and they tended to talk business only; it was very difficult to persuade them of our project’s artistic merit. Unlike the small troupes from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, today’s young playwrights and troupes have great opportunities to have their work staged in international festivals; the entire troupe can travel to reproduce the exact same production as the original, with added subtitles. As a literary scholar, writer and translator, I am interested in how a text, once translated, changes and travels. This process is more interesting and crucial in theatre, because a text will be staged by different directors and different actors. I had the hardest time explaining to Japanese managers how making English subtitles for international performance is different from translating a play into English. In the end, with help from my colleague Prof. Sato (Film Theory), we resorted to a desperate measure: after glasses of sake with playwright Shu Matsui, we cornered him and talked him into having his play translated into another language. Poor Matsui-san!
About the playwright and the play…
Joan: One of Japan’s leading young playwrights, Shu Matsui works as a director, writer, and actor in Tokyo. He first joined the eminent theatre company, Seinendan in 1996 as an actor, and subsequently developed his career as a writer and director, founding his own theatre company, Sample, in 2007. Proud Son (Jiman no Musuko) was first created and produced by Sample, and won the prestigious Kishida Drama Award in 2010. Other award-winning plays by Matsui include: Passage, World Premiere, and Family Portrait.
Proud Son is about a young man who has chosen to isolate himself from the world, a familiar phenomenon in contemporary Japan known as hikikomori (Oxford English Dictionary: “In Japan: abnormal avoidance of social contact: acute social withdrawal; (also) a person, typically an adolescent male, engaging in this; a recluse, a shut-in”). In Matsui’s whimsical but darkly absurdist depiction, Tadashi (the young man) has built an imaginary kingdom out of toys and stuffed animals; his mother, in an ironic twist of the social reality, brags about her son’s accomplishments and travels to visit his kingdom, with the help of a tour guide and accompanied by a brother and sister. The close but twisted bonds between the mother and son and between the brother and sister in the play suggest incest, and while Matsui’s inventive parody possesses absurdist comedy, it also communicates profound familial dysfunction and social isolation.
Many of Matsui’s plays explore relationships between parents and children. In an interview published on the website Performing Arts Network Japan in 2011, Matsui describes the images of incestuous sexuality between mother and son in Proud Son to be a metaphor for a “repulsive kind of dependency that can neither be called protection or independence” in Japanese society. He goes on in the same interview to characterize his view of the play’s action:
“[…] I wanted to make it a play that involved the parent and child fighting over control of certain spaces in order to stake out their own individual territory. Then, building on that, I wanted to introduce outsiders coming into the parent and child’s space and portray the process of them pushing and pulling each other out of those spaces. […] In this case “staking out one’s own territory” becomes an act of “expanding the realm of one’s own story.” People try to measure others by their own standards and only see the aspects of others that they are able to measure.”
(http://performingarts.jp/E/art_interview/1105/1.html)
Both of the central ideas Matsui addresses here – staking out territory and asserting one’s own story – informed the production in important ways. Similar to the original production in Japan, Tadashi created his kingdom in part with a giant piece of white fabric, spread for much of the performance across the acting area. It was manipulated to create different levels and locations, offered concealment, and transformed into objects. It became the physical manifestation of Tadashi’s assertion of his kingdom, and, as the tensions between mother and son rose, the sheet was fought over as a symbol of control. The fabric also possessed a quite wonderful capacity to envelop objects and people, which served Matsui’s thematic notion that in an effort to assert their own stories, there are characters that will try to envelope others, incorporating them into their version of reality, or personal narrative.
In a conversation with company members while in Ohio, Matsui said that he felt that the notion of engaging others in a character’s story, of one person’s fantasy being another person’s nightmare, that this was not entirely clear in our production. In part, this was a function of the various ways in which Proud Son’s nonlinear style and structure challenged our student actors. Matsui spoke about one of the unique features of the play being the lack of conventional motivation, and that he had aimed to create a world with less recognizable probability. Our actors tended to want to find the connections between moments in this play where its author had intentionally left those transitions out, seeking as he said, a different way of getting from one thing or place to the next.
The translation process…
Andy: Proud Son marks the third collaboration between Kyoko and myself on a new Japanese play. Along the way we have continued to discover and focus our collaborative process. Kyoko takes an initial pass at the script, translating the text as close to literally as possible. She includes notes, exploring certain moments, and raising many questions. Andy revises this first version, pushing further away from the original, and raising new questions and points of clarification. We pass the document back and forth over a period of months, continuing to clarify and refine. For the final steps, we get together in person and go through the script line by line, reading it out loud, checking it for sound and meaning. The result, we hope, is a translation that is both accurate and alive, a translation that captures the essence of the original play in its new American idiom.
I’ve been involved with a few processes where I’ve been able to develop translations while in workshop or rehearsal with actors, both at the Lark Theatre on their US-Mexico Playwrights Exchange, on plays I’ve translated from the Spanish, and at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis on other Japanese plays I’ve co-translated. I always find it quite helpful. It is a chance for more people to engage with the work, a chance for questions to be raised, and ambiguities to be explored. It’s a chance to hear what the piece sounds like coming out of actors’ mouths. For this particular process, it was also an opportunity for Kyoko and me to be in the same city and country, at the same time, to work in person, as opposed to via email. For a co-translation, this is absolutely essential.
Kyoko: For any co-translation to work, translators have to meet face to face at some point to bounce the sound of the text off of each other. This is especially crucial for poetry and theatre. You cannot just let your translation reverberate in your head. I appreciate how Andy checks and double-checks the sound of our translations. This, I find, is the most crucial part of our process. It is all the better if this is at rehearsal – we can invite the playwright, the director, the dramaturg, and other production staff members and actors into the process. The trained actors have their very specific, professional way of interpreting characters and texts, and watching them analyze the text is always thrilling and teaches me a lot. In the case of Proud Son, the student actors posed many questions helpful for us in fine-tuning the characters’ voices, especially those of Mother and Tadashi. They also played the role of the firsthand reader of the text, so listening to their comments and reactions, I could see when the translation was a bit off from the original, or when some translational ingenuity was required to fill in the cultural gaps.
Andy: Proud Son is written in the plain, contemporary, spoken language of Tokyo, and incorporates many set phrases and clichés. There are a few proverbs used effectively in Japanese that made for a trans-Pacific headache for the translators. A reconstruction of our notes from one such proverb offers an illustration of our process:
Literal Translation
BROTHER: Some say, once you live there, it becomes your metropolis, don’t they.
MAN: In some cases, it is the prison for the rest of your life.
Kyoko searched and searched for a substitute proverb in English…
12/3/12: Kyoko’s first pass (Tokyo and Yokohama)
BROTHER: Some say, the hermit thinks the sun shines nowhere but in his cell, don’t they.
MAN: The hermit might be spending the rest of his life in the prison cell.
Andy sticks with the proverb, but unsure of its point.
12/10/12: Andy’s first pass (Lancaster, PA and New York City)
BROTHER: There’s a saying about a hermit who thinks the sun shines nowhere but in his cell. Isn’t that how it goes?
MAN: The hermit may end up spending the rest of his life in that cell.
(Andy: What are we getting at here?)
Kyoko returns with an explanation.
2/13/13: Notes from Kyoko (Tokyo and Yokohama)
That saying about a hermit: the proverb used here in Japanese is literally, “Once you live there, it is the capital.” I picked this English proverb with a hermit because of the play’s plot and MAN’s response to BROTHER, referring to a prison cell…
Finally, the two brains meet in Ada, Ohio. In rehearsal, hearing the actors read the lines, it became evident that the words were not immediately clear, even to the translators themselves… but this is precisely why we had to travel all this way to sit at one desk.
4/7/13 Kyoko and Andy’s collaboration (Ada, Ohio)
BROTHER: Once we move in, it’s our castle, like the saying goes, right?
MAN: A man’s castle may well become his prison.
The translation process as it influenced the directing and acting…
Desdemona: Having Andy and Kyoko at the table with us was like being one step closer to the playwright. I usually think that directing a play is much like playing a game of Telephone – with each additional collaborator/dramaturg/deviser you bring into the game, you find yourself one step further removed from the original source. But in this case, because of the lack of cultural access I personally had to the piece and my inability to understand the source text, having Kyoko in rehearsal was immensely helpful. In many ways, she became a touchstone for me in my attempts to understand and navigate Japanese culture. And while, of course, no single person is responsible for representing his/her entire culture, I still found her individual perspectives and opinions very useful.
The issue of equity and authenticity always comes into question when we find ourselves telling stories and experiences that are not our own. As a Chinese American, I only have impressions of what “being Japanese” is like, with the majority of my impressions sourced from American popular culture, the media, and my own self-acknowledged fascination towards the “kawaii” culture of Japan – the cute and infantile (an idea that plays a significant role in Proud Son).
I was at first a bit nervous about approaching this play – I was concerned about misappropriation and generating images that could be construed as reductive or offensive. I had the feeling that the cast shared some of my concerns, and we were able to articulate this vis-à-vis the two critical questions that came out of our first read-through:
To what extent do we want to consider the body language and physical conventions of Japanese culture, and/or the vocal rhythms of the Japanese language in our production?
Are we aiming to create a world that “feels” in some way Japanese, or are we “translating” this story into an entirely American idiom?
What is fascinating is that, as members of the millennial generation, every member of our cast was able to relate deeply to the themes and story of Proud Son, regardless of the culture gap between Japan and America. They all had a personal connection to the play, and what it meant to feel oneself separate from reality. They shared stories about parental dependency, friends who were hermits or nerds or social recluses, and talked about how socializing through technology, Facebook, and World of Warcraft was far safer than engaging with real life.
The translators’ influence on the dramaturgy and cultural understanding of the play…
Joan: Given that the kindred processes of translation and dramaturgy both aim to accomplish cultural interpretation, it’s not surprising that on this production, having access to the translators during the rehearsal process was invaluable to the company’s understanding of the source culture. A good example would be the character of Tadashi’s Mother who is crucial to the play, and around whom revolved a number of issues related to both dramaturgy and translation. Tadashi’s mother possesses all of the traditional subservience of a Japanese wife and mother, seeing it as her primary role in life to serve both husband and son. This was not difficult for our cast to understand on a factual level, but to accept this cultural character trait without belittling it from a contemporary, Western position of superiority meant a more nuanced understanding. Kyoko’s many cultural examples, including those from her own family, were extremely helpful.
The mother’s language at times possessed a youthful, almost childlike quality that we discussed at some length because it seemed to contradict her age and stature. One conclusion we came to is that the childlike language and behavior shared by many of the characters suggested a form of regression or arrested social development. Tadashi’s Mother possessed a quirky combination of this youthfulness and a kind of throwback to very traditional, Japanese gender assumptions. One line in particular that we wrestled with expresses this combination. Tadashi’s Mother imagines her son’s new kingdom (ironically) to be like Hawaii and so needs a swimsuit, but when the tour guide offers to sell her a bikini she replies:
“No, thanks! Those are for youngsters, but maybe you have something that someone like me could put on, something of that sort. Something like a cover-up chemise would do. A chemise. Wouldn’t there be one of those? A chemise.”
The repetition of the word chemise sounded extremely odd to me (in an earlier draft it was bathing costume), in part because the contemporary image it can conjure is of sexy lingerie, which was clearly not the character’s intention. In the end, the word worked as an expression of a socially awkward moment (Tadashi’s Mother is traveling to her son’s kingdom with two much younger people, and is trying to fit in), but also because of what Kyoko said the word suggested from a Japanese perspective: middle-aged women in Japan in the era prior to air-conditioning, wearing shifts they called chemises in the hot summer evenings. Our discussions with the translators in rehearsals which often began like this one did, around the issue of word choice and nuance of expression, invariably opened up to include points of cultural context and characterization, and enriched the production in innumerable ways.
Desdemona: Oh god, the chemise! We must have spent an hour in rehearsal trying to figure out what it was and why the mother would ask for such a thing—everyone in the cast thought it was a piece of lingerie, or a teddy, as opposed to the medieval shift or smock or perhaps a large shirt (in the original French). While those definitions are accurate and still hold up in Japan, they’re archaic to us. So, it wasn’t the translation from the Japanese that was the problem, but that the word itself changed meaning in our country over the years.
Issues of tone and style…
Andy: We worked with Desdemona to encourage the actors to not be afraid of bigger choices, for example we encouraged the actress playing the Mother to keep exploring the character’s’ submissive physicality. Also, and this is something that Desdemona had already been working on for a while, we encouraged the actor playing Tadashi to explore choices that were more child-like, and seemingly less pre-determined, less “under control.”
Desdemona: One of the first questions I asked the actors in our rehearsal was: What is the difference between stereotype and archetype?
We embrace the term “archetype” as the idea of something universal, inclusive and an originator of other forms. The term “stereotype” has a negative social connotation that is about overgeneralizing and reducing. One is far more troubling than the other, but both rely on simplification as a point of entry towards an attempt at understanding.
I am not Japanese. The actors aren’t Japanese. But, the world of the play and its characters are. How do we adequately and accurately present this? I had to be clear with the cast that this was going to be an American production with an American perspective, but using Japanese source material. There was a concern around taking on physical forms that mimicked our impressions of what Japanese culture looked like, a concern around performing yellow face. I knew that on some level there would be the possibility of missteps in the arena of representation (both in ideology and execution). It could be potentially problematic as a product, but ultimately useful as a learning experience. And I was willing to accept that as a condition of the process.
We began by addressing the problem head on – if we were afraid of stereotype then let’s start there. What were our perceptions of a “typical” Japanese mother and son? Do they align or misalign with what we see in the play? And how do we explode those stereotypes to create fully realized characters with thought and detail?
Hillary Abbott, who played Tadashi’s Mother, struggled the most with finding her character because she had to work across a cultural gap and a generational gap. We felt that the most effective way for her to navigate the role was to work from an “outside-in” method, using physicality to motivate psychology. We started by establishing physical limitations to her character – she was only allowed to walk taking tiny steps, with her knees touching at all times. She was also required to nod once for every step she took, since her character wears a pedometer strapped to her head. At first, the movement looked mechanical, fake, clunky and perhaps a bit “stereotypical.” But over time, the actor’s subliminal intuition starts to work, and she began to fill that form with impulses, thought, and meaning.
Vocally, I wasn’t interested in employing a dialect or cadence to somehow show “Japanese-ness” in the production. I’ve always found that annoying when I see it in other productions, where, for example, French characters speak English in French accents to indicate that they’re speaking French. It’s a very Anglo-centric perspective, as if we need to have English as a reference point in order to convey other languages. If the characters don’t speak Japanese with an accent, then the English translation doesn’t merit an accent either.
Joan: We hope that these reflections shed some light on Shu Matsui’s play, Proud Son, and offer some observations about the development of a translation through the production process that might be useful to other practitioners. Clearly the students at Ohio Northern University benefited tremendously from the talented and sensitive direction provided by Desdemona Chiang, and by the opportunity to engage with the co-translation work of Andy Bragen and Kyoko Yoshida. It was an extremely rewarding, intercultural journey for all involved, and well worth the “desperate measures” and “glasses of sake” to which Kyoko had to resort – we remain forever grateful to her!
— Joan Robbins, Andy Bragen, Kyoko Yoshida, and Desdemona Chiang
Shu Matsui (Playwright) is a director, writer, and actor. Born in 1972 in Tokyo, Matsui first joined the Seinendan Theatre Company in 1996 as an actor, and subsequently developed his career as a writer and director. Both his first play, Passage, and his second, World Premiere, won the New Face Award for Writers from the Japan Playwrights Association. Matsui founded his own company, Sample, in 2007; in 2008, his play Family Portrait, written for Sample, was shortlisted for the Kunio Kishida Award. He has directed several European productions of Japanese plays, and Matsui’s own plays have been produced in numerous countries.
Andy Bragen’s honors include a Workspace Residency and a Process Space Residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, and a Jerome Fellowship. His play This is My Office was produced off-Broadway in the autumn of 2013 by The Play Company. Other plays and translations have been seen and heard at numerous theatres, including PS122, Queens Theatre in the Park, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep, and Soho Rep. He has an MFA from Brown University and is a member of New Dramatists. For more information: www.andybragen.com
Kyoko Yoshida was born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. She received her BA and MA from Kyoto University, and studied creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. From 2001 to 2014, she taught English at Keio University in Tokyo. In 2005, she was an honorary fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and in 2006-07, a visiting fellow at the Program for Literary Arts at Brown University. In 2014, she moved to Kyoto to teach American Literature at Ritsumeikan University.
Kyoko has worked extensively as a translator of contemporary experimental Japanese poetry and drama, and as an author of fiction. Spectacle & Pigsty: Poetry by Kiwao Nomura (OmniDawn, 2011, co-translated with Forrest Gander) won the 2012 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry in the US and the 2012 Toson Memorial Rekitei Award in Japan. Her first collection of short stories in English, Disorientalism, came out in 2014 from Vagabond Press in Sydney.
Desdemona Chiang is a stage director based in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Co-Founder of Azeotrope. Directing credits: Playmakers Repertory Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire Theatre Company, Impact Theatre, Playwrights Foundation, Golden Thread Productions, Washington Ensemble Theatre, One Minute Play Festival, among others. Alumnus: SDC Sir John Gielgud Directing Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, TCG Young Leader of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and Directors Lab West. 2012 Gregory Award Recipent for Outstanding Direction. Adjunct Faculty, Cornish College of the Arts. BA: University of California at Berkeley. MFA Directing: University of Washington.
Joan Robbins heads the B.A. program in Theatre at Ohio Northern University where she serves on the theatre faculty and works as both a director and dramaturg. She teaches courses in dramatic literature, theatre history, playwriting, and directing. She is also the co-founder of ONU’s International Play Festival, a platform for new work from around the globe. Joan has worked as a dramaturg and as a director in both the academic and professional theatre, and served as Director of Theatre at the University of Scranton from 1991-2000. She holds an MFA and DFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
Tadashi’s Mother
Brother (older)
Sister (younger)
Center stage: a chair.
Tadashi’s Mother enters and sits in the chair.
After looking around, she drinks water from the glass in her hand and steadies her breath.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: …
Tadashi’s Mother drinks some more water.
…Don’t blab so much in front of others, that’s what my late husband used to tell me. “The way you say things, none of it makes any sense…better you just nod your head.” Yesyes, Yesyes – just keep nodding.
Man enters. He eats chunks of fruit – with a pocketknife rather than a fork.
MAN: Yesyes, and?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: And before I knew it, it got to be a habit. Just nodding my head like this…
She nods her head in short, quick motions.
Nodding yesyes to anyone and everyone, yesyes while talking to myself…
Nodding her head
Yesyes to the mirror
Yesyes, yesyes…
MAN: A one trick pony.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: My husband thought it creepy and he wouldn’t go out with me or talk to me. Can you believe it? He’s the one who started it. But then one day, he brought home a pedometer, tossed it to me and told me to put it on. A pedometer. What could I do but get a scarf and tie it to my head? And then, guess what… it worked. I’ve got a purpose… in life.
MAN: I see.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: It was like, “Wow, I nodded seven thousand times today. I’ll try for even more tomorrow.” A whole new world had opened up. From then on, my husband would check in with me, asking “Hey, how many today?” Though that just was about it for our conversations.
MAN: He sounds like a nice husband.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yes, I suppose so… come to think of it, I feel bad, rather sorry for him. For having married such a nitwit. He could’ve found a better fit, I’m sure.
MAN: I highly doubt it.
He pulls a souvenir doll out from his bag.
Think of this as your husband. Do you see any resemblance?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Appraising the doll.) No, not really.
MAN: (Putting the doll back into the bag.) Okay, I see.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: …Yeah, well, but my son, I have an only son, and unlike me, he’s really very impressive. Not to brag or anything, but… well, let me tell you…
MAN: And off she goes.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Some say, he’s, maybe, greater than that man… you know who… the one born in the manger, who got pelted with stones… you know? He was uhhh… crucified…
MAN: Jesus Christ?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Well, for example, you know… some say…? It’s not me saying it, but there is this rumor I hear, or something like it, right?
MAN: (Pulling a crucifix out from his bag.) A steal. Only 800 yen.
Tadashi’s Mother ignores Man’s offer. She pulls out a postcard.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Take a look at this.
A postcard from Hawaii is projected onto the wall.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: That’s Hawaii. I want to visit Hawaii, I’ve been saying that for a long long time. He remembered and he sent me this card. Here’s what he wrote, “I built a nation. Things are good. Tadashi.”
Tadashi’s Mother pulls a muumuu and a pair of sunglasses out from her bag and puts them on.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Amazing. He built a nation! I bet it’s just like Hawaii. Tadashi’s nation. That’s his name. Tadashi Furukawa. That’s my son’s name. Tadashi. To right the wrongs, to fight for justice, this is why Father named him Tadashi.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I’m overdue for a visit, the sooner the better, but well, let’s see… suitcase, clothes… and… my pickles. What else do I need?
MAN: You’ll need to acclimate yourself to the atmosphere there.
The Hawaiian postcard dissolves.
Man pulls a number of goods out of his bag. Many are random tchotchkes like postcards and a small music box.
MAN: (Pulling out a small bottle.) Here you go: sand from Waikiki Beach…
Pulling out a plastic bottle and a can
Here we have Waikiki seawater, and here, its air.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Nodding.) Oh my, oh my… are these things real?
MAN: They’re all real. Do you want them?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: May I?
Man pulls a calculator out from his bag and adds figures.
MAN: 5000 yen total.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Never mind. No thank you.
MAN: Your loss. So, please wait here. Sit back, relax and enjoy the pleasant trip.
Man exits.
A song is heard, perhaps the sort one would hear chiming from a cheap music box.
A night landscape is projected onto the wall. Mother looks at her postcard and soon falls asleep.
The ideogram 正 (Tadashi) appears on the wall. Below it appears, “The Kingdom of Tadashi.”
Tadashi and Sister enter.
Tadashi spreads out a large cloth sheet, covering the entire stage.
The music box-style song transforms itself into telephone hold music.
The sound cuts out.
SISTER: Hello. Thank you for waiting.
TADASHI: …Uh, hello, yeah, um, hey what the heck?… I mean, uhhh, another ten seconds, and I was gonna hang up.
SISTER: Very sorry, sir.
TADASHI: …And so?
SISTER: The manager is busy at the moment, so we’ll need to call you-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) Huh? So you’re saying no one else is around? Clearly, I’d get nowhere with you…
SISTER: Well, as I said, because flyer distribution is outsourced-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) As I’ve been saying, over and over, just tell them to stop stuffing my mailbox. That’s all.
SISTER: Am I correct in assuming that your apartment building has a common trash area?
TADASHI: What the? …That’s not the point. The point is… more junk means more trash. More trash means more carbon dioxide. If we go on like this, what’s it all going to come to?
SISTER: Well…
TADASHI: I’ll tell you what. Doomsday.
SISTER: I see.
TADASHI: So the question is: what does happiness look like? As I was saying. Are cicadas happy? Or unhappy?
SISTER: Cicadas, you say? …I’m not sure.
TADASHI: You’re not sure. Too bad. So shall we now discuss the happiness of cicadas?
SISTER: Ummm, well, my apologies sir, but in order to express opinions and engage in consultations, you will first need to subscribe to our premiere monthly-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) So I have to pay money in order to express my opinions?
SISTER: No, not at all, you can start with a trial subscription. So long as you cancel within two months there will be no charge.
TADASHI: I will not subscribe.
SISTER: But for now, it’s complimentary, though-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) I’ll say it again: transfer me to your superior.
SISTER: You won’t consider a trial member-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) I don’t need a trial membership.
SISTER: But sir, good news, I’ve just double-checked and if you add up all your customer points, you’ll be eligible for another two months of-
TAKASHI: (Interrupting) You have no right to add up my customer points!
SISTER: Well no, of course not, not without your permission, um-
TADASHI: (Interrupting) Put your boss on, damnit! No trials, no subscription, no points, no nothing!
SISTER: …
TADASHI: Um… hello?
SISTER: There’s nothing you need? Nothing at all?
TADASHI: Huh?
SISTER: …What a coincidence. That’s the third time I’ve heard that today… You don’t need me?
TADASHI: No, it’s not you that I don’t need, you know?
SISTER: You’re absolutely right about everything. No need for junk mail, no need for trial subscriptions, no need for me…
TADASHI: Now hold on, that’s not what I said.
SISTER: But this is my duty. It’s my job, as Operator Asanuma, to stand by, to listen to you.
TADASHI: I don’t not need you.
SISTER: Please now, there’s no need to pretend.
TADASHI: No, really, I mean it.
SISTER: Well then. But you did still yell at me, right? …So, do you mind if I yell back?
TADASHI: What?
SISTER: It’s unfair. Cause, like, here at work, we’re always getting yelled at but we never get a chance to respond, so as a result we receive regular counseling. It’s hard on the nerves.
TADASHI: That’s your company’s fault.
SISTER: You’re right. …Agh! Damnit! I’ve had enough!
TADASHI: Huh? Who are you yelling at?
SISTER: …It’s not working! Venting anger isn’t calming me down. I’m just getting more upset. Even worse, I’m done for – they’re gonna fire me.
TADASHI: Really?
SISTER: Yes. They record everything. …Oh no, the boss is looking this way. Oh no, here he comes, here he comes. Oh no, agghhh, agghhh!
TADASHI: Hey! …Do you want to come here?
SISTER: Huh?
TADASHI: Well, I…Well it’s no big deal, but I’ve started this fun place.
SISTER: A fun place?
TADASHI: Yes. Maybe you could come visit, if you have some free time?
High-pitched rock music, possibly from an adjacent apartment, may be heard leaking through the walls.
TADASHI: (Looking toward where the music is coming from.) Agh! Damnit!
Tadashi hangs up the phone and exits.
Neighbor enters.
She is dressed in a trashy outfit. She hangs laundry on a clothesline, stretching out some flashy and sexy lingerie, a T-shirt with a skull on it, and a leopard-patterned blouse among other items.
She sings along with the music while hanging her clothes to dry.
Neighbor exits.
Tadashi enters. He stares at the hanging lingerie.
Tadashi exits, flustered.
Neighbor hangs another piece she’d forgotten and exits.
Brother and Sister enter from opposite sides.
BROTHER: Hey. Hot, right?
Brother wheels a rolling suitcase. Sister lugs two shoulder bags.
SISTER: Yeah.
BROTHER: Anyway… I couldn’t sleep much last night. Was nervous.
SISTER: I could. I take sleeping pills.
BROTHER: You shouldn’t depend on that kind of stuff.
SISTER: It’s cause I can’t sleep.
BROTHER: Late nights can be nice.
SISTER: No. They’re not.
BROTHER: Okay, right… Can I really come with you?
SISTER: It should be cool – I think. It’s not like you have anywhere else to go.
BROTHER: Yeah.
SISTER: What about your job?
BROTHER: Yeah. I quit it. Had a farewell party yesterday. Got a bouquet, see, and they gave me a card.
SISTER: Nice.
Brother passes the bouquet and the card to Sister.
Sister tosses the bouquet away, then rips the card to pieces and throws it away.
BROTHER: Hey!
SISTER: Don’t you get it yet? Where things stand? Never look back. Those days are done.
BROTHER: But these are… social obligations.
SISTER: We’re cutting those obligations off, now aren’t we? It should feel like you’re entering a monastery.
BROTHER: Okay, got it. …What about your job?
SISTER: I’ll find one.
BROTHER: Sorry about all this.
SISTER: You should be sorry.
Brother pulls a sketchbook out of his rolling suitcase.
BROTHER: I was cleaning the house yesterday, and look what I found.
SISTER: Wow, it’s been so long. I can’t believe you still have this.
BROTHER: Well yeah. You had all those stickers you were into. I went ahead and stuck them on these pages and that got you really upset.
SISTER: Cause those stickers were just for me – to look at all by myself.
BROTHER: You said, “I don’t want these anymore!” and tossed them away. So I picked them up and held onto it.
SISTER: Is that how it was?
Sister flips through the sketchbook, which has a number of cutout pictures inserted between its pages.
BROTHER: What’s that?
SISTER: (Showing a drawing to Brother.) Princess Sakiko. A manga I made up. See, she’s dancing with Antonius.
BROTHER: Cool.
SISTER: Wooow!
Sister flips through the drawings.
BROTHER: I’ve got some drawings in there too. That drawing of the tire is mine. I used to really like tires.
SISTER: I remember you’d rush out in front of cars and nearly get run over.
BROTHER: That’s right.
Flipping through the book, they come across cutout pictures, icons of Mother and Father, drawn by Sister as a child.
SISTER: Wow, it’s been so long.
BROTHER: That’s Mom… and Dad, too.
SISTER: (Holding up the parental icons.) We’ll decorate their graves with these.
BROTHER: They’re still alive.
SISTER: But we must think of them as dead.
BROTHER: That’s not possible.
SISTER: Why not? It’s not impossible. Why not turn them into memories? There is no more going back.
BROTHER: Can’t we?
SISTER: What, are you chickening out?
BROTHER: You know, I can’t go number two anywhere but at home.
SISTER: How come?
BROTHER: I’m scared someone might pop out of nowhere and attack me.
SISTER: But that happened way back in grade school.
BROTHER: Water, trash, people and whatnot, all sorts of stuff would fall from above.
SISTER: No, that won’t do. You’re gonna have to learn to go wherever.
BROTHER: I’ll try.
SISTER: If not, just wear diapers.
BROTHER: Yeah, that might be more realistic.
SISTER: Right. From now on, everything’s gonna be different. There is no going back.
BROTHER: Good-bye, Mama!
SISTER: Good-bye, Papa.
BROTHER: (To Sister) I love you.
SISTER: (To Brother) I love you too.
Brother tries to touch Sister.
SISTER: No.
SISTER: Like always. I want you to love me without touching me, like always.
BROTHER: I’ll never touch you, never ever.
Brother and Sister arouse each other without touching.
SISTER: Promise me that you’ll love me forever. Let me believe. This, here, between you and me, now there’s something of true value.
BROTHER: I promise. I won’t let anyone come between us. No one else will find their way into our paradise. So we’ll be all right.
Man enters holding a closed umbrella up high like a tour guide.
He finger-whistles.
Brother and Sister move apart.
MAN: Thank you for waiting.
BROTHER: Oh, hi. Are you our guide?
MAN: Yes. I’m the guide. Isn’t it obvious, from the way I’m dressed?
SISTER: Nice to meet you.
MAN: Nice to meet you too. If I may?
BROTHER: Sure.
MAN: You’re traveling rather light. Are you going to be okay like that?
BROTHER: Well… it’s not suitable?
MAN: That would depend upon the particular individual. With the caveat that we shall assume zero liability for whatever does or does not happen.
SISTER: (To brother) What about these sandals?
BROTHER: (To sister) I don’t know…
To man
MAN: Difficult to say.
Man pulls a pair of sneakers out from his bag.
SISTER: Oh, thank you.
BROTHER: Much obliged.
Sister is about to put the sneakers on.
MAN: 10000 yen.
BROTHER: What?
MAN: 9500.
SISTER: So these aren’t…
MAN: Loaners? No, ma’am. …Tell you what, I’ll cut you a deal and slash the price to… 5000 yen.
BROTHER: Well, in that case…
SISTER: No way! We don’t have that kind of money. No, thank you.
The man reacts in an exaggerated manner, falling to his knees.
BROTHER: I’m sorry.
MAN: To be perfectly frank… we are fast approaching the terra incognita of terra incognitas. You must remain on high alert, or else the smallest of incidents may lead to a crisis.
SISTER: But they aren’t absolutely necessary, are they?
MAN: That depends on how you look at it. I wouldn’t say absolutely, but statistically there is a certain likelihood.
SISTER: Then it should have been put that way in the first place.
MAN: No ma’am. I’d like to stress first of all that I will bear zero liability – none whatsoever. Nor is the nation in a position to bear such responsibility. It’s still uninsured.
Tadashi’s Mother gets up from the chair and joins Man and the others.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Good morning.
MAN: Good morning. Did you sleep well?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Overnight trains are hard on the elderly.
Brother and Sister stare at Tadashi’s Mother, who is dressed in a muumuu, and wearing sunglasses.
BROTHER: And she is?
MAN: Oh right. This is Tadashi’s Mother.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Hello. How do you do. I’m Tadashi’s Mother.
BROTHER: How do you do.
SISTER: Hi.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Gee, you guys sure are young. Is the Kingdom of Tadashi popular with youngsters too?
Brother and Sister look at each other.
BROTHER: …Uh, yes. It is. Kind of like a retreat.
SISTER: (Pointing at Tadashi’s Mother.) Is she dressed suitably?
MAN: Well, she’s proceeding at her own risk, so yes.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I forgot to pack a swimsuit, but I suppose we can find one over there.
SISTER: …yeah, I’m not so sure.
MAN: Would you like to buy one? It is, I should mention, a bikini set.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: No, thanks! Those are for youngsters, but maybe you have something that someone like me could put on, something of that sort. Something like a coverup chemise would do. A chemise. Wouldn’t there be one of those? A chemise.
BROTHER: A chemise, you say… I don’t know.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Don’t you have any sunglasses?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Pointing at her own.) These. You’ll need to be careful with the harsh sun over there.
BROTHER: We’ll get some when we’re there then.
MAN: Those at least I can lend you.
Man takes out three pairs of sunglasses. They each put a pair on.
MAN: Time for the ferryboat to depart.
A gusty wind.
Man, Tadashi’s Mother, Brother, and Sister look toward where the wind is coming from.
A light beams in. It gradually turns soft.
A postcard with a picture of a luxury cruise boat is projected onto the screen.
Everyone is having a good time, holding a glass of wine, for example.
Relaxing music flows in.
Tadashi’s Mother takes a seat.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: The guide kept pouring me more wine, and there I was tipsy, walking down the deck, and this hunky sailor is holding me tight, saying, “Are you all right, madam?” and I reply, “Yes, this is a dance. I’m doing a dance step. Would you like to dance with me?” and he’s blushing bright scarlet, saying, “At your service, madame,” so I get mischievous and press my breast against him.
Man, Brother, and Sister lie down to sleep, using their luggage as pillows.
Tadashi’s Mother gradually nods off in the seat.
Neighbor enters and stands a while, in a daze.
She hangs her clothes in silence. Among them are clothes for a child, including a superhero costume. She puts her arm in its sleeve and manipulates it like a ventriloquist’s dummy. It creates the illusion of a mother and child frolicking.
MAN: We’re here.
BROTHER: (Waking up) Ughhh.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Drinking water) The sun sure is harsh here.
BROTHER: (Gently shaking his sister.) Hey, we’re here.
The sister does not wake up just yet.
MAN: (Pulling out a cell phone.) I’ll give a call.
Man walks around with the cell phone, but he can’t get service.
BROTHER: (Shaking his sister some more.) Wake up.
SISTER: No!
Sister shakes off Brother’s hand and rolls around, still asleep.
BROTHER: Whatever.
Brother pulls out a portable game device and starts playing.
Tadashi’s Mother opens up a parasol.
Tadashi enters. He spies on Sister from a hidden corner.
SISTER: (Talking in her sleep, but businesslike.) Hello. Thank you for waiting. It’s my pleasure, sir. Yes. This is Asanuma on the line. Thank you for your patience.
She keeps repeating this phrase.
Tadashi covers Sister with a sheet of cloth.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: My son, you see, is really quite gentle. He’s so gentle, it’s hard to know just what to do. I recall how he always used to bring home stray cats.
Man hangs a stuffed cat on the laundry rope and squeezes its body. It meows.
MAN: 1000 yen. One double A battery and it meows.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Ignoring Man) Father wouldn’t let them in the house, so my son set up a cardboard box under a neighborhood shrub and hid them away there.
Tadashi smooths the sheet over Sister so that the contours of her body may be seen.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Who knows where, but he would find cats run over by cars, kittens with malnutrition, you name it, and he’d bring them all together. He called it “the clinic.” Meaning the cardboard box. He’d say, “Mom, I’m going to the clinic today.” His bike was “the ambulance,” and breadcrumbs and milk were “the medicine.” Sooner or later, the cats would meow loud at night and neighbors would find them and have them put down. But then my son would find ever more cats somewhere and keep them hidden away. As if it were his own special mission.
Man puts his cell phone away and picks up his bag.
MAN: Let’s go.
BROTHER: Oh hey?
MAN: What?
BROTHER: She’s not here.
MAN: In the bathroom maybe?
BROTHER: No, she was sleeping. Right here.
To Tadashi’s Mother
Have you seen her?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I don’t know.
MAN: I thought I told you two to stick together.
Tadashi’s Mother, Man, and Brother exit to look for Sister.
Tadashi enters. He looks around. He further spreads the sheet he first spread, expanding his territory.
Once he confirms that no one else is around, he brings in Sister and lays her down on the sheet.
Tadashi sets up small speakers and plays sounds like water trickling down a rivulet, and cicadas.
SISTER: (Waking up and looking around) Huh?
SISTER: Whaaa? …Where am I?
TADASHI: Um… This spot is called “Gurgle Brook.”
TADASHI: Welcome to “Tadashi.”
SISTER: Tadashi?
TADASHI: You’re Miss Asanuma, right?
SISTER: …Who are you?
TADASHI: I’m Tadashi. Tadashi Furukawa. … “Are cicadas happy?”
SISTER: …Oh.
TADASHI: Welcome to the Kingdom of “Tadashi.”
SISTER: Wait, where are the others?
TADASHI: What others?
SISTER: My brother and the guide, and, and your mother was with us, too.
TADASHI: Hard to say. Perhaps they got held up at the border?
SISTER: Maybe.
TADASHI: I’ll go ahead and put in a word.
SISTER: Thank you. So, are you sure it’s okay for us to stay here?
TADASHI: Yesyes… I’ll work it out. …
Into his cell phone
Uh, uh, yea-taru, yea-taru. … Yesyes, they really were stuck there. But they’ll be okay now.
SISTER: Uh, what was that? You just said… yea-taru… right?
TADASHI: You mean the Tadashian language?
SISTER: Yes.
TADASHI: Basically all there is is “yes” and “no.” “Yea-taru” means “yes” and “Nay-falu” means “no.” Everything else comes from their combination.
SISTER: That’s it?
TADASHI: That’s it. The fewer the better, words, right?
SISTER: I see. But what about something that’s neither “yes” nor “no”?
TADASHI: “Yeatarunayfalu.”
SISTER: No, I mean, like “eating.”
TADASHI: Anything will do. You’ll get the hang of it. Gesture – use your hands.
SISTER: Okay, right.
TADASHI: But we don’t use much Tadashian on a regular basis. Primarily, I suppose, at the festivals? That’s where we use it most.
SISTER: The festivals? Oh I love festivals. What sort of festivals?
TADASHI: What sort? The festivals are just festivals. Like when it gets festive, it’s a festival… to put it into words… you know…
SISTER: Oh, I’m sorry.
TADASHI: You worry too much about too many things. You should take things as they are, not like anything in particular. Tadashi is a nation of nothing particular.
SISTER: Okay. So do you mind if we settle somewhere around here?
TADASHI: Please, go right ahead.
Sister notices the speakers and the sound effects machine.
SISTER: Excuse me…
Pointing at the speakers
…but what are those?
TADASHI: These…
When Tadashi touches a speaker, it moos.
SISTER: Oh wow.
When Sister touches the sound effects machine, various sounds of the ocean, rain, city bustle, laughter and such come out from the speakers.
SISTER: Ah!… I see… yes.
TADASHI: Please feel free.
SISTER: Thank you.
Sister shoots a grin at Tadashi.
TADASHI: …What’s the matter?
SISTER: Nice beard.
TADASHI: Um…ahhh… really?
SISTER: Yes. I love beards.
Sister touches Tadashi’s beard.
TADASHI: Well, a beard is just… a beard is…
SISTER: Awesome. It’s really beardy.
TADASHI: Uh, is it? … My beard is beardy… I see, I mean…
SISTER: My father had a beard too.
TADASHI: Indeed… I see, I mean…
SISTER: Kinda sorta cute.
TADASHI: (Stiffening) …
NEIGHBOR: You there?
TADASHI: (As if talking to himself.) What the… ugh!
NEIGHBOR: If you’re here, speak up. You’ve got guests.
Man, Brother, and Tadashi’s Mother enter.
MAN: Excooose me. Delivery. Right this way.
BROTHER: There she is!
SISTER: Brother!
Brother and Sister draw close to one another and look into each other’s eyes.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Tadashi! Tadashi!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Removing the sunglasses.) I’m finally here.
TADASHI: Where have you been?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: We looked everywhere.
Pointing toward Neighbor.
She showed us the way. Make sure you thank her for us, son.
TADASHI: Uh-huh.
To Neighbor
NEIGHBOR: Yup. Bye then.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Thank you so much.
Pulling a Tupperware container full of pickles from her bag.
Please. Homemade pickles.
TADASHI: Enough already.
NEIGHBOR: Okay. …Thank you.
Brother and Sister decide on their spot, lifting the sheet to create walls, forming their own room. Within it, they begin to unpack their bags.
MAN: I need a signature here.
TADASHI: (Signing) As always, sorry for the trouble.
MAN: Delivered promptly, and safely.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I knew you were good, but I have to say I really am impressed. I’ve heard this place is extremely fashionable. I wish your father could see it. Really. Let’s take a photograph, okay? I want to show my neighbors.
TADASHI: Please stop. You’re embarrassing me.
Mother hands a digital camera to Man.
MAN: Ready?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Thank you. They were all amazed when I told them that you’d created your own nation. “So impressive.” “So wonderful.”
MAN: Smile. There! Say cheese!
Man takes a photograph.
Tadashi’s Mother and Tadashi freeze in place like in a photographic image.
MAN: A photo of a mother and a son. That image – it’s so ordinary. Mother is smiling; the son looks uncomfortable.
Man covers Tadashi’s Mother’s eyes to create a black line through the photograph that will obscure her identity.
MAN: The son waves a knife around on a packed commuter train and kills five. It happens in a matter of seconds, and after killing the five, he drops the knife. Why five? “Because my name is Tadashi. Five strokes – the perfect number,” he says. Later, the mother climbs a mountain and hangs herself from a tree limb. This is a story.
Man covers the son’s eyes in the same manner.
MAN: Or, the mother, worn out from nursing her bedridden son, loses hope for the future, kills him and lies by his side, keeping him company. “Both ideograms, justice and life, are five stroke characters. Therefore, Tadashi is living,” the mother says. This is a story.
Man points at both Tadashi’s Mother and Tadashi.
MAN: A typical mother and son. They are everywhere. They’re not in any way special. I am a conduit. I know these things. These ordinary stories. I deliver them. Things. Words. Those who have lost their place. Those old folks who wander away, out onto the streets. I deliver them to where they belong. I am a conduit.
Tadashi slowly enters, holding a plate with a single large chunk of tofu on it. Around him, Brother, Sister, and Tadashi’s Mother gather. It looks like a solemn ritual.
TADASHI: Now we begin.
Tadashi bows. The others imitate him and bow.
TADASHI: Here commences the ritual wherein you all become subjects of this sovereign nation.
Tadashi passes around the tofu, from which he has already taken a bite. Each takes a small bite off the big piece.
TADASHI: Yea-taru! Yea-taru! Yeeeaaa-taru!
Tadashi signals to the others to follow his example.
ALL: (In unison with Tadashi.) Yea-taru! Yea-taru! Yeeeaaa-taru!
Tadashi takes another bite of the tofu and passes it around. This time, it’s a large, ferocious bite. Each imitates.
SISTER: (Feeling something strange in her mouth.) Hm?
Sister removes a cicada from her mouth.
TADASHI: You win! You’re the winner!
BROTHER: A cicada?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yesyes. A cicada is an amazing thing. It’s a deity.
BROTHER: What do you mean by that?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Back home, cicadas are deities.
To Tadashi
TADASHI: Yeeeaaa-taru!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: In my hometown, you hide the cicada inside a single piece of inari-sushi. (Starts chanting.) Ooga booga booga aahhh, ooga booga booga baahhh… We pass the cicada around from mouth to mouth. The person to whom you pass the cicada will become your keeper.
SISTER: Huh? What do you mean by keeper?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Never mind. There, put it in your mouth.
SISTER: Okay.
Sister places the cicada between her teeth.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Chanting and clapping her hands.) Ooga booga booga aahhh, ooga booga booga baahhh…
Tadashi and Brother join the chanting and clap their hands.
Sister, not knowing what to do, approaches Brother.
Tadashi waits right next to Brother, opening his mouth wide.
Brother imitates Tadashi.
Tadashi interferes with Brother, using his hands.
Brother interferes with Tadashi, imitating Tadashi.
Tadashi emits a queer screech.
It sounds like some sort of animal wooing ritual.
Brother cannot bring himself to go this far with the imitation.
Sister, no longer having a choice, transfers the cicada to Tadashi’s mouth.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Bingo!
TADASHI: (Mumbling with his mouth full.) Yeeeaaaa-taru!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Applauding.) Yesyes, wonderful!
BROTHER AND SISTER: (Imitating Tadashi.) Yeeeaaaa-taru!
MAN: (From offstage.) Excooose me!
Man enters holding a cardboard box.
MAN: I’ll just need your signature here, please.
TADASHI: Thank you for your trouble.
He signs as if signing a treaty.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh, hello there. Would you like some of my homemade pickles for the road?
MAN: No, thank you.
Tadashi passes the cicada in his mouth to Brother.
BROTHER: Hey, he gave it to me.
To Sister
SISTER: No thanks.
BROTHER: (Referring to the cicada.) Your loss.
Man puts the box down.
MAN: Thank you.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: What have you got there?
TADASHI: Something important.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh really? May I open it?
TADASHI: Nay-falu! Nay-falu! The party’s over, over!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Hog.
BROTHER: (To Tadashi and Tadashi’s Mother.) Now now.
We should be going.
SISTER: Good-bye.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: See you later.
Brother and Sister return to their spot.
Mother secures a spot for herself and arranges the space with a memorial tablet, a dinner set, knitting tools and other items.
Night comes on, quickly, before anyone knows it. Each prepares for bedtime, making the bed, etc.
Tadashi carries his cardboard box to the corner, and opens it. It’s filled with small stuffed animals.
TADASHI: (Pulling out the stuffed animals.) Welcome… Great to see you, was it cramped in there? …okay, I see… yesyes, one by one please, one at a time… don’t rush… no fighting, no fighting… I hope you can get along well with the old-timers, and the big people too. I hope so, if you please.
From between the folds of the sheet, Tadashi pulls out numerous action figures, and characters of all sorts.
TADASHI: We will create a kingdom where everyone will cooperate and live joyfully and happily ever after, won’t we? Won’t we?
Loud rock music is heard from the adjacent apartment.
TADASHI: Oh man!
Brother and Sister chat behind the wall made from the sheet. Sister switches on a lamp.
Their silhouettes, through the sheet, are clearly visible to Tadashi.
BROTHER: Can’t sleep?
SISTER: No. I’ve got ringing in my ears. This ringing, like there are people yelling at me.
BROTHER: It’s all in your head. Think of it as the sound of waves. There, see?
Brother plays the sound of waves.
Isn’t that nice?
SISTER: Yeah. But it’s fake.
BROTHER: Well, sure maybe.
SISTER: Well, yeah.
BROTHER: So… what about putting it out of your mind altogether?
SISTER: I wish I could!
BROTHER: So I’ll keep repeating your name then. So you can fall asleep.
SISTER: Really? You’ll say Sakiko?
BROTHER: No, Sakippe. That’s what I’ve always called you.
SISTER: Good night.
Sister lies down.
BROTHER: Sakippe… Sakippe…
SISTER: …I just had a dream. You and I are traveling together. We arrive at a small island on a boat, and there we live happily ever after, just the two of us.
BROTHER: We fish, we nap…
SISTER: Yeah… Hey, can I call you Antonius?
BROTHER: Yeah, sure.
SISTER: Okay. Antonius! My dear Antonius!
BROTHER: Look.
Pointing at the sheet
There we are.
SISTER: Yes indeed.
BROTHER: We are mirages and those are our true selves, I’m sure of it.
Sister tries to touch Brother.
BROTHER: Don’t touch! We made a pact.
SISTER: But aren’t we mirages? So it’s okay. See? Antonius.
BROTHER: Yeah, Sakippe. It’s all a mirage…
The image of the two caressing each other gets projected onto the sheet.
The two say each other’s names.
Tadashi shoves his hand inside his pants and rubs hard.
Tadashi’s Mother observes Tadashi through a pair of opera glasses.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Tadashi.
Tadashi stops what he’s doing and turns his back to her.
Tadashi’s Mother approaches Tadashi.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Do you need any help?
TADASHI: (Pretending to be half-asleep.) Help with what? I’m sleeping.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I understand. Mommy understands. Let me help you.
Squeezing her breasts
Wanna suck?
TADASHI: …
Tadashi moves away from Tadashi’s Mother.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Don’t be shy. You’ve been so serious-minded, so committed to improving the world, that you haven’t had time to get to know girls. Mommy understands.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: All over. The guide brought me many places.
TADASHI: Doesn’t he already have enough deliveries to make? Anyway, don’t go far. It’s not safe.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yesyes, yesyes.
TADASHI: …Do you really?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Huh?
TADASHI: Do you really understand? How much thinking I’ve been doing for the world, how much for the earth, and for the universe, do you understand how much thinking I do?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yes, I understand.
TADASHI: Then do something about it.
Mother reaches down toward Tadashi’s groin.
TADASHI: (Knocking her hand away.) Not that! Not from an old hag like you!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: But you used to do this all the time, right?
TADASHI: …I’m not what I was any more.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I understand. Well then, what can I do for you?
TADASHI: A king needs a queen, does he not?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yeah.
TADASHI: Well then, you could provide a candidate?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: From where?
TADASHI: Beats me.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: How about the young lady next door?
TADASHI: She’s no good. She’s an idiot. Isn’t there someone else?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Really? …Ummm…
TADASHI: For example, like maybe… that girl.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: She’s no good.
TADASHI: Why not?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Because she’s got a thing with her brother.
TADASHI: Well, but that’s impure! It’s not how it’s supposed to be, now is it?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I would have to say that the young lady next door is a better choice. She’s straightforward.
TADASHI: No way!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Really? But those two have all sorts of problems, don’t you think?
TADASHI: Nevertheless they are my subjects. It’s my duty as the king to provide instruction for them.
Tadashi leaves his spot and wraps himself with the sheet.
His body is cocooned, like a pupa.
Neighbor enters wearing headphones and carrying a clothesline, and some laundry. She kicks at the sheet and reveals some of the floor.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh, hello there.
NEIGHBOR: (Referring to the sheet.) Hey, watch it. The thing’s spilling over.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Sorry. Well, I owe you a thank you.
NEIGHBOR: Huh?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: The sound. You’ve turned it down.
NEIGHBOR: Oh. Well all you have to do is ask and I’ll gladly stop. But he never says a word, that little fuzz-face.
Neighbor stretches out the clothesline and hangs her laundry.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: He’s a little shy. Pardon me, but do you mind if I make use of that spot right next to you?
NEIGHBOR: Go right ahead.
Tadashi’s Mother, standing next to Neighbor, hangs some daikon radish from the clothesline.
NEIGHBOR: By the way, your pickles the other day were delicious.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh yeah? I’ll bring you some more right now.
NEIGHBOR: No, no, that’s okay. Next time. We’re neighbors after all.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh, okay.
She looks at the anime towel Neighbor is hanging to dry.
How’s your child?
NEIGHBOR: Hmm? … Fine, thanks.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Glad to hear it. What’s his name again?
NEIGHBOR: …Sonny. It’s about time you remembered that. Sonny, like the sun. A boy.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: What a nice name.
NEIGHBOR: But he’s hypersensitive to the sun, so he doesn’t go out much. He’s Sonny, but shady. He’s taken after me. I don’t like the sun, either.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I see.
NEIGHBOR: (Calling stage left.) Don’t get carried away or you’ll hurt yourself. That’s enough!
He never listens to me.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Great to be full of beans.
NEIGHBOR: But only in the shade.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: My son never listens to me either.
NEIGHBOR: Yeah, he’s stubborn.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I wish he had someone like you on his side. Someone who could give him a good talking to.
NEIGHBOR: But I do. He’s fun to tease.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: No, I mean, well… what about as a wife?
NEIGHBOR: A wife?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Yesyes…
NEIGHBOR: …
TADASHI’S MOTHER: I’ll help you with whatever you need, and take care of your child, and you can eat tons of pickles.
NEIGHBOR: No, no, no.
Tadashi’s Mother takes out the pedometer and wraps it around her head.
Then she starts nodding her head.
Postcards from different places are projected onto the screen.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Still nodding her head.) …Beijing… Moscow, Paris, Rome, Berlin, and then Africa, what’s in Africa…? How far will I get today? …Yesyes, there, that’s good. I’ve done my best. That’s enough for today. Yesyes, good job.
Neighbor enters with a significant accumulation of Tupperware.
I thought you might want these containers back. I’ve had them for a while. Thanks.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Oh my.
NEIGHBOR: (Calling offstage.) Sonny! Cut that out already!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: …Indeed, indeed, yesyes, I see… Father, I’ve done my best for today. Thank you for watching over a big nitwit like me.
Sister attempts to enter from behind the “sheet wall.” But she cannot move, as her Brother won’t let go of her hand.
SISTER: Let me go.
BROTHER: You’re going? Are you really going?
SISTER: I am.
BROTHER: You’re gonna turn your back on your brother and go?
SISTER: What can I do? I was summoned.
BROTHER: Stay a little longer. I’m about to have a fit.
SISTER: You’ll be all right.
BROTHER: No, this is different. This one’s bigger than ever.
SISTER: Okay then, I’ll wrap you up a little tighter.
BROTHER: Would you?
Sister wraps up Brother’s body like a mummy in several layers of the sheet.
Tadashi’s Mother stops nodding her head.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Looking at the pedometer.) Five thousand. Still more to go. But let’s call it a day! …
Tadashi’s Mother returns to her spot, presses her hands together in prayer toward the memorial tablet, and rolls herself up in the sheet, wrapping herself as if she were covering herself with a comforter.
Sister finishes wrapping Brother.
SISTER: Now you’ll be okay.
BROTHER: Thank you. I feel better, sort of.
SISTER: See you.
BROTHER: Oh!
SISTER: What?
BROTHER: My face! My face is exposed! This won’t do!
BROTHER: Hey! Don’t you remember what we came here for?
SISTER: Yes, I do.
BROTHER: No, you don’t.
SISTER: It’s because you were tempted to kill someone, isn’t that it?
BROTHER: You make me sound like some kind of psycho.
SISTER: Aren’t you?
BROTHER: I’m not. Because if someone tries to kill me, then I have no choice but to kill that someone, like it or not.
SISTER: So it’s self-defense.
BROTHER: Exactly. But in my case, being afraid that some passerby on the street might attack me, I’ve kept a knife in hand, in my pocket, and so what they’re saying is that it’s not necessarily self-defense.
SISTER: Poor Brother.
BROTHER: Yeah. I think I’ll be all right here because there are so few people around. But so, anyway, could you stick a picture or something on my face so people can’t tell who I am?
SISTER: Yup, sure thing.
Sister pulls out a sketchbook and searches for a drawing.
SISTER: What kind do you want?
BROTHER: Anything will do.
SISTER: How about a flower?
BROTHER: Oh yeah, that’ll do.
Sister sticks the drawing of a flower on Brother’s face.
Brother now resembles a cloth-wrapped totem pole.
BROTHER: Thank you.
SISTER: I’m going now.
BROTHER: Take care. I love you.
SISTER: I love you too.
Sister exits.
Man enters with a fishing rod.
The sound of rolling waves.
Man takes a stepladder out from beneath the sheet and sits on its top step.
Then he attaches some bait to the tip of the rod and casts it onto the sheet.
The rugged surface of the sheet may look like swelling waves.
MAN: To travel the world is to taste it. There are things I’ve learned from these tastings. Delicacies are rarely simple. Some may be chewy, while others smell pungent; some may be bitter, spicy, and sweet – all at once. Life has many flavors. Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent – all must be tasted – which indeed gets right to the point. To fully appreciate delicacy requires therefore an accumulation of experience: it is an acquired taste. Without that experience, one is in no position to truly savor.
Man reels in his fishing rod.
MAN: It’s big! I’ve caught the big one!
The hook pulls up and raises the sheet.
The raised sheet takes a human shape. A face biting the hook in her mouth peeks out from the sheet. It’s Tadashi’s Mother.
MAN: Lo and Behold! A delicacy! I’ve caught a rare delicacy!
Tadashi’s Mother wiggles under the sheet for a while before becoming still.
Man smooths the sheet over Tadashi’s Mother so that the contours of her body may be seen.
Man puts the rod away, comes down from the stepladder, and exits with Tadashi’s mother.
The sound of waves dissipates.
Tadashi enters, wearing a long beard shaped like a necktie.
He has a radio-controlled miniature helicopter with him.
Sister enters.
TADASHI: Hello. Sorry for calling on such short notice.
SISTER: No worries. Well…
TADASHI: Yes?
SISTER: Your beard, it’s awesome.
TADASHI: (Fidgeting.) Huh? Is it? …I see… Indeed…
SISTER: It’s impressive.
TADASHI: (Even more fidgety.) Oh really? …Can’t tell, well, for myself, I mean, on my own. Well, shall we go?
SISTER: Where are we going?
TADASHI: Somewhere I’ve been wanting to show you.
TADASHI: So, come on board. Careful now.
SISTER: Sure.
Tadashi flies the radio-controlled helicopter.
The rugged surface of the sheet and human shapes wrapped in the sheet resemble the surface of the earth.
Is it a desert here, perhaps?
TADASHI: See, you can see the whole place from here.
TADASHI: That’s the Furukawa River. As you can see, it’s run dry. And that’s Asanuma Marsh. It’s a new place.
SISTER: Did you make it for me?
SISTER: That was nice of you.
TADASHI: This nation still relies upon Japan for many things, such as electricity and water. I hope we can work together to make this nation truly self-sufficient so we may live happily ever after.
Tadashi controls the helicopter and leads Sister to a place covered with cloth that looks like a hill.
TADASHI: About this place.
Tadashi flips up the sheet that covers the hill, exposing an area crammed with heaps of stuffed animals and action figures, figures that react to sound, toys that flick and move about.
SISTER: Wow, awesome.
TADASHI: “Friendship Heights” is its name. I’ve always wanted to bring you here.
SISTER: Thank you so much… I must say, Mr. Tadashi, you are rather adorable.
TADASHI: Adorable? …Hey, you’re teasing me.
SISTER: No, I’m not.
TADASHI: Really? …So then…
Tadashi grabs a rope and tries to bind Sister.
SISTER: What are you-
Tadashi binds Sister with the rope and presses “pause” on her, as if she were a doll.
SISTER: Stop!
TADASHI: Don’t move!
Sister resists, throwing some stuffed animals at Tadashi.
TADASHI: Heeyyy! What the hell are you doing!
SISTER: What about you?
TADASHI: This is a violation!
SISTER: I’m the one getting violated here!
TADASHI: Shut your face! Go away.
SISTER: Oh I will.
Tadashi remains, dumbfounded. After a while, he rearranges the stuffed animals neatly. Tadashi pulls the animals close to him and goes to sleep, hugging them tight.
TADASHI: Come closer, all of you. You guys are my friends. You won’t leave me, will you… I’ll never leave you guys…
Tadashi fumbles with some stuffed animals that squeak.
Animals meow, moo, and baa. Tadashi plays them as if he were a conductor of an orchestra.
Tadashi, flustered, hurriedly hides the animals and then hides himself underneath the sheet as well.
NEIGHBOR: Hey! Excuse me! …Is anyone here? …Hey!
Neighbor flips up different parts of the sheet, as if she’s looking for something.
NEIGHBOR: Hey, have you seen my boy Sonny? …Hello! Is anyone here?
Neighbor notices Brother standing frozen like a totem pole.
NEIGHBOR: Hey, have you seen my boy Sonny? He’s not around.
BROTHER: …
NEIGHBOR: Hey!
Neighbor rips off the drawing pasted on Brother’s face.
BROTHER: Whoa!
NEIGHBOR: What the hell are you up to?
BROTHER: Ughhh… nothing special.
NEIGHBOR: Have you seen my boy Sonny around?
BROTHER: …No, I haven’t.
NEIGHBOR: Uh, okay.
BROTHER: Have I done something wrong?
NEIGHBOR: What do you mean?
BROTHER: I passed out for a while.
NEIGHBOR: Have you done something?
BROTHER: No.
NEIGHBOR: You did something. Tell me.
BROTHER: No, I mean, how could I, all wrapped up like this?
NEIGHBOR: You’ve got to tell me.
BROTHER: I can’t… But in any case you better not get near me.
NEIGHBOR: How come?
BROTHER: I’m afraid I might do some harm.
NEIGHBOR: Harm?
BROTHER: Yes.
NEIGHBOR: …What have you done to Sonny?
BROTHER: Nothing, no.
NEIGHBOR: What the hell have you done?
BROTHER: I’ll kill you! Here’s a knife! See, I’ve got a knife now. I’ll slash through and stab you, right in the heart!
BROTHER: Like I’ve been telling you, I don’t know! …Who the hell is Sonny anyway?
NEIGHBOR: …He’s my son. Sonny.
BROTHER: Oh. Would you be so kind as to tell me what he’s like?
NEIGHBOR: He’s not your average kid.
BROTHER: Meaning?
NEIGHBOR: He molts. The more he molts, the stronger he becomes. He was a human kid before, but he’s shed so much old skin that by now he must’ve evolved into something altogether new.
BROTHER: If he’s not human, then what is he?
NEIGHBOR: Don’t know. There’s no name for it yet. He’s shed so much skin, he’s evolved too far too fast. He’s gotten beyond terms like male or female or human. He’s ahead of us all.
BROTHER: You have a child like that?
NEIGHBOR: I did. Not any more.
BROTHER: Oh my god, I wish I could’ve been around someone like that.
NEIGHBOR: Let it go already. And I’ll let go too. I believe he’s gone somewhere really far away.
BROTHER: We’ll look for him.
NEIGHBOR: I’m past it now.
BROTHER: But wait. What a wonderful son you have! And how lonely he must be. We absolutely must go find him.
NEIGHBOR: Don’t worry about Sonny. He’s ahead of us all. The problem is (Pointing at herself) …here… (Removing the dry clothes from the clothesline.) How much more time can I spend hanging laundry? Well? Seems like it’s all I do. Wake up, do the laundry, go to work, come home and do more laundry, and then still more before going to bed… But you know, without Sonny around, I don’t have to do so much laundry, now do I? How about that?
BROTHER: Would you like to… adopt me?
NEIGHBOR: Huh? What do you mean?
BROTHER: I meant what I said. What do you say? Would you make me Second Sonny, if you please?
BROTHER: I’m afraid I might kill someone if I remain as is.
NEIGHBOR: But you haven’t killed anyone yet, have you?
NEIGHBOR: So it’s okay.
BROTHER: But I’m not sure anymore. I’m afraid I might have done something without knowing it. So I’m shedding my old clothes. (As if making a confession of his love.) …Will you… will you launder my new clothes?
NEIGHBOR: … (Slowly caressing Brother’s face.) Sonny, where have you been?
BROTHER: Uh, yes.
NEIGHBOR: Ready?
Neighbor spins Brother.
Brother emerges from the sheet like an insect out of a cocoon.
Neighbor and Brother exit.
Man, Tadashi’s Mother and Tadashi enter.
MAN: …Well, it certainly is rather unexpected, like a kind of accident, right?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Hm? Uh-huh.
MAN: (To Tadashi’s Mother.) Look. There’s something.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Hmm?
MAN: Hold on.
Man removes an eyelash from Tadashi’s Mother’s cheek.
MAN: Looks tasty.
He eats the eyelash.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: No!
MAN: (Chuckling.) …Go ahead and tell him.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Me? No, it’s too embarrassing!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Okay, then. Well, he and I are going to get married, more or less.
MAN: More or less?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Sorry, sorry. That’s not what I meant!
MAN: I’m a little hurt.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: What I’m trying to say is that I’ve decided to take this opportunity to finally let go of my son.
Referring to Man
TADASHI: (To Man.) …Please don’t take her seriously. She’s getting totally senile…
MAN: Tadashi, my dear son, Tadashi.
TADASHI: I’m no son of yours!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Stop it!
TADASHI: … (To Tadashi’s Mother.) You haven’t forgotten about finding a queen for me, have you?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Of course not. But I haven’t come across anyone nice.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: You’ve been looking around for Miss Right yourself, haven’t you?
TADASHI: (To man) …Don’t make her start thinking that she’s special. As for you, she’d take any guy with a pulse.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: He hasn’t been able to let go of me.
MAN: Tadashi. This is for you. You like this kind of stuff, don’t you?
Man pulls a stuffed animal out of his backpack and throws it toward Tadashi.
MAN: If you don’t like it, just throw it away.
TADASHI: You know what they called me in school? “The son of the whiteface whore.”
Into the love shack of the whiteface whore / someone new every day / teachers and dads – the
head of the PTA / from the janitor to the principal / fellow travelers all – brothers in arms —That’s what they would chant right in front of me.
Tadashi’s Mother drags the sheet and turns it over. Man helps her.
TADASHI: Stop! This is my kingdom!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: …Ha! It’s a Tinkertoy kingdom. I could squash it any time.
MAN: (As if drawing in a fishing net.) It’s huge, so huge! …
Looking at Tadashi
Oh no, it’s one of those. Another lousy cut of fish. Too dry for grilling, too thick for stew, half-rancid – tastes like sand, tastes like shit!
Tadashi gets snapped away from the sheet.
Man and Tadashi’s Mother move away, open the parasol, open their basket and sit down. As if they’ve come to a picnic.
Sister enters with a cell phone.
SISTER: Hello. Helloooo.
Listless, Tadashi picks up his phone and puts it to his ear.
TADASHI: Hello.
SISTER: It’s me.
TADASHI: Weren’t you leaving?
SISTER: I’ve decided not to. Nowhere else to go… Is it a good time to talk?
TADASHI: No, not really.
SISTER: Oh well. I’ll tell you anyway. I’ve been thinking about it, and I believe I’d like to go out with you.
SISTER: You’re not into it?
TADASHI: Huh? Well yeah, but is it okay with you?
SISTER: Yes, it is.
TADASHI: You’re okay with the prospect of becoming a queen?
SISTER: … Yes.
TADASHI: For sure? Really?
TADASHI: Really really?
SISTER: Yes…
Sister starts sobbing.
TADASHI: Why? Why are you crying?
SISTER: My brother’s gone.
TADASHI: Really? Where to?
SISTER: I don’t know. He said he’s getting adopted by the lady next door. He’s going to take the place of her son.
TADASHI: What? That dragon next door has no son.
SISTER: Huh? But…
TADASHI: I’ve never seen one.
SISTER: Well… There was a note. It said, “Do not search for me. I shall return once I’ve shed my old skin.”
TADASHI: I see. So if he’s coming back sometime…
SISTER: But what shall I do till then? We’ve been one, the two of us together. We were going to live in the shadows, picking each other’s scabs and licking the wounds.
TADASHI: If only I could be your pillar…
SISTER: You can’t. But… yes, I’ll be with you.
TADASHI: I don’t want you to force yourself…
SISTER: But, yes, I will force myself. You will marry me, and I will serve you like a slave.
TADASHI: I won’t treat you like that.
SISTER: I know you will. And that’s okay. Showered with curses, and treated like a doll, I’ll have no choice but to become numb, and paralyzed.
TADASHI: What the hell do you think I am?
SISTER: Oops? Did I make you mad?
TADASHI: Stop playing!
SISTER: Yes. I will date you, and fuel your fire. I will never, ever open my heart. Because my heart belongs to my Brother, and my Brother alone.
TADASHI: Then I can’t be with you.
SISTER: Yes, you can. Because we are very much alike.
TADASHI: In what way?
SISTER: We cannot accept reality.
TADASHI: I’m different than you.
SISTER: You’re no different. So, why, for goodness sake, shouldn’t we live together pretending to accept reality?
SISTER: We’ll delude ourselves. Some things last longer, thanks to delusion. I’m thinking of finding the intention to get ready to begin to prepare myself to make every effort to like you. You should do the same.
SISTER: Good night!
Tadashi throws away his phone. Then he hugs his stuffed animals and heads to “Friendship Heights.”
TADASHI: (Fondling an animal that makes sounds.) … (Tadashi plays some heroic music.)
TADASHI: Okay, everyone, keep calm and listen up. This nation is on the precipice of a fateful crisis… We face powerful threats from the outside and aggressive maneuvers by insurgents, not to mention tensions with the neighboring country. We need to make the first move to overcome this crisis. Do you have any good ideas? …
He picks up a stuffed animal.
What about you? …
He picks up an action figure.
Or you? …Even the smallest idea is welcome… Why don’t you say something?
Tadashi peels off his clothes.
Let me ask you one question. Do you see the emperor’s new clothes? …Let me ask it once again. Do you see the emperor’s new clothes? …Answer me! …Don’t you see the emperor’s new clothes?
Tadashi interrogates the stuffed animals, picking them up one by one.
You beasts, you’re making a fool of me! Go to hell! Get lost!
Tadashi stomps on the stuffed animals, tearing off their heads and limbs.
Man enters holding the suitcase Brother used to have.
Tadashi’s Mother also enters.
MAN: Excooose me! Delivery. Oh, hello.
TADASHI: Whoooaaaa!
Tadashi wraps himself in the sheet.
MAN: Miss Asanuma.
MAN: It’s for you. I need your signature here.
Sister signs the paper and receives the suitcase.
Sister opens Brother’s suitcase. Inside she finds the clothes he had worn and a knife.
SISTER: Brother.
Sister holds Brother’s clothes tightly and puts them on.
MAN: …
Now, shall we go?
Tadashi’s Mother stands up, showing off her rear end, wrapped in the sheet like a bride in a wedding dress.
TADASHI: Mom.
Tadashi gropes for the back of the sheet and slips himself inside Tadashi’s Mother’s dress.
MAN: A murder-suicide of a mother and a son. By day, the mother worked in a supermarket, standing behind the register. By night, the red light district, standing on the corner. She would never let her son near liquor or the betting table or women. Purity, honesty and beauty—that was her parental philosophy. This is a story. A story someone told about someone else.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: …Oh… yes… good boy. That’s a good boy. Never ever doubt.
Rubbing her lower abdomen
This has been your kingdom from the beginning.
Sister wallows about tightly hugging herself while dressed in her Brother’s clothes.
Tadashi emerges from the sheet between his mother’s legs. Out pops his head.
TADASHI: Phew! …Help! I’m suffocating!
SISTER: Oh hey. What are you doing?
TADASHI: I’m getting sucked in!
SISTER: Will you be with me?
TADASHI: Huh? Hold on, this is not the moment.
SISTER: Will you marry me?
Tightly hugging herself while dressed in her Brother’s clothes
I’m this close to losing it.
TADASHI: …Okay. We’ll get married. We’ll have a national ceremony for our wedding…
He faints.
SISTER: Thank you!
Sister flips up the sheet that is wrapped around Tadashi’s
Mother, as if it were a fancy dress, and drags out Tadashi.
Tadashi’s Mother turns around. Her face is painted white.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Tadashi! Father’s dead! What shall we do?
TADASHI: (As if he were talking in his sleep.) Mom! Mom!
SISTER: Are you all right?
TADASHI: …Thanks. Did you just say my name?
SISTER: Uh-uh.
TADASHI: Oh, I see.
SISTER: Tadashi.
TADASHI: Oh. I haven’t asked your name yet, have I?
SISTER: Sakiko. A child in bloom.
TADASHI: A good name.
SISTER: So is Tadashi.
TADASHI: Thanks.
Tadashi plays some music.
SISTER: (Pulling a tiara out of her pocket and putting it on her head.) Princess Sakiko. On her way to an unhappy marriage. All she has are the sweet memories of her days with Antonius…
The wedding begins.
Tadashi’s Mother is acting senile.
Tadashi and Sister turn to each other.
TADASHI: Will you pledge your everlasting love?
Tadashi urges Sister to say the same.
SISTER: Will you pledge your everlasting love?
TADASHI: Yes… Now, I may kiss the bride…
Tadashi places his hands on Sister’s neck and slowly strangles her. Sister, struggling, cannot get free.
SISTER: Ugh!
TADASHI: …Now you’re just like the rest of them.
SISTER: …No, I’m not!
TADASHI: …You’ll be all right.
Tadashi’s Mother suddenly wedges herself between the two.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Father! Father!
TADASHI: (Loosening his grip.) Huh?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Who’s that woman?
TADASHI: I’m not Father. I’m Tadashi!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Tadashi? …
Nodding
Oh, I see… So, Tadashi.
TADASHI: (To his Mother.) What?
TADASHI’S MOTHER: He’s gone.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: Father’s gone.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Reading a note.) “I’m setting out on a journey. All I have are the sweet memories of my days with you.” …What’s this?
TADASHI: Who knows. Dad’s dead – you know that!
Tadashi’s Mother starts to walk away.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: He didn’t seem like that kind of person.
TADASHI: Where are you going? Don’t go too far. Be careful!
TADASHI’S MOTHER: But we’ve talked about the things we’re gonna do together…
Neighbor and Brother enter.
NEIGHBOR: Sonny! Come this way!
BROTHER: Yeeesss!
Brother and Neighbor lift the sheet from below.
Brother sets up the stepladder, steps on it, and climbs the ladder holding the sheet high above him.
Right between Tadashi and Sister, the sheet heaves up and the two tumble down the slope of the sheet.
Sister pulls a knife out of her Brother’s nearby suitcase and hides it on her person.
BROTHER: How’s this?
NEIGHBOR: Higher. Go higher!
Brother climbs further up the stepladder.
BROTHER: Or here?
NEIGHBOR: Yeah, okay. This’ll be our new home. How do you feel?
Neighbor stretches the clothesline from the stepladder and hangs the laundry.
BROTHER: I couldn’t be better. Now I’m neither a man nor a human being. That’s right, I’m the keeper. Sakippe, do you know where your brother is? Right below you. Underground. Sonny doesn’t get along with the sun, so here we are. We’ll live here for years and years, decades, no, for centuries, and some day, I’ll shed this skin and fly out into the sky. Until that day, your Brother remains a pillar to support the earth you stand on. I’ll remain here thinking of you.
TADASHI’S MOTHER: (Wearing the sunglasses and the pedometer, observing the uneven lumps of the sheet.) There, that’s Diamond Head, that’s Waikiki Beach… we have a good view here…
TADASHI: (To Sister) Hey, where are you?
SISTER: (To Tadashi) I’m here. You kissed me all wrong… Now it’s my turn.
TADASHI: It’s the kiss for forever.
SISTER: (Holding up the knife.) Yes, the battle begins… for forever…
Tadashi and Sister, each from either side climbs step by step up the hill covered with the sheet.
A music box chimes in and everyone’s movements turn mechanical.
Man enters.
MAN: Please take a look. This display is said to represent the origin of this land.
Moving like a machine
Where am I right now?
MAN: …Everywhere.
Everyone on stage remains in their places and repeats movements like those of mechanical dolls.
Gradually their movements become confused, their bodies crooked and their footing unsure, but they do not cease their movements. Until they crumble to dust.
Black out.
July 30, 2016 in Volume 5, Issue 4. Tags: Andy Bragen, Japan, Japanese, Kyoko Yosida, Shu Matsui
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Gibson, who gained fame as the world’s tallest dog has died in California. Gibson, a certified therapy dog dedicated his life to giving comfort and happiness to everyone along his path.
Gibson was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. After the diagnosis his owner and Gibson startted a campaign to spread the awareness of canine cancer, Three Paws for the Cause. One of Gibson’s front legs had to be removed because of the cancer. Last week the cancer spread to Gibson’s lungs and spine. Gibson’s sad owner had to make the hard decision to put his beloved friend down. Gibson was seven years old. NBC Bay Area reports:
“Last week Gibson began having trouble using his back legs,” said Dr. Peter Walsh, Gibson’s veterinarian, in a prepared statement. “X-rays showed that the cancer had spread to his spine and his lungs. Ms. Hall made the very difficult decision based on her concern and love for Gibson to have him humanely euthanized. Gibson died peacefully in the loving arms of Ms. Hall.”
Gibson was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s tallest dog. He was 42.2 inches tall, and when standing on his hind legs is over 7 foot tall. Gibson appeared on the Larry King Live show and worked in the entertainment field. Gibson also released a book, “Gibson Speaks.” His owner Sandy Hall admits that Gibson had help with writing the book of Gibson’s feats. Zoo Too reports:
“Gibson was destined to be, and still is, he’s a certified therapy dog,” Gibson’s owner, Sandy Hall, told Pet Pulse. “He does wheelchair assistance and he does special needs work. But he did nothing but train and go into practical applications for the first two and a half years of his life. “We started off with little nursing homes and our hospital here is only two floors. We live in a small community.”
His memorial site is online.
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Women Eat Less When On a Date
Perhaps the best dieting tool for ladies is to eat out with single men. A study by Canada’s McMaster University shows women eat less calories when dining with men than alone or with other women.
Scientists have confirmed what men have known all along, women order a salad instead of a steak when they are on a date. The study was recently published in the international journal Appetite. When women are dining out with men, either alone or in a mixed-gender group they order smaller caloric meals than when they are dining with other women. The less men in the dining picture the more hearty a meal will be ordered by a lady. When dining with men in a group the average woman’s meal was 450 calories compared to the 700 to 750 calories when dining with other women. Canada.com reports:
“It seems to fit with our intuition. We always hear advice about going on a first date and only eating salad,” said Young, a PhD candidate with the university’s department of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour. “Our hypothesis was that we use food to signal attractiveness: ‘We’re healthy. We’re in good shape. we’re pretty.”
Researchers observed 469 people dining alone, couples and larger groups over four weekdays during one week at three different large cafeterias in Hamilton, Ontario. The observers did scan sampling, observing the room and gathering the data that happens at that moment. The researchers recorded the food items in front of each person other than beverage choice. The teams then converted the caloric information of each meal using data from the dining management of each cafeteria. The researchers at McMaster University believe that this act is a subconscious way to attract a mate. Newslite reports:
“It is possible that small food portions signal attractiveness, and women conform, whether consciously or unconsciously, to small meals in order to be seen as more attractive,” says researcher Meredith Young.
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Opinion: Let’s All Get A Kenyan Birth Certificate
Do you have a Kenyan birth certificate? It’s not hard to get one with the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator. All it takes is a few minutes to fill out the details and you can be Kenyan or make a Birther’s version of President Obama’s birth document.
This past weekend ‘Birther’ Orly Taitz said she had the real birth certificate of President Obama showing Kenya as the nation he was born in. It was a forgery. The real document that she was using was for David Jeffrey Bomford who was born in April 1959 in Australia. Salon reports:
“That is ridiculous. Little old person in Adelaide, the President of the United States. I don’t know whether to laugh about it or not, be worried about it,” Bomford said. “It is interesting, someone from here being involved in a conspiracy — that is so funny …. It’s definitely a copy of my certificate. It’s so laughable it’s ridiculous.”
There is plenty of software on the Internet to produce fake documents. Of course Taitz is not admitting to committing the crime of fraud when it comes to the fake documents that she paraded over the Internet early this week. President Obama’s birth certificate has been public since June 2008. That hasn’t stopped the Birthers from looking into any dark corner to find something that will prove their claims. Each claim gets wilder. Obama is a closet Muslim. Obama is Kenyan. Obama runs with scissors. One day we may even hear a rumor that Obama plays with dolls. Perhaps we should all make our own Kenyan birth certificates and be part of the Birthers’ 15 minutes of fame.
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One in Four Tweets Created by Bots?
As many as one in four tweets on Twitter are sent by automated bots but most of those tweets are not spam. Around 32 per cent of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots
With most Tweets made by actual humans the social network is not going anywhere soon. It’s estimated that by 2010 there will be over 18 million people worldwide using Twitter. Most Twitter users hail from the United States with 60.6 percent of tweets. The United Kingdom comes in a far second place with only 6.91 percent of users. Japan, Canada and Brazil round out the top five twitter usage. Almost half of those that use Twitter have more than 100 followers. Mashable reports:
We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day. The actual percentage of machine-generated tweets among the most active users is probably higher than 32% because there many bots that update less than 150 times/day.
With over 3 million Tweets a day Twitter users appear to actively use the social network a lot. The average user sends 15 messages a day.
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Ontario Living Pink Balloon Event is Slated for September 5
On September 5 The Living Pink Balloon Event will take place at Alderville First Nation Ball Diamond. The goal is 500 people wearing pink t-shirts forming a giant pink balloon in order to give Sick Kid’s Foundation $10,000 for brain research.
The Living Pink Balloon comes from two families dealing with the effects of brain disorders and their want to give back to Sick Children’s Hospital. Last September Hollie Gray, 10, was found unresponsive at her home. Her parents called for help and paramedics quickly took the little girl to the hospital. On route to Northumberland Hills Hospital Hollie’s heart stopped. Hollie was revived. At the hospital a mass was found on her brain. That discovery lead to a quick transfer to Sick Children’s Hospital in Toronto where her parents were told that their little girl was brain dead. The parents were approached by Trillium Gift of Life to discuss organ donation. Hollie’s parents decided that her spirit had to live on in others. Tanya Gray told Digital Journal that the day before her daughter Hollie died from a brain aneurysm she was joking and laughing while watching television with her family. “She had a mild headache the day before. I thought maybe she had the flu. Hollie was such a go-getter kid. She went to bed and just never woke up.” Brenna was diagnosed with craniopharyngioma or pituitary tumor in 2008. She had early symptoms that were unexplained until she had a CT scan after a third seizure. The little girl was taken to Sick Children’s Hospital in Toronto. There she received treatment and is living a near normal life today. The families are asking people to purchase a pink t-shirt by August 20 from The Scissors Edge (1-905-352-2211) and Our House Snack ‘n’ Go in Alderville and at Herbal Magic in Cobourg, Ontario that will be on hand at Sick Kids on September 5 at the hospital. The goal is that 500 people in the t-shirts will help to form a human pink balloon to show recognition for the staff at the hospital. All proceeds will go to brain and behaviour research. Daryl Crowe says, “We understand that there are many causes and people are stretched thin but Sick Kids has touched everyone in some way. So please come out and help us give back.” On September 5 The Living Pink Balloon is hoping to gather 500 people in one place as a symbol of solidarity of support for Sick Kids Foundation wearing pink t-shirts. One giant pink balloon. The September 5 event will feature prizes, BBQ and Pony Rides. The cost is $25.00 a person which includes a Living Pink Balloon T-shirt. The shirts will be available for pick-up at the event. Please reserve your spot by August 20. Tanya Gray is encouraging companies to have teams register along with individuals. All proceeds from the event will go to Sick Kids Foundation.
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Central Park Hosts Bed-In For World Peace
The World March for Peace and Nonviolence is holding a bed-in on August 16 for world peace. The celebration is the 40th anniversary of Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s famous bed-in.
The August event is a tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s cause for world peace. The event will take place at the Cherry Hill Fountain in Central Park at 1 PM. A “Peace Bed” will be in place for musicians and those in attendance to express their thoughts on peace and violence the same way Lennon and Ono did 40 years ago. Yoko Ono has endorsed the project.
Yoko Ono sent this message to the organizers, “Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Power works in mysterious ways. You don’t have to do much. Visualise the domino effect. And just start thinking PEACE. The message will circulate faster than you think. It’s Time For Action. The Action is PEACE. Spread the word. Spread PEACE.“
Press representative for World Peace March Nicole Myers told Digital Journal that a new peace song will be recorded live at the event. We Want Peace on Earth will be performed by Mark Lesseraux. The song will be in a special double CD of peace songs being produced by Sony, Myers said. “The new song was written and dedicated to the World March for Peace,” said Myers. Myers was very excited about the event and the upcoming global march for peace. She said that there will be music at the Central Park event. The World March will be held in seven continents starting October 2 in New Zealand. It will go around the world ending on January 2, 2010 in Argentina. If you’re in New York City on August 16 check out this special and timely event.
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Opium addictions plague Afghanistan
Afghan families are dealing with a double problem when it comes to poppy fields. With a governmental ban on the production they face prison or poverty. They also have to deal with the huge addictive nature of opium, made from the milk of the plant.
It’s a race against the calendar for British and United States to convince Afghan farmers to replace their yearly poppy crops with another seed. The planting season starts in October. In a nation where the population has become addicted to the drug made from poppies, opium, that will be a hard sell. Farm workers make double the money in poppy fields than when working with other crops. While using lower prices for wheat seeds could have a short term affect for some poppy farms the long term could be an additional problem. As poppy fields are replaced by wheat and fruit fields those who stay in the business will make even more money. When there is less of a product that is desired the price can be jacked up. Opium is part of the Afghan culture. Many areas used it as the common currency. It is grown in most family plots. That has changed as the government enforced a ban on the production of opium though. That ban has put many in this struggling nation in deep debt. Statesman.com reports:
“Now we don’t even have 10 Afghanis ($0.25) to give our children to buy bubble gum,” opium farmer Abdul Hay says. “Before they would go into the field and collect the money themselves.”
With the ban working well in most of the county now only seven of the 34 provinces have large fields. The rest of the nation is dealing with the poverty that the ban put into place with growing anger. Those farmers who could easily take care of their families with one crop of poppies struggle with reduced crop productions. The newer crops that the government suggested require fertilizer and water, two things that poor farmers can not afford.
“See this mustard? It can take care of my family for one month,” says 25-year-old farmer Abdul Saboor, pulling up a shoot of the green plant and snapping it open with his teeth. “When we planted opium in this same plot, it took care of all our expenses for an entire year.”
In many areas of the county entire families are addicted to the drug. Nationwide there are one million addicts according to the United Nations. That number say local drug counselors is at least double. Almost a quarter of the addicts are children and their mothers. Children grow up inhaling the smoke as their parents pass around the pipes. The government has buried their heads in the plentiful sand. CBS reports:
“Even Afghans aren’t aware of this problem, most people thought we were producers not consumption,” said Mohammad Zafar, Deputy Minister of Counter-Narcotics.
Families will use their last coins to buy more opium instead of food. Dirty, hungry children stumble around in an opium daze. The more remote villages are baring the brunt of the addictions. There are no treatment centers around the corner to contend with the effects of the addiction. In most of these small villages it is over a day’s walk to medical help. Opium is their medicine. The Toronto Star reports:
“Opium is our doctor,” says Beg, an addicted villager. “When your stomach hurts, you take a smoke. Then you take a little more. And a little more. And then, you’re addicted. Once you’re hooked, it’s over. You’re finished.”
Opium addictions quickly spread like wildfire through villages. Those addicted have no money to feed their families. Their neighbours provide for them but as they feed more and more they too become poorer. One mother Najiba started to feed her family the powerful drug to keep them from shivering in the cold winter. She brews the opium as a tea, its cheaper than food and she says brings her hungry family some happiness. Families sell their children for another fix. It is an endless cycle for these families. The Star reports:
Mohammad Asef, a health worker at the clinic taking care of Zaihar Pari, says he is worried about the boy’s chances of recovering. “In America people go and get high in the park. In Afghanistan, they do it in the home,” says Asef. “They bring it inside. They burn it on the family stove. Everyone sees. So everyone is affected.”
There is no quick or easy fix for Afghanistan’s poppy problem. Without crops that make more money the farmers will continue to be in debt. Without hundreds of treatment centers focusing on the most remote locations addiction will continue to multiply. Both issues needed to be addressed in the beginning of the ban of poppy production not in the midst of a crisis.
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Wild Heart & Rebel Souls
Words by BILL BROWNSTEIN, MONTREAL GAZETTE Updated: June 26, 2017
Images by Stikki Peaches
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Few know what he looks like, and he wants to keep it that way. He is not like most other artists. Hell, he is not like most other people.
He is a fast emerging Montreal artist, but he refuses to use his real name. He goes under the curious pseudonym of Stikki Peaches.
He doesn’t even show up for his own vernissages, as was the case for his latest at Galerie LeRoyer in Old Montreal. Few know what he looks like, since he has never been photographed without a mask.
Stikki’s canvasses — striking post-modern pastiches with his unique, signature graffiti style — sell in the five-figure range. His LeRoyer show, Beautanika: Wild Heart, Rebel Souls, running till July 6, is an homage to female icons — from Brigitte Bardot to Kate Moss — and is being gobbled up by collectors.
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On the subject of contemporary female icons, Lady Gaga is evidently among those to have been smitten by and to have purchased his work. Not surprisingly, Stikki is rather circumspect about his buyers; nor is he much impressed by their stature — or anyone else’s, for that matter.
But his commercial art tells only part of his story. Stikki is a street artist at the core. He still gets up in the middle of the night, mounts scaffolds around town and creates murals on the sides of buildings mostly around the Main. He has been a contributor to the ongoing Mural International Public Art Festival since its start. Nor does he confine himself to these parts; his murals can be caught around Europe and South America as well.
“I get paid for the commercial art, which puts food on the table. The street art actually costs me a fair amount. But that’s the way I like it, because I feel art has to be accessible to everybody,” says Stikki in his cluttered north-end studio.
His next major public art show will be more like guerrilla theatre, in which he gets to express his frustration with never-ending street construction. Soon to drop on streets around town will be a few installations he calls “road-construction takeover,” an array of orange cones, no-parking and detour signs re-configured in rather subversive yet amusing fashion.
“I’m mostly mellow, but I’ve developed road rage in this orange-coned city. So this is my way of dealing with it, without causing any more traffic woes or delays.”
All of which might explain Stikki Peaches’s penchant for anonymity. Regardless, in the ever-competitive, ever-demanding, ever-volatile world of art, most practitioners would still do just about anything to get their mugs and names plastered about the media.
“I just want my work to speak for itself, rather than having a face attached to the work,” he says. “Who am I has no relevance to what my art is about. Besides, I like my private life.”
As for his pseudonym, all he allows is that it came about during a time in his life when he was “blind-sided by a major health issue.”
What’s remarkable about his work is that he doesn’t rely on more traditional components. His art features all manner of recycled street material, from posters to burlap coffee-bean bags to crumbling chunks from a wall.
“My work is often a reproduction or reflection of what’s happening on the street by using a piece that has been left behind,” he notes. “I will use anything that can adhere to or be tacked on to a canvas. There’s a lot of surreal mash-ups, layering and experimental stuff as well to the work. I like to think of it all as beautifully controlled chaos.”
Though his art is unorthodox, his background is not. His dad was a tailor and his mother a seamstress, and he got his start following in the footsteps of his parents in the fashion industry as a designer. Surrounded by sketches and drafting designs, he would not only collect them but also transform them, with paint and pencils, into influential figures from his youth, be they political leaders, cultural icons or comic-book characters. Not surprising, therefore, that he would later come out with canvasses featuring such disparate folk as Batman, Elvis and Mozart.
“My art is a kind of a tribute to my past life — meshed with the Stikki factor — and a lot of the figures I use today, like Kate Moss, have been my muses. I’ve always had this yearning and appetite for anything nostalgic. I grew up with parents who were creative in their own manner. They watched certain movies and listened to certain music, and so I remember vividly the James Deans, Steve McQueens, Marlon Brandos, Liz Taylors and Elvis. It seemed to me to be a time when things were simple and people seemed happier.”
In spite of his anonymity, his work has also caught on in New York, which, doubtless, is the reason that American celebs, like Lady Gaga, have been among his fans.
“Quite honestly, it happens more often than not,” he says, in reference to his celeb sales. “Let’s just say that I’ve had certain people reach out. But it’s really not something I get swell-headed about. I’m not really fazed by that, and this is not the reason that I paint. Art to me is an escape, a therapy to bring you somewhere else.”
Stikki is quick to point out that he is not an overnight success. “Until I really believed in my work and the direction it was going in, it took me years to be able to pierce the market and to maintain this as a full-time gig.
“I started as a street artist about 10 years ago. I would go out with some gung-ho friends in the middle of the night who also enjoyed doing mischievous things. In those days, many thought of street art as vandalism or street pollution. But that has changed by leaps and bounds today, especially in Montreal, and is now well accepted.”
His wife and young daughter are accustomed to his nighttime excursions. His neighbours “somewhere in the suburbs,” on the other hand, have no clue about what he does.
“I come home with dirty pants and they probably think I paint condos or bridges. And that suits me just fine.”
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Titan Comics’ Doctor Who Range to Go on Hiatus Until May 2018
It sounds like Titan Comics’ Doctor Who range will be taking a short break in 2018, and relaunching with a smaller pool of titles.
At the MCM London Comic Con, Chris Thompson presented a panel teasing the near future for Titan, including a brief statement about the Who range. Actual details were few and far between, but it did apparently state that, after the current runs have concluded, the comics will be taking a brief hiatus before relaunching with new issue #1s (similar to previous years) in May 2018.
We’re promised a more affordable line – meaning fewer series – yet allowing fans of whichever eras to enjoy as the Doctors are all represented. Those statements seem juxtaposing, but perhaps an anthology title is in the making… That’s purely speculation, however, so don’t hold your breath. Equally, this could mean fewer ongoing series, but more miniseries – indeed, the Third, Fourth, and Eighth Doctors’ limited runs were all received enthusiastically.
There will also be “big name creators” – but then, that’s already the case. I’m just hoping that Nick Abadzis, Rachael Stott, Cavan Scott, and co. are still contributing to the comics.
This all gives the impression of an uncertain future, but we’re also promised better shipping schedules (the latest event, The Lost Dimension, for instance, has been messed around somewhat as release dates shifted around) and more extensive marketing. Fingers crossed these will ensure the longevity of Titan’s Who work.
It’s uncertain quite when the range will take a break, but judging from the current known solicitations, The Tenth Doctor will conclude with #3.14 in February 2018; and The Eleventh Doctor in December 2017’s #3.13. As for The Twelfth Doctor, the farthest ahead we know about January’s #3.12, although the synopsis for that issue doesn’t hint at any sort of conclusions.
In effect, we’re looking at a hiatus of between 2 and 5 months, depending on the title.
We don’t know whether Torchwood will be affected, but presumably so – the latest miniseries, The Culling, is collected in a graphic novel in early April 2017, but no other issues have been announced.
What do you think, DWC readers? Will this break rejuvenate the lines? Or is it unnecessary? And what’s caused this break? Could it be the apparent lack of TV series until Autumn 2018, as rumoured…?
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By Jackie DesForges
As an expat living in Paris on an average salary, I’m still adjusting to the exchange rate and figuring out the costs of daily life in Europe compared to what I was used to in the United States. I’m already budgeting quite well in terms of food, entertainment, clothing, and other non-necessary purchases, and I’m using my savings to spend more on these three areas of life that are currently non-negotiable for me.
1. Exercise — using a personal trainer.
As someone who is about to turn thirty, I have to admit that prioritizing personal fitness is a completely new thing for me. Honestly, I never felt like I needed to. I have always been of average weight and have never had any serious health issues…at least, not until my late twenties. Cue the chronic, debilitating back pain (bad enough to miss work and seek out a physical therapist), and a few life stresses that caused me to put on a few pounds. I tried figuring out a diet plan for myself and using free YouTube workouts, but I couldn’t force myself to stick to it. I HATE the gym (germaphobe), so I knew that I would never invest in a membership.
A personal trainer seemed like the best compromise — I only see her once a week so that she can make sure I’m doing my workouts correctly and not injuring myself, and also so that she can help me track my progress with photos and measurements. It helps to have someone there to keep me accountable. And, I’m afraid she’ll judge me if I slack off, so I’m too afraid to slack off. Since I can’t afford to have her all year, I decided that investing in three months of personal training is a good start. It’s expensive, but I only have to make it work for three months, and my appearance and back pain have been weighing so heavily on me (literally and figuratively) for the past year that honestly, it was time to actually take action and invest in a solution that will actually work for me.
2. Various cat-related things, including my actual cats.
Before anyone yells at me “ADOPT DON’T SHOP,” let me tell you that I DID adopt my cats, but I still had to pay a small fee for them. I got them off the French version of Craigslist, and the girl was charging me just for the amount of the vaccinations, which she’d already taken them in for. I also pay for a pet sitter when I am out of town for longer than a weekend, rather than asking a friend to help. I feel guilty asking a friend to give up that much of their time, and I never know how to negotiate the issue of payment. But if I’m dealing with a stranger and there is an actual contract, I don’t feel bad about asking her to scoop litter, nor do I feel bad nagging her for photos of the kittens every day because hey, it’s her job. Whereas I would feel guilty asking a friend who is just doing me a favor.
And god forbid something happens where the cats need to go to the vet — no offense to my friends, but I’d rather have someone there who is familiar with animals and vets and knows the drill a bit. Plus, there are a lot of people trying to make money off pet-sitting as a side hustle (or main hustle), and I am a fan of supporting all hustles, big and small.
3. Books…sometimes.
I have a library card and I borrow 95% of the books I read, rather than buying them. But every once in a while, I allow myself to invest in a book that I absolutely loved. When I do this, I try to buy it either directly from the author him/herself or from an indie bookstore, rather than just ordering it on Amazon. I don’t have much disposable income to spend on things like this, so I make sure that when I do spend it, it goes somewhere that really matters — to me, to my community, to the author, to the book world at large. Even when you’re sticking to a very strict budget, as I currently am, it’s necessary to reward yourself every so often so that you don’t go completely insane while trying to stick to said budget. Books are an affordable way for me to treat myself a few times a year, and they are also a way for me to support the literary community that is so important to me.
Even though I’m on a fairly strict budget at the moment, I still want to enjoy the money that I make. I want to use my money deliberately in ways that make my life better somehow. And since I think very carefully before spending a decent chunk of money on something, by the time I do spend it, I don’t have any guilt. I know that I’ve weighed my options and that I’m investing my money in something that will make me happier in the end.
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Home NEWS Equity Bank and KCB move fight for dominance to Ethiopia
Equity Bank and KCB move fight for dominance to Ethiopia
Equity Bank is the latest Kenyan bank to set up a Commercial Representative Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia as it prepares to commence operations.
Kenya’s largest bank by assets, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), opened its representative office in Ethiopia in 2015.
Ethiopia is currently ranked as Africa’s fastest growing economy according to data from IMF.
Kenyan banks are racing to set up new branches in Ethiopia’s capital and strengthen their presence in the East African market.
Customers arrive at a branch of the Equity Bank for money transactions in Kenya’s capital Nairobi November 11, 2015.
The Bank has already appointed Hassan Maalim as the Head of the Commercial Representative Office which will be based at Kazanchis-Addis Ababa Ethiopia and is expected to be fully operational in July this year.
“Having completed Phase One of our expansion, the entry into Ethiopia is part of our Phase Two expansion in pursuit of our aspiration of being a Pan African Bank with presence in 10 African countries by the end of the year. This will enable the Bank to continue to scale up and unlock economies of scale especially in this era of digitization and virtualization of banking,” said Equity Group CEO and MD, Dr. James Mwangi.
Equity CEO James Mwangi
The entry of Equity Bank into Ethiopia, a country with a population of nearly 100 million people, follows Ethiopia’s government appointment of a privatization commission and the ongoing reforms which are aimed at promoting a growing private sector.
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A Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) branch in Nairobi.
Kenya’s largest bank by assets, Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), opened its representative office in Ethiopia in 2015 and has recently said it will be looking to make its entry through a partnership with an Ethiopian bank or opening a fully-fledged subsidiary in the country once the market is opened to foreign lenders.
“Our main area of focus is to have a business and presence in Ethiopia. We hope that by the end of 2020 we can be allowed to go further whether by opening a branch or through our mobile lending platform,” KCB chief executive Joshua Oigara told the Business Daily in March.
Kenya Commercial Bank boss Joshua Oigara
A number of other Kenyan financial institutions, including Co-operative Bank and Stanbic (through its South African parent Standard Bank Group) are also eyeing a piece of Ethiopia.
Standard Bank received a licence to open a representative office in Ethiopia in 2015.
Stanbic Bank on Kimathi Street Nairobi.
In addition to the financial sector, the Ethiopia government is also said to be considering opening up the telecommunications sector to foreign investors, which would see a lot more Kenyan firms such as telecommunication Safaricom move to exploit the country’s vast market.
In recent months, Safaricom has expressed interest to roll out of its M-Pesa business in Ethiopia.
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Ghana secures $5.6 million from the luxury vehicle tax in the first quarter of 2019
The taxes were collected from individuals who use vehicles with engine capacities of 2.9 litres and above.
According to a provisional fiscal data from the Ministry of Finance the revenue raised is against a target of GH¢136.53 million.
The data released on June 17 indicated that a revenue shortfall of GH¢106.34 million which represents 77.89% decline was recorded.
The development according to the ministry threatens the government’s annual revenue target of GH¢598.13 million from the levy.
Further analysis of the data on public finance showed that there was a revenue shortfall for every month since January.
This has sparked concerns as to the kind of background checks undertaken before the levy was introduced.
In February this year, six groups staged a demonstration against the luxury vehicle tax in Accra.
A tax expert, Mr Abdallah Ali-Nakyea who spoke on the trend said that this offered a basis for the repeal of the levy in the next budget.
This, he said, was necessary because people were now avoiding vehicles with engine capacities of 2.9 litres and above. He, therefore, said the levy must be put in the category of nuisance tax.
“The levy falls on the category of nuisance tax because the government could not even collect 30 percent of the revenue projected to be collected over the period,” he said.
About the luxury vehicle tax
The luxury vehicle tax was introduced by the government in August 2018 as a new policy to help raise more revenue.
Vehicles with engine capacity of 2950 to 3549 Cubic Centimetres are required to pay $193.78 (GH¢1,000) while those with engines between 3,550 to 4049 cubic centimetres pay $290.68 (GH¢1,500).
Vehicles with engine capacities above 4049cc are to pay $387.57 (GH¢2,000).
The tax also affects vehicles of the listed capacities existing prior to the passage of the law.
Exempted from the levy are tractors, ambulances, commercial vehicles that have the capacity to transport more than 10 persons and commercial vehicles for the transport of goods.
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S-Works – usually uttered in a hushed tone of adoration – is the ultimate stamp of Specialized approval.
The title given to kit that is considered the highest level of each product available, anything S-Works is made for racing and more often than not created with feedback from pro athletes and designed to meet their needs. Then made available for anyone who wants it, and can justify the spend.
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Pro athletes possess an ability to push harder – physically and mentally – than most mere mortals, they know bikes and equipment better than anyone who sits at a desk most hours of the day ever could, and they understand how tiny margins can make or break a race day. Of course, most of us don’t possess the same power as they. However, kit that is developed to meet their needs will ultimately be more than sufficient for us.
A great example of this is the development of the S-Works Power saddle – a creation that relied upon the careful testing of Boels Dolmans pro cyclist, Evelyn Stevens. Stevens was considered the perfect candidate for testing because she’s got a reputation for being incredibly sensitive to saddles – she’s even been likened to the protagonist of the ‘princess and the pea’.
The princess and the pea - Evelyn Stevens
Stevens wasn’t after anything unreasonable, but she did want something hard to find, reportedly saying: “I just wanted a saddle where I could be in an aggressive position and still be comfortable.”
“The best thing about Evie is that she would give the test saddles time…. and she knows pretty quickly what she wants and is able to articulate it clearly.”
The Women’s UCI Hour Record Holder was given a wide range of saddles, in various different shapes and styles, and asked for her feedback. Modifications were made along the way and eventually the now renowned Power saddle was born. Head of Saddle Development at the time, Nick Gosseen said: “The best thing about Evie is that she would give the test saddles time. She’d take prototypes and test them for a week or a month then give us feedback, and she knows pretty quickly what she wants and is able to articulate it clearly.”
“We created probably two or three saddles that allowed us to test certain things with her. One was nose length; another was foam density and curvature in the back of the saddle. It helped us narrow the tree down and decide which direction we wanted to go with the Power saddle. She had some things she specifically liked, so we found a version that worked with her during testing, and she ended up riding it full-time.”
Discussing the process of using athlete feedback to create S-Works product, Stevens said: “I think because we race it, and ride it, and we pay such close attention to our bodies, we’re able to give good feedback. And in the end, that means someone who just wants to ride their bike a couple of days a week can get benefit from that.”
The S-Works stamp is seen on bikes, shoes, saddles as above – almost every product type has an S-Works version. Admittedly, these are always the top of the range and most expensive iterations. However, of course over time Specialized are able to allow the technology to trickle down to more affordable versions – something we’re always grateful to see, and you’ll notice the Power saddle is now available for £80 in the ‘Expert’ iteration as well as for £200 with the added S-Works touches such as lighter rails and the highest quality materials.
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Disney’s ZOOTOPIA Sloth Trailer is Far from Slow [85 Screenshots]
Posted on November 23, 2015 by Tyler Schirado
Since 2008, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on a roll with such films like Tangled, Frozen, The Princess and the Frog, and Wreck-It Ralph. And with the release of the latest trailer for Zootopia, the house that Walt built looks to continue on its path back to greatness. The first teaser quickly introduced the many animals we’ll see in the film, and now Disney fans will get to see how the world works.
More of a full clip than anything else, the Zootopia sloth trailer features our two furry leads, Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman),at the Department of Mammal Vehicles (DMV) to run a license plate number. As if a visit to the DMV isn’t bad enough in our world, in Zootopia the DMV is run by sloths. (In a world in which there are no humans, only animals, would it be considered PC to say that the something is moving at a sloth’s pace?)
Comedy relies on timing, and this clip is absolutely hysterical when it comes to sloth humor. Who knew sloth jokes outside the meme would be so funny? Between Judy’s frustration and Nick’s playful sensibility to mess with her, the whole clip is magical. It’s everything you would come to expect from a DMV run by sloths and it works on every level. The chemistry Nick and Judy have feels similar to classic Pixar pairings where two opposite characters must work together ala Toy Story, WALL-E, Ratatouille, Up, and Finding Nemo.
Aside from the sloth scene, we get a very quick glimpse of the big city and its inhabits. The details are incredible, with all walks of life filling the city. If Zootopia is as well conceived as this little scene and delivers what has been promised, then I sure everything else will be delightful.
(Click on any thumbnail below to begin the image gallery)
Here’s the official plot synopsis for Zootopia, courtesy of Walt Disney Animation Studios:
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps (voice of Ginnifer Goodwin) arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde (voice of Jason Bateman), to solve the mystery.
Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, Zootopia stars the voices of Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Shakira, Idris Elba, J.K. Simmons, Nate Torrence, Jenny Slate, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spencer, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, and Alan Tudyk. The film is set to release in theaters on March 4, 2016.
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Posted in Movie Trailers Tagged Alan Tudyk, Animation, Bonnie Hunt, Byron Howard, Don Lake, Ginnifer Goodwin, Idris Elba, J.K. SImmons, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Octavia Spencer, Rich Moore, Shakira, Tommy Chong, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Zootopia
D23 Expo 2015: Shakira Joins the ‘Zootopia’ Cast and Two Clips Previewed
Posted on August 14, 2015 by Tyler Schirado
As the first of the many big announcements we’ll learn this weekend at Disney’s fourt D23 Expo, it was revealed during the Walt Disney Animation Studios panel that international superstar Shakira has joined the Zootopia voice cast as the character Gazelle. Mirroring her professional career, Shakira’s character is the biggest pop sensation in Zootopia.
The singer was not present at the event, but a pre-recorded message appeared on screen for fans to see the Shakira make the announcement. In attendance, Ginnifer Goodwin, who lends her voice to the rabbit officer Judy Hopps, was joined by directors Byron Howard (Tangled) and Rich Moore (Wreck-It Ralph), as well as producer Clark Spencer.
In order to capture a fully realized animal kingdom, Moore and Howard described on stage their process of visiting wild areas of Kenya to study behavior and movements of animals in their natural habitats. They also researched animal biology and shared their insights with attendees that polar bear fur is not white, but clear. So they worked with their animation team to make sure the CG polar bear character’s hundred of thousands of hairs were clear. That’s just one aspect out of the thousands of animals living in the world of that will depicted in the film.
The filmmakers went on to discuss the animal neighborhoods, such as the upscale Dubai like Sahara Square; the snowy Russian-like territory of Tundra Town; the humid Rainforest District; and the over populated Bunny District that is host to millions of rabbits living in bunny-shaped houses built.
The Zootopia teaser trailer was released earlier this year, and fans in attendance got to see two clips, plus a tease of an all-new original song, “Try Anything,” written by Sia and performed by Shakira.
The first clip featured Judy Hopps, who comes from the outskirts of town with big city dreams. An ambitious fresh cop on the Zootopia police force, Judy is stuck on parking meter duty due to her size while bigger animals like rhinos and hippos carry out more “important” tasks. Judy is seen eating lunch at a local ice cream parlor run by an elephant. Here she encounters Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman), a con-man fox, who stops in with a little white fox he claims is his son. After a bit of coaxing, the elephant gives Wilde a jumbo pop on the house, which the sly fox then breaks apart into smaller pieces and sells individually.
The second clip shows both Nick and Judy arriving at a DMV to get some paperwork. Unfortunately for them, the DMV is operated by sloths, which delivers some comical satire. By the time Judy and Nick get what they’re looking for hours have passed as Flash the sloth works as diligently to complete their request.
The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking, scam-artist fox, Nick Wilde, to solve the mystery.
Zootopia is set to hit theaters on March 4, 2016.
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Posted in Movie News Tagged Animation, Byron Howard, D23 Expo, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Rich Moore, Shakira, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Zootopia
ZOOTOPIA Teaser Trailer Introduces Disney Fans to a New Animal Kingdom [44 Screenshots]
Posted on June 11, 2015 by Tyler Schirado
Introduced at D23 Expo 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios has now released its first Zootopia teaser trailer. Inviting audiences of all ages to explore the vast world of this new animal kingdom concocted by the House of Mouse, the concept bares similarities to Lisberger Studios’ 1980 film Animalympics. You know, that one movie where the animals were also anthropomorphic and competed against each other in their own Olympic games to show that although we are different, we can celebrate life and the importance of mutual respect.
And the Zootopia teaser trailer basically acknowledges the same direction. Proving that being different does not mean we must hate or fight one another, but it can bring us together to solve bigger problems. A message many of us could bear to comprehend more often.
The video is cute and playful, though it doesn’t provide any kind of story; just the conflict. Looking closely at each animal as they pass by, it’s funny to see a lion in a business suit or a rhino in full police gear or a sloth making its way to work – business must be slow for them.
(Click on the thumbnails below to begin the screenshot gallery)
Disney released early concept art of the Zootopia metropolis back in March:
In one year…#Zootopia. March 4, 2016. pic.twitter.com/HMKjdfFTE6
— Disney Animation (@DisneyAnimation) March 4, 2015
A closer look (click to enlarge):
And here’s the original plot synopsis that was provided during D23 Expo; it adds a little more context to the one above:
In the animal city of Zootopia, a fast-talking fox who’s trying to make it big goes on the run when he’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Zootopia’s top cop, a self-righteous rabbit, is hot on his tail, but when both become targets of a conspiracy, they’re forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends.
Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, Zootopia stars the voices of Jason Bateman and Ginnifer Goodwin. The film is set to release in theaters on March 4, 2016.
Posted in Movie Trailers Tagged Animation, Byron Howard, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Rich Moore, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Zootopia
Four Spoiler-Free Clips from ‘Wreck-it Ralph’
Posted on November 5, 2012 by Tyler Schirado
If you have yet to be convinced to go see Wreck-it Ralph, we’ve got four movie clips that could tip you over the fence for your hard earned dollars. Wreck-it Ralph is a delightful film filled with witty video game humor and tons of heart. In my mind, these four clips host no spoilers and are just extensions of scenes from the full theatrical trailer. Check them out after the jump. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Movie Clips, Movies Tagged Alan Tudyk, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Wreck-It Ralph
Become Familiar with the Characters from ‘Wreck-it Ralph’
Wreck-it Ralph has a gajillion references to classic video games such as Street Fighter, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog and more. But beyond those familiar names, Walt Disney Pictures have created three new franchises that bear recognition as they are the main attractions of this awesome gaming universe. After the jump, check out the complete bios of the heroes and villains we encounter throughout Wreck-it Ralph. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Movie Posters, Movies Tagged Alan Tudyk, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Wreck-It Ralph
Learn How ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Obtained Rights for its Classic Game Character Cameos
Posted on September 30, 2012 by Tyler Schirado
Sonic the Hedgehog, Zangief, Bowser, Q-Bert, and Clyde. When first watching the trailer to Wreck-It Ralph, the immediate thought, how was Disney able to snag all of these iconic video game characters? By cornering them at E3 of course, when they have no where to run. With all the major game developers trapped in one place, it would only make sense to grab their attention at the biggest video game convention of the year. After the jump find how much involvement the studio gave the developers, along with four brand new character posters! Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Movie Posters, Movie Tidbits, Movies Tagged Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Wreck-It Ralph
Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Full Theatrical Trailer and Poster
Within the last two years, we’ve had crowd pleasers such as ParaNorman, The Lorax, Rango, Megamind, Puss in Boots, and Kung Fu Panda 2. Now with Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wreck-It Ralph on the horizon, it may be time for Pixar to start worrying. Just from looking at the new theatrical trailer, this arcade-jumping, adventure comedy looks to bring new life to animated features with fun personable characters and incredible, fast-paced visuals. Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Movie Posters, Movie Trailers, Movies Tagged Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Rich Moore, Sarah Silverman, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Wreck-It Ralph
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Articles | December 2016
Evaluating the Biostability of Yellow and Clear Intraocular Lenses with a System Simulating Natural Intraocular Environment
Rijo Hayashi; Shimmin Hayashi; Kiyomi Arai; Shinichirou Yoshida; Makoto Chikuda; Shigeki Machida
Rijo Hayashi
Department of Ophthalmology, Koshigaya Hospital, Dokkyo Medical University, Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan
Shimmin Hayashi
Lively Eye Clinic, Soka, Saitama, Japan
Kiyomi Arai
Shinichirou Yoshida
Yoshida Eye Hospital, Hokodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Makoto Chikuda
Shigeki Machida
Correspondence: Rijo Hayashi, 2-1-50, Minamikoshigaya, Koshigaya, 343-8555, Saitama, Japan. e-mail: lhayashi@dokkyomed.ac.jp
Translational Vision Science & Technology December 2016, Vol.5, 11. doi:10.1167/tvst.5.6.11
Rijo Hayashi, Shimmin Hayashi, Kiyomi Arai, Shinichirou Yoshida, Makoto Chikuda, Shigeki Machida; Evaluating the Biostability of Yellow and Clear Intraocular Lenses with a System Simulating Natural Intraocular Environment. Trans. Vis. Sci. Tech. 2016;5(6):11. doi: 10.1167/tvst.5.6.11.
Purpose: Blue light–filtering intraocular lenses (IOLs) are thought to protect the retina from blue light damage after cataract surgery, and the implantation of yellow-tinted IOLs has been commonly used in cataract surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first investigation measuring the long-term biostability of yellow-tinted IOLs using an in vitro system simulating natural intraocular environment.
Methods: Six hydrophobic acrylic IOLs, three clear IOLs, and three yellow-tinted IOLs were included in the study. Each yellow-tinted IOL was a matching counterpart of a clear IOL, with the only difference being the lens color. The IOLs were kept in conditions replicating the intraocular environment using a perfusion culture system for 7 months. Resolution, light transmittance rate, and the modulation transfer function (MTF) were measured before and after culturing. Surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces was also measured.
Results: After culturing for 7 months, there were no changes in the resolution, the light transmittance rate, and MTF. The surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces increased after culturing; however, this increase was clinically insignificant. There were no differences in surface roughness between the clear and yellow-tinted IOLs, either before or after culturing.
Conclusions: A novel in vitro system replicating intraocular environment was used to investigate the biostability of yellow-tinted IOLs. The surface roughness showed no clinically significant increase after culturing for 7 months.
Translational Relevance: This system is useful for evaluating the biostability of IOLs.
Opacity of the crystalline lens known as cataract causes visual impairment and is responsible for 33% of the 285 million world's blindness, according to the World Health Organization. Removing the lens and implanting an intraocular lens (IOL) is currently the only available treatment. However, light transmittance through the lenses of 41- to 79-year-old humans has a peak at wavelengths 500 to 600 nm,1 thus the aged lens is considered as a natural filter that decreases the transmittance of short wavelength light (blue light, 400–450 nm) to reduce retinal phototoxicity.2 Cataract surgery involving implantation of clear IOLs increases the transmittance of light at approximately 410 nm,3 which causes visible spectrum and short wavelength radiation light to reach the retina. Reactive oxygen species induced by short wavelength blue light causes retinal pigment epithelial cell damage,4 which is considered as one of the causes inducing age-related macular degeneration. The findings of the Beaver Dam Eye Study indicated an association of cataract surgery with subsequent risk for age-related macular degeneration.5
Yellow-tinted IOLs could minimize this problem. Yellow-tinted IOLs absorb blue light and are thought to protect the retina from damage, thus helping to prevent age-related macular degeneration after cataract surgery. In addition, yellow-tinted IOLs have been reported to lower the incidence of blood-retinal barrier disruption,6 to inhibit retinal pigment epithelial cell damage from light,7 and to help prevent age-related macular degeneration. The implantation of yellow-tinted IOLs has therefore become common practice in recent years, so the biostability of these IOLs is an important issue.
We have developed a culturing system that simulates the natural intraocular environment of the eye. This system was originally designed for immersing the anterior surface of the lens in an aqueous humor culture base while immersing the posterior surface of the lens in a vitreous humor culture base.8 The biostability of IOLs could be tested using this in vitro system. In this study, clear and yellow-tinted IOLs were immersed in the culturing system perfused with artificial aqueous humor. We believe this study to be the first investigation on the surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces of IOLs and also the first comparison of yellow-tinted IOLs and clear IOLs after long-term culturing in conditions similar to the human anterior chamber.
Six types of hydrophobic acrylic IOLs were included in the study, including three clear IOLs, an AF-1 VA-60BB (Hoya, Tokyo, Japan), an AcrySof SA60AT (Alcon, Ft. Worth, TX), and a Nex-Acri N4-18B (Nidek, Aichi, Japan), and three yellow-tinted IOLs, an AF-1 YA-60BB (Hoya), an AcrySof SN60AT (Alcon), and a Nex-Acri AA N4-11YB (Nidek). Of IOLs used, yellow-tinted IOLs were compared with matching clear IOLs. For example, a yellow AF-1 YA-60BB IOL was compared with a clear AF-1 VA-60BB, with the only difference being the lens color.
This system (Fig. 1) was originally designed for culturing lenses by immersing the anterior surface of the lens in a composite aqueous humor medium and the posterior surface of the lens in a composite vitreous medium. However, as the IOLs do not usually contact the vitreous humor in vivo, both the anterior and posterior surfaces of the cultured IOLs were immersed in our composite aqueous humor, thus the septum between the composite aqueous humor and the composite vitreous was removed (Fig. 2). The composition of our composite aqueous humor is shown in Table 1. The IOLs were cultured in conditions similar to the natural intraocular environment. The volume of the culture system was equal to that of the human eye, and the composite aqueous humor was perfused at the rate of 2 μL per minute, which is the same rate as that of the human aqueous humor exchange. The IOLs were kept in the culturing chamber at 37°C for 7 months.
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In this culture system, the anterior surface of the lens immerses in an aqueous humor compartment, number 8, and the influent coming from number 1 is the composite aqueous humor. The posterior surface of the lens was immersed in a vitreous compartment, number 9, and the influent coming from number 3 is the composite vitreous. As IOLs are kept inside the lens capsule and do not contact with the vitreous in vivo, both the anterior and posterior surfaces of IOLs cultured in this study were immersed in composite aqueous humor. Thus number 3 contains the same composite humor as in number 1, and number 9 contains the same composite humor as in number 8.
The culturing system. The arrow (→) indicates the IOL in culturing. Only one IOL was shown.
Composition of the Composite Aqueous Humor
The characteristics of each IOL were measured before and after culturing. The resolution and the lens power in air were measured using an IOL meter (LM-7B; Nidek). The light transmittance rate was measured using a spectrophotometer (U-4100; Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan), and the modulation transfer function (MTF) was measured using a MTF tester (NIMO TR0815; Lambda-X, Nivelles, Belgium). Surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces was measured using a three-dimensional imaging surface structure analyzer (New View 7200; Zygo Corp., Middlefield, CT). The differences between clear and yellow-tinted IOLs were investigated before and after culturing.
Another set of same six IOLs was cultured with the same method for 7 months, and the characteristics of each IOL was measured after culturing with the same method.
Among the six IOLs, there were no changes in gross appearance, resolution, and power after 7 months of culturing (Fig. 3, Table 2). As the results of second set of IOLs were similar, only one set of results are shown in the figures. The light transmittance rates (Fig. 4) and the MTF (Fig. 5) remained the same after culturing for both clear and yellow-tinted IOLs. The roughness of the IOL surfaces was assessed using Ra values, which are the arithmetic averages of height deviations from the mean line recorded within the evaluation length. Before culturing, the Ra values of the anterior surfaces of both clear and yellow-tinted Alcon IOLs were higher than those of the other IOLs (Fig. 6). However, the Ra values of the Alcon IOLs remained almost the same after culturing. The Ra value of the Hoya yellow-tinted IOL increased the most after culturing; however, it was still less than 0.5 nm. The Ra values of the posterior surfaces of both clear and yellow-tinted Alcon IOLs were also higher than those of the other IOLs, both before and after culturing (Fig. 7), and the increases in Ra values were also higher than those in the other IOLs. After culturing, there were no significant changes in the Ra values of the Hoya and Nidek IOLs.
Among the six lenses, there were no changes in gross appearances after 7 months of culturing.
Changes in the Resolution and Lens Power Measured in Air after Culturing
The light transmittances rates remained the same after culturing. (a) VA-60BB, (b) SA-60AT, (c) N4-18B, (d)YA-60BB, (e) SN-60AT, (f) N4-11YB.
The MTF remained the same after culturing. (a) VA-60BB, (b) SA-60AT, (c) N4-18B, (d)YA-60BB, (e) SN-60AT, (f) N4-11YB.
Before culturing, the Ra values of the anterior surfaces of both clear and yellow-tinted Alcon IOLs were higher than those of other IOLs. However, the Ra value of the Alcon IOLs remained the same after culturing. The Ra of the Hoya yellow-tinted IOL increased the most after culturing, however it is still <0.5 nm. (a) Clear IOLs, (b) yellow-tinted IOLs, (c) the differences after culturing of each IOL. Surface Ra values of the first set of IOLs are shown in the figures. Surface Ra values of second set of IOLs after culturing are VA-60BB: 0.782 nm; SA-60AT: 2.564 nm; N4-18B: 0.617 nm; YA-60BB: 1.104 nm; SN-60AT: 1.703 nm; N4-11YB: 0.541 nm.
The Ra values of posterior surfaces of both clear and yellow-tinted Alcon IOLs were also higher than those of other IOLs both before and after culturing. The increases in Ra values were also higher than those of other IOLs. After culturing, there were no significant increases among Hoya and Nidek IOLs. (a) Clear IOLs, (b) yellow-tinted IOLs, (c) the differences after culturing of each IOL. Surface Ra values of the first set of IOLs are shown in the figures. Surface Ra values of second set of IOLs after culturing are: VA-60BB: 0.672 nm; SA-60AT: 2.372 nm; N4-18B: 0.897 nm; YA-60BB: 0.810 nm; SN-60AT: 2.845 nm; N4-11YB: 0.532 nm.
The yellow-tinted IOLs had a lower light transmittance than did the clear IOLs at 400 to 500 nm (Fig. 8), and these differences did not change after culturing. The MTF was the same between the clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before or after culturing (Fig. 9). For the Hoya and Nidek IOLs, there were no significant differences in anterior surface Ra values between the clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before and after culturing (Fig. 10). For the Alcon IOLs, the anterior surface Ra value of the clear IOL was higher than that of the yellow-tinted IOL, indicating that the anterior surface of the clear Alcon IOL was rougher than that of the yellow-tinted IOL. For the Hoya and Nidek IOLs, there were no significant differences in posterior surface Ra values between the clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before and after culturing (Fig. 11). For the Alcon IOLs, the posterior surface Ra value of the yellow-tinted IOL was higher than that of the clear IOL before and after culturing, indicating that the posterior surface of the yellow-tinted Alcon IOL was rougher than that of the clear IOL.
The yellow-tinted IOLs had lower light transmittance rates than clear IOLs, at 400 to 500 nm, and the differences did not change after culturing. (a–c) Before culturing, (d–f) after culturing.
The MTF was the same between clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before or after culturing. (a–c) Before culturing, (d–f) after culturing.
For Hoya and Nidek IOLs, there were no significant differences in anterior surface Ra values between clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before and after culturing. For the Alcon IOLs, the anterior surface Ra value of the clear IOL was higher than that of the yellow-tinted IOL, indicating that the anterior surface of the clear Alcon IOL was rougher than that of the yellow-tinted IOL.
For Hoya and Nidek IOLs, there were no significant differences of posterior surface Ra values between clear and yellow-tinted IOLs before and after culturing. For the Alcon IOLs, the posterior surface Ra value of the yellow-tinted IOL was higher than that of the clear IOL before and after culturing, indicating that the posterior surface of yellow-tinted Alcon IOL was rougher than that of the clear IOL.
After culturing for 7 months, there were no changes in the resolution, lens power, light transmittance rates, and MTFs of the IOLs. There were no significant changes in surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces after culturing, except for the Alcon IOLs, which significantly increased posterior surface roughness after culturing. There were no differences in resolution, lens power, or MTF between the clear and yellow-tinted IOLs, either before or after culturing. The only significant difference in surface roughness was measured when comparing the clear and yellow-tinted Alcon IOLs both before and after culturing.
The transmittance rates of the three clear IOLs were >60% at 410 nm and up to 90% at 450 nm. However, those of two yellow-tinted IOLs, YA-60BB and SN-60AT, were <15% at 410 nm and 90% at 500 nm, and that of the yellow-tinted N4-11YB IOL was higher than the other two yellow-tinted IOLs, but was still 40% at 410 nm. The results suggested that filtering of blue light by all three yellow-tinted IOLs was comparable to that of a natural-aged crystalline lens.1 In addition, the transmittance rates did not change after 7 months of culture, indicating good biostability.
In this study, the MTF of IOLs was also measured. Resolution and modulation are the two factors defining the MTF. Resolution is the ability of an imaging system to distinguish object detail. High resolution images are those that exhibit a large amount of detail and minimal blurring. Modulation of an optical system is defined as how faithfully the object contrast is transferred through an optical system. The MTF of an optical system is a measurement of its ability to transfer the object contrast at a particular resolution. An MTF graph plots the percentage of transferred modulation versus the frequency and is one of the best parameters to quantify the overall imaging performance of an optical system. All MTFs of the six IOLs included in this study changed very little after 7 months of culture, indicating the stability of imaging performance for these IOLs.
The inflammatory reaction and the posterior capsule opacity are two major postoperative complications of visual impairment. Removing the opacity of the crystalline lens and implanting an IOL significantly improves vision. However, deposits on the IOL surface, which are considered a result of the inflammatory reaction in the anterior chamber, are one of the major factors causing visual impairment. Postoperative posterior capsule opacification, caused by the migration and adhesion of lens endothelial cells (LECs), is another major factor causing visual impairment. Thus, the foreign body reaction of monocytic and macropahge cells, considered as uveal biocompatibility, and the wound-healing reaction of LECs, considered as capsular biocompatibility, are two factors that determine the surface biocompatibility of IOLs.9
The inflammatory reaction after IOL implantation is initiated by the interruption of the blood–aqueous barrier,10 followed by the adhesion of cells on the IOL surface.11 Cell adhesion on the IOL surface is assumed to be due to the adsorption of ligands of cell adhesive proteins.12 It has been reported that the degree of roughness affects the number of cells adhering to the IOL surface, and the adhesion significantly decreased when the Ra values decreased to 0.7 nm on acrylic IOLs.13 It is possible that the larger area allows more cells to contact the IOL. In the present study, the roughness of the IOL surface increased after culturing. However, the Ra values of the anterior surface increased less than 0.5 nm after culturing for all IOLs included in the study. Although the Ra values of the anterior surface of the Hoya yellow-tinted IOLs doubled after culturing, the values were still <0.7 nm, which is clinically insignificant. Before culturing, the Ra values of the anterior surfaces of the Alcon lenses were >1.5 nm; however, there was little change after culturing. Although the inflammatory reaction and behavior of LECs were not included in this study, the results described above indicate that one of the most important factors, surface roughness, changed little and may not increase the adhesion of inflammatory cells on the anterior surface of IOLs.
On the other hand, the surface roughness acts differently on the posterior surface of IOLs. It has been reported that adhesion of LECs and the collagen membrane on the optic surface prevent posterior capsule opacity and anterior capsule constriction.14 In the normal crystallin lens, LECs attach to the anterior capsule in a contact-inhibited manner. Following cataract surgery, residual LECs proliferate and migrate into the space between the posterior capsule and the IOL. These processes have been suggested to be modulated by the design, material, and surface properties of the IOLs. A sharp posterior IOL edge has been reported to prevent posterior capsule opacification by inhibiting LECs migration along the lens capsule.15 Acrylic IOLs have been reported to be associated with less posterior capsule opacification than polymethyl methacrylate IOLs16 because the sticky nature of the hydrophobic acrylic IOL possibly inhibits the migration of residual LECs.17 The Ra values of the posterior surface of the Hoya and Nidek IOLs only changed a little, while those of the Alcon IOLs increased. The Alcon Acrylof IOLs had a greater surface roughness, which may increase adhesion of proteins, such as fibronectin, to the optic surface,18 resulting in an increase in the sticky nature and inducing adhesion of LECs19 and collage membranes,20 further leading to the prevention of posterior capsule opacification.
In conclusion, when using an in vitro culture system simulating the natural intraocular environment for 7 months, there were no changes in the resolution, light transmittance rate, and lens power in air of the yellow-tinted IOLs. The surface roughness of the anterior and posterior surfaces increased after culturing; however, it was clinically insignificant, and the biostability of the yellow-tinted IOLs was the same as the clear IOLs. This system is useful for evaluating the biostability of IOLs.
Disclosure: R. Hayashi, None; S. Hayashi, None; K. Arai, None; S. Yoshida, None; M. Chikuda, None; S. Machida, None
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Overpowered Gaming Desktop (DTW3)
By Tom Brant Dec 04, 2018
The Overpowered Gaming Desktop is easy on the eyes and offers smooth gameplay at resolutions up to 1440p, but it isn't quite the scorching value you might expect given its exclusive retailer, Walmart.
Powerful desktop gaming PCs do more than just let you play the latest titles with smooth visuals. Most also offer easy upgrades, blingy cases and fans kitted out with LED illumination, and sometimes head-turning designs, such as compact cubes. What they typically lack is wallet-friendliness, and the Overpowered Gaming Desktop (starts at $1,399; $2,099 as tested) is no exception. It looks the part and delivers very good performance, but despite it being a Walmart exclusive, it's not the parts-for-money value that you might expect.
A Vision of Power, Under Glass
Many PC gamers have strong opinions about how their desktops should look, which is why boutique builders such as Falcon Northwest, Maingear, and Origin PC offer a dizzying array of customization options, everything from dual graphics cards to flecked metallic-paint finishes. The Overpowered Gaming Desktop line, manufactured by Esports Arena and available only at Walmart, offers none of that customization, but it does offer enough bling to keep the gaming brigade interested.
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The version I'm reviewing is the DTW3, the most expensive of three different fixed configurations Walmart is offering. Before you plug it in and turn it on, its clean lines and black exterior are pleasing to the eye, if not necessarily exciting. The front panel is a sheet of glass, mounted to the front of the chassis with a roughly half-inch gap to facilitate airflow into three fans. The left panel is also solid glass, embossed with a love-it-or-hate-it "OP" logo, and four thumbscrews make it easy to remove for component access. Both panes are tinted black to match the black metal of the rest of the case, and they're translucent enough to allow you to gaze at the components within through the internal-lighting haze.
The front panel has little more than its own OP logo to interrupt its glass expanse, which means that the I/O ports that might have otherwise been added to it are mounted on the case's top. These ports comprise three USB ports (two USB 3.0, one USB 2.0), and discrete 3.5mm audio jacks for headphone and mic.
Around back, you'll see a familiar assortment of both old-fashioned and cutting-edge ports connected directly to the motherboard. The group comprises a PS/2 port, six USB ports (three USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, and a USB Type-C connector), an Ethernet jack, and a cluster of six audio ports. Also on the I/O panel are DisplayPort and HDMI video outputs, but you won't be using those, since the desktop also comes with a discrete graphics card.
In the DTW3's case, that card is Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and it occupies the two uppermost PCI Express card slots. The generous selection of video outputs available on this Gigabyte version of the GTX 1080 Ti comprises three DisplayPorts, an HDMI, and a legacy DVI.
The GTX 1080 Ti is certainly a proficient GPU, but it's nearing retirement and has already been usurped in Nvidia's lineup by the GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The Overpowered Gaming Desktop would be a bit more compelling and future-proof if it offered one of those two cutting-edge cards, which support ray-tracing and several other forward-looking technologies. Base models of the RTX 2080 aren't much costlier than the GTX 1080 Ti.
As for the storage scheme, the Overpowered Gaming Desktop I have on hand comes with two storage drives: a 512GB SATA solid-state drive (SSD) and a 2TB platter hard drive with a 7,200rpm spin rate.
All told, the system weighs 25 pounds and measures 17.8 by 8.5 by 16.5 inches (HWD).
An Organized Interior
Inside the chassis, cables are well-organized, and you'll see plenty of room to access and upgrade the components. In fact, you might even say there's some wasted space, since the system uses a MicroATX motherboard despite the fact that the case's motherboard tray has room enough for a larger full-ATX board, which might afford you room to install some extra PCI Express add-ins. As it is, the existing motherboard does have a second PCI Express x16 slot that you can access and use, unblocked by the video card, but you'll want to note a further wrinkle around what it can take.
The motherboard is an H370-chipset model, which does not support SLI or CrossFire multiple-video-card arrangements. (You'd need a board based on the Z370 chipset to accommodate that.) H370 also doesn't support CPU overclocking. That's not an issue for the factory configuration of this machine, which ships with a locked Intel Core i7-8700 CPU (as opposed to the overclockable Core i7-8700K), but don't plan on using this desktop as a base to grow into an overclockable powerhouse later on. (The CPU air cooler that comes installed isn't much of a breeze-pusher for serious overclocking, anyway.)
As you'd expect in a midrange gaming desktop, a few of the components have some integrated LEDs that boost the flair factor. The exhaust fan at back and the three fans mounted at the front of the case to draw air in all feature customizable RGB lighting, and the Gigabyte logo on the graphics card lights up in various colors, too. There's no RGB RAM, or any additional case lighting beyond the fans, but the customization options largely make up for that. To adjust the lights, you can use the little included remote control, or press a button on the top of the case to cycle through various color modes.
Missing from the Overpowered Gaming Desktop are a bundled mouse and keyboard (no big deal—you should buy your own anyway) and any form of Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection (potentially a big deal, though you can always use the PCI Express slot for a PCIe x1 Wi-Fi card). You get a standard one-year warranty, and Walmart also offers its own extended warranties in three- or four-year flavors for an additional charge.
Serious Graphics Horsepower: To the Test
If you're going to spend more than $2,000 on a desktop at Walmart, customizable lighting is all well and good, but what you ought to be getting for the money is performance.
The components inside suggest that the Overpowered Gaming Desktop can chew through anything that less-demanding games, such as esports titles and MMOs, can throw at it. It should also offer super-smooth frame rates on more demanding games at 1080p or even 1440p screen resolutions.
To find out if that's the case, I compared the Overpowered Gaming Desktop's performance on PCMag's suite of gaming benchmarks with a few of its chief competitors: the Acer Predator Orion 5000, the Corsair Vengeance Gaming PC 5180, and the Velocity Micro Raptor Z55. These are the details on the competing configs...
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On the 3DMark Sky Diver and Fire Strike graphics benchmarks, which render sequences of highly detailed, gaming-style 3D graphics that emphasize particles and lighting, the Overpowered Gaming Desktop performed slightly better than both the Acer and the Corsair (the latter equipped with a newer-generation GeForce RTX 2080 card, the former with a lesser GeForce GTX 1080), though it lagged a touch behind the Velocity Micro Raptor.
The Velocity's much-overclocked Core i7-8086K Limited Edition CPU likely accounted for the better showing there. Also, in PC Labs' separate video card tests, the GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce 1080 Ti didn't score all that far apart on gaming benchmarks, so the close results between the Overpowered PC and the Corsair model are no surprise.
The Sky Diver and Fire Strike tests offer proprietary scores that are good for measuring relative performance. For a more real-world metric, check out the Unigine Superposition benchmark. At 1080p resolution, the Overpowered Gaming desktop achieved an average frame rate of 113 frames per second (fps). That is significantly better than the Acer and its GeForce GTX 1080, and on par with both the Velocity Micro and the Corsair.
In general, an average frame rate of around 100fps at a full HD (1080p) resolution should offer enough headroom to play today's most demanding titles, as well as games that are released in the next few years.
Real-World Gaming Performance
Still, benchmark results, even ones that report frame rates, don't always reflect actual gameplay. So I also ran a few tests using actual games. On the grueling title Far Cry 5, the Overpowered Gaming Desktop offered an average of 122fps on the Ultra quality setting at 1080p. That dipped to 101fps when I switched to 1440p at the same quality setting, and further to a still-respectable 56fps at a 4K resolution.
The results were much the same with another AAA game, Rise of the Tomb Raider. On that game, the Overpowered system rendered at an average of 118fps at 1080p and 64fps at 4K on the Very High quality preset.
These frame rates confirm that 1080p or 1440p gaming won't present a problem for the Overpowered Gaming Desktop, even with demanding games. However, they also show that if you've got a 4K monitor, you might occasionally experience frame dips that affect the smoothness of play if you use that resolution. A frame rate of 60fps is generally adequate, but remember that's an average score, and anything below that can result a bit of lag and stuttering on the screen, especially if you engage the in-game V-Sync feature.
Play Hard, Work Hard
With this much graphics horsepower, the Overpowered Gaming Desktop isn't good only at gaming. It took just 2 minutes and 21 seconds to apply a series of 10 filters to a test image in PC Labs' Adobe Photoshop CC trial, a result that makes it competitive with the Corsair and noticeably faster than the Acer. Partly thanks to its higher CPU clock speed and additional VRAM, though, the Velocity Micro is faster still, at just 2:01.
All three of the competing systems were faster than the Overpowered Gaming Desktop on the Cinebench R15 test, a synthetic benchmark that taxes all of a CPU's available cores and threads. Despite this relatively disappointing showing, the Overpowered's score of 1,228 is still excellent for a consumer PC, and along with the Photoshop result, suggests that it would make a proficient multimedia editing workstation.
And, of course, if it's good at Far Cry 5 and Photoshop, it had better be excellent at basic tasks like editing spreadsheets, tweaking photos, and streaming web videos. Its results of 5,078 on the PCMark 10 productivity benchmark and 4,883 on the PCMark 8 Storage test confirm this, though these figures are very similar across this competitive set.
So...Does Walmart Deliver a Deal?
The Overpowered Gaming Desktop performs admirably, is well-built, and even includes the customizable lighting and interior organization that many PC gamers covet. But Acer, Corsair, Velocity Micro, and other better-known brands offer all that, as well. So to truly rise above the field of midrange gaming machines, the Overpowered offering needs to provide the healthy dose of value for which its retail-giant seller is famous.
Unfortunately, this test configuration does not, whether you compare it with a pre-built PC or with individual components that you assemble yourself. If you take the DIY route, you could build a system with comparable components for around $1,700, based on current list prices. Even if you value the warranty and labor that the Overpowered Gaming Desktop gains for you at $400 more, you're barely breaking even.
The story is much the same when you look at competing pre-built systems. For instance, you can currently buy a Lenovo Legion T730 gaming desktop with a Core i9-9900K, a GeForce RTX 2080 card, 32GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and a 2TB hard drive for $1,800. Or, for just $300 more than the Overpowered's list price, you could pick up the the GTX 2080-powered Corsair Vengeance Gaming PC 5180, PCMag's current Editors' Choice award winner for best midrange gaming desktops.
Of course, pricing changes all the time, especially during the holiday season. For instance, last week Walmart was offering a $200 discount on the version of the Overpowered Gaming Desktop I'm reviewing. That could tip the scales a little more in its favor, especially if you actually like the clean-but-plain styling. In that case, you're in for a very enjoyable trip to Walmart. Otherwise, you'll want to shop some of the alternatives I've suggested above.
Bottom Line: The Overpowered Gaming Desktop is easy on the eyes and offers smooth gameplay at resolutions up to 1440p, but it isn't quite the scorching value you might expect given its exclusive retailer, Walmart.
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UPDATE 1-SocGen and Absa join forces on wholesale banking in Africa
Emma Rumney, Inti Landauro
* Banks say arrangement gives them unique footprint
* Absa also buys SocGen unit in South Africa
* Shares in both banks flat, investors sceptical (Recasts, adds Absa interview, context, shares, investor comment)
By Emma Rumney and Inti Landauro
JOHANNESBURG/PARIS, Jan 18 (Reuters) - French bank Societe Generale and South Africa’s Absa joined forces in Africa on Friday, partnering on corporate and investment banking to broaden their reach across the continent.
The agreement will lead to a closer relationship between the two after Absa, one of South Africa’s biggest lenders, split from its former parent, Britain’s Barclays, in 2017.
It will see them leverage one another’s complementary geographic footprints and product sets, with Absa strong across southern and eastern Africa and SocGen well established in western and North Africa.
“We mirror each other very well,” Nothando Ndebele, head of financial institutions group at Absa’s corporate and investment bank, told Reuters by phone, adding it would be hard to find another bank with that footprint.
Absa has set itself a series of targets as it tries to make a name for itself as a pan-African, standalone bank.
It said the arrangement would give it a bigger share of its clients’ wallets, and help meet its target of doubling its share of banking revenues in Africa from 6 to 12 percent.
SocGen Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea said in a statement it made sense to join forces as firms on the continent developed increasingly sophisticated banking needs.
The banks will also work together to serve Chinese firms on the continent - a lucrative market. Absa will also purchase SocGen’s South African business offering custody, trustee and clearing services, for an undisclosed price.
Oudea is trying to boost profitability at SocGen by exiting countries and businesses where it lacks critical size and capacity for synergies.
That has seen SocGen sell banks in Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria and Serbia. The bank seeks to offload banks holding as much as 5 percent of its weighted assets, or close to 17.5 billion euros ($19.96 billion).
Richard Southbey, head of wholesale cash management at Absa’s corporate and investment bank, told Reuters the price of the South African purchase was not material for Absa, but filled a hole in its offering.
Cooperating with SocGen also allayed concerns Absa would not be able to serve its multinational clients well, or would struggle to compete with larger players, after its separation from Barclays, said Patrice Rassou, head of equities at Sanlam Investments, a top ten investor in Absa.
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Greg Pak and Stephen Segovia (Writers), Dennis Crisostomo (Inker), Jessica Kholinne (Colourist), VC’s Joe Sabino (Letters), Julian Totino Tedesco (Cover), Salvador Larroca with Marte Gracia (Varient Cover), Jeannie Schaefer (Editor), Nick Lowe (Group Editor), Axel Alonso (Editor in Chief), Joe Qeusada (Chief Creative Officer), Dan Buckley (Publisher), Alan Fine (Executive Producer)
On an alternate world, a device powered by a hundred severed heads of Xavier teleport the population and cities of an exploding planet to a brand new home in another reality. The teleport, though, creates a problem as a portal opens up in the sky. In the 616 universe, Dazzler is on a date with a man named Johnny. Just as they are bonding, however, Cyclops calls her back to Utopia. The X-Club has fixed the ghost box he recently used and he wants to activate it so he can help his friends from the alternate reality. When Dazzler uses her power to charge up the ghost box and open up its portal, dozens of tentacles emerge from it, along with alternate versions of some of the X-Men. Dazzler beats back the tentacles but is grabbed by more from another portal. The newly arrived alternate X-Men go after her through the portal just as it closes. On the other side, they come across the source of the tentacles: a squid-like alternate version of Xavier. It attacks them but Howlett is immune to its attacks and kills it. A benevolent Xavier tells the team that the mass teleport they arranged across dimensions has awoken up ten evil Xaviers in the multiverse and they need to be killed. He then uses his powers to teleport them to the first reality, which looks like an ancient Greek setting, where the team is subsequently met by more alternate versions of X-Men.
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With a look of concentration on his face, Charles Xavier introduces himself and says that he believes in infinity. A voice calls out to a boy and asks what the holdup is. Kid Nightcrawler is wearing a cerebra helmet and is sitting on a device in the center of a round room. Attached to the device are dozens of glass orbs, each one containing the severed, let living, head of a Charles Xavier.
Kid Nightcrawler apologizes and says he has linked the Xavier heads and has given them a directive. They’re crunching the numbers and should be ready to jump. Xavier continues and says that once you accept infinity you accept the multiverse with its innumerable parallel worlds and “you’s.” He says it’s just science, ask any physicist.
In the streets, the people are running around in fear as buildings start to crumble. Howlett speaks to Kid Nightcrawler over the radio and tells him they are out of time, as the planet is breaking up. Behind him, Armor and Storm are trying to stop a building from falling down and crushing people.
Xavier asks what else but infinity could explain not just the infinitesimal possibility, but also the absolute inevitability, that one days a team of cross-dimensional X-Men – including Captain James Howlett, Emmaline Frost-Summers and Kurt Waggoner – would direct a hundred of his severed heads from their own realities to find an alternate Earth and teleport the entire human population of an exploding planet to a new home?
Kid Nightcrawler is watching over the Xaviers as they make the event happen. Entire cities, buildings and all are teleported to a new reality. Once they arrive, the chaos in the streets stops and the population stops to marvel at their new home. In the chamber, Kid Nightcrawler rejoices that it actually worked but his joy is cut short when all the Xaviers cry out in pain and their glass containers shatter. Using her telepathy, Emmaline explains that they overloaded themselves, as no-one has ever teleported six billion people and hundreds of trillions of tons of architecture all at once before.
One of the Xaviers remains intact and he tells Emmaline that it’s not just that; something has gone wrong or maybe it’s not gone right. In the sky above, a portal starts to appear. Xavier tells Kurt to look to it and then says that in all the universe of infinite possibilities someone was eventually going to usher in the end of everything.
(Meanwhile in our world, San Francisco)
On a street in San Francisco, Dazzler is dressed in her silver stage costume. Holding a microphone, she addresses a small crowd and tells them that she knows it’s hard. Who doesn’t want to jump off this crazy ol’ world most days? But she’s been through it all and she’s still here…she’s Alison Blaire… The Dazzler. And that means she’s here for all of them.
Only it isn’t the real Dazzler but a male impersonator instead. The crowd look on unbelieving as “Dazzler” continues and says he knows what they are going through and he swears today he will never let them go. One of the onlookers, a man in a hoodie, starts to laugh as another man scowls at him. As “Dazzler” starts to sing, the man in the hoodie shouts for him to play Freebird. The man who was scowling at his tells him that isn’t cool. None of them notice a woman walking towards them. She is carrying a guitar case on her back and is hanging her head down low under a cowboy cap.
As she walks past the singing impersonator, she waves her hand and light comes out of it, though it is unseen by the crowd. As the impersonator belts out one of Dazzler’s songs, bright, colorful light suddenly surrounds him to the amazement of the crowd. The crowd suddenly gets into the song and start to dance. The impersonator looks out at the woman and gives her a wink. The woman, the real Dazzler, walks away smiling as a voice calls her shameless. Alison says that she always sticks up for the underdog, particularly when it’s her.
The voice belongs to a young Asian man who also has a guitar strapped to his back. Alison apologizes and says she doesn’t usually show-off on a second date. The man says if he had impersonators and magic powers then he would have done the same thing. Alison corrects him telling him, it’s mutant powers. As the walk up to an ice-cream van, the man tells her not to get all “sciency” on him but she just says that it’s Homo superior 101.
The man says that he doesn’t know all about that… he’s just Johnny Ito, a simple country session musician… but he knows magic when he sees it. Johnny becomes embarrassed and asks if that was corny. As they take a couple of ice-cream cones Alison asks him if she’s blushing. He tells her she is and so she replies that corny works. She points out that he’s now blushing but he brushes it off saying it was a sympathetic reflex like yawning… and he’s still wrapping himself around the fact that she just called it a date.
As they walk across the street, Johnny starts babbling about how they were just hanging out after rehearsals but everyone else left except the two of them and then it happened, two days in a row. Alison interrupts him and tells him she thinks he’s cute when he self-depreciates. He smiles at her and says that accounts for about 28 percent of the cuteness. Alison smiles back and bites her finger nail as she tells him she is about to make some rash decisions. However, before she can go on, her phone starts ringing. When she looks at the display, she sees the call is coming from Utopia, much to her annoyance.
(Utopia)
As they walk through the Utopia complex, Dazzler tells Madison Jeffries that it had better be good, as she was about to get lucky. He tells her that he will pretend he didn’t hear that, to which Dazzler quips that it’s “all coming up Dazzler.” Madison says that they have rebuilt the ghost box that teleported Cyclops back from his alternate world adventure. Dazzler comments that she loves the way it trips off his tongue as if that’s totally normal. Madison replies that it actually is, for the X-Men. He continues and says that Cyclops made some friends in that reality and he thinks that they are in trouble.
As they approach one of the research labs, they overhear Cyclops and Danger talking. Cyclops says they don’t have time to fool around; if they need a power source he’s got it covered. Danger tells him his optic blasts aren’t directly convertible but Cyclops interrupts him and says that he has seen the specs and the ghost box requires a massive amount of energy. Just as he starts questioning Dazzler’s powers, she walks in and loudly clears her throat. As Cyclops greets her, she says she heard that Cyclops was running a little low on awesome.
Madison walks over to a device that is holding a ghost box. He starts it up and tells Dazzler that he can create any sound she likes. To his surprise, she gets out her guitar and tells him that she has better control her way. Danger starts to tell her how the system is built but Dazzler just asks where to hit it. Danger simply tells her to hit the little red dot. As she starts playing her guitar, she begins to generate bursts of light around her. She tells Cyclops not to sweat it, as she understands it’s easy to underestimate “the Dazz.” Even she has trouble putting confidence in a former drug-addict disco queen with daddy issues and one hit record to her name. But some days you walk down the street and realize your dopey behind-the-music life may have made a difference to somebody in some way… so it’s all good.
With that Dazzler lets out a blast of light that hits the ghost box. Madison tells her that was perfect and Danger says it is at 100 percent powered.
As the ghost box turns on and starts to open up a portal, Cyclops thanks Dazzler and tells her to stand back. Before he can finish, though, dozens of huge tentacles reach through the portal. Along with the tentacles, Kid Nightcrawler, Xavier, Emmaline and Howlett jump through. Howlett yells to Cyclops to close the portal or the whole world will die. Before he can react, Cyclops is hit by a blast coming from one of the tentacles. Nearby, Madison and Danger are both flung through the air as Dazzler dives for cover.
On the floor Cyclops is bleeding but he recognizes his friends from the other dimension. Dazzler grabs her guitar and starts playing. As she swings her arms around, she lets out daggers of light that hit some of the tentacles, which are in turn sliced apart. Wrapped up in one of the tentacles, Howlett yells to Dazzler to shut it down. Danger agrees with him but starts to malfunction due to her injuries. As Cyclops starts to get up, Dazzler tells him to stay down. She runs towards the portal and tells him not to worry… this b-side rocks. With that, she leaps in the air and lets out a huge blast of light right into the core of the tentacles.
However, some more tentacles wrap around her and pull her through another portal. Kid Nightcrawler yells for the other not to let it get away. Emmaline, picking her fur coat off the floor, asks why… as “away” is good. Howlett tells her that in his world it is considered bad form to let the monster eat the girl. Emmaline replies that she seems fairly well grown and she can take care of herself. Kid Nightcrawler grabs the rest of his team and tells them to get ready. As Emmaline tells them it’s a bad idea, he teleports them through the portal to Dazzler and the source of the tentacles. Dazzler yells for them to wait, as it would just be better to teleport her out instead of everyone else in.
They arrive on the other side of the portal to find themselves in a huge cave. In the middle of the cave is a giant, squid-like creature with a huge, exposed brain which has lots of cables coming out of it. The squid-creature lets them go and they stare at it in shock and disgust. Xavier tells them that it’s what Xavier looks like on this world. With that, the Xavier-squid lets out a psychic blast that causes the team to collapse on the floor in agony. All, that is, except Howlett. Xavier tells him it’s all up to him. With that, Howlett leaps forward at the Xavier-squid and starts slashing at it with his golden claws, spraying blue blood everywhere.
As the rest of the team start to recover, Dazzler asks how he did that. Howlett replies that he has an adamantine-laced skull that protects him from psychic attacks. Howlett introduces himself to her as James Howlett, Former Governor General of dominion of Canada and Viceroy of her Majesty’s expedition to Shangri-la. She replies and says she’s Alison Blaire but everyone calls her the Dazzler. Emmaline says that they don’t on her world. As Dazzler starts to ask what they call her, Emmaline cuts her off and tells her not in polite company.
Kid Nightcrawler turns to Dazzler and explains that she is Emmaline Frost-Summers of the Albion X-Society. He then whispers that actually she isn’t that polite. He then introduces himself as Kurt Waggoner of PS 1214, Brooklyn of the United States of California. He tells Dazzler that he has her album, or rather the album of the Dazzler from his world. He says he has never heard anyone play the accordion the way she does.
The Xavier head in a jar then comes forward and introduces himself. Dazzler jokes that he must be from the no-body world. He tells her it’s a long story, so he’ll cut to the chase.
A hundred other Xaviers and he just saved the entire human population of a dying planet in the largest trans-dimensional teleportation ever attempted. Kurt chips in and says it was awesome, they even moved the cats too. Dazzler tells him that was impressive but she didn’t think the Xavier on her world had that kind of power. Xavier tells her that neither did they… alone. He goes on and tells her he can concentrate enough information to create a miniature black hole, warp space and time and trans-dimensionally teleport a handful of people at a time. Only by combining all their powers could they transport so many… and that’s what caused the problem. They broke something in the multiverse… or rather created something.
Howlett says he is losing track of the cut-to-the-chase part. Xavier tells them he has a mission for them. Across the multiverse, ten different Xaviers a thousand times more powerful than the squid-Xavier have been awakened. They must find them and kill them before they destroy all of creation.
Dazzler tells him there are about a jillion problems with that plan. She says that firstly X-Men don’t kill, a fact which Howlett can’t quite believe. And secondly, assuming everything else about the story is true, how do they know that he isn’t the first evil Xavier? Emmaline says that he is telling the truth, to which Dazzler says that maybe she is an evil Xavier too. Emmaline tells Dazzler that maybe she is as well. Dazzler says that maybe she is so don’t mess with her. Kurt stands in the middle of the group and asks what they are fighting for, as they all know they are going to do this. When Emmaline asks why that is, Kurt replies that it’s because they are X-Men.
As Xavier tells them to prepare for the first jump, Dazzler tries to object but it’s too late. The team starts to move through time and space. As they do so, they see an image of a man sitting on the stairs outside a house whilst playing a guitar. Dazzler recognizes the man as Johnny and calls out to him but Xavier tells her he can’t hear. Dazzler thinks they are going to her world but Xavier corrects her and says they are just on transit and that her psyche is reaching him through the cracks. He says he would appreciate it if she would stop but she tells him the heart wants what the heart wants. As she stares at him she says she was supposed to meet him at eight and he’s getting stood up as they speak. Just then a woman approaches Johnny and hugs him much to Dazzler’s alarm. She reaches out to him but the image disappears as the team reaches their destination.
They arrive in a courtyard that styled in a similar fashion to the ancient Greek or Roman times. Large columns made of stone hold up buildings, which in turn are decorated with carved scenes and statues. Dazzler curses as they arrive and Howlett asks what’s wrong. As she starts to tell him it’s nothing, a voice yells out and calls them blasphemers. The voice belongs to a guard dressed in ancient Roman-style armor. He orders the other guards to kill them, and with that they let out a flurry of arrows at the team. Dazzler creates a shield made of light above them to deflect the arrows.
Kurt points out they have swords too as the guards charge them. Howlett engages the guards and shatters their swords with his claws. Dazzler looks towards the guards and asks how hard this can be. Just as she says that, another voice calls out and orders them to kneel. The team look up to see this world’s version of Angel, Storm, Iceman, Namor, Sabretooth and Thor looking down at them. They are dressed in a similar fashion to the guards, except their armor looks much more ornate and is gold. Angel continues his orders for them to kneel down and pay homage to the gods of the temple they so foolishly desecrate. In reply to Dazzler’s earlier question, Kurt simply says “that hard.”
Characters Involved:
Dazzler, Cyclops (all X-Men)
Madison Jeffries, Danger (all X-Club)
Kid Nightcrawler, James Howlett, Emmaline Frost-Summers, Armor, Storm, numerous Xavier heads (all X-men on alternate world)
Inhabitants of exploding world
Squid-Xavier
Johnny Ito
Dazzler impersonator
Crowd of people listening to Dazzler impersonator
Storm, Iceman, Sabretooth, Angel, Namor, Thor (residents of ancient Greek world)
Story Notes:
Emmaline first appeared in Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes #1 special. Kid Nightcrawler and Howlett first appeared in Astonishing X-Men. They all come from different realities but were brought together by an evil counterpart of Charles Xavier, who intended on using their energies as a power source for his world. The evil Xavier was ultimately defeated by 616 Cyclops and the remaining alternate X-Men stayed on the world to help repair it. [Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #44-47]
A Ghost Box is a device used to open up portals between dimensions.
This issue takes place before the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover.
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David Goyer: I never spoke to Wesley Snipes again after nightmarish ‘Blade 3’ shoot
Chris Eggertsen 01.06.16 4 years ago
Is there a fourth Blade movie in the works? Wesley Snipes told IGN at last year's San Diego Comic Con that he and Marvel are indeed developing another film in the cult vampire-action franchise, but don't ask Blade I-III writer (and Blade: Trinity director) David S. Goyer about it — he's not even in on the discussions.
“I'm not involved with it,” Goyer told me while out promoting his forthcoming supernatural horror film The Forest. “I don't know to what extent Marvel really has been working on that or not. I can tell you I was with [Blade 2 director] Guillermo del Toro today and we were talking about it, and he's heard nothing about it either. So if Marvel's working on it, they're not working on it with us, which is perfectly fine. I'm not sure that I would do a Blade film again.”
He's not kidding. According to various reports (including one extensive first-hand account from co-star Patton Oswalt), by the end of Blade: Trinity's shoot Snipes had cut off direct communication with Goyer and would only leave his trailer to do close-ups, leaving the rest of the performance to his stand-in. Oswalt even claimed that at one point Snipes attempted to strangle the director. So, needless to say…
“That was the most personally and professionally difficult and painful thing I've ever been through,” said Goyer. “Having said that, I have incredibly fond memories of working with Ryan [Reynolds] and Jessica [Biel] and a lot of people on the movie. Ryan and I remain really good friends today. It was a challenged shoot, as has been reported. What can I say?”
A long shot, but I figured I might as well ask: has Goyer spoken to Wesley Snipes since?
“No, no,” he responded grimly. “We've never spoken again.”
I suppose the question now is: which director out there is brave enough to direct Snipes in another Blade movie? We may find out, if Blade 4 ever comes to fruition.
TAGSBlade 3Blade 4BLADE TRINITYDAVID GOYERDavid Goyer interviewDAVID S. GOYERProduction TroublesWESLEY SNIPES
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Indonesia Begins Slaughtering Poultry
2 June 2006, at 12:00am
INDONESIA - Officials slaughtered more than 1,000 poultry Thursday in an Indonesian village where preliminary tests showed a 15-year-old boy died from bird flu, as the country struggled with a sudden rise in deaths averaging one every 2 1/2 days last month. About 1,300 chickens were killed within a half mile of the boy's house in the Tasikmalaya district of West Java province, said Budi Utama, head of the local animal and fisheries agency. Indonesian tests on Wednesday found that the boy had contracted the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus, and officials were awaiting confirmation from a World Health Organization-sanctioned laboratory in Hong Kong. A hospitalized 8-year-old girl from Pamulang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, also tested positive in local tests, Nyoman Kandun, a senior Health Ministry official, said Thursday. <i>Source: sfgate.com</i>
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Fun bubbles up on Saskatoon Opera stage for Die Fledermaus
It’s the perfect accompaniment for this sparkling, celebratory production. Headed to its 40th season, our local opera company’s latest main stage offering will have audiences — literally and figuratively — raising a glass.
Heather Persson, Saskatoon StarPhoenix
The Remai Arts Centre concession added bubbly to the bar menu for the run of Saskatoon Opera’s Die Fledermaus — and audiences should plan on picking up a glass before taking their seats.
It’s the perfect accompaniment for this sparkling, celebratory production. Headed to its 40th season, our local opera company’s latest main stage offering will have audiences — literally and figuratively — raising a glass. (Plus, there is a musical tribute to the “king of effervescence” in the second and third acts that creates a craving.)
For those who have always been meaning to try and opera, this is a perfect place to start. The surtitles, the different languages, and the perceived stuffiness of the medium can frighten people off. (For the record, this reviewer sees these prejudices as false and beyond unfortunate.) Here, we have an opera sung in English and a light-as-air storyline. The score by Johann Straus has many recognizable moments. Die Fledermaus could woo many.
An added attraction lies in the fact a Saskatchewan product, Keith Boldt, plays the lead role of Gabriel von Eisenstein. After travelling the world and finding a spot with Oper Leipzig in Germany, he is home and the talents he has been developing are on full display. His powerful physical presence on the stage is matched by a strong voice and a willingness to embrace the campy silliness this opera demands.
The leading ladies are on point. Jessica Strong’s Rosalinde and Danika Loren’s Adele were vocally impressive and comically compelling from start to finish. Loren is another local product in which the province can take pride.
In the opera, Alfred the opera singer (Andrew Haji) makes Rosalinde swoon every time he starts to sing. Haji’s beautiful voice — rich and romantic — made this storyline completely believable. His work is a highlight of the production.
The minimalist set design, by Victoria Zimski Guido Tondino, works well in highlighting the present day costuming. Yoga mats, cell phones and a riff from the pop star Adele make seamless appearances.
The night started off with a little drama off stage with a fire alarm, but the curtain still almost went up on time. The whole event was taken in stride and with the good humour that infused the spirit of the evening.
Private donors were celebrated by board chair Spence McKnight in the intro, as they provide about half of the organization’s annual budget. Perhaps opera fans can budget an extra contribution into their night out to help ensure we get our annual fix of a full production of the art form.
Flat Out Food: The real cost behind cheap food At the Galleries
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Thoughts, walks, forks.
Drifting downstream: the rivers of Northern Laos
Landlocked Laos may not lie adjacent to any ocean but it more than compensates with a twisting network of rivers that crisscross the country like veins. In the rainy season, the rivers rage with wild rapids. However, visit in the drier season (I was there in March) and you’ll be rewarded with one of the jewels in the crown of Northern Laos: a slow boat trip down the Nam Ou.
From travellers I had met in Vietnam, reports of Laos did not tend to be glowing. ‘Just go for a couple of weeks,’ we were advised, with warnings that it was a bit boring. After 24 hours, we utterly disagreed. I cannot deny that Laos is hands down the most laid back place I have ever visited. Everything happens in slow motion; its languid rivers flow lazily through shallow valleys; even the dogs are more chilled out as they lounge in the shade. But I think that this is a huge part of its charm. Relax into its dreamy vibes and you’ll find yourself spending longer there than you planned.
After an exhausting journey from Vietnam, we spent the night in a guesthouse in Muang Khua which clung precariously to the sides of the riverbank, accessible only over a rickety bridge which was only sketchily nailed together. Our landlady didn’t speak a word of English but shyly smiled and showed us to our rooms. The walls were made from woven bamboo and for the first time felt homely; mosquito nets foamed down from the ceiling onto piles of blankets and from the window we could see the gentle flow of the Nam Ou. For less than £2 for a night, it was not a sore deal. Dinner was slow in coming – we would learn that everything in Laos happens in Laos time – but delicious. It was our first experience of Laos sticky rice, which generally is cooked at breakfast time and eaten with every meal.
Sticky rice is made from a specific opaque rice grain called glutinous rice and has been cultivated throughout South East Asia for over a thousand years. About 85% of all rice in Laos is of this type. It is steamed and comes in little wicker baskets with a top attached with string. Eat it with your hands, rolling it into walnut-sized balls, and dip it into whatever you choose to eat it with. Eat it all the time for every meal. It. Is. Incredible. Stay tuned on the blog for my Ode to Sticky Rice. There is an age-old debate as to whether sticky rice is traditionally Thai or Lao. Having travelled round both, I would argue that it is hands-down Lao. Sticky rice for life.
After a comfortable nights sleep, we were up bright and early for the slow boat at 8 which came at 9.30. Papaya and mango with Lao coffee for breakfast before heading down to the stone ramp that went down to the river. We handed our backpacks down onto the boat, a long wooden riverboat painted blue with a wooden covering held down by bricks. We climbed aboard. Bags went down one end; people on the other. I folded my waterproof over to make a cushion to sit on and folded up my knees slightly to fit into the width of the boat. When everybody was on, ropes were untied and the woman driving the boat pushed off from the river bank with an oar so that we were slowly free-floating down the river.
The scenery was beautiful as we drifted downstream. Striking karst hills carpeted in a cloak of emerald greenery flanked the Nam Ou as it wound through flat-bottomed valleys. The sky was a pale forget-me-not blue edged with wispy clouds that clung to the limestone peaks climbing upwards into jagged triangulations. The sun shone serenely through a lazy haze, warm and balmy, while a gentle breeze cooled the skin. There was an occasional spray of water as our vessel surged through rougher parts of the river.
We occasionally stopped the boat to pick people up who were waiting by the sides of the river to get a lift downstream. Sometimes they drew up alongside the boat in smaller thinner canoes, jumping nimbly across to us. After a couple of hours, a few of us desperately needed the toilet so we pulled up alongside a sand bank and disappeared into the trees, the sand burning our feet in the sun. I squatted in a bush next to some pigs who looked faintly appalled and wandered away to snuffle elsewhere. We stopped off at a riverside village called Muang Ngoi Neua, a charming place where I would recommend staying if you have the time. Although we didn’t stay here, we heard really good things about it. We grabbed lunch here and said goodbye to the people we’d met on the crossing from ‘Nam and who we’d chilled with for the last few hours on our gentle journey downstream.
It wasn’t long until we arrived in Nong Kiaw, a slightly larger town than Muang Ngoi Neua, but still a village really as it takes less than 10 minutes to walk through the whole thing. It is surrounded by the same limestone scenery that we saw from the river which we planned to explore some more the next day. Meanwhile the sun was starting to set on the river, its pinkish hue contrasting with the deep greens of the forest reflected in the slowly moving water. We ate dinner alongside the river to the last shafts of rosy sunlight which faded to a darkness punctuated by the flickering flames of the lamps on our table. We tried ‘laap’, a Lao speciality of minced meat fried with chilli, herbs, lime juice and toasted rice, accompanied by sticky rice.
The next day was spent exploring and getting lost in the surrounding countryside, amongst the karst mountains and caves, not straying far from the road due to unexploded ordinance left in the area from the America/Vietnam War. On the way back to Nong Kiaw, we paid a visit to the Tham Pha Tok caves, which is where villagers hid out during the Second Indochina War as American bombs rained on Laos. For a time, the Luang Prabang government was also based in this cave system. Originally accessible by a rickety bamboo ladder, a new wooden staircase now rises to the cave’s entrance. Take a flashlight as you navigate the chambers of the cavern – there are a few signs about but not an awful lot of information on display. However, it is still interesting being in the caves and imagining what happened here not so long ago.
We walked back a couple of kilometres to town where we had a late lunch of Indian dosa with a Dutch girl we’d made the crossing to Vietnam with, who happened to be walking past. Stomachs full, we decided to walk up Phadeng Peak to the town’s viewpoint. In hindsight, doing it on a full stomach wasn’t the best idea. Although no Fansipan, the trek went steeply uphill in the afternoon heat. I had brought a camera rather than a bottle of water – priorities – so was dehydrated in the almost oppressive heat. We were all dripping with sweat by the time we reached the top but the 360° vista which awaited us at the summit was worth the walk. A pinkish sun wreathed in pale clouds was sinking slowly into the embrace of the jagged limestone hills, the light sparkling and enchanting the long loops of the river. We sat by a rice sack ‘flag’ blowing in the wind as the sun set, deciding to make our way down as the light became cloaked in cloud. It got darker as we made our way down and needed a flashlight to navigate the winding path before we reached the bottom.
After showering off all our sweat, we went out to go eat more Lao food. I ordered Lao sausage, spiced win lemongrass and chill, which came with sticky rice (of course), greens, fried river weed with sesame seeds and a spicy aubergine dip (‘jeow’). It was washed down with a Beerlao, the national rice beer which comes in huge bottles and is actually really good. We went back to the hostel and cuddled with their kittens before heading to bed. We were reluctantly leaving the riverlands, travelling West to Nam Tha National Park, the next day. We had actually looked to see whether we could travel there by river for it is possibly the most relaxed form of transport in the world. However, being the dry season, there was no chance and so it was that we changed from boat back to bus for the next leg.
Author Abi HaywardPosted on January 2, 2017 Categories Adventure, Asia, Food, History, Laos, Mountains, Rivers, Travel, Trekking, WeatherTags Adventure, Culture, Delicious, food, Friends, Laos, Nature, photography, Reflections, Scenergy, Sun, Travel, Trekking, Views, WritingLeave a comment on Drifting downstream: the rivers of Northern Laos
Mount Fansipan
Dawn has not yet broken when our bus rolls into Sapa. I open an eye blearily and only see pitch darkness, a dark chasm of anonymity. We could be anywhere. Somewhere close looms Mount Fansipan, the highest mountain in Vietnam. We climb it today. I glance at my watch: it reads 4:20am. I sink back into unconsciousness.
I am woken once again at 5.30am by a flashlight being shone into the bus. I squint out into the darkness and see the bright artificial light reflecting off the windows to make out the outline of a mans face. It is, I think, our mountain guide. ‘Is that our guide?’ whispers Oscar. ‘Hope so.’ I whisper back. We wake up Roza, locate our bags in the darkness of the bus and move to get off the bus. The door is locked. Ah. There is no driver; he must have left when the bus arrived in Sapa. We fumble with the door from the inside and our supposed guide looks to see if he can open it from the outside. We stare helplessly at eachother from opposite sides of the glass. The day is not off to a good start. Why did we decide to climb Fansipan straight from the night bus? Eventually Oscar finds some mechanism of some kind, yanks it down and the cold night air takes us by surprise. We are free.
‘Sapa O’Chau?’ I ask the man. ‘Sapa O’Chau,’ he nods. I shake him by the hand; he looks a bit surprised. I introduce myself and he mumbles something back. His English is very basic. If he ever did tell us his name, I cannot remember it. He points towards a car where another man sits behind the wheel. He waves and grins. We wave back. ‘We need to get our backpacks,’ I say. Our guide looks confused. I mime ‘backpacks’ and point to the bus. Our guide looks hesitantly at his friend. The guy behind the wheel gets out of the car. I repeat myself and he understands; his English is better. Thankfully, the storage part of the bus is not locked and we are able to get our bags after, between the five of us, we work out how to open the compartment. Finally we, and our bags, are inside the vehicle and we are driving to the start of the trek, the damp cold mists parting before the car’s headlights.
Our trek started from the entrance to Hoang Lien National Park. We were given a cold baguette for breakfast (Oscar shared his with a dog; I all but force-fed Roza hers) and some snacks for the walk which we put into day bags with other provisions we had bought. We layered up against the cold and donned our walking boots. When we were ready, we set off into a mizzly dawn. To Oscar’s disappointment, the dog did not come with us.
We walked the first part of the walk pretty quickly, storming up through rocky marsh forests, up twisted tangled staircases of entwined roots, occasionally treading on a carpet of soggy pink blossoms. Although it was rainy and cold, we were working up quite a temperature until we stopped, at which point we became shivery cold. It took us about two hours to get to the first rest stop, where we sat shivering but at least out of the rain. We refuelled, before setting off again into the elements, the mist masking the way forward and any possible views we might have had.
We were going slower now and it took us about another hour to get to the second rest stop. We got chatting to a group of Americans who were on their way down – they had opted for the two-day trek. ‘You’re doing it in a day?’ they asked incredulously, watching us shiver pathetically, our breaths white and misty in the cold air. They took pity on us and gave us a candle which, in our state of desperation, we gathered round with hands outstretched, burning our fingers on the flame. I imagine it was a very sorry sight.
It had stopped raining when we moved on, but there still wasn’t a view to be seen as we clambered up a rocky path, icy droplets on the frozen foliage clacking together like wintry castanets. From there, it was about two hours to get to the top. We scrambled up scree slopes, climbed over craggy outcrops, sank into bog and slipped in thick cloying mud. At last, we found ourselves at the bottom of a set of stairs. This is the measly distance you can climb if you opt to get the cable car up. We should have been relieved at this point, but we felt demoralised as we ascended those stairs. Coming down them were a load of Asian tourists, dry, clean, happy, taking photographs of the wet, dirty, miserable British walkers. Those stairs, pathetic as it sounds, were one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. We were physically exhausted, feeling the altitude, our hearts and heads pounding and our legs weak. But together, step by step, we made it to the top, feeling triumphant and quite frankly knackered. We collapsed on eachother in a group hug. A team effort.
While we elbowed our way through fresh, selfie-taking cable-car people, our guide prepared our lunch – sandwiches with cream cheese, pork, cucumber, tomato and herbs followed by apple and banana (or dessert sandwiches with oreos and banana, despite doubtful looks from everyone else – would thoroughly recommend).
Although we sat down to rest our tired legs, it was impossible to stay sat down as it was just too cold, so I walked around eating my sandwich and admiring the views, such as they were. Despite the fact we couldn’t really see much, there was something wonderful and mysterious about the dark peaks rising out of the cloud. The clouds and the sky were the same shade of white-grey, the line between them indistinguishable so that if felt almost like Fansipan was floating in the sky, a rugged rocky ship sailing through an ocean of thick swirling mist.
We began our descent, which seemed to take an age. We were rewarded, however, by the sun finally making an appearance through the clouds, at which point it became quite warm and I had to take off a layer of clothing. At one point we stopped to rest and, it seemed like just for us, a curtain of cloud was drawn aside to reveal the peaks we’d just come from, the sun caramelising the clouds at the edges and revealing patches of blue sky. And as you soar above that cosmic golden valley of mist you think ‘this is why I climb mountains.’ Then the veil of cloud slowly slid down once again, as if that beautiful vision had never been, and we moved on.
We walked considerably quicker after that point, our guide urging us on. We stumbled down the rocks while he skipped nimbly from rock to rock, carrying a red stool that he’d found on the way down. We realised that we must have blanked out large parts of the walk on the way up (or perhaps we were half asleep) as we kept walking through scraps of forest we didn’t recognise, every ten minutes thinking we were almost there and each time being disappointed. We heard the sounds of a car and thought we must be almost back at the start but it wasn’t until the arch of national park was right in front of us that we realised we were made it.
After eleven hours of walking, we had climbed and descended Mount Fansipan, the highest mountain in Vietnam. Our legs were aching but our hearts were light, exhilarated, victorious. You haven’t just conquered the mountain but you have conquered yourself. Your weariness feels worthy somehow – you know you will ‘sleep the sleep of the just’ as my mother says. The views may have been fleeting but friendship was not. You have achieved something. This is why we climb mountains.
Author Abi HaywardPosted on October 8, 2016 October 8, 2016 Categories Adventure, Environment, Food, Mountains, Nature, Travel, Trekking, Uncategorized, VietnamTags food, Friends, Mountains, Nature, Photos, Travel, Trek, Trekking, Writing2 Comments on Mount Fansipan
Take a walk with me. Past the street sellers hawking their wares. Past quiet temples hidden in tiny spaces in the maze of the Old Quarter. Watch out for the motorbikes weaving their chaotic way through the narrow streets, little changed in the last few decades, save for tourist amenities. Don’t look at the map – you’ll only increase your chance of being run over. Besides, you’ll swiftly get lost again. I swear we’ve been here before. Anyway. There’s the cathedral, a majestic and fume-blackened reminder of colonial days. And there: steaming beneath the embrace of a banyan tree, a street-side stall churns out banh goi, nem cua be and banh ran ngot. The English translations (‘pillow cake’ or ‘fried nem’) on the sign above these snacks don’t elucidate these amazing-smelling mysteries. You just have to order and hope. Welcome to Hanoi.
We arrived from Halong late-afternoon and plunged into the capital’s tumultuous tide of tuktuks, trays of food and touts. We had a Google Map screenshot of where our hostel was and, after almost a month on the road, were quite confident in our navigation of new places. At least for the first half hour. Then again after what we found what we thought was the right street. And again when, after walking in a circle we were sure it was the right street. It was. But no hostel. We swallowed our sweaty pride and asked for help. Our would-be-rescuers stared at our map, at the maps on their own phones, as perplexed as we were that the hostel didn’t seem to exist at all. The sun, and our hopes, had started to set and we were starting to worry about where to go. We tried asking one last person, a guard at a fancy-looking hotel, who didn’t speak such good English. A well-to-do Vietnamese couple from the hotel came over asking if they could help, looked at the name of our hostel, looked at us and at eachother. ‘Your hostel is several kilometres away from here.’ Facepalm. ‘We’re about to go out. We can drive you if you like.’ And they did, in their fancy SUV, brushing off our offer of money and restoring our faith in the people of Vietnam after the madness of Halong Bay. We couldn’t thank them enough (or apologise for getting their leather seats so sweaty) but they just smiled and wished us a good trip. Random acts of kindness, hey. Beautiful people.
The hostel was appalling. The worst in Vietnam and, looking back, of the entire journey. The dorm was filthy, the bathroom was foul, the shower didn’t work, the toilet was broken, the bathroom door didn’t close, let alone lock, there was a hole in my bed…the list goes on (not to mention someone – not me, surprisingly – contracting some sort of disease after having licked a table in the vicinity). Of course, you are free to choose your own destiny but let me give you some advice: don’t stay at The Drift if you are ever in Hanoi. It is $2.50 a night and there is free beer. It is not worth it. Drift some place else, if you catch my drift.
We drifted (I’ll stop now) into the Old Quarter in search of food, after having showered by crouching naked under a cold tap and trying to forget about it by drinking the free beer hoi provided by our establishment. We were tired, hungry and disorientated in the narrow winding streets of old Hanoi. After having done a few laps of what looked like the same streets, we wearily stopped at a stall, barely lit by a streetlight, run by a little old woman ladling out steaming bowls of pho – Vietnamese beef noodle soup. We pulled up little plastic stools as, grinning toothlessly, the lady served up our pho, mixing the noodles with the broth and encouraging us to add the chilli pastes, lime and leaves that she’d placed on a tray next to the soup. We tucked in with gusto, slurping up the broth and clumsily stuffing the noodles in our mouth with plastic chopsticks. It was incredible. We’d had pho many times in Vietnam, but this was the best. It was also where we learnt to eat it properly. The only Western patrons at the stall, we were the subject of much amusement for the local regulars due to our unwieldy way of eating. Chuckling, the elderly gentleman opposite me demonstrated how to eat noodle soup, winding the noodles around the spoon with your chopsticks, then dipping the spoon into the broth so you could eat the two together. After a few attempts, I looked up at him for approval, my mouth full of noodles. Still laughing, he gave me a thumbs up.
We ate lots more street food in Hanoi. Any stall with tempting aromas was basically an excuse to have a meal. We ate banh goi (‘pillow cake’) – like Vietnamese deep-fried cornish pasties – nem cua be (‘sea crab nem’) – similar to spring rolls but flaky, delicate and stubby – banh trang – the amazing salad-like dish we ate in Ben Tre – bun bo nam bo – stir-fried beef with mango and noodles in a tangy sauce – bun cha – barbequed pork with vermicelli noodles – xoi yen – sticky rice topped with fat and other toppings of your choice. Hanoi’s got it all. We also tried ‘egg coffee’, Vietnamese coffee served with whipped egg whites so that the top of the coffee is almost like a coffee-y marshmallow. Ducking under the eaves of a silk shop, we walked down a tiny corridor and up a rickety staircase to a fairy-light-twinkling balcony overlooking a small garden terrace. Here, we had the BEST egg coffee. Super sweet; super strong.
We explored the network of tiny streets of the Old Quarter, each street specialising in a different trade, as we learnt when we were trying to find someone to fix my backpack (a broken backpacked backpacker is a sad business). When we found the right street, I bartered with a guy who said he could fix it. He ended up doing so for 45,000VND (at the time, about £1.50). We went to Ngoc Son Temple ‘the temple of the jade mountain’, in the centre of Hoan Kiem lake where I befriended (it’s Facebook official) a groovy Vietnamese lady. According to legend, a golden turtle carried the magical sword of the emperor into the watery depths of the lake where, presumably, it still lies. A mummified descendent of this divine being stares, cross-eyed, from a glass case within the temple. I can’t decide whether it’s hilarious or terrifying.
We walked around Hoan Kiem lake about a million times during our stay in Hanoi. The first time because we wanted to, a second and third time because we were talking to a Vietnamese student who wanted to practice his English and we didn’t want to be rude, a further time with newly arrived Oscar and numerous other times. The lake was the main thing I used to orientate myself in Hanoi so we kept going back there. Also, it looked beautiful at night, the scarlet bridge arching over to the temple lit up and its reflection glittering in the still, black water.
Oscar and I headed West of the citadel over the railway line, strolling through Lenin’s park, where a huge statue of Lenin looks out toward Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum. The monstrous blocks of stone, surrounded by guards stood to attention in pristine white uniform, are in stark contrast to Ho’s wish for a simple burial. We visited Hanoi’s citadel, only discovered recently, rather run-down and filled with seemingly random exhibitions. We wandered deliriously for what seemed like hours through rooms filled with identical-looking bricks. What is the difference between a rectangular and rammed brick? Does anyone know these things? We left half-mad and not sure why we’d entered in the first place.
Hanoi is a city which gleams with golden temples and glasses of beer hoi. Swirling incense mixes with traffic fumes and steam from the food stalls on every corner. Neat rows of foreign embassies stand next to crumbling citadels, eclipsed by new tower blocks. Hanoi is a mix of the old and the new, the revered and the tacky, the sincere and the scams. The beating heart of Vietnam, the ‘river within’, captures the country in a nutshell.
Author Abi HaywardPosted on September 25, 2016 September 25, 2016 Categories Adventure, Asia, Food, History, Travel, Uncategorized, VietnamTags Adventure, City, Culture, food, photography, Photos, Travel, Walk1 Comment on Hanoi
Trek: an uphill climb with beautiful views
Life on trek is like living in a different world. Although we know that the cogs of everyday life keep turning, we’re so immersed in our little bubble that it seems an odd concept that things like days of the week still exist. We haven’t seen anyone beyond our team or guides for the last week. Civilisation seems alien and we have left it behind us.
Our coach dropped us off, literally on the side of the road, with nothing to do except don our walking boots and heavy rucksacks and start our long walk into the waiting arms of the jungle. It had been sunny back on the road, but underneath the dense canopy of the rainforest and with a sky rapidly clouding over it became darker and more mysterious. Tendrils of mist snaked around the trees, like something out of a jungle fairy tale. That very first day, we experienced our first rainstorm on trek. It started lightly but quickly became torrential and by the time we arrived, slipping and sliding, into our first camp, we were absolutely drenched. The first evening, after having set up the group kit and our own hammocks, was spent as a whole group, damp and cold, huddled around the fire. But there was something nice about everyone being together, a tangle of limbs, as everybody vied to get the best spot to dry their feet as the rain hammered down on the tarp overhead.
The camps so far have been pretty variable. One that stands out, although not necessarily for good reasons, is the infamous ‘mud camp’ which, as its name suggests, was incredibly muddy. Walking around (if sliding can be called walking) was an absolute nightmare, especially if you were unlucky enough to have your hammock set up on a hill which, by the end of our time there, was more like a mud slide. My rucksack cover is still covered with the mud from mud camp, lest I forget all the muddy memories.
But for every mud camp, there is a stunning camp with magnificent views or perfect trees or a beautiful river close by. At ‘mouse deer camp’ there is a place you can walk to where you can find incredible panoramas of the surrounding scenery. The night we arrived, there was a full moon and we all went down after dinner to have a look. It was a sight that I don’t think any of us will ever forget. A perfect full moon hung in the centre of the night sky, bathing all the trees in a pearly glow. We could see the bold silhouette of Mount Kinabalu standing proudly against a velvet sky, fluffy clouds resting in the valley, glowing softly by the light of the moon. Other clouds, pale silvery wispy things, skimmed the tops of the ridge and streaks of silver nudged the base of the mountain. On one side, a huge threatening roll of cloud lit up occasionally with flashes of lightening from a storm, but there was no thunder to break our semi-stunned silence. Stars shone out from where the clouds were fewer, signs of a rainless night for our team. The only evidence of human settlement came from three pinpricks of light; apart from that, there was only soft darkness all around. We felt so isolated but in a good way. It kind of felt special that we were the only ones out there in the middle of that massive expanse of Bornean rainforest.
The rainforest itself has much to offer, which compensates for its slippery paths and huge hills for us to trek up. We have swam in crystal clear rivers and sat underneath waterfalls, something that is blissful after a long day walking as we let our sore limbs rest in the deliciously cool water. Rare moments of feeling clean are a definite luxury here in our trek bubble. Luxury comes also in the form of the food that the jungle provides. Pretty much all food on trek tastes amazing despite all coming from a can – in our trek delirium, we are all now devoted fans of chicken luncheon meat, something which definitely shows the level of jungle madness that we are all at! But we have been lucky enough, too, to find fresh food – wild ginger, chillies, long beans – that have elevated our meals to the next level. Our incredible guides have also cooked us some things, including jungle palm soup and sweet tapioca and milk. Yesterday we were treated to jungle donuts, which were absolutely phenomenal – the whole team was buzzing, especially after our guide told us that we had achieved the trek record for that particular day. We had beaten the time taken by all other teams to walk between the two camps by 11 minutes.
The foreseeable future also looks good, especially on the food front, as we sit in one of the best camps yet alongside a beautiful river waiting for trek resupply (a visit from Fieldbase staff, with our food rations for the rest of the phase). Alpha 5 are feeling positive as we look towards the next nine days, which may be both mentally and physically challenging, but which we hope to cover with long bold strides and a spring in our step.
Originally published by Raleigh International (02/12/15): https://raleighinternational.org/blog/borneo/trek-an-uphill-climb-with-beautiful-views/
Author Abi HaywardPosted on January 14, 2016 January 14, 2016 Categories Adventure, Charity, Environment, Food, Travel, Trekking, Uncategorized, WeatherTags Adventure, Borneo, Climbing, food, Mountains, photography, Photos, Rain, Raleigh, Sun, Sweat, Trek, Trekking, WalkLeave a comment on Trek: an uphill climb with beautiful views
Invigoration and innovation in the jungle
Running was something I missed while on Raleigh. I had only been for one run in Nuluh, which consisted of running laps around the local football pitch (which also acted as the village cow field), dodging piles of cow dung and leaping over puddles from that afternoon’s torrential rain shower. Although the view of the sleepy orange sun setting into the valley was not unimpressive, as runs go it wasn’t a fantastic one. However in Imbak there was a dirt track across the existing suspension bridge from our camp and it had running potential. So, one morning Jill and I rose early so that we could get a run in before the day’s work. The light was pale, blurred by the mist rising from the ever-transpiring rainforest, and the air was cool. We warmed up by jogging up the stairs on the other side (made by previous Raleigh volunteers) and then set off along the track.
It was extremely muddy, much muddier than we remembered from when we had been up there transporting the bags of gravel. We did not go particularly fast, as that would probably have resulted in a fall and thus our entire bodies being coated in the thick sticky yellowish mud, rather than just our shoes. However, after 10 minutes or so, the ground became firmer and it felt more like a proper run. It was hilly. It was HARD. But I was kinda pleased about that as I wanted to strengthen my legs again, especially to prepare for trek (the next phase). Running underneath the twisted semi-embrace of the forest canopy was ominous as it was alluring. I kept fervently glancing upwards for the possibility of a clouded leopard crouched among the clouds in the highest treetops. Alas, it was not to be although on return to camp we discovered that our honey had been stolen by a civet cat.
This might not sound like a huge deal, but we were living on rations. The vast majority of what we ate came out of a tin, rice and noodles in plastic packages and ‘cheese’* in foil and cardboard. Food was a big part of our lives on Raleigh and when wildlife (whether it be civet cats or local dogs or wild boar) stole things, it was the absolute worst. Food was also something that awakened the innovators, designers and engineers in all of us.
On Raleigh, there’s a team called ‘The Loop’ who visit all the project sites, giving people their mail and offering volunteers the opportunity to buy stuff from the Raleigh shop (again, this mainly consisted of food). In return, they expected to be treated like (I quote) ‘kings and queens’ and there’s a competition in which the various groups compete to give the Loop the best time possible. Unsurprisingly, most people did this by trying to make our rations appear vaguely gourmet. We wanted to push the boundaries. We wanted to do something that no alpha group had done before. We wanted to show the Loop luxury in our lost world. (We also wanted ice cream, which was the prize for the winning group).
We were pretty ambitious, as our plans did not just include a stunning meal, but something that pretty much amounted to a spa (at least in these conditions). The group was split in two. One team was in charge of the spa, which we contructed in the river running below our camp. A lost path down to the river had become overgrown, reclaimed by the jungle, and the team spent a good morning clearing it. We then used parangs (Malaysian machetes) to cut up wood from fallen-down trees so that steps could be constructed down to the river where we had built stone baths. We had planned for a volunteer to be close on hand so that the Loop could have a massage should they desire. Could they really ask for more? But we had more for them.
Part of my menu for the Loop’s evening meal involved a starter of garlic pizza bread, but the army ovens were going to be used for cooking another part of the meal. There was one solution. To build a pizza oven. We went down to the river to find a big flat stone on which the pizzas could be cooked on and we balanced this on smaller stones over a fire pit that we had dug out. For the roof of the oven, we cut up a biscuit tin with garden secateurs and bent it over the top of the flat stone. We used tin foil for the back of the oven. The end result was pretty impressive, if we may say so ourselves. We should have won the Loop competition solely for our ingenuity.
But there was food. How can I not talk about the food? I spent the entire day of the Loop’s visit in the kitchen. I made dough for the pizzas and left it to rise. I made fresh egg pasta (the rangers had brought us eggs) and left it to rest in a biscuit tin that was probably marginally cooler than the humid jungle air outside. I made a bolognese sauce from corned beef and a béchamel sauce from powdered milk. I panicked when I realised that we would run out of butter. Improvised and used oil instead. I made sponges for ‘tiramisu’. I rolled out the pasta into sheets and layered up my ‘lasagna’. Breaked for lunch (I hadn’t sat down all day). I made scones, which I shaped as nicely as I could and put them in the oven so that the Loop could have afternoon tea when they arrived (one legend had brought Yorkshire tea). I made a kind of chocolatey coffee sauce for my tiramisu and layered that up, topping it with a thick dusting of Milo. I then made gnocci with the help of Lucas who is half Italian.
And somehow, SOMEHOW, it all came off. I couldn’t quite believe it. Even the scones, which really should not have worked in the ridiculous heat they were made in, tasted pretty good. Four courses later, everybody was stuffed and satisfied. I was quite frankly exhausted. It was definitely one of my favourite moments on Raleigh and something I never ever considered that I would do, especially in that wild place. It is these things, the unexpected, that we keep with us and why we should all get out of our comfort zone, whether that be in Britain or Borneo, and do something spontaneous.
*I refuse to believe it was truly cheese. No cheese can stay solid in that heat.
Photo credit: Robin Tess Bolland (2nd and featuring image) and Catheline de Slegte (last 3 images).
Author Abi HaywardPosted on January 13, 2016 Categories Adventure, Charity, Environment, Food, Innovation, Running, Training, Travel, UncategorizedTags Adventure, Animals, Borneo, food, photography, Raleigh, Run, Running, SunLeave a comment on Invigoration and innovation in the jungle
Take me back to Nuluh
As the morning sun beams down on a winding tarmac road, the members of my team sit in various vehicles gazing out of the windows. Looking back from the train of volunteer laden minibuses, you can see a flash of blue from the other side of the valley, representing the community centre that for three weeks we called a home. The village of Kiau Nuluh clings to the hillside, a patchwork of multi-coloured corrugated iron roofs against the red earth and green fringes of the jungle. Mount Kinabalu stands, as always, protectively in the background, a faint veil of cloud brushing its peak.
It is sad to drive away from this panorama, especially for our group for whom it represented so many memories: happy, sad, frustrating, funny. At the beginning of the phase, we weren’t sure what it was going to be like but we all hoped that we’d be able to integrate into the community of Nuluh. And in the end, we really feel we did, which is what made community phase something special for us. It was a privilege, actually, to become part of the community in the little pocket of time in which we were their guests.
We learnt a lot from our hosts. In our last few days, we had the opportunity to go on a mini trek into the jungle to the base camp from which the mountain guides of Nuluh take hikers up the steep slopes of Mount Kinabalu. Beside a pebbly mountain river, our two guides showed us how to use a parang to make a floor and cups from the bamboo growing around us. A skill which will surely come in useful for those of us going on trek phase next. We were also shown how to extract latex from rubber trees, one of the main forms of income for the villagers of Nuluh. Standing in the forest clearing, there was something incredibly satisfying about watching Mr George (a senior community member) scrape away the bark in a spiral around the tree and watching the creamy latex flow around the groove and into a metal tin. Mr George was involved in pretty much all stages of our phase and was a fountain of wisdom as well as a bit of a legend. After taking us to see the rubber trees, he took us to a huge langsat tree and told us to fill our pockets and bags, knowing how we’d become addicted to the small orange-like fruits. This was typical of the villagers of Nuluh. They were such a generous people, from sharing their produce to giving us their time.
We learnt how to make Dusun food, the food of the mountain people, during a cooking masterclass from the women of the village. We made parcels of rice wrapped in leaves and stir-fries with wild ginger, local spring onions and yellow citrus-y chillies. They taught us their local dances, the bird-like dance of the Dusun people, our arms becoming wings as we strutted our stuff (badly). They taught us how to play local instruments, echo-y gongs which made haunting tunes, melodies of the past reverberating in the air around us.
Singing was definitely a theme for the team. We sang pretty much all the time, to the great amusement of the villagers, which is probably why they invited us for a singing lesson. A lady called Rita taught us a song in Dusun, the village dialect, called Gunung Kinabalu about the mountain. It stuck in our heads for the rest of the phase and caused us at regular intervals to break into Dusun song. It was a memorable moment for everyone, sitting in a circle sipping Milo and eating banana fritters (the best things ever in the whole world!) to the sound of a guitar and Rita’s voice. We sang our rendition of Gunung Kinabalu at least four times at the karaoke night that the villagers invited us to. After singing all day throughout the phase we rocked that karaoke party and even managed to persuade our project managers Sally and JP to sing ‘Sexyback’ and ‘My Humps’, which can only be described as hilarious. Some other singing highlights involved the children of the village performing a song in Malay for us, during the treasure hunt that we organised for the community event we hosted. Their sweet voices together in song lifted our spirits and melted our hearts.
The children were a big part of community phase for us. ‘It was interesting how our relationship with the children changed,’ remembers Lucas. When we first arrived, the children were pretty shy, peering out from houses as we walked past. But before too long, they were pretty much wherever we went in the village, smiling and waving and shouting our names and writing them on the road as we walked down from the hill from the work site. ‘It was funny the way they shouted our names,’ says Lucas. ‘Not to say anything in particular, but just to show they knew our names’. You couldn’t walk down to the football pitch without being completely surrounded by children within about five minutes. ‘Their ball was completely deflated but they still had so much fun just running around,’ smiles Lucas.
It was a different story for the village football team, whom we challenged to four games. Football was a really good way to get in touch with the community, as it meant we recognised them when walking around Nuluh and could stop and chat to them and arrange more games. The first game we lost but Team Raleigh obviously had to have a rematch and we won all subsequent games. Often we didn’t have a complete team, but the villagers always pitched in so that the teams were even, which really made us feel part of the group. The atmosphere was so friendly and games always ended with handshakes all round.
Getting to know the villagers of Nuluh made the phase for Alpha 2. We may have departed but the small village has definitely made its mark on us and left us with countless memories of community life and laughter.
Originally published by Raleigh International (06/11/15): https://raleighinternational.org/blog/borneo/take-me-back-to-nuluh/
Author Abi HaywardPosted on December 28, 2015 December 28, 2015 Categories Adventure, Charity, Community, Development, Food, Sustainability, UncategorizedTags Adventure, Borneo, Charity, Community, food, photography, Photos, Raleigh, RallyforRaleigh, Sun1 Comment on Take me back to Nuluh
18K & Technicolour Toes
The great wheel of time keeps turning, bringing the looming prospect of my half marathon ever closer. A half marathon is just over 21km (13.1 miles) in distance which (fun fact) is over three times the average migration distance of a Galapagos tortoise (although they complete this in 2-3 weeks…a record I shall hopefully beat in my own endeavour). So far in training, I have mainly been doing speed training, hammering out 5Ks and trying to do a longer run at least once a week (although I’ve been slacking slightly in recent days). However, I hadn’t ran further than 15K, over 6K shorter than the full distance, and so I decided to push myself the other weekend to run a longer distance of 18K.
I planned the route the night before. I like to know where I’m running before I set off as firstly all you have to concentrate on is running and secondly you can’t give up and loop back home (well, you can, but you feel a bit guilty). I had filled my groovy water bottle with Lucozade (mango & passionfruit – nice) to replace the carbohydrates and electrolytes I would be losing as I ran. I had also arranged for my sister to meet me with some water at the approximate halfway point, as it was a pretty hot day and dehydration was not on my to-do list. I set off with confidence but to be honest I wasn’t feeling that great – my stomach was churning slightly and I was concerned whether the stewed plums I had made tartlets with the previous night (and which I had spooned a tiny bit of mould off) had been such a good idea. But 5K in, and not feeling hugely better, I couldn’t exactly turn back, so took a swig of Lucozade and plodded on. By kilometre 7, I think the fresh air and sunshine had worked a little magic and I didn’t feel quite so rubbish. Running-wise, all was groovy too and butterflies flitted around brightly coloured wildflowers in the midday sun. I was passed by quite a few cyclists who were also out enjoying the weather (although sweating significantly less than I).
Just before I reached the 10K mark, I turned onto a busier road that looped around back to Haxby, leaving the fields and flowers behind. In hindsight, running on this road wasn’t a particularly good move and I wouldn’t do it again (but I had mapped it out as 18K exactly and wanted to hit this distance milestone). Before then, although I felt a bit churn-y, my legs were still fresh and I wasn’t particularly out of breath, despite the heat. Now my legs were starting to feel the distance but running down that road was SCARY and to be honest the adrenaline kept me going and not wanting to get squashed by a car kept me alert. A couple of kilometres into this bit, Gem came to meet me and I swapped my bottle for a fresh one, rather like handing over the baton in a relay race. Just after the woman in my headphones informed me that I had run 13K, I arrived back into civilisation and off the B1363. Before I reached the end of my run, however I had to make a detour to run ‘the Moor’ to make up the full 18K before I arrived back home. It was a bit depressing, as this route is my usually 5K jaunt and I was running quite a lot slower than I’d normally run on it. Saying this, it was also reassuring that I knew exactly how much further I had to run and I finished at a decent pace.
After downing some water at home, I set off on a cool-down walk around the block to try and get rid of some lactic acid so my legs didn’t hurt too much the next day (this is a good habit to get into after running). Even though I was tired, I wasn’t in too much pain, which was good, but there was a throbbing sensation coming from my left big toe as I walked. Lo and behold, when I removed my shoe, blood had started to blossom under my nail, turning it a deep purple to match the adjacent toenail that had already gone black. Unfortunately, your feet often have to suffer for your running. I had to enlist the help of my Aunt Fiona to release the blood from under the nail to ease the pressure that the nail was under (as it was actually quite painful to walk – it didn’t help that I’d worked an 8hr catering shift after my run). She cheerily informed me as she did so (with a sterilised needle I might add) that they used to do this by poking a red hot paperclip through the nail. I count myself lucky.
Author Abi HaywardPosted on September 13, 2015 September 13, 2015 Categories Fundraising, Running, Training, WeatherTags Animals, Countryside, food, Fuel, Lucozade, Run, Running, Sun, Sweat, Training1 Comment on 18K & Technicolour Toes
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For many photographers, black and white is more than a creative choice at the post-production stage; it’s a mindset. If you can start the creation of an image knowing that you intend it to be black and white, you can take steps to ensure that all of the elements of a good monochrome image are in place before you press the shutter. Things like contrast in tonality, contrast in lighting, and appropriate expressions from your subjects are all elements that are difficult, if not impossible, to fix after an image is taken.
Here is an exercise you can do with your portrait subjects to get a mixture of great expressions. Prepare a list of words or phrases and ask them to react to how they feel to each one. The words you choose can be simple descriptors of emotion like: love, sad, joy, angry and melancholy. For more diverse expressions try more abstract words, or funny ones like: cheeseburger, politics, Teletubbies or Hulk smash. As a bonus, this sometimes works extremely well to lighten the mood when you have a subject who’s tense or nervous during a sitting.
Portrait photography is a genre where black and white images can really shine. Like any technique, there are considerations that you should regard that can help to make sure your images have the most impact.
If you’re working on an image that you feel isn’t up to scratch and you ask yourself if it will work in black and white, the answer is probably no. A black and white treatment will often emphasize the flaws that made you question the image in the first place, and a bad photo is a bad photo regardless of its color scheme or lack thereof.
Photographer Andre D. Wagner works exclusively with analog film, developing his own prints in a traditional darkroom. Originally from Nebraska, he can now typically be found in New York City, where he excels at capturing street scenes that are full of energy. His black and white photos have a classic feel. Wagner displays his images one by one, keeping galleries short.
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The most important part of the majority of portraits are the eyes. They are usually the focal point that the rest of your image is built around. This is especially true with black and white. With the omission of color, a black and white image often breaks down into graphic forms and shapes. Eyes are shapes that everyone recognizes and they draw immediate focus from your viewers. Make sure that your subject’s eyes are well lit, and focus is critical.
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Hopefully, you can see that even though bold colors can make for vivid imagery, their absence can as well.
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New York photographer Lee Bullitt takes intimate portraits on analog film, often shooting in black and white. Bullitt introduces her work via one page which lists selected photo series, and includes separate pages for her bio and press mentions to keep things organized. Her unique logo helps make her portfolio memorable.
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Originally from Japan, and now based in Brooklyn, Haruka Sakaguchi’s black and white photography is full of life. Whether she’s shooting portraits or documenting her surroundings on travels across the United States and elsewhere, Sakaguchi’s images are powerful and carefully considered. She uses a classic serif font to give her portfolio a professional feel.
Finally, if you try black and white and you like it: welcome to the addiction!
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Highlights of this Dutch photographer’s portfolio include a compelling portrait study of author Bredje Hofstede, pictured here, as well as a black and white photo project called Looking At The Other, in which Kars asked fellow train riders in the New York subway system to take her photo. Kars displays photos one by one for a minimal, distraction-free portfolio.
If you’re new to black and white photography, do remember that these are guides and not rules. If you need to stray from them to get the result you’re after, do so without hesitation.
This can be a difficult concept to understand without seeing it, so I have included an example of a color version of one the images above. Ask yourself: How did your perception of the photos change? What did you notice first in each of the images? Do you feel differently or think differently of it when you view it in color than in black and white?
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No one can capture freckles as well as Agata Serge does. The Polish photographer, who is currently based in Łódź, Poland, excels at sharply focused portraits and editorial shoots. She has won a number of awards for her photography, including International Photographer of the Year in 2016, and she was included in New Dutch Photography Talent in 2014. Serge keeps her portfolio simple with a classic logo.
To celebrate the creative talent that’s opting out of color, we put together this list of 20 photographers that has mastered shooting black and white in their own style. They prove that you don’t need color to be captivating.
If you have trouble imagining how an image may look in black and white, try setting your camera to a monochrome setting. While it isn’t recommended to do this for a final image, as long as you shoot in RAW file format, then all of your image’s color data will still be present in the file, and Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw will reset the photo back to color once it’s imported. Doing this will allow you to have an idea of how an image will work in black and white, while still providing the highest amount of versatility in post-production.
From English photographer Josh Nice who documents skateboarders across Europe, to New York street photographer Andre D. Wagner who develops his own film, these portfolios set the standard for what’s possible in black and white.
Charlee Black is a photographer based in the American Midwest. She specializes in gorgeous, up-close black and white portraits, and uses a vertically scrolling theme to show them off in a way that grabs the viewer’s attention.
Like the eyes, other facial features become more prominent in a black and white portrait. You can use this to your advantage by conveying emotion in your images. Even tiny changes in your subject’s expression can make a difference. Things like a raised eyebrow, a twitch at the corner of a mouth, and smile lines under the eyes can all be used to great effect.
Based in Austria, Sarah Gallaun is a portrait and fashion photographer. She mixes black and white and color images for a varied and interesting online portfolio. Gallaun has worked with Monki, and been featured in outlets like Cake and Contributor magazine.
Based in Seattle, Sebastian Cvitanic specializes in analog photography, capturing striking black and white portraits as well as lively street snapshots. Cvitanic aims to take photos that are beautiful in their simplicity, working in a classic, straightforward style. Organizing images into separate galleries of black and white portraits, color portraits, couples, and other categories keeps his portfolio site easy to navigate.
This London photographer and skateboarder captures the exploits of a French skate crew beautifully in candid analog photos. His black and white photography feels especially classic. Nice introduces his portfolio website via a vertical scroll of his best shots, with a sidebar menu linking to different series.
Based in Amsterdam, Lieke Romeijn takes beautiful, delicate analog portraits, as well as photos of the places she visits. Romeijn organizes her images with a grid theme, which allows separate series to stand alone as whole bodies of work.
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New York photographer Richard Rothman has work in the permanent collections of institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Rothman’s black and white photography is meditative and quiet, capturing unexpected moments of depth. He gives context to his work right away by using his About page as him home page on his online portfolio.
There’s a lot of debate on both sides of the argument, but for me and many others it’s a simple matter of aesthetics. A good black and white treatment has a way of stripping unneeded information from an image, helping you to emphasize specific elements to your viewer without the distractions color can provide.
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English photographer Jack French’s black and white photos are incredibly peaceful. “I’m interested in how to get closer and deeper into nature using photography,” says French in his portfolio bio. On his site, he presents three very simple galleries of work: Woods, Rock, and Water. The minimal style fits well with French’s quiet, contemplative photography.
Since the introduction of color film in 1958, black and white photography has taken on a classic, nostalgic feel. It’s a universal way for present-day photographers to create a retro look. It’s not an easy style to work with, however. Black and white photography can be extremely challenging to keep interesting and dynamic—after all, the final image won’t look like what you see through the viewfinder.
It’s all about personal preference here. If you’re not sure what yours is, try finding the first ten black and white portraits that stand out to you the most and see if you can deconstruct them in terms of lighting.
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If you’re going to create high contrast black and white photos, the best advice is to add it with light, not in Photoshop. Small global adjustments are okay and won’t hurt your images, but definitely do not crank the contrast slider to 100. Try to limit it between +15/-15. For local adjustments, use a dodging and burning technique of your choice. The key point in this, and all post-production, is subtlety.
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London fashion photographer Rebecca Naen often shoots on 35mm film, working with magazines like Coeval, Oyster, and Client. She offers a brief introduction to her portfolio with an overview gallery, and then organizes the rest of her work by dividing it between personal and editorial images.
Charlotte Navio is a French photographer based in Paris. She’s worked with brands like L’Oreal, Givenchy, and Lancome. Navio uses a vertically scrolling grid theme to display her portrait work, including lots of classic black and white shots. A floating, pastel-hued menu allows access to other portfolio pages without distracting from her work.
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Why would you choose to create black and white photographs in the era of digital cameras that are capable of accurately capturing millions upon millions of colors? Black and white photography seems to be a constant in the history of the medium, with color technology only propagating itself into wide use around halfway between Nicéphore Niépce’s first heliograph and today.
Based in Southern California, Cinthya Guillen specializes in black and white analog photographs. In her Commuter Series, seen here, the most prosaic train stations seem interesting when framed in film photos. Guillen uses a minimal theme, without much text, to keep the focus on her work.
When it comes to lighting a black and white portrait image, there are no hard and fast rules. If you like high contrast images with hard gradations in tone, then choose a harder source of light. If you like soft tones and subtler images, then you want a softer light source.
Based between Berlin and Scandinavia, photographer Pernille Sandberg shoots fashion and fine art photos, mostly in black and white. Whether she’s creating abstract portraits or documenting backstage moments at runway shows, Pernille’s images are powerful. She uses a minimal sidebar theme to sort her work into categories like art, portrait, and fashion series.
This enigmatic photographer doesn’t share much information on her portfolio, but her photos are stunning. In addition to two series of self portraits, she’s also shot black and white photos of a range of musicians. Her self portraits, in which she’s often floating underwater, are frequently superimposed over images of plants, giving the work an organic, abstract feel.
Certain subjects scream out to be shot in black and white. Other subjects may not be so obvious. Bright, punchy colors obviously make for vivid color photos, but by removing the color element you can completely change how a subject or scene is perceived. When you want to ensure your viewer is focused on a particular element, color as a graphic element, can become a distraction. Try removing it.
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Productivity// October 24, 2018
11 People Share What They Learned From Epic Career Failures
New research suggests that opening up about our failures can make us happier.
Marina Khidekel
Image by jayk7/ Getty Images
We love talking about success in our careers, but today we want to talk about failure. The New York Times recently covered research that suggests that talking about our failures can help cultivate closer relationships with colleagues. And in a recent working paper from Harvard Business School, researchers explain that by opening up about failure with your colleagues, you can avoid co-worker envy and even find happiness in your transparency.
That’s why we asked Thrive Global’s contributor community — who have previously shared their insights about what to do when you disagree with a boss and what they’ve given up for success — to reveal the career failures that have shaped them. We all slip up on the job, but we wanted to know about one failure that had a lasting impact on people’s work trajectories. Here are some stories that inspired us to get back up after a fall:
“Always check references.”
“My biggest failure was putting so much trust in a business connection that I didn’t feel the need to check references when he asked to come on as a partner in my company. It was only after the fact, when my business account was overdrawn and he was charged with embezzlement, that I learned the value of following up with references. One email to his former organization, and I learned he had dealt with them in a similar way! Now I check references deeply before I hire a person or bring on a new partner. It feels like a lot of work, but you learn a lot.”
–Lauren Coles, founder & CEO, New York, NY
“Figure out how and why this happened.”
“I was one of the pharmacists involved in a medication error years ago by selecting the wrong drug for a patient. I failed so miserably that day. It was my supervisor’s job to review any medication incidents with each pharmacist. She didn’t give me a hard time. But I had to internalize what had happened, needed to go back to the exact moment of when the error occurred and figured out why and how I made this error. Without doing this honestly in my head, I wouldn’t know why I made that error. So taking our errors personally is important. But once the lesson is learned, it would be wise to move on and don’t take it personally anymore.”
–Cynthia Leung, pharmacist, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
“Seek clarity.”
“Getting fired from a previous job taught me one of life’s biggest lessons: Seek clarity. I was assigned a critical project which required that I immediately hit the ground running. I spent countless hours behind the scenes researching and trying to figure things out on my own, just to prove myself. But that didn’t cut it. My quietness and busyness were misinterpreted as lack of confidence. And that was it! I was let go. I’ve come to accept that I can’t be the expert at everything. I leverage those around me with more experience and this creates a synergy that ultimately leads to even bigger successes.”
–Busola Oghumu, career confidence strategist, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Sometimes you need to give yourself permission to dream bigger.”
“I created a Canadian parenting magazine that was reaching audiences that were not in Canada, but instead of addressing this, I continued to try to connect with Canadian businesses and experts. When that wasn’t getting the results I wanted, I rebranded into the first global online parenting magazine, addressing my dynamic diverse audience and reaching out to experts and businesses around the world. I met wonderful friends, connected with inspiring people, and 5 years later, I haven’t looked back. Sometimes it’s about giving yourself permission to dream a little bigger.”
–Grace Cross, magazine owner and editor, Canada
“Transparency is key.”
“I failed at work by not being more transparent in my communications with my manager to keep her abreast of my daily activities. I have a very autonomous job which allows me to be very flexible and creative. My manager knew I was very reliable, but my failure was to simply communicate my new initiatives. I learned that transparency is key to building working relationships and upleveling my career.”
–Breshana Miller, online brand strategist, Washington DC
“Make sure people know about your efforts.”
“I led a team to create a youth film festival, showcasing youth-created film shorts. The night of the event, I saw only a fourth of the theater was full. It was a triumph and a failure at the same time. From that moment, we vowed to continue, but to also focus on publicity to ensure those seats were full. I learned that failure can clarify what’s needed most and even propel you forward.”
–Julie Neale, founder, community builder and coach, San Francisco, CA
“Focus on the skills you’re learning, not the title.”
“I accepted a vice president position at work, but six months in, it was clear I was not prepared for my responsibilities, so I chose a demotion instead of an exit. I knew this was a career-changing learning opportunity and critical to my professional and personal development. If I didn’t learn it then, I would have to learn it down the road with different people. So, I bravely confronted it head on, and it worked. That experience pays off even today. Now I counsel business leaders on emotional intelligence in the workplace and I couldn’t be happier.”
–Meghan E. Butler, communications consultant, Austin, TX
“Even if you bomb, it’s not the end of your career.”
“I got an amazing opportunity to go on tour with a guitar rock legend as an electric violinist. I went in confident but completely bombed the audition. I walked out with my tail between my legs convinced that I had choked under pressure. As embarrassing as that failure was, I frequently tell people about it because what I learned from the experience was that even massive failures aren’t the end of our careers. What matters far more is how you positively reboot yourself. Lots of people fail. Successful people fail, learn and reboot. That’s what my epic audition failure taught me.”
–James Sudakow, business consulting, San Diego, CA
“Confirm the important details.”
“When I first started in PR, I was assigned to book a venue for a celebrity basketball game, and on the big day, I realized the contact I had spoken to for securing the venue had screwed up the deal, so the venue had no knowledge of our event in their books. I took the blame and got fired. It definitely taught me about accountability and to make sure I dot my i’s and cross my t’s; and that failure doesn’t mean the end.”
–Octavia Bostick, hospitality, Seattle, WA
“Building relationships is critical.”
“My task was to organize an event for 100 community leaders. I sent out emails and had fliers distributed. Five people showed up, and I realized that not cultivating relationships led to failure. I didn’t invest time in making calls, sharing the stories of people impacted or arranging one-on-one meetings before asking for something. I learned that relationships are critical to success, people are drawn to the power of a compelling story, and that people buy in to people instead of programs.”
–Romal Tune, strategic partnerships, Atlanta, GA
“You must listen to other perspectives.”
“I’ve been doing mental performance coaching for about 15 years now. Early on in my career I was working with a collegiate basketball player and I thought things were going well until she stopped coming to our meetings. I ran into her one day on campus and decided to ask her what was going on. She hesitated, but then decided to let me know that while she thought she had benefited from our meetings, I was making her think too much out on the court. I could have walked away thinking that she just didn’t understand what mental training entails, but instead I realized that I had failed her. I learned the goal should always be to learn and get better, and we can’t always do that on our own from our own vantage point.”
–Lauren S. Tashman, sport and performance psychology, New York, NY
— Published on October 24, 2018
FAILURE,
GROWTH,
Mindset,
STORIES,
Marina is the Editorial Director at Thrive Global
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Failure is My Favourite F Word
by Sanjana Agrawal
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11 Interview Questions to Help You Decide If a Job is Right for You
by Marina Khidekel
Wisdom// June 25, 2018
Successful People Share This One Mindset. Most of Us Are Missing It.
by Marcel Schwantes
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Canana, O Som e a Furia, KNM Board ‘Zama’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Lucrecia Martel’s fourth feature shaping up as one of the key Latin American productions of the year
MADRID – Completing one of the biggest Latin America- U.S.-Europe co-productions in history, Canana, the Mexico-L.A.-based production house of Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz, has boarded Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama,” one of Latin America’s most awaited and most ambitious movies.
Further – and final – co-producers are Luis Urbano’s O Som e a Furia in Lisbon and Michel Merkt’s KNM.
A partner with IM Global in Mundial, a pioneering Latin America sales company, and with Participant Media in Participant PanAmerica, beyond its own lead productions – “Miss Bala,” “Cesar Chavez,” Cannes 2015 Un Certain Regard player “The Chosen Ones” — Canana has been a key driver of first moves to create a pan-regional Latin American film industry, co-producing milestone recent Latin American co-productions such as Pablo Larrain’s “No” and Pablo Fendrik’s “Ardor.”
“We are thrilled to join such a group of colleagues — all admired — and for such a marvelous project; we love Lucrecia’s world, and we are excited to develop a relationship for the future with such a voice and such a team,” Cruz told Variety.
Merkt’s producer or executive producer credits include movies by high-profile auteurs — David Cronenberg’s “A Map of the Stars”; Paul Verhoeven’s upcoming “Elle,” with Isabelle Huppert; and Anton Corbijn’s “Life,” with Robert Pattinson.
Based out of Lisbon, O Som e a Furia has produced Miguel Gomes’ “Our Beloved Month of August” and Eugene Green’s “The Portuguese Nun” and distributes its own films in Portugal. It also produced Manoel de Oliveira’s final film, “The Old Man of Belem.”
Sold by the Match Factory, “Zama,” currently in production, now boasts one of the largest and most prestigious lineups of producers of any recent film from Latin America.
Buenos Aires-based REI Cine, headed by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli and Matias Roveda, and Vania Catani’s Rio de Janeiro-based Bananeira Films produce “Zama.”
Hinting at its scale, its wide-ranging co-producers are spread over over Spain, Argentina, France, the U.S, and the Netherlands, taking in El Deseo, run by Pedro and Agustin Almodovar and Esther Garcia, Argentina’s Disney-backed Patagonik Film Group, France’s MPM Film, Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes’ U.S.-based Louverture Films, Lemming Film and Picnic Producciones.
Martel calls “Zama” a parody. It adapts the novel of the same name by Argentine Antonio di Benedetto, first published in 1956, now regarded as a masterpiece.
Written under the full force of existentialism, “Zama” centers on Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown, who serves out his time in a provincial backwater, awaiting a promotion and transfer to Buenos Aires that never comes. That wait gives an absurd sense to his life. Finally, Zama joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. Zama leaves to distant lands inhabited by wild Indians and gains the chance to live life to the full.
Also penned by Martel, “Zama” exhibits some of the last decade innovations in Latin American film financing. Canana’s participation leverages Mexican Eficine tax deduction funding.
Reflecting Brazil’s weight in Latin American co-production, which has increased significantly over the last five years, Brazilian production investment is weighty about $700,000– and multi-faceted, tapping into support from the dedicated Ancine-Incaa Brazil-Argentina co-production fund, Audiovisual Law Article 3A tax-break finance from premium TV channel bouquet Telecine and direct support from Brazil’s Fundo Setorial Audiovisual, said Catani.
“Brazil is adopting a highly relevant political approach to collaboration with the rest of Latin America,” Domenech commented.
The breadth of “Zama’s” co-production is seen in key cast and craft credits. Mexican-Spanish actor Daniel Giménez Cacho (“Club de cuervos”) plays Zama. Other main cast takes in Spain’s Lola Dueñas (“Volver”), Brazil’s Matheus Nacthergaele (“Blue Blood”) and Argentina’s Juan Minujín (“2+2”), Nahuel Cano (“Taped”), Ivan Moschner (“La noche del lobo”), and Rafael Spregelburd (“The Film Critic”).
From Brazil, there are secondary roles for Mariana Nunes (“Pele”), Evandro Melo (“Meu Pedacinho de Chao”) and Nanego Lira (“The Grain”).
Of key craft, Portugal’s Rui Poças, the d.p. on Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu,” a Berlin 2012 Alfred Bauer and Fipresci winner, will serve as cinematographer. Renata Pinheiro (“Tattoo”) and her team overseas art direction, Karen Harley (“The Second Mother”), also from Brazil, is “Zama’s” editor.
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November 10, 2018 4:48PM PT
Los Cabos Debates Digital Series Revolution, Freedoms, Rights, Talent, Paradigms
CREDIT: David Lee/Netflix
LOS CABOS, Mexico — The 7th Los Cabos Festival, the most industrially-minded of Mexico’s film events, was the first to take place in full-blown digital OTT revolution.
Two TV panels, the biggest ever at Los Cabos, packed out by some of the foremost Latino TV and OT show-runners, producers and directors, debated the huge, multi-faceted and still fast-evolving impact the digital platforms are having, and will have, on the industry. The result was maybe the most intense industry debate Los Cabos has ever seen. Eight takeaways:
1.LATIN AMERICA GETS WHAT IT NEEDS
The panels underscored the huge paradigm shift in just a few years. For decades, Latin American TV production was dominated by free-to-air networks, producing in-house, producer Alex Garcia reminded a Los Cabos industry audience. Independent production companies – Mexico’s Argos, Argentina’s Pol-ka and Underground – were huge exceptions, their fortunes tied to producing for specific broadcasters. Then came the pay TV revolution. HBO Latin America produced Latin America’s first limited premium series, “Epitafios,” with Pol-ka, in 2003. With Netflix, and now Amazon Prime Video and YouTube Premium, the drama series floodgates are open. On Sept. 20, Netflix announced its 11th original to date in Brazil, supernatural thriller “Spectros.” Production companies, often moving across from the film sector, have seen a massive injection of revenues, which are, moreover, recurrent, incremental and paid during production. Gullane, for two decades one of Brazil’s foremost film companies, now makes as much TV as film. For many producers TV and OTT is financing their film business.
2.THE CREATOR/PRODUCER DIVIDE
But are creatives, and creative producers, happy with this situation? Leading showrunners from Latin America and the U.S. spoke on Los Cabos two TV panels: Tonya Lewis Lee, producer of Spike Lee’s Netflix hit “She’s Gotta Have It”; Andrés Baiz, an executive producer, director and one of the main drivers of Netflix’s “Narcos”; José Manuel Cravioto, a director on Netflix’s “El Chapo” and showrunner of its upcoming “Diablero”; Humberto Hinojosa, director of social phenom “Luis Miguel – La Series.” In a crucial metric, creative freedom, the common answer was a resounding yes. “For us, Netflix has been a welcome change in that they have allowed us to do what we wanted to do,” said Lewis Lee. “‘Narcos’ is a filmmaker-friendly show,” echoed Baiz. Its directors not only come from film but are often renowned cutting edge auteurs, he added, citing Mexico’s Cannes and Venice Festival winner Amat Escalante (“Heli,” “The Untamed”), Berlin double laureate Alonso Ruizpalacios (“Gueros,” “Museo”). They have a chance to do a directors’ cut once the episodes are done, Baiz added. Lewis Lee and Baiz maybe in a privileged position. With a filmmaker of Spike Lee’s status, it would only seem natural for Netflix to allow him to make the series he wanted to make, Lewis Lee observed. “Narcos” has proved a milestone smash hit for Netflix, bringing in semi foreign-language narrative dramas as mass phenomenon entertainment.
3.FINALLY, A PAYDAY FOR MOVIE DIRECTORS
TV drama series offer filmmakers the chance to explore characters over more involved and complex character arcs. The Nora Darling of “She’s Gotta Have It,” a story still ahead of its time 30 years after the original movie, is more multi-faceted than the film, critics have pointed out. For creators, especially in the impoverished U.S. indie sector which cannot look to government incentives to finance movies – unlike Latin America and Europe – the OTT explosion has meant that they finally get a handsome paycheck. “I got paid like an intern on my features. This is how I pay my rent,” Desiree Akhavan argued about TV series directing. Many other directors would, if candid, agree.
4.BUT YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: RETAINING RIGHTS
Some of the producers on the panels, in telling contrast, homed in on two huge concerns at the heart of new TV landscape business models: Rights and talent.
“The main question is always who owns the property,” said Carla González Vargas, showrunner of the biggest Spanish-language hit series of this year from Latin America, “Luis Miguel – la Serie.”
On “Luis Miguel,” rights on Season 1 are owned by Gato Grande, and licensed to Netflix. Spike Lee retained Intellectual Property on “She’s Gotta Have It,” said Lewis Lee. On Canada’s “Anne with an E,” producer Miranda de Pencier sold SVOD rights to Netflix and retained other rights. “For me as an independent producer making an indie project, it’s a Netflix original and we get global access, but I still own the show,” a great combination, she commented.
“In the future the IP is the only thing you will still have,” observed José Manuel Cravioto, a director on Netflix’s “El Chapo” and showrunner of its upcoming “Diablero.” But to do so, you may need a star director or deep pockets. “It’s been a good situation for us,” Lewis Lee noted. But “I’m talking about Spike Lee, I don’t know if it’s different for other people without that history,” she observed. “When you own [a show], the income arrives three-to-five years after it airs. You have to have the financial ability to wait. As long as you have that, a big studio or private pockets to back you, it’s one way to look at things,” said Gonzalez Vargas. But, as Netflix and other platforms drive ever more into original production, not acquisition, it’s logical for them to seek more rights. At least in Europe, national regulators, the E.U. and Netflix are engaged in resolving if and how the U.S. streaming giant could be required to invest part of its revenues in local production. When that concern is resolved, the rights issue could be the Next Big Thing on the regulatory agenda, at least in a county where there is a tradition of the independent sector partially retaining rights to TV shows it produces.
5.ANOTHER CRUNCH: RETAINING TALENT
The initial focus of the two Los Cabos panels was how, when working with OTT platforms, the independent TV sector could maintain creators’ strong voice. But debate soon acquired a far larger focus.
“I’m not against the platforms. I work with all of the platforms and main networks. I’m just worried where things may be going,” said Garcia who, like many producers, is worried that Netflix will increasingly produce talent directly, cutting out the producer middle-man.
“I come from Latin America. We used to have Televisa and Caracol, Globo, huge companies dictating the rules of what we should do.” The question, Garcia asked the audience, is whether with the new platforms, the situations will be “the same, just bigger.”
He sketched out a sobering scenario, of just how much Netflix can save by producing directly with creators: “Netflix spends $6 billion on content a year. Indie production companies end up charging around 10% as a production fee. That’s $600 million a year. Specifically in Latin America, how much would it cost Netflix to put on their contract every single talent there is? $100 million? $150 million?”
Garcia’s rhetorical bigger picture question sent a frisson through the Los Cabos audience. Whether this scenario will ever play out in full, however, is another question.
6.LOOK ABROAD, CIRCLE BACK HOME
As Cannes Mipcom TV market underscored last month, everybody’s trying to catch up with Netflix. That includes overseas broadcast networks, which are driving into drama series. Desiree Akhavan originally tried to get her series, comedy “The Bisexual,” financed out of the U.S. “It was rejected everywhere. My partner brought me to London and I pitched the same script and had options in the U.K. It was much easier then.” Once sold to Channel 4, Hulu came on board as a co-producer, taking the U.S. American indie filmmakers now have a sharply uphill battle to sell their films abroad. In TV, U.S. writer-directors, especially because of their writing and story structure skills, are in high demand in Europe.
7.NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Just how the rights issue will play out, nobody knows. Digital platform production is still in its infancy. Apart from the one-off “Lilyhammer,” Netflix released its first fully foreign-language series, “Club of Crows,” as recently as August 2015. “The sector is simply evolving so fast,” said Gonzalez Vargas. Who would have thought, after its Cannes Festival standoff, that, four months later, Netflix would be cutting a cheque to France’s CNC public film agency, equivalent to 2% of its revenues in France? (Answer: Anybody attending the Trans-Atlantic Dialogues at Series Mania in April, where Reed Hastings waved a very large olive branch at French regulators).
One thing seems certain, however: Digital platform operators are hardly cut from the same cloth. “I’ve made one series for Claro, another for Netflix, and now another for Amazon, and they have totally different approaches,” said Humberto Hinojosa, director of Claro’s “Brotherhood” and Netflix’s “Luis Miguel – La Serie.” “Brotherhood” didn’t have a showrunner, but rather Manolo Cardona, as producer and lead actor. Netflix didn’t give notes on “Luis Miguel,” and Hinojosa shot it “like one of my movies, but more rushed.” The Amazon series has an American showrunner who is “highly methodic”: “If I go scouting and I want to change the set to a subway they say: ‘No, no, no. we have to put that in the script, down to the color of the train cars.” “Each platform is different and each project is different,” he concluded.
8.BIGGER PICTURES
Intense and wide-ranging, Los Cabos TV panel debate underscored just how many pivots there are in the OTT revolution. They take in sea-changes in consumer opportunities. “There is a diversity in content, thank God. We are finally there and can have people from different countries looking at series in different languages and at different sexualities,” said De Pencier.
She went on: “If you’re a kid in small town Texas, Israel or Italy, your perspective was very narrow. Now that same kid is watching shows from everywhere. That is a plus. Knowledge is power.”
But there’s a downside. “We keep talking about streaming services that you have to pay for. You didn’t have to pay for network TV. What about the people who can’t afford to pay for the content? What happens there?,” asked Lewis Lee.
She said she didn’t know the answer – typical of a debate which was large on insights and also candor.
Jamie Lang contributed to this article.
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8 Week Online Photography Course Michael Freeman’s ... ?· Michael Freeman’s Photography Foundation…
Michael Freemans Photography Foundation Course
WithMichael Freeman
The Photographers Eye: A Foundation course in Composition
8 Week Online Photography Course
Lesson 1Course Notes
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IntroductionComposition is nothing less than the underpinning of photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson, the master, wrote, This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition an organic coordination of visual elements.
Composition is the way in which photographers turn real, chaotic life in front of them into images within a frame. As such, composition begins with a clear understanding of what the subject is, what it means to you, and what you want to say about it. Cartier-Bresson again: You cant compose gratuitously; there must be a necessity, and you cant separate form from substance.
Hello Im Michael Freeman. This Foundation Course will equip you to create distinctive, meaningful images that express your personal way of seeing, an essential first step on the path to developing your own photographic style.In keeping with other Foundation Courses, and tracing back to the original Basic Course at the Bauhaus, this courses gives a thorough grounding for pursuing photography seriously.
It covers all aspects of composition, far beyond the idea of simply making a vaguely satisfying image by following so-called rules (least of all the trivialised rule of thirds).
It is designed to be the basis for further courses of any kind in photography. There are two course books to accompany this, my The Photographers Eye and its companion volume The Photographers Eye: Graphic Guide. You will need to have access to these either with your own copies or from a library. There is also an e-book version of The Photographers Eye available from the publisher by clicking here
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Course CurriculumWeek 1: The Job of Composition
Composition has a purpose in both art and in photography, otherwise its just an exercise. It has three possible jobs: Create Order, Direct the Viewer, Create Interest. Depending on the subject and on the photographers style and ability, sometimes just one of these three dominates, but there are also images in which two or all three play a part. The examples used to demonstrate these will also underline that universal rules
are anathema to meaningful composition. Rather, individual photographers develop preferences for certain methods.
Week 2: Frame and Framing.The frame is the bounding shape, artificial and yet the accepted tradition of imagery since painting left walls to become objects. This is the bounding area within which you decide what to include, and what to exclude. Framing the shot is the part of composing that deals with the broad sense of what part of a scene to enclose, how it divides, and where a main subject goes. The shape of the frame, its format, has a
strong influence on composition, with the added complication that digital photography allows extending the frame in any direction.
Week 3: Contrast and BalanceOne of the most fundamental concepts in imagery id that of contrastcontrast between elements and parts of the image, from brightness and texture to sensation and meaning. In one sense, images exist because of contrast. This in turn leads to the concept of balance, in which the audiences values play a part in deciding whether relationships in a composition are comfortable, elegant, interesting or challenging. We explore different kinds of
balance, from static to dynamic, and finally the conceptual balance between content and the graphics of the image
Week4: The Viewers EyePhotography is todays most widely used form of visual communication, and the role of the audience cannot be ignored. Photographs have a life only when put on display. We look at the psychology of perception as an aid to composition, and consider the different visual weight of subjects. Attraction and repulsion. Expectation (gestalt) and its influence on closure, rhythm, pattern and texture. Perspective and depth in two dimensions
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Course CurriculumWeek 5: The Graphic Elements
The pure geometry of the image uses a visual vocabulary which is usually broken down into the following. Points (one, two, several), Lines (horizontals, verticals, diagonals, curves, eye-lines), Shapes (triangles, circles, rectangles) and Vectors (moving parts and anticipated movement). Even when separated from content, they have definable effects. When reviewing other photographers work, Cartier-Bresson famously and
idiosyncratically used to view the images upside down for this reason.
Week 6: The Photographic Elements.The mechanics and optics of the camera and lens create their own graphic elements and effects in the image, and additional visual vocabulary unique to photography and which has become understood and accepted by everyone. Here we look at these in the following order. Focus (deep, shallow, tilted), Shutter and Motion, Focal length and the family of lenses, from wide-angle through standard to telephoto, seen
both as an influence on the graphics of the image and as giving more deep-seated sensations and character
Week 7: Composing with Light and ColourLight and colour themselves can be used to play an essential part in composing the image. With light, its key, quality (especially including chiaroscuro) and the exposure given to it in-camera are all important for the overall visual effect of the image. Colour opens a different world of perception, and we draw on modern colour theory and the Human Vision System (HVS) to examine colour theme, colour accent, colour relationships, colour
palettes (rich, muted), and finally, black and white.
Week 8: The Process of ShootingCamerawork in its broadest sense, not limited to the technical, helps to realise the ideas already explored above. We look at ways of searching and hunting for images to bring them to realisation as photographs, and also at the concept of a repertoire of satisfying images (or at least, images that are felt to work) that each photographer develops, whether unconsciously or deliberately. We look at the techniques of reaction and of
anticipation, exploration and construction, and juxtaposition, which holds a special place in photography.
Michael Freemans Photography Foundation Course: The Job of Composition
Yes, Composition has a job to do. Like everything else in the process of making a worthwhile photograph, it has a purpose. It has more than one job to do, in fact, depending on the scene or the subject. And also depending on what you are trying to achieve in the image youre about to shoot.
This is the first class in this Foundation Course, and for a good reason I want to start with understanding what exactly composition means to a photograph. Before we begin to look at the techniques and styles in composition, its essential to know first what you want out of it. As with any other creative activity, if you have the basic idea in your mind, it becomes much easier to turn it into an image than just trying out different techniques to see which one you like. Composition is very much about taking charge of the image.
First of all, please understand that composition is not a polite way of making sure that things go into pre-ordained places in a photograph, and that its divided according to genteel rules. Composition, which you could also call design if you like, actually underpins photography. Its the way in which you, as a photographer, actually control what appears in an image from the flowing, disordered real-life scene in front of you.
Book Ref: PE:GG 70-71
Lets start with this picture taken in a cattle camp in Sudan. Its a young Dinka man with his long-horned cattle, but theres more going on in the picture than just that. Theres obviously something about the timing of the shot, and about the design of it and the way the different curves interact. Ill come back to this picture in lesson 5 when we talk about curves, but its enough for now to say that its more than a simple snapshot.
And it doesnt follow any rule of composition like the so-called rule of thirds.
There are indeed no rules, and this is something Ill be repeating at points throughout the course. Now you might think, hang on, surely there are things like the Rule of Thirds? Everyones heard of that. Well, shocking though this may sound, if theres one thing guaranteed to make your photographs boring and uninteresting, its following that rule.
Or following any rule, for that matter. There are techniques that have certain known effects because of how the eye and brain work, but that alone doesnt qualify them to become rules for photographers to follow. This is not an engineering course. Its a creative course, and creativity depends on imagination and on entertaining an audience. The audience in this case is people pretty well like us, and we want to be inspired and surprised by the images we see. We dont want to be bored out of our minds by seeing pictures
that belong on a postcard rack. And this, as Ill come on to in a minute, is a clue to what one of the jobs of composition is.
Book Ref: PE 128
Now, saying that there are no rules does not mean that composition is simply a free-for-all where anything is up for grabs. Its a creative discipline like any other, just one that hasnt been quite so formalised as most. This is, of course, part of the problem in talking about composition, because as soon as discussions start about how and why certain arrangements or balances seem to work in an image, its a short step to say that artists or photographers ought to follow them if they want to be successful.
Thats something to be resisted, simply because it pushes photographers towards producing the same kind of image. Instead, one of the aims of this course is to show you the techniques that will do certain things and get certain kinds of reaction from viewersso that you can pick and choose which ones are going to be useful for the shot youre about to take.
Now, say the word compose and most people will get a sense of a very deliberate and thoughtful action thats going to take some time. Theres also a hint of rigidity, of disallowing natural expression. It sounds even a bit prissy. These feelings probably come from the history of classical painting, with very carefully worked out designs drawn on the canvas and then followed for the weeks or months it took to create a major painting.
This is the compositional framework for a famous painting, Botticellis Venusor the armature as its sometimes knownand it was very deliberate and complicated. Fascinating, actually, but its got nothing to do with the normal way that photographs are composed.
Its very different in photography. Unless youre in a studio with a still-life to arrange, or shooting an interior, you probably have just seconds to work out the image. Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was the master of street photography, said about composition that at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involved are on the move.
This isnt the last time Ill quote from him. In other words, composition in photography is dynamic, because everythings on the move, and it usually has to be fast. And it really doesnt have to conform to the styles of classical painting.
This shot, which is certainly composed effectively, took a matter of seconds to decide. So what is the job of composition in photography? As I said, its not to conform. Well, it turns out that there are three possible jobs, sometimes alone and sometimes together. They are:- create order out of chaos, direct the viewers eye, and be interesting.
The real world, unbounded by any convenient frame, just goes on regardless. Oftenusuallyits visually messy, even chaotic! Well, thats life, and its the raw material of photography. Somehow, we have to get an impression of this into a static rectangular picture frame. Specifically, we have to choose one moment, one viewpoint, one framing and freeze it. Now, looking at a busy street scene in motion, like this, is a very different matter from seeing it frozen, like this. The flow of motion suddenly becomes a jumble.
Book Ref: PE 152-155
Now look at this different scene, from the same city. The first thing thats obvious is that all the figures are clearly separated. They occupy their own space, and yet theyre obviously related. They even seem to be organised into a simple geometric shape.
The result, to the viewer, is satisfying. More to the point, as viewers we can appreciate that the photographer actually managed to get the figures separated and organised. Now, Im not saying that this is what you always have to try and do. Not at all. But you can see that it works visually, and it works because its imposed a kind of order on the scene. It does this by means of structure. Instead of having the elements wander all over the place, overlap and fall half out of the frame, it has a kind of neatness that comes from the viewpoint, the timing and the framing. So thats the first way of creating order:-
Theres also that triangle, and strengthening the geometry of an image is another way of bringing order. Geometry means mainly shapes and lines, and well look at these in detail in lesson 5.
PAGE 10 Heres an example, a river town in Vietnam from a bridge. The back lightings pleasant and theres quite a bit of time to shoot. The river traffic is busy, so maybe its worth waiting until we get some kind of alignment. Here, you can see it happening.. And thats my moment. Not everyones choice, but personally I like things lined up in a scene like this.
But structure doesnt have to be of just one kind. There are many different styles of composition, meaning styles of organisation. At one end of the scale is very formal and classical, like this.
Conventional and considered, with the windmill reasonably off-centre, and outlined against the blue sky with none of the clouds overlapping it...
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Most Recent Weekly Report: 4 April-10 April 2018 Cite this Report
OVDAS-SERNAGEOMIN reported that, although seismicity at Láscar during March was low, characteristics of the signals were similar to patterns observed prior to previous minor phreatic explosions, particularly before events in 2013 and 2015. The Alert Level was raised to Yellow (second highest level on a four-color scale); SERNAGEOMIN recommended no entry into a restricted area within 5 km of the crater. ONEMI declared an Alert Level Yellow (the middle level on a three-color scale) for San Pedro de Atacama.
Sources: Oficina Nacional de Emergencia-Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI), Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN)
Most Recent Bulletin Report: July 2017 (BGVN 42:07) Cite this Report
Thermal anomaly persists until April 2017
The six overlapping summit craters of northern Chile's Lascar volcano have produced numerous lava flows down the NW flanks. Frequent small-to-moderate explosive eruptions since the mid-19th century, and infrequent larger eruptions, have produced ashfall hundreds of kilometers away. The largest historical eruption took place in 1993, producing pyroclastic flows to 8.5 km NW of the summit and ashfall in Buenos Aires. An explosion on 30 October 2015 produced an ash plume that rose 2.5 km above the 5.6 km high summit and drifted NE; this event also initiated a distinct thermal anomaly signal recorded by MIROVA that continued through June 2016 (BGVN 41:07). Continuous incandescence from the crater was seen for the next two months. The thermal anomaly did not begin to diminish until February 2017; details of activity through June 2017 are reported here with information primarily from Chile's Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, (SERNAGEOMIN), and the Italian MIROVA project.
After the 30 October 2015 explosion, a persistent thermal anomaly appeared in the MIROVA data that maintained a near-constant level of activity through June 2016 (figure 49, BGVN 41:07). The MIROVA VRP (Volcanic Radiative Power) values remained steady with multiple weekly anomalies through January 2017 when they began to taper off in both frequency and intensity (figure 50). They were intermittent during February, persistent but at a lower level during March and into the first few days of April. A few anomalies appeared later in April, and one during mid-May 2017; there is no evidence to determine exactly when eruptive activity ended or the cause of the anomalies.
Figure 50. Thermal anomaly data from MIROVA (Log Radiative Power) at Lascar for the year ending on 12 June 2017. The thermal anomalies persisted at a steady rate and intensity from November 2015 (see figure 49, BGVN 41:07) through January 2017 when they began to decrease in both frequency and intensity, until they ceased in May 2017. Courtesy of MIROVA.
Throughout July 2016-June 2017, the local webcam showed persistent degassing of mostly steam plumes from the main crater, with plume heights ranging from 500-1,500 m above the summit (table 6). Although there were three pilot reports of ash emissions from Lascar on 22 and 25 September and 29 December 2016, in each case the Buenos Aires VAAC noted that there was no indication of volcanic ash in satellite images under clear skies; the webcam did show continuous emissions of steam and gas dissipating rapidly near the summit. Seismicity during this period varied from a low of three events during October 2016 to a high of 122 events during June 2017. Although there was an increase in the number of seismic events during April 2017, the total energy released remained low. Continuous incandescence at the crater was observed during October-December 2016.
Table 6. Seismic events, degassing information, and incandescence observed at Lascar from July 2016-June 2017. Information provided by SERNAGEOMIN monthly reports. Maximum height is meters above the 5,592 m elevation summit.
Month No of Seismic Events Degassing Maximum Height (m) Date of Maximum Height Incandescence Observed
Jul 2016 11 Steam 700 4 Jul --
Aug 2016 12 Steam 850 25 Aug --
Sep 2016 24 Steam 1,100 21 Sep --
Oct 2016 3 Steam 1,000 28 Oct Continuous
Nov 2016 7 Steam 1,500 4 Nov Continuous
Dec 2016 6 Steam 1,400 20 Dec Continuous
Jan 2017 13 Constant 800 6 Jan --
Feb 2017 36 Constant 650 19 Feb --
Mar 2017 19 Constant 600 5 Mar --
Apr 2017 112 Constant 600 29 Apr --
May 2017 97 Constant 560 8 May --
Jun 2017 122 Constant 500 1 Jun --
Information Contacts: Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, (SERNAGEOMIN), Observatorio Volcanológico de Los Andes del Sur (OVDAS), Avda Sta María No. 0104, Santiago, Chile ( URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/); MIROVA (Middle InfraRed Observation of Volcanic Activity), a collaborative project between the Universities of Turin and Florence (Italy) supported by the Centre for Volcanic Risk of the Italian Civil Protection Department (URL: http://www.mirovaweb.it/); Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 25 de mayo 658, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/inicio.php?lang=es).
Weekly Reports - Index
2015: October
2012: January
2007: January | March | May | July
2006: April | August
2005: May
2003: December
4 April-10 April 2018 Cite this Report
Sources: Oficina Nacional de Emergencia-Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI); Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN)
28 October-3 November 2015 Cite this Report
OVDAS-SERNAGEOMIN reported that at 0932 on 30 October the webcam recorded an ash plume rising 2.5 km above Láscar and drifting NE. A low-to-moderate-level seismic signal accompanied the emission. The Alert Level was raised to Yellow (the second lowest level on a four-color scale). ONEMI declared a Yellow Alert for the municipality of San Pedro de Atacama.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN)
3 April-9 April 2013 Cite this Report
OVDAS-SERNAGEOMIN reported that during March a web camera monitoring Láscar recorded white gas plumes rising 600 m above the crater. At night during 2-4 April incandescence from the crater was observed. On 3 April increased emissions from the crater fluctuated from white to gray, indicating possible ash. Plumes rose 320 m and drifted SE. Seismicity remained at normal levels during the increased emissions. On 5 April the Alert Level was raised to Yellow.
4 January-10 January 2012 Cite this Report
OVDAS-SERNAGEOMIN reported increased seismicity at Láscar on 5 January and raised the Alert Level from Green to Yellow. On 8 January ONEMI authorities warned residents about the new Alert Level status and restricted residents from going within a 20-km radius of the volcano.
18 July-24 July 2007 Cite this Report
Based on pilot reports and satellite image observations, the Buenos Aires VAAC reported that an ash plume from Lascar rose to altitudes of 7.6-9.1 km (25,000-30,000 ft) a.s.l. on 18 July and drifted NE.
Source: Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC)
23 May-29 May 2007 Cite this Report
Based on a Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET) advisory and satellite image observations, the Buenos Aires VAAC reported that an ash plume from Lascar rose to an altitude of 9.1 km (30,000 ft) a.s.l. on 23 May and drifted SSE.
7 March-13 March 2007 Cite this Report
The Buenos Aires VAAC reported that on 11 March an ash cloud from Lascar rose to 5.5-6.7 km (18,000-22,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted E.
17 January-23 January 2007 Cite this Report
Based on satellite imagery, the Buenos Aires VAAC reported continuous emissions from Lascar on 22 January. Ash plumes drifted NNE.
23 August-29 August 2006 Cite this Report
Several small phreatic explosions occurred at Lascar during May, July, and August. The explosions were separated in time by up to several weeks. The last observed explosion, lasting for about five minutes on 14 August, produced a plume that reached a height of 450 m above the crater (19,800 ft a.s.l.) and dispersed ESE.
Source: Jorge Clavero-Chilean Geological Survey (Sernageomin) and Juan Cayupi-Chilean Emergency Office (ONEMI) via the Volcano Listserv
26 April-2 May 2006 Cite this Report
Based on information from a significant meteorological forecast (SIGMET), the Buenos Aires VAAC reported that on 28 April a W-drifting ash cloud was observed at a height around 6.1-7.6 km (20,000-25,000 ft) a.s.l. The Aviation Color Code was at Red. Later that day activity was no longer observed and the Aviation Color Code was reduced to Green.
19 April-25 April 2006 Cite this Report
Several phreatic explosions occurred at Lascar daily during 18-21 April. The explosions produced plumes of gas and small amounts of ash, with the highest rising plumes reaching 3 km above the volcano (or 28,200 ft a.s.l.) on the 18th and the 21st. Ash was deposited on the volcano's flanks as far as 3 km from the summit. There was no evidence of new magma reaching the surface and recorded seismicity was inferred to be related to shallow degassing. The Buenos Aires VAAC released volcanic ash advisory statements during the report period.
Sources: Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC); Jorge Clavero-Chilean Geological Survey (Sernageomin) and Juan Cayupi-Chilean Emergency Office (ONEMI) via the Volcano Listserv
ONEMI reported that two explosive eruptions occurred at Lascar on 18 April. The first ash emission began at 1120 and the second began at 1315. According to the Buenos Aires VAAC, a significant meteorological forecast (SIGMET) was issued for Lascar on 18 April stating that a "smoke" column was at a height of 8 km (26,250 ft) a.s.l. and was drifting eastward towards Argentina. The Aviation Color Code was at Red, the highest level. Activity ended later that day, so the Aviation Color Code was reduced to Green. The Villarrica Volcano Visual Observation Project (POVI) website reported that a cloud rose to 3 km above the volcano (28,200 ft a.s.l.), no seismic activity was recorded in the area, and no evacuations occurred.
Sources: Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC); Oficina Nacional de Emergencia-Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI); Villarrica Volcano Visual Surveillance Project
4 May-10 May 2005 Cite this Report
The Buenos Aires VAAC reported an eruption from Lascar seen on satellite imagery early on 4 May that sent an ash plume into the 4.5-10.6 km a.s.l. range (15,000-35,000 feet), where it was moving to the SE.
31 December-6 January 2004 Cite this Report
According the Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI), on 9 December small amounts of fine ash were emitted from fumaroles at Lascar. The following day activity was at "normal" levels, with only gas and steam emitted. No increased seismicity was recorded.
Source: Oficina Nacional de Emergencia-Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI)
Bulletin Reports - Index
Reports are organized chronologically and indexed below by Month/Year (Publication Volume:Number), and include a one-line summary. Click on the index link or scroll down to read the reports.
08/1986 (SEAN 11:08) Hypersthene andesite ashfall 350 km to the SE
04/1987 (SEAN 12:04) Three explosions emitted ash clouds in September 1986
05/1987 (SEAN 12:05) Ashfall in Argentina 16 September; ash chemistry
04/1988 (SEAN 13:04) Continuing minor ash emission
08/1988 (SEAN 13:08) Three explosions send plumes to 3 km high
03/1989 (SEAN 14:03) Apparent new lava dome; gas and ash emission
06/1989 (SEAN 14:06) Continued lava dome growth
11/1989 (SEAN 14:11) Lava dome deflates; strong SO2 emission
12/1989 (SEAN 14:12) Strong steam plumes
01/1990 (BGVN 15:01) Landsat data show persistent thermal anomaly despite deflation of lava dome
02/1990 (BGVN 15:02) Explosion produces large tephra cloud and ejects ballistic blocks to 5 km; lava dome activity increases
03/1990 (BGVN 15:03) 20 February eruption ejected about 10-30% of the lava dome in crystal-rich fragments
04/1990 (BGVN 15:04) 1989 dome continues to sag along arcuate fissures; small tephra emission; tremor but no discrete earthquakes
01/1991 (BGVN 16:01) Vapor plumes extend 60 km
05/1991 (BGVN 16:05) High crater temperatures detected by satellite
10/1991 (BGVN 16:10) Renewed explosive activity
03/1992 (BGVN 17:03) New lava dome in central crater; fumarolic activity
05/1992 (BGVN 17:05) New dome fills base of crater; occasional explosions
06/1992 (BGVN 17:06) Satellite data show heat from lava dome
04/1993 (BGVN 18:04) Eruption sends ash above 25 km altitude; pyroclastic flows travel 7.5 km
08/1993 (BGVN 18:08) Lava dome emplaced following April eruption
11/1993 (BGVN 18:11) Description of new dome evolution
01/1994 (BGVN 19:01) Short eruption in December 1993 sends plume 8-10 km high
03/1994 (BGVN 19:03) Dome collapse almost complete; new fractures and fumaroles; small ash emissions
07/1994 (BGVN 19:07) Moderate short-lived eruption sends plume over Argentina
11/1994 (BGVN 19:11) Small phreatic eruptions
03/1995 (BGVN 20:03) Small ash eruptions and increased height of gas plume
06/1995 (BGVN 20:06) Small eruptions on 10 May and 20 July
07/1996 (BGVN 21:07) Quiet emission of vapor
06/2000 (BGVN 25:06) Ash eruption on 20-21 July
03/2003 (BGVN 28:03) Small ash eruptions in October 2002; fumarole investigations
01/2004 (BGVN 29:01) On 9 December 2003 fine ash discharged from fumaroles
04/2005 (BGVN 30:04) 4 May 2005 eruption sends ash over 1,000 km SE, ¾ of the way to Buenos Aires
05/2005 (BGVN 30:05) Further analysis of 4 May 2005 event indicates a phreato-Vulcanian eruption
04/2006 (BGVN 31:04) Five-day eruption sequence in April 2006; plume seen 220 km away
11/2006 (BGVN 31:11) Crater changes after May; minor explosions during September and October 2006
09/2007 (BGVN 32:09) Occasional aviation reports of ash plumes during November 2006-July 2007
07/2013 (BGVN 38:07) Seismicity, glow, gray plumes, and other anomalies suggest April 2013 eruption
06/2015 (BGVN 40:06) Intermittent incandescence seen in October and November 2013
07/2016 (BGVN 41:07) Ash plume on 30 October 2015 rises 2,500 m high; variable seismicity and persistent thermal anomaly afterwards
07/2017 (BGVN 42:07) Thermal anomaly persists until April 2017
Information is preliminary and subject to change. All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
August 1986 (SEAN 11:08) Cite this Report
Hypersthene andesite ashfall 350 km to the SE
Lascar erupted during the morning of 16 September. Strong winds deposited hypersthene andesite ash on the city of Salta, Argentina, 350 km SE [see also 12:4-5].
Information Contacts: J. Viramonte, Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina; Telam News Service, Buenos Aires.
April 1987 (SEAN 12:04) Cite this Report
Three explosions emitted ash clouds in September 1986
Eruptive activity [in September 1986] was observed by MINSAL Co. geologists in Toconao (32.5 km NW). Paul King, Sheila King, and John Heathcote reported that single explosive events occurred on 14, 15, and 16 September. Prior to the eruptions, a prominent steam plume, larger than the normal plume, had been present but no significant seismic activity had been recorded. No glow from the summit had been visible at night.
The 14 September eruption (at 1430) sent a brown, ash-laden cloud as much as several hundred meters above the crater rim. Ash pulses continued for ~30 minutes. After ~45 minutes all activity had ended. The 15 September eruption occurred at about the same time of day and appeared to be of similar magnitude, but visibility was poor. The explosive event of 16 September was powerful but brief, and ejected only a small amount of ash. It began with a loud, somewhat sustained, rumbling explosion at about 0730. A brown ash cloud rose vertically as a dense plug, expanded, took on a cauliflower texture, and finally broadened into a mushroom-shaped cloud extending SE. No pyroclastic flows were observed and the ash column dispersed rapidly. The first minutes of the eruption were photographed. Altitudes of ash clouds (measured from the photographs) reached at least 15 km altitude and the plume may have extended 20 km downwind. A GOES satellite image at 0800 showed a small plume stretching E from Lascar. By 0900 it had turned S but an hour later its distal end was obscured by clouds.
Field investigations on 1 April 1987 revealed no magmatic activity. Vapor from vents on the sides of a deep, steep-walled pit crater created a bluish haze but no white steam cloud was present. A strong SO2 smell was noted by geologists in an aircraft above the volcano. No incandescence was observed. An extremely thin layer of ash covered the SE flanks, concentrated along a very narrow axis of dispersion. At 0.5 km from the volcano the largest fresh tephra particles were 5-10-mm angular fragments of dense, dark, unvesiculated lava, very similar to the finer grained ash (0.01-0.02 mm diameter) that fell on Salta on 16 September.
Observations from aircraft showed a large number of impact craters and ejected blocks on the N flank. Most seemed to predate the 16 September eruption but a few appeared to geologists to be extremely fresh ('rays' of ejecta were well preserved). Fresh, dense, andesitic lava blocks in these craters were up to 40 cm in diameter.
The geologists found no evidence to suggest that juvenile material was erupted. Thermal studies with the Landsat T M during 1985 and 1986 had shown a thermal anomaly at Lascar that was much stronger than any other in the central Andes. Francis and Rothery (1987) interpreted the anomaly as indicating the presence of magma, or possibly a lava lake, in the summit crater complex.
Reference. Francis, P.W. and Rothery, D.A., 1987, Using the Landsat Thematic Mapper to Detect and Monitor Active Volcanoes: an Example from Northern Chile; Geology, v. 15, no. 7, p. 614-617.
Further Reference. Glaze, L.S., Francis, P.W., Self, S., and Rothery, D.A., 1989, The 16 September 1986 Eruption of Lascar Volcano, North Chile: Satellite Investigations; Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 51, p. 149-160.
Information Contacts: P. Francis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston; C. Ramirez, SERNAGEOMIN; W. Gould, NOAA/NESDIS.
May 1987 (SEAN 12:05) Cite this Report
Ashfall in Argentina 16 September; ash chemistry
The following describes ashfall in Salta, Argentina [from the 16 September 1986 eruption (12:4)]. Chile time (GMT - 4 hours) is used instead of Argentina time (1 hour later) for consistency with observations from the volcano.
At 0830 on 16 September, an unusually high gray cloud was seen coming from the NW in an otherwise clear sky towards Salta, Argentina (350 km SE of the volcano). At 0900 fine ashfall began, continuing until about 1230. Officials from the Salta airport reported that winds at 9,000 m altitude were blowing from azimuth 300° at 145 km/hour between 1500 on 15 September and 1300 on 16 September. In Salar de Rincón (Argentina Puna) 65 km SE of Lascar, observers reported that the sky suddenly turned dark on the morning of 16 September but that no ash fell.
Ash accumulated 0.5 mm at Salta Univ and microscopic analysis showed a hypersthene andesite composition. Two ash samples were collected and leached, one with distilled water, the other with HCl (table 1).
Table 1. Leachates from samples of Lascar's ash collected at Salta, Argentina on 16 September 1987. Two ash samples were collected (0.5 kg) and leached, one with distilled water, the other with HCl (0.1 N). The ash/water ratio was 1:10 and the stirring time, 5 and 15 minutes respectively. Courtesy of J. Viramonte.
Component H2O (ppm) HCl (0.1 N; ppm)
Cl 890 --
SO4 6300 7000
Mg 70 240
Ca 500 1150
Na 370 520
K 135 240
Information Contacts: J. Viramonte, Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina.
Continuing minor ash emission
During intermittent observations by geologists 11-30 March, ash emission was semi-continuous. Some periods of stronger activity were noted. On 11 March at about 0930, an ash-laden plume rose ~1,500 m above the active crater. Plumes reached 2,500-3,000 m above the volcano between 0700 and 1030 on 18 March; individual emissions lasting ~1 minute occurred every 3-5 minutes. The volcano generally appeared more active during the morning and low-level emissions were most noticeable before noon, a pattern assumed by the observers to be related to daily cycles of atmospheric conditions. No recent ash deposits were found. There were no signs of renewed magmatic activity, and the geologists suggested that the low-level explosions were probably due to slumping of crater walls into the conduit, with the resulting blockage being occasionally cleared after slight accumulation of gas pressure.
Geologists 32.5 km NW of Lascar (at the MINSAL Co. in Toconao) reported that similar activity had continued for several months. Between more active periods, steam and fume could usually be seen rising above the crater.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg and C. Ramirez, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; P. Francis and S. De Silva, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston; S. Self, Univ of Texas, Arlington, TX.
Three explosions send plumes to 3 km high
On 13 July, geologist Paul King (Minsal Corp., Toconao) saw two plumes emerge from Lascar. The first rose 2-3 km at 1330 and the second to 1-2 km at 1500. NOAA's geostationary weather satellite (GOES) imagery indicated that the plume blew SW ~20 km. Ash had fallen on Salta, Argentina (~300 km SE of the volcano) after the September 1986 eruption (12:4-5) but none fell there or on Argentina's high plateau after the July 1988 activity. Steam and ash emission during the morning of 15 July was followed by another ash eruption at 1400. Background activity, which has been minor steam and blue haze emission, preceded and followed the eruption. Hugo Moreno's initial inspection of photographs suggests that the 13 July explosion was phreatomagmatic, and the activity early on 15 July was phreatic with little or no ash.
Information Contacts: P. Francis, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston; H. Moreno, Univ de Chile, Santiago; J. Viramonte, Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina.
March 1989 (SEAN 14:03) Cite this Report
Apparent new lava dome; gas and ash emission
. . . Paul King climbed the volcano in February 1989 and saw what appeared to be an active lava dome in the summit crater. Gas emission was vigorous, but no glow was visible from Toconao, ~30 km from the volcano.
During observations by M. Gardeweg and Adrian Jones 23 March-1 April 1989, irregular, dominantly steam emissions were continuously released from the N part of the E cone of this composite of two andesitic cones. Columns rose 400-600 m above the cone and plumes extended SE, with occasional fine-grained fallout. Observation from the SE flank on 26 March showed the steam to include sulfurous gas and light ash, which was being deposited on the E flank. A 1-m bomb in a fresh crater 4 m in diameter, 3 km S of the active summit, must have been erupted within recent months, although there are no reports of an eruption. The regular activity was interrupted for one day (29 March) by a change from emission of voluminous dense steam to light, translucent gas visible only near the summit.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; A. Jones, Kingston Polytechnic, Surrey UK; P. King, Minsal Co., Toconao, Chile; P. Francis, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston.
June 1989 (SEAN 14:06) Cite this Report
Continued lava dome growth
A lava dome has been growing in the active summit crater, site of occasional tephra emission since 1986. Observations and pictures from Stephen Foot (MINSAL, Ltda.), who climbed the volcano on 18 April 1989, confirm Paul King's February 1989 report of a steaming lava dome (14:3). The photographs clearly show a dome growing in the W crater of the eastern of Lascar's two andesite cones (figure 1). Until early 1986, this crater was empty, with only solfataric and fumarolic activity. Foot's photographs show that by April 1989 the dome had reached an estimated 200 m in diameter and 50 m height. The dome had steep sides and a blocky, steamy, dark brown surface. Steam emissions of different intensities were still being continuously released in late June, and glow was visible from Toconao (~30 km away) on one occasion.
Figure 1. Photograph of the growing lava dome in Lascar's summit crater, 18 April 1989, by Stephen Foot. Courtesy of M. Gardeweg.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Foot, MINSAL Ltda., Santiago.
November 1989 (SEAN 14:11) Cite this Report
Lava dome deflates; strong SO2 emission
Lascar has been continuously active since the September 1986 explosive eruption. The lava dome that had been growing in the active crater in March and April 1989 had deflated by 19 October (figure 2) when an Argentine-Chilean geological team (José Viramonte, Carlos Peralta, Carlos Pérez, Luís Baeza, and Sergio Espinosa) climbed the volcano. Three ring faults were associated with the collapse, the outer with a 15-m scarp, the two others with scarps of only 0.5 and 1 m. Each was marked by a succession of fumaroles with intense steam-dominated emissions that had a strong HCl odor and had deposited sulfur sublimates. A recent phreatic crater 20 m in diameter cut the outer ring fault. Fumaroles on the ESE edge of the collapsed dome made a strong jet aircraft sound. Portable 2-component seismographs were installed at three sites on the cone 16-19 October. Only a few volcanic earthquakes accompanied significant regional-related earthquake activity, but significant tremor was recorded.
Figure 2. Sketch map showing the collapsed lava dome in the W crater of the eastern of Lascar's two andesite cones, and the ascent route of the Argentine-Chilean team. Courtesy of J. Viramonte.
Geologists from several institutions, including the Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, observed Lascar's activity from the ground and aircraft 21 October-17 November. The following is from their report.
"The dome, ~200 m in diameter, had deflated from the previously reported minimum volume of 1.5 x 106 m3 such that its top was at or below the crater floor (figure 3). We postulate that this may be due to magma withdrawal. We could find no evidence, either from local reports or from deposits near the crater, to suggest that any explosive activity has occurred since July 1988.
Figure 3. Sketches made by Stephen Self from photographs taken in April 1989 by Stephen Foot (top) and November 1989 by M. Gardeweg (bottom). Both look over the S wall of Lascar's active crater. Vantage points of the two photos are similar but not identical. The diameter of the lava dome in the April view is about 200 m. Note evidence of deflation of the dome in the November photo and the positions of fumaroles in each.
"Since April, regular observations of Lascar's plume, and the times of rumbling (retumbos), local earthquakes, and night glow above the crater have been compiled by Eduardo Necul Tello, a schoolteacher in Talabre, ~20 km WNW of Lascar. His observations document higher plumes, crater glow, and more frequent rumbling during April, which may correlate with the main period of dome extrusion. Rumbling reported by Necul on 10 October at noon may have been associated with dome collapse.
"The dome had one major fumarole on the SE edge of the crater. It was venting gas at extremely high velocities, creating a jet engine-like noise similar to that reported for pre-dome fumaroles (Danny Osborne, personal communication, 1984). As in April, most of the fumaroles were around the edge of the dome, but there were a few in the interior of the dome area that did not exist in April. The jet-like fumarole released by far the largest volume of gas. The dome was crossed by NW-SE cracks that may have been extensional during its growth." Bombs, probably from the September 1986 explosive activity, were collected for chemical analysis; they appeared dacitic in hand specimen.
"More than 70 COSPEC measurements of SO2 flux were obtained from several ground-based stations on the S and SE sides of Lascar 16-17 November. Preliminary data suggest that Lascar's SO2 output is in the range of 1,100-1,500 t/d. Based on daily observations of the plume during the last eight months, these two days of measured output are typical. Moreover, this level of gas release has been semi-continuous for the last four years.
"At any particular time, fewer than 10 volcanoes have SO2 emission rates that exceed 1,000 t/d. Such high rates generally indicate an open vent condition. If the 16-17 November rates at Lascar are extrapolated over longer periods, the extruded magma volume could not account for the amount of SO2 emitted, assuming an average dacite composition. We postulate that this reflects a distillation of SO2 from a subsurface magma body.
"Significant changes in Lascar's extrusive activity over the last few months and the apparent continued degassing of a magma body at depth indicate that this volcano should be routinely monitored. Over the short term, since April 1989, the explosive hazard potential of Lascar has decreased. However, the situation could change rapidly in the future."
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Foot, MINSAL Ltda., Santiago; R. Letelier, ONEMI, Santiago; L. Glaze, JPL; R. Andres and W. Rose, Michigan Technological Univ; P. Francis and S. de Silva, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston; S. Self, Univ of Texas; J. Viramonte, Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina; S. Espinoza and L. Baeza, Univ del Norte, Antofagasta.
December 1989 (SEAN 14:12) Cite this Report
Strong steam plumes
Strong steam eruptions were observed by Stephen Foot on 17 December between 0915 and 0930, and on 21 December at 1130. In each instance, fumarolic activity changed from the normal emission of a small diffuse plume to ejection of a very dense white cloud that rose ~2 km above the crater for ~15 minutes. The clouds were opaque and produced a heavy shadow. The plumes then diminished in height, remaining near the volcano for about an hour, then moved N on the 17th and NE on the 21st. No recent precipitation had occurred in the area.
Information Contacts: S. Foot, MINSAL Ltda., Santiago; M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago.
January 1990 (BGVN 15:01) Cite this Report
Landsat data show persistent thermal anomaly despite deflation of lava dome
Landsat TM data recorded on 28 November and 14 December show the continued presence of a short-wavelength infrared thermal anomaly in the center of the active crater, despite the deflation of the lava dome that had occurred by 19 October. A roughly circular area four 30 x 30 m pixels in diameter was radiant in TM bands 5 (1.55-1.75 mm in wavelength) and 7 (2.08-2.35 mm) on both images. Several pixels were saturated in both bands, but there was no thermal radiance for the next shorter wavelength (band 4, 0.76-0.09 mm). Temperatures and radiant flux have not yet been calculated, but the general appearance of the data is similar to that of November 1987. There had been no Landsat TM observations of Lascar since then, but it seemed likely that the radiant anomaly has persisted for 5 years, since the first TM image of the volcano was recorded in December 1984.
Information Contacts: D. Rothery, Open Univ.
February 1990 (BGVN 15:02) Cite this Report
Explosion produces large tephra cloud and ejects ballistic blocks to 5 km; lava dome activity increases
An explosive episode on 20 February at 1545 ejected an eruption column that contained large amounts of water vapor and some tephra. Gentle winds during the activity allowed a large plume to develop, reaching ~8 km above the crater (almost 14 km altitude; figure 4). The activity appeared to be phreatomagmatic (but see comment by González-Ferrán below), consisted of only a single pulse [but see 15:03], and lasted for ~5 minutes. Near-summit winds shifted the plume slightly southward, then high-altitude winds carried away the upper part of the plume to the south. The plume had completely dispersed 30 minutes after the eruption. No felt pre-eruption seismicity was reported. Sounds from the explosion were reported to ~150 km from the volcano. Eruption-related noises were heard 40 km SW of the volcano (by Stephen Foot) at 1547, and windows rattled at Toconao, 32 km NW. As of 16 March, no new major eruptions have been reported, and the volcano has continued to show its normal fumarolic activity.
Figure 4. Sketch of Lascar and its 20 February 1990 eruption column by O. González-Ferrán, based on a photo taken by policeman Raul Orellana from Toconao (32 km NW of the volcano) 3 minutes after the onset of the explosion.
With the support of the Chilean Air force, Oscar González-Ferrán carried out an aerial and ground investigation between 22 and 26 February. During aerial reconnaissance on 24 February between about 0800 and 0900, an active lava dome remained in the crater. Numerous incandescent radial and concentric fractures were visible on the dome, and strong gas emission was occurring. Fieldwork on 24 and 25 February between Tumbre (N of the volcano) and Laguna de la Legia to ~5,400 m altitude on the SE flank, revealed that numerous blocks from the dacitic lava dome had been ballistically ejected to distances of as much as 5 km (figure 5). The blocks ranged from 0.5 to 1.5 m3 and formed impact craters as much as 4 m across and 1 m deep. Sotero Armella, president of the Residents' Council of the town of Talabre (11 km NW of Lascar) noted that large ballistic tephra had not been ejected this far during the 1986 and 1988 activity.
Figure 5. Oblique aerial view by O. González-Ferrán, looking W at the Lascar complex and the area to the N and W. Vapor rises from the active crater. Ballistic blocks from the dacitic lava dome were found at sites marked "B".
Stephen Foot conducted additional fieldwork on 11 March. On the SSE flank, he found bombs within 4 km of the crater and lapilli at greater distances. Bombs had formed craters up to 4 m wide and 1.5 m deep. Three types of bombs were sampled: dark, dense, glassy, crystal-rich, possibly dacitic material; light gray pumiceous fragments; and less abundant white, dense, crystal-rich, mafic-poor, weakly aligned tephra that may not have been juvenile. The tephra were found both intact and shattered, showing breadcrust texture and cooling fractures. No evidence of new tephra was found on the W flank, 16 km from the crater.
González-Ferrán noted that analyses of vertical airphotos, video, and field reconnaissance suggest that: 1) the rate of extrusion of the dacitic lava dome has increased; 2) the weakest sector of the volcano is its NW wall, so the hazard from a possible lateral explosion is greatest in that direction; and 3) the 20 February explosion was primarily from magmatic degassing rather than phreatomagmatic activity, given the long drought that has affected the area. He added that the village of Talabre (population 76, 40 of whom are children), relocated at its present site on 25 April 1985, is in the direction of highest estimated risk.
Information Contacts: O. González-Ferrán, Univ de Chile; S. Foot, MINSAL Ltd., Santiago; J. Gerneck, Chile Hunt Oil, Toconao; M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago.
March 1990 (BGVN 15:03) Cite this Report
20 February eruption ejected about 10-30% of the lava dome in crystal-rich fragments
After the 20 February eruption, Lascar returned to its normal fumarolic activity with the generation of mainly white plumes that rise 300-500 m above the rim of the active central crater. Between 20 and 24 March, geologists from the SERNAGEOMIN and several British universities observed the volcano from the ground and from the active crater's rim, reached on the 23rd from the N slope and on the 24th from the S slope. The following is from their report.
"Examination of photographs taken by J.R. Gerneck (Chile Hunt Oil) during the 20 February eruption revealed three discrete plumes. The first, white in color, consisted mainly of steam, and was overtaken by two smaller, grayish, higher velocity clouds. Geologists interpreted this sequence as an initial steam explosion related to the partial destruction of the dome that fills the bottom of the active crater, followed by phreatomagmatic eruptions. The eruption products, primarily fragments of the dome, occurred as shattered, dark, dense blocks of porphyritic pyroxene andesite, ranging to white, semi-vesicular, largely disaggregated blocks of similar composition, with thin, darker, quenched rims. The blocks were composed of plagioclase, clinopyroxene, and orthopyroxene phenocrysts, small amounts of magnetite, and scarce reacted olivine and hornblende crystals in a glassy groundmass. They are enriched in crystals compared to bombs from the 1986 eruption, with larger phenocrysts (up to 2 mm), and a larger proportion of pyroxene. No olivine or hornblende were found in the 1986 bombs, which included occasional xenoliths of partially molten granite. The 20 February blocks were distributed almost symmetrically in a radius of 4 km around the crater, associated with asymmetrical impact craters, elongate parallel to block trajectories. The number of blocks increased dramatically close to the vent where they covered 70-90% of the surface. No fresh ash was observed close to the volcano.
"Preliminary calculations, based on the volume of ejecta and the size of the plume, indicate that between 10 and 30% of the dome was erupted on 20 February. This estimate is supported by 5 March airphotos of the interior of the crater and by observations made from the crater rim, where a large part of the dome can still be observed in the bottom of the crater. The dome has apparently continued deflating since our last observation in November 1989 (14:11). A hole appeared to be present in its center, produced by collapse into the vent. Fumaroles were located around the dome, along ring fractures as observed in April 1989. Gas was still venting at extremely high velocity, creating the same jet-like noise reported in November. The strongest fumaroles were on the dome's NE and SW edges. A strong smell of HCl and SO2 was recorded from the N rim. Deposits of yellow sulfur are visible associated with the fumaroles. Temperatures were measured (by Clive Oppenheimer) using an infrared radiometer (after dark, to eliminate the effects of sunlight). The fumaroles were observed to be glowing red hot and bright spots were seen over the dome. Preliminary data show the largest fumarole to have a temperature of 700-800°C, while the surface of the dome had an average temperature of 100-200°."
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Matthews, Univ College London; C. Oppenheimer, Open Univ; S. Sparks and M. Stasiuk, Univ of Bristol.
April 1990 (BGVN 15:04) Cite this Report
1989 dome continues to sag along arcuate fissures; small tephra emission; tremor but no discrete earthquakes
Field observations suggest that the dome extrusion . . . has stopped since at least November and that the dome has continued to collapse above a withdrawing, degassing, magma column, accompanied by small, mainly phreatomagmatic eruptions.
During a summit climb by C. Oppenheimer on 4 April, little activity was seen on the collapsed dome region during daylight. Almost all of the visibly fuming vents were located beyond its margins, particularly on the E side where several powerful fumaroles were active (figure 6). After dark, very few if any of those vents were seen to be incandescent. The collapsed dome, however, showed numerous glowing red patches, presumed to be high-temperature fumarolic vents concentrated along ring fractures (figure 7). Individual vents were probably <0.5-1 m across; the majority appeared to be only a few centimeters across but formed clusters along roughly arcuate trends close to the edge of the collapsed dome. A broad area in the dome's center had no incandescent sites. There were a few groups of incandescent fumarolic vents beyond the collapsed dome, at locations that seemed to correspond spatially to distinct hot pixels on Landsat TM images of October-December 1989 (processed at Open Univ).
Figure 6. Lascar's active crater in daylight, 4 April 1990, showing locations of strong fumaroles. Sketch by C. Oppenheimer.
Figure 7. Lascar's active crater at night, 4 April 1990. Dark spots on the collapsed dome and crater walls represent incandescent areas. Note that north is down, the opposite orientation to figure 6. Sketch by C. Oppenheimer.
The highest brightness temperature, measured over a vent close to the E margin of the collapsed dome (by an 0.8-1.1 mm infrared thermometer) was 787°C. The glowing region filled about 1/6 of the instrument's field of view; the temperature measured around the incandescent vent was ~540°C. Oppenheimer noted that use of the Planck function suggests an actual temperature of the glowing vent, and therefore the gas, of ~940°C.
A seismometer (Portable Kinemetrics MEQ-800) installed 17 km W of the volcano (in the village of Talabre) began recording local seismic activity on 4 April. The seismic station was established by Juan Thomas (Antofagasta Branch, Dept de Geofísica, Univ de Chile) who also trained the village teacher, Manuel Castillo, in its operation. A second seismometer, installed the next day 7.5 km from the volcano (at Tumbre), had to be retired 2 days later because of logistics and operation problems. Installation was supported by Nelson Allendes and data interpreted by Sergio Barrientos (both with the Dept de Geología y Geofísica, Univ de Chile, Santiago).
Seismograms 4-19 April indicated that Lascar's seismicity was limited to tremor every 2-3 minutes, interpreted as magma movements in a chamber of unknown depth. Geologists suggested that the absence of discrete earthquakes could indicate that there was no rupturing of material adjusting to pressure from ascending magma. Installation of the Talabre seismometer is scheduled to end in late May. However, strong recommendations were made to local authorities that permanent monitoring of Lascar be established with telemetrically controlled seismometers, given its distance from any research center or large city (270 km from Antofagasta and 1,200 km from Santiago).
A small eruptive episode was observed on 6 April at 0840 from Talabre and by MINSAL geologists in Toconao. A pale grayish cloud rose to ~1,000 m above the volcano in 1-2 minutes. No sounds were audible during the activity, which appeared to be phreatomagmatic. The seismometers at Talabre and Tumbre recorded no seismicity at the time of the eruptive episode. During the following 20 minutes, the plume was dispersed to the SE, rapidly turning white. Some ash could be seen falling from its base. By 0910, the plume was indistinguishable from weather clouds and the normal vapor plume had reappeared, rising to ~300 m above the crater rim. The vapor plume was weaker than normal 7-8 April, reaching <100 m above the rim, but had strengthened to the usual 900 m height by the 9th.
An ascent of the volcano's S side by Steve Matthews on 12 April showed the dome to be essentially unchanged, with continuing strong fumarolic activity. Fresh tension cracks just outside the N margin of the dome, produced by further collapse, were photographed. Geologists interpreted the eruptive episode as the result of a dome collapse event, given the tension cracking and lack of associated seismicity.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Barrientos, Univ de Chile, Santiago; J. Thomas, Proyecto Sismológico Antofagasta; S. Matthews, Univ College London; C. Oppenheimer, Open Univ.
Vapor plumes extend 60 km
"After the last small eruptive episode observed on 6 April 1990 and the continuing collapse of the summit dome formed in 1989 (15:3-4), Lascar has returned to its normal fumarolic activity with the generation of mainly white plumes that rise a few hundred meters above the rim of the active crater. During field observation on 24 November 1990, irregular, dominantly steam emissions were continuously released. In the morning, eruption columns rose to 1,500 m above the cone with cauliflower-shaped tops shifted slightly northward by near-summit winds. Gentle summer winds allowed the development of large plumes that extended N-NW for more than 60 km."
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago.
May 1991 (BGVN 16:05) Cite this Report
High crater temperatures detected by satellite
On 8 January, radiant flux from the crater was near the highest levels since 1984, as demonstrated by Open Univ researchers using data from Landsat TM bands 5 and 7 (1.55-1.75 and 2.08-2.35 µm wavelength, respectively) (figure 8). The January images are the third in a set of three night images that have been used to provide improved estimates of radiated power output at Lascar. Previous estimates were based on daylight images (Glaze and others, 1989). No reflected sunlight is mingled with the thermal signal in night images, yielding more reliable thermal radiance values.
Figure 8. Spectral radiance from Lascar measured in 2 short-wavelength infrared bands, 2 December 1984-8 January 1991. Solid line, Landsat TM band 7 (2.08-2.35 µm); dashed line, Landsat TM band 5 (1.55-1.75 µm). Courtesy of D. Rothery and C. Oppenheimer.
The following is from D. Rothery and C. Oppenheimer. "Two of the night images are shown in figure 9. The 12 November 1989 image shows a strong equidimensional radiant anomaly in a position that corresponds to the lava dome, with some isolated radiant pixels just beyond the edges that are probably sites of fumaroles. The 26 March 1990 image shows a much reduced radiant anomaly, following the 20 February 1990 explosive eruption.
Figure 9. Night images of Lascar's active dome on 12 November 1989 (left) and 26 March 1990 (right), recorded at 2.08-2.35 µm wavelengths (Landsat TM band 7). N is toward the top. The individual pixels are ~30 m across. An image recorded on 8 January 1991 is almost identical to the 12 November 1989 image. Courtesy of D. Rothery and C. Oppenheimer.
"Field observations at the summit of Lascar on 23-24 March and 4 April 1990 showed that there were sites of incandescence over regions of the collapsed dome, and that some fumaroles elsewhere were also incandescent. Temperatures of up to 940°C were estimated by the use of an infrared thermometer.
"The most recent image (8 January 1991, not shown here) is almost indistinguishable from the 12 November 1989 image, which suggests a return to earlier conditions."
Reference. Glaze, L.S., Francis, P.W., and Rothery, D.A., 1989, Measuring Thermal Budgets of Active Volcanoes; Nature, v. 338, p. 144-146.
Information Contacts: D. Rothery and C. Oppenheimer, Open Univ.
October 1991 (BGVN 16:10) Cite this Report
Renewed explosive activity
At 1620-1625 on 21 October, an explosion and a roughly 2,000-m-high dark gray column were observed by Santos Soza, a Minsal Ltda. employee based 35 km NW of the volcano (in Toconao). Wind carried the plume NE, and completely dispersed it within 20 minutes. The explosion was not audible, but it was accompanied by a small shock, with a duration of a few seconds, felt at Toconao. A second, smaller eruption column was observed the following day at about 1400 without accompanying felt seismicity or an audible explosion.
Information Contacts: J. Naranjo, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; V. Letelier, Minsal Ltda., Toconao.
New lava dome in central crater; fumarolic activity
Growth of a new dome and fumarolic activity were observed in the active central crater (800 m wide, 350 m deep) during 26 Feb-8 March observations. The new dome, at the base of the crater's S wall, had a fresh surface of black spines and an apparent diameter of <1/3 the size of the dome erupted in 1989 (~200 m). Estimation of its size and shape was difficult because of its position directly below the observation point. The dome was apparently in an early stage of extrusion, and local authorities were warned of the possibility of large explosions within the next few months, similar to those in September 1986 and February 1990.
Fumarolic activity and sulfur deposition occurred along ring fractures elsewhere in the crater, and a strong sulfur odor was noted on the volcano's N and S flanks. White steam emissions to 300-500 m above the rim were punctuated by sporadic vigorous pulses of alternating white and dark gray columns, which rose to 2,500 m. Gentle summer winds primarily carried the plumes SE, although plumes extending northward were commonly observed in the morning. Although activity was vigorous, the jet fumaroles seen in the crater during a previous dome-building episode in 1989 (14:11) were not evident in 1992. No night glow was observed nor was seismicity recorded during the February-March observation period. Although there is no current seismic monitoring in the area, visual observations continue from nearby villages.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Sparks and R. Thomas, Univ of Bristol; M. Murphy, Univ College, Dublin.
New dome fills base of crater; occasional explosions
On 4 March, a new lava dome was observed in the active crater . . . at the base of the S wall (17:3).
Following a request by local authorities (Intendencia and Oficina Regional de Emergencia, II Región), the Chilean Air Force overflew the volcano at 1245 on 20 March. The high-quality vertical photographs obtained of the summit area enabled an accurate estimation of the dome's size and volume. The dome appeared to fill the entire, nearly circular, base of the crater (180-190 m in diameter; figure 10), with a thickness of ~40 m, and an estimated volume of 1.1 x 106 m3. It had steep walls and was devoid of a talus apron. The blocky, rugged surface of the dome appeared to have formed as a smaller, black central elongated plug (85 x 115 m) intruded a dark-brownish older external rim. Strong fumarolic activity occurred along the NE edge of the dome, which strongly resembled the one observed in March and April 1989.
Figure 10. Sketch map of the summit area of Lascar, prepared from vertical airphotos taken during an overflight by the Chilean Air Force on 20 March, showing the new lava dome. Courtesy of M. Gardeweg.
Observations from Talabre indicated that fumarolic activity had remained vigorous since late March, with eruption columns often 2-3 times larger than normal. The plume was usually yellowish to gray instead of its typical white until May, when a continuous dense gray plume was observed. Ashfall was reported on 15 May at 1050, accompanied by a gray eruption column estimated to be 1,500-2,000 m high (about 6x normal). On 21 May at 1130, an abrupt increase in the plume to a few kilometers height was observed by residents of nearby villages, and by people to 145 km W. The volcano "roared" for 10 minutes according to a witness (Luciano Sozo of Talabre) near the volcano. A second large explosion was reported that day at 1322 by Talabre residents. Following reports of night glow on 21-23 May, activity apparently returned to normal, with small pale-gray to white plumes and an absence of night glow. Although the May explosions were not as large as those in September 1986 and February 1990, scientists suggested that they might correspond to explosive destruction of part of the summit dome. Onset of winter and the partial covering of the cone by snow prevented visits to the summit, prompting a recommendation to the local authorities for new overflights and airphotos to monitor the development of the dome.
Several earthquakes recorded by the regional seismic network corresponded to large earthquakes centered away from the volcano, and were recorded by seismometers to the W. However, at least 4 small earthquakes were recorded between 24 April and late May only in villages closer to Lascar. The absence of seismometers near the volcano has prevented detailed monitoring of its seismicity.
June 1992 (BGVN 17:06) Cite this Report
Satellite data show heat from lava dome
"A Landsat TM image recorded the night of 15 April 1992 shows the most intense thermal anomaly of a dataset extending back to December 1984. The thermal signature, in the short-wavelength infrared bands 5 (1.55-1.75 mm) and 7 (2.08-2.35 mm), represents the active lava dome in the central crater. Comparison with the previous image (night of 7 January 1991) shows a marked increase in the anomaly's area (figure 11). In the April 1992 scene, the core of the anomaly occupies an irregular area of ~7 x 6 pixels (equivalent to 210 x 180 m). These dimensions correspond closely with the 180-190 m dome diameter estimated from 20 March airphotos (17:5). The increase in area of the TM anomaly may be explained, at least in part, by the growth of a subsidiary lava dome first sighted on 4 March. The summed thermal radiance from the whole hot spot shows a corresponding increase in the April Landsat image (figure 12).
Figure 11. 15 x 15 pixel maps (equivalent to 450 x 450 m) of the signal recorded in band 7 of the Landsat TM over Lascar at night on 7 January 1991 (left) and 15 April 1992 (right). The vertical axis represents the number between 0 and 255 proportional to the spectral radiance. In each case, several pixels are saturated. Courtesy of C. Oppenheimer.
Figure 12. Summed spectral radiance in bands 5 and 7 for fifteen images acquired over Lascar since December 1984. The dataset includes several processing formats, and images acquired during the day and night. Only pixels with a thermal signal >=10 were included. The total was then converted to spectral radiance using calibration coefficients supplied with the digital data. Arrows mark the explosive eruptions of September 1986 and February 1990 (12:4-5 and 15:2-3). Courtesy of C. Oppenheimer.
"An interesting feature of the two most recent TM acquisitions is the persistence of a discrete hot site ~200 m W of the centre of the main anomaly (figure 11). This is very likely the expression of incandescent fumarole vent(s) beyond the steep margin of the extruded lava."
Reference. Oppenheimer, C., Francis, P.W., Rothery, D.A., Carlton, R.W., and Glaze, L.S., Analysis of Volcanic Thermal Features in Infrared Images: Lascar Volcano, Chile, 1984-1992; Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
Information Contacts: C. Oppenheimer, D. Rothery, P. Francis, and R. Carlton, Open Univ.
Eruption sends ash above 25 km altitude; pyroclastic flows travel 7.5 km
The largest historical eruption of Lascar began late on 18 April and sent ash 20-22 km above the . . . crater rim the following day. Pyroclastic flows traveled 7.5 km NW and light ashfall (
A survey conducted from January to 14 March revealed that fumarolic activity persisted with columns sometimes absent but other times rising 500-1,000 m above the crater rim. A decrease in fumarolic activity 3-8 March preceded a small phreatomagmatic eruption on 10 March that produced a column 2,000 m high (Gardeweg and others, 1993). Similar activity had also been noted on 30 January when a higher eruption column followed a few days of low level activity. During 10-14 March, the column height remained at 500-1,000 m. Observations from 14 March to the evening of 20 April were made by Ibar Torrejón, a teacher in Talabre (17 km WNW) who maintains a log of Lascar's activity. From 8-17 April the column was also low: 100-200 m. The only other observed pre-eruption change was in the color of the column, from yellowish gray (8-11 April) to whitish pale-blue (12-17 April).
Eruptive activity. Activity on 18 April was primarily phreatic until 2200 when a large explosion threw incandescent material into the air. An explosion at 2300 produced a Plinian column. These initial explosions may have been related to the partial destruction of the dome that had filled the crater in March 1992 (17:3 and 5) and collapsed sometime between 12 November and 7 December.
At 0700 on 19 April, a low, dark, ash-laden Plinian column was observed, which slowly rose 5-10 km above the rim by 0900. (Initial reports of column heights were systematically high; corrected estimates are given here). Bombs were observed throughout the morning. At 1012 the column rose above 10 km, and the first pyroclastic flow down the N flank was seen: flows also descended the NE and SE flanks, but were not observed. Other large columns (10-15 km) accompanied by pyroclastic flows were recorded at 1030, 1205, and 1317. A witness in La Escondida mine (175 km SW) described these columns as much larger than those from the 1990 eruption (15:2). The explosion at 1317 produced a column that rose 20-22 km above the rim: it was accompanied by strong rumbling and ejection of bombs to heights > 2 km. The column dropped to 2 km height until an explosion at 1715 sent it back above 15 km. Nearly 30 minutes of continuous pyroclastic flow activity near the summit began at 1935. Large explosions at 2135-2148 and 2340-2350 preceded pyroclastic flows down the N and NW slopes. Ash was blown predominately ESE.
Activity declined until 0340 on 20 April when new Strombolian explosions began, ejecting incandescent spatter up to 1.5 km above the rim. Major explosive activity resumed at 0628, producing a column >10 km high and ejecting blocks to heights >1 km. The next large explosion, at 0920, was accompanied by strong rumbles and underground noises. It generated a column nearly 10 km high and its collapse produced the farthest-reaching pyroclastic flows (7.5 km NW). Seen from Sierra Gorda (165 km WNW), the column had a well-formed mushroom shape. It remained 2-4 km high until another large explosion at 1302, which sent the column to 8.5 km within 8 minutes before it began to drift NE. One observer reported two columns rising from the crater during this explosion, the W one a darker gray-brown. At 1500 the height of the yellow-gray column decreased to 3.5-4 km, and persisted at this height until 1915 when nightfall prevented further observations. During the night, no eruptions were recorded, and no incandescent material was seen above the crater or on the flanks of the volcano.
Observations at 0630 the following morning indicated that Lascar had returned to its normal fumarolic activity with weak columns that hardly rose above the crater rim. Small explosions on 22, 23, 26, and 29 April produced columns 1000 m above the rim, but the column otherwise remained low (100-300 m) and white with occasional ash explosions to 500-800 m high. This activity continued through 8 May. During this period 2 discrete fumarolic gas columns were again observed rising from the NE and W sides of the crater, suggesting changes in its morphology from March, when only one column was noted.
An overflight of the volcano on 26 April by the National Emergency Office of the Chilean Air Force provided aerial photography of the crater and surrounding area at scales of 1:33,000 and 1:3,500. From these photographs, a new lava dome was identified in the bottom of the crater, filling a much larger portion of the crater than either the 1989 or 1992 domes. The exposed base of the dome was ~60 m higher than the previous dome and 100 m above the known crater floor (5,145-m elev). A preliminary volume estimate of the new dome was 4.6 x 106 m3. The dome appeared as a flat surface with concentric cooling ridges and steep walls devoid of a talus apron. Fumarolic activity was restricted to the margins of the dome, primarily on the SE edge. Fresh tephra partially covered the walls of the active crater, particularly in the benches, and filled the E craters (figure 13). The crater showed no other remarkable morphological changes.
Figure 13. Sketch map of the distribution of pyroclastic flows from the 19-20 April eruption of Lascar, based on photos taken on 26 April. Featured are (1) 19-20 April pumiceous pyroclastic-flow deposits, (2) 19-20 April undifferentiated pyroclastic material, (3) Previous lava flows partially covered by pyroclastic-flow deposits, (4) Pliocene welded ignimbrites, (5) Miocene to Pliocene domes, (6) the new lava dome, and (7) arrows indicating lava flows. Courtesy of M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN.
Five portable seismographs were installed around the volcano on the evening of 20 April. Preliminary analysis showed that the harmonic tremor recorded January-March 1993 was not initially present, but returned a couple of days after the eruption. A small number of high-frequency events occurred 21-25 April. A swarm of B-type events on 28 April may have been associated with the new dome formation, and an increase in activity on 30 April may have marked the injection of new magma.
Eruption products. M. Gardeweg characterized the eruption products as pyroclastic flows, co-ignimbrite fallout (pumice and ash) deposited mainly to the E, and projectiles (figure 13). The pyroclastic flows were small-volume ignimbrites composed of abundant rounded andesitic pumice in a gray ash matrix. Most flows traveled ~4 km from the crater, but some to the NW were channeled by the upper Talabre gorge and reached Tumbres, a swampy ground 7.5 km from the crater where springs supply water for the village of Talabre. The flow deposit was covered by a narrow, thin veneer of very fine-grained ash, which was constantly blown by the wind. Degassing pipes were observed in the Tumbres deposit. A day after the eruption, the flow front was still warm, but was cooling rapidly.
The water supply to Talabre was cut off by the pyroclastic flow, but a few hours after its emplacement, water eroded through the pyroclastic material, and developed a new creek in the gorge. Donkeys and small insects were back in Tumbres the day after the eruption. The water contained a large amount of ash, but its pH was 7.6-7.7, only slightly less than its normal 8.3. Grass samples from Tumbres that were covered by ash showed 33% more fluorine than samples of clean grass. Ash from Chilean volcanoes Hudson and Lonquimay also contained notable amounts of fluorine.
The lapilli varied from white and vesicular pumices to a denser scoriae. Banding evident in some lapilli mainly reflects different degrees of vesicularity. A few dense blocks (2(black scoriae) to 60.4% SiO2 (white pumices). The fine ash has a similar andesitic composition (60.3% SiO2) with slight K enrichment. Large blocks (>2 m) left 4-5 m diameter impact craters up to 7 km from the crater. In Lejía, 17 km SSE of the volcano, a thin cover of pumice fragments 6-9 cm in diameter was noted. Huaitiquina Pass, 65 km SE on the Chilean-Argentine border, received only a thin layer of fine ash (4-4.5 mm), largely blown by wind and concentrated below cliffs or in depressions. No fall-out was found in El Laco, 55 km SE (slightly S of Huaitiquina).
The eruption also affected Argentina and J. Viramonte provided the following information. The total volume of erupted material (excluding material injected into the stratosphere) was estimated to be 0.1 km3: 0.09 km3 proximal air fall, 0.0085 km3 distal air fall, and 0.0037 km3 pyroclastic flow.
Viramonte noted that pyroclastic-flow deposits W of the crater, 7.5 km long and 1.5-2 m thick, cut the road between Antofagasta, Chile, and Salta, Argentina. He described the deposits as 60% coarse juvenile andesitic pumice fragments (2-60 cm in diameter) mixed with a minor volume of dense andesitic blocks as large as 1 m in diameter (from the old summit lava dome), and 40% fine-grained andesitic material. A very fine-grained ash-cloud-surge deposit, 5-30 cm thick, that clearly burned vegetation, flanked the pyroclastic-flow deposits. On 23 April temperatures of the deposits were as high as 100°C. These units may have been emplaced during the continuous emission of pyroclastic flows that began at 1935 on 19 April.
Four superposed pyroclastic-flow units begin 3 km from the crater rim on the ESE flank of the volcano, and extend 3-4 km to the Pampa Lejía plain. They are 1.2-1.5 m thick and composed of mainly white juvenile pumice fragments and gray blocks from the lava dome (70-80%), and fine-grained material (20-30%). Many light-and-dark banded pumice fragments were present.
Three short pyroclastic-flow lobes on the E side of the volcano had been covered by air-fall pumice. Many fumaroles with white ammonium chloride crystals and red yellow iron chloride crystals were present on the flows. Fumarole temperatures were as high as 250°C. At the foot of the pyroclastic-flow deposits, a thin ground-surge deposit was identified 100-150 m up the side of Corona hill at the S end of Lascar.
Ejected bombs and blocks were abundant within a 3-3.5 km radius of the crater, becoming rare 4 km distant. The ballistic clasts were pumiceous black andesitic bombs and dense gray andesitic blocks from the lava dome. Rounded and strongly vesiculated bombs as large as 70 cm in diameter were found 3 km from the crater. The lava-dome blocks were irregular and often showed a bread-crust structure.
Tephra carried by strong high-altitude winds produced a large dispersion of airfall deposits to the ESE (figure 14). Wind speed and direction reported by the Servicio Metereorológico Nacional Argentina at different localities (table 2) are consistent with the evolution of the ash cloud as tracked by NOAA using weather satellites.
Figure 14. Isopach map of tephra fallout from April 19-20 eruption of Lascar. Depths are in cm. Closed fields indicate salars, saline playa lakes. Courtesy of J. Viramonte, Instituto Geonorte.
Table 2. Wind speed and direction at selected cities (see figure 15) downwind of the 19-20 April eruption of Lascar. Data are from the Servicio Metereorológico Nacional Argentina. Courtesy of J. Viramonte, Instituto Geonorte.
Date Station Altitude (km) Direction (degrees) Velocity (km/hour)
19 Apr 1993 Resistencia 10.8 305 91
19 Apr 1993 Córdoba 10.8 355 98
19 Apr 1993 Córdoba 14.0 310 124
19 Apr 1993 Salta 10.9 325 63
The maximum diameter of air-fall clasts on the flanks of the volcano was 30-40 cm. The maximum tephra thickness was 0.6 m on the E side of Lascar where it intersects Aguas Calientes Volcano. Approximately 20,000 km2 received at least 1 mm of ash (figure 14), and over 850,000 km2, including parts of N-central Argentina, S Paraguay, Uruguay, and S Brazil, were covered by a thin (
Figure 15. Approximate ash-fall distribution from the 18-20 April eruption of Lascar. The thick lines outline the area receiving ashfall according to news reports. Courtesy of M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN.
Satellite monitoring. GOES-7 visible and infrared imagery detected five major eruption pulses starting at 2300 on 19 April (table 3). The plume was very dark in the visible imagery, similar to the appearance of the 14-15 June 1991 clouds from Mount Pinatubo. A subtropical jetstream moved the plume rapidly ESE (figure 16) at ~93 km/hour.
Table 3. Summary of explosive phases of Lascar detected on 20 April with visible and infrared satellite imagery from GOES-7 and NOAA-11. The tropopause was at 15.7-km altitude in the region at 1200 GMT. Courtesy of Jim Lynch, NOAA/NESDIS.
Date Approximate Eruption Start Time Duration (hours) Maximum Altitude (km)
19 Apr 1993 2300 1.0 14-16
Figure 16. Image of the plume of Lascar, 1600 on 20 April. The image was processed from NOAA-11 Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) channel 4 (thermal infrared) data. Compare with figure 3. Courtesy of G. Stephens, NOAA.
D. Rothery, C. Oppenheimer, and P. Francis noted the following changes in the active crater of Lascar using Landsat's TM. "We have been monitoring thermal events within Lascar's active crater for several years using the short wavelength infrared radiance of thermal origin. The latest image we have prior to the 20 April 1993 eruption was recorded by Landsat 5 on 24 February.
"Whereas our 1991 and 1992 data showed a strongly centered group of thermally radiant pixels that coincided with the lava dome (figure 17 bottom), there was a significant change visible on 24 February 1993 (figure 17 top). The central anomaly has decreased in size and magnitude, but there is a distinct subsidiary peak in thermal radiance to the E. This coincided with the position of a fumarole that had been more weakly radiant on previous images. This site lies about half-way down the wall of the active crater, which at this point is embedded in the floor of an old crater (see figure 13). We have no grounds for suggesting that this newly prominent site was the seat of the 19-20 April eruption. The nature of the central anomaly on 24 February, which had decreased to the approximate size and magnitude of the anomaly recorded from late 1987 until the end of 1989, suggests that the lava dome was still in existence on that date.
Figure 17. Radiance in Landsat TM band 7 (2.08-2.35 micron) for a 15x15 pixel area encompassing Lascar's active crater, looking N. Data are from 24 February 1993 during the day (top), and 15 April 1992 during the night (bottom) (from figure 21b in Oppenheimer and others, 1993). Each pixel represents a 30 x 30 m ground area. Radiance is shown as DN, which is the number recorded by the sensor. In this example, areas with DN of about 50 or less are not thermally radiant and the DN represents reflected sunlight. Where DN exceeds about 100, the surface is radiating thermally, and the DN represents the sum of reflected sunlight and thermal radiance. Courtesy of D. Rothery, Open Univ.
"The summed spectral radiance of thermal origin in Landsat TM bands 5 and 7 showed a decline before the 1993 eruption similar to that before the September 1986 eruption (figure 18). There was no observed decline before the February 1990 eruption, though that could be the result of the lack of images before the eruption."
Figure 18. Summed spectral radiance of thermal origin in Landsat TM bands 5 and 7 for the active crater of Lascar (from figure 18 in Oppenheimer and others, 1993 with data for 24 February 1993 added). Eruptions are noted by arrows. The decline in summed radiance prior to the 1993 eruption is similar to that preceding the 1986 eruption. There was no observed decline before the February 1990 eruption, though that could be the result of the lack of images during 1988-89. Courtesy of D. Rothery, Open Univ.
Effects and previous activity. The 70 [people] who live in Talabre and make their living as llama herders and weavers were evacuated [to the nearby village of Toconao for two nights] by authorities on 19 April. Initial reports indicated that there had been no injuries. However, many defied the order and returned to tend their homes and animals. As many as six people were listed as missing, having apparently gone searching for their animals on the SE side of the volcano. [The people listed as missing were forced to make a detour because their normal route was covered by pumice and ash, but they arrived safely 3 days after the eruption.]
References. Gardeweg, M.C., Sparks, S., Matthews, S., Fuentealba, G., Murillo, M, and Espinoza, A., 1993, V Informe sobre el comportamiento del Volcán Lascar (II Región): Enero Marzo 1993, Informe Inédito, Biblioteca Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, 14 p.
Oppenheimer, C., Francis, P.W., Rothery, D.A., Carlton, R.W.T., and Glaze, L.S., 1993, Infrared image analysis of volcanic thermal features: Lascar volcano, Chile, 1984-1992, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, p. 4269-4286.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg and A. Espinoza, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; E. Medina, Univ Católica del Norte, Antofagasta; M. Murillo, Univ de la Frontera, Temuca, Chile; J. Viramonte, R. Marini, R. Bocchio, and R. Pereyra, Univ Nacional de Salta, Instituto Geonorte - CONICET, Argentina; R. Seggiaro, M. Bosso, N. Monegatti, and M. Bolli, Univ Nacional de Salta, Instituto Geonorte, Argentina; R. Ortiz Ramis, CSIC, J. Gutierrez Abascal, Spain; I. Torrejón, Esccuela Básica G-29, Talabre, Chile; D. Rothery, C. Oppenheimer, and P. Francis, Open Univ; J. Lynch, SAB; G. Stephens, NOAA; American Embassy, Santiago, Chile.
August 1993 (BGVN 18:08) Cite this Report
Lava dome emplaced following April eruption
Additional information indicates that within the active crater the eruption displaced an older dome, and emplaced a new larger dome. The following report by Oscar González-Ferrán is based chiefly on discussions with colleagues and a news correspondent. Sketches were made from stereo sets of aerial photos taken along a vertical axis by the Chilean Air Force on 20 March 1992 and 26 April 1993. The sketches document two domes: the old one on 20 March 1992 before the eruption (figure 19, top), and the new one on 26 April 1993 after the eruption (figure 19, center).
Figure 19. Sketches of the Lascar crater showing plan views of the old dome (top), the new dome (center), and a cross-section of the new dome along the line X-X'. Simplified from originals provided by O. González-Ferrán.
The new dome grew in <40 hours from 24-26 April. On 26 April the dome may have decreased in size during a small explosion that sent ash 2 km above the crater. This event presumably produced the funnel-shaped indentation in the dome shown diagrammatically on figure 19 (bottom). Besides this indentation, the younger dome looks asymmetric, steeper to the N than to the S, and it appears ~3x larger in volume than the older dome. Figure 19 contrasts a radial fracture pattern seen in the old dome (top), and an annular pattern seen in the new dome (center).
Information Contacts: O. González-Ferrán, Univ de Chile; Don Rodrigo de la Peña, Diario El Mercurio, Antofagasta, Chile.
November 1993 (BGVN 18:11) Cite this Report
Description of new dome evolution
At 0840 on 17 December 1993 an eruption produced a column that rose ~8,000 m above the crater. At 0920 a small new eruptive column was seen, but by 1000 activity had returned to normal. An earthquake also occurred in the vicinity of the volcano the night before (about 2030 on 16 December). Volcanologists from the Instituto Geonorte (Argentina) were preparing to visit the volcano following the eruption.
A new lava dome grew in the bottom of the active crater following the largest historical eruption of Lascar, on 18-26 April 1993 (18:4). The new dome grew in <40 hours from 24-26 April (18:8). The dome filled the nearly circular base of the crater with an estimated volume of 4.6 x 106 m3 (380 m in diameter, 120 m thick). This volume is almost 4x larger than the previous dome observed in March 1992, which was 180-190 m in diameter, 40 m thick, and had a volume of 1.1 x 106 m3 (17:5). Sketches by O. González-Ferrán based on aerial photos document the differences between the old dome on 20 March 1992 and the new dome on 26 April 1993 (18:8).
The evolution of the new dome is relevant to predictions of future eruptive activity because growth and subsequent collapse of domes in the bottom of the crater preceded eruptions in February 1990 and April 1993 (Gardeweg and others, 1993; Gardeweg and Medina, 1993). As a precaution in case the volcano follows the pattern it has shown since 1985, local authorities were warned in November of the possibility of another eruption within the next several months. At the request of the SERNAGEOMIN, the Chilean Air Force overflew the volcano on 11 June and 5 November 1993.
On 26 April the dome showed a flat, rugged surface, with concentric cooling ridges and low steep walls without a talus apron. The blocky surface had a more rugged outer rim, paler in color, probably due to the deposition of salts (sulfates and iron chlorides) as observed on the surface of the pyroclastic flows a few days after the eruption (Gardeweg and Medina, 1993). The central part of the dome was darker, and apparently hotter. It had a small NNW-trending radial fissure with fumarolic activity at the N end near the outer rim. Nearly concentric ridges radiated from this point, interpreted as the vent site. Fumarolic activity was mainly restricted to the dome margins and concentrated on the SE edge.
Aerial observations by P. Francis on 19 May indicated that the dome had started to collapse, evidenced by slight subsidence on the N side; photographs taken by the Air Force on 11 June support this observation. At that time, the dome had a homogeneously rugged surface with an irregular whitish patina similar to the one observed on the outer rim on 26 April. The N side of the dome had subsided, developing a funnel-shaped depression from which there was strong fumarolic activity. Although the dome had partially caved in, there were no collapse scarps. Fumarolic activity was also observed at the edge of the dome, concentrated on the SE margin. Strong fumarolic activity in the caved-in funnel and weaker activity on the SE margin was observed again on 28 June. By 5 November the funnel-shaped depression had reached an estimated depth of 50-100 m below the surface of the dome. Surface features on the dome were similar to those seen in June. Strong degassing continued within the funnel and weakly on the SE edge.
Systematic observations from Talabre (17 km NNW) indicated that fumarolic activity returned to normal levels after the April eruption, with white to gray columns rising 200-400 m above the crater rim. Higher columns up to 1,200 m were observed in late June and mid-October, but there was no correlation with changes in the color of the plume or any other visible characteristics. The water supply to Talabre, cut off by pyroclastic flows on 20 April, was restored on 6 October. Cistern trucks provided by local authorities had supplied drinkable water until then.
Two portable seismographs were installed around the volcano 8-17 October. Seismicity during this period was much lower than 20-30 April, immediately after the eruption (18:4). In October there were two volcano-tectonic events recorded. The activity was characterized by sporadic long-period events and hybrid events that have been interpreted to be a result of deformation accompanied by the displacement of fluids. These hybrid events may be related to the slow subsidence of the dome observed since 19 May.
References. Gardeweg, M.C., Medina, E., Murillo, M., and Espinoza, A., 1993, La erupción del 19-20 de Abril de 1993: VI Informe sobre el comportamiento del Volcán Lascar (II Región): Informe Inédito, Biblioteca Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, 20 p.
Gardeweg, M.C., and Medina, E., 1993, 35 días después de la erupción del 19-20 de Abril de 1993: VII Informe sobre el comportamiento del Volcán Lascar (II Región): Informe Inédito, Biblioteca Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg and J. Cayupi, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; G. Fuentealba, Univ de la Frontera, Temuco; P. Francis, Open Univ; J. Viramonte, Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina; Servicio Informativo del la Oficina Nacional de Emergencia, Santiago.
Short eruption in December 1993 sends plume 8-10 km high
"At 0835 on 17 December 1993, Lascar had a new short-lived explosive eruption. Ibar Torrejón, the teacher in Talabre (17 km WNW) who maintains a log of Lascar's activity, reported that a strong explosion was followed by the rise of a dark gray plume up to 8-10 km above rim of the active crater. The eruption was accompanied by seismic activity felt in Talabre with an intensity of MM 3. Another small explosion was recorded at 0930, with a dark plume rising 2 km. Although the dark coloration of the plume suggests significant ash content, no ashfall was recorded in the few populated areas E or SE of Lascar, where prevailing winds normally transport the plumes (El Laco, 60 km SSE; Catua, 80 km SE; and Salta, 285 km SE). There were no witnesses closer to the S or E flanks of the volcano at the moment of the eruption. Also, no ballistic blocks were observed, suggesting that it was a small, mainly phreatic, eruption. Since then Lascar has returned to normal fumarolic activity, with columns rising 200-400 m above the active crater rim.
"[The domes] progressive collapse since May 1993 suggested that it was following the pattern shown since 1985, so local authorities were warned in November of the possibility of a new eruption within the next months. Local authorities have again been warned that similar or larger eruptions can take place in the near future."
Dome collapse almost complete; new fractures and fumaroles; small ash emissions
Normal fumarolic activity has continued since the small eruption on 17 December 1993. During fieldwork between 10 February and 5 March, the plume was unusually low (200-400 m above the crater), with occasional increases to normal levels (800-1,000 m). The yellowish plume sometimes contained small amounts of gray ash. A short-lived eruption on the [evening] of 27 February was witnessed by S. Matthews from 40 km W of the volcano. A high dark eruption column produced a plume extending W and WNW; the plume detached from the volcano 15 minutes later. On 28 February the Argentinian Civil Defense reported that ash had fallen in Jujuy, Argentina (~265 km SE). Fumarolic activity diminished the next day.
Crater observations, 19 February 1994. Gardeweg and Matthews reached the summit using a helicopter provided by the Fuerza Aerea de Chile. The April 1993 dome (18:4) had been almost completely replaced by a deep hole (bottom not visible) produced by continuous collapse into the vent (18:11). It occupied the central and N side of the previously flat surface of the dome. The S side of the dome was cut by deep annular collapse fractures (figure 20). Strong degassing was concentrated in the collapse crater. Weaker fumarolic activity was observed along the outer fractures and margin of the dome. These had persistent low-velocity emissions without the "jet engine" noise heard on previous visits. Yellow sulfur deposits associated with small fumaroles were also observed on the inner crater walls. Continuous rockfall into the active crater was observed coming from the overhanging W wall and the higher part of the S wall.
Figure 20. Sketch showing the inside of Lascar's active crater on 19 February 1994. Remnants of the April 1993 dome can be seen, cut by deep annular faults. New fumarolic activity along an arcuate fracture coincided with an older, previously inactive, crater rim. View is approximately to the NE from the S rim of the active crater. Diagram by S. Matthews.
New fractures and fumaroles defined an elliptical zone centered on the active crater, but incorporating a larger part of the edifice (figure 21). An annular fracture with active fumaroles was observed along the rim of a previously inactive crater to the E. Small fumaroles were also present on the inside of the N wall and up to 50 m outside the S wall of the active crater. Two types of fumaroles occurred on the E side of the older W edifice, aligned on small (<10 m) fractures. The first type were cool (<100°C) passive fumaroles emitting water vapor, SO2, and H2SO4, and precipitating yellow and white sulfate minerals. The second type were hot (>=230°C) active fumaroles emitting steam and SO2, and depositing white sulfur.
Figure 21. Sketch of the summit area of Lascar, with its five nested craters, on 19 February 1994. New fumarole fields and unstable sites with continuous rockfall are shown. Diagram by S. Matthews.
Potential hazards. Subsidence of the crater floor as a result of conduit degassing since April 1993 has destabilized the inner part of the entire edifice. Collapse of the central part of the dome began in May 1993, coincident with the first observation of fumaroles on the S side of the active crater. An aerial photograph taken on 26 April 1993 shows a distinct fumarole on the inside rim of the N wall. Part of the subsidence occurred during the December 1993 eruption, as shown by aerial photographs taken by the Chilean Air Force on 28 December. As of early March, the apparent blockage of the degassing system due to dome collapse was similar to pre-eruptive conditions observed in previous cycles, and is likely to cause another eruption in the near future. If subsidence and widening of the collapse zone continues, the entire edifice may be destabilized. Another potential hazard involves slippage of the overhanging W wall of the active crater, which may also block the degassing system leading to "throat clearing" eruptions.
Additional information about past activity. Photographs taken on the morning of 17 December 1993 by Gonzalo Cabero (MINSAL) from Toconao (35 km NW) show a vertical column rising 8,000-9,000 m above the rim of the active crater. A small umbrella developed in the upper third of the column, but no plume extended laterally from the volcano. Partial column collapse generated weak ash clouds to the N and S, but no new pyroclastic deposits were recognized during fieldwork. No bomb ejections or ashfall were reported from this activity. However, fieldwork between 10 February and 5 March identified a large number of bombs within 3.5 km of the crater that had been erupted after April 1993. Blocks from the April 1993 eruption (18:4) exhibited a wide variety of density and textures. The more recent blocks are distinctly different, composed of dense, banded glassy andesite.
A previously unreported eruption, on an unknown day in August 1993, was observed from Soncor (~15 km W). A black ash cloud rose 1-2 km above the crater in ~ 10 minutes; no sound or seismicity was detected. This small eruption was probably a result of dome collapse.
Gregg Bluth provided the following satellite-based TOMS results for the 19 April 1993 eruption. Tonnage calculations did not require reflectivity corrections, but the scan bias was accounted for. An SO2 cloud was not visible on 19 April, but one was observed on 20-22 April. The SO2 cloud on 20 April was streaming from the volcano to ~1,800 km E and SE; tonnage was 355 kt. By 21 April the SO2 cloud had separated from the volcano by ~300 km and continued drifting SE. The leading edge was ~2,000 km SE of the volcano. The measured SO2 on this day was 340 kt. By 22 April some values were still above background, but there was no obvious cloud mass. On 23 April only a few pixels were above background; no days were checked after 23 April. The elongated cloud seen on 20 April indicates that earlier SO2 emissions may have been lost to TOMS observation. However, because the SO2 cloud showed only a slight decrease the next day, there is no justification for estimating a significantly higher original emission based on an SO2 loss rate. Estimated total SO2 yield for this eruption was 400 kt.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; S. Matthews, S. Sparks, and P. McLeod, Univ of Bristol; G. Bluth, GSFC.
July 1994 (BGVN 19:07) Cite this Report
Moderate short-lived eruption sends plume over Argentina
Renewed Vulcanian activity during 20-26 July generated plumes up to ~9,000 m altitude, ~4,000 m above the summit . . . . On 20 July at 1630 a grayish column 400-500 m high was emitted from the crater. The next day at 1230 a brownish eruptive column rose 3,000-4,000 m and immediately drifted NE. Very fine ashfall was reported in Salar de Olaroz in the Argentine Puna, 120 km NE of the vent. At 1430 on 23 July another eruption plume to a height of 3,000-4,000 m was blown NNE. No ashfall was reported in the Argentine Puna following this activity.
A single short-lived Vulcanian explosion at about 1200 on 26 July generated a column and NNE-trending plume that soon detached from the volcano; prevailing high-level winds then shifted the plume toward the E. Witnesses from Toconao (35 km NW) and San Pedro de Atacama (70 km NW) reported a moderate explosion followed by a dark-colored mushroom-shaped column that slowly rose to 4,000 m height. Pilots from Aerolineas Argentinas, AeroMonterrey, and Lineas Aereas de Chile reported to the Argentina National Metereological Service that the plume, ~30 km wide and 200 km long, reached an altitude of 9,000 m. Ashfall was only reported in areas close to the volcano. No ashfall was reported in the small village of Catua along the Chilean-Argentine border, 80 km E of Lascar. Immediately after the eruption the volcano showed very diminished activity, with weak white fumarolic plumes that hardly rose above the crater rim. From 27 July to 4 August the volcano exhibited normal fumarolic activity.
Infrared images of the 26 July ash cloud were captured by Raúl Rodano and Luis Ganz from the Meteosat 3 satellite (figure 22). An image taken at 1346 on 26 July showed an ESE-directed plume 50 x 20 km in size, reaching an altitude between 3,600 and 5,400 m (figure 22, top). At 1523 another image showed a 130-km-long plume with the trailing edge located 60 km from Lascar (figure 22, middle). On the E side of the plume, a core (40 km in diameter) developed vertically and reached ~7,000 m altitude. The lower levels of the plume were oriented ESE, following the general atmospheric circulation. Because of wind-shear between 5,400 and 7,000 m, the plume was reoriented NNE by upper-level winds (200°- 70 km/hour). On the image taken at 1631, the plume is 180 km long and 100 km from the source (figure 22, bottom). Based on analysis of this imagery, the NNE-oriented E end of the plume reached an estimated maximum height of 7,500 m. Although the sky was cloudy by 1830, scattered parts of the NNE-oriented plume could be seen 80 km E of Jujuy, Argentina, drifting E at 80 km/hour at an estimated altitude of 4,500 m. With frame animation it was possible to discern the dispersed plume reaching Presidente Roque Saenz Pena city, 800 km E of Lascar, at 2009 on 26 July.
Figure 22. Infrared images of the 26 July 1994 plume from Lascar (white area) taken from the Meteosat 3 satellite. At 1346 (top) the small plume (50 x 20 km) was moving ESE. By 1523 (middle) the trailing edge of the 130-km-long detached plume was located 60 km from the volcano. On the image taken at 1631 (bottom), the plume was 100 km from the source, 180 km long, and the E end was oriented NNE. Approximate location of Lascar is shown by the black triangle; Jujuy, Argentina, is indicated by the white square. Courtesy of Raúl Rodano and Luis Ganz.
These eruptions comprise the fourth period of Vulcanian activity following the large subplinian eruption of 19-20 April 1993. Eruptions were also reported in August and December 1993, and February 1994. All are thought to have been caused by blockage of the degassing magmatic system due to collapse of the dome formed in the late stages of the April 1993 eruption. The present morphology of the crater is unknown, although this renewed activity suggests further subsidence of the crater floor due to conduit degassing. Lascar, the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes, contains five overlapping summit craters along a NE trend. Prominent lava flows descend its NW flanks.
Reference. Gardeweg P., M.C., 1994, La Explosion del 26 de Julio, 1994, X Informe sobre el comportamiento del Volcan Lascar: Informe Inedito, Biblioteca Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, 4 p.
Information Contacts: M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago; J. Viramonte, R. Becchio, I. Petrinovic, and R. Arganaraz, Instituto Geonorte Univ Nacional de Salta, Argentina; B. Coira and A. Perez, Instituto de Geologia Universidad de Jujuy, Argentina; R. Rodano and L. Ganz, Aerolineas Argentinas Weather Division, Buenos Aires, Argentina; H. Corbella, CONICET - Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, Buenos Aires.
Small phreatic eruptions
Observations during 11-23 November revealed a plume of variable strength, indicating continuing instability, and the volcano was not climbed. The fumarole on the N rim was visible and appeared to be stronger than in February. A small phreatic eruption at 1720 on 13 November ejected a brownish column ~700 m above the crater which was then blown SE. This event was preceded by a weak, diffuse vapor plume which reached 300-500 m above the crater. Following the eruption, the plume gradually strengthened, reaching altitudes of 2-2.5 km above the summit . . . by 16 November (figure 23). The plume became more dense, yellowish to brownish in color, and pulsed, ejecting "ashy slugs" every 5-15 minutes. A second phreatic eruption observed at 1720 on 19 November emitted a dense white plume to 3 km above the crater. Although sheared by wind to the SE, it retained its form for ~20 minutes.
Figure 23. Plume altitudes and phreatic eruptions at Lascar, 11-23 November 1994. Courtesy of S. Matthews.
Similar activity was observed by Matthews in February, and was related to continuing collapse of the crater floor. In this interpretation, blockage of the degassing system leads to a weak plume and buildup of pressure beneath the crater floor. Periodic phreatic eruptions clear the conduit and allow the gas to vent freely, causing the plume to strengthen; the reason for the strong pulsing is not clear.
Information Contacts: S. Matthews, Univ of Bristol.
Small ash eruptions and increased height of gas plume
Activity in February-March 1995. For the period 18 February to 10 March 1995 Lascar remained fairly active—frequently changing the altitude of its gas plume, producing small ash eruptions, and ejecting dense columns of water vapor (figure 24). The plume, which was typically pulsing, had a yellowish or brownish color. On 23 and 25 February underground booming noises ('retumbos') were heard 4 km from the volcano on both the N and NW flanks and at the village of Soncor, 25 km SW. On 24 February the plume's height above the crater suddenly increased from 200 m to 1,000 m (figure 24). This elevated "sustained" plume height marked the beginning of a series of small eruptions whose "transient" column heights are depicted by the arrow tips on figure 24. The sustained plume height initially remained comparatively high, reaching a maximum of 2 km above the volcano on 3 March; later, sustained plume height decreased gradually to ~500 m (figure 24).
Figure 24. Estimated sustained plume and transient eruption-column heights above Lascar's crater for 18 February-10 March 1995. For the sustained plume heights, error bars increase in size with plume altitude due to problems of perspective. The transient eruption-column height is given by the arrow tips. Courtesy of S. Matthews and M. Gardeweg.
At 0800 on 26 February a small ash-bearing eruption was reported by the Carabineros from 35 km NW of the volcano in Toconao. A black column rose at least 200 m (probably higher) above the crater. Retumbos associated with this eruption were audible at the offices of MINSAL in Toconao. Three larger eruptions were observed on 7 March, between 0000 and 0100, by Elcira Araya at the MINSAL offices. In each case a dark column rose an estimated 3 km above the crater. Plumes from these columns blew NW over Toconao and many residents reported a strong sulfur smell. The type of activity described (retumbos and small ash-rich eruptions) has in the past preceded larger Vulcanian eruptions. It is thought likely that such a Vulcanian eruption will occur in the near future.
Recent crater collapse and eruptive activity. At least two eruptive events took place in late 1994, both producing columns 4-km high. In November, Luis Aracena, a tour guide from San Pedro de Atacama, climbed Lascar and noted that a portion of the S rim had collapsed into the crater. Fractures on the S side of the crater had enlarged with an increase in fumarolic activity. He also found that the central hole in the crater floor had deepened substantially. One of his photos revealed large new arcuate fractures along the base of the talus slope at the foot of the NE crater wall.
Volcanologists concluded that the crater floor had continued to subside, destabilizing the walls and inducing them to collapse. The crater is thus becoming deeper and wider. In addition, blockage of the gas jets in the base of the crater due to subsidence on ring fractures and rockfalls from the walls has led to periodic 'throat clearing' eruptions. The edifice was expected to become increasingly unstable so long as this activity continues. Thus, the Carabineros in Toconao began advising tourists not to climb the volcano due to the high risk of both small explosive eruptions and of additional collapse along the S rim (along the favored ascent route).
Information Contacts: S. Matthews, Univ of Bristol; M. Gardeweg, SERNAGEOMIN, Santiago.
Small eruptions on 10 May and 20 July
At 1450 on 20 July 1995, an aircraft pilot passing 130 km W of Lascar reported eruptive activity from the volcano. The pilot saw a dispersed, SE-directed plume located in the 6-9 km altitude range. The plume's density was moderate and its color, light gray. At 1621, in conditions of clear visibility, a second pilot (Lloyd Boliviano) noticed the plume at the same distance from the volcano. The plume originated from Lascar's crater and at that time only rose about 700 m before dispersing SE where it remained visible for more than an estimated 90 km. At the crater the plume looked white to light gray and moderately dense. This second observation confirmed a sustained eruption.
Near the volcano, observers suggested that an eruption started between 1245 and 1315, accompanied by underground booming noises. Although in conflict with the pilot reports, officers located 67 km NW of Lascar (San Pedro de Atacama) stated that at 1445 the eruption ceased completely, maintaining only a small, diffuse column of gases.
Secondary information from San Pedro de Atacama (municipal administrator Juan Carlos Pereira) suggested that at 1320 there were underground booming sounds near the volcano and at 1330 a gray column rose to 2.5 km above the volcano. This column traveled towards the E and rained ash 6 km from the vent. The same behavior was repeated three times with less intensity.
In Toconao, 34 km NW of Lascar, Sara Moncada confirmed the eruption in the 1300-1400 time interval, although she heard no sounds at that locality. The next day, 21 July, the volcano returned to its more normal state with white fumarolic degassing.
According to a news broadcast, a previous episode occurred on 10 May consisted of three explosions, also accompanied by underground explosions. Columns then were <800-m high. The previous Lascar report (BGVN 20:03) discussed collapse of the crater's S rim and plumes that rose several kilometers and rained ash onto Toconao.
Information Contacts: Jose Antonio Naranjo, Programa Riesgo Volcanico, Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Avda. Santa Maria 0104, Casilla 1347, Santiago, Chile.
Quiet emission of vapor
In July 1996, activity was observed during a two-week period. Vapor quietly puffed several times per minute. The white to bluish color and smell of the vapor suggested that it consisted mainly of H2O and SO2. No rumbling was perceptible 300 m below the S rim of the crater.
Information Contacts: J. Sesiano, Département de Minéralogie, Université de Genève, 13 rue des Maraîchers, 1121 Genève 4, Switzerland.
Ash eruption on 20-21 July
At about 1044 on 20 July 2000, an eruption began at Lascar volcano that lasted until 1509. The Washington VAAC reported an ash advisory at 1509 for an ash plume that extended 660 km to the E, stretching from N Chile across S Bolivia and N Argentina and into W central Paraguay. At that time, the plume was traveling at speeds of up to 130 km/hour, reached altitudes of 10.7-13.7 km, and was reported to be 103 km wide.
Residents of the village of Jama, located 60 km ENE of the volcano on the Argentina-Chile border, reported feeling an earthquake before seeing a white mushroom cloud that rose 4-5 km high and rapidly blew E, depositing 1-2 mm of ash over the village. Several explosions were felt and heard 160 km ESE in San Antonio de los Cobres, but there were no reports of any injuries or damage. Activity continued into 21 July with small explosions producing plumes 200-300 m above the summit. The volcano is in a sparsely populated area so no evacuations were necessary.
According to Matthews and others (1997) Lascar has undergone four recognized cycles between 1984 and 1993. In each of these cycles, a lava dome is extruded in the active crater accompanied by vigorous degassing through high-temperature, high-velocity fumaroles on and around the dome. The dome then subsides into the conduit while the velocity and gas output of the fumaroles decrease; the cycle ends with violent explosive activity. No new lava was immediately extruded after the dome collapsed in the explosive 1993 eruption, thus breaking the previous pattern.
Background. Lascar is the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes; it is characterized by its persistent fumarolic activity, steam eruptions, and occasional vulcanian eruptions. The andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano contains six overlapping summit craters along a NE-SW trend.
Matthews and others (1997) discussed Lascar's evolution in four phases starting at ~50 ka. During phase I, an edifice was established on the E side, and pyroxene andesite lavas erupted. Phase II saw the development of the W edifice with a subglacial andesitic eruption, and the destruction of a substantial dome, arguably the volcano's most explosive event. In Phase III, a stratocone was constructed and a major andesitic explosive eruption generated scoria flows, known as the Tumbres deposits, dated at 9.2 ka. Phase IV activity shifted back to the E, leaving pyroclastic deposits dated at 7.1 ka. Prominent Phase IV lava flows extended NW and were later truncated by the formation of three deep collapse craters that mark the W migration of the active center. The current active vent discharges in the deepest of these craters, which is 800 m in diameter and 300 m deep. Frequent explosive eruptions have been recorded since the mid-19th century.
Reference. Matthews, S.J., Gardeweg, M.C., and Sparks, R.S.J., 1997, The 1894 to 1996 cyclic activity of Lascar Volcano, northern Chile: cycles of dome growth, dome subsidence, degassing and explosive eruptions: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p. 72-82.
Information Contacts: José Viramonte, Universidad Nacional de Salta and CONICET, Buenos Aires 177 -4400 Salta, Argentina; George Stephens, NOAA Operational Significant Events Imagery Support Team, World Weather Bldg., 5200 Auth Road, Rm. 510, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD 20748 (URL: https://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/); Associated Press.
Small ash eruptions in October 2002; fumarole investigations
An international team of scientists conducted an interdisciplinary research project at Lascar from 13 October 2002 to15 January 2003. The group of scientists from Argentina, Chile, Italy, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, and the United States, includes volcanologists who have directly observed the volcano from before the 1993 eruption (BGVN 18:04). During the first part of the project the team took the first ever direct measurements of fumarole temperatures and gas compositions within the crater, which are to be compared with measurements acquired through remote sensing techniques. The combination of direct and ground- and satellite-based measurements at very different spatial scales will hopefully corroborate results from the different techniques. A significant change in crater geometry over the last few years was identified through comparison with work carried out by Gardeweg and others (1993) and Matthews and others (1997).
Visual observations. On 26 October 2002 small explosive eruptive events (reaching heights of 300 m above the crater) were observed at 0905, 0910, and 0915 by both the remote-sensing team 7 km SE of the vent and the direct sampling team on the crater rim (figure 25). Winds from the NW rapidly dispersed the ash cloud. On 27 October at 0845, loud noises were heard, and an ash plume was observed by people 7 km NW of the volcano. At 1340 a much more vigorous explosion produced a plume that rose at least 1,500 m above the vent (figure 26), which was observed by the volcanologists from Pozo Tres, 60 km NW.
Figure 25. Photograph of an ash eruption at Lascar on 26 October 2002 seen from the crater rim. Courtesy of Franco Tassi.
Figure 26. Photograph of an eruption at Lascar on 27 October 2002 seen from "Pozo Tres." Courtesy of J.G. Viramonte.
On 1 November 2002 the direct-measurement team reached the crater for a second time to collect gas samples. Comparison with previous descriptions (Gardeweg and others, 1993; Matthews and others, 1997) and photographs taken by J.G. Viramonte at the beginning of the 1990's indicated that after the 2000 eruption (BGVN 25:06; http://www.unsa.edu.ar/varias/lascar; http://www. conae.gov.ar) several changes in crater morphology and locations of the high-flux fumaroles occurred. The dome had collapsed by several tens of meters, producing a deep, steep, hole ~200 m in diameter and 200 m deep, with a number of large fumaroles around the internal rim and at the base (figure 27). Observations suggest that Lascar is presently at or near the climax of the "dome subsidence phase," as described by Matthews and others (1997). There was no evidence of new dome emplacement after the July 2000 eruption.
Figure 27. Cross-section sketch of the Lascar crater showing fractures, high-temperature fumaroles, and areas of recent ash and bombs. Courtesy of J.G. Viramonte.
Direct techniques. Team members from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze (Italy), Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina), and Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile) took, for the first time, direct temperature measurements of Lascar's fumaroles and collected gas samples using vacuum bottles filled with a 4N NaOH + 0.15N CdOH solution (Montegrossi and others, 2001). Sampled fumaroles were aligned along the upper collapse ring fault in the NW internal flank of the active crater (figure 28). A maximum temperature of 385°C was measured. Preliminary results indicate a very high concentration of acidic gases, with a paucity of water vapor. A more complete analysis, performed by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, will be done in the Department of Earth Sciences at the Univ. Firenze.
Figure 28. Photograph of the NW side of the Lascar crater, modified to show the collapsed rims and fumarole sampling locations in October 2002. Courtesy of Franco Tassi.
Remote-sensing techniques. Team members from Michigan Technological University (MTU), Cambridge, and Universidad Nacional de Salta (UNSa) provided a suite of state-of-the-art ground-based instruments, including a miniature UV spectrometer that utilizes Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS), a MICROTOPS II sun-photometer, and a Kestrel 4000 weather station. The instruments will help provide a more complete understanding of S-bearing species, and their fates in a high, dry atmosphere. The mini UV spectrometer provides an open path line-of-site burden of SO2 through spectral analysis (Galle and others, 2002; Edmonds and others, 2002), which can be used to derive SO2 emission rates (using the plume's speed and width). The sun-photometer will provide information about the plume's liquid- and solid-phase species, specifically sulfate aerosol. The aerosol's spectral signature can be used to derive the particle size distribution from the spectral optical depth (Watson and Oppenheimer, 2000). The weather station, in conjunction with the other instruments, will elucidate the effects of Lascar's high, dry, and extremely transmissive atmosphere upon SO2 conversion rates. The team will also derive SO2 burdens and emission rates using satellite imagery from NASA's ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) sensor.
Lascar provides an opportunity to study the effects of an end-member atmosphere upon volcanic plumes with the aim of better understanding the fates of volcanic species in the high troposphere (and hence the lower stratosphere). The DOAS is an exciting new instrument, first applied to volcanic studies by volcanologists from the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (MVO), Cambridge University (UK), and Chalmer's University of Technology (Sweden) that is now rapidly replacing the older, bulkier, and much more expensive correlation spectrometer (COSPEC). This experiment is a continuation of that work in a new and different environment.
Future work. The Cambridge team planned to begin a new round of remote studies in early 2003, using the DOAS system and sun-photometers, in particular to investigate evolution of the aerosol phase of the plume. The direct gas sampling by the Florence, Salta, and Del Norte team will be repeated, hopefully in 2003. The group, led by the MTU and UNSa contingent, plan to use recently acquired ASTER data to investigate SO2 emission. Hotspot activity will be studied using ASTER, MODIS, and GOES data. A study of the morphological evolution of the crater is planned for the near future, hopefully incorporating previous investigators' work on cyclic activity at Lascar.
References. Déruelle, B., Medina, E.T., Figueroa, O.A., Maragaño, M.C., and Viramonte, J.G., 1995, The recent eruption of Lascar volcano (Atacama-Chile, April 1993): petrological and volcanological relationships: C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 321, série II, p. 377-384.
Déruelle, B., Figueroa, O.A., Medina, E.T., Viramonte, J.G., and Maragaño, M.C., 1996, Petrology of pumices of April 1993 eruption of Lascar (Atacama, Chile): Blackwell Science Ltd, Terra Nova, v. 8, p. 191-199.
Edmonds, M., Herd, R.A., Galle, B., and Oppenheimer, C.M., 2002, Automated, high time resolution measurements of SO2 flux at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat: in review.
Galle, B., Oppenheimer, C., Geyer, A., McGonigle, A., Edmonds, M., and Horrocks, L.A., 2002, A miniaturised ultraviolet spectrometer for remote sensing of SO2 fluxes: a new tool for volcano surveillance: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 119, p. 241-254.
Gardeweg, M.C., Sparks, S., Matthews, S., Fuentealba, C., Murillo, M., and Espinoza, A., 1993, V informe sobre el comportamiento del volcan Lascar (II región): Enero-Marzo 1993: SERNAGEOMIN, Chile, Marzo 1993.
Gardeweg, M.C., and Medina, E., 1994, La erupción subpliniana del 19-20 de Abril del volcan Lascar N de Chile: Congreso Geológico Chileno, Actas I, p. 299-304.
Matthews, S.J., Gardeweg, M.C., and Sparks, R.S.J., 1997, The 1984 to 1996 cyclic activity of Lascar Volcano, northern Chile: cycles of dome growth, dome subsidence, degassing and explosive eruptions: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p. 72-82.
Montegrossi, G., Tassi, F., Vaselli, O., Buccianti, A., and Garofalo, K., 2001, Sulphur species in volcanic gases: Anal. Chem., v. 73, p. 3,709-3,715.
Viramonte, J.G., Seggiaro, R.E., Becchio, R.A., and Petrinovic, I.A., 1994, Erupción del Volcán Lascar, Chile, Andes Centrales, Abril de 1993: 4ta Reunión Internacional del Volcán de Colima, Colima, México, Actas I, p. 149-151.
Watson, I.M., and Oppenheimer, C., 2000, Particle size distributions of Mt. Etna's aerosol plume constrained by sunphotometry: Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, v. 105, no. D8, p. 9,823-9,829.
Information Contacts: José G. Viramonte and Mariano Poodts, Instituto GEONORTE, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires 177, Salta 4400, Argentina (URL: http://www.unsa.edu.ar/); Matt Watson and Lizzette Rodríguez, Department of Geology, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA (URL: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/); Franco Tassi, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli studi di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, 50121 Firenze, Italy (URL: https://www.dst.unifi.it/); Eduardo Medina, Claudio Martinez, and Felipe Aguilera, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile (URL: http://www.ucn.cl/en/carrera/geology/).
On 9 December 2003 fine ash discharged from fumaroles
A report discussing Lascar from the Chilean Oficina Nacional de Emergencia, Ministerio del Interiorone (ONEMI) noted that on 9 December 2003 small amounts of fine ash discharged from fumaroles at Lascar. The following day activity was at normal levels, with only gas and steam emitted. On the morning of 10 December observers noted a 400-m-high, gray-colored, fumarolic plume. No increased seismicity was recorded. Eruptions were previously noted at Lascar during October 2002. At that time the volcano was the subject of several months of field studies (BGVN 28:03).
Information Contacts: National Office for Emergencies (Oficina Nacional de Emergencia, "ONEMI"), Ministry of the Interior, Beaucheff 1637, Santiago, Chile (URL: http://www.onemi.cl/).
4 May 2005 eruption sends ash over 1,000 km SE, ¾ of the way to Buenos Aires
Lascar, the most active volcano in northern Chile, erupted on 4 May 2005. Although the eruption was substantial, thus far there is an absence of reports from anyone who saw the eruption at close range. Preliminary assessments came mainly from satellite sensors and distant affects witnessed in Argentina. This report is based on one sent to us by Chilean Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) scientists José Antonio Naranjo and Hugo Moreno, discussing events around 4 May, with brief comments on some of Lascar's behavior in the past several years, and suggestions for future monitoring.
Lascar sits ~ 70 km SW of the intersection between Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia, ~ 300 km inland from the Chilean port city of Antofagasta. This part of the coast lies along the Atacama desert, and on flat terrain tens of kilometers W of Lascar resides a large salt pan, the Salar de Atacama (about 50 x 150 km). The settlement of Toconao is ~ 33 km NW of Lascar. Previous reports discussed field observations during 13 October 2002 to 15 January 2003, and fine ash discharged from fumaroles on 9 December 2003 (BGVN 28:03 and 29:01).
Naranjo and Moreno concluded that at roughly 0400 on 4 May an explosive eruption ejected an ash cloud to a tentative altitude on the order of 10 km that dispersed to the SE. About 2 hours later the cloud began dropping ash on Salta, Argentina. Satellite images portrayed the ash cloud's dispersal. An aviation 'red alert' was issued by the Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Center; they saw the plume over Argentina at altitudes of 3-5 km.
Shortly after atmospheric impacts of the 4 May eruption became apparent, the Buenos Aires VAAC notified OVDAS that NW Argentine cities had reported falling ash. These cities, all SE of Lascar, included Jujuy, Salta, Santiago del Estero, and Santa Fe—locations with respective approximate distances from Lascar of 260, 275, 580, and 1,130 km. The Argentine province of Chaco, along the country's NE margin, was also noted as receiving ash. Buenos Aires (~ 1,530 km SE of Lascar) remained ~ 400 km beyond the point of the farthest detected ashfall.
Patricia Lobera, a professor in Talabre, Argentina, 17 km E of Lascar, said that eruption noises were not heard there on the morning of 4 May. When observers saw the plume from Talabre that morning they reportedly thought the plume looked similar to those on previous days.
Remotely sensed hot spots were detected on a GOES satellite image for 0339 (0639 UTC) on 4 May, showing the first evidence of an eruption. In a later image, at 0409, the thermal anomaly had increased, and the image suggested a growing, ash-bearing cloud then trending ~ 23 km to the SE. The thermal anomaly diminished in intensity by 0439, remaining diminished thereafter, but by that time the plume's leading margin extended over ~ 100 km SE and its tail had detached from the volcano. At 0509 the plume reached 170 km SE. According to a press report, at around 0600 ash fell in Salta (~ 275 km SE of Lascar).
Rosa Marquilla, a geologist at the University of Salta, reported that residents there noticed a mist attributed to the eruption, which hung over the city until at least to 1600, after which, the sky gradually cleared. Preliminary description of the petrography of the ash that fell in Salta came from Ricardo Pereyra (University of Salta) who saw crystal fragments (pyroxenes, feldspars, and magnetite) and fragments of volcanic glass containing plagioclase mircrolites. Lithic fragments were not observed.
The OVDAS authors concluded that, apparently since the year 2000, Lascar underwent constant degassing from an open vent within the ~ 780-m-diameter active central crater. Sporadic explosions as in July 2000 and October 2002, and in this case, 4 May 2005, could be due to diverse causes. For example, there may have been temporarily obstructed conduits at depth, local collapses blocking the vent at the crater floor, or fresh magma injection contacting groundwater. Extrusion of a viscous dome lava also might explain the sudden explosions. That circumstance would presumably lead to visibly increased fumarolic output.
Naranjo and Moreno had several suggestions for ongoing monitoring. First, they suggested developing closer long-term contacts, including people able to visually monitor the volcano directly, as well as continued systematic contact with the Buenos Aires VAAC and their satellite analysts. They recommended ongoing relations with the University of Hawaii (MODVOLC) program to remotely sense hot-spots. They went on to suggest a campaign of stereo aerial photography to detect changes in the active crater. They advocated notifying local inhabitants of the possibility of ash falls before another explosive episode. They pointed out that mountaineers should be made aware of elevated risks within 8 km of the active crater.
References. Gardeweg, M., 1989, Informe preliminar sobre la evolución de la erupción del volcán Láscar (II Región): noviembre 1989: Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Informe Inédito (unpublished report), 27 p.
Gardeweg, M., and Lindsay, J., 2004, Lascar Volcano, La Pacana Caldera, and El Tatio Geothermal Field: IAVCEI General Assembly Pucón 2004, Field Trip Guide-A2, 32 p.
Gardeweg, M., Medina, E., Murillo, M., and Espinoza, A., 1993, La erupción del 19-20 de abril de 1993: VI informe sobre el comportamiento del volcán Láscar (II Región): Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Informe Inédito (unpublished report), 20 p.
Information Contacts: José Antonio Naranjo and Hugo Moreno, Programa Riesgo Volcanico, Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Avda. Santa Maria 0104, Casilla 1347, Santiago, Chile; Gustavo Alberto Flowers, Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (Buenos Aires VAAC), Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 25 de mayo 658, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php).
Further analysis of 4 May 2005 event indicates a phreato-Vulcanian eruption
The 4 May 2005 early morning eruption of Lascar was described in BGVN 30:04. Note that the time conversion in that issue was in error by 1 hour. The following information is based on a report prepared for Bulletin staff by Jose Viramonte of the Universidad Nacional de Salta, and Lizzette Rodriguez of Michigan Technological University.
Viramonte and Rodriguez estimated that the 4 May 2005 eruption column rose to a height of ~ 10-11 km, based on numerical models of temperature and wind measurements from the Servicio Metereológico Nacional, Argentina at different altitudes at the time of the eruption. The column traveled rapidly to the SE under the influence of the strong tropospheric winds with predominant direction from the NW to the SE.
Residents of the towns of Talabre (located 15 km W of the volcano) and Jama (located 60 km ENE of the volcano) did not report earthquakes or explosions. The Instituto GEONORTE of the Universidad Nacional de Salta reported very fine ashfall at 0545 in the city of Salta, located ~ 285 km SSE of the volcano. Ash sample collection, carried out by GEONORTE personnel for 2.5 hours, measured a rate of 0.4 g/ (m2 h). Grain size analyses of the ash showed a strong mode at diameters of 4-8 phi (0.062-0.003 mm) (figure 29); the ash was composed predominantly of andesitic lithic fragments and broken crystals of two pyroxenes (hyperstene and augite) and plagioclase, with very scarce glass shards.
Figure 29. Histogram of the grain size of ash deposited at the city of Salta by the 4 May 2005 Lascar eruption. Courtesy of Jose Viramonte and Lizzette Rodriguez.
The Buenos Aires VAAC and the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) processed different bands from MODIS data: b29-b32 for SO2, b31-b32 for ash, and b30-b32 for SO4. The first two band combinations showed the Lascar plume in coincidence with the b5-b4 band combination from NOAA-17 (figure 30).
Figure 30. NOAA-17 image of a SE-directed plume from Lascar at 1440 UTC (1040 local time), obtained with the difference of channels 4 and 5 from the AVHRR sensor. The plume can be better identified withing the ellipse on higher resolution reproductions. Courtesy of Jose Viramonte and Lizzette Rodriguez.
The grain size and shape of the ash, its composition, and the interpretation of the satellite data, suggest that Lascar volcano had a short phreato-vulcanian eruption.
On May 25, Felipe Aguilera of the Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile, climbed up to the crater of Lascar volcano (figure 31). He reported three new strong fumaroles a few meters from the S border of the crater, and sampled the sulfur sublimates (figure 32). No new bombs or blocks were seen around the crater area.
Figure 31. View of Lascar's NE crater, looking NE (see arrow, upper left) with fumaroles present along a number of fractures to the N and E sides. The active crater is just out of view in the image foreground. Picture taken by Felipe Aguilera on 25 May 2005. Courtesy of Jose Viramonte and Lizzette Rodriguez.
Figure 32. Schematic diagram showing the position of fumaroles on Lascar after the eruption on 4 May 2005. Also indicated are several new post-eruption fumaroles that developed on the S crater margin. Courtesy of Jose Viramonte and Lizzette Rodriguez.
Recent and future work. A team of scientists from Michigan Technological University, the University of Hawaii, the Universidad Nacional de Salta, the Universidad de Chile, and the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, conducted a field campaign at Lascar from 29 November to 8 December 2004. During this period, SO2 emissions were measured using two mini-UV spectrometers; aerosols were measured using two Microtops II sun photometers, and temperatures of the vent fumaroles were measured using a Forward Looking IR Radiometer (FLIR). Preliminary processing of the gas data showed a decrease since 2003 in the emissions, with SO2 fluxes around 500 tons/day (Rodríguez et al., 2005). This contrasts with the fluxes determined by Mather et al. (2004) on January 2003, which were on the order of 2,300 tons/day. Observations of the SO2 index, using ASTER TIR images, have shown a decrease in the size of the SO2 anomaly from 2000 to the first half of 2004 (Castro Godoy and Viramonte, 2004).
Temperature measurements made at the crater on 2 December 2004 by University of Hawaii scientists using a FLIR indicated low temperatures for the fumarole field, which represented a decrease when compared with the results of direct measurements conducted in October 2002 by Franco Tassi and others (Tassi et al., 2004; BGVN 28:03). Similar observations have been made using ASTER SWIR and TIR images (Silvia Castro, GEOSAR-AR program), which have shown a decrease in the absolute temperatures and the size of the thermal anomaly since October 2002 (Castro Godoy and Viramonte, 2004). Images during the month of April 2005 showed a slight increase in the area and maximum temperature of the anomaly at the beginning of the month, followed by a decrease at the end of April, prior to the eruption. Decreases in the thermal activity have been observed in previous eruptive cycles, prior to explosive events (Oppenheimer et al., 1993; Matthews et al., 1997).
The data collected during the 2004 field campaign will help in the understanding of the pre-eruptive conditions at Lascar. SO2 emission rates on 7 December 2004 will be used to ground truth the satellite data from an ASTER overpass at 1436 UTC (1036 local time), and recently acquired ASTER data will be used to investigate SO2 emissions during the period close to the 4 May 2005 eruption. Scientists from Università degli studi di Firenze (Italy), Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), and Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina) are conducting a systematic gas sample campaign at Lascar and other active volcanoes on the Central Volcanic Zone. Finally, scientists from the Universidad Católica del Norte and the Universidad Nacional de Salta are processing data from Landsat TM and ETM+ images, with the objective of understanding the behavior of Lascar volcano during the 1998-2004 period.
References. Castro Godoy, S. and Viramonte, J.G., 2004, Micro FTIR field measurement for volcanic mapping, SO2 and temperature monitoring using ASTER images in Lascar Volcano, southern central Andes: IAVCEI General Assembly, Book of Abstracts, Pucón, Chile, 14-20 November.
Mather, T.A., Tsanev, V.I., Pyle, D.M., McGonigle, A.J.S., Oppenheimer, C., and Allen, A.G., 2004, Characterization and evolution of tropospheric plumes from Lascar and Villarrica volcanoes, Chile: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 109.
Matthews, S.J., Gardeweg, M.C., and Sparks, R.S.J., 1997, The 1984 to 1996 cyclic activity of Lascar volcano, northern Chile: cycles of dome growth, dome subsidence, degassing and explosive eruptions: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p.72-82.
Oppenheimer, C., Francis, P., Rothery, D., Carlton, D., and Glaze, L., 1993, Interpretation and comparison of volcanic thermal anomalies in Landsat Thematic Mapper infrared data: Volcán Lascar, Chile, 1984-1991: Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, p. 4269-4286.
Rodríguez, L.A., Watson, I.M., Viramonte, J., Hards, V., Edmonds, M., Cabrera, A., Oppenheimer, C., Rose, W.I., and Bluth, G.J.S., 2005, SO2 conversion rates at Lascar and Soufriere Hills volcanoes: 9th Gas Workshop, Palermo, Italy, May 1-10.
Tassi, F., Viramonte, J., Vaselli, O., Poodts, M., Aguilera, F., Martínez, C., Rodríguez, L.A., and Watson, I.M., 2004, First geochemical data from fumarolic gases at Lascar volcano, Chile: 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, August 20-28, 2004.
Information Contacts: Raúl Becchio and José G. Viramonte, Instituto GEONORTE and CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires 177, Salta 4400, Argentina (URL: http://www.unsa.edu.ar/); Lizzette A. Rodríguez and Matthew Watson, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA (URL: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/); Felipe Aguilera, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile (URL: http://www.ucn.cl/en/carrera/geology/); Silvia Castro Godoy, GEOSAT-AR Project, SEGEMAR, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.segemar.gov.ar/); Matt Patrick and Rob Wright, HIGP-University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (URL: http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/volcanology.html); Sergio Haspert and Ricardo Valenti, VAAC Buenos Aires - Div. VMSR, Servicio Meteorologico Nacional, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php).
Five-day eruption sequence in April 2006; plume seen 220 km away
Lascar's eruption on 4 May 2005 (BGVN 30:05) was followed by a new eruptive cycle, which began on 18 April 2006 and lasted 5 days. Observers familiar with Lascar judged this eruptive episode unusual compared to those observed previously in terms of eruptive character, frequency, and duration time. The Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in Buenos Aires and Servicio Metererológico Nacional of Argentina detected the eruption from satellite images, and aircraft warnings were posted. All of the times cited are in UTC (local time = UTC - 4 hours).
Eruptions start, 18 April. Four explosions registered (at 1520, 1722, 1900, and 2100 hours UTC). The first explosion, the largest of four, was visible from El Abra cooper mine (220 km NW) and reached ~ 10 km above the summit crater (figure 33). The shape of the eruptive column suggested that it reached the tropopause (~ 15 km altitude in this region). The white to gray plume, containing little ash but a large amount of water, dispersed to the NNE.
Figure 33. Lascar's first explosion of 18 April 2006 as photographed from El Abra copper mine, 220 km NW from volcano. Courtesy of personnel at the El Abra copper mine.
The second explosion reached 3 km above the summit crater, while the third and fourth explosions reached 800 m. These latter eruptive plumes were gray colored, had higher contents of ash than the first explosion, and were dispersed NNE. Only slight ash fall was registered on the N side of the volcano. No seismic activity or eruption noises were registered. Analysis of GOES satellite images (figure 34) indicated that for the first and second eruptive plumes the mean horizontal velocities were 70 and 85 km/hour, respectively, while the maximum plume areas were ~ 8,240 and 1,074 km2, respectively. Minimum volumes erupted were ~ 4.1 x 106 and ~ 0.54 x 106 m3 assuming a hypothetical ash fall deposit of 0.5 mm over the stated areas. The third and fourth explosions were not detected by satellite.
Figure 34. GOES satellite image capturing Lascar's first and second eruptive plumes. Rivers and international borders are also shown. Image is for 1829 UTC on the 18 April 2006. The first plume (oblong black area labeled 'cloud' in Spanish?'nube') stretched over N Argentina and S Bolivia. A second plume appears as a much smaller dark area between Lascar and the first plume. It lay over the NE Chilean border. Courtesy of Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina.
19-22 April eruptions and comparative calm that followed. On 19 April 2006 at 1504 hours (UTC) an explosion generated a gray-colored eruptive column that reached 3 km above the summit crater and was dispersed NNE. Slight ash fall was noted on the N side of the volcano. Neither seismic activity nor eruption noises were reported. Two explosions were recorded 20 April at 1505 and 1739 hours (UTC). The first eruptive plume reached 2.5 km above the summit crater and contained a small amount of ash. The plume from the second explosion, the larger of the pair, reached 7 km above the crater. The eruption lasted 1 hour and 50 min. Both plumes were dispersed N and slight ash fall was registered on the N side of the volcano. No seismic activity or eruption noises were registered.
Analysis of satellite data from the sequence of GOES images (figure 35) indicated that the first and second eruptive plumes had mean horizontal velocities of 40 km/h, while the maximum areas were ~ 430 and ~ 800 km2, respectively. Minimal volumes erupted were ~ 0.4 x 106 and ~ 0.2 x 106 m3, again assuming a hypothetical 0.5 mm ash-fall deposit.
Figure 35. GOES satellite image of Lascar showing the second eruptive plume (black circle) at 1807 hours (UTC) of 20 April eruption dispersed to NE. Courtesy of Servicio Meteorológico Nacional and Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina.
Two explosions were recorded on 21 April 2006 at 1248 and 1547 UTC, each lasting ~ 15 minutes. Their eruptive columns reached 3 km above the summit crater and rapidly dispersed ESE. Seismic activity and eruption noises were not noted.
On 22 April at 1518 UTC an explosion generated an eruptive column that reached 3 km above the summit crater; it was blown SE. Local inhabitants heard subterranean noises. On 23 April at 1600 UTC an explosion generated a gray-colored eruptive column that reached 2.5 km above the summit crater and dispersed NNW (figure 36). Seismic activity and eruption noises were not registered. During the following 2 days, the color of the plume was white and it's top remained ~ 1.5 km above the crater.
Figure 36. Photograph of Lascar taken 23 April 2006 from the SW border of the Atacama salar (salt pan), ~ 40 km SW of the volcano. Courtesy of Gabriel González.
Other studies. After the 4 May 2005 eruption (BGVN 30:05), a team of scientists from Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN) carried out a gas sampling campaign on new fumaroles around the S edge of the central active crater. They used the direct sampling of fumaroles technique described by Giggenbach (1975) and Giggenbach and Goguel (1989). Gas data showed increasing amounts of H2O, H2S, and CH4 with respect to samples taken in 2002 from inside the active crater (Tassi et al., 2004). However, acid gases also displayed very high values. During December 2005 a team of scientists from UCN and Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) carried out field investigations to generate hazard maps.
Scientists from Universit? degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) and Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile) are conducting a systematic gas sample campaign at Lascar and other active volcanoes in the Central Volcanic Zone (e.g. Putana, Lastarria, and Isluga). Finally, scientists from the Universidad Católica del Norte, the Universidad Nacional de Salta and SEGEMAR (Argentina) are processing data from Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) images, with the objective of understanding the behavior of Lascar volcano during the 1998-2004 period.
References. Giggenbach, W., 1975, A simple method for the collection and analysis of volcanic gas sample: Bulletin of Volcanology, 39, 132?145.
Giggenbach, W., and Goguel, R., 1989, Collection and analysis of geothermal and volcanic water and gas discharges: DSIR Chemistry, Rept. No. 2401.
Matthews, S., Gardeweg, M., and Sparks, R., 1997, The 1984 to 1996 cyclic activity of Lascar volcano, northern Chile: cycles of dome growth, dome subsidence, degassing and explosive eruptions: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p. 72-82.
Tassi, F., Viramonte, J., Vaselli, O., Poodts, M., Aguilera, F., Martínez, C., Rodríguez, L., and Watson, I., 2004, First geochemical data from fumarolic gases at Lascar volcano, Chile: 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, August 20-28, 2004.
Viramonte, J., Aguilera, F., Delgado, H., Rodríguez, L., Guzman, K., Jiménez, J., and Becchio, R., 2006, A new eruptive cycle of Lascar Volcano (Chile): The risk for the aeronavigation in northern Argentina. Garavolcan 2006, Tenerife, Spain.
Information Contacts: Felipe Aguilera, Eduardo Medina, and Karen Guzmán, Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias mención Geología and Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile (URL: http://www.geodoctorado.cl, http://www.ucn.cl/); José G. Viramonte, Raúl Becchio, and Marcelo J. Arnosio, Instituto GEONORTE and CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires 177, Salta 4400, Argentina (URL: http://www.unsa.edu.ar/); Ricardo Valenti and Sergio Haspert, Servicio Metereológico Nacional, Argentina; Hugo G. Delgado, Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Coyoacán 04510, México, D.F.; Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php).
Crater changes after May; minor explosions during September and October 2006
This report covers the time interval September-October 2006 and was contributed by scientists from the Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile), University of Florence (Italy), Universidad Nacional de Salta (Argentina), and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (México). Changes seen in Láscar's central active crater after the May 2005 and April 2006 eruptions and after the gas fumaroles investigation carried out during September 2006. Our previous report covered activity into early May 2006 (BGVN 31:04).
Eruptive activity. Substantial ash emissions were noted on 18-21 and 28 April 2006. Several small phreatic explosions occurred starting 18April, continuing through May, July, and August 2006; the last in that time frame occurring on 14 August. After that, three minor explosions occurred between September and October 2006.
An explosion occurred at 0812 on 21 September. The eruptive plume reached 800 m above summit crater. A dark gray-colored plume, with moderate ash content dispersed NNE. The event failed to produce detectable ashfall, seismic activity, or eruption noises.
A minor explosion at 0830 on 20 October 2006 sent an eruptive plume up to 200 m above the summit crater. A dark gray-colored plume with moderate ash content dispersed E. At 1900 a larger eruption lasted 25 minutes. A dark gray-colored plume with moderate ash content reached 800 m above the summit crater and dispersed E. The October events also did not produce detected ashfall, seismic activity, or eruption noises.
Morphological changes in central active crater. Significant morphological changes, principally to the crater floor, occurred after the May 2005 Vulcanian eruption (Aguilera and others, 2006a; BGVN 30:04 and 30:05). Field and aerial observations between October 2002 and March 2005 showed a typical funnel shaped crater, with a depth of 450 m (Aguilera and others, 2003). This phenomena has been recognized as always occurring during the collapse-period of the lava dome growth-collapse cycle described by Matthews and others (1997). The observations during October 2002 and March 2005 show that the crater floor can be recognized from the S border of the central active crater (figure 37). However, observations during December 2005 (after the May 2005 Vulcanian eruption) and September 2006 (after the April 2006 eruptive cycle) show that the crater floor cannot be recognized from S border of central active crater (figure 38), probably indicating subsidence of the crater floor (Aguilera and others, 2006b; BGVN 31:04; and Clavero and others, 2006). Observations made in the central active crater indicate subsidence of crater floor.
Figure 37. A March 2005 photo of the central active crater of Lascar seen from the S side. The May 2005 Vulcanian eruption removed portions of the crater floor and internal crater wall, leaving a circular crater with a "new rock wall" exposed. Photograph taken by Felipe Aguilera.
Figure 38. Central active crater of Lascar viewed from S side. Shown is the new rock wall of the inner crater after May 2005 Vulcanian eruption. Photograph taken by Felipe Aguilera, December 2005.
The photograph from October 2002 (figure 39) shows the position of the crater floor inferred just before the May 2005 eruption, while the photograph from September 2006 (figure 40) shows the crater floor after the May 2005 and April 2006 eruptions. The position of the crater floor before the May 2005 eruption corresponded to a level associated with talus deposits, and the latest crater floor lay at the bottom of a new circular crater. A notable change in the morphology of the internal walls of the central active crater between the March and December 2005 photographs was the absence of a part of the crater wall (probably corresponding to parts of ancient lava domes, ballistic and ashfall deposits), exposing a new N wall of the crater.
Figure 39. Central active crater of Lascar seen from the N internal wall, October 2002. Photograph taken by Franco Tassi.
Figure 40. A September 2006 photo of the central active crater of Lascar seen from the NE. Shown are the level of the crater floor before the May 2005 Vulcanian eruption, the level of crater floor between May 2005 and April 206 eruptions, and the current crater floor. Photograph taken by Felipe Aguilera.
Gas fumarole investigations. During 9-15 September 2006, gas sampling from fumaroles inside the central active crater was carried out by personnel of Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile). They noted a lowering of the temperature of fumaroles from 385°C to 250°C in October 2002 (Tassi and others, 2004). Scientists from Universit? degli studi di Firenze (Italy) and Universidad Católica del Norte (Chile) are conducting a systematic and permanent gas sampling campaign at Láscar and other active volcanoes of the Central Volcanic Zone (e.g. Putana, Lastarria, Isluga and others). Scientists from the Universidad Católica del Norte, the Universidad Nacional de Salta and SEGEMAR (Argentina) are processing data from Landsat TM and ETM+ and from ASTER images, with the objective of understanding the behavior of Lascar volcano during the 1998-2004 period.
References. Aguilera, F., Viramonte, J., Medina, E., Guzmán, K., Becchio, R., Delgado, H., and Arnosio, M., 2006a, Eruptive activity from Lascar volcano (2003-2005): XI Congreso Geológico Chileno, Antofagasta, 2006, p. 397-400.
Aguilera, F., Viramonte, J., Medina, E., Guzmán, K., Becchio, R., Delgado, H., and Arnosio, M., 2006b, Recent eruptive activity from Lascar volcano (2006): XI Congreso Geológico Chileno, Antofagasta, 2006, p. 393-396.
Clavero, J., Naranjo, J., and Cayupi, J., 2006, El ciclo eruptivo del 18 al 25 de Abril de 2006 del Volcán Lascar, Andes Centrales: XI Congreso Geológico Chileno, Antofagasta, 2006, p. 435-438.
Giggenbach, W., 1975, A simple method for the collection and analysis of volcanic gas samples: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 39, p. 132-145.
Matthews, S., Gardeweg, M., and Sparks, R., 1997, The 1984 to 1996 cyclic activity of Lascar volcano, northern Chile: cycles of dome growth, dome subsidence, degassing and explosive eruptions: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 59, p. 72 - 82
Viramonte, J., Aguilera, F., Delgado, H., Rodríguez, L., Guzman, K., Jiménez, J., and Becchio, R., 2006, A new eruptive cycle of Lascar volcano (Chile). The risk for the aeronavigation in northern Argentina: Garavolcan 2006, Tenerife, Spain.
Information Contacts: Felipe Aguilera, Eduardo Medina, Karen Guzmán, and Valeria Ortega, Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias mención Geología and Depto de Ciencias Geológicas, Univ Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile; Franco Tassi and Orlando Vaselli, Dept of Earth Science, Univ of Florence, Via La Pira 4, 50110, Florence, Italy (URL: http://www.geo.unifi.it/); José G. Viramonte, Instituto GEONORTE and CONICET, Univ Nacional de Salta, Buenos Aires 177, Salta 4400, Argentina (URL: http://www.unsa.edu.ar/); Hugo Delgado G., Instituto de Geofísica, Univ Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Del Coyoacán, México D.F., C.P. 04510, México (URL: http://www.igeofcu.unam.mx/).
September 2007 (BGVN 32:09) Cite this Report
Occasional aviation reports of ash plumes during November 2006-July 2007
Our last Bulletin report on Láscar (BGVN 31:11) discussed minor explosions and ash plumes during September-October 2006, morphological changes in the central active crater since the May 2005 eruption, and an ongoing investigation on fumarolic gases venting in the active crater.
Reports since November 2006 and into late 2007 indicated that Láscar continued to emit ash plumes. On 22 January 2007, based on satellite imagery, the Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) reported continuous emissions from the volcano that drifted NNE. Then, according to the VAAC, on11 March 2007 an ash cloud from Láscar rose to 5.5-6.7 km altitude and drifted E. The VAAC's next report on Láscar indicated that on 23 May, an ash plume from Láscar rose to an altitude of 9.1 km and drifted SSE, based upon a Significant Meteorological Information (SIGMET) advisory and satellite image observations. Finally, the VAAC reported that, based on pilot reports and satellite image observations, on 18 July 2007 an ash plume rose to altitudes of 7.6-9.1 km and drifted NE. We have not seen any activity reports on Láscar between this July report and 23 October 2007, perhaps suggesting an absence of unusually vigorous activity during that interval.
Information Contacts: Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 25 de mayo 658, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php).
Seismicity, glow, gray plumes, and other anomalies suggest April 2013 eruption
Our previous Láscar Bulletin report (BGVN 32:09) discussed behavior through July 2007. Observatory volcanologists reported plume and seismic activity during February-March 2012, and again during March-April 2013. Emissions during early April 2013 were interpreted by authorities as a weak eruption.
The Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN) furnishes on line reports on Láscar. The Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) in Temuco monitors the volcano. OVDAS observations in the form of monthly and special reports were found on the SERGEOMIN website starting on January 2012. Those reports, unless otherwise noted, formed the basis of this report.
OVDAS monitors Láscar with several webcams, with GPS, and with airborne and remote sensing surveillance (eg. Landast). Their tool kit also includes findings from images gathered by OMI (The Ozone Monitoring Instrument on the NASA Aura satellite).
Location. Láscar volcano lies within the Andes mountains, which run N to S, as seen on figure 41. The Andes contain the highest volcanoes in the world. Nearby Holocene volcanoes include Camachi at 6,046 m elevation and Colachi at 5,631 m elevation (figure 42).
Figure 41. Láscar volcano, in the Andes region of Chile and adjacent to Bolivia and Argentina. The white box surrounding Láscar engulfs a high-altitude portion of the Atacama desert (Salar de Atacama in Spanish), as discussed further below. Courtesy of Visible Earth. NASA. (Retrieved 2011-01-02)
Figure 42. A N-looking oblique view of Láscar and vicinity made with Google Earth. Note Camarachi, and Colachi, two Holociene volcanoes, both less than 18 km away. Courtesy of Google Earth.
Láscar seismic activity in 2012. In 2012, the volcano monitoring network recorded 1,679 seismic events; about 1,300 of these were hybrid earthquakes (HB) (table 4). Seismic activity increased sharply between 29 and 31 January 2012. A swarm with a total of 59 that were volcano-tectonic (VT); 491 that were long period (LP); and one that was hybrid (HB).
During 1-15 February, a total of ~350 seismic events detected, averaging ~21 per day. This included 233 LP signals. Visible activity consisted of pulsating columns of gasses reaching 50-250 m height.
Table 4. A tabulation containing Láscar's 2012 Alert Level, seismic activity, and hazard status during 2012. Regarding hazard status, low risk corresponds to Green (G) and intermediate risk corresponds to Yellow (Y). Collated from OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN reports.
Alert level Y Y G G G G G G G G G G
Seismic events 598 350 99 92 80 91 63 83 52 55 65 51
VT events 82 92 22 4 16 14 3 5 -- 55 65 5
LP events, # 507 233 77 88 64 76 70 78 52 -- -- 45
HB 1 1 -- -- -- 1 -- -- -- -- -- --
Láscar reports for 2013. In 2013, the volcano monitoring network recorded 506 seismic events. About 70% of these occurred during July (table 5). There were episodes of gas emissions, increased temperatures and seismic events starting in March and continuing through 10 April. This behavior prompted OVDAS to examine the likelyhood of an eruption. In March 2013, cameras detected mainly white gas columns reaching heights to 600 m above the crater.
Table 5. A tabulation containing Láscar's Alert Levels, seismic activity, hazard status, and plume color observations from February to October 2013. Collated from OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN reports.
2013 01-28 Feb 01 Mar-04 Apr 05-15 Apr 01-14 May 15-31 May 01-15 Jul 16-30 Jul 16-31 Aug 01-15 Sep
Alert level GREEN YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW YELLOW GREEN
Seismic events 43 57 18 5 8 116 245 7 2
VT events 3 2* 3 3 4 92 226 6 1
LP events 40 55 15 2 4 24 19 1 1
HB -- -- -- -- -- 8 out of 24 11 out of 19 -- --
main plume color -- -- white/gray na -- brown brown white --
During the nights of 2 to 4 April incandescence appeared in the active crater. Also on 3 April gases emitted from the inside of the volcano fluctuated between white and gray, the latter taken as indicative of ash emissions. The resulting plume rose 320 m and drifted SE. No anomalous SO2 was seen in OMI (The Ozone Monitoring Instrument) satellite data.
The OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN geologists issued a special report on 10 April 2013 discussing a 9 April flyby at 1115 in a helicopter. The observers saw intense fumarolic activity along the inner walls of the crater. The emitted plume was steady, white to brown, and smelled of sulfur.
A thermal imager that day detected temperatures of ~600°C at the bottom of the crater. Although gases often thwarted observations of the crater floor, some deformation seemingly took place there suggestive of a rise of magma. Figures 43 and 44 show two images of the active crater on 9 April.
Figure 43. Visible light photo of the active crater at Láscar taken during an overflight on 9 April 2013 and included in the OVDAS 10 April 2013 report. Courtesy of OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN.
Figure 44. Thermal image of the active crater at Láscar showing computed temperatures at ~600°C (the scale maximum). Taken during the 9 April 2013 overflight and included in the OVDAS 10 April 2013 report. Courtesy of OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN.
During 1-17 July 2013, Láscar's cameras observed mainly brown-colored outgassing. The plumes reached a maximum heights of 500 and 1,000 m on 1 and 13 May, respectively. Incandescence occurred on the nights of 1 and 2 July. After mid-July, the seismic activity tapered off to 10 or fewer events during the months of August and September. Láscar emitted white plumes on 4 November 2013 (figure 45).
Figure 45. Láscar volcano, as seen amid calm conditions on 4 November 2013, capped by a faint white plume. Image taken from the OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN webcam. Courtesy of OVDAS/SERNAGEOMIN.
Compaction of 1993 pyroclastic flows. Welley and others (2011) examined changes to the unconsolidated pyroclastic flow deposits from the date of the 1993 eruptions to 2010. The changes were examined using a combination of shallow surface geophysical imaging tools, remote sensing observations, and field measurements. Over time these deposits become increasingly dissected by a network of deeply penetrating fractures. Based on ground penetrating radar images, the fractures propagated to depths of up to 10 m.
Welley and others (2011) associated the fractures with post-eruptive settling and compaction processes inherent in thick pyroclastic sequences. In addition, orbiting radar interferometry found subsidence over the deposit's surface of up to 1 cm/year during 1993 and 1996 with continued subsidence occurring at a slower rate thereafter.
In situ measurements 18 years after emplacement showed that 1 m below the surface, the 1993 deposits still remained 5°C to 15°C hotter than adjacent deposits. Figure 46b shows a view of the N flank. Figure 46c illustrates N flank pyroclastic sequences annotated by age in an aerial view.
Figure 46. (a) The location of Láscar volcano in N Chile. (b) View of Láscar from an overlooking cliff to the N showing the NW fan of 1993 deposits. (c) Individual pyroclastic flow units on breakout fans I and II, left and right respectively, mapped on a portion of GEOTEC image 14602-04. Relative stratigraphic positions were deduced by field observations. Taken from Welley and others (2011).
2012 hazard report. SERNAGEOMIN's January 2012 hazard summary notes the danger from Láscar volcanic processes. Two of the many processes are pyroclastic flows and ash fall. Pyroclastic flows could affect the town of Tumbes, ~20 km SSE of the volcano and Talabre village, located ~10 km NNE of the volcano. The dispersion and pyroclastic ash fall could affect distant regions located to the E, where in the past there have been deposits with thicknesses of a few ten's of centimeters.
Figure 47. Láscar hazard map showing simulated ash fall hazard areas. Modified from Argentinan report image. Courtesy of Instituto Inenco-Geonorte, Universidad National De Salta-CONICET. Image by Jose G. Viramonte.
The Instituto Inenco-Geonorte, Universidad National De Salta-CONICET prepared a mathematical model to simulate ash fall. The Láscar eruptions served as a case study to compare to the model simulation. The fall zones from 18 April 1993, 18 Oct 1996, and 20 July 2000 are shown on figure 47.
Láscar residing in the highest and driest desert in the world. Láscar sits in the center of the Atacama High Desert (figure 48). The greater Atacama occupies 105,000 square kilometers, with a surface composed mostly of salt lakes, sand, and towards the Andes, felsic lava flows. Besides the high elevation, Vesilind (2003), reports this portion of the Atacama surrounding Láscar undergoes extremes in temperature, −25 C to 45 C, and is exceedingly arid. Thus, Láscar may reside in among the highest and driest volcanic settings in the world.
Figure 48. The dashed square represents the Upper Atacama Desert Region [Atacama High Desert]. The city of Calama (open blue circle), and the town of San Pedro de Atacama (filled blue circle) are indicated. Courtesy of CIA world factbook.
The climate, environment, and similar factors have been postulated to be among the factors that impact the behavior and evolution of volcanoes. For example, QU Wei-Zheng and others (2011) discuss the relevance of geology and location with regard to volcanic behavior, including earthquakes. Láscar and neighboring volcanoes may offer a means to help test these postulates.
References. Qu Wei-Zheng, Huang Fei, DU Ling, Zhao Jin-Ping, Deng Sheng-Gui, Cao Yong, 2011,The Periodicity of Volcano Activity and Its Reflection in Some Climate Factors, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp: 135-149.
Vesilind, Priit J. (August 2003). "The Driest Place on Earth". National Geographic Magazine. Retrieved 2 April 2013. (Excerpt)
Whelley P., Jay, J., Calder, E., Pritchard, M., Cassidy, N., Alcaraz, S., Pavez, A., (2011) Post-depositional fracturing and subsidence of pumice flow deposits: Lascar Volcano, Chile, Bulletin of Volcanology, pp. 1-21.
Information Contacts: Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI) (URL: http://www.onemi.cl/); Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN) (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/volcanes.php); Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS), Temuco (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/volcan-observatorio.php); Jose G. Viramonte, Instituto Inenco-Geonorte, Universidad National De Salta-CONICET; Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 25 de mayo 658, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php).
Intermittent incandescence seen in October and November 2013
An eruption at Láscar during 2 April-17 July 2013 included summit incandescence and some gray plumes (BGVN 38:07). Though no additional plumes were reported, incandescence was again observed during the first half of October and on 20 November 2013. The Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS) in Temuco, part of the Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN) monitors the volcano and issues reports following periods of volcanism. Monitoring methods include several webcams, GPS, airborne and remote sensing surveillance (e.g., Landsat), and data gathered by OMI (Ozone Monitoring Instrument) on the NASA Aura satellite.
Following the minor eruptive activity during April-July 2013, seismicity returned to lower levels. The Alert Level remained at Green (the lowest of 4 levels) for the remainder of the year. Between 1 and 30 October, four volcano-tectonic (VT) seismic events occurred, with a magnitude of 1 localized in the immediate area of the crater at a depth of less than 2 km. On 1, 6, and 11-13 October incandescence was observed at the main crater.
During 1-30 November 2013 there were 10 seismic events recorded, nine of which were VT events. The largest event was located 15 km NE of the crater, at a depth of 9.5 km, and with a magnitude of 1.5. The final seismicity was a long-period (LP) event, related to the movement of fluids within the interior of the volcano and with a magnitude of 0.5. On 20 November incandescence was again observed at the crater.
Information Contacts: Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS), Temuco, Chile (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/volcan-observatorio.php); Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN), Avda Sta María No. 0104, Santiago, Chile (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/)); Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI) (URL: http://www.onemi.cl/).
Ash plume on 30 October 2015 rises 2,500 m high; variable seismicity and persistent thermal anomaly afterwards
Lascar experienced one significant volcanic event between January 2014 and June 2016, a 2,500-m-high ash plume on 30 October 2015, according to reports issued by Chile's SERNAGEOMIN-OVDAS (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur). Seismicity, deformation, SO2 emissions, and thermal anomalies were all monitored by the agency during this time. A thermal anomaly persisted following the 30 October explosion through at least 16 June 2016.
The volcano had a maximum of eight volcano-tectonic (VT) seismic events per month (in September 2014 and October 2015) recorded between January 2014 and June 2016, and usually only 2-4 events. The local magnitude ranged from 0.5 to 2.5. The distance from the crater was also variable, ranging from inside the crater (June and July 2014), to as far as 15 km NE (September 2014). Seismic events were located in many different directions from the central crater. The depth of the events ranged from 0.6 km (March 2014) to 9 km (February 2016).
The long-period (LP) seismic events showed a more consistent trend. From March through August 2014, there were fewer than 6 events recorded each month. In September, the number-of-events increased to 13, and then beginning in November 2014, over 100 LP events were recorded monthly through July 2015. The largest number was in May 2015 with 209 events. Numbers decreased to 54 in October 2015, and then dropped back into the single digits in November 2015 (after the ash event on 30 October). Eight or fewer LP events occurred monthly during the first half of 2016. All LP events had local magnitudes (ML) less than 1.3, most had values less than 1.0.
Outgassing was regularly observed, with the highest monthly plume heights reported ranging from 600 to 2,000 m between March 2014 and September 2015. At 0932 local time on 30 October 2015, the webcam captured an ash emission rising 2,500 m above the summit and drifting NE over the volcanic complex. Based on this activity, the Alert Level was raised to Yellow (the second on a four-color scale). The Chilean Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI) declared a Yellow Alert for the municipality of San Pedro de Atacama, located 70 km NW of the volcano. The Buenos Aires VAAC also identified a short plume near the summit in satellite imagery which dispersed quickly. The Alert Level was lowered back to Green on 16 November 2015. Water-vapor rich emissions to 2,000 m were reported from November 2015 through June 2016, with no additional ash emissions observed.
Incandescence at the summit was observed in March and April 2014, and November 2015. The only SO2 anomaly occurred on 30 October 2015 during the ash-plume event. It was recorded by the OMI instrument via satellite at 49 kilotons. Otherwise SO2 levels at the volcano were within the normal range, with minor fluctuations.
Small thermal anomalies were intermittent prior to late October 2015, at which time the MIROVA data shows infrared (IR) signatures at the summit consistently, continuing through at least 16 June 2016 (figure 49), with the intensity and frequency slowly decreasing. No MODVOLC anomalies were recorded during this period.
Figure 49. Thermal anomaly (Log Radiative Power) data for Lascar volcano showing abrupt appearance of a low thermal anomaly on 30 October 2015 during a 2,500-m-high, ash-plume emission. The anomalies continue, decreasing slightly in both intensity and frequency. Note that the white line indicates the day (17 June 2016) this graph was last updated. Courtesy of MIROVA.
Information Contacts: Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (SERNAGEOMIN), Avda Sta María No. 0104, Santiago, Chile (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/volcanes.php); Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (OVDAS), Temuco (URL: http://www.sernageomin.cl/volcan-observatorio.php); Oficina Nacional de Emergencia Ministerio del Interior (ONEMI) (URL: http://www.onemi.cl/); Buenos Aires Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), Servicio Meteorológico Nacional-Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 25 de mayo 658, Buenos Aires, Argentina (URL: http://www.smn.gov.ar/vaac/buenosaires/productos.php); MIROVA, a collaborative project between the Universities of Turin and Florence (Italy) supported by the Centre for Volcanic Risk of the Italian Civil Protection Department (URL: http://www.mirovaweb.it/)
Laskar | Kar, Las | Illascar | Hlascar | Toconado | Toconao
Simba, Volcan Stratovolcano 5924 m 23° 22' 0" S 67° 41' 0" W
5592 m / 18346 ft
Dacite
Within 100 km 0
Láscar is the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes. The andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano contains six overlapping summit craters. Prominent lava flows descend its NW flanks. An older, higher stratovolcano 5 km E, Volcán Aguas Calientes, displays a well-developed summit crater and a probable Holocene lava flow near its summit (de Silva and Francis, 1991). Láscar consists of two major edifices; activity began at the eastern volcano and then shifted to the western cone. The largest eruption took place about 26,500 years ago, and following the eruption of the Tumbres scoria flow about 9000 years ago, activity shifted back to the eastern edifice, where three overlapping craters were formed. Frequent small-to-moderate explosive eruptions have been recorded since the mid-19th century, along with periodic larger eruptions that produced ashfall hundreds of kilometers away. The largest historical eruption took place in 1993, producing pyroclastic flows to 8.5 km NW of the summit and ashfall in Buenos Aires.
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de Silva S L, Francis P W, 1991. Volcanoes of the Central Andes. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 216 p.
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Gonzalez-Ferran O, 1995. Volcanes de Chile. Santiago: Instituto Geografico Militar, 635 p.
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Matthews S J, Jones A P, Gardeweg M C, 1994. Lascar volcano, northern Chile; evidence for steady-state disequilibrium. J Petr, 35: 401-432.
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Petit-Breuilh M E, 1994. Tabla resumen de la actividad eruptiva del Volcan Lascar. Serv Nac Geol Min Chile, unpublished rpt.
Sparks R S J, Gardeweg M C, Calder E S, Matthews S J, 1997. Erosion by pyroclastic flows of Lascar volcano, Chile. Bull Volcanol, 58: 557-565.
Wooster M J, Rothery D A, 1997. Thermal monitoring of Lascar volcano, Chile, using infrared data from the along-track scanning radiometer: a 1992-1995 time series. Bull Volcanol, 58: 566-579.
There is data available for 36 Holocene eruptive periods.
2015 Oct 30 2017 Apr 2 ± 1 days Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
2013 Apr 2 2013 Nov 20 Confirmed 1 Historical Observations
2006 Apr 18 2007 Jul 18 (?) Confirmed 3 Historical Observations
2005 May 4 2005 May 4 Confirmed 3 Historical Observations
[ 2003 Dec 9 ] [ 2003 Dec 9 ] Uncertain 1
2002 Oct 26 2002 Oct 27 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
[ 2001 May 17 (?) ] [ 2001 Jul 5 (?) ] Uncertain
2000 Jul 20 2001 Jan 18 (?) Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1994 Nov 13 1995 Jul 20 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1994 Jul 20 1994 Jul 26 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1993 Dec 17 1994 Feb 27 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1993 Jan 30 1993 Aug 16 ± 15 days Confirmed 4 Historical Observations Western crater of east summit cone
1991 Oct 21 1992 May 23 (?) Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1990 Nov 24 1990 Nov 24 Confirmed 1 Historical Observations
1987 Nov 16 (in or before) ± 15 days 1990 Apr 6 Confirmed 3 Historical Observations Western crater of east summit cone
1986 Sep 14 1986 Sep 16 Confirmed 3 Historical Observations Western crater of east summit cone
1984 Dec 16 ± 15 days 1985 Jul 16 ± 15 days Confirmed 0 Historical Observations Western crater of east summit cone
[ 1974 Jul 16 ± 15 days ] [ 1974 Sep 16 ± 15 days ] Uncertain 1
[ 1972 Jul 2 ± 182 days ] [ Unknown ] Uncertain 2
1969 May 16 Unknown Confirmed 1 Historical Observations
1959 Nov 16 ± 15 days 1968 Jan 31 (in or after) Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1954 Jun 16 ± 15 days 1954 Jul 16 ± 15 days Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1951 Nov 16 ± 15 days 1952 Feb 19 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations East summit crater
1940 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1933 Oct 9 1933 Dec Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1898 1900 (?) Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1883 1885 Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1858 Apr 1858 Dec Confirmed 2 Historical Observations
1854 Jan 20 1854 Jan 30 Confirmed 1 Historical Observations Lascar or Aguas Calientes
[ 1853 ] [ Unknown ] Uncertain 2
1848 Unknown Confirmed 2 Historical Observations Lascar or Agua Calientes
5150 BCE ± 1250 years Unknown Confirmed 0 Surface Exposure Eastern crater, Tumbres-Talabre lava flow
7250 BCE (?) Unknown Confirmed Radiocarbon (uncorrected) Lascar II (Tumbres scoria flow)
There is data available for 2 deformation periods. Expand each entry for additional details.
Deformation during 1995 Jul 08 - 1995 Sep 16 [Subsidence; Observed by InSAR]
Start Date: 1995 Jul 08 Stop Date: 1995 Sep 16 Direction: Subsidence Method: InSAR
Magnitude: 2.000 cm Spatial Extent: 1.00 km Latitude: -23.000 Longitude: -68.000
Remarks: co-eruptive with 1995 eruption
b) Observed interferogram orbits 20811?21813 (period 95/07/08?95/09/ 16, altitude of ambiguity: 85 m) computed with the photogrammetric/GPS DEM and correction from tropospheric effects. The phase delays are indicated in millimeters. This new processing enables to detect a small scale ground subsidence signal (up to 17 mm) located in the summit area within one of the collapse crater and centred on a major structural pattern (E?W fracture) parallel to the crater alignment (see Fig. 2).
From: Pavez et al. 2006.
Model Solutions
Model Solution Type Min Depth Max Depth Min Volume Change Max Volume Change Remarks Citation
Point 0 Pavez et al. 2006
Reference List: Pavez et al. 2006.
Full References:
Pavez, A., D. Remy, S. Bonvalat, M. Diament, G. Gabalda, J.-L. Froger, P. Julien, D. Legrand, and D. Moisset, 2006. Insight into ground deformations at Lascar volcano (Chile) from SAR interferometry, photogrammetry and GPS data: Implications on volcano dynamics and future space monitoring. Remote Sensing of Environment, 100: 307-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2005.10.013
Deformation during 1993 Apr 20 - 2009 Apr 26 [Subsidence; Observed by InSAR]
Start Date: 1993 Apr 20 Stop Date: 2009 Apr 26 Direction: Subsidence Method: InSAR
Magnitude: 12.000 cm Spatial Extent: 1.00 km Latitude: -23.000 Longitude: -68.000
Remarks: subsidence of 1993 pyroclastic flow deposit, enhanced by large regional earthquakes (1995 Antofagasta and 2007 Tocopilla earthquakes)
Google Earth image overlaid with the 12 August 1995 to 19 May 1996 interferogram showing Lascar Volcano and at least four regions of pyroclastic flow deposit deformation. Blue shades represent negative deformation (subsidence) and purple represents no deformation. Gray regions were too noisy to be analyzed and regions of horizontal multi- colored streaking are areas of interpolated data because of layover in the radar image. The box encompasses the approximate area represented in the images in Online Resources 2 and 3
From: Whelley et al. 2012.
Reference List: Whelley et al. 2012.
Whelley, P., J. Jay, E. S. Calder, M. E. Pritchard, N. J. Cassidy, S. Alcaraz and A. Pavez, 2012. Post-depositional fracturing and subsidence of pumice flow deposits: Lascar volcano, Chile. Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, p. 511-513.
There is data available for 3 emission periods. Expand each entry for additional details.
Emissions during 2006 Apr 18 - 2006 Apr 18 [2 kt SO2 at 8 km altitude]
Start Date: 2006 Apr 18 Stop Date: 2006 Apr 18 Method: Satellite (Aura OMI)
SO2 Altitude Min: 8 km SO2 Altitude Max: 8 km Total SO2 Mass: 2 kt
Data Details
Date Start Date End Assumed SO2 Altitude SO2 Algorithm SO2 Mass
20060418 8.0 2.000
Emissions during 2005 May 04 - 2005 May 04 [3 kt SO2 at 10 km altitude]
Start Date: 2005 May 04 Stop Date: 2005 May 04 Method: Satellite (Aura OMI)
SO2 Altitude Min: 10 km SO2 Altitude Max: 10 km Total SO2 Mass: 3 kt
20050504 10.0 3.000
Emissions during 1993 Apr 19 - 1993 Apr 19 [450 kt SO2 at 16 km altitude]
Start Date: 1993 Apr 19 Stop Date: 1993 Apr 19 Method: Satellite (Nimbus-7 TOMS)
SO2 Altitude Min: 16 km SO2 Altitude Max: 16 km Total SO2 Mass: 450 kt
19930419 16.0 450.000
A vertical aerial photograph shows a growing lava dome in the summit of Láscar volcano on March 20, 1992. Three of six summit craters located along an E-W trend are seen in this photo, with north to the top. The lava dome (the dark steaming mass at left center) was first seen on March 4, but may have formed earlier following phreatic explosive eruptions in October 1991. Eruption plumes were visible beginning in late March. Ashfall occurred on May 15 and night glow visible May 21-23 marked the last reported activity of the 1991-92 eruption.
Photo by Moyra Gardeweg, 1992 (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Chile).
Volcán Láscar (right) is the most active volcano of the northern Chilean Andes. A steam plume rises in 1986 from one of six overlapping summit craters capping the andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano, which is seen here from Toconao to the NW. Volcán Aguas Calientes (left center), an older, higher stratovolcano 5 km to the east, displays a well-developed summit crater and a probable Holocene lava flow near its summit. Frequent explosive eruptions have been recorded from Láscar since the mid-19th century.
Photo by Paul King, MINSAL Corporation, 1986 (courtesy of Peter Francis, Open University).
A brownish, ash-laden plume rises a few hundred m above Láscar volcano at about 1430 hrs on September 14, 1986. The plume, seen here from Toconao, 33 km NW, preceded much larger explosions on September 16. The saddle between Láscar and Aguas Calientes volcano is at the far left.
The onset of a brief explosive eruption from Láscar volcano is seen here at about 1430 hrs on September 14, 1986, from Toconao, 33 km NW. The September 14 eruption produced ash clouds that rose a few hundred m above the vent for about a half hour. Similar activity on the 15th was followed by a brief, but powerful explosion on the 16th that deposited ash in Salta, Argentina, 350 km to the SE. Conical Volcán Aguas Calientes rises to the left of the plume.
Following minor eruptions on September 14 and 15, 1986, a strong explosive eruption from Láscar volcano on September 16 deposited ash 350 km away at Salta, Argentina. The eruption cloud, seen here at about 7:30 a.m. from Toconao, 33 km to the NW, rose to 15 km altitude (about 9 km above the vent), producing an ash column that dispersed to the SE. The plume was traced on satellite imagery to about 400 km downwind and covered an area of more than 112,000 sq km. The brief eruption ended on the 16th.
Colachi (left) is an andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano whose most recent activity produced pristine silicic lava flows of probable Holocene age. The largest of these covers a 7 sq km area on the saddle between Colachi and the neighboring volcano of Acamarachi (center horizon). This aerial view from the west also shows the conical peak of Aguas Calientes (far right), a twin volcano of Lascar volcano, whose slopes appear at the lower right. The Talabre valley in the center foreground is partially filled by an andesitic lava flow from Lascar.
Photo by Insitituto Geográfico Militar, courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).
A pyroclastic flow descends the quebrada of Tumbre, north of Lascar at 0930 hours on April 20, 1993. A plinian eruption April 18-20 was the largest from Láscar in historical time. Pyroclastic flows containing white pumice, dark scoria, compositionally banded pumice, and dense blocks from the summit lava dome traveled as far as 8.5 km down the NW, NE, and SE flanks.
Photo by Ricardo de la Peña, 1993 (courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán, University of Chile).
The lava flow with prominent lateral levees extending from the far left (eastern) side of the summit crater of Láscar is the Tumbres-Talabre lava flow. This flow was erupted about 7100 years ago and descended 8 km down the NW flank of the volcano. The distal part of the lava flow is overlain by light-colored pyroclastic-flow deposits in the foreground that originated during an eruption on April 19, 1993. Another steep-sided viscous lava flow with pronounced lateral levees is visible in the center of the photo.
Photo by Carlos Felipe Ramírez, 1993 (courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán, University of Chile).
A strong plume of steam and sulfurous gases rises above the crater of Láscar volcano prior to the 1986 eruption. Thermal anomalies detected on Thematic Mapper satellite images between December 1984 and July 1985 may have originated from a lava lake or lava dome in the summit crater, although there were no direct observations prior to the 1986 eruption. Aguas Calientes volcano appears on the left horizon in this view from the NW.
Photo by Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).
A powerful explosive eruption from Láscar volcano in northern Chile on April 19, 1993 produced an eruption column that rose to a maximum of 17 km altitude (12 km above the vent). The violent explosion of the dome inside the active crater of Láscar generated pyroclastic flows down the NE side that reached the Bofeladas de Tumbre. Plinian explosions on April 18-20 followed phreatomagmatic eruptions that began on January 30. Small explosions continued until May 8, and another eruption occurred on an unknown day in August.
A vertical aerial view into the summit crater of Láscar shows a dark-colored dacitic lava dome that was extruded inside the active crater between February and December 1989. Ash eruptions had begun earlier in late 1987 and had continued in 1988. The active lava dome was observed in February and April 1989, and the dome was observed to be deflated in October 1989. An explosive eruption on February 20, 1990 destroyed 10-30% of the summit crater lava dome and produced an 8-km-high ash cloud.
Photo by Servicio Aerofotogramétrico de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile, 1989 (courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán, Univ Chile).
Major explosions April 19-20, 1993 produced eruption plumes that rose to 15 to 25 km altitude (10-15 km above the summit crater). The eruption was accompanied by pyroclastic flows that traveled as far as 8.5 km to the NW, NE, and SE. Ashfall occurred over large areas as far away as Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina (including Buenos Aires, 1500 km to the SE). The eruption was the largest in historical time at Láscar, ejecting more than 0.1 cu km of tephra.
This impact crater, 6 m wide and 1.5 m deep was produced by ejection of a 1.5 cu m ballistic block that traveled 5 km from the summit crater of Láscar (out of view to the right). An explosive eruption on February 20, 1990 destroyed 10-30% of the summit crater lava dome that had been emplaced in 1989 and produced an 18-km-high ash cloud. Aguas Calientes volcano rises on the horizon.
Photo by Oscar González-Ferrán, 1990 (University of Chile).
An ash plume rises above Láscar volcano on October 27, 2002, as seen from Pozo Tres, 60 km to the NW. Minor ash eruptions had been observed on 3 occasions at five-minute intervals on October 26, producing plumes that rose about 300 m above the summit crater. On the 27th two explosions were observed; the plume from the 2nd explosion reached at least 1.5 km above the crater.
Photo by Jose Viramonte (Universidad Nacional de Salta, published in Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network), 2002.
Multiple craters truncate the summit of Láscar volcano (left of center), and prominent lava flow levees are visible on its western flank. To the east is the symmetrical cone of Láscar's higher twin volcano, Aguas Caliente (right of center), with its smaller circular summit crater that contains a shallow lake. The most recent activity at this E-W-trending volcanic chain originated from Láscar volcano and continued into historical time.
NASA Landsat image, 1999 (courtesy of Hawaii Synergy Project, Univ. of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology).
An eruption plume rises above Lascar on 18 April 2006 as photographed from El Abra copper mine, 220 km NW. The plume rose a maximum height of about 10 km. Intermittent ash eruptions continued until July 2007.
Image courtesy of employees at the El Abra copper mine, 2006.
Title: Volcanes Activos de Chile
Publisher: IGM Instituto Geografico Militar- Chile
Title: Calama
Publisher: Instituto Geografico Militar- Chile
Title: Toconao
Title: Mapa de Los Fondos Marinos
Country: Chile/ S AM
Series: Col. Geog. de Chile
Map Type: Geology (Tectonic)
Publisher: Servicio Nacional de Geologia & Mineria
Title: Mapa de Suelos/ Map of Soils
Title: Mapa Hidrografico
Title: Chile Regional-Provincial
Title: Mapa Fitogeografico
Title: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru
Country: S America
Map Type: Navigation
Title: Toconao (Antofagasta)
The following 25 samples associated with this volcano can be found in the Smithsonian's NMNH Department of Mineral Sciences collections, and may be availble for research (contact the Rock and Ore Collections Manager). Catalog number links will open a window with more information.
Sample Description
Lava Source
NMNH 116877-1 Andesite -- --
NMNH 116877-10 Andesite Pumice -- --
NMNH 116877-11 Andesite -- --
NMNH 116877-12 Pumice -- --
NMNH 116877-3 Dacite -- --
NMNH 116877-4 Dacitic Pumice -- --
NMNH 117577-10 Pyroxene-Hornblende Dacite -- --
NMNH 117577-13 Pyroxenitic Pumice -- --
NMNH 117577-4 Andesite Pumice -- --
NMNH 117577-5 Olivine Basalt Andesite -- --
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IRIS seismic stations/networks Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Data Services map showing the location of seismic stations from all available networks (permanent or temporary) within a radius of 0.18° (about 20 km at mid-latitudes) from the given location of Láscar. Users can customize a variety of filters and options in the left panel. Note that if there are no stations are known the map will default to show the entire world with a "No data matched request" error notice.
UNAVCO GPS/GNSS stations Geodetic Data Services map from UNAVCO showing the location of GPS/GNSS stations from all available networks (permanent or temporary) within a radius of 20 km from the given location of Láscar. Users can customize the data search based on station or network names, location, and time window. Requires Adobe Flash Player.
Large Eruptions of Láscar Information about large Quaternary eruptions (VEI >= 4) is cataloged in the Large Magnitude Explosive Volcanic Eruptions (LaMEVE) database of the Volcano Global Risk Identification and Analysis Project (VOGRIPA).
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We are members of the following associations
AFSR
Swiss-French Hydrant Technicians' Association
The Association is set up to represent hydrant technicians and promote their work amongst the general public and the authorities.
The Association is also designed to foster knowledge sharing between Hydrant Technicians and professionals working in the drinking water industry, or any other subject of common interest, relating to technical, organisational, operational or financial aspects.
The Association also works to promote ongoing training (theory and practice) amongst its members and to raise their profile as professionals in the drinking water industry.
More info: www.fontainiers.ch
AVDE / VWVW
Valais Water Service Providers' Association (AVDE) / Canton of Valais Water Supply Association (VWVW)
Activities: Strengthening contacts and links between the water distributors in the Canton of Valais; helping the municipalities and those in charge of drinking water distribution to find solutions to common problems; raising awareness and defending the interests of water distributors in the Canton of Valais amongst our umbrella organisations and the general public; informing the public of their rights to high-quality drinking water and their obligations in terms of protecting this valuable resource.
Association for the Economy of Berlin and Brandenburg
The AWB (Association for the Economy of Berlin and Brandenburg) represents the economic policy positions and goals of more than 400 members to the government, the media and civil society, while also helping them to compete in the global market. To our members, we are a centre of excellence and a network for shaping working conditions and economic climate. We believe that collaboration should always be fair and based on mutual trust.
More info: www.allgemeiner-verband.de
European Committee for Standardization
CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, is an association that brings together the National Standardization Bodies of 34 European countries. CEN is one of three European Standardization Organizations (together with CENELEC and ETSI) that have been officially recognized by the European Union and by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as being responsible for developing and defining voluntary standards at European level.
More info: www.cen.eu
Swiss Centre for Rationalisation and Construction
The CRB (Swiss Centre for Rationalisation and Construction) was founded in 1959 to provide services for all specialists working in the construction sector, thereby facilitating dealings between building contractors, planners, businesses and suppliers – across cantonal borders and in three languages. As part of a network comprising customers, associations, production partners, sales partners and public authorities, the CRB develops and markets work equipment for streamlining administration and improving communication in the construction industry. The existing and newly developed CRB standards are available together with the latest technological developments.
More info: www.crb.ch
Swiss-French Water Distributors
The association fosters connections between its members and helps them promote their activities. To broaden professional horizons, create links and promote knowledge sharing, the association is committed to:
Developing the professional network:
Targeting information
Increasing visibility
Building bridges for communication:
Ensuring national representation
More info: www.eaux.ch
DVGW
German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water
DVGW – Innovation and setting standards in the gas and water sectors
In Germany “DVGW – German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water" is the competence network for all questions related to gas and water supply.
More info: www.dvgw.de
FGR / EADIPS
Fachgemeinschaft Guss-Rohrsysteme
The Fachgemeinschaft Guss-Rohrsysteme (FGR®) e. V./European Association for Ductile Iron Pipe Systems (EADIPS®) is a technical scientific association of European companies that produce pipes, fittings and valves in ductile cast iron.
More info: www.eadips.org
FIGAWA
Companies in the gas and water sector
Figawa's objectives and the work it carries out are designed to bring tangible benefits to its members. The association helps its members by:
Helping to introduce appropriate standards and regulations
Collaborating in the certification of companies and products by the DVGW (German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water)
Organising training schemes and professional development courses
Providing a discussion platform for addressing technical and scientific issues
Gathering and preparing information from the world of science and technology, as well as from real-life usage in the field
Helping to improve the technology employed in the apparatus and equipment needed to generate, recover, prepare, transport, distribute and use gas and water
Advocating and promoting technical, technological and scientific work in the gas and water industry
Promoting future-proof, cost-effective, eco-friendly energy supply using natural gas – from the source to the customer.
More info: www.figawa.org
Drainage Technology Quality Association
The GET (Gütegemeinschaft Entwässerungstechnik – Drainage Technology Quality Association) is a centre of excellence and information/coordination centre for drainage technology. To protect the environment and bodies of water, the GET promotes, defines and monitors high quality standards and comprehensive quality assurance. In particular, the GET formulates proposals for international, European and national standards.
The GET awards the RAL quality marks RAL-GZ 692 "Sewer Casting", RAL-GZ 693 "Separator Systems" and RAL-GZ 694 "Building Drainage" for drainage technology products and – in cooperation with the Property Drainage Quality Association – RAL-GZ 968 for separator system services. Drainage technology products and services with the RAL quality mark exhibit an exceptionally high level of quality that has been tested and is verifiable.
Products that are safe, durable, high quality and environmentally friendly protect not only the environment but users and operators as well. RAL quality marks help planners, authorities, users and building contractors to make the right purchasing decisions quickly and to carry out work safely and reliably.
The GET's members are leading drainage technology solution manufacturers, professional associations, testing institutes and other recognised experts.
More info: www.get-guete.de
Gazier Romands
Gaziers Romands is an association that acts in the interests of Swiss natural gas/biogas suppliers in terms of industrial policy and energy policy.
More info: www.gas-naturale.ch
GSK Quality Assurance Association
The GSK Quality Assurance Association for Heavy-Duty Corrosion Protection of Valves and Fittings with Powder Coating (GSK e.V.) is the international industry network for businesses that coat valves and fittings with epoxy powder. GSK awards the RAL-GZ 662 Quality Mark (Gütezeichen) to companies who fulfil the strenuous quality-assurance requirements in accordance with the current Quality and Inspection Regulations.
More info: www.gsk-online.de
HWK Cologne
Cologne Chamber of Crafts
We are the regional network for skilled trades in the Cologne/Bonn Region. We are sustained by the voluntary efforts of 400 entrepreneurs and employee representatives in general assemblies, executive committees, governing bodies, boards and working groups. We – the 200+ employees in the trade corporation – champion the interests of skilled tradespeople in the region.
More info: www.hwk-koeln.de
HWK Reutlingen
Chamber of Crafts Reutlingen
The Handwerkskammer Reutlingen is a self-regulating regional organisation for skilled trades. It aims to be a modern service centre for trade and sees itself as an institution that safeguards the interests of its member companies and those who work in trade, pooling them together and representing them in the public arena.
More info: www.hwk-reutlingen.de
IHK Ostbrandenburg
East Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Because of its very close links to business, the IHK Ostbrandenburg (East Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce) undertakes numerous activities in place of public authorities. The self-regulatory body of the business community focuses more effectively, more favourably and more specifically on the issues that affect the local economy. The IHK does more than just advance the interests of individual sectors – it promotes the economic development of the entire region. It also supervises investment subsidies, assesses economic trends and helps shape legislation proposals.
More info: www.ihk-ostbrandenburg.de
ÖVGW
Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Industry
Since the 19th century, the Austrian Association for the Gas and Water Industry has supported the goal of state-of-the-art supply. It represents the interests of its members from both sectors and ensures consistent, recognised guidelines with its regulations. It develops training courses according to the latest findings and awards certificates and the ÖVGW quality mark to products, persons and companies for special quality.
More info: www.ovgw.at
Swiss Association of Well-Sinkers
The SBV (Swiss Association of Well-Sinkers) was founded in 1949 for the technical personnel employed by water suppliers.
Its primary purpose is to provide professional training for well-sinkers, technical personnel employed by water suppliers, and the owners and employees of companies that operate and maintain a water supply.
More info: www.brunnenmeister.ch
Swiss Society for Corrosion Protection
The Swiss Society for Corrosion Protection supports customers and members in all issues of corrosion protection to achieve maximum expected useful life. Corrosion is a major factor that limits the durability of materials, facilities and systems. The main strength of the SGK is the experience of the internationally recognized interdisciplinary team. This allows the competent and efficient execution of measurement, planning, research and development in all areas of corrosion protection.
More info: www.sgk.ch
The Swiss Association for Standardization
We are the Swiss representative of global and European standardization and act for the benefit of the economy and society in Switzerland. Here at the SNV, we act as a bridge between standardization experts and the users of the standards.
More Info: www.snv.ch
suissetec
The Building Services Association of Switzerland and Liechtenstein
The Building Services Association of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (suissetec) is an industry body and employers' association. It represents manufacturers, suppliers, planners and various other parties involved in every stage of the value chain and serves the interests of the following sectors:
Plumbing | Building envelope
Ventilation | Climate control | Refrigeration
Sanitation | Water | Gas (including supply lines)
More info: www.suissetec.ch
The Swiss Association for Gas and Water
The SVGW is the technical and network organisation of the Swiss gas and water supply industry, and makes a decisive contribution to the problem-free and sustainable supply of natural gas and drinking water. For 140 years, the SVGW has represented the interests of its gas and water suppliers, and provided future-oriented solutions for the shared problems of its member companies.
More info: www.svgw.ch
Trade association Oensingen
The association aims to promote the ideological, economic and professional policy interests of self-employed individuals and companies working in trade, commerce, services and industry. It acts as a mediator and intermediary, protecting the interests of its members against private, municipal and cantonal authorities and administrations. Further goals of the association are:
Developing and promoting Oensingen as an attractive shopping destination, place to live and services hub
Contacting, collaborating with, representing and being actively involved in authorities, associations and institutions with similar goals.
More info: www.gewerbevereinoensingen.ch
Swiss Water Association
The association was established in 1944. It represents the aggregation of the Swiss professionals for water protection. VSA offers professional training programs, defines the standards for security and quality and informs about water pollution control.
More info: www.vsa.ch
Association of Technical Staff in Swiss Gas and Water Suppliers
The VTA (Association of Technical Staff in Swiss Gas and Water Suppliers) is a supporting, independent organisation in the gas and water industry. It has its own statutes as defined in the Swiss Civil Code, is politically neutral and promotes close collaboration between public enterprises and private companies. The independence of gas and water suppliers in the association is not affected by being a member.
The association promotes and implements new techniques and technologies, offering active professional training for specialists both independently and together with other professional associations.
More info: www.vta.ch
Prenzlau Economic Forum
The WFP (Prenzlau Economic Forum) brings together industrial and commercial companies in the Prenzlau region.
It pursues the following objectives under the motto "Growth through our own strength":
Developing and safeguarding skilled workers
Strengthening the economic power of the Uckermark district of north-east Brandenburg
Firmly establishing the Uckermark district as a business-friendly location
Collaborating with universities
Future-proofing the Uckermark district
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Women's Rowing
Observing Practice
Shorewomen's First Varsity Eight Takes Second at Murphy Cup
Second Varsity Eight Places Sixth
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The 12th-ranked Washington College women's rowing team had their first and second varsity eights compete in the Division II/III Varsity Eight at the Murphy Cup today on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The Shorewomen's first varsity eight finished second in the event, while the second varsity eight took sixth.
Murphy Cup
- The Shorewomen's first and second varsity eights both raced in the same heat, which the first varsity eight won in 7:12.53. Rochester was second in 7:32.15, while the Shorewomen's second varsity eight was third in 7:40.67.
- In the final, Division II Jefferson crossed the finish line first in 7:54.44. The Shorewomen's first varsity eight was second in 8:05.87, while their second varsity eight was sixth in 8:54.01. Bryn Mawr was third in 8:13.64, second-ranked Wesleyan's second varsity fourth in 8:22.65, and Rochester fifth in 8:25.56.
Shorewomen Boat Lineups
First Varsity Eight: Olivia Robb (coxswain), Jules Shipps (stroke), Erika Reynolds (seven), Gabrielle Francis (six), Kerri Walsh (five), Kelin McCloskey (four), Breanna Lanphear (three), Karis Marano (two), Leslie Collins (bow)
Second Varsity Eight: Emily Booth (coxswain), Brenna Kacar (stroke), Agnes Anderson (seven), Lexi Hegeman (six), Emma Dodsworth (five), Talia Seidman (four), Emma Hogan (three), Emily Van Driel (two), Annie Krysztofiak (bow)
Up Next for the Shorewomen
4/7 @ La Salle, with Bryn Mawr (Philadelphia, Pa)
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January 25, 2018 ·3 min read
Every writer knows that it is the unexpected threads that one pulls upon that usually unravel the most interesting stories. And so it is with 26’s Armistice Project.
Two years ago, I left a communications career at BP to fulfil a long-held ambition to become a freelance writer. Little did I know that this decision would lead me to 26 and founding member John Simmons. John was kind enough to give me time and advice on this new stage in my life and we soon discovered a mutual interest in the Spanish Civil War. So, when I learned that John’s second novel Spanish Crossings was being published around the same time that Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting Guernica turned 80, I knew exactly who I wanted to interview for a piece on the painting. The feature also included an interview with the curator of an exhibition on protest art at Imperial War Museum, London. This one small article, written out of a teenage passion for a piece of art, was my unexpected thread.
Nine months later, I am thrilled to be leading on what I am told is 26’s most ambitious project to date. Working with the First World War Centenary Partnership, led by Imperial War Museums, Armistice is looking to bring together 100 writers to help us create a new form: the centena.
Exactly 100 words long, with the first three words repeated as the piece’s conclusion, each centena will focus on an individual who was alive between 28 July 1914 (when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia) and 11 November 1918 (Armistice Day) and reflect the myriad ways in which the ‘war to end all wars’ affected their lives. While the individual will be a real person, each centena will inevitably explore the borderlines between fact and fiction. Our goal is to represent every part of society in the UK and internationally and create a unique meditation on war and peace from as many different points of views as possible.
To help, the First World War Centenary Partnership is giving our writers the opportunity to access archives and archivists at museums and other institutions up and down the UK and around the world, with whom they have links. Our hope is that this access will help our writers discover their own unexpected threads.
Each time we have met with the Partnership team to discuss the project, they have shared remarkable stories, from the first black American soldiers to introduce the Brits to jazz, to the incredible women who recognised that future generations would need help understanding this war and therefore gathered together objects, letters and memories that would become the IWM’s incredible Women’s Work collection.
Speaking about their work, Katie Childs, Head of Partnerships and Stakeholder Relations, IWM: says: “IWM set up the First World War Centenary Partnership to bring together organisations who, in whatever way they wished, wanted to mark the centenary of the First World War. We hoped to get 100 members, and we now have almost 4,000 – ranging from museums, libraries and archives to community groups, charities and history societies. Since 2014, we have worked together to tell the stories – some already well-known but most not – of the men and women who lived through the First World War.
“We are delighted to work in partnership with 26 to bring a unique and creative approach to marking the last 100 days of the First World War. To create 100 poems of 100 words, by 100 poets about 100 people, with 100 collections and released over each of the last 100 days, is a fittingly ambitious way to mark the close of commemorations and celebrate the dedication and ingenuity of 26 and the members of the First World War Centenary Partnership.”
We are thrilled to see that 26 members feel the same way – all 100 26 Armistice Project places were filled within 48 hours of sending out the invite. If you missed out, we have started a reserve list in case anyone drops out.
Some of our writers will already have individuals in mind – family members most likely – that they would like to write about, but I’m particularly excited by the prospect of the surprises, rabbit holes and detours that make research and writing such a joy. These archives are no doubt full of people, objects, letters, and events just waiting for us to find them. For that reason, we will also be creating a Facebook event page – open to all 26 members to view – so that we can share these discoveries along the way.
I can’t wait to see what our wonderful writers come up with.
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Tom Cruise Gives ‘The Mummy’ The 'Mission: Impossible’ Treatment With Mixed Results
The Dark Universe franchise is off to a rocky start. (Love the sets, though.)
By Douglas Tseng
Updated 13 Jun 2017 09:45
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The Mummy (PG13)
Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis
Directed by Alex Kurtzman
Tom Cruise stars as Nick Morton, a mercenary-cum-tomb raider who mistakenly wakes up a cursed Egyptian princess (Sofia Boutella) from her centuries-old slumber/captivity. You know what happens next: Lots of screaming, running and exploding public property that require tons of paint job and a crap load of screen doors.
This creature feature — a remake of the 1932 horror classic starring Boris Karloff — is some kind of a monster, Frankenstein’s Monster to be precise — an oversized ogre put together in a lab with body parts from other corpses. Sadly, what becomes of this unholy marriage of alchemy and biology is uneven, unwieldy and inarticulate.
As an action flick, The Mummy plays like a lesser Mission: Impossible sequel set in the supernatural realm, where Morton can easily be passed off as indomitable super-spy Ethan Hunt (maybe Morton is an undercover alias used by Hunt?). In fact, the highly-publicised Zero-G plane crash scene feels like a continuation of that hanging-onto-an-Airbus-400 stunt in Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation. What’s missing is the iconic ‘Mission Impossible’ theme to get the adrenaline pumping. (Hey, geeks, that’s your YouTube project for the week — recut that sequence.)
As a horror yarn, however, it isn‘t very scary. At least, I don’t remember being scared. As the titular villain, Boutella, who was such a delightful albeit diabolical presence in Kingsman: The Secret Service, is a little underwhelming: She comes across like a souped-up cosplayer lost in a theme park, and I say with that affection, because the mind-boggling sets truly deserved to be made into amusement park attractions.
Elsewhere, the lovely Annabelle Wallis has the thankless role of the nondescript love interest (involved in a backstory that feels like an after-thought), while Russell Crowe’s Dr Henry Jekyll looks like the host of a late-night paranormal talk show (I’ll watch that!).
Thank goodness there’s New Girl’s Jake Johnson, showing up once in a while to supply much-needed moments of levity as Morton’s grumbling sidekick. As far as gleeful escapist fun is concerned, this Mummy doesn’t come anywhere close to the 1999 reboot with Brendan Fraser.
In the end, you’d admire parts of The Mummy, but not all of it; it's neither terrific nor terrible, more of a CV filler than a thriller for the Cruiser. But as the first chapter of the Dark Universe franchise — a series of interconnected movies featuring other Universal Monsters — it’s a stumbling start. The next one — Bill Condon’s Bride of Frankenstein (due 2019), with Javier Bardem — has a lot of slack to pick up. (**1/2)
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The IS-7 is the culmination of decades of heavy tank development by the USSR, combining distinctive features of previous iterations of the IS series with more modern technology like an assisted loader. The IS-7 is the ultimate 'super heavy tank', rivalling the Maus and E-100 in pure survivability, with a massive 130mm naval gun. Nigh impenetrable from the front, even with all but the highest penetration HEAT rounds and ATGMs, this behemoth is more than capable of standing its ground at 8.3 when played correctly.
As with previous IS tanks, the IS-7 should be played at close to medium ranges, as the monstrous short-range power of the gun falls off with range. Unlike previous models, the IS-7 has far fewer issues with flankers, as the majority of its side armour is leagues ahead of what the earlier machines had. The frontal armour is impossible for almost any kinetic round to penetrate, and with very few weak spots it can be frustrating to deal with. The weapon has a fantastic assisted loader, allowing the 130 mm rounds to be loaded in as little as 10 seconds. This newly upsized C-70 cannon (exclusive to the IS-7) only has APCBC and HE rounds, but with 35 mm additional penetration on the BR-482B over the top-tier ammunition from the previous D-25T gun (taking it to a total of 265 mm at 10 meters), an experienced IS driver will be able to deal with the vast majority of enemy vehicles they come up against.
The IS-7's extremely thick and well-sloped armour means that the player can comfortably engage multiple threats at once without fear of being penetrated through the sides of his/her turret. With a heightened awareness and a good sense of targeting priority, a well-rounded IS-7 player can swiftly clear out entire enemy squads with ease.
Combat SPAA: This may sound absurd, but IS-7 can easily be doomed by SPAA. SPAA can easily use some cover to attack it's exposed track with cannons, making moving IS-7 topple over, then destroy second track, to immobilize it. Even if IS-7 fires back at it, APHE is going to over penetrate, if it's armour is less than 15mm. After that, someone can be called in to make a clean side shot (about 170 mm penetration required for sides). In case if SPAA is combat-capable and has APDS shells with 110 mm of penetration, it can try to get behind the turret, while breaking every MG with autocannons, to execute it personally. If IS-7 is aware of your intentions and keeps tracking SPAA with the turret, just set the vehicle on fire by damaging the engine, the foe will have to extinguish the fire eventually or face consequences.
Shots to the back of the turret will set off the ammo rack located there, this is the first rack of shells which are loaded into the cannon
Lack of stabiliser can be an issue in up-tier situations with vehicles who can accurately drive and shoot
The development of this advanced Soviet heavy tank began in early 1945. Several outstanding scientific groups got involved with the work at once, and the new vehicle was supposed to combine all the latest developments and a great deal of military experience in the design of heavy tanks. After creating several prototypes and experimenting with the engine, armament, and suspension, a steel giant was born and christened Object 260, with the letter designation IS-7. Weighing 68 tons, the heavy tank was equipped with a naval diesel engine that took the monster up to a fantastic 60 km/h. The tank was armed with a powerful 130 mm rifled cannon with mechanized first-order ammo racks and an amazing eight machine guns: two high-calibre 14.5 mm KPVs (one twinned with the cannon and the other an anti-air gun) and six 7.62 mm RP-46 machine guns The armour of the IS-7 is its main feature with high protection value, along with a range of advanced technological solutions, some of which were successfully used on more modern tanks.
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Home > 2019 > 07/01 > Lots of high picks on defense: lessons from past teams who went all-in on the blueline
Lots of high picks on defense: lessons from past teams who went all-in on the blueline
July 1, 2019, 9:09 AM | Alex Drain
If you’re a Detroit Red Wings fan, you’ve probably noticed that over the last four drafts, the Wings have invested in their defense. A lot. It’s a logical move given that the blueliners on the current teams have been… rough, as well as the fact that the decay of the defensemen was one of the most prominent factors that led to the end of the playoff streak (more on that later). But still, what Detroit has done is dramatic and bold: over four drafts they’ve used two first rounders and five second rounders on defensemen, resulting in Dennis Cholowski, Filip Hronek, Gustav Lindstrom, Jared McIsaac, Moritz Seider, Antti Tuomisto, and Albert Johansson.
That run on defenders got me wondering, just how often do NHL teams use that much draft capital on defense? And what are the results of when it happens?
How often it happens
Evidently not that often. I went back to 1990 and found just 8 times in the past three decades that a team has spent 6+ 1st/2nd rounders on a defenseman in a four draft span. Just once prior to this run from the Red Wings had any team spent 7 1st/2nd rounders on a defenseman in a four draft span in the preceding three decades of NHL history. What the Red Wings are undertaking is a historic draft investment in defense. Even instances where teams spent 5 1st/2nd rounders in a four draft span on defense is pretty rare.
While I was a bit surprised at first, it is rather intuitive. After all, given that every team initially gets one second and one first rounder per draft, the average team should only have 8 first/second rounders to begin with and using 7 of those 8 on one position is quite risky. Then you have to consider that many teams don’t have all 8, with most teams that are in “win now” mode having far fewer than that. This leaves a small group of teams that would have enough high picks to feel comfortable spending that many on defense, and from which only a few actually go through with picking that many defenders.
With all that said, here is the result:
Team Years How many picks used?
Washington 2004-2007 7
Tampa 2014-2017 6
Pittsburgh 2009-2012 6
Detroit 1993-1996 6
Dallas 2002-2005 6
Boston 2013-2016 6
Chicago 2016-2019 6
Interestingly, as the table shows, it’s becoming slightly more common, with Chicago embarking on a similar, albeit not quite extensive, defensive crusade as the Red Wings over the same draft span (6 picks instead of Detroit’s 7). There’s also a trend in that teams often concentrate their defensive selections, in that Washington, for example, had two separate but overlapping spans of 7 in 4 years, as well as another overlapping span of 6 in 4 years. If you take the threshold down to 5 picks in 4 years, then you get lots of overlapping spans, some of which I will expand on below.
What are the results when you go all-in on defense?
This is perhaps the most pertinent section for Red Wings fans. It’s first important to remember that not all first and second round picks are created equal. A top 10 pick comes with much higher value than pick #25, and the same is true for #35 as opposed to #55. Thus, comparing two teams who both spent 6 first/second rounders in four years on defense can sometimes be comparing apples to oranges if there was a big disparity in pick values. With that said, the results I found largely manifested themselves into three trends: 1.) not getting much of anything out of it, 2.) getting a star or two and a few busts, or 3.) getting a bunch of solid players.
Let’s first examine category #1, where you largely don’t get much from it, which is by far the most grim projection for Red Wings fans. The best example of this is probably Pittsburgh from 2009-2012, who selected Simon Despres, Philip Samuelsson, Joseph Morrow, Scott Harrington, Derrick Pouliout, and Olli Maata, or six players in four drafts. Out of that, they got Maata, who was a solid second pairing guy they just dealt to Chicago, Despres, who played just short of 200 games and then washed out of the league, and Pouliout, who never produced much and was dealt to Vancouver where he has struggled to be more than a third pairing guy. Philip Samuelsson only played 13 games in the league while Morrow and Harrington are both still around, albeit on other teams as third pairing guys. Pittsburgh got not a single first pairing guy out of that and not a single guy still on their roster 10 years later, now that Maata is gone. Oh and four of those six were first round picks, too. Not great.
Then there’s category #2, where a team gets a star defender and a few busts, best exemplified by Washington’s slew of defensemen drafted in the mid-2000s. Over six drafts, the Caps selected 10 defensemen with first/second round picks, and again you can draw up any particular span that you want from this (2004 to 2007 or 2006-2009). In that time frame, the Capitals netted two players who were Norris-caliber guys in their primes, Mike Green in 2004 and John Carlson in 2008. There were a lot of busts in between though, including Sasha Pokulok, Josh Godfrey, Theo Ruth, Keith Seabrook and Eric Mestery, all of whom never played a game in the NHL. In between the busts and stars, there were a few in between, like Dmitry Orlov in 2009, who has been a reliable defender on Washington’s teams, as well as Karl Alzner, who has played close to 700 games in the NHL. The Chicago Blackhawks took 5 defensemen with first/second rounders between 2002 and 2004, and it also followed a similar pattern, with big busts (Cam Barker) but also two massive successes (Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith). This is the all or nothing group: some big hits and some big misses, with not a ton in between.
Finally, we have the third group, which is when you get a lot of solid players. None that become stars, but also no real busts. This might best be exemplified by Anaheim, who spent five first/second rounders on defenders from 2012 and 2015, producing Hampus Lindholm, Brandon Montour, Shea Theodore, Marcus Pettersson, and Jacob Larsson. While it is still quite early in some of these careers, all five have reached the NHL, and all five seem like they will be fixtures in the league for years to come. None seem to be on track to be superstars (Shea Theodore is quite good though), but the Wings could do much worse than produce a bunch of second/borderline-first pair guys.
Obviously, this is pretty all over the place. Some teams reaped huge rewards from investing into defense by getting the pillars of their future (Nashville netted Ryan Suter and Shea Weber in a small window as well), while others didn’t get much out of it. That said, teams who invest more in their defense are generally going to get quite a bit more out of it than those who don’t, which sounds rather simpleton, but it’s basic fact. One of the biggest mistakes that Ken Holland & Co. made during the late-2000s and early-2010s was by ignoring the blue line altogether when it came to the draft, trying to patch it together with free agent signings (Mike Green, Danny DeKeyser), trades (Kyle Quincey, Marek Zidlicky), and late-round picks (Alexey Marchenko).
Indeed, upon further review, in the 10 drafts between 2006 and 2015, the Red Wings spent just three first/second rounders on defense. Three. Those were Brendan Smith (1st, 2007), Ryan Sproul (2nd, 2011), and Xavier Ouellet (2nd, 2011), with Sproul and Ouellet being picks in the back-half of the 2nd round. It’s hard to develop good defensemen when you aren’t really trying. Furthermore, in the 2006, 2010, 2012, and 2013 Drafts, Detroit didn’t take a defender until after the 4th round and in the 2014 Draft, they didn’t take one at any point! At the very least, there has been a very obvious change in philosophy from before the rebuild in making a concerted effort towards building on the back end. While this deep dive paints some cautionary tales and makes us really trust the scouts, the good news is that some of the early returns on Hronek and Cholowski seem positive. Now we just have to wait and see.
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Home » 2020 Election » Republicans and Democrats Are Scared of the Voters
June 16, 2019 by Matt Kerbel
I’m back from my annual three-week Washington program, where each year I have a chance to meet with public officials and take the temperature of politics inside the Beltway. The most striking thing about DC this spring is how the breakdown of political consensus has paralyzed both parties at a time when we most need them to push back against a lawless president whose latest move has been to openly ask for foreign assistance to help him win the 2020 election.
If you could give truth serum to House and Senate Democrats and Republicans and make them act on their expressed beliefs, Donald Trump would be impeached, convicted and removed from office. His glaring lack of fitness for the presidency is an open secret. But Republicans are trapped by their fear of crossing his supporters and Democrats are tied in knots over the fear of alienating suburban voters who made up a key portion of their successful 2018 coalition and are more concerned with health care than impeachment.
Republicans genuinely face an existential crisis, albeit a crisis of their own making. By acquiescing to Trump’s ownership of their radicalized base, they have left themselves no room to oppose him. Theirs is a minority governing coalition at odds with the rest of the electorate and entirely dependent on its leader; to cross Trump under these circumstances is to face the abyss. Whether they recognize it or not — and some certainly do — by refusing to rein in Trump they they have chosen to maintain their grip on power at the expense of liberal democracy. Souls were sold long ago, and every day Republicans indict themselves with their silence.
Democrats face a more complex political calculation as they attempt to cobble together a winning 2020 coalition from what remains of what we used to call consensus public opinion. Outside the Democratic base, where calls for impeachment are intense, the story of Trump’s crimes has been deliberately muddied by Attorney General Barr and aggressive administration stonewalling of evidence and witnesses. Democratic leadership regards buy-in from this muddled middle as a prerequisite to moving ahead with impeachment, fearing that to proceed without them risks electoral catastrophe next year. If Democrats could only tell the story of conspiracy and obstruction through public hearings, then they reason that public support for impeachment will grow. But they can’t hold those hearings without evidence and witnesses, which the administration has aggressively blocked.
So we have arrived at a point where the zero-sum politics of our divided society is curtailing both parties and preventing us from rising to a moment that should be much larger than politics. It is shrouding both parties in cowardice. Republicans look the other way and put self-interest over the health of the republic. Democrats ask us to believe there is a criminal in the Oval Office, but somehow it’s too early to consider removing him. Meanwhile, their collective inaction serves as a green light for Trump to operate at will.
I don’t see how this dynamic can hold for a year and a half. I’m not sure it can last a month and a half, with new allegations about Trump’s wrongdoing regularly oozing out and with House Democratic leadership under intense pressure from a growing share of its caucus to take action. But for the moment the politics of division is placing a crisis of utmost urgency in an unreal state of suspended animation.
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Ethiopia: Electricity Rationing to Officially End, But Limits Remain
What Happened: Ethiopia's electric power company has announced that it will end its electricity rationing on July 8, the Addis Standard reported, but the company added that the country's industry would still face limits in the form of being required to operate at half of its capacity during the day.
Why It Matters: The country's forced electricity rationing has damaged Ethiopia's economy and the announcement suggests that problems in electricity generation are likely to continue. Water shortages have underscored weaknesses in Ethiopia's energy policy, which has been emphasizing the importance of water-generated electricity to meet its enormous energy demands.
Background: Ethiopian authorities have been forced to implement electricity rationing for most economic sectors since May, excluding hospitals and some export-oriented industrial plants.
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Breathtaking backdrops like Half Dome await at backcountry ski huts in Northern California. Mitch Barrie
If you are a skier or snowboarder and you haven’t made it to the mountains yet, you’ve probably been dreaming about shredding groomers at Heavenly, tree skiing at Kirkwood, or finding new lines in the backcountry. While it’s tempting to return year after year to your favorite runs, consider upping the adventure factor this season and ditching the lift lines—by planning a trip to a backcountry ski or snowshoe-in hut.
Several organizations maintain cozy (or at least sheltered) cabins throughout the Sierra where you can rent a bunk and get away for an idyllic winter escape. Here, our picks for five snowbound destinations you won’t want to miss this winter.
Ostrander Ski Hut
Credit: @Rebecca Stievater
Deep in the Yosemite backcountry, historic Ostrander Ski Hut awaits intrepid skiers who are willing and able to make the trek. Built in 1941, when the prevailing theory was that backcountry would become more popular than resorts, the cabin feels like a charming relic of a bygone era. More than 10 miles of groomed road and trail separate the trailhead at the Badger Pass Ski Area from the hut, which sits beneath a glacial cirque on the edge of Ostrander Lake at 8,500 feet.
While the trail can feel like a long haul for an overnight or even a weekend trip, the route boasts stunning views of Half Dome and the ranges beyond that will make you (temporarily) forget your fatigue. Maintained by the Yosemite Conservancy, Ostrander Ski Hut provides the basics, but expect to bring bedding, cooking gear and utensils, food, and water purification.
Pear Lake Winter Hut
Credit: @Sequoia Parks Conservancy
If you are willing to make the drive, a ski trip to Pear Lake Winter Hut is worth the effort. Tucked way in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park amid some of California’s most rugged terrain, Pear Lake is a true alpine experience.
The trail to the hut is not recommended for beginners, as it traverses six miles and climbs 2,000 feet and can have dangerous avalanche conditions. But once you’re there, you have access to prime backcountry terrain, including scenic lake basins and craggy peaks. Like Ostrander, the hut has basic amenities and you will need to bring most of your own supplies.
Glacier Point Ski Hut
Credit: @Mark
Located at the end of the famous Glacier Point Road, a ski trip to the Glacier Point Hut is an unforgettable way to experience Yosemite’s finest scenery in winter. The trail starts from the Badger Pass Ski Area and travels 10.5 miles of groomed road, making this a popular trip for cross country skiers.
From the hut, you’ll have unobstructed views over snow-covered Yosemite Valley and Half Dome. If you are looking for a more upscale experience than other backcountry huts, put Glacier Point at the top of your list—you can leave the backpacking stove and other gear behind because meals are provided in the dining room.
Peter Grubb Hut
Credit: @Bryant Davis
Near Donner Summit, the Sierra Club’s Peter Grubb Hut is a favorite backcountry destination in the Tahoe area. To access the hut, you’ll ski or snowshoe for about three miles and 800 feet of climbing along the Castle Peak trail. Once you reach the hut at the edge of Round Valley, expect sweeping views of Castle and Basin Peak and access to some of the best expert lines in the Tahoe area. Amenities at Peter Grubb Hut are basic, so expect to make the journey carrying most of your own supplies.
Benson Hut
Credit: @robertwalter
Perched on the Sierra Crest at 8,350 feet, the trail to Benson Hut is exposed and avalanche prone. Experienced backcountry skiers can follow the Pacific Crest Trail as it climbs 1,800 feet over 5.5 miles from Donner Pass to reach the hut, located between Sugar Bowl and Squaw Valley at the foot of Anderson Peak. Expect the bare minimum of supplies and amenities—but maximum views over the Sierra to the north, east, and west. From the hut, skiers can access steep bowls, narrow chutes, and glades.
Backcountry skiing is an inherently dangerous activity—no matter if you are taking a few turns or planning a multi-day excursion. Before you start your trip, be sure to read up on the route and snow conditions. Sierra Avalanche Center is a good source for conditions, and many of the huts also post conditions or contact information for a ranger. Locally, SoCal Snow Avalanche Center has good training resources and offers classes about avalanche safety.
In addition to researching the conditions, you should be prepared to spend the night in the elements in the event that you don’t reach your destination. Many of the huts can only be accessed by traveling across terrain that may have avalanche danger, making adequate training and gear are a must for these routes.
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Denying the Obvious
Monday, February 23, 2015 @ 2:02 PM
David Barton Author of numerous best selling books and Founder and President of WallBuilders MORE
The Obama administration began last week with the assertion that the root cause for ISIL’s barbaric behavior was “its lack of opportunity for jobs.” President Obama ended the week claiming that ISIL’s allure for young people is that they “feel entirely trapped in impoverished communities . . . where there are no educational opportunities.” Nonsense. In fact, it is and has been just the opposite.
Olivier Roy, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, notes that even back in the 1970s and 80s in “the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Refah in Turkey, the Islamic revolution in Iran – the actors [were] young, urban, educated people, and people educated in the modern, Western system of education.” This is still true today. Thousands of youth are now joining ISIL by leaving schools in wealthy prosperous western nations and choosing to go live instead in an impoverished desert region.
Why? According to an expert at Duke University, these young people (such the recent three British girls) “are responding to quite a deliberate call from the Islamic State to have women come and participate in a form of state-building and to make a new country in which they can practice their religion.” “Practice their religion.” It is religious beliefs, not economics or education, that is the common thread in ISIL’s growth.
If the Obama administration really wants to identify the root causes of ISIL’s outrageous behavior, it should start by reading documents already in its possession – such as the first reports filed on this subject from back in the 1780s.
At that time, America (along with other western nations) was a victim of Muslim terrorist attacks being launched out of northern Africa and the Middle East. Seeking to solve the problem, in 1784 Congress dispatched John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson to go meet with the Islamicists. Adams and Jefferson candidly asked the Muslim Ambassador the motivation behind the unprovoked attacks and then reported his answer to the State Department:
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the laws of their Prophet [Mohammed] – that it was written in their Koran that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners; that is was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners; and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
William Eaton, similarly sent to negotiate with the Muslims, likewise reported:
Taught by revelation that war with the Christians will guarantee the salvation of their souls, . . . their [the Muslims’] inducements to desperate fighting are very powerful.
Based on what they learned, Jefferson identified the obvious solution:
If we wish our commerce to be free and uninsulted [i.e., unattacked], we must let these nations see that we have an energy [willingness to use force], which at present they disbelieve. The low opinion they entertain of our powers cannot fail to involve us soon in a . . . war.
George Washington agreed, affirming that what was needed was decisive military action that would “reform those enemies to mankind – or crush them into non-existence.”
Courageous leaders in the Middle East today follow George Washington’s advice much better than do our own leaders. Only two days after a Jordanian pilot was burned alive, Jordan’s king Abdullah personally led the retaliatory attacks against ISIL, and only one day after 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIL, the Egyptian military pounded ISIL in Libya. While the Obama administration condemned that action, you can rest assured that ISIL will now think twice before executing more Jordanians or Egyptians. They would much rather select their victims from nations that talk and negotiate.
Although State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf claimed that “we cannot win this war by killing them,” over the past several centuries this has been the means by which western nations have successfully “reformed those enemies to mankind.” (The only other historical solution that has demonstrated any success is that of religious conversion, either from without or within – that is, either conversion to a different religion, or the remaking of the religion itself from within, such as with the reformation that long ago occurred in both Judaism and Christianity that moved its followers in a more socially-productive direction.)
Despite the Obama administration’s steadfast denial, the root of Islamic terrorist attacks is not economic disadvantage, it is religious beliefs. As Graeme Wood noted in his excellent report on ISIL, to ignore this obvious fact “reflects another kind of Western bias: that if religious ideology doesn’t matter much in Washington or Berlin, surely it must be equally irrelevant in Raqqa or Mosul. When a masked executioner says Allahu akbar while beheading an apostate, sometimes he’s doing so for religious reasons.” So rather than following the Obama administration’s pattern of psychoanalyzing Muslim terrorists who tell us why they do what they do, we should instead just believe them.
After all, even modern Islamic leaders, scholars, and Muslim apologists affirm that the current “slavery, crucifixion, and beheadings are not something that freakish [jihadists] are cherry-picking from the medieval tradition” but rather that the Islamic state “has an obligation to terrorize its enemies . . . with beheadings and crucifixions and enslavement of women and children, because doing so hastens victory and avoids prolonged conflict.”
But the rabid secularism of the Obama Administration causes it to reject religious explanations, regardless of the faith with which they are associated. Just as it dismissed out of hand the religious motivations on the part of Christians at Hobby Lobby, it similarly discounts the religious motivations of the Islamicists who comprise the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIL, and other such groups. (By the way, it should be particularly disturbing to every American that the Obama administration deems itself qualified to be the judge of what is or is not a genuine religious belief, whether it is the Catholics on abortion or ISIL on barbarism.)
It is ludicrous for this administration – or any other – to try to talk Islamicists out of their religious beliefs by offering them economic assistance or jobs. Only a non-devout person can be bought off. Would Billy Graham change his beliefs and behavior if he were offered sufficient economic incentives? Would the Dali Lama? The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem? The Pope? Certainly not. Neither will the dedicated Islamicists of ISIL. America’s foreign policy makers need to understand this millennia-old reality, which will never be the case with the unabashed secularists currently at the helm of this administration.
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McLaren’s failed Indy 500 effort was a comedy of errors
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by: JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer
Posted: May 20, 2019 / 07:40 PM EDT / Updated: May 20, 2019 / 07:40 PM EDT
Fernando Alonso, of Spain, watches the final qualifier during qualifications for Indianapolis 500 IndyCar auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Indianapolis. Alonzo failed to make the field for the race. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The comedy of errors that doomed McLaren’s disastrous return to the Indianapolis 500 began months before Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the race. How bad was it? A week before Alonso’s first test in the car, the team realized it didn’t even have a steering wheel.
McLaren CEO Zak Brown acknowledged Monday the team was woefully unprepared and small oversights snowballed into the final result. Bob Fernley, the head of the operation, was fired hours after Alonso missed the race and Brown returned to England to digest the embarrassment of his venture.
Brown on Monday provided The Associated Press a detailed timeline of the bloopers and blunders that led to Alonso missing the race, the last piece the two-time Formula One champion needs in his quest to win motorsports’ version of the Triple Crown.
“I don’t think we came into this arrogant, I think we were unprepared,” Brown said. “We didn’t deserve to be in the race and it’s our own fault. It’s not like we showed up and gave our best. We defeated ourselves.”
The path to missing the 33-driver field began when the car was not ready the moment Texas Motor Speedway opened for the April test. Brown had personally secured a steering wheel the previous week from Cosworth to use for the test, and the mistakes piled up from there.
“We didn’t get out until midday, our steering wheel was not done on time, that’s just lack of preparation and project management organizational skills,” Brown said. “That’s where this whole thing fell down, in the project management. Zak Brown should not be digging around for steering wheels.”
A cosmetic issue at the Texas test haunted McLaren deep into last week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
McLaren purchased a car from technical partner Carlin, and though the car was orange when McLaren received it, it was not the proper McLaren “papaya orange.” It had to be repainted after the test, and that still had not been completed when Alonso crashed his McLaren-built car last Wednesday.
The Carlin spare was in a paint shop 30 minutes from the track, more than a month after McLaren complained about the color, and it ultimately cost McLaren almost two full days of track time. The team looked foolish as other teams were able to move into backup cars in mere hours; James Hinchcliffe crashed in Saturday qualifying and was back on track in his spare that afternoon.
Carlin was a two-car team when McLaren made its alliance but expanded to three for the Indy 500. Once Carlin took on the extra work, Brown said, the team had few resources to give McLaren.
“It was clear they weren’t capable of running three cars and serving us,” he said. Carlin entrants Max Chilton and Patricio O’Ward were the two other drivers who failed to qualify.
McLaren’s poor showing is one of the biggest failures in Indy 500 history. Roger Penske missed the show with Al Unser Jr. and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1995, a year after dominating the race. Reigning CART champion Bobby Rahal missed it in 1993, and two-time Indy winner Rodger Ward never got up to speed to make the 1965 field.
The McLaren budget for this Indy 500 was strong, every sponsorship opportunity had been sold and the venture was a guaranteed commercial success for McLaren. Brown was somewhat hands-off and focused on the critical rebuild of the Formula One part of the program. He now laments waiting too long to become heavily involved with the Indy 500 effort. He also believes he was too slow in assigning McLaren sporting director Gil de Ferran, a former Indy 500 winner, oversight of the program.
“I should have been closer to Indy but I could never compromise Formula One,” Brown said. “At 9:01 in the morning when we weren’t on track at the first test, that’s when we failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. We didn’t ring the fire alarm quick enough because we could have recovered after the first test.
“I am angry at myself because I was uncomfortable all the way up to the first test and I should have followed my instinct to get more involved.”
Many of the issues were beyond Brown’s control.
The car had an electrical issue in last month’s test at Indy and an employee was taken off the team for the error. Alonso had another electrical issue on opening day for the 500 and the alternator and wiring loom had to be replaced. Alonso crashed on the second day, and McLaren missed all of Day 3 rebuilding the spare from Carlin that was finally the proper shade of orange.
Fast Friday showed the car still needed speed, and Alonso went into qualifying on shaky ground. His first qualifying run was sabotaged by a tire puncture — which wasn’t detected beforehand because Brown said the team had purchased incorrect tire sensors.
Alonso wound up one of six drivers in the “Last Row Shootout” on Sunday and the panicked McLaren team begged and borrowed across the paddock for any assistance available. Alonso went out to practice Sunday with an entirely new setup, but in the frantic changeover a mistake was made in converting inches to the metric system the English team uses and the car scraped and sparked on his first lap. It had to be fixed and Alonso got in just five more laps before rain ended the session.
When it came time for Alonso to make his final last-gasp qualifying attempt late Sunday afternoon, the Spaniard was given a car that Brown and de Ferran were concerned might not perform.
“Gil and I went to the motorhome and told Fernando: ‘We are going to try this, but this could go well or really wrong. Are you comfortable?'” Brown said. “And Fernando said, ‘Let’s go for it.'”
Alonso agreed that he never backed away from the challenge.
“We went out with an experiment that we did overnight. We changed everything on the car because we thought that maybe we need something from the mental side different to go into the race with some confidence,” Alonso said. “We went out not knowing what the car will do in Turn 1, but you’re still flat. So we tried.”
The new setup and assistance from other teams indeed got the car up to speed, but Alonso was knocked from the field by 23-year-old Kyle Kaiser of tiny Juncos Racing. McLaren discovered after the qualifying run that the car had the wrong gear ratio setup.
“We actually had a 229 (mph) car but we had 227.5 gearing, so we beat ourselves again while we almost made it,” Brown said. “We really did put it all on the line and you could feel the anxiety. There was some real heroism in that. I don’t want the world to think McLaren is a bunch of idiots because while we did have a few, we had some real stars.”
Alonso has rejected an offer from the team to purchase a seat in the Indy 500 field for him.
What’s next is a careful lookback as Brown figures out McLaren’s future at both the Indy 500 and the IndyCar Series. He still wants to field two full-time entries in the series but isn’t sure yet how much of a setback this has been. He believes McLaren will be back next year at Indy for a second chance.
“I feel an obligation to the fans and sponsors, we let them down. We didn’t fulfill our promise and I think they need more than just an apology,” Brown said. “There will be repercussions for those who don’t deserve to work for a great team like McLaren. We will look at what we learned here and the list is a mile long. I hope people appreciate that we go for it, we are racers, and Fernando is a star and we are not quitters. We want to come back.”
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. (WISH) - It was a May to remember for Simon Pagenaud.
After winning the IndyCar Grand Prix and starting the Indianapolis 500 on the pole, Pagenaud was the dominant car Sunday afternoon, winning his first Indianapolis 500.
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Lisa Plumley Josie Day Is Coming Home (Zebra Contemporary Romance)
Josie Day Is Coming Home (Zebra Contemporary Romance)
Lisa Plumley
( 247 ratings by Goodreads )
Publisher: Zebra, 2005
USA Today bestselling author Lisa Plumley does it again with another sparkling, sexy novel of crazy coincidences--and crazier love...
Her name was Josie, she was a showgirl...
...until the night she Heimliched a martini olive out of fabulously wealthy and eccentric casino owner Tallulah Carlyle. Now Josie Day--proud new owner of one of Tallulah's spare estates--is leaving Vegas behind for...Donovan's Corner, Arizona? Ironically, her "reward" has brought her right back to the dusty hometown she thought she'd left behind forever. Still, Josie's ready to prove there's more to her than feathers and a wicked rumba. She plans to sell the old mansion and use the profits to open a dance school. But first, she'll have to figure out some fancy footwork to avoid knocking heads--and other things--with caretaker and local bad boy Luke Donovan...
It isn't every day a woman like Josie comes strutting into town--which is fortunate, since her presence on the estate has Luke hotter and more bothered than he's been since, well, ever. He's a little annoyed with his Aunt Tallulah, though. This was supposed to be his property to renovate and sell--an opportunity to make good after being cut off from the family fortune. But Josie doesn't have to know that...at least not until Luke figures out a way to make both their dreams come true--and prove that Vegas isn't the only place where taking a chance can change everything...
"In this heartwarming, often humorous story, the feisty Josie proves that you can go home again --if you've got the right stuff. And once again, the talented Plumley, whose books include Perfect Switch, proves that when it comes to writing romantic comedy, few do it better." --Booklist (starred review)
"Secrets, misunderstandings, and miscommunications complicate this bright, amusing story, which takes a pair of protagonists with opposing goals, adds a host of family upheavals, and lets the off-beat tale unfold. For readers who like their contemporaries with up-front humor, sassy dialog, and small-town settings." --Library Journal
"Turning not-so-perfect, unlikely characters into romance heroes and heroines is Lisa Plumley's forte, and she once again delivers a zany cast who will make you laugh. If you want a light romance that will have you chuckling every few pages, Josie Day Is Coming Home won't disappoint you." --The State newspaper
"Plumley's story is lighthearted, with some serious tug-at-the-heart moments. Josie is upbeat and unbeatable, while Luke is determined and just the sort of guy Josie needs to make that happily ever after ending." --The Oakland Press
"Lisa Plumley pens another endearing and fun-filled contemporary romance with Josie Day is Coming Home. Josie Day is a charming woman who finally digs in, more determined than ever to obtain her dream. Luke is a bad boy who is deliciously good and easy to fall in love with. There is chemistry immediately between these characters that have readers rooting for them to come together. Grab a copy of this great story!" --The Road to Romance
USA TODAY best-selling author Lisa Plumley has delighted readers worldwide with more than three dozen popular novels. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and editions, and includes contemporary romances, paranormal romances, western historical romances, and a variety of stories in romance anthologies.
Her fresh, funny, and warmhearted style has been likened to such reader favorites as Rachel Gibson, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jennifer Crusie, and LaVyrle Spencer, but her unique characterization is all her own. Visit Lisa at lisaplumley.com, friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/lisaplumleybooks, or follow her on Twitter @LisaPlumley today!
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She should have known there’d be a catch.
After all, when it came to second chances, there usually was. But somehow, Josie had managed to forget that. She’d road-tripped all night from Las Vegas, powered by Big Gulps and Twinkies and fueled by dreams of returning in triumph to Donovan’s Corner. Now that she’d seen what was waiting for her—what Tallulah had "rewarded" her with—she couldn’t believe she’d been so naïve.
Prompted by Tallulah, Josie had worked up the nerve to confront her past. She’d packed everything she owned in her beat-up Chevy convertible. She’d made her way through the twisty, mountainous roads that divided her old life from her new one. And for what?
For a tumbledown pile of an "estate"—a term she used very loosely—at the edge of a town she’d thought she’d left behind forever. That’s what.
But this particular estate was hers, she reminded herself. Every last ramshackle inch of it. That made all the difference.
It was a good thing, too. According to her lawyer, Tallulah had thought she’d been doing Josie a favor by bringing her back to Donovan’s Corner. If only she’d known the truth. For Josie, having her big second chance plunked down here, of all places.... It was like a big cosmic joke. Fortunately, Josie was always up for a laugh.
Squinting through the springtime sunlight at the two-story shake-shingled house in front of her, she felt a surge of optimism. Despite the discouraging reality of peeling paint, crumbling stone chimneys, and overgrown weeds, she could make something of this place. She knew it.
The thought energized her. Or maybe that was just the Twinkies talking—she’d polished off the last of her stash upon rounding the circular gravel drive. Either way, it was time to get started. Through an unbelievable twist of fate, she finally had something to call her own—something bigger than a blow-dryer and more durable than a sequin-spangled G-string. Unreal as it seemed, she’d gotten a lucky break. She intended to make the most of it.
Pulling her duffel bag from her convertible’s duct-taped vinyl passenger seat, she palmed her keys and headed across the drive. Her platform wedgies crunched against the gravel. Her hair swung across her shoulders, bared in her requisite post-show outfit of terry cloth track pants and a strappy tank top.
If she’d been smart, she’d have dressed for the chill in the mountain air. But she’d been too eager to start her new life to bother with anything but hauling herself out of Vegas the minute the curtain fell on last night’s show. A part of her still didn’t quite believe this whole thing was real. She half expected to find the house key in her hand didn’t work at all.
Her gaze fell on the "Blue Moon" sign nailed to a porch post to her left. Josie smiled. It was a fitting name for the place. "Once in a blue moon" was about how often a girl like her made good. At least that’s what people in town might have said...had they known she was coming back.
"Whatever you’re selling, I don’t want any."
The voice—a masculine one—came from someplace above her head. Startled, she glanced up.
A dark-haired man gazed steadily down at her from the porch roof, a hammer in one hand and a fistful of cedar shingles in the other. Clearly he’d been hired to do much-needed work on the place. Or to serve as eye candy for the newly arriving new owner: her. Either way, Josie relaxed.
Thank you, Welcome Wagon. Some old houses came with bats in the attic. Apparently, hers came with a resident hunk on the roof. One with dreamy blue eyes, whisker shadow, and muscles galore. Her opinion of the dilapidated estate went up a notch.
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Latest Marmite ad branded ‘deeply offensive’
Marmite released a new television advertising campaign this week, for the first time in two years, with a new slogan. ‘Love it. Hate it. Just don’t forget it.’
The advert depicts a spoof team of workers going into family homes to rescue neglected jars of marmite. Since its broadcast the campaign has received a mixed response. Some have viewed it as tongue in cheek, however 400 others have made complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), in which they voice their concern that it trivialises the work of animal welfare charities.
In response to the criticism, Unilever, who own the Marmite brand, have since donated £18,000 to the RSPCA and commented that it was never intended to cause offence. The ASA will now decide, using the UK advertising codes, whether any action needs to be taken.
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The Christmas tradition you never heard of – and a whole new take on Santa!
Posted: December 18, 2018 in Humour, Life
Tags: caganer, Christmas, Christmas traditions, humour, Santa Claus, tradition
Oh those crazy, whacky Catalonians.
In Catalonia – that’s the bit in the North East of Spain constantly arguing with Madrid – think Barcelona and surrounds – don’t be surprised if you’re admiring someone’s nativity scene and there, hidden among the traditional nativity characters, is a little figure, trousers down, doing his business right in the middle of the holy scene.
As the BBC report, a pessebre, a Catalan nativity scene, contains all the usual suspects. There’s Mary and Joseph gazing down lovingly at baby Jesus, sleeping in his manger. There are the oxen, gently lowing, and perhaps some shepherds. But look closer, and hidden among the traditional characters is a little figure, trousers down, “taking a dump” right in the middle of the holy scene.
Yes, he’s doing what you think he’s doing.
The caganer – literally ‘defecator’ – is a staple of Christmas in the area. The traditional figure depicts a peasant wearing black trousers, a white shirt and the classic red Catalan cap – the barretina. He may also be smoking a pipe and reading a newspaper. As you do, when …
“It’s like the funny part of something that is supposed to be very serious – the nativity,” laughed caganer collector Marc-Ignasi Corral, 53, from Barcelona. Yes, the figure is so popular it even has its very own society, the Friends of the Caganer Association (L’associació Amics del Caganer), of which Corral is a proud member. Founded in 1990, the society has around 70 members – some from as far afield as the US – who meet twice a year.
Traditional caganers are made from clay, fired in a kiln of more than 1,000C, then hand-painted. As the industry has grown, the caganer has evolved; now there are many different kinds, both in design and material.
“I’ve got ones made of soap, I’ve got chocolate ones, but those are meant to be eaten of course,” said Corral, whose bookshelves are dotted with his collection of more than 200 caganers. “I’ve got glass ones… I’ve seen them made from Nespresso capsules.”
Firmly planted in folk tradition, the roots of the caganer are vague, but generally agreed to date from around the late 17th or early 18th Century when the prevailing Baroque tradition, both in Catalonia and beyond, focused on realism in art, sculpture and literature.
In their book El Caganer, authors Jordi Arruga and Josep Mañà write: “This was a time characterised by extreme realism… all of which relied heavily on descriptions of local life and customs. Here, working conditions and home life were used as artistic themes.”
The reason it has been passed down the generations, however, is clear: the idea of defecating has traditionally long been linked to everything from good luck to prosperity to good health.
“Excrement equals fertilisation equals money equals luck and prosperity. Or so say the anthropologists,” said historian Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, emeritus professor at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University“It is said that to not put a caganer in the crib will bring bad luck,” added caganer maker Marc Alos Pla, whose family runs caganer.com, the world’s biggest caganer producer. This year he predicts sales will surpass 30,000.
And far from seeing the caganer as uncouth or even graphic, Catalans have a relaxed view of them as merely depicting a natural act.
“We don’t see it as rude. I mean as rude as when you go to the toilet,” Corral laughed. “We hide things – we’re in a society where we’re hiding everything. We hide death for instance.”
Furthermore, Catalans do not stop at one unusual Christmas tradition.
Give the poo log a whack!
Caga Tió, literally the ‘Defecating Log’ (also called the Tió de Nadal, the ‘Christmas Log’) is also a staple in many Catalan homes in the run-up to Christmas. On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, on 8 December, families start ‘feeding’ Caga Tió scraps of food. He is covered with a blanket to keep him warm until, on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, when he has had enough to ‘eat’, the children hit him with sticks while singing a song that encourages him to defecate:
Caga tió / Poo log
Caga torró, avellanes i mató / Poo nougat, hazelnuts and mató (cheese)
Si no cagues bé / if you don’t Poo well,
et daré un cop de bastó / I’ll hit you with a stick
Caga tió / Poo log!
Of course the log doesn’t produce any old excrement … he defecates Christmas presents.
Before hitting the Tió, children go to another part of the house to pray for him to bring them gifts, while their parents take the opportunity to stash small treats like Christmas sweets under the blanket.
“The Tió seems to be a pretty old Christmas idea… in medieval times it was found all over Europe, from Scandinavia down to the Western Mediterranean: the idea of a ‘Yule Log’, which lasted until about World War Two,” Ucelay-Da Cal said.
What is it about these traditions, which in other parts of the world might be seen as explicit or rude, that attracts so many Catalans?
“I love the transgression of norms, the tradition they represent and the artwork in itself,” Corral explained, while Ucelay-Da Cal said the caganer “has a pleasantly subversive quality, naughty but nice, as it were.”
In fact, the themes of defecation are reserved not only for Christmas, but run like a common thread through Catalan culture, from idioms to art.“This fits in with a Catalan (and Spanish) taste for egalitarianism: everybody [poos], however important they may be,” said Ucelay-Da Cal.
When it comes to language, Catalan is filled with stool-related sayings and idioms. Where in English we might say two extremely close people are ‘as thick as thieves’ and in Spanish that phrase would be ‘como uña y carne’ (like [finger] nail and flesh), but Catalans cheerfully say two are people are like ‘cul i merda’– backside and excrement.
“There is a cliché that Germanic languages are [full of] faecal metaphors, while Romance languages stress virility. But certainly the Spanish tradition – and very specifically Catalan scatological custom – would deny this assertion,” Ucelay-Da Cal said.
Defecation has also appeared in Catalan art and literature going back hundreds of years.
In his book, Barcelona, which looks at Catalan history, art and culture, art critic Robert Hughes writes that the figure of the caganer “makes an unmistakable entrance into 20th-Century art” in the work of Joan Miró.
Really? Look closely at Miró’s 1921-22 painting The Farm, and you will see what looks like a small child squatting close to his mother while she does the washing.
This boy, Hughes writes, “is none other than the caganer of Miró’s childhood Christmases. It may also be Miró himself, the future painter of Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement (1935).”
A whole new take on Santa
Christmas is full of funny stuff.
At our business, Dear Reader, Magnum Opus Partners, we have had some fun this year with the Santa Claus tradition.
Did you know the image of Santa we know in many parts of the world today was crafted by ad agencies – and especially Coca Cola’s team of creative thinkers?
He’s not even the same the world over – the traditional British Santa is actually supposed to wear green and has a wreath of holly on his head, and in Russia Santa is a demon accompanied by a snow maiden! In Sweden Santa is a dwarf, in Iceland he’s thirteen naughty elves, and in Holland Sinterklass is a saintly character wearing a bishop’s hat.
In Germany, Austria, and the Czech and Slovakian regions, Santa Claus isn’t even male – children are visited by a female “Christ Child”, who is a benevolent gift-bringer with long curly blonde hair! In Spain and other Hispanic countries, kids welcome Three Wise Men bearing gifts. And it doesn’t even happen on Christmas Day, but on January 6th, the day the Three Wise Men supposedly arrived at the stable.
So what, we wondered, what would Santa look like if his legend was being created by some groovy lunch of creatives today? No great big rotund guy with a white beard, that’s for sure!
Have a look and see what you think of our musings!
And a very Merry Christmas to all Wellthisiswhatithink readers.
May your Christmas-time be filled with wonder, joy and contentment. And may 2019 bring you at least some of what your heart desires.
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Paul Brixey says:
Wonderful story and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hope you have a Happy Christmas and a good New Year
Thank you Paul, and very best wishes to you and yours too!
I like the new Santa except for the fact that he is still holding some sort of sugar and chemical laden liquid. Question – how do doctors prove someone has cancer? Put briefly, they irradiate a sugar solution, then inject it into the patient, and then put them in a scanner where the cancer cells light up luminously! Cancer grabs sugars from the diet and uses them to grow – so please remove all sugar laden drinks from pictures of Santa – besides which surely he’d be holding a glass bottle of designer water these days!
A Diet Coke perhaps?
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David Handler
David Handler’s first book in the Berger and Mitry series, The Cold Blue Blood, was a Dilys Award finalist and BookSense Top Ten pick. Handler is also the author of eight novels about the witty and dapper celebrity ghostwriter Stewart Hoag and his faithful, neurotic basset hound, Lulu, including Edgar and American Mystery Award winner The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald.
His new novel is The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb.
Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Handler's reply:
The brutally long, cold winter is still hanging on here in Southern New England. The news headlines seem to be getting bleaker and more depressing every day. Me? I’m curled up with my favorite hard-boiled crime novel of all time, Build My Gallows High, by the late, great Geoffrey Homes, which was the pen name of a San Francisco newspaperman named Daniel Mainwaring.
If you don’t know Geoffrey Homes you really should. He was one of the very best hard-boiled crime writers of the 1940s. And if you don’t know Build My Gallows High -- a twisty, wicked tale of a detective who goes searching for a gangster’s treacherous girlfriend only to end up falling for her himself -- well, yes, you do. Or you do if you’re a fan of film noir. When Homes adapted Build My Gallows High as a screenplay for RKO in 1947 the title got changed to Out of the Past. That’s right, the iconic noir masterpiece starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, directed by Jacques Tourneur, was based on this book.
Are you with me now?
If you’re a fan of the movie I promise you that you’ll love the book. Homes did have to move some pieces around structurally. He changed the name of Robert Mitchum’s character from Red Bailey to Jeff Bailey. Also the name of Jane Greer’s character from Mumsie McGonigle to Kathie Moffat. But it’s all here – the razor sharp dialogue, the wicked double-crosses and this gifted author’s wonderful prose. Here is what Red thinks the first time he ever lays eyes on Mumsie: “She was a slim, lovely little thing with eyes too big for her face and the serene look often seen on nuns.”
Clearly, this was a man who didn’t stand a chance.
Homes wrote a ton of excellent series mysteries before he ever wrote Build My Gallows High. To me, he is one of the most underappreciated writers of his era. Not to mention the unsung godfather of film noir. Because, let’s face it, if it hadn’t been for Build My Gallows High there would be no Out of the Past. No Mitchum being the ultimate loser hero. No Jane Greer being the ultimate bad girl.
Honestly? That’s too horrible a concept to even imagine. I just can’t.
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Susanna Chen Chow: Garden from the Heart
Colour of Spring art exhibition at The Palm House
In her garden series, Susanna Chen Chow explores emotive experiences of gardens encountered throughout her life. She uses her memory and imagination to paint the observed and interiorised environments, translating them into shapes, lines and colours that evoke the mood and the feeling of a place rather then accurately represent concrete visual features. Her style varies from purely abstract to abstract figurative, and her confident lines and bold painterly marks demonstrate her mastery of colour and of drawing.
Chen Chow is a Sydney-based painter-traveller whose art practice spans 2 decades and is built on the merging of her inner psychological landscape with the natural and urban landscapes of Australia. She finds her inspiration in frequent trips to Arkaroola in the Flinders Ranges and to the South and West MacDonnell Ranges, as well as in walks through Sydney bush and parkland areas. In her monochrome ink and charcoal drawings, she often revisits her memories of Sydney Harbour’s industrial past. Chen Chow has been a recipient of a significant number of art prizes, the most recent being the Art of Sydney Award in 2018, Thora Ungar Memorial Award in 2016 (by The Royal Art Society of NSW) and the Ewart Art Prize in 2016. She has also been highly commended by the Korea-Australia Arts Foundation (KAAF) in 2016 for her drawing Working Harbour.
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Drinks with the artist: 15 September, 1pm to 4pm.
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The Magna Carta Comes to Fort York
AS PART OF ITS 800TH-ANNIVERSARY TOUR, THE MAGNA CARTA, A HISTORIC LEGAL DOCUMENT, ARRIVES AT FORT YORK
A page from a circa-1300 copy of the Magna Carta (photo: Chapter of Durham Cathedral)
OCTOBER 4 TO NOVEMBER 7 Canadians are headed to the polls this month, so it’s fitting that we’re now hosting a special touring exhibition of one of democratic society’s founding documents, the Magna Carta. Drafted by England’s Archbishop of Canterbury in 1215, the charter safeguarded the rights and liberties of citizens and today serves as a reminder that governments represent the will of the people. Only 24 copies of the 13th-century agreement remain; the edition on display in Toronto was first issued to Durham Cathedral in 1300. A companion document, the 1217 Charter of the Forest, is also part of the Fort York exhibit, which focuses on notions of history, legacy and justice. —Linda Luong
• Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd., 416-392-6907; magnacartacanada.ca
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Toronto’s Sports Teams Man Up for a Month of Big Games
ALL FIVE OF TORONTO’S MAJOR PROFESSIONAL SPORTS SQUADS ARE LINED UP FOR ACTION IN OCTOBER, AND HOPES ARE HIGH THAT THEY’LL EARN SOME IMPORTANT WINS
Jose Bautista, Michael Bradley, DeMar DeRozan, Vidal Hazelton and Dion Phaneuf are ready to defend home turf this fall
Whether or not they’re deserving of the attention, the Toronto Maple Leafs are inevitably the talk of this town as soon as the weather begins to cool. But there’s a decidedly different atmosphere surrounding the Blue and White’s upcoming season. Following years of subpar returns from highly paid players who never quite seemed to coalesce, the Leafs seem to have accepted their fate and entered rebuilding mode. Stalwarts like Dion Phaneuf and Joffrey Lupul anchor an otherwise unremarkable lineup; it’ll be reasonably competitive, but few fans are expecting the team to contend this season. Local puckheads instead have their sights set on the future: team president (and hall of fame player) Brendan Shanahan has brought on marquee hockey minds, including GM Lou Lamoriello and head coach Mike Babcock, to mold the squad in their image, a job facilitated by a preponderance of future draft picks, and, ideally, the continued development of young contributors such as Nazem Kadri, Morgan Reilly and James van Riemsdyk.
Things to Do in Toronto: October 2015 Shows & Events
THERE ARE ALWAYS SO MANY THINGS TO DO IN TORONTO. GET OUT AND ENJOY SOME OF THE MANY GREAT PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS TAKING PLACE THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN OCTOBER!
Opera Atelier’s Armide, plus appearances by Commander Chris Hadfield and Sir Paul McCartney, are just a few of the things to see and do this month in Toronto
*Also check out our guide to Toronto’s Fall Performance Season, which details more of our favourite theatrical, orchestral, operatic and balletic performances taking place in Toronto through to the end of the year.
OCTOBER 1 TO 4 Nesters seeking inspiration for their abodes can find it at the Toronto Fall Home Show. The biggest public event of its kind in the city presents tips and trends from television personalities like Bryan and Sarah Baeumler, as well as Cityline expert Leigh-Ann Allaire Perrault, decorator Michael Penney and renovator Michael Upshall. Find small-space ideas and solutions as well as eco-friendly products, and shop for new items from more than 300 retailers.
World Press Photo Brings Global Concerns to Light
THE ANNUAL WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBIT USES IMAGES TO ILLUMINATE THE EVENTS AND ISSUES THAT AFFECTED US ALL IN 2014
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SEPTEMBER 30 TO OCTOBER 20 Drone strikes in the Middle East, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, anti-government protests in Turkey—just a few of the events that impacted life on earth in 2014, and which were documented unflinching artistry by intrepid international photojournalists. The most compelling of these images are now on display at Brookfield Place’s Allen Lambert Galleria as part of World Press Photo. The annual juried exhibition features the prize-winning efforts of 41 photographers in eight categories—from Raphaela Rosella’s portrait of a socially isolated woman in Australia to Mads Nissen’s World Press Photo of the Year (pictured above), depicting an intimate moment for a gay couple in Russia. Though not always easy to look at, the pictures lend immediacy and humanity to significant issues that too often seem far removed from our day-to-day experience. —Craig Moy
Laurinda waits in her purple dress for the bus that will take her to Sunday School. She is among the many socially isolated young women in disadvantaged communities in Australia facing entrenched poverty, racism, trans-generational trauma, violence, addiction, and a range of other barriers to health and well-being. <br /><em>(Caption provided by World Press Photo)</em>
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World Press Photo 2015 in Toronto
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Wei, a 19-year-old Chinese worker, wearing a face mask and a Santa hat, stands next to Christmas decorations being dried in a factory as red powder used for coloring hovers in the air. He wears six masks a day and the hat protects his hair from the red dust, which covers workers from head to toe like soot after several hours of work. <br /><em>(Caption provided by World Press Photo)</em>
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Shipwrecked people are rescued aboard a boat 20 miles north of Libya by a frigate of the Italian navy. After hundreds of men, women and children had drowned in 2013 off the coast of Sicily and Malta, the Italian government put its navy to work under a campaign called “Mare Nostrum” rescuing refugees at sea. Only in 2014, 170,081 people were rescued and taken to Italy. <br /><em>(Caption provided by World Press Photo)</em>
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A group of young Samburu warriors encounter a rhino for the first time in their lives. Most people in Kenya never get the opportunity to see the wildlife that exists literally in their own backyard. <br /><em>(Caption provided by World Press Photo)</em>
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Argentina player Lionel Messi comes to face the World Cup trophy during the final celebrations at Maracana Stadium. His team lost to Germany 1-0, after a goal by Mario Götze in extra time. <br /><em>(Caption provided by World Press Photo)</em>
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• World Press Photo, Brookfield Place, 181 Bay St.; worldpressphoto.org
The Textile Museum Hypes Hooked Rugs
THE CRAFT TRADITION OF RUG HOOKING IS HIGHLIGHTED THIS FALL AT THE TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
Peter and Nancy as the two-headed Dog hooked rug (photo: Dalhousie Art Gallery)
SEPTEMBER 24 TO FEBRUARY 8 The intersection of craft and commerce is the focus of a significant new exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada. Part of the institution’s 40th-anniversary programming, “Home Economics” surveys the stories and iconography that have informed rug hooking, a prominent folk art with over 150 years of tradition and evolution in Canada. More than 100 pieces comprise the colourful show, documenting for contemporary viewers a rich history of artisanal entrepreneurship—particularly as practiced by women in this country’s rural areas. As with many things Canadian, regional differences play a role here: the coast-to-coast collection includes rugs by Emily Carr (yes, that Emily Carr), New Brunswick’s Gagetown Hookers (a.k.a. Lydia and Raymond Scott), and present-day artists like Toronto’s Barbara Klunder and Heather Goodchild. —Craig Moy
• Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre Ave., 416-599-5321; textilemuseum.ca
Where to See the Best Fall Colours Near Toronto
THE GOLDEN HORSESHOE REALLY EARNS ITS NICKNAME AS VIBRANT FALL COLOURS EMERGE ACROSS THE REGION’S ABUNDANT PARKS AND CONSERVATION AREAS—ALL JUST A SHORT DRIVE FROM TORONTO
The fall colours can be seen in abundance on the Niagara escarpment (photo: Jeff S. PhotoArt)
We may complain about the shorter days and the noticeable chill in the air, but one thing we can’t lament with autumn’s arrival is the beautiful change it brings to our parks and woodlands. While trees are, of course, reasonably abundant in Toronto, you really do owe it to yourself to take leave of the concrete jungle in order to view the most vibrant foliage. So pack a picnic (or just some sturdy hiking shoes) and head to these just-outside-of-town locations to be awed by the best fall colours near Toronto.
You Are Here: 16 Distillery District Shops, Restaurants and Galleries to Visit
TORONTO’S PROMINENT HERITAGE ‘HOOD IS STOCKED WITH UNIQUE BOUTIQUES, CONTEMPORARY GALLERIES, WELCOMING CAFÉS AND SHOWCASE RESTAURANTS.
See the Distillery District on a Segway Ontario tour
1 Sure, you can stroll the District on your own, or you could make your exploration more memorable by riding a gyroscopic scooter on a Segway Ontario tour. 30 Gristmill Ln., 416-642-0008; segwayofontario.com
2 Discover a local take on a Japanese tradition with a brew or two from the Ontario Spring Water Sake Company. 51 Gristmill Ln., 416-365-7253; ontariosake.com
3 A 19th-century pump house matches the old-world vibe of Balzac’s Coffee Roasters. An original Distillery tenant, it’s still enormously popular. 1 Trinity St., 416-207-1709; balzacs.com
4 It’s natural that a historic area would house at least one antique shop. Here, Blackbird Vintage Finds fulfills that role with one-of-a-kinds and other timeless home items. 11 Trinity St., 416-681-0558; blackbirdvintage.com
Angell Gallery Moves, Hangs New Bradley Wood Works
PAINTER BRADLEY WOOD INAUGURATES ANGELL GALLERY’S NEW LOCATION IN THE JUNCTION TRIANGLE
Angell Gallery owner Jamie Angell outside his new Dupont Street space (photo: Toronto Star, courtesy of Angell Gallery)
SEPTEMBER 11 TO OCTOBER 10 The work-in-progress Junction Triangle neighbourhood continues to boost its bona fides as Toronto’s newest gallery district. Joining the fray this month is Angell Gallery; the influential contemporary art space—its roster includes top creators like Kim Dorland and Steve Driscoll—has moved north after more than 15 years on Queen West. Though the gallery’s new digs are set within a somewhat nondescript business park, the contents inside remain vital as ever. Its inaugural exhibition is mounted by Bradley Wood, whose works paint an alluring yet vaguely abhorrent world of indistinct characters idling in luxurious settings. —Craig Moy
• Angell Gallery, 1444 Dupont St., 416-530-0444; angellgallery.com
Q&A: TIFF CEO Piers Handling on the Film Organization’s First 40 Years
YOU’VE HEARD OF TIFF SUPER-FANS, THE CINEPHILES THAT WATCH DOZENS OF MOVIES DURING THE FESTIVAL? THEY CAN’T HOLD A CANDLE TO PIERS HANDLING. TIFF’S DIRECTOR AND CEO HAS WORKED WITH THE ORGANIZATION SINCE 1982, AND HAS ATTENDED EVERY EDITION OF TIFF SINCE IT START 40 YEARS AGO.
TIFF Director and CEO Piers Handling (photo: George Pimentel / WireImage Getty for TIFF)
What have been some of the most memorable moments of your career with TIFF?
Coming to the first festival was obviously very impactful for me. I was pulled by a section of new German cinema that they’d programmed. New German cinema in the ‘70s was perhaps the most important emerging national cinema in the world. So that’s what pulled me here. And the audience: I really felt like there was an audience here of people like myself, who were crazy about film, and really crazy about quality, international, foreign-language film, which was what was driving me at that point in time in my career.
The Toronto International Film Festival Marks 40 Years of Movies
A MAJOR ANNIVERSARY AFFORDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK BACK AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’S BEGINNINGS
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Four decades is a long time in the life of any art form or industry—especially one as fickle as filmmaking. It’s rather exceptional when a single person or institution can not only enter but also remain in the cultural conversation across multiple generations. Yet it’s a feat that the Toronto International Film Festival has managed to pull off.
Marking its ruby anniversary this year, TIFF (which runs from September 10 to 20) continues to be one of the global movie business’s most significant annual events, an affair at which hundreds of the world’s most exciting motion pictures are introduced not only to industry insiders, but to everyday film fans seeking cinematic stories from new voices and auteurs alike.
The Aga Khan Museum Hosts Modern Middle Eastern Artworks
CONTEMPORARY ARAB ARTISTS BREAK DOWN GEO-POLITICAL BARRIERS AT THE AGA KHAN MUSEUM
Larissa Sansour’s Nation State—Olive Tree is among the works on display at the Aga Khan Museum’s latest contemporary exhibition
JULY 25 TO JANUARY 3 It’s now been a year since the Aga Khan Museum opened its doors. In that time it’s become renowned for its priceless assemblage of historical art and artifacts from the Arab world. Just as exciting, however, are its displays of modern creativity. The latest such show brings to Toronto two-dozen diverse, contemporary pieces from the collection of the UAE-based Barjeel Art Foundation. Situating works by Middle Eastern and North African artists—such as Iraq’s Dia al-Azzawi and Saudi Arabia’s Manal al-Dowayan—within a global context, the exhibition, appropriately titled “Home Ground,” addresses the ways in which navigating geo-political boundaries shape our sense of personal identity and our relationships within a society. —Craig Moy
• Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford Dr., 416-646-4677; agakhanmuseum.org
Things to Do in Toronto: Top Shows & Events for September 2015
THERE ARE ALWAYS SO MANY THINGS TO DO IN TORONTO. GET OUT AND ENJOY SOME OF THE MANY GREAT PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS TAKING PLACE THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN SEPTEMBER!
Empire opens this month in Toronto (photo: Danielle Covin)
SEPTEMBER 1 TO 27 Some shows defy categorization. Such is the case with Empire, a travelling production that comes with its own theatre, a mammoth, 700-seat tent with upholstered booths, beveled mirrors and a speakeasy style bar. Part circus, part cabaret and part burlesque—parents be forewarned, some exposed skin and scantily clad performers are featured—the provocative, daring, seductive and graceful performance includes the likes of a Japanese wheelmaster named the Half Naked Asian Dude Wearing Pigtails, a contortionist trapped in an aerial sphere and gymnasts who form pyramids with their bodies.
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Lord Hutton to report on 28 January
Senior British judge Lord Hutton will publish his potentially explosive report into last year's suicide of Dr David Kelly on 28 January.
15 Jan 2004 20:27 GMT
Kelly was found dead on 17 July 2003
It's a week that could define Prime Minister Tony Blair's future.
Kelly, the government scientist and Iraq weapons expert,
slashed his wrist in a deserted copse last July after being exposed as the source for a BBC reporter's claim that Blair's team inflated the threat posed by Iraq, to justify war.
The government helped make Kelly's name public and is likely to be criticised.
"Lord Hutton's report into the circumstances surrounding the death of Doctor David Kelly will be...published in parliament on Wednesday 28 January," the Hutton inquiry said in a statement.
On his verdict could rest the fate of senior ministers, government mandarins and BBC chiefs, maybe even Blair himself.
Blair has said he will resign if the report finds he lied.
Crucial vote
It will be unveiled just one day after the premier faces a make-or-break vote in parliament on controversial plans to make students pay more for higher education.
Lord Hutton's report will be
released on 28 January
Rebels in his Labour Party are determined to defeat Blair, posing another seismic threat to his authority.
If he loses and is then personally criticised by Hutton, his Conservative opponents, rejuvenated under combative leader Michael Howard, will pounce.
On the day, Hutton will read a summary of his findings in court and Blair will make a full statement to parliament.
The judge will give interested parties, but nobody else, 24 hours to read the report before it comes out.
He will then slip into retirement - giving him nothing to lose or fear from the establishment.
Still no WMDs in Iraq
Through summer 2003, the inquiry gripped Britain and polls showed public trust in Blair fading.
Nine months after Saddam was toppled, not one of the weapons of mass destruction that Blair claimed the Iraqi leader had primed for use, has been discovered.
Nobody involved is expected to emerge with much credit.
"I think there will be legitimate criticism of government decision-making processes and of the BBC," Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy said. "Whether that's a resignation issue, I think we are quite a long way from that."
Bookmakers William Hill put long odds - 20-1 - on Blair leaving his job by the end of the month.
The Conservatives believe they can implicate Blair, although Hutton may not mention him at all.
Blair has repeatedly denied any
wrongdoing
On the last day of the inquiry, Sir Kevin Tebbit, top civil servant at the Ministry of Defence, said Blair had chaired a meeting where it was decided to make a statement clarifying the government's position - a move which led to Kelly's exposure.
Blair's denial
Days after Kelly's death, Blair emphatically denied authorising the leaking of the scientist's name to the media.
Blair's aides waged a furious campaign against the BBC to retract the report by its defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan, something the public broadcaster refused to do.
Government officials were then told to confirm Kelly's name to journalists if they came up with it - which they did.
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, Kelly's ultimate boss, is bound to feature in the report. Analysts have speculated he has been lined up as a fall guy if the government comes under fire.
Hoon was placed at a meeting where officials at his ministry agreed to confirm Kelly was the suspected BBC source.
And he overruled advice to shield Kelly from a hostile parliamentary grilling he endured days before his death.
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Building Tomorrow's Machinists
Partnerships between a large U.S. machine-tool builder and learning institutions shape manufacturing education for the next generation.
Leslie Gordon | Dec 01, 2004
Fritz Smydra (left), professor Machine Trade Program, Lansing Community College, and Kenneth Wright, Manufacturing Productivity Systems/CNC, Henry Ford Community College, believe in keeping manufacturing education firmly anchored in the real world.
At Henry Ford Community College's HTEC, students learn the trade on Haas CNC machine tools.
Students at Henry Ford Community College's HTEC must first learn the trigonometry and math for calculating cutter compensation. Once they know this, they put data directly into the machine's control, which automatically performs necessary compensation.
Once the newest HTEC located at Lansing Community College is completed, students will work with eight Haas CNC machine tools.
In the future, HTECs plan on purchasing software from Immersive Engineering that lets a student press buttons on the desktop virtual controller with his mouse to jog the virtual machine tool or enter code into the controller, which then "runs" the machine.
Lansing's HTEC is having a DNC system installed that will let the center's lab computers talk directly to its shop-floor machine tools.
Manufacturing education must be anchored in the real world, even as it encompasses the latest in technology and virtual reality. But a problem has been that students often don't get the hands-on experience they need before hitting the shop floor. That's why CNC machine tool manufacturer Haas Automation Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has stepped in to shape the future of manufacturing education through its Haas Technical Education Centers (HTECs). These centers combine the resources of Haas Automation, local Haas Factory Outlets (HFOs), technical career centers, and schools including technical, community, and four-year colleges.
At the HTECs, students enrolled in manufacturing technology curriculums such as those taught by Kenneth Wright at Henry Ford Community College (HFCC), Dearborn, Mich., and by Fritz Smydra at Lansing Community College (LCC), Lansing, Mich., receive advanced, hands-on technical training on the latest Haas CNC machine tools. Students go from "art to part," learning how to estimate job costs, design parts in CAD/CAM software, write G and M code, set up and run the CNC machine tools, and implement machine-maintenance schedules. They also learn to use in-process monitoring probes and about ISO quality standards.
In addition, HFCC's center "teaches the teachers," hosting seminars for high school and community college instructors to learn effective teaching methods and the latest machine tool technologies, while earning required continuing-education credits. LCC's center also provides ongoing training for customers who purchase Haas machines.
And soon, LCC's center will boost manufacturing education to next-generation levels with the addition of special emulation software that will make for dynamic " on demand" or "just-in-time" training. The center also plans to install a direct numerical control (DNC) system that will let students input CAD/CAM files they have designed on the lab computers directly into the shop's machine tools.
Michigan has become one of the most active states in the national program, now boasting four HTECs overseen by a state Haas Technical Education Council — a group of educators, Haas personnel, and industry members that promotes quality manufacturing education. In conjunction with Wright, recently elected council chair, the council is also implementing a national certification program to standardize measurement of CNC operator and programmer competency.
The prototype HTEC in Michigan was established at HFCC in 1999 and the next one at Kalamazoo Community College, Kalamazoo, Mich. The latter had a tiny budget, only letting the school buy one machine a year, so Haas devised a method of "entrusting" machines. For each machine a school buys, the company entrusts it with one at no cost, replacing the machines every two years. This ensures that worthy schools have the latest technology.
The newest HTEC will be located in a technology center nearing completion at LCC. Bob Skodzinsky, president of the Flat Rock, Mich. HFO, a division of Gerotech Inc., explains, "We started the state council in 2000, with only six of us at the first meeting. Recently, we had 45 people attending the latest meeting at the new $ 50 - million technology center."
Shaping the path
Wright is CNC instructor for the Manufacturing Productivity Systems program at HFCC, which houses the local HTEC. He explains, "A community college should serve the community. For example, young people today don't always want an associate degree. Rather, they might just need three or four CNC courses. So we've structured the curriculum in modules — students can enter or leave the program at any time."
He contends, "People today are very mobile. In some areas of the country, milling is big and in others turning is — so we need to cover both. When I was coming up in a jobshop, workers were just surfacegrinder or jig-bore hands. Today, they have to multitask. And in many universities, young engineering students don't get the hands-on experience they should have before they hit the shop floor. HTECs give students needed experience."
EC at HFCC boasts four Haas machine tools. One is a production SL-20 turning machine that features a barfeeder and a live C axis. Wright's students make parts such as one cut from 2-in.-diameter aluminum stock that they first turn on the chucker lathe, an SL 20 set up to do discreet parts. They then use the milling machine to cut the part’s shape and engrave the school’s name. But before students cut parts, they must learn trigonometry and math for calculating cutter compensation. Once they know this, students learn how to input data into the machine control, which automatically per-forms necessary compensation. Students also learn G and M code and writing macros, which let them add variables, math formulas, and if/then statements to the code. Wright does not teach conversational programming to beginning students.
He explains, "It's much better if students learn G and M code first because they are actually learning the logic behind the programming. So when they do get into conversational, they understand the flow of how things will go."
Just-in-time learning
Smydra, Lansing CNC instructor, also keeps the LCC center focused on real-world shop issues. Besides teaching students, the HTEC provides demos for potential customers and even does short part runs, ironing out any potential problems before customers machine the parts in their own shops. And ongoing training is available for people who bought Haas machines.
Smydra's students learn the trade on eight Haas machine tools, taking either a Unigraphics or a MasterCAM track. They are taught to design parts directly in the software and by putting blueprint specifications into it. Smydra also shows them how to save time by downloading from the Internet jig and fixture dimensions already in CAD programs.
Smydra continues, "Rather than using a programmer in an ivory tower, most shops are doing programming on the shop floor. Students learn to copy and paste code right on the controllers, on-the-fly."
Taking programming to the next level, the center is soon having a DNC system installed that will let the lab computers talk directly to the machine tools. This is possible because of recent advances in communication technology that have eliminated electromagnetic-interference problems previously present in wireless environments.
Smydra explains, "A student last year designed a part in MasterCAM that wound up being 7 million lines of code. The controller can't take that much information at one time, but the DNC can 'trickle feed' it complicated surfaces such as an injection mold. Last year, we had to do this by hooking a laptop to the controller through the RS-232 port, u s i n g the laptop as basically a memory bank."
The center is also purchasing a license for special emulation software, from Immersive Engineering, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., that is part of a larger learning-content management system. The software should provide "granular," just-in-time learning, giving students just what they want, when they want it. It realistically simulates the Haas controller interface and machine tool on Windows-based PCs. For example, a student can press buttons on the desktop virtual controller with his mouse to jog the virtual machine tool or enter code into the controller, which then "runs" the machine.
The software should also foster increased learning. HFCC's Wright explains, " Studies have found that many people learn better visually — they have better retention and learn more at one sitting. And because students will be able to learn on PCs at school or on the Internet at home at two in the morning, more students will learn controllers than previously possible."
Haas also expects the emulation software to have potential implications for industry, where much of going from conceptual design to debugging has been done in a serial fashion. With it, companies can more-easily control part-manufacturing processes in parallel. For example, they can ramp up the workforce at the same time they are developing the workcell.
Michigan HTEC
Bob Skodzinsky, president of the Flat Rock, Mich. HFO, a division of Gerotech Inc., says in searching for a potential school to host a HTEC, top on the Haas list is the school's commitment to CNC education.
Bob Skodzinsky, president of the Flat Rock, Mich. HFO, a division of Gerotech Inc., says, "Michigan HTECs started about five years ago, when the owner of Gerotech, a distributor of Haas machine tools, suggested there ought to be a technical-education program involving schools. In fact, California already had a similar program, and Michigan was ripe. For one, the Detroit area alone is huge with a lot of different manufacturing going on. Michigan is also number two in the country in R&D, which goes hand-in-hand with manufacturing."
In scouting potential HTEC locations, he explains, "We first did a scatter diagram and pinpointed over 6,000 shops in Michigan that cut metal. Haas wanted to put centers near these shops. But equally important are the host school's resources, commitment, and attitude toward CNC education. If a school has only 15 or 20 students, that's less important than its desire and ability to grow."
Skodzinsky continues, "Making a commitment means not only purchasing Haas machines but also participation. At least once a year, school representatives should attend the national meeting, where they can both learn and share ideas. There, Haas works with each school, helping it market its own programs. Today, manufacturers and schools alike must be out there — they have to show their products, and they have to hustle."
Kenneth Wright, Manufacturing Productivity Systems/CNC, Henry Ford Community College, [email protected]
Fritz Smydra, professor, Machine Trades Program, Lansing Community College, [email protected]
Bob Skodzinsky, president of the Flat Rock, Mich. HFO, a division of Gerotech Inc., [email protected]
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