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Cisco to acquire AI startup MindMeld
Cisco is on an acquisition spree announcing its intent to buy 3 companies in a span of just over ten days. Cisco has announced that it is buying conversational AI startup MindMeld in a $125 million deal. This is Cisco's fourth acquisition this year with three of those being announced this month.
MindMeld, a startup founded in 2011 began by developing an app for the iPad which would listen in on your conversations and provide relevant information. Since then it has come a long way to include a suite of API's for parsing, reasoning and generating language.
"With MindMeld, we will enhance our Collaboration suite, adding new conversational interfaces to our collaboration products starting with Cisco Spark," said Rob Salvagno, Cisco's head of corporate development. "I’m excited for the potential represented by the MindMeld team and their technology, coupled with Cisco’s market-leading collaboration portfolio, to enable us to create a user experience that is unlike anything that exists in the market today".
Cisco has been very serious about its future plans for its software business and they realize that the AI will form the core of this service. The acquisition helps Cisco provide an interface for interaction between users and the computer across all its platforms, starting with the Cisco Spark.
"The workplace of the future is one powered by AI," said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president, Cisco IoT and Applications Group. "This is a significant step toward making that workplace a reality. Integrating MindMeld into the Cisco Spark platform will transform how users interact in Cisco Spark Spaces, Cisco Spark Meetings, and Cisco Spark Care."
Cisco said that the MindMeld team will form the new Cognitive Collaboration team within Cisco's IoT and applications group. Cisco will acquire MindMeld for $125 million in cash and assumed equity awards. The acquisition is expected to close in Cisco's fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, following customary closing conditions and regulatory review.
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Teridion’s WAN service is integrating with Cisco Meraki’s technology
Cisco is open-sourcing the MindMeld AI Conversational Platform
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SpaceX Reports Significant Broadband Satellite Progress
By Larry Press
May 17, 2019 11:51 AM PDT
SpaceX may be approaching debris detection as a machine-learning problem in which the entire constellation, not individual satellites, is learning to avoid collisions.
SpaceX delayed last Wednesdays Starlink launch due to high winds and on Thursday they decided to do a software update and postpone the launch until next week, but they revealed significant progress in their Starlink mission press release and in tweets by and a media call with Elon Musk.
Starlink size comparison – novel packaging accommodates 60 satellites in a single launch. (Source)
The mission press release said SpaceX has significantly reduced the size and weight of their satellites. Their initial November 2016 FCC filing specified 386 kg satellites that measured 4 x 1.8 x 1.2 meters. In February 2018, they launched two Internet-service test satellites — TinTin A and B — that measured only 1.1 x .7 x .7 meters with a total mass of approximately 400 kg. The mass of the Starlink satellites will be only 227 kg, about 43% that of the test satellites. (They are still heavier than OneWeb's 147.4 kg test satellites)
As far as I know, SpaceX has not previously commented on the number of satellites that might be launched at once, but the number was generally estimated as 25-30 after considering constraints on mass, volume, and numbers of satellites per orbital plane. As shown here, they will be launching a surprising 60 flat-packed satellites. Launching 60 satellites also demonstrates continued progress in rocket capability — this will be the heaviest SpaceX payload ever.
The speed and density of satellites in
low-earth orbit increase the likelihood
of a cascading debris collision. (Source)The current and planned proliferation of low-earth orbit satellites increases the likelihood of a Kessler Syndrome event — a cascade of collisions between satellites and the ensuing debris. The press release alluded to what may be a significant advance in debris mitigation, stating that:
Each spacecraft is equipped with a Startracker navigation system that allows SpaceX to point the satellites with precision. Importantly, Starlink satellites are capable of tracking on-orbit debris and autonomously avoiding a collision.
That would be a breakthrough if feasible, but on first consideration, it seems impossible. Low-earth orbit satellites move very fast and even if a satellite had the resolution and pattern-recognition capability to "see" debris in its path, it would not be able to maneuver quickly enough to avoid a collision. That point was raised in this online discussion and a possible solution suggested — the entire constellation could dynamically pool and share data from each satellite as well as use NORAD tracking data, which Musk mentioned during the media call.
SpaceX may be approaching this as a machine-learning problem in which the entire constellation, not individual satellites, is learning to avoid collisions using its shared data as well as data from other sources like NORAD. One can imagine sharing such data with competitors like OneWeb and Telesat or even with Russia, China or India. (Elon Musk is known to read science fiction — this speculation is reminiscent of Azimov's Gaia or Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere).
The prospect of launching 60 satellites at once and a shared-data approach to collision avoidance have grabbed my attention, but Musk's tweets and media call were also highly informative — a few examples:
There's a lot of new technology in the satellites — things could go wrong.
The initial constellation will not have inter-satellite links.
Each Starlink costs more to launch than it does to make.
They will partner with telephone companies in sparsely populated regions.
Six more launches of 60 sats needed for minor coverage, 12 for moderate.
We have sufficient capital to build an operational constellation.
All that and they have yet to launch the satellites — stay tuned.
By Larry Press, Professor of Information Systems at California State University – He has been on the faculties of the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Southern California, and worked for IBM and the System Development Corporation. Larry maintains a blog on Internet applications and implications at cis471.blogspot.com and follows Cuban Internet development at laredcubana.blogspot.com. Visit Page
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“American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry” Available on DVD and BluRay TODAY
Posted on October 7, 2016 by Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena
The Grand Ole Opry® presented by Humana® will release its first-ever concert film, American Saturday Night: Live From the Grand Ole Opry, on DVD and BluRay in Opry retail stores during this weekend’s Opry Birthday Bash. The film will be available via ecommerce beginning Tues., Nov. 1.
American Saturday Night: Live From the Grand Ole Opry debuted late last year in 200+ cinemas across the U.S. The made-for-cinema feature film offers audiences a virtual front row seat and VIP all-access pass to country music’s most famous show, including live Opry performances and backstage conversations with Opry members Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, and Darius Rucker as well as The Band Perry and Brett Eldredge.
Paisley is set to return live to the Opry stage this Sat., Oct. 8 as part of the show’s Birthday Bash.
About the Grand Ole Opry: The Grand Ole Opry® is presented by Humana®. Opry performances are held every Friday and Saturday of the year, with Tuesday Night Opry shows running through December 13. The Opry presents the best in country music live every week from Nashville, Tenn. Celebrating nine decades of entertainment, the Opry can be heard at opry.com and wsmonline.com, Opry and WSM mobile apps, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and its flagship home, 650 AM-WSM. The Grand Ole Opry is owned by Ryman Hospitality Properties (NYSE: RHP). For more information, visit opry.com.
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
PULP-GODFATHER
CLOCKWORK (PS1)
CATALYTIC OBJECTS
PHOTO EVENT
FAST RABBIT
Cafe Edition
FILM STILLS & POSTERS
PRESS & PRINT
In my ongoing series “Personas”, Iʼve chosen film moments to which I have a particularly strong and visceral reaction, and into which I wish to project myself. The poetic and metaphoric content of three-dimensional objects are put in the service of this encounter between the author/viewer and a movie character. In orchestrating film, object, and sound, I can create a site in which a movie scene can once again become immediate. The viewer, unable to avoid the projection, inextricably becomes a vital element in the artwork and must engage directly with the artist’s dilemma of desire and identity.
Video projection, felt, broken billiard balls.
Video projection is an altered scene from “Once Upon A Time in the West” with Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda, looped.
Video is silent, and projection is partially obstructed by objects.
Broken billiard balls on pile of felt sheets.
Once Upon A Time In The West (detail 1)
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One Foot Outside the Door by Vina St. Fran Book Blitz @Vinastfran
Good lovin’ is easy…But true happiness is harder to find…
To anyone on the outside looking in through the door of Cyndarella Worthy’s life, it looks like she’s got it all. At thirty-two, she’s beautiful and successful, with a handsome brother lover, Thad Mitchell.
But deep in her heart, she holds a candle for Bashar Bazzi, the Chaldean immigrant she loved ten years ago. Bashar left for Iraq and she never saw him again, and she assumes he made a marriage within his own community without a backward glance.
Cyn’s girlfriends, Tavie, Denise and Vette, know that their sister still carries the scars of Bashar, but they pray she’ll find love and peace with Thad. Anyway, they’ve got issues too: Tavie’s dating smart school principal, Mack Dooley, but she can’t escape the rumors that he’s playing around; Denise’s marriage to Sean is under pressure because she hasn’t conceived a second child; Vette’s dating an older guy, Louis Burns, but wonders if she’ll ever get a ring on her finger.
When Thad proposes to Cyn and she accepts, it looks like this sister’s finally on her way to true happiness. But no sooner are the celebrations done, when there’s trouble—Bashar Bazzi is home, and he’s ready to settle his unfinished business with Cyn…
The passionate, powerful heart-breaking prequel to Betrayal’s Dust by Vina St Fran.
Book Title: One Foot Outside the Door
Author: Vina St. Fran
Genre: Interracial Romance/Multicultural Romance
There are men who speak about their penis as if it is an extended member of their family. They damn near burst out of their pants to make the introduction. The thing they fail to realize is that, for most women, inches can’t compensate for character or a man’s worth.
Cyndarella Worthy’s mama always told her how to behave like a lady throughout much of her life. Except when it came to the subject of men. Perhaps had they had such conversations, it would have spared Cyn the consequential heartache she racked up in dating deadbeats.
Hell, Cyn pouted, most women don’t realize they’re dating a fucking’ loser until each layer is peeled back piece by piece like an onion. So much so, it ends up making everything around you tear.
First of all, you got to check off the outer layer. Of course he's dangerously fine, like Terrance Howard. All the way down to that little smirk of a smile on his face that initially drives you wild. This is a man that any mother would pray her daughter would bring home. A well groomed professional man with the material trimmings that would make most women's hearts swoon, and let’s not neglect to mention that big fat bank account.
Accompanying this package are the big boy-toys, you know, the E-Class Mercedes Benz, and perhaps a Hummer or some other luxury SUV parked next to the Benz in his three-car garage. And, imagine, there is an empty spot waiting he’s been saving just for you! He’s a go-getter on the fast track career-wise. Heck, there ain’t anything sexier than a man on a mission!
Three months have passed and by now you’ve discovered the middle layer. Your potential Mr. Right is charming, blends into most social settings and loves to shower you with affection. And yes, you've hit the sheets with him to find he is equipped with a substantial-sized tool to drill you deep in the wee hours of the night.
Women lie when they say size don’t matter, Cyn reasoned.
In her clinical experience, Cyn found fucking men with little dicks required much more work in order for her to achieve an orgasm. God forbid if they suffered from premature ejaculation! For her it wasn’t an option she desired to explore.
Getting to the inner layer some six months later, you find that things aren't quite working out. Mr. Right has fast become Mr. Wrong. He starts calling you less and making excuses why he's unavailable. And when you are together, his cell phone rings all through the night, and he can't seem to keep his lies straight as to who’s on the other end of the phone. It is then you realize the object of your affection has started to show his ass and, of course, it's all because he thinks things are moving way too fast. He needs time to sort things out. Bottom line is, Mr. Lover Man isn't ready to commit and has moved on to his next conquest.
Examining herself, at thirty-two, Cyn was striking in appearance. Yet, she was further from the altar than she’d ever been. Not only that, Cyn had what she called the five Bs: bank, beauty, boobs, booty and brains. And the fact she hadn’t become a member of the single mothers’ club made her stick her chest out even more. But wouldn’t you know, some people viewed her as selfish because of this? That was their problem, not hers.
Thad Mitchell, Cyn’s latest flame, was a bit different from the usual targets she dated. He was divorced with a four-year-old daughter. Normally, Cyn didn’t do men with baby mommas because she hated the drama that went along with it. Too many of her girlfriends had suffered just because they made the mistake of falling in love with a man who had dependents. Despite their good intentions, some men never truly, completely made a clean break.
It just so happened Cyn lucked out, because Thad’s ex got remarried overseas to a fellow naval officer, so Thad rarely got weekend visits. It was more of a long- distance phone relationship. Heather, his ex, was great about sending family videos and photos. Thad visited twice a year, which Cyn encouraged because she sure as hell didn’t want anything getting in the middle of quality time with her man, namely him drowning his sorrows because he missed his little girl.
At eight months old, the relationship was still quite fresh and Thad agreed to something most men couldn’t seem to follow through on: courtship. That was the one stipulation Cyn had before she’d accept a single date with a man. And if he wasn’t consistent, forget about it! Three months into their courtship, Thad hadn’t failed her. With a demanding high profile career, Cyn rarely had time for anything more than an occasional fling every now and then. Not that she minded variety at all, but she had to admit, her favorite slogan, ‘A few good men’, was starting to get stale.
Thad was eye candy at its finest. At 6’ 5”, weighing in around 280 pounds, his body was definitely lean and mean. He had fair skin and a strong jaw line, accompanied by keen facial features that appeared like they had been chiseled into place. The thought alone of staring up into Thad’s piercing hazel eyes made her ache to be with him. And being with him felt right. She was satisfied with the way they were progressing. She kept her fingers crossed that they would stay that way.
Hi. I'm Vina St. Fran, a Michigan native and I write contemporary romance stories for a mature audience. I am also Political Contributor for Examiner.com, which is an online news publication.
Let me expound upon what drives me to write as an author. I like creating stories about powerful, kick-ass women who make it happen in the boardroom and the bedroom without apologies. You will find my novels may contain characters of different ethnic backgrounds who add spice to the plot, and makes for interesting reading.
My female heroines are confident and charismatic, yet they are vulnerable when it comes to matters of the heart. The realism is heartfelt, for to love is to risk. They find certain situations push them to the brink of despair, yet in the middle of it all they manage to enjoy amazing, fulfilling sex lives with their significant others, which is thrilling and downright erotic. The end result is that the characters mature, and develop into stronger women.
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F-Secure CRO Urges EU Countries to Steer Away from U.S. Built Systems
10/28/2013 10:43:00 AM Cynthia Brumfield No comments
Cybersecurity expert and Chief Research Officer for Finnish software company F-Secure Mikko Hyppönen today urged EU countries to steer clear of U.S. software and services in light of the ongoing revelations that the NSA engages in mass surveillance of EU citizens and officials. Speaking at TEDx Brussels on a day when the latest Snowden disclosure revealed that the NSA collected data on 60 million phone calls in yet another European country, Spain, during a recent month, Hyppönen said EU countries should "try to steer away from systems built in the United States"
The big challenge is that "any single company in Europe cannot build replacements" that rival U.S. technology in terms of scope and utility. The solution lies in EU countries banding together to build open source systems "then one country doesn't have to solve the problem by itself," Hyppönen suggested.
Although all countries engage in surveillance, the real problem lies in the concentration of technological dominance in the United States. "How many Swedish decision-makers use U.S.-based services" such as Windows or cloud-based services every day, he asked. Conversely, "how many American leaders use Swedish-based services?"
Even services developed outside the U.S., such as Skype, become subject to insecurity once they're acquired by American firms within the reach of the NSA, he said. "Once again we take something that is secure and make it insecure on purpose."
Even though the NSA only has the legal right to monitor foreigners, "96% of the planet is foreigners. It is wholesale surveillance of all of us," Hyppönen said.
Regarding the apparent discrepancy between leaked NSA slides that indicate U.S. technology companies, such as Microsoft and Google, cooperate with the intelligence agency via backdoors or some other means of secret access and those companies' denials that such cooperation exists, Hyppönen floated an alternative explanation. "One explanation is that these parties or service providers are not cooperating but they've been hacked. In this case they've been hacked by their own government."
Regarding the massive scale of NSA's surveillance activities, Hyppönen compared the new NSA data center under construction in Utah to IKEA stores, saying the new center is five times larger than the largest IKEA store. "How many hard drives could you fit into an IKEA store?" he asked. "They can keep the data for decades."
The two biggest technological revolutions in recent history, the Internet and mobile communications, "turned out to be the most perfect tools for the surveillance state," Hyppönen said. "It turns out George Orwell was an optimist."
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Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” Wants Everyone To Remember “Family Is The Best Gift of All”
November 7, 2015 November 14, 2015 Amy Crooks 0 Comments disney frozen, frozen
In news from Disney a couple of days ago, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” is celebrating the holiday season with a reminder that “Family Is The Best Gift of All.” Watch for Disney Channel to debut some “Frozen”-related programs, new information from Disney Interactive and a cool photo contest called “Say Freeze!”
Read more from the press release below:
WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS’ “FROZEN” CELEBRATES THE HOLIDAY SEASON BY REMINDING EVERYONE THAT
“FAMILY IS THE BEST GIFT OF ALL.”
Heartwarming Holiday Message from “Frozen” Reminds Fans
of the Importance of Family During the Holidays
“Say Freeze!” Family Photo Contest Gives “Frozen” Fans an Opportunity to Win an Unforgettable Vacation for Four to the Walt Disney World Resort and Be Among the First to Experience the All-New “Frozen Ever After” Attraction at the Norway Pavilion in Epcot®
“Frozen Fever,” the Animated “Frozen” Short, Makes Its Disney Channel Debut
Other Holiday Debuts Include the Disney Interactive “As Told By Emoji” version of “Frozen Fever
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen” ushers in the holidays by wishing all fans a wonderful season, celebrating that “Family Is The Best Gift of All,” through a holiday message, “Frozen”-related television debuts on Disney Channel, new content from Disney Interactive and an exciting photo contest inspired by the “Frozen” family, “Say Freeze!” in which fans will have an opportunity to win a dream vacation for four to experience Frozen Fun at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida!
“In both ‘Frozen’ and ‘Frozen Fever,’ the concept of family was explored and celebrated. By the end of the feature film, Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven have formed their own unique bond, and there is no better time than the holiday season to remind us that family truly is the best gift of all,” says Oscar®-winning producer, Peter Del Vecho.
Say Freeze! – Enter the “Frozen” Family photo contest today and show us what the word “family” means to you!
As the holiday season approaches, it’s time to grab your cameras and Say Freeze! Inspired by the awkward family photo in “Frozen Fever,” send in your funniest, sweetest, and wackiest
family portraits and you could win a magical vacation for four to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida! From your family at home to your sorority sisters to your soccer teammates, a “family” can be anyone with whom you share a close bond. Show us who truly makes up your “family,” and what makes them “the best gift of all” this holiday season.
One Grand Prize winner will meet the royal sisters, Anna and Elsa, and be among the first in forever to experience the all-new “Frozen Ever After” attraction at the Norway Pavilion in Epcot – opening in 2016! Contest entrants have an opportunity to win:
GRAND PRIZE: A 6-day/5-night vacation for four to the Walt Disney World Resort,including Magic Your Way tickets with Park Hopper® option, character greeting, and more!
SECOND PRIZE: Original artwork of Anna, Olaf & Elsa signed by Oscar®-winning directors Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, & producer Peter Del Vecho, Frozen Feverlimited edition lithograph, “The Art of Frozen” book, and a Frozen-themed gift basket.
THIRD PRIZE:A gift basket featuring Frozen products.
To enter, capture a photo of your “family” and submit it, along with a caption telling us about your one-of-a-kind family at Disney.com/SayFreeze or through Disney’s Applause app, which is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play. The entry period runs through November 30, 2015 and winners will be announced following a public vote among the finalists in December.
The Disney Applause app is free to download and lets you submit your photos and videos to Disney contests and sweepstakes with ease. New challenges are added all the time, so be sure to check the app frequently for more Disney fun!
Learn more about the contest at Disney.com/SayFreeze. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Enter by 11/30/15. Open to legal residents of all ages of the 50 U.S. & D.C. Minors must get parent’s permission to enter. Visit Disney.com/SayFreeze to enter & for full Official Rules including the definition of a “family,” eligibility restrictions, entry requirements & prize limitations. Many will enter. Few will win. Void where prohibited.
Disney Channel debuts the animated short, “Frozen Fever,” as well as a music video version of “Making Today A Perfect Day” featuring the stars of the Disney Channel series, “Best Friends Whenever”
After its theatrical debut with “Cinderella” in Spring 2015, the popular animated short “Frozen Fever,” which reunited the original filmmaking team behind the feature film, debuts Sunday, November 29 within Disney’s “Descendants” at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT on Disney Channel. In “Frozen Fever,” it’s Anna’s birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but when Elsa catches a cold, her powers may put more than just the party at risk.
Disney Channel will also debut a special music video featuring the cast of “Best Friends Whenever,” singing their version of “Making Today A Perfect Day” on Friday, November 13 after an all-new “Girl Meets World” at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. The song from “Frozen Fever” is written by the Academy Award®-winning team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez.
Disney Interactive continues its hit series “As Told By Emoji” with its version of “Frozen Fever”
Hurry and text your friends… another Disney emoji video is coming soon! In the all-new Frozen Fever As Told By Emoji video, emoji-fied versions of Elsa, Anna, Olaf, and the rest of our favorite Frozen friends are back to retell the story of Disney’s “Frozen Fever,” with help from the short film’s popular song “Making Today A Perfect Day.”
The video is the fourth installment of Disney’s As Told By Emoji, a new series of videos that retell popular Disney stories by recasting our favorite characters as emoji living within a mobile phone.
Fans can watch Frozen Fever As Told By Emoji on Disney Channel and Disney’s YouTube channel in early December.
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Celebrity Pushes Violence, Patience Curbs It
September 4th, 2015 by dk
“I want to be fully dressed in Camo in my casket.” This ghoulish request for hunting garb came from a high school freshman in Marysville, Wash. in a group text he sent just before he killed four classmates and then himself. His final moments were spent on Facebook and his cell phone, telling family and friends how he wanted to be remembered.
Last week, a disgruntled and unstable man gunned down two former colleagues on live television, but he was careful also to post the event live on Facebook and Twitter. Footage quickly appeared on YouTube, where entire channels are now devoted to him. He took time out from his escape to fax a 23-page screed to ABC News before killing himself.
One of his claimed motivations was to avenge Dylann Roof, the South Carolina gunman who interrupted a prayer meeting with a hail of bullets, driving thousands to his Facebook page where he posed proudly with his beloved Confederate flag. Google “Dylann” and only one of the first 100 links does not refer to Dylann Roof. (Pity Hollywood casting director Dylann Brander.)
I cite these three examples — there are many more — in response to Springfield Detective David Lewis’ plaintive observation, as reported by The Register-Guard’s Chelsea Gorrow: “In my own personal opinion, life seems cheaper these days. And when you have that attitude, it probably seems easier to pull the trigger.”
Eugene and Springfield have seen a spike in violent crime this summer, following a trend that’s appearing in many cities across the country. The tally of 2015 homicides in Washington, DC last week surpassed the total for all of 2014. Nobody quite understands why.
Lewis has thought about the issue more often and from a closer vantage than most of us, but I wonder if he’s captured only half of the formula that is disrupting so many lives and all of our psyches this summer. Life may not be less valued, but celebrity is certainly more attainable.
Each of us wants to be understood, to be known. There’s a reason solitary confinement is considered a punishment. If heinous acts, properly planned, can make a person famous, that lures many desperate people. If we can’t be sure we’ll be known, we can at least control what we were known for — “fully dressed in Camo.”
As social media tools remove barriers between us and instant celebrity, more will succumb to this temptation. It took a little while for the pattern to emerge, but now that bell won’t easily be unrung.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The spike in violent crimes has been notable because crime rates have been falling for most of the last decade. This trend has likewise stymied experts, because recessions usually bring more violence to the streets.
I think the cause was the same: cell phones, cameras, and their pipeline to instant notoriety. Any purse-snatcher had to suddenly beware of their face being broadcast within seconds by an alert victim or passerby with a phone and a Facebook account.
Most criminals don’t want to be caught — but there will always be some who do.
And then there’s the link between crime waves and heat waves, as noted by The Atlantic magazine. Climate change makes our streets more dangerous.
Our summer temperatures in Eugene were almost two degrees warmer than most recent years, which doesn’t seem like much. The weather trends are different elsewhere, but a disruption from what’s normal is a common narrative.
Most of us can adapt to such small changes, but it’s not so easy for people who are “on the edge,” “barely keeping it together,” “trying to make ends meet,” or “just waiting to go BOOM!”
So what can we do, if celebrity is easier, coping is harder, and “life seems cheaper these days”? That’s the only question that can keep us from feeling powerless in the face of these trends.
We cannot control the pace and openness of the Internet. Our choices today may affect the planet’s temperature, but not tomorrow’s forecast. All we can really do is allow those around to us to feel known and understood.
Show patience for those who seem to have lost theirs. Be available. Befriend.
Don Kahle (fridays@dksez.com) writes a column each Friday for The Register-Guard and blogs at www.dksez.com.
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The poster on the death of Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi's son was put up on the EdUHK democracy wall (inset). The school said two suspects were caught by a CCTV camera in the act. Photo: HKEJ/Internet
EdUHK ‘broke’ privacy law over screenshots leak in poster saga
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) said the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) violated privacy rules over the leak of screenshots relating to a poster on the death of Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin’s son.
The poster “congratulated” Choi on her son’s death by suicide and was put up on the student union’s democracy wall.
PCPD said circulating screenshots to look for suspects in the case was exempt under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, but sending the screenshots to EdUHK staff for identification and investigation broke privacy regulations, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports.
The watchdog demanded remedial measures to prevent a recurrence of the leak.
Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, the school principal, said two people suspected of putting up the poster were caught in the act by security cameras.
Two screenshots of the suspects were leaked by some media.
PCPD said the screenshots originated from the school’s security center, which sent them to a WhatsApp group consisting of senior management of the university.
The screenshots were also forwarded to 13 other staff members and one student.
EdUHK should have reminded the group that the screenshots were confidential information and that they should not be forwarded to others but must be deleted immediately after use, PCPD said.
The risk of leaking the screenshots was ignored when these were sent to staff members outside the WhatsApp group, the wtachdog said.
It said the fact that the school had not successfully confirmed the identity of the suspects suggested it had not been vigilant enough.
PCPD concluded the university contravened the privacy ordinance by failing to stop further distribution of the screenshots.
Meanwhile, the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Wong Kai-yi said everyone’s privacy is protected by the law as a fundamental human right but it is not an absolute right.
He said a person breaching the law or certain established regulations cannot take privacy as a “refuge” or “sanctuary” for his wrongdoing.
In response to the findings, the university said it will establish related guidelines.
EdUHK students’ union president Lai Hiu-ching criticized school officials for failing to protect student rights and demanded an apology.
She also accused PCPD of overstepping its authority, saying it should not decide whether the two people concerned broke the law and should limit itself to conducting investigations and making recommendations.
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The interest of the British private sector in Belarus is on the rise, BelTA learned from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Belarus Fionna Gibb during the KEF 2017 conference Foundations of the Future on 3 November. The ambassador noted that trade is one of the key engines of economic development. The UK is an important partner of Belarus, the third export market after Russia and Ukraine. The interest of British companies in Belarus is on the rise. In her words, the UK considers various options for organizing trade with Belarus. “The British government will continue increasing the volume of support for Belarus in order to dismantle barriers in mutual trade and enable conditions conducive to a stronger competitive ability of the Belarusian economy on global markets,” said Fionna Gibb. A British expert will arrive in Belarus during the Global Entrepreneurship Week in order to reveal secrets of successful investments. “We will also support the event named Belbiz Battle. It is a contest of startups. Five Belarusian startups, which have been selected by experts, will travel to London early next year and will have an opportunity to present their ideas before the British business community,” stated the ambassador. Fionna Gibb expressed support for the step-by-step approach of the Belarusian government to economic changes. In her words, fast-moving changes do not fit Belarus' profile. “But it doesn't mean that nothing should be changed. First of all, it is necessary to change the attitude of investors and the private sector to Belarus. It needs to be done for them to wake up one day and decide that today they are going to Belarus,” she said. The ambassador welcomed the establishment of a working group on improving oversight practices and lifting excessive requirements from commercial entities in Belarus. She also welcomed the results the group had achieved. Fionna Gibb described the introduction of the five-day visa program in Belarus as a constructive move. “I hope the visa-free period will be extended to at least 30 days,” she added.
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Home›Op-Ed›China’s freedom failures
China’s freedom failures
The confession may be fake, but China’s moral failures are real./ Michael Chmielewski
Gao Yu’s treatment by Chinese authorities is despicable
Author: Ethan Stein
The tale of journalist Gao Yu, the Chinese journalist supposedly coerced into confessing to leaking state secrets, is a story that would benefit from a bit more concern and anger here at home. We don’t want a country that’s gaining more economic and social influence to continue taking liberties with human rights.
Although details surrounding the case are sure to come out after this piece is committed to ink, I feel it’s worth commenting on the whole four hours the courts took to deliberate on this elderly journalist whose arrest and conviction came under (thus far) questionable circumstances. Simply put, if China wants to be considered the next global superpower, their government needs to start taking human rights and fair press values more seriously.
I don’t mean throw the baby out with the bath water; obviously, China is not a monolithically evil entity to be condemned. However, their government risks tarnishing the nation’s image with actions like these. The BBC reported on Nov. 20, 2014 that government authorities threatened Yu with the arrest of her son if she didn’t comply, and her confession was reportedly broadcast without her consent. The arrest and charges have certainly not endeared the Chinese government to organizations like the Human Rights Watch, who see the arrest as an assault on accessing information.
Furthermore, I would be more partial to a “wait and see” approach, were it not for the fact that the government handed out a 10-year sentence to a journalist in 2005 for spreading details of a government plan to suppress reportage of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Oh, and let’s not forget the government’s less than stellar track record on Internet freedom and neutrality.
The government should be criticized vehemently at this time, because it wants to have it both ways; it wants a modern economy and technological base and the ability to continue using antiquated government practices. If the theoretical becomes the front-page reality in five to ten years time and China does become the world’s next superpower, its government needs to understand, either on its own or with a gentle critique from other countries, that becoming a superpower means you answer to everyone.
I’m entirely aware that China’s government may not be interested in changing their policies on censorship or the press, but the onus still falls on us as members of the public to speak out against that which we see as unjust. There is no getting around the fact that we can and should do everything we can to curb the Chinese government’s penchant for abusing press and personal freedom. If the country wants to be an economic or technological leader, its government has to exercise progressive thinking in the social department. Why should a country work with China when its government won’t hold itself to as high a standard in personal and professional freedom as North America or the UK? Not that these places have flawless records in journalistic freedom, but China’s government lags behind both. Whenever journalists are abused in Canada or America, there’s an enormous outcry, and we should make a habit of this whenever the Chinese officials steps out of line.
We speak out when journalists are unjustly targeted on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Let’s do the same when journalists are targeted in the courts of Beijing.
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Home » Environment » City centre seagulls could help plan drone flight paths
City centre seagulls could help plan drone flight paths
Emily Shepard | Updated on: 22 August 2016, 20:06 IST
Gulls may be adopting a strategy that provides increased flight control in the face of cross-winds
Seagulls' flight strategy could prove useful when planning flight paths for unmanned aerial vehicles
Seagulls are the bane of many city dwellers' lives. From snatching sandwiches, to tearing up rubbish bags, for many they are far worse than traditionally unpopular pigeons or rats. The issue of gulls in cities is an interesting one, as populations of herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls are declining in many rural areas, while increasing in many urban locations.
The reasons are likely multiple, among them easy access to nesting sites and food, and a learned tolerance of humans. However, in our recently published study, we raised the possibility that ease of flight might also make city centres an attractive option for these birds.
Turbulant skies
As terrestrial animals, it can be difficult for humans to imagine what it is like to travel in a medium that is also moving. If you swim in a pool alone, it feels easier to slip through the water because it hasn't been churned up by another swimmer. This is just small-scale turbulence: add on top of this how it feels to swim in the sea, where the tide can pull you back as you try to return to the shore, and you will begin to understand what it is like to be a bird.
Now imagine that you have to swim through the sea to get to work every day. Sometimes the currents would be with you, sometimes they would be against you, this and the choppiness of the water will have a huge effect on how hard you have to work. If you had to do this every day, you would get pretty good at predicting the sea state and current direction. Flying animals face this all the time: the air is hardly ever still and this has a profound effect on flight behaviour.
In our study, we looked at how gulls use the rising air generated by buildings to fly without flapping. Using the seaside city of Swansea as our research location, we found that gulls actually alter their flight paths in certain wind conditions, to take advantage of updraughts occurring around a line of hotels bordering the bay.
Such energy-saving strategies are already well-recognised in birds that are undertaking their vast annual migrations, but are less well-studied for birds moving around on a daily basis.
Tracking gulls
To learn more about the gulls' flight paths, we used laser range-finding binoculars to capture the trajectory of the birds soaring on rising air generated by the hotel buildings. We combined this with a simplified computer model of how the air moved around the seafront hotels and the flight characteristics of the gulls themselves. What we found suggested that gulls may be adopting a strategy that provides increased flight control in the face of cross-wind gusts.
This shows that man-made structures - even those as small as hotels a couple of stories high - can change bird flight paths by altering airflows. In fact urban areas are likely to be associated with cheap flight costs in a general sense, as buildings provide ample updraughts under a range of weather conditions.
Nonetheless, gaining cheap rides from urban airflows is not without its risks. Environments with complex substrates, such as those in urban spaces, produce very complex airflows. In order to account for this, we mapped the precise positions of gulls in relation to the airflows over the hotels to identify whether this changed as the wind strength increased.
Flying ahead
This interesting flight strategy doesn't only help us understand the lives of gulls, it could also prove useful when planning flight paths for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, in urban landscapes.
Our results show that airflows around even small-scale features can have profound implications for energy use and flight control in birds and drones. We were very much aware that here, and in much research to come, biological and engineering researchers stand to gain a lot from each other.
Small-scale UAVs with fixed wings - like conventional aircraft - are much more strongly affected by gusts and turbulence than larger aircraft, as the wind speed is comparable to their airspeed. Flying at low altitudes in the highly complex flow field of urban environments, and in close proximity to terrain and buildings, is a significant challenge that most autonomous flight control systems have not been developed to cope with. As such, examining how birds of a similar size and weight overcome these challenges could help to inform UAV flight path planning and the development of flight control systems for flight in the same environments.
So next time you are feeling ill-disposed towards gulls soaring in city spaces, possibly shielding your ice-creams as you stroll along the seafront, stop a moment to appreciate the complex decisions that these feathered pilots are making, second by second, as they respond to their continually changing aerial environment, in ways that engineers can, for now, only dream of.
Emily Shepard, Senior Lecturer in Biosciences, Swansea University
First published: 22 August 2016, 20:06 IST
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Lacuna Coil: Shallow Life
Rating: 2.75/5.0
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Review: Craig Hartranft
Album covers and titles are often symbolic of the content within. Listening to the new Lacuna Coil disc 'Shallow Life' is like having the glass grenade on the cover go off in your presence and wound you with its flying shards. Lacuna Coil has finally gone commercial. 'Shallow Life' not only applies to the lyrical content, but to whole musical approach. The album was recorded in LA with Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Good Charlotte) at the helm. The gloss and pretense of Hollywood is clearly evident: most songs clock in under three minutes and, though still delivering some hard rock with some metal thrown in, the songs sound more like mainstream popular rock. There's nothing new in their arrangements.
Frankly, the music on 'Shallow Life' is so average, so typical of current mainstream hard rock, any current artist could have done it. Where once Lacuna Coil were standard bearers in their field, on 'Shallow Life' they have become merely pawns in the hands of the American music monster. In other words, 'Shallow Life' perfectly describes the current musical state of Lacuna Coil. I didn't want to use the phrase 'sold out,' but that certainly what 'Shallow Life' sounds like to me.
Only because I usually do it in a review, I will at least give you what I believe are the highlights. The two best songs on the album are the first single 'Spellbound' where you first hear a decent guitar solo, and 'Unchained' where Lacuna Coil recovers from the sewer of mainstream rock to deliver some fine melodic heavy metal. For the pure commercial pop stuff, the two best cuts are 'I Won't Tell You' and 'I Like It' if only because of their memorable melodies and catchy choruses. Otherwise, you can pass over nearly 75 percent of 'Shallow Life' as tedious and mediocre mainstream dribble.
Frankly, the music on 'Shallow Life' is so average, so typical of current mainstream hard rock, anyone could have done it. Where once Lacuna Coil were standard bearers in their field, on 'Shallow Life' they have become merely pawns in the hands of the American music monster. Lacuna Coil has finally gone commercial. Heaven help us all!
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Welcome to Dave Dubya's Free Speech Zone. Let us draw our inspiration from a true American icon. “Irreverence is the champion of liberty, and its only sure defense.” – Mark Twain - 1888
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Republicans love to tell us, “It’s about character”. Never their own, mind you.
John Edwards is a slimeball for cheating on his wife.
But Newt Gingrich is not a slimeball.
Simple enough for the simple-minded ideologue. We’ll look at an explanation for this in a moment.
Willard (Mitt-the-Snip) Romney led a group of fellow prep school bullies in taking down a fellow student and forcibly cutting his hair, while the victim screamed for help.
Everyone in his posse remembers the incident, except for Romney, for some reason.
“I don’t remember that incident,” Romney said, laughing. “I certainly don’t believe that I thought the fellow was homosexual.”
So Mitt remembers the individual, but not what he did to him?
“Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney told Fox (R)’s Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school, and some might have gone too far, and for that I apologize.”
We note that he offered the typical Right Wing lame excuse for an “apology” laced with mitigating terms like “if” and “might”.
Well, “if” Willard can’t remember his bully behavior, then he “might” not be smart enough to be president. And if he lied about it, he’s not moral enough to be dogcatcher.
But we already know that.
Former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean’s 2006 book titled “Conservatives without Conscience” gives us valuable insight into the dark recesses of the radical right-wing mentality. Authoritarian personalities like Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh dominate their ideology.
They are bullies.
John Dean summarizes in a 2008 BuzzFlash interview:
In post-World War II, a group of social scientists were very concerned or very interested to find out if what had happened in Italy and Germany under Mussolini and Hitler could occur in the United States. They initially undertook their work with a little bit of empirical study, but mostly relying on Freudian psychology. And they did conclude that there is clearly an authoritarian personality. They issued their report in a book by Adorno and others that was called “The Authoritarian Personality”.
This research has really never been totally refuted. But other social scientists were critical of it because of its Freudian basis. So they quickly began studying to see if this personality type held up based on pure empirical study, by which I mean anonymously asking people questions that would reveal their personality types, their attitudes, their dispositions, and what have you.
The work on authoritarian followers showed a personality that is easily submissive to authority, be it political, religious or even parental. They submit quickly, and once they do, they become very aggressive in pushing that world view of that authority. They become submissive because they find great comfort psychologically in submitting. It helps them remove the ambiguities of life. And if they’re frightened by events, then this gives them a sense of security. And they’re typically very conventional in their lifestyle.
There are also, however, a lot of very negative traits which I’ve outlined in the book. They are very self-righteous. They are not self-critical. They have very little critical thinking about their own behavior. They are often nasty and mean-spirited. They are bullies. They are prejudiced. And the higher they test on these questionnaires and scales, the more conservative they are. You don’t find people on the left testing the same way. It’s very interesting. You cannot get even statistically significant numbers of people on the left that fall in this category of followers.
On the other side are the leaders. They are typically men whose desire in life is to dominate others and to be in charge. They are very aggressive when they do so. They are highly manipulative. They are also people who have absolutely no appreciation of equality of others. They see themselves as superior, and they are amoral in their thinking. They, too, have a host of other negative traits that are in many regards similar to the followers.
It’s not a very pleasant personality type, but it is certainly there. And it has certainly been established scientifically and corroborated and confirmed, time and time again. And this is clearly the core of the conservative movement.
‘The core of the conservative movement”. Amen.
Dean relied on Professor Bob Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba for much of his reference material. Professor Altemeyer has generously made his book available for free online.
“The Authoritarians”
Posted by Dave Dubya at 11:14 AM
free0352 said...
Let me say first I hate Mitt Romney with the fire of 1000 suns.
However, I gotta say screw EVER running for President. Holy shit, thank God I'll never be judged for the shit I did in high school. I sure did a lot worse than chase some kid down and cut his hair because he had long hair at ultra conservative, uber preppy Cranbrook.
Maybe you guys were mommy's little angels back in high school, but I was about the furthest thing away from that you can imagine. I can honestly tell you I was pretty much a bad kid. I got pretty strait by the end of my junior year when I found out I was going to be a father... and I'm so lucky that happened BTW because if it hadn't I might have not woke up and got my shit strait prior to finding myself doing a nice long jail sentence. And I had a decent mom and grandparents who took a really active role in making sure I wasn't a fuck up... who knows how I'd have turned out had they not been in the picture? Yeah I did some good stuff as a teen age kid. I played football, boxed and was on the debate team and rode BMX bikes... and good thing my family pushed me into that stuff to keep my busy. I look back on those days and just shake my head. It's a miracle I never got caught. You should have seen the look on the polygraph people when I had to take one to work at the Sheriff's Department. Questions like have you ever used cocain, committed a felony for which you were not charged, assaulted someone with a weapon all got answered with a big fat yes.
So no, I don't like Romney at all but not because he was a mean kid. You can judge me for what I did as a child if you want... I don't give a fuck and I won't apologize either. But I won't hold anyone to a standard I won't hold myself. Romney has plenty of character flaws right now today, and who he was 45 years ago has zero to do with that. I think I'm proof myself and so are a lot of other people - a lot of very upstanding people - that who we were as kids doesn't determine our future. If that were true, I'd be an inmate.
Dave Dubya said...
Your story tells us how critical it is to have responsible adult role models while young.
You and I are lucky in that sense.
Not that I, er, recall what, ah, youthful hijinks I might have done. Who knows? Perhaps I would have to answer "yes" on one...or three, of those polygraph questions, too. However, the specifics are blurred.
But if I hurt anyone, I'm sorry.
At any rate, Romney was a cold-hearted, arrogant, blue-blooded jerk. Some people mature emotionally and grow up. Other people are that way all their lives. So far, I see no change for the better in him.
He's still a cold-blooded blue-blood.
The Heathen Republican said...
Dave Dubya on Mitt Romney: "We note that he offered the typical Right Wing lame excuse for an “apology” laced with mitigating terms like “if” and “might”."
Dave Dubya about himself: "But if I hurt anyone, I'm sorry."
How typical. Republicans are held to a higher standard than you hold for yourself.
I found that this describes progressives quite accurately:
"They are very self-righteous. They are not self-critical. They have very little critical thinking about their own behavior. They are often nasty and mean-spirited. They are bullies. They are prejudiced."
Of course, the authors (and you) don't see it, so you point it out in the right.
I agree that progressives are often "very self-righteous, are not self-critical, have very little critical thinking about their own behavior, and even nasty and mean-spirited".
These traits are common to most people at some time. Yes, even conservatives, but they cannot admit it. We know.
However, as documented here, and all over the corporate media, the bullies and the prejudiced tend by a large margin toward the radical Right.
Liberals don't go around and beat up gays and minorities.
We've listed the numerous cases of extreme violence by sociopathic radical Rightists. They are afraid Muslim commies are taking over the country. They hate liberals. Really, we know about them.
I see you almost got my humor.
Add "I might have done" with "if I hurt" and maybe you get the picture of what I was doing.
It's called parody.
For the record, I did not hurt anybody. Or even take them down to cut their hair.
Otherwise, ya sure got me.
I was really just trying to come up with something pithy in order to subscribe to the comment thread since you switched back to this crappy format. But since you said this...
"Liberals don't go around and beat up gays and minorities."
...I have to respond.
Oh really?! Liberals don't beat anyone else up, even gays or minorities? That's quite a statement, to think that anyone who has ever beat someone else up must be on the right.
Let's see, was George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin's killer, a Democrat or a Republican? I'll give you a few minutes to think that one over...
And was Trayvon Martin a minority? I can't seem to recall. Perhaps you know, Dave.
Seriously, even with three attempts to get your comment just right, do you ever read the things that spew from your keyboard?
I know Zimmerman was a cop wanna-be, assaulted a cop, was a pest to them, packed heat that he was eager to use, profiled and targeted a minority member, hides behind the "self defense" nonsense under a Republican law and is defended as innocent by many more Republicans than Democrats.
What do you know? Take a few moments.
What do I know? That for someone who likes to accuse people on the right of beating up minorities, being fascists, and hating women and the poor, it's more than a little suspicious that you won't acknowledge that Zimmerman was a registered Democrat.
You accuse me, here, that I "like to accuse", when I'm only stating the facts.
I'd rather not need to report such behavior. But it happens.
So ten years ago Zimerman registered as a democrat in order to vote.
He is not a member of the Democratic Party. Is he a democrat now?
According to you, that makes him one now, just like Romney is the same bully he was at around the same age Zimmerman registered as a democrat.
This is your contention as I see it. Fine, but your conclusion and mine are based on different evidence.
So what makes this "democrat" of ten years ago a liberal today, anyway?
Everything about his behavior, and his protectors, smells conservative, not liberal.
Malcolm Bondon said...
The negative traits outlined by Dean run rampant throughout the conservative blogosphere, Fox "News", etc. I engaged in a debate with a conservative blogger who is terming the Romney incident as simply a "prank" and "good fun". I told her she'd have a different perspective if it was a liberal politician. I'm not going to judge Romney based on something he did in high school. However, I am questioning how he's handled these revelations. Although it's possible he doesn't remember the incident, I find that very hard to believe.
By the way, have you seen how some of the folks at Fox are comparing Romney forcibly giving John Lauber a haircut with an elementary school incident involving a young Obama pushing a girl down on the playground? This is why I can't take most people on the right seriously.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-panel-counters-romney-bullying-story-by-peering-into-obamas-bullying/
Authoritarians are authoritarians. They cannot conceal their true nature. It's up to us to identify them along their dishonesty and cruelty.
What Romney did as a teen old enough to drive, and what he did to a dog as an adult are compared to what Obama did as a small child.
False equivalence is another characteristic of the Right.
The also told us the Abuses of Abu Ghraib were nothing more than frat house shenanigans. They really said nobody died. They lie.
And water boarding is not torture. And Obama is a Muslim commie. And liberals have no values and they hate America, ad museum.
Say, where can I find one of those Obamacare death panels?
I’ll have to ask a radical authoritarian Rigthie. They have all the answers.
Sure they do. In fact tomorrow at work tool around your job at the prison and ask some of the felons who they want to win the Presidency and which party if any they support. Most will say Obama and you know it.
As for Romney being a blue blood, I don't think there is one iota of difference between a rich kid who is a dick and a poor one.
Other than perhaps your own envy.
Sure they do.
No, they don't.
So convicts are liberals, huh?
Right. That's a good one.
And they're all deeply religious Muslims and born-again Christians too, if you ask them. So you're saying religious people go around and beat up gays and minorities? Ok. But most religious people identify themselves as conservatives.
They're usually not literate enough, or too sociopathic, to be liberal progressives.
Actually they're far more libertarian than progressive. They want less government control over their lives, don't you know? Your kind of folks. Every man for himself. That's the operative principle from lone thugs to gangsters to banksters...and greed-is-good libertarians.
I'm sure you know the demographics that suggest they come down in favor of a black president. They would vote for a Herman Cain over a John Kerry.
But they don't vote, do they?
Do you really think most cons were liberal progressives, or church goers before going to prison? Do you honestly think they cared enough about civic responsibility to have voted?
Really??
Another of your delusions of the radical Right is that I envy Romney or Obama. I'd rather be happy than rich.
Too bad you don't know the difference.
okjimm said...
What is most telling is that Mitt 'Doesn't Remember'....An event that has described by the other participants vividly would stand out in anyone's memory. I am guessing that Newt really doesn't remember cheating on wife #1 or #2. JP Morgan Chase really can't remember how they lost $2BB. It was just an oops.
If they are anything, yes. We all know which party is toughest on crime. Its in their best interest.
Ok. But most religious people identify themselves as conservatives
Really? Then explain why 80% of african americans self identify as christian and now let me see... what racial demographic overwhelmingly more than any other votes Democrat? Yes, african americans. So there goes that point you tried to make.
They would vote for a Herman Cain over a John Kerry.
That's not what the polls said. The Democrat party has one firm grip on african american voters, that can't be denied.
But none of that was my original point. My point is people of all stripes do lots of bad shit - for their own reasons. I did plenty of shady stuff in my youth as I pointed out. My point is, it's not about the past. It's about today. Nobody is going to care too much about what Romney did 400 years ago... well the gay lobby probably will but they won't vote for Romney anyway. The single issue of the 2012 campaign is going to be the economy, and voters will vote for satan himself if they think he can do a better job with it than Obama. If I were a Democrat, I'd be highlighting efforts to get people back to work as much as I could instead of the smoke screen tactics we've seen so far. It isn't going to work, Obama is going to have to confront this economic issue head on and make believers out of voters instead of cry about some silly shit Romney did when he was 17.
News for you. The 80% of blacks identifying themselves Christian are not "most religious people". And why do they vote for Democrats again? Could it be a Southern strategy? Could it be they know Republicans do not represent them? Voting against the party of the Rich White Men's club doesn't make one liberal or progressive. It is self interest.
Regardless, my point stands. Yours does not. Liberals do not go around beating up gays and minorities.
By your logic, Jack Abramoff, Cunningham, Ney, et al should be Democrats. They're not.
Tough on crime is often not smart on crime. Real libertarians know this.
The original point is Romney's character. Not his past behavior by itself.
I agree it's self interest. Democrats take money from the Rich White Man and hand out the change back to the blacks with a cheap welfare check while the Lib government types keep most of the money and in exchange black voters make with the votes. Its a self interest if you're interested in the crumbs off Democrat's plates instead of a real living.
And of course if a black guy makes something of himself on his own and leaves the Democrat welfare plantation we know what happens to him.
But keep babbling on about that southern strategy if it makes you feel better. You know who George Wallace endorsed in 1979? Jimmy Carter, along with all the other Dixiecrats. That was a decade after all those Democrats opposed the civil rights act. So keep pointing that finger, because there are three pointing right back at the Democrat party.
Tom Harper said...
I agree with your post, and John Dean's interview, about conservatives having an authoritarian personality. They just love fitting snugly into a hierarchy. They're totally submissive to everyone above them and merciless to those below them.
But as far as a person being a bully or an asshole, I think that cuts across all political lines. I've known plenty of liberals who are flaming assholes in person. I agree with their politics but their personalities suck.
because there are three pointing right back at the Democrat party. Yeah, of the previous two centuries. I thought past behavior didn’t mean anything to you?
It’s all black and white to you, isn’t it?
Democrats take money from the Rich White Man and hand out the change back to the blacks
That’s a two way street. Republicans take my money to give to rich Republicans. And not even a thank you from Halliburton Dick. Republicans take away public services to give tax breaks to the rich.
Republicans cut taxes on those who easily afford them and take money from the middle class, who can less afford it, for their wars for political gain and crony profit. The rich white “job creators” don’t create enough jobs for everyone as it is, and their corporations take tax cuts and send our jobs overseas. How noble. To be “Good Amerikans” we must serve their interests, fight their wars, and give up even more in our reduced standard of living, while we give them everything they want. Talk about entitlement.
There would be far less of your “welfare plantation” if we didn’t let the elites write trade agreements to pad their profits at the country’s expense. There would be far less of your “welfare plantation” if the so called “job creators” actually created jobs in this country. They have abandoned the country that nourished their business. They exist only to feed their greed machine. Tax the hell out of the bastards if the hate America so much. But that won’t happen. They own the entire Republican Party and most Democrats in DC.
Boo hoo for the poor wittow sociopathic wich bwats. They own our government and you shill for them. Very brave and noble of you to side with the rich and powerful over most Americans as they deregulate Wall Street, rape our economy, purge voters, and wage class war on the people.
Damn right money is taken from rich white men. Aristocrats don’t like to share. Some are lucky they’re not hung on streetlights for their thievery.
Among them are greedheads who swindle, steal, and bully as they buy politicians and cheat the country. Tax the hell out of the bastards and we’ll all have a better country, Even the rich, but their greed blinds them to this.
It's all relative. Authoritarian assholes are usually far more dangerous than liberal assholes.
Just My Two Cents said...
Dave, there is no way my husband and I would be as rich as we are had I had not been in politics. So we put a few dollars in our pockets, but we help the poor people too!
Just The Fascist, or whatever,
Since you're "new" to most people here, let's share your Blogger Introduction:
I had to provide a special service behind the Lincoln Memorial in order to gather enough votes to pass the President's Affordable Care Act which the majority of the people don't want. My lips were chapped for weeks! “We had to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
And now that everybody knows you couldn't possibly be a troll, they will just have to wonder why I decided you're not worth reading.
I thought past behavior didn’t mean anything to you?
That's right. And what is happening right now is a Democrat party welfare plantation. It's horrible for both the black community and those who have to fund it. Basically what has happened is Democrats went from actually enslaving blacks in 1860 to simply making the vote serfs in the present day. That isn't the progress I'd want if I were black- and it certainly isn't the trap I'd like to see Hispanics fall into.
. Republicans take my money to give to rich Republicans
No, Republicans allow (and how sad it is I have to use the word allow) rich people of all political stripes to keep the money they have earned.
Republicans cut taxes on those who easily afford them and take money from the middle class
Are you suggesting tax deductions don't apply to the middle class somehow? They all apply to everyone if you have the sense to use them. And very clearly on the tax bracket "the rich" pay more.
To be “Good Amerikans” we must serve their interests, fight their wars, and give up even more in our reduced standard of living
Last I checked you weren't required to work for anyone, the military is all volunteer and you were responsible for your standard of living. Stop with the envy. If there is any greed here, it's yours.
There would be far less of your “welfare plantation” if we didn’t let the elites write trade agreements to pad their profits at the country’s expense.
Who was President when NAFTA was signed and trade was opened with China? Bill Clinton.
They have abandoned the country that nourished their business.
This country has never nourished shit. If anything it's trying to suck business dry, which is why the owners of those business' are leaving. Who are you going to tax when they're all gone? Sounds to me Singapore is doing a much better job of nourishing business than we are. Their profit our loss.
Very brave and noble of you to side with the rich and powerful
Whose more powerful? A handful of rich guys who control a mob of Democrat voters seeking to take out their competition through a bunch of government thugs? You think they're so powerful, go ask rich guy Weseley Snipes.
Damn right money is taken from rich white men. Aristocrats don’t like to share
Sharing is when you want to do it. What you're advocating is extortion. Talk about greed and envy... Whose the bigger bully, the small business owner or the IRS? I'll tell you who the real thieves are. Liberal Democrat Progressives.
Ah, now I’m a thief working for government thugs? That’s hysterical.
Democrats went from actually enslaving blacks in 1860 to simply making the vote serfs in the present day.
“Vote serfs”. Ha. So what do you call the poor conned Bible thumpers who vote for Republicans who ship their jobs overseas and cut their social programs, food stamps and health care?
Want a metaphor better than your “Vote serfs”? Did Robin Hood work for the aristocrats?
So there’s your Right Wing rational for imposing restrictions on voting. That’s what’s wrong with the Corporate States of America. Too many flesh and blood voters, and not enough influence for those poor corporate “persons”. Don’t want no more democracy, no sir. Republicans know just how to fix that. Your free market utopia awaits. Except it’s not really free, of course, and Democracy must be crushed first.
Conservative white rich people owned slaves. Not progressives. They were the Republicans of their day, states-rights, plantation slave owners and traitors to the USA. I thought you said past behavior didn’t mean anything to you? Want it both ways? Or do you need it both ways?
Yes, Republicans take my money to give to rich Republicans. I even mentioned Halliburton Dick, your chicken hawk neocon leader mentor. Never heard of the Military Industrial Complex? Some no-account commie named Eisenhower must have made that stuff up.
Last I checked Americans are giving up good jobs and public services along with their standard of living, as the elites make record profits. I didn’t say we are required to work for anyone, did I? No, but that’s what you want to argue. I said serve their interests. You served their interests by killing people who were no threat to our safety, while Americans sacrifice civil liberties and jobs. That’s how we serve their interests, by living under a corrupt regime dominated by wealth we subsidize.
you were responsible for your standard of living. Stop with the envy.
Still projecting your envy, I see.
We are responsible for doing our jobs. Our standard of living is being decimated by corporate owned politicians. We can thank Big Money’s puppet government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. See NAFTA and every trade agreement after it. That, sir, is power. See the Military Industrial Complex feed into war fever. That sir, is power. See Halliburton Dick start wars and make a fortune. That, sir, is power. See the Bill of Rights shredded by a war on terror and war on drugs. That sir, is power. And the profits are rolling in. Money is power in a corporatocracy. Your oppressed elites are doing better than ever. Yes, they are. And that, sir, is power.
This country has never nourished shit. If anything it's trying to suck business dry
Well, boo hoo again. This is of course the opposite of reality. The elites are doing fabulous. Really. The rich are getting exponentially richer...as they and their shills like you whine more and more about taxes as “oppression” and “extortion” by liberal “thieves”. Fine, go pay for your own damn wars. Ever think about how much is taken from the people by corporate subsidies and other gifts of graft? How many millions of jobs could be created by the billions in corporate welfare that go into the pockets of the elites instead of into our economy and workers?
If this country has “never nourished shit and if anything it's trying to suck business dry”, then why don’t you and all the greedheads please leave, instead of dragging us all down? We really can to fine without your Atlas. Take him with you since your love of country and compassion for fellow Americans are dwarfed by your twisted virtue of selfish greed.
now I’m a thief working for government thugs?
You're the one that said you were a Democrat.
what do you call the poor conned Bible thumpers who vote for Republicans
Voters. The difference between the Welfare Plantation and what you're talking about is simple. You don't see any Republicans filling Democrat controlled ghettos voting so that Democrats can fulfill their life's needs...at a substandard level I might add while they keep most of the cash. I don't see too many Democrat Party leaders or politicians living in crime ridden shit holes, but that's where their voters have been for 80 years. In fact what I do see is Democrats standing in the way of better schools, roads and tax breaks for those neighborhoods. Go try and get school of choice in a black neighborhood. You'll have the Democrat Teachers Union so far up your ass you won't have time to watch them call you a Nazi on the news. No, no, they're rather spend 80 cents on the dollar on "administration" while each kid in a poor black neighborhood gets pennys on the tax dollars so rich, college mafia liberals can have important sounding jobs at the school district where they don't actually work. That is just one example of the many instances of Democrat party patronage in a nut shell.
Did Robin Hood work for the aristocrats?
Last time I read that story Robin Hood stole tax money and gave it back to the people... after that government stole his land. So basically Robin Hood is a Christian Conservative just back from slaying Muslims in the Middle East; who then fights the Democrat Sheriff of Nodingham whose been screwing the people out of their money with excessive taxation. Sounds like a white Allen West to me minus the archery.
Still projecting your envy
No, I'm pointing out yours. I admire those people, you're the one demonizing them. If you want what they have so bad quite you shit paying government job and make your own instead of sticking your dirty hands in their wallets. That's what a real, grown up man would do and not a petulant, greedy child. Strait up. I hope they make another 50 billion each and keep as much of it as possible. That's something to admire, not hate.
Fine, go pay for your own damn wars.
I paid 1/3 of my left lung, and two of the disks in my spinal cord when I broke my back. Oh, and 90% of the hearing in my right ear... IN ADDITION to the taxes I paid. So tell me, how many body parts did you give up to win this thing?
why don’t you and all the greedheads please leave,
There are plenty of European countries that operate just how you like it. Why don't you guys quit fucking things up here in America and go check out the joys of fuck'n Finland. Send me a post card if you have enough money left over after they take 60% of your salary in taxes and then you spend what's left on yourself.
S.W. Anderson said...
That explains the ruthless, anything-to-win tactics, holier-than-thou attitude and sense of entitlement so many on the radical right exhibit.
It also explains their bully's delight in not just winning but humiliating and destroying their enemies. A great example: Reagan and his people's unconstitutional deal making with the Iranians to get the hostages released as soon as Reagan was sworn in. The timing was intended to humiliate Jimmy Carter while making some kind of liberating hero out of Reagan. He should've been impeached for making a deal with a foreign power before being sworn in.
Then, there was the swiftboating of John Kerry and so much more.
You never fail to amuse as you spin free from truth’s gravity into the void of Right Wing claptrap and your rigid belief system.
There you go again, calling me a Democrat. When did I claim to be one again? Never mind. You can only accuse, not substantiate.
But let me confuse you even more, since you equate rich white plantation owners and rich white, English feudal aristocrats and their ‘tough on crime” sheriff as “Democrats”, just like me.
I’m a supporter and defender of the principles of democracy. Yet I am not a Democrat. Try to figure that one out.
school of choice = Right Wing school for profit
call you a Nazi on the news by “college mafia liberals” no doubt. Very balanced.
If you want what they have
More projection. YOU want what they have. Your cult practically worships the elites, as it willingly hands our government over to them.
I don’t want 50 billion dollars. If I did, I would certainly not whine about having to live on twenty billion and pay the rest in taxes. I want democracy and equality under the law. These are the “radical” concepts that authoritarians vehemently oppose.
Here’s another good one. You accuse me of demonizing the corrupt elites as you crow about a “welfare plantation”.
Another chuckle was this one:
”Why don't you guys quit fucking things up here in America”
Since Reagan handed the keys of our government over to Big Money, just who are these “you guys” that have been running things for the past three decades?
I can help you answer that after I go give another urine sample to keep my job. We don’t need no stinking Fourth Amendment. We got us a corporate backed endless war on drugs to wage.
I, too, have been injured in the line of duty. I was lucky not to be in the spot where my co-worker was blind sided and had his skull bounced off concrete. I only needed crutches for a while, and walk with a limp sometimes.
I’m sorry you and your comrades paid the price and suffered the consequences for the defeat of democracy when the Right Wing Justice cronies installed the Bush/Cheney regime. Your buddies would be alive and you’d be healthy if not for those “nukular” aluminum tubes and WMD’s that Saddam was going to give to al-Qaeda to attack us. Only he didn’t have them and he was not buddies with AQ. Oops. As your former authoritarian aristocrat Fuhrer said, “Fool me once, won’t get fooled again”.
What exactly did you “win” for us again? I know the Iraqi Shiite majority is happily embraced by Iran now. I’m sure they thank you. And uber-authoritarian Cheney and his cronies thank you for re-election, and billions more in profit from taxpayer money that could have gone to domestic needs. I suppose that’s some comfort to you.
But never mind, all that is water under the bridge. I will continue to help pay for your medical care.
SW,
Yes, it is about character.
And they project their authoritarianism back at us for supporting constitutional taxation for the general welfare.
"Union thug" school teachers is another favorite projection.
It's the Right thing to do.
You can cop-out your party affiliation Dave, but we all know you'll be pulling the lever for. Take responsibility for your choices.
I’m a supporter and defender of the principles of democracy.
Democracy has no principles. It's just a system, not a religion. Democracy enslaved Africans and forced Indians to march West to their deaths. It's a tool, that can be used for either good or bad. I happen to be dedicated to to personal freedom. Freedom isn't a tool, it's a right. Democracy can be used to achieve freedom, or it can be used to put the Japanese in concentration camps.
School of choice got me out of shitty ghetto schools. It got me into a charter school that didn't have drive-by shootings and metal detectors. The teachers union tried to shut my and just about every alternative to their bloated welfare job schools down. They'd rather see poor kids do a lifetime in prison than get good grades. The last priority they have is teaching. And as for institutions of higher learning, the last thing I'd call them is balanced.
YOU want what they have
Um, not really. Oh sure I'd love a check for 50 billion dollars to be sure. Wouldn't turn that down. But I had a much higher paying job and choose to return to the military instead. Why? Because I thought I was a pretty good leader and young Soldiers just out of Basic shipping out to a war they volunteered to fight deserved great leadership and that I could provide that. So while I value 50 billion dollars (or whatever I could make) a great deal, I valued those kids more. But be that as it may, I can't really say my top priority is money when I took a 30k a year pay cut to come do this. But I'm going to be medically retired now, and once out I intend to make a living. Even 50 billion if I can. So on the other hand I do want that. However, I don't want to take it from anyone. Whatever money I get I want to make for myself. American billionaires didn't take their wealth, they created it. And because they created it they deserve as much of it as possible.
just who are these “you guys” that have been running things for the past three decades?
The government leadership and the voters who elected them who took our country from the Capitalist system we had in 1920 to the mixed socialist/capitalist hybrid we have today. You know, the morons who privatized success and socialized failure.
As for injury in the line of duty, I wasn't injured so much as wounded by the enemy. And that's okay, I understood the possibility when I joined. I've been struck by numerous IEDs and that isn't uncommon. When you go to Iraq or Afghanistan and you're in the infantry it's not so much "if" you'll get nailed it's "when." We have great vehicles and armor now that protects us. Without them I'd be dead... something Democrats voted against I might add. But anyway, I don't mind paying that price because I truly believed in those missions and volunteered for all of them. However, I did find it laughable when you suggested I pay more for it. I think I paid a lot. More than you can put a dollar value on.
More than you can put a dollar value on
True, but I shall continue to pay dollars for your health care that would not be needed had democracy not lost the 2000 election.
Yeah some Democrats voted against something, but this is what actually happened:
Sen. Joe Biden held a press conference in Charleston, SC on July 23 before the CNN-YouTube debate, where two local companies had on display examples of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPVs or just MRAPs). The Biden Amendment to the Iraq war funding supplemental passed in May included funding for accelerated procurement and deployment of these vehicles, which are four to five times safer against IED attacks, which account for 70% of our casualties in Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRoM4lNJq4
Now there you go again, with the “I know what you think” delusion. I’ve voted for Republicans too, does that mean I’m “affiliated” with them? I can’t see voting for one ever again, though. When Clinton proved to be another glad-handing company man corporatist, I didn’t vote to reelect him. I might not vote for Obama’s reelection for the same reason. You tell me. You know what I will do.
If I need to take the responsibility to stop a Republican one party dictatorship, then I would do what is necessary. Voting for a moderate right corporatist over yet another authoritarian aristocrat would be the logical and sensible choice. So tell us, who will I vote for? I suppose your nature refuses to allow the notion you might be wrong. That’s ok. Most of have already known that for some time.
Ah, the good old 1920’s. Not that any sane or humane person would want to take us back to 1920, but your very same elite folks who privatized success and socialized failure would love that. And are doing their best to roll us back to the bad old days again. How many Republican depressions does it take to sink in?
I’ll share your nostalgia for key moments in history and take all of us progressives back to 1886 and warn Americans of what was about to happen to their sovereign rights as “we the people”.
The Supreme Court case of Santa Clara County vs. The Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886 was used to grant corporate personhood. Although this personhood was not specifically worded in the decision. It was added by a clerk. J. C. Bancroft Davis wrote that the Chief Justice had said all the Justices had agreed that corporations are persons. Chief Justice Waite specifically disavowed this later in writing. Davis happened to be a former president of a small railroad, and was thus the man to strike a blow to democracy for corporatocracy and help endow corporations with all the rights of living person. The rights of human beings were being given to money. The god of Mammon was given birth and power over people. Big Money’s rights were to become superior to our civil rights and our Constitutional liberties.
They understood the need to infiltrate first and then seize our government.
As long as I’m giving you a history lesson, I’ll correct your errors.
Democracy enslaved Africans and forced Indians to march West to their deaths.
First of all, the democracy I refer to is our democracy within our Constitutional democratic republic, along with the rights of the minority.
But the news for you is this. Immoral, ruthless, unregulated capitalist greed drove the slave business. Yes, sir. It was just what the “free market” ordered. In fact, the free market would love a return to slavery. It’s so much better than that pesky minimum wage and those awful mean union thugs.
Same thing drove the Indians off their land. Do you think Americans voted to drive them like animals? That was not democracy; it too was driven by the interests of the economic elites of the time.
Corporations still to this day steal land. Only they learned to infiltrate government and invoke eminent domain.
So as you pine for the glory of the 1920’s and the Hoovervilles they produced, we remember what happens to those who don’t learn from history...
John Myste said...
Heathen,
Do you find this describes conservatives?
Dave you are so full of shit!
"Do you find this describes conservatives?"
None that I've known personally and not most bloggers, personalities, or politicians I've seen in the media. Although some, yes. Hannity, Limbaugh, and Savage come to mind.
The description does, however, sound exactly like the left-wing caricature of conservatives.
On the other hand, it seems to describe many lefties and most left-wing bloggers including, for example, Dave Dubya and Jefferson's Guardian.
Not all, mind you, but I find both are quite self-righteous and have no clue how their words sound to others. I haven't seen that problem with you or SW Anderson, to mention a couple other from this comment thread.
Really? What do you think Al Gore would have done differently after 9-11 in regards to Afghanistan, and why was he calling for an attack on Iraq in 1992 and being critical of Reagan/Bush for not responding strongly enough to Iraq's terrorism and engaging in diplomatic talks after Iraq's nuclear program? Seems to me Al Gore was for attacking Iraq before he was against it.
Could it be Democrats turned on George Bush after his invasion of Iraq for political reasons? It sure seems so. How kind of them to vote to send us to war and then promptly turn on us and our mission when it made sense politically. It seems to me, had Gore been elected in 2000 nothing would have been different.
I can’t see voting for one ever again, though
Nuff said. That statement validates my point.
but your very same elite folks who privatized success and socialized failure would love that.
Than why-oh-why when libertarians and fiscally responsible conservatives try to get them to do just that do they resist us and instead pass TARP and Medicare Part D? Their actions speak louder than their rhetoric. Today's Republicans are not fee market people. You could never lay claim to that title having supported TARP.
Firstly, we had a Constitution during legal slavery and Indian removal. Secondly the ultimate minority is the individual, and so it seems if that individual has too much money by your standard, his rights should be limited. Lets take a basic look at that, the concept of equality under the law. Equality under the law would have us paying the same tax percentage as our fellow citizens, or another example would be dividing the cost of government equally among tax payers and having them all pay an equal share. You do not advocate this, but instead advocate a punitive tax structure which punishes by ever increasing percentages of income taken in taxation those who make more money than others. That is not equal, that is fundamentally discriminatory.
. In fact, the free market would love a return to slavery.
How foolish it would be were that true. Slaves make poor consumers. In fact, the economy of the American South was hardly free market being driven by the vestiges of a Post Independence, Mercantile Economic System based not on free market capitalism but aristocracy and inherited wealth.
Same thing drove the Indians off their land. Do you think Americans voted to drive them like animals?
Actually the Supreme Court tried very hard to stop the President at the time, Andrew Jackson by issuing rulings to prevent Indian Removal. However Jackson - a Democrat, said famously
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"
He went on to argue that Indian Removal was what "those whom had entrusted the office of the Executive" had wanted him to do. In short, THE PEOPLE- aka voters- had voted for him and his policy of Indian Removal and by that Democratic mandate Jackson had right to ignore the ruling of the SCOTUS, which he then did. And who did Indian Removal make way for? Was it rich corporate elites? No. It was poor farmers who laid claim Cherokee land. In fact, Jackson famously justified this unlawful theft by claiming it helped the poor tenant farmer with whom he was so popular. The 99% of his era.
There's a history lesson for you.
Kelo vs New London clearly does just that. And the arguement used to justify it was that more taxes could be collected from greedy corporations if private property was taken from private citizens and rendered over to developers. Democrats including then Senator Barack Obama were over joyed at that decision. Libertarians in revenge filed suit against Justice Stevens, the author of the majority opinion in order to use the precedent he set to cease his personal home, while George W. Bush issued an executive order to insure the Federal Government under his Presidency would not use the government's new found power under eminent domain to cease and auction private property for the benefit of corporate business. More over, Republican Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced legislation, the "Protection of Homes, Small Businesses and Private Property Act of 2005" (S.B. 1313), to limit the use of eminent domain for economic development. The operative language
prohibits the federal government from exercising eminent domain power if the only justifying "public use" is economic development; and
imposes the same limit on state and local government exercise of eminent domain power "through the use of Federal funds."
The only members of Congress to oppose the bill were Democrats.
If we're going to learn from history, lets look first at slavery, Indian Removal, Japanese Internment Camps, the struggle for civil rights, Al Gore's crusade for music censorship, the fairness doctrine, on up through recent history with the fallout from Kelo vs New London and President Obama's recent signing of bills allowing infinite detention without trial at who has been the primary driver of inequality, gross government over-reach and oppression.
It wasn't the free market, it was The Democrat Party
Why, thank you, HR.
Wow. I'm flattered to be compared to Hannity, Limbaugh, and Savage.
As I am expressing my "Freedom Rants" as inpired by the words, “Irreverence is the champion of liberty, and its only sure defense,” some humor and sarcasm come with the theme of my blog.
Just like my fellow "entertainers" you mention, so I'm happy you understand.
The difference is I pick on the powerful; they pick on the weak.
But am I really as downright mean as those guys?
A just cause, I may retaliate for their foul cruelty and dishonesty.
Since I can’t see voting for a Republican ever again, that statement validates your point? What point? The point that I vote for Obama? The point I am a Democrat? I’d prefer to vote for almost any Socialist over a corporatist drug warrior and accomplice in the war on terror’s destruction of civil liberties. Since you know who I will vote for, why don’t you let us know too. After all you cannot be wrong, right?
Thank you for your meticulous response and your definition of equality. And thanks for shilling for the powerful elite victims of “inequality” again.
And we are well aware of our “equality” in Constitutional freedoms, contrasted with the more “equality” of the “persons” that are our corporate Big Brothers.
More Orwellian framing would be “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” All persons are equal, but some “persons” are more equal.
Today's Republicans are not fee market people.
I agree. They are authoritarian, anti-democracy, radical Right, corporatists.
(Slavery, and every other evil...) It wasn't the free market, it was The Democrat Party
First, there is no such thing as a free market, or a "Democrat Party". Really. And the trading and ownership of slaves was pure business as usual for white conservatives way before there were any Democrats.
Time for more Remedial History:
First, the Indian Removal Act was not voted for by “The 99% of his era”. You’re off by about 90%. The conservative white guys had the votes that counted.
I’ll summarize the Trail of Tears origin. 1829: Gold discovered on Cherokee land, 1830: Indian Removal Act. Those “poor farmers” were Southern white guys after gold.
It ain’t a real democracy when over two million slaves and Indians couldn’t vote in the South.
You don’t think conservative aristocrats had an interest in gold and more land for their plantations? Yes, the Southern business minded conservative white guys wanted the land, and were intent on taking it.
Most European Americans favored the passage of the Indian Removal Act. It’s what America did back then when democracy (voting rights) was denied to millions of Americans, and conservative rich white guys ran the place.
The conservative Southern white guys were the ones that voted to deny rights to others.
Hey, that’s starting to sound familiar... there really is a conservative white Southern tradition of denying rights to fellow Americans. But it is spreading, along with the radicalization of the Right, all around our country.
Selective denial of civil rights has lead to very bad things. Conservatives seem oblivious of the harms, though.
Slaves make poor consumers
...is so true, just like the unemployed folks whose jobs were sent out of the country are poor consumers.
How foolish it would be were that true.\\
And that’s the way it is...
You must love the fact you can make up crap faster than I can debunk it.
I present one more nugget of those droppings.
had Gore been elected in 2000 nothing would have been different
...except the very Supreme Court that selected his opponent with fewer votes.
But that’s another story.
I'm sorry if a Democrat President rounding up every indian he could find and frog marching them to their deaths opened a wound. First in a lot of round ups for Democrats, just ask the Japanese Americans.
just like the unemployed folks whose jobs were sent out of the country are poor consumers
Apparently then they need to stop beating the shit out of business, or the standard of living they've enjoyed for the last 100 years is going to move to China. Bye bye. Wave. Who you gonna tax when those nasty rich guys are living on some tax fee beach? You, that's who, cause then we'll be the 1% Then maybe you'll wake up to the "democratic" shake down going on when you're the victim and not the beneficiary.
Well, except when George Bush of all people is signing executive orders to stop things like Kelo vs New London. What was that guy you're gonna pull the lever doing about it? Oh yeah, he was overjoyed. I'll be voting Libertarian, you'll be voting for the guy who renewed Haliburton and Blackwater's contracts.
Leslie Parsley said...
I don't think it's about what he did in HS as much as it is about his failed memory and non-apology. This would have been a perfect time for him to make a strong statement against bullying but he dropped the ball. And, in his case, bullying has become an art form.
While I'm glad you show us what rich conservative white guys have done, it only adds to what I say about authoritarians.
Can you show us where rich conservative white guys opposed the internments? Did you know Germans and Italians were also interned? Do you know why?
News flash One: Conservative white guys are no longer democrats. Keep digging up irrelevancies regarding progressives. It's about character.
News flash Two: The elites are doing better than ever. Don't you know that yet? Why are you whining and shilling for them? Atlas is winning. Everybody else is losing. Still not happy? How much more do you want us to lose?
News flash Three: GW Bush was not a champion of civil liberites. He's a conservative authoritarian white guy who led us into this mess, and let his rich pals off the hook to pay for it. It's about character.
As I said before, please take Atlas away from America. He doesn't like us, and we don't need him.
When I vote for the Socialist on the ticket you will be wrong, but won't won't admit it, will you?
It's about character.
That sounds like a good title to this post, doesn't it?
Jefferson's Guardian said...
Free0352: "Apparently then they need to stop beating the shit out of business, or the standard of living they've enjoyed for the last 100 years is going to move to China."
It already has.
As far as the 1% moving off-shore, that's fine. let 'em renounce their citizenship and move to China, India, or wherever. That's perfectly fine with me.
"I'll be voting Libertarian, you'll be voting for the guy who renewed Haliburton and Blackwater's contracts."
Good, and I'll be voting Green. Until the vast majority of Americans wake-up and realize their country's been hijacked by corporate interests, we'll still be in the same sinking boat no matter which wing of the "Corporate Party" is leading the charge of the corporate-state. (Being in the military, you're defending and supporting the very tyranny you say you oppose. How ironic.)
JG,
Unfortunately, while the corporatists can leave our country, they've poisoned our system. They solidified the influence of multinational and even secret interests on our government.
The more Free says I'll vote for Obama, the more likely I'll vote Socialist. As I noted, I refused to vote for Clinton twice.
Part of me also wants Romney to finish the job and be done with it. If Americans are too stupid to remember what Bush left us, they deserve any fate the aristocracy hands them.
Leslie,
Mitt the Snip's "failed memory" and non-apology are what makes it about character. His past behavior would be less a factor if he didn't act like he never grew out of that attitude.
He is an authoritarian and is not a good choice for leadership. Too bad not enough of us have learned that.
The more people understand them, the less power they will have.
RedStateFred said...
Just curious Dave with your Howard Zinn like revisionist history. Did these "white conservatives" also control the capture of slaves in Africa to be shipped to the Americas? Domestic slavery was common in Africa well before European slave buyers arrived. Black africans enslaving fellow black africans for "profit and greed" did not exist in Africa? Maybe there was no free market and the black enslavers hired a lobbyist to find a loophole in the African tribal regulations.
Kelo vs New London clearly does just that. And the arguement used to justify it was that more taxes could be collected from greedy corporations if private property was taken from private citizens and rendered over to developers. Democrats including then Senator Barack Obama were over joyed at that decision. Libertarians in revenge filed suit against Justice Stevens, the author of the majority opinion in order to use the precedent he set to cease his personal home
lol, that Authoritarian Justice Stevens is one left wing loon, maybe his psychological well-being suffers from only eating at Burger King like Morgan Spurlock's did while only eating at that evil corporation McDonalds run by the 1% that the 99% are forced to eat at.
Jefferson, I just want to say that I apologize for slandering you and hurting your feelings which was mean. I hope we can be friends despite our political differences.
Green Eagle said...
I think this story is about the fact that his bullying behavior in high school is totally consistent with his sociopathic conduct decades later at Bain Capital. It has resonance because in this case people see it as a window into his soul.
"and have no clue how their words sound to others."
You know what, Heathen? We don't give a damn what our words sound like to you. We learned long ago that you hear what you want to hear without regard to truth or common decency.
I see OWS has a facebook presence, http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt
Is there any internal conflict with you OWS people now that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, is worth over $19 Billion? Do you think he robbed that money from someone else? Don't you think OWS should now boycott facebook? Is Mark Zuckerberg an evil corporatist?
There is no way to discuss anything with people who will just lie in your face without a microsecond of discomfort. These right wingers know every word they say is false, but they are so greedy and so afraid that some Democrat might actually make them pay for the government services they receive, instead of just stealing the money from the poor, that you will never get anything out of them but the same old canned lies.
The worst of it is that, over and over again, they end up being just that many more victims of the rich.
What part of this is "revisionist"?
"And the trading and ownership of slaves was pure business as usual for white conservatives way before there were any Democrats."
What color were the slavers bringing them to America, and selling them in America, and buying them in America, and whipping them in America, and raping them in America?
Or were these not conservative rich white Americans?
Are you saying because blacks sold out rivals in Africa my statement is false and "revisionist?
Would like to revise your question? Or would you agree with Mr. Free that is was the "Democrat Party", whatever that is, doing the slave trade all along?
Maybe to you, slavery is entirely the blacks fault, and not the rich white conservative Southern Americans. How's that for revisionist?
Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates and other innovaters did not swindle people, create fraudulent credit default swaps and mortgage backed derivitives, buy the Senate and Congress, and then make the American people bail them out.
And you see no evil there, is that correct?
Funny thing about Republican memories. They're not at all like elephants. Reagan couldn't remember anything either, except fictitious anecdotes he thought were real.
Did these "white conservatives" also control the capture of slaves in Africa to be shipped to the Americas?
And your point?
The point is the blacks in Africa who enslaved fellow blacks for "profit and greed" were just as bad as the "white conservatives" "profit and greed" in the Americas.
But of course your filter will only see the "white conservatives".
And your response?
Weaseldog said...
It's interesting that choose a bullying and mean spirited tone to make this point, about how others are not self critical.
You were engaging in sarcasm to prove a point, right?
I'm still a registered Republican from the 1980s, yet you often call me a liberal and a progressive.
I wonder if these words mean what you think they mean.
Dave has never claimed to be a Democrat.
That's what you keep saying.
So is this whole comment about you, arguing with yourself?
I acknowledged that point already.
Does that excuse the "civilized" rich American white guys?
Is that your point?
You didn't explain how this statement is "revisionist".
"And the trading and ownership of slaves was pure business as usual for white conservatives way before there were any Democrats".
Is this false? You accused me. Back it up. Are you saying because blacks sold out rivals in Africa my statement about slavery in America is false and "revisionist?
Sounds like you're interested in a revisionist
justification of slavery.
This is clearly false if you read what I said previous to your accusation.
You're not lucid on your points, sir. But it is clear you want to accuse me of some evil or egregious error.
Would it be easier for you to just accuse liberals of being commies? This seems to be where it all comes down for you guys.
So go ahead, disregard my questions and request for clarification and get down to your dogma.
Feel free to do as your inner authoritarian wishes. Note your “Just the Troll” friend’s simple juvenile accusation about what I am full of. Say that, if it makes you feel better.
Accuse away. Tell me I'm a Marxist traitor, yadda yadda, useful idiot, blah, blah, have no values, yadda yadda, destroying America, blah, blah, hate freedom, blah blah, ad infinitum.
It's easier than rational discussion. And it makes you feel like a good American patriot....
But it might make you look like a useful idiot to the corporatocracy that is dismantling our democracy and standard of living.
So have at. Tell us what you really believe.
I think Dave forgot that the Republican Party was founded on Abolition. It was not "conservatives" but Democrats, card carrying members of the Democrat party who fought and died to preserve slavery. Fought and died by the hundreds of thousands. Then after, drove Jim crow, drove tenant farming and share cropping. If you asked Jefferson Davis were he alive today what party he was in, he'd tell you he was a Democrat. Were George Wallace alive today, he'd tell you the same. That's why what you are saying is revisionist. It was Republicans Dave, who fought and died to end slavery. It was Republicans Dave, who got women the right to vote. It was Republicans Dave, who fought the hardest to get the civil rights act signed. I'm not a Republican, I don't agree with then on everything- but you can't take that away from them.
The history is very clear, Republicans spent most of their history fighting Democrats to keep the Japanese out of the camps, to free the slaves, and their whig ancestors to let the Cherokee nation keep their land. And today, when a bunch of Democrats want to rob from the rich and give to themselves, its Republicans standing up to that. As a Libertarians our history is short, only about 40 years. But our track record on individual rights and freedoms in that time has been perfect. Republicans are not perfect, but superior. The Democrats very long history? Not at all. In fact they have been wrong more than they have been right. Way more. In truth it wasn't too popular in America to support Indian property rights or oppose slavery or tell the mob of Democrat voters they have no claim to other people's money.
Thank you for not clarifying. Those Republicans and Democrats DO NOT EXIST.
Rich authoritarian white guys do. They have failed to provide jobs, crashed our economy, slaughtered innocents in their war of choice and profit, and they are wealthier than ever. Boo hoo.
Keep shilling for them.
The Libertarian record on human values and compassionate public policy is abyssimal.
"Greed is good" is not cutting it.
What's more compassionate Dave, ensuring freedom and individual rights or locking up blacks to a life of vote serfs on the Democrat welfare plantation while the party elite reap the benefits?
As for the evil rich, they employ Americans. Rich Democrat elites in DC sure don't. The shake down the people who work for a living and drive them out of this country. Then complain about greed when those being ripped off object. If anyone is a shill for powerful people Dave, it's you and the progressive ilk. Now go cast your vote for more confiscation, more confinement without trial, more contracts for Haliburton, more Kelo vs New London policy, more bailouts for bankers- in short a vote for Obama.
Great job fucking up America.
219 Republicans believe that the US Gov should have the power to 'Disappear Americans', as the communists in the Eastern Block used to do.
This is a vote on a bill to make this unconstitutional law, illegal. The 'noes' are in favor of disappearing Americans with charges, trial or notification of kin.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll270.xml
Thanks for the false choice.
Tell us about what all the Republcans have done for blacks in the last century and a half.
Again, just who is reaping the benefits in our system? Your "job creators" are poviding less and less jobs and getting more and more wealthy.
They are in reality, getting far less of your "shakedown" than any of us can remember. Their taxes are lower than ever as their Swiss bank accounts swell larger. But their shills whine louder and longer than ever. Boo hoo.
If that's "oppression", they can get the hell out of our country.
Great job fucking up America. Because the helpless disenfranchised economic elites and their Republican Party have had no power or effect on policy over the past three decades?
Yessiree. I done it all by myself. Heh, heh.
Be nice to me, or I'll come back and finish the job with more tax cuts for the rich, more corporate welfare, more deregulation of Big Money, more corporate written trade agreements, more corporate written legislation, and a couple more wars for Halliburton, Blackwater and cronies.
I guess the only way to fix things is to give up our democracy and let the elites own our government and have everything their way.
Just like we've been doing over that past three decades.
Wease,
Thanks for showing just how "conservative" Republicans protect our "freedom and individual rights" as Mr. Free suggests in his false choice. Let's give them more power.
I guess Lucas and Spielberg (Democrats) might be surprised to learn that they haven't created any jobs.
At least not as many as Paris Hilton (Republican) has.
And don't you know Dave, the continued income inequality and three decades of steadily increasing tax breaks for the wealthy, have today, given us the greatest economy and best employment conditions, that the USA has ever seen.
You can look at the USA today, to to see see the benefits of overseas investments and Middle East tax havens for the ultra wealthy.
Free isn't well educated Dave. He doesn't know much about the history of the Republican Party.
In his schooling he never learned that the Republicans used to be the liberals and the Democrats the conservatives. Our crappy education system that gives us candidates claiming that Paul Revere was working for the British, strikes again...
Mark Zuckerburg is worth $19 billion, so long as he doesn't try to withdraw the money.
If he starts cashing it in, the stock value will drop and he'll be worth a lot less.
Further, he's not affiliated with either party. He just likes money.
Do you assume that he's a Democrat because he made his money in IT? Are people who make their money in technology and science assumed to be Democrats?
And finally, has he produced $19/billion in jobs? It's possible that he's made huge profits. After all, at is fingertips is personal information on hundreds of millions if not billions of people worldwide. Information that he can sell at will. And does sell.
That's not really a liberal sort of trait.
That's certainly corporatist. Much like Bush and Obama granting warrant less wiretapping and Peeping Tom rights to private corporations.
I believe in the "economic means" discussed below to acquire wealth.
The limosine liberals and their running of the plantation, OWS, and the 99% primarily believe in the "political means" to acquire wealth.
The following is from "Anatomy of the State" by the libertarian Murray Rothbard
Man is born naked into the world, and needing to use his mind to learn how to take the resources given him by nature, and to transform them (for example, by investment in "capital") into shapes and forms and places where the resources can be used for the satisfaction of his wants and the advancement of his standard of living. The only way by which man can do this is by the use of his mind and energy to transform resources ("production") and to exchange these products for products created by others. Man has found that, through the process of voluntary, mutual exchange, the productivity and hence the living standards of all participants in exchange may increase enormously.
The German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth:
- the "economic means"
- the "political means"
One, the above way of production and exchange, he called the "economic means."
The other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another's goods or services by the use of force and violence. This is the method of one-sided confiscation, of theft of the property of others. This is the method which Oppenheimer termed "the political means" to wealth. It should be clear that the peaceful use of reason and energy in production is the "natural" path for man: the means for his survival and prosperity on this earth. It should be equally clear that the coercive, exploitative means is contrary to natural law; it is parasitic, for instead of adding to production, it subtracts from it.
The "political means" siphons production off to a parasitic and destructive individual or group; and this siphoning not only subtracts from the number producing, but also lowers the producer's incentive to produce beyond his own subsistence. In the long run, the robber destroys his own subsistence by dwindling or eliminating the source of his own supply.
Todays limosine liberals have replaced yesterdays "white conservatives" running the plantation.
The false conclusion by the Right is that most people want handouts and not jobs. Of course the jobs are not there. The holy elite failed to produce enough jobs or shamelessly sent them overseas, but that false judgment still calls for stripping safety nets from the lazy "parasites".
Yes, I've seen this over-simplification before.
Let's look at the real parasites you guys call the "producers".
Tell us, what was "produced" by the Wall Street shell game of credit default swaps and mortgage backed derivatives?
You Right WIngers love to parrot this crap, but liberals have not been running anything for decades. This is reality, no matter what your beliefs are.
The mythical "liberal media" has been conglomerated by a handful of powerful corporations. Corporate money is now the dominant form of "free speech" in our political system. Congress and corporate lobbyists are the same club through a revolving door.
Need I spell it out for you further?
As I sarcastically explained Mr. Free:
Because the helpless disenfranchised economic elites and their Republican Party have had no power or effect on policy over the past three decades?
So if the government gave someone millions in free money, they'd become hard working job creators?
Or is it.
If the government gave someone millions in free money, they'd get lazy and not work to create jobs?
I'm getting confused about the effect of giving free money to people are. They get lazy or work hard to create jobs. Which is it?
The multi-millionaire in the video below says that if you give rich people money, they just get lazy and don't create jobs. Because they don't need to. Will the multi-millionaires on this forum please provide evidence to the contrary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bBx2Y5HhplI
RedStateFred. I don't doubt that folks believe in the things you say they do.
And yet everyday, we see politicians tell us what they believe in, then go do the opposite.
Now you seem to believe in thieves and liars, but I'm wired that way. When I catch people lying, it doesn't strengthen my faith in them, it destroys and opportunity for trust.
You and I will continue to disagree on this point.
Great video clip. Hanauer is the newest of what they called FDR, a traitor to his class.
Loved the sour mean look on Trump's face.
The worst of them hate the truth.
"Greed is good" and "let the elites have everything their way" is all they want Americans to believe. It's working too, and only for them, nobody else.
Jerry Critter said...
Weaseldog,
You may be on to something. When you give "free money" to the poor, they spend it all, generating demand which creates jobs. When you give the wealthy "free money", the have no incentive to invest in their businesses, nor do they spend it all, so there is less demand created and thus fewer, if any, jobs created.
The job creators are those who spend their money rather than simply accumulate it.
Mr. Eagle,
"You know what, Heathen? We don't give a damn what our words sound like to you. We learned long ago that you hear what you want to hear without regard to truth or common decency."
Thank you for making the point. Obviously, as a conservative, I'm not your audience. If you mean to persuade, you should care what your words sound like.
Of course, those who know you know that you don't mean to persuade. Ad hominem is all we ever hear from you.
"These right wingers know every word they say is false..."
I'm confused. Dave made the point that (he thinks) conservatives aren't self-critical and aren't aware of their own behavior. Yet here you are saying we're aware of everything we say. Which is it?
Do you disagree with Dave, or are you just looking for more ad hominem opportunities, whether or not you believe what you're saying?
Yes, Weaseldog, that was a great vid. Here's more of Nick Hanauer on the same subject.
This is a reaffirmation of Keynesian economics: It takes demand to drive an economy, or to lift one out of the doldrums of depression. As usual, the supply-side conservatives have it all bass-ackwards. Jobs are created through demand. It's always been that way.
It's 10:27 minutes worth watching. Pay attention to the end. Der Spiegel addresses the current situation and puts it into clear perspective.
Thanks for that one JG. I like the way he explains that because he's so rich, and pays so little in taxes, he doesn't have to work to create jobs, and doesn't.
Why should he, when the living is easy?
And for the Der Spiegel point, we're dumbed down as a nation so well, that that a large proportion of the population doesn't know poorly educated the candidates are. Look at all of the people who defended Bachman, and insisted she was right, when she said that the American Revolution was fought to free the slaves.
I'm confused. Dave made the point that (he thinks) conservatives aren't self-critical and aren't aware of their own behavior.
I’m afraid you’re far more confusing than confused. I understand. You’re just doing your job. We have discussed this.
Remember what we learned about projection?
It is difficult to be lectured by you if you can’t remember doing the very thing you’re accusing me of doing. These were your words early in this comment thread.
See? You made the alleged “ad hominum” point you accused me of making. This is called projection. It is a common defense mechanism for those who have done wrong, or even said or thought something shameful or otherwise negative.
My point on this accusation was this: I agree that progressives are often "very self-righteous, are not self-critical, have very little critical thinking about their own behavior, and even nasty and mean-spirited". These traits are common to most people at some time. Yes, even conservatives, but they cannot admit it. We know.
How was that an ad hominum attack on you again?
Actually, John Dean made the point, but I don’t expect some of our readers pay to that close attention. John Dean is very familiar with authoritarian personalities. Nixon, Agnew, G. Gordon Liddy, etc.
He wrote a book about them called “Conservatives Without Conscience”. I think Cheney is one of the guys on the cover.
As Dean said drawing from his years spent within the Nixon White House:
This prompted you to project these characteristics almost exclusively onto progressives, as you claim to have never known authoritarian politicians or personalities, or even seen, amazingly enough, in the media.
Except for me, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Savage.
Who could argue with that?
“Yes, even conservatives, but they cannot admit it. We know.”
I called that one, didn’t I?
Speaking of projection, my comment wasn't directed at you. Not everything is about you, Dave.
I asked Green Eagle a question because he contradicted your point. Green Eagle pretty much only made ad hominem attacks and no substantive points.
I ignored the rest of your comment since you made it all about you and were so off the mark. If there was anything of substance, let me know and I'll respond with one of my trademark lectures.
Your projection was here:
True, not everything is about me, but this is. You included my name, right? And you projected your own behavior unto me.
I'll gladly keep my nose out of your exchanges with others, if you keep my name out of your false accusations and projection.
Mmkay?
So you didn't make that point? You're lying.
He's lying about you using his name?
Corporate money is now the dominant form of "free speech"
As spoken on a blog which can literally be read by a billion people in one day.
Not that a billion people will read but there is potential. It isn't that you don't have free speech Dave, you have more tools for free speech at your disposal than any other time in history for a cost so cheap it's mind boggling.
It's just that billions of people don't care what you have to say. Don't be so bitter about it and blame others for your lack of readership.
As I patiently noted, John Dean made the point. It was drawn from his experience working with authoritarian Republicans.
I only agree with it, as it is true. Even if I originally made it, HR projected what he did himself at me. That is in plain view for all to see.
HR proved Dean correct as he needed to twist the authoritarian characteristics 180 degrees and attribute them to progressives...and for some odd reason, Limbaugh, (he-who-must-not-be-contradicted, which tells us all we need to know about authoritarian followers.)
HR decided it applied to progressives, “most left-wing bloggers” and Limbaugh/FOX(R) types. Perhaps those are desirable traits on the Right, since they reward their authoritarian propagandists so handsomely, and elect their authoritarian political leaders into power.
HR is merely doing his job. He needs to muddy the water and cloud the discussion. When reality paints its ugly picture of the radical Right, they need to attack that reality and project the negatives toward others.
We all know the authoritarian followers. They are the true believers of “death panels”, “Obama the Marxist racist”, “tax cuts for the rich create jobs”, FOX(R) is “fair and balanced” and everything Cheney and their authoritarian leaders say.
Ha. You crack me up.
Don't be so bitter about it and blame others for your lack of readership
Looks like more projection.
It’s the quality of readership that matters to me. You never disappoint.
The problems in this country can best be illustrated by the two most popular groups outside of government trying to solve them. OWS and the Tea Party. Fundamentally they are protesting the exact same thing... our government is broken. One thing it's easy to find consensus on is that the government has failed to solve the very serious changes faced by America today. You ask 10 Democrats, they'll tell you government is failing. Republicans; same thing. The differences are in the solutions offered by the two groups. They're 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
OWS basically tells us that if we punish in business and the public sector; those who caused some of these problems, government will do more for people in a better, smarter, faster manner. Then we'll all live happily ever after.
The Tea Party says fire the bastards. It assumes as I do; that government is broken and will likely stay that way. That the more we empower it the worse it will become and the more the problems faced by Americans will get. It says that the fundamental flaw with OWS is that while a few scape goats will take the fall, the power given to the government will put those who have caused this mess who will survive on steroids. They say if you like the mess we're in today just wait till we feed those who caused it more money, more power, and more authority over us.
What the Tea Party and more so Libertarians are saying is they want to take maximum responsibility for their lives. They're saying let us take care of earning for ourselves a living, providing health care for our families, for providing ourselves with a retirement. We're saying let government take responsibility only for the things an individual cannot possibly do. No individual can build even a single road- that takes government. No individual can defeat Al'Queda or North Korea or any of the other threats to this country, so we need a military to defend us and our nation's international interests. While we strongly think we have a right to own fire arms to protect ourselves for the same reason we own fire extinquishers and first aid kits- because response time for first responders is a factor- we still need a police force and fire department to handle situations an individual cannot. We need courts to handle criminal charges and peacefully settle disputes between citizens. Beyond those few things we cannot do for ourselves, we will do for ourselves. More over, for those who choose not to- don't make us responsible for them. We have our own life problems we are trying to solve. The last thing we need is the weight of perfect strangers around our necks making it more difficult to solve our own problems.
OWS doesn't think this, they think government- though they readily admit it's failure- are the answer to all their problems. It isn't. In fact the OWS solution will amplify all the objections OWS has with the State.
But all this is beside the point. Dave Dubya isn't a Tea Party guy or an OWS guy. He's a status quo kinda guy. He's a guy who this November who regardless of all his objections is going to run out and cast his vote not for any sort of change but for another four years of what he's admitted time and again is failed policy. And he'll do it because he thinks rich people are Republicans, and I've concluded he has a resentment towards rich people. Never mind the people he's voting for caused this mess, and are fabulously wealthy. Even more either ironically or hypocritically, most are rich by a means of what Red State Fred calls Political Means. What this means is they did nothing productive to make their money... they simply took it from people who were productive. What this suggests is Dave's arguements aren't original or productive or centered on solutions- but instead he's a kind of Political Fan-Boy. He gets in line, forms up, does an about face and marches on as a good little political soldier better than any actual Soldier who has ever worked for me in the Army.
His loyalty is amazing.
I must say I would completely agree with Mr. Free’s analysis...if his assumptions were correct.
Our government is not broken. It works just fine for the elites and corporations. Regulation is weak. Their taxes are down and profits are up. The Tea Party loves this. OWS and the sane members of the 99% question it. It’s not government, but Democracy that is broken. Government of, by, and for the people is what is being dismantled by Big Money’s tightening lock on our elections and government officials. See the congress/lobby revolving door. See Wall Street insiders in our treasury department and buying politicians. Even what was once the “Public Broadcasting System” is now beholden to corporate sponsorship. Thank the Republicans for this, and for primarily the rest of the corporatization of our government. They always have enough corpo-dems to follow their agenda thanks to Big Money’s corrupting influence.
It’s not just PBS. The regulatory function of government has been hijacked by Big Money. The trade agreement function of government has been hijacked by Big Money. It’s not broken. It has been hijacked. That is the status quo that Mr. Free falsely asserts I defend. He indicates I shall vote for Obama, who has caused all this. If he only could see how utterly false he is on both counts there.
And because I condemn the influence of Big Money on public policy, and support higher taxes on the elites, Mr. Free falsely concludes I hate rich people. Ironically the very purpose of Big Money’s seizure of our government is to expand their wealth by political means. That probably doesn’t show up well in their black and white view of the world.
We're saying let government take responsibility only for the things an individual cannot possibly do
Yes, one of which is to provide jobs. And another is the general welfare of the people. The last Republican Great Depression proved that government is necessary when unregulated capitalism fails to provide jobs. Our recovery is hampered now because the foxes are still in the henhouse. They work for Big Money more than we the people.
The difference between the Tea Party and OWS, apart from the fact the Tea Party was built by Big Money, and apart from the lunatic sense of “oppression” by the lowest tax rates ever, and apart from racist pictures of Obama with a bone in his nose; the real difference is the Tea Party is fine with corporate power dominating government, while the OWS understands the need for the rule of law and the constitutional duty of government to serve the people by regulating commerce.
Free’s right about one more thing. The people who caused this mess are fabulously wealthy. It’s their government now. And our loss.
The difference between the Tea Party and OWS, apart from the fact the Tea Party was built by Big Money
If the millions of people in the Tea Party were all worth "big money" we wouldn't be having many national problems.
This is what I've noticed you like to do- a lot of Democrats actually. Instead of addressing the issues the Tea Party has raised about government you try to deflect it with labels like "big money."
I suppose that's easier than making an arguement. It's a childish response actually. You bring up a random wacko with a racist sign as if anyone can do anything about that person... while I being an adult ignore the random idiot who took a shit on a police car at OWS... not to mention filth, rampant drug abuse and over 100 rapes at OWS. That's because I try to focus on issues here- while Dave, you seem desperate to avoid addressing the arguement. Why not skip the deflection and stay on issues? That would save time.
You argue how "big money" has taken over government for the worse... but it's hard to take that point seriously when immediately after you suggest we should give give government more power and control. Thats the equivalent of saying "Wow this employee sucks... LETS GIVE'EM A RAISE!" It doesn't make any sense.
What I find even more baffling is when you rail against "the powerful rich" who according to you have hijacked our government for the worse... and then in November will run out and cast a vote for Barack Obama who just two weeks ago put 15 million dollars in his pocket after one night at George Clooney's house.
And you may object to Obama's campaign fund raising in a later post... but you'll still vote for him.
Truth is, the people in Governmental elected positions got there because people voted for them. And largely, those people do what their contributors, party, and constituents want (in that order.) That's the way it is, has always been, and will likely always be. And you seem fine with that Dave, so long as that person is on the team you are such a Fan-Boy over. You're more like a diehard sports fan than a person interested in solutions.
Remember Dave: Feet at a 45 degree angle, body held erect, thumbs along your trouser seams, head and eyes forward. When it's time to salute- make sure your fingers are extended and joined with the tip of the pointer finger to your brow, elbow held parallel to the deck. And you say sir to a superior. And never question orders. Hope and Change.
Calling the Tea Party a construct and tool of Big Money is not "deflection". It is reality.
The so called "Issues of the Tea Party" are identical to FOX(R) and the Republican Party. Remember the big FOX Tea Party hoopla? I do. Thanks to the GOP pandering to them and they lost any remaining moderates along with the ability to compromise.
That's the way it is, has always been, and will likely always be.
No. It has not always been this way. The floodgates of Big Money are wide open as never before in our lives. Democracy is lowered further into its grave.
The issue I address is the seizure and corruption of our government by Big Money. End corporate personhood and restore our rights to real persons.
There's the problem and a big part of the solution.
Your solution is every man for himself. Let the government belong to the elites.
More Boo hoo for the aristocracy. You are hysterical. Profits and wealth have gone up, exclusively for the elites.
Oh, and I forgot to address this logic bending point.
Yes, one of which is to provide jobs. And another is the general welfare of the people.
The government creates jobs eh? Well certainly they do employ people. Specifically 2.7 million civilian federal employees, 2.3 million are on active duty and in the reserves of the military, and there are 19.8 million state and local government employees. That totals to 24.8 million people who work for government.
Last time I checked we have 300 million people in America, and of that only 153.6 million are eligible to work. The rest are kids, the disabled and old people. So 19.8 from 153.6 works out to be 133.8 million people in the work force not employed by government. It is true some of them are unemployed. The national average being 8.1% but really closer to 11%. We'll use 11% figure, which gives us 119.1 million people in America who somehow managed to find jobs in this country without ANY government help what-so-ever.
Oh it gets better, a full half of Americans who work are employed by small business, and small business according to the Small Business Administration amounts to over 99% of all employer firms in this country. They also pay 44% of the taxes in this country.
These numbers don't do your point very well. What this says; is that the vast, vast majority of Americans not only pay their own way in life but also pay 44% towards the cost of the over 14 million Americans who do jack shit- not to mention 44% of we humble government employees. And while they suffer that 14 million American burden they still managed to create 67% of the jobs these last 17 years.
And what Dave do you do for them for their trouble? Tell them they don't do their fair share, call them scum bags and demand they pay well over half their income in taxes. No wonder they're all off shoring to China and moving away. The Democrat policy is killing these people financially and you could give a rats ass. Instead you call them greedy and run out to vote for a guy who has real, authentic fat cats shilling out 15 million dollars a night from George Clooney's couch. I gotta ask, what the fuck is the matter with you? What are you thinking? I would suggest you abandon this insane Fan-Boy mind set and start supporting efforts to help the people we depend on as government employees instead of kicking them repeatedly in the balls... but I won't hold my breath.
No wonder you're always angry at me. You think I'm "fucking up America" and kicking people repeatedly in the balls.
And to think, I use all that power to oppress the elites as they become more and more wealthy.
I must be doing something wrong.
Free0352: "OWS doesn't think this [in rugged, Marlboro-Man style individualism -- I suppose], they think government- though they readily admit it's failure- are the answer to all their problems."
You're way out in left field. As a matter of fact, you're not even in the ballpark! Please cite your source for this preposterous statement. (It would be nice if you weren't constantly exposing us to such unsubstantiated bullshit. I don't have waders high enough.)
Hmmm Jefferson, from what I have read in their own literature is among other things, OWS wants what they call a "living wage" regardless of employment, free college education in addition to the free education they already are entitled to, government to end what they call a "fossil fuel' economy, an additional 1 trillion in "infrastructure spending" which they don't go into specifically what that means, 1 trillion in ecological spending to save the trees, something called a "Racial Gender Equal Rights Amendment" to the Constitution... I'm not sure what that means either. They go on to demand open boarders, and end to not only the war in Afghanistan but all foreign military presence we have outside the US boarders, 100% across the board debt forgiveness for all people in this country who are in debt, a law against credit reporting agencies, the establishment of a single Federal Banking system, and last but not least all the bankers and corporate people who took the bail out to go to prison.
That's what they want in their own words. Sorry guy, but I can't help but take them at their own word and that to me sounds basically like a socialist revolution. Now I understand OWS is a leaderless organization and no one person or group speaks for 100% of OWS'ers any more than one group speaks for the Tea Party... yet I must confess that even if a person wanted a quarter of that... well that's a person who believes in two mythical things. An honest government and the tooth fairy.
In case you want my sources, they are-
occupywallst.org and their facebook page
occupytogether.org
I'll avoid link-bombing Dave's site again. I'm sure you can read three websites yourself and a facebook page. That is if you aren't a member already. Of course if you have a better source for what the occupy groups stand for, please share.
And Dave, we have a right to be angry.
Most, not all, of those things you list, Free, sound like pretty good ideas.
Free, I like the way you make up stuff and attribute it to OWS.
That's excellent redirection, and great illustration of what this post is about.
You're a great poo flinger Free. Have you ever considered actually reading what people write and trying to remember it?
Or is it just easier to make shit up and fling it?
Dave's been clear for years that he's not an Obama supporter. Yet your Alzheimered brain can't seem to learn this. Why is that. Is safe to assume that you're really old, or is it something else causing our acute memory loss?
So an organization is defined by every fringe idea a member has? Sort of like the Tea Party has been organized to drag negroes to death behind pickup trucks? Because there are some loonies in your organization, Free, you believe that we should ascribe their beliefs to you? And assume you believe in these things too?
I don't think that's a fair way to judge other people. I think you can rise above this.
Hmmm, throwing people who didn't commit a crime into prison, throwing 2 trillion dollars into an unaccountable black hole, seizing private property, controlling the means of production and wages, rendering a college education worthless by making it universal... yeah sounds like a socialist quagmire to me. Tried the same thing in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Vietnam to name a few. Millions starved.
There's this phenomenon of American democracy called "countervailing force." Says that for some reason I were to get all wrought up about the environmental and health hazard presented by jet engine contrails. So I get others wrought up and we form a pressure group. Our group militates to have jet aircraft grounded unless or until the contrails menace can be neutralized.
In virtually no time, you'd have a pressure group, say Airline Pilots, Passengers and Shareholders for the Freedom to Fly. They would argue contrails are not only harmless but good for the environment. Their friends in the oil industry would chime in that contrail vapor is as healthy as mother's milk. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., would fly his plane for miles through the contrails of a jetliner, cockpit window open, to demonstrate the harmlessness.
Not only do groups form to oppose one another, but the tone and wavelength of the groups tend to be reflected on opposing sides. The whackier the fringers on one side, the farther out the countervailing force group on the opposite side.
So, free0352, if you think the OWS crowd is way out there, thank the tea party crazies.
I don't think their objections are part of the problem, but in fact think they'r legitimate. There are things wrong with our government today. So I think your analogy is incorrect since both sides largely agree on what some of the problems are. It's the solution where there is a disconnect. One proposes a governmental solution- oddly enough because government is the problem. The other advocates an individual solution with a minimization of governmental solutions.
Free, you believe that we should ascribe their beliefs to you? And assume you believe in these things too?
You should really read my posts. Specifically where I said-
"You [dave] bring up a random wacko with a racist sign as if anyone can do anything about that person... while I being an adult ignore the random idiot who took a shit on a police car at OWS... not to mention filth, rampant drug abuse and over 100 rapes at OWS. That's because I try to focus on issues here- while Dave, you seem desperate to avoid addressing the arguement. Why not skip the deflection and stay on issues? That would save time.
See I can accept there will be random idiots in a leaderless organization and not judge the actions of the whole based on the few. However, I can read the literature coming out of OWS from various sources and listen to the speeches and make a determination. I did quite a bit of research on OWS because I wanted to have a better argument against them, than one time an OWS dude shit on a cop car.
So direct that comment at Dave Dubya, since in fact he was the one cherry picking random morons, not I.
And a last thought, the one thing this country could use is a little more Marlboro Man- Cowboy rugged individualism. A lot more actually. We're becoming a nation of weaklings and cry-babies.
Your 12:08 comment: “Hmmm”
Beside the generalized blanket statement that Communism doesn’t work, which we agree with, only not as you frame it, there’s your odd claim:
rendering a college education worthless by making it universal...
...is irrelevant, as not everyone could attain a college degree, and it is as illogical, as in saying “rendering education worthless by making it universal...”
You are correct about this:
There are things wrong with our government today.
While the Tea Part and OWS both make that claim that is all they have in common. And the differences are in both the problem and solution as I said:
The racist element was visibly present at those demonstrations, and conveniently ignored by FOX(R) and fellow Big Money Republicans. That didn’t stop them from declaring the entire OWS movement as anti-American commies though, did it?
Those are two very divergent views of what is wrong with our government. OWS has no such vast corporate media and political party support. Only the grass roots of the American people. They may just be the last dying gasps of what was our democracy.
The OWS list of goals reflects the spectrum of the 99%. It’s a big club with diverse and even competing interests. The Tea Party is razor sharp in its focus on the interests of Big Money; cut taxes and regulation for the elites and demonize Obama and Democrats. The Tea Party has the backing and support of Big Money, the Republican Party, and FOX(R)/talk radio corporate media. This is not “deflection” as you suggested by your own fallacious argument that the dupes of the Tea Party are not all rich. It was not my point that they were.
Democrats only vaguely acknowledge OWS, as they say they “understand” the movement, in a vain attempt to co-opt it. The truth is OWS is outraged at both the Democratic and Republican Parties’ corporatist servitude.
They want democracy, not corporatocracy. As for the Tea Party...follow the money.
If we had “more Marlboro Man- Cowboy rugged individualism” we would also have more of the lung cancer that killed him.
Dave, be making a collage degree "universal," lets say as a high school diploma is- because it's so easy to get- it would be rendered as worthless as the high school diploma it would replace as a box check on the way to employment. The more you have of something, the less it is worth. The standards for a bachelors degree and even an MBA have fallen over the years, to become more accessible to more students- and their worth has fallen in the market place correspondingly.
lunatic sense of “oppression” by the lowest tax rates ever
The rate paid now averages 50%, and it surely wasn't always so. That actually highlights how greedy your side has become when paying half isn't nearly enough for you, so you demand figures as high as 90%... numbers I've heard on THIS BLOG and in the media.
And as for cowboys, I'd rather have one that smokes than a dreadlock sporting looser living in his mom's basement who wants a welfare check for breathing along with his "universal" diploma.
Free0352, as I previously mentioned, you're out of the ballpark (and making things up as you ramble along). Occupy Wall Street hasn't committed to, or publicly announced, any list of "demands".
There certainly have been grievances, no doubt, which mostly center around the growing income inequality and wealth distribution in the U.S. between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population.
You hardly speak for the heady and independent "cowboy" mentality that you seem intent on portraying. Until you wean yourself off the government teet, you're not a very convincing spokesman for the independence of the mythical Marlboro Man. If you truly believed it, you'd live it.
Nobody is suggesting that a college education should be universal...available for everyone at no or minimal cost. It should be available for only those that can meet entrance requirements.
Actually several OWS websites list the points I mentioned on their list of goals. For one they see a college degree as a right that should be provided by the state. So someone, in fact many are saying that. And where does that end? It is only logical that once, say- a bachelors degree- becomes a universal right colleges with less that scrupulous admissions departments will let dumb-dumbs in under the pretense of an easy degree... which will devalue the bachelors degree even more so than it is now. This is why 50 years ago if you had a bachelors you had a guaranteed job and today you have people with bachelors waiting tables in restaurants. You see that today with an MBA. Used to be an MBA was a big deal, now it's a check in the box because the free market delivered on a customer demand and a lot of MBAs flooded the labor market.
As for "no one speaking for OWS" I agree to some extent. It's a leaderless organization. But just like a person can examine the totality of Tea Party messages and conclude they want lower taxes and a smaller government you can do the same with OWS to determine a consensus of what it wants. The "demands" I mentioned were the consensus from their own literature- and I listed where I got that literature. If you have a problem with that I suggest you email Occupywallst.org or Occupywithus.org among others and tell them to stop being the two most traffic'ed occupy websites. If you have an online resource that does a better job of outlining what OWS is about you should send it to me. I for one don't like taking the MSM's word for much of anything and I like to make up my own mind about things; so I tend to go to the source and see for myself.
As for me being on a government teet; I think this illustrates an excellent point. Dave likes to talk about a black/white thinking and with you Jefferson that mindset is clearly on display. For you, I have to be either an anarchist or a card carrying socialist or I am a hypocrite. Taking a moderate position and saying there are some responsibilities of government and some things that are not isn't acceptable to you. That's an extreme line of thinking and that makes you a political extremist. You are part of the problem bud, not part of the solution. There can't be any kind of compromise with a guy like you who is operating on an "all or nothing" mindset. I think you do wonders for my cause when people read comments like yours because it highlights the extreme socialist theme many Democrats have. It says you guys aren't a part of the main stream political thought most Americans have. Instead you folks are a group of class warriors who won't accept any level of moderation short of government controlling the means of production and setting wages in a centrally commanded economy. The vast majority of voters can understand the need for a professional, all volunteer military these days and also possess enough nuance to understand that doesn't mean government should provide every waking need to the citizen. When offered the choice between a wonderful example of Liberal Progressive ideals like yourself and my very moderate approach I can't help but win. I only wish more Americans could hear Jefferson who is at least honest about his intent, as opposed to the more sly in your movement who know better how to hide their intentions and institute them by clandestine degree against the will of the American people.
Every time true liberals open their mouths like this, it demonstrates that Conservatives and Libertarians aren't the radicals and extremists we are often painted to be by liberals like Jefferson... its quite the other way-around.
A college education should be available to everyone who,qualifies, not only those that qualify and can afford it. It is money well invested and the country will be paid back many times over.
Why not give everyone a PHD then? And when everyone has a PHD, won't those with a Masters (let alone a Bachelors) be at a disadvantage? What happens to those too stupid to graduate from high school?
This is what I found at the non-facebook links. I don’t do facebook.
is an international, people-driven movement of individuals with many different backgrounds and political beliefs. Since we no longer trust our elected officials to represent anyone other than their wealthiest donors, #occupy empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up. Organized in over 100 cities in the United States, the movement aims to fight back against the system that has allowed the richest 1% to write the rules governing an unbalanced and inequitable global economy, and thus foreclosing on our future.
#occupy wants to end the monetized relationship between corrupt politicians and corporate criminals. To end profit-driven policies. We believe our grievances are connected and rooted in corrosive corporate influences. We want a system that operates in the interest of the people.
#ows is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.
Through a direct democratic process, we have come together as individuals and crafted these principles of solidarity, which are points of unity that include but are not limited to:
Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy;
Exercising personal and collective responsibility;
Recognizing individuals’ inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions;
Empowering one another against all forms of oppression;
Redefining how labor is valued;
The sanctity of individual privacy;
The belief that education is human right; and
Making technologies, knowledge, and culture open to all to freely access, create, modify, and distribute. (amendment passed by consensus 2/9/2012)
Why did you ignore all of that?
I couldn’t find most of what you allege they say.
Education is a right. That is not the same thing as a free college degree for all, regardless of ability. Where did you pull that one from? You ignore every mention of qualification and ability. Universal free college degrees for all, you said.
Where do they say this?
OWS doesn't think this, they think government- though they readily admit it's failure- are the answer to all their problems.
And this?
throwing people who didn't commit a crime into prison, throwing 2 trillion dollars into an unaccountable black hole, seizing private property, controlling the means of production and wages, rendering a college education worthless by making it universal...,
As far as I can tell, Wease is right about you making this stuff up.
If I applied your same method, I would say the Tea Party is a fascist and racist organization dedicated to a dictatorship by the economic elite.
And I may just be closer to the truth.
Jerry did not advocate giving anyone a degree and you know it. Please don't misrepresent. It ruins the debate. Jerry advocated giving everyone the opportunity to earn a degree. So, it not "those too stupid" you want to penalize, but "those too poor." Those who are too stupid to earn a degree are already penalized and no one here suggested saving them with a degree, no one except for you, that is.
Thanks, John. Free has no argument for what I am saying so he has to make up shit.
Its funny that in Dave's quote value was mentioned. Perhaps it's because I minored in economics when I was in college- and in truth if I had it to do over again I would have majored in Actuarial Science and not Political Science because I'm mathematical by nature- but I tend to see everything as related to it's value and incentives.
What value is, is key to what we're talking about as to education. Value is determined quite simply by what people will pay. Bottom line- something is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. You cannot redefine value, value is like the law of gravity. That includes not only labor, but the value of a college diploma. Labor has zero intrinsic value. Product has value, labor does not. If you work very hard making a substandard product, that product is not more valuable than an easily made, high quality product. In fact the easily made product of same or better quality is more valuable because it will be more appealing to a customer.
Now lets apply that to a bachelors degree shall we? We can assume that if we make education a human right and provide funding for it, that will increase the demand for a bachelors degree. It is only common sense that by subsidizing education more people will take advantage of it. So there you have it... Demand. The price of a college education will rise. This in fact has already happened to a certain degree as can be seen by ever more new students and a drastically increasing tuition costs. So with every Demand, Supply will increase. Schools will want to cash those subsidy checks, hot in the hands of all those students with a fresh human right to go to school. Therefore, they will lower entrance requirements in order to cash in and make maximum profit. Some schools surely will not, however many more will do so. You libs may want to rule greed out of the equation, but greed like gravity is practically a law of nature. In fact, this has already happened to a certain degree with college entrance requirements and tuition costs. Certainly this has happened with a High School Diploma which is essentially worthless in today's labor market. A high school diploma costs more today and is worth less than it was 50 years ago.
Now call me crazy, but I believe the incentive for the vast majority of college students to attend higher education is to be more competitive in the labor market. After all, a person's labor is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. You can try to debate that, but it's true even with you on a limited level. Let me ask you this: Would you pay someone to work really hard to shine your shoes for 20 hours and pay them a thousand dollars; or would you rather pay a guy 8.50 and have the same job done in 10 minutes? We all know the answer to that question. So by increasing the number of bachelor degrees- and I'll even assume every graduate is a worthy student- you will DEVALUE and DELUDE a bachelors degree value in the labor market just as a high school diploma has been devalued and deluded. You will actually make things worse for that young kid out there trying to get a job. In fact, you will make it worse on several levels. You will increase the amount of competition he or she has in the labor market, you will give incentive to unethical schools to graduate idiots further eroding the value of his or her degree and finally you will dramatically increase the costs of higher education. Further, lots of students will use subsidy to pay for degrees in utter garbage because the students are stupid and the degree is easy to get. A million new art majors won't help this country in any real, meaningful, productive way. Basically what your good intentions have done is lower the labor market bar, lower wages, increase education cost, delay entry into the labor force as students are forced to get graduate degrees to be competitive, and increase unemployment by locking even more non-educated people out of the labor force.
This is likely not what you had in mind I'm sure, but that will be the result. What result exactly? More of what we see today... college graduates waiting tables at Dennys because their degrees are no longer competitive in the labor market due to over supply through botched incentive. More over, you'll see government scramble to regulate entrance requirements for schools. Just imagine George Bush being in charge of this. That alone should turn you off.
I know it's the dismal science folks but a science it is. Economics, the world revolves around it even in command economies. I was kind-of giving you all credit for understanding what I have just explained, but I just remembered that few students bother to stay awake for ECON 101 let alone minor in it.
Let me summarize what Free said for everyone, so in case there are those in the audience who slept while Free was minoring in economics:
If we have fewer people in America who are college educated, the country will be a better place. If we have more college educated people, knowledge will become worthless, because employers will stop wanting to pay for it, and will, in fact, hire street people, so all of our wages go down.
The problem with education in America: too much of it.
It's simple economics, as I and Free say.
"Now call me crazy..."
Free, you are crazy.
No John, you missed the point and you know it. I guess I have to dumb it down for you. So its like this... the more you have of something the less it's worth. The more bachelors degree holders there are, the less competitive they are in the labor market because... duh... they become a dime-a-dozen. Then in ten years we'll be having a debate on why government should pay for everyone to get a masters, then a PHD and on, and on, and on. More over it will create an incentive for fraud, which will require the government to police schools. That might sound nice, but as I said imagine George Bush setting standards at schools. Very quickly that gets frightening.
You can say what I'm telling you is crazy but it's already happening.
Have you really never asked yourself why college educated people find it much harder to get a job today than they did even 20 years ago?
Another question you may want to ask yourself is do you want to solve a problem or do you just want to feel good about throwing money at the problem?
And I always thought lack of jobs was the cause of unemployment. Now you are telling me it is an over educated population. You realize, of course, that college educated people have the lowest unemployment rate.
Yes they do have the lowest unemployment rate but that will change rapidly as the labor market floods with more bachelors degrees which are deluded in their value. That trend is already in motion. We've had a lack of jobs in the past, even worse than today and even during the great depression it was easier for a graduate to find employment than it is today. The reason for that is a bachelors was more valuable on the labor market in 1930 than in 2012. You're going to have to look past your heart and start staring at the numbers on this issue. Let me ask you this, if most Americans have a bachelors degree how do they become more competitive? More over, what happens happens to those who can't get one? You're gong to lock people out of the labor market, and increase unemployment, tuition costs, and the age of Americans entering the workforce as they spend more of their lives attaining ever more graduate degrees to better compete. Often for jobs that wouldn't really require them.
No John, you missed the point and you know it.
It is not possible to miss the point and at once know it. The act of missing the point precludes knowledge of the point missed.
I guess I have to dumb it down for you is this... the more you have of something the less it's worth.
That is not dumbing it down. It is repetition.
The more bachelors degree holders there are, the less competitive they are in the labor market because... duh... they become a dime-a-dozen.
Actually, I believe we are not talking about monetary cost, as there will be no monetary cost, which means they will not cost 0.8333333333 per degree, as you suggest.
Then in ten years we'll be having a debate on why government should pay for everyone to get a masters, then a PHD and on, and on, and on.
We should have that debate immediately. I like where you are going with this.
Anyway, all you did is reiterate your point, that your concern with education in America is the deleterious effect of too much of it.
If this is not your point, but merely your statement, can you please dumb the dumbed down version down so the lesser people such as I can understand why Free is worried that too many Americans will become educated and I too can worry about this? You need to clarify your position or I may mistake it for a false justification for not wanting the poor to be educated on America’s dime. Argue what you believe for the reason you believe it, sir.
Free0352: "As for me being on a government teet...[f]or you, I have to be either an anarchist or a card carrying socialist or I am a hypocrite."
Only because you want me to believe you interpret it that way, which I don't. You know exactly what I mean, but you're afraid to confront your hypocrisy in the eye. You pretend to be the free-wheelin' cowboy who's creating your own path to financial independence and freedom, yet you hang on to a lucrative (in this economic market) government job until you can attain a pension plus have paid healthcare benefits the rest of your life. If you were true to your libertarian creed, you'd be slogging it out like the majority of us and pretending your 401K will not be robbed (again) when the banks make their final assault on the middle and working classes, and would be stuck with crappy healthcare benefits and sky-high deductibles and premiums.
You're not the Marlboro Man -- you're Beetle Bailey, except you speak with "forked tongue".
"Taking a moderate position and saying there are some responsibilities of government and some things that are not isn't acceptable to you."
That's hilarious, because I gather from this comment that you consider your position moderate?
What position have I taken, Free, that you think isn't moderate in terms of government responsibility? Could it be protecting its citizens from corporate intrusion in its democratic processes? Or could it be the protection of its citizens from corporate polluters poisoning our waterways, our air, our total ecosystem...and ultimately our bodies?
"There can't be any kind of compromise with a guy like you who is operating on an 'all or nothing' mindset."
Gee, that's what I always thought about you...
"I think you do wonders for my cause when people read comments like yours because it highlights the extreme socialist theme many Democrats have. It says you guys aren't a part of the main stream political thought most Americans have."
And you are...?
(Oh, one other thing, I'm not a Democrat.)
"Instead you folks are a group of class warriors who won't accept any level of moderation short of government controlling the means of production and setting wages in a centrally commanded economy."
Hmmm, I don't believe I've ever mentioned being favorable of a centrally planned economy. I guess because I'm adamantly against corporate influence in our governmental processes, and big money pulling the strings of our puppet government, you automatically assume that means I favor government controlling the means of production? Is this correct?
You're wrong!
"When offered the choice between a wonderful example of Liberal Progressive ideals like yourself and my very moderate approach..." [bold print for emphasis]
WTF!! You, moderate...and very at that??
Do you even read what you write? If you do, do you laugh your ass off when you're finished?
"I only wish more Americans could hear Jefferson who is at least honest about his intent..."
Believe it or not, I'm interested in hearing from you what you think my intent is exactly?
Everyone having a college degree sounds nice. It really does. Just like everyone has a right to own a home sounds nice. How did that turn out? Having a college degree is supposedly a good thing right? Can't have to much of a good thing! Oh wait... as tax breaks and subsidies for home ownership showed- yes you can have too much of a good thing.
Jefferson,
I'm not suggesting you have a problem with an all volunteer, professional and publicly funded military. In fact I have a hunch there are a great deal many things that aren't publicly funded and regulated you think should be. In fact I can't think of anything you don't think should be publicly funded, or at least subsidized and regulated.
Your point seems clear. Free0352 is a hypocrite because he supports a limited government and yet works for the government. That would be true if I were an anarchist... which I'm not. There are a great many things I think government should be responsible for regulating and funding through taxation. In fact on this very blog I have been critical of the privatization of prisons among other things. Not only does government have the responsibility to meet certain needs of citizens but with a few things government should exclusively be responsible for.
So compared to you Jefferson, I'm very moderate. I can say- some things the government should do... some they shouldn't. I'm not suggesting an anarchy where there is no government or government has zero authority. I simply suggest we limit governmental authority to certain things. I can't think of a single issue we've talked about where you haven't come down for more government authority. Not one.
As for my being a "rugged individualist" I and every other person who has a job is just that. I don't collect a welfare check, I work for it and my employer is the People of The United States.
Every cent I'm paid is in exchange for work in regards to a contract your representative as a taxpayer- an officer of the President of The United States signed. They made me the offer, and I accepted it as it was mutually beneficial. If you're unhappy with the terms of the contract, you should contact Barack Obama's office and complain.
As for your intent, Finland, Norway, UK? Somewhere in there is what you're looking for. Perhaps instead of burdening your fellow citizens with a government they don't want- you should just emigrate. I think you'd be happier.
I was not really debating the point, Free, but just clarify it: too much education in America is a bad thing. I was not sure that your adoring audience would appreciate the gist of your claim.
All I can say John, is not all of us can be benevolent philosopher kings... The rest of us peasants have to live in the real world of bad numbers and economic reality.
I am not aware of any philosopher kings other than in the mind of a Greek with whom I don't agree (about that, that is), and I think you know this. Therefore, I am not sure why you revive that silly comparison.
As for your claim that the rest of us have to live in the real world of bad numbers and economic reality, I will consider it what it is, your declaration that you don't want the poor to be educated because you fear it would devalue your education.
Your philosophy in this matter is not only most likely wrong, but is completely selfish, even if it is right. I see no evidence that a less educated America is good for America or that your supply and demand view of education is a relevant comparison.
Once I see an educated country over taken by a less educated one by virtue of the less education, I will give your theory the scientific consideration it deserves, just as I have now.
but just clarify it: too much education in America is a bad thing
No, my point is too much subsidy in America is a bad thing. I can think of a great many countries who have subsidized themselves into economic ruin.
Sorry if I'm not interested in sacrificing the economic competitiveness of a college education on the alter of your altruism and shallow assessment of economic factors like incentive and value. We number crunchers must seem so callous to you benevolent philosopher kings who can afford to exercise their consciences with other people's money with no regard to the consequences. Be that as it may, I think you should have learned your lesson with the housing boom. But as you are not accountable for your ideas, I can see why you advocate them without regard to the consequences of them.
We number crunchers must seem so callous to you benevolent philosopher kings who can afford to exercise their consciences with other people's money with no regard to the consequences.
I program financials software for a living. I have no problem with number crunching. It's what I do.
Again, I was just clarifying your position, that too much education will harm a nation. If we want to stay competitive, we must stay uneducated.
Be that as it may, I think you should have learned your lesson with the housing boom.
I would like to formally apologize for the Housing Bubble. I didn't mean it, guys. Sorry.
But as you are not accountable for your ideas, I can see why you advocate them without regard to the consequences of them.
Again, I certain can appreciate the potential disaster of too many educated Americans.
I live in Texas, where the Republican government has made sure to nip this time bomb in the bud poste haste.
Again it isn't too much education, it's too much subsidy. I think I made that point over and over. At this point oh king, I think you're arguing with yourself. Oh what will the Republic ever do?
free0352 says, "Hmmm, throwing people who didn't commit a crime into prison, throwing 2 trillion dollars into an unaccountable black hole, seizing private property, controlling the means of production and wages, rendering a college education worthless by making it universal... yeah sounds like a socialist quagmire to me. Tried the same thing in the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Vietnam to name a few. Millions starved."
I know it bothered all of us, when you supported these things while Bush was President. But now that Obama is continuing these works with full Republican support, you are defying the Republican Party and flip flopping.
You do realize that the Republicans in the House and Senate, overwhelming support these things, right?
You want everyone to get cancer, after supporting industry for decades, and get an industry payout to keep silent?
"throwing people who didn't commit a crime into prison" - CIA Black Sites
"throwing 2 trillion dollars into an unaccountable black hole" - No bid contracts to Halliburton and other Muslim Corporations.
"seizing private property" - Destroying nations to seize their resources and land for international corporations.
"controlling the means of production and wages" - Using government subsidies to increase the profitability of corporations that funnel campaign funds back into Republican coffers.
"rendering a college education worthless by making it universal...," - Subsidizing the flight of industry offshore and subsidizing the immigration of college grads from India, to compete with American workers at a much lower wage scale. This was pioneered by Republican Dick Armey.
Labor has no intrinsic value?
That is the most revealing thing I think you've ever written. And it's not something you'll find backed up in economics text books.
But I see that you do view everything as a consumable commodity. Even education. But for that to be true, shouldn't the benefits of education run out and have to be replenished? But it doesn't work that way. An education provides the capacity to provide increased benefits to society as a whole throughout a persons lifetime.
Rather than view at as a commodity that is used one and is gone, you should be viewing it like an investment that pays dividends for life.
And why pay for education, right?
If your co needs someone who can read and write, you can hire someone from Canada, Mexico, India, China or Sweden.
An ignorant America is a cheap America, that can't afford to buy products. But we can import consumers from overseas too, right?
We used to have a better educated population and the USA was the technological leader of the world.
Why do you think that was a bad thing?
"As for my being a "rugged individualist" I and every other person who has a job is just that. I don't collect a welfare check, I work for it and my employer is the People of The United States."
Like I said, you're a socialist. You've spent your life living off of our tax dollars, while we actually create things, and work in a capitalist system. And constantly you a hard core, living the life socialist, continue to berate us hard working capitalists, for being socialists, because we see value in being taxed to provide folks like you with a job.
And the everyone should have a home thing is a Republican Bush plan.
Promoted by the banks as a means to make big bucks from government sponsored fraud.
Free is compiling a long list of Republican ideals and works that he despises, while explaining how the Democrats are the problem.
The Republican Housing Boom.
No, you made the point that an educated America would make you feel inferior.
No, my point is too much subsidy in America is a bad thing.
Then you should not point out the economic dangers of too much education to make that point, or some simpleton may think you are not arguing what you believe for the reason you believe it.
I am going to have to agree with Weaseldog on this one, Free. I distinctly remember that point.
FandB said...
Free is correct. Everything else being equal, more people having Bachelor degrees (for example) decreases the value of a Bachelor degree in a free market. That is basic economics.
The strawman arguments about making education worthless are worthless themselves.
The point that Free was not addressing, but that others were dancing around, is related to the value to the country of having more highly educated people. More Bachelor level educated people in the workforce improves the competitiveness of the U.S. in many ways. Two of these are that a more educated workforce would produce higher quality output at a lower cost (for various reasons), and the level of technology and complexity of the processes and products produced could increase due to the improved capability of the workforce.
One other point that has not been addressed is that the situation exists now, the subsidies are already there. I certainly get the impression that no one commenting here has put a child through college lately. There is this thing called FAFSA, it is a form prospective college students fill out and submit to the government. It is designed to equalize opportunity and negate (to a large extent) the importance of family income in college selection.
Assuming the student is academically qualified and accepted at the university of his/her choice, any student, regardless of income, can go to any school that he/she wants to attend. Through the FAFSA process, the government decides how much the student and family can afford to pay. The gap between ability to pay and actual cost is made up through various grants, loans, and campus jobs. The parents are even able to easily obtain a "Parent Student Loan" so they can afford their part.
When my daughter was applying to schools a number of years ago, it would cost her the same amount to go to Illinois State or Notre Dame (both of which accepted her based on her academic high school performance). More money would be provided in the form of loans, grants, etc if she chose Notre Dame, and she would graduate with more debt, but the opportunity was there. As it is for all students wishing to go to college.
As far as the burn-outs who take the term "high" school too literally, and drift through high school in a drug induced haze (e.g. Obama), they should not be entitled to government subsidies. But if they can get a college to accept them, they will be eligible for money just like anyone else in the FAFSA system. In fact, in this system, the less you (and your family) have, the more you get.
There is no legitimate reason now for anyone not to go to college, provided they are able to meet the academic requirements and get accepted at a college or university.
more people having Bachelor degrees (for example) decreases the value of a Bachelor degree in a free market. That is basic economics.
Than you for exercising a little common sense.
More Bachelor level educated people in the workforce improves the competitiveness of the U.S. in many ways.
Not necessarily. A nation of art majors will not improve our competitiveness. Business majors? Astrophysicists etc.? More likely. However- that's not what we're talking about here are we? OWS and these guys on Dave's blog are calling higher education a "right." By classifying it as such, it becomes impossible to pick which majors a student will pick. You potentially waste a lot of tax dollars on the art majors of the world that way.
And of course then we have the law of unintended consequences. What happens as I pointed out, when a guy like George Bush gets to set priorities as to which student gets subsidized? I'm pretty sure that won't end well. What happens when special interest gets to weigh in on who gets a free degree?
the subsidies are already there.
I agree. But these folks aren't talking about subsidizing, they're talking about enshrining a right- and that is a different matter all together. You go from saying "Gee, having a few more astrophysicists might help" to "Throw Money."
Throwing money doesn't work. Ever.
I know it bothered all of us, when you supported these things while Bush was President
Was I supporting Bush when I didn't vote for him. Was I supporting Bush when I opposed NCLB, Medicare Part D, or TARP? I suppose you could say I was supporting Bush when I was for invading Iraq, but you could just as easily say I was supporting Hillary Clinton as she was for it too. After all, I supported her husband when he bombed Iraq twice and Afghanistan once.
Free0352: "...I have a hunch there are a great deal many things that aren't publicly funded and regulated you think should be."
You seem to know me better than I know myself, so please, humor me. List them.
"I simply suggest we limit governmental authority to certain things."
I can agree with this, just as I suggest we limit corporate influence to certain things.
"I can't think of a single issue we've talked about where you haven't come down for more government authority. Not one."
That's possibly because I typically only comment on subjects that deal with corporate influence in government. So, from that perspective, yes, I believe in more "government authority" (i.e., authority from We the People) to stem that tide.
"I don't collect a welfare check, I work for it and my employer is the People of The United States." [Bold type my own -- for clarity]
It amuses me that from day-one, the first time I read any of your commentary on Dave's blog, you've been adamantly in favor of shrinking the "government" to a few specific functions. Or, as Grover Norquist is fond of saying, shrinking government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." You've lambasted "government" every, and any, time you've had the opportunity, as if government is some three-headed creature that's out there "somewhere" -- inside the Beltway -- ready to pounce and eat your young.
However, when you speak in terms of your own employment, which is only possible through the tax dollars I provide with millions of others, you soften the rhetoric, and almost speak affectionately of that same government being "the People of The United States".
For as long as I've followed this blog, Dave has often spoken about, or at least alluded to, the government of "We the People". Is he starting to convince you, or is it only a government of "the People of the United States" when it pertains to your own employment -- not the employment of others?
"Every cent I'm paid is in exchange for work in regards to a contract your representative as a taxpayer- an officer of the President of The United States signed. They made me the offer, and I accepted it as it was mutually beneficial."
I believe each and every civil servant, civilian or otherwise, would make the same claim. Yet, somehow, you feel your job is more important. I find your narcissism, or at least your special brand of elitism, fascinating!
"As for your intent, Finland, Norway, UK?"
Those are places, not intents. You previously mentioned that I am honest about my intent. Please explain, for me, what that is. I need to know.
"Perhaps instead of burdening your fellow citizens with a government they don't want- you should just emigrate. I think you'd be happier."
But I'm already happy, and I'm not burdening anybody with a government they don't want. You are, remember? You're the federal employee -- not me.
Free0352: "Throwing money doesn't work. Ever."
Did the trillions of dollars that were thrown at Iraq and Afghanistan work? How would we know it did...if it did? How would we know it worked, if we never knew what it was we wanted the trillions of dollars to help make work?
Throwing money at Halliburton Dick and cronies worked fine...for them.
F&B,
Everything else being equal, more people having Bachelor degrees (for example) decreases the value of a Bachelor degree in a free market.
This generalization depends on what “Everything else being equal” means, and what “value” an education may have if it is not directly related to the field of employment. Then of course, just what is a “free market”?
Just wondering.
no legitimate reason now for anyone not to go to college
The “free market” is not very loan friendly for college these days.
. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/community-college-student_n_855523.html
More than one million community college students in 31 states are denied access to federal loans, according to a report released by the Project on Student Debt.
From FOX(R):
College Students Still Denied Federal Funding: Report
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/05/04/college-students-denied-federal-funding-report/
Although 9.2% of students lack federal student loans nationally, African-American and Native-American students lack 16.4 and 18.5% respectively.
Perhaps your “legitimate reason” could be defined better.
As far as the burn-outs who take the term "high" school too literally, and drift through high school in a drug induced haze (e.g. Obama), they should not be entitled to government subsidies.
Maybe you need to modify As it is for all students wishing to go to college to only those students who conform to your idea of “qualified” that has nothing to do with academic ability.
Or are you just pissed off that a black pot smoker can go on to edit the Harvard Law Review and then to the Oval Office, while you cannot? Seems to me your haze was foggier than his.
Or should Bush Jr.’s whiskey and cocaine be the preferred “qualified” choices to “drift through high school in a drug induced haze” that entitles one to loans?
Please clarify your prejudices.
Who is calling higher education a "right." here?
You claimed OWS does, and then transferred it to...Just who exactly?
How about instead you list the things government should not be regulating that it currently is.
as Grover Norquist is fond of saying, shrinking government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
On this Governor Norquist and I are in complete agreement.
as if government is some three-headed creature that's out there "somewhere"
That's funny, since I would say the same to you about your opinion of corporate America.
Government isn't The People. Government is an organization of people who work for citizens who are in effect their customers, who are funded by tax dollars. THE PEOPLE do not govern, provide governmental services or in the military's case fight wars. The subcontract this to various levels of government. Some of the services provided are needed and lawful, many more are not.
As to my function within that framework, I as you know am an infantrymen. It would be hard to make the case that our Army would function without us. However, I can think of a great many Soldiers whose mission and jobs are a total waste of tax money. There is waste in the Department of Defense Jefferson. I make no arguement against that. However, since I'm an actual authentic warfighter I highly doubt anyone would suggest my job is unnecessary to the Army. But I will tell you, every day I wish I could take a sledge hammer to our budget. I've seen money wasted that would boggle your mind. But I guess that's tradition. Compared to how we were doing compared to WWII let alone the most wasteful as to spending conflict in our history... The Civil War I guess we've shown improvement. Anywhoo, we're no angels over here at Defense Dept when it comes to throwing money into a black hole but we're nothing compared to Medicare or Social Security.
Whoops Dave must have commented while I was writing.
Throwing money at Halliburton Dick and cronies worked fine...for them
If this is presumably bad, please explain why you vote Democrat. After all, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have given far more contracts to Halliburton that during the George Bush years. And if it isn't bad, why complain?
Then of course, just what is a “free market”?
From Websters: Free Market Economy: An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.
That's odd. I mean, the federal government has gotten involved with student loans more and more every year! Could it be, the more they get involved the harder it becomes for a student to secure a loan?! Wow! No kidding? Regulation and government oversight makes it harder to do the things government is regulating and overseeing. This is profound.
Or are you just pissed off that a black pot smoker can go on to edit the Harvard Law Review and then to the Oval Office
I can't say I'm familiar with how Barack Obama funded his education... I truly have no idea. However if he did it on the taxpayers back without providing some service for their trouble- yes. Nothing is free, someone always pays. I happen to think that the person doing the paying when it comes to what amounts to charity should have some say in weather or not they do so or not. Free country and all.
I'm almost certain George Bush's dad paid the price for his education... well accept the MBA which I'm sure George footed the bill for himself. So that point is moot. Bush was not subsidized. And on coke he still got better grades than John Kerry.
Well for starters you guys are. On this blog post.
Thank you for clarifying your prejudices. The only thing is, when I asked,"Please clarify your prejudices", it was directed at F&B.
At ease, soldier.
We all know that you think you know what we think and know. Were you showing us that you know what F&B thinks too? You're probably closer on his thinking than ours, but who am to say what you think?
This is all I asked you. You claimed OWS does, and then transferred it to...Just who exactly?
"Well for starters you guys are. On this blog post."
Where on this blog?
And on coke he (Bush) still got better grades than John Kerry.
Yeah, and he was bigger war hero too.
Was he a big hero when he was lying about being in Cambodia or when he was writing his own purple heart citations for a scratch? John Kerry? Fraud. I'd rather go to war with Bettie White. And I don't mean 40 years ago Bettie White but 2012 Bettie White. The man is the very definition of douche bag. That's why he should have shoved those medals he threw back up his ass instead of tossing them in the street. That is also why American voters, voted that scum bag off the island so hard even the Democrat Senate Majority Leader lost his job. He didn't get swift boated, he got faced raped by George Bush. That's like loosing a spelling bee to a deaf retard.
But enough with the comic relief.
Lets just settle the question right now. IS. A. COLLEGE. EDUCATION. A. RIGHT?
The opportunity for a college education for qualified people is a right.
Romney jas no character. No substance either.
Yes, you're right, the unlikely worse case scenarios in human endeavors are doomed to failure.
Good strawman argument.
So FandB and Free352 believe that a well educated population is bad economics. That the more college educated workers you have per capita, the lower the standard of living.
It's in an interesting theory. Surely there are real world examples of this principle we can look to.
Such and 'obvious' theory must have many examples of the populations of well educated nations living in abject poverty, and the populations of poorly educated nations living with a high standard of living.
Or is the banana plantation model of a 99% population that can't afford shoes, serving a handful of rich folks, the model you're shooting for?
So you don't support the Republican Party? Is that what you're saying now?
Hillary has a history of supporting the Republican Party. Look at her voting record.
Free lives the life of socialist and his argument of late, would make a hard core union member proud.
The hard line union men work to keep people out of their industry so they don't face competition in the workplace, to keep wages up.
Free seeks to reduce the number of college graduates so that they don't compete with him and keeps his wages up.
Free is retired from the largest socialist organization in the world, the US Military.
Free now earns a paycheck, performing a public service in exchange for my tax dollars. This is pure socialism.
And Free is quite vocal in his hatred of socialism and unions...
If we do shrink government, you'll be laid off. You can bet your job function will still exist, it will simply be transferred to a job creator in India.
But you have the perfect attitude and belief system to become a union organizer. You'll have to switch your vocabulary a bit, but you're beliefs are on track.
"Barack Obama have given far more contracts to Halliburton that during the George Bush years."
Excellent lie! You tell real good lies! The whoppers just keep coming, don't they?
Give Obama another term in office and he might just break Bush's record, but he hasn't done it yet.
That is inherently discriminatory. If it is a right after all.
And I agree, Romney lacks character. He's a flip-flopper who will say anything.
That's why the U.S. is in so much trouble. Obama also has no character and no substance. He is an empty suit with a teleprompter.
Are you saying the US is in trouble because Obama has no character? What, unlike the corporatist aristocrat before him, Obama caused the collapse of the economy before he took office?
This ignores the fact the economy has recovered, but only to the wealthy elites advantage. Check out their increases in profit and wealth.
Some of us would say the US is in trouble because Obama is too much like the empty suit with a teleprompter he replaced.
Do we want a government of, by, and for the people. Or do we want what we are getting, a government of, by, and for the elites?
To clarify for you, a primary education is, or at least should be, a right. As we know, you're pretty much on your own, excluding the "legacy" privilege of elites like Bush, in the free market world of college. It is not an entitlement.
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
-Karl Rove
I agree with Critter that the "opportunity" for a college education is a "right" for "qualified people." But limiting it to some arbitrary definition of "qualified" does make it discriminatory. So in order for a college education to be a right, it has to piggyback on some other right, like maybe the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You can't be prevented from pursuing a college education due to any discriminatory practices other than failure to meet a specific school's entrance requirements.
As far as Dubya’s comments in his failed attempt to cloud the issue by misquoting blurbs from Huffpo and Fox (?!?), the article in Huffpo says: “9.2 percent of community college students go to colleges that do not participate in Federal Loan Programs, such as Stafford loans. The figure is higher for minorities – 18.5 and 16.4 percent of Native American and African American community college students, respectively.” The only reason these students have any problem getting Federal Loans is because the Community Colleges they chose to attend do not offer them. Without wasting any more time on this attempt by Dubya at obfuscation, in my experience, when (especially) Community Colleges don’t offer Federally funded programs, it is often because they have failed to meet the minimum requirements for full accreditation. The students are not being blocked by the government, or evil corporations, or even President Bush! They are being blocked by their choice to attend specific schools that choose not participate in the Federal Loan program. Ah, personal responsibility and accountability kicks in again. How much better off we would all be if there were more of those two things. Not gonna happen under Obama, that’s for damn sure.
OK, Dubya, I’ll clarify my prejudices: I have none. There, does that help?
Dubya: “Everything else being equal” and “free market” are generally accepted economic terms that don’t really need any further definition, they are rather self-evident.
Dubya: I agree there are more benefits to people having college level educations than just jobs. I acknowledged in my first post that there were many, but that I was only mentioning two of them.
Dubya: regarding your “only those students who conform to your idea of “qualified”” comments… Like I said: “…they should not be entitled to government subsidies. But if they can get a college to accept them, they will be eligible for money just like anyone else…” Do you have trouble with reading, or comprehension, or both? Which is it? Yes, of course I have my own ideas of an ideal student versus a burn-out, and who should be eligible for government subsidies and who should not. Everyone has their own views (except most liberals who sit around waiting for Huffpo and the MSM to tell them what they believe). But the system does not operate based on my views, and I accept that it is the way it is.
Of course, the fact that Obama received grants when he went to Occidental College by claiming he was an Indonesian Citizen just falls in line with the Complete Lack of Character he demonstrated while in high school, and continues to demonstrate to this day.
Obama’s performance in office solidifies my perception of how his high school performance would be reflected in his future performance. (I’ve never had any desire to be President, so you won’t get any traction there.) I have seen no evidence indicating that President Bush snorted coke or drank whiskey while he was in high school. Have you? Or did you just make that up?
Weaseldog said “So FandB and Free352 believe that a well educated population is bad economics. That the more college educated workers you have per capita, the lower the standard of living.” -- OK Weaseldog, show me where I said that or anything like that, as usual your absurd comments consist in totality of lying about what others have said.
Dubya: What I said was clear. If you liberals think Romney has no character. And conservatives know that Obama has no character. And pretty much everyone else in politics in Washington has no character . . . that is why we (the U.S.) are in trouble.
Obviously, the collapse of the economy is very, very complicated. In reality, it can no more be blamed on President Bush than it can be blamed on Obama. The economic problems in 2008 were (and continue to be) global. Even China, Brazil, and India have felt strong effects from the economic downturns.
Obama and his administration's failure to improve the economy over the past nearly four years also cannot be entirely blamed on him, but part of it can be. The democrats in the house and senate also have a great deal of culpability. And, Obama is a weakling and a characterless, spineless coward for continuing to blame every bad thing that happens to him on President Bush and/or "the republicans".
The economy President Reagan inherited from Carter was much worse than the economy Obama inherited, but President Reagan did not whine about it like Obama does. He just fixed it. It's about time the current administration got to work fixing the problems.
"The economy President Reagan inherited from Carter was much worse than the economy Obama inherited, but President Reagan did not whine about it like Obama does. He just fixed it. It's about time the current administration got to work fixing the problems."
I know he is famous for his "tax cuts," but to the degree that he "fixed it," if you will go back in time I believe you will find his approach would not have been approved by today’s GOP. The 1986 tax reform targeted loopholes businesses use. I believe Reagan’s approach was to cut taxes, but not to cut tax revenue. Today’s GOP has made sure that Tax Revenue is the target.
I would take Reagan over a modern republican any day, as painful as taking Reagan would be.
Why is it you neglect to admit the elites are doing quite well, even in this economy?
“Everything else being equal” and “free market” are generally accepted economic terms that don’t really need any further definition, they are rather self-evident.
This tells us nothing. “Everything else being equal” is a vague generalization and “Free Market”, while simple in definition, does not reflect reality.
What did I misquote?
Assuming the student is academically qualified and accepted at the university of his/her choice, any student, regardless of income, can go to any school that he/she wants to attend.
This is your unsubstantiated broad claim. I showed evidence that contradicts it. You said I misquoted yet didn’t say where.
Obama received grants when he went to Occidental College by claiming he was an Indonesian Citizen just falls in line with the Complete Lack of Character he demonstrated while in high school
And how is this lack of character? And are you saying Willie Nelson has “no character” because he smokes weed? Or are you prejudiced against just blacks who do?
I’ll clarify my prejudices: I have none.
This is one glaring prejudice in itself. I know of no humans who have never had some prejudice. Authoritarians tend to deny it, though, I’ve noticed.
You just admitted you’re prejudiced against Obama, and perhaps all black kids, or at least those who try weed.
I mentioned Bush’s admitted abuse of whiskey and use or cocaine (that he didn’t deny) as a contrast to your selective condemnation of Obama, along with a huge percentage of kids, who used weed.
White guys who drink whiskey and snort coke don’t seem to trouble you as much as a black kid toking after school. Is this true?
If anywhere, the lack of character is demonstrated by Obama the hypocrite on cannabis, not Obama the user. He’s another gutless shill for the wasteful, tragic, and ineffective corporate-backed war on drugs.
In reality, it can no more be blamed on President Bush than it can be blamed on Obama.
With the crash occurring after 8 years of a Bush Administration your claim is clearly prejudiced. As is:
The economy President Reagan inherited from Carter was much worse than the economy Obama inherited
I beg to differ, given the off-shoring of jobs, corporate written trade agreements etc. since Reagan handed government over to Big Money, and given the fact Reagan took the US from a creditor nation to a debtor nation in the process. But we know it’s only bad when a Democrat increases the debt, right?
Feel free to note my prejudices if you like. Just don’t resort to the usual “You hate the rich” crap. I love a lot of rich people. I hate the corruption of Big Money in our elections and government. Not the same as “hating the rich” or the “envy” nonsense the Right loves to project.
Yes, in today's radicalized and rigid Republican Party, Nixon and Reagan would be denounced as socialist appeasers.
Free0352: "How about instead you list the things government should not be regulating that it currently is."
It doesn't work that way, remember? You're the accuser. Because you made the accusation, it's conducive upon you to present your case. For example, if I killed someone, it would be the responsibility of the state to prove that I did. It would not be my responsibility to show the state all those I didn't.
Since you claim to be a legal expert, I would think you'd know this.
"On this Governor Norquist and I are in complete agreement."
All except his name, it appears.
"That's funny, since I would say the same to you about your opinion of corporate America."
Considering there are approximately 26 lobbyists per congressperson, or that records are being swept away this year with untold millions in private funding in just the early stages of the presidential campaign, I'd think you'd have to be wearing blinders not to see the corruptible influence of corporate money in Washington. Matthew Henry said there are "none so blind as those that will not see."
"Government isn't The People. Government is an organization of people who work for citizens who are in effect their customers, who are funded by tax dollars. THE PEOPLE do not govern, provide governmental services or in the military's case fight wars."
If I'm not mistaken, a representative democracy ("representative government") is people chosen by the citizens of the land to make decisions on their behalf, and to represent them in the legislative assembly. In lieu of calling us customers, I'd prefer we look upon our elected leaders as agents -- our agents. But that day is gone. With corruption due to big money, they've transformed into, instead, agents for the most wealthy and the largest corporations.
So you, in practice or actuality (but not "officially established") work for corporate interests. It would be much more appropriate that you start wearing uniforms that promote your corporate sponsors -- similar to race-car drivers.
"...we're no angels over here at Defense Dept when it comes to throwing money into a black hole but we're nothing compared to Medicare or Social Security."
I agree, the latter has trust fund solvency through at least 2036, and the former is more cost effective than private insurers. DoD can't even come close to matching their efficiency.
Yes, because he's an empty suit who has no influence in the world, he caused the market crashes in 2001 and late 2007.
Reagan skyrocketed the debt, are you suggesting that Obama reaccelerate the rate of debt also?
The job market was pretty crappy when Reagan was president. But a little better than now. At least Bush and Obama have made him look good on that point.
National Security budget is nearly one $Trillion a year and growing fast.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175545/
Medicare & Medicaid $835 Billion a year.
Social Security $725 Billion a year.
A major difference is that Medicare, Medicaid and social security is largely spent in the USA, whereas military spending has a larger component going overseas make foriegn contractors wealthy, and creating jobs for foreigners.
But I guess Kuwaiti Princes are entitled to my tax dollars as their corporations are people too, and they contribute to my congressman's campaign funds.
FandB: "The economy President Reagan inherited from Carter was much worse than the economy Obama inherited..."
Huh?!?! Certainly you're not serious? Just out of curiosity, how old were you in 1981?
hmmmmm "It's About Character"????
Seems like the post is mostly..."About Freedim's Opinion". Perhaps it is notable that he no longer has his own blog... That FandB has not posted since 2008. Could it be that neither one can come up with an original idea of their own and merely try to hijack other peoples' posts. Frankly...I find them both boring.
okjimm: "Perhaps it is notable that he [Free0352] no longer has his own blog..."
I find it interesting why he succumbed to fear and took his blog down. For someone who swung his bravado like a lasso in a girls' rodeo, he sure showed his true colors when confronted by "the man".
It seems our "Marlboro Man" truly is another Beetle Bailey. No, correction, Beetle Bailey always showed more courage and character.
Jeff G... his pronunciations, his arguments, his fallacious evidence...smacks of a naive and pretentious teenager. He seems to masturbate his own ego by attacking other commentators and their views; but his worst offense.... he is boring.
Hmm,
First off, I am a liberal and proud of it, and I think Free is nuts, but intelligent nuts.
That said, Free's blog was a very low-volume blog, which I suspect was kind of boring. I wouldn't know. I couldn't get into it.
I disagree that Free himself is boring, though.
I don't agree with him (and I think he utterly despises and disrespects me), but I do not find him boring when he comments on others' blogs.
I find any blog commentary with which he graces his semi-maniacal presence becomes more lively, more challenged, and more entertaining. I will not miss Free's blog one bit, but I would definitely miss Free were he to abandon the liberal blogs on which he posts (such as this one).
Boring as it may be for everyone to agree, I agree with you.
Free provides the yin to our yang so to speak. Even he understands the value of contrasting ideas, although his are that of a discredited belief system that endures because it is the agenda of powerful Big Money interests.
I've always had a bit of a sick sense of humor that has proven valuable in preserving my sanity at times. That would explain more than anything why I am entertained by Free.
Say what we will about Free, I would trust him in a dangerous situation, provided we wore the same uniform, or under some criminal attack.
I wouldn't say this if I thought he was a complete sociopath or fascist.
Free took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of Americas against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
More than one hundred times he has betrayed that oath, to support fascism in our nation, and to undermine our democracy, in support of the Republican Party.
In that vein, don't see him as an entertaining clown. I don't see him as a useful example of a counter culture.
I see him as an agent of the old soviet culture, the East German Stasi, and all that they stood for.
That is the image that in at least my mind, he has worked hard to project. And I believe that he would take great pride in my characterization of him, in this light.
John, Dave... I guess I, personally, am very tired of the type of rhetoric Free puts forth. To clarify, though, I cannot think of him, personally, as a bad person. Here, in Wisconsin, the polarization between Dems and Repubs, between conservative and liberal thought has gotten to an almost malicious, vicious level. I have backed away from those who speak thus. Conversely, I have a good body of good friends that can only be described as fiscal conservatives. Stock Brokers, Bankers, Developers,Lawyers, CEO's....and to a man they also back women's rights, environmental safety, fair labor practices. When we are together conversation turns to common ground; I listen to them, they listen to me.
But I still find Free boring. There are books to read, music to listen to, forests to hike, rivers to raft. If I really want boring...I can watch Fox. The commentators here... for the most part, are articulate and interesting. Off biking. thanks.
Yeah I'm super boring, that's why you've all been talking about me while I was having fun all weekend. Stalkers. ;)
To all of you in the liberal cocoon, always talking about the need for free or subsidized housing, free healthcare, free education, free abortions, free contraceptives, free this, free that, free blahblahblahblahblah, the EVIL 1%, the EVIL corporations and calling the Tea Party crowd who believe in limited government Neo Nazis, East German Stasi etc is BORING.
To read liberal blogger posts that basically contain the above and the need for the Nanny state is NAUSEATING!
Totalitarianism, where the state centrally social engineers society and the economy includes Commumism and Fascism. The state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever possible.
Only members of the Alinsky crowd (and those too ignorant to know they are a part of it) repeatedly attempt to falsely associate Fascism with the Tea Party members who believe in limited government like the Founders of this country. okjimm, Lets hope this association is as successful in the Scott Walker recall vote as it was in the 2010 vote.
What is really amazing with the liberal cocoon is how they fail to see that European Socialism is imploding as the social engineers there have run out of road to kick the can. You people fail to see the parallels in Greece with all the failed liberal strongholds in the US: California, Illinois, Detroit etc etc etc.
The only way Obama will create prosperity for the people is when he develops the ability to squat and drop some gold buillon from his ass. Time to take off your rose colored glasses libs, Obama is a fucking joke and many Democrats are jumping off his sinking ship.
I agree. Anyone who is “always talking about the need for free or subsidized housing, free healthcare, free education, free abortions, free contraceptives, free this, free that, free blahblahblahblahblah, the EVIL 1%, the EVIL corporations and calling the Tea Party crowd who believe in limited government Neo Nazis, East German Stasi etc is BORING. “
Who is Alinsky, and what has he done? Did he call the Tea Party fascists? Did he write the Patriot Act?
Did you know we liberals also believe in limited government? While some progressives have problems with firearms in the hands of thugs and crackpots, we really want to keep our Bill of Rights, thank you.
We hate totalitarianism here. We strongly oppose a one party dictatorship led by the elite minority, whether it is fascist, communist, or Republican Party. We strongly oppose government in the bedroom, and in a woman’s uterus and any law abiding person’s bladder as well. We oppose corruption, whether by cronyism or by the “free speech” money of artificial entities.
Are Medicare and Social Security totalitarianism? Is regulating Wall Street totalitarianism? Are any and all regulations limiting the power of Big Money totalitarianism? Let us know so we can resist the evil together.
We oppose warrantless government surveillance in our electronic communications. We oppose feds snooping in our library reading and the gag order on librarians. We oppose indefinite detention without charges or right to counsel.
How about you Fred? Your idea of totalitarianism seems to be mostly health care and education, or pretty much anything under the “general welfare” clause of the Constitution. For some reason you ignore the police state methods I mention.
Why is that, Fred? Are you in some kind of bubble that cannot see this?
While you seem to love to crow about “failed liberal strongholds”, are you aware of “Red State Socialism”? You know those failed conservative, and mostly Southern, states that take in more federal money than they pay in taxes.
What about that, Fred? Are they useless parasites like welfare cheats?
We liberals see Europe is struggling with a global economy and a shaky Euro monetary system. Did socialists or liberals cause that?
We also see unregulated capitalism has failed, both in the crash of ’29 and the crash of ’08. Did you happen to notice?
We are mad at Obama for being a corporatist appeaser following the failed policies of his Republican predecessor. What else has he done that is so radical to annoy you?
Has Obama raised your taxes Fred? Is that what pisses you off so much about him? Is the stock market doing better or worse than when he took office? Please tell us what it is so we may commiserate with you.
If Obama’s ship is sinking, can you point to one that isn’t leaking? Are you saying Republicans deserve another chance to continue their failed agenda?
What is your clear-eyed vision of the big fix to our problems? We welcome your suggestions,
Wow, Republicans are all into free this, free that, and reading our mail and putting cameras in our bedrooms, while Alinsky and Bush stroke each other's long johns.
Why do Republicans love Alinsky and legalized unconstitutional surveillance under the patriot act? Why do Republicans hate the liberal ideals of the right to trial and right to face your accuser and limitations placed on the government so far as personal papers and property are concerned?
How did Republicans grow to hate those that believe in Constitutional law and decide that the US Constitution is communistic document?
Back in the 1980s, the Republicans and Democrats both defended and used it to limit each other's powers. Now both parties believe that anyone who thinks the ideals written out in the Bill of Rights and the basis of our laws as outlined by the Constitution of the United States of America are commie fag socialists.
RedStateFred, how did you come to shit on the Constitution of the United States of America?
How did you come to believe that it's a commie fag socialist document? Have you never read it? Have you never sworn to defend and uphold it? Why do you believe that those that have sworn that oath are shit turd commie fags?
It's funny how you're talking about "Republicans" and "Patriot Act. and what-not.
Did you fall asleep or forget that Democrats have been expanding those things the last three years.
Democrats love rendition, Club Gitmo, indefinite detention, targeted killing, all the stuff they were bitching and moaning about when Republicans were running the show. How is that not hypocritical?
Gee, Free,
You think its news to us that spineless dems followed the Republicans' lead on all those things?
You seem to offer your support as well.
I suppose you could say I was supporting Bush when I was for invading Iraq.
GW Bush was not a champion of civil liberties. He's a conservative authoritarian white guy who led us into this mess, and let his rich pals off the hook to pay for it. It's about character.
I also said I was supporting Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Al Gore when I supported invading Iraq.
As for civil liberties, Obama and Democrats have expanded these things you are complaining Republicans did. Now go vote for them. Oh BTW, how is that not hypocritical?
So you support the bi-partisan assault on civil liberties? Ok, but that disqualifies you as a libertarian.
how is that not hypocritical?
Because it is hypothetical on your part. If I voted Republican then I would be hypocritical.
Voting for Democrats is the pathetic alternative.
Voting socialist would be my preference. But you've made up your mind.
I bet you vote for Romney.
Old enough to realize that I wasted a vote on John Anderson, something I'll never do again.
And, Yes, the economy was much worse - double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, gas lines and on and on. It was a terrible time.
In the area I lived in at the time, unemployment approached 25%, and over 50% for people my age (early twenties).
If Ronald Reagan had not been elected when he was, the country would most likely not have recovered for decades.
How old were you, Jefferson?
Do you remember 12% mortgages? While inflation was soaring as high as 12% or more? And with unemplyment at 11+% nationally while "discouraged workers" were not even included in the total? Lines outside unemployment offices stretching for blocks?
Yes, Reagan inherited much worse than Obama did.
Regardless of how you want to spin the numbers or play semantics, the fact is the deficit under Obama has skyrocketed and is now almost as high (as a % of GDP) as it was at the end of FDR's last term. Something has to be done about it and it is painfully obvious that Obama and his minions are not up to the challenge.
Yes, elites are doing quite well, as they always do since the beginning of time. But you know where elites always do the best? When they are elites living in those socialist countries that you would love so much to emulate. :-)
Re: terminology - check out an Economics 101 level textbook, those terms will be clearly defined.
Your misquote: Which I pointed out and corrected by citing the entire section that you parsed. You misquoted it because you "quoted" it in a manner that changed the meaning/intent of the author. That is why I included the parts you left out. If the students who you claim are unable to get college loans had gone to schools that offered them, then they would have been able to get them. The balance of the article supports my claim.
Don't try to play the race card with me, you'll get burned.
No, I am not against people who "try" pot, and I would fully support full legalization of it. Regulate it and tax it, like alcohol. I am against people who slough off high school, practice habitual pot and alcohol abuse, use their race as a crutch when it suits them, lie habitually to get their way, etc. (Read some of the articles Obama wrote for the Harvard Law Review and you'll see what a truly uneducated cretin he is. The only thing the guy is really good at is manipulating people, especially voters.)
Yes, Willie Nelson has little and/or no character. And very little good music on top of that.
Dubya: "it’s only bad when a Democrat increases the debt, right?" Yes, I'll agree with you on that point.
My comment: "In reality, it can no more be blamed on President Bush than it can be blamed on Obama." Sorry, that was intended as a softball for Weaseldog, but you swung at it. Obviously, it could not have been caused by Obama, so the meaning of the statemnt is that Bush had little to do with it. The economics that led to the bubbles bursting in 2008 had been building for years, and neither party has clean hands. Analysis of the details is far beyond the scope of this blog.
Regarding off-shoring, (nice to see the term used properly for a change), to use one of your expressions, "follow the money" - not to its destination but to its source. If you want to see who really controls where a product is made and by whom, find out who controls the flow of the money. Hint: If consumers stopped buying "Made in China" labeled products, corporations would immediately stop having products made there...
Good for you jimmy boy!
So you support the bi-partisan assault on civil liberties?
Lets examine that. Republicans did a few things that I think limited civil liberties. Democrats complained about those things. When Republicans lost and Democrats gained power, they not only did certain things to limit civil liberties they put those things on steroids. They've expanded every one of those programs beyond what Republicans had envisioned.
So by your own scale, Republicans are the least pathetic alternative.
Care to put real money on that?
Thanks for reminding me! I forgot all about that thing. I put it up while I was working on my MBA but never did anything with it . . .
You should ask yourself whether you want opposing points of view, or do you just want a left-wing echo chamber like Kos ?
Wow, it's like every single thing in that post was a lie about another commenter or something they wrote. You can't actually expect to be taken seriously.
How much more boring can it get than that?
Free0352: "So by your own scale, Republicans are the least pathetic alternative."
You still don't get it, do you? You refuse to see that big money controls both parties, and it doesn't really matter, too much, which major political party's holding the reins of power these days. The reality still is, despite your pissin' back-and-forth as to which party is limiting civil liberties more, or which one has become more corrupted, both major parties are limiting our democracy; both are stealing and siphoning away our civil liberties, and both are allowing the banking cartel to bankrupt and bring America to its knees.
In my opinion, the road to perdition is shorter with the Republican Party. The only advantage to voting Democratic, that I see, is it buys us a little bit of time. A major crisis is on the horizon, and it's impossible to turn back the clock to happier and more fruitful days. A very bleak time in our country's future is going to occur soon. It may be months away; it may be years away, I don't know. Therefore, I'd like a little extra time to prepare for it, so I'd prefer it happen "later". Voting Republican only accelerates the process.
But you know where elites always do the best?
In monarchies, aristocracies, and unregulated capitalism.
What race card? If you believe prejudice is the same as racism, you are too ignorant to discuss the prejudice you have.
You lecture us that Obama is an “uneducated cretin”, who sloughed off high school, practiced habitual pot and alcohol abuse, used his race as a crutch when it suited him, and lied habitually to get their way.
Wow. That’s a lot of hate. And we are to trust your ability to judge character when you say “Willie Nelson has little and/or no character. And very little good music on top of that.”
You are about as informed on character as you are about music. Your opinion is weak and unsubstantiated...and prejudiced.
At least you’re honest about this repressed prejudice:
You just don’t see it as prejudice.
And this glimpse of honesty as well:
The economics that led to the bubbles bursting in 2008 had been building for years, and neither party has clean hands
But this is rendered meaningless by the above display of prejudice. And what do you think soiled those hands? As JG pointed out, you Righties utterly fail to connect money with corruption. Your Mammonite worship of wealth forbids it. Every policy you want is in the interests of the elites. Unless you are in the top 1%, you are a shill against your own economic interests.
"follow the money" - not to its destination but to its source The source that lobbys and contributes to politicians to enact polices that provide for off-shoring, and corporate-written trade agreements in the first place.
Your Hint: If consumers stopped buying "Made in China" labeled products, corporations would immediately stop having products made there...
..Rings hallow when there are no alternatives to choose from. Yet your ideology undermines buying union made products in the USA.
The radical Right may as well admit it hates American workers. It does nothing for them.
Republicans did a few things that I think limited civil liberties
None that you recall, or condemn, it seems. How about starting with the entire war on drugs? Most of what you condemn Democrats for doing was initiated by Republicans. Gitmo, Patriot Act, detention without charges, warrantless surveillance, etc.
Extraordinary rendition was initiated by Clinton, but vastly expanded and abused by Bush.
They've expanded every one of those programs beyond what Republicans had envisioned
You assert this without evidence. Just wait until the next Republican takes us even further into a police state. You Righties always bitch more about health care and safety nets than violations of civil liberties. Always. That says all we need to know about you.
”I bet you vote for Romney”. Care to put real money on that?
Sure. How about twice what you bet I vote for Obama?
That would require honesty, though.
They can never admit it, even if they “get it”. It would undermine their entire ideology and offend their Big Money gods. Greed is good. Selfishness is virtue. Honesty is by nature, and must be, irrelevant to their creed.
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Thread: Nintendo, Sony sued for alleged patent infringement
January 11th, 2008, 19:44 #1
A Pennsylvania company has filed suit against Nintendo and Sony for allegedly violating its patent held for a "hand held computer input apparatus and method." The Wiimote, Nunchuk, Sixaxis, and PS3 Blu-ray remote were all named in the lawsuit filed last month in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Copper Innovations Group claims that these devices infringe on its 1996 patent for a method of sorting devices connected to a system by number identification.
Copper is after a cut of Wii's lucrative profits and PS3's (once there are some), seeking payment for damages, with interest, and legal fees. Copper is also calling for a permanent injunction that would prohibit Nintendo, Sony and 3rd-party manufacturers from further infringing on the patent.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/11/ni...-infringement/
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The Official Maryland Terps Athletic Site positionspecific football drills. By noon Saturday, the combine will be coming to a close. Updated player biographies
http://www.umterps.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022702aab.html
Extractions: Feb. 27, 2002 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Three former University of Maryland football players - Melvin Fowler Charles Hill and Tony Okanlawon - will be among 333 former collegiate players who will participate in the National Football League Combine at Indianapolis' RCA Dome this weekend. The combine, which runs from March 1-4, is used by NFL teams to gauge the size, athleticism and intelligent of potential draftees for the 2002 draft. The combine is an important weekend for both players and teams as a look at the numbers would suggest. Of the 246 players taken in last year's NFL draft, only 30 were not invited to the combine and none of those 30 players were drafted above the fourth round of the seven-round draft. Fowler (center), Hill (defensive tackle) and Okanlawon (cornerback) each completed their tenures at Maryland in grand fashion a year ago as they helped lead the Terps to the 2001 ACC championship, the school's first since 1985.
to team sports, games, or specific subjects in Basketball Association Schedules,player biographies, scores and National football League Headlines, standings
http://mhslibrary.org/Subject Links/Sports & Physical Education/sports_physical.
Extractions: Baseball Almanac has dedicated itself to preserving the history of this pastime and has rapidly grown into an interactive baseball encyclopedia filled with thousands of pages full of in-depth facts and statistics. Repeatedly recognized as THE online source for baseball related information, Baseball Almanac has something for everyone. Baseball America.com
HallBiographies.com :: It Had To Be You
You are here biographies specific Groups It coach, has overcome childhood povertyand abuse to become a successful football player and coach
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Extractions: Heroine: voluptuous Phoebe Somerville had them all fooled. The blonde bombshell, va-va-voom vixen shielded a hurt innocence and sharp intelligence within. As an overweight, graceless child unloved and unwanted by her father, she had it out with him and ran off from home to lead a life of which he couldn't approve. In turn, the old man stuck it to her in his will by forcing her to inherit his football team (and her teenaged half-sister) for a few short months, to prove that she could really make something of herself. A mixed blessing at best, since Phoebe loves her little sister, but can't stand football. And she can't stand the team's hunky coach, either! Stars Coach Dan Calebow is hard, driven, and cold. How could he be anything but, with a nickname like "Ice"? Though dedicated to his sport, he was more inclined to living fast and loose when it came to women. Dan used to love them hot and wild but a bad marriage and empty, brief physical encounters have left him craving a baby-loving kinda gal who can warm his frozen heart. But right now his top priority is getting hoochie-mama-turned-temporary-team-owner Phoebe's luscious backside outta the big boss's chair so he can get his team, and his life, back on track.
HallBiographies.com :: All Shook Up
You are here biographies specific Groups All guy who lives in faded jeans,crisp white Tshirts and has the shoulders of a football player
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Extractions: I'm about half way through ALL SHOOK UP, and am really enjoying it. Unless it goes seriously downhill from here, I have to give it at least 4 stars. This is the first romance book in quite a while that I've really looked forward to reading. The characters are smart, sweet and realistic, and the setting (a camp/lodge on a lake) is quaint and romantic. For my taste it combines the right amount of lightheartedness with a tiny bit of substance (relationship between single mother/young son, male lead dealing with unfortunate past, etc). This has been my favorite Susan Anderson book. If you like a light, sexy read with plenty of humor, quaint setting, homey family values, you will definately enjoy this book. I love the bad boy-good girl romance theme. JD is a sexy alpha male from the wrong side of the tracks. Dru is a just a small town girl who's made the mistake of loving and trusting too much in the past. Deep down, J.D. doesn't think he's good enough for Dru, so he tries to fight the attraction he feels for her. But, as all devoted romance novel readers know, that can't last long! Soon the sparks are flying in more ways than one and they can't keep their hands off one another. I like Andersen's original way of describing the attraction her protagonists have for one another (as when J.D. first sees Dru and instinctually thinks, "Want it"). It makes you wish that there were more "bad boys" like J.D. in real life!
interacted with former professional football player, George Lilja. Posters and writtencountry biographies (Artifact 3 shadow boxes of specific Olympic champions
http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/Docs/units/1996/olympics.sv/
Extractions: 1996 Olympics 1996 Olympics 3 weeks (integrated with regular classroom instruction) Time was spent in four separate classes with emphasis on curricular skills. Class time was devoted to cooperative learning units and individual and team research on Olympic/athletic related topics. Applied Communications, Language Arts, Math, Science, Spanish, Speech, and Vocational Work and Family Life What are the positive aspects of the Olympics on the international, national, state, and local levels? What are the negative aspects? How are the Olympics relevant to high school students? This interdisciplinary unit had a broad Olympic/athletic focus. It was intended to explore Olympic/athletic issues. The unit culminated with a personalized video presentation. The renowned speaker, George Lilja, former National Football League lineman, spoke to the student population about self-esteem, importance of grades, and goal setting. Student produced Olympic/athletic video shown to the student body via Channel One.
The Marrow Foundation Board Of Directors Biographies
1991, he was named National football Conference Defensive NCAA championships andwas named player of the of jobrelated and industry-specific skill standards
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Extractions: (Deceased), Founding Chair Ronald Branch Return to Top James Brown Return to Top John Camiolo is the owner of Custom Benefits Group in Point Lookout, N.Y. Mr. Camiolo was inspired in 1996 to join the NMDP Registry by baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew whose daughter Michelle had a form of leukemia and was in need of bone marrow transplant. He then developed a comprehensive recruitment plan for his company, The Equitable Life Assurance Society and increased awareness about marrow and blood stem cell donation in his company and other organizations. Since Mr. Camiolo began working with The Marrow Foundation, he has secured over $100,000 to pay for blood tests of volunteers joining the NMDP Registry under the auspices of the AXA (formerly Equitable) Marrow Donor Program at The Marrow Foundation. He has been awarded the National Marrow Donor Program's Allison Atlas Award in recognition of his commitment to recruitment and retention of marrow and blood stem cell donors on the NMDP Registry. Mr. Camiolo has also served as Co-Chair of
SFBG S.F. Life | November 3, 1999
computer readouts used to present stats and player biographies. yellow firstdownline in football or the customized geographically specific billboard that
http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/tron/3405.html
Extractions: by eric stephan THERE'S NOTHING LIKE watching a game on Monday Night Football In the Steelers-Falcons game I pointlessly zoned out on the other week, I recognized the helmets. But I hadn't before heard of "enhanced television," or ETV ABC's live Web site that's designed to be accessed while you watch the broadcast, providing synchronized statistics, trivia, and even a game that allows viewers to predict who the next ball carrier will be, scoring points if correct. Whether you're an elite sports freak or think that football is the death knell of civilization, you have to admit that ETV is a fairly smart development. Whether or not the thing survives, it's a solid idea, serving the needs of both broadcaster and rabid fan. A while back, an article on Salon lamented that Apple, in its QuickTime Player program, was abandoning its revered user interface guidelines for a flashy, relatively unintuitive new look. But in focusing on the rakish Sony-like design, the author missed the meaning behind the new look: The QuickTime interface, which has been duplicated for Apple's universal searching utility Sherlock 2, has an expanding grid of white squares at its top. This grid of blanks is basically a marketing opportunity for Apple. In QuickTime, the slots are being filled with buttons for the likes of NPR, BBC, Disney, HBO, and Rolling Stone
Zeal.com - United States - New - Sports - All Sports - Soccer - Statistics
match coverage, contact other fans and check out player biographies. www.rdasilva.demon.co.uk/football.htmlLook English Premier League, or for specific teams.
http://www.zeal.com/category/preview.jhtml?cid=586771
dashes, do jumping drills and positionspecific football drills. By noon Saturday,the combine will be coming to a close. Updated player biographies for Fowler
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Official Athletic Site Of The University Of Memphis - Football
We set out recruiting with some very specific goals in mind and 2003 player biographies. Letteredin football, basketball and track Coached by Ricky Timbs.
http://www.fansonly.com/schools/mem/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020503aaa.html
Extractions: Coach Tommy West Announces 2003 Signing Class Talented group of signees includes 16 high school players and seven Juco players. Feb. 5, 2003 MEMPHIS, TENN. - University of Memphis head coach Tommy West continued his strong recruiting efforts of the past two years and landed yet another outstanding class on National Signing Day. The Tigers received scholarships back from 16 high school players and seven junior college transfers. "We set out recruiting with some very specific goals in mind and I believe that we filled them all," said West. "We were thin in the offensive line and at linebacker and we were able to take care of our needs with some excellant players." The Tigers signed five offensive linemen, four wide receivers, three defensive linemen, three defensive backs, four linebackers, two running backs, a quarterback and a punter.
Stadium-resources
may find out more about a specific sport at More about football Galaxy search sortedby of current information including player biographies, results, rankings
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~eli/teachers/activities/tesl2/culture/sports/stadium
West Park School's Wall Of Fame: Famous People Of Today And Tomorrow
Lincoln, a current Olympic athlete, a famous football player. to looking for a lotof specific information introduced the books known as biographies and defined
http://fp3e.adhost.com/big6/enewsletter/archives/spring01/epp.shtml
Extractions: West Park School is having an Open House during Education Week. The principal has asked all the classes to show some work they have done during the school year. Your class is having a display called The West Park Wall of Fame of Today and Tomorrow." Contribute your work to the display. This was the information problem posed to the third grade classes at West Park Elementary School in Columbus, Nebraska. Collaboration is the name of the game when such information problems occur at West Park School. Tongay Epp, the media specialist at West Park Elementary, has worked with most of the school's teachers for the past eight years. Through collaboration, teachers not only learned about the Big6 information literacy skills but also learned how to integrate these essential skills into their curriculum. The teachers got it and this was verified when the school was recently remodeled and a computer lab added. The challenge was to integrate the lab computers and resources with classroom curriculum. The way to do it? Work with the media specialist and the Big6 approach. After consultation, the third grade teachers decided that their students could learn about biographies and autobiographies along with learning how to use the new computer lab for a purpose. The media specialist was involved through teaching the uniqueness of biographies and showing students how to use an original resource during research. The Big6 process formed the basis for a two-part collaboratively designed and taught unit.
BOOK IT!
Examine specific topics, such as Dance, Opera, and Includes brief biographies ofinfluential dancers and companies. with a former star football player who is
http://www.bookitprogram.com/02-03/Bibliography/stage5-7.asp
Extractions: Research Tips : Look in the library catalog for these subjects: Stage Performance. Examine specific topics, such as Dance, Opera, and Theater. Search for related topics, such as Magic, Circus, Puppetry, and Magic. Browse library shelves in the Dewey Decimal categories 790 for Performing Arts, and Biographies. Ask your librarian for other suggestions. Davidson, Greg. The Everything Magic Book: Everything You Need to Amaze, Baffle, and Entertain Your Friends. Adams Media, 2000. Everything series. ISBN 1580624189. Ages 10+. Provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform over one hundred magic tricks from sleight-of-hand to illusions, as well as performance tips, how to stage a magic show, and where to get magic-related information and supplies.
Books With TopBranch
500 soccerrelated titles, including player biographies and autobiographies on sport,books on football, football books, soccer in books on a specific subject?
http://www.topbranch.co.uk/books.html
Cup The FIFA (Federation Internationale de football Association) Women's It alsoprovides player biographies. the search box or select a specific category and
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/library/graphic/soccer.htm
Extractions: Back To Sports FIFA Women's World Cup "The FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) Women's World Cup was brought to life on the initiative of Dr. João Havelange, then President of FIFA. The first competition was played in the People's Republic of China in November of 1991 and proved to be a resounding success. The championship has enabled FIFA to give women access to world class soccer competitions. The expectations that FIFA placed on women's soccer have certainly been fulfilled. Only a short while ago, a project which would have been perceived as idealistic has now materialized in the most auspicious way, with the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup expected to be the largest women's world championship in history. Indeed, both the first and second Women's World Cups have confirmed that women's soccer is an attractive and attacking game, combining magnificent technique with great sporting ability and respect for the quintessential sporting value of fair play." JSU Soccer This is Jacksonville State University's Soccer main page. This page provides information on our soccer schedule and results, head coach, and team roster. It also provides player biographies. MLS Cup Championship This is the official site of the MLS Cup Championship. It provides information on the Cup including playoff news, conference finals, season statistics, and team information.
changes when given a specific force biographies of Distinguished Women Past and Present ProfessionalBasketball player; Jerry Rice, Professional football player;
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Extractions: Realizing that high expectations for student achievement are a major factor in academic success, the following learning expectancies have been identified in key content areas. These expectancies for student achievement were developed based on California State Curriculum Frameworks and the Glendale Unified School District Curriculum Guides. They indicate the general expectations for student achievement at the conclusion of each grade. It is emphasized that individual students progress at different rates, even though they are at the same grade level and are the same age. Some students may be working on classroom activities leading up to these expectancies. Others may have mastered these expectancies and may be working on enrichment activities. The expectancies are provided as a guide to help parents serve as true partners in the educational process. LANGUAGE ARTS Students will: Demonstrate courtesy and respect as a listener. Listen attentively for information. Read for enjoyment, information, and insight. Comprehend main idea, predict events, draw logical conclusions. Distinguish between real and make-believe, cause and effect. Write daily in journal/log and share orally. Use the writing process - pre-writing, writing, responding, revising, editing, and publishing. Develop decoding skills at the intermediate level. Correctly spell high frequency words. Self-select books for pleasure reading from the library. Refine skills of manuscript handwriting and reduce size of letters in relation to ruled paper. Continue to demonstrate proper use and care of a computer. Use a variety of media and communication technologies. Use appropriate study skills. Use personal organization and management skills.
History of US major league baseball parks, football stadiums, hockey provides statsand scores and a player finder on a specific year to read biographies of the
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Turkish F-16C crashes in South Eastern Turkey - Pilot unharmed
September 2, 2014 (by Lieven Dewitte) - An F-16 fighter jet crashed into the ground while it started to descend into the airport in the Southeastern province of Diyarbakir. The female pilot managed to safely use her ejection seat.
TUAF F-16C block 40 #92-0011 carrying a pair of cargo pods, seen at Eggebek AB on August 23rd, 2003. [Photo by Erik Frikke]
The jet is part of the 8th Air Force Base based in Diyarbakır.
The Pilot Capt. Şefika Burcu Arpacı is one of four women F-16 pilots in Turkish Air Force. She became the first female pilot who flew with the F-16 across the Atlantic Ocean to a 'Mapple Flag Exercise' in Canada (2010). She is also a fighter pilot's wife and mother of 2.5 year old girl.
Deputy Gov. Ahmet Günaydın said the plane's engine caught fire during landing. The jet reportedly came into contact with an electricity pylon before the accident.
The Turkish General Staff declared in a written statement that the pilot on the single-seat aircraft ejected herself from the plane and also that the exact cause of the accident was yet to be known.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confirmed during a press meeting in Ankara before he left for Baku that no other damage was caused.
Jordanian F-16 crashes in eastern desert - Pilot ok (2014-01-27)
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4 Places To Go In Wuxi, China
** SPONSORED MEDIA TRIP **
In this blog post, I will share with you 3 more places that I went during this media trip to Wuxi, kindly sponsored by Tigerair. Of such, this concludes the 4 places in Wuxi that I have been. My previous entry about my visit to the Mount Lingshan Scenic Spot while I was in Wuxi, China, can be read by clicking [THIS LINK].
** WHERE TO GO IN WUXI, CHINA **
(1) Mount Lingshan Scenic Spot
As mentioned, you can view it in my previous post, where it has been documented with photos and information. Click [HERE] to read.
(2) Taihu Yuantouzhu Scenic Park (太湖鼋头渚风景区)
Wuxi has been long regarded as the “Pearl of Lake Taihu”, and it is named so as this is where one can enjoy the most mesmerizing view of Lake Taihu (second largest freshwater lake in China) among the several provinces that surround it.
The best viewpoint that you can get of Lake Taihu in Wuxi is at the Yuantouzhu Scenic Park. The land of this small peninsular/island is surrounded by clear water on three sides amidst the green hills. It is also known as “Turtle Head Isle” as the island looks like the head of a giant Asian softshell turtle stretching out of the water.
Check out the map below to get an idea of the turtle-shaped island
Established as a park in 1916, the Yuantouzhu Scenic Park celebrates its 100th birthday this year. But before that, Yuantouzhu was well-admired by the emperors, ministers, scholars, poets, painters and generals who had set foot on its ground.
The lyrics to a Japanese song (1986) which describes the charm and beauty of Wuxi is carved at the back of this stone, in the photo below. The famed poet and songwriter fell in love with the picturesque Wuxi and wrote a song. Title of the song in Chinese is "无锡旅情". Go search it on Youtube. :)
The park is known for its poetic atmosphere due to the presence of the lake and mountains surrounding it. The wondrous beauty of Mother Nature’s works can be admired here throughout the year – From the tens of thousands of blooming cherry blossom trees during spring to the frosted and snow-covered tree branches and leaves during winter. Our guide mentioned that almost every dynasty would have had its famous poets praising the island’s remarkable beauty in their poems.
Looking towards Lake Taihu
Pavilion by the Lake Taihu
An ancient building converted to a modern-day teahouse.
Visitors can have tea right in the middle of the tranquil park.
Have a Cherry Blossom Experience at Yuantouzhu Scenic Park
Cross the Ever-Spring Bridge, just by the scenic Lake Taihu bank.
It has been much debated that Wuxi gardens are all designed to emphasise on the natural beauty landscape, unlike the Chinese gardens in Suzhou which were mainly to create an artificial environment from the real world. And indeed, from the way that the pavilions, buildings, pagodas, small temples, bridges and small ponds in this peninsular were designed and built, it was apparent of the purpose behind the design.
A historic building with a small pond infront
Stone Bridge with the Sunset in the background
Spotted a young girl playing the Chinese flute
This used to be someone's house many centuries ago.
Now this is a teahouse / restaurant.
Approached a stranger to take this shot of me.
-Modern me in an old setting-
Mythical animal (Dragon head, turtle body)
Reminds me of Singapore's very own Merlion (Lion head, mermaid/fish body)
Naturally-shaped limestone rock due to the long surging of water, and features pores and holes in them. This type of stone is very popular in Chinese classical gardens.
Sea-eroded rocks with 'bullet-hole' surfaces
Visitors posing for photos on the eroded large rocks
A tourist posing for the camera on a stone rock perched between two towering rock pillars.
(Reminds me of the Kjeragbolten Boulder in Norway, that I would love to take a photo on it one day!)
A restored historic Chinese fishing junk boat with seven masts
Once used as fishing boats, these seven-masted junk boats
are now displayed for tourism purpose.
These boats will be kept before night falls.
A tourist taking photo of the fishing boat,
right in front of the port gate.
If you are for it, there are ferries and speedboat
services to the nearby isles.
To finish walking the whole area, you will probably need half a day to do so. For myself, our guide brought us to walk the west coast of the island, which overlooks the Lake Taihu into nothingness beyond. We were there for about 2 hours. Last entry to the park is just before dusk. However, one can stay in the park even at night. But why would you, when it would be pitch black. Head on to one of the old towns of Wuxi and experience dining and shopping in the city instead! ;)
(3) Wuxi Studios
For a more modern touch to your travel trip, visit the Wuxi Studios, which houses a special effects studio, wax museum, real film-making studio sets and houses a restaurant as well. I got to sit on a flying dragon who transported me around the vallet (it's a green screen actually), take photos with celebrities, walking around the filming set of a famous China drama and movie, and eat in a restaurant serving local cuisines for lunch, famished after walking around Wuxi Studios
Self-portrait at Wuxi Studios entrance
Not sure if it was because it was a Monday or that it was early (10am), but there were not many people even til noon time.
So you won't need to worry that there will be people getting into frame when you are taking your photos.
Our tour guide getting tickets for us.
Charlie Chaplin and Me!
My first destination at the Wuxi Studios was to check out the special effects studio. Here, I got to watch a video of how the movie 'Titanic' was filmed using special effects. There was a mini mock-up of the ship which further detailed the whole setup. As mentioned above, I rode on a flying dragon but it was actually done on a green screen. I saw my group walked through a magical forest with flowing waterfalls (it was all a green screen setup).
Walking up two flights of stairs, brought me to the PinLa Star Wax Model Producing Pavilion. Despite living in Singapore and London, and travelled to HK umpteen times (for work and personal), I have never stepped into the Madame Tussauds wax museum before. So you could imagine the amount of fun I had while I was here!
There are several showrooms and you start from the entrance and follow the continuous passage ways that had all the wax figures being displayed, until you reach the other end of the hall. First showroom displayed prominent political figures. If it was not for the US flag, I wouldn't have been able to figure out that it was the current US President - Barack Obama.
Allow me to digress abit --- Barack Obama will be ending his two-term presidency in less than a year. One can only know the great changes he has done over this period of time as America's 44th President. Oh, and the only black President in US history so far. This is probably the closest I can get to him while he's still serving as the US President. :p
Barack Obama and Me. #WinningShot
Two of my favorite stars...
Lady Zaza loves Lady Gaga...
A self-portrait shot with the recently-retired Kobe Bryant.
When I saw the display of Kobe, I knew that I had to be in the same court and him, striking a pose for a photo opportunity. (If only if it's real, right?) Kobe Bryant, also known as the Black Mamba, played his 20th and final season in April 2016. He scored 60 points in his last game. He does live to his nickname indeed!
So after 'playing a game' with Kobe Bryant (in my imagination), I stopped by tea with Holly, in the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie set. [As mentioned in my Instagram] : Just after she placed her teacup down which she took a sip from, Holly rested both of her elbows on the table, looked into my eyes and said, "You can't give your heart to a wild thing, Feliza. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they are strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree". Holly, as acted by Audrey Hepburn, was portrayed as a lady with elegance and great dressing style. But do you know that Holly was like the American version of a geisha? That's why it's "$50 for the powder room". It was not possible that a $50 tip was for the attendant since a monthly home rental would have cost about $100 in those days.
Have you watched the recently-released "Captain America: Civil War" movie already?
Anyway, guess which side I am on?
All in a day's work... Training with Donnie Yen for
our roles in Ip Man, that's all.
Only the lucky few get to see my
wingchun moves on video. LOL!!!
There were many other film, sports, music, political celebrities, from the Western and Asian region. Some of the figures seemed to be the younger version of them (like Jackie Chan and Chow Yut Fatt), if I were to put it in a nicer way. During my visit, I learnt that the technology that they used to make these wax figures is different from the one that world-famous Madame Tussuad team uses. Apparently at PinLa, the Chinese team uses 3D printing technology and polymeric powder material to make these wax figures, with the whole process taking about 2~3 months, and at a lower cost too. If you want your own wax figure, PinLa can create a mini version for about 3000~4000 RMB.
Next, it was to visit actual film sets at Wuxi Studios. One of the fastest-growing studio sets in China, many film-making companies rent the studio space to film. The 3 current sets on display which I visited were the actual sets done up for filming of some Chinese drama and movie shows. You may recognise some of the scenes. But it is interesting to know that many American movies were shot and produced at Wuxi Studios... Such as Captain America, Gone with the Bullets and Transformer 4.
The film set area
Exploring the movie set of 'The Monkey King 2' movie in 3D
The man-eating sand demon
A la Lara Croft in the "Tomb Raider" movie, asian style~
I had the chance to explore the set of the famous TV drama "The Empress of China (武媚娘传奇). This drama series was realllllly popular when it was aired on television. Fan Bing Bing acted as the Wu Mei Niang (武媚娘), the only Female emperor in Chinese history. Her character rose from being the Palace concubine to Empress and finally to Emperor. There was even an app to 'stamp' the red flower mark on one's forehead, as seen on her character.
Lunch at the restaurant in Wuxi Studios
(4) Nanchang Street
Wuxi is now one of the most advanced and prosperous city in China. High-rise modern skyscrapers are aplenty, paired with neon or electronic billboard screens. If you are looking to 'time travel' to the olden days of China. venture to the ancient Nanchang Street, which has retained its authentic design and building structure.
The 1.6km Nanchang Street sits by the bank of the Grand Canal, which is termed as the longest canal in the world... And yes, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This Grand Canal goes through a few cities before connecting to the Yangtze River and Yellow River. Built more than 3000 years ago, the Grand Canal is China's frst man-made canal.
Take a boat ride along the Grand Canal, just like how the locals did in the olden days, whereby they travelled mainly via small boats through the narrow winding waterways. Alternatively, there is the horse carriage and tram rides that you can sit on as well. The best way to explore Nanchang Street is by walking, as what I did.
Several dessert stores, including one that is very much 100% Singapore-inspired!
Restaurants and retail stored lined along Nanchang Street
The interior of the Blan Bunny tea shop
Got myself a box of flower tea leaves!
Berry-flavored tea
BBQ food and duck blood soup
for supper back in the hotel room! :)
To conclude, the 4 places to visit in Wuxi are:
(1) Mount Lingshan Grand Buddha Scenic Spot
(2) Taihu Yuantouzhu Scenic Park
This mark the end of my Wuxi travelogue of the media trip, courtesy of Tigerair. The next section will see me exploring a few places in the neighbouring Suzhou city. Since 28 April 2016, Tigerair has began its direct flight route from Singapore to Wuxi. Book your tickets at www.tigerair.com now.
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The European Outdoor Film Tour has begun its journey around Europe following the premiere in Munich last week. British climber Tom Randall, star of the E.O.F.T’s headline film ‘Wideboyz’, is the face of the 2013/14 show which tours 200 venues in 9 European countries.
The two-hour programme features the E.O.F.T’s special edit of 9 of the world’s best adventure sports films. Last year was the E.O.F.T.'s first visit to the UK. This year it returns to Britain with new venues including the UK premiere in Edinburgh on November 15th and dates in Leeds (19th) and Liverpool (21st) as well as return trips to Glasgow (16th), Bristol (18th), Manchester (20th) and a double finale at the the Royal Geographical Society in London on 23rd November. Tom will join the show for live Q&A in both Liverpool and London.
Tickets (£12) are on sale via outdoor clothing and equipment specialists Ellis Brigham both online and in store from branches in tour towns and cities. CLICK TO BUY TICKETS
Watch the E.O.F.T 2013/14 Full Trailer
Click here to read why top adventure sports athletes say the E.O.F.T is an unmissable experience.
2013 UK Tour dates & venues:
8pm Friday 15 November - Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh
7pm Saturday 16 November - The Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow
8pm Monday 18 November - St. George´s, Bristol
7.30pm Tuesday 19 November - The Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds
8pm Wednesday 20 November - Dancehouse, Manchester
8pm Thursday 21 November - The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
2pm Saturday 23 November Royal Geographical Society, London
Film programme:
Wideboyz - British climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker are self-taught experts in strange sub-culture of offwidth-climbing - the most brutal form of crack climbing (“the size where nothing fits”). To the great astonishment of U.S. locals - they claim the first ascent of the world’s toughest offwidth route in Moab (Utah). Their secret weapon? Two years spent training on a perfect replica of Century Crack, built in Tom’s basement.
The Road from Karakol The American alpinist Kyle Dempster has chosen a far less secret but almost as isolated location for his road trip adventure from Karakol in Kirgysistan. With only a camera as a companion, he sets out on bike to climb the country’s last unconquered peaks. Those are the facts. As for the rest? Only uncut memories - abandoned roads, ghost towns and an obligatory boozy session with the Kyrgyz military police. Between roaring rivers and huge mountain vistas, he comes to the conclusion that every adventure has its light and dark moments - and that we use the word “suffering” too frivolously.
North of the Sun – the award-winning, surf/environmental documentary “North of the Sun”. Picture a small hut, sheltered under the rocks on a lonely beach in the Arctic Circle that’s not seen sunlight for more than two months. Built entirely from flotsam and jetsam, it’s home to Norwegian surfers Inge Wegge and Jørn Nyseth Ranum. In search of the North Atlantic’s best waves, the pair spend nine months cut off from civilisation - no internet, no commitments, no stress. Accessible only on foot, the bay’s location remains a secret - “Everyone should find their own paradise.” But nowhere’s perfect. It so cold even their olive oil freezes and they have to boil water to defrost their surf boots. Winter becomes an endless quest to collect, saw and chop driftwood to stoke their recycled oildrum stove. But that’s not all the ocean washes up on the shore - and so begins their campaign to clean up their beach and stop paradise turning into a rubbish dump.
Supervention: Freeriding on the next level with the stars of the international skiing and snowboarding scene. Filmed in Norway, Alaska, New Zealand, and — a name you should remember! (The E.O.F.T. will screen an exclusive short 10 minute edited version of Supervention).
NotBad: This is a tale of epic adventure. A tale of seven brave riders who set out from the four corners of the globe to gather together under one roof in a town located at the ends of the earth. Set in the Queenstown, New Zealand the bicycle posse takes over dirt jumps, chase down sheep and massacre watermelons with chainsaws. This is a tale with no beginning and no end but where a few things happen in between. Things like eel fights. Yeah that’s right... f’n eel fights. (The E.O.F.T. will screen an exclusive short 8 minute edited version of NotBad).
Cascada: No kayaker can resist the magic of the Mexican jungle with its torrential white-water canyons and waterfalls - even if the continuous rain and voracious mosquitoes turn the trip into an endurance test for the whole crew and their equipment.
Sound of the Void: Sébastien de Sainte Marie feels safer in the mountains than in a car or on a plane, even though the Swiss steep skier picks the lines hardly anyone else dares risk. On slopes like the 55-degree north face of the Gspaltenhorn one wrong move could prove fatal.
The Beginning: Water always finds its way—and the Deap canyoning team shows us how. The group plunges headfirst into numerous mountain streams and pools and proves that this wet and cold torrential fun can be taken to entirely new acrobatic levels. High diving is a thing of the past: canyoning is a must for all adrenaline junkies who love mountain and water sports - even if your trousers sometimes look worse for wear afterwards.
Petit Bus Rouge: Roll up! Roll up! The Frenchies Flying Circus is in town: they are the “enfants terribles” of the international B.A.S.E. jumping scene, putting on clown shoes before climbing, adjusting the wig before the next jump and most importantly: they don’t take the state of affairs as seriously as it is! With daring stunts and reckless moves in dizzy heights, the circus crew of Petit Bus Rouge shows that adrenaline and humour go hand in hand. Touring Europe in their blazing red fire truck, these outdoor artists take you on wild ride as they’re highlining on the Atomium, launching themselves from the truck in high speed and using their fellow paraglider as a catapult. Welcome to the greatest show on earth!
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The European Outdoor Film Tour - the biggest film event for the European outdoor community - returns for its 13th year. Featuring the pick of this year’s best outdoor sports film and adventure documentaries in the world. The Film Tour is back on the road from October 12th with more than 200 events in nine European countries. Find out more about the films and tour dates on WWW.EOFT.EU
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Randall W. Schroer
Hennessy & Roach
Randall Schroer has joined the firm as a Managing Partner in the Overland Park, Kansas office. Randall has represented employers and their administrator and insurers in Missouri and Kansas for over 30 years. His clients range from small and mid-size proprietorships to large Fortune 500 corporations. He effectively defends all ranges of workers’ compensation claims including, but not limited to, permanent total disability claims, death claims, and complex occupational disease claims in both Kansas and Missouri. Randall has been recognized by the American Institute of Legal Counsel as one of the “10 Best” workers’ compensation attorneys for client satisfaction in Missouri and is rated Distinguished by the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory.
Washburn University School of Law, Kansas City, MO – Juris Doctor, 1986
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO – Bachelor of Arts – Political Science, 1981
Admitted to Practice:
Kansas Bar, 1986
Missouri Bar, 1987
Iowa Bar, 2009 (inactive)
Missouri Organization of Defense Counsel
American Institute of Legal Counsel
Defense of workers’ compensation claims
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Herman Koch (born 1953) is an internationally bestselling author.
The Herman Koch collection.
‘Herman Koch, the best-selling postwar Dutch writer, shows yet again why he is the master of suspense and open endings.’ **** Humo
‘Tense, ingeniously constructed novel by a chuckling writer.’ ZIN
‘A novel that has become a moral question around the world.’ La Repubblica (Italy)
‘Koch tells a suspenseful story, with intriguing characters and a pleasant theme.’ FLAIR
‘An ingeniously plotted story. Odessa Star reads like a thriller.’ TROUW
‘War at Last is a book with a headstrong protagonist who, with all his fears and thoughts, quickly wins over the reader. The images are beautiful and powerful. The book’s whimsicality is a large part of its charm.’ Elsevier
‘Thinking of Bruce Kennedy shows us Koch at his best.’ Vrij Nederland
‘A novel both hilarious and poignant that turns everything on its head so often that you end up not knowing which is which: fiction or reality.’ GPD
to merciful and back again.’ De Morgen ‘I cannot think of another Dutch writer who can get so entertainingly, so refreshingly worked up - without ever becoming bitter or cynical.’ HP/De Tijd
‘From the second line, “You must have heard of me”, you wish him the worst.’ de Volkskrant
'Herman Koch's satirical masterpiece Save Us, Maria Montanelli should be compulsory reading in all schools.' De Volkskrant
All the latest news and releases.
Dear Mr. M nominated for a Dublin Literary Award 2018
On the 6th of November the longlist for the International DUBLIN literary Award was announced and Herman Koch’s Dear...
Documentary on Herman Koch
A documentary about the ‘real Herman Koch’ premiered last week at the annual Dutch Film Festival. Herman Koch is...
‘The Ditch’ translation rights sold to USA & UK
After the worldwide success of The Dinner, Summerhouse with Swimming Pool and Dear Mr M., Kochs latest work The...
The Dinner releases in the US
On Friday 5 May the US adaptation of The Dinner will be released in the US. After the world premiere...
FIRST TRAILER FOR THE DINNER STARRING RICHARD GERE AND OTHERS
The Orchard has released the first trailer for The Dinner, the American film adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel. View...
HERMAN KOCH TO ATTEND BERLINALE FOR PREMIERE OF AMERICAN FILM ADAPTATION OF THE DINNER
Bestselling author Herman Koch will travel with a Dutch delegation to the 67th Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival...
THE DITCH NOW AVAILABLE AS AUDIOBOOK
The audiobook of Herman Koch’s new novel, The Ditch, is published today. This is the first time in the...
AMERICAN FILM ADAPTATION OF THE DINNER
The movie The Dinner, based on the bestseller by Herman Koch, is now edited and complete. Director Oren Moverman...
HERMAN KOCH IN RUNNING FOR PRESTIGIOUS LITERATURE PRIZE
Herman Koch has been longlisted for this year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The nominated title is Zomerhuis met zwembad....
DEAR MR. M GERMAN TRANSLATION RIGHTS SOLD
German publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch has purchased the translation rights to Dear Mr. M before the book has...
PLATINUM SALES AWARD FOR HERMAN KOCH’S ‘THE DINNER’
Yesterday at Manuscripta, Herman Koch received a platinum book award for sales in the Netherlands of no less than...
Herman Koch has been published world-wide.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry
Registry included below
Registration Procedure(s)
IETF Review
[RFC7231]
1xx: Informational - Request received, continuing process
2xx: Success - The action was successfully received, understood, and accepted
3xx: Redirection - Further action must be taken in order to complete the request
4xx: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be fulfilled
5xx: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently valid request
100 Continue [RFC7231, Section 6.2.1]
101 Switching Protocols [RFC7231, Section 6.2.2]
102 Processing [RFC2518]
103-199 Unassigned
200 OK [RFC7231, Section 6.3.1]
201 Created [RFC7231, Section 6.3.2]
202 Accepted [RFC7231, Section 6.3.3]
203 Non-Authoritative Information [RFC7231, Section 6.3.4]
204 No Content [RFC7231, Section 6.3.5]
205 Reset Content [RFC7231, Section 6.3.6]
206 Partial Content [RFC7233, Section 4.1]
207 Multi-Status [RFC4918]
208 Already Reported [RFC5842]
226 IM Used [RFC3229]
300 Multiple Choices [RFC7231, Section 6.4.1]
301 Moved Permanently [RFC7231, Section 6.4.2]
302 Found [RFC7231, Section 6.4.3]
303 See Other [RFC7231, Section 6.4.4]
304 Not Modified [RFC7232, Section 4.1]
305 Use Proxy [RFC7231, Section 6.4.5]
306 (Unused) [RFC7231, Section 6.4.6]
307 Temporary Redirect [RFC7231, Section 6.4.7]
308 Permanent Redirect [RFC7538]
400 Bad Request [RFC7231, Section 6.5.1]
401 Unauthorized [RFC7235, Section 3.1]
402 Payment Required [RFC7231, Section 6.5.2]
403 Forbidden [RFC7231, Section 6.5.3]
404 Not Found [RFC7231, Section 6.5.4]
405 Method Not Allowed [RFC7231, Section 6.5.5]
406 Not Acceptable [RFC7231, Section 6.5.6]
407 Proxy Authentication Required [RFC7235, Section 3.2]
408 Request Timeout [RFC7231, Section 6.5.7]
409 Conflict [RFC7231, Section 6.5.8]
410 Gone [RFC7231, Section 6.5.9]
411 Length Required [RFC7231, Section 6.5.10]
412 Precondition Failed [RFC7232, Section 4.2]
413 Payload Too Large [RFC7231, Section 6.5.11]
414 URI Too Long [RFC7231, Section 6.5.12]
415 Unsupported Media Type [RFC7231, Section 6.5.13][RFC7694, Section 3]
416 Range Not Satisfiable [RFC7233, Section 4.4]
417 Expectation Failed [RFC7231, Section 6.5.14]
421 Misdirected Request [RFC7540, Section 9.1.2]
422 Unprocessable Entity [RFC4918]
423 Locked [RFC4918]
424 Failed Dependency [RFC4918]
425 Unassigned
426 Upgrade Required [RFC7231, Section 6.5.15]
428 Precondition Required [RFC6585]
429 Too Many Requests [RFC6585]
431 Request Header Fields Too Large [RFC6585]
451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons [RFC7725]
500 Internal Server Error [RFC7231, Section 6.6.1]
501 Not Implemented [RFC7231, Section 6.6.2]
502 Bad Gateway [RFC7231, Section 6.6.3]
503 Service Unavailable [RFC7231, Section 6.6.4]
504 Gateway Timeout [RFC7231, Section 6.6.5]
505 HTTP Version Not Supported [RFC7231, Section 6.6.6]
506 Variant Also Negotiates [RFC2295]
507 Insufficient Storage [RFC4918]
508 Loop Detected [RFC5842]
510 Not Extended [RFC2774]
511 Network Authentication Required [RFC6585]
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on May 9, 2016 May 8, 2016 Categories Net Culture, Sapir Whorf, Semantic WebLeave a comment on Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code Registry
The Shape of Things — Welcome to Thington — Medium
In particular I want to talk about the relationship we’re starting to build between physical network-connected objects and some kind of software or service layer that sits alongside them, normally interacted with via a mobile phone.
I think we all forget how quickly things can change, but I think it’s fair to say that the era of the modern smart-phone starts with the iPhone, and it’s really important to remember that only launched a little under nine years ago. This by the way, is the very first advert for the iPhone which essentially replaced single use telephones with general purpose computers connected to the phone network.
Three years after the iPhone launched — so about six years ago now — in addition to all of the desktop and laptop computers we were buying, we were also buying 150 million smart phones a year.
Five years later — 2016 — and it’s projected that 1.6 billion smartphones will be sold. In one single year, one smart phone will be bought for every five people on the planet.
But what happens next? A world of connected objects.
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on May 8, 2016 May 7, 2016 Categories Biomedia, Hyperreality, Net Culture, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on The Shape of Things — Welcome to Thington — Medium
Intro To Computational Linguistics
Natural language processing comes in many varieties. The most robust natural language systems are tailored to the most limited applications. The simplest approach to natural language processing is to program the computer to look for a limited set of key words or phrases. When the computer finds these words it produces a programmed response. The ELIZA program offers a particularly compelling example of the keyword approach to natural language processing. ELIZA was written at MIT in the mid-1960s to mimic the role of a psychoanalyst interviewing a patient. Examples of ELIZA and related programs are now widely available on the web and personal computers.
ELIZA was never intended to be a model of natural language understanding, yet it is still one of the most popular artificial intelligence programs in the public domain. As long as the user accepts the premise that the program is conducting an open-ended interview, ELIZA can produce a convincing imitation of a talking computer. ELIZA works by searching for a list of keywords in the input. If the program finds one of these words, it asks a preprogrammed question that centers around the keyword. If the program does not find a word on its list, it chooses from a set of open-ended responses, such as Tell me more or Go on. Continue reading “Intro To Computational Linguistics”
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on April 29, 2016 April 28, 2016 Categories Default, Grad School, Linguistics, Programming Language, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on Intro To Computational Linguistics
Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language. Our freely-available specifications and data form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the World Wide Web.
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters: for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a single language like English no single encoding was adequate for all the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use.
These encoding systems also conflict with one another. That is, two encodings can use the same number for two different characters, or use different numbers for the same character. Any given computer (especially servers) needs to support many different encodings; yet whenever data is passed between different encodings or platforms, that data always runs the risk of corruption.
Unicode is changing all that!
Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
The Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystems, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products. The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, are among the most significant recent global software technology trends.
Incorporating Unicode into client-server or multi-tiered applications and websites offers significant cost savings over the use of legacy character sets. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption.
About the Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium was founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards. The Consortium is a non-profit, 501(c)(3)charitable organization. The membership of the Consortium represents a broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer and information processing industry. The Consortium is supported financially through membership dues and donations. Membership in the Unicode Consortium is open to organizations and individuals anywhere in the world who support the Unicode Standard and wish to assist in its extension and implementation. All are invited to contribute to the support of the Consortium’s important work by making a donation.
For more information, see the Glossary, Technical Introduction and Useful Resources.
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on April 28, 2016 April 27, 2016 Categories Biomedia, Net Culture, Programming Language, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on Unicode Consortium
Internet Society | Internet Issues, Technology, Standards, Policy, Leadership – Global_Internet_Report_2014.pdf
More than two decades ago, the Internet Society was formed to support the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all mankind. Over the years, we have pursued that task with pride. We continue to be driven by the hope and promise of the benefits the Internet can bring to everyone.
In doing so, the Internet Society has fostered a diverse and truly global community. Internet Society Chapters and members represent the people of the world and the many and varied ways they use the Internet to enrich the lives of themselves and their peers. They use the Internet to create communities, to open new economic possibilities, to improv lives, and to participate in the world. We are inspired by their stories of innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
Thanks to the Internet’s own success, we are now in an increasingly complex era where the stakes are much higher than before, and potential threats to the Internet’s core principles loom larger. To protect your ability to use the Internet for your needs – to keep it open and sustainable – we must do more to measure impacts and present the strengths of the open Internet model in more compelling ways, to convince policy makers, influencers, and the general public of the importance of our mission.
To this end, I am pleased to launch this, the first in an annual series of Global Internet Reports. With this report, the Internet Society introduces a new level of integrated analysis, measurement, and reporting to Internet governance discussions at all levels.
The Global Internet Reports will become a showcase of topics that are at the heart of the Internet Society’s work about the future of the Internet, weaving together the many threads of the diverse multistakeholder Internet community.
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on April 26, 2016 May 2, 2016 Categories Data Analytics, Net Culture, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on Internet Society | Internet Issues, Technology, Standards, Policy, Leadership – Global_Internet_Report_2014.pdf
The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel
Instead I answer his question. “I am writing about how technology has changed humanity.”
Now he looks nervous.
“Basically, this story is a controlled experiment,” I continue. “Napoleon is a place that has remained static for decades. The economics, demographics, politics, and geography are the same as when I lived here. In the past twenty-five years, only one thing has changed: technology.”
“All scientific experiments require two conditions: a static environment and an independent variable. Napoleon is the control; technology, the testable variable. With all else being equal, this place is the perfect environment to explore societal questions like,
What are the effects of mass communications?
How has technology transformed the way we form ideas?
Does access to information alone make us smarter?”
As we discuss other apps on his home screen — YouTube, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo — I realize that my line of questions are really just attempts to prove or disprove a sentence that I read on the flight to Dakota. The sentence appears on page 20 of Danah Boyd’s book, It’s Complicated, a study of the social lives of networked teens:
“What the drive-in was to teens in the 1950s and the mall was in the 1980s, Facebook, texting, Twitter, instant messaging, and other social media are to teens now.”
Continue reading “The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel”
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on April 25, 2016 April 25, 2016 Categories Communication Theory, Digital Reading, Net Culture, Pop Culture, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on The Internet Really Has Changed Everything. Here’s the Proof. — Backchannel
On Permission, by Craig Mod · The Manual
I wonder about the waterfall of tweets. I wonder about the @ replies. I wonder how much mail is sitting in my inbox—something I haven’t checked since I went to sleep the night before. I wonder what news has been plastered on Techmeme, how AAPL and AMZN and TSLA have done today. I wonder what’s happened on Facebook, what new photographs are waiting, what new trending tidbits chosen by the algorithm are sitting atop my newsfeed.
And then I think about the algorithm itself. I wonder if it’s sad. If she is sad. It’s been nearly twenty hours since she last saw me. Since my last visit. Suddenly, with my new rules, I wonder if her feelings have been hurt, even though I know this algorithm has no feelings, or certainly none for me.
Author Eliza SarobhasaPosted on April 18, 2016 April 18, 2016 Categories Data Analytics, Net Culture, Sapir WhorfLeave a comment on On Permission, by Craig Mod · The Manual
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Convention Blogging – National Committee
The National Committee is meeting this afternoon, from 1 to 5. There was some delay getting started, waiting for a quorum but Nebraska showed up and the meeting got on its way.
The only really interesting thing so far is the candidates for the GPUS Steering Committee.
The candidates:
Sanda Everette is a NC Delegate from CA, she is on the International Committee and the National Women’s Caucus. She is a teacher, active union maker, permaculture designer, co-creator of the San Mateo Ecovillage, and an all around hard worker. She is a self-described administrator.
Frank Young, Treasurer of the WV Mountain Party, spoke about his work with the Mountain Party, which affiliated with GPUS last year. He spoke about building party, ballot access. Young says he wants to “help our Green brothers and sisters have a better party from which to launch progressive candidates…”
Drew Johnson, from the disability caucus, the Media Committee, dispute resolution committee, and others. He said we need to grow by living our values, learn new techniques for communication, and become more “democratic” than the other parties. Drew is a delegate from California.
Craig Thorsen, another delegate from CA, worked to get Jesse Ventura elected in Minnesota in 98. Thorsen moved to CA in 99, and serves on the GPUS BRPP committee. Ballot access is a main issue for Thorsen and he volunteered with the Arizona and Virginia ballot access drives this year.
Jill Bussiere of Wisconsin was nominated from the floor. She says she is running to serve. She has been a member of the International Committee, worked on the Troops home now! Initiative inWisconsin in 06, ran for state senate in 06, former co-chair of the WIGP, local organizer, etc. Jill is often considered a calming and sane voice on the National Committee (and personally speaking she is a wonderful person).
Jody Grage is seeking (unopposed) a second two year term as Treasurer of GPUS. She says she looks forward to passing the job on in two years to someone else, but is still working on making the job and responsibilities clearer for future treasurers.
The vote is later this afternoon, I’ll report the results when I know them.
General Nominating Convention, Steering Committee
Here I blog – Chicago Coffee shop convention
Today’s GPUS Convention News
Here is hot video from the Green Party convention..
http://www.gailparker.us/html/greenconvention.html
Anderson thanks. I wish the last clip hadn’t cut off. The ex peacecorps guy was just getting to why his Maldovan friends/colleagues liked Putin which I’dve liked to’ve heard. Good clips overall though.
kombayn
The Green Party had to borrow $15,000 in a loan just to do this convention. Cynthia McKinney to this date has had a poor fund raising abilities coming into the convention.
At max, the GP will get 200,000 or less vote this election and it’ll be embarrassing for the party. They’re not going to break into the National debate and anyone who says otherwise, I’m sorry for being honest, but completely delusion.
Goto: http://www.votenader.org
Check out his fund-raising ability. The man is raising right now $10,000 a day and is inching closer to being put on the Google/YouTube debate.
If the GP elects the Nader/Gonzalez ticket, that’s 20 extra states for Nader and he can focus his money elsewhere to get on 49 ballots just like Bob Barr this election cycle.
It’s time for the Green Party to compete again, not splinter between themselves. It’s time for the Green Party to endorse the Nader/Gonzalez ticket.
It’ll get on the mainstream-media (McKinney will get a small mention if elected). Once Nader gets into the National debates the Green Party will get consistent exposure this election cycle.
I hope the delegates see the light and get Nader/Gonzalez as the Green Party nominees. They’re for the NI4d.us, they’re for ending corporate welfare, they’re Anti-FISA, Anti-War and pro-Solar/wind energy. What more can you ask for in a solid Green Party candidate?
While Cynthia McKinney wants to talk slavery reparations.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-greenparty11-2008jul11,0,3718474.story
That’s not Green Party issues!
I can ask that a candidate builds the Green Party.
Create a national chair, and vice chair.
Provide clear leadership. Recruit a full slate of 435 congressional candidates.
Nader has failed the Green Party, and himself on all counts.
The Green Party is better off with out him.
Ralph Nader could have long along solved all the issues between him and Green Party leadership.
It is sad that he has not.
I support the Green Party move on.
I will vote Green Party.
And the Green Party will continue to grow.
Scott West
Cynthia McKinney’s views are entirely in keeping with the Green Party’s 10 Key Values. Cynthia McKinney’s views are entirely in keeping with the Green Party’s 10 Key Values. The Greens are running a social justice ticket this year. If you’re not into progressive politics and you don’t like strong black women, then the Greens may not be the ticket for you.
It is an error to question Ms McKinney’s sincerity or to slander her with anti-Semitism. She has been outspokenly opposed to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Like President Carter, she has called for a balanced approach to the Middle East peace process, an approach that would look to create the best possible resolution for all parties. If you don’t think that’s possible, look to another candidate.
Some people will be voting for Nader, because of his history and his more constitutionalist message. That’s fine. Some people will vote for Barr because they want to throw all the rascals out. That’s OK too I guess. Some people will vote for McCain or Obama and are already preparing themselves for the profound disappointment that is sure to follow. I can’t really get on board with that, but I understand it.
At a time when income disparities and the grown of prisons have grown under both Democratic and Republican Presidencies, its time for a social justice campaign that will connect local activists with a national vision. The McKinney campaign will be an activists campaign, and will certainly help grow the Green Party after the disaster of 2004.
Slavery reparations is not a GP issue?! Come on Kambayn, now you’re getting a bit ridiculous. Is it in the platform? I think there’s some mention of it actually, but I’ll go double check in a little bit just to be sure. You’re starting sound like a mantra now w/this “bow down to Nader/McKinney can only get us 200K votes” mantra now. Why don’t we focus on getting on the ballot w/the candidate who’s won the race.
Now let’s be fair, Nader got more votes in California (before he said he wouldn’t seek our nomination). Since then, he’s a distant second, I think. The way you talk about delegates “seeing the light” implies they should ignore the popular will, which has consistently made its choice known for the last 5 months (i.e. since Super Tuesday). That doesn’t sound very progressive, intelligent or Green to me.
And finally, stop assuming. What good does that do us? You’ve made your preferences perfectly clear, now go campaign for him rather than trying to tear apart the GP.
Not to sound too legalistic, but I did check and yes, Chapter 2, Section A, Subsection 2, Point A of the 08 Platform says: “We support reparations to people of color. One form of reparation could be a guarantee that all children
of color who graduate from high school will be fully funded for 4 years of college. Another form could be monetary compensation. The actual choice of reparation should be decided by the people to whom we owe it.” Now, granted, that doesn’t mention the word slavery but I think the term is implicit given the textual and historical context that we’re talking about. And it is explicitly mentioned in the Reconstruction Party/Power to the People platform which the party will effectively be endorsing when it nominates Cynthia (since she prefers we call her that) tomorrow. That should hardly be surprising either given that 80% or more of its proposals are already contained in our 08 platform, if not the 04 one, as well as many press releases the party has put out over the last few years. These are and have been “Green issues” for years.
There was some contention over the balloting for the Steering Committee. The rule that Proxy votes must be for “named, but absent” delegates was contested by some California Delegates, who felt that the proxy votes shouldn’t have to be for named delegates. The National Committee basically over ruled their objections and the vote proceeded. Apparently this was an issue last year, but I wasn’t there so I wouldn’t know.
Results will not be known until Sunday.
And I should add that I think, I suspect, that the “splintering” is more or less done.
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Yes, last year California did contest this too and held up the proceedings for a very, very long time. Most of the contention, from what I remember (I was there last year) was internal, having a split within the delegation. There was lots of shouting and arguing. Finally the proceedings continued, but the plenary schedule had to be revised because of the disruption.
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Innovative approach to older patients with malignant hemopathies
Dominique Bron, Pierre Soubeyran, Tamas Fulop
Haematologica August 2016 101: 893-895; doi:10.3324/haematol.2016.142810
Dominique Bron
Department of Clinical and Experimental Hematology, Institut Jules Bordet (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
For correspondence: dbron@ulb.ac.be
Pierre Soubeyran
Hematological Research Group, Bergonié Cancer Institut, Bordeaux, France
Tamas Fulop
Department Geriatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Dominique Bron1⇑,
Pierre Soubeyran2 and
Tamas Fulop3
on behalf of the SWG “Aging and Hematology” of the EHA
1Department of Clinical and Experimental Hematology, Institut Jules Bordet (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
2Hematological Research Group, Bergonié Cancer Institut, Bordeaux, France
3Department Geriatry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
E-mail: dbron{at}ulb.ac.be
Aging represents a significant health problem since nobody can escape this natural process.
Though not a disease per se, aging progressively leads to organ dysfunctions and represents a major risk factor for most cancers and diseases. Indeed, with the aging of the population, a 50% increase in new cancer cases is expected over the next 20 years.
Since adult stem cells are responsible for maintaining tissue homeostasis, an attractive theory is that age-related degenerative changes may be due to alterations in tissue stem cells, particularly in the hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Extensive research is currently underway; it demonstrates a progressive waning in our immune defenses and concomitantly, genetic and epigenetic modifications of the hematopoietic stem cells and their microenvironment.
In addition, older patients of a similar age are an extremely heterogeneous population in terms of fitness. Thus, chronological age does not adequately guide clinicians in choosing their treatment.
A better understanding of the cellular and molecular changes involved in the aging process, combined with a better assessment of the “fitness” status of older patients, will definitely help optimize and personalize therapeutic approaches in this older population in order to achieve the primary objective: healthy aging and not only prolonged survival.
Assessment of Immunosenescence
Cellular “senescence” refers to the specific phenomenon wherein a proportion of competent cells undergoes permanent growth arrest in response to various cellular stresses, translating in a replicative limit in culture, while being metabolically very active.
The definition of “immunosenescence” is still a controversial issue, but is commonly accepted as the decrease in immune function associated with aging; it combines immune deficiencies (changes in innate immune functions, shrinking of naïve T- and B-cell compartments, reduced T-and B-cell receptor diversity, decreased T-cell receptor sensitivity to stimuli) and an age-related pro-inflammatory state (excess production of inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 and TNF, the production of autoantibodies). This leads to an increased sensitivity to infections, autoimmune disorders, chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer development.1–2
Due to their impaired immune defenses, older cancer patients are more vulnerable to life-threatening side effects of hematotoxic and immunosuppressive drugs. A comprehensive care program, including vaccinations, nutritional supplements, primary prophylaxis with granulocyte colony-stimulating factors and IV immunoglobulins, if required, constitutes the current recommended approach to this population.3
Genetic and epigenetic changes in HSCs
The functional decline in hematopoiesis in the elderly, which involves a progressive reduction in the immune response and an increased incidence of malignancies, is partly linked to HSC aging. Understanding the molecular processes controlling hematopoietic stem cell survival, self-renewal and commitment to specific differentiated cell lineages is indeed crucial to determine the drivers and effectors of age-associated stem cell dysfunction, which remain poorly elucidated to this day.
The aging phenotype is partly explained by damages in DNA integrity resulting in poor DNA repair, telomere shortening, chromosomal instability, altered intercellular communication and senescent environment, and loss of apoptosis-regulating genes. Moreover, recent observations suggest that small changes in the epigenetic landscape can lead to significant alterations in the expression patterns (either directly by loss of regulatory control, or through indirect additive effects, ultimately leading to transcriptional changes of the stem cells). These changes can also play a key role in modulating the functional potential of HSCs. The two best characterized epigenetic changes are DNA methylation and histone modifications. However, non-coding RNAs could also play a role in regulating HSC function in aging.4
The aging of HSCs has long been thought to be an intrinsic irreversible process. Mouse model studies have shown that aging is associated with elevated activity of the Rho GTPase Cdc42 in HSCs which causes loss of polarity. This results in a symmetric distribution of epigenetic markers that is responsible for functional deficits of aged HSCs, whereas in dividing young HSCs, distribution is mainly asymmetric. This work suggests that the inhibition of Cdc42 activity in aged HSCs may reverse a number of phenotypes associated with HSC aging. These findings support the hypothesis that the functional decline of aged HSCs may be reversed by pharmacological intervention of age-altered signaling pathways and epigenetic modifications.5–6 Such restorative interventions hold promise for the treatment of many diseases, including sarcopenia, heart failure and neurodegeneration.
Besides the molecular mechanisms associated with the aging of hematopoietic stem cells, poor homing capacity and the aging of stem cell niches are currently being further investigated.7
Such knowledge will be essential to develop therapies to slow, and perhaps reverse, age-related degenerative changes and to enhance the regenerative capacity of organs, thus favoring healthy aging.8
Assessment of “physiological” age
The older population with cancer is a heterogeneous cohort in terms of physical performance, physiological functions, psycho-cognitive functions and socio-economic environment. Chronological age does not adequately guide physicians in proposing optimal therapeutic approaches. In contrast with younger populations, the management of these older patients deserves a multi-step procedure: besides the accurate assessment of the tumor’s prognosis and the patient’s risk of dying from it, clinicians have to take into account the biological reserves, the patient’s life expectancy and their capacity to tolerate the treatment. Additionally, the patient’s wishes and their capacity to understand the therapeutic approach should be fully integrated in the geriatric assessment.9
A modern approach thus consists in the assessment of the patient’s physiological age.10 In this setting, geriatricians are essential collaborators, proposing various tools to evaluate physical performance (PS, Up and Go test, ADL, IADL, etc.), physiological status (Comorbidity index, polypharmacy, nutritional status, etc.), psycho-cognitive functions (GDS, MMSE, MOCA, etc.) and socio-economic environment (income, caregivers, etc.). A test which could be used to evaluate the dynamic physiological reserve would be a helpful tool in this approach.
Although clinicians can reliably evaluate physical fitness, it has now been demonstrated that depression and cognitive impairment are completely underestimated and the socioeconomic environment is also poorly explored. Yet, poor cognitive functions and a disadvantaged socio-economic environment are correlated with worse survival, and deserve specific attention in “clinically fit” patients.
Thus, geriatric assessment not only helps to identify older patients with a higher risk of morbidity/mortality, but also allows for better management of their vulnerabilities.11–12 However, such a comprehensive geriatric assessment is not applicable on a routine basis outside centers with oncogeriatric nurses.13 Additional simple tools are still needed to further assess the risk/benefit ratio for a specific patient receiving a specific anticancer therapy that could potentially compromise their long-term functionality and quality of life.14
Attention should be drawn to very old patients. Few reports and even fewer randomized trials are published in this population which, despite a significant reduction in treatment posology, experiences early life-threatening grade 3/4 toxicities. A prephase treatment has been demonstrated to significantly reduce the first chemotherapy cycle’s toxicity, and is now recommended in frail patients suffering from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.15–16
The G8 questionnaire represents a simple screening test to rapidly identify oncological patients requiring a full geriatric assessment.17–18 However, nutritional and psychological problems have a major impact on the total G8 score, and since these issues may be disease-related in patients with malignant hemopathies, some authors propose delaying this screening test in order to eliminate the bias due to these problems, which could be reversible after a few days of treatment.19
Furthermore, the increased mortality in elderly patients is not only related to their frailty and poor tolerance to chemotherapy. Indeed, oncologists tend to reduce the doses of treatment in older patients in order to avoid potentially fatal side effects such as febrile neutropenia, thereby decreasing the chances of therapeutic success. Additionally, patients and their families, fearing a loss of autonomy, will also push physicians to cut back on the doses of treatment. These patients in poor physical or psychological conditions are too often excluded from prospective studies, even though they represent the population we most often have to face in our daily practice.
Biomarkers of frailty
In addition to age and diagnosis, the most frequently reported “clinical” items correlated with shortened overall survival are impaired functional and nutritional status.12 For “clinically fit” patients receiving chemotherapy, a mild cognitive impairment is correlated with worse overall survival.20–21
Besides shorter overall survival, unacceptable outcomes in the eyes of clinicians, patients and their relatives, are early toxic death, loss of autonomy and unexpected hospitalization. In recent large retrospective analyses, early toxic deaths (within 6 months of treatment) are correlated with poor nutritional status (MNA<24) and low physical performance (Up and Go test >20s).17 Loss of autonomy is correlated with psychological distress (GDS>5) and abnormal daily functioning (IADL<8), and the increased risk of hospitalization is correlated with poor nutritional status (MNA<24).22–23
Biological cellular or molecular biomarkers of frailty are still currently under investigation (CRP, IL-6, IL-10, etc.), and require validation in hematological malignancies based on a large series in the general population which tend to show their potential predictive value.24 The expression of p16 in circulating T lymphocytes, a known biomarker of senescence, not only correlates with age25 but also with chemotherapy-related aging.26
However, despite using the best available geriatric assessment, some clinically fit patients, referred to receive full-dose chemotherapy, presented unexpected treatment-related, and sometimes life-threatening side effects, whereas some patients deemed clinically vulnerable tolerated full-dose treatment. Thus, more accurate biomarkers that dynamically test the physiological reserve are urgently needed to better identify the patients who will benefit from standard treatment.
Although the multidisciplinary approach brings together the concerns of scientists, geriatricians, home practitioners and onco-hematologists (Table 1), the additional involvement of the patients themselves should result in optimized and personalized patient care, focusing not only on overall survival, but also on improved qualitative survival.
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Monsef-Esfahani, H., Ostad, S., Taheri, S., Azizi, E., Faramarzi, M. (2005). Effects of Flavonoid Fractions from Calendula officinalis Flowers in Parent and Tamoxifen Resistant T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1(3), 161-166.
Hamid Reza Monsef-Esfahani; Seyed Naser Ostad; Samira Taheri; Ebrahim Azizi; Mohammad Ali Faramarzi. "Effects of Flavonoid Fractions from Calendula officinalis Flowers in Parent and Tamoxifen Resistant T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells". Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1, 3, 2005, 161-166.
Monsef-Esfahani, H., Ostad, S., Taheri, S., Azizi, E., Faramarzi, M. (2005). 'Effects of Flavonoid Fractions from Calendula officinalis Flowers in Parent and Tamoxifen Resistant T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells', Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1(3), pp. 161-166.
Monsef-Esfahani, H., Ostad, S., Taheri, S., Azizi, E., Faramarzi, M. Effects of Flavonoid Fractions from Calendula officinalis Flowers in Parent and Tamoxifen Resistant T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells. Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2005; 1(3): 161-166.
Effects of Flavonoid Fractions from Calendula officinalis Flowers in Parent and Tamoxifen Resistant T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells
Article 5, Volume 1, Issue 3, Winter 2005, Page 161-166 PDF (229.27 K)
Hamid Reza Monsef-Esfahani 1; Seyed Naser Ostad2; Samira Taheri3; Ebrahim Azizi2; Mohammad Ali Faramarzi4
1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University ofMedical sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Three major flavonoid fractions were separated from a methanol extract of Calendula officinalis flowers by preparative TLC. These fractions were evaluated for the inhibition of parent and tamoxifen resistant T47D human breast cancer cells. We also examined the effect of quercetin and isorhamnetin on the growth of parent and resistant T47D cells in the presence and absence of tamoxifen. It was found that quercetin increased cell proliferation of the resistant T47D cells at the presence of tamoxifen but no effect was detected by using quercitin alone. The fractions isolated from Calendula officinalis did not show any inhibitory effects on the cells. Isorhamnetin did not have any proliferative or anti-proliferative activity on the both cell lines.
Calendula officinalis; Flavonoid; Isorhamnetin; T47D cells; Quercetin
The risk of human breast cancer is concerned to cumulative exposure of the breast cells to endogenous estrogens [1].
Experimental evidence indicates that estrogens play important roles in the breast cancer development [2]. Strategies aiming at reducing the production of estrogens may be useful for the prevention of estrogens-related breast cancer [1, 2]. The incidence rates of these disorders are higher in populations consuming high-fat and low fiber diets than in populations with diets rich in fruits and vegetables [3]. Several natural products with plant origin have the potential value as chemo-preventive or therapeutic agents in cancer. Flavonoids, the natural polyphenol compounds, are present with high concentrations in grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. These compounds have shown antiviral, antiinflammatory, antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic activities [3-6]. Calendula officinalis, a member of compositae family, is well known for its pharmacological effects such as antiinflammatory, antiviral, anti-HIV, antitumor, antimutagenic and cytotoxic properties [7-10]. The flowers contain a variety of compounds including flavonoids, phenolic acids, terpenoids,carotenoids and sterols [11]. Most of the flavonoids present in the plant are the glycoside derivatives of quercetin and isorhamnetion [12]. Mechanism of the possible chemo-preventing action of flavonoids has not yet been completely understood. They may exert their chemopreventive and anti-carcinogenic effects in estrogen-dependent cells by inhibiting aromatase,17b-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase and other enzymes involved, or by possessing estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activities [13-17].
Aromatase (CYP19), a cytochrom P-450, is the enzyme that converts androgen compounds such as androstendione or testosterone to estrone and estradiol, respectively. It is expressed at a higher level in human breast cancer tissue than in normal breast tissue [2]. The enzyme inhibition lowers 17b-estradiol concentrations in the target cells, which then decreases the risk of breast cancer. Besides, the flavonoids which are structurally similar to estrogen are able to bind to the estrogen receptor and compete with endogenous substrates. Tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen pharmaceutical agent, is used for the treatment of severe breast cancer.
Combination of tamoxifen with some flavonoids as aromatase inhibitors may reduce drug resistance in breast cancer. In this study, we examined three flavonoid fractions from Calendula officinalis flower extract and evaluated their effect on proliferation of the parent estrogen-dependent cancer cells (T47D) and T47D cells which are resistant to tamoxifen.
2.1. Chemicals
Quercetin (3,3’,4’,5,7-pentahydroxyflavone) was purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. Isorhamnetin (3,4’,5,7- tetrahydroxy-3’-methoxyflavone) was kindly donated by Dr. Joerg Heilmann (ETHZ, Switzerland). RPMI 1640 was obtained form Biotech GmbH (PAN) (Germany). Fetal bovine serum (FBS), trypsin-EDTA and penicillin- streptomycin stock solution were purchased from GIBCO BRL (Germany). Natural product (2-aminoethyldiphenylborate) reagent was obtained from Merck (Germany). All other reagents and solvents were of analytical grade and purchased from Merck (Germany).
2.2. Plant materials
The flowers of Calendula officinalis were prepared from the Botanical Garden of Giah Essence Phytopharm Co. (Gorgan, Iran).
2.3. Extraction and partial purification of Calendula officinalis
The dried and powdered flowers of C. officinalis (250 g) were extracted for 6 hours with petroleum ether by a Soxhlet apparatus to eliminate fatty materials. The extraction was continued by methanol/water (80:20) to obtain a total extract. The extract was then filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure. Methanol extract was fractionated by preparative TLC using silicagel plates with ethyl acetate/water/glacial acetic acid/formic acid (100:26:11:11) as the solvent system. The flavonoid fractions were detected using Natural Product reagent. Three major fractions with the Rf value of 0.23, 0.45 and 0.85 were then selected for further purification. Re-chromatography was performed with preparative TLC by ethyl acetate/water/glacial acetic acid/formic acid (115:15:12:4). The flavonoid fractions were hydrolyzed with 10% HCl to obtain the aglycone moieties. The aglycones were then analyzed by TLC and were compared with pure quercetin and isorhamnetin followed by visualizing with Natural Product reagent.
2.4. Cell culture
Parent T47D cells and tamoxifen-resistant T47D (resistant to 10-6 M tamoxifen) were kindly provided by the Molecular Research Laboratory, Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The cells were routinely maintained at 37 oC in a 5% CO2- enriched humified air atmosphere and were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium containing 10% FBS and penicillin/ streptomycin (1%). Tamoxifen (10-6 M) was added to the culture of the resistant cells in order to keep their entity. The cells were cultured toward confluency, then detached with 1X trypsin-EDTA solution and plated at the desired confluence or used for experiments.
2.5. Cell proliferation assay
The cells were cultured in 24-well plates in a density of 4x104 cells/well. The samples in various concentrations were added after 24 hours. Controls received no additional substance. Media were exchanged after 3 days, and viability and cell count were determined using trypan blue exclusion test after one week. The flavonoid fractions were added to the media in a range of 0.05-50 µg/ml and the concentrations of pure quercetin and isorhamnetin were in the range of 1-100 nM.
The analyses of differences were carried out by one way ANOVA, and Newman Keuls post test using Prism program. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant.
The effect of different concentrations (0.05-50 µg/ml) of the flavonoid fractions from Calendula officinalis on the proliferation of the parent T47D cells after one week of incubation is shown in Figure 1. No significant difference was observed between the samples and the controls. The effects of flavonoid fractions on the parent and the tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells at the presence of tamoxifen (10-6 M), are presented in Figures 2 and 3. No marked difference has been observed in this experiment. We also evaluated the effects of quercetin and isorhamntine as the plants’ major flavonoid aglycones in the range of 1-100 nM on the parent and tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells in the presence or absence of tamoxifen 1 µM (Figures 4 and 5). Results showed that quercetin significantly increased the proliferation of the tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells at the presence of tamoxifen. Isorhamnetin had no significant effect on the two cell lines in the presence or absence of tamoxifen.
In the present study, we investigated the effects of flavonoid fractions extracted from C. officinalis and their aglycones -quercetin and isorhamnetin- on the proliferation of the parent and the tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells at the presence and absence of tamoxifen. The flavonoid extracts (0.05-50 µg/ml) did not cause significant effect on the proliferation of the two cell lines. It may be related to the attached sugar molecule at the position 3 of flavone that can reduce its ability to bind aromatase and other enzymes [18].
Figure 1. The effect of different fractions from Calendula officinalis on the T47D parent cells after a week of incubation. Sample 2, Rf 0.23; sample 4, Rf 0.45; sample 5, Rf 0.85 (n=3).
As other studies indicated, quercetin, daidzein, genistein, rutin, catechin, equol and β-naphtoflavone (113 µM) did not affect aromatization, but β-naphtoflavone, chrysin and biochanin inhibited aromatase activity. They had no effect on the viability of preadipocyte cells after 24 hours [19].
Figure 2. The effect of flavonoid fractions from Calendula officinalis on the T47D parent cells in the presence of tamoxifen after 7 days of exposure. Sample 2, Rf 0.23; sample 4, Rf 0.45; sample 5, Rf 0.85. Data are mean ± SD of two determinations.
No literature report was found on the effects of isorhamnetin with aromatase activity or proliferation of T47D cells. The chemical structure of isorhamnetin is similar to quercetin with a difference in methoxyl group instead of hydroxyl at the position 3’ in the molecule.
Flavonoids can affect cell proliferation by many mechanisms. For example in estrogen-dependent cells (T47D), they can alter cell proliferation by inhibition of aromatase 17b-HSOD or 3b-HSOD that caused estradiol reduction or by estrogenic and anti-estrogenic activities [18, 20, 21]. In the JEG-3, human choriocarcinoma cells and HEK293 cells stably expressing aromatase, flavone and quercetin showed no aromatase inhibition (IC50>100 µm) [22]. It is established that the number and location of hydroxyl groups in flavones are important for the aromatase inhibition. As 4’-hydroxylation decreases the inhibition of aromatase, the hydroxyl group at the position 3 of flavones (quercetin vs luteolin) and 3’, 4’-dihydroxy, reduces their inhibition efficacy. The presence of hydroxyl group in the position 3 of flavone significantly reduces its ability to bind aromatase [18, 22].
Other studies revealed that in the cultured breast cancer cells (T47D), 17b-HSOR type 1 enzyme is primarily a reductase, converting the weak endogenous estrogen (estron) to the more potent estrogen, 17b-estradiol. The 4’ and 5-hydroxyl groups in the flavone chemical structure are essential for 17b-HSOR inhibition but not for aromatase inhibition.
Structural demands for the inhibition of aromatase differ from 17b-HSOR, but in both cases the hydroxyl group at the position 3 of flavones (quercetin vs luteolin) and 3’,4’- dihydroxy reduce their inhibitory activity [21, 23]. In addition, the structural requirements for aromatase inhibition do not correlate closely with the structures known for their participation in the estrogenicity of flavonoids [9].
The main feature required to confer estrogenicity is the presence of hydroxyl substituents in the positions 4’ and 7 of the flavone nuclei [21]. An additional hydroxyl group at the position 5 may increase estrogenic activity in some cases. Two hydroxyl groups in position 4’ and 5 are not essential structural features for the compounds as aromatase inhibitors. Furthermore, the flavanol structure may increase estrogenicity while decreasing the capacity of flavones for inhibiting aromatization. These differences in the structural requirements for aromatase inhibition and estrogenicity may be explained by a difference in the binding orientation between flavones and steroids in the binding sites of aromatase and ERs [18]. For example curcumin and genistein did not exhibit any appreciable proliferative effect at concentrations 10 µM and 25 µM, respectively, but compeletly reduced the proliferative potency of estradiol (5 nM) and estrogenic pesticides. These compounds may either block the estrogen receptor binding sites or interfere with the processes that are induced after binding of estrogenic pesticides or estrogens with receptor [24]. In contrast, genistein, coumestrol and didzein recovered the cell growth of MCF-7 cell that was suppressed by the addition of toremifen at the concentrations of about 0.1-1 µM. This effect is related to estrogenic activity of these flavonoids, because of the similar chemical structures [25].
Figure 3. The effect of flavonoid fractions from Calendula officinalis on the tamoxifen-resistant T47D parent cells in the presence of tamoxifen after a week of exposure. Sample 2, Rf 0.23; sample 4, Rf 0.45; sample 5, Rf 0.85. Data are mean±SD of two determinations
Figure 4. The effect of quercetin and isorhamnetin on the parent T47D parent cells in the presence and absence of 10-8 M tamoxifen after a week of exposure.
In another study, comparison between the effect of different flavonoids on the MCF-7 (ER+) and MDA-MB231 (ER-) human breast cancer cell lines, through estrogenic response and cell proliferation, was showed that 7- methoxyflavanone and 7,8-dihydroxyflavone, possess biphasic activity. At 50 µM in the presence and absence of 0.1 nM estradiol, estrogenic activity was reversed. In these concentrations they had anti-estrogenic activity [9].
Figure 5. The effect of quercetin and isorhamnetin on the tamoxifen-resistant T47D cells in the presence and absence of 10-6 M tamoxifen after a week. Data are mean±SD of two determinations.
Proliferation of MCF-7 in response to several flavonoids at concentrations ranging from 1 nM to 50 µM was biphasic. Generally low concentrations (1 nM-1 µM) stimulated the growth of MCF-7 cells and the potential flavonoids to increase cell proliferation has been shown to correlate with their affinity for the estrogen receptor. At high concentration (50 µM), all flavonoids appeared to inhibit cell proliferation in the presence or absence of estradiol (0.1 nM), with the exception of 7-hydroxyflavone, 7, 8- dihydroxyflavone and kaempferol, which did not show antiproliferative activity [9].
Flavonoids at 50 µM are able to inhibit the proliferation of MDA-MD231 cells which do not express ER [9]. It is related to other mechanisms of flavonoids on the malignant cells [26, 27]. Besides, estrogen deprivation such as exposure to tamoxifen causes tumors to develop hypersensitivity to estradiol. This estradiol hypersensitivity is associated by an up-regulation of MAP-kinase and PI-3 kinase pathways as well as increased usage of a membrane associated estrogen-receptor alpha [28]. These documents can help to understand why quercetin increases the cell proliferation of resistant T47D cells in the presence of tamoxifen. It may be related to hypersensitivity of resistant cells after exposure to tamoxifen; and quercetin revealed their weak estrogenic activity.
This work was supported by a grant from the research council of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
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Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Post by Ike » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:40 am
vinteuil wrote: Ike, I think you know that Jerry is arguing for averages to try to conform to some standard, not every single bonus. Similarly, I don't think he's saying that easy parts need to be perfunctory.
If you want the top four teams to break 20 ppb you need to have middle parts be perfunctory and also easy parts be perfunctory. That's just the truth of it pragmatically.
Post by Muriel Axon » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:43 am
Minnesota was, technically speaking, a top bracket team, and we 0'd a few bonus. That's fine: There are plenty of holes in our knowledge, etc. etc. As Jacob says/implies, the problem is that there were bonuses that just seemed brutal even for the top teams as a whole. There are a few bonuses with hard parts that made me wonder, "Who is the real audience of this bonus part? Are people actually going to convert this?" John Sallis is a good example - I'd by curious to know if anyone converted that part!
I get that things like this are perhaps low on the list of priorities for any editor, and I also don't want to make it seem like this was a super-pervasive problem, since that wasn't my impression. But there were bonuses that felt like they were written deliberately to go one step beyond what people know, rather than being something that at least a handful of teams would actually get. (Again, I'm not claim that this actually was the editors' motive, just that it often felt like that.) I may have more to say once I can see the set.
No comment on easy parts being too hard: I was guilty of that in my submissions, so I'd be a hypocrite to complain about it. But for the record, I don't think this is a new phenomenon to this year. I remember easy parts in 2013 like George Meredith and Gabriele d'Annunzio (or maybe the easy part here was Bread and Wine? either way that's pretty tough).
vinteuil wrote: Also, I think that dead tossups as a difficulty metric might be a tiny bit misleading; this tournament also had at least what felt like a lot of questions likely to be converted only near the end, e.g. Memling's Last Judgment (when the Memling tossup last year was probably hard enough!), which presumably had an easy enough giveaway involving souls being weighed or something.
So first you say that ppb is misleading, and then you suggest literally upthread that dead tossups are a better metric. Then you suggest that dead tossups are a bad metric here, and think that your own anecdotal example of one tossup is better.
Stuff that Auroni said
Auroni, as I just outlined in mega-wall of a post, I don't think catering to teams by making easy parts easy for the sake of easiness is my preferred method to cater to teams. You and i will just have to disagree with that - I think Umberto is a fine easy part and Telemann may be a bit merciless - so we can agree about the latter not being a merciful easy part. Although I'm not sure, you may actually agree with my theoretical model and not just the execution of these particular questions that I didn't write?
Auroni
Post by Auroni » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:01 am
Ike wrote: Auroni, as I just outlined in mega-wall of a post, I don't think catering to teams by making easy parts easy for the sake of easiness is my preferred method to cater to teams. You and i will just have to disagree with that - I think Umberto is a fine easy part and Telemann may be a bit merciless - so we can agree about the latter not being a merciful easy part. Although I'm not sure, you may actually agree with my theoretical model and not just the execution of these particular questions that I didn't write?
You just sidestepped the point I was trying to make by addressing only the examples. The only two options are not "the status quo" and "insultingly easy easy parts." There's plenty of ways to make bonuses easier while still maintaining a separation between teams that don't know enough to even get a 10, and teams that should be getting the 10. I chose three examples, but I have many others from the set.
Auroni Gupta
Auroni wrote:
As I just wrote:
"You may actually agree with my theoretical model and not just the execution of these particular questions that I didn't write?"
Post by Cody » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:27 am
PPB is an average across all bonuses a team hears. Saying that the top teams should be breaking 20 PPB directly implies they should be 30'ing and 20'ing a lot more than 10'ing and 0'ing, but there is nothing in Jerry's post or theoretical framework which requires that a Top. Team. never get less than 20 on a bonus -- quite the opposite! I'm very confused by the insistence that Jerry's framework requires teams to never 0 or 10 -- it doesn't even require them to rarely do that. 30% 30 / 50% 20 / 10% 10 / 10% 0 = (3) 30 (5) 20 (1) 10 (1) 0 in 10 TUs = 20 PPB. => 30% 30 / 50% 20 / 20% 10 / 0% 0 = 21 PPB. => 30% 30 / 60% 20 / 10% 10 / 0% 0 = 22 PPB. => 40% 30 / 50% 20 / 10% 10 / 0% 0 = 23 PPB. => etc., just to throw out some hokey numbers. So, one can improve bonus conversion by (a) making 30s less infrequent (b) making it possible for Top. Teams. to get lots of 20s (c) making it so Top. Teams. rarely 0 a bonus. (c) can happen if content is outside of a team's specialization (your Stanford example), but should otherwise be pretty rare given the breadth and depth of knowledge among the top 4. Having the absolute tippity-top teams getting 22 PPB doesn't seem like a bad goal or very far-fetched to me.
Completely separate from the above, if ACF Nationals wants to be serious about attracting a lot of teams as the capstone to the season, then the set needs to change radically for the future. It's extremely possible to differentiate the top 12 teams without having a huge chunk of games among the lower bracket teams come down to simple chance. The current difficulty of Nats doesn't service the whole field and that's a real shame.
Post by grapesmoker » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:49 am
Ike wrote: I disagree with Jerry's theoretical foundations. In no way, do I think that "3 or 4 teams breaking 20ppb" is ideal - in fact, I think fitting your bonus to some type of ideal distribution, to say "this is what an ideal tournament is like" is a mistake on many levels, for one you basically have to guarantee that your medium parts are super easy for top teams: like that Samuel Slater medium part has to be made way easier because Chicago didn't get it! Jonathan Magin, noted difficulty controller, thought it was a fine medium part - but under this rather draconian model of difficulty, he's very wrong. In fact, Jerry's model can be achieved by doing this: make tossups worth 20 points, and have two part bonuses: the first part should be converted by 10 out of the 12 top teams and the second part should be converted by the top 4 teams some percentage of the time. If you think about it - this model of quizbowl fits Jerry's distribution for the top team bracket - you get 10 bonus points since top teams should be perfunctorily converting easy parts! I hope most people see that this format causes more weight to be placed on tossups, rather than actually placing weight on bonuses - which is ironic, since Jerry claims to be advocating for "hard parts to distinguish teams."
Ike, this is a very weird and wrong reading of what I'm trying to say. I'll try it again and I hope you'll be a little more generous in interpreting what I'm saying, because ultimately I actually don't think we disagree on much.
I'm not going to bother arguing against your hypothetical quizbowl where tossups and bonuses are worth 20 points each because that's not the game we're playing, so I don't know why you invented that scenario. It's a perfect strawman since at no point did I ever advocate for anything that would lead to that outcome. I'm also baffled that you seem to believe that anything I say requires e.g. scrapping Slater as a medium part because one team didn't get that. I think we all agree that various teams are going to have some lacunae in their knowledge and that's fine.
The concept difficulty that I advocate is in no real sense "draconian" unless you are determined to misunderstand me. I have beaten the drum on hard parts for probably the better part of the last decade, and the thesis is very simple: if you effectively limit the possible points that a team can get to 20, even though bonuses are worth up to 30, you have lost the resolving power of the bonus. This should not be even remotely controversial as it is almost a mathematical truism. I have to say that I do not understand people's apparent reluctance to grasp this simple fact, but this reluctance doesn't make it any less true.
I'd also like to point out that at no ACF Nationals, has this "goal" ever come closed to being achieved. In fact, In the last ten years, this year came very close to having 4 teams break 20 ppg - the only one that is arguably closer is 2014. Why all of a sudden this tournament caused people to foist this standard is a little bit beyond me - especially since we were arguably closer than most other tournaments.
This isn't a new discussion. It's a discussion that's more or less in the background of every Nationals. What makes this year different is that it was the biggest Nationals ever and the bottom half of the field, which likely wouldn't have even existed a few years ago, got hit with some pretty rough questions. I'm trying to articulate a path forward that will keep the tournament fun for those teams while not losing the power to distinguish between the top teams. I am assuming that everyone who edits ACF shares this goal (although I'm sure Ryan will say that he doesn't).
Let me instead offer my own picture of bonus difficulty: I write on a topic and you get a value in between 0 and 30 points for your knowledge of the topic!
That theory is terrible! It can literally support almost any bonus regardless of how difficult the various parts as long as their difficulty relative to each other retains ordinal ranking.
As an example, consider my Jarman / Olivier / merchant-ivory bonus - intended as h/m/e - This was 0'd by Stanford A and presumably would have been 30'd by UVA or Michigan. I have no problem handing out a 0 because if you don't know who Olivier is - you don't know film. That's how you figure out who is a national champion - you give 30 points to UVA for knowing a fuck ton of film and 0 points to teams that don't know it. It's certainly not "Oh Stanford is a top bracket team - you must give them 19 points on average, per a bonus!"
I know you know what the word "average" means, so don't pretend that anything I said implies "Stanford must get 20 on this particular bonus." But thanks for bringing that bonus up because it's actually a really good example of my ideal bonus structure, except I'm pretty sure you've got Olivier and M&I reversed in terms of their relative difficulty: Olivier is the most famous Shakespearean film actor of the 20th century, and M&I are not quite as famous. But regardless of that, it's a great bonus. It has a very reasonable gradation of difficulty, with 30 points given for good knowledge of film, 20 points for moderate knowledge, and probably 10 points for vaguely having heard of Laurence Olivier. If Stanford whiffed on this bonus, oh well. It's still a very good structure, and the goodness of it largely depends on the fact that Derek Jarman is not some magically obscure figure but a reasonable part that you could expect people with interest in film to know. It would be very different if the hard part was on some minor Jarman film, and then the medium part was on Jarman himself, and the easy part was whatever; that bonus would still retain the ordinal ranking, but it would be virtually impossible for anyone to get 30 on it and you would lose resolving power.
I know that example and approach seems callous, but honestly it's actually awesome for two reasons: One, you actually distinguish between teams with all three parts: For some reason, people nowadays assume that because two teams are top teams, they must have "deep or similar knowledge" of every subject, which is so dumb, one top team can have great knowledge of film and another can have near zero. - I could have made that Olivier part so that "90% of teams got that bonus part by having it be Shakespeare" but honestly, what is the point of that? We're not distinguishing any knowledge of the subject at hand!
No one assumes that two similarly good teams should have similarly good knowledge of any two things. That is dumb, which is why no one thinks that. As for the second part, you're just wrong; you could have made the easy part Shakespeare (although I maintain that Olivier is probably sufficiently easy) but the whole point is that you're distinguishing between people who know about Derek Jarman and people who don't, since he's the hard part. That's the margin at which the decision is made, not on the easy part, which virtually all the top teams, on average (Stanford's whiff on this one particular bonus notwithstanding), will get. That's literally what it means to be a good team: hoovering up the easy parts.
Secondly, and I think equally important, is that it is rewarding when any team gets 10, 20 or 30 bonus points on a topic. I know it may not feel like it given today's aesthetics of quizbowl, but teams in the bottom bracket should be ~proud of themselves~ for getting 10 points on any bonus at this tournament! Knowing who William Hogarth or Sir Laurence Olivier is means that you are a step above most other intelligent people! But, if you write it so that "90-100% of teams" will convert the easy part or something, you're just going to have to make all your bonus parts like Easter Bunny stupid.
I thought the Easter bunny thing was stupid. I don't think that an easy bonus part should be "find your ass with both hands." I'm going to assume that people coming to ACF Nationals have played a sufficient amount of quizbowl that they are usually able to come up with reasonably easy parts like Hogarth or Olivier. But let's take a look at that infamous "Easter bunny" bonus:
According to one tale, Ometochtli was killed by Tezcatlipoca because, if he did not die, all persons who consumed this substance would have to die. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this substance that, according to Aztec myth, was first produced when the goddess Mayahuel turned herself into a tree to escape the star demons known as the Tzitzimime.
ANSWER: pulque [or maguey; or agave plant sap; prompt on “alcohol” or “beer”]
[10] The Tzitzimime demons were particularly likely to attack during the "five unlucky days " referred to by this Nahuatl term. People stayed in their houses during these "empty days" at the end of the Aztec calendar, so as to avoid attacks by vengeful spirits.
ANSWER: the Nemontemi
[10] Mayahuel had 400 breasts so that she could feed pulque to 400 of these animals called the Centzon Totochtin. In Chinese folklore, a jade one lives on the moon, while the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ostara had a pet one who delivered eggs, inspiring the Easter festival.
ANSWER: rabbits [or bunny; or hares; or obvious equivalents]
HOLY SHIT THIS BONUS IS FUCKING HARD. Just because literally everyone is getting 10 on that doesn't mean shit. This bonus has two incredibly hard parts, and I'd be shocked if more than one or two teams got more than 10, and I'll bet $5 right now that no one got 30. This bonus has two parts that are near-impossible even for the best teams, but in aggregate it will show up as having given everyone 10 because everyone can, indeed, find their ass with both hands and a map.
This fucking sucks! It loses the ability to resolve any difference between even two top-bracket teams by virtue of having two very hard parts. Here's another one:
Answer the following about the tar-producing Finnish province of Ostrobothnia, for 10 points each.
[10] This war began in 1596 when a group of peasants, led by Jaakko Ilkka and centered in Ostrobothnia, rose up against Sigismund, the son of Johan II. The peasants in this war were supported by future king Charles IX, who they called the “Good King,” and it led to the Abo Bloodbath.
ANSWER: Club War [or the Cudgel War; or Nuija-sota; or Klubbe-kriget]
[10] Around 1670, Ostrobothnia witnessed one of these events after the Devil’s Sabbath allegedly caused some namesake troublemakers to fly into Finland. Mary Walcott was persecuted in 1693 during this type of event in Salem, Massachusetts.
ANSWER: witch hunts [or witch persecutions; or obvious equivalents]
[10] The “ABC-book” written by this bishop of Turku was widely distributed in Ostrobothnia. Often dubbed the father of Finnish literature, this man brought the Lutheran faith to Finland and died negotiating a treaty with Russia.
ANSWER: Mikael Agricola
AARGH RYAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING. I tried in IRC a few nights ago to convince Ryan that Mikael Agricola is not a reasonable middle part, but I don't think I succeeded. I'm sure Ryan will come in here and say something like "this guy has come up X times, he's now a middle part," but I maintain that this is stupid and wrong and a bad way to evaluate teams. Welcome to 10 points on this bonus, 90% of the field!
Here's a bonus from the same packet that does a good job:
This quantity is given by half the sum of the dot product of the E and D fields and the dot product of the B and H fields. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this quantity that equals half the square of the electric field times the permittivity for the electric field and half the square of the magnetic field divided by permeability for the magnetic field.
ANSWER: energy density [do not accept “energy” or “density”]
[10] The time derivative of the energy density of an EM field appears in this man’s theorem describing energy transfer in EM fields. He names a quantity proportional to the cross product of the electric and magnetic fields that represents the energy density of an EM wave.
ANSWER: John Henry Poynting
[10] The electromagnetic energy density appears on the main diagonal of this three by three matrix, which gives the momentum flux density caused by an electromagnetic field.
ANSWER: Maxwell stress tensor [prompt on “stress tensor”; do not accept “stress-energy tensor”]
This is great! Look what's happening here: the first part requires you to know some relatively hairy details of E&M math, but they're accessible to people who have taken advanced E&M courses as undergrads. The easy part is easy without being insulting: if you know a little bit about E&M, you probably know that the Poynting vector is the direction of propagation of an electromagnetic wave. This part might be hard for people without a scientist on their team, but that's ok since not everyone can be expected to know everything. The hard part is the Maxwell stress tensor which you'll know if you've taken advanced E&M and is straightforwardly gettable by a knowledgeable physics person.
My main criticism of this tournament is that it had too many bonuses that were like that Aztec myth bonus and that Finland bonus. It should have had more bonuses like that Jarman bonus and that E&M bonus, which gave good teams a reasonable shot at a 30 and didn't abuse teams that were not good, or treat them insultingly.
In fact, let me offer my theory about how we reach out to middle-bottom bracket teams: You write bonuses that they can conceivably 30 and will feel good about 30ing
So, you agree with me after all!
every team has someone with a deep pocket knowledge in some category: a 10 ppg player in the bottom bracket might be super knowledgable in jazz, math, or some other random category. You focus on writing that good tossup that rewards knowledgable people for their random pockets of academic knowledge by tapping into areas that quizbowl doesn't usually tap into - you certainly don't do it by making your easy parts dumbly easier so that "all teams can convert it" - in fact that makes the battlefield at the bottom muddier.
You don't write an entire tournament based around the idea that some bottom-bracket team somewhere is going to have a player on it who's going to 30 that one jazz bonus. You write a tournament in such a way that your bonuses allow for a reasonable differentiation between teams of different skill levels while being fair to all teams across the board. The way to do that is to make easy parts straightforwardly gettable for most teams, and make the differentiation of top teams occur on the hard parts.
Ike wrote:
No it isn't, and Cody showed you why.
Post by theMoMA » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:01 am
Jerry, I think Ike's point is that, if easy parts of bonuses are so easy that every top bracket team gets them basically every time, you've essentially made each tossup worth 20 points and reduced the bonus spectrum to 0 through 20.
theMoMA wrote: Jerry, I think Ike's point is that, if easy parts of bonuses are so easy that every top bracket team gets them basically every time, you've essentially made each tossup worth 20 points and reduced the bonus spectrum to 0 through 20.
Yes, but Ike's position seems to fundamentally misunderstand the role of the different parts of a bonus.
The top 4 teams should absolutely be getting the easy part nearly every time (even at Nationals) (absent content holes a la Stanford)—pulling out the regular difficulty maths (which is still a good enough approximation for a theoretical discussion of Nats), the easy part is intended to differentiate the bottom 10-20% of the field. The hard part is intended to differentiate the top 10-20% of the field. Determining everything with respect to the top bracket teams doesn't make any sense because there are 48 teams at Nationals—the teams that the easy part is supposed to differentiate won't get the easy part every time (and thus tossups are not worth 20 points)! Designing easy parts to differentiate, on average, among top bracket teams just doesn't make any sense in the theoretical framework of pyramidal quizbowl.
sidenote: the problem also lies in the definition of "top bracket team". Jerry asserted (and I very much agree with) the following. It's a very different definition from the "top bracket team".
grapesmoker wrote: [...] I do believe that the top 3 or 4 teams should be able to top 20 PPB, and that the margin between them should primarily be established by their ability to convert hard parts.
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The best teams should get them every time! They, empirically speaking, do in fact get them every time, since that's what it definitionally is to be a good team.
Post by vinteuil » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:40 am
Cody has articulated most of my points much better downthread. Anyways, it had only just occurred to me that the pre-giveaway parts of the tossups might be where at least some of the perceived difficulty lies; unfortunately there's no real way to quantify that.
grapesmoker wrote:
More or less, the bonus spectrum for lower bracket teams is already reduced to that level. Boning them with difficult 10s is not helping that.
Boning top teams with extreme 30s is also not helping un-reduce the bonus spectrum any more than making the easy parts hard would—"easy parts should not be the thing differentiating top teams" is pretty uncontroversial (hell, even HFT writers—sorry Will!—don't actually believe that anymore).
Cheynem
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Post by Cheynem » Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:52 am
Yeah, I would argue the best teams should probably be getting the easy part nearly every time, barring just a screw-up or a hole in knowledge. The key part is that those Easter Bunny esque bonuses don't just make it so that nobody can 30 (or even have a hard time 20'ing it), it's that almost everyone from Penn down to the bottom bracket will probably 10 it. In the lower brackets, I would probably guarantee that unless there was a very deep pocket of knowledge, it was 10's across the board for every team, which defeats the whole purpose of bonuses.
Mike Cheyne
Formerly U of Minnesota
"You killed HSAPQ"--Matt Bollinger
Right, but I think Ike's point is that there must be some kind of threshold of knowledge below which people cannot expert to get points, and an easy part that creates no such threshold is suboptimal.
For example, I think Ike would say that the Poynting vector is a good easy part (although the particular bonus could have used to say "vector," instead of "quantity," to my mind), because almost every good team will get it, but not perfunctorily so; a team that knows very little about electromagnetism probably would get zero on that bonus, and that's good! If teams that know next to nothing about a particular subject can still get 10 on their bonus, that easy part isn't actually doing anything. I think Ike would say that "Easter ______," with ______ being "bunny," is a suboptimal easy part, because it's no functionally different from "touch your butt," as Seth is fond of saying. If all easy parts simply require you to touch your butt for an additional 10, then tossups really are worth 20 points, and the bonus space really is restricted to 0 through 20.
I think Ike and Jerry (and I!) are mostly in agreement here. I would be perfectly fine in saying that "every team that is in contention for the title at ACF Nationals should get the vast majority, and maybe even each and every one, of the easy parts." But I think that should mean that the teams are, for the most part, meeting the threshold of demonstrating actual (but basic) knowledge of the subject at hand, not simply touching their butts, identifying the Easter bunny, etc.
Just to be clear: I am not now defending, nor have I ever at any point defended that Easter bunny bonus part. I trust that my problem with that bonus is sufficiently clear that I don't need to re-explain it.
Post by Cheynem » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:00 pm
Well, yeah, I would agree with that. I do think that an easy part needs to have a threshold of knowledge (which I'm sure Jerry would agree with too) and that at ACF Nationals, that threshold can be a little higher than "Shakespeare" (with the easiest clues) or "Italy" (by saying Mussolini's country). Still, the threshold would not be any problem for any of the first or even second bracket teams. This might need its own thread, but I, perhaps incorrectly, view easy parts as a continuum across difficulty. For example,
ACF Fall easy part is Ernest Hemingway
ACF Regionals easy part is closer to Hemingway than the Nationals part, if that makes sense
ACF Nationals easy part is a A Farewell to Arms
CO easy part is Frederic Henry (okay, maybe not)
Relative to the fields, you're not stumping the better teams with the easy part, but you are making it slightly more difficult to grab 10 at each level.
Birdofredum Sawin
Location: Mountain View
Post by Birdofredum Sawin » Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:36 pm
I'm amused by the trend this discussion has taken--insofar as it has become a discussion about crafting bonuses that properly differentiate between teams--because it is basically a carbon copy of the post-ACF nationals discussion we had six years ago. To quote from my irate post-tournament screeds way back in 2009:
Birdofredum Sawin wrote: My general point is that there were lots of bonuses in the playoffs for which nobody seems to have given any thought to the question "Does this approach having an easy, middle, and hard part? And do those gradations of difficulty roughly align across all of the bonuses in this round, or are the 'easy' parts in bonuses A and B orders of magnitude harder than the 'easy' parts in bonuses C and D?"
This prompted Ryan to respond, hilariously, as follows:
No Rules Westbrook wrote: Now, are people really saying that my playa lakes/desert varnish/pedocal bonus was one of these crazy unfair hard ones?
And I responded thus:
Birdofredum Sawin wrote: I'm not really interested in a protracted debate over the precise "difficulty" of SLORC or "desert varnish" or "Tool Academy" or whatever. Here's what I'm saying about that playoff game: Going into the last question, we had out-tossuped Chicago. However, they had clinched the game, in significant part because they had gotten 30s on bonuses that my team would also have 30d (e.g. the Browning poems and the C4 bonus), whereas we got a string of zeroes and 10s on bonuses which seemed significantly harder. Maybe Burmese history and desert geology and lesser-known VH1 programs and "real linguistics" all just happen to be among my team's blind spots, but that variance strikes me as having had a meaningful and unfortunate impact on the outcome of the game. (Especially since we appear to have had a higher playoff PPB than Chicago or Brown, which suggests that we weren't just a bunch of ignorant hicks who stumbled into the play-in game and couldn't have been expected to get bonus points anyway.)
I rehash these points not because I want to relive the agony of losing that play-in game so many years ago, but because we seem to have learned nothing from that discussion! And by "we" I mean, obviously, "Westbrook."
Ex-Virginia, Ex-Chicago, Ex-Stanford
Post by Ike » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:21 pm
Jerry, you haven't really said anything in the response that I disagree with. It appeared to me in your first post that you were advocating for some type of metric-driven model to guide bonus design - and I disagree with that - and on a personal level, it doubly irks me because I worked at a place for six months were metrics was all we used - and it wasn't very satisfying. Of course, you're not really advocating for that.
Okay, the reason why i was being glib about my theory of "I write a bonus and you get some value in between 0 and 30" was to more or less say, "Jerry, please trust me, I know how to calibrate bonus difficulty" rather than spell it out. Outside of a few outliers, I think you'll find I had reasonable easy and medium parts - in fact, in all of my categories, I think I had reasonable hard parts as well - with almost certainly a few outliers - but hey hard parts are more of a shot in the dark that is challenging to calibrate consistently. The fact that we agree on Jarman (and I did mean M/I to be an m part I just got that wrong in my post) tells me you probably trust me - Of course, I wrote a bunch of bonuses on first pass that were really hard - that happens, we just need someone to look at our work - like you, Jonathan and Cody excellently did. As Rob can attest to, I went through the set and left a bunch of notes saying "this is tough for an e part," "tough for an m part" or "too easy for an h" part. I really didn't comment on history because I don't know much about history, so maybe next year I should learn it so I can.
Here's my general point about bonuses - I have the choice to put you in four equivalence classes with each bonus: 0, 10, 20, or 30, and ideally, I want to see teams existing in all four equivalence classes for every bonus. I hate writing touch your butt easy parts, especially when they appear in conjunction with two very tough hard parts. I just don't like being told that in theory "top teams should be 20ing" most bonuses or whatever statement - even though pragmatically it might be true.
For what its worth I think Ryan does have a decent sense of difficulty when he's commenting on questions - he pointed out when a couple of my bonus parts were too hard - for example told me that estoppel is way too hard as an easy part (my difficulty meter was I would 10 this bonus and I know shit about law, therefore it's okay.) We all have that "awesome clues in my research, so two hard parts" syndrome, so maybe we should devote more time to being question complete earlier* so we can just spend time polishing, reviewing and polishing, - which is what I did in my stuff especially.
*Please send in your packets earlier for next year.
Post by gyre and gimble » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:25 pm
I'm just going to drop in here and say we knew Olivier but messed up because somebody wasn't paying attention and suggested Branagh (which was obviously wrong, since the question mentioned Olivier being brought out of retirement for War Requiem or something). That's on us, but lest it go down as "ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion" canon that we're a team that doesn't know film, film is actually probably one of our 4 or 5 best areas, both empirically speaking and in terms of our non-quizbowl interests.
From what I can tell browsing online, the Jarman/Olivier/Merchant Ivory bonus was abnormally hard compared to any film bonus I've seen at nationals level, but if people who know more about Jarman than I do insist that the difficulty was appropriate, I'll take their word for it and assume that this is a topic that just slipped between the cracks for us. That said, it seems odd to reverse-justify a bonus as appropriate by labeling us as a shitty film team to explain away our 0. It seems equally odd to speculate that UVA and Michigan would have 30'd the bonus just because they know "a shit ton of film." (I'm not saying they wouldn't have, but I know UVA never played that bonus.) I could claim to know "a shit ton of painting" but apparently that wasn't enough to inform the moderator that there are some swans at the front of The Isle of Life.
EDIT: I'll also weigh in on the top-4-20-ppb issue. When a team is getting 20 ppb, that means they're 10'ing some and 30'ing some and about the same rate. It doesn't mean they're getting 20 on everything. So aiming for 20 ppb as your goal as an editor doesn't mean you have to write your question so that all of the top teams are getting at least 20. That would make the set look like Regionals.
Post by grapesmoker » Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:33 pm
Come on, Andrew, "the Zanj rebellion has come up before."
Post by Auks Ran Ova » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:01 pm
gyre and gimble wrote: the Jarman/Olivier/Merchant Ivory bonus was abnormally hard compared to any film bonus I've seen at nationals level
This seems like an odd assertion--Jarman is probably a tough hard part, though not out of the ordinary for Nats, but Olivier gives you "famous British Shakespearean actor" and M+I gives you "director/producer who did Forster and James novel adaptations". Seems like just a knowledge hole.
Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Yeah, like I said, I believe you (and Ike, and Jerry). I could argue that "Forster and James novel adaptations" aren't that widely watched, but that's another thing I can't really claim with any evidence. Really, I was just saying that I couldn't tell from the internet that those things are important; but I haven't taken any film classes, so there you go.
Nabonidus
Post by Nabonidus » Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:18 pm
I agree with Rob. In addition to the Shakespeare clue (which gave me the unfortunate experience of having "Kenneth Branagh!" shouted into my ear from a distance of several inches) the dentistry scene from Marathon Man is really famous and I actually thought the middle part of the question was intended to be the easy one.
Derek So
gyre and gimble wrote: Yeah, like I said, I believe you (and Ike, and Jerry). I could argue that "Forster and James novel adaptations" aren't that widely watched, but that's another thing I can't really claim with any evidence. Really, I was just saying that I couldn't tell from the internet that those things are important; but I haven't taken any film classes, so there you go.
I don't know how many people actually watch them (I sure don't) but they're generally famous for historical reasons, to wit, producing a bunch of critically acclaimed adaptations that serve as a sort of implicit template for future directors of same.
Post by Cody » Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:04 pm
gyre and gimble wrote: That said, it seems odd to reverse-justify a bonus as appropriate by labeling us as a shitty film team to explain away our 0. It seems equally odd to speculate that UVA and Michigan would have 30'd the bonus just because they know "a shit ton of film." (I'm not saying they wouldn't have, but I know UVA never played that bonus.) I could claim to know "a shit ton of painting" but apparently that wasn't enough to inform the moderator that there are some swans at the front of The Isle of Life.
You can have content holes in film while being good at film—I don't see this discussion as labeling you, holistically, as a shitty film team.
s/film/{category of your choice}/ as necessary
Post by Auroni » Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:21 pm
I wasn't trying to attack the easy parts in ACF Nationals specifically, so much as to use them and this discussion to illustrate a problem I see with quizbowl discussion more generally: Whenever an editor of a set is told that many of their easy parts are too hard, they always reflexively reply: "Well, we're not handing out free 10s to everyone!," regardless of what the easy parts in question actually are, without actually critically thinking about whether or not there's ways to make the parts more saner without heading into "find your ass territory." I think that it hurts quizbowl and betrays a lack of understanding for what easy parts are supposed to do.
Post by No Rules Westbrook » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:06 pm
Well, since Andrew is going out of his way to be hostile to me in particular, I will say this much...
I've always considered myself to be among the more diligent editors about going through bonuses to make sure that none are blatantly unfair - that is, that none of them seem to be unreasonably difficult to get 10 on, or unreasonably easy or liable to get 30 on without substantial knowledge of the topic. I don't concern myself as much with 10 point swings here and there, i.e. a slightly hard or slightly easy 20 to get, but it's not like I ignore that either.
Also, I very rarely write "find your butt" bonus parts. I do occasionally throw in a few of those parts here and there, especially if there isn't a reasonable alternative - i.e. there doesn't seem to be another available bonus part that fits with the rest of the bonus and meets the standards for a 10-point part. The "find your butt" easy part is certainly not optimal, but it doesn't really change things at all if you're a good team, because there's a 90-ish percent chance that you're going to get the easy part anyway. I guess it changes things a little for teams that are at the bottom of the tournament, because they get a sure 10, which is a boon on those questions.
Anyway, I think we've got far bigger fish to fry than worrying about the insulting nature of "find your butt" parts - I don't think there's any good quizbowl writer or editor that wants to have a lot of those parts. They just pop up sometimes when the writer can't find a great alternative way of constructing the bonus, and they don't much affect the nature of gameplay.
I moderated a lot of matches this Saturday and Sunday, and I didn't get the feeling that bonus fluctuation was very bad at all in this tournament, compared to most other events. Occasionally, I remember thinking "that's a rough 10 point part to ask for" - I definitely don't remember that thought being localized to any one subject - I remember thinking it on a few science bonuses, a few lit bonuses, etc. Quite a bit less often, I remember thinking to myself "that's probably kind of a gift 30" - for example, I think my bonus that went "Peace of Ryswick / Battle of Zenta / League of Augsburg" was a pretty easy thirty. But, on the whole, I thought bonus difficulty stayed fairly regular at this event, and the stats bear that out. Further, when there's really palpable bonus unfairness, you start to hear a lot of groans and complaints from teams (both good and bad teams) - it's not something that goes undetected when it's happening. I didn't really get the sense there was all that much of that in this particular event.
Further, we're just going to talk ourselves into circles if we start arguing about individual bonuses. Let's look at Jerry's example of what he considers "ideal". Now, I'm a terrible science player, but I could see someone saying that "Poynting" is slightly too hard for an easy part. My hunch is that the concept of the Poynting Vector is slightly easier than knowing that the last king of Italy was named Umberto, but probably not all that much easier. Similarly, I love Mesoamerican myth, and can tell you that pulque plays a very important role and it's a very "real" thing to ask about - and Nemontemi is certainly on the hard side of a 30-point part, but is a pretty cool concept that plays a role in the New Fire festival / "binding of the years" ritual that is central to Aztec cosmology (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Fire_ceremony). People have a real hard time being objective when they start talking about areas they know well, and then talk about areas they don't know well. Further, specialized areas like film or linguistics or even Mesoamerican myth (to reference some of the bonuses coming up) are always going to be more difficult to get widespread agreement on, because the ground is not as well trod. Now, Jerry thinks the Victual Brothers and Mikael Agricola are quite hard 20-point parts - they don't seem like it to me, at all, and were effortlessly converted in my rooms without any amount of strain. It would be interesting for me to go through each bonus and take a poll of 100 people on its perceived difficulty - but I think people would get way more variance in the opinions that you'd think.
I mean, I'd ask "what are the Victual Brothers (from all clues about them) if not a 20 point part?". Are they really a 30-point part, still? Are they just too easy for 30, but too hard for 20, so they can't ever come up? What the heck are they?
Same thing with Mikael Agricola. If I made that the 30 point part (or Victual Brothers the 30 part), every opposing good team in a match would groan immediately as if to imply "ugh, this is too easy of a 30...you're giving them such easy points!" But, it's being asserted that it's too hard for the 20? Really - then what the heck is Mikael Agricola? Is it another magical "too hard for 20, too easy for 30" type of answer?
We can go through every bonus like that - mine, Rob's, Ike's, Billy's - and it's going to be the same way. Or we can just look at the stats and see that this tournament had pretty solid bonus conversion compared to the last three years. (it's fine to say that you think the tournament needs to get easier in general...I have no issue with that opinion - but say that instead of making a weird claim about this particular tournament that isn't bonre out by the stats)
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Post by Muriel Axon » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:27 pm
Well, of course you can make things a little harder by withholding information. I'm not a history player and I don't know who the Victual Brothers are, but I'm sure they could be a hard part if you give less than all the easiest clues for them. I'm not saying that editors should necessarily be obliged to do that, but there's no reason to pretend that there are answer lines that can't be used because they're too hard to be a middle part, and too easy to be a hard part.
Sure, you can withhold info or provide more info to harden or soften a bonus, and I do that all the time.
But, I'm saying Victual Brothers from all clues and Agricola from all clues - if you're really gonna die on the hill trying to say they're a smidge too hard for 20 but a smidge too easy for 30, that seems like a really trifling complaint to make. And a really subjective one.
*plus: hey, I'm not really sure you can "withhold info" about the Victual Brothers. You kinda just gotta come out and define who they are. Some things you can "without certain info" on - not really there
Post by Birdofredum Sawin » Wed Apr 22, 2015 6:45 pm
To be clear, I didn't play this set and haven't read it; I'm solely intervening in this conversation in response to expressions of Westbrookian thinking that transcend this particular set of questions.
In addition to my prior remarks in this thread, which I stand by as general observations about Westbrookianism, I'll note that Ryan has a tendency of trumpeting the amount of time he puts editing (his "diligence") as if that were dispositive of the quality of his questions. This is obviously false: There's no way Ryan worked harder on this set than I worked on 2005 ACF nationals, but the mere fact that I put in hundreds of hours researching novel clues, etc. for that set doesn't magically absolve it of its flaws--in particular, the insane difficulty of the set relative to what people actually knew (instead of "what I assumed people should know"). I learned my lesson: What any one of us knows is idiosyncratic, and we are always going to miscalibrate difficulty when we try to project our own personal hunches and intuitions about difficulty onto a set. By contrast, Ryan seems never to have learned that his "hunches and intuitions" are merely that--i.e., idiosyncratic and frequently inaccurate guesses--and continues to blithely assume that as long as something doesn't "seem like" it's too hard to him, then the point is settled.
Now, to respond to JR's concern about lack of coverage for "World War I, World War II, and Cold War eras" among other key events...
What about these tossups: foreign affairs, bela kun, metaxas, estado novo, cambridge five (spying! cold war!), pierre laval, willy brandt, black and tans.
Whenever I write for Nats, I'm extremely careful to hit just about every century and continent and country and time period a fair amount. I really pay attention to that. Every editor has certain areas or time periods that he thinks are underrepresented - I'm a little partial to certain topics on that account (which I won't reveal because I may be writing in the future, and I don't want there to be some advantage to scouting this post), but I'm awfully cognizant of spreading out time and place.
Well, Andrew, here's the thing...this tournament got created a lot differently than tournaments in 2007 got created (or at least a lot differently than I was creating tournaments back then).
We had these packets in Google Docs and no less than 12 really knowledgeable ACF veterans commented on the questions - especially on bonus parts they thought were too hard, too easy, etc. - and none of the editors ignored those comments. We changed countless bonus parts to make some easier, some harder, etc. If my rather flippant posting style on this thread has led you to believe that I insist on relying solely on my hunches and not consulting others prior to putting a set out, then you're wrong.
Rather, it is precisely because we were careful to make these types of changes, using the input of others, that I am defending this point so tenaciously. It is precisely for that reason that I am mostly convinced that 95% of the complaints here boil down to unwarranted whining (or at least should be better stated as a general sentiment that the author believes Nationals needs to, in general, be made an easier tournament - and not as particularized complaints about this tournament)
No Rules Westbrook wrote: I mean, I'd ask "what are the Victual Brothers (from all clues about them) if not a 20 point part?". Are they really a 30-point part, still? Are they just too easy for 30, but too hard for 20, so they can't ever come up? What the heck are they?
There's nothing wrong with making that the hard part.
I don't know why you think that. Most of the time teams only complain about bonuses that swing in difficulty in an unfair way. If the bonuses were consistent, I don't imagine too many people would be upset. But yes, Agricola is a hard part too. The problem isn't either of them in isolation, the problem is that they're hard parts in bonuses that already have hard parts, so now you have a bonus with two hard parts.
Similarly, I love Mesoamerican myth, and can tell you that pulque plays a very important role and it's a very "real" thing to ask about - and Nemontemi is certainly on the hard side of a 30-point part, but is a pretty cool concept that plays a role in the New Fire festival / "binding of the years" ritual that is central to Aztec cosmology
This point is entirely orthogonal to the point I'm making. I'm not saying "wow, what a terrible answer choice! You should never ask about that!" I trust you that you know what you're doing when you're asking about pulque. The problem isn't the single hard part, it's that pulque is really hard part followed by another really hard part. That makes the bonus very difficult!
I think I've made the points that I've wanted to make and any further examination of the question of Nats difficulty is going to have to wait until I do a detailed breakdown of the bonus conversion stats next week.
No Rules Westbrook wrote: Well, Andrew, here's the thing...this tournament got created a lot differently than tournaments in 2007 got created (or at least a lot differently than I was creating tournaments back then).
Obviously, I speak under correction as to this point, not least because we editors communicated with one another via smoke signals and carrier pigeons when I last worked on an ACF nationals.
Thus, far be it from me to call into question the process whereby this year's ACF editors worked collaboratively to rein in difficulty and correct one another's mistaken hunches. When Ryan says something like "David Dacko is so not hard. He's in the same tier of African presidents as Nyerere or Kaunda, and above the tier that includes people like Bongo or Banda. Dacko is a staple of the canon," this must be his usual charming flippancy, and does not reflect how he came to decide that a tossup on Dacko belonged in the set (as one that wasn't even "noticeably difficult," for that matter).
Oh, one other thing:
grapesmoker wrote: AARGH RYAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING. I tried in IRC a few nights ago to convince Ryan that Mikael Agricola is not a reasonable middle part, but I don't think I succeeded. I'm sure Ryan will come in here and say something like "this guy has come up X times, he's now a middle part," but I maintain that this is stupid and wrong and a bad way to evaluate teams. Welcome to 10 points on this bonus, 90% of the field!
I'm not sure that I have the permissions to upload the packets to the db, but while I'm figuring that out, you can get them here.
This is probably the last thing I'll say on this matter, or maybe not.
Like absolutely everyone else in qb, I have my own intuitions about what is hard and what is not. If someone like Jerry expresses an opinion that conflicts with mine, I don't automatically change my opinion, nor do I automatically dismiss Jerry's opinion - I ask around to solicit more opinions from knowledgeable people.
Everyone knows that what I rely upon most, though not exclusively, in making my judgments is prior packet knowledge. It's probably true that I rely on that to a far greater extent than any other player in modern quizbowl. I will readily agree that it results in some errors, but I do not believe that it's an invalid tool to use. In fact, I think it will probably always be the most accurate tool for an editor to use, especially in higher-level quizbowl....because I would make the case that, no matter how "real" this game gets, there will always be a strong concept of the "canon" that forms and guides the knowledge of many good players in this game.
Add to this the fact that I'm naturally inclined to support a version of this game which has a strong sense of growth from the packet canon; I have an ideological inclination to do that, and so I will support that goal to a greater extent than most of my qb colleagues will.
However, when I do miss with a judgment here or there (whether it's by making something allegedly too easy, or allegedly too hard), there is a certain segment of our population who will cry bloody murder that it's "piling obscurata on top of obscurata," and that this is the most heinous crime of all. When someone with a different method misses, they don't necessarily get that charge.
Post by No Rules Westbrook » Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:57 pm
Just one more quick note - the editors of ACF Nationals will shortly be having a meeting to discuss what went well and what could be improved for next year.
Thanks to everyone for the discussion in this thread. While my writing will always have a particular style to it, I think I've gained several ideas for improvements that can be made which will address a good number of the concerns that have been raised in this thread.
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Post by vcuEvan » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:36 pm
No Rules Westbrook wrote: We can go through every bonus like that - mine, Rob's, Ike's, Billy's - and it's going to be the same way. Or we can just look at the stats and see that this tournament had pretty solid bonus conversion compared to the last three years. (it's fine to say that you think the tournament needs to get easier in general...I have no issue with that opinion - but say that instead of making a weird claim about this particular tournament that isn't bonre out by the stats)
I should have been more clear: the things I'm saying about difficulty at this tournament are applicable generally to recent ACF Nationals. Gamebreaking answers on the Sultanate of Mataram and Coral Castle in 2014 are just as annoying as the ones on Amana or William Pendleton in 2015 . I'm also not saying that I think this tournament was poorly written: there were a few clunkers but overall everyone on the editing team, which includes people I've criticized in the past, did a fantastic job selecting interesting and meaningful clues.
The reason I'm posting about this now when I really didn't in the past is that the for the past three years Jonathan, Ted, and Auroni have done excellent work selecting answers for their parts of the distributions. In 2014, Editors 6 also served as the final and therefore most important playoff round. In that packet, the lit tossups were on Mary Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night, Edmund Spenser, Junot Diaz, and the flaneur. In our room none of these went dead, instead they were answered at least around the middle of the tossup. In 2013, Editors 6 served the same role and had lit tossups on Rebecca, Swann's Way, the Ramayana, and the Iceman Cometh. I'm not advocating an ACF Nationals tournament in which every answer is Fall or Regionals level. But this focus on unarguably important things and careful selection of the few harder answers led to fewer dead tossups or tossups answered at the end, which in turn led to more meaningfully contested tossups and meaningfully contested games. I don't think anyone on the 2015 editing team took the approach that Jonathan, Ted or Auroni did, and the lit in particular suffered for it.
Evan Adams
VCU '11, UVA '14, NYU '15
Post by Ike » Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:03 am
This is probably the last I'll say on the matter too before making long posts in separate threads about topics because you guys are starting to get ridiculous.
In editor's 6, I wrote two of the tossups: Candida - which was chosen as an answer by Rob and Baudolino which was chosen as an answer by Rob again and I think they both were "core," "indisputably important," or whatever intangible metric you choose to use: if you've been around quizbowl long enough, you have no excuse for not converting these at the end. While I didn't write the Fifth Column tossup, i certainly did not anticipate it going dead because the name The Fifth Column is both important and it's something you can be familiar with through numerous Hemingway biographies in the intro to his major books. I'll also contend malaria is an ACF Fall / regionals answer "do you know what Roman fever is?" and it definitely had very easy lit clues - like I definitely learned in high school what disease kills Daisy Miller. The fact that it went dead surprises me quite a bit.
Now here's the part that angers me: In my game against Yale in 2013 there was a tossup on Ama Aidoo - and that's a game when the one seeds were playing the one seeds! (Not to mention there were tossups on Sextus Empiricus, etc.) I don't know why you all didn't blow your goddamn gaskets back then because that's a tossup I'm almost positive went dead everywhere. Furthermore in 2014 there was a very hard / almost impossible tossup on Richard Diebenkorn - if UVA 2014 had lost to Matt Jackson or Penn on that packet by five points because there was a very tough arts question - you would never stop giving shit to Ted. The fact that you're putting Jonathan, Auroni and Ted on a pedestal while throwing us to the wolves is, to be honest, complete and utter bullshit. Complaining about this general trend is okay; calling out Rob, me and Ryan Westbrook as being the only ones that perpetuate isn't or not "putting enough care" into our questions or whatever is just garbage. Jesus fucking Christ.
Post by grapesmoker » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:32 am
I think Ike is right that we don't need to roast this tournament specifically; this has been somewhat of an issue with Nationals generally, and to the extent that any Nationals, including the one I edited last year, fell prey to the same problems, that's the fault of those tournaments. For what it's worth, I don't think it makes any sense to single out Editors 6 for special opprobrium; yeah, it was a hard packet, but it was being played by the top teams. If it had been Editors 5 instead, I doubt it would have made any difference; I don't subscribe to the notion of "gamebreaking" tossups or rounds. I also think the idea that Ike specifically or the editors generally didn't take care with their answer selection doesn't stand up to scrutiny. You can take care and still overshoot the difficulty for whatever reason.
Post by vcuEvan » Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:49 am
Ike wrote: Now here's the part that angers me: In my game against Yale in 2013 there was a tossup on Ama Aidoo - and that's a game when the one seeds were playing the one seeds! (Not to mention there were tossups on Sextus Empiricus, etc.) I don't know why you all didn't blow your goddamn gaskets back then because that's a tossup I'm almost positive went dead everywhere. Furthermore in 2014 there was a very hard / almost impossible tossup on Richard Diebenkorn - if UVA 2014 had lost to Matt Jackson or Penn on that packet by five points because there was a very tough arts question - you would never stop giving shit to Ted. The fact that you're putting Jonathan, Auroni and Ted on a pedestal while throwing us to the wolves is, to be honest, complete and utter bullshit. Complaining about this general trend is okay; calling out Rob, me and Ryan Westbrook as being the only ones that perpetuate isn't or not "putting enough care" into our questions or whatever is just garbage. Jesus fucking Christ.
You and Ryan really have a light trigger finger on this sour grapes argument. The insulting implication is that I'm either too stupid to separate my own performance on the set from my evaluation of it or else that I'm maliciously attacking the editors to explain my own performance. I didn't even play Editors 4, Editors 5, Editors 6, or Finals 1 on Sunday. In 2013 we did win the round with the Ama Aidoo tossup. But our heavily favored team lost the two rounds before that one and the two rounds after it. It was the worst personal performance of my career and the worst team performance from my time on UVA. A lot of missed literature tossups contributed to this disaster. And I've consistently praised the literature from that tournament. Please at least entertain the possibility that I'm arguing from good faith.
I'm sorry if I implied the 2015 editors were not careful. I acknowledged that you guys "did a fantastic job selecting interesting and meaningful clues." And I unreservedly believe your account of the intese effort you put into writing those questions so well. The first part of my argument is that 2014 ACF Nationals had a very different philosophy toward selecting lit answers than the 2015 editors did. I did not expect this argument to be contentious. Ted explained his process in 2014 as follows:
I have always been a fierce advocate of canonical questions, but at the same time I think canonical answers need to be balanced with difficult tossups on unexpected topics. I find this helps to fight transparency and guarantees a good range of answers from accessible to challenging that will engage a large swathe of players. Accordingly, in the editors packets I deliberately planned every category to follow a 1-5 difficulty scale. (1 is high-school, 2 is ACF Fall answer, 3 is Regionals, 4 is Nationals, and 5 is an extra-canonical answer that is important within the topic but has not been covered in quizbowl.) Across the ten editors packets, in each category I wanted one 1, two 2s, three 3s, three 4s, and one 5.
This kind of breakdown is in fact reflected in the lit answers in the 2014 editor packets. I find the distribution of answers to be substantially different in 2015. I want to stress that I don't think this is a question writing failure, just a difference in philosophy.
The second part of my argument is that 2014 ACF Nationals had a better philosophy in selecting lit answers. I expect the latter argument to be contentious, but I'm committed to having it. Not because I have a vendetta against Rob, but because I firmly believe in Ted's approach, and I hope that future writers and editors are persuaded by my arguments here.
Post by Sima Guang Hater » Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:51 pm
This is because in the Penn vs UVA game last year, there was one dead tossup, and in the Penn vs Yale game there was also one dead tossup - the aforementioned ones on Diebenkorn and the Mataram Sultanate, respectively. That is acceptable, though still somewhat frustrating (I'm of the opinion that dead tossups between the first and second best teams in a national tournament are not preferable in any case). There was way more than one dead tossup this time, in both of those games.
And as I have complained to you, repeatedly, Ike, as a member of a team that usually does fine on world history, I was really not a fan of those tossups on Mataram in the 2nd place game and the Sihanouk tossup that just went "quack quack quack quack Lon Nol" in the game we lost to Yale in the playoffs. So there's enough sour grapes to go around in situations like this.
Brian McPeak
Post by Brian McPeak » Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:02 pm
I want to take a minute to thank all the editors for making what is probably the most fun set I've played and all the staffers that made this tournament extremely smooth.
I also want heap more praise onto the science in the tournament. I had some satisfying buzzes on cool things that I've thought wouldn't come up in Quizbowl. This leads me to suspect that the large number of things that I didn't know are equally important and awesome, and so I look forward to studying the set. Specifically, the physics tossups had the nice property that earlier clues were more advanced rather than simply more obscure. The momentum tossup is a good example of this; the clues are graded by how many physics classes someone would need to take before they inevitably learned them, rather than by the likelihood that they would have come across them. There were also harder tossups that were fun to hear (like space-filling curves, Majorana, geostrophy) but it was tossups like momentum, chemical potential, and KT that made the set great.
Nice job guys!
Post by The King's Flight to the Scots » Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:12 pm
I don't know why you all didn't blow your goddamn gaskets back then because that's a tossup I'm almost positive went dead everywhere.
It did not go dead everywhere.
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Post by felgon123 » Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:49 pm
To illustrate Evan's and Matt's claims here, I'd like to tell a personal story:
I hope I can venture without controversy the claim that I am a pretty good literature player, perhaps even a very good one. As it happens, I don't study literature for quizbowl, and almost all of my buzzes come from reading books. My reading is by no means constrained, but unfortunately I do not read much "upper-level canon fare"--nor, I dare say, do most quizbowlers, including many of those who delight most in writing questions on particularly difficult authors. (I worded that carefully so that no one will rise up against me in rage, screaming, "How dare you accuse me of not having pored over the complete works of Leopoldo Lugones?!") We played six packets on Sunday, three of which were created from submissions, and three of which were by the editors. On the three non-editors' packets (playing against Maryland, Chicago, and UCSD), I averaged 48.3 PPG, which was pretty consistent with how I did across the set all day Saturday. On Editors 4, 5, and 6 (playing against Stanford, Michigan, and Penn), I averaged 11.7 PPG. I freely admit that I did not always play to the best of my ability in those rounds, but my massive decline on the editors' packets was not purely coincidental.** I maintain that the questions in the editors' packets were consistently unfavorable towards players with my kind of knowledge base, and I am inclined to attribute this mostly to editorial philosophy. Please note that I did not come up with this theory after the fact: Matt can attest that I exclaimed with joy when Seth announced that our game with Maryland was about to be played on a submitted packet, after the death-march (for me) of Editors 4 and 5. For instance, in the Michigan game (Editors 5), there were literature tossups on John Buchan, Death and the Maiden, A Dictionary of the Khazars, and pataphysics. I could have gotten pataphysics at the end, but not before, and I could not have converted the other three at all. I've never heard of Buchan, Dorfman, or Pavic. Oh well. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but these are all incredibly hard answers. What else can we say about these answers? Well, they're all 20th-century, for one thing, and the editors' packets in general had a huge emphasis on 20th-century lit. There's also no poetry here. In fact, across those three editors' packets we played on Sunday, there was a grand total of one poetry tossup (Leopardi), and it wasn't English-language, either. The literature in those three packets skewed hard (answer-wise; I love a good Nats-level tossup on Gertrude), it skewed 20th-century, and it skewed prose, and that absolutely neutralized me on my best category. I found it deeply frustrating that our fate was decided on a few packets that were so palpably different in style from the packets derived from submissions.
**EDIT: Lest anyone else misunderstand my pattern of reasoning here, I am not citing these data points as evidence that the editors' packets had issues, which would be ludicrous. I am simply illustrating the fact that the submitted packets and the editors' packets felt like different tournaments to me as a player, and I looked at the literature in Editors 4, 5, and 6 in an attempt to explain why this was so. See my response to Rob below.
Also, since this was brought up in prior posts, I do want to clarify that in spite of the result, I was in pretty high spirits on the long trip home, as was the rest of the team. Matt and I are very happy with what we've accomplished in our four years here at U.Va., so to anyone operating under the assumption that we're just stewing over our loss plotting revenge...well, we're not.
This isn't 2013.
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Post by Auks Ran Ova » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:01 pm
Pataphysics is still not a literature tossup, though the fourth lit tossup in that packet was on V., which does nothing to rebut the 20th-century-heavy nature of the editors packets (especially the tossups). I'm certainly not going to defend the overall selection of answer choices as perfect - I realized that they were pretty skewed towards 20th-century prose only fairly late in the game, and it's something I'm going to make a concerted effort to focus on next year - but I don't think it's the packets' fault that they happened to contain things that you personally didn't know. As unfortunate as the clumping was, I'll happily defend each of those individual tossups as being appropriate on their own merits.
Post by vinteuil » Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:08 pm
felgon123 wrote: For instance, in the Michigan game (Editors 5), there were literature tossups on John Buchan, Death and the Maiden, A Dictionary of the Khazars, and pataphysics.
The literature in those three packets skewed hard (answer-wise; I love a good Nats-level tossup on Gertrude), it skewed 20th-century, and it skewed prose, and that absolutely neutralized me on my best category. I
I agree for the most part with Tommy's assessment, especially about the skew towards recent literature and prose. I think that combining Rob's and Tommy's posts indirectly makes a good point: being careful to make questions about things people are more likely to have read is just as important for older literature—maybe people are slightly more likely to have read Dictionary of the Khazars than The Atheist's Tragedy, but neither makes for the best tossup so long as people are pretty unlikely to have actually read either.
This reminds me about the pataphysics question. I understand now that my neg with "Oulipo" on the Christian Bök clue was more or less wrong (since the clue was more or less about the subtitle of Crystallography), but "pataphysics" is really a tossup on a word that people use, more than any real "movement," and that can make that kind of question incredibly frustrating to play, because you might not know which word to say, despite knowing the style of an author, or the movement they might be most associated with.
(On the other hand, I'm a big fan of the actual material included in that question—Christian Bök coming up in quizbowl!!!—I just don't like that kind of more-or-less "artificial" common link).
Auks Ran Ova wrote: Pataphysics is still not a literature tossup, though the fourth lit tossup in that packet was on V., which does nothing to rebut the 20th-century-heavy nature of the editors packets (especially the tossups). I'm certainly not going to defend the overall selection of answer choices as perfect - I realized that they were pretty skewed towards 20th-century prose only fairly late in the game, and it's something I'm going to make a concerted effort to focus on next year - but I don't think it's the packets' fault that they happened to contain things that you personally didn't know. As unfortunate as the clumping was, I'll happily defend each of those individual tossups as being appropriate on their own merits.
First of all, I don't want to be misconstrued as claiming, "My poor performance proves there was something wrong with these packets." That was simply my starting data point that led me to look closely at the variance between the submitted packets and the editors' packets, which I think I have demonstrated pretty clearly. The "unfortunate clumping," the existence of which you admit, is the important thing. The editors should have taken care to avoid such clumping in the most crucial rounds of the tournament.
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Post by Magister Ludi » Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:31 pm
Ike wrote: This is probably the last I'll say on the matter too before making long posts in separate threads about topics because you guys are starting to get ridiculous.
Later this week I'm hoping to have time to write out a full explanation of the specific reasons why last year's tournament was perceived as less difficult than this year's edition, but I wanted to offer Ike a quick note. Your questions were excellent this year, probably the best you've ever produced. You edited the most successful categories in the tournament and wrote the best literature tossups in the editors packets. You put in a massive amount of work, and it's reflected in the quality of your questions. While reading the set, every time I thought to myself, "Wow, that's a really well-researched tossup," you were always the writer. You deserve to feel proud.
But oddly in this thread, rather than standing behind your own excellent work, you overexert yourself to justify flawed questions written by other editors. It wasn't your call to use a freelance Fifth Column tossup in the editors packets. It wasn't your job to balance the distribution of Rob's category. Yet you exhaust your creditability—and overshadow your work—by defending someone else's mistake with willfully spiteful rhetoric. There's no argument you can advance that will convince the critics to change their mind about the worst outliers in the set, and you only cheapen your intellect by throwing around crazy accusations like last year's editors were trying to "rig matches."
Take a day off Ike. You just wrote a great third of a tournament. You don't have to defend every comma.
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BSI appointed to develop SIGA integrity ratings system for sports governing bodies
By Paul Nicholson in New York
March 26 – Sport integrity group SIGA has appointed the British Standards Institute (BSI) to develop and operate its ratings system that will measure how fit-for-purpose sport governing are. It is the next major step in the organisation’s crusade to bring better governance to sport and provide real tools for governing bodies to battle corruption and raise integrity standards.
Called SIRVS (SIGA Independent Rating and Verification System), the ratings will be a game-changer for sports organisations, providing a scorecard of how they are managing themselves in an increasingly integrity conscious sports world.
In appointing the BSI, SIGA has chosen an organisation with a 100-year history in “collecting best practice and helping to shape what good looks like,” said BSI presentation.
The BSI operates globally as an independent, non-profit organisation, and has issued more than 58,000 ‘standards’ providing springboards for regulation. The BSI has auditors in 120 countries working with organisations to help them improve performance and comply with regulations.
Stephen Wilson, BSI’s business development manager, said: “We are very proud to be chosen… we spend 250,000 hours a year assessing organisations and it is important to get across BSI’s independence. We operate under a Royal Charter which as such means there are no shareholders with overriding influence.”
He also said that the BSI had “strong links with the UK government”.
The practical use of SIRVS for international federations and national sports governing bodies will be to provide a measurement for sponsors, broadcasters and commercial partners showing exactly where they are on the sports governance curve – both at an international and national level.
SIRVs will initially spend a pilot phase working with 5-10 sports organisations to devise an initial framework for the measurement system. The next stage will see it opened up to SIGA members who will be SIRVS rated, before the ratings are then pushed outwards to rate sports bodies non-solicited, though it is anticipated they would have to co-operate.
Crucial within the SIRVS methodology will be assessment of the culture of the organisation – the ultimate test of the governance of a sports organisation and its individuals. Sports bodies often have multiple rules covering all eventualities, but they have also been found to have multiple ways of circumventing them. That will ultimately be the test of the robustness of the ratings system the BSI develops.
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Evelyn Hazen, her collections, and acquaintances.
This is the oldest known image of Evelyn Hazen. Sadly, the original photograph has not been located. If you know of any photographs of Miss Hazen, please contact the museum.
Blog post #7:
When I visited the Mabry-Hazen House in December, one of the docents gave me a copy of an old Knoxville Journal article about Evelyn Hazen. It was published about 40 years ago when Evelyn was in her 70s. At the time, she still was considered one Knoxville’s most beautiful women.
In a photograph accompanying the article, Evelyn stands with Pollyanna Creekmore, former chief of the McClung Historical Collection, at the Mabry-Hazen House dining room table. It is set with Evelyn’s Havilland china, crystal stemware, and the silver candelabra passed down from her ancestors. Overhead a chandelier “dripping with crystal,” the article reports, offers a soft glow to Evelyn’s white hair.
Nearby is a Hepplewhite sideboard holding a silver coffee urn. “It belonged to my great-grandmother, who came here from Charleston, S.C.,” Evelyn tells the reporter. Taking off the lid, she points to the hollow cylinder inside. “Sticks of hot charcoal were put in here to keep the surrounding coffee hot.”
Evelyn gives reporter Pat Fields a tour of her home, pointing out the portraits of her great-grandparents and great-uncles whom were among Knoxville’s most respected and influential residents. Evelyn notes that her forebears donated the land for Market Square, and her mother provided the land for the Mountain View School. She points to a portrait of her relative George W. Churchwell, owner of Springdale Farm which eventually became north Knoxville.
At some point during the interview, Evelyn’s maid appears with homemade peach ice cream and sugar cookies, which are Mabry-Hazen House specialties. Evelyn’s maid was an African American woman named Laura, who cooked in the Mabry-Hazen House for several years.
Laura’s son Richard Lyons also worked for Evelyn. According to Knoxville shop-owner Mary Gill and her nephew Martin Hunt, Richard would go with Evelyn to the butcher to buy meat for her cats and dogs. Richard told them there were 16-20 cats in the house in those days, and the odor was overpowering. After 15 or 20 years of working for Evelyn, Richard quit because of the smell.
Gill and Hunt, who were long-time purveyors of expensive dresses and fine housewares in Knoxville, heard many stories about Evelyn over the course of several decades. And Gill was one of Evelyn’s childhood friends. When I visited their boutique on West Cumberland Avenue in July 1988, Gill was 93 and still working.
“She was beautiful,” Gill said, speaking of Evelyn. She had “beautiful hands, long fingers…Evelyn always admired her own hands.”
“She was in Sunday school class with me,” Gill recalled. She and Evelyn attended the First Presbyterian Church which was populated by Knoxville’s Southern aristocracy, while the Second Presbyterian Church was for Northerners. Ralph Scharringhaus, who was blamed for making Evelyn a “ruined” woman, was a deacon at the Second Presbyterian Church.
When Evelyn was a young girl, Gill said Evelyn’s mother always dressed her in beautiful clothes. As an adult, Evelyn would travel to Charleston, New York and Atlanta on shopping expeditions. On a few occasions, Gill went with her. In New York, they stayed at the Algonquin. When they traveled to Atlanta, they met at the bus station and Evelyn nearly missed the bus. “She was late for everything,” Gill said.
Gill also rode with Evelyn in her car to collect the rent from her rental properties. On one trip, Evelyn was driving a brand new car and nearly tipped it over. “I was about to fall out,” Gill said, but Evelyn climbed out and called the police. “She left me in there, half in and half out,” Gill reported. “She never thought of anyone but herself.” The police came and managed to “set it up straight,” Gill said.
Despite the accident, Gill apparently remained friends with Evelyn, and Evelyn frequently shopped at her store. Some of the items she purchased included English andirons, some glassware, and a set of 12 goblets that had come from New Orleans. Evelyn also bought furniture in Charleston and at auctions. A few items were reproductions, but others were authentic. Regarding Evelyn’s antique satinwood table with the piecrust edging, Hunt said, “People had good taste in those days.”
More about Evelyn and her life in the next blog post.
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Feed The Rhino
[ Interview von: arne mit Bassist Oz, am: 26.06.2014 ]
Der Siege Of Amida-Einstand des Quintetts, „The Sorrow And The Sound“, weist prinzipiell noch immer das ungezwungene Wirbeln der Vergangenheit zwischen Hardcore, Rock und Metal auf, doch die zwölf Songs sind nochmals eingängiger und kompatibler orientiert. FEED THE RHINO gelingt der Spagat, weiterhin authentisch und heavy gestimmt aufzuspielen und gleichzeitig das Wirkungspotenzial merklich zu steigern. Dass der Rock-Anteil der Tracks höher ausfällt, trägt der beschrieben Adjustierung Rechnung und auch die Zuspitzung der Refrains ist nur folgerichtig.
Musicscan: Being around as a band with an own identity and vision, does it bother you when you see or meet kids who ignore you or have a different understanding of what your music and your style means to you?
Feed The Rhino: Not really to be honest! We are happy doing our own thing and just writing the best music we can. We have no interest in being part of a "scene" or fitting into a category that's currently "cool" etc. If people are into it, great! If not, we dont care haha!
Musicscan: How do you feel about your place within the scene in between hardcore, rock, and metal as well as in between tradition and gaining new ground to bring forth what the heroes you grew up with did before Feed The Rhino were around?
Feed The Rhino: As I've said, I don't really consider us part of a particular scene and genuinely try to create something different and fresh. We are influenced by so many different artists and genres that I dont think we have any particular desire to walk in anyone else's footsteps.
Musicscan: Looking on heavy music scene in general you can find lots of sub-scenes and styles, the underground is changing all the time. Are there bands you feel connected with that might have a similar agenda to what you have with Feed The Rhino? What are you heading for musically in general?
Feed The Rhino: I don't think there's anyone about who are doing what we are doing musically, but there are certainly a lot of great, hard working British bands out there who we've toured/ played with/ hung out with a lot over the years. Having said that, I think bands like Norma Jean and Dillinger Escape Plan are definitely bands we hugely respect as they don't sit in any category, and seem to write music that they want to and can be as beautiful and or brutal as they want.
Musicscan: The style Feed The Rhino is playing finds separation through passion and honesty, something you are not hearing too often these days. It's well balanced, brutal and having a good dramaturgy to keep things interesting. What is your attitude towards heavy music in general and towards being Feed The Rhino in particular?
Feed The Rhino: Thanks, its great to hear people are enjoying our new album so much! I love heavy music, but there is a lot of generic crap out there at the moment that doesn't really float my boat. Its strange that the majority of bands want to sound like everyone else rather than be individual, but I'm sure that's just a "phase" in heavy music. I grew up listening to bands who wanted to push boundaries and set themselves apart which doesn't seem as common these days.
Musicscan: The Sorrow And The Sound is as heavy as it is catchy, and it seems to be a pretty self-confident record. It somehow stands outside competition due to the fact you are not following trends. Does this view fit? What is your view on the album?
Feed The Rhino: Yeah Id completely agree with that. We wanted to make an album that is written and sounds like no other, and I'm immensely proud of what we've achieved. The album is probably the most varied material we've ever written; going from mellow and ambient right up to some of the heaviest stuff we've ever done!
Musicscan: Do you still have to deal with limitations when it comes to the songwriting or are you in a position to realize all the ideas you have?
Feed The Rhino: We've never set any limitations on our music. Our only goal is to write music that excites us and we want to play live!
Musicscan: A more general one: Do you think there are still genuinely new sounds to be discovered or can modern heavy music basically be said to be a recombination of already existing forms and elements?
Feed The Rhino: I think there is plenty more sounds to be had! I still hear simple riffs of other bands that I think, "Why didnt I think of that?!", so I'm sure we will always have new exciting music.
Musicscan: Where do you guys see the line drawn between progressing on what you do well, and completely offering a new direction or sound? Especially in the context of Feed The Rhino of course, because your new albums sounds different if i compare it to your previous releases...
Feed The Rhino: I think it comes down to the artist. Some bands can sound like a completely different band from album to album, and some bands need to stick with their "core" sound. While I think we have opened up new doors musically on our album, I still think its very "Feed The Rhino" and I think we have stuck to our core sensibilities. Our first album (Mr Redeye) had lots of singing, mellow songs/ sections (like "Nowhere Lane" for example), so I don't think we've re-invented ourselves necessarily. I feel we've just harnessed all our different styles more effectively.
Musicscan: Do you think it is necessary to create a certain distance between you and the music in order to get a better understanding of its inherent quality – how do you handle such questions?
Feed The Rhino: I don't think its ever possible to completely remove yourself from your own music. For this album, I haven't felt the need to in all honestly! As an Artist, I believe the most important thing it to be happy with what you've created for yourself, rather thn for anyone else.
Musicscan: Is there something like a guiding line listeners have to know about to get a better understanding of what you are trying to tell them with The Sorrow And The Sound?
Feed The Rhino: We like to leave the themes of our album ambiguous so the listener can make up their own minds. Having said that, there is a big clue to one of the themes of the album at the end of the song "Revelation Not Revolution".
Musicscan: Lastly: What type of “success” did you hope to gain with The Sorrow And The Sound?
Feed The Rhino: We just wanted to write the best album possible. The album has already had a phenomenal response, and we hope it continues to be listened to and we hope to tour it as much as possible!
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NDTV's Ecommerce biz IndianRoots reports Rs 4.5 Cr loss in Q1-FY15; Avg order value Rs 9000
Vivek Pai
By Vivek Pai vivek@medianama.com August 11, 2014
NDTV’s e-commerce venture, IndianRoots faced a loss of Rs. 4.5 crore for the quarter ended 30th June 2014 (Q1-FY15). It’s worth noting that the company had not disclosed the profit or loss of its e-commerce venture last quarter, so we’re not able to ascertain the QoQ performance. Revenue grew 52% quarter on quarter for Indiaroots, though NDTV hasn’t specified revenue details for the company. IndianRoots launched only last July, and according to NDTV has still achieved an “Average Order Value” of Rs. 9000. NDTV had invested Rs 20 crore in the website previously and mentioned that it will be looking to raise capital for the platform through private placement. Interestingly, the United States remains NDTV’s largest market, followed by India. India only accounts for 30% of the websites traffic.
In February 2013, NDTV Ethic Retail Limited acquired 100% stake in a relatively unknown company, JA Ethnic Retail private limited.
NDTV Convergence remains profitable
NDTV Convergence, the companys non-ecommerce Internet business, remains profitable, the company has said, “clocking 50% growth” year on year. NDTV.com got 13 billion hits on counting day – May 16th 2014.
NDTV reported a total operational revenue of Rs.146.04 crore for the quarter, up 18.5% from the previous quarter revenue of Rs. 124.09 crore and up 35% from Rs. 102.40 crore same quarter last year. The company reported a net loss of Rs. 1.49 crore this quarter as opposed to Rs. 31.39 crore last quarter. For the same quarter last year, the company had reported a loss of Rs. 81.18 crore.
NDTV standalone: Q1 FY15
-Operating Income for NDTV Standalone was Rs. 115.62 crore compared to Rs. 90 crore last quarter.
-Administration and operating expenses stood at Rs 24.47 crore while the Employee costs were 33.98 crore. The total expenditure this quarter was Rs 109.05 crore, up from 93.61 crore corresponding quarter last year.
-The company reported a net profit of Rs 2.57 crore this quarter, compared to the Rs 16.48 crore loss last quarter and Rs 18.88 crore loss same quarter last year.
NDTV General News recorded a net profit of Rs. 26 crore compared to Rs. 6 crore net profit, same period last year. This can probably be attributed to the spike in traffic on the election counting day where NDTV.com saw over 13 billion hits in one day. On the other hand NDTV Profit / Prime continued to lose money with a Net Loss of Rs. 11 crore, the same as last year. NDTV Group’s Profit after Tax performance was also in a loss of Rs 1 crore, still, an improvement from last year’s Rs. 24 crore loss in the same time period.
For the year ended 31st March 2014, the NDTV had reported its operational revenues at Rs 460.1 crore and an overall net loss of Rs 81.2 crore. The total consolidated revenue was Rs 496 crore. The company had mentioned it faced significant incubation costs for its e-commerce venture IndianRoots and NDTV Prime which contributed to the annual losses.
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Ballett 3 & 4
Package : 2CD Digipack
Running Time CD 1 : 79:10
Klaus Schulze – Ballett 3 & 4
Re-Release of the Klaus Schulze albums “Ballett 3 & 4” (originally released 2000 as part of the strictly limited and long exhausted 10CD Boxset “Contemporary Works”).
Klaus Schulze talks about “Ballett”:
“Apart from „Ballett 1 & 2“ (MIG 01772 2CD) the „Contemporary Works“-boxset also contained “Ballett 3” and “Ballett 4”. All four pieces were originally intended to be one composition in honor to my mother who had been a ballet dancer and had died in 1998. I never assumed that the ballet would be performed with dancing. Then I would have to cut down to about 15 or 20 minutes and would probably have to throw away all my favorite parts, which would be quite difficult! The music could have had another title but since it was the first production I did after the death of my mother, I called it “Ballett” and just numbered the four parts.
“Ballett 3” once again features traditional instrumentalists such as Thomas Kagermann (violin, Flute), Wolfgang Tiepold (cello) and Tobias Becker (oboe). Obviously I could have played Tobi’s oboe or Tiepold’s cello with a sampler but it’s really something different when those instruments are played live as there is a wonderful interaction with my electronics. Then, you not only have the instruments but also the musicians’ ego. If I play a cello sample then I’ll do it the way I play keyboards. However, a cellist or oboist plays the ‘real’ instrument with all the subtleties that come with playing, which a sample can never reproduce. The pure sound of an instrument is not the crucial thing here however. It’s the musician’s personality that is important as it determines the character of the music.”
The bonus track “Schauer der Vorwelt“ is very short compared to Klaus’ other works but there was no room left for a longer track on this disc.
CD 1 – Ballett 3
My Ty She 75:40
Bonustrack:
Schauer der Vorwelt 03:30
CD 1complete: 79:10
Mellowtrone 13:53
Soft’n’Groovy 30:00
To B Flat 23:52
Eleven 2 Eleven 10:14
CD 2 complete: 77:59
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Participants at the Stakeholder Engagement Symposium on Monday May 6, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the Laventille Morvant Schools' Improvement Project (LMSIP)
The Ministry of Education hosted a Stakeholder Engagement Symposium on Monday May 6, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the Laventille Morvant Schools' Improvement Project (LMSIP), entitled "I Am The Change."
The vision of the LMSIP is to develop and support the potential of every student in academics, arts, history and cultural heritage which empowers them to flourish into inspired, confident and creative learners who will become lifelong achievers and contribute positively to community and society.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries was represented by Petal Ram, Deputy Director of the Extension, Training and Information Services Division, (ETISD).
In her contribution, Ram informed the stakeholders that the ETISD is available to train the participants in the production and maintenance of plants, pest and disease management, and remain committed to provide technical support and advice to the LMSIP. She also indicated that the Horticultural Services Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries can provide training and support in landscaping.
The LMSIP was conceptualized by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago as an intervention programme for students who face an environment of high criminal activity, poverty, parental apathy and social depravation. Twenty five schools (20 primary and 5 secondary) within the Morvant/Laventille communities are involved in the project.
The symposium was also addressed by Minister of Education Anthony Garcia, Minister in the Ministry of Education Dr. Lovell Francis, and Minister in the Office of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Fitzgerald Hinds.
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Ravleen Bali Whodunnit: The Naked Truth Behind Turkey Knocked Off The Russian Plane December 15, 2015 http://www.nakedtruth.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Russian-Plane-Whodunnit.jpg
Whodunnit: The Naked Truth Behind Turkey Knocked Off The Russian Plane
Ravleen Bali
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Turkeman tribesmen, on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, calling themselves the Syrian Liberation Army, are actually in harness to protect routes on which oil tankers have been playing regularly from Syria to Turkey for the Western market.
This smuggling enterprise is controlled by Bilal Erdogan, son of the Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The whodunnit nature of the incident is explained by the extraordinary pressure on the President’s office brought by this extra-constitutional entity.
Ever since the Russians entered the Syrian theatre as part of a broader understanding with the US, these tankers and the mercenary soldiers protecting them have come under heavy Russian fire.
Moscow would be justified in being somewhat puzzled that neither the US nor NATO, with its vast intelligence apparatus, spotted 90,000 barrels of oil being “clandestinely” transported over the border. Profits from this enterprise finances groups which constitute the ISIS.
It is universally acknowledged that Turkey has been most enthusiastic and active in supporting anti-Assad militancy in Syria. When some of the groups patronized by Turkey, mostly affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood, mutated into the Islamic state, Turkey tried its best to have this region of its operation, in Northern Syria, declared a no-fly zone.
The official Russian press note quotes verbatim what Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu on November 26: “by shooting down a Russian plane on a counter-terrorist mission of the Russian Aerospace Force in Syria, and one that did not violate Turkey’s airspace, the Turkish government has in effect sided with ISIS.”
Lavrov added, “Turkey’s action appear premeditated, planned and undertaken with a specific object.”
Even Washington has not come to Turkey’s rescue. In the joint Press Conference with France’s Francois Hollande, President made a perfunctory remark that every country has the right to protect its borders and airspace.
But on the specifics of the shooting down of the Russian fighter jet, US officials maintained the Russian plane was in the Turkish airspace for “no more than 17 seconds” during which period “10 warnings” could not have been given to the Russian pilot as Turkey claims.
Even among Western countries who recently forged an alliance against the ISIS, there are skeptics who see Turkey playing both sides of the street. There are serious suspicions that the shooting down of the plane had been planned.
As soon as the Russian pilot and his navigator ejected from the jet in a mountainous, inhospitable terrain, their parachutes were instantly targeted by machine guns which were clearly expecting the shooting of the Russian plane in their area. This area was not in Turkey. It was in Syria.
While the pilot, Sergey Rumyantsev, was killed, the navigator is alive. He is being treated in Syria. He has confirmed what would otherwise be speculative stories emanating from Moscow.
There are other issues the US and NATO must be confidentially sorting out with Russia. Written into the understanding between Washington and Moscow was an obligation to give prior notice of every aerial activity to the alliance partners. In this instance, neither Washington nor NATO was informed of the airspace violation by Russia and that Turkey proposed to take drastic action against the Russian aircraft.
Recently, an Ankara-Moscow hotline was established to avert just the sort of mishap which has generated fears of a wider conflict. A senior Turkish official turned the argument against the Russians.
“Russians are under global sanctions and their purchase of oil from ISIS for delivery to the Syrian regime is in violation of these sanctions.”
The official has, in his armoury, the transcript of the warnings issued to the erring Russian pilot. But the transcript only records warning and no response and, by that token, is a weak testimony.
That Iraq and Syria are overcrowded with divergent interests became clear in February when Iraq’s Army shot down two British planes who were allegedly carrying weapons for the ISIS in the Anbar province. The incident was never denied largely because Iraq Parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee had photos of the planes that had been shot down.
And now that Prime Minister David Cameron is rearing to go into Syria with airstrikes (if only he can coax a nod of approval from his Parliament) he is probably eager to reach out for the piece of the Syrian pie he could not lay his hands on all these months.
An amusing sketch that surfaces on the social networks at intervals shows Uncle Sam seated in an ornate carriage. An Arab, looking rather like the Saudi King, is in the driver’s seat. He has a firm grip on reins strapped to four burly, hooded ISIS militants.
The message, consumed avidly in Iraq, is that ISIS was, at one stage a Saudi-US asset. Some of this activity boomeranged on the US when an embarrassed Defence Secretary Ashton Carter had to announce to the press that a $500 million training programme in Syria had been withdrawn after Syrian opposition trained by the US had handed their weapons to militants and sought safe passage to heaven knows where.
So far the Syrian-Iraqi terrain has been the graveyard of many regional and western reputations. Russians must keep their fingers crossed. New Delhi will learn a great deal more when Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Rogozin meets Indian leaders in the second week of December.
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Invitation – Mount Sinjar Massacre Commemoration
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF YEZIDI GENOCIDE
TO BE REMEMBERED IN TORONTO AT QUEEN’S PARK
Date: Sunday August 4th
Location: Queen’s Park Legislature Building
The mass murder of more than 10,000 Yezidi people by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will be remembered on Sunday, August 4th at Queen’s Park. We invite you to stand with members of the Canadian Yezidi community in memory of those who died in the genocide at Mount Sinjar five years ago.
On the morning of August 3, 2014, ISIS fighters entered the Yezidi city of Sinjar, bent on total destruction. In the days that followed approximately 10,000 Yezidis were executed in cold blood – shot, beheaded, burned alive. More than 7,000 Yezidi women and girls were taken by ISIS and forced into sex slavery. Holy shrines were desecrated.
As ISIS overran Sinjar, thousands of Yezidis fled to Turkey. Approximately 15,000 Yezidi refugees, mostly women and children, now live in UNHCR camps in Nusaybin, Diyarbakur, and Midyat.
There is a word for what the Yezidis have endured. It is genocide.
Five years later, the survivors of this genocide bear wounds that have not healed.
Mass executions, the abduction of sons and daughters, the torment of sexual slavery — these memories are replayed through every waking moment and restless night.
As new mass graves are discovered, hopes are cruelly dashed that missing relatives will be found alive.
On August 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM the Yezidi community living in the Greater Toronto Area and London, Ontario will commemorate the Mount Sinjar Genocide at Queen’s Park with the largest gather of Yezidis in Canada. Among them will be survivors of the massacre and sexual slavery that followed.
We are honoured to have as our keynote speaker Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Our MC will be Karen Goldenberg, Chair of Project Abraham. Mirza Ismail, founder of Yezidi Human Rights Organization International will represent the Yezidi community in prayer.
The broader Canadian community can help the healing of these survivors by standing with them to mark the fifth anniversary of the genocide. A large and compassionate assembly on August 4th will show these men, women and children that they are not alone. It would be an honour if you could attend.
For more details, please see our full press release: https://www.projectabraham.ca/fifth_anniversary_of_mount_sinjar_genocide
For additional immediate information please contact: garyrose@projectabraham.ca
Karen Goldenberg, C.M. Mirza Ismail
Chair of the Board Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International Project Abraham
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Hitman HD Collection Leaked On Italian Site
On 06/02/2012 at 04:45 PM, by Esteban Cuevas
A collection compiling Hitman 2, 3 and Blood Money may be in the works.
A Hitman HD Collection consisting of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman 3: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money has appeared on 16 Games, an Italian retail site. So far the listing only shows a PlayStation 3 version, will cost €30, or $37, and has a release date of October 15, 2012.
Translated, the listing states the following:
Enter a world of crime, sin and greed. Penetrate deeper into the recesses of the mind of Agent 47, the world's deadliest assassin. Remaining anonymous, being quick and totally ruthless: these are the keys to a perfect execution. Follow Agent 47 while executing orders on behalf of slum-living criminals or on behalf of the highest summits of power. Nothing is important except the target.
Square Enix has yet to confirm the collection's existence. Hitman: Absolution, the next title in the series, will be released on November 20, 2012.
#Hitman hd collection #Rumor
Julian Titus Senior Editor
You need to play Blood Money. Yes, you. As for me, looking forward to playing Hitman 2 and 3 for the first time.
Esteban Cuevas Staff Alumnus
I already did. Didn't like it. However, I've heard that 2 and 3 are better games so, you know, there's that. lol
How far did you play? It took me a few levels to fall in love with it.
Nick DiMola Director
Not a big fan of Blood Money either, but 2 is amazing. 3 is pretty good too, but I played it too soon after 2 to fully appreciate it.
I tried the demo and then later rented it and got through I think two or three levels.
Nerds Without Pants Episode 154: Imagine Dinosaurs
Welcome to one of the beefiest episodes of Nerds Without Pants this year, and there were only two of us on this episode! Must be all the E3 hype. Or maybe it was your AWESOME questions for our second AMA edition of Stage Select. It might have even been a hellacious Video Game Cage Match! Regardless of the reasoning, please enjoy this super-sized edition of NWP!
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Introducing Phonics Learning with Jolly Phonics
Ethan is like a little sponge, the way that he can learn new things and retain information is absolutely incredible. He has an amazing memory, and loves to learn about everything around him. He has been singing the alphabet song for almost a year now, but just like any other song that he has memorised. We have plenty of letter puzzles and games around the house, and of course we read books everyday, but I never wanted to force Ethan into anything too early. Lately he has been showing an interest in letters that he sees, and he's learned to say the letters in his name and to recognise a few letters as well. So I decided that now would be a good time to start introducing him to the letter sounds, so that when he's ready he can start learning to read. As a teacher I used a few different systems for teaching phonics, all of which I thought were very good, but the one that I used most extensively, and which I believe is the most commonly used, is Jolly Phonics.
As Ethan is so very musical, I thought that the first step for him would be to learn the Jolly Phonics songs for each letter sound. The Jolly Songs CD has a different little tune for each of the 42 letter sounds. The words are their own, but they are sung to the tune of popular nursery rhymes, which makes them easy to learn to sing along to. Jolly Phonics are done in a specific order, starting with the letter 's'. The song for 's' (to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell) goes:
The snake is in the grass,
s,s,s,s,
The snake is in the grass.
The next resource that we tried is the Jolly Phonics Games CD for the computer. There are a variety of different games on the CD for varying abilities that teach identifying sounds as well as forming letters. Ethan is actually quite good on the computer for his age, so he was able to use the mouse to choose the different options. However I wouldn't say that these games are for beginners, as many include words to read, and we are not at that stage yet. If Ethan were to let me choose the simple games for him we would be fine, but of course he wants to try them all! I think we'll save this one until he's a bit more confident with his sounds and starting to put words together.
We were also given a wall frieze and some sound strips to put up for Ethan to refer to, and a set of workbooks. We've put up the sounds around the house to remind Ethan of them, as well as labelling some other household items so that he becomes more familiar with seeing printed words. We have started looking at the first workbook as well, it has lots of fun activities in it for learning phonics. As Ethan is still quite young I am not worried about him doing lots of worksheets right away, it's more important for him to be having fun whilst doing activities that he enjoys doing.
* This is a review post, Jolly Learning sent us these resources to use and to write an honest review.
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Action demanded against Ethiopia killer troops.
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Published in Oncotarget V9N41, May 29, 2018
Direct molecular dissection of tumor parenchyma from tumor stroma in tumor xenograft using mass spectrometry-based glycoproteomics
Oncotarget. 2018; 9:26431-26452. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.25449
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Xiaoying Ye, Brian T. Luke, Bih-Rong Wei, Jan A. Kaczmarczyk, Jadranka Loncarek, Jennifer E. Dwyer, Donald J. Johann, Richard G. Saul, Dwight V. Nissley, Frank McCormick, Gordon R. Whiteley and Josip Blonder _
Xiaoying Ye1, Brian T. Luke2, Bih-Rong Wei3, Jan A. Kaczmarczyk4, Jadranka Loncarek5, Jennifer E. Dwyer3, Donald J. Johann6, Richard G. Saul4, Dwight V. Nissley1, Frank McCormick7, Gordon R. Whiteley1 and Josip Blonder1
1National Cancer Institute RAS Initiative, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD 21702, USA
2Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD 21702, USA
3Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
4Cancer Research Technology Program, Antibody Characterization Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick, MD 21702, USA
5Laboratory of Protein Dynamics and Signaling, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
6Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72209, USA
7UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Josip Blonder, email: blonderj@mail.nih.gov
Keywords: lung cancer; tumor microenvironment
Received: March 22, 2018 Accepted: May 02, 2018 Published: May 29, 2018
The most widely used cancer animal model is the human-murine tumor xenograft. Unbiased molecular dissection of tumor parenchyma versus stroma in human-murine xenografts is critical for elucidating dysregulated protein networks/pathways and developing therapeutics that may target these two functionally codependent compartments. Although antibody-reliant technologies (e.g., immunohistochemistry, imaging mass cytometry) are capable of distinguishing tumor-proper versus stromal proteins, the breadth or extent of targets is limited. Here, we report an antibody-free targeted cross-species glycoproteomic (TCSG) approach that enables direct dissection of human tumor parenchyma from murine tumor stroma at the molecular/protein level in tumor xenografts at a selectivity rate presently unattainable by other means. This approach was used to segment/dissect and obtain the protein complement phenotype of the tumor stroma and parenchyma of the metastatic human lung adenocarcinoma A549 xenograft, with no need for tissue microdissection prior to mass-spectrometry analysis. An extensive molecular map of the tumor proper and the associated microenvironment was generated along with the top functional N-glycosylated protein networks enriched in each compartment. Importantly, immunohistochemistry-based cross-validation of selected parenchymal and stromal targets applied on human tissue samples of lung adenocarcinoma and normal adjacent tissue is indicative of a noteworthy translational capacity for this unique approach that may facilitate identifications of novel targets for next generation antibody therapies and development of real time preclinical tumor models.
Direct molecular dissection of tumor parenchyma from tumor stroma in tumor xenograft using mass spectrometry-based glycoproteomics | Ye | Oncotarget
Adherent two-dimensionally (2D) cultured human cancer cells are a widely used model system in cancer research and drug screening [1]. However, the biological relevance of results obtained using in vitro 2D-cultured cancer cell models is constrained by the lack of a natural tumor microenvironment (i.e., stroma) that provides a genuine proliferative cellular background via paracrine signals and metabolic gradients, which are fundamental and necessary for recapitulating tumor development and metastasis [2]. Hence, numerous murine xenograft models have been developed to study solid tumors in native tissue environments and to further substantiate the biology observed using 2D-cultured cancer cell lines [3].
Histologically speaking, tumor xenografts have a microanatomic configuration analogous to common solid tumors. These are characterized by the existence of two morphologically well-defined and functionally interdependent compartments: i) the parenchyma, comprising neoplastic tumor cells of diverging morphology, antigenicity, and metastatic capacity, and ii) the stroma, comprising different cellular elements including tumor fibroblasts, endothelial cells, and immune cells [4]. In human-murine tumor xenografts, the stroma is principally a product of the host (i.e., mouse), while the parenchyma consists of grafted neoplastic cells (e.g., human tumors or cell lines) [5]. During tumorigenesis, parenchymal neoplastic tumor cells secrete cytokines, growth factors, and proteolytic enzymes to sustain their survival and induce and/or modify the tumor stroma formation [6]. In this regard, any solid tumor bigger than two millimeters in diameter must induce its own blood supply, since it cannot survive without a stroma that provides a vascular network for nutrient supply and waste removal [7].
Historically, a tumor cell–centric view of cancer enabled a better understanding of tumorigenesis and facilitated the development of drugs that directly targeted tumor cells (i.e., parenchyma) using small molecules [8] or biologicals [9]. Yet, recent research efforts focused on the tumor microenvironment have shown that the tumor stroma is a legitimate anti-cancer target [10]. Consequently, the ability to analyze and differentiate tumor parenchyma from tumor stroma at the molecular level in tumor xenografts is critical for better understanding cancer biology and discovering novel and more-effective drugs/treatments that target both tumor and stroma compartments in a concurrent manner [2].
A variety of antibody-reliant technologies (e.g., immunohistochemistry, imaging mass cytometry) can be used to ascertain direct topographic distinctions between tumor parenchyma and stroma but only for a limited number of previously selected protein targets [11–13]. State-of-the-art mass spectrometry (MS)-based, antibody-free profiling of targeted tumor sections/cells relies primarily on laser capture microdissection (LCM) [14] for collecting histologically homogenous cell populations (e.g., neoplastic cells, stromal cells) prior to liquid chromatography (LC-MS)-based proteomic analysis [15, 16]. While the functional linkage between LCM and LC-MS–based proteomics enables the identification of hundreds of endogenous protein species [17–19], the optical resolution may potentially limit LCM and make the isolation of homogeneous cell populations more challenging [15]. In addition, the cost of the LCM apparatus and the obligatory requirement for a pathologist or technologist familiar with the identification/selection of targeted cells represent additional requirements [20].
Alternately, shotgun proteomics may be employed [21, 22]. However, its utility is greatly restricted due to a remarkably low dissimilarity rate (i.e., 40%) between the human and mouse MS-identifiable peptidome/proteome, which leads to exceedingly high rates of removal of peptide/protein identifications [21, 22]. This is because 60% of mouse and human MS-identifiable plain, unmodified tryptic peptides are identical (i.e., they share the same sequence). With a species specificity attribute lacking [23], MS-based discovery of viable drug targets and/or relevant biomarkers has proven to be a challenging task.
Described in this study is an antibody-free targeted cross-species N-glycoproteomic (TCSG) approach that allows for direct virtual molecular dissection/differentiation of the mouse- derived tumor microenvironment (i.e., tumor stroma) from the human-derived malignant cells (i.e., tumor parenchyma). This is performed in murine tumor xenografts at an acquisition rate presently unattainable by other means. TCSG utilizes our discovery, which showed for the first time a much higher amino acid (AA) sequence dissimilarity rate between the human and mouse MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome compared to the corresponding plain human and mouse MS-identifiable unmodified tryptic peptidome.
To demonstrate our discovery, we adapted hydrazide-based glycoproteomics [24] to a TCSG-based proteome-wide dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma and applied it on an A549 metastatic lung adenocarcinoma tumor xenograft model. Using TCSG, we generated an extensive molecular map of the stromal and parenchymal proteome and observed unprecedented selectivity and sensitivity when differentiating tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma at the protein level. We also mapped and cross-validated the top N-glycoprotein networks activated in these two distinct co-dependent tumor compartments. The translational relevance of TCSG was confirmed by immunohistochemical (IHC) cross-validation. Here, selected parenchymal and stromal targets in matching human lung adenocarcinoma revealed a positive correlation in their location and expression compared to results obtained by TCSG in a murine lung adenocarcinoma xenograft model.
In silico computation revealed an exceedingly larger cross-species divergence/dissimilarity between the MS-identifiable N-glycosylated peptidome and the plain, unmodified peptidome
In human-murine tumor xenografts, the parenchymal proteome is a product of the human neoplastic tumor cells, while the stromal proteome is principally a product of the host’s (i.e., mouse) tumor microenvironment [25]. Based on the critical role played by protein glycosylation in cancer biology [26] and self/nonself immune recognition [27], we hypothesized that the difference and/or dissimilarity rate between the human (parenchyma) and mouse (stroma) N-glycopeptidome/proteome ought to be substantially larger than the actual dissimilarity rate between the corresponding ordinary human/mouse MS-identifiable unmodified peptidome/proteome. To test our hypothesis, we performed a comparative analysis of human and mouse MS-identifiable N-glycosylated peptidome (from six AAs to 35 AAs long) in silico targeting the N-X-S|T motif in full protein sequences to estimate and compare differences in AA sequences between the modified MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome and the plain MS-identifiable unmodified tryptic peptidome. The results of this in silico analysis showed that 75.7% of the observed mouse MS-identifiable N-glycopeptides containing the N-X-S|T amino-acid motif as well as 69.7% of the observed human MS-identifiable N-glycopeptides were distributed differently in a protein- and species-specific manner, exhibiting an average glycopeptide dissimilarity rate of 72.7% (Figure 1, Bar B).
Figure 1: Dissimilarity rate analysis. Results of in silico analysis (Bars A-B) comparing the dissimilarity rate between the human and mouse MS-identifiable plain tryptic peptidome (A) and MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome, plus results of a corresponding ex vivo analysis (Bars C-D) comparing the observed dissimilarity rate between the human and mouse MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome and N-glycoproteome.
This extensive dissimilarity rate is critical, and it enables direct molecular dissection of the tumor stroma from the tumor parenchyma by relying on species-specific differences between the parenchymal human-derived and stromal murine-derived MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome. Evidently, only 27.3% of all MS-identifiable N-glycopeptides are shared between the human-derived and mouse-derived N-glycopeptidome, which is in striking contrast to the unmodified MS-identifiable tryptic peptides, which are 60% shared between the two species [23]. Thus, in any MS-based comparison between the human-derived parenchymal and mouse-derived stromal dataset, ~60% of identified plain tryptic peptides should be thrown out because they are shared between two species [23], as depicted by a corresponding dissimilarity rate of only 40% (Figure 1, Bar A). Taken together, our results obtained in silico confirm our hypothesis and are indicative of the unparalleled potential of targeted N-glycoproteomics to enable in-depth dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in human-murine tumor xenografts using TCSG.
TCSG analysis of the A549 tumor xenograft recapitulates in silico computed divergence/dissimilarity between the human and mouse MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome
The next step carried out a proof-of-principle study by applying TCSG to analyze/dissect tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in a metastatic lung adenocarcinoma xenograft model. This was generated by injecting A549 (KRasG12S) human lung adenocarcinoma cells through the tail vein in nude mice as previously described [28]. Concurrently, normal mouse lung tissue collected from age- and gender-matched mice injected with normal saline and in vitro 2D-grown A549 cancer cells served as controls (Figure 2). To take full advantage of our in silico discovery and validate the hypothesis ex vivo, we first adopted and optimized the TCSG workflow (Supplementary Figure 1). The critical steps involved were (i) cryostat-facilitated tissue homogenization [29], (ii) aqueous-organic buffer–facilitated protein solubilization/digestion [30], (iii) N-glycosylated peptides capture [24, 31] using hydrazide-coated magnetic beads, and (iv) highly selective and sensitive cross-species N-glycoproteomic LC-MS analysis.
Figure 2: Experimental design and workflow. TCSG-based molecular profiling of (A) tumor xenograft using (B) normal lung tissue and (C) 2D-grown A549 cell lines as controls.
To ensure reliability and increase coverage, the samples were prepared on three independent occasions/repeats (i.e., biological replicates). Each sample was injected six times (i.e., technical replicates) into the high-resolution/accuracy hybrid MS and raw MS-data collated for further processing. After tissue homogenization and/or cell lysis, tryptic digestion was carried out in a mixed organic-aqueous buffer followed by oxidation of glycosylated peptides along with their covalent capture on hydrazide-coated magnetic beads. Next, non-glycopeptides were removed using stringent washes followed by the PNGase F-mediated release of N-linked glycopeptides, which were then analyzed using high-resolution and high mass accuracy LC-MS.
The measured tandem (MS2) spectra acquired from the tumor xenograft digestate were collated and searched against both the human and the mouse proteome databases, respectively. The MS2 spectra obtained from normal murine lung tissue were searched against the mouse database, while the MS2 spectra acquired from 2D-grown A549 human cancer cells were searched against the human proteome database. TCSG analysis of the xenograft tissue resulted in the identification of 764 human and 919 mouse N-glycopeptides (Supplementary Table 1A-1B) showing deamidated asparagine shift (0.984 Da) and N-X-S|T amino-acid motif. Correspondingly, a total of 1,263 mouse N-glycosylated peptides (Supplementary Table 2A) were identified in normal murine lungs, and 999 human N-glycosylated peptides (Supplementary Table 2B) were identified in 2D-grown A549 human lung cancer cells.
To evaluate the utility of the TCSG platform and confirm our hypothesis, we set out to compare experimentally observed dissimilarity rates in N-glyco site distributions between the human and mouse N-glycopeptidome. Towards this goal, we combined all identified peptides of human origin detected in tumor xenograft tissue and the A549 human lung cancer cell line in a single file (Supplementary Table 3A). Similarly, all identified peptides of mouse origin detected in the tumor xenograft and normal mouse lungs were combined into another file (Supplementary Table 3B). Then, each full protein sequence from the UniProt mouse proteome database was analyzed to see if it contained any of the observed/identified human N-glycopeptides. Each UniProt human protein sequence was analyzed to see if it contained any of the mouse detected peptides. The analysis revealed that 69.5% of the observed mouse N-glycosylated peptides containing the N-X-S|T amino-acid motif and 74% of the observed human N-glycosylated peptides were protein- and species-specific, exhibiting an average dissimilarity rate of 71.75% (Figure 1, Bar C).
The results of this analysis are in direct agreement with our hypothesis. They confirm the utility of TCSG to capture ex vivo differences between humans and mice via MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidome at the dissimilarity rate predicted in silico. This approach enables a direct virtual dissection of tumor parenchyma from tumor stroma in human-mouse xenografts in a species-specific manner and at a rate previously unattainable by other means. In comparison with other published approaches, the essential distinction and unparalleled selectivity of TCSG is derived directly from our discovery that revealed a much higher cross-species dissimilarity rate between human and mouse N-glycopeptidome compared to the dissimilarity rate between human and mouse plain MS-identifiable unmodified tryptic peptidome.
TCSG enables extensive and highly selective phenotyping of the tumor stroma and tumor parenchyma at the protein level without the need for laser-based microdissection
Finally, the TCSG analysis resulted in a total of 438 mouse-stromal (Supplementary Table 4A) and 347 parenchymal-human (Supplementary Table 4B) N-glycosylated protein species identified in tumor xenograft. Importantly, a stringent false peptide discovery rate (FDR) cutoff of ≤ 1% was employed. Here, the acquired MS2 spectra were searched against a non-redundant Swiss-Prot human proteome database containing 20,194 protein sequences and the corresponding non-redundant Swiss-Prot mouse proteome database containing 16,299 protein sequences using the SEQUEST algorithm, which is included within the Protein Discoverer (version 1.4) software suite (Thermo). To further decrease redundancy in protein identification, protein grouping was used to generate a minimum protein list that covers all identified peptides and thereby removes redundant identifications via peptides belonging to multiple protein species. Additionally, glycoproteins identified by a single peptide matching spectrum (PMS) were not included in the final dataset. Correspondingly, a total of 471 mouse and 366 human N-glycosylated proteins were identified in normal mouse tissue and 2D-grown A549 cells, respectively (Supplementary Table 5A-5B).
These stringent searching criteria were employed to determine actual TCSG selectivity in separating/dissecting tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma at the molecular/protein level. Towards this goal, we analyzed both human and mouse protein datasets/lists to elucidate legitimate human-derived (i.e., parenchymal) from mouse-derived (i.e., stromal) proteins and/or protein groups detected in tumor xenograft. The analysis revealed that out of 438 initially identified mouse proteins and/or protein groups in tumor xenografts, a total of 427 (97.48%) were identified as genuine stromal proteins by at least a single N-glycosylated peptide in a protein- and species-specific manner (Supplementary Figure 2, Supplementary Table 6A). Correspondingly, from the 347 human proteins identified in tumor xenografts, a total of 334 (96.25%) were identified as genuine parenchymal proteins in a protein- and species-specific manner (Supplementary Figure 2, Supplementary Table 6B), corresponding to an average dissimilarity rate of 96.86% (Figure 1, Bar D). An identical analysis applied to a control normal mouse tissue and an A549 human cancer cell line produced similar results. Namely, 459 out of 472 (97.24%) mouse proteins detected in a normal mouse tissue control and 352 out of 366 proteins (96.17%) detected in 2D-grown A549 human lung adenocarcinoma cells (Supplementary Figure 2, Supplementary Table 7A-7B) were identified in a protein- and species-specific manner. These results illustrate the inherent capability of this approach to generate glycopeptide and/or glycoprotein identifications in a protein- and species-dependent manner at a rate currently unattainable by other means. It also provides explicit evidence of an unprecedent TCSG capacity for virtual molecular dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in murine tumor xenografts without utilizing laser-based microdissection to obtain homogenous parenchymal/stromal cell populations.
TCSG-based subtractive proteomics reveals stroma-unique mouse-derived and parenchyma-unique human-derived phenotypes
Raw tumor xenograft LC-MS data obtained by TCSG were searched against the mouse and human proteome databases, respectively. Proteins unique to mouse stroma and human parenchyma identified by at least one species-specific peptide were uncovered by subtracting overlapping protein orthologs from the original datasets. This analysis revealed a total of 211 proteins unique to tumor stroma along with a total of 118 proteins unique to tumor parenchyma (Supplementary Table 8A-8B). Notably, out of 211 identified mouse-derived stromal proteins, a total of 110 (52.13%) were annotated as authentic cell surface molecules in the cell surface protein atlas (CSPA) (Supplementary Table 8A) [32]. Of these, a total of 47 (42.72%) of the identified cell surface glycoproteins are annotated as cluster of differentiation (CD) molecules [33]. This is indicative of a significantly increased rate of CD molecules identified in tumor stroma. Interestingly, this is in comparison to an overall rate of 2% that CD molecules represent within the entire non-redundant SwissProt human/mouse proteome database. Correspondingly, out of 118 identified human-derived stromal proteins, a total of 48 (40.67%) were genuine cell surface molecules found in CSPA [32], of which a total of 15 (31.25%) were classified as CD molecules (Supplementary Table 8B). A significantly increased identification rate of CD molecules in tumor stroma is consistent with a higher content of immune cells (e.g., leukocytes) found in the tumor microenvironment (e.g., tumor-associated macrophages) and serves as another indicator of TCSG’s ability to capture interesting and timely aspects of the phenotype of the tumor microenvironment.
Next, we carried out a multiplex subtractive proteomic analysis by including control samples to elucidate mouse-derived proteins detected exclusively in tumor stroma. These identifications were below the level found in normal lung tissue and without detection of matching human-derived orthologs in tumor parenchyma or 2D-grown A549 cells. Towards this goal, we subtracted overlapping gene products detected in each dataset (e.g., tumor stroma) from the non-redundant list of collated overlapping orthologs detected in three other samples (e.g., tumor parenchyma, 2D-grown A549 cells, and normal murine lungs). This analysis revealed an exclusive detection of protein subsets/panels unique to tumor stroma (40 targets), tumor parenchyma (47 targets), 2D-grown A549 cancer cells (97 targets), and normal lung tissue (91 targets). These may be considered as putative stromal and parenchymal markers/targets critical for the biology of the tumor model under study, and they allow for a better understanding of the biology of 2D-grown A549 cells or normal lung tissue (Supplementary Table 9A-9D).
To assess the utility of multiplex subtractive proteomics, we investigated the biological processes established in the literature and reported for each of the 10 most abundant proteins detected exclusively in tumor stroma, tumor parenchyma, 2D-grown A549 cells, and normal mouse lungs, respectively. Remarkably, each of the 10 most abundant protein species (Table 1) detected exclusively in tumor stroma are known to be involved in immune processes. Of these, transmembrane glycoprotein NMB (Gpnmb), low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor II (Fcgr2), H-2 class I histocompatibility antigen, alpha chain, and programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (Pdcd1lg2) are directly involved in tumor immune evasion. Conversely, the clear majority of the 10 most abundant human-derived gene products detected exclusively in tumor parenchyma (e.g., CEACAM5, MUC5B, FCGBP) were found to be involved in metastasis (Table 2). Predictably, the most abundant human-derived protein species detected exclusively in 2D-grown A549 cells (e.g., NTRK3, NRCAM, CTCS, EPHA2) involved cell proliferation (Table 3). Evidently, most of the abundant proteins exclusively detected in normal mouse lungs (Table 4) belong to “housekeeping” protein species (e.g., Abca8a, Lepr, B4gat1, Hyal2). Taken together, the results of multiplexed subtractive proteomics verify an unparalleled selectivity of TCSG-based molecular dissection. Evidently, TCSG enables mapping of the principal biological processes taking place in a sample under study. This type of subtractive analysis in the context of the present experimental design is evidently well-suited for putative drug target and biomarker discovery.
Table 1: Top 10 most abundant mouse-derived proteins detected solely in tumor stroma
UniProt Acc #
Protein Description
Q99P91
Gpnmb
Transmembrane glycoprotein NMB (DC-HIL)
Negative regulation of immune response
Blood. 2007 May 15;109(10):4320-7.
Fcgr2
Low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor II
Immunity. 2017 Apr 18;46(4):577-586.
Q9D7Z6
Clca1
Calcium-activated chloride channel regulator 1
Inflammatory - immune response
PLoS One. 2013 Dec 12;8(12):e83130
Q9DBP0
Sodium-dependent phosphate transport protein 2B
Ab-drug conjugate -cancer immunotherapy
Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Nov 15;21(22):5139-50.
H-2 class I histocompatibility antigen, alpha chain
Bull Acad Natl Med. 2014 Apr-May;198(4-5):801-11.
Chl1
Neural cell adhesion molecule L1-like protein
Promotes tumorigenicity and metastasis
Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Apr 1;18(7):1914-24.
Q6R5N8
Tlr13
Toll-like receptor 13
Innate immune response
J Immunol. 2012 Sep 15;189(6):2717-21.
CD180 antigen
J Exp Med. 2000 Jul 3;192(1):23-9.
Q9WUL5
Pdcd1lg2
Programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2)
J Immunol. 2007 May 1;178(9):5552-62.
Q99NH8
Trem2
Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2
Oncotarget. 2016 May 17;7(20):29620-34.
Table 2: Top 10 most abundant human-derived proteins detected solely in tumor parenchyma
Acc #
CEACAM5
Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 5
Cancer Metastasis Rev. 2013 Dec;32(3-4):643-71.
Q9HC84
MUC5B
Mucin-5B
Int J Cancer. 1996 Dec 20;69(6):457-65.
Q9Y6R7
FCGBP
IgGFc-binding protein
Oncol Lett. 2016 Jan;11(1):568-574.
Q7Z7M9
GALNT5
Polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyl transferase 5
Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 16;7(33):54067-54081.
Q9HD43
PTPRH
Receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase H
Tumor growth
Nat Rev Cancer. 2011 Jan;11(1):35-49.
Low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III-B
Eur J Cancer. 2010 Jul;46(10):1829-34.
MUC5AC
Mucin-5AC (Fragments)
Enhances metastasis
Oncogene. 2016 Aug 4;35(31):4112-21.
CDH17
Cadherin-17 (CDH17)
Oncogene. 2014 Mar 27;33(13):1658-69
Alpha-1-antitrypsin
Invasion and migration
Oncotarget. 2015 Aug 21;6(24):20312-26.
Q9UKN1
MUC12
Mucin-12
Tumor cell growth regulation
Cancer Res. 1999 Aug 15;59(16):4083-9.
Table 3: Top 10 most abundant human-derived proteins detected solely in 2D-grown A549 cells
NT-3 growth factor receptor
Increases cell proliferation
Oncogene. 2013 Aug 8;32(32):3698-710
NRCAM
Neuronal cell adhesion molecule
Genes Dev. 2002 Aug 15;16(16):2058-72
Zinc transporter ZIP6
PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56542.
PTPRF
Receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase F
J Biol Chem. 2006 Jun 16;281(24):16482-92.
CTSC
Dipeptidyl peptidase 1
Growth of cultured cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Nov 2;101(44):15724-9.
Acid ceramidase
J Biol Chem. 2011 Jun 3;286(22):19399-409.
CELSR1
Cadherin EGF LAG seven-pass G-type receptor 1
J Neurosci. 2010 Jul 14;30(28):9392-401.
Ephrin type-A receptor 2
Oncogene. 2011 Dec 15;30(50):4921-9.
CD59 glycoprotein OS
Cell Immunol. 2011;272(1):61-70.
CTSV
Cathepsin L2 OS
Nat Commun. 2014 Sep 15;5:4931.
Table 4: Top 10 most abundant mouse-derived proteins detected solely in normal mouse lungs
Q8K442
Abca8a
ATP-binding cassette sub-family A member 8-A
Lipid transport
Mamm Genome. 2003 Jan;14(1):7-20
Lepr
Leptin receptor
Regulation of lipid metabolism
Hepatology. 2014 Jul;60(1):133-45.
Q8BWP8
B4gat1
Beta-1,4-glucuronyltransferase 1
Protein glycosylation
Elife. 2014 Oct 3;3. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03941.
Low affinity immunoglobulin gamma Fc region receptor III
Immune response regulation
Hyal2
Hyaluronidase-2
Hyaluronic acid binding
Histochem Cell Biol. 2016 Jan;145(1):53-66
Q8C6K9
Col6a6
Collagen alpha-6(VI) chain
J Biol Chem. 2008 Jul 18;283(29):20170-80.
Q80WV3
Chst2
Carbohydrate sulfotransferase 2
Inflammatory response
J Leukoc Biol. 2001 Apr;69(4):565-74.
H2-T23
H-2 class I histocompatibility antigen, D-37 alpha chain
Adaptive immune response
J Immunol. 2014 Aug 1;193(3):1427-39.
Q6NVD0
Frem2
FRAS1-related extracellular matrix protein 2
Histochem Cell Biol. 2008 Oct;130(4):785-93.
H2-L
H-2 class I histocompatibility antigen, L-D alpha chain
Immune systems process
Cell. 1986 Jan 31;44(2):261-72.
Label-free relative quantitation captures a difference in the regulation of protein orthologs detected by TCSG in both tumor stroma and tumor parenchyma
We next used label-free quantitation [34, 35] to investigate and determine the differences in expression levels between stromal and parenchymal orthologs identified by at least one species-specific N-glycopeptide. The analysis revealed a total of 93 N-glycoproteins that showed a significant (p value ≤ 0.05) divergence in regulation between these two compartments (Supplementary Table 10). Of these, the most significantly upregulated molecule in tumor stroma was a gene product of integrin alpha-1 (ITGA1), and the most upregulated molecule in tumor parenchyma is a product of the CLU gene (i.e., clusterin). Both proteins were found to play significant roles in the biology of lung adenocarcinoma [36, 37]. These results indicate that the application/addition of label-free relative quantitation in the context of TCSG further expands the map of the stromal and parenchymal N-glycoproteome by capturing differences in the expression profile and phenotype of species-specific protein orthologs, which are detected in both tumor compartments with no requirement for laser-based tissue microdissection prior to LC-MS analysis.
Bioinformatic characterization of the stromal and parenchymal proteome corroborates the fidelity/utility of TCSG-based molecular dissection
Next, we used the PANTHER classification system to characterize the stromal and parenchymal protein profiles. The protein class analysis of the stromal complement revealed an enrichment of structural and extracellular matrix proteins as well as transporters and defense/immunity proteins, while cell adhesion molecules, transferases, and hydrolases were enriched in the tumor parenchyma (Supplementary Figure 3). PANTHER pathway analysis revealed the amplification of VGEF signaling, endothelin signaling angiogenesis, chemokine/cytokine inflammation signaling, and T- and B-cell activation in the tumor stroma. The same analysis revealed cadherin signaling; EGF receptor signaling; and Wnt, Notch, and Hedgehog signaling activation in the tumor parenchyma (Supplementary Figure 4). The results of the bioinformatic molecular classification are concordant with the well-recognized roles of the tumor stroma in cancer biology (e.g., angiogenesis, immune response) as well as the roles of the parenchyma (i.e., malignant tumor cells) in tumorigenesis, as exemplified by the amplification of proliferative signals (e.g., EGF and Wnt signaling). These findings further corroborate the fidelity/utility of TCSG-based molecular dissection that enables advanced characterization and phenotyping of the tumor proper and its microenvironment.
Pathway analysis revealed cellular movement, tumor proliferation, tumor invasion, and metastasis as the top functional networks in the tumor parenchyma
To assess the biological relevance of results obtained by virtual dissection of tumor parenchyma from the stroma and to prioritize cross-validation targets, a subset of proteins unique to and/or found upregulated in tumor parenchyma were analyzed using the Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA®) [QIAGEN Redwood City, www.qiagen.com/ingenuity]. The IPA® revealed cell migration, tumor invasion, advanced malignancy, and tumor metastasis as the top parenchymal functional networks (Supplementary Table 11A) based on statistical significance and the number of interacting protein species detected. To cross-validate the results of the IPA®, we set out to confirm the identification and topology of CD147, CD44, and CDH17 depicted in tumor invasion and tumor metastasis networks (Supplementary Figures 5-6).
We first selected basigin (CD147), a product of the BSG gene depicted in the tumor invasion network (Supplementary Figure 5). Other groups, including ours, have previously shown that CD147 plays an important role in the biology of KRAS-driven cancers [38–40]. Selected MS2 spectra depicting the identification of human-derived parenchymal CD147 via protein- and species-specific N-glycopeptides are shown in Supplementary Figures 7-8. Next, BLAST analysis compared the sequences of the human CD147 and corresponding mouse ortholog and confirmed the topology and protein/species specificity of the identified N-glycopeptides, which is underlined in red in Supplementary Figure 9.
We applied IHC to analyze the tumor xenograft using a human CD147-specific antibody. The tumor xenograft IHC showed membrane staining exclusively on parenchymal cells (Figure 3A) as well as its absence in normal mouse lung tissue (Figure 3C). The human origin of parenchymal cells is confirmed by an IHC using a human MHC-I–specific antibody (Figure 3B). The expression and membrane subcellular localization of CD147 was further validated by immunofluorescence (IF) in 2D-grown A549 cells (Figure 4A-4C). The IF confirmed the expression of the human CD147 at the surface of A549 cells, and it is consistent with our previous findings showing that CD147 localizes at the surface of cancer cell lines expressing oncogenic KRas mutants endogenously [38]. Additionally, we carried out a western blot (WB) analysis of tumor tissue homogenate using a human-specific CD147 antibody that verified CD147 expression in tumor xenograft homogenate and human heart homogenate (i.e., positive control). Correspondingly, WB analysis using the same antibody was negative in normal mouse lungs and mouse heart (i.e., negative control), as shown in Supplementary Figure 10. These findings are concordant with the TCSG results and support our hypothesis.
Figure 3: IHC-based validation of human-derived CD147 expression in tumor parenchyma. (A) IHC staining for human-derived CD147 in tumor xenograft obtained employing the human-specific CD147 antibody. (B) IHC staining for human MHC I obtained employing anti-human MHC I antibody. (C) Absence of IHC staining in normal mouse lungs employing human-specific CD147 antibody. Bar = 100 μm.
Figure 4: Cross-validation of the CD147 expression in human 2D-grown A549 cells and its mouse ortholog in the parenchyma of normal mouse lungs. (A) A549 cells: wide-field fluorescence microscopy analysis of immunolabeled CD147 using anti-mouse specific antibody. (B) A549 cells: SIM analysis of the cell from (A) detailing localization of CD147 on cell membrane. (C) A549 cells: wide-field fluorescence showing colocalization of CD147 and Actin. (D) Normal mouse lungs: IHC staining for parenchymal mouse-derived CD147 using the mouse-specific CD147 antibody. Bar = 100 μm.
Mouse-derived CD147 ortholog was identified in normal/healthy mouse lungs (Supplementary Table 7A) and is shown underlined in blue (Supplementary Figure 9). Human-derived CD147 (Supplementary Table 7B) was detected in 2D-grown A549 human lung adenocarcinoma cells via protein- and species-specific peptides and is shown underlined in green (Supplementary Figure 9). Depicted in Supplementary Figures 12-13 are the selected MS2 spectra of protein- and species-specific N-glycosylated peptides identifying mouse-derived CD147 in normal lungs (Supplementary Figure 11) and the human-derived CD147 ortholog in 2D-grown A549 cells. Next, we cross-validated the identification of the mouse-derived CD147 in normal/healthy lungs using a mouse-specific CD147 antibody. The immunostaining confirmed the expression of the mouse-derived CD147 ortholog in normal lungs, directly validating the TCSG results, and is shown in Figure 4D. In summary, these results designate CD147 as a prototypical proof-of-principle molecule that depicts unparalleled selectivity of TCSG for molecular profiling of human-mouse xenografts.
Next, we set out to investigate in silico if this glycopeptide-based selectivity is conserved across primate species exhibiting high similarity with the human proteome (e.g., chimpanzees). We used CD147 as a model molecule and carried out BLAST analysis to compare sequences of the human CD147 with chimpanzee and gorilla orthologs. The analysis (Supplementary Figures 14-15) showed that the human CD147 is 96.3% and 96.6% identical to chimpanzee and gorilla orthologs. Even at this high sequence similarity rate, all in silico predicated MS-identifiable N-glycopeptides from each of the three CD147 orthologs (i.e., human, gorilla, and chimp) were found to be species-specific identifiers. These findings suggest that the dissimilarity rate of the CD147 N-glycosylated peptides is highly conserved even across phylogenetically close species (i.e., primates) and further corroborates our hypothesis.
The CD44 antigen (CD44), depicted in the tumor invasion network (Supplementary Figure 5) was selected for orthogonal cross-validation because of its well-described role in tumorigenesis and invasion of lung adenocarcinoma driven by oncogenic KRas mutants [41, 42]. Selected MS2 spectra depicting the identification of human-derived parenchymal CD44 via protein- and species-specific N-glycopeptides are shown in Supplementary Figures 16-17. The BLAST analysis comparing the sequences of human CD44 and its mouse ortholog, which confirmed the topology as well as the protein and species specificity of human-derived N-glycopeptides, is underlined in red (Supplementary Figure 18). The IHC analysis unambiguously confirmed the parenchymal location of CD44 (Figure 5A). CD44 was also identified in a 2D-grown A549 cell control (Supplementary Table 5B). Notably, using A549-derived CD44+ cancer stem cells, Guo et al. observed an increased expression of PKM2 and proposed it as a putative drug target for lung adenocarcinoma [43]. It has also been shown that CD44 forms complexes with CD147 at the cell surface of cancer cell lines [39, 44], which is indicative of the pivotal and complex role CD147 plays in KRas-driven tumors.
Figure 5: Cross-validation of parenchymal CD44 and CDH17 expression and stromal PD-L2 and ORL-1 expression in tumor xenograft tissue. (A) Parenchymal CD44 immunostaining. (B) Parenchymal CDH17 immunostaining. (C) Stromal PD-L2 immunostaining. (D) Stromal LOX-1 immunostaining. Bar = 100 μm.
Cadherin-17, depicted in the tumor metastasis network (Supplementary Figure 6), was identified by TCSG exclusively in the tumor parenchyma, with no detection in 2D-grown A549 cells or normal lung tissue. While the role of CDH17 in the biology of gastrointestinal malignancies is well documented, [45] its role in lung cancer biology has not been well established. Selected MS2 spectra depicting the identification of the parenchymal human-derived cadherin-17 via protein- and species-specific N-glycopeptides are shown in Supplementary Figures 19-20. The BLAST analysis comparing the sequences of human CDH17 and its mouse ortholog, which confirmed the topology as well as the protein and species specificity of the identified human-derived N-glycopeptides, is underlined in red (Supplementary Figure 21). Subsequent IHC analysis validated the localization of the human CDH17 in the tumor xenograft parenchyma (Figure 5B). Overall, the bioinformatic characterization of the molecular profiles, the pathway analyses, and the subsequent cross-validation of the selected targets all highlight the potential of TCSG technology to improve our understanding of cancer biology and facilitate the discovery of putative parenchymal biomarkers and druggable targets.
Pathway analysis revealed leukocyte immune response, humoral immune response, cellular immune response, and movement disorder as the top functional networks in the tumor stroma
Focusing on the stromal molecular phenotype obtained by TCSG, we applied the network analysis feature of IPA® on a subset of N-glycoproteins identified uniquely and/or found upregulated in the tumor stroma. The analysis revealed leukocyte immune response, humoral immune response, cellular immune response, and movement disorder as the top stromal functional networks (Supplementary Table 11B) based on statistical significance and the number of interacting N-glycoproteins identified. The outcome of the IPA® is concordant with the role of the tumor stroma (i.e., tumor microenvironment) in tumor biology [46], revealing the activation of different immune response modalities that are critical for tumor immune evasion and survival. From the top protein networks, we selected the programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2), Pdcd1lg2 gene product, and the oxidized low-density lipoprotein receptor 1 (LOX-1)—a product of the Olr1 gene—for IHC-based cross-validation.
PD-L2 is depicted in the leukocyte immune response network (Supplementary Figure 22). The MS2 spectrum depicting the identification of the mouse PD-L2 ortholog in a species- and protein-specific manner is shown in Supplementary Figure 23. The BLAST analysis (Supplementary Figure 24) depicts the protein- and species-specific N-glycopeptide identifying the mouse PD-L2. The IHC staining reveals the stromal expression of PD-L2 (Figure 5C) and is found predominantly on the surface of immune cell infiltrates. While PD-L1 is still the only predictive biomarker for PD-L1/PD1 immunotherapy (i.e., nivolumab, pembrolizumab) for metastatic lung adenocarcinoma, our findings are in agreement with an increasing number of publications suggesting that additional companion IHC diagnostics targeting stromal PD-L2 may offer better prediction for targeted immunotherapy [47, 48]. Thus, PD-L2 may serve as an additional companion diagnostic marker and putative stromal target for metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung.
LOX-1, a product of the Olr1 gene, is shown in the leukocyte migration network (Supplementary Figure 25). The representative MS2 spectrum of a glycopeptide identifying the mouse LOX-1 ortholog is shown in Supplementary Figure 26. The BLAST analysis confirms the protein and species specificity of the same peptide and is shown in Supplementary Figure 27. The IHC analysis confirmed explicitly the stromal LOX-1 location (Figure 5C) within the immune cell infiltrates. Unlike PD-L2, the role of LOX-1 in the biology of adenocarcinoma of the lung is poorly understood. Nonetheless, our findings are consistent with results obtained by transcriptomic analysis showing amplified LOX-1 expression in tumor-associated neutrophils in mice [49], as well as with findings showing a LOX-1–dependent enhancement of angiogenesis in prostate cancer tumor xenografts confirmed by biological assay [50].
In summary, the cross-validation verified the utility of TCSG for molecular differentiation/dissection of these two functionally and morphologically co-dependent complex tumor compartments. To the best of our knowledge, this the first study that investigated and compared the differences between human and mouse MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidomes. A TCSG approach was developed that enabled the dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in human-murine tumor xenografts at the molecular level, along with a selectivity and specificity rate currently unattainable by other means.
The translational relevance of the data obtained by TCSG
The translational relevance and the utility of the results obtained by the TCSG platform were evaluated by carrying out a proof-of-principle experiment focused on cross-validation of selected targets in matching human clinical tissue specimens. Several parenchymal and stromal targets detected by TCSG in the tumor xenograft were selected for IHC-based validation on human lung adenocarcinoma tissue known to contain an oncogenic KRas mutant. To mitigate the impact of natural molecular heterogeneity present at the proteome level in the human population proper, the tumor tissue and normal adjacent tissue were collected from the same patient. From the top parenchymal networks (Supplementary Table 11A), we selected two targets, CD147 and CDH17, that were found in malignant tumor invasion (Supplementary Figure 5) and tumor metastasis networks (Supplementary Figure 6), respectively. From the top stromal networks (Supplementary Table 11B), we also selected transmembrane glycoprotein NMB (DC-HIL), Gpnmb gene product, and ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase family member 5 (NPP-5), Enpp5 gene product, that were found in stromal humoral immune response (Supplementary Figure 28) and movement disorder networks (Supplementary Figure 32), respectively.
IHC staining of CD147 confirmed the parenchymal location in the human adenocarcinoma lung tissue. A much higher expression level of CD147 in tumor tissue compared to normal adjacent tissue (Figure 6A-6B) was observed. The role of CD147 in invasion and metastasis of human lung cancer is well described [51]. Previously, we have shown that the expression pattern of CD147 in the context of the oncogenic KRas-driven malignant transformation is highly conserved. Essentially, we showed that CD147 exhibits an identical surface expression pattern in a model of a KRas-transfected/transformed cell line (MCF10A-KRasG12V) as well as in pancreatic (KP3), lung (H2444), and colon (SW620) cancer cell lines expressing KRas mutants endogenously [38]. This study showed that the CD147 protein signature displays the same location at the surface of 2D-grown A549 cells in the parenchyma of a murine lung adenocarcinoma xenograft and in human lung adenocarcinoma. This is depicted in Figures 3, 4, and 6 and indicates a high translational relevance of the TCSG platform.
Figure 6: IHC analysis of CD147 and CDH17 in human lung adenocarcinoma and non-cancerous adjacent tissue. (A) Strong positive CD147 staining in human lung adenocarcinoma. (B) Weak or negative CD147 staining in adjacent non-tumorous lung tissue. (C) Strong positive CDH17 staining in human lung adenocarcinoma. (D) Weak or negative CDH17 staining in adjacent non-tumorous lung tissue. Bar = 100 μm.
An intense parenchymal CDH17 staining was observed in human lung adenocarcinoma tissue (Figure 6C), and CDH17 was absent in the normal adjacent tissue (Figure 6D), which agrees with the corresponding LC-MS data obtained using TCSG (Supplementary Figures 19-20). While the role of CDH17 in lung adenocarcinoma is not well understood, our IHC findings are consistent with results obtained via tissue microarrays targeting CDH17 in patients diagnosed with metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma [52]. Hence, CDH17 depicted in the tumor metastasis network (Supplementary Figure 6) may be added to a cytokeratin panel [53] for better classification of the metastatic human lung adenocarcinoma.
DC-HIL depicted in the humoral response network (Supplementary Figure 28) is a well-described immunomodulatory molecule that plays a critical role in tumor progression and metastasis in multiple solid malignancies, including lung cancer [54]. Selected MS2 spectra depict the identification of the mouse DC-HIL in a species- and protein-specific manner (Supplementary Figures 29-30). The BLAST analysis (Supplementary Figure 31) verifies the protein and species specificity of the identified DC-HIL N-glycopeptides. Figure 7A shows positive stromal DC-HIL immunostaining in human lung adenocarcinoma tissue and weak or negative staining in normal adjacent lung tissue (Figure 7B). These findings are in direct agreement with LC-MS results obtained by TCSG. DC-HIL was detected as the most abundant protein unique to the tumor stroma (Table 1A). Like PD-1, DC-HIL functions as a negative regulator of T-cell activation [55]. An antibody-drug conjugate that targets DC-HIL is now in clinical trials [54].
Figure 7: IHC analysis of DC-HIL and ENPP5 in human lung adenocarcinoma and non-cancerous adjacent tissue. (A) Positive DC-HIL staining in stroma of human lung adenocarcinoma. (B) Weak or negative DC-HIL staining in adjacent non-tumorous lung tissue. (C) Positive ENPP5 staining in the stroma of human lung adenocarcinoma. (D) Weak or negative CDH17 staining in adjacent non-tumorous lung tissue. Bar = 100 μm.
NPP-5, depicted in the movement disorder network (Supplementary Figure 33), stimulates cell motility [56] and plays a significant role in pediatric high-grade glioma neo-angiogenesis [57]. In comparison with normal adjacent lung tissue, the stroma of human lung adenocarcinoma shows strong positive overexpression of NPP-5 in the IHC analysis (Figure 7C) and weak or negative expression in the stroma of non-tumorous adjacent lung tissue (Figure 7D). These findings are consistent with LC-MS results obtained by TCSG. The MS2 spectrum depicts the identification of the mouse NPP-5 in a species- and protein-specific manner (Supplementary Figure 34). The BLAST analysis verifies the protein and species specificity of the identified NPP-5 N-glycopeptides (Supplementary Figure 34). Unlike DC-HIL, the role of NPP-5 in the biology of lung cancer is poorly understood, and the present results make NPP-5 a putative target (at best) for lung adenocarcinoma therapy. These results strongly support the translational potential of TCSG and its ability to facilitate a better understanding of tumor biology as well as the discovery of putative therapeutic candidates that would enable concomitant targeting of these two codependent solid tumor compartments.
While immune detection remains a mainstay technology (e.g., IHC, mass cytometry) in the molecular profiling of malignant tumors, its depth and scope are limited by the shortage of reliable antibodies applicable to “in-advance” selected targets. Discovery is limited. Conversely, antibody-free proteomics that relies on laser-based microdissection to separate tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma prior to LC-MS analysis is hindered by limited sample size, uncertain specimen homogeneity, tedium, and costly operator-dependent instrumentation.
Similarly, cross-species–reliant MS-based tumor xenograft proteomics, which exploits the differences between the plain/unmodified human and mouse MS-identifiable peptidome, is constrained by the fact that 60% of human and mouse MS-identifiable peptides share the same sequence (Figure 1). This greatly limits the range and capacity to differentiate between the stromal (i.e., mouse) and parenchymal (i.e., human) protein species, rendering ~50% of peptide identifications wasted. Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy targeting malignant tumor cells (i.e., parenchymal targets) using biologicals (e.g., therapeutic antibodies) [58] or cells of the tumor microenvironment (i.e., stromal targets) using small molecules (e.g., angiogenesis inhibitors) [59] underscore a need for improved molecular diagnostic approaches. Antibody-free proteomic technologies capable of unbiased, in-depth characterization of the tumor stroma and tumor parenchyma in xenograft model systems are an advance in this direction [60].
Described in this study is a potent antibody-free MS-based approach for proteome-scale molecular dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in murine xenografts at a differentiation rate currently unattainable by other means. The TCSG approach is discovery-based. It also allows for more selective and specific molecular mapping of these two functionally and anatomically codependent compartments. It relies primarily on our discovery showing for the first time the exceedingly higher dissimilarity rate (i.e., 72%) between mouse and human MS-identifiable N-glycopeptidomes. By comparison, the plain, unmodified MS-identifiable peptidome shows a dissimilarity rate of only 40% (Figure 1). As an illustration, BLAST analysis of the human, gorilla, and chimpanzee CD147 orthologs targeting MS-identifiable N-glycosylated peptides showed their conserved species-specific attributes despite the fact that CD147 sequences possess an identity of ≥ 96.3%. This is depicted in Supplementary Figures 15-16.
Coupling TCSG with IPA® elucidated the top parenchymal tumor networks (i.e., invasion, advanced malignant tumor, and metastasis). These networks contain human-derived N-glycoproteins with an already-established linkage/role in lung adenocarcinoma signaling (e.g., CD44, CD147) and proteins whose relevance to the biology of lung adenocarcinoma is less clear (e.g., CDH17). In parallel, the IPA® of the stromal N-glycoprotein complement revealed a humoral immune response, cellular immune response, and immune response of leukocytes as top immune networks. These were activated in the mouse-derived lung adenocarcinoma microenvironment depicting protein species with known roles in tumor immune evasion (e.g., PD-L2) or others whose role in the biology of lung adenocarcinoma is currently not well understood (e.g., Gpnmb). The IHC-based cross-validation of TCSG results for selected targets verified their spatial distribution within the tumor stroma and tumor parenchyma, leading to a better understanding of lung adenocarcinoma biology.
In addition, we discovered that TCSG-based molecular mapping of the tumor stroma and tumor parenchyma in mouse xenografts is further enhanced by applying subtractive proteomic analysis to control samples (i.e., 2D-grown A549 cells, normal mouse lungs). This analysis revealed a subset of N-glycoproteins exclusively detected in 2D-grown A549 cells that may be pivotal for a better understanding of Petri dish biology and/or proteins identified solely in healthy lungs that may facilitate a better understanding of respiratory processes. Alternatively, in the context of the present experimental design (Figure 2), the TCSG platform applied on the current mouse lung adenocarcinoma metastatic model may be used for rapid quantitative measurement of selected targets in a series of follow-up experiments to monitor changes in their relative concentration subsequent to experimental alterations (e.g., drug treatment).
This study begins to address the basic shortage of feasible stromal and parenchymal targets in metastatic lung adenocarcinoma mouse xenograft models. As a part of the NCI’s RAS initiative (www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras), the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) utilizes MS-based proteomics to identify and characterize putative drug targets using cell lines [38, 61] and mouse models expressing oncogenic Ras mutants. FNLCR has pioneered MS-based methods for profiling clinical tissue specimens [29, 35, 62, 63] and mouse models expressing Ras mutants [64]. Using the present TCSG platform, maps were generated of 210 putative mouse-derived targets unique to the tumor stroma and 109 putative targets unique to the human-derived parenchyma. A total of 93 orthologs were found significantly dysregulated in both tumor compartments. Maps can be used as a source to refine current protein–protein interaction networks in metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. An evidence-based discovery of novel drug targets in these two co-dependent tumor compartments may also be facilitated by TCSG-generated maps.
The translational relevance of the TCSG approach was shown by cross-validating results of IHC analyses probing parenchymal (CD147, cadherin-17) and stromal targets (DC-HIL, NPP-5). This was performed using human lung adenocarcinoma and normal adjacent tissue. This suggests that the TCSG approach may be used in the initial discovery of putative lung adenocarcinoma biomarkers and/or drug targets. A limited number of clinical specimens represents a weakness of this investigation, precluding more conclusive findings. However, a recent report investigating the expression of CD147 in a total of 1,605 NSCLC patients, showed that the CD147 upregulation was positively associated with aggressive metastatic disease and shorter overall survival [65]. Nevertheless, this work is a sound proof-of-principle investigation that suggests the TCSG platform has significant translational value.
In summary, the results of this investigation authenticate the utility of the TCSG approach for facile and precise dissection of tumor stroma from tumor parenchyma in murine xenografts at a molecular specificity level previously unattainable by other means, with no need for laser-based microdissection. Illustrated here is a powerful tool that can lead to an improved understanding of cancer biology and immunity as well as the discovery of next generation antibodies aiming simultaneously and precisely at targets in tumor parenchyma and tumor stroma. Overall, the present pipeline may be employed as a robust technology in: i) drug and diagnostic target discovery, ii) therapeutic monitoring in the context of cancer immunotherapy, and iii) biology of KRas-driven cancers [66, 67]. As a complementary resource, the TCSG map/atlas described in this study can be used along with the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) to bioinformatically interrogate the tumor microenvironment and obtain an integrated view of a living tumor using the advantage of an experimental manipulation that is inaccessible in clinical settings. It is even more important in light of a recent study showing the comparative advantage of human cancer cell line models over patient-derived tumor xenograft models [68].
Hydrazide-terminated 5 μm magnetic beads were purchased from Bioclone Inc. (San Diego, CA). Non-ionic Acid Labile Surfactant I (NALS I) was obtained from Protea Biosciences Group (Morgantown, WV). Tris 2-carboxyethylphosphine, Bond BreakerTM (TCEP) and iodoacetamide (IAA) were obtained from Pierce (Rockford, IL). Sequence-grade modified trypsin was obtained from Promega (Madison, WI). PNGase F was obtained from New England BioLabs (Ipswich, MA). The antibodies used for western blot and immunofluorescence analyses were from the following sources: anti-BSG was from OriGene Technologies (Rockville, MD); all other chemicals were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO). A human lung adenocarcinoma–bearing KRas mutant and the corresponding normal adjacent tissue were obtained from an anonymous donor in the form of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks, which were purchased from ProteoGenex, Inc. (Culver City, CA) and were accompanied by a pathologist report.
In silico dissimilarity rate analysis
The tool getfrag.f was built and used to find all tryptic fragments between six and 35AAs for each protein with and without NxS|T motifs. For uniprot Human.fasta, the files become Human frag noNxST.txt and Human frag NxST.txt, and for uniprot Mouse.fasta, the files become Mouse frag noNxST.txt and Mouse frag NxST.txt. Each of these four files are imported into Excel and sorted by fragment. The number of total fragments between six and 35 amino acids are retained. The program fraguniq.f is then used to identify unique fragments and the protein(s) they belong to. The program/tool compfrag.f was built and used to compare the fragments.
The A549 human lung adenocarcinoma cell line was purchased from A.T.C.C. (Manassas, VA) and was cultured and passaged in medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum in a cell culture incubator at 37°C in 5% CO2-saturated humidity conditions.
Mouse xenografts
Mouse experiments were performed at FNLCR’s Laboratory Animal Sciences Program (LASP) in accordance with regulations from the Animal Care and Use Committee and the guidelines of the Animal Welfare Act. The metastatic lung adenocarcinoma mouse model was generated as previously described [28]. Briefly, a total of 20 SCID/NCr female mice (BALB/C background) at five weeks of age were randomly separated into two groups, experimental and control, n = 15 per group. Each mouse in the experimental group was injected with 100 μL of SF medium containing 1 x 106 2D-grown A549 cells through the tail vein. Each mouse in the control group was injected with 100 μL of SF medium. Tumor generation/growth in the experimental group was monitored via a serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure using dual MRI mouse coils. Mice in the experimental group were euthanized upon reaching their endpoint and/or when their tumors reached a diameter ≥ 5 mm. Tumors were dissected and immediately snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen until further analysis. Correspondingly, mice in the control group were sacrificed at the same time, and the lungs were excised and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen until further analysis. From each mouse, H&E stained FFPE tissue sections were prepared and analyzed by a LASP pathologist.
TCSG sample preparation
Tissue samples were prepared using tip sonication to homogenize 8 μm–thick tissue slices suspended in a lysis buffer (i.e., 25 mM ammonium bicarbonate containing 1 mM PMSF) as previously described [29], followed by isolation of the crude microsomal fraction. Correspondingly, 2D-grown A549 cells were disrupted in the same lysis buffer using tip sonication, followed by isolation of the microsomal fraction as previously described [69]. The BCA assay was carried out to estimate the protein concentration in the microsomal fraction and was re-suspended in 25 mM ammonium bicarbonate using sonication. A total of 1 mg of protein was aliquoted and solubilized in 0.5% NALS I followed by sample heating at 95°C for 5 minutes. After cooling the sample, a two-step tryptic digestion was performed. In the first step, methanol was added to achieve a 10% concentration followed by a first spike of Trypsin using a 1:100 enzyme-to-substrate ratio, which was followed by incubation at 37°C for 2 hours. In the second step, additional methanol was added to achieve a 60% concentration, and a second spike of Trypsin was added to achieve a 1:50 enzyme-to-substrate ratio for an overnight digestion. Next, the digest was acidified using 20% TFA to achieve a pH level of 2 followed by incubation for 30 minutes at 37°C to cleave off NALS I. Following the incubation at 95°C for 5 minutes to inactivate trypsin, the digest was centrifuged at 10,000 x g for 5 minutes, and the supernatant was collected and lyophilized to dryness.
Next, N-glycosylated peptides were captured using a slightly modified approach that was previously described [24], which employs hydrazide-coated magnetic beads at the peptide level instead of hydrazide resin/slurry at the protein level. Briefly, the digest was resuspended in 0.1% TFA pH 5, which contained 10 mM of sodium periodate and was oxidized for 1 hour at 4°C. Sodium periodate was removed using a C18 cartridge, and the peptides were directly eluted into a vial containing hydrazide-coated magnetic beads. Glycopeptides were then conjugated to hydrazide beads by an overnight incubation at 37°C. In the next step, unconjugated peptides were removed using a series of washes with 1.5 M sodium chloride and 80% acetonitrile. Finally, N-glycopeptides were released from the magnetic beads by PNGase F during an overnight incubation at 37°C, and they were desalted using a C18 column and ultimately stored for LC-MS analysis.
LC-MS and bioinformatic analysis
Hydrazide-captured/enriched N-glycopeptides were analyzed using nano-flow reversed phase (RP) LC-MS on the Agilent 1100 nano-flow LC system coupled on-line to an Orbitrap Elite mass spectrometer (ThermoElectron, San Jose, CA). The final N-glycopeptide mixture was reconstituted in a total of 20 μL of 0.1% TFA, which was followed by three 5 μL injections on a RP column (75 μm i.d. × 10 cm fused silica capillary with a flame-pulled tip). Finally, the mixture was slurry-packed in-house with 5 μm of 300 Å pore size C-18 stationary phase (Phenomenex, Torrance, CA). Peptides were eluted from the column using a linear gradient of 2% mobile phase B (0.1% formic acid in ACN) to 40% solvent B for 100 minutes at a flow rate of 0.25 μL/min, then to 98% B for an additional 20 minutes. The instrument was operated in a data-dependent mode using the peptide ion mass-to-charge range of 350−1800 and was monitored at the resolution level of 60,000 at m/z 400. Each MS1 scan was followed by 16 MS2 scans, wherein the 16 most abundant precursor ions were dynamically selected for collision-induced dissociation using a normalized collision energy of 35%.
Raw data obtained from the tumor xenograft were analyzed using Proteome Discoverer 1.4 (Thermo) by employing searches against the non-redundant human and mouse proteome database (SwisProt release v57.15). Raw data obtained from the normal mouse lungs and 2D-grown A549 cells were searched against the mouse and human proteome database, respectively. The following thresholds were set: for the monoisotopic peptide precursor ions (MS1 spectra), mass tolerance was set at 5 ppm, and for the fragment ions (data-dependent MS2 spectra), mass tolerance was set at 0.6 Da. Dynamic amino acid modifications were added for the detection of the following: +0.984 Da for asparagine deamidation (i.e., deamidation of N-glycosylated asparagines via PNGase F treatment), +57.021 Da for cysteine carboxyamidomethylation (i.e., alkylation), and +15.994 Da for methionine oxidation. Peptides with one tryptic terminus (K, R) meeting these thresholds were considered legitimate identifications. Finally, search results were filtered for the presence of peptides containing deamidated asparagine in the context of the N-glycosylation sequence motif (i.e., NxST) to further decrease the peptide/protein false discovery rate (FDR). N-glycosylated proteins identified by a single peptide spectrum match (PSM) were not included in the final dataset. Protein grouping was employed to increase the quality and reliability of the protein identifications and to enforce economy in the number of identified proteins. N-glycosylated proteins were characterized in accordance with their annotations in the human cell surface protein atlas (CSPA). Selection and prioritization of cell-surface proteins for antibody-based cross-validation using IHC, IF, and WB analyses were facilitated using PANTHER and IPA® bioinformatic tools. Raw MS data is accessible at the https://vmsshare.nist.gov.
Spectral counting-based relative quantitation of the changes in N-glycosylated protein regulation between the tumor parenchyma and tumor stroma was carried out using PSMs readouts, which were computed by the Percolator algorithm within Proteome Discoverer 1.4. Percolator relies on semi-supervised machine learning to improve the discrimination between correct and incorrect spectra identifications by considering p-value, q-value, and posterior error probability for each peptide match at the selected strict FDR of ≤ 0.01. Significant differences in protein regulation were estimated using binomial probability and false discovery rate (FDR) calculations [70].
Generation of the non-redundant cell surface map of tumor parenchyma and tumor stroma
Subtractive proteomic analysis was used to reveal the non-redundant list of human-derived targets identified solely in tumor parenchyma and the mouse-derived targets identified in tumor stroma, respectively. Comparative proteomic analysis that relies on spectral counting to quantify relative changes in protein abundances was used to reveal a non-redundant list of proteins differently regulated between the tumor parenchyma and tumor stroma.
IHC analysis
The 6 μm–thick paraffin-embedded sections of FFPE tissue were dewaxed in three changes of xylene (5 minutes each), hydrated in decreasing concentrations of ethanol (100%, 95%, and 70%), and washed in water. For antigen retrieval, slides submerged in retrieval buffer (Dako, Santa Clara, CA) were heated in a steamer for 15 minutes followed by cooling at room temperature for 15 minutes. Tissue sections were immunostained with primary antibody followed by HRP conjugated polymer secondary antibody amplification kit (DAKO) and DAB substrate. Tissue sections were then counter-stained with hematoxylin, dehydrated, and mounted with cover slips. Omission of the primary antibody served as a negative control. Images of stained tissues were obtained by scanning slides with the ScanScope XT digital slide scanner (Aperio Technologies, Inc., Vista, California) and viewed with the ImageScope program (Aperio Technologies, Inc.). The human MHC-I, CD44, and EPNN5 antibodies are from Abcam (Cambridge, MA); human CD147 is from Cell Signaling Technologies (Danvers, MA); GPNMB is from R&D Systems (Minneapolis, MN), and Cadherin 17 is from Sigma (St. Louis, MO).
IF analysis
A549 cells were cultured on coverslips and washed with cold PBS three times, fixed in 4% formaldehyde, permeabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100, and blocked with Odyssey™ Blocking Buffer (Li-Cor, Cambridge, UK) for 1 hour. Cells were then incubated with primary antibodies overnight at 4°C, followed by incubation with Alexa Fluor 594 conjugated secondary antibodies and phalloidin-FITC (Invitrogen) for 2 hours. Cells were also stained with 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) (Invitrogen) to visualize the nuclei.
Fluorescent microscopy
Wide-field images were acquired on a Nikon Eclipse Ti inverted microscope using a 60x NA 1.42 Plan Apo objective. The microscope was equipped with a 64 μm pixel CoolSNAP HQ2 camera (Photometrics) and Intensilight C-HGFIE illuminator, and 200 nm Z-sections were acquired. ImageJ (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD) software was used to make maximum intensity projections and to assemble figures. Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) that relies on a grid pattern to provide higher resolution images was performed on an N-SIM (Nikon Inc.) equipped with an Apo TIRF 100x NA 1.49 Plan Apo oil objective and 405, 488, 561, and 640 nm excitation lasers as well as a back-illuminated 16 μm pixel EMCCD camera (Andor, DU897). 100 nm Z-sections were acquired in 3D SIM mode, generating 15 images per plane. Channels were corrected for chromatic shift based on the signals of 100 nm multi-spectral fluorescent spheres (TetraSpeck beads, Invitrogen) that were included in the mounting medium. For 3D visualization, we used the NIS-elements software package. To allow for comparison of the signal intensities, cells were imaged using identical imaging settings, and the images were processed identically during figure assembly.
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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Love Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’? Or his mesmerizing ‘Starry Night’ painting? Then head for Tate Britain this Spring for these and many other famous Van Gogh paintings will be on display in a special exhibition devoted to his work, showing how he has influenced generations of artists.
This is just one of several fantastic exhibitions being held in London this spring, providing the ideal opportunity for a weekend break indulging in a spot of culture. The hardest part is deciding which ones to visit, because there is something for everyone from film to art, manga to costume.
The largest ever exhibition of manga art outside Japan is set to open this spring at the British Museum. Many of the items on display have never been seen in Western Europe before, having never left Japan until now. Manga has become one of the most popular forms of graphic art, influencing film, comics and books as well as drawing styles. It has become a multi billion dollar industry. So if manga art is to your taste, then this is definitely an exhibition not to be missed. There are countless drawings and art work by top Manga artists, film stills, and even an opportunity to enter a rendering of the oldest surviving manga bookshop in Tokyo and meet manga editors. Try on costumes and visit a special photo-booth.
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Enjoy a good breakfast at your Kensington hotel restaurant and head over at the V&A museum in South Kensington, the shining stars of Christian Dior and Mary Quant shine out in two headline exhibitions. Both designers have had a revolutionary impact on fashion and design, albeit from different decades and different styles. From the romanticism of Christian Dior’s New Look’s whirling florals and fluttery skirts, to the geometric designs and mini skirts of Mary Quant, these two exhibitions provide a fantastic opportunity to see how the designers created their garments, devised ideas and influenced generations of fashionistas while enjoying the sight of hundreds of vintage garments and accessories.
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Menstruating woman subjected to TSA grope because panty-liner obscured her vagina on pornoscanner. A self-described "rule follower" went through an airport pornoscanner wearing a panty-liner (she was menstruating).
Because the hygienic item obscured the screener's view of her vaginavulva, she was made to endure a humiliating fondling, "so invasive that I was left crying and dealing with memories that I thought had been dealt with years ago of prior sexual assaults. " These new scans are so horrible that if you are wearing something unusual (like a piece of cloth on your panties) then you will be subjected to a search where a woman repeatedly has to check your "groin" while another woman watches on (two in my case - they were training in a new girl - awesome). So please, please, tell the ladies not to wear their liners at the airport (I didn't even have an insert in).
I'm a strong, confident woman; I'm an Army vet (which is why those camo liners crack me up), I work full-time and go to graduate school full-time, I have a wonderful husband, and I don't take any nonsense from anyone. Genital Joke Reportedly Sparked TSA Agent Fight. Opt out, while you still can: Airport security reaches new levels of absurdity. "Ask the Pilot", over at Salon.com, has a great/sad illustration of the absurdity of idiotic policies and slavish adherence to these policies at airport screening: Airport security reaches new levels of absurdity - Ask the Pilot - Salon.com.
Over the past year, I've been "randomly" selected for the virtual stip-search about a half dozen times. Each time, I've opted out and have gone for the pat-down. I don't really have a problem with modesty and would probably streak through the terminal for a reasonable fee, but I do so just to make a point. The machines are pointless security theatre. On my last trip to Ottawa, the CATSA screener guy directed me to the naked machine after I went through the metal detector. "No thanks. TSA Threatens To Sue Guy For Not Agreeing To Having His Groin Touched By TSA Agents.
There's been a lot of talk lately about the new backscatter scanners at airports that take a "naked" image of the passenger, and how airports have now instituted newer and more invasive patdowns for those who refuse to go through the scans.
Many feel that both of these practices goes way too far. A whole bunch of folks have now been submitting the story of one guy who refused to go through the backscatter scanner, and then told the TSA (in a slightly crude manner) that he would not consent to having his groin groped. Specifically, he warned the officer, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested. " This, of course, led to supervisors and supervisors and various reports being written up before he was escorted out of the screening area and told he would not be able to fly. Of course, we've seen similar stories before. At this point, I thought it was all over. Invasion of the body scanners: More tales of terror from the unfriendly skies. TSA encounter at SAN. [These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport.
I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur. I had my phone recording audio and video of much of these events. It can be viewed below. Please spread this story as far and wide as possible. This morning, I tried to fly out of San Diego International Airport but was refused by the TSA. I made my way through the line toward the first line of "defense": the TSA ID checker. A male agent (it was a female who had directed me to the backscatter machine in the first place), came and waited for me to get my bags and then directed me over to the far corner of the area for screening. TSA ejects Oceanside man from airport for refusing security check - SignOnSanDiego.com.
John Tyner of Oceanside.
. / Family photo SAN DIEGO — John Tyner won't be pheasant hunting in South Dakota with his father-in-law any time soon. Tyner was simultaneously thrown out of San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning for refusing to submit to a security check and threatened with a lawsuit and a $10,000 fine if he left. And he got the whole thing on his cell phone. (Listen to the audio) The 31-year-old Oceanside software programmer was supposed to leave from Lindbergh Field on Saturday morning and until a TSA agent directed him toward one of the recently installed full-body scanners, Tyner seemed to be on his way. Tyner balked.
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Peel Agincourt Diary: 23 November
Londoners came out to Blackheath, where the king’s own father met the emperor of Byzantium upon his visit some fifteen years ago, to greet King Henry, whom God has marvelously and miraculously in His clemency led back to triumph from a rebellious and uncontrollable people. The mayor and four and twenty aldermen were dressed in scarlet while lesser persons wore red gowns with parti-colored hoods of dark red and white. thousands gathered, some on horseback. Men of the trades wore their traditional badges and waited in their traditional places.
At ten of the clock the king appeared, coming from Eltham Palace, dressed in purple robes and behind him rode the captive great nobles of France, much as a roman general would parade those who has submitted to him. The mayor greeted the king, thanking him for his labors on behalf of the public and congratulating him on his success, and giving thanks and honor to God for the victory. When this was done, the citizens of London hastened back joyfully to the city to join in the processions and celebrations prepared at great expense for the king’s arrival.
When King Henry came to the tower guarding the approach to London Bridge, he found two giant figures there, each taller than the city walls, on watch for the king’s coming. The giant man held the keys of the city in one hand and a huge axe in the other. The giant woman wore a scarlet mantle and marvelous jewelry. All around them, as well as in and on the tower itself, musicians played trumpets, clarions, and horns. One wall had the words “City of the King of Justice” painted in Latin upon it. Near the center of the bridge, where the roadway can be drawn up, there were two pillars built of wood and covered with linen that had been painted to resemble building stones of white marble and green jasper, At the top of one stood a large antelope, standing erect with its right foot extended, holding a royal scepter. Around the antelope’s neck hung a shield with the royal arms. Upon the other pillar stood a rampant lion, holding a staff and the royal standard. At the end of the bridge was another tower. this one held a statue of St. George in armor within a niche above its arch. The arms of St. George were displayed all about and the statue held a swording in one hand and in the other a scroll bearing the motto, “To God alone, honor and glory.” Above the niche was another motto, “The force of the river makes glad the cry of the city of God” and above that, on top of the outwear, stood an array of spears and flags displaying the royal arms. In the house there was a choir of boys, dressed as angels in pure white gowns and with wings and their hair all entwined with laurel, whom all sang “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
The processions went along the old Roman road that is now Gracechurch Street and was met with cheering and waving crowds. Fathers and mothers raised their babes up to see the king. It seemed that every window held more jubilant city folk and they were in such numbers that I thought the whole of the city’s population might be staying indoors and yet the crowds along the streets were so great that it was difficult for the riders in the king’s procession to pass. Aqueducts had been set up to run with wine which men and women could drink freely. Through all of this King Henry rode with a cold and humorless face such that it seemed that none of the celebration either moved or delighted him.
When the king led the procession into Cornhill, he found that the tower of the water conduit there was covered in crimson cloth. From its center the cloth stretched out to the tops of staffs that were wrapped themselves in crimson cloth and arranges around it. Encircling the tower were the arms of St. George, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Edmund, and the those of England. Above all, between escutcheons of the royal arms was written a quotation from the book of Psalms, “Seeing that the king hopes in the Lord and in the mercy of the Almighty, he shall not be moved.” Under the awning, at the foot of the tower, stood a number of old men with what hair dressed like unto the Old Testament prophets. Their heads were wrapped in crimson turbans. When the king approached them they released a flock of small white birds from cages while singing a Psalm. “Sing to the Lord a new song, Alleluia, for His deeds are marvelous, Alleluia.” The birds flew around the kind and some landed upon him and sat on his shoulders even before they all flew away.
When the procession came to the great conduit in the middle of Cheapside, they found the tower there had also become a pavilion, this one of green cloth decorated with the city’s arms. As the other had been, this tower was decorated with staffs with flags and coats of arms. Under the awning were twelve men dressed like unto the twelve apostles of out Lord, Jesus Christ, and twelve more dressed as past kings of England. All had the names of those they represented written before them. As the king approached they sang another Psalm, “For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and have saved us from those who hate us.” The apostles and kings presented King Henry with baskets of wafers intermingled with leaves of silver and gave onto him a cup filled with the wine that ran from the conduit, all in emulation of Melchizedek, king of Salem, in the Old Testament.
Further along in Cheapside, where one normally found the great Eleanor cross erected by the great King Edward, first of his name, in memory of his first wife Queen Eleanor, there was a three-story castle of wood set across the street. It had towers and ramparts and vaulted arches, some open and wide enough for a man to ride through. The walls were covered with linen that had been painted to appear as blocks of porphyry, marble, and jasper and coats of arms decorated them. Music filled the air from the angels, singers and organs set about. There was even a gatehouse with a bridge to the main castle and over this bridge came a procession of beautiful maidens dressed very chastely in pure white cloth and virgin attire. As they came they sang, in the common tongue, “Welcome Henry the Fifth, king of England and France.” Boys dressed as angels, situated in the castle above joined in the greeting. When they passed six important citizens stepped toward the king and offered to him two basins of gold containing a thousand pounds in gold coins.
The king passed under the great castle and met more crowds beyond. So great was the throng of people on Cheapside, from one end to the other, that the horsemen were only just able to ride through. The upper rooms and windows on both sides of the streets were packed with some of the noblest ladies and womenfolk of the kingdom and men of honor and renown. Here, as before, Sir Geoffrey hurried us ahead of the king so that he might see each part of the festival.
Near the church of St. Paul’s another conduit has been transformed into a fantastical building with arches and niches. The maidens at this one, all dressed in virginal white and wearing symbols of charity, blew gold dust from golden chalices over the king as he passed. Above them, at the top of the tower was a canopy as blue as the sky on which clouds had been painted. It was supported by four gold angels and above it stood a gold archangel. The whole of the canopy covered a magnificent figure of the sun in majesty. Drums beat and virgins sang while boys dressed as angels danced around and musical instruments accompanied it all. No one I met could recall there ever having been a more noble array6 or greater assembly in London. King Henry continued to ride at a dignified pace through all the exultation with never a smile but with an impassive countenance.
The king was greeted by twelve bishops, all in their mites and fine robes, when he reached St.Paul’s Cathedral. The bishops led the king through the nave and up to the high altar where he made an offering in memory of the departed. He made another offering at the shrine of St. Erkenwald behind the high altar and another at the Holy Cross. King Henry asked that a solemn Mass be held at the cathedral for those on both sides who had died at Agincourt. He then went back into the churchyard and remounted his horse. He and his knights rode to Westminster.
At Westminster, I hear, there was another huge crowd of people. The abbot and monks there led the king in procession into the abbey, where he paid his respects at the shrine of St. Edward the Confessor and the tombs of his ancestors. After this, King Henry retired to the palace and away from the celebration and joyful noise that filled the city.
This entry was posted on November 23, 2015, in living history, medieval matters, Uncategorized and tagged Agincourt, Agincourt diary, return to England. Leave a comment
God blessed us on our sea passage and the seas were as calm as might be expected for the time of year, although one of the horses was killed during the unloading when the sling rope broke and it was dashed against the wharf.
Sir Geoffrey wishes to travel to London to see the king’s entry. Despite the king having reached England five days before us, he says we shall be in time for the king is traveling slowly, making many stops for prayer and the handling of royal affairs and such matters as have gone undone since his departure. Old Sir Robert says the king is mostly letting the Londoners have time to receive him right royally.
This entry was posted on November 21, 2015, in living history, medieval matters and tagged Agincourt, Agincourt diary, return to England. Leave a comment
Our small camp is disappearing. Sir Geoffrey has finally secured passage on a ship. There is much to do.
May God grant ius a safe and swift passage.
Yesterday the king arrived at Canterbury. He will attend mass in the cathedral there and pay his respects at the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury. I do not doubt he will also visit the tomb of his great-uncle, Edward of Woodstock, whose great victory at Poitiers was as great as King Henry’s own at Agincourt.
The king will continue his progress toward London. Sir Geoffrey says the king will be making gifts of appreciation along the way to those whose services aided in the success of his adventure. He also says that financial arrangements for the the next campaign are likely already getting underway, for Archbishop Chichele is to attend a convocation at St. Paul’s where he is expected to urge our clergy to grant the king further tenths in addition to the one already pledged to be paid on February 2nd next year.
Word has come that the king reached Dover at nightfall, safe despite terrible storms. God has preserved our king against the elements and clearly has him in His keeping.
The fleet sailing with him was scattered and at least two ships are known to have sunk with the loss of all aboard. Our own voyage home may be delayed with this damage done. I pray that God will take the souls of the lost sailors and their passengers to him. I also pray that we might have less trouble when we journey. I know it will be as He wills.
This entry was posted on November 17, 2015, in living history, medieval matters and tagged Agincourt, Agincourt diary, Calais, return to England. Leave a comment
The king and his prisoners boarded ship this morning to sail with the tide. Fishing boats returned in haste to the port here, their men reporting gales and snow upon the sea. One even says he saw an English ship founder and sink in the storm.
May God keep the king and all our people safe.
The king is to sail for England tomorrow. With King Henry gone, it is certain that the army will not march again this year. God be praised that our trials are coming to an end.
Our company will not sail with the king for there are not enough ships to be had to take all of our men, horses, and prisoners across the sea. Because of this, King Henry has provided that each man shall receive a sum of 2 shillings and a further 2 shillings per horse to pay for the cost of the voyage back to England. Sir Geoffrey and all his gentlemen have gone to see what may be done about arranging our passage.
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America in 1911: Part 4
Part 4 (images 301 to 400) of Jules Huret's l'Amérique Moderne, published in 1911.
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University of Stanford. The Library. -- Not as rich in documents as the one in Berkeley, it still has 75,000 volumes and 22,000 brochures. Its reading room can hold 300 people.
Tacoma. The harbor. -- A manufacturing city with more than 40,000 inhabitants, Tacoma is the center of an active commerce. It is located in a very picturesque location limited to the west by a pristine forest.
California. -- The practical spirit of the Americans has transformed the once sterile lands of California into a sort of terrestrial paradise where the rarest flowers and the most exquisite fruits abound.
California. -- The state of California exports more than 7 million cases of oranges per year, with 50 oranges per case. The Chinese and Japanese are the ones that pick them for one dollar a day.
In California. -- In the Californian region the trees from the north and the tropics prosper equally. In the same way in the public gardens the most different specimens of the human race encounter each other.
A pineapple field. -- One of the most active products grown around San Francisco. This exquisite fruit that comes from the tropics has lost nothing of its aroma in moving to the plains of California.
In California. Agriculture. -- In order to develop their vast territory, the Americans have had to turn to industry, and formidable machines have been built to break down and work the soil.
In California. Agriculture. -- Thus the machine takes the main stage in the different phases of harvesting. It's the machine that cuts down the yellow waves of corn, which cuts down the grain and rolls the sheaves.
Seattle. -- A recently founded city, Seattle is the storehouse for Alaskan gold deposits. Its port which sends out 1000 ships each year has a large refitting basin. It's the center of a commerce in coal.
In California. -- In California as in New Zealand, the rabbit is one of the most terrible enemies of agriculture. The ravages of these rodents have led farmers to organize true scenes of carnage.
The Valley of Death. -- American mountains, especially on the Californian side, contain mining treasures that have begun to be developed. It's not rare to encounter endless trails of carts with heavy convoys of coal or borax.
The seven Cheyenne waterfalls. -- In the region around Colorado Springs these seven staged waterfalls rushing down 150 meters make up one of the rarest attractions on the route towards Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City. The Tabernacle. -- More or less at the center of the city on the area that is sacred to the Mormons (Temple Block) the Tabernacle was constructed where the unsupported arch is one of the largest in the world.
Salt Lake City. The Tabernacle. -- This enormous building in oval form is 76 meters long, 45 meters wide and 21 meters high. It rests on 44 pillars of sandstone and capped with a roof that resembles the shell of a turtle.
Salt Lake City. The Wasatch Mountains. -- On a large plateau (1331 meters high) where the "Salt Lake City" is located, a city of 53,531 inhabitants and capital of the State of Utah, founded in 1847 by the Mormons.
Salt Lake City. Inside of the Tabernacle. -- 12,000 people, 8,000 seated, can take their place in this gigantic hall, where the acoustics are excellent both for preaching as well as music.
Salt Lake City. The Temple. -- Constructed entirely of granite from 1853 to 1893, thanks to 4 million dollars, this grandiose building of 56 by 30 meters rises 64 meters into the sky with the angel statue that Mormons venerate on the top.
Salt Lake City. Mormon children. -- Due to polygamy, the Mormon family increases at a prodigious speed.
Sermon at the Mormon school. -- During religious instruction the popular figures of the founders of Mormonism are evoked: John R. Winder, George A. Smith, Rudger Clawson, Abraham O. Woodruff, John Henry Smith, Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, Joseph F. Smith, John W. Taylor, Marriner W. Merril, Hyrum M. Smith, Reed Smoot, George Teasdale, Matthias F. Cowley, Anthon Lund.
The joys of polygamy. -- American humor takes on Mormonism in these two old caricatures that show in two phases the new wife being set up in the home.
Salt Lake City. City and County Building. -- This ample building which corresponds to our city halls in France dominates Washington Square with its grandiose architecture.
Salt Lake City. Business College: Bank Class. -- Instead of dry theory, the students of the Commercial School work in succession at real counters where they carry out the operations.
Salt Lake City. Business College: Director's Office.
Salt Lake City. Business College: Telegraphy Class. -- The students familiarize themselves with all the equipment of the systems they will one day be called to operate.
Salt Lake City. Business College: Carpentry Class. -- Future carpenters learn the secrets of their art in a workshop equipped with all possible tools.
Salt Lake City. Business College: female section. -- Students are trained in all the trades to assure the material future of the young girls.
Salt Lake City. Brigham Young (1801-1877). -- First governor of the territory of Utah, he proclaimed the dogma of polygamy there in 1852. On the left is the gallery of his wives. On the right, his statue on the Pioneer Monument.
At the gates of the salt desert. -- The more you approach the City of the Mormons the more rarified the vegetation becomes.
Yosemite Valley. The Sentinel. -- This vertigo-inducing cliff rises 2135 meters like a watchman, and is one of the most gripping curiosities in the canyon of Yosemite.
Area around Glenwood Springs. -- The hanging lake is one of the most well-known sites in this area, a hot spring that attracts the rheumatic and those with gout.
Area around Glenwood Springs. -- The overflow of the hanging lake.
Glenisle. -- Located on the route from Denver to Leadville (Colorade and Southern Railway Line) in the Platte Canyon, Glenisle's location is particularly privileged in terms of scenery.
Around Rock Island. -- A number of notable sites used for excursions mark the area of Rock Island, an important center for railways and a city of 19,493 inhabitants on the east bank of the Mississippi.
Garden of the Gods. The rickety boulder. -- In the Cheyenne Canyons there is no more justifiably famous location than the Garden of the Gods, a terrain of 240 hectares bristling with boulders in strange configurations.
Ophir Loop. -- Before reaching the height of Kenosha (3,041 meters) the railway after Denver makes an immense turn into the Platte Canyon.
South Canyon (Cheyenne). The Columns of Hercules. -- The grandiose altitude of these herculean pillars that flank this famous gorge produces a most gripping effect.
Boulder. -- A small center of miners and students, the University of Colorado has 894 registered students. Boulder has developed at the mouth of the Boulder Canyon.
Grand River Canyon. -- Leaving the third tunnel at 400 meters in length, the railway reappears and makes its way again along this marvelous gorge with abrupt walls generally reaching 600 to 800 meters.
Indian encampments in Colorado. -- Various Indian tribes populate the Colorado region, among others the Apaches, Papago, Navajo and Utes. These peoples for the most part live in tents.
Navajo Indians. -- Ink black hair, bony figures, slanting eyes, amber color, the Indians of America clearly belong to the Mongol race.
A Navajo Indian woman. -- Certain industries among the savage peoples are done by the women. Such is the case with the Navajo where skilled workers fashion carpets with vivid colors.
Mokri Indians. -- Like other Indian tribes, the Mokri are very sensitive to music. They often gather together and play a primitive flute for which they have a strong fondness.
Grand River Canyon. -- The route that usually follows the river sometimes has to go through the heart of the rock.
Ouray. -- Nestled in a fold of the Rocky Mountains at 2355 meters of altitude, Ouray is known for the richness of its mines, the abundance of its hot springs and the excellence of its climate.
A view of Ouray. -- In spite of its altitude Ouray is a temperate place to live, thanks to the mountains Hardin and Hayden whose massive rocks stop the glacial winds from the North.
Ouray. Hot springs. -- Ouray only has about 2000 inhabitants, many of whom are miners. Nevertheless, during the spring, rich vacationers from Denver arrive to live in one of its districts.
Ouray stagecoach. -- Robust wagons with six horses climb the tough slops of the Rocky Mountains to bring tourists from the plains to Ouray.
A trench in the snow. -- During the winter months access to Ouray is particularly difficult. Sometimes the stagecoach has to open a passage through the snow avalanches that obstruct the route.
A dangerous turn. -- Cut into the flank of the mountain throughout almost its entire length, the route to Oray sometimes offers an impressive view.
The cliffs of Box Canyon. -- The stagecoach of Ouray often goes through romantic sites with a savage beauty.
Mule convoy in the mountains. -- The difficult situation in Ouray gives rise to needing to use the backs of mules to bring merchandise and supplies the population needs.
Mount Potosi. -- In the mountainous region that the Potosi dominates over, human industry grows its conquests day by day. Today the grandiose beauty of the landscapes is traversed by elevated trains, carrying minerals.
In the Rocky Mountains. A difficult passage. -- There are certain regions in these mountains that have to be crossed on the back of mules. The passage sometimes becomes entirely impossible to get through in the winter at certain points obstructed by the snow.
Seekers of gold. -- Very abundant in gold mineral, the Rocky Mountains attract a cosmopolitan, resolute and unscrupulous population eager to seek out the precious metal.
The Revenue Tunnel Mine, close to Ouray. -- The mineral development that this photograph shows is one of the oldest in Colorado, having existed for thirty years.
The Mines of Red Mountain. -- The mass of Red Mountain is one of the most active and abundant mining centers in North America.
Ouray Congress Mine. -- Mining development spaced through the Red Mountain form an inhabited center of the same name. This tiny town is located at an altitude of 3500 meters.
Marshall Pass. -- Marshall Pass is one of the most elevated passes of the main ridge of the Rocky Mountains. Despite the abundance of snow in winter, a narrow railway makes its way through during all seasons.
Ute Pass. Near Manitou. -- This picturesque passage between the colossal walls of the Rockies abounds in mineral springs.
Mountain landscapes. -- The way through the Rockies provides the tourist unforgettable sensations by the infinite variety of views the mountains present.
An escape into the valley. -- While the train climbs and wheezes up the route, you look down to see the immense valley, green and fertile, where the Denver and the Rio Grande flow.
A mine in the Rockies. -- The Rocky Mountains, especially in the northern states in America, abound in mines of silver and gold.
Pittsburgh. -- In the industrial war with the Old World, the gigantic city of iron takes the front. It threatens the best-tooled centers in Europe with its formidable production.
Hemp. Preparation workshop. -- There is no industry in Europe that does not have a corresponding one across the sea.
Hemp. Weaving shop. -- The textile industry employs women for the most part whose natural dexterity is increased tenfold thanks to these machines.
Steel. -- The deep perspective of this workshop, teeming with artisans of all ages, gives an exact enough image of the tools and richness of personnel that most American factories employ.
Steel. -- It's in these immense workshops that a population of workers turns, files, polishes the thousand detached pieces that will then take their exact place in the complicated organism of powerful machines.
Electric planes. -- These powerful and quick pieces of equipment that save time and work show the application of generators as the driving force for the industry.
Stearin. -- With a container full of molten wax, the worker moves on to the alignment of the molds where the candles take on their definitive form. The rapidity of the operation is extraordinary.
A pile driver. -- This untiring worker, automatic and gigantic in size, has a force of 2500 km, but adjustable to 1 kg thanks to an ingenious mechanism. It is not unique in this factory, which has 25 others of equal force and output.
Oil wells in the sea. -- This richness has singularly aided in the industrial expansion of America. Each state by the diversity of its subterranean treasures contributes to the prosperity of the country. This patch of oil is Summerland, 6 miles from Santa Barbara in California.
Weaving. -- The threads are wound automatically on gigantic spools, at a rate hardly sufficient to feed the devouring consumption of the machines they are destined for.
A forge. -- This immense hall with cars laden with material for each forge gives a clear enough idea of the intense metallurgical life taking place across the sea.
Packaging butter. -- In Chicago all the movements are done with a marvelous speed and uniformity. The cubes of butter of equal size are packaged and stickered after being tested.
Quenching of steel. -- Quenching at an American cutlery business. These tanks await the blades to which they will give the wanted resistance and suppleness.
A broom factory. -- The Americans do not concern themselves with brooms being made blindly. Here the choice of branches, their assembly and adjustment is done automatically.
Technological Institute of Pittsburgh. -- The large industrial city is equipped with all the latest technical perfections. A special machine functions here to test the resistance of materials.
Steam boiler. -- This series of steam boilers - perhaps the most formidable in existence - have 11,000 horsepower together. The motor force employed by the whole factory only reaches 8,000 horsepower.
A perforator. -- This extremely ingenious machine is equipped with 21 drills that can punch 21 holes in a plate at one time. On top of this two plates at a time can be bored into.
Bridges in America. -- The Americans have become masters of the art of engineering, especially concerning the construction of metallic bridges.
Schmidt Bridge. -- This metal bridge between two mountains has admirable boldness and lightness.
Pueblo. -- The city of Pueblo located on the banks of the Arkansas at 1,423 meters in altitude, is a commercial and manufacturing village of about 30,000 inhabitants.
Bridge under construction. -- This photograph shows the detail of the construction of a bridge. Thanks to the cables cast over the river, the central deck will be placed as a single piece.
A city forms. -- The cities in America develop with a stupefying rapidity. Here the large buildings poke out already over the low and modest uniformity of the first constructions.
A provisional theater. -- One of the first concerns of the Americans when they found a city is to set up a makeshift theater, often in the open, in anticipation of the construction of a more permanent building.
The St. Louis Expo. -- The French pavilion at the St. Louis Expo was a very exact replica of Petit-Trianon of Versailles.
St. Louis Expo. -- The central pavilion of this expo had a monumental aspect, with its grandiose dome and two wings encompassing a beautiful waterfall and multiple water jets.
The Mississippi. -- This magnificent river, nicknamed the Father of the Waters, is the largest in north america.
Crocodiles. -- On the banks of the Mississippi towards the mouth abound alligators of the largest size. They sleep in groups on the sand.
Driftwood. -- Forests being operated on are in great number on the banks of the Mississippi. The transport of wood is done using rafts that go down the river down to the embarkation point.
A pontoon on the river. -- On the wharves of Saint Louis the heaviest cargoes can make their way onto ships that bring them across the river.
St. Louis. The port. -- The river in front of St. Louis is of imposing size and the movement of the boats brings a great deal of animation to its quays.
Kansas City. -- This very important city, the second largest in the state of Missouri, is a very active manufacturing center. There you can see very beautiful gardens, such as the Pasco or Washington Park.
A ranch. -- In the immense plains of the far west an infinite number of herds are placed under the surveillance of gardiens universally known under the name cowboys.
Types of cowboys. -- Cowboys, violent and noisy and pugnacious, are the best of riders who carry out equestrian feats that are truly stupefying.
Throwing a lasso. -- When a cow is running away, the cowboy unrolls his lasso. The long cord cleaves the air and with a stunning precision takes down the body of the tamed beast.
Training. -- The horses cowboys use are remarkable for their intelligence and docility, but that only takes place through a tiring and difficult training.
The cowboy. -- The cowboy is the true king of the far west. His picturesque regalia, strange customs, bad personality and insane bravery have made him famous in both worlds.
State Street, Chicago. -- State Street goes through the city in all its length, parallel to the large Michigan Avenue. It is one of the most commercial streets in Chicago.
Chicago seen from the lake. -- On the banks of the lake rise buildings with an imposing architecture. The most important of them is the Auditorium, a hotel and a theater at the same time, with a tower reaching 82 meters.
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Yesterday The Conservative Treehouse posted a transcript of an interview by Sean Hannity of Congressman Devin Nunes. Congressman Nunes related the history and origins of the spying on the Trump campaign by members of the Obama administration.
This is the essence of the story:
Finally Devin Nunes is outlining what CTH has been calling attention to for over two years. The spying began in 2015. “Spygate” was part of the larger “Russian Conspiracy and Collusion” operation. This was all planned well in advance.
The spying began in 2015, and was part of the collaborative process -and reason- for Nellie Ohr to join the political opposition research being conducted by Fusion GPS.
CIA Director John Brennan had his OCONUS lures, Joseph Mifsud and Stefan Halper on standby awaiting targeting information. They needed targets.
Fusion-GPS and Nellie Ohr were researching targets based on candidates. Donald Trump was the most likely candidate to win the GOP nomination. Trump was the focus of identifying targets.
As the Fusion and Ohr research was ongoing, and when it became transparent that Trump was going to be the victor in the Primaries; the media began demanding to know who were the foreign policy and national security advisors to candidate Trump. This DNC inspired effort to demand names and lists was in alignment with Brennan, Fusion and Ohr.
Once they had some names identified (March/April ’16), ie. Papadopoulos, Flynn, Manafort and Page,… Brennan tasked Mifsud and Halper to run the spygate operation.
In/around late June and early July of ’16, Brennan was in position to turn over the outcome of his operation to the FBI via an origination EC memo.
[April 22nd 2018] According to House Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes; who is also a member of the intelligence oversight ‘Gang-of-Eight’; that EC contains intelligence material that did not come through “official intelligence channels” into the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
The EC was not an official product of the U.S. intelligence community. Additionally, Brennan was NOT using official partnerships with intelligence agencies of our Five-Eyes partner nations; and he did not provide raw intelligence –as an outcome of those relationships– to the FBI. {Go Deep}
CIA Director Brennan formatted the same intelligence to the White House where Susan Rice and Samantha Powers were doing the unmasking to facilitate the leaks.
The FBI took Brennan’s two-page “EC” memo and originated the official counterintelligence operation known as “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31st, 2016.
FBI Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok wrote out the operational instructions and objectives for the operation. As noted by Trey Gowdy, included in those instructions was the targeting of the “Trump Campaign” specifically.
”’The intelligence outcomes were then continually distributed to the White House and in August 2016 to the Gang-of-Eight as noted by Brennan’s testimony.
Brennan: [13:35] “Third, through the so-called Gang-of-Eight process we kept congress apprised of these issues as we identified them.”
“Again, in consultation with the White House, I PERSONALLY briefed the full details of our understanding of Russian attempts to interfere in the election to congressional leadership; specifically: Senators Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr; and to representatives Paul Ryan, Nancy Pelosi, Devin Nunes and Adam Schiff between 11th August and 6th September [2016], I provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members.”
“Given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counter-intelligence case [that means the FBI], involving an ongoing Russian effort, to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress; each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member.”… (LINK)
This is thoroughly disgusting. It is a total misuse of the power of the government. There should be a lot of people held accountable for breaking the law for political purposes.
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Stories for November 2015
Colsa Corp.'s San Diego Operation to Perform Bulk of $44.8 Million Navy Contract
Colsa Corp. of Huntsville, Ala. received a SPAWAR contract that could be worth up to $44.8 million over five years if the U.S. Navy exercises all of its options.
By Brad Graves
Two GA-ASI Execs Named to Museum's Hall of Fame
Two executives with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. — maker of the Predator family of unmanned military aircraft — have been named to the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Jerome's Furniture to be Presenting Partner of Petco Park's Holiday Wonderland
Jerome’s Furniture has signed on as the presenting partner of the Holiday Wonderland in Petco Park, the San Diego Padres announced.
By Michael Lipkin
SpectraScience and JagWorldwide Enter Into Distribution Agreement
San Diego medical device maker SpectraScience Inc. announced that it has entered a distribution agreement with JagWorldwide Ltd. to introduce its products in the Middle East.
By Brittany Meiling
New Science Facility Opens at Point Loma Nazarene University
Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego has opened its recently completed new $40 million science facility, a project that included related renovations at the Christian university.
By Lou Hirsh
Four Local Office Properties Receive BOMA Awards
The San Diego chapter of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) recently honored operators of four local commercial office properties at its annual The Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) and member awards gala.
HUYA Bioscience Announces Alliance with Korea Drug Development Fund
San Diego’s HUYA Bioscience International on Monday announced a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Drug Development Fund (KDDF) to advance Korean development and commercialization of health care products for the global market, according to a news release.
By Katie Callahan
Oceanside Apartments Sold for $18.2 Million
The Apartment Co. of Encinitas has purchased the 100-unit Oceana Apartment Homes in Oceanside for $18.2 million, according to Institutional Property Advisors (IPA), a division of brokerage company Marcus & Millichap.
Human Longevity Acquires Cypher Genomics
Human Longevity, a tech-driven genomics company founded and led by pioneering geneticist J. Craig Venter, has acquired San Diego’s Cypher Genomics for an undisclosed amount.
Court Approves Sale of 8 More Local Haggen Stores
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved the sale of 47 more Haggen Inc. grocery stores in five states, including eight in San Diego County. Financial terms of separate purchase agreements involving several retailers were not immediately available.
County’s Construction Starts Down 30 Percent in First 10 Months of 2015
San Diego County’s construction starts declined 30 percent in value from a year ago in the first 10 months of 2015, to just over $2.5 billion, according to the latest figures from Dodge Data & Analytics.
OneRoof Energy Announces $20M Loan Facility
OneRoof Energy, Inc., a residential solar services provider, announced a loan agreement with North Sky Capital’s Alliance Fund II and will provide the company a $20 million loan facility, according to a news release.
La Mesa Apartment Community Sells for $8.9 Million
Stricker Family Partnership of San Bernardino has purchased the 45-unit The Ridge on Jackson apartment community in La Mesa for $8.9 million, according to real estate services company HFF Inc., which arranged financing for the deal.
The Business Calendar for the Week of November 30, 2015
Some of the business events planned in the county for the week of November 30, 2015, and beyond.
By Steve Adamek
Local Firm Acquires Chula Vista Medical Office Building for $4.5 Million
An entity that includes San Diego-based Douglas Wilson Cos. has acquired the Bonita View Plaza medical office building in Chula Vista for $4.5 million, the real estate services company announced
Bird Golf Academy Partners with Rams Hill Golf Club
The founders of Bird Golf Academy announced a partnership with Rams Hill Golf Club, according to a news release.
Miramar College Opening New $34M Science Building
San Diego Miramar College is opening a $34 million science building addition to its campus.
Why Studying Abroad Is Good for S.D. Business
Businesses in San Diego and throughout the United States are positioning themselves to compete with the rest of the world. As they prepare to face the challenges of a global marketplace, companies are seeking employees with a unique set of competencies. Corporations are searching for individuals who possess the skills to successfully navigate a diverse international terrain.
By Aaron Bruce
Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad Get Some Helping Hands
The La Costa 35 Athletic Club, a local nonprofit, hosted its 5th Annual Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament, benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad. Since its first tourney, the program has more than doubled in attendance and raised more than $100,000. Tournament Director Rob Holzman said there were 20 poker tables, 180 players and net proceeds of more than $45,000 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Carlsbad — a record.
By Stephanie Glidden
Riley Assumes Role of President for San Diego Bar Association
Heather Riley, a partner at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, is the new president of the San Diego County Bar Association. Riley is awesome.
By Randy Frisch
The Union-Tribune Finds Four Suitable Stories in Downtown
Earlier this year, downtown San Diego saw a major changing of the media guard when The Daily Transcript vacated its longtime home on Third Avenue — downsizing and moving into smaller quarters on Fourth Avenue following its acquisition by Daily Journal Corp. of Los Angeles.
Movement in The Market
PROPERTY: Economic Activity and Space Demands Raise Rents But Also Motivate Landlords to Improve Offerings
Many San Diego County office tenants landed some great “Class A” space at bargain prices in the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession of 2009-2010. Now, many of those businesses are facing what local commercial brokers aptly describe as “sticker shock,” as leases signed during that period come up for renewal.
Lenders Work to Meet Retailers’ Loan Demand During Holidays
FINANCE: Inventory Lending Can Be Risky, Attracts Alternative Lenders
The holiday shopping season can be extremely lucrative for retailers. Sales during November and December account for up to 40 percent of some retailers’ annual revenue, according to the National Retail Federation. And a Gallup poll this month showed U.S. shoppers anticipate spending an average of $830 this holiday, the highest spending estimate since 2007.
Blue Takes a Look at an Interesting Past, a Fascinating Future
Linden S. Blue makes few public appearances and even fewer public speeches.
Executive Q&A J. Jean Cui, Co-Founder of TP Therapeutics
J. Jean Cui could be the poster girl for accomplished women in science, but good luck convincing her of that.
Local Cruise Business Appears to Be Moving in Right Direction
TOURISM: Improving Atmosphere, Economy in Mexico Will Boost Travel
It won’t soon become the economic juggernaut that it was in pre-recession days, when it supported 3,000 jobs and generated an estimated $300 million annually for the region’s economy, but port calls and other indicators suggest a distinct recovery in the making for San Diego’s long-ailing cruise ship industry.
Activist Shareholders Look to Change Direction, Directors at Co.
LEADERSHIP: PICO Announces Stock Buyback; Some Seek Board Change
PICO Holdings Inc., a publicly traded firm based in La Jolla with interests in water resources and home building, slashed its CEO’s salary and announced a $50 million stock buyback campaign this month as activist investors threatened to oust PICO’s board over declining share prices.
Sequencing of Embryos Enhances Chance of Having Healthy Baby
BIOTECH: Co.’s Process Used for In Vitro Fertilization
One of the more controversial topics in diagnostics today is the practice of reproductive genetic testing, which science fiction would have us believe will lead to designer babies with perfect features.
Two Thumbs Up For Innovative New Infrastructure
We need it, maybe we don’t No. 1: The Cross-Border Xpress in Otay Mesa opens Dec. 9.
By Nels Jensen
New Novatel Leader To Decide on Direction
TECH: Recent Acquisitions, SaaS Options And Hardware Challenges on Plate
After a tumultuous couple of years, Novatel Wireless Inc. is still trying to find its identity.
Boffo Experience Drives High-End Niche
HOSPITALITY: Companies Furiously Updating Theaters
Fresh out of college in 1993, Adolfo Fastlicht joined with three friends in Mexico City to form Cinemex, taking on several longer-established Mexican theater chains to eventually offer a more upscale, luxury version of moviegoing.
Amplyx Takes Aim At Antifungals
PHARMA: Puts Big Series B, Experienced Team Into Fight
Biotech investors seeking big returns don’t usually gravitate toward drugs that treat fungal infections. But increasingly, serial entrepreneurs (and their financial backers) see antifungals as a decent business opportunity. The latest infusion of cash against superbug strains goes to San Diego’s Amplyx Pharmaceuticals.
Co. Takes the Measure Of Sponsored Athletes
DATA: Brand Mentions, Fan Interaction Tabulated
Houston Rockets star shooting guard James Harden inked a $200 million deal this summer to promote Adidas sneakers for the next 13 years. Nike, Harden’s former sponsor, declined to match Adidas’ offer for the three-time all star. Did one of the shoe companies make a huge mistake?
Uniform Approach
DEFENSE: Navy’s New CANES Network Brings IT Versatility and Unity
The USS Carl Vinson is 1,092 feet long, weighs 97,000 tons and serves as a floating airport.
Home Prices Increased 6.6 Percent in Year Ending in September
San Diego’s home prices increased 6.6 percent in the year ending in September, according to an index measuring housing prices, continuing to exceed the average national bump.
Alastin Skincare Inc. Names New President/CEO
Alastin Skincare Inc., a specialty skin care company in Carlsbad, announced the appointment of Diane Goostree as its new president and CEO.
UCSD Awarded NASA Space Technology Research Grant
NASA has selected 15 university-led proposals, including one from the University of California, San Diego, for the study of early-stage space technology innovations, awarding as much as $500,000 each.
New Hilton Garden Inn Hotel Opening at Old Town
Operators before year’s end plan to open the new Hilton Garden Inn San Diego Old Town, billed by the developer as the first completely new hotel to be built in Old Town in more than 12 years.
SOCi Appoints New CFO
SOCi, a developer of software solutions for social media and marketing management, announced that it has appointed Michael Massey to be its new chief financial officer.
New Restaurant with Horse Race Betting Opens in Downtown San Diego
Sportech Venues California, a subsidiary of U.K.-based Sportech PLC, has opened Striders, a new downtown San Diego restaurant and high-end lounge where guests can legally wager on horse racing.
Petco Being Acquired for $4.6 Billion
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have signed an agreement to acquire the holding company for San Diego-based Petco Animal Supplies Inc. for $4.6 billion.
Kratos Chosen as Subcontractor on $44 Million Deal
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. said Nov. 23 that its Defense & Rocket Support Services Division was chosen as a subcontractor on a multimillion-dollar project.
Key Qualcomm Executive Hired Away by Intel Corp.
Intel Corp. has hired former Qualcomm Inc. executive Murthy Renduchintala.
Biocept's Liquid Biopsy OK'd For Use by 2 PPO Networks
Molecular diagnostic firm Biocept announced Monday that it has signed two new agreements with preferred provider organization networks — Fortified Provider Network and Three Rivers Provider Network.
Perry Nisen Named to California Life Sciences Association Board
The California Life Sciences Association announced Monday that Perry Nisen, CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, will join its board of directors.
Court Approves Sale of Eight More Local Haggen Stores
Port District Approves Lease for InterContinental Hotel at Lane Field Site
Port district commissioners have approved a lease for a planned 400-room luxury InterContinental Hotel, to be developed on the southern portion of the former Lane Field ballpark site in downtown San Diego.
Airport Selects Design Concept for $2.2 Billion Terminal 1 Project
San Diego International Airport officials have chosen a design concept from among five alternatives for a planned $2.2 billion redevelopment and reconfiguration of the aging Terminal 1.
Holiday Bowl Still Looking for Sponsor
The Holiday Bowl is still on the hunt for a named sponsor with less than six weeks to go before the Dec. 30 kickoff.
County's October Unemployment Rate Increases to 5%
San Diego’s unemployment rate climbed back up to 5 percent in October, up from 4.6 percent in September, as the county’s job growth failed to keep pace with an expanding labor force.
Convention Center Board Names Davis as Interim GM
Industry veteran Joe Davis has been appointed to serve an interim general manager of the San Diego Convention Center Corp., the nonprofit public benefit corporation that operates the waterfront facility on behalf of the city.
Some of the final business events planned in the county for 2015.
Magazine Names San Diego/Tijuana Among Top 20 Travel Locales
National Geographic Traveler magazine has named the San Diego/Tijuana binational region among the world’s top 20 travel destinations for 2016, the San Diego Tourism Authority announced.
Otonomy Enrolling Patients for Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Ménière’s Disease Treatment
San Diego-based Otonomy Inc., a company that makes treatments for the middle and inner ear, is enrolling the first patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial of OTO-104 for Ménière’s disease, an inner ear disorder characterized by severe dizziness, vertigo, and gradual hearing loss.
West Health Institute Will Donate Autism Research Assets
San Diego’s Gary and Mary West Health Institute will donate its technical and clinical assets of its autism research program to Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences in order to develop more effective interventions for the disorder.
Youngevity International Reports Q3 Revenue of $41.3M
Youngevity International Inc., a Chula Vista-based global direct marketer for nutritional and lifestyle products and producer of gourmet coffees, increased its third quarter revenue 9.9 percent from the like quarter of the previous year to $41.3 million.
Board Appointment Gives AnaptysBio Inc. More Commercialization Experience
AnaptysBio Inc., a biotech developing antibody products for inflammation and cancer, announced the appointment of James A. Schoeneck to its board of directors.
Incapta Inc. Names Music Exec to Its Board
Incapta Inc., a media holding company with a focus on mobile apps and video games, announced music executive Julian Boothe will join its board in January.
Convention Center Board Names Joe Davis as Interim GM
Industry veteran Joe Davis has been appointed to serve as interim general manager of the San Diego Convention Center Corp., the non-profit public benefit corporation that operates the waterfront facility on behalf of the city.
Otonomy Inc. Enrolling Patients for Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Ménière’s Disease Treatment
Travel Magazine Names San Diego/Tijuana Among Top 20 Travel Locales
Business Calendar for Week of November 23, 2015
Some of the upcoming business events planned in the county for the end of the year.
Holiday Bowl Is Still Looking for Sponsor
West Health Institute to Donate Autism Research Technology
Amazon Extends One-Hour Delivery Service to S.D. Market; Google Expands Next-Day Service
Seattle-based Amazon Inc. has expanded its one-hour delivery service to the San Diego market, offering one-hour delivery of grocery items to customers of its Prime services.
Memjet Technology Wins Injunction Against German Subsidiary of HP, Inc.
A German court granted San Diego-based Memjet Technology Ltd. a preliminary injunction against HP Deutschland GmbH, a German subsidiary of HP, Inc., according to a news release from Memjet.
Changing Tuna Industry for Ocean and Fishermen
The canned tuna industry must do better for workers and our oceans. The United States is the largest canned tuna market in the world, yet tuna on store shelves may be caught by workers who are abused at sea. Testimonials from tuna fishermen described incidents of inadequate or nonexistent pay, beatings with weapons, food and sleep deprivation, and even murder at sea.
By Annie Leonard and Marc Perrone
HUYA Bioscience Gives Even More to Fight Against Cancer
HUYA Bioscience International recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the company’s founding at the US Grant hotel in San Diego. The event included live entertainment and video greetings from colleagues and key opinion leaders in Japan and China. As part of HUYA’s mission to develop new treatments for cancer, the company announced that it has donated $20,000 to Breast Cancer Angels, a nonprofit providing financial and emotional assistance to breast cancer patients and their families. The organization accepted the donation and shared its experiences with the guests.
South Korean Officials Investigating Qualcomm
TECH: Co. Calls Action a ‘Serious Misapplication of Law’
Qualcomm Inc. said that South Korean authorities are investigating the company. The news, announced late Nov. 17, sent Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) shares down by 9 percent by the middle of the trading day Nov. 18.
Salk Institute Names Elizabeth Blackburn as Its President
BIOTECH: Nobel Laureate Served as a Nonresident Fellow at Salk
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has named Nobel Prize-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn as president.
Mutual Benefit
FINANCE: Zebit’s Payroll Lending System Gives Employees a New Work Perk And Retailers a Piece of the Profits on Purchases
When San Diego-based lender Global Analytics bought a Philadelphia startup last year, it billed the acquisition as the perfect jumping off point to introduce its product to U.S. borrowers.
Downtown Must Prepare for Growing Millennial Population
WORKFORCE: Offices Need to Reflect Changing Work-Life Balance
Downtown property owners may need to step up efforts to provide creative office space and other work-life amenities favored by the fast-growing and increasingly influential group known as millennials, based on recent demographic findings by the Downtown San Diego Partnership and University of California, San Diego. Partnership President and CEO Kris Michell said the nonprofit business advocacy group commissioned a study to determine how the 18-to-34 demographic will influence what has already been projected as an overall doubling of downtown’s current residential population by the year 2050, when it is expected to reach nearly 61,611.
Chairmen’s RoundTable Has Sage Advice for Strategic Challenges
CONSULTING:Mostly Retired CEOs Mentor Qualified Local Companies
The Chairmen’s RoundTable, a team of 45 seasoned business executives, is a free advisory group that routinely comes to the aid of small- and medium-sized businesses that are facing strategic growth challenges.
By Emmet Pierce
Sharp Selects Design-Build Team for Hospital Expansion
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is building a $239 million hospital to keep up with demand in South County.
Valley View Casino Center Ups Its Game With New Amenities
ENTERTAINMENT: Venue Aims to Deliver Fans A ‘Staples Center Experience’
The Valley View Casino Center, older than the aging Qualcomm Stadium, was due for a facelift. Besides the name change from the San Diego Sports Arena and the installation of LCD screens at the entrances, the exterior hasn’t changed much since the venue opened in 1966.
Through Current Customers, Englue Inc. Finds Future Prospects
SOFTWARE: B2B Leads Generated and Prioritized for Clients
“Pandora for marketers.” That is how the people at Englue Inc. bill their business-to-business offering.
Fragmob and Utah-Based Deductr to Partner
San Diego-based Fragmob has teamed up with Utah-based Deductr, the two companies said Nov. 18.
Supporters of Hotel Tax Hike Launching Signature Drive
Supporters of a ballot initiative seeking to raise the city of San Diego’s hotel tax, to fund potential projects including a convention center expansion, said they plan to begin collecting signatures on Nov. 20.
AmpliPhi Biosciences to Conduct Clinical Trial With University of Adelaide
AmpliPhi Biosciences announced that it has signed a clinical trial agreement with the University of Adelaide to conduct a Phase 1 trial of bacteriophage therapy.
San Diego County Credit Union Membership Up 10 Percent
San Diego County Credit Union’s membership grew to 300,000 customers by the end of September, a 10 percent increase from the year before, the credit union said in its third quarter earnings report.
Manchester Grand Hyatt Names New GM
Matt Adams has been appointed area vice president and general manager of downtown’s Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, property owner Host Hotels & Resorts announced.
Users Conserve Water But Will Still Get Soaked
While the term “PR disaster” often is applied to scandals or crisis situations, the most interesting public relations cases are the slowest-moving ones. Sometimes, they play out like the cruise ship heading for the iceberg — there seems like plenty of time to make course corrections, and sometimes a desperate move avoids disaster, but sometimes the obstacles below the surface are too vast to avoid or the captain isn’t up to the challenge of avoiding a collision. But enough about the Chargers.
Carlsbad Puts Lagoon Project on Feb. Ballot
DEVELOPMENT: Decision Calls for Special Election
The Carlsbad City Council has voted to place a controversial retail and open-space development planned near the Agua Hedionda Lagoon on the ballot for a special election scheduled for Feb. 23, 2016.
Instrumental Role in ‘Rock Band’ May Pay
TECH: Mad Catz’s Peripherals Well Positioned to Be a Hit
Mad Catz Interactive Inc. has circled December on its calendar. The San Diego business hopes people celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah might want to add “Rock Band 4” to their holiday festivities.
Track Team
REGULATIONS: 3E Co. Documents Compliance and Supply Chains for Firms
So what’s in your supply chain? Regulators want to know. More and more, the retail public wants to know. 3E Co. sees opportunity in that hunger for information. Since 1988, Carlsbad-based 3E has helped other companies comply with hazardous material laws and documentation chores. But as it winds up its fifth year under a new corporate parent — and its second year under CEO Uday Virkud — it’s exploring new avenues for revenue.
Insurers Adapt to Sharing Economy
SERVICE: Policyholders, Cos. Find It’s Complicated
The companies emerging out of the sharing economy offer ways for users to make money using previously untapped resources, such as renting out an unused apartment for the weekend through Airbnb or inviting others over for a restaurant-quality meal with Feastly.
Ballast’s $1B Sale Marks Sea Change
BREWING: Deal Could Leave Transformed Scene in Its Wake
Industry observers say the $1 billion tab that Constellation Brands Inc. plans to pay for San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits marks a significant milestone for the region’s burgeoning and maturing craft beer industry.
Union-Tribune Moving to Downtown San Diego in 2016
The San Diego Union-Tribune will be relocating from its longtime Mission Valley home to a downtown office high-rise at 600 B St., with a move-in expected in May 2016, tower owner Lincoln Property Co. announced.
Cristiano Amon Promoted to EVP at Qualcomm
Qualcomm Inc. said Nov. 19 that it named Cristiano Amon executive vice president for Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and president of its Qualcomm CDMA Technologies segment. He previously served as co-president of the segment, with Murthy Renduchintala.
Halozyme Therapeutics to Open Satellite Office in San Francisco
Halozyme Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing novel oncology and drug-delivery therapies, announced it will expand and open a satellite office in San Francisco.
Grocer Aldi to Open First Local Store in Vista
Discount grocer Aldi Inc. announced that its first San Diego County store is planned for 1750 University Ave. in Vista, though the retailer did not disclose an opening timetable.
Intuit Buying Carmel Valley Office Campus for $262.3 Million
Intuit Inc., maker of popular financial software including TurboTax, Quicken and QuickBooks, is purchasing the four-building Carmel Valley office campus that it currently leases for $262.3 million, according to CoStar Group.
AMN Healthcare Acquires Kansas-Based Staffing Firm for $160 Milllion
AMN Healthcare Services Inc. announced that it will acquire global health care staffing firm Lenexa, Kan.-based B.E. Smith for $160 million in cash.
Sabra Matovsky Tapped to Lead New Primary Care Network
The Council of Community Clinics announced the formation of a new primary care network called Integrated Health Partners, and the appointment of senior health care executive Sabra Matovsky to lead the new venture.
Carlsbad Putting Lagoon Project on Feb. Election Ballot
Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn Named Salk Institute President
South Korea Authorities Investigating Qualcomm Inc.
Qualcomm Inc. said that South Korean authorities are investigating the company.
Via-Sat, Jet Aviation to Collaborate
ViaSat Inc. and Jet Aviation St. Louis announced plans to collaborate on a hybrid radome that will accommodate both Ku-band and Ka-band satellite communications.
Port Commissioners Choose Brigantine Plan to Redevelop Anthony’s Site
San Diego port commissioners have approved a staff recommendation favoring Brigantine Inc.’s proposal to redevelop the current downtown waterfront site of the iconic Anthony’s Fish Grotto.
Novatel Wireless Raises Revolving Line of Credit to $48 Million
Novatel Wireless Inc. said Nov. 17 that its bank raised the amount of its revolving line of credit to $48 million.
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Upholds KFx Medical Corp. Patent Infringement Award
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition by Arthrex, a Florida-based orthopedic medical device company, to review a case where damages for patent infringement were awarded to San Diego-based KFx Medical Corp.
ID Analytics Names Eric Lindeen VP of Marketing
ID Analytics, a consumer risk management firm, announced the appointment of Eric Lindeen as the vice president of marketing, reporting directly to the CEO Scott Carter.
Business Confidence Lowest Since 2013, Chamber Survey Finds
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s measure of business confidence fell to its lowest point since the survey began in 2013, following three months of year-long lows as businesses reported low expectations for future revenue growth.
General Atomics, Biotech Firms Sign New Leases
Property owners and brokers recently announced significant lease deals in Poway and Carlsbad, including General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.’s move to take 112,000 square feet in a Poway transaction valued at $4.2 million.
Viking Therapeutics Files IND Application
Viking Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical firm, announced Tuesday that it has filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a product candidate meant to treat high cholesterol and fatty liver disease.
Luxury InterContinental Hotel Planned for Former Lane Field Site
A 400-room luxury InterContinental Hotel is planned for the southeast portion of the former Lane Field ballpark site in downtown San Diego, where construction is well underway to the north on a dual-branded Marriott hotel.
Illumina Inc. to Get Spot on Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index
Illumina Inc. will get a place on the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index after the close of trading on Wednesday, Nov. 18.
Miramar Federal Credit Union Granted SBA Lender Status
The Small Business Administration has granted Miramar Federal Credit Union SBA lender status, the credit union said Monday, allowing it to participate in SBA-backed loans.
MaxLinear Shares Trading at Best Level in Five Years
Shares in Carlsbad chipmaker MaxLinear Inc. were trading in early November at levels not seen in more than five years.
Ambrx Names Chief Medical Officer
La Jolla-based Ambrx announced the appointment of Dr. Yong-Jiang Hei as chief medical officer, reporting directly to CEO Tiecheng "Alex" Qiao.
Sharp Chula Vista Announces Plans to Build $239 Million Hospital
Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center announced plans Monday to build a $239 million hospital called Ocean View Tower in South County.
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Court Approves Gelson’s, Smart & Final Purchases of Haggen Stores
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved separate agreements by Gelson’s Markets to acquire eight California stores being vacated by Haggen Inc. for $36 million; and by Smart & Final to buy 28 stores in the state for $56 million. The transactions involve 13 stores in San Diego County.
Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal to Speak at USD
Stanley McChrystal, the retired U.S. Army general, will speak about organizational leadership and his new book at 7:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20 at the University of San Diego. He is co-author of “Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.”
ResMed Acquires Maribo Medico
Medical device maker ResMed Inc. announced Monday that it has acquired Maribo Medico, a Denmark-based company specializing in sleep-disordered breathing medical devices.
Constellation Brands Buying Ballast Point Brewing for $1 Billion
San Diego-based Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits, the local region’s second-largest craft beer maker, is set to be acquired by Constellation Brands for approximately $1 billion, the companies announced Nov. 16.
Port Staff Recommends Brigantine Plan to Redevelop Anthony’s Site
San Diego port commissioners are slated on Nov. 17 to consider a staff recommendation favoring Brigantine Inc.’s proposal to redevelop the current downtown waterfront site of the iconic Anthony’s Fish Grotto.
Developer Secures Equity Funding for $48 Million Little Italy Project
Locally based CityMark Development has obtained equity funding for a $48 million mixed-use apartment project previously announced for Little Italy, called Kettner Lofts, according to Fident Capital, which secured the financing.
BDO USA Acquiring Carlsbad-based CEA LLP
National accounting and consulting firm BDO USA LLP will acquire Carlsbad-based CEA LLP next month, expanding BDO’s staff to about 90 and making it the fifth-largest accounting firm in the county, the companies announced.
National Institute on Aging Awards NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals $2.5M Grant
The National Institute on Aging awarded local NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics, $2.5 million grant for its first human clinical trials on a molecule that could treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Gets $700K for Earthquake Warning System
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego received a gift of $700,000 from Seismic Warning Systems Inc., a private company that provides seismic detection and earthquake warning systems and services, in order to continue operating a key Southern California earthquake monitoring network.
Epic Sciences Partnering With Abramson Cancer Center on Personalized Cancer Treatments
Epic Sciences Inc., a diagnostic company focused on the analysis of circulating tumor cells in the blood, announced that it’s collaborating with the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania on multiple studies to help improve personalized therapies for cancer treatment.
Software San Diego Changes Name to Tech San Diego, Plans 'Broader' Mission
Software San Diego has changed its name to Tech San Diego.
Pfenex Inc. Reports Q3 Results
Pfenex Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing biosimilar therapeutics, reported third quarter financial earnings.
Cox Communications Enhances Connect2Compete Program
Cox Communications announced is furthering its efforts to connect youth with technology by doubling the download speed of the company’s discounted Internet service available to low-income families with school-aged children through the Connect2Compete program.
The Port Staff Recommends Brigantine Plan to Redevelop Anthony’s Site
Epic Sciences Partnering With Abramson Cancer Center on Cancer Treatment
Institute on Aging Awards NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals $2.5M Grant
The National Institute on Aging awarded NeuroGenetic Pharmaceuticals Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics, $2.5 million grant for its first human clinical trials on a molecule that could treat and prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Scripps Gets $700K for Earthquake Detection and Warning System
Some of the business events scheduled in the county for the week of November 16, 2015, and beyond.
BDO USA Is Acquiring Carlsbad-based CEA LLP
Cox Communications Enhances Its Connect2Compete Program
Ron Araujo Tapped to Lead Mission Federal's Service Organization
Ron Araujo, the chief financial officer for Mission Federal Credit Union, will soon step down to become president of Mission Fed’s service organization.
Rouse Confirms Purchase of Westfield Carlsbad Mall for $170 Million
New York-based Rouse Properties Inc. announced that it has completed the acquisition of Westfield Carlsbad mall for $170 million, confirming a prior Westfield Inc. notification to the city that the property will change hands.
It’s Time to Put an End to Private Prisons
On Oct. 30, Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic candidate for president, tweeted: “We need to end private prisons. Protecting public safety...should never be outsourced or left to unaccountable corporations.” While Clinton’s call to end mass incarceration, including prison time for minor drug offenses which disproportionately affects African-Americans, was clearly a political move to shore up her support among minority voters, her campaign promise was right on point.
Foundation Celebrates Four Decades of Doing Many Good Deeds
The San Diego Foundation celebrated 40 years of philanthropic leadership in the San Diego region at “A Walk in the Park” — a 40th anniversary event held recently at Balboa Park in honor of the park’s centennial. The foundation hosted more than 700 donors, partners and community leaders at the event, which included tours of Balboa Park cultural attractions and culminated with a celebration for invited guests at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Best of the Bar Lets You Put Spotlight on Deserving Colleagues
You know some really terrific attorneys. You should nominate at least one of them for the third annual San Diego Business Journal’s Best of the Bar. This annual recognition of local legal talent is a showcase for San Diego’s top attorneys, who are nominated and vetted by their peers. It is a great resource for San Diegans who need legal services, and a resume booster for anyone nominated. It will only take you a few minutes to nominate at the Business Journal website.
FINANCE: BDO Says Acquisition Will Expand Its Specializations in S.D.
Purchase Clouds Plans for ‘Lifestyle Center’ at Carlsbad Mall
As of press time, Westfield Inc. was mum on details of a pending sale of its Westfield Carlsbad to Rouse Properties, and what the deal will mean to what would have been a $300 million overhaul of the 46-year-old mall, formerly known as Westfield Plaza Camino Real. Rouse also wasn’t talking, and it wasn’t clear when the deal was first hatched or why Westfield was selling (and whether it will be a full or partial sale of Westfield’s interests).
Ingenu’s Network to Make Connections for IofT
Two metro areas in Sun Belt states — Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth — are the starting points for a new machine-to-machine telecom network woven together by Ingenu.
Employers, Schools Still Missing Mark in Workforce Training
ECONOMY: Despite Need For Coordination, It’s Often Not a Priority
San Diego employers, schools and job training programs need to step up their collective efforts to better prepare the local workforce for careers in the region’s top sectors, including manufacturing, life sciences, technology, health care and clean energy, according to a recent report from San Diego Workforce Partnership (SDWP).
San Diego Drops to Fourth in Clean Technology Rankings
GREEN: Region Does Have 825 Local Clean-Tech Companies
San Diego’s national ranking in clean technology slipped a notch this year. The latest survey ranks San Diego fourth among the nation’s 50 largest cities, down from third last year.
Photo Opportunity Is Transformed Into a Business Opportunity
MARKETING: Photo Booths Sharpen Firms’ Social Media Focus
Faced with increasing competition, San Diego County photo booth companies are finding new customers in corporations looking to expand their brands and their social media presence.
Will Housing Shortage Send S.D.’s Middle Class Packing?
ECONOMY: Study Sees Unaffordability of Market Reaching Unsustainable Level
San Diego County’s housing market, one of the least affordable in the country, is in danger of falling even further behind, a San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce-backed study said last week, with housing shortfalls potentially leading to economic stagnation.
Local Firm Wins Landscape Architecture Organization’s Highest Award
The Office of James Burnett (OJB), a Solana Beach-headquartered landscape architecture firm, recently received the 2015 ASLA Firm Award, the highest annual honor bestowed on a single firm by the American Society of Landscape Architects, a nationwide professional organization.
Port District Seeks Restaurant Proposals for Imperial Beach Pier
San Diego port district officials have issued a request for proposals to develop a restaurant at the end of the Imperial Beach Pier, in the spot currently occupied by Tin Fish.
Surprise Guest at Panel Discussion on Drones Turns Out to be Linden Blue
Military and industry leaders offered their thoughts on the future of unmanned aircraft and robotics during a panel discussion Nov. 11.
Co. Blazing New Trail By Linking Biology Directly With Electronics
BIOTECH: Molecular Monitoring to Be Used In Diagnostics, Research
A San Diego startup is using a finicky “miracle material” that can link biology directly with electronics. The technology could mean faster, cheaper and more accurate tests in patient care and a valuable tool for medical research.
SeaWorld, Evans Hotels May Partner on Resort
TOURISM: Park’s Conservation Efforts To Take Center Stage
The parent of SeaWorld San Diego has announced a partnership with locally based Evans Hotels Group to “explore development” of a resort hotel on SeaWorld’s leased land at Mission Bay.
Carlsbad Office Building Sells for $3.85 Million
Blue Hat LLC of Carlsbad has purchased the Atrium I Corporate Center office building in that city for $3.85 million, according to brokerage company Colliers International.
Executive Pay At Tri-City May Be on the Ballot
The ongoing contract impasse between Tri-City Medical Center and the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West could lead to a first for San Diego County: A ballot initiative on executive pay.
Small Investors Given Big Opening By Rule
INVEST: Crowdfunding Risks Extend to the Businesses, too
Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites gave businesses a new option for raising capital: Pitch a product or business plan, offer rewards based on donation tiers and potentially net millions of dollars. But while T-shirts and early access to products were go-to rewards, the one thing out of bounds was an ownership stake in the companies.
Work Styles Shape Office Workspaces
DESIGN: Cos. Incorporate Greater Variety of Settings
Today’s workplaces are rarely as humdrum as the Dunder Mifflin office, home to the fictional paper company on the TV sitcom “The Office.” The truth is, fewer companies are opting for square offices, rows of cubicles, and formal boardrooms. The modern office is being redefined.
Rubio’s Will Test The Waters in Florida
DINING: Acquiring 8 Locations May Ease Challenges of Expansion
Carlsbad-based Rubio’s Restaurants Inc. will soon open the first East Coast locations in its 32-year history, with the company set to acquire and rebrand eight Florida locations of Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, currently owned by Ruby Tuesday Inc.
The Holiday Retail Forecasts Are Sunny
RETAIL: Stores Get Gift of 2 More Shopping Days
Barring unforeseen jolts to the national economy or consumer psyches, industry experts are predicting a strong 2015 holiday season for U.S. retailers and the shopping centers that house them.
Changing The Roles
LEADERSHIP: Millennial Women Blend Work, Ideals And Passion Into Careers
Sitting in the corner of a chocolate shop in Encinitas, four millennial women crowd around a small table. They are schooling me on everything from Maslow’s Hierarchy to the prevailing gender bias in corporate America. They interrupt each other often (and enthusiastically) as cups of hot chocolate teeter in their gesturing hands.
Faheem Hasnain No Longer CEO of Receptos Inc.
Faheem Hasnain, a well-respected biotech executive in San Diego, has left his post as chief executive officer of Receptos Inc.
Neothetics Inc. Reports Q3 Net Loss of $17.3 Million
Neothetics Inc., a maker of cosmetic pharmaceutical therapies, reported earnings for the third quarter of 2015.
Cal Western's Community Law Project Awarded $5,000 Grant
The California Western School of Law’s efforts to provide free legal advice to low-income clients have been awarded a $5,000 grant from the American College of Bankruptcy.
Amplyx Pharmaceuticals Announces $40.5 Million in Series B Financing
San Diego-based Amplyx Pharmaceuticals announced Wednesday that the company has closed on a $40.5 million Series B financing.
Apartment Properties Sold in San Diego, Fallbrook
Apartment properties recently changed hands in San Diego and Fallbrook, including a 31-unit building in downtown San Diego purchased for approximately $5.07 million by Los Angeles-based 942 Beech Street Partners LP.
DJO Global Announces Plans to Exit Empi Business
DJO Global Inc., a medical device company in Vista, announced its third-quarter financial results and its plan to exit the Empi business.
Eight Companies Submit Bids for Local Haggen Stores
Eight companies have submitted bids for 24 of the 25 San Diego County locations being shut down by Haggen Inc., according to filings in the grocer’s bankruptcy case.
BioDuro, LLC Announces Merger With Formex, LLC
BioDuro, LLC, a life sciences research organization, has merged its U.S. operations with Formex, LLC, a drug development and manufacturing company. Both are headquartered in San Diego.
Report Says 9,000 Companies Left California Over Last 7 Years
A study by Spectrum Location Solutions found that within the last seven years, 9,000 businesses left California in favor of other locations. San Diego rated No. 5 for the most losses; Los Angeles topped the list.
Local Firm Buys Chula Vista Autoplex for $5.9 Million
San Diego-based THG Equities LLC has purchased the five-building Autoplex in Chula Vista for $5.9 million, with plans to rename it South County Autoplex, the company announced.
Four Local Firms Among 10 Companies to Share $30 Million Navy Contract
Four local companies — Clint Precision Manufacturing, Dye Precision CNC Inc. and WFW Industries LLC, all of San Diego, and Eastwood Machine LLC of Santee — are among 10 Southern California companies selected by the U.S. Navy to make custom fabricated parts using a variety of manufacturing techniques.
Navy Awards $7.1 Million Contract to Coffman Specialties Inc.
The U.S. Navy awarded two contract options worth $7.1 million to San Diego-based Coffman Specialties Inc. for runway repairs at Naval Air Facility El Centro. The work, announced Nov. 9, brings Coffman’s work on the runway project to $18.6 million.
Stock Rises on News of Sophiris Bio Inc.'s Study Results
La Jolla-based Sophiris Bio Inc. announced Tuesday that its sole drug in development met the main goal of a late-stage study. The results have revived hopes for market approval nearly a year after the company's interim analysis suggested the treatment would fail the study.
Realty Income Buys Washington LA Fitness for $12.18 Million
San Diego-based Realty Income Corp. has purchased an LA Fitness location in Washington state for approximately $12.18 million, according to real estate services provider Marcus & Millichap.
Meet and Greet the Top 'Women Who Mean Business'
Tickets are now on sale for the San Diego Business Journal’s 2015 Women Who Mean Business Awards, which recognizes the top women business leaders who have made significant contributions to San Diego’s economy, culture and social network.
Silvergate Bank Reports Q3 Net Income of $2.3 Million
La Jolla-based Silvergate Bank on Tuesday said its third-quarter net income more than doubled from the year before, rising 133 percent to $2.3 million.
Wealth Management Firm Hokanson Associates to Merge With Aspiriant
San Diego wealth management firm Hokanson Associates is merging with Los Angeles-based Aspiriant, the companies said Tuesday, in a deal expected to be completed by the end of December.
SeaWorld Explores Mission Bay Resort with Evans Hotels
Vista Industrial Building Sold for $2.6 Million
El Cajon-based D.A. Whitacre Family Trust has acquired a Vista industrial building for $2.6 million, according to brokerage company Lee & Associates.
ViaSat Reports Q2 Net Income of $4.9 Million
ViaSat Inc., the Carlsbad satellite technology firm and broadband service provider, reported net income of $4.9 million in the second quarter ended Sept. 30, down almost 80 percent from net income of $23.9 million in the same quarter last year. Total revenue for the recent quarter was $353.3 million, off 1.5 percent from $358.8 million in the same quarter last year.
Hat Company Buys Carlsbad Building for $6.68 Million
San Diego Hat Co. has purchased a Carlsbad industrial property for approximately $6.68 million, with plans to use the facility as its corporate headquarters, according to brokerage company Lee & Associates.
GA-ASI Opens Office in Abu Dhabi
Poway-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. opened an office in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, to serve the Middle East and North Africa region.
Local Study Reveals Two-Thirds of Nurses Over 54 Considering Retirement
Nearly two-thirds of registered nurses over 54 are now considering retirement, according to AMN Healthcare and its Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Professionals.
Home Sales Dip in October, Prices Remain Strong
San Diego single-family homes sales dropped for the second month in a row in October, falling 9 percent to 1,777 recorded sales compared to the previous October, the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors said Monday.
Isis Pharmaceuticals Reports Q3 Financial Results
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced financial results for the third quarter of this fiscal year.
HUYA Bioscience, TechCode Gu'an Park to Collaborate
San Diego’s HUYA Bioscience International announced Monday a strategic collaboration with TechCode Gu'an Life Sciences Park near Beijing.
San Diego Ranked Sixth-Best City for Veterans
San Diego is the sixth-best city in the country for veterans, financial literacy website WalletHub said Monday.
SeaWorld San Diego to Phase Out Shamu Whale Show
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. has announced plans to phase out its signature “Shamu” killer whale performance show at SeaWorld San Diego.
UTC Campus Owner Gets $96.4 Million in Financing for Renovation
Owners of the Genesis at Campus Point office property in University Town Center have obtained $96.4 million in financing for a planned renovation of the four-building complex, according to real estate services provider HFF, which arranged the financing.
Sunday, November 8
Lockheed, Boeing File Protest Over Selection of Northrop for New Bomber Contract
A very large defense contract which could easily involve San Diego subcontractors is in now question.
Rubio’s Buying 8 Lime Fresh Mexican Grill Restaurants for $6.3 Million
Carlsbad-based Rubio’s Restaurants Inc. is acquiring eight leased Florida locations of Lime Fresh Mexican Grill for approximately $6.3 million, according to a statement from the restaurants’ current owner, Ruby Tuesday Inc.
Paradigm System Solutions Acquires Bitcoin Shopping Ecosystem, Moves to Carlsbad
Paradigm System Solutions Inc., a publicly-traded technology holding company, said it had moved from Scottsdale, Arizona, to Carlsbad following the acquisition of a Bitcoin online shopping ecosystem.
Kratos Reports Q3 Results
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. reported net income of $55.1 million on revenue of $161.7 million in its third quarter.
The Business Calendar for the Week of November 9, 2015
Some of the business events planned in the county for the week of November 9, 2015, and beyond.
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Sees Rise in Q3 Revenue, Net Income
The Florida-headquartered parent of SeaWorld San Diego reported slight increases from a year ago in third-quarter revenue and net income, though attendance dipped as the company continued to invest in marketing efforts and legal challenges related to its handling of killer whales.
Mirati Therapeutics Inc. Announces Q3 Results
San Diego-based Mirati Therapeutics Inc., a company developing medicines for targeted oncology, announced its third quarter financial results Nov. 6.
Wildfire Life 'Pauses' Operations, Intends to Sell Assets
Wildfire Life Inc. (formerly Fitn Inc.), a fitness membership company in Cardiff, announced through social media that it has paused all business operations as of November 3 and intends to sell off the company’s assets as soon as possible.
PriceSmart Inc. Announces October Sales, New Warehouse Club Opening
San Diego-based PriceSmart Inc. announced October sales and the opening of a new warehouse club.
WorkWell Prevention and Care names George Vieth CEO
San Diego-based WorkWell Prevention and Care, a soft tissue injury prevention, physical therapy treatment and diagnostic imaging service provider, has named George Vieth its new CEO.
Boeing, Lockheed File Protest Over Selection of Northrop for New Bomber Contract
Business Calendar for Week of November 9, 2015
Some of the business events scheduled in the county for the week of November 9, 2015, and beyond.
Wildfire Life Inc. 'Pauses' Operations, Intends to Sell Company's Assets
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Reports Q3 Results
Rubio’s Restaurants Inc. Buying 8 Lime Fresh Mexican Grill Restaurants for $6.3M
Mirati Therapeutics Reports Third Quarter Results
SeaWorld Parent Sees Rise in 3rd-Quarter Revenue, Net Income
PriceSmart Announces October Sales, New Club Opening
San Diego-based PriceSmart Inc. announces October sales and the opening of a new warehouse club.
Encore Capital Group Says Q3 Revenues Up 5 Percent
Encore Capital Group, the largest buyer of defaulted credit card debt, said third-quarter revenues were up 5 percent to $288 million, but the company recorded a net loss of $11 million stemming from its $52 million settlement in September with federal regulators for allegedly deceptive tactics.
Clinical Trial Validates Banyan Biomarkers' Test to Detect Traumatic Brain Injury
Diagnostic firm Banyan Biomarkers reported successful clinical trial results for its test to identify traumatic brain injury (TBI). The use of Banyan’s technology could reduce the use of computed tomography (CT) scans, the San Diego-based company said.
Pizza Restaurant Company Names Tremblay as New CEO
Flippin’ Pizza has appointed restaurant industry veteran Peter Tremblay as its new CEO, the San Diego-based operator of fast-casual pizza restaurants announced.
Mushroom Grower Expands with $8.16 Million Carlsbad Lease
M2 Ingredients, a grower and processor of organic mushrooms used in nutritional supplements and other products, plans to expand by more than 64,000 square feet in Carlsbad after signing an $8.16 million industrial lease, according to brokerage company Lee & Associates.
Biological Dynamics Inc. Completes $26.8 Million Financing Round
Biological Dynamics Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, announced that it has completed a $26.8 million round of financing.
ResMed Signs Exclusive Agreement with CareFusion
CareFusion, a Becton Dickinson (BD) company, announced Thursday its AirLife business line has signed an exclusive agreement with San Diego medical device maker ResMed to distribute nasal high-flow interface products from the company.
Novatel Wireless Reports Q3 Net Loss of $20.8 Million
Novatel Wireless Inc. said Nov. 5 that it posted a net loss of $20.8 million on net revenues of $54.6 million in the third quarter of 2015.
Changing the Narrative on Veteran Employment
This Wednesday, on Veterans Day, we formally recognize our veteran community for their service. We honor their commitment, sacrifice and bravery in what we hope is a tradition of appreciation engrained in each of us. On behalf of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, I join in the chorus of gratitude, and ask that our business community collectively not only activate to hire more veterans but change the narrative around their employment.
By Jerry Sanders
Rudeness Contagion: Office Jerk Is Costly to All
It may sound like a line from the next undiscovered Dr. Seuss book, but this is no joke. That jerk at work could be costing you more than just your sanity.
By Kim McCarthy
Foundation’s Grants Make a Positive Environmental Impact
Escondido Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation, announced it awarded $167,860 to eight nonprofits that promote the natural resources and open spaces of Escondido.
Companies, Individuals Bet on Incentives to Lose Weight
WELLNESS: Social Dieting Gains Traction And Some HR Critics
After weighing in at 222 pounds last year, Encinitas resident Simon Menkes realized he had to get thinner. He was beginning to suffer from health issues related to his obesity.
By Tom York
The ACA Means Business
INSURANCE: The Arrival of the Employer Mandate Brings New Rules, Regulations and Questions to Cos.
The Affordable Care Act’s controversial Employer Mandate is finally here.
Arcturus and Ultragenyx Partner on mRNA Therapeutics
Arcturus Therapeutics, a Johnson & Johnson Innovation upstart out of the incubator JLABS, has landed a lucrative collaboration with Novato-based Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.
IBoss Accepts Outside Funding for First Time, Takes in $35M
Iboss Cybersecurity raised $35 million in series A funding from Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, the company announced Nov. 3.
Deal Boots Sequestration Down the Road for a Few Years
That sound you might have heard was a collective sigh of relief. The program of deep budget cuts that military contractors feared — otherwise known as sequestration — won’t show its face until 2018 under a compromise struck by Washington lawmakers.
Online Outreach Puts Teams in Scoring Position for Fundraising
GIVING: Athletics Get Crowdfunding Assist From Teambank.org
A local company, Teambank.org, wants to eliminate some of the financial obstacles sports teams face by giving them a method to fund themselves online.
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Releases Third-Quarter Earnings
Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of liver disease drugs, announced financial results Friday for the third quarter.
Town and Country Resort Names New Convention Center GM
Trese Moser has been named general manager of the convention center at Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in Mission Valley, which will soon embark on a previously announced $80 million renovation.
Searching For a Creative Office Atmosphere
Observations from a recent panel discussion at Bosa Development’s Rethink Downtown exhibit: The topic was rethinking the way we work. Serena Bazzi, art director at tech company Zeeto, talked about how the company’s open office floor plan and numerous perks are designed to create a family feel. You name the perk, and Zeeto probably has it, from free meals to happy hours and even massages and haircuts in the office.
Sweeping TOT Proposal Met With Caution
TOURISM: Stakeholders Ponder Potential Impacts on Convention Center, Stadium
Cory Briggs has long been viewed by local government and business leaders as an obstructionist when it comes to anything development-related, especially in downtown San Diego.
RA Capital Puts Deals Under the Microscope
M&A: Investment Bank Isn’t Content to Leave It to Lawyers
RA Capital Advisors partner Joel Reed thinks plenty of companies are leaving millions at the negotiation table when finalizing acquisitions. These buyers and sellers have lawyers there to work out last details, but they don’t have investment advisors in the room, he said.
Qualcomm Takes Hits, Says It Will Fight Back
TECH: Revenue, Net Income Down for Q4 and the Year
Call it a transition year. That’s a message CEO Steve Mollenkopf offered financial analysts about Qualcomm Inc.’s fiscal 2016, which is only several weeks old.
Promoting Veterans
ECONOMY: Nonprofits Help Service Members Find Their Fit in the Workforce
Employment prospects for post-9/11 veterans were grim just a few years ago. About 15 percent were out of work in early 2011, compared with roughly 9 percent of the general population.
Lawmakers Say Pentagon Paid Chargers $453,500 to Promote Military
Two U.S. Senators on Wednesday accused the Army National Guard of paying professional sports teams, including the San Diego Chargers, for premium tickets, on-field color guard performances and other instances of “paid patriotism.”
Callaway Golf Co. to Pay Quarterly Dividend
Carlsbad-based Callaway Golf Co. said on Nov. 4 that it will pay out a quarterly dividend of 1 cent per share on its common stock. The dividend is payable on Dec. 15 to shareholders of record Nov. 24.
Qualcomm Reports Q4 Net Income of $1.1 Billion, Down 44 Percent From 2014
Qualcomm Inc., the wireless technology specialist and chip maker that is attempting to remake itself and boost shareholder value, reported net income of $1.1 billion on revenue of $5.5 billion during its fourth quarter.
Westfield Plans to Sell Carlsbad Mall to Rouse Properties
Mall operator Westfield Inc. plans to transfer its Westfield Carlsbad mall to rival shopping center operator Rouse Properties LP, according to documents filed with the city of Carlsbad. Financial terms and other details of a full or partial sale of the property, formerly known as Westfield Plaza Camino Real, were not immediately available.
Grocery Outlet Opens New Store in Santee
Discount food retailer Grocery Outlet has opened a new store in Santee, which is the 11th location in San Diego County for the Emeryville-based company.
High-Ranking FDA official Joins Human Longevity Inc.
Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a tech-driven molecular information company in San Diego, announced Wednesday the appointment of Sally Howard as head of regulatory affairs and policy.
Charles Black Named to Lead $1 Billion Otay Mesa Airpark Development
Former San Diego Padres President Charles E. Black has been named to lead the development team overseeing construction of Metropolitan Airpark, a $1 billion, multi-phase commercial project planned at Brown Field Municipal Airport in Otay Mesa.
Developers Begin Work on $90 Million East Village Project
Developers have started construction on IDEA1, a $90 million, mixed-use project in downtown San Diego’s East Village.
Bartell Hotels Buys Harbor Island Hilton for $37.7 Million
San Diego-based Bartell Hotels has purchased the 211-room San Diego Airport Hilton Hotel on Harbor Island for $37.7 million, the company announced.
PriceSmart Reports Q4 Revenue of $699.2 Million
PriceSmart, a San-Diego based shopping warehouse chain operating in Latin America and the Caribbean, reported revenue of $699.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared to $622.6 million in 2014.
Port Receives $10 Million Federal Grant to Upgrade Terminal
A $10 million federal grant will improve cargo operations through San Diego’s 10th Avenue Marine Terminal, the Port of San Diego said.
Cox Construction Awarded $11.8 Million Navy Contract
The U.S. Navy awarded Vista-based Cox Construction Co. an $11.8 million task order to make various repairs at Naval Base Point Loma over the course of two years.
iboss Cybersecurity Raises $35 Million in Series A Funding
iboss Cybersecurity raised $35 million in series A funding from Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, the company announced on Nov. 3. iboss plans to use the funds to expand globally and to develop new products.
Millennium Health Names 3 New Top Executives
Less than a month after Millennium Health agreed to pay $256 million to settle federal prosecutors’ allegations it caused doctors to order excessive urine tests for patients, the company announced a new slate of top executives focused on compliance and testing standards.
Biotech Startup Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Raises $40M in Series A Funding
A group of ex-Neurocrine Biosciences employees have raised $40 million in a Series A round for their new startup, Crinetics Pharmaceuticals.
La Valencia Hotel Completes Upgrades in $12 Million Renovation
Owner Pacifica Host Hotels recently completed initial phases of a $12 million renovation at the vintage La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla, with improvements covering the property’s guest rooms, front entry, lobby lounge and 10th-floor Sky Suite.
San Diego Housing Prices Growing at Slower Pace Than National Average
Home values in San Diego and Carlsbad grew at a slower pace than the national average, increasing 5.4 percent over the past year compared to 6.4 percent nationwide, according to a report Tuesday from CoreLogic.
Leventhal Law Merges with Dinsmore & Shohl
Cincinnati-based Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, with 20 offices across the country, is expanding to San Diego by merging with local firm Leventhal Law, Dinsmore said Monday.
Apartment Properties Sold in El Cajon, San Diego
Four local apartment properties recently got new owners, including a 25-unit El Cajon community purchased by Tustin-based Pan American Properties for $3.2 million.
CommerceWest Bank Reports Q3 Pre-Tax Earnings of $1.8 Million
Irvine-based CommerceWest Bank, which has a branch in San Marcos, reported pre-tax earnings of $1.8 million in the quarter ending Sept. 30, up from $1.3 million the year before.
Quality Systems Inc. to Buy HealthFusion Holdings for $190 Million
Irvine-based Quality Systems Inc. has agreed to buy San Diego-based HealthFusion Holdings for up to $190 million.
Rancho Bernardo, Oceanside Industrial Properties Get New Owners
Industrial properties recently changed hands in San Diego and Oceanside, including two Rancho Bernardo buildings purchased by Trademark Construction Co. for approximately $2.79 million.
CDC Small Business Finance Hires Allison Kelly
CDC Small Business Finance, one of the country’s largest Small Business Administration lenders, said Monday it has hired Allison Kelly to fill the new position of senior vice president of strategy and innovation.
Chula Vista-Based Youngevity Appoints New Management Team
Youngevity International Inc., a Chula Vista-based global direct marketer of nutritional and lifestyle products and producer of gourmet coffees for the commercial, retail and direct sales channels, announced new appointments to its leadership team.
Sunroad Completes $2 Million Renovation of Carlsbad Office Building
San Diego-based developer Sunroad Enterprises recently completed more than $2 million in renovations at its office property in Carlsbad, known as Bloom Offices at 5858 Dryden Place.
San Diego to Host Inaugural World Beach Games
San Diego will host the inaugural World Beach Games, a multisport event set to debut in 2017 with surfing, skateboarding, beach soccer and volleyball, among others.
County’s Construction Starts Down 37% in First 9 Months of 2015
San Diego County’s construction starts declined 37 percent from a year ago in the first nine months of 2015, to a value of approximately $2.2 billion, according to the latest monthly figures from Dodge Data & Analytics.
Murphy Development Begins $18.3 Million Spec Industrial Project in Otay Mesa
San Diego-based Murphy Development has broken ground on a planned $18.3 million industrial building in Otay Mesa, which the company said marks that neighborhood’s first speculative industrial project since 2007.
Tandem Diabetes Care Reports Q3 Results
Tandem Diabetes Care Inc., medical device maker and manufacturer of insulin pumps in San Diego, reported third-quarter earnings.
Maxwell Technologies Inc. Reports Revenue of $45.1M for Q3
Maxwell Technologies Inc., the San Diego maker of energy-storage devices called ultracapacitors, reported a net loss of $1.45 million, or a nickel per share, on revenue of $45.1 million during the third quarter.
Some of the business events scheduled in the county for the week of November 2, 2015 and beyond.
Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. Announces Q3 Results
Biopharmaceutical firm Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. announced earnings results for the third quarter of 2015.
Pacific Imperial Railroad Majority Ownership Is Transferred to Conatus Capital Group
Pacific Imperial Railroad transferred ownership to Conatus Capital Group, Inc. Oct. 28, according to a news release.
OneRoof Energy Inc. Appoints Alexson as COO
San Diego-based OneRoof Energy Inc., a residential solar services provider and wholly owned subsidiary of OneRoof Energy Group Inc., announced it has appointed Brian Alexson, to the newly created role of chief operating officer.
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Shutterstock Signs Exclusive Deal With World Surf League
Shutterstock, Inc. has announced that it has signed an exclusive global distribution deal with World Surf League (WSL) to market and license imagery from WSL’s Championship Tour and Big Wave Tour Events. The deal also includes WSL’s extensive archive, showcasing thousands of pivotal moments from competitive surfing history.
This partnership expands Shutterstock’s global editorial content offering, providing enterprise customers with immediate access to WSL’s extreme sports photography. Leveraging advanced camera technology for underwater and overhead shots, the collection features a diverse range of images including exotic surf locations and world-class athletes like newly crowned 2016 WSL Champions John John Florence and Tyler Wright, 11-time WSL Champion Kelly Slater, six-time WSL Champion Stephanie Gilmore and three-time WSL Champions Mick Fanning and Carissa Moore.
“The skilled photographers at World Surf League consistently capture the world-class athleticism, drama, and adventure of professional surfing," said Ben Pfeifer, Shutterstock's SVP of Editorial. "As Shutterstock customers seek to enhance their visual storytelling we are pleased to be chosen as the exclusive distributor for this breathtaking collection of athletic imagery.”
Founded in 1976, WSL celebrates the elite athletes, diverse fans and dedicated partners that embody professional surfing. WSL also organizes the annual tour of professional surf competitions in remote and exotic locations around the world.
“At WSL, we are privileged to work with some of the most talented athletes in the world,” said Dave Prodan, VP of Communications at World Surf League. “The ocean exists as the most dynamic field of play in all of sports and professional surfing produces exceptional imagery. We're excited to be working with Shutterstock to expand access to these images to people around the world.”
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By: Bishop Paul S Morton & the Full Gospel Ministry of
Integrity Music 2019 Digital (Books & IBC Music)
Gospel Gospel - General
Since 1994, Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International has grown to be one of the largest African American church organizations in the world, while birthing notable Gospel Music greats such as Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Bishop William Murphy III, VaShawn Mitchell and J.J. Hairston to name a few. With previous chart topping releases, Bishop Paul S. Morton & The Full Gospel Ministry Of Worship have shaped the sound of praise & worship in churches for the last decade. The new album, 'A MONTH OF SUNDAYS' was produced by J.J. Hairston and hit producer Vaughan Phoenix, and there is no doubt that songs such as "Song Of Consecration" (feat. Bishop Paul S. Morton) and "Glory To Jesus" (feat. Bishop William Murphy III), "Jesus" (feat. Vernon Byrd) along with the radio single "Release The Rain" (feat. Chris House & Eugene Brown) will be at the forefront of fostering an even greater representation of praise & worship in churches worldwide.
Publisher: Integrity Music
Format: Digital (Books & IBC Music)
Binding: Compact Disc
Label: Integrity Music
Bishop Paul S. Morton & the Full Gospel Ministry of Worship
The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International was founded by Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr. in 1994 and it has become one of the largest African-American church organizations in the world. Some of today’s greatest gospel vocalists were born from the organization such as Tasha Cobbs Leonard, William Murphy and JJ Hairston, among others. The Full Gospel Ministry of Worship is an offspring from the organization. It released its first album, Embracing the Next Generation, in 2008 and its sophomore set, One Sound, produced the Billboard Top 20 Hot Gospel Songs radio hit “Big” in 2013. Over the last decade, those projects have heavily contributed to the shape the sound of praise and worship music in the African-American church with the popularization of anthems such as “For Your Glory” and “How Great Is Our God.” Bishop Joseph W. Walker III currently serves as FGBCF’s International Presiding Bishop.
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Somtow's World
Of Kids and Compasses
After the big Sinfonietta concert last Sunday, which raised money for those affected by the Bangkok's recent violence, I was feeling very good about our kids. I mean, here is this orchestra of 13-20 year olds, just four months old, and they're tackling really difficult music, like Beethoven 7, and sounding very believable indeed. And doing the concert for the city of Bangkok was the kids' own idea.
Then, an odd thing happened. One of our M.P.'s, Anik Amaranand of the democratic party, had the idea that this orchestra, assembled as it is from some of our most talented kids without any consideration of their social background, might provide be a sort of microcosm of our country -- in its best aspects -- and that the Sinfonietta might be almost a poster child for reconciliation.
I am opposed to using the Sinfonietta as a political tool, but I agreed to let her hand out an anonymous questionaire to test her theory. It is of course only a small sample, but there have been some fascinating results.
Are these, the most talented and creative young people (14-21) in our community, "yellow" or "red"?
It's a surprise.
42% of our kids don't sympathize AT ALL with the reds, and 35% don't sympathize AT ALL with the yellows. 15% are fairly sympathetic to the reds, while 21% are fairly sympathetic to the yellows. NONE OF THEM is "very sympathetic" with EITHER color.
What I found even more impressive was the answer to the question: "Would you do something illegal or immoral if asked to by a beloved and respected authority figure?" 44% strongly disagreed and 36% disagreed. This means that 80% of our kids have a problem with being asked by authority figures to do things they know are wrong.
63% strongly disagree that it is acceptable for a leader to be corrupt even if he benefits the country. The rest either disagree, or only agree "somewhat". NO ONE AT ALL agreed totally with the premise.
This proves to me that, among the brightest and most creative young people around me, there is a far more centered moral compass, and a far more balanced view of right and wrong, than we might have imagined.
This survey has given me an unexpected optimism about the future of this country.
What follows is the opening statement that I made at the kids' concert earlier this month. I was thrilled to discover that what I said has been proved by the results of M.P. Anik's survey. (I realize now that it was eccentric to be quoting Isaiah to an audience of Buddhists, but then again when I was a Buddhist monk, I preached a sermon comparing Phra Wetsandorn and Abraham and Isaac.)
WHAT I SAID AT THE CONCERT
When the young members of the Siam Sinfonietta, Thailand’s newest youth orchestra, told me that they wanted to do something special to help heal our wounded city, I was moved by their sincerity, their commitment, and the purity of their vision. Reconciliation is truly a pathway of which it can be said, “A child shall lead them.”
I was moved but I should not have been surprised, because this is a very special group of musicians. We spent an entire year finding them and they represent many segments of our society, many regions of this country, and an entire spectrum of religions and ideologies. They are united only in their superlative musicianship and their absolute determination to perform the greatest music ever written with the greatest commitment and passion they are capable of. In that these children have have come from such diversity towards a togetherness of purpose far greater than themselves, they are a microcosm of an entire nation.
We have all felt a special affinity with the governor’s initiative because he is a person who is clearly seen by all to be reaching out to all sides. M.R. Sukhumbhand, you have proved yourself to be a governor not just for one segment of this city, but for all of us. Every baht donated today will go toward your fund to help those affected by the crisis, regardless of color. You have our absolute trust and our abiding hope.
Finally, I would like to say to our young people that the world sees what you do. Your gesture of generosity and empathy has not only been noted by the media in Thailand. A reporter from the Associated Press filed a story, and two days ago news of this concert was carried in the New York Times. By yesterday morning, the news was in a dozen major newspapers around the world and by midnight last night I counted over a hundred mentions worldwide, including news organizations like NBC and Fox, and more than eighty newspapers.
From this we may learn that in the eyes of the world what these children believe, and what they have done, is as important as any pronouncement by a politician, or any act of a political entity. These children have a voice. The road to a peaceful future is difficult and dark, but their dedication and compassion may give us light enough to see our way.
Posted by Somtow at 11:58 PM
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News > Spokane
Thousands of drivers warned about cellphone use
Mon., Nov. 13, 2017, 7:31 p.m.
By Jim Camden jimc@spokesman.com(509) 879-7461
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Patrol has stopped and issued warnings to almost 4,800 motorists for DUI-E, driving under the influence of electronic devices like their cellphones.
Starting in January, they’ll be issuing tickets that will cost $136 for the first offense and $234 for each subsequent offense of typing, texting, watching a video or doing almost anything that requires more than one finger movement on a cellphone or other electronic device.
“This is an education period,” State Patrol Capt. Monica Alexander told the Senate Transportation Committee Monday.
Troopers have also issued 378 warnings for distracted driving – doing things like eating or bending down to pick up something from the floor – to motorists who were stopped for other traffic infractions such as speeding, changing lanes or weaving. Starting in January, those tickets will cost $99 on top of any fine for the primary offense.
The Legislature approved new traffic laws earlier this year in an attempt to cut down on drivers who use their cellphones or do other things that lead to dangerous situations. Originally the bill would have given motorists more than a year to get used to the new laws, but Inslee vetoed that section, allowing the law to take effect in July, but the State Patrol said it would give warnings for the first six months.
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Top 10 Top Ten Lists of 2010
As a follow up to last year's Top 10 Top Ten Lists of 2009, I present you with this year's compilation, including a review of some early year predictions to see if they got things right. I promised Lynn I would do it, and I kept my word!
Enjoy and please feel free to add links to your favourite Top 10 lists in the comments!
Top 10 searched terms on Google
The top ten includes such gems as iPad, Justin Bieber, Twitter, Chatroulette and Facebook. A sorry statement on our current interests in popular culture. Ugh.
Top 10 Twitter Trends of 2010
More Ugh.
Even better, check out all of the Twitter Top 10s by category.
Categories include person, movie, tech and more.
Top 10 Videos of 2010
Of course, this link includes the Double Rainbow. What does it mean?
The 10 Most Significant Gadgets of 2010
AKA Spydergrrl's wish list for Xmas 2011. ;)
Top 10 Technology Flops of 2010
This category could also be renamed "#FAIL".
Top 10 Digital Advertising Trends of 2010
Honestly, I think this list should be qualified with "in the US" because I've never heard of some items listed.
Top 10 Movies for the Modern Tech Geek
You can't go wrong with a list that includes Tron, Iron Man and Inception. I've seen them all except Collapsus. And you?
Top 10 Myths About Technology
How many of these did/do you believe?
Top 20 Green Tech Ideas
Ok, so it's more than 10 but it's the green category so it's worth it :)
Predictions: How did they do?
Last year I also included a couple of prediction lists to see how they measured up. Here are two of the more interesting ones. How do you think they measured up?
PC World's 10 Sites That will Matter in 2010
This year, I've heard of and used a few of these, vs. last year when I hardly heard of any by the end of the year. How about you?
Time's Top 5 Tech Company Predictions for 2010
Well, Twitter didn't exactly start charging Google to search its contents, but AT&T still seems to have the same rep. Check out the full list.
Labels: 2010 Geek predictions recaps review social media Top 10 Top Ten Lists year end
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SVA Alumni
Let's Talk: SVA Alumni Affairs' Latest Panel Focuses on LGBTQ Identity and Creativity
by Emma Drew
Alexa Cassaro, Mermaids, 2016. Courtesy the artist.
On Wednesday, February 27, Let's Talk: Queer Identity and Creativity will assemble a group of five accomplished SVA alumni, from a range of disciplines and stages in their careers, to share and discuss how queer identity and the changing landscape of queer political liberation affects their work as artists. A mix of professional guidance and more personal reflections, the Let's Talk panel series, hosted by SVA Alumni Affairs, offers informal, frank discussions about the realities facing artists and creatives today and is intended as a resource for students as well as graduates.
The increased visibility of queer students, queer artists and, more generally, queer politics made the theme and timing of this year's panel fitting for organizers. "It's interesting to me to see how the conversations are shifting, so that's part of what I wanted to talk about," says moderator Charles Snyder, Alumni Affairs and Development coordinator, noting the panel's relatively wide span of generations and perspectives. "Given the current political climate and the amount of backlash that has happened politically in the last couple of years, I'm interested in what these younger artists have to say about the position they find themselves in."
Antonio Pulgarin, A Chest that Bears Honor, 2017, photography/photographic collage/mixed media. Courtesy the artist.
The selected panelists, listed below, were invited to participate not only for their accomplishments and artistic engagement with queer communities but their ability to speak to a variety of pertinent topics, from trans-inclusion and representation for people of color to HIV/AIDS activism and working outside of a fine arts or mainstream tradition.
Caroline Berler (MFA 2017 Social Documentary Film) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose debut film Dykes, Camera, Action! is a history of queer cinema from the women who made it and was begun as her thesis project at SVA. Alexa Cassaro (MFA 2015 Illustration as Visual Essay; BFA 2013 Illustration) is an illustrator and cartoonist, published by Pronto and ComicMix. She contributes to Geeks OUT! and draws YA worlds populated by strong, sassy femmes, sensitive males and curious genderless characters. Educator, artist and host of Relevant, a podcast of queer visionaries, Annie Rose Malamet (MFA 2015 Photography, Video and Related Media) teaches at BRIC Arts Media and for SVA Continuing Education. Her work has been featured in Out, Nylon and Vice and tackles body image, sexuality and the insecurities and beauty standards wrapped up in women's lives. Antonio Pulgarin (BFA 2013 Photography) uses photography, collage and mixed media to mine themes of cultural and sexual identity, memory and displacement, as evidenced in his current project, "Fragments of the Masculine", which draws from his family history and photos. The work of Eric Rhein (MFA 2000 Fine Arts; BFA 1985 Fine Arts) incorporates sculpture, photography, drawing and found text to trace his personal journey, both geographic and transcendental, and his three decades of living with HIV; he is a founding member of Visual AIDS' Archive and Artist Registry and in 2017 was honored at the Visual AIDS Vanguard Awards.
The poster for Dykes Camera Action! a film directed by Caroline Berler. Courtesy the filmmaker.
"It is a total honor to be picked from so many talented SVA alumni," says Cassaro, who also provided the illustration work for the event's promotional material. "It gives me a greater sense of purpose to let people know how much the queer scene means to me and our future."
Last year's Let's Talk panel focused on the experiences of women in creative industries, in response to the national conversations around sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace; the panel following the 2016 presidential election discussed activism in art.
"We can't not acknowledge that there is a huge contingent of our student body and our alumni that are dealing with these issues, that are engaging with them," Snyder says.
Antonio Pulgarin, 1981, 2017, photography/photographic collage/mixed media. Courtesy the artist.
Let's Talk: Queer Identity and Creativity takes place Wednesday, February 27, 7:00 to 9:00pm, at the SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are required. A reception for SVA alumni and current students will follow the discussion; drinks and hors-d'oeuvres will be served.
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Google Nexus smartwatch to come along with Nexus 5 running Android 4.4 featuring Google Now on October 31st
The Google Nexus smartwatch is back in news after a long time, and this time with some more details. To be dubbed as Google Nexus, the smartwatch is said to have Gem as it's codename. The Google Nexus smartwatch is reported to come with Android 4.4 KitKat on-board on October 31st, which is the same date when Google is also rumoured to announce it's Nexus 5.
The news comes from 9to5Google, and according to them, the smartwatch will come with Google Now. Google Now on Gem will offer lot of information on your wrist, so you don't have to use your phone again and again. This will also help you access your calenders, clock, alarms, emails, texts and more instantly using the watch.
There are also possibilities to see some features of Google Glass on Google Nexus smartwatch as well. As per 9to5Google report, Google is currently busy focusing on the battery of the smartwatch. The watch is said to use Bluetooth 4.0, so as to consume less power.
No more details are available currently, but as we move towards the launch date, we will surely see some or the other details along with alleged images.
Source - 9to5Google & +Artem Russakovskii
Via - Pocket-lint
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Founding Story
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Temme (Tech + Femme) Media's debut VR film address rural maternal health in Morocco
Temme's VR demo at the Social Good Summit hosted by Mashable and the United Nations Foundation, NYC.
Temme (Tech + Femme) Media launched its company during UN week and dropped its debut VR film 'Mothers of the Atlas', a partnership with Qualcomm Wireless Reach and Trice Imaging that addresses rural maternal health issues in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
*For best VR results watch 'Mothers of the Atlas' with Google Cardboard, or as 360 Video on your YouTube Mobile App or via Samsung Gear Headset.
Temme will is geared at the development of female-focused content that leverages emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) for storytelling, and is poised to create quality content for brands across industries that range from technology, culture, career and social issues to fashion, beauty, travel and wellness, all geared towards strong, socially conscious women.
Angie Davis, Producer at Temme, demoing Mothers of the Atlas on Samsung Gear in New York.
The vision of Founder and CEO Sybil Steele, Temme was created to help shape and create the future of women as a collective force for good. The company’s production capabilities will provide access to diverse new technologies, giving clients innovative ways to reach and engage consumers.
“We are thrilled to produce meaningful content for companies who share our ideals,” said Steele. “Whether the objective is to entertain or to educate, Temme brings broad category experience, storytelling and production capabilities to help brands connect the dots in meaningful ways with the topics and issues their customers care about. Our world is changing rapidly and we believe a powerful female voice is needed in this sector.”
Founder & CEO of Temme, Sybil Steele.
Steele, who has more than twenty years of experience in production and projects focused on women’s issues, has worked with clients such as Elle Magazine, charity: water, Corona, the Assouline-published book Gypset Travel and CNN Hero 2011 Robin Lim.
For their first project, Temme was selected by Qualcomm Wireless Reach to produce a VR film about maternal health in Morocco. The film, Mothers of the Atlas, will debut in New York this week during the Social Good Summit and United Nations Solutions Summit. The film aligns with one of Temme’s core missions to help improve the global economic, health and social conditions for women.
About Temme Media: Temme (Tech + Femme) Media is a production studio that uses VR and emerging technology to create, inform and inspire women’s journeys. The company was founded in 2016 and has offices in New York and San Francisco. To learn more about Temme Media, please visit www.TemmeMedia.com or visit us on Twitter or Instagram @temmemedia and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Temme-Media-524234557760202/.
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Interview with High Places: Square Off Against Mankind
John Fortunato
Challenging folk-derived electro-acoustic duo High Places tie artificial percussion sounds and syncopated disco beats to scintillatingly climactic acoustical dreamscapes with the same glistening pastoral splendor that kept Kate Bush “Running Up That Hill.” Learning the bassoon at an early age before joining a few local musical troupes, heavenly vocalist Mary Pearson once believed her high vocal register conflicted with the prototypical rock compositions her former band mates constructed. But she simply managed to adapt.
A Kalamazoo native, Pearson originally met Classically trained multi-instrumentalist (and Pratt Institute educator) Rob Barber through mutual friends while finishing a music degree at hometown institution, Western Michigan University. Barber initially made Pearson a three-hour mixtape featuring psychedelic-influenced ‘60s combos such as Incredible String Band and Jefferson Airplane alongside primitive Olympia-based lo-fi eccentrics, Beat Happening (and their rudimentary post-Nirvana brethren). Pearson claims unheralded Hawaiian guitarist Bobby Brown’s obscurity, The Enlightening Beam Of Axonda, proved indispensable as well.
Settling in New York City during 2006, the delightful keyboard-manipulating duo developed the creative urge to make homespun music without obsessing over details. Utilizing bright and pastel musical colors to envelop their intriguing textural atmospherics, High Places debuted in ’08 with formative singles compilation, 03/07 – 09/07, issued months ahead of the formal self-titled long-play entrée that’d create a widened underground buzz. The latter contained warm-weathered travelogues like tropical calypso spellbinder, “Vision’s The First,” and tribal Techno transience, “From Stardust To Sentience.” It served notice to the indie scene pronto.
Now living in the warm comfort of Los Angeles with Liars front man, Angus Andrew, Pearson’s muse seems to have benefited from the journey West. Her wispy melancholic melodies and operatic mezzo-soprano hold firmer against the massive polyrhythmic percussive pileups. Oft-times, she dazzles listeners with the same rapturous urbane lilt and lighthearted approach as glorified diva, Kate Bush. In tandem, Barber’s drum machines, treated samples, and turntable twists weave synthetic tonicities to Pearson’s clear-voiced hush-toned sentimentality. On top of that, exotic elements such as chimes, kalimba, clanged pipes, clinked glass, and bongos frequently embellish Pearson’s spellbindingly serendipitous affectations.
On 2010’s moody seasonal treatise, High Places Vs. Mankind, High Places again cast a spell, devising a serious headphone experience out of hazy windswept sketches given shady titular descriptions tersely congruent to the verbose “On A Hill In A Bed On A Road In A House.” Pearson’s echo-laden lipstick-traced whispers resonate through disco-sliced silhouette, “The Longest Shadow,” a vibrant opener with a liquefied groove. Middle East percussion flavoring accents cooing ballad, “She’s A Wild Horse,” and eerier mantra, “On Giving Up,” dips into danceable New Order machinations. The remainder drifts into dewy meadows, ethereal catacombs, and cryptic jungles with equally exquisite results.
As boyfriend Angus tended to outdoor gardening, I spoke with the gracious Pearson via phone in early June.
Why move away from the fertile Brooklyn scene to the cozier comforts of sunny L.A.?
There’s a lot of inspiring artists in New York City and it’s incredible to think how many albums they’ve done. There are incredible museums too. We didn’t pick up so many sonic influences, but instead, created an environment that was a retreat from all the hustle and bustle. We’d talked about moving to California because we loved the landscape. We have friends there from touring. The decision for me was a mental health one to get out of the cold weather and dark nights of winter. Plus, Rob likes to surf. We’re so inspired by nature, but nearly every song in New York was about being completely away from people. What you don’t have could be very inspiring to your art. Being slightly unhappy is always good for business. When we moved to L.A., I wondered how I’d compose music being at such a lovely place without sounding like hokey bubblegum music. That was something to figure out. I don’t know if the new record is so much inspired by Los Angeles as it is just spreading out.
There’s a moody seasonal theme threading High Places Vs. Mankind.
Maybe we created it from what we don’t have out West—bad weather and four seasons. Our music has a lot of recurring themes, at least lyrically. There’s also the idea that the music we wrote in New York City was creating our ideal environment. So being in L.A. is reverse escapism.
I’d be remiss to not ask if you were a fan of Kate Bush’s dramatic Classical pop arrangements.
Any women making music would be honored getting compared to Kate Bush. It’s not intentional. I played in a rock band in Michigan. I was kicking and screaming not to be the singer because my voice was so choral-y. I thought it should be a dude singing. It’s taken awhile to accept the voice I have and do what I’m doing. On this record, I figured out how to write in a vocal range that suits me better in a key that’s easier to find. It’s a learning process.
Could High Places drop the synthetic electronics and go completely acoustic if need be?
Yeah. We’re interested in the whole idea of acoustics versus electronics. We get called an electronic act but neither of us feel that’s what we do. We saw it more as two people filling in spaces with electronics to take care of ourselves onstage. We like the idea of an acoustic record. The whole thing with us is the duality of inorganic versus organic. This record goes deeper into the idea of the natural world versus manmade things. Live we use samples.
It’s a great headphone experience.
We like to use a lot of stereo ideas so the sound bounces around a bit.
Syncopated disco beats juice up a few of the more accessible tunes.
That wasn’t a conscious decision. But we both really love dance music and wanted to have a few unabashed dance songs on the record. The record is supposed to be about the life cycle of a person. It feels like different chapters in a book with dance beats going against challenging experimentation. For us, High Places wasn’t about a specific sound. It’s more about what happens when a collaboration between Rob and myself results in all the tracks working together to form a complete story.
What’s up with ‘Constant Winter’ and its verbose family tree thesis?
I had Tom Waits in my head. I remember him in the Jim Jarmusch movie, Down By Law. I was thinking of someone leaving home to lead a new life but maybe being conflicted about starting a family while still wanting to be wild. It’s a bit of a universal feeling about turning into an adult. Is it made by choice or does it just happen? That song’s more of a rock number.
Perhaps the following track, ‘On A Hill In A Bed On A Road In A House,’ with its cadaverous profundity and distant voicing, exposes that loss of freedom best.
That’s a bit more introspective. It contains my favorite beat Rob made.
Did Joni Mitchell’s lyrical prowess serve as inspirational in any way?
She’s my go-to inspiration. I always liked the Canadians—Neil Young. My sister and I performed Joni Mitchell songs in high school and I do some at soundcheck. Her storytelling is impeccable. I also listened to a lot of Jazz. Rob was into punk and hardcore. When I was in college I was into folk-punk acoustic stuff. I did house shows with homemade instruments and honest heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics. Early on, High Places straightforward lyrics were noticeable. Growing up, my mom was a music teacher and my grandfather was a university choral music instructor. I fought the theatrical influence but ended up in a lot of high school musicals. So there was Classical music around offsetting my Weezer and Green Day rock stuff.
Obviously, there’s an appreciable theatricality informing many High Places tunes.
We’re real interested in not being confined to rock clubs—the whole idea of playing art galleries and mixing different art forms together. A theatre piece would be great. We were thinking of doing incidental music for plays. I’d always sung in choirs so it’s hard to take the choirgirl out of me.
How’s the current Michigan scene looking?
In Kalamazoo, scenes pop up then die quickly. The noise scene in Michigan is still alive and kicking. Awesome Color. I was proactive there. Great café scene and moped riders. Brooklyn bands like Japanther and Matt & Kim loved coming through. Unfortunately, a lot of people moved away since Michigan suffered with the bad economy and housing market. The paper and auto industries are tanking. Still, Detroit’s always interesting. Many empty lots left have become farming areas. That appeals to artists wanting cheap rent.
Catch High Places on June 26 at the Northside Festival in Newton Barge Park in Brooklyn, NY, and on July 2 at the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC.
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thank Pearson for enlightening beam comments on my vocals i have a great story for you an would like you to interview me
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BNSF Around Curtis Hill
The steepest grade east of Amarillo on the former Santa Fe, now BNSF main line is the 12 mile, 1% climb for westbounds out of the Cimarron valley in western Oklahoma, near Waynoka. Westbounds growl uphill in run 8 and scream downhill and across the flat prairie at 70 per. This video shows 24 hours of incredible action on Curtis Hill in September of 1996. 109 minutes.
A Last Look at SP's Golden State Route
The number of trains on SP's Golden State Route has grown dramatically in recent years. This tape shows 24 hours of action west of Topeka, KS where Central Corridor trains can be seen and then 24 hours of action between Pratt and Liberal, KS where intermodal trains from Chicago off of BNSF at Hutchinson can be seen, in Sept. 1996, when operations were still pure SP. 79 minutes.
NS and IC at Tolono, Illinois
At Tolono in east central Illinois, the mainline of the Illinois Central from Chicago to Memphis crosses the Detroit and Fort Wayne to St. Louis and Kansas City main line of Norfolk Southern. Amtrak, two mile long drags, auto and intermodal hotshots, and RoadRailers hammer the diamonds at Tolono, and this tape shows them all for 24 hours in Sept. 1996. 108 minutes.
BNSF South of La Crosse, WI
This tape shows 24 hours of fast paced action on the former CB&Q, now BNSF speedway along the Mississippi River, south of La Crosse in Sept. 1996. Nearly 40 trains a day, including CN overhead rights trains, and a couple of BNSF trains behind C44-9W's in the new pumkin paint scheme, keep the rails along the Mississippi polished. 70 minutes.
Alliance, OH - Conrail Hot Spot
Alliance, OH, 83 miles northwest of Pittsburgh and 57 miles south of Cleveland, is one of Conrail's most important junctions. Trains from Pittsburgh head north to Cleveland and Chicago or west on the former Pennsy main line towards St. Louis. This tape shows 24 hrs. of action at Alliance in April of 1997. 155 minutes.
The Trains of the Rathole
Norfolk Southern's Rathole between Danville and Oakdale, Kentucky is one of the best known and storied lines in the U.S. This line is a funnel for trains between the Midwest and South and is the second busiest line on NS. We caught all of the trains on the Rathole for 24 hrs. around Burnside and on the huge cuts on Greenwood Hill in April 1997. 119 minutes.
CR and UP Around St. Elmo, IL
St. Elmo in southern Illinois is where CR's St. Louis line crosses UP's Chicago to Texas line. Conrail and the UP then run side by side east of St. Elmo. Run-through trains are interchanged here also. This video shows all the trains between St. Elmo and Altamont for 24 hrs. in May of 1997. 92 minutes.
Conrail and GTW at South Bend, IN
At South Bend, IN, Conrail's Chicago Line crosses the Grand Trunk Western main line. CR's Chicago Line is its busiest. The semi-autonomous GTW is slowly becoming part of the CN. 100 trains roll through the new track alignment at S. Bend in 24 hrs. This tape shows all of the incredible action for 24 hrs. at South Bend in May 1997. Two tape/ 3 DVD set. 3 hours, 45 minutes.
The Trains of Northern New England - 1997
This video shows what became of the B&M, MEC, CV, Rutland, and much more. All of the larger railroads in VT, NH, and ME - the New England Central, Guilford's Springfield Terminal which operates the former MEC and B&M, Iron Road's Bangor and Aroostook and Canadian American, Vermont Railway, St. Lawrence & Atlantic, and Green Mountain are covered in this epic video, including 24 hrs. at several points, in early 1997, when there was up to 30 inches of snow on the ground. 160 minutes.
Wisconsin Central 1997
This new tape concentrates on WC operations north of Stevens Point and on changes since our last look at the WC in 1995. This tape shows trains around Neenah, on the Bradley sub across northern Wisconsin, the new trackage around Escanaba including the ore line, the line to East Winona, and on the busy Minneapolis and Superior subs in May 1997. It concludes with 24 hrs. of action around Junction City. 2 hours, 23 minutes.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive-The Helck Family Memoirs #2: Joe Tracy and the Cotter Pin in 1906
Jerry Helck, former owner of the Old 16 Locomobile and son of the great artist Peter Helck, has agreed to share family memoirs related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races. The second post in the series provides the story of how driver Joe Tracy and mechanician Al Poole prepared the #12 Locomobile.for
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Mystery Fotos #50 Solved: Old 16 and The Beast in Bridgehampton (1951-1952)
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive-The Helck Family Memoirs #1: Old 16 at the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Jerry Helck, former owner of the Old 16 Locomobile and son of the great artist Peter Helck, has agreed to share family memoirs related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races. In the first post of the series, Jerry recalls when Old 16 was brought to the Old Timers Exhibition of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup
Memories of the Long Island Old Car Club and the 80th Anniversary of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
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Vanderbilia: The 1905 Locomobile Model Owned by the Helck Family
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Mystery Foto #33 Update: Three Possible Locations for this Rare Photo of “Old 16”
The Homer Historical Society has submitted this Mystery Foto of "Old 16", the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
Images & a Trophy From the Greatest Vintage Car Event Ever Held on Long Island
In my opinion, the greatest vintage automobile event ever held on Long Island occurred on October 9, 1954 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Vanderbilt Cup Race. The event was organized by Long Island Old Car Club and the Mineola Fair and Industrial Exposition.
Verifying an Original Peter Helck Painting
Anne R: "I have acquired what I believe is a fantastic original Peter Helck painting and I was wondering if you could help me verify its authenticity? Thank you in advance for your consideration."
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A Bible and St. George at a Syrian Orthodox church in Midyat, Turkey
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The Language Jesus Spoke
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Khan is a Cambridge University professor who has specialized in Aramaic, the Semitic language that Jesus spoke and was the most common tongue of the Middle East for thousands of years. He has studied ancient manuscripts of the language, but the most exhilarating days have been while traveling -- from California, to Finland to New Zealand -- to find the last generations of the Aramaic-speaking Diaspora.
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Geraldine and Pierrepont Mundy
of Thornbury House
Geraldine MundySandra Doig2017-12-12T20:04:02+01:00
Geraldine Mundy in 1905
Geraldine Mundy was the daughter of the Rev Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend (or Townshend) Stephens of Castle Townsend (also called Castletown or Castle Townshend) in County Cork and Dingle in County Kerry and his wife Alice Elizabeth (nee Shute). Geraldine was baptised on 12th February 1829 in Thornbury. The photograph on the left shows her at Thornbury House in 1905.
In many of the records the surname of the family varies. It can be shown as Townsend (or Townshend) or as Stephens. For the sake of consistency we have used the Townsend spelling here but the sources quoted use either spelling.
Her father, Maurice was the vicar in Thornbury from 1823 to 1872. He was born about 1792 in Ireland and was the third son of Richard Boyle Fitzgerald Townsend MP and Henrietta nee Newenham.
Maurice went to Christ Church in Oxford and after graduating, the newspaper of 4th October 1823 announced that the Rev Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend was presented to the Vicarage of Thornbury. The vicarage in Thornbury then became his home for the rest of his life.
Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend married Alice Elizabeth Shute in Thornbury on 16th May 1826. Alice was described as the niece and heiress of the late H Stephens of Chavenage House, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire in the wedding announcement.
The Ancestry website has some background information on Alice Shute which explains some of the later name changes of this couple and their family. The last of the the elder line of the Chavenage House family was Henry Stephens who died in 1795. His property was left to the heirs of his aunt Elizabeth Packer nee Stephens of Shellingford Manor. Elizabeth’s grandson Henry Willis inherited Chavenage and then became the Rector of Little Sodbury. Their son Henry Hannes Willis inherited the title and the name of Stephens. Henry Willis became a monk and was obviously unmarried and childless. After his death about 1822 in La Trappe in Normandy his heirs became the children of his sister Mrs Richmond Shute, first Henry Richmond Shute who died in 1823 and then Alice Elizabeth Shute. The provisions of the original will meant that the heir through the female line was obliged to drop his or her own name and adopt by Royal Licence the arms and name of the Stephens family. Maurice and Alice seem to have continued this tradition and this appears to be the reason why there is some confusion about the surname of the Townsend Stephens family.
Geraldine had two siblings. Her sister was Alice Gertrude Townsend Stephens who was baptised 18th October 1830. Her brother was Henry John Townsend Stephens who was baptised 1 November 1827.
Alice Elizabeth Townsend Stephens, Geraldine’s mother died aged only 28 and was buried at Castle Townsend.
In the 1841 census Maurice was referred to as Maurice Stephens and he was living at the Vicarage at Thornbury with his daughters Geraldine aged 12 and Alice aged 10 and Henrietta Townsend aged 65 and Elizabeth Townsend aged 30.
On October 3rd 1845 The Morning Post reported that the late Colonel Townsend of Castle Townsend in Cork, a Colonel in her Majesty’s 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons, had left the whole of his estates in England and Ireland to his brother the Rev Maurice Stephens Townsend the vicar of Thornbury. He appointed Maurice sole executor of his will and Maurice was expected to make such provision as he might think proper for his sister and young brother.
In June 1848 Geraldine and Gertrude Townsend were presented by Lady Morgan at St James’s Palace to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as was the custom for young ladies of a certain level in Society. The newspaper reported in great detail the dress she wore and its trimmings.
In the 1851 census the family included Geraldine’s brother Henry aged 23 who was at that time a Guard. Geraldine aged 22 and Alice were living at the family home and not working. Their father Maurice was aged 60.
On 25th March 1856 the wedding took place of Geraldine’s sister Alice Gertrude Townsend Stephens youngest daughter of Rev Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend of Castle Townsend to Rev Courtenay John Vernon Rector of Grafton Underwood.
By the 1861 census Geraldine was living at home in the Vicarage at Thornbury with her father and their retinue of servants; a groom, a maid, a cook, a lady’s maid and two housemaids.
On September 29th 1864 Geraldine’s brother Henry J T S Townsend of Chavenage Gloucestershire late the Life Guards and only son of the Rev Maurice Fitzgerald Townsend of Castle Townsend married Jane Adeliza Hussey de Burgh.
On the 7th September 1869 Geraldine’s brother, Henry J Stephens Townsend died at Castle Townsend. He left two young sons; Maurice Fitzgerald Stephens-Townsend and Hubert de Burgh Fitzgerald Stephens-Townsend.
Geraldine’s then future husband Pierrepont Mundy was born 13th August 1815 and was the sixth son of General Godfrey Basil Mundy. His first wife was a widow, Harriet Georgina Richards of Plas Newyyd , whom he married at St George’s Church in Hanover Square on 9th June 1859. Pierrepont’s first wife died 18th September 1865.
Geraldine became the second wife of Major General Pierrepont Mundy on April 30th 1870 in Thornbury. The West Cork Advertiser waxed very lyrical about the bride whose “darling beauty … so bedimmed the eyes of all beholders that they could not look at anything in which her lovely little form did not occupy the first place.” The people of Thornbury had made floral arches with flags and mottos and strew flowers in honour of the occasion.
In 1871 Pierrepont was staying with his widowed first mother in law and her family in Glamorgan. His sons Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy aged 11 and Basil St John Mundy aged eight were also with their grandmother and father.
In the same census (1871) Geraldine Mundy was living with her father in the vicarage in Thornbury. She was aged 32. They were living in a substantial household with a cook, a lady’s maid, a housemaid, a kitchen hand, a butler (John H T Bolton), a coachman (Henry Clutterbuck) and a footman.
On 26th June 1871 “The Morning Post” reported that Major-General and Mrs Pierrepont Mundy had arrived at 16 Granville Place on a visit to the Duchess Sforza Cesarini. The couple obviously enjoyed a glamorous social life.
On 21st March 1872 the Rev Maurice Fitzgerald Stephens Townsend of Castle Townsend died at the Vicarage in Thornbury. He had been vicar of Thornbury for 48 years and was aged 81.
The 1878 gas book confirms that Major General Mundy was renting Thornbury House from Sir Kingsmill Grove Key
“The Times” of June 11th 1878 had an advertisement concerning a decree in chancery made in a case where John Fowler was a plaintiff and Pierrepont Henry Mundy, Geraldine Henrietta Townsend Mundy and others were defendants. The advertisement asked for people to come forward who had a claim on the estate of Maurice Fitzgerald Stephens Townsend.
On the 14th April 1880 Pierrepont Mundy gave his stepdaughter Ella Richards of Plas Newydd in marriage to the Mackintosh of Moy Hall.
In 1881 the census shows Pierrepont Mundy aged 65 a retired major general born in Kirk Hallam in Derbyshire and Geraldine aged 49 at Thornbury House with their servants; the butler, groom, page, ladies maid, housemaid and kitchen maid. Pierrepont’s son Basil was at school at Hyde Hall in Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire.
Pierrepont Henry Mundy died in Thornbury 16th February 1889. His will which was proved on 30th April 1889 at Gloucester left his wife Geraldine as executrix of his estate (valued at £8,284 4s 11d).
On 10th December 1889 the Morning Post had an announcement that ” a Marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Lieutenant Godfrey H B Mundy eldest son of the late Major General Pierrepont Mundy RHA of Thornbury House Gloucestershire and Castle Townsend County Cork and Rose daughter of Major Sir Robert Miller Mundy R A KCMG of Hollybank Hampshire.”
On October 3rd 1892 the Bristol Mercury reported on a Tory demonstration at Thornbury to receive the return of Mr E Colston MP. Several bands including the Tockington Brass Band and the Pilning Brass Band marched to the grounds of Thornbury House lent by Mrs Geraldine Mundy the Hon. Sec. of the Primrose League. On the lawns of Thornbury House were a large number of young women dressed in white with blue sashes and evergreens were thrown in the path of Mr and Mrs Colston.
In 1893 on January 12th The Standard had an article about the visit of Geraldine Mundy (ne e Townsend) to her family estate in Skibbereen in Ireland. Mrs Mundy’s carriage knocked down an old lady who had fallen in front of it and two local men apparently scolded the woman severely for frightening Mrs Mundy when she was coming home at last! Another gentleman asked to see Mrs Mundy so he could “rowll” anyone she did not like into the river!
On August 28th 1894 Geraldine’s step-son Basil St John Mundy married the Hon Violet Morgan of Ruperra Castle. The marriage took place at St James Church, Piccadilly, London. The marriage took place on the 15th January 1890. Geraldine purchased a large property on the outskirts of Thornbury known as The Farm for the couple to live in following his retirement from the Army. Click here to read more about Basil and Violet
In the rate book of 1899 Geraldine was still renting Thornbury House from Sir Kingsmill Grove Key. On June 3rd 1899 Geraldine leased Thornbury Grange as it was then known to her son Basil.
Plan of Thornbury House in 1900
The 1899 rate book also indicates that Geraldine Mundy owned The Hatch the former Thornbury Grammar School building and that this was occupied by Mrs Mundy’s butler Christopher Hawkes
Thornbury House was put up for sale on 26th May 1900, at which time it was owned by Sir John K G Key and let to Geraldine Mundy. We have here above left a copy of the plan on the sale notice.
Thornbury House was bought by Geraldine Mundy and this was confirmed in an indenture dated 6th December 1900 between her and John Kingsmill Causton Key which is in Gloucester Record Office (D3789 box 5). Also living in the house were Geraldine’s cook, maid, kitchen maid, under housemaid and housemaid. On the right hand side is a thumbnail image of the plan of the property at that time. Please click on it for a larger image.
In the 1901 census Geraldine, then widowed and aged 70, was head of the household. She was living with her step-grandson Frederick Mundy aged five and his governess, Emily Ormsby aged 19.
In the rate book of 1910 Geraldine Mundy owned and occupied Thornbury House but Thornbury Cottage, which she also owned, and presumably acquired in a separate transaction with Kingsmill Grove Key, was vacant and her land was being farmed by her step son Basil Mundy.
In the 1911 census Geraldine Mundy was 82 years old and a widow living with her six servants. Her step-son and his family also seem to be in the house but perhaps in a separate household. Captain Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy aged 50 had been married to his wife Rose for 21 years and they had two children, one of whom was living in the house. Second Lieutenant Pierrepont Rodney Miller Mundy was aged 19. There was another servant, a lady’s maid to Rose.
Geraldine died 3rd November 1911. Probate was granted to Aubrey Paul Kitcat and Henry Privett Thurston. The estate was originally said to be £12,991 13s 9d but was later re-sworn at £15968 1s 10d and £16164 11s.
Hon Mrs Evelyn Mary Geraldine Gillett
By the 1918 electoral roll the owner and occupant of Thornbury House was the Hon Mrs Evelyn Mary Geraldine Gillett, the niece of Geraldine Mundy. Evelyn Mary Geraldine Vernon had married the Rev Hugh Hodgson Gillett on 7th August 1877.
The South Gloucestershire Chronicle of 29th January 1915 had a report of the death of the Rev H Gillett who died at Thornbury House aged 78. He had apparently been in ill health from June of the year before. His obituary said that he came to Thornbury at the beginning of 1912 with his wife the Hon Mrs Evelyn Mary Geraldine Gillett who inherited Thornbury House estate on the death of Mrs Pierrepont Mundy in the previous November. For 37 years he was Rector of Compton near Guildford in Surrey. He left a wife, two daughters and three sons. Two of his sons were in the army at the time of his death, one was a Captain in the Artillery Regiment and the other was in “Kitchener’s Army.” Their eldest son was headmaster of a Grammar School at Winchester. Rev Gillett was buried at Compton.
Hugh Hodgson Gillett was the fifth son of Gabriel Edwards Hodgson Gillett of Waltham Co. Leicester. He matriculated to Exeter College on 24th February 1854 aged 17. He graduated with a BA in 1858 and gained his MA in 1860. He was Rector of Compton in Surrey from 1877 to 1912.
Evelyn Mary Vernon was the daughter of Courtney John Vernon and Alice Gertrude Townsend (the sister of Geraldine Mundy). Her birth was registered in Kettering in the September quarter of 1859. Her father was rector of Grafton Underwood and heir to Lord Lyveden.
The 1861 census shows her aged one year with her parents at the Rectory of Grafton Underwood in Northamptonshire with her brother Courtney Robert Percy Vernon.
Hugh Hodgson Gillett married Evelyn Mary Vernon in the September quarter of 1877 at St George’s in Hanover Square, London.
The 1881 census shows that the couple lived at Compton Rectory and they already had three children two years old and younger – Hugh aged two, Sybil aged one and Charles aged eight months.
The 1891 census showed Hugh Hodgson Gillett aged 54 and Evelyn his wife aged 31 were still living in the Rectory in Compton with six children; Hugh aged 12, Sybil aged 11, Charles ten, Margerie aged nine, George aged eight and Gertrude aged seven.
In 1892 Evelyn’s father died and her brother as the Nottinghamshire Guardian reports “formerly well known in the dramatic world, and eldest son of the deceased, now becomes heir to the barony.” In January 1895 Northampton Bankruptcy Court heard that Percy Vernon (as her brother was known) was a nurseryman in Stanwick and his business then had a liability of £10, 568 6s 3d. In 1898 the Era publication reported that Percy Vernon was one of the cast appearing in summer season at the New Albion Theatre in Poplar in a programme of dramas and farces.
The 1901 census showed Hugh Hodgson Gillett was aged 64 and his wife Evelyn was 41. Their children were Hugh aged 22, Sybil aged 21, Margerie aged 19 and Gertrude Gillettt aged 17 and their four servants.
Hugh Hodgson Gillett died on 22 January 1915 probate was to Hugh Vernon Gillett and George Maurice Gerald Gillett. His effects were £2529 17s 5d. A memorial to him is in the Stafford Chapel of St Mary’s Church in Thornbury.
Mrs Gillett appears to have moved to Thornbury with her husband around 1912 and the 1925 Valuation List shows that she remained in Thornbury House, which she owned along with Thornbury Cottage.
In 1917 The Gazette announced the wedding of Gertrude Mary Gillett younger daughter of the late Hugh Gillett and the Hon. Mrs Gillett of Thornbury House to Luke Turner the son of the late Mr Luke turner of The Fosse in Leicester.
Molly Cotter, the daughter of the then vicar Claud Cotter, remembers Mrs Gillett very well. Apparently she had a big tennis court and gave tennis parties when her younger relations were visiting her. Molly recalls that Mrs Gillett became quite well known in Thornbury for one thing. She was troubled by the fact that she had so much lawn to be mown and decided the best way to deal with it was to keep guinea pigs on it who would multiply and keep the grass to an acceptable level. This horticultural experiment was not a success.
Mrs Gillet’s brother Courtenay Robert Percy Vernon, the third Baron Gillett was made bankrupt in 1920.
Charles Richard Gillett
Mrs Gillett died on January 28th 1930 at Thornbury House aged 70. She was described as the widow of Rev H H Gillett and sister of the third Baron Lyveden. Probate was granted to her children, Hugh Vernon Gillett and Gertrude Mary Turner (a widow). Her effects were £1913 6s 11d. Her obituary in the Western Daily Press of 1st February 1930 said that Mrs Gillett until her illness fourteen months earlier had been a very active member of the parish church.
Evelyn and Hugh Gillett had five children;
Hugh Vernon Gillett was born 12th June 1878. On February 6th 1897 Hugh, then described as of Winchester College gained a How Exhibition scholarship to Exeter College Oxford. In the 1901 Census aged 22, he was a student at Oxford, where he later gained a second class Honours Degree in Jurisprudence.
Charles Richard Gillett was born 24th August 1880. He was Lieutenant R A and Instructor in Gunnery at Malta. He married Gwynne daughter of Robert Keate of 14 Roswell Gardens on 8th February 1906. A photograph of Charles Richard Gillett appeared in the Thornbury Gazette of 1915. It is shown here on the left.
George Maurice Gillett
George Maurice Gerald Gillett born 17th November 1882. His name appears on the World War One Memorial in Thornbury. He was killed in action when a shell exploded on September 26th 1916 aged 33. He was Captain of the 6th Leicesters. He was made a Lieutenant in December 1915, having been in a public school corps. He was described as the son of the late Hugh Gillett and Hon Mrs Gillett of Thornbury House. We apologise for the very poor quality of the photograph on the right but it is the only one we have of George Maurice Gillett. An article in the South Gloucestershire Chronicle of October 20th 1916 said that George attended St Edward’s School in Oxford and entered the Bank of England. Apparently he was a partner in a Leicestershire firm from 1912 until he enlisted.
1935 sale of Thornbury House
Sybil Evelyn Gillett married Captain Gerald William Daman of the Royal Fusiliers.
Gertrude Mary Gillett. The Western Daily Press of March 1st 1917 reported on the marriage of Gertrude Mary the younger daughter of the late Rev Hugh Gillett and Mrs Gillett of Thornbury House to Luke Turner son of the late Luke Turner of The Fosseway Leicester.
By 1931 Hugh Vernon Gillett the son of Evelyn Mary Gillett was shown in the electoral roll for Thornbury House. He also appeared in the 1935 traded directory and the electoral roll of the same year.
The Western Daily Press of 29th June 1935 advertised Thornbury House and the lands belonging to it for sale. The sale was “at the direction of H.V. Gillett esq.” Please click on the thumbnail image above to read the advertisement. Hugh Vernon Gillett died in the Tonbridge District in 1956 aged 77 years.
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Video: OWN Announces June 18 Premiere Date and Unveils Official Trailer for New Family Saga "Ambitions"
"Ambitions" explores the sexy, deceitful machinations of love, power and politics in America's hottest urban mecca, Atlanta, Georgia.
[via press release from OWN] OWN ANNOUNCES JUNE 18 PREMIERE DATE AND UNVEILS OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR NEW FAMILY SAGA "AMBITIONS"
From Record-Breaking Producer Will Packer, Jamey Giddens, Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury, Ensemble Drama Stars Robin Givens, Brian White, Kendrick Cross, Brely Evans, Erica Page and Essence Atkins
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Los Angeles - OWN's steamy new family saga "Ambitions" from record-breaking producer Will Packer ("Girls Trip") is set to premiere on Tuesday, June 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT following Tyler Perry's hit drama "The Haves and Have Nots" (9-10 p.m. ET/PT).
Created by executive producer/writer Jamey Giddens and produced by Will Packer Media in association with Lionsgate and Lionsgate-owned distributor Debmar-Mercury, "Ambitions" stars a dynamic ensemble cast including Robin Givens ("Riverdale"), Brian White ("Scandal"), Kendrick Cross ("Acrimony"), Brely Evans ("Being Mary Jane"), Erica Page ("Ozark") and Essence Atkins ("Marlon").
"Ambitions" explores the sexy, deceitful machinations of love, power and politics in America's hottest urban mecca, Atlanta, Georgia. The series centers around the intense rivalry between formidable legal eagles Stephanie Lancaster (Robin Givens) and Amara Hughes (Essence Atkins), former best friends from college who find themselves adversaries in both their personal and professional lives. Full descriptions of ensemble below:
Robin Givens is the sophisticated 'Stephanie Lancaster.' Hailing from a long line of distinguished attorneys, Stephanie desperately wants to be in charge of her family's prestigious law firm and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Brian White is 'Evan Lancaster,' the Mayor of Atlanta, who is married to attorney Stephanie Carlisle. Evan's dream is to be the first African-American governor of Georgia and there's no line he won't cross to get there.
Kendrick Cross stars as 'Titus Hughes,' a passionate attorney and dedicated husband to Amara (Essence Atkins). Titus has accepted the challenge of being in-house counsel for a big pharma company run by Hunter Purifoy (Brian Bosworth) to fight a class action suit brought by the powerful Carlisle family.
Brely Evans stars as 'Rondell Lancaster,' the sister of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster and manager of the Thelma's Place restaurant. As the new face of an anti-gentrification campaign, she never thought she'd become a crusader for the people, but it's a badge she wears with pride - and nobody is removing it.
Erica Page plays the role of 'Bella (Tru) Trujillo,' Atlanta's newest and trendiest fashion designer. She's the exclusive dress designer for First Lady Stephanie Lancaster (Robin Givens) but has set her sights much higher.
Essence Atkins plays the role of 'Amara Hughes,' a lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's Office who has newly arrived in Atlanta with her husband, Titus (Kendrick Cross). Originally from Texas, she is quickly gaining attention from the U.S. Attorney's Office as a diligent investigator and prosecutor.
In addition, Brian Bosworth ("What Men Want"), Matt Cedeño ("Power"), Deena Dill ("Conrad & Michelle"), Gino Anthony Pesi ("Shades of Blue") and Kayla Smith ("Star") will appear in recurring roles.
"Ambitions" is produced for OWN by Will Packer Media in association with Lionsgate and its producer-distributor Debmar-Mercury. Will Packer is executive producer. Kevin Arkadie is executive producer/showrunner. Creator/writer Jamey Giddens and Will Packer Media's Sheila Ducksworth also serve as executive producers. Benny Boom directed and served as a producer on the pilot episode.
About OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is the first and only network named for, and inspired by, a single iconic leader. Oprah Winfrey's heart and creative instincts inform the brand and the magnetism of the channel. OWN is a leading destination for premium scripted and unscripted programming from today's most innovative storytellers. OWN's original scripted series include popular dramas "Queen Sugar," "Greenleaf," "The Haves and Have Nots, "If Loving You is Wrong" and upcoming drama series "David Makes Man" from Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and family saga "Ambitions" from record breaking Hollywood producer Will Packer. OWN's Saturday night unscripted programming lineup includes "Iyanla: Fix My Life," "Ready to Love," "Love & Marriage: Huntsville," "Black Love," "Family or Fiancé" and "The Book of John Gray." OWN connects with its audience wherever they are, inspiring conversation among a global community of like-minded viewers on social media and beyond. Launched on January 1, 2011, OWN is a joint venture between Harpo, Inc. and Discovery, Inc. The venture also includes the award-winning digital platform Oprah.com. Access OWN anytime, anywhere on WatchOWN.tv or across mobile devices and connected TVs. For more information, please visit www.oprah.com/own.
About Will Packer Media
Led by Hollywood producer Will Packer, Will Packer Media is a first-of-its-kind production and branded content company focused on the New American Mainstream audience, with an urban millennial core. In partnership with Discovery, Inc. and Universal Pictures, the company produces episodic scripted and unscripted series across television and digital platforms, compelling content for brand clients, and short-form digital content for millennial audiences. Will Packer's films have earned more than $1 billion, with nine opening at number one at the box office.
About Lionsgate
The first major new studio in decades, Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) is a global content leader whose films, television series, digital products and linear and over-the-top platforms reach next generation audiences around the world. In addition to its filmed entertainment leadership, Lionsgate content drives a growing presence in interactive and location-based entertainment, video games, esports and other new entertainment technologies. Lionsgate's content initiatives are backed by a nearly 17,000-title film and television library and delivered through a global sales and distribution infrastructure. The Lionsgate brand is synonymous with original, daring and ground-breaking content created with special emphasis on the evolving patterns and diverse composition of the Company's worldwide consumer base.
About Debmar-Mercury
Debmar-Mercury, a leading media company specializing in syndication, network, cable and ancillary markets, produces and distributes The Wendy Williams Show and, with co-producer Citylife Productions, Caught in Providence, debuting nationally in September 2018. It has U.S. distribution rights to FremantleMedia North America's Steve Harvey-hosted Family Feud; off-Netflix episodes of BoJack Horseman from Michael Eisner's privately held media and entertainment company, The Tornante Company; as well as U.S. distribution rights toSchitt's Creek, the critically acclaimed half-hour, single-camera scripted comedy created by Eugene Levy and Daniel Levy that ranks as the No. 1 original series on Pop TV; the 10/90 sitcoms Debmar-Mercury pioneered including Tyler Perry's House of Payne and spinoff Meet the Browns; Revolution/CubeVision's Are We There Yet? (starring Ice Cube); and the Debmar-Mercury / Lionsgate Television comedy Anger Management (starring Charlie Sheen). Debmar-Mercury is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B), a global content platform whose films, television series, digital products and linear and over-the-top platforms reach next-generation audiences around the world.
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A Vision: Peace, Love and Music
Yuxin Huang & Wenting Xie (China), DeVanté RaChaun Carpenter (USA) & Luke Hespanhol (Brazil/Australia)
Collaborator: Design Lab, The University of Sydney (Australia)
2019 marks fifty years since the original Woodstock festival. Vivid Sydney is a perfect time to reflect on its harmonious values with the eye catching sculptural installation A Vision: Peace, Love and Music.
This colourful artwork by a multicultural collective of designers and artists from Sydney University presents large animated LED icons in neon light that represent peace, love and music. Each features an ever present ‘eye’, inviting you muse on these values from the past to the present and into the future.
In Peace, the pupil of the eye is represented by a giant peace sign. Over the years, Woodstock has brought thousands of people together. This radiant symbol acknowledges the struggles and successes in the fight for equality and civil rights and looks toward a future where peace is attainable and enduring.
Love depicts a simple heart with an eye crying. The eye cries for both happiness and sorrow. The tears of joy represent how far we have come in our ability to love. Tears of sadness remind us of the obstacles between our communities that we still need to overcome before we can fully embrace equality and express love for all.
Music is an important form of freedom of expression and a way we can pass stories of
beauty and enlightenment through generations. The eye is presented with Woodstock’s original festival logo of a bird on a guitar. As the bird prepares to fly, you are invited to contemplate our human journey and the legacies that we each leave to our successors.
Together these three thought-provoking signs ask you seemingly simple questions… ‘What is it you see? What is your vision?’
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UK regulator develops approach to 'rapid change'
The nuclear industry, both in the UK and internationally, is "changing rapidly and is facing significant challenges", the UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation says in its Strategic Framework for International Engagement to 2025. The report, published on 14 May, is therefore a "living document" that will be reviewed annually "to reflect the evolving international and political context and its changing priorities", it says.
Following the UK's exit from the European Union and Euratom, the government has proposed a new civil nuclear relationship based on a comprehensive Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA) between Euratom and the UK. This is to help ensure the UK's standing as a leading and responsible civil nuclear state is maintained and is expected to include a cooperation mechanism between ONR, as the UK safeguards regulator and State System of Accountancy and Control of Nuclear Materials (SSAC), and Euratom. In addition to a formal NCA, leaving the EU will result in different relationships for ONR, the report says.
ONR (as the SSAC) will be responsible for meeting the UK's international safeguards obligations. Doing this will require increased engagement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the implementation of the UK’s safeguards treaty agreements with the IAEA and with NCA partners in meeting the safeguards related requirements of those treaty agreements, it says.
The Nuclear Sector Deal (NSD), agreed between government and industry, seeks to promote positive aspects of an energy mix that features nuclear power and includes as key themes: goals on the cost reduction of new build in the UK and regulatory innovation. ONR's goal-setting regulatory regime offers flexibility to support innovation within the UK nuclear industry - evident through its work with Advanced Nuclear Technologies (ANTs) and influencing hazard and risk reduction at Sellafield. Strengthening ONR's role in multilateral international fora and bilateral partnerships will be a key enabler, it says, in influencing the safety and security of technological developments in the industry and in learning from others.
The Deregulation Act 2015 confirmed the economic growth duty on non-economic regulators and NERA Economic Consulting were commissioned to examine the economic impact of civil nuclear safety regulation.
"NERA recommended that ONR undertake systematic and quantitative international comparisons of factors such as regulatory costs and standards as applied in practice. ONR has committed to investigating opportunities to collaborate, through multilateral relationships, to help demonstrate how ONR's economic impact in specific types of regulation compares with its international counterparts," it says.
The UK government remains committed to geological disposal and international collaboration in the development of regulations and standards for geological waste emplacement, the report says, which will be an ongoing technical focus for ONR.
International footprint
ONR said its priority engagements include supporting a significant portfolio of international work with key bodies including the IAEA, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, and other influential standard setting bodies including the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association (WENRA).
"This enables us to influence globally, learn from relevant international good practice and maintain alignment with international obligations, standards and conventions, which ensures their output takes account of UK practice/law and meets the UK’s needs," it said.
The report also includes ONR’s work with the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme, the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Regulators' Forum, the European Nuclear Security Regulators Association and the World Institute for Nuclear Security. In support of its core regulatory purposes, ONR says it works with regulatory bodies in EU and non-EU states to co-ordinate positions and engagement. This allows for the exchange of regulatory and technical information, experience and expertise on nuclear safety and security. This includes formal agreements such as NCAs and Information Exchange Arrangements.
ONR also provides UK presentations at key fora on security and safeguards, including IAEA General Conference Senior Regulators Meeting, Nuclear Security Guidance Committee, IAEA Nuclear Security Conferences, WINS events, European Nuclear Security Regulators Association and the International Regulators Conference on Nuclear Security.
Engagement categories
The Framework sets the strategic direction for ONR's international engagement, providing structured governance of its international engagements, planning and reporting arrangements. Its International Steering Group will provide the appropriate mechanism for corporate oversight and governance of the framework to ensure alignment across ONR’s international activities.
To introduce consistency and proportionality across ONR in terms of business justification, all ONR’s international activities will be allocated to an 'engagement category'.
Category A covers agreed priority engagements that support and fulfil international treaty and convention obligations or directly influence development of international standards and guidance; Category B relates to agreed priority engagements judged to demonstrably support and align to at least one of ONR's strategic themes; and Category C concerns agreed international engagements undertaken to maintain visibility, provide knowledge transfer, secure professional development or necessary to support routine regulatory business and specific to a Directorate.
Its bilateral partnerships with international regulatory bodies will vary according to how each relationship aligns with its regulatory and organisational priorities with the broad characteristics.
Bilateral cooperation is governed and supported by Information Exchange Arrangements agreed between ONR and counterpart organisations and approved by the UK government Legal Advisory Service and counterpart national ministries. Such agreements are not legally binding but establish the parameters, pre-requisites and boundaries for information exchange.
The IAEA's Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) conducts reviews of national regulators’ policies and practices against IAEA standards. In addition to being reviewed by the IRRS, ONR provides experts to take part in IRRS missions of other countries. Similarly, the UK hosts and contributes experts to missions by the International Physical Protection Advisory Service concerning practices and arrangements for nuclear security.
ONR also provides support to IAEA consultancies (including associated technical meetings and workshops) with specific priority on the development of nuclear safety standards and nuclear security series (including aspects of the IAEA’s nuclear safeguard regime). It also seeks to provide support for IAEA-led missions supporting aspiring nuclear nations.
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ALERT project looks to ICT for drug safety
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Over the next three and a half years, the ALERT ('Early detection of adverse drug events by integrative mining of clinical records and biomedical knowledge') project partners will work on an innovative computer system for a better and faster detection of adverse drug reactions (ADRs).
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Pharmathen's new Research and Development Centre in Pallini, Athens
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Discovery of gene locus associated with cardiovascular disease raises hope of new treatments
An international team of researchers has discovered a gene locus that could help the development of new drugs to fight cardiovascular disease (CVD). The locus is associated with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, which plays a causal role in the development of diseases of the cardiovascular system.
FDA Notifies Public of Adverse Reactions Linked to Botox Use
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified the public that Botox and Botox Cosmetic (Botulinum toxin Type A) and Myobloc (Botulinum toxin Type B) have been linked in some cases to adverse reactions, including respiratory failure and death, following treatment of a variety of conditions using a wide range of doses.
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Westonbirt Prep one of the ‘Top 100 Independent Prep Schools’
Prep Academics
Westonbirt Prep School near Tetbury, Gloucestershire is celebrating this morning after making the Top 100 Prep Schools list in The Times newspaper for the second year in a row. Moving up from 88th place last year, this year sees the prep school advance to 60th position.
Mr Sean Price, Headmaster of Westonbirt Prep says ‘We are delighted with this result which reflects the hard work of all our students and staff. Westonbirt Prep strives to deliver the best all-round education for every child. Whilst academic results such as this are welcomed, emphasis remains on each individual’s needs both in and out of the classroom and great emphasis is put on developing skills and recognising achievements in areas such as sport and performing arts.
Westonbirt Prep pupils complete a unique Skills for Life Diploma in Year 6 where all individuals learn and evaluate a range of personal development skills through activities such as cookery, life-saving, first-aid, Bike-a-bility and Forest School. They are encouraged to draw on skills developed through experiences such as their residential trip and entrepreneurship day, during which they are challenged to create their own product and business.
For more information on Westonbirt Prep please visit www.westonbirt.org. Our next open day is on 2 March from 9am-12pm. To book, please visit http://www.westonbirt.org/admissions/open-days
Photo: 2018 Year 6 leavers whose SAT's results led to Westonbirt being in the the Top 100 Prep Schools.
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Sonakshi dismisses alleged fraud charges (Lead)
Mumbai, July 12 (IANS) Actress Sonakshi Sinha on Friday tweeted her reaction to fraud allegations levelled against her by a Delhi-based event organiser, after an Uttar Pradesh police team visited her Mumbai residence to record her statement in the case.
"An event organiser who couldn't live up to his commitment obviously thinks he can make a fast buck by maligning my crystal clear image in the press. There is full cooperation with the authorities from my end for the investigation to be conducted. Would request the media not to fan these bizarre claims of an uscrupulous man," the actress tweeted.
On Thursday, a team of officials from Uttar Pradesh Police visited Sonakshi's residence, Ramayana, to record her statement.
The complainant has alleged that Sonakshi failed to turn up for a performance she had been signed up for. Reportedly, she had received Rs 32 lakh as booking amount for the show.
Sonakshi, however was not at home on Thursday when the group of officials from UP Police, with the assistance of policemen from Juhu police station, arrived at her residence.
The police team will visit her again on Friday.
Sonakshi was last seen in the multistarrer flop, "Kalank", and will soon be seen in projects such as "Khandaani Shafakhana", "Mission Mangal" and "Dabangg 3".
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Westfield High School recognized as Project Lead the Way Distinguished School
By Anna Skinner on April 7, 2018 Westfield Education
Westfield High School was one of 133 high schools in the nation to recently be recognized as a Project Lead the Way Distinguished School. The recognition honors schools that increase student access, engagement and achievement in their PLTW programs.
PLTW has been in place at Westfield since 2005. The program was established more than 20 years ago as a nonprofit to promote STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — fields in schools. PLTW began to increase student interest in those fields.
At WHS, the program offers classes to prepare students for a field in engineering. They take the courses all four years of high school.
“Project Lead the Way started a new distinction this past year, basically to highlight those Project Lead the Way schools that have gone above and beyond in meeting certain requirements, like increasing student access, engaging students in class and outside class,” WHS teacher Matt Putman said. “(Students) take assessments at the end of the year, and they looked at our tests scores.”
Five years ago, WHS added a biomedical pathway to its PLTW program. Westfield Middle School also offers PLTW programming.
Putman oversees the PLTW program at the high school and said the school district continues looking for ways to expand PLTW options.
“We’ve actually in the last two years started working at getting Project Lead the Way at the intermediate school,” he said. “We are implementing that slowly, and next year we will begin implementation at elementary levels. We want K-12 getting a STEM experience or Project Lead the Way experience.”
For more, visit pltw.org.
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Other Eukaryotes
Choanoflagellates
Rhodophyta
Amoebozoa
Alveolates
Cercozoa
Radiolaria
Stramenopiles
Hacrobia
Preaxostyla
Euglenozoa
Malawimonas
Protists of uncertain placement
Heterolobosea
Jakobida
Fornicata
Malawimonads
Malawimonas O'Kelly & Nerad 1999
Alastair Simpson
'Malawimonas californiana'
Malawimonas jakobiformis
Containing group: Eukaryotes
Malawimonads are a group of small flagellates, so far comprising a single genus with one named species Malawimonas jakobiformis, plus one undescribed isolate that is studied under the name ‘Malawimonas californiana’ (or ‘Malawimonas californiensis’). Entirely unknown prior to the 1990s Malawimonads are of significant evolutionary interest because of their key position for understanding the phylogeny and evolution of excavate protists.
Malawimonads are free-swimming heterotrophic flagellates. They are small, typically about 5 μm long (Malawimonas jakobiformis is 4-8.5 μm - O'Kelly and Nerad, 1999). Cells are bean-shaped, with two flagella and a ventral groove (O’Kelly and Nerad, 1999; Simpson unpublished). Like other small free-living excavates, malawimonads use the groove to collect and phagocytose small food particles (prokaryotes) that are transported on a current generated by the posterior flagellum. Malawimonads have been cultured from freshwater sediments and soil (O’Kelly and Nerad 1999; Ekelund 2002, under the name Carpediemonas sp. – Simpson, unpublished). Malawimonas jakobiformis forms cysts (O’Kelly and Nerad, 1999).
Malawimonads closely resemble other small excavate free-living excavates when viewed under the light microscope, in particular deep-branching members of Fornicata, namely Carpediemonas and Dynectes (from which they are almost indistinguishable), and non-loricate jakobids such as Jakoba and Andalucia. Ultrastructural examination indicates that malawimonads differ from these other small excavates by having discoidal mitochondrial cristae (O’Kelly, 1993; O’Kelly and Nerad, 1999; Simpson, unpublished). By contrast, jakobids have tubular or flat cristae (O’Kelly, 1993; Lara et al., 2006) while the mitochondrion-like organelles of Carpediemonas and Dysnectes lack cristae (Simpson and Patterson, 1999; Yubuki et al. 2007). Malawimonas jakobiformis has a single vane on its posterior flagellum that is located on the ventral side of the axoneme, rather than the dorsal side of the axoneme, as is characteristic for jakobids (O’Kelly and Nerad, 1999). Malawimonads lack the other synapomorphies of jakobids, and also lack the diagnostic arched fibre synapomorphy for Fornicata (O’Kelly and Nerad, 1999; Simpson, unpublished – see Simpson and Patterson, 1999, 2001; Yubuki et al. 2007; Simpson, 2003).
The mitochondrial genomes of Malawimonas jakobiformis and ‘Malawimonas californiana’ have been sequenced (Lang et al., 1999; Gray et al., 2004). The Malawimonas mitochondrial genomes are relatively gene-rich, with ~70 total unique genes and ORFs (Lang et al., 1999). Three ORFs are unique to Malawimonas, while three of the genes for ribosomal proteins are otherwise only known from jakobid mitochondrial genomes (Gray et al., 2004). Other than these three genes, Malawimonas lacks most of the unusual ‘bacterial-like’ features of jakobid mitochondrial genomes, including genes for eubacterial-type RNA polymerase subunits (Gray et al., 2004).
Other Names for Malawimonas O'Kelly & Nerad 1999
Malawimonadidae O'Kelly & Nerad 1999
Ekelund F. (2002) Tolerance of soil flagellates to increased NaCl levels. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 49: 324-328.
Gray, M. W., Lang, B. F. & Burger, G. (2004) Mitochondria of protists. Annu. Rev. Genet. 38: 477-525.
Lang, B. F., Gray, M.W., & Burger, G. (1999) Mitochondrial genome evolution and the origin of eukaryotes. Annu. Rev. Genet. 33: 351-397.
Lara, E., Chatzinotas, A., Simpson, A.G.B. (2006) Andalucia (gen. nov,): a new taxon for the deepest branch within jakobids (Jakobida; Excavata), based on morphological and molecular study of a new flagellate from soil. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 53: 112-120.
O’Kelly, C. J. (1993) The jakobid flagellates: structural features of Jakoba, Reclinomonas and Histiona and implications for the early diversification of eukaryotes. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 40: 627--636.
O’Kelly, C.J. & Nerad, T.A. (1999) Malawimonas jakobiformis n. gen., n. sp. (Malawimonadidae n. fam.): A jakoba-like heterotrophic nanoflagellate with discoidal mitochondrial cristae. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 46: 522-531.
Simpson, A.G.B. (2003) Cytoskeletal organisation phylogenetic affinities and systematics in the contentious taxon Excavata (Eukaryota). Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53: 1759-1777.
Simpson, A.G.B. & Patterson, D.J. (1999) The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the “excavate hypothesis”. Europ. J. Protistol. 35: 353-370.
Simpson, A.G.B. & Patterson, D.J. (2001) On core jakobids and excavate taxa: the ultrastructure of Jakoba incarcerata. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 48: 480-492.
Yubuki, N., Inagaki, Y., Nakayama, T., Inouye, I., (2007) Ultrastructure and ribosomal RNA phylogeny of the free-living heterotrophic flagellate Dysnectes brevis n. gen., n. sp., a new member of the Fornicata. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 54: 191-200.
Protist Image Database page for Malawimonas.
OGMP Malawimonas mitochondrial genome page.
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The unapologetic queerness of Troye Sivan’s ‘Bloom’
The singer’s second studio album is an end to innocence and a blossoming of desire.
by Apa Agbayani on September 17, 2018
Troye Sivan’s sophomore album opens with a song about a 17-year-old boy lying about his age to hook up with older men. It’s a situation that’s deeply concerning, and it’s worth emphasizing that there are no gray areas when it comes to age of consent. At the same time, it isn’t uncommon to be young and queer and feel ready to act on romantic and sexual urges (even if you really, really shouldn’t).
Sivan taps into that very real feeling with tenderness, not condemning the feeling but being careful not to offer a green light for acting on it. On “Seventeen,” he sings, “I went out looking for love when I was 17 / Maybe a little too young, but it was real to me / And in the heat of the night, saw things I’d never seen.”
This commitment to tethering emotional honesty to nuance is what characterizes “Bloom,” Sivan’s follow-up to his immense (if uneven) 2015 debut “Blue Neighbourhood.” The album makes for a more polished sequel, trading the first album’s emphasis on hooks for stronger storytelling. While “Blue Neighbourhood” spoke to a certain innocence, “Bloom” sees that innocence challenged, sometimes broken by the experience of desire.
The album makes for a more polished sequel, trading the first album’s emphasis on hooks for stronger storytelling. While “Blue Neighbourhood” spoke to a certain innocence, “Bloom” sees that innocence challenged, sometimes broken by the experience of desire.
On songs like My! My! My! and Lucky Strike, Sivan captures the trepidation of falling in love with some of his sharpest songwriting (“‘Cause you taste like Lucky Strikes / You drag, I light, boy.” Get this guy a cigarette endorsement). The irresistible danger, the push and pull towards an inevitable surrender to emotion — it’s all there.
The title track is a double entendre-fueled bop about bottoming (“Put gas into the motor / And, boy, I’ll meet you right there / we’ll ride the rollercoaster.”) and it makes for the record’s strongest pop moment.
The album presents as a range of emotional modes Sivan has grown comfortable switching through, but he does even better on the album’s more tender moments.
The album presents as a range of emotional modes Sivan has grown comfortable switching through, but he does even better on the album’s more tender moments. The Good Side is a singular account of a breakup and how afterwards, time can be kinder to one of you and crueler to the other. It’s the best apology for happiness you’ve ever heard. On Plum, he narrates a love he can feel outliving its natural lifespan, mourning it even before it’s ended. The Ariana Grande-assisted Dance To This is an ode to staying in with the person you love, dancing under fluorescent kitchen lights instead of glittering disco balls.
When it comes to songs about queer love, it isn’t just about the pronouns the singers use; it’s the way they illustrate queer love’s inherent tragedy.
The biggest issue is that while the songs are consistently impressive, the tracklisting is off-putting. The 10 tracks sound like they’ve been put on shuffle and it diminishes the listening experience, offering no narrative or thematic arc. Reordering the album to your liking is an exercise I think listeners should consider.
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There is something to be said about how the album is unabashedly queer in its portrayal of desire, considering also the landmark records by queer artists over the last two years. This year has seen both Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer” and Hayley Kiyoko’s “Expectations” while last year saw Rostam’s “Half-Light” and Tyler, the Creator’s “Flower Boy.” It’s heartening to hear music whose queerness doesn’t need to be mined out in close reading. (Did you ever think we’d get a pop album whose centerpiece is a massive radio-ready pop song about bottoming? This is the future we want.)
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Sivan’s album offers an intimate look into queer desire and shows just how potent work by LGBTQ+ artists can be. When it comes to songs about queer love, it isn’t just about the pronouns the singers use; it’s the way they illustrate queer love’s inherent tragedy. To be queer and in love is to feel your love constantly threatened, not only by a society that refuses to accept you, but by the ways the world broke you before you even began to love.
“Bloom” is a rare record, one that combines emotional nakedness with distanced insight, all painted in pop hooks. It’s a record that celebrates the myriad ways we break ourselves trying to love — that suggests that when we lose innocence, we gain something else, and come to see the world in ways we never imagined.
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Mike Joseph’s Very Sound Career
Growing up with 20,000 records filling his basement, a new-fangled stereo in the living room and a Wollensak tape recorder in his bedroom, it’s no surprise Mike Joseph spent the rest of his life around music.
The Westporter’s father — Mike Joseph Sr. — was a radio executive. In the 1960s he turned WABC into an AM powerhouse. In the ’70s he flipped more than a dozen major market stations to the “Hot Hits” format he created.
Mike Jr. got the music bug, and never let go.
In 1960s Westport, he recalls, “everyone was either in a band, or listening to one.”
He took his reel-to-reel tape recorder to Mike Mugrage’s basement, and recorded classmates Jeff Dowd, Dave Barton, Brian Keane, Rob McClenathan, Julie Aldworth, Peter Rolnick, Harry Miller and others.
In 1971, Jeff Dowd practiced guitar in a Staples High School music rehearsal room.
It was quite a crew. Dowd went on to become a noted opera singer. Keane is a Grammy Award winner. McClenathan and Aldworth — who got married — still make music. So did Mugrage and Barton.
That’s the milieu Joseph remembers fondly.
At Staples High School, the Class of 1971 grad says, “people sat outside the cafeteria playing guitars and harmonicas.” He had a morning shift on the school radio station WWPT-FM. Music was everywhere.
Rich Bradley — Joseph’s English teacher at Coleytown Junior High School, who later taught at Staples — was the first director of the Youth Adult Council. Concerned that teenagers were just hanging out downtown, he recruited Joseph and Guy Rabut to put on a coffeehouse.
Held first downstairs at the Saugatuck Congregational Church, then at Bedford Elementary School (now Town Hall), the shows harnessed the talents of local singers.
As audio director for Staples Players, Joseph served as stage manager for acts that played at Staples: the James Gang, Delaney & Bonnie, Taj Mahal, the Byrds, Mahavishnu Orchestra and more. He showed roadies where the electrical tie-ins were, and shepherded the groups to and from the green room (usually a music rehearsal space).
Hiding mics in the catwalk, he occasionally recorded concerts for personal use.
Then he did sound for Jesup Green concerts. Joseph owned big Altec Lansing speakers, and borrowed power amps from his friend Bob Barrand. He’d rig up a PA system on the flatbed trailer that served as a stage.
Mike Joseph, in the early 1970s.
Back in the day, music and politics went hand in hand. In 1971 he and Barton hitchhiked to Washington for a May Day rally. Joseph wore bell bottoms and a t-shirt, had 39 cents in his pocket, slept on a church floor — and helped handle the sound on the Capitol steps.
At Ohio University, Joseph helped build one of the first large student radio and audio production facilities in the country. He recorded bands in the studio and the field — including the Pipestem Bluegrass Festival in West Virginia for a very young NPR.
He transferred to Syracuse University — site of the nation’s first 16-track student-oriented recording studio.
Then came a long career as a recording engineer, record producer and club designer. He collaborated in Nat King Cole’s Hollywood studio with Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Blue Cheer and others.
Mike Joseph, at the mixing board.
In San Francisco — as chief engineer for Oasis Recording Studio and producer for BBI Productions — he worked with George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, Tower of Power, Santana, Journey and dozens more new wave and disco-era bands.
In 1989 Joseph became editor of Recording Engineer/Producer Magazine, and founded another publication. In that capacity he traveled the world, visiting studios like Abbey Road.
These days — decades after leaving his Westport home with its 20,000 albums, stereo and tape recorder — Joseph is still in Kansas City. He’s a strategic marketing and business planning consultant.
Mike Joseph today.
He’s just built a home production studio, to digitize vintage analog tapes.
He does it all: concerts, weddings, lectures. And — of course — old recordings for his many musician friends.
He’s happy to talk to anyone who has tapes they want to save.
Particularly if they also have stories about the very vibrant, really rich Westport music scene of the 1960s and ’70s.
(For more information, email mike.joseph@sbcglobal.net)
This entry was posted in Arts, Entertainment, Looking back, People, Staples HS and tagged 1960s music, 1970s music, audio recording, Mike Joseph. Bookmark the permalink.
2 responses to “Mike Joseph’s Very Sound Career”
Fred Cantor | May 26, 2018 at 10:37 am |
What a very cool story. And I love his quote: “everyone was either in a band, or listening to one.” How true.
Kudos to Mike on making a career out of his passion.
Suzanne Carreker-Voigt | May 29, 2018 at 1:51 pm |
What a walk down memory lane. I was a “groupie” of the Westport music scene at the time (Class of ’73). Loved those coffee houses, beach concerts and those spontaneous basement/house gigs. Thanks for the smiles and tunes floating in my head.
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Kiper’s 1st NFL Mock: Eagles Take Defensive End Montez Sweat
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The Philadelphia Eagles are going to have to make some really tough decisions this offseason regarding Nick Foles. They also have to decide what they want to do with the guy who made one of, if not the most impactful plays in the history of the franchise.
Holding and drafting with the No. 25 NFL Draft pick means the Eagles are going to have to hope someone falls, or is a late bloomer, selecting that late in the first-round to improve the 2019 team.
Eagles executive vice president of football operations said during this press conference that the defensive line position was an area of depth in the 2019 draft and ESPN's Mel Kiper agrees in his first version of a 2019 mock that the Eagles could look at the defensive line in the draft.
Montez Sweat, DE, Mississippi State
With free agents Brandon Graham and Chris Long potentially moving on, Philadelphia could add some pass-rush help here. At 6-foot-6, 241 pounds, Sweat is a rangy prospect who is athletically gifted. And he produced, racking up 22 sacks the past two seasons. Receiver is also a position to watch, as Golden Tate and Mike Wallace are both on the free-agent market.
Sweat played 26 games for the Bulldogs the past two seasons.
In 2017, as a junior, Sweat recorded 48 tackles, 15.5 for loss, to go with 10.5 sacks. This season, Sweat was even better with 53 tackles, 14.5 for loss, and 12 sacks as a senior.
Who else could the Eagles draft at No. 25? Kiper’s first mock looks a bit different from the one compiled by Todd McShay, who had the Eagles taking a defensive back with the pick.
Deandre Baker, CB, Georgia
Baker isn't the biggest or fastest corner, but he shows the best instincts of the bunch and is a ball hawk. And you might have noticed that the defending Super Bowl champions could use a solid cornerback. Let's see what he does against those big Texas receivers in the Sugar Bowl.
Baker posted 40 tackles, 2 interceptions and nine passes defensed during his senior season at Georgia won the 2018 Jim Thorpe Award.
That’s an interesting twist because the Eagles, of course, might be interested in filling the cornerback slot opposite with Ronald Darby set to be an unrestricted free-agent.
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Home Sports Victor MOSES, Mikel Obi & Iheanacho KEY TO NIGERIA’S WORLD CUP CHANCES – WEST
Victor MOSES, Mikel Obi & Iheanacho KEY TO NIGERIA’S WORLD CUP CHANCES – WEST
by David Page June 17, 2018
written by David Page June 17, 2018
The former defender is concerned about the level of experience in Gernot Rohr’s squad for the tournament in Russia
Victor Moses, Kelechi Iheanacho and John Obi Mikel are Nigeria’s most important players at the World Cup, former international defender Taribo West says.
The trio played an integral role for Nigeria as they qualified for this summer’s tournament by finishing top of their qualifying group ahead of Zambia, Cameroon and Algeria.
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Widespread occurrence of calcium-activated, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase in mammalian tissues.
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Ca2+-activated, phospholipid-dependent multifunctional protein kinase originally found in rat brain occurs in a variety of mammalian tissues. In most tissues the enzyme activity is...
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The structure of cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki at 2.5.ANGS. resolution.
1981 HIGUCHI Yoshiki et al. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY cited 37 times
The structure of tetraheme cytochrome c3 isolated from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki has been determined at 2.5 Å resolution by an X-ray diffraction method. Protein...
Troponin and its components from ascidian smooth muscle.
1981 ENDO Takeshi et al. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY cited 26 times
Troponin was isolated from the thin filaments of ascidian smooth muscle and separated into three components by ion-exchange chromatography, the molecular weights of which...
Studies on human high molecular weight (HMW) kininogen. II. Structural change of HMW kininogen by the action of human plasma kallikrein.:II. Structural Change of HMW Kininogen by...
1981 MORI Kazumine et al. JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY cited 22 times
We have investigated in detail the cleavage of human high molecular weight (HMW) kininogen by human plasma kallikrein and revealed the formation of a nicked kininogen and a novel...
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Observation with a phase-contrast microscope clearly shows that melting of an A-band, i.e., a bundle of thick (myosin) filaments, in a rabbit skeletal myofibril occurs from...
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D-Lactate dehydrogenase, the starting enzyme for carbon and energy metabolism in dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria, has been purified 36-fold from the soluble fraction...
Interaction of initiator Met-tRNArMet (Escherichia coli) and Gly-tRNAIGly (Staphylococcus epidermidis) with bacterial elongation factor Tu:GTP complex.
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Massumi’s desperate strategic retreat from hopelessness of global cognitive mapping
Posted on March 31, 2008 by Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
“From my own point of view, the way that a concept like hope can be made useful is when it is not connected to an expected success — when it starts to be something different from optimism — because when you start trying to think ahead into the future from the present point, rationally there really isn’t much room for hope. Globally it’s a very pessimistic affair, with economic inequalities increasing year by year, with health and sanitation levels steadily decreasing in many regions, with the global effects of environmental deterioration already being felt, with conflicts among nations and peoples apparently only getting more intractable, leading to mass displacements of workers and refugees … It seems such a mess that I think it can be paralysing. If hope is the opposite of pessimism, then there’s precious little to be had. On the other hand, if hope is separated from concepts of optimism and pessimism, from a wishful projection of success or even some kind of a rational calculation of outcomes, then I think it starts to be interesting — because it places it in the present (Massumi).”
Massumi, Brian. 2002. “Navigating Movements.” in Hope Edited by Mary Zournazi (New York: Routledge :211).
Žižek, Slavoj. 2004. Organs without Bodies: on Deleuze and Consequences. New York and London: Routledge: 202.
Zournazi, Mary. 2003. “Navigating Movements: An Interview with Brian Massumi.” www.21cmagazine.com.
Brian Massumi teaches in the Communication Department of the Université de Montréal. He is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002), A User’s Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari (MIT Press, 1992) and First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Kenneth Dean; Autonomedia, 1993) and editor of A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 2002) and The Politics of Everyday Fear (University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
21C Magazine: “Multiple Piercings for the Mind. A forum for vanguard criticism, literary journalism and trendsetting design, 21oC will be the late-night reading of extreme thinkers everywhere – intellectual thrillseekers who savor the vertigo that comes from leaning too far over the edge of the cultural abyss.”
Vicarious trauma among researchers working with at-risk populations
A substantial body of literature on epidemiological studies estimate that between 36 and 81 percent of the general population experience a traumatic event at some time in their lives which is far more often than previously believed (Cusack et al. 2004).
Flynn-Burhoe. 2003. A Fliction: Dawn among the Hummocks, Iqaluit, NU
A US study a team of researchers led by Karen J. Cusack, Ph.D. concluded that since Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with some of the most serious psychosocial impairments and highest rates of mental health service use and costs than any other disorder, it is important to identify an individual’s lifetime trauma exposure history. Yet in publicly funded health services screening for and therefore treatment of trauma exposure is rare (Cusack et al. 2004).
Cusack’s team promoted an educational component directed at intake workers which included several reliable instruments for measuring trauma symptoms based on DSM-IV including a self-report PTSD Checklist.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs when one is traumatized directly (in harm’s way) (DSM IV APA, 1994 [1]). However parents, professional health care workers, teachers and others may be traumatized indirectly. Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue are experienceed though different social pathways. According to Charles R. Figley, Ph.D. of the Florida State University Traumatology Institute, there are few reports of the incidence and prevalence of Secondary Traumatic Stress. He suggests that related concepts such as Burnout, countertransference and worker dissatisfaction may have masked this common problem (Figley 1995). See Figley (2004).
Vicarious traumatization, for example, refers to a transformation in the therapist’s (or other trauma worker’s) inner experience resulting from empathic engagement with clients’ trauma material. . .[and] vulnerable to the emotional and spiritual effects of vicarious traumatization. These effects are cumulative and permanent, and evident in both a therapist’s professional and personal life (Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995, p. 151).
According to Figley (1997) Compassion Fatigue or Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder, is nearly identical to PSTD, except it affects those emotionally affected by the trauma of another.
York University Professor Susan McGrath’s called attention to the growing concern
“by researchers and practitioners alike regarding the emotional impact of working with victims of trauma on those in the social services or so-called “helping professions”, as well as on those who decide the fate of these individuals, and it has been widely accepted that interaction with victims of traumatic exposure places people at high risk of secondary exposure (Stamm et al. 2003). Classical burnout theory such as work by Maslach (1982) defines burnout syndrome as a pattern of emotional overload and subsequent emotional exhaustion, characterized by depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment as a response to the chronic emotional strain of dealing extensively with other human beings, particularly when they are troubled or having problems.”
She noted that,
“The terms “compassion fatigue” (Figley,1995) and “secondary traumatic stress” (Figley, 1995; Stamm, 1999) have been used interchangeably to denote a syndrome of symptoms nearly identical to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder except that exposure to a traumatizing event experienced by one person becomes a traumatizing event for the second person (Stamm, 1999). Finally, the majority of studies in this area have used the term vicarious trauma which has been defined as “the transformation that occurs in the inner experience of the therapist that comes about as a result of empathic engagements with clients’ trauma material” (Pearlman & Saakvitne, 1995, p.31).
York University offers special courses in Clinical Intervention for mental health professionals, including psychologists, social workers, mental health counsellors, family therapists, employee assistance professionals, clinical supervisors, and other practitioners who provide psychological treatment and therapeutic intervention for survivors of trauma. The certificate course provides participants will also develop an in-depth understanding of compassion fatigue and strategies for prevention and enhancement of practitioner resiliency, including how to effectively intervene with care providers who have become “compassion-fatigued” through their trauma response work (source).”
1. DSM IV (APA, 1994) is the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic disorders manual which is updated every ten years.
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Somalia and the London Conference: the wrong route to peace – By Richard Dowden
By African Arguments
David Cameron and assorted African leaders gather together to 'solve' Somalia's political problems.
At first I withheld judgment on the British government’s decision to hold a major international conference on Somalia. It was so good to hear the government at last taking an interest in this battered country, so I thought it would have been perverse to pour cold water on it.
From the start it was clear that piracy and the subsequent cost to the City of London’s marine insurance business, as well as the fear of terrorism, were the main drivers for David Cameron’s concern. The interests of the Somali people were always going to be secondary. Since Britain had done nothing during the past 20 years of war and suffering, it seemed unlikely that concern for Somalis would be the top priority.
But I am shocked at the government’s lack of understanding. Reading the reports of the conference, one would think that the cause of the war was Al Shabaab, the Islamic fundamentalist movement. Hilary Clinton spoke as if this was simply an extension of the American war or terror.
But the roots of Somalia’s state failure lie in its social structure not in Islamic extremism. When the civil war, or rather wars, started back in the late 1980s Shabaab did not exist. The wars were clan-based uprisings against a domineering dictatorship in a centralised state and against the dictator’s clan. That fragmentation of Somali society still exists beneath the surface. But this was hardly mentioned.
As order, security and hope were obliterated by clan warfare, leading to impoverishment, hunger and death, people turned to religion. Saudi funded fundamentalism spread rapidly throughout Somalia. It is hardly surprising that many young people who had never know anything but war and misery felt the appeal of the simplistic answers of fundamentalism.
Furthermore, Cameron does not appear to have learned from Britain’s own experience in Northern Ireland and the decolonisation process of the 1960s. In both cases Westminster tried to build coalitions of moderates and exclude the extremists and “men of violence”. But in the end in Northern Ireland peace came when the extremists were brought into the process, just as Britain 40 years earlier had been forced to release the jailed “˜terrorists’ throughout its empire and hand power to them.
Not inviting elements of Shabaab to London (and threatening to continue bombing them) has ensured that the war will continue. Excluding the Eritreans, major players in Somalia was also a mistake.
This conference was predicated on persuading the present but ineffective Somali politicians who form the Transitional Federal Government to step down. This is a nice dream, but Somali politicians are not known to commit hari kiri. They are better known for living in luxurious Nairobi hotels, talking at internationally funded conferences and chewing khat. A recent audit of aid money given to them said that 96% was unaccounted for.
The agenda of the Somali politicians at Lancaster House on Thursday was clear: to get the British and Americans to fight their war for them or pay others to do it and bomb their enemies. That will enable them to hold office – even though they have little power – and keep stealing the aid.
The parts of Somalia that work and are safe have evolved their own structures and agreements with their neighbours and rivals. Somalia’s social structure is unique and still very powerful and the systems in Puntland and Somaliland are built on them. No such system has emerged in the south of the country which includes the capital – the only part of Somalia still at war.
This conference should never have attempted to deal with anything more than helping to establish effective local government in the ports along the eastern seaboard and thereby providing a base for controlling piracy.
The attempt to reestablish a strong Somali state was a mistake. It will fail.
Richard Dowden is Director of the Royal African Society.
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Zahra J. Saleh 28 February, 2012 at 06:42
We need one, great and united Somalia. And we need the whole world should to assist with us for building a “Federal Somalia†if they are our friends.
When one Europe of that size and that number of population is fighting to be one in terms of military, money and policy , why the West are arguing to divide this tiny state of Somalia as canteens?
Where is the logic here? Or is it matter of, we do we want but the rest of world cannot do?
Sorry our formers sirs. It seems we have learned from our mistakes and our eyes are wide-open to build a new country with modified configuration based on our interest.
So thank you for being with us accordingly.
Kantai 28 February, 2012 at 14:58
Sorry, but this is not very deep analysis. This (http://nakedchiefs.com/2012/02/27/kenya-ethiopia-uganda-burundi-smile-like-siamese-cats-at-london-somalia-meet-but-what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-kismayu/) is much more insightful and a much better read.
Sally Healy 29 February, 2012 at 19:56
I’m not sure this analysis gets us very far. It’s a bit absolute to say that the roots of Somalia’s state failure lie in its social structure. On that basis everyone should all give up straightaway. But we know it isn’t the whole story because how then could you account for the thriving state that emerged in Somaliland, built on broadly the same social structure?
No, the problem is not Somalia’s social structure, which Somalis themselves can handle without difficulty. Rather it is the bizarre and perverse consequences that always seem to erupt whenever the international community – in almost any shape or combination – tries to engage with this Somali social structure to achieve its own ends. So I do agree with your proposition that only Somalis can produce stability.
But I disagree with you about the purpose of the London Conference. It was not supposed to bring together all the multiple factions in Somalia to produce a peace settlement. It was supposed to develop a new international approach to Somalia, one that was more helpful than those of the past. Considering the track record that is not a bad goal. But I am not sure what purpose it would have served if, as you propose, elements of Al Shabab had been invited. If Al Shabab is going to start talking to anyone it is surely fellow Somalis, preferably inside Somalia, rather than fifty odd Heads of State and Government in London. What the conference might have done better was to signal that a political process that included Shabab was not something that the international community would rule out. Who can doubt there were difference of view on this one?
On another point, the message I read from the conference was not that the international community was going to carry on regardless to “re-establish a strong state”. Much as the beneficiaries of this approach would have liked that (and for the reasons you mention), the multiplicity of Somali representation surely signalled a shift away from the strong state model and in the direction of de-centralisation and diversity. Somalis, in my experience, are still very much divided as to whether this is a good thing or not. But if they want to avoid the fragmentation that many of them fear they are going to have to work very hard indeed to get some credible national representative process established by August.
Monte McMurchy 2 March, 2012 at 15:41
Did this London Conference enhance the possibility for dialogue and diplomatic civil capacity consideration progression involving all the actors which must be understand as being a long term work in progress?; if so then the London Conference could be considered a success in the conceptual sense where at least the international community along with that of their African Counterparts recognize and appreciate that for Somalia—a failed state in the classical definition is in dire need of external assistance quite possibly to be coupled with force in order to enhance the outsiders in Somalia to attend the civic civil capacity development negotiating table.
Much more has commenced with less and I am of the opinion that it would be imprudent to pour cold water on this conference———let us see whether stronger action other than words will be implemented.
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Abdulkadir 1 May, 2012 at 03:35
I would say Somalia would be build one day and could be the best place to be as i know Somalia was distraught number of reason due to that Somalis will see one day The West would see and do nothing until they get Intrast.
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Director: Kevin Greutert | Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell
27. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
28. Star Trek (2009)
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
29. State of Play (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren
30. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak | Stars: Kristin Kreuk, Neal McDonough, Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein
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31. Surrogates (2009)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike
32. Terminator Salvation (2009)
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
Director: McG | Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood
33. The Blind Side (2009)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head
34. The Final Destination (2009)
R | 82 min | Horror
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Director: David R. Ellis | Stars: Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Bobby Campo
35. The Hangover (2009)
R | 100 min | Comedy
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Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms
36. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
PG-13 | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Andrew Garfield
37. The Last House on the Left (2009)
R | 110 min | Horror, Thriller
After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.
Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen
38. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009 Video)
112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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39. The Tournament (2009)
R | 95 min | Action, Thriller
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Director: Scott Mann | Stars: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder
40. The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
PG-13 | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Weitz | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Christina Jastrzembska
41. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
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Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson
42. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
Director: Patrick Tatopoulos | Stars: Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh
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Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
44. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The crew of spaceship begin to die because of unknown defect in a virtual reality device.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo
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Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston
46. Zombieland (2009)
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Home›Obits›Dave Jackson, 75
Dave Jackson, 75
Dave Jackson, of Pickerel, went to his heavenly home on Saturday, March 18, 2017. Dave was born on October 14, 1941 in Milwaukee, a son of the late Joseph and Gladys (Kussman) Jackson. He married his partner for life, Darlyn Borneman on July 27, 1963 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Polar.
He was a graduate of Antigo High School class of 1961. Dave worked in the family logging business, as a truck driver and a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service retiring in 2004.
He was a lifetime member of Arbutus Lutheran Church and a member of the Pickerel Pearson Lions Club.
As an outdoors-man Dave was an active hunter, fisherman and gardener. He enjoyed playing sports, football in high school, county league baseball and softball, golf, bowling and was an avid Brewers, Packer and NASCAR fan. He took great pride in his home and yard always decorating for the holiday.
Survivors are his wife of 53 years, Darlyn; two brothers, Don (Dani) Jackson of Coloma and Chuck (Laura) Jackson of Pickerel; three brothers-in-law, Ron Selenske of Coloma, Dan (DeLores) Borneman of Antigo and Dean (Diane) Borneman of Arbor Vitae; three sisters-in-law, Dawn (Don) Banczak of Antigo, Donna (Dave) Witman of Lily, Denise (Dale) Schroeder of Antigo and Deb Sadowski of Merrill. He is further survived by several loving nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Judy Selenske; and brother-in-law, Phil Sadowski.
A funeral service will be held on Friday at 12 p.m. at Arbutus Lutheran Church with Vicar Pam Werth officiating. Burial will take place in Arbutus Lutheran Church Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of service.
“We will always remember Dave for his warm and wonderful smile.”
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by Antone Roundy | Politics
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Whitehouse Error in Response to Romney’s Tax Rate
After Mitt Romney revealed that he pays about 15% in taxes, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said:
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The times, they are a changin'. As they always do.
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I read somewhere the other day that gas that contains corn ethanol produces more greenhouse gasses than straight gasoline, and even more than other, easier to produce sources of ethanol. And we know that the growth of the...
Did I Predict the Tea Party Movement?
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Saudi Prince meets Tim Cook at Apple Park to talk app development, education
Saturday, April 07, 2018, 07:30 pm PT (10:30 pm ET)
At the tail end of his whistle stop tour of the U.S., Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday met with Tim Cook and other top Apple executives at the company's Cupertino headquarters to discuss new partnerships and education opportunities.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
After blazing a cross-country trail over the past three weeks, Prince Mohammed and several Saudi officials landed in California to meet with heads of major tech companies. This week the Prince, widely known as "MBS," visited Virgin founder Richard Branson and Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz before heading to Google's headquarters in Mountain View to chat with co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai. He spent some time with Apple's executives on Saturday.
The primary focus of the Apple meet and greet was to discuss technological solutions for "enriching the Arabic educational content in the classroom" and potentially creating an educational curriculum for Saudi schools.
This is not the first time Apple has been approached by heads of state, or in this case successor to the throne, to help modernize their respective educational systems. In 2013, then Turkish Prime Minister and current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Apple as it mulled an educational investment in iPad.
Education has been an important pillar of Apple's business for decades and the company recently showed off its latest advancements in the area at an education-focused event in Chicago last month. Apple debuted a number of new software tools designed to fit the needs of teachers and students in a 21st century classroom, including the Everyone Can Create curriculum that combines technology and creativity to help students navigate several different disciplines, from math to science to coding.
At the Saturday meeting, the Prince also discussed partnerships for creating apps in Saudi Arabia and potential job opportunities for Saudi youth looking to train at Apple's headquarters. Technical presentations covering education, health and marketing were also conducted.
The meeting, which was held at Apple Park, gave the visiting dignitaries the chance to tour Steve Jobs Theater, where Apple showed off "modern voice applications," presumably its Siri virtual assistant.
This was Prince Mohammed's first trip to the U.S. since becoming heir to the throne. Following the Apple stop, he plans to meet with executives in Los Angeles to discuss bringing commercial cinema to Saudi Arabia.
Tim Cook,
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Topic: iBeacons
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Pokémon Go loses its lustre, sheds more than 10 million users
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Engagement, downloads, and time spent in the app are fading fast.
I bet it would help if the Android version wasn't so terribly buggy, but of course they are talking only about new features...
InterstellarMat
Registered: Feb 5, 2016
I don't treat this app as anything more than an elaborate advertising, and in this sense, the app worked pretty damn well. For now. People talk about Pokemon again, sales of their DS games are going through the roof again, merchandise is selling nicely as well. My main worry is only how long this will last. Lets be honest, the majority of people currently playing Pokemon (GO) are the 20+ generation, that will not keep on playing forever (maybe except your hardcore Pokemon fan neighbour). Is it going to generate any longer-term interest, or is everyone going to buy a next (or the previous) Pokemon game play for a while and forget about the franchise again? Have they actually managed to get a significant amount of younger players interested in the franchise, say 9-10y.o. that will keep the sales going for the next 10+ years? The Pokemon franchise has been dying a painful death for a while now, and I'm starting to think this is one of the last desperate attempts to get people back on board. Unfortunately, with no long-term plan that would make us stay a bit longer.
r3loaded
Tribus: London, UK
I might play it more if they added Pokestops and Gyms that were within walking distance of my house (nearest stop is two miles away), as well as Pokemons other than Rattatas, Pidgeys and Weedles. Not all of us live in the middle of a big city.
ComradeCrev
Tribus: Londinium
Registered: Jan 17, 2014
Back when it was released, a lot of people downloaded the game simply to check what was all the fuss about. Like with any app that suddenly gains popularity, you get users who install it, mess around for a week, say "Huh, that's cool", and move on the the next newest thing.
It will still have a sizeable following of both existing Pokemon fans and new players who actually enjoyed the game (despite all its flaws), but the initial rush was not at all indicative of the long-term popularity.
Sufinsil
Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Schools are starting (in NA) so its going to be interesting how it effects the numbers.
For example, my local college used Pokemon Go as a 1st day orientation scavenger hunt. I imagine college students will be playing quite a bit, as most(all) college campuses have many pokestops, pokemon and gyms.
Surprised they did not mention the collateral effect Pokemon Go has had on the main Pokemon franchise.
3DS/2DS outsold the PS4 and One.
Alpha Sapphire/ Omega Ruby sold 80% more Year-over-Year.
X/Y sold 200% more YoY.
Monster Hunter Generations was the top seller on a per platform basis (4th overall, not including digital sales).
After all, Nintendo has said many times they want to use Mobile to bring players to their core software. Worked with Pokemon Go (so far). Will be interesting how well Pokemon Sun/Moon does this fall.
Last edited by Sufinsil on Tue Aug 23, 2016 9:21 am
tenaku2
Removing the 'footprints' tracker killed it for me and my kids. Now when there's a pokemon listed nearby, it's just frustrating instead of a fun hunt.
Ostracus
Tribus: Somewhere over the rainbow.
Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10 million users
Fad.
Ironicending
Whats surprising is that for a game that is about getting out of your house and meeting people, its shocking that it doesn't have more social features to keep people continually engaged. (Like battling with each other, trading items/pokemon, etc).
I know its not Nintendo running the show here but they seem to forget the internet exists. Like for example is there any real reason I shouldn't be able to trade a pokemon/item to someone in another city? Like if i caught my siblings favorite pokemon and they just don't spawn where they live.
Its still fun to see a new Pokemon pop up that I haven't caught before. What does get tedious is the rise in difficulty to catch even low CP Pokemon (even with curveballs, ultra balls, great hits) as one levels up. They are making the game harder in a frustrating way, not in an engaging way.
Thats the big problem to address before Gym Leader tips. I (Im guessing most people that have played any pokemon or worked a rock/paper/scissors mechanic) can figure that out.
throx
To be fair, 30 million daily users is nothing to sneeze at. It's interesting the language being used here - "Niantic is persevering...". Let's get real - of course they are. Point to me any other mobile game that has 30 million daily users and the wall to wall media coverage that Pokemon Go has that isn't persevering!
That's not to say there wasn't an initial "fad" stage, but I think you'll see a fairly long tail on this - there's a lot of room for improvement/expansion/etc. After all, they've only seen Kanto so far and a lot of obvious enhancements (head to head battles, improved levelling, etc.) are sitting there to work on.
afidel
Tribus: Cleveland
Ironicending wrote:
Yeah, group engagement is what keeps clash of clans going, add some social aspects to the game and they'll have much higher retention rates I bet.
Registered: Sep 6, 2010
The explanation is simple: Pokemon Go is not fun.
Also... is way too basic to be a proper Pokémon game.
There was a study a few years ago, that looked at music sales by popularity, and found that the faster a song became hot indicated how quickly it would fade. The area under that curve was the number of sales. It was much better to build slowly, because that meant a slower fade, and more overall sales.
I suspect this is another instance of that general phenomenon. (And I wonder if that phenomenon has a name.)
keltor
Tribus: Texas-Japan Tunnel
It was an OK game at release, but since then they've made the game very unfun. My youngest (7yo) still wants to go hunt pokemon every 3.5 seconds though.
jappleng
For those people who quit their job to go catch all Pokemon, I wonder how they feel now?
Edit: So many downvotes? No really, there's a few people around the world who DID quit their job to travel the world and catch 'em all. At least one of them was written about on Ars.
Last edited by jappleng on Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:59 am
willdude
Ars Praetorian
Since my work and home don't have any Pokestops/gyms around, I quickly fell behind the curve of being advanced enough to do anything that could actually be considered "doing anything". Catching Pokemon and passing by Pokestops is a mildly entertaining distraction, but at some point I realized it didn't feel much like playing a game, it kept me too buried in my phone, and all the gyms were way too powerful for me to do anything at them. So I became one of the 12M to bid it adieu.
vermell.switchblade
They had something that had so much potential, but in the end it wasn't really more than a quick cash grab. Especially when you consider this pulled at the nostalgic strings of 20 somethings. Now with all the talk about banning cheaters because it's "unfair" to legitimate players, they're just pushing people away. A player using a GPS spoofer is more or less in level terms with some big shot full of money spending it all on Pokecoins and living in a large city. You can't even battle each other so there's no advantages to speak of.
the_frakker
Winter is coming!
How many users are going to want to wander around in 30deg weather catching Pokemon? Not many. The winter months are not going to keep users engaged. Niantic would be wise to prepare for the Spring by planning some huge releases to pick up lost users when it starts to get warm again.
Most kids are now in school, so daily strolls are much less.
Many people don't live near anything worthwhile. Walking for hours with hardly any Pokemon, even if using items (ex: incense). There has to be a solution for this or users in these types of areas (prob majority) are going to continue to drop off.
A companion app that gives players something to do when they are not near populated areas would be great and might help keep users from leaving.
leojg
So, if they fail is because they want to fail.
You dont event need to think too hard, pokemon has used the same recipe for about 20 years and has been a success.
Add real pvp, trading and real stats(sp atk, sp def, etc)
desenfoque wrote:
By definition, Pokemon Go isn't a game at all. There's no sense of purpose, there's no end to the game, and there are no obstacles but I guess that's to say for just about any freemium "game". I'm pretty sure this wasn't supposed to be an actual game as far as their intentions were, but more of a publicity stunt / advertisement. Yet, I don't think they were expecting Pokemon Go to be this successful. The people I know who still really love Pokemon went back to their 3DS to play real pokemon games and I guess so did those 10million others.
RamonLP4
It's curious to me how it seems that while many game developers seem to value their user base, Niantic almost seems contemptuous of theirs, so this is no surprise for me. Their updates have done nothing to improve the game, instead each update seems to ruin the game more than the last. The tracking feature is balls (no pun intended) if not non-existent, the wide variety of pokemon you'd find are now reduced to the same low level ones you see all the time, even low-level pokemon are now difficult to catch to the point where it's not fun, the battle mechanics never did and still don't make any sense, and.. well, I could go on. In short, what was a cute idea for a casual game has gone from enjoyable and fun to tedious and cynical and, while it won't go away, the game's potential to grow and engage people is pretty much done thanks to its creators. I suspect this will be pointed to as a case study in how not to run a game studio in the future.
Danrarbc
This is not a surprise.
The increase in XP necessary to level up is just insane so you get some people that give up before they even get their first lure given to them. At the high end you'll spend a week at level 23 trying to get to 24. At some point the grind is just all too real - and the grind is all there is. The level progression curve is downright punitive.
The game sorely needs the features that they're promising. It sorely needs a more passive tracking mode so that you can keep the phone in your pocket and still get a notification when a Pokemon/Pokestop/Gym are in range.
The game isn't keeping eyeballs because there isn't very much there to do so. There is also a severe segregation problem - you have to somehow change up the spawn points so people that can't travel have the ability to get more than the same 10 families of Pokemon over and over and over again.
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SinfulDust
The greatest thing about Pokémon Go for me personally was that I had the dumb/Eureka! Moment of wishing I could play Pokémon without walking, and immediately downloading the roms for Yellow, Fire Red and Leaf Green. Very handy for all the recent holidays and I've sank about 50 hours into all three [stupidly wiped the Yellow data while testing whether or not the "wipe phone" function on Office365 actually wipes the phone (it does)]. On the plus side from that disaster, I was able to finally de-fuck my phone after a previous failed attempt at rooting it by flashing the phone to a version that now allows me to upgrade to Android version 6.0.1.
I don't know what the end result of losing so many users will have on Pokémon Go itself, but my end result was purchasing copies of Red and Blue for a sibling while practically never playing Go outside of the lunch walk at work. That's made Nintendo €50 they'd never have gotten from me via Pokémon Go itself.
I suspect the fact that my phone autocorrects to the proper spelling of Pokémon because of all the searching I've been doing for what level various Pokémon evolve and learn moves at. This makes me sad and happy in equal measure.
Droiddest
Given Niantics abhorrent PR, technical incompetence, increasingly aggravating gameplay and lack of features I'm surprised it lasted this long.
leojg wrote:
Don't forget a real battle system in general. (Not just pvp).
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zuccini
I quite like the idea of Pokemon Go, and I spend over an hour each day walking to and from work, so I have an ideal opportunity then to play it. And I did for a while, and got to level 21, but recently, I don't even bother opening the app to get the credit for distance traveled to hatch eggs.
The reason is *mainly* due to the last update, which completely broke GPS tracking. It used to be that the app would track your position continually, and as long as you are in GPS line of site. The last update totally killed this, to the point that getting to pokestops now is a crapshoot. You can sit right on top of it and it shows your position as half a mile away. It seems that maybe they don't use the fine-grained GPS position at all (?) but just use the coarse-grained position from cell towers. The update had a rather dramatic effect on the battery life (previously it would kill the battery in about 2 hours), but now the gameplay is such a poor experience, I actually haven't played it long enough to be able to judge what the battery life is now. And the 'serious' players before had already found solutions (ie, carry an external battery with them).
Last week, I took the slow route home, walking slowly around the lake. There is a gym there, and I was planning to stop for a while and take it down. In my slow walk, despite walking over the top of the location of the gym, my position on the map NEVER was close enough to click on the gym. I also missed 3 pokestops that I walked past. I did get, however, a couple of pokestops that are about a mile away (and I've never actually been near that location). All of this was in clear space, no obstructions to block GPS.
In short, the app is about the quality of "limited public beta". It is a long way off being a seriously playable game.
Another problem is the ridiculously high (and growing) level you need to be to be useful at a gym. This is growing every week. Nowdays, at least for the gyms around here, you need to be at least level 20 to have any chance at all, and most of them level 30 is probably closer to the mark. That is going to shut out new players, and even existing players that are not keeping up.
Shanrak
Not surprised. I tried it out, there was no depth to the game at all. Uninstalled after a week.
Called it on August 1st:
http://eq2wire.com/2016/08/01/commentar ... enon-over/
Downvotes = the delicious tears of PGO fans in denial of how much Niantic has mishandled this game since launch.
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seekified
Tribus: Stockholm, Sweden
See, if this was a regular Pokemon game with the battles and stat depth we're all used to, but with the GPS-based Pokémon hunting mechanics of the current Pokémon Go, I'd find it worth my time. Currently, it is much too shallow.
ElectricBlue
Registered: Jul 6, 2003
I deleted PoGo before it was cool to stop playing PoGo
Droiddest wrote:
Yeah... and real moves system... 4 and with TMs to learn moves... the HM are unnecessary in real life (luckily no need of flash and cut!!)
ignurant
I know its not Nintendo running the show here but they seem to forget the internet exists. Like for example is there any real reason I shouldn't be able to trade a pokemon/item to someone in another city? ...
I've also been thinking about this (as most of us have) and came to a realization along the lines of
"Wow, I'm glad that's actually the case. With as open as their APIs have been, and have been reverse engineered -- if they DID have a trading function -- there would definitely be even worse cheating than there already is. Things like farming millions of mon's with your army of geohack bots and then selling the 100% IVs (or just collecting them for your main character) would be way too easy."
I've read about some of the more popular map/tracking providers having something like tens of thousands of auto-created accounts. If there was trading, there'd be even more incentive to take those accounts out for a stroll.
daarong
Tribus: Houston TX
Shanrak wrote:
My stint was even shorter. Watched a co-worker play it for about 1 minute. Threw up a little in my mouth from thinking about how popular it is. Modern society is so sad.
(for children this 'game' is fine, but so many adults play it - people who aren't even into Pokemon)
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flunk
I played the game for about 1 1/2 weeks. It's too shallow to keep up long-term, there just isn't anything to keep you playing. Catching is ok, but everything else is either a grind or worthless (the battle system is a functional non-entity). I just got bored.
Keep it in mind here that I've actually played and beaten 3 Pokemon games.
Tribus: Chicago
The game got boring and ceased to be worth the effort once you reach the high teen levels. Even if the added features they announced a few weeks back happen it won't be enough to get me to invested enough to play regularly.
It was a good concept but the appeal is going to attract only a small fraction of the users who played to stay with it more than a few weeks
Jazzism
The achievements are a good concept driving the game and engagement. I got my 100km ach. Next scale is 1,000,000 km ach. Well I'm done.
If there is a better way to hatch eggs than keeping the damn phone app open, ill be more engaged but always requiring it open is a dead deal.
Integrate fitness tracker watches with GPS which are far more accurate would be a smart idea. Etc.
daarong wrote:
SunnyD
Tribus: HSV
In other news, 9,998,000 of those accounts were banned bot accounts.
pkmnfrk
Registered: Aug 7, 2015
As fun as it is to bash the game itself (which earns a hefty shrug from me), I think the real gold is in the Anal-ysts:
Axiom Capital Management analyst Victor Anthony wrote:
"Given the rapid rise in usage of the Pokémon Go app since the launch in July, investors have been concerned that this new user experience has been detracting from time spent on other mobile focused apps"
"mobile focused apps"
Never stop analysists :')
Tonkaman
It's not even that the internet exists. We could trade Pokemon on the original GameBoy games in the 90s. Why would they think people wouldn't want to do that without wires now?
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Biz & IT —
Microsoft releases point-of-service upgrade
Microsoft has released an update to its Windows Embedded for Point of Service …
Matt Mondok - Mar 7, 2006 3:58 am UTC
In an upgrade this week, Microsoft made its point-of-service operating system, called Windows Embedded for Point of Service, more compatible with plug-and-play support through the POS for .NET application programming interface (API). Currently, POS for .NET supports Unified Point of Service (UPOS) version 1.8, but this upgrade expands POS for .NET to include UPOS version 1.9 support.
Microsoft's POS for .NET supports 24 POS device types that are mapped out by UPOS standards. The 24 devices are represented through "basic" classes in the POS for .NET library. Developers can use the classes not just for programmatic access to the peripherals, but also for statistic reporting on them. One great example is the CashDrawer class, which exposes methods for opening, claiming, and enabling the drawer. Other interesting classes include CheckScanner, BumpBar, FiscalPrinter, PinPad, Scale, and SignatureCapture.
Besides better plug-and-play support, the new upgrade also includes .NET 2.0 Framework support, better disk partitioning functionality, and improved support for mass storage devices. Jason Demeny, lead product manager of the Windows Mobile and Embedded Device Group, claims that this new upgrade will allow for devices to be incorporated into POS systems in minutes as opposed to months by streamlining device-to-OS communications. And best of all, POS for .NET is a free download from the Microsoft Download Center.
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FAQs – Post discharge follow-up
Q: What is patient follow-up?
A: Registrants entered into the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) are followed up with a questionnaire after their hospital admission for stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) to gather data on survival rates, health indicators and level of disability. Data variables collected in the follow-up questionnaire include:
survivor status
place of residence and living alone status
subsequent stroke or other readmission to hospital since discharge
modified Rankin Scale
self-reported quality of life indicators
age-appropriate questions for paediatric patients
Q: When is patient follow-up performed by AuSCR Office staff?
A: All patients whose hospital admission is recorded in the AuSCR within the follow-up timeframe will be contacted between 90 and 180 days after their registered hospital admission for stroke or TIA, unless they have requested to opt out, have refused follow-up, or we have been informed that they are deceased.
Follow-up involves the registrant receiving a postal questionnaire, ideally three months after their hospital admission. If this questionnaire is not completed and returned to the AuSCR office, a second postal questionnaire is sent to the registrant, and to their emergency contact (if their address is not the same as the registrant’s) six weeks later. If the postal questionnaire is not returned within six weeks of the second attempt, AuSCR staff will attempt to contact the registrant by telephone to complete the questionnaire.
To maximise the chances of receiving follow-up information, it is important that patient details (including address and phone details for patients and emergency contacts) are entered into the AuSCR as soon as possible after discharge. Patients whose AuSCR records are created more than six months after admission cannot be followed up.
Q: How does the AuSCR track deaths after the follow-up period ends?
A: Annual data linkage with the National Death Index provides dates of death for registrants who pass away after the 90 to 180 day follow-up.
Q: Can we get access to follow-up data?
A: There are two ways that hospital staff can see their patients’ follow-up data. 1) All hospital users can generate de-identified live reports of follow-up data on the AuDaT system, using the menu options Reporting » Follow up. 2) Hospital Coordinators can view individual patient follow-up records, or export a range of follow-up records. For further details, see the Hospital User Manual.
Links for participating hospitals
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Australian Climate Madness
Just don't tell me the debate's over…
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Abbott was right: Swan's budget a DUD
15 May, 2011 by Simon
Swan's budget
And the electorate agrees with that assessment. More good news for Labor, as the public response to the budget is examined:
THE Federal Budget has crashed and appears to have done more damage to Labor’s credibility than help revive its political fortunes.
The first poll to measure the national mood following the May 10 Budget – conducted by The Daily Telegraph –Galaxy – revealed fewer than a third of Australians believed it was good for the economy.
Two of the Budget’s key “spend and save” measures were soundly rejected.
Support for the $300 million digital set-top box scheme for pensioners was lowest among those it sought to benefit, with more than 60 per cent of older Australians saying they didn’t want it.
Cuts to family tax payments for 40,000 families also struck a raw nerve, with 47 per cent of Australians rejecting the idea that families earning $150,000 were rich.
According to the results of a poll, conducted on May 11 and May 12, just 28 per cent of voters thought the Budget would be good for the Australian economy, with 39 per cent saying it would be bad.
Only 11 per cent said the Budget confirmed Labor as a sound economic manager.
The negative assessment marked a dramatic shift from last year, when 43 per cent of voters rated the 2010 Budget as good for the economy. Even among Labor voters, only 47 per cent believed this Budget was positive.
The results will come as [a] blow to Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s hopes the Budget would inject life back into the Government, as Tony Abbott ramps up the case for a fresh election on the basis there is no mandate for a carbon tax.
“Wayne Swan’s fourth Budget has failed to impress voters and done little to bolster Labor’s economic credentials,” Galaxy CEO David Briggs said.
“It’s not just the Budget – it goes beyond that. It is a reflection that Labor are on the nose and it doesn’t matter what they do.
“It suggests a growing disenchantment with a Government that has failed to inspire confidence and is looking increasingly like an administration trying to muddle through as best it can.”
Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: Labor, Wayne Swan
Delusional: Swan thinks "tide will turn" for carbon tax
9 May, 2011 by Simon
Get his face off my monitor
In his dreams. The more people find out about the tax, and the fact that it will increase the price of everything for no benefit to the climate whatsoever, whether locally or globally, the more people will harden their opposition to it. But apparently not Wayne Swan, who believes (as usual) that it’s only a matter of time before the unwashed electorate come round to the political elite’s way of thinking:
Yesterday, as the Opposition Leader continued to attack the carbon tax, Mr Swan said he expected Labor’s stock to improve once the details of the tax were finalised in coming months.
“At the end of the day our job – we deal with some very tough economic and political issues,” he said in an interview with The Australian.
“There’s no way but just to keep going and get them done and wear it in the interim.”
He said there was “no other way” to deliver a carbon tax than that being pursued.
“We understand that we’ll cop stuff along the way because of that,” the Treasurer said.
“But there’s no alternative to it. The alternative to it is to do nothing. That’s terribly contrary to the country’s interests in the long term.” (source)
It’s actually quite funny (or it would be if it wasn’t so serious) to watch a politician twisting in the wind, trying to justify the unjustifiable. Maybe the big emitters will get together and agree a global deal in five or ten years time, in which case, Australia can join in then. There is nothing about the carbon tax that is in the country’s interests, whether short term or long term, unless there is global action. However, the longer that global action is delayed, the weaker the case for action will be, as temperatures and sea levels fail to rise as predicted, and people start asking “Is this Y2K all over again?”
Filed Under: Climate Tagged With: carbon tax, Wayne Swan
Swan delusional: "carbon tax will save jobs"
15 April, 2011 by Simon
Get his ugly face off my monitor
It is as if we are living in a parallel universe, where fantasy becomes reality, black is white, white is black, lies are truth and truth is a lie. My head is spinning from all the spin.
Not sure whether Wayne Swan is a liar or a fool. Does he genuinely, honestly, truthfully believe that taxing our economy for no reason whatsoever and damaging our competitiveness will “save jobs”? If so, he’s a fool – and a damn fine one at that.
Or is he just saying that to deceive the Australian public into supporting his government’s carbon tax policy? In which case he’s a barefaced liar. Please, make it stop.
Future jobs will be at risk if Australia does not put a price on pollution, the Government says.
Treasurer Wayne Swan responded to reports that Australia’s biggest manufacturing union will stop supporting the Government’s carbon tax if it costs a single job, saying the scheme is designed to save jobs.
‘‘Nothing could be more important to jobs in Australia in the future than making that transition [to a low-pollution economy]. If we don’t make that transition there will be a threat to our economy because the world is moving to lower carbon emissions,” Mr Swan said.
”So it is a difficult transition, but it is one that the Government wants to make working with the community, because our number one objective is to support employment and future prosperity.” (source)
And the key lie here is “the world is moving to lower carbon emissions.” It isn’t. It just isn’t. Are China or India lowering their emissions? No. The US? No. Wait, New Zealand has an ETS. Great, that will save the planet by reducing emissions by the square root of sweet FA. Climate madness.
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“Forev” Review
One thing most people can likely agree on is that the romantic comedy genre needs a bit of a refresher. Thankfully, it seems as though the independent crowd has actually taken to the genre’s reinvention, whether through the addition of a far more original style and presentation, or perhaps just with the application of that good ol’ indie quirk.
The latter is certainly more the case with Molly Green and James Leffler’s Forev. The film, somewhere between road trip comedy and love story, presents the series of unexpected events that can occur when a simple joke between two neighbors about getting married- becomes a full on reality. Despite a script that can read quite bare and stretch quite thin, our three main actors (plus some very welcome supporters) do well to make the whole experience relatively enjoyable nonetheless.
“You guys are idiots.”
Simplicity and focus is certainly the name of the game in Forev. It is certainly admirable that the film chooses not to deviate from its central plot in a genre that constantly suffers from uninteresting and forced subplots. This being said, there is unfortunately not very much meat on this film’s only bone. Thankfully the film’s neighbors-turned-lovebirds (played by Noël Wells and Matt Mider) outdo themselves, almost always pushing the script to the point of “awkwardly hilarious” instead of “hilariously awkward”.
Despite what this film lacks in substance, Molly Green and James Leffler’s directorial efforts certainly pay off in the way of cinematography. Forev strangely succeeds in creating a very immersive atmosphere, most notably during the many roadside and desert scenes where lighting proves to be no issue. In addition, the film’s very focused shots and seamless transitioning from fixed to moving camera placement give the whole package a very squeaky clean feel.
It’d be cruel not to mention the quirky supporting characters that join our main crew of three on their journey, one very subtle way in which Forev will certainly please its audience. From the endlessly weird AAA mechanic (played by Timmy L’Heureux) to the bearded nomad (played by Chuck McCarthy), the supporting cast at work here does well to provide a multitude of memorable moments in an otherwise relatively sparse script. And that’s not all. If you remember internet sensation Kelly, Liam Kyle Sullivan makes a very subtle voice-over cameo here.
It’s a shame more than anything that this film’s rare focus for a romantic comedy works to its detriment. There are several moments in which Forev proves to be something quite special. Thankfully, the film’s cast of hilarious and talented actors are able to power through the script to yield an overall pretty enjoyable time.
Runtime: 1 hr 28 min
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Category: Awards
Nursing Sister Maxine Bredt receives a Quilt of Valor
5 June 2019 June 5, 2019
Joanne Whitelaw, daughter of the late June Newton, sent us an e-mail telling us that her mother’s friend and fellow nursing sister Maxine Bredt, had recently received a Quilt of Valor. Maxine, a graduate of the Royal Jubilee Hospital served with her classmate June at hospitals in Italy and England during World War II.
The mission of the Quilt of Valour Society is “to ensure that injured Canadian Forces members are recognized for their service and commitment to our country. We give this support through the presentation of quilts to comfort our past and present Canadian Forces members.” To learn more about the Society visit https://www.quiltsofvalour.ca/about-qovc.html
Maxine was thrilled and honored to receive a quilt. Joanne plans to visit her mother’s friend later in the month and will share more pictures with us.
11 March 2019 March 13, 2019
Two Scholarships available to Students through CAHN/ACHN
The Vera Roberts Endowment, which funds research and publication on the history of outpost nursing in Canada with priority to the Canadian circumpolar regions (north of 60 degrees parallel).
Here is a link to it: https://cahn-achn.ca/vera-roberts-endowment-le-fonds-vera-roberts/
The Dr. Margaret Allemang Scholarship in Nursing History, which seeks to promote the study of Canadian nursing history among students.
Here is the link to that application/information:
https://cahn-achn.ca/margaret-m-allemang-scholarship-bourse-detudiante-margaret-m-allemang/
A New Grant:
New Bjoring Center Grant for Historical Research on Nurse Practitioners
The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry (ECBCNHI) is announcing the Advance Practice History Research Scholar Award. The goal of this research award is to disseminate scholarship regarding advance practice nursing to an international audience. By strengthening relationships and collaborations to increase access to historical scholarship, the ECBCNHI hopes to advance historical scholarship to practitioners. A donor has made a gift of $5,000. This will be a one-time award with the potential for continuation. The due date is June 1, 2019 with the intention of the recipient using the award the following academic year.
BC History of Nursing Society wins Best Website Prize
The BC History of Nursing Society is the recipient of the 2017 Best Website award.
Each year, the BCHF offers a certificate and cash prize of $250 for the best website on a topic of British Columbia history. The award honours individual or group volunteer efforts in website writing and presentation.
The BC History of Nursing Society’s website, www.bcnursinghistory.ca, honours and respects the history of nursing in British Columbia and beyond. The judges found the website to be informative and complete with blog, links to resources and photographs. The website was accessible on devices and modern in design, working to present nursing history in an interesting and engaging way. Anita Petersen and Lenore Radom were instrumental in realizing the project.
The prize was awarded on Saturday, May 26, 2018 at the book awards gala event in Nakusp as part of the BCHF annual conference. Lenore and Anita were unable to attend the awards evening, and will be presented with the award at a later date.
The Best Website Award recognizes individual or group volunteer efforts in website writing and presentation on a topic pertaining to British Columbia’s history. The Best Website Award is kindly endowed by Ken Mattison.
The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) encourages interest in the history of British Columbia through research, presentation, and support in its role as an umbrella organization for provincial historical societies. Established in 1922, the Federation currently provides a collective voice for over 100 member societies and 24,000 individuals in the provincial not-for-profit historical sector.
Ethel Warbinek receives Honourary Membership
15 April 2017 April 15, 2017
APRIL 13/17 The BCHNS held its AGM and the Officers for this year were presented. President: Kathy Murphy, Vice President: Sally MacLean, Treasurer: Sue Forshaw & Secretary: Lynne Esson. Sally is the new member on the executive and we are happy she was willing to fill that vacant position.
The highlight of the evening was the presentation of Honourary Membership status to long time member Ethel Warbinek, who had been nominated by Glennis Zilm & seconded by Nan Martin.
Her page will be added soon to the Honourary Members section of this website.
UBC School of Nursing Awards to BCHNS Members
11 May 2014 March 14, 2017
Beth Fitzpatrick and Irene Goldstone, both BCHNS members received prestigious awards from UBC School of Nursing Thurs eve. May 8th.
Beth the “Award of Recognition.” for the UBC 2014 School of Nursing alumni division, Congratulations Beth!
Beth Fitzpatrick BCHNS May 2014
Irene Goldstone BCHNS May 2014Irene Goldstone the “The UBC Nursing Partnership Award” which is awarded at the discretion of the Director of the School to non-alumni who have made significant contributions to nursing and to the School. Congratulations Irene!
Photo Credit: UBC School Nursing
Irene Goldstone BCHNS May 2014
UBC Award of Recognition to Beth Fitzpatrick BCHNS member
9 April 2014 March 14, 2017
Congratulations to Beth Fitzpatrick who has been selected to receive the 2014 UBC School of Nursing Alumni Division’s “Award of Recognition.”
The award, one of three given annually by the School to recognize outstanding alumni, will be presented at the Nursing Gala, which will be held May 8, 2014, at the Blusson Spinal Cord Centre at Vancouver General Hospital. Beth recently moved to Connecticut to be closer to family.
BCHNS Member Sharron Higgins receives Award
4 March 2014 March 14, 2017
Sharron Higgins jump started the health promoting schools movement in the Capital Regional District and in British Columbia.
Photo Credit: RJH Reunion
With a strong career as a Public Health Nurse she encouraged many school and community workshops on the nature of inclusiveness, engagement, and community development. Sharron worked collaboratively in SD 61 to foster a Comprehensive School Health model within the education community. In many school districts in BC, educators from various disciplines followed Sharron’s leadership that would benefit many children and families in the ensuing years.
In this 60th Anniversary year of the Public Health Association of BC, we want to recognize Sharron for her work in this expanded field of public heath nursing practice.
Nina Rumen Bursary Presentation
20 January 2014 March 14, 2017
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Nina Rumen, an Honorary member of the BC History of Nursing Society since 2003, has experienced the health system as a nurse and a patient. Based on this, and concern about the need to support the education of nurses, she decided to create the Nina Rumen Bursary to recognize a nurse who has made a difference in patient-centered care.
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The award was to provide financial assistance to a nursing student in a Doctoral Progam in Nursing or Nursing related studies.
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My Perspective and #TarotsoWhite
On April 22, 2016 May 3, 2016 By benebellIn personal, tarot, tarot community
It begins around 25:11 when one of my favorite YouTube personalities Kelly-Ann Maddox talks about #TarotsoWhite and the “overwhelming lack of racial diversity in tarot and oracle decks.” Maddox covers it all. She acknowledges white privilege, too much whiteness in the human depictions on tarot decks, disappointment in the fetishization of people of color in the rare times they are actually portrayed (she gives the example of the Nubian queen), and wonders what it is like for us people of color to spend untold amounts of money on tarot and oracle decks only to flip through them to see that you’re not being represented.
Well. The reality is we’re used to it. Or at least I am. It wasn’t until around 2000 that my community was represented in the media beyond sage-y old kung-fu masters with broken English and fortune cookie wisdom, me-love-you-long-time, dragon ladies, geishas, or know-it-all nerds. I mean I guess I’m okay with the know-it-all nerd. I can sort of identify there.
The reality is I’m used to not seeing ordinary Asian faces in the media and tarot is no different. If I don’t see myself depicted on film, then what makes me think I should get to see myself depicted in the tarot courts? Instead, I get “pleasantly surprised” when I see non-stereotypical images of Asians, well, anywhere, and then doubly pleasantly surprised when it’s on a tarot card.
My first inclination is to say, as a person of color, the whiteness of tarot card imagery doesn’t bother me. But I can’t leave it at that. I have to ask myself why it doesn’t bother me. The reason why it doesn’t bother me is what I said before—by now I’m used to it. People of color are used to being invisible. And, well, that’s deeply problematic. So even if it doesn’t bother me, it should bother me just as it should bother every person of color. If it doesn’t bother you, then it will never change. And if it doesn’t change, then the racial paradigm will always leave us marginalized.
As for #TarotsoWhite, I really don’t know what to say on this topic. On one hand, I don’t want to think about race during a tarot reading. Anything in the imagery on a tarot deck that “stands out too much” (and I don’t mean in a semiotic way) can be distracting to me. Here’s the thing: I want to think about race. I want to talk about social justice. But maybe not during a tarot reading.
And I do find that sometimes racial diversity depicted on a deck can be distracting because—sad, sad fact—it’s not something we’re used to seeing. Racial diversity is really different for us. Seeing a token Asian dude or a Black woman doing something that is not stereotypical or fetishized is different, and it’s so different for our senses that it can actually become a distraction. It becomes your focal point because differences are always our focal points. Instead of turning my mental wheels on the symbolism of the pomegranates and what that omen holds for our seeker, I’m thinking, “Oh look! The High Priestess is an Asian chick! How neat!”
One comment you hear echoed among readers about #TarotsoWhite is that the whiteness in tarot is why they have a preference for abstract tarot and oracle decks where any human figures depicted are racially ambiguous. The subtext here is: “I want to be racially inclusive but I don’t want to think about race during a tarot reading and people of color depicted in tarot imagery is still kind of distracting so this is my best response.”
I get that. I dig it. I agree.
The catch is, if no one buys tarot and oracle decks featuring ordinary people of color (and by extension, tarot readers get used to seeing–and liking–decks that feature ordinary people of color), then deck creators and publishers won’t be inclined to feature ordinary people of color, and so we will never get to that point where the Asianness of an Asian High Priestess or the Blackness of a Black Emperor won’t distract us.
The only way for race to not be a distraction is for the topic of race to become boring. When the topic of race is boring, an Asian High Priestess and a Black Emperor will be no big deal for our subconscious to handle. Unfortunately, the topic of race is very interesting right now, especially given the racially charged climate we live in.
So if I, a person of color, don’t even want to think about race during a tarot reading, do other tarot readers want to think about race when they dish out the Celtic Cross? And if we don’t want to think about race in tarot but race featured in tarot makes us think about race in tarot, then do people really want to buy tarot decks that feature different races?
Well. We have to.
Social progress in the tarot world will only happen if it’s profitable for deck publishers to get on board with social progress. Otherwise, they’re going to throw out a few token people-of-color decks so as not to appear racist, and then stick primarily to the all-white Arcana cast. Frankly, it’s not profitable right now for deck publishers to feature people of color because even people of color don’t want to see people of color. Everybody wants to see white people.
Each one of us bears the responsibility of changing that dynamic. Tarot practitioners have to make a conscious, concerted effort to show deck publishers, by the power of our spending, that tarot decks with zero racial diversity are not profitable. It sort of has to be a forced change at first, you know, fake it ’til you make it, and eventually, racial diversity in tarot will finally feel natural to us.
But it’s a tall order because the race thing is so deeply engrained into us that most of us don’t even acknowledge it.
It’s like how my name “Benebell” can bother someone because [true story here–and this is the part that she figured was okay to say in public…] Benewell was the name of her [presumably White] Civil War ancestor and so my name Benebell becomes a nuisance and a point of distraction to her. The racialized reality is [here’s the part people would think is not okay to say in public…] Benebell distracts her because Benewell was an old white dude and Benebell is a young(ish) Asian girl.
The race issue, albeit subconscious, was the distraction, not the name issue. If I had been an old white dude, my name wouldn’t have bothered her as much. But it bothered her because of the race discrepancy. She just couldn’t get over an Asian girl “hijacking” her White ancestor’s name.
That subtle yet insidious anecdote extrapolated out to the tarot community at large explains why we find racial diversity in tarot distracting (though would die before we admit it). It’s because our brains have been wired for a very long time to envision a white High Priestess and a white Emperor, and a white Queen of Cups, and white kids in the Six of Cups, and white people fighting in the Five of Wands. When these people are not white, we can’t help but stop to think, “oh… hey.” And at its worst (like the Benebell vs. Benewell account) it’s a nuisance and at best, a point of distraction.
It’s just something we have to get over as tarot readers. Not only do we have to get over it, but we have to push homogeny out of profitability and convince publishers and deck creators that it’s just economic good sense to feature boring racial diversity. No Nubian queens or geishas, just plain, boring people of color, but, you know, decked out like the Queen of Swords or the hermaphrodite in The World.
Addendum.
The tarot and oracle decks that fetishize or exoticize race are popular because we can observe racial difference in a way that emphasizes difference. Somehow that’s okay for our subconscious to handle. It’s when different races, i.e., people of color, appear normal and run-of-the-mill that blows our [subconscious, and sometimes not so subconscious] minds. When people of color are depicted as the “other,” that’s okay, and we can work with that. That’s not distracting because the depictions play in to our preconceived stereotypes. Deck creators and publishers have to do better than that. Racial diversity and inclusion has to go beyond Afro-centric Timbuktu pharaohs of ancient Egypt Imperial China Japanese samurai culture art.
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James Bulls
Thanks for sharing your thoughts; speaking as a cis-gender, mostly straight, white guy, it’s a challenge to remember perspective. Having said that, I’m curious if you’ve ever used the Samurai Tarot printed by Lo Scarabeo? You can view the entire deck here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BynB4K7DvkfFemhaNGpYbUt3WjQ My wife gifted me a copy when we first met, and I found it intriguing, but I eventually moved on from illustrated decks in favor of the Marseille Tarot precisely because the non-illustrated pips avoided the problem of reinforcing white perspective. The illustrated trumps and face cards still exist within that paradigm, but it’s a step in the right direction. I don’t know how well versed the author and artist are in Japanese culture, but I enjoy the deviations they made from the RWS pattern – you’ll quickly notice what I mean when you look at the scans I made of the deck.
Hi James!
Thank you for sharing the images. It’s beautiful art and no, I haven’t worked with the Samurai Tarot before, but it’s lovely.
Katy (@KatyWompus)
Part of the reason I’m really defensive of Barbara Moore’s Book of Shadows tarot even though it’s generally accepted as not her best work is because in the So Below she beautifully depicts people of all races doing every day things, and it rarely stands out if you aren’t looking for it–but as someone always looking for diversity I have ONE deck that is also a good deck that springs to mind for this conversation.
I haven’t looked into that deck but now I will! Thank you! There are many tarot and oracle decks out there that do this well. Although I know I have not always been recorded as saying positive things about Doreen Virtue decks, one thing she does really well is racial inclusion, and done so in that “plain, boring” way I mentioned, where people of color are not fetishized. So credit does need to go there. =)
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I have the Feng Shui Tarot and loved the art and theme when I bought it, but looking back on it as a more sober adult, it definitely feels like it falls into that exoticizing/stereotypical pile. A better one is The Ghetto Tarot (http://www.ghettotarot.de/), which I’m delighted to see is still for sale after its initial IndieGoGo run. One day, when I have a little more spending money….
I should note that I totally don’t mind colleting the “exoticizing” tarot and oracle decks because they do play into my love of historical fantasy. =) There was a bit of controversy surrounding The Ghetto Tarot, however. Key political activists and social commentators in the Black community weren’t too thrilled with it.
Viv (Kala) Williams (@KalaViv)
This is such a great conversation! I saw the “Ghetto Tarot” a few images-which I loved but they had nothing to do with “Ghetto” which was it seemed to me being used as a “code” as a way to say “black” or “African” “African American” why couldn’t they have come up with a more positive or neutral name and then maybe a subtitle for it.
Ok whew I just looked it up directly and they are saying usage of word Ghetto in Haiti is more positive than I as an African-American, Westernized person would see it- here in the U.S. Also I and this is personal don’t like how images of black folks often show only poor and downtrodden- I find it dis-empowering; why couldn’t the deck also show depictions of middle class blacks too, I just feel it painfully reinforces idea of brown skin= poverty, lack, suffering as a constant. I once asked a Turkish upper class classmate (mind you at a chi-chi college I got into) to do a palm reading. She had talked aobut it and did it for another friend. She took my hand and was quiet for a long time- finally she said “I can’t, I can’t do it, when I see a brown hand, I see the hand of a servant.” I WAS FLOORED, decades later I still remember it.
Jack of Wands
This was an incredibly insightful post, Benebell, and addressed the issue in a way I haven’t yet seen elsewhere in the dialogue. You did such a beautiful job of capturing the paradox: that non-fetishized inclusion of racial diversity in Tarot is distracting and abnormal, but that it can’t become anything else unless we continue to push for it. Thank you for a whammy of a brain-bender to start my Friday morning.
Thank you, Jack! By the way, love how that last blog post you did on typical questions a tarot reader gets went viral! I must have seen it posted and reposted hundreds of times across social media! ❤
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“Boring racial diversity” — Yes.
Benebell addresses excellent points from all angles. This is a must read!
Ninafox
This is a great dialogue to continue! thanks so much for putting it out there again and again. My personal group of friends talk about this too when we talk about designing a new deck. One reason I think that we -as artist- goto of fetishize the images of all races is we try to portray the “history/myths” behind the culture as the rider-Waite tarot shows the pope as the Hierophant or the Devil in all it’s Christian motif. It’s hard to depict visually the “magic” behind the cards without delving into the myth-archetypes from various cultures. But I do believe the more we discuss this the more the collective consciousness evolves and then so will our visual imagery. Also as artists we know that this can go the other way that visual imagery has the power to change the collective consciousness and therefore the discuss. Thanks again for a great blog.
Hey Ninafox!
Context is everything, which is why a tarot deck themed around historic fantasy that borrows those iconic cultural elements is okay, and is NOT “fetishizing” (depending, of course, on how it’s done) because within the context and the universe that the tarot narrative creates, it makes sense. So for example, if a tarot deck is about running through all the different cultural myths of the world, then depicting imperial China or ancient Timbuktu or the Mayans is totally cool. I love those decks in fact. Illuminati Tarot and Goddess Tarot come to mind.
But there have been instances, and now here I won’t name names, where the insertion of marginalized culture does feel exoticized, the “otherness” emphasized (like accentuating certain facial features…. oh gawd…), and in the context of the deck itself, the insertion of the culture feels forced, artificial even. That’s what’s best to avoid. 🙂
Good points and @Benebell your reply too. I like (done well,) the inclusion of archetypes or heroic figures yes from various cultures- not just Western archetypes so I don’t’ find it usually annoying or condescending. We are all so steeped in WEstern tradition that when we see non-Western as you mentioned we critique it more it sort of like a bit of grit- because its SO UNUSUAL, I was just thinking of this today- re: a film did anyone see it: about the couple who survived the Tsunami in Thailand(?) “The Impossible.” THe couple was Spanish but in the film-blonde actress Naomi Watts played role and the husband too was unspecified white male. I saw film then looked it up and as person of color I just wondered wow –why did they get folks who didn’t even look like the real people- I found out-the director said he “wanted it to be a more universal film.” A more UNIVERSAL FILM.
HAhhhhh… I was like WOW. In fact he deliberately removed any reference to ethnicity or specificity that would have be reflective of the actual survivors. GOD forbid I had know they were “ethnic” the assumption is viewers wouldn’t have be able to relate??? Sad is that it only reinforces the very lack of ability to see diversity as “normal” and he/they didn’t even get it. Also it was still a really harrowing film, also the scene where they fly out of the third world country-leaving havoc behind was so well-sad (the struggling thousands) and happy (for them.)
This is why I’m so enamored with the Orbifold Tarot! There are no stereotypic human figures, co-opted cultures, or anthropomorphic animal images. The theme is built around the elements and their energies, and the card imagery is based on sacred geometry. Readers can see themselves (or those they read for) reflected in the deck through the elements and energies (and their associated colors) that are featured. This is truly a deck for all of us, regardless of how we look or identify. It embraces a fresh way of approaching the tarot that’s both contemporary and rooted in tradition. If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to check it out!
Yes, I’ve seen the Orbifold, have it in my deck collection, and love it! I did a deck review of it a while back, here on the blog. ;-D
Ha! I vaguely remember reading that review. Do you have a link to it?
Yep. Here you go! ❤
https://benebellwen.com/2015/07/11/a-glimpse-at-the-pre-release-orbifold-tarot/
Many thanks! Your review is phenomenal and so comprehensive! Much appreciated!
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Benebell comments on racial diversity beautifully.
I reblogged this. You have contextualized the dynamics of race within the tarot community eloquently well.
Brown Rose (@BrownRose123)
I actually got in an argument on aceletic on a thread about a multicultural deck on kickstarter titled vudu tarot that has yet to be primted. Several of the presumably white posters did not think it was a big deal, that that there enough non white decks out there. In fact, the general sentimemt was that tarot should reflect the European aesthetic because tradition and that having non white people on a deck was a distraction. Very disheartening but as noted in your post resignation.
I commend kelly ann amd you for saying somethimg. Frankly non white decks don’t really do that well and have less resale value than heavily white themed decks.
Isn’t it interesting when depictions of racial diversity in “the historically European tarot deck” are discouraged but folks can’t see what the trouble is with blackface and yellowface? It’s okay when white actors play characters who are clearly supposed to be people of color (I can count at least 5 Blockbuster movies in the last 5 years where this happened, before we even delve into horribly racist history…), but put people of color in the place where traditionally white people once stood and oh- oh- oh– hold up now…. what is this… what is happening here…
Excellent point. Cinema is rife with this. Just recently anime Ghost in the Shell in which the main character is clearly asian is being cast by a white actress. Or how many people were upset that Idris Elba a black actor was cast as a Norse god in the Thor movie.
Also Tarot is particularly hamfisted with using non whites as props or appropriating symbols and meanings without logic because it looks pretty. But you never see non-whites taking liberties like that. I mean I own several decks myself, but I never felt included in tarot. One of the main reasons I won’t read for other people or go to tarot events, I don’t really see a lot imagery, readers, and perspectives of POC. People like you however really help (they are needed in this field) which is why I am looking forward to you second book.
“Frankly non white decks don’t really do that well and have less resale value than heavily white themed decks.”
See my comment about the film where race was changed…Benebell covers that too, there will be a transition period- we all have “normalized” white skin and find other tones as “different.” The vast impact of Hollywood films, games and such spreads that to the rest of the world- to people of all races. The only way to change that is to change that- by changing that in movies, books, films- it’s an omission- if we can start including “real stories” of folks of color, successful, or boring (the black accountant, teacher, nurse) that’s a great start-before even tackling fictional…/film/entertainment.
melponeme_k
Frankly, I find this discussion ridiculous and the injection of racial politics purposefully stirring up trouble where there is NONE.
I’m Native American, and I don’t care that there are few to no Native American tarot decks or imagery. Why?
Because the tarot deals in archetypes. Thats it. The cards don’t represent PHYSICAL people, they represent the psychological circle ruts everyone digs themselves into in life. Thats it.
Here is how to solve this “problem of lack of racial diversity”.
EVERYONE JUST USE ANIMAL DECKS! Thats it. Case closed. The Wild Unknown Tarot for all with no choice whatsoever. Or if that is no good, switch to Marseilles style decks. Then everyone will only have to look at “white” people for only a few cards out of the deck.
mabcosmic
Animal decks do exist. Early Tarock and Tarot decks used animals as symbols or suits. The earliest decks did not have illustrated pips. Historically speaking, a Marseilles deck would be devoid of the cultural appropriation of Romani, Egyptians, and Hebrews and thus would reflect the Tarot’s culture of origin (Western Continental European).
However, I don’t think this issue is whether or not people are tired of looking at white people. I think what Bene is saying – and she can correct me if I’m wrong – is that Tarot symbolism shouldn’t reinforce the idea of white people as the default people. Then again, there’s nothing stopping anyone from creating their own deck that includes the ethnicity or race of people they want in them. The Tarot of today is not the same as twenty years ago. We all have the Internet, printers, card stock paper, markers, ect. Nobody has to sit around and wait for someone else to create a deck for them. We can do it ourselves if we want.
@melponeme_k: “The cards don’t represent PHYSICAL people, they represent the psychological circle ruts everyone digs themselves into in life. That’s it.”
Me: Whoa so when the people are all white?? Why can’t someone Asian represent too? And what’s with the “stirring up trouble?” You sound like you have a lot of fear and “racial politics” is a term to try to close down a discussion. I’m glad that you live in a world where you haven’t been negatively affected by “race” and individual and systemic perception of you. Congratulations.
And you seem to think this is an attack on white people it’s not- it’s an attack on racism and exclusion-the mindset that locks and limits people who are not white. Making all of us aware of racism is helping all of us to grow and evolved as human beings on a small planet.
Quick example- I’ve often especially in past decades (less so now) spoken to people on the phone- (I have a neutral, non-accented voice-I often get comments on.) When I walk in to meet the person who is white, they literally look startled! This used to happen quite frequently (they were startled as they did not know I was black.) I didn’t “sound black.” This is annoying and hurtful to deal with.
Call it “racial politics” if you like to feel better about it, I do understand,) but it’s peoples lives, minds and dreams that get squashed unless they have enough inner fortitude to survive it.
Hey melponeme!
I feel you. =) But I wouldn’t be quick to call the discussion “ridiculous.” Any time I know someone out there feels strongly about a particular issue, even if that position is counter to the one I hold, I would tread lightly and not call the issue “ridiculous.” It’s an easy way to unnecessarily hurt people and make them feel like what they care about is not important. We never want anyone to feel that way, right? It’s helpful to acknowledge the importance of the issue that someone is feeling strongly about, and then from there, open the issue up to discourse, one way or the other.
There are decks out there dedicated to different minorities. I have one for Native Americans. I have one based Japanese artwork. I even backed the VUDU Tarot on Kickstarter.
The process of creating decks that include different faces is up to the minority tarot fans. Minority. I and others are called this for a reason. As in we have very little numbers. And I can prove this in the United States. I’ve done a bit of travel and once you hit the outer areas…well lets just say, the cities are MEGA different in demographics.
To force change is just as insulting. It has to happen organically. It has to happen as self empowerment from the minority tarot fans. Anything else would just be pandering and patronizing. Frankly, I’m tired of being patronized and white knighted like a child because of my skin color.
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Hi Bennebell,
I love your comments.
I recently bought, The Tarot de Marrakech, the creator Georges Colleuil used non white /Caucasian people for the Major Arcana and for the court cards he also used other races as illustrations. Quit nice! I hope you’ll enjoy it.
Hello Bene, I think it’s also important to note that the Tarot as we know it now is a western European invention. While one can create any Tarot deck with any race or ethnicity (which I support), I hesitate to condemn European only Tarot decks because it is a product of Europe. The Tarot is the European version of a game that existed in many places around the world like China, Egypt, and India. Each culture added it’s own symbolism, suits, and number system, and Europe is no different except that Europeans added the Tarot Trumps to the original format too. The Tarot Trumps distinguishes it from other known card systems in the world.
Respect for culture goes both ways, too. I can acknowledge that the dominant culture is Western European while at the same time acknowledging that Tarot is a Western European invention. Western Europeans may not have invented playing cards themselves, but they created a new system to play with them by adding the Trumps. Still, if I make a deck to reflect my own ethnicity and cultural/religious values, it would still be working within the Western European system not invented by my ethnicity.
There is also the problem that the Tarot itself is built on ethnic stereotypes and appropriation. Occultists assumed that the Romani people introduced the Tarot to Europe, and since they assumed Romani were from Egypt (hence the derogatory term “gypsy”); Western European occultist men decided to build the entire divination system around ancient Egyptian symbolism which was not theirs to take. Then Judaic, Kabbalistic, astrological, and numerology correspondences were added. The Tarot is what it is today because Western European men assumed and stereotyped the Romani people and it all snowballed from there.
I’d like to know how the Romani people feel about this. I would like to know why nobody has ever asked them. I would like to know why #TarotsoWhite is an issue when anyone can create, publish, and distribute their own themed deck (even if through PDF). There’s nothing stopping anyone from creating their own deck or collaborating with others to make a deck that reflects their race, ethnicity, or religion. I’m actually surprised that people haven’t, especially since decks are generously crowdfunded into the thousands of dollars and there’s a great opportunity for people to make a name for themselves by filling a much needed niche in the Tarot genre.
In closing, if we’re to go down the path of political activism in Tarot, there’s a lot to think about. A LOT. If the Tarot is problematic, how do we keep using it? This is something I’m asking myself after 22 years of reading (putting me back on the path of The Fool, a new direction).
Hello, you reflect many of my views, the Tarot is a sacred part of European culture and all cultures borrow from other cultures to make something unique. Every culture is welcome to use and remake the Tarot but please respect it in the same way as I would respect the divination systems like the I Ching and adjust myself instead of forcing a system to meet my European cultural background.
I take it you are not well-versed in the long history of European imperialism in Asia then.
Maybe the woman really was distracted by the name and it had nothing to do with not wanting her ancestor’s name associated with an Asian person. The names are very similar. I try not to assume what people are thinking because it usually leads me to false assumptions.
I guess that for centuries tarot cards had Caucasians on them because Caucasians created them and used them. Just as Asians appear in Asian art and Africans appear in African art and the same across every cultural platform.
As more individuals of color create tarot decks it will change. While it is probably true that publishers remain partial to Caucasian imagery, in this age of self publishing, anyone can sell what they feel there is a need for. There’s really nothing stopping anyone from creating the tarot deck they want to see.
Change happens when we make it happen. I look forward to seeing people of color creating more decks. I believe a lot of people will be very happy to use them.
At this point I can’t even list which tarot decks I own that have cultural diversity because I don’t think of them as being unusual. In fact, I’ve never even noticed that a few of my decks had cultural diversity in them until it was pointed out to me. I really just see people. The only deck that I was initially aware of as being ethnic was the African American Tarot because it is in the title. I use it often because it is an informative deck and very beautiful deck. It doesn’t distract me one bit.
Not every Caucasian person is wicked or entitled. But that is a discussion for another day.
It is traditionally accepted that the Tarot originated in Egypt. Certainly, Egyptian symbolism and artwork inspired Tarot designers for hundreds of years, and today decks use conventional Tarot imagery whose roots are undeniably Egyptian. Google Books
Originally published: 1994
Author: Clive Barrett
Post script,
Egypt is in Africa.
Africa = African imagery.
Original tarot featured POC.
The tarot were co-opted and the black imagery erased.
Now, tarotsowhite just doesnt measure up anymore as we are
all one. What pronounces the issue is that folls using divinatory pratives should have this easily figured out, being in touch with source and spirit.
We know, we are ALL ONE. More, not less, onus is placed upon those who claim to be proponents of spirit.
As we ascend, it is up to us now whatever our background, to include all. Including in the tarot. Not seperatist decks like 1960s water fountains!! This is nutty. Can I wake uo in 200 years? And thisnasic stiff be figured out already? Sheesh guys!! Cmon already!! 😉
This whole conversation is super odd and backwards to me. Like watching a culture from the 1800s.
Sorry for the typos. Tired!🧐
sweetvanessaleigh
People of color are definitely used to being excluded or invisible. I guess it isn’t distracting for me because I am don’t exotify my own image. I appreciate same-sex lovers and Asian, Native, Latinx and various brown faces in the tarot because we are beautiful and I love beautiful images and I would like to see those archetypes include images that look like me and people I know and love. I don’t exotify those images or have the mentality that the norm is 17th-century anglo pages. My world is bigger than that and as a representation of the universe and grand scheme of things, I expect my tarot to be as well. Often, I tend to gravitate to decks based in nature because that is a major place of connection for me. My main deck is the Goddess Tarot. Ultimately I am drawn to what I am drawn to. If I don’t limit the tarot I would purchase by race, why should white people?
Kristin Nap
I’m a white person, so I don’t have a lot to say except that maybe there aren’t a lot of artists out there that are of color, that are also interested in creating tarot decks. I certainly think it’s hard for a white person to approach that subject objectively. I just purchased the Illuminati Tarot which features multiple races. It was created by a white guy. I don’t know if he did it justice or not. But on the subject of race, in the next few short decades we’re all going to be mixed race anyway. Race identity will be a thing of the past.
Raphael A. Boulay
This the message I left as a comment on YouTube in response to Kelly-Ann Maddox’s video. I love Kelly-Ann’s videos but here… I don’t agree with what is said.
“Yeah OK…. Only white poeple displayed on Tarot cards. An issue? I wonder.
Roots of the Tarot are deeply burried in late medieval Europe. Late medieval Europe users of tarot cards were white (with exceptions, of course, I guess).
Why not just considering “white Caucasian colour” as a “neutral colour” for european allegories and symbols?
Are we shocked that african representations of local Gods like Amma, Nommo or Nyamé use when represented caracteristique african body shapes ? I do not, personnaly. Are we shocked to see that all representations of the Buddha have asian type of eyes? I don’t. And I don’t see why I would be shocked. In my opinion, all this debate about “races” desplayed in tarot is a very very shallow one. (By the way, there is only one race when it comes to humanity, the human race)
And here is more. What kind of “colour” would we chose for the High Priestress? Or for the page of wands? Without being a psychic I can already imagine a lot of issues when it will come to choose what “human colour” goes to what card? What race to choose for the firery wands? Or the gloomy swords? I don’t see anything good coming out of this debate ; only some stinky and dangerous considerations. Peace to all :-)”
primmosa
I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but POC have had a large influence in Tarot. The Rider-Waite-Smith was illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, who was quite possibly a WOC. There have been many debates of her exact ethnicity. Some claim she was fully White, others say she was part Black, Native American, and even Chinese.
The Motherpeace Tarot was a round deck that is widely regarded as the first Feminist Tarot deck. Each Suit is represnetive of a different race. Pentacles (Disc) by Native Americans, Cups were for Celts, Wands for Sub-Sahara Africa, and Swords I believe are Greek/Roman
There are defiantly issues with making People Of Color, especially women, more visible in media.
One new Indie Deck you might want to check out is “The Dark Goddess” Tarot which uses a very wide variety of Goddess from different cultures (It is all female as a bonus) and is very interesting
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The Spark of Creation “Children of Eden” at Cabrillo
Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 Sunday, April 10, 2016 Authorcahwyguy5 Comments
For a change, I’m going to start a writeup with a BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): If there was ever a reason that Cabrillo Music Theatre (FB) needed to survive, it is productions such as this. We have been attending Cabrillo since Anything Goes back in the Fall of 2000, and I believe that this is one of the best, if not the best, production that they have done. I believe that this production could transfer to the Pantages, Ahmanson, or even a Broadway stage and the audience would be equally blown away. The performance, technical, dance, creative, and musical teams come together perfectly to make a creation that is an Eden. If you do nothing else, get tickets for one of the remaining performances. You will fall in love with this musical, its message, and this production.
OK. Enough gushing. You’ve probably figured out that we liked this show.
One of the things that I liked about this particular Cabrillo season was that it was all shows that I have seen with a professional company: they’ve been films, schools, and churches. My exposure to Children of Eden, other than the music, was a Church production back in 2013. This version of Children of Eden was head and shoulders above that version, and that version was very strong for what it was. I’ll note that this is one of those rare musicals that has never seen a life on Broadway: it went straight out to the regional circuit, where it has done extremely well. Steven Schwartz (FB), the composer (who most know from Wicked these days), has indicated that this is his personal favorite musical. There’s a reason, which become apparent as you see it multiple times. If “Feed The Birds” was the heart of Mary Poppins, I think the heart of this show is the Act II song “The Hardest Part of Love”:
And it’s only in Eden
Grows a rose without a thorn
And your children start to leave you
on the day that they are born
They will leave you there to cheer for them
They will leave you there to mourn
Ever so
Like an ark on uncharted seas
Their lives will be tossed
And the deeper is your love for them
The crueler is the cost.
And just when they start to find themselves
Is when you fear they’re lost
But you cannot close the acorn
One the oak begins to grow
And you cannot close your heart
To what it fears and needs to know
That the hardest part of love…
That the rarest part of love…
That the truest part of love…
Is letting go.
Note: On his website, Stephen Schwartz has a wonderful document on the show, its origins, its themes, and its impact on people. Well worth reading. He notes that he particularly likes “Stranger to the Rain”:
I don’t curse what I can’t change
I just play the hand I’m dealt
And when they lighten up the rations
I tighten up my belt
I won’t say I’ve never felt the pain
But I am not a stranger to the rain.
The story of Children of Eden (book by John Caird (FB), based on a concept by Charles Lisanby, with music and lyrics by Schwartz (FB)) is the story of letting go, and the story of learning to let go. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, from their creation to their death, their interaction with their Father, and in turn, their interaction with their children (who exhibit remarkably similar traits to their parents). It deals with parents being disappointed with their children; it explores children and boundaries (which brings to mind The Fantastiks line about getting children to do something by just telling them “no”). It demonstrates that parents are only human as well, and the hard choices we are sometimes forced to make when we have knowledge — especially when we must decide between two things that we love. The second act brings the other end of that lineage: it explores the story of Noah, focusing on the reason for the flood, and again focuses on the power of choice, of making a decision.
As this was my second time seeing the show, I’ll note that I got much more out of Cabrillo’s production. I found myself recognizing depths and aspects of this story I hadn’t seen in the Church production, and insights and story aspects that made we want to explore more of the midrashim in this area. I think it demonstrated why the point of these stories in the Book of Genesis is much more than a creation story: it is a parable of parents and children, of raising the question of proper choice that surfaces again in Deuteronomy. It shows that — independent of the religious trappings — the stories in Genesis have wonderful lessons to teach us about life and handling life’s situations.
If theatre and performance can make you reflect and think like that… that’s the power of theatre and of live performance. And, as I said upfront, it is why performance and production teams the size and scale of Cabrillo are vital for a community’s spiritual and emotive health. This is a large production: in addition to the leads and main players, there were 12 Storytellers, 5 adult Ensemble members, and 20 children’s Ensemble members. Broadway can’t afford that. Regional productions can, especially when mixing local and Equity talent. But regional spaces that can handle that size of a show are rare; this is especially true when attempting to find such spaces that aren’t already booked with the “From Broadway” tours. Again: a reason why Cabrillo is vital to the artistic health of Ventura and northwestern Los Angeles county.
Lewis Wilkenfeld (FB), who directed this production, brought some interesting touches. I particularly noted the unspoken framing devices: The story starts with Father (God) in street clothes reading the story to his children in bed; it ends with the cast not in their biblical garb, but again in street clothes as they sing:
We cannot know what will occur
Just make our journey worth the taking
And pray we’re wiser than we were
It’s the beginning
Now we begin…
This simple directorial decision changes the impact of the story from something in the past to a challenge to us today.
[It also, as I re-read the words, has an interesting echo for Cabrillo Music Theatre itself (for which Lewis Wilkenfeld (FB) also serves as Artistic Director): They want to make the journey worth the taking, hopefully being wiser than before the flood. It’s the beginning of a new Cabrillo. But I digress…]
There are some other directorial decisions that I thought were the little touches that gave this performance something extra. Lewis obviously worked with the children on this show, keeping that childish joy there (seen when they are portraying animals). He was the one with the broad view that brought the overall image the magic that it needs. He also, I’m guessing, was responsible for some of the little things, like how Father would watch the characters go on and off stage during Act II, just like a caring watchful parent. Observing all. Saying little.
This is one of those shows where everything came together: the dance, the lighting, the visuals, the movement, the performances, the costumes. That overall vision — especially on the stage — comes from the director. Kudos to Lewis for this vision.
Normally, I might hunt down some publicity pictures for you to look at while I discuss the cast. I found some on Broadway World, but it is unclear if they are BWW’s or the show’s. To play it safe, I’ll just provide you the link to see them.
The leads in the show were played by three Equity actors whom we have all seen at Cabrillo before (as well as in other regional productions): Norman Large (FB) as Father, Misty Cotton (FB) as Eve/Mama Noah, and Kevin McMahon (FB) as Adam/Noah. All were spectacular. Let’s take them one by one:
Large’s Father was just what you would want a father to be: caring, loving, and concerned for the future of his family. You could see the exasperation of a father when he was dealing with a childish Adam and Eve. You could see his anger and disappointment when his children disobeyed his orders, and especially when they brought harm to others he loved. Large captured well the emotions every father knows well. He sang beautifully in all his numbers, but especially memorable was his opening number and his duet with Noah in “The Hardest Part of Love”. What I’ll remember, however, is something little he did: In Act II, as characters walked off -stage, he turned and watched them. This is the omnipresent concern of a father, keeping an eye on your children wherever they may be.
Cotton had the matriarchal roles in both acts: Eve and Mama Noah. We’ve seen Cotton many times, most recently in her wonderful performance as the mother in Carrie: The Musical. In this show, what I remember most about her was her childish enthusiasm and curiosity, which she captured so well in the first act in number such as “The Naming” and “Grateful Children”, as well as her interaction with the snake in one of my favorite songs, “In Pursuit of Excellence”. Where she brought the house down, however, was her gospel-y, rock-ish performance of “Ain’t It Good”, the penultimate number of the show. Just an astounding performance.
Lastly, McMahon’s Adam/Noah was a wonderful counterpoint to Cotton’s Eve. He, too, had the childish nature that came across in Act I, but with a much more obedient streak, which made his portrayal of making the decision between his wife and his father a more painful one. His standout performance, however, in my eyes, was in “The Hardest Part of Love”, where he captured the true emotion of what it means to be a father.
Next we have the children of Adam/Noah: Ryan J. Driscoll (FB) (Cain/Japeth), Barnaby James (FB) (Abel/Ham), and Paul DiLoreto (FB) (Seth/Shem). Driscoll gave a strong performance both as Cain and Japeth. In the first act he did a wonderful job on “Lost in the Wilderness” as well as the emotion and passion of his battle with Abel. In the second act, he had some wonderful interactions with Yoneh and had a wonderful duet in “In Whatever Time We Have”. James’ Abel was also strong, especially in his interactions with Cain and Adam, and in “A Ring of Stones”. James and DiLoreto’s roles were less visible in the second act; I’ll note that all three were enjoyable in “A Piece of Eight” and in the concluding number “In The Beginning”.
The roles for the brother’s wives come into play only in the second act; I have the feeling they were part of the larger ensemble during the first act. Of the wives, the standout is Natalia Vivino (FB)’s performance of Yoneh, a character created by Schwartz to create the second act conflict. Vivino first blew us away when we saw here in ARTS’s Addams Family; she did it again last night. She was just spectacular in the touching numbers “Stranger to the Rain” and “Sailor of the Sky”, and in her duet with Driscoll in “In Whatever Time We Have”. There have been performers we’ve seen go big after their days at Cabrillo (yes, we remember Katherine McPhee in Annie Get Your Gun). I hope that happens for Ms. Vivino — she has a unique look and a wonderful talent, and I think she will go far (for whatever the opinion of this cybersecurity specialist means). Rounding out the brother’s wives were Elizabeth Adabale (FB) as Aysha and Kayla Bailey (FB) as Aphra.
Children of Eden uses the storytelling device of a chorus (in the Greek Chorus sense). This group provides commentary on the action and fills in portions of the story as needed. As such, it is difficult to separate the voices and the actions, although I do recall that the lead storytellers were very strong. The storytelling chorus consisted of Kenneth Mosley (FB) (Lead), Katie Porter (FB) (Lead), Francesca Barletta (FB), Jenny Hoffman (FB), Janelle Loren (FB), Zy’heem Naheo/FB, Rile Reavis (FB), Christopher Reilly/FB, Pablo Rossil (FB), Rodrigo Varandas (FB), Terri Woodall (FB), and Kendyl Yokoyama (FB). I will note that I particularly enjoyed those members of the chorus that comprised the Snake for “In Pursuit of Excellence”; the Storytellers were also very strong on “Generations”.
Rounding out the players on stage were the adult ensemble and the children’s ensemble. The adult ensemble consisted of Judi Domroy (FB), Nicholas Ferguson, John Gaston (FB), Heidi Goodspeed (FB), and Susan Robb/FB. The childrens’ ensemble consisted of Carolina De los Rios, Audrey Devina-Goldberg/FB, Natalie Esposito/FB, Mia Gabbey/FB, Gannon Hays/FB, Samantha Hirschhorn/FB, Julia Rose Kreinces (FB), Kyle Lobenhofer/FB, Calista Loter (FB), Nathaniel Mark/FB (Young Cain), Brielle Napue/FB, Zoë Reed/FB, Marcello Silva/FB (Young Abel), Ashley Kiele Thomas (FB), Taylor Lynda Thomas (FB), Lilly Thompson/FB, Hattie Ugoretz/FB, Jessica Wallace (FB), Emerson West/FB, and Megan Zide/FB. Whew. That’s a lot of links. The ensemble is what made this show special in many ways, particularly the kids’ ensemble. They were particularly notable during the animal scenes (especially in Act II, where they just melted your heart as they stayed in character as they moved offstage). There was also one adorable little girl, brown hair, relatively young, who was just radiating so much joy as she danced in one of the second act numbers. Cabrillo always has outstanding ensembles, but this group (particularly the little ones) outdid themselves with what they added to this show.
Unseen, but heard, was the off-stage pit choir consisting of students from Thousand Oaks High School, Chaminade College Prep High School, Santa Susana High School, Simi Valley High School, Moorpark College, CSU Northridge, and CSU Channel Islands.
As Lewis Wilkenfeld reminds us every show: live theatre needs live music. The Theatre League learned this the hard way when they were raked over the coals for pre-recorded music during their recent production of Ragtime at the Kavli. Luckily, Cabrillo had a great orchestra, under the musical direction of Cassie Nickols (FB). This orchestra consisted of Cassie Nickols (FB) (Keyboard Synthesizer I), Benjamin Ginsberg/FB (Keyboard Synthesizer II, Asst. Music Director), Lloyd Cooper (FB) (Keyboard Synthesizer III, Asst. Music Director), Gary Rautenberg (FB) (Flute, Piccolo, Clarinet, Alto Sax), Ian Dahlberg (FB) (Oboe, English Horn, Tenor Sax, Clarinet), Matt Germaine/FB (Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Clarinet), Jennifer Bliman (Horn), Pathik Desai (FB) (Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Mandolin), Gary Solt (Electric & Acoustic Guitars), Stephen Green (Cello), Shane Harry/FB (Double String Bass), Tyler Smith/FB (Percussion), Alan Peck (Set Drums). The orchestra was produced by Tanikawa Artists Management LLC.
This is a show with a very strong choreographic element. This is evident from the very first number, where the choreography, projections, lighting, and performance come together to make it clear that you are seeing something special. Credit, of course, goes to the dances as well as the choreography of Michelle Elkin (FB) [whose work we saw ages ago in Sister Act at the Playhouse]. In general, this is a show with a very special movement component throughout. Just look at the movement in “Let There Be”, “The Naming”, “The Return of the Animals”, and “Ain’t It Good”. A wide variety, well executed.
Lastly, we turn to the production and remaining creative team. This is one of those shows where everything came together perfectly, and no where is that seen better than the combination of the lighting design of Christina L. Munich (FB) and the scenic and projection design of Jeff Cason. It was just an astounding tour de force. Adding to this was the outstanding costume design of Noelle Raffy (FB), the hair and makeup design of Cassie Russek (FB) and Stephanie Fenner/FB, the prop design of Alex Choate (FB), and the animal costumes from Maine State Musical Theatre Costume Rentals (FB). Sound design was by CMT regular Jonathan Burke (FB). Remaining production credits: Jessica R. Aguilar (Production Stage Manager), Jack Allaway (Technical Director), David Elzer/Demand PR (Public Relations), and C. Raul Espinoza (FB) (Marketing Consultant). Cabrillo Music Theatre (FB) is under the artistic direction of Lewis Wilkenfeld (FB).
Children of Eden continues at Cabrillo Music Theatre (FB) through April 17, 2016. It took me so long to write this up you only have next weekend to see it. Tickets are available online through Cabrillo; there are no discount tickets currently on Goldstar. Go See This.
Dining Notes: We found a new place to eat just down the street from the Kavli: Mouthful Eatery (FB). Handcrafted food, relatively heathly, very very tasty. Reasonably fast. We will remember it.
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Ob. Disclaimer: I am not a trained theatre critic; I am, however, a regular theatre audience member. I’ve been attending live theatre and concerts in Los Angeles since 1972; I’ve been writing up my thoughts on theatre (and the shows I see) since 2004. I do not have theatre training (I’m a computer security specialist), but have learned a lot about theatre over my many years of attending theatre and talking to talented professionals. I pay for all my tickets unless otherwise noted. I am not compensated by anyone for doing these writeups in any way, shape, or form. I had been subscribing at three theatres: The Colony Theatre (FB), Cabrillo Music Theatre (FB), and REP East (FB): but all have gone or are going dark (update: Cabrillo is coming back!), I just added a subscription to the Hollywood Pantages (FB). Through my theatre attendance I have made friends with cast, crew, and producers, but I do strive to not let those relationships color my writing (with one exception: when writing up children’s production, I focus on the positive — one gains nothing except bad karma by raking a child over the coals). I believe in telling you about the shows I see to help you form your opinion; it is up to you to determine the weight you give my writeups.
Upcoming Shows: Next weekend’s theatre is on Thursday, because the actual weekend brings our annual visit to the Renaissance Faire (Southern). The Thursday show is Stella’s Last J-Date at the Whitefire Theatre (FB). The fourth weekend in April is Pesach, but the Indie Chi Productions dark comedy Dinner at Home Between Deaths at the Odyssey Theatre (FB) sounded so interesting I’ve booked Sunday tickets. The last weekend of April will be the Four Clowns (FB) production of Lunatics and Actors at the LA Shakespeare Center on April 30. May starts with Endgame at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (FB). We then run off to the Bay Area for our daughter’s graduation from Berkeley. While there, we are seeing the Landmark Musical Theatre (FB)’s West Coast Regional Premiere of The Boy from Oz (but pay no attention to that production behind the curtain at the Celebration Theatre (FB) — if they start the same day, they are simultaneous premieres and both have equal bragging rights). May 21 has a hold for Los Angeles: Then and Now, a new musical at LA City College (FB) from Bruce Kimmel. The last weekend of May has holds for the MoTAS Outing to the Jethawks, and Armadillo Necktie at The Group Rep (FB). As for June? It’s the Hollywood Fringe Festival (FB), and I’ve started to hold dates for the following shows: Alien vs. Musical ✨ All Aboard the Marriage Hearse ✨ All The Best Killers are Librarians ✨ Code 197 DWB (Driving While Blewish) ✨ Qaddafi’s Cook — Living in Hell, Cooking for the Devil ✨ Squeeze My Cans ✨Tell Me On A Sunday ✨ Toxic Avenger: The Musical ✨ Vintage Box ✨ Einstein ✨Titus Andronicus Jr. ✨The Old Woman ✨Sweet Love Adieu ✨ My Big Fat Blond Musical✨Doctor in the House ✨ Hamlet (Las Vegas Style) ✨. But that’s just a small percentage; there are over 200 shows listed now. We thought about Love The Body Positive, but then again… no. Can’t be scaring people. As always, I’m keeping my eyes open for interesting productions mentioned on sites such as Bitter-Lemons, and Musicals in LA, as well as productions I see on Goldstar, LA Stage Tix, Plays411 or that are sent to me by publicists or the venues themselves.
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5 Replies to “The Spark of Creation “Children of Eden” at Cabrillo”
Matt Germaine says:
Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 6:33 pm
You have a few errors in the names of the orchestra members. The cello is played by Stephen Green and the Bass Clarinet/Tenor Sax/Clarinet book is played by Matt Germaine.
cahwyguy says:
Thanks, Matt. I’ll correct it right now. You guys did a marvelous job.
Corrected. I see what happened: I had the names correct when I typed them in, but then my cut and paste of the links from the Damn Yankee’s review didn’t grab the new names, but kept Ian’s instead. All better now.
Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 11:10 pm
Thanks, and thank you for the wonderful review! So glad you enjoyed the show!
Tanisha Downey says:
Monday, April 11, 2016 at 4:15 pm
Thank you for the beautiful review and letting me imagine as if I was there in the audience.
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Air Mail Special (DD)
Download: C$11.99
A recording of Calvin & Buddy together. Read the words of guitar great, Mike Dowling who played on the CD.
"If you’ve ever had the notion that whatever fun was to be had elsewhere, you wouldn’t trade what you were doing at the moment, you know exactly how I felt during the three days I spent in Nashville participating as a sideman in the Air Mail Special session.
To describe this as simply a twin fiddle album wouldn’t begin to do it justice. Buddy Spicher and Calvin Vollrath, two of the finest fiddle players I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, have produced a CD that takes fiddle harmony playing to a new level. The tasty violin solos, twin single lines, and Bob Wills-style “over and under” sounds are stunning enough, but you’ll hear something else on this fine recording that your ears may not believe - Buddy and Calvin each playing two parts simultaneously. The resulting harmony on many of these tunes is a sound so full, so compelling, you’ll think you’re listening to a jazz fiddle quartet.
Add to the mix the great Buddy Emmons, whose phrasing and musical ideas long ago transcended mere steel guitar lick, Paul Kramer on electric mandolin, Taylor Coker on bass, and Jim White on drums, this band was as tight, as locked in, as musical, as any I’ve ever had the privilege of playing with. It was a pure pleasure to be included in this session and I couldn’t be more proud of the result.
Give it a listen and I think you’ll understand why I wouldn’t have traded those three days at Buddy Spicher’s Fiddle House for anything."
Mike Dowling
Air Mail Special 4:46
Charmaine 4:07
Short Boy 3:32
Cherokee 5:20
Mona Lisa 3:37
Slipped Disc 4:02
Skip It 3:08
Bernie's Tune 3:06
Whispering 4:23
Straight No Chaser 3:50
Out of Nowhere 4:28
Boogie No Woogie 2:41
Raisin' the Dickens 3:06
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Poll: Are “family values” outdated?
Stephanie Curtis May 7, 2012, 2:51 PM May 7, 2012
Inspired by a recent Room for Debate in the New York Times, we’re going to talk about how the notion of family has evolved in America and how that definition affects public policy. Tune into The Daily Circuit Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. for the discussion.
Should supporting traditional “family values” be a public policy goal?
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Hearing any politician speak about “Traditional family values” seems to show their ignorance more than their personal values. The traditional human family unit is the extended family including not only children and parents but grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
The “nuclear family” (which is what most mean when they speak of the “traditional family”) is a historically recent thing. The alleged support for “Traditional family values” is just another disguised way of saying, “you should be like me”. Anyone who claims they know the best way for other people to live is either a fool or a bigot and usually both.
DanaD
Campaigning on a ‘family values’ platform is playing to the fears of certain socially conservative voters. The phrase has become code talk that legitimizes bigotry, sexism, and religious discrimination. It also does not result in good public policy. There is no evidence that forcing a narrow view of family life on everyone actually improves lives or makes it easier for people to raise healthy, happy children. How many teen mothers have been helped by the pro-marriage focus of TANF legislation? Probably none. Real wages? Better child care? Access to health care and information to prevent a second pregnancy? These are examples of real help.
It doesn’t help that those espousing family values often lack them themselves. I wouldn’t hold Newt Gingrich up as a shining example of marital fidelity.
When politicians use the phrase “family values” what i hear is that they intend to attack a section of society in order to win points with Evangelical Christians. If there ever was a thing as “family values” it has become so politicized that its no longer about optimal family structure, it is about the politics of hate and winning elections.
sue johnson
I feel sad that all three of you on this program are laughing at us, the people who believe in family values. Can you not have a honest debate on this subject? mpr disappoints me again. sue
Definition of family values is very specific to each family and to each individual. Being part of the social spectrum is one part but the roots of each individual, where each one of us come from that help define us and our individual value become a large part of our family’s value.
I would like to hear the phrase “traditional family values” unpacked, simply using basic adjectives, not a politically charged definition. If we are talking about basic terms such as respect and love, then all families should strive for these things, regardless of the particular structure of a family home. They are simply family values. No one group gets to say that those values of love and respect belong exclusively to them. If all couples, regardless of sexual orientation, lived accordingly, what does anyone have to complain about? If couples fail to live out these values fully, then there will be consequences; for example a 50% divorce rate among “tradtional” and non-traditional couples. We all fall short. No one is perfect, so can we stop pretending now and get back to nurturing those family relationships? They are so much mo important than this debate in the long run. Really.
“Family Values” is a dog whistle to society to advise that the whistler shares the goal of telling other people how to live.
Alison Blomster
I am “married” to my partner. We had a ceremony 3 years ago. We live together and have raised children together. By living our lives and our values every day, there is no way that any politician or any amendment could ever “unmarry” us. Sorry conservative politicians, you can keep us from access to services, but you cannot keep us from loving each other, supporting each other, and living our lives.
Additionally, these “traditional family values” have not always been so…only since about 1940 or 50. Read the book
“The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap” by Stephanie Coontz
Pete S
Listening to your guests on this session was un-nerving. The comparison of ‘family valves’ to the Cleaver family is insulting and makes people who believe in family values out to be quaint, outdated and unintelligent. Equally disturbing was a comment by your other guest that ‘we the people’ need to elect politicians who can enact policies which support the ‘new family types’ that have evolved in our society. In other words, let governments take care of children’s needs; a role that is the core responsibility of parents and families. This is the same ultra-liberal non-sense that enabled generations of children to be born and raised outside of a stable family, many of whom rely on public assistance and statistically end up being less successful in life. Nearly 40% of children are born out of wedlock in this country; who in their correct mind can argue that this is the best thing for these children or society.
It’s obvious that the religious right has tried to co-opt the idea of family values as code for an anti-abortion, anti gay rights policy platform; and apparently your far left guests have bought into this ignorant/narrow definition of what family values really are. In the future, let’s not waste our time with guests who are clearly political ideologues, let’s have some experts who can help us understand the problems associated with having 40% of children in a single parent family, and what we as a society can do to fix that. For example, whether you like Obama’s politics or not he is a good man, he obviously had a loving, present mother and grandparents. It is their type of ‘family values’ (not government) that raised him successfully, and which should be explored.
A frustrated moderate, Independent.
jfh
Campaigning on a “global family” platform is playing to the fears of socially progressive voters. The phrase has become code talk that legitimizes bigotry, sexism, and humanist discrimination.
It also is poor public policy. There is evidence that forcing a global view of family life by Socially-Progressive Elected Officials actually reduces the quality of life through abdication of parental responsibility, and it makes it easier to raise dependent, delinquent, and destructive children. For reference, consider the social policies found in Chicago, DC, or LA and review the Quality of Life produced for their residents.
How many teen mothers have been helped by parental abandonment to the Global Village? Very, very few. Real help would reinforce individual parental responsibility, and would encourage the Global Child to become productive and valued and to take care of him/her self.
Those raising their children by the Global Village doctrine need only look to Bill Clinton as a shining example of marital fidelity.
Why is it that the right wing, including the Tea Party and especially the Evangelical Christians and Catholics, sees fit to impose its views on the rest of us. Most Minnesotans are still centrists. We need a bigger tent than these narrow-minded people provide us. The political plumb line has been dragged substantially to the right, making the Democrats seem quite centrist. Our Democrats are now about aligned with Britain’s Conservative party.
Why is it that leftists, including Progressives and especially the Agnostics and Atheists, see fit to impose their views on the rest of us?
Most Minnesotans are still Nice Scandanavians. We need a smaller tent than these narrow-minded leftists provide us. The polictial plumb line has been dragged through the mud, making the Progressives seem all too sanctimonious. Minnesota Progressives are now about aligned with The Holy See.
Laws or amendments banning “Gay marriage” declare that there is a class of people that do not deserve the same rights everyone else enjoys. The word for this is bigotry.
This seems to be a conflict with the idea that laws should either be made to uphold or foster and ideal or should be made to uphold or foster the real life situation whether it fits an ideal or not.
I am of the opinion that these laws should deal with the real life situation as this is where real people are living and needing legal support.
This is not to disparage the “ideal” of the nuclear family but to recognize that despite the ideal, many and perhaps most people are living and dealing with situations outside of that ideal.
Indeed, that ideal has never really existed anywhere but in theory even if it has been given preference through the law.
It seems to me that the more traditional family structure has been what we call extended and multigenerational.
This seems to be the way my family operates. We help each other out from one nuclear household to the next. Some of us live with parents. Some of us live with brothers or sisters and some of us live with nieces or nephews depending on who has the need. We could not exist very well at all without making these inter-familial arrangements.
As a gay member of my family, I have been integral in this process, indeed a sort of hub if you will. Only an ideologically blind fool would call me anti-family and my brothers, sisters and parents would most certainly step to defend me in that regard.
A true family is where any people of lineage or mutual affection come together to provide for a household of lifelong support, encouragement, challenge and love. The state has no business in limiting that description based on some theoretical notion of how that should play out.
If gay people are committing themselves to marriage and proclaiming that then the deed is done in spirit as surely as a sacrament is the outward sing of an inward grace – i.e. the celebration of a reality that already is. It would only be a good thing that the state put its support behind these household commitments as that would only promote further stability in society by recognizing the reality of these familial relationships among us.
If by “traditional family values” you mean taking care of the people you love and care deeply for I’m all for promoting these values.
If by “traditional family values” you mean exclusionary notions of who gets to be a family worthy of acknowledgement and acceptance then these “values” are outdated. The family values I grew up with certainly did not rely on excluding anyone else in order to be good to those people in my family and extended circle.
If your traditions require exclusion of others or a refusal to accept lives different than your own then I do think those traditions are outdated. Any traditions that don’t acknowledge the diversity of legitimate human experience and expression are pretty well outdated in a world where we value freedom, human rights and self determination.
Family Values is about how you live as a unit. Learning how to compromise, trust, forgive, love. It is not about who makes up a family. All families need values to guide them.
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