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Was Earth's Fourth-Hottest Year On Record, Scientists Say
— Feb 11, 2019
NOAA's report showed that a long-term heating trend continued last year as persistent warmth across large swaths of land and ocean resulted in the fourth hottest year in NOAA's 139-year climate record.
Global temperatures in 2018 were 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in NY. Normally, the yearly NASA and NOAA announcements come out around the same time as the others', but this year's reports were delayed due to the partial USA government shutdown. 2016 now ranks as the hottest year on record, with 2017 coming in second and 2015 third.
2018 is the fourth hottest year ever recorded, according to data collected by NASA.
"2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend", Schmidt said in a press release.
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In order to avoid the worst effects of climate change, global temperatures cannot exceed more than two degrees Celsius.
That warming is driven by the amount of greenhouse gases humans have introduced into the atmosphere, particularly in the least 100 years, Schmidt said.
"The key message is that the planet is warming, " said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
"Increasing temperatures can also contribute to longer fire seasons and some extreme weather events". Nine of the hottest years have occurred since 2005, with the past five years being the warmest on record.
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The Earth experienced its fourth-hottest year in more than 136 years in 2018.
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"Despite the recent cold snap across the Midwest and East Coast, the planet is still heating up, and the warming is unprecedented".
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Refurbishments and Closures at Walt Disney World in June
Clear All • Only This Year • Only This Month
Aug. 15 - Aug. 29 Disney's Hollywood Studios Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge -- Work is under way on the 14-acre Star Wars-themed land at Disney's Hollywood Studios that was announced during the 2015 D23 EXPO.
Nov. 2016 - Summer 2019 Resort : Coronado Springs Hard Goods Refurbishment
Feb. 1, 2017 - 2019 Resort : Caribbean Beach Barbados and Martinique -- These sections of the resort have been demolished to make way for construction of the new Disney Riviera Resort.
Feb. 16 - Jul. 09 Resort : Coronado Springs Gran Destino Tower -- New 15-story tower being added at Coronado Springs, will include a two-story lobby and 545 guest rooms. There will also be a roof-top dining location called Toledo. Reservations are now being taken for stays starting July 9, 2019 and later.
Spring 2017 - 2019 Resort : Old Key West Old Key West Refresh -- In an ongoing effort to improve the quality of facilities and offerings, Disney's Old Key West Resort will be undergoing a wholesale refurb. Work most likely to cause a noise impact will be limited to the hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This refurbishment is expected to be completed in 2019.
Jul. 15 - Late 2019 Epcot : Mission: Space Space Restaurant -- This restaurant will be built in a newly developed area located between Epcot’s Mission: SPACE and Test Track attractions.
Once completed, the restaurant will invite guests to travel to space for a dining experience in the stars. The new restaurant will be operated by the Patina Restaurant Group, which also operates Tutto Italia and Via Napoli at Epcot.
Jul. 15 - Dec. 16 Riviera Resort Disney's Riviera Resort -- The Riviera Resort is “inspired by the grandeur of Europe, but reimagined à la Disney magic.” It will be conveniently located near Caribbean Beach Resort, and will feature Disney Skyliner transportation to Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Epcot when it opens December 16, 2019.
Now - Opening 2021? Epcot : France Pavilion Remy's Ratatouille Adventures -- Similar to the 4-D attraction Ratatouille: The Adventure that opened at the Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris in 2014, guests will be able to shrink to Remy’s size and scurry to safety in a dazzling chase across a kitchen with the sights, sounds and smells of Gusteau’s legendary Parisian restaurant. The attraction will open in time for the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort in 2021.
Jul. 21 - Fall 2019 Resort : Art of Animation Disney Skyliner Construction -- A new transportation system, Disney Skyliner, will give guests a bird's-eye view of Walt Disney World Resort while traveling via gondolas. During this time construction noise may be seen or heard throughout the resort, but noise should not be heard from guest rooms between dusk and 9 a.m.
Jul. 21 - Fall 2019 Resort : Caribbean Beach Disney Skyliner Construction -- A new transportation system, Disney Skyliner, will give guests a bird's-eye view of Walt Disney World Resort while traveling via gondolas. During this time construction noise may be seen or heard throughout the resort, but noise should not be heard from guest rooms between dusk and 9 a.m.
Jul. 21 - Fall 2019 Resort : Pop Century Disney Skyliner Construction -- A new transportation system, Disney Skyliner, will give guests a bird's-eye view of Walt Disney World Resort while traveling via gondolas. During this time construction noise may be seen or heard throughout the resort, but noise should not be heard from guest rooms between dusk and 9 a.m.
Aug. 01 - Spring 2019 Resort : Old Key West Room Refurbishment -- During this time, the Resort will be in full operation with all amenities available including dining and merchandise locations, pools, and recreation activities. It is possible that construction may be seen or heard, but noise should not be heard from Guest rooms between dusk and 9 a.m.
Aug. 13 - Early 2020 Hollywood Boulevard Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway -- Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway is inspired by the Mickey Shorts that you can see on the Disney Channel.
Aug. 17 - 2021 Tomorrowland TRON Lightcycle Power Run -- TRON Lightcycle Power Run is coaster-style attraction, in which riders board a train of two-wheeled Lightcycles. It offers access into the energy, lights and excitement of TRON's high-tech universe and is one of the most thrilling adventures.
Aug. 17 - 2021 Future World East Guardians of the Galaxy attraction -- Opening in 2021, this Guardians of Galaxy themed coaster will be one of the longest enclosed roller coasters in the world and feature a brand-new ride system.
Oct. 2017 - Aug. 12 Disney Springs NBA Experience -- The NBA Experience at Walt Disney World Resort will be a one-of-a-kind basketball-themed experience featuring hands-on activities that put guests of all ages right in the middle of NBA game action. There will be immersive NBA video productions and numerous interactive experiences and an exciting retail store that will offer something for all NBA fans worldwide.
The NBA Experience opens in summer 2019.
May. 12 - Jul. 05 Epcot : Japan Pavilion Takumi-Tei Restaurant -- An all-new table service restaurant will be coming to the Japan Pavilion in World Showcase. The restaurant will be a signature dining experience inspired by the natural beauty of Japan. The setting will draw from both nature and takumi, which means “artisan” in Japanese, and the relationship between Japanese craftsmanship and the natural world will be evident throughout the space. Takumi-Tei will be operated by Mitsukoshi USA, which currently operates the merchandise, restaurants (Teppan Edo and Tokyo Dining), and kiosks in the Japan Pavilion.
Mid-Aug. 2018 - Fall 2019 Resort : Animal Kingdom Lodge - Jambo House Room Refurbishment
August 2018 - Summer 2019 Swan : Resort Coffee Bar and Lobby Spaces -- The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort is undergoing its next redesign project, a $3 million transformation of the Swan Resort’s lobby, public spaces and coffee bar.
Fall 2018 - 2020 Resort : Swan The Cove -- The Walt Disney World Swan Hotel's tennis courts will be the site of a new 349-room, 14-story hotel tower.
Fall 2018 - 2022 Resort : Reflections – A Disney Lakeside Lodge Reflections -- Bay Lake will be getting a new nature-inspired, mixed-use Disney resort that will sit between Disney's Wilderness Lodge and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. The new resort will be in the deluxe resort category, and will include more than 900 hotel rooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas. It will be Disney's 16th Disney Vacation Club property.
Oct. 20 - Jul. 11 Disney's Animal Kingdom Rafiki's Planet Watch
Oct. 30 - Aug. 12 Disney Springs : West Side City Works Eatery and Pour House -- A restaurant and bar known for craft beers from local breweries and around the world, plans to open its eighth location in Disney Springs West Side. Opening date has been announced as August 12, 2019!
- TBA Magic Kingdom : Main Street USA Walt Disney World Railroad -- The Walt Disney World Railroad will cease running and will sit "in residence" at its Main Street Station while work progresses on the new Tron coaster coming to Tomorrowland in 2021. This will give guests the chance to have an up-close look at the railroad and take advantage of some unique photo opportunities.
Feb. 19 - 2021 Future World East Wonders of Life Pavilion -- The Wonders of Life pavilion is being reimagined into the Play Pavilion, and will feature first-of-their-kind experiences devoted to playful fun. The Play Pavilion will take guests into an innovative, interactive city bursting with games and hands-on activities. Play Pavilion visitors will interact with Disney characters in an energetic metropolis unlike anything ever seen before at Epcot.
Mar. 18 - 2021 France Pavilion French Creperie -- Scheduled to be built in an all-new location near the previously announced Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure attraction, the new crêperie will feature the cuisine of celebrity chef Jérôme Bocuse, who is also responsible for the pavilion’s Chefs de France and Monsieur Paul. There will also be a quick-service location attached.
Apr. 05 - Fall 2019 Grand Floridian Mizner's Lounge -- Disney has announced that in addition to expanding the lounge it will be re-themed to a Beauty and the Beast inspired location.
May. 20 - 2021 Epcot Epcot Main Entrance Transformation -- Epcot‘s main entrance plaza will see changes that include new pathways, sweeping green spaces, and a newly re-imagined fountain. The new design will pay homage to the original park entrance with fresh takes on classic elements. The Leave A Legacy photos, currently in the entrance plaza, will move into a setting just outside the park’s gateway.
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The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Review
160516 160516 adrian_jonklaas Blogging, Movies
Right off the bat, I want to make it clear that I am a huge fan of all of Tolkien’s written works related to the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) cycle. Yes, I’ve read the “Silmarillion” and even “The Book of Lost Tales”. But the magic started when my 5th-grade teacher, Mrs. Riegel, read The Hobbit to our class waaaay back in 1987. We were enthralled and spellbound as Bilbo was co-opted on the mission to reclaim the dwarves’ home by Gandalf the wizard. Each chapter introduced new creatures, new parts of Middle Earth and new adventures. Through each, the affable hobbit is transformed from someone who only thinks about the food in his larder to someone with true ingenuity, grit, and spine who cares deeply about his friends.
Needless to say, when it was announced that Peter Jackson would follow up his brilliant LOTR trilogy with The Hobbit I was thrilled. Immediately, I was taken back to my childhood, looked forward to reliving Bilbo’s journey once again.
Unfortunately, following the end of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey I was left with mixed feelings and a fair amount of bitterness that Peter Jackson had tainted this idyllic memory of mine by making a bloated big budget blockbuster instead of an enchanting hero’s story focused on the character development of Bilbo.
My biggest beefs:
The movie takes too long to get going; overall, at 2 hours 49 minutes running time the movie is at least 49 minutes too long and its pacing suffers as a result.
The movie suffers from an identity crisis: its PG rating means that some scenes seem like the movie is made for children (e.g. the cartoonish, roller coaster simulation like escape from the goblin lair; the goofy Radagast the Brown) while other scenes are very dark and scary; my sister-in-law’s preteens whom I watched the movie with were horrified when Azog cut off the head of Thrór, Thorin’s grandfather, outside the mines of Moria. I would have preferred if the overall tone was darkened up a bit and Jackson shot for a PG 13 rating or a 14A rating (in Canada) similar to the LOTR movies.
Apart from Thorin and Balin (the oldest, wisest dwarf, who fills Bilbo in on the history of Thorin and Azog); the other dwarves, including Kili, are not memorable. I challenge you to picture the faces of Ori, Nori or Dori.
The fight with the Great Goblin could have been more interesting; this was a missed opportunity. I actually enjoyed the fleshy depiction of the Great Goblin, especially his reaction to the deadly elven blades, Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, and Glamdring the Foe Hammer. Too bad Gandalf effectively defeats the Great Goblin with one swipe of Glamdring across his corpulent belly.
The Morgul blade that Radagast the Brown recovers from Dol Guldur and gives to Gandalf to present before the White Council looks like a blunt, rusted prop you could pick up from a second-hand prop shop (if there are such shops!). Come on, this is the blade of one of the nine undead kings enslaved by Sauron; it may even be a blade belonging to the Witch King of Angmar, the head of the nine. Make it look cooler, please…
Bilbo rushing forward to attack the warg rider while the other dwarves stay back watching their leader (Thorin) about to be killed by their sworn enemy (Azog) is improbable…
The balance in the fighting prowess of the characters is unrealistic at times e.g. the party is chased by a few wargs and riders as they flee to Rivendell; there are 13 dwarves and Gandalf for God’s sake! Stand, fight and kill the nasty beasties; retrospectively, after the third Hobbit movie, we know these characters can kill dozens of orcs and goblins at a time by themselves.
The fight between the two mountainous stone giants was ridiculous; the way the giants are depicted, if I was Sauron I would be trying to recruit one of these humongous giants, literally the size of a mountain, to fight for me ahead of Smaug; the fight should have been left to the imagination with just some boulders crashing down from the mountain; this is one of the many examples of pure CGI eye-candy being included in the movie simply for the sake of it, ruining the story.
The movie is too CGI heavy; another example is the over-the-top depiction of Thrór’s Kingdom under the Lonely Mountain, Erebor. The scale of the mining operation, the piles of gold filling up volumes equivalent to several Freedom Towers is a bit too much. Ok, I get that Peter Jackson owns Weta Digital in New Zealand and he is effectively paying himself by keeping the digital visual effects studio busy, but this was too much! Again, the entire escape from the goblin lair was mindless CGI action.
The movie should have been tightened up, shortened, kept at two films; Azog could have been ditched entirely. I probably would keep the Dol Guldur bit just because it’s so cool to see Sauron in his Necromancer guise J
What I liked:
I can watch Ian McKellan as Gandalf all day. Ditto for Kate Blanchett as Galadriel.
Martin Freeman as Bilbo does a fine job.
Underhill is depicted exactly how I imagined Bilbo’s hobbit hole; a hobbit sized, semi-buried, English country house.
Watching the exasperation on Martin Freeman’s face as the dwarves raid Bilbo’s pantry and devour anything and everything made me laugh.
The “Misty Mountains” song the dwarves sing is pretty poignant.
Including the meeting of the White Council is important for perspective; it gives the audience the big picture; this is much more than a quest to get the dwarves back their home; Gandalf suspects their ancient foe Sauron may be back…and if so, inserting the dwarves back in their home while getting rid of the dragon is a strategic move that will help protect the north of Middle Earth from Sauron’s clasp.
Sauron in his Necromancer guise 🙂
Overall Score: 2.5 out of 5 rings.
MM Leonard’s Counterpoint Review
I am what you consider a “Weta Works” snob. I loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I was such a superfan I saw all three movies opening weekend, and waited the extra months until the “Expanded Special Edition” was released. I went to Walmart the first day and chatted up with the employee in the electronics section who had to remove the security device.
Walmart Worker: So, you must have really liked the movie.
Me: Yep.
Walmart Worker: (scanning it) Wow, $29.99. You know we have the other one on sale for $7.99
Me: No. This has bonus features.
Walmart Worker: Cool man. Like what?
Me: An extra half hour.
Walmart Worker: (Maybe doing the extra-price-per-minute calculation in his head) You must really want to see it all.
Me: Yep. Plus there are documentaries.
Walmart Worker: What’s a documentary?
Me: Behind the scenes stuff.
Walmart Worker: (Doing simple math in his head). Oh. Ok.
I drove home and grabbed a pizza, a case of beer, and was ready for a long night. Like a true nerd, I opened the DVD box and inserted discs and flipped to the documentaries. To me, watching the 6 hours of the “making of” featureless was almost as engrossing as the Fellowship of the Ring. I mean, the dedication Peter Jackson to get the movie made, not in one movie, but in three movies was a demonstration of artistic guts. I discovered he had built a model of Helms Deep to practice the diagramming the sequence. They built Hobbiton. How do you get the right look and feel of the film? Frick, let’s just hire the two foremost illustrators of Tolkien and fly them to New Zealand.
It was brilliant. I enjoyed it all.
Then there were lawsuits over “profits.”
To leave no dollar on the table, “The Hobbit” was greenlit. Then Peter Jackson eventually took the reigns again. Then, somehow, there was an announcement that it would be two movies despite being one book. I scratched my head, but understood they figured it was a way to make some extra cash. Maybe add some stuff from the appendices. I trusted Jackson.
Then there was an announcement there would be three films. What?
The studio dwarf’s quest for LOTR Fan gold was alive and well. I was ready to see it opening weekend. I watched all the sneak previews that Jackson put out. I love all that behind the scenes make-up shit. Add some prosthetics here and some fake hair there, and boom, you had a dwarf. Then the reviews came in.
Simulated Twitter Comments:
“I fell asleep while they were eating in Bilbo’s house.”
“It was too long.”
“Jackson is a greedy mother…”
Wow. I usually didn’t pay attention to reviews at the time, but one of my closer friends posted something on FB showing their excitement before seeing it, and then their reaction after. They looked like someone with their heart ripped out.
I had seen this look before.
It was me, looking in the mirror in 1999 after watching the Phantom Menace. Frick. I didn’t want this movie to destroy my love for the LOTR. I boycotted it.
The boycott lasted 2 years when the final film came out, and people telling me that yes, the first one sucked, but it got better eventually. So I downloaded it on HBO on demand and watched it and everything I feared was true. It was a pile of boring garbage that made a story out of nothing and made me care about nobody. If it wasn’t for Gandalf, the whole movie is unwatchable. I mean, it was true; Aliens in Independence Day took over the planet in the time it took for Bilbo and the dwarfs to finally leave Hobbiton.
The movie was so bad, as a die hard LOTR fan, I couldn’t take the equivalent of “Attack of the Clones” as a follow up, and refused to watch the rest for at least a year. The first one disappointed me that much.
It was a prequel we all wanted, but didn’t expect to be so horrifically boring and an obvious grab for money.
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2 thoughts to “The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Review”
Roland Riebl says:
160517 at 22:09
A huge, huge let down. I am not a fantasy or sci fi person at all, but LOVED the LOR films. The 1st especially ranks us one of the greatest films of all time, any genre. The trilogy is an epic for the ages.
The Hobbit is a piece of trash that rips your heart out. Following the above comment, I had boycotted the last Matrix after the 2nd was such a piece of junk. I should have been more prudent here.
The essence is this: LOR was a work of love and art at its finest. The Hobbit is the rich 1% being greedy bastards Gordon Gekko style. Zero integrity.
To Peter Jackson: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Shameful.
adrian_jonklaas says:
Well said Roland. A travesty indeed; Jackson totally sold out. I would have given The Hobbit a 1 out of 5 rings rating except for the sheer pleasure of watching Ian McKellen as Gandalf (extra 1 ring) and for the depiction of Sauron (extra half ring).
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Travel inspiration /
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Sun- cracked salt-flats stretch like blinding-white crazy paving towards a shimmering flat horizon. Salt-bearing camel caravans traipse mirage-like across grassless plains of rock and sand swept by a merciless gale known as the Gara, or fire wind. Volatile volcanoes rise into the cloudless desert sky, their calderas cradling bubbling cauldrons of molten lava, or brooding hyper-saline crater lakes. Explosive geysers feed sulphurous pools enclosed by strange pastel-hued crystalline formation. A true desert that stretches across northeast Ethiopia for tens of thousands square kilometers, the Danakil is also one of the lowest-lying and hottest places anywhere in the planet, dropping to 116m below sea level, while temperatures frequently soar above 50oc.
These are sights typical of the Danakil: one of the most harsh and brutal landscapes anywhere on earth, but also a place of rare geological fascination and immeasurable beauty to those few adventurous souls fortunate enough to spend time there. It lies in the northern part of Afar, a region named after its pastoralist inhabitants, who traditionally eked out an income as herders and seasonal salt miners. Their salt was transported by camel to the highlands by Tigrean caravaneers. Camel Caravans still operate in the region, as they have for millennia, but for most visitors the biggest highlight of the Danakil is Erta Ale, a climbable volcano that encloses the world’s oldest permanent lava lakes.
Afar region is widely regarded to be the cradle of humankind. The most famous skeleton unearthed there is ‘Lucy’. Whose discovery in 1974 pushed backed the timeframe of human evolution by more than a million years. the world’s oldest undisputed human remains, dating back 5.5 million years, were unearthed here in 1997.
Until the modern era, the Danakil served as the unofficial mint of Ethiopia since it was the origin of the hefty salt bars (amoles) that served as currency in the highlands for many centuries.
The kilometer-thick salt deposits that covers much of the Danakil are a relic of the days-up until 30,000 years ago-when much of the region was submerged by the Red sea.
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INEC begins constituency delineation
by AIT / 5 years ago / Politics
After almost 17years, a fresh delineation of constituencies is to be carried out by the central electoral body, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC).
The delineation exercise, covered by law requires the electoral body to make adjustments to constituencies’ boundaries frequently so as to ensure that the required number of registered voters or population in a particular area is kept within a particular range; in other words, if one constituency grows beyond a particular range in population, it will be sub-divided into smaller constituencies.
At the moment, there are some constituencies that are 4times the size of others in terms of size and population. There are also new settlements especially in fast growing cities like Abuja; there are settlements that are not captured in the current demography of voters.
For the purpose of this exercise, INEC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) to be able to use accurate satellite imaging and mappings done by the agency. The memorandum was signed on Wednesday and the INEC Chairman, Tahiru Jega expressed confidence that the aim of the exercise could be achieved in record time.
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Posted on 7 November 2013 by Arthur
Yesterday, I spoke at the inaugural Footnote Summit, South Africa’s new digital-publishing conference. Here’s my talk. Over the last seven years, I’ve pitched technical or otherwise innovative services to publishers over and over again, and learned some hard truths along the way. Here I list my top five, and what they mean for startups and publishers.
As many of you know, I used to be with Oxford and Pearson, so I know what it takes to get through any given year as a textbook publisher.
In 2006 I left to start a little publishing-technology consulting company called Electric Book Works. We wanted to help publishers use existing technology better: from using styles properly in MS Word to turning printed catalogues into databases. But most of the time, publishers wouldn’t pay us to solve a problem they didn’t think they had, and so necessity led to invention as it does, and we experimented wildly, with mixed success, until Paperight was born: a way to turn ordinary copy shops into print-on-demand bookstores.
On paperight.com, we provide a library of books that copy shops can print out for customers on demand, and we work with publishers to license their content to our member copy shops. Some of you are already working with us.
Copy shops pay publishers a small fee for each copy. In the last eighteen months, we’ve added 200 print-on-demand bookstores to South African towns and villages, listing almost 2000 different books from over 100 publishers.
We believe we’ve achieved something important here. But in doing it, and over the last seven years, one of the hardest things I’ve had to do, strategically and emotionally, is to remain patient while pitching to publishers over and over again when, quite frankly, most of the time, their companies seem utterly impervious to technological change or innovation.
So I’ve tried to define why it’s been so difficult, and I think I can list five hard truths about pitching to publishers as a startup. Perhaps the publishers here today can tell me whether any of this rings true from your perspective.
1. People love you. Their organisations don’t.
When I first pitched Paperight to publishers, I didn’t know what would make them interested in working with us.
Would it be the money we could make for them by opening up a new market?
Would it be the environmental appeal of not shipping books to and fro in trucks and ships?
Or would it be the social impact of making books accessible to people in poor and remote areas?
As it happens, I can’t remember a single publisher who was excited by the idea of making more money. When people buy a product or buy into an idea, it’s emotion that makes them do it. (Logic is just how they justify the emotional decision after they’ve made it.) And emotionally, publishers just don’t respond to the promise of more cash.
Oh, they’ll say they do because it’s their job to be financially prudent. But, as far as I can tell, money really leaves them cold.
Some publishers responded well to the environmental angle. But not enough to get them really fired up.
So I was happy to discover that, in the end, social impact really is what gets publishing people excited. In almost every meeting I’ve ever pitched in, the person across the table lights up when we talk about the possibility of putting every book within walking distance of every home.
But after I’ve left and the glow has worn off, they have to actually get a decision through their organisation. And the emotion I whipped up in the meeting just melts away. And all that is left is a cold hard day of noise and to-dos.
And the embers that remain in my poor contact have no chance against the anxiety of having to get the decision past colleagues, or the general covering of asses.
The point is that convincing a person is very different from convincing an organisation. The only way through is either to find an untiring champion in the company or to just keep pitching, again and again, till you’ve raised enough of a spark to survive the organisation’s decision-making process.
2. The right person is rarely the right person.
One of the main reasons pitches go nowhere is that you’re not speaking to the right person. This is a common problem for innovative startups because most of the time there is no person for the thing you’re pitching.
When we pitch Paperight, we get bounced from the rights-and-licensing manager to the sales manager to the digital manager, and none of them are sure they can just sign up their company.
It’s even worse when you’re offering a service that crosses borders: the local office thinks you should speak to the international office, and the international office tells you to work it out with the local office. It’s a grand game of international pinball. We’ve spent months bouncing between local and international offices of major publishing companies, waiting for someone to decide they have the authority to make something happen.
In the end, when it does resolve, it seems less a matter of figuring out who is responsible and more a case of someone, somewhere just getting on with it. Our job seems to be to bounce around till that happens.
3. Most people don’t speak XML.
Most of the services we sell to publishers as startups involve something technical. But most publishers won’t understand our technical jargon. They have their own vocabulary to describe their needs.
For instance, you might be pitching a web-based collaborative metadata-editing tool that runs a highly optimised AJAX-driven UI and maps to ONIX under the hood. You know that that would literally change people’s lives in publishing companies. But to the person you’re pitching to you might as well be selling thermonuclear reactor parts.
For me, the only way around this is to ask sensible questions, listening carefully till they describe the product they need in their terms. Then you can explain why what you’re offering solves their problem. This sounds obvious, but it’s really hard to do and takes lots of practice.
4. Anchored numbers are sticky
Here’s a number: 55%.
Many publishers in the audience may recognise this number. It’s the gross margin that most publishers aim for on each book. In many companies, it’s a sacred number. The rule is: “Do not propose publishing a book that does not hit this number.”
Sacred numbers are very useful if you want people to produce the same kind of product over and over again, to sustain an established business that must please its current market. But when you want to innovate, especially if you want to do things very differently, sacred numbers like this are big obstacles.
Another set of numbers publishers know well is this: 1000, 1500, 2000. Those are common print runs. Also 5000, 10000: sales figures that define a bestseller in local trade publishing.
In management terms, these kinds of numbers define a company’s values. As Clayton Christensen and Michael Overdorf describe them, they are “the standards by which employees set priorities that enable them to judge whether an order is attractive or unattractive, whether a customer is more important or less important”.
So a 55% gross margin allows employees to consider a project worthwhile.
If you string a bunch of values together, you get company culture. This is different in a way from what you and I might mean when we talk casually about ‘company culture’, but it’s actually closely related. When the ways that a company’s staff can move are circumscribed by specific numbers, they define how a company thinks. In short, these numbers, and the extent to which they are followed and enforced, define the company’s culture.
In psychology, these sacred numbers cause what’s called anchoring. When a number is an anchor, we use it to evaluate any other number by comparison. For instance, you might think that a Coke costs about R10. If I try sell you a Coke for R100, you’re going to think that’s very strange, because R10 is your anchor for the price of Coke. Likewise if I sell it for 10 cents. Even though none of these prices may bear any real relation to the cost or value of Coke itself, it’s the anchor that matters.
In the case of a 55% margin, or a standard print run, publishers compare any number you give them to these anchors. So if you pitch a project that will make a million sales at a gross margin of 10%, they’re going to have trouble believing in it. Their anchors make it hard to fit those numbers into their company culture.
Every innovative publishing service or startup is trying to offer publishers a new set of numbers. But company values are big rocks to move.
At Paperight, we’ve found one number in our model that matches publisher numbers: net receipts less printing and distribution costs. Publishers usually make about 30% of the retail price after printing and distribution costs on a traditional edition. On Paperight they can make almost the same amount in the form of a licence fee. So when we pitch, we focus loads of attention on that, and pay less attention to other numbers in our model that would be new to publishers.
Of course, this works best when the person you’re speaking to actually knows their business’s numbers, and can do basic cost calculations. Often, publishers I speak to don’t know the real costs and margins on their products, especially costs like warehousing, wastage and other provisions that don’t appear on their standard costings spreadsheets.
As a result, they simply aren’t empowered to make the kinds of decisions that innovations require.
5. Risk and regret loom large.
We all fear losing stuff. In fact, we fear losing stuff much more than we desire a corresponding gain. For instance, as the parent of a one-year-old, I fear losing CBeebies much more than I wanted it in the first place.
We also fear regret, especially the regret that comes from doing something that might turn out to be a loss. So, when you’re pitching a service to a publisher, they fear regretting their decision much, much more than they want your product. Even if they want your product a lot.
How the heck do you get around that?
I think you have to make their decision not feel like a final decision. For instance, we separate the signing of our Paperight distribution agreement from actually listing which books the publisher will license to us. That way, our contact can sign the agreement without actually putting any books on Paperight.
Once that’s in place, we can start an entirely separate discussion about which books to put on the system.
Except there’s another challenge: the publisher tries to ease their anxiety by giving us low-value, low-selling content, thinking this reduces their risk of failure. Ironically, this has the opposite effect: by putting low-selling content on our platform, they actually increase their risk of failure, because the chances are this low-value content will not sell at all. To make an innovation work, you have to maximise your chances of success by using it for the best content you have.
We’ve found that these five problems, and perhaps many others, mean that we interact with a given publisher at least seven times before they work with us, and that’s if things go well in the first interaction. There are several major publishers who took over three years for my colleagues and I to get on board, and several others we’re still inching along with.
The risk for publishers is that while these five issues hold you back, faster, more active companies are changing your market for you, and stealing your lunch. Amazon and Google are the usual examples, but smaller players like Siyavula and FunDza are increasingly influential, too.
Of course, it would be crazy to work with every startup that knocks on your door. But the only thing that’s crazier is taking months or years to decide whether to work with them. It’s better to decide quickly one way or another than to waste time. Progress requires forward motion.
If you recognise any of these five issues in your organisation, perhaps just knowing they’re there will make it easier to move forward in future. At the very least, you’ll save entrepreneurs like me a few grey hairs.
And let me know what you think. Fixing publishing is a group effort.
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21 thoughts on “Tough truths about selling to publishers”
Mark Seabrook on 7 November 2013 at 8:35 pm said:
Great presentation Arthur! I will admit to being guilty of at least 3 out 5, maybe not with Paperight, but certainly with startups in general over the years.
Truly intrigued. Do you have a way to sign up self-publishers? Are you looking to make their books available the same way? Does your business model allow it – or do you need a lot of books from the same source to be worth the effort? (A job for aggregators?)
One of the problems I can foresee is that printing pdfs at 8 x 11″ is going to make a heavy stack for some books – specifically mine.
Just curious – I’m not ready to publish, but the thought of someone on the other side of the globe being able to easily get a copy is tantalizing.
Arthur on 15 November 2013 at 3:08 pm said:
Alicia, we can sign up self-publishers (you can just register on paperight.com to get started). But since our on-boarding process for publishers is manual, the bigger publishers with larger lists usually get to jump the queue. If the publisher provides us with a reflowable ebook format or HTML, we reflow the text into the correct page size to make the best use of space and minimise printing. Most stores print two-up on A4, then cut the paper in half to create A5 books.
Emma Barnes on 12 November 2013 at 11:16 am said:
This is a brilliant, insightful post.
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Fran Toolan on 14 November 2013 at 1:28 pm said:
Arthur,
I have certainly seen these and many other similar issues in my 25+ years of selling technology services to publishers in the US.
To answer your underlying question of how to get your message to be heard – there is only one answer: you need your message to be heard when the right people are ready to hear it.
In sports, they call this “coach-able moments”. No matter how right you are, your message will be ignored unless your client feels significant pain to know that they need to change the way they do things. Once they acknowledge their pain with the status quo, and only then, will they have an open ear for an innovative solution.
Thanks, Fran. I really like the idea of ‘coach-able moments’.
jakob on 14 November 2013 at 7:50 pm said:
I happen to have worked in a sector where I did get even more exposure to pitches before moving into publishing myself: Consulting on sales-pitches. Many of the problems you describe are not native to the publishing sector, but it is true that publishers are even more change averse than some other industries.
While the most important thing, as you rightly pointed out, is actually getting through to the decision makers, there is always a chance to improve the pitch itself. If you DO genuinely solve a problem, the main task is not hard selling, but rather reframing the problem so that a potential client *understands* the potential of your solution.
One approach that may help is somewhat hidden in your conclusion: The markets are changing. That is common place in business talk at all publishing conferences I have been to. If you need to, play to the risk aversion and tell your prospects what they stand to lose, not what they have to gain, if they don’t at least listen to new ideas with an open mind. I do not believe playing down the investment (your part 5.) to just get a foot in the door is the right angle here. After all, you want to engage in a meaningful partnership, don’t you?
I’m sure you already know this with your years of experience, but to all bypassing readers I’d like to say you always need to convincingly address two basic questions in any sales pitch: Why change? Why us?
Wes McLaverty on 15 November 2013 at 12:28 pm said:
Thats the beauty of cutting out the greedy conservative middle men. Like the Swiss clock makers not moving in to the digital age, they get left behind. Tough hehe!
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Alphonso on 9 December 2013 at 3:01 pm said:
Arthur, I enjoyed your insightful presentation. Resonated with each and every slide.
Followed link to paperight.com and found that I could not page through books on sale – like one does with an Amazon teaser preview. For example Plaasmoord has a great cover and intro text: “Behind the Violence on South African farms” but nothing more.
Reason I raise this is because if I were searching for science books on your site, I would like a bit more than just a cover and a single line of text. But that is only my opinion.
I think there idea behind paperight is great and my hope is it places textbook books on every school child’s desk on the day the start school in 2014.
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Phillip Pare on 26 August 2014 at 10:00 am said:
Dear Arthur
Thank you so much for your most insightful comments.
I have sent a note to you via the messaging service on Facebook about making books available in all of Southern Africa’s languages. This is a big project and hence I am trying to tread carefully to avoid pitfalls and white elephants. With all your publishing experience, I would really value your thoughts and any other people’s thoughts on this endeavour.
Phillip Pare
Arthur on 3 September 2014 at 5:24 pm said:
Phillip, glad to meet you online. I’ve replied by email. Good luck!
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Olfactory receptors
Animals sense their chemical environment through olfactory receptors (ORs). The olfactory receptors are a large group of proteins belonging to a subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that bind odorant ligands. If the receptor is activated by a ligand, the confirmation of the receptor is changed and there is an interaction with the α-subunit of the G-protein. This causes dissociation of the α-subunit from the Gβγ dimer and the signal is propagated [1]. Because of the sensitivity and selectivity of the of the olfactory system it can be of value in detection of environmental toxins [2] or pharmaceutical screening. In this iGEM project we aim to investigate if the ORs can be used as a diagnostics tool for tuberculosis.
Yeast G protein-coupled receptors
In this project we choose to work with the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a host organism because it utilizes already a GPCR pathway. Furthermore S. cerevisiae has been successfully used for functional expression of GPCR’s [3,4], a lot of genomic tools are available, and it has a fully characterized genome. In S. cerevisiae two GPCR cascades have been identified: a glucose sensing pathway and a mating pathway [5]. There are two sexes of yeast cells, MATa and MATα. Whenever pheromones (small peptides) of the opposite sex are bound to the specific G-protein coupled receptors (Ste2 p or Ste3p), the MAP kinase cascade is turned on, leading to induction of mating genes such as FUS1 and growth arrest mediated by the FAR1 promoter. This mating response can be seen in the form of a morphological change, called shmoo formation. In figure 1 an overview of the pheromone and glucose signaling pathways in S. cerevisiae is shown.
Overview of pheromone and glucose signaling in S. cerevisiae. Figure adapted from Versele et al.
Introduction of a new olfactory receptor
Previously it was found that that the yeast pheromone signaling pathway can be coupled to a mammalian olfactory receptor. Minic et al. succeeded in functional expressing the rat 17 OR and its trafficking to the plasma membrane in S. cerevisiae. Between the three GPCRs that are known in S. cerevisiae, Ste2, Ste3 and Gpr1, the sequence similarity is limited. Except for pheromone receptors in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Kluyveromyces lactis, Ste2 and Ste3 are largely unrelated in sequence to other GPCRs [5]. Nevertheless, the yeast pheromone receptors can be functionally replaced by several mammalian GPCRs so that the pheromone pathway can be activated by the corresponding ligands [4].
Chimeric design
A major hindrance for functional expression of ORs has been that the receptors did not localize in the membrane or that the downstream coupling of the receptor to the Gα did not work properly. It has been shown that the rat olfactory receptor 17 (R17) that responds to octanal can be functionally expressed in many different cell types, including S. cerevisiae [6]. Earlier research investigated on the question whether the RI7 sequence can be used to functionally express other ORs. Sequence analysis of ORs have shown that the N-termini of the receptor are involved in plasma membrane localization, whereas the C-termini generally define the specificity for G protein interaction [7]. Based on this observations Radhika et al. functionally expressed a chimeric OR with the N-terminus and the C-terminus of the RI7 sequence. A schematic picture is shown in figure 2. In this iGEM project we use the same approach as Radhika et al. by substituting the receptor termini with the RI7 sequences.
Schematic overview of the chimeric design of the receptor. Figure adapted from Radhika et al..
Niacin olfactory receptor
The receptors GPR109A and GPR109B are known to bind the compound nicotinic acid [8]. It was previously described that GPR109B acts a low affinity receptor for nicotinic acid and GPR109A acts as a high affinity receptor for nicotinic acid and other compounds with related pharmacology [molecular identification of high and low affinity receptors]. The chemical compound methyl nicotinate is closely related to nicotinic acid. Because one of the compounds in the breath of tuberculosis patients is methyl nicotinate [9,10], the high affinity receptor for niacin is a good candidate for testing the ‘olfactory yeast’ as a diagnostics tool.
Isoamylacetate olfactory receptor
The first iGEM team of MIT 2006 made a biobrick called the ‘banana odor generator’. With this part E. coli cells can generate the isoamyl acetate molecule. We aim to let yeast detect this isoamyl acetate signal with a olfactory receptor. The idea is that in future work the yeast should couple this back to the bacteria to have gaseous yeast/bacteria communication on plates.
The human receptor OR1G1 and mouse receptor Olfr154 are known to react on isoamyl acetate [11] and therefor these two receptors were used in this iGEM project.
A design of the receptor construct was made with the olfactory receptors placed between the N-terminal and the C-terminal part of the rat I7 receptor. As a promoter the strong constitutive GPD promoter is used and as a terminator the CYC1 terminator. The receptor can be replaced by using the restriction sites BamHI and NdeI. A FLAG tag is added upstream of the receptor sequence to look at the localization of the receptor in the membrane. The plasmid construct for the receptor expression was obtained by restriction of the synthesized receptor construct and ligation in the pRSII415 expression vector. The following biobricks are created:
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After transformation of the plasmids in the yeast strain a PCR reaction was performed in order to verify if the plasmid was correctly transformed. Since the PCR reactions were performed with single colonies we expected to obtain one PCR product with the length of the receptor part. However, for all the receptors we saw multiple PCR products on the gel; products with the length of the receptor, and products indicating that only the plasmid backbone was present (without the receptor). This indicates that during growth of the yeast a part of the plasmid was emitted.
1% Agarose Gel run on 80 V, showing S. cerevisiae extracted plasmid DNA of our olfactory receptor construct. Lane 2 shows DNA smartladder. Lane 1 shows a typical bands for the S. cerevisae plasmid extract. The bright band at the height of 2000 nt is the expected PCR band. The secondary bands observed have DNA sizes of approximately 1200 and 400-500 nt.
Expression and localization of the ORs
I7-GPR109A transformed cells and WT cells were stained with Conjugated anti-FLAG antibodies according to the immunofluorescence staining protocol and viewed under a widefield fluorescence microscope with the goal of imaging the expression of our GPCR chimeras and image their localization in the cell. The image was analyzed with Image J to compare the fluorescence of the cell and cell membrane to the overall fluorescence of the whole picture.
It can be seen that there is expression of the receptor: I7-GPR109A transformed cells are fluorescent (figure 4) and the wild type strain is very weakly fluorescent (figure 5). In some of the I7-GPR109A transformed cells there is clear halo structure visible, which indicates localization of the receptor on the membrane. Below such a typical halo is shown (figure 4):
Figure 4: The I7-GPR109A transformed cells
Figure 5: Wild type (WT)
In figure 4, it can be seen that localization to the cell membrane occurs. This differs substantially from the control (figure 5, right picture). For the above cell, the mean of the gated fluorescence was a value of 1592.1 compared to a fluorescence mean of 1245.2 for the total picture, yielding a ratio of 1.28 for the I7-GPR109A strain. For the WT the cell mean fluorescence value was 4855.9 for the mean background and 4942.9 for the selected sample typical cell, yielding a ratio of 1.018 for the sample, indicating little fluorescence compared to background. Below a summary of the values:
Mean cell fluorescence
Mean total fluorescence
Fluorescence Ratio
I7-GPR109A transformed cells
Wild type Strain (WT)
The absolute difference between the values of the wild type and the I7-GPR109A photos (WT strain having a much higher mean cell fluorescence) is the result of our efforts to gain a visual result from the weak fluorescence of the WT strain by increasing the time for imaging. So although the absolute fluorescence is higher in the WT the ratio still indicates expression for the I7-GPR109A transformed cells.
Figure 6: Localization analysis of I7-GPR109A transformed cells.
In figure 6 the graph of the yellow pixel line indicates a higher intensity (intensity slice shown on the right) at the sides of the cell and therefore confirms the expected protein localization pattern.
Ligand activation
If the downstream pathway of the olfactory system is activated one of the responses is that the cell goes in growth arrest. If the cells go in growth arrest they will stop growing in the G1 phase and hence the DNA content of the cells should be 1N. By staining the DNA of the cells with a fluorescent dye we watched with flow cytometry at the DNA content and thereby at the cell cycle phase.
The niacin receptors and the two isoamylacetate receptors were induced with the ligand. After staining (see protocols) the DNA content was measured.
Outcome GPR109A
Flow cytometer results of I7-Gpr109A transformed cells induced with ligands. Cells were DNA stained and measured after 4.40 hours.
The picture shows DNA content distribution of two strains, wildtype cells and cells transformed with I7-Gpr109A, 4.40 hours after induction. The I7-Gpr109A without induction shows one peak. WT cells with nicotinic acid show similar cell clouds and peak intensity. The alpha pheromone induced cells however shows a small cloud shifting towards the left. The methyl nicotinate induced cells shows a peak similar to the non-induced cells. The Niacin induced I7-GPR109A transformed cells however, show two clear clouds after 4.40 induction. This indicates that DNA replication has halted, leaving the cells in their haploïd state.
Outcome I7-OR1G1
To get an idea of the behavior of the cell under influence of ligand and DNA staining, OR1G1 Banana receptors in WT and Δfar strains and WT and Δfar strains without receptor were analyzed under the microscope. This experiment was run parallel to the FACS experiment. No abnormalities were observed apart from the effect of isoamylacetate on the location of the DNA stain. For all the strains this resulted in an evenly distributed glow over the whole cell after induction of isoamylacetate. Below the results for the OR1G1 Receptor are shown as an example.
Figure 7: OR1G1 transformed cells with isoamylacetate as inducing agent at an estimated concentration of 200mM.
In parallel experiment with the flow cytometer no growth arrest was observed ( data not shown). Considering the above described effects of isoamylacetate on yeast one might be able to explain
the lack of cell cycle arrest. Another thing we observed with isoamylacetate is that it poorly dissolves in water. This could be another explanation for the lack of cell cycle arrest in the sample.
The active site of an olfactory receptor, GPR109A placed between the N-terminal and the C-terminal part of the rat I7 receptor was successfully expressed in yeast. For all the yeast strains that were used in the experiments the transformations of receptor parts ( I7-Olfr154, I7-OR1G1, I7-GPR109A, I7-odr10 ) were confirmed with PCR. In one of the transformants ( I7-GPR109A ) a halo structure is confirmed, by means of FLAG-tag localization. This points to localization of the receptor on the membrane. This stain was further researched in a subsequent DNA staining cell cytometry experiment that indicated growth arrest with niacin at T=4.40 and a similar trend with the positive control with alpha-pheromone was observed. With the alternative ligand Methyl Nicotinate no such trend was observed, although such a trend for the alternative ligand could be present. An explanation for this could be that methyl nicotinate is not the primary ligand and therefore does not strongly bind to the receptor.
For I7-OR1G1 a DNA staining experiment was performed with the goal of observing growth arrest. In these experiments growth arrest was not observed. Parallel imaging with fluorescence microscope however showed a change of cellular morphology by isoamylacetate. It was also observed that isoamylacetate dissolves poorly in water. This could explain why no growth arrest is observed with the I7-OR1G1 transformants.
During growth of yeast cells transformed with the expression vector we observed two things: not all the cells maintain the right plasmid and the cells grew slower than wild type cells. A reason for this could be that the expression of the receptor is disadvantageously for the cells. Therefor we recommend for future work to use an inducible promoter instead of a strong constitutive promoter. In that case one can make the yeast cells expressing the receptor just before testing the strain.
[1] Haiqing Zhao, Lidija Ivic, Joji M. Otaki, Mitsuhiro Hashimoto, Katsuhiro Mikoshiba, Stuart Firestein*Functional Expression of a Mammalian Odorant Receptor, Science 279, 237 (1998)
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Our Role: Professional Standards
ARB sets the standards of competence and conduct expected of architects and investigates those who may have fallen below those standards. We issue the Architects Code, provide advice to architects and their clients on matters of professional practice and impose penalties if an architect is found guilty of serious misconduct or incompetence.
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The Periodic Review
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Over the last five years we have embarked on an educational campaign to inform architects of the risks we see in their practice, and how they might best avoid falling into disputes with their clients. In 2017 we continued to publish a ‘Dear Architect…’ column for the profession to provide advice and guidance on professional conduct matters, and to deliver professional practice events to architect groups around the country.
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Carl Edwards' Excellent Drag Racing Promo
ESPN2's NASCAR Now is in its third season and going strong. Well, strong except for one completely embarrassing high-profile problem. Nothing drove this issue home like Carl Edwards' recent NASCAR Now appearance.
Edwards was Mike Massaro's in-studio guest on Thursday. Massaro conducted the normal driver interview segment, but then Edwards was allowed to flex a little TV muscle and participate during the entire show.
Marty Smith's door-to-door segment featured an Edwards opinion and then Ed Hinton came along to make small talk with the Cup driver. But, the most jaw-dropping part of the program took only fifteen seconds.
Late in the show, Edwards read the NASCAR Now promo page for the upcoming motorsports weekend on TV. In a very professional voice, Edwards read the promo for the Nationwide Series race on ABC and the Camping World Truck Series race on SPEED. Then, a magical TV moment happened.
Edwards read the final promo for the featured Sunday race. Amazingly, the veteran NASCAR driver was promoting the NHRA drag race on ESPN2 Sunday night.
That's right, NHRA drag racing was the featured Sunday TV race on NASCAR Now with Sprint Cup Series driver Edwards in the studio reading the copy.
Incredibly, NASCAR Now has avoided promoting every single Sprint Cup Series points race in 2009. TV viewers have seen IRL promos and NHRA promos, but none for NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.
The reason given to TDP for this, believe it or not, is television.
ESPN demanded promotion of the ESPN Nationwide Series events in the live Fox and TNT Sprint Cup Series races. In return, ESPN would then promote the start time and TV network of those Sprint Cup Series races on NASCAR Now.
In other words, ESPN was using the only daily NASCAR TV show as leverage.
Fox is now gone and TNT is about to step away from the Sprint Cup Series for another season. Those two TV networks don't care about NASCAR Now or ESPN's promo demands. Neither of them even blinked.
Once again, the only folks being used as pawns in this game are TV viewers and NASCAR fans. In a couple of weeks, ESPN will inherit a sport struggling with lower TV ratings, declining attendance and a much lower national media profile.
All of this boils down to just one question. Will five months of a complete lack of on-air promotion by NASCAR Now help or hurt ESPN's own Sprint Cup Series TV ratings? We should know the answer shortly.
TDP welcomes your comments on this topic. To add your opinion, just click on the comments button below. This is a family-friendly website, please keep that in mind when posting. Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
I saw Carl on NN. He looked nice in his suit.
I missed the drag racing promo. I guess it doesn't really matter if BSPN mentions the CUP race or not. True fans know when it's on. NASCAR/BF catering to the casual fan really paid off, didn't it? Where are they now? Racing was just a fad for these people.
I liked what Carl said about the CUP drivers in the NW series. I hope Joe Balash and the Emperor use his ideas.
I'm glad DJ is finally back.
I think it's only fair of ESPN to want their races promoted if they are going to promote the races on the other networks. Of course, the one to blame here is actually NASCAR. NASCAR should require the networks to cross promote, as is done during baseball/basketball playoffs. It would be in the sport's best interest.
hotaru-raganbaby_6 said...
Did Carl read the weekend promos? I had my tv muted then.
Them not reading the Sprint Cup series race time STILL irks me.
Dot, WHAT did Carl say about the CUP drivers in the NW series. Different scoring?
They can't carpetbag all year and steal trophies from a series beneath them?/
INDEED if NASCAR TRULY CARED about their own sport, they should be MORE CONCERNED at the horrible treatment by it's broadcast partners across the board (TNT exempted)
I continue to care less and find myself even checking Jayski less and less and just stopping by here and Twitter. All I need.
In the contracts of promoting, NASCAR SHOULD PUT SOME RULES IN STONE.
ESPECIALLY with the lack of attention/sponsors in these struggling times.
The title of the show is NASCAR Now. Perhaps, it could be changed to NASCAR on ESPN Now if this continues.
In just a couple more races, ESPN will have made it all the way through the Fox and TNT races without ever promoting one.
That really working for ya?
Dot,
True fans are not the question and this issue is huge. Not doing a promo for the entire race just because you have to mention the TV network on which it airs is somehow OK? I would disagree.
How does this sport pick-up news fans without any other NASCAR TV on during the week other than NASCAR Now?
Fox and TNT are event networks, they have no other NASCAR shows. SPEED has the weekend shows but only TWIN on Mondays.
ESPN's six days a week of NASCAR Now is key to exposing new fans to the sport.
Even on the Sunday morning Sprint Cup Series version of this show, there is no promo at all for the very race the show is previewing.
Must be good to be king.
I watched the show and thought it was dreadful
It was as if a quid pro quo was set with Carl...If you show up, the half hour will be all about you
Boooooring
Bray Kroter
hugh laurie looks decidedly unimpressed with what's going on "off picture" there.
as for this continuing battle between espn and the others: childish. just flat-out childish. pretending that a competitor doesn't exist by never mentioning them is silly and would be amusing if it didn't have an impact on the sport.
aside from actually being a moment to provide information to fans about when the cup race happens (b/c we all know the times slide around and finding when a race is being broadcast is a weekly task!), this pettiness doesn't speak well of our sport -- yet again.
no, it's not just this one moment, of course. it's this moment coupled with digger, adding in the grant/david fiascos, throwing in the cot, blend in the inconsistent broadcasting across the season and topped with the capriciousness and irrationality of the nascar organization itself. that, my friends, is the recipe for plummeting ratings and a factor in weak attendance.
i believe my self-imposed boycott of "all things espn" from last year will extend itself into this season as well. so, no bookmark of the espn site, no buying the magazine or watching the channels. i'll watch the race -- b/c "they can't take that away from me" -- but that's it.
the only way to deal with childish behavior is to ignore it. so, i'm putting espn in the corner for a time-out and won't reward their bad behavior with any attention.
Don't flame me for this, but at least ESPN has started to promote the truck races. I don't remember that being done before, but I could be wrong. It has happened the last few weeks.
Some of Carl's ideas about Cup drivers in NW were:
1: Have the Cup guys start in the back no matter where they qualify
2: Have points awarded for qualifying (can't remember if it was for Cup guys only)
3: Fans want to see the Cup drivers and it helps to fill the stands.
4: And of course, sponsors and promotors want the Cup drivers
ESPN does not promote FOX races because David Hill refuses to do the same for ESPN citing affiliate conflicts.
NASCAR Now often promotes NHRA as part of thier weekend ESPN motorsport menu - Carl was just having some fun playing tv host
ESPN does promote NASCAR Speed races because Hunter Nichole agreeded to do same for ESPN - UNLIKE David Hill
These are facts I'm sure your ESPN contacts can confirm.
How sad. Once again those that broadcast the sport seem to forget that the good of the sport as a whole benefits everyone.
We are well aware of those details.
Why should Fox or TNT promote ESPN events in their live races?
The difference is very clear between a daily news show that is supposed to be dedicated to the sport and individual races that are the property of the TV networks.
When you see an NFL quarterback promoting an ESPN MLB game on the NFL Live show, you let me know.
Any thoughts that ESPN might be sabotaging itself so NASCAR has to renegotiate before the Cup series is nonexistent b/c of crappy ratings? There has to be something in fine print for nonperformance by ESPN. Even BF and his bevy of lawyers could do something before NASCAR crashes and burns. Just a thought.
@ JD, I get your point about the infighting among the racing TV partners and BSPN. All it does is make them look childish and arrogant.
All other cable TV networks show promos for other shows on a different channel. Why does BSPN refuse to play along? Are they afraid they're going to lose viewers? BSPN's race coverage is already doing that to the NW races.
Dot when you see a commercial for TNT on USA it is usually not run by USA but rather by your cable or sat provider.
TV networks as a rule do not take commercials for other networks.
Now on to cross-promoting sports during a telecast. This is only done by NBA (TNT and ESPN/ABC) and possibly NHL (VS and NBC).
One more - MLB during playoffs when games are among different channels
During NFL wild-card playoffs you will not see ANY mention of a game on another channel. Certainly not by FOX
@ Anon 2:49, thanks for that info. I've always wondered about that. You never see ABC for instance, promo American Idol that's on FOX. Or when a celebrity is on a talk show, they always say that their show is on "another network".
TV is so different now from back in the olden days. Why can't they all just get along?
I don't think Carl went far enough with his answer regarding the cup guys in the NW races. What about when there are 17 or 18 cup guys in a race? He didn't say what his opinion of that problem was. Other than that maybe it would somewhat help but will the series survive? I'm worried about truck series surviving before the end of the season.
I like Carl's idea of the Cup guys starting in the back, but I still think the answer to this whole problem is simply placing a limit on the total number of races that any driver can run in the top three series combined. Say we threw number 50 out there. That would allow cup guys to run the cup series + some truck and NW races. It would also allow the drivers in the other series to move among the series' as they needed to as well. Finally, it would insure that a full time driver in the specific series won the title while still allowing the tracks and sponsors the opportunity to use cup guys to their advantage.
Promotion 101. (deep breath)
Sportscenter doesn't say "you can see the Cowboys Sunday afternoon at 4pm eastern over on CBS" after doing a story about Tony Romo. Neither does CBS do a promo saying "you can see all the highlights of this and all the other NFL games today coming up tonight on Sportscenter".
Remember that all of this programing (football, baseball, basketball, NASCAR) is just fill material to go between advertisements. And, you want people watching your advertisements on lets say a drag race as opposed to someone else's advertisements on lets say a Sprint Cup race. AND just maybe, when the Sprint Cup race (that you know when and where it's on 'cause casual fans do not just sit and watch Nascar Now) gets boring, you will remember Carl saying something about a drag race over on ESPN and flip over there for a few minutes to see if it's any more interesting and end up watching a few commercials. Mission accomplished! Ads watched! Money made! (deep breath)
That's the longwinded version of promoting events during a show and why you don't usually put another networks show on yours.
Robert Upchurch said...
Sorry JD, I just can't get worked up over this. Several issues:
- Remember, this got started way back when FOX got its first NASCAR contract. FOX shut ESPN out of the racetrack and restricted their access to footage of NASCAR races. This had the result of killing the only daily racing show of that time, RPM2NITE. This has likely not been forgotten by folks at Disney. And fans like me, who haven't had a daily general racing show since, except for the one year that Wind Tunnel was a daily show.
- You can't say that NASCAR Now doesn't promote the Sprint Cup races...they spend a considerable amount of time each week doing just that. What they do not do is list the race broadcast on its calendar screen, and:
- This is really of little importance these days. With TiVo/DVR and modern TV viewing, most fans know (or can easily find) where the race is shown and ignore the calendar screen anyway. I know I do.
- The fact that it was Carl who read the calendar screen is irrelevant. I know you are upset about this subject, because you have discussed it before, but Carl was just playing it straight as if he were a regular member of the on-air crew and really not at fault for it.
I'm much more upset about ESPN2 (and SPEED) not sticking to their program times so those of us who must use DVRs to watch racing and racing news don't get shut out. For example, I was hoping to see if Mike Joy had something to say about Tom Thrash's unfortunate demise on Wind Tunnel this week, but the delayed start time caused me to miss the last 15 minutes of the show. Maybe you will rant about that practice in the future.
This has nothing to do with the NASCAR Images issue of footage restrictions many years ago. That issue has nothing to do with the TV networks and everything to do with NASCAR's new media company.
My entire point is that NASCAR Now devotes considerable production time and effort into the Sprint Cup Series races, only to have an executive above the program ban them from mentioning or promoting where TV viewers can find the race to watch. This has NEVER been done this season.
Most cable TV viewers do not have a DVR and the TiVo penetration is tiny. The portion of the TV audience that does not have a mechanical recording device and is not a hardcore NASCAR fan is exactly what this post is about.
The fact that Carl read the promo is completely relevent. It is the first time a Cup driver, on the show because of a nearby race, was forced to read a drag racing promo on a NASCAR show instead of saying the race is on TNT at 2PM.
When something is wrong Robert, you can either try to correct it or make excuses. This was the biggest on-air embarrassment for this program since Erik Kuselias and Doug Banks.
Our goal here at TDP is to push change in the TV coverage of the sport when something is wrong.
This is an outstanding example of that.
What a joke.
JD - you say "forced Carl to read".
Admit it - you don't know if he was forced - typical spculation by you with no facts or insight...
Carl is great. Give us Carl and Nicole on NASCAR Now every night and the show will be worth watching. Give Mike Wallace the seat when Carl can't make it and it would be the best race show on the air.
By the way, anyone else notice that ESPN does not embed the intelligence into their NN program that allows PVRs to pick each new episode up as new? My PVR picks up every episode, repeat or not. Does not do that with any other show.
Out of that whole column and this entire issue, that is what you can comment on? Typical of you.
Edwards read the promo as it was scripted. Forced does not mean he was held at gunpoint to do it.
His only other choice was maybe to ask why he was promoting an NHRA event in a NASCAR show instead of the Sunday race on TNT.
That did not happen.
Trackside Live is on right now. John Roberts just gave a rundown of NASCAR programming on TV today. Right smack dab in the middle of the list of SPEED programming was the Nationwide race on ABC. Their logo was next to the name of the race, and Roberts actually said the other station's name.
That's how you play nice. You give us fans the information we need.
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Remaking Sharon
A look at how the former general fashioned himself into a peacemaker in the campaign against Barak
By Matt Rees/Jerusalem Monday, Feb. 05, 2001
A couple of weeks ago, Ariel Sharon sat in his shirtsleeves in the plush Tel Aviv office of his top campaign adviser. The 72-year-old Likud Party candidate in next week's prime ministerial elections was surrounded by his team of high-powered imagemakers, the professionals charged with persuading voters that the former general's reputation as a dangerous maverick is undeserved. At the end of the meeting to discuss his speaking schedule, Sharon raised his bulky frame and addressed his handlers. "I have to thank you all for making me look like such a very nice guy," he said. Then he raised his finger:...
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Apply to the School of Engineering
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Three EE Seniors Win $10K in "Dream it. Code it. Win it."
Sheryan Resutov, Harrison Zhao and Eugene Sokolov. Photo by Sean Zanni/PMC
A Cooper Union team of three electrical engineering seniors have won a $10,000 prize at the third annual Dream It. Code It. Win it. event on May 5. Eugene Sokolov, Harrison Zhao and Sheryan Resutov took home the Fiverr Ingenuity Award for their project, Wi-less Gauss, a glove that allows a user to perform the same functionality as a computer mouse using hand gestures. The trio immediately announced they would donate $1000 of the prize money to The Cooper Union.
The project began when they were brainstorming ideas for their senior project. "We first came up with the idea in 41 Cooper Square, sitting in these short chairs. It's uncomfortable to use the mouse," Eugene says. "Sheryan also plays lots of PC games. It would be cool if you could stand from far away and play on a big screen. There's lots of virtual reality applications."
The guys took a cloth glove and attached flexible sensors to the thumb and first two fingers, as well as a gyroscope and Arduino microcontroller to detect motion and position. The data is sent via Bluetooth to a program they wrote that converts the gesture data into actions on the screen.
They submitted the project to the "Dream it. Code it. Win it." contest that awards undergraduate and high school students prizes for "engineering solutions for social good." The ceremony took place in The Great Hall. It was organized by Fiverr, MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC and TradingScreen. Harrison has actually won the Ingenuity award twice, having been part of a team last year that included David Katz EE'15 and Caleb Zulawski EE'15. They won for their project "String to String" that digitally encoded writing on a blackboard.
Eugene, Harrison and Sheryan haven't decided what they will do with the prize money yet. But they publicly announced they would donate ten percent of the $10,000 to The Cooper Union. Whether they knew it or not, their contribution pushes the senior class past the $4,000 goal set by a challenge from descendents of Peter Cooper. As a result The Cooper Union will receive an additional $5,000 for meeting this part of the Senior Class Challenge.
"Without Cooper Union we wouldn't be here," Harrison says. "We're very grateful to the school for this education."
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Bannister recounts the first sub 4 minute mile...
In a recent interview, 82-year-old Roger Bannister recounts the time back on the 6th of May 1954 when he ran 3:59.4 to break the four minute mile barrier for the first time. Running on a cinder track in Oxford, it remains to this day one of the most iconic moments of athletics history.
During the interview, Bannister said...."It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile."
Back in the early 50's, there were a number of middle distance runners who had ran close to the 4 minute barrier. Bannister said..""There was no logic in my mind that if you can run a mile in 4 minutes, 1 and 2/5ths, you can't run it in 3:59. I knew enough medicine and physiology to know it wasn't a physical barrier, but I think it had become a psychological barrier."
As for the race itself.......
Bannister had lined up English runners Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway as pacemakers. He tucked in behind Brasher, a steeplechaser, who ran the first lap in 58 seconds and the first half-mile in 1:58. Chataway moved to the front and took them through three laps in 3:01. Bannister would have to run the final lap in 59 seconds.
His long arms and legs pumping, his lungs gasping for oxygen, he surged in front of Chataway with about 300 yards to go. "I then went flat out for the finishing line, and just about managed to stagger over it," he said. "I couldn't stand at the end."
The chief timekeeper was Harold Abrahams, the 100-meter champion at the 1924 Paris Olympics whose story inspired the film "Chariots of Fire." He handed a piece of paper to Norris McWhirter, who announced the time: "3...". "That was when the crowd exploded and we didn't hear any more," Bannister said. "It didn't matter what the rest was."
The record didn't stand for long. Six weeks later, John Landy of Australia ran 3:57.9 in Turku, Finland. (The current record stands at 3:43.13, held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj since 1999.). Bannister would lower his own record to 3:58.8 in Vancouver in 1954.
The full article can be seen HERE
Posted by John Desmond at Friday, March 02, 2012
Labels: 1 mile, 1954, Roger Bannister, sub 4
Norris McWhirter and his twin brother Ross were the co founders of the Guinness Book of Records,he was also an International athlete himself representing Scotland.
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This is a summary of the second draft of the script.
Troy and Dillon are driving their turbocycles to the farming town of Lemoncreek, California to investigate the unusual earth tremors that have plagued the town recently. They are surprised to see a convoy of military vehicles in the area. As they pass a military research facility, Dillon's turbocycle begins to malfunction and lose power. They ask the security guard for assistance, but are told that only authorized personnel are allowed on the premises. The two shrug their shoulders and make their way to the nearest gas station.
Meanwhile, Jamie is in town doing a story on the recent tremors. She interviews a Dr. Jack Kirkwood who has predicted more earthquakes in the area. Kirkwood studies animals and natural phenomena to predict earthquakes and everyone in town thinks that he's a crackpot. Jamie then interviews Jerry Hargreaves, the director of the research center and he insists that there isn't an active faultline within a hundred miles.
Meanwhile, Troy and Dillon borrow the gas station's tools and repair the turbocycles. As they leave, they run into Jamie and take her to the Galactica to discuss the seismological activity in the area. Dr. Zee displays a visual projection of Lemoncreek and reveals that a long-dormant faultline runs through the town. He then projects a simulation of what would happen if the fault triggered an earthquake - California would fall into the ocean!
Back at the research center, the military are drilling a hole two miles deep to test a device capable of producing energy from nuclear fusion. They are unaware that their drilling caused the recent remors and could trigger a devastating earthquake.
Elsewhere, Troy, Dillon and Jamie are on their way to visit Dr. Kirkwood (with a ton of Galactica equipment strapped to their bikes) when a severe earthquake occurs. They take to the sky and head back to the town to survey the damage. After preventing a startled motorist from hitting a tree, they head to Dr. Kirkwood's farm. They offer to help determine if a quake will hit the area and are soon testing every animal in sight for signs of unusual behavior.
Later, Kirkwood is summoned to the local school. His daughter, Samantha, has been frightening her classmates by insisting that an earthquake is going to destroy the town. Kirkwood fences with Principal Berrnardi and Samantha agrees not to tell any more "wild" stories. Later at the drilling sight, the drilling is almost completed. Suddenly, another quake rocks the town. Back at the farm, the Galactican instruments go crazy and Kirkwood suspects that it might be the preshock of a major quake.
On the Galactica, Dr. Zee determines that the quake must be man-made since his instruments are unable to predict them. He and Adama contact Troy and Dillon and inform them that they must locate the source of the disturbance as soon as possible. Their instruments quickly determine that the research center is the epicenter of the quakes. Jamie theorizes that their research on food rations is a cover for something else. Kirkwood confirms their suspicions when he says that there have been rumors of very high speed drilling equipment being shipped to the research center.
Since Troy and Dillon are still wanted for kidnapping Dr. Mortinson (in Galactica Discovers Earth), they return to the Galactica while Jamie and Kirkwood go to the research center to interrogate Hargreaves. Hargreaves, a typical bureaucrat, feigns ignorance of any drilling. Jamie spots a radiation dosimeter clipped to his shirt pocket - something he wouldn't need for food ration research. Jamie says that she has a headache and excuses herself. As Kirkwood badgers Hargreaves, Jamie quietly explores the facility. She comes upon a huge control room and a voice on the P.A. system says, "Three hours to detonation - and counting." A nuclear bomb is going to be detonated in the shaft. Seconds later, Jamie is discovered by a guard and hauled away.
On the Galactica, Dr. Zee, Adama, Troy and Dillon hatch a plan to plug the hole with a collapser, a device with the properties of a black hole that will make the ground at the drill site totally impenetrable. Meanwhile, Jamie and Kirkwood have been taken to Hargreaves' office and plead with him to shut down the drilling operation. He refuses to do so, and Jamie and Kirkwood are sure that millions of people are doomed.
Elsewhere, Samantha is being scolded by Principal Bernardi for telling everyone that the research center is responsible for the quakes. When she mentions that her father is at the center putting a stop to the drilling, Bernardi says that he just called the center, and they haven't seen Dr. Kirkwood in weeks. Samantha panics and runs home as fast as she can. She arrives at the farm just as Troy and Dillon arrive and begs them to find her father. Troy gives her his Languatron so she can keep in touch with them, and the duo head to the research center.
They enter the center invisibly and discover, as Jamie did, that a nuclear bomb is going to be detonated in the drilling shaft in fifty minutes. They contact the Galactica and Dr. Zee tells them that the collapser will neutralize the bomb, but only if it is placed directly above it. As they make their way to the drilling site, their invisible bodies are picked up by a ground radar and a nervous soldier sounds the alarm. Troy and Dillon reach the mine entrance just as their invisibility shields run out of power. Before entering the mine, the duo contact Samantha and tell her to warn the town that they may be hit by a major quake in the next few minutes. Samantha frantically calls the school and begs Principal Bernardi to evacuate the children. Bernardi wrestles with his feelings and finally pulls the fire alarm.
Elsewhere, Troy and Dillon burst into the drilling chamber. They run to the hole which has a bolted-down cover on it. Troy draws his laser and blasts the lid off the hole. They take the collapser from Dillon's pack and set it to explode in two minutes. They drop it down the hole and then run. They escape just as the collapser detonates and the mine explodes.[1]
Afterwards, Hargreaves realizes his mistake and apologizes to Troy and Dillon. The two heroes say goodbye to Samantha and her father before heading off.
This script features a scientist named Hargreaves as the villain who works in a military research facility.
The first draft of the script featured Xaviar as the villain (although he never appears on-screen). The script was rewritten when it was decided that the Xaviar character would not be used again after the pilot episode (although the character eventually did return in Spaceball).
Writer Chris Bunch on Earthquake:
"After the pilot was produced, we sold a script called Earthquake over the phone to Jeff Freilich, when he called us to see if we had anything the day he started on the show, and we came up with some fast buzzy-wuzzy crap that might convince him to Give Us Money. Something to do with earthquakes. So he says we have a deal, come on out and let's work the details out. We jumped in the car, with nada in the way of a plot, and Thought Fast. About the time we got off the freeway, we had a couple of vague ideas to flesh out our first dumb sentence.
"The first draft of the script featured Xaviar, but then it was decided that they weren't going to use Xaviar anymore, which creates a small credibility problem, like we don't believe anybody but a Major Bad Guy can create an earthquake and he better have himself a Fiendish Thingie. We reworked the script and came up with Nutball Hargreaves, underground nuclear tests, roboticized security and the rest is (isn't) film history."[2] (Click here to read the entire interview.)
Get The Script
Click here to download a free PDF copy of this script. The last 6 pages of the script are missing.
Summoned to the Black Tower - Allan Cole offers a detailed account of how he and Chris Bunch sold the Earthquake script. This blog has numerous stories of their work as story editors on Galactica 1980. Read the blog entries for 2009 and 2011. Warning: Explicit language.
The Galactica 1980 Fiasco - Allan Cole explains why he believes Galactica 1980 was the second worst television show ever made. Warning: Explicit language.
↑ Galactic Sci-Fi Television Series Revisited. Alpha Control Press. 1995
Original Series and Galactica 1980 Unproduced Episode List
Original Series: Saga of a Star World (early draft) | The Beta Pirates | Crossfire | Fire in Space (early draft) | Showdown | The Mutiny | I Have Seen Earth | Two For Twilly
Galactica 1980: Galactica Discovers Earth (early draft) | The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra | The Wheel of Fire | Earthquake | A Flight For Life | Harvest Home | The Money Machine | The Battle of Troy
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" Nicholas Reeves"
No more surveys on Tutankhamun's tomb until project discussed 8 May
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany did not stop a radar survey on King Tutankhamun's burial chamber, as rumoured, but rather postponed all works inside the tomb until a scientific discussion is held 8 May 8
Egyptians get more scans of secret rooms behind Tut's tomb
Tutankhamun re-exploration project needs further study: minister
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany says moe study is needed before taking a decision on re-exploring Tutankhamun’s tomb, hours before the beginning of a new radar survey
Second radar survey of Tutankhamun's tomb to be conducted tomorrow
The second survey is to test the results of the first that found evidence of empty spaces, and possible doorways, behind the north and west walls of Tutankhamun's tomb
'90 percent chance of hidden rooms in Tut tomb', Egypt says
Radar survey underway at Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor
British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves has suggested that Nefertiti's mummy could be located in a secret chamber hidden in the tomb
Infrared thermography study suggests other chambers exist inside Tutankhamun's tomb
Infrared thermography could support Nicholas Reeves' theory suggesting the existence of another burial chamber inside King Tutankhamun’s tomb that could belong to Queen Nefertiti
Infrared thermography to be applied to Tutankhamun's tomb
Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities says infrared thermography scanning on Tutankhamun's tomb will begin Thursday, to test Nicholas Reeves' theory that it houses hidden burial chambers
INTERVIEW: Egypt's antiquities minister speaks on the search for Nefertiti in Tutankhamun’s tomb
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty tells Ahram Online his expectations and plans regarding Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves' theory on the location of Nefertiti’s crypt
Tutankhamun's treasures may have originally belonged to his stepmother
Reeves announces in a press conference held today that Tutankhamun’s gold funerary mask originally belonged to Queen Nefertiti
PHOTO GALLERY: Expedition in Valley of the Kings hunts for Nefertiti's resting place
Egypt's antiquities minister Mamdouh ElDamaty and British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves lead an expedition to investigate the possibility of Tutankhamun's tomb hiding Nefertiti's crypt
INTERVIEW: Nicholas Reeves '60% sure' ahead of Nefertiti announcement
The British archaeologist has been conducting field work with Egypt's antiquities minister after putting forth a theory locating Nefertiti's crypt
Egyptian minister believes hidden chamber may not contain Queen Nefertiti
Egypt’s minister of antiquities posits that the hidden chamber behind Tutankhamun’s tomb’s northern wall could be of his mother Kiya
Heritage -
Anticipation grows at possibility of Tutankhamun tomb's hidden chambers
Examinations completed on Monday indicate the theory of British archeologist Nicholas Reeves may well be right
Search for Nefertiti inside Tutankhamun's tomb approved
Radar examination is to be used to determine whether Nefertiti is buried inside the tomb of her son-in-law, King Tutankhamun
Field trip to search for Nefertiti's resting place to start within a week
Archaeologist Nicholas Reeves is to arrive to Luxor, 28 September, in the hope of confirming his theory on the location of Nefertiti's final resting place in Tutankhamun's tomb
Reeves upcoming visit to Egypt aims to prove Nefertiti burial theory
Archaeologist Nicholas Reeves is set to arrive in Egypt mid-September in the hopes of confirming his theory about the location of Nefertiti’s final resting place
Interview with Nicholas Reeves: An archaeologist 'on brink' of solving mystery of Queen Nefertiti's burial
Could the long lost burial place of Queen Nefertiti be located inside King Tutankhamun's tomb? Al-Ahram Daily Interviews British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves
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Ego Boundaries, or the Fit of My Father's Shirt
FROM THE NOVEMBER 1995 ISSUE
A neuroscientist racks his brains to find where one person ends and another begins.
By Robert Sapolsky|Wednesday, November 01, 1995
RELATED TAGS: SENSES, MENTAL HEALTH
I’ve been wondering how many bodies a person needs. This is not a question that would normally interest me as a scientist, yet it has crept into my consciousness lately, and I find I’m no longer sure of the answer.
One afternoon I watched someone inhabit two bodies. Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist famed as much for his progressive paralysis from Lou Gehrig’s disease as for his work, had come to my graduate school to lecture on the beginning and end of time. This was a decade ago, when Hawking could still move his mouth a bit, generating a gargly, incomprehensible voice. Though we didn’t expect to understand the lecture with our rudimentary physics, we packed the auditorium, biochemists and physiologists and geneticists, to bear witness to Hawking’s body melted by disease and his mind knowing when, or whether, time began.
Four physics professors, none of them young, carried Hawking onto the stage. They panted visibly, but it seemed as if only they could perform this task, that if you did not understand special relativity and you touched his wheelchair, you might be vaporized. After placing their burden, chair and all, with his back to us, the professors fled. Then, in the stillness, the electric wheelchair whirred and rotated, revealing a shriveled husk that stared out from behind horn-rimmed glasses.
As we sat there, paralyzed by awe at this mummy brain from the crypt, a tousled young guy in jeans sauntered onstage. He looked as if he’d just rolled out of bed and was still preoccupied with whomever he had left there. He walked up behind Hawking, tossed his head to adjust his blond mane, and suddenly shoved the wheelchair forward.
Jesus, Hawking is going to roll off the stage. This rock star assassin is murdering the great Stephen Hawking. At the last second the kid reaches out, barely stopping the wheelchair. He faces Hawking toward the audience and bends over the microphone. In an arrogant English public school accent he says, You know, you’re not in church.
This, apparently, is to be Hawking’s interpreter. As Hawking begins, the arrogant voice translates the strangulated raspings. Today I will discuss some theories of mine concerning the beginning and end of time. In some cases, these theories have been experimentally confirmed. In others, there has not yet been sufficient time for their confirmation. We chuckle--cocky bastard--before we catch ourselves. How can you think such a thing about Stephen Hawking?
As the lecture emerges with painstaking slowness but utter clarity, time glimmers into being without a beginning. Radio waves, defying possibility, escape from black holes. Equations appear, interlaced with a puckish humor.
But the kid is getting worse. While Hawking struggles, he tosses his chalk in the air, bored. He drops the chalk, forcing the mummy through the arduous task of starting again. Once, when he mistranslates a sentence, Hawking has to repeat himself. Glowering, the translator mutters, You’re not making yourself understood.
Who is this creature? Slowly it dawns on us. Hawking, in his Cambridge chair once occupied by Newton, has selected him as his student, his intimate. This is his chosen voice. Something begins to shift in our picture of the mummy brain.
Before the illness, Hawking was a showboat, ostentatiously functioning at half speed to barely finish some task before returning to a party, all with a dissolute brilliance. He must have been just like this kid. And it hits us: they planned this--the careering wheelchair, the insouciance--to desanctify our experience. The conspiracy we sense is so intimate that Hawking seems to have borrowed his student’s very being. For an hour the mummy brain is gone. Instead we’re listening to an entertaining lecture by a cocky Cambridge don--one who just happens to need two bodies to pull it off.
Hawking’s act was a metaphor, a piece of theater. It was also, one assumes, temporary. Still, it raises a number of questions: Can bodies and consciousnesses disagree in number? Can they do so for a prolonged period of time? The issue has not often interested neuroscientists, but there is the significant exception of split-brain patients. While the brain is roughly symmetrical, its functions can be lateralized--the left and right sides perform different tasks. The left hemisphere typically specializes in language, while the right excels in nonverbal spatial abilities, facial recognition, music. And despite absurd New Age assertions that people go about every conceivable behavior with left brain or right brain styles, the science of lateralization is solid.
The two hemispheres communicate by a hefty cable of connections called the corpus callosum, and normally the conversation is beneficial. But in a certain type of epilepsy, one seizure can provoke another on the mirrored part of the opposite hemisphere. Back and forth the seizures chase, across the corpus callosum. Since the late 1950s some epileptics have had their corpora callosa severed surgically, halting their seizures but leaving the patients with two disconnected hemispheres. Roger Sperry, a neuroscientist, won a Nobel Prize for experiments with such patients. In some he fed information to only one hemisphere, while in others he fed different information to each side simultaneously. His results showed that the hemispheres could function separately, with separate analytic strengths. For example, if an object was presented to a patient’s visual field so that the information entered only the verbal hemisphere, the person could identify the picture easily. But when the same information was presented to the nonverbal hemisphere, he couldn’t even state that he had seen anything--yet he could identify the object by touch.
Sperry’s experiments suggested that each hemisphere could learn, remember, reason, have opinions, initiate behavior, be self-aware, feel time pass, imagine the future, and generate emotions. This raised the messy prospect that there might be two individuals occupying one skull. Even worse: Perhaps normal people also consist of two separate individuals, yoked together by the corpus callosum. Psychologist Julian Jaynes addressed this possibility in a highly eccentric book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. He argued that a coherent sense of self, a well-bounded ego, developed only 3,000 or so years ago. Before that, he wrote, the brain was bicameral (that is, two-chambered), with the two hemispheres barely integrated. One hemisphere spoke, either metaphorically or literally, and the other obeyed, attributing the voice to the gods. Jaynes asserted that the modern sense of ego represents a breakdown of bicameralism. Schizophrenics remain bicameral, he claimed, supporting his ideas with mountains of trivia from archeology, mythology, the classics, and the Bible. Savants found the book dizzyingly erudite, stimulating, and loony.
Unlike Jaynes, Sperry rejected the notion that there were two individuals inside anyone’s head, and most scientists agreed with him. While split-brain patients could be manipulated into displaying two independent cognitive styles, the underlying opinions, memories, and emotions were the same. This could be explained anatomically. Even though the corpus callosum was cut, deeper structures of the brain that are critical to emotion and physiological regulation remained connected. Split brains are not really split into two but instead form a Y. There might be two separate consciousnesses, one navigating through town by remembering names of streets, the other by remembering a spatial map of the town’s appearance--yet it was still the same individual. One body, one person.
A battle over how many selves can reside within one body surrounds the issue of multiple personality disorder. Different facets of our personality dominate in different settings: we may act like a different person when with a boss instead of a subordinate, or with a woman instead of a man. But we are not literally different people. In individuals with multiple personality disorder, however, separate personalities seem to take full control of the person’s behavior at different times. Most mental health professionals agree that there are individuals in whom the different facets of personality are so disjointed and dissociated as to constitute disease. Often these patients describe having suffered horrific childhood abuse, and some theorists think the compartmentalizing of the different personalities evolved as a protective strategy. But do the nonoverlapping identities truly represent different personalities?
Some clinicians report hundreds of such patients and believe in the biological reality of the disorder, citing studies showing that when personalities shift, so do eyeglass or medication prescriptions. Other clinicians become apoplectic over such claims, insisting that a true multiple personality patient shows up once in a career, that the different eyeglasses stories are only stories.
The patriarchs of psychiatry have generally taken the latter view. In the latest edition of psychiatry’s bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, there have been careful changes in the definition of the disorder; its diagnosis no longer involves the existence of multiple personalities. Instead the prerequisite is the presence of distinct identities or personality states, and the disease even has a new name: dissociative identity disorder. In other words, a patient with the disease identifies himself in multiple ways, but the experts refuse to say whether those identities constitute personalities. Moreover, to paraphrase a psychiatrist who helped make the changes in the manual, what makes this a tragic disease is that sufferers don’t have more than one personality; when the pieces are put together, they really have less than one.
Dissociative identity disorder and split-brain patients raise the possibility of the self’s fragmenting into several selves. Far more plausible, though, is the idea that it might occasionally make room for another self. Freudians believe that this can occur and that when it does, it may reflect profound psychopathology.
In the face of loss, we all mourn with a certain sadness and withdrawal. Most of us eventually heal. However, some people who lose someone close to them fall into prolonged and incapacitating sadness-- melancholia, to use Freud’s term, or as we would now call it, a major depression. Along with the usual symptoms of mourning, deeply depressed people typically hate themselves, claim responsibility for the death, wallow in guilt over ancient behaviors, and engage in punishingly self- destructive behavior. In the healthy state of mourning, Freud wrote, it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.
Why should mourning give way to incapacitating sadness and self- hatred? The root, Freud thought, lay in ambivalence. The mourner not only loved but also hated the dead person. Critically, the loss leaves the depressive unconsciously angry--at being abandoned by the dead person, over their previous conflicts, at the impossibility of ever resolving those conflicts. Out of anger, the depressive makes room within for aspects of the dead. With the emotional adversary gone, there is no choice but to reconstruct the lost person internally and then carry on the battle.
And, as Freud also observed, the depressive mourner internalizes not just any features of the lost individual but those that were the most hated. If one listens patiently to a melancholic’s many and various self- accusations, Freud wrote, one cannot in the end avoid the impression that often the most violent of them are hardly at all applicable to the patient himself, but that with insignificant modifications they do fit someone else, someone whom the patient loves or has loved or should love. By carrying on the traits, one can still argue (You see, don’t you hate when I do that? Can you believe I put up with that for 50 years?) and, through the terrible pain of a major depression, punish oneself for arguing.
Science, then, has only occasionally considered cases of the self’s fragmenting or withering sufficiently to make room for another, cases in which more than one self might dwell in one body. There has been even less concern for the possibility of one self’s occupying more than a single body. And, all things considered, these musings haven’t generated much scientific certainty about what really constitutes a self.
I myself was neither certain of the definition nor particularly interested in the question until recently, when my father reached the end of his life. Then all at once I found the boundaries of self collapsing around my ears. At first I felt I could use the discourse of science to explain my experience fully, viewing its extreme manifestations as pathology.
As my father aged, he suffered cognitive problems secondary to neurological damage. Often he could not name the decade, his location, or even his grandchildren. His ego boundaries began to dissolve as well, and gradually he purloined bits of my life, the life of his only son. There were similarities already. Long ago he had done medical research, as I do now. He had been a professor, as I am. We had always shared tastes, styles, and temperaments, but now the details of our lives began to intertwine. When I moved to San Francisco, his point of entry into the United States in 1919 switched to San Francisco from New York’s Ellis Island, and his first view of America included a Golden Gate Bridge that had not yet been built. His medical research, cut short by the Depression, had been in cancer biology, but now he was full of contentless memories of an interest in neurobiology, my subject.
I don’t believe it was competitiveness or a need for us to have more in common--we had too much in common already. It was easy to see me as a version of him without the bad luck of refugee status, world wars, and the Depression, privileged with the rewards that his obsessive hard work had provided me, looking forward to perhaps a half century of life ahead, while his shadows lengthened. As the fog of his disorientation swept in, he clung to my stories, becoming less certain of where he ended and I began.
This felt more than a bit intrusive, but I defended myself with an armamentarium of diagnoses and detached, condescending understanding. Another feature of the demented patient, I’d imagine myself lecturing, that one occasionally sees. . . . At night he’d wander the house in agitation, sure he saw angry strangers or long-dead colleagues. His confusion about which of the two of us was falling in love with California redwoods seemed the least of his problems. Cut the guy some slack, I thought; there’s been some neurological damage.
His recent death knocked me off my diagnostic high horse: suddenly I was the one who had problems with boundaries. It started manageably enough. I began to spout my father’s sayings and take on his mannerisms. This was not Freudian melancholia--while I was plenty sad, I wasn’t clinically depressed, and the behaviors of his that I seized weren’t the ones that had irritated me for decades with a competitive itch. They were the insignificant quirks that had made him who he was. I found myself arranging the utensils as he had, or humming his favorite Yiddish tune, and soon I had forsaken my own blue flannel shirts and put on his. I developed an interest in his profession, architecture, absentmindedly drawing floor plans of my apartment.
At first my reactions seemed reasonable. When I was younger, I would have bristled at signs that I carried bits of him in me. Over the years, though, I had become reconciled to our differences and similarities, and now I felt I could pay him homage without my earlier bile. Then things took a troubling turn.
Just after his death, when I spent a week of mourning at the family house, the magnitude of his final frailty was brought home to me by the little bottles of nitroglycerin that were stored everywhere, placed so that they’d never be out of reach. I took one back to California and, disturbingly, found I needed to keep it with me. I would make love to my wife, work out in the gym, attend a lecture, and always the bottle would be nearby. One day I misplaced it briefly, and everything stopped for an anxious search. I felt an urgent sense of danger. Was my heart now diseased, or was it his diseased heart somewhere inside me that I vigilantly stood by to medicate?
What the hell was going on? I don’t believe in gods, angels, or the transmigration of souls. I don’t believe in souls for that matter, or in flying saucers either. Was it my hard-assed individualism that was making me feel unnerved by this intermingling? Or could it have been my father’s?
The height of the confusion came a month later, as I was lecturing. Though my class, with its 400 undergraduates, was large and impersonal, many of the students had expressed warm, supportive thoughts after my father died, and I had come to feel close to them. At the end of the year’s final lecture, I thought to tell them about what a spectacular lecturer my father had been, to pass on some of what I had learned from his teaching. I intended a eulogy, but something became confused, and soon, wearing his shirt, I was lecturing for him, offering the frail advice of an octogenarian.
I warned them to expect setbacks amid their ambitious plans, because every commitment would entail turning their backs on many others. I told them that though they wanted to change the world, they should prepare for the inconceivable--someday they would become tired. This was not me speaking, still with a sheltered optimism, but him with his weathered disappointments. At the end, wondering whether so much emotion was setting me up for one of his angina attacks, I said good-bye for him to an ocean of 20-year-olds rippling with life and future. And that night I put away the nitroglycerin.
During that month, my head swam with unlikely disorders from my textbooks to explain this intermingling. Now, a year later, safe again on my battlefield of individuation, that time has begun to make more sense to me. I feel sure what I went through does not require a diagnosis, and I no longer believe that my father’s confusion about the boundaries between the two of us really had to do with his neurological problems. It is a measure of the pathological consequences of my training as a scientist that I saw pathology where there was none, and a measure of the poverty of our times that I could feel only as a brief flicker something intrinsic to human experience.
I have occasionally been able to observe that flicker burning more robustly. As part of my research, I have worked intermittently in an East African game park for l7 years. Often I accompany one or another of my African friends to his home in some hamlet clinging to a mountainside. Invariably, when I do, I notice that in his home my friend has become an outsider like me. The ones I know are the ones who left--the second sons, the restless ones, the ones who got some schooling and a far-off job, who find themselves stumbling over words in their mother tongue, bringing home new ways and a white friend.
And my friends have always left the same sort of world, a world with one old man whom everyone recognizes as the archetypal Old Man, one damaged village idiot wandering the slopes, one wife-beating drunkard. At my friend’s house I always meet the older brother, the first son, the one who stayed. He sits next to his aging father: two farmers who speak no English or Swahili, who have been to the county seat once, perhaps, but no farther. They grunt phlegmatically in unison, half amused and half puzzled by some hyperverbal story my friend tells about the big city.
It is a world without our Western frenzy for individuation, where no parent thinks I want better for my kids and it is absurd to ask a child what he or she wants to grow up to be. No one there views joining the family business as a worrisome lack of independence. In this tough world, you’re lucky if you wind up farming the same land and raising your kids the same way your parents did, or if, as these older brothers do, you turn into your parent, your identities melding.
Thomas Mann captured this sense of continuity in his novel Joseph and His Brothers, in which an old servant named Eliezer uses the first person to narrate the experiences of an earlier Eliezer--the servant of the biblical patriarch Abraham. It was perceived as normal, Mann tells us, that the old man’s ego was not quite clearly demarcated, that it opened at the back, as it were, and overflowed into spheres external to his own individuality both in space and in time; embodying in his own experience events which . . . ought actually to have been put into the third person. As he ages, the present-day Eliezer becomes the mythic one, and the community expects him to do so.
Every traditional community must have its archetypes: Eliezer, the wise servant; Esau and Jacob, brothers battling for an ailing father’s blessing; Abraham, the ur-patriarch. These needs transcend individual rights to a bounded ego, and people in traditional communities are named and raised as successive incarnations. In such societies, Abraham always lives 900 years--he simply finds a new body to inhabit now and then. This is not Jaynes’s society of bicameral minds innocent of a sense of self. Instead the self exists, but it’s subordinated to something bigger and tribal.
We no longer reverence continuity, and to feel even a glimmer of it, as I did, requires an emotional crisis, perhaps coupled with some tempering. My students usually come with ego boundaries like exoskeletons. Most have no use for religion, precedents, or tradition. They want their rituals newly minted and shared horizontally within their age group, not vertically over time. The ones I train to become scientists go at it like warriors, overturning reigning paradigms, each discovery a murder of their scientific ancestors. If I have trained them well, I must derive whatever satisfaction I can from the inevitability of becoming their oedipal target someday. These students are right on maturational schedule in believing they can reinvent the world within themselves, and if they should happen to find themselves confused as to where they end and another person begins, they know they are dealing with something scientifically, certifiably abnormal.
I’ve become less certain, myself. I can still do without religion, but some ritual would be nice. There are other changes, too. I watch these damn kids sprint past me when I play soccer, and I fumble for an answer to a Jeopardy question the high school contestants jump on. My beard is getting some white; my spine has probably started shrinking. Another few birthdays and it will be prudent to have a physician regularly poke around my prostate. I begin to think my ego-bounded self is not such a hot deal anymore.
A tribal mind-set cannot be reattained; we cannot turn back. It can only come as an echo of what it feels like to be swaddled in continuity, a hint in our individuated world that a bit of confusion about ego boundaries can be an act of health, of homage and love. An experience like my father’s and mine is a lesson, amid our ever-expanding array of scientific labels, about the risks of overpathologizing. It might not be so bad--it could even be a point of pride--if in the end someone mistakes you for him.
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Adventure at the Popham Colony
by Alex King
In 1607, a young lad, ventures from his home in England to the New World, America, with his uncle. He tells the exciting true story of the settlement of the Popham Colony, the sister colony to Jamestown.
Suffering bitter weather, starvation, fire, and death, they endure for fifteen months. The Popham Colony sets the stage for the future settlement of the Plymouth Plantation by the Pilgrims in 1620.
Alex Popham King is a genealogist and archaeologist by avocation. Popham family studies began with his first visit to the colony site in 1968 and have taken him from the Central United States to the Hamlet of Popham, the 12th Century West Country ancestral home of the family in England. He has worked with Dr. Jeffrey Brain on the excavation of the Popham Colony site and lectured on the colony for many years. Alex is the first cousin twelve times removed of George Popham, Esq., President of the Popham Colony.
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