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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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Carrier carries on
Richard Carrier has replied to my recent response to his critique of Five Proofs of the Existence of God, both in the comments section of his original post and in a new post. “Feser can’t read,” Carrier complains. Why? Because – get this – I actually took the first six paragraphs of the section he titled “Argument One: The Aristotelian Proof” to be part of his response to the Aristotelian proof. What was I thinking?
It’s all at about that level. Trash talk, unacknowledged backpedaling, rookie misinterpretations of Thomistic claims, misrepresentations of what I said, question-begging scientism, persistent missing of the point, all expressed in prose with the flow and clarity of tar. It would take a second book to explain all the ways Carrier gets the first one wrong. Several readers have begged me not to engage with him any further, on the grounds that it would manifestly be a waste of time to do so. And they are right.
Except for this: Carrier’s self-confidence is so absurdly out of proportion to his actual competence that he does not realize that the only deathblows he delivers are of the self-inflicted kind. In particular, in no fewer than three places in his response, Carrier has inadvertently revealed himself to be either an extremely reckless liar or guilty of malpractice that would make any actual scholar (as opposed to the online hobbyist Carrier is) a professional laughingstock.
No honest and objective Carrier reader who considers the examples that follow can have any further doubt (if any still remained) that Carrier has no credibility and should not be taken seriously, certainly not on the subject of Five Proofs. Establishing that, as I think all my readers will agree, is worth one more post on Carrier. So let’s get to it.
Exhibit A:
In my initial response, I pointed out that the apparent force of one of Carrier’s objections rested in part on his conflation of two separate premises from my Aristotelian proof. In his latest post, Carrier responds as follows:
I won’t address every weird and false thing Feser says about my article. There are many. But, for example, Feser falsely claims I collapsed two premises into one when addressing his Aristotelian argument. Nope. I quote only Premise 41, exactly as he wrote it, verbatim. (Emphasis added)
End quote. Now, why Carrier would bother making so easily refutable an assertion, I have no idea, but there it is. Let’s now compare what he actually said in his original post with what I actually said in my book. Here is the relevant passage from Carrier’s original post:
Feser’s formalization of this argument appears around page 35. It has 49 premises. I shit you not. Most of them are uncontroversial on some interpretation of the words he employs (that doesn’t mean they are credible on his chosen interpretation of those words, but I’ll charitably ignore that here), except one, Premise 41, where his whole argument breaks down and bites the dust: “the forms or patterns manifest in all the things [the substrate] causes…can exist either in the concrete way in which they exist in individual particular things, or in the abstract way in which they exist in the thoughts of an intellect.” (Emphasis added)
End quote. And here is the passage from my book that he is quoting from, at p. 37:
40. So, the forms or patterns manifest in all the things it causes must in some way be in the purely actual actualizer.
41. These forms or patterns can exist either in the concrete way in which they exist in individual particular things, or in the abstract way in which they exist in the thoughts of an intellect.
End quote. As you can plainly see, Carrier really did do exactly what I said he did and what he now strenuously denies doing – he collapsed steps 40 and 41 into one step without telling the reader that that is what he was doing. (See my previous response to Carrier for an explanation of why this is significant.) Anyone who actually has a copy of my book and reads Carrier’s original review can easily check and see that I am telling the truth and Carrier is not. (By the way, as a precaution, I took a screen capture of this Carrier passage and the ones to follow. I will post these if Carrier attempts to go back and doctor his original posts by way of damage control.)
Exhibit B:
In his latest post, Carrier writes:
His attempt to defend his Aristotelian argument against my rebuttal illustrates this very point: he falsely claims I argued that he did not consider Platonism; false. I said he did not consider Aristotelian Forms Theory, not Platonic Forms Theory. And lo, he didn’t. Nowhere in his book. And still not even in this response to my rebuttal. It’s almost like he does not comprehend there is a difference between those two theories or what it is. (Emphasis added)
End quote. Yes, you read that right. Carrier actually asserts that “nowhere” in my book do I “consider Aristotelian Forms Theory,” and that it seems that I do not even “comprehend that there is a difference between those two theories or what it is.” Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of my work will find this an absolutely bizarre claim, given that one of the things for which I am best known is, of course, being an unreconstructed Aristotelian hylemorphist. For example, I devote a whole chapter of Scholastic Metaphysics and big chunks of Aquinas, The Last Superstition, and other works to defending the Aristotelian approach to form.
More to the present point, I do in fact explicitly address the topic several times in Five Proofs itself. For example, at p. 97 I write: “There are three alternatives: Platonic realism, Aristotelian realism, and Scholastic realism. Let’s consider each in turn.” I then go on to do exactly that from pp. 97-102. Earlier in the book, at pp. 28-29, I explicitly discuss the Aristotelian hylemorphist analysis of material substances as composites of substantial form and prime matter. I discuss it again at pp. 55-56, 72-73, and elsewhere in the book.
Again, anyone who has a copy of my book can easily verify that I am telling the truth and Carrier is not. (And again, I’ve taken a screen capture in case Carrier decides to alter what he wrote in order to save himself from embarrassment.)
Exhibit C:
In a combox remark under his original post, a reader asks Carrier if my book “argue[s] for the Judeo-Christian God or just a generic diety [sic] he calls God.” Carrier responds:
His closing chapters attempt to bootstrap his way to a traditional Christian God of some sort, by building on his five Proofs (which alone don’t get that far). But since his Five Proofs don’t work, there was no need to bother addressing his attempts to build on them. One could perhaps write a critique of just how he gets from the God of his Proofs, all the way to Christianity, but I found that a tedious waste of time. His Proofs are false. So why bother exploring what else he does with them? (Emphasis added)
End quote. Now, as anyone who has read Five Proofs knows, in fact not only do I not address any specifically Christian claims in the book, I explicitly decline to do so. For example, at p. 15, I write:
The real debate is not between atheism and theism. The real debate is between theists of different stripes – Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, purely philosophical theists, and so forth – and begins where natural theology leaves off. This book does not enter into, much less settle, that latter debate. (Emphasis added)
End quote. On pp. 268-9 I consider the following objection:
“Even if it is proved that there is a First Cause, which is omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and so forth, this would not by itself show that God sent prophets to ancient Israel, inspired the Bible, is a Trinity, and so forth.”
And then in response, I write:
This is true, but completely irrelevant. Arguments like the ones defended in this book are not claiming in the first place to establish every tenet of any particular religion, but rather merely one central tenet that is common to many of them – namely, that there is a cause of the world which is one, simple, immaterial, eternal, immutable, omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good, and so forth. If they succeed in doing that, then they show that atheism is false, and that the only remaining question is what kind of theism one ought to adopt – a purely philosophical theism, or Judaism, or Christianity, or Islam, or some other more specific brand of theism. Deciding that would require further investigation and argumentation. It would be silly to pretend that since the arguments of this book don’t answer every question about God, it follows that they don’t answer any question about God. (Emphasis added)
End quote. Once again, anyone who has a copy of my book can easily verify that I am telling the truth and Carrier is not.
Since Carrier cannot get even simple matters like these right, it is no surprise that he horribly mangles the more complex topics he addresses. For example, he clearly hasn’t the faintest clue as to what Thomists and other classical theists mean when they attribute simplicity or intellect to God. But that doesn’t stop him from devoting paragraph after turgid paragraph to developing objections that intersperse these misunderstandings with completely irrelevant blathering about the nature of space-time. Then he declares victory when I don’t follow him on this wild goose chase.
If you’ve ever gotten stuck at a party sitting next to some bore who won’t shut up about the Trilateral Commission, or UFOs, or some other crackpot subject, and thinks he’s scored some major points because you’ve simply nodded politely and then beat a hasty retreat without having rebutted his assertions, then you have an idea of what it’s like to engage in an online exchange with Richard Carrier. The guy badly needs someone to take him aside and offer some bracing maternal advice.
OA Police March 5, 2018 at 6:51 PM
Still recommend the ‘No Platform’ approach.
I wonder what it would take to convince atheists that citing or appealing to Carrier and his kind significantly reduce their intellectual credibility? Why insist on granting intellectual status to someone who is blatantly dishonest and logically incompetent?
FM March 5, 2018 at 7:38 PM
I think the only atheist who cite Carrier are misinformed teens who spend too much time on "infidel" website or other similar pseudo-intellectual platforms.
As someone else noted in the previous post on Carrier, he was even banned from skepticon and his books are pretty much ignored by anyone of intellectual weight... when he's not laughed at I mean.
Even other atheists take their distance from him.
Miguel March 5, 2018 at 8:14 PM
I think Carrier's influence is very limited. His writings on theism and philosophy of religion are horrible, so he's pretty much ignored by philosophers. As for history, he is also not taken seriously in academia, and has a track record of defending pretty much the stupidest and most fringe anti-Christian views one may find (Jesus myth, even bullshit legends about how christians could be blamed for the destruction of the library of Alexandria, etc). His readers are mostly a very small group of new atheists obsessed with anti-Christianity.
iwpoe March 6, 2018 at 3:06 AM
Carrier is well known and worth dealing with *for the sake of saving his audience*. He can't be turned but it's good that a systematic rather than merely personal rebuttal of his crap is done.
HesH got the Ayn Rand effect: some people follow him because hesh got the right temperament, says plausible sounding things, and theyvth never seen a reply to it. It's worth doing.
OA Police March 6, 2018 at 5:31 AM
Sadly I can think of at least on philosopher of religion (Stephen Maitzen) who cites Carrier in support of various philosophical thesis.
Why was Carrier banned from Skepticon?
Miguel March 6, 2018 at 9:44 AM
The same Maitzen who defends the HEC principle by thinking we can explain the universe by an infinite chain of causes? Eeeek. Though I find this specific suggestion of his ridiculous, I don't want to badmouth Maitzen as he seemed serious. But Carrier, from what he has written in his review, just has no clue whatsoever of what he's talking about. He conflates potentiality with nothing (or he doesn't understand the aristotelian concept of change, could be either one of those) and somehow keeps insisting on his "Merdae Fit" (funny, his idea is literally shit) which just, you know, crucially depends on PSR/PC being false, with the added bonus of thinking nothingness precludes anything except conditions for probability calculation, somehow. How is someone supposed to take this shit seriously?
iwpoe March 6, 2018 at 3:11 PM
"Why was Carrier banned from Skepticon?"
Sexual assault alligation.
From the little I have read I get the impression that Maitzen is like Law or Martin, an atheist philosopher of religion who tetters on the edge of New Atheisthood. It's a shame as he is obviously capable of sustained philosophical reasoning, he just lapses into perjorative and strawmen when theism arises.
David B Marshall March 7, 2018 at 3:01 PM
Law, to give him credit, can be engaged in an adult tone of voice. I don't believe I've ever seen such a conversation occur with Richard. He wants worship, not conversation, anyway.
Jonathan Lewis March 21, 2018 at 5:58 AM
Carrier's view is similar to Nietzche's.
"I can't believe in God because I cannot think that I am not him."
Anthony Stringfellow March 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM
This is typical Carrier. He will never humbly own up to misunderstandings and errors. He is just going to come back and say you are a liar, you didn't understand what he said, or you are ignorant. This reminds me of an exchange he had with New Testament scholar Larry Hurtado in December of last year where he did the same thing that he is doing to Feser:
https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/gee-dr-carrier-youre-really-upset/
Hayekian March 5, 2018 at 9:20 PM
There's a useful -- and amusing --
compilation of the way Carrier always responds to criticism here:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/2015/12/bringing-a-gun-to-a-review-fight.html
Frankly I think he suffers from some sort of mental disease.
No I do not mean just a severe Dunning–Kruger cognitive bias, but really it seems to me he has delusions as he makes up "facts" as he goes along. He does that in his books as well.
Tomislav Ostojich March 5, 2018 at 9:59 PM
John Mitchell March 5, 2018 at 10:52 PM
Steven March 6, 2018 at 9:17 AM
There are Catholic celebrities in Ireland, very active in referendums who are the same.
Tomislav Ostojich March 6, 2018 at 11:28 PM
Steven March 7, 2018 at 10:37 AM
Yeah, but the ones I met on the Emerald Isle aren't so obvious. They are the covert kind. Going around screwing over Catholic or charity groups etc. and hijacking the public discourse during referendum for their own self aggrandizement and attention.
There is a great:
Youtube video on this problem. https://youtu.be/L5dlpDGL034
Out these people. The destroy lives!
My warning is beware and don't become an enabler to these dark personalities.
Scott Lynch March 5, 2018 at 7:48 PM
It seems to me that Carrier's position is merely a reactionary one against Christianity. It doesn't seem like he rationally arrived at atheism, but rather, that he is violently reacting against something he hates in some form of Christianity. I think a lot of atheists in many ways are reactionists to the hierarchy and history of the Catholic Church and to the intellectual errors in Fundamentalist Protestantism (Young Earth Creationists, etc.). Dr. Feser's work (and similar authors) is hopefully restoring the intellectual reputation of theists. However, as for rebelling against any kind of structured religion, there is really no help against that. There is such a thing as willful defiance and willful ignorance. If the man is committed enough, even God's grace cannot touch his defiance. I pray that that is not the case for Richard Carrier.
lukebarnes March 5, 2018 at 8:07 PM
While we're at it, his claim that "[String Theory] can predict exactly all the particles of the Standard Model and all of their peculiar fundamental features and constants" is utterly wrong. Not a single string theorist on the face of the planet that believes that claim. So, we can add "physics" right after "philosophy" and "mathematics" to Carrier's growing know-nothing resume.
Callum March 6, 2018 at 12:28 AM
When a philosopher tells you that you know nothing about philosophy and a physicist tells you that you know nothing about physics . . . . Time to give up?
John Mitchell March 6, 2018 at 11:50 AM
Clearly the philosopher "can't read" and the physicist is "a kook"
Tom Gilson March 6, 2018 at 2:09 PM
But of course String Theory can do all that! All it takes is an idealized version of the theory in some form that’s convenient to Carrier’s conclusions. That is, all it takes is for reality to bend to his view of what it ought to be.
I have trouble escaping the sense that he’s bending a lot things that way.
Jack March 5, 2018 at 8:25 PM
Carriers comments on Essence might deserve a look, has anyone done that?
Vincent Torley March 6, 2018 at 9:18 AM
I'm afraid Carrier's comments on essences are abysmally ignorant. He writes:
"...'[E]ssences' don’t exist. And we’ve long known they don’t exist. That’s why they are no longer used in any scientific theory. But other phenomena that 'essences' were a failed attempt to explain, do exist. This is why the Wikipedia article on 'Essences' never once mentions any scientific use or application of the term. And why the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a whole section titled Death of Essentialism. Set theory has replaced the entire concept."
1. The section titled "Death of Essentialism" is in an SEP article on Species (biological species, that is). In the same article, there's a subsequent section titled, "The New Biological Essentialism," which discusses and critiques the recent work of Devitt (2008), who espouses "intrinsic biological essentialism."
2. Carrier's claim that sets have replaced essences is bogus. The article cited by Carrier takes a dim view of set theory, concluding that philosopher P. Kitcher’s motivation for asserting that species are sets is "not substantiated by biological theory or practice."
3. While the Wikipedia article on Essences doesn't mention their relevance to science, the SEP article on Natural Kinds at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-kinds/ discusses them is connection with biology, chemistry, psychology and social science, and has a special section on essentialism, a view which is treated with respect in the article. The author discusses LaPorte's view (2004) that "biological kinds (species, genera, etc.) do have essential properties, and these are historical rather than intrinsic properties."
4. In any case, Feser is not committed to species essentialism. He says on page 145 that he could happily concede that there are no biological essences, if pressed, while still maintaining that the physical particles which make up objects have clear-cut essences. And as he points out on page 144, the view that all essences are constructs of the human mind is self-refuting, as it invokes an essence of its own (that of the mind).
Rancho March 5, 2018 at 8:55 PM
Ouch! Let the back-slide begin! "Well, I didn't mean he literally wrote that..."
The Shadow March 5, 2018 at 10:09 PM
I have to agree he seems mentally ill. Ignoring him is probably the kindest thing to do.
The next Carrier reply to Ed should be amusing (popcorn is ready).
Mathoma March 6, 2018 at 12:11 AM
Here's my response to Carrier's dumpster fire. It seemed to me his proposal is just wildly incoherent, even on its own terms in addition to his critique of "Five Proofs" being totally preposterous:
https://mathomablog.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/carrier-contra-feser-part-1/
Billy March 6, 2018 at 12:40 AM
How big is Carrier's audience?
Harvester March 6, 2018 at 9:05 AM
Too big. I.e. non-zero.
Maybe that section on parts in his latest article merits serious response?
Tony March 6, 2018 at 7:55 AM
I had to refresh my memory of what Carrier said in the original review. When I got to this paragraph:
Ironically, a third option that in fact I’m quite certain is actually true, is the very option described by Aristotle himself. Aristotle took Plato to task for the mistake Feser is making, pointing out that it is not necessary that potential patterns actually exist in some concrete or mental form. They only have to potentially exist. Hence Aristotle said of Plato’s “world of forms” what Laplace said to Napoleon of God: “Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis.” Potential things are by definition not actual. So obviously we don’t need them to be actualized to exist. That’s a self-contradictory request. It’s thus self-contradictory of Feser to insist that potential things must be “actualized” somewhere (a mind; concrete things). Obviously there is no logical sense in which they must be actualized in that way. [my emphasis]
and could not go any further. I could not decide whether it turned my stomach, or was just laughably ridiculous.
Friends, I understand why you charitably want to hope that Carrier is merely mentally ill. It is a kindly thought. But I fear that mental illness alone does not account for paragraphs like that. It takes real density to produce that. Now, a person may be no more responsible for his density than for his mental illness, I grant you that, so perhaps we should all just refrain from beating a dumb donkey and pull a cover over this benighted review.
"Hence Aristotle said of Plato’s “world of forms” what Laplace said to Napoleon of God: “Sir, I have no need of that hypothesis.” "
Funny how Carrier himself links to the place where one can find John Lennox' excellent explanation of what Laplace actually meant and how this quote is misused by the atheists.
Odin March 6, 2018 at 9:14 AM
If Carrier is indeed a narcissist as someone else claimed maybe the 'No Contact' approach is best... but I also think his readership (as seen on Twitter) need to know that he isn't a trustworthy source. There are many credible atheist scholars to follow instead.
No contact is a solution to interpersonal issues not to theoretical disputes (especially with an audience around). Also the no platform approach to debate threatens to fall into the building that poisons the minds of the left constantly.
Odin March 8, 2018 at 10:12 AM
I think you misunderstand me. Interacting with narcissists (as a full blown personality disordered) are bad for any normal persons mental state.
I am against 'No Platforming'. I just don't know if it would be a good idea to directly interact with Richard long-term. Let his 'arguments' slash and burn, certainly.
Did Richard just delete his reply and edit the original post? Seriously, why has this fraud got a following?
My mistake it was not deleted, but he edited his reply.
Thor March 6, 2018 at 10:43 AM
Just Google 'Richard carrier is a narcissist' and you will get many skeletons from his past.
I am now of the view you should no longer directly engage, but it would be worthwhile for the sake of his cult(?) following to knock some of the gibberish he peddles.
Chad Handley March 6, 2018 at 11:16 AM
I remember him from the early days of the internet infidels. He used to be one of the more rational, well-behaved atheists there. He was a strong critic of the very Jesus Mythicism he now embraces. But somewhere along the way he decided he wanted to be famous more than he wanted to tell the truth. I actually think he knows that a lot of what he writes is absurd bullshit, but how else is he going to get much more reputable figures to spread his name? There are a lot of new atheists in this sort of performance artist game (John Loftus and Lawrence Krauss spring to mind) whose public personas seem to clearly be a put on. We should pity their followers like we pity the followers of televangelists. A lot of them probably have no idea they're being had.
René Ardell Fehr March 6, 2018 at 11:44 AM
I very much enjoyed reading this. Thank you!
I want to cry.
How ironic is Carrier’s name, given how much of the (ahem) intellectual load of atheism he carries. I had someone mention him to me in a bookstore the other day, in relation to his (ahem) work on Bayes’ theorem and history.
Where would atheism be today without him? One can only dream, I mean, imagine.
Craig Payne March 6, 2018 at 2:50 PM
"Generic diety": Just like God, but skinnier.
Speaking of self-incrimin New Atheist comments, did anyone hear about Richard Dawkins' recent defense of the moral justifiability of cannabilism? I hope Dr. Feser will comment on this.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27912/famous-atheist-lets-eat-human-meat-hank-berrien
Sean Killackey March 6, 2018 at 10:50 PM
What's so wrong with that? I thought you heard, we're just matter in motion. Nothing special here. Or some such nonsense.
I do hope that some will realize that on atheism there is no reason objective reason to criticize Dawkins. That if God is really dead, things cannot remain the same. Human dignity is only intelligible in a certain, theistic ecology of ideas. Take that away, and why not get rid of what would just be the 'yuck' morality Dawkins criticizes.
Matjaž Horvat March 7, 2018 at 6:56 AM
Not surprised. In the same territory as Peter Singer’s defense of infanticide.
On the bright side, Denmark has recently banned bestiality (yes, it was legal): http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32411241/denmark-passes-law-to-ban-bestiality
“Denmark has become one of the last European countries to ban bestiality.
Until the new law was passed on Tuesday, sex with animals was still legal in the country as long as the animal was unharmed.
Activists claimed the strange law was difficult to prove, and was making Denmark a hotspot for animal sex tourists.
Hungary, Finland and Romania are now the only EU countries where bestiality, or zoophilia, is legal.”
There is still hope.
A Counter Rebel March 6, 2018 at 4:11 PM
For anyone who thinks Carrier is arrogant. Look at what Feser wrote--
"The real debate is not between atheism and theism."
Of course, Feser's book does nothing to show that atheism is false. He fails to prove the First Cause is good in any moral sense (and spare me the theistic personalist complaint, which I dealt with already). The First Cause can't be good because free will is impossible and entails randomness, because nothing determines (and hence you have no control over) what your choice will be. No free will means no moral perfection.
Contra Feser, the debate is between atheists of different stripes. Idealists, materialists, and panpsychists. Theism is finished; most people are just too stupid or prideful to realize it.
René Ardell Fehr March 6, 2018 at 5:12 PM
You're taking what Feser wrote out of context. There in the book, he claimed that since he has shown that there is a God, then it follows that the debate is no longer about atheism or theism... that is, now it's about theists "of different stripes," to use your wording.
In sum, Feser's quote concerns the opposite of what you thought it did. But you'd know that, if you read the book.
... aaand I just realized that the "stripes" wording was Feser's and not yours. Regardless, all of this was in Feser's quote above. Did you stop reading?
Anyways, are you saying that the will can only be free if there is randomness and it's determined?
More over, how can people be too stupid or prideful to realize that theism is finished if there's no free will? They couldn't possibly realize otherwise!
Dude, you're dumb enough to think atheism would be compatible with a personal, omnipotent and omniscient transcendent creator of the universe who happens to be amoral (in your view), spare us any more of your obsessive question-begging of randomness objections.
Also if this moron happens to be a follower of Richard Carrier, then the "independent scholar" is even worse than I thought.
Please don't feed the trolls. This one is particularly imbecilic and virulent.
A Counter Rebel March 6, 2018 at 11:52 PM
"More over, how can people be too stupid or prideful to realize that theism is finished if there's no free will? They couldn't possibly realize otherwise!"
The stupidity or pride was inevitable, but still there.
"you're dumb enough to think atheism would be compatible with a personal, omnipotent and omniscient transcendent creator"
The definition of God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect. That's theism. If one can prove that even one of those attributes if false and/or incoherent, then they have proven atheism. They haven't proven naturalism, but that's not the same thing.
"spare us any more of your obsessive question-begging of randomness objections."
If there's no reason for adopting one set of reasons over another, then that is randomness. You have no control over what your will will land on. Any attempt to obscure that amounts to word games, as I will show later on.
Son of Ya'Kov March 7, 2018 at 9:47 AM
>The definition of God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect. That's theism.
But it's not Classic Theism. Feser channeling his inner Brian Davies doesn't believe God is a moral agent. No Classic Theist does dumbass!
You aren't paying for that course with Carrier, are You?
Miguel March 7, 2018 at 11:48 AM
"If there's no reason for adopting one set of reasons over another, then that is randomness."
I asked you to spare us your obsessive question-begging of the randomness objection. I guess you can't help it since in your mind you have no choice over whether to keep begging the question against Pruss over and over again, right?
Good luck identifying yourself as a non-naturalistic ATHEIST who believes there is a transcendental, omnipotent, omniscient, personal creator of the universe who just happens to be amoral as you see it. Judging by your writing, you're not just dumb, you have some issues and you appear crazy.
Anyway, no one in this blog is interested in your petitio principii fallacies, so "try" to deterministically get the fuck out and stop wasting your time, especially since by your own question-begging view you don't think you can make any difference. Leave.
I never said God is a moral agent. He is still morally perfect in the sense of being the eternal law, even though he is not subject to it. I can even quote Feser if you want me to.
I don't grant all those attributes. I'm saying I don't care whether there is a First Cause, because even if there is one, it is not morally perfect and hence not God.
"I asked you to spare us your obsessive question-begging of the randomness objection."
Does the agent have control over which reasons are adopted? If yes, then it is determined by the agent's nature (his character, inclinations, etc.). If no, then even if there is an explanation, it's random and the agent has no control, so he can't be held responsible. Even if you want to call that free will, it's not the kind of free will that makes people morally accountable. Also, proving free will would actually prove Sartre-like atheism, since it is not compatible with foreknowledge.
I'll go more in depth later.
"get the f--- out"
I sense frustration. I guess that's what happens when you can't have non-contraceptive sex ;-)
"Leave."
I have no choice. When I see this much stupidity, I have to comment.
*contraceptive sex, not non-. Sorry.
Get lost you silly troll.
Seems to be common from atheists:
"Of course atheism isn't moral nihilism; that's a misrepresentation of what we believe."
"But by the way, there is no such thing as free will, and so yeah there is no such thing as moral responsibility and no such thing as moral duty."
Daniel A. Duran March 8, 2018 at 9:38 AM
Counter rebel, you need to quit posting and start reading and learning. You do not know what you're talking about:
"I never said God is a moral agent." This is what you wrote about Feser, "He fails to prove the First Cause is good in any moral sense."
What is it, then? Can morality be ascribed be to God or not?
On free-will,"Does the agent have control over which reasons are adopted? If yes, then it is determined by the agent's nature"
Read that carefully before you type again, do you see how incoherent is to say that if I can choose among reasons, then I am determined? or that if I cannot choose among reasons, then my actions are random?
If you're putting your soul at stake over such inanities, then you're a fool. Stop dividing by zero, study more, and then come back in a few years.
A Counter Rebel March 8, 2018 at 10:10 AM
I do affirm moral nihilism. We can't be responsible for our actions if we couldn't have done otherwise. Even if we have free will (at least the kind defended in this comments section), we still can't be responsible since we can't select which set of reasons to act on. (That would lead to an infinite regress. Can we control what we select? Do we have control over the controlling of what we select, ad infinitum.) It's just an arbitrary decision with no contrastive explanation--random. No matter how strong your desire to do the good is (and how reasonable), BAM! "your" will could do wrong anyway. More like libertarian un-free will. So even if Catholicism were true, why struggle to do good if I could sin 30 seconds before I die, and then go to Hell?
This moron will keep question-begging the randomness objection and assming an explanans has to necessitate its explanandum. It's all he does, I told you guys.
And by the way, Mr. Contraception, anything BUT libertarian free will is incoherent with respect to rational beings and finite goods, because no finite good can determinately move the will, since a finite good by definition is finite -- lacking in part in desirability and thus repelling the rational will inasmuch as it's finite. And this applies to a "finitely better", too. So you can be very motivated and attracted by a finite good, but it is always up to the rational agent to act since the will will simultaneously be repelled in some measure by the finite good. Which is how there is free action, which is neither determined nor random. There is no chance, but order: final causality, goodness as goodness attracts us, and determinately so in the case of infinite goodness; but not any determinism in the case of finite goods, hence free action.
But of course that would require you to actually study the subject instead of vomiting the same tired question-begging randomness objection you learned in baby's first philosophy of action article. Get a grip, stop entertaining delusions of grandeur when you don't know 1/100 of this discipline and buzz off.
"What is it, then? Can morality be ascribed be to God or not?"
I said Feser did not prove First Cause is moral IN ANY SENSE, whether it is being subject to the moral law or identical to the moral law. On theism, there is a moral law, and it is God. But if free will and thereby morality is incoherent, so is God. Your heretical New Testament even says God is good.
"do you see how incoherent is to say that if I can choose among reasons, then I am determined? or that if I cannot choose among reasons, then my actions are random?"
In the first case, there's no reason for selecting one reason over another, so your actions are performed with reasons but not FOR those reasons. Ultimately, this kind of free will is non-rational, but I thought God gave us a rational free will. In the second case, yes, if you're not acting for a reason, then it's random.
"If you're putting your soul at stake"
I already tried being a Catholic, and it led me to suicidal depression. So if I don't be Catholic, I go to Hell. If I be Catholic, I kill myself and go to Hell anyway. I have nothing to lose. And even if I live a near-perfect life, given free will, I could sin 30 seconds before I die, and go to Hell despite all the struggle. Might as well enjoy life and fornicate "a thousand times a day," as Luther pointed out.
"Stop dividing by zero, study more, and then come back in a few years."
Oh, spare the intellectual elitism. The arrogance of Catholic philosophers is appalling. I've read Augustine, Plantinga, Ludwig Ott, Feser, Mackie (the most beautiful), Camus, Strawson and others. But what does it matter anyway? You'll just tell me I'm misreading them.
Daniel A. Duran March 8, 2018 at 1:12 PM
Counter Rebel, I've no idea what you mean by the freedom, "defended in this comments section." Do you speak of Thomist compatibilism? synchronic freedom? Does the freedom defended here also mean the ability to choose evil for the sake of evil? Is it the ability to choose among the affection for justice and the affection for the advantageous? The ability to fully control rationality itself or just the ability to choose among several rational options?
There's no reason for the infinite regress argument you put forth. Explanations have to end somewhere, and it ends with the contingency of the will, i.e. its ability to will the opposite. I repeat, it is the nature of free-will to be free and it is unfair to say that this is randomness, specially if reasons are a part of the explanation for my choosing.
Saying that the ability of the will to choose requires further explanations is like saying that contingent things in general require further explanations for their contingency and if there's no explanation forthcoming then randomness is at work.
Son of Ya'Kov March 8, 2018 at 2:42 PM
>I said Feser did not prove First Cause is moral IN ANY SENSE, whether it is being subject to the moral law or identical to the moral law.
You are either a liar or a dumbass or both.
You said "He fails to prove the First Cause is good in any moral sense (and spare me the theistic personalist complaint, which I dealt with already)" END QUOTE.
Basically you don't say what you mean and that is either because being a moral nilihist you don't feel the need to be honest or you are just a Troll punk & a dumbass.
(Also your complaints over Theistic Personalism is just an example of "No Fair defending the God you believe in vs the one I wished you believed in!").
At this point people I suspect this jackarse is Stardusty. Get rid of him. Geez can't we have nice rational Atheists who don't read Dawkins but do read Oppy or Jack Smart? Get rid of this brain dead intellectually inferior punk!
"I already tried being a Catholic, and it led me to suicidal depression.
So if I don't be Catholic, I go to Hell. If I be Catholic, I kill myself and go to Hell anyway."
So your reasons for rejecting Catholicism are partially or mainly psychological and not rational. You need counseling, and less rational discourse.
MetaChristianity March 8, 2018 at 4:55 PM
Counter Rebel:
S.O.Y. is correct. You’re equivocation on “moral sense” is evasive. Even worse you’re redefining *God* just to sing another Euthyphro melody. How is that (..per your melody...) “in” God it is the case that Reasoning “stuff/parts” interface(s) with Willing/Volition “stuff/parts” which then (Time? Tense?) interface(s) with Knowing (or some-thing-y) “stuff/parts” ? After all, given the Christian metaphysic — and not what you wish that metaphysic to be — none of that applies and — therefore — your Euthyphro melody is disharmonious — even flat.
scbrownlhrm
I think this clown is Stardusty.
I wasn't being dishonest when I said God, by definition, is morally perfect. I never said He is a moral agent.
Here are some quotes from Feser from his post on the euthyphro dilemma:
"He is already Goodness Itself and therefore already possesses supreme Beatitude, and there is accordingly no rule or measure outside Him against which His actions might be evaluated. He is not under the moral law precisely because He is the moral law." So God is good.
"Since moral goodness concerns the will, it follows that God is morally good, and perfectly so." So God is good.
Let's not also forget the New Testament --
"And Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God." (Mark 10:18, Douay-Rheims Bible) So God is good.
So stop with the crap. If free will is incoherent, morality is incoherent, and so is God.
"because no finite good can determinately move the will, since a finite good by definition is finite" I don't accept this the whole model of finite vs. infinite goods. I'm not a Thomist. As long as the intellect perceives something desirable, and there's nothing more desirable, then that moves the will. Your strongest desire is your will.
"assming an explanans has to necessitate its explanandum." I'll address this more in depth later. If your explanation doesn't entail the outcome, then it's inexplicable which possible outcome comes to pass. You have no control. Your desires, your reasoning don't determine the will's movement. Nothing does. That's random, and you just label it "free will."
If you want to learn what a moron is, look in the mirror. I'm not the one who thinks free will is incompatible with foreknowledge, and that poor people deserve Hell because they don't want to raise fifteen children.
"Saying that the ability of the will to choose requires further explanations"
I'm saying that free will (or at least, morally significant free will, since I'm not that much opposed to Sartre's type of free will) is incoherent. Either your will moves one way (or another) for a reason, or the will moves randomly toward one desire/reason-set. There's nothing internal to the will saying "act on A" or "act on B" since that would go back to determinism. So it's totally arbitrary to hold someone accountable for what their libertarian un-free will does. I'm not going to force my children to roll a die and then torture them in the basement forever if it happens to land on 5.
"Geez can't we have nice rational Atheists who don't read Dawkins but do read Oppy or Jack Smart?"
Don't expect any kindness when you demonstrate no kindness. This isn't Christ-like behaviour. I won't be surprised if we see each other in Hell. ;-)
"So your reasons for rejecting Catholicism are partially or mainly psychological and not rational. You need counseling, and less rational discourse." Let's not pretend that no one has psychological reasons for believing what they do. I do have rational reasons in addition to my emotional ones, such as J.L. Mackie's argument from evil, which has never been refuted.
"Even worse you’re redefining *God*" Re-defining God as good? Give me a break. This is how God has traditionally been defined. Even Yeshua affirmed God's goodness.
"So your reasons for rejecting Catholicism are partially or mainly psychological and not rational. You need counseling, and less rational discourse."
As I said, he looks like he has some issues, and appears somewhat crazy as well. Unfortunately, instead of seeking help he just keeps clogging up comboxes repeating the same tiresome and inane fallacies over and over again. And this has been going on for months; before him it was Strawdusty polluting the comments. Now it's Mr. Contraception.
New Atheist trolls will always pollute philosophy blogs, it seems.
"Unfortunately, instead of seeking help he just keeps clogging up comboxes repeating the same tiresome and inane fallacies over and over again."
Well, how can you blame me? Either I was determined to act that way, or on your model, I chose A over B, but for no reason. In one possible world, I choose A circumscribed by rA (desire for A). In another world, I choose B circumscribed by rB. But I have no higher-order desire, no reason internal to the will itself, that makes it move toward one or the other. Ultimately, I act for no reason at all. I can't select which desire is adopted--I can't select what I choose. There's nothing that brings about world A over B. So it is random.
As for seeking help, I tried that already. Antidepressants and whatnot. Your religion sent me into an endless spiral of extreme misery. Constant anxiety of going to Hell. Confession multiple times a week. Stress, making me sin even more, so I get stressed even more about Hell, then sin more, then the stress multiplies--and balancing this with a job--it's just an unlivable scenario. Thank Brahman for determinism. I will not bend the knee to a monster who tortures people forever because their wills happened to have landed on the "bad" desire rather than the good one. If I were omnipotent, we would all be in Heaven right away. No child would ever be raped. No Jew ever placed in a concentration camp. I love G-d, and so I affirm His nonexistence until the Messianic Age. I would NEVER spit in His face by saying He allows the rape of a child. Also, I am not a New Atheist. I'm a good ol' fashioned Reform Jewish existentialist. I don't want to eliminate theism outright, just Islam and Christianity and any religion with eternal Hell.
"This poor girl of five was subjected to every possible torture by those cultivated parents. They beat her, thrashed her, kicked her for no reason till her body was one bruise." "Rebellion," The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is the god you guys worship. How sympathetic of you. And it's convenient and easy, when you're not the little girl being tortured.
Yep this piece of Garbage is definitely Stardusty.
He has been caught lying and I don't deal with liars.
Nobody here owes this twit the dignity of a rational argument because he is neither rational nor honest.
Gnus have nothing to offer in terms of intellectual challenge or dispute. Only base sophistry and fallacies of equivocation.
Ban the troll! Ban the Troll! Ban the Troll!
MetaChristianity March 9, 2018 at 1:32 AM
"Either your will moves one way (or another) for a reason, or the will moves randomly toward one desire/reason-set. There's nothing internal to the will saying "act on A" or "act on B" since that would go back to determinism."
How is it the case that (...per your inharmonious Euthyphro melody...) “in” ("out" ? "in" ?) God it is the case that Reasoning “stuff/parts” interface(s) with Willing/Volition “stuff/parts” which "then" (Time? Tense?) interface(s) with Knowing (or some-thing-y) “stuff/parts”?
After all, given the Christian metaphysic — and not what you wish that metaphysic to be — none of that applies.
Perhaps you should start with "out" or "in" God, as in [A] God vs. [B] Stuff "in" God, then perhaps you can move to Eternalism / Presentism in that "chain-of-interfaces", and then move to those supposed "interfaces" of said "Parts/Stuff" as a sort of starting point.
Don't worry about any explanatory termini. Well, not yet, not now.
This clown is Stardusty. He is quite mad and not in the angry sense like moi.
"I'm saying that free will (or at least, morally significant free will, since I'm not that much opposed to Sartre's type of free will) is incoherent. Either your will moves one way (or another) for a reason, or the will moves randomly toward one desire/reason-set. There's nothing internal to the will saying "act on A" or "act on B" since that would go back to determinism. So it's totally arbitrary to hold someone accountable for what their libertarian un-free will does. I'm not going to force my children to roll a die and then torture them in the basement forever if it happens to land on 5."
This exactly is the same question begging non-sense you've been repeating all this time without any justification,
your argument simply boil down to "the action isn't entailed by antecedent conditions,therefore its random" but that hardly is an argument.
ccmnxc March 9, 2018 at 7:34 AM
But seriously, stop responding to this guy, it takes up almost a full third of the thread and goes nowhere in that space. Leave him be.
"I don't accept this the whole model of finite vs. infinite goods. I'm not a Thomist. As long as the intellect perceives something desirable, and there's nothing more desirable, then that moves the will. Your strongest desire is your will."
Yeah, a finite good which is intrinsically unsatisfactory somehow determines your will. Very coherent and intelligible, hm?
Anyway, I can't help but find it a little funny how you just begged the question without a second thought. It is like you're trying to fit exactly what I said of you. "I don't accept this model of yours and I'm not a thomist. Your strongest desire is your will". Okay. You're free to keep begging the question against libertarian free will. Now go seek some help.
Callum March 9, 2018 at 9:00 AM
Please don't learn about free will from Carrier. It will be a waste of money
"He has been caught lying and I don't deal with liars."
Show the lie. I said God is morally good, and I backed it up with quotes. You're the one either lying or being stupid.
This is slander. Do you understand that word?
"This exactly is the same question begging non-sense you've been repeating all this time without any justification,"
It's not question-begging to say that it's random if your will moves for no reason (that's what randomness is) towards one set of desires rather than another. You can make up excuses, but it's still random.
"a finite good which is intrinsically unsatisfactory somehow determines your will." Well, it's desirable, and the intellect perceives that it will make him or her happier in some sense. In the absence of anything more desirable, it moves the will.
"You're free to keep begging the question against libertarian free will." No. Either your will is determined by reasons, or it moves for no reason--random. Free will is an impossible middle ground.
Please tell me why the will went with the reasons for doing A, rather than the reasons for B. There's only two options. Either it had a reason for going with the reasons A, or it moved for no reason. The first is determinism, and the second is out of the agent's control, for he could not see to it that he acted that way instead of the other way.
Libertarian free will is the dumbest idea ever.
"The basic picture may be said to be Leibnizian in character. One's P-reasons affect one's decisions, but in so doing only incline one towards, and do not necessitate one in, particular decisions to perform particular actions. But the following question now arises: upon what, exactly, are the agent's decisions about actions now supposed to be based, other than upon its P-reasons? The agent-self is represented as sitting in detached judgement upon its desires and beliefs as they develop and combine and settle out in such a way as to present as reasons for action. It then decides on an action in the light of these reasons for action. ... For if it has no such desires or principles of choice governing what decisions it makes in the light of its initial reasons for action, then the decisions it makes are random relative to its reasons for action: they are made by an agent-self that is, in its role as decision-maker, ungoverned by reasons for action, lacking any principles of choice or decision. The agent-self with its putative, freedom-creating power of partially reason-independent decision becomes some entirely non-rational (reasons-independent) flip-flop of the soul." -Galen Strawson, Freedom and Belief, pgs. 45-46
Son of Ya'Kov March 9, 2018 at 11:23 AM
ACR is clearly a troll or he is barking mad. You cannot debate irrational Gnus and debating the mentally ill is just cruel.
Red March 9, 2018 at 1:49 PM
See, there ,once again No one said it moves for no reason at all, just that its not necessitated by those reasons but that itself doesn't make it out of control.So that again hardly
amounts to any argument.
"The basic picture may be said to be Leibnizian in character. One's P-reasons affect one's decisions, but in so doing only incline one towards, and do not necessitate one in, particular decisions to perform particular actions. But the following question now arises: upon what, exactly, are the agent's decisions about actions now supposed to be based, other than upon its P-reasons?
That made my chuckle, you flat out label it dumbest idea based on that?
As if no Libertarian has ever addressed just the passage you quote.
Once again this has same problem as your previous claim, this simply assumes that just because P-reasons didn't necessitate,they haven't explained anything at all, therefor randomness and no agential control.
This is simply flat out asserted later
....For if it has no such desires or principles of choice governing what decisions it makes in the light of its initial reasons for action, then the decisions it makes are random relative to its reasons for action: they are made by an agent-self that is, in its role as decision-maker,ungoverned by reasons for action...
Why think this is true?
Son of Ya'Kov, he's already banned. He's the SP wannabe who Feser specifically banned. I have no idea why people keep feeding him.
Callum March 9, 2018 at 4:17 PM
Red you are a patient man
"No one said it moves for no reason at all, just that its not necessitated by those reasons" Well, that's what it reduces to even if libertarians don't want to admit it.
Okay, so you have the reasons with A and for B. Two possible worlds--1, where the reasons with A were adopted, and 2, where the reasons for B were adopted. Let's say 1 transpires. What accounts for why 1 was actualized, and not 2? It would be circular to say 1 was actualized because of the reasons with A, for that would be equivalent to saying "The reasons with A were adopted because of the reasons with doing A." That doesn't tell us why 1 was actualized and not 2.
The will is moving toward a reason, not for a reason. There is no reason internal to the will itself that tells it go one way rather than another, so it is out of the agent's control.
This is randomness.
"this simply assumes that just because P-reasons didn't necessitate,they haven't explained anything at all, therefor randomness and no agential control. "
If neither reasons entail the outcome, then the reasons alone don't serve as a full explanation for what happened. It may or may not happen. Why does it happen? The mere existence of the reasons with doing A do not serve to explain it. Something else is needed, such as the movement of the will towards those reasons. But then why did it move toward those reasons rather than the reasons?
"Why think this is true?"
It's clearly explained by Strawson in the book. The intellect perceives different reasons, those with A and those with B. (Neither are reasons FOR doing either until acted on.) But none of those reasons need bring about their respective potential outcome. (They only show that doing A or B is possible.) So it's open. Either there is a reason why the will moves towards those reasons or these reasons, one that is internal to the will itself, or it is anarchy. Random. Without a second-order desire/reason for acting on one initial desire rather than another, then it's random which one is acted upon because it's moving for no reason. That's what random means.
Red March 10, 2018 at 12:45 AM
But that doesn't make sense, If you ask why A were acted on ? then its meaningfully explained by agents choice to bring about particular outcome tied to those reasons. If you ask why that particular outcome is the one that is chosen to be brought about then that is explained by all the reasons in A , there is no vicious circularity here, albeit explanation here is a teleological one..
But this odd distinction between moving towards and moving for and demand for full explanation only seems meaningful If You've already established that there is something wrong with explanation that is provided or there is some circularity there which I've already argued above is not the case.
Similarly here once again same mistakes are made.
The intellect perceives different reasons, those with A and those with B. (Neither are reasons FOR doing either until acted on.) But none of those reasons need bring about their respective potential outcome. (They only show that doing A or B is possible.) So it's open. Either there is a reason why the will moves towards those reasons or these reasons, one that is internal to the will itself, or it is anarchy. Random. Without a second-order desire/reason for acting on one initial desire rather than another, then it's random which one is acted upon because it's moving for no reason. That's what random means.
Given what I said above I don't find this line of reasoning plausible.
Other libertarians have explained similar problems with the above.
"Galen Strawson's claim that the indeterminist's conception of of an agent as acting in view of prior motives while not being determined by them ineluctably leads to a vicious regress. For, he
claims, we can conceive of an agent sitting in detached judgment on the matter of whether to act in accordance with motive X or motive Y only if he has some further desires or principles of
choice that decisively inclines him in one of these directions. But if this is the case, then the agent is self-determining in making his choice only if he is somehow responsible for the presence of those further factors, which requires his having chosen to be that way.
...we should [....] reject the suggestion that the libertarian must be assuming (if the account is to avoid positing fortuitous, irrational choices) that the agent has further, second-order reasons that explain why he chose to act in accordance with one set of motives rather than another. Consider a scenario in which an agent is deliberating between two courses of action X and Y, each of which has considerations in its favor. (I will refer to these sets of considerations as {X} and {Y}, respectively.) Suppose further that the agency theory is correct and the agent herself brings about the decision to take option X. The question, "Why did the agent perform that action?", is meaningfully answered by citing {X}, even though these reasons did not produce the agent's decision, and she could have chosen differently in those very same circumstances. In citing {X}, we are explaining the motivating factors that were in view when the agent made a self-determining choice. It is not necessary to try to ascend to a level of second-order reasons (for acting on first-order reasons) in a desperate bid to render this conception of action intelligible" Agent Causation,Timothy O'Connor
And most important thing to consider is that Libertarianism defended here satisfy two criteria for agential control in these situations it is both true that he could have done otherwise and that he is the source of his actions( There is a true counterfactual, Had he not chosen option 1 ,X would not have happened) So we have good evidence to take the agent responsible.
MetaChristianity March 10, 2018 at 5:07 AM
Counter Rebel,
You STARTED by going on and on about Stuff/Parts and some bizarre sort of chain-of-events somehow "in" "God" and you (there, at the start) equated all of that to the Divine Mind, as in the Necessary Being. All of that is on your part far too sloppy and muddied.
Now, hundreds of words in, you're muddying up the waters by floating various concepts about contingent beings with respect to Mind & Reason and ..carrying.. on As If you are in fact discussing the SAME topic as you were at the start.
Why? It's dishonest if you're aware of it and simply uninformed if you're not aware that you are doing it. Or just self-deceptive.
Like Carrier you take [Not-A] and equate it to [A] and then go on about how the Christian's premise of [A] is incoherent.
Perhaps in your own way you've given the Christian good evidence for his (the Christian's) own "QED", so to speak, regarding the topic of the thread. It approximates self-deception on the part of the Non-Theist in his (the Non-Theist's) pretend analysis of the Christian metaphysic.
E. Feser comments on a few basic criteria in the landscape of self-deception:
[1] http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/10/walter-mitty-atheism.html?showComment=1444541683395#c5184040431704814012
scbrown(lhrm)
A Counter Rebel March 10, 2018 at 11:14 AM
In possible world 1, A was chosen in the light of reasons with A and B. In possible world 2, B was chosen in light OF THOSE SAME REASONS. So what is the basis for the actualization of one particular world, with everything being exactly the same prior to actualization, and the same reasons present at the moment of actualization? As you said, nothing necessitates either world.
"The question, "Why did the agent perform that action?", is meaningfully answered by citing {X}, even though these reasons did not produce the agent's decision, and she could have chosen differently in those very same circumstances. In citing {X}, we are explaining the motivating factors that were in view when the agent made a self-determining choice."
But the question still arises why did the {X} take priority over {Y}, when in both worlds, they are both present? In light of the reasons for doing both things, why in one world, does he choose one (will to act with this particular motive), and in the other world, the other thing? The only answer seems to be "{X} took priority because the agent acted on those reasons," but then this becomes circular, because why did the agent act on those reasons rather than not? Without a second-order reason, then the answer is "the agent acted on those reasons because he acted on those reasons." Of course, this is circular and leaves no reason why {Y} was ignored. So it is random.
"If you ask why A were acted on ? then its meaningfully explained by agents choice to bring about particular outcome tied to those reasons."
Thank you. So A was chosen because A was chosen ("the agents choice to bring about a particular outcome tied to those reasons").
"why that particular outcome is the one that is chosen to be brought about then that is explained by all the reasons in A"
The reasons for A exist alongside B. So without something that explains the setting-aside (as it were) of one reason-set, something is missing. Since, as you admit, the P-reasons don't necessitate the outcome, then the agent-self is at least partly reason-independent in its movement, and to act not for reasons is to act randomly, even if it's in the light of reasons. Ultimately, it seems you'll have to say he chose A because he chose A. Did he control what potential world was actualized? Did he control (either determine or choose) what is choice would be? This sparks up the regression fireworks ;-)
Within the next seven days, I plan on addressing the whole subject of explanations necessitating the outcome. Stay tuned.
@MetaChristianity -- I honestly don't know what you're going on about. All I've done is give my opinion on why Feser failed to prove that the sentient first cause is God, and that it's because libertarian free will is incoherent.
Speaking of "self-deception," I'm reminded of Sartre's notion of bad faith (which is better translated "self-deception"). I think theists (Catholics and Orthodox especially) are suppressing the knowledge of atheism and determinism, contra Paul's Romans 1:18-21, for psychological reasons (fear being a big one, and wanting to feel superior to others "I deserve Heaven; the guy next to me is evil piece of trash who deserves Hell, and revenge). It's very obvious that free will models are indistinguishable from randomness, and all attempts to show otherwise amount to meticulous butchering of language. I picture the will as the queen on a chessboard (the chessboard representing the intellect), with the bishops to one side ("don't commit adultery b/c it's sinful") and the rooks on the other side ("do commit adultery b/c it's fun"), but the queen herself has no internal reasons that determine its movement toward one particular side, so it ultimately moves randomly. And nothing controls the will's movement--it is unhinged...free...random...wild. So even if free will is true, the agent can't be responsible since there was no way to control (to see to it), that the Queen moved towards the bishops.
MetaChristianity March 10, 2018 at 12:09 PM
“….libertarian free will is incoherent…”
And the premises you’ve stood on to make that “stick” need to be justified. If you want to draw a distinction of limit and of finiteness to the contingent being, well then welcome to Christianity. But you didn’t start there. You started with attempting to draw a distinction of limit and of finiteness to the Divine Mind and you did so by injecting – floating – some sort of vague concept akin to a kind of “chain-of-events” between [A] “Reasoning” “Stuff/Parts” (…which are “in” God somehow amid God and God’s Parts…) and [B] “Will/Volition “Stuff/Parts” (…which again are “in” God somehow amid God and God’s Parts…) and [C] “Knowing” (…or whatever…) “Stuff/Parts”.
You were invited to justify that entire scene there “in” God and when the comments of others pressed on you what did you do? You equivocated in that you moved your lens off of the Divine Mind and onto the contingent mind.
On charity let’s assume that deep down what you meant to say by that shifting-of-lens is that the Contingent Being is not Free in the same sense as the Necessary Being and *therefore* …. First Cause…. Etc… etc….
Which is, again, foisting that [Non-A] equals [A] as you analyze the Christian’s claims about [A].
Counter R. again...
Self-Deception: The links I gave had nothing to do with what you went on about but about a rather specific situation in which Coyne & Co. (...and here Carrier and yourself etc...) are consistent in re-defining the Christian's proverbial "X" and then proceeding to opine about how incoherent the Christian's X is and all with a layer of self-talk which has obvious import.
"...Did he control what potential world was actualized? Did he control (either determine or choose) what is choice would be? This sparks up the regression fireworks... Within the next seven days, I plan on addressing the whole subject of explanations necessitating the outcome...."
Apparently Divine Simplicity, void of Parts, has an infinite (...Time? ...Tensed?...) regress.
And in 7 Days Counter Rebel is going to show us why and how that is the case.
This marks the second or third time that Eternalism / Presentism there "in" ? the Divine Mind has been given to C.R. for justification. And it marks the first time that he has promised to provide such justification regarding his claimed infinite regress in the Divine Mind.
Because Contingent Beings and the Necessary Being are.... the same...? ...different...?
Red March 10, 2018 at 1:08 PM
But once again in world 2 , either his choosing of B is explained by all the reasons he had for favoring B over A so the explanation about his acting on those reasons is given by his choice to bring about the outcome tied to those reasons or If you somehow find this problematic then you're simply asking Why the actual world is the actual world rather than not? but then such a question is simply non nonsensical for anyone who is commited to some actualist theory of modality, they don't seek to provide some reductive explanation of what actual is , instead it is taken as a primitive so What is actual? is meaningfully answered by that what is actualized. So I don't think that both the charge of randomness or vicious circularity you make really stick, if there is any apparent circularity here at all its not vicious type specifically the way this all ties to responsibility , once again in both worlds the relevant outcome does counter-factually depend on the agent.
But here his choice is not identical to those reasons for making the choice.So either priority is explained by his choice for outcome tied to those reason or you're once again asking Why the actual world is the actual rather than not? which would once again either make no sense or will get a non-viscous circular answer in both cases the responsibility is secured.
But I was't talking about the choice A , was explaining the adoption for reasons for A.
The reasons for A exist alongside B. So without something that explains the setting-aside (as it were) of one reason-set, something is missing. Since, as you admit, the P-reasons don't necessitate the outcome, then the agent-self is at least partly reason-independent in its movement, and to act not for reasons is to act randomly, even if it's in the light of reasons. Ultimately, it seems you'll have to say he chose A because he chose A. Did he control what potential world was actualized? Did he control (either determine or choose) what is choice would be? This sparks up the regression fireworks
This once again doesn't make sense, question Did he choose his choice is trivially answered as Yes, thats just a tautology, similarly there is no good reason to think that non-necessitating reasons would make the agent reason independent, to make him act not for a reason. So again either the circularity here isn't viscous or the question is meaningless .
Dennis Bonnette on God's Freedom: http://disq.us/p/1qskyk5 (...also can link via https://strangenotions.com/how-cosmic-existence-reveals-gods-reality/#comment-3796910069 ...).
Quoting Dennis Bonnette:
This view assumes that whatever God wills he wills of necessity because he is the Necessary Being. But God's necessity pertains solely to the necessity of his existence and certain essential properties, since his essence and his existence are identical.
This view also arises from the belief that God's unchangeable eternity is identified with his own will and will act, such that if his will were otherwise he would be a different God.
But, as I said above and as St. Thomas also says, God's necessity pertains solely to those things that are essential to his nature, such as his own goodness. Thus, God wills his own goodness of necessity, while lesser goods are the object of his free choice, such as to create this world or some other world or no finite world at all.
It is true that God is eternal and unchangeable. But what the critics miss is that he is identical with his own eternal free choice, including the choice to create this world and no other. I find Christians have little trouble understanding this simple truth, while atheists find it a mortal stumbling block.
While it is true that God cannot change his will to create this specific world, it is, as St. Thomas points out, a suppositional necessity. That is to say, given that God chose to make this particular world, it is true that he must make this particular world. But nothing makes him have to have chosen as he did. (Note here the misunderstandings that can arise from our need to speak in tensed predication, while God is entirely outside of time in his eternal now in which all his activity is timeless.)
Suppositional necessity means no more than something like the fact that I have chosen to rob a bank means that I now necessarily am choosing to rob this bank -- but nothing makes me rob the bank in the first place. So, too, once God in timeless fashion chooses to create this world, it is true that he must choose to create this world -- simply a matter of the principle of identity.
Still, Christians easily grasp that God is his own eternal absolutely free choice and that whatever he chooses less than his own goodness can be chosen freely by him.
God remains absolutely free with respect to his having created and continuing to create this world.
Something I found from Mark Balaguer, that is relevant to "across worlds randomness":
"I will begin by responding to objection 1, and in doing this, I want to focus on Ralph’s decision to move to New York.22 The first point I want to make here is that it simply doesn’t follow from the fact that Ralph would choose differently in different “plays” of the decision that he didn’t author or control his decision. There is no inconsistency in claiming that(#) Ralph chooses differently in different plays of the decision, and (##) In each of these different plays of the decision, it is Ralph who does the choosing, or who authors the decision and controls which option is chosen. Thus, if we replayed the decision and Ralph chose to stay in Mayberry in play number 2, it wouldn’t follow that it wasn’t him who chose to move
to New York (and who controlled which option was chosen) in play
number 1. Second, and more important, it’s not just that there’s no inconsistency
between (#) and (##); there isn’t even any tension between the two. Indeed, we can make an even stronger point than this. Given that Ralph is making a torn decision, if we take (##) as a hypothesis, then we should expect to get(#); that is, if we assume that in each play of the decision, the choice flows from Ralph—i.e., that it’s him who authors and controls the decision—then given that he’s torn, we should expect that he would choose differently in different plays of the decision. For consider: Given that Ralph is torn and hence that his conscious reasons don’t pick out a unique best option, it would seem very suspicious if he always chose the same way in multiple plays of the decision. If he always chose to move to New York, then it would be plausible to think, “Look, that can’t be a coincidence; something must be causing him to choose in that way; and since (by assumption) his conscious reasons and thought aren’t causing this, it must be something else, for example, a random, nonmental event in his nervous system, or a subconscious mental state.” (Of course, you might think that if his choice was determined by a subconscious mental state, then it would still be Ralph who authored and controlled the decision. But we will see below [subsection 3.3.2] that at the very least, this would diminish Ralph’s control.) On
the other hand, if Ralph chose differently in different plays of the decision, that would fit perfectly with the hypothesis that the choice is flowing from him (or more precisely, from his conscious reasons and thought); for since Ralph is making a torn decision, we know by assumption that he is neutral between his two live options, at least in his conscious thought.
A third point here is this: Just because Ralph’s decision was arbitrary or random (or if you like, chancy or lucky) in some senses of these terms, it doesn’t follow that it was arbitrary or random in the sense that’s relevant here. The sense of nonrandomness that’s relevant here is the one that’s
required for free will, that is, the one that involves authorship and control
(and possibly other things as well, such as rationality). But it could be that
this sort of nonrandomness is compatible with various kinds of randomness.
And, indeed, it seems to me that it clearly is. For it could be that (i)
Ralph chose (or, more to the point, he authored and controlled the decision),
and (ii) because he was torn as to which option was best, and because
he had to choose (because he believed that choosing right then was better,
all things considered, than remaining in a state of indecision), he just
chose, so that his decision was, in some sense, arbitrary or random, despite
the fact that it was his choice and that he controlled which option was
chosen. There is no tension at all between (i) and (ii) here. The fact that Ralph chose randomly or arbitrarily does not undermine the claim that it was him who made the choice and who controlled which option was chosen."
(Don't know exact source, but: "Free Will as an Open Scientific Problem")
Why do you think that free will and randomness are the same? Probably because you believe the only alternative to a deterministic universe is total chaos. Since you see that there is order and predictability in nature, you think that determinism is true because think it's the only alternative to a random world. But you keep assuming that your decisions must be caused by something and this is the question begging aspect of your philosophy. A decision that is caused is not a decision. Maybe you think it's self-evident that everything we do is caused, but that's not true. We all have the experience of making a choice. We know how it feels to choose one option over another. You can say that something made you choose one option over the other, but you can't prove it.
How many forms does a mountain have?
Curio March 6, 2018 at 7:21 PM
Not sure, why?
In order for the idea of forms to make sense, such a question needs an answer.
Craig Payne March 7, 2018 at 6:20 AM
You gave the answer in your question. You said "a mountain." Singular.
Why isn't it "planet", singular?
Forms aren't singulars (particular is the technical term in ancient literature) except grammatically.
Vand83 March 8, 2018 at 7:00 AM
Singular "planet" isn't why it?
There is no way to define what a form is. Is a smiley sticker on a balloon part of the form of the balloon or it is its own form?
Dear iwpoe: Every embodied particular has its own singular form if it exists as itself, not as a characteristic of something else.
Its impossible to always say what a particular thing is. Is a car a particular, or are each tire a form instead. Are "two" boulders that are loosely held together one form or two? Why, anyways, do we have to assume two principles, prime matter and form. Why not one principle?
Form of Mars March 9, 2018 at 2:06 AM
Anonymous I suspect you may not have read up on substance, accident, artifacts and forms in enough detail. Also something can be virtually present or there can be conglomerate with several forms subsisting in one connected mass.
Remember there are four causes also, and this is important when considering 'form' and matter.
http://www.thomistica.org/problems/material-substance/hylomorphism-and-modern-physics/
http://alertandoriented.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2000-Apr-A-Decaen.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.467.3137&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Daredevil March 9, 2018 at 2:07 AM
Planets do have forms in my view, just as stars do.
There is no evidence there has to be two principles in a tree. One tree, one principle. Let me as you, how tightly welded together must two pieces of metal be in order to have one form?
Craig Payne March 10, 2018 at 9:30 AM
Again, Anonymous, that depends. Is one piece of metal a "characteristic" of the other piece of metal? Or do they together form a single substance, as form and matter do in a human? In the latter case, the metal together would have a single form, as itself--as a work of art, for instance.
JohnD March 6, 2018 at 4:41 PM
Bravo! We want one more reply!
There is no Truth within. There is no Truth in the past. There is no Truth in the future. Having no consolations, we exist in this moment, floating in space, whatever that is, totally sublimed, beyond consolation or belief, without the slightest fraction of abstract verbal philosophy or metaphysics to console us, without the slightest fleshy prominence standing out against Infinity to make us happy.
That is our condition. That is the Truth of it. That is it. That is all there is to it. And it is not an answer. There are no questions or answers in it. All your struggling for information and certainty is just more of the same old foolishness. It is all open ended. You go to your death without the slightest trace of knowledge.
Everything changes on a moment to moment basis. It is all a light show. Therefore the Law of the universe is change, the sacrifice of everything that arises.
Sacrifice is simply the Divine Law, the disposition of love. Sacrifice is inherently happy, inherently free. It has no need for questions. It has no answers. Everything will change, Thus it is not in time that we have the Eternal Vision. It is in the moment, in our disposition in our love, in our sacrifice, by throwing everything away and being totally willing to be dead.
You are only free in this moment, you are also profoundly happy, and ridiculous.
Brilliant comment, sir or ma'am. Ever see the movie Wings of Desire?
"It is all a light show."
Yes. Just sentient photons. In the movie I mentioned, there is a scene with Crime and the City Solution, where they play "Six Bells Chime", which is part of the album: Room of Lights.
"being totally willing to be dead."
Because death is an illusion. You simply pass into a new shell. Different memoria. "memoria, memoria..." -Nirvana, "Come as You Are"
Oh. Well, okay.
Sturer 111 March 8, 2018 at 12:29 AM
How interesting, Anonymous, tell me, what is your argumentation for why one should consider that view of yours to be true, other than your intuitions about nature? Or how else did you acquire that divine insight?
This is very clearly a trivially false cosmology despite your unconvincing bull session style going on about philosophy. You should have had a realization around the time you chose to write "floating in space whatever that is" but you kept talking.
[1] "...There is no Truth within. There is no Truth in the past. There is no Truth in the future... You go to your death without the slightest trace of knowledge..."
[2] "...That is our condition. That is the Truth of it..."
It's not surprising that the Counter Rebel seems to agree with that contradiction given that contradictions in general constitute so much of the Counter Rebel's cords and tones.
Maternal advice for Carrie and Carrier. Was this intentional or a coincidence? :-O
Nick March 7, 2018 at 8:36 AM
A good rule with internet atheists is that often, their arrogance is in direct proportion to their ignorance.
Carrier, you must have realized by now, is an attention seeking tar baby like many of his type.
You touch such a thing at your peril.
No matter how well intentioned - and you may merely be trying to clear an obstacle from the public pathway - it will cling and writhe and do all the things that weak and neurotic males who have the undeserved privilege of living in societies created by morally better and more personally powerful and honorable men - do in order to prove to the world that they exist, and must be taken into account.
That is the fundamental thing about the neediness of the A+ kind. On the basis of their own anthropology, if they are not noticed, they don't, or might as well not, exist.
That's why these dweebs are always whining about solidarity, when they are not being insulting.
I find Richard Carrier a useful idiot.
iamsergius March 7, 2018 at 8:33 PM
Carrier aside, the parties I go to are more likely to discuss UFOs than the Trilateral Commission ...
“In response to Richard Carrier’s recent review of Edward Feser’s Five Proofs for the Existence of God, Dr. Smith presents his own observations…” – with a few other items added for context →
Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation & Dr. Wolfgang Smith https://philos-sophia.org/
What are 'Proofs of God'? (from Philos-Sophia Initiative) https://philos-sophia.org/what-are-proofs-of-god/
Feser & Carrier part 1: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/02/carrier-on-five-proofs.html?m=1
Feser & Carrier part 2: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/03/carrier-carries-on.html?m=1
Wolfgang Smith, a bit more from that corner: https://thesocraticcatholic.com/wolfgang-smith/
Redefining “God” is the mark of the dishonest or uninformed. So **GOD** has parts, eh? Reasoning “stuff/parts” which interface(s) with Willing/Volition “stuff/parts” which interface(s) with Knowing (or some-thing-y) “stuff/parts”.
Sure. Okay. In that case well done.
Meanwhile, the Christian shrugs, sips a bit of coffee, and wonders what it is you’re going on about.
Stephen Notman March 8, 2018 at 9:17 AM
Richard Carrier advocates the assertion that Jesus Christ never existed.
Robert M. Price advocates that the Gospels are so unreliable that while Jesus may have existed, what can be known reliably about him is probably vanishingly small.
Both advocate extreme positions but note that the difference in their personalities (Price is cheerful, affable and will admit mistakes) vs Carrier's narcissism is reflected in how they couch their position. Price is a doubter, a sort of libertarian reader of text that takes him away from orthodoxy; whereas Carrier is an authoritarian dictator of 'what's what' and of the very stripe he claims to despise.
Either I am God or God doesn't exist.
And with a single premise he undercut the entire theological tradition, bringing an end to thousands upon thousands of years of theistic thought and insight. All around the world priests threw down their collars, rabbis burned their books, and Muslims poured into pork-based all-you-can-eat buffets. The very foundations of civilization shook as the world itself seemed to realize the blinding truth of Anon's premise, and with the subsequent realization that "Anon is not God, so there must not be a God."
And yet hope remained. Deep, deep in an underground cavern, an old hermit, armed only with memories of Philosophy 101, scratches a list of fallacies on the cave wall with his twisted hands. As he finishes, he pauses, and remembers one more - one that the entire world had forgotten. He trembles, and scratches two short, simple words into the wall before running out into the sun.
Dear Rene: So nicely done, a pleasure to read. Thank you.
Edward Feser, answer me one thing! The evolutionary theory of species would be impossible, or at least have to have a strong teleological implication if the law of linear causality were the only valid one. However, it is current philosophical consensus that causality is complex, where a cause can generate a non-proportional effect. From this perspective, the transmutation of species is possible!
Questioner March 9, 2018 at 2:42 PM
Does anyone else suspect Porphyry might have imposed his own views onto what we have of Plotinus' writings?
https://jonathandavidgarner.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/five-proofs-of-the-existence-of-god-feser-book-review/
Does anyone think this review is any good?
ccmnxc March 11, 2018 at 9:08 PM
Eh, it's respectful enough, but the guy doesn't develop any of his objections enough to provide a serious takedown so much as a list of "Here's where people can and do disagree with this." Fine so far as it goes, and that may have been all he intended, but more needs to be said before it develops into a serious critique as opposed to a commentary.
Miguel March 11, 2018 at 10:32 PM
Stopped reading at his criticism of the first proof. Trying to cast doubt into act/potency (which are really just names for what is quite trivial; that something can become X at one point in which it isn't yet X, etc) was bad enough, but the bit about hierarchical causes made me question whether the guy read the book with any attention. Under naturalism there would be nothing to cause a hierarchical series to stop existing? What? Did he not get what hierarchical series are? Did he not get that the problem is that a thing first has to exist in order to cause something, and that if something doesn't have existence as its nature then it will have no inherent tendency to exist (and therefore no tendency to remain in existence, which would be unintelligible)?
Kirill Nielson March 10, 2018 at 11:26 AM
An argument can be made that "Space-Time" or the "World" is a necessary being based on the modern definition of necessity as not failing to obtain in any possible world. I'd formulate it something like this:
(1) A necessary being is the being that cannot fail to obtain in every possible world
(2) In order for there to be a possible world X, there first has to be a world
(3) Therefore, The "World" itself cannot possibly fail to obtain in a given possible world X
(4) Therefore, "World/Scenario/State of Affairs/Space-Time Continuum/Existence" is a necessary being.
In other words, if there is one constant for all possible worlds is that they are all Worlds.
Miguel March 11, 2018 at 8:22 PM
Besides the conclusion being at odds with our deepest modal intuitions, 2 is false or at the very least begs the question, since you are assuming that possible worlds have to have their alethic modality grounded in a *spatiotemporal world*. Where is the justification for that?
Anyway, even if the universe were modally necessary, this wouldn't block even the rationalist proof, since one is searching for the ultimate explanation of things -- even if they exist in all possible worlds --; material reality can't be self-explained for several reasons other than its modal contingency: it is composed of parts (whether physical or metaphysical); it undergoes change; it's unintelligible how something material would be infinite in perfection so as to be pure, self-explanatory existence itself; etc.
Kirill Nielson March 12, 2018 at 7:02 AM
That's why I'm using th term "world" loosely. Think of it as a "scenario" or "State of affairs".
What an atheist may press on is that some sort of basic substrate reality can't fail to exist and that it has it's own qualities, which in turn give life to different worlds. That would not commit him to theism because such Reality would be impersonal.
But there being a necessary state of affairs that is not itself a spatiotemporal reality is perfectly coherent with the arguments; indeed, theists take there to be such a state of affairs: the existence of God. Your conclusion in 4, however, is that a state of affairs of SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM is a necessary being, however you have provided no argument whatsoever for why we'd ground alethic modality in a spatiotemporal being. You need to argue that the alethic modality of possible worlds is grounded not in strictly logical possibility; not in Lewisian possible worlds; not in a divine being; but in a spatiotemporal being. That is an even stronger claim than saying a spatiotemporal being is necessary.
And again, it doesn't even affect the arguments Feser gives. The point of the arguments is that there must be an explanation for the existence (including continued existence) of conditioned beings (not self-explanatory; either in terms of act/potency, parts, essence/existence, or what have you). Even if such conditioned beings existed in every possible world, there would still be a need to explain their existence in those terms - the fact that they are dependent beings, the fact that they are composite (what keeps their parts together?), the fact that they are not purely actual yet somehow exist, the fact that ther essence is distinct from existence yet they somehow exist, etc. Their being modally necessary would be controversial enough, but even then that is not what the arguments are inquiring.
So given that they have an explanation (either by PC or PSR), there is an unconditioned, independent, purely actual and simple being responsible for the existence of all conditioned beings. Just saying this being would be "impersonal" begs the question against all the arguments Feser gives for the divine attributes. For instance, that it is immaterial and eternal, that it is a mind or closer to a mind than anything else, that it has will, that it has an intellect (from the PPC), etc.
Have you even read Feser's book? It amazes me how many atheists just think they can accept an "impersonal first cause" and that's it, as if there were no arguments for why the first cause is divine and personal. The whole thing goes: (cosmological feature to be explained: change; composite beings; essence/existence; dependent beings; etc) -> (first cause/necessary explanans) -> (why the first cause is immaterial, has intellect, will, etc)
Carrier just skips and ignores the entire last part on the nature of God and acts as if he could take some "basic impersonal substrate" of reality to be an adequate cause or explanation to what the arguments are saying.
Drew March 11, 2018 at 6:19 AM
Taking Carrier to the woodshed.
The amusing thing is that Carrier posted his original essay in response to requests to "take on Feser". Presumably, there were atheists who were worried by Feser and wanted to see someone (try to) refute him. Unfortunately, there were no genuine experts to do the job, so they sent in Carrier instead.
René Ardell Fehr March 12, 2018 at 7:02 AM
I've replied to Carrier's latest blog post. In case it doesn't make it through moderation, I'm posting it here as well.
Dear Dr. Carrier,
Thank you for your response. After carefully reading Dr. Feser's book, and carefully re-reading his and your blog posts, it seems to me that you are misunderstanding some of the philosophical subtleties that are present in Feser's arguments. This is seen especially in your latest reply to Feser here in this very post. This constant, and annoying, tendency on both sides to claim that the opponent is illiterate and stupid isn't helping the situation, and is foreign to the spirit of philosophy.
Allow me to reply to each of your three points.
Feser's point is that you've collapsed two different phases (not steps) of his argument into one, which you've clearly done (granted, his lists of premises don't easily bear out this phase-shift, but it's there if you look for it). He isn't taking offense at you merely inserting his definition. Rather the problem comes from you inserting your definition and then going on to claim that he's committed a false dichotomy. As Feser states, premise 40 is the conclusion to a sub-argument aiming to show that "the forms or patterns in question exist in the purely actual actualizer." Premise 41 begins a new phase in his overall argument (in which Feser attempts to show the manner in which the forms and patterns in question exist in the purely actualized actualizer), and takes this sub-conclusion as established. And as Feser rightly points out, "I do consider and give arguments to rule out alternatives to those two [alternatives of premise 41]... Since the purely actual actualizer is not an abstract entity, that already rules out a third alternative such as the Platonic realm." Thus, premise 41 is not speaking of the way in which forms and patterns might exist taken broadly, but only the way in which they might exist in the pure act actualizer. Indeed, in collapsing these phases of Feser's argument, you've opened it up (wrongly) to a charge of presenting a false dichotomy (which, although wrongly charged, it still is not guilty of).
[I will post the rest once this post has been approved and I can reply to it.]
René Ardell Fehr March 12, 2018 at 10:41 AM
You seem to be selectively quoting Feser, especially at page 100. There he makes it clear that he is speaking of abstractions qua abstractions: "Hence, though [abstract objects] do exist in mind-independent reality, they do not exist there as abstract objects, but only as tied to concrete particular individuals." This is completely Aristotelian, through and through, and when this distinction between abstract objects as such and abstract objects as instantiated is kept in mind, the rest of Feser's discussion (on Aristotle's theory of forms) is in line with Aristotle's thought and Aristotelian realism.
(Around page 100 of his book he constantly speaks in terms of this distinction. Another example: "Animality considered in abstraction from these things exists only in the mind." pg. 100.)
In sum, you claim that Feser spent his pages "talking about abstractions as properties only of a mind." But this is plainly false, as page 100 alone shows numerous times.
You say that "I never said Feser defended a specifically Christian God," and yet in the comment in question you do say that. "One could perhaps write a critique of just how he gets from the God of his Proofs, all the way to Christianity, but I found that a tedious waste of time." Clearly if Feser is arguing "all the way to Christianity," he is arguing for a specifically Christian God. You cannot backpedal and twist your words to mean that Feser only "argues to the kind of God Christians want to exist." If you really implied this, you would have realized that Feser's arguments apply equally to the "kind" of God that Muslims and Jews "want" to exist.
Rather than putting something into the arguments that isn't there., consider the possibility that Feser is arguing, and that his arguments lead to something that has the attributes that are traditionally associated with the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim God (rather than just Christian).
More over, you claim that Feser "tries to go from God being “good” in a sense having no moral meaning... to it meaning moral goodness." I would certainly like a source for this claim, since for Feser, and indeed the entire classical theistic tradition, God is not a moral agent. Again, I challenge you to find a quote from Five Proofs in which Feser argues that God is a moral agent, or, in your words, that God is morally good. (I leave aside your misunderstanding as to what exactly it means for something to be purely actual, and therefore good.)
In sum, it is clear that you are reading things into Feser's arguments that aren't there (or in some cases, reading things out of them). While some, more vocal, commentators on these posts might disagree, I do not think you've done this on purpose. A careful, honest, and charitable reading, on both sides, is called for. I think such a reading will show that your critiques, especially the ones I've replied to here, are unfounded. As to your numerous other critiques, there is only so much time in the day, and I for one have no desire to write a book in Feser's defense. It might be profitable to narrow the discussion further, assuming the discussion continues.
All the best to you Dr. Carrier,
René Ardell Fehr
Daniel Carriere March 12, 2018 at 2:46 PM
Good summary René. Hopefully Carrier responds on his blog.
René Ardell Fehr March 12, 2018 at 6:41 PM
Thanks Daniel. But it doesn't look like Carrier approved my comment.
Walter Van den Acker March 12, 2018 at 11:47 PM
It can take a while before Carrier approves some comment, so he may still do so.
Daniel Joachim March 14, 2018 at 7:21 AM
Good post, René.
You probably shouldn't hold your breath though. I could be wrong, but I think I've never seen Carrier approve a critical comment to his site, that he doesn't simultaneously answer with a reference to a new blog post.
I guess it looks more aesthetically pleasing that way. Or. You know. Sophist.
Carrier replied, and I've replied to him:
Dr. Carrier,
Thank you for your reply. There are some points I wish to address:
As I stated in my original reply, Feser is not objecting to you having "inserted" his definition in place of the word "these." He is objecting to you collapsing two different phases of his argument, which, contrary to your protests, you have done. I quote myself here: "Thus, premise 41 is not speaking of the way in which forms and patterns might exist taken broadly, but only the way in which they might exist in the pure act actualizer." But you neglect this fact, instead preferring to attack premise 41 as if it were arguing how forms or patterns might exist taken broadly (which was the subject of the previous phase of the argument). This is collapsing an argument.
You defend a rather strange notion of Aristotle's philosophy of universals which I have nowhere read in Aristotle, nor have I read it in any secondary literature. Thankfully, your reading of Aristotle can easily be shown to be in error. Let's take just one line of yours: "But Aristotle never said they [universals] exist “in individual particular things.”"
There are many passages that one could point to in Aristotle's Physics or his Metaphysics. The most obvious example comes from the latter, wherein Aristotle shows that forms are not generated, but nevertheless do exist in the concrete individual, where "one part of the thing is matter and the other form." (VII, 8, 1033b19.) Now, forms are, by their natures, universals. Thus, Aristotle clearly believes that universals can exist in individual particular things.
I'm not sure where you got the contrary idea. This notion of Aristotle's is all over his writings (one could even point to passages where he claims that numbers exist in individual particular things! Numbers!). Aristotle's view is that universals are real, and that they depend for their existence on particulars. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_theory_of_universals for a very simplified version of his theory.)
More over, you neglect to defend your quote that I pointed out, and which I said summed up my point, where you said that Feser "[talks] about abstractions as properties only of a mind...." and which I subsequently showed to be false.
[Will post the rest after this post goes through moderation.]
With regard to the "Christian God" point, you say "This confusion is now corrected so it’s a moot point." But you've only begged the question, since I very clearly and succinctly addressed your "correction," showing it to be anything but. Thus, to refer back to that same "correction" is only to beg the question. If you disagree with my arguments, show me how.
With respect to God being a "moral agent," you say that "I can only assume you are using some bizarre, nonstandard definitions of the words “moral” and “agent” here." But in fact we're (Feser, myself, and every classical thesist) using the same definitions you are. We simply deny that God is moral in the univocal sense. To do otherwise would be to hold God to some moral law and to introduce potentiality to him (among other things). You are equating the classical theist's conception of God with the theistic personalist's, but this error is something that is very, very well documented in the secondary literature.
Anyways, this point is admittedly abstract, and requires some time of serious study to grasp. Regardless, as Feser points out in his book, God is perfectly good (p. 216-223). Please note that nowhere in those pages (or indeed anywhere in the book) does Feser say that God is moral, as you would have us believe. You say "he [God] acts morally (e.g. Feser, pp. 297-99)...." but here you are only reading things into Feser, as nowhere in those pages does Feser say this.
And yes, God loves us, ensures justice for us, and performs miracles, but these are not to be understood (and never claimed to be understood as) God being morally good.
[Like a doofus, I completely forgot about what is perhaps the most damning piece of evidence against his reading of Aristotle (i.e. Carrier reads universals as potencies): Metaphysics IX. Ah well.]
I give up! It's hopeless!
I think you better put in one more reply to his nonsense so he doesn't get the idea that he "won" that exchange.
Nick March 20, 2018 at 12:53 PM
Rene. Don't you see? You forgot the first rule. You don't question the Carrier. He's Richard Carrier PhD after all! The rest of us are mere mortals who cannot compete with his dazzling intellect in every area of knowledge that there is!
He'll think that anyway. Plus, call me a wide-eyed philosopher, but it's not really about winning. It's more about helping each other to the truth. I don't think that we can do that.
DARN! That first rule always gets me!
I should note that if anyone is reading this who might be scandalized by Carrier's most recent reply, he's really done nothing but:
1) Changed his position on Aristotle without acknowledging that he did so.
2) Red-Herringed the berries out of the whole Aristotle discussion, as well as the "Christian God" point (here he took my point about question-begging to be about a different topic....)
3) Took me to task for a reference which was never intended to be academic (he even admitted that I admitted this). I figured his understanding of Aristotle was about on the level of a Wikipedia entry. He used to this accuse me of being a bad academic, which, as any good academic will tell you, (especially in the context of a blog comment post and given the circumstances) is never a sign of a good, honest, and charitable academic who is in search of the truth.
4) Accused me and a 1,600 year old tradition of "weird speak" because he couldn't understand either the concepts involved or that the concepts involved might be understood by some people and be legitimate. Rather than attempt to understand these concepts, he simply labelled them as foreign to the English language and refused to interact with them. This, I would argue, is most un-becoming of anyone who calls themselves a thinker. It's equivalent to plugging your ears and yelling. It's dogmatic, unphilosophical, and frankly, rather embarrassing to witness.
I could go on. Given these points, do I think Carrier lost the "debate"? No. We're both losers in this scenario. I came out of it feeling rather sad, really. I thought he was better than this. If there are any winners, it would be those who witnessed what happened, recognized the sophistry and deceit, and came out of it with a greater appreciation for philosophy and truth.
Anyways. That's about all I've got to say about that. I am curious to see if Feser read the exchange, and if I represented his points correctly.
Thanks for reading folks!
I thought you did well considering who you were discussing with. What a pompous twit.
Nick March 21, 2018 at 5:49 AM
Carrier will always think he's won. He's like Monty Python's Black Knight. No matter how badly he's massacred in something, he'll stand up and proclaim victory.
machinephilosophy March 12, 2018 at 7:01 PM
I'm wondering how reason differs from a sort of Mind-God that in some sense obligates people to adhere to it, as if one "ought" to try to be rational both logically and experientially prior to making that attempt itself.
Catholaholic July 2, 2019 at 2:59 PM
machinephilosophy July 3, 2019 at 4:24 PM
The problem of evil is bogus. A simple mistake of the negation of the conclusion being assumes in order to prove it.
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A logo is the face of a brand, and we often buy this or that item because its “face” is well-known to the world. Come on, don’t deny it! As for the best logos, they convey a hidden subtext that represents the company’s values, goals, or history. So, here are 12 world-famous logos with a secret hidden meaning! TIMESTAMPS: Airbnb 1:15 TripAdvisor 2:02 MasterCard 2:55 Dell 3:53 National Geographic 4:26 Vodafone 5:08 Haribo 6:00 Subway 6:37 DC Comics 7:29 Mozilla Firefox 8:15 Bacardi 9:09 Orbit 9:42 Preview photo credit: Firefox logo used since June 2013 (version 23.0 Beta), Previous version of logo, used since Firefox 3.5: By © The Mozilla Foundation, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.es, https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Mozilla_Firefox_logo_2013.svg Animation is created by Bright Side Music: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music SUMMARY: - The logo contains 4 simple yet meaningful elements: the head of a person that represents a user of their site, the sign for a location on a map to show where the house or apartment is, a heart to represent love, and, finally, all of these symbols combine to make the letter “A” for Airbnb. - TripAdvisor’s logo is an owl, which symbolizes wisdom and knowledge. As for its different-colored eyes, they show that each traveler has a choice to make: green means go, and red means no! - The international payment system we all know these days as MasterCard was established in 1966 as Interbank. Red stands for bravery, passion, and for doing what makes you feel joy. The bright yellow symbolizes prosperity. - Ever wonder why the “E” in Dell’s logo is all askew? Well, the founder of the company, Michael Dell, wanted to convey the meaning of the popular idiom “turn the world on its ear,” which means to change something in an exciting way. - National Geographic, the popular magazine and channel that broadcasts documentaries in 171 countries, made its logo a yellow rectangle. The rectangle symbolizes a door that’s open to the world of knowledge about nature, science, and culture. Yellow and bright just like the Sun. - Vodafone is a British mobile provider that operates mostly in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. The company chose a couple of mysterious things for its logo, which looks sort of like an earphone. The designers wanted to show that, with Vodafone, users can talk to each other any time they want. - The Haribo’s founder combined the first 2 letters of his first and last name, Hans Riegel, and added the first 2 letters of his hometown of Bonn. - The arrows on the first and last letters of the Subway logo are there for a reason: they actually stand for the entrance and exit to the subway. This way, the company demonstrates that, with Subway, you can eat on the go, like in the actual subway! - Jim Lee revealed what the new logo of DC Comics actually means. The nooks and angles are meant to evoke the Superman “S” symbol, the Wonder Woman “WW” emblem, and the Bat-Signal. - “Firefox” is the English translation of the Chinese name for a red panda. This way, the company wanted to demonstrate how unique they are because this is a very rare kind of panda that’s actually endangered. - The legend goes that the wife of Bacardi’s co-founder saw a bat in their liquor factory. But instead of getting scared and running for the exit, he took it as a sign and decided that this was exactly what should be on the logo. - If you look closely at the Orbit's logo, you’ll notice that the capital “O” is split into 2 parts: one dark and one light. In the background you can see the image of an orbit. So, it’s clear that the “O” symbolizes day and night and a planet revolving around the Sun. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightgram/ 5-Minute Crafts Youtube: https://www.goo.gl/8JVmuC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me/
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E880 Tina Sharkey CEO Brandless disrupts retail w/ products reflecting consumers' values not brands'
SIGN UP FOR TWIST EPISODES MAILING LIST: http://bit.ly/twistemail E880: Brandless CEO & Co-founder Tina Sharkey (prev., iVillage, AOL) shares how her ecommerce platform eliminates inefficiency, builds community & disrupts retail with products reflecting the values of consumers, not brands; shares insights from early internet, creating a culture of intention, raising $240m from SoftBank Vision Fund & more Follow us on... Twitter: http://twitter.com/twistartups Jason's Twitter: http://twitter.com/jason LAUNCH Twitter: http://twitter.com/launch Instagram: http://instagram.com/twistartups Jason's Instagam: http://instagram.com/jason LAUNCH Instagram: http://instagram.com/jason Connect with Jason on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/ Show notes: 0:46 - Jason introduces Tina Sharkey and her journey to Brandless. 2:22 - Tina discusses the motivation behind Brandless, why there is a distrust with older brands and Brandless’ values 8:35 - Stocking and choosing items at Brandless 11:37 - Jason thanks sponsor Carta. Visit carta.com/twist to receive Carta’s cap table software and a free 409A valuation! 13:48 - Creating a “Brandless Box”, and how and why Brandless bridges content and community 17:37 - Competing with big e-commerce brands like Amazon and Amazon Basics 20:01 - Roadmap for Brandless - subscribe and save and how it will work, how products and packaging will be made environmentally friendly 23:56 - Maintaining a safety and quality integrity in the supply chain the rigorous process to become a Brandless partner 26:19 - Jason thanks sponsor Skillshare. Visit skillshare.com/twist and get two months for just $0.99! 28:30 - The benefits of pop-up shops and the future of retail 34:19 - The importance of community-centred values and kindness at Brandless, and how purpose drives the bottom-line 36:14 - Jason thanks sponsor Four Sigmatic. Visit foursigmatic.com/twist or use discount code “twist” to receive 15% off! 38:32 - The impact of Amazon Prime on consumer behavior, and how it differs from Brandless 45:29 - Questions from listeners: Is Brandless open to partnerships, producers per product, reusable coffee cups 50:05 - Tina gives a tour of the website 53:19 - Tina talks about marketing strategies at Brandless, and shares why D2C is not a channel 56:30 - How Brandless raise money and how that changes running the company, and Brandless image on social media 1:04:41 - The responsibility of the tech industry and it’s connections (Saudi Arabia, Google’s search engine for China)
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a-ha - Take On Me (Official Music Video)
Watch the official music video for a-ha "Take On Me"! At the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, the video for "Take on Me" won six awards—Best New Artist in a Video, Best Concept Video, Most Experimental Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects, and Viewer's Choice—and was nominated for two others, Best Group Video and Video of the Year. Take On Me was also nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Video at the 13th American Music Awards in 1986. Subscribe to the Rhino Channel! http://bit.ly/SubscribeToRHINO Check Out Our Favorite Playlists: Rhino Favorite 100 http://bit.ly/RhinoFavorite100 80s Hits http://bit.ly/80sMusicHits Classic Rock http://bit.ly/ClassicRockFavorites Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha, including the biggest hits + rare and unreleased remixes, is out now! Get your copy here: http://smarturl.it/ahatimeagaincd Stay connected with RHINO on... Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RHINO/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rhino_records Twitter https://twitter.com/Rhino_Records https://www.rhino.com/ Stay connected with a-ha on... http://a-ha.com/ http://www.facebook.com/officialaha https://twitter.com/aha_com RHINO is the official YouTube channel of the greatest music catalog in the world. Founded in 1978, Rhino is the world's leading pop culture label specializing in classic rock, soul, and 80's and 90's alternative. The vast Rhino catalog of more than 5,000 albums, videos, and hit songs features material by Warner Music Group artists such as Van Halen, Duran Duran, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, The Doors, Chicago, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane, Yes, Alice Cooper, Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones, The Monkees, Carly Simon, and Curtis Mayfield, among many others. Check back for classic music videos, live performances, hand-curated playlists, the Rhino Podcast, and more!
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Learn about how our core values shape our culture, straight from Muleys themselves from all over the world. Since the beginning, through the highs and lows, these four core values have always defined us. They define what we call Muley DNA and guide us to be better, help us inspire each other, and drive us to build an amazing company.
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Processo Criativo da marca WorldTech - E-commerce | Brand Design
Projeto completo no Behance: https://www.behance.net/gallery/80033139/WorldTech-Brand-Design Visite meu site: marcoodesign.com.br __ Siga-me nas redes sociais: Instagram: @marcoodesign Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcoodesign Behance: https://www.behance.net/marcoodesign Conceito da marca - The brand concept A WorldTech é um e-commerce de importação voltado para o mundo da informática, onde você encontra produtos exclusivos. Além disso, compartilham as novas tendências do mundo tecnológico, dicas e conteúdos relacionados ao nicho. WorldTech is an import e-commerce aimed at the world of informatics, where you can find exclusive products. In addition, it can share the new tendencies, tips and contents related to the niche from the technological world. __ O projeto origina-se da necessidade de construir uma identidade agradável, atraente e alinhada aos valores da empresa, com o propósito de fortalecer sua comunicabilidade e aguçar o interesse de novos consumidores. A proposta foi elaborar uma marca célebre, impactante, simples e singular. Ou seja, popular, marcante, única e de fácil memorização. This project comes from the necessity to make a nice and attractive identity connected to the company values, in order to consolidate its communicability and to draw the new consumers’ attention. The proposal of it was to elaborate a renowned, shocking, simple and singular brand. In other words, it can be popular, strong, unique and easy to memorize. __ O símbolo é formado por pontos tecnológicos, que ligados entre si transmitem uma perspectiva das letras inicias da marca “WT”. Juntos, esses dois componentes formam um carrinho de compras que representa ramo de e-commerce. Toda essa composição de elementos revelam um só símbolo. O conjunto de formas transmite diferentes atributos e características da marca, tais como tecnologia, compras, consumo, etc. The symbol is formed by technological points, which linked between each other can show a perspective of the initial letters from “WT” brand. These two components make one shopping basket which represents a branch in the e-commerce when they linked to each other. All of this elemental composition reveals a single symbol. The range of forms transmits different attributes and characteristics of the brand, such as technology, shopping, consumption, etc. __ Edição e roteiro: Marcos Vinícius Filmagem: Vinícius Rocha @vinivini13 Tradução: Gabriel Oliveira @biel0cj
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Fashion Lines & Deadlines: "Relatively Nat & Liv" Recap (S1, Ep7) | E!
Tensions rise as Natalie Halcro & Olivia Pierson face looming deadlines for their fashion line. Can they get back on the same page before the finale? #RelativelyNatAndLiv #EEntertainment #NatalieHalcro #OliviaPierson #NatandLiv SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/Eentsub About Relatively Nat & Liv: Relatively Nat & Liv follows Instagram personalities Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson to their Vancouver hometown to meet their extended family. From millennial existential crises to insta-influencers to drag queens, this unconventional family of cousins takes on the ups and downs of today’s fresh chaos together. Relatively Nat & Liv Brand New Tuesdays 8/7c only on E! About E! Entertainment: E! is on the Pulse of Pop Culture, bringing fans the very best original content including reality series, topical programming, exclusive specials, breaking entertainment news, and more. Passionate viewers can’t get enough of our Pop Culture hits including "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Total Divas,” and “Very Cavallari.” And with new original programming on the way, fans have even more to love. Connect with E! Entertainment: Visit the E! WEBSITE: http://eonli.ne/1iX6d8n Like E! on FACEBOOK: http://eonli.ne/facebook Check out E! on INSTAGRAM: http://eonli.ne/IG Follow E! on TWITTER: http://eonli.ne/twitter Follow E! on Spotify: http://eonli.ne/spotify Fashion Lines & Deadlines: "Relatively Nat & Liv" Recap (S1, Ep7) | E! http://www.youtube.com/user/Eentertainment
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Building Your Personal Brand From Scratch | Creator Advocate Workshop
How to Build a Personal Brand From Scratch. Building a Personal Brand is a powerful advantage in today's world, and your personal brand is leverage as a creator. Your content is your body of work and your story gives people context on who you are and your values. Building Your Personal Brand matters, whether you realize it or not, whether you leverage it or not. DOWNLOAD SLIDE DECK: https://www.slideshare.net/robertoblake/personal-branding-from-scratch-creator-advocate-workshop BEST TOOL TO GROW A YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://tubebuddy.com/awesome GET THE YOUTUBE STARTER KIT http://bit.ly/youtuberstarterkit DISCOUNT CODE: FORFIFTY MY YOUTUBE SETUP https://kit.com/robertoblake/youtube-setup-2017 JOIN MY GROUP MENTORING PROGRAM! https://www.awesomecreatoracademy.com/store/Wtbg6kG3 INVEST IN BITCOIN WITH COINSBASE! http://bit.ly/startcoinbasenow CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE http://robertoblake.com http://twitter.com/robertoblake http://facebook.com/robertoblake2 http://periscope.tv/robertoblake http://instagram.com/robertoblake Disclaimers: all opinions are my own, sponsors are acknowledged. Links in the description are typically affiliate links that let you help support the channel at no extra cost.
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James E. Arnold & Associates Core Values: Ethics
Alvin Mathews explains the ethics/professional responsibility practice area. James E. Arnold & Associates, LPA values the importance of high standards and helps law firms and law departments meet their ethical responsibilities.
Natalie Halcro Gets the "Plague": "Relatively Nat & Liv" Recap (S1, Ep4) | E!
The "Nat & Liv" star really needs a sick day & Olivia Pierson needs her to pull it together before their big photo shoot. When in London! #RelativelyNatAndLiv #EEntertainment #NatalieHalcro #OliviaPierson #NatandLiv SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/Eentsub About Relatively Nat & Liv: Relatively Nat & Liv follows Instagram personalities Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson to their Vancouver hometown to meet their extended family. From millennial existential crises to insta-influencers to drag queens, this unconventional family of cousins takes on the ups and downs of today’s fresh chaos together. Relatively Nat & Liv Brand New Tuesdays 8/7c only on E! About E! Entertainment: E! is on the Pulse of Pop Culture, bringing fans the very best original content including reality series, topical programming, exclusive specials, breaking entertainment news, and more. Passionate viewers can’t get enough of our Pop Culture hits including "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Total Divas,” and “Very Cavallari.” And with new original programming on the way, fans have even more to love. Connect with E! Entertainment: Visit the E! WEBSITE: http://eonli.ne/1iX6d8n Like E! on FACEBOOK: http://eonli.ne/facebook Check out E! on INSTAGRAM: http://eonli.ne/IG Follow E! on TWITTER: http://eonli.ne/twitter Follow E! on Spotify: http://eonli.ne/spotify Natalie Halcro Gets the "Plague": "Relatively Nat & Liv" Recap (S1, Ep4) | E! http://www.youtube.com/user/Eentertainment
Jade Roller vs. Gua Sha | NO Wrinkles NO Breakouts! | aja dang
I'm Aja Dang and this skincare video is all about the Jade Roller vs. Facial Gua Sha. These are "trendy" skincare products that are believed to help with anti-aging, give a boost of moisturize to your skin and helps prevent acne, giving you flawless, younger looking skin. But which product is better? •SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL• http://bit.ly/SubAjaDang •STAY CONNECTED• Instagram: http://bit.ly/IGAjaDang Twitter: http://bit.ly/TweetAjaDang Facebook: http://bit.ly/FBAjaDang Snapchat: ajadang •PRODUCTS• FACIAL GUA SHA: https://amzn.to/2L79XeB JADE ROLLER: https://amzn.to/2uj8GHE
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Stewart Lee -- Values of the Car Phone Warehouse
A clip about the Big Brother racism scandal. I've never laughed so hard at just the word "no." From Stewart Lee's hilarious "41st Best Stand Up".
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What is Superbrands TV?
What is Superbrands TV? Superbrands TV is a service offered exclusively to Superbrands members around the world. Superbrands TV is a perfect complement to the Superbrands publication which promotes the unique: Brand Stories; Achievements; Products and Services; Brand Values; and 'Superbrands Status' to an interested audience of consumers and decision makers. Superbrands TV has already produced more than 160 brand videos for the strongest and most valuable brands across more than 30 different industry sectors in more than 26 countries which have generated around 6 million video views so far. Superbrands TV has helped numerous clients create powerful digital promotions for their brand's. Clients have linked their SBTV brand videos to websites news feeds and email signatures to promote their interesting and unique brand stories and 'Superbrands Status'. Many have informed their consumers suppliers and staff about their 'Superbrands Status' by linking their brand video to social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube. Our Superbrands TV clients have also used their brand videos at trade shows, conventions and conferences to educate key decision-makers about the brand and its products. Some brands use the brand video as an infomercial on local television, and beside products at retail stores to promote specific products. Various SBTV clients have also used their QR code alongside their Superbrands Award Seal on print advertisements and product packaging which can be scanned by smartphones and tablets. Superbrands TV allows leading brands to bring their brand stories from the Superbrands publications to life through interesting and informative brand productions. Superbrands, the most respected universal seal of enduring excellence. ----- Subscribe to Superbrands TV today: YouTube: https://goo.gl/U6IfvF Facebook: https://goo.gl/wrBqkk Facebook (Superbrands Limited): https://goo.gl/twsdui Instagram: https://goo.gl/DZmRw1 ------ #superbrands #superbrandstv
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Joel Osteen - Recognizing Your Value
Too often, we base our value on how somebody is treating us, how successful we are, or how perfectly we have lived our life. The problem is that all of those things can change. Joel wants to show you how your value doesn’t come from people or things; it comes from your Creator. You may feel average today, but 1 John 4:4 says, “You belong to God.” You are extremely valuable! Learn to recognize your value in who God made you to be and how He sees you. You are a child of the Most High God! This message will give you a fresh, new confidence in who God made you to be. This is Message #724 “Recognizing Your Value“ by Joel Osteen. For more inspirational messages, visit https://www.JoelOsteen.com/Messages
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10 Future Concept Cars YOU MUST SEE
10 Future Concept Cars YOU MUST SEE ---------------------- Look Also: ⬇️ ---------------------- 10 Future Motorcycles YOU MUST SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twNGcK3HaEY 10 Future Trucks & Buses YOU MUST SEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Eiykf44134 ---------------------- #1 Mercedes-Benz Vision EQ Silver Arrow : The Vision EQ Silver Arrow show car celebrates its world premiere. The one-seater vehicle is an homage to the record-breaking W 125 car from 1937. Offering exceptional traction and correspondingly fast acceleration, the Vision EQ Silver Arrow has slick 255/25 R 24 tyres at the front and 305/25 R 26 tyres at the rear. https://www.youtube.com/user/MercedesBenzTV http://bit.ly/2WvlEOR #2 Toyota Concept-i : Designed from the inside out, Toyota Concept-i is an exciting glimpse into a future mobility that is warm, friendly and revolves around you. A car that is always at the drivers' side and understands them by learning about people through estimating their emotions, alertness, and individual preferences. The more time the driver and car spend together, the more data will be accumulated and the more attuned the car will be to the driver's sensitivity. https://www.youtube.com/user/ToyotaUSA https://toyota.us/2VcrEdQ #3 Audi Aicon Concept : The Audi Aicon is an all-arounder well prepared for its primary task: to offer a maximum of comfort, communications technology and freedom for its occupants during a long journey. It combines the scopes for autonomous driving in an urban environment and on the highway with an unprecedented range for an electric drive. https://www.youtube.com/user/Audi http://bit.ly/2H9vuk8 #4 Mercedes-Benz Concept IAA : The Mercedes-Benz “Concept IAA” (Intelligent Aerodynamic Automobile) is two cars in one: an aerodynamics world champion with a Cd value of 0.19 and a four-door coupe embodying irresistible design. https://www.youtube.com/user/MercedesBenzTV http://bit.ly/2VVGsSr #5 Honda NeuV : The NeuV proposes new value for its owner by functioning as an automated ride-sharing vehicle, picking up and dropping off customers at local destinations when the owner is not using the car. The vehicle can also sell energy back to the electric grid during times of high demand when it’s not in use. https://www.youtube.com/user/HondaJPPR http://bit.ly/2Vs9CJp #6 Audi PB18 E-Tron : For the first time, Audi is presenting a design and technical concept car at Pebble Beach Automotive Week in Monterey, California. The all-electric Audi PB18 e-tron presents a radical vision for the high-performance sports car of tomorrow. Broad and flat, visibly inspired by the wind tunnel and the race track, its very presence signals that it is destined to push boundaries. https://www.youtube.com/user/Audi http://bit.ly/2V5p7lv #7 BMW Vision Next 100 : The BMW brand epitomises Sheer Driving Pleasure – past, present and into the next 100 years. BMW aims to make this fascinating driving experience even more intense in the future. The driver is in constant communication with the vehicle in an intuitive and natural way. At the same time, the vehicle expands the driver’s range of perception and transforms him or her into the “Ultimate Driver” – the best driver they can possibly be. https://www.youtube.com/user/BMW http://bit.ly/2HhyYT1 #8 MINI Vision Next 100 : In a future where a single MINI can be shared amongst everyone, a new generation of technology enables the car to always look and feel like your own. Parts of the exterior surfaces transform to suit your personal preferences and beam a personalised greeting as you approach it. https://www.youtube.com/user/MINI http://bit.ly/2YiW5RE #9 Mercedes-Benz Concept EQ : At the Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its new product brand for electric mobility: EQ. The name EQ stands for “Electric Intelligence” and is derived from the Mercedes-Benz brand values of “Emotion and Intelligence”. https://www.youtube.com/user/MercedesBenzTV http://bit.ly/2VNJMiz #10 Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100 : Rolls-Royce 103EX is the first ever vision vehicle, and embodies just one of the endless possibilities that awaits. A personalised icon for the future, providing a sanctuary of calm in an ever-faster world. https://www.youtube.com/user/RollsRoyceMotorCars http://bit.ly/2Jau1gg ----------------------- 🎵 Music List: ----------------------- Evan King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfYyKlqXcLw Ender Guney Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHEioEoqyFPsOiW8CepDaYg Youtube Audio Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqsBh1AzU4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtfxylfFDPo Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYE--R4uDY --------------------------------- Thanks for watching, Please Subscribe :))
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These 2 Bts member are in top 2 in brand values in November.Guess who are they
Jimin, V, and Kang Daniel top individual boy group member brand values in NovemberPLEASE MAIL ME FOR COPYRIGHT MATTERS AND BUSINESS MATTERS AT:[email protected] THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING ALWAYS BE UPDATED 1ST SO WHY NOT SUBSCRIBE SUBSCRIBE HERE NOW:: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6h_g9PTh4FcuCrbghYGs-g ............................................................................................................. FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM https://instagram.com/koreandrmtrend FOLLOW MY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE;; https://www.facebook.com/koreandrmtrend/
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Levi Roots - Brand values
Levi Roots talks about the value of your business, your brand and yourself. For more tips and advice check out Levi's inspirational business book You Can Get It If You Really Want.
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The Toxic E-Waste Trade Killing Pakistan's Poorest
The E-Waste Curse: The deadly effect of dumping E-waste in Pakistan Pakistan has become an illegal dumping ground for some of the 50 million tons of e-waste created each year. Karachi's poor earn a living from the toxic detritus, but the vicious cycle of consumption could prove fatal. In Pakistan, the massive arrival of electronic waste has created an informal substance economy that feeds 150,000 people. The country's poor salvage what they can from the cast-offs of the electronic revolution: copper, steel, brass. Nassir is one who has cashed in on the opportunities found in old cables and hard-drives. "It’s a good business. I have more and more work", he says. Yet workers pay the price for a few grams of copper; 4 million people die every year because of electronic waste and recycling workers have the lowest life expectancy in Pakistan. In his recycling shop, Akhbar earns 2€ on a good day. It feeds his family of six, but his health has suffered. "This job is dangerous. It’s very toxic". And the toxic legacy is far-reaching - "It’s a catastrophe...especially for the children", warns Saba, an activist for the WWF. "They will continue to live here and be poisoned, it’s dangerous for them and it’s dangerous for the next generations". In our relentlessly consumerist world, can the global poor be saved from the toxic trade in e-waste? For similar stories, see: Pakistanis Are Pinning Their Economic Hopes on Upcoming Elections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVBjVxtEg0 Ordinary Pakistanis Live Under the Thumb of the Taliban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaAsRzFsJQ Is Pakistan Protecting The Taliban? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3d_6XZosSE Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/6832/the-e-waste-curse Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Wild Angle Productions – Ref. 6832 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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Simon Sinek: How to Build a Company That People Want to Work For | Inc. Magazine
Simon Sinek, author of Start With Why, explains to Inc. features editor Diana Ransom why great leaders give their employees the space and responsibilities to grow. Click here to watch part 2 | Simon Sinek: The Common Email Mistake that Ruins Workplace Morale http://www.inc.com/simon-sinek/how-to-build-a-company-that-people-want-to-work-for.html#t=18:52 Subscribe to Inc.'s channel, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/incmagazine?sub_confirmation=1 Get social with Inc. on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Inc Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inc G+: https://plus.google.com/+incmagazine/posts Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inc--magazine Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/incmagazine/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/incmagazine/
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Ducati by Imetec: la nuova linea di tagliacapelli e regolabarba - BRAND MANIFESTO 2018 -
Two great Italian names, a new brand, a unique logo and most importantly a new and exclusive range of high-tech men’s products for improved hair, face and body care. Brand Manifesto 2018 Imetec, in collaboration with Ducati, launches the new DUCATI BY IMETEC brand into the world of men’s body care, featuring an iconic, aspirational and unique range of hair and beard trimmers designed for men who like to embrace life’s twists and turns. Shared values such as Italianness, quality design and technology are at the heart of this partnership between Imetec and Ducati, along with the constant drive to create something unique and highly performant. The Ducati By Imetec range was created through close collaboration with the Ducati Design Center: a guarantee of design excellence, attention to detail and passion. Care over every single detail makes each product unique. Ducati by Imetec is for men who want to spice up their predictable, straightforward lifestyles and embrace life’s twists and turns with gusto, using Made In Italy technology and design. #DUCATIBYIMETEC #CURVESLOVERWANTED
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Design Is Not A Luxury with Wendover Productions | Squarespace Values (Ep. 6)
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Akshay Kumar, Ashvini Yardi’s ’72 Miles Ek Pravas’ in the news
January 2, 2014 Editorial
AKSHAY KUMAR & ASHVINI YARDI’S FIRST REGIONAL FILM,
’72 MILES EK PRAVAS’ SELECTED FOR THE
PRESTIGEOUS ‘PUNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL’
Second international screening for the Late Rajeev Patil directed ’72 Miles Ek Pravas’
After taking the world by storm with their first Bollywood Film Production OMG Oh My God, Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi have embarked on a journey of creating milestones in the entertainment industry with their regional ventures, 72 Miles Ek Pravas, a critically acclaimed Marathi regional film, and Bhaji in Problem, a Punjabi regional film which has garnered admiration internationally.
72 Miles Ek Pravas received positive feedback from international audiences when it was shortlisted at the celebrated London Indian Film Festival. Grazing Goat Pictures has now etched another feather in its hat with the film having its second reputable screening at the illustrious ‘12th Pune International Film Festival’ (PIFF). Of the 500 entries in the international feature competition section for PIFF, 14 films have been shortlisted. Out of 35 entries in the Marathi feature competition, only seven movies have been selected, one of which being 72 Miles Ek Pravas, alongside national award-winning filmmaker Nagraj Manjule’s ‘Fandry’, Aditya Sarpotdar’s ‘Narbachiwadi’, Laxman Utekar’s ‘Tapaal’, Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukhtankar’s ‘Astu’, and ‘Rege’ by Abhijit Panse. Other categories at the festival include, World Competition, Animation, Live Action, Global Cinema 73, Country Focus, Retrospective, Indian Cinema Today, Legends We Remember, Tribute, Special Screening: NFDC and Gems from NFAI.
72 Miles Ek Pravas, which was the duo’s debut into regional film fraternity, has stirred waves with its conceptual excellence and moving screenplay. A hard-hitting, poignant tale of a young boy who makes his journey into self-actualization against the backdrop of a rustic India, 72 Miles Ek Pravas, explores a beautiful, coming of age journey for the 13 year old boy Ashok and the companionable relationships he makes through his journey.
Akshay and Ashvini are confident that their film will touch the hearts of the audiences at the PIFF and give them a visual introspect of Ashok Vatkar’s autobiography. Inspired from the novel with the same name, 72 Miles Ek Pravas explores the impact of a woman named Raddhakka, on protagonist Ashok.
Commenting on the film Ashvini said, “We at Grazing Goat Pictures couldn’t have asked for a better end to 2013 and start in 2014. This has been an eventful year for us and to end it on such a positive note has just strengthened our plans further to bring quality entertainment to our audiences. Starting out with OMG which received a phenomenal response followed by the hard hitting 72 Miles Ek Pravas and then ending the year on a lighter note with Bhaji in Problem, this year has been greatly rewarding. However we lost one of our precious jewels Mr. Rajeev Patil which was the greatest loss to our team. We pay our tribute to him and the great work that he has contributed to the Indian film Industry which we can very proudly showcase at such an extensive platform”.
Commenting on the film, Akshay Kumar said, “72 Miles marks our first regional film and we’re delighted at the great honour and prestige the film has brought to the entire team of Grazing Goat Pictures. This project would have not been what it is today without Mr. Rajeev Patil’s impeccable direction and contribution to the film. We hope to continue the legacy and generate entertainment with great substance which will connect with our audiences. We would like to thank all audiences for all the love and appreciation they have bestowed upon us.”
Spearheading investment into quality, subject-driven, film-making, Grazing Goat Pictures is taking Hindi and regional cinema to new heights with a range of innovative and fresh projects. Renowned for thought-provoking, unique and emotive film making across boundaries and genres, Grazing Goat Pictures delves deep to bring the audience films that are cutting edge and high-concept, resonating with multiple audiences domestically and across shores.
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Playing card: Horse of Sticks
Solis, Virgilius, the elder, 1514-1562
Date Depicted:
1500 AD - 1699 AD
At its high point, the fashion for puffs and slashes leaves no area untouched.
Male dress during the Reformation is balanced and virile. The silhouette is a large square box set on widely spaced legs. Horizontal and vertical borders divide the square areas into smaller boxes, placing the emphasis on the horizontal. The borders are of contrasting color in fur or geometric line decorations. Slashes and puffs, so essential to the Renaissance silhouette, are secondary features. They are arranged symmetrically in allover patterns. The elegant man dresses in layers. The bottom layer is the shirt. It is made of fine white linen or changeable taffeta. Colored embroidery in red, blue, black or gold radiates from the neck, creating spoke like patterns. At first the neckline is low, collarless, and finished in a shirred ruffle. As the period progresses, the ruffled edge moves up to the base of the neck. Wide, full sleeves are gathered into a wristband or finished in a ruffle. The second layer is the doublet, almost a prototype of the modern vest. Similar to the High Italian Renaissance version, it is skirtless and styled in a variety of ways: square necked, double breasted, or opened to a deep V and laced up the front. Usually it has sleeves which are tied into the armhole. Even when another layer goes on top of the doublet, the center front and lower part of the sleeves show through. The jerkin, a prototype of a jacket, is the third layer. Like the jerkin introduced during the High Renaissance, it has a pleated skirt which varies in length from the thigh to a little above the knee. Lapels are often faced in fur. Sleeves are deep puffs which end above the elbow. Retained is the shoulder roll or crescent, into which the sleeves are tied. The coat, an unbelted full gown, is the fourth layer. For indoors or out, it is knee length or longer. It has an important collar which is square across the back, wide at the shoulders, and tapers to the hem in front. Extra fullness is sometimes pleated into a yoke. Sleeves are optional. The most typical sleeve has very large puffs with attached pendants. Another popular sleeve, often lined in fur, is large, open, and hanging. The upper and nether stocks are new leg coverings. Upper stocks (haut-de-chausee) are fitted breeches which begin above the knee. Nether stocks (bas-de-chausee) are tights or hose. A codpiece is always visible. It is decorative, matches the fabric of the jerkin, and is attached with ties or buckles. Jewelry is of great importance. It includes wide chain necklaces which hang over the coat from shoulder to shoulder, medallions often placed decoratively on the beret, and rings. Shoes have a very square toe and are without heels. They are embroidered and/or slashed at the toe and often have ankle straps.
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Prints -- Germany -- 16th century -- (YVRC)
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The Foundation for Democracy in Iran is a U.S. organization. Several of its Board Members are current or former CIA assets, including former CIA Director Wollsey and former Defense intelligence operative Frank Gaffney, and others are openly affiliated with the Mossad intelligence agency, including Menashe Amir. FDI was founded in 1995 by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Peter W. Rodman, Joshua Muravchik and American intelligence officials advocating regime change in Iran.
Recently, the group gained attention for a lawsuit it brought in the Southern District of New York for Manhattan alleging that Iran was behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
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In 2005, the website reported sources said that Iran "is planning a nuclear weapons test before the Iranian New Year on March 20, 2006", whereas a 2005 assessment by the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded "if Iran threw caution to the wind, and sought a nuclear weapon capability as quickly as possible without regard for international reaction, it might be able to produce enough HEU for a single nuclear weapon by the end of this decade" assuming no technical problems .
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http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/33910/180
It appears that he will be playing for a club in the top league of Italy
Wow. My favorite city in the world .... I can't even imagine what it would be like to have had my first job be to play in Rome, 18 years old, with a pocketful of cash ... It's sure going to be interesting to see how this plays out ...
ZagManFan
Is there any word on the salary he will get?
I totally agree ZN...what an opportunity to live in Rome for a year. However, I hope he understands the true adjustment he will be making.....a lot of times DVD's will be his best friend while he is abroad. No more ESPN and other basic things that he probably takes for granted.
Although I am a little jealous that he gets to support my favorite soccer club AS Roma and attend games at the Stadio Olimpico
MedZag
I can vouch though that italian TV, even though it has no ESPN, is awesome.
ZagNut08
with slingbox, he can have tv at his fingertips assuming he has a laptop and internet
http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=435574
Playing in Italy could be riskier than Jennings imagines
Upon getting word Brandon Jennings was about to sign a contract to play point guard for Roma in the Italian Serie A, Bill Neff decided to place a phone call. Think of it as his good deed for the day.
And yes, agents do good deeds, too.
Neff called Jeffrey Valle, the attorney who was advising Jennings on the matter of abandoning his commitment to play basketball at the University of Arizona and instead starting his professional career in Europe. Neff wanted Valle to know what he knows about Roma -- a franchise Neff now refuses to deal with in his role as a representative for more than 20 professional basketball players as president of Saga Sports.
"It's just too dishonest a situation," Neff said.
Alas, Valle did not return the call. So he can read about the challenges of European basketball the same as you.
It began with a player named Bill Edwards, a 6-8 forward from Wright State, who saw action in 22 games with the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1993-94 season but otherwise has spent his entire professional career playing overseas. Neff said Edwards was playing for Roma in 1997 on a $500,000 contract when he tested positive during a playoff series for a banned stimulant.
Edwards said it was an over-the-counter product he got from a health food store and that he barely exceeded the legal limit.
"At the time, I had no idea what ephedrine was," he said.
The offense wasn't viewed as especially grievous; his penalty was a one-game suspension. Roma was pleased enough to get him back that Edwards practiced regularly and played three more games after returning, but the team lost the series.
"As soon as the season was over it was like, 'We're not paying you nothing. See you later,' " Edwards said. He claims he was owed $150,000 by that point but never saw another dime.
Neff said it wasn't as simple as reneging on a contract -- instead Roma tried to claim the contract didn't exist. He explained the club tried to avoid paying taxes by signing Edwards to two separate contracts: the league contract (a smaller amount) and the image contract (substantially more, payable to a company from which Neff disbursed checks to Edwards).
Neff and Edwards took up Roma on a challenge to sue and won a judgment in an Italian court worth $230,000. The club declined to pay as it pursued appeals.
"The thing that bothered me the most was they tried to contend the image contract did not exist," Neff said.
He said he had written documents that proved there was such a contract.
"They pretended they were forged," Neff said.
SportingNews.com was unable to contact the team for comment.
He had U.S. tax documents that showed Edwards had earned more from Roma than the league contract would indicate - Neff always has his clients declare the full amount of their income to the IRS -- but the team continued its dispute.
"They kept suing, we kept winning," Neff said. "At the end of the day, seven years later, they got the judgment overturned."
Roma eventually decided to come after Neff and Edwards for legal fees and won a judgment in a U.S. court for $20,000. Edwards decided to quit the fight after that.
"Until they look to enforce it, I'm not going to pay," Neff said. "If they want to do business with me, take the $20,000 off the table and we can do business.
"They have a history of not paying. It's a great city. I love Rome. But you have that uncertainty."
Although Edwards said players getting stiffed on payments "is like a routine now" with European teams, he played in Greece, France and Spain after leaving Italy and never experienced anything as frustrating as what occurred with Roma.
"I got a lot of gray hair from it to say the least."
Neff's years of experience dealing with European basketball led him to believe Jennings -- and those advising him -- are making a mistake pursuing this course.
"People send players overseas when you can't get into the NBA," Neff said. "It's like your safe school. It's your second choice.
"You have a lot of elements that could derail his career. It's way too much risk for too little payoff."
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Is Brandon Derrick Rose good? Micheal Beasley good?
or say... Darius Washington III good?
who does he compare to?
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Getting paid to play is more than he'd get in the U.S. Do that for one or two years then go to the NBA (assuming he's good enough). Seems like a decent route to me if you can't acedemically qualify.
Brandon Jennings is not Derrick Rose/Michael Beasley good. He's not even Eric Gordon good. Which isn't to say that he won't eventually be really good, but it's going to take him more time to develop, not only in terms of his game, but in terms of his body. He's also a bit small for a projected NBA point.
Assuming Jennings puts his name in 2009 draft, he's a complete lock to be a 1st round pick. Lottery is certainly possible. nbadraft.net has him going at #11.
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Postby matt » 02 Oct 2017, 13:52
are you buddies still playing destiny John? we managed a trials of the nine last night but quickly got our arses handed to us.
Postby Johnmcl7 » 02 Oct 2017, 17:30
matt wrote: Source of the post are you buddies still playing destiny John? we managed a trials of the nine last night but quickly got our arses handed to us.
I don't think Andy will be as he just tags along with Ben for a bit until he's had enough, he's not played Destiny properly since House of Wolves. Ben usually likes to get the achievements done so I'd think he'll try and get the raid done before he finishes up although he found it frustrating doing Rise of Iron with LFG's.
I'm struggling a bit in Titanfall2 as the population has nosedived since Destiny 2 came out and the quality of other players has also plummeted which was ok with the stronger or more general purpose titans but it's becoming almost impossible now I'm onto the specialist titans.
I fired up Destiny 1 as two years later the exclusive Sony content has been finally released for the Xbox One. If that isn't silly enough what's even better about this deal is that it wasn't just bad for Xbox One players but also Sony players as well, their exclusive strike couldn't be the weekly nightfall, the weekly exotic vendor couldn't sell the exclusive exotics, the weekly trials map couldn't be the exclusive one etc. (well technically it all could but Bungie were too lazy to program a fall back for the Xbox platform to allow the Sony users to have their exclusives as a weekly special). On top of all that the strike is very basic and just feels like a bit of copy and paste work although not seen the exotics yet as they're random and no way I'm spending the time trying to get them.
I was going past the door to the Vault of Glass and I saw a level 23 player who was on his own and had started the raid, unsurprisingly he was just getting repeatedly mauled by the Praetoriams. I felt a bit sad that I'll probably never go through that door again either and that one of the best pieces of co-op gaming lies there in silence ever more.
john, I'd be up for another raid if we can get numbers up.
I did manage to get a vault of glass raid done last night and while it is tempting to do a level 390 version where it's a challenge again, I was reminded of the pain of using LFG and don't want to go back there.
I think I'm done with Titanfall 2 as I've finished levelling the sniper titan and the often poor quality of random players means I don't fancy my chances of progressing with the close combat or support titans. It's difficult as the game population is dropping fast and suspect if I decided to pick it up again later there will be no-one playing. I also think I'm done with Forza Horizon 3 although got a good few hours out of it and 'finished' the main game and both DLC's, having said that it's a good game to dip in and out of. It's a shame loot boxes seemed to have infested Forza 7 in a bad way as changing your settings no longer increases your reward which has been a key part of Forza in the past and one I thought worked well, turning down the assists and similar to make the game more challenging would be worth it as you'd progress quicker. Now you have to increase your credit bonuses through 'mods' which you get through loot boxes
After picking up the Switch to play Stardew Valley and MK8 I felt perhaps it was a mistake given I'd played both games a ton particularly when i started up a fresh new farm in Stardew Valley and was starting from scratch and had to do everything again. Then those feelings quickly faded as I got into the game and started work on my farm. On the face of it the game looks just like Harvest Moon or even just Farmville but the simple graphics hide a surprisingly complex little game that mixes in a lot of different gameplay on top of farming element. For your farm itself you can obviously grow crops and keep animals but there's a minecraft element in harvest resources, there's fishing, there's levelling up and getting access to new items, you can make decorative items to make your farm look better, there's a sims type aspect where you interact with the villagers and maintain your relationship and there's a dungeon crawler element where you work through a series of mines to get fight enemies and get more resources.
Usually doing that is a terrible idea and the game ends up being too watered down but somehow Stardew Valley pulls it all off. It does feel like there's far too much to do and difficult to know what to do but it's best just to focus on a few activities and work on that as there's no way to fail at the game so if things go pear shaped it doesn't really matter.
Despite my last post I decided to get back into Titanfall and slogging through with my close quarters titan which I planned to get fully levelled and finish with it, he's the only titan I haven't really enjoyed as he's so weak, he doesn't seem to do that much damage and his super is also weak to the degree I don't even use it as it tended to get me killed. However on unlocking his final upgrade, he suddenly all makes sense as during his super attacks with the sword regenerate health as well as doubling the duration of the super plus there's an option to have titan kills extend the super. Essentially that means you can beat the hell out of the titans and as long as you keep doing as much damage as you're receiving you can stay alive and keep the super going, in some cases for almost the entire wave as the high speed of the titan means he can sprint over to the next group of titans, tear them to shreds and then move onto the next. In my first game I was dropped into a game halfway through and once I'd got going with the super I was actually disappointed when the Victory screen came up and it was done although amused to notice I had the highest score.
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Postby HughMull » 25 Oct 2017, 17:27
I'm playing Middle-earth: Shadow of Lootcrates. Jokes aside, the game is still fun. The combat is superb.
Postby Johnmcl7 » 18 Nov 2017, 03:43
I've just one Titan left in Titanfall 2 to get up to the 10th level on its tenth respawn so they can get some shiny black armour and weapon skin then just need to get my pilot up to re-up 10 as well so he can match. I keep looking for excuses to keep on playing although partially because the game is about finished and if I come back to it later I doubt there will be anyone left playing it.
Although Bomberman seemed a bit overpriced I gave it a go although so far I can't stand it at all and wondering whether to return it as I've a 48 hour window for return and I'm away tomorrow afternoon. The single player mode is awful and the online mode seems to be dead, it seems local multiplayer is where it's at and I guess no surprise. I should have done a bit more research before buying it.
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Postby Replicant » 18 Dec 2017, 14:05
I bought Rocket League for the Switch as its on sale at the moment (£11.28).
Well what an awesome game. I have played it loads over the weekend. So simple to play yet also a lot to master to be a true great. A lot like Speedball 2 or International Superstar Soccer used to be like back in the day before stats and all that other fancy cr@p that gets in the way of gameplay. Even better is that I can play against my son on his XBONE version of the game.
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Postby Johnmcl7 » 19 Dec 2017, 02:59
It says something when Nintendo are doing better cross play than Sony, I've seen a lot of recommendations for Rocket League which seems a relatively simple idea but well designed and extremely polished although don't think it's my thing.
I've still been playing Mario Odyssey off and on but it's not really getting me hooked on it.
I thought I'd try Fortnite: Battle Royale since it's free and I'm curious about the main game so thought this would give me a feel for it but it was wait for all the intro stuff, spawn in then die, wait 15 minutes, go through the intro again, spawn in and die then quit and play Titanfall 2 instead. Apparently Matt reckons you still get the match rewards if you quit and go to the next match but I'm really not seeing the appeal of this game.
I'm ashamed to admit the game I'm hooked on again is Euro Truck Simulator 2 which I've now clocked up over 200 hours on and it's the only game I can think of I get excited for all the DLC and immediately buy it. This time it offers an expansion into Italy and a separate DLC for oversized cargo. The latter unlocks the option gigantic items where you get your own escort vehicles and there's a lot of nice little touches, when the truck/trailer is being prepped there's crowds around watching the load leave, as you drive along police cars block off various junctions while drivers are out of their queued up cars to watch the load go by and the massive trailers can be a challenge to drive as they have a lot of wheels most of which have their own steering. There's something oddly relaxing in firing up the truck and hearing the 16 litre engine grumble away and doing the various jobs which I can't quite explain as I've no idea why I want to play this game so much.
Postby Johnmcl7 » 15 Jan 2018, 00:01
I've been needing to stop playing Titanfall 2 so decided to fire up a couple of my Steam sale purchases, Planet Coaster and Hollow Knight. Planet Coaster unfortunately became the second game I refunded on Steam, it looks good but it's a very difficult game to get into. I started off in the career mode choosing the first beginner scenario and was thrust into a theme park with issues on one of the food booth or something, there was nothing to indicate where this problem was or what I should do about it though. I tried the sandbox mode instead but the only hint it gave me was the basic controls...nothing else. I had a hunt online and it seems you're meant to watch various videos to get an idea on how to start which I don't think is acceptable for a £30 game of this type.
Hollow Knight is a metroidvania style game which I decided to try as Ori and the Blind Forest, another Metroidvania style game which has been one of my favourite games of recent times. Hollow Knight is also a difficult game to get into although more intentionally, I spent the first couple of hours getting lost and not really sure what I should be doing, looked up a guide and found I should have returned back to the start shortly into the game to get a tool to help with the map I couldn't make sense of. I'm getting through it but it feels a long way behind Ori, it's nowhere near as pretty or visually stunning, it's much more difficult to work out what you are supposed to be doing plus crucially while it shares a similar difficulty level to Ori, the controls aren't as tight and you're punished much more for dying. Ori balances its punishing game play by allowing you create frequent save points but Hollw Knight doesn't and some of the save points are very far apart. There's some tough boss fights which I've given up on because each time I die, it takes me so far back I can't be bothered doing all the level in the meantime to get back to the boss and just die.
Going way back I hopped back into Halo Reach which aside from very few people playing, is still a surprising good game. The foundations for Destiny are very obvious with the same excellent gameplay and a lot of the AI is just the same but it's so much better than the current Destiny in so many ways. The Firefight Horde mode is simple but it works so well from the Arcade mode that gives you unlimited heavy weapons to the tough limited mode and there's a great range of PvP modes as well with the multi-team modes putting together four teams of three as mad and chaotic as always. Also unlike the trend for current games to have tougher enemies as bullet sponges, the top Reach enemies can still be taken down with two or three accurate shots with the difficulty coming from them being evasive, accurate and having their own armour abilities. It's just a bit sad with multiplayer games that you can't go back to them years later, Titanfall 2 is dying out at the moment and suspect in a few months it will be pretty much dead.
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Postby scarbunny » 15 Jan 2018, 16:18
Picked up the new Assassins Creed just after Christmas, its pretty much fine it's better than the last few but ultimately it's still more Assassins Creed. Looks pretty impressive in 4K HDR.
I've got several games from last year that really need finishing, as well as a couple from Christmas, but I just keep putting hours into Stardew Valley on the Switch. That game has almost single handed justified owning a Switch, sure Zelda is technically impressive and Mario is........ well Mario, but Stardew is somehow perfectly tuned for 10-15 minutes over lunch but also a several hour session when the missus is watching crap on TV.
Wolfenstein 2, it's rather good, but is weirdly difficult for a run and gun kind of game, I'm dying a lot and I've heard similar criticism on a few podcasts, might have to drop the difficulty.
I very much agree with you about Stardew Valley, when I first set my Switch up I felt a bit stupid having spent £300 on it, Mario Kart and Stardew Valley to play games I'd already spent many hours on already. However once I fired up Stardew Valley and got into it again, I was happy at that as it's a great game plus it's well suited to the Switch particularly when as you say you can pick it up and play for a short while or play for a while. It's also great to see a game developed by just a single person, put through early access with a lot of community interaction and then put out for release when it was polished and ready to go do commercially well particularly without micro transactions or loot boxes.
At the other end of the scale, there's Halo 5...I bought this on release, didn't really like the campaign, gameplay or multiplayer and didn't look at it again after I finished the single player. However I've heard a lot about how much they've added, in particular a new Firefight PvE mode which sounded promising. It's split into five waves with increasingly tough enemies on large, open maps with vehicles and eight players. You start at level 1 with basic weapons and then level up throughout the match to get better weapons and items which goes faster if you're doing well in the game. Wave 5 can be quite impressively chaotic with a mix of friendly and enemy vehicles meaning the skies are filled with Banshees and similar while on the ground there's a raft of tanks and wraiths.
However...unlike previous games, these items don't spawn on the maps nor do you build up currency within the match to buy them either similar to Gears of War 4's Horde map. Instead you buy everything with requisition cards which come from good old loot boxes. You get your basic weapons and armour mods (stuff like enhanced shields, a quicker reload or faster running for example) for free as in you can request them as much as you like, you also get more powerful versions such as assault rifle with a scope that identifies target and an energy blade which does more melee damage or a battle rifle which has a Promethean enhanced barrel that does more vehicle damage. You have to unlock these variants through loot boxes which means it's just random, I want the longer range DMR type weapon but no luck unlocking it.
For power weapons, vehicles and proper weapon mods (like active camo) you have to 'use' a card which is also a random drop from the loot boxes. It's hard to know when to use the vehicles, I see people using a lot of wraiths but I only have a single wraith card and one variant although I have a decent number of tanks. Winning a game gets you a pack as does a daily login but I rarely seem to get much use from these. Also vehicles are absolutely crucial near the end, the boss enemies are massive bullet sponges and even heavy weapons don't do the damage and you need protection yourself.
That all makes the power weapons almost useless, in one instance I bought a rocket launcher, brought the scope up and was shot in the back by an enemy who had teleported in and immediately killed me. That was the card lost although even if I'd used all my rockets, you don't get a free reload for them or anything and they seem to do pitiful damage. Each power weapon comes in two variants with some enhancements, I received the rarest version which looks pretty cool but if I use that, it's gone and I could be killed immediately with it particularly with the large open scale of the game not being well suited to powerful close combat weapons.
It's frustrating as some of the concepts of this mode seem quite good but it's one of the worst loot box implementations I've seen, you do also get a range of cosmetic items for your banner, your armour and your guns which they could have easily kept on their own for the loot boxes. I guess though that's not where the money is....
I've been hearing a lot of good feedback on the Monster Hunter Worlds beta so I retrieved my PS4 as the beta is annoyingly only on it despite the game being released on the Xbox One as well, off to a good start when I found the PS4 doesn't support 5Ghz wireless. Which is a pain as I don't have 2.4 wireless at the moment due to the Google wifi flooding issue so it was onto my rather flaky powerline setup. After playing t the game for a bit and it's really not my thing, I don't like the look and feel of the game at all so that's £40 saved.
On the plus side I fired up good old Amplitude which I still love although it's such a shame there's no DLC for it and there's not going to be, even though the game didn't have that many players I'd have thought DLC would be very easy to add.
Postby EviL Ras » 22 Jan 2018, 00:19
Just finished wolfenstein 2! Twas fun!
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Public Discussion: Alison Carlier
Alison Carlier in conversation with Jack Southern
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4.30pm-7pm - Hardwick Campus
Hardwick Gallery presents an exhibition of three alternative and experimental versions of Alison Carlier’s Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014 winning soundwork, Adjectives, Lines and Marks.
Alison Carlier relates to drawing in an expanded field, as a way of working, an approach that could be considered a ‘drawing attitude’. The audio drawing Adjectives, Lines and Marks presents drawing as an interactive invitation, where spoken words take the place of marks in the creation of imagery, and the act of listening presents an alternative way to experience drawing.
Adjectives, Lines and Marks is being presented simultaneously with other shortlisted works in the Jerwood Drawing Prize at The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, until 4th January 2015.
Alison Carlier’s exhibition at Hardwick Gallery was selected by a panel and students from the School of Art & Design following an open call for exhibition proposals for the 2014-15 gallery programme that attracted submissions from national and international artists and practitioners.
Copies of Alison Carlier’s book, The Drawing Attitude, is available to purchase at £6.00 each.
Alison Carlier in conversation with Jack Southern @ Hardwick Gallery – 17/12/2014:
http://hardwickgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Alison-Carlier-Discussion.mp3
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For more than thirty years, the Society has presented many and various programs. Under Jack Diether’s presidency, from 1977 to 1987, there were annual chamber concerts of song, piano transcriptions and other arrangements, including some premieres (tapes of the concerts from 1977 to 1984 are part of the Jack Diether collection and may be heard at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; www.nypl.org/research ). Lectures by renowned Mahler authorities Henry-Louis de La Grange and Donald Mitchell enlightened members.
Since 1987, the Society has presented many more lectures, concerts, video presentations, and has visited the archives of the New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and the Morgan Library for private viewings of manuscripts, annotated scores, and letters. Lectures have been presented on musical history, biography and interpretation, and a series on each of Mahler’s works. Speakers have included Society President Lewis M. Smoley, David Aldeborgh, Charles Zachary Bornstein, Leon Botstein, Jerry Bruck, Uri Caine, William Carragan, Riccardo Chailly, Sedgwick Clarke, Glen Cortese, Harold Farberman, Stephen Hefling, David Hurwitz, Michael Jameson, Joel Lazar, Norman Lebrecht, Yoon Jae Lee, Andrew Litton, Marilyn McCoy, Dennis Rooney, Thomas Sanderling, Sybille Werner, Mark Wigglesworth, Benjamin Zander; the late Jonathan Carr, Stuart Feder, Susan Filler,past GMSNY president Gerald S. Fox, Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gilbert Kaplan, and Ted Reilly.
Suggestions for speakers, programs or activities are welcome. Please contact the Society by letter or via email: gmsny@yahoo.com
Event Date: Nov-09-2019
Title: GMSNY presents "Mahler in New York", a day-long symposium
Location: Columbia University, NYC
The Gustav Mahler Society of New York, with generous support from the Kaplan Foundation, will hold a day-long symposium, followed by a concert performance, on the topic of “Mahler in New York”. Speakers (subject to change) include:
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Stephen Hefling
Anna Knecht
Yoon Jae Lee
Marilyn McCoy
Vera Micznik
Eveline Nikkels
Morten Solvik
Jason Starr
Sybille Werner
Benjamin Zander
The symposium will be held on Saturday, November 9, 2019, at Columbia University, from 9:30 to 6pm, followed by the concert at 8pm. Light breakfast, lunch and supper will be available.
Admission to the symposium will be free; however, seating is limited and reservations are required. Reserve your seat(s) now at: gms1119res@gmail.com
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New Headphones at CES 2014 include Sennheiser, AT SonicFuel, Star Wars by 50c, Hifiman, Streamz, Razer, etc
CES 2014 came and went and with it we got even more headphones of all kinds. We had some traditional headphones, some headphones with the now almost-obligatory mic and inline remote control but as also got some different and unusual entries, including an Android-powered headphone, touch-sensitive controls, a headphone with a built-in amp (from AT none-the-less), experimental designs from Intel, and more!
Sennheiser needs no introduction and one of the actual Sennheisers (the humans) gave Gizmodo an interview, talking headphones and the smartphone generation and a lot more. It is pretty informative!
Sennheiser revealed a trio of DJ headphones in the HD-series line, the HD6 Mix, the HD7 DJ and the HD8 DJ, with the higher model number getting higher prices – $280, $330 and $390 respectively. The two more expensive ones have 95 impedance while the HD6 Mix (as the name suggests) is more of a studio-ish headphone with a 150 omh impedance. Sennheiser already had a number of DJ-ish headphones, but with the DJ phenomenon continuing to refuse to go away, it makes sense for them to jump in deeper like this.
More on these Engadget and Geekster Labs and Linus Tech Tips (YouTube) and also at CNet and by Tekzilla (YouTube) and Slash Gear (YouTube) and Digital Trends.
Sennheiser also paid attention to the popularity of Samsung Galaxy devices and they are releasing the MM 30G earphones that are guaranteed to work out of the box with the latest Galaxy smartphones and tablets. That’s the “G” for Galaxy in their product name, not to be confused with the already available MM30i. Featured at Stuff.tv and YouTube (Sennheiser).
Sennheiser is also into gaming, introducing their G4ME One and Zero headphones, featured at Geekster Labs and YouTube (Sennheiser)
Sennheiser is also making bluetooth headsets for smartphone users for voice-calls, they are showing theirnew “Presence” at CES as you can see on their YouTube channel.
Sennheiser also revealed yet another new color scheme for their retro-fashionable Momentum line, this one is Ivory as you can see at Gear Diary and YouTube (Sennheiser)
Audio Technica ATH-OX7 AMP Sonic Fuel
The most interesting perhaps of this round of Audio Technica new headphones is the ATH-OX7 AMP, which, as the name suggests, have an actual built-in amp into the headphones, powered by a single AAA battery. The headphones work with or without a battery, but obviously you need the battery to power the amp portion. This also means that you can use them with your own amps by turning off the built-in amp.
They are part of their new Sonic Fuel line of headphones, their attempt to jump on the popular consumer headphone buying trend of the Beats, Sol Republics, Skullcandy with a “trendy” name.
The MSRP price is $300 but we’ll have to wait to see where it will settle when it comes out for purchase.
Details at Audio Technica and Uncrate.
More new Audio Technica SonicFuel and Gaming Headphones
In addition to the Amp’ed headphone mentioned above, Audio Technica populated their more affordable Sonic Fuel line-up with five new over-ear ATH-AX-series headphones and six new ATH-CKX-series in-ear earphones. Now, they are not as many as the number sounds, because most of them have two versions, with or without microphone and remote control. So in essence, it is three new over-ears and three new in-ears.
The prices range from $40 to $100 for the above. Of the over-ears, the leader is the ATH-AX5iS with 40mm drivers, flat-folding design and tangle-free cord and included pouch. The frequency response is 5-25k Hz, with 24 omh so it should be friendly to most mobile and portable devices, 105 dB/mW sensitivity, and 3.5″ plug.
You can see them all at Reviewed.com and Run Around Tech and Audio Technica.
Audio Technica too is jumping in the gaming headset pool with their first releases which you can find at What Hifi? and Digital Trends. These are available in either closed or open back design, with the usual AT naming scheme of ATH-AG1 and ATH-ADG1. Their starting price is $350.
But wait, there’s more! AT also announced the new ATH-ANC70 active noise canceling headphones (as their model name suggests) with 90% and 40mm drivers and a $200 price. More on these at Digital Trends. These should not be confused with the existing ATH-ANC7 and ANC7b.
More on the new AT releases at CNet.com. The HE-560 already has a first impressions report at Reviewed.com and they will go for $900. The HE-400i will go for $500.
The Heritage line was featured at Innerfidelity during their tour of CES 2014.
The previously released Phiaton MS430 were featured at CES and one of their representatives talked to iMore.com in a video interview at the trade show.
Panasonic appears to be a lot more successful commercially with their affordable sub-$50 headphones and earphones but that doesn’t mean they gave up on the rest of the market. At CES 2014, they were spotlighting their RP-HC800 active noise cancelling headphones and their RP-BTD10 bluetooth headphones. More details at Pocket Lint.
Audiofly associated itself with popular DJ Tiesto and this association is profiled interview-style at Sound and Vision (no subscription required to read it).
They are showing two new advanced in-ears, the AF180 and AF140. More on these at Cult of Mac and PR News Wire and Digital DJ Tips.
Sol Republic Relays
Sol Republic got some more attention with their Replays, a design that promise to be good enough for both everyday use and also as sports and workout earphones. Thus the “Replays” name. As always, the proof will be in the pudding (and the earwax) when they get reviewed independently.
More on these at Engadget
Sol Republic is already running the hype machine for these with blog giveaways.
50 Cent and SMS Audio score Star Wars licensing
50 Cent and SMS Audio managed to score a very high profile licensing deal, Star Wars! With Disney taking over from Lucas and working on an avalanche of new movies and other content, this bodes quite well for the bullet-friendly rapper. As part of this new agreement, SMS Audio has announced four different designs, the Rebel Alliance, the Galactic Empire, the popular (and rumored to be getting a movie of his own) Boba Fett, and of course the iconic Storm Troopers. More on these at Engadget.
It’s not just Star Wars for Mr 50, he is also launching a “Sports Collection” of some of his existing designs as you can see at Business Wire and Engadget, hoping to score with these as much as the endorsing Carmelo Anthony does!
50c is interviewed by The Verge and also at Engadget.
Monster is checking all the buzzword check-marks with the new DNA Pro Wireless headphones. You get bluetooth and active noise cancelling and touch-sensitive controls. They will start at a price that matches their buzzwords, $450. More details at Reviewed.com and iMore.
Monster is also jumping on the bandwagon of another popular trend, UFC, with their new Octagon headphones, with a starting price of $320. More details at Pocket Lint and Monster
Tired of the bling wars, Monster is going all out with the new “24K” headphones, which, as the name suggests, look like they are made of gold. What will be the percentage of douchebags to normal people wearing these? 🙂 These are DJ-style headphones with swiveling earcups and inline audio controls with a starting price of $280. More on these at Monster and on YouTube with rapper Meek Mill interviewed.
Monster also managed to get Adidas to “cheat” on fellow German company Sennheiser – Monster and Adidas will be launching together a new line of “Adidas Originals” headphones. Details at Reuters and SlashGear.
More from Monster, they have new “limited edition” color schemes for the DiamondZ headphones as you can see at Ubergizmo.
Monster, just like Beats, highly prioritize fashion and celebrities, which are featured in this Tech Crunch at CES feature and also at The Consumerist.
Sound and Vision talks Soul by Ludacris from the celebrity endorsement perspective.
The new generation of Soul by Ludacris headphones pivoted to new designs and marketing, moving away from direct competition with the fashionable Beats. At CES 2014 they revealed their new Combat+ Wireless Bluetooth 4.0 headphones. They have a starting price of $250. More on these at Tech Power Up
Skullcandy has an interesting color schemed headphones for the ladies, blending skulls, flowers and purple as you can see at Engadget.
Razer wants the world of non-gamers to know that they are now also making headphones for music mainly. Their new Razer Adaro is coming out with a reasonable price of $100, and you can see more of them at the Slash Gear hands-on post.
These were part of a bigger Razer audio announcement, including the Adaro Wireless (Bluetooth) for $150 and the Adaro DJ analog for $200 and the Adaro in-ears for $80. More on these at Razer Zone and Slash Gear and Tech Gage and Ubergizmo.
Streamz: smart Android-powered headphones
It was bound to happen eventually and it happened at CES 2014. The first pair of Android-powered “smart” headphones, the “Streamz” by Mozaex. They have all kinds of “digital” features, including 4GB of on-board memory and microSD expansion (up to 32GB). They have a CD-quality DAC on-board, dual-core system-on-a-chip, Wifi and Bluetooth playback, optional Bluetooth AVR receiver, 50mm drivers, etc. With all the buzzwords and features, the MSRP for these is $550.
More details at X Bit Labs and Tom’s Hardware and i4u.com.
Rave Touch headphones
Touch-sensitive headphones are slowly but steadily springing up at more places and Whitelabel revealed their new “Rave Touch” headphones for CES 2014 as you can see at Technology Tell.
They showed their new MZW855 3D surround sound bluetooths as you can see at Legit Reviews.
Everybody is getting their own “branded” headphones, so why not some Margaritaville headphones? They are offered by MTX Audio, spotlighted at CE Pro.
Audiophiles may not be particularly interested in bluetooth headsets but they can be practical if you have to use a bluetooth headset. Jawbone is back doing what it does best, and they have unleashed the second generation of their Jawbone Ear headset. This is even smaller than the original, 42% smaller they claim, up to ten hours of battery life, and bundled charging case. The price is $100 for the headset and $130 with the bundled case. Curious about these? Check out the previews at CNet.com and Engadget and The Verge.
Interesting Uses of Earphones
With CES being a tech show, various products tried to use and integrate earphones in their operation. We spotlight some of them below…
What do you get when you blend headphones with virtual reality? You get the Avegant Glyph creature which you can see featured at Reviewed.com and CNet.com.
Intel is jumping on the earphone bandwagon as well with a new design that offers pulse monitoring among other things. See these at The Independent and Engadget.
The Vigo bluetooth headset hopes to help people who need to stay awake, stay awake, and play music along the way. Details at Tech Crunch and their Kickstarter page.
Other Related Things at CES 2014
Tyll was there at CES and he has a feature at Inner Fidelity on the DTS Headphone X tuning program. Video is included over there as well.
Comply eartips are popular with some audiophiles, and now they are into the headphone earpad game, so Inner Fidelity paid them a visit at CES 2014 to see what they are up to. Their highest profile earpad client so far appear to be the new line of Soul (by Ludacris) Combat headphones.
On the high end audio front, CNet created a slide show featuring some of the new wallet busters. Also rounding up is Engadget and The Verge looking at some of the interesting audio announcements at the show.
If you love slideshows, CNet has prepared a slideshow with 17 slick headphones shown at CES 2014.
Players, Amps, Dacs, Etc
Hifiman quietly announced two new portable music players at CES as you can see at the last paragraph of the CNet report. The HM-802 will go for $700 while the HM-700 will go for $250, perhaps in response (and a competitor to) the Fiio X3?
The AK240 audiophile music player is featured at Reviewed.com.
Korg is in on the game as well as they have revealed two USB DACs under the AudioGate line as you can see at Engadget.
Beyerdynamic was showing their A200p amp and dac, featured at CNet and Beyerdynamic. They are priced at $300 and already some marketplace sellers at Amazon.com have them in-stock.
Reveel Sound is interviewed on their portable device at Android Central. This is currently available for pre-order for $120 at Amazon.com.
Also at CES, Harman Audio was spotlighting their “Signal Doctor” technology that, as the name suggests, helps lower quality music tracks sound better. Details at CNet.com.
Also trying to “fix” sound are Blue Headphones with their “Mo-Fi” initiative mentioned at Engadget.
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AutoBARography 8: A NEW YEAR’S MEMORY
Published on December 30, 2010 in archives. 0 Comments Tags: andy warhol, champagne, cocaine, diane keaton, Fosters lager, james cagney, neighborhood playhouse, New Year Eve, ny knicks, NYC, sandord meisner, SOHO, spring street bar, stella adler.
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From: Krissy@….com
To: hgould@heywoodgould.com
Subject: is that really you???
Wow, look at you! Got your own web page. Is that old man really you? Picked up some dents since ’75, but still got that crinkly squint, laughing at the world. Glad you’re alive.
From: hgould@heywoodgould.com
To: Krissy@….com
re: is that really you???
Thanks. Me too. Today anyway. Laughing now, but in ’75 that “crinkly squint” was probably a hangover.
Not liking yourself so much back in the day, huh? Well, join the club. I get a hot flush every time I think of some of my escapades…
Which were?
Vanity, Vanity, huh? Thinking you’d remember me from a name after all these years. Krissie, the skinny blonde with overbite (since corrected.) I used to come into Spring Street bar with my cousin, Charlene. We’d hang out and watch the show. Charlene was a big girl, loud laugh, really big drinker, never got drunk. “Here’s the lady with the hollow leg,” you would say. Charlene was really mortified the first time, but then she realized this was Soho, nobody judged. Anyway it kind of made her a celebrity, although she probably drank more because of it.
Still drawing a blank.
There was a redheaded cop named Phil. You bet him fifty bucks one night that Charlene could drink more beer than he could. She matched him fourteen big liter cans of Foster’s lager. He wobbled out banging into the walls, and you declared her the winner. But then he came back and wanted to keep going. “I just went out to take a piss,” he said. And you said “house rules: you can’t leave the field and get back into the game.” He waved his gun and said he was going to kill us all. And he pointed it right at you behind the bar. And you said: “That won’t get you out of the bet, Phil. You’ll still have to pay my heirs.” He opened and closed his mouth like a fish, then slammed some money on the bar and stumbled out. And you said you knew he wasn’t going to shoot you because you were supposed to leave one chamber empty in a revolver. And anyway a smart lush like Phil probably unloaded his gun when he went out drinking. You tried to be nonchalant, pouring yourself a big shot of Martell. And I said: “you’re scared out of your mind.” And you whispered “don’t tell anybody,” which was funny because everybody saw you shaking like a leaf.
Doesn’t ring a bell. In those days weird things happened every night.
I dug up a picture, maybe that’ll help. We were pretty friendly. I came to NY to be a star. Remember you laughed when I said I’d played Juliet and Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz in high school in Tulsa. I get a hot flush thinking of what a pathetic little diva I must have been, although I guess we would have said prima donna in those days. I was uptown studying at Stella Adler and you said “she’ll bury you, she only likes the male students.” So I came down to Neighborhood Playhouse and you said Sanford Meisner would be mean to me and he was. So I got a job taking care of kids in a pre school and you said “you’re doing God’s work.” There was this actor who hung out at the bar who was in a play with Diane Keaton. And he said he was infatuated with her, but she was ignoring him, wouldn’t even say hello. They had this scene where he was supposed to slap her and he’d been doing a stage slap. And you said “give her a real hard Brooklyn smack, that’ll get her attention…” And he came in a few nights later, drunk out of his mind. You always said: “beware the guy who gets a head start in another store.” (You guys always called bars “stores” for some reason) And he was screaming: “you sonofabitch bastard dirty motherfucker. I took your advice. I slapped her so hard her lip started bleeding on stage. And now they want to fire me and she’s making an Equity complaint against me, you sonofabitch bastard, motherfucker….” And he jumped over the bar and tried to choke you and your partner Richard had to pull him off you. Everybody was laughing. But you ran out after him, saying: “I’m sorry man, can I buy you a drink…”
Is that one of those machine photos? It’s a little out of focus.
Remember when your first novel came out? You said “I’m only writing books to tide me over until I get a good bar job.” You were supposed to be very nonchalant about your art in those days. Not to take yourself seriously. You had three copies that night. I said I wanted one. “You’ll have to earn it,” you said.
I think I’m about to get one of those hot flushes.
You poured me a split of champagne with a couple of shakes of bitters. I never drank anything but beer and this was gooooood! After closing we went to this diner across from Bellevue Hospital where the waiter gave you tons of free food for a twenty dollar tip. You had a room at the Martha Washington Hotel in the ’30′s. It was like a horror movie, dark and creaky, old people in the lobby at 4 am. It was the smallest room I ever saw. The radiator was banging. As soon as the hot air hit me it all came up–the champagne, the eggs and bacon and rice pudding –everything. I was in this tiny bathroom and I knew you could hear me retching and shitting. Oh God, I just got another hot flush. I didn’t want to cry because everybody laughed everything off in Soho in those days. You said: “I know I’m not a great lover, but I never made a woman puke before.” You opened the window and the cold air came in. You had this Slippery Elm Bark tea, or something. It put me out like a light. When I woke up you were watching the new cable station. “It’s a Cagney festival,” you said, really happy. We watched Cagney movies all day and then the basketball game came on. “James Cagney and the Knicks,” you said. “This is a day to remember…”
Not by me. Well, at least I remember the room. It was a short crawl to the bathroom. You could reach the TV, radio, little refrigerator, toaster and hot plate without getting out of bed. One of those old people left the hot plate on one night and that was the end of the Martha Washington.
Once at 8:30 I was waiting for the bus to take my kids up to the Museum of Natural History and you walked right by without seeing me. You were as gray as a tombstone, smoking a cigarette. So close I could see the white crust on your lips. But I didn’t want the principal to see me talking to you, I was such a little Miss Prim…
Gray as a tombstone. Think I’ll steal that.
There were these three Colombian guys, who had leather jackets and watches and jewelry. You called them “los tres majos” like the Three Wise Men in the xmas story. You guys guessed they were drug dealers probably doing business with the mafia in Little Italy. “Chocolattes, amigo,” they would say. You poured cognac, creme cacao and heavy cream over ice and sprinkled nutmeg. They loved it. “Cheap Brandy Alexander,” you said. “They think I just invented it. Like the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court…” They were always sliding rolled up bills across the bar. You would go into the little wine closet behind the bar and come out all glassy-eyed and light up a cigarette. New Year’s 1976 the bar was like rush hour. People passing drinks and money like at a baseball game. At 4:30 in the morning the place was still jammed. You were at the door yelling: “party’s over, everybody back on their head,” which was the punch line of some old joke. Finally, you got everybody out. The Three Wise Men were piling mounds of coke right on the bar. You were laughing and shaking your head. “No podemos aqui. Felice anno, amigos y adios…” They were so loaded they dropped a full bill on the way out. This bartender Louie who was in Andy Warhol movies got a straw and started snorting the floor, getting dust and ashes up his nose. It was too much for me so I left. The Three Wise Men were jumping around in the snow. One of them grabbed me, but another guy said: “es la pequenita del barman…” They gave me a dollar bill: “Happy New Year flaquita.” You had already locked the door, but you let me in. I was pretty disgusted. I put the dollar bill on the bar. Everybody gathered around as you opened it. “It’s the size of a golf ball,” Louie said. I just walked out. I was sure you guys were all going to die.
Some of us did. I decided to wait for natural causes. I’m a grandpa now. Even cigarette smoke makes me nauseous. Happy New Year.
I’m a grandma. Happy New Year to you!
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Return Of The Biograph Review
Hello dears. As I said in my brief note in the last edition of this ‘Times’ of the other world, I thought that there was a good chance that I would be able to carry on with my Biograph Review. Well, everything went according to my little plan, and here we are with a sparkling new feature on the Bio.
No thanks either to Mr Wheelan, the cinema’s manager. Luckily for me my friends at the ‘Times’ and the ‘Observer’ have helped me overcome the problem of obtaining the forthcoming programme. Thank you boys, I’ll settle up with you later, at my place. I sincerely hope that Mr Wheelan turns a colour when he sees this, serves him right for being such a big meanie.
Before I commence with my review, I must unfortunately offer fans of the Bio a word of warning. Recently our ‘friends in blue’ have been visiting our little Bio and making a considerable nuisance of themselves. Goodness knows why, I’ve never seen anything going on there that would startle me. Mind you, I have occasionally been given a turn by the size of some people, however they manage to sit down in those little wooden seats I just don’t know. To be serious though, I suppose the ‘guardians of the law’ have nothing better to do. Maybe now that the weather has become chilly, the criminals aren’t committing so many robberies, or else ‘lily law’ is feeling the cold a little too much and wants an excuse for a warm up. Anyway dears, take care. Better to be safe than sorry I always say, so keep a watchful eye open even if you are totally captivated by the delights showing.
Back to the silver screen. On 2nd November for three days, Marlon Brando and Richard Boone star in Night Of The Following Day. Lovely actors, both of these men, and they perform well together in this moving film. Support is our own Kenneth Williams, ably assisted by Phil Silvers, in Follow That Camel. It sounds rather rude but Ken should make it interesting enough to watch.
Sunday 5th November, for one day only, has Burt Lancaster, being ever so hulky, in a western called The Scalphunters. He shares the credits with super Shelley ‘Bloody Momma’ Winters. The naughty and puzzling My Wife’s Husband completes the bill. French comedy star Fernandel and Clair Maurier are the principal actors. A good laugh if you like a bit of the continentals. It’s also Bonfire Night this Sunday, but if you ask me, it is a lot safer to be in a cinema than taking part in the Gay Fawkes celebrations. I like a good bang like anybody else, but I feel a lot better about it if I know that the fireworks are only in responsible hands.
The shocking, but thought-provoking Soldier Blue is the major attraction for three days on Monday 6th November. The beautiful Candice Bergen and luscious Peter Strauss star in this violent saga from the ‘old west’. Second feature is Charro, which is one of those forgettable movies made by Elvis Presley. But his hips are still a treat.
The truly underrated Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman is one half of the programme on Thursday 9th November. That Robert Redford, ooh! It’s a skiing epic with a moral or two. Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are together in The Out Of Towners, which is also being shown. I haven’t seen this before but it sounds fun.
Sunday fare on 12th November is Operation Kid Brother, starring Neil Connery. It’s nothing very special, but the support feature, Trunk To Cairo is much more interesting. Two recently deceased movie stars, Audie Murphy and George Sanders are in the leading roles. The film is an exciting thriller.
The double bill of the fortnight is on Monday 13th November, when Carnal Knowledge and Catch 22 are being shown. The former stars sexy Jack Nicholson and the latter, Orson Welles. A very generous programme this, if not a little exhausting.
Well, my lovelies, that is what’s in store for you during the next couple of weeks at the Bio. Mind you heed what I mentioned earlier. I’ll let you know when things get back to ‘normal’. And I hope that none of you, including Mr Wheelan, think I have been too malicious with my words.
Before I go, thanks for all your letters, some of you are ever so kind. I might take some of you up on your offers too, but I’m rather busy still with the person I spent my recent holiday with. Love you all though.
Author Julian Denys GrinsspoonPosted on 1 November 1972 24 March 2017 Categories Issue 10: Page 08Tags Audie Murphy, Biograph, Biograph Review, Burt Lancaster, Candice Bergen, Carnal Knowledge, Catch-22, Charro, Clair Maurier, Downhill Racer, Elvis Presley, Fernandel, Follow That Camel, Gene Hackman, George Sanders, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Kenneth Williams, Marlon Brand, My Wife’s Husband, Neil Connery, Night Of The Following Day, Operation Kid Brother, Orson Welles, Peter Strauss, Phil Silvers, police harassment, Richard Boone, Robert Redford, Sandy Dennis, Shelley Winters, Soldier Blue, The Biograph, The Out Of Towners, The Scalphunters, Trunk To CairoLeave a comment on Return Of The Biograph Review
Trolling In East Berlin
Reading the article in Gay News 8 on the position of homosexuals in Russia, I thought perhaps I could throw some light on the situation behind the Iron Curtain — or one small part of it at least. Although I have made two trips to Russia, I confess I have found little evidence of wide spread homosexuality there, though one night after a party a Russian boy did spend the night with me in my hotel. He had a girlfriend, and as he spoke no English, conversation was difficult — but presumably he was bisexual.
However, while the situation in Russia seems to be pretty bleak for homosexuals, it is a different story altogether in East Germany — or at least in its capital city. East Berlin. Don’t believe those stories you read about how drab life is behind the Wall – during a visit to East Berlin in 1968 I was surprised to find it a very different place to what one imagines it to be.
Walk along East Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse and you will pass many gay bars and restaurants. Heterosexual people touring with me were remarking on how open homosexuality is in East Berlin. They had been walking past the ‘G’ Bar (in German the letter ‘G’ is pronounced GAY) in Friedrichstrasse at closing time, and they said boys came out hand in hand, some with their arms round each other, kissing. One couple came up to these tourists and presented them with a bunch of flowers — I think they had some difficulty in getting away. Also, some women tourists in our party wandered innocently into a cafe on Friedrichstrasse for a cup of coffee, to find all the men staring at them. Finally a man who spoke English came over to them and explained politely that as they were tourists they wouldn’t know, but this cafe was frequented by prostitutes — whereupon these lady tourists made a hasty exit.
During a one week stay in East Berlin I discovered three gay places in the Friedrichstrasse alone – the G Bar, a restaurant and a coffee bar. The coffee bar was unbelievable — I had just come out of the G Bar when I saw everyone packing into this tiny coffee bar, so I squeezed inside and found hands groping me from every direction! Really, this place has to be believed — and is all so open — the doors wide open to the street. On one occasion I was leaving this bar with someone, and he grabbed hold ot my hand and held it as we walked down the street – nobody took a blind bit of notice. As he spoke no English and I no German he calmly stopped a woman in the street (whilst still holding my hand) and asked her to translate for him. Through her he asked me where my hotel was and would it be safe for him to stay there the night! She translated my reply then he thanked her and we went on our way.
Apparently the East German police turn a blind eye, and whatever the official line is on homosexuality in East Germany in practice the authorities are very free and easy and certainly East Berlin is a much safer place for homosexuals than London, for instance. Not only that, but East Berlin’s ‘S’ Bahn (elevated railway) trains run right through the night, so there’s no question of having to walk home after trolling late at night. Whether East Berlin is typical of most Iron Curtain capitals I couldn’t say, but I certainly had a gay time during my stay in the East German capital.
Author TonyPosted on 1 November 1972 24 March 2017 Categories Issue 10: Page 08Tags Berlin Wall, communism, DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, East Berlin, East Germany, GDR, German Democratic RepublicLeave a comment on Trolling In East Berlin
Anal Fixation
Last Sunday my boyfriend and I went to see ‘Dracula AD 1972’ at the Columbia cinema in Shaftesbury Avenue. We were pleasantly surprised at the number of gays leaving the cinema at the end of the programme (and also waiting to get in) as we never realised that dear old Dracula had such a following amongst the gay community. You live and learn.
Of course before you see a feature film nowadays, you have to sit through long, boring dollops of advertising at almost every cinema. My fella and I carried on our conversation while the first batch of ads were being shown. But then, accompanied with trendy music, on came the Levi jean ad. And what a sodomite’s delight it was too. The screen was filled with bum after bum, all gloriously enclosed in tight fitting jeans in various colours and designs. It was impossible to tell which sex was which, but a fair estimate would be that the ‘performers’ were fifty-fifty male and female.
Not only were the beautifully shaped bottoms flashing on and off the screen at a furious pace, but every now and then there would be a little story told. For instance, one person was being searched, I guess, for ‘pot’, another scenario was about a couple just about to make love. There were people meeting, fondling, and so on.
The law outlawing sodomy is hardly ever enforced, except when involving minors, but one doesn’t often see anything relating to the subject, except in completely exploitative, fantasy pin-ups and hard-core ‘pornography’. And gracefully curved bottoms, whether you are into anal intercourse or not, turn a lot of us on.
Maybe it could be argued that they especially do so for gays, but I for one don’t really accept that. Also I suspect that many heterosexual people are somewhat inhibited about parts of the human anatomy except for the most obvious regions.
The Levi ad, to people aware enough to appreciate the delights of buttocks, whatever shape or size turns them on, will find this short commercial film to be nothing but pure pleasure. It’s a shame that this is the only way people of like mind, whether male or female, can view such cheeky happenings at the moment.
Right on, Levi’s though, your heads are in the right place for some of us. Thanks from a grateful sodomite.
Author Denis LemonPosted on 1 November 1972 24 March 2017 Categories Issue 10: Page 08Tags advert, cinema, Columbia cinema, commercial, Dracula AD 1972, jeans, Levi's, Shaftesbury Avenue, Walking BehindsLeave a comment on Anal Fixation
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Tag: Daily Express
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
“Dammit, Sir, when I was at school the Fifth Form didn’t NEED anyone from Gay Lib to come down and tell them about homosexuality!”
Many thanks to Osbert Lancaster and The Daily Express for allowing us to reproduce this cartoon.
Author Osbert LancasterPosted on 7 March 1973 24 August 2018 Categories Issue 18: Page 10Tags Daily Express, Osbert Lancaster, pocket cartoonLeave a comment on POCKET CARTOON
Fifth Formers Defend Gays
BIRMINGHAM: Fifth-formers have come out strongly on the side of Birmingham Gay Liberation Front members whose educational visit to their school has been mauled by the local and national press.
Halfway through December a party of five gays from Birmingham GLF went to Coleshill Comprehensive School in Warwickshire as part of a school conference on sex education. At the time the visit seemed to go smoothly, no one was worried, shocked, assaulted. Instead the GLF members met a lot of school-kids and put over the problems gays face and the theories of gay liberation.
Paper Tigers
Then Birmingham GLF published their newssheet. A copy went to the Birmingham Post and Mail group.
The next thing the gays knew was that they had scandalised parents by going to the school, according to the Birmingham papers.
Then the national papers picked up the story, and as queer-bashing in print is a Fleet Street hobby, the papers invented a ‘row’ over the sex talk.
That was something that neither Birmingham GLF nor the school knew anything about.
A spokesman for Birmingham GLF told Gay News: “There was no particular response from the school until this week.
“It seems that everything has been stirred up by the local papers. The Birmingham Post got hold of a copy and as far as we know phoned up parents and said ‘Isn’t this shocking?’ just to get a story.
Girls Take More Interest
“We were just part of a conference on sex education. For some reason the girls seemed far more interested in what we were saying than the boys.
“Now the fifth formers have rung up the newspaper and told them that they weren’t corrupted in any way by meeting us. We’re glad the kids are backing us. We’re also grateful to the school for their backing.”
Mr Thomas Wilson told the Daily Telegraph: “I was not aware of any row and have received no complaints from parents.
Positive Help
“I thought it was a risk to invite a homosexual speaker, but it turned out to be of positive help to the pupils to understand better the problems homosexuals have to face.”
Mr Dennis Prosser, a retired magistrate and chairman of the school’s governors told The Times he’d not known the gays were attending the sex-ed conference until afterwards. But, he said, “If you are going to have a talk on homosexuality, it is better to get someone who can talk with authority.”
Parents had been sent a letter telling them what was going to happen at the conference and that they could deny their children the right to hear all or any of the speakers.
All Aspects Of Sex
Mr Wilson went on to say that the pupils had asked the school to arrange the conference to reflect all aspects of sex.
Meanwhile The Daily Express reported someone from Birmingham GLF as saying: “We don’t see what all the fuss is about.”
The secretary of the school’s parent-teacher association, Mr Louis Power admitted that he was “concerned” that gays should be allowed into the school.
He said: “I don’t complain about sex education itself. But there is no need to push homosexuality in front of youngsters so strongly.”
Author NewsPosted on 21 February 1973 8 March 2018 Categories Issue 17: Page 04Tags Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Post, Coleshill Comprehensive School, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Dennis Prosser, Gay Liberation Front, Louis Power, The Times, Thomas Wilson, WarwickshireLeave a comment on Fifth Formers Defend Gays
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“I love the feeling of fighting – a lot of women would ask why”
Jul 6, 2017 | News and Sponsorships
During the Dragon Boat Festival, here in Shanghai, I had the pleasure to interview Rebecca Heintzman-Rozewski an exceptional pro-MMA fighter, or as she humbly says “someone who people don’t expect to be a fighter”.
Rebecca has not always been a professional fighter, but she have always been a fierce competitor in all facets of her life. Rebecca born and bred in Portland, Oregon and the youngest of four, grew as the most athletic and tough one with a fierce spirit: always claiming what was hers. As Rebecca’s interests for sports had developed she started her journey by playing basketball, soccer and lacrosse. But don’t mistake her for just a sporty girl, she was named the valedictorian, having the highest academic achievements, which led to a university scholarship.
In 2009 Rebecca moved to New York for her Ph.D, and even got published in a journal and that’s where her MMA journey began.
For Rebecca, MMA was love at first sight. It took just one visit to a MMA gym to instantly convert her and light the ever-growing flame. “I decided to find something more individual, went to a MMA gym, just to check it out, and I guess the rest is history”. As of today, Rebecca at the age of 30 has a total of 13 MMA fights, with experience in US and China. Bearing undefeated and two titles as an amateur, four as a professional, with lost fights only against Katlyn Cookagain: which at that time was undefeated, and the famous Angela Lee: still undefeated.
One of her biggest inspirations is Rosie Sexton, a mathematician and old school MMA fighter, Rebecca recalls seeing Rosie as the first woman with an academic background, graduating from Cambridge and becoming pro-fighter “if she could, I can”.
Talking about her most recent MMA fight, she fought in ONE Championship FC in Singapore which she pulled through with bloody rounds and a broken nose. The only concern that ever goes through Rebecca’s mind pre-fight is her opponent’s size. She proudly speaks about how her Singaporean opponent had to lose weight for the fight while she had to gain “I accepted the fight that way, no one forced or tricked me to fight against her”.
As fighters develop they get a personal style: “Usually I am good at defending myself, this time I just got caught by the perfect punch” which spurt a bloody scene from her nose onto her uniform, the mat and her opponent. But there was no stopping her, she continued to participate in the fight, post-bloody nose and her resilient attitude, courage and strength were just emphasised further.
During the whole interview, I could feel the unstoppable personality behind her voice: “I could have perfectly continued for 2 more rounds”. Post-fight during the doctors check the revealed weight was 54kg for Rebecca and 60kg for her opponent, fighting at Straweight. Rebecca nobly explained what a challenge it is to fight with 6kg difference “at one point when she got top position, it took me a while to get back up”.
Throughout the fight, she felt how the judges were nervous and disturbed as blood streamed down her nose “judges see blood and think she is destroying me”. Unfortunately, the judges came to taking the decision of the fight. But for Rebecca it’s not just a win or lose, she likes fighting, she enjoys it, “it’s a personal challenge to fight one on one” whilst learning a valuable lesson. She is planning to change to a lower weight level: Atomweight, but don’t think it’s easier, Rebecca is taking on her shoulders a greater challenge! As this category has fighters with more technique rather than the raw size, like the undefeated Angela Lee: current ONE Women’s Atomweight World Champion.
As the interview evolved, I managed to catch glimpses of Rebecca’s side outside of MMA. Behind her fierce and strong MMA demeanour, lies a gentle and genuine woman with dreams to empower other women, becoming a mother, helping her friends, and also her fellow MMA fighter husband Kyle. The pair shares a strong bond, as she so kindly filled me in on how they met she laughed through every word, “as cheesy as it may sound, he saw me in the fight in Ohio and thought I was cute”. She refused to date another MMA fighter before Kyle, and in a blink of an eye she moved out to China to continue their journey together. Rebecca mentions that the two most important things in her life are “family and fighting”, throughout laughs about her broken nose post-Singapore “it’s a bit of a struggle trying to decide when to take a break and start a family” conveying that she would love to have children someday but, don’t worry, Rebecca is not retiring yet!
Being an MMA fighter like Rebecca requires a lot of time and effort or “I have no life” as she amusingly explains. Getting up early in the morning, doing some cardio, weights, bag and heading off to work is the reality for Rebecca. It all sounds too exhausting for me, but for her “that is the beauty of this sport”. Asking about her diet and how she keeps it all balanced, she points out how hard it has been to find high-quality nutrition supplements in China for her and Kyle. “Luckily Kyle and I found IENstore, and once again I have my Quest bars” she so happily states the sweet sanity of not having to cheat on her diet anymore.
As the interview came to an end the main conclusions I draw are this: Becca is a woman of many talents and her strength of character can be smelt, felt and seen miles away. To me, she is an inspiration but, to herself, as she jokingly comments “I might just be crazy”. Rebecca’s next project together with Kyle is AFC event the upcoming 1st of July. Although Rebecca was going to be fighting in the intermission, the unexpected broken nose means she will be helping in the business and coaching side of the event. From IENstore we are proud to sponsor this event!
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The Fate of the Furious on Digital HD June 27, 2017
May 18, 2017 bigced 0
The #1 action film in the world, The Fate of the Furious, goes full-throttle on Digital HD on June 27, 2017, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on July 11, 2017, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. The latest exhilarating installment of the nitro-fueled blockbuster action franchise features a gripping new storyline, the most outrageous collection of vehicles yet, and an all-star cast of fan favorites and series newcomers. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, the close-knit crew criss-crosses the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing world chaos — and to bring home the man who made them a family. With more than an hour of never-before-seen bonus features and an Extended Director’s Cut, The Fate of the Furious will be the crowning glory of every fan’s collection.
Now that Dom (Vin Diesel, XXX, Riddick), and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez, Avatar, Resident Evil) are married, Brian and Mia have retired from the game, and the rest of the crew has been exonerated, the globetrotting team seems to have found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road, Snow White and the Huntsman) lures Dom back into the world of crime and convinces him to betray those closest to him, the crew faces new trials that will test them as never before.
The Fate of the Furious reunites Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson (Baywatch, The Other Guys), Jason Statham (The Transporter, The Expendables), Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson (Transformers, Ride Along 2) and Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges (No Strings Attached, Max Payne) in a heart-stopping new adventure that also features Charlize Theron, Kurt Russell (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, The Hateful Eight) and Scott Eastwood (Gran Torino, Suicide Squad).
BONUS FEATURES EXCLUSIVE TO BLU-RAY™:
The Cuban Spirit – As the first major studio motion picture to shoot in Cuba in decades, the country’s effusive spirit permeates the making of the film.
In the Family – In The Fate of the Furious, family ties are put to the ultimate test. Get an inside look at the family divide.
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BONUS FEATURES on BLU-RAY™ and DVD:
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Extended Fight Scenes
Feature Commentary with Director F. Gary Gray
THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS EXTENDED DIRECTOR’S CUT
Director F. Gary Gray’s never-before-seen extended cut and the Theatrical release are available on all physical products (4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, and DVD) that will include digital codes for both versions. Also available on digital platforms.
The Fate of the Furious will be available on 4K Ultra HD in a combo pack which includes 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™, Blu-ray™ and Digital HD. The 4K Ultra HD combo pack will include all bonus features on the Blu-ray™ disc.
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Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Kurt Russell, Charlize Theron, Scott Eastwood
Music By: Brian Tyler
Costume Designer: Marlene Stewart
Edited By: Christian Wagner, Paul Rubell ACE
Production Designer: Bill Brzeski
Director of Photography: Stephen F. Windon ACS, ASC
Executive Produced By: Amanda Lewis, Samantha Vincent, Chris Morgan
Based on Characters Created By: Gary Scott Thompson
Produced By: Neal H. Moritz p.g.a, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell
Written By: Chris Morgan
Directed By: F. Gary Gray
TECHNICAL INFORMATION 4K ULTRA HD:
Street Date: July 11, 2017
Copyright: 2017 Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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Rating: PG-13 for prolonged sequences of violence and destruction, suggestive content and language
Languages/Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish and French (Canadian) Subtitles
Sound: DTS:X Immersive Audio; 2.0 DTS Headphone:X; DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital1, Spanish and French (Canadian) DTS Digital Surround 5.1
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Big Ced is “the Guy named Sam” who tried to play MC Lyte, when she should’ve been my girl. He seems to have gotten his act together after the ensuing beatdown, and is now a respected voice in Hip Hop culture with 20+ years of delivering biting content and social commentary across all aspects of popular culture
Che JohnsonBusiness Development Specialist IHeart MediaRichmond, Virginia
Behind his big ole head with ego to match, is a kind hearted, funny, hardworking and loyal friend. 🙂
Raychelle LeBlancCoachSheNotes WellnessAtlanta, GA
He’s the ubiquitous Entertainment Industry Insider with with his fingers on the pulse! And all-around good guy!
Gerry Erasme Global Brand MarketingNikeNew York, NY
Hard headed. Arrogant. But well intentioned and good hearted.
Claudio E. CabreraAudience Development and Engagement ManagerCBS LocalNew York, NY
‘He’s a punk, no he’s actually one of the many few who will offer information without strings attached. He is genuinely wants people to succeed ‘
Toni Dubois Senior Project CoordinatorHBONew York, NY
One of the most genuine people I’ve met in entertainment industry, it’s no wonder why he’s among everyone’s favorite people. He has never hesitated to support any of my projects for more than a decade in good faith which is becoming harder to find in a game where money is the bottom line. I am honored to be his friend.
BE'N ORIGINALPublisher/Editor in ChiefUrban MagaineNew York, NY
Well… outside of having the worst jokes I’ve ever heard, Big Ced to me is what I would call “The Mayor of New York”.
Ced knows everyone and everyone knows Ced. Now.. just because everyone knows him doesn’t mean everyone likes him… lol
Big Ced is a writer, a journalist, a website content creator.. and did I mention he has the worst jokes ever?
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He’s the best!
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Gawker , meet Sid Hudgens: media mogul, slimeball, genius
24 July 2015 Jim Nelson Leave a comment
Myron Fass’ Hush-Hush News
James Ellroy’s brilliant novel L.A. Confidential introduces readers to Sid Hudgens, one of Ellroy’s most colorful and enduring characters. Publisher of Hush-Hush magazine (“off the record, on the Q.T. and very hush-hush”), Hudgens gleefully reports on the secret lives of drag queens and lesbians, dishes the dirt on the famous (Robert Mitchum’s “Big Dope Bust of 1948”), and outs hunky actors whenever the whiff of non-heterosexual possibilities are sniffed out by him and his camera lens.
While Gawker Media weathered the storm this week over its outing of a Condé Nast executive embroiled in blackmail, I found myself revisiting Ellroy’s Sid Hudgens and all that Hudgens represents. I’m enjoying the Gawker circus immensely, delighted by each day’s revelations (Gawker “in a total meltdown”, “editors resign over flap”, Gawker to be “20% nicer”). Now this is my kind of tabloid journalism!
And I’m not the only one. I’ve noticed a preponderance of the word “schadenfreude” in accounts of Gawker’s self-induced implosion. (I even coined a neologism for the phenomena: gawkenfreude.)
I admit, I’m not entirely elated with Gawker Media’s and CEO Nick Denton’s funky little mess. I’m a fan of io9, a Gawker Media venture that avoids the lurid and sensational. In their place, io9 emphasizes reliable, thoughtful pieces for the science and science-fiction crowd. It’s also one of the few mainstream media sites to treat ebooks and self-publishing with the dignity they deserve. io9’s writing is remarkably free of the snark that Gawker churns out like dollar-mart peanut butter. (I should mention that I’ve socialized with io9 editor-in-chief Charlie Jane Anders in the distant past.) But io9’s good work isn’t enough to stop me from gawking at the Gawker pile-up.
Confidential magazine, November 1955
With all the schadenfreude over the train wreck that is Gawker Media, maybe it’s time to acknowledge the immense debt Nick Denton & Co. owe to the Sid Hudgenses of the bygone tabloid era, 1940s and onward.
James Ellroy’s creation is most likely an amalgamation of two historical figures, Myron Fass and Robert Harrison. Media impresario Myron Fass revived the Eisenhower era Hush-Hush News in the late 1960s. In addition, he published “up to fifty titles a month, many of them one-offs, covering any subject matter he thought would sell, from soft-core pornography to professional wrestling, UFOs to punk rock, horror films to firearm magazines.”
Robert Harrison published Confidential magazine in the 1950s, whose editorial style was “laden with elaborate, pun-inflected alliteration and allowed stories to suggest, rather than state, the existence of scandal.” Those pun-laden alliterations became Sid Hudgen’s calling card in both L.A. Confidential and later stories featuring him. (You can hear Hudgens’ pleased hiss as he says “sinnnn-sational.”) When Hudgens narrates a story in this alliterative fashion, Ellroy’s prose becomes a thick, near-unreadable Finnegan’s Wake of double entendres, word mangling, linguistic winks and nudges, and postwar film references.
Myron Fass represents the more lurid of the two—his love of the grotesque, bizarre, and outlandish comes through in his wild covers. Harrison’s Confidential was more conservative in both subject matter and politics, taking the pose of a moral crusader exposing those in power and delivering the truth to a deserving public.
Danny DeVito as Sid Hudgens, L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson’s film adaptation of L.A. Confidential did a damn fine job boiling Ellroy’s tangled ride and entwined characters down to a focused, seasoned narrative. Screenwriter Brian Hegeland developed brilliant scenes that establish complicated characters onscreen in moments. Here’s Sid Hudgens (impeccably played by Danny DeVito) explaining his vision of…the future:
Jack Vincennes: It’s felony possession of marijuana.
Sid Hudgens: Actually, it’s circulation 36,000 and climbing. There’s no telling where this will go. Radio, television. Once you whet the public’s appetite for the truth, the sky’s the limit.
Compare Sid’s ambitions to Nick Denton’s pseudo-manifesto of Gawker’s values:
“We put truths on the internet.” That has been the longstanding position of Gawker journalists. … It is not enough for [stories] simply to be true. They have to reveal something meaningful. They have to be true and interesting.
I won’t quibble with “interesting” except to point out that this is the word choice of a one-time journalist and editor.
“True,” however, is worth pondering. Nick Denton is not invoking the philosophical notion of truth as handed down to us from Aristotle, Sartre, Kant, and so forth. This is a schoolyard notion of truth, or rather, The Truth. A bottled, constrained substance, the prim and scolding schoolchild feels entitled and duty-bound to uncork The Truth and dump it out into the sandbox and onto the heads of their peers, damn the consequences—to others, of course, never him or herself. “True and interesting,” as airtight and ironclad a journalistic ethic as any, Sid Hudgens might say.
While Gawker‘s writers talk up the First Amendment, firewalls between business and journalism staff, and the purity of The Truth they seek to release, it remains that the core of Gawker‘s pulled story lies an attempt to out a man as gay. In Gawker‘s 1950s worldview, homosexuality remains an accusation to deny or confess to. Even when Gawker’s writers insist staying in the closet is a form homophobia, their devotion to exposing “true and interesting” homosexuality rings as hollow as Sid Hudgens’. Gawker and Hudgens see it as their personal duty to pull back the curtain on private lives whose personal choices—right or wrong—have zero impact on the public.
And Gawker has been relentless in their crusade of outing public figures (never mind the question of whether the Condé Nast executive is a public figure). Look no further than their perverse, sordid, multi-year quest not only to out James Franco as gay, but as a gay rapist—a charge they determined by counting the yea and nay votes in their readers’ comment section. Outing gay men (accurately or inaccurately) is the staple crop of tabloid journalism’s output and the raison d’être for its existence. In other words, Gawker is not the innovator it presents itself as. Gawker has an unsavory, weathered provenance that goes all the way back to the days of Myron Fass and Robert Harrison.
Tabloid journalism does not engage. It shames, it derides, it scorns, it scolds. It’s the clucked tongue put to print. It’s the transcription of knuckles rapped in delight. By refusing to engage in the substance of a story, Gawker‘s revered snarkiness is revealed as nothing more than Sid Hudgens’ pit-bull taste for lasciviousness, but more hipster and less hepcat.
Still, I can’t help but feel Sid Hudgens won. He foresaw the future with more clarity than Arthur C. Clarke or Isaac Asimov. From four-color tattler rags to Walter Winchell’s radio gossip to checkout line National Enquirer to prime time’s A Current Affair to the O.J. Simpson trial circus to Gawker Media’s empire—Sid Hudgens, Myron Fass, and Robert Harrison built the future one rumor at a time. Whet the public’s appetite for The Truth, boy-o, and the sky’s the limit.
Published 24 July 2015 by Jim Nelson. Last edited 3 July 2016 .
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HomeAnimeShingeki no Kyojin – First Season Impressions
Shingeki no Kyojin – First Season Impressions
Season one of Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) is over unfortunately. I decided to lump my thoughts on this anime so far into a post as I wait for season two to be announced and start airing. First up there are some spoilers present so if you do not want to read them stop right here then return once you are ready. Secondly, I have not read the manga very far; other than perusing the first couple chapters I resisted the urge to read ahead and decided to watch the series week by week to fully appreciate the story and any interesting plot maneuverings.
I unintentionally withdrew from the anime watching sphere as I grew bored watching the majority of shows I decided to check out. Then Shingeki no Kyojin came along and reignited my anime flame. It was heavy on emotion with a detailed art/animation style and a first episode that is one of the best I have ever watched. That first episode laid a foundation for the first season to build upon. Finally an anime to pull me back in and with each passing week I looked forward to a new episode being released and chatted up each episode with a few friends also watching it. Shingeki no Kyojin has been well received and I would go as far as to say it has become wildly popular and shows great potential. The story, the characters, the setting. I found myself caring about some characters and affected by how they developed.
Eren is an idiot
One of my only gripes about this series is my disdain for the main character protagonist Eren Jäger. I am not quite sold on his personality, he has no exceptional traits/abilities and I found myself liking him less and less as the season progressed. Bursting out of the belly of a titan was his high point but his only development was to turn into a mindless rampaging Sasquatch. I am just plain sorry for him because of the loss of his mother and being in the dark on why he can turn into a titan.
Armin, Jean, Mikasa, Hanji
Memorable core Characters
Easily my favourite character I try to resist whipping out my pom poms and screaming each time he is on screen. He is like a mixture between Roy Mustang (Full Metal Alchemist) and Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) and there seems to be so much depth to his character. I just hope we eventually learn more about his background and motivations.
After her parents were murdered she was taking in by Eren’s family. That act of kindness seems to have made her Eren’s protector for life. I really like strong female characters in anime, there are not many fighters better than Mikasa so far but she does have her moments when she frustrates me with her emotional baggage and that annoying way she screams “Eren!” repeatedly.
If there is one character that has grown the most throughout the first season it is Armin Arlert. From spineless coward to tactical genius I mistakenly hoped he would have been the first of the main characters to be killed off. I foresee some kind of leadership role for Armin eventually, now if only he could actually use his maneuver gear.
Will the Mindless rampaging Sasquatch ever learn control?
Dangling Plot Threads
Eren’s Father and the Key
Somehow, with the appearance of the female titan everyone forgot about the original mission. To get to Eren’s house to see what the key around his neck unlocks it is basement. Is it a weapon? Since is father was a doctor is it some kind of medicine to cure or make people into titans? Information on the identity of the remaining human titans perhaps?
Human Titans
It was made repeatedly clear that Annie is not the only human that can turn into a sentient titan. However, if are more, who are they? Is the colossal and the armoured titans humans hiding within the walls waiting for a change to strike another blow to humanity? Are there other titans yet to be revealed?
Titan inside the wall
The cliffhanger to end season one of Shingeki no Kyojin is a scene with the revelation of what clearly is a titan INSIDE the wall protecting the humans? Is the titan hiding there? Is it one of the mindless eaters or is sentient. Whatever the answer is its hiding place has been compromised and I am sure the survey and military corps will try to say hello.
Wall Worshipers
Whats up with the super creepy wall worshipers. They seem to have gotten a lot of screen time in the final few episodes and I do not think that is a coincidence. however I can’t quite think of a way that figure into the story other than being mindless, fanatic, lunatics.
Who is the boss?
No seriously who is the boss? You know the guy (or girl) in charge of the entire human race, or at least whats left of it. Is it a king, a military person? fat corrupt imbecile? We have met a lot of captains, lieutenants, generals etc but we still have seen or heard mention of who the boss of all the bosses is.
Wall Maria, Wall Rose, Wall Sina! All should be praised!
Conclusion and Share your thoughts
I like it a lot, I really really do but its to early to “love” it. As a fan of action packed anime with mature themes it is the best I have seen in a long time and it is a welcome breath of fresh air to distract from the onslaught of school themed anime, fanservice snooze fests, vampire/supernatural and pantsu/boob flashing anime girls. Season two can’t come quick enough, I’m just wondering if I’ll be able to get hooked on a similar anime while I wait for another season of Attack on Titan. Share your thoughts in a comment below or tweet me @jamaipanese. Feel free to recommend a similar anime I can watch while I wait!
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James Spada's Hollywood
James Spada is a celebrated author who has written many books on Hollywood and the personalities behind its magic. James is a Hollywood insider who brings a fresh and intimate approach to his celebrity insights.
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New James Spada Streisand Volume Coming in October
I'm pleased to announce that my latest Barbra Streisand book is coming from Abrams in hardcover on October 21, 2014. Here is the Abrams catalog description:
“Streisand: In the Camera Eye” is a collection of 170 of the most compelling photographs of Barbra Streisand, chosen for their rarity, beauty, and insight into Streisand’s multifaceted life and career. The pictures, most of which have never been published before, document her many phases, from her early days on Broadway, including “Funny Girl,” to her hugely popular TV specials, to her work as an actress in films such as “Hello, Dolly!,” “The Way We Were,” and “A Star Is Born.” Taken by some of the greatest names in photography—including Philippe Halsman, Francesco Scavullo, Douglas Kirkland, Bob Willoughby, and Cecil Beaton—the images also represent her fabled concerts, as well as personal moments away from the set and stage. Seven essays by Spada introduce the various periods of Streisand’s adult life, and, along with substantial anecdotal and quote-filled captions, they combine with the spectacular photos to tell the whole story of one of the world’s most popular and beloved stars.
Trim Size: 9 x 11
Cover: Hardcover with jacket
Illustrations: 170 color and black and white photos
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Matt Howe of Barbra Archives did a short interview with me about the upcoming book.
Matt: After writing three books about Streisand, what made you return to the subject of Barbra Streisand again?
Spada: Four books on Barbra! I never could have imagined that back in 1974 when Barbra: The First Decade was published. But each of my books on Barbra has been different. With this one, I wanted it to be a sumptuous pictorial tribute to Streisand’s beauty and talent. I went to one of the best art book publishers in the world, Abrams, and they signed me up to do it! It will truly be the most lavishly produced of any of my books on Barbra.
Matt: The new book looks like a gorgeous “coffee table” photo book. But there’s text by you, too. Can you explain what you’ve done with Streisand: In the Camera Eye?
Spada: The book’s format is very simple and elegant. On most spreads there is a full page photo of Barbra on one page and on the other page an extended caption written by me that discusses what the photo shows and includes a quote from a costar, director, friend or observer praising Barbra and giving their explanation of why she is so special. There isn’t a negative word in the book about her.
Matt: Barbra rarely talks about it, but she has worked with many iconic photographers. And she is an amazing “model.” Does the new book comment on or illustrate that?
Spada: Absolutely. The book begins with four unpublished full color images by Craig Simpson taken when Barbra was eighteen. In one of them she looks like Audrey Hepburn or a Vogue model! There are four unpublished Cecil Beaton photos plus the cover shot, and he explains why she was the “perfect mannequin” to model the Clear Day outfits. The book illustrates all of her plays, television specials and movies, but also has many photos that are used just to illustrate her beauty.
Matt: Did you make it to any of the 2006 or 2012 Streisand concerts? Still consider yourself a fan of hers?
Spada: I did see her in 2006 but not 2012. Yes, of course I’m still a fan. Her photos, TV shows and movies have given me great pleasure since the mid-sixties and they still do to this day. It was such a joy to do this book. I had a lot of help from Jorge Rodriguez Garcia in Spain, who made his fantastic collection of Barbra photos available to me. We had this transcontinental working relationship!
Matt: What will surprise Streisand fans most about your new book?
Spada: I hope it will be the number of previously unpublished photos. I have a great one by Bob Willoughby of Barbra in the hotel pool in 1963, a few alternates from Howell Conant’s 1966 Look shoot, several unpublished shots by Mario Casilli, three amazing shots taken for the 1963 Look profile and never used, and lots more! And also, many of the previously published photos were used very small or poorly reproduced when they were first published, but in this book they’re full page and beautiful! I put this book together with Barbra’s fans in mind, and I’m confident they will be very pleased.
James Spada wrote “Barbra: The First Decade,” published in 1974; “Streisand: The Woman and the Legend,” published in 1981; and “Streisand: Her Life,” published in 1995. Spada was also one of the instrumental people involved in Barbra Quarterly, a Streisand fan magazine published in the mid-80s.
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‘All the Money in the World’ – Review
By Debs Goodwin in Reviews 2 years ago
Eleventh Hour replacement Christopher Plummer excels as oil tycoon J.P. Getty in Ridley’s Scott’s heavily publicized kidnapping drama, All the Money in the World.
It is ironic that the most talked about part of All the Money in the World was never originally planned and the result of a terrible scandal. Director Ridley Scott was busy finalising the music on his film ahead of an imminent and heavily promoted release date, when shocking allegations broke about one of his leads. Kevin Spacey, who had played J.P. Getty, was allegedly responsible for deeds of sexual misconduct and assault, which spanned decades and had been systematically covered-up. As more stories continued to come forward, it prompted Scott to take immediate and drastic action, to recast Christopher Plummer in this key role. A frantic reshoot over the Thanksgiving period, with a reported cost of $10 million, ensured that his gamble paid off and the film met its planned release date. Cynics would add that this move also ensured that the film acquired extensive additional media coverage.
All the Money in the World is loosely based on the 1973 kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer – no relation to Christopher Plummer) from the streets of Rome by Italian mobsters. Eager to capitalise on his status as the grandson of oil tycoon J.P. Getty, his captors demand a $17 million ransom payment to secure his safe return. However J.P. Getty has no intentions of parting with a single dime of his acquired fortune and Paul’s mother, Gail (Michelle Williams) is estranged from the family with no money to her name since her divorce from Getty’s son. Her pleas for help from her former father-in-law are to no avail as he publically declares that with 14 other grandchildren, he cannot pay the ransom, as it would result in all of them becoming targets for kidnappings. So instead of providing money, he dispatches his head of security and key business negotiator – ex-CIA agent Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg) to join Gail in Rome to find and retrieve Paul.
The film is adapted by David Scarpa from the 1995 thriller ‘Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty’ by veteran true-crime author John Pearson. The incredible and thrilling true events, feature larger than life characters and fascinating and engaging scenarios, which make it perfectly suited for adaption. A fact further demonstrated by the upcoming 10 part TV series for FX, directed by Danny Boyle, due to be released at the end of January.
Several aspects of the true story have been altered and simplified for the purposes of entertainment and some of these decisions are a disservice to the original people involved. The Kidnapped victim’s father, John Paul II (Andrew Buchan) is depicted as being entirely absent due to drug addiction, which has been grossly exaggerated from the real situation, to ensure that Gail is the heroine and the drama is centred on her struggle. While the script is witty, it is at times uneven and it is not until the final stages of the film before we begin to believe that Getty’s grandson is in real physical danger. We are then treated to a thrilling and suspenseful final act, which will have you on the edge of your seat and makes the earlier faults forgivable.
Christopher Plummer is easily the best thing about this film as he humanises a character that displays more affection for priceless works of art and antiques than his own family. The film excels when Getty is on screen, but this unfortunately creates an imbalance when it shifts to other aspects that have been overly simplified and lack the same depth. Michelle Williams gives an excellent performance as a browbeaten mother in visible distress as she is powerless to save her son from impending doom. While the role of Getty has received all the media headlines, the film is clearly Gail’s story about ultimately standing up to her former father-in-law, whose vast fortune offers the only hope for her son’s safe release.
Surprisingly, it is Mark Wahlberg who feels more like a last minute replacement in the film and his purpose as a vital employee to J.P. Getty is not entirely clear aside from him regularly repeating that “I negotiate deals”. Wahlberg seems to be playing his standard Boston cop and regular guy-next-door routine, electing to don a pair of seventies style glasses as his method of serious acting when ever a scene requires more intensity.
Ridley Scott has created a visually stunning film with beautiful sets and scenery. He has found a way to ensure that the audience empathises with the ruthlessness of Getty and see his vulnerability, which is not expected from the world’s wealthiest man. The pacing is excellent and it never lets us feel the agonising waiting that must have played a large part of the lengthy ordeal. Scott seamlessly flips between the action of Gail and Fletcher on the paparazzi filled streets of Rome, to Paul’s growing desperation as he is being held by his captors in the barren Italian countryside. This drama is all presented in stark contrast to Getty, who continues to maintain his set business routine and life in his opulent mansion with his main distraction being the pursuit of a prized work of art.
A cynical viewpoint is whether this film would be receiving such a large amount of press and award coverage had it not been affected by the sexual harassment shake-up currently sweeping through Hollywood. Putting politics aside, All the Money in the World is an entertaining thriller with a stand-out performance worth spending some of your money on.
After Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, director Ridley Scott decided not to show Plummer any footage of Spacey in character, or even tell him how Spacey played the scenes. When finished, Scott found both performances to be quite different and equally effective in their own particular styles.
Debs Goodwin
Melbourne’s newest & possibly only South African film reviewer who has left behind the grey skies of London in the pursuit of sunshine and good coffee! When I am not busy keeping up to date with the latest films, I am supporting my passion by working as TV producer for the Discovery channel.
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Eun Hee Kim1,, JoonYong Park2
1Department of Defense Systems Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea
2Agency of Defense Development, Daejeon, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Eun Hee Kim (e-mail: eunheekim@sejong.ac.kr)
Received 2018 July 13; Accepted 2018 November 14; Accepted 2019 January 7.
Alert–confirm detection is a highly efficient method to improve phased array radar search performance. It comprises sequential detection in two steps: alert detection, in which a target is detected at a low detection threshold, and confirm detection, which is triggered by alert detection with a longer dwell time to minimize false alarms. This paper provides a design method for applying the alert–confirm detection to multifunctional radars. We find optimum dwell times and false alarm probabilities for each alert detection and confirm detection under the dual constraints of total false alarm probability and maximum allowable dwell time per position. These optimum values are expressed as a function of the mean new target appearance rate. The proposed alert–confirm detection increases the maximum detection range even with a shorter frame time than that of uniform scanning.
Keywords: AESA Scanning Radar; Phase Array Radar; Radar Detection; Sequential Detection
Active electronically scanned antenna (AESA) technology improves airborne radar performance not only by reducing losses and increasing power efficiency with respect to conventional mechanical antenna but also through multifunctional aspects [1], such as fast exploration (steering), unpredictable scanning pattern, adaptive tracking rate independent of scan rate, and variable waveforms, among others [2]. This paper focuses on alert–confirm detection, the most significant technique to enhance AESA radar performance [3, 4].
Alert–confirm detection is also called energy-variant sequential detection, and it comprises a sequential detection procedure [5]. Conventional sequential detection procedures apply Wald’s sequential probability test [6] for radar detection. The likelihood ratio is calculated for each transmitted beam and compared with two thresholds. If the likelihood ratio exceeds the upper threshold, a target is declared; if the likelihood ratio drops below the lower threshold, no target is declared. If the likelihood ratio falls between the thresholds, an additional beam is transmitted and the process is repeated. Sequential testing yields an improvement of several decibels in radar sensitivity compared with uniform scanning detection. Alert-confirm detection is a simpler procedure. The likelihood ratio for each beam is compared with the lower threshold. If the threshold is exceeded in any resolution cell, a second beam is transmitted to the same direction, and the return likelihood ratio is compared with the higher threshold. A target is declared present when the thresholds are exceeded on both beams. Similar search efficiency to sequential probability ratio can be obtained by the optimum choice of the thresholds and beam energies [7].
The standard measure for detection performance of scanning radars against a target with a given cross-section is the detection range, in which either the per-scan or cumulative probability of detection has some specified value. Cumulative probability is defined as the probability that an approaching target has been detected at least once by the time it reaches a given range, and it can be increased by increasing either the per-scan detection probability or the scan rate [8]. However, the scan rate, which is the reciprocal of the frame time for uniform scanning radar, and the per-scan probability cannot be increased simultaneously. Therefore, determining whether to scan frequently with a low per-scan probability or infrequently with a high per-scan probability is a major surveillance radar design issue. Mallett and Brennan [9] provided the maximum detection range and frame time analytically as a function of the desired cumulative detection probability. They showed that although the average per-scan probability and the cumulative detection probability were similar for non-fluctuating targets, i.e., within approximately 2% optimum values, the accumulation gain was particularly significant for fluctuating targets. In airborne radars with dynamic targets and a cluttered environment, the per-scan probability of detection is an oscillation function of the target range [10]. Consequently, no single range and value pair for the per-scan probability of detection can provide a meaningful description of range performance. However, the cumulative detection probability, which monotonically increases, should yield a performance measure [11]. Alternatively, the detection rate, defined as the detection probability per unit time, has been proposed rather than the cumulative detection probability as the optimization goal [12, 13].
Brennan and Hill [7] proposed optimum parameters maximizing the range for a specified cumulative detection probability, including threshold levels and signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for each detection. They performed optimization under the constraint of a fixed false alarm probability per beam position. Frame time for calculating the cumulative detection probability was based on the total average SNR per beam position provided by the alert–confirm detection. The total average SNR was the sum of SNR at the alert detection and the average SNR at the confirm detection, in which the average SNR was calculated as the product of the false alarm probability of the alert detection and SNR at the confirm detection. They considered non-coherent integration processing as a loss.
This study provided a design method for applying the alert–confirm detection to multifunctional AESA radar, which performs surveillance and tracking concurrently.
We found optimal dwell times and false alarm probabilities to maximize the detection range under two constraints: fixed false alarm probability per beam position and maximum allowable time to perform the alert–confirm detection. The maximum allowable time was determined by target movement and the interval between alert detection and confirm detection. Non-coherent integration processing was considered in an explicit format, and the new target appearance rate was included when calculating the frame time, which had not been considered previously.
The performance of the designed alert–confirm detection was verified by the increased maximum range compared with that of uniform scanning detection.
The remainder of paper is organized as follows. Section II explains the basic formulas and constraints. Section III discusses in detail the optimization results and some parameters affecting performance. In addition, Monte Carlo simulation results are shown and compared with those from numerical calculation. Section IV summarizes and concludes the paper.
II. Basic Description
1. Alert–Confirm Detection
We assume that detection is to be processed by coherent and non-coherent integrations, as shown in Fig. 1. Dwell time can be expressed as
Simplified block diagram of non-coherent integration.
(1) Td=Tres·Nrng·Ncn·N=Tcoh·N,
where T res is the time of the range bin, N rng is the number of range bins, N cn is the number of coherent integrations, N is the number of non-coherent integrations, and T coh is the coherent dwell time.
We assume that T coh is fixed and that the dwell time T d is dependent on N. The probability density function (PDF) of y is
(2) p(y∣A)=(2yNRp)N-12exp (-y-NRp2)IN-1 [(2yNRp)1/2]
where I N −1 is the modified Bessel function of order N–1, and R p = 2 × SNR [14]. The SNR is normally calculated by the radar range equation, which is
(3) SNR=P¯GAeσTd(4π)2kTeffLR4=P¯GAeTd(4π)2kTeffLR4·A22,
P̄ = average transmitted power
G = antenna gain
T d = dwell time
A e = effective aperture of the receiving antenna
σ = radar cross section (RCS)
A = amplitude related to σ (σ = A 2/2)
k = Boltzmann constant
T eff = effective noise temperature of the receiver
L = Loss factor
We use the Swerling I fluctuation model for airborne targets, where the amplitude is constant during one frame but varies independently from frame to frame [15]. The PDF of the amplitude A is described by a Rayleigh distribution expressed as follows:
(4) p(A)=AA02exp (-A22A02),0≤A,A02=σ¯,
where σ̄ is the average RCS.
As the Swerling I model requires the RCS to be constant during the integration or dwell time and vary between frames, RCS may or may not vary between alert detection and confirm detection depending on the interval between the detections. Therefore, we consider two cases of alert–confirm detection [7]: case 1 is quick confirmation (QC), in which the interval is short enough for RCS to be constant, and case 2 is late confirmation (LC), in which RCS varies because of the long interval. The overall detection probabilities for alert–confirm detection for cases 1 and 2 are expressed as
(5) Pd=∫0∞[∫Vt1∞p(y∣A)dy]×[∫Vt2∞p(y∣A)dy]p(A)dA
(6) Pd=Pd1×Pd2
respectively, where
(7) Pdi=∫Vti∞[∫0∞p(y∣A)p(A)dA]dy
and i = 1 for alert detection and i = 2 for the confirm detection. The false alarm probability per cell can be expressed as
(8) Pfi=∫Vti∞yN-1(N-1)!exp(-y)dy.
Therefore, the overall false alarm probability of the alert–confirm detection for m resolution cells is
[Constraint 1]
(9) Pfa=1-[1-Pf1Pf2]m≅mPf1Pf2.
If the overall false alarm probability is given, the second threshold depends on the first. This overall false alarm probability is fixed to compare the performance with the uniform scanning detection.
For the alert–confirm detection, the confirm beam is transmitted in the same direction as the alert beam to ensure that the target remains in the angle of the radar beam. Therefore, the maximum allowable time per beam, T beam , for the alert–confirm detection is limited by target movement,
(10) Tbeam=Td1+Td2+Tin<Tstay,
where T d 1 is the dwell time for alert detection, T d 2 is the dwell time for confirm detection, T in is the time between alert and confirm detections including the processing time, and T stay is the time that the target dwells in a beam direction. By substituting Eq. (1),
(11) N1+N2<Nc,
where N 1 and N 2 are the numbers of non-coherent integrations in the alert and confirm detections, respectively.
When AESA radar performs surveillance and tracking concurrently, the frame time to calculate the cumulative detection probability can be expressed as
(12) T=NbeamTd1+[mPf1×Nbeam+Tν(1+η¯)]×Td2+Ttrack,
where ν is the mean new target appearance rate within the search volume, N beam is the number of search beams in a frame time, T track is the time for tracking the beams for multiple targets, and η̄ is the average number of unconfirmed search alarms per new target [16]. The second term, mP f 1 × N beam , represents the number of confirm beams from false alarms, and the third term, T s × ν(1 + η̄), is the number of confirm beams from the true target detection. T track can include any time required for tasks such as calibration, among others.
If T track is expressed as a ratio of the frame time, i.e.,
(13) Ttrack=αT,
then the frame time in Eq. (12) is
(14) T=Nbeam[Td1+mPf1Td2]1-α-ν(1+η¯) Td2=Ωω·Td1+mPf1Td21-α-ν(1+η¯)Td2
where ω is the solid angle of the radar beam, and Ω is the solid angle of the search frame. As η̄ is dependent on T, T cannot be expressed in the closed form, and iteration is required to calculate T and η̄.
2. Cumulative Detection Probability
The cumulative detection probability at range R can be expressed as [9]
(15) Pc(R,Δ)=1Δ∫RR+Δ{1-∏m=0l[1-Pd(R′+mΔ)]}dR′,
where P d (R′) is the per-scan probability at R′ for a given false alarm probability P f ; Δ = V c × T is the distance a target radially travels during a search frame, where V c is the target radial velocity, and l is the number of cumulations that equals the number of frames by the time the target reaches a given range from the initial detection range. The initial detection range is set large enough that the detection probability can be ignored.
To compare with the result of the alert–confirm detection, the detection range for the uniform scanning radar was calculated for P c = 0.85 as a function of the number of non-coherent integrations, N in Eq. (1). The scan area was defined as shown in Fig. 2 using a common 4 bar, ±60° scan raster. The bars were spaced 2.8° apart, and the number of beams in a bar was 30. The other parameters used in the simulation are listed in Table 1 [17].
Radar operation and the scan area.
Simulation parameters
Fig. 3 shows that the detection range R increases to its maximum as N increases from zero. In this interval, the effect of the increased per-scan detection probability exceeds that of the decreased scan rate. However, once R reaches its maximum, the effect of the scan rate is dominant, and the range decreases. The maximum range R 0 was 38.07 (NM) at N = 9. This result was verified by comparing with that in [9].
Range variation as dwell time (N) increases (Swerling I, P fa = 10−6).
III. Optimization for the Alert-Confirm Detection
1. Dwell Time Optimization
We performed the optimization for QC and LC cases discussed above. We assumed that the overall false alarm probability P fa = 10−6 and that the maximum allowable number N c = 50. Optimization aimed to find the parameters for P f 1, P f 2, N 1, and N 2 that maximize the detection range for a given cumulative detection probability (P c = 0.85). The overall optimization is summarized in Fig. 4.
Summary of the optimization steps.
Fig. 5 shows the maximum detection range R as a function of N 1 when m = 32 and α = 0. N 1 increases the per-scan detection probability but decreases the scan rate. Therefore, as N 1 increases, R increases to its maximum point and then decreases monotonically. The change in R around the optimum is small. Fig. 6 shows the contour plots of R for N 2 and P f 1 at N 1 = 1 and at N 1 = 5. The change in R due to N 2 is also small when N 1 approaches its optimum (N 1 = 5).
Maximum range for each N 1 at ν = 0.3 (m = 32, α = 0).
Contour plots for R/R 0 (QC, ν = 0.3 and α = 0): (a) N 1 = 1 and (b) N 1 = 5.
Optimization was repeated with changing the mean new target appearance rate, ν. If ν = 0, R/R 0 = 1.163 and 1.043 for QC and LC, respectively, as shown in Fig. 7. The increment is much larger for QC than for LC. In other words, QC, which keeps the target RCS constant between the alert and the confirm detection, has a significantly longer detection range than LC. Late confirmation even extends the detection range compared with the uniform scanning detection. The maximum range decreases as ν increases because more confirm detections are triggered. For LC, if ν is greater than 0.7, then the range drops below R 0. Fig. 8 shows the optimal values for N 1, N 2, and T. N 2 is larger than N 1 and the frame time is shorter than that of the uniform scanning detection. At ν = 0, T = 7 and 4.56 seconds for QC and LC, respectively, which are significantly less than T = 8.6 seconds for the uniform scanning. The total dwell time per beam position for QC is shorter than that for LC, e.g., N 1 + N 2 = 24 and 30, respectively, at ν = 0.6. If the RCS fluctuation time can be estimated in advance, the constraint Eq. (11) can be used for the QC condition. In this simulation, the constraint Eq. (10) appears only where ν = 0.2 – 0.3 in LC. Despite the shorter dwell time for QC, its frame time is longer than that of LC because its confirm detections by false alarms are greater than that of LC.
Increase in R/R 0 for each case.
Optimal numbers of non-coherent integrations and frame times: (a) optimal number N 1 for alert detection, (b) optimal number N 2 for confirm detection, and (c) optimal frame time.
The optimal false alarm probability does not change much with the new target appearance rate, as shown in Fig. 9. P f 1 = 10−3 for QC when ν is less than 0.5. Therefore, P f2 = 3.125 × 10−5 from (8). The false alarm probability for confirm detection is lesser than that for alert detection. That is, the threshold level for confirm detection is higher than that for alert detection.
Optimal false alarm probability for an alert detection.
From the above result, if ν is smaller than 0.3, the detection range is maximized when N 1 is 5, N 2 is 28, and P f 1 is 10−3 with quick confirmation.
Finally, we examined the effects of the number of resolution cells and the load of the tracking task. Figs. 10 and 11 show the effects of the number of resolution cells and the new target appearance rate. The maximum detection range decreases rapidly as m increases. The rate of the maximum range decrease is similar for all values of ν. Fig. 12 illustrates the range reduction as a function of the tracking load α, where the dashed line shows the range reduction for the uniform scanning detection. At α = 0.5, the maximum range decreases by 1 dB. For QC and LC, the reduction is 0.66 dB and 0.58 dB, respectively, which is less than that for the uniform scanning detection. LC shows the smallest reduction because it has the shortest frame time among the three cases.
Effect of the number of resolution cells (ν = 0.1).
Effect of the number of resolution cells for varying ν (QC).
Performance degradation for the tracking load at ν = 0 and m = 32.
2. Monte Carlo Simulation
We also performed a Monte Carlo simulation to verify the above results using numerical calculations. This Monte Carlo model was developed to simulate the radar operation intuitively based on random signal generation. It can show the entire detection process if desired and simulate various scenarios including the detection strategies.
We generated more than 5,000 targets in 10,000 frames. The initial detection distance was set to 48 NM, and the target appearance rate ν was 0.3. The reflective signals from the targets were synthesized according to the RCS distribution as in Eq. (4), and the Gaussian random noise was added by SNR in Eq. (3). The detection range was defined as the range at which 85% of the targets were detected. The detection was decided by the false alarm probability or equivalently by the threshold level in Eq. (7).
Fig. 13 shows a typical screen capture during the simulation. Continuously changing beam positions and targets are displayed by different symbols.
Example of a screen capture from the Monte Carlo simulation ( : current beam position, ▽ : confirmed targets, □ : detected but not confirmed targets, ⋄ : undetected target).
The Monte Carlo simulation results were within 2% of the numerical calculation results, as shown in Fig. 14, for a typical example with ν = 0.3, N 1 = 5, and P fa 1 = 10−3. This model is useful to simulate complex scenarios or system diversity, including beam broadening at off-boresight angles, in which numerical calculation are difficult. Modifying the confirmation strategy (e.g., more than 1 out of 3 confirmation detections) is also possible to improve the detection range. This issue will be investigated in future research.
Comparison of the Monte Carlo simulation and numerical calculation results.
Alert-confirm detection is one of the most significant techniques to improve the maximum detection range of surveillance radar. Although this strategy was proposed in the 1960s, the required beam agility and computational capability are now ready through the advanced AESA technology.
This study provides a design method for applying the alert–confirm detection to multifunctional AESA radar. We show the optimal parameters to maximize the detection range through a numerical method and the Monte Carlo simulation. In summary, the alert–confirm detection offers two advantages in comparison with the uniform scanning detection: improvement of the maximum detection range and reduced frame time. The reduced frame time improves the tracking performance of track-while-scan and active tracking.
We expect the variants of alert–confirm detection to further improve the performance of AESA radar, for example, having one alert and multiple confirmations. These variants are too complex to be written in an explicit form of equations. The Monte Carlo model can be useful to simulate these variants and various targets.
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Eun Hee Kim received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2004. She worked at LIGNEX1 for 6 years until September 2013. She is an associate professor at Sejong University. Her research interests are in radar signal processing and target recognition.
JoonYong Park received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH) in 2016. He is a researcher at Agency for Defense Development. His research interests are in radar signal processing, estimation theory, AESA.
Parameters (unit)
Antenna peak gain (dB) 33.5
Antenna half-power beamwidth (º) 4
Transmit peak power (W) 1,000
Transmitted wavelength (ft.) 0.1
Duty cycle 0.8
Receive noise figure (dB) 4
Target cross section (m2) 5
Target velocity (m/s) 600
Initial detection range (NM) 40
Total system loss (dB) 16.3
Coherent dwell time (msec) 8
Number of beam in one frame 120
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Music Friday: Amethyst and Sapphire Make Glittering Cameos in Wang Chung’s ‘Dance Hall Days'
Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you cool songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In 1984, British New Wave band Wang Chung helped define a generation with its international hit “Dance Hall Days.” The memorable song, which continues to be a darling of Hollywood filmmakers, includes last-verse mentions of two popular gemstones — amethyst and sapphire.
Lead singer/composer Jack Hues sings: “So take your baby by the wrist, and in her mouth an amethyst. And in her eyes two sapphires blue, and you need her and she needs you.”
Hues explained the curious mouthful-of-amethyst reference in a recent interview with “Just My Show” podcast host Eric Greenberg. The song begins innocently, he said, with the line, “Take your baby by the hand.” But, by the last verse, the tone has escalated to “Take your baby by the wrists, and in her mouth an amethyst.”
“It’s all a bit more hallucinogenic in a way, how things that start off simple get complex,” he said.
“Dance Hall Days,” which charted in 12 countries and peaked in the U.S. at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, put a New Wave timestamp on a slew of popular movies, including Bachelor Party, Pretty in Pink, Gotti, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Adventureland, The Informers and The Fighter.
The band’s unusual name translates to “yellow bell” in Mandarin Chinese. Wang Chung is also the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.
Don’t miss the 2012 live performance of “Dance Hall Days” at the end of this post. The lyrics are below if you’d like to sing along.
“Dance Hall Days”
Written by Jack Hues. Performed by Wang Chung.
Take your baby by the hand
And make her do a high handstand
Take your baby by the heel
And do the next thing that you feel
We were so in phase
In our dance hall days
We were cool on craze
When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could believe, do, and share in what was true
Oh, I said
Dance hall, days love
Take your baby by the hair
And pull her close and there there there
Take your baby by the ears
And play upon her darkest fears
So take your baby by the wrist
And in her mouth an amethyst
And in her eyes two sapphires blue
And you need her and she needs you
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Tag: Tohoku Freeblades
Asia League 2017-18 Playoff Semi Final Preview
After last night’s victory for the Eagles over the Icebucks in the first round of playoffs, the Semifinal picture is set up.
Sakhalin vs Oji Eagles
Anyang Halla vs Tohoku Freeblades
Sakhalin vs Oji Eagles:
3/10, 3/11 & 3/12- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
3/17, 3/18 – Tomakomai (if needed)
Sakhalin is coming into the playoffs after a very long break. The last competitive game they had was on December 8th, and they had already cemented top spot in the league by then so the game didn’t count for anything.
Oji, on the other hand, will be coming into these games on the back of the Japan Cup and a tightly contested first round of playoffs.
On paper, this should be an easy win for Sakhalin. In the regular season, Sakhalin picked up 4 wins from 4 games against the Eagles. In regular season scoring, Sakhalin posted a +30 goal differential compared to Oji’s +1 GD.
Oji Eagles will be relying heavily on their high scoring third line of Captain Shuhei Kuji, Daisuke Obara, and Seiji Takahashi, who posted a combined total of 79 points in the regular season. Sakhalin’s first line will be expected to do most of the damage for them with Alexei Eremin, Kirill Startcev, and Nikolai Zhilin putting up a combined 82 points during the season.
While the Eagles will have some momentum going into the game and Sakhalin look like they will have some rust to shake off, I can’t look past Sakhalin making it to the final for the 3rd year in a row. I can see the Eagles maybe picking up a victory but and forcing at least one game in Japan, but I feel that the Sakhalin machine is too big and well organized to be threatened in any meaningful way.
Prediction: Sakhalin progress to the final (3-1)
Anyang Halla vs Tohoku Freeblades:
This should be the more interesting of the semi-final ties. Both teams, in this case, should have no rust issues as the Freeblades played in the competitive Japan cup in February and the majority of the Anyang Halla team were part of the Korea National team that took part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Games between the 2014-15 finalists are always tightly contested affairs with plenty of hits. Freeblades hold an advantage over Halla in the regular season, winning 3 of the 4 games. Scoring wise, Halla holds a +19 goal differential to the Freeblades +3, most of this down to Hallas superior defensive record.
Individually, neither team had any stand out scorers this year, with Scott Barney leading the Halla scoring charts with 9 goals and the Freeblades Go Tanaka and Kota Shinohara both on 10 goals. It was a case of depth throughout the lines that pushed both teams towards the higher end of the league table with some of the higher scorers coming from the third lines.
With the return of the national team players, after their heroics at the winter Olympics, the ball seems to be firmly in Anyang Halla’s court to make it to the finals. With a full team and all of the big names in prime condition after months of Olympic training, Halla will be favorites going into this series. That’s not to say that that the Freeblades won’t give them a game. If Halla doesn’t go at these games at full tilt then the Freeblades are more than capable of taking advantage. Any Olympic hangover or cockiness from the Halla players could be a death sentence for them in terms of making the final.
This will most likely come down to the battle of the goalies between Yuto Itoh and Matt Dalton. Whichever is on the better form in the series could be the difference maker.
Prediction: Halla progress to the final (3-0)
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10/23 Asia League Weekend Roundup
Eagles make the most of home advantage, Freeblades and Bucks rack up the goals Hachinohe, High1 pick up up their first sweep of the season.
Another weekend where 6 teams were in action, with Halla and Sakhalin sitting out this weekend.
Oji Eagles v Nippon Paper Cranes
The Eagles were home for the first time in 3 weeks and looking to pick up some wins after a difficult trip to Sakhalin the previous week, coming away with no points. The Cranes, who didn’t play last week, also came back from their last game in Sakhalin with no points.
Game 1. The Eagles opened the scoring just before the 5-minute mark on a power play. Daisuke Obara inserting the puck into the net as Mitsuaki Inoue was only able to parry Shuhei Kuji‘s shot on goal before Ryo Hashimoto could flick it out to the waiting Obara. Eight minutes later the Cranes leveled the game. After some nice passing in the Eagles defensive area, Masahito Nishiwaki‘s shot was blocked by a skate, the resulting loose puck was then dummied (missed?) through the legs of Shinya Yanadori and picked up by Shogo Nakajima who had an easy time finding the bottom left corner of the Eagles net, with Yuta Narisawa struggling to get back in his crease after the initial shot.
The start of the second period saw the Cranes put the Eagles goal under a lot of pressure before Kenta Takagi picked up a cross-checking penalty for the Cranes with just under 2 minutes gone. The Eagles were able to retake the lead in the resulting power play as Masato Domeki got a tip on a Takafumi Yamashita first timer to knock the puck past Inoue for his 4th goal of the season. Halfway through the period Masato Domeki was able to fight the puck away from two Cranes defensemen on the edge of the crease and set up Yosuke Haga to scoop the puck over the trailing leg of Inoue to double the Eagles lead.
2 minutes into the 3rd period saw Hayato Aiki go on a solo run around the back of the Cranes net before spinning and sending a neat backhand pass across the crease to Tomoya Echigo who tucked the puck under Inoue‘s pads for the final goal of the game. Eagles 4:1 Cranes
Game 1 Highlights
Game 2. Both teams started the game brightly with plenty of shots on goal and chances for each way but it took until the 15th minute of the second period before either team could break the deadlock. Picking up a pass on a quick break out of defense, Sho Sato was able to drive forward into the offensive area, fending off a number of defensemen before sniping a peach of a shot into the top corner of Mitsuaki Inoue‘s net to give the Eagles the lead. Inoue didn’t have the best visibility but a great shot nonetheless. Just over a minute later both teams were level again as Hiroki Ueno dispossessed the Eagles on their PP to skate uncontested down the ice to pick himself up a nice shirt handed goal.
With just over 6 minutes gone in the third period, the Eagles took the lead once again as Ryo Hashiba unleashed an inch-perfect wrist shot from just inside the blue line over the left shoulder of Inoue for his first goal of the season. The Cranes responded again ten minutes later, this time on the powerplay. After some good work on the boards by Taiga Irikura, Shunsuke Shigeno smashed a shot past Yuta Narisawa into the back of the twine to set up a grandstand finish. Neither team could pick up the regular time winning goal so it went to overtime. Unfortunately, it was a goalie mistake that decided the game in OT. Yuta Narisawa leaving his crease to deal with a loose puck hit a lazy pass to his defenseman which was picked up by Shuheu Kuji who sent the puck across to Daisuke Obara who had a whole open net to aim for. Eagles 3-2 Cranes
The Eagles seem to do much better at home having won all but 2 of their games in Tomakomai, the Cranes also seem to hate being on the road having lost all of their games away from home ice. Halfway through a short season, there’s still a chance for every team to make the playoffs, as there’s only a difference of 5 points between 3rd and 8th place in the table. These results could push the Eagles on to gain some momentum and stay in the upper echelons of the league table but the opposite could happen for the Cranes if they can’t pick up some W’s soon. Next up for the Eagles is Sakhalin at home where they will hope to prolong their solid home record. The Cranes have no game next weekend but have mid week games the following week also against Sakhalin.
Tohoku Freeblades v Nikko IceBucks
Both teams returned from their 6 game trips to Korea with mixed results. The Freeblades and Bucks both picking up 3 wins respectively.
Game 1 was the first home game for the Blades in almost a month as they looked to hold on to their 2nd place position in the league table, and with Logan Stephenson returning from injury it looked as though they would have a good shot at that.
The Bucks were the first off the mark as Takeshi Saito got himself a PP goal after 8 minutes in the first. Goshi Ito‘s slapshot spilled by Yuto Itoh with Saito in the right place at the right time to stick the puck into the roof of the net. Five minutes later the Freeblades were back on level pegging through a Go Tanaka goal after Yutaka Fukufuji couldn’t get a Goshi Kumagai shot under control.
Two and a half minutes into the second period the Bucks were ahead again. Maito Omuku‘s shot missing the net but rebounding off the boards into the path of Mitsuyoshi Konno who had the entire left side of the net to aim for with Itoh still stuck on the right. Two minutes later the teams were level again as the Freeblades picked up a Powerplay goal, a long-distance effort from Ryo Omiya finding the top right corner of the net through a Kota Shinohara screen. Midway through the period, the Bucks were once again up by a goal after a nice lay off by Yuri Terao allowed Takeshi Saito to smash a shot past Itoh. The Blades responded again six minutes later with another PP goal. Dong Hwan Kim setting up Junichi Takahashi on the left side to blast a shot in off the inside Fukufuji‘s right-hand post. With less than two minutes remaining in the second period, the Freeblades took the lead for the first time in the game. Following a couple of good saves in succession by Fukufuji, Kota Shinohara was able to bundle the puck into the net through a group of players.
Midway through the third Kazuma Iwamoto broke free with the puck behind the Blades net before popping a pass out to Yusei Ohtsu who could first time it into the top shelf to tie up the game for the fourth time. 4 minutes later the Bucks retook the lead on another PP as Ryuichi Kawai‘s shot from the blue line was tipped by Makuru Furuhashi then Hiromichi Terao past Itoh into the back of the net. The game was then tied up for the fifth time with just under 5 minutes left in the game, Takuma Kawai‘s pass to the edge of the crease was met by Ryo Tanaka and deftly flicked into the back of the net to send the game into overtime. Following a scoreless overtime, Petteri Nummelin shot the game-winning goal in the resulting shootout to give the IceBucks the 6:5 win
Game1 Highlights
Following the defeat in the Saturday goal fest the Freeblades were desperate to pick up 3 points to keep them near the top of the table and today they got their wish.
The Sunday game provided another goal fest but it was ultimately in the favor of one team. The first goal of the game came as a shorty for the Freeblades. On the penalty kill, they were able to get the puck to Takuro Yamashita on the left wing who raced on the net, two on one, with Ryo Tanaka before sliding a pass to Tanaka who stuck it away. The teams were back on level pegging less than 30 seconds later when Petteri Nummelin found Yuri Terao all alone at the back post with a nice pass who had plenty of time to hit the back of the twine. The next 7 goals in the game all went to the Freeblades. Midway through the first, Ryo Omiya set up Kazuki Yamamoto who stuck a nice slap shot past Kohei Ono in the Bucks net.
At the start of the second Ryo Omiya went on a nice solo effort down the left wing before cutting inside and sticking a shot past Ono into the bottom right corner of the net. Midway through the second on a Blades PP, Logan Pyett‘s shot on net was spilled by Ono before Takuro Yamashita was able to gather the puck and find Go Tanaka waiting by the left post for an easy tap-in. Three minutes later the Blades got their second shorty of the game when Go Tanka released Michitaka Motono down the right with a pass off the boards who was able to hit a wrist shot in for goal number 5. Then with under ten seconds left in the second period, following some good work between Logan Stephenson and Yoshikazu Kashino the puck was fed to Kota Shinohara who stuck the puck past Ono into the bottom left of the net for goal number 6.
Midway through the third, Logan Stephenson was able to get his name on the scoresheet picking up the puck on the Bucks blue line following a Blades breakaway to score his third goal of the season. Shortly after Yuri Terao had a chance to get one back through a penalty shot, after being hooked by Junichi Takahashi, but Ryo Kano was up to the task and kept the shot out. The final goal of the day was scored by Takuma Kawai on a PP with just under 7 minutes remaining following a decent set up by Go Tanaka. Final score Freeblades 8:1 IceBucks
The Blades continued their high scoring season with 13 goals in these two games. The IceBucks kept up their habit of taking points from the Freeblades too. Game 1, while being a great spectacle for the neutrals, would have been a disappointing game for the Blades, especially defensively. Logan Stephenson‘s return should help them shore up a defense that has been somewhat leaky as of late. They can definitely outscore any team in the league so once they keep the goals conceded to a minimum they will definitely be pushing for a top spot in the league. The Bucks have been doing a decent job this season, while not really generating too much momentum, they have been picking up enough wins here and there to keep them in the hunt for playoff spots. If they can continue this they should be still around in March come postseason.
High1 v Daemung Killer Whales
High1 came into the game with 1 win and 1 loss during the previous weekend against the Freeblades. They knew they needed points quickly as they were sitting at the bottom of the table with all the other teams picking up points. Daemyung returned to action after having the previous weekend off but they did manage 2 wins against the Freeblades also in their midweek games a week and a half previously. They came into the games sitting in 4th spot only 1 point off Halla in 3rd place and 4 points off the Freeblades in 2nd.
The big talking point before the game was the absence of Daemyung goaltender Tyler Weiman due to personal circumstances. Regular backup Chang Min Lee wasn’t chosen to start, instead, new signing Yeon Seung Lee was handed his debut. With just over 30 seconds gone, High1 were one goal up. Jong Soo Park‘s initial shot seemed to get unintentionally blocked by Mike Testwuide before Mike Swift picked up the loose puck and put it past Yeon Seung in net. With the 5-minute mark approaching, Brett Parnham was able to split the High1 defense with a great pass to release Yuta Suzuki who had no problems in finding the back of the net.
3 minutes into the second period Woo Je Sung intercepted a Troy Milam pass on the center line who sent a pass to Bin Ishioka who controlled the puck on his skate before dispatching it past Bacashihua for the Daemyung lead. 14 minutes into the period Woo Je Sung lost the puck in the offensive zone which allowed Hyeon Kuk Cho to make a quick breakaway and set up Kyeok Kim for the equalizing goal. Just over a minute later, Daemyung were once again in the ascendancy. Brett Parnham stole a weak attempted clearance by Byung Jun Bae before shifting the puck over to Matt Murley who was waiting unmarked on the edge of the crease for an easy tap-in and 3:2 lead for Daemyung. Then with just under ten seconds remaining in the period, Troy Milam was penalized for hooking Brett Parnham as he was bearing on the net resulting in a penalty shot for Parnham. Although the PS looked as if it was initially saved by Bacashihua, the puck was able to come loose and creep it’s way over the line for Daemyung’s fourth goal of the game. With High1’s backs against the wall, they needed to come up with something in the third period.
Just under three minutes in Hyeok Kim picked up a PP goal to get them right back into it. Five minutes later, following some good work by Hyeok Kim again, the puck was scrambled away from the crease by the Daemyung defense straight into the path of Jong Soo Park who duly obliged with his first goal of the season. With both teams pushing to get in front now, it was High1 who took the lead through Chan Hwi Lee with just over 3 minutes remaining in the game. He was on hand to pick up Hyung Joon Kim‘s blocked wraparound attempt to score his second goal of the season. As Daemyung desperately pushed forward, Hyung Joon Kim then got himself an empty-netter to seal all three points for High1. High1 6:4 Daemyung
Game 1 Full Game
With Weiman still out, Yeon Seung Lee started his second game in a row for the Killer Whales. Despite the Whales having the better chances in the opening exchanges it was High1 who took the lead midway through the first period. Yeon Seung left his crease to pick up a loose puck in the corner but his weak pass up the boards went straight to a High1 player. High1 proceeded to pass it around before Ji Man Yoon was able to launch a first timer into the top right corner of the Daemyung net. High1 went on to double their lead just under a minute later despite being on a penalty kill. Mike Swift winning a faceoff in his defensive zone got the puck to Troy Milam who switched it out to Mike Testwuide. Testwuide then found Swift with a long range pass on the center line who went by two defensemen before hitting a shot that should have been a routine save for Yeon Seung in net, but the puck managed to find its way through and over the line. Mike Swift picking up his 11th goal of the season.
Just over halfway through the second period, High1 extended their lead to three goals when a Byung Jun Bae shot from deep was redirected into the net by Jung Sik Choi for his second goal of the season. It was at this point that Yeon Seung Lee‘s baptism of fire came to an end as he was switched out for Chang Min Lee for the remainder of the game. Just over 3 minutes later Woo Je Sung received a high sticking penalty for what looked to be an accidental hit as the player was turning around. Visibly displeased, Woo Je tested the strength of the glass in the penalty box before he entered it earning himself a 10 min misconduct major. More window testing and questioning of the referee’s ability to do his job earned him an additional 20 min game misconduct and a 25 min match penalty to let him hit the showers early. In the meantime, the battle of the number 51s started in front of the High1 bench with Woo Young Kim earning himself a 2 min roughing penalty and a 10 min misconduct, Geon Hee Han picking up a 2 min unsportsmanlike penalty. With less than 2 min left in the period, Daemyung finally got themselves off the mark when Matt Murley teed up Yuta Suzuki in front of net during the 4 on 4.
Early in the third High1 were on the scoresheet once again with another PP goal when Troy Milam‘s shot was redirected into the net by Hyeon Kuk Cho. Six minutes into the period Brett Parnham shot his 8th goal of the season on a Daemyung breakaway, Matt Murley setting up Parnham to slide one through the five-hole of Jason Bacashihua. With just over 5 minutes remaining a Woo Young Kim shot was spilled by Bacashihua onto the stick of Matt Murley who had enough time to wait and pick out his spot in the back of the net to get the Killer Whales within a goal of High1 in the last few minutes. But just like the previous game, Daemyung again got caught with a late empty-netter from High1, this time Ji Man Yoon hitting the back of the twine. High1 5:3 Daemyung
The major discussion coming out of this game was Tyler Weiman‘s replacement. With Weiman posting up a solid season so far, 2.57 GAA and .912 SVS%, it was always going to be difficult for the backup to fill his skates. Most people had been expecting regular backup goalie Chang Min Lee to be between the sticks but most people were surprised to see Yeon Seung Lee‘s name on the starting teamsheet, despite being a university team player less than a week previous. In my opinion, this is what swayed the games in the favor of High1. Not to belittle the High1 scorers this weekend but Yeon Seung looked very green still when it came to shot-stopping ability and decision making. Obviously, nerves may have come into it, being his professional debut, maybe it came down to a lot of bad luck or maybe the scout’s info wasn’t very accurate. Whatever the reason I can’t understand how Chang Min didn’t start these games. Even though he had only played 4 games in the last two season, he has a season and a half under his belt of training with a professional team, facing higher quality forwards week in and week out at training.
In terms of the results, High1 needed these 2 wins badly to put them back in the hunt for playoff spots as the bottom 6 teams are all close on points now. Daemyung needs to get Weiman back as soon as possible and hope that this weekend’s results don’t slow down what has been a good season so far for them.
Who will win the 2017-18 Asia League
Anyang Halla
Daemyung Killer Whales
Nikko Icebucks
Nippon Paper Cranes
Oji Eagles
Tohoku Free Blades
Videos from: On The Sports Youtube Channel, Oji Eagles Youtube Channel, and 株式会社八戸テレビ放送 Facebook Page
Image from: Freeblades Facebook Page
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Halla back in the groove, High1 and the Freeblades go tit for tat, Sakhalin maintain form to stay at the top of the table
As some of the teams hit the halfway point in their season, we take a look at the six teams that were in action this weekend.
Anyang Halla v Nikko IceBucks
For the second weekend in a row, Halla were on home ice, against a Bucks team who were now playing their 5th and 6th game in 9 days. Halla came in with 2 losses in their previous 2 games while the Bucks picked up 2 wins midweek against High1.
Game 1. Sitting in 7th place in the league coming into the game, the reigning champions were badly in need of some points to stay on course to make the playoffs. Halla tried to shake things up this weekend by making a lot of changes to the lines and bringing Ruslan Bernikov back into the fold. The first period began with Halla taking charge and after a couple of flurries at either net, Sang Wook Kim was able to break the deadlock after 3:21 with a nice backhander, following some good work behind the net by Bernikov. 3 minutes later Maito Omuku was able to steal the puck from Hyun Seung Lee behind the net and stick in a wraparound past Matt Dalton. Both teams then created chances before Sang Wook Kim released Ruslan Bernikov at half ice to slot past Yutaka Fukufuji one on one to give Halla the lead after 13 minutes. Two minutes later Eric Regan doubled Halla’s lead with a great slap shot just inside the blue, with Brock Radunske providing the screen. The second period saw more back and forth action with both teams creating plenty of chances before Woo Sang Park was able to tickle the twine after 13 minutes with a well-placed finish past Fukufuji. Ki Sung Kim was able to put Halla 5:1 up just before intermission picking up a loose puck from Kohei Ono before spinning and shooting into the back of the net. Scott Barney knocked in the 6th Halla goal 2 minutes into the third period following some tidy hand skills to take him away from three defensemen and then a neat finish in the bottom left. Halla continued to dominate for the rest of the period before Kuk Hwan Mun slotted a nice pass in front of the net for Young Jun Kim to stick into the roof of the net with 54 seconds remaining on the clock to give Halla a 7:1 victory.
Game 2. The first period was a tightly contested affair with both teams creating plenty of chances, the Icebucks having the better of those chances before Scott Barney was able to wrangle the puck over Fukufuji‘s shoulder into the top right corner with 19 seconds left in the period. Halla started strongly in the second period getting in a few shots on the Bucks net before Don Ku Lee and Sang Jin Park got on a 2 on 2 breakaway with Don Ku hitting the back of the net to put Halla up by 2 goals. Halla continued to dominate the period and went up 3:0 thanks to Woo Sang Park 5 minutes from the end of the period. Halla made it 4:0 early in the third with Scott Barney putting in some work to dig out the puck from behind the Bucks net and lay it off for Won Jung Kim to easily pop one in. Although a bit late to the party, the IceBucks did step it up a gear then and were able to pick up a goal 5:20 into the third as Takeshi Saito was able to get a stick on a loose puck in the middle of a goalmouth scramble. The Bucks then got their second of the game when Yuri Terao was tipped Petteri Nummelin‘s slap shot between the legs of goaltender Matt Dalton with just over 6 minutes left in the period. Unfortunately for the Bucks they just ran out of gas and couldn’t pick up the third goal needed to make Halla sweat at the end of the game. Final score Halla 4:2 IceBucks
Halla picked up some badly needed points to push them up to 3rd place in the table, at the time of writing. The new lines and an added sense of urgency has Halla looking like the team that won 2 championships in a row again. Can they keep this kind of hockey going? Only time will tell. It must also be taken into account that they played a tired IceBucks team who has just played a lot of hockey in a short space of time, so that may have been a contributing factor. Halla have time off until their next game against the Blades in Hachinohe on October 28th, while the Bucks are out next weekend, October 21st, also against the Blades in Hachinohe.
High1 v Tohoku Freeblades
High1 came into the game on a bad run of form, having been swept at home by the IceBucks in midweek. Having beaten Halla twice in Anyang the previous weekend, the Blades were swept by Daemyung in Incheon midweek.
Game 1. Welcoming back Troy Milam from injury, High1 were hoping to pick up some points against a Blades team with a lot of hockey behind them the past week and try to lift themselves from the foot of the table. Things didn’t go as planned as the Blades took an early 2 goal lead. First through Kota Shinohara in the 10th minute and then the second, a short-handed goal from Ryo Tanaka in the 14th minute. High1 were able to respond with a Mike Testwuide goal with 2 minutes remaining in the period. The second period started much the same as the Freeblades were first off the mark again when Kota Shinohara hit the back of the twine two and a half minutes into the period for his second of the game. Han Soo Ban put the score at 3:2 when he shot his first goal of the season. Another goal for a Shinohara put the Blades up 4:2, although this time it was Yuhei Shinohara. Takuro Yamashita decided to get in on the action with a PP goal 13 minutes into the period and Go Tanaka got the Blades sixth of the day with four and a half minutes left in the period. High1 managed to pick up a third goal 3 minutes into the third period through Hyung Joon Kim, but it was all in vain as Kazuki Yamamoto hit luck number 7 for the Freeblades with a single second left on the game clock. High1 3:7 Freeblades
Game 2. High1 needed a big response after the heavy result against them the day before. Both teams started the first period evenly with both sides getting a number of chances on net until the 15th minute when Troy Milam served a delicious long range pass from the blue line diagonally across the face of the goal where Mike Swift could tip it into the top left corner of the net with one touch. Freeblades responded with a number of chances on net until Troy Milam took the game by the scruff of the neck again with another long-range effort with just over two minutes left in the first period. This time he shot on net from the blue, Itoh was only able to block it and Tae An Kwon was there to knock the rebound past the helpless goaltender. 2:0. The first ten minutes of the second period saw both goaltenders make some fine saves to keep the scores as they were. 13 minutes into the period saw Ryo Omiya receive a 5-minute major penalty for clipping as well as a game misconduct, for a hit on Tae An Kwon. Ji Man Yoon for High1 received a roughing penalty for retaliating on Omiya and captain Mike Swift received a 10-minute misconduct penalty for his part in the skirmish, resulting in a 4 on 4. Troy Milam picked up Mike Testwuide‘s resulting faceoff win and shoot it top right past Itoh into the back of the net. High1 continued to push forward with Itoh making a string of excellent saves to keep his team in the game. Hyung Yun Shin extended High1’s lead to 4 goals 8minutes into the third period, receiving a pass from Mike Swift on their offensive blue line and using a Blades defenseman as a screen before sniping one past Itoh into the top left corner. 4 minutes later Go Tanaka pulled one back for the Freeblades with a deflected shot past Bacashihua before Chan Hwi Lee put the icing on the cake with the fifth goal for High1 with 3 seconds remaining on the clock. Hyung Joon Kim‘s shot rebounding off the boards behind Itoh‘s net to Chan Hwi Lee who was more than happy to knock it in. High1 5:1 Freeblades
The Freeblades recent form looked to continue after Game 1 but it seems as though too many games in the last week finally caught up with them in Game 2 as they looked a lot more sluggish. High1’s defensive woes continued. Troy Milam returning was a big boost for them but Jeff Dimmen going on the long-term injury list with an ACL injury was the last thing they needed as they still seem to be struggling after losing Dong Hwan Kim and Bryan Young. In Game 2 they skated with only 5 defensemen. They do have goals in Mike Swift and Mike Testwuide however, but if they can’t fix their defensive problems then neither player is going to be as effective as they potentially could be.
Sakhalin v Oji Eagles
Sakhalin, at home for the third weekend in a row, came into the game on a 4 game winning streak. The Eagles, on a 3 game winning streak, were back in action after a week off.
Game 1. Sakhalin were quickly on the front foot with Takafumi Yamashita picking up an interference penalty for the Eagles after 22 seconds. in the resulting power play, a deep pass from Dmitrii Fakhrutdinov found Alexey Eremin free in front of the crease who stuck the puck top shelf without any second thoughts after 59 seconds. Just over 3 minutes later, during a period of sustained pressure for Sakhalin, Mikhail Klimchuk got some space to skate around the net and lay it off to the waiting Fedor Khrapak for the second goal of the night. The 9th minute then saw Kirill Polyanskiy almost single-handedly circumnavigate the Eagles defensive zone before spinning and smashing one past Yuta Narisawa in net. The Eagles managed to pull one back in the first period as Daisuke Obara smashed one home from deep on an Eagles power play. The second period was a much tighter affair with both teams creating a number of chances with Sakhalin probably just shading it in terms of dominance. This continued until the 3rd minute of the third period when Artem Senator took a boarding penalty and Shuhei Kuji was able to put in another longe range PP effort for the Eagles with 9 seconds left in the PP. Sakhalin restored their two-goal lead with another PP goal halfway through the third period, Kazumasa Sasaki picking up two minors for boarding and roughing. Fedor Kharpak‘s passed to Timofey Shishkanov who’s shot was well blocked by Narisawa but the late arriving Andrey Golyshev poked the puck over the line through a crowd of bodies for Sakhalin’s fourth goal, despite pleas from the Oji players for an interference call on the goaltender. Sakhalin held out for the 4:2 win
Game 2 saw a much tighter game between the two teams. 6 minutes into the first period Oji were able to take the lead. After some nice interplay between Daisuke Obara and Shuhei Kuji, Obara slid a pass perfectly into the path of the onrushing Seiji Takahashi who was able to rifle a shot past Yan Shaliapneu into the back of the twine. Sakhalin tied the game up midway through the first with Roman Alekseev shooting a first timer into the back of the net on a PP. 8 minutes into the second period Sakhalin took the lead for the first time in the game. Alexey Eremin lined up Nikolai Zhilin for a slapshot on net from the blue that was cleverly tipped in by Dmitrii Fakhrutdinov for his first goal of the season. Sakhalin continued to dominate the rest of the period up until the final minute. A quick break, through Ryo Hashimoto and Seiji Takahashi, allowed Takahashi and Shuhei Kuji to race to a two on one at the opposite end with Kuji picking up the equalizer with 35 seconds to the buzzer. 5 minutes into the third it was Sakhalin’s turn for a quick break. Alexey Eremin, winning a faceoff in his own defensive zone, got the puck to Mikhail Klimchuk who skated almost full rink untouched to take the puck around Yuta Narisawa and into the back of the net for the game-winning goal. Sakhalin 3:2 Oji Eagles.
Sakhalin don’t appear to be slowing down as of yet. They keep grinding through the gears and picking up routine wins. Having said that their last 6 games have been at home which could be a big factor. The trip to Sakhalin itself is always one of the more difficult ones for the other teams, especially when it comes as the first game back after a break, which is the predicament the Eagles found themselves in. Although Sakhalin looked dominant, Oji never looked outclassed and one would expect them to pick up some points next weekend at home against the Cranes.
Videos from Anyang Halla, On The Sports and OneTeamSakhalin Youtube channels
Anyang Halla Asia League hockey 2017-18 High1 Nikko Icebucks Oji Eagles Sakhalin Tohoku Freeblades
Daemyung Killer Whales v Tohoku Freeblades 10/11 Game Photos
Asia League hockey 2017-18 Daemyung Killer Whales Tohoku Freeblades
10/9 Asia League Weekend Roundup
Halla’s poor season continues, Daemyung and the IceBucks rack up big scores, Sakhalin start pulling away at the top of the table
Six teams were in action this weekend with 2 matches in Korea and 1 in Russia.
Anyang Halla v Tohoku Freeblades
With Halla picking up only 1 win the previous weekend and the Freeblades not picking up any, it was a case of both teams trying to get themselves back on track with the midway point of the season fast approaching.
Game 1. Halla started the brighter of the two teams picking up the lion’s share of the early possession and shots on goal, but it was the Freeblades who were first on the score sheet. After Matt Dalton brilliantly stopped Dong Hwan Kim at the near post, the Blades were able to recycle possession and pick out Go Tanaka on his own at the far post for an easy finish. After this, the game became the Yuto Itoh show as he kept out 16 Halla shots in the second period and 17 in the third to earn his second shutout of the season and a big 3 points for the Blades.
Game 2 saw Halla’s first line offense combine and score after 23 seconds, with Ki Sung Kim picking up his third goal of the season. Having not hit the back of the net in 45 attempts the previous day, you could feel the sense of relief in the Anyang Ice Rink.This relief, however, lasted less than 2 minutes as Ryo Tanaka pulled one back on a power play. 3 minutes later Ryo Tanaka got his second of the game, skating around the back of the net to shoot in off the back of Matt Dalton‘s leg. The second period saw Anyang dominate the shooting stats again, 21:2, but still couldn’t find their way through Itoh. Logan Pyett got to hit the showers early as he got charged with a Game Misconduct for a charging offense on Kuk Hwan Mun in the 35th minute. Another onslaught of shots on Itoh in the third period ensued, but it was eventually Woo Sang Park in the 54th minute who was able to poke a shot through a crowd past the goaltender to tie up the game. The Freeblades didn’t panic however and were able to restore there lead through Takuma Kawai with 61 seconds on the clock. He was able to snipe past Dalton into the top left corner with Halla defenseman Eric Regan providing an unintentional screen on the goalie. Blades held on for a 3-2 victory.
The Freeblades, Yuto Itoh especially, played 2 excellent games and earned their 6 points through a tight defense and taking opportunities when they presented themselves. The big question on everyone’s mind is “Why is Halla playing so poorly this season?”. There may be a few reasons:
1. Hallas poor Powerplay. Highlighted in there last 2 games especially. Halla spent a huge amount of time over the 2 games on the PP yet only scored 1 goal. They have had similar problems in previous games too, especially on the road.
2. Failure to replace goalscorers. Mike Testwuide, Mike Radja, Sang Hoon Shin and Jin Hui Ahn all left Halla during the offseason. All four of these players were able to skate first or second line and were all able to pick up goals last season. Testwuide 23 goals in 44 games, Radja 9 goals in 18 games, Sang Hoon 21 goals in 42 games and Jin Hui 19 goals in 47 games. This season Brock Radunske has since returned from injury and Ruslan Bernikov and Scott Barney have been brought in also. Radunske has just come back from major hip surgery and was always going to need time to dust off the cobwebs, Bernikov, however, hasn’t been able to match the standards he set a Sakhalin as of yet and hasn’t played in the last number of games. Barney so far has done well leading the team in goals, 5 in 12 games, but he is playing on the third line mostly which may limit his potential.
3. Players may be focusing too much on the Olympics. Some of the fans have expressed concerns that some of the Korean national team players may be easing off the gas a little in the Asia League games due to their involvement in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. While it is understandable that playing in the Olympics will probably be the highlight of many of the players’ careers, from the fans point of view they still want the team to be competing at a high level in their domestic league. Hopefully, this isn’t the case. The Japanese teams especially, seem to be playing every game with a far more physical and high tempo style of hockey, usually reserved for playoffs, due to the fact that the season is so short this year. Halla will need to be playing at their best to keep up with them.
Maybe Halla are having trouble finding their feet or maybe it’s just a lot of bad luck coming together but they could struggle to make the playoffs if they don’t improve soon.
Daemyung Killer Whales v Nikko IceBucks
Daemyung returned to home ice with 4 losses in their last 4 games. The IceBucks hit the road after 2 wins at home against the Freeblades.
Game 1. This game was a quite a spectacle for the neutral fans as it was back and forth on the ice for all three periods. Nikko drew first blood 14min into the first period as a quick breakaway saw them bear down on Tyler Weiman‘s goal, popping a pass from behind the net for Kazuma Iwamoto to neatly finish off. The second period saw Daemyung respond with 3 goals in a row. The first coming from Yuta Suzuki during a 5 on 3 PP, the second from Woo Je Sung a minute later during the remaining PP and the third and nicely finished backhand from Yae Hun Hwang on a breakaway. Nikko did manage to pull one back before the end of the period with Makuru Furuhashi shooting a nice wrister into the top corner of the net. Nikko took control of the game again at the start of the third period. Ryuichi Kawai netting a PP goal and Takeshi Saito putting them ahead 4-3 in the 9th minute of the period. Then with 7 minutes remaining in the game, some neat passing back and forth between Matt Murley and Yuta Suzuki saw Murley smash home a PP goal to tie up the game once more.
OT saw the Icebucks create more chances, one flurry of shots in particular almost winning the game for them, but Weiman held out to push the game to a shootout. Doo Hyun Hwang and Takeshi Saito both scoring before Hiromichi Terao shot the GWG to earn the IceBucks the extra point.
Game 2 started in a somewhat similar fashion as the IceBucks took an early lead again. An excellent pass from Makuru Furuhashi out wide left Petteri Nummelin with the easy job of just rounding Weiman in nets tapping the puck over the line. Daemyung then picked it up a gear and responded with 4 PP goals in a row. Matt Murley picking up the first after some nice passing by Daemyung, Woo Je Sung got a touch on a Shun Sakata shot 3 min into the second period to give them the lead, Brett Parnham shooting the third with a near side effort that goalie, Yutaka Fukufuji, will be disappointed in himself with and the fourth goal from Hyung Kyeum Kim. Nikko did manage to pull one back in the third when Hiroto Sato pounced on a loose puck and backhanded it past the goalie but this was only a consolation goal as Brett Parnham got his second of the night with an empty-netter from his own blue line with 39 seconds remaining on the clock.
Sakhalin v Nippon Paper Cranes
Sakhalin were home again this week after last weeks two wins over High1. The Cranes put in two good performances against Halla in Kushiro picking up one win.
Game 1 saw both teams contest a fairly even first period, with Vitaliy Zatsepilin picking up the only goal of the period in a goalmouth scramble during a PP. Alexey Tkachuk doubled their lead with just over 4 min left in the second as he picked up an Alexey Eremin faceoff win to smash past Mitsuaki Inoue in net. The Cranes got their first and only of the game 3 min into the third period after a nice drive down the ice by Shunsuke Shigeno then Ikki Ikeda sticking a slapper past Andrei Stelmakh. Sakhalin saw out the game strongly again as Vitaliy Zatsepilin got his second PP goal of the game 2 minutes later and Kirill Startcev put the game to bed with 8 minutes to go with a scrappy effort in the crease. Sakhalin 4-2 Cranes
Game 2 was more of the same as Sakhalin took a 1-0 out of the first period. Kirill Srartcev opening the Sakhalin account for the day. Kirill Polyansyiy doubled the lead 14 minutes into the second period before Alexey Eremin made it 3-0 3 minutes into the third. Kenta Takagi was able to get one back 2 minutes later during a PP and Shinya Yanadori made it two in a row for the Cranes to give them some hope with just over five minutes remaining int he game. But alas this was not to be as Sakhalin stuck in their 4th of the through an Andrey Golyshev open netter to give them their second victory in as many days
Videos by Anyang Halla, On The Sports and OneTeamSakhalin Youtube channels
Photo by Daemyung Killer Whales Facebook Page
Anyang Halla Asia League hockey 2017-18 Daemyung Killer Whales Nikko Icebucks Nippon Paper Cranes Sakhalin Tohoku Freeblades
League Table 2018-19
1 Daemyung Killer Whales 34 19 9 64
2 PSC Sakhalin 34 16 9 60
3 Anyang Halla 34 15 11 59
4 Nippon Paper Cranes 34 13 10 56
5 Oji Eagles 34 11 14 48
6 High1 34 13 15 47
7 Nikko Icebucks 34 8 17 38
8 Tohoku Free Blades 34 9 19 36
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A dry spring morning mingles with the crisp laughter of three young woman, Hao, Luong, and Huong talk about the choices that led them here, training to be pilots in a profession still dominated by men.
Vo Thanh Hao followed her parerts from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City in 1996 when she was only ten. In 2004, in excellent health and with a certain strengtr of character, Hao became one of the firs female flight students in Vietnam.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Nguyen Thi Huong is from Ha Tay. She took her entrance exams with the complete support of her family. At 20, Huong looks timid and speaks little, which seems in contrast with the things that she has done, and continues to do, in the harsh field of flight training. Here there are no boundaries, there is no prejudice, something that often surprises the women who persistently ask themselves: why canet a woman do what a man does? With this thought in mind, woman like Huong were able to surpass the difficulties of their new surround.
But it was Pham Thi Luong's story that surprised me the most. Born in 1983, Luong is youthful and natural. She is from Thai Binh Province in the North, but she and her family live in Ho Chi Minh City. After graduating from high school, Luong went on to study at the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City.
After 4 years of study, she abandoned the profession that her family so approved of to join pilot training. Luong’s decision to turn back and practically start over from the beginning her family in shock. Despite a certain regret for those 4 spent years of study, Luong guards the image of her small, delicate hands the image of her small, delicate hands pushing an airplane through the blue skies, helping to tear her way from feelings of regret.
The crisp sound of laughter echoes out lucidly – few could believe that inside the young women are pursuing a severe training course. Physical strength alone presents a challenge to these thin twenty-something girls who now spend everyday on swings and staircases, playing volleyball and basketball, swimming, running, and lifting weights, not to mention the 9-month training course itself. To be selected, they first had to pass a stric examination. In the class 11 examination of 2004, they had to beat 6,000 other applicant to be among the 29 students picked in the entire country, among which only 4 were women. The class 12 and 13 examinations added another 4 female students.
Hai, the man responsible for managing the students, provided us with ample information about the Flight Training Center in the South. Students must first make it through a 9-month training course in Vietnam. If after this period the students are still able and ambitious, they go on to train abroad. Vietnam Airlines curently works with other pilot training courses in Australia and France. Trainers from these two countries fly to Vietnam to personally interview the candidates, cheking their IQ, English abilities, and other skills. After the next group of students has been selected, the pilots to be will continue their studies in Australia and France for a period of one and a half to two years. This means that in order to become an offical pilot with a license to fly, candidates must train for 3 years, at the very least. Otherwise, the average candidates spends 4 to 5 in training, or never becomes a pilot at all. The total fees of a single student to go from amateur to offical pilot cost somewhere around 100,000 USD. This considerable investment, if completed succesfully, will later be compensated for in the hiring rates for foreign pilots.
Hao, Luong, and Huong often speak of “confidence” and “opportunity”. All three of them are to be interview by foreign trainers after the Tet New Year holidays. I ask them whether they think they’ll pass. The three young women respond deliberately but with determination: we’re all in the same place, with the same opportunity, and each is ready to give it her best./.
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April 1st special: The War of the Worlds
Conrad Barski has posted a sneak peak from his upcoming Lisp textbook/comic: Land of Lisp.
The first slides may seem unrelated, but boy does the message sting when you reach the ending...
FPers will be quick to note, of course, that this being April Fools' Day the whole thing is a joke and we can all go back to Haskell...
By Ehud Lamm at 2008-04-02 00:34 | Critiques | Fun | Functional | other blogs | 31875 reads
Purity, where is thy sting?
I can't help noticing that the comic's observations about purity miss the point. A better accusation against the defendants would be "guilty of having undeclared side effects". Which of course Haskell also allows, with unsafePerformIO.
As a number of Haskellers have observed, Haskell makes a fine imperative language — "the world's finest imperative language", according to Erik Meijer. It only asks that, ideally, you annotate the type of imperative functions - confess their sins, as it were. (Please, no yellow sleeve patches in future comics.) This would seem to satisfy the wizard's desire that "We just believe that everyone should have the right to cause side effects if they really want them."
Of course, the classic complaint is that combining purity with a fully static type system introduces the dreaded (to a Lisper) B&D style of programming. But defending undeclared side effects seems like the harder sell. At the end of that road is ninja patching.
By Anton van Straaten at Wed, 2008-04-02 02:14 | login or register to post comments
True enough. At various
True enough. At various points I thought that the target is going to be Ada (the language most often accused of being a B&D language), even though I knew better.
By Ehud Lamm at Wed, 2008-04-02 02:43 | login or register to post comments
This Comic has been Interpreted...
...as more critical of Haskell than I intended- The Lisp guys in the cartoon are pretty bumbling and their offhanded complaints of "why box yourself in with Haskell" isn't really a meaningful critique of Haskell. Note that they are responsible for creating a propaganda movie of Haskell and that their use of unsafe coding techniques apparently killed the cat at the end of the cartoon :)
A serious critique of the Monadic approach of Haskell is possible but I agree my comic doesn't contain it.
By drcode at Wed, 2008-04-02 03:12 | login or register to post comments
But hey, wasn't Haskell an
But hey, wasn't Haskell an elaborate prank all along?!
Actually...
Actually, this is how I interpreted the comic, but I was sort of afraid to say so...
In any case, a world divided between Lisp and Haskell would be a big step forward. :)
Maybe voters prefer bumblers?
I was really responding to Ehud's point about the message stinging, but that was based on an assumption about the bit that stung.
I did notice the propaganda-film within propaganda-comic aspect, but to me the bumbling obviousness of the wizard appears more benign than the portrayed totalitarianism of the other side. The wizard's approach may kill the odd cat, but he means well and isn't really scary. That might explain the interpretations you've seen.
I was just making sure
I was just making sure people read through to the end.
It may also explain why people persist in preferring Lisp. ;)
Not scary?
Check out this little Scheme program by Matthias Felleisen. It's got mutually-recursive self-modifying higher-order procedures that use call-cc! That is totally wicked cool, but "isn't really scary" is not how I'd describe it. :)
By neelk at Wed, 2008-04-02 16:51 | login or register to post comments
Nice! But call/cc isn't
But call/cc isn't scary. What I find scary in Scheme are type errors that manifest themselves late in the life cycle...
Category mismatch
I was talking about the behavior of the characters in the comic! Any resemblance to real programming languages appears to be entirely coincidental.
[P.S. Besides, a true Scheme wizard would not be nearly as blasé about side effects as the comic's wizard.]
"the world's finest imperative language"
Going off on a tangent here... Haskell people often say this bit about it being the finest imperative language, but as much as I love Haskell, I'm not sure I agree with it.
Monads are cool and important for a lot of reasons, but the way they are used in Haskell to model effects doesn't seem to be ideal to me. As long as your code does only one kind of effect, everything is fine. But what if you want to use state and IO in the same function? Ok, you use monad transformers, but this already feels somewhat clumsy and awkward. If there are more than two effects, well, good luck, it's going to be a fun ride.
So ok, you can say that you should never use more than two effects in the same function, and avoid to use more than one. I don't know if this is reasonable. Also, having to lift all your functions to work in monads is a bit boring too.
I don't like invisible side-effect very much, like in ML languages that you can "hide" a side-effect inside what seems like a pure function, but the current Haskell way of using monads may not be the end of the story. I hope it's not, at least.
By Andrei Formiga at Sat, 2008-04-05 00:49 | login or register to post comments
You need a type system that
You need a type system that handles effects. (For some reason this became clear to me the other day in the shower when I was adjusting the water temperature and reaching for the soap at the same time...)
By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2008-04-05 01:23 | login or register to post comments
I think there are advantages
I think there are advantages to a functional encoding of effects (e.g. with monads) over building the effects into your logic/type system (recently Disciple or Separation Logic). It makes the core of your language simpler and is generally more powerful (at least seems so to me - how do you use an effect system to implement software transactional memory?)
I agree with Andrei that Haskell is presently far from ideal as an imperative language, and the (relative) ease with which you can do some hard things (e.g. custom interpretation of monads) is often overshadowed by the difficulty of doing things that would be simple in a conventional imperative language. (EDIT: The newtype deriving stuff Derek concurrently posted about does make the situation much better - but it's still far from ideal IMO)
By Matt M at Sat, 2008-04-05 02:49 | login or register to post comments
STM is a language change
How do you use monads to implement STM? The language has to change, in Haskell they used monads as a notational device for STM but the semantics of the language was extended. Of course you can implement STM in Haskell without changing the semantics of the language, it is turing complete, but the same can be done in (turing complete) languages with effect systems. Other thing to notice is that monads are a device available to any programming language, it's just a data type and the do-notation is just syntatic sugar. For example, Disciple can have a Monad class and use return and >= instead, with a special main that interprets the built monad and builds the effects. If the given monad uses control effects it will require additional interpretation (IIUC Disciple only tracks state-like effects, not things like shift/reset or retry from STM).
By Daniel Yokomizo at Sat, 2008-04-05 13:06 | login or register to post comments
IIRC, monad is a term like
IIRC, monad is a term like group that is abused by convention. That is, it formally refers to a mathematical structure consisting of a set and some operations, but is often used to refer to just the set. That the monadic structure is explicitly identified with a typeclass in Haskell is irrelevant to most everything we're discussing here.
The relevant bit is that the operations on e.g. IO are not presented as side-effects to special functions that need a special type (effect) system to describe, but rather are presented in terms of the functional behavior of your code (i.e. the types of the continuations you pass in).
Whether or not STM requires a change to the underlying semantics of your language depends on what language you're talking about. If you already have state and some basic concurrency primitives, then you should be able to roll it yourself I think.
Semantics semantics
Maybe pedantic, but I also think you have to be careful to define 'semantics' to be able to say that you require a semantic change to implement e.g. concurrency. A language will have an 'internal semantics' that merely maps programs to their functional behavior without assigning any external meaning to IO, producing values polymorphic in runtime interpretation. This semantics doesn't require change.
By Matt M at Sun, 2008-04-06 15:50 | login or register to post comments
Bathtub insights...
A very Archimedean moment!
By Matt Hellige at Sat, 2008-04-05 02:56 | login or register to post comments
Monads and monad transformers in Haskell
If you want to use more than two effects you simply use monad transformers again. Nowadays with GHC's newtype deriving and the MonadState/MonadReader/etc. classes, it's pretty much free to do this however many effects you want. For example, from XMonad we have,
newtype X a = X (ReaderT XConf (StateT XState IO) a)
deriving (Functor, Monad, MonadIO, MonadState XState, MonadReader XConf)
This demonstrates using three "effects" at a time (in a particularly common arrangement no less). This automatically does all the lifting of functions except for the IO ones since they are not parameterized; however, liftIO is automatically created so you can lift an IO computation into an X one without needing to know how many layers there are.
If another monad "layer" was added, absolutely nothing would need to change except the "runX" function, though you'd probably add MonadFoo to the deriving clause.
Using more than two effects is not at all uncommon and, nowadays, is exactly as difficult as using two, which not at all hard. One of my earliest Haskell programs used a monad "stack" four or five levels deep (and this was way before newtype deriving).
In a nutshell, nowadays, monad transformers are no harder to use than monads themselves and are handled in a way that have rather good software engineering properties. Are there better ways of handling effects (in an explicit manner)? Possibly, probably even. Could even Haskell's usage of monads be improved? Yes, but it is very clear that this has been thought about and dealt with with the weight of years of experience.
By Derek Elkins at Sat, 2008-04-05 02:33 | login or register to post comments
Monad Transformers
Ok, you use monad transformers, but this already feels somewhat clumsy and awkward.
I am new to Haskell, but my experience with Monad Transformers was so far smooth. I too found the "lift" count a horrible way to denote which monad in the stack I want to use, and the MonadIO and other such classes quite ad-hoc.
But a suggestion from #haskell resolves all of my woes: Just newtype your Monad Transformer stack, deriving Monad, MonadTrans (you may have to specify MonadTrans.lift manually). Then you can create a "liftName1" "liftName2" and other functions for your monad transformer, where Name1 and Name2 are not the type of the monad (as in e.g MonadState or MonadIO) but the actual environment or purpose of the monad, making the code readable.
My monad stack was for GUI code, and had a "ReaderT" for the GUI's environment, a StateT for the GUI state, and a StateT to represent the model the gui is editing.
I had: liftModel, liftGuiState and liftEnvironment (actually I only had getEnv because that's the only thing I'd do with the environment).
This makes the code very reasonable, e.g: liftGuiState State.modify modifier...
It does mean that each monad transformer comes with a short boilerplate (specifying the lifters, and a MonadTrans instance), but so far it does not seem like a big deal. Perhaps some new syntax or otherwise novel approach can get rid of that boilerplate too.
By Peaker at Sat, 2008-04-05 17:59 | login or register to post comments
This comic is offensive to
This comic is offensive to Haskell and must be taken down. I have started a petition to remove the insulting comic and I hope you will support freedom by signing it.
By Jason Dusek at Wed, 2008-04-02 07:10 | login or register to post comments
Chronological discrepancy
Should I adjust the timestamp on your comment for those of us east of Pacific time? ;)
great comic!
That was actually funny! And with a surprise ending!
By choco at Wed, 2008-04-02 09:12 | login or register to post comments
It was neat to see Flakey Foont and Mr. Natural on a programming adventure, but Crumb's really let his crosshatching go.
By aed at Wed, 2008-04-02 15:35 | login or register to post comments
every day is april 1, from now on, until conditions change.
I don't believe you-- your post was clearly time-stamped 2008-04-02, which according to you is April 1st. Also, this statement is false. That is all.
By Dave Herman at Thu, 2008-04-03 04:13 | login or register to post comments
i've realized i do actually love big brother. (2+2=5 if you look at it right).
By Thomas Lord at Thu, 2008-04-03 04:50 | login or register to post comments
Many drawbacks of monads and monad transformers
One must keep in mind that monad transformers simply lack
expressiveness and fundamentally inefficient. First of all, the order
of effects may matter: when adding transformers for the state and the
backtracking effects, the order matters a great deal. Sometimes we
need both persistent and backtrackable state, so we need two instances
of StateT. We distinguish them via the number of 'lift' operations --
using unary notation. This is error prone, inconvenient let
alone just ridiculous. One should also keep in mind that each layer
adds overhead (e.g., layer of closures for ReaderT and StateT) that is
present even in the code that does not use that particular
effect. Please contrast with OCaml: a code that does not use mutation
or backtracking can be compiled without any knowledge of mutations and
backtracking. In contrast, a monadic code that does no State or
backtracking operation still has to thread the state throughout, even
if that piece of code does nothing with the state.
The most serious problem with monad transformers is that they simply
lack expressiveness. Monad transformers impose a fixed ordering of
effects, which is not sufficient in practice. Our paper on Delimited
Dynamic Binding (ICFP06) discusses the issue and points to Haskell
code. That lack of expressiveness was quite surprising to us when we
realized it. Incidentally, this result helps explain the popularity of
powerful flat monads, such as IO.
I think there are advantages to a functional encoding of effects
(e.g. with monads) over building the effects into your logic/type
system (recently Disciple or Separation Logic). It makes the core of
your language simpler and is generally more powerful
The more powerful claim is provably false. Please see the works of
Filinski and Wadler, Thiemann. In general, type-and-effect systems are
equivalent to (flat) monadic ones. In addition, if you use monad
transformers, you provably lose power.
As to simplicity, it seems that the unending stream of monad tutorials
explaining once again what is essentially a functional composition (or
the A-normal form, to be more precise) points out that perhaps the
concept of a Monad isn't at all a good match for a programming
language practice. Monads may be deeply rooted in Category Theory --
but then Peano numerals are too have the clearest mathematical
foundations and yet nobody seriously proposes to use them for
practical numerical computations.
I'm extremely delighted to see the work by Ben Lippmeier. Finally
someone answers the call Filinski made back in 1994, in his paper
Representing Monads. Please see the Conclusion section of the paper,
especially the paragraph starting with the phrase ``But surely there
is more to "functional programming with escape and state" than monadic
effects. After all, monads provide only the lowest-level framework for
sequencing computations.'' I'm anxiously looking forward to the
further development of The Disciplined Disciple Compiler.
how do you use an effect system to implement software
transactional memory?
Very easily: the function atomically takes a thunk whose type dictates
that the thunk may not do any observable effect. If the thunk needs to
access or modify a global variable, it has to ask (using
continuations, for example) the `operating system', the central
arbiter. The arbiter decides on the appropriate policy, be it
optimistic or pessimistic. Please see the Zipper File System, which is
transactional naturally.
By Oleg at Sat, 2008-04-05 05:15 | login or register to post comments
Thanks for the detailed
Thanks for the detailed reply, Oleg. I'm actually aware of much of the work you cite, including (some of) Wadler and Filinski's work and your own IFCP06 paper. I deliberately advocated a 'functional encoding (e.g. monads)' so as not to limit my meaning to what Haskell currently does (I even made reference to the current situation in Haskell being far from ideal elsewhere in this thread).
expressiveness and fundamentally inefficient.
I think there are two separate issues here:
1. How effectful capabilities are presented? Are effects modeled in terms of their functional behavior, or are they treated specially as something outside of the language?
2. How are they implemented? e.g. Is state implemented by threading values along?
The implementation issue is clear cut. You can't simulate state or multi-processing without gross inefficiency. And it doesn't even make sense to simulate effects like IO with pure functions when the effects are the entire purpose.
The more powerful claim [comparing a functional encoding to an effect system] is provably false...
Well, certainly if you get to choose what I meant by powerful ;).
arbiter.
In other words, you go back to a functional interface for this part? Suppose you have a system that was written with very modest atomicity requirements - it just had to verify that atomic blocks were in fact atomic. So it was written in an effectful style, with 'beginAtomic' and 'endAtomic' producing effects that just manipulated counters in memory. How do you now provide implementations of 'beginAtomic' and 'endAtomic' that implement STM without changing their interfaces?
I don't see how to do that with effects. This is the sense in which I suspect monadic style to be more powerful - it's more resilient to reinterpretation.
Drawbacks may be overstated
of StateT.
Picking the ordering certainly takes a little getting used to, though I've found a suitable intuition that I'm quite happy with[1]. The example of two instances of StateT strikes me as a feature rather than a bug though: I have no desire to be limited to only one form of state, or to hand-fuse its implementation with the rest of my side-effects!
We distinguish them via the number of 'lift' operations --
using unary notation.
I have to admit that this irritated me the first time I built a monad out of a number of transformers. After writing multiply-lifted versions of a few functions I decided it might just be an idea to name the layers on the stack and write accessor functions equal to an appropriate number of composed lifts - it's never been a problem since.
One should also keep in mind that each layer
This is certainly the case given a typical implementation and naive compilation (though it can be argued that OCaml compilation is always aware of mutation!), and I have to admit that at present I don't entirely trust GHC to optimise it appropriately. That said, we are talking about highly stylised code and it should definitely be possible to eliminate much of the overhead. Indeed, it can be argued that the basic idea behind Boquist's GRIN is to implement a lazy language by building a (restricted) lazy monad on top of a (restricted) strict monad, then inlining the lazy monad away and letting rip on the resulting code.
It really shouldn't be a surprise - the issue is simply that you have two effects whose interaction in each others' presence is non-trivial and needs to be specified in terms of the other effect. As such, a full specification of the effects is mutually recursive! It then follows that we can't build them individually without the use of a letrec-like construct or an appropriate combinator to put them together - the only reason it is surprising is that our (yes, mine included) thinking about effects and constructs such as monads is still partly-formed and otherwise obvious things are therefore hidden from our view.
This isn't an issue with monad transformers at all - it's an issue with combining effects under an open-world assumption where new effects can be defined by a user. To put it another way, the issue comes not from the encoding but from the problem domain! It's not, however, an actual loss of expression so long as a monad transformer can be written offering the appropriate combination of effects. Rather, it's a net gain on the flat monad - an effect's extent is delimited by the function running its corresponding monad transformer.
As the paper points out, the effects could still be encoded as a stack of transformers - one per delimiter - though a static stack is not sufficient. This raises a question: can we maintain a suitable dynamic stack (whether of monad transformers or something merely related) and present it as one transformer from the outside while handing out references to layers on the inside?
You haven't shown a loss of power above - is there a result I'm unaware of?
As to simplicity, it seems that the unending stream of monad tutorials explaining once again what is essentially a functional composition (or the A-normal form, to be more precise) points out that perhaps the concept of a Monad isn't at all a good match for a programming language practice. Monads may be deeply rooted in Category Theory -- but then Peano numerals are too have the clearest mathematical foundations and yet nobody seriously proposes to use them for practical numerical computations.
That wasn't the value of simplicity being used in the comment quoted.
I'm extremely delighted to see the work by Ben Lippmeier.
I'm definitely looking forward to playing with it some - though I'm looking to use such a language as an underlying metalanguage rather than directly managing all my effects in it.
[1] Imagine you're playing, say, a board game. There are many rules, and on occasion as stated they may conflict (this is equivalent to effect interaction). As a means of resolving the conflict, they have been numbered - lower numbered rules take priority.
The monad transformer stack is a collection of rules, and the monad on the bottom of it is item 0 (this is why there's no IOT - however powerful your language, it can't produce programs that override the laws of physics!).
By Philippa Cowderoy at Sun, 2008-04-06 04:20 | login or register to post comments
Monad Tutorials
As to simplicity, it seems that the unending stream of monad tutorials explaining once again what is essentially a functional composition (or the A-normal form, to be more precise) points out that perhaps the concept of a Monad isn't at all a good match for a programming language practice.
The question I have about this comment is whether the popularity (and necessity) of monad tutorials is a function of their poor match for programming language practice, or a function of widespread programmer unfamiliarity with function composition and similar functional language idioms? I'd bet the latter.
The vast majority of programmers have never used a closure, have never used recursion instead of looping, never used a Hindley-Milner type system (or any type system more advanced than that of Algol-68), and have never used functional composition. These basic ideas, that Ocaml/Haskell/SML programmers take for granted, come from Mars as far as most programmers are concerned. So it's no surprise to me that more advanced ideas- or even the same ideas presented in a slightly non-standard way, require explanation.
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A Brief and Incomplete Timeline of T-Shirt History
BY Bill DeMain ,
BY the mag
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Try this history on.
1913 - The First T-Shirt Models
White cotton, crewneck T-shirts become regulation underwear for the U.S. Navy. Two decades later, at the University of Southern California, football players don similar shirts to prevent chafing from heavy shoulder pads. The tees become so fashionable that students start pilfering them for casual wear. In response, the school begins stenciling “Property of USC” on its T-shirts as a crime-prevention tactic, not a statement of pride.
1951 - An Undershirt Named Desire
Hollywood rebel Marlon Brando exudes animal magnetism in A Streetcar Named Desire when he wears a thin, white T-shirt. Teens dig the look, and by year’s end, T-shirt sales total $180 million. But for Brando, the style is only a means to an end. A graduate of The Actors’ Studio, he’d learned to use his body to show his character’s inner turmoil. The T-shirt is only a thin veil, meant to cover not only his rippling physique, but also his character’s bestial urges.
1969 - Tie-Dyed Shirts Become Groovy
For decades, the only people using Rit dye were old women who wanted to color their drapes and linens. But in the mid-1960s, advertising whiz Don Price markets the dye to hippies, who use it to tie-dye their tees. But Price’s real stroke of genius comes in 1969, when he produces hundreds of the shirts and gives them away to performers at Woodstock. The multicolored tops are quickly adopted as part of the counterculture uniform.
1977 - I ♥ NY
Throughout the 1970s, New York City gains a reputation as a tourists’ nightmare—dirty, decadent, and crime-ridden. To revitalize the city’s image, the Commerce Department hires designer Milton Glaser to fashion an eye-catching logo for the city. Over lunch one day, Glaser sketches “I ♥ NY” on a napkin. The logo spearheads a resurgence in New York tourism and becomes the most imitated T-shirt design in history. Glaser claims that the shirt’s appeal comes from decoding the symbols: “You feel smart when you figure it out.”
1984 - Frankie Learns to Talk
BBC radio bans the song “Relax” by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood, claiming that the lyrics are too explicitly sexual. Naturally, sales of the single skyrocket, and the song goes to No. 1. To flaunt the band’s triumph over censorship, record label owner Paul Morley puts the song’s words in big capital letters on T-shirts. The “FRANKIE SAY RELAX” tees turn millions of music fans into human billboards. Soon, Frankie knock-offs are everywhere. Although the band’s popularity quickly dies, the T-shirt lives on, appearing on the torsos of everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Homer Simpson.
All images courtesy of Getty Images unless otherwise stated.
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Imitating Obama?
by Gary Jason | Posted October 23, 2017
I confess that I am no fan of Trump. Actually, that dramatically understates it. I regard him as a dangerous populist ignoramus whose crudity of character makes him unfit for office. When he won the nomination, I sent the Republican National Committee a letter of resignation from the party to which I had belonged for four decades, and re-registered Libertarian. (I did this despite my impression that Gary Johnson was either a hopeless dope or congenitally loopy.)
It was for me, in short, a completely miserable election.
My only hope was that Trump, once in office, would at least pretend to be presidential, and would drop his nativist and protectionist stances, having decisively won the populist vote. And I admit I was cheered when he appointed a good judge to the Supreme Court, talked about repealing and replacing Obamacare, and also talked about lowering at least corporate taxes. He has so far been unable to deliver.
Nativists fear even legal immigrants, not seeing how beneficial they are to the economy.
But unfortunately he has pursued his nativist and protectionist agendas. On the nativist agenda, he killed DACA — setting up the deportation of upwards of a million young people brought here involuntarily, and raised with scant knowledge of the countries of their births. Not only did he refuse to increase the H-1B visa and other programs that legally allow in college-trained STEM and medical professionals, but he has actually proposed cutting all legal immigration by half. He continues demanding that a wall be built on the border with Mexico, even though illegal immigration from Mexico has been steadily dropping for a decade — indeed, for the last few years, more Mexican immigrants have returned home than have come north. (That’s because Mexico has a good growth rate, and is now in the top ten manufacturing countries on earth). Nativists fear even legal immigrants, not seeing how beneficial they are to the economy. For example, immigrants and immigrants alone are the reason we don’t face the same demographic implosion that the European countries and Japan face, and immigrants are disproportionately likely to open new businesses.
On Trump’s protectionist agenda, after killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Trump has set his sights on killing NAFTA. Several recent Wall Street Journal articles report on the administration’s attempt to renegotiate this deal, signed back in 1994. Trump’s curious hatred of Mexico and Canada is as bizarre as his love of Russia. In this he imitates Obama, who bashed NAFTA in his primary fight with America’s Sweetheart Hillary Clinton. At the time, most commentators assumed that this was just “Bubba bait” — that is, demagogic talk aimed at arousing nativism and protectionism by telling the economically illiterate that Evil Foreigners have “stolen” American jobs, jobs that usually have been automated away.
But to many people’s amazement, Obama — Trump’s match in protectionism — started trade wars with both Mexico and Canada shortly after assuming office. He stopped only when those countries fought back and kicked our economic behinds. For example, Obama violated NAFTA to “save” 200 trucking jobs (at the behest of one of his supporters, the Teamsters Union), but when Mexico retaliated with stiff tariffs against our farmers, 25,000 American jobs disappeared, whereupon Obama cancelled his policy with limited publicity.
After killing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Trump has set his sights on killing NAFTA.
To his credit — and as readers of this estimable journal know, I was a consistent critic of Obama’s regime — Obama slowly but surely came to understand why more than 90% of economists favor free trade. Obama eventually approved of the three free-trade agreements left to him by George Bush, and late in his second term negotiated the TPP. Who knows, perhaps Obama finally read that Econ 101 text that he was too negligent to read as an undergrad.
But Trump is even more of a populist fool. He immediately killed the TPP, and has now targeted NAFTA. He is apparently surprised that both Mexico and Canada are fighting back. A bully is always amazed when the smaller boy he chooses to pick on hauls off and smacks him.
The Wall Street Journal reports just how close to a collapse of the NAFTA talks we are. We have seen record highs in the stock market, but this would almost surely change quickly should the talks collapse. One economic consulting firm, the Colorado-based ImpactECON, has put the net job losses at 125,000 for Canada, 256,000 for the US, and a whopping 961,000 for Mexico over the next three to five years.
Trump is apparently surprised that both Mexico and Canada are fighting back.
For those populists who will cheer the disproportionate job losses to Mexico, well, they may want to ask themselves whether their protectionism trumps their nativism here. That is, if we move to destroy nearly a million Mexican jobs, where oh where will all those newly unemployed Mexicans go to avoid starvation? Trump had better be prepared to build his wall quickly.
If NAFTA does get repealed, tariffs would undoubtedly result. At a minimum, the three member states would revert to their average tariffs rates: 3.5% for the US; 4.2% for Canada; and 7.5% for Mexico. But there is good reason to think that the tariffs will be much higher. Both Canada and Mexico will be furious at seeing the US dump the deal and will likely raise tariffs enormously. Moreover, the collapse of NAFTA and the Mexican job market will be the result. The American Automobile Policy Council estimates that the rise of the price of domestic auto parts from the tariffs will cost 50,000 US jobs. Another economic thinktank, Boston Consulting Group, gives the same estimate.
The ImpactECON study says the small gains in US employment in production of machinery and chemical industries will be swamped by losses in the agricultural, auto, and apparel industries.
Mexico could simply embargo products from the US — it just ordered its first shipment of wheat from Argentina, no doubt in anticipation of the looming trade war.
This last is a nice point — a point that Frédéric Bastiat would have underscored. What average Americans — including Trump — expect to see after NAFTA is some US manufacturing jobs disappearing while trade flourishes between us and our natural neighbors. They assume the trade will cause the job losses, which is debatable. But worse, they don’t see the gain in jobs in farming and other industries.
Under NAFTA, our agricultural exports to Mexico and Canada have risen fourfold, hitting $38 billion last year. If NAFTA is junked, the Mexicans could revert to their pre-NAFTA tariff levels of 75% on US chicken and corn syrup, 45% on turkey, potatoes, and dairy products, and 15% on wheat. You see, protectionism works both ways: Mexico pre-NAFTA was trying to protect its farmers from competition from American farmers. In fact, Mexico could simply embargo these products from the US — it just ordered its first shipment of wheat from Argentina (30,000 tons), no doubt in anticipation of the looming trade war.
The Mexicans, by the way, are especially angry. All major candidates for the upcoming presidential election there are opposed to what Trump is doing, but the one who is poised to make the most gains is the ultra-leftist Lopez Obrador. If Mexicans, in their righteous indignation, elect him, we could have a Cuba right on our border. For instance, Mexico could retaliate by cutting a free trade agreement with China, and allowing the Chinese to set up naval and army bases on its soil — which it is completely free to do under international law.
Talk about a “game-changer”: for the first time in US history, we would face a military threat from one of its long borders.
Even the author of the 2011 report by the leftist thinktank Economic Policy Institute, Robert Scott, has changed his mind. The report purported to show that NAFTA cost 700,000 US jobs, and was widely cited by protectionists of all political stripes. Scott now says that if NAFTA is abandoned, manufacturers will just “move” jobs to Asia.
The real “culprit” behind manufacturing job loss is not international trade; it is automation and creative destruction.
The NAFTA talks are approaching crisis phase, because the US is making unreasonable demands. For example, the US negotiator Robert Lighthizer wants a “sunset clause” requiring the agreement to be renewed every five years, and a watering down of the provision for arbitrating disputes.
Of course, the joke in all this is that the US was losing manufacturing jobs long before NAFTA. As early as 1974 sociologist Daniel Bell discussed the shift from industrial work to high-tech and service sectors in his book The Coming of Post-Industrial Economy, and the term “rust belt” was coined in 1982, more than a decade before NAFTA came into being. In fact, over the last decade all of the top ten manufacturing countries in the world lost manufacturing jobs. The real “culprit” is not international trade; it is automation and creative destruction. We don’t hand-bolt wheels on cars anymore, not because the Mexicans do it, but because robotic arms do. And we don’t make buggy whips anymore, not because the Chinese make them cheaper, but because we don’t have buggies.
The failure of many American workers to adjust to the shift from low-knowledge to high-tech factories results primarily from the pathetically poor average education they receive. I mean, you can’t read the instructions manual for the new computer-aided machinery if you can’t read to begin with. While other countries are reacting to the evolution of the industrial economy by building new colleges and trade schools, cranking out engineers, doctors, scientists and skilled workers, we struggle with risible high school and college dropout rates, a proliferation of humanities and social science majors, and vanishing trade schools.
We don’t make buggy whips anymore, not because the Chinese make them cheaper, but because we don’t have buggies.
All of this could be cured if we did what supposedly socialist Sweden did over a quarter century ago: immediately adopt a universal voucher program — that is, require all public schools in America to adopt perfectly pro-rata voucher systems within one year. But this would arouse the teachers’ unions like nothing else. They will protect the cushy jobs of mediocre and even positively bad teachers, forcing parents to keep their kids in failing schools.
Rising protectionism and fear of trade don’t just run the risk of depression and trade wars — which in turn run the risk of military war. They also distract us from the real cause of long-term blue-collar unemployment: a horribly broken educational system.
Jim Stiles
Not only did he refuse to increase the H-1B visa and other programs that legally allow in college-trained STEM and medical professionals
Salaries among STEM professionals have been stagnant for at least a decade. Importing more STEM-trained persons into the United States would merely eliminate one more route into the middle class.
Thanks for reading my piece.
My response:
First: economists call this the "lump of labor" fallacy: there are only so many jobs, so new immigrants will compete for those jobs.
Why it's a fallacy: immigrants create jobs as well as take them. Intel created a gazillion jobs, and was started by an immigrant. Something like 40% of tech companies in Silicon Valley are owned or co-owned by immigrants.
Second: The output of STEM majors has been essentially flat for some time. We need to retain those foreign students who graduate here with STEM majors--as opposed to booting them out, forcing them to open competing companies abroad.
Best regards--Gary
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Kat's "Kat's Korner: Diana Ross's diana and the RCA Years" went up tonight.
It's a great look at seven albums Diana Ross released from 1980 to 1987.
If you love Diana, you will love this music criticism.
It covers her last Motown studio album diana as well as the RCA albums WHY DO FOOLS FOR LOVE, SILK ELECTRIC, ROSS, SWEPT AWAY, EATEN ALIVE and RED HOT RHYTHM BLUE.
Motown RecordsVerified account @motown 5h5 hours ago
It's the last Friday of #2016...Who's ready to bring in a new year? #MichaelJackson #DianaRoss Repost [ @okayplayer]
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That's a pretty interesting photo of Diana and Michael.
Diana will also be headlining the upcoming Essence Festival.
Brandon HHS1987 @BWyche Dec 20
#NEW Diana Ross, Mary J Blige, Chaka Khan, Doug E Fresh, Erykah Badu & More Set to Headline @Essence Fest 2017
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All time favorite Diana Ross ballad: "It's My Turn." I have loved that song forever.
Fast song: "Until We Meet Again" and "The Boss" and "Upside Down" and "Chain Reaction."
Medium paced: "Surrender."
Friday, December 30, 2017. Chaos and violence continue, the US government admits to bombing a hospital in Iraq, kidnapped journalist Afrah Shawqi remains missing, and much more.
As 2017 winds down, and the Iraq War continues, Will Bardenwerper (WASHINGTON POST) reflects:
Who can forget Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncement — delivered with the unwavering confidence that characterized his leadership — that the Iraq War might last “five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that”? As it turns out, the current struggle to liberate Mosul — for the third time, this time from a terrorist organization, the Islamic State, that didn’t even exist when Hussein was killed — is now projected to last longer than Rumsfeld assured us the entire war would. Just this week, the first of 1,700 soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division hugged their loved ones goodbye before deploying to Iraq. The youngest were 5 years old when the United States launched the invasion to remove Saddam.
One wonders how anyone, most notably the war’s architects, can cling to the view that delivering Hussein to the gallows was worth the trillions of dollars spent, not to mention the 4,500 service members killed, the more than 30,000 wounded, or the hundreds of thousands of violent deaths across the region since his overthrow? That doesn’t even count the millions forced to flee the violence with little more than the clothes on their backs, or the terror threats that are now a routine feature of American and European landscapes. None of the American policymakers responsible for this have been held to account as their British counterparts were in the U.K.’s damning Chilcot Report.
It's day 74 of the Mosul "slog."
The Islamic State seized Mosul in June of 2014. 74 days later, the Iraqi government finally decided to do something about it.
They're not sure what.
Some call it "liberation" but it didn't look that way in Ramadi or Falluja.
And the only significant development has been the creation of more refugees.
UNICEF Iraq يونيسف @UNICEFiraq Dec 29
More than 50,000 children have fled their homes in #Mosul since Oct. 17th, including Sidra, Ayat and Mahmoud. #Iraq
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Jason Ditz (ANTIWAR.COM) reports the disturbingly clinical news that in the last two weeks of the operation, Iraqi troops have not been able to get an inch. Maybe Viagra would help?
Nothing's been done by the US to facilitate reconciliation in Iraq but the US does drop a lot of bombs.
Al-Masdar NewsVerified account @TheArabSource 9h9 hours ago
Civilians feared dead by US airstrikes in northern #Iraq aml.ink/cWprO #ISIS #Mosul #MosulOps
Operation Inherent Resolve (also known as Operation Eternal Redundancy) issued the following statement today:
Coalition strike results in possible civilian casualties
By | Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve | December 30, 2016
SOUTHWEST ASIA- During operations to liberate Mosul on Dec. 29, a Coalition air strike struck a van carrying ISIL fighters observed firing a SPG9/RPG recoilless rifle before loading the weapon in the van and driving off. The van was struck in what was later determined to be a hospital compound parking lot resulting in possible civilian casualties.
CJTF-OIR takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and this incident will be fully investigated and the findings released in a timely and transparent manner.
CJTF-OIR releases monthly reports covering our tracking and investigation of allegations of civilian casualties. Coalition forces comply with the Law of Armed Conflict, work diligently to be precise in our airstrikes, and take all feasible precautions during the planning and execution of airstrikes to reduce the risk of harm to civilians.
This is not the first time the US-led group has bombed a hospital. Dropping back to the December 8th snapshot:
Though rushing to deny US involvement in the strike on the market, no such effort was made when it came to the US-led strike on a hospital.
Spencer Ackerman (GUARDIAN) reports:
The US military has deliberately conducted an airstrike on a hospital in the Iraqi city of Mosul, it said on Wednesday, after saying its Iraqi allies came under fire by Islamic State fighters from the hospital complex.
Here's CENTCOM's press release on the attack:
Release #20161208-01
SOUTHWEST ASIA — On Dec. 6th, Iraqi Security Forces attempted to seize the Al Salem hospital complex from ISIL fighters in the heart of East Mosul. ISIL was using the hospital as a base of operations and command and control headquarters. After seizing the area, the ISF fought off several counterattacks and six VBIEDs the following day before retrograding a short distance, under heavy enemy fire, to strengthen their position.
On Dec. 7th, after Iraqi forces continued to receive heavy and sustained machine gun and rocket propelled grenade fire from ISIL fighters in a building on the hospital complex, they requested immediate support from the Coalition. In support of the Iraqi Security Forces, Coalition aircraft conducted a precision strike on the location to target enemy fighters firing on Iraqi forces.
The Coalition complies with the Law of Armed Conflict and takes all feasible precautions during the planning and execution of airstrikes to reduce the risk of harm to non-combatants. We will continue to strike ISIL military targets in support of our partners in order to defeat ISIL in Iraq.
Ackerman adds:
In a poll released this week, the International Committee of the Red Cross found that 82% of people surveyed in 16 countries considered it wrong to attack “hospitals, ambulances and health-care workers in order to weaken the enemy”. The proportion of people agreeing drops to 79% when only residents of the US, Russia, China, UK, France and Switzerland are questioned.
Of course it's wrong, it's a War Crime, legally defined as such.
The Mousl operation has been little more than a license to kill Sunni civilians.
MIDDLE EAST ONLINE notes:
[T]he coalition has already admitted to killing at least 173 civilians in its strikes in Iraq and Syria since the start of its campaign against the IS group, a number independent observers believe is greatly understated.
The London-based NGO Airwars estimates the coalition campaign has actually killed more than 2,000 civilians.
But keep on bombing, Barack Obama, Bombing Barry, it's worked out so well, right?
Barack's all consuming desire to bomb has obliterated any chance that the US government could offer real diplomatic assistance to Iraq on the long festering issues -- issue that remain to this day.
Earlier this week, Omar al-Saleh (AL JAZEERA) reported:
Representatives from the biggest Sunni bloc in Iraq's parliament, the National Forces Alliance, recently met Amar al-Hakim, who heads the ruling Iraqi National Alliance, an umbrella group of Shia parties. The meeting came after the National Forces Alliance rejected a reconciliation plan prepared by Hakim and instead proposed its own vision for governing a post-ISIL Iraq, aiming to remedy the chronic political and sectarian fighting that has plagued the country since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Details of the competing plans were still being worked out, and have not been made public. As the battle for Mosul drags on, Sunni and Shia leaders have not ironed out a timeframe for reaching an agreement.
According to Mohammed al-Karbouli, a member of the National Forces Alliance who has been involved in the discussions, his bloc had agreed to "write and propose a paper with a vision on how to govern the Iraqi state, especially in crucial areas such as the de-Baathification law [which bans members of Saddam Hussein's ruling party from serving in government], the amnesty law and the federal regions". Karbouli was referring to a long-standing Sunni demand for the release of Sunnis held under the country's notorious "anti-terrorism" law, which they believe targets them unfairly, and for an equitable power-sharing agreement.
Yesterday, Karim El-Bar (MIDDLE EAST EYE) reported an update on the tentative 'agreement':
Speaking to Arabi 21, the Sunni MP [Matshar al-Samarrai] said he asked the NIA to “launch initiatives that will build hope among political factions. These initiatives should include the return of displaced persons to their cities, restoration of land to residents once it is taken back from Islamic State forces and release of those innocently imprisoned, as everyone admits that there are innocent people being held in prison.”
Experts were sceptical the announcement would come to much, however.
Tallha Abdulrazaq, an Iraqi security and counterterrorism expert at the University of Exeter, said he would not be surprised if the “preliminary agreement follows the same path of 'one step forward and 10 steps back'."
The US State Dept can't assist with that. Or do much of anything these days.
For example . . .
Iraq – Freedom of the press – Kidnapping of journalist Afrah Shawqi (December 27, 2016)
From France Diplomatie:
France was shocked and concerned to learn of the kidnapping of the journalist Afrah Shawqi on December 27 in Baghdad.
We assure the Iraqi authorities of our support for the investigation demanded by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and express our hope that Ms. Shawqi will be released in the very near future.
France applauds the courage of Ms. Shawqi, who has notably worked to defend women’s rights and is renowned and appreciated in Iraq and beyond. She has also been active in exposing atrocities committed by armed groups.
We reiterate our commitment to the freedom of the press and freedom of expression throughout the world. Iraqi journalists have paid a heavy toll in the defense of that freedom, as noted in the report published today by the Iraqi professional group: 455 journalists have been killed since 2003, including 20 in 2016 alone.
The US State Dept?
Silent on the kidnapping.
Not that they aren't working.
They issued a statement that amounted to no more than a war of words. With? Theresa May.
But they've ignored Afrah.
She's not being ignored elsewhere.
Dunya Mikhail @dunyamikhail 10h10 hours ago
Poet Dunya Mikhail on Kidnapped Iraqi Writer Afrah Shawqi and Elusive 'Freedom of Expression' arablit.org/2016/12/30/poe… via @arablit
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#IRAQ شمرية العراق @moonnor27 3h3 hours ago
Iraqi Sunnis civilians
Protesting against the abduction of Iraqi Sunni Journalist Afrah Shawqi
by Shia militias backed by Iran
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Steve HermanVerified account @W7VOA Dec 27
Journalist Afrah Shawqi al-Qaisi has been kidnapped from her Baghdad home. She was taken by armed men posing as security forces. Iraq #media
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Sara @sarawithlove_q8 32m32 minutes ago
Shia militias kidnapped the journalist Afrah Shawqi #Iraq
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AᏞᎷᏫᎻᎯᏁᎠᎥᏚ @mamo217 13h13 hours ago
#Afrah_Shawqi: Iraqi #journalist kidnapped from #Baghdad home theguardian.com/world/2016/dec…
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Deeyah KhanVerified account @Deeyah_Khan 20h20 hours ago
Iraq gunmen kidnap Afrah Shawqi al-Qaisi, journalist who condemned impunity of armed groups bbc.com/news/world-mid… …
Roger @407Native Dec 27
I wish that oil had NEVER been discovered in the Middle East. (Free Afrah Shawqi al-Qaisi)
ZOVCLICK @ZOCLICK Dec 27
adalberto Gunmen have kidnapped an outspoken Iraqi journalist, Afrah Shawqi al-Qaisi, after storming her home in the Iraqi capital of Baghd…
Afrah's life matters.
The failure of the Iraqi police to find her would be yet another indictment of the Iraqi government.
Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi should be allocating resources on this. They have descriptions, it should not be at all hard to track the kidnappers down.
But no such effort appears to be taking place.
And while foreign reporters -- Jill Carroll, for example -- were released or found alive long after they were kidnapped, Iraqi reporters tend to be killed shortly after they're kidnapped.
This is a very time sensitive issue.
Hayder's inability or refusal to deploy necessary resources to finding Afrah would be a strong indictment of his government.
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Wally West
Played By: Michael Rosenbaum (Voice)
Quote: "Here's the deal: you tell me where those guys went, and I promise to come visit you in the hospital. We'll play darts! The soft kind."
Position: Mechanic for Central City Police Department
Affiliations: Justice Defenders
Inspiration: DC
Rating: NC-17
Background: An Overview
Background: The Details
Canon Differences & Notes
Public: Wallace West has had a few jobs from being a deliverymen, to working in a test facility, to being a mechanic for the police department, and even being unemployed. He's a typical, average, everyday blue collar worker. And, despite what everyone might say about redheads, he does indeed have a soul. A pretty generous one, at that.
Secret: The Flash is a well-known superhero. Especially in Central City, which is where the Flash calls home. He is The World's Fastest Man, and is one of the members of the Justice League. High-spirited, ever the optimist, self-sacrificing, and always beleiving the best in people, The Flash is one of the most popular and favored heroes on the planet along with the likes of Superman. He's also, arguably, one of the most powerful metas on the planet.
Even from an early age, Wally had idolized the Flash. While his parents, gently, tried to discourage him others, even some somewhat mysterious, encouraged him to follow his dreams.
When Wally was 10 years old, he went to Central City to visit with his Aunt Iris, who at the time was dating Barry Allen, a police investigator. Knowing Wally's fascination and idolization with The Flash, Iris helped "arrange" a visit from the Flash for Wally, who was overjoyed and far overstimulated at the exchange. Wally innundated The Flash with all sorts of questions, including how Flash actually got his powers. The Flash explained the curious incident and accident with the chemistry set, only to realize that Wally had a chemistry set in his own room that was set up exactly like Barry's had been on that faithful night. And, it would seem that history would repeat itself — just as what had happened with Barry, a storm was rampaging that night and bathed Wally in the same chemicals and interactions that had affected Barry, endowing Wally with the speed and powers that Barry had been gifted with when it had happened to him.
Barry told Wally to keep his powers secret from everyone, even from his Aunt Iris, and from his parents, and friends. And, Barry Allen gave Wally West his first costume, and so was born Kid Flash.
Wally would join the Titants through his adolescence, using his speed, as well as his humor, to earn him a reputation as a true hero. But all would not be warm fuzzies and lovely roses, Wally was hit by lightning, which began to stifle his speed and affect his speed adversely, creating 'pain' when he would run, causing him to give up the mantle of Kid Flash for a little while.
That is, until Barry Allen, after revealing his true identity to Wally, disappeared. Wally had no choic, and took up the mantle of 'The Flash' himself, taking up the defense of Central City in Barry's place. Yet, when Wally would get hit with an antimatter cannon in one of his adventures, the pain from going to fast would be removed from him when he began to hit higher speeds.
With Barry 'gone', Wally has now taken on fully the mantle of the Flash, and continues to protect Central City, being as loved as much as Barry ever was, and more due to his more 'fun-loving' nature, and his easy-going mannerism.
Any notes or canon differences will go here.
Speed Force Conduit
Wally has a direct link to the Speed Force and cannot be severed from it. The Speed Force is what grants all speedsters, including Wally and his mentor, Barry Allen, their speed. Without the existence of the Speed Force, no speedsters would have their powers. The Speed Force holds an actual reality in the multiverse, from which various timelines and realities can be viewed if one can get there.
Superhuman Speed
Wally is, arguably, the fastest (or one of the fastest) person(s) in the entire universe. There are, in fact, no known limits to Wally's speed. He has, in the past, moved so fast he saved 500,000 people from a nuclear explosion that had already detonated at ground zero and moved them all 35 miles away to a safe distance. He's been known to travel at roughly 500 times the speed of light in need. His speed's only limitation is the limtations he sets on himself, which are few and far between. Wally's speed defies time. space, as well as logic. It can defy all those things at the same time.
Just as interesting as Wally's ability to be 'The Fastest Man Alive' is the fact that the Speed Force also protects both Wally, and the enviornment when he goes this fast. Wally does not leave a trail of 'fire' as literary imagination goes or more accurately destruction in his wake, which is known to happen by the laws of physics when going past the speed of Mach 10. His footfalls do not chew up the ground (unless he wants or needs them to), not does he cause massive vortexs in his wake as he passes at these speeds. The way his speed works, through the Speed Force, the most that happens to things around him (unless he makes an effort otherwise) is that there's a brief wind in his wake that might cause hairdos to get mussed, or papers to scatter.
Beyond simply being able to move fast, the Speed Force enables Wally to also react fast. Let's face it, if you can go past the speed of light but you can't turn on a dime you're going to collide into things. That wouldn't make the Speed Force look good, would it?
Wally can, literally, turn on a dime even at top speeds. His reactions are so swift he can jump and run up falling debris at breakneck speeds with ease and can dodge attacks even from the likes of Superman.
Wally was built for speed, and he's more than capable of reacting as needed, in any way that's needed, to help him to keep going fast. And faster. And faster, still.
Superhuman Stamina
If one had Superhuman Speed but mortal stamina, one wouldn't get very far in the scheme of things, would they?
Wally is blessed also with nearly inexhaustible Stamina and endurance. He can literally run for days on end, without stopping for food, or rest, and not lose a microsecond in his speed as he does so.
Simply put, Wally does not easily get tired. He's not an Ent, because he is positively hasty, but he does not easily get tired unless he actually lets himself slow down - and that's not often. Still, he is a human being when it is all said and done, and he does need food or rest like everyone else and he'll usually take advantage of that. Because everyone loves a good night's sleep. Even speedsters.
Decelerated Aging
One thing Wally -doesn't- do fast is age. In fact, the Speed Force slows this process down. While he certainly will get old, Wally, and the rest of the speedsters that utilize the Speed Force age at a much decelerated rate than the rest of the world around them.
Speedster Empathy
Through the Speed Force, Wally is able to tell if another Speedster is in peril. Unfortuantely for Wally (and other Speedsters) they cannot tell which Speedster might be in jeporady, or what kind. The sense perception can lead Wally to the general vicinity where this originated from, however.
Enhanced Senses
Wally's senses work with his faster-than-light brain and body, to allow him to percieve the world in a completely unique fashion. In so doing, the world can seem to 'stand still', frozen in time, as he moves freely and fluidly through it. This perception allows him to do things like scan thousands of faces to find the person he's looking for, or search an entire beach for a lost ring for a little girl, or any other innumerable tasks that would take other people hours or days to do. Uniquely, literally the faster Flash moves, the slower or more 'frozen' the world around him is.
Molecular Acceleration
Wally is able to literally move the very molecules in his body to a number of fascinating ends.
He can vibrate so fast that he becomes more or less intangible, immune to gasses or airborne virsuses, even to the point where he's moving so fast that light cannot and does not reflect off him, making him invisible to the naked eye.
He can adjust the vibrations of his molecules to be able to pass through nearly any physical object, such as doors, walls, or other barriers.
He can even adjust his vibrational frequency to align his senses to percieve other species that the human eye might miss such as alien biology or advanced technology (like cloaking devices) by a process of experimentation, which would not take him all that long. Because he's the Flash. And he's always going faster.
Lastly, but not least, he can also produce an insane amount of heat through friction with his molecules to heat up a room, or any other number of uses.
Speed Force Aura
Wally, and anyone (or anything) he carries with him are protected from the general laws of physics and the deterimental side-effects of traveling at such velocities as the Flash travels by what he's coined 'The Speed Force Aura'. Essentially the Speed Force extends it's protection through the Speedsters to whomever, or whatever, is in transit with them so they suffer no ill effects or harm at traversing at such mind-blowing speeds.
It is important to note, however, that nothing else is 'shared', such as speed vision, thinking, reationary times or any other of the Speed Forces boons lent to speedsters.
Wally is able to tap into the Speed Force and utilize its inexhaustible wealth of resources and power to revitalize himself in the case of injury. Through it, he is able to accelerate the natural healing factor of his own body and heal instantly. This is, of course, provided he isn't knocked out unconscious. It is not a 'natural' state of his body, even paired with the Speed Force, to heal in such a manner unless he is actively setting his mind to the task.
Limited Aerokinesis
By moving at certain speeds, Wally can manipulate air to create a number of types of vortex's. In one fashion, he can suck all the air out of a room to quash a fire, or suffocate a villian tempoarily to knock them out by pulling the air away from the center point of his choosing.
Other things include moving fast enough to create a barrier akin to a wall of wind to control and corral dangerous fumes, gasses, or smoke in order to keep it contained by moving his arms rapidly in circles to create drafts of wind to deccelerate falling objects (like people) or that can knock down barriers with the strength of focused hurricane-like winds, or even create pocket tornadoes capable of dousing larger fires or turning a villians escapade into complete chaos.
In other words, while Wally is not a true Aerokenetic, his movements are so fast they can shift the physical plane in that fashion to move along with him. In this fashion, the Speed Force adjusts the physical plane around him in a limited way, altering what he wants it to, to a desired effect. This does not mean that there might not be colleatral damage, a wind will do what a wind is going to do, but it does mean that the wind is the -only- thing that changes or is affected by his speed. The ground does not get chewed up, sonic vibrations don't cause the walls to rattle and shake or come down, etc…
Dimensional & Time Travel
Wally can move so fast as to break the barriers between both time, and space. He can travel through the distance of time utilizing the Speed Force to go back into a specific point in time and visit there.
Wally can also traverse the planes of reality, moving from one reality or dimension to another.
OOC: These powers are likely to never be used, and won't be utilized unless required or determined (or at the very least pre-approved) by staff for (most probably epic) TP purposes.
Wally has learned through the years how to be more effective than just throw a lot of random punches really really fast. His time with the Justice Defenders, general experience, and working with the high-leveled heroes that he does on a constant basis have all provided a forum of training under perfect storm conditions to help him learn how to be effective in battle. He is no Master of any one martial arts, but he knows how to fight, and coupled with his Speed he can be very, very dangerous if he wants to be.
Wallace West is presently employeed as a mechanic for the local police department. He can repair general wear and tear on engines, do maintenance, and even rebuild engines on quite a few cars, trucks, and other vehicles that the department uses or has used. While he's not the 'World's Best Mechanic', he certainly knows his way around an engine.
Justice Defenders
The Flash is a member of the Justice Defenders, and the next in line to carry that title, with the originator of it having been Jay Garrick. Thus, The Flash
Costume Ring
Wally has a bit of neat technology invested that give him a bit of personal freedom. He has a large number of rings each of which is an exact duplicate of the other and pass easily for normal, everyday jewelry. Compressed within the ring is his Flash Costume that will launch when triggered out and allow Wally to instantly change into the Flash.
Wally is just one of those people that people want to like, for the most part. Down to earth, a good sense of humor, optimistic, the 'boy next door', the helping hand, the charitible fellow, always giving and rarely (if ever) asking anything in return. He's popular, not because he's the Flash, but because of who he is.
This tends to be centralized in Central City and spread out through the United States. He is somewhat popular in other countries, but where he's loved best is in his hometown, and his home country.
Jiminy Cricket
Every team needs its Jimney Cricket, its conscience. Wally acts as the conscious, unbeknowingly to both himself, and the Justice Defenders, in a large way. He never strays from the path of 'True Justice', or the 'Light' as it were. His carefree attitude, even in dire situations, is a constant reminder to some on the team who might be 'okay' or close to slipping towards those greyer waters of justice to stay on the path.
Foot In Mouth Disease
Wally is always good intentioned. But at times, he has a Big Mouth. He can say vaugely inappropriate things, or the right thing but at the wrong time. His casual air, sarcastic nature, and overzealousness to be the ever-optimist, as well as at least on the outside a consistent flirt can get him into trouble. Wally's mind goes fast, and quite often he really just doesn't think about what he's saying.
Outside of the Speed Force, Wally is just a normal, everyday sort of guy. He's fairly susecptible to anything an ordinary, average guy is. He can be injured, and he can bleed, his bones can still be broken, he can be knocked unconscious, and bullets can still kill. Being the Flash does not mean you're invulnerable, and clever villians or unfortunate circumstances have seen Wally injured just so in the past. And, such could certainly happen again.
Wally is a sucker for a pretty face, a great body, and - well, anything else that comes with being an attractive woman. He loves to flirt, and will even 'showoff' for a fellow superheroine, if only to impress her that he's worth her time. All of it is mostly innocent, and merely fun for Wally, though in his imagination and his own world he's far more 007 with the ladies than he is Kramer from Seinfeld.
It can get Wally into trouble, at times, too, and cause him to not consider that an attractive villianess might be more dangerous than she is. In part, that's Wally being Wally, and trying to reach and appeal to her human side and in other part he just can't always help himself. It can create openings for things like mind control, or a few precious seconds for the enemy to act.
Wally likes to go fast. He likes to show people he can go fast. He likes people to know he can go fast. And, he believes he is, indeed, the Fastest Man Alive (which he very well might be). Still, there's nothing like proving it. And, given half-a-chance, or that status threatened or his speed challenged in any way that he deems a threat to that status, and he'll gladly rise up to meet it without a second thought.
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Her Arrival is DIRE! January 6, 2018 PG-13 for Violence and Language Priscilla Kitaen (Voodoo), Delta, Wally West (The Flash), Dire, Clint Barton (Hawkeye) Hawkeye, Voodoo, and the Flash respond to gangers who have stolen an alien weapons shipment being sent to a SHIELD storage facility…but the battle is interrupted by the unexpected interdimensional wormwhole arrival of Doctor Dire and Delta.
Monkey Business 2018-03-05 PG Voodoo, The Flash Gorilla Grodd steals a shipment of advanced weapons. Voodoo and the Flash show up to stop him.
The Prettiest Goo Fri Mar 16 20:45:16 2018 Wally West Dick Grayson Nightwing and The Flash interrupt a strange delivery, that has even stranger properties.
Expo: A Dire Theft! 2018-03-17 PG Linda Danvers / Superwoman, Tony Stark, Erid Irons / Dire, Dani Masters / Delta, Pepper Potts, The Flash The StarTech Science and Technology Expo continues with the presentation of Dr. Erid Irons' power transmission technology and some other things. However, that presentation is interrupted as the supervillainess Dire and her flunky Delta appear on the scene to steal technology from the Expo. They are confronted by Superwoman and The Flash from the Justice Defenders, and driven off, but not without getting away with a lot of new tech.
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open Story Slam@ College Theater Fest in Leominster MA
Time: January 28, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: Sheraton Four Points, Leominster,MA
Street: 99 Erdman Way
City/Town: Leominster, MA 01453
Event Type: slam, theater, festival, american, college
Organized By: SALLY CRAGIN
Latest Activity: Jan 24, 2011
Fitchburg -- Massmouth Storytelling in Fitchburg presents a special Storytelling session at the Sheraton Four Points, Leominster, Friday, January 28, starting at 7. "We are invited to take part in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival hosted by Fitchburg State University," explains event producer Sally Cragin. "We look forward to hearing lots of new stories from community folks and visitors to the area."
"massmouth promotes the timeless art of storytelling through social media, education and live performance," explains massmouth director Norah Dooley. The format is fast-moving -- participants can select a "prompt," such as "my favorite food," "something I'll never do again," or "my worst date," or choose a topic of their own. Everyone has five minutes to tell a story. At the end of the evening, a jury of non-storytellers selects the best story. "You don't have to tell a story to enjoy massmouth Storytelling," says Cragin. "We welcome audience members. But those who tell a story will receive a card good for a free draft beer at the Boulder Cafe or a tea or coffee drink at Chaibo."
Next storytelling is at Design at 639, 639 Main Street, on Friday, February 18, 7 pm. Free.
Four Points By Sheraton Leominsterhttp://maps.google.com/?cid=16292511324477178641s=9936041024628238809
99 Erdman Way
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Pedro Martinez and Tim Hudson start Game 1 of the ALDS between the Red Sox and Athletics, but the outcome is decided on Ramon Hernandez's two-out, bases-loaded bunt single in the 12th which gives the A's a 5-4 win . In Game 2 between the Cubs and Braves, Atlanta evened the series with a 5-3 win. Mark DeRosa hits a tie-breaking two-run double in the eighth for the game-winner . Juan Pierre went 4-for-5 with three RBIs to spark the Marlins to a 9-5 victory over the Giants in Game 2 and even the series.
In the ALDS, Oakland's Barry Zito fooled the Red Sox in the A's 5-1 win, giving up one run on five hits over seven innings. The Yankees evened their Division Series with a 4-1 victory over the Twins in Game 2. Andy Pettitte struck out 10.
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The Cubs, appearing in the postseason for the first time since 1998, were the hottest ticket in town. Mark Prior throws a complete game to outduel Atlanta's Greg Maddux and give the Cubs a 3-1 win in Game 3 of the NLDS at Wrigley Field. In Game 3 of the Giants-Marlins NLDS, Ivan Rodriguez hit a two-run single with two outs in the 11th inning to cap Florida's rally and post a 4-3 victory. Coach Al Newman visited the Twins before their playoff game for the first time since suffering a brain hemorrhage Sept. 10 in Chicago. Yankees owner George Steinbrenner says Joe Torre will return in 2004, giving the manager a vote of confidence.
In Miami, Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and Pudge Rodriguez blocked J.T. Snow at home plate in the ninth to secure the Marlins' 7-6 win over the Giants and advance to the NLCS. Florida won the series, 3-1. Marlins manager Jack McKeon's approach to Bonds? "You're damned if you do (pitch to him) and damned if you don't," McKeon said. The Red Sox and A's played extra innings in Game 3 with Boston winning on Trot Nixon's walk-off, two-run homer in the 11th. Roger Clemens held the Twins to one run over seven innings in the Yankees' 3-1 win in Game 3 of the ALDS. In the NLDS, Chipper Jones hits a pair of homers to lead the Braves to a 6-4 victory over the Cubs in Game 4 at Wrigley and tie the series, 2-2.
Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run homer and Alex Gonzalez added a solo shot to back Kerry Wood as the Cubs beat Atlanta to advance to the NLCS. The A's were four outs away from advancing to the ALCS for first time since 1992 but the Red Sox scored twice in the eighth for a 5-4 victory to force Game 5. David Ortiz hit a two-out, two-run double in the bottom of the eighth for the win. Meanwhile, the Yankees cruised to an 8-1 win over the Twins to win their series, 3-1. Minnesota starter Johan Santana couldn't escape the fourth when the Yankees sent 12 men to the plate.
The Red Sox complete their rally, overcoming an 0-2 deficit in the best-of-five series to edge Oakland, 4-3, in the decisive Game 5 of the ALDS. Manny Ramirez paced Boston with a three-run homer. However, Boston's Johnny Damon was knocked unconscious in a collision. Next up for Boston: the Yankees.
Mike Lowell hits a game-winning homer in the 11th inning to give the Marlins a 9-8 victory over the Cubs in Game 1 of the NLCS. Sammy Sosa did hit his first postseason homer in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. Former Cubs third baseman and current radio broadcaster Ron Santo couldn't attend for health reasons and the players hung his No. 10 jersey in the dugout. Atlanta closer John Smoltz underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow and was expected back at full strength by Spring Training. October 8
In Game 2 of the NLCS, the Cubs totaled 16 hits while Mark Prior held the Marlins to two earned runs over seven innings in a 12-3 Chicago win. Sosa hit a monster 495-foot homer to center. Fans packed the streets outside Wrigley Field for the game. In the ALCS, Boston second baseman Todd Walker got things started with a controversial home run in Game 1.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire agrees to a two-year contract to take him through the 2005 season.
In Game 3 of NLCS, bench player Doug Glanville hits a one-out RBI triple in the 11th to give the Cubs a 5-4 victory over the Marlins. The Fox Entertainment Group reaches an agreement in principle to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers to an investor group headed by Boston real estate developer Frank McCourt.
Tempers flared in Game 3 of the ALCS. In a bizarre fourth inning, there was a bench-clearing incident when Manny Ramirez thought Roger Clemens was throwing at his head. Yankee bench coach Don Zimmer was tossed to the ground by Pedro Martinez. In the bullpen, a Fenway Park grounds crew worker was involved in a scuffle with Yankees relief Jeff Nelson and outfielder Karim Garcia. "Cowboy Up" becomes a slogan for the Red Sox. Aramis Ramirez hit two home runs, including a first-inning grand slam, to lift the Cubs in Game 4 of NLCS and open a 3-1 lead in the series. Rookie sensation Dontrelle Willis struggled in the Cubs' 8-3 win. McKeon tinkered with his lineup, starting Lowell at third and moving rookie Miguel Cabrera to right.
Josh Beckett threw a two-hit shutout to lead the Marlins to a 4-0 victory over the Cubs. Prior to the game, Cubs skipper Dusty Baker talked about his goals in his first season in Chicago. "No. 1, I wanted to have a winning season," he said. The Yankees and Red Sox had a day to cool off as Game 4 was postponed by rain. Attention remained focused on the Nelson and Garcia incident. Boston's Martinez and Ramirez and New York's Garcia and Zimmer were each fined for their involvement in the fracas at Fenway in Game 3. Zimmer issued a tearful apology.
It was back to baseball in the ALCS as Todd Walker and Trot Nixon each hit solo homers and Jason Varitek drove in the game-winner on a pinch-hit groundout to even the series, 2-2, at Fenway Park.
The Chicago Cubs were cruising behind Mark Prior and five outs away from their first World Series in 58 years. But normally sure-handed shortstop Alex Gonzalez botches a play for error, leading to five unearned runs in Game 6. A fan also plays a role in the Marlins' key eighth inning. Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt is named manager of the Class A Clearwater Phillies. The Giants announce Pacific Bell Park will be renamed SBC Park, effective Jan. 1. In Game 5 of the ALCS, David Wells shuts down the Red Sox, giving up one run over seven innings, in a 4-2 Yankees win.
Beckett throws four innings of one-hit relief to help the Marlins post a 9-6 victory over the Cubs in Game 7. Ivan Rodriguez won the MVP award, batting .321 in the seven-game series. Chicago pitcher Kerry Wood took the loss personally, saying he "choked." Sammy Sosa picks the Marlins to win the World Series. Saying he's been a Cub fan all his life, Steve Bartman issues a written apology asking fans for forgiveness after he interfered with a ball in Game 6. In Game 6 of the ALCS, Nomar Garciaparra went 4-for-5 to lead the Red Sox to victory and force a decisive Game 7. October 16
The grounds crew at Fenway Park got a jump start, painting the World Series logo on the field in Boston before the ALCS had been completed. They were premature. Aaron Boone's homer in the bottom of the 11th inning sent the Yankees to the World Series. Mariano Rivera went 1-0 with a 1.13 ERA to win the ALCS MVP. In some editions of the New York Post, an editoral lamented the Yankees' supposed Game 7 loss to Boston in the ALCS. In reality, they got the job done.
The Marlins shrug off the mystique of Yankee Stadium to win Game 1 of the World Series, 3-2. The top of the lineup, Juan Pierre and Luis Castillo, are keys to the win.
Andy Pettitte struck out seven and held the Marlins to one run over 8 2/3 innings as the Yankees evened the best-of-seven series with a 6-1 win in Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.
St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols is named Major League Player of the Year by The Sporting News. Moises Alou exercised his option to stay with the Cubs. In a move to get approval for more night games at Wrigley Field, the Cubs propose free remote parking, extended shuttle bus service and creation of a $1 million fund to address neighborhood concerns. Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi are among several high-profile athletes subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating a nutritional supplement firm.
In Game 3 of the World Series, Bernie Williams hit a three-run homer to back Mike Mussina and lift the Yankees to a 6-1 victory. Williams set the all-time record for most postseason home runs and RBIs. Jamie Moyer is named winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, presented each year to the player who combines baseball skills with community work.
In Game 4 at Pro Player Stadium, Alex Gonzalez hit a walk-off homer in the 12th inning for a 4-3 win to even the series at two games apiece. This was Roger Clemens' final Major League start. He did not get a decision but did receive a standing ovation from the crowd. In Houston, manager Jimy Williams signed a one-year contract extension to give him a deal through the 2005 season. Texas shortstop Alex Rodriguez and St. Louis outfielder Albert Pujols are named winners of the Hank Aaron Award as top offensive performers in their respective leagues.
Pitcher Brad Penny helps the Marlins win, 6-4, in Game 5 to take a 3-2 lead in the World Series. David Wells exits after one inning because of back spasms. Derek Jeter moved into leadoff spot for Yankees in Game 5 while second baseman Alfonso Soriano was bumped. A few hours before the game, Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria hands McKeon the keys to a new Mercedes. Bobby Valentine announces he will likely return to Japan to manage.
McKeon announces 23-year-old Josh Beckett will start on short rest in Game 6 of the World Series . Jason Giambi's left knee keeps him out of the lineup in Game 5. He'll undergo surgery at season's end. The Oakland Athletics deny Seattle permission to speak with GM Billy Beane but let the Mets talk to pitching coach Rick Peterson. In Chicago, crews begin construction work on altering the upper deck at U.S. Cellular Field and remove the top eight rows of seats.
The Florida Marlins win the World Series. The Yankees' posted lineup for Game 6 was one that hadn't been used all season. Beckett, who threw a complete-game shutout on three days' rest in Game 6, picked up the MVP trophy. The Yankees, who had won four championships in seven years, are frustrated with the loss. Andy Pettitte had to deal with questions immediately after Game 6 loss as to whether he'd be back in pinstripes.
The Red Sox fire manager Grady Little despite leading the team to 188 victories over two seasons and a trip to the ALCS. Cincinnati Reds name Dan O'Brien as their general manager, replacing Jim Bowden. The gate receipts of the 2003 World Series were the highest ever for a six-game series, topping $41 million. On the first day players are able to file for free agency, 106 players submit their names.
The Marlins hold a championship rally and announce McKeon will be back as manager, agreeing to a one-year deal with the team. "I enjoy this team; why not try it again?" he says. The New York Mets name Jim Duquette as their 10th general manager. Team USA finalizes its 24-man roster for the Olympic qualifying baseball tournament, to be played in Panama City, Panama. In Japan, shortstop Kazuo Matsui, known as "Little Matsui," files for free agency in hopes of signing with a Major League team. The Yankees' Hideki Matsui, no relation, calls the infielder one of the best players in Japan.
San Francisco's Barry Bonds wins his 11th Silver Slugger award while Texas shortstop Alex Rodriguez, who led the AL in home runs, runs and slugging percentage, wins his seventh.
Boston's Manny Ramirez is placed on irrevocable waivers, which means any Major League team can claim the outfielder. However, they'd also have to pay him $104 million over five years. Frank Thomas exercises his player option to return to the White Sox for a 14th season. MLB officials and the union say they have agreed to place the drug known as THG on the list of anabolic steroids subject to drug testing in 2004. Paul Molitor, who will be on the January Hall of Fame ballot, is named Seattle Mariners' hitting coach. Dodgers manager Jim Tracy and others pitch in to help families in Southern California deal with raging wildfires.
Rather than test the free agent market, Sammy Sosa decides to stay with the Cubs.
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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Tom Rob Smith, read by James Langton and Suzanne Toren.
Hachette Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9. 5 hrs., $30, ISBN
Smith’s startlingly original new novel is told from the perspective of Daniel, a Londoner whose parents, Chris and Tilde, have retired to a farm in the south of Sweden. The story begins as Daniel receives word from his father that his mother has been hospitalized after experiencing psychotic episodes. For months, Chris says, Tilde has been “imagining things—terrible, terrible things.” Before Daniel can fly to Sweden to see her, his father calls again to say that Tilde has checked out of the hospital and disappeared. Soon after, she arrives at Daniel’s door, emaciated and in obvious distress, claiming to have escaped from an asylum where Chris imprisoned her. In her ensuing tale, strikingly enacted by Toren, Tilde describes her nightmarish life on the farm, with Chris and a neighbor plotting against her. Langton convincingly renders Daniel with the voice of an educated, thoughtful young man, unable to decide whether his mother is telling the truth, or is delusional, as his father claims. Daniel, uncertain and perplexed, interrupts Tilde’s story with questions that he hopes will bring out the truth. The conversation continues for much of the novel, with Toren contributing an unnerving, emotionally charged performance, and Langton reacting with questions that seemingly suggest an open mind on the part of Daniel, but that carry more than a hint of disbelief. Together, they transform Smith’s brilliant prose into a mesmerizing two-character theatrical. A Grand Central hardcover. (June)
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Skipper Virat Kohli and head coach Ravi Shastri addressed a press conference Tuesday before leaving for England for the World Cup. The question of who will be India’s No.4 batsman remains unanswered. At the press conference, the Indian skipper backed his players to do well in World Cup irrespective of their performances in recently concluded Indian Premier League 2019.
“We expect all kind of scores in the World Cup, but there would be few high scoring games looking at the predictions,” Virat Kohli added.
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Undoubtedly, Virat Kohli will be the fulcrum of India’s famed batting line-up that has a fair share of problems of its own. The number four conundrum needs to be addressed in a unit that is not short of game-changers.
“If we play up to our potential the World Cup will be here,” coach Ravi Shastri said.
“The pitches might be flat, in England overhead conditions will matter. If you go to London, it will. You have to be prepared to be flexible,” Shastri added.
“This is an experienced unit, we have accomplished. Each one compliments each other,” Shastri added.
Virat Kohli, arguably the best batsman in the world right now, will hold the key to India’s chances in the quadrennial event where he is expected to cross 11,000 ODI runs and also add a few more hundreds to his tally of 41.
“It’s going to be challenging but the good thing is gap, players will have time to re-group,”Kohli said.
“In football player maintain their intensity for three-four months, like in the Premier League or La Liga,” the Indian skipper added.
“You can take motivation from anywhere, when you talk about Indian Army, if we can do anything for them, it will be the best,” Kohli added.
“We can’t think about one team in the World Cup, have to maintain the intensity throughout,” Shastri said.
“Will have to be prepared for the World Cup at the best of our abilities, shouldn’t think about any opposition,” Kohli added.
India’s lethal bowling attack, consisting of Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami among others, is pretty much well-set and has been one of the most potent in the the recent years.
However, Kohli and Shastri will have to decide if they want to go with an extra all-rounder, Kuldeep Yadav or Yuzvendra Chahal or both.
Before India begin their World Cup 2019 campaign against South Africa on June 5, they will play warm-up games against New Zealand (May 25) and Bangladesh (May 28).
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Six Crucial Questions for Dan Wisniewski, Lead Singer, Spelling Reform
29 November 2016 by Dan Kadison and Chad Werner
They’ve drawn comparisons to the Mountain Goats, Dan Bejar, the Silver Jews, and Woody Allen, but when we heard Spelling Reform we came away with The Weakerthans and They Might Be Giants.
And after listening to their latest LP, No One’s Ever Changed, we can safely say Spelling Reform’s output is just as good as any of the bands mentioned above.
Give these 11 tracks a go, and, like us, you may feel a longing for the past as you happily lay a welcome mat for the future.
How do you spell “band to watch”? S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G… R-E-F-O-R-M.
SIX CRUCIAL QUESTIONS FOR DAN WISNIEWSKI, SPELLING REFORM
NAME: Dan Wisniewski (above)
AGE (if you want to give it up): 30
BAND: Spelling Reform
POSITION: Lead singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist
HOMETOWN: Philadelphia, PA, United States
1. What is your earliest musical memory?
Listening to the Traveling Wilburys and Tom Petty at home with my folks. There’s home video of me as a very small child dancing in front of the CD player, even though the speakers were in another room. I guess I was smart — I knew where the music was really coming from.
2. What has been your most embarrassing musical moment?
We played a show at a college once where there were some beach balls flying around as well as some kids running around. When one of the beach balls came onstage, I kicked it back into the crowd — directly into a small child’s face, knocking her down.
3. What do you like and dislike about touring?
It’s really great to meet and play for new people and see all the different types of venues and stages.
4. What is your favorite record store, anywhere in the world?
I’ve only been one time, but Jerry’s Records in Pittsburgh, PA is an unreal place. There are so many records that it’s hard to believe the floor hasn’t caved in yet.
5. Other than your own music, what is your favorite song or album of all-time? Why?
Song: Wilco “Poor Places.” So many ideas crammed into this song, and I love the see-sawing between kind-of nonsense lyrics and “I really want to see you tonight.”
Album: The Beatles Abbey Road. There’s so much self-mythologizing going on — the idea that they’re writing songs about their swan song on their swan song. It blows my mind every time I hear it.
6. You wake up in a seedy Berlin hotel room with no recollection of the past 96 hours. Who is your first call?
The rest of the guys in Spelling Reform to see how we could turn this situation into a song.
Images Courtesy of Spelling Reform; Band Photos Courtesy of Photographer Jonathan Brown
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Site-selected luminescence of atomic europium in the solid rare gases
Byrne, Owen and McCaffrey, John G. (2011) Site-selected luminescence of atomic europium in the solid rare gases. Journal of Chemical Physics, 135 (2). 024507. ISSN 0021-9606
Site-selective excitation has been used to simplify complex emission recorded in the visible spectral region for atomic europium isolated in the solid rare gases. In addition to y8P resonance fluorescence, excitation of the y8P state produces emission from the z6P state and the metastable a10D state. Very weak emission at 690 nm is tentatively assigned to the J = 9/2 level of the z10P state. Eu atoms isolated in the red and blue sites exhibit very different temperature dependence both spectrally and temporally. For the y8P state emission the red site atoms exhibit small Stokes shifts and yield radiative lifetimes while the emission from the blue site loses intensity and the temporal profiles shorten dramatically between 10 and 16 K indicating very efficient non-radiative relaxation in this site. An analysis of the Stokes shifts exhibited for the y8P state in each site supports the attributions made in a previous publication [O. Byrne and J.G. McCaffrey, J. Chem. Phys. 134, 124501 (2011)]10.1063/1.3564947 that the smaller blue tetravacancy site has a greater repulsive interaction with the guest. With the exception of the y8P state resonance fluorescence, the recorded decay profiles of all the other emissions exhibit multiple components. This behaviour has been attributed to the existence of multiple crystal field levels arising from the splitting of the distinct spin-orbit levels from which emission occurs.
Site-selected luminescence; atomic europium; solid rare gases;
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https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3609116
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Fulltext Identification of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Based Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Elderly Asian Cancer Patients
Tan T, Ong WS, Rajasekaran T, Nee Koo K, Chan LL, Poon D, et al.
PLoS ONE, 2016;11(5):e0156008.
PURPOSE: Elderly cancer patients are at increased risk for malnutrition. We aim to identify comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) based clinical factors associated with increased nutritional risk and develop a clinical scoring system to identify nutritional risk in elderly cancer patients.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: CGA data was collected from 249 Asian patients aged 70 years or older. Nutritional risk was assessed based on the Nutrition Screening Initiative (NSI) checklist. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were applied to assess the association between patient clinical factors together with domains within the CGA and moderate to high nutritional risk. Goodness of fit was assessed using Hosmer-Lemeshow test. Discrimination ability was assessed based on the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC). Internal validation was performed using simulated datasets via bootstrapping.
RESULTS: Among the 249 patients, 184 (74%) had moderate to high nutritional risk. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified stage 3-4 disease (Odds Ratio [OR] 2.54; 95% CI, 1.14-5.69), ECOG performance status of 2-4 (OR 3.04; 95% CI, 1.57-5.88), presence of depression (OR 5.99; 95% CI, 1.99-18.02) and haemoglobin levels <12 g/dL (OR 3.00; 95% CI 1.54-5.84) as significant independent factors associated with moderate to high nutritional risk. The model achieved good calibration (Hosmer-Lemeshow test's p = 0.17) and discrimination (AUC = 0.80). It retained good calibration and discrimination (bias-corrected AUC = 0.79) under internal validation.
CONCLUSION: Having advanced stage of cancer, poor performance status, depression and anaemia were found to be predictors of moderate to high nutritional risk. Early identification of patients with these risk factors will allow for nutritional interventions that may improve treatment tolerance, quality of life and survival outcomes.
Fulltext Feasibility Study of NMR Based Serum Metabolomic Profiling to Animal Health Monitoring: A Case Study on Iron Storage Disease in Captive Sumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)
Watanabe M, Roth TL, Bauer SJ, Lane A, Romick-Rosendale LE
A variety of wildlife species maintained in captivity are susceptible to iron storage disease (ISD), or hemochromatosis, a disease resulting from the deposition of excess iron into insoluble iron clusters in soft tissue. Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is one of the rhinoceros species that has evolutionarily adapted to a low-iron diet and is susceptible to iron overload. Hemosiderosis is reported at necropsy in many African black and Sumatran rhinoceroses but only a small number of animals reportedly die from hemochromatosis. The underlying cause and reasons for differences in susceptibility to hemochromatosis within the taxon remains unclear. Although serum ferritin concentrations have been useful in monitoring the progression of ISD in many species, there is some question regarding their value in diagnosing hemochromatosis in the Sumatran rhino. To investigate the metabolic changes during the development of hemochromatosis and possibly increase our understanding of its progression and individual susceptibility differences, the serum metabolome from a Sumatran rhinoceros was investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based metabolomics. The study involved samples from female rhinoceros at the Cincinnati Zoo (n = 3), including two animals that died from liver failure caused by ISD, and the Sungai Dusun Rhinoceros Conservation Centre in Peninsular Malaysia (n = 4). Principal component analysis was performed to visually and statistically compare the metabolic profiles of the healthy animals. The results indicated that significant differences were present between the animals at the zoo and the animals in the conservation center. A comparison of the 43 serum metabolomes of three zoo rhinoceros showed two distinct groupings, healthy (n = 30) and unhealthy (n = 13). A total of eighteen altered metabolites were identified in healthy versus unhealthy samples. Results strongly suggest that NMR-based metabolomics is a valuable tool for animal health monitoring and may provide insight into the progression of this and other insidious diseases.
Fulltext Synthetic B-Cell Epitopes Eliciting Cross-Neutralizing Antibodies: Strategies for Future Dengue Vaccine
Ramanathan B, Poh CL, Kirk K, McBride WJ, Aaskov J, Grollo L
Dengue virus (DENV) is a major public health threat worldwide. A key element in protection from dengue fever is the neutralising antibody response. Anti-dengue IgG purified from DENV-2 infected human sera showed reactivity against several peptides when evaluated by ELISA and epitope extraction techniques. A multi-step computational approach predicted six antigenic regions within the E protein of DENV-2 that concur with the 6 epitopes identified by the combined ELISA and epitope extraction approach. The selected peptides representing B-cell epitopes were attached to a known dengue T-helper epitope and evaluated for their vaccine potency. Immunization of mice revealed two novel synthetic vaccine constructs that elicited good humoral immune responses and produced cross-reactive neutralising antibodies against DENV-1, 2 and 3. The findings indicate new directions for epitope mapping and contribute towards the future development of multi-epitope based synthetic peptide vaccine.
Fulltext Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Determination of the Effect of Experimental Parameters on Vehicle Agent Speed Relative to Vehicle Intruder
Shamshirband S, Banjanovic-Mehmedovic L, Bosankic I, Kasapovic S, Abdul Wahab AW
Intelligent Transportation Systems rely on understanding, predicting and affecting the interactions between vehicles. The goal of this paper is to choose a small subset from the larger set so that the resulting regression model is simple, yet have good predictive ability for Vehicle agent speed relative to Vehicle intruder. The method of ANFIS (adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system) was applied to the data resulting from these measurements. The ANFIS process for variable selection was implemented in order to detect the predominant variables affecting the prediction of agent speed relative to intruder. This process includes several ways to discover a subset of the total set of recorded parameters, showing good predictive capability. The ANFIS network was used to perform a variable search. Then, it was used to determine how 9 parameters (Intruder Front sensors active (boolean), Intruder Rear sensors active (boolean), Agent Front sensors active (boolean), Agent Rear sensors active (boolean), RSSI signal intensity/strength (integer), Elapsed time (in seconds), Distance between Agent and Intruder (m), Angle of Agent relative to Intruder (angle between vehicles °), Altitude difference between Agent and Intruder (m)) influence prediction of agent speed relative to intruder. The results indicated that distance between Vehicle agent and Vehicle intruder (m) and angle of Vehicle agent relative to Vehicle Intruder (angle between vehicles °) is the most influential parameters to Vehicle agent speed relative to Vehicle intruder.
Fulltext Meta-Analysis of Dengue Severity during Infection by Different Dengue Virus Serotypes in Primary and Secondary Infections
Soo KM, Khalid B, Ching SM, Chee HY
INTRODUCTION: Dengue virus (DENV) infection is currently a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world; it has become more common and virulent over the past half-century and has gained much attention. Thus, this review compared the percentage of severe cases of both primary and secondary infections with different serotypes of dengue virus.
METHODS: Data related to the number of cases involving dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), dengue shock syndrome (DSS) or severe dengue infections caused by different serotypes of dengue virus were obtained by using the SCOPUS, the PUBMED and the OVID search engines with the keywords "(dengue* OR dengue virus*) AND (severe dengue* OR severity of illness index* OR severity* OR DF* OR DHF* OR DSS*) AND (serotypes* OR serogroup*)", according to the MESH terms suggested by PUBMED and OVID.
RESULTS: Approximately 31 studies encompassing 15,741 cases reporting on the dengue serotypes together with their severity were obtained, and meta-analysis was carried out to analyze the data. This study found that DENV-3 from the Southeast Asia (SEA) region displayed the greatest percentage of severe cases in primary infection (95% confidence interval (CI), 31.22-53.67, 9 studies, n = 598, I2 = 71.53%), whereas DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4 from the SEA region, as well as DENV-2 and DENV-3 from non-SEA regions, exhibited the greatest percentage of severe cases in secondary infection (95% CI, 11.64-80.89, 4-14 studies, n = 668-3,149, I2 = 14.77-96.20%). Moreover, DENV-2 and DENV-4 from the SEA region had been found to be more highly associated with dengue shock syndrome (DSS) (95% CI, 10.47-40.24, 5-8 studies, n = 642-2,530, I2 = 76.93-97.70%), while DENV-3 and DENV-4 from the SEA region were found to be more highly associated with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) (95% CI, 31.86-54.58, 9 studies, n = 674-2,278, I2 = 55.74-88.47%), according to the 1997 WHO dengue classification. Finally, DENV-2 and DENV-4 from the SEA region were discovered to be more highly associated with secondary infection compared to other serotypes (95% CI, 72.01-96.32, 9-12 studies, n = 671-2,863, I2 = 25.01-96.75%).
CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence that the presence of certain serotypes, including primary infection with DENV-3 from the SEA region and secondary infection with DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4 also from the SEA region, as well as DENV-2 and DENV-3 from non SEA regions, increased the risk of severe dengue infections. Thus, these serotypes are worthy of special consideration when making clinical predictions upon the severity of the infection.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42015026093 (http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO).
Fulltext Genetic Diversity, Natural Selection and Haplotype Grouping of Plasmodium knowlesi Gamma Protein Region II (PkγRII): Comparison with the Duffy Binding Protein (PkDBPαRII)
Fong MY, Rashdi SA, Yusof R, Lau YL
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium knowlesi is a simian malaria parasite that has been reported to cause malaria in humans in Southeast Asia. This parasite invades the erythrocytes of humans and of its natural host, the macaque Macaca fascicularis, via interaction between the Duffy binding protein region II (PkDBPαRII) and the Duffy antigen receptor on the host erythrocytes. In contrast, the P. knowlesi gamma protein region II (PkγRII) is not involved in the invasion of P. knowlesi into humans. PkγRII, however, mediates the invasion of P. knowlesi into the erythrocytes of M. mulata, a non-natural host of P. knowlesi via a hitherto unknown receptor. The haplotypes of PkDBPαRII in P. knowlesi isolates from Peninsular Malaysia and North Borneo have been shown to be genetically distinct and geographically clustered. Also, the PkDBPαRII was observed to be undergoing purifying (negative) selection. The present study aimed to determine whether similar phenomena occur in PkγRII.
METHODS: Blood samples from 78 knowlesi malaria patients were used. Forty-eight of the samples were from Peninsular Malaysia, and 30 were from Malaysia Borneo. The genomic DNA of the samples was extracted and used as template for the PCR amplification of the PkγRII. The PCR product was cloned and sequenced. The sequences obtained were analysed for genetic diversity and natural selection using MEGA6 and DnaSP (version 5.10.00) programmes. Genetic differentiation between the PkγRII of Peninsular Malaysia and North Borneo isolates was estimated using the Wright's FST fixation index in DnaSP (version 5.10.00). Haplotype analysis was carried out using the Median-Joining approach in NETWORK (version 4.6.1.3).
RESULTS: A total of 78 PkγRII sequences was obtained. Comparative analysis showed that the PkγRII have similar range of haplotype (Hd) and nucleotide diversity (π) with that of PkDBPαRII. Other similarities between PkγRII and PkDBPαRII include undergoing purifying (negative) selection, geographical clustering of haplotypes, and high inter-population genetic differentiation (FST index). The main differences between PkγRII and PkDBPαRII include length polymorphism and no departure from neutrality (as measured by Tajima's D statistics) in the PkγRII.
CONCLUSION: Despite the biological difference between PkγRII and PkDBPαRII, both generally have similar genetic diversity level, natural selection, geographical haplotype clustering and inter-population genetic differentiation index.
Fulltext Cystathione gamma lyase/Hydrogen Sulphide Pathway Up Regulation Enhances the Responsiveness of α1A and α1B-Adrenoreceptors in the Kidney of Rats with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Ahmad A, Sattar MA, Azam M, Abdulla MH, Khan SA, Hashmi F, et al.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the interaction between H2S and NO (nitric oxide) in the kidney and to evaluate its impact on the functional contribution of α1A and α1B-adrenoreceptors subtypes mediating the renal vasoconstriction in the kidney of rats with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). In rats the LVH induction was by isoprenaline administration and caffeine in the drinking water together with intraperitoneal administration of H2S. The responsiveness of α1A and α1B to exogenous noradrenaline, phenylephrine and methoxaminein the absence and presence of 5-methylurapidil (5-MeU) and chloroethylclonidine (CEC) was studied. Cystathione gamma lyase (CSE), cystathione β synthase (CBS), 3-mercaptopyruvate sulphar transferase (3-MST) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) were quantified. There was significant up regulation of CSE and eNOS in the LVH-H2S compared to the LVH group (P<0.05). Baseline renal cortical blood perfusion (RCBP) was increased (P<0.05) in the LVH-H2S compared to the LVH group. The responsiveness of α1A-adrenergic receptors to adrenergic agonists was increased (P<0.05) after administration of low dose 5-Methylurapidil in the LVH-H2S group while α1B-adrenergic receptors responsiveness to adrenergic agonists were increased (P<0.05) by both low and high dose chloroethylclonidine in the LVH-H2S group. Treatment of LVH with H2S resulted in up-regulation of CSE/H2S, CBS, and 3-MST and eNOS/NO/cGMP pathways in the kidney. These up regulation of CSE/H2S, CBS, and 3-MST and eNOS/NO/cGMP pathways enhanced the responsiveness of α1A and α1B-adrenoreceptors subtypes to adrenergic agonists in LVH-H2S. These findings indicate an important role for H2S in modulating deranged signalling in the renal vasculature resulting from LVH development.
Fulltext Dietary Intake among Adolescents in a Middle-Income Country: An Outcome from the Malaysian Health and Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team Study (the MyHeARTs Study)
Abdul Majid H, Ramli L, Ying SP, Su TT, Jalaludin MY, Abdul Mohsein NA
Optimal nutrition is essential for healthy growth during adolescence. This study aims to investigate the baseline nutritional intake of Malaysian adolescents by gender, body mass index, and places of residence, both urban and rural. A cohort study was conducted consisting of 794 adolescents (aged 13-years) attending 15 public secondary schools from the Central (Kuala Lumpur and Selangor) and Northern (Perak) Regions of Peninsular Malaysia. Qualified dietitians conducted a 7-day historical assessment of habitual food intakes. Facilitated by flipcharts and household measurement tools, detailed information on portion sizes and meal contents were recorded. Nutritionist Pro™ Diet Analysis software was also used to analyze the dietary records.The mean age of the adolescents was 12.86 ± 0.33 y; the mean energy intake was 1659.0 ± 329.6 kcal/d. Males had significantly (P < .001) higher energy intake than females (1774.0 ± 369.8 vs 1595.2 ± 320.6 kcal/d); adolescents in rural schools consumed more energy and cholesterol (P < .001) compared to adolescents in urban schools (1706.1 ± 377.7 kcal/d and 244.1 ± 100.2 mg/d, respectively). Obese adolescents in rural schools consumed more energy and sugar (1987.6 ± 374.0 kcal/d and 48.9 ± 23.0 g/d) (p-value <0.001).The dietary intake of normal weight versus obese adolescents differs by the location of their school. Thus, the implementation of a structured and tailored intervention is recommended to help minimize this nutritional inequality.
Fulltext Effects of Electrodeposition Mode and Deposition Cycle on the Electrochemical Performance of MnO2-NiO Composite Electrodes for High-Energy-Density Supercapacitors
Rusi, Majid SR
Nanostructured network-like MnO2-NiO composite electrodes were electrodeposited onto stainless steel substrates via different electrodeposition modes, such as chronopotentiometry, chronoamperometry, and cyclic voltammetry, and then subjected to heat treatment at 300°C for metal oxide conversion. X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy were used to study the crystalline natures and morphologies of the deposited films. The electrochemical properties were investigated using cyclic voltammetry and charge/discharge tests. The results revealed that the electrochemical performance of the as-obtained composite electrodes depended on the electrodeposition mode. The electrochemical properties of MnO2-NiO composite electrodes prepared using cyclic voltammetry exhibited the highest capacitance values and were most influenced by the deposition cycle number. The optimum specific capacitance was 3509 Fg-1 with energy and power densities of 1322 Wh kg-1 and 110.5 kW kg-1, respectively, at a current density of 20 Ag-1 in a mixed KOH/K3Fe(CN)6 electrolyte.
Fulltext Cadmium Sulphide-Reduced Graphene Oxide-Modified Photoelectrode-Based Photoelectrochemical Sensing Platform for Copper(II) Ions
Ibrahim I, Lim HN, Huang NM, Pandikumar A
A photoelectrochemical (PEC) sensor with excellent sensitivity and detection toward copper (II) ions (Cu2+) was developed using a cadmium sulphide-reduced graphene oxide (CdS-rGO) nanocomposite on an indium tin oxide (ITO) surface, with triethanolamine (TEA) used as the sacrificial electron donor. The CdS nanoparticles were initially synthesized via the aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition (AACVD) method using cadmium acetate and thiourea as the precursors to Cd2+ and S2-, respectively. Graphene oxide (GO) was then dip-coated onto the CdS electrode and sintered under an argon gas flow (50 mL/min) for the reduction process. The nanostructured CdS was adhered securely to the ITO by a continuous network of rGO that also acted as an avenue to intensify the transfer of electrons from the conduction band of CdS. The photoelectrochemical results indicated that the ITO/CdS-rGO photoelectrode could facilitate broad UV-visible light absorption, which would lead to a higher and steady-state photocurrent response in the presence of TEA in 0.1 M KCl. The photocurrent decreased with an increase in the concentration of Cu2+ ions. The photoelectrode response for Cu2+ ion detection had a linear range of 0.5-120 μM, with a limit of detection (LoD) of 16 nM. The proposed PEC sensor displayed ultra-sensitivity and good selectivity toward Cu2+ ion detection.
Fulltext Detecting Community Structure by Using a Constrained Label Propagation Algorithm
Chin JH, Ratnavelu K
Community structure is considered one of the most interesting features in complex networks. Many real-world complex systems exhibit community structure, where individuals with similar properties form a community. The identification of communities in a network is important for understanding the structure of said network, in a specific perspective. Thus, community detection in complex networks gained immense interest over the last decade. A lot of community detection methods were proposed, and one of them is the label propagation algorithm (LPA). The simplicity and time efficiency of the LPA make it a popular community detection method. However, the LPA suffers from instability detection due to randomness that is induced in the algorithm. The focus of this paper is to improve the stability and accuracy of the LPA, while retaining its simplicity. Our proposed algorithm will first detect the main communities in a network by using the number of mutual neighbouring nodes. Subsequently, nodes are added into communities by using a constrained LPA. Those constraints are then gradually relaxed until all nodes are assigned into groups. In order to refine the quality of the detected communities, nodes in communities can be switched to another community or removed from their current communities at various stages of the algorithm. We evaluated our algorithm on three types of benchmark networks, namely the Lancichinetti-Fortunato-Radicchi (LFR), Relaxed Caveman (RC) and Girvan-Newman (GN) benchmarks. We also apply the present algorithm to some real-world networks of various sizes. The current results show some promising potential, of the proposed algorithm, in terms of detecting communities accurately. Furthermore, our constrained LPA has a robustness and stability that are significantly better than the simple LPA as it is able to yield deterministic results.
Fulltext House Sparrows Do Not Constitute a Significant Salmonella Typhimurium Reservoir across Urban Gradients in Flanders, Belgium
Rouffaer LO, Lens L, Haesendonck R, Teyssier A, Hudin NS, Strubbe D, et al.
In recent decades major declines in urban house sparrow (Passer domesticus) populations have been observed in north-western European cities, whereas suburban and rural house sparrow populations have remained relatively stable or are recovering from previous declines. Differential exposure to avian pathogens known to cause epidemics in house sparrows may in part explain this spatial pattern of declines. Here we investigate the potential effect of urbanization on the development of a bacterial pathogen reservoir in free-ranging house sparrows. This was achieved by comparing the prevalence of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serotype Typhimurium in 364 apparently healthy house sparrows captured in urban, suburban and rural regions across Flanders, Belgium between September 2013 and March 2014. In addition 12 dead birds, received from bird rescue centers, were necropsied. The apparent absence of Salmonella Typhimurium in fecal samples of healthy birds, and the identification of only one house sparrow seropositive for Salmonella spp., suggests that during the winter of 2013-2014 these birds did not represent any considerable Salmonella Typhimurium reservoir in Belgium and thus may be considered naïve hosts, susceptible to clinical infection. This susceptibility is demonstrated by the isolation of two different Salmonella Typhimurium strains from two of the deceased house sparrows: one DT99, typically associated with disease in pigeons, and one DT195, previously associated with a passerine decline. The apparent absence (prevalence: <1.3%) of a reservoir in healthy house sparrows and the association of infection with clinical disease suggests that the impact of Salmonella Typhimurium on house sparrows is largely driven by the risk of exogenous exposure to pathogenic Salmonella Typhimurium strains. However, no inference could be made on a causal relationship between Salmonella infection and the observed house sparrow population declines.
Fulltext Factors Associated with Tick Bite Preventive Practices among Farmworkers in Malaysia
Ghane Kisomi M, Wong LP, Tay ST, Bulgiba A, Zandi K, Kho KL, et al.
BACKGROUND: Farmworkers are at high-risk for tick bites, which potentially transmit various tick-borne diseases. Previous studies show that personal prevention against tick bites is key, and certain factors namely, knowledge, experience of tick bites, and health beliefs influence compliance with tick bites preventive behaviour. This study aimed to assess these factors and their associations with tick bite preventive practices among Malaysian farmworkers.
METHODS: A total of eight cattle, goat and sheep farms in six states in Peninsular Malaysia participated in a cross-sectional survey between August and October 2013.
RESULTS: A total of 151 (72.2%) out of 209 farmworkers answered the questionnaire. More than half of the farmworkers (n = 91) reported an experience of tick bites. Farms with monthly acaricide treatment had significantly (P<0.05) a low report of tick bites. Tick bite exposure rates did not differ significantly among field workers and administrative workers. The mean total knowledge score of ticks for the overall farmworkers was 13.6 (SD±3.2) from 20. The mean total tick bite preventive practices score for all farmworkers was 8.3 (SD±3.1) from 15. Fixed effect model showed the effects of four factors on tick bite prevention: (1) farms, (2) job categories (administrative workers vs. field workers), (3) perceived severity of tick bites, and (4) perceived barriers to tick bite prevention.
CONCLUSIONS: A high proportion of farmworkers, including administrative workers, reported an experience of tick bites. The effectiveness of monthly acaricide treatment was declared by low reports of tick bites on these farms. Tick bite preventive practices were insufficient, particularly in certain farms and for administrative workers. Our findings emphasise the need to have education programmes for all farmworkers and targeting farms with low prevention practices. Education and health programmes should increase the perception of the risk of tick bites and remove perceived barriers of tick bite prevention.
Fulltext The Impact of Emotional Solidarity on Residents' Attitude and Tourism Development
Hasani A, Moghavvemi S, Hamzah A
In many countries, especially one such as Malaysia, tourism has become a key factor in economic development, and the industry heavily relies on feedback from local residents. It is essential to observe and examine the perceptions of residents towards tourists and tourism development for better planning in realizing successful and sustainable tourism development. Therefore, this research measured the relationship between residents' welcoming nature, emotional closeness, and sympathetic understanding (emotional solidarity) towards tourists and their respective attitudes towards supporting tourism development. To test the proposed research model, we collected data using a questionnaire survey from 333 residents in rural areas in Malaysia. We used the structural equation modelling technique (Amos) to evaluate the research model, and the results revealed that the residents' willingness (welcoming nature) to accept tourists is the strongest factor that effects the residents' attitudes towards supporting tourism development. However, there was no significant relationship between residents' emotional closeness and their sympathetic understanding towards tourists with their attitude and support towards tourism development. Welcoming nature, emotional closeness, and sympathetic understanding are able to predict 48% of residents' attitudes towards tourism development and 62% of their support towards tourism development.
Fulltext Binary Toxin Subunits of Lysinibacillus sphaericus Are Monomeric and Form Heterodimers after In Vitro Activation
Surya W, Chooduang S, Choong YK, Torres J, Boonserm P
The binary toxin from Lysinibacillus sphaericus has been successfully used for controlling mosquito-transmitted diseases. An activation step shortens both subunits BinA and BinB before their interaction with membranes and internalization in midgut cells, but the precise role of this activation step is unknown. Herein, we show conclusively using three orthogonal biophysical techniques that protoxin subunits form only monomers in aqueous solution. However, in vitro activated toxins readily form heterodimers. This oligomeric state did not change after incubation of these heterodimers with detergent. These results are consistent with the evidence that maximal toxicity in mosquito larvae is achieved when the two subunits, BinA and BinB, are in a 1:1 molar ratio, and directly link proteolytic activation to heterodimerization. Formation of a heterodimer must thus be necessary for subsequent steps, e.g., interaction with membranes, or with a suitable receptor in susceptible mosquito species. Lastly, despite existing similarities between BinB C-terminal domain with domains 3 and 4 of pore-forming aerolysin, no aerolysin-like SDS-resistant heptameric oligomers were observed when the activated Bin subunits were incubated in the presence of detergents or lipidic membranes.
Fulltext Amino Acid and Secondary Metabolite Production in Embryogenic and Non-Embryogenic Callus of Fingerroot Ginger (Boesenbergia rotunda)
Ng TL, Karim R, Tan YS, Teh HF, Danial AD, Ho LS, et al.
Interest in the medicinal properties of secondary metabolites of Boesenbergia rotunda (fingerroot ginger) has led to investigations into tissue culture of this plant. In this study, we profiled its primary and secondary metabolites, as well as hormones of embryogenic and non-embryogenic (dry and watery) callus and shoot base, Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry together with histological characterization. Metabolite profiling showed relatively higher levels of glutamine, arginine and lysine in embryogenic callus than in dry and watery calli, while shoot base tissue showed an intermediate level of primary metabolites. For the five secondary metabolites analyzed (ie. panduratin, pinocembrin, pinostrobin, cardamonin and alpinetin), shoot base had the highest concentrations, followed by watery, dry and embryogenic calli. Furthermore, intracellular auxin levels were found to decrease from dry to watery calli, followed by shoot base and finally embryogenic calli. Our morphological observations showed the presence of fibrils on the cell surface of embryogenic callus while diphenylboric acid 2-aminoethylester staining indicated the presence of flavonoids in both dry and embryogenic calli. Periodic acid-Schiff staining showed that shoot base and dry and embryogenic calli contained starch reserves while none were found in watery callus. This study identified several primary metabolites that could be used as markers of embryogenic cells in B. rotunda, while secondary metabolite analysis indicated that biosynthesis pathways of these important metabolites may not be active in callus and embryogenic tissue.
Fulltext Dengue in Malaysia: Factors Associated with Dengue Mortality from a National Registry
Liew SM, Khoo EM, Ho BK, Lee YK, Omar M, Ayadurai V, et al.
BACKGROUND: The increasing incidence and geographical distribution of dengue has had significant impact on global healthcare services and resources. This study aimed to determine the factors associated with dengue-related mortality in a cohort of Malaysian patients.
METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients in the Malaysian National Dengue Registry of 2013. The outcome measure was dengue-related mortality. Associations between sociodemographic and clinical variables with the outcome were analysed using multivariate analysis.
RESULTS: There were 43 347 cases of which 13081 were serologically confirmed. The mean age was 30.0 years (SD 15.7); 60.2% were male. The incidence of dengue increased towards the later part of the calendar year. There were 92 probable dengue mortalities, of which 41 were serologically confirmed. Multivariate analysis in those with positive serology showed that increasing age (OR 1.03; CI:1.01-1.05), persistent vomiting (OR 13.34; CI: 1.92-92.95), bleeding (OR 5.84; CI 2.17-15.70) and severe plasma leakage (OR 66.68; CI: 9.13-487.23) were associated with mortality. Factors associated with probable dengue mortality were increasing age (OR 1.04; CI:1.03-1.06), female gender (OR 1.53; CI:1.01-2.33), nausea and/or vomiting (OR 1.80; CI:1.17-2.77), bleeding (OR 3.01; CI:1.29-7.04), lethargy and/or restlessness (OR 5.97; CI:2.26-15.78), severe plasma leakage (OR 14.72; CI:1.54-140.70), and shock (OR 1805.37; CI:125.44-25982.98), in the overall study population.
CONCLUSIONS: Older persons and those with persistent vomiting, bleeding or severe plasma leakage, which were associated with mortality, at notification should be monitored closely and referred early if indicated. Doctors and primary care practitioners need to detect patients with dengue early before they develop these severe signs and symptoms.
Fulltext Physical Activity and Its Correlates among Adults in Malaysia: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study
Cai Lian T, Bonn G, Si Han Y, Chin Choo Y, Chee Piau W
Obesity and rates of non-communicable diseases linked to physical inactivity have increased dramatically in Malaysia over the past 20 years. Malaysia has also been identified as one of the least physically active countries in the world with over 60% of adults being essentially sedentary. This study examines the relationship of socio-demographic factors to physical activity among 770 adults from 3 Malaysian states. Physical activity levels were significantly related to ethnicity, gender, age, occupation and educational level. Controlling for inter-relationships among these variables; age, gender, Chinese ethnicity and education level were found to have unique effects on total physical activity, as well as moderate and vigorous exercise. As would be expected, younger people were more physically active, engaging more in both moderate and vigorous types of exercise and males were generally more active than females. Contrary to findings from many developed countries, however, more educated Malaysians were less likely to engage in all types of physical activity. Ethnic Chinese participants, and to a lesser degree Indians also consistently reported lower levels of activity. Possible intervention strategies are discussed that specifically target ethnic and cultural norms related to physical activity. Future research programs exploring barriers to participation and perceptions of physical activity, as well as programs to encourage active life styles among youths are also suggested.
Fulltext Influence of Pyrolysis Temperature on Physico-Chemical Properties of Corn Stover (Zea mays L.) Biochar and Feasibility for Carbon Capture and Energy Balance
Rafiq MK, Bachmann RT, Rafiq MT, Shang Z, Joseph S, Long R
This study examined the influence of pyrolysis temperature on biochar characteristics and evaluated its suitability for carbon capture and energy production. Biochar was produced from corn stover using slow pyrolysis at 300, 400 and 500°C and 2 hrs holding time. The experimental biochars were characterized by elemental analysis, BET, FTIR, TGA/DTA, NMR (C-13). Higher heating value (HHV) of feedstock and biochars was measured using bomb calorimeter. Results show that carbon content of corn stover biochar increased from 45.5% to 64.5%, with increasing pyrolysis temperatures. A decrease in H:C and O:C ratios as well as volatile matter, coupled with increase in the concentration of aromatic carbon in the biochar as determined by FTIR and NMR (C-13) demonstrates a higher biochar carbon stability at 500°C. It was estimated that corn stover pyrolysed at 500°C could provide of 10.12 MJ/kg thermal energy. Pyrolysis is therefore a potential technology with its carbon-negative, energy positive and soil amendment benefits thus creating win- win scenario.
Fulltext Perceptions of Scholars in the Field of Economics on Co-Authorship Associations: Evidence from an International Survey
Kumar S, Ratnavelu K
Scholars (n = 580) from 69 countries who had contributed articles in the field of Economics during the year 2015 participated in a survey that gauged their perceptions of various aspects of co-authorship, including its benefits, motivations, working relationships, order of authorship and association preferences. Among the main findings, significant differences emerged in the proportion of co-authored papers based on age, gender and number of years the researchers had spent in their present institution. Female scholars had a greater proportion of co-authored papers than male scholars. Respondents considered improved quality of paper, contribution of mutual expertise, and division of labor as the biggest benefits of and motivation for co-authorship. Contrary to common perceptions that Economics researchers used a predominantly alphabetical order of authorship, our study found that a considerable percentage of respondents (34.5%) had practiced an order of authorship based on the significance of the authors' contribution to the work. The relative importance of tasks differed significantly according to whether researchers co-authored as mentors or co-authored as colleagues. Lastly, researchers were found to associate, to varying degrees, with other researchers based on socio-academic parameters, such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, professional position and friendship. The study indicates that Economics authors perceive co-authorship as a rewarding endeavor. Nonetheless, the level of contribution and even the choice of association itself as a co-author depends to a great extent on the type of working relationship and socio-academic factors.
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Mr A Tshezi
Campus Manager
Ms Masilela EN
SES - Fundamentals
Ms Sibanyoni SS
SES- Electrical Engineering
Mpondozankomo campus was established in the year 1980 operating by the name of Mpondozankomo (a Nguni coinage of two words “Mpondo and Nkomo” that could loosely be translated into an English phrase “cow horns”) Technical College. In 1980 the college was housed at the premises of the current Highveld Steel Company which is about 15KM from the current location with about 80 students enrolled for engineering studies. Due to the increase in student numbers, the college had to be moved over to occupy the premises of the current Sibukosethu Primary School offering both Nated (N) business and engineering studies. The college subsequently moved over to its new building in 1990 at No 1 Schonland Drive, Ferrobank.
In our case, the name Mpondozankomo is metaphorical in the sense that it means at “dawn” as opposed to the earlier literal and loose translation of “cow horns”. This emanates from the facts of the past that it was dawn for black students to be trained in engineering studies with the aim of becoming artisans. In other words the initial purpose of the college was to train black students in technical skills so that they could eventually qualify as artisans.
Like many other public technical colleges of the past, Mpondozankomo Technical College was affected by the introduction of merger process whereby in 2003 had to merge with the other three colleges in the region to form one Nkangala TVET College. The current focus areas of the campus are Electrical Engineering as well as engineering and Related Design. Today the campus is enrolling about 800 students a year, on average.
Acting Campus Manager: Mr A Tshezi
Schonland Drive, Ackerville,P.Bag X7259, Witbank 1035
+27 (0) 13 699 0302/1113
www.ntc.edu.za
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Alice Cooper, B.B. King, Business, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Gordon Lightfoot, Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell, KISS, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Ron Sexsmith, Rush, The Band, The Tragically Hip January 3, 2010
Toronto’s transit of venues (or, weep not for the bop)
Veteran rock writer Nick Krewen takes a tour through defunct Toronto concert venue history – from the ’60s in Yorkville, to the subsequent decades when the action was mostly around Yonge St., to the rise and apparent decline of Queen St. W. Nick Krewen and Garnet Fraser Published on Sun Jan 03 2010 On Queen St. W., the concert scene is changing, and it’s leaving some fretful. Hard-rock hangout the Big…
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Canadian Music Week Guest Convinced Wall Street Financiers To Invest Millions In British Pop Star By Nick Krewen Special To The Star March 2, 1999 David Pullman, who’s in town Thursday (March 4) at the Western Harbor Castle to deliver a keynote address for Canadian Music Week, is more magician than musician. As managing director of The Pullman Group, he convinced stuffy Wall Street financiers to invest…
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Floria Sigismondi – OCA Grad’s Shock Rock Videos the Surreal Thing
A version of this feature appeared in The Toronto Star on Wednesday, February 5, 1997 Nick Krewen Special to the Star Wednesday, February 5, 1997 The dark, surrealistic, fantastically costumed video visions Floria Sigismondi produces are not for everyone. But they have big-name rock stars like David Bowie and Marilyn Manson beating a trail to her studio, opening the door to precious international and MTV airtime….
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Iggy Pop – Taming the bark of Naughty Little Doggie
NICK KREWEN Hamilton Spectator March 14, 1996 At one time, Iggy Pop was rock ‘n roll’s quintessential angry young man. It was a common sight at his concerts to watch Pop flail about on stage, throwing on-stage tantrums, lacerating himself with glass and lashing out at the audience. A punk prototype whose behavior later set the stage for the antics of The Sex Pistols and Richard Hell &…
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Honda Amaze Overview & Specifications
OVERVIEW ;
The company’s operations have returned back to normal and production has limped back up since. However, there has been one other deficiency in Honda’s portfolio in India – a very key ingredient for success in today’s skewed market scenario. And, that is a diesel engine in its most vital models.
Honda has always meant petrol for Indian car buyers and that hasn’t stopped them from buying cars such as the CR-V or the Accord. But with the overwhelming majority of small car buyers now choosing diesel over petrol and Honda increasingly relying on its hatches for volumes, a diesel engine in its grasp is being sorely missed. Check for Amaze price in Mumbai
Honda has had large diesel engines in its European line-up and its i-CTDi and i-DTEC engines have been around for sometime. With a plan of catering to markets like India, Honda had earlier this year showcased a small 1.6-litre diesel engine. Finally, a slightly smaller (1.5-litre) version of this diesel engine will make it to the Indian market shoehorned into the bonnet of the ‘Amaze’ – the sedan version of the Brio hatch.
EXTERIORS ;
That said, the new Amaze is now on offer with a CVT transmission, only for the petrol version though, a segment first. A facelift usually results in a younger, more appealing looking car, and of late it also includes the addition of newer features and technology. The Amaze gets exactly that. With competitors like the Maruti Suzuki Dzire and Ford Figo Aspire offering more bang for the buck, the Amaze was beginning to feel a bit dated inside out. So it gets a revised front end including a new grille and bumper, and redesigned tail lights at the back. The grille gets more chrome, like the other newer Hondas, especially the Mobilio, extending all the way to the headlights on either side. The bumper is now more muscular thanks to what look like flared nostrils at either end to house the fog lamps. The tail lights look a lot more attractive too, thanks to the new design.
INTERIORS ;
The Honda Amaze gets a major change on the inside. It gets an all new glossy black dashboard with centre console resembling the Honda City. This new dashboard gives the car a premium feel. Now, there is a new in-dash music system layout and even climate control too. A new instrument cluster too has been added to the Amaze., however the same steering wheel is retained. The new Amaze facelift comes with a similar set of features like integrated music system with bluetooth, steering mounted audio controls, dual airbags, ABS, climate control AC being some of them.
Where the Honda Amaze has an advantage over the competition, it is the rear seat space. The rear seat knee room and head room are one of the best in its segment. The Amaze with its 400 litres of boot space is one of the largest in its segment. The Amaze is a practical compact sedan and this is what works in its favour.
PERFORMANCE ;
We’re familiar with the 1.2-litre i-VTEC motor, having driven it extensively in the Brio and the Jazz. Like all modern Honda petrol engines, it is near-silent at idle and has good overall refinement. Like the Brio, it’s available with either a five-speed manual gearbox or a five-speed automatic.
The performance is similar too. Responses low down are great (better still with the automatic and its torque converter push) and it gets off the line eagerly. Unfortunately, it is let down by a weak mid-range, and you will find yourself shifting down every time you want to pick up the pace. This can be very annoying when you’re cruising on the highway, and here’s where you’ll really feel this engine’s lack of grunt. Its real strength is in its top end and it gets a second wind if you rev it beyond 4500rpm. However, here’s where things get quite noisy, and we can’t imagine too many Amaze owners will be gunning it to its redline in everyday driving. The five-speed manual is a delight to use – very light and accurate, with a compact lever and short throws. The clutch is light too, which should be helpful in traffic. The automatic gearbox is closely related to the one used in just about every automatic Honda car in India. Honda uses a CVT automatic for the Amaze (and the Brio) in Thailand, but has opted to use the five-speed torque converter in India to save on import costs. It’s a good thing they have, too, as this ’box works well with the 1.2-litre i-VTEC engine, with smooth and quick responses off the line. There’s a bit of a flat spot in the middle, however, amplified by the engine’s weak mid-range, so fluctuating your pace in stop-go traffic can result in some hesitation in the power delivery. Although the shifts themselves are quick and seamless, the gearbox doesn’t have the sharpest reactions to your throttle inputs. Punch your foot down to overtake and there’s a noticeable pause before it kicks down a gear, but once it does, it’s happy to let the engine soar all the way to its redline before shifting up.
Now, on to the 1.5 i-DTEC ‘Earth Dreams’ diesel engine, which has been derived from the larger 1.6 diesel that powers European Hondas. This made-for-India 1498cc motor is a state-of-the-art four-cylinder engine that features 16 valves and twin overhead camshafts. Honda has focussed on reducing friction and weight as far as possible, and to this effect, has worked with Idemitsu to develop a special low-friction oil just for this engine. Also, the block is all-aluminium, which reduces weight considerably, and the engine sits on liquid-filled mounts instead of standard rubber ones to minimise vibration.
Fire up this engine and what immediately becomes evident is that the great refinement that Honda cars are famous for is more down to its silent petrol engines. You will feel a shudder from the front of the car as the motor rumbles to life, before it settles down to a reasonably quiet idle. But the clatter starts as soon as you get off the line, and it never goes away. The vibrations can be felt in the pedals too. It’s like having a loud, chatty passenger in the car with you. This is a result of the engine block being made of aluminium rather than iron – the less dense material is nowhere near as good a sound and vibration insulator. It’s a bit of a sore point, but thankfully it’s the only one; in just about every other way, this engine is an absolute gem.
Set off, and you’ll notice there’s precious little turbo lag. That’s because Honda has tuned the engine and the fixed-geometry Honeywell turbocharger for better low-end response. Unlike the compact diesels we’ve become used to, it produces its power in a smooth, linear manner, rather than with a sudden burst, and it has a lot of elasticity for a diesel engine. Peak torque of 20.4kgm is produced at 1750rpm, but there’s plenty of shove right from about 1200rpm, and it pulls strongly to about 3800rpm. The power then gradually tails off till it hits a very conservative 4200rpm rev limit. In fact, this diesel engine doesn’t rev anywhere near as high as some of its competition and this is because Honda’s research has shown Indian drivers tend to upshift early. The Amaze managed an impressive 0-100kph time of 12.97sec, but we feel it could have been faster still if not for the rev lock Honda has installed in the interest of engine preservation (it will not rev past 2000rpm when the car is stationary).
The Amaze cruises quite well too, thanks to reasonably tall gearing, and the meaty torque spread makes light work of overtaking on highways. The only issue is that, even at cruising speeds, you can’t get away from the engine drone. At 120kph, the 1.5 diesel turns over at a vocal 2,800rpm
DRIVING DYNAMICS;
When you talk about ride quality, Honda cars usually have a good balance and the Amaze is no different. Honda has set up the suspension for a family car and hence the ride quality is good. The Amaze absorbs most of the craters in the road with ease without making the passengers uncomfortable. With a ground clearance of 165 mm, one would expect the Amaze to bottom out frequently, however this ‘Made for India’ car will truly surprise you. Yes, it did kiss its underbelly on a few occasions but it stayed clear more often than we would have imagined. Handling is predictive and the steering feels quite mannerly at high speeds. The Amaze is certainly not the sharpest car in its class, but it’s one which gives you a healthy dose of fun when driven on the limit.
VERDICT ;
With the launch of new rivals in the compact sedan segment, the Honda Amaze started looking old amongst the fresher lot that come with new styling and latest equipment. However, getting some drastic changes inside out, the Honda Amaze facelift now offers a much more appealing package that can fend off some of its competitors. The heavily revised interiors are a fresh breath of air but the only chink in its armour is the lack of rear parking sensors that are only available as an accessory. The updated front and rear profile get sleek design elements that give it a broader stance and makes the Amaze’s presence felt on the road. Honda has marginally increased the price but it’s worth the extra penny spent.
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Public Lecture by Victoria Harms
Victoria Harms - Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
Road to Redemption:Why West Germans Care(d) about Hungary.
17 February 2016 at 5 pm, Reading Room, Blinken OSA Archivum
Dissident writers from Hungary had enjoyed unusual popularity in West Germany since the mid-1970s. This lecture explores the West German milieu that supported critical and banned intellectuals from the 1970s until the mid-1990s. Who in West Germany supported dissidents in Eastern Europe and why? What was their political agenda and how did they benefit from supporting Hungarian dissidents? To understand this relationship across the Iron Curtain, we will focus on the intellectual biographies of Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Siegfried Unseld, the head of the Suhrkamp publishing house. They catered to a specific West German audience whose worldview had been shaped by the “Suhrkamp culture,” which so starkly contrasted with the conservatism of the 1950s. Readers had often identified with the 1968 student movement, and – leaving their youthful penchant for Third World revolutions behind – felt strongly about Germany’s historical responsibility for World War II and the Holocaust. This predisposition paved the way for the (however limited) success of a certain type of East European dissident in West Germany.
OSA Archivum / Galeria Centralis - 1051 Budapest, Arany János u. 32.
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Escaping São Paulo’s drug gangs
06/25/2012 | Ana Aranha
Marcos Lopes tells his story of reform, from being the leader of a street gang to leaving that life and reaching out to help others like him.
Afghan mothers at risk with every birth
06/14/2012 | Aunohita Mojumdar
Aunohita speaks to mothers, NGO workers and the Deputy Minister of Health in Afghanistan to examine the strains placed on women in the family – fertility, contraception and social pressures.
Kashmir’s children pay the price of conflict
06/07/2012 | Athar Parvaiz
Unexploded ordnance is a very real problem for people living in rural Kashmir. Shabir lost his brother to a discarded army shell, and has received only a very small amount in compensation for his own injuries including the loss of his leg.
Gender equality in Rwanda from the grassroots up
05/30/2012 | Didier Bikorimana
Women are rebuilding Rwanda from the grassroots to the highest tiers of parliament. Local journalist Didier speaks to grassroots leaders, university academics, schoolgirls and charity leaders to find out what has changed since 1994 and how they see their future.
Primary schooling in Kenya – a parent’s dilemma
05/15/2012 | Audrey Wabwire
This from-the-ground feature explores the impact of corruption on the education system in Kenya, hearing local perspectives from home, from school and from the NGO sector.
Afghan theatre of war comes to the stage
Emotional trauma is perhaps the single largest unreported fallout of Afghanistan’s brutal wars. This interactive theatre project aims to help the survivors cope with violence, even when facing social restrictions.
Looking back on Chile’s year of protests
05/03/2012 | João Paulo Charleaux
João Paulo Charleaux, who was based in Chile, followed the struggle of the Chilean students, covering their demonstrations, arrests, parties and endless rounds of negotiation with the government.
Blow to women’s rights in Mali
05/02/2012 | Soumaïla T Diarra
A new ‘Family Code’ law, passed earlier this year in Mali, has dashed hopes of increasing women’s rights in the strongly patriarchal West African country
Kashmir ‘paradise’ runs out of water
04/11/2012 | Faisal Raza Khan
The Kashmir mountains are a beautiful setting, but the impacts of climate change are beginning to be felt as the water seems to be drying up.
HIV: passing the test word around London
04/05/2012 | Richard Kavuma
Richard Kavuma visits with the Naz Project London and learns more about some of the obstacles faced when trying to raise awareness, understanding and prudence about HIV.
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PANOS – 25 years in news and pictures
Panos London's journalism includes the opinions and voices of people most affected by development issues - Giacomo Pirozzi / Panos Pictures
Media houses are competing to cover global events with squeezed budgets, limiting what they can report from the ground. Local journalists from developing countries can fill that gap while offering a new perspective on international reporting that not only informs but brokers positive change. After 25 years, it’s time to open the door to developing country journalists, Panos London said today.
International news reports offer a glimpse into what is happening in developing countries but the voices of people most affected by development issues often go unheard. Panos London believes that the views of poor and marginalised people are required to give greater insight into their lives and offer unique perspectives on the challenges they face. Journalists from developing countries offer a local context for global stories as they can reach remote places to interview hard to reach communities.
Since its official origins in 1986 through Earthscan and Gemini News, Panos London has worked on producing original, high quality journalism about life in developing countries that includes the opinions and voices of people most affected by some of the most pressing development issues: climate change, HIV and AIDS, global trade and finance, food security, migration and conflict.
For 25 years, along with the rest of the Panos Network, Panos London has been working with the media and other communicators to foster debate on under-reported, misrepresented or misunderstood development issues.
Panos London Executive Director, Mark Wilson, said:
“Given the media remains the public’s primary source of information about world affairs, its role is crucial in building understanding about the critical issues facing people in developing countries. Our philosophy is to ensure that journalists play their part in creating content that informs and represents the voices of people who often go unheard.
“We have had 25 years of supporting media in the developing world to produce quality content that generates critical debates and change. Our journalists go where western journalists rarely venture, asking officials questions that more often represent the concerns of a local community. The future will see reporting and analysis from journalists in the South on a par with regional correspondents of national papers, offering opinion, analysis and a fresh and honest global viewpoint.”
Panos London has worked with hundreds of journalists around the world through mentoring and fellowships to ensure they have the technical knowledge on development topics and editorial skills to write high quality content for local and international audiences.
Aunohita Mojumdar, journalist (Afghanistan), said:
“As a journalist based in Kabul I have always felt the need for more regional voices reporting from the region to bring perspectives that are not always easily accessible to a wider western audience. While Panos London helped place my stories in the initial phase, I am now able to connect directly with some of the media I have been introduced to and interest them in my work.”
The charity has equipped journalists with technical knowledge through fellowships offered by the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) with Internews and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The CCMP has been running for four years, enabling 40 journalists to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference each year.
The Linking Southern Journalists to European Media project, now in its final year, has helped equip developing country journalists to write for European audiences through mentoring and direct commissioning from national newspaper editors in the UK, Sweden, Poland and Spain. The project has successfully published features by developing country journalists through its work with partners such as The Independent and The Guardian in the UK, Svenksa Dagbladet in Sweden, El Mundo in Spain and Gazeta in Poland.
Panos London also recognises the valuable role and need for photojournalism, offering the development community and media access to visual stories about people around the world without prejudice.
Panos Pictures, a commercial entity, was born out the photo archive of Panos London in 1986 and is now a globally recognised brand representing 100 photojournalists. It has just added six more photographers after a recent global call for new talent.
Its 25th year has seen Panos photographers win an unprecedented seven World Press Photo awards, a huge achievement for a small independent photo agency in an era of consolidation among big picture libraries.
Adrian Evans, Director of Panos Pictures, said:
“We believe in the photography of ideas. Not content with merely witnessing, Panos photographers seek out stories that matter with the aim of interpreting rather than simply recording. We are not afraid to take a position on current events or contemporary issues and offer perspectives that challenge commonly held assumptions. We are delighted to have come this far and will continue to move with the industry by becoming a full range visual communications agency, taking people on a journey they didn’t originally anticipate.”
A percentage of the annual profits from Panos Pictures is given to Panos London (which part owns the photo agency) to further its work in advocacy and media capacity building.
Panos Pictures moved to the Panos London offices in Islington at 9 White Lion Street last month.
For further information contact Tia Jeewa on email tia.jeewa@panos.org.uk
Panos 25th anniversary
Panos was born in 1986 making 2011 its 25th year. The charity has been producing original, high-quality journalism about life in developing countries that includes the opinions and voices of people most affected by development issues since it first opened.
Panos London promotes the participation of poor and marginalised people in national and international development debates through media and communication projects.
www.panos.org.uk
Panos Network
The Panos Network is a dynamic global partnership of eight independent institutes held together by a common mission and set of values.
www.panos.org
Panos Pictures
Panos Pictures is a photo agency specialising in global social issues, driven by the vision and commitment of its photographers and staff. Panos is known internationally for its fresh and intelligent approach and respected for its integrity and willingness to pursue stories beyond the contemporary media agenda.
www.panos.co.uk
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Regions: Global
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OurMine hacked Vevo and leaked 3.12 TB internal files, then delete them
7.9.2017 securityaffairs CyberCrime
The notorious OurMine hacker crew has claimed responsibility for the breach of the popular video streaming service Vevo.
Another clamorous data breach made the headlines again, this time the victim is the popular video streaming service Vevo that was hacked by the popular hacking group OurMine.
Vevo is an American multinational video hosting service founded on December 8, 2009, as a joint venture between the “big three” record companies, Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Warner Music Group (WMG).
It also owned by the official media organization of the Government of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Media, and Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google Alphabet Inc.
The notorious Saudi Arabian OurMine group has hacked Vevo and leaked about 3.12 TB worth of internal files.
OurMine accessed Vevo’s data including internal sensitive office documents, videos, and promotional materials.
OurMine leaked the huge trove of data, roughly 3.12 terabytes stolen from the servers of the company, on its website on late Thursday.
Later the company removed the stolen information from the website on Vevo’s request.
OurMine group leaked data from Vevo after one of its employees was disrespectful to an OurMine member on LinkedIn.
OurMine first attempted to warn Vevo of the data breach privately, unfortunately for the company, one of its employees responded,
“F*** off, you don’t have anything,” it went public with the data breach and leaked Vevo files.
and in response, the hacker group leaked the precious files.
OurMine shared the following motivation about the hack.
“We leaked it because yesterday we’ve talked with an employee from VEVO about the leak, and that’s what he said:”
At the time I was writing, most of the links redirect to a Vevo Box.com login page, a notice states that the OurMine “deleted the files because of a request from VEVO.”
According to Gizmodo, that first reported the data breach, the “majority of the [leaked] files seemed pretty mild—weekly music charts, pre-planned social media content, and various details about the artists under the record companies’ management,” albeit a few documents contained sensitive materials.
Variety, who analyzed the stolen documents, reported that the leaked archive included notes on around 90 artists.
“The 3.12-terabyte trove of stolen documents included Vevo’s internal dossiers on about 9o artists, including Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Calvin Harris, Florida Georgia Line, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Madonna, One Direction, Sia, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, and U2.” states Variety.
OurMine did not provide details of the hack or information for how long they have been accessing the Vevo servers or whether they have accessed financial data and credentials.
Responding to Gizmodo inquiry, a Vevo spokesperson told Gizmodo that the company “can confirm that Vevo experienced a data breach as a result of a phishing scam via Linkedin. We have addressed the issue and are investigating the extent of exposure.”
OurMine hacker group recently defaced WikiLeaks website with a DNS redirect, it has also hijacked the official Twitter and Facebook accounts for Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and claimed to have stolen PSN database.
The notorious Saudi Arabian group also hacked social media accounts of HBO and Game of Thrones.
OurMine hacked the Netflix US Twitter account (@Netflix) in December to promote its website and hacking services, it is known for its attacks against high-profile Twitter accounts. The list of victims is very long and includes Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, David Guetta Daniel Ek, former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the CEO and founder of Spotify, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and many others.
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MUTE prototype displays excellent driving dynamics
For the first time, a handful of curious bystanders had the opportunity to see TU Muenchen’s new electric vehicle in test runs. But the final design of MUTE remained shrouded; it will first be revealed at the IAA in Frankfurt (15 – 25 September 2011, hall 4, C 23). The MUTE prototype is built so that it has the same driving dynamics as the final vehicle. The first test drives speak for the ingenious construction of the vehicle, which was tried and tested in numerous computer simulations. Particularly noticeable are MUTE‘s narrow tires. They minimize rolling friction, thereby extending the range of the vehicle. To ensure good cornering ability in spite of the narrow tires (115/70R16), the lateral dynamics of the vehicle were optimized by adjusting suspension, damping and axle kinematics. As a result the MUTE prototype completed the ISO Lane Change test better than a most conventional medium-sized automobiles.
A further important feature is the low weight of the vehicle. MUTE has a curb weight of only 400 kg, with another 100 kg for the batteries. “Low weight is essential for electric vehicles,” says Professor Markus Lienkamp from the Chair of Automotive Technology at TUM. “More weight requires higher battery capacity for the same range and thus generates significantly higher costs. More weight also means inferior dynamics for a given level of motor power. But what we are aiming at is an affordable car that is fun to drive.”
MUTE‘s low curb weight means that the weight of passengers and baggage cannot be ignored, which is why the ratio between the spring force and the resulting contact patch load is chosen slightly progressive. This ensures that driving comfort remains the same for both light and heavy drivers, although using springs with linear characteristic. Approaching full load the spring force in the tire contact patch increases progressively, diminishing comfort slightly to allow for sufficient residual spring travel.
The results of the first test runs are also important for the design of the active torque vectoring differential. A small electric machine integrated in the differential serves to distribute the force evenly between the two back wheels. Especially when braking in curves, twice as much energy can be recouped than without torque vectoring. This ideal distribution of propulsive force between the two back wheels makes the car much more agile and safer. As a result the driver will hardly notice any reduction in lateral dynamics caused by the narrow width of the tires.
Whenever possible, MUTE brakes by using the electric motor as a generator. The recovered energy is then fed back into the battery. When more braking power is needed, the electronic stability control (ESC) also activates the disc brakes on the front wheels.
“MUTE achieves a high level of safety through ESC and torque vectoring,” says Michael Graf, who designed the driving dynamics parameters and subsequently did the test drives. “MUTE falls into the top 25 percent of existing medium-sized vehicles when it comes to driving dynamics and is absolutely easy to handle.” Even load reversal in curves does not impede safe handling of the vehicle – oversteering is easy to compensate. “Our practical tests show that MUTE outperforms theoretical forecasts,” he adds proudly.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Pulitzer Center Land Rights Documentaries Screen at DC Environmental Film Festival
March 26, 2018 | General news, Project news
Steve Sapienza and Jin Ding
Filmmaker Kathryn Carlson in the Q&A discussion. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2018.
Todd Wiseman and Kiah Collier speak about their project The Taking. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2018.
Pulitzer Center land rights documentaries scren at DC EFF. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2018.
Pulitzer Center Senior Producer Steve Sapienza speaks after the screening. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2018.
Astrid Zweynert, managing editor of PLACE, in the Q&A discussion. Image by Jin Ding. United States, 2018.
March 22, 2018— The 2018 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital featured Pulitzer Center-supported journalists and filmmakers who reported on land and property rights issues using visual storytelling. 250 people attended the event, hosted at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer kicked off the evening, which marked the ninth year that the Pulitzer Center has presented a documentary program at the festival to shine light on critical global issues that are too often ignored.
"Who Owns the Land?" was presented in collaboration with the Omidyar Network and featured five short documentaries by filmmakers and journalists Kathyrn Carlson and Amy Toensing, Todd Wiseman and Kia Collier, Steve Sapienza, Dylan Williams, and Nicky Milne.
These five documentaries explore the intersection of property rights with environmental and social issues and were followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and journalists.
The challenges of reporting property rights stories were discussed by the panelists, with Astrid Zweynert of Thomson Reuters PLACE speaking to the difficulty of reporting on companies involved in land grabs: “It's very hard to get stories out of them, about what their attitude to respecting land rights is. Mostly when there's a clash, when there's a big land deal struck, and there are violent evictions. And then companies sometimes feel compelled to say something about their attitude, because they feel under pressure, and their reputation is at risk.”
The challenge in reporting a property rights story for the Texas Tribune’s Todd Wiseman was in transforming dry land documents into compelling characters. “It's really easy to miss that there might be a story there, or that there was a real human being there, a real family that was forced to endure this process," Wiseman said. "So that's what was the challenge for me, is to get down there and bring that statistic to life.”
Filmmaker Kathryn Carlson, who partnered with Amy Toensing to produce a film about Ugandan widows and property rights for National Geographic, sought to explore the “weird intersection of where the cultural traditions of widows and property rights, directly contradict the constitutional law of [Uganda].”
If you missed the event on Thursday, March 22, 2018, you can view the short documentaries below. A transcript of the discussion is available as an attachment at the end of this post.
Documentary titles and synopses:
The Taking: Oklahoma Avenue | Todd Wiseman for The Texas Tribune and ProPublica | RT: 8:19
More than a decade ago, the federal government began taking private property for a border fence in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. This film is part of “The Taking,” a Pulitzer Center-funded investigative series that revealed landowners who were paid unevenly – different amounts of money for similar plots of land.
To view the full interactive multimedia project in collaboration with the Texas Tribune and ProPublica, click here.
In Barbuda, Residents Worry Communal Ownership Will Disappear | Steve Sapienza and Gregory Scruggs | RT: 6:07
This PBS NewsHour story explores how, following Hurricane Irma's destruction, some Barbudan residents are worried that communal land ownership laws on the island are being changed in the interest of developers.
Green at What Price? | Nicky Milne for Thomson Reuters Foundation | RT: 18:39
This film explores a Ugandan government land deal with a Norwegian company and reveals one simple truth: land acquisitions for growth and development can compromise the livelihoods of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
A Widow’s Torment | Amy Toensing and Kathryn Carlson for National Geographic | RT: 10:17
When a Ugandan woman’s husband dies, so may her rights. Her rights to her land, her children, and her freedom are ingrained in the constitution, but are largely ignored by her culture.
Thorn in the Side | Dylan Williams for ARTE Television | RT: 11:25
Born in Malaysian Borneo, journalist Clare Rewcastle has dedicated herself to investigating corruption that has stripped the country of its natural resources. This film depicts her role in unveiling the ”World’s Largest Financial Scandal.” This film will air on ARTE in May of 2018.
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This Pulitzer Center Update is a part of:
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Steve Sapienza
Pulitzer Center staff
Steve Sapienza is an experienced news and documentary producer who has covered a wide range of human security stories in dozens of countries, including the HIV crisis in Haiti and the Dominican...
Todd Wiseman
Todd Wiseman previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned for director Richard Linklater. At the Texas Tribune, Todd has helped develop the "Stump...
Amy Toensing
Amy Toensing, an American photojournalist committed to telling stories with sensitivity and depth, is known for her intimate essays about the lives of ordinary people. Toensing has been a regular...
Dylan Williams
Dylan Williams has wide experience of work as both producer and director on international feature documentaries. He started his career in Visual Anthropology before migrating to work on networks such...
Jin Ding
Jin joined the Pulitzer Center team in 2014 with focuses on marketing, diversity outreach, impact research, event planning, and graphic design. In a past life, she worked for NBC Sports as a nation-...
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Items where IIASA Author is "Uryasev, Stanislav"
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Uryasev, S. (1995). Derivatives of probability functions and some applications. Annals of Operations Research 56 (1): 287-311. DOI:10.1007/BF02031712.
Uryas'ev, S. (1994). Derivatives of probability functions and integrals over sets given by inequalities. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 56 (1-2): 197-223. DOI:10.1016/0377-0427(94)90388-3.
Uryas'ev, S. & Vallerga, H. (1993). Optimization of test strategies: a general approach. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 41 (2): 155-165. DOI:10.1016/0951-8320(93)90028-W.
Uryasev, S.P. (1992). A stochastic quasigradient algorithm with variable metric. Annals of Operations Research 39 (1): 251-267. DOI:10.1007/BF02060944.
Uryasev, S. (1991). New variable-metric algorithms for nondifferentiable optimization problems. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 71 (2): 359-388. DOI:10.1007/BF00939925.
Sandblom, C.L. & Uryasev, S. (1989). Direct Gradient Approaches for Optimizing Smooth, Nonsmooth and Stochastic Dynamic Economic Systems. IFAC Proceedings Volumes 22 (5): 139-143. DOI:10.1016/S1474-6670(17)53443-6.
Ermoliev, Y. & Uryasev, S.P. (1982). Nash equilibrium in n-person games. Cybernetics and Systems Analysis 18 (3): 367-372. DOI:10.1007/BF01069765.
Ermoliev, Y.M., Uryasev, S.P. & Wessels, J. (2000). On optimization of unreliable material flow systems. In: Probabilistic Constrained Optimization: Methodology and Applications. Eds. Uryasev, S.P., Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-6644-1
Uryasev, S. (1990). Adaptive variable metric methods for nondifferentiable optimization problems. In: Analysis and Optimization of Systes. pp. 432-441 Germany: Springer Berlin/Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-47085-4 DOI:10.1007/BFb0120066.
Sandblom, C.-L. & Uryas'ev, S.P. (1990). Direct gradient approaches for optimizing smooth, nonsmoooth and stochastic dynamic economic systems. In: Dynamic Modelling and Control of National Economies 1989. Eds. Christodoulakis, N.M., pp. 139-143 Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press. ISBN 978-0-08-037538-0 DOI:10.1016/B978-0-08-037538-0.50027-7.
Ermoliev, Y.M., Uryasev, S.P. & Wessels, J. (1992). On Optimization of Dynamical Material Flow Systems Using Simulation. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-92-076
Uryasev, S.P. (1991). Differentiation Formula for Integrals over Sets Given by Inequalities. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-91-038
Pulkkinen, U. & Uryasev, S.P. (1991). Optimal Operational Strategies for an Inspected Component - Solution Techniques. IIASA Collaborative Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: CP-91-013
Pulkkinen, U. & Uryasev, S.P. (1990). Optimal Operational Strategies for an Inspected Component - Statement of the Problem. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-90-062
Schoepp, W. & Uryasev, S.P. (1990). On the Optimization Model for Acid Loads on Forest Soils. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-90-037
Uryasev, S.P. & Valerga, H. (1990). Using Probabilistic Safety Analysis (PSA) to Optimize Operation Schedules. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-90-030
Uryasev, S.P. (1989). A Stochastic Quasigradient Algorithm with Variable Metric. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-89-098
Roenko, N., Loskutov, V. & Uryasev, S.P. (1989). Stochastic Nonlinear Programming System. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-89-075
Uryasev, S.P. (1988). Adaptive Variable Metric Algorithms for Generalized Equations. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-88-107
Uryasev, S.P. (1988). Adaptive Variable Metric Algorithms for Nonsmooth Optimization Problems. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-88-060
Uryasev, S.P. (1988). Differentiation Formula for Integrals Over Sets Given by Inclusion. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-88-059
Uryasev, S.P. (1987). On the Anti-Monotonicity of Differential Mappings Connected with General Equilibrium Problem. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-87-006
Uryasev, S.P. & Kutliev, G.K. (1987). Parameters Calculation of Solar- and Wind-Electric Water Lifting Systems. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-87-007
Uryasev, S.P. (1986). Stochastic Quasi-Gradient Algorithms with Adaptively Controlled Parameters. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-86-032
Ermoliev, Y. (1990). Adaptive Algorithms in Stochastic Optimization and Game Theory. Moscow: Nauka. ISBN 5020142611
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i) Second class Bachelors Degree's with 50 per cent marks.
ii) Bachelors Degree with Diploma in Library Science
iii) Bachelors Degree with two years of working experience in a Library & Information Centre
iv) Bachelors Degree in a Professional area such as Engineering, Pharmacy, Law etc
In response to the demand for a large number of trained personnel in libraries, documentation and information centres, the University launched its Bachelors Degree in Library and Information Science Programme (BLISC) in 1989.
To keep pace with the changing dimension of the subject, particularly in relation to the application of Information Technology (IT), the programme has been completely revised in 2000. The Hindi version of the Programme was launched in 2003.
CourseCode Course Name Credits
BLIS-01 Library and Society 4
BLIS-02 Library Management(BLIS-02) 4
BLIS-03 Library Classification Theory(BLIS-03) 4
BLIS-03P Library Classification Practice(BLIS-03P) 4
BLIS-04 Library Cataloguing Theory(BLIS-04) 4
BLIS-04P Library Cataloguing Practice(BLIS-04P) 4
BLIS-05 Reference and Information Sources(BLIS-05) 4
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The examination relating to BLISC-Degree has two components
Continuous evaluation thirty percent
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Continuous evaluation is related to the assignments that each student has to submit before being declared eligible to appear for the terminal examination. There will be one assignment each in all the courses. The evaluation of the performance of the student in Tutor Marked Assignments will be done by the counsellors and marks will be awarded to each student.
A student of BLIS Programme is required to secure a minimum of forty percent marks in continuous evaluation of a course and forty percent in Term End Examination of that course separately in order to become eligible for award of Bachelor's Degree in Library and Information Science. In BLIS-07, a student is required to secure a minimum of forty percent in practical as well as in theory assignments to quality for the award.
On the basis of the aggregate marks obtained in all the courses (theory and practicals) the division will be awarded as under:
60% and above
Practical examination of three hours duration will be conducted in Library Classification and Library Cataloguing Courses (03P and 04P)
Candidates who obtain marks belowforty percent or who miss to attend the terminal examination may appear at the subsequent terminal examination and complete the programme.
This facility will be available to the students until he/she secures a pass percentage in all subject (papers) he/she missed earlier. But, the maximum period provided for a student to complete the Bachelor Degree Programme in Library and Information Science is four year from the date of his/her registration into the Programme. In case a student is not able to secure the pass percentage in four year, he/she has to re-register as a fresh candidate, in case he/she wants to pursue the Programme.
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Tag Archives: The Alex Jones Show Podcast
Apple, YouTube, and Facebook Removed Alex Jones’ Content
August 7, 2018 Podcast NewsApple, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, Google, Stitcher, The Alex Jones Show Podcast, YouTubeJen Thorpe
Last week, Spotify deleted several episodes of The Alex Jones Podcast. The reason was because that content violated Spotify’s hate content policy. Stitcher removed Alex Jones’ podcasts on August 2, 2018. Apple, Facebook, and YouTube have followed with their own bans.
Buzzfeed News reported that Apple removed the entire library for five of Infowars’ six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcasts Apps. Among them were War Room and Alex Jones Show.
Buzzfeed reported a statement from Apple that said:
“Apple does not tolerate hate speech, and we have clear guidelines that creators and developers must follow to ensure we provide a safe environment for all of our users. Podcast that violate these guidelines are removed from our directory making them no longer searchable or available for download or streaming. We believe in representing a wide range of views, so long as people are respectful to those with differing opinions.”
CNBC reported that YouTube, which is owned by Google, has removed the Alex Jones Channel.
CNBC reported that Google said in a statement regarding the removal of the page: “All users agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines when they sign up to use YouTube. When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts.”
Facebook provided information about why they removed four videos on four Alex Jones Facebook pages in a newsroom post titled: “Enforcing Our Community Standards”.
It starts with: “We believe in giving people a voice, but we also want everyone using Facebook to feel safe. It’s why we have Community Standards and remove anything that violates them, including hate speech that attacks or dehumanizes others. Earlier today, we removed four Pages belonging to Alex Jones for repeatedly posting content over the past several days that breaks those Community Standards.”
Toward the end of the post, Facebook said: “As a result of reports we received, last week, we removed videos on four Facebook Pages for violating our hate speech and bullying policies. These pages were the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the InfoWars Page, and the InfoWars Nightly News page. In addition, one of the admins of these Pages – Alex Jones – was placed in a 30-day block for his role in posting violating content to these Pages.”
Facebook also removed more content from the same pages that had been reported to them. Facebook took it down for glorifying violence, which violates Facebook’s graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describes people who are transgender, Muslims, and immigrants, which violates their hate speech policies.
On August 2, 2018, Stitcher posted a tweet that said: “Thanks for your note. We have reviewed Alex Jones’ podcasts and found he has, on multiple occasions, harassed or allowed harassment of private individuals and organizations, (1/2)”
Stitcher followed that with a second tweet: “and that harassment has led listeners of the show to engage in similar harassment and other damaging activity. Therefore, we have decided to remove his podcasts from the Stitcher platform.”
Spotify Removed Some Episodes of The Alex Jones Show Podcast
August 2, 2018 Podcast NewsSpotify, The Alex Jones Show PodcastJen Thorpe
Spotify has a policy regarding Hate Content. In May of 2018, Spotify removed two music artists from the Spotify editorial or algorithmic playlists because Spotify felt that those artists had violated the Hate Conduct policy. Now, Spotify has removed some episodes of The Alex Jones Show podcast.
Variety reported that Spotify had deleted several episodes of the podcast hosted by Alex Jones. He is the founder of InfoWars (which Variety describes as a “conspiracy-theory site”.)
To be clear, Spotify did not remove all episodes of The Alex Jones Show podcast. Variety reported that Spotify “continues to offer dozens of episodes of Jones’ podcast on the service, dating back to at least June 2017.” This situation is similar to that of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion whose music was removed from Spotify owned and operated playlists.
Later, Pitchfork reported that Spotify clarified its Hate Content and Hateful Conduct Policy. According to Pitchfork, at least one of XXXTentacion’s songs had reappeared Spotify’s RapCaviar playlist.
Spotify’s policy update (which was posted by Spotify on June 1, 2018) includes the following: “Spotify does not permit content whose principal purpose is to incite hatred or violence against people because of their race, religion, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation. As we’ve done before, we will remove content that violates that standard. We’re not talking about offensive, explicit, or vulgar content – we’re talking about hate speech.”
Rolling Stone reported that Spotify said that Alex Jones was in violation of its policy that bans hate speech. Spotify was quoted as saying: “We take reports of hate content seriously and review any podcast episode or song that is flagged by our community. Spotify can confirm it has removed specific episodes of The Alex Jones Show podcast for violating our hate content policy.”
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EUA: os Bispos católicos e Obama
Abp Chaput on voting for Obama: ‘I certainly can’t vote for somebody who’s pro-choice’
by Patrick B. Craine
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the November general election approaches, America’s Catholic bishops have been walking a fine line as they strive to avoid appearances of partisanship while at the same time they wage a high-profile battle against the Obama administration over religious freedom.
Earlier this month, one of the leading lights in the U.S. episcopate insisted he “certainly” could not vote for Obama, while not specifically endorsing his Republic opponent Mitt Romney.
Asked whether a Catholic could vote for Obama in good faith, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia replied: “I can only speak in terms of my own personal views. I certainly can’t vote for somebody who’s either pro-choice or pro-abortion.”
In a wide-ranging interview with John Allen, Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter, published Friday, the archbishop drew a sharp distinction between a candidate’s “prudential judgments” about how we care for the poor, and his position on an intrinsic evil like abortion.
Responding to concerns over the budget proposed by Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, which some Catholic bishops and other critics had called immoral because it cut programs to the poor, the archbishop pointed out that people of good faith can legitimately disagree over the role of government in providing aid to the poor.
“Jesus tells us very clearly that if we don’t help the poor, we’re going to go to hell,” he insisted. “But Jesus didn’t say the government has to take care of them, or that we have to pay taxes to take care of them. Those are prudential judgments.”
“You can’t say that somebody’s not Christian because they want to limit taxation,” he continued. “To say that it’s somehow intrinsically evil like abortion doesn’t make any sense at all.”
The archbishop, while noting he is a registered independent, said he has “deep personal concerns about any party that supports changing the definition of marriage, supports abortion in all circumstances, wants to restrict the traditional understanding of religious freedom.”
Chaput also said the bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom campaign in the summer was a success in raising greater awareness among Catholics about the grave threat to religious freedom facing America.
“The history of the world demonstrates that if we aren’t always on guard about religious freedom, we’ll lose it. It happens everywhere, and it could happen in the
United States,” he observed.
“I would never have thought, even ten years ago, that we would be dealing with it so quickly,” he added.
On the HHS mandate, Chaput said he “can’t imagine” the courts would not overturn it. “If we don’t win, I’ll be astonished, and I’ll be even more worried about the future of religious freedom in our country,” he said.
“Those who oppose us on the mandates are very insistent. I thought they would back down by now, but they haven’t,” he continued. “We have to fight as vigorously in opposing them as they are in imposing them. Who’s going to win? I don’t know. It will be whoever fights the hardest and wins the hearts and minds of the people.”
Read the full interview at the National Catholic Reporter.
Etiquetas: América, Archbishop Charles Chaput, Bispos, catolicos e política, eleições presidenciais, EUA, liberdade religiosa, Mitt Romney, National Catholic Reporter, Obama, presidenciais USA
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Marine Fisheries - News Release Archives - May 2012
News Release Archives - May 2012
Release: Immediate
Contact: Sustainable Fisheries
Phone: 727-824-5305; FAX 727-824-5308
Recreational Harvest of Golden Tilefish in the South Atlantic Waters is Closing on June 8, 2012
Recreational harvest of golden tilefish in the South Atlantic waters will close, at 12:01 a.m. (local time) June 8, 2012. Recreational harvest will reopen at 12:01 a.m. (local time) on January 1, 2013. The 2012 recreational catch limit is 1,578 fish. The accountability measure for golden tilefish requires that the 2012 fishing season be shortened if the average 2010 and 2011 recreational landings exceed the annual catch limit. Reports indicate the average 2010 and 2011 landings exceeded the annual catch limit; therefore, the recreational harvest of golden tilefish should close as soon as possible.
During the closure:
Recreational harvest or possession of golden tilefish is prohibited.
The closure applies in both state and federal waters for vessels which have a valid charter/headboat permit for South Atlantic Snapper-Grouper.
This closure is necessary to protect the golden tilefish resource. Currently, there is a regulatory amendment under review which could result in an increase to the annual catch limit for golden tilefish in coming years.
Commercial harvest of golden tilefish for the 2012 fishing year closed on February 17, 2012. Therefore, all harvest of golden tilefish is prohibited in South Atlantic waters until January 1, 2013.
This bulletin provides only a summary of the existing regulations. Full regulations can be found in the Federal Register.
FB12-039
Contact: Tina Berger
This release revises New Jersey’s public hearing date from July 11 to July 12.
States Schedule Hearings on Black Drum Public Information Document
Arlington, Va. — The States of New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina and the Commonwealth of Virginia have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on the Public Information Document (PID) to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Black Drum. The PID provides the public an opportunity to submit input on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's development of a Black Drum FMP. Public comment is being solicited on changes observed in the fishery; actions to be taken in terms of management, enforcement, and research; and any other concerns about the resource or fishery. The dates, times, and locations of the scheduled meetings follow.
New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
July 12, 2012; 7 p.m.
Galloway Township Branch of the
Atlantic County Library
306 East Jimmie Leeds Road
Galloway, NJ
Contact: Russ Allen at 609-748-2020
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
June 12, 2012; 7 p.m.
DNREC Auditorium
89 Kings Highway
Contact: Stewart Michels at 302-739-9914
Virginia Marine Resources Commission
VMRC Conference Room
2600 Washington Avenue, 4th Floor
Contact: Rob O’Reilly at 757-247-2248
North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries
July 9, 2012; 6 p.m.
Central District Office
5285 U.S. Highway 70 West
Morehead City, NC
Contact: Chris Stewart at 910-796-7370
The Commission's South Atlantic State-Federal Fisheries Management Board approved the PID to the Black Drum FMP for public review and comment in May. As the first step in the development of the FMP, the PID presents the current status of the fishery and resource, and solicits public input on all aspects of the fishery and the resource. The FMP is being initiated in response to concern regarding significant increases in harvest in recent years and the fact that the fishery primarily targets juveniles. The Commission is also moving forward with conducting the first coastwide assessment of this species.
The assessment will be developed concurrently with the FMP to support establishment of the interstate management program
Fishermen and other interested groups are encouraged to provide input on the PID either by attending public hearings or providing written comments. The PID can be obtained via the Commission’s website at www.asmfc.org under "Breaking News" or by contacting the Commission at 703-842-0740. Public comment will be accepted until 5 p.m. (EST) on July 25, 2012 and should be forwarded to Danielle Chesky, FMP Coordinator, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1050 N. Highland St, Suite 200A-N, Arlington, VA 22201; 703-842-0741 (FAX) or at dchesky@asmfc.org (Subject line: Black Drum PID). For more information, please contact Danielle Chesky at dchesky@asmfc.org or 703-842-0740.
PR12-31a
Fishermen and other interested groups are encouraged to provide input on the PID either by attending public hearings or providing written comments. The PID can be obtained via the Commission's website at www.asmfc.org under "Breaking News" or by contacting the Commission at 703.842.0740. Public comment will be accepted until 5 p.m. (EST) on July 25, 2012 and should be forwarded to Danielle Chesky, FMP Coordinator, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1050 N. Highland St, Suite 200A-N, Arlington, VA 22201; 703-842-0741 (FAX) or at dchesky@asmfc.org (Subject line: Black Drum PID). For more information, please contact Danielle Chesky at dchesky@asmfc.org or 703-842-0740.
PR12-31
States Schedule Public Hearings on Atlantic Striped Bass Addendum III
Arlington, Va. — Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts through North Carolina have scheduled their hearings to gather public comment on Draft Addendum III to Amendment 6 to the Atlantic Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan. The dates, times, and locations of the scheduled meetings follow.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
June 5, 2012; 7 p.m.
Contact: Nichola Meserve at 617-626-1531
Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife
URI Narragansett Bay Campus
Corless Auditorium
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI
Contact: Nicole Travisono at 401-423-1940
New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation
NYSDEC Bureau of Marine Resources
205 N Belle Mead Road, Suite 1
East Setauket, NY
Contact: James Gilmore at 631-444-0430
Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Contact: John Clark at 302-739-9914
Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources
Maryland DNR Fisheries Service
580 Taylor Avenue
Contact: Mike Luisi at 410-260-8341
Fourth Floor Conference Room
Dare County Administrative Building
Dare County Commissioners Meeting Room
954 Marshall C. Collins Drive
Manteo, NC
Contact: Kathy Rawls at 252-264-3911
The Draft Addendum proposes implementing a mandatory commercial tagging program for all states or jurisdictions with commercial striped bass fisheries and increasing penalties for illegally harvested fish. These options are intended to help prevent commercial striped bass quota overages and the illegal harvest of striped bass; both of which have the potential to undermine the sustainability of striped bass populations, as well as reduce the economic opportunities of commercial fishermen who are legally participating in the fishery. Options under consideration in the implementation of a tagging program include increased accounting of unused tags, timely reporting of catch, the point at which tagging must occur, standardization of tag type, and development of biological metrics for determining state/jurisdiction tag quantity.
The Draft Addendum responds to recommendations of the Interstate Watershed Task Force (IWTF). The IWTF conducted a multi-year, multi-jurisdictional investigation on illegal commercial striped bass harvest within Chesapeake Bay which resulted in over $1.6 million dollars in fines levied against 19 individuals and three corporations for more than one million pounds of illegal striped bass harvested estimated to be worth up to seven million dollars. The investigation revealed that some of the control measures in place for regulating the harvest of striped bass were ineffective or inadequately designed to maximize compliance. The investigation also found that greater accountability of wholesalers would be difficult to achieve without uniform tags (colors, design) and tagging requirements, valid year and size limits inscribed on tags, and increased dealer compliance education.
Fishermen and other interested groups are encouraged to provide input on the Draft Addendum either by attending state public hearings or providing written comment. The Draft Addendum is available on the Commission website (www.asmfc.org) under "Breaking News" or by contacting the Commission at 703-842-0740. Public comment will be accepted until 5:00 p.m. (EST) on July 13, 2012 and should be forwarded to Kate Taylor, Fishery Management Plan Coordinator, at 1050 N. Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, VA 22201; 703-842-0741 (FAX) or ktaylor@asmfc.org (Subject line: Atlantic Striped Bass Draft Addendum III).
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newswire article reporting global 29.Oct.2006 19:11
9.11 investigation | drug war
The 'Genesis' of the Adnan Khashoggi Wing of the 9-11 Truth Movement (infiltration)
author: hopsicker with commentary
This is an interesting assortment how many of the false 9-11 truthers like Ruppert (and surprisingly, Barry Zwicker gets later caught up in John Gray money ("Men are from Mars" book ), and John Gray money and his book's popularity came from international drug lord Kashoggi's operations). Thus below is a summary of the twisted tale of the "Genesis" of the infiltrated side of the 9-11 Truth Movement, the Genesis named operations in a convoluted money trail of Adnan Kashoggi. Kashoggi's organizations have simultaneously taken to hawking "anything that needed to be hawked" for psyop purposes from John Gray's "Men are From Mars" books (with its Kashoggi connections), to perhaps (...Hopsicker leaves this open, though it would make intuitive sense for the 'genesis' of this branch of hawking as well) various other PGI Corporation connections to Ruppert ("perhaps the largest tax fraud scam in U.S. history"), to, of all things, the Hale Bopp Comet Cult itself--keyed off by 'false reportage' of the same 'Genesis' connected network off Kashoggi. Second, there is interesting information on the SAN DIEGO and TAMPA aspects of the false flaggers--which had Kashoggi networks around them as well as traitorous FBI networks as well in San Diego, according to the FBI Investigation of itself!
The main theme is the implanted artificial culture industry and its main vehicle--under Kashoggi networks? With a different 'subsidiary' for each operation, each named "Genesis" Something? Read on. "...let's begin our journey with a visit to the psy-ops murk of 'Saudi Genesis'."
Saudi CIA drug lord/businessman Kashoggi--money front 9-11 truth infiltration
Nick Matzorkis: once auto thief, discovered/hired/found dead Hale Bopp Cult,...
...into multiple corporate partner with 9-11 Insider Nicholas Rockefeller
originally a comment at Jeff Wells' "Rigorous Intituion 2.0" website: http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/10/just-drive-by.html#comments
bin Laden ---> Kashoggi/bin Mafouz --> Thomas Kean of the 9-11 "investigation" Kean is business partner with bin Mafouz; bin Mafouz is brother in law of bin Laden family; Kashoggi and bin Mafouz connection
In the 1970s, Saudi-born businessman Adnan Kashoggi did trade in billions of dollars of arms and aircraft sales. He was never convicted (despite guilty, in the U.S.), but may be talking again, with one of the Pentagon's top advisers: Richard Perle. Adnan Khashoggi is wanted in Thailand, where he was convicted for fraud in absentia; is currently being sued, in a major and well-publicized case in Federal Court in Minneapolis for what may turn out to be criminal fraud; reportedly, he is also currently the subject of a massive investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles.
His businesses friends have been banned for getting U.S. governmental contracts due to illegal Iran arms sales in the 1980s as well. And the U.S. government calls Kashoggi in 1991 one of the top 100 international drug dealers--though he seems quite at home moving loosely in the U.S. intelligence circles of the world for whatever is required of him--in what DOJ gagged Sibel Edmonds would call U.S. political corruption and global U.S. intelligence run international drug trade networks responsible for the 9-11 events.
Even Khashoggi's guru has CIA connections, we learned: the vastly rich swami has been under official suspicion in the assassination of Indian Premier Rajiv Ghandi, and was even arrested by Indian police for currency fraud.
Add to that the recently declassified American intelligence report from 1991 listing the top 100 drug traffickers and associates. It included lawyers, right-wing paramilitary fighters, a Peruvian rebel commander, a Colombian singer, a pre-dead Pablo Escobar, a pre-jailbird Manuel Noriega... and Adnan Khashoggi.
Well now. That makes this relationship interesting:
Kashoggi --> money to John Gray (pumped his book "Men are from Mars" made him famous) ---> (Kashoggi?)/John Gray ---> money to Canadian TV's Barry Zwicker, one of the earlist 9-11 truth popularizers
No wonder false denials of impropriety in accepting money from Khashoggi's business partner John Gray were so quick from so-called 9.11 disinfo wing of the "Truth Movement" principals who are readily accepting Kashoggi money.
Thus what we are about to get into might be called
"The 'Genesis' of the Adnan Kashoggi Wing of the 9-11 Truth Movement":
Back in the early 90's satirical magazine "Spy" launched an operation to find "the world's cheapest man," and they sent checks for 64 cents to a couple dozen friends of 'The Donald' (Trump that is).
Those that cashed the checks got another check from Spy, this one for 32 cents. If they cashed that check they got one for 16 cents.
Adnan Khashoggi was the last man standing.
The billionaire cashed a check for 32 cents.
Any quick look at the "Saudi arms dealer" shows his notoriety stems from more than just singing too loud in church, or mosque...he's involved as the front for the organizations infiltrating the 9-11 truth movement.
full article(s):
9-11 insider Nicholas Rockefeller ---> Nick Matzorkis (discovered the dead bodies of the Heaven's Gate cult which was likely a "terminated" MKULTRA operation; hired and paid the cult members) ---> Matzorkis sold production rights of the story of their death ---> to Adnan Kashoggi's Genesis subsidiaries
9-11 insider Nicholas Rockefeller ---> 3 different links to Matzorkis
And just who is Nicholas Rockefeller? A 9-11 terrorist insider, certainly one more remove inside the 9-11 planning network--the network that Kashoggi money is fronting to protect by infiltrating the 9-11 movement
Nicholas Rockefeller Predicted "Event" To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11
Hollywood director Russo recalls remarkable "forecast" of coming attack
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 28 2006
Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo, currently receiving a wave of plaudits for his latest release, America: From Freedom to Fascism [watch for free at Google Video], told The Alex Jones Show that Nicholas Rockefeller had personally assured him there was going to be an "event" that would trigger the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq eleven months before 9/11 took place.
Saying he had been approached many times by the Rockefellers and other members of the CFR elite in an attempt to recruit him, Russo recalled a conversation that would come home to roost on September 11, 2001.
"Here's what I do know first hand - I know that about eleven months to a year before 9/11 ever happened I was talking to my Rockefeller friend (Nicholas Rockefeller) and he said to me 'Aaron there's gonna be an event' and he never told me what the event was going to be - I'm not sure he knew what the event was going to be I don't know that he knew that," said Russo.
Russo related how Rockefeller knew precisely what the event would lead to and which countries would be militarily targeted by the elite.
"He just said there's gonna be an event and out of that event we're gonna invade Afghanistan so we can run pipelines through the Caspian sea, we can go into Iraq to take the oil and establish bases in the middle east and to make the middle east part of the new world order and we're going to go after Venezuela - that's what's going to come out of this event."
"Eleven months to a year later that's what happened....he certainly knew that something was going to happen."
"In my relationships with some of these people I can tell you that it's as evil as it really gets - this is it - this is the game," stated Russo - also relating how members of the elite were routinely obsessed by creating a world identification society where people had to carry ID cards and prove who they were at all times.
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/281006rockefellerpredicted.htm
For those who are unaware of the 'first family' of the United States, even this lighthearted and hardly indepth History Channel documentary (and sometimes I'm yelling bullshit at the screen) and in the History Channel's own words were "reshaping America" is informative:
53 min 37 sec - Oct 24, 2006
profiles.yahoo.com
The Rockefellers - pt1
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-915024472844529739
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3334238675533333791
Part two, the juicy bits are censored and the link has been down ever since the link was live..
And who is Nicholas Rockefeller? This gets positivity Wellsian so while Jeff is ill, read this by Hopsicker as a substitute, and what a substitute it is:
According to Hopsicker:
"The story of the auto thief Nick Matzorkis from Cleveland who discovered 39 dead bodies in Rancho Santa Fe Ca. in March of 1997 in the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide is a reflection in a fun house mirror of America's secret history of freakish cults, financial fraud, and the occasional member of the Rockefeller family, all of which helped make possible today's 9.11 cover-up.
October 13 2004-Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker
After finding the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult on a balmy afternoon in Southern California, arrayed in neat rows and wearing brand new Nikes, Nick Matzorkis became instantly famous.
Soon he'd sold rights to the story of the cult suicide to the Hollywood entertainment company for which both he and some of the dead cultists worked. It was a smart move.
But fame can be a two-edged sword, and Matzorkis wound up suffering the twin fates common to people in certain circles in L. A.: a short-lived production deal, and jail time.
A probation officer saw him on national television, and 'made' him as a wanted felon who'd skipped out on his sentence.
Carl Icahn ---> Adnan Khashoggi
He was jailed and returned to Cleveland, coincidentally the home of financier Carl Icahn, who will figure later in our story for allowing his name be used to prop up Adnan Khashoggi and John Gray's Genesis Intermedia in an announcement he'd extended the company a $100 million credit line even as company principals were filling their pockets with pens and staplers on their way out the door.
Nothing was left behind...except thousands of angry investors.
Carl Ichan from Cleveland--Rockefeller home town originally--strangely, also figures peripherally in the Heaven's Gate saga: when the cultists threw themselves a final going-away-to-Hale Bopp party in January of 1997, they held the bash at Icahn's Stratosphere Casino in Vegas, which he was then in the process of purchasing out of bankruptcy.
A 10-year old girl, looking out to sea
We were first tipped to the interesting Mr. Matzorkis by researcher Kelly Cooke, adding a human dimension to a story that otherwise sometimes seems to take place in the 13th Dimension.
Sadly for Ms. Cooke, both of whose parents committed suicide under the influence of the group, it didn't.
After the mass suicide, a Marin County, Ca. newspaper reported, "Michael Sykes of Modoc County, a former owner of Point Reyes Books, remembered the couple fondly. "Nick was an artist and philosopher and very much a conversationalist, talking late into the night," he said. "Suzanne was lively, animated, and interested in the arts."
"Sykes... recalled she took Kelly with her to Washington State to plant trees for a timber company. It was upon her return that she started following a group that preached of heavenly UFOs, he said.
"I thought they went off the deep end," said Susan Deixler of Inverness Park, whom they asked to take care of their daughter.
Recalling their determination to leave, Deixler said: "They seemed hypnotized. You would come up against the wall when you tried to talk to them about this. It was strange."
Mathewson and her ex-husband eventually accepted responsibility for Kelly. "It all happened very quick, and there wasn't much time for an explanation," she said.
"Charlie Morgan of Inverness recalled 10-year-old Kelly "standing on the corner [in Point Reyes Station] looking bewildered and alone because her parents were off with the space people."
While following the often-convoluted story, the memory of this image provided a simple illustration of what it is about.
Auto thieves drinking with 'the swells'
We became suspicions of Matzorkis after reading a neighbor of the cult, businessman Anthony Demopoulos, recall that the cultists seemed slow-talking, deliberate, almost robotic in their actions.
"They were not normal people," he stated flatly. "Something was done to them."
Pretty astute.. Demopoulos noticed that one cultist [the agent-handler of the cult], John Craig, known as "Brother Logan," held sway over the others. "He would never let them even be on the phone alone to talk to me. They couldn't breathe without him."
"In contrast, Beverly Hills computer businessman Nick Matzorkis [who "discovered" the cult's bodies], who employed about a dozen cult members to design World Wide Web sites, had the impression that they were not being coerced. His employee Richard Ford, or "Rio," is the former cultist who discovered the bodies," read a wire service account. "The one thing that's been made very clear to me in conversations with Rio is that anyone was free to leave at any time," Matzorkis said.
Mohamed Atta's erstwhile lunch-mate Rudi Dekkers never saw anything amiss, either.
Were they working from the same playbook?
Matzorkis ---> Hale Bopp death cult
Matzorkis ---> 9-11 Insider Nicholas Rockefeller
Cultists deaths forgotten, Matzorkis went on to help raise $ 54 million in an Internet initial public stock offering for a heavily-advertised online venture called U.S. Search.com. Two years ago he founded a company in China, GlobalAgora, with a partner with a slightly-more illustrious pedigree, Nicholas Rockefeller--the very person who is friends with Aaron Russo, who told Aaron 11 months before 9-11 some "event" would happen that would allow the Caspian oil pipeline and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
The press release announcing their company said the principals were "Nicholas Matzorkis, who in 1994 founded US SEARCH, the number one people locator service in the world, and Nicholas Rockefeller Esq., a leading venture capital counselor. Several years later Matzorkis is hiring Heaven's Gate cult members, and is the one to actually call the police from the ranch where they were found.
Launched only months before 9-11 by Matzorkis/Rockefeller in league with the large state own department store infrastructure of totalitarian China, GlobalAgora is believed to be the "first U.S. company to launch first in the People's Republic."
From auto thief to Beverly Hills businessman and partnered in an international company with a scion of the Rockefeller clan...just another heady American success story?
To paraphrase Latin ballplayer Chico Esquella's famous line on Saturday Night Live:
"Heaven's Gate Been Berry Berry Good to Me."
There's no real way to ask the question politely: Are Matzorkis' connections with Nicholas Rockefeller coincidental to his earlier involvement with the Heaven's Gate Cult?
As they say in Hollywood... Let's take a look.
What to Do Do when the Spot Spot won't come Out Out?
The highly-visible campaign spreading ever-more implausible red herrings about the real mysteries of the 9/11 attack owes its existence to a simple fact of human nature.
As far back as the ancient Greeksand as true today as thenis the idea that crime always shows itself, and is eventually discovered.
Certain news cannot be suppressed.
Truth will come to light.
"Though it hide a year or two, or three," wrote Chaucer, "Murder will out."
Certainly this is a line to send a shiver down the spine of anyone with so far unannounced culpability in the 9.11 attack.
For example, American national security officials conducting 'business as usual' before the attack must have felt they'd gotten caught without a stool when the music stopped. Who wanted to cop to playing "Dialing for Dollars" with the world's Heroin Kingpins Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar before the plane's hit? These two men dominated the world's heroin market, yet there had been no reports in the press of any shortage of heroin during the months before the attack, either in the U.S. or abroad.
Somebody had exposure.
The American people may be forgiving, but what if they had learned that the terrorists presence in the U.S. had been tolerated and even protected by U.S. officials engaged in international trafficking with Atta's paymasters in Kabul?
Picture Jerry Falwell trying to peddle forgiveness for that down the aisles at Liberty Baptist in Lynchburg.
You see the point.
If only figuratively, heads would certainly have rolled.
Clearly, the revelation in "Welcome to Terrorland" that a Lear Jet with 43 lbs of heroin on board belonged to the man whose flight school Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al Shehhi had only recently begun attending was a bit of dashed bad luck for someone.
It didn't help that the plane had been flying weekly milk runs to Venezuela and back for 30 consecutive weeks before getting caught.
That the pilot's day job was as chief pilot on Venezuela's Air Force One only made things worse... .
That the co-pilot was himself reportedly a DEA agent stationed in Guyana was yet more bad luck...
The fact that the flight school owner actually has a close connection with the Reverend Falwell made this a sticky wicket of potential major consequence.
Did someone go a little queasy in the stomach at the discovery that a key player in the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy had been implicated in the biggest narcotics bust in the entire sordid history of Central Florida?
We like to think so.
Because when you're going after people who could be charged with 3000 counts of 1st degree homicide, its important to savor the little victories.
Because when you're waging a 9.11 info war with powerful people with a lot to lose, there may not be any bigger ones.
Especially when they order up a circus:
"Send in the Clowns World Tour '04."
"The 9/11 Truth Movement gives one insight why the term 'conspiracy theorist' came to be shorthand for "discredited whacko" in the invisible guidebook of mainstream media," wrote Sander Hicks. "Suddenly, it's not hard to understand why the obvious anomalies in the JFK assassination never received proper attention in accepted media channels."
"If you have just as many nutty theories about the driver of the limo turning around and shooting JFK as you have honest scientific inquiries about the real probability of multiple shooters, the wheat drowns in the chaff."
However, Sander Hicks himself may be compromised. Sander Hicks is yet another strange case of a potential disinformationalist
Somehow, Hicks--like Ruppert--hit all the elite venues:
Sander Hicks Interview by Mickey Z: "Hicks gained national notoriety when he published Jim Hatfield's controversial Dubya biography, "Fortunate Son." The scathing, well-documented expose of the Bush dynasty resulted in near financial ruin for Soft Skull, a brilliant film documentary ( http://www.hornsandhalos.com), and Hatfield's tragic suicide--or murder....Sander Hicks has reported on 9/11 issues since 9/2001 [<--- interesting...] for Guerrilla News, Long Island Press and INN World Report, a TV news show on the Dish Network. Hicks is founder of Soft Skull Press, Inc and Vox Pop/Drench Kiss Media Corporation. He has spoken publicly about 9/11 alongside Scott Ritter, the UN arms inspector. How in the world did he get sponsored for that? He was recently interviewed by Janeane Garafalo about 9/11 on nation-wide radio network [rut roh! ---> Air America which perhaps happens to be named after the famous CIA narco-airline for spooking the sheep one more time..., and Hicks strangely can even find himself sponsored to address a massive audience at the historic John D. Rockefeller, Jr. built Gothic cathdral in New York City, Riverside Church, on the topic of the "9/11 Cover Up"? Give us a break Sander Hicks. Just as Ruppert can be sponsored as per his 'legend as 9-11 truth activist' by the high elite Commonwealth Club in San Francisco; Just as Gloria Stinem, CIA asset, is sponsored into the eye as "feminist leadership" directly by CIA's Cord Meyers' when he prints and sponsors her articles along in Fortune Magazine. Watch the venues!!!
Today's disinformation offensive on the real questions about 9.11 that must be answered, however, is not the first time Americans have been manipulated...
So there's a paper trail.
This is good news, but first, let's begin our journey with a visit to the psy-ops murk of Saudi Genesis.
What's being lost in the White Noise is the news that evidence constituting inconvenient knowledge about the 9/11 attack continues to seep to the surface...It just isn't being noticed much anymore.
Real Clues for Real People
Here's a real clue to unraveling 9/11, a huge gold nugget, in fact, tucked unnoticed in a 9.11 third anniversary recap in the Chicago Tribune:
"Despite his comfortable origins, Atta was notorious for his frugality," says the Sept 12, 2004 story, headlined "Kind teacher to murderous zealot; Acquaintances saw hijacker transform."
"And yet his (Atta's) bank and credit card records show repeated contributions to Islamic charities working in the Balkans, the mark of a devoted Muslim. In what appears to be a more noteworthy act of generosity to someone he barely knew, in 1995 Atta lent a Turkish baker, Muharrem Acar, some $25,000 to help Acar open a bakery."
"Acar told the BKA that Atta didn't even ask for a promissory note when he made the loan.
"I don't know why El-Amir had so much money," he said. "I did not want to know either. I heard later that his father was a lawyer. Maybe his family supplied him well."
***Where did penniless grad student Mohamed Atta get $25,000 in 1995, years before the official story has him joining Al Qaeda?***
Where did Atta get access to so much cash that 25k was no big deal?
Discovering who the terrorist ringleader's paymaster was back in 1995 would be a huge piece of the puzzle. Following a money trail is not brain surgery either...
Government prosecutors find answers to questions like that all day long... when they want to.
This is the essence of the concept of 'the secret history.'
"6 Second Abs & 9.11 Conspiracies Revealed!"
"Ladies and gentlemen of the press, Peak Oil activists worldwide... "
Rockefeller's Favorite Martian, Rockefeller Psyops from the 1930s
The Rockefeller family got interested in the reptoids earlier than most, and apparently for different reasons. Most use stories of UFO's for mild amusement. Not the Rockefellers, though. They were interested in using the stories for control.
In fact, if it weren't for the Rockefeller Foundation's previous mass psychology experiments which starred the Martians, today's cover-up effort by American officials might not be proceeding as smoothly as it has.
Here's what happened:
At precisely 8pm on the evening of October 30th 1938, the Mercury Radio Network interrupted the music of Ramon Rachello and His Orchestra for a special news bulletin. A huge flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, had fallen on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey.
Moments later comes a correction...
"Its not a meteorite, no! Incredibly, there are Martian cylinders falling all over the country!"
The famous War of the Worlds broadcast has begun. With its terrifyingly real descriptions of an invasion from Mars, before the night is out a million people will run panicked into the streets.
But what has been--for almost fifty years--a closely guarded secret, is this: Orson Wells' broadcast was no mere show business stunt, but an Experiment in Fear, a psychological warfare test conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation.
Here's a quote from "America Under Attack" A Reassessment of Orson Welles War of the Worlds" by Paul Heyler of Willfrid Laurier University:
"A grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to Princeton University helped create the Princeton Office of Radio Research. The director was Paul Lazersfeld, an Austrian Jewish émigré and a social psychologist whose expertise in quantitative methods was tempered by a humanist leaning. He teamed with two associates, psychologist Hadley Cantrell and CBS researcher Fred Stanton, a PhD in psychology who would eventually become network president."
Paging Jerry Falwell
Pretty smart company. The book continues:
"The broadcast was a psychological warfare experiment conducted by The Princeton Radio Project. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the project in the fall of 1937. An Office of Radio Research was set up with Paul F. Lazersfeld as director, and Frank Stanton and Hadley Cantrell as associate directors.
Using demographic data on the broadcast's audience gleaned from a 10-page interview questionnaire given to 135 people, they created a book, "Invasion From Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic."
The results were available to only a few, apparently, with no talk of any paperback release. Yet more than 12 percent of the American radio audience had listened to the broadcast. More than half that number took it seriously. By sociologist Hadley Cantrell's account, published in a landmark study for the Rockefeller Foundation, more than a million people were frightened by Welles' broadcast.
The strongest currents of fear were among less-educated people and poor Southern folk. (Jerry Falwell took note.)
The emergence of the comet Hale Bopp decades later will mark a resurgence in warnings of catastrophe; insistent messages of doom & gloom; the end of Life As We Know. Remember Y2K?
There were actually people peddling the 'hot tip' that freeze-dried foods would soon attain the status of Kobe beef just after the clock struck "Y2K" and the grid went dark...
Imagine that. Peddling products on a disaster. Or even peddling scam products during fake 9-11 exposures.
Keep that in mind as you learn everything you need to know about the Adnan Khashoggi Wing of the Infiltrated 9-11 Truth Movement
Info on Khashoggi runs the gamut from the ridiculous to the sinister.
To get the serious stuff out of the way first:
"Khashoggi was among a number of prominent Arab businessmen, like Khalid Mahfouz, who agreed to continue what have been described by US intelligence officials as "protection payments" to bin Laden at a meeting in Paris in 1998, said London's Sunday Business Post October 7, 2001.
And business partner with Mafooz networks? Why, the head of the 9-11 Cover-Up, I mean, 9-11 Omission, I mean, 9-11 Commission, Mr. Kean himself, through Amereda Hess Oil Company which has Mafouz connections. And Mafouz is brother-in-law to the bin Ladens, the supposed 'official legend' people of the 9-11 terrorist events are only one remove away from Mr. Kean himself. Remember Max Clelend leaving the "commission" saying "the whole thing is a cover up." He's right. It's more than that its being run by bin Laden/Bush proxies, thus to get into the actual story would implicate themselves, like Mr. Kean, so they had a personal incentive to be quiet about it.
But there's also a fun side to Adnan's slightly-slimier side...
Back in the early 90's satirical magazine "Spy" launched an operation to find the world's cheapest man, and they sent checks for 64 cents to a couple dozen friends of 'The Donald.'
Any quick look at the Saudi arms dealer shows his notoriety stems from more than just singing too loud in church, or mosque, or whatever temple roof he and Imelda Marco huddle underneath together with their personal guru.
Adnan Khashoggi revealed: He is wanted in Thailand, where he was convicted for fraud in absentia; is currently being sued, in a major and well-publicized case in Federal Court in Minneapolis for what may turn out to be criminal fraud; reportedly, he is also currently the subject of a massive investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles.
Well now.
No wonder false denials of impropriety in accepting money from Khashoggi's business partner John Gray were so quick from so-called 9.11 [disinfo wing of the] "Truth Movement" principals [accepting Kashoggi money].
"I asked John Gray personally about what connection, if any, he has or had with Adnan Khashoggi," said Toronto talk host Barrie Zwicker. "John satisfied me that he is aware of the anti-life nature of Khashoggi's activities, that he has not associated with him and would never want to, that he was caught up in the aftermath of dirty dealings by Khashoggi and other dot com crooks and in fact was one of their victims."
The Great 9/11 Bun & Thigh Roller Deception
"A victim of circumstance and "dot com crooks"
Here we do not believe Zwicker is referencing the friendly folks at Pinnacle Quest, a vehicle for international fraudsters endorsed by Michael C. Ruppert on his website.
He also provides them a vigorous defense; perhaps he feels cheating widows and orphans reduces population pressure and so is ultimately all to the good.
Ruppert said, "[Pinnacle Quest] PQI has presented some remarkable information that is totally suppressed in the US. That includes successful treatments for cancer and for many other serious diseases... "
Here we note that self-described "Detective-Journalist" Ruppert has apparently slipped in "Clinician" too, when no one was looking.
We pictured Andy Griffith in the con man classic Elmer Gantry.
Some sample quotes about Ruppert's fraudster friends at Pinnacle Quest:
"[Pinnacle Quest's] Anderson was extradited to the United States a few days ago (December 4, 2002), his brother (Wayne Anderson) was recently sentenced to serve much of the rest of his life in a federal prison, most of his key people have been incarcerated, and his offshore empire has crumbled."
"On March 31, 2002, Global officially went out of business, replaced by--ta da! we can raise the dead when there's a sucker's money to be had!--Pinnacle Quest, International (PQI). At the official introductory gathering at the Hyatt Hotel in Bellevue... "
"A lawsuit has already been filed against Pinnacle Quest in Arizona."
"On April 22, 2002, Squaw Valley California residents Terri Yvonne Lewis (42), and Steven Lyle Anderson (37), each pled guilty in US District Court/Fresno to charges related to conspiracy and obstruction of justice."
"The defendants are children of Wayne Anderson and they were charged with shredding documents and erasing computer files in an effort to thwart a federal grand jury investigation."
"The reality is that Global, much like Investors International, holds seminars in exotic places where the true believers rally round and sing the system's praises to new initiates while (more or less) independent hucksters promote their particular schemes to the attendees."
"North Dakota issued a cease and desist order to keep the company from doing business there."
"On top of the $1,200 audiotape package, Global members are invited to attend seminars in places like Cancun, Mexico and the Bahamas where independent entrepreneurs pay IGP to make their pitch. The cost of attendance: $6,250. For more than 12 hours a day, the attendees sit through one sales pitch after another for real estate prospects, tax avoidance schemes and high-growth investment opportunities."
More that 12 hours a day?
We wondered if it was one of these things where they won't let you pee.
Ruppert said, "Am I aware that some members of PQI have had criminal charges pressed against them? Absolutely! So have many dedicated patriots and whistleblowers throughout our country's history... "
So Ruppert you support "The Paul Revere Ponzi Scheme?"
We tried to picture it. It was a little hard. But "9/11 Flim-Flam Man" was an easy image to conjure up.
Ruppert's PQI, with its fresh start to do right this time, has already been in trouble.
In U.S. Court proceedings filed in Oklahoma against a former PQI consultant, for example, whose actions were described as being part of "perhaps the largest and most notorious tax fraud scheme in history."
The Massachusetts Securities Commission declared Global Prosperity Group (which was closed down in May last year and "re-opened"--ta da!--raised the dead twice!--the next day as PQI) to be "an illegal pyramid scheme."
They were ordered permanently to cease trading in that state.
PQI sales consultants are in New Zealand promoting a "three-stage educational process," we learned.
"First, you buy a set of instructional CDs (cost, $2200). Second, you attend a seminar. The next is in Mexico (cost, $10,800). Then, you attend another seminar on a cruise ship (cost, nearly $26,000). These fees cover entry to the seminar and purchase of the CDs. They do not include airfares, accommodation, food or expenses."
The CIA getting useful legal front monies to make its front businesses look more legit?
"Pinnacle Quest International (PQI) is a US company that promises to introduce you to "secret companies" that will provide returns of over 100 percent, and teach you how to avoid ever paying tax again. You'll also be in line for some hefty consultant commissions."
"People like Queen Elizabeth II and Muhammad Ali are involved with PQI. Not many people know this," sales consultants confided.
"As for the secret companies, only the mega-rich have known about them up until now."
Could it all be somehow true?
"The lion will lay down with the lamb...But only one will get back up."
Neither Queen Elizabeth nor Muhammad Ali responded to MadCowMorningNews requests for confirmation of their involvement in secret companies for the mega-rich as touted by PQI.
Could they be hiding something?
Maybe they just don't want the masses in the cheap seats to know about it...
More likely that Ruppert, the self-appointed "pit-bull of 9/11" & the 'Fearless Leader' of the 9.11 'Truth Movement cadre', is all out of credibility except when hawking secret companies at 9.11 cadre functions, during those odd moments when they're not going all out in search for the real truth.
Khashoggi linked John Gray's financing of infomercials touting Zwicker's new 9-11 documentary were vastly more entertaining that Ruppert's thoughts on cancer cures, anyway. Greedy People are as endlessly fascinating as their many schemes; those who have just "Gone Puffy" are only good for a laugh if they can also pull off sticking their hand inside their shirt, Napoleon-like.
Canadian talk host Zwicker's laissez faire attitude towards the controversy had a brazen quality that was not altogether unattractive... "John [Gray] is helping out financially with various aspects of the 9/11 skeptics movement," Zwicker sniffed. "In my own case there are no gifts. The money has to be paid back."
We try to think the best of people.
At least Zwicker wasn't holding forth on curing cancer.
In this crowd that's a plus.
So we prefer to think his motivation for his new 9.11 infomercial reflects nothing more heinous that a desire to meet "Stop the Insanity's" Susan Powter.
As German author Broeckers said dryly, "That a 9.11 conference of investigators probing to learn the truth about the attack could be funded by the very people supposedly being investigated... came to me as quite a surprise."
Unlike the droll Broeckers, some writers use a full wind-up first, before throwing their Khashoggi pitch...
"Adnan Khashoggi's mercenary army of global corporate criminals lives in Mafia mansions, basks in the political limelight, enjoys the privileges of royalty in tyrannical desert dystopias, and sips vodka in the shadow of gleaming Moscow spires," wrote Alex Constantine.
"They are kings, Pentagon officials, priests, S&L thieves, assassins, prostitutes, Nazis, Big Oil executives, metals merchants, New Age cultists, drug barons, boiler-room con artists, mobsters, dictators... and terrorists."
As Dr. John Gray, "Ph.D." himself might put it: "Wow, what a powerful share."
"John-Boy of Arabia"
Constantine's litany of miscreants form the backbone of the organization we call "Saudi Genesis," whose backing and marketing prowess made John Gray a franchise and a household name, we discovered.
Here's what happened: Men Are From Mars was not an instant hit when it was first published. Almost ten months after its release, Gray's flagship book had received little acclaim and climbed no best seller lists.
Enter Adnan Khashoggi and lieutenant Ramy El Batrawi, who, we learned, has also used the nom de guerre "Remy Al-Batswani" while running an air carrier for Khashoggi used in illegal shipments of arms to Iran which was eventually placed on the State Department's list of "unsavory" companies and barred from doing business with any agency of the U.S. Government.( http://pmdtc.org/debar059.htm )
"It took a year to get on the best-seller list," said Jack McKeown, president and publisher of HarperCollins trade group, in an interview.'
John Gray is the beneficiary of a turbocharged marketing campaign, in which the author is an active partner."
So John Gray owes his huge success and resulting fortune to Khashoggi's "Saudi Genesis," an intricate web of rapidly changing corporate fronts and dummy corporations with the word "Genesis" in their name, involved in wholesale criminal fraud that looks to be a textbook example of a Continuing Criminal Enterprise.
Saudi money picked up John Gray's book (and Gray himself) and ran with it; creating infomercials that drove sales of until they became a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Michael C. Ruppert and the phony side of the 9/11 Truth Movement are defending taking money from & owes his fame and success to Saudi money from Adnan Khashoggi, provided through a company incorporated by Barry Seal's attorney, the same man currently suing us [Hopsicker] for 'emotional distress.'
No doubt this is just a freak coincidence.
Gray is even alleged to be involved, in papers filed in a major lawsuit in Federal Court in Minneapolis, in the recent $200 million looting the Genesis principals engaged in while on their way out of town.
His trading account was used in the scheme, alleges the suit.
But apparently that doesn't make him a close associate of Adnan Khashoggi...not at least for purposes of taking money from him.
Not in Michael Ruppert's book.
"The 9-11 false flag boys" from Tampa & L.A.
From their base in Tampa Florida, Khashoggi and El Batrawi controlled a network of companies, all using the word "Genesis" in their name.
Half of the "Al-Queda" funding came out of Tampa as well through Al-Arain, who was a close personal friend of George W. Bush:
"The lawsuit of 2002 that this guy files against Al-Arian--the Tampa, FL 9-11 cell connection--is most interesting. Why is it interesting? Well, because Bush is hard and fast friends with Al-Arain, who has "9-11 terrorist connections" according to the lawsuit. Why settle for treasonous Rove? Get treasonous Bush, who meets with Al-Arian who is currently in federal prison awaiting trial for terrorism connections to 9-11. Bush is conversing with Al-Arain's family merely one month before 9-11; 9-11 terrorist Al-Arian scheduled to meet in the White House with VP Cheney even, though Cheney cancels the meeting."
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/321874.shtml
The number of Khashoggi-owned Genesis companies we've found keeps growing. There is, or was, Genesis Aviation, Inc., Genesis Aviation II, Genesis Diversified Investments, Genesis Studio and Production Corp., Genesis Media Group, Genesis Properties, Genesis Intermedia; GenesisIntermedia.com.; Genesis Delaware; Genesis Florida... The list, it do go on. And on.
Versions of the company have traded under a number of stock symbols: GNNX; NTER; BMOO; GMGI; and GENI... What's the purpose? Guess, according to Catherine Austin Fitts...
Clearly this is a difficult company to keep track of...exactly the idea.
One innocent businessman who had a website mistakenly associated with 'the boys' at "Saudi Genesis" posted this desperate explanation for why he had nothing at all to do with them:
"Over the last several weeks, I have put together these facts:
The Scammers might be related to Genesis Media Group, a subsidiary of GenesisIntermedia Inc. GenesisIntermedia is in financial trouble. See the section below about GenesisIntermedia.
The Scammers have a website of www.familyproductsllc.com which is only an email front, there is no "real" website there. You can email customerservice@familyproductsllc.com which is their published email address. Most persons have not gotten a response.
The Scammers may use the following websites: www.ab-energizer-exercise.com, www.ab-fitness-exercise.com, www.familyproductsllc.com. More information about the owners of these websites follows in this email (Including address and phone numbers).
The Scammers may use the following phone numbers: 1-800-457-0825, 1-800-801-6130, 1-888-602-7878, 1-818-902-4100 fax: 123 123 1234, 1-888-255-2525..." [if you call those or invest in companies particularly with these last numbers, how did you get money to invest in the first place?]
"The proof is in the patterns! And so are the trading profits!"
The "Saudi Genesis" companies specialized in marketing to the masses, through infomercials and on the internet. Everything from Plastic Surgeons Crème to ab-energizers to fraudulent get rich quick schemes like "Trade Your Way to Riches," created after arms dealer and friend of Khashoggi, Ramy El-Batrawi of Genesis, approached Jake Bernstein at a seminar in Burbank, California about the possibility of marketing Bernstein's futures trading products through the creation of an infomercial.
Jake Bernstein billed himself as the world's foremost authority on pattern recognition and cycles and author of over 25 trading books.
(He must be pretty good at recognizing when its time to leave town, at least, cause he hasn't gone to prison recently.) Bernstein website: "Jake found an easier way to get rich. Instead of trading futures he would trade on investor gullibility," wrote a whistleblower.
Bernstein starred in an infomercial that aired on 400 TV stations, hyping a video course called Trade Your Way to Riches.
A farmer named Harold Henkel told viewers how well Bernstein's approach has worked for him.
Henkel later admitted he lost money trading using Bernstein's products. We hope his "endorsement fee" made up for it.
Critics were unkind to Jake.
"There's one born every minute. Seasonal Suckers is the cold truth about Jake Bernstein's futures theories."
"Jake Bernstein has a lousy record trading futures but has made plenty trading on investor gullibility"
The boys at Genesis Intermedia made out like bandits.
The C'mon Back Scandal Revisited
And then there's the Genesis Communications Network.
(And here's where the double "Genesis Communications Network" name gets hairy. Pay Attention.)
There's actually two of them, seemingly unrelated, but they're so extremely similar in the fraud department to each other and to "Saudi Genesis" that the relationship appears strongly familial.
We're still uncertain as to how close they all are; kissing cousins, at the very least.
The first GCN is a so-called "patriot" network hosting Alex Jones and Dave Van Kliest, the latter, the, ah, the individual fronting for the latest See the Flash extravaganza, advertisements for which are spamming the Internet at a rate that must be causing concern among conservationists of our digital landscape of '1's and ' 0's.'
VanKliest is our pick for Disinfotainer of the Year... an especial honor, considering that there was some fierce competition.
Of course, "See the Flash Dave" from the powerhour, like Alex Jones, is part of the GENESIS Communications Network. ( gcnlive.com ) ( genesis radio hosts )
[Interesting...]
He reminds us of Tattoo from Fantasy Island, pointing and shouting "De Plane! De Plane!"
When we fingered this checkered crew in last week's story for involvement in what we termed the "C'mon back scandal," we hadn't meant it literally... So we clearly underestimated them, because they're not above personally getting behind the wheel when the opportunity arises to "to back up a truck."
They're [Kleist?] involved in an internecine scandal, documented on the web at some length by "Christians" for whom time must hang heavy during the long Montana winter... "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15," their screed began.
"Christian Media has repeatedly sought to expose the treachery at the Genesis Communications Network... They stole their original equipment from another patriot network named Republic Radio. Fraudulently claiming they had purchased the network, the management of Genesis literally backed up a U-Haul, and loaded up the broadcasting equipment while the rightful owner was out of town!"
Lily Tomlin, Prophetess of Our Times, said, "No matter how cynical I get I just can't keep up."
The actual story there is still unknown.
Welcome Back to "Honk-if-You-Love-Jesus World."
GCN programming "broadly ranges from provocative politics to gardening, health and pop culture, and targets specific audiences with useful guidelines for surviving & prospering in an increasingly complex and challenging political and socio-economic environment."
The Exec VP at Genesis Communications Network in Minnesota is Michael@midasreport.com ( Midas Report ) We noticed the address at the bottom. Mike with the "Midas Touch" shares the same address as another website called "BRIDGES FOR PEACE," where you can "VISIT ISRAEL WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR COMPUTER."
Bridges For Peace is a Jerusalem-based, Bible-believing Christian organization supporting Israel and building relationships between Christians and Jews worldwide through education and practical deeds expressing God's love and mercy...
Whatever these people think they're doing its clear their mind is on only one thing: TAKING THE RUBES FOR A RIDE. WARNING: The following links should not be clicked on by anyone with difficulty metabolizing sugar, or who are allergic to gagging...
celebratelove.com
mymasterytvnet.com
mymasterytvbiz.com
celebrateintimacy.com
authorsandspeakersnetwork.com
Take a peek at Larry, for example.
"Larry James - Internet secrets revealed! Larry reveals what he considers to be the most important key to shameless self-promotion on the Internet. This article has loads of shameless examples! This article appears in the book, "Confessions of Shameless Internet Promoters" by Debbie Allen. Now available in Larry's Book Store in the Author/Speaker Section."
We appreciated that they didn't make a cheap buck commercializing the 9.11 tragedy in every sentence. Just in every other sentence...
"Midas Resources has a fully trained team of professionals with decades of experience in the coin and metal markets. We are here to assist you and to provide you with personal service and attention. We specialize in U.S. semi-numismatic coins. Coins of historical significance to collectors that derive a substantial portion of their value from their underlying gold or silver value... The new U.S. $20 dollar bill contains hidden pictures of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks!"
The Florida version of it is the front version:
The weird thing about the SECOND Genesis Communications Network--in FLORIDA--is that it doesn't appear that any of their listed websites were real websites!
They look like ghost websites...Most have no links to them... at all.
Some look like commerce sites, but they don't appear to sell 'nothin to nobody.'
They reminded us of a fake street front at Universal Studios Check a few out, then click the Alexa tag.
syncpac.net
bizbanc.net
ecommxpress.com
alexa details
They were like website "Ghost ships."
consumer1st.com
advancedscientifichealth.com
savethe-usa.com
businessownersinstitute.org
commissionsoft.com
fsicorporate.com alexa details
It was spooky. And then we read something about the SECOND Genesis Communications Network in Florida that made out heart grow cold... or at least cold-er.
In the July 23, 2001 South Florida Business Journal was a story called "Florida's tech leader under investigation." And he just happened to be associated with Gov. Jeb Bush.
"The state's chief information officer is under investigation for grand theft. Roy Thomas Cales Jr., 39, has been accused of using a forged letter to obtain a loan from the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Tallahassee on which he later defaulted," the story started. The story said, "Cales was on a Latin American trade mission trip with Gov. Jeb Bush and was not available to discuss the investigation."
We got a picture of "trade mission" that looked like a couple of guys bringing girls back to the hotel.
But then, we're not trained Remote Viewers. But we saw something much more serious.
"Cales had complete decision-making authority over what kind of computers each state agency purchases, who gets hired to take care of them and what they do with them."
The next line made some sense of the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida: "The current investigation on Cales is not his first brush with the law."
"When Bush was elected Florida's governor in 1998, he vowed his administration would bring honesty, integrity and truthfulness to state government. A key aspect of that quest has been the use of technology, such as the state's MyFlorida.com Web site, to provide full information to the public.
"The point person behind the effort had been Cales, whom Bush has publicly referred to as his "chief tech dude."
"Point dude" had full authority as the state's chief information officer to do pretty much anything he wanted.
In a controversy surrounding a fishy no-bid computer sales, newspapers around Florida reported that EMC2, a Boston-based computer company, had sold $4.3 million in computer equipment to three state agencies without having to go through competitive bidding.
Financing for the deals at all three agencies, it turned out, was worked out by [Gov. Jeb Bush co-trade mission "chief tech dude"] Cales.
We really really really wanted to know if they'd used the computers in the states' election efforts...
But we were frankly too afraid to find out to read further.
Everybody has their limits. We'd just reached ours.
Like the attack itself, the story of the secret network involved in a coordinated and apparently government-sponsored cover up of the 9/11 attack sprawls across the widest canvas imaginable.
"It involves a fugitive arms dealer, two convicted drug dealers (one reportedly murdered by a Colombian cocaine hit squad), the CIA, and golden oldie (operatives) from the Iran/Contra scandal," wrote business journalist extraordinaire Christopher Byron in an article about Genesis called "Kiosks, Cocaine, and Khashoggi."
Its a succinct summation, and we'd be tempted to let it stand, except to mention added elements including, the Power Hour, the Solar Temple, the Heaven's Gate cult, dozens and dozens of shell corporations and dummy front companies...
Start with this scene from the Heaven's Gate story.
The world first learned something was amiss with Hale Bopp on the Art Bell Show. A beautiful and fiery display in the heavens, Hale Bopp was wowing all...
Then one evening in November the Art Bell program received a call from ***Chuck Schramek,*** an amateur astronomer from (predictably) Houston, home of John Gray and much of the U.S. oil occult intelligence networks.
Schramek said he'd been "imaging" the comet with his telescope and a camera, and had taken a photo of what appeared to be another body close to the comet with a "ring like" form.
Schramek called it a "Saturn Like Object." The frenzy began. [And a 1930s Orson Wells smiled, "got them again."]
People wondered: "What on earth could that Saturn-like image be to the right of the comet?"
Following Schramek as a guest on Bell's show [conveinently] was Professor Courtney Brown -- a tenured political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, author of a book called "Cosmic Voyage," and president and owner of Farsight Institute, a company specializing in the CIA's speciality, "scientific remote viewing."
Their remote viewers, they claimed for the Art Bell audience (tho a lie, read on, "War of the World's, Part Two," it seems set up for the Hale Bopp Cultists out there listening...) had found the mysterious "companion" object to be larger than Earth, hollow and "under intelligent control" -- a kind of planetary spaceship hitching a ride on the comet.
Now people really wondered.
But we discovered that Prof. Brown may have been experiencing something of a "personal crisis" at the time, when we found this quote he'd spoken the year before in a profile...
"Following the discovery of life on Mars, Professor Courtney Brown of Emory University, Atlanta, has revealed that civilization there is dying, so the aliens have established an underground colony in New Mexico," the piece read.
"All the prestige I've got is resting on whether there is anything in this," Brown revealed. "I'd be crazy if I went public without being certain."
A Mello Yellow Mars & Venus
For ourselves, we wish he'd held that thought somewhat longer.
Because when Brown appeared again on Bell's program, he brought along a plant on the show named Prudence Calabrese, his 'assistant,' who told Bell's audience that a well-known astrophysicist at a "top ten university" had sent Brown information confirming Farsight's remote-viewing results.
This astrophysicist, she went on, had taken several hundred photographs of the luminous object, which was not only real, but emanating "unambiguous radio signals."
More significantly, the unnamed gentleman from the prestigious university planned to hold a press conference in a week to announce his findings.
Meanwhile, he'd sent three rolls of undeveloped film, one of which had "very good astronomical photographs," in Calabrese's estimation.
Hale Bopp MKULTRA cultists, connected to Matzorkis, would have been going wild by now, and passing out the plastic baggies and putting their passports in their front pockets...
This is where it gets really interesting.
Calabrese today heads a commercial venture called Transdimensional Systems inwhere elseSan Diego.
She claims to have been part of the CIA's onetime effort to learn more about the Soviets via extrasensory perception (ESP), in a project channeled through (or by) California's formidable Stanford Research Institute.
But guess what's she's doing now?
If you said "Protecting the Homeland in the fight against terrorism" you could probably get a job there yourself... Or at least a gig working for the San Diego FBI, which retained the services of her firm's 14 employees to assist their efforts to guess where the terrorists will strike next.
This required, she told reporters, "thinking out of the box."
So that's three people in our story making their way in the world with the help of the San Diego FBI: The Unnamed Saudi, our Iranian friend Sam the Sham, and a woman who can see things a really really loooooog ways off. This is a curious crew, and makes one wonder what can be gleaned from it about the San Diego FBI's criterion for employment.
Moreover, some of the "Al-Queda hijackers" actually roomed with San Diego FBI connections" for a while:
"The FBI internal report examines the three best-known episodes in which the bureau, which is the lead agency for counterterrorist activities within the United States, missed or ignored important signals of the coming terrorist attacks. Two of the cases involved local FBI agents who voiced suspicions that were disregarded or suppressed by FBI headquarters. In the third case, the CIA deliberately kept the FBI in the dark--with the assistance of certain FBI officials.
"The first instance is the electronic memo of July 10, 2001 from Kenneth Williams, an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, noting the number of students with ties to radical Islamic fundamentalists enrolled at local aviation training schools, and suggesting that a nationwide canvass of these schools be carried out to determine if there was a pattern.
"The second is the bureau's response to the arrest of Zaccarias Moussaoui, an Islamic fundamentalist who was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service after his attempts to obtain training on a Boeing 747 aroused suspicions at a Minneapolis-area flight school. Moussaoui was detained on immigration charges in early August 2001, but FBI headquarters blocked efforts by Minneapolis agents to pursue an investigation that could have identified other Al Qaeda operatives at US flight schools.
"The third is the case of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, believed to have participated in the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Despite being on a CIA watch list because of connections to Al Qaeda, the two lived openly in San Diego, California for a year or more. The CIA only notified the FBI of their presence in the US on August 27, 2001, 20 months after their arrival, and only two weeks before September 11."
[from: FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks
author: wsws
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/06/319577.shtml ]
Guess that remote viewing failed to work for the FBI, or it just turned up pictures of the FBI helping the terrorists, as the U.S. Gov't's own report noted above.
Fast forward: The mysterious astronomer never turned up. The photos turned out fake. A cleverly manipulate photo taken from the university of Hawaii website, reversed and rotated to conceal its origin. And according to a sci-fi zine called Ansible, Schramek had used his tech skills for hoaxes before.
link to 216.239.39.104
"The thing is, Charles Schramek and I went to high school together," said Gregory Frost. "We occasionally cooked up batches of helium, filled dry cleaner bags with it, attached pie tins containing flares to the bottoms, then sent the bags off into the night... .we would call the local airport and report having sighted UFOs. Now and then, especially when other people saw our little flare balloons and called in, too, we made the local papers."
"I was on hand on one occasion when he ran his voice through a filter that made him sound like Sonar the Warp Master while he communicated with some gullible ham radio operators elsewhere. Chuck convinced a whole flock of them that he was a space alien from Venus."
Chuck was an inveterate prankster, a ham radio operator, and deviously technological. Just like John Gray, who'd called himself a computer programmer at one time. We wondered if they knew each other. We're pretty sure 'mum's the word' with Gray; and Schramek is dead and can't tell us, either, unless we can cough up enough money for a Ouiji board.
The last apple of the barrel they had to use, I guess, for this government psyop operation, was Schramek:
Said his high school buddy: "He told us one night that he had pulled a great prank on a neighbor who numbered among the believers by dressing all in black and wrapping his head in aluminum foil, then peering into the windows of the neighbor's house. So when I discovered that the UFO dogging comet Hale-Bopp had been photographed by one Charles Schramek, and that this "discovery" was making a splash in national news, I had a lot of trouble sitting upright for awhile."
"Chuck was the only person I ever knew who'd actually tried smoking banana peels. It gave him a headache."
This was the final straw. Maybe we'd just see too much for one day.
We'd slipped on an electrical banana peel on the way to the Level Above Human, and fallen, and now we can't get up.
We wondered idly if "The Clapper" was a Khashoggi deal. It probably doesn't matter...
There is no fiction to match these times. We've all been Overtaken by Events.
It was time to turn on television.
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Auto thefts decline because of technology, but statistics conflict
The most theft-prone vehicle in America might be the Dodge Charger. Or it might be the Ford F-250 pickup truck.
Those are the contradictory conclusions of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the insurance industry-funded Highway Loss Data Institute.
Still, the government agency and private group agree that the theft of late-model vehicles is on a rapid decline in the United States. One reason: automakers’ increasing use of ignition immobilizers, which stop thieves from hot-wiring cars. Nearly 90 percent of 2012 models are equipped with them.
In a report released on Monday, NHTSA said the car stolen most often during the 2011 calendar year was the Charger, with 4.8 thefts for every 1,000 cars produced in 2011. It was followed by the Mitsubishi Galant, Hyundai Accent, Chevrolet Impala and Chevrolet HHR among vehicles with more than 5,000 units produced that year.
Pickup trucks took the top five places in dueling rankings released today by HLDI, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. In first place was the Ford F-250 crew-cab with four-wheel drive, followed by the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Chevrolet Avalanche 1500, GMC Sierra 1500 crew, and Ford F-350 crew with four-wheel drive. The rankings cover model years 2010 to 2012.
The Cadillac Escalade, long the most theft-prone vehicle according to HLDI, dropped to sixth place after GM reworked the SUV to thwart thieves.
“General Motors has put a lot of effort into new antitheft technology, so that may help explain the decline,” Matt Moore, vice president of the group, said in a statement.
Different methodology
The two reports produced separate results because of differences in methodology, Moore said during an interview. His group bases its rankings on a database of insurance claims, while NHTSA counts thefts reported to police.
Moore said large pickup trucks are also particularly prone to theft claims because owners can recoup the cost of equipment stolen from the flatbed.
Still, the two groups can agree on some of their findings — including that the Charger is stolen more frequently than most vehicles. While the muscle car did not make the top 10 most stolen models according to HLDI, the group found that it had 3.5 theft claims per 1,000 years of insurance coverage, or triple the average model.
Experts are not exactly sure what makes the Charger so popular with thieves, although the car’s ample horsepower might be part of the equation.
“If I were a thief I might be able to answer that better,” Moore said during a phone interview. “They’re powerful vehicles,” he added.
NHTSA says its preliminary data show that model-year 2011 vehicles were stolen that calendar year at rates 91 percent lower than the year before.
Steep decline?
In 2011, there were only 0.1 thefts for every thousand vehicles produced, down from 1.17 thefts per thousand cars in 2010. To compile the report, which contains statistics from 226 vehicle lines, NHTSA compared vehicle theft data from the FBI’s National Crime Information Center with production data reported to the EPA.
NHTSA says its latest findings mark a record decline in the theft rate. NHTSA data show that the nation’s vehicle theft rate has declined by an average of 13 percent each year since 2006, which was the last time the rate increased.
Terri Miller, executive director of Help Eliminate Auto Thefts, or H.E.A.T., a public-private partnership dedicated to the prevention of vehicle theft, was skeptical of NHTSA’s conclusion.
She said auto theft is dropping, but she would be surprised if it is happening as quickly as the report indicates.
“It seems like a very dramatic decrease,” Miller said.
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Issue Thirty-Four - Summer 2019
By Paige Dempsey
There are a few kinds of places on this planet that cause my deepest, deepest self to shriek you could die here. Among them are the tops of cliffs and ski lifts. But mostly, I think of Deception Pass, where a bridge skips its way between three rocky spurs of land a stone’s throw from Washington’s border with Canada. There, cars can zoom over the strait and tourists can meander down a pedestrian walkway, snap photos, and admire the rugged cliffs of Whidbey Island and the waters of Skagit Bay. Deception Pass Bridge itself isn’t particularly big or impressive—nothing compared to the Golden Gate, or the Brooklyn, or the I-35 in Minneapolis that spans the Mississippi. In fact, its height—180 feet above the water—makes it feel as thin as a wire. It shudders as cars roar over it.
Among the jagged green and glassy blue of the strait, that bridge is all black railing and narrow highway. I have visited it twice. I have trailed my friends out to the pedestrian walk, stepped onto the metal platform, glued my eyes to the rail, and shuffled across, towing a sticky terror behind me.
I’m not exactly scared of heights. Give me a harness, a helmet, and a secure rope, and I’ll gladly zip-line or climb through the treetops. But bridges do not let me feel secure; think, perhaps, of Galloping Gertie, a different structure spanning a different strait. In 1940, a suspension bridge over the Tacoma Narrows in Washington failed to weather a gale. The winds were so fierce that it rose, writhed, twisted, and broke apart. The breaking was caught on film. You can watch it on YouTube.
Bridges can be fragile. They remind me how fragile I am.
In my mind, the I-35 twisted and bent, like a melting string, before it broke. The witnesses and the survivors of the collapse, say it just disappeared. My family was out of town that day in August 2007. Maybe, my father got a call, or the friends we were spending a day with received an urgent email. Somehow, we knew to turn the TV to the news channel, where we saw the bridge pancake-collapsed into the Mississippi. The asphalt black in the black river water. Cars and trucks small confetti specks. I remember seeing someone interviewed, a streak of red across her chest where her seat belt had held her safe.
In the days that followed, people crowded onto the cantilever at the Guthrie Theater. The 178-foot structure is named the Endless Bridge, and it resembles exactly that. A suspended blue path edges its way towards the Mississippi before ending abruptly, hovering in the air. It looks out over the river just upstream of the I-35. Imagine it. A gathering on a bridge that never returns to the ground, straining for the sight of a lost bridge, one that violently met the river.
I was twelve that summer, and, for the next few months, I held my breath and gripped my seatbelt whenever my mother drove over any bridge. Eyes fixed on a point ahead, where bridge meets earth again.
Somehow, one of my favorite places in the world includes a modest bridge nestled among a thicket of cattails, purple loose strife, and brambles lining the edge of a lake. This trail crosses over a tiny finger of stream, a mere trickle of water, which connects patches of marshland. In previous years, I’d navigated over the water on two gingerly placed planks, weathered and worn, easily displaced by the spring melt. I’ve ended up with icy water soaking into my shoes more than a few times as the two-by-fours slid out from my feet and I splashed into the stream.
I’ve been visiting that trail for years, taking two energetic Labrador retrievers with me. The dogs do not pay any heed to such human things as a trail and a bridge. They ricochet from bush to shrub, from snarl of thorns to clump of lily pads. They jump into and out of and back into the water, cold and muddy as it may be. They arrive at the bridge nose first, feet second, investigating everything. Everything. I hope I have learned a little something from walking with them.
The trail was recently renovated. A wooden boardwalk replaced the path of trampled grasses and a solid, dock-like bridge replaced the old planks. The first time I crossed the new bridge, I stopped in the middle to jump up and down, and the planks sprang back soundly under my feet. It was sturdy. It seemed ready for the water to rise above it, for the mold and mushrooms to take hold of it, and for the winter to freeze it. It was a bridge I could have built myself; if I was given enough lumber and time to make plenty of mistakes. It could endure, but it did not pretend that it could last forever.
Two signs bookended the path. The first one read, Lake Sylvia Peninsula Trail in red and yellow letters. The second one, infuriatingly, accurately, declared, May cause internal peace. Maybe I could love this bridge because it’s so low to the ground. Or because it is simple to love something so pastoral. Or maybe because it asked me to relearn how to stop and look at the cattails releasing their fluff, the muskrat lodge hidden near the shore, at the dogs scattering mud behind them. Or maybe because I did not zoom across it in a car, thinking only of how much it trembled, looking only before and behind me, because this bridge itself was a place, not an avenue towards somewhere else.
I grew up down the street from the remains of a gristmill perched on the edge of Minnehaha Creek. Today, the ruins sit on a hill, surrounded by stoic turf grass sometimes overtaken by geese and dandelions. There is a waterfall there, too. Its mist rises to bathe the stony bridge above it. The bridge connects 50th Street to my neighborhood, rendering the falls invisible from the road. It is made for cars and barely wide enough for that purpose. It is where my brother had his first car crash. It rested between home and the world, so in some way the Mill Bridge has taken the measure of my life as I crossed it time and time again.
Some days, the Mill Bridge reminds me of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. As the story tells it, they once ran into trouble with a troll that lived under a stony bridge at a waterfall. He wanted to eat the Billy Goats, but one at a time, the goats tricked him. They delayed the troll’s attack until, finally, the biggest, bravest goat fought him and won. I suppose here is where I tell you that I was once the littlest goat, that I have grown up into the biggest goat and found myself finally able to face the troll under the bridge. But I do not think that is true. If I were to go to Deception Pass tomorrow, that sticky terror would still cling to my knees, and I would not believe it possible to survive the crossing until my feet touched earth again.
Once, I would have said that all bridges need warning signs. That they cradle seeds of danger among their cables. And maybe there is some truth to that. But I have done some growing, and I have kept crossing real bridges all the while. And I know of a city that rebuilt a bridge after it broke. And I know two dogs who love nothing more than to seek out every detail of smell that a small bridge has to offer, one that stares down the ice in January. And I know, too, of another story. One where a young woman walks along the Brooklyn Bridge and stops to lie down on its wooden planks and feel the bridge’s hum: how it trembled under all those thousands of footsteps, all those lives rushing and breathing and wondering. And isn’t that the heartbeat of a bridge, isn’t that all it hopes for, to deliver its charges safely back to land.
Copyright 2019 Dempsey
Paige Dempsey recently received her BA in Environmental Humanities from Whitman College. She is an emerging writer, with poems published in Whitman College’s two campus literary magazines. After moving back to Minneapolis, MN, she works at a children’s bookstore where she gets to share her love of stories with people of all ages.
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It’s Easier with IT
SAP can make life easier. Pille’s story is proof of that.
Meet a talented member from the SAP ecosystem. Zsolt Pál, or ’Pille’ as his friends call him, didn’t just contribute to the development of an add-on to an SAP solution at a small, innovative partner company. He is also editor-in-chief at an online radio station, performs at a theater and teaches information technology to blind youngsters. He knows what blind people are facing when they sit down at a computer since he is blind himself.
Zsolt Pál was not born blind, but lost his eyesight soon after birth due to a failure in an incubator. As a child he fell in love with ’talking’ computers with screen readers because they opened a new world for him. So when he left elementary school for the blind, it was an obvious choice for him to further his education at an IT-oriented technical college, and then continue studying at a university, where he earned a first-class degree in programming mathematics. You can probably imagine what challenges had to solve during his studies, just moving from one side of the room to the other was not an easy task, especially being the only visually impaired student there.
Pille invests his energy in helping other blind people. He not only teaches programming and the handling of databases in school, but also helps local companies make their homepages accessible to visually impaired people.
Teaming up with an SAP partner to improve blind people’s lives
Pille improves fellow blind people’s lives also through his work on an SAP product: He contributed to the development of an SAP Business One add-on, which makes many functions of SAP Business One ERP system accessible for blind people.
Pille worked as a contractor for an SAP partner company in Hungary. The add-on was developed by OnLive IT, a small SAP partner, employing only five people. Tamas Matolcsi, managing director of OnLive IT, used to teach blind people, and worked voluntarily at “Informatics for the Blind,” an independent non-profit foundation. His background led him to pursue his mission to enable blind people to participate in business by enabling them to use an enterprise application system.
The idea was followed by action. As an experienced, and recognized SAP partner – OnLive IT won multiple SAP competitions – the company developed an add-on for SAP Business One (SAP Business One for Blind) that case-sensitively reads what’s on the actual SAP Business One user interface and allows effective application navigation.
The SAP Business One for Blind Add-on
The SAP B for Blind Add-on makes all the functions of SAP Business One ERP system accessible for blind people. It empowers companies to employ blind people in jobs they couldn’t do before. With the support of the Add-on, visually impaired users can get a quick overview of the information important to them in the given situation, avoiding wasting time on irrelevant information
Through his work with SAP Business One, Pille identifies strongly with the application. He does not only think that the solution is a useful tool, but particularly likes the fact that it can be accessed from anywhere.
“We’ve had interest from as far afield as Canada and Australia. Currently the implementation is on its way to a Canadian customer,” says Tamas Matolcsi, who admits his company is not actively marketing the add-on due to a lack of resources.
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Isola di Capraia, Tremiti
pag. 53-78: The vegetal landscape of the Republic of San Marino
E. Biondi1 & I. Vagge2
1Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali e delle Produzioni vegetali, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via Brecce Bianche, I- 60131 Ancona; e-mail:e.biondi@univpm.it
2Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, I-20133 Milano; e-mail: ilda.vagge@unimi.it
Here we present a phytosociological study of the vegetal landscape of the territory of the Republic of San Marino, situated in the northern Apennines, where it covers 61 km2. The bioclimate belongs to the subMediterranean variant of the temperate macrobioclimate.
The vegetal landscape is here examined in relation to the characteristics of the substratum upon which it develops. On the calcareous heights, positioned on a short ridge that culminates in the peaks of Monte Titano (750 m), the forest vegetation belongs to the association of Lamiastro-Ostryetum carpinifoliae on the coldest aspects, and to the association Stellario holosteae-Quercetum pubescentis on those that are warmer. We also present the substitution phytocoenoses that are in dynamic connection with the woods. In the rocky sector of the calcareous ridge, the vegetation follows the morphology and micromorphology of the substratum, forming vegetational mosaics that are particularly complex and present rare vegetal associations, among which there is the association Crepido titani-Brassicetum robertianae colonising limited vertical portions of the calcareous cliffs, and the association Teucrio flavi-Ephedretum majoris, which is found on the microterraces that alternate with the cliffs.
On the calcareous-marl conglomerate substrata and the molasses of Monte Cerreto, in part occupied by a wood that is now degraded, which is thought to be potentially referable to the association Aceri obtusati-Quercetum cerris. There is a particular vegetation coverage of Erica arborea and Ulex europaeus ssp. europaeus (this last species finds the eastern limits of its area in the location of San Marino) that is referred to the new association Crataego monogynae-Ulicetum europaei of the Rhamno-Prunetea
The greater part of the territory of this State is formed of clay hills that have been subjected to the phenomena of rapid erosion of the substratum that has led to the formation of badlands. The vegetation is differentiated into the pioneering vegetal communities already seen for the badlands of the nearby Marecchia Valley, with the associations: Hainardio cylindricae-Salsoletum sodae, Elytrigio athericae-Artemisietum cretaceae and Arundinetum plinianae. In the areas that are no longer cultivated, however, vegetation of the association Senecio erucifolii-Inuletum viscosae has developed. The study of the description of the vegetal landscape of San Marino Republic is completed by the analysis of the fragmentary river formations and the nitrophilic and anthropogenic formations. class.
northern Apennines, phytosociology, plant landscape, San Marino Republic, vegetation series
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Escrow tops NHL players' list of concerns ahead of CBA talks
NHL Headlines
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By STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Hockey Writer
Jonathan Toews says he just wants his contract to be worth what it says on paper.
Right now, it's not that simple.
Under terms of the collective bargaining agreement, NHL owners and players divide hockey-related revenue 50/50, and if player salaries exceed that split a certain percentage is withheld in escrow to make it even. The Chicago Blackhawks captain and fellow players have lost upward of 10% of their pay to escrow over the past seven seasons, which is why 25 of 31 NHL Players' Association representatives surveyed by The Associated Press and Canadian Press named escrow as the biggest bargaining issue with September deadlines looming to terminate the current CBA effective the fall of 2020.
"A. escrow and B. escrow," Toews said when asked the two biggest issues in labor talks.
Olympic participation, the definition of hockey-related revenue, post-career health care, concerns about youth squeezing out older players because of the salary cap and money were the other topics player reps pointed to as important to them.
Escrow, though, is a point of contention in locker rooms around the league. It is expected to be a significant topic in talks ahead of the owners' Sept. 1 and players' Sept. 15 deadline to opt out of this CBA and set the clock ticking toward another potential work stoppage.
"I think we, as players, are really educating ourselves on the economics of the game and how it works and why escrow is the way it is," New Jersey Devils player rep Cory Schneider said. "There are a lot of things that go into it, and we understand from the owners' side how it works. But for us that's definitely something that, it fluctuates quarter to quarter, year to year, so you never really know what it's going to be and it's hard to really understand what you're earning or what your worth is when you're getting a big chunk of it taken back.
"I don't know if we're going to eliminate it. Obviously we'll figure that part out. But at least some way to mitigate it or control it better for us just to know what to expect."
The CBA sets aside some part of a player's salary in a bank account throughout the year. After the season, total revenue is calculated and if the league is not at its 50% share, it gets the escrow money to make up the difference.
NHLPA executive director Don Fehr said escrow has been discussed in talks with Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly and expects more to come. But there's no quick fix to reduce or eliminate escrow without changing substantial things about the economics of the league.
"Obviously it's an irritant to players and from time to time it can be a big one," Fehr said. "But the question is how you do it. I mean, you can fix escrow by cutting salaries. I don't think players are interested in doing that. So it has to become something that you address in a manner which makes sense for the players and addresses their concerns."
A handful of players voiced their concern that revenues aren't growing enough to compensate for the natural growth of salaries - and the cap - over time. Because seven of 31 teams are based in Canada, the fluctuation of the Canadian dollar affects everything, and players would like to find a solution to the entire financial picture, including a look at what counts as hockey-related revenue.
"There's definitely a concern and always an emphasis on the revenues and us growing the game," Toronto Maple Leafs player rep John Tavares said. "That's a top priority because I think when we see growth, we're obviously going to see it on the business side. When you feel the hit of escrow on top of whatever taxes we have to pay, it's definitely something that guys notice and something you don't enjoy seeing. It's important to us, but in saying that the bigger picture is the growth of the game. When that happens, when we do those things right, that'll lead to more revenues that will hopefully lead to some adjustments."
Commissioner Gary Bettman calls escrow "a function of the cap" and said it's going to be higher when that upper limit on salaries is higher.
"There are things you can do, either immediately or over time (where) you can manage the cap differently, which would manage the escrow, and those are things that obviously we need to be talking about," Bettman said.
It's not the only thing. Many players have expressed their desire to guarantee Olympic participation, though it seems impossible to collectively bargain because the International Ice Hockey Federation and International Olympic Committee are also involved. Countless business and political factors will go into whether the NHL sends its players to the Beijing Games in 2022.
One issue mentioned by players that can be bargained is how players are taken care of after they retire. Vancouver Canucks player rep Bo Horvat said medical coverage, treatment for concussion issues and other things matter.
He's not alone in prioritizing that with talks ongoing and some optimism of maintaining labor peace because the issues are at least more straightforward than the last round of talks in 2012-13.
"Post-career stuff, health care stuff, lots of little things like that that are important to players as far as livelihood going forward," Minnesota Wild player rep Devan Dubnyk said. "The good news is there's not anything major, but certainly some things we're going to want to be talked about."
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THE CUBAN INFLUENCE ON MEN’S FASHION THIS SPRING
By Giancarlo on February 2, 2016 Fashion, FEBRUARY/MARCH 2016, Topics, Volume XI
Belstaff Spring Summer 2016
After an eventful year of intriguing fashion, we contemplate the best spring/summer 2016 looks for the chic men of fashion. It’s time to start looking ahead to see what’s set to be big in men’s fashion once the weather settles and we begin to feel the warmth of spring. From safari jackets to Cuban collars to wide-leg trousers, these are the trends we expect will hit hard this season.
Balmain Spring Summer 2016
Looking to the dawn of aviation and early 20th century safaris for inspiration, designers changed direction for spring 2016. Menswear usually manifests in military-inspired overcoats and camo prints; yet this season we see a resurgence of neutrals and scorched-earth colors in trims and detailing, hats and accessories, open-necked shirts and lightweight scarves. Other design houses such as Belstaff went full throttle with a desert combat collection of field jackets and multi-pocketed vests inspired by archeological explorers. Khaki field jackets, chinos and bush shirts will all work well for an urban expedition.
Conde Nast has labeled Cuba the most desired destination for 2016, so it’s nothing strange that the essence of Cuban elegance made its way to the catwalks for spring. Designers are re-charting the course and entering the realm of the Cuban collared shirt, also known as the Cabana or open collar shirt. This style of shirt was first noticed in the 1950s, and though relatively old fashioned compared to conventional short-sleeved shirts, it has its own charm as well unique touch of class. There was a black version embroidered with pink palm trees at Dries Van Noten, while at E. Tautz, styles ranged from geometric prints to plain pale indigo. If you’re bored silly of Oxford button-downs, a Cuban collar short-sleeved shirt is the ideal piece to shake things up. But you’ll want to be sure to keep the cut fitted and the style itself low-key, so try plain, neutral designs for starters and wear neatly tucked into a slightly looser-leg trouser for the full 1950s effect.
Missoni Spring Summer Fashion
While we’ve been seeing wider-legged trousers on the runway for a couple of years now, this was the first season we saw so many make sense. From front-pleated styles to Dolce & Gabbana’s floral takes, relaxed trousers were offered up as the perfect way to ensure your legs stay aired during the summer’s heat. It’s the brave man who’d attempt some particularly roomy styles. Roomier styles with the right break are a cinch to wear with everything, from t-shirts to short-sleeved shirts and blazers. Put simply, go for a pair that is somewhere between allowing your legs to breathe the classic trouser fit.
From safari fit to trousers that won’t lower your sperm count, spring 2016 brings a total 1950s vibe to menswear. If you’re giving any of these trends a whirl, steer toward more wearable aspects (unless you’re an off-duty model) and keep your styles clean and polished. Like any casually chic man would say, “Comfort and style before anything else.”
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The X-Files #51: Paper Clip
"I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want is the answers."
ACTUAL DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT: Mulder and Scully find a secret DNA databank apparently used to track abductees.
REVIEW: While there is certainly some enjoyment to be derived from stories where characters are completely confounded by a Conspiracy, where everything that happens was planned by the Secret Masters, it can be quite fun to see the conspirators panic as well. So while our heroes' victory is, as usual, incremental and Pyrrhic, Paper Clip shows it's not always smooth sailing for members of the Conspiracy. The Smoking Man, whose smoking affectation has always conveyed a sense of cool detachment, momentarily loses it when Skinner tries to make a deal on Mulder and Scully's behalf, and that's a thing of beauty. HE'S SUCH A BADASS!!! The man who seems to be in charge must, in fact, answer to others who could decide to bump him off if they discovered his screw-up. Just as he tries to do to Krycek (where will the would-be assassin go now?). So he lies to them, and the more he lies, the higher the risk of Syndicate reprisals. He's going to give himself a heart attack at this rate. On a narrative level, what we're seeing is a potential fluidity between enemies and allies, the need for villains to perhaps switch teams, if only to survive.
Our agents lose the files, but they've been added to the Navajo's oral history, Windtalker-style, which is what is meant to keep the Smoking Man off our heroes' backs. Is it a bluff from Skinner? I almost hope it is, because there's no way it makes sense unless 1) every Navajo ever has an eidetic memory, and 2) Skinner doesn't tell Mulder he can access those files anytime just by calling his Native friends. No,in The X-Files, mytharc information needs to be delivered with an eye dropper, one drop at a time. Paper Clip lets out several drops, however. We now know (or think we know) that the government took genetic material from everyone in the U.S. when they started vaccinating for smallpox (classic conspiracy theory stuff), that the boxcar was full of human-alien hybrids, that Mulder's father worked on this project with Nazi war criminals, that Samantha was taken to keep Bill in line (after a Sophie's Choice selection), that there are active files in the DNA databank facility on all abductees, and that aliens seem to be using it probably with the cooperation of the Syndicate. By the end of the episode, Mulder and Scully are more resolved than ever to get to the bottom of things and expose the evil organization that consorted with Nazi butchers (hey, it's Gogol from the Bond films!), abducted and mutilated Scully, and killed her sister. I must admit, I got a little choked up at the end there.
Because if there's one thing The X-Files does right, it's capture the political existentialism of the 1990s. People weren't sure who the enemies were anymore, not in the post-Cold War era. It might coincide with a growing political polarization between Left and Right (which to outsiders seems inordinate in the U.S.), and general mistrust in government bodies and agencies, the lessons of Nixon, but also of Iran-Contra. Clinton's scandal was still three years away. The infamous 2000 election, five. So Mulder and Scully are existentialist heroes, trying to find answers and only uncovering more questions, recognizing that they have very little power, and facing defeat every time they dare to use any. At the end of Paper Clip, they abandon any hope of getting justice, and Mulder invokes fate as the force that controls their lives. Rob Bowman's direction is in line with this, and he creates the perfect image to represent their situation in the secret files depository just after the black ops soldiers arrive (were they carried there in the space craft?!): The beams of two flashlights, seeking one another in the dark. That's all this is. No complete picture, and the only sure thing, the only thing either of them can trust, is each other.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: Did I see that right? There are two types of DNA sample containers in the files. One is old, the plastic one is new. Scully's sample is in a new container, indicating it was likely taken (or refreshed) when she was abducted. And Samantha's sample is ALSO in a plastic container, even though she was abducted 20+ years ago. So when did they change container types? If before 1970, then never mind. If later, that would seem to indicate they're still experimenting on Samantha, that she's either a captive test subject or is somewhere, out there, getting routinely abducted. There is recent material on file!
REWATCHABILITY: High - Intense! An episode that's equal parts punching-the-air moments and doom and gloom. I'm almost sorry we have to go back to stand-alone episodes.
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06/01/2017 Events, Responsibility and Sustainabilitycorporate social responsibility, Crystal Barnes
Integrated Sustainability Strategies Bring Nielsen to CECP Summit
Recognizing corporate responsibility and sustainability as a business imperative isn’t new. The growing number of ways for companies to connect business strategy with key environmental, social and governance (ESG) opportunities across the full value chain recently brought more than 250 corporate leaders together for CECP’s annual summit in New York City.
CECP, the “CEO Force for Good,” is a coalition of companies and CEOs committed to creating a better world through business. This year’s summit, “Brave Leaders, Bold Moves,” highlighted the importance of engaging in meaningful actions today that help ensure a long-term future through sustainable growth.
As a long-standing CECP member company, we joined the summit to share insights across multiple areas, with Kirsten Londono, Senior Vice President, Client Development, sharing our data around consumer sustainability trends, and Crystal Barnes, Vice President, Global Responsibility & Sustainability, exploring how corporate responsibility and investor relations teams in particular can connect to unlock new opportunities.
Recognizing that the products we buy are more than just food and goods, Kirsten emphasized that sustainability is one of multiple factors, like lifestage and wellness, that influence what, where and how individuals choose to consume. While slow retail growth is expected to continue, she noted that brands can find a way forward by tapping into sustainability claims that consumers care about. In a world where 30% of heavy social media users view social media engagement as an important way to show support for their favorite companies or brands, according to our Social Media Report, companies are increasingly conscious of the need to provide consumers with experiences that resonate most effectively.
Bringing in data from Nielsen Product Insider, an ingredient and label measurement tool powered by our strategic alliance with Label Insight, Kirsten highlighted some specific areas where food and beverages with sustainability claims are growing, citing a 10.8% growth rate (from 2015 to 2016) for products made using responsible business practices, and an 11.4% increase (over the same period) for products using sustainable farming methods.
Linking sustainability and transparency, Kirsten also shared findings from our Global Ingredient and Dining-Out Trends Report, such as the 73% of consumers who stated feeling positively about companies that are transparent about where and how their products are made, grown or raised.
Transparency stretches far beyond consumer preference. Collaboration around shared goals for continuous improvement—and committing to publicly sharing progress with key stakeholders—is another area of growth opportunity for all companies. Building on CEO Mitch Barns’ presentation of our long-term business strategy at CECP’s inaugural CEO-Investor Forum in February, Crystal shared how teams across Nielsen work together to achieve shared goals.
Highlighting the relationship between our Global Responsibility & Sustainability and Investor Relations teams, in particular, Crystal and her co-panelists commented on the evolution of these partnerships across companies and sectors, going from more transactional exchanges of information to transformational collaborations that create value for the investor community and beyond.
“What it’s helped highlight for us is that your environmental, social, governance, or ESG, strategy is your business strategy,” said Crystal. “They are not mutually exclusive; they’re complementary.”
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Critical Discussions Among Proponents and Skeptics
Is Parapsychology supportive of Religion?
Thread starter Sciborg_S_Patel
Guy Incognito
Sciborg_S_Patel said:
It seems there's this argument that if paranormal stuff is real then it would make people more likely to believe in extant religions.
Is that true though? I mean look at the recent X-men Apocalypse trailer where it suggests a mutant (so human with paranormal powers) was responsible for Hinduism, Egypt's ancient faith, and the Abrahamic faiths ->
So it's entirely possible religious figures had some kind of Psi powers that got exaggerated. In fact the messiness of the paranormal/spiritual worlds suggest to me there would be multiple entities using religion for benevolent and malevolent ends.
Look at reincarnation - the idea that there is some kind of karmic system seems to go against what's actually observed.
NDEs - okay this might be the one place where you could make an argument that some percentage of people meet religious figures and get shown Heaven (and sometimes Hell)...but it seems a good deal of NDEs don't involve traditional religious notions like eternal damnation.
Channeling - it seems the major message of channeling seems to be we are practically gods ourselves, choosing to incarnate and even choose our fates in the mortal lifetimes we experiences.
Alien encounters - Looking at Vallee's stuff, seems like either there are beings masquerading as gods our we are gods trying to remember our own divinity.
I see evidence for the existence of parapsychological phenomena as broadly propitious for religious belief, because-- to varying degrees and in varying ways-- it tends to confirm various fundamental premises of religious worldviews, and specifically premises which are often disputed by practitioners in other fields of science. Of course a great deal hangs on the *interpretation* of these phenomena, which is beyond the scope of scientific research and falls to philosophical and theological reasoning, personal spiritual intuition, and/or simple preference. Much of your post (along with subsequent ones in this thread, I see) is devoted to positing alternative (non-religious) interpretations of psi phenomena, but whether or not these are valid, they are conjectures which a religiously-inclined person may or may not accept. If we are investigating whether or not (insert religion) might be true, then in addition to examining its claims from a historical/philosophical/theological standpoint, we might ask whether there is any empirical evidence that the basic claims it makes (for example, that humans possess an immaterial soul) have any truth value; parapsychological evidence (for example, extrasensory perception and Near-Death Experiences), if sound, can substantively corroborate some such claims.
Since (as debunkers are wont to remind us) we do not have a full explanation or "mechanism" for psi, your continual refrain that parapsychology may undermine religion by indicating people who manifest paranormal traits, experiences, or abilities are "like X-Men" and not "God-touched" lacks force to my mind. In much the same way that putting the term "spontaneous remission" (a placeholder term for recoveries which have not been explained in normal terms) on apparent cases of medical miracles does not actually meaningfully refute the claim that the event was miraculous, putting the term "psi" on seemingly-supernatural or divine phenomena does not meaningfully refute the claim that they are of a fundamental supernatural or divine character. I think an interpretation of the evidence whereby, as religions would have it, these phenomena are divine in origin and nature is very reasonable.
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Well said, Guy Incognito. You said what I was trying to say only much better and in much more detail.
Typoz
Would love to hear more about this past life recall, if not here then in the Spirituality section of the forum.
Or did you already do so in a thread I missed? If so apologies.
Thanks for this suggestion or invitation for me to say more. A fairly brief response for now.
I think I've occasionally mentioned my story, perhaps in a private message, but never in any great detail, so no, you didn't miss anything so far.
There are several things which slow me down, One is the timespan involved (say from age five to twenty-two), and the feeling I have that to do the subject justice I'd need to put things into context, thus it tends to turn into an autobiography whenever I think of it.
Another is that it isn't a dry experiment in card-guessing, it's a story involving extremes of emotion from joy to misery which I don't mind relating but which can make an audience uncomfortable. Lastly, there's a question of verification against historical records, such as they are. To give even a superficial coverage of this aspect, could trigger others to double-check what I say, and I'm not sure I'm ready to have my life cross-examined in that way.
A lot for me to think about. But this is by no means my last word on the subject, I may come up with some sort of distilled summary to post maybe in another thread.
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Sciborg_S_Patel
Guy Incognito said:
I see evidence for the existence of parapsychological phenomena as broadly propitious for religious belief, because-- to varying degrees and in varying ways-- it tends to confirm various fundamental premises of religious worldviews, and specifically premises which are often disputed by practitioners in other fields of science. Of course a great deal hangs on the *interpretation* of these phenomena, which is beyond the scope of scientific research and falls to philosophical and theological reasoning, personal spiritual intuition, and/or simple preference.
Well it's not entirely clear that all the phenomena is beyond the scope of scientific research. There are a variety of proposals for explaining Psi even in a materialist paradigm.
Much of your post (along with subsequent ones in this thread, I see) is devoted to positing alternative (non-religious) interpretations of psi phenomena, but whether or not these are valid, they are conjectures which a religiously-inclined person may or may not accept.
Well a person can claim all the NDEs that contradict their faith are the work of demons, but with the general trend of global communication I'm not convinced this idea will hold water.
Note in a post to Typoz I did note that I was too hasty in the OP to assume parapsychology would be strongly counter religious.
If we are investigating whether or not (insert religion) might be true, then in addition to examining its claims from a historical/philosophical/theological standpoint, we might ask whether there is any empirical evidence that the basic claims it makes (for example, that humans possess an immaterial soul) have any truth value; parapsychological evidence (for example, extrasensory perception and Near-Death Experiences), if sound, can substantively corroborate some such claims.
Well I think everyone would be in agreement that parapsychology can make religion metaphysically plausible.
But establishing both reincarnation and NDEs contradicting scripture would hardly help shore up every religion since some either posit a karmic debt system or deny reincarnation. Others insist everyone goes to Heaven or Hell based on whether or not they believe in a particular God.
Since (as debunkers are wont to remind us) we do not have a full explanation or "mechanism" for psi, your continual refrain that parapsychology may undermine religion by indicating people who manifest paranormal traits, experiences, or abilities are "like X-Men" and not "God-touched" lacks force to my mind.
I think it's one thing if you read a story about Jesus or Krishna healing the sick, it's another when the guy capable of psychic healing read Bengson's book and is an average Joe.
As I said, it deflates the "miracle" of healing. Or at least it can do so in some minds.
In much the same way that putting the term "spontaneous remission" (a placeholder term for recoveries which have not been explained in normal terms) on apparent cases of medical miracles does not actually meaningfully refute the claim that the event was miraculous, putting the term "psi" on seemingly-supernatural or divine phenomena does not meaningfully refute the claim that they are of a fundamental supernatural or divine character. I think an interpretation of the evidence whereby, as religions would have it, these phenomena are divine in origin and nature is very reasonable.
Well saying something is of divine origin, and saying it supports a religion, are to my mind different things? I accept the fault is mine for going with the definition in my head and assuming everyone else would know what it was.
But I think spontaneous remission is different from psi in that Psi is often attributed to be a power held by a particular individual. Let's say Bengson's healing ideas took root and were effective. They're performed by atheists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, etc.
In your mind that doesn't deflate the idea that Krishna, Jesus, and so on were special persons?
An interesting argument linking parapsychology & religion by Grosso is his book - you should be able to read most it via Amazon's Look Inside feature.
See the final part.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Could-Fly-Levitation/dp/1442256729/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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Some podcasts with the folks at Esalen also discussing the topic:
In this first part, we ask, why has the study of “paranormal” experience been somewhat ignored by academia in general and Religious Studies in particular? Is the problem the term “paranormal”? What importance of these kinds of studies have for the field? Is there concern that such studies necessarily seek to justify the ontological claims of the paranormal? This latter issue is pursued in part two, to be broadcast this wednesday. Many of the scholars also offer advice for those interested in this area but are worried about “employability”. You will hear, in the following order, the voices of Jeffery Kripal, Ann Taves, Tanya Luhrmann, Fiona Bowie, Paul Stoller, Charles Emmons, Stanley Krippner and David Hufford.
In this second part we ask “the epistemic/ontological question”: in studying these experiences, how far should we be concerned with the ontology? Would to do so be an abandonment of the scientific materialism which underpins the discipline, and therefore a slide back into theology? Or can there be a bigger model of materialism – a “complicated materialism”, to use Ann Taves’ expression – in which these phenomena might be suitably explicable? Or, as Bowie puts it, can we use “empathetic engagement” to adopt the ontology for research purposes? You will hear, in the following order, the voices of Jeffery Kripal, Ann Taves, Tanya Luhrmann, Fiona Bowie, Paul Stoller, Charles Emmons and David Hufford.
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Jim_Smith said:
Afterlife research should be the primary field of consciousness research. Neuroscience and Psi ought to be considered subfields.
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Why Levitation?
There are more basic questions that deal with the range of subjective human experience covered by the world of religion. Questions like, Is there a greater mind or spirit at large in the world? And if yes, can we interact with that greater mind? When I am sick or in danger or in need of guidance, am I all alone in a nonresponsive universe? Or are there some secret avenues of communication open to me in my hour of need or perplexity? Is death the end of my adventure on earth or does the story get picked up again on a different channel at a different wavelength? Are all my thoughts impotent echoes that sink into oblivion or are they as William Blake said “filling immensity”? Is all the mystery, every marvel and miracle in the history of the world part of a gigantic illusion? Questions like these touch more closely on what most people think and feel when they ruminate on these questions that center around religion. And questions like these are at least open to conversation in light of what we know about consciousness, psi, and even quantum mechanics. In my opinion, with the full panoply of extraordinary phenomena garnered from parapsychology and consciousness studies, it is possible to start a completely different kind of conversation about religion, spirituality, and the natural sciences.
A conversation of the sort I have in mind will not take place on a sufficiently large scale that is needed until two things happen: concessions, one from science and one from religion. Science needs to give up its blinkered attachment to an old-fashioned and stultifying reductive materialism. Religion has to renounce with a loving smile its pretensions to immutable and absolute truth; above all, it must lay aside its violent contention that one or another dogma must rule on pain of death.
To summarize this brief statement and answer the question: why levitation? First of all, however outrageous the notion, there is solid evidence for it, and the evidence should be confronted. Second, levitation is a rare and spectacular demonstration of a latent power that manifests in many different forms. What we call ‘psychokinesis’ — in its full potential – needs to be included in any complete account of the human personality. A third reason we should attend to the phenomenon of levitation is that it provides excellent fodder for discussion in the parapsychology of religion.
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Laird said:
Sci, in this thread, we see things differently, and I see things more like Jim. My answer to the thread title? "DEFINITELY". Let me explain why.
There are, in my view, two main reasons why people no longer believe in the extant religions. Firstly, they see them as contradictory, either internally or with respect to all of the other religions: why believe in a religion (Christianity) in which a supposedly all-powerful deity doesn't even destroy His most wicked opponent; why believe in one religion over another if the one is opposed to the other and a person has no objective means to distinguish between the two absolute claims? Parapsychology doesn't apply so much here. But: secondly, people see religions as rendered obsolete by "science" i.e. the materialist scientistic orthodoxy in which science has supposedly "proved" that anything spiritual or non-materialistic is mere myth and story-telling; that it is literally impossible.
It is here that parapsychology has (potentially) a huge impact. Parapsychology says: no, wait, that stuff's not impossible after all, and, in fact, science validates it rather than obsoleting it!
And once you re-open the door to "miracles" and "the supernatural", you re-open the door to religion that materialist scientism closed with its censure of the notion of all that which it deems "woo".
Now, you suggest, in effect - and I hope I am not taking liberties with this paraphrasing - that parapsychology can (should?) be interpreted as describing "natural" (as opposed to spiritual) powers to people. But, honestly, Sci, do you really think that this is how the average person is going to interpret it, especially in our modern culture? Give somebody evidence that they, or others, can see at a distance, or predict the future, or experience vivid events when their brain is utterly deprived of both oxygen and blood, and they are inevitably going to interpret it as evidence of something "beyond"; of something "spiritual"; and whilst that won't necessarily lead that person to an extant religion, it will certainly predispose them to it!
By the way, just a bit of a side note: your thread title mentioned merely "religion", whereas your actual OP referred to "extant" religions. I think that it is important to be clear on which you intend, because it makes a difference. It is very possible that "the" religion has not yet been revealed/constructed.
Sorry, missed this one!
The part you think parapsychology doesn't apply to - the contrast between religions - is actually the one I think that results in parapsychology having a disruptive effect on the extant religions. We have various post-mortem data points (NDEs, cases of reincarnation types, mediumship), and potential information on the larger non-material reality.
I think all of this information will, when viewed without bias, at least suggest that there are a variety of options for the post-mortem aspect of religion. Combine this with the reality of Psi - which can be seen as natural - as an explanation for miraculous powers and you have a recipe that really cuts into centralized religious authority...at least when talking about many extant religions though I suspect Spiritualism would be a strong potential exception.
Now that said I do agree that even the weakest fraction of Psi bolsters the possibility of religious claims being true, and as I noted in replies to others I was likely too swift to suggest parapsychology would invalidate religions. Also, I think you're probably right to note the contrast between religion in general - both past & future forms - and the extant religions.
What we might see are some kind of "meta" faiths or "salad bowl"/"melting pot" faiths born of the ideas of people like Jung & Steiner. I think you are correct that realizing that there is a vast number of possibilities - not all of them pleasant - that can occur after death, along with the knowledge that the world might be filled with unseen conscious entities would likely bring people toward some spiritual/esoteric practices at the very least.
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Follow up to the last post, a blog Psiclops recommended goes into the "Multidimensional Afterlife":
The Multidimensional Afterlife, Part I
There are many ways that spirits describe their environment to those who still inhabit the earth; and yet like humans, spirits are fallible, prone to disagreements and misstatements; their words can be mangled by mediums, distorted by channels, prone to bias from the human mind or simply misinterpreted due to the general perplexity in communication between our worlds. Hence, the adversities of the afterlife researcher, who struggles to piece together fragments and snippets of spirit communications, trying to avoid frauds and zealots, and find some sort of commonalities which can be used a basis to objectively describe a frustratingly subjective world. The good news is that with an ever expanding body of experiences and expanding access to information, a picture of the afterlife emerges. It’s far greater, more expansive and wondrous than we can imagine, but it also draws stark attention to the responsibility we have for our own thoughts, feelings and expectations.
Many people erroneously believe that once we cross over into this non-physical realm, that we become instantly enlightened, all-knowing, precognitive experts on the spirit realm. While it does seem that we gain a much wider, less egotistic perspective, I have never seen a reliable report of spirits claiming to know the ‘mind of God’ if you will, for the depth of their knowledge about the spirit world has much to do with their own evolution and perspective. If you are fortunate to come across a very highly-evolved spirit, for example Seth (as channeled by Jane Roberts), you may be privy to more information about the nature of consciousness, but even Seth admits his lack of knowledge in many areas.
The Multidimensional Afterlife, Part II
In The Multidimensional Afterlife, Part I, we were introduced to the afterlife as a hierarchy of thought-manifested worlds. Because the spirit realm is thought-based, souls are automatically attracted to the dimension that corresponds with their beliefs, expectations, personality and state of mind, as well as their spiritual development. When spirits cross over into the afterlife with strong expectations, religious beliefs, trauma or overwhelming negativity, their afterlife environment will mirror these thought states. The afterlife is more of a state of mind than an objective physical environment like we are used to on earth. In Part II of this series, we are going to look at what happens when souls go into death with serious traumas, emotional attachments, unresolved pain or anger, or proclivities toward violence or hatred.
These ideas are possibly close to where a "Science of Religion", in the tradition of Myers & James, might take us if post-mortem survival is proven or at the least if Super Psi is the only reasonable(?) competitor left standing.
But it seems this kind of understanding of the afterlife suggests the fate of one's soul is largely up to one's own actions rather than the intercession of a deity? That if there is to be a relationship with God it is a personal one?
What I suspect might happen is religions will be around as options, perhaps akin to the many diet plans we have, with none being definitive or strictly necessary in most cases but still rather useful in ensuring a "healthy" afterlife.
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Against Tradition: Anarchism in a Magical Context
My attention was again drawn back to the Goddess. Her face was…haunting; beautiful yet otherwordly. Hestia stated in no uncertain terms that she desired I become her devotee and build her an altar in my home. Most might consider this a special calling, perhaps even destiny.
I told her no.
Well, I politely told her I really appreciated the offer but could not in good conscious become the servant of any god or goddess. I told her I’d give her special thanks and always remember to think of my home as a place her spirit was welcomed and then went on my marry way. The forest scene ended and I returned to my former nocturnal excursion.
When I tell this tale to the few pagan-oriented folk I know I often get shocked looks and gasps. An ancient Greek goddess comes calling to you and you deny her? You had been chosen and you said no? You denied the will of the Gods?
Yes I had, just as easily as I will deny the Will of the State and Society.
The two possibilities of the Fed’s raiding my home and making me disappear or a pissed off Goddess striking me blind could have all happened. I could have and still can pay dearly. There is a chance The Good Doctor will cross the Veil far quicker than most.
Yet while I can understand this, even accept that the risk as too great or the outcome too certain, I refuse to be forced to obey these circumstances because of what the other party is or what they can do. I weigh probabilities but I do not take orders. My spiritual power and psychical energy are MINE to be given freely as I desire. To have that taken by office or custom is to lose what truly makes us human in the first place.
Perhaps this is the philosophical split between Occultism and the more hierarchical forms of Polytheism or even militant radicals and mere liberals: for some “the line” extends as far as they’ve been told, for others nothing will do unless they draw the line themselves. Few pagan faiths allow priestesses or priests self-initiation. Magic is practically rife with it and for good reason.
Gordon White in his new book The Chaos Protocols(review forthcoming) notes:
“Boiled down to its essence, a self-initiation is a declaration to the universe that you have a seat at the table, that your Highest is united with your Lowest, and you expect the cosmic croupier to deal you in. It is a fundamentally radical act, a transgressive move. It runs counter to almost two thousand years of social, economic, and religious diktat. There is a lot to burn through, which is why you must persist in your transgression until the volume of High Strangeness in your life is so extreme it cannot be interpreted as anything other than contact.“
Self-initiation? The individual bypassing years of established protocol and getting direct contact with the spirit world? You can’t do that! By the Gods, what about our traditional hierarchies?
Only you can. And we have. Many times before.
I remind you it was this exact kind of transgression that started the myriad of spiritual traditions we see in the world today, people called by the spirits or seeking them out on a hunt for knowledge and power.
Modern Fictions – How the Sacred Manifests in Chaos, Superheroes and Outer Spaces
Around this time literate and literary magicians were cropping up everywhere, writing tracts on magic for a modern reader. Many of these literary figures were connected to the Golden Dawn system of magic. Yet another emerging stream was that of chaos magic which originated in United Kingdom in the late seventies. This broader magical path was liberal enough to combine forms of neoshamanism, eastern philosophy, quantum science, visionary art, and later computer technology. This experimental perspective on magic was part of a wider trend in experimenting with known forms for new avenues of stimulating and awakening consciousness. These ‘chaotic’ paths were attempting to destabilize our conditioning patterns and our resultant consensus reality. They were all aimed at waking up the usually-slumbering human mind. As the seminal work Waking Up (1986) by Charles Tart showed, humanity was largely intoxicated with a ‘consensus trance’ that kept us from recognizing sigils of the sacred. In more recent years the metaphors and memes of being trapped within a waking dream, or of dreams within dreams, have been explored in such popular films as ‘The Truman Show’ (1998); the ‘Matrix Trilogy’ (1999-2003); and Inception (2010). Part of the myth we find ourselves popularising is the mythology that we are in some sort of constructed reality – a gnostic-inspired simulacrum of truth.
Gnostic ideas are being gnawed over, processed, and consumed in ever more popular forms of culture. There’s an odd wave of mystical-spiritual impulses now radiating through popular culture that encourages us to throw ourselves into new world-spaces, fantastic realms, and mythological fictions and factions. These are new mash-ups of the counterculture now being packaged and presented as part of mainstream culture. And in recent years the most extraordinary success in this area has been the incredible, phenomenal rise of the modern superhero.
Perhaps through the loss of our gods we have had to become our own multiple gods, as we realized a need to fill a vacuum left by myth. With the loss of the godly connection a different psychic wave was released upon the world to coincide with a rising arc of human consciousness. According to Jung, the gods gradually became our disease –
‘The gods have become diseases…who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.’[1]
These diseases have now morphed into mutations that make us into a hybrid human-god, with superhuman capacities, yet shunned by the world for being heretical against the natural order. We have the X-Men walking amongst us, a mutant subspecies of humans. The natural order is evo-mythological – it is sacred, beyond human, and connects us with evolutionary currents. In the absence of our ancient myths we have ingested the sacred alchemical root and through pop-culture morphed this transformation into the new wave of superheroes – myth lives anew in spandex. Maybe it is a cliché because it is true; we wish to find the personal superhero within each of us – the journey of the individual, unfolding within the great cosmic drama. This myth – this journey – has largely been taken from us through scientific rationalism and an industrial modernity. Yet now, by becoming more than oneself, we serve the larger story arc.
Our popular subcultures are gradually becoming the norm. It is not only a question of whether more people are interested or not, but rather that these ideas are more widely available now thanks to popular culture. As William Irwin Thompson notes –
‘We Americans, who are so intent on creating a culture of technological materialism, cannot take in esoteric lore directly; it has to find another way in, and so comic books, science fiction, and movies are the back door.’ [2]
Popular culture has been the back door for most of us, and not just for the Americans. But now perhaps the door frames are merging into the background and disappearing altogether. The waking life and the dream are becoming part of the same movie plot, as in Richard Linklater’s film version of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly (2006). We are more and more waking up into our own movie – our very own Truman Show – where ideas are seeded directly into our environments in order to catalyze our awakening. Like the ancient Eastern tales told us, we have been asleep in a distant land and now we are receiving messages – signals – flashing like neon signs through our popular culture. This marks our juncture, our crisis point, between moving toward waking up or falling back into archaic, catastrophic and catatonic slumber. Again, Thompson reminds us that we
‘intuitively sense our evolutionary crisis and are expressing the catastrophe bifurcation through art – primarily through science fiction.’[3]
Our ultra high-definition visual culture is acting like a portal for the otherworld to enter. The psychedelic experiences that were once fringe and condemned are being re-played out through modern fictions that blend Gnostic tropes, mythological memes, and multidimensional portholes. Transcendental states of consciousness, ratified by the far explorations of new science, are adding to the mix of a new 21st century mythology that as of yet remains unnamed.
John. E Mack, an American professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in his later years became a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational effects of the alien abduction experience. Mack came to view the alien abduction phenomenon as acting as a catalyst to
‘shatter the boundaries of the psyche and to open consciousness to a wider sense of existence and connection in the universe.’[6]
For more than a decade Mack rigorously studied the alien abduction phenomenon and interviewed hundreds of people (whom Mack referred to as ‘experiencers’). What initially started out as an exercise in studying mental illness soon turned into an in-depth inquiry into personal and spiritual transformation. Mack eventually came to see the alien abduction phenomenon as one of the most powerful agents for spiritual growth, personal transformation, and expanded awareness – in other words, as a trigger for a sacred experience. Despite the external anxiety produced by the experience, it was clear to both Mack and his set of experiencers that a profound communion was being established between humankind and other realities. Further, that this interaction was catalyzing a shift in human consciousness toward collapsing the old models of materialistic duality and opening up a connection not only ‘beyond the Earth’ but with other dimensional realities. Mack notes that
‘the process of psychospiritual opening that the abduction phenomenon provokes may bring experiencers to a still deeper level of consciousness where the oneness or interconnectedness of creation becomes a compelling reality.’[7]
This interconnectedness became a channel for the experiencers (abductees) to receive an impressive range of information; such as healing knowledge, spiritual truths, science, technology, and ecology. A major part of the information was apparently concerning the status of the Earth and humanity’s relationship with its environment. Many of the experiencers referred to their own abduction phenomenon as participating in a trans-dimensional or interspecies relationship. The transformative effects of these unusual encounters were often remarkable. Mack’s experiencers talked about an expansion of psychic or intuitive abilities; a heightened reverence for nature; the feeling of having a special mission on Earth; the collapse of space/time perception; an understanding of multi-dimensions of reality and the existence of multi-verses; a feeling of connection with all of creation; and a whole range of related transpersonal experiences. Significant from these accounts is that, according to the experiencers, the abduction phenomenon is sometimes accompanied by a sense of moving into, or connecting with, other realities or dimensions. The sacred space and outer space were becoming one and the same. Or to put it another way, the contact initiated from those ‘out there’ was having a catalyzing effect to trigger an awakening in the inner spaces way ‘down here.’ It made sense then that our human future was going to include space migration. And according to our galactic cousins, it may even be a necessity if we continued to mess up our planetary home as if it were nothing but a playground to scoff around in.
The game changer coming onto the scene is the participatory mind of human consciousness. The coming space migration is a reflection of our expanding inner spaces. We are toying with these memes in our popular culture now ahead of their coming actualization. What our fictions are dealing with are the blueprints before we’re ready to go the full hog. And that’s why we’re in a period of incredible experimentation – we are juggling with a new type of energy coming into our cultural realities. And this new pranic force is getting expressed in a myriad of multiple forms; be it creatively, chaotically, commercially, or crazily. It’s a cacophony of exuberance and experimentation trying to find its harmonic resonance. We are gaming, bopping, and trailblazing our way into a re-identification with a sacred energy. There’s a strong sense of the sacred filtering through our modern cultural memes, and it’s not all as chaotic as it seems.
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In Beijing, hardly a weekend goes by when Chao Hotel isn’t the host of a brand event by the likes of Bally or Versace. Artists take advantage of its spacious and minimalist lower level for gallery shows, while bridal parties make use of its private rooftop pool and salon. Jazz shows and wine tastings lure in city dwellers looking for weekend entertainment. And it’s also, of course, a 180-room boutique hotel.
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Many fans have been asking time and time again for a female version of Link to be in a Zelda game.
The Legend of Zelda was recently inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame located in The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.
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Hyrule Warriors Legends releases in a few days and we have been playing it for nearly a week already thanks to our review copy. Twilight Princess was one of the first games that I preordered in my younger years and one of the first games that I truly was hyped for when it finally came out after countless delays. Note: This review is based on experiences using the Wii U GamePad as the main display and not an HD TV.
From the earie theme of the Twilight Realm to the happy-go-lucky theme of the mini-games – each tune is unique with that iconic Zelda-style that makes the games so memorable. Gameplay is one the big driving factors behind a lot of people’s choice to play Zelda games and is one for me as well.
I remember fighting the mini-boss in the first temple, which is the one with the monkeys, and thinking it was difficult to win until I figured out the secret. The amiibo functionality of the game can alter ones strategy when going through the dungeons and other obstacles. Hero Mode has become a staple in franchise with many of the recent games and remakes featuring such a mode.
Hero Mode has always been something I have been a fan of since it was first introduced to the series. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD is a remake for a game that I loved when I was younger and is the definitive version followed by the GCN version and the Wii version being at the bottom of the list.
The game is one that I recommend to fans of the genre, the franchise, and the game as it really takes it to a new level with all the changes and will bring many hours of relaxation and, sometimes, playful stress as the player navigates the land of Hyrule once more! Eiji Aonuma spoke about Link speaking in Zelda games during a recent interview with GamesMaster.
With Twilight Princess HD right around the corner, Nintendo has started releasing tidbits of information. Twilight Princess HD is releasing on March 4 in the US and comes with the Wolf Link amiibo - as seen in the image above - that unlocks new functionality in the game. The image seen above - coming from the Official Zelda Twitter - places all of the Zelda games that have released since 2011 on the timeline.
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Eiji Aonuma has recently starred in a video showcasing Tri Force Heroes - otherwise known as The 3 Triforce Musketeers in Japan - and plays through several stages in the game. Tri Force Heroes is nearing launch and Nintendo recently opened the full official site for the game.
Spoiler: Tri Force Heroes is nearing launch in many regions around the world and details have been surfacing lately, such as the volcano area boss.
In the latest edition of Famitsu, new information has been released about Hyrule Warriors Legends that Skull Kid will be a playable character and that Phantom Ganon will be a boss. Coming from the Zelda Twitter account, the Volcano Area boss in Tri Force Heroes resembles Moldorm from A Link to the Past in appearance; however, this new boss acts differently. Hyrule Warriors Legends is releasing on the Nintendo 3DS next year and we know several bits of information about the new content included with it. With all of the new details surfacing for Tri Force Heroes, it only makes sense to have a batch of new screenshots as well. Tri Force Heroes will feature multiplayer competitive play - both online and local - that will allow players to test their skills against others. We already knew about the Drablands in Tri Force Heroes from a recent press release that we posted several days ago. Tri Force Heroes releases soonish and Nintendo have been busy showing it off at expos and conventions around the world. We all know by now about the rumored Netflix live-action Zelda series and how it was based on incoorect information, but many people are still eager to believe it is still happening. Tri Force Heroes - or The Three Triforce Musketeers in Japan - has been given a filesize of 8,200 blocks or around 1GB for the Japanese version. Hyrule Warriors Legends has been set to release on January 21, 2016 and in Europe and North America in early Q1 2016. Tri Force Heroes launches on October 23, 2015 in many regions and details are surfacing about the amount of collectibles in the game. Toon Link originally appeared in The Wind Waker and became a really unique art style for our beloved Hero.
Well, it was rumored that Toon Link would appear in Hyrule Warriors Legends recently and it was all but confirmed.
On the official Zelda Twitter, Nintendo has posted the screenshot you see of Tri Force Heroes above. Nintendo has just announced that the New Nintendo 3DS will be launching in North America on September 25th, 2015 as part of a Animal Crossing bundle for $219.99. Toon Link - who debuted in The Wind Waker HD - has been announced as a playable character in Hyrule Warriors Legends according to a recent Famitsu leak. We all know about Tri Force Heroes by now and have probably made some opinions about it - some being positive and some negative.
You may remember when we posted about the animated A Link to the Past map created in HTML5 and JavaScript. Nintendo of America recently announced the release date for Tri Force Heroes to be October 23, 2015. We recently reported that Tri Force Heroes is not in the Zelda timeline; however, we now have reports of uncertainty in the matter. Satoru Iwata passed away a few days ago and the world has been mourning ever since, with many of them making art as a tribute or even cover songs.
The Majora's Mask soundtrack is heading to Japan on October 7th, 2015 in an all new and remastered release by Tablier Communications and their Symphony No. All sorts of information about Tri Force Heroes has been revealed in the last several days - including the reason for no female characters - from director Hiromasa Shikata.
We all remember the Legend of Zelda Manga Boxset that was released a while back and how it included many mangas from various Zelda games. Tri Force Heroes is launching for Nintendo 3DS later this year and brings a multiplayer experience.
In an interview with IGN - Tri Force Heroes Director Hiromasa Shikata explains why a female character will not appear in the game. This Kickstarter will potentially be the only way to obtain a physical copy of the album along with many other goodies such as a replica of Eimear Noone's signature baton! Chapter 1 takes place between February and September 1933, and introduces young Woody Hazelbaker as a junior member of a Wall Street law firm in trouble thanks to the Depression.
When Woody Hazelbaker got there at the end of the 1920s, he thought it grand, even after the breadlines that followed the Stock Market Crash in October a€?29: New York was Americaa€™s greatest and most bustling city, its port the gateway to the world. Owney Madden was no scientific genius like Professor Moriarty, but he handled things the same way. In Chapter 2, during the autumn of 1933, Woodya€™s deepening involvement with Owney Madden jars his cultural preconceptions loose when he visits the flagship of Maddena€™s nightclubs, the Cotton Club in Harlem. Club DeLuxe opened in 1920 at 142nd and Lenox Avenue, but Owney Madden bought it three years later and turned it into the Cotton Club, offering not only booze but the best jazz to be had, launching meteoric careers for Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and others.
Bleecka€™s had opened as a speakeasy in the mid a€™20s, and though ruled with an iron hand by its irascible owner Jack Bleeck, it was instantly and permanently adopted by the newspapera€™s editors and reporters. Bleecka€™s saloon was a few paces from the Herald Tribunea€™s back door, a stonea€™s throw from Seventh Avenue.
Nevertheless Walker and Beebe become important resources about New York social life for Woody, their perspectives stretching from the 1920s into the a€™40s.
Prohibition ends December 5th, 1933, just about when Harvard Club librarian Earle Walbridge a€” later a€?The Sussex Vampire,a€? BSI, and at his death in 1962 the only man whoa€™d attended every BSI dinner back to its a€?first formal meetinga€? in June a€™34 a€” takes Woody to Christ Cellaa€™s speakeasy on East 45th Street, where he meets Christopher Morley and some of his friends just as the nascent Baker Street Irregulars are about to burst out into the open. In Chapter 3, over the winter, Woody is incurably bitten by the Sherlock Holmes bug, but his work for Owney Madden is not done. New York Police Commissioner Grover Whalen estimated in 1929 that there were 32,000 illegal speakeasies in the city. It will take all of $5.00 to pay for a dinner for two at Christ Cellaa€™s little hideaway restaurant in the basement of a brownstone front at 144 East Forty-fifth Street, just a block from Grand Central Palace.
Cella, sleek, brown-eyed and chunky, is a born innkeeper, though he gives mural painting as his profession. But in the early 1930s it was a speakeasy, where around a table in the kitchen Chris Morley and his Three-Hour Lunch Club friends met to drink, laugh and talk, gestating The Baker Street Irregulars. He sat back and sipped the drink that Chris brought him, watching the room through half-closed eyes. The crew Woody met that day were about to bring the BSI out into the open, once Repeal took effect. In Chapter 4, stretching from spring to autumn, 1934, a chance meeting with Lucius Beebe at Bleecka€™s propels Woody into a more cosmopolitan circle at the Plaza Hotela€™s Mena€™s Bar. It still exists a€” known now as the Oak Room: a€?by far the hotela€™s most significantly historic space, virtually unchanged since the day the Plaza opened for business, Oct. It was then known as the Mena€™s Bar, an all-male enclave said to be the favorite room of the hotela€™s architect, Henry J. For the next 70 years, it was patronized by some of the most celebrated folk of the 20th century.
Alsop was younger than me, short and pudgy with a pale face and dark-rimmed glasses beneath thin brown hair. When the National Organization for Women decided to challenge the men-only policies at restaurants and clubs, it chose the Oak Room, which refused to serve women at lunch on weekdays, as a test case, knowing the kind of upscale publicity it would lend to the cause. The Mena€™s Bar Oak Room is sadly the only venue this chapter that still exists (with a close escape a few years ago when the Plazaa€™s barbarian redeveloper intended to gut it).
If Ia€™d seen the place empty I might have wondered what the fuss was about, but it was busy when we arrived. Shake well with ice cubes and dash of orange bitters, twist of lemon peel and just a touch of sugar. Owner John Perona and maA®tre da€™ Frank Carino made El Morocco, once a speakeasy, the place to go and be seen for all manner of celebrities, including Broadway and Hollywood stars. People kept stopping by to speak to Beebe, hoping to find themselves in his column the next day. I must have snickered, because he went on reprovingly: a€?Believe it or not, fortunes and careers are made by sitting at the right table.
Beebe basked, and started to reply, when suddenly behind me a silvery voice spoke out of the blue.
In Chapter 5, December 1934 through the next several months, Woody attends the first Baker Street Irregulars dinner at Christ Cellaa€™s and solidifies his position in Chris Morleya€™s BSI.
Suddenly, with an explosive burst so nobody would miss his entrance, Alexander Woollcott arrived. Chapter 6 stretches from the spring of 1935 to New Yeara€™s Eve in 1936, more than a year and a half of political turbulence in America, and in Woodya€™s life as well. Woody attends the a€™36 annual dinner at Christ Cellaa€™s a€” neither he nor anyone else there realizing that it will be the last for four years. In the early 1930s the New Schoola€™s snazzy new Greenwich Village building, with an informal left-wing faculty and ties to outfits like the John Reed Clubs, was just the place for a Wall Street lawyer to validate his anti-Wall Street feelings, as long as he could duck. Chris Morley looked down the table at me, elbows propped up on it and chin resting on tented hands. After taking Diana to see After the Thin Man on New Yeara€™s Eve, he finds himself finally, truly, completely alone with Diana a€” and this time all escape cut off. And Diana snatched the paper from me, dropped it on top of the others, and pushed the entire stack off onto the floor. The consolation of BSI seems to be denied: there is no Annual Dinner in 1937 (nor will be in 1938 either).
Pratt stood only 5'3", had thin receding red hair, and wore round-rimmed eyeglasses with tinted lenses. In 1937 even Irregulars have foreign dangers on their minds, and not just those convening at the Mena€™s Bar Sundays for martinis and chicken soup. The British Empire may no longer be able to regard itself, as it reasonably could until 1914, as the leading power of the world; since we let opportunity slip through our fingers in the early twenties, it may be doubted if the world has had any leading power, which may be one of the things that is the matter with it. When the crisis that ended with the abdication of Edward VIII had been quickly and smoothly settled the English indulged in a good deal of excusable self-congratulation. Americans are not particularly proud of their countrya€™s isolation from world politics, but do not see what else can be done about it at the moment. People who try to describe the Czechoslovak Republic in its nineteenth year seem driven to metaphor.
Diana has her own response: use her family money to fund groups opposed to Nazi aggression.
Everyone did after Benny Goodman took the Paramount Theater by storm, people clamoring for tickets nearly rioting in Sixth Avenue.
The first time I heard them do a€?Moonglowa€? it was three in the morning, Diana and me listening to the sweet haunting music through a dreamlike haze of smoke and alcohol. Bleecka€™s had opened as a speakeasy in the mid a€™20s, and thoughA ruled with an iron hand by its irascible owner Jack Bleeck, it was instantly and permanently adopted by the newspapera€™s editors and reporters.
A A A Cella, sleek, brown-eyed and chunky, is a born innkeeper, though he gives mural painting as his profession.
A A A He sat back and sipped the drink that Chris brought him, watching the room through half-closed eyes. Another email lands in my inbox from a DJ introducing themselves as the next big thing in Electronic Dance Music with a five hundred word email listing all the reasons why I need to listen to their demo.
In fact, when Zelda U was first shown, many fans were excited, as they thought the Link shown was indeed a female Link.
The game has become a staple and an inspiration for many game developers, media, and the other members of the games industry. The day finally came for me to pick up my copy for the Nintendo GameCube (GCN) and, later that Christmas, for the Nintendo Wii.
This is mostly true for most games and is something that many people were looking for in this remake.
This is great and was not really something that plagued the originals, but it should be mentioned that some of the minor things in the originals seems to have been ironed out in the remake. The changes to the gameplay are subtle and flow with the overall cleaner feel of the game. You can use the Princess Zelda amiibo to recover hearts in a tight spot, which many argue makes the game easier; however, you do not have to use it.
Twilight Princess HD’s Hero Mode makes Link take double damage and no hearts will drop.
Twilight Princess HD refines the experience to a level that makes it overall more enjoyable than the originals and the graphics make it look as good as it plays.
This has been known for some time now and details have slowly been leaking out about the changes featured in this updated version.
Toon Link and Link amiibo will replenish arrows while Princess Zelda and Sheik amiibo will replenish hearts. It includes a lot less than the previous version; however, there is a good addition by the name of Hero Points. Simply head over to their Etsy Shop, place the product you want in your cart, and enter "HIDEAWAY" for the coupon code for free shipping! Nintendo released a demo to randomly selected people a couple weeks ahead of the full launch and now they are releasing the demo for free on the eShop in North America.
The latest is a video on the Nintendo UK 3DS YouTube channel that shows off how the game came to be, various story elements, and gameplay mechanics. It appears to be randomly selected - probably from Club Nintendo members - and includes several codes.
Coming from an interview with 4Gamer, we have information concerning a special costume that can only be created using an item called "proof of friendship" that can only be obtained via local multiplayer with friends. E3 is just happening, and the energy from the gamers can be felt as Nintendo announced their new Zelda title: The Wind Waker.
We also now know that the game is going to be roughly 1.5GB in North America from the official page for the game. Nintedo have released many commercials that have been a joy to watch and, often times, they make you smile a bit.
We do not have very many details, but we do now know that it will follow the player of the color that its eyes turn. There is still some information that we do not know; however, we will be getting a some news regarding the game next week according to the Official Hyrule Warriors Twitter account.
The official Zelda Twitter account has been posting screenshots almost daily for several weeks now, which is how we learned about the game featuring 8 areas.
There will be several arenas that players can play online that feature the main elements from the main game such as ice and water. Well, we now have the official trailer depicting many of the elements we learned about in video form this time. Details have been surfacing lately in many forms, one of which includes a recent press release.
It details basic information about Tri Force Heroes alongside the final box art seen above.
Well, MTV recently sat down with Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka to talk about live-action series.
We now know from the Japanese Tri Force Heroes site that there will be 36 costumes featured in the game. We have no real details right now, so we would have to say that "Support Type" costumes will buff up the players and the "Strengthening Type" costumes will power up the players attacks. When Hyrule Warriors launched back last year, it did have tons of characters; however, it did not feature the likes of Toon Link or the others from The Wind Waker. It was also announced that a Hyrule Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL - as seen above - will be launching exclusively in GameStop stores on October 30th, 2015 for $199.99.
He will not be featured in Legend Mode, but will be available for use in the other modes of the game.
Well, Nintendo UK recently released a video showing fan reactions to the game at Hyper Japan 2015. It garnered a lot of attention across the web and the creators - jadsds engine - have recreated the Dark World map from A Link to the Past in the same style. Well, in the same interview with Game Informer - it was mentioned that Tri Force Heroes will not feature costumes based on Mario or any other franchise.
Nintendo's Hiromasa Shikata - in an interview with Game Informer - said that Zelda has "three parallel worlds" and he "can't say which one it's in at this point." This sheds doubt on the previous reports and brings some hope to the game being part of the timeline. Many fans have longed for a new entry into the manga series since they stopped being created several years ago. In the game - you work together to get the materials for new outfits, which change the attributes of the players wearing them.
He gets a chance (and despite trepidations, takes it) to hang on by undertaking work for a clandestine client, the kind his firm would never accept in good times: bootlegger Owney Madden, and his No. What I knew about them came from Walter Winchell in the Mirror and movies like Little Caesar. Owney Madden was in the bootlegging business and everything else that went with it, including his chief aide and enforcer Big Frenchy DeMange. Black entertainers performing for strictly white audiences reflects the eraa€™s racial segregation, but the Cluba€™s showcasing of brilliant talent helps make jazz a national treasure.
Beside the entrance was a tarnished brass plaque saying a€?Artists and Writersa€? a€” the admission policy?
It finally comes to an end a year after it started, with Madden retiring from the rackets in New York and departing for a new life elsewhere.
Lexington Avenue could still be followed south to 45th Street; and on 45th Street Chris Cellini should still be entertaining his friends unless a tidal wave had removed him catastrophically from the trade he loved .
The kitchen was the supplement to the one small dining room that the place boasteda€”it was the sanctum sanctorum, a rendezvous that was more like a club than anything else, where those who were privileged to enter found a boisterous hospitality undreamed of in the starched expensive restaurants, where the diners are merely so many intruders, to be fed at a price and bowed stiffly out again. The flash of jest and repartee, the crescendo of discussion and the ring of laughter, came to his ears like the echo of an unforgettable song. On the far side, back to the wall, was a burly man with a broad hearty face, thick brown hair, and lively eyes full of mischief. 1, 1907,a€? wrote the Times five years ago (a€?What Would Eloise Say?a€? by Curtis Gathje, Jan.
One day in February 1969, Betty Friedan and several other women swept past the Oak Rooma€™s maA®tre da€™ and sat down at a table. The Biltmore Hotel is gone, turned into office space despite protected-landmark status at the time.
I froze, then scuttled out sideways like a crab, and turned to face the most stunning girl Ia€™d ever seen.
At Decembera€™s BSI dinner, he observes a Worlda€™s Champ and a Fabulous Monster, both of whom he will meet again, but more importantly he makes a new friend for life in Basil Davenport. Everybody knew his face from magazines and high piping voice from the radio a€” and some people hated both. Woollcott and Morley might be rival bookmen, but Chris didna€™t look half as annoyed as Bob. One of his dislikes was Alexander Woollcott, whose presence at the December 7, 1934, annual dinner Leavitt always insisted was uninvited, unwanted, and obnoxious.
Woody can use one: his regained professional calm is jolted the self-possessed young heiress he met at El Morocco has daddy switch his legal work to Woody. The still young phenomenon of radio carries not only FDRa€™s reassuring Fireside Chats into American homes, but also the demagoguery of former Louisiana Governor, now Senator, Huey a€?Kingfisha€? Long, and the maverick priest Father Charles Coughlin.
Not only cana€™t he get started with Diana, he doesna€™t even seem to have her attention when theya€™re together a€” and is silly enough to look for answers in the movies, as if life were one big screwball comedy. For some it was Shirley Temple, for others Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, for more than you could count Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Diana is beautiful and wealthy, but comes with a father-in-law whose politics Woody can barely abide.
But Woody and some others, instead of shrugging, organize occasional Irregular three-hour lunches of their own. But into those sessions now is injected an isolationist note even Anglophiles like Elmer and Woody cana€™t ignore, from Chris Morleya€™s brother Felix, a€?the Second Garrideb,a€? editor of the Washington Post sharply critical of FDR and his policies. Elmer Davis gives up fiction to write serious foreign policy articles for Harpera€™s Magazine, about the dangers in store for an indifferent and unprepared America.
Not only had they disposed of a troublesome situation with less fuss than almost any other nation would have made over ita€”the reaction abroad, they told one another, had demonstrated that all men of good will realized that the stability of England was vitally essential to the stability of a somewhat unsteady world. You still meet Europeans who ask you why America does not come into the League and help to do something about world peace; but most of them, after recent collapses of the system of collective security, know why, and only wish that they could do as we do. President BenA?s, in his radio broadcast last Christmas Eve, said that a€?Czechoslovakia stands like a lighthouse high on a cliff with the waves crashing around ita€”a democracy that has the mission to keep the flag of peace, freedom, and toleration flying in Central Europe.a€? The propaganda German radio stations and newspapers have been pouring out for months sees the country as a a€?sally port of Bolshevism,a€? And K. I would love to say that I’m the sort of guy that has time to read every email I get, download your demo and seriously consider whether I’m the right guy to make you millions. Sadly that wasn’t true, however 30 years after the first Zelda game we do finally have a female version of Link, who she believes is a reincarnation of the hero, and thus the question must be asked, should Linkle get her own major game? While E3’s obsolescence has been talked about in recent years, the presence it brings throughout the industry is widely felt and industry members come from across the world to attend and cover the event. The game plays without problems on the New Nintendo 3DS and features most of the Wii U versions stages, characters, and other features - so, what is a reason to purchase this apparent port? I instantly turned on my GCN when I got home and put the game in that I had so eagerly awaited for such a long time.
While there are a lot of little tweaks and the game does look more crisp and clean – there is little difference overall when using the GamePad screen compared to the original Twilight Princess on the GCN. As noted earlier – the minor audio glitches in the Nintendo Wii version of the game (not present in the GCN version) have seemingly been fixed and no longer pique my interest as to why this is making such and such sound. The Wolf Link amiibo takes you to the Cave of Shadows and lets you take on another challenge.
Combine this with the Ganondorf amiibo for a true challenge, which is something many longtime fans of the franchise have been asking about for a long time. I always loved to speed run games as well, which makes for an enjoyable time for me when combined with the new challenges of Hero Mode and the Ganondorf amiibo function. Upon completion of the Cave of Shadows - the player will be able to save their remaining hearts to the Wolf Link amiibo in order to replenish them in future bouts with the dungeon.
The game was confirmed in the latest Nintendo Direct and will come with the Wolf Link amiibo according to the image above, which came from the Amazon listing for the game. Be sure to check out the video below and check back here around launch for our Tri Force Heroes Walkthrough. It appears to be for the US only for now; however, please comment with confirmation about other regions.
Hidden in the shadows of this announcement was the reveal of a miniature sized gem, Four Swords. If you purchase both versions of the game - you will get Skull Kid on the Wii U version as well. Full details about each character are not known at this time; however, be sure to check back as we will update you when we know more.
As seen in the screenshot below, the creature follows the player until - assuming - it is either attacked or for a certain time period. We have been posting a lot of details and footage from the game, but not many new screenshots. Well, we have some footage of the Riverside Arena and Ice Cavern Arena for you to check out today. It allows players to raise water spouts in order to reach higher ledges amongst other uses. There is another boss in the footage below that is known as Margoma, who is the boss of the Forest Temple. We now have a new trailer from Nintendo UK that shows off some dungeons, monsters, and costume changes.
The game takes place in the Kingdom of Hytopia, the evil witch has placed a curse on Princess Styla, and the "Totem Heroes" are called forth by King Tuft to left the curse. The trailer shows off parts of The Wind Waker HD campaign and footage of some new characters that the game will feature, which have been known for a while as Tetra and Toon Link. In the Tweet text - roughly translated - it confirms that there will be 8 areas in the game and each will have 4 stages.
The trailer introduces several aspects of the game; however, it it currently in Japanese only.
It is an animated map of the Dark World that depicts all of the enemies roaming around the land as if in the game. We have known for some time that the game would not have amiibo support amongst other things such as no 2 player co-op.
It has been revealed by Shikata that there are not really any plans to add amiibo support in Tri Force Heroes. One such outfit is a Zelda outfit, which leads many to wonder if a female playable character would be present in the game. Eimear Noone asked for $30,000 in order to fufil the funding requirements of the project; however, they have since surpassed this goal and - at the time of writing - are at $33,560! Member of Hudson Dusters gang, convicted twice of safecracking with 13 arrests total, including one for murder. And as winter approaches Woody makes a third discovery that will change his life for good, this time at the Harvard Club library: Vincent Starretta€™s brand-new and magically evocative book, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Ellingtona€™s a€?Cotton Club Stompa€? captured the beat and drive as well as the venue and era. Astora€™s Horse (1935) are available today; The Night Club Era especially evokes the New York popular culture in which the BSI gestated and was being born in the early a€™Thirties.
Woody has weathered the Depressiona€™s worst year and learned a lot a€” but the ending of his clandestine association with Owney and Frenchy DeMange leaves him feeling blue. One was opened in a brownstone at 144 East 45th Street in 1926 by an Italian immigrant named Christopher Cella, whose boyhood friend Mike Fischetti was on the NYPDa€™s a€?Italian Squad,a€? one of the toughest cops in town.
Although there were no familiar faces seated round the big communal table, the Saint felt the reawakening of an old happiness as he stepped into the brightly lighted room, with the smell of tobacco and wine and steaming vegetables and the clatter of plates and pans.
It was the same as it had always beena€”the same humorous camaraderie presided over and kept vigorously alive by Chrisa€™s own unchanging geniality.
Its German Renaissance design features walls of sable-dyed English oak, frescoes of Bavarian castles, faux wine casks carved into the woodwork and a grape-laden chandelier topped by a barmaid hoisting a stein.
Cohan, the Broadway hyphenate, a composer-playwright-actor-producer-theater owner, and the only person ever awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for a song, the rousing World War I anthem, a€?Over There.a€? Cohan made the Oak Room his pre-theater headquarters, his preferred table being a booth in its northwest corner. There was an air of privilege about him even in the way he held his drink and his cigarette.
The waitersa€™ response was to remove the table, leaving the women sitting awkwardly in a circle. Banquettes along the walls, and backs and seats of chairs, were in the blue zebra print identifying El Morocco in newspaper pictures. At a podium outside the arch, the maA®tre da€™ greeted us and led us inside, where Beebe was perched on a stool watching a bartender perform with a cocktail shaker.
On his favor and discretion hang feuds, romances, careers, ambitions, the very foundations of the most bitterly jealous and competitive social hierarchy of our generation.
She looked at me with indignation, rubbing the top of one gold-sandaled foot against the back of her other ankle.
His acquaintance with Elmer Davis moves beyond the BSI into other realms, and Woody comes to understand what Morley had told him: they do all have Sherlock Holmes in common, but the BSI is primarily about friendship.
But a September 9, 1938, letter from Elmer Davis to Vincent Starrett gives a different impression: an older friend of Morleya€™s than Leavitt, Davis took up merrily with Woollcott that night. While Elmer Davis worries about a native despot poised for the a€™36 elections, Woodya€™s worries are closer to home.
For me, it was one romantic comedy of William Powella€™s after another until my mind turned to mush.
Yet Ambrose Converse is also his most important client now, as if Jimmy Stewart had gone to work for old buzzard Potter in Ita€™s a Wonderful Life. The big stories were the Prince of Walesa€™ abdication, Italy invading Ethiopia, and FDRa€™s new term.
Four columns were marching on the city with a a€?fifth columna€? inside it waiting to strike like a snake.
To Basil Davenport, Peter Greig, Earle Walbridge, and Dave Randall are added two more, one a kinsprit already, the other someone who will become important to Woody as the world drifts closer to war. Wiry and muscular, with a neatly clipped mustache, he resembled a wary bird whoa€™d bite off any finger poked in his direction. I believe that every democratic nation in Europe today would get out of Europe and stay out if it could; out of the neighborhood of Germany . But for them both, 1937 is their newlywed year a€” out on the town, taking in the movies, seeking out the coolest jive joints with the hottest jazz, and going dancing with the Age of Swing in full blast.
One night I overheard a callow youth say something to his girl about a€?shaming the old folks off the floor,a€? and realized in dismay that he meant me. He said he could play drunk because he practiced drunk, and he sure could play, but we were watching self-destruction right before our eyes.
We went on that way into 1938, celebrating our first anniversary without even a BSI dinner to break the mood. Instead here’s some advice that will actually help you take the right initial steps when looking for a good DJ manager or booking agent. It’s an undeniable fact that anyone worth sending an email like this to should be too busy to read them.
I could only make out a single bush at my feet… And a massive castle wall to my left.
We would recommend you picking it up if you are an owner of a New Nintendo 3DS console or can deal with poorer performance on the Nintendo 3DS. The game was great, but did the newly released Twilight Princess HD for the Nintendo Wii U become the definitive version? This bug appeared on the Nintendo Wii version of the game and made Wolf Link’s tail even make the spin attack readying noise. I bring this up because these experiences will be fondly remembered by newcomers to the game and franchise. The amiibo features add to the game and give me another reason to keep my beautiful amiibo on my desk or side tables.
This will make what would normally be easy become a hurdle that might take a lot of work to overcome. Hero Mode is for the diehard fan and those who enjoy challenges and Twilight Princess HD succeeds at this goal. The Hero Mode makes enemies do double damage, but combined with a Ganondorf amiibo - the enemies will do four time the damage as the Ganonodorf amiibo doubles the damage Link takes when hurt. It features several sections that explain what is in the game without giving away all of the secrets.
Fast-forward another 13 years and Nintendo reveals a new game that feels eerily familiar to Four Swords; only this time, there are three swords and there's no A Link to the Past port either. A new stage featuring elements from The Wind Waker HD will be present and there will be a new "Smash Burst Power" system.
The Japanese commercials for the game have been released and, as seen in the videos below, provide an uplifting experience to those watching. I loved the experience of playing it at E3 2015 and can not wait to get my hands on the full version. With the game launching on October 23, 2015 in both the US and UK, we will all be able to judge whether our opinions hold valid. There is little known if they will add in ones later using DLC; however, this is certainly an option.
For the green and rather innocent Woody, Madden, DeMange, and the work prove quite an education.
Then decades later, in Francis Ford Coppolaa€™s 1984 movie The Cotton Club, its life and times were recreated superbly, with Bob Hoskins and Fred Gwynne playing Owney Madden and Frenchy DeMange. A chorus line of nearly naked colored girls ran out onto the stage and went into a routine never seen south of Central Park. Its big room, mahogany, brass and mirrors with a forty-foot bar, served as clubhouse for Trib reporters and editors. Tables are covered with clean white cotton cloths and the waiters wear long white linen aprons that flap about their ankles. It took him back at one leap to the ambrosial nights of drinking and endless argument, when all philosophies had been probed and all the worlda€™s problems settled, that he had known in that homely place.
Why were there not more places like that in the world, he began to wondera€”places where a host was more than a shop-keeper, and men threw off their cares and talked and laughed openly together, without fear or suspicion, expanding cleanly and fruitfully in the glow of wine and fellowship? It drove me across town to East 39th, the wet streets dark and nearly deserted at that hour. Offering a fine view of all comings and goings, it became known as the Cohan Corner, where the great man was courted by theatrical types looking for work. A man at a nearby booth offered breadsticks, which were declined, and the group decamped to form a picket line in front of the hotel. But the movie Woody saw there that night has lasted: The Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Ita€™s comical that the Nobel Committee gives its Peace Prize to do-gooders like Jane Addams. Ia€™d struggled through it in high school; they talked about Horace as if he were a mutual friend. So Woody dwells uncomfortably in a higher social and economic stratum of an increasingly disturbing world, as he takes stock of it when they return from their honeymoon. Fierce debate had started over his court-packing scheme, to circumvent the Supreme Courta€™s a€?nine old mena€? striking down one New Deal program after another.
Frank of the Czechoslovak parliament, a German belonging to the half-Hitlerized Sudetendeutsche Partei, has said that the state must be a€?either a bridge between Germany and the southeast or a barricade against Germany.a€? . But when I walked into a jive joint with Diana, nobody took me for a rootietoot, let alone a lawyer. He had an about-town column in the Herald Tribune called a€?This New York.a€? It wasna€™t Woody Hazelbakera€™s New York. Unless they’ve heard of you and recognise some distinct standout factor in the two seconds they’re going to glance at the email before it’s passed over, you don’t stand a chance.
Some of my favorite moments were when I got to play Super Mario 64 back on the Nintendo 64 for the first time. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized.a€? Same with Madden, and I discovered a separate and different world beneath the surface. Formed alliance with Tammany Hall chieftain Jimmy Hines, went into bootlegging including many speakeasies and night clubs. Kidnapped and held for ransom by a€?Mad Doga€? Coll in 1931 (an unwise career move on the lattera€™s part).
It was nearly empty at eleven in the morning, but even busy I couldna€™t have missed Walker halfway down the bar, next to an arresting sight: another man dressed, at that hour of the day, in white tie and tails.
I carried the briefcases when we got there, and Owneya€™s driver lugged the rest up to my apartment. After his death in 1942, a bronze plaque was installed to commemorate his tenure; it still hangs there today.
As the evening wore on and more and more people arrived, additional tables and chairs were brought out and placed on the dance floor until it almost disappeared.
When I finally got a word in edgewise and asked what the hell, Basil shrugged off a€?two perfectly useless degreesa€? in classics from Yale and Oxford.
Bradford, another Thin Man imitation, had come out while Diana was in Europe, but when she got back I took her to My Man Godfrey at Radio City. Enlarging the Court had peoplea€™s backs up, while others felt the Court was so pre-Depression in make-up, it might as well be the Dark Ages.
It was the New York of El Morocco by night, people with plenty of money despite the Depression, Broadway openings instead of bank closings, charity scavenger hunts instead of breadlines, uninterrupted self-indulgence instead of the dole.
I’m not here to discourage you from going about emailing industry managers in the hope of signing a manager. It will be the only game Nintendo will have playable at E3 2016 and their show will have a strong focus on it.
Owney Madden grew up in the part of New York called Hella€™s Kitchen, and had been in the rackets since he was a kid, starting with one of its Irish gangs, The Gophers. He held a drink in one hand, a cigar in the other, and on the surface of the bar rested a silk top hat. I hung up my hat and coat, opened the briefcase Owney had given me and gazed at the money again, then stashed it in the back of my closet. Then as I started thinking of him as a pudgy intellectual, he said something to Gene Tunney across the table about their boxing a few rounds at the Yale Club before coming to Cellaa€™s. He and drummer Gene Krupa were from his band, but the others were colored musicians, cool Teddy Wilson on piano and excited Lionel Hampton on vibes, the first mixed group wea€™d seen. It only takes a few seconds to cut and paste the same message to a bunch of easily accessible email addresses you can pull down from a website contact page.
He had to eat; and in all the world there are no steaks like the steaks Chris Cellini broils over an open fire with his own hands. Author: History of the New York Times, 1921, Times Have Changed, 1923, Ia€™ll Show You the Town, 1924, Friends of Mr. I loosened my tie, poured myself a stiff drink, and sat down beside a window a€” sat there a long time, the untasted drink in my hand, listening to it rain.
Anyone whoa€™d box Gene Tunney for funa€” I gave up, and went and got another drink myself. Powell was a stockbroker down on his luck, plucked out of a hobo jungle to butler for the nuttiest family on Fifth Avenue.
I’m here to point you in the right direction so that you can focus on the one thing that matters more than how to find a good DJ manager – how to attract a good manager.The world isn’t short of good DJ managers. Staff New York Herald Tribune since 1929; writer, syndicated column a€?This New Yorka€? since 1933. 1919; professional boxer, 1919-1928, World Heavyweight Champ, 1926-28, a€?Fighter of the Year,a€? 1928, retired undefeated that year. The Times called Lombarda€™s Irene a€?a one-track mind with grass growing over its rails,a€? but that was a damn sight better than her mean sister Cornelia. Member Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, Wine & Food Society of America, Republican.
To get a good DJ manager to seriously consider you as a prospective new breakthrough artist, you have to first learn how to be attractive in the market place.Put yourself in their shoes for a second. Founded, with Cleon Throckmorton, Hoboken Theatrical Co., 1928, producing revivals of a€?After Dark,a€? a€?The Black Crook,a€? etc.
Do you have an idea for your alias that is unlike any other DJ on the market or do you know exactly where you see yourself fitting into the scene?
Guggenheim Fellow, League of Nations, Geneva, 1928-29, dir., Geneva office, League of Nations Assoc. Have you produced a string of unsigned tracks that you believe to be better or on par with what’s cutting the grade in your genre of choice?Or is it simply that you want to make it and you’ve been told to do so you’re going to need a manager?
Above and beyond needing a manager, every serious artist needs a team of professional collaborators working together towards one goal, but at what point is that necessary? Often start-up artists are confused as to when the right time to get a manager may be.Aligning yourself with a brain trust is essential. Lending advice and professional guidance is absolute key to growth in any professional capacity.
It’s impossible to do this by yourself unless you’re God’s gift to music production and there's arguably only been a few in our time.
Rather than focussing all of your energy into signing a manager, there’s always so much more you can do before you’re ready to take on the market place.Are you doing everything you can to be a better DJ?Have you started proving your worth by starting and developing your own fanbase?Some of the best artists have become great entrepreneurs. Some of the best song writers have become amazing DJ’s, some of the best DJ’s have become amazing DJ managers – The most valuable asset that you can ever obtain as an aspiring DJ is learning how to take things into your own hands. Take the time to find out everything you can about the industry and what’s required and start applying it yourself.
He’s looking for the guys who know what they want and are serious about doing everything in their power to get it.The more you know about the industry that you’re trying to break into, the more understanding you will have about when it’s your time to start knocking on doors. That email you send should be no more than five sentences and inside it, there has to be something that would grab anyone’s attention. It’s not about creating the right email with your selection of words, it’s about having the right content from your own story to include and that takes experience so get moving!
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Satomi Okubo, who previously played Sailor Moon, has been cast as Sailor Cosmos in the Le Mouvement Final musical
Posted on May 18, 2017 by Adam
Sailor Cosmos has been cast in the upcoming Sailor Moon Le Mouvement Final musical and she will be played by none other than Satomi Okubo, the actress who played Sailor Moon before Hotaru Nomoto took over the role. Satomi Okubo was Sailor Moon in the La Reconquista, Petite Étrangère and Amour Eternal musicals. This is such an interesting casting choice when considering the actual identity of Sailor Cosmos. Spoilers below for those who may not have read the manga!
Sailor Cosmos is basically Sailor Moon from the very distant future. This is way beyond when she was Neo Queen Serenity. There is some disagreement amongst the fan community about what exactly this means. Is Sailor Cosmos just a really old but still alive version of the Sailor Moon we see in the series or is she a reincarnated version, much like Princess Serenity from Silver Millennium is the Sailor Moon we know? Alternatively some fans think of her more like a descendant of Chibiusa, which isn’t really an interpretation I can get behind. It seems like Sailor Cosmos once was Sailor Moon which is what makes this casting so brilliant. Here is a great way to have a slightly older version of Sailor Moon that looks totally familiar. With there being less than two years between the ages of the two actresses the difference isn’t all that drastic, but it’s a nice touch.
This reminds me of a few other instances in fiction where a similar interaction with a prior actor occur. The most similar comparison to me is the 2009 Star Trek movie which included a completely new cast but included interactions between the new Spock, Zachary Quinto, and older time traveling Spock played by the original actor Leonard Nimoy. In this case everything down to the time travel similarity is in place. The X-Men film franchise did something similar as the Days of Future Past film from 2014 included new cast members James MacAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Professor X and Magneto acting alongside their original series future counterparts of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.
There are a few other not totally similar examples. John Wesley Shipp played the Flash in a 1990 TV series and returned to play the father of the Flash in the 2014 Flash TV series. His name changed but it was an interesting juxtaposition. Batman The Animated Series did similar things a few times. The Grey Ghost was a Batman like character from Bruce Wayne’s childhood who was played by Adam West who had played Batman in the 1966 series. In the 1999 series Batman Beyond Bruce Wayne was portrayed by Kevin Conroy who voiced him in the 1992 animated series. In this case the new Batman was Terry McGinnis, a completely new character, so it’s not really the same thing. Doctor Who is all about changing his face and time traveling so this has happened in the series more times than I would attempt to count.
All we need now is a movie in which Thomas Dekker and Edward Furlong meet! Can you think of any other examples in which an actor previously portraying the role met with a new actor?
Source: Sailor Moon Official Site
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Accueil > Newsletters > Newsletter n° 81 [ENG]
« Newsletter n° 81
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publié by Admin, le Tuesday 24 October 2017
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FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MR RALEVA
On 03 october 2017, Mr RALEVA, member of the group ’Justice et Paix’ and the regional branch of the Independent Observatory of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Madagascar (OIDESCM) coordinated by the RSCDA-IO/CRAAD-OI, had been arrested and put under preventive detention in Mananjary because he dared to ask for the official documents authorizing a Chinese company to resume its gold mining project, which had been stopped earlier by the Head of Region and National Office of Environment, in his village of Vohilava. Indeed, this project did not have all the required permits and used a chemical product that was very similar to mercury, which is particularly dangerous for the water, soil, surrounding crops and health of neighbouring populations. Mr RALEVA is accused of having misused the title of ’Head of District’, which is more than questionable, since the Head of District was present at the public meeting during which Mr RALEVA had spoken.
Since his detention, a bail application has been submitted by his lawyer. Moreover, several public statements along with hundreds of appeals for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr RALEVA have been sent to the concerned authorities by the RSCDA-IO/CRAAD-OI and its allies of the Collective for the defence of Malagasy lands - TANY, Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders and the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD -Terre Solidaire).
While Mr RALEVA is in his 18th day in prison, we have learned that
- the preventive detention chamber has rejected the bail application of Mr RALEVA following the judgement No. 147 of 13rd October 2017.
- Moreover, no date has been set for a possible inquiry, nor for the trial itself.
All this is being done without providing any explanation, which demonstrates the clear willingness of the concerned decision makers to punish Mr RALEVA for having exercised his rights to freedom of expression and to information, and to stifle any community protest against the illegal gold mining project of the Chinese company.
At this critical juncture,
- we urge the competent authorities to urgently fulfill their obligations to respect and to ensure the realisation of the fundamental rights of Mr RALEVA, and to put an end to the threats to his already fragile health status caused by the prison conditions.
- We call on all people of conscience, and organisations working for human rights and social justice to strengthen the struggle for the liberation of Mr RALEVA, who is considered as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
What happens to him affects us all, not only because he is detained unfairly, but also because his freedom of conscience and expression is also the freedom of us all. Just as with the 4 persons who are also prisoners in Miadanandriana-Ampefy for having defended their lands, our fundamental rights and dignity are at stake.
- For the Reasearch and Support Center for Development Alternative – Indian Ocean (RSCDA-IO) :
Randriamaro Zo, Coordinator ; craad.madagascar@gmail.com ; http://craadoi-mada.com
- For the Collective for the Defense of Malagasy Lands - TANY - Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches – TANY : Rakotondrainibe Mamy, President ; patrimoine.malgache@yahoo.fr ; http://terresmalgaches.info
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Microsoft's logo.
Microsoft Corporation is an American tech company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. The company began as a developer of programming languages, and slowly expanded to operating systems, office applications, entertainment, and a seller of hardware. They currently hold a dominant lead on the operating system of desktop computers with Windows.
I have been using Microsoft products since the late 1980s when I first encountered MS-DOS. My family's first computer came loaded with MS-DOS v5.0 and Windows 3.0 with media extensions. Since then, I have used nearly every subsequent version of DOS and Windows as well as a large variety of Microsoft office, programming, and gaming software. However, my use of Microsoft is not because I prefer their products, in general, I tend to hate them, and think they've steadily gotten worse in the past 15 years. Instead, I use Microsoft because they have such a huge market share, that it's difficult to have access to all the software I like without using their products.
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2 Logos
These are programs that have a particular importance to me.
I used to use the majority of Microsoft applications, but over the years, I have found superior free replacements for nearly all of their apps.
Spy++
Microsoft rarely develops games in-house, and instead pays third-party developers to make games for them, and then publishes them.
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It's hard to read, especially at smaller sizes, the S breaks the theme with thinner lines at top, and it just reeks of the 70s.
Far too jagged.
The full-width Cs and Os make it look odd with the otherwise tight kerning.
This logo is fantastic. Like any good logo, it's legible at varying sizes. The italic Helvetica is plain, but the notch taken out of the o gives it flair. This is the first logo I viewed, and it's my favorite.
Bleh. Not only is it using the dull flat redesign of Windows, but it's associating the whole of Microsoft to only one of their products. Bad idea.
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Rainbow Six Siege: Mad House – Event Review
Game Reviews October 29, 2018 January 1, 2019
Ubisoft Montreal recently came out with a special Halloween event for their popular first-person shooter Rainbow Six Siege.
The Halloween event featured a new skin and atmosphere over a iconic map — House. In addition it featured 10 operators (all of which were already in the game) each of whom were in their Halloween skins. The operators are as follows; on defense: Jäger, Vigil, Mira, Pulse and Valkyrie; on attack: Thermite, Hibanna, Ash, Buck and Finka. It should be noted that the 6 DLC operators able to be played during the event were could only be played by those who already owned them. Furthermore, those who didn’t have any of these ops are forced into picking Recruit, who has no special skins or additions in this event (unlike in Outbreak). It should be noted, these restrictions are only for those playing in the Discovery Casual playlist, normal matchmaking has not been affected.
The featured skins for Ash, Buck, Hibanna, Mira and Pulse
The Skins for Jager, Thermite, and Buck being outstanding with the rest only being okay or a letdown. The house re-skin was pretty good, decorations such as blood smears, paintings, gargoyles and pumpkins being spread across the map (the gargoyles were placed in odd positions, making me think that it’s an easter egg). The atmosphere of the map is also quite spooky with great sound design. However, there was a downside to some of their adjustments, the lighting on the map was absolutely abysmal while playing the game as it made some enemies hard to distinguish from the various backgrounds. Furthermore, the event doesn’t feel special enough with the only variations being quite isolated and shallow (along with 2 challenges).
In conclusion, I think that the Rainbow Six Siege Halloween event was a huge letdown. The event could have had so much more potential if they did something like Outbreak (but maybe not to the same scale). Even though the skins (including House) were pretty good for the most part, they were easily overshadowed by fundamental errors such as restrictions on operator choice, lighting, and overall shallowness of the event. I would give this event a 3/10 pushing 4/10 at best.
Final Score: 3/10 Let down
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