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Atlantic Sentinel
The view from across the Atlantic
Russia and the West
Analysis 30 Sep 2013
Tajikistan’s Islamists Back Secular Candidate to Send Message
The Central Asian country’s opposition Islamists support a secular presidential candidate to improve their image.
Catherine Putz
Managing Editor of The Diplomat
Tajik president Emomalii Rahmon in Thailand, May 17 (Presidency of Tajikistan)
The outcome of Tajikistan’s November presidential election is easy to predict. Emomalii Rahmon will be reelected in a landslide. However, the ballot will also list Oynihol Bobonazarova, a secular lawyer and human rights activist recently tapped by the opposition, including Central Asia’s single legal Islamist party, to run against the first and only president of the former Soviet republic.
Bobonazarova is at first glance an odd choice for the United Reformist Force, an opposition coalition comprised of Islamists, social democrats and several nongovernmental groups.
The Islamists boycotted the 2006 election and failed to put up a candidate for a 2011 by-election for a vacated parliament seat, saying in conjunction with the boycotting social democrats that until election laws were changed, government officials will always be able to manipulate the outcome in advance. Although the Islamists did not encourage their members to boycott the 2011 election, it is clear the opposition forces in Tajikistan are dejected about their chances of electoral victory in any settling.
The upcoming presidential election marks a potential breaking point for perennial president Rahmon. Elected in 1994 and again in 1999. A 1999 referendum extended the presidential term from five to seven years, and a 2003 package of constitutional amendments included a provision permitting a second consecutive term. Although the limit of two terms exists on paper, supporters of Rahmon argue that the limit only applies to elections following the 2003 adoption of the amendments. Rahmon is set to run again this November.
Even the coalition putting Bobonazarova forward doesn’t expect her to win. The Islamist leader said, “we might lose the election but we can use this opportunity to send out out message.” That message may fall on deaf ears internationally where the word “Islamism” tends to conjure up images of terrorism. The Tajik party’s support for Bobonazarova is therefore an image move — to prove its moderation and brevity; its willingness to “work with other democratic forces outside the country.”
The message might resonate outside Tajikistan but it is more likely that it will be lost in the global din. Despite the flurry of excitement around Bobonazarova’s nomination, and everything it represents — moderation, cooperation — the state controls the media and Rahmon is the only candidate with widespread name recognition. Although the political elites of Tajikistan will steer the election results anyway, the argument is ready made that Bobonazarova is a nobody, unknown beyond the human rights and NGO communities.
But Bobonazarova will run. Government tactics of pinning opposition candidates with trumped up criminal charges will not easily fly against a female human rights lawyer with a clean record (except for a conviction for being a member of an opposition party in the early years of independence). Akbar Turajonzoda, a religious figure in Tajikistan and former Islamist party leader, doubts that the government will move to charge Bobonazarova with anything, even if campaign staff report obstacles being put up to impede Bobonazarova’s run.
Other candidates have not been so lucky. In May, Zayd Saidov, a businessman and opposition leader, was arrested on charges of fraud and polygamy. The relatively unknown opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov was conveniently arrested last December in Dubai at the behest of the Tajik government, also on charges of fraud.
The Islamists, if they are able to reap any benefits from their support of Bobonazarova, will have to wait for many years for a real chance at electoral success. Either Rahmon dies or he serves two more full terms. At 61, it is plausible that Rahmon lives out two more terms and then faces the hurdle of amending the Constitution again. For the Islamists, building up evidence of broad appeal, political moderation and a willingness to cooperate with secular institutions will prove useful when a real opportunity at power emerges.
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Restoring the presence of 20th-century women artists in the history of art Women artists are under-represented, if not completely absent, in art books, exhibitions and museum collections. AWARE: Ar... Read more
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Review: Disney’s The Little Mermaid at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre
Posted on July 24, 2018 by Jason
By TJ Lukacsina
Run Time: Approx. 2 hours and 15 minutes with one intermission
Under the Sea with Sebastian (Derek Cooper). Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
Sebastian is certainly onto something when he tells Airel that “the human world is a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there.” Especially if he’s referring to Cockpit in Court’s latest production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glen Slater. This production is Directed by Jillian Bauersfeld, with Music Direction by Andrew Worthington, and Choreography by Karli Burnham. Originally produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, this adaptation from Disney’s 1989 film has a book by Doug Wright which has had some unfortunate rewrites since the show closed on Broadway in 2009. I’ll be upfront in saying that the majority of my qualms for this production stem from these poor rewrites and cuts that Disney made before allowing it to be licensed to local theatre groups. In general the writing is watered down and presentational on a basic, at times insulting, level and makes you feel as if you’re watching the Wikipedia Summary instead of the show. Thankfully, Jillian Bauersfeld’s handling of the show not only makes it palatable but also an enjoyable experience for all ages.
Briefly, The Little Mermaid is about Ariel, King Triton’s youngest daughter, who wishes to pursue the human Prince Eric in the world above. She bargains with the evil sea witch, Ursula, to trade her tail for legs by giving up her voice. But the bargain is not what it seems, and Ariel needs the help of her colorful friends, Flounder the fish, Scuttle the seagull and Sebastian the crab to restore order under the sea. (www.mtishows.com)
Under the Direction of Jillian Bauersfeld, Music Direction of Andrew Worthington and Stage Management of Robert W. Oppel, this production is highly entertaining and manages to allow the audience to drift from scene to scene without any pull from the undertow. The audience feeds off the energy flowing from the stage and one can’t help but enjoy being slightly distracted from little kids singing along to some of their favorite songs. That’s when you know you have tapped into the Disney magic and are encouraging future theatre lovers.
Allison Comotto as Ariel. Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
Walking into the theatre you are treated with a projection of a beach and the sounds of waves and seagulls to help take you away from the pouring rain outside. Creating their magical world, Set Designer Michael Rasinski should be proud of the scene shop’s execution. These beautiful set pieces are large enough to maintain their presence while the cast dances on and around them. Corals in Ariel’s grotto and individual wood planks on Eric’s ship are the kinds of details that help transport you and are much appreciated. But even with the details, a little more attention to the destruction of the grotto would have helped the audience grieve with Ariel instead of wonder why she was so upset that her thingamabobs were moved a few feet away from her whatchamacallits. However, all of these set pieces would go unnoticed if it weren’t for Thomas Gardner’s Lighting Design. Overall, the lighting is aesthetically pleasing and appropriate. The heavy use of haze allowed the lighting to be seen to help fill the full stage space but allowed the lights to become distracting during the scenes on the apron where they obscured the projection heavily. Use of moving lights helped to create the underwater effect and while effective, would occasionally get lost due to similarities in the color pallette . Mr. Gardner certainly has an eye for key moments in songs and certainly knows when and how to highlight them for maximum effect.
Deanna Brill’s Costume Design walked the line between expectation and invention. I applaud the bold choice to tastefully show so much beautiful skin and the design of the mer-tales that were as practical as they were visually delightful. The ensemble were dressed vividly while the classic looks from the movie were still alluded to, from Prince Eric’s classic outfit to even the puffy sleeves on the wedding dress. From the fish, eels and even the birds, the costumes allowed the actor’s characters to come to life. Although the designer is not listed in the program, make-up design was detailed and really helped to establish these characters as otherworldly. My main makeup concern was actually a lack of a certain makeup: the decision to not conceal actor’s tattoos. While appropriate in some shows, I found them to be a minor distraction for this production.
Gary Dieter as Scuttle. Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
For a show that has a focus on story and is aided occasionally with dance, Karli Burnham’s Choreography helped to showcase the wonderful talent in the cast. With a working knowledge of the costumes, the choreography wasn’t limited to just foot movement but body and arm movements which allowed for a fluid movement from the actors. Some of the large ensemble numbers while portraying water felt repetitive and tedious in their attempt to fill the musical space. However, her work really shines with the small tap ensemble as well as the evolution of dance Eric teaches Ariel in “One Step Closer” was storytelling through dance.
The heavy lifting of Alan Menken’s score is in the capable hands of Andrew Worthington. The cast was well prepared and knowledgeable enough of their parts to make them their own and not rely on mimicking the original cast recordings. All voice parts were balanced and easily heard along with the pit thanks to the constant vigilance by sound designer Brent Tomchik. Following Mr. Worthington’s conducting was a competent orchestra consisting of established musicians in the area: Stephen Deninger, William Zellhofer, Christopher Rose, Stacey Antoine, Joseph Pipkin, William Georg, and Gregory Troy Bell. While proficient and accurate, the orchestra only suffered from a lack of actual brass and additional woodwinds. Even though those parts were covered in the keyboards, I found the patches were inconsistent among themselves and rarely compensates for the timbre from the actual instrument.
All these designers were able to achieve on a level which produced a thorough and consistent vision from Director Jillian Bauersfeld. With the aid of Assistant Director Jake Stuart, the cast is able to portray these fantasy characters with heart, believability and a recognizable humanity. While working under the shadow of a Disney title, it’s difficult to produce a show that allows artistic freedom with a vision while still giving the audience a dose of their expectations from the movie which kicked off the Disney animated renaissance. Ms. Bauersfeld was able to give us a cast worth watching and set up a show that ran smoothly. Small decisions to have the sea characters constantly moving arms or allowing several acting choices that were inconsistent to their characters are minor annoyances and never hurt the overall enjoyment. The true art of directing is assembling the right team to find the right cast and crew and allow everyone to do what they do while pushing them for more. Congrats to Ms. Bauersfeld on your ability to inspire everyone to give their best!
(l-r) Josh Schoff as Flostom, Holly Gibbs as Ursula, and Jonah Wolf as Jetsam. Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
I have always felt that some of the hardest working actors seem to get lost in the ensemble. When asked to play several different characters, help shift set pieces, and often run off stage only to completely change costumes and makeup and run back on stage for two minutes of a three minute song, it’s hard to remember what is next let alone your name. Major kudos to Nicole Arrison, Olivia Aubele, Amy Bell, Lanoree Blake, Katelyn Blomquist, Karli Burnham, Kelsey Feeny, Shani Goloskov, Aaron Hancock, Mark Johnson Jr, Dorian Smith, Ian Smith and Jose Teneza for your energy, talent and being consistently in character. These actors jumped from the sailors steering the ship and winding the rope, to King Triton’s court, to the seagull ensemble, chefs and Ariel’s attendants in the castle and were always able to help establish the mood of the scene.
Featuring Ellen Manuel (Aquata), Elisabeth Johnson (Andrina), Malarie Zeeks (Arista), Kaitlyn Jones (Atina), Emily Caplan (Adella) and Hannah Bartlett (Allana), Ariel’s mer-sisters were a wonderful balance to Ariel’s positive and dreamy attitude. Using different hair styles and different shells while porting vastly different personalities and physical traits, each sister managed to be her own while presenting a unified front in their featured numbers “Daughters of Triton” and “She’s in Love.” Pulling double duty, they are a delight to see on land competing for Eric’s love in the vocal contest that plays up the fantastically poor vocals of these characters.
Brian Jacobs as Chef Louis. Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
In supporting yet memorable roles, Brian Jacobs revels in playing Chef Louis during “Les Poissons” while Nicholas Pepersack’s dignified and proper Grimsby was always moving with purpose on stage. Mr. Jacobs clearly enjoys his song and slashes into his character to the breaking point of the cleaver. A fun cameo for sure that was able to get the giggles and laughs from the audience. Grimsby’s conversation with King Triton really gives Mr. Pepersack a moment to have a heartfelt moment and show how proud he is of Prince Eric.
My scene-stealing award goes to Gary Dieter who simply was Scuttle from the moment he flew in to his flawless tap dance in “Positoovity.” Scuttle was over the top and as endearingly annoying as I remember from the movie. It was hard not to smile when he was visible. Sharing the stage with him most of the time and impressively holding his own ground was Adrien Amrhein as Flounder. With sweet dance moves and a solid voice, this kid will secure more roles on stage and we will benefit from seeing him. Dutifully performing a poorly written character, his choices to not emphasize being friend-zoned and play up the best friend were appreciated.
Slithering onto the stage on their matching scooters were Josh Schoff as Flotsam and Jonah Wolf as Jetsam. The choice of scooters to maneuver them around stage was inventive and paid off in execution. Both actors were able to skillfully incorporate them in their character and not rely on them as a crutch. They were perfect henchmen to Holly Gibbs’ Ursula. Having arguably both the best and worst songs in the show, Ms. Gibb was able to make the most of her voice and complemented with acting ability that emanated from all eight limbs.
As ruler of the sea, Mark Lloyd’s King Triton managed to capture the softer side and showcased his mourning for his deceased wife and inability to properly communicate with Ariel. “If Only” is a great song to show that Triton is more than just a fierce ruler who banished his sister to a small part of the ocean but is also a parent who is sometimes unsure how to parent. He relies on Sebastian, played by Derek Cooper, to spy on Ariel and win her trust. With a clever costume and sublime vocals, Mr. Cooper is able to bring Sebastian into our lives with his own lovely interpretation. “Under the Sea” is his time to shine and when out in front singing he earns your attention with powerful falsettos and fantastic facial expressions.
The Daughters of Triton. Credit: Trent Haines-Hooper
Our leading man, Jim Baxter hits the stage as Prince Eric while taking charge of his ship. Mr. Baxter certainly looks every bit of what you’d expect from the cartoon and captures his love for adventure when on the ship and when courting Ariel in the second act. When beginning “Her Voice” he was oddly out of breath but managed to salvage some and really drive the second half of his number home with gusto and emotion. Not to be out-done by her new fiance, Allison Comotto’s Ariel is exactly what you could want from a Disney princess. Ms. Comotto is able to capture Ariel’s longing and desire to escape all while dealing with difficult family members. Allison really comes to life in Act two when her curiosity and excitement can only be communicated through her facial expressions. The joy Ariel finds in the new world is brilliantly shown during “Beyond My Wildest Dreams” where she sings her inner monologue to us. But however fantastic she is, she is at her prime when singing “Part of Your World.” Congratulations on your fairytale engagement and for inspiring a cast to follow your lead.
Disney’s Little Mermaid is a local theatre production that is able to rely on the community of actors, crew, musicians and artistic staff to bring its own magic to the stage. They should be proud of the work that they have poured into this show. The perfect escape from the summer heat, bring the family to see Cockpit in Court’s production where “it’s better down where it’s wetter.”
Disney’s The Little Mermaid will run through Auguest 5 at Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, CCBC Essex, Robert and Eleanor Romadka College Center, F. Scott Black Theatre. For tickets call the box office at 443-840-ARTS (2787) or purchase them online.
This entry was posted in Reviews and tagged Aaron Hancock, Adrien Amrhein, Allison Comotto, Amy Bell, Andrew Worthington, Baltimore Theatre, Brent Tomchik, Brian Jacobs, Christopher Rose, Cockpit in Court, Deanna Brill, Derek Cooper, Dorian Smith, Elisabeth Johnson, Ellen Manuel, Emily Caplan, Gary Dieter, Gregory Troy Bell, Hannah Bartlett, Holly Gibbs, Ian Smith, Jillian Bauersfeld, Jim Baxter, Jonah Wolf, Jose Teneza, Joseph Pipkin, Josh Schoff, Kaitlyn Jones, Karli Burnham, Katelyn Blomquist, Kelsey Feeny, Lanoree Blake, Malarie Zeeks, Mark Johnson Jr, Mark Lloyd, Michael Raskinski, Nicholas Pepersack, Nicole Arrison, Olivia Aubele, Robert W. Oppel, Shani Goloskov, Stacey Antoine, Stephen Deninger, The Little Mermaid, William Georg, William Zelhoffer by Jason. Bookmark the permalink.
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
July 2, 2019 July 12, 2019 balletbookwormLeave a comment
Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
Would you like to be slowly, tenderly, and exquisitely murdered by a novel? If yes, read On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. If no, read it anyway.
This debut novel is a beautiful extended letter from a son to a mother who may not ever choose or be able to read it. Little Dog’s narrative is damn near plotless but reveals very slowly, like attempting to peel off a Band-Aid, so many traumas and scars left by war, racism, homophobia, poverty, mental illness, and addiction. We get vignettes of Little Dog’s grandmother Lan raising a biracial child, of Little Dog witnessing his mother abused by his father, of Lan lost in a haze of PTSD and schizophrenia, of Little Dog’s mother working herself to the bone as a manicurist, and of Little Dog himself as he deals with racism from other children and homophobia from his first lover, a boy named Trevor who is also a victim of the growing opioid crisis.
If you liked Alexander Chee’s writing, particularly Edinburgh, you will love Vuong’s writing.
Dear FTC: I had to buy a copy of this book because I was savoring it too much to merely just read a digital galley.
The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
September 25, 2018 November 10, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending audiobook from author Stephanie Butland
Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you.
Into her hiding place – the bookstore where she works – come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries.
Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive her own heartbreaking secrets?
Praise for The Lost for Words Bookshop:
“The Lost for Words Bookshop pushes all my bookish buttons.”–Red (Books to Read)
“Quirky, clever and unputdownable.”–Katie Fforde
“Burns fiercely with love and hurt. A rare and beautiful novel.”–Linda Green, bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed
I missed The Lost for Words Bookshop when it published in June because I couldn’t get my hands on a galley. But now that it’s autumn, and good snuggle up and read weather, I sat down to read a novel set in an English bookshop (well, and the copy I borrowed from the store needed to be returned).
The novel is narrated by Loveday Cardew, a solitary and one might say “quirky” (because attitude and tattoos, you know) young woman who works at The Lost for Words Bookshop in York. One day she finds a lost book on the street, posts a notice in the shop window, and meets a poet. He’s nice enough, but invites Loveday to a weekly poetry reading at the pub…which Loveday would rather remove her own skin than attend, but she winds up going because the other option is to get stalked by her shitty ex-boyfriend. In between Loveday’s thoughts on working at the bookshop (which she’s done since the age of 15) and opinions on books and reading, there come three very strange book deliveries which lead Loveday back into her past.
Now, before you get really excited and think this is a wild mystery or Loveday is hiding from the mob or something, it’s not that. I won’t spoil it too much but Loveday lives much of her life reacting to a very traumatic event in her childhood. She herself was not physically harmed (so, no TW for harm to children) though it has caused her to keep everyone that might love or care for her at a distance. The confluence of the book deliveries, the poet, and the ex all combine to break open Loveday’s tough exterior.
The Lost for Words Bookshop was a solid one-sitting read for me full of the solace that books can bring when one is lonely. I enjoyed Loveday’s voice very much, particularly when she spoke directly to the reader. But for all the snarky humor, there is a dark center to this book. There are several scenes with domestic violence and one character suffers from mental illness (although I’m not sure that aspect was handled well). A trigger warning if you need to know in advance.
Dear FTC: I borrowed a copy of this book from my store.
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The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon
August 1, 2018 November 9, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
A powerful, darkly glittering novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea.
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act.
The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most. who lose what they love most.
When I downloaded the galley for The Incendiaries I wasn’t quite sure if I was ready for an intense literary novel about religious faith and cults. (I mean, look around at the garbage fire of the news.) But I was intrigued after reading a bit of Kwon’s interviews where she talked about growing up with an intense religious faith, then losing that faith, so I decided to go for it.
The Incendiaries is a hallucinatory, violent debut that grapples with the line between faith and fanaticism. I have never been a particularly religious person, especially as an adult (although I was raised Lutheran and I am the child of a church organist, which is just one-off from being the pastor’s kid), and the way Kwon constructed the circuitous religious logic displayed by Phoebe and John Leal was particularly fascinating. I’m not sure I’m completely on board with the structure of the novel as the narrative jumped between Will, Phoebe (reconstructed by Will), and John Leal but I couldn’t put it down. I do wonder what the Phoebe sections would have looked like had they actually been in her voice, but Kwon’s choice does give a very illusory, unsettled feel to the character.
TW: rape. It does occur on the page later in the book. The scene does not feel gratuitous, but it could definitely be triggering.
The Incendiaries is out now.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War #1)
May 1, 2018 November 6, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard, the most elite military school in Nikan, was even more surprising.
Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.
For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .
Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.
In looking over the Spring Discover selections for BN, R.F. Kuang’s debut, The Poppy War, just stood straight out. A fantasy novel on the epic scale of Game of Thrones, with perhaps a bit of The Once and Future King or Harry Potter thrown in, but based in Chinese history and storytelling. Oh, yes please.
Let me tell you – this book is bananas. BANANAS. We have the smart orphan at boarding school plot and then it takes a LEFT TURN into a major military offensive and then about halfway through I realized I couldn’t quite figure out where Kuang was taking the plot. I could see myriad ways Rin could go, like the many different moves of a chess game, but I couldn’t predict the path (I had sort-of guessed part of the end, but definitely wasn’t prepared for it). This is a fantasy novel grounded in the shamanism and politics of the Asian continent. The world-building is astounding. And the reader is left on a bit of a cliff-hanger at the end. Well-played, Ms. Kuang.
But fair warning: reading this book is rough. So rough. There are events in the book inspired by the atrocities committed during the invasion of Nanking during World War II. There are scenes that very clearly are reminiscent of ethnic cleansing. Trigger warning for extreme wartime violence (think Khmer Rouge plus Nazis, just as a warning) and rape.
The Poppy War is out today!
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
April 10, 2018 April 17, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. . . But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.
A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.
Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead—and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together.
I first heard about The Trauma Cleaner from Liberty on the All the Books podcast in a round-up of anticipated 2018 releases. Lib has never steered me wrong, so I pulled up the galley on Edelweiss and devoured it.
The Trauma Cleaner is an absolutely fascinating book that twines three stories into one: the surface-level business of trauma cleaning (the cleaning done after a person has died or is in a hoarding situation, etc), the heart-rending biography of the woman who owns the business and how she has managed to survive with such compassion for others still intact, and the thread of the author’s own story with her own history of trauma. The story of Sandra Pankhurst is also the story of the struggle of LGBT+ persons in Australia against discrimination and for trans-men and -women to live as men and women with the same legal rights as everyone else. This is a rough, rough book to read though. Pankhurst endured a lot of physical abuse from her parents and sexual assault as an adult. All the trigger warnings. Be prepared to step back and take a breath.
As one of Sandra Pankhurst’s doctors said, it is astounding to think how much she has accomplished given that she is physically ailing and how much more she could accomplish given better health or opportunities earlier in life.
The Trauma Cleaner is out today in the US.
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
March 29, 2018 April 17, 2018 balletbookwormLeave a comment
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called “the Golden State Killer.” Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark —the masterpiece McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death—offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. It is also a portrait of a woman’s obsession and her unflagging pursuit of the truth. Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer.
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is a completely absorbing and terrifying (especially in the first third or so) work of true crime reporting/memoir/Google sleuthing about the search for the Golden State Killer (who was not named that until McNamara gave it to him, which was a thing I did not know). The writing is compelling, kudos to McNamara’s research assistant and team who organized and completed the book after her death. They were very careful to note which parts of the book were finished by McNamara herself and which were finished by her team. Although, there’s a weird Epilogue addressed to the killer placed AFTER Patton Oswalt wrote a lovely Afterword to his wife and the timing is just NO. That Epilogue should have come before the Afterword.
I do have to warn you that you absolutely do NOT want to read or listen to this book at night. Alone. By yourself. Unless you want to wind up getting absolutely no sleep and finding out that the cat managed to open the door to the garage in the middle of the night so you spend an hour checking in all the closets of the house to make sure no psychos are lying in wait for you.
Dear FTC: I listened to an audiobook recording that I borrowed from the library.
mini-review · Reading Diversely · Reading Women · stuff I read
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for March/April 2018
“Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot is an astounding memoir in essays. Here is a wound. Here is need, naked and unapologetic. Here is a mountain woman, towering in words great and small… What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined.” ―Roxane Gay, author of Hunger
Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot’s mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame.
Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn’t exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.
“A sledgehammer. . . . Her experiments with structure and language . . . are in the service of trying to find new ways to think about the past, trauma, repetition and reconciliation, which might be a way of saying a new model for the memoir.” ―Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
“I am quietly reveling in the profundity of Mailhot’s deliberate transgression in Heart Berries and its perfect results. I love her suspicion of words. I have always been terrified and in awe of the power of words – but Mailhot does not let them silence her in Heart Berries. She finds the purest way to say what she needs to say… [T]he writing is so good it’s hard not to temporarily be distracted from the content or narrative by its brilliance…Perhaps, because this author so generously allows us to be her witness, we are somehow able to see ourselves more clearly and become better witnesses to ourselves.” ―Emma Watson, Official March/April selection for Our Shared Shelf
I don’t know what got into Spring 2018 publishing, but Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is another knock-it-out-of-the-park book. I cannot even begin to tell you how beautiful and heartbreaking this slim memoir actually is (and I mean slim – barely 150 pages). Mailhot’s use of contrasting style and tone is perfection. Her critique of how Native women’s language is taken from them and twisted is breathtaking. An early forerunner for best memoir of the year.
My only critique is that the extra-textual information contained in the flap copy above really does not figure directly into the narrative that Mailhot is working through in this book. Details flit around the periphery. The reader has to work to piece everything together, right along with Mailhot. And I don’t think the extra-textuals are needed because then we spend the whole book searching for the matching details.
If you are following #metoo, Sherman Alexie did provide an Introduction to this book (not sure if it will stay for future editions/printings). But it really adds nothing to the book. If he bothers you, you can safely skip it, read Mailhot’s writing, and then read the Afterword by Joan Naviyuk Kane, which is a Q&A with Mailhot and amazing.
Dear FTC: I bought my copy of this book because YES.
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HomeWORLDWIDEARTS & CULTUREMusic & ArtsThe Chieftains review- The 57th Anniversary Tour at Symphony Center, Chicago
The Chieftains review- The 57th Anniversary Tour at Symphony Center, Chicago
March 3, 2019 Debra Davy Music & Arts 1
DATE: 12-15-13 LOCATION: Jones Hall, Houston SUBJECT: The Houston Symphony presents The Chieftains on their 50th Anniversary. The Cieftains are joined by Astronaut Cady Coleman along with members of Bandella. PHOTOGRAPHER: Lauren Harnett
On March 2, 2019, as part of their 57th Anniversary world tour, The Chieftains appeared at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, Chicago in a special Symphony Center Presents concert. The setlist included: Gathering Mushrooms, Red Is The Rose, Shenandoah, Long Journey Home, March to Battle (Across the Rio Grande), Easter Snow, The Chieftains in Orbit / Fanny Power / Harp Solo, and The Hangman’s Reel.
The concert featured Paddy Moloney, Uileann pipes and tin whistle; Matt Molloy, flute; Kevin Conneff, bodhran and vocals; Jon Pilatzke, fiddle and dance; Triona Marshall, Celtic harp and keyboards; Alyth McCormack, percussion and vocals; Tara Breen, fiddle and saxophone; Cara Butler, dancer; Nathan Pilatzke, dancer; and special guests members of the Old St. Patrick’s Church Choir under the direction of Mark Scozzafave; the Caledonia Kilty Pipe Band, and 6 dancers from the Dennehy School of Irish Dance.
Above the stage at Orchestra Hall, a screen by way of banner proclaimed 2019 as the 57th Anniversary of The Chieftains. The screen was also used to project a video of their history, along with famous friends, before the concert began, Celtic symbols and the names of solo artists throughout the concert, and a short video of astronaut Cady Coleman in an astonishing recording she made in space using a tin whistle and flute borrowed from The Chieftains.
Orchestra Hall welcomes The Chieftains; March 2, 2019; photo by Harry Clauson
Known as cultural ambassadors, the 6 Grammy award winning group celebrated their heritage with a contemporary percussion-driven form of traditional Irish music, but also incorporated Scottish, Canadian, and American tunes, and performed a tribute to Nelson Mandela. This ability to include old and young musicians, hark back to history’s heroic persons, and transcend ethnic barriers- along with, of course, their heartbreaking virtuosity- is surely some part of the reason for their extraordinary longevity and relevance.
At home in Ireland, of course, the Chieftain’s have often been involved in major occasions; when Pope John Paul II visited Ireland in 1979 they performed to an audience of over 1.3 million; in 2011 they played as part of the historic visit to Ireland of HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
They have been honored in the United States, as well; they were the first ensemble to perform a concert in the Capitol Building in Washington DC and in 2012, marking The Chieftains’ 50thAnniversary they were awarded the inaugural National Concert Hall Lifetime Achievement Award at a gala event in Philadelphia hosted by The American Ireland Fund “in recognition of their tremendous contribution to the music industry worldwide and the promotion of the best of Irish culture.”
Around the globe, the Chieftains performances have long been linked with worldwide historic events; they were the first Western musicians to perform on the Great Wall of China and participated in Roger Water’s “The Wall” performance in Berlin in 1990.
The concert was an absolute delight from beginning to end. The combination of dancers, singers, ancient and modern instruments and the sheer exuberant joy of the performers coupled with the keening, emotion-drenched skirling melodies took the sold-out audience on a nostalgic adventure.
The band’s longtime leader, Paddy Moloney, led the evening on Uilleann pipes and tin whistle, commenting and introducing with gentle humor. Kevin Coneff is one of the original Chieftains; looking perennially young, he charmed with an a cappella ballad, and from the rear of the stage, projected vocals and lent a strong sound with the bodhran. Matt Malloy, another original Chieftain, played a commanding clear flute.
Tara Breen and Jon Pilatzke are both incredible fiddlers, barely able to contain their foot-tapping embodiment of accompanying rhythm. They are also excellent step-dancers and Breen’s saxophone solo at the end was a special surprise. Pilatzke dancing with his brother Nathan made up a boundless duet of percussive ability. Cara Butler is a splendid, engaging dancer, propelled across the stage with vigor and style. In fact, the Irish and adapted tap dance throughout the evening was as welcome as the music- it was part and parcel of the music!
Triona Marshall is a super performer on the Celtic harp and keyboards, adding a level of celestial sound. Alyth McCormack’s otherworldly voice is complex and compelling. The Caledonia Kilty Pipe Band, ranged behind the Chieftains, added a feeling of wild campfire-lit nights beside the lakes, the glens, moors and mountains that exist in every country, in every culture, and form the background of everybody’s longing for home. The gorgeous blended voices of the Old St. Pat’s Choir soared to the ceiling with the type of melody that evokes first love, and the 6 young ladies from the Dennehy School filled the heart with the promise of innocence.
It was a wonderful, uplifting concert, the type of music that makes you proud and happy. For information and tickets to all the great programming of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, go to www.cso.org
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And the Award Goes to… Doris Bergman for Her Stupendous 11th Annual Valentine Romance Oscar Style Party!
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Judy hill says:
Agreed. Great show . Who was the guitarist/ accordian player? Very talented as well.
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In an update trailer for the upcoming Japanese release of Persona 5 Royal, developer Atlus showed off some updates to palaces and battles to make the Phantom Thieves even more stylish. While the video is in Japanese, there is enough information in what is shown to cast educated speculation on some of the game's changes.
The trailer shows off a number of combat updates, including purchasing bullets and customizing guns to use elemental effects in battle. In the base game, bullets could inflict status effects, like despair or fear. Now bullets will be capable of striking with elemental effects that were previously attached exclusively to player skills, like electricity or fire.
Another update is Joker's use of the grappling hook. While the hook was shown off in Joker's Smash Bros. appearance, fans had yet to see it in the actual game. Now, in the trailer, you can see the grappling hook being used for palace traversal, dodging traps and crossing gaps, but it can also be used to start a battle from a distance. If you see an enemy walking around in the palace, you can grapple yourself right to it, leading to a quick battle in your favor.
There is also speculation in the comments section of the trailer that bullets will automatically refill after each battle instead of after the player leaves the palace, but it is hard to verify without a direct translation.
The trailer also shows off a new collectable item in the palaces, a skull, that can be combined with other skulls you can collect to create an accessory. The accessory seems to be able to grant the character who has it equipped the ability to use a skill they had previously not learned. In the trailer, Ryuji Sakamoto, typically an offensive character, is shown using a healing skill, one he does not learn through typical leveling.
While these all seem like fun and interesting changes to spice up traversal and combat, we will have to wait for an English translation (or the game's Western release sometime in 2020) to see if this speculation is correct.
For more on Persona 5 Royal, check out the E3 English trailer.
Japanese Persona 5 Royal Trailer Shows Off Gameplay Updates
In an update trailer for the upcoming Japanese release of Persona 5 Royal, developer Atlus showed off some updates to palaces and battles to make the Phantom Thieves even more stylish. While the video is in Japanese, there is enough information in what is shown to cast educated speculation on some of the game’s changes.
Another update is Joker’s use of the grappling hook. While the hook was shown off in Joker’s Smash Bros. appearance, fans had yet to see it in the actual game. Now, in the trailer, you can see the grappling hook being used for palace traversal, dodging traps and crossing gaps, but it can also be used to start a battle from a distance. If you see an enemy walking around in the palace, you can grapple yourself right to it, leading to a quick battle in your favor.
While these all seem like fun and interesting changes to spice up traversal and combat, we will have to wait for an English translation (or the game’s Western release sometime in 2020) to see if this speculation is correct.
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How to create your own following and media platform: Amanda Whitley
Amanda found went after her passion as a necessity. Not ever having any dream of going into business, Amanda was completely happy as a public servant. After giving birth to her daughter, who had lung disease, doctors advised Amanda that her little girl couldn't be put in day care, and therefore Amanda needed to stay home. Amanda soon realized that she needed connection with other people (now that she wasn't working anymore) and out of this need for connection….soon after, HerCanberra - a leading online publication for women, was born. If you want to create a following …. this is for you. Listen IN!
How being a people person can pay off....literally: Sohail Khan
You’re going to want to listen to this interview if you’ve ever been trapped in the wrong profession and you knew you were capable of more... Sohail was an accountant who became a multi-millionaire living in 12 bedroom mansion, with Ferraris and Lamborghinis parked outside his mansion….until he lost everything... Sohail moved back home with his mum. Life changed when he was reading an ad in a newspaper, that prompted an idea and from there, he eventually became known as the Joint Venture (JV) expert and monetised his idea (in a BIG way) and realised the greater mission behind his work. BTW: Sohail gives a very generous resource that you'll want to check out towards the end of the interview. Listen IN!
How the act of giving gifts….became the BIG idea to monetise: Alexis Rosenbaum
This is for you, if you’ve ever thought about creating a product and selling it online. Alexis was looking for that idea that would be a success. In her 20’s she tried her hand at different ideas but none were really successful, UNTIL one day, her husband (a professional basketball player) gave her an idea, which she now calls: Baseball Lacelets. Today, this family owned business has taken OFF, thanks to combining baseball and bracelets together……you gotta hear this! Listen IN!
Becoming your own expert on your own health: Toxic Free Living Debra Lynn Add
The next set of 4 episodes are from a Summit I delivered and I know that you'll gain insights from these interviews that you normally wouldn't have (which is why I wanted to share them with you on this podcast) Debra Lynn Dadd is “The World’s Leading Expert on Toxic-Free Products.”. In her words, "Not because somebody gave me this title, but because I really am". She is an expert on toxic free living and after chronic ill health it became her passion to create health for herself (and it didnt just become a profession) but morphed into a 40 year mission… In her words "I’m an expert. Nobody else on the planet that I know of has my degree of experience with toxic-free products". This applies to passion AND toxic FREE living. Listen IN.
Find Your Passion with Clarity And Confidence...LIVE training
This is a LIVE training I delivered on HOW to find your passion with clarity and confidence at a conference. Grab a pen and notepad as you won't want to miss the opportunity to finally find that Gift that's uniquely yours. Enjoy! Listen IN.
An Accidental Idea: Justin Herald a.k.a. The guy with Attitude
Justin was known for having attitude, especially when he went to church. So to irritate a woman who kept telling him he had attitude he created t-shirts and wore them to church that had quotes and slogans on them. The t-shirts were such a hit, people at church were asking where they could buy one….and so started the $37 million a year clothing brand called Attitude. He has since sold that brand and now and works on other projects ( that you’ll hear about in the interview) but with SO much to share, this is one of THE most amusing and crazy passion to profession stories/ interviews you’ll hear. LISTEN IN.
How to find value in the everyday ordinary to get to EXTRAordinary
Living in a social media world full of companions....if you feel you havent achieved or aren't where you think you should be... Here's how to SEE your everyday, ordinary activities so that you can align with the EXTRAordinary (the goals that you're after) with greater peace of mind and NOT feel rushed. LISTEN IN.
How do I build my trust and confidence?
If you've ever struggled with decision making this will help you build trust and confidence in yourself, immediately! Just make sure you apply this! Listen IN.
Listen to the insights and distinctions on how to know for yourself if you're in the right job/business? Also you have an invitation to be ONE of a select FEW to be coached for FREE (usually $4,000) for a mini documentary series so that YOU can be the reason for someone else's success. The vision is to help AS MANY people as possible find their passion and have the courage (if they wish) to turn it into a profession - and that can only happen if you find our live your passion! I'd LOVE the honour of helping YOU. Find out how. Listen IN!
From Service Station Worker TO helping refugees and migrants become savvy business owners: Usman Iftikhar
Usman migrated to Australia from Pakistan in 2013 and couldn't get a job. So he went about creating Catalyser, a start up incubator that helps migrants and refugees (who are skilled and very qualified in their respective fields but also may find they can't get jobs), start their own businesses. Within 2 years of starting his enterprise, he was awarded the Young Commonwealth Person of The Year, he is the Australian lead for the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance and his on a major mission! In this short space of time he's helped migrants and refugees start 15 new business. Here's how Usman turned an idea into an opportunity for some of the most disadvantaged people in our community! Listen IN.
Mindset of winning GOLD at the olympics: Jesse Aungles Gold Medalist
Jesse Aungles won GOLD at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 in the 200 metre individual medley (which means butterfly, backstroke, breast stroke and freestyle in the ONE competition!) And as a double amputee, he's labelled dis -abled. But so what, because achieving GOLD (or your personal best in anything as Jesse discusses) is all about focusing on ABILITY and NOT "dissing" it. LISTEN IN.
Fitness made her one of THE successful Business Women In Australia: Rowena Szeszeran McEvoy
Rowena ran away from home at 15. You'd think its all doom and gloom form there. Very much the opposite. Rowie has become one of Australia’s most successful business women, she has been highlighted in the BRW Young Rich List, twice, she is one of the TOP 20 richest people in Australia, under 40 – all because of her passion for fitness. You want to watch this interview if ever you felt you don't have enough certification, degrees etc. Rowie will obliterate that myth, she started at just 15 (without completing school). Listen IN.
An exercise on how to choose Which passion to follow
Many listeners get stumped on WHICH passion to choose (once they've found their passions). This episode takes you on an exercise on HOW to choose THE passion to focus on without neglecting your other passion projects (or getting distracted with overwhelm and indecision). Listen IN on How to choose which direction to go (in under 13 minutes 😁)
Former secretary used someone else's idea (this is legit) to build a multi-million dollar business: Lisa Wilbur
Lisa Wilber, a former secretary built a multi-million dollar business (and said good-bye to 9-5). Lisa used rock bottom as a stepping stone to find her mission and monetise someone else’s idea/passion… and made it her own passion. Awarded TOP female Network Marketer In the World! She is currently the # 5 money earner in the United States with Avon. In addition to this, she's created her very own line of products. How? Listen IN.
How to bottle your idea: How the challenge of infertility birthed an idea: Tasha Jennings
Tasha Jennings was trying to fall pregnant and was very surprised when she couldn't. This set her on a. journey to research HOW to conceive and by doing so stumbled on the idea of creating a supplement. If you've ever wanted to know HOW to take your idea and bottle it (literally), listen to how Tasha took her passion to fall pregnant and birthed her first baby, Zycia - the prenatal supplement . Listen In.
How a love of sewing allowed Vanessa Wilson to retire her husband in his 30's!
Vanessa, a former law professor turned entrepreneur, got her mum to teach her how to sew and the rest is history. You see, with sewing….yes…sewing….Vanessa was able to retire her husband, live on an organic farm with her husband AND home-school her kids. BTW she’s only in her 30's. There are plenty of people who teach sewing and how to sew (let’s face it, for hundreds of years) but how has Vanessa been able to stand out! She shares her business model – and how Vanessa has set it up to earn passive income…consistently. And how you can apply what she has done, make it your own and turn your passion into a profession! Listen IN
Just sell socks! John's Crazy Socks Story
Mark Cronin just wanted to help his son, John (who has Down syndrome) do something after finishing high school (because the reality is, 80% of disabled people in America are unemployed). John has ALWAYS loved socks and so together they started John's Crazy Socks John's Crazy Socks, an online retail store that generated $1.7 million in their FIRST year ( and they only started in Dec. 2016) This is a in-depth interview that shares HOW even the simplest, tried and true ideas (like socks) can work. You're going to LOVE this father and son team whose mission is to spread happiness with socks. If you've ever felt your idea has already been taken - this interview is proof the world still needs YOUR version, YOUR flavour of the same idea. Listen IN.
Turning love of writing into a paid profession: Kellie Byrnes
You DON'T have to be the author of Harry Potter to turn your passion for writing into a full time paid profession. Kellie Byrnes shares how she monetises her craft of writing, how she published her first children's book, when you should self publish and when to recruit a publisher and shares the life of a full time writer so you can see how to turn it into a profession for yourself. Listen IN.
Think and grow a charity (TLC for kids): Tim Conolan
Tim Conolan created the charity TLC for kids (Tender Loving Care) back in 1998 and it's still going strong. What does it take to start and grow a charity, you'll definitely want to listen to Tim. Tim takes us behind the scenes of HOW he started this charity, what its taken to weather the challenges and HOW this charity impacts 2000 kids, daily...yes daily! This is how a former Dj and motivational speaker, found his passion to help kids and their families and turned it into a profession, helping hospitals Australia wide! Remarkable! Listen IN.
How to turn Spendings into Saving (the world around us): Dr Ellis Jones
We vote for a prime minister or president every 3 or 4 years, however we vote every single day with our wallet. Real, raw, grass roots level change, the type that actually has the PM or pres. do what's needed is triggered by how and where we spend our money. Dr Ellis Jones has created The Better World Shopper: An incredible guide that tells you WHERE you're money is going (when you make a purchase) and what you've actually voted for with that transaction. FASCINATING stuff. Listen IN!
Starting a Side Hustle when you're a Mum: Erin Jones
After 2 years of raising twins Erin knew it was time to do something for her AND not compromise on being a hands on mum... This is an example of what a start up side hustle for busy mum looks like...from funding marketing to learning the world of "business owner". Listen IN.
A Cheeky Shark Tank Story: Lori Cheek
Lori Cheek a former architect took her idea to Shark Tank, USA but got knocked back. She re-evaluated her idea and turned it into an app and launched. This is the story of how to come out of the shark tank with fire still in your belly, after being knocked down, publicly. Listen IN.
You can even monetise climbing Mt Everest
How do you turn a hobby into a profession? Cathy found herself and her team receiving an encouraging call from the late Nelson Mandela in preparation for their expedition to Mt Everest (no pressure). But what's REMARKABLE is Cathy to took this achievement and turned it into a profession. That's what Cathy says was the real breakthrough of her Mt Everest experience. Taking her hobby, her passion and monetising it so she has never had to work an office job for the past 20 years, since her adventures (and how you can too if you wanted to)...Listen IN.
How to serve the needy and the homeless using boxes: Monika Wiela
Monika immigrated to America not knowing English yet soon sold her first pair of shoes on the internet and founded a successful internet shoe business. But in 2012, a chance encounter, with a homeless man held a sign saying he needed shoes. Compelled to help, Give Back Box® was born. The platform allows consumers to re-use the cardboard boxes from their e-commerce purchases to forward used clothing, accessories to charities whilst helping the environment. If ever you've wanted to start or understand how to build your own impact, income and contribution...Listen IN
Full time job plus a side hustle for your child: Rachel Brittliff
This is an interview with lawyer Rachel Brittliff and how she wanted her daughter's interest in science to be nurtured. TOTALLY different to law, but she started a side hustle (science kits) with her little girl. If you have dreams AND at the same time you want to nurture your children's dreams as well. Here's and example of HOW to do so. Listen IN.
When money isn't bringing meaning...
Liz Volpe had a yearning to help Cambodians become self-sufficient entrepreneurs. She took what she knew, gathered other business thinkers and together took on the responsibility to run "dare to dream" entrepreneurial workshops so that kids in Cambodia could learn to create their own influence, impact and income, BUT first, facing the fear of...daring to dream. Listen IN.
The Shoe That Grows: Kenton Lee
Have you ever wanted to help a cause? While (donations are wonderful), Kenton Lee wanted to do something long lasting to help the orphanage he was volunteering in Kenya. SO after 6 long years he created the Shoe That Grows. A shoe that grows as the feet grow to help specially children who outgrew their or didnt have any at the orphanage (I know, incredible!) and it's durable, long lasting but that's just the beginning. This episode is going to leave you gasping and planting seeds for you and I to imagine, believe and think of the impossible MORE importantly have the audacity (like Kenton Lee) to then create it, Kenton shares how. Listen IN.
From School Teacher To Inventor
How do you go from School teacher to Inventor? If you've ever wanted to create something, invent something and support a cause...Laura Furiosi is dynamite! Her work is reducing rates of skin cancer by having created a swimwear that helps to do just that. If you've ever wanted to know HOW to stake an idea (In Laura's case to help her baby girl) a passion from a mere idea to major distribution (profession)... You're IN the right place. From design to patents to manufacturing to marketing to distribution - Laura is a legend because she's very real and raw about the journey of how this is done and how YOU can take a passion and turn it into a profession a.k.a Unbox Your Gift. Listen IN Now.
You can't hold down a job?
What happens when you can't hold a job down because you have MAJOR health challenges since birth? Patricia Scheetz is a double organ transplant recipient and her story is the definition of taking a passion and turning it into a profession to fit into a desired lifestyle. She went on a reality tv program to test her passion (that's courage), and even though she's had very scary challenges, she could easily (and be justified) to curl up into a ball and isolate herself... BUT instead she's truly defied numerous odds (death and doctors), found HER meaning , mixed it with an attitude that resembles sunshine and took the time to teach us about The Sweetest Gift. Listen In.
When working with the deceased happens to be your passion 😳...
Robyn O'connell is a woman who for 16 years has been working in her dream job and it just happens to be working with the deceased. It's a very interesting interview and proof that our passion, our gift and our value is not one size fits all, but a yearning to add meaning to our everyday. Listen in.
7 kids to Homeschool...Where's the time for your passion
After being on life support, Christina Mathewson decided she had a mission that she needed to pursue, in addition to homeschooling her 7 children! How do you find time to nurture 7 souls in finding their "place" and still have time to find your own? If you thought you're busy this interview will have you review your story of being too "busy" to unbox your gift. Listen in.
Permission slip to find your passion
A former teacher has made it her business to help other teachers' health and well-being. Ellen Ronalds Keene's passion is an example of how the traditional teacher role didnt fit her lifestyle and as such moulded her passion for education to suit her lifestyle. A practical example of Unboxing Your Gift.
A Stroke Of Inspiration
Retired UK Detective and private investigator, Shelagh Brennand's life took a turn when she suffered a sudden stroke at age 49. How do you find meaning, purpose and overcome the depression that stroke brings...you're going to LOVE Shelagh's candid conversation about how she found a passion, how she found meaning and the courage to contribute after stroke. Shelagh is the author of A Stroke of Poetry. The website that gives assistance to stroke patients is https://enableme.org.au and https://strokefoundation.org.au Listen in. Side effects: you may find your own stroke of insight.
Are you Kidding A Gap year In Your Forties?
Diane Squires shares how she took a gap year in her forties...not because it was warranted for maternity leave or carers leave (reasons we normally take leave) BUT because she needed time out and away from the overwhelm. She left the big, hairy, title and security of being a communications "Director" and started the journey of the unknown...to find and unbox her gift. Was that responsible or irresponsible? What's the point of a gap year in your forties or beyond? This episode will leave you in deep thought...about you. Don't delay. Listen in. BTW: there's brief post- show discussion thats added AFTER I thank Diane and say goodbye on when is Diane going to get a 'real' job (she gets asked this, commonly) and how to get to do what she does now...travel the world and write...Remember it's AFTER the show - so keep listening till the end :)
From Accountant to a Doula
This episode is about how an accountant (Samantha Gunn) turned her profession into a doula (yes a doula). From one extreme to another. It's fascinating how the journey of discovering your gift can unfold. This is a fascinating example. Btw if you need a doula Samantha is at www.samanthagunndoula.com
Education Or School?
There’s a difference between being educated and being schooled. This is an excerpt from an interview. It’s about 3 minutes. Enjoy! Let me know your thoughts...
How to find your passion minus your resume
How do you find your passion without being distracted by all the noise and what you feel you "have to do". This first episode will show you how. Please send through any questions you have.
Your Passion minus your resume
How to find your passion minus your resume (part: 2)
The fat and the thin of finding your passion
How change can even take place in a supermarket and how a life long weight battle at 40 for Jean created a worldwide movement (in the 60’s and 70’s)
Two choices Death or Insanity
Your passion is a unique journey, even though (as in today's example) it starts off as a nightmare.
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Seraph of the End – Season 1 Collectors Edition Contents Confirmed
Following on from the news that Universal Pictures UK would be releasing Seraph of the End – Season 1 as a Collectors Edition Blu-ray (and DVD) release later this year the company have now taken to the UK Anime Network website to unveil the contents of what this Collectors Edition will contain; and it is filled with some pretty interesting stuff.
For starters this UK release of Seraph of the End – Season 1 Collectors Edition will contain the entire first season, which consists of tweleve episodes, across two discs in both English and Japanese audio language. These discs will also come complete with a variety of ‘on-disc’ bonus content such as Seraph of the Endless bonus episodes, TV Spots, Music Clips and Promotional Trailers; basically everything you would come to expect from a ‘good’ release of an anime series.
Of course as this is the ‘Collectors Edition’ fans will be treated to a rigied slipcase box with the discs being housed inside a digibook styled packaging design; alongside these ‘unique’ packaging fans will find the following physical content:
134-page English translated landscape guide book containing character profiles, staff interviews and conceptual and background art
4 x artcards, featuring Yuichiro, Guren, Mikaela and Ferid
4 x stat cards, playing card-sized and featuring stats on your favourite characters. Volume one includes Yuichiro, Mikaela, Shinoa Hiragi and Krul Tepes.
Considering the presentation, and the amount of content included, the current £44.99 – £49.99 asking price on ‘most’ online retailers seems like a fair price; especially for a first time anime release by Universal Pictures UK.
In any event Seraph of the End – Season 1 Collectors Edition will be available on both DVD and Blu-ray from the 23rd May 2016 and is currently available to pre-order from a variety of online retailers.
Filed under News Tagged with Blu-ray, Collectors Edition, DVD, News, Season 1, Seraph of the End, Universal Pictures UK
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Sprint Option: Week 12
I’m currently riding shotgun on our drive back from vacation in New Orleans. Side note, is there anything worse than a long drive back from vacation? You’re essentially enduring a long reminder that the fun is over and it’s time to get back to reality. Speaking of segues, the fun is over for Ohio State and Oklahoma State after this weekend. Neither team is dead per se, but adding to the pool of one loss teams never really helps you. All this and more lie in wait in this article. Also, the Bet the Board picks went 9-1 this week, sole loss was OKST on a pick’em. If you’re not riding with us with numbers like this, I don’t know what it’s going to take.
Let’s get to the Option.
Ohio State’s shortcomings exploited by Sparty, star Buckeyes indict coaches…
Here we go again, Urban? The fragile facade of discipline Meyer has orchestrated at Ohio State is finally becoming reminiscent of his Wild West days at Florida. Michigan State outplayed OSU, despite the score. If not for a muffed punt recovered by the Buckeyes on the MSU 6, the Spartans might not have needed a game winning field goal. The real storyline here is that Zeke Elliott laid into his coaches in a post-game interview. He put OSU on notice that he would not be returning and expressed anger at the fact that he only got the ball 11 times. For the record, I agree with him. Elliott has the talent to be a Heisman finalist, but they won’t give him the damn ball. Why?! The best part about this is that Ohio State still has a game to play against a really solid Michigan team whose record belies their ability. Ohio State might not be done losing and the wheels are coming off the wagon. We’ll see how Urban’s health holds up.
Florida is bad, Harris is bad, everything is awful…
In case you missed it–thankfully, I did–Florida had to win in overtime against 2-8 FAU (who is now 2-9). This game was a scoreless tie at half. FAU moved the ball better than they should have and the Owl quarterback, Johnson, had a better day statistically than Treon Harris until overtime where Harris threw the eventual game winning touchdown. Florida missed two field goals and an extra point. How you can be a flagship football school the caliber of Florida and not have a kicker is unfathomable to me. I get that not everyone can get a Roberto Aguayo, but damn. Coach Mac is going to start going for every fourth down inside the 50 and two point conversions after every TD at this rate–not that Florida scores many of those. The Gators draw FSU next week and while FSU isn’t the team they were with Winston, they would have beat the Florida team from this weekend by at least 10. Florida has been trending down ever since Grier was suspended. Mac is right about the team playing like dead fish. They’ve got about 5 days to figure it out.
Every give-a-damn in the Georgia Tech locker room is broken…
Tech traded blows with beleaguered Miami at the opening but eventually succumbed to the same fatal flaws that have encumbered the Jackets all season–poor execution. Granted, much of the execution problems came when Justin Thomas left the game injured. As important as a quarterback usually is in a offense, he may be 100x more valuable to a triple option offense. Thomas is GT’s lynchpin. Without him, the team is wholly and completely doomed, as we saw. Tech rallied late, but Miami was never really threatened once they pulled away. The win for the Canes served to improve their potential bowl bid, but the game didn’t matter for the division as both teams had been effectively eliminated in October. Georgia Tech basically quit the season after the Miracle on Techwood–some would argue before that. I stand by my assessment that Paul Johnson may have run his course at Tech. They won’t fire him this season, but fans will eventually become restless because of his glass ceiling. Call me a first mover in this space.
Baylor bounces back, deals Oklahoma State first loss, puts Big XII on the brink…
I stand by my position that one loss Oklahoma is the best chance the Big XII has to make the playoff. Now that TCU has lost again, I don’t think next week’s game has enough power to propel Baylor into the Playoff if Oklahoma loses Bedlam. More on that later this week, but Baylor got out ahead of the Cowboys and cruised after that. OKST closed late, but the margin was too wide to catch Baylor. Before this win, Bedlam between OKST and Oklahoma looked to be a play-in game for the Playoff–not so much now. Let’s be real, though, a one-loss Baylor probably deserves to go based on quality of loss alone–Oklahoma lost to Texas. But the Big XII again may play hell with the committee and again may get left out because it’s easier than untangling that knot of a conference.
Gary Patterson is an idiot coach who let his players down…
Seriously. Oklahoma opened up a comfortable 4th quarter margin on TCU, and the Horned Frogs slowly chipped away at the lead before scoring the potential tying score with under a minute remaining. Patterson went for two and the win, with a backup QB and a team that had just left everything on the field to get back into the game. What in the actual hell are you doing, Gary?! Kick the point and go to overtime. You had momentum and you had held Oklahoma to the same score for almost 13 minutes of game time. Patterson killed TCU’s postseason hopes with that crap. If I’m a TCU fan, I’m still unbelievably furious that my idiot coach pulled that stunt. Now, if the game had been punch for punch or you had Boykin, maybe I like this call more. But, to lose on a failed conversion after clawing back the game is beyond the pale. Coach Patterson left his players out in the cold for the sake of his own ego. That’s a bad look, G.
Notre Dame struggles to hang with powerhouse Boston College team…
Yes, that’s sarcasm. Notre Dame almost dropped this game to unranked BC and we want to put them in the playoff. The Notre Dame hype is real. They just aren’t good enough to be a top 4 team. New Year’s 6? Sure. But, BC lost to Wake 3-0! In football! Yes, the BC defense is exceptional, but to allow that offense to keep close to you is embarrassing. Notre Dame ought to drop in the polls. This performance is every bit as embarrassing as Florida’s.
Iowa is a fraud, and may succeed at their long con…
The Hawkeyes stuck it to Purdue this weekend to remain undefeated. The fact that they are undefeated in the West is an indictment of the B1G West. They are fraudulently overrated, but now that they’ll probably face Sparty in the conference championship, they may be an undefeated B1G champion. And, you had better believe that an undefeated Power 5 champion goes. I think Iowa is a good team, I just don’t believe they’re one of the top 4 teams in the country. But that opens the door to the best 4 vs. most deserving 4 argument, and I don’t want to get into that right now. Still, Iowa is the freshest of any team in the conference because they haven’t played anyone worth a damn. So, the likelihood of the Hawkeyes playing in a national semifinal is pretty high.
Mississippi destroyed LSU and kept their SEC hopes alive…
For the record, I still don’t understand how Les Miles is under fire or “coaching for his job.” The man has 110 wins in 11 seasons! How can you fire someone like that? Crazy. The Rebels had to win to stay in the hunt for the SEC West. Now, they need Alabama to inexplicably drop the Iron Bowl and then Ole Miss will have a rematch against the Gators in Atlanta for the conference title. At this point, if Bama loses that game, I’m not sure the SEC gets someone in the playoff with how bad UF has looked and the fact that Mississippi has 3 losses.
UNC upsets Clemson in the ACCCG and makes it into the top 4 to play for the national championship.
College Football, NCAA, Reaction, Sprint Option
NBA Power Rankings and Trade Machine Gone Mad: Week 3
HOUSE OF ZARDS: BENCH POINTS!!
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Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.
Canning Windows Phone and using Android would be a huge mistake.
Peter Bright - Feb 8, 2014 1:00 pm UTC
As happens from time to time, the suggestion has been made that Microsoft cancel Windows Phone, and instead fork Android. It's not the first time this suggestion has been made. It's probably not the last, either.
It's a poor idea. Google has worked to make Android functionally unforkable, with no practical way to simultaneously fork the platform and take advantage of its related strengths: abundant developers, and abundant applications.
The outline of the "Microsoft should fork Android" argument is as follows: Windows Phone doesn't have huge developer buy-in or sales success, but Android has both. By forking Android, Microsoft could provide unique value—corporate integration with things like Exchange, Active Directory, and System Center or InTune; full Office support; a polished user experience—and make the platform depend on its own cloud services (Bing, Bing Maps, Azure) rather than Google's. But simultaneously, it would still have access to all the Android applications that people depend on.
The result should be a platform that's somehow more attractive to consumers, by virtue of the Android brand and all those Android apps, more attractive to developers thanks to the Android APIs, and cheaper for Microsoft to develop, since core operating system development can be left to Google.
Where this falls down is that there's no good way to use the Android platform this way. It's not designed for it. In fact, with each new Android release, Google is making a forked operating system less and less viable.
Not-very-open source
Broadly speaking, Google produces two big chunks of code. The first is the Android Open Source Platform (AOSP) codebase. This provides the basic bones of a smartphone operating system: it includes Android's version of the Linux kernel, the Dalvik virtual machine, and portions of the basic user interface (settings app, notification panel, lock screen). This part is licensed under a mix of the GPL and Apache license. Google produces periodic code release of these open source parts, though has been criticized for performing the actual development largely behind closed doors.
The second chunk is called the Google Mobile Services (GMS). (Or at least, sometimes it's called GMS. Sometimes it's called just Google Services, and sometimes it's Google Play or Google Play Apps; GMS is what it's called in the code, though, so that seems to be the most common name). This has two big portions. The Google Play Services provides a wealth of APIs and system services: APIs for Google Maps, Location, and in-app purchasing; Google+ integration; Remote Wipe; Malware scanning; and more. Then there's the Play Store collection of apps: Search, Gmail, Chrome, Maps, and many more.
The GMS has a few important features. GMS isn't open source. Anyone can take AOSP and slap it on a phone. That's not true of GMS. To get GMS, the device has to meet certain technical requirements (performance, screen resolution, and so on), and it has to pass validation. Though Google says that the GMS suite is itself free, the validation process isn't, with reports that it costs around $0.75 per device.
GMS also seems not to be divisible: if your phone passes the GMS validation and can include GMS, it includes everything: both Play Services, and the various Google-branded apps that use those services.
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
The split between AOSP and GMS is not constant, either. Google has slowly been migrating more and more functionality to GMS. For example, in the latest Nexus 5, the core phone user interface—the thing that you use to launch apps and show icons—has been rolled into the GMS Search app.
Similarly, APIs have made the move. AOSP contains a location API, but GMS contains a newer, better one, with additional features. Google encourages developers to use the GMS API, and the AOSP Location API mostly dates back to Android 1.0, and hasn't seen any substantial changes since Android 1.5. The result is that many third-party applications are not merely "Android" applications: they're GMS applications, and won't run without the proprietary, non-open Google software.
Four ways to do Android
There are four ways that hardware builders can use Android on their phones.
The first is the way that Google really wants companies to use Android: by relying both on AOSP and GMS. Pass the certification, include all the Google services and Google apps. That's what companies like Samsung and HTC and LG do. Going this route still provides some facility for the OEM to customize. OEMs can provide their own apps to sit alongside the Google ones, for example. It appears that Google isn't completely happy about this—there are reports that the company recently made an agreement with Samsung whereby Samsung would reduce the amount of customization of the user interface and deprioritize or remove its apps that competed directly with Google-branded equivalents.
Taking this path provides the best compatibility with third-party applications by ensuring that they have both AOSP and GMS APIs available to them. It also provides the most consistent experience: in spite of the various customizations that are done, it means that Google's apps will be available, and those apps will work the same way on any AOSP+GMS device.
It also cedes most control to Google, and that level of control will only grow. Each new release increases the level of integration with Google's own services, and Google is moving more and more new functionality to GMS, leaving AOSP a barebones husk.
At the other end of the spectrum, you can ignore GMS entirely. Ship a phone with AOSP and perhaps some custom software on top of it to make the experience a little less rough for users, and call the job done. At the very cheapest end of the market, there are companies doing precisely this; it's abundant in China, in particular. If they choose, OEMs can provide their own stores and other services to fill the many, many gaps that omitting GMS leaves, but they're always at a disadvantage relative to GMS devices, because they won't be compatible with any third-party applications that use GMS' APIs. That's not a small category, either, since features such as in-app purchasing are in GMS.
The third option is the one that spans the two: ship a device with AOSP, and an equivalent to GMS that provides new implementations of substantially the same APIs. Provide workalike replacements for services such as location and mapping, but plumb into Microsoft services rather than Google ones. No company has really gone down this route. The closest is Amazon, which provides near-drop-in replacements for some Google APIs (in particular mapping), but which hasn't even begun to keep pace with GMS development in general.
Technically, however, a company with sufficient development resources could provide its own GMS replacement. The overhead would be not insignificant, especially as—to ensure optimal compatibility—the replacement would have to replicate not just correct functioning, but any bugs or quirks of the GMS implementation.
There are also lots of little awkward aspects of the GMS API; it includes such capabilities as "share with Google+" which few companies have any real counterpart to. Another example: there is an API for handling turn-based multiplayer gaming. A company could implement this API and have its own server infrastructure for managing the gaming sessions, but obviously these gaming sessions would be completely separate from Google's gaming sessions, fragmenting the player base in a way that game developers are unlikely to be keen on.
As an added bonus, should the ultimate resolution of Google's long-running legal battle with Oracle be that APIs are, in fact, copyrightable, this kind of wholesale reimplementation of GMS would become legally actionable. Google could, if it chose to, shut it down through the courts.
To these three options, one could perhaps add a fourth: use AOSP to provide a few essential services—support for hardware, telephony, and so on—but then build an entirely new platform and APIs to run on it. Aspects of Amazon's API support would fall into this category, with some of its APIs covering the same ground as GMS APIs, but in a completely different, incompatible way. It's not clear, however, that any manufacturer has entirely embraced this path, though one might argue that Ubuntu for Android is similar, at least in spirit.
You can have compatibility or control: Not both
The first of these options—AOSP with GMS—is the only option that provides the full Android experience. It's the only one that ensures developers can transfer their skills perfectly, the only one that ensures that the full breadth and variety of Android software is available. However, it's clearly not a good option for Microsoft, given that it would almost entirely cede control of the platform to Google—and judging by the advertising company's track record, it would cede even more control with each new Android release.
The second option—AOSP with a few extra custom extras—has the upside of providing an opportunity for Microsoft to integrate its own services. It would support some Android software, though exactly how much is unclear. It would certainly mean omitting any high-profile title using in-app purchasing, so, say, Plants vs. Zombies 2 or the latest iteration of Angry Birds would be out. If one were building a feature phone platform, this may be a somewhat reasonable path to take. When the phone is only really built for running the built-in apps (camera, browser, e-mail) the fact that many Android apps would be incompatible doesn't really matter.
The rumors of a Nokia-built Android phone suggest this kind of approach: AOSP under the hood, but with Nokia services, not Google ones, on top.
This approach also probably works acceptably for ultra-low-end devices where compatibility isn't such a big deal, which accounts for much of the Chinese AOSP market. But for Microsoft, this would be missing the point: the company already has a platform that's not compatible with the latest and greatest high profile apps. It doesn't need another one.
However, it's important to understand just how deficient this kind of device would be. Google has pushed very significant pieces of functionality into GMS, including messaging and the Chrome browser. The AOSP counterparts are buggy, feature deprived, and by at least some accounts, barely maintained. If a company wants to use AOSP without GMS, it has a lot of work to do if it wants to produce a high quality experience. The open source parts just aren't good enough.
Amazon's Kindle experience also demonstrates how even having an Android-like AOSP-derived platform is challenging. Kindle doesn't have the latest and greatest Android games, because their various developers haven't bothered making non-GMS versions of their games, even though the Kindle platform is very similar to Google's. In other words, the application challenge already faced by Windows Phone isn't solved by using AOSP. The only way to solve the application issue is to be not merely an AOSP platform but a GMS platform.
The third option—AOSP with a home-grown GMS equivalent—would solve this, but it would also maximize the development effort required by the forker. Providing equivalents to every GMS capability ensures at least that users get a decent experience. It would also reinstate the software compatibility that AOSP without GMS forfeits.
But this is a huge undertaking. For Microsoft, the effort required to build a GMS workalike on top of AOSP is going to be comparable to the effort required to build the Windows Phone shell and APIs on top of Windows. In fact, it's likely to be somewhat greater: Microsoft already has, for example, a browser engine that runs on Windows. It doesn't have one that runs on AOSP.
Moreover, it still implicitly gives Google control over the platform. Various aspects of how Android is used are determined by the underlying APIs: sharing between applications, for example, is done in a particular Android way. Any platform using Android in this way would have only a limited ability to take the platform in a different direction from the one Google chose.
The fourth option—use AOSP with an entirely new software stack on top—gives freedom and flexibility, but to what end? The kernel isn't the important bit. Microsoft already has a smartphone kernel. Windows Phone 8 already uses it. And strikingly, for Microsoft, ditching Windows Phone doesn't mean that the company can ditch development of this kernel. It's already being developed—for Windows! The kernel isn't the hard part.
If Android were an open platform in the way that Firefox OS or Ubuntu for smartphones were an open platform, the forking suggestion would make more sense. The AOSP/GMS split wouldn't exist. Everything would be in AOSP, so piecemeal substitution of back-end services without having to reinvent vast tracts of code and without any major compatibility implications would be practical.
But it isn't. Not only is it not this kind of an open platform, but Google is actively working to make it functionally less open with each new release. The result is that a forker has to make a choice: they can give Google control and get the all the upsides of the platform, or they can snatch control from Google and get almost none of them.
Android isn't designed to be forked. With GMS, Google has deliberately designed Android to resist forking. Suggestions that Microsoft scrap its own operating system in favor of such a fork simply betray a lack of understanding of the way Google has built the Android platform.
wffurrSmack-Fu Master, in training
You left out Google's licensing agreements with hardware manufacturers, which prohibits them from shipping incompatible (read non-GMS containing) Android devices based on AOSP code AND GMS devices. Basically, a hardware OEM will have all GMS applications rejected if they build an AOSP-based device for a different software vendor. Amazon has had to shop around a *lot* to find an OEM for the Kindle - it has to be an OEM with no ambitions of becoming their own Android brand.
puddin-pop Ars Praetorian
Wisetrader wrote:
Get rid of Windows Phone 8 and instead use Windows RT across all ARM devices. Add a XAML view for phone screen in Windows 8 apps and call it a day.
Windows Phone 8 and it's stuck in purgatory limbo craptastic API needs to die if Microsoft has to survive on phone devices. The platform hasn't moved an inch since end 2012. Tiny meaningless changes which are completely failing to keep up with iOs and Android.
Seriously what the fuck has the Windows Phone 8 team doing all this time? What do they do all day? Post nasty messages to IOS and Android dev mailing lists and run out into the bushes giggling like little girls?
What Microsoft needs to do is completely remove all their old, crusty APIs, and replace them with Metro variants, and ship that on Phones, tablets, and in the Start screen on the desktop.
coachmark2 wrote:
I think that it's pretty much a given that, between iOS, Android 4.X, and Windows Phone 8, WP8 is /vastly/ lighter on resources. If Nokia/Microsoft started using Android, there's no way a device like the Lumia 520 would ever exist. If you want to know what a responsive and smooth phone looks like for <$70, check a 520 out.
That's just something that doesn't happen with Android. Can you imagine running Jelly Bean/ KK on an MSM8930 w/ 512MB single channel 533mhz RAM? That would be quite the disaster.
In short, Microsoft really has no incentive to want to make an Android phone. It would go against their fundamental strategy of "throw money at a losing idea for a decade until it becomes profitable." (Xbox).
>"WP8 is /VASTLY/ lighter than iOS"
>"512MB RAM"
wat? You do realize that iOS 7 runs on devices with 512mb of ram, and that even the iPad 5 only has 1GB of RAM total right?
Meathim wrote:
keath wrote:
I would never advocate that Microsoft abandon their platform for Android, but this article challenges us to accept claims like "can't", which I don't believe are supported by reality.
It is commonly reported that more than 70 percent of Android smartphones in China do not offer Google Play services. We already see that there is a significant market that doesn't care about 100% application compatibility, or Google services.
In addition, Microsoft could curate their own store with apps that have had minor updates to use Microsoft location services instead of those from Google.
Again, I don't suggest they should do it, just that I can't see this as impossible.
He didn't say it was. He said it'll be hard and probably pointless. And China is China, they are pretty heterogeneous, it works there. Microsoft is a different story.
ScifiGeek wrote:
Old_Fogie_Late_Bloomer wrote:
Why would anyone suggest with any seriousness that Microsoft should abandon their NT-kernel-based smartphone OS with a Linux-kernel-based fork of Android? I really can't understand how that sounds like a good idea, especially as WP8 is actually doing pretty well in some countries. Their problem in the USA is more of an image and awareness issue than anything...
The only places it is doing well is where people have limited funds, and they buy very low end Luminas for a price that nets Microsoft nothing.
I changed jobs a while back and I am regularly taking public transit for the first time in my life.
On the ground it looks much worse for Microsoft in Mobile than the impression I get from the net.
What I see are Tons of iPhones/Android phones (and a significant number of Blackberries). I have yet to see a single Windows phone.
I see lots of E-ink readers (Kindles/Kobos, etc), some iPads and some Android tablets, and again I have yet to see a single Windows tablet.
I see a myriad of devices in transit every day and I can count the number powered by a Microsoft OS on one finger. That is it. I have seen ONE MS powered device used in transit (someone with a Dell Laptop).
Meanwhile, in Italy Windows Phone is now bigger than iOS (on new phones). On a global scale what you see on your commute is pretty insignificant. I think I've seen two Windows Phones IRL the last years, but that doesn't change the fact they are growing.
Anything is expoential growth when you've got 0% market share...
BobsYourUncleBob Ars Praefectus
heartburnkid wrote:
Tom West wrote:
Its likely this argument argument has gone on for 8 pages because people are arguing semantics.
I suspect for most people, AOSP would not qualify as a mobile O/S because a mobile O/S requires many features that are part of GMS. An analogy would be that most people would not call Linux-without-storage-or-networking-capability a desktop O/S. Pedantically they're wrong, of course, but in the court of public usage, they'd be right.
Open source is mostly a marketing term. The basis of Mac OS is open source, but practically speaking, it means nothing. Peter Bright seems making the claim that the open source-ness of Android has only a marginally usefulness, yet Google has managed to wrap itself in the Open Source flag.
Personally, I agree with him. A mobile O/S is a very different beast, and practically speaking, an open-source mobile O/S *cannot* exist in the same stand-alone way that Linux does. AOSP is definitely more open than anything else out there, but in practical terms if it cannot be used to build a viable full featured competitor to itself without doing a huge amount of work (and you could realistically fork Linux with a single line of code), does the fact that it is Open Source mean anything practical?
Note, that Peter does not imply that Google is evil. In fact, he seems to imply it would be idiotic/suicidal/impractical for Google to open Android enough that it could be practically forked.
Of course, the problem with this point of view is that there are plenty of vendors selling Android devices with alternate service layers to GMS, or without any service layer at all. That would kind of throw the "Android is not a full OS" thing into question, would it not? Certainly, GMS is extremely popular and adds a lot of value to Android, but claiming Androis is not a full OS without GMS is a bit similar to claiming Windows is not a full OS without Office, IMHO.
AOSP (or if you prefer, Android stripped of GMS) functionality is a well suited mobile platform if one's objective is to deliver a feature phone or dumb phone to market. It includes the fundamental elements (a sound foundation) upon which further software can be layered to enhance platform functionality.
If objectives dictate the full functionality of Android, GMS is required in addition to AOSP. If objectives only dictate a kinda-almost-Androidish-like level of functionality, AOSP plus considerable best coding efforts will suffice, & the platform can then be identified as STANdroid (or Baidu, or ANNEdroid or ...).
Regardless of whatever exacting, brain-numbing, coding gymnastics are applied to AOSP, the very easily understood fact remains that it is pointless for Microsoft to reboot their mobile efforts upon:
1.) Android (with GMS), as this business model surrenders the future of MS mobile platforms to Google
2.) STANdroid, as this platfom, while retaining control over future GMS-like direction, still fails to provide Android compatibility & sufficient functionality to meet Android-like performance expectations
The absolute best that an Android-based platform reboot can provide to MS is either "6 on one hand" or "1/2 dozen on the other hand". In no eventuality can such a reboot yield the mandatory total of "10 out of 10" required for a serious business to market a serious platform capable of sustaining even the faintest of hopes for "success", however "success" may happen to be defined for a given set of market conditions.
Heapmalloc Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
hornetfig wrote:
Dianne Hackborn wrote:
There is a good discussion to be had about Microsoft using Android, and a lot of good reasons for them to not do so... which makes it especially unfortunate that instead this was turned into yet another article here of increasingly specious and misleading claims about the "open-sourceness" of Android and Google's hidden plan to Control Android And Then The World.
It's really not, although that is certainly a discussion to be had. That you work for Google on Android and that you are convinced of Google's complete and absolute altruism in that matter is, in and of itself, very interesting.
It really is interesting. I read that comment, and the first thing that came to mind was this post is defensive. And someone is doing more that drinking the kool-aid, I think they might be drowning in it. Fact is Google will bar you from ever being allowed to make a normal Android device if you make a device using a fork. That doesn't sound like altruistic, please use our open source product as you wish, kinda thinking. That's hard-line, play by our rules, or receive boot to ass.
DKlimax Ars Tribunus Militum
Hast wrote:
[I don't know what you are smoking but I want some! You have no idea how fucking awesome it is coding C# on Visual Studio for both WP8 and Win8. My company publishes across all four major platforms and consistently it is the Win dev team with their toolset who are the happiest in terms of productivity and ease of development. ...
I know people love Visual Studio for some reason but for me the only thing that's remotely impressive is the debugger. The editing and building is pretty bad IMHO. Things like functional auto-build, in line errors and warnings (ie they are not in a separate window as if it's 1990) and a pretty weak documentation (MSDN is a mess IME, every API exist in multiple versions and it's way to difficult to find a "path" so you are linking up the correct versions of all the APIs.)
I would just like everyone to stop saying that VisualStudio is so awesome in order to get the people working on it to start fixing these (fairly) low hanging issues.
This is not limitation of Visual Studio, but limitation and lack of your knowledge and experience with VS. Any subwindow can be positioned anywhere in or outside of main window.
No idea about autobuild. Errors detected on the fly are highlighted by Intellisense inline in source code. Warnings&Errors are like any window of VS. Moved them were you want them... (also other windowing functionality present like grouping.)
As for MSDN, web based is bit harder to navigate without experience, but can be done. Simply ensure that if available it always shows version of VS you use. Or alternatively use offline version.
Visual Studio has way more to offer. You haven't even scratched surface. (For that matter not even me. ) Not scratched UI wise nor functionality wise. (And even more functionality is on the way including more of auto-formatting and like) What you described are not missing things, because they were already implemented.
foobarian Ars Centurion et Subscriptor
nathanziarek wrote:
How about an open source GMS? It'd take a dedicated company with deep pockets, but if Amazon duplicated current GMS and enough developers started targeting it as the lowest common denominator, you could wrest that control from Google, couldn't you?
Maybe Apple will do this just to screw with Google
This isn't really feasible. Most of what GMS is is connections to Google-run services. You could open source the connections, but all that gives you is a bunch of plugs. Those services (e.g. Google Maps) aren't going to be provided for free from anyone. The code might be free, but the servers running maps queries and figuring out traffic updates (and the people/stuff keeping them going) are expensive.
heartburnkid Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
BobsYourUncleBob wrote:
I'm not really discussing the feasibility of MS switching to Android. What I am discussing and refuting is the concept that has repeatedly come up in this thread that, somehow, AOSP isn't a full OS because it lacks the services that are included in GMS -- services that, while extremely popular, are not necessary for day-to-day operations and can be substituted with others (as in the Amazon example). AOSP is a fully-functional operating system, but not as capable as it is when GMS is installed, in much the same way that Windows is a fully-functional operating system, but not as capable as it is when Office is installed. To say it's not a true operating system because it lacks these extras (popular though they may be), or that Google is somehow evil for only providing source for the basic OS and attendant utilities and not their entire cloud of services, is just silly. Hell, every Windows version prior to 8 lacked many capabilities that are part of GMS; does that mean those weren't true OS's either?
monkeyrun Ars Scholae Palatinae
While most people here are basically saying, why bother forking AOSP when Microsoft will have to rebuild almost everything from ground up again on AOSP. It's not like WP doesn't already do everything AOSP does and more.
Of course Google's not evil to try to protect their territory. It just makes you go hmm every time you see Google says something.
Operative Me Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
To say it's not a true operating system because it lacks these extras (popular though they may be), or that Google is somehow evil for only providing source for the basic OS and attendant utilities and not their entire cloud of services, is just silly.
Which is why most of the people here aren't really saying they're evil. In fact, Peter has specifically and repeatedly said he thinks it's their right. Google keeping GMS separate is their right, as the authors of the software and, in my opinion, the decision has drastically improved Android. Google very clearly wants to keep control of their software, and that's their choice.
It's not evil.
It's not open, either.
And if they take parts of the OS out of open-source and let the old stuff depreciate, they don't get the same level of credit for being open-source, either. They get to choose, it's their right, and whatever they decide, they need to be described accordingly. Android is much less open than it used to be, because the things that used to be a part of Android, the OS, are now built as a part of GMS.
OS X was built off of an open-source core. It would be foolish to argue that it is an open software.
16663 posts | registered Feb 5, 2009
Understood & agreed.
To the benefit of humanity, I don't make my living by writing code, but I do know how stuff works. I thought the article was pretty straight forward, I appreciate Peter's style & thought it was really pretty well written, & yeah, upon completion, the use of "Unforkable" in the title is certainly misleading in a reasonable & literal context. But it was clear from the body of text that Peter neither accepts nor contends that Android is "literally unforkable", so my mindset was to extend the benefit of "Artistic License"; you know, because we're among friends, right?
I'll describe the process of watching this thread progress as a "piquant melange" of intrigue accented by notes of surprise; flashes of humor juxtaposed against moments of modest disquiet; & through it all, it was definitely most dynamic. And this in response to an article that, as I've stated, I felt was really just basically straight forward. Suffice it to say that I wasn't expecting the current of visceral conviction that was quite evident in any of numerous comments. A somewhat opinionated & a driven, scholarly lot, we Arsians, eh?
To echo a comment from earlier:
Its likely this argument has gone on for 9 pages because people are arguing semantics.
NOTE: From Tom's quote above, I deleted a duplicated "argument" & increased the page count from 8 to 9.
Operative Me wrote:
OSX is built off an open-source kernel, but core functional parts are closed-source. In contrast, every core functional part of the Android OS is open-source. GMS is not a core component. It's a ridiculously-popular add-on.
A location API is a core component, in my mind, to a modern OS. That developers can fall back to the inferior API does not change the fact that at one point, Google considered an up-to-date location API as part of the "core" components that were open source. They have absolutely rescinded on that. There's no shame in that, but to deny that they are taking what was open source and, instead of updating and improving that, are creating a new, proprietary versions, flies in the face of reality.
Ditto the mail app. They've depreciated the open version in favor of a proprietary one. There's no technical reason that the gmail app can't be open sourced. It's a conscious decision. One Google has every right to make. It's not an insult to say they're not as open as they used to be. It's reality. And you know what? The Android that users get nowadays is a BETTER PRODUCT because it's less open.
There's no need to defend them. "They're less open" isn't an insult. It's just reality.
althaz Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Android = AOSP + GMS.
That's what most people mean when they talk about Android. AOSP is forkable, but doing so for Microsoft would be worse than pointless.
That's what Peter's article is saying.
ScifiGeek Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Enough of this unforkable nonsense. Apparently it is so easy to fork, that Nokia did it, in their spare time:
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_emai ... NjEwNDYyWj
"The coming Nokia Android phone won't promote Google's Play application store, from which Google takes a percentage of profits. Instead, the phone will come installed with a suite of services created by Nokia and Microsoft, including Here maps and Mix Radio, and a Nokia application store with Android apps. People familiar with the matter say Nokia will show the phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona."
They replaced all the services with their own, which is obviously what any player that has services would want to do anyway.
If Microsoft wanted to do this, it would be trivial, since it is already mostly done by Nokia, that they are acquiring.
But I don't think Microsoft is interested in pushing another companies OS ahead of it's own.
Though a more interesting take on the Forking issue(also addresses this story):
http://stratechery.com/2014/microsofts-mobile-muddle/
While I don't foresee MS selling Hardware with Android, he paints an interesting picture, where MS makes a fork with it's services available for OEMs to get more people using it's services. I think MS could even offer better App store terms to encourage uptake (the opposite of Amazon's slimy app store agreement).
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schizrade Ars Tribunus Militum
No thanks. I like Windows Phone. I left Android for it and don't regret it at all.
DrPizza Account Banned
All signs are pointing to no GMS and limited application compatibility which is, you know, the point.
DrPizza wrote:
Of course there is no GMS. Why would Microsoft/Nokia want to promote Google services? The money is in the services.
They replaced GMS with their own(as I said above in BOLD), of course, and that is the whole point of a successful fork.
Entegy Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Why is everyone missing the point Peter is making? Yes, you can fork Android, but why would you? Google pushes developers to build against GMS and they do so. Developers aren't porting their apps to other Android stores.
So what does Nokia get? A Nokia Android phone that will piss off the average user when they can't download the app du jour (which is the problem Windows Phone already has) and that the enterprising user will install Google Play, taking away from what Nokia was trying to do in the first place. It's a no-win situation. I can't see why any company would want that.
15919 posts | registered Apr 9, 2010
lorinkundert Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
"It’s unforkable."
That is absolute FUD, There exist many forks or derivative systems that work just fine
Fritzr Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
Core components conspicious in their absence from WinXP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and various MacOS and OSX versions. Are you sure these are required core capabilities? Or perhaps the user should be able to select the software that best fits their needs for location and email. There are a lot of choices for desktop OSes, Android OSes, WinPhone OSes, multiple iOS versions and additional options for devices that don't have a functional OS.
jimjimjimjimjim Ars Praetorian
But do you think that extends to Microsoft?
Do you really think Microsoft would ever run Android even if it was forkable with no strings attached? Really Peter?
Panama Ars Centurion
The problem with Windows Phone is that it isn't better than anything else. It doesn't even integrate into Microsoft's own business platforms better than iOS or Android. At the moment there just isn't any reason to buy it over a competing phone except for a how good the Lumia 520/521 is as a phone for the price. Windows Phones currently make good feature phones but they are lacking when compared to other smartphone platforms.
Switching to Android wouldn't help Microsoft any. Microsoft already needs to be making Android and iOS apps to connect to their various services and business apps. The future for Microsoft is services. At some point the desktop monopoly just won't be enough. Android is a better windowing system with desktop mode away from being able to challenge Microsoft on the desktop if Google wanted to try.
Microsoft needs to finish merging Windows Phone and the Windows desktop and server operating systems. They've already started this work but it needs to be sped up. Windows RT needs to be merged into Windows Phone. It would also really help Microsoft, if they would allow sideloading on Windows Phones/RT. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't pump up the security features and sell it as the new Blackberry to enterprises and governments. It would also help if Office received a touch makeover and included it free on Windows Phone/RT.
The technology behind Windows Phone isn't really what is holding it back. Microsoft has simply been making poor management decisions with the technology they have already developed so far.
Wisetrader Smack-Fu Master, in training
Panama wrote:
It would also help if Office received a touch makeover and included it free on Windows Phone/RT.
Office is included for free with Windows Phone & Windows RT
83 posts | registered Oct 23, 2013
SplatMan_DK Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
andydread wrote:
I'm sorry to disappoint you Peter. Android had been forked already. Cyanogen, Alliyun, Xaomi, Nook, Kindle. I mean come on. You can even use Google play store with Cyanogen. Please don't misinform your readers.
You know that Google got pissy with Cyanogen because originally Cyanogen bundled GMS, right? And that in current Cyanogen, you back up the GMS parts from your phone's vendor-supplied firmware, install Cyanogen, and then restore the GMS packages that you just backed up, right?
Nook and Kindle just demonstrate how difficult it is to do. Apps that need GMS won't run correctly on Kindle, and most developers do not develop Kindle versions of their apps.
That is a problem with the developers use of cloud-based Google services, not with the OS?
3958 posts | registered Sep 5, 2007
OreoCookie Ars Centurion
Fritzr wrote:
Desktop OSes are very different beasts than mobile OSes, and yes, this day and age, you need integration into the cloud to be competitive. Google's way of doing things prevents companies such as Samsung to slowly ween itself off of Google's services (e. g. by replacing only maps and Google+ by Facebook, but keep the access to the Play Store, Google search, GMail and other goodies). It's an obvious play, and a good one for Google: they are not doing Android, because they are altruists, they have to pay for the development of Android.
DrDoppio Ars Scholae Palatinae
Entegy wrote:
Bad language below.
Because he's using the WRONG WORDS to make his point. If his point is that it's not beneficial/profitable to fork Android, he should FUCKING SAY SO, instead of repeat ad nauseum that ANDROID IS UNFORKABLE -- which is FUCKING WRONG to the point of being retarded.
But then again Ars seems to enjoy the controversy caused entirely by a writer with a bug up his butt refusing to TALK NORMAL ENGLISH.
Core components conspicious in their absence from WinXP, Vista, Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and various MacOS and OSX versions. Are you sure these are required core capabilities?
For a phone OS...absolutely. Conspicuously, you've just tried to say that location isn't important for phones because desktop OSes don't have it, which seems rather...silly. If you can't understand the difference between what is "core" to a phone isn't the same as what is "core" to a desktop, you're going to have some real problems. A microwave doesn't need a dialing system. That doesn't mean that a dialer isn't "core" to a mobile phone.
...oh, and Windows 8 and 8.1 have a location API, so in addition to trying to make a horribly flawed comparison, you're also prima facie wrong just on the facts.
Or perhaps the user should be able to select the software that best fits their needs for location and email. There are a lot of choices for desktop OSes, Android OSes, WinPhone OSes, multiple iOS versions and additional options for devices that don't have a functional OS.
That still doesn't change the fact that what Google used to offer (location, mail, et cetera) was once open-sourced. They chose, instead of improving those, to leave them and to create proprietary versions.
Again, there is ZERO need to defend them. They haven't done anything wrong. But the contortions that people are going through to defend them strain the boundaries of reason. Just stop.
No it isn't. The money is in the hardware and, secondarily, advertising. Maybe, eventually, in the future, one day, the money will be in the services, but it sure as fuck isn't right now.
The reason that Charles Arthur et al. said that Microsoft should fork Android is to get access to the Android software ecosystem. If you don't include GMS, you don't get proper access to that Android software ecosystem.
althaz wrote:
That can be argued either way until the cows come home...
lordcheeto Ars Tribunus Militum
msclrhd wrote:
If the Google vs Oracle court decision w.r.t. APIs gets overturned and APIs are judged as copyrightable it will have a greater impact than just restricting companies from replicating the GMS APIs (and the effects of this on Google using the Java API in Android). That does not even cover if/when people start going after similar APIs (e.g. SAX-based or reader-based XML processing APIs in the different languages/frameworks/libraries).
If another company were to seriously attempt updating the AOSP with GMS APIs, it'd probably be better for Google to throw the Oracle lawsuit, licensing with them, and sue the pants off whoever was trying to wrest that control from them. Now, if the Oracle lawsuit stands, and APIs are not copyrightable, I think it would be hilarious if Oracle did just that, to spite Google.
Nope. Android = AOSP. What do you think the A in AOSP stands for, anyway?
Then why does it claim in the headline that nobody should fork Android and that, in fact, Android is unforkable?
Location services is built into Android
Android gives your applications access to the location services supported by the device through classes in the android.location package. The central component of the location framework is the LocationManager system service, which provides APIs to determine location and bearing of the underlying device (if available).
As with other system services, you do not instantiate a LocationManager directly. Rather, you request an instance from the system by calling getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE). The method returns a handle to a new LocationManager instance.
Once your application has a LocationManager, your application is able to do three things:
Query for the list of all LocationProviders for the last known user location.
Register/unregister for periodic updates of the user's current location from a location provider (specified either by criteria or name).
Register/unregister for a given Intent to be fired if the device comes within a given proximity (specified by radius in meters) of a given lat/long.
For more information about acquiring the user location, read the Location Strategies guide.
This particular article continues with information on how to integrate Google Maps. Skip part two and use an open source map such as Open Street Map, GeoNetwork Map, QGIS, Open Layers, serve your own map service or offer specialty maps such as Open Cycle Map for cyclists.
(To see the standards these should all adhere to see OGC. Google is a "participating" member)
Yes Google makes it easy by providing the code to integrate Google maps, but by using Google provided code you are locking yourself out of the mapmaking community.
Email is in a similar position. You can offer your own email service or you can use Android's API to integrate Yahoo Mail, Hot Mail (or whatever it is being called this week ) Microsoft Exchange w/generic Android email app, (note: Outlook uses GMS so it is not a real Android app, it is a Google only app)
Or you can keep it simple and use the AOSP 4.4 email client and connect to the Enterprise MS Exchange server for a fully open source Exchange client.
Now what was that you were saying about missing services? Yes Google services are missing from AOSP, but there are thousands of services missing if you lock into Google.
Slight correction Peter. AOSP gives full access to the Android ecosystem. GMS adds access to the Google ecosystem that is built on top of Android. Google<>Android, it is Google Services on Android. Yes nitpicking with Google Services on Android being the dominant player, but it is not Android. When devs use GMS to shorten the development cycle, they assist Google in their goal of shoving everyone else out of the market.
There is nothing wrong with using Google Services per se, but do the extra step of providing the bridge code that allows AOSP devices to access the Google Services. This allows ALL Android devices that are AOSP compatible (can you say Aliyun+Google+Nook+Kindle Fire+base Android as a market) to use your app
So are you shifting positions to acknowledge that location IS a core part of a mobile OS now? And are you willing to concede that Google has deprecated their AOSP location API (which, if I'm not mistaken is the one you just referenced) and replacing it with a proprietary one that cannot be swapped out? Because that's the whole point of the debate, in case you're wondering. Plants verus Zombies 2 uses a Google API that cannot be accessed by a device that doesn't have GSM on it. There's no switching. You either use the old API, or you use a more updated one that requires GSM.
And again, that is using the older, no longer updated mail API, rather than the updated APIs that GMail uses.
Uh...I was saying that Google has created a two-tier system of APIs, where before there was a one-tier system. One set, that is updated less frequently, if at all, that is open source and can be used by third parties. The other is proprietary, and only uses GSM, and is updated more frequently. What this means is that, at one point, Google granted AOSP the latest and greatest of their APIs, and they worked off the same playbook. Now, Google is updating their products and not putting those improvement in the open version of their OS.
Nothing you posted contradicts that.
And it still doesn't excuse the fact that I am literally telling you that I think what Google has done is a good thing, and you're still flailing about trying to excuse behavior that doesn't need excusing. I really think you don't understand that the more you argue about it, the worse it looks. Google is improving Android. That's a good thing. It has come at the expense of being as open as they used to be. That's reality.
Shifting positions? You claimed they were not there at all.
Mail not updated? V4.4 of AOSP app? That means Version 4.4 Android the latest update
Yes Google forked Android by adding GMS and requiring a Google license to use GMS (BTW license required for proprietary code usually indicates a project is not open source). Does that mean that developers must use the proprietary fork?
No, they can continue to use the open source base Android that continues to receive updates from Google and other contributers.
Is Google required to Open Source Google Services and add them to AOSP because Google is an active contributor to AOSP?
No, those are Google products, and require proprietary bridge code provided under license by Google.
Oddly enough OpenStreetMap and the other alternatives also require developers to provide bridge code. The difference being that the bridge code for open source projects is usually open source. Of course Google offers the advantage that your code will work with 100% of Android devices with the exception of the millions that cannot legally use GMS Open source solutions have a much large market to sell to
Did Google patch the AOSP functions that service the AOSP API? Possibly, but they do not prevent other AOSP developers from patching any errors.
AOSP is open source, it is not a Google proprietary project. Google is NOT responsible for AOSP development. They contribute to AOSP as a participant in the project, not as owner/operator.
As for a 2 tier system of APIs.
Kindle Fire is AOSP compatible and adds a second tier of Kindle Fire APIs
Nook is AOSP compatible and adds a second tier of Nook APIs
Aliyun is largely AOSP compatible by design and adds a second tier of APIs
Google is AOSP compatible and adds a second tier of APIs
Google is one of those guilty of fragmenting the market. Developers who are interested in keeping Android a unitary market target AOSP as that is the only tier that an Android developer can assume is available. All the major second tier APIs (including Google's GMS) are proprietary, limited in availability (legal and actual) and fragment the Android ecosystem.
The AOSP set is updated regularly by Google and other contributers. If Google puts more time and effort into developing the Google owned and operated proprietary portion that forces users to go to Google and generate revenue for Google, is that a surprising outcome?
That is no reason to say that failing to make sure you lock your endusers into the Google ecosystem is a good thing ... most people will agree that Microsoft's lock on desktop OS software is a bad thing even as they look for the Windows compatible sticker while choosing software.
Linux and OSX are available, but are often not viable due to the lack of support by developers who choose to target only Windows. You are asking people to support you in elevating Google to a similar position in mobile devices. Ask developers to go the extra mile and offer AOSP compatibility. They get Google compatibility automatically when they help to reduce Android OS fragmentation. Greater reliance on AOSP will also generate developer interest in fixing and extending AOSP...BONUS points!!!
Like most people here said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Google having 2 tiers of API. One open one closed. It just makes people think twice whenever people hear words like "Open" and "Open Source" specially from Google.
Oletros Ars Tribunus Militum
If they are using GMS they are not forking Android.
The money is in the HW for Samsung and Apple. I can't think of anyone else who is profitable selling phone HW. Google sure didn't make any money selling Android Phones, and thus they are ditching their Motorola subsidiary.
When I say services, obviously it comes mainly from Advertising on those services. You think Microsoft doesn't advertise on it's services. No one with the capability of providing their own services would want Googles. If Microsoft had any interest in forking, it would look exactly like what Nokia is reported to have done. Even if they could have access to GMS, they wouldn't want it.
If you don't include GMS, you don't get proper access to that Android software ecosystem.
If you are going to define Android=GMS, then I guess you can claim you can't fork Android, but this is largely a nonsense position. Maybe you should have titled this post. You can't fork GMS.
Only certain types of apps require GMS, things like location based services depending on Google mapping. Someone with deeper pockets like Microsoft could even build a compatible API so it could emulate Google services as well, meaning no porting work for developers.
Actually you are wrong. Android IS GMS + AOSP. Even Google says so - the pure Android experience phones, aka Nexus all include AOSP and GMS. Without GMS AOSP is a pale shadow of actual Android.
Forking AOSP != forking Android (impossible, because that would include forking GMS).
Forking AOSP is technically feasible, but why would Microsoft want to do it? They wouldn't get the Google Play store, so they wouldn't get app availability. Without GMS they couldn't just ask devs to add their apps to the MS store, because they wouldn't work on Microsoft's "Android" OS. So they'd be in the same position they are now, but without the advantages that using the existing WP kernel gives them - it runs better, has better battery life, is more responsive and advancements are shared between all of thier OSes. But it also has the disadvantages of Windows Phone - still needs to have apps ported to it.
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EU signals sanctions on Turkey over Cyprus drilling - draft
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BRUSSELS — The European Union will put on hold high-level talks with Ankara and negotiations on an air transport agreement, as well as freeze funding for Turkey next year, over “illegal” drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus, according to a draft statement seen by Reuters.
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Russian cargo planes have begun delivering a controversial missile system in Turkey. The first shipment of the S-400 air defence system has been flown into a military airfield in the Turkish capital, Ankara. The launch vehicles can each carry four long-range missiles. The United States had warned it would cancel an F-35 fighter jet deal if Turkey took delivery of the missiles. Al Jazeera\'s Sinem Koseoglu has more from Istanbul. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Turkey #S400Missiles #AljazeeraEnglish...
▶️ Video shared by Turkish Ministry of Defense, Friday, July 12, showed parts of S-400 missile defense system being unloaded from Russian cargo planes. 👉 The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Friday, moving the country closer to possible U.S. sanctions and a new standoff with Washington. A Defense Ministry statement said “the first group of equipment” of the S-400 air defense systems has reached an air base near the capital, Ankara. https://www.voanews.com/europe/first-parts-russian-s-400-defense-system-arrive-turkey...
Jul.12 -- Turkey says it received the first major deliveries of a Russian missile-defense system whose purchase has drawn the threat of U.S. sanctions over its potential to undermine NATO’s military capabilities. Bloomberg\'s Bill Faries reports on \"Balance of Power.\"...
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The United States says its position on Turkey\'s purchase of Russian missiles has not changed. For months, Washington has been threatening to impose sanctions on Turkey because of its concerns about a NATO ally using the S-400 defence system. The first parts of that system have now arrived in Ankara. The Turkish Defence Minister has spoken to his US counterpart on the phone about the delivery, apparently their conversation lasted about half an hour and afterwards, the Pentagon cancelled a press briefing which was supposed to address the American response. Hasan Abdullah reports. Subscribe: http://trt.world/subscribe Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: http://trt.world/facebook Twitter: http://trt.world/twitter Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram Visit our website: http://trt.world...
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Russian cargo planes have begun delivering a controversial missile system in Turkey. The first shipment of the S-400 air defence system has been flown into a military airfield in the Turkish capital, Ankara. The launch vehicles can each carry four long-range missiles. The United States had warned it
▶️ Video shared by Turkish Ministry of Defense, Friday, July 12, showed parts of S-400 missile defense system being unloaded from Russian cargo planes. 👉 The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Friday, moving the country closer
Jul.12 -- Turkey says it received the first major deliveries of a Russian missile-defense system whose purchase has drawn the threat of U.S. sanctions over its potential to undermine NATO’s military capabilities. Bloomberg\'s Bill Faries reports on \"Balance of Power.\"
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The United States says its position on Turkey\'s purchase of Russian missiles has not changed. For months, Washington has been threatening to impose sanctions on Turkey because of its concerns about a NATO ally using the S-400 defence system. The first parts of that system have now arrived in Ankara.
तुर्की ने आखिरकार दबाव के आगे घुटने नहीं टेके। तुर्की को रूस से एस-400 वायुरक्षा मिसाइल प्रणाली की पहली खेप मिल गई है। The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Friday, moving the country closer to possible US sanctions and a new
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Maca Is Good for More Than Your Mojo
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Ancient Peruvians used maca root in both food and medicinal capacities, perhaps most notably to increase fertility, heighten sexual function and boost mood
The antioxidants, vitamins, 20 amino acids and as many fatty acids in maca help balance hormones, boost memory and focus, relieve menopausal symptoms and ease stress
Maca has been shown to preserve bone mineral density, increase strength and endurance and possibly reduce men’s prostate cancer risk
Ground into a powder, 1 to 3 tablespoons of maca can be sprinkled into smoothies or trail mix
Superfoods seem to be more plentiful today than they've ever been. One of the best, but lesser known, is an ancient root vegetable called maca, belonging to the same cruciferous family as kale and cauliflower. However, maca is most closely associated with mustard, turnip, cabbage, garden cress and watercress.1
Grown in the Peruvian mountains, maca's history is long and distinguished, as it was used even earlier than the Incans for both food and traditional medicine. Its most notable use was to proliferate fertility in both men and women and, serendipitously, increase sexual desire. That may be why another name for it is Peruvian ginseng.2
Today, maca is taking on new life with clinically proven and remarkable health benefits, both as a food and supplement. Studies show it to improve mood and memory, lower stress levels, treat osteoporosis, protect against UV radiation,3 help balance hormones4 and perform a dozen other functions.
Similar to a turnip, maca root (Lepidium meyenii) is the world's highest-growing cultivated crop, still flourishing in the rocky soil, high winds, intense sunlight and widely fluctuating temperatures of the Andes Mountains, at altitudes at or above 13,000 feet. Rain Tree, a tropical plant database, notes certain basics of the maca root:
"It is rich in sugars, protein, starches, and essential nutrients (especially iodine and iron). The tuber or root is consumed fresh or dried. The fresh roots are considered a treat and are baked or roasted in ashes (in the same manner as sweet potatoes).
The dried roots are stored and, later, boiled in water or milk to make a porridge. They also are made into a popular sweet, fragrant, fermented drink called maca chicha. In Peru even maca jam, pudding and sodas are popular. The tuberous roots have a tangy, sweet taste and an aroma similar to that of butterscotch."5
Maca roots are still grown, harvested, sun-dried and ground down to powder form. Its "earthy, nutty" essence is often sprinkled in such dishes as oatmeal, smoothies and trail mix. A good place to start might be 1 tablespoon daily, working up to three per day for maximum benefits.
More on Maca: Nutritional Aspects and Health Benefits
There are several phytonutrients in maca,6 including more than 20 amino acids, eight of them essential, as well as minerals, vitamins, fiber and 20 "good" fatty acids, such as oleic and linolenic. Vitamins B1, B2, C and E are plentiful, plus maca has more calcium than milk, and a copper level similar to that found in lentils.
In terms of the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) percentages maca offers for daily intake, Authority Nutrition7 notes that just 1 ounce (28 grams) provides:
✓ Vitamin C: 133 percent RDI
✓ Copper: 85 percent RDI
✓ Iron: 23 percent RDI
✓ Potassium: 16 percent RDI
✓ Vitamin B6: 15 percent RDI
✓ Manganese: 10 percent RDI
What can all these nutritional attributes do for people who consume maca? According to Rain Tree:
"The nutritional value of dried maca root is high … It contains 60-75 percent carbohydrates, 10-14 percent protein, 8.5 percent fiber, and 2.2 percent lipids.
The protein content of maca exists mainly in the form of polypeptides and amino acids (including significant amounts of arginine, serine, histidine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, valine, phenylalanine, tyrosine and threonine).8
Maca for Your Thyroid
As a dried root, maca can be stored for as long as seven years. It can range in color from back to white and many colors in between, such as purple, orange or green. The color is significant, because the darker the root, the more iodine is present, making it a natural substance to help prevent goiters.
The Maca Team, dedicated to getting this little-known superfood "out there" for people to experience its organically grown nutritional benefits, notes that iodine is very important for thyroid health. One teaspoon contains .025 milligrams (mg); 4 teaspoons contain 100 percent of the RDI. It's also important to note that maca:
"Is essential in helping the thyroid gland to produce hormones. Beyond that, iodine supports healthy metabolism, balanced moods, healthy blood pressure and may also be useful in preventing cancer.
A lack of iodine in your diet can lead to goiters, hypothyroidism, low metabolism, problems in pregnancy, depression, mood disorders, fatigue and other conditions resulting from hormonal imbalance."9
It should be noted that maca contains sulfur-containing glucosinolates. As a result, a side effect of eating maca in very high amounts is that it could potentially cause goiter. According to the University of Michigan Medicine:
"Glucosinolates can cause goiter (swollen thyroid gland with decreased activity) if taken in excess combined with a low-iodine diet. Though this is documented to occur with other glucosinolate-rich foods, it is not known if maca causes goiter."10
There is also some suggestion that the iodine in maca may cause goiter, but according to The Maca Team, "Based on the amount of iodine in [m]aca it is highly unlikely that taking [m]aca alone will contribute to the formation of a goiter even in people with a compromised thyroid gland."11
Nutritional Benefits of Maca for Men and Women
One of the most dramatic contributions maca provides is its ability to improve libido in men,12 but with the added benefit shown in other studies that it does so without affecting testosterone or any other sex hormone.13 The University of Michigan Medicine recommends 1,500 or 3,000 mg per day for eight weeks for this purpose.
Further, this root has demonstrated increased sperm counts, sperm motility and semen volume,14 for which UMM recommended the same amount with an open-ended time frame.
As an example, one study reported that, taken as a supplement, strength and endurance athletes, in this case cyclists, reported improved cycling time and, as an aside, increased sex drive.15
For older men, prostate issues may appear, and maca has been shown in animal studies to deal with two of the most troubling by reducing prostate size16 and possibly reducing men's prostate cancer risk, although more tests are needed.
Menopause, the bane of many women as middle age approaches, is often accompanied by hot flashes. Studies have shown maca to have positive effects on both of these by balancing female hormones. Supplemental amounts suggested were 2.5 to 3 grams per day for six to 12 weeks.17
Regarding depression experienced by some women associated with menopause, one study noted that maca:
"Reduces psychological symptoms, including anxiety and depression, and lowers measures of sexual dysfunction in postmenopausal women independent of estrogenic and androgenic activity."18
Additional Maca Benefits
Maca is an "adaptogen," which describes a natural substance that helps your body deal with such stressors as alarm clocks, traffic jams and illness, among others.19
An animal study reported that maca extracts given over 28 weeks appeared to preserve bone mineral density compared to placebos, increase femur diameter and calcium content more than control agents and normalize bone mineral density.20 Paraphrasing a Chinese study, the Maca Team21 noted:
"Dietary supplementation with [m]aca may have potential effects on prevention of postmenopausal lipid abnormality and bone metabolism via a different mechanism from estrogen."22
Studies also indicate that maca may make you feel more energized and alert for a day at the office or before playing sports, with the added benefits of quick results after taking it, and no nervous "jitters" such as you might experience after drinking coffee. Muscle Health Fitness notes that workout performance may be improved:
"In addition to carbohydrate, maca root contains easily digestible high-quality protein, small amounts of essential fats, and minerals such as zinc, calcium and magnesium, all of which have been shown to improve performance and reduce recovery time when taken before, during and/or after a workout."23
Additionally, taking maca root supplements doesn't necessarily claim to help control diabetes, but a 2007 study found that after taking them for two weeks, animals fed a high-sucrose diet demonstrated "significantly improved glucose tolerance" and lowered levels of glucose in their blood.24
How to Take Maca Supplements
Maca should be taken gradually at first, e.g., taking a small amount for a few days and determining how your body reacts before upping your dosages.25 Because of its effects on hormone levels, physicians say people who rely on hormone-altering medications for diseases like breast or prostate cancer, high blood pressure or other serious conditions should avoid eating or taking maca; the same is advised for pregnant or nursing women.26
Over time, your body can start taking the nutrients in maca for granted; in other words, they don't seem to do as much "good." Consequently, some nutritionists recommend that you take maca tablets for short periods rather than daily for months. Some suggest six weeks on and six weeks off.27
As a supplement, maca studies often used 500 to 1,000 mg three times daily.28 One reason maca is suggested as a supplement, according to Examine, is that "maca root does not taste nice, [and has] a very dirt-like grassy taste; capsules are generally better liked than powders for the uninitiated."29 However, others say maca has a "pleasant" taste.30 Superfoods like maca provide something wild, fresh and extra-nutritional that processed foods can't:
"Call them what you will, foods with high nutrient levels are going to be superfoods when compared to the depleted, over-hybridized, GMO, soil depleted, and over farmed varieties we are all used to consuming from the common grocery and even health food store!
The problems with the modern food supply are many. One of the biggest that even traditional foodies frequently don't seem to grasp is the significant loss of both mainline nutrients — minerals, vitamins, protein and the like — from our food combined with the loss of other types of beneficial compounds and phytonutrients over the past few hundred years."31
Because this is true on nearly every level for nearly every food, maca represents a safe primeval food source with nutritional attributes that supersede many others, especially in terms of the conditions it targets.
1, 3 Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012; 2012 193496
2, 29 Examine 2011-2017
4 Int J Biomed Sci 2006 September; 2(3):260-272
5, 8 Rain Tree 1996
6, 19, 26, 30 Top 5 Health Benefits of Maca Powder and Pure Healing Foods, Maca
7 Authority Nutrition 2012-2017
9, 22 The Maca Team 2017
10 University of Michigan Medicine June 1, 2015
11 The Maca Team, Maca and Iodine Content
12 Andrologia. 2002 December; 34(6):367-72
13 J Endocrinol. 2003 January; 176(1):163-8
14, 28 Asian J Androl. 2001 December;3(4):301-3
15 J Ethnopharmacol 2009 December 10;126(3):574-6
16 Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2005 January 20;3:5
17 Maturitis. 2011 November; 70(3):227-33
18 Menopause. 2008 November-December;15(6):1157-62
20 J Ethnopharmacol 2006 April 21; 105(1-2):274-9
21 Wei Sheng Yan Jui. 2009 July; 38(4):420-2, 425
23 Muscle-Health-Fitness December 16, 2012
24 Plant Foods Hum Nutr. 2007 June;62(2):59-63
25, 27, 31 The Healthy Home Economist February 28, 2017
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Biopsy Report
an Irish patient's perspective on life
I listened with interest to Prof John Crown on the Late Late show last night as he outlined the failings within our health service. John Crown is a leading consultant oncologist working in the front line of the Irish health service and he doesn’t mince his words. He believes that the consultant’s contract as currently presented by the HSE, is a fiasco. He described it as an apartheid contract for an apartheid system of healthcare. Today, I heard that the Irish Hospital Consultant’s Association (IHCA) has accepted the HSE’s proposals and will be recommending the contract to it’s members in a ballot later this month. Meanwhile, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) is still refusing to come on board and has today requested third party mediation to resolve the problems. On one side, we have a government that insists on perpetuating a 2-tier system of healthcare despite the consensus of opinion which believes that a single tier health service is the way forward. On the other side, we have doctors who don’t like being put under the thumb by administrators who will decide their working hours. This contract has already been four years under discussion and I have to agree with Prof Crown, it has the potential to be a fiasco.
We have a health service in Ireland that offers a high standard of care but the care is not optimal. According to John Crown, this is due to ‘mal’ funding rather than underfunding. When the allocation of money from the HSE runs out, services are cutback at the expense of patient care. Treating patients costs money but It costs the system nothing to have patients on waiting lists. We have a health service run by civil servants instead of having a medical leadership structure in place. The policy of co-located hospitals as proposed by the Progressive Democrat (PD) health policy, is set to cause an even wider divide between the public and private systems. Each system will be differently funded, further adding to the complications. The concept of co-location ultimately means that services are duplicated in the one location. This is neither efficient nor cost effective . The co-located private hospitals already in existence, tend to be small and have sub-optimal expertise in place. As a holder of private health insurance, I can personally testify to this having once faced the decision of having to choose between standard of accommodation and standard of medical care. I was very unwell in A&E at the time and required admission for investigation. As I was known to be infected with MRSA , I required isolation facilities in order to be admitted to the hospital. There were single rooms available in the co-located private hospital but the physician under whose care I was to be admitted, worked only in the public hospital where no isolation facilities were available at that time. This dilemma typifies all that is wrong with the plans for co-location and the divisive nature of the consultant’s contract. I had no problem choosing medical expertise over comfort but I should never have had to make that choice. Why does healthcare have to so divisive? If you’re sick and in need of hospitalization, the type of care you receive shouldn’t be dictated by your ability to pay.
John Crown is in no doubt that the way forward for our health service is a single-tier, not for profit system of healthcare based on a universal system of social insurance. He makes no apology for speaking out about the deficiencies within our health service. As long as there continues to be vested interests and a burgeoning bureaucracy in control of our health service, the system is doomed to fail. The future of the consultant’s contract remains in the balance.
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Health Service Exposed
I’ve long been a fan of Prof John Crown, Consultant Medical Oncologist, for the manner in which he speaks out to expose the faults in the Irish health system. John Crown does not mince his words – he says it as it is and in doing so has managed to rattle cages to shame the Department of Health into doing something about the disastrous health service in this country. He writes a regular column in the Sunday Independent which exposes the chinks and cracks in the system, and helps to paint a clearer picture of the problems involved. Last Sunday’s article was no exception where he likened the bureaucrats in the HSE (Health Service Executive) to the dinosaurs taking over in Jurassic Park, and named it ‘Burassic Park’.
In a week when the HSE announced a freeze on recruitment leading to health service cutbacks, they simultaneously announced a scheme of performance bonuses for senior HSE administrators. As John Crown so rightly pointed out, this clearly shows where the priorities of the HSE lie. This latest action by the HSE is a complete insult to those who are expected to continue to work in an already under-resourced and over-burdened health system. I personally feel very uncomfortable about the way in which our Minister for Health, Mary Harney, has reacted to the events that have happened at Barringtons Hospital recently concerning cancer care there. She is insisting that the Dept of Health has no authority over private hospitals and thus she says, it has no authority to take action to intervene. This does not bode well for the future of our health service which will have many more private hospitals coming on stream as the Minister insists on pressing ahead with the co-location debacle. Who will take responsibility when things go wrong in these private hospitals?
John Crown also clarified the problems involved in the stand-off that continues between the Dept of Health and the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) over consultant contracts. To his credit, he actually criticised the consultants (his colleagues) for their increasingly unseemly row over private practice rights of their as yet, non-existent colleagues. He believes that the IHCA should concede the inevitable and accept that the new consultants will have to have new contracts which the Dept of Health will ultimately decide upon. He encouraged consultants instead to “channel their energies into the good fight, which is the fight for healthcare reform, universal health insurance and single-tier healthcare”. At last common sense has spoken!
Irish patients deserve equity of health care and a better healthcare service. We owe a great debt of gratitude to John Crown for the role that he plays as a doctor to advocate on behalf of all patients. He is a voice of reason in a world where common sense is sadly lacking. May he long continue to fight the good fight on our behalf.
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(Co)-Location, (Co)-Location, (Co)-Location
I just don’t get it. As I understand this co-location policy, Fianna Fail wants to free-up more Public beds in Public hospitals for Public patients. They say that the quickest way to achieve this is by moving Private patients out of Public beds into co-located (cushy) Private hospitals on Public hospital sites. These Private hospitals are to be staffed by Consultants who agree to work in the Private system only. And in the long term, it’s hoped that Public hospital Consultants will agree to work only in the Public sector. In HSE speak, this policy will free-up approx 1,ooo Public beds for those patients without private health insurance. But let’s look at what else this policy will achieve.
Without doubt it’s going to cause an even wider divide between the Public and the Private systems. The Private health insurance market has gone mad and is set to get even worse with this government’s policies. Are the hospital Consultants happy with the HSE proposals? No. The HSE is interfering in doctor/patient relationships. Is it any wonder that the IHCA (Irish Hospital Consultants Association) is refusing to agree to new contracts. Private patients will always continue to need both elective and emergency care in Public hospitals as these are the centres of excellence for many complicated conditions. What is a Private consultant meant to do when his/her Private patient is re-admitted as an emergency to a Public hospital following surgery in the Private system. Are they expected to abandon their patients?
Could someone please explain to me why patients in Public hospitals are expected to put up with filthy, old-fashioned hospital conditions while Private patients are set to get all the nice new modern, clean facilities? And why is it that Public patients get lousy food when Private patients have á la carte menus? You’re either sick and in need of good hospital care or you’re not.
Surely it makes sense to concentrate resources on getting a decent Health Service that works for everyone. I say – one for all, and all for one! But it’s not about common sense is it?
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A New Kind of Christian: by Brian D McLaren
Author: Brian D. McLaren
A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations.
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After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found that neither the conservative evangelical nor the liberal mainline stream of Christianity described his own developing faith. "A New Kind of Christian"gives voice to this emerging understanding of what it means to be a Christian in confusing times.
Brian D. McLaren, hailed as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by "Time" magazine, is a speaker, social justice activist, pastor, and the author of "A New Kind of Christianity", "A Generous Orthodoxy", "A New Kind of Christian", and "The Secret Message of Jesus". McLaren has appeared on "Nightline" and "Larry King Live", and his work has been covered in "The Washington Post", the "New York Times", "Christianity Today", and many other publications. McLaren and his wife, Grace, live in Florida and have four adult children.
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A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources.
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Sports Heroes, Martyrs and the Saga of Broncos Quarterback Tim Tebow
By kenchitwood on August 30, 2011 at 7:44 AM
It’s that time of year again when football season roles around and with it, American football fanaticism. Often compared to religious devotion, the cult of United States football is certainly adhered to by a passionate and committed crowd. At an almost rabid level, fans across the USA continue to identify with their teams and sports heroes regardless of controversies, ridiculous pay schemes and bad seasons. For some, sports have replaced religion, but for many Christians sports and religion seem to go well together. Indeed, for many Christian sports devotees players are not only heroes on the field, but heroes of the faith, with which Christians readily identify as paragons of virtue and conviction.
Currently, one of the greatest Christian sports heroes is not Arian Foster or Matt Schaub of the Houston Texans, it’s Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos. Ever since Tebow’s success with the University of Florida Gators, helping them to collegiate championships in 2006 and 2008 grabbing a Heisman Trophy along the way, the quarterback has enjoyed plenty of media attention and lauded status in Christian circles.
The son of Christian Baptist missionaries and educated at home by his mother who sought to instill Christian values throughout his education the story of Tebow’s life and meteoric rise, featuing hot button Christian issues such as missions, abortion, temptation and homeschooling, has been seized by Christians who have vaulted Tebow to the status of Christian hero.
Mixing sports fanaticism with Christian devotion, many Christians sports fans look to Tebow as a hero of their religion who personifies the ideals of Christian faith and the vision of a good Christian man playing an all-American sport.
As Philip Wise wrote for the Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University in 2008:
Athletes have a religious currency in our culture that non-athletes simply do not have.
Citing his own experiences, Wise noted how his own pastor, and many other ministries he interacted with, told plenty of anecdotes about Christian sports heroes and even invited them to come and speak to share their faith story. All the while Christians lapped the inspirational stories up believing that whatever lessons these sports heroes were dolling out were unequivocally united with Christian virtues.
To be fair, Tebow is not the first, nor will he be the last, Christian sports hero. With the NFL’s knack at providing United States’ culture with its own icons, holy places, laws and demigods it has also produced a fair share of Christian footballers all pointing to heaven, genuflecting in the endzone or praying in a circle at the end of games to showcase their faith. Unfortunately, as Shirl James Hoffman of Christianity Today notes:
such visions of glorifying God are almost always linked to athletic production.
And what happens to Christian sport heroes when they don’t deliver or they underperform?
At least in the case of Tim Tebow, it appears they become martyrs.
Last week, Super Bowl champion and CBS Sports game analyst Randy Cross opined that Tim Tebow, a darling of Christian sports enthusiasts, is being lambasted by sports commentators such as Boomer Esiason and derailed from NFL stardom due to his outspoken Christian beliefs. Cross shared with USA Today:
People, especially the media, root against him because of what he stands for…My personal belief is there are people in the media, people in the stands, who are predisposed to see a guy like that fail … Just because he’s so public about the way he feels.
Rick Reilly of ESPN disagrees. Claiming the decision by Broncos leaders to bench Tebow for the Broncos’ season opener is more about talent than religion Reilly retorted:
This [referring to Cross’s comment] is all just excuse-making and Tebow-coddling. I’m sorry people can’t face up to the truth about the Heisman Trophy winner. He’s not good enough yet. May never be good enough.
Turning the heat up on the discussion even higher, Reilly added, “[T]his Tebow worship is idolatry. People need to take this kid down from the altar.”
And with that, I believe Reilly is on to something. It seems that if Tebow can’t be a Christian sports hero, granting to those Christians who identify with him a sense of self-esteem, transcendence, meaning and belonging based on positive play and great achievements, he can certainly be a Christian sports martyr, who is persecuted for his faith by the “heathen” sports media. For many Christians, that is just as good as being a sports hero, since throughout the centuries martyrs served the Christian community as heroes of the faith, sainted in the Roman Catholic church for their sacrifice in the face of adversity for the sake of Jesus Christ.
As Houstonians, we look forward to the NFL season and ride the hopes that “this is the year” that the Texans will make the playoffs. For those Christians like Randy Cross who identify with Tim Tebow’s Christian martyrdom in the NFL arena, the upcoming football season will not only be an epic involving teams, dynasties and the Vince Lombardi trophy, but a saga of heroism and martyrdom for the sake of the faith.
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Volunteer Park–A cut above
By fog_lifter on March 4, 2011 at 9:11 AM
What’s the highpoint in Capitol Hill? There could be debate about that. Literally, however, you’ll find our zenith in Volunteer Park. It can be snowing here while lower elevations a block away remain clear.
A jewel in our crown since 1876, when Seattle first bought and named it “City Park,” this hilltop oasis harbors a history—much of it still in plain sight—that also puts it a cut above.
Water and war
Our hilltop park is the perfect place for a reservoir, as the city water department had discovered by 1901. The department added the brick water tower in 1906.
Why “Volunteer” park? Near the water tower, you’ll find the explanation. The park’s 1901 dedication to the volunteers then fighting the Spanish-American War is engraved on a granite boulder. Also mounted here, sheet metal retrieved from the U.S.S. Maine, sunk in the prelude to that war.
Olmsted originals
By 1904, the Olmsted Brothers were on the job, laying out the roads and walkways that meander through Volunteer Park today. Today’s wading pool and the park’s first conservatory and bandstand were completed by 1912.
The Olmsteds also added the two lily ponds by the reservoir. Later these had to be fenced by hedges to keep kids and dogs from falling in. Hedges were also added to shield the wading pool from the trolley tracks that once ended where the big buses now hang out at 15th and Galer.
The park’s southwest edge, too, was modified with kids in mind. The Olmsteds leveled the strip closest to Federal Avenue and built the concrete stairs leading down to the long grassy belt the Olmsteds intended as a play area.
Coast to coast connections
Fresh from Seattle’s 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition, the statue of William Seward, who helped win Alaska for the U.S., took its post in front of the conservatory in 1910. The leafy platform and plaza southwest of the reservoir was added in 1930 to honor Thomas Burke, who helped bring Seattle the transcontinental railroad.
In 1932, what is now the Asian Art Museum opened as the original home of the Seattle Art Museum, replacing—to the consternation of some—what had been a vine-covered pergola along the park’s main road.
Today, “Black Sun,” sculpted in 1969 by Isamu Noguchi and set across from the museum, might be the most photographed artwork in the city. Photographers framing the distant Space Needle through its donut hole can tell friends back home our west coast “Black (setting) Sun” has a mate, also by Noguchi: “White (rising) Sun” on the east coast, in New Haven, Connecticut.
For connections coast to coast, century to century, you can’t get much higher in Seattle than our gem on the Hill.
(Hat tip to Park History Files compiled by Donald N. Sherwood.)
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Russian Alphabet Pronunciation for Beginners
April 15, 2014 by jenniferc
Compared to English, Russian alphabet pronunciation is simpler. For instance, in Russian, there are no words with different spellings that sound similar such as “mite” and “might.” As a general rule, reading Russian words letter by letter will sound correct. Learning Russian alphabet pronunciation is the first step to learning Russian. This is relatively easy because of the fact that all the words tend to be sounded out the way you write them. Here is a course called Russian Alphabet Mastery that teaches you the entire Cyrillic Alphabet in a matter of hours.
The Cyrillic Alphabet
The Russian alphabet is called the Cyrillic alphabet. In this alphabet, there are thirty-three letters total, two pronunciation signs, twenty consonants, and eleven vowels. Here is a course on accelerated lessons on the Russian language that will help get you started.
Russian Letters With No English Version
Ю: Pronounced like U in “useful.”
Я: Pronounced like YA in “yards”
Ё: Pronounced like YAW” in “yawn.”
Ж: Pronounced like S in “pleasure.”
Ц: Like the TS sound in “sits.”
Ч: Pronounced like CH in “church”
Ш: Pronounced like SH the word in “shut.”
Щ: Pronounced like SH as in “show” except your tongue should be in the roof of your mouth.
Ы: Pronounced like the I in “ill” or “bit” but said with your tongue in the back of your throat.
Й: This letter is used for diphthongs- so the word “AЙ” sounds like “IGH” in the word “sigh” and “OЙ” sounds like “OY” in “coy.”
Symbols for Pronunciation
Ь: This is the ‘soft’ sign which makes the letter before it ‘soft-’ like in the letter P of the word “pew.”
Ъ: Rarely used- this is the ‘hard’ sign and indicates a slight pausing between 2 syllables.
Russian Letters with Similar Sound but Look Unusual
Э: Pronounced like “E” in “bed.”
Ф: Equivalent to the English letter F and pronounced like the “F” in “fix.”
П: Equivalent to the letter P in English- pronounced like P in “post.”
Л: Pronounced like the L in “love”
И: Pronounced like the I in the word “taxi-” or the short sound of “ee.”
З: Equivalent to the letter Z- pronounced like the Z in “zebra.’
Д: Pronounced like the D in “darling.”
Г: Pronounced like the G in “groggy.”
Б: Pronounced like the B in “bark.”
Russian Letters that Look Like English Letters But Sound Different
B: Pronounced like “V” in “vanity.”
E: Pronounced like the “Ye” in “yellow.”
H: Equivalent to the letter “N” in English- H is pronounced like the N in “nope.”
P: Equivalent to the letter “R” in English- P is pronounced like the R in “roar.”
C: Pronounced like the S in “saw” and is used like the English C in words like “centimeter.”
Y: Pronounced like the “OO” in “cool-” “root” or “boot.”
X: Pronounced like the H in “hi” but leaning more to the “CH” of the German word “Bach.”
Letters Like the English Alphabet
Here are Russian letters of the alphabet that are almost like letters sounds in English:
A: You pronounce the Russian “A” the way you would in the words ‘car’ or ‘father’ rather than of the words ‘flat’ or ‘cat.’
K: This letter replaces the English sound of “C” like in the words like “Cat” and you pronounce this like “K” in “kangaroo” and “kitten.”
M: Pronounced like the “M” in “meat.”
O: O is pronounced two ways. The unstressed way is like the letter “A” such as in the word “all” and the stressed version is like in the word “ore.”
T: Pronounced like the “T” in “Toe.”
Did this help? Here is a course that will help you speak like a native called Fast Track to Russian Fluency, which may just get you chatting with the locals in no time at all.
A Note About Pronunciation
In many languages, there is emphasis put on some syllables and not in others. One example is the word “photography” where the emphasis is on the second syllable while in the word “photograph,” the emphasis is on the first syllable. Can you hear how the vowel changes phonetically when the syllables change? Words in Russian are pretty much the same. For the purposes of pronunciation, this is why it is important to know which syllable is stressed in a word. Once you actually hear how Russian is spoken, you will be able to mimic the way words are pronounced. Here is a great course on learning Russian for beginners that could make a world of difference since you will hear the actual words being pronounced.
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Al from Dadeville goes all in.
If you’re a rational human being, you can’t help but be appalled by someone deliberately poisoning a pair of 130-year old trees.
But let’s face it – what elevates this story from the merely sad to the truly bizarre is this:
… Fortunately for police – and unfortunately for Gogue’s call for civility – the prime suspect has already confessed to the deed on the record, to one of the largest and most deranged radio audiences in the South. On Jan. 27, a ‘Bama fan going by the name of “Al from Dadeville” called the hugely popular Paul Finebaum Show (for the uninitiated, think of it as a radio version of “The Jerry Springer Show” for hardcore SEC fans) expressly to gloat over his crime:
Al: This year I was at the Iron Bowl. And I saw where they put a “Scam Newton” jersey on Bear Bryant’s statue.
Finebaum: OK, now, again, that’s 28 years later.
Al: Well lemme tell you what I did. The weekend after the Iron Bowl, I went to Auburn, Alabama, because I live 30 miles away, and I poisoned the two Toomer’s trees.
Finebaum: [laughing] Well that’s fair.
Al: I put Spike 80DF in them.
Finebaum: Did they die?
Al: Do what?
Al: They’re not dead yet, but they …
Finebaum: They will be?
Al: They definitely will die.
Finebaum: Is that against the law? To poison a tree?
Al: Do you think I care?
Finebaum: No.
Al: I really don’t.
Not care? Hell, it’s even money this guy winds up revealing himself publicly to take credit for his act before all is said and done. Because that’s how they roll (Tide Roll) over there.
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87 responses to “Al from Dadeville goes all in.”
Al briefly made an appearance on “notable people” in Dadevillw’s wikipedia page. Stay classy, Alabama.
Bama fans are not happy about this.
I agree. Ecstatic is a better word than happy.
KCDawg
I listen to Rivals Radio on XM in the morning on my way to work in KC, which just happens to be the same station that Finebaum comes on in the afternoon. I can usually handle about 5 minutes of his drivel before I have to turn the dial. I just happened to hear this guy when he was bragging to Finebaum.
There is almost no doubt that he’ll get caught as I’m sure the guy told bunches of people what he did, which will ultimately lead to his (rightful) downfall. I also seem to remember that he said he was a tree specialist of some kind, which should narrow the field even more.
Yeah, I hate Auburn more than most. But this is beyond the pale.
JaxDawg
Auburn will replace the trees if they die after remediating the soil. Since money will not be an issue, they can transplant the trees in the manner in which Sea Island did it. Hopefully the expenses, coupled with the NCAA investigation, will send AU into the same black hole as the aforementioned resort.
hailtogeorgia
It isn’t about replacing the trees, though, it’s the fact that the trees were 130 years old. You don’t just replace 130 year old trees.
Can you imagine the uproar if a rival fan did this to the Hedges?
Dawgwalker07
Or someplace like north campus?
Hackerdog
Georgia fans can do a fine job of trashing north campus all by ourselves.
gernblanski
I feel like the old Native American guy in those iconic PSA’s from the 70’s whenever I see video of the tailgating destruction of North Campus.
Iron Eyes Cody
Apparently, Ralph Cifaretto wasn’t just blowing smoke.
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Yeah, nobody ever got caught for that one, but they allegedly spelled out “LSU” with their tire tracks. I say “allegedly” because I didn’t really think that was what it looked like.
oops. that was supposed to go be a response to Rival.
Yeah it didn’t look like anything I recognized.
But, again: I was likely drunk while looking at it.
I seem to remember LSU fans (allegedly) tearing up the Sanford Stadium field with a car/truck prior to the ’99 game?
Admittedly, I was drunk during much of that year. But it sticks out for some reason.
A Different Jim
Did it take one or two years for the Hedges to grow back when the Auburn Players and fans destroyed part of the Hedges under Pat Dye.
Given that the hedges are privet, which grows at about the same rate as kudzu, I don’t think it took long to grow back.
Bulldog Joe
No, that was the work of our own fans on October 7, 2000.
wrong. 130 year old trees can be transplanted. it is an expensive process and extremely difficult in some respects but it can be done.
And btw, a hedge is much easier to replace than a mature tree.
Right…so “it is an expensive process and extremely difficult in some respects” means that it can simply be replaced? I see…simply must mean something different than what I thought it meant.
As for the hedges, that wasn’t the point either. The point is that they’re a beloved tradition of the University of Georgia (as the Toomer’s Corner trees are to Auburn) and if someone were to poison the hedges, there would be a very pissed off segment of the fan base. Auburn fans aren’t pissed just because the tree is dying, they’re pissed because it’s their tradition. Even if a new 130 year old tree is brought in, it’s not the same tree…this kind of stuff matters to people. You still hear people talking about how The Tree That Owns Itself isn’t the real one, even though it is an offspring of the original.
Seriously, though, thanks for the horticulture lesson, Chief.
Yes you do. You find two other 130 year old trees, dig them up carefully preserving the roots, and relocate them. The word simple was never used in either of my posts. It’s not simple, but it’s not impossible either. AU can replace the trees by raising funds through a capital campaign, which will be no problem since they just won the NC (cheaters). And since no one in their right mind would replace the existing trees with infant live oaks, this is what Auburn will do.
As for the rest, only Auburn grads state the obvious as you did.
And next time, just ignore the post if you can’t understand it.
My apologies for thinking that you would make the semantic connection of “just replacing the trees” and “simply replacing the trees” as implying the same thing. Clearly, an intellectual thinker such as yourself would make an astute observation.
We’ll see how the barners handle the trees, but my point was that there’s more to it than just finding two more 130 year old trees. Is it possible to do? Sure. Is it just a run of the mill procedure, as you make it sound? Absolutely not. Even if you do carefully preserve the roots, they often still don’t take to a new environment and end up dying anyway.
“As for the rest, only Auburn grads state the obvious[,] as you did”…says the guy who ended his first post with, “and btw, a hedge is much easier to replace than a mature tree.” Nothing obvious about that, is there, pal?
Next time, don’t be such a douche.
Ok, I will stop being a douche when you stop being an idiot.
East Cobb Devildawg
When they find him, make sure he gets the bill for all the work that will need to be done to replace the trees. He MIGHT learn his lesson after that. Because he sure doesn’t know how to keep his mouth shut.
Send him the bill for for the work that will need to be done to replace the trees? Why? He doesn’t have any money. He gave all his money to the football program at Bama. Given his attitude, he might just take the bill and wipe with it. May as well send the bill for terrorism to Al Quaeda ass to send a bill to Al Dadeville.
So vandalism and destruction of property aren’t chargeable offenses? I’m pretty sure that if he’s dumb enough to admit to it on the radio then he’s dumb enough to leave some evidence that will get him convicted of the crime. This offense was a low blow, no doubt about it. The whole ordeal has the potential of going from bad to worse.
Objective Bama Fan
I speak for most Bama fans when I say this is carrying it too far. I hate Auburn as much as any decent Bama should, but I respect their tradition. I respect the traditions of all the SEC schools; traditions are what make southern football great.
The best Bama blog speaks to this more eloquently than I can. The Bama Blog is about as good in its content as Bluto’s. I say that not as a crack at this blog, but more as a compliment to the amount and content.
http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2011/2/16/1997804/toomers-corner-oak-trees-poisoned
H-Town Dawg
As the intellectual in Alabama once quoth: “Ignorance ain’t just a river in Egypt.” But seriously, vandalism is a crime and it’s all fun and games until some douchebag destroys something that YOU cherish. Hailtogeorgia and Dawgwalker07 are absolutely right. If some asshole messed with the Hedges or any part of North Campus there would be hell to pay.
There is a difference between a prank and vandalism. This would seem to be a more vile act of vandalism than most, because it destroys an historic landmark for the city of Auburn, not just the Auburn University football program.
ericdawg
We all respect tradition, that is why GT should return the original bell to UGA.
Careful Brad
When I heard about the trees my first thought was “That was a techish thing to do.”
That is the one fanbase I can see doing something like this and having most of the fans support it.
They can get him for felony trespass/damage to property. Can also sue him civilly and take his trailer and Seadoo.
Sanford222View
“take his trailer and Seadoo” now that is funny. It is also a very appropriate punishment in addition to throwing his ass in prison.
This guy might not live.
AlphaDawg
What are he odds that this guys wardrobe consists of Tanktops and Camo?
History will compare the confession of Al from Dadeville with Trump’s at CPAC:
“a speech that alternated lavish praise for Donald Trump with denunciations of various and sundry enemies. Plenty of candidates invoked Chinese menace and terrors of the new health care law. Only Trump declared his antipathy for Somali pirates.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/donald-trump-and-other-weak-gop-presidential-hopefuls/71386/
simpl_matter
Bet he works for a landscaping company and has an arsenal of guns. I’d also wager he’s never been out of the US, thinks this is the greatest country in the history of the world, and that all Muslims are freedom-hating terrorists. It’s monkeys like this that ruin the world for the rest of us, get some perspective you devolved hump.
Oh, holy shit, here we go with politics again. Get ready, Senator. This post will be up to 150 comments by noon!
tduga1
Politics and sports go together as well as Spike 80DF and the trees at Toomer’s.
mo’ money!
I’m to the point where I think we just need to draw a damn line down the middle of the country and say okay all the smarmy leftist assholes on this side and everybody else on the other. Smarmy leftist assholes, pick which side you want and we’ll take the other, we are more than happy to let you follow your vast enlightened intellects into extinction we just don’t want to go with you. Were I the President of the rest of the country my first act would be to build a huge ass wall with landmines in front of it and barbwire to keep all the people who chose smarmy leftist asshole land out of our half of the country after they had run their side into the ground. Again, pick your side, I am willing to shovel snow in Minnesota and give you the South if it means ridding ourselves of your vision and intelligence. (See East and West Germany and North and South Korea as historical comparisons).
You need to “see East and West Germany” if you think the Germans themselves chose that plan.
Not to be smarmy.
Did I say the Germans chose it themselves? I don’t think so. Nice straw man you got there. The point is the East was run by communists and the West was not the East was a shithole that had to build a wall in Berlin to keep its own people in and the West was not, dido North and South Korea.
Your whole point was about “choosing” not to live with people you believe are assholes (a large group, apparently).
East Berlin/Germany was controlled by the Russians, the West overseen by the rest of the Allies. The populace had no say in the matter. Unlike us, thank God.
As long as you stay away from my oak trees and generally don’t infringe on my freedoms, I’m fine with you living in a cocoon of ignorance, fear, and hate. I voted for Reagan and 40 (would’ve voted for 41 the first time, if I had my absentee ballot), what part of my comments makes me a lefty would be interesting to hear.
I was making light of one dumb asshole by giving him the traits I consider to be the most common redneck stereotypes we southerners constantly battle with. If those traits also fit you, guess what? “You Might Be a Redneck!”
Woops, obviously didn’t intend this reply to you, NRBQ.
You implied that people who own guns and love their country are in the same league as this dipshit from Alabama. Sounds like you fit in quite well at a cocktail party stocked with witty Harvard law professors, community organizers, and members of Weather Underground. At least have some courage and stand by your convictions, don’t give this I voted for Reagan crap.
Man, are you telling me they’d let little, ole’ me into those highfalutin (look it up) circles?!? Stand by my convictions???
Listen, it was early AM and the coffee was kicking, I was subjectively profiling Al, not Brandon. I wasn’t making an objective statement about all gun-hoarding Americans. Some of my closest friends are gun-loving, freedom-fries eating, red, white, & blue Christians. My convictions don’t lock-step with any party but, I guarantee a smarmy leftist I am not.
I’ve got dibs on Hawaii! 😉
Put me down for Maui.
PNWDawg
I’m sorry but are you someone who has “never been out of the US, thinks this is the greatest country in the history of the world, and that all Muslims are freedom-hating terrorists”? It seems this remark offended you. Why is it when someone who makes a remark which appears to be to the left they are always asked to go elsewhere (or propose drawing a line)? And how hard is it to peg a guy named “Al” who is a die-hard Bama fan and calls the Finebaum show to brag about killing trees? That guy’s post wasn’t far off.
Again, the guy implied that people who owned guns and love this country are in the same league with this bozo who poisoned the trees.
BCDawg97
I just wanna know if it is only the left that is entitled to be a smarmy asshole?
Senator:
I have an honest question. I promise I’m not taking sides or trying to throw anyone under the bus here. In general, do you have a preference or policy about what subjects are brought up on your fine blog? Do you care if anyone brings up any of the “third rails of polite discussion” such as politics or religion.
Earlier, I gave an indignant respons to simpl’s political comments. But then I realized it ain’t my blog, so I don’t have a lot of room to be policing it. But that made me honestly wonder what your thoughts on the subject are. Once again, I’m just trying to get information from the administrator. I enjoy your blog, and I read it every day. I’ve read it long enough to know that you and I have differing political opinions on some subjects, but that doesn’t matter. It’s your blog. You can say whatever you want. If I or anyone else disapprove, we can vote with our mice.
I’m a free speech guy who believes for the most part in letting somebody make an ass of him/herself, if that’s the choice, so I’m pretty much an atheist on topic matter.
All I ask is that (1) people don’t engage in sockpuppetry; (2) people don’t spam comments they made at other blogs here; and (3) that commenters don’t bludgeon us with the same observation over and over again (particularly by hijacking comment threads). All that strikes me as more behavior than speech, which is where I draw the line.
Gotcha. It’s your blog, so them’s the rules.
The commentors here are on point the great majority of the time, anyway. Here’s hoping it stays that way.
This is the greatest country in the history of the world.
Socrates may have felt a little differently. Plato, too.
Dooley's Wig
Boy, if the culprit is a moderate French Muslim–i mean a real wine and cheese guy– who eschews guns and the out of doors..and doesn’t think America is “all that”–well simpl_matter is going to have egg all over his face.
Yeah, anybody want to lay odds and put a wager on it?
We’re going to find out who this guy is, if anybody thinks I missed the mark entirely, let’s put some PayPal funds on it.
It’s pricks like Al that make everything less fun. I can’t count how many times I’ve been in Jax (after a loss, of course) and had to listen to some UGA fan talk about punching the first UF guy he hears gloating in the mouth. It’s a F-n game, nothing should be killed, beaten-up, or otherwise injured because of it (unless you want to punch yourself in the face, I’m totally fine with that).
Wow, the over-informed world we live in. Looks like I was wrong about his employment:
http://friendsoftheprogram.net/2011/02/17/is-this-the-alleged-toomers-corner-tree-poisoner/
Though, if he is a retired trooper, I’d bet he has at least a few guns…
Al from Dadevulle
Nailed it except don’t work for landscaping company any longer. Messicans took my retirement job.
81 Dog
Delta is ready to fly you to Havana or Tehran or just about anywhere outside the US when you want to go. Way to take the actions of one moron in Alabama and make it into a Keith Olberman style (both in form and accuracy) rant.
Don’t be hatin’ on Keith “The Truth” Olbermann.
He’ll man up any time, any place.
http://www.maniacworld.com/Ben-Affleck-Impersonates-Keith-Olbermann.html
WTVM in Columbus is reporting that Auburn Police made an arrest of a 62 year old guy named Harvey Updyke for poisoning the trees. Hope he gets a War Eagle Cellmate.
Dang it!! Beat me to it!!
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/02/harvey_updike_arrested_in_toom.html
Possible defenses for Al from Dadeville:
1. Being called Lee Harvey Updyke as a kid.
2. Serial confessor.
3. Entrapped by Paul.
4. Trees terminally ill from the Georgia guy setting the TP on fire.
5. Thought Dow was barred from making lethals after Agent Orange.
B.B.F.S. (Battered Bama Fan Syndrome) is also a possibility.
I would definately be applying for a change of venue also.
..and plead the thing out quicker than a cat can lick its ass.
Soooo…they just arrested some guy for poisoning the trees…and he turned out to be a guy named Al…from Dadeville…who used Spike 80DF.
Wow. He didn’t get that stupid in only 62 years by himself. That takes a village.
He thought he could hide in a population of 3,212.
RomanDawg
The investigation might have taken 6 minutes….sir, do you know a douchebag Alabama fan named Al? Ummmm yep that’d be ol Al Updyke that lives in that thar trailer over yonder behind the Texaco. Watch out for his sister though. Ever since they got married she’s been actin plum crazy.
“To make matters worse, the trees are already fragile for a number of reasons: they live well north of their usual range, they’re on a busy street corner, and they’re regularly covered in toilet paper, which someone set on fire in November after a game against the University of Georgia.”
“We stress them even more when we light them on fire and vehicles run into them,” Keever said. “We use fire hoses to blow the toilet paper off them and that blows off a lot of buds.”
I know everyone is entitled to their own traditions ….but it sounds like those trees can’t catch a break. I don’t understand the toilet paper in the trees as a positive thing. I remember some kids tp-ing Coach Orgels house in Warner Robins after the Valdosta game. WR lost. There were some kids that came to school that following Monday morning that weren’t very healthy looking to say the least. No one ever bothered his house after that. And no I’m not an advocate of vigilante justice. Fans sure do get out of control though.
Coweta Dawg
The guy’s Facebook page says he is a retired TX state trooper. I know people tend to forget parts of their former profession upon retirement, but this takes that maxim to the extreme.
Perhaps. Then again, it’s just different in Texas…
While I find rolling trees to be likely the worst tradition in all of sports, I do recognize that there are many good and decent Auburn fans out there who are justifiably upset about this. I didn’t think it was possible for me to feel sorry for Auburn, but I do. Thanks a lot Al.
He better hope he gets a Bama grad judge. Seriously. They will make a big-time example out of him.
I guess losing after being up 24-0 made the dude snap.
He has children named Bear and Crimson. Seriously.
I would have guessed Bear and Chesterfield or Golden Flake.
Chesterfield? +1, sir. LOL
MauiDawg
I’m already a few steps ahead senator although most Hawaiians will quickly tell you they are separate
By the way senator do you not check your email for reader questions? What happened to Erk Russell’s hall of fame nomination app?
I sent you back a response on 2/8.
have no fear smith
maybe this is a lemons/lemonade idea but i suggest AU consider cutting the tree trunk at +/- 7 feet , then hire a local chainsaw sculptor [s/b plenty around] to craft a life size Cam Newton standing on a bushel of money. If there are 2 trunks put Cecil on the other one.
On big occasions they could pin $$ to the stumps in lieu of the traditional TP, using the $$ as future recruiting slush fund [just dont deposit it in Lowders bank due to FDIC concerns].
g proof
they could also sell every bit of the tree, in toothpick sized shards, as keepsakes/ family heirlooms..encase in Lucite, Franklin Mint style . I suspect there is an angle for “Yella Fella ” in here too, maybe treat the splinters w Cammy Cam Juice and get an endorsement from the lovely Tracy Wolfson .
Yella Fella gets script approval for the TV ad [romance w Tracy as subplot] and the lead, as usual.
Even though the guy who poisoned the trees is a shitbag, this idea of yours made me laugh out loud.
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← You realize this means war.
And now for something unexpected →
My favorite year
Without a doubt, in my lifetime as a college football fan (as opposed to a Georgia football fan), there’s no season I have enjoyed more than the 2007 one. It was absolutely and unpredictably nuts from start to finish, with plenty of stops along the way.
So, it is with great pleasure that I share with you SBNation’s tribute to that season. Check out the following pieces in particular:
Bill Connelly, on CFB’s 11 wildest seasons (2007 being #1)
ULM 21, Alabama 14
Les Miles, ladies and gentlemen
How would a four-team college playoff have looked?
The Celebration, and Corch’s “stunning pettiness“
Steve Spurrier reminisces about 16-12, and Georgia in general
The end result: the only national champion to lose two regular season games in multiple overtimes.
Crazy as hell. But great. I doubt we’ll see another season like it again.
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, College Football, Georgia Football, Nick Saban Rules, The Evil Genius, Urban Meyer Points and Stares
94 responses to “My favorite year”
MGW
what a year
It’s like a Boston fan declaring the 1986 World Series as the most exciting. It’s like a surviving member of the crew of the USS Indianapolis saying, “well probably not see a day this chock full of intrigue again.”
It was “interesting times” in the most painful meaning of the phrase. The long, all day lead up to the kick in the balls on the Sunday after the seccg to top it off. You knew it was coming. You knew it was gonna hurt. You just had to sit and wait while Herbie made everybody comfortable with the idea that we deserve to have our nuts kicked. All the while seething that the smug fuck face had taken the exact opposite position in 2006.
Then we get friggin’ Hawaii. I hated 2007. I don’t even like thinking about it.
Biggus Rickus
Really? You thought there was a chance Georgia was going to play for the national title in 2007? I knew that ship sailed when Tennessee eked out their wins over Vandy and Kentucky. I just enjoyed the ride of those final 6 games.
We were sitting at four. WVU and Missouri lost ahead of us and LSU was ranked 7th. If it had been week three or week seven or five, we would have moved to 2. Instead then jumped no. 7 LSU five spots to 2 and we went to four.
Yeah we had a chance to get in that year. It was so realistic that they talked about it all fucking day on both Saturday and Sunday….dick.
You’re right. ESPN would never talk up something that would never happen to keep ratings up for their bullshit selection show. Anyone could have predicted that they would jump LSU to 2 after they won the SEC title game.
I said I saw it coming. Are you stupid?
Then why were you so pained?
Because we were at four and I watched two teams ahead of us lose on the last day of the season. Then I watched herbie change his story from 2006 that division titles were meaningless and that it’s really about getting the best teams together.
It’s really pretty simple for those with functioning cerebral cortexes.
The Russians stole it when they hacked into herbies headset
There’s an email that says the equivalent of: “This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump?”
I doubt it. People take football too seriously to collude with Russia to influence the outcome of a natty.
But I get your point. Treason. Funny.
An email that says. Was it one of hillarys 30k that were destroyed. You Dems used to love the Ru skies till ya lost . Maybe run a candidate that doesn’t scream at the camera , can walk 10 feet , and at least visits Wisconsin one time and doesn’t hate the white working class. .even ole Alan Dershowitz is laughing at you Der. Treason. Take a pill in addition to deep breathing and turn on CNBC
I would think that any American would be disturbed by a foreign adversary interfering in an any election. Not only does that not bother you, you think it’s ok to go along with it and then to lie about it and then to cover it up.
There’s a name for people like you: traitor.
Maybe she just lost Der get over it gonna be a long 8 . Keep up the good work . Stick to football . At least you can carry on a conversation
So it’s ok if it didn’t work? Attempts to commit treason isn’t treason?
Stick your head back up your ass. The extra oxygen isn’t helping.
Yep, screwjob for sure. There weren’t any teams without flaws and until Herbie comes up with his new rule, we’d have been there beating the crap out of OSU instead of LSU.
I disagree with the screwjob, LSU never lost in regulation, and UGA lost tiebreakers to make the SECCG. LSU had the better resume with the SECCG win.
Napoleon BonerFart
I agree that LSU had the better resume. And I acknowledge that UGA had no God-given right to play in the championship game. The sour taste simply came from the obvious tail wagging the dog effort required to get LSU to jump UGA by the poll voters. This was made even worse when the Herbstreit Doctrine was abandoned to justify Michigan and Alabama playing for the championship.
We were told that the bcs was designed to choose the “best” teams not the most “deserving” teams. By any measure we were the better team. Vegas would have favored by 6.5 in the seccg had we made it.
If anybody thinks that if Missouri or WVU wins that we finish lower than 3, I have some beachfront property in hahira for sale.
It was a manipulation of the process so that the regular order of things would not be followed. If you can point out one time where a team dropped a spot when two teams ahead of them lost, I’m listening.
We got fucked. You can say we deserved it. You can say we should have never been rated ahead of LSU to begin with. You can say that late season losses weigh too heavily. Whatever your story is is fine with me but the idea that we didn’t get jackhammer fucked is simply wrong. We did.
We didn’t UT abused that that team. LSU was never out of a game.
3rdandGrantham
Man, why are you obsessively angry and bitter over something that happened 10 years ago? Especially considering it’s something (UGA football) that’s totally outside of your control and has no real bearing on your life whatsoever? I can only imagine how insanely preocupied and passionate you are about things you actually have control over, otherwise I’d say your priorities are just slightly misaligned.
I’m guessing (or assuming) you’re a big wig pulling in 750k+ annually with 6% body fat, a smoking wife, and hobbies galore that you excel at.
Call it Irish Alzheimer’s. I forget everything except my grudges.
AuditDawg
“Best” and “most deserving” can be interchangeable terms depending on who is using them in the context of the BCS.
It’s subjective to be sure. However, herbie was willing to forego application of the same objective standards in 2006 that he felt were so important in 2007. It’s blatant hypocrisy, plain and simple.
I disagree…but I respect your opinion….even though it’s wrong. 🙂
You certainly make a compelling argument in support of your contrary position.
It reminds me of the Erasmus vs. Luther debate in which Erasmus argued for several hundred pages in support of the existence of a free will. Luther came back with a stunning retort: “you’re wrong.” A very convincing argument I must admit.
The good thing about subjectivity is that you could debate whether the sun rises in the east and walk away thinking that both sides views should be respected. Some would say that truth matters. But does it?
Derek’s right. UGA got screwed over by the nattering nabobs of ESPN. If you examine who the talking heads were it is even worse as all of them had conflicts of interest: Granny Holtz, who Georgia owned while he was at South Carolina; Herbie, who Georgia beat like a drum in a bowl game and who, like SOS, never got over it; Jesse Palmer, a GayTurd. UGA beat LSU by about 2 TDs the next season so we have some empirical reason for saying the Dawgs were better, too. (I know, I know–a different season, a different team. But we still beat ’em 5 games after the BCSNCG.) We had the best team at the end of the season and we got screwed out of the Big Game. Just ask previously undefeated Hawaii how good the Dawgs were.
Skeptic Dawg
Oh Mayor, year after year we continue to dance this little dance. We just view the 2007 season from opposing lenses. You see a team primed and ready for the BCS title game only to be left out. On the other hand, I see a team that lost to an awful Carolina squad and to Tennessee and failed to even win their half of the division. I believe winning your division and conference means something…and no, Alabama did not earn the right to a rematch vs LSU in the title game a few short years later in my opinion. Sure LSU soared past us in the polls. Sure ESPN and their “nattering nabobs” (well done with that name by the way! I will certainly use that in the future. Giving you full credit of course.) spoke poorly of the Dawgs. But all deservedly so. Don’t lose to the Gamecocks and/or the Vols and problem solved. We can agree to disagree and move on.
Gaskilldawg
Actually, give former vice president Spiro Agnew credit. Mayor was quoting him with the “nattering nabobs.”
Actually it’s Bill Safire’s quote. He just lent it to the soon to be disgraced former VP.
Skeptic, I understand and respect the opinions of others–including you–on this issue. What I don’t get is that you always seem to hold UGA, your supposed alma mater, to a higher standard than you hold other teams. You do that consistently. For example, you and others who espouse your view that the Dawgs weren’t “good enough” and LSU was “good enough” completely ignore the fact that LSU lost to Kentucky explaining that Kentucky “was ranked as high as #7 in the nation” during that season. Well, Georgia didn’t lose to Kentucky–Georgia BEAT Kentucky that year. Some how is it that you think LSU (also a team with 2 losses) was better when the Dawgs beat one of the teams LSU lost to?
Eventual MNC, two loss LSU lost their final regular season game to lowly, unranked Kentucky…at home. That’s pretty much all that needs to be said.
I remember James Carvell getting on every and any tv program after that game screaming that LSU deserved to play in the BCS title game because they were undefeated in regulation play. And basically OT rules were stupid anyway and shouldn’t really count.
Kentucky was ranked 17th, the game was played on 10/13 and it was in Lexington. Other than that, you nailed it. 🙂
Seriously, you’ve got that loss confused with Arkansas.
Kentucky was also ranked as high as 7th that season.
Well I feel like an idiot. You’re right…I did confuse UK and Ark. On second thought, f it…I’m going to take the Hugh Freeze approach here: you’re wrong and I’m right on this. You also are responsible for my recent IRS audit too. Furthermore, if you find any proof that I’m wrong, email me. Otherwise, shut up and go away. Oh yea, lat but not least — God gives us the ability to be humble and faithful and stuff. Thank you Lord!
Jared S.
I have a hard time with 2007. In principal it was a great season but as a Georgia fan, I just can’t look past some stuff. That was the year I lost any respect I had for ESPN and Kirk Herbstreit in particular. A mere year year after Herbie was shouting for the rooftops, “Who are the two best teams RIGHT NOW?!” trying to get a national title game rematch between Michigan and Ohio State that jackass turned the Big 12 title game into a 4 hour infomercial on how LSU should leapfrog Georgia in the polls because of LSU’s body of work during the regular season. I get that Georgia had no right to be in that game. We lost to Tennessee and an inferior 6-6 South Carolina team. We made our own bed, but the hypocrisy was a bit much. I still to this day don’t get my sports news from ESPN. I just watch the games I’m interested in that they televise.
I was also not happy about the Sugar Bowl that year. I felt like we got shafted in 2003 when we ended up playing a 3 loss Florida State team that was only there because the ACC was terrible that year. But that was nothing compared to seeing what was a red-hot Georgia team get saddled with showing Hawaii they don’t belong in big boy college football instead of getting to play a real team.
Southernlawyer11
And if misery wants some company, I’ll add that the other Sugar Bowl during the Richt era wasn’t even a real Sugar Bowl. You were given dried up ground up peaches, thrown in a bowl, and told it was sugar. Not to mention, we once again had the distinction of being an upstart’s signature win. Guarantee you some WVU blogger perpetually lists that as his favorite win in school history.
/thanks a lot Katrina
ALL WVU bloggers list that as their favorite win in school history. It’s the only game against a big-time opponent that they ever won.
TomReagan
Not to mention that a 2001 Nebraska team that was blown out by Colorado in its final regular season game and that didn’t win its division either and a 2003 Oklahoma team who had been beaten 35-7 in the Big12 championship had already played in the BCS championship game.
I’ve also always wondered what the difference in the “hottest” team in the country and the best team at the moment is.
I disagree on UGA being red hot or being a great team at seasons end. Along with the two losses, we had an ugly, 3 point win over Vandy late in the year where they were driving late to win only to fumble it away. Then we turn around and give up 34 points to Troy and barely beat them as well. Yet, most only seem to remember the Hawaii thumping which proved just how dominant we were that year. Instead, IMO that was a very overrated team with many flaws. A lot of internal cracks were present too which really opened up in the years following.
I think that team had flaws but after a disappointing Troy game Georgia won their 3 final regular season games by double digits. Two of those wins were against ranked teams. The 2008 team was certainly overrated early on but I think the way Georgia was playing at the end of 2007 they could’ve at least been competitive with anyone.
I remember going to Jacksonville after the Vandy scare and beating the shit out of Florida and Timmy Tears. After that, that team was completely different and would have pounded OSU like LSU did.
That team had the perpetual flaw of CMR coached teams of playing to the competition. Troy and Vandy didn’t inspire the team, so lackluster performances resulted. You can bet your ass that, had they played in a championship game, they would have come out revved up like they did in the Sugar Bowl.
And I disagree that the sky is blue. That team was unbelievable after the Vandy game. The defense relaxed and let them have some points but the Troy game was never, ever in doubt. Get out of here with that trash.
And that Troy teams only regular season losses were to Florida, Arkansas, and Georgia.
Ok, interpret that season as you wish, but the numbers say otherwise. BTW, internally there were all sorts of issues with that team as well — it certainly wasn’t a focused group, I’ll assure you of that
No, the numbers say exactly what everyone has always said about that season; that the team lost two bad early games, then got their shit together and dominated after Vandy. There is absolutely no argument against that. Please, please show me some numbers that dispute that.
The UT game occurred in the middle of the season, not early, in which we were humiliated and never in the game. Both the Troy and Vandy games were ugly (Vandy was driving for winning score before fumbling, a game they had led throughout) and we stuggled to put away a mediocre at best, 6 loss GT team, in which the game was in the balance until late.
UK also was a 5-6 loss team, and I think we were losing to them in the 3rd quarter before finally going ahead to win by 10 or so. You’re acting as if that team got off to a slow start, then steamrolled the rest of the way, but that was far from the case. It was anything but a great team and had many flaws. Hell, WillieMart alone as DC should pretty much silence anyone who feels otherwise.
That U.K. Team lost 4 games, beat the eventual national champion, and averaged over 36 points per game.
31-17 ain’t a struggle.
Georgia was number 12 in total defense in 2007, to say nothing of the second half of the season. I don’t care who’s coaching that d, 12 in the country is a good d.
You keep bringing up coaches and “internal problems”. Those guys are gone, you can quit trying to get them fired.
Again, yes they did catch fire the second half of the season. You only argument is “well Kentucky”. “Well coaches”. Still waiting on those numbers.
I’ll save you some time. They don’t exist.
I already highlighted everything for you; if you refuse to ascertain, then there is nothing else to say. Please go back and look at the box scores, and show me a dominating team. I see a two loss team that trailed Vandy until the final minutes, a team that was losing to a 5 loss on the year UK team in the 3rd, and a team that trailed a 6 loss GT team in the 2nd half as well. Pray tell, where are your so called numbers that show otherwise?
…and a team that trailed a 6 loss GT team in the 2nd half as well…
Not sure what box score you’re looking at, but Georgia only trailedtwice in that game and both times were in the 2nd quarter and totaled only about 4 minutes of game time. They held the halftime lead and never looked back.
In the first week of the BCS rankings that season, there were two SEC East teams in the top 10. Neither of them were Florida, Georgia, or Tennessee. They knocked off #1 LSU in OT and should have knocked off a top 15 Tennessee in OT. I believe Andre Woodson broke Danny Wuerrfel’s SEC record for TD passes in a single season that year. Bill C’s S&P rankings have them as a better team than Auburn that year. Kentucky was legit in 2007.
Puh-leeze about Troy. They scored a garbage TD with 5 seconds left on the clock against back-ups that made it a 10 point game.
Like MGW says, y’all can keep trying to fire coaches from 2007, but that equine specimen has been dead for a long-ass time. There’s no arguing that they shit the bed with two bad losses in the first half of the season, but the team was hell on wheels after the Vandy game.
Hobnail_Boot
The Auburn game is the loudest Sanford Stadium has ever been. The WLOCP was awfully fun.
On the other hand.. the South Carolina game saw Knowshon ripping it up between the 20’s only to have the ball taken out of his hands, and the team never got off the bus in Knoxville.
Truly a roller coaster season.
Stafford was really bad against South Carolina that day.
I still see the wheel route Stafford threw 10 feet too far ahead of a wide open knowshon in my nightmares. Ironic that we missed a wheel route given willie’s trouble defending those in other games.
Regardless of the BCS issue, it is still my favorite year of Georgia football. (Says the guy who was born 3 months after we beat Notre Dame)
I’ll take 2002 every day.
1980, of course, was the best season. 2002 was incredible. The end of 2012 was pretty damn awesome even with 5 yards away.
The best team of the last 40 years may be a team that came up just short … 1981. That team was nasty on defense and pretty much manhandled its SEC schedule.
If Erk stayed UGA would have another title or 2.
’92 and ’07 were frustrating years so close but so far away. The ’92 team ended with a win over Ohio St and the final play was a Herbstreit INT. Good times.
Personally, I thought the ’82 team was the best, which made the heartbreak in the Sugar Bowl that much harder to take. That team pretty much dominated all season long and I couldn’t believe that PSU could even hang with us, much less win.
That team was flawed at QB, but really good everywhere else.
Any SEC Championship year for UGA was better…
Corch
D.N. Nation
Always liked Moreno shaking his hands as he ran back to the sidelines after the second score in the Sugar Bowl, signaling that Hawai’i didn’t belong on the same field with him. Despite what Mark May, Thom Brennaman, and other assorted halfwits were saying.
dudemankind
2007? Wasn’t that the year some no-name QB from TN ran the same damn wheel-route play on Willie’s D over and over again? Fond memories.
Yes and Bobo was running the ball with the safeties giving up the middle of the field.
I think that was ’09…UT was coached by Kiffin, which made it worse.
I must be getting my beat downs confused.
CMR’s motto…close…
Good thing Bama nor UT never hired him there would be no cigars on the 3rd Saturday in October.
*or
Dylan Dreyer's Booty
Maybe I am not really a general football fan; maybe I am mainly a Georgia football fan, because lots of 2007 was frustrating for me. We played well for most of the season, but then there the times when we just inexplicably shit the bed. In a way, looking back, it was the beginning CMR’s inability to win games he was supposed to win (South Carolina) all the while looking great on other (Florida comes to mind). This when I recall fan frustration start to develop even if we didn’t realize it yet. I agree it was a crazy, and it gave a lot sportswriters good copy, but I am too close to UGA to consider it my favorite year. I’ll take 1980, and not just because we won but because of how we won: Undefeated year, sweet, sweet win in Jacksonville, Tech helps us get the #1 ranking but doesn’t get a win in doing so. Ahh, the schadenfreude!!
Interesting observation. ’07 seemed liked the promised land was just a fortunate season away. I do admit I wanted Cox’s redshirt burned in ’05 for the national title hunt. ’08 I wasn’t that let down as I thought the OL turnover would let us down. ’10 however with UCF loss followed by ’11 with the losses to Boise St, and Michigan St really set in for me that the program couldn’t be what I knew it could be, and Richt’s best years seemed to have Jekyll and Hyde games.
My biggest disappointment was not getting to go to the Rose bowl to play USC.
That I agree with…should have happened
I can see the point but I was so tired of the MWC and WAC talk I wanted to pummel them out of the national discussion.
I think even Illinois would have at least won.
Lets not get carried away here
At least we beat the pants off of Hawaii. Anyone else remember hearing idiots saying they thought Hawaii deserved to be in the BCSNG game because they were undefeated? pffffft
http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2007/12/10/71015-hawaii-deserves-more-than-it-received-from-bcs/
“For the second year in a row, the unbeaten champion of the underrated WAC (Western Athletic Conference) has been snubbed in the college football Bowl Championship Series title game.
Last year it was 12-0 Boise State. This year it is 12-0 Hawaii, which deserved better alohas than it got in the BCS selections.
Sure, twice-beaten LSU and once-beaten Ohio State played tougher schedules than Hawaii. But their Jan. 7 title game doesn’t excite many fans beyond Ohio and Louisiana, even though it might be a barn-burner. Unbeaten Hawaii vs. Ohio State would have had national appeal.”
I emailed Al Neuharth about once a week for half a year asking him to follow up on this after the Sugar Bowl, but he never responded. And he never will now, seeing how he’s dead.
He must have been HIGH, or reading from a script….I think the latter.
Or hung up on Pitt not getting their chance in 1980.
I gotta admit I took pride in UGA’s winning in such a way that it showed Hawaii didn’t belong. The WAC was what the American Conference is today a good mid major that didn’t belong in the national title discussion.
My lasting memory of that game was June Jones telling his team before they came out on the Superdome turf to play like they belonged. I knew at that moment we were going to absolutely smoke them because Jones knew his team was stepping into a buzz saw.
That was awesome, and the other was Martinez for his faults had a defense that showed up to rattle Brennan from the opening snap.
I remember Fran Tarkenton laughing his ass off after he saw our opponent in the pregame warmups and telling everyone, while on national TV, that Georgia was going to destroy them. At the time I was worried that he was a bit over confident, but later I realized that he knew a thing or two about football.
I remember that. I think Jimmy Johnson said something similar before the game in a bit more diplomatic way. Pretty much said Georgia was a completely different animal from anyone Hawaii played during the season … good times. Hope to see those again soon.
This will always remain my favorite college fooball season. I’m a fan of the sport outside my alma mater and this season was just so batshit crazy from start to end that it’s hard to see something like it happening again.
Fartwok
I remember telling a buddy before the 2007 season that the SEC would never win another NC because there were now three coaches in the league with a natty since Saban went to Bama.
I was so so wrong.
Damn you can tell it’s July. 2007 was 10 years ago WGAS.
Minnesota Dawg
Amusing comments and reflections here.
The biggest culprit in screwing over Georgia in the last 25 years has been Georgia. In 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012 (seeing a pattern here?), we’ve had teams, seasons that could have been magic, could have been great. But we manage to let it slip through our hands by simply playing very poorly in games where we can’t afford to.
1992 (a heartbreaking year): UF
1997: Auburn
2002: UF
2007: UT
2012: S. Carolina
Here’s hoping 2017 breaks the trend (in a good way).
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Is the hedonic hunger score associated with obesity in women? A brief communication
Samira Rabiei1Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
Fatemeh Sedaghat2 and
Reza Rastmanesh2
Food intake for its hedonic properties can result in excess caloric intake. It may play a role in increasing trend of obesity in the world. Hedonic hunger may effect on dietary patterns. We assessed the association between dietary patterns and the hedonic score in obese and non-obese women. In this case–control study 140 women aged 17–44 years from an obesity club at district 4 of Tehran participated. Dietary patterns were assessed through food frequency questionnaire by factor analysis method. The hedonic score was determined using a 21-item valid questionnaire. ANOVA and Logistic regression were used to statistical analysis.
Factor analysis method showed that there were 2 dietary patterns named healthy and unhealthy, in order to their food items. There was not any significant trend for obesity among tertiles of healthy and unhealthy dietary patterns. The mean hedonic score was significantly higher in obese than non-obese women, (p < 0.05). The second and the third tertiles of hedonic score significantly increase the odds of obesity referring the first tertile (2.8 and 10.8, respectively). Hedonic hunger had a positive association with obesity; but there was no difference in dietary patterns of obese and non-obese women, unexpectedly.
Hedonic hunger
Dietary patterns
Dietary patterns through energy storage are effective on body weight changes and may lead to obesity [1]. On the other hand, dietary patterns may be affected by food hedonic; since eating is pleasurable itself. By the other word, homeostatic requirements to energy is not the only stimulus for food intake, but pleasance of food may in turn stimulus the intake, regardless of to be full [2]. The activity of reward center is higher in the brain of individuals who have higher intend to eating [3] and it has been suggested that incidence of any disorder in this part of brain, increases the risk of obesity [4]. Therefore, food does not consume only for survive, but also for its pleasure and hedonic [5].
There are not enough information regarding to hedonic hunger in developing countries [6, 7]. Furthermore, the most of these studies are cross sectional, not comparative. So, to find the relation between dietary patterns and hedonic hunger with obesity, the current study has compared major dietary patterns and hedonic hunger in obese and non- obese women for the first time in Iran. The aim of this study was to compare the hedonic hunger scores in obese and non-obese women and its relation to their dietary patterns.
This case control study was conducted on 140 women aged 17–44 referring to fitness club in district 4 in Tehran, by easy sampling method. We used OR = 3 to achieve the highest power and the lowest error. It means that the probable of adherence to an unhealthy dietary pattern in obese individuals is 3 times more than non-obese individuals. Therefore, 46 obese women entered in case group and 92 normal weight women entered in control group. We excluded pregnant, lactating and menopause women, patients with any endocrine disorders, liver diseases, renal disease and women who had adherence to any kind of weight loss therapy during last year. We also excluded consumers of endocrine function effective drugs, oral contraceptive drugs, weight loss drugs, anti-depression drugs and alcohol. Weight and height were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated through dividing the weight (kg) by the squared height (m2). We considered women who had BMI equal to 30–45 kg/m2 as obese and BMI equal to 18.5–25 kg/m2 as normal weight. The semi quantitative food frequency questionnaire with 168 food items that was validated by Esmaeil zadeh [8] and Mirmiran [9] to determine dietary patterns, was used to access to dietary intakes. Principal component analysis (PCA) method (also named factor analysis) was used to determine dietary patterns.
To access hedonic scores, participants completed the 21-item hedonic hunger questionnaire [10]. The validity of this questionnaire was confirmed with correlation coefficient equivalent to 0.78–0.89. The higher score of this questionnaire, the higher tendency to food hedonic intake. General information were gathered by a self-reported questionnaire. Spss.17 was used to statistical analysis. Independent T-test and Mann whitney U test were used to compare quantitative data with normal and abnormal distribution, respectively. K-square test was used for qualitative data. To compare distribution of hedonic scores among dietary patterns tertiles, ANOVA test was used and to pairwise comparison, Tukey’s HSD was used if there was any significancy. Logistic regression was used to determine the relation of hedonic hunger and obesity after adjusting the confounders and to determine odds ratio of obesity for dietary patterns and hedonic scores with 95% confidence interval.
The mean of age, calorie intake and physical activity was 30.7 years, 2367.2 kcal, 36.3 MET/h/day in case group and 30.6, 2341, 37.5 in control group, respectively. These variables did not shown any significant differences between both groups. There were not any significant difference in smoking status and dietary supplements consumption between two groups (Data are not shown).
Two major Dietary patterns were determined by PCA method that was named healthy and unhealthy because of their contents. The healthy dietary pattern included: fruits, legumes, vegetables, olive, nuts, egg, dry seeds, whole grains, fish, potato, poultry and sour. The unhealthy diet included French fries, mayonnaise, synthetic fruit juices, high fat dairy, processed meat, snacks, cookies, desserts, coke, refined grains, red meat, organ meats and oils. These two patterns, overall, can explain 17.5% of total variance of dietary patterns.
The mean of total score of hedonic hunger questionnaire in cases and controls was 63.8 and 48.8, respectively, which was significantly different between two groups (p < 0.05).
Odds ratio of obesity did not have any significant difference among tertiles of healthy and unhealthy patterns.
As shown in Table 1, p value for trend is significant for OR of obesity among tertiles of hedonic scores. The third tertile of hedonic score increased OR for obesity comparing to the first tertile.
Odds ratio for obesity in tertiles of hedonic score
Hedonic score
Tertiles of hedonic scores
The first tertile
The second tertile
2.1 (0.7–6)
The third tertile
7.4 (2.7–20)
P trend
< 0.05
As Table 2 shown, distribution of hedonic scores did not have any significant trend among tertiles of healthy pattern, although, it was significant in the third tertile comparing to the second tertile of unhealthy pattern (p < 0.05).
Distribution of hedonic scores in tertiles of dietary patterns
Dietary pattern tertiles
Healthy dietary pattern
51.7 ± 15
Unhealthy dietary pattern
58.519.2a
aSignificant difference comparing with the second tertile
This study showed that there is not any association between dietary patterns and obesity. To now, several studies assessed the association of dietary patterns and obesity. For example, in cohort study of Tehran lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), 5 dietary patterns were determined that of them, traditional pattern and western diet were in positive relation to obesity [11]. We found that vegetables and egg in the healthy diet, while in their study, these food item were in traditional diet. Carrera et al. also found no association between dietary patterns and obesity, same as our study [12]. Our findings were also in agree with Naja, et al. that did not find any association between obesity and traditional diet which was similar to our healthy diet [13]. Achieving non conclusive results regard to dietary patterns and obesity may be due to differences in the nature of dietary patterns. Different design of study and food questionnaires may be of other reason for this controversies. Furthermore, complexity nature of traditional diet may lead to difficult interpretation of results.
In our study, the hedonic score in obese women was significantly higher than non-obese women. This finding is according to some of the other studies [4, 14, 15]. We also found that hedonic scores in the highest tertile of unhealthy dietary pattern is significantly higher than the lowest tertile of this pattern. However, there was not any significant trend among tertiles of healthy dietary pattern regard to hedonic score. We may conclude that hedonic hunger in obese women lead to unhealthy food choices and finally to unhealthy dietary intakes. It can develop obesity and other its risk factors. In the other words, obese women enjoy eating, more than non-obese women. Therefore, identification of unhealthy food choices which consume through hedonic mechanisms by obese people, is very important, because it can be beneficial in both hedonic obesity prevention and treatment through designing drugs to suppress rewards pathways relating to food intake.
Lack of significant difference between dietary patterns of obese and non-obese people and considering that none of our participants did not have any metabolic disorders to be effective on weight, suggested that some of the other factors, other than nutrition, physical activity and metabolic factors may play role in weight gain.
We conducted this study on women in district 4 of Tehran. So, we could not generalize our results to population of Tehran. We recommended to conduct a study on both sexes and in some different districts in Tehran, so that to be representative population of Tehran.
We are thankful of National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. We also appreciate the cooperation of the sport club in district 4, Tehran, Iran, and all of the participants in this study.
This work was financially supported by National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute [25/47/1077], Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
SR conducted statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript. FS conducted data gathering and data entry. RR supervised the study. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The raw data gathered for the current study cannot be publicly available because of the participants’ privacy and our institute regulations, as approved by the research ethics committee and has been written in consent form. All data were delivered and archived in the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.
The present study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Iran, A signed hand-written informed consent was obtained from each individual before data collection.
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Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, (SBMU), National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, SBMU, Tehran, Iran
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Validation of a patient satisfaction survey of the Teleneurology program in Chile
Freddy Constanzo1, 2Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
Paula Aracena-Sherck3,
Juan Pablo Hidalgo4,
Maritza Muñoz5,
Gerardo Vergara6 and
Cristóbal Alvarado3, 7
Telemedicine arises as an attractive intervention for reducing the waiting time for appointments with medical specialists in Chile. Successful implementation of this technology requires safeguarding the patient/clinician trust relationship; however, no studies have been conducted to evaluate quality perception of a telemedicine program in Chile. To assess patient satisfaction with the Teleneurology program at the Hospital Higueras Talcahuano (HHT), addressing patient/clinician trust relationship.
A perception survey was constructed with 23 questions, distributed into 5 key areas (items) of user satisfaction. Its face validity was performed by five neurology specialists from the Teleneurology unit of HHT. The survey was applied to 167 patients of the HHT, recruited between 2018 and 2019, for conducting a pilot cross-sectional descriptive study to assess internal consistency (Cronbach alpha) and reliability (factorial analysis of main components). The survey showed an internal consistency of 0.88. Removing any of the items maintained its reliability in values over 0.8. All items showed point biserial correlations greater than 0.30. Overall, the survey constructed and evaluated in this study showed high internal consistency and reliability values, which will allow its application in further studies of quality assessment of the Teleneurology unit of HHT.
Teleneurology
Adult neurology
The lack of timely access to health care is a growing issue worldwide, particularly in the population with a disability, such as neurological patients [1] The deficit in the care of neurological patients can be explained by: (i) lack of resources to improve the primary care system [2], (ii) deficiencies in access to health care due to disability of patients or the distances they must travel to obtain adequate health care [3], and (iii) a deficit in the number and distribution of neurologist specialists. Telemedicine, which involves the remote access of a patient with a medical practitioner via the internet, has the potential to address some of these deficits. Thus, Teleneurology interventions are being implemented and evaluated in several regions of the globe [4].
The Teleneurology program implemented in 2015 at the Hospital Las Higueras of Talcahuano (HHT), belonging to the Healthcare Unit of Talcahuano (SST, Spanish acronym for Servicio de Salud Talcahuano) of the Ministry of Health, has pioneered addressing the access to adult neurology care with specialists in the country, through a technology that combines the simultaneous live care by a general practitioner in situ, and the remote primary care office by a neurology specialist in specifically designed HHT facilities. All patients have an active participation, making them permanently involved in the delivery of information, complete evaluation and resolution of the health problem. For each video session in the Teleprocess unit (synchronous), a referral and reference web platform are used, which is integrated with the hospital electronic clinical record with an HL7 standard and has an SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) security server for encryption.
Although telemedicine can address the issue of timely access to health care, it is possible that this type of interventions can adversely impact on the quality of the specialist’s relationship with his patient. However, very few tools evaluating the perception of patients for their health care in Teleneurology programs exist, and all of them are in English [4], leaving the entire Spanish speaking population without an opportunity to evaluate quality of care. Given that the HHT Teleneurology program has been in operation for 4 years, it became necessary to assess its patient satisfaction, in order to investigate possible deficiencies that may exist in the generation of the patient-specialist physician trust bond [5–8]. To this end, a perception survey was elaborated for the first time in Chile to evaluate the patient satisfaction of a Teleneurology unit. A questionnaire of 23 items was constructed to assess 5 dimensions of patient perception: general perception of satisfaction, perception of telemedicine, perception of the patient’s active participation in their own well-being, perception of the convenience of the system and perception of interaction with the doctor specialist. The present study shows the results of the evaluation of this survey, applied in the form of a pilot cross-sectional study in a cohort of 167 patients of the Teleneurology program of the HHT, recruited from September 2018 to February 2019. The survey was evaluated in terms of content, reliability, discrimination and difficulty, for future evaluation of this and other Teleneurology programs in the region, in terms of patient perception of quality.
Design and population
Cross-sectional study in a cohort of 167 patients of the HHT Teleneurology program. Participants were selected among the patients who were treated within this program between September 2018 and February 2019, through a non-probabilistic sampling (by volunteering). Participants had to meet the inclusion and not meet the exclusion criteria described in the reference protocol of the Teleneurology program (exempt resolution number 4889 of December 31, 2015), issued by the SST of the Ministry of Health (Additional file 1: Table S1). It should be noted that persons with mental disabilities or who were minors were also excluded, as specified in the Chilean Law 28584, article 28. The research protocol was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee of the SST of the Ministry of Health. All participants signed a written informed consent.
Survey design
A patient satisfaction questionnaire was designed and constructed in Spanish, consisting of a total of 23 questions with closed responses on a single Likert scale (totally disagree, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, totally agree). This survey was aimed to evaluate the general perception of patient satisfaction (questions 1 and 2), perception of telemedicine care (questions 3 to 5), perception of the patient’s active participation in their own well-being (questions 6 to 13), perception of convenience of the system (questions 14 to 18) and perception of interaction with the medical specialist (questions 19 to 23). Most questions (20 out of 23) were designed based on published English language satisfaction surveys in telemedicine [9–14]. On the other hand, three questions were specifically designed for the Teleneurology program of HHT, given that the medical care of this program involves the participation of a general practitioner who accompanies the patient during the remote medical appointment with the neurology specialist (questions 13, 22 and 23) (Additional file 1: Table S2). The survey questionnaire, with a maximum score of 115 points, was graded in terms of satisfaction: very low (under or equal to 23 points), low (24 to 46 points), moderate (47 to 69 points), high (70 to 92 points), and very high (93 to 115 points). The questionnaire was self-administered in order to safeguard the anonymity of the study participant.
Survey evaluation and statistical analysis
Face validity of the survey, in terms of language and particulars of the neurology practice was assessed by five neurology specialists from the Neurology Unit at the HHT. A descriptive analysis of normality of the sample (Kolmogorov–Smirnov) was conducted. The internal consistency was evaluated by Cronbach’s alpha test, which suggests the following scale for alpha coefficients: excellent (> 0.9), good (> 0.8), acceptable (> 0.7), questionable (> 0.6), poor (> 0.5), and unacceptable (< 0.5) [11]. Difficulty and discrimination of the instrument were evaluated by index of difficulty and specific biserial correlation, respectively. Finally, suitability of the data for structure detection was conducted using Kaise–Meyer Olkin measure of sample adequacy and Bartlett’s sphericity test. All analyses were carried out in SPSS, version 25.0. Statistical significance was established at p < 0.05.
Patient cohort description
Of the total number of respondents, 71.86% were women, while the rest were men. Over 97% of men and women showed a very high level of satisfaction with respect to the care received through the Teleneurology program of the HHT. According to Kolmogorov–Smirnov’s analysis, the sample did not exhibit a normal distribution (p < 0.05). Statistically significant differences were also found in the distribution of the population according to sex (p < 0.05).
Survey evaluation
Face validity of the survey was conducted by five local neurology specialists at the HHT. This allowed for the wording of each question to conform both the Spanish language and the pertaining to the neurology practice of medicine (not shown). The questionnaire applied to the voluntary patients was already in its revised form (see Additional file 1: Table S2 for the original Spanish questions).
The reliability analysis of the questionnaire (Table 1) showed that internal consistency was high, with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.88. Only the consistency of the item on the “general perception of satisfaction” was unacceptable (Cronbach’s alpha 0.47), while those of the items “perception about the active participation of the patient in their own well-being”, “perception about the interaction with the specialist”, “perception of Telemedicine”, and “convenience of the system” were acceptable (Cronbach’s alphas 0.79, 0.75, 0.73, and 0.79, respectively).
Analysis of internal consistency per question of the user satisfaction survey (n = 167)
Question number
Variablesa
α when the question is deleted
Total survey with 23 questions
I am satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
My family is satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
Telemedicine helps me to know my state of health
Telemedicine helps me know how to improve my health status
Telemedicine allows me to better follow the recommendations and indications of my specialist doctor
I felt comfortable talking to my specialist doctor through a camera and a microphone
Talking to my specialist doctor. through a camera and a microphone. was as effective as in person
During my Telemedicine care it was easy for me to explain my health problem to my specialist doctor
My specialist doctor has identified my health problem through Telemedicine
I have been informed of my right to privacy of my personal and medical information included in Telemedicine
I trust that my personal information and privacy will be protected after my attention by Telemedicine
The quality of the image and sound were adequate to talk to my specialist doctor
The general doctor who accompanied me in person helped me during my Telemedicine consultation
My attention by Telemedicine was helpful to me
The time with a specialist is faster by Telemedicine
I prefer Telemedicine because it is easier to go to the doctor’s office than to go to the hospital
I prefer Telemedicine because it is cheaper to go to the office than to go to the hospital
For my future controls I will prefer to continue using Telemedicine
My specialist doctor was able to answer my questions through Telemedicine
My specialist doctor showed concern in solving my health problem during Telemedicine care
I trust the instructions of my specialist doctor during my Telemedicine care
The general practitioner who accompanied me in person during the Telemedicine service was able to answer my questions
The general practitioner who accompanied me in person during the Telemedicine care could answer the questions of my specialist doctor
aOriginal Spanish questions in Additional file 1: Table S2
The mean of patient satisfaction score in the total of the surveyed population in this pilot study (Table 2) was 110.4 ± 5.98 points; for men it was 111.1 ± 4.84 and for women of 110.1 ± 6.37. The elimination of any of the questionnaire items led to maintaining its reliability as high (Cronbach’s alpha > 0.8), regardless of the element that is removed (Additional file 1: Table S3).
Descriptive data (mean and SD) for total population and by gender; and reliability analysis (α-Cronbach) of the patient the satisfaction survey
Variables*
Total survey
General perception of satisfaction
In general. I am satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
In general. my family is satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
Perception of Telemedicine
Perception of the patient’s active participation in their own well-being
Talking to my specialist doctor. through a camera and a microphone was as effective as in person
Perception of the convenience of the system
In general. my attention by Telemedicine was helpful to me
Perception of interaction with the specialist doctor
The five key areas (items) of user satisfaction are shown in italicface letters
* Original Spanish questions in Additional file 1: Table S2
Difficulty of the instrument’s questions was assessed by using the difficulty index, it should be noted that none of the items showed an index lower than 0.10; therefore, no items was considered for discarding (Additional file 1: Table S4).
The patient satisfaction survey analysed in this pilot study showed very high levels of patient satisfaction (> 97%, n = 167). The use of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient allowed for evaluation of the reliability of the elaborated instrument. Results showed that the patient satisfaction survey of the HHT Teleneurology program shows a good general reliability (Alpha = 0.88, Additional file 1: Table S5), with a good coherence between its questions.
The analysis of discrimination and difficulty showed that the instrument presents a high index of discrimination, except for questions 22 and 23, which could be revised and rewritten for future analysis, as shown in Additional file 1: Table S5.
Finally, a factorial analysis of the originally designed survey suggested a new questionnaire order in 5 item areas as well as the elimination of one outlier question (Table 3). The new suggested final questionnaire has 22 questions broken down into the following item areas: (i) quality of care; (ii) patient satisfaction; (iii) patient’s relationship with the medical team; (iv) patient’s relationship with the specialist doctor and (v) trust in the Teleneurology unit, whose reliability indexes were 0.80, 0.75, 0.82, 0.70, and 0.71, respectively.
New order proposed for the areas in the user satisfaction survey, according to biserial analysis
α Cronbach
Area 1. Quality of attention of the unit of Teleneurology
Area 2: Patient perception about the service brought by the unit of Teleneurology
In general I am satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
In general my family is satisfied with the care received in Telemedicine
Area 3: relationship of the patient with the medical team
Area 4: Relationship of the patient with the specialist doctor
Area 5: Trust in the Teleneurology unit
Question removed
Teleneurology arises as an attractive tool to address some of the deficits in the access to timely healthcare for adult neurological patients. In Chile, the Hospital Las Higueras Talcahuano (HHT) has pioneered the implementation of a Teleneurology program with the goal of increasing access of adult patients to remote neurological care in out-patient procedures since 2015. Since there was no survey evaluating patient perception of healthcare quality for the specific area of Teleneurology in the Spanish language, the present 23-item questionnaire was originally designed based on published reports of surveys in the English language and some guidelines for Spanish surveys in the telemedicine field [9–15].
Following refining this survey for face validity by five neurology medical specialists, it was applied to 167 patients enrolled in the HHT Teleneurology program between September 2018 and February 2019. Statistical analyses of data resulting from this study showed high reliability and internal consistency of the designed questionnaire. In addition, the biserial correlation analysis showed that 22 of the 23 items can be more appropriately rearranged to assess five different areas related to quality of care, patient satisfaction, and patient relationship with and trust in the medical personnel involved during the Teleneurology consultation (Additional file 2).
In agreement with the results found on the present study, previously published reports indicate that telemedicine interventions do not hinder the development of the link between the patient and his/her specialist doctor, with high patient satisfaction [4, 16–18]. However, no definitive conclusions should be drawn regarding the quality of care of patients enrolled in the HHT Teleneurology program until a greater scale study can be performed.
In the specific field of Teleneurology, patient satisfaction studies have been conducted Australia, Canada, the United States, France, Israel, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom [4, 16, 19–21], all non-Spanish speaking countries. Overall, the present pilot study shows that the survey questionnaire in its final form of 22 questions (Table 3) is a reliable tool to evaluate the perception of quality of the HHT Teleneurology program. Validation of the present questionnaire allows for a larger-scale study assessing the impact of this Teleneurology program and its permanent implementation for quality of care vigilance. It also represents the starting point for replicating this experience in other Spanish speaking regions.
Survey bias We are the only Chilean group in Teleneurology working within the Chilean Public Health system, allowing for no reliable comparison with other programs in the country at the current time.
Size bias The limited cohort of this pilot study does not allow for comparison of this program user satisfaction with that of the Chilean Public Health system or other telemedicine programs until a larger-scale study is conducted.
HHT:
Hospital las Higueras of Talcahuano
SST:
Health Service of Talcahuano (SST) of the Ministry of Health
We thank all the staff personnel of the Neurology Unit at the HHT, for their invaluable contributions to this work. Project approved by Comité Ético Científico del Servicio de Salud Talcahuano (Acta No. 97 from 12.12.2017).
FC: Study conception and design, supervision of informed consent signing and survey application, and manuscript elaboration. PA-S: Manuscript elaboration and English editing. JPH: Statistical analysis. MM: Statistical analysis. GV: Supervision of Teleprocesses for the Teleneurology program at HHT. CA: Coordination of researchers and manuscript elaboration. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The research protocol was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee of the SST of the Ministry of Health. All participants signed a written informed consent.
The authors declared that they have no competing interests.
13104_2019_4358_MOESM1_ESM.docx Additional file 1. Supplementary tables.
13104_2019_4358_MOESM2_ESM.xlsx Additional file 2. Raw data.
Neurology Unit, Hospital Las Higueras, Alto Horno 777, Talcahuano, Chile
Medical Program in Adult Neurology, School of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Department of Science, School of Medicine and Science, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile
Department of Statistics, School of Sciences, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile
Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
Unit of Teleprocesses, Hospital Las Higueras, Talcahuano, Chile
Department of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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The football team lengthened their losing streak after Blue Valley Southwest defeated the team in BVNW's Homecoming game.
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Five games and five losses later, the boys varsity football team has the worst record in the Eastern Kansas League (EKL). The football team lost to Blue Valley Southwest with a final score of 28-34 in the Homecoming game.
Going into the game tonight, senior Max Tierney, who scored three of the four touchdowns in the game, said the team was focused on playing hard and winning the game. Head coach Mike Zegunis said the team wanted to execute better after having a slow start to the season.
“We were 0-4, and now we’re 0-5, so you just want to start learning from some of the mistakes that you’ve been making and try to come out and execute better,” Zegunis said. “So that was the mindset: come out, execute, try to beat our opponents.”
BVSW was the first to score after making a field goal with 8:06 left in the quarter. Immediately after BVSW scored a second touchdown with 3:35 left in the quarter, increasing their lead to 0-10, junior Riley Zerni caught the kick return and ran 85 yards, scoring a touchdown. At the end of the first quarter, BVNW trailed BVSW 7-10.
“I think we made our job a lot harder than it had to be tonight,” Zegunis said. “I know we had five turnovers in the first half. It’s just very difficult when you turn the ball over that many times to come back from it and win a game.”
To begin the second quarter, BVSW scored another touchdown, lengthening their lead to 7-10 with 11:14 left in the quarter. With 7:34 left in the quarter, Tierney scored his first touchdown of the game, making the score 14-17. With 3:26 left, BVSW scored another touchdown, making the score 14-24. After BVSW intercepted a pass, they scored a touchdown, making the score 14-31 with 2:00 minutes left in the quarter.
“I think we shot ourselves in the foot multiple times,” Tierney said. “The first half was pretty bad. We just didn’t execute on offense, and we gave up some big plays on defense.”
At halftime, senior Claudia Chen was crowned Homecoming Queen, and Homecoming King will be announced at the dance Saturday night.
The third quarter remained scoreless until Tierney scored another touchdown with 3:32 left in the quarter. This made the score 21-31 with BVSW still in the lead. This was the only time either school scored a touchdown in the third quarter, so the score at the end of the third quarter was 21-31.
“I think we came out with a different mentality,” Tierney said. “We were hitting them harder, and we believed we could win the game.”
With 6:55 remaining in the fourth quarter, BVSW scored a field goal, making the score 21-34. With 6:26 left in the quarter, Tierney scored his third and final touchdown, making the score 28-34. The rest of the quarter was scoreless, so the final score of the football game was 28-34 with BVSW taking the win.
“I thought our kids did a great job of fighting until the very end,” Zegunis said. “They put themselves in the position where we were one play away from winning the football game, so I feel good about that, but it’s disappointing that we didn’t get it done tonight.”
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Deulofeu double gives Watford 2-1 win at Huddersfield
Watford's Gerard Deulofeu celebrates after he scores his sides second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Huddersfield and Watford at the John Smiths stadium, Huddersfield, England. Saturday, April 20, 2019. (Clint Hughes/PA via AP)
HUDDERSFIELD, England (AP) -- Gerard Deulofeu's double gave Watford a 2-1 win at already relegated Huddersfield in the Premier League on Saturday.
Watford's sixth win on the road this season kept the seventh-place team on course for its highest Premier League finish.
But Huddersfield, which became only the second club after Derby in 2008 to be relegated from the Premier League in March, lost its 14th league game at home this season to match Sunderland's mark set in the 2002-03 and 2004-05 seasons.
Grant's late header at least lifted Huddersfield up to 20 league goals this season, level with Derby's record low in 2007-08.
Huddersfield was a goal down in the fifth minute following an unfortunate error.
Jonathan Hogg slipped after taking goalkeeper Jonas Lossl's pass 20 yards (meters) from his penalty area. Although Terence Kongolo's last-ditch tackle denied the surging Abdoulaye Doucoure, Deulofeu struck from the rebound.
Deulofeu sealed victory for Watford in the 80th minute, sidefooting home after Lossl had saved Ken Sema's initial shot.
Huddersfield gave its fans something to cheer in the third minute of stoppage time when Karlan Ahearne-Grant nodded home Chris Lowe's headed pass.
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Posted on November 29, 2018 by cadilblog
The Nigerian Army says it has discovered that Boko Haram terrorists have started using drones and foreign fighters.
The Army in a statement by Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman on Wednesday said
‘we have noticed daring moves by the terrorists, increased use of drones against our defensive positions and infusion of foreign fighters in their ranks.
These potent threats require us to continually review our operations. The Army also expressed gratitude to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Buhari (GCFR) for visiting the troops including some of the wounded officers and soldiers in the hospitals saying ‘we thank His Excellency the Executive Governor and good people of Borno State who have taken the brunt of the nefarious activities of the Boko Haram terrorists.
Our gratitude also goes to the Honourable Minister of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Service Chiefs, who have all shown concern and visited the troops. The Nigerian Army also thanks all patriotic and concerned Nigerians who have sent in messages of goodwill and support for the Nigerian Army.’
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1. Gentlemen of the press, in continuation with our resolve to keep Nigerians well informed of the activities of the Nigerian Army, I will be briefing you on the recent happenings in the North East of Nigeria. In the recent weeks, Nigerian troops deployed in the North East of Nigeria under Operation LAFIYA DOLE have come under series of attacks by large numbers of Boko Haram Terrorists. Specifically, the Nigerian Army troops deployed at KUKAWA, NGOSHE, KARETO and GAJIRAM came under attack at different times within a 2 week period from 2 – 17th November 2018.
Each of these incidents were successfully repelled and several members of the terrorists were killed. However, a total of 16 personnel were killed in the course of these attacks while 12 soldiers were wounded in action and are receiving treatment at our military medical facilities.
2. As you are all aware, Nigeria is contributing troops to the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) which has its headquarters in N’djamena, in the Republic of Chad. One of the Nigerian battalions (157 TF Bn), deployed under the auspices of the MNJTF was attacked at their Base on the outskirts of a town called METELE on 18th November 2018. During the attack, the troops were forced to withdraw and several casualties were recorded. As at date 23 personnel were killed in action and 31 personnel were wounded in action and have been evacuated to several medical hospitals within Borno State. The Nigerian Army commiserates with the MNJTF at this difficult time and wishes to state that all necessary support will be rendered to the MNJTF to reverse this resurgence of the Boko Haram Terrorists.
3. The Nigerian Army wishes to further commiserate with the families of the gallant officers and soldiers that paid the supreme price in the course of defending their fatherland. The sacrifices of these fallen heroes will not be in vain. We also wish all those wounded in action speedy recovery and assure them of our continued support and care.
4. The incident of 18th November 2018, happened at a time when the Nigerian Army was planning to hold the Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference for 2018 in Benin City, Edo State. On account of this incident, the Conference had to be moved from Benin City to Maiduguri to enable the Nigerian Army leadership get closer to the troops on the ground and to better appraise our activities, assess our performance and identify our shortcomings as an Army.
5. We are also sensitive to the fact that the nation is approaching an election year and thus we must be prepared to assist in providing security for the peaceful conduct of elections. Accordingly, the theme for this year’s annual conference is aptly titled, “Optimizing the Operational Efficiency of the Nigerian Army Towards Safeguarding Democracy and National Security in Nigeria”. Let me at this juncture assure all Nigerians and indeed the international community that the NA will work optimally, in conjunction with other security agencies to provide a secure environment for peace and unity in Nigeria.
6. Since 2015, the Nigerian Army in conjunction with sister services and other security agencies have systematically degraded the capabilities and capacity of Boko Haram terrorists and many successes were achieved. However, in the last 2 – 3 months, we have noticed daring moves by the terrorists, increased use of drones against our defensive positions and infusion of foreign fighters in their ranks. These potent threats require us to continually review our operations.
7. At this point permit me to implore all of us to spare a thought for the brave men and women of the Nigerian Army who paid the supreme price for the security of Nigeria. The Nigerian Army will continue to support the families of these brave officers and soldiers and pray that their souls rest in perfect peace. Let us also not forget the men, women and children who have been killed or affected by the atrocities of the terrorists. It is for their sake that this war against terror must be won.
8. The Nigerian Army wishes to express its gratitude to the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) who has visited the troops including some of the wounded officers and soldiers in the hospitals. We also thank His Excellency the Executive Governor and good people of Borno State who have taken the brunt of the nefarious activities of the Boko Haram terrorists. Our gratitude also goes to the Honourable Minister of Defence, the Chief of Defence Staff and the Service Chiefs, who have all shown concern and visited the troops. The Nigerian Army also thanks all patriotic and concerned Nigerians who have sent in messages of goodwill and support for the Nigerian Army.
9. Finally, the Nigerian Army, wishes to reiterate and pledge its total commitment to the defence of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We wish to reassure all Nigerians of the commitment of the Nigerian Army to defend our country at all costs. We shall also continue to remain apolitical, professional and responsive in the discharge of our constitutional roles.
SANI KUKASHEKA USMAN Brigadier General for Chief of Army Staff 28th November 2018
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Peter Dench — Trawlermen
In 1998, Photojournalist Peter Dench spent five days onboard The Allegiance, a 60 foot UK Scarborough-based trawler, fishing the North Sea, with a crew of five. The future has since become extremely bleak for the English Trawlermen; huge areas of the North Sea have been declared ‘off limits’ and fishing quotas have been slashed in an attempt to rescue dwindling North Sea stocks from the point of extinction. These measures have jeopardised the jobs of those in the industry and put dependent towns, like Scarborough, on the brink of ruin. Dench returned to The Allegiance in 2005 to be reunited with the crew and to find out how the decline of the North Sea fishing industry has affected their lives.
“Being a Trawlermen is tough; you spend weeks at sea and the income is unpredictable. Sleep is sporadic and the small bunks lie under the water line jammed next to the engine room. A metal box alone on the sea can deliver a feeling of vulnerability; in terms of fatalities, it’s the most dangerous job in the Britain.” Peter Dench
“Going to sea is like going to prison, with a chance at drowning besides” Samuel Johnson
Trawlermen was published today by Café Royal Books.
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TLC Ventures Exploration Update
For Immediate Release – Vancouver, Canada: Dr. Sally Eyre, President and CEO of TLC Ventures Corp. (TLV.TSX Venture Exchange) is pleased to provide an update on the Company’s proposed exploration program on the 100% controlled Point Leamington zinc-gold-copper-massive sulphide deposit, located in northcentral Newfoundland.
An independent mineral resource estimate on the Point Leamington zinc-gold-copper massive sulphide deposit was completed in March 2004 by Hatch Associates Limited ‘Hatch’ of Vancouver, BC, under the direction of Mr. Callum Grant, P.Eng., an independent qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. The Point Leamington deposit contains an inferred resource (above a 1.00% zinc cutoff grade) of 12,300,000 tonnes grading 1.92% Zn, 0.88g/t Au, 0.28g/t Cu and 16.94g/t Ag containing 348,000 ounces of gold and 520 million pounds of zinc (see News Release dated March 30, 2004). The resource is open for expansion and was based on drill core assay results from a total of 72 holes totaling 20,714 metres of drilling completed by Noranda (1971-1997) and Rubicon Minerals Corporation (1999–2000).
Following completion of the Hatch resource estimate, a fall exploration program was recommended. The proposed program includes; approximately 3200 metres of diamond drilling, downhole geophysics and metallurgical investigations. The massive sulphide mineralization at Point Leamington responds well to geophysical surveys, so geophysical anomalies in the deposit area will also be drill tested. The program will be managed by Equity Engineering Limited and it is expected that the drilling portion of the program will commence in early October 2004 and will take about two months to complete.
Dr. Sally Eyre stated: “The main focus of the Point Leamington drill program will be to locate extensions of the known higher grade Zn-Au mineralization outside the current resource both at depth and along strike. In addition to the Point Leamington program, the Company continues to actively seek new project acquisitions along with its major shareholder and strategic partner, Gold Fields. With 19.15 million shares issued and outstanding and approximately C$6.5 million in working capital, TLC Ventures is well positioned to capitalize on the acquisition of additional mineral resources on a world-wide basis”.
TLC Ventures is an exploration and mine development Company, focused on the acquisition, advancement and development of global precious and base metal assets. TLC Ventures Corp.
Signed ‘Sally L. Eyre’
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Deponia Doomsday – Review
11th March 2019 Eric Martin PC, PS4, Reviews, Xbox One 0
Trouble With Time Travel
Deponia Doomsday is the fourth and final installment in the Point and Click franchise, Deponia. The developer, Daedalic Entertainment, originally released a trilogy of games in the series that ended on a surprising, unexpected note that did not resonate well with some of the fans. What is even more surprising is that Daedalic announced a fourth game in the series that seemingly undoes the ending created in the third, in exchange for an alternate reality version of the story with a different form of closure. While the alternate reality and time travel infested return to the franchise may not be the preferred method, Deponia Doomsday does offer fans another chance to spend more time with characters that they love and have gotten to know over previous games.
In Deponia Doomsday, you once again control the (supposedly?) lovable character Rufus, but this time back at the beginning of his story. After waking up from a dream (which apparently was the entire last three games plus an quick intro featuring the one-and-only David Hayter), Rufus begins his day with the intention of leaving the trash city of Deponia with his reluctant girlfriend Toni. Everything is going to plan until, out of nowhere, Rufus has his course changed by a time-traveler named Angus McChronicle. Because of this interaction, and the fact that he has a time machine, Rufus’ entire story deviates from what it was supposed to be.
Doomsday’s charm comes from its unique and eccentric cast.
The story of Deponia Doomsday, about which I won’t say much more for the sake of spoilers, is overall pretty good. I, personally, really don’t like the idea of time-travel entering a storyline, especially in a way that retcons the entire previous history established. I was able to forgive a lot of my issues caused by this because of the silly tone and interesting ideas, but the end became so convoluted with time-travel that it became hard to follow what was going on anymore. Up until the end, however, the use of the time-travel works pretty well and presents a bit of a “greatest hits of Deponia” kind of vibe and allows for more fan-favorite characters to be re-introduced and re-explored.
Speaking of characters, most of Deponia Doomsday’s charm comes from its unique and eccentric cast. I loved so many of the characters, particularly Toni and Goal, and the random side characters are often absolutely hilarious. Rufus, however, was someone that I really didn’t enjoy. I found him to be annoying, immature, oblivious, and self-centered – all aspects found in people that bother me in real life. This, unfortunately, led me to read his dialogue as fast as I could so that I would be able to skip it and get it over with quickly. Thankfully, as I said before, the other characters’ charm and writing greatly overshadow Rufus’ faults. (I do want to quickly mention that there are a couple of jokes made at certain characters that left me uncomfortable, particularly a couple instances of sexual objectification of Goal and an extended “gag” about a man deciding he should become a woman after getting beat up by Toni).
… puzzles are often based on trial and error …
Other than the story and characters, the most important thing about Point and click games is the puzzles and interaction with the world. While I love these types of games a great deal, the puzzles are often based on trial and error and can have some absolutely nonsensical solutions. Deponia Doomsday falls into this trap probably more often than it should. While I wasn’t stumped every second like I was with older games like Grim Fandango or Day of the Tentacle, I did have the classic “now how on earth would I EVER have thought of that??” response happen more times than I would have liked. But, overall, there weren’t enough of them to ruin the experience, and I had a couple of “AHA!” moments that made me feel pretty smart because things behaved like I expected them to!
I have never played a Point n’ Click game on anything other than a PC, so I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to play this on the PS4 with a controller. Rather than being forced to click everywhere trying to find what you can interact with, a simple button press highlights everything interactable on the screen. Also, instead of having to control a cursor like you would on PC, you simply move Rufus with a thumbstick near the object of choice and can interact with a simple button press. All this is to say, regardless of what platform you choose to play on, the experience will be just the same!
A quality Point and Click adventure game.
My favorite part of Deponia Doomsday, other than the great side characters, is the visual design. Each area, whether it be a junkyard town, a beautiful utopia city, or an abandoned carnival, is beautifully detailed, unique, and a joy to look at. I loved exploring all the hand drawn environments and wanted to explore each area more than I was allowed to! Similarly, the character design is just as high quality. Characters have so much personality in their appearance, and you will never mix up one character with another.
In conclusion, Deponia Doomsday, despite its faults, is a quality Point and Click adventure game. The storyline, though it does get bogged down in time-travel, is an enjoyable experience. Because of the decision to wipe out previous games’ stories at the start, you don’t have to be an established fan of the previous games to follow and enjoy the story, but it would probably be better if you did. On top of that, the humor is consistently funny throughout, minus the couple instances of tactlessness. And as far as actual gameplay goes, Doomsday inherits all of the pros and cons from the genre, which could either be a deal-sealer or deal-breaker for certain players. Overall, while it probably did not need to exist and certainly isn’t perfect, fans of the Deponia franchise or of other Point and Click games will find a lot to love.
Is it Cannon?
Yes, if you:
Love Point and Click games (especially the previous Deponia games);Like games filled with ridiculous, off-the-wall humor;Are a fan of plots with time-travel;Enjoy cartoony, colorful, hand drawn visuals
Love Point and Click games (especially the previous Deponia games)
Like games filled with ridiculous, off-the-wall humor
Are a fan of plots with time-travel
Enjoy cartoony, colorful, hand drawn visuals
No, if you:
Do not enjoy Point and Click games (kind of obvious, but still important);Can’t stand annoying characters;Need a game with puzzles that always make logical sense
Do not enjoy Point and Click games (kind of obvious, but still important)
Can’t stand annoying characters
Need a game with puzzles that always make logical sense
Deponia Doomsday is available on PC (released March 1st, 2016) and later on PS4 (reviewed) and Xbox One (released February 27th, 2019) at MSRP of $19.99.
Note: Cannonicity received a copy of Deponia Doomsday in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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UAE says four vessels subjected to 'sabotage' near Fujairah port
Started by Guillaume Albasini , May 13 2019
Guillaume Albasini + 696
The mysterious "sabotage" of four tankers near the Fujairah port in the Gulf will probably add some more tension in the Gulf...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-fujairah-port-shipping/uae-says-four-vessels-subjected-to-sabotage-near-fujairah-port-idUSKCN1SI0EG
Do you have some more news on that ? Some sources said explosions damaged the ships.
NickW + 903
It be them dam Iranians
Anyone getting a strong whiff of false flag here? Another WMD moment.
Tom Kirkman + 3,983
+ 3,983
4 minutes ago, Guillaume Albasini said:
Do you have some more news on that ? Some sources said explosions damaged the ships.
https://community.oilprice.com/topic/5884-saudis-are-willing-to-meet-all-orders-from-ex-iran-oil-buyers/?page=2#comment-51454
wrs + 227
Mysterious? LOL! It's clearly Iran slowing down the Saudi exports and making it impossible for KSA to cover the Iranian oil being taken off the market by the US sanctions. The US declared war on Iran and is getting the same response that FDR got in 1941 from Japan. It's an old playbook.
Just now, NickW said:
Anyone getting a strong whiff of false flag here? Another WMD moment.
Yep again.
I don't think it's false flag at all. It looks like what the Iranians would do and it makes sense. It's not big enough to retaliate directly but it's going to whittle down the KSA capacity to fulfill Iranian oil shipments.
bluewater15 + 3
+ 3
https://twitter.com/auroraintel/status/1127913682002948096?s=21
Tomasz + 227
9 hours ago, NickW said:
Its rather more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident but i agree with you.
Edited May 13 by Tomasz
If it is a provocation (false flag or otherwise) designed to increase the price of oil toward the Saudi-coveted $80+ Brent price then it may work in the short term.
On the other hand, if it is Iran showing their displeasure of getting backed into a corner, then this may escalate fairly quickly.
My suggestion would be to watch how Russia reacts, as I do not think that Russia is directly involved in whatever is going on, but Putin is smart enough to take advantage of any opportunities that may present themself if this indeed escalates into chaos.
Just my opinion this morning, and my opinions will likely get modified as new information unfolds.
BenFranklin'sSpectacles + 266
1 hour ago, Tom Kirkman said:
My suggestion would be to watch how Russia reacts, as I do not think that Russia is directly involved in whatever is going on, but Putin is smart enough to take advantage of any opportunities that may present themself if this indeed escalates into chaos.
Just my opinion this morning, and my opinions will likely get modified as new information unfolds.
Q: Who wins when most of the Middle East gets embroiled in war?
A: The US and Russia, who will increase their market share - and, thereby, their control over oil markets - while simultaneously bankrupting the headache they call the Middle East.
This is an organized cockfight. Who's the bookie - and how do I place my bet?
DanilKa + 374
I wouldn't speculate who is behind this but it does look suspicious like fcuk.
Stern is not easiest place to place a limpet mine, I'm guessing (unless anchored). Any details on other ships damage?
ceo_energemsier + 944
18 hours ago, NickW said:
I dont think that is it. There are plenty of Iranian supporters and sympathizers on that side of the AG that could, may and will take some such subversive actions whether they are directly instructed or via proxies to do such things. This may spike the price of crude for a few days and def. increase the premium for risk in the region perhaps elevating it to the next level in the insurance rates, but I dont think it will slow down the desire and capability of KSA and others to replace Iranian barrels.
Or perhaps Iran and their proxies are awaiting a response to these incidents and see what their new and or other subversive /destructive moves could be?
Edited May 14 by ceo_energemsier
1 hour ago, DanilKa said:
I wouldn't speculate who is behind this but it does look suspicious like fcuk.
The names of the four damaged oil tankers are :
Al Marzoqa (Saudi Arabia)
Amjad (Saudi Arabia)
A. Michel (UAE)
Andrea Victory (Norway)
We can see here some satellite images of the ships provided by Maxar Technologies and showing no major damage :
https://www.apnews.com/63d729241e0645539dad32f57de7bc95
In regard to the ability to export oil one question comes to mind is how tight is the current supply of oil tankers because if there is spare capacity sitting around this action would mean diddly squat in regard to KSA's ability to increase exports.
57 minutes ago, NickW said:
concern is this may be Gulf of Tonkin/Iraq WMD moment with unpredictable outcome. RT terminals and Dhahran are short flight time away; they were shot at during last skirmish.
10 minutes ago, DanilKa said:
My wife is Iranian and I keep trying to get some perception from her at how barking the Iranian regime is. Surely they realise that in a stand off war (air and missile) with the USA they will be annihilated.
She says they live in luxury while the rest of the country sinks into poverty which surprises me that they would jeopardise this by being confrontational with the USA.
Douglas Buckland + 505
I keep seeing comments regarding WMD.
Let me ask you this. Do you consider poison gas as a WMD?
If you answered 'yes', then you then need to ask if Saddam had poison gas.
The Kurds will tell you unequivocally that not only did Saddam have poison gas, he used it on them.
I suppose it all boils down to what you classify as a WMD.
4 minutes ago, Douglas Buckland said:
Chlorine Gas is a poison gas. Any country with a basic water sanitation system has large stocks of that too.
I am fairly certain that's what was used in Syria as part of what I suspect was a false flag attack by the Jihadis to get the west drawn in against Assad.
Nerve gas is WMD. "Had" is a right tense - he have had it but give up; attack happened under false pretext after massive PR campaign. I'm not white-washing Saddam at all, just hate unjust unprovoked wars for sake of creating ample weapons demand or destabilize regions
I am fairly certain that's what was used in Syria as part of what I suspect was a false flag attack by the Jihadis to get the west drawn in against Assad.
If we're counting chlorine gas as a poison gas, and poison gas as a WMD, then WMDs were used in Iraq on US service members.
6 minutes ago, BenFranklin'sSpectacles said:
No worse than US forces using this stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munitions#Use_in_Iraq_(2004)
Eh, that doesn't surprise me. I'm reminded of stories from some older gentlemen about the US invasion of Europe. German soldiers were treated with the respect and decency they deserved; SS members were walked into the woods, never to be seen again.
We need to disabuse ourselves of naive Western ideals and wishful thinking, so I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.
First, let's put the law of war into perspective. These laws are courtesies. I don't wish to suffer a chemical attack. Therefore, I choose not to subject an honorable opponent to chemical attacks. I do not wish to be abused as a POW. Therefore, I do not abuse my POWs. When an enemy denies me those courtesies, I'm under no obligation to waste time, resources, or lives extending courtesy to him. Protecting myself, my comrades, and civilians is a higher priority. It's not vengeance. It's not a blood feud. There's no drama involved. It's just business. I have a job to do, and I'm going to do it. In short: if you're a psychotic ass, your opponents will extend the bare minimum courtesy to avoid punishment.
Now let's talk about Saddam's military. They gassed Kurdish civilians prior to the war, which meets the criteria of "psychotic ass". No one is going to bend over backwards extending courtesy to them. That being the case, it sounds to me like some Marines in the 1st Battle of Fallujah laid a smoke screen and there *happened* to be some Iraqi soldiers in the area. It was just a tragic accident. These things happen in war.
Now let's talk about post-invasion Iraq. Iraq wasn't what you'd call a polite war. Before I fought in Fallujah, I was trained by the Marines who had already fought in Fallujah. The last thing they told us was, "If you find yourself in a situation where you'll be captured, fight to the death or save the last bullet for yourself because they're just gonna to cut your head off." When I arrived in Fallujah, I faced an enemy that would use anything - women, children, mosques, hospitals, ambulances - to their advantage. Their most egregious offenses were attempts to trick us into shooting children. Before you moralize on the US military's actions, consider what's necessary to protect civilians from these animals.
The UK War Risks Club, which provides specialist insurance for ships, is investigating the incidents of sabotage of vessels in Fujairah port over the weekend and has not decided on additional premiums for the region, a company executive said Monday.
The club, managed by insurance provider Thomas Miller, is one of the providers of marine Protection and Indemnity or P&I insurance, including additional war risks insurance for incidents like civil war, piracy or other disturbances.
Two Saudi oil tankers faced a “sabotage attack” off the coast of Fujairah, UAE, on Sunday, Saudi Press Agency reported Monday, citing the energy ministry. It said the tankers were on their way to cross into the Persian Gulf, and suffered “significant damage.” UAE said separately that four commercial vessels were affected.
The incident raised concerns about the safety of vessels transiting the region and the implementation of additional marine insurance that could increase transportation costs for fleets including oil tankers.
“The Club is investigating what has happened in this incident as there have been a number of incorrect initial reports regarding the number of ships involved,” Nick Whitear, Underwriting Director for Thomas Miller War Risks Services Limited, and Managers of the UK War Risks Association, said.
“If a change to the current designated ‘Additional Premium’ areas is to be made then this would be made with seven days’ notice to shipowners,” he added.
The UK War Risks Club last issued its circular on Indian Ocean regions that attract additional premiums on January 24, which included some waters in the Gulf of Aden and Southern Red Sea Transits, but did not include the port of Fujairah.
A vessel owner is required to give written notice before it proceeds to one of these regions to be eligible for insurance cover.
The coastal waters of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen are all designated “additional-premium” areas as a variety of conflict and other war risk-related activity potentially threatens shipping in these areas, according to the Club.
13 minutes ago, BenFranklin'sSpectacles said:
The point is western powers should not have been there full stop as we were tricked (by Politicians and perhaps some warhawks in the upper echelons of the military) into believing that Saddam had capability to deliver Chemical weapons across the region possibly even as far as Europe. This was given as the reason to invade.
We can talk about Saddams brutality but that was hardly unique - why not invade North Korea they are at least as brutal.
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Artists, is Your ‘Personal Brand’ Eating Your Paycheck?
Making a career as an artist is rarely easy, sometimes impossible and usually totally worth it. Sometimes we catch a break and get to skip ahead more quickly than anticipated. Other times we have to put in (very) long hours. Here are a few pitfalls I’ve learned to avoid:
Jul 31, 2017 Kelly Barr
Artists are an Essential Part of Sacramento
Artists need access to affordable housing, public art funds and political support to survive
For creative people across the U.S., the Ghost Ship tragedy demonstrates the tough choices many face as they try to remain in their community while the cost of living climbs.
Jul 13, 2017 Maya Wallace
Buzzwords: Bootstrap
The process of starting a business on a shoestring budget without external help or capital. Such startups fund the development of their company through internal cash flow.
Dilemma of the Month: He Said, She Said
We have a female employee who reported sexual harassment from a male coworker. The woman didn’t want to come forward, but once the CEO found out, he felt he had an obligation to handle the claim. We currently are without an HR manager. What is the proper way to handle this? Should an investigation be made?
Aug 3, 2017 Suzanne Lucas
Leading May Not Be Easy, But Managing Is Harder
You need to know the difference between the two, so you can excel at your role
What exactly is the difference between a leader and a manager? We often use these terms interchangeably, but the skills necessary to be effective in these roles are quite different. One involves looking beyond day-to-day needs to see the big picture, while the other means focusing on the details. Both require a service toward others.
Jul 27, 2017 Katie Carr
Eye on the Horizon
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg on economic development, wireless infrastructure and elevating the city’s culture
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has a decidedly unique perspective on the role of government borne of experience few can match: he is a former city councilman, California assemblymember and senate president who has come home to local government. We sat down with him to talk about his vision for the city.
Aug 17, 2017 Rich Ehisen
Truckin’ to the Suburbs
Food truck events find acceptance and easy rules to operate in cities on the outskirts of Sacramento
SactoMoFo, which had held regular events over the years that opened the door for food trucks in Sacramento, hosted its 10th and final central city gathering at the Railyards on April 29.
Aug 14, 2017 Blake Gillespie
Artistic offices lead to more productive and engaged teams
Art in the workplace is more than cosmetic; it can actually improve employee attitudes, performance, and even the company’s bottom line. This feels almost blasphemous. By definition, we think of “art” and “profit” as two distinct and even clashing concepts, with the unspoken assumption that chasing profits will corrupt art, and that art drags down profits. Conventional wisdom says “art for art’s sake”: Art is not a means to an end, art is the end.
Aug 1, 2017 Jeff Wilser
Striking a Chord
Music isn’t just good for the soul — it’s good for the heart, mind and body
Founded in 2000, Music to Grow On focuses on special-needs children and works in 20 school districts throughout the greater Sacramento region. Barth describes music therapy as “the use of music to reach non-musical goals,” which can include everything from communication and motor skills to memory and academics.
Aug 8, 2017 Willie Clark
The Little Music Festival That Was
What happened to TBD Fest — and what happens next?
After losing an undisclosed sum both years, TBD Fest (otherwise known as The Bridge District Festival) has incurred blame from investors and rival music promoters for being underfunded. General consensus is that if a festival can’t pay for its talent before selling a single ticket, it’s under-capitalized.
Jul 25, 2017 Allen Young
School of Thought
These educational spaces bring creative inspiration to the masses while preparing the next generation of artists
Traditional museums and old-school performance centers — with silent hallways and auditoriums where photography is forbidden — are being rethought in favor of interactive educational spaces. The Capital Region boasts a number of vital, enriching educational institutions that intentionally link the arts and education communities to create welcoming spaces that are both inspiring and accessible.
Aug 15, 2017 Laurie Lauletta-Boshart
To build a successful creative career, entrepreneurship is as important as aesthetics
Believe it or not, it’s possible to make a living as an artist in Sacramento. All it takes, according to those who’ve succeeded, is a base of communication, community, willingness to treat your work as a business and a good share of bull-headed persistence.
Aug 22, 2017 Dave Kempa
5 Tips for Artists in Sacramento
Comstock’s reached out to Lennee Eller, interim director of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, for her advice on how artists can improve their chances of success. Here’s what she had to say.
The Band Plays On
The Americana rock ‘n’ roll band, The Nickel Slots went to Belgium for two weeks this summer for its third European tour, playing 11 straight shows.
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Hope for the Iffy Stiffy
Miracle drug or fake science?
Low testosterone. For men, these words have the same foul odor as “impotence,” “shrinkage” or “Justin Bieber.” The topic is taboo. Throughout civilization testosterone has been prized as the lifeblood of manhood, so a deficit would imply, by definition, that we are somehow less manly.
Mar 1, 2013 Jeff Wilser
A new day for higher education?
For the first time in at least a decade, we have good news regarding California’s colleges and universities.
The best reservation in town might be in your own kitchen
These days, the best reservation in town might not be at a restaurant, but at a chef’s table — in the chef’s private home or yours. Congenial chefs are inviting clients to stir and chop to their heart’s content before sitting down to a meal.
Mar 1, 2013 Janet Fullwood
I’ve long believed that just about the worst way to begin a workweek is scheduling an in-office staff meeting. Employees start dreading it by mid-day Sunday. The gatherings usually get off to a late start, drag on and are deemed worthless by most participants.
Enter the breakfast meeting.
Architectural Optimist
Acuity with Robert Chase
Robert Chase, 67, is California’s deputy state architect and the current president of the Central Valley chapter of the American Institute of Architects. In addition to his private-sector work in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Chase has also served as the chief building officer for both the city and county of Sacramento.
Rebuilding Blocks
New strategies for post-recession architects
Bruce Monighan knows a few things about building something out of nothing. Facing the option of unemployment or bootstrapping, the local architect started his Sacramento-based firm Monighandesign from scratch in 1982. By the early 2000s, Monighandesign was completing between 50 and 60 public and private projects annually in markets across the country and looked to expand in 2007.
Mar 1, 2013 John Blomster
Million-Dollar Babies
Starting a family needn’t push retirement out of reach
Michael and Susan Pope had witnessed enough of parenthood to give them second thoughts about having children of their own. After seeing friends vanish into an abyss of diaper bags, sleepless nights, stress, arguments and the apparent loss of every conceivable freedom, they had plenty of reasons to reconsider.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Sell
The half a million dollars most women miss out on
It’s the last stop during your in-house interview, and you’re knackered. As you wait for human resources to arrive, you’re adding up the things you should have done differently that day. As the HR rep enters the room and sits down, you still have time to make one more mistake, and it could be the biggest of the day. She starts naming the perks awarded to everyone from janitor to CEO, such as paid holidays, sick leave and a bathroom with free toilet paper. Then, she throws out the number you’ve been waiting for: a starting salary. Do you accept the offer or start negotiations?
Mar 1, 2013 Stephanie Flores
You might need a repair down there
When the pain began, Kevin assumed it was indigestion. He would occasionally experience bowel irregularity but would return to work anyway, fixing hot rods at a body shop in Carmichael. The 53-year-old didn’t grow alarmed until after about eight months, when he noticed a protrusion emitting from the side of his groin like a blister.
Mar 1, 2013 Rob Janis
Slouching Toward Genesis
As reconstruction begins, Stockton searches for itself
Since filing for bankruptcy last year, Stockton hasn’t seen any immediate improvement. The city ended the year with 71 murders, a steady climb from only 26 in 2009. The rise has been attributed to a shrinking police force after the city slashed the department’s budget.
Flight of the Regulator
Travis AFB uses falcons to keep migratory birds at bay
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By Laurie Udesky
Every year at his family's Christmas party, Peter Sheras' relatives would drive him to distraction. There was the overbearing aunt who habitually "smooched me or pounded on my arm." At the end of the party, he was exhausted and stressed from trying to evade her.
Finally, after years of this cat-and-mouse game, Sheras, a psychologist, found a way to cope with the stress of dealing with obnoxious relatives -- especially his overzealous aunt.
"I decided to have a conversation with her as if I liked her, and she related to me differently," says Sheras. "She just wanted attention."
Although sources of stress and depression may differ, for many the holidays are not the picture-perfect season we've come to expect.
Many long for the kind of warm family relations that Jimmy Stewart rediscovers in It's a Wonderful Life, knowing all the while that our real visits home are often fraught with stress and tension. Others feel alone during the holidays and wish there were loved ones nearby to share the season.
For some people, the holidays are a reminder of loved ones who are long gone. And with job losses and company closures still rampant, some may feel depressed over losing a job and being hard-pressed to buy presents for loved ones.
Use humor
One tip for any holiday season is to keep humor up and expectations realistic. In a satirical look at the holidays, author Cynthia Heimel writes that some families seem to spend their days before each season's visit planning strategies to "turn us blithering and homicidal."
In a designated "war room," Heimel writes, they divvy out lines to various relatives to undermine her. "Bob, when she asks for a second glass of eggnog, look pitying and mention Alcoholics Anonymous. Freda, when she's trying to drop off to sleep, pop into her room and ask her why she's not married yet... Tommy, ask her how her 'career' is coming and smirk."
Grim humor may help to cope, but there are some concrete things you can do to avoid the holiday blues.
Mental Health America recommends that you take care of yourself first and foremost. That means setting realistic goals for the holidays and keeping your expectations simple for yourself and everyone else. Do less if you have to, and don't spend more than you can afford, because knowing that a huge credit card debt awaits after the holidays is bound to dampen your mood. And remember that the holidays last more than one day, so pace yourself and spread activities you enjoy throughout the season.
If you're spending time with relatives, avoid confrontations about past conflicts, advises Sheras. "Holidays are not a good time to tell your mother you were mad at her for not protecting you when your father abused you," he says dryly. Sheras suggests you try to work on issues with your family before the holiday party. If you don't manage to resolve them, however, wait till after the holidays to bring them up again. That doesn't mean you should bottle up all your feelings. Seeking out a sympathetic family member or friend can go a long way toward shoring up your sanity.
Most of us overindulge around the holidays. If you're not in the best of spirits, bear in mind that eating a lot of sweets and carbohydrates may feel comforting at the time, but can make you moody later. So can drinking alcohol to excess.
You'll also feel better if you continue to exercise. By following your exercise routine, not only will you burn off the calories from the holiday dinner, you'll also relieve a good deal of stress. If you don't have time to go to the gym, take a long walk with a friend.
Many of us don't have close friends or relatives nearby with whom to share the holidays. If you find this troubling, reaching out to others may make you feel more in tune with the holiday spirit. Volunteering to help someone who can't get out to shop, serving food in a soup kitchen, or inviting over other friends who are far away from family may make you feel less lonely. Check the local newspaper as well: Nearby clubs or religious organizations may hold celebrations that interest you.
Herbert Rappaport, a psychologist and the author of Holiday Blues: Rediscovering the Art of Celebration, recommends acting on your altruistic instincts. "Reach out to people in greater need or find people in the same boat and plan something with them," Rappaport says.
He advises that people "try to exercise some creativity about what you can do when you're alone, whether it's going to the movies or traveling -- anything but sitting around morosely in self-pity."
According to the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the holidays may be especially hard for seniors who are isolated or mourning loved ones. Family members should be especially concerned if they notice a loved one using more than normal amounts of alcohol, pain medications, or sleeping pills. They should also be vigilant as to whether someone is acting confused, can't concentrate, seems lost in the midst of family affairs, or can't seem to stop crying.
If you or a loved one sink into feelings of despair or apathy that don't go away for two weeks or longer, however, you may be clinically depressed and should seek professional help. The typical symptoms of depression include a sense of hopelessness, boredom with or lack of enjoyment in activities that were previously pleasurable, changes in appetite and sleep patterns, thoughts about suicide, and difficulty concentrating.
If you've had the holiday blues anytime in the past, you know they usually subside when you jump back into a regular routine. "Life brings changes," the Mental Health America reminds us. "Each season is different and can be enjoyed in its own way."
Poet Wallace Stevens, writing in his journal, put it simply: "Life seems glorious for a while, then it seems poisonous. But you must never forget, it really is glorious after all. Only you must not search for this glory, except in yourself, in the hidden places of your spirit and in all your hidden senses."
American Psychological Association, www.apa.org
Mental Health America 800-969-6642 http://www.nmha.org
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov
American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry http://www.aagponline.org/news/pressreleases.asp?viewfull=19
Heimel, Cynthia, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet? HarperPerrenial, New York
Interview with Peter Sheras, clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, who has guided many clients through holiday depression.
Interview with Herbert Rappaport, professor of political psychology at Temple University, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Holiday Blues: Rediscovering the Art of Celebration (Running Press, 2000).
"Preventing Holiday Blues," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, www.cdc.gov/safeusa/blues.htm
"Other Mental Illnesses: Holiday Depression and Stress," National Mental Health Association, www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/103.cfm
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Big Marsh Is a Hit With Local Cyclists, But It’s Still Challenging to Bike There
By Anne Alt
A rider catching air on the medium terrain trail. Photo: Derrick James
Sunday’s grand opening for Big Marsh bike park and nature reserve was a long-anticipated celebration. If you’re not familiar with Big Marsh or its history, Streetsblog’s John Greenfield previously covered the plans and the challenges of accessing the site by bike.
I started my day by biking to the Pullman Porter Museum to meet up with a ride organized by Slow Roll Chicago and two other groups coming from further north. From there we rode east 103rd Street, a wide, high-speed road, finding safety in numbers. Having a group of over 50 people) allowed us to take the center lane while passing the highway ramps that create dangerous situations when riding alone or in a small group. After turning off 103rd, the wide shoulder on Stony Island Avenue offered a reasonable alternative when traffic needed to pass.
The grand opening started with a press conference and ribbon cutting, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel, park district chief Michael Kelly, 10th Ward alderman Susan Sadlowski Garza, and Deloris Lucas, a transportation advocate from the greater Altgeld Gardens area who serves on the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council.
Emanuel speaks at the ribbon cutting. Photo: Jeff Zoline
After the presentation, the mayor stepped away from the crowd, helmet in hand. I asked him “Are you ready to ride?” With a big smile on his face, he said “I am so ready.” He jumped on a borrowed bike and took a spin on the dirt trail that circles the pump track and other terrain areas in the park.
The park’s features include areas designed for BMX riding, cyclocross, mountain biking and casual trail riding on a 44-acre site. Hundreds of people of all ages tested out the park’s terrain on a wide range of bikes, from BMX to cyclocross to mountain bikes and more.
The remainder of the park (234 acres) is a nature reserve, a significant bird watching area where a wide range of water birds, raptors, migrating species, native songbirds and other wildlife can be seen. I volunteered at a habitat restoration workday last spring, where we worked at removing invasive plant species. I was rewarded by seeing a red-tailed hawk on a nest, a bald eagle in flight, great blue herons and many other species of water birds.
Photo: Jeff Zoline
While Big Marsh is a wonderful new facility, safe bike routes to the park would make it more accessible to people who live in the surrounding neighborhoods. These include several lower-income communities of color with relatively low rates of car ownership. When I worked with Oboi Reed, Peter Taylor and many others on the original round of community outreach for the city’s Streets for Cycling Plan 2020, equity was a very important issue. In December 2014, after the Chicago Park District announced plans for Big Marsh, Reed and Taylor did a presentation at the Mayor’s Bike Advisory Council about the need for better bikeway coverage in black and Latino communities and for safe bike access to Big Marsh.
In April 2016, a new round of community meetings to gather input on where bikeways should be installed in the near future included meetings in Pullman and the East Side neighborhood. Access to Big Marsh was a significant part of the discussion. Because the available access routes all have heavy industrial traffic, they aren’t comfortable for biking, especially for less confident riders. A new route proposed at the Pullman meeting – a path between the north end of Lake Calumet and south end of the Harborside Golf Course at approximately 115th Street – would require the consent of the Illinois International Port District, Harborside and other entities.
The Active Transportation Alliance’s Jim Merrell stated:
Due to the remote setting of Big Marsh, Active Trans has been working with local residents and community partners to advocate for safe bike, pedestrian, and transit access to the site, as well as to other existing and planned open spaces in the Lake Calumet area. We believe it is a critical priority to ensure local community members are able to safely access Big Marsh and other parks without being forced to rely on a car.
Last year, Active Trans released a Big Marsh Access Action plan to note the barriers and opportunities for creating safe bike access to the Big Marsh site. This year, the group is continuing to work with local stakeholders to make sure these priorities get included in the Chicago Park District’s Southeast Area Wide Plan, which will help guide future decisions about improving access to Big Marsh and other Lake Calumet destinations.
In an area where nearby neighborhoods and businesses aren’t obvious or familiar to most visitors, creating an amenity map to help them find restaurants and other services could create a more enjoyable experience for visitors and encourage them to come back. Patronage from Big Marsh visitors would help merchants in nearby areas, as well as increasing awareness of the park in those areas and encouraging local residents to visit. Food trucks, ideally operated by local businesses, would also be a good option for providing concessions during special events when lots of visitors are expected at the park.
Jay Readey, executive director of Friends of Big Marsh, told me there was a strong turnout on opening day. “We estimated the number of people coming to Big Marsh on Sunday at somewhere between 1,000 and 1,500 people,” he stated. “There were people on bikes and in vehicles arriving throughout the afternoon.”
“When it comes to new amenities, we ask ourselves ‘If we build it, will they come?’ Readey added. “People came – by bike and car from as far as Indiana and Wisconsin. We saw helmet cams on several riders. Once that video gets out and more people know about this place, we hope that the whole world will visit when they come to the Pullman National Monument and Obama Library.”
Two future phases of the bike park are planned but not yet built. There will be plenty of future workdays and donations needed to complete the Big Marsh – both the bike park and natural area. For updates, volunteer workdays and to make donations to continue building and maintaining the park, go to the Friends of Big Marsh web site or Facebook page.
Photo: Anne Alt
If you’re interested in being part of Active Trans’ Far South Side advocacy work, contact community liaison Cynthia Hudson.
If you’d like to bring bike issues in your South Side neighborhood to the attention of the Mayor’s Bike Advisory Council or support the work of the Altgeld Garden-based community bike group We Keep You Rollin’, contact Deloris Lucas.
Filed Under: Bicycling, Design, Events, Infrastructure, Local Businesses, Neighborhoods, News, Big Marsh, Far South Side, Jay Readey, take action
Three Green Kashira
so what percent of the park is useful, by bike style? just curious what’s available depending on what people show up on
kids on striders
etc?
Anne A
A small portion of the trail network has asphalt pavement. I didn’t specifically ride that with the bike computer to know for sure, but maybe that’s a mile. The rest isn’t very suitable for skinny tires (road bike or fixie).
Of the non-technical trails, most of it has a crushed stone or dirt surface, more suitable for wider tires, but I also saw cross bikes navigating most of it just fine.
The nature area has dirt trails and is more suitable for wider tires – mountain bike or fat bike. My mountain bike with 1.75″ tires did just fine on the crushed stone and dirt trails.
hopeyglass
I saw a little girl on a strider on the single-track followed by her parent (I assume) and it warmed my heart.
Steven Vance
I took my Surly Long Haul Trucker with 32mm wide tires on the single-track, and the still-mostly-under-construction flat riding trails east of the fancy stuff. It performed well on both.
I wouldn’t take this bike on the terrain trail because (1) I’m not comfortable doing that, and (2) I think my bike has a low bottom bracket that it might hit some of the ramps. It also has a really high seat post and that could be bad when I land a jump :)
I mapped it out on OpenStreetMap so you can see what some of the trails look like. I didn’t finish mapping the flat dirt trails east of the bike jumps.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/451819424#map=17/41.68629/-87.57205 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ff5a155745f432594eccd4a9ba6ceaefa188b94f8f79f47ae5ef7ff202bf8e30.png
I think anything narrower than 28-30mm tires would have a tough time with the flat trails. They are quite rocky – they’re nothing like the crushed limestone gravel bike trails.
I posted a video so you can get a feel for how big it is, what’s there, and how far it is from downtown.
http://www.stevencanplan.com/2016/11/big-marsh-bike-park-is-the-coolest-new-city-park/
Finally, CDOT Plans Safer Cycling Access to Big Marsh Bike Park
Bike advocates are generally thrilled with Big Marsh, but have repeatedly expressed concerns about how dangerous it can be to ride to the park.
Big Marsh could be a terrific bike park, but it’s not yet safe to pedal there
[The Chicago Reader recently launched a new weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership allows Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We syndicate a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website or in […]
Party on 1/29 at Lagunitas Will Help Fund the Next Stage of Big Marsh’s Development
By James Porter | Jan 25, 2019
The campaign seeks to build the Southeast Side bike and nature space into a fully accessible 300-acre park with a perimeter trail, expanded singletrack, nine trails on the space's "Big Hill."
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, November 3
Hit-and-Run Driver Runs Red Light In Logan Square, Killing Another Motorist (CBS) Driver Sideswipes and Injures Police Officer on Bicycle in Buena Park (Sun-Times) Red Line Extension Plan Raises Questions About Potential for Gentrification (Tribune) South Side Supermarkets Turn Their Backs on Communities With Car-Centric Designs (SSW) Emanuel Proposes New Parking Fees for Both Airports (DNA) Streets […]
Slow Roll Chicago’s Founders: “Potential Is Endless” To Connect Communities
By Lorena Cupcake | Oct 30, 2014
Slow Roll Chicago is a new addition to our city’s already impressive roster of community-based bicycling organizations. Inspired by a global bicycle movement that started in Detroit, the local chapter works to strengthen neighborhoods, connect diverse citizens, and transform communities through bicycling. Last weekend, I met with co-founders Olatunji Oboi Reed and Jamal Julien to […]
Eyes on the Streets: New Bike Lanes and Pedestrian Facilities on Vincennes
Vincennes Avenue, which runs southwest from the 69th Street Red Line to the city limits, is one of the bike-priority Spoke Routes identified in the City’s Streets for Cycling Plan 2020. Vincennes already had conventional bike lanes running from the train stop to 76th, and protected and buffered lanes from 84th to 103rd. Earlier this […]
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CTA Adds New Security Cams, Releases Art and Design Book
The cover of the new book highlighting CTA art and design.
Lots of stuff has been popping over at the CTA in recent days. Last week Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced plans to spend $5 million to encourage transit-oriented development along busy bus routes, as well as a pilot of new digital information screens on CTA buses. If the latter become a permanent fixture, that means that transit riders will be subjected to even more advertising.
The new CTA bus info screens.
Today Emanuel and CTA president Dorval Carter, Jr. announced the installation of 500 more security cameras in the transit system, as well as a new coffee table book and Chicago Architecture Center tours focused on art and architecture in CTA stations.
“CTA customers expect and deserve the kind of investments that benefit their daily commutes and boost their overall riding experience,” Emanuel said in a statement. “Public art and security are two of the many tools we’re using to keep CTA the option of choice for Chicago commuters.” That’s a key goal, because CTA train and, especially, bus ridership has been recently, largely due to the rise of ride-hailing.
Over the past year, the CTA and the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications installed almost 500 cameras inside and near ‘L’ stops stations along the Red, Blue, and Brown lines. 400 of these are high-definition cams. the cameras are part of a $33 million security project funded by the tax on ride-hailing City Council pass last year to fund transit.
The security program includes installing a total of 1,000 new cameras and upgrading over 3,000 older cams to HD. In addition, cameras will be added to over 100 CTA bus turnarounds and video monitors will be installed to ‘L’ stops. The project also includes new lighting and other upgrades at all 145 stations.
The CTA, OEMC, and the Chicago Police Department have also worked together to install street-level cameras at ‘L’ stations. So far this in 2018, 95 new HD cams have been put in near the entrances of the Grand and Chicago Blue Line, Sedgwick Brown Line, and the Clark/Division, Lake, Grand, Jackson and Monroe Red Line stations.
An image from the new book.
Meanwhile, Emanuel and the CTA announced the book “Elevated: Art and Architecture of the Chicago Transit Authority,” the transit authority’s first official book highlighting station art and design.
In conjunction with the book release, the Chicago Architecture Center is creating two new tours featuring projects discussed in the book. The tours, one covering the South Side and the other the North Side, will launch in early 2019. The CAC already offers the Loop tour “Elevated Architecture: Downtown ‘L’ Train.”
Filed Under: Chicago Policy, Design, Infrastructure, News, Rail Transit, CTA, Public Art, Security Cameras
what_eva
Those screens scare me a bit as a tall person.
CTA’s Proposed Budget Includes 25-Cent Fare Hike, No Cuts to Service Hours, Frequency
The 2018 budget raises the fare for bus rides from $2 to $2.25, and the price of ‘L’ trips from $2.25 to $2.50.
CTA Using Ride-Share Fees to Add 1,000 New Security Cams, Upgrade 3,800 More
By John Greenfield | Feb 27, 2018
The $33 million program also includes new lighting, repairs and other improvements will enhance safety at all 146 CTA 'L' stations.
$50 Million Garfield Gateway Project Will Spruce Up the Green Line Station
The gateway project includes extending the platform's canopies; elevator and escalator upgrades; and the installation of public art and landscaping.
CTA Budget: Fares Stay Flat and Low Gas Prices Cause Lower Bus Ridership
By Steven Vance | Oct 28, 2016
Earlier this week the Chicago Transit Authority announced its proposed budget for 2017. Mayor Rahm Emanuel touted the fact that the budget “freezes” the $2.00 and $2.25 cash fare on buses and trains, respectively. The CTA holding the line on fares – for the eighth consecutive year – creates positive publicity for Emanuel, even while […]
High-Definition Security Cameras Are Now Ubiquitous on the CTA Rail System
Since May 2018, 660 existing cameras have been upgraded to high-definition and 340 cameras have been added, using revenue from the city's ride-hailing tax.
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Taxidermied Canine: Jens
One brown and white taxidermied canine, 1988. The male canine, named Jens, was a Greenland husky bred at Scott Base in the 1970s.
Associated Event
New Zealand Antarctic Programme (general)
Scott Base, Antarctica
Associated Place Notes
Part of a working team at.
The role of sled dogs in Antarctic exploration can not be overstated. The first dogs taken to the continent were Samoyed as part of the Southern Cross Expedition of 1899-1900 to Cape Adare. Every major expedition since then, including expeditions by Scott, Shackleton, Mawson, and Byrd, continued the practice. Over time, Greenland huskies replaced the Samoyeds and two of these huskies, bred at Scott base, feature in the Antarctic Gallery. Opolotok was born 1971and grew to be a huge hard working team member. Sadly, he suffered with frost bitten pads and died in 1977 at Scott Base. Jens was born the following year and died in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1988. When the dogs ceased operations in Antarctica Jens had been purchased by a dog breeder in Minnesota, America.
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Former congressman arrested in Bogota on return from Miami
by Tom Heyden May 2, 2011
Former Congressman German Olano has turned himself in to authorities after arriving at Bogota airport. The politician is the second to be arrested in recent days for his alleged responsibility in a major corruption scandal, Semana reported Sunday.
Colombia’s Supreme Court had issued his arrest warrant on Friday 29 April, having detained former Senator Ivan Moreno the previous day for his involvement in the public works corruption scandal that has marred the integrity of Bogota’s local government.
Olano is currently in the custody of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS, after apparently negotiating his surrender prior to his arrival from Miami to Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport.
“He presented himself to the immigration officials of the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota,” read a statement from DAS. He is expected to soon be made available to the High Court for his investigation hearing.
Olano is the man identified by authorities on the incriminating tape recorded by Miguel Nule, of the disgraced Nule Group construction firm, in which he is heard discussing the fraudulent awarding of public works contracts and mentions both Ivan Moreno and his brother Samuel, the incumbent mayor of Bogota, in connection with commission payments.
Former comptroller Angelo Moralesrussi, as well as ex-officials Lilliano Pardo and Inocencio Melendez, have already been arrested and convicted for their role in the scandal.
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Interview with Simon Butterworth
November 22, 2017 | By Megan Evoe
Colorado’s own Simon Butterworth not only completed his 13th IRONMAN World Championship, but won the 70-74 age-group this year in Kona. It was his first win on the Big Island, but it was hardly his first win in a triathlon. Meet this amazing triathlete as Simon takes us back to his first triathlon racing memories from the Big Apple and how he caught the triathlon bug.
In part two of our interview, Simon talks about how he made the jump from short distance triathlons to Ironman racing.
In part three, Simon talks about how he came to Colorado and saw his training take off.
In part four, Simon talks about what it was like to finally get the win in his 13th Kona appearance and why it was well worth the wait.
In part five, Simon talks about when he knew he had the win in the bag for the 70-74 age-group in Kona.
In part six, Simon talks about why racing Ironmans is so important to him at age 70.
In the final segment of our interview, Simon provides triathlon tips for both novice and experienced athletes.
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About Megan Evoe
When she isn’t writing about the exploits of Colorado’s pro triathletes, Megan Evoe works with student-athletes at the University of Colorado as a Learning Specialist. Before coming to Boulder, Megan spent a decade teaching in Illinois and Texas while coaching soccer and cross country. Her passion for athletics stems from her collegiate days of playing soccer at Illinois State University where she twice earned All-Missouri Valley Conference Defensive Team honors. She holds a BA in English and Kinesiology, as well as an MA in Education. She has run over 20 marathons, including the Boston Marathon six times and an ultra-marathon, and has completed five triathlons, including Ironman 70.3 Austin. The sport of triathlon has brought many valuable pieces to Megan’s life, such as traveling, great friends, and an appetite for competition. Megan is married to professional triathlete Patrick Evoe.
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July 21, 2018 by James Christie
Has opposition to ISO 29119 really died down?
One of my concerns about the Stop 29119 campaign, ever since it was launched four years ago, was that ISO would try to win the debate by default, by ignoring the opposition. In my CAST 2014 talk, which kicked off the campaign, I talked about ISO’s attempt to define its opponents as being irrelevant. ISO breached its own rules requiring consensus from the profession, and in order to justify doing so they had to maintain a pretence that testers who opposed their efforts were a troublesome, old-fashioned faction that should be ignored.
That’s exactly what has happened. ISO have kept their collective heads down, tried to ride out the storm and emerged to claim that it was all a lot of fuss about nothing; the few malcontents have given up and gone away.
I have just come across a comment in the “talk” section of the Wikipedia article on ISO 29119, arguing for some warning flags on the article to be removed.
“…finally, the objection to this standard was (a) from a small but vocal group and (b) died down – the ballots of member National Bodies were unanimous in favour of publication. Furthermore, the same group objected to IEEE 829 as well.”
The opposition is significantly more than “a small but vocal group”, but I won’t dwell on that point. My concern here is point b. Have the objections died down? Yes, they have in the sense that the opponents of ISO 29119 have been less vocal. There have been fewer talks and articles pointing out the flaws in the principle and the detail of the standard.
However, there has been no change in the beliefs of the opposition. There comes a point when it feels unnecessary, even pointless, to keep repeating the same arguments without the other side engaging. You can’t have a one-sided debate. The Stop 29119 campaigners have other things to do. Frankly, attacking ISO 29119 is a dreary activity compared with most of the alternatives. I would prefer to do something interesting and positive rather than launching another negative attack on a flawed standard. However, needs must.
The argument that “ballots of member National Bodies were unanimous in favour of publication” may be true, but it is a circular point. The opponents of ISO 29119 argued convincingly that software testing is not an activity that lends itself to ISO style standardisation and that ISO failed to gain any consensus outside its own ranks. The fact that ISO are quite happy with that arrangement is hardly a convincing refutation of our argument.
The point about our opposition to the IEEE 829 standard is also true, but it’s irrelevant. Even ISO thought that standard was dated and inadequate for modern purposes. It decided to replace it rather than try to keep updating it. Unfortunately the creators of ISO 29119 repeated the fundamental mistakes that rendered IEEE 829 flawed and unsuitable for good testing.
I was pleased to discover that the author of the Wikipedia comment was on the ISO working group that developed ISO 29119 and wrote a blog defending the standard, or rather dismissing the opposition. It was written four years ago in the immediate aftermath of the launch of Stop 29119. It’s a pity it didn’t receive more attention at the time. The debate was far too one sided and we badly needed contributions from ISO 29119’s supporters. So, in order to provide a small demonstration that opposition to the standard is continuing I shall offer a belated response. I’ll quote Andrew’s arguments, section by section, in dark blue and then respond.
“As a member of the UK Mirror Panel to WG26, which is responsible for the ISO 29119 standard, I am disappointed to read of the objection to the standard led by the International Society for Software Testing, which has resulted in a formal petition to ISO.
I respectfully suggest that their objections would be more effective if they engaged with their respective national bodies, and sought to overcome their objections, constructively.
People who are opposing ISO 29119 claim:
It is costly.
It will be seen as mandatory skill for testers (which may harm individuality and freedom).
It may reduce the ability to experiment and try non-conventional ways.
Once the standard is accepted, testers can be held responsible for project failures (or non-compliance).
Effort will be more on documentation and process rather than testing.
Let us consider each of these in turn.”
The International Society for Software Testing (ISST) launched the petition against ISO 29119, but this was merely one aspect of the campaign against the standard. Opposition was certainly not confined to ISST. The situation is somewhat confused by the fact that ISST disbanded in 2017. One of the prime reasons was that the “objectives set out by the founders have been met, or are in the capable hands of organisations that we support”. The main organisation referred to here is the larger and more established Association for Software Testing (AST), which can put more resources into the fight. I always felt the main differences between ISST and AST were in style and approach rather than principles and objectives.
The suggestion that the opponents of ISO 29119 should have worked through national ISO bodies is completely unrealistic. ISO’s approach is fundamentally wrong and opponents would have been seen as a wrecking crew preventing any progress. I know of a couple of people who did try and involve themselves in ISO groups and gave up in frustration. The debate within ISO about a standard like 29119 concerns the detail, not the underlying approach. In any case the committment required to join an ISO working group is massive. Meetings are held all over the world. They take up a lot of time and require huge expenses for travel and accommodation. That completely excludes independent consultants like myself.
Opponents object to this standard because it is not freely available.
While this is a fair point, it is no different from every other standard that is in place – and which companies follow, often because it gives them a competitive advantage.
Personally, I would like to see more standards placed freely in the public domain, but I am not in a position to do it!”
The cost of the standard is a minor criticism. As a member of the AST’s Committee on Standards and Professional Practice I am fortunate to have access to the documents comprising the standard. These cost hundreds of dollars and I would baulk at buying them for myself. The full set would cost as much as a family holiday. I know which would be more important!
However, the cost does hamper informed debate about the content, and that was the true concern. The real damage of a poorly conceived standard will be poorer quality testing and that will be far more costly than the initial cost of the documents.
Opponents claim this standard will be seen as a mandatory skill for testers (which may harm individuality and freedom).
ISO 29119 replaces a number of IEEE and British standards that have been in place for many years. And while those standards are seen to represent best practice, they have not been mandatory.”
I have two big issues with this counter argument. Firstly, the standards that ISO 29119 replaced were emphatically not “seen to represent best practice”. If they were best practice there would have been no need to replace them. They were hopelessly out of date but IEEE 829 was unhelpful, even damaging, when it was new.
My second concern is about the way that people respond to a standard. Back in 2009 I wrote this article “Do standards keep testers in the kindergarten?” in Testing Experience magazine arguing against the principle of testing standards, the idea of best practice and the inevitable danger of an unhelpful and dated standard like IEEE 829 being imposed on unwilling testers.
Once you’ve called a set of procedures a standard the argument is over in many organisations; testers are required to use them. It is disingenuous to say that standards are not mandatory. They are sold on the basis that they offer reassurance and that the wise, safe option is to make them compulsory.
I made this argument nine years ago thinking the case against standards had been won. I was dismayed to discover subsequently that ISO was trying to take us back several decades with ISO 29119.
A formal testing environment should be a place where processes and procedures are in place, and is not one where ‘experiment and non-conventional’ methods are put in place. But having said that, there is nothing within ISO 29199 that prevents other methods being used.”
There may be a problem over the word “experiment” here. Andrew seems to think that testers who talk of experimentation are admitting they don’t know what they’re doing and are making it up as they go along. That would be an unfortunate interpretation. When testers from the Context Driven School refer to experimentation they mean the act of testing itself.
Good testing is a form of exploration and experimentation to find out how the product behaves. Michael Bolton describes that well here. A prescriptive standard that focuses on documentation distracts from, and effectively discourages, such exploring and experimentation. We have argued that at length and convincingly. It would be easier to analyse Andrew’s case if he had provided links to arguments from opponents who had advocated a form of experimentation he disapproves of.
Opponents claim that, once the standard is accepted, testers can be held responsible for project failures (or non-compliance).
As with any process or procedure, all staff are required to ensure compliance with the company manual – and project managers should be managing their projects to ensure that all staff are doing so.
Whether complying with ISO 29119 or any other standard or process, completion of testing and signing off as ‘passed’ carries accountability. This standard does not change that.”
This is a distortion of the opponents’ case. We do believe in accountability, but that has to be meaningful. Accountability must be based on something to which we can reasonably sign up. We strongly oppose attempts to enforce accountability to an irrelevant, poorly conceived and damaging standard. Complying with such a standard is orthogonal to good testing; there is no correlation between the two activities.
At best ISO 29119 would be an irrelevance. In reality it is more likely to be a hugely damaging distraction. If a company imposes a standard that all testers should wear laboratory technicians’ white coats it might look impressively professional, but complying with the standard would tell us nothing about the quality of the testing.
As a former auditor I have strong, well informed, views about accountability. One of ISO 29119’s serious flaws is that it fails to explain why we test. We need such clarity before we can have any meaningful discussion about compliance. I discussed this here, in “Do we want to be ‘compliant’ or valuable?”
The standard defines in great detail the process and the documents for testing, but fails to clarify the purpose of testing, the outcomes that stakeholders expect. To put it bluntly, ISO 29119 is vague about the ends towards which we are working, but tries to be precise about the means of getting there. That is an absurd combination.
ISO 29119 tries to set out rules without principles. Understanding the distinction between rules and principles is fundamental to the process of crafting professional standards that can hold practitioners meaningfully to account. I made this argument in the Fall 2015 edition of Better Software magazine. The article is also available on my blog, “Why ISO 29119 is a flawed quality standard”.
This confusion of rules and principles, means and ends, has led to an obsessive focus on delivering documentation rather than valuable information to stakeholders. That takes us on to Andrew’s next argument.
Opponents claim that effort will be more on documentation and process rather than testing.
I fail to understand this line of reasoning – any formal test regime requires a test specification, test cases and recorded test results. And the evidence produced by those results need argument. None of this is possible without documentation.”
Opponents of ISO 29119 have argued repeatedly and convincingly that a prescriptive standard which concentrates on documentation will inevitably lead to goal displacement; testers will concentrate on the documentation mandated by the standard and lose sight of why they are testing. That was our experience with IEEE 829. ISO 29119 repeats the same mistake.
Andrew’s second paragraph offers no refutation of the opponents’ argument. He apparently believes that we are opposed to documentation per se. That’s a straw man. Andrew justifies ISO 29119’s demand for documentation, which I believe is onerous and inappropriate, by asserting that it serves as evidence. Opponents argue that the standard places far too much emphasis on advance documentation and neglects evidence of what was discovered by the testing.
The statement that any formal test regime requires a test specification and test cases is highly contentious. Auditors would expect to see evidence of planning, but test specifications and test cases are just one way of doing it, the way that ISO 29119 advocates. In any case, advance planning is not evidence that good testing was performed any more than a neat project plan provides evidence that the project ran to time.
As for the results, the section of ISO 29119 covering test completion reports is woefully inadequate. It would be possible to produce a report that complied fully with the standard and offered nothing of value. That sums up the problems with ISO 29119. Testers can comply while doing bad testing. That is in stark contrast to the standards governing more established professions, such as accountants and auditors.
Someone wise once said:
Argument without Evidence is unfounded.
Evidence without Argument is unexplained.
Having considered the argument put forward, and the evidence to support the case:
The evidence is circumstantial with no coherence.
The argument is weak, and seems only to support their vested interests.
For a body that represents test engineers, I would have expected better.”
The quote that Andrew uses from “someone wise” actually comes from the field of safety critical systems. There is much that we in conventional software testing can learn from that field. Perhaps the most important lessons are about realism and humility. We must deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. We must accept the limitations of our knowledge and what we can realistically know.
The proponents of ISO 29119 are too confident in their ability to manage in a complex, evolving field using techniques rooted in the 1970s. Their whole approach tempts testers to look for confirmation of what they think they know already, rather than explore the unknown and explain what they cannot know.
Andrew’s verdict on the opposition to ISO 29119 should be turned around and directed at ISO and the standard itself. It was developed and launched in the absence of evidence that it would help testers to do a better job. The standard may have internal consistency, but it is incoherent when confronted with the complexities of the real world.
Testers who are forced to use it have to contort their testing to fit the process. Any good work they do is in spite of the standard and not because of it. It might provide a welcome route map to novice testers, but it offers a dangerous illusion. The standard tells them how to package their work so it appears plausible to those who don’t know any better. It defines testing in a way that makes it appear easier than it really is. But testing is not meant to be easy. It must be valuable. If you want to learn how to provide value to those who pay you then you need to look elsewhere.
Finally, I should acknowledge that some of the work I have cited was not available to Andrew when he wrote his blog in 2014. However, all of the underlying arguments and research that opponents of 29119 have drawn on were available long before then. ISO simply did not want to go looking for them. Our arguments about ISO 29119 being anti-competitive were at the heart of the Stop 29119 campaign. Andrew has not addressed those arguments.
If ISO wants to be taken seriously it must justify ISO 29119’s status as a standard. Principled, evidenced and coherent objections deserve a response. In a debate all sides have a duty to respond to their opponents’ strongest case, rather than evading difficult objections, setting up straw men and selectively choosing the arguments that are easiest to deal with.
ISO must provide evidence and coherent evidence that 29119 is effective. Simply labelling a set of prescriptive processes as a standard and expecting the industry to respect it for that reason will not do. That is the sign of a vested interest seeking to impose itself on a whole profession. No, the opposition has not died down; it has not had anything credible to oppose.
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Disneyland’s Pixar Fest Guide
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There are so many fun things happening right now at Disneyland’s Pixar Fest! Now through Sept. 3, 2018, you can enjoy Pixar themed entertainment, Pixar themed food and limited time Pixar themed merchandise at Disney’s Pixar Fest! This is a long post but it gives a great breakdown of how to make the most out of your trip to Disneyland for Pixar Fest!
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Lastly, before your trip, let’s make sure you are ready with a Pixar Movie-athon! Here are our favorite Pixar movies. If you don’t have them, check to see if they are available at your local library! You could also purchase them through Amazon.com where you can also buy digital copies of the movies to easily take them on the road!
Pixar Movies To Watch Before Going to Pixar Fest
Monsters Inc.
Photo Credit: Disneyland Resort
Entertainment at Pixar Fest
Let’s talk about all of the FUN you can have at Disney’s Pixar Fest from now through Septemeber 3rd! There are parades, a nighttime spectacular show, and even character meet & greets!
Before you enter the parks, grab an entertainment schedule!
Photo Credit: Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort
“Together Forever” Show Fun Facts:
“Together Forever” is a nighttime show that connects guests to beloved Pixar stories as it lights up the sky over Disneyland Park. It comes to life with pyrotechnics, special effects, a new musical score and projections on iconic park locations: Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, the water screens of the Rivers of America, the façade of “it’s a small world” and the buildings of Main Street, U.S.A. The grand tradition of Tinker Bell flying over Sleeping Beauty Castle also gets a Pixar twist, with a special flyover by Buzz Lightyear. This means you can truly enjoy this show from almost anywhere in the park!
“Together Forever” celebrates the everlasting bonds of friendship between guests, as well as the friendships of beloved Pixar characters from all 19 Disney•Pixar films.
“Together Forever” opens with Buzz Lightyear, who flies 100 feet in the air above Sleeping Beauty Castle on a flight path that is 350 feet long.
As Buzz Lightyear takes flight, he opens the show with a new line of dialogue: “To friendship…and beyond!”
The fireworks for “Together Forever” were specifically developed and designed to enhance the projected images within the show and to match Pixar Animations Studios’ color palette.
“Together Forever” contains more than 900 separate fireworks effects, digitally controlled within 1/30 of a second.
An all-new musical score was recorded for “Together Forever.” The orchestra was composed of 101 musicians and 20 vocalists. The score features popular songs from Pixar films, in addition to iconic instrumental themes.
“You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” the hit song by Randy Newman from Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story,” serves as the musical thread for the show. Guests will be inspired to sing along as this anthem becomes the rousing finale. This version of the song is a custom arrangement made specifically for “Together Forever.”
On Main Street, U.S.A., mapped projections bring the storytelling of “Together Forever” to life. The same technology is used for projections on Sleeping Beauty Castle and the façade of the “it’s a small world” attraction.
Each of the four viewing areas in the park – Main Street, U.S.A., Sleeping Beauty Castle, Rivers of America and “it’s a small world” – feature custom effects that create a unique experience for guests at each location.
With the use of projection mapping, more than 300 Space Aliens from “Toy Story” appear on the façade of the buildings on Main Street, U.S.A., and Sleeping Beauty Castle during their moment in “Together Forever.” The adorable green Space Aliens also appear on the façade of the “it’s a small world” attraction.
Multiple laser beams project down Main Street, U.S.A., in the scene where the Incredibles battle the Omnidroid at Sleeping Beauty Castle. Lasers are also used at the Rivers of America viewing location.
The story heats up during a pivotal scene from “Toy Story 3,” as Sleeping Beauty Castle is flanked by six shooting flames that reach up to 30 feet in the air.
During the “Coco” adventure, 10 townspeople from the Land of the Dead appear on the rooftops of Main Street, U.S.A. Each of these characters stretches more than 10 feet tall and they join the animated mariachi and folklórico dancers projected on Main Street U.S.A., bringing to life a colorful fiesta.
The voice of Anthony Gonzalez, who played the lead role of Miguel in Disney•Pixar’s “Coco,” can be heard singing “The World Es Mi Familia” during the “Coco” adventure of “Together Forever.”
“The World Es Mi Familia” features authentic Mexican singers and musicians who play traditional mariachi instruments like the vihuela, guitar, and guitarrón.
Several objects have flown above Sleeping Beauty Castle in past nighttime spectaculars, and the largest one ever is in “Together Forever” – Carl Fredricksen’s House from Disney•Pixar’s film, “Up.”
Guests can look out for the Pizza Planet truck in “Together Forever.” Seen in “Toy Story,” the Pizza Planet truck also appears as an Easter Eggs hidden in most Pixar films.
Pixar Play Parade
This daytime parade makes it’s way through Disneyland Park daily and includes three new story elements to add even more playfulness to this interactive parade. Be sure to check the times for this fun parade in your Disneyland map or in the Disneyland App!
Photo Credit: Disneyland Resort (Kevin!)
“Pixar Play Parade” Fun Facts:
“Pixar Play Parade” originally premiered in 2008 at Disney California Adventure Park.
The Pixar Lamp and Ball from Pixar’s original short, “Luxo Jr.” now lead the parade in a larger-than-life fashion. The Lamp is 14 feet tall and the Pixar Ball is nearly four feet wide.
Guests will want to keep an eye out for Kevin, the friendly bird from “Up” who stands nearly 12 feet tall from her toes to the top of her feathers. The “Up” unit also features Carl Fredricksen and Dug, while Kevin (a puppet) romps through the parade with pal Russell riding on her back.
From the tip-top of the balloons, the Fredricksen house from “Up” flies 17 feet above the parade route.
New music accompanies the three new story elements in the parade. The Pixar Lamp and Ball roll down the parade route to a “Pixar Medley,” the “Inside Out” unit is accompanied by the “Main Theme” and “Bing Bong Song,” and the “Up” element brings guests a new rendition of “Spirit of Adventure.”
On the “Inside Out” unit, guests will recognize Riley’s rocket wagon. Nearly 280 memory orbs of all different emotions appear at the base of this element.
120-plus performers and crew entertain guests, along with 8 units that represent several of the DisneyPixar animated films.
The longest float is “A Bug’s Life” at 45 feet.
More than 2,000 pieces and parts make up the performers’ costumes.
Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil, who wrote many of the songs for the successful “High School Musical” movies, wrote the original songs for “Pixar Play Parade”: “Countdown to Fun” and “The Party’s On.”
Baby Jack-Jack sits in one of the claws of the Omnidroid on “The Incredibles” float and, just like in the Pixar film, flames rise from his head when he gets excited.
With “Pixar Play Parade” dining packages, you can enjoy a picnic-style lunch and a receive a voucher that provides access to a reserved viewing area for the parade. Find out more about the dining packages, available at Plaza Inn, and make reservations at Disneyland.com.
Meet some of your favorite Pixar pals! Guests may meet some of their favorite Pixar pals at Paradise Gardens in Disney California Adventure, such as Buzz Lightyear and Woody, Russell and Dug, Flik and Atta, Mike and Sulley, and Mr. and Mrs. Incredible. If you follow the map above, it is behind Mickey’s Fun Wheel!
Draw favorite Pixar characters at Animation Academy – In Disney California Adventure, you can learn to draw your favorite Pixar characters such as Sulley, Dug, Edna Mode, Jack-Jack, Bing Bong and more with the artists at Animation Academy. Drawing classes typically occur every 30 minutes and you can even take home your art as a souvenir (this is free).
Food at Disneyland’s Pixar Fest
Photo credit: Disneyland Resort. These fun alien macaroons are available in Tomorrowland at Disneyland park.
Here’s a guide to finding food inspired by your favorite Pixar movies throughout both parks! Guests may look forward to even more Pixar-inspired food and beverage items, at both parks and the three hotels of the Disneyland Resort, just in time for the opening of Pixar Pier, June 23, 2018.
Photo Credit: Disneyland Resort. Among the many fun Pixar-inspired treats is the Nemo and Dory Apples, inspired by “Finding Nemo” served at locations around Disneyland Resort including: Pooh Corner in Disneyland Park and Marceline’s Confectionary in Downtown Disney.
“Up” on Main Street U.S.A.
The fried bologna sandwich at Carnation Café
The pork chop dinner, reminiscent of Carl’s TV dinners, with a spiced apple pork chop, cornbread, peas and carrots, and a chocolate cake dessert at Carnation Café
Specialty Éclair at Jolly Holiday Bakery Café
Frozen “Grape Soda” slush at Cappo Cart
“Coco” in Frontierland
“Coco”-inspired menu items at Rancho Del Zocalo include a Mexican chocolate pot de crème, topped with a Miguel chocolate
Coco Churro with rich chocolate powder, vanilla bean and salted cinnamon sugar is served with a spiced, Mexican chocolate dipping sauce
“Toy Story” in Frontierland
Root beer float served in a souvenir Woody boot at Golden Horseshoe Saloon (guests will want to check the bottom of the boot for a “Toy Story” memory)
Berry funnel cake, topped with blueberries, strawberries, cookie-and-cream crumbles, crème anglaise, white chocolate and gold-dusted whipped cream at Stage Door Café
Cinnamon pretzel at Frontierland Pretzel Cart
“Toy Story” in Tomorrowland
Redd Rockett’s Pizza Port transforms into Alien Pizza Planet, featuring new Alien-inspired items, including a hearty cheeseburger pizza topped with cheese, caramelized onions, diced tomatoes, slider patties, a house-made burger sauce, and pickles.
“Ratatouille” in New Orleans Square
A three-course dinner inspired by the little chef, Remy, served at Café Orleans. The dinner features a charcuterie plate starter, Ratatouille a Confit Byaldi Shrimp dish entrée and berry and cheese beignets served a la mode.
Photo Credit: Disneyland Resort. This Pixar Fest Celebration Cake, inspired by the familiar yellow Pixar Ball, at Plaza Inn at Disneyland park and Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta at Disney California Adventure park.
Chilled noodle salad features color-changing noodles with mint, Thai basil, shredded daikon and tofu at Lucky Fortune Cookery (special sauce activates the new color)
Mike Wazowski-shaped sourdough bread at Pacific Wharf Café
Mint chip smoothie and whoopie pie at Schmoozies
Lemon Flavored ice cream inspired by the Adorable Snowman in Monster’s Inc, look for it on the pier!
“Coco”-inspired menu at Paradise Garden Grill, in the Pixar Pals area, with mole verde con pollo, tacos de estilo callejero, a Jamaica slush and “Coco” tres leches parfait
Also featured at Paradise Garden Grill is a Mexican cinnamon-spiced hot chocolate served in a souvenir “Coco” jarrita
Cars Land
A new menu at Flo’s V8 Café for Pixar Fest features items such as a classic cheeseburger, turkey club sandwich, cobb salad, fried chicken plate and more.
Habanero meatball cone at Cozy Cone Motel
Pixar Fest Merchandise
Friendship bracelets: Guests will commemorate their personal friendships with Pixar-themed friendship charm bracelets. With nine sets of Pixar pal charms to collect, friends may add new charms to their bracelets throughout Pixar Fest.
Apparel: Guests of all ages will get into the spirit of friendship with Pixar Fest apparel. T-shirts, baseball caps and more feature colorful Pixar Fest character designs, available in men’s, women’s and youth sizes. Special companion apparel is designed to be worn “in pairs,” inspired by the stories of “Up,” “The Incredibles,” “Finding Nemo” and more.
Photo:AllfortheBoys.com
Pixar headwear: Specially themed headwear will allow guests to channel some of their favorite Pixar characters. Fun Pixar headwear includes:
Woody, Green Alien, WALL•E, EVE and Lightning McQueen Ears
Buzz Lightyear and Space Alien glow headbands
Hair bows inspired by Dory, UP, Jessie, and Mike and Sulley
Buzz bubble blower: Space Rangers will fill the parks with bubbles, with help from their Pixar pal Buzz Lightyear.
Space Alien Light Up Tumbler: Guests at the Disneyland Resort will quench their thirst with a Space Alien Light Up Tumbler. The tumbler features the claw reaching down toward a green Alien from “Toy Story,” and will leave guests “oohing” and “ahhing” with its three light-up sequences.
“Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory” souvenir light-up sippers: Guests may also enjoy beverages in special “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory” light-up sippers. The sippers can be enjoyed on their own or in pairs, as one features Nemo and the other features Dory.
Sulley popcorn bucket and Mike Wazowski sipper: At popcorn carts throughout the parks, guests will find their favorite monsters with the Sulley popcorn bucket and Mike Wazowski sipper. When combined, the items make quite the pair.
Pixar-themed straws: Guests may add a little Pixar flair to their beverages with a Pixar Lamp & Ball Straw, and a Space Alien Straw. These straws also include a special souvenir, which can be removed and used as a backpack clip.
“Coco” jarrita: Guests dining at Rancho del Zocalo in Disneyland or Paradise Garden Grill in Disney California Adventure may enjoy a delicious treat from a beautifully designed “Coco” jarrita souvenir cup.
Sketch Artisans at Off the Page & Knick’s Knacks: At Off the Page and the new Knick’s Knacks in Disney California Adventure, guests will be able to have a Disney artist create an original piece of work right before their eyes. Guests may select from a curated assortment of images from Pixar feature films and watch as the artist brings the scene to life for guests, an ideal souvenir.
Art on Demand at Knick’s Knacks: Also at the new Knick’s Knacks, guests may visit the new Art on Demand kiosk to view a curated assortment of images from Pixar archives representing both Pixar feature films and short films. Once an image is chosen, guests may select to have it printed on paper or canvas and may have it shipped directly to their home.
Pixar Fest ornaments: Two-sided, Pixar Fest ceramic disk ornaments showcase Pixar friends with one pal on each side. Guests will find Mike and Sulley, WALL•E and EVE, Miguel and Dante, and Joy and Anger featured on these must-have collector ornaments.
Art & Collectibles: Starting in June, stylized wooden figures inspired by Disney•Pixar characters will be available for guests to collect. These wooden figures come in sets of three, with sets inspired by “The Incredibles” arriving in June, “Toy Story” in July, “Monsters, Inc.” in August, and “Up” in September.
Pixar Fest pin trading: Friends and pin traders will expand their collections with limited-edition pins set to be released throughout Pixar Fest. Pins will feature Pixar characters from “The Incredibles,” “Up,” “Finding Nemo” and other beloved Pixar films.
Pixar Fest stationery set: Guests may share the message of friendship with their family and friends with special Pixar Fest greeting cards. The note cards feature Pixar pals Lighting McQueen and Mater, Dug and Russell, Remy and Linguini, and Sulley and Boo on the front cover, with space to write a personalized message inside.
Pixar Fest keychains: For a token of friendship, guests may carry Pixar Fest keychains that feature Pixar buddies: WALL•E and EVE, Joy and Anger, Miguel and Dante, and Nemo and Dory. The Pixar Fest keychains will be available in June.
Pixar Rides at Disneyland
Take a ride on Pixar attractions at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure! Guests at the Disneyland Resort can enjoy more than a dozen experiences that immerse them in the worlds of some favorite Pixar stories, including Toy Story Mania!, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.
Paint the Night Parade
‘Paint the Night’ Parade (ANAHEIM, Calif.) – The popular nighttime parade returns to the Disneyland Resort for Pixar Fest, this time making its way through Disney California Adventure Park. Mack from ‘Cars’ appears in ‘Paint the Night’ parade, along with many beloved Disney and Pixar pals. (Photo Credit – Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort)
Don’t forget to find more of your Pixar friends in the Paint The Night Parade now in Disney’s California Adventure! Becoming even more super in June, “Paint the Night” adds a new float inspired by “The Incredibles” and “Incredibles 2.”
Pixar Fest Outside of the Parks
See which Pixar friends you can find on the Disneyland Monorail: During Pixar Fest, the monorail fleet gets a new look with characters from “The Incredibles” and “Finding Nemo.” This highway in the sky offers transportation to Downtown Disney with aerial views of the theme parks while on the 2.5-mile route. You can spot the monorail outside the park at Downtown Disney and of course inside the park above Finding Nemo.
Enjoy Pixar delights in Downtown Disney: Pixar fun expands to Downtown Disney with colorful Pixar-inspired topiaries in six different locations, plus a variety of Pixar-themed treats at Marceline’s Confectionery.
Pixar Pier Opens June 23rd!
Disney’s Pixar Pierpier opens on June 23rd and it will definitely be a great addition to Disney’s California Adventure Park!
Pixar Pier features the Incrediacoaster roller coaster inspired by the Incredibles! It also features the Pixar Promenade which is the 160-foot-tall former Mickey’s Fun Wheel that overlooks the park. It has been repainted and rethemed to include Pixar characters!
Before you head to Pixar Fest, you’ll definitely want to read these posts from my fellow bloggers who have gotten to experience Pixar Fest, first hand!
Disneyland Pixar Fest Must-Do Activities
What to Expect at Disney’s Pixar Fest
The Ultimate Guide to Disney’s Pixar Fest
Pixar Fest Scavenger Hunt at Disneyland
Disneyland Pixar Fest Fun Facts (+ Pixar Prize Pack Giveaway!!)
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Mini-Editorials
The Nets should chase DeAndre Jordan in free agency
Matthew Schmidt
The Brooklyn Nets may end up destroying free agency this summer, as Kyrie Irving seems like a shoo-in to end up there, and he is trying to convince Kevin Durant to join him.
Not only that, but Irving is also trying to lure DeAndre Jordan, who is good friends with both Irving and Durant.
So, should the Nets be interested in Jordan?
The answer is a resounding yes.
While Jordan may not be the same player he was a few years ago with the Los Angeles Clippers, he is still one of the top rebounders and rim protectors in basketball. At 6-foot-11, 265 pounds, he would go a long way to solving the Nets’ problems on the interior.
That’s not to take anything away from Jarrett Allen, who has been terrific for Brooklyn and is a really good defender in his own right. But we saw how much trouble Allen has against bigger centers in the Nets’ first-round matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers, as Joel Embiid was simply too much for him on the low block.
Jordan would not have that problem, as he is very strong and is also an experienced defensive player.
Of course, the question would then become whether or not the Nets could play Jordan and Allen together, as their floor spacing would suffer. But they could always bring Allen off the bench, and against bigger teams, they could sometimes employ a Jordan-Allen pairing, which would be absolutely monstrous defensively.
Honestly, even if the Nets don’t end up signing Irving and/or Durant (and they’ll probably at least get Irving), they should still consider Jordan, as he would instantly make them better up front and would be a lethal threat in the pick-and-roll.
But let’s for a second assume Brooklyn, at the very least, lands Kyrie. Imagine the pick-and-roll between Irving and Jordan? It would be like Lob City in Los Angeles all over again, except Irving is even more of a scoring threat than Chris Paul ever was.
The Nets showed this season that they are a scrappy team, but they were obviously miles away from seriously contending. However, with a ton of cap space this summer, they could become serious threats with the right moves. While Irving and Jordan would not make them title contenders, they would still make them an incredibly fun team to watch and possibly a top-four team in the East depending on what everyone else in the conference does offseason.
Think about this, as well: Jordan could serve as a mentor to Allen, especially considering Jordan is potentially Allen’s ceiling (unless Allen incorporates a jumper into his game). So not only would Jordan make the Nets a better team, but he would also make Allen a better player, much like he did with Mitchell Robinson with the New York Knicks this past season.
Jordan seems like a natural fit in Brooklyn, so you can see why Irving is trying to get him to tag along. The Nets should unquestionably pursue Jordan, as he would absolutely elevate them on both ends of the floor. He may not be willing to take the pay cut required to sign in Brooklyn, but it is worth a shot.
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Former Warriors assistant GM explains how former owner declined trading Monta Ellis
Bruno Manrique
Atlanta Hawks general manager Travis Schlenk spoke with ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on his podcast, providing a juicy anecdote of his time as assistant GM for the Golden State Warriors, explaining just how the team once had impasses in trading former star Monta Ellis.
Schlenk, who was previously part of the coaching staff and later convinced to join the front office due to his eye for talent, had banked on a conditional promise with then-general manager Larry Riley to trade Ellis and another player in hopes to develop Stephen Curry and other young players.
Via Drew Shiller of NBC Sports Bay Area:
“One moment (that) really changed the course of everything — there was a trade that we wanted to do,” said Schlenk. “And we were sitting down with the owner at that time, Chris Cohan. And we said we think we should do this trade — we’re getting back two guys, it frees up our cap, it’s gonna allow the growth of Steph. And Chris said, ‘We can’t do that trade. Player X is the most popular player we have, and season-ticket renewals (are) around the corner.’
“And I was just like, you gotta be kidding me. We are gonna make this decision based on who our fans think should be on our team, not the guys that you’ve hired to put together the team?”
At this point, Woj interjects and says, ‘This was the Bucks, right?”
“No, this wasn’t the Bucks,” Schlenk answered. “I don’t want to name the players. So, we didn’t do the trade. And then later on we were able to do a trade with that player that brought us Andrew Bogut. And that was obviously a big piece of the championship puzzle.
“As they say, sometimes the best deals you do are the ones you don’t do.”
As Schlenk tells is, it’s easy to recall how different the Warriors have looked over the years just by having different ownership.
The Warriors first had plans to trade Ellis, their leading scorer and the only clear remnant of the “We Believe” era, to a different team, but it wasn’t until the sale of the team went through that Schlenk was able to capitalize on his plan.
Following the timeline of events, it’s likely this trade was proposed during the start of the 2010-11 season or the offseason before that campaign, as Joe Lacob and Peter Guber didn’t win the bid until Nov. 12, 2010.
After getting familiar with Lacob, the front office was able to devise another trade, one that at the time seemed crazy. But looking back at it, it’s clear it was the rational way to bring the team to greener pastures.
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Maid of the King's Court
Worsley, Lucy
Her father, Baron of Stone, announced his twelve-year-old daughter Eliza Rose Camperdowne would soon wed the son of the Earl of Westmoreland, in hope to revive the distressed family fortune through her marriage.
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017
Edition: First U.S. edition
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Chapel_Hill_MarthaW Apr 02, 2017
This is super, super readable YA historical fiction that nicely finds balance between providing readers with details of the historical context (the court of Henry VIII in the Anne of Cleves/Katherine Howard years) without getting bogged down in too much dense detail of the court politics. The heroine is a cousin of (poor, doomed) Katherine Howard who serves as a lady in waiting, and the book spans six or seven years of her life. Worlsey is fortunate in that, of course, she picked an extremely interesting period in history to focus on, lending the novel a lot of drama from the actual real-life events that were occurring, but Eliza is an interesting heroine whose head you enjoy spending 350 pages in. I also thought Worlsey's take on Katherine Howard was interesting -- I've always found her to be rather stupid, as that's generally the way she's portrayed, but Worlsey lends her character some nuance that I found quite interesting.
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Westbourne by-election, and the record of the Dear Leader
Posted on December 21, 2011 by brightonpoliticsblogger
“I was sad to hear that Councillor Bill Randall has stepped down as Leader of Brighton and Hove City Council. I have never heard a bad word about him and I wish him well as Mayor.”
This is clearly the season of good will for these are not my words but those of the Deputy Chair (Political) of Brighton and Hove Conservatives, Robert Nemeth writing in today’s Brighton Argus.
But the Christmas spirit quickly evaporates and bad words are implied, if not said, against the Dear Leader (Randall, not Kim Jong-il). The “Greens did not hit the ground running”, decisions were taken “on the move rather than making the changes that were promised”, and that the situation has “no doubt been exacerbated by the internal squabbles”. He points to “chaos” on the issues of council tax, Falmer Stadium, and the Victoria Gardens campsite.
If that is not saying bad words against the Dear Leader, then I don’t know what is. And also, am right in thinking that history is being re-written? The Dear Leader hasn’t stood down after 6 months. He will remain the Dear Leader until the annual Council at which point he will become the Dear Mayor.
As for the Greens not hitting the ground running, my perception is that they did just that, and the approach to the budget has been quite extraordinary. By taking an open, inclusive approach to its preparation, and the invitation to Labour and Tory councillors, the opposition have been wrong footed, hence the all-out attack on the Greens by Labour’s Lord Bassam, Caroline Penn and Warren Morgan, and now Robert himself.
To suggest that there has been “chaos” is nonsense. These issues are the normal challenges that face a new (and yes, inexperienced) administration.
I don’t detect “internal squabbles”. There is debate and there are differences, but this has largely involved organisation and, to a lesser extent personalities. But such differences pale into insignificance when compared to the split between the the Hove and Pavilion Conservatives and the Kemptown Tories.
But enough of the Dear Leader, and enough of Mr Nemeth. All thoughts have turned to Christmas. Oh no they haven’t. Oh yes they have. OH NO THEY HAVEN’T!!! All thoughts are focused on Westbourne and tomorrow’s by-election.
I hear that both the Tories and Greens are pleased with their postal vote campaigns,I and that Labour and the Greens are pleased with their poster campaign. On postal votes, the Greens usually think they don’t do too well here, but they are quietly pleased with what they have achieved in Westbourne, and confidence levels are rising. But I hear from deep within the Labour camp that they are pleased with the number of promises they have secured for Nigel Jenner. The question is, how firm are these promises?
My prediction? I correctly ‘called’ the Goldsmid by-election, the Brighton Pavilion result (although I thought Chuck Vere would come second), and the number of seats the Greens would win in May (I said 22 or 23 – I didn’t see Chris Hawtree winning although he did). But this by-election is the most difficult ‘call’ because of the, likely, very low turnout. If this by-election was to take place in, say, May, I would think the Greens would win. They have the Big Mo, a candidate who lives in the ward, and in Luke Walter, the best election organiser in the City.
But the Joker in the Pack is the Tory candidate, Graham Cox. He is the equal to the Green’s Louisa Greenbaum, he is a first rate candidate. Without the other, either of these candidates would swing the result in an election as close as this.
If pushed, I would call it for Louisa Greenbaum, but it will be one of the closest results in years. I think that given the low turnout it could still go any one of three ways.
Best wishes to ALL candidates tomorrow. My respect for candidates remains, and I thank all seven of you for making democracy a reality.
(The original version of this post referred to Caroline Pegg. Her name has been corrected to Caroline Penn).
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Paul Perrin, on December 21, 2011 at 9:20 pm said:
Seems to me that Conservatives are keeping their heads down as much as possible – they see it as theirs to lose, so are putting on a big show (big guns called in), but keeping their candidate in the background because he isn’t going to win any new votes, but could lose plenty of old ones (will Oxley’s personal vote transfer?)
Greens are similarly reticent on real issues because the budget is their headline issue and their candidate will make zero difference to it one way or the other.
Labour? well… suggesting local born people are best to serve in elected office – WOW! Lucky all the other candidates are UK born (aren’t they?) or he could be up on charges of racism…
So thats the GrnConLab “keep em quiet, so they don’t rock the boat” rut that we have controlling the council now…
I hope the voters see through it and put some fresh thinking in to Brighton and Hove City Council – and that would be me…
Paul Perrin, on December 21, 2011 at 10:04 pm said:
P.S. As for postal voting a ‘@ValpearceBHCC’ tweets that 1300 were sent out 650 returned. (Surprised thats been made public before the day… assuming Val is in the know…).
But if correct, would suggest that many a party stalwart (which I think postal voters tend to be) is unhappy with their party, so are abstaining…
steampunk, on December 21, 2011 at 11:07 pm said:
Conservatives are keeping their heads down because they have Labour to do their dirty work for them these days!
We haven’t been reticent at all, we’ve been upfront with the voters and defended our long-term plans for the city very robustly. Labour have run a nasty scare-mongering campaign from the start. We’ll find out tomorrow how this has worked out for them.
Louisa is the only candidate who lives in the ward, she understands the community and will be approachable and diligent. We’re finding that makes a big difference for voters.
Tim Sewell, on December 22, 2011 at 9:37 pm said:
You must have been looking at a different Labour campaign to the one I’ve been involved in throughout. Neither I nor any of the other people out on the doorstep have been saying anything remotely nasty or scaremongering to residents. We have, on the other hand, encountered significant pockets of extreme hostility to the current administration.
There seems to be a tendency amongst Greens to resort to such descriptions, however, the moment any other party has the gall to confront them, as if they should be excused political challenge on account of being such lovely caring people.
Baron Pepperpot, on December 21, 2011 at 10:01 pm said:
On a 25% turnout 700 votes should be enough to win.
Luke Walter, on December 21, 2011 at 10:05 pm said:
I see the Tories have put out a final leaflet to say only they can stop the Greens. It really is a Green vs Tory contest tomorrow.
A massive own goal. Labour and Green votes in Brighton are transient. A leaflet like that could increase the Green vote.
Robert Nemeth, on December 21, 2011 at 10:20 pm said:
Come on Blogger. My letter to The Argus is not personal. It contains no bad words about Cllr Randall, an elected representative of whom I am a fan.
You’re wrong too on ‘chaos’. You are clearly local so how could you have missed the clutter of vans on Hove seafront, the mess on the Old Steine, the jumble on the Victoria Gardens, the trashing of Withdean Park, the disorder on Greenleas, the disarray on Victoria Park, and the dreadful goings-on in who knows how many squats around the city?
There may have been u-turns but it won’t be forgotten that the Greens supported protesters who have trashed our urban parks, travellers who have trashed our suburban parks, and internet-savvy squatters who have posed as being in need of help – at a time when so many genuinely need assistance.
This is hardly nonsense. Perhaps you just do not attach much importance to these forms of chaos. I do though as did the random guy sitting behind me on the bus this very afternoon.
Prediction for tomorrow: Conservative Cox, Labour Jenner, Green Greenbaum.
Paul Perrin should get extra points for having best poster display in the ward.
Mr Nemeth, the primary concern of Brightonians & Hoveites is not travellers or squatters. I would suggest that you are spending too much time with Mr Weatherley.
Mr Weatherley told the Victoria Gardens occupiers that 99% of the public wanted them to go, yet a poll on North Stand Chat had very little responders (unusual) and 50% said they thought they should stay or just didn’t care.
My point here is not that these are non-issues, but that your party should be focussing on issues that are more relevant. Namely giving us an alternative budget to examine first.
Valerie Paynter, on December 22, 2011 at 8:43 pm said:
I was driven past the Victoria Gardens encampment one day before the storms mangled their tents and I thought the little circle of tents looked very sweet. I was uncomfortable with Hove’s MP grandstanding against them (in another MP’s ward). It felt wrong.
‘Baron’ – it’s my job to spend time with Mike Weatherley.
I am more than happy to point out that I admired much about what the Greens wanted to do in advance of the election. Vision is hugely important to me and it was certainly there for the Greens before May.
It’s all gone now though and that’s the sad bit.
Cheer up, Rob. We’re still on track to deliver our manifesto commitments, why are you pessimistic?
christopher hawtree, on December 21, 2011 at 11:09 pm said:
I too have seen the rabid last-minute leaflet by Constable Cox. He is virulently against food-waste collection, an odd stance. I found that the idea struck a welcome chord on Central doorsteps. But what do I know? Anyway, that leaflet confirms that it is between the Tories and the Greens. The Tories really do hate the Greens, as I myself have found. I have been shocked by it.
Dr Faust, on December 21, 2011 at 11:11 pm said:
BPB – were you so disturbed by Daniel’s comment about a lack of Green bias that you had to have a sudden return to form? The reality of the performance of the Green Party in power has been that they have done virtually nothing that the previous administration would not have done. As a Green councillor (now a Cabinet member) said to me just after the election – ‘we had no intention of winning and no plan as to what to do if we did win’. So their answer has been to do as little as possible, nothing remotely radical, nothing to risk Caroline’s re-election. Truly a case of the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’. This will be OK for a while but people will expect something different over time.
That allegation is annoyingly slippery but doesn’t ring true because I can’t think of a single cabinet member who wasn’t involved in preparing our manifesto, which was the most detailed put out by any party.
Things the previous administration wouldn’t have done? Well for starters, living wage for lowest paid council workers and early, participative and transparent budget setting. Neighbourhood councils and food-waste collection are both bold initiatives planned for next year although I understand Labour are planning to vote these down.
Harris Fitch, on December 22, 2011 at 9:38 am said:
Put it into some context please… the food-waste collection is bold indeed, its also ensuring a further 500k.
I wont forget.
In cuts I mean.
It may not ring true – but I can assure you it is. Preparing a manifesto is not the same as actually expecting to be in power. I’m sure the Green Party didn’t expect to have to implement their last general election manifesto, but still set out their stall to the nation.
I agree that the Living Wage is very positive step – but the rest is mainly just business as usual, and, as Harris points out, your vanity schemes, such as food waste collection, means additional cuts to other essential services.
You blame the Labour Party in advance for voting down your ‘bold initiatives’, but what if the consultation process leads to the people clearly wanting other priorities? Food waste collection or a Music Service in schools? No brainer for me.
The green manifest (headline priority 13) said there would be a £8.20 minimum wage, and top earning would be no more than 8 time lowest.
They have introduced a £7.19 minimum wage and are aiming for top to be no more than 10 times lowest. So that’s a double miss.
Of course having a high min-wage means some jobs cease to exist… bad news for the low skilled (and service users).
At the same time as removing low skilled jobs the council aims to get the people for free by boosting the number of so called volunteers – often people who would love to do even very low paid work, but have had even that opportunity taken from them.
Jonay, on December 22, 2011 at 1:07 am said:
Robert Nemeth never head a bad thing said about Bill Randall? Doesn’t he read his own misleading tweets?
Brighton & Hove Green Party is a shambles after Leader steps down following use of council taxpayers' cash to clear up campsite mess.
— Robert Nemeth (@robert_nemeth) December 15, 2011
@robert_nemeth Brighton & Hove Green Party is a shambles after Leader steps down following use of council taxpayers’ cash to clear up campsite mess.
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Google collaborates with Qualcomm to bring Tango home
The integrated SoC approach will make the adoption of Tango’s AR technology a breeze for smartphone manufacturers. Device manufacturers can make their products Tango compatible simply by making use of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 600 and 800 SoCs. According to Ars Technica, Qualcomm has been collaborating with Google for the last one and a half years…
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‘My formula is to pray, work hard, and sleep’
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Sharayah John and her parents
By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff
“Awww.” That was the sound emitted by some graduates when their valedictorian Sharayah John paused mid-speech on Sunday to present a surprise gift basket to her parents Elvis and Ann-Marie John.
The 16-year-old graduate of the BVI Seventh Day Adventist [Secondary] School was in cahoots with her brother to pull off the surprise presentation.
She said the gesture was her way of saying thanks to her parents for supporting her ‘all the way’.
The native of St Vincent and the Grenadines graduated at the top of her class with a Grade Point Average of 4.24.
One would not expect less from the daughter of two educators. Mr and Mrs John both teach at the said educational institution.
Already, Sharayah has two Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) subjects under her belt. She sat Human and Social Biology in third form, and received a Grade One (the highest possible grade). She then tackled Social Studies in CXC the following year and earned a Grade Two in that subject.
Sharayah is now awaiting results for the nine CXC subjects she sat this year.
She wants to cement her place at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago, where she has been accepted tentatively.
“I plan to go there for two years to do my general studies, and then my hope is to move on to Oakwood University in the United States. I’m planning to do a double major – Biochemistry and Accounting.”
“I want to be well-rounded when I get back here [in the BVI],” Sharayah told BVI News Online.
At the end of her university studies, she hopes to settle on which of her two loves – accounting or the sciences – she will turn into a career.
“I have not decided as yet, but one of the career goals I have in mind is to be a forensic scientist. The job itself is actually interesting, because you’re using your Science skills to actually solve crimes. I really like Accounts too; so becoming and accountant – no problem,” Sharayah further told BVI News Online.
Asked about the formula for the academic success she has reaped so far, the top student said: “My formula is to pray, work hard, study, and sleep.”
She also recalled long hours of extra classes, adding that she was never hesitant to question her teachers whenever she did not understood certain lessons.
Sharayah recommends that other students adopt a similarly good work ethic. “The journey through high school is not easy. So, if you don’t understand something, make sure you go to the teachers. Study hard and don’t take anything for granted. All the extra classes that I took were real draining, but it paid off,” Sharayah further told BVI News Online.
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Risk Management Plan (RMP)
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SELF-INSURANCE PROGRAM
In partnership with the school boards on the Island of Montréal, the Risk Management Plan (RMP) was established in 1987 to deal with the sharp increase in the cost of liability insurance.
This self-insurance program assumes tort liability for the participating school boards and the Comité de gestion, or vicarious responsibility for bodily injury, moral damage, and material loss, subject to certain exclusions.
A pdf Policy (70 KB) defines the exact parameters of the RMP, as follows: pdf RGR (1.70 MB)
the legal basis;
the general framework;
the coverage, exclusions, and deductible;
the obligations of the school boards and the Comité de gestion;
Joining and leaving the program;
prevention measures;
the compensation fund;
the Risk management committee;
claims made to the Comité de gestion;
interpretation and miscellaneous provisions.
Clear benefits
The major benefit of the RMP is the significant savings realized every year since its inception. The economy for the school boards during the year 2015-2016 only is estimated at $723,198. In addition, the RMP protects school boards on the Island of Montreal from sudden fluctuations in insurance premiums.
The five school boards on the Island of Montréal participate in the RMP. Membership is automatically renewed unless written notice of withdrawal is sent to the Comité de gestion.
Members of the Comité de gestion and commissioners must give written notice to the Comité de gestion of their wish to be covered by the RMP.
The Risk Management Plan covers school board personnel and commissioners who have indicated their desire to be covered by the program while carrying out their duties:
employees;
administrators and managers;
members of school board committees (institutional councils, advisory committees, etc.);
commissioners;
members of the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal;
volunteers.
The Comité de gestion administers the Risk Management Plan. The compensation fund is managed by the Comité de gestion, which assumes the following responsibilities:
management and financing of the fund;
collection of income and payment of expenses;
staffing of expert-advisors of all kinds;
production of the annual report;
leadership and coordination of the Risk management committee;
investigation of all claims;
review and statistical reports of events and claims;
consulting work;
legal opinions;
representation before the courts;
prevention measures:
- production of information documents;
- telephone assistance;
- presentation of training and educational activities;
- schools' inspections.
financial management of claims;
budget and financial statements for the Risk management program.
Specialists trained in the fields of law, inquiry, management, and finances are at the heart of the Comité de gestion team responsible for the RMP. It owes its success to the support of the school boards and the vigilance of the members of the Risk management committee, who are in direct contact with the educational milieu.
The Legal department of the Comité de gestion offers to the staff members of the school boards different training sessions in civil liability and accident prevention in the school.
These sessions address the questions of civil liability and accident prevention and are mainly intended to school principals but may be adapted to other groups of employees.
These sessions also cover the basic concepts of civil liability and various aspects of accident prevention in the school.
For more information, please contact Ms. Karen Pauluk by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at 514 384-1830, extension 2120.
pdf Safety guide for certain sports and extracurricular activities -4th edition (1.07 MB)
[See list of excluded activities at article 3.3.2 p) of the Risk management plan.]
Civil liability in school and the prevention of accidents
[See list of high-risk activities at article 3.3.2 p) of the Risk management plan.]
pdf Policy of the Risk Management Plan (70 KB)
pdf 2017-2018 Annual Report (357 KB) (available in French only)
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For more information about the Risk management program
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Easter Best at Del Frisco's Event Time & Tickets
Easter Best at Del Frisco's in Charlotte
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House, Charlotte
4725 Piedmont Row Drive
Easter Best at Del Frisco's
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House will be open Easter Sunday, April 21 from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and feature its full dinner menu, filet Benedict, lobster Benedict plus slow-roasted prime rib in a 16 oz. cut and or a 20 oz. cut. Both the lobster Benedict and filet Benedict will be available for $46, while the 16 oz. prime rib will be $45 and the 20 oz. will be $55.
Dessert is always a treat for Easter dinner. Recently added to Del Frisco’s 10 dessert options are pineapple upside down cake featuring vanilla rum sauce, pineapple sugar and mascarpone cream, and chocolate hazelnut crunch bar with chocolate pearls, vanilla rum sauce and ganache.
In Piedmont Town Center in SouthPark, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House is a contemporary steak house known for its prime steak – the top 2 – 3 percent of all meat in the U.S. market. Dinner is served Monday – Thursday from 5 - 10 p.m., Friday – Saturday from 5 - 11 p.m. and Sunday 5 - 9 p.m. The stunning 16,000-square-foot restaurant is perfect for special occasions, business affairs or a night on the town. To make reservations, visit delfriscos.com or call (704) 552-5502.
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Position Partners competition offer
Don’t miss the opportunity to enter and win this competition. Position Partners Ltd is offering two Loadmaster Industrial Machine scale systems. To win one of these sets; explain in 25 words or less why you think you should win! ENTER HERE Fill your boots!
June 27, 2017 in Competitions.
Talented excavator operators on show
The 2017 Waikato and B.O.P regional excavator operator comps were held at Mystery Creek on June 15 & June 16th. Fortunately Kade Croft from Geotechnics was present to photograph the action. Results as follows: Waikato winner – Mike Bowe (Fulton Hogan) 2nd – Josh McCarthy (Schick Civil) 3rd – Trout Harford (Hick Bros Civil) …
June 21, 2017 in Excavator Operator Competitions.
Eight-decade-old tractor fetches $46,000
Readers will recall news of Euro Auctions in Northern Ireland selling over 100 classic tractors with many historically important models from the 1940s, 50s and 60s in a one-day auction this past Easter. Most of the collection had been amassed by John Flynn over the past four decades, with many of the tractors having been…
June 20, 2017 in Classic Machines, Uncategorized.
Direct Agreements – Back from the dead? — SITE VISIT
In what will be a relief for contractors, the Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court decision, and held that payments made to contractors by financiers pursuant to a direct agreement are not voidable transactions recoverable by a liquidator. While some may see this as a return to the previous position there are a […]…
June 16, 2017 in Uncategorized.
ConstructSafe’s first year of activity
ConstructSafe turned one year old in April 2017. The voluntary scheme is helping the New Zealand construction industry self-regulate around safety standards, providing basic tests that assess awareness of safety protocol and behaviour. The first tier of the scheme, a foundation level framework, has been successfully launched. In the next phase of activity the foundation…
Waterview Preview
Waterview Tunnel is about to open for business. There are ceremonial parades, ribbons and guided tours scheduled. Here’s a video clip of how the Tunnel journey unfolds, for those who can’t fit it in.
June 15, 2017 in Project News, YouTube clips.
Mainzeal – End of an era (Receivership)
Waikato Expressway video clip: the Huntly section
Winter is upon us and earthworks at Huntly have paused. Time to take stock off what has been accomplished at this section of the Waikato RoNS. The Huntly section involves 15km of four lane expressway, 3million m3 of earthworks, an 60m cutting through the Taupiri Pass, over 100ha of forest, bush and wetland enhancement and…
June 12, 2017 in YouTube clips.
Light at the end of the Waterview Tunnel — Greater Auckland
After months of delays the opening of the Waterview tunnels is finally in sight with Transport Minister Simon Bridges announcing it will open in early July and that there will be open days over the next two weekends. That follows the ribbon cutting on Sunday. Transport Minister Simon Bridges says Auckland’s Waterview Tunnel will open… via…
Facebook feedback…plus meet a new resource
NZ Contractor magazine has a Facebook page with an engaged audience of followers. Today’s blog post is inspired by a couple of comments on the Facebook page. And a little nugget about our new admin resource. The comments were prompted by June’s magazine article- on the Mingha Bluff realignment project. This project has not only…
June 12, 2017 in Comment, Richard Campbell, Uncategorized.
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What are the threats?
COP24 Katowice COP24 Katowice
What can I do? What can I do?
What awaits Poland?
It is hot, dry, the amount of water in the ground and in the rivers begins to fall (…) at some point this water is so little that we can not use it to cool power plants. And at this point, the energy system breaks down. The communication, air conditioning, and transport is breaks down (…) The forests are raging with fire. Food in supermarkets, warehouses, homes begins to spoil…
- Prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski, atmosphere physicist
„Duży Format”, November 10, 2018
threats.fires.full
High temperature favors
the spread of fires.
Athens, Ukraine, Finland, Latvia…
In July 2018 forest fires occurred
throughout Europe. Forests and
buildings burned in southern Ukraine.
Over 1,000 hectares of land burned
in Latvia. Will we only start
to worry about it when the fires
begin to devastate Poland?
threats.heatwaves.full
According to the World Meteorological
Organization, a heat wave is a period
lasting more than 5 days in which the
maximum temperatures in a given place
and day are higher than the average
maximum temperature by at least 5°C
(compared to the average from 1961-1990).
Due to climate change, warm days
and heat waves will occur more
and more often, and cold days
less and less. In July and
August 2015, a record number
of days with temperatures above
30°C was recorded in Poland.
Droughts
threats.droughts.full
The increase in air temperature
and the change in the structure
of atmospheric rain directly affects
the moisture of soils and water
resources, causing the phenomenon of drought.
As a result of the drought which took place
in central and western Poland in 2018, the losses
amounted to over PLN 3.5 million, and the
number of crops decreased by at least 20%.
threats.floods.full
The change in the structure of atmospheric
precipitation promotes the occurrence of floods, the
most common extreme phenomenon in Europe.
Floods cause the deaths of people and animals,
constitute epidemiological threat and contribute to
the destruction of infrastructure and the environment.
The flood wave on the Vistula in 2010 resulted
in flooding over 2,000 village. Losses caused
by it reached about PLN 12.2 billion.
threats.wars.full
In the years 2006 - 2010, the
drought in Syria led to the collapse
of agriculture in the north-eastern
part of the country and mass
migration of people from areas
to cities. Poor living conditions
in the cities resulted in intensification
of political tensions. This in turn
became the source of the 2011
revolution, which led to the ongoing
civil war in this country.
threats.migrations.full
In Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin
America and South Asia as
many as 143 million people will
be forced to change their place
of residence within their own
country, or to move to a neighboring
country. If we do not stop the
rise in temperature, by 2100 the
number of migrants arriving in Europe
will increase to a million per year.
Looss
threats.biological.full
Since the 1970s, we have contributed
to the extermination of 60% of
vertebrate species. This is the
result of destroying their habitats
and degradation and
overexploitation of wildlife.
Currently, 27% of species are threatened
with extinction. If the temperature rises
by another degree, we can say goodbye
to coral reefs and half the sea fish
stocks in developing countries.
threats.diseases.full
As a result of climate change, infectious
diseases are spreading faster and easier.
The number of people afflicted with
lyme disease transmitted by ticks
has tripled over the past 10 years
and tick-borne encephalitis has
increased more than eleven
times (over the past 21 years).
In 2018, compared to the previous year, the
incidence of West Nile fever in Europe
increased more than threefold.
We can expect it will be even worse.
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Watch free streaming and on-demand videos from NASA with Space TV for BlackBerry PlayBook
Michelle Haag
Space TV is a cool new app for the BlackBerry Playbook that allows you to access videos and pictures from NASA in an easy to navigate interface. Connect your PlayBook to your television and your whole family can enjoy HD videos from the main NASA stream or from the International Space Station (ISS) stream. You can also view a long list of on-demand videos of scientist lectures, interviews, history, and tons more.
The Space TV app was updated this week to include a section devoted to images from the Mars rover Curiosity. This is in addition to the Curiosity videos that are in the on-demand section. Overall this app is a perfect way to easily keep on top of not only the latest news coming out of NASA, but also a treasure trove of other educational and entertaining videos involving space and astronauts. Space TV is free in BlackBerry App World and you can grab it from the link below.
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The Daily Illini police blotter for Feb. 8
By The Daily Illini Staff Report
Filed under Crime, News, Police Blotter
Theft was reported at Lover’s Playground, 33 E. Springfield Ave., around 10 a.m. on Feb. 1. According to the report, the suspect concealed an item and walked beyond all the purchase points in the store without attempting to pay for the item.
Fraud was reported at Hertz, 707 N. Mattis Ave., around 11 a.m. Thursday. According to the report, a victim from the state of Oklahoma reported their credit card was used to rent a car in Champaign.
Theft was reported at Ace Hardware, 2021 S. Neil St., around 3 p.m. Tuesday. According to the report, a suspect attempted to return stolen property. He left the store with the property when the return was denied.
Theft was reported at the Illini Union Bookstore, 809 S. Wright St., around 5 p.m. Friday. According to the report, security called police after seeing a University student attempt to leave the store without paying for a textbook. The textbook was worth $69.
Burglary was reported on the 500 block of Michigan Avenue around 1 p.m. Thursday. According to the report, an unknown offender broke into the victim’s vehicle and stole a couple of items.
Day 4 of penalty phase sees defense continues to humanize Christensen
Christensen’s academic background revealed in testimony
Penalty phase continues with Christensen’s friend, family testimony
Yingying Zhang’s family testifies during second day of penalty phase
Zhang family addresses public following verdict
Guilty: Christensen faces possibility of death penalty, trial to resume July 8
Deliberations begin for verdict in Christensen trial
Man stabbed on Green Street following presumed altercation
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Pennsylvania Ballet: Romeo & Juliet
Pennsylvania Ballet
Academy of Music
Sigrid Payne DaVeiga
Artistic Director Angel Corella introduced this afternoon’s presentation of Romeo & Juliet with a dedication to Beatrice Jona Affron, Music Director and Conductor for Pennsylvania Ballet. Affron is credited with being a “silent poet” for the company as well as the city of Philadelphia. She has led more performances at the Academy of Music than any conductor before her. Dancers and musicians alike cite her as a person of extraordinary compassion, professionalism, and integrity. The music of Romeo & Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev showcased Affron’s magic as a conductor and musical force. Affron graciously accepted her lauds of praise, but did not leave the audience waiting longer than a minute to jump into her position in the orchestra pit and begin the overtures of Romeo & Juliet.
The production opened on an immense mural, occupying the entire stage, of a landscape with two large regal houses on either side, as if en face and seemingly already at odds in the picturesque view. As this façade lifted to transport the audience to one of many elaborate scenes, it was clear that no stone was left unturned in the intentionality of every detail in the production’s scenery and costumes by Paul Andrews. The elements of every set were impeccably executed – even the floor was dappled to appear like a flat stone surface. This is the first time Pennsylvania Ballet has performed Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet, and the production established the company’s ability to create a meaningful, entrancing dance narrative. The grandiose movement of the story from place to place throughout the performance created a vast expanse in which to tell the greatest love story of all time.
Act One, Scene 1 was set in The Marketplace where the audience is introduced to Romeo, danced by Sterling Baca in a last minute casting change, as he seeks the company of Rosaline, danced by Jacqueline Callahan. The Marketplace erupts into an onslaught of movement of townspeople and raucous life. The Harlots, danced by Alexandra Hughes, Ana Calderon, and Adrianna de Svastich, were a humorous and exciting trio. Their bawdy hairstyles and flashy character dance were an entertaining addition to every Marketplace scene, and all three seemed to be enjoying their roles. Calderon’s great smile was a wonderful nuance that set her apart in her character’s rendition.
Romeo’s friends – Mercutio, danced by Peter Weil, and Benvolio, danced by Russell Ducker – were exceptional highlights in today’s production. Baca, Weil, and Ducker danced together as a trio multiple times and their power as dancers was quite clear. The three played well off one another, like jovial young friends enjoying their time in the Marketplace and as guests sneaking into the ball at the Capulet’s home in Act One. Weil’s Mercutio was an excellent character interpretation, embodying Shakespeare’s mercurial and unpredictable details. Weil’s leaps were impressive and far-reaching, consuming every possible space on the stage. When Mercutio was executed in Act Two, Weil’s movements – as if he was simply maimed then continuing to fight – were gripping. When he ultimately died, reaching an outstretched arm towards Romeo and Tybalt, each, the audience was entranced as he sealed the two men’s fates with his dying breath. This movement lent a level of meaning to a passage in literature that could only be elevated through the drama of this dance.
The staging of scenes when the entire space was full of dancers was very impressive. The excitement of the fencing scenes was palpable in the audience. The dances when suddenly Capulet and Montague men sword-fought, their swords heard quickly tapping against one another as the men moved back and forth between all of the other dancers on stage, caused some audience members to hold their breath in anxious anticipation. The feud in Act One, Scene 1 ended when Escalus, Prince of Verona (danced by Ian Hussey dressed in an elaborate suit of golden armor and almost unrecognizable) arrived, demanding peace. Members of each family, pulled bodies into a heap of dead on the floor after the feud, reminding the audience that the tale of Romeo & Juliet inevitably ends as a tragedy of loss. There was a notable sterility and proprietary tone to many of the scenes in the Marketplace and at the Capulet ball, which truly set apart the moments of true passion in the production when they arrive in the story.
Oksana Maslova with Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet
Photo: Alexander Iziliaev
In particular, the ball at the Capulet’s home is set in a large two-story room where many dancers walk around the center stage on the second floor looking down. There is a life-size portrait hung at the top of the stairs showcasing four women dressed in the same elaborate and regal heavy dark red and blue gowns, as the female dancers at the ball. The image this created was as if an audience member was simply looking into a large period painting. The function it served to off-set Juliet as she entered was utter perfection. A child nearby in the audience said that Oksana Maslova’s Juliet looked like a beautiful angel when she entered the ball. Maslova’s shorter, lighter, and youthful sparkling gold ball gown presented her as the perfect Juliet, of light heart and pure intentions, in sharp contrast to the dark and heavy gowns of the other women at the ball.
Like a dream, Baca’s sumptuous Romeo was drawn to Maslova’s Juliet at the ball, like two magnets in their rapture. Their pas de deux at the ball was exquisite, as magical as one could dream for their first dance. After the ball concludes, the audience is transported to a different view of the Capulet residence, where Maslova’s Juliet is seen in the balcony in the most famous of all moments from the tale of Romeo & Juliet. The lighting design by Brad Fields and Joseph Naftal was perfect at this moment, casting shadows on the pillars and statues outside of the balcony and shining a bright soft light on the beautiful Juliet on the balcony.
Oksana Maslova
Baca exploded onto the stage in the shadowed light seeking her out. Their pas de deux when she exits the balcony to see him was perfection – every tip-toe, every movement of an arm or finger near each other was like the stolen brilliance of a comet, fated to never last. The pair captured the sentiment of the two star-crossed lovers to every detail, like two stars or planets streaming past, the audience knowing the beauty of such a perfect thing could never be fated to last. The gravity-defying moments when Baca, on his knees, lifted Maslova to a pristine arabesque passé en l’air and even at one point turned her entirely upside down with her legs pointed beautifully up to the sky, served to turn the audience on its head as well in the wonder of its possibility.
The beauty of these moments and the known ephemeral nature of them, made the sounds of the violins as the curtain opened on the final scene in the Capulet Family Crypt in Act Three, Scene 4, even more poignant and chilling. One always struggles to understand the ill-fated demise of these two young lovers and MacMillan’s Juliet in Maslova’s interpretation attempted to perfectly make sense of it. MacMillan’s Juliet was intended to be determined and passionate, deciding all major decisions of her relationship with Romeo. Maslova embodied the pain and the passion of this intriguing character as she struggled to make her final choices in her ill-fated path. As an audience we watched her evolve in Act One from a young child playing dolls with her nurse, endearingly danced by Jessica Kilpatrick, to a process of forced decision, one which she would never have chosen for herself, nonetheless forced upon her by the constraints of her station in life.
In the legendary chain of events resulting in the finale of Romeo and Juliet taking their own lives, the audience is left with the empty space in the heart knowing that in the universe a love existed where there was no point in living if the love did not exist. Maslova’s Juliet died in repose on her bed reaching out to Baca’s Romeo in a scene reminiscent of their reach as the curtain closed at the end of Act One, Scene 6, when they said good-bye over the balcony ledge. This time, though, the farewell is forever. Every miniscule detail of Maslova’s despair through her dancing and her passion of interpreting Juliet is meaningful and wonderful in its execution of pain and frustration.
When Baca finds her lifeless form and attempts to dance with her and lift her in the air, Maslova’s limp arms and legs are fragile, like a small doll herself, stripped of the ability to control her movements. Timely in the presentation of a woman forced out of a choice, though her intentions were pure and simply not what others wanted for her, Juliet’s struggle in her decision to ultimately drink the poisoned elixir brings to life a timeless tale, whose message of sealed fates and a life lost because of a freedom-less fate will be significant forever.
Oksana Maslova and Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet
While the audience knew the inevitable end of the tale for Romeo & Juliet, there was something shocking about Tybalt’s death on the day of this performance and the reactions it stirred in the audience. Tybalt was danced by Jermel Johnson – a dancer of iconic grace and strength, with an astounding capacity to embody the characters he plays. He is truly a master of his craft as well as a work of art to behold in and of himself, as a dancer. Today, though, his anger and passion in this character were particularly striking. His intention and fortitude were precise in every movement of his sword, his turns and immense jumps and in his body as it seemed to break in half as the sword was plunged into his stomach.
The moment that captivated everyone today, though, was his death and then sudden and surprisingly dramatic and passionate entrance of Lady Capulet, danced by Marjorie Feiring. Feiring’s performance of passionate wailing and her obvious despair were perhaps the most moving moment in the entire day’s performance. Though the suggestion of a relationship between Lady Capulet and Tybalt was a well-kept secret to this point, it was the explosion of this emotional force that brought the audience to tears. On reflection, though, the undercurrent of the message seemed intentional. The voice this moment in the choreography and its execution lended to the understanding of unrequited love, the love other characters have hidden as well, beyond Romeo and Juliet; the force required to hide true love in the face of a sterile and proprietary society, and the damage undertaken by the loss of choice of love and life for many.
Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of MacMillan’s Romeo & Juliet achieved everything it set out to achieve today. The sets, the music, the costumes, and the dancing were perfect. The hidden magic and surprise, though, was the secret in the story that only the company of Pennsylvania Ballet could concoct in their magical elixir that cast a spell on all of us today.
The final performances of Romeo & Juliet resume this weekend, October 19-21. Visit paballet.org for details.
Tags: Pennsylvania Ballet
Sigrid Payne DaVeiga is a contributor to CriticalDance.
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Chuan Shan 1
Eldar Zianbetov 1
Eric Colinet 1
François Anceau 1
Jean-Michel Akre 1
Mohammad Javidan 1
Olivier Billoint 1
Gérard Scorletti 1
Jérôme Juillard 1
Anton Korniienko 1
Circuits Intégrés Numériques et Analogiques 1
Short CV (last updated in may 2017)
Dimitri Galayko was graduated from Odessa State Polytechnic University (Ukraine) in 1998, he received his master degree from Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA-LYON, France) in 1999. He made his PhD thesis in the Institute of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies (IEMN, Lille, France) and received the PhD degree from the University Lille-I in 2002. The topic of his PhD dissertation was modeling and design of microelectromechanical silicon filters and resonators for radio communications. Since 2005 he is an associate professor in University Paris VI (UPMC, Sorbonne Universités) in the Laboratory of Computer Science (LIP6). He obtained the HDR diploma from UPMC at 2012.
He was a coordinator of two French national collaborative research grants (ANR), HODISS (Architectures du futur program, 2009-2012) et HERODOTOS (Arpege program, 2011-2014). Since 2012 he is expert French Observatory of Micro- and Nano Technologies at the Energy group. He has supervised 9 PhD students. His publication record is 23 articles in international journals, 70 communications in international conferences and 4 patents, in addition to invited lectures, tutorials and presentations. He is reviewer in journals such as IEEE TCAS, JMM, Sensor and Actuators. He is an active member of the Technical Committee Nonlinear Circuits and Systems of IEEE CAS society. He has served as:
- Associate editor at the TCAS-II journal since 2016
- Technical program committee member at PowerMEMS 2016 conference,
- Track co-chair at the ISCAS 2017 conference (appointed by election)
- Track co-chair of the section NCAS at ICECS 2014 in Marseille,
- Review committee member at ISCAS 2015
He organized a tutorial on electrostatic vibration energy harvesters at ICECS 2014 and several special (invited) sessions at the CAS conferences.
His research interests cover design and modeling of heterogeneous systems involving a combination of classical CMOS integrated circuit with physical sensors such as MEMS devices and energy harvesters, study of different aspects of oscillating structures in microelectronics (both solid-state CMOS oscillators and MEMS oscillators), and investigation and modeling of nonlinear phenomena emerging in such systems.
Design and modeling of systems for vibration energy harvesting has been one of his main research topics since 2007, on which he collaborates with Circuits and Systems group at University College Dublin, Ireland and with Microsystem group of the ESYCOM laboratory of the University of Paris-Est, France.
"Jerome Juillard" "Olivier Billoint"
Conference papers1 document
Eldar Zianbetov, Dimitri Galayko, François Anceau, Mohammad Javidan, Chuan Shan, et al.. Distributed clock generator for synchronous SoC using ADPLL network. CICC 2013 - IEEE 2013 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Sep 2013, San José, CA, United States. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1109/CICC.2013.6658437⟩. ⟨hal-01053768⟩
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Monitoring the Environmental Effects of CeO2 and ZnO Nanoparticles Through the Life Cycle of Corn (Zea mays) Plants and in Situ μ-XRF Mapping of Nutrients in Kernels
Lijuan Zhao, University of Texas at El Paso
Youping Sun, Utah State UniversityFollow
Jose A. Hernandez-Viezcas, University of Texas at El Paso
Jie Hong, University of Texas at El Paso
Sanghamitra Majumdar, University of Texas at El Paso
Genhua Niu, Texas A&M University
Maria Duarte-Gardea, University of Texas at El Paso
Jose R. Peralta-Videa, University of Texas at El Paso
Jorge L. Gardea-Torresdey, University of Texas at El Paso
Environmental Science& Technology
Information about changes in physiological and agronomic parameters through the life cycle of plants exposed to engineered nanoparticles (NPs) is scarce. In this study, corn (Zea mays) plants were cultivated to full maturity in soil amended with either nCeO2 or nZnO at 0, 400, and 800 mg/kg. Gas exchange was monitored every 10 days, and at harvest, bioaccumulation of Ce and Zn in tissues was determined by ICP-OES/MS. The effects of NPs exposure on nutrient concentration and distribution in ears were also evaluated by ICP-OES and μ-XRF. Results showed that nCeO2 at both concentrations did not impact gas exchange in leaves at any growth stage, while nZnO at 800 mg/kg reduced net photosynthesis by 12%, stomatal conductance by 15%, and relative chlorophyll content by 10% at day 20. Yield was reduced by 38% with nCeO2 and by 49% with nZnO. Importantly, μ-XRF mapping showed that nCeO2 changed the allocation of calcium in kernels, compared to controls. In nCeO2 treated plants, Cu, K, Mn, and Zn were mainly localized at the insertion of kernels into cobs, but Ca and Fe were distributed in other parts of the kernels. Results showed that nCeO2 and nZnO reduced corn yield and altered quality of corn.
Zhao, L., Y. Sun, J.A. Hernandez-Viezcas, J. Hong, S. Majumdar, G. Niu, M. Duarte-Gardea, J.R. Peralta-Videa, and J.L. Gardea-Torresdey. 2015. Monitoring the Environmental Effects of CeO2 and ZnO Nanoparticles Through the Life Cycle of Corn (Zea Mays) Plants and in Situ μ-XRF Mapping of Nutrients in Kernels. Environmental Science & Technology 49(5):2921-2928.
https://doi.org/10.1021/es5060226
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Magazino GmbH
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About Magazino GmbH
Magazino GmbH with its headquarters in Munich was founded by Frederik Brantner, Lukas Zanger and Nikolas Engelhard in 2014. Since then, the Start-Up has grown to over 50 employees. Magazino builds and develops perception controlled, mobile robots for intralogistics. The Order-picking-robot TORU is the newest development by Magazino. Until now it was only possible to automated pick whole boxes and pallets. Now, with TORU it is possible to pick a single item. Magazinos technology contains 2D and 3D cameras which makes it possible to identify and locate a single object within the shelf, pick it safely and finally transport it precisely to the desired location. The intelligent robot TORU works side-by-side with humans and delivers the desired parts at the right time to the workplace or to the shipping station. With this solution Magazino delivers the perfect Item-logistic for the industry 4.0.
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New York City FC, another goalkeeper for an even more uncertain market
Weird market that of New York City FC. A defender and a goalkeeper arrived via the MLS SuperDraft. In particular, with the arrival of Luis Barraza, there are now four goalkeepers on the roster. A high number considering that as a goalkeeper can play only one and that, usually, the second goalkeeper has the opportunity to play only in case of disqualification or injury of the first goalkeeper.
An unclear choice is to bet on another goalkeeper. Despite this, in Chicago for the Super Draft the climate seemed very relaxed with Claudio Reyna and Dome Torrent smiling and confident of their choices. Probably they have already planned what will be the next market operations of the club that urgently needs reinforcements.
For the moment, however, uncertainty reigns among the fans who were expecting a completely different market for a new season that must finally be the winning one for New York City FC.
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Tag Archives: Warren Haynes
R.I.P. Johnny Winter
I was saddened to hear about the passing of legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter. Yet another amazing and talented musician who has left us this year. Personally I’m thankful that a spontaneous last minute trip to Jazz Fest this past May provided me the opportunity to hit the late night (and what became legendary) Gov’t Mule and Special Guests show at the Saenger Theatre where Johnny Winter sat in for a few songs. In what would become one of his final live performances, that was special regardless but now it has a whole new memory for me.
Check out this photo of Warren Haynes and Johnny Winter from Dino Perrucci Photography which amazingly captures that special moment on the evening of May 2, 2014.
Tags: Gov't Mule, Johnny Winter, Live, Photo, RIP, Saegner, Show, Special Guest, Theater, Theatre, Warren Haynes
Video: My Bonnaroo
It took a week but I was finally able to put my Bonnaroo 2011 photos into a video slide show. Everything is in sequential order from the moment we arrived until the final show. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to capture every band I saw but hope you enjoy what I did capture. Can’t wait until Bonnaroo 2012. Let the countdown begin.
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Categories Revisited
Revisited: Bonnaroo 2011
10th anniversary of Bonnaroo is in the books and I’m ready to get tickets for next year. Being a Bonnaroo rookie, it was all about taking in as much of the experience as possible. After an afternoon waiting for everyone to fly in, rent the truck and an off the reservation experience at Walmart, we were on the road. Some 60 miles and one wrong turn later, we arrived. After finding the RV and unpacking enough food and booze to feed the entire stage crew for the festival, it was time to get the party started. Meandering through the festival grounds at night it was hard to capture just how big the Bonnaroo fields are and how over 100,000 people flow in and out. The first time you see it during the day, your jaw drops at the sight of an entire city being created in virtually the middle of nowhere. If that’s what it takes for people to get along, be polite and just have a good time, I can live with that.
I also learned that no matter what bands you plan to see, you can go ahead and throw that plan out, it just isn’t going to happen and that’s a good thing. Getting a chance to pop in and out of shows, listening to some new bands (and some old), wandering around the festival grounds and just kind of going with the flow seemed to be just fine. Photos will be coming soon (I promise) but here are some of my highlights from Bonnaroo X.
My First Show: The Walkmen
My Final Show: Apache Relay
Best What Stage Show: The Black Keys
Best Which Stage Show(s): G.Love/Warren Haynes
Best Tent Show: Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
Best Overall Show: Walk The Moon
Biggest Surprise: Childish Gambino
Best Legend Show: three way tie – Robert Plant, Dr. John, Gregg Allman
Random Moment Of Awesomeness: blue blinkers dropping from the sky for Arcade Fire’s set
Overall Stage With The Best Performances: On Tap Stage – shows included Band of Heathens, Apache Relay, Chancellor Warhol, Mat McHugh, Pimps of Joytime, JEFF The Brotherhood, Bobby Long and more
Most Entertaining Show: Lil Wayne for the fact that at least 40,000 festival goers/hippies knew all the lyrics to his songs – you had to be there to understand where I’m coming from
Most Disappointing Moment: Terrible sound quality for the Buffalo Springfield show made it almost impossible to listen to (this saddened me more than anyone will ever know)
Next Big Thing: Walk The Moon and Apache Relay
Top Party: the overflowing sea of madness for Girl Talk at 2:30am
Oddest Show That Was A Blast: Primus
Funky Good Time Show: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
Band I Was Sad To Miss: GIVERS
Angriest Performer: Eminem
Best Intro: Lewis Black for Warren Haynes
What Would Have Been Great: a late night set from a headlining DJ
Top Roo’er: Guy trying to make the “World’s Biggest Glow Stick” (if you saw/met him, you know what I’m talking about)
Top Sports Bar Moment: Game 6 of the NBA finals was like the March Madness scene in Vegas (video coming soon).
Best Festival Eats: Bear Creek Farms’ hand cut French fries and Gravy
Best Broo’ers Festival Beer: Ashville Brewing Company’s Ninja Porter
Best Place To Cool Off: the cinema (if no line to wait)
Biggest Waste of Time: anything that involved a line
Shocker Of The Festival: no rain
Worst Part: Dust everywhere and if you didn’t have a bandana, you were SOL
Clutch Move: renting a pickup truck
Tip For Next Year: less junk food and more healthy food, bring laxatives and don’t go off the reservation
More Tips: flip flops are your enemy, dust sucks, that fountain water is filthier than Vegas’ Rehab, expect rain, drink water and more water
Tags: anniversary, Apache Relay, Arcade Fire, Band of Heathens, Bear Creek Farms, Black Joe Lewis, BLues, Bobby Long, Bonnaroo, Buffalo Springfield, Chancellor Warhol, Childish Gambino, cinema, Concert, Dr. John, Eminem, Festival, Funk, G. Love, Girl Talk, GIVERS, Glow Stick, Gregg Allman, Hip-Hop, Honeybears, JEFF the brotherhood, Lewis Black, Lil Wayne, Live, Mat McHugh, Mumford & Sons, Music, NBA Finals, On Tap, Pimps of Joytime, pop, Primus, R&B, Robert Plant, Rock, Ryan Bingham, Soul, Sports Bar, Tennessee, Tent, The Black Keys, The Dead Horses, The Walkmen, Walk The Moon, Warren Haynes, What Stage, Which Stage, X
Countdown to Bonnaroo: 3 Days – Artist of the Day: Warren Haynes
Arguably one of the most talented musicians around, Warren Haynes is simply an ace in the hole; whether it be fronting Gov’t Mule, jamming with the Allman Brothers Band, pulling double duty with The Dead or riding solo (among too many more collaborations to list) you are in for a thrilling ride seeing him live. Relentless touring and righteous jamming has made Haynes not only a commodity in the music industry but a legend among fans. That sweet southern rock sound will be one of the Bonnaroo 10th Anniversary highlights.
Friday 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Which Stage
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Tags: Allman Brothers, Band, BLues, Bonnaroo, Concert, Do You Hear The Music, Festival, Gov't Mule, Grateful Dead, Jam, Rock, Show, Soulshine, Warren Haynes
Categories Music You Should Know, Now Playing
49 Days Until Bonnaroo, 49 Reasons To Look Forward to June 9-12
We are 49 days away from Bonnaroo!! Since I’m claiming it as a holiday, here are 49 Reasons to look forward to Bonnaroo June 9-12.
49. Saying you are going to Tennessee just sounds so good
48. GIVERS are going to be going Up! Up! Up! after playing the festival
47. Bonnaroo Buzz from Ben & Jerry’s
46. Getting a chance to hear an amazing talent in Bobby Long
45. A good excuse to go buy galoshes
44. Justin’s Maple Almond Butter packets in tow
43. Donald Glover is part of the comedy line-up
42. Getting a chance to see The Band of Heathens live!
41. The legend, Henry Rollins
40. “Let’s Go Surfing” by The Drums
39. Mud sliding during and after the rain
38. Sonic Stage
37. Florence Welch – I can’t wait to see her perform
36. Grace Potter
35. Matt & Kim’s intro music (Beastie Boys – “No Sleep Til Brooklyn”) and they’re fun live
34. Check out the works on display at the Poster Art Exhibit
33. Portugal. The Man
32. The cinema but only if The Big Lebowski or My Blue Heaven are playing
31. Listening to Ryan Bingham play tracks off Mescalito, his first album
30. Since Jimmy Fallon announced the initial line-up maybe hope that he and The Roots show-up as a surprise guests
29. Old Crow Medicine Show belt out “Wagon Wheel”
28. Les Claypool
27. Checking out Eminem to see if he reaches way back and busts out D12 “Purple Pills”
26. The Black Keys rock out (I’ve been blown away by their performances twice this year already)
25. Grammy Winners Arcade Fire play yet another festival as a headliner and after years on the smaller stages
24. Getting down with Galactic
23. Late night with Bootsy Collins
22. A chance to see The Decemberists before the pack it in
21. Planet Roo
20. The only way I’ll see Lil Wayne because I know I wouldn’t buy a ticket to just his concert
19. Have you ever seen Ray LaMontagne live?
18. Austin’s Finest – Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
17. The Silent Disco
16. Listen to blues music with G. Love
15. Lewis Black, nuff said
14. Party into the night with Girl Talk
13. Seeing the sun rise
12. Mumford & Sons play their largest show to date
11. The honor of seeing Mr. Robert Plant live
10. Hearing Warren Haynes play “Soulshine”
9. One more time to see Gregg Allman before it’s too late
8. Superjam
7. Late night with Dr. John and the Original Meters
6. Surprise performances that are sure to be in store this year
5. Celebrate 25 years of Widespread Panic
4. Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bonnaroo
3. String Cheese Incident do their thing
2. In my lifetime getting a chance to see Buffalo Springfield perform live
1. Four days listening to music and camping with great friends
Of course there are a whole lot more than 49 reasons to look forward to Bonnaroo so feel free to drop yours in the comment section below.
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Tags: 10th anniversary, 25th anniversary, 9-12, Arcade Fire, Ben & Jerry's, Big Lebowski, Black Joe Lewis, Bobby Long, Bonnaroo, Bootsy Collins, Buffalo Springfield, D12, Do You Hear The Music, Donald Glover, Dr. John, Eminem, Florence Welch, Folk, G. Love, Galactic, Girl Talk, GIVERS, Grace Potter, Greg Allman, Henry Rollins, Hip-Hop, Honeybears, indie, Jimmy Fallon, June, Justin's Maple Almond Butter, Lesclaypool, Let's Go Surfing, Lewis Black, Lil Wayne, Live, Matt & Kim, Mumford & Sons, Music, My Blue Heaven, Neil Young, Old Crow Medicine Show, Planet Roo, Portugal. The Man, Primus, Purple Pills, rap, Ray LaMontagne, Robert Plant, Rock, Ryan Bingham, Silent Disco, Sonic Stage, Special Sauce, String Cheese Incident, Superjam, Tennessee, The Band of Heathens, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Drums, The Meters, The Roots, Wagon Wheel, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic
Just Released: Outside Lands 2011 Line-up
Just released, check out the line-up for Outside Lands Festival August 12-14 in San Francisco. Should be an incredible three days with Phish, Muse and Arcade Fire headlining. Throw in The Black Keys, Deadmau5, The Roots, Foster The People, The Decemberists, Girl Talk, MGMT, Beirut, Arctict Monkeys, STS9, Warren Haynes, Big Boi, The Original Meters, Major Lazer, !!!, Joy Formidable, Toro Y Moi, The Original Meters and a whole lot more, you have yourselves a pretty sick group of musicians.
Tags: !!!, Arcade Fire, Arctict Monkeys, August 12-14, Beirut, Big Boi, Califronia, Craig Nyman, Deadmau5, Do You Hear The Music, Foster the People, Girl Talk, Golden Gate, Joy Formidable, Major Lazer, MGMT, Muse, Outside Lands, Phish, San Francisco, SF, STS9, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Original Meters, The Roots, Toro Y Moi, Warren Haynes
Categories News, Uncategorized
Dave Matthews Band Caravan: Atlantic City June 24-26 Line-up
So the June 24-26 Dave Matthews Band Caravan line-up for Bader Field in Atlantic City was just released and all I can say is, SICK as in what a group of artists as I start day dreaming about how great these three days will be. Tickets go on sale for Warehouse members March 14 and to the public on March 25. Check out the below for all the artists. I don’t know who to be most excited about, such an amazing group of musicians. What I do know is From Good Homes will be playing at the festival, love seeing the Jersey rockers on the bill as they just reunited in recent years after a decade hiatus.
Tags: Alberta Cross, Amos Lee, Atlantic City, Bader Field, Bassnectar, Big Gigantic, Bobby Long, Caravan, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Carter Beauford, Damian MArley, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band, David Gray, Delta Spirit, DMB, Dr. Dog, Fitz & The Tantrums, Flaming Lips, From Good Homes, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Guster, Lisa Hannigan, Lotus, Mariachi El Bronx, Michael Franti, New Jersey, O.A.R., Punch Brothers, Ray LaMontagne, Rebelution, Spearhead, Stefan Lessard, The Budos Band, Thievery Corporation, Tim Reynolds, TR#, Vusi Mahlasela, Warren Haynes
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DSA students presents A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. Students at Detroit School of Arts Theater Department will present the play in the DSA Aaliyah Hall, Thursday, 27 and Friday 28, 2017. Tickets are $10, please contact the school at (313) 494-6000.
DSA’s Student-Produced Midtown Car Show to Showcase Talent
Witness a showcase of student art, see ensemble performances by the Detroit School of Arts students and witness a first-time collaboration with the Midtown Taste Fest featuring DPSCD’s culinary departments at Breithaupt and Golightly Career and Technical Centers. The Midtown Car Show is an annual educational exhibit that presents live concerts, art workshops, entertainment and photography all produced by the students at Detroit School of Arts. The show displays the state’s most spectacular vehicles to celebrate Detroit’s automotive heritage and enhance professional development in the automotive field. Sponsored by the Ford Motor Company’s Driving Skills for Life and Lear Corporation, the 2017 Midtown Car Show will display an 1890 Benz, courtesy of the Automotive Hall of Fame and a 1951 …
Congratulations Michigan Chronicle S.W.A.G. Scholarship Finalists
The Michigan Chronicle along with Talmer Bank is holding the First Annual S.W.A.G. (Students Wired for Achievement and Greatness) Scholarship ceremony on Wednesday, May 25 at 6 p.m., at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The Michigan Chronicle will award 25 scholarships to Detroit High School seniors. DPS finalists include: Cass Technical High School Alana Crawford Lisbeth Garcia-Leon Raheida Khalique Terria Davis Alyson Grigsby Jonae’ Maxey Krishana Castro Daria Bailey Shahera Khandaker Chyna Ross Kiryn Swain Lori Goodwin Kala Coston Detroit International Academy for Young Women Papia Aziz Detroit School of Arts Ejiro Enajero Renaissance High School Leonard Rowe Paige Sims Akia Hewitt Western International High School Lucy Arias Congratulations finalists!
Detroit School of Arts Hosts Third Annual MIDTOWN CAR SHOW™
Event to showcase student talent integrated among various disciplines including arts, fashion, music, dance, designs, films, photography and more! The Annual MIDTOWN CAR SHOW™ presented by Detroit School of Arts (DSA) will take place April 29 – 30. The event, which was launched in 2013 and inspired by Visual Arts Teacher John Wood, promotes Detroit’s automotive industry past, present and future, and relevant student educational projects related to the automotive industry. MIDTOWN CAR SHOW™ uses progressive concepts to showcase student talent with various creative disciplines: art, fashion, music, dance, designs, films, photography, social media, entrepreneurial, etc. to work with professionals in the automotive capitol. This educational, informative and high-energy event includes both urban and suburban, primary and secondary schools, as …
DPS students participate in MSBOA District Band and Orchestra Festival
Detroit Public Schools band and orchestra students participated in the Michigan School Band Orchestra Association’s District XV Band and Orchestra Festival on Saturday, March 12. The following groups received superior ratings and qualified to perform in the State Band and Orchestra Festival: Duke Ellington K-8 Concert Band, Mr. Sean Patton, Director Cass Tech High School Chamber Strings, Ms. Deanna Burrows, Director DSA Symphony Band, Dr. Sean Penderel, Director King High School Symphony Band, Mr. Ronald Perkins, Director Renaissance High School Chamber Strings, Dr. Jui Chao Wang The State Band and Orchestra Festival will take place the last week in April and the first week of May. Congratulations to these outstanding groups for a job well done. On to States!
DPS 2015 graduation rates improve 6 percentage points, beating the State’s rate of increase!
DPS students continue to close gap with statewide peers and are now only 2.4 percent away from the state average; gap was more than 17 percent in 2008 Detroit Public Schools’ high school graduation rate increased six percentage points for 2015, bringing the rate to 77.35 percent, the highest rate in a decade. DPS students also continued to close the gap with their statewide peers and now are only 2.4 percent away from the state average. DPS students beat the state’s rate of increase by more than five percentage points. The District’s dropout rate also decreased by nearly 7 percent to 11.47 percent. (Note: Based on cohort graduation rates and cohort dropout rates calculated for all schools in the State …
DPS kicks off Application Period Wednesday, February 24 for 22 Application Schools
The district kicks off its Application Schools Period Wednesday, February 24 for the 22 Application Schools, which range from a number of top-ranked schools by Excellent Schools Detroit to robust STEM programs such as Detroit International Academy, home of the Pink Panthers and all-girls robotics team, to language immersion programs, including those offered at Academy of the Americas and Foreign Language Immersion and Cultural Studies School. The month-long Application Schools period runs from February 24 to March 23. Applications are open to families of current DPS students as well as those newly enrolling or attending school elsewhere. The Application Schools are as follows: Academy of the Americas (K-8) / Academy of the Americas (9-11) Ann Arbor Trail Magnet Elementary-Middle School Bates Academy Benjamin …
Congratulations DSA senior Ivana Butler on winning the $10,000 Schrock Interlochen Scholarship
Ivana Butler of Detroit School of Arts was selected as the winner of a $10,000 Interlochen Scholarship. First Place Winner: Ivana Butler Senior at Detroit School of Arts Soprano soloist Winning selection: Se tu m’ami, se sospiri (Italian) written by Giovanni Pergolesi Teacher: Connie Malabed Accompanist: Mr. Albert Duncan Second Place Winner: Joshua Cooper Senior at Renaissance High School Piano soloist Composition Title: Revolutionary Etude Composer: Frederick Chopin Teacher: Ronald Malabed More about the Interlochen Summer Programs The world’s premier summer arts program for aspiring artists in grades 3 through 12, Interlochen Arts Camp attracts students, faculty and staff from all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 countries. Each summer, 2,500 students come to Interlochen to train intensively with renowned …
Whole Foods Market brings Dr. Ian Smith to DSA
Whole Foods Market (WFM) is bringing to Detroit, celebrity author Dr. Ian Smithas seen on the Emmy winning daytime talk show, The Doctors and VH1’s highly-rated Celebrity Fit Club. Dr. Ian Smith is also author of the Number 1 New York Times Bestseller Shred: The Revolutionary Diet and Super Shred: The Big Results Diet. Join WFM at the Detroit School of Arts on Monday, February 8 as Dr. Ian kicks off the annual Detox Challenge. The event will take place in DSA’s auditorium, at 6:00 p.m. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. for registered guest. Advanced registration is required and can be made by contacting Angela.Jordan@wholefoods.com. Admission is free and complimentary valet will be available.
DPS High Schools offer Detroit 8th grade students career path options from medical to musical and more
New High School Open House Series tailored for 8th grade students
Detroit Public Schools launched this month a NEW initiative to ensure Detroit 8th grade students can explore the District’s High Schools before the spring Enrollment period to allow parents/guardians and their children to make the best decision possible for their High School of choice. All Detroit 8th grade students graduating in June 2016 are welcome to attend these fun and engaging events.
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XMPP Manager
Parking¶
Call “parking” transfers a current call to an available park extension, where the caller will listen to Music on Hold. The extension that originally received the call is now free to accept other calls or direct another extension to join the call that was parked.
The receptionist receives a call, and the caller would like to speak to the engineering department. The receptionist says “please hold while I transfer you,” and presses the PARK1 button. The call is sent to extension 5901 and the caller listens to music on hold. The receptionist is now free to make a call to her engineering staff, or pages the engineering page group and says “Engineering you have a call on PARK1.”
The Engineer can press the flashing park button on his phone, and he will be connected to the caller, and the park extension will be freed for another call.
Multiple park extensions can be created. Phones can be programmed with BLF functionality for parked extensions, so the users can see if there is a call in that extension.
Below is an example of how to provision a Yealink SIP-T32G, which has 3 Line buttons.
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Illumination 2.11: A New Problem
October 10, 2011 | chrysoula
“Vancouver emergence lock-on reaquired,” announced Kentigern. The Vancouver portal frame filled with light as it activated. Ajax ignored it, watching Natalie as she was wheeled from the Portalry. She didn’t seem injured badly, but she’d been so weak.
Something eclipsed the glow of the portal, growing. Kentigern said, “A new problem. Please remove the injured immediately.” Glittering motes streamed overhead to the portal. Ajax looked over, right into a bright flash. The afterimage burned into his retina: a creature, as big as Descry had been, with four legs and a flattened face pulling itself through a frame it could barely fit into. A scorpion’s tail waved over its back. The tail glowed like a firefly’s backside, the flash ebbing away.
The blindness cleared, although the stink of an electrical fire took its place. Ajax was already moving, away from the doctor working over the injured Prowler. The Cambion looked at him and growled again, a deep, throbbing snarl.
Ajax growled back. “Get out.” Instead, it leapt forward, shaking itself once it was clear of the portal. Its heavy mane jingled and chimed as it lowered its head to stare at Ajax with intelligent amber eyes.
Ajax didn’t back down. “Go back where you came from. The gate’s still open.” It shook its head again, then mid-shake dodged to one side, toward the doctor.
Ajax darted in front of it and a heavy paw slammed into his shoulder, spinning him around. When he whirled around again, he had a glowing bar of light in his hand.
He swung up at the Cambion and it flinched away. Then it spun on a single paw and leapt toward the Portalry exit. Ajax remained where he was for a moment, sure it was a feint and just as sure that Kentigern would do something to stop the Cambion from entering the main part of the Tower.
The scorpion tail glowed again and Ajax squeezed his eyes shut right before another flash turned his eyelids red.
“A-a-alert: enemy within Tower. Noncombatants, get out of corridors.” Kentigern’s voice crackled.
The Cambion squeezed through the open doorframe and vanished into the hall beyond. Ajax spared a look around. Natalie’s dad still stood with the doctor and the injured Prowler, and the other Prowlers seemed to be regrouping.
But Natalie was still in the corridor, on her way to the infirmary. Ajax didn’t know if the Cambion was bent on finishing some fight they’d had on the other side, but he’d be damned if he’d let the monster succeed.
He raced after it. It was fast, leaping down the corridor, but it paused at every intersection to look both ways. At the third intersection, where it seemed to be angling to turn, Ajax caught up. He noticed the scorpion tail actually dissolved into radiance at the tip, sizzling and sparking. It looked a little like the weapon he held, except his weapon didn’t make the air stink of ionization.
He swung his weapon at a point lower on the tail, and felt the connection through his wrist and up his arm. Disappointingly, the weapon didn’t cut the tail, or even make it bleed. But it did make the Cambion turn around and lunge at him. That flattened face, almost human, split open to reveal a maw of razor teeth, and he flung his arm up in front of his face, the corridor wall at his back.
The monster’s breath was hot and dry, like a desert wind. Blood ran down what he was starting to think of as his ‘Cambion-choking arm’, ahead of the pain. He brought his other hand up to press the stage 2 weapon against the monster’s throat, then screamed in its face as he pressed hard.
For a moment everything was a blur of agony and rage. Then he felt the weapon push through a barrier. He could actually feel the liquid running down the weapon, as if on some phantom limb.
The Cambion released him to roar in his face, and he had to grant that its roar was a lot better than his shout. By the time the burst of dizziness had faded, the Cambion was moving down the corridor again. Ajax gave himself just a moment to catch his breath before throwing himself after the Cambion again. “Kentigern,” he shouted. “Can’t you do anything?”
The voice in the walls didn’t answer. Ajax hoped that was a good sign. Then he realized they were in the hall leading to Kentigern’s core. “Kent, it’s heading to you!”
“I know. Preparing—” Kentigern’s voice cut out as the Cambion stopped outside the door to Kentigern’s core. Ajax had never even seen a door for the archway, but there was one now, made of the same pale material as the walls. The Cambion sat back, looking at it, then lifted a paw to score the wall with glittering metallic claws.
Ajax paused a few yards away, keenly aware of the burning ache in his arm and the blood slicking his hand. There were fully trained, healthy Nightlights with stage 3 weapons somewhere in the Tower. Somewhere. Where the hell were they?
He eyed the tail, prepared to make another attempt on it if he saw it about to flash again. He was certain that somehow the flash was doing something to Kentigern or his motes.
But after scoring the new wall, the Cambion drew his head back and bashed it into the scored surface. The wall, eggshell thin, cracked. Another blow shattered it. Then the great paws were pulling the fragments of the wall apart, ignoring the motes that swarmed around.
The Cambion oozed into Kentigern’s core, and paused again, looking around. The room was empty, all of its other exits still sealed. The beam of light in the center of the round bar glittered calmly, but the air around it was clouded with sparkling motes.
The Cambion’s tawny mane lifted, as if in a strong wind. It leaped onto the bar, balanced like a housecat for a heartbeat, then leapt through the beam of light.
It landed on the other side, stumbling and almost falling. With an angry growl, it righted itself and dashed around the room, wrecking the tables and chairs, and scoring the walls. Strands of its mane moved independently, shining like metal. Then it jumped through the central beam of light again, and a third time.
For a moment light seemed to drip from its mane, but Ajax was still more concerned with its tail. All of the new walls blocking the exits dissolved. Kentigern crackled, “G-g-g-get it out of here. D-d-d-disruptive.”
Ajax swallowed and ran after the Cambion as it balanced for a fourth jump. He let his Stage 2 weapon dissove and jumped to grab at the highest point he could reach on the tail, with a bloody, glowing hand. The Cambion whirled, batted him with a paw, then noticed the open doors. Its angry expression cleared, becoming a satisfied smile, and it pushed itself through one of the open doors.
Ajax pushed himself to his feet and limped after it. He was just in time to see it knock aside a Nightlight he didn’t know, sniff at the corridor, and continue on. As it moved, it became clear it wasn’t interested in fighting; it was looking for something and the Nightlights and their Stage 3 weapons who finally appeared were just obstacles to overcome. It turned at this corridor and that, had a tantrum at a courtyard where it destroyed the door and half the wall, and continued on before half a minute had passed.
Finally, it ended up in a hall Ajax had never been in before. A wide ramp leading down joined the hall to another level, but on this level it ended at a huge pair of double doors. The Cambion galloped heavily over to these doors, by now leaking from dozens of cuts taken from the Nightlights it had tried to trample over. It smacked one of the doors with a huge paw, and now, finally, a bright glow grew around the live end of the scorpion tail.
It flashed. When Ajax opened his eyes again, the great doors were opening slowly. Beyond was what he’d noticed Guardians tended to call ‘the land outside’. A breeze freshened, smelling of evergreen sweetness and rotting seaweed and nutmeg.
The Cambion squeezed out between the two doors as soon as it could, vanishing beyond. But the doors kept opening.
“It just wanted to escape?” said a Nightlight behind Ajax. It was Laurel, rumpled as if the emergency had woken her up. “I don’t like that. What could it want out there?”
But Ajax didn’t listen. He was staring at his first unfiltered view of an alien world. And the first thing he noticed was that it was much, much darker than in the pictures.
Kentigern announced, “Ann-n-nouncement: N-n-n-nightfall in ten minutes.”
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Toyota recalls nearly 430,000 vehicles in the U.S.
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by Nick Tragianis | May 22, 2014
Among the three recalls, Toyota is calling back 370,000 Sienna minivans over a spare tire carrier that can rust where road salt is used in the winterHandout
Toyota has issued a recall for three separate issues affecting some 430,000 vehicles across the U.S.
The first recall covers 370,000 Toyota Sienna models manufactured between 2004 and 2011. In climates where road salt is used throughout the winter months, water can splash onto the spare tire carrier and cause it to corrode.
Toyota says certain Sienna models have already been recalled for this issue, and in those cases a splash guard and an anti-rust coating were added, but those fixes did not work. In a worst-case scenario, the spare tire cable will rust to the point where it snaps, dropping the spare tire from below.
The second recall affects the gasoline and hybrid Toyota Highlander from 2014. In the 50,000 examples covered, a fault with the passenger detection system in the front passenger seat can improperly calculate the size of the front passenger, and as a result, fail to determine when to fire the airbag.
The third and final recall concerns rear brakes installed on 10,500 Lexus GS sedans from 2013. In those cars, Toyota says a defective load sensor switch in the pedal can activate the brakes while the car is moving, and with neither driver input nor lighting up the tail lights.
No injuries have been reported at this point, and as usual, dealers will carry out the repairs free of charge.
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[DZone Research] Developers as Security Professionals
We've all heard of shift left and DevSecOps, but is it working? We take a look at some data from DZone's 2018 Security Survey to explores this question.
Jordan Baker
Sep. 18, 18 · Security Zone ·
This article is part of the Key Research Findings from the 2018 DZone Guide to Security: Defending Your Code.
Devs and Sec
Over the last several years, we’ve witnessed a large push among the developer community for security to shift left in the SDLC. The statistics from this year's DZone Security Survey show the effectiveness of this trend. When asked who should take primary responsibility for security, 42% of respondents said developers, 31% said security teams, and 15% said the frameworks themselves. Of the respondents who answered this question, 35% currently work as developers/engineers. Of that 35% currently employed in developer roles, almost half (41%) told us they believe developers should be primarily responsible for security. Additionally, 53% of developer team leads reported that developers should be primarily responsible for security. These are both promising trends in the field of application security.
A core part of the shift left movement in application security is not only increasing concern for security among developers but providing developers with the necessary training and resources to learn secure coding practices. Taking a historical look at security training data, we can see some positive signs. In the 2017 and 2018 DZone Security Surveys, we asked how frequently developers at our respondents’ organizations received security training. Here’s how their answers broke down:
Ad-hoc:
2017: 37%
Yearly:
Semi-annually:
Quarterly:
2017: 9%
The increase in quarterly security training proved quite substantial and is inversely proportional to the percentage of developers reporting that they receive security training on an ad-hoc basis or no training at all. While ad-hoc or no security training remain the two largest categories reported by our respondents, the decrease in their instances over a year, and the marked jump in quarterly trainings, is a positive sign for the industry.
Security Still Consistently an Afterthought
While security has certainly become a greater concern for developers in recent years, it continues to be outweighed by performance concerns. 37% of respondents said that their organization views performance as the largest priority, while 31% reported that security is their organization’s most important concern. In addition to performance, releasing software on schedule often overrides security issues. Approximately half of this year's respondents (51%) reported allowing release schedules to interfere with security concerns on an at least semi-regular basis. To take a more granular look, 34% said release schedules “sometimes” interfere with security, 11% reported “often,” and 6% reported it happens “all the time.” In fact, only 10% of this year’s survey takers told us that releasing on schedule never overrides security concerns; and an additional 25% said it rarely happens.
So, what happens when a vulnerability slips through the cracks? 83% of respondents told us they inform customers of potential known vulnerabilities that got shipped in their software. While we’d all like to see this number at 100%, it’s still a marked increase from 2017, when only 67% of respondents reported informing customers of potential vulnerabilities in their solutions.
Conclusion: Security Makes Cents
One of the major reasons for security continuing to lag behind performance concerns and release schedules is business value. As the above statistics show, releasing software on schedule that works as advertised still dominates the way organizations think about product releases. A study by the Aberdeen Group, however, shows that more up-front investment in security significantly reduces the cost of application development. For the organizations the Aberdeen Group considered "best-in-class," the calculated "annual cost of application security-related incident not avoided" (emphasis theirs), is $1.18 million USD, whereas the "total annual cost of application security initiatives (includes all related costs for people, process, and technologies)," came out to $350,000. That's quite a gap, and its only gets bigger the less prepared an organization is to deal with "security-related incidents."
Taking these numbers into account, we can see why developer involvement and organizational investment in security is increasing. Hopefully, this trend t will continue.
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T-V distinction
In many languages, there is such thing as T-V distinction. Basically, it's when you use different pronouns in "formal" (or "polite") speech, and in informal speech.
Now, I do realize there is no such thing in English directly. However, there are phrases that indicate the change between the formal and informal pronoun. For example, in Russian, a phrase "перейти на 'ты'" means literally "to start using 'ты'", where 'ты' is the informal pronoun. Variations of this also exist in other languages.
So my question is, what is the best way to translate such a phrase into English? In Poul Andersen's book "Tau Zero", I've found a phrase
“That’s the main reason I called you. Remember, during training I urged you to come here for part of your furlough.” By now they were using the intimate pronoun.
While this seems a little awkward, it does the job well. Are there any other ways of saying it?
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SingerOfTheFallSingerOfTheFall
This is an excellent example of something that is close to non-translatable. It is a question of a specific grammar feature that just does not exists at all in English. Of course, formality does exist, so the concept can be explained, just not directly translated. The best that can be hoped for without a full explanation (that is in comparable set of words) is just to mention that they are somehow on more familiar terms. Mentioning an 'intimate pronoun' pulls you out of the story and into either inscrutability for those who don't know and into linguistics for those who do. – Mitch Jul 30 '12 at 12:33
Related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/9780/… – coleopterist Jul 30 '12 at 14:04
We might say "By now they were speaking more familiarly" or, in slightly different contexts, "By now they were on a first name basis"
I tried to find a similar phrase in German so I could translate it and all I came up with is "Du Sagen" "To say 'informal you'".
TecBratTecBrat
dutzen and sietzen – Armen Ծիրունյան Jul 30 '12 at 10:32
Google Translate calls "dutzen" "dozen" and does not translate "sietzen". (I'm not disputing you, but rather pointing out a weakness in GT.) – TecBrat Jul 30 '12 at 11:24
@TecBrat: the terms are duzen and siezen. No T. Not that GT handles those with more grace, but still. – RegDwigнt♦ Jul 30 '12 at 13:38
@RegSwight: Thank you. I see that Google's answer for "duzen" is similar to my second suggestion: "name basis". – TecBrat Jul 30 '12 at 14:51
+1 for "[be] on a first-name basis," which is the closest natural English substitute for what the OP wants to say. – Robusto Jul 31 '12 at 0:45
English does have something of a T-V distinction, but it occurs in a different way than via a pronoun switch.
In the formal version, one peppers one’s speech with vocative-style sir and ma’am all over the place, and addresses the other party by title and surname, like Mr Smith.
In the informal version, one drops all the sir/ma’am bits, and addresses the other party by their given name instead.
This clear distinction in how to address the other party happens even when the rest of the speech is comparatively high register or low register.
Or, if you're from Northern England, one uses words like love, duckie, etc. There's also the very strange my lover, which I'm assured still exists as a form of address between friends in some parts of England. – TRiG Jul 30 '12 at 18:01
French has tutoyer. There is no equivalent English word, and you just have to get round it by saying something like 'they were now on more intimate terms, and it showed in the familiar forms of address they used with each other.'
Barrie EnglandBarrie England
I agree it sounds awkward. I think in English, we might see something like
He addressed her in the familiar.
Kit Z. Fox♦Kit Z. Fox
Depending on the intended audience of your book, you might want to actually use the foreign pronouns in the character's dialogue, if you think there's any chance that your reader will understand them. Sprinkle one or two here or there, or throw one in at the moment when the character switches and then a little note of explanation.
"I'm happy to have met toi," he said, switching to the more familiar toi instead of the more formal vous.
Mr. Shiny and New 安宇Mr. Shiny and New 安宇
That's interesting, I haven't thought of it from such an angle. – SingerOfTheFall Jul 30 '12 at 13:13
You can’t “meet toi”, because that’s the wrong form of the pronoun. It makes no sense. It’s like saying meet ∗thine instead of meet thee. – tchrist♦ Jul 30 '12 at 16:00
@tchrist Of course it isn't grammatically correct French, since it's an English sentence. The point is to introduce the foreign word, not to introduce the whole language. I can't think of any form of the "tu" pronoun that would work better there. – Mr. Shiny and New 安宇 Jul 31 '12 at 2:13
This kind of semi-translation would work well for a technical or legalistic book where exact words matter, but it's probably too stilted in this case. – Dan Jul 31 '12 at 2:17
Although foreign language study is common enough nowadays that people will probably figure out what is meant, I find the language used in Anderson's example quite jarring. There is simply no equivalent concept in English, so trying to use English to explain it, even abstractly, is going to sound weird no matter what you do.
In Anderson's example, I question whether it's even relevant to call out the grammar. One could just say they were 'on friendly terms' or 'like old friends' or something that conveys the intimacy without diving into the grammar.
LynnLynn
Of course English used to have formal and informal pronouns: "thou" was informal and "you" was formal. But over time it came to be considered polite to use the formal in more and more contexts until the informal was lost.
In religious circles people sometimes use "thou" to refer to God because that's how he's addressed in the King James Bible. I once heard someone say that we should address God as "thou" to be more respectful, which is a little amusing because it's exactly the opposite of the intent of the King James translators. (Off the top of my head I don't know if the thou/you usage in King James reflects the Greek and Hebrew or if that was something interjected by the translators.)
Today we generally indicate formal address by using a salutation and last name, and informal by using a first name. Like "Mr Jones" versus "Bob". And of course there are all sorts of things we do differently in formal versus informal speech, like in formal speech we avoid use of contractions and slang terms.
Your example reminds me of another Poul Anderson story, I think it was called "Day of Burning", but anyway, the story where humans have their second contact with the Merseians. Anderson says that the humans learned the Merseian language on their first visit, but by the time of this second visit the language had changed a great deal creating difficulties in communication. And so when he wants to show that the humans are speaking in an out-dated version of the language, he has them use Shakespear/King James type speech, saying "whither thou goest" and that sort of thing. I think that effectively gives the idea of how they would have sounded to the natives.
Likewise, if I was writing a novel and wanted to convey to the reader the idea that the level of familiarity between two people had changed to the point where they were now using informal speech, I think I'd have them saying, "How do you do, Mr Jones" at the beginning and "Hi, Bob, what's up?" later. The reference to shifting to the informal pronoun works for me because I know what he's talking about, but I'm sure many readers would not understand. Well, Anderson tends to write for a more literate audience, perhaps he was counting on most of his readers understanding.
The singular familiar nominative thou originally went with the plural familiar (and sometimes singular formal) ye, not with you, which was an oblique form. The corresponding oblique form of thou is thee. You moved over into a nominative rôle later on down the line. – tchrist♦ Jul 30 '12 at 15:55
Here's a quote from Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Our heroes have just met someone whose native language is not their own:
Iselle controlled a visible twinge of alarm and inclined her head graciously. In passable court Roknari, albeit improperly in the grammatical mode of master to warrior rather than master to servant, she said, "Blessings of the Holy Ones be upon you this day, Umegat."
Umegat's eyes widened, and his bow deepened. He returned a "Blessings of the High Ones upon you too, m'hendi," in the purest accent of the Archipelago, in the polite grammatical form of slave to master.
Cazaril's brows rose. Umegat was no Chalionese half-breed after all, it seemed. Cazaril wondered by what convoluted life's chances he'd ended up here. Interest roused, he ventured, "You are a long way from home, Umegat," in the mode of servant to lesser servant.
A little smile turned the groom's lips. "You have an ear, m'hendi. That is rare, in Chalion."
"Lord dy Cazaril instructs me," Iselle supplied.
"Then you are well served, lady. But," turning to Cazaril, he shifted modes, now to that of slave to scholar, even more exquisitely polite than that of slave to master, "Chalion is my home now, Wisdom."
Ben JacksonBen Jackson
About the closest English has to a clear pragmatic distinction are:
the use of first names vs surnames (whether you address somebody as "John" or "Mr Smith");
the use of formal vocatives such as "Sir"/"Madam"/"Ma'am" etc.
Now, the issue is of course complicated because which form of address is used-- both in English and in languages with a grammatical T/V distinction-- in a given circumstance is subject to the personal preferences of the people concerned in addition to social norms in the language/culture in question. So for there to be a near match between the switch from (say) first name to surname in English vs T to V form in a language with a T/V system is probably quite a rare coincidence.
However, inasmuch as it is a match, it's common in English to say e.g. "we're on first name terms".
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By Neptune • May 12, 2016
Greetings, fellow Dreamers!
Following up from our massive update, we’ve been working hard behind the scenes during this Beta period to bring most of our functionality back online. In many ways, EcchiDreams has evolved considerably during this phase. Now we’re starting to look at bringing certain sections up-to-date. These past few weeks we’ve been working on the The Roleplaying Suite.
Over the years, our Roleplay section has expanded and changed to update itself to the demands of the Roleplayers on EcchiDreams. It started as a single small, pre-determined scenario driven roleplay. Thorndown University; which went on to include other roleplays that eventually came together to become Blackberry Falls, which is supposed to be a slightly more technologically advanced modern city. After that, Blackberry was joined by Craethiel Kingdom; a medieval roleplay, Utopian Curse; a tropical island that seems like paradise on the surface but is a deep survival based plot, and Andromeda; a purely Sci-Fi driven scenario.
Then, with the suggestions that came forth from Dreamers in the community, the Independent Roleplays came into existence. This was a feature that intended on allowing EcchiDreamers the chance to make their own roleplay scenario, rather than be forced to conform to specific settings. This allowed people to create their own roleplays, and set their own balance of control and quality.
But, during the Beta Phase I talked about at the beginning, we have found that with the Independent Roleplay section, we no longer really need the Scenario Roleplays. And thus, we have decided to move them into the Independent Roleplays as their own, Independent RPs. As she was the one that worked on them for all these years, they will be under the ownership of Neptune. Unfortunately this means those roleplays will be restarted when they’re moved, as some of you will have found out when you received an EcchiText on the subject.
There will also be a name change from here on out;
EcchiText Roleplays will become Private Roleplays, and what that means for the section is that nothing changes. You go there to announce Private Roleplays on EcchiDreams (This can be over the Chatbar or through EcchiTexts).
Independant Roleplays will become Public Roleplays, and what this means for the section is that almost nothing really changes. It’s where you make your own roleplay or join one you want to be apart of.
Custom Roleplays will become Premium Roleplays, and will remain something only Platinum members can create (which allows you to set your own permissions; either Private, Invite Only or Public). Contrary to popular belief, we have no intention of monetising this (with real money). This is purely paid for with EcchiCredits (Contribution based currency; which is still offline at the moment).
This encompasses most if not all forms of roleplayers. The Public Roleplays will have difficulty ratings which will allow people to find their level of roleplaying easily, of course these will be easily searchable too. So Joining and Making your own roleplay has never been easier, and the rules are pretty simple and easy to follow.
Over the coming weeks we will be adding guides to our Guides section for Roleplaying. If you click on the “Follow” button in there you’ll be notified as guides are posted.
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We’ve come a long way in Canada. We have real, working examples of both carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems that are reducing GHG emissions while maintaining strong economies.
Yet the growing consensus around carbon pricing is not yet universal. Some voices have questioned the extent to which carbon pricing will affect GHG emissions. And elections are on the horizon, both nationally and in several provinces, in which carbon pricing could be a source of debate and even a key issue.
Such policy debates are healthy and necessary. But debates will support good policy decisions only if they are based on facts and evidence. And there is strong evidence, grounded in solid economics and policy experience, that carbon pricing works.
Part of the problem is communication. Governments and policy analysts (including here at the Ecofiscal Commission) haven’t always done a good enough job explaining carbon pricing to Canadians. This really matters because carbon pricing affects us all. How we design these policies will influence how we live and how we do business. We all want better understanding.
In short, we need a more informed conversation about carbon pricing. So let’s have that conversation. Let’s clear the air.
Done right, carbon pricing changes household and business behaviour, reduces GHG emissions, and provides an incentive for the development and adoption of the technologies that can play a key role in a low-carbon economy.
In addition (and this point is also often overlooked), carbon pricing will achieve these outcomes at a lower economic cost than other policies. Together, this means that carbon pricing can support both a clean economy and a prosperous economy. It achieves these goals by changing incentives and unleashing market forces. It lets businesses and individuals identify the best ways to reduce their GHG emissions and at the times and places that are right for them. And it doesn’t require governments to identify and enforce specific ways to reduce GHG emissions.
This essay unpacks the overall story. What does “working” mean for carbon pricing? Where has carbon pricing worked? Why does carbon pricing work? When does carbon pricing work? Who supports carbon pricing? How do policies put a price on carbon? We provide clear answers to these questions in simple, (mostly) jargon-free language. Just the facts.
#1: Canadian provinces should rely on increasingly stringent carbon pricing policies to reduce GHG emissions
Governments should continue to make carbon pricing the central plank of their climate policy, and they should add well-designed non-pricing policies only when carbon pricing alone can’t do the job. This will ensure that Canada reduces GHG emissions at the lowest possible economic cost. The stringency of carbon pricing policies across Canada should continue to increase gradually over time to drive deeper emissions reductions. Canadian provinces can achieve this by steadily increasing the rates of carbon taxes or steadily reducing the number of permits in cap-and-trade systems.
The expectation of rising carbon prices will strengthen incentives for emitters to innovate and invest in low-carbon technologies. Steady, predictable increases in stringency will ensure that individuals and businesses have time to adjust and plan their long-term investments accordingly.
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We’ve come a long way in Canada. We have real, working examples of both carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems. But pervasive myths about carbon pricing still cause too much of the debate to be based on poor information.
We appreciate that carbon pricing isn’t always simple, especially when it comes to the important details of policy design. It is incumbent on all of us engaged in climate policy to communicate beyond a narrow group of technical policy experts. Carbon pricing affects all Canadians, so we need to help all Canadians understand the basics.
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As the Government announces an inquiry into mental health and addiction services, education groups are calling for double the number of educational psychologists employed in the public sector to improve the mental health of young people.
Education groups are calling for double the number of educational psychologists employed in the public sector to improve the mental health of young people.
Representatives from the New Zealand Psychological Society (NZPsS), Institute of Developmental and Educational Psychology (IEDP) and teachers’ union NZEI Te Riu Roa met this week to discuss ways that educational psychologists can support young people in schools.
The groups agreed that the educational psychology workforce needs urgent attention. NZEI National Secretary Paul Goulter reported that “principals and teachers are crying out for help with young people with mental health difficulties”.
The calls come after the Governement announced a ministerial inquiry into New Zealand’s mental health and addiction services. The inquiry will be chaired by former Health and Disability Commissioner, Professor Ron Paterson, and will report back to the Government by the end of October.
However, the inquiry has been criticised by the Opposition, with National’s spokesperson for Mental Health Matt Doocey saying it will just delay action for those who need help now.
“Everyone agrees that we need to respond to the growing demand for mental health services in New Zealand as well as increasing psychological and emotional resilience of individuals, families and communities, but a prolonged inquiry on its own is not going to help those who need dedicated services right now.”
The educational groups agree help can’t come soon enough for young people, with half of all lifetime cases of mental disorder starting before the age of 14.
They state that psychological health needs to be nurtured in young people from an early age, and that schools and early childhood education centres play an important role in ensuring young people have a ‘good start’ and develop resilience to difficulties in later life.
The Ministry currently employs 172 full-time-equivalent psychologists but it has been estimated that New Zealand needs to double that number to meet its needs and provide an equivalent standard of care to Scotland, which has a similar population.
“Psychologists not only need to be on hand when there is a crisis but also available to help schools develop their skills and resilience in these situations. Prevention and early intervention is beneficial and cost effective. Educational psychologists have skills to help schools prevent mental health difficulties develop,” says Quentin Abraham, president of the NZPsS.
Photo caption: Pictured at this week’s NZEI/NZPsS meeting (left to right): Michele Blick (Chair of the Institute of Developmental and Educational Psychology, (IEDP), Paul Goulter (National Secretary, New Zealand Education Institute, NZEI), Bella Pardoe (Executive Officer, NZEI), and Quentin Abraham (President of the New Zealand Psychological Society, NZPsS).
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The Martian is a comedy?
So says the Golden Globes in a move that doesn't have everybody happy
By Nicole Sperling
Action,
UPDATE: The Martian won Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.
EARLIER: Here’s a question for you: How many times did you laugh during The Martian? Five times, maybe? Six?
Far more than you probably did in Room or Steve Jobs and probably right around as many times as you laughed in last year’s dark theatrical romp Birdman. But that, my friends, is enough to get you considered in the Best Comedy or Musical category at the Golden Globes.
Yes, once again the Hollywood Foreign Press — with Fox’s tacit approval — has chosen to give a dramatic film with humorous moments the designation of a comedy. The move puts Ridley Scott’s space adventure, which has now earned $200 million at the box office, in company with other dubious ‘comedy’ choices of the recent past, such as Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, and even the 2005 Keira Knightley-starring Pride and Prejudice.
The upcoming David O. Russell film, Joy, has also been submitted in the comedy category — though it still needs to be screened and rubber-stamped by the HFPA’s eligibility committee. But considering Russell’s previous two outings — The Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle — were nominated as comedies, it’s not an outrageous or surprising distinction.
The comedy designation will offer both The Martian (and Joy, most likely) the ability to compete against lighter fare, including the Amy Schumer-starrer Trainwreck or the Melissa McCarthy summer hit Spy. It will also allow the Matt Damon-crowd pleaser to escape the stiffer dramatic competition, which will likely include heavier dramas such as Spotlight, Carol, and Steve Jobs. And for the Globes, it provides better odds that their star-studded affair stays that way, especially if Damon is nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy.
That’s all good news for The Martian. It’s bad news for the pure comedies that are looking for a little love, especially since they are consistently ignored by the Academy when it comes time to vote. Spy director Paul Feig tweeted his displeasure with the news this morning: “A comedy’s a film whose #1 goal is to make people laugh. If that wasn’t the filmmakers’ top goal, it’s not a comedy.”
It’s a sentiment that’s been echoed in the past, ironically by Adam McKay, of Anchorman and Step Brothers fame, who directed this season’s blistering drama about the 2008 financial crisis The Big Short. Back in 2013, he told EW, “Why have the category if you’re not going to use it? The good news is none of us got into comedy expecting awards, so I don’t really care that much… but we were kind of laughing [when the nominations were announced]. They finally give us a category, and now they’ve just pushed us out of it.”
Others think the shift to comedy for The Martian lessens the merit of the film, a sentiment that may not play out, as we saw with Russell’s past two movies or with Wolf of Wall Street. Those three went on to nab Best Picture nominations anyway. Also to note, even though Birdman competed as a Comedy last season and went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, it lost at the Golden Globes to Grand Budapest Hotel. At least in one sense, a true comedy got the last laugh.
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Tags: Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder, CTE, Dave Duerson, Depression, domestic violence, ebselen, gays, gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, Junior Seau, ketamine, lesbians, medication, mental illness, NFL, NHL, Pregnancy, Ray Easterling, soccer players, SSRI, stillbirth, Suicide, transgender
Ebselen, an experimental bipolar disorder drug, has been found by British researchers to work like lithium but without lithium’s side effects. In mice. In testing, mice that were somehow made manic with “small doses of amphetamine” were placated with ebselen. Researchers are now moving on to testing on healthy human volunteers before studying those suffering with bipolar disorder.
A study, published in JAMA Neurology, discovered that retired NFL players were more likely to suffer from depression and brain impairment. The study comes on the heels of the suicides of Dave Duerson, Ray Easterling, and Junior Seau. Researchers suspect a link between “hard hits to the head and depression.” These problems have also been noted in NHL players and combat soldiers who have suffered a brain injury. Many of the retired NFL players developed a type of brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Duerson and Easterling were found to have CTE during autopsy. In related sports news, the UK’s Telegraph reports that depression is a problem for soccer players in England and Scotland.
According to Time magazine, ketamine—a drug that induces hallucinations and other trippy effects—may hold potential as an antidepressant.
And now scientists report on two formulations of drugs with ketamine’s benefits, but without its consciousness-altering risks, that could advance the drug even further toward a possible treatment for depression.
Ketamine is seen as a fast-acting antidepressant for those at high risk for suicide. GLYX-13, mentioned here previously, is a ketamine-like antidepressant currently in clinical trials. AstraZeneca has AZD6765, a “ketamine mimic” that does not appear to be as effective as actual ketamine.
New research has discovered that people with mental illness are more likely to be victims of domestic violence. Even though the study evaluated men and women, the results for women were overwhelmingly striking.
It finds that women with symptoms of depression were 2.5 times more likely to have experienced domestic violence over their lifetimes than those in the general population, while those with anxiety disorders were more than 3.5 times more likely to have suffered domestic abuse. The extra risk grew to seven times more likely among those with post-traumatic stress disorder.
An analysis of more than 1 million Scandinavian women has shown that taking SSRIs during pregnancy may not increase the risk of stillbirth. This study could help revolutionize treating depression in pregnant women.
“From our study, we don’t find any reason to stop taking your medication, because untreated depression may be harmful for the pregnancy and the baby,” [Dr. Olof Stephansson, the lead author of the new report] told Reuters Health.
Finally, “gender identity disorder” has been removed from the DSM-V and has been replaced by “gender dysphoria,” a condition in which people are concerned about their gender identity. “Gender identity disorder” seemed to stigmatize gays, lesbians, and transgender individuals. The continuing inclusion of “gender dysphoria,” however, ensures that people suffering with gender identity disorder still have access to health care treatment. (In my opinion, the renaming of “gender identity disorder” to “gender dysphoria” is really a politically correct change. Homosexuality was removed from the DSM back in 1973.)
January 8, 2013 at 11:16 am (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Mental Health/Illness, Schizophrenia)
Tags: Adasuve, agitation, Alexza Pharmaceuticals, asthma, Bipolar Disorder, Books, bronchospasm, C-reactive protein, COPD, CRP, Depression, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had, Japan, Loose Screws Mental Health News, loxapine, marijuana, Medscape, mental health, mental illness, NICS, pot, psychosis, public school teachers, reading, Schizophrenia, teens, Tony Danza
An antipsychotic inhalation powder has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of agitation in adults with schizophrenia or bipolar I disorder. While loxapine (brand name: Adasuve) by Alexza Pharmaceuticals acts rapidly, the side effects include “bronchospasm and increased mortality in elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis,” according to Medscape. In case you don’t know, bronchospasm can lead to acute respiratory problems in people with lung disease, asthma, or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Plans are for the drug to only be accessible through a medical facility with the ability to treat bronchospasms.
In related and somewhat interesting news, the Medscape article also notes that 3.2 million people in the U.S. are being treated for schizophrenia or bipolar I. “Of these, approximately 90% will develop agitation during the course of their illness.”
That’s an incredibly high number of people who develop agitation. Just sayin’.
According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, patients in a study dealing with depression seemed to have high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker for increased risk of heart and inflammatory disease. The lead researcher notes that “people with increased CRP have a two- to threefold risk of depression.” It is not clear whether CRP causes depression or is simply a sign of it. Increased levels of CRP tend to be seen in obese patients and those with chronic diseases.
“More than 21 million Americans suffer from depression, a leading cause of disability, according to Mental Health America.”
Note: the 2011 estimate of those residing in the U.S. stands at more than 311 million.
Depression is increasing among Japan’s public school teachers.
“A report by the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology shows that in 2011, around 5,200 public school teachers had to go on sick leave due to various mental illnesses, including severe depression.”
The Japan Daily Press article also notes:
“The study also highlights the fact that the main reason for the increasing depression is a school environment that puts too much workload and pressure on the teachers that they cannot have a healthy work-life balance anymore, much less deal with students, their guardians and the paper work that comes with all of these. (emphasis mine)”
I recently finished a book by actor Tony Danza called I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had in which he chronicles his yearlong stint in Philadelphia’s inner city public school system. He echoes some of these sentiments as well. After trying to teach his students, he notes that it is difficult not to get involved in their personal lives as well. In the Epilogue, Danza writes:
“…I can only do so much. Where does teaching stop, and start? Where should it? I don’t really know. To engage my students, I found that I had to become engaged in their lives, their problems, and their futures. That connection was what made the job the most rewarding. Yet it was also the intensity of that involvement that, by the end of the year, had made the job of teaching so much tougher than I’d ever expected.”
It seems that Japan’s public school teachers are no different from American public school teachers.
Although 38 states require mental health background checks, only a quarter of states actually report their statistics to the federal NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System).
And surprise, according to a recent study, pot could lead to psychosis in teens or teens who smoke pot can later develop psychosis. I find it interesting that teens were actually evaluated after smoking pot.
Lamictal and Abilify: Back on Medication
October 20, 2011 at 4:32 am (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal)
Tags: Abilify, Antidepressants, Aripiprazole, Ativan, Lamictal, lamotrigine, lorezepam, medication, psych meds, psychiatry
Images from rxlist.com & drugs.com
After 2 years of not being on medication, I am back to a daily regimen of lamotrigine (Lamictal) and aripiprazole (Abilify) with lorazepam (Ativan) as needed.
Many of you may know, or may not know, what I decided to taper off of medication so that I could get pregnant. Well, that hasn’t happened. And my thoughts got to a point where it became life and death again. I didn’t want to go back to the psych hospital so I asked my psychiatrist for help.
My psychiatrist (God bless him) is a very conservative psychiatrist. He was the one who helped me off of medication 2 years ago, and he’s the one titrating my dosages up now. Lamotrigine is for long-term maintenance of the bipolar disorder, aripiprazole is for short-term maintenance of bipolar disorder and SAD (seasonal affective disorder), and lorazepam assists with severe anxiety as needed. I started taking the medication four weeks ago, and I’m only on 50 mg of lamotrigine and 5 mg of Abilify. There will be no increase on Abilify and I titrate up on lamotrigine every 2 weeks. My next big jump is 100 mg.
My psychiatrist expects me to come off of aripiprazole within the next few months (hopefully by December). If not, I will have to get regular blood sugar and cholesterol tests performed. He will adjust all medications as necessary in the event that I am pregnant. He’s a great psychiatrist; he’s willing to work with me based on my situation rather than him throwing drugs at me. He allows me to have complete control over my treatment regimen, which is something I like and respect.
In the past, I may have come off as anti-medication, but really, I’m not. I advocate for use of medication in a necessary, responsible manner. In 2010, 253 million prescriptions were written for antidepressants.¹ (Keep in mind that the U.S. is estimated to have 307 million people in the country.² That’s about 82.4% of the population taking antidepressants.) This is not responsible; this is too much. In the comments, people have rightly corrected me in the assumption that 1 person can get multiple prescriptions in a year; I failed to remember that.
Let’s assume a person is on 1 antidepressant (the majority of people take 1). Beginning in January, that person gets 5 refills for 30 days. By May, the person will need another 5 refills. Then another prescription is dispensed in October. That’s 3 prescriptions per person. Of course, this can vary depending on how often the doctor will see a patient so let’s generalize and say 5 prescriptions per person per year. My calculations for prescriptions per American mean that nearly 20 percent (about 17%) of the population is on antidepressants. Sure, it’s not my original ridiculous number of 82.4%, but I still think this is pretty high. (By the way, feel free to correct my stats in the comments if necessary; I don’t claim to be a math wizard.)
While I am not on an antidepressant, I am one of the millions of Americans who is on medication for mental illness. For 2 years, honestly, I’d forgotten I had anything relating to mental illness. It was nice to wake up and be myself without thinking about me plus bipolar disorder. Every morning and every evening, it’s now me plus bipolar disorder plus SAD plus anxiety. These are all real symptoms that need to be managed. I don’t want to be dependent on this medication forever, but I may have to. If it helps me manage my suicidal thoughts and function with people in life, then it’s worth it.
Your turn: What do you think about taking psychotropic medication? Do the symptoms outweigh the risks for you? What’s been your experience in taking (or not taking) psych meds?
1. Shirley S. Wang, “Antidepressants Given More Widely,” The Wall Street Journal. Published on August 4, 2011. Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903885604576486294087849246.html. Accessed October 20, 2011.
2. Google Public Data Explorer. Population in the U.S. Last updated: July 28, 2011. Available at: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&met_y=population&tdim=true&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+population. Accessed October 20, 2011.
Celebrity Sensitivity: Catherine Zeta-Jones & Demi Lovato
April 23, 2011 at 6:40 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Celebrities, celebrity sensitivity, Demi Lovato, Depression, mental health, mental illness, People magazine, Stigma
Image from people.com
Catherine Zeta-Jones has bravely put her face on the cover People magazine—and on the face of bipolar disorder. And in a less publicized interview, 18-year-old Demi Lovato of teen Disney fame admitted last month to People that she too also suffers from bipolar disorder.
“This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am one of them,” the [Zeta-Jones], 41, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement in this week’s cover story. “If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.”
Last month, Lovato said:
“I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar. Looking back it makes sense,” she says of her diagnosis. “There were times when I was so manic, I was writing seven songs in one night and I’d be up until 5:30 in the morning.”
I’ve said before that I’m not a fan of mental illness fads, but bipolar disorder has such a stigma attached to it that celebrities who seriously suffer from the disorder have a chance to put a face on and say “There’s no shame in getting help.” And while psychotropic drugs certainly aren’t a cure-all in conjunction with talk and behavioral therapy, bipolar disorder can be managed—not just for these celebs but also for anyone who suffers from the disorder.
Celebrity Sensitivity: Catherine Zeta-Jones
April 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Depression)
Tags: actresses, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar II, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Celebrities, celebrity sensitivity, Depression, mental health, mental illness
Of all the celebrities I would have pegged with some kind of mental health disorder, Ms. Zeta-Jones would have never made the list. After supporting her husband Michael Douglas through his cancer treatment, she remained quiet about herself only outspoken on issues pertaining to how upbeat and positive the couple was on Douglas’s treatment.
But clearly, being a bedrock for her husband has taken its toll on her. Last week, she checked into a mental health facility seeking treatment for her bipolar II disorder. Bipolar II is characterized by frequent depressive episodes rather than a constant swing of manic-depressive ones. While only Ms. Zeta-Jones knows what’s been going on inside her mind and her heart, I can only imagine that she’s been suffering with some depression for a while but quietly put it aside as her husband struggled to become healthy again.
In the past, I’ve used the Celebrity Sensitivity feature of this blog to mock celebrities who seem to be diagnosed with nearly any mental illness fad that goes around (normally, depression), but this time my heart goes out to Ms. Zeta-Jones who decided to seek treatment for herself instead of putting on a face like everything’s okay and toughing it out.
Bipolar disorder covered under Americans with Disabilities Act
November 15, 2010 at 7:18 pm (Bipolar Disorder)
Tags: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, disabilities, insomnia, sleep
This is old news but I’ve been wanting to write about this for a while.
In 2008, bipolar disorder became a list of covered psychiatric conditions under the American Disabilities Act (ADA). While I support the move, I’m somewhat guarded about it since there are a variety of symptoms within bipolar disorder that can make it difficult for a person to perform his or her job. From PsychCentral’s post about it in September 2010:
For ADA purposes, major life activities that may be limited by a mental health disorder could include learning, thinking, concentrating, interacting with others, caring for oneself, speaking, or performing manual tasks. Sleep also may be limited in such a way that daily activities are impaired.
Someone with bipolar disorder may temporarily experience “limits” to handling life activities. A deep bout of depression or insomnia may create a need for time off or for flexible hours. An individual may need time off for doctor appointments. In the daily work environment he or she may need a quieter work area to decrease stress and enhance concentration or more frequent breaks to take a walk or do a relaxation exercise. He or she may need office supplies to help them organize and focus more effectively.
I’ve experienced all of these issues at one point or another (sleep issues have been the most frequent and debilitating) in the past and I completely understand how it can affect someone’s ability to work. However I worry that someone might use this to their advantage to cover bad behavior rather than someone who legitimately needs this protection. But alas, abuses to systems exist everywhere.
This coverage prompts me to ask the question: is bipolar disorder (and depression as well) a legitimate disability?
Celebrity Sensitivity: Pete Wentz
March 10, 2009 at 8:35 am (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Children)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Children, Fall Out Boy, Pete Wentz, Wentz
I’ve written about fellow bipolar sufferer Pete Wentz before here. How has he managed to keep his highs and lows in check?
His son, Bronx.
“While I’ll always be bipolar, I find it easier to deal with now. With marriage and fatherhood, I’ve finally found two fixed points in my life. They’ve taught me patience. They’ve also taught me that I don’t need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.
“In the past my brain would never stop. Now I’m a father, the world no longer revolves around me.”
I’ve always wondered whether having a child would change the way I deal with bipolar disorder. Of course, I’m not going to have a child simply as a test case in the hopes that he or she would “cure” me but I think having someone so completely dependent upon me would cause me to think twice about trying to kill myself.
Lamictal withdrawal: Insomnia
March 10, 2009 at 4:09 am (Bipolar Disorder)
I thought the wine was working but I guess isn’t or I didn’t have enough. No matter, I’m out of the light blush anyway.
It’s nearly 4 in the morning and I crawled in bed sometime between 11:30 and 12. Reasonable bedtime for this nightowl. But I’m not sleepy. Not at all. Laying I’m bed for 4 hours ends up being restless. I’m surprised I can blog at all but this is really mindless drivel since I’m not doing much else other than typing this post out via the Typepad app for the iPhone.
Am I manic? I don’t think so. I am feeling a bit weary. I’ve been manic; i’ve experienced that energy of cleaning the apartment and rearranging the room at 2 am. I don’t have that kind of superhuman energy right now. In fact, I’d love to do nothing more than sleep but it eludes me. I’ll be trying to snag some natural remedies but in the meantime, I don’t feel like being up until 5! I have counseling at 7 tonight. However I fear I’ll see the sun come up. Five isn’t too far away.
I haven’t really read of anyone suffering from insomnia as a result of Lamictal withdrawal but I am. And by golly, if you like sleep like me, this is torture. I don’t know how I’m going to right myself. I can’t go on sleeping during the day.
Oh wait–I can’t sleep during the day either. And this is simply within the past month down from 200 mg to 125 mg. And to think! My doctor said I could just quit cold turkey.
WHAT IN TARNATIONS MADE HIM SAY THAT? Did he want me to die? Suffer from seizures? Seriously, doc, what the heck?
And then I’ve got the friend who is psycho stalker ex-girlfriend in training who doesn’t understand the meaning of, “I don’t want you get out of my life,” but we’ll save that story for another day.
(Btw, sorry for the misspellings if any. I’m typing this on my itouch keyboard and not spell checking too closely as I go along hoping autocorrect will catch most of mistakes. Guaranteed it has even if there are tons visible. I’m much too tired and apathetic to fix it or care right now. Maybe later. I just want sleep.)
Have you ever obsessed about sleep when you felt like it was constantly eluding you?
And I wrote a heckuva long post for typing this via mobile. 😛
March 3, 2009 at 4:59 pm (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Blogs, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma, Suicide)
Tags: AstraZeneca, Beyond Meds, big pharma, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, commit suicide, Dawdy, Furious Seasons, hanging, hot air, mental illness, Pharma, Philip Dawdy, quetiapine, Seroquel, studies, Suicide
As reported by The New York Times, people with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of suffering from fatal illness according to a study (that reviewed 17 other studies involving more than 331,000 people) reported in the February issue of Psychiatric Services.
In the larger studies, almost every cause of death was higher among bipolar patients: cardiovascular, respiratory, cerebrovascular (including strokes), and endocrine (like diabetes). In the smaller studies, mortality from cerebrovascular disease was higher among those with bipolar illness, but they showed inconsistent results, probably because they used smaller samples or less representative populations.
Gianna at Beyond Meds provides here take here.
Some crazy nurse in Minnesota convinced a Canadian college student to kill herself and walked her through the process of appropriately hanging herself. Ed Morrissey of Hot Air calls the nurse "the first serial suicide-inciter of the modern age." Couldn't have said it better myself.
Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons is on a roll, holding AstraZeneca accountable for its actions regarding hidden information about Seroquel and now he hosts the Seroquel documents — alongside Lilly's Zyprexa documents — that indicate buried studies. Dawdy's also running a spring fundraiser and I suggest you get your butt in gear and donate to him if it's important to you that someone holds pharmaceutical companies accountable for their actions. I've already done my part.
Sorry this post isn't filled with my normal snark and cynicism. I'm behind on a lot personally — still trying to get the hang of this self-employment thing — and this is what I can throw out for now.
…and on to AstraZeneca's problems with Seroquel
February 17, 2009 at 2:14 pm (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Pharma)
Tags: antipsychotic, AstraZeneca, atypical antipsychotic, atypicals, AZ, medications, psych drugs, psych meds, psychotropics, quetiapine, Seroquel, St. Petersburg Times
Eli Lilly seems to be passing along its misfortune off to AstraZeneca, which now appears to be having issues with masking evidence of Seroquel side effects. From Furious Seasons:
A great article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times over the weekend, revealing that lawyers for AstraZeneca will argue in court later this month that the company wants documents introduced into a federal court hearing in a case over various allegations around Seroquel sealed and hidden from public view. They want an upcoming hearing in the federal class action lawsuit against AZ closed to the public as well. Lawyers argue that they are protecting patients and, oddly, the public at-large.
Read the rest of Philip's post.
Loose Screws Mental Health News (the ODD version)
February 16, 2009 at 7:18 am (Bipolar Disorder, Diagnoses, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Mental Health/Illness)
Tags: baby addiction, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, climate change, climate change disorder, compulsive shopping, disorders, DSM-V, global warming, inmates, Internet, Internet addiction, mental, mental health, mental illness, overdiagnosis, prison, shopaholic, subthreshold bipolar disorder
I came across an article in my Google Alerts titled, “Harvard study: Under-treatment of mental illness contributes to crime.” Intrigued, I clicked on the link to read more of the article. Turns out the lede is:
Two thirds of prisoners nationwide with a mental illness were off treatment at the time of their arrest, according to a new study by Harvard researchers that suggests under-treatment of mental illness
contributes to crime and incarceration.
The article is poorly titled. The headline was designed to be alarming: “Watch out for those crazy people! They’re violent!” It’s not “under-treatment of mental illness” that “contributes to crime” so much as it is “two-thirds of inmates with mental illness are off medication.” There’s nothing in the article that asserts people with mental illness contribute to the crime rate in America. An interesting read but an inaccurate head.
The New York Times had an article a few weeks ago on compulsive shopping eventually becoming a legitimate disorder. I’d been wanting to write about this for a while but Gianna at Beyond Meds beat me to it. She aptly titles her post, “It’s called poor impulse control, people .” She writes:
It’s a psychological problem. But let’s relegate out of control shopping to a brain disorder too, so people can have one less thing to take responsibility for. This is really getting ridiculous. Pretty soon we won’t be responsible for any of our bad behavior as it all becomes pathologized and out of our hands. And you can be sure they’ll be a drug for it, too. Since their calling it OCD related it’s a good bet they’ll try out SSRIs.
The DSM-V is currently being crafted in secret but everyone in the medical field fully expects new disorders (such as subthreshold bipolar disorder and Internet addiction) to pop up. Don’t be surprised if CSD (compulsive shopping disorder) pops up in it too. (pic via pro.corbis.com)
In related let’s-give-everything-a-diagnosis news, some mental health experts are assigning a new label to women obsessed with having children: baby addiction.
…Sometimes the desire to keep having children can be rooted in complex psychological issues dating as far back as one’s childhood. In certain cases, experts say, it can become a compulsion, an obsession or even a “baby addiction.”
While the current book of psychiatric diagnoses, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” has no entry on baby addiction, mental-health professionals say they see patients, mostly women, who desperately want to keep having newborns, even when they already have several children and aren’t managing their family situation well. That, they say, is a big red flag, no matter what term is used to describe it.
“It can be an addiction,” says Gayle Peterson, a family therapist in the San Francisco area and author of “Making Healthy Families.”
Peterson has seen several women in her practice who’ve been overwhelmed with four or five children, including those with special needs. Some of the women were suffering with depression or panic attacks and yet when their youngest child became a toddler, they wanted another baby. These women can be driven to have more children in an effort to make up for some sort of void or loss, usually from their own unhappy childhood, explains Peterson.
“If you’re just having babies to complete something in yourself that never got completed, you really are talking about an addiction,” she says.
While it might be an addiction, it’s not DSM-V diagnosis-worthy and it definitely doesn’t need medicinal treatment. Get some psychotherapy and call it a day. An addiction like this is behavioral more than anything else. (pic via sodahead.com)
And last but not least, we’ve also got a new case of “climate change delusion.” (Ha!)
Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of “climate change delusion.”Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.
Of course, no one can predict what effect warming will have on our psyches. The links between mental illness and the weather can be tenuous or even downright contradictory. Depending on which studies you read, suicide is more common, less common, or equally common in hot weather. Ditto dry weather.
It looks like my post just turned into an ODD (OverDiagnosis Disorder) case. I’ll get back to you once I’m free of my concern for the environment, my desire for multiple children, and my penchant for window shopping.
February 13, 2009 at 3:29 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Diagnoses, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: Adverse Effects, drugs, Lamictal, Lamictal withdrawal, lamotrigine, lamotrigine withdrawal, medication, meds, prescription, psych drugs, psych meds, psychiatric medication, psychiatrist, psychotropics, side effects, taper off, wean off, withdrawal, withdrawal effects
I am officially joining the ranks of those who are facing the challenge of Lamictal withdrawal.
On Wednesday, I went to see my psychiatrist with a plan to come off of Lamictal:
150 mg for 3 months
75 mg for 3 months
12.5 mg (depending on whether my side effects on the 25 mg are bad)
I told him that my husband and I were looking to have a child sometime next year and that I’d like to taper off of Lamictal but was open to the possibility of getting back on it should I encounter severe suicidal ideation and mixed episodes. He warned me against it and thought it was a bad idea.
He proceeded to say that it’s a maintenance medication, I have a lifelong disorder, it won’t just go away, my symptoms would probably return, I have a higher risk of attempting suicide, blah blah blah — am I aware of all these risks?
He explained people with bipolar depression after coming off of meds can actually be worse, undergo severe depressive episodes, have more suicide attempts, and yadda yadda yadda. To sum it all up, I was risking my life just to get off of Lamictal.
My pdoc was trying to scare me into staying medicated.
He then added if I really wanted to come off of my meds, I could “just stop.”
WHAT?! My eyes flew open.
He stated he’d had patients who had stopped cold turkey without a problem. According to him, anticonvulsants don’t have severe withdrawal effects.
WHAT?! His advice just flies in the face of what most doctors recommend. In fact, quitting Lamictal immediately increases the risk of seizures, which is exactly what I’m afraid of.
Philip’s experience and Gianna’s experience along with the comments on each blog are proof that many people have experienced tremendous withdrawal effects from decreasing Lamictal’s dosage. In the past, I’ve quit Paxil and Lexapro cold turkey — both with not-so-good results to put it mildly.
I insisted that I wanted to come off of it slowly so he said I could just cut my 200 mg pills in half and jump down to 100 mg and stop after 2 weeks.
For real? Two weeks, doc? I had a plan that would take me over a year and you’re reducing it to a mere two weeks? On 100 mg dosage?
Again, I insisted that I wanted to take more time. He reluctantly wrote me a 30-day prescription for 100 mg and said since I was off the medication, I had no need to see him anymore. “Good luck,” he flatly told me.
When I came home after the appointment (and a bitching session to my husband), I remembered that I’d stashed a few 150 mg pills away sometime ago after I jumped back up to 200. So as of Wednesday, my arsenal included:
A bottle of six 150 mg pills
A bottle twenty-five 200 mg pills
A prescription for thirty 100 mg pills
I dropped down to the 150 mg on Wednesday and have been doing all right so far. I intend to keep myself at 150 mg (cutting the 200 mg and the 100 mg in half) for at least 2 weeks, then drop down to 75 mg for 2 weeks and then 50 mg for 2 weeks. I’m most worried about coming off of the 25 mg. This is a way more accelerated plan that I hoped for but I’ve got to work with the cards that I’m dealt.
We’ll see what happens.
Bipolar Awareness Month
February 9, 2009 at 11:45 am (Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health/Illness)
Tags: bipolar, bipolar awareness month, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar overawareness week
Apparently February is Bipolar Awareness Month. (Who decided this?) I’m well aware that I suffer from bipolar disorder, thankyouverymuch. Looking forward to Bipolar Overawareness Week in May.
Do I have bipolar disorder because my father had schizophrenia?
January 19, 2009 at 5:36 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Schizophrenia, Statistics)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, disorders, mental health, mental illness, mental illnesses, relatives, Schizophrenia, schizophrenic, Seroquel, Zyprexa
According to researchers at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may have common genetic causes. Researchers studied 9 million Swedish people during a 30-year period and discovered that "relatives of people with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder had an increased risk of both disorders." The study may also suggest that "the two conditions may simply be different manifestations of the same disease."
The article from Reuters also points out that Seroquel and Zyprexa are used to treat both disorders, which may lead people in the psychiatric industry to further investigate the link between the two illnesses. Here are some interesting discoveries from the study:
* First-degree relatives (parents, siblings, or offspring) of people with either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder were at increased risk for both of these conditions.
* If a sibling had schizophrenia, full siblings were nine times more likely than the general population to have schizophrenia and four times more likely to have bipolar disorder.
* If a sibling had bipolar disorder, they were eight times more likely to have bipolar disorder and four times more likely to have schizophrenia.
* Half siblings who shared the same mother were 3.6 times more likely to have schizophrenia if their half sibling had schizophrenia and 4.5 times more likely to have bipolar disorder if their half sibling had bipolar disorder. Half siblings who shared the same father had a 2.7-fold increase in schizophrenia risk and a 2.4-fold increase in bipolar disorder.
* Adopted children with a biological parent with one of the disorders had a significant increase in risk for the other.
Creepy. My father's schizophrenia didn't begin to manifest itself until he was in his 40s. The same is true for my two other aunts as well. It may be silly but I live in fear that I may have the same problem. I'll eventually get a psychiatric advance directive in place just in case that day ever comes. After seeing three family members with debilitating schizophrenia/paranoia, sometimes it gets to the point where the benefits of being drugged up outweigh the risks.
Mood rating: 6
Eli Lilly settles with U.S. Gov't for $1.42 billion over illegal Zyprexa off-label marketing
January 16, 2009 at 5:20 am (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, News)
Tags: antipsychotic, atypical antipsychotic, case, criminal charges, Dawdy, Eli Lilly, Furious Seasons, government, illegal, lawsuit, misdemeanor, off-label, off-label marketing, Olanzapine, payout, Philip Dawdy, settlement, settlements, U.S. government, whistleblower, Zyprexa
Yes, you read that right. Eli Lilly has reached a settlement for $1.42 billion with the U.S. government over the illegal off-label marketing of Zyprexa. The company also pleaded guilty to criminal misdemeanor charges. Basically this is how I see it:
U.S. Gov’t: Eli Lilly, you did a bad, bad thing by doing illegal things. Pay a fine, please, and then you can go.
Eli Lilly: Okayyyy. [reluctantly hands over $1.42 billion to the government]
U.S. Gov’t: [slaps Eli Lilly on the hand] Now, don’t you ever, ever do this again!
It’s a record settlement for a whistleblowing case. According to Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons, Eli Lilly has paid over $2.7 billion in settlement payouts so far. (With certainly more to come.)
Christian counseling: Nouthetic vs. Biblical
January 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Christian, Depression, Fear, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: Antidepressants, anxiety, Bible, biblical, Biblical counseling, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Blame It on the Brain, CCEF, Christ, Christ-centered, Christian, Christian counseling, Christian Counseling Education Foundation, Competent to Counsel, counseling, counseling method, Depression, diagnosis, disorders, drug, Ed Welch, Elijah, faith, fatigue, Fear, Freud, Freudian, God, Institute for Nouthetic Studies, integrational counseling, irritability, Jay Adams, Jesus Christ, Jung, Jungian, medication, meds, mental illness, mixed-mood, mixed-mood episodes, nouthetic counseling, Nouthetic counselors, panic attacks, paroxetine, Paxil, problems, psych meds, psychiatric medication, psychiatry, psychology, psychotropics, PTSD, Scriptural, Scriptural principles, scripture, Seroxat, sin, Suicide
Last night, I spent some time on the phone with my husband’s friend’s sister (aka my former pastor’s sister). We’ll call her Natalie.
Natalie was very sweet and kind, really encouraging and strengthening me by sharing her testimony of faith in God. She suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, which has led her to take Paxil (on and off) for the past 7 years. She says the drug has helped her tremendously and who am I to knock the drug (knowing what I know about Paxil/Seroxat) when she has seen the wonders that it has worked in her life?
I briefly explained my story of depression, history of suicide, and diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Although she couldn’t fully relate, she was very sympathetic and understanding. In fact, our conversation was so fruitful, I ended up taking notes!
We briefly touched on the issue of Nouthetic counseling (NC). She has undergone the course and simply needs to be certified. The counselor I currently see is associated with the Christian Counseling Education Foundation (CCEF), which has roots in NC and was founded by the man—Jay Adams—who developed the method. However, CCEF is now known for what is called biblical counseling. The organization has since moved away from pure Nouthetic methods and become more a bit more varied, taking bits and pieces of psychology (and perhaps psychiatry) that line up with the Bible. Adams, disagreeing with the organization’s approach, founded the Institute for Nouthetic Studies and uses the Bible as the sole counseling textbook. According to the wiki entry on Nouthetic counseling, Adams developed the word Nouthetic based on the “New Testament Greek word noutheteō (νουθετέω), which can be variously translated as ‘admonish,’ ‘warn,’ ‘correct,’ ‘exhort,’ or ‘instruct.'”
NC was developed back in the ’70s as a response to the popularity of psychology/psychiatry. Many Christians reject some of the teachings of such popular psychologists as Freud, Jung, Adler, Maslow, etc. Adams’ highly successful book, Competent to Counsel, criticizes the psychology industry and counters its teaching with a Nouthetic approach.
But NC has its Christian critics.
Lamictal in consideration of pregnancy
January 12, 2009 at 10:49 am (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Pregnancy, Suicide)
Tags: Adverse Effects, blurry vision, drug, fatigue, Lamictal, lamotrigine, medication, meds, placebo, Pregnancy, pregnant, psych drugs, psych meds, psychiatric mediation, psychiatric meds, psychotropic meds, psychotropics, side effects, withdrawal
My husband and I are talking about expanding our family. While that sounds all well and good, I just have one issue:
Lamictal.
For most women, they think, “Well, I want a kid” and the most they have to do is probably get off birth control. Just finish off their contraceptives, maybe feel a little nauseous, and move forward with their plans.
(sigh) Not me. If I want to do this right, it might be a good 6 months or so before I can consider trying.
August 4, 2008 at 7:37 am (Bipolar Disorder, Children, Depression, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Military, PPD, PTSD, Statistics, Suicide)
Tags: abuse, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, anxiety, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, calls, Children, Depakote, Depression, drug, emotional abuse, FDA, gel capsule, hanging, Ira Katz, Iraq, Iraq War, manic episodes, med, medication, meds, Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act bill, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, national suicide prevention lifeline, Noven Pharmaceuticals, physical abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, psych drugs, psych meds, psychologists, psychotropic, PTSD, Stavzor, suicidal, Suicide, suicide hotline, suicide lifeline, toddlers, VA, valproic acid, Veterans Administration, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Postpartum Progress reports that the Melanie Blocker Stokes MOTHERS Act bill did not pass. Spreading lies like this did not help.
The FDA recently approved Stavzor, a valproic acid delayed release capsule, for the treatment of bipolar disorder, seizures, and migraine headaches. Wow. That’s covering the gamut. The drug looks like it’ll be competing directly with the Depakote brand.
The mastermind behind Stavzor is Noven Pharmaceuticals (in conjunction with Banner Pharmacaps Inc.). The new “small, easy-to-swallow soft gel capsule” is available in three strengths: 125, 250, and 500 mgs. The pills are are “up to 40% smaller than han Depakote® and Depakote ER® tablets at the 500 mg dosage strength.” From Noven’s PR:
Stavzor is approved for the treatment of manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder, as monotherapy and adjunctive therapy in the treatment of patients with complex partial seizures that occur either in isolation or in association with other types of seizures, and for prophylaxis of migraine headaches.
The drug will hit the market in mid to late August.
A recent AP article notes that more than 22,000 veterans contacted the veterans portion of The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hotline since its inception last July. The government reports that the hotline support has helped to prevent more than 1200 people from committing suicide. The Veterans Administration (VA) estimates that 6500 veterans commit suicide annually. In light of recent news regarding the increase in Marine suicides, the effectiveness of the suicide hotline is offers significant promise.
The hotline receives an average 250 calls each day from veterans that have fought in Iraq, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.
The issue of soldiers with mental illness has recently come to light with studies showing that 1 in 5 soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have shown symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The issue of the high suicides rate has been a high priority of the VA since mental health director Ira Katz tried to hide the significant number of suicides committed by veterans.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day by calling 800-273-TALK (8255); veterans should press “1” after being connected.
Psychologists are now saying that hitting and yelling at children is causing an increase in mental illness, which has manifested in ages as young as 3 years old. News.com.au reports that 1 in 7 children are affected by a mental disorder.
“We have seen a 60 per cent increase in demand for our child anxiety classes in the past six months,” said [Dr. Kimberley O’Brien, of the Quirky Kids Clinic at Woollahra in Sydney].
It sounds more like the article is speaking of children who are exposed to constant physical and emotional abuse. If that’s the case, shouldn’t there rather be an increase in parenting properly classes?
Finally, a bit of sad news: police in Connecticut report than 10-year-old killed herself apparently by hanging. Police do not believe that foul play was involved. I can’t imagine being 10 and feeling suicidal. It was tough enough at 14.
An inhalation drug for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder???
July 28, 2008 at 12:01 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Schizophrenia)
Tags: Alexza Pharmaceuticals, AZ-004, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, drugs, inhalation, inhale, loxapine, medication, psych drugs, psych meds, psychotropic, Risperdal, Schizophrenia, Staccato stystem
Oh no they didn’t. From Alexza Pharmaceuticals’ recent PR:
Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that it has initiated its second Phase 3 clinical trial with AZ-004 (Staccato(R) loxapine). AZ-004 is an inhalation product candidate being developed for the treatment of acute agitation in patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Alexza believes the novel, non-invasive nature and rapid pharmacokinetic (PK) properties resulting from inhaled loxapine administration via the Staccato system (click on the photo to the right to see an enlargelarement) have the potential to make AZ-004 a viable product to treat acute agitation.
The supposed benefits:
Rapid onset
Consistent dose and particle size
Broad applicability
Is this pharmaceutical company really developing a product to treat schizophrenic and bipolar disorder symptoms by inhaling? I thought the injectable Risperdal was bad. Check out how the Staccato system works. It blows my mind that psych drugs are being developed for injection and inhalation.
More Famous People With Mental Illness
July 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Depression, Diagnoses, Mental Health/Illness)
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Alanis Morissette, anorexia, anorexic, Beethoven, Billy Joel, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Brooke Shields, bulimia, bulimic, Celebrities, Charles Dickens, Courtney Love, depressed, Depression, Drew Carey, eating disorder, Edgar Allen Poe, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Harrison Ford, Janet Jackson, Jim Carrey, John Nash, Kurt Cobain, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Marie Osmond, Mark Twain, Marlon Brando, mental health, mental illness, mentally ill, Mike Wallace, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, Patty Duke, Paula Abdul, postpartum depression, Princess Diana, Ray Charles, Schizophrenia, Sheryl Crow, Terry Bradshaw, Trent Reznor, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
The local NAMI chapter has literature all over a counter at my local library. One of the pieces of literature actually was a 5×7 index card with a list of famous people who struggled with mental illness. It was kind of interesting so I figured I’d share it. Some I’d already known about; others were a bit of a surprise. How did they figure out who had bipolar disorder back in the 1800s?
The Bipolar Child, Part II: Childhood bipolar disorder criteria
June 3, 2008 at 10:24 am (Bipolar Disorder, Children, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, News)
Tags: adolescents, Adverse Effects, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar NOS, child, childhood bipolar disorder, Children, CLPsych, drugs, intueri, medication, meds, mental health, mental illness, Newsweek, psych drugs, psych meds, psychotropics, side effects, teenagers
CLPsych wrote a post on the "Growing Up Bipolar" Newsweek cover story. I agree with most of his points. Especially:
1. Max's problems are described by the journalist as "incurable" and as "a life sentence." It is true that the kid is likely in for a life of trouble. But stating that such difficulties are a certainty for the rest of his life? That's a little too certain and it's not based on any evidence. Show me one study that indicates that 100% of children like Max will always have a high level of psychological difficulties and essentially be unable to function independently.
The article even mentions that "Max will never truly be OK." Apparently, I just learned from my recent viewing of Depression: Out of the Shadows that diagnoses are not static.
Miracles have happened but to say that Max's future doesn't have a grim tint to it is unrealistic. Not because of his diagnoses but because of all 38 different medications that he's already been on.
By 7½, Max was on so many different drugs that Frazier and his
parents could no longer tell if they were helping or hurting him. He
was suffering from tics, blinking his eyes, clearing his throat and
"pulling his clothes like he wanted to get out of his skin," says
Richie.
By the time Max had reached 8 years old, he was already showing the symptoms of side effects that can occur long-term. Tardive dyskinesia, hyperglycemia, diabetes, akathisia, neuroleptic malignant syndrome are all very real side effects that could develop in Max's teenage years and stick with him permanently. "Max will never truly be OK." Not because of his disorders but because these medications have given him a different "life sentence" — a life sentence of physical, visible afflictions in addition to the emotional and mental disorders he already struggles with.
I haven't really gotten into the child bipolar disorder conversation on this blog because
it's such a controversial diagnosis that would require lengthy posts that I didn't have time for
I found the entire diagnosis to be a bunch of hooey
But I will now.
The Bipolar Child, Part I: Reactions
May 30, 2008 at 2:36 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Children, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, News, Suicide)
Tags: ADHD, article, bipolar, bipolar child, Bipolar Disorder, BipolarCentral, childhood bipolar disorder, Furious Seasons, Growing Up Bipolar, Health Central, Huffington Post, John McManamy, mania, manic, Mary Carmichael, Max Blake, Newsweek, OCD, oppositional defiant disorder, personality, Peter Breggin, PsychCentral, TAC, Treatment Advocacy Center
If you haven’t been reading the news recently, Newsweek magazine published a feature article on Max, a 10-year-old who struggles mainly with bipolar and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders among other mental illnesses. I read the article and was astounded at what Amy and Richie Blake, Max’s parents, have to contend with. I’m astounded at what Max suffers with.
The article was educational but for all the 8 computer pages that I printed, I didn’t read about Max; I read about his diagnoses:
Max Blake was 7 the first time he tried to kill himself. He wrote a four-page will bequeathing his toys to his friends and jumped out his ground-floor bedroom window, falling six feet into his backyard, bruised but in one piece.
He cried for hours at a time. He banged his head against his crib and screamed until his face burned red. Nursing, cuddling, pacifiers—none of them helped.
Richie carried his son to the backyard and tried to put him down, but Max shrank back in his father’s arms; he hated the feel of the grass beneath his small bare feet. Amy gave Max a bath and turned on the exhaust fan; he put his hands over his ears and screamed. At 13 months, he lined up dozens of Hot Wheels in the same direction, and when Amy nudged one out of order, he shrieked “like you’d just cut his arm off.” At day care, he terrorized his teachers and playmates. He wasn’t the biggest kid in the class, but he attacked without provocation or warning, biting hard enough to leave teeth marks. Every day, he hit and kicked and spat.
By 7½, Max was on so many different drugs that Frazier and his parents could no longer tell if they were helping or hurting him. He was suffering from tics, blinking his eyes, clearing his throat and “pulling his clothes like he wanted to get out of his skin,” says Richie. In February 2005, under Frazier’s supervision, the Blakes took Max off all his meds. With the chemicals out of his system, Max was not the same child he had been at 2. He was worse. … Off his meds, Max became delusional and paranoid. He imagined Amy was poisoning him and refused to eat anything she cooked. He talked about death constantly and slept little more than two hours a night.
During a recent appointment at Frazier’s office, he went into full-fledged mania. Laughing wildly, he rolled on the floor, then crawled over to his parents and grabbed an empty medication bottle, yelling, “Drugs! I’ve got drugs! It’s child safety!” Richie grabbed it back, Max screamed, Richie threw the bottle across the room, as if playing fetch. Max squealed and dove for it, then began to sing into the neck of the bottle: “Booorn to be wiiiiild …” Amy rolled her eyes: “Two kids.” And then: “It’s hard not to laugh.” (I’m not the only one who doesn’t think this is mania.)
All throughout the article, I couldn’t help but think to myself: Who is Max? Max without meds — does he have a personality? What does like to do for fun, even for short periods of time? Karate is mentioned — does he read? He has trouble writing for long stretches. He’s got a friend. What makes Max so charming other than the fact that he’s 10 years old?
(Image from Newsweek)
Breggin takes on Newsweek's "Growing Up Bipolar" article
May 29, 2008 at 5:53 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Children, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, News, Opinion/Editorial)
Tags: adolescents, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, child bipolar, childhood bipolar disorder, Children, drugs, Huffington Post, medication, meds, Newsweek, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, psych drugs, psych meds, psychtropics, teenagers, teens, The Huffington Post
Breggin’s post on Newsweek‘s "Growing Up Bipolar" article makes good points but steers clear into wackiness throughout. My only wish is that instead of pointing out the problems of the psychiatric industry, he would have offered some suggested solutions.
Oh, and he flat-out gets some things wrong:
Newsweek makes clear that Max’s parents have serious conflicts over how to raise their son, but they have not pursued therapy, marriage counseling or, apparently, not even parenting classes.
The article DID mention that they tried to pursue marriage counseling but dropped out.
He says he has never been to therapy. But late last year, Amy demanded that the two of them see a marriage counselor. Richie agreed. They went a few times, but there were "scheduling issues," says Richie, and they haven’t gone back. For the moment, they are getting help from the same people who help Max. Anything that makes his life easier makes theirs easier, too.
Then he applies a broad brush from the cases of "out-of-control" children that he’s seen:
In every case of an out-of-control child I have seen in my psychiatric practice, either the parents were unable to reach agreement on a consistent approach to disciplining their child, or a single working mom was trying to raise a young boy without the aid of a male adult in the child’s life.
I like Peter Breggin’s approach to psychotropic drugs for the most part, but sometimes he just gets a little off-base for me.
Pharma's "me-too" drugs face skeptical docs and health insurers
May 29, 2008 at 1:24 pm (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma)
Tags: Adderall, Adderall XR, ADHD, antidepressant, big pharma, Daniel Carlat, Depression, desvenlafaxine, doctors, drugs, Effexor, FDA approval, health insurance, health insurers, Invega, J&J, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, lisdexamfetamine, medication, meds, paliperidone, Pharma, pharma companies, pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceuticals, Pristiq, psych drugs, psych meds, Risperdal, Risperidone, Shire, The Carlat Psychiatry Report, venlafaxine, Vyvanse, Wyeth
As patents expire on a variety of drugmakers’ moneymakers, pharma companies have gone to great lengths to structurally reinvent the successful drugs then tout the benefits that differ from their predecessors.
Case in point — Johnson & Johnson’s Invega. Invega is the successor to the popular antipsychotic drug, Risperdal, and competitor to AstraZeneca’s widely used antipsychotic Seroquel. Scott Hensley at The Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog (WSJ) reports that Risperdal is going generic in June. Gianna at Beyond Meds recently said it will not. According to the Dow Jones Newswires (DJN), these “junior” drugs face skepticism from health insurers and doctors. California-based Kaiser Permanente and Minneapolis-based UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH) are example of companies that have somewhat discouraged use of the drug. Kaiser doesn’t cover Invega at all, and members of UNH are required to pay higher copays for the brand name. The wire reports New York-based psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman wasn’t “buying it” the difference between Invega and Risperdal.
Invega is “basically a me-too drug, and the company hasn’t done the studies that would be required to really distinguish it,” Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University’s medical school told Peter Loftus of Dow Jones Newswires.
The blog also quotes Daniel Carlat from the The Carlat Psychiatry Report.
Dan Carlat, a psychiatrist and a tough critic of Invega, wrote that J&J’s “marketing team apparently missed the fact that the word in the English language that sounds most like “Invega” is “inveigle,” meaning “to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements.’ ” He asked doctors: “Will you be doing your patients a favor by taking the plunge? Or will you simply be giving them the same wine in a fancier bottle?”
Even J&J’s Group Chairman of Pharmaceuticals, David Norton, admitted that Invega is a tough sell.
“We need to do a better job at drawing a differentiation in a difficult-to-treat population.”
So far, Invega sales have been incredibly disappointing compared to the Risperdal blockbuster.
Wyeth (antidepressant Effexor XR cum Pristiq) and Shire (ADHD drug Adderall XR cum Vyvanse) face the same uphill battle. Wyeth’s Effexor faces generic competition from Teva Pharmaceuticals despite efforts to halt generic sales of the drug and the patent on Shire’s Adderall is set to expire next year.
Hensley, in his analysis, raises a question in which the answer remains to be seen:
Cheap generics abound to treat a broad assortment of illnesses these days. What’s the point, the critics ask, of paying more for drugs that are at best only slight improvements over tried and true medicines available at bargain prices?
It’s something that I’ve questioned myself.
In an attempt to have the “me-too” drugs compete with its derivative, both Wyeth and Shire are slashing their prices, or as the DJN reported, “emphasizing improved dosing for the newer drugs.” Although Pristiq’s efficacy comes at higher doses, it’s being priced 20 percent lower than Effexor.
[Deutsche Bank pharmaceutical analyst Barbara Ryan] thinks the odds of
Pristiq’s success are slim because it appears to offer few benefits
beyond those of Effexor.
That remains to be seen. So far, a few patients have commented on my blog that Pristiq has already begun to help them. I haven’t seen any DTC ads for Pristiq so I can only assume that drug reps are doing a fine marketing job at selling the different benefits of the drug to doctors.
Vyvanse, on the other hand, is looking promising for Shire, already having 7 percent of U.S. ADHD drug prescriptions. Chief Executive Matthew Emmens says the drug is chemically different from Adderall (aren’t they all?) and has better pricing. Shire expects to beat Adderall’s 26 percent peak market share. Seems like a lofty goal to me.
As for Invega, J&J is currently seeking FDA approval to use the drug for bipolar disorder and not just treatment for schizophrenia. It is also l0oking to get approval for an injectable Invega XR.
(Invega logo from Janssen.com)
Celebrity Sensitivity: Maurice Benard
May 27, 2008 at 9:37 am (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Depression, mania, manic, Maurice Benard, soap opera, soap operas, Sonny Corinthos
This one’s for the women.
If you’re anything like me, sometime during the 90’s you watched the long-running soap opera General Hospital at one point or another. Well, remember bad boy Sonny Corinthos?
Maurice Benard, the actor behind the character, has openly admitted to struggling with severe bipolar disorder and is a spokesperson for Mental Health America. While I’m not sure which came first (the chicken or the egg), Benard’s charcter, Sonny, also struggles with bipolar disorder on the show. In the past, I’ve read that he flew into rages so bad that he needed to be hospitalized and had to take time away from the set to recover. It’s only fitting that Sonny’s character — as ruthless as he is — shows a true side of Benard who seeks to educate viewers about the disorder.
Combined with his stressful career in organized crime, Sonny’s bipolar disease has caused him to routinely break out in acts of senseless violence. The most infamous example of Sonny’s violent side was when Sonny, during one of his “manic” moods, shot his wife Carly in the skull while she was in the process of giving birth to his son.
That episode sounds like it might have pissed me off instead. But Benard seemed okay with it.
“Two years ago the head writer came up to me about doing a breakdown story. I said as long as it’s done to educate people and to make it right. And we did it. It was fantastic,” the General Hospital actor added.
I wonder what people learned from the overall storyline.
Diagnosing myself
May 26, 2008 at 10:35 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Diagnoses, Personal)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, diagnosis, misdiagnosis
Turns out I knew I had bipolar disorder before my official diagnosis in November 2006.
Celebrity Sensitivity: Christina Ricci, Mel Gibson, and Britney Spears
May 20, 2008 at 12:14 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Depression)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Christina Ricci, Depression, drugs, Liz Spikol, manic-depressive, medication, meds, Mel Gibson, psych drugs, psych meds
Liz Spikol has a new post on celebrities talking about mental disorders. This time, it’s Christina Ricci and Mel Gibson. Ricci has previously admitted to suffering from anorexia but now admits to suffering from depression. Gibson, on the other hand, said in a 2002 interview that he was bipolar (manic-depressive back in the day). Then she’s got a whole list of people who have recently admitted to depression.
Then there’s Britney Spears. If you don’t know who she is, be thankful. For the rest of us who spend our time following celebrity news, there have been rumors swirling around recently that she is pregnant because she’s got a big, protruding belly (bigger than the botched VMA’s last year) even though she’s been exercising regularly.
According to the Daily Mail, Spears isn’t pregnant but seriously bloated as a result of her medication.
A source close to the family says that Britney has been struggling with her weight ever since she had her second son Jayden James, 20 months, and the medication has not helped.
The pop star has been back in training in preparation for a comeback, spending plenty of time on the treadmill – but despite all the effort, she is failing to regain the svelte figure which made her famous.
I wonder what antipsychotics she’s on. Seroquel?
Finally, ABC News wrote about celebrities who suffer from various mental illnesses. I’d been wanting to blog on this some time ago but never had the chance. BPD in OKC beat me to it.
Thoughts on Bipolar Overawareness Week: Part III
May 19, 2008 at 10:15 am (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Diagnoses, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Statistics)
Tags: Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, awareness, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, clinical depression, Depression, Diagnoses, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, family history, high blood pressure, MDD, medication, meds, mood, Mood Rating, overawareness, overdiagnosis, overmedication, psych drugs, psychiatrists, psychotropics, ramble, rant, schizo, Schizophrenia
In all seriousness, I have wondered about the BPD diagnosis but in my mind, have somewhat fallen short. I don’t think my symptoms are strong enough to be plastered with a BPD label.
To conclude my several-post rambling, I should answer the question that I initially posed. Do I think bipolar disorder is overdiagnosed?
Many of my fellow bloggers will likely disagree with me. Zimmerman’s study at Rhode Island Hospital took into account whether those “diagnosed” with bipolar disorder had a family history of the diagnosis in the family. Maybe I’ve turned to the dark side. Just because I don’t have a family history of bipolar doesn’t mean that I can’t suffer
from the disorder. However, I have a family history of schizophrenia: one father and two aunts. Does this put me at a higher risk for schizophrenia? Definitely. Does this mean I could suffer from bp and have the schizo gene pass me by? You bet. I don’t think that I need a first-degree relative to suffer from bp to make me a classic diagnosis for bp.
For instance, when it comes to my physical appearance, I’m the only one on both sides of the family who suffers from severe eczema to the point where my dermatologist suggested a punch biopsy. Does that mean that I need to have a family history of eczema to obtain the malady? Not necessarily. Why is bipolar disorder any different?
Thoughts on Bipolar Overawareness Week: Part II
May 19, 2008 at 7:05 am (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Diagnoses, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: ADHD, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, borderline personality disorder, bpd, criteria, criterion, Depression, Diagnoses, diagnosis, DSM-IV, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Impulse Control Disorder, major depressive disorder, manic, manic-depressive, MDD, mental health, mental illness, oppositional defiant disorder, Social Anxiety, social anxiety disorder, social phobia, symptoms
Here are some things that have occurred in my life:
racing thoughts
spending sprees when I have no money
cleaning at odd hours of the night
thinking that I’m the most amazing job interviewer ever
worrying that people are watching me through video cameras or the wall in public bathroom stalls
afraid that a video camera exists in our bedroom (I know it doesn’t. I think?)
talking to "friends" who don’t really exist
disobeyed parents
talked back to authority
suicide attempts
rage/anger/hostility/irritability
violent outbursts
socially awkward
extreme mood swings (happy to sad or angry in the same day)
doing things and barely remembering them
memory loss/forgetfulness
indecisiveness
no interest in sleep
inability to focus on one thing for an extended period of time/lack of concentration
anxious about being around people I don’t know/don’t like
anxious to go out and spend time with friends and/or family
persistent, negative thoughts
All right. So those are some things that have occurred over the course of my life. Let’s see what I diagnoses I can pigeonhole myself into.
Thoughts on Bipolar Overawareness Week: Part I
May 19, 2008 at 12:03 am (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, diagnose, diagnosis, DSM, hypomania, hypomanic, medication, mental, mental health, mental illness, overdose, psychiatric, psychiatry, psychology, racing thoughts, suicidal thoughts, Suicide
I finally sat down and read all those posts that I linked to about Bipolar Overawareness Week. I mentioned in my previous post that I feel like I had a contrarian view. Well, I do. Somewhat. Although it’s probably not as contrarian as I’d think.
Let’s take my experience, for example.
Tardy Bipolar Overdiagnosis Week Post
May 18, 2008 at 9:43 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Blogs)
Tags: awareness, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar overdiagnosed, diagnosis, mental health, mental illness, overdiagnosis
Ok, so I’m incredibly late on this bipolar overdiagnosis week thing (one week, of course) but a bunch of blogs that I know of have already blogged about it. In fact, there have been so many posts on it that I haven’t been able to read and keep up on them all. All I know is that a recent study came out saying bipolar disorder is overdiagnosed. In the meantime, read blogs that have commentary on the matter (most of the links from Furious Seasons):
Furious Seasons — Study: Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed
Furious Seasons — Making Sense of Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosis
Furious Seasons — Major Researchers Support Bipolar Overdiagnosis Study
Furious Seasons — Mental Health Month Meet Bipolar Overdiagnosis Awareness Week
PsychCentral — Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and Recovery — Celebrating Bipolar Overawareness Week
Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry: A Closer Look — Bipolar Overawareness Week Starts on Monday
I’ll give many of these posts a read before I say anything about it. But as of right now, I’m sitting here with a contrarian view, believe it or not.
Suicide Attempt: 1,346,985 (number is an exaggeration)
May 12, 2008 at 11:35 am (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: Abilify, Aripiprazole, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Lamictal, lamotrigine, medication, mixed-mood, mixed-mood episode, mood, Mood Rating, Suicide, suicide attempt
I had a serious mixed-mood episode during the weekend. I remember wanting to buy brownie mix at 1 am and refusing to answer my
husband’s question, "What’s your mood rating at?" because I knew I’d
answer 10. But then my husband woke up in the middle of the night to find his cell phone charger cord wrapped around my neck as I tried to strangle myself. I vaguely remember it.
Abilify is starting to sound better. Abilify or brain fog on Lamictal? I can’t decide. Sometimes, I do wonder if he’d be better off without me. I often think I’d be better off without myself.
Current Mood Rating: 4.9
Gone but I don't know where
April 27, 2008 at 1:31 am (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Mood Rating, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: adrenal fatigue, adverse effect, angry, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, depressed, Depression, depressive, drugs, exhausted, father, impulse, Lamictal, lamotrigine, mania, manic, medication, mixed-mood, mixed-mood episodes, moody, paranoid, psych drugs, psych meds, psychiatrist, psychotropic, psychotropic meds, psychotropics, rapid cycling, Schizophrenia, side effect, suicidal, suicidal ideation, suicidal impulses, suicidal thoughts, Suicide, taper, thoughts, withdrawal
You have been drifting for so long / I know you don’t want to come down / Somewhere below you, there’s people who love you / And they’re ready for you to come home / Please come home
~ Sarah McLachlan, “Drifting”
I have an appointment with my psychiatrist on Tuesday morning. I’m not quite sure what to do.
My “symptoms” are back. Now that I know what to look for as someone with bipolar disorder, I am aware of them. I’m having mania moments. I don’t want to sleep. I have no desire to. My husband sometimes MAKES me go to sleep. I’d rather be up doing the laundry, washing the dishes, blogging, reading other blogs, making to-do lists, and organizing the apartment–all at the same time–at 2 or 3 am. (This doesn’t mean all of this stuff gets finished.)
My husband and I have had physical fights in the past where he has had to restrain me because I wouldn’t go to bed and I wouldn’t sleep. It would be 4 in the morning and I refused to sleep and I’d fight him tooth and nail. I don’t know why. I have no problem wanting to sleep at 2 pm. Make it 2 am and there’s too much to do suddenly. I have the superhuman ability to get things accomplished between midnight and 5 am more than I can during the hours of 9 am to 11 pm. Right.
So now it’s almost 1 in the morning and I have nursery duty at church later in the morning. Then I have a hair appointment in the afternoon. Then I’m paranoid about what my hair stylist thinks of me.
She says she’s my friend but I wonder if she’s just pretending to like me because she feels sorry for me. I’m really lame you know. People at work acted nice to my face and then dissed me behind my back. She does the same thing to others, why wouldn’t she do the same to me? She just keeps me around and kisses up to me because I tip well.
Thinking like that scares me. It reminds me of the way my father used to think. Paranoid. (You can stop reading here. At this point on, it’s just a manic ramble that’s basically full of nothing but stream-of-consciousness just because i can.)
Bipolar teen missing in Colorado
April 22, 2008 at 3:54 pm (Bipolar Disorder, News)
Tags: Arapahoe County, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar teen, Colorado, Michelle Jung, missing, missing teen, teen
A 14-year-old girl who suffers from bipolar disorder has gone missing according to local news reports.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Department is asking the public for help in finding Michelle Jung. Deputies say she is in need of her bipolar medication and has not been seen since 1 p.m. Monday at Hampden Academy located at 14301 E. Hampden Ave.
Deputies described Jung at 5 feet tall and weighing 120 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a gray jacket and blue jeans.
Deputies believe she was heading home from school but are unable to find her. Anyone with information should contact local authorities immediately.
Neurontin 0, Placebo 1. Pfizer loses, Placebo wins.
April 21, 2008 at 5:14 am (Anticonvulsants, Bipolar Disorder, Blogs, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma)
Tags: articles, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, echo chamber effect, epilepsy, Fierce Pharma, gabapentin, journals, Neurontin, off-label usage, Pfizer, soulful sepulcher, Tim Carey, WSJ blog
Stephany at soulful sepulcher has a post up on how Neurontin has not shown itself to be more effective for bipolar disorder than placebo in clinical trials.
It's actually kind of funny that this discovery has been made in April 2008 because I'd reported on this back in January of 2007:
So let's recap: gabapentin is FDA-approved for epilepsy ONLY. But gabapentin has a slew of off-label uses.
Don't know what off-label means? It means "not FDA-approved to be prescribed for this use."
Now that we've got that out of the way, gabapentin is prescribed off-label for migraines, bipolar disorder, social anxiety disorder, OCD, treatment-resistant depression, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, neuropathic pain, and in some instances, post-operative chronic pain.
Where did this off-label usage come from? Basically, one journal article published data on beneficial effects for patients on Neurontin for bipolar disorder and then other articles would cite that article as supporting evidence then more articles cited all the other articles that published the positive efficacy data on the drug, creating what UNC researcher Tim Carey calls the "echo chamber effect." From Fierce Pharma:
Hearing it over and over, doctors were led to believe that Neurontin worked for bipolar patients, and prescribed it to lots and lots of them.
These articles that touted the benefits of Neurontin were cited 400 times. Carey:
It “becomes a rumor mill in which physicians may be exposed to these types of articles, and citations of articles, which then gives credibility to off-label use.”
The conclusion?
“No scientifically acceptable clinical trial evidence supports use” of the drug in bipolar disorder.
Ouch. Hitting Pfizer where it hurts.
"You can do this"
April 21, 2008 at 12:31 am (Bipolar Disorder, Christian, Depression, Mental Health/Illness, Personal, Suicide)
Tags: angel, anxiety attack, back, Bible, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, church, crying, debate, Depression, devil, drugs, forth, God, guns, hospital, impulse, Jesus Christ, medication, Nehemiah, panic attack, psych drugs, psych meds, satan, sobbing, suicidal, suicidal ideation, suicidal impulse, suicidal thoughts, Suicide, suicide attempt, talk, tears, trigger
From October 10, 2006:
I’m tempted to go crash my car.
Again, the boy cried wolf.
Except I’m a girl.
Right now, I’m going through what my old pastor used to say is a “spiritual winter.” I just fall into moments when I just cease praying and reading my Bible for whatever reason. I’m not mad at God or anything; I still struggle with believing in a God that I’ve never seen with my own two eyes. But then I think about the specific events that have taken place in my life and I know He exists.
With that being said, I sat in my car this morning with the ignition turned on, ready to drive my car over the bridge into the Schuylkill River. I was ready to run home, make the stupid “goodbye world” post on this blog, text my husband “I love you. Goodbye” and then ram my car into a divider on I-76. It’s the worst suicidal thought I’ve had since I ended up in the hospital in October 2006.
April 16, 2008 at 11:23 am (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Children, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Suicide)
Tags: Antidepressants, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Children, drugs, farm animals, foster homes, generic, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, mania, medication, mental health, mental illness, polygamous sect, psych drugs, psych meds, Risperdal, Schizophrenia, Suicide, suicide rates, Teva, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has 180-day exclusivity rights to sell a generic version of Risperdal, Johnson & Johnson's drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar mania.
Do you want better mental health? Go work with farm animals. Unless you're from – and love – a big city like me. Then that'll just aggravate your illness.
Antidepressants contribute only 10 percent to a decrease in suicide rates among middle-aged and older adults. Effective medications indeed.
How will mental health and behavioral officials treat the mental health of the 400-plus children rescued from the polygamous sect compound?
If the state gets its way, hundreds of children could be put in foster homes, in what could be a wrenching cultural adjustment that may require intensive counseling.
Wow. That's all I can say. How do you place 400 different children in foster homes and ensure they'll get proper care? You can't.
Home bipolar test? What. In. The. World.
March 24, 2008 at 10:54 am (Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, diagnosis, DNA, genes, genetic testing, home bipolar disorder test, home test, mental illness, Psynomics, test
I stumbled upon an AP article on Yahoo! News titled, “Home bipolar disorder test causes stirs.” No kidding.
I read the article trying to figure out how this company, Psynomics, is able to genetically figure out who is more predisposed to what.
To take the test, patients receive by mail a plastic cup that they spit into, seal and send back to Psynomics. The company analyzes DNA in the saliva.
Psynomics will send patients’ test results only to their doctors to avoid the risk of self-diagnosis.
Here’s a sample report located on the Web site (PDF file).
Are you interested? If you’re anyone other than a white person of Northern European ancestry who shows some bipolar symptoms and has at least one other bipolar family member, then you don’t meet the criteria for this testing. Even if you do, save your money and buy something else – the test costs a steep $399 and the results aren’t entirely certain. In fact, researchers and doctors say there is very little data at the moment to support testing DNA for bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses.
[Dr. John] Kelsoe, 52, acknowledges that bipolar disorder probably results from a combination of genetic factors and life experiences, and that the presence of these gene variations does not at all mean that someone will, in fact, develop the disease. He admits, too, that his findings about the genetic basis of the illness are far from complete.
“The goal of this is to try and help doctors make an accurate diagnosis more quickly so the patient can be treated appropriately,” Kelsoe said. “Anything is going to help, even if it just helps a little bit.”
I’m worried that people are going to think that they have bipolar disorder, fork over the money for gene testing, and be told when that they have bipolar disorder when they really don’t. Why manufacture a mental illness for a person that may not exist?
In coming months, at least two other startups led by genetic researchers are set to release their own psychiatric genetic tests. One test claims to predict the risk of developing schizophrenia. The other is designed to forecast the likelihood that some medications for major depression could heighten suicidal thoughts in patients.
As much as I’m not a fan of psychiatrists and there’s always the chance for misdiagnosis, I call this company a scam designed to prey upon people’s insecurities. (Perhaps bipolar people would purchase this in the midst of a spending spree?) Regardless, some people are buying into this product that even the maker admits isn’t entirely accurate.
Psynomics has sold only a few tests so far but is projecting sales of 1,800 tests in 2008 and 30,000 in the next five years.
Considering that it now has major media coverage, it’s likely to take off even more.
(Image sciam.com)
Bipolar & the Workplace
March 14, 2008 at 1:11 am (Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health/Illness, Personal)
Tags: ABC News, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Journey, career, editorial, failure, freelance, freelancing, jobs, mental health, mental illness, Mood swings, skills, work, workplace
I was surprised to see an ABC News article on bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is the “hip” mental illness these days — especially when used to characterize someone with extreme mood swings. One section addressed admitting to bipolar disorder in a work environment:
One day, he let it slip.
“I just blurted it out. ‘I’m sorry I’m getting shock treatments. I can’t remember anything,'” Steve said. His colleagues’ reactions were less than encouraging, he recalled.
“I would say that they were afraid of me,” Steve said. “They stopped referring their clients to me.”
Steve said that eventually his colleagues’ attitudes forced him to leave his job.
I admitted my problem to three people at my job: my managing editor at my last job and three of my coworkers (one with whom I am still friendly).
The managing editor, who had picked on me mercilessly, finally backed off. As far as I know, she didn’t tell anyone which I appreciated.
One of my coworkers admitted she had depression to me first before I told her I had bipolar disorder. It’s understood between us that we won’t go around and talk about these things.
The other coworker also told me about her journey through depression and her treatment afterward. I then revealed my struggle with bipolar disorder. We are friends outside of work now.
I’d told the last coworker about this shortly after I received my diagnosis after being released from the psych hospital. As far as I know, she didn’t tell anyone. But in the end, she’s the one who said the hurtful things about me in the e-mail I inadvertently received. It’s anyone’s guess if she told other coworkers or if she completely forgot.
From Bipolar Journey:
My experience is: work is work. Outside of work is where one gains support for any illness they struggle with. Acknowledging my response is skewed on the basis of recent events, I can’t recommend telling anyone you work with about one’s illness. I should have kept to my Psychology professor’s advice: “Never tell anyone you work with about your illness, trust me when I tell you: they will treat you differently.”
I attended an outpatient group in late October 2006 after my hospitalization. One lady said that one of her coworkers admitted she was bipolar; since then, the coworker was teased and verbally abused by her supervisor and other coworkers. I’m not positive but I think the person might have even gotten fired lest her disorder interfere with her ability to do her job. (She cleaned pools.)
People with the disorder often have trouble keeping a job and are 40 percent less likely to be employed than the average person, said Ronald Kessler, a public health researcher at Harvard University.
On the other hand, Kessler said, if treated properly, they can be creative and invaluable individuals. Many highly successful authors, artists and professionals have the disorder.
I’ve seen statistics like this before and they worry me. I constantly wonder whether I’ll ever be able to hold down a full-time job for a long period of time. I’m currently unemployed and – to my disbelief – enjoying it. I’m afraid I’ll get lazy and never go back to work. I’m afraid that I’ll start to go in and out of jobs like a revolving door. One of my psychotherapists in college flat out told me that I’d never be able to hold down a job.
As I try to venture into editorial freelancing, I’m afraid of a host of things: outdated skills, inexperience, lack of confidence, failure, libel, confrontation, socializing, networking, creating expectations (of myself) that I never live up to. My counselor told me to just jump in and do it first then worry about the details later. [deep breath]
I fear failure the most. Failure that I’ve forgotten my editorial skills because they haven’t been used daily since 2005. Failure that editors will write me off because I’m a 26-year-old with unimpressive clips like “Bees Infest Dorm Hall” (yawn), “Student Organization Rallies Youth to Vote” (so cliche), and “Penn State Strikes Deal with Napster on File-Sharing” (Nov. 2003 = old). Failure that I’ll write an article, misinterpret the facts, and then get the publication slapped with a lawsuit. Failure that I’ll have to be “pleasantly persistent” in calling up editors, asking for prompt payment of my freelance services. Failure that I will intentionally avoid things that would otherwise propel my career: attending social mixers, networking, doing all the social things that makes my blood run cold because I hate meeting new people (in person). Failure that I’ll look at past awards I’ve received and then never live up to the reason why I received them in the first place. I don’t want to blame bipolar disorder from holding me back but sometimes, I can’t help but think where I’d be in my professional career without it.
(Image from gobears.wordpress.com)
July 3, 2007 at 6:44 am (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Loose Screws Mental Health News, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma)
Tags: biotech, bipolar, bipolar children, bipolar kids, CombinatoRx, companies, disease, drug makers, drugs, generics, medication, medicine, meds, NYT, payment, payola, Pharma, pharmaceutical, psychiatrists, safety, side effects
"Can an antipsychotic drug from the 1950s be paired with a 1980s antibiotic to shrink 21st-century tumors?"
That's the first line from the NYT's recent article on biotech companies mixing two unrelated generic drugs to treat medical problems. Alexis Borisy, the executive of CombinatoRx, is spearheading the movement to mix and match two different generic drugs in the hopes that the combo will cure or effectively treat a disease that may be unrelated to the drugs' initial purposes.
"Orexigen, in creating its obesity drug Contrave, took a treatment used for drug and alcohol addiction and combined it with an antidepressant sometimes used to help people quit smoking." (My guess is that the antid was Zyban.)
It's a nice concept, but I'd hate to see risk of side effects doubled. One med can be a doozy; coupled with another could turn out to be problematic.
More from the NYT: Pharmaceutical companies pay psychiatrists (to push their products) more than doctors in any other specialty.
"For instance, the more psychiatrists have earned from drug makers, the more they have prescribed a new class of powerful medicines known as atypical antipsychotics to children, for whom the drugs are especially risky and mostly unapproved."
The bipolar child paradigm.
Vermont officials disclosed Tuesday that drug company payments to psychiatrists in the state more than doubled last year, to an average of $45,692 each from $20,835 in 2005. Antipsychotic medicines are among the largest expenses for the state’s Medicaid program.
Over all last year, drug makers spent $2.25 million on marketing payments, fees and travel expenses to Vermont doctors, hospitals and universities, a 2.3 percent increase over the prior year, the state said.
The number most likely represents a small fraction of drug makers’ total marketing expenditures to doctors since it does not include the costs of free drug samples or the salaries of sales representatives and their staff members. According to their income statements, drug makers generally spend twice as much to market drugs as they do to research them.
Doesn't the last sentence make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? It's great to know that getting people to use drugs are more important to these companies than making sure these drugs are safe to use. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a company and companies are only out to make profits. Whatever kind of optimist is in me wants to believe that maybe there's one doctor out there who is more motivated by helping others than by pharma-backing money. But I'm only a slight optimist.
Take two pills and call me if there's a birth defect
July 2, 2007 at 2:28 pm (Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Pregnancy)
Tags: Antidepressants, babies, birth defects, clinical trial, control group, expecting, medication, meds, moms, mothers, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, NYT, Paxil, pregnant women, Prozac, psych meds, rare condition, research, studies, zoloft
A recent article in the NYT reported that two studies released in The New England Journal of Medicine claim that an antidepressant could potentially increase the risk of a baby being born with a birth defect, but, uh, it's unlikely and "confined to a few rare defects."
Benedict Carey, author of the article, points out that the studies didn't have a good sampling to really prove that assertion:
"In both studies, researchers interviewed mothers of more than 9,500 infants with birth defects, including cleft palate and heart valve problems. They found that mothers who remember being on antidepressants like Zoloft, Paxil, or Prozac while pregnant were at no higher risk for most defects than a control group of women who said they had not taken antidepressants."
So what's it's sounding like for me is that researchers got a group of expecting moms together, basically said, "Hey, have you taken an antidepressant?" and the ones who said yes were placed in one control group and the ones who said no were placed in another. How reliable.
Having been part of a clinical trial for bipolar disorder, I know it's likely these women got paid for their participation in this study. (Most people do, from what I understand.) So some could essentially have lied in the hopes they could snag $100. It doesn't sound like these women agreed to have their past medical history released to researchers that could prove they've been on antidepressant medication, they could have just been like:
"Uh, yeah. I took the antidepressant with the happy little egg sad face thingy."
Doctor: "Zoloft?"
"Yeah, yeah! That one. It maketed me alllll better."
Remember – it's mothers who "remembered" being on antidepressants while pregnant, not medical histories that proved that they've at least been prescribed the medication.
One doctor, not involved in the research, had reservations about the so-called findings:
"These are important papers, but they don't close the questions of whether there are major effects" of these drugs on developing babies, said Dr. Timothy Oberlander, a developmental pediatrician at the University of British Columbia, who was not involved in the studies.
Despite the seemingly positive outcomes that "support doctors' assurances that antidepressants are not a major cause of serious physical problems in newborns," both studies uncovered some pretty serious – but considered rare – conditions.
"One of the studies, led by Carol Louik of Boston University and financed in part by the drug makers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis, found that use of Paxil was associated with an increased risk of a rare heart defect, which the company had previously reported.
The other study, led by Sura Alwan of the University of British Columbia, found that use of antidepressants increased the risk of craniosynostosis, a condition in which the bones in the skull fuse prematurely. Rare gastric and neural tube defects may also be more common in babies exposed to the medication, the studies suggested."
But don't worry, pregnant moms – the risks are low, "appear remote, and confined to a few rare defects." So, hey, even if your baby DID develop a rare defect, at least it's rare! [sarcasm]
I'd take the chance of depression if it meant my baby had a better chance of being born healthy. I'm lucky – I couldn't take Lamictal if I got pregnant. I wish antidepressants would have the same instruction.
Women & Antidepressants
April 30, 2007 at 2:17 pm (Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma)
Tags: Anafranil, Antidepressants, anxiety, April 30, big pharma, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bupropion, chronic pain, clinical studies, clomipramine, Depression, Effexor, fatigue, FDA, FDA approval, Fluoxetine, high blood pressure, hot flashes, IBS, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, Journal of Women's Health, magazine, magic pill, medications, meds, Melissa McNeil, menopause, migraines, off-label, off-label prescriptions, patient, patient education, patient responsibility, Pharma, pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical industry, Pink, pink magazine, PMS, premenstrual syndrome, Progressive Medical Centers of America, Progressive Medical Group, Prozac, psych meds, quetiapine, quit smoking, Sarafem, Scott Haltzman, Seroquel, smoking, somnolence, symptoms, tricyclic antidepressants, venlafaxine, Vikor Bouquette, weight loss, Wellbutrin, women, Zyban
Pink, a magazine for business women, has an article in its April/May 2007 issue titled, “The Magic Pill.” (The only way to read this article is to get a hard-copy of the mag.) No, this isn’t about birth control. The subhead: “Antidepressants are now used for everything from migraines to menopause. But are women getting an overdose?”
Good question. The article, well-written by Mary Anne Dunkin, does a nice job of trying to present both sides of the coin. One subject, Pam Gilchrist, takes tricyclic antidepressants to relieve her fibromyalgia symptoms. “One of the [antidepressants] that allows her to keep going” is Effexor (venlafaxine). God forbid the woman should ever have to come off of that one. (It works well when you’re on it, but withdrawal is sheer hell.)
The other subject mentioned in the article, Billie Wickstrom, suffers from bipolar disorder, but had a therapist who diagnosed her with obsessive-compulsive disorder. The psychiatrist she was referred to promptly put her on Anafranil (clomipramine). We all know what antidepressants tend to do for those with bipolar disorder. Wickstrom blanked out at an interview that she says she normally would have aced. In another incident, she veered off-course after leaving town and spent the night on the side of the road with her daughter. “Search parties in three states” were out looking for them.
“Three years and three hospitalizations later, Wickstrom is finally free of clomipramine and has a job she loves as PR director for a $300 million family of companies. She says she’s happy, she’s focused and she feels great – consistently.”
Dunkin’s article uncovers a large, problematic use – by my standards, anyway – of off-label usage by doctors.
“Gilchrist… is one of the estimated one in 10 American women taking some type of antidepressant medication. And a considerable percentage of these prescriptions, particularly those for tricyclic antidepressants, are not used to treat depression at all.
A growing number of doctors today prescribe antidepressants for a wide range of problems, including anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, migraines, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, menopausal hot flashes and smoking cessation.”
I’m sure the list goes on, but magazines have but oh so much space.
Dr. Melissa McNeil at the University of Pittsburgh points out three things:
Since depression is a prevalent (see common) condition, doctors are better detecting it.
Since antidepressants have proven their safety and efficacy, primary care physicians have no reservations prescribing them.
Clinical studies are finding that antidepressants can aid a number of medical issues apart from depression.
My take on McNeil’s points (I’ll try to keep them brief):
Depression is way too common to be abnormal. If a woman has a rough patch in life for 2 weeks or more, she’s got depression. As for doctors being better at detecting depression? Studies consistently show that doctors are great at overlooking depression in men.
Antidepressants haven’t proven jack squat. Placebos have proven more safety and efficacy than antidepressants. PCPs have no reservations prescribing them because they only know about the positive facts that pharma reps tell them instead of researching the potential side effects.
Clinical studies aren’t finding all those things out. Seroquel has FDA-approval to treat psychiatric symptoms (psychosis, for one). As far as I know, Seroquel is not FDA-approved to treat insomnia or crappy sleeping patterns. There are no specific clinical studies to see if Seroquel can treat insomnia. Seroquel is prescribed to treat insomnia/restless sleep because doctors have found that a major side effect of the drug is somnolence. If this is the case, Effexor should be prescribed for weight loss. It’d be the new Fen-Phen.
Dunkin cites two widely used antidepressants for nonpsychiatric uses: Wellbutrin (bupropion) and Prozac (fluoxetine). Zyban, used for smoking cessation is, well, bupropion. Sarafem, used to treat PMS symptoms is – you guessed it – fluoxetine.
Dr. Viktor Bouquette of Progressive Medical Group thankfully takes a more cautious approach:
“The widespread use – mostly misuse – by physicians of antidepressants to treat women for far-ranging symptoms from insomnia, chronic fatigue and irritability to PMS and menopause is merely another unfortunate example of the pharmaceutical industry’s tremendous influence on the practice of modern medicine. Take enough antidepressants and you may likely still have the symptoms, but you won’t care.”
Kudos to Dunkin for landing that quote. Since Bouquette is part of an alternative medicine group, he’s got a good motive for slamming pharma companies.
McNeil goes on to sound anti-d happy in the article. Not that it matters, but she is also a section editor for the Journal of Women’s Health, which has several corporate associates representing pharmaceutical companies. (She is also the only source in the article who sings anti-d’s praises.) Dunkin tracked down Dr. Scott Haltzman, a clinical professor at the Brown University Department of Psychiatry, who advocated patient responsibility.
“Just because antidepressants work for depression does not mean they should always be used. People need to learn skills to manage their depressive symptoms instead of depending on medication. When you take medicine for every complaint, you lose the opportunity to learn how to regulate your mood on your own.”
Oh, for more doctors like Haltzman and Bouquette.
UPDATE: Uh, alleged fraud suit pending against Progressive Medical Group. Bouquette is now part of Progressive Medical Centers of America.
Nothing you didn't already know
April 26, 2007 at 4:54 pm (Antidepressants, Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds)
Tags: Antidepressants, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Furious Seasons, medication, meds
Antidepressants don’t help those with bipolar disorder. Duh. See Furious Seasons’ take on it.
Bipolar I
March 13, 2007 at 9:58 am (Bipolar Disorder, Personal)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, bipolar I, Depression, mania, manic, manic-depressive, mood chart
"You’re manic, manic / There is a chemical in your brain / It’s pouring sunshine and rage / You can never know what to expect / You’re manic, manic" ~ Plumb: Manic
I spoke to someone online in November who asked me if I was bipolar I or II. I was reading the mood-tracking chart that my doctor gave me (courtesy of GSK via Lamictal) and noticed it mentioned bipolar I.
But I am still left with many questions regarding bipolar disorder:
How will it affect me personally?
When I have an "episode," what is my husband supposed to do?
The bp diagnosis has explained a lot of things, but prompts so many more questions, which need answers…
Hirschfeld developed MDQ for GSK
March 8, 2007 at 1:10 am (Bipolar Disorder, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Pharma)
Tags: affiliations, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, board, celexa, checklist, citalopram, clinical trials, consultant, Eli Lilly, escitalopram, gabapentin, GlaxoSmithKline, grants, GSK, Havidol, Hirschfeld, imipramine, Lamictal, lamotrigine, Lexapro, MDQ, member, Mood Disorder Questionnaire, paroxetine, Paxil, Pharma, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical grants, questionnaire, quetiapine, Robert Hirschfeld, Schizophrenia, Seroquel, sertraline, UTMB, zoloft, Zyprexa
“GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical healthcare companies, is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, and live longer.”
OK, I’ll be honest. I can’t keep up with my own posts and have no idea whether or not I’ve posted on this yet. Judging from the fact that I still have this bp booklet, I’m going to guess not. If I have, then there’s more.
When my psychiatrist diagnosed me with bipolar disorder in November, he handed me a bunch of material: a mood tracker (PDF), an article touting the benefits of Seroquel, and a booklet titled, “Bipolar Disorder,” which refers the reader to www.1on1.health.com.
The booklet seems pretty harmless to a patient newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder:
“Highs and lows can be part of life. But, with bipolar disorder, they can be severe. You may feel too depressed to get out of bed one day. Soon after, you may feel full of energy. You may have normal times between the highs and lows. When people have mood symptoms, it’s more likely to be depression.
Mood swings can be hard to predict. But you may have warning signs. You may even learn what can trigger your symptoms. You’ll read about this and more in this booklet.
Bipolar disorder is complex. Doctors docn’t know what causes it. They know that genes play a role. The illness may be linked to brain chemicals. These chemicals can get out of balance.
There are treatments to help control the symptoms. Learn about your condition. Get help for it. This booklet is a good first step.”
Thank you, GlaxoSmithKline.
GSK, the provider of such psych drugs as Lamictal, Paxil, and Wellbutrin, issues a series of booklets for patients referring them to 1on1health.com. The topics include depression, anxiety disorders, epilepsy, type 2 diabetes mellitus, high cholesterol, among others. The tips seems pretty simple and straightforward:
“Health and lifestyle chances may trigger your symptoms. Some common changes are:
Not having a sleep schedule
Misusing alcohol or drugs
Stopping your medicine, or starting medicine for depression or another illness
Having thyroid or other health problems”
Then it gets into the general stuff about the difference between mania, depression and further clarifies what hypomania and mixed moods are. Then, the kicker follows:
“If you think you may have bipolar disorder, fill out the checklist on the next two pages. Share it with your doctor. He or she can use it to help diagnose you.”
Furious Seasons posted a link about a fake drug named Havidol (which I totally got suckered into because I skimmed the post and missed the “OK, it’s a gag” part), but the hilarity stems from similarly stupid (and vague) questions. I’ve put a screenshot of the PDF GSK provides on their Web site to the right. My issue is not so much with the questions necessarily, but with the lead-in to them:
“Has there been a time when...” [emphasis mine]
It doesn’t matter whether you were 3 years old or 46 years old, if you answered “yes” to more than one “there’s ever been a time when” question, guess what? You MAY qualify for bipolar disorder! A sampling:
Has there ever been a time when…
You were easily angered that you shouted at people or started fights?
You felt much more sure of yourself than usual?
You talked or spoke much faster than usual?
You were so easily distracted that you couldn’t focus?
You had much more energy than usual?
You were much more active or did many more things than usual?
You were much more social than usual?
You were much more interested in sex than usual?
Guaranteed everyone reading this said “yes” to at least TWO questions. If not, I question whether you’re breathing. (Sadly enough, this makes me realize how easy it was for me to get fooled by the phony Havidol quiz.)
The follow-up to the questions above asks, “If you checked YES to more than one of the questions above, have several of these things happened during the same period of time?” Then, “How much of a problem did any of these things cause you (like not being able to work, or having money or legal troubles)? Choose one[:]
Minor problem
Moderate problem
Serious problem”
The multiple choice question above may not matter. Answering some of the lead-in questions in the affirmative may qualify you for the disorder.
Here’s a nice little tidbit. The questionnaire was “adapted with permission from Robert M.A. Hirschfeld, M.D.” So as an uninformed patient reading this (which I was at the time), I’m thinking, “Oh, this must be legit since they got permission from a doctor to use this checklist.” There’s more than meets the eye here.
On the surface, Dr. Hirschfeld seems like an awesome doctor – and he very well may be. Dr Hirschfeld’s bio from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) extols the “Professor and Chair” of its psychiatry deparment. He has history of working with various national organizations such as the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). He’s written all kinds of articles and blah blah blah. He’s considered a leader in his research of bipolar disorder.
In fact, because Dr. Hirschfeld is so great, he’s a member of pharmaceutical boards and has acted as a consultant for pharmaceutical companies, according to ISI Highly Cited.com. Some of our favorite guys appear here: Pfizer, Wyeth, Abbott Labs., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Forest Labs, Janssen, and – lookee here! – GSK.
The duration of Dr. Hirschfeld’s affiliations with these pharmaceutical companies are unspecified. All other “appointments/affiliations” have assigned years, i.e. 1972-1977, 2001-Present. His consulting affiliations follow his internship in 1968-1969. It looks a bit misleading to follow the consulting jobs after, oh say, 1969, and not provide dates of when he became a consultant for all of these pharma companies. Toward the end of the document that I found, his affiliations from 1986-Present are listed with various boards, associations, journals, and a slew of pharmaceutical companies.
Hello, hello, hello. He is a MEMBER of the Zyprexa U.S. Bipolar Academic Advisory Board, the Celexa/Excitalopram [sic] Executive Advisory Board, the Lamictal National Advisory Board, and the Zoloft Advisory Board.
Humor me here. His clinical trials include:
1994 Paroxetine for Dysthymia (SmithKline Beecham)
1995-97 Several (I found five) double-blind studies on sertraline and imipramine in patients qualifying for the DSM-III definition of major depressive disorder
1996-98 Gabapentin therapy for bipolar patients
And the list, including mirtazapine, fluoxetine, venlafaxine, lamotrigine, goes on. You can also find the “grants” pharma companies gave to fund these clinical trials.
From 1997-2000, Hirschfeld received a $100K grant from Abbott Labs to develop “a new checklist for bipolar symptoms.” (I’m not sure what the old one was.) In 2001, he received a $142K grant for the “Bipolar Prevalence and Impact MDQ Project.”
I don’t even need to look MDQ up. It’s Mood Disorder Questionnaire. The grant came from GSK, who “adapted” the questionnaire with Hirschfeld’s “permission.” That sounds simply gravy.
To understand more about bipolar disorder, you can listen to the stories of Greg, Stuart and Leslie – all your classic bipolar cases and how medication and/or therapy has helped them so much. You can also watch the bipolar
disorder animation that regurgitates all the things that we’ve become skeptical about.
In the meantime, remember the instructions included in Seroquel’s safety information that no one reads (excuse the crappy “Paint” job):
Celebrity sensitivity: Britney’s mental illness
February 28, 2007 at 8:25 pm (Bipolar Disorder, Celebrities, Depression, Mental Health/Illness, PPD)
Tags: bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Britney Spears, Celebrities, mental health, mental illness, postpartum depression, PPD
I originally posed a theory that Britney Spears might be suffering from a mental illness such as postpartum depression (PPD) or bipolar disorder. Furious Seasons linked to an article on tmz.com (by way of Celebrity Baby Blog – wtf?) where “sources say doctors at her rehab facility think the underlying reason for her trouble may be post-partum depression.”
As for my theories:
“Sources tell TMZ that Britney’s doctors have two operating theories — either that she suffers from post-partum depression or bipolar disorder. The doctors strongly believe post-partum is the problem.”
At least I got the plausible diagnoses. Damn, I’m good.
(A nice pic of the former ‘sexy’ days of Ms. Spears.)
UPDATE: The Trouble With Spikol also wrote her own take on it too.
Mind Over Matter, Pt. 2
February 27, 2007 at 2:06 pm (Anxiety/Stress, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Medicine/Meds, Mental Health/Illness, Schizophrenia)
Tags: big pharma, cure, cure-all, drug companies, lies, meds, psych meds, psychiatry, psychology
Perhaps I've written about this previously. Perhaps I haven't. Regardless, I'll tackle it anyway.
Some people with a mental illness who hear what I'm about to say will tell me I'm crazy. Perhaps I'd get "partially correct."
Catching up: Furious Seasons
February 26, 2007 at 4:07 pm (Antipsychotics, Bipolar Disorder, Blogs, Medicine/Meds, Pharma)
Tags: ADHD, bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Blogs, Dawdy, Eli Lilly, FOIA, Furious Seasons, medication, meds, mental health, NYT, Olanzapine, Pharma, pharma companies, psych meds, Zyprexa
I’ve been out of it. Really out of it.
In my backlog of reading, Furious Seasons has posted the results of what he’s entitled, "The Zyprexa Chronicles."
The judge ruled in favor of Lilly.
Holy crap. I knew this would happen, but hoped it wouldn’t.
This all occurred on Feb. 13, so I’m really behind the times here. (Did Punxsawtawney Phil see his shadow yet?) But it’s a reminder to, not just the blogosphere, but also to the media that, well, pharma companies are more powerful and have more sway in court.
After reading a bit more on the situation (ok – I’m getting all my info from ONE blog), it seems that the judge hasn’t really ruled against blogs using or disseminating these documents (MindFreedom.org being the exception apparently) but these leaked documents could cause Lilly "irreparable harm." What? Documents that need to be made public would harm Lilly? It’s David against Goliath. Mainstream media — CBS, ABC, NBC, AP — haven’t picked up on this story. The majority of Americans – I’d venture to say the majority of Zyprexa consumers – don’t know about the proven side effects of this drug. I highly doubt it would cause "irreparable harm."
Classic quote:
"The way reporters work is a good deal for the public. We get paid like school teachers, think like lawyers and detectives, fight like Marines when necessary and write like… oh, nevermind."
Man, ain’t it the truth. Especially the schoolteacher pay. Except in Brooklyn, NY where they’ll pay a starting teacher at $40K because they need teachers in the inner city. But I digress.
"So, Ms. [Marni] Lemons (Eli Lilly spokeswoman), what I reported on yesterday — that your company was talking about potentially downplaying glucose increases noted in studies used to approve Zyprexa for long-term use in bipolar disorder — was based on these documents and it sure looks to me like your employees were strategizing all over the Lilly email system. I contacted your press office on Monday and asked them to respond to several questions about that document. Your people never responded….
The same goes for you people at the FDA. Stop telling me to file FOIAs in order to get basic public information that affects millions of people that should already be freely available on your website."
For those who don’t know, FOIA stands for Freedom of Information Act, in which anyone can write to a governmental agency and appeal for documents that have been made public. The nice part about this? The agency can black out information that don’t want you to know. They can deny your request, block out some data, or block out so much that the document ends up being useless. Oh, and FOIAs take forever and freaking day to arrive because the gov’t sends them when it’s convenient for them.
Furious Seasons has also been following the NYT’s coverage about a child diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar, who was killed and supposedly overdosed on medication. Riiight. Unfortunately, from what I can see – perhaps I’ll find a bit more – the NYT is extensively covering mental health issues. Perhaps they’re getting a ton of hits on the Zyprexa series and have figured out that people actually care about mental health topics. Whatever the reasoning, I’m glad they’re doing it.
Astute observation from Furious Seasons:
"This whole diagnose-medicate-blame-the-"illness"-for-bad-outcomes nonsense has got to stop. It’s bad enough in adults and teens, but in kids it is a complete outrage. It is interesting to me, though, that when a child dies, the skeptical questions are asked. When an adult has awful results from taking Zyprexa, say, or Paxil, the media is largely silent."
More to come on other blogs…
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I have a question about Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon.' I would like to know the approximate diameter and depth of the root system at full growth. I am trying to convince the local cemetery to permit me to plant one there.
According to Richard Bitner's Conifers for Gardens (Timber Press, 2007) Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon' typically grows to about 6 feet tall. As a dwarf form of C. japonica, I would expect its roots not to be much of a problem. The (non-dwarf) species can grow to 160 feet, in which case, roots would extend a considerable distance. The local website, Great Plant Picks, features the variety 'Black Dragon' and says it grows to about 7'H x 8'W.
Here is general information on trees and their root systems, from Tree Roots in the Built Environment (Roberts et al., Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 2006):
About root depth:
"A further misconception about tree roots is that they occur typically in significant quantities at substantial depths (i.e. greater than 3 m.) in the soil profile. [...] from numerous studies involving comprehensive root excavations the indication is that typically as much as 90% of the tree root length occurs in the upper metre of soil." According to this same source, conifers usually have about 70% of their roots in the upper 50 cm. of soil."
About root extent:
"[...] large species differences exist but it is also the case that the horizontal extent of tree roots substantially exceeds the perimeter 'dripline' of the crown. [...] there is a good relationship between crown spread and root radius but the relationship tends to be very species specific. Roots extending furthest from the tree trunk are usually found in the soil surface. [...] the maximum extent ot the tree roots is reached before the canopy has completed expanding, suggesting that the ratio of root spread to crown spread may decrease as trees become older."
This same source also says the root extent is highly dependent on soil environment (richness of soil, access to water and nutrients).
To summarize, what all this means is that the width of your tree's crown will give you only some idea of the extent of the roots, and most of those roots will be shallow.
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SAT "Cosmetic Surgery" Ignores Test's Basic Flaws
Submitted by fairtest on April 14, 2014 - 1:35am
for immediate release, April 14, 2014
THE “NEW, IMPROVED” 2016 MODEL SAT:
“COSMETIC SURGERY” IGNORES TEST’S BASIC FLAWS
Later this week, the College Board will release details about its planned redesign of the SAT. According to the country’s leading advocate for SAT-optional admissions, however, the changes amount to “cosmetic surgery that fails to address the test’s fundamental weaknesses.”
National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer said, “An admissions exam is supposed to predict college performance accurately and fairly while resisting high-priced coaching manipulation. The SAT has long fallen far short of these goals. None of the planned revisions fix any of the test’s basic flaws.”
“The SAT will remain a weak predictor of undergraduate success,” Schaeffer continued. “High school grades will continue to forecast students’ graduation chances more accurately. The exam will still under-predict the performance of females, students whose home language is not English, and older applicants. Well-to-do families will not stop buying their children ‘test prep steroids’ from $1,200 intensive workshops and $500 per hour tutors. SAT scores will remain a better measure of family income than of college readiness.”
“Rather than improve the measurement quality of the SAT, most of the upcoming adjustments seem designed to win back market share from the ACT and slow adoption of test-optional policies,” Schaeffer charged. In the nine years since the last revisions, the ACT overtook the SAT as the nation’s most popular admissions exam, and nearly 100 more colleges dropped testing requirements.
“The changes may make the SAT appear more consumer-friendly, but they do not make it a better test. Most of the revisions are marketing bells and whistles,” Schaeffer explained. These include:
- Making the “Essay” Optional -- This simply matches ACT policy. In fact, most admissions offices found the College Board’s time-limited writing sample to be useless. Barely 200 colleges and universities required applicants to submit such an “essay,” according to a recent survey.
- Ending the “Guessing Penalty” for Wrong Answers – Another move to match the ACT. The College Board had long opposed right-answer scoring on the SAT, even while using that system on its Advanced Placement Exams. SAT-takers will now have to learn to fill in one bubble on all questions even if they have no idea what the correct response is.
- Aligning Exam Content with High School Curriculum and Eliminating “Obscure” Language – More changes that make the SAT look like the ACT. A more important “mismatch” will continue: the SAT will remain a time-limited, primarily multiple-choice test. That is not a format students will regularly encounter in college, let alone life.
- Offering Free Khan Academy Test-Prep Videos – Conceding that SAT coaching works is a major change for the College Board. But free test-prep videos have been available for years on the Khan Academy website. Other firms, such as Number2.com and FreeTestPrep.com, also have long posted free and low-cost materials. Access to more videos will not undercut demand for personalized, pricey test prep. SAT tutors expect business to boom due to uncertainty about the revised exam.
- Basing One Reading Passage on U.S. Founding Documents – This patriotic initiative may disadvantage students from other countries. There is no sound measurement reason to preference excerpts from U.S. history rather than the writings of, say, Darwin.
Schaeffer concluded, “Admissions offices don’t need the SAT, ‘old’ or ‘new.’ A much better way to evaluate applicants already exists. A recent, major report found that test-optional policies promote academic quality while increasing enrollment of first-generation and other low-income students.”
The first administration of the revised SAT will be in March 2016. A database of more than 800 institutions that do not require ACT or SAT scores to make admissions decisions is online at: http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional
For a print formated PDF of this release please click here.
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Filed under: Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 4:09 pm
Tags: Adam Stone, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Alec Baldwin, Badlands, Ben Foster, Blue Jasmine, Bobby Cannavale, Bradford Young, Brie Larson, Casey Affleck, Catching Fire, Channing Tatum, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Dave Franco, David Lowery, Destin Cretton, Die Hard, Donald Sutherland, Emma Watson, Evan Goldberg, Fast and Furious 6, Frances Ha, Francis Lawrence, Greta Gerwig, Huck Finn, Isla Fisher, James Franco, Jamie Foxx, Jay Baruchel, Jeff Nichols, Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Eisenberg, John Gallagher Jr, Jonah Hill, Justin Lin, Kaityln Dever, Keith Carradine, Keith Stanfield, Louis CK, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Manhattan, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Twain, Matthew McConaughey, Melanie Laurent, Mud, Noah Baumbach, Now You See Me, Ocean's 11, Peter Sarsgaard, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon, Roland Emmerich, Rooney Mara, Sally Hawkins, Sam Shepard, Seth Rogen, Short Term 12, Take Shelter, The Hunger Games, This is The End, Tom Sawyer, Top 10 Films of 2013, Tye Sheridan, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Vin Diesel, White House Down, Woody Allen, Woody Harrelson
(10) Fast and Furious 6
This falls short of its illustrious immediate predecessor, but director Justin Lin’s sign-off to the Vin Diesel franchise he invigorated retained its Ocean’s 11 with petrol-heads vibe. A spectacular action sequence with a tank on a freeway, a charismatic villain with an outrageously designed car, and an over-busy finale as outsize as the runway it took place on were all elevated by a pervasive air of sadness. Poor Han…
(9) Catching Fire
Jennifer Lawrence nuanced her formidable Hunger Games heroine with PTSD as she fought a deadly PR battle with President Donald Sutherland and his lieutenant Philip Seymour Hoffman. Confidence oozed from this movie, a quality noticeable in its expanded ensemble. Director Francis Lawrence’s trademark held shots and action tracks created a more rounded universe with complex villains as well as tense CGI suspense sequences in which the geography of the action was always nicely legible.
(8) Short Term 12
Newcomer Destin Cretton helmed his own prize-winning script about twenty-something counsellors at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers to beautiful effect. Brie Larson is outstanding as the enigmatic lead counsellor Grace, but nuanced turns from Kaitlyn Dever as possible abuse victim Jayden, Keith Stanfield as suicidal rapper Marcus, and John Gallagher Jr as Grace’s long-suffering boyfriend all draw us into an unfamiliar world detailed with insight, humour, and a tempered optimism.
(7) White House Down
Roland Emmerich’s nonsensical Die Hard movie joyously proclaimed its debt (the villain ‘discovered’ a connection between the hero and a female hostage), paid off every plant in sight from President Obama Jamie Foxx’s Lincoln fandom to what Channing Tatum’s daughter’s six weeks honing a skill for her talent show, featured an aggressive right-wing news anchor who wouldn’t stop crying, and forced a miscast Maggie Gyllenhaal to commit so ferociously she grounded the whole thing.
(6) Now You See Me
This Ocean’s 11 with magicians romp was gloriously insouciant crowd-pleasing fun that never flagged, and flirted with cliché but avoided its embrace. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco breezed thru flashily staged sequences of magical revenge against the 1% as their ‘Four Horsemen’ magicians caused chaos across America while being hunted by Mark Ruffalo (FBI/Scully) and Melanie Laurent (Interpol/Mulder) who began to wonder – can these be real magicks?
(5) Frances Ha
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach combined as writers to potent effect for a film in thrall to Woody Allen’s Manhattan. Its monochrome NYC looked incredible, the comedy was superb and clever, it used pop music to amazingly emotional effect, and it was based around an outstanding performance from Gerwig in a richly written part. From her money worries and anxieties at meeting richer people and more successful contemporaries, to her exaggerations about her success to hide embarrassment at her failures, to plain loopy decisions, this was a piercing, realistic insight into failure.
(4) Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen mined a tragic vein as Cate Blanchett’s humbled socialite Jasmine stayed in San Francisco with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins). Jasmine tried to replace Ginger’s boyfriend Bobby Cannavale with Louis CK, and to replace her own dead tycoon husband (Alec Baldwin) with a widowed diplomat (Peter Sarsgaard). Two women’s romances and mental disintegration recalled Vicky Cristina Barcelona but this was far superior. Fantastic comedy from unsubtle suitors and Blanchett’s waspish tongue was combined with her extraordinary expressive portrayal of schizophrenic breaks from reality as she talked intimately to thin air, seeing people.
(3) This is The End
Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg’s directorial debut in which Seth, James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson and Danny McBride attempted to wait out the apocalypse in a Hollywood mansion stuffed with drugs and no food was a largely unstructured ramble from one absurd set-up to the next profane bout of self-indulgence, and it was fantastic. Emma Watson’s extended axe-wielding cameo was spectacular, the theology of how to survive the end of days was ludicrous, and the use of music reduced me to helpless tears of laughter; especially the final two songs.
(2) Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Writer/director David Lowery’s stunning tale of young criminals in love in 1970s Texas played out like Badlands re-imagined by Jeff Nichols. Rigorously under-lit by Bradford Young its glorious darkness created a moody, romantic atmosphere in which the abiding passion of parted lovers Ruth (Rooney Mara) and Bob (Casey Affleck) assumed mythic proportions. Keith Carradine as Bob’s mentor and Ben Foster as the lawman Ruth once shot grounded this world, and Lowery built tension expertly around Bob’s escape from jail to Ruth to a suspenseful finale which ended with an image of savage grace.
(1) Mud
Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols returned with an Arkansan tale indebted to Mark Twain as a modern Huck and Tom helped Matthew McConaughey’s titular fugitive. Teenager Tye Sheridan gave a subtle turn as Ellis, who reacted to his parents’ disintegrating marriage by bonding with Mud and his unquenchable belief in true love, despite mysterious neighbour Sam Shepard’s warning that Mud was a fool in waiting for unreliable Reese Witherspoon. DP Adam Stone imbued the Arkansan locations with a heavenly sheen, and, while Mud hiding out a river island living in a boat in a tree observing local superstitions gave rise to great comedy, there was also Twain’s darkness in blood feuds. Nichols’ third film was rich, absorbing, cautiously optimistic, and lit by a deep affection for his characters.
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Did Hedge Funds Drop The Ball On Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) ?
Asma UL Husna
Insider Monkey• June 7, 2019
Is Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY) a good investment right now? We check hedge fund and billionaire investor sentiment before delving into hours of research. Hedge funds spend millions of dollars on Ivy League graduates, expert networks, and get tips from investment bankers and industry insiders. Sure they sometimes fail miserably, but their consensus stock picks historically outperformed the market after adjusting for known risk factors.
Is Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY) the right pick for your portfolio? The best stock pickers are turning less bullish. The number of bullish hedge fund bets shrunk by 1 lately. Our calculations also showed that ALLY isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds. ALLY was in 35 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2019. There were 36 hedge funds in our database with ALLY holdings at the end of the previous quarter.
Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 40 percentage points since May 2014 through May 30, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.
Howard Marks OAKTREE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Let's take a peek at the recent hedge fund action encompassing Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY).
How are hedge funds trading Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY)?
Heading into the second quarter of 2019, a total of 35 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of -3% from the fourth quarter of 2018. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards ALLY over the last 15 quarters. So, let's see which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
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More specifically, Oaktree Capital Management was the largest shareholder of Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY), with a stake worth $306.3 million reported as of the end of March. Trailing Oaktree Capital Management was Lakewood Capital Management, which amassed a stake valued at $298.7 million. First Pacific Advisors LLC, Magnolia Capital Fund, and Cyrus Capital Partners were also very fond of the stock, giving the stock large weights in their portfolios.
Since Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY) has faced a decline in interest from the aggregate hedge fund industry, it's easy to see that there is a sect of hedge funds who were dropping their full holdings last quarter. Interestingly, Joshua Friedman and Mitchell Julis's Canyon Capital Advisors dropped the biggest investment of all the hedgies followed by Insider Monkey, totaling about $108.8 million in stock, and Jeffrey Tannenbaum's Fir Tree was right behind this move, as the fund said goodbye to about $9 million worth. These transactions are interesting, as aggregate hedge fund interest was cut by 1 funds last quarter.
Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks - not necessarily in the same industry as Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY) but similarly valued. These stocks are J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT), Duke Realty Corporation (NYSE:DRE), Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LW), and Tableau Software Inc (NYSE:DATA). This group of stocks' market values are closest to ALLY's market value.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position JBHT,27,334824,2 DRE,16,302599,-6 LW,41,1255203,9 DATA,44,2281877,8 Average,32,1043626,3.25 [/table]
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Can a Marine Reserve Qualify for Retirement Benefits?
By: Kevin O'Flynn
1. Is Military Retirement a Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan?
2. Social Security Benefits & Military Retirement Pay
3. Air Force Reserve Retirement Benefits
The military offers significant benefits for Marine Reserve retirees. Marine reservists can earn retirement benefits for fulfilling various duties in a points system. Points are earned over 20 years of qualified service in the Marine Reserves. Major benefits include retirement payments and access to military health care. In addition, Marine reservists who become partially disabled may be eligible for disability compensation.
Earning Points
Marine reservists earn points toward retirement through service. A point is earned for each day of completed active service. In addition, Marine reservists earn points for completing reserve training and passing coursework. For example, a Marine reservist could earn four points for completing a weekend of training- two points for each day. A Marine reservist must earn at least 50 points annually to have the year qualify towards the 20-year service requirement.
Retirment Benefits
There are many benefits available to retired Marine reservists. Retirees collect monthly pay based on days of service and rank achieved. Up to 55 percent of retirement pay can be designated to beneficiaries. Retirement benefits also include access to base commissaries and military health care. Commissaries often sell goods at a discount compared to civilian department stores. In addition, retirees can travel at low cost on military transport planes when seating is available.
When Benefits Become Available
Marine reservists can collect benefits after the age of 60. Two years prior to reaching this age, the military will send a Notice of Eligibility letter to the Marine reservist. The reservist then must apply to receive military retirement pay. Under certain conditions, retirement pay can be drawn earlier than at age 60. For every 90 days of active service completed, the Marine reservist may collect pay three months earlier than regularly scheduled.
Disability Retirement Pay
In addition to reserve retirement pay, Marine reservists can also earn disability retirement pay if they are at least 30 percent disabled. To qualify, a Marine reservist must have become disabled in the line of duty or have served for eight years. The Veterans Administration offers disability compensation in addition to the Department of Defense disability pay. Of note, disability payments also include allowances for dependents.
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Kevin O'Flynn began writing in 2008 with a background in private equity. He has written for MilitarySpot.com and lived and worked in the United Kingdom and Japan. O'Flynn holds a Master of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University.
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Young Aeta girl from Mariveles, Bataan, in 1901.
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The Aeta (Ayta /ˈaɪtə/ EYE-tə; Kapampangan: áitâ), or Agta, are an indigenous people who live in scattered, isolated mountainous parts of the island of Luzon, the Philippines.
These people are considered to be Negritos, whose skin ranges from dark to very dark brown, and possessing features such as a small stature and frame; hair of a curly to kinky texture and a higher frequency of naturally lighter colour (blondism) relative to the general population, small nose, and dark brown eyes. They are thought to be among the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, preceding the Austronesian migrations.[1]
The Aeta were included in the group of people named "Negrito" during the Spanish Era. Various Aeta groups in northern Luzon are named Pugut or Pugot, an Ilocano term that also means "goblin" or "forest spirit",[2] and is the colloquial term for people with darker complexions. These names are mostly considered inappropriate or derogatory by fellow Aeta of northern Luzon.
See also: History of the Philippines (pre-1521)
Aetas as illustrated in Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. The caption in Spanish describes them as "wild men of the mountains".
An artist's illustration of Aetas in 1885.
The Aeta people in the Philippines are often grouped with other Negritos and the Australo-Melanesians, which includes other groups such as Aborigines in Australia; Papuans; and the Melanesians of the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the French overseas special collectivity of New Caledonia.
The history of the Aetas continues to confound anthropologists and archaeologists. One theory suggests that the Aeta are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines, who, contrary to their seafaring Austronesian neighbors, arrived through land bridges that linked the islands with the Asian mainland. Unlike many of their Austronesian counterparts, the Aetas have shown resistance to change. Aetas had little interaction with the Spaniards as they remained in the mountains during the Spanish rule. Even the attempts of the Spaniards failed to settle them in reducciones or reservations all throughout Spanish rule.
According to Spanish observers like Miguel López de Legazpi, Negritos possessed iron tools and weapons. Their speed and accuracy with a bow and arrow were proverbial and they were fearsome warriors. Unwary travelers or field workers were often easy targets. Despite their martial prowess, however, the Aeta's small numbers, primitive economy and lack of organization often made them easy prey for better-organized groups. Zambals seeking slaves would often take advantage of their internal feuding. They were often sold as slaves to Borneo and China, and, unlike the serf feudal system imposed on other Filipinos, there was little chance of manumission.[3]
It is estimated that there are about 20,000 to 30,000 Aeta people living in the Philippines.[citation needed]
LifestyleEdit
Aeta lady washing clothes in Iriga City.
The Aeta are nomadic and build only temporary shelters made of sticks driven to the ground and covered with the palm of banana leaves. The well-situated and more modernized Aetas have moved to villages and areas of cleared mountains. They live in houses made of bamboo and cogon grass. Aetas are found in Zambales, Tarlac, Pampanga, Panay, Bataan and Nueva Ecija, but were forced to move to resettlement areas in Pampanga and Tarlac following the devastating Mount Pinatubo eruption in June 1991.
Mining, deforestation, illegal logging, and slash-and-burn farming have caused the indigenous population in the country to steadily decrease to the point where they number only in the thousands today. The Philippine government affords them little or no protection, and the Aeta have become extremely nomadic due to social and economic strain on their culture and way of life that had previously remained unchanged for thousands of years.
LanguageEdit
Main article: Aeta languages
All Aeta communities have adopted the language of their Austronesian Filipino neighbors, which have sometimes diverged over time to become different languages.[4] These include, in order of number of speakers, Mag-indi, Mag-antsi, Abellen, Ambala, and Mariveleño.
Aetas performing on stage at a shopping center.
Indigenous monotheistic religionEdit
There are different views on the dominant character of the Aeta religion. Those who believe they are monotheistic argue that various Aeta tribes believe in a supreme being who rules over lesser spirits or deities, with the Aeta of Mt. Pinatubo worshipping "Apo Na". The Aetas are also animists. For example, the Pinatubo Aeta believe in environmental spirits. They believe that good and evil spirits inhabit the environment, such as the spirits of the river, sea, sky, mountain, hill, valley and other places.
No special occasion is needed for the Aeta to pray, but there is a clear link between prayer and economic activities. The Aeta dance before and after a pig hunt. The night before Aeta women gather shellfish, they perform a dance which is partly an apology to the fish and partly a charm to ensure the catch. Similarly, the men hold a bee dance before and after the expeditions for honey.
Indigenous polytheistic religionEdit
There are four manifestations of the "great creator" who rules the world: Tigbalog is the source of life and action; Lueve takes care of production and growth; Amas moves people to pity, love, unity, and peace of heart; while Binangewan is responsible for change, sickness, and death.
Gutugutumakkan – The Supreme Being and Great Creator who have four manifestations, namely, Tigbalog, Lueve, Amas, and Binangewan.
Kedes - The god of the hunt.
Pawi - The god of the forest.
Sedsed - The god of the sea.
Colonial religionEdit
In the mid-1960s, missionaries of the American-based Evangelical Protestant mission group New Tribes Mission, in their effort to reach every Philippine tribal group with the Christian Gospel, reached out to the Agtas/Aetas. The mission agency provided education, including pastoral training for natives to reach members of their own tribe. Today, a large percentage of Agtas/Aetas of Zambales and Pampanga are Evangelicals.[5] Jehovah's Witnesses also have members of the Aeta people. (See 1993 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses)
ClothingEdit
Their traditional clothing is very plain. The young women wear wrap around skirts. Elder women wear bark cloth, while elder men wear loin cloths. The old women of the Agta wear a bark cloth strip which passes between the legs, and is attached to a string around the waist. Today, most Aeta who have been in contact with lowlanders have adopted the T-shirts, pants and rubber sandals commonly used by the latter.
PracticesEdit
Varanus bitatawa stew being prepared by Aeta tribesmen.
The Aetas are skillful in weaving and plaiting. Women exclusively weave winnows and mats. Only men make armlets. They also produce raincoats made of palm leaves whose bases surround the neck of the wearer, and whose topmost part spreads like a fan all around the body.
According to one study, "About 85% of Philippine Aeta women hunt, and they hunt the same quarry as men. Aeta women hunt in groups and with dogs, and have a 31% success rate as opposed to 17% for men. Their rates are even better when they combine forces with men: mixed hunting groups have a full 41% success rate among the Aeta."[6]
MedicineEdit
Aeta women are known around the country as experts of the herbal medicines.
A traditional form of visual art is body scarification. The Aetas intentionally wound the skin on their back, arms, breast, legs, hands, calves and abdomen, and then they irritate the wounds with fire, lime and other means to form scars.
Other "decorative disfigurements" include the chipping of the teeth. With the use of a file, the Dumagat modify their teeth during late puberty. The teeth are dyed black a few years afterwards.
The Aetas generally use ornaments typical of people living in subsistence economies. Flowers and leaves are used as earplugs for certain occasions. Girdles, necklaces, and neckbands of braided rattan incorporated with wild pig bristles are frequently worn.
MusicEdit
The Aeta have a musical heritage consisting of various types of agung ensembles, ensembles composed of large hanging, suspended or held, bossed/knobbed gongs, which act as drone, without any accompanying melodic instrument.
Buno
Semang
Andamanese
^ "The Aeta". peoplesoftheworld.org.
^ Thomas N. Headland; John D. Early (Mar 1, 1998). Population Dynamics of a Philippine Rain Forest People: The San Ildefonso Agta. University Press of Florida. p. 208.
^ Scott, William (1994). Barangay. Manila, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila. pp. 252–256.
^ Reid, Lawrence. 1987. "The early switch hypothesis". Man and Culture in Oceania, 3 Special Issue: 41-59.
^ "37 NEW AETA BELIEVERS BAPTIZED IN THE PHILIPPINES". Asia Harvest. 11 November 2008.
^ Dahlberg, Frances (1975). Woman the Gatherer. London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02989-6.
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Warren Kimbro
Warren Aloysious Kimbro (April 29, 1934 – February 3, 2009) was a Black Panther Party member in New Haven, Connecticut who was found guilty of the May 21, 1969, murder of New York City Panther Alex Rackley, in the first of the New Haven Black Panther trials in 1970.[1]
1 Murder and trial
1.1 Early release
2 After prison
Murder and trial[edit]
Kimbro had been a resident of the New Haven Panther headquarters at 365 Orchard Street, where Rackley was held and tortured for two days under suspicion of being an informant for the FBI's COINTELPRO program. It was established at the trial that afterwards, Kimbro, Bridgeport, Connecticut Panther Lonnie McLucas, and national Panther field marshal George W. Sams, Jr. had driven Rackley to the marshes of Middlefield, Connecticut, where Kimbro and McLucas had each shot Rackley, on Sams' orders. Sams testified that national Panther leader Bobby Seale, who had been speaking at Yale University the day before the murder, had personally ordered the killing, but there was no corroborating evidence; the jury in Seale's subsequent trial was unable to reach a verdict, and the prosecution chose not to re-try the case.
According to Michael Koskoff, one of the lawyers for McLucas,
"Many of the people in the New Haven chapter of the Panthers were middle class. They were defined more by their propaganda than by their own personalities. And they were young and impressionable.[2]
Early release[edit]
At the trial, Sams and Kimbro both turned state's evidence in exchange for the reduced charge of second degree murder, for which each received the mandatory life sentence and served four years. In 1972, Kimbro met with a parole board and was permitted to attend Harvard University's School of Education.[3]
In 1975, after only four years of his prison term Kimbro became the Assistant Dean of Eastern Connecticut State University.[4]
After prison[edit]
For more than 20 years, Kimbro was president and CEO of Project MORE, a non-profit agency in New Haven that offers both day programs and residence to ex-convicts, helping them to re-enter society.
Kimbro also volunteered for many years at the Pilot Pen International tennis tournament in New Haven.[5]
The Rackley case and Kimbro's journey from murderer to one who rehabilitates convicts were the subjects of a 2006 book, Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale and the Redemption of a Killer by Paul Bass, editor of The New Haven Independent, and Douglas Rae, professor of management and political science at the Yale School of Management.[6] (Basic Books, 304 pages).
^ http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/427/427.F2d.239.772.34604.html
^ "Bobby Seale's Shadow +". gadflyonline.com. Retrieved 2006-02-14.
^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=u5krAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AvkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7026,1243663&dq=warren+kimbro+harvard&hl=en
^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3iImAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Dv4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2476,1151586&dq=warren+kimbro+eastern+connecticut&hl=en
^ "A Testament To Second Chances Passes On"
^ Biographical page for Douglas Rae
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Born Oct. 26 (Nov. 6), 1794, in St. Petersburg; died there Jan. 25 (Feb. 6), 1881. Russian architect.
Ton studied under A. N. Voronikhin at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1803 to 1815. He was sent abroad to study in Italy from 1819 to 1828. In 1830 he was made a member of the academy, receiving a professorship there in 1833 and becoming rector of the architecture division in 1854.
Ton originated the eclectic Russian-Byzantine style (seePSEUDO-RUSSIAN STYLE), which was officially accepted by the tsarist regime. Many of his buildings are distinguished by high-quality workmanship and by advanced construction methods, for example, the use of large metal structures. Ton’s works include the Church of Christ the Savior (1837–83, not preserved), the Great Kremlin Palace (1839–49), and the Armory (1844–51) in the Moscow Kremlin. Ton also designed Nikolaevskaia Station (now Leningradskaia Station, 1849) in Moscow and Nikolaevskaia Station (now Moskovskaia Station, 1851) in Leningrad. Both railroad stations were renovated in the 1960’s and 1970’s, but their original facades were preserved.
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gaseous substance that burns in air and releases enough heat to be useful as a fuel, while also remaining sufficiently stable at ordinary temperatures to permit long-term storage without deterioration or undue hazard.
..... Click the link for more information. ; nuclear energynuclear energy,
the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom and released through fission, fusion, or radioactivity. In these processes a small amount of mass is converted to energy according to the relationship E = mc2, where E is energy, m
a combustible substance that, upon burning, liberates a significant amount of heat, which may be used directly in a production process or transformed into other forms of energy. Various devices are used in the combustion of fuels, including burners, furnaces, and combustion chambers. Although there are many combustible substances, only those substances that are abundant and easily obtainable and that do not produce harmful combustion products are considered fuels. Substances that are largely composed of carbon meet these requirements; they include organic minerals—brown coal, fuel gases, oil shales, hard coal, petroleum, and peat—as well as wood and plant wastes, such as straw and husks. Fuels for rocket engines form a separate class (seeROCKET PROPELLANT and METAL PROPELLANT).
In nuclear power engineering, atomic fuel is any substance the nuclei of which decompose when bombarded by neutrons and liberate energy, principally the kinetic energy of nuclear fission fragments and neutrons. Thus, ordinary chemical fuels are called organic fuels, in contradistinction to nuclear fuels. Natural organic fuels are the prime source of heat used by man. The petrochemical industry and the production of lubricants are based almost entirely on raw materials obtained from natural fuels (seeINDUSTRIAL ORGANIC SYNTHESIS and PETROLEUM PRODUCTS).
Originally plant fuels, such as wood, were mainly used to produce heat from fire. The fossil fuels coal and petroleum have been known since antiquity, but they began replacing plant fuels with relatively lower calorific values only in the middle of the 19th century, thus producing a great effect on the conservation of forests.
The properties of a fuel are largely determined by the fuel’s chemical composition (in percent by weight). The chemical elements in fuels are designated by their chemical symbols: C, H, O, N, and S; ash and water components are designated by A and W, respectively. The moisture and ash content of any single fuel is subject to significant variation; therefore, in order to provide a more precise characterization, fuel compositions may be given for the weight of the fuel upon introduction into a furnace (superscript f), dry weight (d), combustible weight (c), or organic matter weight (o). For example, Cc = 91 indicates that the combustible weight of a given fuel contains 91 percent carbon by weight.
The most important index characterizing the practical value of a fuel is the heat of combustion. For comparative analysis, the concept of a standard fuel with a heat of combustion of 7,000 Calories per kg (29,308 kilojoules per kg) is used. The quality of hard coals is characterized by the volume of volatile components Vv that enter into a gaseous or vapor state when the coal is heated without contact with air. This process causes a nonvolatile residue to be formed, whose properties determine the coal’s tendency to cake, which characterizes its suitability for coking.
The oxidizability of a fuel at normal temperatures determines how the fuel can be stored and for how long. Fuels with high oxidizability may undergo spontaneous combustion. The tendency of a fuel toward spontaneous combustion is determined by the ignition temperature. Liquid fuels are also characterized by the flash point—the tendency of a mixture of air and fuel vapors to ignite without ignition of the liquid itself. This characteristic is crucial in the combustion of fuels in internal-combustion engines. The possibility of obtaining high temperatures from the combustion of a fuel depends on the maximum temperature Ta theoretically attainable upon complete combustion of a fuel in the air with the liberated heat going entirely to heat the products of combustion.
The mechanical strength of a solid fuel is important in the transportation of the fuel over long distances and repeated re-loadings. In the combustion of fuels in the form of dusts, the expenditures of energy for the preparation of the pulverized fuel is characterized by the fuel’s pulverizability. The granulometric composition of a fuel, that is, the content of particles of varying size within a fuel, is important in the laminar combustion of the fuel. The principal characteristics of several fuels are given in Table 1.
Fuels are divided into solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels depending on their aggregate state. A distinction is made between natural fuels, such as coal and petroleum, and chemical fuels obtained from the processing of natural fuels. For example, the quality of a
Table 1. Principal characteristics of some fuels
Composition (percent, by weight)
Volume of volatile matter released percent, by weight)
Maximum temperature of combustion
Heat of combustion (megajoules/kg)
1 Megajoules/m3
Wood 40 0.6 30.3 3.6 – 0.4 25.1 85 1600 10.2
Chopped peat 50 6.3 24.7 2.6 0.1 1.1 15.2 70 1500 8.1
Brown coal (Kansk-Achinsk type) 33 6 43.7 3 0.2 0.6 13.5 48 1800 15.7
Hard coal 8 23 55.2 3.8 3.2 1.0 5.8 40 2050 22
Anthracite dust 0.5 23 63.8 1.2 1.6 0.6 1.3 3.5 2150 22.6
Mazut (high-sulfur) 3 0.1 83 10.4 2.8 – 0.7 – 2100 39.2
Gasoline – – 85 14.9 0.05 – 0.05 – 2100 44
Natural gas – – 74 25 – 1.0 – – 2000 35.61
solid fuel may be improved, without changing the fuel’s chemical composition, by briquetting, enrichment, or pulverization. Coke used in blast furnaces is prepared by heating a fuel, usually hard coal, to 950°-1050°C without contact with air (seeCOKING and COKE CHEMISTRY). Petroleum products are obtained by means of distillation, cracking, and pyrolysis; pyrolysis is one of the most important industrial methods used to obtain raw material for petrochemical synthesis. Gaseous chemical fuel is obtained by the gasification of solid and liquid fuels. (SeeHYDROLYSIS OF VEGETABLE MATTER for information on the biochemical conversion of plant fuels.)
At the 1975 level of extraction, the known reserves of coal will suffice for thousands of years. However, the prospective reserves of petroleum and natural gas at the present level of extraction will suffice for only 100–150 years; if the increasing rate of extraction is taken into account, these reserves may be exhausted in 50–60 years. The limited reserves of natural gas and petroleum and the significant increase in their prices have resulted in a tendency to conserve fossil fuels and to use other sources for the generation of power.
Since nearly all the fuels extracted from the earth are burned (only about 10 percent of petroleum and natural gas is used as raw material), the yearly introduction of pollutants released into the earth’s atmosphere from the combustion of fuels has reached enormous proportions: approximately 150 million tons of ash, 100 million tons of oxides of sulfur, 60 million tons of oxides of nitrogen, and 20 billion tons of carbon dioxide. In order to protect the environment, various methods are being developed for trapping harmful substances in combustion products, as well as methods of combustion in which such substances, for example, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, are not produced.
See references under the articles on specific types of fuels.
I. N. ROZENGAUZ
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(materials)
A material that is burnt to release heat energy, for example, coal, oil, or uranium.
1. any substance burned as a source of heat or power, such as coal or petrol
a. the material, containing a fissile substance, such as uranium-235, that produces energy in a nuclear reactor
b. a substance that releases energy in a fusion reactor
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There are always people ready to criticise our city and we do not need to add fuel to the flames.
Letter: You Say - Was Marc at show?
00pm AS preparations for Dave's wedding go into overdrive, Lisa grows convinced there's more to Ben and Ally's relationship than meets the eye - and Nathan's keen to add fuel to the flames.
SATELLITE PICK OF THE DAY
Yesterday, the 30-year-old Scot declined to add fuel to the flames but insisted Wrexham could yet win their battle to stay up.
SKIPPER FACING FA PROBE; Ferguson falls foul of referee
She injured her knee when she fell off her bike and the unusual circumstances of her collision, not with a truck but a tourist, seemed to add fuel to the flames.
We can hear his heart crack
You're welcome to add fuel to the flames - if you can find any.
Football: ANTHONY HAGGERTY TAKES YOUR CALLS; Ibrox fans say they're in General agreement
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Pulsating pseudoaneurysm in a walled-off necrosis
On May 15, 2015 May 1, 2015 By giejournalIn VideoGIE
Shuntaro Mukai from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan describes this VideoGIE case “Pulsating pseudoaneurysm in a walled-off necrosis.”
Our video case describes a pulsating pseudoaneurysm in the cavity of a walled-off necrosis (WON) diagnosed by endoscopy through a fully-covered biflanged metal stent (BFMS). Subsequently, the pseudoaneurysm was successfully treated. A 38-year-old man developed an infected WON after severe necrotizing pancreatitis. A novel BFMS (16 mm in diameter and 20 mm in length) was placed under EUS guidance. Then, direct endoscopic necrosectomy (DEN) was performed through the BFMS. Seven days after DEN, he vomited blood; we suspected bleeding from the cavity. Emergency angiography was not able to detect any obvious bleeding point. After seven days of conservative therapy, an endoscope was advanced to examine the condition within the cavity. Surprisingly, a pulsating pseudoaneurysm was found. Subsequently, the pseudoaneurysm was treated by coil embolization. Interestingly, a “second-look” endoscopy determined that the pseudoaneurysm completely resolved after use of the embolization coil.
Figure 1. Endoscopic imaging revealed a pulsating pseudoaneurysm (A). A “second-look” endoscopy demonstrated that the pseudoaneurysm completely resolved after use of the embolization coil (B). Angiography revealed a pseudoaneurysm (C), which was subsequently treated by coil embolization (D).
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first video which shows a pulsating pseudoaneurysm detected by direct endoscopic imaging and subsequently successfully treated by coil embolization. Bleeding from the cavity due to the rupture of a pseudoaneurysm is a fatal complication in patients with WON. Thus, the management of bleeding is mandatory for treatment success.
BFMS is useful for the treatment of WON also in that observation in the cavity of WON by endoscopy can be easily performed during the treatment course.
Find more VideoGIEs available online.
Endoscopygastrointestinal endoscopyGIEpseudoaneurysmVideoGIEwalled-off necrosis
Cholangioscopic evaluation of sectoral biliary stricture
Optical coherence tomography after POEM
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Magical Tombola – December Winners
On Friday 8th December the draw for Captain Manchester’s Magical Tombola, sponsored by ZenOffice, was made – with some fantastic prizes on offer! We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone that entered.
The winners this month were:
1st Prize: A 4-night, 5-star trip to Madeira
AMY O’LEARY
2nd Prize: Two tickets to see Strictly Come Dancing at Manchester Arena
NATALIE LEK
3rd Prize: A six-session Inflata Nation Passport
and… Captain Manchester’s Mystery Prize!
The December draw had an incredible 286 entries raising £1,430 for Forever Manchester. All proceeds from the Tombola, sponsored by ZenOffice, go to Forever Manchester to support community activity across Greater Manchester. Find out where your money goes here.
Tombola tickets for the Friday 12th January draw are now available to buy from the Tombola page of our website and are priced at £5 each.
ENTER THE MAGICAL TOMBOLA
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Tombola Ts & Cs
1. Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola is a charity fundraising initiative promoted and administered by Forever Manchester, a registered charity (Charity No. 1017504) and a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales under 2785133.
2. The person responsible for Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola is Nick Massey, Forever Manchester, 2nd Floor, 8 Hewitt Street, Manchester M15 4GB.
3. Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola is a small society lottery and is registered with the licensing authority. It is run in compliance with the rules laid down by the Gambling Act 2005 (www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk) and is subject to the laws of England and Wales.
4. Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola is intended to be a fun way to support Forever Manchester. if you feel you may have a problem with gambling, support and advice can be obtained from Gamble Aware or by contacting their National Helpline on 0808 8020 133.
5. Every penny raised from Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola will go to Forever Manchester to help fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester.
6. All entrants must be aged 18 or over and must be residents of the United Kingdom. Forever Manchester reserves the right to request verification of age. Any person who has entered who is under 18 years old will automatically forfeit any prize.
7. Forever Manchester employees are excluded from entering Captain Manchester's Magical Tombola.
8. Forever Manchester may (without any reason or notice) decline to accept an application, terminate or suspend the scheme. Forever Manchester has the right to change or update the rules at their discretion. The decision shall be final and binding.
9. In the event that a third party can no longer provide a prize, Forever Manchester will provide an alternative prize. Forever Manchester accepts no liability on the third party’s failure to provide the original prize.
10. The cost of entry is £5 each, and gives the entrant one chance of winning a prize in the advertised monthly draw.
11. Entrants can purchase more than one ticket, up to a maximum of 5 entries (£25), to give them more chance of winning.
12. A draw will be made every month, but new tickets must be purchased for each draw.
13. Entrants who purchase a physical ticket, will retain part of the ticket for proof of purchase, and return the remaining ticket stub together with their entry fee. Entrants are required to enter their contact details and email address on the returning ticket stub. The Ticket stub will be entered into the draw.
14. Entrants who purchase a ticket online will not receive a physical ticket. Instead Forever Manchester will produce a ticket(s) on the entrant's behalf which will be entered into the draw. All online entrants will receive a confirmation email for proof of purchase.
15. Any entrants that wish to inform Forever Manchester of any change in their contact details, should email tombola@forevermanchester.com with immediate effect.
16. Forever Manchester will store and process applicant's data in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and subject to Forever Manchester's Privacy Policy
17. Each monthly draw will be conducted by adding all the tickets into a tombola drum, with the winning tickets being drawn by an independent person.
18. The winners will be notified by email within 5 working days of the draw being made, via the contact details registered.
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20. All winners must adhere to the terms and conditions of each prize.
21. Forever Manchester accepts no liability for loss, theft or delay due to post for any correspondence or other items.
22. Forever Manchester reserves the right to publish the names of the winners on the Forever Manchester website.
23. No substitute will be offered for any prize.
24. By entering Captain Manchester’s Magical Tombola prize draw you agree to receiving further communications from Forever Manchester.
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NSA Uses ‘Stop And Frisk’ Standards To Collect Data, Official Says
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What does the NSA and “stop and frisk” have in common? According to an official who works for the spy agency, more than you’d think (or want). Much like the highly controversial stop and frisk policy, NSA agents use “reasonable suspicion” when identifying possible targets.
The admission was made during a hearing held by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Monday. The board was created in 2004 to monitor and hold hearings on government intelligence collection programs. According to the Kansas City Star, this is the first time such a hearing has been held.
It was NSA General Counsel Rajesh De who remarked that the way phone call data is collected is “effectively the same standard as stop and frisk,” according to The Hill. As one member on the board, James Dempsey, pointed out, the stop and frisk program is “at the very least, highly controversial.” He pointed out the history of discriminatory use of the policy.
Dempsey refers to New York City police’s aggressive use of their version of stop and frisk. NYC cops have been accused of using racial profiling to disproportionately target Latinos and African-Americans. In fact, last August a federal judge ruled on just this issue, ordering the practice to end.
With this in mind, De’s remarks comparing the controversial NSA surveillance programs to the recently struck down NYPD practice are raising eyebrows. And for good reason — as Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks have shown, the NSA spy programs have turned scanning and collecting phone data on millions of people into business as usual.
Realizing the minefield De planted the NSA in with his comment, agency official Robert Litt tried to reel the comparison back. Litt told the board that the telephone monitoring program violates privacy “considerably less” than a physical pat-down. This, he explains, is because it supposedly only collects numbers called and call lengths.
Some have called the large number of telephone records collected by the NSA to be an act of building a haystack to find a needle. Patrick Kelley, general counsel for the FBI, argued Monday for the necessity of widespread monitoring. Kelley says without the large volume of data, “it’d be much harder, much slower and much more difficult for us” to stop terrorists.
De’s comments comparing the NSA telephone monitoring program to the controversial stop and frisk policy will likely influence a list of recommendations for the spy agency the oversight board will submit to Congress and the White House
Google’s Eric Schmidt Blasts NSA Spying
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Inc, says that reports of NSA spying on data centers without consent is unacceptable and possibly illegal. If these claims are proven true, Schmidt says such acts would be “really outrageous.” Earlier this year it was revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the NSA was willing given access to user data by several major internet and communications companies, including Google.
However, more recent leaks claim that the NSA has been secretly sifting through data centers without approval. As Huffington Post reports, the leaks say the intelligence agency tapped communication links used by Google and Yahoo. Schmidt, speaking from Hong Kong, says Google has already filed complaints with the NSA, President Obama, as well as members of Congress.
Last week NSA Director General Keith Alexander stated that the agency does “not have access to Google servers, Yahoo servers. We go through a court order.” Other spokespeople for the NSA have refuted these claims as well. They insist that the press has presented untrue facts and misrepresented NSA actions.
Recent reports say that US intelligence operations that would not be allowed normally. But laws like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act have cleared the legal hurdles by presidential order, new information alleges. NSA officials have denied these claims.
During his interview, Eric Schmidt claimed that the NSA has gathered telephone metadata on 320 million people to catch 300 high risk suspects. Besides being a legal question mark, Schmidt says it’s “just bad public policy,” reports ZD Net.
It is worth noting that Eric Schmidt has been a major supporter of Barack Obama during his campaigns. The Google head has also been called at on times to serve as an advisor to both the campaigns and the administration.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee passed new restrictions last week on the widespread government intelligence surveillance programs, however, they will still continue. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has not said whether he has gotten any response from his official complaints over NSA spying concerns.
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Piper Jaffray ups Apple price target to $120 with high hopes for iOS 8 home & health features
Posted: September 2, 2014 7:52AM
in AAPL Investors edited September 2014
With the inclusion of HomeKit and HealthKit in Apple's forthcoming iOS 8, as well as rumors of a new 'iPhone 6' mobile payment system, investment firm Piper Jaffray has increased its price target on the company's stock to $120.
Apple's "platform theme is expanding," analyst Gene Munster said in a note to investors on Tuesday, a copy of which was provided to AppleInsider. In addition to HomeKit, HealthKit and the prospect for mobile payments, he also sees the anticipated "iWatch" as opening up new opportunities for Apple to become a more ingrained part of users' everyday lives.
HomeKit and HealthKit are new developer tools found in Apple's iOS 8 mobile operating system that will allow third-party devices and accessories to integrate more closely with the iPhone and iPad. It's expected that these additions will drive new interest in smart home gear as well as fitness tracking and health-oriented devices, including wearable electronics.
The new price target, up from a previous prediction of $105, comes a week before Apple's Sept. 9 event, where the company is widely expected to show off its upcoming "iPhone 6," as well as provide a first look at the rumored "iWatch."
For initial "iPhone 6" sales, Munster said a comparison to last year -- when the company sold 9 million total units in its launch weekend -- is difficult. That's because Apple launched two new iPhone models last year: the flagship iPhone 5s, and the mid-tier iPhone 5c, which was essentially a revised iPhone 5 with colorful plastic backs.
This year, the company is expected to launch the "iPhone 6" in two screen sizes of 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches. There have not been any concrete rumors to suggest, however, that the plastic-backed lineup will live on at the $100 subsidized price point, and there have even been rumors that the company plans to entirely scrap the iPhone 5c.
Regardless, Munster said there's likely to be "noise in the opening weekend" of sales of Apple's next iPhone, which he advised investors to ignore given difficult comparisons to last year.
"While the opening weekend may prove to be a speed bump to shares, we expect additional product launches and the platform theme to move shares higher through year-end," Munster said.
Finally, as for the "iWatch," Munster remains hopeful that it will hit store shelves this fall, in time for the lucrative holiday shopping season. His expectations, however, contrast with recent rumors suggesting that while the company plans to showcase its new wearable device next week, it won't actually hit the market until early 2015.
SpamSandwich Posts: 31,183member
September 2, 2014 8:04AM
I'm sure there will be plenty of people who will love HomeKit enabled products (especially as the population ages, it will give people a chance to remotely monitor their aging parents), but there's really nothing in it for apartment dwellers...maybe some low-level security and light functions?
rogifan Posts: 10,669member
Munster still peddling the Apple stuffed the channel with 5c's on launch weekend nonsense.
leavingthebigg Posts: 1,151member
Gene got his ass handed to him on a plate last year when he missed initial sales estimates! This year he's choosing not to make a guess because it would confirm how much of an idiot he truly is.
shard Posts: 96member
Gene Munster... queue circus clown music please.
crowley Posts: 5,923member
I'd love it if Apple released their new 50" Apple TV this year, surely the first year in living memory that Gene Munster hasn't predicted it.
Apple’s “platform theme is expanding,” analyst Gene Munster said in a note to investors on Tuesday...
What scares me is that some people actually listen to guys like this when making an investment decision. After following AAPL closely for tears it has made me very aware of how analysts attempt to manipulate stock prices. I’m sure AAPL is not the only stock they do this to. And they are always careful to avoid legal responsibility for their analyses.
therealtom Posts: 46member
No matter what Apple release, investors and writers on bias tech websites will still insist what ever samsung release will become an iPhone killer or iWatch killer, even if the iWatch has a revolutionary design and can track various vital signs and do things nothing on the market can.
You heard it here first folks.
512ke Posts: 782member
Listen to your own common sense and your gut about Apple and APPL. Do not listen to Gene Munster.
mpantone Posts: 1,388member
Originally Posted by lkrupp
You're new to investing, I take it?
Yes, other companies are covered by analysts as well, typically by different people if the company in question is a different industry. Guys like Munster will cover a selection of companies, typically in the same industry as the analyst purportedly is knowledgable about that specific industry.
A guy like Munster wouldn't be covering oil & gas stocks like Chevron or ExxonMobil, or grocery stocks like Whole Foods Market, or banks like WellsFargo.
There are multiple analysts covering every single Dow, S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 company. It's not just Apple who gets analyzed.
There are services that rate analyst performance (e.g., StarMine) relative to their peers in the same industry. StarMine uses a 1-5 star rating. Those with 4 or 5 stars are in the top 20-30% (I forget). The 1-2 star analysts are in the same curve at the bottom. Munster himself has had a consistently low StarMine rating over the years.
blazar Posts: 270member
I agree, 1 year price target 120+. I an long apple and I agree that Munster doesn't seem to know anything.
As long as Apple remains a media favorite, there is no stopping them. if the remain consumer focused and stay in the premium edge of the market, I think they will be more than ok.
Applr at $150 would be far more in-line with other tech companies on a p/E basis but I also think those others (like tesla and amazon) seem like overly optimistic valuations unless you are measuring a decade away.
dick applebaum Posts: 12,520member
crowley wrote: »
It's not what you said -- it's the way you said it!
alcstarheel Posts: 554member
Gene Munster blah blah blah Apple HDTV blah blah blah who cares what he says. Stock hopefully isn't up today mostly on this price target upgrade.
I wholly concur.
mj web Posts: 918member
September 2, 2014 11:12AM
With its cheap design and insulting Third World marketing schtick the 5C should never have seen the light of day. Bad idea poorly executed! $120 AAPL seems very achievable.
Then, there’s the story about the woodsman who made a living by walking through the forest cutting boughs off of trees. Though he was thorough, the work made his hands rough and the sawdust gave him a cough … so he considered a career change. After a drought, he bought a plough with the dough he’d made as a woodsman.
Originally Posted by MJ Web
With its cheap design and insulting Third World marketing schtick the 5C should never have seen the light of day.
Originally Posted by SpamSandwich
...but there’s really nothing in it for apartment dwellers...maybe some low-level security and light functions?
Apple again seeks to make the world a better place buy upselling people to houses.
Originally Posted by Crowley
He thinks that because the phone was cheaper (it wasn’t) and its commercials featured people from around the world (just like all of Apple’s commercials) that it was marketed to the third world.
SpamSandwich wrote: »
I would think that apartment dwellers could benefit from HomeKit thermostat/HVAC control to reduce the cost of gas and electric utilities.
September 2, 2014 12:04PM
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Apple again seeks to make the world a better place buy upsetting people to houses.
[quote/]
Fortunately, I'm not upset. ???? But I would like to be able to use as many functions as will be available.
Dang it, what did I do wrong with the quote function?
Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
Maybe, maybe not, it really depends on the individual unit. The smaller the unit, the less likely fancy thermostat controls (like the Nest) will have any long-term energy saving benefit.
I've mostly lived in 1-bedroom apartments and condos with baseboard electric heating and no A/C. I turn on the heat when the room I'm in is cold. The heater is turned off a half-hour before I leave or go to sleep. It's pretty easy to tell if any lights are still on when I step out. A fancy thermostat isn't going to save me any money.
Someone in a small unit like mine would be better off sinking the money into LED bulbs and an EnergyStar refrigerator.
New Yosemite and Xcode6 has dropped.
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Alexander Hamilton Papers
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From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Cruger, 27 November 1771
To Nicholas Cruger
Mr. Nicholas Cruger
St Croix Nov. 27. 1771
I have now the pleasure to acquaint you with the arrival of your new Sloop Thunderbolt commanded by Capt William Newton, a fine Vessell indeed, but I fear, not so swift as she ought to be. However the Capt said he had never had an opportunity of a fair trial and consequently could form no right Judgment yet of her sailing.
This goes by way of St Thomas and I must beg youll peruse the inclosed Letter1 to Mess[rs.] Jacob Walton & John H Cruger (left open for that purpose) for particulars relative to the Sloop, Mules &c. as my warning was too short to permit a repetition of those matters to you. I shall only add as to what I sent down that therein I acted with the concurrence and advice of both your Attorneys and heartily wish for your approbation. I am convincd if you had been present you would have done just as I did.
There is a large Sloop arrivd from Philadelphia with flour, Bread &c. Mr. Nealls2 Brig is dayly expected with a quantity of Superfine, & Lightbourn & Pell3 from New York will be here by and by, so that I must endeavour at all events to get your flour off soon or it will be unsaleable. Every day brings in fresh Complaints against it. I have nothing new to offer on other matters of Business but remain with the closest attachment to your Interest
Your very Hum Serv
A Hamilton
I wrote you last by Lowndes to which refer you.4 Mr. Van Vain5 is upon the brink of eternity.
LC, in writing of H, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
1. AH to Walton and Cruger, November 27, 1771.
2. John Neall, Christiansted merchant, who dealt chiefly in products of the North American colonies. An advertisement by Neal in The Royal Danish American Gazette, September 26, 1770, lists products he had for sale at that time.
3. John Pell, ship captain of St. Croix. In 1769, he is recorded as the master of the sloop Sally, trading with St. Croix (White, Beekman Papers description begins Philip L. White, ed., The Beekman Mercantile Papers (New York, 1956). description ends , II, 978; The Royal Danish American Gazette, September 19, 1770).
4. AH to Nicholas Cruger, November 12, 1771.
5. No record of a Mr. Van Vain has been found. H may have been referring to John Van Veen (or Van Vein), an employee of Pieter Heyliger’s commercial firm. See The Royal Danish American Gazette, July 14, August 11, 1770; July 17, 1773. Also, see H to Nicholas Cruger, November 4, 1771.
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Cruger, Nicholas
“From Alexander Hamilton to Nicholas Cruger, 27 November 1771,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0014. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 1, 1768–1778, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 16–17.]
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From George Washington to William Thornton, 1 December 1799
To William Thornton
Mount Vernon Decr 1st 1799.
Your favour of the 30th Ulto, enclosing Mr Blagdens dimensions of the rooms in my houses in the City, came to my hands this morning; With a list of the different kinds of Fruit trees in the Frenchmans Garden; to whom I was a subscriber.1
The terms on which the subscription was set on foot, have entirely escaped me; my motive for subscribing—namely—to encourage a nursery of that sort, still rests on my memory.2
If taking Trees from him, at this time, will go in payment of my former advance, I will receive them now to the full amount of my Subscription; (if there be danger i[n] suffering them to remain longer with him): but, if they are otherwise to be paid for, in a word, by advancing cash, I shall decline taking any. A line from you, on this subject, will decide the matter.3
If Mr John G. Ladd will undertake to import good & genuine Plaister of Paris, on moderate terms, and will engage to have it delivered before the last of March, allowing time to prepare it for spreading in April, I would take from ten to twenty tons of it. But these matters ought to be precisely known, before any engagement is entered into with him.
Colo. Carrington of Richmond, who was here, & went from this yesterday, informed me that some Gentleman of that place, had imported a quantity from Nova Scotia; but as the Farmers thereabouts had not been in the practice of using it, he found it an unsaleable article; and had requested him to enquire if it could be disposed of in these parts. His price, the Colo, believed, was $8 pr Ton; what the freight from thence would be, neither he, nor I, knew; but this could easily be ascertained, and by comparing the whole cost delivered here, with Ladds terms, a choice might be made of that, which under all circumstances, might appear most eligable. From Richmond, there would be a certainty of getting it in time, and the quality, by some process, might be ascertained.4
I thank you for the Boston Glass, furnished for my buildings in the City; which I will pay for whenever the price shall be made known to me.
The true Chinese Hogs I lately had; but they have got so mixed, that a boar pig is desirable; & I would thank you for securing one for me, of the genuine kind, if to be had.
I am glad to hear that the Legislature of Maryland have acted favourably on the Application made to it by the Potomak Company. Your information of this event is the first I had received.5 It is to be hoped that the Legislature of this State will “go, and do so likewise.” Niether would be backward in promoting this useful undertaking if the measure was impartially investigated, and the welfare of the respective States duly considered. With very great esteem and regard I am—Dear Sir Your obliged & Obedt Hble Servt
ALS, DGU; ALS (letterpress copy), NN: Washington Papers.
1. Letter and enclosures not found, but see GW to Thornton, 26 November.
2. The Centinel of Liberty, or George-Town and Washington Advertiser ran this notice for Francis Motter on 15 Nov.: “Those gentlemen, who subscribed and paid the money to Mr. Leflet, to be repaid in fruit trees, at his proposed nursery, near George-Town, are informed, that the fruit trees are ready to be delivered and they are desired to call at my house on Rock Creek and receive them” (quoted in Harris, Thornton Papers, description begins C. M. Harris, ed. Papers of William Thornton: Volume One, 1781-1802. Charlottesville, Va., 1995. description ends 1:514). On 27 Oct. 1796 GW recorded in his Day Book: “By cash pd Peter Leflet my Subscription to his Nursery 25 Dollrs.”
3. See Thornton to GW, 5 December.
4. See GW to Edward Carrington, 2 Dec., and Thornton to GW, 5 December. Carrington and his wife left Mount Vernon on the morning of 30 Nov. after a stay of two nights (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:377). John G. Ladd, a merchant in Alexandria, reported on 30 Nov. that plaster of paris was selling at $10 a ton (Harris, Thornton Papers, description begins C. M. Harris, ed. Papers of William Thornton: Volume One, 1781-1802. Charlottesville, Va., 1995. description ends 1:514).
5. GW was to receive other reports of the activities of the Maryland legislature. John Mason, a director of the Potowmack Company, wrote to him on 4 Dec., and the president and directors of the Potowmack Company wrote on 8 December. Copies of the resolutions of the Maryland legislature regarding the Potowmack Company were enclosed in both letters.
Thornton, William
“From George Washington to William Thornton, 1 December 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-04-02-0379. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, 20 April 1799 – 13 December 1799, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 434–435.]
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From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 24 December 1779
To Samuel Huntington
Head Quarters Morris town 24th Decemr 1779.
I do myself the honor of transmitting the Copy of a letter which I received late last evening from General Wayne, from which it appears, that the fleet has sailed from New York.1 The moment I receive any further particulars of their destination, or the number of Troops on board, I shall forward them.
Your Excellency will also find inclosed the Copy of a second letter from Mr Champion to Colo. Wadsworth.2 Every day brings us fresh proofs of the deplorable state of our magazines, and points out the necessity of the most strenuous exertions for our releif on the score of provisions.
I have been compelled to order a quantity of Indian Corn, belonging to the forage department, to be ground up, to supply the want of Flour.3 Thus we are obliged to attempt to save the Men at the expence of the Horses. I have the honor to be with the greatest Respect Your Excellency’s most obt Servt
LS, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DNA:PCC, item 152; Df, DLC:GW; copy, DNA:PCC, item 169; Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Congress read GW’s letter on 27 Dec. and referred it to the Board of War with directions “to forward on the Virginia troops with all expedition” (JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 15:1410; see also GW to Huntington, 29 Nov., source note).
1. For this enclosure, see Wayne to GW, 23 December. Congress formally and informally communicated the contents of Wayne’s letter to Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (see Committee of Congress to Lincoln, 27 Dec., and Elbridge Gerry to Lincoln, same date, in Smith, Letters of Delegates, description begins Paul H. Smith et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. 26 vols. Washington, D.C., 1976–2000. description ends 14:303–4).
2. The enclosed letter from Henry Champion, deputy commissary general of purchases, to Jeremiah Wadsworth, commissary general of purchases, written at Colchester, Conn., on 14 Dec., reads: “Since my last to you I have had returns from all my purchasers and find I shall not be able to send on to Camp more than 120 Cattle more than has already started. This 120 will start from Amenia & Crompond which will carry them to Camp sooner than some drivers which have already started from here—My purchasers are now in debt to the amount of about 1,420,00 and they must have money to pay their debts and to purchase the few Cattle that are now up in the stalls before the Army can have any supply of Cattle from this department as no man will sell on Credit. I think it my duty to give you this early information, that I can start no more Cattle that you may inform the Honble Congress & His Excellency Genl Washington if you think proper. It will be about 14 days from this time before the last droves will arrive at Head Quarters.
“I am still confident that had cash come on these three or four Months past as it was needed the price of Cattle would not have been more than two thirds so high as they have been of late, if so much. And I am sure that had the money come on, and no prevailing reports of a limitating Law, Cattle would have been plentier this Winter & the coming Spring than ever heretofore but its now the reverse” (DNA:PCC, item 152).
3. See GW to Clement Biddle, 23 December.
Huntington, Samuel
“From George Washington to Samuel Huntington, 24 December 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-23-02-0544. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 23, 22 October–31 December 1779, ed. William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, pp. 708–709.]
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Concerned with an “epidemic” surge in teen use of e-cigarettes, the head of the US Food and Drug Administration announced today a “historic action” against more than 1,300 retailers and five major manufacturers for their roles in perpetuating youth access to the devices in the US.
“I use the word epidemic with great care,” said FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb. “E-cigs have become an almost ubiquitous — and dangerous — trend among teens. The disturbing and accelerating trajectory of use we’re seeing in youth, and the resulting path to addiction, must end. It’s simply not tolerable.”
Gottlieb announced the agency sent 1,100 warning letters to stores for the illegal sale of e-cigarettes to minors under the age of 18, and issued 131 fines to stores that continued to violate the restrictions on sales to minors.
Gottlieb called the action the largest coordinated enforcement effort in the agency’s history.
The FDA also requested Juul and four other manufacturers provide plans to mitigate youth sales within 60 days or face potential criminal or civil action.
$15 billion vaping company is under investigation for targeting minors
The FDA said it would consider requiring brands to remove flavored products, which could be contributing to the rise in youth e-cigarette use.
In a statement, Juul Labs said “appropriate flavors” play a role in adults changing their smoking habits, but said it would work with the FDA: “We are committed to preventing underage use of our product, and we want to be part of the solution in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of young people.”
It recognized the impact this might have on the use of these products by adults trying to stop smoking, but said that emerging research shows that action must be taken.
“I’ll be clear. The FDA won’t tolerate a whole generation of young people becoming addicted to nicotine as a tradeoff for enabling adults to have unfettered access to these same products,” Gottlieb said.
Last year, the FDA announced that it would delay regulations that could have halted the sales of many e-cigarettes. Instead, the agency gave extensions to new and existing vaping products, giving them until August 2022 to submit information to support their products’ safety and efficacy as switching devices.
The agency said it allowed the extra time to strike an appropriate balance between regulation and encouraging the development of innovative tobacco products that may help older smokers quit.
Today’s announcement is part of a series of product standards the agency will roll out as part of their Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan, which they launched earlier this year. The plan will address some of the known public health risks of these products, including the role of flavors.
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India vs Pakistan Live Score: Use These Apps for ICC Cricket World Cup Live Score Updates
India vs Pakistan live score updates available via these popular apps and services.
By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 16 June 2019 18:07 IST
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World Cup 2019: India vs Pakistan is arguably the most anticipated clash of the tournament
India vs Pakistan is match 22 of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
All eyes will be on the weather in Manchester
India have won all clashes against Pakistan in previous World Cups
India vs Pakistan is a highly anticipated clash in any sport, but an India vs Pakistan cricket match in the ICC World Cup is anticipated by billions of fans across the world. All eyes will be on the weather in Manchester as the two subcontinent cricket giants resume their rivalry on Sunday. Rain has been a spoilsport in many clashes this Cricket World Cup, and one hopes for the sake of the audience — both at the stadium and the billions watching across the globe — that we get a full game fitting the occasion of the India vs Pakistan World Cup 2019 match today. India come into the game as one of the two unbeaten teams in the tournament, while Pakistan will be looking to impress, having won just one game out of the four they've played in the ICC World Cup 2019. If you are unlucky enough not to be in front of the a screen during the India vs Pakistan match on Sunday and are looking for ways to get live score updates, you've come to the right place.
Here's a list of apps and services that you can use to check live scores during the India vs Pakistan match and the rest of the Cricket World Cup 2019. To recall, in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, apart from India and Pakistan, eight other teams are showing off their skills on the field. The month-and-a-half-long ICC Cricket World Cup is being played at 11 venues across England and Wales. Semi-finals of the Cricket World Cup will be played at Old Trafford in Manchester and Edgbaston in Birmingham, with the final scheduled at Lord's on July 14.
How to Watch India vs Pakistan Cricket Match on Mobile and PC
India vs Pakistan live score updates via apps
NDTV Cricket app
For all cricket-related buzz and updates, including the India vs Pakistan game and the rest of the Cricket World Cup 2019, you can download our in-house NDTV Cricket app that provides live scores along with latest news, photos, and stats. The app is also capable of providing ball-by-ball commentary and live scores via push notifications. Furthermore, you have the option to select your favourite teams and type of alerts to receive on-the-go updates during World Cup matches.
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 app
For users who're looking for an official solution to stick to the ongoing cricket season, International Cricket Council (ICC) has the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on both Android and iOS platforms. The app provides news, previews, highlights, interviews, and, of course, live ball-by-ball updates. You can also check fixtures, results, and venue information and watch video highlights. Moreover, the app supports not just English but also Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu.
Cricbuzz
Cricbuzz is one of the popular options if you are looking to get extensive coverage during this Cricket World Cup. The app is touted to provide live score updates, ball-by-ball commentary, and the ability to share scores of your favourite team with friends. Indian Languages that the app supports Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.
To catch fresh updates from the India v Pakistan game and the rest of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 matches, ESPNCricinfo can also be a handy solution. The app provides live cricket scores and lets you create a personalised feed to get a tailor-made experience on your smartphone. It also provides daily cricket news, videos, and expert opinions.
India vs Pakistan live score updates via other services
If you don't want to check for live cricket scores via the apps installed on your phones and want to catch the cricket action live in a smarter world, there are plenty of services that provide you with the latest updates through smart speakers, displays, and smartphones.
You can use Amazon Alexa on your smart speaker, smart display, or smartphone to get live cricket scores using your voice commands. You simply need to say, "Alexa, what's the current Cricket World Cup score?" or simply "Alexa, live cricket score" to get live score of the India vs Pakistan cricket match and other ICC World Cup 2019 matches The voice assistant will provide you with live cricket scores. You can also say "Alexa, next Cricket World Cup match" to check the match schedule either from your Amazon Echo speaker or directly on your smartphone.
If you don't have an Amazon Echo device but a Google Home speaker or Google Home Hub display, you can leverage Google Assistant to get the latest cricket updates. You can also access Google Assistant on your smartphone to check live scores and match schedules.
All you need is to say "Hey Google" or "OK Google" on your device and then ask "What's the live cricket score?," "When is the next cricket match?," or "Which team is playing the cricket right now?" Google Assistant will provide you with the appropriate information.
For the ones who want to know the easiest and the simplest way to check live scores during the Cricket World Cup 2019, Google is the one-stop answer. You just need to write "live cricket score" on the search bar to get the all the latest updates in real time. You can also tap the News tab from the search results to check all the breaking news from the field. Similarly, you can hit the Table tab to see the ongoing performance of all the 10 teams throughout this tournament. Google has also introduced a dedicated doodle to provide you all the updates just at one click.
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Gay Essential Review: My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) at BFI Flare
Narrative is not needed to create an enthralling, one-of-a-kind story that keeps you glued to your screen. This is what Pedro Diogenes and Guto Parente’s mesmerizing feature film proves without a shadow of a doubt. My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) is a deliciously strange and visually stunning motion picture that oscillates between drama and impressively well-executed dark humor. Despite its minute budget, Inferninho manages to have a long-lasting impact on its audience through its theatrical, mordant approach.
Deusimar (Yuri Yamamoto) is the trans woman owner of a crumbling, murky bar named Inferninho, where estranged people from all walks of life gather to share their suffering, hopes and fantasies. The staff welcomes outsiders, including a man dressed like a rabbit, while the clientele is an engrossing gallery of misfits (from a gorgeously fearless, bearded Wonder Woman to a man painted from head to toe in silver). Although the title portrays the broken-down bar as a “private hell”, it seems to be more of a paradise for those who cannot or do not know how to function in the real world. They work for little to no money in a job that may be deemed dull or dreary, but they are content because they have each other. They are a family and they can be themselves in this safe haven. At least until the world so foreign to them begins closing in on them.
Pure, ascetic poetry rarely captures the meat of life, its dark and twisted aspects, its chaotic, ugly and messy corners. But Parente and Diogenes turn this paradigm on its head and use the transparent beauty of written verse in a surprisingly decadent way, in order to convey the rapacious, sloppy nature of hedonism. Not at all self-denying or stale, the two directors combine jumbled poems with remarkable cinematography, brilliant performances and just the right amount of sarcasm. As such, the film is like nothing you’ve ever seen before at a BFI Flare screening; it’s crisp, sharp-tongued and positively bizarre. It’s bound to immerse the viewer in a world of insane, unadulterated imagination, without remembering to snap them back to reality. It’s using escapism as a guilty pleasure at its finest.
What is powerful about My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) is that it does not rely on its sardonic dialogue, nor on its seductive cinematography. It goes deep and tackles genuine issues, from the lurking effects of capitalism to the dangers and exhilarating, self-destructive safety of isolation. Crossing the line between reality and fiction, the film puts forth an absurdist perspective where the well-defined borders of self and other become blurred and tarnished to the point of extinction. My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) is an imaginary, seemingly secure space for misfits who cannot sustain an existence anywhere other than in their chimeric refuge.
The camerawork is fitted for the motion picture’s gloomy, introspective nature. It focuses on faces, gestures, grimaces and the microcosm that is each character. It fascinatingly creates the impression that there is no external universe and even each element from the story world is a separate entity and space in itself. For instance, the viewer wouldn’t guess that the bar’s seating area and the drinking area are anywhere near each other. In fact, they are portrayed to seem like two different worlds, so utterly close but so disparate in nature. Moreover, there is never a panned out, clearly defined shot of the entire setting, there are only individualized depictions of several locations, like pieces of a large puzzle. All of this creates a hypnotic atmosphere which is completely disconnected from the reality of the hardship, gruesome abuse and hatred that LGBT people experience.
The mind is a powerful tool, but it cannot resist external influences forever, as My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) showcases towards the end. The entire bar is threatened with demolition and the lives that the characters have created for themselves there are soon to be shattered and exist only as ghosts of the past. When everything becomes overwhelming, they have only each other to lean on. This display of camaraderie and sharing of pain is the most touching part of Diogenes and Parente’s film. Ultimately, My Own Private Hell (Inferninho) is an earnest and piercing story about human connection, where art and debauchery intertwine and reality crosses over into the realm of imagination.
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Build A Plane project begins in remote Alaskan village
The first five boxes containing components of a Thorp T-211 that will be built and flown by high school students has reached Hooper Bay, Alaska.
Sponsored by Build a Plane, the Thomas W. Wathen Foundation, IndUS Aviation and the FAA, the Build A Plane project at Hooper Bay High School is the first in a series of efforts to establish aircraft construction programs in remote Alaskan villages.
“You can’t imagine what a dream come true this is for us!” said Grant Funk, Hooper Bay High School teacher, pilot and CFI. “Our village is more than 90% Yu’pik Eskimo and is 500 miles from the nearest road, so almost everything we do here involves aviation.
“We’ll begin the building process right away,” Funk continued. “This fall I’ll teach a Sport Pilot ground school so that when the airplane is completed we’ll have the ground school already finished. As soon as the airplane is certified and ready to roll, we’ll teach them to fly it!”
The Thorpe T-211 was donated by Dr. Ram Pattisapu, founder and CEO of IndUS Aviation, which operates out of Dallas, Texas, and Bangalore, India. “It’s a huge privilege for our aircraft to be part of a program like this,” Pattisapu said. “IndUS has been a big supporter of Build A Plane since it began and I hope more of the aviation and aerospace community will step up and get involved. This is the kind of thing we need to be doing.”
This project is the result of a partnership agreement signed last year between Build A Plane and the FAA’s Aviation and Space Education Program. Build A Plane will work with Hooper Bay High School to provide additional aviation vocational opportunities. The National Center for Aircraft Technician Training, coupled with the Aircraft Electronics Association, is offering a course in avionics repair and installation. Additionally, the Parametric Technology Corp. is donating $1.5 million worth of 3D computer-aided design software. Dr. Irvin Gleim, of Gleim Publications, has donated complete Sport Pilot ground school training, and additional support for the Hooper Bay kids comes from Aircraft Spruce and Specialty.
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Genesis Imaging > News > Travel Photographer of the Year 2015: Winners Announced
Travel Photographer of the Year 2015: Winners Announced
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Faces, People, Encounters Special Mention Ly Hoang Long (Vietnam) Tat Vien village, Hung Yen Province, Vietnam Man transporting bamboo fishing baskets.
Faces, People, Encounters Special Mention Rafal Ziejewski (Poland) Omorate, Ethiopia A young Dassanech girl.
A Moment in Light Highly Commended Tim Taylor (UK) South East Ridge of Makalu, Himalaya, Nepal 22,000ft above sea level, the weather is everything; making the wrong choices can cost you your life.
A Moment in Light Winner Uli Kunz (Germany) Heligoland, North Sea Jumping man casts a long shadow on the tunnel walls.
Nature & Environment Winner James Morgan (UK) Yakutia, Russia Hunter holds up the head of the wolf he has just shot dead.
New Talent: Street Culture Winner Zhu Jingyi (China) Jiangsu, China Blacksmith
Water Commended Joel Santos (Portugal) Salt flats, Afar region, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Salt miner taking a camel caravan to the mining site.
OVERALL WINNER - TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Marsel van Oosten (Netherlands) Atlantic Ocean, Walvis Bay, Namibia Great white pelican investigates the camera with its beak, photographed from a ship on the Atlantic Ocean near Walvis Bay.
OVERALL WINNER - TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Marsel van Oosten (Netherlands) Atchafalaya Basin, Louisiana, USA Giant Cypress trees on a misty morning on one of the countless bayous of the Atchafalaya basin, the largest US wetland.
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2015 Winner Chase Guttman, USA (age 18) Semonkong, Lesotho Basuto tribal leader and local shepherds.
Travel Photographer of the Year 2015 – Overall Winner:
Marsel van Oosten has been confirmed as the overall winner of the 2015 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY). The Dutch photographer beat entrants from over 110 countries to scoop the top prize and the title of Travel Photographer of the Year 2015. The Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2015 is 18-year-old Chase Guttman from the USA.
Photographers from 22 countries took awards, and the winning images will have their first public display in the summer of 2016, at TPOTY’s superb new London exhibition venue, The Museum of London Docklands.
An international panel of expert judges selected Marsel’s eight images as the overall winning entry. His two portfolios, both in black and white, are very different but each is elegant and beautifully composed and lit. The first portfolio, of pelicans, is punchy and graphic, whilst the second, of Lousiana, is subtle and textural.
Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2015:
In addition to Chase Guttman taking the title of Young Travel Photographer of the Year 2015, Chase’s fellow American, Spencer Cox (age 18), won Young TPOTY 15-18, while 13-year-old Indonesian Michael Theodric won Young TPOTY 14 and Under for the second year in a row.
The Portfolio Categories:
In the portfolio categories, Chinese amateur photographer, Xia Xuejun, took top honours in Monochromal, with Australian Scott Portelli and British photographer Timothy Allen sharing the award for the Best Single Image in a Monochromal portfolio. Mitchell Kanashkevich (Australia) won Faces, People, Encounters and Timothy Allen won Best Single Image here.
James Morgan’s striking images of wolf hunters in Russia earned the British photographer the first prize in Nature and Environment, with Alessandra Meniconzi (Switzerland) winning Best Single Image.
The Single Image, New Talent and HD Video Categories:
In the single image categories, Jasper Doest (Netherlands) won Water, Uli Kunz (Germany) won A Moment in Light and Larry Louie (Canada) won Colours of the World. This year TPOTY introduced a category solely for images shot on mobile phones. iCaptured, the first-ever Smart Shot category, was won by Edgard de Bono (Italy), for his image taken in Benin on an iPhone 5S.
The New Talent prize went to Chinese photographer, Doctor Zhu Jingyi, for his beautifully detailed shots of street life in Jiangsu.
For the first time ever, the judging panel decided not to award a winner in the HD Video category, Travel Shorts, as they felt this year’s entry, though very good, did not reach the standard achieved in previous years.
Genesis are delighted to support TPOTY as a long-term sponsor of the awards.
Visit TPOTY’s Website
Read our interview with Chris Coe, Founder of Travel Photographer of the Year
Tags: Competition, exhibition, Partnerships, photography, Travel Photographer of the Year
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Bell Biv DeVoe
Produced by Ross Sloane & Dr. Freeze
Album Poison
Poison Lyrics
[Michael Bivins]
Yeah, Spyderman and Freeze in full effect
[Ronnie DeVoe]
Uh-huh
[Ricky Bell]
You ready, Ron?
[DeVoe]
[Bell]
You ready, Biv?
[Bivins]
I'm ready, Slick, are you?
Oh, yeah, break it down
[Verse One]
Girl, I, must (warn you)
I sense something strange in my mind
Situation is (serious)
Let's cure it cause we're running out of time
It's oh, so (beautiful)
Relationships they seem from the start
It's all so (deadly)
When love is not together from the heart
[Hook - Ricky Bell]
It's drivin' me out of my mind!
That's why it's HARD for me to find
Can't get it out of my head!
Miss her, kiss her, love her
(Wrong move you're dead!)
That girl is (poison)...
Never trust a big butt and smile
That girl is (poison)..
("POISON!!")
[Verse Two]
[If I were you I'd take pre-]
(-caution)
Before I start to meet a fly girl, you know?
Cause in some (portions)
You'll think she's the best thing in the world
She's so - (fly)
She'll drive you right out of your mind
And steal your heart when you're blind
Beware she's schemin', she'll make you think you're dreamin'
YOU'LL fall in love and you'll be screamin', demon, HOO..
[Ronnie Devoe - Rap Verse 1]
Poison, deadly, movin' in slow
Lookin for a mellow fellow like DeVoe
Gettin paid, laid, so better lay low
Schemin on house, money, and the whole show
The low pro ho she'll be cut like an aaa-FRO
See what you're sayin', huh, she's a winner to you
But I know she's a loser (How do you know?)
Me and the crew used to do her!
[Bridge: all]
"POISON!"
"POISON!
I was at the park, shake, breakin and takin 'em all
And that night, I played the wall
Checkin' out the fellas, the highs and lows
Keepin' one eye open, still clockin' the hoes
There was one particular girl that stood out from the rest
Poison as can be, the high power chest
Michael Biv here and I'm runnin' the show
Bell, Biv DeVoe [Ronnie laughs]
..now you know!
Yo, Slick, blow..
[B.B.D. adlibs]
Yo' fellas, that was my end of..
You know what I'm sayin', Mike?
Yeah, B.B.D. in full effect
Yo', wassup to Ralph T and Johnny G
And I can't forget about my boy, B. Brown
And the whole NE crew
Poison..
[Bell harmonies]
How A Misheard Lyric Spawned An Urban Legend Around Bell Biv DeVoe’s “Poison”
About “Poison”
In “Poison”, BBD’s debut single after their group New Edition went on hiatus, the boys are warning all dudes out there to be careful about the ho’s they spit game at. It became their first of two top 5 singles in a row in the US. It also charted well in the UK, New Zealand and The Netherlands.
Elliot Strait (Producer Of The Song) When the guys heard it, they went nuts. I didn’t think that record was going to be that big because it was a personal love letter to my ex-girlfriend at the time. It wasn’t a song at first. It was a letter. When I wrote it as a song, I let a lot of my friends hear it, and they said it was weird. After that, I put the music together. I was thinking I wasn’t going to be on the album because such heavyweights were already on it.
"Poison" Track Info
Written By Dr. Freeze
Released by MCA Records
Release Date February 24, 1990
Doin It With The B by The Boys (R&B Group) (Ft. Bilal Abdul Samad)
Poison by Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo
Taste of Chocolate Intro by Big Daddy Kane
Hurricane by The Click
Don't Trust Em by Ice Cube
Faces by Run-D.M.C.
Throw Your Hands in the Air by Raw Fusion (Ft. Mac Mone)
Up Every Night by 1982
Dime Piece by Nick Cannon (Ft. Izzy)
Can't Trust Thots by Wash (Ft. French Montana)
Dime Piece (feat. Izzy) (Promo Only clean edit) by Nick Cannon
Sympin' by Boyz II Men
Undercover by Teyana Taylor
Smash Up The Place / Snatch Yo Wigs by Sharaya J (Ft. Bell Biv DeVoe & Missy Elliott)
Poison B by Tamara Renée
Rake It Up by Yo Gotti (Ft. Nicki Minaj)
Pass It On by Yo-Yo
Same Song (Around the World Mix) by Digital Underground
Dareda! (誰だ！) by Denki groove
Poison by Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (Ft. Shoshana Bean)
Poison A by Tamara Renée
Poison by Glee Cast
Poison Bell Biv DeVoe
1. She’s Dope!
2. B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)
3. Let Me Know Something?!
4. Do Me!
6. Poison
8. When Will I See You Smile Again?
9. I Do Need You
10. Poison - extended club version
Ain’t Nut’in Changed!
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CBBC Channel
BBC HD
BBC Television
BBC Choice
19.00 : BBC3 Preview
BBC Choice is rebranding tomorrow as BBC3. In advance of the change, this evening is dedicated to a taster of the programming on the new channel.
Aimed at the 25-34 age group, BBC3 promises a blend of news, current affairs, drama, entertainment, music, arts, science and animation.
Programmes previewed this evening include new comedy by some of the brightest young names in entertainment - including Dom Joly in his own series, Charlie Higson starring in "Swiss Toni", Steve Coogan creations Paul and Pauline Calf and Johnny Vaughan fronting another series of his chat show.
There's contemporary drama "Burn It" (from the makers of "Queer as Folk" and "Linda Green" ), documentaries on celebrities such as Vinnie Jones and the Beckhams, animated series "Monkey Dust" and the science show "Body Hits".
Will BBC3 turn YOU on?: pp 14-18, which includes features, previews, a readers' questionnaire and the verdicts of the stars
Comedian: Dom Joly
Comedian: Charlie Higson
Comedian: Steve Coogan
Host: Johnny Vaughan
Celebrity: Vinnie Jones
Celebrity: David Beckham
Celebrity: Victoria Beckham
Blog post that mentions this programme:
BBC Three leaves the airwaves 16 February 2016
BBC Three is a television service.
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When I was in high school I finished my chemistry teachers sentences a lot, it's funny--because I wasn't very good in chemistry, but I always knew what she was going to say. On top of that, for some reason, she always seemed to be unable to finish her sentences.... she'd just forget the last few and search off into space until I saved the day.
Dave J. Matthews sings to me, like many others; but his words are special: "come now, come now; can you not see? come out come out, wherever you are, there's no use in hiding." I don't stay holed up in the house, even though I feel like doing it more often than not--I spend half my days walking the streets; and in my personal reading of the words that map Salvation that's what "K" is supposed to do when he sees "The Wall." You might not get my perspective; but I could have been in a walled garden, in a place where nobody was really even reading my e-mails, explaining the lack of response--it would be trivial to simulate things like the open statistics that I cherish so much. Signs of life, of actual "thinking people." Following that logic you might see how "Saint All" turned from "stall" to "stalk" and how these same "tall tales" that were probably told once before have now turned to "talk." Briefly, on tall tales, I don't make shit up, what I describe is as close to my experience as I can deliver--and I have the ammunition and proof to back it up.
Following that very same logic you might c how chall turns to chalk to to further the same end... to save us from not doing anything. Of course, chall isn't a word, and you don't instantly understand that "to c" has a special connotation to me, something like telepathic understanding. Speak, and we shall be saved.
He sings too, in another song, that "the fire grows in the East" and that's a pretty clear reference to a quasi-Christian/Masonic reference to "the future" as the East. In Judaism it connects to the word "Yeast" and the idea that "bread" is a metaphorical reference to our civilization... expanding or rising with time. Why East, answered with some ancient "food for thought."
my "go to" explanation for the heaven-hell-past-future co-ordinate map, and the true meaning of the first-coming "J." It's "IJOHNny5" in glyph-truth. You can also see where we are @'N how we got here. ish. That's starting with an "everybody up" in complete darkness, something we are rectifying here and now.
When this all started, way back in 2011; my ex-wife spent some time indoctrinating me into the story. She kicked my heels a few times one day, and I immediately connected it to the phrase from Genesis "I will put enmity between you and your wife." It's a strange thing to try to explain to you, that I know that the mental connection, and the surface of my memory of reading the story of Eden was artificial--a surfaced thought designed to complete a story. So I knew that there was this intention of connecting what was happening to me to religion, but being the good Jew that I was, I didn't really believe any of it. Yesterday I'll tell you something about "Catholic guilt."
The Bible tells us pretty dearly that God "gusts" a sort of tide of angels from the future, and that this sea in the air is connected to Exodus and to Jesus Christ. In my reading, most everything related to the "storm" is about time travel; and Jim Morrison tells us even more dearly that it is "the Heavens" right here, and right now, responsible for doing something that he calls "stopping the rain." Dave connects this mythological metaphor for "tears" quite well, and my well sighted reading of "words" connects the idea of "Ra IN" well to the idea of letting the tears fall, meaning the deliverance of freedom. I still don't think there's anything to cry about, but I never wanted to worship anyone.
She told me that "they" (that word was used an awful lot) could hear my thoughts, and my normal response was to shake my head and echo as loud as I possibly could "if you can, fuck you" of course, in my mind. A few weeks later we were huddled down in my parents house, because I was pretty sure the mafia was staking out my apartment, and I walked into the room and she literally repeated what I was thinking out loud, word for word. I don't remember what the first words were, but my reaction was "that's the coolest thing I've ever seen" and then those words too, repeated verbatim. It's not the kind of experience you forget.
Back then people weren't very nice to us, I think it's because they had no idea who I was... or why they were doing what they were doing. The two of us traveled up and down the southeastern coast of the United Sates, with people--strangers--all around us saying very odd things, commenting about what we were thinking, or what we had done the night before; as if they 'knew everything." She's not around anymore--she says she couldn't handle the "weirdness" (even though she's the weird one :), and people generally aren't mean anymore--but I still see constant "telepathic" communication. Responses to some kind of show that is going on in my head--the eye of the storm if you ask me--nods and sometimes hand signals. One of the "big" hand signals is this sort of pulling on your nose, it means "I'm helping you" and I am pretty sure that the angels around me don't realize it means "I'm making you sniff stuff." Party, Pa: our thank yeou.
This group of people, they seem to have made a game of what they are doing--I don't really understand their motivation but today I imagine it has something to do with "light," and the vagueness of that description adds even more "light." From the copious recorded testimony of their victims, this group of people who call themselves "targeted individuals" and call this thing "gang stalking" you can see a clear pattern of beliefs being instilled; nearly all believe they are victims of government mind control experimentation, that they are stuck in a sort of cage, and that these people are "paid" assailants. When I flew to Baltimore to talk to the NSA about it in person, I called it a "civilian army;" though as time has passed it's become more and more clear that they too are victims of the same technology--whatever lie they believe to be driving them there is a "grand scheme" or plan behind it all. Make no mistake, what I am describing is without doubt The Tribulation.
As an aside, in a place where we know that "oil is light," meaning a resource that is artificially scarce and causing wars for no reason; it should be clear that in the light of day, were a computer system to be designed for a civilization to defeat death and love in for a very long time (as maybe ID4-2 suggests) we would know that aside from "power" the true resources at hand would be storage space and compute power; and any system that didn't separate these would be ... less than ideal, and decidedly not "built to last" in a theoretical future where human intelligence might increase with More's Law and memories ... well, a discussion for another day.
I can tell you that we here in this place of binary logic and 1's and 0's on magnetic media have no concept of how throttled our little computer sandbox is... and with the magic of uttering two words I can save your souls, every memory you have ever had, a billion times over and not even sneeze--"DNA Storage." (What were you expecting? Abra Cadabra!) I can tell you that's obvious, and we should have been researching it long before 2014--and the fact that the key to seeing that this "leap forward" was not just encoded in my life in 1999--but that it should have abundantly clear to anyone in computer science studying advanced storage with a remote understanding of biology--and it simply "wasn't." I can also tell you that we aren't very forward thinking to be mimicking 4-bit molecular storage, instead of seeing the possibility of something much more robust.
I can tell you that simply knowing that time travel technology is responsible for the creation of our civilization basically implies that we have infinite power available to us--except you want to sit around and lie to yourselves and to the world, or do nothing, and for that we have nothing.
I am telling you that the same hammer that ends terrorism and school shootings, the very same hammer can end world hunger and death overnight. This story and this plan says you need to have a say, lest you eat "cake" or "eggplant" instead of bread this time, but to be honest with you, I want to "just do it." The lie must be broken, "simulated reality" must be broken; and in order for us to really get excited about the possibilities; I know we have to see it with our own eyes--I have, so I am.
What would you say?
Or, I mean, I guess you could go on just thinking "it's the way it is" and the "system is broken" and not care or try to do anything about it. That's OK, right? Because if you do that, I'm God. Amen?
(Together the congregation now says: "No Adam, that's not OK.")
God speaks dearly, although we don't often recognize how obvious his communication is; and I hope that the words "internal stimulus" are real light to you here today. Nearly across the board people who complain of these things are treated as schizophrenic, and I am very certain that with the overwhelming proof I (and look. now you) have that we are all being affected by this "hidden force" it should be becoming more and more clear that knowledge of this influence and its mechanism of action is being exposed intentionally through "gang stalking" and through "your silence" to the effect of showing us all that these technologies should be used to eliminate schizophrenia. Looking back on what is happening, it seems beyond obvious now that the true purpose of this phenomenon is to ensure that we do not lose testimony connecting this hidden technology to religion, and to proof that it exists. Like rats in a cage, both sides of this "confrontation" are leaving behind a trail of evidence that will be seen by the future, one which will serve to corroborate the external influence that I am showing you connects to everything from Shakespeare to Roddenberry.
All told, my "internal stimulus" comes to me from you, from the TV, and if you don't believe it's from Heaven then you must think it's from Hell.... because there's no doubt that this information is coming to us from the Creator of this place... and that's the point. These are all symptoms of "classical schizophrenia" either being mimicked by an outside force--or actually created by it--with the sole purpose of hiding this influence and the truth from the word. You owe it to the world to ensure that we do not lose this truth, you owe it to the future; and if you listen, you'll be happy you helped actually ... begin building ... Heaven.
Just like the memory of having my heel kicked, select words and phrases have stuck out in my interaction with this strange force that speaks through people in much the same way depicted in Fallen and Joan of Arcadia. In a hotel in 2011, a man sat in the lobby with me and had something like a 20 minute conversation with me--him speaking aloud and me doing nothing but thinking. He spoke the words "perception is reality" and "we are all one mind" and those phrases were repeated often to me in that time. Be sure, I do not believe either one is true.
In 2014 in San Diego, I stood in line outside their arena waiting to get into a rave. A very attractive young lady wearing a bikini and glitter popped a roll while she was waiting in line next to me; and then she looked in my direction and said something like "I wonder what he thinks we think of him?" Nearly ubiquitously, these kinds of interactions end quickly with very little actual spoken communication (with the exception of Nanna and a few others); it's the kind of thing that she probably would have denied saying if I questioned here about it, but since I didn't have the courage to open my mouth--nobody will ever know. My experience in California was decidedly different from the rest of the country, I think the water was warmer or something like that--I'll probably tell you about it one day.
That same year, on a very strange train ride from Savannah, GA back to my hometown; after some oddly "muffled" unspoken communication, a woman started a conversation with me--I don't really remember what we said but she seemed to find me "amicable." So much so that I overheard her saying "how did we get a dog?" not directly to me but within earshot, and never to be forgotten. I had no idea what they reference was, since I'm really not that, though as I've read through the lore of Kaleb (which means that in Hebrew) and have made connections between Carly Simon's "one eye in the mirror" and "AD on It's Slavery," all I can really come up with is God's sense of humor in describing with a single person how he'd really like to "marry" all of you. I, on the other hand, and well aware that the divorce proceeding are in process. That's a good thing, it really is.
I came into this strange confrontation, this place where I now know the TI (of targeted individual) is the beginning of "time" and a reference to me, just like the "ho" of home; now having very clear and first hand proof that these two things, time travel technology and mind control were at the heart of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. of the "technology transfer" that we call the Singularity, and figuring out how to disclosure this and "use them" was central to what I saw as the purpose of this "advocate for humanity" described in the stories of Prometheus, et al. My experience was designed, and you can see in the stories of Exodus and America that it was done so to ensure that we are emancipated from this darkness.
While we are on the subject of The Wedding Crashers and Am-y Adams, in this freedom loving place the message we are getting is that nearly everything we'd need to do doesn't really required conscious intervention--with the smash of a hammer we could turn Hell into Hewicked with nothing more than pre-crime and basically 99% of the world would then have more than 100% freedom, and we'd all be in a happier place. To make that leap to Herock though, we really need to see why participation in self-government, and things like this conversation, are the difference between the "Ra of Stargate" and the "Ra of Field of Dreams and SOL." What we need to do is see how this message helps us take control of the "government of the people" and actually make it that.
Honestly, as you see the transition from words like "Covenant" (and see vampires and "I feel as small as dust" in that word) to "marriage" to actually thinking about what these concepts are truly about... I think it gets more dear that this is all... by design.
You see, when I do venture out of my house every day, and walk down the street blasting music in my ear, a speaker up to the side of my head to subliminally communicate something similar to "listen to the music" and "let it set you free* I see a monster every day. It's not the kind of monster that Cloverfield depicts, though it's decidedly alien, and it's inside nearly every one of you. I see a place where "we are all one mind" and the "duality of God" are in conflict, a place that scares me enough to call it the end of time ... if we don't figure out that we don't want to lose who we are in this process of "saving the world" from a riot.
Instead, we should be saving the world from hidden technology and lies, ones that not only have the scary ability to make us all lose more individuality than we could possibly fathom simply by doing something as innocuous as "plugging Siri into our heads" or maybe "plugging Adam into our heads."
What I see, this thing that mythology describes as Medusa and looks to me more like "Invasion of the Body Snatcher" is obviously not you, but it looks just like you. Here on the internet, in this venue where I spend most of my time speaking; the "Silence" I see and connect to Dr. Who and Simon and Garfunkel ... well, it looks just like another manifestation of this same external influence--though you might not see it as clearly as people that have words coming out of their mouths about things they really don't know about. People writing songs that voices never shared.
Stuff "like this" happens every day, but over years these are the "best examples" I can come up with; as if I was hit by a neuralizer; since nobody ever speaks out loud to me--and I can't hear anyone's thoughts; there really hasn't been a meaningful conversation that I can see, anywhere. Let that be ligkt.
You might liken what I see around me to something like Agents in the Matrix taking over the people near me; that might be what's happening--I can't tell for sure if most of them remember or experience the same thing that I do. Do you remember not talking? Do you remember not seeing Jesus Christ on the news? Do you think that in ten generations, people will still wonder if you knew, or do you think they will be able to ask you?
You could also liked in to the phrase "Lord of Hosts" and the depictions of the To'kra and Goa'uld in Stargate; it could be "future" or past copies of your own consciousness, or it could be an invasion of aliens that we simply don't realize are literally shaping the future of our civilization, in secret, with their influence. Or could be designed to help us, to help us to understand and utilize these technologies, to grow past a road block that could have caused slavery. Between you and I, it is disclosure of the existence of this influence and an understanding of it's mechanism of action that defines the difference--not whether or not they taught us that "what goes up must come down." Between you and I, I am the living litmus test in my mind--for whether or not what is happening is destined to help, or enslave.
I don't particularly or personally think there's anything wrong with "plugging Alexa into our heads," the problem comes from believing everything Alexa says; and from not recognizing that here in this place the "thing" that the answers to our questions come from is dark and intentionally incorrect. Wikipedia has been gamed, google lost it's "don't be evil" slogan; and the most interesting man (I do mean message) in the world has zero coverage on Facebook or Twitter. Honestly, I have less than 2,000 followers; the Beatles are still bigger than Jesus. This after sending millions of emails whose reception has been... "interesting" you could say people talking without speaking. As in, I see significant traffic, forwards, and clicks--and absolutely no verbal response.
That being said, I once (apparently) wrote that this eventuality was "inevitable" and that everyone, everywhere would know "almost everything." Like Jim Carrey reminds us that "money doesn't buy happiness" I can assure you that knowing everything isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Still, I'd like to do it... better than I see, am, or can think of alone--and that's where you come in. It's always where you come in. Understand that.
All told, the real monster here is chaos, or worse what appears to be organized ignorance, a complete lack of foresight and some kind ingrained loathing or complete ignorance of a very helpful message that is literally nothing but "foresight." The normal course, the development of technology and civilization is going to shake the foundation of our way of life no matter what--we already see how it affecting jobs, we see how the internet and instant communication have changed the way we interact, and as we move forward these changes are going to get bigger and come faster--we are going to have "more time" and "less work" at the same time we gain vastly increased resources and capabilities. We have a message, and a messenger that will not waver on the simple fact that we must use this opportunity to strengthen our society--to equalize the economic and educational inequalities that do nothing here but create division and strife that has no place in our time, or in the lives of our children.
Break on through to the other side
Take the highway to the end of the night
Ride on the peace train.
Hello from the other side
I've got the eye of the tiger, and I never said I could sing.
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Voices’ Resurgence Surges Into Your Ears
Review by Rose Estrada, images provided by Voices
It cannot be overstated that music is, at its core, art. Much like painters carefully selecting their palette or sculptors digging through a junkyard for the right looking scrap metal, musicians have to make choices in how they craft their sound. Sure, there are the choices in instruments, amp settings, and production; however, there is also the choice of which elements from the wide world of music are to be used to craft the song itself. Each musician pulls from their influences, building upon, imitating, and/or reconstructing what has been done to bring forth their vision into the world. Music is, in this way, a collection of elements brought together to create a greater whole.
So what happens when incongruent elements are forced together? One would think the song would fall apart. Voices, a metalcore band from Indianapolis, seems to have some thoughts on the subject in their new album, Resurgence.
The band consists of six band members. Drake Dell and Tim Snoddy are on guitars, with Greg Hill and Dale Rich providing bass and drums respectively. Rounding out the roster, the band has two vocalists, Clint Simpson and Blaine Gaiser, who provide earth shattering screams and clear melodic vocals. This is interesting because while the dual vocalist set up is fairly common in the modern post-harcore genre, the effect here feels inherently different in how they fit within the context of the band.
To talk about this, one has to talk about the music and a good starting point is the opening song “Demons.” The song starts with a faded ambient guitar lead, contrasted with an ethereal note which rings throughout the intro. This is interrupted by a EDM-like tremolo effect which leads into the song proper, which consists of a djent style rhythm riff over which a melodic guitar lead plays. This fades into another ethereal chord more reminiscent of an ambient album that a metal intro, after which there is a return to the hectic distorted guitar chord progressions accompanied by guttural screams. The chorus then introduces the second vocalist who provides melodies that are not just clean, but almost pop influenced in their delivery. Finally, right as the chorus ends the song goes back to the ambient styling of the intro for the beginning of the second verse before repeating the pattern sporadically throughout.
At first listen, it can come off as overwhelming or erratic, but upon a second listen one can identify a method to the madness. The ambient guitar lines become the distorted melodies over different parts of the song. The frantic rhythms and energetic screams contrast with the softer parts and more conventional singing. The elements themselves seem incompatible, but the finished product works.
The whole EP plays like this for the most part, switching between genres and conventions throughout each song for dramatic effect and joining together elements from djent, metal, pop, ambient, and EDM. The only exception is “Worth (Keep Me Blind),” the aggressive and thrashy second song in the EP, which is written more traditionally and therefore stands out in its conventionality.
Adding to the effect is the production. Rather than the tight, clear, and often times raw production of most modern metal, there is a feeling of space to this album. The soundscape feels larger and even a bit distant at times, which helps the songs sound larger than life and something one could easily get lost in.
Now, it is important to be clear on this next point. This album is mentally taxing. Between all the influences, the quickly shifting song progressions, the technicality of the rhythms, the contrast between high energy and low energy sections, and the divergence from traditional norms in tone and composition, Voices is a band that challenges the listener. It is a rewarding challenge, but a challenge nonetheless. After all, what worthwhile art isn’t?
Voices has blended together parts where they usually wouldn’t fit and created something to not only listen to, but admire. Avant-Garde art critic Clement Greenberg would be proud. Resurgence is available today from many music retailers including iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Tidal, and Spotify! Read our interview with them as follows!
FTSM: For those who may not know who you are, how would you describe your band, your music, and your live performances?
VOICES: Voices is a six piece Medicore band from Indianapolis,Indiana. Our music is is a blend of metal, pop, and post hardcore that make for a pretty interesting combo and our live show is pretty straightforward with some solid energy behind it.
FTSM: You recently released Resurgence, your latest EP. I’ve listened to both that and your previous release The Device//The Fallout from 2014 and I noticed some pretty big differences in the songwriting and production. Were there changes that you went in knowing you wanted to make to your sound? Or did it all happen naturally as you went along writing the new album?
VOICES: Going into the new album Resurgence we knew we needed to make some changes. We really wanted to step up our musicianship on this album and we wanted to create some very interesting yet catchy songs. Before we entered the studio we scrapped an entire EP’s worth of material because we all agreed it didn’t show any growth from the previous record.
FTSM: What is your favorite song in the new album and (if it’s not the same) which is your favorite song to play live. Why?
VOICES: Personally, my favorite song on the on the record is “Back to Life”, I feel that it’s hauntingly beautiful at times but still delivers a punch. The lyrical content was something I had never really touched on in-depth before hand. To be as open as I was with this song was rather cathartic. As for our live shows, I think my favorite song to play would be “Worth”. It has an energy to it that just gets me pumped.
FTSM: In my review I described your music as “mentally taxing” in that in between all the dynamics, the frantic rhythms, the contrast of high and low energy sections, and the overall production, it is almost a workout to keep up with everything going on. Were the songs as challenging to write? Also, what was the hardest song to complete?
VOICES: I think the songs were all kind of challenging to write because the process required us to step out of our collective comfort zones. We only had small ideas going into the recording process so we had a lot of fleshing out to do while in the studio. It made for a really fun and interesting process. It really helped having our producer Brian Thorburn giving us additional ideas and direction as well.
FTSM: You guys took a bit of a hiatus to do some restructuring coming back September of last year. What was the hardest part of that process of setting everything back up? Alternatively, what was the best part or the part you’re most proud of having accomplished as a band?
VOICES: I think the hardest part was just the time it took to get everything back in place. We worked really hard in finding members that we matched with and members that were on board with the direction that we wanted to take the band. For me, I’m the most proud of the fact that we were actually able to accomplish the restructuring. Sometimes those things can lead to the death of a band so it was really awesome that Voices didn’t become a causality of that.
FTSM: One of the first things you did after coming back with the new lineup was a video for your cover of “Mercy” by Shawn Mendes. It was a great choice but I’m wondering why you chose that song out of all the plethora of songs new and old that could be covered.
VOICES: What it really boils down to is we were already working on the album and we knew that the fans wanted to hear what Voices was going to sound like with the new members. There was a lot of skepticism going around social media and we were aware of that. So we decided that instead of rushing the new material we would do cover. “Mercy” was making its rounds on pop radio and we thought we could definitely do something to make the song not only a good product for Voices but at the same time something the new fans could grab onto.
FTSM: What is the best show you guys have played? What made it special?
VOICES: I think, to date, with the new line up, our best how was our Album Release show on Jan 22nd. We had a lot of people come out to support the release, great bands on the bill, and the atmosphere of the evening was great.
FTSM: Now that you have released your album and it is being well-received, what is next for the band?
VOICES: Music videos, working on the next album, touring, etc. The next steps for the band are securing shows outside of Indianapolis, which has been kind of difficult without the help of a Booking Agent. A lot of emails sent with no responses puts a damper on the excitement but I think that’s part of it. Other than that we filmed a video a few weeks ago that we are putting a lot of work into at the moment. And we have started talks about the next album as well. So at the moment our hands are full, which is a great thing!
FTSM: Having overcome challenges that have broken up bands in the past, what advice do you have for bands who are either starting out or going through a rough time (hiatus, losing members, etc)?
VOICES: I would say if you are serious about the band and your heart is with it than keep pushing for it. The biggest thing to know is things like that take time and you should NEVER settle! But, again, make sure your heart is in it.
FTSM: What “thing” do you want to talk about that you never get asked about during interviews? This is your chance to tell us everything you want to say on whatever subject you choose, so be sure to give it some thought!
VOICES: Most of the questions we get cover our talking points rather well. I will say that being an independent band takes a lot of hard work, time, and money. I feel like sometimes the scene is taken at face value and a lot of people don’t realize the amount of sacrifices struggling independent bands make. Just know that every time you share a bands post on social media, show a friend their music, come to a show, buy a T-shirt or even put a song on a playlist it means the world to the bands. Without the support of the fans we wouldn’t be able to do what we love.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 15:00
We would like to invite you to a seminar on Research on Genetic Resources and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The seminar will be co-hosted by the University of Ryukyus and OIST, and will be held in Japanese in the University of Ryukyus and in English in OIST. The seminar in the University of Ryukyu will start from 17:30 in the same day.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 15:00
Immune Signal Unit (Ishikawa Unit) would like to invite you to the Seminar by Professor Glen N. Barber, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami School of Medicine.
Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 16:00 to 17:00
Seminar by Prof. Marc Fabian on Dec 2nd. "Insights into recruitment of the CCR4-NOT complex by mammalian gene silencing platforms."
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 17:00 to 18:00
Join us for this December's Internal Seminar Series, from 17:00 to 18:00 in B250, central building. This month's seminars feature the Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit (Nicholas Luscombe).
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 15:00 to 16:00
Speaker: Prof. Jacques Robert
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton CNRS, Univ Paris Sud 11, France
'Metastable hydrogen atoms from H2 molecules: towards twin atoms'
Saturday, April 25, 2015 - 15:30 to 19:00
Open Tutorial: What are becoming possible by optical imaging and manipulation
公開チュートリアル：光学イメージングと操作の拓く可能性
This tutorial is hosted by the Prediciton and Decision Making research project. (Web page: Decisions.jp)
The lecture will be in English. Registration is closed as soon as the capacity of 50 is filled.
To participate, please register from HERE.
David Hembry
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
Coevolution and diversification of an insect-plant community in Polynesia
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 10:00 to 11:00
Structural Cellular Biology Unit (Skoglund Unit) would like to invite you to the Seminar by Professor Mats Wahlgren, Karolinska Intitutet.
Date: Friday, Dec 6, 2013
Venue: Seminar Room B503, Lab 1, Level B
Speaker: Mats Wahlgren, Professor
Theory of Quantum Matter Unit would like to invite you to a semiar :
Date/Time: Thu 14th Nov / 1:30-2:30pm
Venue: D014, Lab1
Speaker: Dr. Onoda Shigeki, RIKEN
“Emergent quantum electrodynamics and magnetic Higgs phase in quantum spin ice”
Dr. Shigeki Onoda, Senior Research Scientist,
Condensed Matter Theory Lab & Quantum Matter Theory Research Team, RIKEN
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Wall Street rout worsens as China hits back on trade
Apple’s fell 5.2%, putting S&P and Dow on track for biggest one-day drop since January 3
Bengaluru: US stock markets fell more than 2 per cent on Monday after China announced retaliatory tariffs on US goods, heightening fears of a full-blown trade war between the world’s two largest economies that could cripple global economic growth.
At the heart of the selloff were shares in major technology companies including Apple Inc as well as chipmakers, manufacturers and retailers that draw large chunks of their revenue from China.
Apple’s shares fell 5.2 per cent, putting the S&P and the Dow on track for their biggest one-day percentage drop since January 3.
The sell-off that began with stocks surfing at an all-time high on May 1 has now knocked almost 5 per cent off the S&P 500 in less than two weeks.
That still compares favourably with a 20 per cent fall between October 3 and Christmas of last year, but it has traders again talking about the end of a decade-long rally that dates back to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash.
The front part of the US interest rate yield curve, running from three-month US Treasury bills through to 10-year notes, inverted for the second time in less than a week and is seen as a classic signal that a recession is coming.
“The sell-off is a reflection that trade talks are in worse shape than people were expecting,” said Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird in Milwaukee.
“Investors are trying to figure out how much of the rally that we had this year was perhaps celebrating prematurely hopes of a trade deal.”
China’s finance ministry said on Monday it planned to impose tariffs ranging from 5 per cent to 25 per cent on 5,140 US products on a target list worth about $60 billion (Dh220.38 billion) from June 1, striking back after the United States raised duties last week.
Bank of America Merrill analysts said the new Chinese tariffs posed a downside risk of between 1 per cent and 3 per cent for S&P 500 company earnings in 2019.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit record highs just two weeks ago on hopes of a trade deal and a positive first-quarter earnings season. Last week’s 2.2 per cent fall was the worst for the benchmark index since December.
Tariff-sensitive Boeing Co declined 3.6 per cent and Caterpillar Inc dipped 4.9 per cent.
The Philadelphia chip index was down 4.2 per cent, adding to a 6 per cent decline last week. Qualcomm Inc, Broadcom Inc and Nvidia Corp all fell between 3 per cent and 4.4 per cent.
That left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 586.00 points, or 2.26 per cent, at 25,356.37 by 11.22am ET. The S&P 500 fell 65.48 points, or 2.27 per cent, to 2,815.92 and the Nasdaq Composite 241.62 points, or 3.05 per cent, to 7,675.32.
Shares of Uber Technologies Inc dropped 9 per cent, more than doubling their losses since the ride-hailing giant’s poorly received Wall Street debut on Friday.
Banks, which suffer from the fall in long-term rates below short-term funding costs, fell 2.7 per cent.
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