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Why Google Is Turning My Car Into Fly Paper
By Silver Spaces on October 3, 2016 • ( 0 )
Dr. Jill M. Bjerke
Picture this: You are driving your car when suddenly a pedestrian appears in your path. You have no choice but to strike the pedestrian. What you weren’t expecting though is for that pedestrian to now become stuck to the hood of your car.
What may sound like a cartoon, is in fact, the basis for new technology being explored and currently patented by Google. And while the rationale behind it is intriguing, it still has a long way to go before it becomes reality.
Is this even feasible though? “A single collision with a sticky hood is better from a physics standpoint,” according to Rebecca Thompson, head of public outreach for the American Physical Society.
“Getting hit by a car once is much preferable to getting hit by a car and then the ground and then another car,” said Thompson. “Cyclists wear helmets not as much to prevent their head’s impact with the car as much as their head’s impact with the ground when they fall.”
Google has said the overriding purpose is to have a system of sensors and cameras driven by software that can predict (and thereby avoid) many dangerous driving situations.
They are currently exploring this by using their autonomous vehicles and applying an adhesive layer that would coat the hood, front bumper and front side panels of a car. If a pedestrian is hit, they would be essentially glued to the car instead of bouncing off. A thin coating would protect this sticky layer until an impact with it occurs.
What might be considered “unusual” safety features for autos is nothing new. Citroen and Jaguar use what is described as “a device for deploying the hood of an automotive vehicle upwardly in the event of impact with a pedestrian.” Other companies, like Land Rover and Volvo, have utilized airbags on a vehicle’s exterior that deploy upon impact to protect a pedestrian from injury.
Nissan’s “pop up engine hood” uses tiny explosive bursts to slightly raise the hood of the auto if it senses an impact to help prevent pedestrians from hitting their heads. Nissan’s web site states, “When the car hits a pedestrian, a sensor in the bumper signals the pop-up control unit, which judges its necessity, will trigger an explosive actuator that pops the hood up”
But let’s not kid ourselves. The idea of turning a car into a literal “glue trap” is not without its flaws. Going back to that picture I created at the beginning, can you imagine trying to move the auto to a safe spot with a person stuck to the hood? Or could the person sustain even worse injuries if their arms or legs were dragged? This is obviously a less than enticing thought.
Still in all, the concept does have intriguing value above its original application.
“Turning cars into giant glue traps is certainly a feature that could have urban applications beyond autonomous vehicles. If it proves to be a good idea—and it still has to be proven—it could be applied to all potentially dangerous moving objects. “This is essentially a variation on an external airbag, which on its face seems like a good idea for a low-speed vehicle as a backup safety measure,” said Gabe Klein, former head of DC’s and Chicago’s departments of transportation, who now advises mobility-related investment funds and startups. ‘Why not consider it for non-autonomous vehicles?’”
In a common scenario of one discovery leading to another, I am definitely fascinated by this statement from Dan Sturges, of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. “Google’s patent for pedestrian safety glue is especially creative, but a similar goal might be achieved using vehicle-to-person (V2P) tech. Given their role with Android OS, they could have the world’s smartphones telling pedestrians when they are at risk of getting hit. So, use Google tech to avoid pedestrian-to-car accidents by using their pervasive tech.”
This type of V2P tech, to me, has incredible value especially for older adults who tend to move slowly across pedestrian walkways or are not paying attention to oncoming traffic.
As has always been true with so much of technology, one discovery could well open the doors to others!
King, Hope. “Google Patent Would Glue Pedestrians To Self-driving Cars.” Monay.com. CNN Money. 19 May 2016. Web. 18 July 2016.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/technology/google-flypaper-car/
@lisahopeking
Woolf, Nicky. “Google Patents ‘Sticky’ Layer To Protect Pedestrians In Self-Driving Car Accidents.” TheGuardian.com. Guardian News and Media, Ltd. 18 May 2016. Web. 18 August 2016.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/18/google-patents-sticky-layer-self-driving-car-accidents
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Walker, Alissa. “Google Patented a Sticky Car Hood That Traps Pedestrians Like Flies.” Gizmodo.com. 18 May 2016. Web. 17 June 2016.
http://gizmodo.com/google-patented-a-sticky-car-hood-that-traps-pedestrian-1777376162
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multiple violations at new corner store Archived
924 S 20th St Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill Southwest
This new store getting ready to open on the NW corner of 20th & Carpenter Streets is a disgrace. First, they breached the party wall through the back into the neighboring property. Next, they installed an air conditioner unit right out on the sidewalk (Carpenter St side). And today they have installed very ugly & DEFINITELY ILLEGAL awnings. They have no permission, variances or anything else that would be required to allow them to do these things. Neighbors unite against this blight!!
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738 S Chadwick St Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA - Schuylkill Southwest
There is a sidewalk/curbside parking issue on the 738-769 block of Chadwick street. Emergency and delivery vehicles cannot access the street and visually impaired pedestrians cannot walk on the sidewalk of the street, all because folks are parking their cars halfway on the sidewalk and street. I almost hit a family of 5 with my car that was walking in the middle of the street because there was no room for them to safely walk on the sidewalk. Citations need to be given to those who illegally park. Phila Parking Auth explains that, in any situation, it is illegal to park on a sidewalk. Most of those who park don’t reside on the block at all!
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2200 Saint Albans Street Philadelphia, PA - Schuylkill Southwest
This issue has been reported to the police on multiple occasions to no avail. The building on the eastern end of the 2200 block of Saint Albans is falling apart, with broken and boarded-up windows. Yet it still houses a suspicious-looking "Checks Cashed" store and several unsavory characters, while serving as the location for the ongoing, blatant and shameless sale of both drugs and sexual favors. This is unsightly, a fire hazard, and a drive-by waiting to happen, despite the police's nonchalance. Please help us stop this!
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Drug dealers on corners daily around 22nd & St. Albans & 22nd & Fulton. Usually in the evenings on both East & West sides depending on the group and the night.
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A private waste management company empties the dumpsters at this property every night between midnight and 5:00AM. While the process only lasts 5-10 minutes, it is incredibly noisy and disruptive to sleeping neighbors.
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This house at the corner of 18th and Fitzwater is boarded up and a blight on the neighborhood. L&I should go out there and post one of their new pink notices to get the owner to clean it up or sell it. The owner owes $30,000 in back taxes as well.
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Cars are being illegally parked on Grays Ferry Ave Sunday morning through the afternoon creating an extremely dangerous traffic situation.
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And who cares if it's on the sidewalk.
This out of state renter parks on the sidewalk next to his house everyday blocking the sidewalk. We asked to please not park on the sidewalk months ago. They just don't care. Please ticket this car or tow it away.
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I have reported this previously ( http://seeclickfix.com/issues/108919 ), but the Royal has fallen further into disrepair over the past few months. The building is not open to the public, but there are now significant cracks on the outside walls of the building.
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This building has a history of putting their trash out early, I've been told 40 years, I've seen it for 15 over years. The residents have a history of putting their trash out in paper bags, not in the prescribed manor, in a haphazard way, and in an illegal manner. The entrance to the building faces the 2200 Block of Pemberton Street which is a PMBC Clean Block and has been so since August of 2008. We clean the street on a regular basis. Neighbors have asked nicely that they comply without result. Neighbors have called 311 on numerous occasions to no avail. Trash collection was missed Monday and they continue to add to the trash pile. We are waiting for enforcement.
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The house apparently was sold in December and since the former tenants were evicted, the house has been sitting there with windows open and trash thrown inside and out. I suspect someone or some people are squatting or using the place for drugs. Windows need to be boarded up ASAP!
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Kodak Black hops on Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” Remix
by Amanda Leeon September 26, 2017 September 25, 2017 Leave a Comment on Kodak Black hops on Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” Remix
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Breakout Bronx rap superstar Cardi B is undoubtedly having a monumental year. Her debut single “Bodak Yellow” has already reached a peak of No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been called “the rap anthem of the summer.” “Bodak Yellow” is a reference to Florida based rapper Kodak Black. A long awaited remix featuring the songs inspiration, Kodak Black, has been released. Cardi B says she was inspired by his flow on his single, “No Flockin.”
Right off the bat Kodak explains why he decided to hop on the track, saying, “‘Cause they be thinkin’ both of us crazy and shit.” He opts out of using his “No Flockin” flow and raps “I ain’t worried ’bout her, that’s an old hoe/You thought I was comin’ with my old flow/Kodak ain’t comin’, take no photo/I don’t even pull up in a four door/I just hit a lick, hit the low though/All my life smokin’ on JoJo.”
He keeps the same chorus and instrumentals and continues to adds his signature southern flair to his verse, “Cardi B brought the beat told me re-rock the heat /Try me, I’ll do the race like I’m Tay-K / It ain’t no flockin’ over here, lil’ buddy.”
Take a listen to the remix and let us know what you think of Kodak’s verse. With this remix, we don’t think the song is going to fizzle out anytime soon. Sorry Taylor Swift, but at this rate, we’re thinking Cardi is going to continue to make money moves and take that Number one spot!
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Team Foundation Server vs. Visual SourceSafe
Suha Mneimneh / April 6, 2012
Wikipedia defines Source control as “Revision control is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information.” In other words: Source control allows distributed work in teams of any size, at different locations, while avoiding conflicts in source code changes. There are two famous source control software by Microsoft: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server. Here is the definition for each on according to Wikipedia:
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is a source control software package oriented towards small software development projects. Like most source control systems, SourceSafe creates a virtual library of computer files.
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a Microsoft product offering source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects.It is available either as stand-alone software, or as the server side back end platform for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).
We have been using the VSS for a long time, but developers always experience some network troubles when working on VSS, as well as the limited features in it. Like we can’t generate a report on the daily work, also many times developers experienced loss in their updated files. But its never too late to improve our work and look for a better solutions to protect our code and control the team work. So the decision was made to replace the VSS with the TFS.
Here is a brief list of major differences between VSS and TFS:
Architectural Differences
VSS: Read and write files and store them on the shared network folder
TFS: .NET web service that stored files and items in a SQL Server database
Security and Project Rights
VSS : All SourceSafe users are granted the same permission and have full access on all projects and files stored in SourceSafe
TFS : Team server users are window user accounts. Users will have specific permissions and project-level permission. No need to give full access to users on SQL and on all projects, the Administrator can give different permission levels to different users.
VSS : Since we are dealing with transfer of data through a network, operation cannot be rolled back if a problem occurred. In the rare cases when a problem such as the loss of network connectivity does occur in the middle of a write operation, the integrity of the affected files can be compromised and information lost.
TFS : Team Foundation is a client-server application in which write operations occur in the database by way of stored procedures that are not subject to network connectivity issues and rolled back in the event of an error can be done. Thus no corruption of files occur, groups of files that contain dependent changes are all committed to the source control server at the same time.
VSS : Teams of twenty or less users, and database size is limited to 4GB
TFS : up to 2000 users and can contain as much as a SQL Server database allows (terabytes)
Both are databases organized hierarchically (folders contain files), files consist of versions, identified by number of date/time of creation.
VSS : No changesets
TFS : A changeset is a logical container in which Team Foundation stores everything related to a single check-in operation: file and folder revisions, links to related work items, check-in notes, a check-in comment, and other information such as who submitted the change. For more information
Add and Create
VSS : Adding a file or folder creates a version of the parent in addition to the file. In the parent history, the action is recorded as “add” and in the file history; the action is recorded as “create.”
TFS : adding a file or folder just creates a version of the file or folder itself with a “add” action. No version of parent is created for this action.
Rename, Delete, and Undelete
VSS : these actions create a new version of parent;
TFS : they create a new version of the item itself
VSS : When you move a folder, new versions of both the source and destination parent folders are created, with actions recorded on each parent that moves the folder into or out of the parent. No version for folder F is created.
TFS : only a new version of F is created by using the “Rename” action.
Check-Out and Check-In
VSS : you must do an explicit check-out and check-in only if you are editing a file
TFS : every action requires an explicit check-out and check-in
Features that Work Differently in Team Foundation
In the VSS:
Silent Get operation when you check out a file
Checkouts are exclusive, by default
Does not store the merge history between two branches of files or folders
In TFS :
Does not perform a silent Get operation when you check out a file
Multiple users can check out and change the same item at the same time, you can lock a file in Team Foundation to prevent other users from checking it out or checking in changes
Does have support for merge history. Without merge history
After all these new features in TFS, we are sure going to upgrade from VSS to TFS.
Read more on TFS
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonz/archive/2009/10/21/tutorial-getting-started-with-tfs-in-vs2010.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2009/10/01/tfs-2010-for-sourcesafe-users.aspx
April 6, 2012 in TFS, Visual Studio 2010, VSS.
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Nadeem says:
difference between tfs2012 and previous version.
Yashwanth says:
What are “Folder F”, which is mentioned under “Move”
Suha Mneimneh says:
it can be any folder under the VSS, if you require to move any sub-directory to another location
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To change is to grow
Published by Giles Goddard on Tue, 31 May 2016 12:10
This year's Waterloo Festival kicks off in less than three weeks' time. It has a new theme; we've replaced 'war' with 'transformation'. After five years of reflecting on various wars and battles, we thought it was time for a change. But why did we choose transformation as a theme?
First, because the whole of Waterloo and the South Bank is currently going through major changes. The redevelopment of the Shell Centre, the building of One Blackfriars, the new look National Theatre, the proposed move of the BFI - Waterloo must be one of the fastest moving and quickest changing parts of London.
St John's is part of the transformation. We are hoping that by 2020 the building will have been completely renovated so that it's fit for purpose and offers a tremendous home for worship and all the other activities which take place here. This year, the festival is looking at the transformation of commerce and industry, especially the hat and garment industry. Hats off, and I'll see you at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
But there are deeper reasons for our choice of theme. Cardinal Newman is famously supposed to have said 'to change is to grow, and to be perfect is to have changed often.' Saint Paul says, in the letter to the Romans, 'Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.' Transformation is at the heart of Christianity - from crucifixion to resurrection, from sickness to health, from fear to trust, from hate to love.
Transformation, though, is not straightforward. It often involves discomfort and challenge. In order to rebuild, the builder must first demolish. In the process of change, something may be lost. We work hard for our status, for our money, for the things which give us pleasure - but they are often things which stop us from becoming the people we are being called to be. In spite of that, it is hard to face the idea that we may be being called to give them up.
In a world which seems more full of confusion and fear every day, when we are being assailed by contradictory ideas about Europe, where a demagogue is about to become the Republican presidential candidate, we want to hold on to the things which give us comfort. But in clinging on to things we get stuck; it's through letting go that we grow. (Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting voting to leave Europe, although that would be a transformation too. I am sure that we are better in Europe, better trying to change it from within as part of a greater whole. There's an exact parallel with the Church of England - St John's is much better off as part of it, even though it's not perfect, than out on our own!)
As Christians we are called to be in a perpetual process of discovery - within a context of constancy. The words of the eucharist are much the same each week; the words of scripture don't change - but the way we hear them and understand them changes all the time, if we're willing to allow the change to happen.
So, a question for all of us - are we open to the transformations to which we're being called? As individuals, as a church, as part of Waterloo, as a society? Are you ready for the future, whatever it brings? Let me have your thoughts, by commenting below or by contacting me at giles@stjohnswaterloo.org ... and let's see where the journey takes us!
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If I Brewed the World: The Mixtape of Breweries
Abby Allen · Feb 7, 2019 · 4 min read
"Beer is really easy to make, it's the easiest thing in the world to make. But making good beer is actually quite hard." Those are words spoken by Kevin Shaw, owner of the newest brewery in town, If I Brewed the World.
All great things take time- lots of time...as well as patience and some hard work. Kevin is living proof of that formula for success. He knows how to brew beer- really, really good beer, and has the hardware to prove it. His journey as a brewer began approximately six years ago with a home brew kit and an urge to manifest some magic after a push in the right direction.
Since then, Kevin's passion for brewing has grown exponentially, which lead him to the position that he's in today. Over the years, he gathered dozens and dozens of awards for his talent as a brewer, and decided that a brewery was the next step. He left his full-time job as a mortgage underwriter to pursue the world of beer, full time.
Over the years, Kevin has captured numerous pictures of his adventures in brewing. To spotlight a handful of these pictures, Kevin created a Beer Bar book with a picture on one page and a beer-related quote on the other. It makes for a great gift, or conversation piece on a coffee table! Books can be purchased both online here and in the brewery.
Kevin has been in the brewery's space for over a year; however, the doors of If I Brewed the World did not open up to the public until December of 2018. Over the course of that year, Kevin did not have much time to do what opening a watering hole is all about- brewing the beer! Instead, he found himself learning the ins and outs and ups and downs of owning a local business, and one with alcohol, at that. Permits, and inspections and licenses, oh my! Opening a brewery isn't all sunshine and rainbows, it's a learning process that takes time and patience.
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I assure you, all of the effort that Kevin put into this endeavor of his is undeniable. Every T was crossed and every I, dotted. The elements that I most appreciate: the detail and creativity. Thoughtful, quirky touches were implemented into the facility by Kevin. On one wall, hundreds of CD albums from the 90's, and on another, a book shelf-turned "secret passageway" to none other than the whimsical bathroom which has pages from Alice and Wonderland, Emily Dickinson and others adorning the walls.
The facility of If I Brewed the World is tucked away on the corner of 1st Ave S and 22nd St St. Upon entrance of the facility, you're likely to encounter a friendly face. No, it's not a human...I'll do ya one better- it's Kevin's friendly pup, Pepper. Pepper is as obedient as they come and the utmost friendly- you're likely to find her present at the brewery most days. Speaking of dogs, If I Brewed the World is dog-friendly. While there are seating options at the bar and a handful of high-tops and tables, the fenced in patio space in the back is the perfect space to let your dogs/kids/husbands run free!
The space is small, quaint, and charming, with notes of wit and personality throughout, as well as tons of art, inside and out. One of the most intriguing displays of art can be found on the outside wall which faces 22nd st s. You'll find a beautiful mural that artist Osiris Rain thoughtfully arranged onto the building during what he called a "spraycation," where he traveled the country creating amazing art. Osiris approached Kevin and asked if he could paint a mural on the side of the brewery, and Kevin happily said yes. Believe it or not, Osiris created this incredible piece in just three days.
The mural created by Osiris Rain
Quote and Signature by Osiris Rain
If you haven't already guessed by now, yes, Kevin wears just about all of the hats of the brewery, aside from manning the bar. Luckily, he has a wonderful staff, ready and willing to pour you something from their diverse and off-beat menu (and I mean off-beat in the best possible way, you'll see...). Speaking of unique, the names that he has given the beers are equal parts witty and, well, awesome, to be frank. You'll find beers with names, such as: Cola, No Cocaine (Raspberry Wheat beer), Cash Rule Everything Around Me (Cream Ale. Get it?!) and Eye PA (IPA).
The menu is not simply limited to beers that Kevin brews, oh no. Also listed: PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon), Sake Bombs (yes, you read that correctly) and flights of wine. He wanted to make certain that he had something to offer every breed of drinker. As far as food, the brewery has items, such as popcorn, a variety of chips and local chocolate bars for sale. Additionally, patrons are welcome to bring outside food into the taproom to enjoy.
While Kevin is not currently bottling/canning any beers, he's always in the lab creating new and exciting brews to add to his ever-changing and alluring menu. His creations are all things innovative and intriguing and his brewery deserves all of your attention.
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Cash Rules Everything Around Me Cream Ale – If I Brewed the World (Cream Ale)
Cash Rules Everything Around Me is a cream ale that has the ability to suit the palates of most all beer lovers. It's a silky-smooth easy-drinker with stand out notes of Vanilla and Honey. Nose: Faint notes of Malt with a touch of Honey Color: Semi-hazy Head: Medium-White Taste: Vanilla up front with faint hints of honey and a very subdued hop profile. Mouthfeel: Smooth mouthfeel with light body Overall: This beer is an easy drinker that goes down smooth and easy. A "beer flavored beer, if you will," and "a go-to shift beer at the brewery after a long day," says Kevin. Food Pairings: Best enjoyed with Pizza or Chicken Wings whilst enjoying a game.
ABV:5.5%
Hops:Williamette
Other:Corn
Availability:Year-round
Eye PA (IPA) – If I Brewed the World (American IPA)
This light IPA with a playful name is light and brewed with Caramel malts which compliments the hop notes. It's crisp and has a vibrant nose. Mosaic hops help to mellow out the robust layers of hops. This beer has been a fan-favorite at the brewery. Nose: Citrus, Bubblegum, Florals and faint hints of Pepper Color: Golden Straw Head: Thin, minimal head Taste: Smooth up front, followed by a notable bite of hoppy layers with a firm bitterness at the end that does not linger. Mouthfeel: Crisp and hop-forward Overall: This beer is loaded with flavor and provides a lot on all angles if you're in search of a solid IPA. Food Pairings: Fish, Seafood, a hearty Caesar Salad and most anything light and delicate.
Malts:Caramel
Hops:El Dorado, Cascade and Mosaic
Cola, No Cocaine (Raspberry Cola Wheat) (American Wheat Beer)
Cola, No Cocaine was our favorite beer. It is a wheat-based beer that comes as described. Intense flavors from Raspberry puree and Cola flavoring. This beer is a real treat that tastes like no other than Cherry Cola. Nose: Glorious notes of Cola, Berry and Sugar Color: Burnt Orange Head: Thin, minimal head Taste: Cinnamon and Caramel Mouthfeel: Fruit forward, with notes of Raspberry. Overall: A fun, out of the ordinary beer that catches you by surprise. Food Pairing: The perfect accompaniment with popcorn and a movie.
Other:Raspberry Puree, Cola Flavoring
Availability:Seasonal
4.8 / 5 (14 Reviewers)
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I'm an Ohio Native and resided in the Buckeye State for the first 27 years of my life. In June of 2017, my boyfriend, Mike, and I moved to beautiful downtown St. Petersburg (job relocation for him- I didn't take much convincing) and we have reveled in every incredible moment of our journey here. I have a genuine passion for cooking and a love affair with food- I'm deeply infatuated with the art, experimentation and theatrics of it all. On weekends (and when I'm not in the kitchen), Mike and I try to cross a restaurant, brewery, cocktail bar, and local event (or two) off of our ever-growing list of places to experience in our fabulous city.
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The End of Windows
Posted on Monday, April 2, 2018 Monday, April 2, 2018 Author by Ben Thompson
The story of Windows’ decline is relatively straightforward and a classic case of disruption:
The Internet dramatically reduced application lock-in
PCs became “good enough”, elongating the upgrade cycle
Smartphones first addressed needs the PC couldn’t, then over time started taking over PC functionality directly
What is more interesting, though, is the story of Windows’ decline in Redmond, culminating with last week’s reorganization that, for the first time since 1980, left the company without a division devoted to personal computer operating systems (Windows was split, with the core engineering group placed under Azure, and the rest of the organization effectively under Office 365; there will still be Windows releases, but it is no longer a standalone business). Such a move didn’t seem possible a mere five years ago, when, in the context of another reorganization, former-CEO Steve Ballmer wrote a memo insisting that Windows was the future (emphasis mine):
In the critical choice today of digital ecosystems, Microsoft has an unmatched advantage in work and productivity experiences, and has a unique ability to drive unified services for everything from tasks and documents to entertainment, games and communications. I am convinced that by deploying our smart-cloud assets across a range of devices, we can make Windows devices once again the devices to own. Other companies provide strong experiences, but in their own way they are each fragmented and limited. Microsoft is best positioned to take advantage of the power of one, and bring it to our over 1 billion users.
That memo prompted me to write a post entitled Services, Not Devices that argued that Ballmer’s strategic priorities were exactly backwards: Microsoft’s services should be businesses in their own right, not Windows’ differentiators. Ballmer, though, followed-through on his memo by buying Nokia; it speaks to Microsoft’s dysfunction that he was allowed to spend billions on a deal that allegedly played a large role in his ouster.
That dysfunction was The Curse of Culture:
Culture is not something that begets success, rather, it is a product of it. All companies start with the espoused beliefs and values of their founder(s), but until those beliefs and values are proven correct and successful they are open to debate and change. If, though, they lead to real sustained success, then those values and beliefs slip from the conscious to the unconscious, and it is this transformation that allows companies to maintain the “secret sauce” that drove their initial success even as they scale. The founder no longer needs to espouse his or her beliefs and values to the 10,000th employee; every single person already in the company will do just that, in every decision they make, big or small.
As with most such things, culture is one of a company’s most powerful assets right until it isn’t: the same underlying assumptions that permit an organization to scale massively constrain the ability of that same organization to change direction. More distressingly, culture prevents organizations from even knowing they need to do so.
Thus my assertion at the top, that the story of how Microsoft came to accept the reality of Windows’ decline is more interesting than the fact of Windows’ decline; this is how CEO Satya Nadella convinced the company to accept the obvious.
The Easy Win: Office on iPad
A month after taking over as CEO, Nadella introduced Office for iPad. Quite obviously, given the timing, the work had been done under Ballmer; some reports suggest the initiative in fact started years previously. Ballmer, though, wouldn’t release it until there was a touch version for Windows 8; some wonder if he would have ever released it at all.
It’s all a bit of a moot point; in the end Ballmer’s delay gave Nadella an easy win that symbolized the exact shift in mindset Microsoft needed: non-Windows platforms would be targets for Microsoft services, not competitors for Windows.
That wasn’t the only news that week: Microsoft also renamed its cloud service from Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure. The name change was an obvious one — by then customers could already run a whole host of non-Windows related software, including Linux — but the symbolism tied in perfectly with the Office on iPad announcement: Windows wouldn’t be forced onto Microsoft’s future.
The Demotion: Nadella’s First Strategy Memo
It was another three months before Nadella wrote his first company-wide strategy memo explicitly departing from his predecessor:
More recently, we have described ourselves as a “devices and services” company. While the devices and services description was helpful in starting our transformation, we now need to hone in on our unique strategy. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
What is striking about this articulation of “productivity and platforms” is that it is exactly how Nadella reorganized the company last week; the “Experiences & Devices” team is focused on end-user productivity, while the “Cloud + AI” team is all about building the platform of the future. The reason it took so long is the point of this article — Nadella had a Windows problem.
To that end, the most important aspect of Nadella’s memo was not what he said about Windows, but where he said it. I wrote in a Daily Update breaking down the memo:
Trust me when I say demoting Windows all the way to this point in the letter is a dramatic shift. Remember, it wasn’t that long ago that Steve Ballmer said “Nothing is More Important at Microsoft than Windows”; Nadella not even mentioning the OS for the first 2,000 words sends a very different message. Similarly, spending nothing more than a sentence on Surface and Nokia — in the entire email, the word “Surface” appears twice and “Nokia” once — makes it as clear as can be that neither is the future.
This was the next step after the initial symbolism of Office on iPad and the Azure name change: actually articulating a future where Windows didn’t matter.
The Retreat: Love Windows
Nadella, though, had a short-term problem: Microsoft’s most important customers — enterprises — hated Windows 8. The operating system may not have been Microsoft’s future, but it was still a massive cash cow, and the linchpin for all of Microsoft’s legacy products. To that end the company needed Windows 10 to get out the door sooner-rather-than-later.
This, I think, is the context for Nadella’s presentation at a January, 2015 event about Windows 10; Nadella said:
We absolutely believe that Windows is home for the very best of Microsoft experiences. There’s nothing subtle about this strategy. It’s a practical approach which is customer first. We want to give ourselves the best opportunity to serve our customers everywhere and give ourselves the best chance to help customers find Windows as their home. That’s what we plan to do…We need to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows to loving Windows…We want to make Windows 10 the most loved release of Windows.
At the time I was very disappointed; suggesting that Microsoft experiences needed to be “best” on Windows suggested that Windows was dictating the direction of Microsoft services. A few months later, though, once Windows 10 shipped, Nadella made clear this was only a temporary retreat.
The Quarantine: Nadella’s First Reorganization
That summer Nadella undertook his first reorganization, separating the company into three divisions: Cloud and Enterprise, Applications and Services, and Windows and Devices. I wrote in a Daily Update:
This explicitly undoes Ballmer’s ill-considered reorganization from a divisional company to an allegedly functional organization. At the time Ballmer wrote:
We are rallying behind a single strategy as one company — not a collection of divisional strategies…
This was exactly wrong: by that point Microsoft had already lost the devices war and needed to focus on services that worked on iOS and Android. A “One Microsoft” strategy, on the other hand, kept all of those services subservient to Windows. However, with this new reorganization, Windows is off in the corner where it belongs, leaving the Cloud and Enterprise team and Applications and Services Group free to focus on building their businesses on top of all platforms.
I believe this reorganization was the turning point: not only were the two teams Nadella announced last week basically formed at this time, but more importantly, Windows was left to fend for itself.
The Inception: The Death of Windows Phone
Nadella’s most impressive bit of jujitsu was how he killed Windows Phone; while the platform had obviously been dead in the water for years, Nadella didn’t imperiously axe the program. Instead, by isolating Windows, he let the division’s leadership come to that conclusion on their own.
Naturally, departing Windows-head Terry Myerson blamed the rest of the company, stating, “When I look back on our journey in mobility, we’ve done hard work and had great ideas, but have not always had the alignment needed across the company to make an impact.” I wrote at the time:
This is such an utterly clueless explanation of why Windows Phone failed that it’s kind of stunning. Until, of course, you remember the culture-induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass…
Interestingly, though, Myerson’s ridiculous assertion in a roundabout way shows how you change culture…In this case, Nadella effectively shunted Windows to its own division with all of the company’s other non-strategic assets, leaving Myerson and team to come to yesterday’s decision on their own. Remember, Nadella opposed the Nokia acquisition, but instead of simply dropping the axe on day one, thus wasting precious political capital, he hung the Windows team out to dry let Windows give it their best shot and come to that conclusion on their own.
Nadella did the same thing with Windows proper: when Windows 10 launched Myerson claimed that the operating system would be on 1 billion devices by mid-2018; the company had to walk that back a year later, not because Nadella said so, but because the market did.
The Division: The End of Windows
And so we reach last week’s announcements: the Windows division is no more. It is an incredibly meaningful milestone, yet anticlimactic at the same time, thanks to Nadella’s careful management. It is worth noting, though, that Nadella had one critical ally in this journey: Wall Street.
Microsoft’s stock price since Satya Nadella became CEO.
If culture flows from success, then it follows that an attempt to change culture is far easier to accomplish when the most obvious indicator of success — one that has a direct impact on employee pocket-books — is moving up-and-to-the-right. What is fascinating to consider, though, is that Microsoft’s stock is up not only because the company has a vision that it is delivering on quarter-after-quarter, but also because the stock was depressed in the first place.
To put it another way, Nadella’s shift to a post-Windows Microsoft is the right one; to have done the same a decade sooner would have been better. It also, though, may have been impossible, simply because Windows was still the biggest part of the business, and it’s not clear the markets would have tolerated an explicit shift before it was painfully obvious it was necessary; without a rising stock price, Nadella’s mission would have been much more challenging if not impossible.
The Future: Why Microsoft?
It’s important to note that Windows persisted as the linchpin of Microsoft’s strategy for over three decades for a very good reason: it made everything the company did possible. Windows had the ecosystem and the lock-in, and provided the foundation for Office and Windows Server, both of which were built with the assumption of Windows at the center.
Office 365 and Azure are comparatively weaker strategically: Office 365 has document lock-in, but the exact same forces that weakened Windows in the first place weaken the idea of documents as well. It’s not clear why new companies in particular would even care. Azure, meanwhile, is chasing AWS, with a huge amount of business coming from Linux VMs that could run anywhere.
Unsurprisingly, both are still benefiting from Windows: Office 365 really does, as Nadella noted in his retreat, work better on Windows, and vice versa; it is seamless for organizations that have been using Office for years to move to Office 365. Azure’s biggest advantage, meanwhile, is that it allows for hybrid deployments, where workloads are split between legacy on-premise Windows servers and Azure’s public cloud; that legacy was built on Windows.
This, then, is Nadella’s next challenge: to understand that Windows is not and will not drive future growth is one thing; identifying future drivers of said growth is another. Even in its division Windows remains the best thing Microsoft has going — it had such a powerful hold on Microsoft’s culture precisely because it was so successful.
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Home | South Puget Sound's McGill sets 2 more rebounding marks
South Puget Sound's McGill sets 2 more rebounding marks
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Savannah McGill and the South Puget Sound Clippers [women] ended their season tonight and what a season it was for McGill.
The 6' 1" sophomore forward out of River Ridge High School in nearby Lacey, WA tallied 34 points for the Clippers, but more importantly McGill registered 18 rebounds to help her to break two more NWAC rebounding records.
Last season McGill recorded 456 rebounds to break the single season record for rebounds and earlier this season she became the league's all-time career rebounding leader.
McGill's 18 boards tonight was more than enough to break her own record as the sophomore, in her final game, finished the 2016-17 campaign with 471 rebounds for a career total of 927... 188 more than the previous record holder Mercedes Alexander of Lane (2007-2008) who had 783.
McGill also smashed the 27 year old season average for rebounds with an average of 19.63 rebounds per game surpassing Blue Mountain's Renae Griggs' 1990 mark of 16.78.
"Savannah came to us as a lengthy post player out of River Ridge High School and is one of the most competitive people I've ever met and a true leader on and off the court," said a proud SPSCC head coach Mike Moore.
McGill has verbally committed to play at Cal State East Bay next season. The Pioneers are coming off a 20-8 season and are currently battling in the post season for a spot in the NCAA Div II West Regionals.
Added Moore, "Savannah has set herself up both academically and athletically to achieve even greater things at the next level at Cal State East Bay. The entire SPSCC family is extremely proud of her and all of her accomplishments. We were blessed to have such an outstanding person be a part of this program and will be rooting for her as she enters her next chapter. GO PIONEERS and GO CLIPPERS!"
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McGill in uniform. Career rebound record 927. Single season rebound record 471. Single season average rebounds 19.63 with NWAC logo.
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Chris Dixon To Speak At Disrupt NY, As A VC
Eric Eldon 6 years
Chris Dixon is back in New York quite a bit, he tells me, even though he recently got a place in San Francisco as part of his new job as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He’ll be at Disrupt NY the week after next, for example, to talk about his big transition from life as a founder and angel investor to his new job at a top venture firm. I’ll be interviewing him about what he’s planning to focus his new portfolio on. Bitcoin startups? Less consumer startups? More gadgets and wearable health devices?
For those who don’t know, Dixon has paved the way for this generation of New York tech founders. He most recently cofounded recommendation service Hunch, which sold to eBay for around $80 million in 2011 and became an R&D office for the company in the city. Before that he cofounded SiteAdvisor and sold it to McAfee in 2006. He gradually moved deeper into angel investing over the years, becoming prolific over the last couple.
His background and hands-on approach to helping founders got a16z’s notice and they hired him on last year (his great reputation also got him the Angel Of The Year award at this year’s Crunchies).
Dixon joins our growing list of Disrupt NY speakers that currently includes eBay CEO John Donahoe, Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, top investor Fred Wilson, and more coming to be announced in the weeks leading up to Disrupt NY. Buy tickets here.
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He previously was a partner and co-founder at Founder Collective, the CEO and co-founder of SiteAdvisor, which was acquired by McAfee, and Hunch, which was acquired by eBay. Chris is a personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including Skype, TrialPay, DocVerse, Invite Media, Gerson Lehrman Group, ScanScout, OMGPOP, BillShrink, Oddcast, Panjiva, Knewton, and a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode.
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Legendary Angel Investor Cai Wensheng Took over Helm of Meitu,Who Are Building A Smartphone
|By Charlie Sheng
Last month, we reported that the photo-centered startup Meitu was to release a self-portrait smartphone Meitu Kiss targeting at female users. Behind all the camera lens of Meitu there stands a man named Cai Wensheng who is its investor and became the chairman of this company recently. Meitu’s founder, Wu Xinhong, now serves as CEO.
As an angel investor, Cai himself has never really participated in any project he invested in before. The move this time is seen by many as he is dedicated to build a smartphone and mobile Internet business, just like what Lei Jun, co-founder and CEO of Xiaomi, has been doing.
His name is actually not new to most local Internet players. A high school dropout without any phenomenal background, Cai started up his first business from scratch by registering hundreds of thousands of domain names (total estimated value over a hundred million US$). He can’t speak good English, but still sold a navigation site 265.com to Google China. Invested in several hundreds sites, he was once called the king of webmasters. Gradually the young entrepreneur turned to an angel investor. Some familiar startups Cai had invested include Baofeng Player, Falshget Downloads, 58.com, ZCOM, TTG, and CNZZ, from which some were quite a hit.
Cai Wensheng is a legendary figure in China’s tech scene.
In a speech he gave last year, Cai claimed that he would only focus on the mobile Internet in the future. He said that “Mobile phone it the future. Two years later your kids would find your mouse and keyboard to be some sort of antiques. Not to mention the market four years later on…”
Insiders had a guess that MeituKisss would follow the model of Xiaomi Phone in that the user base was accumulated from apps, moved on to the devices, and finally integrated into one line. Cai’s comments on the new phone are quite confident, “Our mobile users for Meitu has hit over 100m already, plus the over 300m users on PC, we would be thrilled at the sales number even only 1% of them decided to buy a Meitu phone. ”
Founded in 2008 in Xiamen, Meitu has developed a plenty of photo apps, claiming a total of 200m users and 18m active ones. Meitu Xiuxiu is one of the most popular photo effects apps for the local market, CEO Wu Xinhong once revealed that currently it has reached break even with the advertising revenues.
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Baidu CEO Robin Li doused in water during speech
|By Wei Sheng
A man poured a bottle of water over Baidu’s chief executive Robin Li at the opening of the company’s annual developers’ conference on Wednesday.
During his speech at the Baidu Create AI Developer Conference in Beijing, an attendee rushed up to the stage and poured a bottle of water over the CEO’s head.
After a few moments of shocked silence, Li asked the interloper in English, “What’s your problem?”
The man, whose motive was unclear, was quickly tackled by security.
Li then continued his speech about smart transportation, noting that the road to artificial intelligence (AI) will contain unexpected happenings. “But it will not impact Baidu’s determination,” he added.
A Baidu spokesman told TechNode Wednesday that the man was taken away by the police, and that his identity was unknown.
Chinese netizens have tracked down the account allegedly used by the man on microblogging platform Weibo. A Weibo account using the handle @Zhinanshangshu posted a picture of a bottle of water at the front of the stage where Li was giving his keynote speech at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday with the message “I’m about to go [to the stage].” All posts by this account had been deleted by mid-afternoon Wednesday, TechNode observed.
The account holder’s identity could not be independently verified by TechNode.
Baidu, China’s biggest search engine site, was widely criticized last month for promoting its own results and low-quality articles on Baijiahao, the company’s news aggregation platform which publishes content from other sites, over news from other channels.
The company has struggled to regain user trust after a series of scandals over the past few years. In 2016, a 21-year-old college student died after being treated for his cancer using questionable methods at a hospital which he chose for its top ranking in Baidu’s search results.
This story has been updated to include the video, comment from Baidu, and Weibo account information.
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Three Outside Bets for the 2019 Australian Open
Source: Chung Hyeon via Facebook.
Novak Djokovic ended the 2018 season in imperious fashion, thereby ensuring that he will be a strong favourite for all tournaments in the first half of next year at least. There may be no value on backing Djokovic, but his dominance will increase the prices of old foes Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Yet the 2018 Australian Open saw some unlikely candidates progress, so there is scope for picking out players at longer odds in the hope of securing trading opportunities towards the tournament’s business end.
Edmund meets the criteria of an unlikely tournament winner, with the Brit on a clear upward trajectory and a player who has enjoyed his best result in the conditions of Melbourne. Now British number 1 as a result of Andy Murray’s injury troubles, Edmund has thrived under the pressure that the appellation brings. Edmund reached his first two ATP Tour finals in 2018, surprisingly losing in timid fashion in Marrakesh to clay-court specialist Pablo Andujar in April.
That looked like a real opportunity missed for Edmund, but the Brit continued his impressive form to claim the title in Antwerp in October. Edmund will be keenly anticipating a return to Australia, having reached the semi-final last year in impressive fashion. A first-round win over Kevin Anderson, a formidable opponent who would then enjoy his best career season, started a strong run that was ended by Marin Cilic in disappointing fashion. Nobody will underestimate Edmund this time around, but he has shown that he does have the mental fortitude to handle the pressure. At 66/1 or higher, Edmund represents very interesting value.
Chung Hyeon
Another man who enjoyed a breakout tournament at last year’s Australian Open was Chung Hyeon, who retired in the semi-final against Roger Federer. That will not have alleviated concerns of Hyeon’s ability to maintain fitness across the two-week rigours of a Slam, but the manner of his victories beforehand was hugely impressive.
The South Korean would have been forgiven for thinking that his bagelling of fourth seed Alexander Zverev in the decisive fifth set of the third-round tie would be the pinnacle of his Slam. Yet Hyeon continued his fine form to beat Novak Djokovic 7-6 7-5 7-6 in the following round. Few would have expected Hyeon to prevail from that difficult quarter of the draw.
Clutch playing in close sets against the man who would end the year atop the ATP rankings bodes well for Hyeon, who has Australian open 2019 odds of 160 on the Betfair Exchange as of December 6th. That price is much bigger than many players who are past their best, but Hyeon’s best is yet to come.
Source: Juan Martin del Potro via Facebook.
Del Potro appears to have put to bed most long-term concerns over his fitness, with 2018 seeing the Argentine claim his first Masters 1000 title in Indian Wells thanks to an impressive win over Roger Federer. Del Potro then reached the US Open final, in which he succumbed to Djokovic in straight sets. Djokovic will be the main obstacle for contenders at the Australian Open, with del Potro having won 4 out of 19 matches against the Serbian star. Two of those wins came in Olympic matches, so the Tower of Tandil has what it takes to upset Djokovic on the biggest stages.
As a Slam winner, del Potro is hardly a huge outsider. However, the Argentine may be underrated by markets due to Djokovic’s dominance. Djokovic has endured some shock Slam results in recent years, so perhaps an early departure could open the door for one of these bigger-priced options to storm through.
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Elon Musk says he earned nothing from Tesla in 2018
International | Written by : IANS| Updated: Fri, May 31, 2019, 04:44 PM
San Francisco, May 31 (IANS) While his electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla struggles to make profit, tech mogul Elon Musk denied reports that claimed he had earned $2.3 billion in stock options in 2018. Instead, Musk said he had pocketed nothing at all.
A Tesla fanpage took to Twitter slamming a news report from last week that said Musk made more in 2018 than the next 65 highest-paid CEOs combined, making him the highest-paid executive among 200 CEOs of large publicly traded companies, Observer.com reported on Thursday.
Contradicting the story, the fanpage called Tesla4Everman argued that Musk was not paid any performance-based compensation from Tesla, instead he only "made the state mandated minimum wage," which he later donated.
Siding by Tesla4Everman, Musk wrote: "I paid most of my Tesla-related expenses too. Tesla last year was actually net negative comp (compensation) for me."
According to Observer.com, however, the $2.3 billion amount mentioned in the Business Insider article was not a cash or equity payout, but a compensation plan Tesla's board approved last year that has yet to materialise.
The plan promises to compensate Musk with $2.3 billion worth of Tesla stock in 12 slices over a 10-year period on the condition that Tesla achieves a market capitalisation of $650 billion, in addition to hitting 12 operational milestones.
Amid the ongoing US-China trade war, Tesla's current market cap stands at only $33 billion.
"Yeah, the fear, uncertainty and doubt propaganda campaign being pushed by those betting against Tesla has reached new heights," Musk later tweeted.
Earlier in May, Musk announced to his employees that he would personally be examining and reviewing every expenditure at Tesla, no matter how small, alongside Zach Kirkhorn, the company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the media reported.
The new cost-cutting initiative has been implemented after the automaker suffered a loss of $702 million and involves Musk examining every payment, including parts, salary, travel expenses and rent.
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Alitalia filed for bankruptcy in May 2017, and since then has remained operational only due to loans from the Italian government. On June 30, German Efromovich, the former majority shareholder of Colombian airline Avianca, announced an interest in investing in the struggling carrier. Efromovich has offered to acquire a 30% stake in the airline, worth €240 million. With his stake in the airline, Efromovich claims to become the CEO of the company.
During the past 14 years, Efromovich owned Columbia’s Avianca. During this time, the company’s sales increased from $350 million to $4.5 billion, and its number of employees rose from 4,300 to 22,000. However, he was forced to leave the airline in spring 2019 due to not following the conditions of a loan to his airline from United Airlines.
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It’s been a while since we last made changes to turret and hull parameters. Since then, we’ve kept analyzing and testing to find out what further tweaks are needed, and to make sure the balance is preserved or improved. As a result, almost all turrets and hulls have been tweaked to improve the gameplay.
In addition, the following changes have been rolled out:
The effectiveness of First Aid Kits has been increased. It now restores up to 400 HP in 2 seconds and will remain active for a set amount of time, even after your HP have been fully restored.
First Aid Kit and Isida now remove freeze and burn effects. Isida only does this when interacting with allied tanks.
Mines now become active after 1 second instead of 2 seconds.
All battle modes now have a penalty for self-destruction, in the form of 1 kill and 5 points from the team’s score.
Due to the introduction of the self-destruct penalty, we have also updated the Polygon. The new version of the map makes it a lot more difficult to drive off the edge or push off another player. We will be updating other maps in the same way if and when necessary.
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St. Stephen's Church is a community of Christian believers with minds that think, hearts that welcome and hands that serve all of God's people.
New Harmony, Indiana, is a unique blend of the timeless and contemporary in Southwestern Indiana. Roam the historic architecture and settlements of the town's outskirts where children can freely and safely explore. From the harvest festival "Kunstfest" to "Christmas in New Harmony," our community is the best of "small town" America. Our galleries, opera house, pottery shops, and coffee house make us an inviting retreat within driving distance of surrounding communities like Evansville and Mt. Vernon, Indiana and Carmi, Illinois.
Historic and artistic, New Harmony is perhaps best known for its religious tradition. There are so many places to "come away" and reconnect with yourself, with God and your family - "to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." St. Stephen's Episcopal Church is located within the haven of New Harmony where the bonds of family are strengthened and treasured memories created.
One of the pleasures of St. Stephen's is a strong sense of community. At St. Stephen's we are a small, but active congregation. Our mission is "TO LOVE, LEARN, AND LIVE THE WORD OF GOD." We support a cooperative Food Pantry with the Ministerial Association in New Harmony, The Heifer Project, St. Anthony's Soup Kitchen in Evansville, IN, and many other outreach ministries. (See our Outreach page to learn more.)
Somehow in the midst of all this we find the time to do fundraising and have fun on Parish work days, picnics and potluck dinners. Everyone is involved and active in an aspect of parish life and we learn more and more about who we are called to be as servants of God every day.
Please take a look around the website to learn more about us. We hope you will come and visit us or better still - COME AND JOIN US! Our new parish house welcomes individuals and families for coffee hour after worship and is open as a gathering space for your special events from meetings to wedding receptions. (See more on our Facilities page.)
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Smuggling, dumping, greatest challenges hindering economic policies–CBN
May 24, 2019 UD Business Comments Off on Smuggling, dumping, greatest challenges hindering economic policies–CBN
By Ibukun Emiola
Ibadan – The CBN governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele, has identified smuggling and dumping of goods as the greatest challenges hindering the success of Nigeria’s economic policies.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele said this in Ibadan on Friday at the first Distinguished Leadership Lecture of the University of Ibadan.
Emefiele stated that smuggling and dumping had done more harm to the nation’s economy by impeding investment which would create jobs and reduce poverty.
“Investors insist that the problem of smuggling and dumping must be addressed for them to invest in the nation’s economy.
“How do we deal with these? Government bought hundreds of trucks for Customs to combat it but corruption has prevented us from getting any result.
“This is because of lack of respect for our own economic policies. These acts create unemployment and poverty for our people, that is selfish.
“If we find a company involved in smuggling then we will use our own tools available to us to compliment the efforts of Nigeria Customs.
“Our instrument is to investigate that company and if found involved in smuggling and dumping, we will stop them.
“We will stamp economic sabotage on them and use them as examples to deal with them for people to learn to respect the economic policies of Nigeria.
“We want to create jobs for our people, we want our industries to come alive again,” he said.
Prof. Sam Olofin, the chairman of the occasion, commended the various policies of CBN, noting that Nigeria could not follow the orthodox path to get result.
“Our undue reliance on orthodox has hindered our development. For us to develop, we must be willing to pay the price of going against the tide, ” he said.
Prof. Idowu Olayinka, Vice Chancellor of the university, appreciated the efforts of CBN under Emefiele which had helped in repostioning the nation’s economy.
NAN reports that the maiden edition of the Distinguished Leadership lecture was entitled, ‘Up Against the Tide: Nigeria’s Heterodox Monetary Policy and the Bretton Woods Consesus’. (NAN)
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Ep 023 - Alex Bocchieri
February 21, 2019 by Cliff Bailey
Welcome to episode 23 of the Cutting it Close podcast!
In this episode Cliff and Kelsie cut it close with Alex Bocchieri, a local filmmaker on Oahu who's produced/directed the documentary "Yatra: The Spiritual Journey", "The Surrender Call", and probably what he's best known for, "Go For Broke", his first feature film that tells the true story of the 442nd Infantry Regiment in Hawaii, composed of almost all second-generation Americans of Japanese descent.
They also talk about the emerging models of film distribution versus the traditional ways of film festivals, the value of film school, and video production and filmmaking in Hawaii.
Be sure to catch us on YouTube for the vidcast, too!
Follow Alex on Vimeo to see more of his work and on Instagram .
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Welcome to the first new edition of the Cutting it Close podcast!
Kelsie Greene, a local film producer in Hawaii joins now as co-host and co-producer!
She and Cliff sit down with Gerard Elmore to talk about the local Hawaii filmmaking scene, specifically in Honolulu on Oahu, the Ohina short film festival and how Gerard is involved in that (it really is a wonderful opportunity for local filmmakers).
This is our first time with the new format so it's a little rough, but still good and it only gets better from here!
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World Cup 2014 panel
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Penalty shootouts: who is in control?
June 29, 2014 9.31pm EDT
Keith Lyons, University of Canberra
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There have been two penalty shootouts – between Brazil and Chile, and Costa Rica and Greece – in the Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup after just four games. The team that took the first penalty (and scored the first goal) won both shootouts (Brazil and Costa Rica).
Does it matter who takes the first penalty? Do penalty takers favour a particular type of shot? Do goalkeepers have a preferred side to dive? There is a growing amount of research and analysis about penalty taking, inspired in part by Jens Lehmann’s efforts in a World Cup game eight years ago.
Jens and his list
In the 2006 World Cup, German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann saved two penalty kicks in the quarter-final shootout with Argentina. At the time, he appeared to be checking a piece of paper between penalties. Subsequently, it was reported that he was looking at a record of each Argentinian penalty taker’s preferred part of the goal target.
Lehmann faced four penalties and chose the correct way to dive for each penalty. His save of Esteban Cambiasso’s penalty came after a very clear look at his piece of paper and secured Germany’s victory.
The Germany-Argentina penalty shootout in 2006.
The note was sold at auction some months later for one million euros. It contained no mention of Cambiasso and his penalty preference. He was not on the list. The list was written in pencil and Lehmann had great difficulty reading it.
It is likely that the presence of the list rather than its contents gave Lehmann some measure of control over the penalty shoot out.
There was no such list in evidence when Brazil defeated Chile in the first penalty shootout of this World Cup. But it is probable that both teams would have prepared in some detail for the shoot out with the digital relational database resources available to them.
Penalty research
It is not surprising that there is a great deal of research interest in penalty taking in football.
One group of researchers has looked at whether penalty takers are goalkeeper independent or goalkeeper dependent. Goalkeeper independent penalty takers decide on a target area to kick the ball and do so irrespective of the goalkeeper’s actions. Goalkeeper-dependent penalty takers anticipate the movement of the goalkeeper and aim for the opposite side of the goal.
A study of 303 penalty kicks taken in World Cup and European Championship shootouts between 1984 and 2012 revealed that 86% of the penalties taken were goalkeeper independent (with 73.8% success rate) and 14% were goalkeeper dependent (with a success rate of 70.6%).
Another group of researchers has looked at goalkeepers’ anticipation and the information they use to enhance the probability of saving penalties. Amongst these, Greg Wood and Mark Wilson note that:
[…] goalkeepers tend to gaze at the penalty takers head and then more or less immediately shift fixation toward the ball.
The dilemma for goalkeepers is that the most accurate information about the trajectory of the ball comes too late for action. They must make a decision about where and when to dive and tread a fine line between moving too early or too late. Michael Bar-Eli and his colleagues have suggested that:
[…] goalkeepers feel worse about a goal being scored when it follows from inaction (staying in the centre) than from action (jumping).
Game theoretic researchers have been attracted to penalty taking as an excellent empirical focus for the investigation of zero sum activities. Luigi Buzzacchi and Stefano Pedrini have looked at penalty shootouts in World Cup and European Championship games between 1994 and 2012.
Buzzacchi and Pedrini’s particular interest is in the role of specialist penalty takers. In their analysis of 237 penalties, they note specialist penalty takers have a success rate of 76.5% compared to non-specialists at 66.1%. But they question whether specialists are more successful in shootouts as they tend be allocated the early kicks in the shootout.
Roger Berger has looked at penalty taking behaviour in the German Bundesliga. His interest was in how penalty takers and goalkeepers managed uncertainty about the placement of the ball in three areas of the goal: right, centre and left.
Berger’s analysis of 1,043 penalties yielded success rates of 91.8% for right-footed players kicking to their left of the goal and 96% for left-footed players kicking to their right of the goal. Goalkeepers anticipated the actions of penalty takers and dived more to the anticipated dominant side than the number of penalties that were placed there.
Who is in control?
Daniel Memmert and his colleagues have looked closely at penalty duels. In their discussion of how penalty takers and goalkeepers can control the outcome, they identify four important issues for penalty takers:
order of penalty takers
public appraisal
temporal preparation
celebration.
They have some excellent advice to share about controlling the penalty moment. Similarly, they share insights to goalkeeping success too:
previous penalties
anticipating
penalty taker’s kicking leg
tricks.
The last of these items takes us back to Lehmann. His save of Cambiasso’s penalty employs a number of these tricks: raising his arms above his head, standing away from the centre of the goal, and drawing attention to himself “through conspicuous behaviour”.
If all this fails, then Lehmann and goalkeepers like him can follow their coach’s advice: “save two penalties.”
June 27, 2014 Live sites: where everybody knows your game Emma Sherry
June 29, 2014 Will girls ever own the ball? Women, football and gender legacy in Brazil Jorge Knijnik
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Whiteleg Shrimp Leading Exports for Viet Nam
Economics Post-harvest Sustainability Environment
7 May 2015, at 1:00am
VIET NAM - Whiteleg shrimp was still the main export item of Viet Nam in QI/2015, despite its 29.3 per cent year-on-year reduction in export value.
Accounting for almost 60 per cent in the total of Viet Nam's shrimp exports, whiteleg shrimp export valued US$ 340 million, reports VASEP.
Black tiger shrimp exports meanwhile dropped by 31.6 per cent to US$ 178.1 million.
Black tiger shrimp was mostly exported in form of frozen raw while whiteleg shrimp was exported as processed and value-added products.
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Two strangers embarked on an epic journey across South Eastern Ontario in a quest to discover the sights, sounds and tastes of the region. What Scott and Melissa captured was nothing short of inspiring. If you haven’t visited the region, watch the videos below and see it for yourself. There are many amazing hidden gems along the way!
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"Sting, pure and simple, at Rosemont Theatre" - reports the Chicago Daily Herald...
There were no former bandmates from back in the day. No symphony orchestras. No theatrics. No distractions. It was Sting distilled.
Playing a one-night show at the Rosemont Theatre Saturday, this was the Sting, pure and simple. Dressed in a plain gray T-shirt and jeans with a single spotlight on him, Sting was back to basics, or rather "Back to Bass" in a tour designed to celebrate his 25 years as a solo artist.
He started the night with 'All This Time', accompanied by a five-piece band, including father and son guitarists Dominic and Rufus Miller and fiddler extraordinaire Peter Tickell, as well as drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and vocalist Jo Lawry.
Click here to read in full what the Chicago Daily Herald had to say about Sting's concert at the Rosemont Theatre.
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''Sting gets back to bass-ics'' reports The Toronto Sun of Sting's opening Massey Hall show...
''Sting, who turned 60-years-old a month ago but still looks remarkably lean and muscular with his sexy rasp of a voice still strong too, kicked off the night with his solo hit, 'All This Time', dressed down in a snug-fitting lavender top, zippered black pants and pale coloured sneakers, with his head clean shaven. He looked positively aerodynamic as he performed for two hours and ten minutes with the best of the songs coming in the show’s final stretch beginning with 'Never Coming Home', which featured an impressive, moody light show and killer playing by Tickell, who brought the audience to its feet..." Click here to read in full what the Toronto Sun had to say about Sting's concert at Massey Hall. Were you there? Share your review or comments and post any photos from the evening or your ticket stub to the event page. Tell us about it!
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Watch Emma Watson Explain Why She's a Feminist
By Charlie Campbell
British actress Emma Watson called on men and boys around the globe to join the movement for gender equality during a moving speech given in her role as U.N. Women global goodwill ambassador.
“I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too — reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves,” she said at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Saturday.
The 24-year-old actress, who gained worldwide fame for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie franchise, was speaking as part of the HeForShe global solidarity movement to promote women’s rights and equality between the sexes.
See full video of her speech below.
Write to Charlie Campbell at charlie.campbell@time.com.
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A Bag Containing 54 Severed Human Hands Has Been Found in Eastern Russia
By Joseph Hincks
Warning: This article contains graphic images.
Russian police have launched an investigation after a bag containing 54 severed human hands was found near the Siberian city of Khabarovsk.
According to the Siberian Times, a single hand was spotted first, then the bag containing the remains was discovered on an island in the Amur River. Photos that appear to be taken at the scene show the hands lined up in 27 matching pairs laid out in the snow.
Investigators gave no clues as to who the hands might have belonged to, or why they were discarded.
Bandages and hospital-style plastic shoe covers were reportedly found with the haul, and police have taken fingerprints from one of the hands, according to local media.
Theories from local media as to why the hands were severed range from them being the result of punishment for theft, medical amputations, or the improperly discarded remains of cadavers dissected by medical students.
The Amur River island where the bag was found is a popular fishing spot for people living in nearby Khabarovsk, a city of half a million people close to Russia’s southeastern border with China.
Write to Joseph Hincks at joseph.hincks@time.com.
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Chris Cilizza Bothered By Trump - Not Congress - For Tax Loopholes
CNN's Chris Cilizza is apparently upset at President Trump - not Congress - for "tax loopholes" that exist.
This is hardly surprising, given the amount of hate and animosity many in the media have for President Trump.
In this 6-minute video, Cilizza explains how Trump uses the tax code to his advantage by limiting his tax liability.
Legally.
And we're supposed to be appalled.
But Cilizza seems to suggest that the object of our dismay should be Trump, who had nothing to do with writing "loopholes" into the tax code.
Truth is, these aren't "loopholes" at all, but rather intentional exemptions written into the tax code by those who purport to be experts.
The honor of writing the tax code falls squarely on the shoulders of Congress.
As anyone should have learned in high school civics class, it's the Legislative Branch - not the Executive Branch - that makes law.
And that includes tax law.
It is incredibly disingenuous to suggest that President Trump's legal application of the tax code to his business ventures constitutes a problem for him.
If Trump legally prepares his tax returns, and he legally doesn't owe any taxes, why on earth would that be his problem?
Chris Cillizza
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Just announced! John Gorka & Cheryl Wheeler at Cellar Stage Columbia
Two great singer/songwriters, John Gorka and Cheryl Wheeler, will share the stage at Cellar Stage Columbia on Saturday, May 20, 2017.
Cheryl Wheeler
JOHN GORKA and CHERYL WHEELER
John Gorka is an honored icon of folk tradition. Energetic acoustic music that is not a trend, not a fad, but an expression of everyday life, is his trademark. John’s rich baritone voice and unique songcraft weave a magical spell that can only be described as ‘Gorka.’
“He weaves wry, slice of life observations…” ~ Associated Press.
Rising from a milieu of lovelorn singer/songwriters, John Gorka illuminates instead with his trademark wordplay, twisting, turning and typing words and phrases in the way a balloon artist creates complex creatures from simple balloons. Few contemporary songwriters coax language as deftly as Gorka. For over two decades, Gorka’s keen ear has picked up the stories of those along his path, folding them into poetry and song. His keen perceptiveness inspires people from all over the world to share their stories. By involving those tales in his music, he escapes the trap of introspection that hobbles less gifted singer/songwriters. John Gorka flies below the pop culture radar with an almost cult-like following that never fails to fill concerts. Speak with any of his fans and one instantly feel’s their enthusiasm and genuine affection. His shy, almost self-effacing stage presence rightfully focuses attention on the songs. John’s versatility on guitar and piano keeps his sets musically interesting, while his rich baritone effortlessly executes his bidding. And he’s never short of the sly comment or clever joke that invariably ignites his audience. His latest recording is Bright Side of Down.
“The preeminent male singer-songwriter of the New Folk Movement.” ~ Rolling Stone.
“Rare artist…strong poetry, complex melodies, clever wit.” ~ SingOut!
It has always seemed as if there were two Cheryl Wheelers, with fans of the New England songwriter relishing watching the two tussle for control of the mic. There is poet-Cheryl, writer of some of the prettiest, most alluring and intelligent ballads on the modern folk scene. And there is her evil twin, comic-Cheryl, a militant trend defier and savagely funny social critic. The result is a delightful contrast between poet and comic. Poet-Cheryl writes achingly honest songs of love and loss. Contrasting the prosaic landscapes of her native small-town America with the hopelessly rootless life of the traveling performer, she touches the common chords with any who feel the tug between our busy, clamorous times and the timeless longing for simplicity and silence. Her deceptively plain-spun songs have been hits for such main-stream stars as Suzy Bogguss (Aces) and Dan Seals (Addicted), and have been recorded by everyone from Bette Midler, Maura O’Connell, and Peter Paul and Mary; to Juice Newton and Garth Brooks. Comic-Cheryl comes on like Groucho-in-a-housecoat; a fiercely everyday woman with a barbed-wire tongue. Shredding the mores of our gossipy, greedy, trend-obsessed culture, Wheeler always aims enough darts at herself to never seem sanctimonious.
Wheeler was born in the small town of Timonium, Maryland. The wistful rural vistas she glimpses so poignantly through her fleeting windshield really do represent the deep pull of place she feels in her wandering life. With the possible exception of Greg Brown, no modern songwriter comes to mind who can write as convincingly about the sheer, simple-hearted joy of a nice day; whether a warm spring one spent driving down southern back roads, or a chilly gray one spent thinking properly dark thoughts at a bayside hotel. Where others seek the startling image, the ‘Big Event,’ Wheeler wraps her songs around the familiar image, the shared event. When it’s comic-Cheryl’s turn, the poet simply turns over the mic and allows the comic to be displayed in her native habitat: the stage. Wheeler can comically lampoon modern culture while thoughtfully teasing herself and the audience. As the two forces smooth their conflict, taking their separate turns and melding into the same artistic vision, Wheeler emerges as a gifted and openhearted songwriter approaching the sure summit of her craft. Audience members’ abilities to find their own lives reflected in the sweet spaces of her songs reveals an artist comfortably wearing the austere genius that defines folk music’s best traditions. More confidently and beautifully than ever before, she proves that the poet and the comic are one and the same.
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A.W.O.L. – Taylor High School Recordings
Produced by: Matt Walden (recorded by)
Label: digital (Matt Summers’ digital archive)
It’s unfair to rate this, really, as it’s a demo, and it was recorded live to a cassette. All that stuff shows. This is a garage act, guys reshuffled between other bands, and it’s loose and shambling as hell, and pretty generically punky. The sound quality fades in and out; the vocals are of the off-key talk-sing of yer usual 80s punk act, and the tunes are typical three chord fare.
‘The Vegetable People’ tosses a weird tone in there that suggests the group may have found their way to a more distinctive sound, and the ‘second takes’ of the first two tracks are significantly better – more focused, more drive, sharper performances. But, still, this is very much an archival type recording; presented by Matt Summers for posterity, but not something I imagine is likely to be listened to unless you were there for the demo the first time around.
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November 18, 2003 · 11:12 pm
The Story – Wacky but non-sensical
The Story so Far…. A collaborative Effort between yours truly and my wacky similarly thinking associate (http://www.geocities.com/ceaudritsh/)Agraf glided silently through the murky shadows. Agraf was of the Affia, but not of the Ks’tene, as one would expect. That would have been… imprudent. There was already so much to atone for. But now the path was clear. Agraf knew what must be done, knew what she had to do. Which is not to say there was no hesitation. But it had to be done, it was necessary. Then the consequences would have to be dealt with — those that could be. Others simply must be fled from.Her chief sin, she’d decided, was her complete and utter failure to choose an appropriate hat for the day. As mysterious as the command from the Affiaplex was, she’d obeyed the commandment every day of her short life until this one. Perhaps that explained the relative ease with which the Ks’tene patrol had found her in spite of the fact that she was one trillionth their physical size and half a galaxy away. What were the chances that the leader of the patrol would drop a donut so close to her tiny body? It was said that the Affiaplex exacted vengeance for one’s missteps in the most subtle ways and Agraf was never willing to rule out the use of toroid confections as one of her God’s agents of retribution.Yes, if she’d only chosen an appropriate hat. One that could have alerted her to the Ks’tene. But now that could not be helped. The hat she had chosen was one she would need later, assuming she made it that far. What was a damn Ks’tene patrol doing out this far if not looking for her?!? She cursed a thousand curses under her breath — breath she was holding on the off chance that the D.O.N.U.T., Dynamic Omnidirectional Nemesis “Undertaker” Toroid, had not detected her. The chance was small, considering the highly precise engineering that went into confectionary weaponry these days, but one could always hope. She shut down all of her vessel’s systems and with a curt wave ceased the grooming of her bristles and scales by the servile, tripodal Gar’ked. Absolute silence was necessary if there were to be any chance at all of evading the donut.No, the patrol couldn’t be looking for her. There was no reason at all to suspect her of disobedience to the Affiaplex — she’d committed no transgressions yet. But what if somehow they suspected what she’d been planning? These were the thoughts that raced through her mind as the donut approached her position, and then passed by. She vented a plume of relief from her ventral blow hole. But the patrol did not leave. Could it have been a warning shot? Some moments later she vented relief again when the donut found its target some distance away, drew it into the center of its donut hole, and annihilated it with a relentless bombardment of fat globules from all directions. Confectionary weapons were a serious threat to beings her size. She wondered what the victim of the donut had done to become an enemy of the state… Still, it appeared she *had* just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. But what were the odds of that so far from Affiadon? She continued to lay low and hope she was right that the Ks’tene patrol was not here for her as well.* * *Crouched in an alcove, surrounded by her own nasal exhalations, she contemplated her predicament. This was just the kind of situation she’d read about in all those fourth-rate novels as a child. Unfortunately, the parallels between her own situation and that of her Affian literary heroes did not instill a great deal of optimism. Like all children her age, she’d read the government approved books and recited the pledges and played the part of the good little citizen but she always knew she was somehow different from the rest. She’d never officially run afoul of the law but she knew it was only a matter of time. By the time she was 27 she’d qualified herself for a death by annihilation. It wasn’t willful disobedience per se, but MECRA (Mandatory Electronic Correspondence Response Act) laws were strict in her quadrant and after ignoring the email thread for three weeks it seemed safer to continue to ignore it than to call attention to it by answering it after all that time.Frankly, at this point, what did she have to lose? It was clear that with multiple sentences of death hanging over her head, any authority figure who found her would destroy her. What was she to do? Skulk in the shadows of existence for the rest of eternity? What use was a life spent in fear of everyone and everything? But then again. . . What hope was there out there? Clearly, she was no match for the forces aligned against her. The Government had prepared for every contingency, had every resource and knew everything that went on almost before it happened. Hadn’t the books she’d read taught her that much at least? Or perhaps that’s exactly what the books were supposed to make you think. It made no difference. She had the directives of the Affiaplex to carry out and if those directives lead her to certain and painful death then so be it. Besides, even without the commandment of her God, life in hiding was no life at all. She lifted her considerable bulk from the floor of the Fecus V livestock waste processing facility and stepped from the shadows to meet whatever fate had prepared for her.
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You are here: Home / Wonderful World of Tasers / Inmates Say They Witnessed Man’s Death When Jailers Restrained, Shocked Him Repeatedly
Inmates Say They Witnessed Man’s Death When Jailers Restrained, Shocked Him Repeatedly
2016 by JT 1 Comment
By Kirk Mitchell
Marvin Booker just wanted to get his shoes.
But deputies at the new Denver jail told him to stop. When Booker, who was being processed on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia, didn’t obey, he was held down, hit with electric shocks and then placed facedown in a holding cell, according to two inmates who watched it unfold.
Booker never got up. He was pronounced dead later that morning.
“I’ve never seen anything happen like that before in my life,” said John Yedo, 54, who was being processed on a charge of destruction of property and said he witnessed the scene. “What I saw is not what you’d expect to see in America.”
The two jail witnesses, who were both arrested in the early-morning hours of July 9 around the time Booker was being processed, were contacted and interviewed by The Denver Post separately. Both of them said they had not been questioned by police investigating the death of Booker, a homeless ordained minister who served the poor, but also a habitual criminal with a long string of arrests.
Capt. Frank Gale, spokesman for the jail, said he cannot comment on the ongoing investigation by the Denver Police Department and the Denver district attorney’s office, and cannot confirm the inmates’ accounts.
He said what happened at the Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility would have been recorded on videotape.
“If in fact what they are saying is true, it should be reflected in the video,” Gale said.
District attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said she couldn’t comment during the investigation, which could take several more weeks. The coroner’s office is awaiting test results before completing the autopsy report and determining how Booker died, she said. In the meantime, the deputies involved in Booker’s case are still on the job.
Yedo has had one prior arrest, in 1974 on a drug charge. Christopher Maten, 25, the other witness, was arrested in 2005 for public consumption of alcohol. Neither is a career criminal. The versions the two suspects tell are nearly identical.
“I can’t breathe . . .”
Both say that Booker, 56, was asleep in a chair in a holding area of the jail when his name was called and he was ordered to a processing desk.
Half-asleep about 3 a.m., Booker walked to the desk in his socks, forgetting to put on his shoes. The female deputy ordered Booker to sit in a chair in front of the desk.
Booker responded that he wished to stand. When the deputy threatened to have him placed in a holding cell if he didn’t sit, Booker told her he would go to the holding cell, said Maten, who had been arrested that morning for resisting arrest in a confrontation with a parking-meter attendant.
” ‘Let me get my shoes,’ ” Maten quoted Booker as saying as he walked toward the chairs to get his shoes.
The deputy yelled at him repeatedly to stop, got up and followed Booker. Booker turned and repeated that he was getting his shoes, Maten said.
The deputy grabbed Booker by the arm and put a lock on him, Yedo said. Booker, who was 5 feet 5 and weighed 175 pounds, pushed her away. At that point, four other deputies wrestled Booker to the concrete floor. They slid down two steps to the floor in the sitting area. Yedo said the deputies each grabbed a limb while he struggled.
” ‘Get the Taser. Get the Taser,’ ” Yedo quoted one of the deputies as saying.
Yedo said he was only about 3 feet away, and Maten said he was close enough that if he stood and took one step, he could reach out and touch one of the deputies.
None of the deputies involved in the restraint has been identified. One female deputy was treated at a hospital for an injury she suffered in the confrontation, Gale said.
A fifth deputy put Booker in a headlock just as the female deputy began shocking him with a Taser with encouragement from one of the deputies, who kept repeating, “Probe his —,” Maten said. He could hear the Taser crackle repeatedly.
Booker said, “‘I can’t breath . . .,” Yedo heard. Then, Booker went limp.
Booker’s wrists were handcuffed behind his back in an awkward position when the deputies picked him up, each holding an arm or a leg, and carried him stomach-down to a holding cell with an unbreakable glass door.
They set him down on his stomach, with much of his weight on one shoulder and his legs bent, Yedo said. They took the handcuffs off and without checking his pulse, the officers left him on the floor of the holding cell.
The deputies walked away high-fiving and laughing, Maten said. Several inmates were saying, ” ‘I can’t believe they’re doing this,’ ” Maten said.
Yedo said he stared at Booker, watching his chest, which wasn’t moving. One deputy had stayed next to the cell and was also staring at Booker.
“I told the guy, ‘Hey, that guy is not breathing,’ ” Yedo said.
The deputy turned and yelled at the sergeant.
” ‘Sergeant, come here. Sergeant, hurry,’ ” Yedo said he yelled.
Channeling MLK
Booker was the son of a prominent Tennessee pastor, Benjamin Booker. The habitual criminal was arrested in Denver mostly during the 1980s and 1990s for disorderly conduct, trespass, loitering, disturbing the peace, carrying a concealed weapon and threatening assault.
In 2007 and 2008, he was homeless in downtown Memphis, said friend Dennis Lynch of Memphis. Booker often volunteered to work in soup kitchens.
He wrote a book about Martin Luther King Jr., and he sold it on the streets of Memphis, usually to tourists who heard him recite King’s famous “I have a dream” speech. When he spoke, crowds of tourists gathered.
“If you closed your eyes, you would think you were in the presence of Martin Luther King,” said Memphis Pastor Andrews R. Smith. “People would cry. He was always smiling. His eyes would just shine like a chipmunk.”
Booker often accompanied him when he made rounds in downtown Memphis, handing out food to the homeless. They all called him “Martin” because of his speeches.
“Marvin is such a kindhearted person,” Smith said. His sweet demeanor makes the circumstances of his death seem suspicious, he said.
When Memphis police cracked down on panhandling, Booker returned to Denver, Lynch said. George Booker, Booker’s cousin, said that recently his cousin was volunteering to help the homeless at Denver churches and was trying to turn his life around.
Booker’s funeral was Friday at Cathedral of Faith Community Church, the Memphis chapel where his brother C.L. Booker is the pastor. More than 200 people attended the service, in which his father gave the eulogy, Smith said.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206 or kmitchell@denverpost.com
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carbocraze says:
2016 at 10
the price of human life is getting so much cheaper these days. death is so rampant that killing no longer a shocker. poor guy.
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Equipment partnership for French African market 20 Apr 2017
Normet-Aramine News Release
A business partnership has been established between Normet and Aramine for the distribution of equipment and after-market products, services and support in the French speaking countries of Africa. The partnership agreement adds utility vehicles for underground tunneling to Aramine’s operations in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Chad, Senegal and Ivory Coast.
Aramine is presenting a wider range of equipment to its underground construction operators and Normet is keen to offer its brand of equipment and products to new underground customers in this emerging territory. "The partnership strengthens our offering to the underground construction markets in these countries and augments our value proposition in the region," said Janne Lehto, Region Vice President for Normet in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
This is not the first time the two companies have collaborated. Aramine previously represented the brand and helped establish a Normet presence in the territory. “When the opportunity presented itself to rekindle a relationship with a world-class supplier of underground utility equipment, we thought immediately of Normet,” said Marc Melkonian, Co-President of Aramine.
“Through discussions, it became apparent that this is a good three-way fit, with Aramine and Normet and our mutual customers in French Africa,” said Bruno Chivee, Normet’s territory Sales Manager. A training program of Normet equipment for Aramine technical teams is scheduled.
Supporting the growth of sprayed concrete solutions – TunnelTalk, April 2016
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Following new conviction, raw milkman Michael Schmidt begins hunger strike—again
By Kevin Hamilton | October 4, 2011
By Kevin Hamilton | 10/04/2011
The saga of raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt continues. Last week the courts overturned their initial verdict, which had found Schmidt not guilty of charges relating to the sale of unpasteurized milk. With his dream of legalization slipping away, the Toronto Star reports, the dogged dairy farmer has done the only rational thing and gone on a hunger strike—again.
From the Star:
Schmidt was informed Wednesday afternoon that he’d been convicted of 15 provincial offences relating to the sale of unpasteurized milk. He could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, including $5,000 for each day he continues to distribute his milk.
Schmidt, owner of Glencolton Farms near Durham, Ont., started his hunger strike Thursday night. He’s consuming just one glass of his own cows’ milk per day to start a public debate on food regulation.
“We need to sit down and think about what is the role of government in our life,” said Schmidt. “The government allows plenty of other things that are detrimental to our health.”
Clearly the man is serious about his milk (at least he’ll be getting his calcium). This is actually his second hunger strike—Schmidt claims he lost 50 pounds in four weeks after he was raided in 2006. And who could forget last year’s raw milk operetta, or the iChannel documentary? The farmer’s remarkable persistence has earned him the support of local foodies of a more libertarian bent.
But the courts are having none of it, and neither is the Star. Toronto’s paper of record published an editorial on the weekend that not-so-tactfully lauded its own role in getting pasteurization mandated in Toronto a century ago, before calmly evaluating the risks involved: “It’s the same way that Russian roulette is safe—until you reach the chamber with a bullet.” We can only hope some Star editor a century from now will remember to champion the paper’s role in this new fight.
• Raw milk advocate enters hunger strike after charges [Toronto Star]
• Ending raw milk risk [Toronto Star]
Topics: Michael Schmidt milk People regulation Toronto Toronto Star
9 thoughts on “Following new conviction, raw milkman Michael Schmidt begins hunger strike—again”
People who go out of their way to purchase raw milk know the risks involved. Enough with the nanny state already and allow people to make their own decisions regarding food. And as Schmidt pointed out, the government has no problem allowing people to poison themselves – albeit more slowly – with alcohol, tobacco and chemically sprayed produce, because they’re tax-rich industries (the first two at least). Some insignificant dairy farmer doesn’t stand a chance when up against a government that wants to flex its muscle and make sure the people know how they’re looking out for their best interests. Hypocrites.
Gordon S Watson says:
the ignorance of your editorial staff on this topic, is writ large, in that you just parrot the non-sense that Pasteur worked with milk. In fact, he worked with wine
you’d be amazed how different our cowshare dairies are in practice, from what the dairy cartel cartoon is = of medieval conditions
can you appreciate the irony of making the analogy that REAL MILK is Russian Roulette, after 20 people died from perfectly legal deli meats, a couple of years ago? During the time that 1000s of people were made ill, the govt. itself published a statement that 1/4 of the packages of Maple Leaf cold cuts were contaminated with pathogens!!
but I guess that’s OK?
Chris Schafer says:
The lawyers at the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a registered charity, are busy preparing to appeal the recent raw milk judicial decision that went against raw milk dairy farmer Michael Schmidt. We could use your help with a tax deductible donation to support this legal fight which we are doing on a pro-bono basis.
Please donate securely online today: http://www.canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca/toc.php/40
enough already says:
Why do government agencies focus on whats really dangerous… saturated fat and themselves. Come to think about it aren’t the same thing.
nfitz says:
Why is our government so hell bent on banning unPasteurised milk? Perhaps they should focus on something more serious like banning cigarettes. The risk from cigarettes is much higher.
George Affleck says:
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency there are around 11 million cases of foodborne illnesses in Canada every year. (http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/concen/causee.shtml)
That’s a staggering amount! The population of Canada is 33.5 million. That means that there is a 1 in 3 chance that, sometime this year, you will get sick from eating food/drink that is sold in stores and regulated by government agencies.
Now consider the (roughly) 150 families that regularly get their milk, cream, cheese, bread, vegetables, meat, etc. that this farm provides to them as part owners. Not once this year has anyone suffered a foodborne illness. Not last year, not the year before, or the year before that…
Just think about it for a minute – Do you think that Michael Schmidt is doing something right?
Is it possible he has something to teach us all? Or would you rather just live with the 1 in 3 chance?
As for me, I will listen to every word.
K. Johnson says:
I am someone who has been damaged by modern industrial foods, and find myself ill when I consume most processed foods. Unprocessed milk, when done right, is far cleaner and is the ONLY milk I can drink. Our farmer is under gov. assault; an attack on my health and ability to choose to put pure foods into my own body. When gov. stands up for citizens rather than corporate greed, then we have a working country.
mattagascar says:
Michael should run for political office. He’s already got my vote.
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Condo of the Week: $1 million for a Queen West townhouse in the core
By Josh Dehaas | Photography By Alexander Rothe | July 28, 2017
By Josh Dehaas | Photography By Alexander Rothe | 07/28/2017
Address: 188 Spadina Avenue, Townhouse 4
Neighbourhood: Queen West
Agents: Linda Drope and Leeanne Weld, Royal LePage Johnston and Daniel Division, Brokerage
Previously sold for: $489,800, in 2013
One of five townhouses hidden behind a 10-storey condo building on Spadina. The main floor has a combined living room, dining room, kitchen and family room, with access to a private terrace. The second level has three bedrooms and a skylight that allows sunlight to flow into the first floor.
Here’s the kitchen and dining area:
A closer look at the kitchen:
There’s an office nook:
And here’s the family room, with a door to the terrace:
There are three bedrooms on the second floor:
Here’s one of them:
And another:
The master bedroom:
And the master bedroom’s ensuite bathroom:
The private terrace:
The seller bought this unit in 2013 and immediately started upgrading. She redid the bathrooms and kitchen, surrounded the fireplace in barn board and polished up the parquet. The unit was listed earlier at $1,198,000, but it didn’t sell.
Big selling point
It’s rare to find townhouses this close to the Financial District, Queen West and Kensington Market. It’s even rarer to find ones that are this sheltered from street noise.
Possible deal breaker
The maintenance fees are over $1,000 a month. It’s a hefty sum, but it’s proportionate to the square footage and age of the place. The fees cover access to the adjacent tower’s amenities, including a pool, sauna, gym, party room and visitors’ parking.
• $1,088,000
• 2,100 square feet
• $1,027 in monthly maintenance fees
• 230-square-foot terrace
• 3 bathrooms
• 1 parking space
• 1 skylight
• 1 wood-burning fireplace
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Sales Cloud Einstein
AI for Sales
The Price of AI
Introducing Sales Cloud Einstein
Increase Sales Productivity
Explain how AI can make sales reps more productive.
List the components for a basic AI solution for sales.
Explain how Sales Cloud Einstein makes AI accessible to all sales teams.
You’re a sales ops manager and Salesforce administrator at Honeydew, a company that makes inventory apps for grocery stores, restaurants, and food distributors.
Honeydew is only a 3-year-old start-up, but its products are already used by businesses across the country.
Recently, Honeydew’s management noticed that business is a bit stale. Compared with its top 3 competitors, Honeydew is struggling. An already low year-over-year growth dropped each quarter last year.
This downward trend is especially alarming, because the entire food industry has become very crowded, due to the sky-high popularity of food TV shows. Honeydew isn’t converting leads and closing opportunities as fast as their competitors. And their subscription renewal rate has been as flat as a tortilla.
Ava Cado, Honeydew’s VP of Sales, asked the sales team to find ways of increasing revenue. As Honeydew’s foremost CRM guru, you have a special assignment: Find ways of harnessing the latest technology to boost sales productivity.
It’s a challenge and you love challenges, so you know it’s go time. You grab your triple espresso and start your research.
A few hours later and nothing. You find the usual “work smarter, not harder” seminars and books. But your team already works smart, so they’re not that useful for you.
Then, after your third coffee, you hit upon two words that have the tech world abuzz: artificial intelligence.
You thought artificial intelligence (AI) belonged only to the realm of autonomous vacuum cleaners, crime-fighting sports cars, and eerily calm spaceship robots.
It turns out AI is the way of the future in all aspects of business.
Organizations with AI expect to see a 39% increase on average in their revenues by 2020, alongside a 37% reduction in costs. ( Economic Times )
There was more than $300 million in venture capital invested in AI start-ups in 2014, a 300% increase over the year before. ( Bloomberg )
AI drives a $14–$33 trillion economic impact. ( The Motley Fool )
In a recent survey of 1,600 executives, 85% plan to train employees about the benefits and use of AI. ( Forbes )
AI has changed quite a bit in the last 20 years. You can find AI solutions in nearly all sectors and industries, including service, e-commerce, and manufacturing.
AI is a reality today for sales teams, too. But you’re not worried: you learn that it doesn’t actually replace sales reps with robots. Instead, an AI solution for sales teams:
Eliminates time-consuming busywork such as logging sales activities
Provides information to help prioritize leads and opportunities better
Offers recommendations to help close deals faster
Finds important news and data that affect specified customers
Makes predictions about how sales teams are doing
Ordinarily, your sales reps do all this legwork. With an AI solution for sales, they can optimize their time and focus on the mission-critical part of the job: developing customer connections.
AI doesn’t replace sales teams. It makes them more productive.
You share your findings with Ava, and she’s elated...at first. Then she remembers a recent sales conference where she met someone from Cantaloupe, a competitor. He bragged about how transformative his company’s $50 million AI solution was. But Honeydew doesn’t have $50 million to spend, and Ava worries AI might be out of reach.
That sounds like another challenge, and we know how you feel about challenges.
Several years ago, Cantaloupe, the competitor that Ava mentioned to you, dreamed of using AI to transform its enterprise sales team. So Cantaloupe hired an expert in AI management, who helped acquire a burgeoning AI start-up. The deal included a crack team filled with the best minds in data mining, data science, and computer architecture. The team spent the next 5 years:
Cataloging the sales information needed to win deals
Developing complex data science formulas
Building sophisticated apps to surface insights and recommendations
The results were astounding: Cantaloupe transformed its business and went on to lead the industry. And it only cost the company a few million dollars to develop their AI formula.
It’s not just companies like Cantaloupe. In recent years, AI solutions have fetched a hefty price. According to the Wall Street Journal , AI platforms for business started off as a multimillion-dollar enterprise. The Epoch Times noted some of the more well-known AI solution acquisitions.
Google paid $600 million for an AI solution called DeepMind, which beat a human world champion at the board game Go
Twitter paid $150 million for Magic Pony, an image-processing platform
Microsoft paid $200 million for Equivio, a machine learning start-up
Splunk paid $190 million for Caspida, a cybersecurity AI firm
Apple paid $30 million for MapSense, an AI mapping company
Most AI solutions for sales require numerous people working on big data, sales info, algorithms, and apps. All of that is expensive.
Table 1. AI for Sales Inventory List
Data entry staff
IT technicians
Input all data into one system.
Develop ways of cleaning and normalizing the data.
Acquire and maintain computers that store and process all the data.
Outline what reps do at each stage of the sales process and determine which insights can be helpful. Insights differ during each stage: prospecting for leads, closing deals, and maintaining customer relationships.
Algorithms Data scientists Develop sophisticated computer programs that learn from new data.
Apps Engineers Create and maintain apps to display the results of the algorithms.
Total Cost $30–600 million
The high price that companies like Cantaloupe have spent on AI solutions is exactly what Ava worries about. With a tight budget, Honeydew is certainly no Cantaloupe.
You start to feel a bit discouraged. Honeydew can’t afford a team of scientists working years to come up with an AI solution.
Most sales ops managers would be ready to give up at this point. But you’re not most sales ops managers, are you?
A few days pass and you’re still on the trail of a solution. You’re about to head back to the kitchen for a protein bar when you happen upon a blog post: Introducing Salesforce Einstein–AI for Everyone.
Could that be right? AI for everyone? No team of data scientists necessary? No need to wait years for results?
“For many companies, the technical expertise, infrastructure, and other resources required to deliver AI solutions is too significant. Salesforce Einstein is removing the complexity of AI, enabling any company to deliver smarter, personalized and more predictive customer experiences.”
It’s like the writer is speaking directly to you!
Salesforce Einstein’s product for sales is Sales Cloud Einstein, and so you also check out the price for Einstein and it’s well within Honeydew’s budget. In fact, it’s so affordable that you do a double take.
But how is AI so affordable all of a sudden?
It turns out there are three reasons.
Big Data—Data is everywhere these days. Each device and app you use—phone, email, calendar, CRM—creates data. If you can harness that data, you don’t need a team of data entry personnel, database administrators, and data scientists. ( Rolling Stone )
Cheaper Processors—Your iPhone has more than twice the processing power of old mainframe computers. It used to take a warehouse of servers to process AI data. Now processors are cheaper and faster. ( Wall Street Journal )
Better Algorithms—Back in the day, you needed a team of data scientists to develop complex algorithms specific to sales. Nowadays, with better technology, algorithms are lightweight and flexible and can be more easily adapted for new uses. ( Rolling Stone )
Sales Cloud Einstein uses all these and more to provide a complete AI solution for sales teams. It includes the same items that Cantaloupe had in its AI solution, but without the need for additional staff members. No writing code, compiling sales info, creating algorithms, or building apps. And that will save Honeydew a huge amount of money.
Table 2. Sales Cloud Einstein Inventory List
Big Data 0 extra staff Sales Cloud Einstein takes care of it.
Sales Info 0 extra staff Sales Cloud Einstein takes care of it.
Algorithms 0 extra staff Sales Cloud Einstein takes care of it.
Apps 0 extra staff Sales Cloud Einstein takes care of it.
Total Cost $50 per license See our pricing page for full details.
Plus, instead of taking years to develop, Sales Cloud Einstein provides key predictions, intelligent recommendations, and timely automation immediately. And like all good AI solutions, it learns from your CRM data and sales activities, and its predictions and recommendations get better over time.
It’s almost too good to be true. In fact, it’s so awesome that you add #itjustworks to the email you send Ava where you tell her the good news about Sales Cloud Einstein.
She’s pleased with your research but still skeptical: “Can Sales Cloud Einstein really make sales reps more productive? Show me that it’s not some gimmick.”
Sounds like another challenge. You know what to do.
Read on to see if AI really can transform sales productivity.
Use these resources to learn more about AI and Sales Cloud Einstein.
Trailhead: Artificial Intelligence Basics
Help: Sales Cloud Einstein
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Tag: Ken Kesey
What does it mean in allegorical terms to be either “on the bus” or “off the bus” among Ken Kesey’s group the Merry Pranksters during their cross-country acid trip, the one Tom Wolfe reconstructs for readers in his “New Journalism” classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? It’s the difference between riding with experience, perhaps, and resisting it. Kesey wanted people to ride with it. “No one was to rise up negative about anything,” writes Wolfe, “one was to go positive with everything — go with the flow — everyone’s cool was to be tested, and to shout No, no matter what happened, was to fail” (Wolfe 84). No more uptight, defensive reactivity. Each of us, instead, like the bus a recording device traveling the open road of what Wolfe calls “the true America” (Wolfe 85). Judgment under these conditions appears an arbitrary imposition, as when I set aside Wolfe and peek into Michael Davidson’s “Tale of Cybernetic Buddhism,” The Karma Machine (1975), a novel I discovered while perusing the shelves of used bookstores during a recent trip to San Francisco. This is a book in which the whole world sleeps, a group of revolutionaries called the Geneva Society having bombarded their fellow humans with “Delta-waves,” so as to prepare a critical operation, a utopian intervention to cure the species of “the disease which afflicts it: mortal fear” (Davidson 104). The revolutionaries pitch this as a “democratic exercise,” as they gather “representatives of the common people” to determine the cure. Heads of state are kidnapped and made to carry out the directives of this “people’s assembly.” One of the revolutionaries, a scientist named Strastnik, tells those gathered, “You are absolutely secure, but you are also completely confined. In brief, you are back in the womb, the womb of history! And you are a new conception! May you prove an immaculate one” (Davidson 105). Before reading further, I set down the book, sit Indian-style and meditate. Vibrant experiences of reciprocity are what I seek in order to feel in a new, delightfully intense way. Experiences of ecstatic contact between self and world. Let love lift us through enlargements of perspective, revealing in this way “the pattern that connects.” Eros, a longing both individuated and attached, free and determined simultaneously. Touching the world and being touched by it in return.
Author trancescriptsPosted on November 27, 2018 December 2, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags counterculture, Ken Kesey, Literature, Merry Pranksters, Michael Davidson, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Karma Machine, Tom WolfeLeave a comment on Tuesday November 13, 2018
How did Ken Kesey and his psychedelic community the Merry Pranksters re-imagine reality through their use of the phrase “the current fantasy”? How does one determine one’s fantasy? Surely it’s by performing these fantasies collectively — in groups, with others. In today’s performance, let us imagine ourselves as psychedelic detectives, researching Michael Bowen and Gary Goldhill, figures Tom Wolfe references as members of the League for Spiritual Discovery in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Goldhill was an English head who worked for the BBC, Wolfe says, until he took some magic mushrooms in San Miguel de Allende, and in so doing discovered “the Management and gave up all, all the TV BBC game and dedicated himself to The Life” (Wolfe 361). Time to dive back into this thing, no? Symbols trigger recollection of forgotten knowledge. They cure us of our amnesia. We realize reality is a hologram — Philip K. Dick’s “Black Iron Prison.” A military coup d’état occurred on 11/22/63. Our duty now is to unravel belief in the frame.
Author trancescriptsPosted on November 23, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags Gary Goldhill, Ken Kesey, League for Spiritual Discovery, Merry Pranksters, Michael Bowen, Psychedelics, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom WolfeLeave a comment on Friday November 9, 2018
I perform a mind game wherein I imagine a psychoanalytic interpretation of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a novel not just seen through the eyes of its half-Native American narrator, Chief Bromden, but somehow also set in the character’s head, his paranoid delusions causing him to hallucinate — by which I mean “literalize,” or “externalize” — the internal struggle between his Superego and his Id as a struggle between the characters of Big Nurse and Randle Patrick McMurphy. Then again, instead of psychoanalysis, we could sub in Marxism as our master discourse and read the novel as a Cold War allegory and/or a satire of the postwar order. Like all good political allegories, the work can be read on several levels or scales of being: the personal, the spiritual, the national-historical, and the world-historical all somehow homologous. The Nurse’s effort to cast aspersions on McMurphy’s motives resembles the progressivist critique of industrial robber-baron capitalism, just as the incident in the shower room represents the Zoot Suit Riots. If interpretation of this sort places me in the camp of the novel’s wheelchair-bound WWI veteran Colonel Matterson, so be it.
Author trancescriptsPosted on November 22, 2018 December 2, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags Fiction, Freud, Interpretation, Ken Kesey, Literature, Marxism, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, PsychoanalysisLeave a comment on Wednesday November 7, 2018
We can heal ourselves by placing ourselves in the presence of beautiful aesthetic objects like the new Dire Wolves cassette, Shootout at the Dildo Factory.
Or even better, given our mood at the moment, how about the new cassette from Lake Mary & Talk West on Cabin Floor Esoterica? Lo-fi improvised folk by a midwestern American guitar duo.
What I settle on, however, in my restlessness, in my hunger for uplift, is The Magicians Saw by Alex Meets Sand.
I see sand, fuzz, whiskers, sliced grapefruit, etchings of a state from memory. Bars of sunlight atop a grey carpet. While listening, I begin to eye Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as an American adaptation of Plato’s allegory of the cave. McMurphy shows up, a new Admission to the cave, with pants and shirt from the Pendleton Work Farm “sunned out till they’re the color of watered milk” (12). Dude’s been out in the SUN. The Cave has been updated; it’s far more brutal than it was for the philosophers of ancient Athens. They’ve added a “brain-murdering” room called the “Shock Shop.” And the freed individual, the one who ascends and returns — he, too, has changed. Where once he was a philosopher-king, now he’s a psychopathic “fights too much and fucks too much” capitalist. The men in the cave, we’re told, are like sleepwalkers “wandering round in a simple, happy dream” (16). From the moment of arrival onward, however, McMurphy charms them and helps them wake.
Author trancescriptsPosted on November 18, 2018 November 18, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags Alex Meets Sand, Allegory of the Cave, cassettes, Dire Wolves, Ken Kesey, Lake Mary & Talk West, Literature, music, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, PlatoLeave a comment on Thursday October 25, 2018
Wednesday April 4, 2018
The hypno-therapeutic invocation at the start of the new Netflix series Babylon Berlin works as would a spell cast to ensure suspension of disbelief. It sinks the show’s audience immediately into a weirdly liminal, malleable state. The camera mimics, externalizes, makes public a property of mind, the power of the negative. Amid a non-place housing an infinity of potential signs, the mind invents for itself improvised picture-events. Mirror images evolve together like the reflecting surfaces of a kaleidoscope. Culture unfolds this way, too. Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, workshopped in Wallace Stegner’s creative writing seminars at Stanford, prompted Stegner’s angry rebuttal, All the Little Live Things. The Kesey novel imagines escape from the Combine (AKA the White Christian Settler-Colonialist Superstate) through cross-racial alliance between figures representing Native Americans and working-class whites. Kesey stages this alliance by rewriting and altering the outcome of the moment of cultural encounter, with character types and lines of dialogue borrowed from Hollywood Westerns. Kesey himself attempted in the years that followed to live out and embody this imaginary resolution with his cohorts, The Merry Pranksters. Stegner, having been there at the birth, so to speak, of this logic informing Kesey’s self-fashioning, acknowledges as much by linking Jim Peck, the Kesey character in All the Little Live Things, with Shakespeare’s Caliban. The one who forges this equation is none other than the Stegner novel’s narrator-protagonist Joe Allston. Where Kesey staffs the Combine with Nurse Ratched, Stegner places on the throne of All the Little Live Things’s California Eden a hot-tempered patriarch, a stern father intent on nipping hippiedom in the bud. Stegner’s novel, remember, comes out in 1967, the same year as the Summer of Love, the same year California vowed to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” by electing Ronald Reagan as its governor — the story of Oedipus thus given a new ending, with the attempted patricide quelled and the rivalry prolonged into the future.
Author trancescriptsPosted on April 3, 2018 April 22, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags All the Little Live Things, Babylon Berlin, Books, culture war, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, TV, Wallace StegnerLeave a comment on Wednesday April 4, 2018
Tuesday April 3, 2018
I coach myself to smuggle more dreamtime into daytime along my daily walk. As I do so, a squirrel falls from a tree branch a good 15 feet onto the street below several yards ahead of me, only to then run off unfazed into the shade of a parked car. Sarah and I marvel at the strangeness of a dream of hers from the night before involving a student who, despite her protests, insisted upon blowing a dog whistle during class. The conversation turns toward a German TV series she’s been watching recently, Babylon Berlin. I reflect upon the left critique of bourgeois decadence and the Nazi attack on “degenerate art,” both conjured by their association with the show’s use of “Babylon” in its title. Both formations, I tell myself, emerged as critiques of liberalism. A large dog, however, stirred by my approach, awakens me from these thoughts with its bark and its yelp, a dark blur spied between the panels of a neighbor’s fence. Afterwards I find a copy of All the Little Live Things, a 1967 novel by Wallace Stegner featuring “Jim Peck,” a character modeled after Stegner’s former student at Stanford, Ken Kesey. The book’s first-person narrator, a retiree named Joe Allston, spends the bulk of the novel venting about the Peck character once the latter, described on the book jacket as “a bearded young cultist,” moves in next door, builds a treehouse on Allston’s property, and proceeds to start “a University of the Free Mind, complete with yoga, marijuana, and free-wheeling sex.” That’s when it hits me. Wild Wild Country, All the Little Live Things, Babylon Berlin: they all explore the same basic narrative, the culture war imagined in miniature, with variable sympathies and variable scales and stakes.
Author trancescriptsPosted on April 3, 2018 Categories UncategorizedTags All the Little Live Things, Babylon Berlin, Books, culture war, Ken Kesey, TV, Wallace Stegner, Wild Wild CountryLeave a comment on Tuesday April 3, 2018
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Software | Productivity | Review
By More » Jan 18, 2012
Works with Macs, Windows PCs, and iOS devices. Automatic data back-up for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Excellent music backup with iTunes Match. Automatic Photo backup for iOS devices.
Very app-centric. Can't upload files of all kinds. No folder syncing. Confusing to learn. No web interface for photos or music.
Every Apple user should have iCloud, which dutifully backs up your Mac and iOS devices, and can synchronize a lot of data between them. However, don't mistake it for a true file-syncing service.
When I heard that iCloud (free to $100 per year; $24.99 for iTunes Match), Apple's free data-syncing service, supported Windows machines, I was at first slack-jawed—and in a good way. Was it true? Could Mac users now access their Calendar, Contacts, iTunes music, photos, and other files from a PC? My open mouth tightened to a mere smile when I realized the answer was, "Well, sort of."
iCloud inhabits several Apple services, including the iOS, Mac OS, iTunes, and the Web. This can make it difficult to wrap your head around. Despite this, iCloud is an excellent service, providing automatic backups of iOS devices and syncing for photos, music, Calendar, Contacts, and some document types. But don't confuse it with other file-syncing services along the lines of SugarSync (4.5 stars) and Dropbox (4 stars). Those two services, both PCMag Editors' Choice products, as well as Microsoft SkyDrive, give you access to any files you mark to be synchronized from virtually any machine. For example, you can create and save a presentation on your office computer, sync it, and then access it from your home computer or mobile device by simply logging into the service.
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Apple's iCloud does synchronize some document files, but not any old thing you want. iCloud doesn't think about syncing documents per se. It thinks about syncing the data you have associated with an app. For example, iCloud can synchronize office files made with Apple productivity software iWork and let you access them anywhere an iWork app is installed. And this is the only real way that iCloud under Windows suffers, since you won't be running iWork in that OS any time soon.
iCloud also syncs images across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even a Windows PC. iCloud makes music you buy through iTunes accessible to you from any instance of iTunes. With the optional add-on service iTunes Match ($24.99 per year), it will sync and store up to 25,000 music files (no matter how you got them) that you have in your iTunes library. But iCloud doesn't synchronize many other files that you create or edit in other apps.
Once you understand what iCloud can and can't do, you'll likely find that it's a valuable and worthwhile service nevertheless, but that doesn't mean you don't also need another file-syncing service. All Apple device owners should sign up for iCloud as soon as humanly possible, but know that it won't meet all your file-syncing needs.
iCloud Sign Up and Requirements
To get iCloud, you need an Apple ID plus at least one of the following devices:
Mobile device running iOS5 (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPod touch 3rd or 4th generation; see How to Get Apple's iOS 5 for help)
Mac computer running OS X Lion 10.7.2
A Windows PC running Windows 7 or Vista SP2.
From a Mac running Lion, look under Preferences for the iCloud logo. Select it to dig into the options. On a Windows desktop or laptop, you'll want to surf over to apple.com/icloud/setup to download and install the local software. Additionally, there is a Web interface at iCloud.com where you can access some of your backed up information online, but it's not a very comprehensive system (more on that later).
For iPhones and iPads, look in Settings for the new iCloud icon that will appear after you update to iOS 5.
Tips for Backing Up Your iPhone and iPad
One part of iCloud that you should definitely take advantage of is automatic backup. From the iCloud page of the Settings panel, look toward the very bottom of the screen for the option Storage and Backup. Make sure "iCloud Backup" is switched on. Then, you'll want to poke around in the Manage Storage section, especially if you have a lot of apps, to further determine what should get backed up and what doesn't need to be. By turning off apps that are not important, you can save a lot of space. If saving space isn't your thing, you could just buy more space. Apple gives iCloud users 5GB to start, but you can buy up to 50GB more (making 55GB total) for $100 per year. iOS devices only back up over Wi-Fi so there's no worry about the service hogging data from your data plan.
A second feature to jump on upon installing iCloud is Find My iPhone or Find My iPad. Turn it on, and it can help you locate or remotely wipe a lost or stolen phone or tablet. There's also a Find My iPhone/iPad app, which you can use to locate lost devices, including Macs, provided you set up Find My Mac on your laptop or desktop.
What Syncs?
As mentioned, you can't exactly use iCloud to sync any file you want. In pushing toward an apps-centric platform, Apple tries to get you to think about app data syncing, rather than files. For example, iCloud says, "I'll sync all your iWorks files..." at the application level. The way other syncing services work is they give you a folder (or you can choose from existing folders, or make new ones), and anything in those folders syncs. The difference is more a matter of mindset. Your iWorks documents are in fact going to a folder; it's just that Apple dismisses the location in favor of getting you to think about the app.
So, because of how it's structured, iCloud is best suited to syncing data from specific apps, such as Contacts, Calendar, Photos, and a few others.
Calendar. Turn on iCloud syncing for Calendar, and all the events you have or create in an Apple Calendar will automatically appear everywhere else you use your Apple ID. Events you typed into your iPhone will show up on your Mac schedule, and vice versa. Using iCloud.com, you can log in to your Apple Calendar from virtually anywhere, even if one of the devices you have synced with iCloud isn't with you.
Contacts. Much like Calendar, the Contacts app turns into a universal address book when you use iCloud to sync it. Add or edit someone's contact information from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and the changes will appear in your other devices automatically. The Contacts app lacks a good merge function, which could potential create some clean-up work when you first sync your devices.
Photo Stream. The Photo Stream option is more advanced than Calendar and Contacts, and it works on Windows PCs where you install iCloud, as well as on Apple devices. Enable photo syncing on an iPhone, and you'll get a new album called Photo Stream in the app. Enable Photo Stream on an iPad, and a Photo Stream tab will appear in that app, too.
Mac users need to be running Mac OS X Lion or later to use Photo Stream, and Windows users need Windows Vista or 7. In Windows, Photo Stream automatically creates a Photo Stream folder under your My Pictures folder (you can change it if that's not the folder you want), with a subfolder for uploads. Anything put in the upload folder will automatically sync to other Photo Stream devices. On a Mac running Lion, you can sync images from iPhoto or Aperture—it's your choice—but you don't have an easily accessible folder because iCloud syncs at the app level, meaning it's designed so that you can interact with your images through iPhoto or Aperture, rather than a folder on the Mac. (Of course, the files are in a directory, but the programs keep those directories mostly hidden from you. You can get at them, but that's not really how the programs were designed to work.)
What's valuable about the Windows version of Photo Stream is it's actually more flexible than using it on the Mac. You get a clearly labeled folder and can use whatever app you want to open photos, whereas on the Mac you're restricted to iPhoto or Aperture.
There are a lot of rules, settings, and options for using Photo Stream, and it can take a while to figure out how to use it the way you want. One smart feature of Photo Stream is that it can make camera raw files viewable on your iPhone or iPad. Advanced photo-editing users might appreciate the ability to upload camera raw files, such as a Canon .CR2 file, from a Windows machine running iCloud, and have them appear in Aperture on the Mac—even though the PC can't necessarily open the raw files.
The caveat mentioned previously about not being able to upload files to a folder, thankfully doesn’t apply here. In other words, you can drop files into your "to be synced" folder, and they will sync to Photo Stream and appear on your other devices. iCloud does limit the contents to image files though: JPEG, TIFF, PNG and most RAW photo formats are supported. If you sneak an Excel file into that folder, it's not going to show up anywhere else.
Email. The iCloud web-based email app is nicely designed and implemented. Its three-panel window has folders on a collapsible left sidebar (Inbox, Drafts, Sent Archive, Trash, Junk, along with any custom folders you create), message headers and preview running vertically down the center, and the message contents in the largest area on the right. Along the top is a search box, as well as icons for creating folders and using email (compose, delete, archive, and so forth). You can get a lot more out of other, free, Web-based email services, like Gmail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail, which all work on multiple devices (including iOS devices) but if you do use Apple's email, it's nice that it does sync across devices.
iWork. The iWork section of iCloud on the Web is a weak link. If you don't have Keynote, Pages, or Numbers installed anywhere, all you see on the Web app are ads to get them. If you do have use iWork, you can download files from iCloud.com in their native format, as PDFs, or in the equivalent Microsoft Office format.
Similar to how it works with Photo Stream on a Mac, iCloud working with iWork doesn't give you a folder where you can upload documents to sync. iCloud only syncs documents saved using iWorks. You can easily figure out where your documents are being saved (the default is ~/Library/Mobile Documents) and just plop some extra files in there to sync, but that's not how the app or iCloud service were designed to work. And in any case, why bother? For syncing documents of all kinds, you're better off with a service made to do just that. But any files you make with iCloud-supported apps will always be accessible from any device running that app so long as iCloud is enabled and you've saved the documents to the default location.
Find My iPhone/iPad/Mac. Every Apple device owner should have and know how to use Apple "Find My" service. It was previously available as part of MobileMe, and it works pretty much the same now as it did then. Once you've set it up on your Apple devices, you can locate them on a map anytime they're powered up and connected to Wi-Fi or 3G. You can remotely wipe a device, or have it play a sound, lock, or flash a message. If the device is off when you misplaced or lost it, you can even set up an alert so that you receive an email when iCloud locates it. The map that shows the location of devices was accurate when we tested it in and around New York.
iTunes. There are two levels of service that you can get with iCloud regarding iTunes. The first, which is included in whatever storage space you buy (or get for free) with iCloud, and that's iCloud's ability to store all music you've purchased through iTunes on Apple's servers, where it's accessible to you from up to ten iOS devices or iTunes installations. That service is only good for music purchased from iTunes—not music or audio files you've bought, burned, or borrowed from elsewhere.
The second level of service is iTunes Match, which costs $24.99 per year for up to 25,000 tracks. iTunes Match syncs and backs up your music files in an interesting way: by determining which songs you have in iTunes already and effectively giving you license to download them from its own database any time to any device where you log in with your Apple ID. If your tracks don't already exist in Apple's database, you can upload the files. But if it does have a match, there's no need to upload anything, and, if Apple's copy is of a higher fidelity than yours, you'll get that better version in the bargain. For more details, read "Hands On iTunes Match."
Use iCloud, But Add a Syncing Service, Too
I wholeheartedly recommend that Apple device owners sign up for iCloud, as it's an essential back-up tool and does provide you with some extremely useful services. While iCloud has some integration with Windows machines, it's really best suited to the Apple-exclusive crowd. Even then, don't confuse it with full-fledged file-syncing. Many of the best syncing services, such as Dropbox, SugarSync, and CX (4 stars), allot users ample free storage space—2GB, 5GB, and 10GB, respectively—just for signing up, meaning there's virtually no barrier of entry for using both a file-syncing service and iCloud. Use iCloud for keeping your Apple devices backed up and apps synced to each other and a file-syncing service for storing current documents and collaborating with others, and you'll be all set.
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What it’s like to transfer to Creek
Deielle Puzio is a sophomore who transferred from Georgia.
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High school is hard enough as it is without moving to a different one after freshman year. And transferring into Cherry Creek High School is a unique challenge.
Saeda Marie Bazarian-Chestine, a senior from Springhill, Florida, is shocked at the student population of this school.
“My old school was about the size of the entire freshman class here.”
The physical size is what surprised Deielle Puzio, a sophomore from Georgia. She came from a school that has a student population that is nearly the same as Creek but the campus was significantly smaller.
“My first few days [I got lost],” Puzio said.
Most of the students interviewed for this story said that their first impression of Creek was, “big.” Across America, the average public high school size is rarely over 1,200 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Cherry Creek High School’s total enrollment is about 3,600, that is three times the national average. Add to that four buildings on 80 acres, the enormities add up very quickly.
Infographic by Ben Sampson
English teacher and mentor Mhari Doyle is sympathetic because this campus is large and can be difficult to navigate.
“This is a giant campus and its really hard to navigate if you don’t know where you’re going,” Doyle said.
The school has set-up a two week intensive for the purpose of teaching transfer students everything they need to know. After the two weeks are finished, each student is assigned a mentor teacher. There are five teachers involved in the program including Doyle, Amber Arenas in the World Language Department, Taylor Dufford in the Science Department, William Richardson in the Math Department, and Noah Zepelin in the Social Studies Department.
Even with all of this help, transferring to Creek is extremely difficult. Cherry Creek is not just different is size but also in its high academic standards.
“It’s just a very different environment academically,” Doyle said.
Students who have attended Creek since their freshman year, especially those who attended Campus or West, already know the expectations.
“Kids who have gone all the way through the system have kinda been used to like how we [teachers] want stuff shown or even just the level that the material is taught at,” Dufford said.
Junior Erik Coleman-Garrett from Overland High school also had a difficult time academically despite coming from a school within the same school district.
“I struggled a lot with keeping up with the school work and learning past material that I haven’t learned previously,” Coleman-Garrett said.
Cherry Creek is well known for its academic rigor and high expectations, but another issue is that course sequences and curricula do not match up with what the students were taking at their old school.
“I’m taking a math course that I have already taken,” Puzio said.
The lack of cohesiveness in course progression is not only an academic problem but a social one as well. It can be difficult to make friends when you have to take classes that have students in grade-levels besides your own.
“Sometimes when you come in, you can’t be in the same class with your peers, which can be tough to make friends,” Doyle said. “That social piece is also something I think is really difficult for kids because it’s tough to find people who are in your own group.”
Coleman-Garrett struggles with this because a majority of the classes he takes are filled with seniors, and as a result, most of his friends are seniors.
“Having classes with a lot of people not in my grade has been hard,” Garrett said.
The social aspect was also addressed by Dufford who explained that many of these students have known each other for a long time.
“A lot of kids have all gone through Cottonwood and Campus together, so they have been together their whole lives, so finding your place is hard.”
Junior Marco Abril has had a difficult time adjusting to teaching styles after moving from Prairie View High School in Henderson, Colorado.
The school has set up an area in the counseling office called the Peer Pad where Peer Ambassadors hang out and offer help to any of the new students, but it doesn’t help all transfer students.
“I know they have the Peer Ambassadors thing, but I feel like it’s a lot harder to go to that stuff because you don’t know those people,” Abril said. “So it’s just as hard as making friends in your everyday class,” Abril said.
Dufford understands that even with this in place, making new friends can be difficult.
“Even with everything we have in place, it takes a little bit of courage and a little bit of determination to go and meet new people here,” Dufford said.
There are a lot of people in this school that have compassion and truly care about helping not only transfer students but all students succeed.
“It is my sincere observation that there is a large percentage of powerfully capable and compassionate persons within the student population, the faculty, and the administration,” Richardson said.
Both the teacher and the students recommended that the best help to transitioning to Creek is to get involved and communicate.
“My advice for any new student,” Doyle said. “Regardless of their age and where they are coming from, is ask for help and clarification.”
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How to Negotiate a Builder Purchase & Sale Agreement
by David Carnes
Business can still be done by a handshake, but a written contract cements the deal.
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A builder purchase and sale agreement is a contract to build and sell a new building. Many issues arise in such contracts that do not arise when the home is purchased from a private owner. Many builders use model contracts prepared by the local builders association. Although such contracts usually deal with all major issues and heavily favor the builder's interests over the purchaser's interests, a builder purchase and sale agreement should be individualized to fit the particular needs of both parties.
Agree with the buyer on standard terms that are included in any real estate purchase contract. These include a legal description of the property, the total price, additional fees such as closing costs and financing terms (whether you or a bank will finance the purchase), the closing date and a dispute resolution method such as arbitration.
Demand a deposit high enough to provide a disincentive for the buyer to walk away from the deal if real estate prices fall before the building is completed. The amount of the deposit should be about 5 percent of the purchase price, but it can be lower if the price of the building is particularly high.
Negotiate detailed labor and building specifications that must be met for "milestone payments" to be made. Milestone payments are periodic partial payments the buyer provides to compensate you for the expense of constructing the building. Insist that a neutral third party be entitled to inspect your work and authorize payment. This section of the agreement should be accompanied by a detailed construction schedule that allows you enough leeway to experience significant construction delays without breaching the agreement.
Insist that your finished work be considered complete and acceptable as long as the local government is willing to issue a certificate of occupancy or residential use permit for the building. It may be difficult to get the buyer to accept this term, because standards for the issuance of these documents are relaxed in some localities.
Insert a provision allowing you to make change orders, because it is nearly inevitable that you will need to change some of the original specifications -- you may, for example, discover a previously unknown water table that requires you to alter the building's foundation.
Offer standard quality warranties, such as those issued by the local builders association.
Limit your liability for legal claims based on defective workmanship or construction delays, because no matter how careful you are, problems like these can be caused by your subcontractors. Limit your liability for indirect damages -- personal injury damages, for example, if a construction defect causes an accident. If possible, get the buyer to agree that the return of the deposit is the buyer's sole legal remedy for breach of the agreement.
Have an experienced attorney look over the agreement before you sign it. Small errors or inconsistencies in contractual wording can lead to big trouble later.
If you present the buyer with a "take it or leave it" non-negotiable contract and the buyer later takes you to court, the court will interpret any ambiguity in the contract in a manner that favors the buyer.
Lawyers.com: Home Purchase Agreements
"The Washington Post" Newspaper; A Widening Divide Over Lost Deposits; Elizabeth Razzi; May 2008
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David Carnes has been a full-time writer since 1998 and has published two full-length novels. He spends much of his time in various Asian countries and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky College of Law.
Carnes, David. "How to Negotiate a Builder Purchase & Sale Agreement." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negotiate-builder-purchase-sale-agreement-10526.html. Accessed 16 July 2019.
Carnes, David. (n.d.). How to Negotiate a Builder Purchase & Sale Agreement. Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negotiate-builder-purchase-sale-agreement-10526.html
Carnes, David. "How to Negotiate a Builder Purchase & Sale Agreement" accessed July 16, 2019. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negotiate-builder-purchase-sale-agreement-10526.html
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How to Overclock a Pentium III
by Thomas McNish
The heart of the computer, the processor, is located directly on the motherboard.
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Every computer has a processor that performs tasks such as running programs. The Pentium III processor, like many other processors, can be overclocked. Overclocking a processor means that it will run at a faster rate than the manufacturer intended. To overclock a Pentium III processor, you must adjust its front-side-bus (FSB) rate in the BIOS (basic input/output system) settings. If you're unable to adjust the motherboard settings in the BIOS, then your processor can't be overclocked. Not all computers have the ability to overclock Pentium III processors. It will depend on your motherboard.
Restart your computer. After you see your computer's logo appear on the screen, press the "Delete," "F2" or "Esc" button (depending on your computer) repeatedly until you enter the BIOS settings.
Navigate through the BIOS menu by using the arrow keys. Locate the processor settings in the BIOS, then press "Enter" to open them. The processor settings may be labeled "CPU Settings" "CPU Clock" or "Advanced Settings." Consult your computer manual for the specific name.
Locate the FSB settings in the processor settings menu. This will be labeled "Bus Frequency," "System Bus" or something similar.
Raise the frequency of the front-side-bus frequency to the level you want. The Pentium III processor should be set to either 100 MHz or 133 MHz by default. If you're unsure of what speed you want to set it to, raise the MHz frequency by the smallest interval possible until you achieve the desired effect.
Press "Esc" to leave the processor settings utility. Press "Y" when the computer asks if you want to save any changes. Restart your computer.
If the computer can't successfully complete a POST (power-on self-test), then access the BIOS settings again, and reduce the FSB MHz by the smallest possible interval until a POST is completed.
Keep close track of your computer's heat. Overclocking is known to cause overheating problems. If possible, increase the strength of your cooling system.
Other buttons that may get you into the BIOS setting during startup include "F1" or "F10." Look at the top of the screen during startup, as this may tell you the button required to enter the BIOS or CMOS settings.
While the advantages of overclocking the Pentium III processor may be obvious, it can also damage the computer from overheating. Please overclock with caution.
Thomas McNish has been writing since 2005, contributing to Salon.com and other online publications. He is working toward his Associate of Science in computer information technology from Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Fla.
McNish, Thomas. "How to Overclock a Pentium III." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/overclock-pentium-iii-47618.html. Accessed 17 July 2019.
McNish, Thomas. (n.d.). How to Overclock a Pentium III. Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/overclock-pentium-iii-47618.html
McNish, Thomas. "How to Overclock a Pentium III" accessed July 17, 2019. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/overclock-pentium-iii-47618.html
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Ranchers and Farmers Insurance Policies With Arbitration Clauses
by Rena Dietrich
Policy holders can request arbitration hearings when claims are not paid to their satisfaction.
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Ranchers and farmers insurance policies can come with a clause that requires disputes to be settled out of court. The process of having an independent, qualified third party resolve a dispute is called arbitration. The arbitrator acts like a judge, hearing both sides and viewing evidence. Her decision is binding, meaning both parties are legally required to abide by it.
Simplified Arbitration
Arbitration is cheaper and faster than going to court, but simplified arbitration takes it a step further. With simplified arbitration, the insured party and the insurance company do not have to appear at a hearing. This is convenient because neither party has to prepare opening statements, argue their case or give testimony. Claims of $25,000 or less go to simplified arbitration. The arbitrator makes a decision by reviewing the documents submitted by both parties and notifies them of his decision in writing.
Arbitrator Selection
Most states only allow attorneys or those who have practical legal experience to become certified arbitrators. For ranchers and farmers insurance policies, state laws require that three arbitrators be assigned to each case. The policy holder and the insurance company choose an arbitrator. Those two arbitrators decide on a third. States have arbitration associations that provide referrals to arbitrators who have ranchers and farmers insurance policy experience. Hiring an arbitrator is much less expensive than hiring an attorney. The cost of the hearing is divided between the policy holder and the insurance company.
If the claim is more than $25,000, both parties are required to attend the hearing in person. Hearings are governed by state laws, but most follow the same general guidelines. Both parties are responsible for gathering evidence and presenting their sides. They begin the hearing by giving opening statements. The opening statements describe the dispute, list facts and inform arbitrators of the outcome each party is looking for. During the hearing, the parties are allowed to present witnesses and cross-examine.
Like other businesses, insurance companies can go bankrupt. Even if arbitrators rule in favor of the policy holder, she may not be able to recover her money. It's important to research reputable ranchers and farmers insurance companies before purchasing a policy. If the insurance company becomes insolvent, policy holders are usually forced to find replacement insurance at a much higher cost. Arbitration rulings are not honored by the new insurance company.
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Rena Dietrich is a freelance writer who has been writing about topics in the business field since 1997. Her work has appeared in publications ranging from accounting textbooks to financial newsletters. Dietrich received her Master of Business Adminstration from Governor's State University.
Dietrich, Rena. "Ranchers and Farmers Insurance Policies With Arbitration Clauses." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/ranchers-farmers-insurance-policies-arbitration-clauses-18738.html. Accessed 17 July 2019.
Dietrich, Rena. (n.d.). Ranchers and Farmers Insurance Policies With Arbitration Clauses. Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/ranchers-farmers-insurance-policies-arbitration-clauses-18738.html
Dietrich, Rena. "Ranchers and Farmers Insurance Policies With Arbitration Clauses" accessed July 17, 2019. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/ranchers-farmers-insurance-policies-arbitration-clauses-18738.html
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Problem solving assessment for class ix
21. The second topic of conversation, which is especially the property of walkers, is the topic of food and drink. Cavern of La Grotte. Nothing short of this (generally speaking) excites his attention or interests him in the least. [296] “La Cite Antique” (6th Ed.), 1876, p. For he who understands the thing proposed, problem solving assessment for class ix obtains his end, and every artificer rules over his work.[646] Sphinx has no more than two kinds of riddles, one relating to the nature of things, the other to the nature of man; and correspondent to these, the prizes of the solution are two kinds of empire,—the empire over nature, and the empire over man. At length a shower of fairy lights burst out at a signal in all directions, and covered the whole building. and B. 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Some procure themselves to be surprised at such times as it is like the party that they work upon will suddenly come upon them, and to be problem solving assessment for class ix found with a letter in their hand, or doing somewhat which they are not accustomed, to the end they may be apposed of[270] those things which of themselves they are desirous to utter. ‘Four or five.’ 5. [Sidenote: Kant regarded both space and time as homogeneous.] In this very confusion of true duration with its symbol both the strength and the weakness of Kantianism reside. The race of Cain are referred in the Biblical narrative as “sons of men,” a title which implies a condition of religious or moral inferiority, as compared with the “sons of God” descended from Seth. He quotes William Harrison’s _Description of England_: “How art also helpeth nature in the dailie colouring, dubling, and enlarging the proportion of our floures, it is incredible, to report,” etc. Ubi et etiam uiuit sua sic sorte et arte contentus, tam felicibus astris, tantaque fortune clementia, ut non inducar credere quod eidem adhuc adesse possit abeundi, ne cogitandi quidem, animi impulsio: id etiam adiecerim quo tam quid poteris quam quid potuisses agnoscas. Ferrar, L’Evolution creatrice,_ (_Commonwealth,_ Dec. Hence, in the first ages, when such inventions and conclusions of the human reason as are now trite and common were new and little known, all things abounded with fables, parables, similes, comparisons, and allusions, which were not intended to conceal, but to inform and teach, whilst the minds of men continued rude and unpractised in matters of subtilty and speculation, or even impatient, and in a manner incapable of receiving such things as did not fall directly under and strike the senses. [15] _The Expression of the Emotions,_ 1st ed., pp. The threefold wergeld of the eorl becomes evidently due to his noble birth or official position. But it is the sensation which is given in consciousness, and not the movement.] There is still room, it is true, for an hypothesis of the same nature, but more subtle. 404.) As to the aboriginal Arab people referred to at page 117, it may be mentioned that M. II. Humboldt tells us that the Great Spirit of the Toltecks was called _Teotl_; and Hardwicke says that _Teotl_ was the only God of Central America. But when a science is concerned, not so much with objects directly, as with processes and laws, or when it takes for the subject of its enquiry some comparatively obscure feature drawn from phenomena which have little or nothing else in common, the difficulty of giving preliminary information becomes greater. 11. It may be well to bear in mind that in addition to the above double promise, the _Advancement of Learning_ contains other promises including one, “if God give me leave,” of a legal work–_prudentia activa_–digested into aphorisms. Davies, also a poet, has come down to us, unedited for the public. 160) Medianus Alamannus 200 ” Primus Alamannus 240 ” And for women:– Femina mino flidis 320 ” Mediana 400 ” Prima Alamanna 480 ” These wergelds correspond very closely in some points with those of the Burgundian laws and should be compared with them.[125] The wergeld of women was double that of men of the same class. (Tit. From the moment that she knew hopelessness, she had won all the author’s sympathy. One point must be carefully remembered here, as it is frequently overlooked (by Quetelet, for instance). Of course there would be insuperable practical objections to any such courses as these; for the labour of calculation would be enormous, and the results so far from being better would be worse than those afforded by the employment of the ordinary average. When it is large the dispersion is considerable; that is the magnitudes are not closely crowded up towards the centre, when it is small they are thus crowded up. Undoubtedly in the physical world equality is not synonymous with identity. If their fortunes were equal to begin with there must be resultant inequality. There are teachers in schools, in universities: they teach arithmetic, grammar, logic, metaphysics. They have a theory for every thing, even for vice and folly. might be an ecclesiastical invention originating with the missionary churches of the Armorican districts of Gaul, we should still have to inquire why these churches differed so much from other Gallic churches. It is true that he supposes it not to have been adopted by any nation belonging to the Semitic or Aryan stock; the serpent-worship of India and Greece originating, as he believes, with older peoples. Rude, nonsensical, disgusting reality–against which, I repeat, their _only_ defence is the patent of nobility, the unwritten charter–approaches them closer and closer, with more and more menace and importunacy, and claims its right. He was appointed her Majesty’s Counsel Extraordinary,[8] but he had no salary and small fees. I. Certainly, once it has elapsed, we are justified in picturing the successive moments as external to one another and in thus thinking of a line traversing space; but it must then be understood that this line does not symbolize the time which is passing but the time which has passed. 14. We are willing to give the pence fair treatment by assuming that they are perfect, that is, that in the long run they show no preference for either head or tail; the question then remains, Will the repetitions of the same face obtain the proportional shares to which they are entitled by the usual interpretations of the theory? 1908). 60]. This, by like reason, will encourage and edge industrious and profitable improvements, because many will rather venture in that kind, than take five in the hundred, especially having been used to greater profit. There is one Rembrandt, and one N. Seeing that every one ought to be punished for his crime, he issued an edict to settle this question once for all. This, however, could only have been a rare belief. Being thus forced to justify himself by appealing to the supernatural elements of Judaism, supernatural conditions would necessarily assume more importance in his eyes. What has really happened is that you have experienced, in a concentrated form and on a small scale, the feeling of a well-exercised body: you have swung, as when you rowed; you have bent the leg, as when you climbed; you have twisted, as in the most crucial moment of the scrum. He puts him upon Intriguing with the _Muses_, and promises to _Pimp_ for him. 287) is the following:– The families of the fuidhir tenants are subject to manifold divisions. But now let us make the assumption that the throw has actually occurred; let us put ourselves into the position of contemplating sixes four times running when it is known or reported that this throw has happened. And in the ‘Book of Aicill’ (p. In 1613 he was appointed Attorney-General, and from that time till 1620 no literary work of any kind published or unpublished is known to have issued from his pen. Schoeffer, the Brothers of the Common Life, Koberger, and other firms printed lists of their new books as broadsides, and gave their travellers similar sheets in which purchasers were promised “bonum venditorem” (a kindly seller), and a space was left for the name of the inn at which he displayed his wares, to be filled in by hand. Se wer gebira? But should a fine Parisian lady do the same thing (or something like it) in the midst of an eloquent harangue on the infinite superiority of the French in delicacy and refinement, we should hardly restrain our astonishment at the mixture of incorrigible grossness and vanity. Verse, from of old, is pervasive as dew or showers: but nowhere is it in process of crystallization. The insurer here bets that he will die old; in ordinary insurance he bets that he will die young. (8) If he who is killed has no _parentes_ on his father’s side and he has on his mother’s side, let what appertains to her, viz. He represented, in general, only single figures (with subordinate accompaniments), and had not to express the conflicting actions and passions of a multitude of persons. John are only the indications of rosy health, and youthful animation; the Virgin is a well-formed rustic beauty with a little affectation, and the attitude of the Supreme Being is extravagant and distorted. 1230) enables us to add the nativus or ‘_kind-born bondman_.’ It is not needful to pursue the inquiry into the laws of the later kings of Scotland. 31-33. And this seems to be clear. The like surprise may be made by moving things[266] when the party is in haste, and cannot stay to consider advisedly of that is moved. By you [i.e., King James] restored on earth, most like his own; And fill this world of beauty here, your Court.” What were the “certain glories of the time obscured” which Time had “promised at Love’s suit to free” is matter for speculation.
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Hunding Günther Groissböck
Wotan Greer Grimsley
Sieglinde Eva-Maria Westbroek
Brünnhilde Christine Goerke
Fricka Jamie Barton
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Roßweiße Mary Phillips
The Met’s ‘Walküre’ Has a Cast Worth Bragging About
A listener sitting through the whole of the “Ring” — Wagner’s four-opera epos about the birth and destruction of a civilization — has to wait two and a half hours for the first relatable human interaction.
That’s the running time of “Das Rheingold,” the prelude peopled with gods, dwarves and giants fighting over the gold that will cast its curse over the story. Then, at the beginning of “Die Walküre,” which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday night and will be screened in cinemas worldwide on Saturday, we see a gesture that feels personal and true.
A stranger seeking refuge asks the lady of the house for a drink of water. As she gives it to him, their hands touch. He drinks, and the music surges: Something other than thirst needs quenching.
They are twins — Sieglinde, bittersweetly sung by the soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, and Siegmund, the leonine tenor Stuart Skelton — separated in childhood. It is their combustible, transgressive love, sparked over that first sip of water, that plants the seeds for the end of a world built on rules, power and greed. Mr. Skelton and Ms. Westbroek were bright stars in a cast led by the blazing soprano Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde. The conductor Philippe Jordan presided over the orchestra, where he whipped up voluptuously sulfurous playing from the Met players.
Casting the “Ring” is a task almost as herculean as singing it, and the Met can feel smug about much of the talent it has assembled for this revival. In Ms. Goerke, the house has found a Brünnhilde who marries vocal vitality and emotional presence in each radiant note. She takes on the physically grueling task with ninja-like focus and suppleness.
But “Die Walküre” demands a production that magnifies the work’s psychological nuances and eminently human conflicts.
This isn’t it.
Robert Lepage’s high-tech staging tickles the palate of the Instagram age with an expensive gadget made out of rotating planks that configure themselves into sculptural backdrops and surfaces for video wizardry. As a set, this behemoth is stiff, clunky and dangerous. Whenever singers are made to scramble atop its wobbly planks — mindful, perhaps, of the stumble Deborah Voigt took as Brünnhilde in 2011 — their movements are stiff, clunky and self-conscious.
And when singers don’t arrive with a fully formed idea of their characters, or the vocal resources to fill them, the machine’s smooth planes coldly project their hesitancy into the auditorium. That happened on Monday in Greer Grimsley’s Wotan, who came across as detached and bitter.
For much of the opera, the god Wotan stews in a marinade of anger, shame and impotence, torn between the implacable laws that shore up his rule and his yearning for an act of free will — like the shocking sibling love of Siegmund and Sieglinde — that could tear down his own power construct. In a long monologue, he sings of his conflicting desires and of the gnawing curse placed on the ring. The orchestra acts like a CT scan of his brain: Reflecting his subconscious thoughts with telltale leitmotifs, the musical tags denoting emotions, events and people.
But at the most chilling moment, the music shuts off completely, leaving the singer to stare into a gaping black silence. That abyss is framed by Wotan twice crying “Das Ende!” (“The end!”), once with desperate power, the second time quietly. Mr. Grimsley’s outcry lacked nihilistic conviction, and his unsteady echoing answer felt neither cleansed nor changed.
By contrast, Ms. Goerke’s Brünnhilde, who has observed her father’s despair, responded with singing of fingertip delicacy, a precise and private sound that clearly marked the awakening of compassion as her character’s destiny. But Ms. Goerke was also capable of zinging fortes in her “Hojotoho!” war cries that Wagner sets to something like a proto-ambulance siren.
Jamie Barton’s portrayal of Fricka, Wotan’s wife, was also brilliantly purposeful and vocally commanding. Her flamboyant mezzo-soprano, with its inky depths and flickering hues, rendered the character as guardian of legal integrity. But, in the surprisingly tender tone in which she passes the responsibility on to Brünnhilde, she hinted at a deeper sense of not only the futility, but also the undesirability of being proved right.
Personifying that undesirability is Hunding, Sieglinde’s cuckold husband, who has every right to demand revenge no matter how unsympathetic he may be. The bass Günther Groissböck sang the role with crisp intention and lethal bite. He was a fine foil for the pair of incestuous lovers whose passion simmers and flickers even in his stern presence.
Ms. Westbroek’s singing mirrored the gradual abandonment of domestic and moral constraints, chiseled and dark-limned at first while still under her husband’s roof, then more florid, voluble and bright as Sieglinde gives in to passion. Mr. Skelton’s Siegmund was heedless from the start — perhaps too much so, as he pushed his beefy tenor to supernatural extremes in the shouts of “Wälse! Wälse!” with which he invokes ancestral protection.
His tenor sometimes sounded frayed in subsequent phrases. But it was the sort of come-hell-or-high-water commitment that Wagner’s brilliant and megalomaniacal creation demands.
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim | March 26, 2019
observer.com
Two Sopranos Take the Spotlight in Wagner’s Epic ‘Die Walküre’ at the Met
The second installment of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre, is unusual among the operatic repertoire not only for its great length and mythic content, but also because it boasts two starring roles for dramatic soprano: Brünnhilde, the eponymous Valkyrie, and her mortal half-sister, Sieglinde.
At last night’s season premiere of the massive work (over five hours!), the casting seemed downright paradoxical. Although both divas were in only mediocre form vocally, one of them astonished while the other fizzled.
To begin with the more successful performance: Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde) was in as rough voice as she was in the fall in La Fanciulla del West, wobbling and falling below pitch on anything even moderately high.
And yet she was transfixing: her face, her stance, even the line of her body as her character lay unconscious—all echoing the noble desperation of her vocal cries. This was the stuff of high tragedy.
Beside her, the Brünnhilde of Christine Goerke felt unformed, even trivial. She was not so much feral as petulant; even after the character’s life-changing second act epiphany, she seemed merely sorry for herself.
Not only does she share Westbroek’s pitch problems, she exacerbates this issue with choppy, note-by-note singing. Low phrases sounded massive and organ-like, but as the voice ascended, she seemed to have a different placement for every note of the scale.
She was frankly a letdown in what was otherwise a superb cast: Stuart Skelton (Siegmund) and Günther Groissböck (Hunding) lavished on their warrior roles legato and sheer beauty of tone suitable for the most voluptuous bel canto confections, while pointing their words with chilling intensity.
As Fricka, goddess of marriage, mezzo Jamie Barton not only looked regally chic in a flowing gown of peacock chiffon, she laid out her case in such delicious honeyed tones that monogamy sounded downright sexy.
Yet even she took a back seat to Greer Grimsley’s Wotan. The veteran artist may have a trace of gravel here and there in his big, dark bass-baritone, but every phrase and every dramatic gesture proceeds organically from his vast experience in this role.
More to the point, he knows and feels both the character and the dramatic situation so well that he held the audience spellbound during Wotan’s long second act narrative—despite the distraction of video “flashbacks” projected into what looked like the Eye of Sauron in Robert Lepage’s dumbed-down production.
Yes, the notorious “machine” seems to have been tamed, emitting only token clanks and groans this time around. Without that distraction you can more clearly hear the lithe, almost breathless conducting of Philippe Jordan.
And once Brünnhilde’s sisters make their entrance—Lepage has them cascading down a sort of giant teeter-totter—what a big-voiced and well-tuned group they are, particularly Wendy Bryn Harmer as a clarion (and perfectly pitched) Ortlinde.
James Jorden | 03/26/19
newyorkclassicalreview.com
Goerke brings vocal power, dramatic impact to Met’s “Walküre”
Say what you like about the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Wagner’s Die Walküre by Robert Lepage, with its Valkyries riding oversize Popsicle sticks, it is now well-equipped in the vocal and conducting departments. Soprano Christine Goerke’s long-anticipated debut as Brünnhilde Monday night proved worth waiting for, the rest of the cast gave uniformly high-quality performances, and conductor Philippe Jordan kept it moving, in both senses of the word.
Goerke’s performance was notable more for powerful, expressive singing and character development than for vocal gymnastics, but then Brünnhilde’s war whoops occupy just a few seconds of Wagner’s score, followed by hours of interacting with the other characters in the opera.
Her voice has a fine, gleaming timbre with plenty of depth, although her youthful character didn’t often evoke the darker colors Goerke is known for in other roles. For sustaining a vocal line and a dramatic moment, this singer has few peers.
Physically, a mere suggestion of flouncy teenage mannerisms was enough to establish Brünnhilde’s headstrong youth; Goerke did not need the Mary Pickford curls the wig department fitted her with. Apparently someone thought the natural, windblown Brünnhilde of Met posters and the program cover looked too mature. It would have been better to leave that up to Goerke’s considerable acting skills.
In contrast, Greer Grimsley’s loose-limbed Wotan was, physically at least, a little too much suburban dad and not enough god. In unguarded moments, he could be seen slumping a little and flicking his spear around casually. And someone might have suggested he stand still while pronouncing his fateful sentence on Brünnhilde in Act III, instead of pacing around and waving his arms as if telling her she was grounded for a week. But one senses in this production an urge to make these mythical characters “relatable,” so maybe that was part of it.
Vocally, however, Grimsley’s steely bass-baritone rang with authority and purposeful diction, and bore up well through a punishingly long series of expository monologues. (You wouldn’t think a god would have to explain himself so much.) Yet he still had the strength to be tender in his parting with Brünnhilde at opera’s end.
The opera was fast out of the gate vocally as well, with the three principals in Act I all giving strong performances. Stuart Skelton brought a bold, full tenor to Siegmund, giving a powerful account of his own violent and tragic backstory (redundantly and distractingly re-enacted by a shadow pantomime as he told it), and wordlessly falling in love with the hospitable Sieglinde.
In the latter role, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek had to contend at first with her character’s downtrodden state (and drab attire and makeup to match), but blazingly discovered passion with Siegmund by the act’s curtain, and gave anguish full voice during the tragic action that followed. And her triumphant high A’s in Act III, delivered face front, downstage, were the very definition of “Wagnerian.”
Bass Günther Groissböck’s hard, penetrating bass made for a menacing Hunding indeed, but the singer also conveyed the deep hurt that drove his lust for revenge.
Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Wotan’s wife Fricka bent the ambivalent god to her will, and did it all with sheer strength of voice and personality. Her static blocking, almost motionless on a high point of the set, was apparently meant to symbolize her character’s uncompromising moral attitude, but it was also a welcome relief from the pointless crisscrossing that the performers were directed to do elsewhere.
Goerke’s Brünnhilde was hailed, debated, and protected by a big-voiced, well-matched gaggle of Valkyrie sisters, sung by Kelly Cae Hogan, Jessica Faselt, Renée Tatum, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Eve Gigliotti, Maya Lahyani, Mary Phillips, and Daryl Freedman.
Conducting from memory, Jordan appeared deeply engaged in every moment of Wagner’s score, drawing committed playing in the tender passages, the talky ones, and the flashes of sudden drama. The occasional cracked horn entrance was more than made up for by superb solos and small ensembles: cellos as Siegmund and Sieglinde fall in love, and (hours later) oboe and bassoon for a father-daughter farewell.
David Wright | Mar 26, 2019
operawire.com
Philippe Jordan Leads A Luxurious Cast In Exquisite Performance Of Wagner Masterpiece
Wagner’s “Die Walküre” took center-stage at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, March 25, 2019 to what is likely to have been the most enthusiastic audience of the season.
After every act, the artists were showered with tremendous ovations, each more effusive than the last. It was emblematic of an evening that just seemed to grow in stature as the night wore on.
You could argue that almost everything about this evening went as well as it could. Even the “Machine (which we recently learned was even given a name by the cast members) behaved in a manner that was dignified of an opera company of the Met’s stature. That is to say that it didn’t make any noise, no Valkyrie or lead singer fell off the planks, and there was no reboot or Windows XP logo flashing inadvertently.
A Directorial Mess
So before we dish out fervent praise on those that made the night compelling, a few comments on the production itself, which remains an awkward contraption. Act one tends to look overly bare as the planks elevate themselves to become the roof of Hunding’s hut. They project some visuals as Siegmund narrates his story to his hosts and then open up further as Winterstürme commences. It’s simply, a bit overbearing for the singers, but you could argue that it kind of works. In Act two we get a big rock followed by some trees to portray Wotan’s hideout and the forest where Siegmund is to die. Act three gets a bit more creative with the Ride of the Valkyries giving each one her own plank/horse before transforming into Brünnhilde’s horse as she enters the fray. Eventually, it becomes a mountain looming over Wotan and Brünnhilde’s final encounter and then also transforms into the opera’s final image.
All of it “works” in terms of presenting the story’s setting, but with minimal props and some uninspired costumes, it create tremendous cognitive dissonance. As I stated with my “Rheingold” review, it’s style over substance, akin to a Hollywood film spending tens of millions on special effects to cover for a bad script and direction. In this case, you have one of the greatest librettos in history, but the direction is clearly more invested in playing with toys than interacting with people. To that end, the costuming for the Valkyries would have been an opportunity to give them each individual personalities, despite some common visual look that unites them. Instead, they all virtually look the same; even Brünnhilde, the heroine of the opera and entire saga, is relegated to the same uniform as her sisters. They’ve been to war together; each one has to have her own identifiable trait. These details just add to the level of immersion of the viewer. Ditto for Siegmund’s outfit, which looks so similar to Alberich from afar that you could confuse the two if you were experiencing these operas on back-to-back nights without much knowledge about their stories. Fricka’s throne-chariot is somehow more elaborate than anything else on the set, and because of that, it sticks out in the wrong manner simply because it doesn’t feel like it’s part of the style of anything else on stage.
We could also talk about the poor staging (or lack thereof), especially in the first Act. When Siegmund finds the sword and utters “Was gleisst dor Hell im Glimmerschein,” tenor Stuart Skelton turned to the audience, then swiveled his head back to the sword rapidly before uttering his ensuing line. While understandable given the singer’s need to sing to the audience, the movement looked clumsy and cartoonish, eliciting some laughs from audience members. That he repeated the gesture again, only added to the awkwardness of Siegmund’s big moment.
Other decisions, such as the delayed hug between Brünnhilde and Wotan at the opera’s emotional climax, also seemed a bit forced. As staged, Brünnhilde leaps into Wotan’s arms on the B major chord at the climax of the passage, but the entire build doesn’t showcase either character really making any attempt to comfort the other. There’s an attempt to build tension, but the character-building blocks toward that catharsis are misaligned. Brünnhilde shows off some angst, but it feels misplaced in the moment, especially given that she is the one who desperately wants to hug her father but seems to be the one rejecting him. Wotan doesn’t really do much in these moments except turn around, but his inaction doesn’t add to the tension of the scene either. Ditto for the decision to have Brünnhilde and Wotan pick up their respective spears and shield moments later so that they can walk offstage; it seems rather unnecessary and strange that in their tearful goodbye, these characters would think it crucial to pick up spears and shields that will now be useless (especially for Brünnhilde). The importance of this blocking choice is again, in the interest of the machine, but hinders the emotional connection of father and daughter saying goodbye.
Then there’s the monologue in Act two, which New York Times critic Anthony Tomassini did a solid job of relating. We could go on (something was very off about the timing of Hunding and Siegmund’s respective deaths compared to previous iterations of this version), but in sum, this production is what you would call a mess from a conceptual and aesthetic perspective.
The Heart of the Story
Believe it or not, there were some dramatic moments that really worked and it really came down to the conviction with which they were expressed by the performers.
While the title of the opera would suggest that the second installment in the tetralogy belongs to Brünnhilde, it is undeniably Wotan’s opera. This is the one where he makes a gamble and it blows up in his face in a number of ways. This is the opera where he is torn apart and ultimately left with little hope of a future (the next time we see him, he is but a wanderer). It’s the one where he gets one of the best opera “arias” of all time.
Greer Grimsley was tasked with interpreting the role on Monday, and despite some issues that I personally have with his voice, he embodied the tragic figure quite potently. So let’s get the vocal questions out of the way first. Given the more extended passages in this opera, many of the things noted in the “Das Rheingold” review were only amplified here. His highs tend to sound pushed all the way through, with the vibrato sounding worn and the resulting pitch unstable. It happens all the time, with notable examples including the high E and D’s on “Leb wohl, du kühnes” and ensuing high E on “Du meines Herzens;” other such instances include the high tessitura of Wotan’s very first entrance in “Act two, “Nun zäumedein Ross” with a high F and the end of the Act two monologue, “In meinem Busenberg.” Alternatively, Grimsley’s lows sound like growls with minimal resonance in passages with heavier orchestration; his mixing of registers in certain phrases was also a bit muddled and crude in many instances.
But there is no denying that he imbued Wotan with complexity throughout. His Act two monologue was sung softly throughout, bitterness growing and growing throughout until he exploded with nervous energy in the aforementioned passage. That passage builds over 20 minutes but given the fact that it is pure exposition, it can feel eternal if the Wotan interpreter doesn’t allow the audience to get a sense of how this narrative affects the character. We need to hear the story and feel it’s impact and reaction to it all at once. What made Grimsley’s interpretation compelling was that you felt the emotional build throughout, emphasizing the brilliance of Wagner’s dramatic and musical architecture.
“Leb wohl” was intense, with Grimsley throwing all of his vocal resources into the opening stanzas; there was pain in every note, and slowly but surely his sounded trailed off as he put Brünnhilde to sleep in such phrases as “Denn so kehrt der Gott sich dir, ab…”
Then there was the scene with Fricka, where together with Jamie Barton, Grimsley delivered one of the tensest scenes witnessed at the Met Opera all season.
Barton displayed elegant legato throughout; her lush vocal resources contrasted with Grimsley’s gruffer sound, adding to the tension in the scene. But hers was not a needy wife, but a demanding one. She was there to put him in his place, not beg him for mercy. Right from the off, Barton’s phrasing was articulate and precise, the consonants particularly pronounced, giving an air of aggression to her singing. Even when Grimsley tried to evade her with his own smoother vocalization, she rebuffed him, glaring at him incessantly throughout the exchange. You could sense that this was going nowhere for some time, the two seemingly equals in an extended conflict.
But then came the big turn and you could feel it quite potently as Barton’s Fricka demanded “Lass von dem Wälsung.” With his back turned to his wife and seemingly on his way off the stage, Grimsley’s Wotan stopped in his midst. He immediately fired back his “Er gehseines Weg.” Her ensuing retorts, equally resonant, that his looks at her, were met with an aggressive walk toward her for his ensuing “Ich schüt ze ihn nicht.” When she leveled the ensuing desire that he leave Brünnhilde out of it also, Grimsley was at his wits end and barked out “Die Walküre walte frei” and looked to storm off. Despite his aggressive response, you could feel Wotan imploding and the power shifted forever to Fricka. As she saw her husband come undone, Barton’s Fricka looked more and more poised on her throne.
As the scene drew to a close, she pulled out her final trump card with melting legato on “Deiner ew’gen Gattin heilige” in what became a mournful plea to save the Gods. And when it was all said and done, she got one final knockout blow with an imposing “Empfah’ich von Wotan den Eid.” At this point, Grimsley walked toward her, bent over and angrily uttered “Nimm den Eid.” He then fell to his knees, broken and defeated. Barton’s Fricka, instead of smiling or enjoying her victory, looked toward her pained husband and reached over to touch him. Despite the lengthy outpouring of resentment for his infidelities, she loved him and it also hurt her to see her husband in pain. And as she went to touch him, he pushed his entire body away from her in a quick thrust that hurt all the more, adding to the insult.
As her throne pulled away, Barton’s Fricka won her battle, but continued to lose the war of her marriage. Grimsley’s Wotan, meanwhile, would grow weaker as the opera progressed. It was the most gripping and immersive moment of the night.
Heroes All Over
As she arrived onstage to begin Act two, soprano Christine Goerke was showered with applause. She’s had major success in this role around the U.S. and this Met homecoming was years in the making. And despite not necessarily, dominating the evening, she put on a strong performance overall. Her middle voice is where her singing really shines, with the high notes losing brightness and sounding somewhat softer and more limited; this was present in her opening “Hojotoho” proclamations. She glided rather well into the first eighth-note High B’s and C’s, punctuated by a solid sustained high B. But the repeat a few measures later came off a bit more unsteadily, the clarity of the initial phrasing a bit muddier this time around.
But afterward, she was solid throughout, particularly in the confrontation with Siegmund at the close of Act two. Standing poised throughout, there was a coolness to Goerke’s singing as she looked away from Siegmund. And while she claims that she can’t look at him lest she condemn him to death, there was a sense in her increasingly gentle singing that she was conflicted over this behavior. This allowed her eventual decision to save him all the more credible emotionally. After singing at a tamer volume, her “Halt ein Wälsung” was delivered with resounding dynamics that added to the energy of the moment.
We saw a similar emotional build throughout the final scene with Wotan, Goerke luxuriating in her legato line throughout, but with accented euphoria in her final phrases; the final high A on “dem freislichen Felsen zu nahn” a perfect way to cap a solid performance. It should be interesting to see how Goerke’s performance develops with the upcoming “Siegfried” and especially with “Götterdämmerung” which is undeniably Brünnhilde’s opera.
As the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde were the impeccable Stuart Skelton and Eva-Maria Westbroek. Skelton sang with polish and finesse throughout the night. In fact, throughout Act one, it almost sounded like he was incapable of singing a harsh phrase or note. Everything soared with warmth and delicacy. Even the famed, fortissimo, fermata cries of “Wälse” a high G flat and high G, respectively, drew no attack on the onset; they just flowed out of his mouth. The latter high G was sustained for quite some time, the tenor’s risky choice seemingly creating some distortion on the latter end of the sustain, but it was thrilling and glorious to behold. He churned out phrase after phrase with bright, glowing legato, best exemplified in “Winterstürme” and the final coda “Siegmund, heiss ich.”
Earlier this year, I witnessed a sick Skelton struggle with his high notes in “Otello,” but on this night they were on point every single time; the high A on “Wälsungen Blut!” was one such perfect demonstration of this.
But aggression did materialize in Skelton’s voice in the showdown with Brünnhilde in a vocal masterclass of emotional development. The honeyed singing permeated the opening phrases of that dialogue before slowly growing darker and more accented. As he denied Brünnhilde repeatedly, looking angrily at the sleeping body of Sieglinde, you could feel the anger building. At one point, he threw aside Brünnhilde’s spear and declaimed his intent to murder Sieglinde and his child. His voice had a coarse, piercing quality that emphasized the frustrated nature of the character.
Westbroek also exposed her vocal qualities slowly over the evening, also giving Sieglinde an emotional arc from a vocal perspective. Submissive and gentle in the opening moments, her singing was equally subdued and quiet. If you hadn’t heard the soprano in “La Fanciulla del West” earlier this season, you wouldn’t know how massive her instrument could be. This approach, however, emphasized her perceived weakness and fear, and also made the perfect foil for Gঢ়nther Groissbock’s vicious and loud interpretation as Hunding (his repetitions of “Wölfing” were deliciously condescending). While the German bass-baritone perfectly embraced the monstrous macho nature of his character with tremendous arrogance and ego (he grabbed Sieglinde and kissed her against her will and pushed her aside to serve him his meal, his singing aggressive and accented throughout), she was withdrawn and even hunched over in her gait.
But her scene with Siegmund “freed” her vocally and her sound blossomed as the interaction developed. Her eruptions into high notes unleashed the full power of her sound, which despite some inconsistent pitch, was cathartic each time. Her multiple cries of “Siegmund” at the close of Act one and in the late stages of Act two were all delivered with similar frenzied energy that made them recall one another. But of course her big moment comes at “Oh herstes Wunder” and Westbroek delivered. Despite rushing ahead of the orchestra a bit and her high A’s sounding a bit pitchy, the soprano’s ample resonance made the moment shine as it should.
The ensemble of Valkyries, which included Kelly Cae Hogan, Jessica Faselt, Renée Tatum, Darily Freedman (in her Met debut), Wendy Bryn Harmer, Eve Gigliotti, Maya Lahyano, and Mary Phillips, were all fun and enjoyable to watch in their opening number of Act three.
Master to the Pit
I was rather critical of maestro Philippe Jordan in my review of “Das Rheingold” and a subsequent viewing of that same opera did little to calm my previous qualms with his musical direction for that opera. But this was another story altogether.
It’s been rare to see such exquisite conducting at the Met as that exhibited in “Die Walküre.” There was polish and sheen the entire evening with the rich orchestral colors all coming through quite beautifully. The triplet and sextuplet figures in the violin section that launch “Leb wohl” have never sounded clearer, the resulting effect adding urgency to the passage. The same can be said to the magic fire sequence, particularly with the busy string passages.
The brass had an incredible night, integrated wonderfully into passages that included massive ensemble work, but also poised and vibrant in their own solo moments. The quarter notes a measure before Fricka’s “Empfah’ich von Wotan den Eid” were milked for all they were worth, adding tremendous tension to the moment and ensuing declamation from Barton.
Jordan displayed incredible elasticity with the Met Orchestra and the singers throughout the evening, moving from propulsive tempi (“Siegmund heiss ich”) to being as flexible as needed; the success of Grimsley’s emotional build in the Act two monologue is undeniably the result of Jordan’s allowing the singer to lead the way. The same goes for Skelton’s proclamations of “Wälse;” you almost sensed like Jordan was cheering him on to hold the notes as long as he wished.
Jordan’s leadership was but one factor for this incredible performance of “Die Walküre.” Here’s hoping that “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” match and better this level of immersive music-making.
David Salazar | March 2019
Seenandheard-International.com
Robert Lepage’s multidisciplinary production company, Ex Machina, is as much associated with their work for Cirque du Soleil as for this Ring cycle he created for the Met from 2010 to 2012. As part of its current revival Die Walküre was broadcast Live in HD to cinemas across the globe.
Die Walküre is more of an intimate kitchen-sink drama in comparison to the preceding Das Rheingold (that I saw transmitted in 2010). Then the story involves water nymphs, dwarves, giants, gods and a rainbow bridge and saw Lepage’s Cirque du Soleil-inspired approach at its best. All we have to concentrate on in this opera is the reuniting of long-lost twins Sieglinde and Siegmund and their falling into incestuous love; the marriage difficulties of the gods Wotan and Fricka; as well as, a father (Wotan) punishing his young errant daughter, Brünnhilde. Yes, all human life is here just like any soap opera.
With his considerable theatrical gifts – as well as some solid singing and good acting from his performers – Ringmaster Lepage delivers an engrossing ‘show’. Seeing this Die Walküre again I standby my earlier opinion that it succeeds possibly because it is concept-free and appeals to the little boy in me that wants to see the fairy-tale aspect of the Ring given its due from time to time. Our current world is dark and cynical enough already and perhaps we do not need to be reminded of this every time we sit down in the opera house. (Though I accept a generational reinvention is precisely what Wagner wanted when he said ‘Kinder! macht neues!’) Truth be told if you did not know the singers and/or the production and took sepia photographs of François St-Aubin’s costumes these could have been from any Met Die Walküre during the early twentieth century: Brünnhilde retains her winged helmet, shield and spear throughout the entire evening. Carl Fillion’s basic high-tech mechanical set consists of 24 long planks that can tilt one way or the other and can be arranged to provide the stage pictures. It looks like a huge piano keyboard but is often referred to as ‘the Machine’.
The Met audience – with at least one spotted wearing a horned helmet! – applauded the set in Act III when the eight excellent Valkyries ‘rode’ up and down astride their individual planks which gave their ‘horses’ a rather phallic appearance. Indeed it is a thing of wonder how ‘the Machine’ can elsewhere turn from trees, to Hunding’s hut (with the sword as a convenient coat hook), the side of a volcano with lava flows and a mountaintop with avalanches. Boris Firquet’s video projections are an essential part of this and often during some of the expository monologues we have images and shadow play from the characters’ back stories. Only once was I disappointed by what I was seeing and that was at the very end of the opera; Brünnhilde (undoubtedly now a stuntwoman) is suspended from above surrounded by flickering, fiery projections on the moving set. I can appreciate that it is as if the audience is looking down on her, but a little smoke and some real flame would create more atmosphere.
That is most of the good – though there will be more – but what about the bad? Well I suspect however good Lepage is as a director of sets he was probably less good with people. Even when it was first put on everyone appeared as if they had been left to their own devices and in the current revival I suspect they just gave a stock performance they would routinely give anywhere. We have had much that is good, some bad – so what about the ugly? Well that is the rams’-headed contraption for the enthroned Fricka that slides forward at the start of Act II looking like a large mobility vehicle.
This is my third Die Walküre this season and each has seen Stuart Skelton as Siegmund. I must pose the question is there no one else? However, I am happy to report that – as heard through cinema loudspeakers – this was by a long way the best of these performances. Once again he did not move with ease over the set and held on to some undoubtedly thrilling top notes for a little longer than necessary. But the good news is that there was more lyricism and nuance to longer stretches of the role than I previously heard from Skelton’s burly tenor voice. Eva-Maria Westbroek was an ideal Sieglinde once again and clearly convincingly portrayed the abused victim of a loveless, enforced union to the brutish Hunding (a growling Günther Groissböck, Bayreuth’s next Wotan). Ms Westbroek was one of the sextet of vocal successes, singing with a – seemingly refreshed – radiant and impassioned sound.
Wotan in this production also looks exactly as you would expect him too: he has a patch across his left eye, as well as, a breastplate and spear. This give Wotan – as personified by Greet Grimsley – an imposing, statuesque presence. There was a hint of gravel to Grimsley’s assured voice that gave his portrayal gravitas and authority and he clearly expressed all Wotan’s turmoil whether it was regret, anger, or paternal love. His wife, Fricka, was sung by Jamie Barton and she probably had the best voice of this cast. There are a wide range of vocal colours at her disposal and her top notes sound that of a future Brünnhilde. Barton – in her brief time onstage – gave full vent to her character’s ire and made it abundantly clear who was in charge in her marriage with Wotan.
I am somewhat conflicted by Christine Goerke’s Brünnhilde. Her Twitter handle is @HeldenMommy and when giving a shout out to her daughters during a backstage interview (with former Met Brünnhilde Deborah Voigt) she engagingly hinted they should pay particular attention to Act III and ‘watch what happens when you don’t listen to your father’. Acting-wise her Valkyrie was girlish, vulnerable, sweet and prone to tears. However I missed any sense she was supposed to be a warrior maiden. It is difficult to judge a vocal performance unless it is heard live but, for me, her bright ‘Hojotohos’ sounded as if she was not there to take any risks with her voice and the role for the most part sounded as if it had more dark colours in it than even Wagner possibly intended.
Philippe Jordan has considerable Wagner pedigree and bought immense character, great sense of overall direction, and attention to detail to his Die Walküre that had all the required passion, tenderness and excitement it needed. Jordan’s brisk tempi ensured there was nothing routine about this very strong performance. The Met Orchestra sounded as if they responded well to him and were their usual accomplished musical selves.
Jim Pritchard | April 2019
Matinee broadcast
A production by Robert Lepage (2011)
This recording is part of a complete Ring cycle.
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17 Dot Com failures and their modern counterparts
by Harrison Weber — in Entrepreneur
The Dot Com days were a time when Google wasn’t yet on anyone’s radar and most people performed searches using AOL and Compuserve. The sound of the dial-up 56k modem was exciting, not agonizing and certainly not laughable like it is today. But the high of the craze was quickly deflated by the dot.com bubble’s burst. Companies that had IPOs in the multi-millions found themselves bankrupt.
Investors and founders have had a decade to learn from past mistakes since the bubble burst, but now there’s talk of a new tech bubble. What’s most surprising? Many of the latest startups look eerily similar to failed Dot Com companies from over a decade ago. Some ideas are too good to not deserve a second try, and a lot of entrepreneurs are re-approaching ideas with a completely different spin.
What does this mean? It could be our chance to set things right. Or maybe history is repeating itself. Either way, get ready for a flash back to 1998 (cue Ace of Base…).
One of the most famous fails of the dot com era is Boo.com, a would-be pioneer in the ecommerce space. It was founded in ’98, started selling branded fashion apparel in ’99, and ended up burning through $135 million in 2 years. A delayed launch, bad user experience and even worse timing led to a complete failure. In the time passed, online retail has taken over many households, largely due to brick and mortar stores doubling up in the digital space. You can see (and try not to laugh at) what Boo.com looked like at launch via the Internet Archive.
2010 ushered in a new era of fashion ecommerce, with a focus on exclusive deals and brands. Gilt, an exclusivity giant, provides insider access to today’s top designer labels at up to 60% off retail. Jack Threads, now owned by Thrillist, is another online shopping experience providing members-only prices. Both Gilt and Jack Threads sell apparel, shoes and accessories from high end fashion brands. Svpply, “a growing community of people discovering the products they love,” has a particular niche in helping social consumers find and curate clothing and accessories.
Although designer deals are huge, Etsy continues to be a powerhouse of homemade and vintage goods, having pioneered the space in 2005. It’s also very easy for small boutiques to set up their own online stores through the likes of Goodsie and Big Cartel.
Webvan was founded in 1999 as an online grocery store, delivering goods (including perishables) to doorsteps across the US. Accord to C-Net, “Webvan went from being a $1.2bn company with 4,500 employees to being liquidated in under two years.”
Although a national online grocery store has yet to be a hit with the mainstream, companies like FreshDirect and Delivery.com breathe life back into Webvan’s mission. What looks to be a much hotter trend is the birth of gourmet marketplaces like Foodzie and Foodoro. These startups follow the same goals, with a much smaller, targeted market.
It’s notable that Amazon recently tried to revitalize Webvan, and now lists it as “part of the Amazon family.” Amazon also operates Amazon Fresh within a few Seattle neighborhoods and is the owner of Soap.com, which just began shipping food across the US.
As Internet startups began sprouting up everywhere, an overflow of well funded sites were founded on the simple idea of selling beauty products online: Beautyjungle.com (see their ads), iBeauty.com, Beauty.com, Reflect.com and Eve.com. With hundreds of millions in funding, it’s hard to imagine that nearly all of them failed.
Now that online stores are so commonplace they’ve lost their luster, modern startups like Hoseanna and Guyhaus are targeting user convenience in a whole new way by automating the process of buying basic necessities. Birchbox, one of our favorites in the subscription service trend, created a new market for makeup by shipping monthly samples on the cheap, while directing users back to buy full size favorites online.
By now, everyone’s heard of Bitcoin, a peer to peer digital currency. From praise to criticism and security problems, there’s tons of buzz around the idea. What you may not know is that Bitcoin is a decentralized take on what Flooz (watch this commercial), Beenz and SpeedyBucks tried to accomplish 12 years earlier.
In 1999, digital currency was like a gift card without a store to back it’s value. In the end, the overall consumer reaction was “why?”
Shortly before Napster came to the scene, Ritmoteca.com launched as a revolutionary online music store. It pioneered a song by song business model that made iTunes a hit. As Ritmoteca was preparing to go public, the dot-com bubble burst and Napster launched, effectively killing any chance it had at raising additional venture capital.
Other music startup attempts include: Boxman (a CD retailer), Riffage (where bands sold music downloads directly to fans), MusicBank (like iTunes Match, streaming songs you’ve already bought on CD) and Xenote’s iTag (a keychain device that records songs you hear on the radio to later identify and purchase music).
In 2007, Spiral Frog made an honest attempt to revolutionize the way people consume music by introducing ad supported streaming. It shut down in 2009 after running out of money. Only in the past year have startups like Spotify and Rdio shown true promise in balancing the needs of listeners and the record industry. With Spotify’s current success rate, it looks like an ad supported model has a chance of surviving after all.
Digital Entertainment Network (DEN.com) was a multimedia and web television dot-com company. The site launched in May 1999, and produced 26 original series aimed at teenage boy subcultures, including gay teens, Christian kids and extreme sports enthusiasts. In the end, it was like a low quality, online version of MTV with reckless spending habits. Get a closer look by watching this resurrected promo video.
Since then, Hulu and Netflix have brought streaming video to users in ways that compromise the future of TV. Startups like Boxee and Shelby.tv are moving away from production by focusing on consumption and viewer experience. There’s also a ton of buzz surrounding Sean Parker’s un-launched startup, Airtime.
YouTube appears to have come the closest to DEN’s goal of an online TV studio. Google is seeking to become the “next-generation cable provider,” and it recently surfaced that Google is dishing out $100 million to help grow its original content.
There are some ideas that are so simple they should have worked. eToys.com (an online toy marketplace) lasted for a few short years before closing its doors. Similarly Pets.com (a pet supplies store with wildly annoying commercials) shut down in 2001, despite creating a notable presence in pop culture. Today, Quidsi‘s Yoyo and Wag have the same exact goals as eToys and Pets.com, but from the looks of it, they’re actually thriving.
The bubble burst because of a combination of events, including mass overvaluations and unsustainable business models. Entrepreneurs were wooed by the future of technology, and tons of startups never had a chance at profitability. There will always be a struggle between dreams and practicality, so all we can do is remember our history and learn from it.
For more from the Dot Com era, read 10 interviews with Web 1.0 entrepreneurs who are still in the game.
Where are they now? New York City’s Dot Com Entrepreneurs: Part Two
Where are they now? New York City’s Dot Com Entrepreneurs: Part One
Has the industry matured enough to not make the same mistakes? Or are we in another tech bubble?
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Report: Cryptocurrency hackers earned $20M with 51-percent attacks in 2018
Group-IB recorded 5 successful 51% attacks this year
Powerful attacks on blockchains are increasing. So far this year, hackers have effectively executed a minimum of five separate “51-percent attacks” on cryptocurrency projects, with profits amounting to almost $20 million.
This represents a remarkable increase in success, after renowned cybersecurity firm Group-IB recorded no completed 51-percent attacks last year.
Group-IB has just released the full version of its annual report on trends in high-tech crime, which it has shared with Hard Fork.
It showed that in 2018, hackers have pocketed $19.5 million worth of cryptocurrency and caused havoc for fledgling blockchains.
The report also revealed cryptocurrency hackers went on a veritable rampage between April and June of this year.
51% attacks guarantee free money
A 51-percent attack consists of (as the name implies) an attacker taking control over at least 51 percent of the overall mining power of a Proof-of-Work blockchain, which known as its hashrate.
“They can be either carried out by one miner with a large number of computers or a group of miners forming a mining pool,” Group-IB explains. “Control over 51-precent of the network power itself is not necessarily an attack — unless there has been intentional use of this advantage.”
An attacker controlling a majority of a blockchain’s hashrate can freeze the system, stop transaction verification, suspend mining, prevent other miners from verifying transactions, and the ultimate perk: double spending.
Double spending involves the creation of a hidden, alternative blockchain that 51-percenters can use to verify their own (fake) transactions. This often leads to hackers creating of large amounts of cryptocurrency out of thin air.
Presently, Group-IB notes double spending to be the greatest threat to Proof-of-Work blockchains.
“It is possible to double spend even without controlling this much network power,” clarifies Group-IB. “However, control over 51-percent is an absolute guarantee that the fraudster’s block is recognized as correct.”
Attackers earn $19.5M by targeting small cryptocurrencies
This year, hackers successfully attacked the altcoin Verge twice. Once in April, when a bug in its code led hackers to steal more than $1 million worth of cryptocurrency, and again in May, when hackers took over and refused to process transactions.
In a separate attack in June, unknown criminals siphoned $550,000 worth of ZEN cryptocurrency over four hours by controlling the ZenCash blockchain.
In the same month, a small-time cryptocurrency project called Litecoin Cash, also had to interrupt critical infrastructure needed to maintain smooth operation after hackers invaded its mining pools.
But the most lucrative of all the attacks this year was the crippling attack on Bitcoin Gold. In May, a malicious miner took captured a majority of the BTG hashrate, allowing them to send 388,000 BTG ($18M) directly to their personal wallet.
The fallout continued months later, with US-based exchange Bittrex delisting Bitcoin Gold with concerns for investor security, should the attackers return.
“Cybercriminals can get high rewards and steal lots of money by attacking small and unknown cryptocurrencies,” a Group-IB spokesperson told Hard Fork. “It is just technically easier to compromise relatively unknown cryptocurrencies, which usually do not have the capacity for the rapid response necessary to stop the attacker converting stolen funds to a more stable currency.”
51% attacks aren’t cheap
There is actually a website that tracks just how much it would cost miners to conduct 51-percent attacks on the major cryptocurrency platforms.
In order for miners to execute the attack, they must first sacrifice the lucrative income the network normally rewards them with for legitimately processing cryptocurrency transactions.
In fact, Group-IB reports that the ZenCash attack, which netted $550,000 in cryptocurrency, cost the hackers at least $30,000 to prepare and carry out.
After all, the premise of the cryptocurrency mining industry rests on the incentives awarded to miners for maintaining the network outweighing the possible rewards that come with a successful 51-percent attack.
With that in mind, according the site, it currently costs just over $520,000 to take control of the Bitcoin network for a solid hour, and only $150,000 to bring Ethereum to its knees for the full sixty minutes.
For smaller cryptocurrency projects to minimize the risk of being controlled by a 51-percent attack, Group-IB declare it necessary to use encryption algorithms different from the ones employed by those big market players.
“This would allow to avoid the scenario where a mining pool is compromised and has negative effects on other cryptocurrencies that use the same algorithms,” a spokesperson explains.
But hey, as long as nobody is willing to pay, then we’re good, right?
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The S3 Agency Launches “Hope” Campaign for RMANJ
Campaign Connects RMANJ’s High IVF Delivery Rate to Patients’ Hopes
The S3 Agency, the award-winning tradigital agency headquartered in Boonton, NJ, has launched a new advertising campaign for RMANJ (Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey). Entitled “Hope,” this integrated campaign brings awareness of RMANJ’s stellar IVF delivery rate to consumers via print, out-of-home, and digital executions.
The ad campaign features a father measuring the height of his little girl against a wall – a common practice that parents enjoy, and one that potential parents hope to experience. An on-wall measuring stick culminates at the number 86, indicating RMANJ’s 86% IVF delivery rate that is about 20% higher than the national average. The headline – “You Can Measure Hope” – speaks to the positive results that RMANJ has helped so many patients achieve, thanks to their scientific advancements, patient-centered care, and flexible financial options.
“Knowledge is power. Hopeful patients need to know that treatment options like comprehensive chromosome screening, single embryo transfer, and endometrial synchrony and subsequent IVF success rates are not the same everywhere,” said Timothy Glynn, Director, Global Marketing, IVI-RMA Global. “The combination of our advancements in technology, our compassionate people, and our evidence-based treatment options should provide the much-needed confidence for our hopeful moms- and dads-to-be,” added Glynn.
“At a time when people are being flooded with negativity in the news and their social media feeds, we wanted to make sure that this important message about hope broke through,” said Denise Blasevick, CEO, The S3 Agency. “The work that RMANJ does is nothing short of miraculous. That’s a message that people really need to hear.”
For more information about the RMANJ, please visit www.rmanj.com. For more information about The S3 Agency, please visit www.theS3agency.com.
About Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey
Since 1999, the leaders at RMANJ have helped bring more than 40,000 babies to loving families. In addition to serving as the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ (reifellowship.com) and the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship Program for Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, the practice currently has 25 physicians and 10 locations in New Jersey: Basking Ridge, Eatontown, Englewood, Freehold, Hamilton, Morristown, Somerset, Springfield, West Orange, and its newest location in Marlton. For more information, visit rmanj.com.
About The S3 Agency
The S3 Agency in Boonton, NJ is a tradigital advertising agency whose clients include BMW of North America, Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, and Tetley Tea. Founded in 2001 by New Jersey Advertising Hall of Fame inductees Denise Blasevick and Adam Schnitzler, The S3 Agency is the first ISO-certified ad agency in New Jersey. S3 is also a WBENC-certified woman-owned business, helping clients meet diversity commitments as they satisfy communications goals. For more information about The S3 Agency, please visit theS3agency.com or call 973-257-5533.
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Somerville COA Pictures From The Health Fair
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It was an amazing day here at the Holland Street Center with over 150
people attending today’s Health & Wellness Fair. There were chair
massages, flu shots, legal and financial health, fitness and nutrition,
dental health, screenings and more! This is all part of the SCOA’s
health and wellness programming. Check out the fitness classes
happening every day.
Senator Jehlen Announces Passage of Parental Leave Legislation
Senator Patricia Jehlen
Second Middlesex District
State House of Massachusetts
BOSTON – Senator Jehlen announced today that the Senate voted to pass S865 An Act relative to parental leave. Senator Jehlen is the lead sponsor of this legislation, which protects employees and modernizes the legal concepts of parental leave.
“I am proud of the hard work of all of those involved in getting this legislation passed, which provides important protections for parents of both genders so that they may focus on establishing a life for their new child,” said Senator Jehlen. “The legislation protects both employees and employers through gender neutrality and transparency in job protection.”
An act relative to parental leave updates Massachusetts’ parental leave laws to reflect the evolution and current needs of modern families. The bill makes the parental leave law gender neutral, allowing for the parental leave statute to be available for both men and women. Employers who do not provide comparable leave to fathers may be violating constitutional rights to equal protection under the law. The legislation not only protects parents, but also protects employers because it remedies the current, unconstitutional nature of the law that risks violating the principle of equal protection.
Additionally, An act relative to parental leave requires employers to inform employees in writing prior to their parental leave, or at the time of making a request, if taking leave beyond 8 weeks would eliminate their right to return to work. Present law provides up to eight weeks of job-protected, unpaid parental leave. However, in some cases, employers verbally grant a worker more than eight weeks, even though the additional weeks are not job-protected. In one prominent case decided by the Supreme Judicial Court, Global NAPs, Inc. v. Awiszus, 457 Mass. 489 (2010), an employer granted a mother ten weeks of maternity leave, only to fire her after she came back to work because she was only legally protected for eight of those weeks. This kind of misleading and unfair treatment would be outlawed by the new legislation.
The legislation was strongly supported by the work of Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), the AFL-CIO and Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM). You can see the full text of this bill by going to: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/188/Senate/S865.
For more information about Sen. Jehlen visit www.patjehlen.org or follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SenPatJehlen.
This Saturday Somerville Will Honor Five Veterans
This Saturday the City of Somerville will honor five veterans – George Hughes (Army), John Doncaster (Army), Raymond Deeran (Navy), James Papaluca (Marine) and Joseph Guidi (Navy) – who founded the Somerville Youth Hockey Association in the 1960s. The five men’s names will appear on a plaque at the new ice rink at 570 Somerville Ave., next to the Veterans Memorial Rink, when it is officially dedicated as the Founders Rink at a special event on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. The new ice rink was opened in 2012, two years after the City took control of the Veterans Memoria
This Saturday the City of Somerville will honor five veterans – George Hughes (Army), John Doncaster (Army), Raymond Deeran (Navy), James Papaluca (Marine) and Joseph Guidi (Navy) – who founded the Somerville Youth Hockey Association in the 1960s. The five men’s names will appear on a plaque at the new ice rink at 570 Somerville Ave., next to the Veterans Memorial Rink, when it is officially dedicated as the Founders Rink at a special event on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. The new ice rink was opened in 2012, two years after the City took control of the Veterans Memorial Rink. For more on the history of youth hockey in Somerville: http://bit.ly/19B0TU2
Flavors of Fall — Great Food … Great Cause!
GREAT FOOD & GREAT CHEFS
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A BENEFIT FOR COMMUNITY COOKS
NOVEMBER 11 * 6:30 – 8:30 PM
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Join us for an evening of fine food and wine
Sample hors d’oeuvres and speciality drinks from:
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The Somerville News Weekly Welcomes Former Congressional Candidate/ Somerville Native Paul Maisano to The News Team
Paul Maisano has joined the Somerville News Weekly team and will be writing a weekly column about his true experiences and adventures here in the Ville!
So don’t miss it and look for it in our print edition as well as online!
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The Somerville News Weekly Welcomes Jamie Norton to The News Team
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Great Hill Dental Partners, LLC Grand Opening in Davis Square Somerville
By William Tauro
On Tuesday, Great Hill Dental Partners LLC. hosted it’s grand opening event for it’s Somerville new location located at 40 Holland Street, right in the heart of Davis Square.
Great Hill Dental has five locations in the greater Boston area and offers the very best and professionalism in dentistry with a modern touch of technology and state of the art equipment backing it up.
This Somerville location was specially designed and equipped with ten dentistry examination rooms, an in-house laboratory, a full inventory stockroom mini dentistry warehouse and a large comfortable waiting and reception area to make you feel right at home.
Former Somerville Mayor/Middlesex County Register of Deeds turned book author, Gene Brune was the official dignitary who was asked to conduct the ribbon cutting ceremony.
According Great Hill Doctor Richard Michalowski DMD, Mayor Brune was a perfect and appropriate fit especially with this grand opening because of the fact that when Brune was mayor back in the 80’s, he was the mayor who was instrumental in bringing in the Red Line to Davis Square as well as opening the very high rise newly renovated building that Great Hill Dental’s office is located in. Continue reading Great Hill Dental Partners, LLC Grand Opening in Davis Square Somerville →
Night of the Living Dead Shambles to the Somerville Stage this Halloween!
Somerville, MA – October 2nd, 2013– The Post-Meridian Radio Players are bringing the dead back to challenge the living this Halloween season with a stage adaptation of the classic horror film The Night of the Living Dead. The show will also feature an adaptation of the classic Suspense! radio episode Ghost Hunt.
Ghost Hunt, originally aired in 1949, tells the tale of a radio DJ “Smiley Smith” (Joev Dubach) as he spends the night in an allegedly haunted house. The PMRP version is directed by Mindy Klenoff (The Do-Nothing Detective, Summer Radio Theatre). Continue reading Night of the Living Dead Shambles to the Somerville Stage this Halloween! →
Somerville News Weekly Newstalk Shout Out October 22nd, 2013
Congratulations to the new bride and groom, our good friend Rachel and Jeff Snow of Somerville Plumbing Company. Half of Somerville traveled down south this past weekend as the couple tied the knot down in the Garden State of NJ on Saturday! We here at the News wish them all the best for a lifetime of happiness!
Happy Birthday greetings go out to our good friend Massachusetts State Trooper Rick Crosby who is celebrating his birthday this week! Rick is a great guy and is always around the Ville, mostly around all the major construction sites on the roads and highways!
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Acknowledging Republican views on campus
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Lynandro Simmons – Managing Editor
Entering college as a freshman and being a moderate conservative provided some challenges, said Sarah O’Connor.
“It was difficult being on a liberal campus,” said O’Connor, now a sophomore political science major.
O’Connor, who is currently the co-chair of the College Republicans, said during the 2016 election she faced some struggling times. Joining the College Republicans provided a great deal of help in finding the courage to speak out against biased opinions in her classes, she said.
“I felt comfortable expressing my beliefs because I didn’t feel alone,” said O’Connor.
A lot of people do not speak up as conservatives, she said. Even with Trump’s win in the election their were a lot of silent supporters.
“You see a lot of democrats speaking up more because they have a lot of the popular beliefs,” said O’Connor.
However, conservatives or leftists shouldn’t be rude in their approach or disagreements. People are allowed to express their first amendment rights and be respectful, she said.
Sitting in classes and hearing some of the remarks made towards conservatives caused her to speak out more, she said.
“People make jokes,” said O’Connor. “It’s very rude. I respect other people’s opinions, even if I may not agree.”
Even some student’s mentors or professors don’t respect conservatives’ beliefs, she said. This can create some issues because a professors’ bias can lead to the class thinking it’s okay to make remarks.
“You may not agree,” she said. “But if you’re running the class you have to set an example.”
In 2014, Inside Higher Ed conducted a study that found colleges nationally had a six to one ratio of liberal to conservative professors. However, in New England the figure was 28 to one.
Ty Seymour, a senior double majoring in political science and history, said he has not faced a lot of difficulties personally.
Seymour, who started the College Republicans club on campus and is the former chair, said it could be due to Southern not being too liberal.
“It’s a commuter campus,” he said. “A lot of the students work either part time or even full time.”
Seymour said this has provided a lot of the students with real life experience and given them a grasp of political issues revolving around things like economics.
Both Seymour and O’Connor said one of the positives was the working relationship between the College Republicans and the College Democrats on campus. Both groups have a very amicable relationship and show how the two parties can coexist.
“I know people in our club have had some difficulties with professors,” said Seymour. “I’ve personally never had that.”
However, Seymour said he often found difficulty and unnecessary road blocks when it came to getting things done and working with administration for the College Republicans.
Seymour, who is also the chair for the statewide College Republicans, said that he has heard of difficulties from different chapters.
“My Western chapter right before their club fair had a lot of aggressive comments towards them,” he said.
Incoming freshman whose political opinions may be in the minority should not be scared to express their views, said Seymour. What is most important is being able to articulate an opinion without being contradictory.
“It looks better if you are able to stand up for yourself and express your views,” said Seymour. “Even if you’re the only one in a class.”
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Matt Sapere is one of three quarterbacks in competition for the job this fall. He's in the running alongside Matt Sanzaro and Brian McNeil. According to offensive coordinator Chris Bergeski, the main thing the three young quarterbacks need to learn and work on is remaining comfortable in the pocket. Photo Credit: August Pelliccio
The SCSU Theatre Department and the Crescent Players presented Student One Acts for their festival Societatem Malorum. 1) Nicole Woosley as Tessie Hutchinson in "The Lottery." 2) Christian Gunzenhauser as Theo (left) and Nick Bottone as Ted (right) in "Time to Change." Photo Credit: Isabel Chenoweth
Joshua Cortes (center), along with the all seniors in the Communications department, have been working on their capstone assignment for graduation. This year, their crafted project was to establish a mentorship program for Southern students to be paired with foster students. The club, Foster the Youth of Tomorrow, will persist after the seniors graduate, which was an important goal of the department-to leave an important legacy. Photo Credit: Tyler Korponai
Therapy dog, Sophie, sharing an embrace with Karen Cuzco, in Schwartz Hall for Pet Therapy Thursday's. Photo Credit: August Pelliccio
(Left to right) Chandra Kelsey, co-chair of the Connecticut Breastfeeding Coalition, Joe Bertolino, president of Southern, and Michele Vancour, professor of public health and co-chair of the Connecticut Breastfeeding Coalition receiving recognition for a breastfeeding initiative. Southern Connecticut State University has been named the first breastfeeding friendly campus in the country. "I think [the initiative] is particularly important," said Bertolino, "because individuals get to be treated with dignity and respect." Photo Credit: August Pelliccio #breastfeeding #scsu
Joe Biden spoke before a sold out audience in Lyman Hall Performing Arts Center of Southern. The jury is still out on if he runs in the 2020 election. However, he wants to leave younger generations with the encouragement to vote and become active. Photo Credit: Palmer Piana
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Tag Archives: David Cross
1998, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ, Family
Small Soldiers (1998, Joe Dante)
28 November 2011 Andrew Wickliffe Leave a comment
I remember liking Small Soldiers the first time I saw it. I was wrong.
This time watching it, all I could think about was how Dante and DreamWorks studio chief Steven Spielberg ignored they had a terrible script.
Of course, Dante still does a good job. He has a fantastic Bride of Frankenstein homage, which brings up the target audience–along with the action figures being effectively voiced by the Spinal Tap and Dirty Dozen casts.
The casting has some problems. Kevin Dunn plays Gregory Smith’s father (prepping for Transformers in the distant future no doubt) and he’s really bad. Dunn’s usually good, but his character is just too terribly written for him to work with it. All of the characters are terribly written–except maybe David Cross and Jay Mohr’s characters, who are disposable and funny.
Smith is supposed to be playing a problem teenager–it’s never explained why, but presumably has something to with Dunn’s bad parenting. Smith and Kirsten Dunst are supposed to be fifteen–too young to drive–and they show the real problem. Small Soldiers is a kid’s movie made by people who don’t know how to dumb it down enough.
Dunst’s actually okay. Denis Leary does his schtick. Phil Hartmann’s great. Wendy Schaal is wasted. Dick Miller’s got a good part. Ann Magnuson has some excellent scenes.
It works best as a showcase for outstanding practical and CG effects. Thinking about the movie just hurts one’s head, especially when they get into the science.
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Directed by Joe Dante; written by Gavin Scott, Adam Rifkin, Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio; director of photography, Jamie Anderson; edited by Marshall Harvey and Michael Thau; music by Jerry Goldsmith; production designer, William Sandell; produced by Michael Finnell and Colin Wilson; released by DreamWorks Pictures.
Starring Gregory Smith (Alan Abernathy), Kirsten Dunst (Christy Fimple), Phil Hartman (Phil Fimple), Kevin Dunn (Stuart Abernathy), Ann Magnuson (Irene Abernathy), Wendy Schaal (Marion Fimple), David Cross (Irwin Wayfair), Jay Mohr (Larry Benson), Dick Miller (Joe) and Denis Leary (Gil Mars).
Starring Frank Langella (Archer), Tommy Lee Jones (Chip Hazard), Ernest Borgnine (Kip Killagin), Jim Brown (Butch Meathook), Bruce Dern (Link Static), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Gwendy Doll), Christopher Guest (Slamfist / Scratch-It), George Kennedy (Brick Bazooka), Michael McKean (Insaniac / Freakenstein), Christina Ricci (Gwendy Doll), Harry Shearer (Punch-It) and Clint Walker (Nick Nitro).
OTHER FILMS DIRECTED BY JOE DANTE
Christina RicciClint WalkerDavid CrossDreamWorks PicturesErnest BorgnineKirsten DunstPhil HartmanSmall SoldiersTommy Lee Jones
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Character Profile: Shizuru Kuwabara
Shizuru Kuwabara Shizuru Kuwabara
Early 20s Early 20s
Kazuma's older sister, hairdresser Kazuma's older sister, hairdresser
Kasey Buckley Ai Orikasa
Yu Yu Hakusho Yuu Yuu Hakusho
The above info came from Who Wants to Know?, and was edited by yours truly (contact me). The image came from OtakuSchool.
Character Description: Shizuru Kuwabara
It's hard to think Kazuma Kuwabara has a sister: let alone an older one who's even more skilled than he. Like Kazuma, Shizuru's got a very strong spiritual sense (we see this when Shizuru is able to see the secret message on Koenma's videotape). She's also supposedly a kick-butt fighter (everyone seems scared to tick her off, especially Kazuma).
She just doesn't show her true colors very often. She's normally the coolest cucumber in the whole gang (her typical response to anything is to just continue smoking her cigarette), though there are moments when she'll flare up. As to her relationship with her little brother, it's hard to say. When Kazuma disappeared, she helped Keiko to bully Botan into revealing the secret of the Dark Tournament [Ankoku Bujutsukai]. She acts like a mother to her little brother, making sure he tries to get a life. But when Keiko asks why she doesn't react while Kazuma is getting beaten up during the tournament, Shizuru seems to not care. It's simply because she knows she can't do a thing about it under the rules. She's not the kind to fight fate. She is concerned, but she also knows that hysterics go nowhere.
The above description came from Who Wants to Know?, and was edited by yours truly (contact me).
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Drug Rehab and Treatment Centers Information Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania
Looking for Drug Rehab and treatment centers in Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania?
There are numerous alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities options available to the people residing in the Mount Aetna region. It is very important understand all the types of rehab choices that exist in Mount Aetna, AB., so that you can select the ideal rehabilitation approach for yourself or someone you care about. Selecting the most appropriate alcohol and drug rehab program in Mount Aetna is an essential factor in the process of treating of substance abuse, drug addiction and alcoholism. The following data will help you to understand your various rehabilitation choices so that you have the greatest potential for an ideal outcome.
Let's have a look at the many drug and alcohol treatment centers in Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania possibilities that coincide with the circumstances of the person looking for treatment.
Inpatient drug and alcohol treatment in Mount Aetna, AB. is often a treatment choice ideal in case you will need medical intervention throughout treatment or clients with considerable drug abuse histories. People can develop both mental and physical dependence to alcohol and drugs even after a short period of time, so inpatient drug and alcohol treatment in Mount Aetna is among the most beneficial treatment option in the majority of cases. As a result of substance abuse and addiction, women and men will frequently struggle to recover with the limited solutions made available from outpatient rehab facilities in Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania where drugs are still easily obtainable when they depart the outpatient facility. Likewise, men and women in rehabilitation who take part in outpatient rehab rather than inpatient alcohol and drug rehab in Mount Aetna remain prone to detrimental relationships and circumstances that might cut across their recovery process. If someone resides with an abusive partner or maintains relationships which entail drug abuse, any treatment activities in outpatient rehab are done in vain. This is why in-patient drug rehabilitation in Mount Aetna, AB. is going to produce more beneficial results that can prove long lasting in contrast to an outpatient alcohol and drug treatment facility where benefits are often very limited and acute.
In Mount Aetna there's both short-term and long-term inpatient drug rehab. Short-term is often a 30-day program, while long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania is much more prolonged and rehabilitation lasts 90-120 days generally speaking. This is an ideal setting for clients because it is a safe and secure drug-free environment where they are able to recover both mentally and physically without interruptions. Ideally, women and men proceed inside a long-term in-patient alcohol and drug rehab center in Mount Aetna for the optimum stretch of time permitted, so that they can handle anything which may jeopardize their sobriety when they leave rehabilitation. Because of the fact that detoxing and becoming physically stable can take two to three weeks by itself, the 3 to 6 months in long-term in-patient drug and alcohol rehab in Mount Aetna will be time well spent and a lot more effective than short-term programs.
The most crucial factor of all if you or a loved one is struggling with a drug abuse or addiction concern is to do something about it, call someone and seek advice from skilled addiction specialists and get an assessment and rehabilitation possibilities to ensure the biggest opportunity for a full recovery.
There are no local drug rehab listings for Mount Aetna, Pennsylvania so we have provided the 6 closest treatment facilities arranged by distance from Mount Aetna:
Teen Challenge Training Center Inc
(Rehrersburg is 3.2 from Mount Aetna)
33 Teen Challenge Road
Rehrersburg, PA. 19550
Contact Teen Challenge Training Center Inc, by calling 717-933-4181.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Long Term Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Treatment Centers For Men
Another Chance Counseling
(Lebanon is 8.6 from Mount Aetna)
756 Cumberland Street
Lebanon, PA. 17042
Contact Another Chance Counseling, by calling 717-507-1386.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment For DUI and DWI Offenders
Lebanon VA Medical Center
1700 South Lincoln Avenue
Contact Lebanon VA Medical Center, by calling 717-272-6621.
Hospital Inpatient Services, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehab Centers For Spanish Speaking Clients, Languages other than Spanish
New Perspective at
(Lebanon is 10.2 from Mount Aetna)
Contact New Perspective at, by calling 717-270-3900 x5005.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Drug And Alcohol Detox Programs, Short Term Drug Rehab Centers, Long Term Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For HIV and AIDS Clients, Drug Rehabs For Gays and Lesbians, Drug Rehab Centers For Pregnant Women, Drug Rehabs For Women, Drug Treatment Centers For Men
Lebanon Treatment Center
Contact Lebanon Treatment Center, by calling 888-979-9619.
Drug and Alcohol Rehab, Drug And Alcohol Detox Programs, Outpatient Drug Treatment Programs, Drug Rehab Centers For Pregnant Women, Drug Rehabs For Women, Drug Treatment Centers For Men, Drug Rehab Centers For Spanish Speaking Clients
Wernersville State Hospital
(Wernersville is 11.8 from Mount Aetna)
Wernersville, PA. 19565
Contact Wernersville State Hospital, by calling 610-670-4100.
Hospital Inpatient Services, Drug Treatment for Dual Diagnosis Clients, Drug Rehab Programs For HIV and AIDS Clients, Drug Rehabs For Gays and Lesbians, Drug Rehabs For Senior Citizens, Drug Rehab Programs For Hearing Impaired Clients
Self Pay Drug Rehab Programs, Drug Rehabs That Accept Medicaid, Drug Treatment Programs That Accept Medicare, State Financed Insurance, Drug Rehabs That Accept Private Health Insurance, Drug Treatment Centers With Payment Assistance Programs
In 2008, there were 1.2 million youths (5.0 percent) aged 12 to 17 who needed treatment for an alcohol use problem. Of this group, only 77,000 received treatment at a specialty facility (0.3 percent of all youths and 6.2 percent of youths who needed treatment), leaving almost 1.2 million youths who needed but did not receive treatment.
The smoking rate for Asian young adults aged 18 to 25 increased from 18.0 percent in 2008 to 21.6 percent in 2009, although this did not represent a statistically significant increase. The rates for Asian youths aged 12 to 17 and adults aged 26 or older held steady between 2008 and 2009 (3.8 to 2.5 percent for youths and 11.8 to 9.9 percent for adults, respectively).
In 2008, past month use of illicit drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol (including binge alcohol) was lower among youths aged 12 to 17 who reported that their parents always or sometimes engaged in monitoring behaviors than among youths whose parents "seldom" or "never" engaged in such behaviors. For example, the rate of past month use of any illicit drug was 7.7 percent for youths whose parents always or sometimes helped with homework compared with 15.6 percent among youths who indicated that their parents seldom or never helped. Rates of current cigarette smoking and past month binge alcohol use were also lower among youths whose parents always or sometimes helped with homework (7.7 and 7.3 percent, respectively) than among youths whose parents did not (15.3 and 15.9 percent, respectively).
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2018 Honda Pioneer 1000-5 LE
New Utility Vehicles • SxS: Pioneer 1000
Retail Price: $21,899
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2018 Honda Pioneer 1000-5 LE • $17,299
SxS: Pioneer 1000
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READY FOR ADVENTURE. NOT COMPROMISE.
Some folks skip straight to the top of the line. If that’s you, then you’ve come to the right place. Honda’s Pioneer 1000 Limited Edition and Pioneer 1000-5 Limited Edition aren’t just the top of our Pioneer line, we think they’re the top of any side-by-side lineup. Loaded with innovative features and premium upgraded components, it also offers enhanced comfort and protection. Available in both three-and five-seat versions, the Limited Editions set the bar high, then vault over it.
LCD DISPLAY: The multi-function LCD dash display is large enough to host loads of information, in an easy-to-read way, like speed and fuel level. RPM and transmission mode. Fuel gauge, water temperature, trip information and more. It even includes a clock, so you’ll always know when it’s time for some fun.
TILT WHEEL: With a tilt steering wheel, you’re ensured an even more comfortable driving experience. We’ve given the wheel a wide range of adjustments for optimum customization, and it even moves very far forward to allow for easy entry and exit. Available on Pioneer 1000-5’s and Pioneer 1000 EPS model.
CHASSIS REFINEMENTS: Some of the most impressive Pioneer 1000 features are those you’ll never see. In addition to the suspension and ground clearance, we rubber-mounted the engine and exhaust system to insulate the cabin against excessive vibration. So while you may not see this feature, it’s one you will definitely notice.
SELF-LOAD LEVELING REAR SUSPENSION: Even when you push your Pioneer 1000-5 to the limits, you compromise nothing. Just take the load-leveling suspension with cargo, passengers or both piled into the back — the rear suspension automatically adjusts to the weight change. So you maintain ground clearance, comfort and handling, without compromises.
PADDLE SHIFTING: Steering column-mounted paddle shifters add a serious dose of performance in every drive. In Manual mode, they let you shift without ever taking your hands off the wheel, and in Automatic mode, they let you override the current gear with a quick up or downshift, holding that gear for several seconds before returning to Automatic mode.
INDEPENDENT FRONT AND REAR SUSPENSION: Dual A-arm suspension gives you 10.5 inches of travel in the front, and 10-inches of travel in the rear. Pair that with stellar ground clearance, and you maximize available traction and superior comfort maneuvering over terrain other side-by-sides would shy away from.
ELECTRIC POWER STEERING: Our Electric Power Steering system helps eliminate bump steer through rocky and rutted terrain, which reduces fatigue. What makes it even better is the added assist you get when you need it most, like when you’re in 4WD, driving at lower speeds, or maneuvering over rough conditions. Available on Pioneer 1000-5, Pioneer 1000 EPS, and Pioneer 1000 Limited Edition models.
BIGGER TIRES: Practically speaking, the 27-inch tires on 12-inch rims help increase ground clearance, improve ride comfort, and deliver better traction. Realistically speaking, they just look great. And on the DLX model, you get Maxxis Bighorn 2.0 tires with radial construction and premium style.
POWERFUL 999 CC TWIN-CYLINDER ENGINE: Class-leading displacement in a compact engine size. The 999 cc liquid-cooled inline twin utilizes the same Unicam® cylinder head design found in our motocross bikes and features electronic fuel injection, so you get reliable power and performance, wherever the adventure takes you.
FULLY-AUTOMATIC SIX-SPEED DCT TRANSMISSION: Drive the way you want, with the industry’s first and only 6-speed Dual Clutch Transmission. Choose between manual mode or fully automatic. Plus, the addition of Sport Mode increases the fun, shifting at higher RPMs for a spirited, full-performance driving experience.
HIGH/LOW SUBTRANSMISSION: With a full 42-percent gear reduction between High and Low, you get the torque you need in all 6 gears. It comes in handy when driving over difficult terrain, scaling steep hills or towing heavy loads.
BUILT IN THE U.S.A.: The Pioneer 1000 is purpose-built for the American market, right in America. Domestically and globally sourced parts are all assembled at our plant in Timmonsville, South Carolina, and once these side-by-sides roll off the line, they’re ready to explore every corner of the country.
2000-POUND TOWING CAPACITY: Call it 2000 pounds, or call it 1 ton. Either way, the towing capacity of the Pioneer 1000 is unsurpassed by any competitor. So instead of hopping on the tractor or taking out the truck, you can stay right in your side-by-side and tackle those bigger jobs with relative ease.
HILL START ASSIST (NEW): Need to stop on a steep uphill? Honda’s new Hill Start Assist automatically holds the Pioneer 1000 LE in position while you move your foot from the brake pedal to the accelerator—there’s no roll-back drama.
I-4WD: When you know the power you need is always at the ready, every drive is an enjoyable experience. And that’s precisely what you get out of the class-leading 999cc liquid-cooled inline twin. Using the same Unicam® cylinder head design found in our motocross bikes, it’s more compact in size, and it still delivers the kind of horsepower and torque you’d expect from a flagship model.
FOUR-WHEEL DISC BRAKES: The Pioneer’s uncompromising power helps take you further than ever before. The reliable disc brakes help you stop on a dime. Built to the same standard as you’d find in our autos, the four-wheel disc brakes minimize debris from building up, ensuring consistent performance, and giving you confidence on the trail.
DRIVER/PASSENGER PROTECTION: The Occupant Protection Structure uses large-diameter tubing, and meets OSHA’s rollover protection standard. The hard doors and roll-up side nets help keep debris from entering the cabin, and auto-style three-point seatbelts are equipped with an emergency locking retractor mechanism, to help optimize passenger security. When you put this much safety first, fun is sure to follow.
ELECTRONIC BRAKEFORCE DISTRIBUTION (NEW): Heading down a hill? Is the bed loaded or empty? Honda’s new Electronic Brakeforce Distribution automatically proportions the force to the front and rear brakes with changing conditions—all you do is press the brake pedal. (Standard on all Pioneer 1000 LE models.)
ENGINE AIR INTAKE: To get the most out of your engine, you need the best air going into it. That’s why we positioned the air intake up high under the hood. It helps ensure a clean air supply, even at deeper fording depths, and with a new viscous air filter element, you get increased performance and longer service intervals.
1,000 POUND-CAPACITY TILT BED: There are a ton of reasons to buy a Pioneer 1000. Among them: the 1,000 pound towing capacity. No side-by-side can haul more, and when it comes to dumping, we’ve made it easier than ever, with a hydraulic assist tilt bed lever that can be accessed from outside the vehicle, or right from the driver’s seat.
COLOR-MATCH DOOR AND BEDSIDE PANELS: Want to change the color of your Pioneer when hunting season rolls around? No problem. Our door and bedside panels can be easily swapped out for a different color scheme if and when you need it. This feature comes in particularly handy in case a panel sustains any damage on the job or trail. Available on Pioneer 1000-5 Deluxe and Pioneer 1000 EPS model.
3-PERSON CONTOURED BENCH SEAT: Tough, durable and built to enhance every driving experience — yes, we’re talking about the seat. Contoured for three passengers, the center seat is positioned up and forward to maximize space and comfort, and the covering is designed to resist both the elements and heavy use.
Pioneer 1000-5 LE
Front & Rear - Dual 210 mm hydraulic discs
1,773 lb. - Includes all standard equipment, required fluids and full tank of fuel.
Fully Automatic Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) with six forward gears and Reverse. Four drive modes include 2WD, 4WD, Turf and Differential lock, with Paddle Shifters with three shift modes (standard, sport, and manual)
Twin-cylinder, Unicam® four-stroke
liquid-cooled
92.0 x 75.15 mm
Fuel Injection (PGM-FI), 44mm throttle body
7.9 gal. (1.7-gal. reserve)
Front - Independent double-wishbone; 10.6 in. travel
Rear - Independent double-wishbone; 10 in. travel
PIONEER 1000 IS ONLY FOR DRIVERS 16 YEARS AND OLDER. MULTI-PURPOSE UTILITY VEHICLES (SIDE-BY-SIDES) CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO OPERATE. FOR YOUR SAFETY, DRIVE RESPONSIBLY. ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET, EYE PROTECTION AND APPROPRIATE CLOTHING. ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT, AND KEEP THE SIDE NETS AND DOORS CLOSED. AVOID EXCESSIVE SPEEDS AND BE CAREFUL ON DIFFICULT TERRAIN. WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU COMPLETE THE RECREATIONAL OFF HIGHWAY VEHICLE (ROV) E-COURSE. THE FREE COURSE IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.ROHVA.ORG. READ THE OWNER’S MANUAL BEFORE OPERATING THE VEHICLE. NEVER DRIVE AFTER CONSUMING DRUGS OR ALCOHOL, OR ON PUBLIC ROADS. DRIVER AND PASSENGERS MUST BE TALL ENOUGH FOR SEAT BELT TO FIT PROPERLY AND TO BRACE THEMSELVES WITH BOTH FEET FIRMLY ON THE FLOOR. PASSENGER MUST BE ABLE TO GRASP THE HAND HOLD WITH THE SEAT BELT ON AND BOTH FEET ON THE FLOOR. RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT WHEN DRIVING. Pioneer® is a registered trademark of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ©2019 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. (05/19) powersports.honda.com
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Tag: Vuillard
Gardens, Monet and other Artists
On April 18, 2016 By whatkittysawtodayLeave a comment
The Royal Academy’s ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’, begins and ends with Monet; Matisse barely appears, perhaps included in the title purely for alliterative effect. Monet provides the constant touchstone running through this beautiful exhibition, and it is a joy to see the development both of his painting style and his gardens from the 1860s – on the cusp of Impressionism – to the majestic waterlilies of his final years. The RA has brought together a fascinating range of lesser known canvases (many from private collections and American museums) that are the more interesting for not all being ‘masterpieces’. There is ‘Lady in the Garden’ (above, 1867), a smaller and simpler version of the Musee d’Orsay’s magisterial ‘Women in the Garden’; and then there is the comparatively garish scene of the artist’s children dwarfed by hordes of sunflowers of 1880. ‘The Artist’s Garden at Argenteuil’ (1873) and Renoir’s almost identical view with Monet at his easel (above right) contrast with the early flower studies by these artists and illustrate the rapid – and t0 many unsettling – development towards Impressionism.
The gap between these two pairs of paintings was filled, in historical terms, by the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris Commune. Frederic Bazille, killed in this conflict, is an often forgotten contemporary of the early Impressionists. The ghostly figure in his sunlit garden scene ‘Les Lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric)’ (above, 1867) is a poignant reminder of a career cut short. It is also good to see more of Caillebotte, a more precise Impressionist whose passion for gardening is clear in the most believable of many painted nasturtiums (left, 1892), and in ‘The Wall of the Vegetable Garden, Yerres’ (below right), a view that would be chosen by none but a gardener.
Then the exhibition opens out to embrace a host of international artists, including several I didn’t know such as Joaquin Sorolla and Laurits Tuxen, and others whose paintings of gardens were new to me. Sorolla’s portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany (below right, 1911) surrounded by a an explosion of blooms is a floral highlight, while Singer Sargent is represented by numerous lilies from the same period as ‘Carnation Lily Lily Rose’ (though the absence of this piece is not quite compensated by ‘Garden Study of the Vickers Children’).
The RA must have relished the garden theme as an opportunity for a theatrical approach with the ‘atrium’ construction in the second gallery and the ‘greenhouse’ effect display cabinets. The garden benches I could live with but for the rest I would have preferred the gallery walls to be used to their full glory, to see the painted geraniums tumbling from above, the lilies below, the canvases clustered as they would have been at a Paris Salon in very similar rooms to these in the late 19th century.
The ‘Avant-Gardens’ gallery (I forgave the pun) is an odd mixture, though successful in highlighting the many diverse directions taken by artists in the early years of the 20th century. Some could have been better represented – Matisse particularly, and from all Van Gogh’s sinuous irises and flowering cherry blossom a strangely static and formal Auvers garden scene has been chosen. Nonetheless there was a glorious selection, with Klimt’s mosaic of leaves and flowers (above left), Kandinsky’s Murnau garden of 1910, Munch’s glowering, biblical apple tree in pure blue, green and yellow, and Emil Nolde’s thickly impasto poppies (below right, 1908).
Meanwhile it was a pleasant surprise to find lesser known (and difficult to classify) artists such as Henri Le Sidaner and Santiago Rusinol represented so well, their canvases facing one another across the subsequent gallery, the one crepuscular (‘Steps, Gerberoy’, 1902, below), the other drenched in Spanish sunlight (‘Gardens of Monforte’, 1917, below). Both artists had inherited the Impressionist interest in atmospheric light effects, but rejected other elements of the creed; Le Sidaner, if anything preferred the term ‘Intimiste’ while Rusinol rejected the broken brushstrokes of Impressionism, preferring to maintain the solidness of objects. Similarly, the Nabis painters Bonnard and Vuillard worked from memory and sketches rather than completing their work en plein air and adopted the Fauve technique that gives blank canvas a positive role in the composition. A whole gallery is given over to large scale works by these two artists, including Vuillard’s two panel ‘The Garden of Le Relais at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne’ (1898).
Then, swiftly, as if with relief, the narrative returned to Monet, with two rooms full of waterlilies and weeping willow (above, 1914-15), sensuous and contemplative, allowing the eye to melt into the deep pigments, the reflections and stillness. The final Agapanthus triptych (part below, 1916-19) was a the culmination of this period and – reunited for the first time in Europe since it was painted – a suitably climactic finale.
Culture & Anarchy
On November 2, 2012 January 6, 2013 By whatkittysawtodayLeave a comment
On Wednesday I visited the Fitzwilliam Museum. I began at the end, with British Modernism. With the voices of Cecil Beaton and Stephen Tennant still chattering in my head, I admired the small bronze figures of Frank Dobson, and rather less so the Epstein busts which manage to look scarily emaciated and overly sentimental at the same time. And Stephen said to Cecil: “I’m so glad Dobson wants to do us – what excruciating fun it’ll be!! – visiting each other’s bust & commenting cattily, – I want to be a voluptuous skeleton, – just cheekbones & a navel really … My “Epstein” bust is at the London Group show now.” I want to be a muse. Where are the sculptors?
I like the Sickerts – especially the Mornington Crescent Nude – and the Vuillards – especially one of a woman reading among the reeds, and another in which a large round dining table dominates the small canvas, with a rotund grandmother trapped on one side of this expanse, and a toddler on the other, its head only just peering over the edge and a small fist outstretched; the tea cups and the biscuits are neatly arranged in the middle, appearing beyond the reach of either. One can only imagine the frustration of posing for that one. I would rather model for Degas, ensconced in a Paris cafe with a glass of absinthe.
There was a balcony encircling the third room, high up, which looked tantalisingly unreachable. A door opened onto a tight spiral staircase and led up to an intriguing display of small canvases hung in a line all the way round at eye level. It started at Brueghel (school of) with some curling being played in a dark blue wintry landscape, and a gathering of tiny birds who were considering the bird trap with contempt. It continued round to some portraits and self-portraits of British modernist luminaries such as Lytton Strachey by Henry Lamb (he has such a funny long, bearded, melancholic face. Why was Dora so in love with him? It must have been his mind.) Then I came across this extraordinary picture of Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon as Medieval Saints by Edmond Dulac, whom I knew only as the creator of such ethereal and bewitching illustrations as the Ice Maiden, accompanied by polar bears and carrying a human heart in her delicate hands – a highlight of the Age of Enchantment exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery a few years ago.
Ricketts and Shannon were artistic and personal partners throughout their adult lives, the Fitz website helpfully informs me. They look and sound strikingly like a previous incarnation of Gilbert & George, although – thankfully – did not consider themselves ‘living sculptures’, and produced some really rather beautiful work. Shannon (on the left) looks rather maudlin, caught perhaps at the very moment that he discovers his kingfisher has a terminal illness; Ricketts, meanwhile, with his neat pointed beard and self-satisfied hint of a smile, looks as if he is hatching some furtive scheme. Having illustrated Wilde’s The Sphinx and designed the first British production of Salome, his reverently held peacock feather perhaps suggests that he holds a flame for Oscar, to his partner’s deep distress… What gossip and scandal. Must find out more.
The anarchy broke out as darkness fell and I returned to a London populated by diminutive demons wielding plastic buckets. And then this appeared in our sitting room….
I’m sure Matthew Arnold would never have predicted an anarchy such as this.
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Jagdtiger
Wolcott:na
The 12,8 cm Pak L/66 gun was merely a proposal by Krupp to add an extension to the rear of the Jagdtiger's superstructure in order to fit the gun. Due to the gun's enormous size, it had to be retracted into the rear casemate when the tank is moving. The project was deemed unrealistic and rejected. Therefore, the L/66 configuration on the Jagdtiger without the extension is fake. The 12,8 cm Pak L/66 gun was merely a proposal by Krupp to add an extension to the rear of the Jagdtiger's superstructure in order to fit the gun. Due to the gun's enormous size, it had to be retracted into the rear casemate when the tank is moving. The project was deemed unrealistic and rejected. Therefore, the L/66 configuration on the Jagdtiger without the extension is fake.
* The Jagdtiger was already plagued with mechanical problems due to its excessive weight. Hypothetically, upgunning the tank and extending the superstructure would've necessitated an upgrade of the engine and suspension to cope with the increased weight. However, no option exists to mount a stronger engine other than the historical version. * The Jagdtiger was already plagued with mechanical problems due to its excessive weight. Hypothetically, upgunning the tank and extending the superstructure would've necessitated an upgrade of the engine and suspension to cope with the increased weight. However, no option exists to mount a stronger engine other than the historical version.
? * From August 1944, German tanks had a dark yellow base coat, RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb. Jagdtigers produced from autumn 1944 had a "light and shadow" camouflage pattern with dark yellow and dark green spots. The base colour was changed to dark green in November 1944. In World of Tanks, however, the Jagdtiger is in early Panzer Grey; there is no option to apply Dunkelgelb. + * From August 1944, German tanks had a dark yellow base coat, RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb. Jagdtigers produced from autumn 1944 had a "light and shadow" camouflage pattern with dark yellow and dark green spots. The base colour was changed to dark green in November 1944. In World of Tanks, however, the Jagdtiger is in early Panzer Grey; there is no option to apply Dunkelgelb other than purchasing a paint from "exterior" section.
* Historical Sla.16 diesel engine with 750 hp is missing. According to various of sources such as ''Military Engineer and Amazing Porsche and Volkswagen Story'', the engines were tested with positive results. A diesel engine was mounted onto a [[Tiger II]] as a prototype built by Nibelungen Werke and went through testings in the spring of 1945, though results has not been found from this test. Further proposals also wanted the engine to be mounted in the [[Panther]] and Jagdtiger vehicles for increased power, but the war's constraint on supplies and Nazi Germany's capitulation resulted in the cancellation of these programs. * Historical Sla.16 diesel engine with 750 hp is missing. According to various of sources such as ''Military Engineer and Amazing Porsche and Volkswagen Story'', the engines were tested with positive results. A diesel engine was mounted onto a [[Tiger II]] as a prototype built by Nibelungen Werke and went through testings in the spring of 1945, though results has not been found from this test. Further proposals also wanted the engine to be mounted in the [[Panther]] and Jagdtiger vehicles for increased power, but the war's constraint on supplies and Nazi Germany's capitulation resulted in the cancellation of these programs.
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image:800px-Jagdtiger 1 Bovington.jpg{{!}}Jagdtiger at Bovington Tank Museum. image:800px-Jagdtiger 1 Bovington.jpg{{!}}Jagdtiger at Bovington Tank Museum.
Germany | TD | Tier IX
3,450,000 Cost
74.55/7575.5/79 t Weight Limit
8.729.27 hp/t Power/Wt Ratio
250/80/80 mm Hull Armor
5.5 r/m
50% Crew: 13.5 s
Both and BiA: 9 s
Maximum possible: 0.29 m
FerdinandJagdpanther II
Jagdpanzer E 100
Stationary: 10.9%
On Soft Ground: 2.3
The Jagdtiger is a German tier 9 tank destroyer.
Developed from 1942 through 1944, the heavy tank destroyer, with the chassis of the Tiger II heavy tank, became the heaviest mass-produced armored vehicle ever. According to various sources, 70–79 tank destroyers were manufactured from 1944 through 1945. The vehicles saw service in the 653rd and 512th Heavy Panzerjäger Battalions.
The undisputed "King" of German tank destroyers before the 7.5 update, and by some still considered to be better than the Jagdpanzer E-100, the Jagdtiger offers thick frontal armor and a selection of two heavy guns capable of dealing massive damage to any target. Due to its high weight, it is slow and unwieldy. The gun mantlet, while thick, shots which hit it still manages to damage the gun. If de-tracked, or attacked from the rear or sides, it will die easily and quickly . Do not approach this tank from the front even if you have a gun with sufficient penetration; it will probably be the last thing you see before becoming a smoking wreck. This tank destroyer is best played with one or two mediums acting in support role, defending its sides and rear. It has large weak spots, as with most German tanks, on the lower glacis plate. There are several places with guaranteed penetration, but those are yours to find. Either way, drive or attack this tank destroyer with caution.
Note that the Jagdtiger in World of Tanks is the Henschel version with 9 wheels on each tracks.
The Jagdtiger leads to the Jagdpanzer E 100.
X 12,8 cm Pak 44 L/55 246/311/65 490/490/630 5.5 0.35 2.3 3480 310000
X 12,8 cm Pak L/66 276/352/65 560/560/700 5.26 0.33 2.3 3980 339000
VIII Jagdtiger 75 24 0 22350 28100
IX Jagdtiger verstärkteketten 79 26 0 22350 62000
- Second highest HP pool of all TDs in the game (2100)
- Very thick frontal upper superstructure armor (250mm)
- Very accurate gun
- Excellent DPM
- Decent gun depression
- Good base view range for a TD (390m), can be boosted considerably with equipment and skills
- Decent maneuverability and acceleration for its size
- Weak rear and side armor (80mm) makes it very vulnerable from flanking
- Although thick, superstructure is flat and can be penned by "premium" ammo when un-angled, and even standard-issue ammo in tiers IX and X
- Upper glacis is only 200mm effective thick and unreliable, easily penetrated by even lower tier TDs
- Lower plate is extremely weak and easily penetrated by anyone you meet
- Poor camo rating, although good view range compensates for this
- Slow traverse speed, easily circled
- Extremely weak ammo rack
The JT is a relatively one-dimensional tank that uses several facets in pursuit of that. The first and foremost focus of the JT player is one thing: damage. The JT cannot scout and cannot flank other tanks; its role isn't distraction or spotting. Its role is to simply hammer away at the foes' hitpoints, one shell at a time. Compared to many TDs at these tiers, the JT seems to be a less damaging tank, what with its 490 (later 560) damage-per-shot rating, when many other tier IX (and especially tier X) TDs are doing 750 or more.
However, it is easy to forget that for all the awesome power the 150mm+ class guns have, there is a cost to such damage: long reload cycles. So long, it should be noted, that most large guns don't have any real suppressive power: they take a shot and, regardless of results they are open and vulnerable for enough time for a medium or a group of tanks to push up and focus fire them without any recourse. The JT on the other hand excels at punishing a foe when they make the attempt to push forward. With the shorter reload of the 128mm gun the JT is capable of running sustained fire on targets in the open, and doing so allows it to rake in more damage overall than the single-shot cannons while simply being a more flexible weapon.
There are some drawbacks to the JT though: the mobility and lack of effective armor. It also has bad camouflague values, so it is not a particularly good idea to rely on it. It should be said that the 250mm casemate plate, mantlet, and 8 degrees of gun depression does make the JT quite good in a hull down position. However, when attempting to relocate to a location, or in the open without cover, the JT is without question vulnerable. If flanked, the large profile makes it easy to track and hit. The armor, outside of the casemate front, doesn't amount to more than 210mm effective, which is less than almost any tier 9 or 10 tank can do anyways. The best way to use the JT is to use situational awareness: pay attention to what everyone in front of you is focused on, make sure that you're not the focus of their attention, and then use that time gap to move from cover to cover. Outside of some hills and small rocks, the JT isn't a terribly good tank for abusing cover, but it still can hope to do more damage than it takes, even if it gets caught in the open 1-on-1, with its damage-per-minute. The most effective JT is either in the second line sniping what forward spotters see, or immediately in front of an opponent, facehugging and annihilating them. The tank is most comfortable at long or zero range; its weaknesses are more apparent in the midrange game where its weakspots are large enough to be targeted accurately and where it is often easy to be targeted by more than one enemy at once, focus fired, and reduced to flame and ash.
- Stock suspension can handle top radio easily
- You then face a choice between the engine (which carries over from the Jagdpanther) or equipment. Sadly there's not enough weight limit for a tank gun rammer, something you'd want to use on any tank with a usable gun
- Then the upgraded suspension to make the poor mobility a bit better and enough weight limit to load everything in
- Finally, the 12,8cm Pak 44/2 L/61 offers much increase in all aspects of gun performance.
Jagdtiger front left view
Jagdtiger front right view
Jagdtiger rear left view
Jagdtiger rear right view
Jagdtiger back left view
Jagdtiger back right view
Jagdtiger, Malinovka map
Jagdtiger, map Highway
Captured JagdTiger, photo taken by Soviet forces in 1945.
Jagdtiger: the common name of a German tank-destroyer (German: Jagdpanzer) of World War II. The official German designation was Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B. The ordnance inventory designation was Sd. Kfz. 186. It saw service from late 1944 to the end of the war on both the Western and Eastern Fronts. The Jagdtiger was the heaviest armored fighting vehicle to see service during World War II.
Although well protected and armed, it suffered from mechanical problems attributed to its excessive weight. A total of almost 80 vehicles were manufactured.
With the success of the StuG III in the tank-destroyer role, the military leadership of Nazi Germany decided to use the chassis' of existing armored fighting vehicles as the basis for self-propelled guns. German tank destroyers of World War II lacked turrets, using fixed casemates instead, and as a result, they were capable of mounting larger caliber guns than on turreted AFVs on the same chassis. The lack of turrets also reduced their production time and cost, as fewer complex components need to be manufactured.
In early 1942, a request was made by the Army General Staff to mount a 128 mm gun on a self-propelled armored chassis. On May 18 1942, Adolf Hitler ordered that the 128 mm gun be utilized in the tank-destroyer role, rather than for infantry support. Firing tests of the 128 mm gun showed it to have a high percentage of hits. Lower caliber heavy shells such as the 88 mm and 105 mm were also tested.
By early 1943, a decision was made to install a 128 mm gun on a Panther or Tiger I chassis as a heavy assault gun. The Panther chassis was considered unsuitable after a wooden mockup of the design was constructed. On October 20 1943, another wooden mockup was constructed on a Tiger II chassis, and presented to Hitler in East Prussia. Two prototypes were produced; a version with the eight road wheel Porsche suspension system (number 305001) and a version with the Henschel nine overlapping-wheel suspension system (number 305002), as used on the production Tiger II, were completed in February 1944. It was originally designated as Jagdpanzer VI, but was later named the Jagdtiger. It received the special ordnance number Sd.Kfz. 186.
Jagdtiger at [Bovington Tank Museum]
The Jagdtiger was a logical extension of the creation of Jagdpanzer designs from tank designs, such as the Jagdpanther from the Panther tank. The Jagdtiger used a boxy casemate superstructure on top of a lengthened Tiger II chassis. The resulting vehicle featured very-heavy armor and the 128 mm PaK 44 L/55 gun,:capable of defeating any tank fielded in World War II, even at very long ranges (over 3,500 m). It had 250 mm armor on the front of the casemate and 150 mm on the glacis plate. The main gun mount had a limited traverse of only 10 degrees; the entire vehicle had to be turned to aim outside that narrow field of fire.
The Jagdtiger suffered from a variety of mechanical and technical problems due to its immense weight and under-powered engine. The vehicle had frequent breakdowns. Ultimately, more Jagdtigers were lost to mechanical problems or lack of fuel than to enemy action.
150 Jagdtigers were ordered, but only half that number were produced. Eleven of them, serial numbers 305001 and 305003 to 305012, were produced with the Porsche suspension (8 roadwheels): all following used the Henschel suspension (9 roadwheels).
Production figures vary depending on source and other factors, such as if prototypes are included and if those made after VE day are included. Totals range from about 77 to 88 produced from July 1944 to May 1945. Approximately 48 from July 1944 to the end of December 1944, 36 from January to April 1945, and serial numbers from 305001 to 305088 (such as examples from May 1945, and pre-production prototypes, and whether incomplete chassis are counted). Some sources say no more vehicles were completed after February. Towards the end, some were lacking important equipment and could not be used operationally, or could not be deployed to units.
Combat history
Vehicle 305020, [US Army Ordnance Museum].
Only two heavy anti-tank battalions (schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung), numbered 512 and 653, were equipped with Jagdtigers, with the first vehicles reaching the units in September 1944. About twenty percent were lost in combat, most were destroyed by their own crews when abandoned, chiefly due to mechanical breakdowns or lack of fuel in the desperate final stages of the war.
The gun used separate-loading ammunition, which meant that two loaders were used to insert the projectile and the cased propelling charge separately. This resulted in a slow rate of fire. The tremendous amount of smoke would often give-away the position of the vehicle, in addition to momentarily blinding the crew, although the latter was a moot point, owing to the very-slow reload time.
Tiger ace Otto Carius commanded the second of three companies of Jagdtigers in Panzerjagerabteilung 512. His memoir "Tigers in the Mud" provides a rare combat history of the ten Jagdtigers under his command. He states that Jagdtigers were not utilized to their full potential due to several factors. Allied air supremacy made it difficult to move, the massive gun needed to be re-calibrated from jarring after traveling off-road for even short distances, it was slow, and transmissions and differentials broke down easily because the whole 72 ton vehicle needed to rotate to traverse. The massive gun had to be locked down, otherwise mounting brackets would have worn too much for accurate firing. However, he also recorded that a 128 mm projectile went through all the walls of a house and destroyed an American tank behind it.
Insufficient crew training and depleted morale was the biggest problem for Jagdtiger crews under Carius' command. At the Ruhr pocket, two Jagdtiger commanders failed to attack an American armored column about 1.5 km away in daylight for fear of attracting an air attack, even though Jagdtigers were well-camouflaged. Both vehicles broke down while withdrawing through fear of air attack, and one was then destroyed by the crew. To prevent such a disaster at Siegen, Carius himself dug in on high ground. An approaching American armored column avoided the prepared ambush because German civilians warned them of it. Later, one of his vehicles fell into a bomb crater at night and was disabled, and another was lost to Panzerfaust attack by friendly Volkssturm troops who had never seen a Jagdtiger before.
Near Unna, one Jagdtiger attacked uphill against five American tanks six-hundred meters away; two withdrew and the other three opened fire. The Jagdtiger took several hits, but they could not penetrate the 250 mm frontal armor. The inexperienced German commander then lost his nerve and turned around instead of backing away, exposing the thinner side armor, which was eventually penetrated and all six crew were lost. Carius wrote that it was useless when crews were not trained or experienced enough to have the thick frontal armor facing the enemy at all times.
When unable to escape the Ruhr pocket, Carius ordered the guns of the remaining Jagdtigers destroyed and surrendered to American forces. The ten Jagdtigers of 2nd Company, Panzerjagerabteilung 512, destroyed one American tank for one Jagdtiger lost to combat, one lost to friendly fire, and eight others lost to breakdown or destroyed by their crews to prevent capture.
Jagdtiger, destroyed by his own crew at the battle of Ruhn
Jagdtiger, somewhere in France
Jagdtiger, rear view with recognisable King tiger exhaust pipes
Jagdtiger frontal view
Jagdtiger, note the massive superstructure and a huge 128 mm gun
Jagdtiger at Bovington Tank Museum.
The 12,8 cm Pak L/66 gun was merely a proposal by Krupp to add an extension to the rear of the Jagdtiger's superstructure in order to fit the gun. Due to the gun's enormous size, it had to be retracted into the rear casemate when the tank is moving. The project was deemed unrealistic and rejected. Therefore, the L/66 configuration on the Jagdtiger without the extension is fake.
The Jagdtiger was already plagued with mechanical problems due to its excessive weight. Hypothetically, upgunning the tank and extending the superstructure would've necessitated an upgrade of the engine and suspension to cope with the increased weight. However, no option exists to mount a stronger engine other than the historical version.
From August 1944, German tanks had a dark yellow base coat, RAL 7028 Dunkelgelb. Jagdtigers produced from autumn 1944 had a "light and shadow" camouflage pattern with dark yellow and dark green spots. The base colour was changed to dark green in November 1944. In World of Tanks, however, the Jagdtiger is in early Panzer Grey; there is no option to apply Dunkelgelb other than purchasing a paint from "exterior" section.
Historical Sla.16 diesel engine with 750 hp is missing. According to various of sources such as Military Engineer and Amazing Porsche and Volkswagen Story, the engines were tested with positive results. A diesel engine was mounted onto a Tiger II as a prototype built by Nibelungen Werke and went through testings in the spring of 1945, though results has not been found from this test. Further proposals also wanted the engine to be mounted in the Panther and Jagdtiger vehicles for increased power, but the war's constraint on supplies and Nazi Germany's capitulation resulted in the cancellation of these programs.
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The Muslim attempt to defend a single Bukhari quote is ignorant of other quotes where he ordered the mutilation and bleeding to death of many Bedouins who left Islam after robbing camels of a Muslim. [[Abu Bakr]] set an example of following Muhammad when he killed an unknown number of ex-Muslims as a caliph.<ref>Tabari: Vol. 2, p. 5</ref><ref>''The Encyclopaedia of Islam''. New Edition. Vol.1, p.110</ref><ref name="Griffel">{{cite book|author=Frank Griffel|title=Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam: die Entwicklung zu al-Ġazālīs Urteil gegen die Philosophie und die Reaktionen der Philosophen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J52MMfLa6DkC&pg=PA61|year=2000|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-11566-8|pages=61|language=German}}</ref>
== Honesty ==
==Honesty==
Lots of Muslims say "our prophet was a very honest man, he was renowned for his honesty in Mecca, Khadija proposed to him because of his honesty" et. al. This is hard to believe. Muhammad was very poor. How many rich women in the world choose a man because of his honesty and not his wealth or his earning capacity? How many Muslim women choose a bridegroom like Khadija did? This act should have been a sunnah long years ago. By the way, how many Muslim women choose a bridegroom? Muslim women are starved of choices and decision making. [[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Women|Women's suppression in Islam]] is a popular reality.
Why is all this propaganda spread about his honesty? It rules out the chances of raising any doubts about Muhammad's prophethood. Muhammad is honest, although according to poor or false sources. So then, nobody will say he is faking his conversation with Allah.
== Marrying widows ==
==Marrying widows==
Another popular Muslim argument in defense of Muhammad's polygamy is that he "married a large number of women out of sympathy or to give them high status because their husbands had been killed in wars." However, Muhammad himself was responsible for killing those men by waging multiple wars.
[[Farsideology: Muhammad's Character]]
[[Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Muhammad]]
Muhammad disliked those who left Islam.
Here we quote the argument of Muslims in favour of freedom of religion.
"In Bukhari 9:316, Jabir ibn 'Abdullah narrated that a Bedouin accepted Islam and then when he got a fever he demanded that Muhammad to cancel his pledge (allow him to renounce Islam). Muhammad refused to do so. The Bedouin man repeated his demand once, but Muhammad once again refused. Then, he (the Bedouin) left Medina. Muhammad said, "Madinah is like a pair of bellows (furnace): it expels its impurities and brightens and clear its good." In this narration, there was no evidence demonstrating that Muhammad ordered the execution of the Bedouin for wanting to renounce Islam."
The last line is the addition of the Muslim arguers. They are desperate to prove that Muhammad opposed death penalty for leaving Islam. All they have is negative evidence based on assumption i.e. "there was no evidence demonstrating...." But they totally missed out one point. He used a simile to condemn a person leaving Islam.
So many poets sing praises of Muhammad's moral character. If they make sense, he should not have condemned someone's choice of religion, faith and belief.
The Muslim attempt to defend a single Bukhari quote is ignorant of other quotes where he ordered the mutilation and bleeding to death of many Bedouins who left Islam after robbing camels of a Muslim. Abu Bakr set an example of following Muhammad when he killed an unknown number of ex-Muslims as a caliph.[1][2][3]
Lots of Muslims say "our prophet was a very honest man, he was renowned for his honesty in Mecca, Khadija proposed to him because of his honesty" et. al. This is hard to believe. Muhammad was very poor. How many rich women in the world choose a man because of his honesty and not his wealth or his earning capacity? How many Muslim women choose a bridegroom like Khadija did? This act should have been a sunnah long years ago. By the way, how many Muslim women choose a bridegroom? Muslim women are starved of choices and decision making. Women's suppression in Islam is a popular reality.
Muslims also try to cite sources like this questions site did.[4] This URL gives two citations for Muhammad's honesty and you find both of them false on a thorough search.
Marrying widows
Muslim debaters then blame the polytheists or Jews for provoking or starting these wars, a very common argument which is found even in the books of most reliable Western scholars in recent times. Both Muslims and Western scholars seem to forget one thing. God was talking to Muhammad for 20 years. God could have stopped these wars. He could have discouraged violence in clear words in the Koran but he did nothing. Therefore, one can wonder if he is worthy of worship.
Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Muhammad
↑ Tabari: Vol. 2, p. 5
↑ The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Vol.1, p.110
↑ Frank Griffel (in German). Apostasie und Toleranz im Islam: die Entwicklung zu al-Ġazālīs Urteil gegen die Philosophie und die Reaktionen der Philosophen. BRILL. pp. 61. ISBN 90-04-11566-8, 2000. https://books.google.com/books?id=J52MMfLa6DkC&pg=PA61.
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Chapter 25: Usage
This list contains words that are easily confused and thus misused. The definitions and examples will help clarify how these challenging words ought to be used in your writing. (These usage rules align with The Chicago Manual of Style.)
Using the Right Word
a, an
A is used before words beginning with a consonant sound; an is used before words beginning with a vowel sound.
an understanding
a unified team
an honest mistake
accept, except
The verb accept means “to receive” or “to believe.” The preposition except means “other than”; the conjunction means “unless”; and the verb means “leave out.”
The supervisor accepted Lu’s reason for being late for work.
Everyone—except Lu and the supervisor—had remembered to switch to daylight saving time.
Only in rare cases are employees excepted from the policy on punctuality.
adapt, adept, adopt
Adapt means “to modify to make suitable”; adopt means “to take and treat as one’s own” (as with a concept or a child). Adept is an adjective meaning “proficient or well trained.”
We adopted Business Plus accounting software. Now we need an adept accountant to adapt our bookkeeping system to the new software.
adverse, averse
Adverse means “hostile, unfavorable, or harmful.” Averse means “to have a definite feeling of distaste; disinclined.”
Adverse weather conditions grounded all airplanes.
The tired staff was averse to the idea of working till midnight.
advice, advise
Advice is a noun that means “recommendation or information”; advise is a verb meaning “to counsel or recommend.”
He advised me to value good advice.
affect, effect
Affect is a verb that means “to influence.” As a noun, effect means “the result”; as a verb, it means “to bring about.”
Your performance in the coming year will directly affect the amount of your bonus.
The effect of the economy is hard to predict.
The new procedure will effect significant savings in time and cost.
aid, aide
As a verb, aid means “to help”; as a noun, aid means “the help given.” Aide is a person who acts as an assistant.
This book will aid anyone who wants to improve his or her writing.
Mr. Young is an aide to the vice president.
allot, alot, a lot
Allot means “to assign a portion or piece.” Alot is not a word; a lot (two words) is correct, but should be used sparingly—especially in formal writing.
allude, elude, refer
Allude means “to indirectly refer to something,” elude “to escape attention or understanding altogether,” and refer “to directly call attention to something.”
Don’t just allude to proper conduct; instead, refer specifically to required behavior. That way your expectations will not elude your staff.
allusion, illusion
Allusion is an indirect reference; illusion is a false impression or image.
Are you under the illusion that most people understand your allusions to the works of Aristotle?
already, all ready
Already is an adverb meaning “before or by the specified time.” All ready is an adjective form meaning “completely prepared.” (Use all ready if you can substitute ready alone in the sentence.)
The shipment already arrived this morning.
The sales staff is all ready to take orders.
alright, all right
Alright is an incorrect form of all right. (Please note that the following words are spelled correctly: always, altogether, already, almost.)
alter, altar
Alter means “to change something”; altar is a table or raised area used in worship.
The secretary altered the company letterhead.
The couple stood in front of the altar.
alternate, alternative
Alternate is a noun meaning “something or someone that can be used or put in place of another”; it is also a verb meaning “to change back and forth between two things.” An alternative is a choice derived from two or more possibilities.
If I’m still sick, Mary can go to the meeting as my alternate.
Earl and I alternate shifts.
One alternative to a meeting is a conference call.
altogether, all together
Altogether means “wholly, completely.” All together means “in a group” or “all at once.” (Use all together if you can substitute together alone in a sentence.)
All together there are 5,000 jobs listed.
That’s altogether too many to consider.
among, between
Among refers to groups of more than two persons or things; between refers to only two.
Personal-leave days are listed among the benefits offered by this company.
Communication between workers and management is candid.
amount, number
Amount refers to things in bulk or mass. Number refers to separate units that can be counted. (See also fewer, less.)
The number of new workers hired next year will depend upon the amount of revenue raised by sales.
and, etc.
Don’t use and before etc. (See also etc.)
Did you confirm prices, costs, profits, etc.?
annual, biannual, semiannual, biennial, perennial
Annual means “occurring once every year.” Biannual and semiannual mean “twice a year.” Biennial means “every two years.” Perennial means “throughout the year, every year.”
I planted annual flowers this year next to the perennials that come up from bulbs every year. I buy bulbs at the semiannual sales in spring and fall at our garden shop.
anxious (about), eager (to)
Anxious indicates that one is worrying; eager, that one is gladly anticipating something.
Margarete is anxious about speaking in public, but she is eager to share her new findings with the research department.
any one (of), anyone
Any one means “a singular thing or person from a group”; anyone is a pronoun meaning “any person.”
Choose any one of the proposed weekend schedules. Anyone wishing to work on Saturday instead of Sunday may do so.
any way, anyway, anyways
Any way means “any route, method, or course of action”; anyway is an adverb meaning “in any case.” (Anyways is an incorrect form of anyway.)
Matt couldn’t think of any way to change his schedule. I didn’t really need a ride from him anyway.
appraise, apprise
Appraise means “to estimate the worth of something.” Apprise means “to inform.”
The man appraised the house at $190,000 and apprised the owners of its worth.
as, as if, like (See like.)
ascent, assent (to)
Ascent refers to rising or advancement; assent refers to agreement.
The ascent of Mt. Everest is treacherous.
Because of your inexperience, I cannot assent to your going on the expedition.
assure, ensure, insure (See insure.)
augment, supplement
Although both words mean “to add something,” augment indicates a simple increase in size or degree, and supplement indicates making something that was deficient, complete.
Flood warnings augmented the importance of the levee reports.
This manual supplements the program we purchased last month.
average, median
The average and median of a series of numbers can be explained by this example: Seven workers used 0, 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, and 8 sick days respectively. The average number of sick days used is the total (28) divided by the number of workers (7): 4. The median, or middle number in the series, is 3: 0, 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, 8.
bad, badly
Bad is an adjective and can be used after linking verbs.
The bad day would not end.
I feel bad, look bad, and smell bad.
Badly is an adverb.
He was driving badly, so I called the 800 number on the truck’s bumper sticker.
base, bass
Base is the lowest part or the foundation. Bass (when pronounced like case) is a low-pitched singer, instrument, or sound. Bass (when pronounced like pass) is a fish.
I will base my biographical essay on my cousin Ace, who plays the electric bass and fishes for bass.
beside, besides
Beside is a preposition that means “next to.” Besides is an adverb that means “in addition to.”
Put the file cabinet beside the desk.
Besides the new cabinet, we need better lighting.
between, among (See among.)
biannual, biennial (See annual.)
bring, take
Bring refers to movement toward the writer or speaker; take refers to movement away from the writer or speaker.
Please bring the new product data to the meeting, and remember to take our recommendations to Marketing afterward.
by, bye, buy
By is a preposition or an adverb. Bye, an interjection, is short for “good-bye.” Buy is a verb meaning “to purchase.”
I cannot walk by a candy store without having an urge to buy some chocolate. Bye-bye, diet.
can, may
Can implies ability; may indicates permission.
“I can take your order” literally means “I am physically or mentally able to take the order.”
“May I take your order?” asks permission to take the order.
capital, capitol
As a noun, capital refers to wealth (money or goods) or to a chief city. The adjective capital means “important, excellent, or serious.” Capitol refers to a government building.
Capitol buildings are generally in the center of capital cities.
She grew used to making decisions of capital importance.
“Thought, not money, is the real business capital,” said Harvey Firestone.
New investments contributed capital for the building fund.
censor, censure
Censor means “to examine in order to delete anything objectionable.” Censure means “to condemn or criticize.”
After the letter was censored, there was little left to read.
The problematic open-campus policy was censured by the school board.
cent, sent, scent
Cent is the value of a penny; sent is the past tense of the verb send; scent is a fragrance or a smell.
The perfume company sent out 75-cent postcards to announce their new scent.
chair, chairperson
The terms chair and chairperson refer to the presiding officer of a meeting or board. Use either term, but do not use chairman or chairwoman; the latter terms are sexually biased.
Elsa is the new chair of the theater guild, replacing Donald, the outgoing chairperson.
choose, chose
Choose (chüz) means “to select”; chose (chōz) is the past tense of choose.
After being warned to choose her words carefully, Fiona chose to remain silent.
chord, cord
Chord means “the combination of three or more tones sounded at the same time,” as with a guitar chord. It can also mean “an emotion or a feeling.” A cord is a string, a rope, or a small electrical cable.
The guitar player strummed the opening chord to the group’s hit song, which struck a responsive chord with the audience.
The worn electrical cord for my space heater should be replaced.
cite, sight, site (See sight.)
climactic, climatic
Climactic refers to the climax, or high point, of an event; climatic refers to the climate or weather conditions.
Because we are using the open-air amphitheater, climatic conditions in these foothills will just about guarantee the wind gusts we need for the climactic third act.
clothes, cloths, close
The word clothes means “a covering or garments meant to be worn.” Cloths are fabrics. As an adjective, close means “very near.” As a verb, it means “to shut” or “bring to an end.”
In the play, I wore my own clothes, including close-fitting jeans and a top made of three different cloths.
coarse, course
Coarse is an adjective meaning “common, rough, or crude.” The noun course can mean “a direction or route taken” or “a class on a certain subject.” The verb course means “to move swiftly.”
Burlap is a very coarse fabric.
The ship’s captain mapped out a new course to avoid the hurricane.
I’m taking an Internet course.
compare with, compare to
Things of the same class are compared with each other; things of different classes are compared to each other.
Compare your responses with mine.
Ben compared his computer to a sloth.
Note: Compared to can also mean “in relation to.”
Roberta is Internet savvy compared to me.
complement, compliment
Complement means “to complete or go well with.” Compliment means “to give praise.” Both words can also be used as nouns. The adjective complementary means “serving to fill out or complete.” Complimentary means “given free as a favor.”
“Some folks pay a compliment like they expect a receipt.”
—Frank McKinney Hubbard
A fine grape jelly is a complement to any peanut butter.
comprehensible, comprehensive
Comprehensible means “capable of being understood”; comprehensive means “covering a broad range, or inclusive.”
If the report is comprehensible to laypeople, it’s a great report.
Comprehensive training sessions ensured the program’s success.
comprise, compose
Comprise means “to contain or consist of”; compose means “to create or form by bringing parts together.”
The research team comprises three Ph.D.’s and one high school student.
The research team is composed of [not comprised of] three Ph.D.’s and one high school student.
concave, convex
Concave refers to an object curved inward like the inner surface of a ball; convex refers to an object curved outward like the outer surface of a ball.
I remember that concave forms a hollow because it contains the word “cave.” I remember that convex protrudes because it is the opposite of “concave.”
confidant, confident
A confidant is someone you trust. Confident means “self-assured.”
Mr. Barker had no confidant with whom he could share his ideas.
Confident of her talent, Sharon leapt at any chance to speak.
conscience, conscious
A conscience gives one the capacity to know right from wrong. Conscious means “awake or alert, not sleeping or comatose.”
Your conscience will guide you.
Mr. Kreutz needs two cups of coffee to be fully conscious at this hour.
consequently, subsequently
Consequently means “as a result of”; subsequently means “following closely in time or order.”
We were late for the meeting; consequently, we missed the reading of the minutes.
The general had retired to his study but was subsequently interrupted by a knock at the door.
consul (See counsel.)
continual, continuous
Continual refers to something that happens at intervals over a long period; continuous refers to something that happens without stopping.
The continual interruptions impaired her concentration.
The company suffered a continuous slump that lasted for five months.
controller, comptroller
Controller refers to someone who either controls air traffic or is the chief accountant in a business or an institution. Comptroller refers only to the latter position.
The air traffic controllers get their paychecks from the comptroller.
counsel, council, consul
As a noun, counsel means “advice” or “a legal or professional adviser”; as a verb, counsel means “to advise.” Council refers to a group that governs, administers, or advises. A consul is a government official appointed to a position in a foreign country.
The consul appointed to Brazil counseled the trade minister there about our new tariff laws.
The corporate counsel knew the pollution laws by heart.
The building council offers counsel to dissatisfied tenants.
credible, creditable
Credible refers to someone or something you can believe. Creditable means “deserving of commercial credit or limited praise.”
The auditor examined two credible reports.
The bank believes Joy’s Shoe Mart is a creditable business.
criteria, criterion
Criteria is the plural form of criterion, a standard on which a judgment is made.
The most important criterion in the pie judge’s mind was taste.
The exclusive club has a long list of membership criteria.
data, datum
Informally, the term data often defines a single collection off acts.
The data given in this report is interesting and very convincing. (Informal)
In formal writing, if your emphasis is on the individual facts, data is used as the plural form of the singular datum.
These data were collected during months of research. (Formal, scientific)
decent, descent, dissent
Decent means “good.” Descent is the process of going or stepping downward. Dissent means “disagreement.”
The plane’s descent into the airport was quick and smooth.
There is much dissent over which airline offers decent business service.
defective, deficient
Defective means “faulty or imperfect”; deficient means “lacking something necessary” and indicates a shortage.
The defective part caused the sudden engine failure.
Our winter food stores were deficient.
device, devise
Device is an invention for a particular purpose or a means to do something. Devise means “to form, plan, or arrange.”
That paint-mixing device no longer works.
He was asked to devise a sales plan for the fourth quarter.
different from, different than
Use different from in most cases; use different than when it is followed by a clause.
His car is different from mine.
The elevator smells different than it smelled yesterday.
disburse, disperse
Disburse means “to pay out funds”; disperse means “to spread out or break up.”
The trustee is the only person who can disburse the inheritance.
The riot police dispersed the crowd.
discreet, discrete
Discreet means “showing good judgment, modest, unobtrusive”; discrete means “distinct, separate.” You can remember this difference because in discrete, the t “separates” the two e's.
The new office dress code mandated businesslike, discreet attire.
Her advice to me was to keep my home life discrete from my career.
disinterested, uninterested (See uninterested.)
effect, affect (See affect.)
elicit, illicit
Elicit is a verb meaning “to bring out”; illicit is an adjective meaning “unlawful.”
The manager’s confidence in the team seems to elicit strong morale.
Illicit home use of shop equipment has been uncovered.
eminent, imminent, emanate
Eminent means “prominent, conspicuous, or famous”; imminent means “ready or threatening to happen”; emanate is a verb that means “coming from a particular source.”
Several eminent CEO’s will be flying in for the meeting. A merger of the companies is imminent.
envelop, envelope
Envelop means “to cover or surround”; an envelope is a flat paper folder or case (usually for a letter).
Fog envelops our seaside cottage each morning in summer.
The letter arrived in a hot-pink envelope.
Etc. is an abbreviation for et cetera, which means “and others” or “and so forth.” Never use and before etc. (See also and, etc.)
example, sample
The noun example means “prototype, or something that serves as a pattern”; the noun sample means a “representative item from a larger whole.” As a verb, sample means “to take a sample of or from.”
Mr. Dorrit will compose a collection letter to be used as an example for the rest of the clerks.
Before you purchase the pepper sausage, taste a sample.
except, accept (See accept.)
explicit, implicit
Explicit means “expressed directly, or clearly defined”; implicit means “implied, or unstated.”
The directions were explicit and easy for us to follow.
The implicit message in the boss’s glance was understood by all.
fair, fare
Fair, as an adjective, refers to a pleasing appearance; as a noun, it refers to a gathering for buying and selling goods. Fare is the charge levied for transportation.
I met a fair maiden at the fair.
The fare for the ferry had gone up by $5.00.
farther, further
Farther refers to physical distance; further means “to a greater degree or extent.”
When we investigated further, we discovered that they had traveled farther than initially thought.
female, woman
Use female in scientific or legal materials; in most other contexts, woman is the more personal, acceptable term.
The female subject received the placebo.
Women of varying economic backgrounds have been polled.
fewer, less
Fewer refers to a number of countable units; less refers to value, degree, or bulk quantity. (See also amount, number.)
Despite fewer benefits and less pay, department morale rose.
first, firstly
Both words are adverbs meaning “before another in time” or “in the first place.” However, do not use firstly, which is stiff and unnatural sounding.
Incorrect: Firstly, I want to see the manager.
Correct: First, I want to see the manager.
When enumerating, use the forms first, second, third, next, last—without the “ly.”
fiscal, physical
Fiscal means “related to financial matters”; physical means “related to material things.”
Physical health requires regular exercise; fiscal health requires careful budgeting.
for, fore, four
For is a preposition with many meanings, including “because of,” “directed to,” “in favor of,” or “during a duration.”As an adjective, fore means “earlier” or “forward”; as a noun, it means “the front.” Four is the number 4.
The fore of the boat dipped for a moment, splashing the four of us.
former, latter
When speaking of two things, former refers to the first thing and latter to the second. (See also later.)
Of the two speeches, the former was more polished, but the latter was more entertaining.
Former means “from an earlier time”; latter means “closer to the end” or “recent.”
This latter decision was never even hinted at in their former correspondence.
good, well
Good is an adjective, never an adverb. Well is nearly always an adverb; however, when used to indicate state of health, well is an adjective.
Good work should be well rewarded.
Please go home if you’re not feeling well.
guarantee, guaranty
A guarantee is an agreement or assurance that a product or a service will maintain a certain standard. A guaranty is an agreement that one will pay another’s debt if that person fails to pay.
The guarantee says I must be completely satisfied with this stove or I’ll get my money back.
My parents signed a guaranty when I got my first car loan.
healthful, healthy
Healthful means “promoting good health”; healthy means “possessing good health.”
She has a healthy heart because of her healthful diet.
hear, here
Hear is a verb meaning “to perceive by the ear.” Here is an adverb meaning “of or in this place.”
When we first arrived here, we could hear a persistent beeping sound.
heard, herd
Heard is the past tense of the verb “hear.” As a noun, herd means a “group of animals”; as a verb, it means “to keep or move a group of animals.”
When we heard the thundering herd of cattle, we knew it was time to get out of the way.
hole, whole
Hole is a noun meaning “an opening or a gap.” As an adjective, whole means “complete or entire”; as a noun, it means “an entire or complete entity.”
The whole problem with the exhaust system came down to a hole in the muffler.
illicit, elicit (See elicit.)
illusion, allusion (See allusion.)
immigrate (to), emigrate (from)
Immigrate means “to come into a new country to reside here.” Emigrate means “to leave one country to live in another.”
Her family emigrated from Nigeria in 2018.
Knowing English made it easy for her to immigrate to the United States.
imminent, eminent (See eminent.)
imply, infer
Imply means “to suggest, hint, or communicate indirectly”; infer means “to deduce or conclude from.” (Writers and speakers imply; readers and listeners infer.)
I thought she was implying that I would receive a raise; apparently I inferred incorrectly.
insight, incite
Insight is the ability to see the truth in a situation. Incite means “to provoke or encourage.”
The new employee’s insight proved extremely helpful.
Poor communication can incite distrust in a company.
insure, ensure, assure
Insure means “to secure from harm or loss”; ensure means “to make certain of something”; and assure means “to put someone’s mind at rest.”
We assured Mr. Finn that the drilling would be painless; and to ensure that promise, the dentist used her strongest anesthetic.
One more gold crown, and I’m going to insure this mouth.
interstate, intrastate
Interstate means “connecting or existing between two or more states”; intrastate means “occurring or existing within a state.”
The wrestling team took the interstate to travel to the intrastate semifinal meet.
irregardless, regardless
Irregardless is the substandard form of regardless.
Incorrect: Irregardless of the weather, we will go.
Correct: Regardless of the weather, we will go.
it’s, its
It’s is the contraction of “it is” or “it has.” Its is the possessive form of “it.”
It’s about time for another staff meeting.
The medical clinic finally remodeled its outdated waiting room.
kind of, sort of
These phrases are used informally to mean “somewhat” or “rather”; avoid using them in formal business communications.
Unacceptable: Sales have been kind of slow this quarter.
Acceptable: Sales have been somewhat slow this quarter.
knew, new
Knew is the past tense of the verb “know.” New means “recent, original, or fresh.”
We are wondering if he knew about the new logo before we did.
later, latter
As an adverb, later means “after a period of time”; as an adjective, it is the comparative form of “late.” Latter is a noun referring to the second of two things mentioned. (See also former, latter.)
We can write the agenda later.
This report was submitted later than that one.
Of the two proposals just presented, the latter offers a more workable solution.
lay, lie
Lay means “to put or place something.” It is a transitive verb, which means it must be followed by a direct object. (See transitive verbs.) Its principal parts are lay, laid, laid.
Please do not lay that report there.
Harley’s assistant laid down the new carpeting yesterday.
She had laid down the law about printer ink.
Lie means “to rest or recline.” It is an intransitive verb, which means it does not take a direct object. (See intransitive verbs.) Its principal parts are lie, lay, lain.
George likes to lie down for a nap after lunch. He lay down Monday at 12:30, but often he has lain down by 12:15.
Lead (lēd) is the present tense of the verb meaning “to guide or direct.” The past tense of the verb is led (lĕd). The adjective lead (lēd) means “first.” The noun lead (lĕd) refers to a heavy metal or graphite.
Yesterday, I led a presentation about lead poisoning, the same presentation that you used to lead.
lean, lien
As a verb, lean means “to incline or bend.” As an adjective, lean means “having little or no fat.” A lien is a legal charge or hold on property.
I would lean on your shoulder, but it is too bony and lean.
The property has a lien on it for back taxes.
learn, teach
Learn means “to acquire knowledge”; teach means “to impart knowledge.”
Someone who learns easily may not possess the patience to teach others.
leave, let
Leave means “to depart from” or “to let something remain behind.” Let means “to permit or allow.”
Leave your work at the office. Don’t let it ruin your weekend.
lend, borrow
Lend means “to give or allow the use of temporarily”; borrow means “to obtain or receive for temporary use.”
At Thursday’s meeting, Rob asked to borrow a copy of the new manual. Laura was happy to lend it.
less, fewer (See fewer.)
liable, libel, likely
Liable means “responsible according to the law” or “exposed to an adverse action”; libel is a false or unfavorable written statement about someone; likely means “very probable” or “reliable.”
If you take the expressway, you will likely be late.
Being entirely at fault, Graham was liable for the damages.
Claiming the charges were untrue, Maria sued for libel.
like, as, as if
In formal writing, use as or as if (conjunctions) to introduce clauses.
Prepare the report as [not like] you were instructed.
It looks as if [not like] we will need two more tickets.
Use like (a preposition) to introduce a phrase.
Your office looks like an oversized closet!
loose, loosen, lose, loss
The adjective loose (lüs) means “unfastened or free.” The verbs loosen and loose mean “to release.” Lose (lüz) is a verb meaning “to be deprived of” or “to fail to win.” Loss (lōs) means “deprivation” or “the act of losing possession.”
I bet my loose change on the poker hand, so I didn't mind to lose.
I'm pleased with my weight loss, but if I lose more weight, my clothes will be loose.
man, mankind
Do not use the words man or mankind to mean “the human race” because the terms exclude women. Instead, use humankind, humans, or humanity. (See more inclusive language.)
I want to do something for humanity, for all of humankind.
medal, metal
Medal is a small metal award. Metal is a hard substance like silver or aluminum.
The heavy metal band won a medal made of heavy metal.
media, medium
Media is the plural form of medium.
The media are relentlessly exposing fraud.
Radio has been an important news medium throughout the world.
miner, minor
A miner is a person who digs for ore. As a noun, minor means “someone who is not yet legally an adult.” As an adjective, minor means “of lesser importance or size.”
The miners were rescued from a shaft 300 feet underground.
Try to solve minor problems before they become serious.
A responsible minor has an excellent chance of becoming a responsible adult.
moral, morale
Moral refers to what is right or wrong, or to the lesson a story or situation teaches. Morale is a person’s attitude or mental condition.
Human cloning raises a moral question.
Office morale seems to peak on payday.
number, amount (See amount.)
OK, okay
This expression (OK or okay) is used informally; however, avoid using it in formal correspondence of any kind.
oral, verbal
Oral means “uttered with the mouth”; verbal means “relating to or consisting of words and the comprehension of words” and can refer to something oral or written.
Writing a clear, interesting report requires strong verbal skills.
Delivering the report from the podium takes oral skill.
partly, partially
Partially is an adverb meaning “to some extent but not totally”; partly is an adverb meaning “in some but not all parts.”
The partially cooked fish was still partly raw.
passed, past
Passed (the past tense of the verb “to pass”) means “went by” or “gone by.” Past can be used as a noun (“time gone by”), an adjective (“preceding”), or a preposition (“after” or “beyond”).
The company passed last year’s sales in early December. (verb)
Clinging to policies of the past can be a detriment to the future. (noun)
For the past two weeks I’ve entered data in to our new computer system. (adjective)
It takes steel determination to walk past that pastry cart. (preposition)
percent, percentage
Percent means a “part of a hundred” and is used with a specific number. Percentage refers to a portion of the whole and is not used with a specific number.
Maria saves 20 percent of her paycheck each week. That percentage was recommended by her accountant.
personal, personnel
Personal means “private” or “individual.” Personnel are workers in a particular business or other organization.
The Human Relations Department keeps a list of all the company’s personnel. Some personal information, such as address, phone number, and social security number, is included in the list.
perspective, prospective
Perspective is a person’s mental vision or outlook on things; prospective is an adjective meaning “expected in or related to the future.”
From my perspective as a recent dorm dweller, your apartment is pure luxury.
We interviewed five prospective copywriters today.
plain, plane
As a noun, plain means “a large area of level land.” As an adjective, it means “easily understood or seen” or “ordinary.”
“The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.”
“There are no plain women on television.”
—Anna Ford
As an adjective, plane means “flat, level, and even.” As a noun, it means a “flat surface” or “a tool used to smooth the surface of wood”; it also can mean “airplane.”
The surface of the new desk was a plane; not even a marble would roll off.
A plane must be sharpened frequently when used on hardwood.
pore, pour, poor
As a noun, pore means “a minute opening”; as a verb, it means “to read intently.” Pour is a verb meaning “to cause to flow in a stream.” Poor means “lacking wealth” or “inferior.”
This new fabric is full of pores that let moisture escape.
Pour yourself some more coffee and take time to pore over the proposal.
The poor morale was causing problems.
precede, proceed
To precede means “to go or come before,” while proceed means “to move on or go ahead.”
A memo that preceded today’s meeting told us to proceed with stage two.
preventive, preventative
These words are synonyms, but preventive is the preferred form, meaning “something that prevents or hinders a certain action or disease.”
Preventive measures were taken to avoid the takeover.
principal, principle
As an adjective, principal means “primary or main.” As a noun, it can mean “highest-ranking person” or “a sum of invested money.” Principle is a noun meaning “a guiding doctrine” or “a scientific law.”
His principal gripe is boredom. (adjective)
Most high school principals are concerned about much more than academics. (noun)
The buyers made extra payments to more quickly lower the principal. (noun)
The principle of caveat emptor is “let the buyer beware.”
quiet, quit, quite
As an adjective, quiet means “free from noise”; it can also be a noun or a verb. Quit is a verb meaning “to stop” or “to leave.” Quite is an adjective meaning “completely” or “to a considerable extent; rather.”
My office is quiet and quite comfortable.
I’ll miss it when I quit.
quote, quotation
In formal writing, quote should be used as a verb; quotation is always a noun.
The quotation used in your report was very effective, but in your next report, you should also quote what your foreman said to you.
real, very, really
Real is usually used as an adjective meaning “authentic.” Do not use it in place of the adverbs very or really.
“Real life seems to have no plot.”
—Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett
Raul’s forecasts turned out to be very [not real] accurate.
The controller was not really in control of that situation.
reason . . . is because, reason why
Don’t use either of these phrases, because they are redundant. The words because and why both repeat the idea of cause unnecessarily. Instead, use reason . . . that or simply because.
The reason I’m late is that I missed the train.
I’m late because I missed the train.
respectfully, respectively
Respectfully means “showing a high regard for”; respectively means “each in the order mentioned.”
The young man respectfully shared his views with his father.
Awards were given to Mira, John, and Roland respectively.
right, write, wright, rite
As an adjective, right means “righteous, correct, or appropriate”; as a noun, it means “that which is just or legal.” Write means “to inscribe or compose.” A wright is someone who builds or repairs something. Rite is a ceremonial act.
Write the memo again, but this time use the right form.
Get the wheelwright to repair the spokes.
The initiation rites need to be reviewed.
scene, seen
Scene is a noun that means “a view,” “a place where something happens,” or “a spectacle.” Seen is a form of the verb “see.”
Have you seen Hannah’s office? It looks like the scene of a disaster.
seam, seem
Seam (noun) is a line formed by joining two pieces. Seem (verb) means “to give the impression of being.”
The stuffing was coming out of the seams on her chair.
You seem to be capable of handling this yourself.
set, sit
The verb sit means “to assume a seated position.” The verb set means “to place or put down.” Set is transitive (it must take a direct object); sit is intransitive (it does not take a direct object).
Jay set the package on the scale.
Please sit over there while I do this.
sight, cite, site
As a noun, sight means “the ability to see” or “something seen”; as a verb, it means “to see something.” Cite means “to quote,” “to officially commend,” or “to summon before a court.” Site means “a place.”
Before they reached the construction site, they were cited for speeding.
Carolyn had a tendency to cite Dickens when observing the sights of London.
sole, soul
As an adjective, sole means “single, one and only”; as a noun, sole refers to the bottom surface of the foot or a shoe. Soul refers to the spiritual part of a person.
The sole reason for the success of this paper is that it prints the truth.
Certain experiences nourish the soul.
some, sum
Some (adjective) refers to unspecified things or numbers. Sum means “the whole amount, the total.”
Some reporters are at the door.
The sum is too high for our budget.
stationary, stationery
Stationary is an adjective meaning “immobile”; stationery is a noun referring to writing materials used in letters. Let the e in stationery remind you of an envelope.
The stationary bike spins its wheel but gets nowhere.
I chose stationery with a company watermark.
subsequently (See consequently.)
tenant, tenet
A tenant is one who rents or leases property from a landlord; a tenet is a principle, belief, or doctrine.
As a tenant in a crowded apartment building, I live by one tenet: be courteous to your neighbors.
than, then
Than (conjunction) indicates a comparison; then (usually an adverb) refers to time.
Michael did not know any more about this than I did.
First write your résumé; then look for a job.
their, there, they’re
Their is a possessive pronoun. As a pronoun, there is used to introduce a clause; as an adverb, it is used to indicate place. They’re is the contraction for “they are.”
They’re planning to leave immediately after their presentation.
“If there isn’t a law, there will be.”
—Harold Farber
threw, through
Threw (verb) is the past tense of “throw.” Through (preposition) means “in one side and out the other”; through (adjective) means “extending from one place to another.”
After Marcus threw the ball, he heard it crash through a window.
to, too, two
To (preposition) indicates direction; it is also used to form an infinitive. Too (adverb) means “also,” “very,” or “excessively.” Two is the number 2.
The two friends headed to the cafeteria to eat lunch, which smelled too good to pass up.
toward, towards
These words are synonyms, but toward is the preferred form, meaning “in the direction of” or “in relation to.”
Please point me toward the fitness center.
uninterested, disinterested
Both words mean “not interested”; disinterested, however, is also used to mean “unbiased or impartial.”
A judge is never uninterested in the facts of the case but must hand down a disinterested decision.
vain, vane, vein
Vain (adjective) can mean “valueless” or “fruitless” or “conceited.” In vain means “to no avail.” Vane (noun) is an instrument that shows which way the wind blows. Vein (noun) refers to a blood vessel or an ore deposit.
The weather vane twirled about during the spring storm.
A rich silver vein was discovered beneath the town.
We searched in vain for the disks.
vary, very
Vary is a verb meaning “to change”; very is an adverb meaning “to a high degree.”
When you vary the speed like that, you take a very great risk.
waist, waste
Waist is the part of the body between the rib cage and the hips. As a verb, waste means “to use carelessly” or “to cause to lose energy.” As a noun, waste refers to either a worthless by-product or an act of wasting.
“Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.”
One’s waist size is largely a function of diet and exercise.
wait, weight
Wait (verb) means “to remain somewhere expecting something or someone.” As a noun, wait refers to the act of waiting. Weight is a noun referring to a measure of heaviness.
After a long wait, I stepped on the scale to check my weight.
ware, wear, where
Ware is a noun that refers to manufactured goods. As a verb, wear means “to have on one’s person”; as a noun, it means “clothing.” Where refers to location; it can be an adverb, a conjunction, or a noun.
Where do you plan to sell your wares?
I never know what I should wear on casual Fridays.
waver, waiver
Waver refers to faltering due to a lack of decision making; waiver is a conscious surrender of rights or privileges.
When Ms. Stewart was asked to make a final decision, she wavered.
Many ski resorts require skiers to sign a liability waiver.
way, weigh
Way is a noun meaning “path or route”; avoid using it as an adverb meaning “to a great degree.” Weigh means “to measure weight” or “to evaluate.”
After weighing the possibilities, Kenton decided to take the easy way out.
weather, whether
Weather refers to the condition of the atmosphere. Whether refers to a possibility.
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Tell me whether you agree or not.
who, which, that
Who always refers to people. Which refers to nonliving objects or animals, never to people. That may refer to people, animals, or nonliving objects. In formal writing, use that to introduce restrictive (necessary) clauses and which to introduce nonrestrictive (unnecessary) clauses. (See A Closer Look at which and that.)
The Altina Fitness Center, which was built last year, is filled to capacity after work.
The exercise and yoga classes that are offered there are especially popular.
Who is used as the subject of a clause; whom is used as the object of a verb (direct object) or of a preposition.
To whom should I give this Internet proposal? Give it to Ms. Brown, who is in charge of Information Technology Services.
who’s, whose
Who’s is the contraction of “who is” or “who has.” Whose is a possessive pronoun.
Who’s in charge of cleanup?
“Whose life is it anyway?”
wood, would
Wood is a noun or an adjective referring to the material trees are made of; would is a form of the verb “will.”
I would not buy that wood to make the filing cabinets.
your, you’re
Your is a possessive pronoun showing ownership. You’re is the contraction of “you are.”
“Your job is only as big as you are.”
—George C. Hubbs
“You’re never wrong to do the right thing.”
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Chapter 26: Grammar
Chapter 23: Punctuation
Chapter 27: Sentences
Chapter 28: Sentence Errors
Chapter 29: ELL Parts of Speech
Chapter 30: ELL Sentences
Chapter 31: ELL/Dialect Index
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Writers’ routes to their audiences | Latest changes in the book trade 5
The current situation in the book trade is one of rapid change. It's important for writers to understand what is happening as it will impact on their own chances of getting their work published and how it will be published. This newly revised series will look at the changes in the book trade, with a different focus each week. First, where books are heading and what changes are taking place at the sharp end of the book trade - the bookselling world.
5: Writers' routes to their audiences
It is a supreme irony that at time when creative writing courses are turning out large numbers of keen writers and almost everyone seems to think they have a book in them, it has never been so hard to find a publisher.
Publishers' focus has been on fewer books, more heavily promoted, so lists have been cut and currently very few new authors are taken on. It used to be possible to develop a writer's career over several books, as they honed their skills and developed an audience. Now almost all big publishers do not even look at their 'slush-piles' and most will only accept submissions from literary agents.
Unfortunately many of these same literary agents also don't accept unsolicited submissions, although the result of this is that those who do are inundated with material. Many agencies will only take on a small handful of new authors each year. To be fair, they would say that they are fully occupied with looking after the writers they already represent.
The reason for this is that it has become harder for agents to place books with publishers. That goes for all books, unless they are identified as the next big thing or are by established bestselling authors. Many published authors have found that they can no longer assume that their next book will find a publisher.
This means that for unpublished writers it is harder than ever to get over the double hurdle of finding an agent and then that agent being successful in finding you a publisher. It is particularly hard to get an agent, as agents will currently only take on authors they feel certain they can sell. The reason for this is that agents get paid by results (a percentage of all advances and royalties on what they sell). The problems in the agency world are shown by the fact that some smaller agencies are closing down or amalgamating.
Changes in publishing exacerbate this. As well as wanting to go for big books only, publishers don't any longer tend to have editors on staff to edit the books they are publishing. This means that they are not keen to take on manuscripts which need a lot more work doing on them. New authors need to get their material into shape for publication before they start submitting it. This is the reason for the growth in organisations such as WritersServices which offer services to help authors get their work ready for submission.
Booksellers are also focused on bestselling titles and are less prepared than they used to be to stock 'midlist' or to give new authors a chance. The result is that, once you have a publisher, your debut book has to succeed in the bookshops so that you can break out the first time.
I call this the 'Curse of EPOS'. EPOS stands for 'Electronic Point of Sale' and it is the till machine which a few years ago was introduced into bookshops (and other retail outlets) and which enables accurate sales figures to be made available. The result is that the chains know exactly how many copies of the author's last book they sold, and will order accordingly. This means that if your first novel was a flop, booksellers won't want to stock the second.
The result of all this is that the traditional routes to publishing are failing for many unpublished authors.
On the positive side the Internet has opened up many routes to publication, of which e-books are only one, or through publishing online, which is a tedious way of reading anything, but through making it possible for authors to promote their work on the Internet through blogs and websites.
Richard Bawden, Head of Media at KPMG, wrote in the now-defunct Publishing News:
'Anyone can be a publisher now, thanks to readily available blogging software and digital photography. And, just as musicians such as Lily Allen are being discovered via MySpace.com, there are whole new generations of writers waiting to come to the fore via the internet rather than via the traditional route of agents and publishers. And their 'books' may bear little resemblance to what we know and love today. Once these authors become known, the viral effect of building a loyal and vocal fan base online may be enough to sustain the interest of existing fans and entice new ones.'
The simple fact is that the Internet offers fantastic opportunities for writers. Together with the international adoption of English as a global language, it has created a worldwide audience for writers in English on an unprecedented scale.
Chris HolifieldManaging director of WritersServices; spent working life in publishing,employed by everything from global corporations to start-ups; track record includes: editorial director of Sphere Books, publishing director of The Bodley Head, publishing director for start-up of upmarket book club, The Softback Preview, editorial director of Britain’s biggest book club group, BCA, and, most recently, deputy MD and publisher of Cassell & Co. She is also currently the Director of the Poetry Book Society; During all of this time aware of problems faced by writers, as publishing changed from idiosyncratic cottage industry, 'occupation for gentlemen', into corporate business of today. Writers encountered increasing difficulty in getting books edited or published. Authors create the books which are the raw material for the whole business. She believes it is time to bring them back to centre stage.
Latest changes in the Book Trade:
1 Bookselling
2 Publishing
3 Print on demand and the Long Tail
4 Self-publishing' - career suicide' or 'really great'?
5 Writers' routes to their audiences
6 Copyright under pressure
From the WritersServices site:
Inside Publishing on POD
The advantages of POD
WritersPrintShop self-publishing service
© Chris Holifield 2016-16
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The Path Forward For Progressives
By Sean McElwee (@SeanMcElwee)
The narrative war over the future of the Democratic Party is aflutter and no doubt we’ll have better evidence soon. For now, we know that many of the insurgent Democrats that progressives were most thrilled about were not able to pull through. Further analysis of their margins will be important to determine how these candidates performed compared to an objective baseline.
There are bright spots. Colin Allred, who beat more centrist candidates in his primary, won a decisive victory. And the overall the party is moving in a leftward direction: Sharice Davids, Sean Casten, Susan Wild, Josh Harder and Haley Stevens all won (Harder is currently favored) and support Medicare for All. Four years ago, it’s unlikely that candidates in swing districts would back such unabashed progressive policies. Beto O’Rourke performed far better than expectations would predict. Further, with Jeff Van Drew barely beating an underfunded neo-Nazi, it’s far from clear that aggressive centrism is the path to electoral victory.
Looking at the bigger picture, anti-choice Democrats have basically disappeared, and fewer and fewer Democrats boast an “A” rating from the NRA. No Democrats ran on immigrant-bashing, something it was common to see Democrats weaponize to win elections just a few years ago. The future of the Democratic Party is still ultimately a progressive one.
What’s clear is that progressive insurgents had a mixed bag… in purple districts.
In Blue districts, outright progressives are overwhelmingly coming out ahead. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Deb Haaland, Chuy Garcia, Rashida Tlaib, Jahana Hayes, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar, all unabashed progressives, will all be in the next Congress. The Medicare for all caucus will expand. Only one retiring Democrat was replaced by someone who is likely to be to their right (Colleen Hanabusa replaced by Ed Case).
This points to the path forward for progressives: it’s time to more seriously contest safe blue Democratic primaries. Incumbents like Eliot Engel who represent increasingly diverse districts but hold centrist views on key issues should face real electoral competition. In these safe blue districts we should have representatives who reflect the Democratic base, both descriptively (more women, more people of color and more young folks) and on our key issues like Medicare for All, green jobs and abolishing ICE. This is the best path forward for progressive victories.
On a nationally representative survey of Democrats we fielded with YouGov Blue, we asked respondents the following question:
“Even if it's not exactly right, which of the following comes closer to your view?
Democrats should focus on providing a check against Trump and the Republican culture of corruption. Drawn-out primary fights among Democrats are counterproductive.
Democrats should provide a clear, positive agenda to contrast with Trump and the Republican culture of corruption. Primary elections ensure the strongest Democrats emerge to advance that agenda.
Don't know.”
The results are unequivocal. The chart below shows support for primaries among all Democrats, progressives and socialists (an individual could identify as both a progressive and a socialist, as I do). Across the board, voters are supportive of more primary competition.
We also asked respondents to allocate points across a range of reasons they would support a primary challenge against incumbents and voting with Republicans stood out as the reason that engendered the most opposition.
There are hundreds of safe seat Democrats. Many are admirable progressives. Far too many are out of touch with their districts and the progressive movement. It’s time to give Democrats in those districts a real choice. That is the path forward to a more progressive Democratic Party.
Sean McElwee, co-founder of Data for Progress
Data for Progress/YouGov Blue fielded an online survey between October 15 and October 19, 2018 of a nationally representative sample of 1,903 respondents who self-identified as Democratic or as Independents who leaned toward the Democrats. The overall survey margin of error was +/- 2.4%. The sample was weighted to a registered voter universe and then subsetted to a universe of Democratic voters.
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Optus back in court over 'misleading' NBN disconnection campaign
Marketing email sent two days after receiving $1.5-million fine
Eleanor Dickinson (ARN) 27 June, 2019 17:02
Optus is being hauled back to court for allegedly sending customers misleading information, two days after being fined $1.5 million for a similar feat.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) claimed Optus sent 138,988 mobile customers an email offering its NBN broadband services advising them their connection may be ‘disconnected very soon’ — a false or misleading claim, according to the consumer watchdog.
Dispatched on 24 May 2018, the promotion encouraged consumers to ‘make the switch, before it's too late’, despite Optus allegedly knowing consumers were already being supplied with NBN-based services by a company other than Optus.
“Optus did not have any reasonable basis for asserting they would be disconnected," the ACCC stated.
The watchdog has now instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against the Singtel-owned telco, and is seeking declarations, injunctions, penalties, compliance orders and costs.
The 24 May email came as part of a two-month marketing campaign by Optus, which attempted to persuade mobile customers already with an NBN provider to switch to its own service. As such, argued the ACCC, these did “not face the prospect of imminent disconnection” ahead of the NBN roll-out.
Optus had also planned a different communication for mobile customers who were at the same time facing disconnection.
However, after engaging a creative agency, Optus marketing team approved the email with the words: “Your broadband will be disconnected very soon, make the switch before its too late”, which it subsequently sent to the customers who had already made the change.
“Optus failed to make reasonable or adequate inquiries before it sent the final email to ascertain whether the representation was accurate in relation to the representation,” the ACCC said.
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Optus said in a statement it apologised to customers who received the mistaken communication and offered a costless exit for those who took out the offer.
In October 2018, Optus committed to improving customer experience and customer service across our business and we continue to devote significant energy and resources to address issues like this and make the necessary changes and improvements so we can deliver great service to all our customers," Optus vice president, regulatory and public affairs Andrew Sheridan said.
The email was sent two days after Optus had already been fined $1.5 million for telling 14,000 customers their service would be disconnected if they did not move to the NBN between October 2015 to March 2017.
The telco was also in hot water with the ACCC in December 2017 when it was ordered to compensate 8,700 customers for misleading claims about its maximum NBN speeds.
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As of January this year, 90,000 customers are still to be refunded by telcos including Optus, Telstra and others over misleading NBN speed claims following a lengthy investigation by the ACCC.
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Infertility Linked to Common Household Chemicals
Posted by Barron on February 21, 2009 at 9:20pm in Food, Health and Nutrition
http://www.naturalnews.com/025544.html
NaturalNews) For the first time, scientists have evidence that perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), long thought to be inactive in the human body, can disrupt fertility in women. This is particularly troublesome because PFCs are widely used in industrial nations -- they are in everything from pesticides and clothing to carpets, upholstery, food packages, Teflon-coated cookware and personal care products. And they persist in the environment as well as the human body for decades.
The University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) study, just published in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction, found that it was more difficult for women with the higher blood levels of the chemicals to become pregnant. The researchers studied data from a total of 1,240 women in the Danish National Birth Cohort. They took blood samples when the women were between four and 14 weeks into their pregnancies to check for concentrations of two kinds of PFCs -- perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). The women were also interviewed around the 12th week of pregnancy to find out whether the pregnancy was planned or not and how long it took them to conceive. Infertility problems were defined by a length of 12 months or longer to become pregnant, or if infertility treatments had to be used to faciliate a pregnancy.
The levels of PFOS in the women's blood plasma measured from a low of 6.4 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) to a high of 106.7 ng/ml, and, for PFOA, from less than 1 ng/ml to 41.5 ng/ml. The women with the highest levels of PFOS exposure, indicated by the higher blood levels of the chemical, were found to have experienced 70 to 134% more infertility problems than women with the lowest levels of PFCs. Increased exposure to the specific type of PFCs called PFOA also upped the risk of infertility 50 to 154%.
So what do these chemicals do to a woman's reproductive system? The researchers said in a press statement that the biological mechanisms by which exposure to PFOS and PFOA might reduce fertility are not known. However, there is good reason to think PFCs may interfere with hormones that are involved in reproduction.
"Our data showed that higher proportions of women reported irregular menstrual periods in the upper three quartiles of PFOA and PFOS compared with the lowest, and so this could indicate a possible pathway," UCLA scientist Dr. Chunyuan Fei, the study's first author, said in a statement to the media. "PFOS and PFOA were considered to be biologically inactive, but recently animal studies have shown that these chemicals may have a variety of toxic effects on the liver, immune system and developmental and reproductive organs. Very few human studies have been done, but one of our earlier studies showed that PFOA, although not PFOS, may impair the growth of babies in the womb, and another two epidemiological studies linked PFOA and PFOS to impaired fetal growth."
The researchers also suggested that the sperm quality in men could be harmed by PFC levels. "Studies on sperm quality and PFOA/PFOS are certainly warranted," Professor Jorn Olsen, Chairman of the UCLA Department of Epidemiology and principle investigator of the study, stated in a press release. " We are waiting for further studies to replicate our findings in order to discover whether PFCs should be added to the list of risk factors for infertility."
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Alzheimer Europe
2019 Work Plan
European Working Group of People with Dementia
EWGPWD membership
Expert Advisory Panel
Working methods
AE Sponsors
Sponsorship guidelines
Statutes, rules and regulations
Statutes of Alzheimer Europe
A-Z of dementias
Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's dementia
Who is affected by Alzheimer's disease?
Is Alzheimer's disease hereditary?
Is there a test that can predict Alzheimer's disease?
How is Alzheimer's disease diagnosed?
Is there any treatment for Alzheimer's dementia
Other forms of dementia
Familial Alzheimer's disease
Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB)
Dementia in Parkinson's disease (PDD)
Fronto-Temporal Degeneration
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)
Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
Argyrophilic Grain Disease (AGD)
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
Ataxias
Huntington's Disease (HD)
Familial British dementia
Human Prion Diseases
Aids Dementia Complex (ADC)
Postencephalitic Parkinsonism (PEP)
Herpes Encephalitis
Neuro-degeneration with brain iron accumulation type I (NBIA 1)
Cerebral Lipidoses
Dementia in hepatic and renal failure
Dementia due to chronic hypovitaminosis
Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD)
Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)
Traumatic diseases
Repeated head trauma
Toxic diseases
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS)
Cerebrovascular diseases
Binswanger disease
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA)
Other rare causes of dementia
Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis
After diagnosis - What next?
Diagnosis of dementia
Disclosure of the diagnosis
Facing the diagnosis
Taking care of yourself
Developing coping strategies
Maintaining a social network
Attending self-help groups
Accepting help from others
Dealing with feelings and emotions
Changing roles and how you see yourself
On a more positive note
Organising family support
Dealing with practical issues
Financial and administrative matters
Contact and communication
Speaking, listening and communication
Signs, symbols and texts
Talking to children and adolescents
Changing behaviour
Lack of interest in hobbies
Managing everyday tasks
Keeping an active mind
The onset of the disease
Diagnosis: should the person with dementia be told?
Arranging who will be responsible for care
Determining to what extent you can provide care
How will Alzheimer's disease affect independent living?
The needs of younger people with dementia
Memory and Communication
Communication problems
Recreation, activities and exercises
When the person with dementia lives alone
How to help children cope
Changes in mood
Agitation and nervousness
Brusque changes of mood and extreme sadness or happiness
Feeling depressed/having depression
Hallucinations and paranoid delusions (false beliefs)
Over-reaction
Anxiety and fear
Changes in behaviour
Aggressive behaviour
Clinging and following
Embarrassing and odd behaviour
Failure to recognise people
Hiding/losing objects and making false accusations
Repetitive questioning
Sexually inappropriate behaviour
Sleeplessness and night-time wandering
Medical and physical issues
Incontinence (wetting and soiling)
Jerking movements
Lifting and moving the person with dementia
Loss of co-ordination and manual skills
Pressure sores (bedsores)
Coping with caring
Self-help organisations
Caring for the person with dementia in the later stages of the disease
Death and bereavement
Brain tissue donations
Guidelines on continence care for people with dementia living at home
Part 1: About Incontinence, Ageing and Dementia
Part 2: Continence care at home
Acknowledging and coming to terms with continence problems
Management of continence problems
Assessment of continence problems
Addressing the impact of continence problems for people with dementia and carers
Personal experiences of living with dementia
26AEC Copenhagen - a travel diary by Idalina Aguiar, EWGPWD member from Portugal and her daughter Nélida
Letters to Remember (Ireland)
Mojca Hladnik and Matjaž Rižnarič (Slovenia)
Raoul Gröngvist and Milja Ahola (Finland)
Jean-Pierre Frognet (Belgium)
Philip C. (Romania & USA)
Ramona Amariei (Romania)
Paola (Italy)
Helga Rohra (Germany)
James McKillop (Scotland)
A carer from Spain
Hasse and Birgitta Hansson (Sweden)
Stewart Cooper (Luxembourg)
Roger Newman (UK)
Policy in Practice
European Alzheimer's Alliance
Alliance activities
February 2018 "The prevention of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia"
December 2017 "Improving the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease thanks to European research collaboration"
June 2017 "Current and future treatment for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias”
June 2017 MEP Sirpa Pietikäinen hosts roundtable in European Parliament on Alzheimer’s disease
December 2016 "Comparing and benchmarking national responses to the dementia challenge"
September: MEP Ole Christensen praises new Danish national action plan on dementia
June 2016: “Using the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to support the rights of people living with dementia”
December 2015: "Dementia, a priority of two EU Presidencies"
June 2015: “The World Health Organisation and the World Dementia Council and global action on dementia: what role for the European Union?”
December 2014: “Prevention of Dementia: Why & How”
February 2014: "The Innovative Medicines Initiative: improving drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease"
December 2013: "Comparing and benchmarking national dementia policies"
July 2013: MEP Werthmann hosts a panel discussion on neurodegenerative diseases in the European Parliament
June 2013: "Joint Action on Alzheimer Cooperation Valuation in Europe (ALCOVE)"
February 2013: “Clinical trials on Alzheimer’s disease: update on recent trial results and the new regulatory framework”
December 2012: “Living with dementia: Learning from the experiences of people with dementia”
June 2012: "Alzheimer's disease in the new European public health and research programmes"
February 2012: "IMI in the spotlight" & "Speeding up drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease: the PharmaCog project"
December 2011: "Public perceptions of Alzheimer’s disease and the value of diagnosis"
June 2011: "The Alzheimer Cooperative Valuation in Europe"
March 2011: "European activities on long-term care: What implications for people with dementia and their carers?"
December 2010: "The Joint Programming of research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (JPND). What progress so far?"
June 2010: “Alzheimer’s disease and dementia as a national priority: contrasting approaches by France and the UK”
September 2009: "European Action on dementia"
March 2009: "Towards a European Action Plan on Alzheimer's disease"
December 2008 "The rising cost of dementia"
September 2008: Launch of Written Declaration
September 2008: "Current and future treatments for AD"
MEPs speak out on dementia
Heinz K. Becker MEP (Austria)
Nessa Childers (Ireland)
Jan Andersson (Sweden)
Tanja Fajon (Slovenia)
Alojz Peterle (Slovenia)
Igor Šoltes (Slovenia)
Patricija Šulin (Slovenia)
Ivo Vajgl ( Slovenia)
Dr. Milan Zver (Slovenia)
Marian Harkin (Ireland)
Marek Plura (Poland)
Deirdre Clune (Ireland)
Dr Miroslav Mikolášik (Slovakia)
Elena Oana Antonescu (Romania)
Maria Badia i Cutchet (Spain)
Heinz Becker (Austria)
John Bowis (United Kingdom)
Roberta Angelilli (Italy)
Frieda Brepoels (Belgium)
Milan Cabrnoch (Czech Republic)
Michael Cashman (United Kingdom)
Ole Christensen (Denmark)
Brian Crowley (Ireland)
Joseph Cuschieri (Malta)
Karl-Heinz Florenz (Germany)
Françoise Grossetête (France)
Maria Eleni Koppa (Greece)
Katalin Levai (Hungary)
Astrid Lulling (Luxembourg)
Jan Tadeusz Masiel (Poland)
Marisa Matias (Portugal)
Linda McAvan (United Kingdom)
Claude Moraes (United Kingdom)
Elisabeth Morin-Chartier (France)
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (Greece)
Antonyia Parvanova (Bulgaria)
Sirpa Pietikäinen (Finland)
Frédérique Ries (Belgium)
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (Germany)
Keith Taylor (UK)
Patrizia Toia (Italy)
Kathy Sinnott (Ireland)
Angelika Werthmann (Austria)
Glenis Willmott (UK)
Corien Wortmann-Kool (Netherlands)
Marina Yannakoudakis (UK)
Anna Záborská (Slovakia)
Dushana Zdravkova (Bulgaria)
EP candidates supporting the #DementiaPledge2019
EU Action on Dementia
2018 European Parliament Written Question on the dismantling of the Commission Expert Group on Dementia
2016 European Parliament Written Declaration
2016 Lunch of 2nd Joint Action on Dementia
2015 Council adopts Luxembourg EU Presidency conclusions
2009 Joint Programming (ongoing)
2009 European Alzheimer's Initiative (ongoing)
2008 Council conclusions on combatting Alzheimer's disease
WHO action on dementia
World Health Organisation (WHO) launches the Global Dementia Observatory ( GDO)
On 29 May 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) adopted a global plan on dementia
National Dementia Strategies
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
United Kingdom (Wales)
Country comparisons
2018: Comparision of National Dementia Strategies
Development and implementation
Human rights and legal matters
Diagnosis, post-diagnostic support
Informal carers
Prevention, DFCs, Awareness
Acknow. / References
2017: Standards for Residential Care Facilities
Physical environment
2016: Decision making and legal capacity in dementia
2015: Is Europe becoming more dementia friendly?
2013: The prevalence of dementia in Europe
United Kingdom (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
2013: National policies covering the care and support of people with dementia and their carers
General acknowledgements
2012: National Dementia Strategies (diagnosis, treatment and research)
2011: Restrictions of freedom
United Kingdom - England
United Kingdom - Scotland
2010: Legal capacity and proxy decision making
2009: Healthcare and decision-making in dementia
2007: Social support systems
2006: Reimbursement of anti-dementia drugs
2005: Home care
Our opinion on ...
Annex 1 - List of participants
Annex 2 - Acknowledgements
Anti-dementia drugs
Involving people with dementia in research through PPI (patient and public involvement)
Participation of people with dementia in clinical trials
Policy on collaboration with other organisations
Disclosure of the diagnosis to people with dementia and carers
The Hague Convention for the International Protection of Adults
Participation of people with dementia in research
Recommendations on how to improve legal rights and protection of people with incapacity
Glasgow Declaration 2014
Signatories: Individuals
Signatories: Organisations
Signatories: Policy makers
Paris Declaration - 2006
Public health priorities
Research and medical priorities
Care and social support priorities
Legal and ethical priorities
European Dementia Ethics Network
Organisation of work
Dementia Ethics Steering Committee
Definitions and approaches
What is meant by the term ethics?
Medical ethics and bioethics in Europe
The four common bioethical principles
Respect for autonomy
Beneficence and non-maleficence
Other ethical principles
Solidarity and interdependence
Personhood
Cultural issues linked to bioethical principles
Ethical issues in practice
2018: Intercultural care and support
Understanding dementia and help seeking
Diagnosis, assessment and treatment.
Support and care
Professional and informal carers
Members of the expert working group
2018: Database on intercultural care and support
2017: Dementia as a disability? Implications for ethics, policy and practice
Disability-related terms and definitions
About disability
Personhood and the personal experience of disability
Human rights and opportunities
Care, support, disability and dementia
Working towards an inclusive society
Glossary/list of abbreviations
Appendix – Translations of impairment and disability
2016: Ethical issues linked to the changing definitions/use of terms related to Alzheimer’s disease
The new AD definitions and the ethical implications of the way we represent health and disease
Personal identity and personhood
Ethical issues linked to diagnosis, healthcare and research
Broader ethical issues at the level of society
Glossary of terms and abbreviations
Appendix 1: Acknowledgements
Appendix 2: More information about the changing definition of AD
2015: Ethical dilemmas faced by professionals providing dementia care in care homes and hospitals
Caring and coping in ethically challenging situations
Vignettes and commentaries
Building an ethical infrastructure – a message to organisations
References/reading list
Appendix 1 – Ethical principles, values and related concepts
Appendix 2 – Short examples to describe ethical theories
Appendix 3 – Checklist for reflecting on ethical dilemmas and ethically challenging situations
2014: Ethical dilemmas faced by carers and people with dementia
PART 1 - Introduction
About ethics
PART 2 - Ethical dilemmas from the first possible signs of dementia onwards
The period of uncertainty/not knowing (pre-diagnosis)
The process of understanding/finding out (diagnosis)
The initial period of adaptation (shortly after diagnosis)
Living with dementia (getting on with routine life/adapting to challenges)
Caring for/receiving care (when increased levels of support are needed)
The possible transition into a care home (when continued care at home becomes problematic)
Care for a dignified end of life
PART 3 - Tackling ethical dilemmas
Establish and maintain an on-going dialogue involving everyone involved or concerned about the particular issue
Try to understand the issue and seek additional information if needed
Try to make sense of people’s needs, wishes and concerns (i.e. what is really important to them or bothering them)
Consider and evaluate the ethical principles and values at stake in relation to the individuals involved (including yourself) and the specific situa...
Reflect together on possible outcomes which might be good or bad for different people concerned, bearing in mind their lived experiences
Take a stance, act accordingly and, bearing in mind that you did your best, try to come to terms with the outcome
Reflect on the resolution of the dilemma and what you have learnt from the experience
2013: The ethical issues linked to the perceptions and portrayal of dementia and people with dementia
Summary/synthesis
How dementia is perceived and portrayed
The perception of those who are perceived and portrayed
2012: The ethical issues linked to restrictions of freedom of people with dementia
Restriction of the freedom to choose one’s residence or place of stay
Freedom to live in least restrictive environment
The restriction of the freedom to act according to individual attitudes, values and lifestyle preferences
The restriction of the freedom to play an active role in society
Formal acknowledgements and disclaimer
2011: Ethics of dementia research
The dementia ethics research project
Background, definitions and scope
Involving people with dementia
Informed consent to dementia research
Protecting the wellbeing
Risk, benefit, burden and paternalism
Epidemiological research
Research into end-of-life care
The donation of brain and other tissue
Publication and dissemination of research
2010: The ethical issues linked to the use of assistive technology in dementia care
AT, ethical issues and legislation
Ethical issues linked to the use of specific forms of AT
Our guidelines and position on the ethical use of AT for/by people with dementia
An ethical framework for making decisions linked to the use of AT
2009: Advance directives and personhood
Critical interests
Subjective experience
Discontinuity of interests
Psychological continuity
Existence over time
Discussion on ethical principles
2008: End-of-Life care for people with dementia
Our position and guidelines on End-of-life care
Clinical Trials Watch
Learn more about clinical trials
Phase II trials
Clinical trials by country
Clinical trials by condition
ABvac40
ACI-24-1801
DESPIAD
ETHERAL
LM11A-31-BHS
MAPT-CS1
RO7105705 (coming soon)
VALZ-Pilot
Ongoing studies but not recruiting participants
Phase III trials
Brexpiprazole study
GRADUATE 1 & GRADUATE 2 studies
HARMONY study
LUCIDITY study
MissionAD1 & MissionAD2 studies
NorAD study
SYMBAD study
17-AVP-786-305 study
Value of Knowing
Public concerns about Alzheimer's disease
Public attitudes towards people with dementia
Public expectations from policy makers
Public experiences of Alzheimer's disease
Public knowledge of Alzheimer's disease
Public beliefs on existing treatments and tests
Public attitudes about diagnosis
European Collaboration on Dementia
Cost of dementia
The health economical context (Welfare theory)
Health economic aspects of dementia
The impact of informal care
Cost of illness and burden of dementia
Regional/National cost of illness estimates
Prognosis to 2030
Other European cost of illness estimates
Regional Patterns: The societal costs of dementia in Sweden
Regional patterns: The economic environment of Alzheimer's disease in France
Regional patterns: Economic environment of Alzheimer’s disease in Mediterranean countries
Regional patterns: Socio-economic impact of dementia and resourse utilisation in Hungary
Diagnosis and treatment of dementia
Psychosocial interventions
Drug treatment for cognitive symptoms
Treatment for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia
Prevalence of dementia
Prevalence of dementia in Europe
Prevalence of early-onset dementia in Europe
Prevalence of dementia in Eastern Europe
Prevention of dementia
Cardiovascular risk factors
Environmental/nutritional risk factors
Biological risk factors
Behavioural risk factors
References and conclusions
Guidelines on psycho-social interventions
Key recommendations
Potential quality indicators
Social Support Systems
General recommendations
Specific services and support for people with dementia and carers
Examples of good practice
PharmaCog
What is PharmaCog?
Why PharmaCog?
Who are the PharmaCog partners?
SMEs, patient group and regulatory authorities
What do the partners bring to the project?
Management approach
Collaboration with other projects
Who financially supports PharmaCog?
How will PharmaCog benefit patients?
PharmaCog's Scientific Approach
Project Structure
Innovation, translation and harmonisation
Comparative studies
Understanding dementia research
Participating in research
What is research?
Why do we need research?
Who can take part in research?
Benefits of taking part in research
Risks in taking part in research
Questions to ask about research
Tests used in dementia research
Types of research
Philosophies guiding research
The four main approaches
What is a clinical trial?
What are the official requirements for carrying out clinical trials in the European Union?
Types of clinical trials
Phases of clinical trials
What do we need from service providers and policy makers?
The Hague 2019
Preliminary programme
Detailed programme and abstracts
P1. Alzheimer Nederland – Young onset dementia
P2. Memory clinics and centres
P3. Needs and experiences of people with dementia and their carers I
P4. INTERDEM-Training and education of care professionals
P5. Neuronet
P6. Awareness and policy campaigns
P7. Technology
P8. Socio.economic aspects of dementia
P9. Alzheimer Nederland – Social innovation
P10. Post-diagnostic support
P11. Needs and experiences of people with dementia and their carers II
P12. INTERDEM – Care and services
P13. Neuronet
P14. (Inter)National dementia strategies
P15. Risk factors and dementia
P16. Psychosocial interventions 1
P17. Alzheimer Nederland – Technology and ehealth
P18. Inclusion of people with dementia
P19. Young onset dementia
P20. INTERDEM - Needs and experiences of people with dementia and their carers
P22. Acute and hospital care
P23. Home and residential care I
P24. Psychosocial interventions II
P25. Alzheimer Nederland – Patient involvement in research and policy
P26. Connecting with minority groups
P27. Meaningful day-time activities and respite
P28. INTERDEM – Technology
P30. Legal and ethical issues
P31. Home and residential care II
P32. Training and education of care professionals
QOP1. Care and services I
QOP2. Societal perspectives I
QOP3. Care and services II
QOP4. Societal perspectives II
Conference registrations
Online registration form
Official carriers travel information
INTERDEM meeting
INTERDEM Registrations
Detailed programme, abstracts and presentations
Welcome words
Videos and photo gallery
Photo Gallery and Videos
2014 Glasgow
Conference Photos and Videos
2013 St Julian's
Abstracts and presentations
Abstract Submission Form
EU developments
Members' news
Science watch
Science - behind the headlines
Dementia in society
New publications and resources
Dementia in Europe Yearbooks
Alzheimer Europe Reports
Care Manual
Dementia in Europe magazines
Consent to medical treatment
Consent to treatment is covered by section 6 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, No. 785 of 17 August 1992. According to this Act, patients must be cared for on the basis of a mutual understanding, which means that they must consent to treatment. If they refuse a particular treatment, the doctor must propose another medically acceptable alternative to which they are in agreement. In certain circumstances, a person can be treated against his/her will (please refer to the section on forced internment).
Concerning patients who are unable to consent, section 6.2 and 6.3 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients states:
“If a major patient because of mental disturbance or mental retardation or for other reason cannot decide on the treatment given to him/her, the legal representative or a family member or other person closely connected to the patient has to be heard before making an important decision concerning treatment to assess what kind of treatment would be in accordance with the patient's will. If this matter cannot be assessed, the patient has to be given a treatment that can be considered to be in accordance with his/her personal interests.”
“In cases referred to in paragraph 2, the patient's legal representative, a close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient, must give their consent to the treatment. In giving their consent, the patient's legal representative, close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient must respect the patient's previously expressed wishes or, if no wishes had been expressed, the patient's well-being. If the patient's legal representative, close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient forbid the care or treatment of the patient, care or treatment must, as far as possible in agreement with the person who refused consent, be given in some other medically acceptable manner. If the patient's legal representative, close relative or other person closely connected with the patient disagree on the care or treatment to be given, the patient shall be cared for or treated in accordance with his or her best interests.” (9.4.1999/489)
However, a person/persons who make a decision on behalf of a patient cannot forbid treatment which is necessary to ward off a threat to the life or health of the patient (section 9).
Consent in case of emergency
Section 8 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients deals with emergency treatment. It states:
“A patient has to be given treatment necessary to ward off a hazard imperilling his/her life or health even in cases where it is not possible to assess the patient's will because of unconsciousness or other reason.
However, if the patient has earlier steadfastly and competently expressed his/her will concerning treatment given to him/her, he/she must not be given treatment that is against his/her will.”
The right to refuse treatment
A competent patient has the right to refuse treatment. According to the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (section 6.1), if a patient refuses a particular treatment, the doctor must propose another medically acceptable alternative to which they are in agreement.
Health care proxies also have the right to refuse treatment on behalf of an incompetent patient. According to section 6.3 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, if the patient's legal representative, close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient forbid the care or treatment of the patient, care or treatment must, as far as possible in agreement with the person who refused consent, be given in some other medically acceptable manner. However, section 9 stipulates that health care proxies cannot forbid treatment which is necessary to ward off a threat to the life or health of the patient.
Competent patients have the right to withdraw consent.
Consent to non-conventional treatment
Competent patients have the right to give consent to non-conventional treatment.
Consent to the donation of organs and/or human tissue
It is possible for patients to consent to the donation of organs and human tissue through advance directives. Health care proxies can give such consent after the death of the patient.
Consent to research
Act N° 488 on Medical Research came into force on 1 November 1999. In this act, medical research is defined as being research which interferes with the integrity of a human being or a human embryo or foetus and whose intention is to increase knowledge of the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of the disease or its nature in general.
Paragraph 7 deals with consent from disabled subjects. This includes people who are unable to give their consent due to a mental health disorder, mental handicap or other equivalent reason.
Research can only be carried out on such people if the same scientific results could not be attained using other subjects and provided that the risk of causing damage or stress is limited. Furthermore, research can only be carried out if it could be expected to be directly beneficial to the participant or to other people either of the same age or with the same medical condition. Even if these conditions have been fulfilled, the participant's legal representative, close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient must give written consent after having received the necessary relevant information. The consent has to be given in accordance to the presumed will of a participant. The provisions of article 6 also apply in that consent can be withdrawn at any time before completion of the research. Finally, if the participant objects to any procedure used as part of the research, he or she must not be forced to undergo the procedure.
Advance directives and health care proxies
The legal status of advance directives
Advance directives have legal status in Finland according to section 8 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (No. 785/92 of 17 August 1992).
Section 8 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients deals with emergency treatment. A situation could arise whereby a patient, who is in need of emergency treatment, is unconscious or unable to express his/her will. According to section 8, doctors cannot give a treatment that is against his/her will, as expressed steadfastly and competently at some point in the past. In the sense that this section refers to the necessity to respect the previously expressed wishes of a person who is no longer able to state his/her preference regarding treatment, this can be considered as legitimising a kind of advance directive.
Paragraph 6.3 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients can also be interpreted as involving the possible use of advance directives in substitute decision making with regard to care[1].
There are three categories of people who can decide on behalf of a person with incapacity:
the legal representative who could be either a guardian who is entitled to represent his/her client in issues linked to the client’s person or a person appointed by the patient such as a power of attorney or continuing power of attorney in health care issues.
a family member or
another person who is closely connected to the patient.
These people are not placed in any order of priority. However, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has plans to alter the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients in such a way that there would be a priority list of the proxy decision makers. After the alteration the possible legal representative would have priority to make decisions.
Conditions surrounding the writing, validity and registering of an advance directive
A person must have sufficient capacity to make a valid advance directive. Competence is presumed unless proven otherwise. In case of doubt, a doctor should assess a person’s capacity.
There is no set procedure for writing or registering advance directives but they should be recorded in the patient’s medical file. An advance directive can be made orally (e.g. by a person in hospital) or in writing. If made in writing, it is advisable to have two witnesses. A doctor and/or lawyer may be involved in the process of making an advance directive but this is not necessary.
Advance directives are not limited to a set period of time.
There is a new decree from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health on Medical Files (30.3.2009/298). Paragraph 18.4 of the Decree on Medical Files states that if a patient wishes to express (orally) his/her steadfast will regarding future medical treatment, it should be recorded clearly, along with his/her signature, in the medical files. It is also possible to attach a separate advance directive to the medical files.
What an advance directive can cover
The Act on the Status and Rights of Patients states that in emergency situations “doctors cannot give a treatment that is against the will of a patient, as expressed steadfastly and competently at some point in the past”.
In literature on jurisprudence it is interpreted that an advance directive can cover at least the following:
The treatment of medical conditions;
Care and welfare decisions;
Life-supporting treatment;
Life-saving treatment; and
The appointment of a health care proxy.
Nowadays, in practice, there are also so-called positive advance directives. These documents can express many kinds of wishes e.g. what kind of food and drinks the person likes, what their favourite clothing is etc.
Obligation to comply with instructions contained in an advance directive
In the case of emergency treatment, advance directives are legally binding. In literature on jurisprudence it is interpreted that they are legally binding in other cases too. At least it is good medical practice to comply with them.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health has plans to alter the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients. After the alteration, doctors will not obliged to comply with advance directives if it is obvious that the advance directive is based on a person’s false perception of their health condition, the nature of the illness or the effectiveness of the treatment methods and medication proposed. Similarly, doctors should not comply with an advance directive if the patient’s will concerning treatment and care has changed for the above-mentioned or a similar reason.
If it would be against a doctor’s personal beliefs to comply with instructions contained in an advance directive, the doctor must find a colleague who is willing to take over the treatment of the patient.
Amending, renewing and cancelling advance directives
An advance directive can be amended, renewed or cancelled at any time. This can be done verbally, in writing or through behaviour which clearly indicates this decision. It is not necessary for a person to have full legal capacity (i.e. in every domain) as a greater level of capacity is needed to write an advance directive than to cancel it. This has been discussed in medical circles as well as in literature on jurisprudence.
Access to information/diagnosis
Section 5 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, No. 785/92 of 17 August 1992 contains the following provisions regarding the patient's right to be informed:
"A patient shall be given information about his/her state of health, the significance of the treatment, various alternative forms of treatment and their effects and about other factors related to his/her treatment that are significant when decisions are made on the treatment given to him/her. However, this information shall not be given against the will of the patient or when it is obvious that giving the information would cause serious hazard to the life or health of the patient,
Health care professionals should try to give the information in such a way that the patient can understand it. If the health care professional does not know the language used by the patient or if the patient because of a sensory handicap or speech defect cannot be understood, interpretation should be provided if possible."
The above text can be interpreted as granting patients the right to be informed of the diagnosis.
Under section 9.1 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, “the right to be informed and the powers of the patient's representative”, allows for information to be given to certain people in order to enable them to make decisions and consent on behalf of the person with incapacity. The text is as follows:
“In the circumstances referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of section 6, the patient’s legal representative, close relative, or other person closely connected with the patient shall be entitled to receive any information regarding the patient's state of health that may be required to enable them to express an opinion and give their consent. (9.4.1999/489)”
Access to medical files
As a general rule, only the patient has access to his/her medical records.
Health care professionals and other people who are working in the medical domain cannot give information about a patient to outsiders without the written consent of the patient. (See Section 13 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, no. 785/92)
The right to designate another person to be informed on one’s behalf
Under the government’s proposal of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (185/1991) the legal representative is either a person appointed by a patient or a guardian (appointed by a court). If a patient has appointed someone to make health care decisions on his/her behalf (for example via an advance directive), such person has the right to be informed regarding the patient’s state of health as stated in section 9.1 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (see above). A patient can also appoint a “continuing power of attorney in health care issues” in advance of his/her incapacity (please see The Act on Continuing Powers of Attorney (648/2007)). Such donee is also a legal representative and also has the right to be informed under section 9.1 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients.
A legal representative (guardian), relatives and people who are close to the person with dementia can also be informed on his/her behalf although in their case, they would not actually have been designated by the person with dementia.
The doctor’s right to withhold information
Section 5 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, No. 785/92 of 17 August 1992 states that a doctor has the right to withhold information:
“when it is obvious that giving the information would cause serious hazard to the life or health of the patient.”
See section “access to information” above
The patient’s right to refuse information
Section 5 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, No. 785/92 of 17 August 1992 contains the following provisions regarding the patient’s right to refuse information:
“..information shall not be given against the will of the patient.”
Confidentiality/disclosure of information to other people
Section 10 of the Constitution states that the private life, honour and home of every person shall be secured and that detailed provisions on the protection of personal data shall be prescribed by Act of Parliament. Patients must be treated in such a way that their human dignity is not violated and that their convictions and privacy are respected (section 3 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, No. 785/92).
Apart from the exception contained in section 9.1 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients, information about patients is confidential. Section 13 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (no. 785/92) covers the confidentiality of information in patients' medical files. As stated above in “the right to access medical files”, health care professionals and other people who are working in the medical domain cannot give information about a patient to outsiders without the written consent of the patient. Section 13.3 of section 13 of this act includes further provisions:
information included in patient documents may be given if there are express provisions on giving it or on the right of access to it in the law;
information necessary for the arranging of examination and treatment of the patient may be given to another health care unit or health care professional, and a summary of the treatment provided may be given to the health care unit or the health care professional that referred the patient for treatment and to a physician possibly appointed to be responsible for the care of the patient in accordance with the patient's or his/her legal representative’s oral consent or consent that is otherwise obvious from the context; and
information necessary for arranging and providing the examination and care of a patient may be given to another Finnish or foreign health care unit or health care professional, if the patient, owing to a mental health disturbance, mental handicap or for a comparable reason is not capable of assessing the significance of the consent and he/she has no legal representative, or if the patient cannot give the consent because of unconsciousness or for comparable reason;
information about the identity and state of health of a patient may be given to a family member of the patient or to other person close to the patient, if the patient is receiving treatment because of unconsciousness or for another comparable reason, unless there is reason to believe that the patient would forbid this; and
information on the health and medical care of a deceased person provided when the person was still living may be given, upon a justified written application, to anyone who needs the information in order to find out his/her vital interests or rights, to the extent that the information is necessary for that purpose; the acquiring party may not use or forward the information for some other purpose.
Section 13 of the Act on the Status and Rights of Patients (30.6.2000/653) specifically addressed the issue of confidentiality of information contained in patients’ records.
Paragraph 13.1 states that information contained in patients’ records shall be confidential. Paragraph 13.2 states that health care professionals and other people working in or for health care units shall not disclose to outsiders information contained in a patient’s medical records without the written consent of the patient. If the patient is not capable of giving such consent, it can be given by his/her legal representative. In this Act, the term “outsiders” refers to people other than those who are involved in the care of the patient or in carrying out tasks related to the person’s care within or on behalf of a health care unit. The obligation to respect confidentiality remains in force even when the person is no longer employed or carrying out tasks on behalf of the health care unit.
End-of-life care and issues
Decisions about palliative care are made by a doctor but need to be discussed with the patient or patients’ health care proxy/proxies.
Special leave for carers in paid employment
The Act on Support for Informal Care (937/2005) came into effect at the beginning of 2006. Support for informal care is a statutory social service. The municipality is responsible for organising the support within the limits of its resources.
The purpose of the Act is to promote informal care that is in the interests of the person cared for (the client) by securing sufficient access to social welfare and health care services and by safeguarding the continuity of care. Support for informal care encompasses necessary services for the client, and compensation, leave and support services for the informal carer.
In section 5.2 of the Act it is stated that if, during a heavy period of care (e.g. looking after a terminally ill person), a carer is unable to go to work, he/she receives a minimum allowance of EUR 600/month.
Active euthanasia is not permitted.
A competent patient may, however, refuse life-saving or life-sustaining treatment or write in an advance directive the kind of treatment that he/she would like to refuse in the future, should it be needed. Healthcare professionals who respect such wishes, which could be described as passive euthanasia, would not be prosecuted.
Healthcare proxies cannot forbid treatment which is necessary to ward off a threat to the life or health of the person they are representing.
Assisted-suicide
Assisted suicide is not considered a criminal act under the Penal Code of Finland (39/1889 and subsequent amendments).
Homicide, murder and killing
The Penal Code of Finland (39/1889; amendments up to 650/2003 as well as 1372/2003, 650/2004 and 1006/2004 included) includes the following articles which related to homicide, murder and poisoning:
Chapter 21 - Homicide and bodily injury (578/1995)
Section 1 - Manslaughter (578/1995)
(1) A person who kills another shall be sentenced for manslaughter to imprisonment for a fixed period of at least eight years.
(2) An attempt is punishable.
Section 2 - Murder (578/1995)
(1) If the manslaughter is
(1) premeditated;
(2) committed in a particularly brutal or cruel manner;
(3) committed by causing serious danger to the public; or
(4) committed by killing a public official on duty upholding the peace or public security, or because of an official action;
and the offence is aggravated also when assessed as a whole, the offender shall be sentenced for murder to life imprisonment.
Section 3 - Killing (578/1995)
(1) If the manslaughter, in view of the exceptional circumstances of the offence, the motives of the offender or other related circumstances, when assessed as a whole, is to be deemed to have been committed under mitigating circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced for killing to imprisonment for at least four and at most ten years.
Section 8 - Negligent homicide (578/1995)
A person who through negligence causes the death of another shall be sentenced for negligent homicide to a fine or to imprisonment for up to two years.
Section 9 - Grossly negligent homicide (578/1995)
If in the negligent homicide the death of another is caused by gross negligence, and the offence is aggravated (also when assessed as a whole), the offender shall be sentenced for grossly negligent homicide to imprisonment for at least four months and at most six years.
The National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics (ETENE) (2008), Old Age and Ethics of Care. Report 2008, Helsinki. (www.etene.org/e/documents)
Sulkava, Raimo: Practice of Competence Assessment in dementia: Finland. In book Stoppe, Gabriela (edit.) (2008), Competence Assessment in Dementia. On behalf of the European Dementia Consensus Network, Springer Verlag. p.109-111.
[1] Please refer to the section on consent.
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Stanford Convenes Hydrogen Focus Group
ANNOUNCEMENT: California's Stanford University held a two-day workshop this week to launch a new effort aimed at advancing hydrogen “for stable, long-term, low-carbon energy storage.” The Stanford Hydrogen Focus Group intends to support research, serve as a technical resource, and disseminate information via workshops and symposia.
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Ammonia as a Hydrogen Carrier for Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Consider the attributes that characterize a good hydrogen carrier: liquid state at ambient conditions; high volumetric and gravimetric energy density; low propensity to create lethal hazards when transported, stored, and used. Now consider that ammonia is superior to hydrogen itself in every one of these areas. Given this, it stands to reason that proponents of hydrogen fuel cells should embrace ammonia as a valuable enabling technology that can elevate the feasibility and improve the economics of fuel-cell-based systems. And indeed this embrace became evident over the last year.
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CSIRO Demonstrates Ammonia-to-Hydrogen Fueling System
On August 8th Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) gave a public demonstration of its newly developed ammonia-to-hydrogen fueling technology. In an interview this week with Ammonia Energy, Principal Research Scientist Michael Dolan reported that the demonstration drew more media attention than any event in CSIRO’s history – “by a comfortable margin.” The reporting sounded a set of celebratory themes, summed up by this headline from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Hydrogen fuel breakthrough in Queensland could fire up massive new export market. The stories, in other words, focused on what the demonstration could mean for fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) and the Australian economy. They did not penetrate to the heart of the matter which involved a practical development whose importance can be uniquely appreciated by the ammonia energy community.
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Huawei fined $10.5 million in America for 4G LTE patent infringement
C. Scott Brown / @c_scottbrown
A Texas jury just found Huawei guilty of infringing on LTE technology patents with some smartphones.
The jury found that Huawei should pay Texas company PanOptis — the owner of the patents — $10.5 million.
Huawei has yet to respond to the ruling, but will likely appeal.
Although Huawei smartphones barely have a presence at all in America, that didn’t stop a Texas jury from finding the Chinese company guilty of patent infringement related to 4G LTE technology, via World IP Review.
PanOptis — the Texas company that owns the LTE patents in question — claims that it tried unsuccessfully nearly a dozen times over two years to strike an agreement with Huawei over the infringements. The jury agreed that Huawei should pay $10.5 million to PanOptis for the violations.
Huawei has yet to respond to the ruling, although it’s likely that the company will appeal.
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PanOptis owns several patents that relate to LTE technology, specifically systems that work to decode picture and audio data. PanOptis claims that multiple Huawei smartphones (including the Nexus 6P, which Huawei made in a partnership with Google) used these patents without paying the requisite licensing fees. The patent numbers in question are 7,769,238; 6,604,216; 7,940,851; 8,385,284 and 8,208,569.
Curiously, the patent infringements also involved older Huawei products like the Huawei Mate 9 and Huawei P8 Lite which barely had a presence in America at all compared to the Nexus 6P.
This is not the first time Huawei has faced issues in America. Earlier this year, Huawei’s big plans of breaking into the U.S. market through a partnership with AT&T were thwarted partially by the United States government. As of now, Huawei is keeping quiet about any of its plans to attempt to break into America.
NEXT: Huawei slams Australian 5G ban, calls it ‘politically motivated’
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Tree Felling: The Saddest Sight in CIAG (City In A Garden)
from Flying Fish Friends
Malaysian Plovers
from Life's Indulgences
Olive-Backed Sunbird’s Affinity for Bicycles
from Bird Ecology Study Group
Sand and Singapore
from The Diplomat blogs
Counting birds is no flight of fancy
Trackers have to be quiet, brave rough terrain and learn to recognise bird calls
Feng Zengkun Straits Times 27 Aug 11;
COLLEGE lecturer Yong Ding Li can recognise at least 1,200 birds by ear.
The 27-year-old trains by listening to an online database of bird calls and by visiting forests around the region.
The skill may seem esoteric but will be useful tomorrow, when the Nature Society conducts its annual census on the autumn migration habits of birds.
Mr Yong Ding Li, on how the more experienced counters rely on their ears because it is faster
The census, one of seven the society conducts each year, helps to track changes in the bird population here.
Last year, volunteers counted 8,666 birds at 28 sites across Singapore during one census.
Mr Yong said more experienced counters rely on their ears because it is faster.
'If you spend all your time looking up at the trees for birds you will miss out on many of them,' he said.
The counters begin their work at 7.30am, when the birds are at their loudest, and stop at 10.30am, when bird activity generally dies down.
Each route of the census is conducted by at least two counters - one to track the birds and the other to take notes.
They follow a fixed route and note every bird they see or hear along the way.
When the tracker spots a new entry, he quietly points it out to the note-taker, who writes the entry in shorthand.
Mr Yong said difficulties include making sure each bird is new and not simply one that has flown further down the counters' path.
To address this, counters have to know if the species like to move around and how quickly they can travel.
He gave the example of babblers, elusive forest birds which like to remain at the same spot. 'So if you hear another one after 100 steps, it's probably not the same one,' he said.
It is a job that requires experience, and the ability to be quiet and careful in rough terrain.
This may be why most of some 200 bird counters here are middle-aged men who have time to spare for the activity, and who do not mind the outdoor nature of the work, counters told The Straits Times.
The Nature Society does not discriminate against novices, and pairs them with more experienced counters.
After each census - a gruelling three-hour test of concentration - the notes are collated by a coordinator at the society and published on its website.
Mr Yong said Bukit Timah Nature Reserve is one of the harder sites because the birds there tend to hide high in the trees and are hard to hear and spot. Experienced counters usually record some 25 to 30 species there.
The lack of experienced manpower is another problem the society faces, a reason for the wide estimates of the migratory birds which pass through or stay in Singapore, which range from 20,000 to 50,000.
Certain areas rich in bird life are also off-limits to the counters, such as the military zones of Pulau Tekong and the stretch of scrub, brushland and secondary forest from Lim Chu Kang to Raffles Country Club, which runs more than 10km.
Mr Yong said he knows there are many bird species in the two areas because he heard them during his national service.
'I mentally took notes when I was marching around,' he said.
Mr Alan Owyong, chairman of the bird group at the Nature Society, said more people have come forward to join the counts in recent year.
'But of course, we always welcome more,' he said.
Birds common to Singapore shores
LONG-TAILED PARAKEET
Common in parks and secondary forests in many parts of Singapore.
Most easily spotted around the Singapore Botanic Gardens and on Pulau Ubin.
COMMON FLAME BACK
A colourful native woodpecker.
Found in parkland and secondary forests throughout Singapore.
WHITE-THROATED KINGFISHER
Common in parkland, scrub and marshy areas in most parts of Singapore.
ORIENTAL HONEY BUZZARD
Common migratory bird of prey in Singapore.
Can be easily seen in the Southern Ridges in October and November.
COMMON IORA
Colourful garden bird found in parks, mangroves and even roadside trees in Singapore.
labels birds, singapore, singapore-biodiversity, singaporeans-and-nature
20 endangered Siamese crocodiles hatch in Laos
Jerry Harmer Associated Press Yahoo News 26 Aug 11;
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — One of the world's rarest crocodile species has moved a little bit further from extinction with the hatching of 20 wild eggs plucked from a nest found in southern Laos.
Experts believe there could be as few as 300 Siamese crocodiles remaining in the world's swamps, forests and rivers, so the discovery of the nest — the first found in the mountainous, jungle-clad country since 2008 — is a significant step in the rehabilitation of a species that was declared extinct in the wild in 1992.
Since then, tiny populations have been discovered in remote corners of its range, which used to include most of Southeast Asia. Still, the crocs remain critically endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, the acknowledged authority on the status of global biodiversity.
Under the soft red light of an incubator, the 20 baby crocodiles tapped and cracked their way into the world last week. Their nest was found in the southern province of Savannakhet in June by a team of villagers trained by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, which is working to save the species in landlocked Laos.
"The feeling was one of elation," Chris Hallam, who coordinates the organization's crocodile project in Laos, told The Associated Press about the hatching.
"When you look at the global population and the population in Laos it represents quite a significant number of individual crocodiles," he said.
The crocs were hatched at the Lao Zoo, just outside Vientiane, where they were moved to protect them from predators such as snakes and monitor lizards.
Hallam said the crocodiles will be raised in captivity for 18 months before being released back into the wild.
And it seems they won't be alone. Villagers recently found another nest in Savannakhet with 20 eggs inside. Because those crocs are so near to hatching, conservationists decided to leave them where they are with village teams keeping an eye on them.
The Siamese crocodile grows up to 10 feet (3 meters) in length but is generally docile. Their passive nature made them all the easier to hunt. In recent decades thousands were captured and sold to crocodile farms that sprung up across Southeast Asia, feeding a vogue for its renowned soft skin and a taste for its meat.
Several thousand of the crocodiles remain in farms and in zoos, though many have been crossbred with bigger species, reducing still further the numbers of pure Siamese crocodiles.
labels freshwater-ecosystems, global, global-biodiversity, reptiles
Malaysia national holiday snared by poachers
WWF 26 Aug 11;
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia – Fresh snares set for tigers have been discovered by WWF-Malaysia’s monitoring team only a short distance from the country’s East-West Highway, a major road that connects Peninsular Malaysia’s northeast to its northwest.
The discovery came just less than a month after the release of ‘On Borrowed Time’, a documentary that highlights the severity of the poaching and illegal wildlife trade in the Belum-Temengor Forest Complex, a wildlife hotspot that is located in the northern state of Perak and crosses into Southern Thailand.
“Since early August, 12 snares have been detected and deactivated by the team, with even more expected to be found in the area. Based on the sizes and types of snare, it is very clear that poachers are targeting large mammals such as tigers,” said Dato’ Dr. Dionysius Sharma, CEO/Executive Director of WWF-Malaysia.
WWF-Malaysia and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia immediately alerted the Perak Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) for the swift removal of these threats to wildlife.
Another camera-trap in the area captured a photo of possible poachers, just a day before the team trekked in to retrieve the cameras and detected the snares. The wire snares were camouflaged so well that the foot of one of the team’s field assistants had gotten caught in it.
The photo was shared with DWNP earlier this month to assist in their investigations.
WWF-Malaysia and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia urge enforcement agencies to be vigilant in their monitoring and to conduct rigorous patrols on the ground. Poachers are likely to take advantage of the country’s national holiday period at the end August, which marks the end of Ramadan and Malaysia Independence Day. This is already evident from the snares that have been discovered in the past three weeks alone.
“It’s painfully clear that the poachers ravaging Malaysia’s wildlife are getting more efficient. This begs obvious questions about whether enforcement authorities are managing to keep pace with the criminals. Sadly, it appears that they are not. Even simple actions like regular patrolling and establishment of the planned multi-agency task force at Belum-Temengor are stalled,” said Dr. William Schaedla, Regional Director for TRAFFIC Southeast Asia.
More alarmingly, a camera-trap placed in the area has also captured the photo of a three-footed Malayan sun bear. The injury seen in the photo is consistent with an animal having lost a limb while trying to free itself from a snare.
Under the new Wildlife Conservation Act 2010, any person who sets or uses any snare for the purpose of hunting can be subject to fines ranging from RM50,000 to RM100,000 (US$16,700 – US$33,500) and imprisonment for a maximum of two years.
At the launch of ‘On Borrowed Time’ last month in conjunction with World Tiger Day 2011, WWF-Malaysia and TRAFFIC Southeast Asia called for a revitalisation of the Belum-Temengor Joint Enforcement Taskforce, the pursuit of poachers and encroachers to the full extent of the law and for all agencies working in the area to show equal effort and commitment towards enforcement.
From 2008 to 2010, 142 snares have been discovered and de-activated in the Belum-Temengor Forest Complex. Over 400 wild animals, such as Sambar deer, pangolins, elephants and tigers have been poached inside the protected and numerous poacher camps have also been found.
Concern over rise in illegal wildlife hunting in Belum-Temengor forest reserve
Lee Yen Mun The Star 28 Aug 11;
PETALING JAYA: Poachers are getting more cunning and efficient, and many quarters are questioning whether the enforcement authorities are able to catch up with them.
Animal rights groups and wildlife enforcement agencies have ex-pressed concern that illegal poaching will increase at the Belum-Temengor forest reserve.
Wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic regional director Dr William Schaedla, who said poachers in the country were getting increasingly “efficient”, blames the availability of access roads through protected areas of the forest for facilitating the illegal hunting.
Dr Schaedla said poachers had become more brazen, judging by the latest discovery of 12 fresh snares by the WWF-Malaysia monitoring team near the East West Highway.
The shocking find was made in the first three weeks of this month alone.
“Based on the evidence gathered, poaching activities are becoming more regular because of the absence of patrols.
“We are worried that more wild animals will end up in the cooking pot during the holidays,” Dr Schaedla said when contacted yesterday.
A camera image produced by WWF-Malaysia showed a three-footed Malayan sun bear, which the organisation believes lost a limb while trying to free itself from a trap.
The Malayan sun bear, easily identified by the distinct crescent patch on the animal's chest, is an endangered species.
WWF-Malaysia and Dr Schaedla have raised questions over the ability of enforcement personnel in keeping pace with the criminals.
“Even simple actions like regular patrolling and setting up a multi-agency task force at Belum-Temengor have apparently stalled,” Dr Schaedla claimed.
WWF-Malaysia and Traffic South-East Asia have lodged reports of its findings with the Perak Wildlife and the National Parks Department (Perhilitan).
Perak Perhilitan chief Shabrina Mohd Shariff said there were many entry routes into the forest area, including the Royal Belum and Temengor forest reserves.
She, however, refuted the claims of animal rights groups that her department's officers had slackened in their patrolling efforts.
The department, she said, deployed a team of four to patrol East West Highway entry points every day from 8am to 5pm.
“We know our presence is important in deterring poachers. However, the Royal Belum Forest Reserve is under the jurisdiction of the state government and not the department,” Shabrina said.
“Following the report by the animal rights group, the state Perhilitan sent a nine-man team to survey the location of the snares.
“We found the camping site of a group believed to be that of illegal immigrants from Thailand numbering four to six persons,” she said.
The discovery of the snares came less than a month after Traffic and WWF-Malaysia released a public documentary featuring the severity of illegal wildlife trade in the area.
Under the New Wildlife Conservation Act, any person who sets up or uses any snare for the purpose of hunting is liable to a fine of up to RM100,000 and two years' jail.
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Indonesia: Coral reef destruction caused by Montara oil well explosion
Antara 26 Aug 11;
Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (ANTARA News) - Timor Sea observer Ferdi Tanoni said the destruction of coral reefs in Sawu waters in East Nusa Tenggara was caused by the 2009 explosion of an oil well in the Montara oil field.
He said here on Friday he disagreed with the view of the ministry of fisheries and marine resources that 90 percent of the coral reef damage was caused by blast fishing.
"I am convinced the damage to coral reefs in Sawu waters was caused by the explosion of the Montara oil well in the West Atlas Block in the Timor Sea on August 21, 2009 and not by blast fishing," he said commenting on the results of a fisheries ministry`s observation.
The chief of the Care West Timor Foundation (YPTB) based in Kupang said it was impossible for blast fishing to cause such damage because traditional fishermen never used explosives to fish in deep seas.
The Sawu waters which have been declared by the ministry of fisheries and marine resources as a national conservation area are the migration lane of various kinds of whales from the north to the south of Australia.
The Sawu waters are also the main crossing lane for passenger and cargo ships from and to Kupang through Tenau port, he said.
Tanoni who is also a former immigration agent of the Australian embassy said he believed the damage suffered by coral reefs in Sawu waters was the result of the Montara disaster that spilled hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil into Indonesian waters in the Timor Sea.
The crude oil spill was also accompanied by black tin and other hazardous materials which had later been submerged to the bottom of the sea by hazardous dispersant by the Australian Maritime Security Authority (AMSA).
He said the dangerous dispersant powder used by AMSA had also been used to overcome the oil spill in Mexico Bay some time ago but had later been stopped because of its potential danger to human health as well as coral reefs and other sea biota.
"Referring to the Mexico Bay case I am convinced the damage on the coral reefs in Sawu waters was the result of hazardous materials coming from the Montara oil well explosion and the dispersant used by AMSA," he said.
Based on that he said the YPTB and its alliances would file a lawsuit against PTTEP Australasia, the company that has polluted the Timor Sea to ask for its social, economic and health accountability for coastal residents in East Nusa Tenggara.
He said seaweed farming on coastal areas in the province has no longer produced harvests due to oil pollution while traditional fishermen`s catch has also dropped following the Montara oil well explosion.
(Uu.H-YH/HAJM/F001)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
labels global, marine, oil-spills, reefs
UN lifts Nigeria wildlife trade suspension
AFP Yahoo News 27 Aug 11;
The UN wildlife trade regulator said Friday it was lifting its 2005 suspension on wildlife commerce with Nigeria, citing the country's improved efforts to combat illegal trade.
"Nigeria has significantly reduced illegal trade," Juan Vasquez, a spokesman with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, told AFP.
He said that the regulator had called on states to suspend such dealings with Nigeria as it was the "hub" of much illegal wildlife trade in West Africa, notably in ivory but also in reptile skins.
"What has changed is political will, and the authorities have shown a positive engagement to stamp out illegal wildlife trade," Vasquez said.
The agency visited areas for black-market ivory commerce in 2010, but "ivory could no longer be found there", said the spokesman.
While he acknowledged that illegal trade has not disappeared completely, "there are now laws in place and being implemented which ensure that this trade is controlled".
"We will continue to monitor the situation, but we recognize the positive efforts of Nigeria," Vasquez said.
According to the CITES website, some 19 other countries, including Belize, India and Tanzania, among the 175 signatories of the convention are still subject to trade restrictions.
Vasquez added that trade restrictions exist for over 34,000 plant and animal species, some 900 of which are endangered.
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Climate Change Policy: What Do the Models Tell Us?
Quite a lot really. Unless, of course, you’re looking at the wrong models in the wrong way. As Robert S. Pindyck does. I do have some sympathy for the paper, but its badly written, somewhat confused, and the author has failed to emphasise some key distinctions.
To begin with where I agree, I’m fairly happy with his assertion that “certain inputs (e.g. the discount rate) are arbitrary, but have huge effects on the [social cost of carbon] estimates”. I’m only “fairly” happy, because to say that the discount rate is “arbitrary” is stupid (which is probably a hint that this thing hasn’t been peer-reviewed; its only a working paper); what he means is, that people of good faith can nonetheless disagree about what the correct value should be. And it is certainly true that how much you think future climate damage should be costed now depends rather heavily on the discount rate. However, this is just the bleedin’ obvious, so he gets no points for that. He also whinges about the uselessness of the models, but fails to realise that for exploring the impacts of different discount rates, or different damage functions, they are quite illuminating.
His paper is about “integrated assessment models” (IAMs) – the things used to turn parametrised versions of climate change into damage estimates. I know little about them, so I’m not going to say much about that bit. Of course his title doesn’t specify that. And while his language in the abstract when he says the models’ descriptions of the impact of climate change are completely ad hoc, with no theoretical or empirical foundation is probably defensible, you have to read it fairly carefully to realise he is talking about the “damage functions” bit there – he isn’t talking about the physical-climate-bit at all in the abstract. Later on he is more careless:
There are two types of inputs that lend themselves to arbitrary choices. The first is the social welfare (utility) function and related parameters needed to value and compare current and future gains and losses from abatement. The second is the set of functional forms and related parameters that determine the response of temperature to changing CO2e concentrations and (especially) the economic impact of rising temperatures.
The arbitrariness of “(especially) the economic impact of rising temperatures” may or may not be correct – like I say, that’s not my thing; though I know enough that damage isn’t just temperature, it ought to be precip too, at least. But he’s quite wrong to say that “the set of functional forms and related parameters that determine the response of temperature to changing CO2e concentrations” is arbitrary. That’s just ignorance on his part.
He does talk about the physical-science-bit, wrapping the discussion around climate sensitivity, which is what it all boils down to at this level. But I don’t think he knows what he is talking about; and instead he just talks up the uncertainties. What he should have written for this section (prefixed with “I know nowt about CS…” is “Compared to the uncertainties elsewhere, the uncertainty in CS is small and we may as well assume 3 oC. Or 2 oC. Or somewhere like that”. Instead he repeats the Roe/Baker heresy even down to the Gaussian bit which I pointed out was wrong ages ago.
mt will be happy that he does point out that the IAM models intrinsically don’t deal with “catastrophic outcomes” well, since they’re built to be smooth, i.e. they’re built not to have any catastrophic outcomes. So he gets a point for that.
Well, don’t read his paper or the “What to Do?” since it doesn’t really go anywhere. Instead, you need to think like Karl Popper (I think; though I could easily have the wrong guy; lets call him “KP” for now) who was talking about building political systems. And laying in to the likes of Plato, who designed their systems around philosopher-kings, who by their very nature were wise and good (even if they were instructed to lie to the populace; but that’s another matter). KP tried to say No; we should not design our systems on the basis that our rulers will be Good; on the contrary, we should design them to survive rulers who are Bad.
Similarly, the answer to “oh noes, our IAM models suffer from unknown damage functions and uncertain discount rates” is not “fiddle with the models” or “select simpler more subjective models”; its to design models that work even if you don’t know such things. Like – aha, you guessed it, I know – a carbon tax that we can ramp up or down slowly as needed.
Author wmconnolleyPosted on August 15, 2013 Categories climate communication, climate economics
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American Idiot says:
If I had that name I’d change it…
[Do you know, I completely missed that? Still you folk are notorious for having names like “Peentangler” -W]
Andrew Dodds says:
We have empirical tests – accidentally, anyway – of a carbon tax in the form of fuel duty. Although being a duty it varies, I believe that the current rate is c. 150%. A fairly substantial carbon tax, therefore.
We can then compare to another country – i.e. the US – and see that there are two elements. Fleet economy is roughly 20mpg in the US vs 30mpg here; add in changes in miles driven and you find usage is roughly halved in the UK.
So we have what could be regarded as extreme levels of taxation required for a significant reduction in use – even if we attribute all of this reduction to tax, and not the UK being a more compact country with better public transport. And it’s taken decades to work..
Now, the reason for this is simple.. a car represents a large investment, and fuel is only one cost; for most cars, depreciation is a bigger cost than fuel even now, and insurance is significant too.
Now, if we look at electricity..
First, we note that consumers have essentially no direct control – unless you go off-grid, you’ll just see higher bills. And because this will be across suppliers, they won’t have a huge incentive to go out and build low-carbon capacity. After all, we are already replacing coal with natural gas. In any case, the turnover time of generating plant is measured in decades; in order to achieve rapid reductions in emissions, the tax would have to be set at a level where new-ish plants would have to be prematurely retired.
Natural gas for domestic use.. well, the price has already doubled or tripled over the past decade, without drastic impacts on end use. Because – and you may see a theme here – the capital cost of going to ‘not using gas for heating’ is very high (and options limited).
Now, I know that in economist land, these big practical details somehow don’t exist – much like the way that pulleys and cables have zero friction/mass in newtonian mechanics land – but I would contend that in the real world, these ‘details’ would simply mean that a carbon tax set at a level that made any sort of difference would result in a huge hike in bills for customers with no relief in sight. Which would be extremely unpopular. And hence dropped pretty quickly.
The cynic in me thinks that some of the conservative proponents of a carbon tax are fully aware of this, and in fact simply want it as a way of hiking VAT (the taxes being very similar) and cutting income taxes – a standard way of transferring from poor/middle to rich; if they can get some of the more gullible Green lobby to join in, so much the better.
[I think you’ve missed things. Take the price of natural gas for heating. Increasing the cost of gas is supposed to affect the balance people make between turning the heating down, paying more for gas, or paying for more insulation. Getting people to shell out for insulation (with the associated tedium) is difficult; the impact is more on standards for new houses. but the effect is there.
But you’re also missing the point that, since this is a tax (not a cap) one option people have is simply to pay it. There’s nowt wrong with that -W]
Increasing the cost of gas is supposed to affect the balance people make between turning the heating down, paying more for gas, or paying for more insulation.
You know, I’d love to pay more for insulation. Unfortunately, because of the type of property I live in, it’s physically impossible to install any more insulation without completely gutting the place first. And if I let it get any colder during the winter, I’m going to start having serious problems with damp. The inescapable fact is that a lot of the housing stock in this country is crap, and cannot be retro-fitted to make it all that much better. The only real option I have in my current property is to upgrade the boiler, which (because I’m a pretty light heating user) has a payback time of about 15 years. I could go to a completely different heating source (in an ideal world, I’d quite fancy an air-sourced heat pump), but that’s got an even longer payback time and some serious installation problems.
Lots of good fun to be had over at Willard Tony’s where the mouthbreathers think that IAM models are GCMs in drag.
An alarmingly productive search result:
https://www.google.com/search?q=popper+machiavelli
from that,
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/popper.html
” Popper is often, with Hayek, associated with a return to classical liberalism, or rather a certain caricature of it which sees no role for any social institutions but markets and a minimal nightwatchman state to enforce property rights. I think this is a gross misunderstanding, and that his actual, sound, political theory is quite compatible with the best traditions of social democracy; I would be happy to call myself a Left Popperian, if I thought anyone would get it. “
tim B says:
Wouldn’t precip be a function of temperature? As I understood it, CO2 wouldn’t be a direct contributor to preciptation, it would be the warming created by CO2. In that respect, reducing cost damage to “temperature” and “CO2” would be correct, I would presume? If CO2 rose and temperature did not, I would think precipitation would be unaffected though vegetation might be. Is that inaccurate?
[Not directly. I think its reasonable to use global T change as a measure of total change, and it will be a direct input into (say) sea level change. But precip is much harder: the impacts are mostly ecological, and hence local; and we’re just as likely to see impacts from shifts in rain patterns as from changes in the total -W]
Dunc — You could always add more insulation on the inside of the walls. Anything from proper insulation recovered by new drywall or just lots of heavy draperies.
Ceilings would be lower, aiding lower heating bills.
tim B — Global precipitation is a function of temperature but regional and local precipitation changes are much more difficult to work out. Much of the excess precipitation is out at sea, for example.
Dunc is right about the problem: adding insulation (and caulking cracks, even air-barrier latex paint) restrict airflow). Dry rot gets active in wood’s around 60 percent humidity — very easy to reach that under a “cool roof” or inside walls.
This is an excellent paper on the issue: http://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-035-we-need-to-do-it-different-this-time
With solar cells becoming cheap enough, PV solar directly wired to resistance heaters (much simpler than solar thermal hot water collectors) may solve the problem, for the leaky old buildings most of us live in.
WC- [Not directly. I think its reasonable to use global T change as a measure of total change, and it will be a direct input into (say) sea level change. But precip is much harder: the impacts are mostly ecological, and hence local; and we’re just as likely to see impacts from shifts in rain patterns as from changes in the total -W]
Interesting. I have always understood that local effects could be different, both in terms of temperature, precipitation, etc, but I’ve never seen it postulated that changes to these effects were not attributable to a global net warming. Whence, I can see local amplifications where global rising temperature affects different local areas but never where a net zero global temperature rise would independently affect precipitation. That’s why I though global costing as a function of CO2 and temperature would be complete. Sort of like costing health care as a function of age and gender in the whole would encompass individual excursions. Intuitively local precipitation seems more sensitive to temperature changes even on larger scale natural phenomenon like ENSO. I have not seen (nor looked as I am not climate scientist) as to whether overall net precipitation is increased/decreased or just shifted around.during cycles but it’s definitely a clear signal that local precipitation sensitivity to regional temperature shifts (at least as we correlate them to SST in certain regions) is fairly high. It would be interesting to see if small changes in global temperatures amplify/dampen natural oscillations (i.e. the “dampling” of the oscillation is a function of net temperature – first thought would be that warmer encourages more mixing/less viscosity and whence a smaller SST range with warming ocean and if couse the presumption that the SST difference is the ENSO driver and not merely an correlated observable. ) Interesting though it is a perspective on net cost and local effects being greater than the whole would indicate. More obvious too, if effects are hemispherical as the cost of drought in Northern hemisphere would vastly outweigh the cost of flooding in the Southern hemisphere even if net precipitation is unchanged.
Hank Roberts – [With solar cells becoming cheap enough, PV solar directly wired to resistance heaters (much simpler than solar thermal hot water collectors) may solve the problem, for the leaky old buildings most of us live in.]
Be careful with this. For one, (at least in USA) PV energy cost is larger than just power company. Secondly it would be a serious safety/building code violation to penetrate a liveable building space with primary PV wiring. You would need external amperage and disconnect capability before penetrating a wall or roof. Secondly, I presume this cooling and damping is more pronounced at night.
Sound PV design is built around fault tolerance and danger. For electrical grid tie systems, fault tolerance determines where the circuit breaker is placed in the panel. Even more odd is that wire size on A/C side of the inverter is determined by grid voltage variation and not simply amperage as wire is for general circuitry. I once had a system where the buildings main circuit breaker had to be downsized because the fault from the PV system exceeded the rating of the panel.
hinschelwood says:
KP has always been controversial. He is arguably a genius, but he has his failings that occasionally make him easy to dismiss.
Part of his problem is his public image, although he is capable of producing some decent spin of his own. On the whole, it’s best to judge him on his record, rather than a few odd creases in his career.
Oh, and I forgot to mention KP’s habit of changing sides, which has caused a lot of debate in itself.
Marlowe Johnson says:
the weasel is, as per usual, missing the point. if you accept pindyk’s premise that the uncertainty bars for climate IAMs are so large as to render them functionally useless, then it follows that climate mitigation is best framed in terms of risk management not optimization.
so, no, it doesn’t follow, as the weasel seems to think, that a carbon tax sidesteps problem. quite the opposite. under a risk management framework C&T is a much more suitable policy tool because it sets a limit on emissions (risk) not price (optimum).
Mal Adapted says:
“Still you folk are notorious for having names like “Peentangler” -W”
Oh yeah? Well, you guys live in places with names like Barking, Dorking, and Shellow Bowells 8^D!
@ Marlowe Johnson
No, this does not follow. Setting a cap at a certain target beyond which a specific risk lurks would mean that we are ready to avoid this risk at all costs. That is not how we value risk (and also not how we usually set a cap as soon as considerable costs for avoiding are involved!), and Pindyck acknowledges this (by bringing in preference parameters). In fact, he explicitly argues for a tax as a consequence of a more subjective valuation of the present value of avoided future risk in the conclusion. He still acknowledges IAM based SCC estimates as a useful, if somewhat arbitrary benchmark estimate for the introduction of a tax (with eventual updating). Incidentally, this is more or less to the letter what Weitzman has already suggested years ago.
Generally speaking, I have no idea why Pindyck sets this up as a working paper. The discount rate issue has been published about much more thoroughly after the Stern Review, together with the welfare/utility function question (especially Nordhaus); Weitzman has discussed catastrophic risk (with regard to CS, exactly as Pindyck does!) and the convexity of the damage function issue in much much greater detail. What Pindyck presents here is merely sort of a graduate term paper of what is already known (throwing quite a lot of the literature under the bus, in fact). There is absolutely nothing, nothing at all, that has not already been said much better, and in much more detail, before – and Pindyck doesn’t even acknowledge it all! On his final point as to what to do in the face of failing IAMs and catastrophic risk (i.e. fat tails)? Oh, look here, the one we do not talk about, and another one we do not know:
http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10479-013-1343-2.pdf
That is, while Pindyck is talking about catastrophe insurance in excruciatingly vague terms, there have already been published papers that contain actual decision criteria for policy in the face of catastrophic risk, rather than some fluffy gobbledygook that tells you exactly nothing about what to do (other than that you should go with the IAM based estimate, anyway). “Avoiding catastrophic risk” is a lot, but it is not a policy.
Karl Popper was somewhat of a Social Democrat, but such a fierce opponent of Marxism that he is often appropriated by the right. I am basing this on the account of someone who knew Popper well – Profesor Bryan Magee in Confessions of a Philosopher.
The joke about Popper as a liberal (yes, that is how he described himself) is that he was fiercely intellectually domineering. To his credit some of his pupils went on the great eminence (Feyerabend, Lakatos, Gellner). It was Gellner who said that Popper’s magnum opus The Open Society and its Enemies (a fierce attack on Plato, Hegel, Marx and historicism) should be called The Open Society by One of its Enemies
PS We should not be too hard on Popper – there are many notorious examples of philosophers failing to live up to their highest ideals – Jefferson and slavery, Rousseau gave up all his illegitemate children to a foundling hospital with a 50% survival rate.
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Ya know, more on modeling in general — and what it’s letting us see — would be welcome. Understanding successful modeling calls for a revision of how we see the world as marked as the change from understanding Statistics 101, pulling useful facts out of a mass of experience and data that people just didn’t know what to do with.
Stunning example here:
http://trb.metapress.com/content/x0q4718181j27582/
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
Fundamentals of Airplane Accident Dynamics: Extracting Meaning from Fatal Accidents
First page: http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=x0q4718181j27582&size=largest
Short answer: transport aircraft build in a large safety margin; general aviation aircraft don’t. General aviation has 10x as many accidents as transportation aviation. How can this be?
Long answer–see the paper, this is the sort of result only mathematical models — computers and statistical analysis — will get out of huge collections of data. In that study they learned these things:
(a) the concept of amplification of structural loads on close approach to an instability explained in-flight airframe-failure;
(b) the establishment of load and speed at the point of failure
(c) the finding that the most likely failure occurs slightly above design cruise speed if minimum strength and minimum stiffness were used in design;
(d) the correlation of accident rates with structural flexibility and speed;
(e) the finding that strong trends at high speed in four variables could not be intuitively separated until a math model of the failure process was created;
(f) the finding that the model matched the 10:1 difference in accident rates between GA and transports; and
(g) the finding that the model demonstrated that structural stiffness was more important than structural strength. …
The article says that for fatal accidents in general aviation, the “largest single category” is “in flight airframe failure” — they compared each “fleet” (specific aircraft model?) because each fleet had a characteristic pattern and rate of accidents. 10:1 was the worst rate found, compared to transportation aircraft. They don’t say which fleet reached that mark for in flight airframe failures. I could guess but I won’t. But y’all who are power pilots can read that and make more sense of it than I can. I found it remarkable pulling the specific statistics out of a huge data set that’s been collected for years but not understood til computer modeling of the failure process was done. The paper does say “these data suggest that design compromises affecting safety were more important than pilot error.”
I’d guess that’s an unwelcome suggestion. Other people make mistakes; everyone flies something designed, mostly by others, to some spec.
But — If the spec’s that cheeseparingly stingy — eventually, years later, the numbers will emerge if there are significant externalized deferred costs. For customers whose planes fall apart in the air — that’s disturbing.
And, ya know, without modeling — you wouldn’t know about this stuff.
Modeling — as much as statistics — changes how we see the world.
(That’s why there are speeches in the Congress against it, and rants about “virtual risks” — risks that happen to show up with enough data, but don’t leave bodies stacked along the sidewalks in every neighborhood)
Look at this history — a very early case where a conclusion was pulled out of the collected experience , after long delay and much obfuscation:
“… the V-tail Bonanza had the best overall safety record of any general aviation aircraft, but had the worst record when it came to mid-air break-up. The V-tail Bonanza was twenty-four times more likely to suffer from in-flight structural failure than the Straight-tail Bonanza. The only difference between theses two models was the configuration of the tail. Beech disputed this claim and said that the V-tail was only eight times more likely than the straight-tail to suffer from in-flight failure ….”
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/archive/general/ethics/vtail.html
Ya know what else the modelers are able to understand, beyond the understanding individuals have managed before?
Social networks. That sort of analysis and modeling allows interesting discoveries.
Imagine you know that you’re “the good guys” and subversives are trying to interfere with the marketing of your nation’s precious geological fluids, pretending that fertilizer is bad stuff to add to the atmosphere. You can …. I dunno. Interfere with them.
A simpler older example is interesting:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/chwe/ps269/han.pdf
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
http://devsbuild.it/resources/type/article/future-commerce-will-combine-your-social-network-and-mobile-device
[Hank Roberts] “… the V-tail Bonanza had the best overall safety record of any general aviation aircraft, but had the worst record when it came to mid-air break-up. The V-tail Bonanza was twenty-four times more likely to suffer from in-flight structural failure than the Straight-tail Bonanza. The only difference between theses two models was the configuration of the tail. Beech disputed this claim and said that the V-tail was only eight times more likely than the straight-tail to suffer from in-flight failure ….”
It is known as the “fork-tailed doctor killer” and the issue was a fluttering balance problem with the tail. The reality is that GA pilots time and operating constraints aren’t as constricted. Commercial aircraft are designed with a more unstable CG for fuel efficiency but operating limits, policy and regulation keep them in a stable envelope. Also, a GA aircraft can stall/spin and breakup before pilot error is the cause. All airplanes have a coffin corner but if you never get near it because if you do, you get sacked, failures will be less. This is an excellent example for separating cause and correlation.
> fluttering balance
Not the only problem. It’s an early case of the issue pulled out by that more recent modeling analysis I quoted first, that found
“(c) the finding that the most likely failure occurs slightly above design cruise speed if minimum strength and minimum stiffness were used in design”
That’s the scary one. And that’s for general aviation generally — that’s the design choice made for general aviation but not made for transport aviation, where ‘better than the minimum … in design’ was required.
Point is you can’t always show causation, certainly not for each separate and individual failure — but when you have the pattern to establish sufficient correlation — tobacco, asbestos, these airframe failures, and much else — a clear public health choice is there to be found.
PCA isn’t causation.
Remember where that “correlation is not causation so you can’t prove any risk” argument comes from.
http://www.academia.edu/163706/The_Organization_of_Denial_Conservative_Think_Tanks_and_Environmental_Scepticism#
Julian Frost says:
Doctor Connolley, sorry if this is not the right place, but I saw this news story and hoped you could clarify.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/09/10/global-warming-no-actually-we-re-cooling
The article originated from the Fail (sorry, Mail) on Sunday, so I’m already suspicious.
[I was hoping to avoid this entire sorry mess. That article is impressively bad – a garbled version of the Fail’s nonsense.
The truth is: last year’s sea ice was unusually low, record-breakingly so, as I’m sure we all remember. To no-one’s great surprise, this year’s ice won’t break last year’s record. That’s all there is to it. Looking at different years (http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm, or perhaps http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/extent_anom_1yr.jpg?w=500&h=322) you can see immeadiately that the decline isn’t monotonic -W]
The truth is: last year’s sea ice was unusually low, record-breakingly so, as I’m sure we all remember. To no-one’s great surprise, this year’s ice won’t break last year’s record. That’s all there is to it.
Thank you Doctor Connolley.
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Gov't Mule - Dark Side of the Mule
3 cd set + dvd
Few bands have a reputation for making music as consistently honest, organic, and daring as Gov't Mule.
But in curveball mode, and for the first time in it's 20-year career, Gov't Mule has delved into it's vaults to create multiple configurations of it's fabled Halloween 2008 performance at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston. The show featured a long and varied set of impassioned, expertly executed Pink Floyd covers (spanning 80-plus minutes) as only the Mule can deliver, with guest saxophonist Ron Holloway (Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Scott-Heron, Little Feat, Allman Brothers).
The Deluxe Edition of DARK SIDE OF THE MULE features 3 CDs of the entire performance (3 hours of music), plus a DVD of the entire show mixed for stereo and 5.1.
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Tom Petty - An American Treasure
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run: 30th Anniversary
Julia Holter - Aviary
Boz Scaggs - Memphis
Chuck Berry - Chuck
Elvis Costello - Look Now
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Medical Turf Battles
Gov. William Donald Schaefer has some tough decisions to make in the next few weeks as he mulls over the list of General Assembly bills to be signed or vetoed. The thorniest ones deal with intense turf battles among medical practitioners.
There are two bills on the governor's list that we feel deserve a veto, and two others that he ought to sign into law. All of them relate to the level of medical training and supervision of practitioners.
One measure that he should reject would permit minimally trained office personnel to give X-ray tests in doctor's offices. JTC This is a dangerous step that could create health hazards in some doctors' offices and lead to over-radiation of patients and additional patient X-ray costs. Studies indicate that self-referring physicians charge four to seven times more for X-rays and subject patients to four times more X-ray exams than when the doctor sends the patient to a radiologist.
The bill would let anyone with just 30 hours of training administer certain X-rays, with no peer review, no regulatory oversight and no mandated continuing education. It is a measure that will financially benefit private physicians to the detriment of the public.
A second veto is warranted for a special-interest bill from Sen. Frederick Malkus of Dorchester County. It would permit a small number of individuals who don't meet the academic criteria for the psychologist's licensing examination to take the test anyway. National, state and academic medical groups oppose this exception, and we agree.
Two other measures that have stirred medical controversy also are on the governor's desk. One would create a new certification for social workers who do clinical therapy. It is a sensible approach to enhance the medical testing by the state for these health practitioners. The second measure would let some podiatrists treat ankle as well as foot problems. This bill was vetoed last year but has since been improved with safeguards that give hospitals much-needed control over podiatrists permitted to do ankle surgery. Both measures should be signed by the governor. They tighten certification requirements or oversight of medical activities.
Clashes among medical specialists are always among the more bitter and intense in the State House. Mr. Schaefer would be wise to ignore the heavy lobbying taking place to influence his decision on these four measures and to make up his mind on the basis of what is best for the citizens of Maryland, not the vested interests.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.barrons.com/articles/united-technologies-stock-gains-laggard-morgan-stanley-51549657321\nUnited Technologies Stock Could Take Off Any Time, Says Analyst\nAl Root\nFeb. 8, 2019 3:23 pm ET\nConstruction in China is a key source of demand for Otis elevators. Above, buildings in Hong Kong. Photo by Stephen Chernin/Getty Images\nUnited Technologies (ticker: UTX) shares have been a laggard recently, but don’t give up hope. Deal limbo doesn’t last forever.\nOver the past five years, the stock has returned just over 4% a year on average. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has returned 12% a year over that span and the Industrial Select Sector SDPR (XLI) has returned 9.6% annually since then.\nLive Conversation: 03\nThat weak performance could turn around sooner than most people expect, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Rajeev Lalwani. Many investors have been sitting on the sidelines, waiting for United Technologies to split into three separate companies. Lalwani urges investors to stay (or get) involved with the stock.\nIBM's Ginni Rometty talks to WSJ Editor in Chief Matt Murray about the key points companies must consider to safely bring AI into the world.\nHe increased his price target to $155 per share from $145 on Friday. A price of $155 implies a gain of 28% from the current level of around $121.\nThe next couple of quarters will be interesting for United Technologies, Lalwani believes. Trade conflict with China continues to weigh on all industrial shares and news of a deal could boost the sector. United Technologies’ Otis Elevator division would especially benefit from trade detente. A lot of the growth in the elevator sector comes from new Chinese construction.\nLalwani also believes consolidation could be coming to the air- conditioning sector. That’s something Barron’s speculated about last year.\nStill, investors can’t be blamed for waiting. Deal limbo—when big changes are coming to a company, but the changes are far out in the future—is a real stock-market malady. Investors keep waiting for an acquisition to close or an asset to be sold before jumping back in.\nInvestors in DowDuPont (DWDP), for instance, have been waiting patiently for the chemical giant to complete its own three-way split. It’s stock has lagged behind the market since that process began.\nThe tide may have already turned for United Technologies—the stock is up 13.6% year to date. That could be because of strong earnings, or it could be because of a strong aerospace outlook. It could also be because of the simple fact that the spinouts are closer now than they were when management announced them in November.\nWhatever the reason, Morgan Stanley thinks investors should tune back into what’s going on at United Technologies.\nWrite to Al Root at allen.root@dowjones.com\nUnited Technologies (ticker: UTX) shares have been a laggard recently, but don’t give up hope."
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Demon in the Freezer Overview
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Introduction The Demon in the Freezer is a 2002 non-fiction book on the biological weapon agents smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive measures against them. It was written by journalist Richard Preston, also author of the best-selling book The Hot Zone (1994), about outbreaks of Ebola virus in Africa and Reston, Virginia and the US government's response to them. The book is primarily an account of the Smallpox Eradication Program (1967–80), the ongoing perception by the U.S. government that smallpox is still a potential bioterrorism agent, and the controversy over whether or not the remaining samples of smallpox virus in Atlanta and Moscow (the “demon” in the freezer) should be finally destroyed.…show more content…
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Sportsbook > MLB > Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Independence Day’s MLB Picks!
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Independence Day’s MLB Picks!
Posted by: Mike Davis Posted on: Wed, July 04th, 2018 12:02 PM
As we prepare to honor the men and women who fight to protect this great country, online baseball betting sites are preparing for another round of thrilling action. Being a national holiday, the action will start earlier than normal. Nevertheless, today we’ll be taking a look at tonight’s Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers matchup. What do the online betting odds have to say about this pairing?
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers – Wednesday, July 4th
Series: Game 3 || Dodgers Lead 2-0
Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California
TV: Local Broadcasts
Stream: MLB TV
Online Baseball Betting Odds:
Pirates +1½ (-210) TBP +185
Dodgers 8 (-110) TBP -205
That’s a final from LA.
We’ll be back tomorrow at 8:10. pic.twitter.com/pkqhWPDr1E
— Pirates (@Pirates) July 4, 2018
The Pirates swim into this Wednesday night pairing sporting a 40-45 record that ranks them 4th in the NL Central. Although they’re sitting on a losing record, theoretically there’s still enough time left in the season for a Pirates turnaround. However, considering that Pittsburgh has turned in two straight losing seasons, it does not seem like they’ll be turning anything around. Testament to this is the fact that the Pirates are 1-3 in their last 3 matchups. And since they just lost two straight to Los Angeles, it’s easy to see why tonight’s online baseball betting odds are pegging them as the underdog. Clay Holmes will get the start on behalf of Pittsburgh this evening – his first on the year. Holmes will be looking to improve his 2.25 ERA and his 1.25 WHIP.
Players to Watch: Corey Dickerson (6 HR, 33 RBI, .301 BA), Starling Marte (9 HR, 34 RBI, .262 BA), and Gregory Polanco (11 HR, 41 RBI, .230 BA).
The Dodgers lead into this Independence Day pairing flashing a 46-39 record that ranks them 2nd in the NL West. At the present moment, Los Angeles is 1 ½ games behind the division leading Arizona Diamondbacks. Considering that the Dodgers are currently sitting on a 3-game winning streak, it’s clear Los Angeles can make a push for the No. 1 spot in the division. To help get them there, the Dodgers will be sending Rich Hill to the mound this evening. Hill is 1-3 on the season with a whopping 4.68 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP.
Players to Watch: Matt Kemp (15 HR, 55 RBI, .318), Joc Pederson (13 HR, 34 RBI, .266 BA), and Cody Bellinger (17 HR, 43 RBI, .238 BA).
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Betting Predictions
The TOTAL has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 7 games when playing on the road against LA Dodgers
Pittsburgh is 0-5 SU in its last 5 games when playing on the road against LA Dodgers
Pittsburgh is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against LA Dodgers
The TOTAL has gone OVER in 6 of LA Dodgers’ last 8 games at home
LA Dodgers is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh
LA Dodgers is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers Betting Picks
So which side should players learning how to bet baseball online take in this Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Los Angeles Dodgers pairing? While the odds are leaning towards the Dodgers, Pittsburgh will actually have the better pitcher on the mound this evening. With that in mind, it might be a good idea to take the Pirates straight up. Sign up today to make your online betting prediction!
Score Prediction: 4-3 Pittsburgh.
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Mainstream Artists Singing in Spanish, From the Jonas Brothers to Khalid
7/9/2019 by Jessica Roiz
Ruvan Afanador
From left: Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas photographed on April 11, 2019 at Fox Studios in Los Angeles.
While collaborations were big in Latin music last year, it’s Spanglish fusions that are taking over in 2019.
With summer in full swing, many mainstream artists have teamed up with Latin music’s hottest names to drop bilingual tracks. Some artists totally get in the mood by singing the entire song or parts of it in Spanish.
This isn’t the first time English-speaking artists have experimented with singing in other languages. Backstreet Boys, Drake, Celine Dion, and Christina Aguilera have all flaunted their Spanish-singing skills in the past.
As Spanglish collaborations continue to grow, check out seven mainstream artists who have recently jumped on the trend.
Jason Derulo in “Mamacita”
Jason Derulo recently teamed up with Farruko to drop his new single “Mamacita.” The reggaeton track with flairs of Middle Eastern melodies highlights Derulo’s Spanish-speaking skills when he belts out the infectious chorus in that language.
The Jonas Brothers in “Runaway”
“Runaway” is a song by Sebastian Yatra featuring Natti Natasha, Daddy Yankee, and the Jonas Brothers. With so many talented Latinos on the track, the brothers did not hesitate to sing part of the chorus in Spanish.
Alessa Cara in “Querer Mejor”
Canadian singer Alessa Cara was up for the challenge, singing for the first time ever and completely in Spanish in Juanes’ “Querer Mejor” track.
John Legend in “Quisiera”
It was go big or go home for John Legend also as he sings entirely in Spanish in Flor de Toloache’s “Quisiera.” The collaboration is a Juan Luis Guerra cover where mariachi meets reggae.
Kane Brown in “Lost in the Middle of Nowhere”
Kane Brown and Becky G have found a way to marry country and Latin music. In the Spanglish remix of “Lost in the Middle of Nowhere,” Brown sings the chorus in Spanish.
Drake Bell in “Fuego Lento”
Former Nickelodeon star, Drake Bell, does not stay behind as he dropped “Fuego Lento,” his bilingual single featuring reggaeton melodies and a chorus in Spanish.
Khalid in “Suncity”
Georgia-based R&B singer Khalid surprised his fans by singing in Spanish in his sultry reggaeton-inspired song “Suncity” featuring Empress Of.
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A Post-Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller: Society Lost, Vol. 4
By: Steven Bird
Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett
4.5 out of 5 stars 4.6 (24 ratings)
Locker Nine
A Novel of Societal Collapse
By: Franklin Horton
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
Grace Hardwick's dad is a science fiction writer who makes his living destroying the world. When Grace decides to go away for her first year of college her dad, Robert, can't help but think of all of the potential ways that society could collapse and strand his daughter hundreds of miles from home. Then, near the end of her freshman year, it happens.
THE WORLD HAS BECOME GRAND THEFT AUTO
By Jim "The Impatient" on 04-01-17
Still Surviving, Volume 1
By: Boyd Craven III
Westley Flagg isn't your usual lawbreaker. He's a poacher, a moonshiner, and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa's surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group. Living deep in poverty for most of his life, he's become resilient and flexible, but college education can only take him so far. A solar storm sends the northern lights as far south as Texas, and cascading failures in the grid cripple the nation. Now, without communications, Flagg has to prove he has what it takes to still survive.
Familiar plot with exceptional characters.
By RJ on 04-27-18
Charlie's Requiem, Book 1
By: A. American, Walt Browning
Narrated by: Duke Fontaine
Charlie finds herself caught in the city as it degenerates into chaos following an EMP attack. Charlie, a successful pharmaceutical sales rep, has no background in prepping or survival. Thrust into a do or die situation, she quickly learns that leaders in Washington are working to change the country as she knows it. Her world has become a race to freedom while attempting to avoid capture by the new government's agents.
Not nearly as good as "Home" series
By Van Gilder on 03-05-17
Home - A Post Apocalyptic/Dystopian Adventure
The Traveler, Volume 1
By: Tom Abrahams
Five years after a pneumonic plague killed two-thirds of the world's population, army veteran Marcus Battle is isolated. He's alone with his guns, his food, and the graves of his wife and child. Unaware of the chaos that's befallen everything outside of his central Texas ranch land, Marcus lives a Spartan life. If anyone steps onto his property, he shoots first and never asks questions. But when a woman in distress, chased by marauders, seeks asylum, Marcus has a decision to make.
One man, his home, his rules.
By Brian on 02-26-16
Stolen Liberty: Chaos Reigns
By: THOMAS A. WATSON, WILLIAM ALLEN, M.C. ALLEN
Narrated by: Eric A. Shelman
With the nation descending into turmoil and disarray, the former Rangers attempt to protect their charges while advancing to safety. Carrying few supplies, but embracing past training and experiences, can Book, Shadow, and Blaster reach the sanctuary before the nation falls further into destruction and despair...while chaos reigns?
Another brilliant adventure book.
By arley r earnest on 05-28-19
Rules of Survival: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
Survival Rules Series, Book 1
By: Jack Hunt
Narrated by: Miles Meili
Tyler Ford was robbed of a childhood and forced to learn his father’s stringent rules of survival for every kind of apocalypse...when an EMP obliterates the United States electrical grid he must face the past and remember what he taught him if he hopes to make it out of Vegas alive....Rules of Survival is book one in Survival Rules, a post-apocalyptic EMP thriller series following the Ford family and their community as they fight to survive after an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid.
By Joel Lewis on 06-13-19
The Last Air Force One: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
Black Autumn Companion Series, Book 1
By: Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross
President Nathaniel “Dutch” McAdams and his family are swept away on Air Force One when a Black Swan event cripples the rattled American economy. Meant to be a safe-haven, he soon finds the violence in the air just as savage as the chaos on the ground. Dutch is running out of time, and he must choose between his own child or the fate of millions of Americans; most of whom are woefully unprepared and running blind in mass hysteria.
I really enjoyed this book...
By The Grooming Network on 04-16-19
Doomsday: Apocalypse: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
The Doomsday Series, Book 1
By: Bobby Akart
Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
In Doomsday: Apocalypse, book one of the Doomsday series, it was New Year's Eve. As the ball dropped in Times Square, Americans were preparing for a new year and a bright future. Instead, they found themselves fighting for their lives as the fuse had been lit that sent the country into chaos. With political rancor at an all-time high, the war of words escalated, and a political war erupted. Americans were caught in the crosshairs of societal unrest and a shadowy group stoking the fires of discontent burning in America.
By Alex on 01-12-19
Rise of the Locusts
A Post-Apocalyptic Techno-Thriller (Cyber Armageddon, Book 1)
By: Mark Goodwin
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Cyber-security analyst Kate McCarthy knows something ominous is about to happen in the US banking system. She has a place to go if things get hectic, but it’s far from the perfect retreat. When a new breed of computer virus takes down America’s financial network, chaos and violence erupt. Access to cash disappears and credit cards become worthless. Desperate consumers are left with no means to purchase food, fuel, and basic necessities. Society melts down instantly and the threat of starvation brings out the absolute worst humanity has to offer.
Another Great book by Mark Goodwin
By Patrick J. Faricy on 01-16-19
Riker's Apocalypse, Book 1
By: Shawn Chesser
Narrated by: Adam Paul
Army veteran Lee Riker is staying in an Atlanta shelter and supporting himself with the odd carpentry job when his sister, Tara, summons him home to Indiana for the reading of their mother’s will. Riker boards a Greyhound bus in Atlanta with his duffel bag, less than $200 to his name, and a secret he must protect at all costs. Riker makes it to Middletown only to learn his sister has recently witnessed a gruesome death. Insisting she saw the victim rise from a pool of his own blood to attack the Samaritan rendering aid, Tara floats the idea that the man may have been a zombie.
Great Book, ... what a Promise
By Brian Adler on 08-04-18
The Shepherd: Society Lost, Volume 1
Narrated by: Roger Bull
The Shepherd: A Society Lost is an action-packed post-apocalyptic thrill ride detailing the struggles of former sheriff Jessie Townsend as he and his family seek shelter from a crumbling world with a self-sufficient life on a homestead deep in the Rocky Mountains. Sanctuary soon becomes what he meant to escape, peaceful bliss slipping into desperation and despair in the aftermath of events that shook the foundations that shaped our world to the core.
What a story. Absolutely Loved It.
Dark New World, Book 1
An EMP Survival Story
By: J.J. Holden, Henry Gene Foster
Three people from different walks of life each experience the end of America. Cassy is a 33-year-old prepper and single mother, away on business. Ethan is a hacker and conspiracy nut living underground. Frank is a family man out camping with friends and family. When a devastating EMP attack in the middle of the night destroys America's infrastructure, they are propelled on an unforgettable journey across an ocean of chaos to reach safety...Safety from an unknown invader and from once-fellow Americans now hungry and desperate.
By Neva on 02-16-17
The Rift
By: Walter Jon Williams
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
It starts with the dogs. They won’t stop barking. And then the earth shrugs - 8.9 on the Richter scale. It’s the world’s biggest earthquake since Lisbon in 1755, and it doesn’t hit California or Japan or Mexico, but New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi River. Seismologists had predicted the scope of the disaster - but no one listened. For hundreds of miles around, dams burst, engulfing entire counties in tidal waves of mud and debris. Within minutes, there is nothing but chaos and ruin from St. Louis to Vicksburg, from Kansas City to Louisville.
Unexpected great book
By Patricia J. Walsh on 07-08-19
EMP Post Apocalyptic Survival Boxset
By: James Hunt, J.S. Donovan
Narrated by: Cheryl May, Gwendolyn Druyor
An unpauseable EMP boxset with a brilliant twist! Contains The Final Homestead and Storm Surge. After an EMP strike leaves the country with no power or communications, James Bowers, a fourth-generation cattle rancher, must rescue his wife and son from the chaos engulfing San Antonio, Texas. Also: Maxine Winters, an overworked yet successful veterinarian, finds herself trapped out at sea when an electromagnetic pulse erupts over South Florida.
It was mostly the narrator.
By TiMallo on 07-08-19
Arks of America
By: D. A. Carey
Narrated by: Michael Driggs
With the country slowly descending into chaos, a visionary leader takes action. Dave Cavanaugh, a silver-haired outdoorsman, mountain hiker, and billionaire, dubbed the “Richard Branson of the Rockies”, sets in motion a plan to construct walled, gated communities across the country to preserve art, science, medicine, and religion - designed to be islands of calm in a sea of chaos. Much like Noah built an ark before the great flood, Dave intends to build a series of land-based arks before the country completely drowns in chaos.
History Repeats Itself!
By Jarrod on 01-27-19
The Mad Mick
The Mad Mick Series, Book 1
Conor Maguire nearly lost his daughter Barb when she was three years old, injured by the drunk driver that killed his wife. When the justice system failed him, Conor, the son and grandson of IRA bombers, retaliated against the driver in dramatic and gruesome fashion. For over 25 years, Conor designed and built custom weapons of death and destruction at his compound in the mountains of Virginia. Then a series of devastating terror attacks brought down the United States. Conor and Barb assumed they were safe in their secure compound. Then Barb was kidnapped.
Another winner from the dynamic duo
By Elis Law on 11-08-18
Getting Out: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller
By: Ryan Westfield
The EMP hits. The lights go out and silence roars. Society is on the brink of violent chaos. The only way to survive is to get out, away from the cities and into the wilderness. Max is an office worker with some gear and a plan. He's one of the first to realize the unspoken dangers. A few years ago, he inherited an old farmhouse. His plan is to get to it as fast as possible and bunker down. He thinks he's ready, but he quickly discovers that there's more to surviving than just having the right gear.
Good start to a new series
By Kristy Rieman on 11-04-17
Archie's Heart
By: P. A. Glaspy, L. L. Akers, Boyd Craven III, and others
Archie's Heart is a war story - a collaboration novel by four post-apocalyptic authors: L.L. Akers, Boyd Craven III, P.A. Glaspy, and L. Douglas Hogan.
Amazing story!!!
By Darlene on 01-30-19
Worlds collide in Them: Society Lost, Volume 4 as former sheriff Jessie Townsend becomes entangled with characters from The New Homefront Series in the hills of East Tennessee. While Jessie continues his quest to find his sister after devastating attacks brought our modern, peaceful society to its knees, he encounters new friends and foes along the way, with not everyone being what they seem.
During his journey, he forges friendships in the heat of battle that will change his life forever.
©2019 Steven Bird (P)2019 Steven Bird
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Thrilling, action filled story
I enjoyed this post apocalyptic thriller that has strong hints of horror, lots of suspense, action and some great characters. The story has you on the edge of your seat and you wonder at times if anyone will survive. “Them” are truly creepy, they make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and are likely to give you nightmares. The narrator of the audiobook did an excellent job, he really brought out the emotions in the story; you could feel the fear, horror and desperation right along with the characters. This is an exciting story that will keep you glued to the pages. You don’t have to have read the prior books in the series to follow this story, but it does give you more depth and understanding of the characters if you have.
Disappointed with storyline.
struggled to finish but I have listened to all books.
I am well over 200 audible books and have never posted a disappointing review.
Storyline was very disappointing.
Cannables? Really?
for a dystopia book, i prefer inner city, corporations taking control of Gov and lots of tech. this is more wilderness and survival. that being said, i did enjoy the audio performance
Wow! Non-stop action and suspense
Wow! This book is definitely a winner. The non-stop action and suspense kept me entertained and connected to my iPad all day. The introduction of “them”, as the characters call some of the bad guys, was an interesting new twist that added more mystery and suspense. Furthermore, the author brought in some characters from another of his series, which in itself, added another layer of interest, entertainment and fun. The narrator J. Scott Bennett did a great job expressing some motion into the scenes and dialogue. I really enjoyed listening to this series and would definitely recommend it.
I listened to this without listening to the other books in the series first. This was not a problem, this book can stand alone & be enjoyed without reading the others.
It was a great read & I really enjoyed it, I will be checking out this author's other books .
The Narrator also did an excellent job.
D. Sturgeon
Exciting Story!
Even though this is book 4 in a series, it stands alone and is very enjoyable. The author did a wonderful job and as always, Mr. Bennett does what he does best at the job of narration.
Heart stopping
In this book Jessie meets up with a young girl who has just been rescued by a militia group and she and Nate (her rescuer) are on the run from forces that want to stop them. As they try to avoid these forces they then encounter another evil that has been preying on the locals. This book is full of adventure and at times I thought no one was going to survive. But it was always full of just one more surprise.
The characters are well developed and believable with a story line that keeps your attention throughout. The narration is excellent as I have come to expect from J. Scott Bennett. The range of voices and emotion are superb.
This book was provided free of charge with the expectation of an honest review.
A Good Post Apocalyptic Thriller
A Good Post Apocalyptic Thriller. I thoroughly enjoyed this one I love dystopian novels and people helping people. I highly recommended.
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Deedra
This was a really good post apocolyptic tale.The 'monsters' were a twist that needed a bit more explaining.I enjoyed it though. J. Scott Bennett was a very good narrator. I was given this book by the narrator,author or publisher free for an honest review.
Donald R. Scott
Fantastic listen
Great book as always from Steve Bird . Excellent blending of two storylines together .
deafmick
This is my first book by Steven c bird 5out of5 going to look at his over books i got 10 of j Scott Bennett work 5out of 5 as all way
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L'Ange
3 books in series
4.5 out of 5 stars 1,205 ratings
Old Loyalty, New Love Publisher's Summary
When jackal shifter Quade Danas was banished from his pack for being gay, he spent years in the military escaping his father's prejudice before returning to civilian life as a bodyguard for Roman Howell, the teenage son of a very rich man. After Roman is in an accident that leaves him physically scarred and emotionally distant, Quade is the only one who can get through to him. As Roman becomes a man, he realizes what he wants - his bodyguard by his side and in his bed. Unfortunately, Quade can't seem to see past the kid Roman once was to the man he has become, certain Roman's feelings are merely misplaced gratitude. But Roman knows a lot more than Quade realizes, and he's used to persevering, no matter how many impediments life throws his way. He wants the chance to prove to Quade that he's strong enough for a jackal alpha to call mate.
Despite the decades Quade has been away, and the heartache of his father's rejection, his inborn loyalty to the pack remains, and his abrupt departure left the jackal shifters without an alpha heir. As a psychopath shifter staking claim as alpha draws Quade back home, he may be forced to make a choice he never anticipated. But doing so means he must leave Roman behind… unless somehow they find a way to make loyalty and love work together.
©2014 Mary Calmes (P)2014 Dreamspinner Press
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When jackal shifter Quade Danas was banished from his pack for being gay, he spent years in the military escaping his father's prejudice before returning to civilian life as a bodyguard for Roman Howell, the teenage son of a very rich man. After Roman is in an accident that leaves him physically scarred and emotionally distant, Quade is the only one who can get through to him. As Roman becomes a man, he realizes what he wants - his bodyguard by his side and in his bed.
Fantastic start to a new Shifter series!
By Tams (TTC Books and more) on 12-27-14
4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
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Fighting Instinct
L'Ange, Book 2
Only a privileged few know L'Ange's head of security, Arman de Soto, is a shifter, and even fewer know he's been systematically killing off a pack of werewolves. The reason for this vengeance is a secret Arman trusts with no one, quite the opposite of his obvious longtime pursuit of the chateau's overseer, Linus Hobbes. Despite Arman's reputation as a loner, the only thing he needs to complete his life is Linus. Predator and prey just don't mix, but Arman won't give him up.
Gotta Love Mary Calmes and Tristan James together
By Morgan A Skye on 03-16-15
Chosen Pride
Jon Slade finally met his mate, but instead of it being the happiest day of his life, it became the saddest when wolf shifter Kelvin MacCurdy chose his obligations over their fated bond, leaving Jon to pick up the pieces of his shattered dreams. Lucky for him, Roman Howell, his boss and the owner of L'Ange, saw promise in the forlorn lion and put him to work. Then the wolves make an official visit to L'Ange, and Jon finds out Kelvin's pining for him is taking its toll on his position as the king's champion.
I love Tristan James!
By Belen on 03-19-17
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Auroville’s Monthly news magazine since 1988
Issue No. 334, May 2017
Shining a light on women's health and safety issues
Auroville recently conducted its first women's health survey. Lesley spoke to the survey's convener, Paula, about the findings. The inaugural Auroville Women’s Health Survey aimed to capture a snapshot of the health of Auroville women in the areas of puberty, sexual health, maternity and personal safety. Led by Paula, a nurse-midwife at Santé and a women’s health nurse practitioner with 30 years experience, the exploratory research aimed to better understand aspects of women’s lives in Auroville and to gain a more precise understanding of her field. “I wanted to shine a light on areas of life that are taboo for some women and cultures, specifically menstruation, sexual health, maternity and personal safety,” says Paula, emphasing that these are the areas in which she is qualified to provide services and advice, and where she would like to make changes. “These subjects are shrouded in mystery, ignorance, and unspoken codes of cond...
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Today we've got more news and views from the big CERAWeek conference in Houston.
But here's a big picture takeaway: Some oil and power giants have gravitated to the left of the White House, but they’ll still remain under justifiable pressure from advocates as the global emissions trajectory continues to point to highly dangerous levels of warming.
Oh, and on this day in 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, so they'll provide today's intro tune . . .
Trump and execs part ways on low-carbon energy
Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios
My Axios colleague Amy Harder reports from Houston that the gulf over climate change between energy executives and President Trump was on stark display at CERAWeek.
Why it matters: The forces compelling companies to invest in lower-carbon technologies, such as falling renewable-energy prices and investor pressure, remain present regardless of Trump’s regulatory rollbacks and dismissal of climate change as an issue.
What we're hearing:
Lynn Good, CEO of major utility Duke Energy, in an interview with Axios Thursday: “We’re committed to running our company and planning a future that goes beyond the next two or three years. The priority of the administration or Congress will change...I believe it’s a wise decision to keep going on carbon reduction. It’s best for customers, investors, employees.”
Thad Hill, CEO of Texas-based utility Calpine, to reporters: “Regardless of where we are today on the political landscape here, it is pretty clear to me which way we are going over the long term” which is towards society putting a value on carbon reduction over time.
Mary Barra, General Motors CEO, said during her onstage interview, per Reuters: The company’s “commitment to an all-electric, zero-emissions future is unwavering, regardless of any modifications to future fuel economy standards.”
Ben van Beurden, Royal Dutch Shell CEO, told Axios he thinks the transition to lower-carbon energy resources is “inevitable.” During an onstage interview, van Beurden said climate change was the biggest challenge facing the industry.
Click here for the whole story.
Expert Voices: industry's climate challenge
The Shell Technology Centre in Bangalore, India, is a research hub for the company to pioneer green energy technology. Photo: Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images
Sarah Ladislaw of the Center for Strategic and International Studies has a dispatch from Houston in our Expert Voices section. Here's part of it . . .
Oil companies of many stripes have gone out of their way to talk about climate change at CERAWeek, the big oil industry conference in Houston — reflecting a significant shift in the industry.
Why it matters: Years ago the struggle between climate change activists and oil companies was around the underlying science and getting companies to accept the role that fossil fuels play and that action is necessary. Now the call throughout the oil and gas sector is to become part of the solution.
Yes, but: Not everyone is there yet, and even among those who are, the pace required to transition the world’s energy system and to meet global climate targets is simply daunting, a path often often marked by uncertain commercially viability.
State of the industry: Many large international oil companies are beginning to invest in the transition to a low-carbon future. Smaller oil and gas companies are recognizing the shareholder-driven need to evaluate climate change as a potential risk facing their business. Sizable national oil companies also see the low-carbon horizon as an increasingly relevant contour of the competitive future for which they must prepare.
Even the OPEC secretary general said that climate change and sustainability must play a more significant role in the organization’s thinking.
Signal boost: Some things that will help translate this interest into climate-relevant activity are: (1) a bigger appetite for risk-taking on new investments, new technologies and new sectors, as well as greater market rewards for that risk, (2) active promotion of policies that aid in the low-carbon transition and (3) assistance from the climate community to direct resources and knowledge where they will make the biggest difference.
OPEC's woes with U.S. shale
Two pieces caught my eye that explore how OPEC is — or isn't — dealing with the U.S. crude oil production surge.
Tech's role: Over at Bloomberg Gadfly, Liam Denning writes about how the popularity of tech-focused sessions at CERAWeek underscores how technological advances that bolster U.S. shale producers are one reason why "the walls seem to be closing in on OPEC."
"It should be obvious by now that every year of extra supply cuts keeping oil prices artificially elevated allows rival producers to take market share — and, more importantly, refine their methods and adopt new technologies," the column states.
Limited options: In the Financial Times, David Sheppard writes that "Shale is back in charge and [OPEC] is once again choosing to watch and wait."
His piece looks at the challenge facing OPEC as its deal with Russia has succeeded in elevating prices but has also revived the U.S output, which has soared to record levels.
"Opec’s options are now decidedly limited, which goes a long way to explaining why members appear ostrich-like when addressing the state of the market," he writes.
Separately: Speaking of shale, Sky News reports that Royal Dutch Shell and private equity giant Blackstone are preparing a joint $10 billion bid for BHP’s U.S. shale assets.
The move would significantly bolster Shell’s footprint in the prolific shale patch. “For Shell, a takeover of the BHP business would accelerate its plans for shale to become a material cash engine by the mid-to-late 2020s,” Sky reports.
Tariff exemptions hint at relief for energy
Split decision: Arrival of the White House tariffs on steel and aluminum imports drew immediate oil-and-gas industry ire despite the availability of exemptions.
Why it matters: Industry lobbyists have warned that the penalties will raise project costs — especially for pipelines — and have argued that they rely on specialty steel products that can't be sourced domestically.
Yes, but: There's a ray of hope for them because the order allows a petition for exemptions for products they can't find here in a "sufficient and reasonably available amount or of a satisfactory quality."
"[I]t is now crucial the exemption process work to avoid U.S. pipeline workers losing their jobs,” Andy Black, president of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines, said in a statement.
The fallout: ClearView Energy Partners said in a note that there's some risk of tensions over the tariffs with China and the EU hitting the energy sector. They said:
"At this juncture, we see little risk of explicit energy-based retaliation against the U.S. by either country (both are net importers of oil and gas)."
"That said, should today’s actions lead to an escalating trade war — and Trump Administration nationalists appear to have taken up a battle stance — we would not rule out a paring back of U.S. energy purchases by America’s trade partners."
Sign of the times: A newly public filing shows that pipeline giant Kinder Morgan has brought on Hogan Lovells to lobby, with a "focus on impact of imposition of steel tariffs on pipeline construction."
Another dimension: Greentech Media looks at what the trade penalties mean for renewable energy companies.
Utility giant prepares to show its climate card
Amy Harder reports from Houston...
One of America’s largest utility companies, Duke Energy, is set to release a report later this month that sketches a drastically changed electricity mix in a carbon-constrained future.
The big picture: Duke is the latest energy company to commit to releasing a report about climate change in response to investor pressure conveyed by non-binding but symbolically important shareholder resolutions. Duke provides electricity to more than seven million customers in the Carolinas, the Midwest and Florida.
What they're planning: The report is expected to find that coal, currently 33% of Duke’s mix, may be gone entirely from its portfolio by 2050 in a future scenario where the world has taken steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a level consistent with keeping global temperatures from rising two degrees Celsius.
That’s the big ambition of the 2015 Paris climate deal, but the current commitments aren’t close to reaching that.
Click here for the whole story in the Axios stream.
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This Internet Advertising Agreement (this “Agreement”), dated as of the date if the IO (defined below) (the “Effective Date”), is made by and between BoffoAds Inc, One Gateway Center, Newark, New Jersey 07102-5310. (“BoffoAds”) and the Advertiser. The term “Advertiser” means collectively the entity that signs an IO and, if applicable, the entity for which the advertising is placed. Therefore, the term “Advertiser,” as the context requires, shall mean the Agency, if an Agency is involved, and the Advertiser (the entity for which the Ads are placed), collectivity and individually.
Under this Agreement it is the intention of the Advertiser to place advertisements with BoffoAds for display on websites pursuant to an internet advertising campaign developed by BoffoAds.
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a. From time to time, parties may negotiate insertion orders (“IO”s) under which BoffoAds will deliver advertisements provided by Advertiser (“Ad(s)”) to website(s) with advertising space contracted for by BoffoAds (the “Network”) for the benefit of the Advertiser. Unless the parties otherwise agree, all IOs shall be in substantially the same format as the insertion order attached hereto. An IO will be binding only if accepted by both parties as provided in Section I b) below.
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c. IOs are governed by the terms of this Agreement. Revisions to accepted IOs must be made in writing and acknowledged by both parties in writing.
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b. In the event that actual impressions for any campaign fall below guaranteed levels, as set forth in the IO, and/or if there is an omission of any Ad (placement or creative unit), Advertiser and BoffoAds will make an effort to agree upon the conditions of a makegood flight either in the IO or at the time of the shortfall. If no makegood can be agreed upon, the parties may agree to execute a credit equal to the value of the under-delivered portion of the contract IO for which Advertiser was charged. In the event that Advertiser has made a cash prepayment to BoffoAds, specifically for the campaign IO for which under-delivery applies, then if Advertiser is current on all amounts owed to BoffoAds under any other agreement for such Advertiser, Advertiser may elect to receive a refund for the under-delivery equal to the difference between the applicable pre-payment and the value of the delivered portion of the campaign. In no event shall BoffoAds provide a makegood or extend any Ad beyond the period set forth in the IO without prior written consent of Advertiser.
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b. To the extent that a force majeure has continued for 30 days, BoffoAds or Advertiser has the right to cancel the remainder of the IO without penalty. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Advertiser is liable for all Ads delivered prior to the force majeure event.
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b. Advertiser represents and warrants that it has the authority as agent to Advertiser to bind Advertiser to these Terms and Conditions and each IO. Advertiser agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless BoffoAds its Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all Losses incurred as a result of Advertiser’s alleged breach of the foregoing sentence.
c. If any action will be brought against an indemnified party (the “Indemnified Party”) in respect to any allegation for which indemnity may be sought from Advertiser, the Indemnified Party will promptly notify the Indemnifying Party of any such claim of which it becomes aware and will: (i) provide reasonable cooperation to the Advertiser in connection with the defense or settlement of any such claim; and (ii) be entitled to participate at its own expense in the defense of any such claim. The Indemnified Party agrees that the Advertiser will have sole and exclusive control over the defense and settlement of any such third party claim. However, the Indemnifying Party will not acquiesce to any judgment or enter into any settlement that adversely affects the Indemnified Party’s rights or interests without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party.
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Excluding Advertiser’s obligations under Section X or damages that result from a breach of Section XII or intentional misconduct by the parties, in no event will either party be liable for any consequential, indirect, incidental, punitive, special or exemplary damages whatsoever, including without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business interruption, loss of information and the like, incurred by the other party arising out of this Agreement, even if such party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Except for Advertiser’s obligations under Section X or damages that result from breach of Section XII, the aggregate liability of either party under this Agreement for any claim is limited to the amount paid by Advertiser to BoffoAds during the three month period immediately preceding the date the claim arose.
XII. NON-DISCLOSURE, DATA OWNERSHIP, PRIVACY AND LAWS
a. Any marked confidential information and proprietary data provided by one party, including the Ad description, and the pricing of the Ad, set forth in the IO, shall be deemed “Confidential Information” of the disclosing party. Confidential Information shall also include information provided by one party, which under the circumstances surrounding the disclosure would be reasonably deemed confidential or proprietary. Confidential Information shall not be released by the receiving party to anyone except an employee, or agent who has a need to know same, and who is bound by confidentiality obligations. Neither party will use any portion of Confidential Information provided by the other party hereunder for any purpose other than those provided for under this Agreement.
b. For purposes of this Section, Advertiser shall be considered one party. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the term “Confidential Information” shall not include information which: (i) was previously known to a party; (ii) was or becomes generally available to the public through no fault of the receiving party (“Recipient”); (iii) was rightfully in Recipient’s possession free of any obligation of confidence at, or subsequent to, the time it was communicated to Recipient by the disclosing party (“Discloser”); (iv) was developed by employees or agents of Recipient independently of and without reference to any information communicated to Recipient by Discloser; or (v) was communicated by Discloser to an unaffiliated third party free of any obligation of confidence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may disclose Confidential Information in response to a valid order by a court or other governmental body, as otherwise required by law or the rules of any applicable securities exchange or as necessary to establish the rights of either party under this Agreement; provided, however, that both parties will stipulate to any orders necessary to protect said information from public disclosure.
c. All personally identifiable information provided by individual web users who are informed that such information is being gathered solely on behalf of Advertiser pursuant to the Advertiser’s posted privacy policy is the property of Advertiser, is subject to the Advertiser’s posted privacy policy, and is considered Confidential Information. Any other use of such information must be set forth in the IO signed by both parties.
d. BoffoAds and Advertiser shall post on their respective Web sites their privacy policies and adhere to their privacy policies, which abide by the applicable laws. Failure by BoffoAds, on one hand, or Advertiser, on the other, to continue to post a privacy policy or nonadherence to its own privacy policy is grounds for immediate cancellation of the IO by the other parties.
e. Advertiser and BoffoAds will comply with at all times, all applicable federal, state and local law, ordinances, regulations and codes which are relevant to their performance of their respective obligations under this Agreement.
XIII. THIRD PARTY AD SERVERS
a. BoffoAds will track delivery through its ad server and Advertiser will also track delivery through its proprietary or subcontracted 3rd Party Ad Server whose identity is set forth in the IO. Advertiser may not substitute the 3rd Party Ad Server specified in the IO without BoffoAds’s consent. Advertiser and BoffoAds agree to give reciprocal access to relevant and non-proprietary statistics from both ad servers, or if such is not available, provide weekly placement-level activity reports to each other. In the event that BoffoAds’s ad server measurements are higher than those produced by the Advertiser’s 3rd Party Ad Server by more than 10% over the invoice period, Advertiser will facilitate a reconciliation effort between BoffoAds and 3rd Party Ad Server. If the discrepancy cannot be resolved, the Advertiser shall pay BoffoAds based on Advertiser 3rd party Ad Server reported data, plus a 10% upward adjustment to delivery.
b. BoffoAds will make reasonable efforts to publish, and Advertiser shall make reasonable efforts to cause the 3rd Party Ad Server to publish, a disclosure in the form specified by the AAAA and IAB regarding their respective ad delivery measurement methodologies with regards to compliance with the IAB/AAAA Ad Measurement Guidelines.
c. Section XIII(a) shall be terminated upon the establishment of an IAB/AAAA certification process for compliance with the IAB/AAAA Ad Measurement Guidelines. Upon such termination the parties shall negotiate in good faith a replacement or successor language for that Section.
d. Where an Advertiser is utilizing a 3rd Party Ad Server and that 3rd Party Ad Server cannot serve the Ad, Advertiser shall have a one-time right to temporarily suspend delivery under the IO for a period of up to 72-hours. Upon written notification by Advertiser of a non-functioning 3rd Party Ad Server, BoffoAds has 48 hours to suspend delivery. Following that period, Advertiser will not be held liable for payment for any Ad that runs within the immediate 72-hour period thereafter until BoffoAds is notified that the 3rd Party Ad Server is able to serve Ads. After the 72-hour period passes and Advertiser has not provided written notification that BoffoAds can resume delivery under the IO, Advertiser will pay for the Ads that would have run or are run after the 72 hour period but for the suspension and can elect BoffoAds to serve Ads until 3rd Party Ad Server is able to serve Ads. If Advertiser does not so elect for BoffoAds to serve the Ads until 3rd Party Ad Server is able to serve Ads, BoffoAds may utilize the inventory that would have been otherwise used for BoffoAds’s own advertisements or advertisements provided by a third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Advertiser will pay for the Ads that would have run after the 72 hour period but for the suspension.
e. Upon notification that the 3rd Party Ad Server is functioning, BoffoAds will have 72 hours to resume delivery. Any delay in the resumption of delivery beyond this period, without reasonable explanation, will result in BoffoAds owing a makegood to Advertiser.
XIV. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
BoffoAds DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE IO, THE SITES, THE ADVERTISING MATERIALS AND THE ADS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
XV. MISCELLANEOUS
a. Advertiser represents and warrants that it has all necessary licenses and clearances to use the content contained in their Ads and Advertising Materials.
b. Advertiser shall not resell, assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder, and any attempt to resell, assign or transfer such rights or obligations without BoffoAds’s prior written approval will be null and void. All terms and provisions of these Terms and Conditions and each IO will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted transferees, successors and assigns.
c. These Terms and Conditions and the related IO constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter and supersede all previous communications, representations, understandings, and agreements, either oral or written, between the parties with respect to the subject matter of the IO. The IO may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same document.
d. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms of an IO and these Terms and Conditions, the terms of the IO shall prevail. All IOs shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. BoffoAds and Advertiser agree that any claims, legal proceeding or litigation arising in connection with the IO (including these Terms and Conditions) will be brought solely in Alexandria, Virginia and the parties consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. No modification of these Terms and Conditions or any IO shall be binding unless in writing and signed by both parties. If any provision herein is held to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. All rights and remedies hereunder are cumulative.
e. Any notice required to be delivered hereunder shall be delivered three days after deposit in U.S. mail, return receipt requested, one business day if sent by overnight courier service, and immediately if sent electronically or by fax. All notices to BoffoAds and Advertiser shall be sent to the contact as noted in the IO with a copy to the Legal Department. All notices to Advertiser shall be sent to the address specified on the IO.
f. Sections III, VI, X, XI, XII, XIV, and XV shall survive termination or expiration of this Agreement and Section IV shall survive for 30 days after the termination or expiration of this Agreement. In addition, each party shall return or destroy the other party’s Confidential Information and remove Advertising Materials and Ad tags.
g. It is the intention of the parties hereto to agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement by execution of, or performance under, the IO. Accordingly, the parties have executed and delivered this Agreement by operation of the IO as of the Effective Date
Publishers Terms
BoffoAds PUBLISHER AGREEMENT
This BoffoAds Publisher Agreement (“Agreement”) includes any schedule and other attachment(s) hereto and all other agreements, policies, and documents incorporated by reference herein.
The effective date of this agreement shall be the date and time when the Publisher has created an online account using the online form located at http://BoffoAds/publisher/signup and has agreed and accepted the terms and conditions of this Agreement by checking the “I agree” area of the form and clicking on “Sign Up!”
BoffoAds, Inc. (“BoffoAds”) And the named applicant with Name, Title, Company Name and Address as submitted on the form located at http://www.boffoads.com (“Publisher”). Each also referred to herein as a “Party” and collectively the “Parties.”
1. BoffoAds provides Internet-related advertising services.
2. Publisher wishes to use BoffoAds’s services in association with the Web sites and/or applications under the ownership and/or control of Publisher.
All capitalized terms herein shall take on the meaning attributed to them below:
1.1 “Additional Term” means the period commencing from the expiration of the Initial Term and ending at 12 a.m. Central Time of the 1-calendar-year anniversary date thereof.
1.2 “Advertisements” mean the advertisements that are provided by BoffoAds over an Approved Protocol for display on Publisher Media and may include advertisements from Direct Advertisers and/or advertisements sourced from Upstream Partners.
1.3 “Advertisement Format” means the format in which the Advertisement is displayed on Publisher Media, including text and graphic banners. Advertisement Formats may vary for each Implementation.
1.4 “Affiliate” means any legal entity that owns, is owned by, or is under common ownership with a Party with ownership of the shares, interests or assets of such legal entity or Party, as applicable.
1.5 “Approved Protocol” means a protocol that is approved by BoffoAds and allows the Publisher Media to communicate with BoffoAds Technology to source Advertisements. The list and definition of Approved Protocols include, but are not restricted to, XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java Script.
1.6 “Business Day” means any day between Monday to Friday (inclusive) that is not a statutory holiday in Washington State.
1.7 “Calendar Day” means any day between Sunday to Saturday (inclusive).
1.8 “Click” means the act of an End User clicking on an Advertisement and accessing the Web page hyperlinked to that Advertisement.
1.9 “Confidential Information” includes any and all information or data of a Party that is disclosed to the other Party, either directly or indirectly, whether in writing, verbally, or by visual means, and which is designated (either in writing or verbally) as confidential, proprietary, or the like. However, such designation shall not be necessary to deem information as Confidential Information if the nature of the information makes it generally considered confidential commercially, which information includes information that relates to (a) trade secrets or know-how, (b) finance or accounting, (c) technology, research, or development, (d) internal processes or procedures, (e) algorithms, digital data, or designs, (f) business, operations, or planning thereof, (g) sales or marketing strategies, (h) the terms of any agreement between the Parties, and the discussions, negotiations, or proposals related thereto, including this Agreement.
1.10 “Customer Key” means a unique identifier allocated to Publisher by BoffoAds.
1.11 “Derivative Works” mean (i) any software, work product, improvement, modification, alteration, enhancement, new version, update, localization, upgrade, port, translation, design or documentation, in any medium, format or form whatsoever, that is derived in any manner, directly or indirectly, from the Services (including the BoffoAds Technology) or any part or aspect thereof, or that uses or incorporates the Services or any part or aspect thereof; (ii) all derivative works of the Services (including the BoffoAds Technology) as defined in the Copyright Law of the United States, Title 17 U.S.C. §101 et seq.; (iii) all materials and documentation (including BoffoAds Materials) related to the foregoing; and (iv) all Intellectual Property related to the foregoing.
1.12 “Direct Advertisers” mean advertisers who have contracted with BoffoAds to have their advertisements displayed on Publisher Media.
1.13 “Effective Date” means the date of this Agreement as stated above.
1.14 “End User” means any bona fide Internet user using the Internet (which excludes use of spiders, Web crawlers, any type of robot or other mechanical, artificial or automated means) who visits or browses the Publisher Media or any component thereof in good faith and in a legitimate manner that is (a) not fraudulent, (b) not motivated, incentivized, or solicited by expectations of monetary or other gain, and (c) done in a manner that is legal or in accordance with good faith business practices and public policy, as determined by BoffoAds at its sole discretion.
1.15 “BoffoAds Materials” include all text, images, illustrations, URLs, audio and multimedia files and/or text, technology, software, Web site data, source codes, digital files, customer lists, technical information, data, plans, user identifications, account numbers, encryption keys, digital certificates, account access and log-in information, passwords, and all other similar materials or information owned by or otherwise relating to BoffoAds or the Services (including the BoffoAds Technology). For the purposes of this Agreement and the Services offered pursuant to this Agreement, the term “BoffoAds Materials” shall also include Advertisements provided to Publisher from any Upstream Partner and/or Direct Advertiser.
1.16 “BoffoAds Technology” means BoffoAds’s proprietary technology (including BoffoAds’s software applications, tools and any related technology that provide Advertisements to a Publisher to monetize Internet traffic and that allow the Parties to earn money consideration for Sponsored Actions to the Advertisements displayed on Publisher Media), any hardware designs, algorithms, software (in source and object code), user interface designs, architecture, document type additions, class libraries, objects and documentation (both printed and electronic), network designs, know-how, trade secrets and any related Intellectual Property throughout the world and also including any Derivative Works, improvements, enhancements or extensions of BoffoAds Technology conceived, reduced to practice, or developed during the Term.
1.17 “Implementation” means the specific method of implementing the Services as further detailed in the applicable Implementation Schedule(s).
1.18 “Implementation Schedule” means the document entitled same (attached hereto as a schedule and incorporated as part of this Agreement) that details the Implementation and the restrictions specific thereto.
1.19 “Impression” means a single instance of displaying an Advertisement to an End User on Publisher Media.
1.20 “Initial Term” means the period commencing from the Effective Date and ending at 12 a.m. Central Time of the 1-calendar-year anniversary date thereof.
1.21 “Intellectual Property” means all rights, title, interest and benefit of a Party in and to intellectual property of every nature, whether registered or unregistered, including all copyrights, patents, trademarks, certification marks and industrial designs, applications for any of the foregoing, trade names, brand names, business names, trade secrets, proprietary manufacturing information and know-how, instruction manuals, inventions, inventor’s notes, research data, blue prints, drawings and designs, formulae, calculations, processes, prototypes, source codes, digital files, technology and marketing rights, together with all rights under license agreements, sublicense agreements, strategic alliances, development agreements, technology transfer agreements and other agreements or instruments relating to any of the foregoing, that are owned by a Party hereto (and, in the case of BoffoAds, includes the Services, Derivative Works, BoffoAds Technology, and BoffoAds Materials).
1.22 “Invalid Actions” mean any Sponsored Action or activity that, at BoffoAds’s sole determination, would not qualify for Revenue Share or would otherwise be subject to recouping of Revenue Share payments, including errors, fraud, Invalid Impressions, Prohibited Traffic, and Invalid Clicks.
1.23 “Invalid Click” means a click on an Advertisement that does not meet the definition of a Click hereunder, that does not comply with this Agreement, or that otherwise does not qualify as a Click as determined by BoffoAds at its sole reasonable discretion.
1.24 “Invalid Impression” means the display of an Advertisement that does not meet the definition of an Impression hereunder, that does not comply with this Agreement, or that otherwise does not qualify as an Impression as determined by BoffoAds at its sole reasonable discretion.
1.25 “Net Revenue” means the money amount BoffoAds receives from an Upstream Partner or Direct Advertiser, less Operational Costs, based on the number of Clicks on Advertisements associated with that Upstream Partner or Direct Advertiser, after applicable adjustments have been made to account for variables including taxes and Invalid Clicks.
1.26 “Operational Costs” includes (a) all costs associated with the set up and maintenance of the Services, and (b) all fees or commissions payable to third parties for sourcing or referring to BoffoAds Advertisements, Publisher Media, or Publisher.
1.27 “Organic Results” mean those results for a Search Keyword that are returned by BoffoAds for display on Publisher Media but are not entitled to a Revenue Share.
1.28 “Publisher Account” means a unique account specific to Publisher that is set up with BoffoAds to organize and manage the Services and the activities related thereto as they pertain to Publisher.
1.29 “Publisher Media” means the Web sites that are owned and/or controlled by Publisher and that display the Advertisements and/or Organic Results.
1.30 “Reporting Interface” means BoffoAds’s Web-based interface that allows viewing of information related to the Services and Publisher’s use thereof.
1.31 “Restricted IP Address” means an IP address for which BoffoAds does not provide the Services or Revenue Share. BoffoAds may amend this list at any time at BoffoAds’s sole discretion.
1.32 “Restricted Traffic” means any traffic from Restricted URL or Restricted IP Address.
1.33 “Restricted URL” means any URL that BoffoAds identifies as a URL for which BoffoAds does not provide the Services or Revenue Share. BoffoAds may amend this list at any time at its sole discretion. A restricted URL may also be one where any of the following applies:
a. BoffoAds does not have the right to use or to associate data with that URL.
b. BoffoAds does not have the right to reproduce or distribute any of the content available at that URL.
c. The URL infringes or potentially infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party.
d. The URL violates any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
e. The URL is subject to a court order for an injunction or restraining order.
f. The URL is libelous, defamatory, or obscene or contains material that is any of the foregoing.
g. The URL contains software, viruses, worms, or other code that is or may potentially be damaging or harmful to a Party’s computer system or stored information.
h. The URL is otherwise contrary to the intended use of the Services.
i. The URL is requested to be blocked by any Upstream Partner or Direct Advertiser.
1.34 “Revenue Share” means the percentage of the Net Revenue, as determined by BoffoAds at its sole discretion, which BoffoAds shall provide to Publisher in exchange for posting Advertisements on Publisher Media.
1.35 “Search Keyword” means the keyword that is being searched for on Publisher Media by the End User.
1.36 “Services” mean the services that BoffoAds provides to Publisher hereunder to implement and facilitate Publisher’s use of BoffoAds Technology, including provision or use of the BoffoAds Materials, Publisher Account, Reporting Interface, Revenue Share, and technical/customer support.
1.37 “Sponsored Action” means any action carried out by an End User on or via Publisher Media in connection with Advertisements that is not an Invalid Action and that qualifies Publisher for Revenue Shares thereto. Current Sponsored Actions are further detailed in the Technical Guidelines.
1.38 “Technical Guidelines” refers to BoffoAds’s standard written guidelines for an Implementation, as amended at any time by BoffoAds at its sole discretion, which includes details such as Approved Protocols, Advertisement Formats, and Sponsored Actions.
1.39 “Term” means the Initial Term or any Additional Term of this Agreement as is applicable.
1.40 “Upstream Partner” means a third party that sources and supplies Advertisements to BoffoAds for display on Publisher Media.
2. TERM & RENEWAL
2.1 Term. This Agreement shall remain in effect for the duration of the Initial Term and any Additional Term as defined hereunder.
2.2 Renewal. Upon expiration of the Initial Term, this Agreement shall automatically renew for successive Additional Terms, unless either Party terminates this Agreement in accordance herewith.
3. THE SERVICES
3.1 Provision of Services. BoffoAds provides the Services subject to the terms of this Agreement and Publisher’s compliance thereof.
3.2 Amendment of Services. BoffoAds may, at its sole discretion, add to, modify, cancel, or remove any of the Services, whether in whole or in part. Continued use of the Services after any modification thereto shall be deemed to be Publisher’s agreement thereof. Publisher may request amendments to the Services by delivering to BoffoAds, in accordance with the notice provisions herein, written notice detailing the requested amendments. While BoffoAds shall endeavor to accommodate Publisher’s requests, Publisher understands, acknowledges, and agrees that requests for amendments to the Services may be rejected in whole or in part at BoffoAds’s sole discretion.
3.3 Implementation of Services. Publisher shall implement and make effective the Services into Publisher Media within 30 Business Days from the Effective Date in accordance with the following:
Publisher shall prevent spiders from crawling the pages where Advertisements are shown.
a. Sponsored Actions on Publisher Media shall be at the sole discretion of the End User.
Publisher shall not (or instruct or knowingly allow any third party to) provide the End User with any incentive to Click or generate false Impressions on Advertisements. The use of incentive programs, traffic exchange programs, and/or safe-lists is prohibited.
b. Publisher shall use the Services as-is and shall not modify (re-order, duplicate, modify, delete/omit) the Results.
c. Publisher shall not display Results on Publisher Media that contains any illegal content including child pornography.
d. Publisher shall seek approval for any Implementation on Publisher Media that contains Adult content.
e. Publisher shall provide BoffoAds with written notice at least 5 Calendar Days before increasing the volume of Sponsored Actions over 50% of the previous calendar month’s daily average Sponsored Actions.
3.4 Non-Exclusive Service. Publisher understands, acknowledges, and agrees that BoffoAds may provide the Services to other parties and that such provision of Services to third parties may compete with Publisher’s own use of the Services.
3.5 Objectionable Advertisements. Publisher understands, acknowledges, and agrees that the delivery of Advertisements is an automated process and, consequently, certain materials may be displayed on Publisher Media that may be objectionable to Publisher (for example, trademarked, illegal, or adult material). Upon written request from Publisher, BoffoAds shall take reasonable measures to remove content that is objectionable to Publisher, but BoffoAds cannot guarantee that all such requests can or will be met.
3.6 Reporting Interface. BoffoAds shall provide Publisher with access to the Reporting Interface to view records of Publisher’s activities hereunder. Publisher understands and acknowledges that the Reporting Interface is for Publisher’s reference purposes only and that the data contained therein may not be current or accurate at the time of viewing by Publisher. The data contained in the Reporting Interface is subject to adjustments at any time by BoffoAds at its sole discretion.
3.7 Resale. Publisher shall not sub-license or resell the Services, or any part thereof, to any third party. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if Publisher violates this Section 3.8, BoffoAds reserves the right to withhold or recoup, as applicable, that portion of revenue generated, and Revenue Share earned, as a result thereof.
3.8 Contact Information. Publisher shall provide BoffoAds with Publisher’s current, complete, and accurate contact information, as requested by BoffoAds, and Publisher shall ensure that such information is updated and kept current, complete, and accurate at all times. 3.9 Right of Refusal. BoffoAds reserves the exclusive right to approve or reject Services to any Web site that forms part of Publisher Media.
3.10 Suspension & Cancellation. BoffoAds reserves the exclusive right to suspend and/or cancel any Publisher Account.
3.11 Discontinued Use. Publisher may discontinue the Services for Publisher Media by delivering to BoffoAds written notice of such discontinued use. Discontinued use of the Services for any or all of Publisher Media shall not terminate this Agreement; however, termination of this Agreement shall cancel and close all Publisher Accounts and all Services to the Publisher Media in connection thereto. This Agreement may be terminated only in accordance with the termination provisions herein.
3.12 Marketing & Publicity. Publisher consents to BoffoAds’s use of Publisher’s name, brands, logos, and other trademarks in BoffoAds’s marketing materials and/or public disclosures (including press releases and Web sites). Publisher may use BoffoAds’s name, brands, logos, or other trademarks only with the prior written consent of BoffoAds.
4. REVENUE SHARE & PAYMENT
4.1 Revenue Share. The Revenue Share shall be determined by BoffoAds at its sole reasonable discretion or as otherwise agreed in a separate written instrument executed by the Parties. All payments of Revenue Share, whether payable or already paid, shall be subject to withholdings and/or deductions based on BoffoAds’s assessment of variables such as Invalid Activity and errors.
4.2 Operational Costs. The Revenue Share shall be calculated after deducting Operational Costs, as determined by BoffoAds at its sole reasonable discretion, from the gross revenue received by BoffoAds from Upstream Partners and/or Direct Advertisers.
4.3 Currency. Unless otherwise expressly stated herein, all money amounts referred to in this Agreement are in United States Dollars. Publisher shall solely bear the losses or gains from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. BoffoAds shall be responsible for payment in U.S. currency only.
4.4 Payments. BoffoAds shall make payments to Publisher of the Revenue Share for a particular calendar month approximately 45 days after the end of that calendar month. For Revenue Share amounts in a particular month that do not reach at least $5,000 for wire transfer payments or $100 for check payments, such amount shall be rolled over to the following calendar month, and so forth, until the applicable minimum amount is reached and BoffoAds shall pay the Revenue Share to Publisher at that time. BoffoAds shall have no obligation to make any payment of the Revenue Share until all applicable tax forms (including Form-W8, Form-W9, and proof of tax exemption) are filled out correctly by Publisher and received by BoffoAds. Publisher shall be responsible, and BoffoAds shall not be responsible, for all applicable transactional fees (including wire transfer fees), which amounts BoffoAds may deduct from any payment of the Revenue Share.
4.5 Recouping Payments. BoffoAds reserves the right to recoup any payment made hereunder based on BoffoAds’s assessment of variables such as, but not limited to, recouping of BoffoAds’s revenue share from Upstream Partners, errors, fraud, and other Invalid Activity. BoffoAds shall be the sole determiner of what constitutes a variable that qualifies for recouping hereunder. BoffoAds agrees to provide documentation where available for recouped payments, including, but not limited to traffic and click counts, Publisher’s SUBID, and Upstream Partner’s feedback.
4.6 Taxes. Publisher understands, acknowledges, and agrees that all applicable sales, value-added, and other taxes required to be deducted by BoffoAds shall be deducted from the Revenue Share, unless Publisher provides BoffoAds with satisfactory proof of exemption.
4.7 Records. If there is any inconsistency or conflict between BoffoAds’s records and that of Publisher or any other party, then BoffoAds’s records shall be deemed the accurate and effective records at all times.
5. PUBLISHER’S OTHER OBLIGATIONS
5.1 Compliance. In using the Services, Publisher shall at all times act in good faith, in accordance with bona fide business practices, in compliance with the terms of this Agreement, and in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, and policies. Publisher shall also comply with any Implementation and technical requirements as specified in the Technical Guidelines and as determined and requested by BoffoAds from time to time. BoffoAds is not liable to pay any Revenue Share to Publisher if the Implementation does not meet the requirements in the Technical Guidelines and BoffoAds has provided notice to the Publisher of the changes made to the Technical Guidelines.
5.2 Ownership of Publisher Media. Publisher represents and warrants, and shall ensure at all times, that Publisher is at least one of the following in relation to the Publisher Media:
a. The owner and/or controller of the Publisher Media;
b. The licensor of the Publisher Media with authorization from the owner to use and/or control the Publisher Media in the manner contemplated herein; or
c. An agent of the owner of the Publisher Media and authorized to enter into this Agreement and use and/or control the Publisher Media in the manner contemplated herein. Upon BoffoAds’s request, Publisher shall provide sufficient documentation (as requested by BoffoAds at its sole discretion) evidencing the above rights in the Publisher Media.
6. RESTRICTIONS
Without limiting any other term of this Agreement, breach of the following restrictions shall constitute material breach of this Agreement:
6.1 Conflicting Agreements. Publisher agrees that it shall not enter into any agreement or other arrangement that conflicts with this Agreement. If there is any conflict between this Agreement and any other agreement Publisher may be party to, then Publisher shall adhere to all the provisions of this Agreement despite the adherence constituting breach of such other agreement.
6.2 Illegal Activity & Abuse. Publisher shall not use the Services in a manner that is, or potentially is, illegal, a legal or other material risk to BoffoAds, generally objectionable in the Internet community, or degrading to the quality, goodwill, or reputation of BoffoAds and/or the Services.
6.3 Prohibited Traffic. Publisher shall not generate Internet traffic to the Publisher Media by any of the following methods, as determined by BoffoAds at its sole reasonable discretion: fraud; robotic computer program that runs automatically (such as spiders, Web crawlers, and all types of bots); listings on newsgroups; toolbars; spam or other bulk electronic mailing where the recipients are not opted in; ICQ or other messenger programs or applications; Internet Relay Chat or other chat room systems; iFrames; zero pixel frames; frames or windows displayed beyond the visible desktop; click farms or other similar methods; spy ware or other downloadable programs installed without the End Users’ consent (collectively “Prohibited Traffic”). Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary, if Publisher is found using or engaging in Prohibited Traffic, BoffoAds reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to immediately suspend the Services, immediately terminate this Agreement, and/or seek any other remedy or recourse as BoffoAds deems necessary, including withholding Revenue Share payments as of the date of the breach.
6.4 Restricted Traffic. Publisher shall not deliver or generate Internet traffic from or to Restricted URLs and/or Restricted IP addresses. Publisher is solely responsible, and BoffoAds is not responsible, for ensuring that Internet traffic delivered or generated from or to URLs associated with the Publisher Media are not Restricted URLs. Publisher is also solely responsible, and BoffoAds is not responsible, for blocking out requests from Restricted IP addresses.
6.5 Solicitation. Publisher shall not entice, persuade, provide incentives, obligate, pressure, or otherwise attempt to cause any third party (including End Users) to visit the Publisher Media related thereto or click on any Advertisements thereon.
6.6 Revenue Redistribution. Publisher shall not distribute or share any portion of the Revenue Share earned hereunder to any third party.
6.7 Source Code. Publisher shall not, and shall not permit any third party to copy, use, analyze, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, convert, or apply any procedure or process to the Services (including any BoffoAds Technology) to ascertain, derive, and/or appropriate for any reason or purpose the source code or source listings for any aspect of the Services or any trade secret information or process contained therein.
6.8 Storing Data. Publisher shall not index, cache, or otherwise store data obtained from the Services (including the Advertisements and Organic Results).
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Home > News > Marks & Spencer lose landmark Break Right property case in Supreme Court
Rachel Duncan,
Marks & Spencer lose landmark Break Right property case in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Marks & Spencer’s challenge to an appeal court judgment, which is likely to have far reaching implications for contracts across all sectors. The Court found in favour of the landlord, meaning there is generally no implied term in a lease (where rent is paid in advance) entitling a tenant to a refund of rents if a break is exercised. If a tenant wants a refund of rents relating to the period after which it has vacated the premises, it must write an express provision into the Lease.
Background to case
M&S leased office space at The Point building in Paddington, London. In 2011 they exercised a break in the lease to serve notice on four floors, ending the lease in January 2012. Following service of the notice they paid the December quarter’s rent in full (even though the leases were to terminate a month later) together with a break premium. After the lease ended M & S then claimed (as is common practice) that they were entitled to a refund of rent for the period after which they had vacated.
Legal judgments
The High Court agreed with the tenant and found that a term should be implied into the lease, to allow for a tenant to recover money relating to the period beyond a break date. The Court of Appeal disagreed, arguing that a lease would not reasonably be understood to include such an implied term.
The Supreme Court have agreed with the Court of Appeal, ruling it would be wrong to attribute to the parties any intention that the tenant should receive a refund of rent payable and paid in advance. This re-establishes the position that if parties intend rent to be apportioned after a break it must be expressly provided for in the lease.
This decision is not just relevant for property cases but has a much wider application as regards what terms the court may imply into a contract as a matter of necessity.
Tenants need to ensure that their break right within a Lease is correctly drafted.
For any advice in this respect or to discuss the above please contact Rachel Duncan at Boyes Turner LLP on 0118 952 7246 or email [email protected].
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Three members of family commit suicide by consuming tablets in Nawanshahr
Three members of a family allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Nawanshahr district of Punjab, police said on Friday.
Sodhi Ram (62), his wife Mahinder Kaur (59) and son Prince Sharma (25) died after consuming tablets on Thursday in Gumman village of the district, the police said.
The trio were rushed to the Phagwara civil hospital by villagers where Sodhi was declared brought dead by doctors. The other two were referred to a hospital in Jalandhar, the police said.
The woman died on the way to the hospital and her recently married son succumbed to death on Friday morning, they said.
According to the police, some sort of domestic tension within the household led to this extreme step.
The bodies have been handed over to the family members after post-mortem, they said. PTI
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SES confirms UK and Ireland satellite move for February 2014 Reviewed by RXTV-newsdesk on December 11, 2013 Rating: 5
SES confirms UK and Ireland satellite move for February 2014
December 11, 2013 Archive Edit
Satellite operator SES has confirmed it will be transferring UK TV and radio services from its Astra 1N satellite to Astra 2E beginning in February 2014.
The move will affect some of the main channels available via Sky and Freesat, including services from the BBC and ITV.
On Facebook, the satellite operator moved to re-assure UK and Irish viewers, stating:
"The transfer will have no adverse implications for viewers in the UK and Ireland as the affected channels will continue to operate on the same frequencies and will be broadcast at the same, or slightly improved power levels, across the UK and Ireland.
"TV viewers outside the UK and Ireland may see an impact and may not be able to receive channels from ASTRA 2E UK Spot Beam, which has a smaller footprint than ASTRA 1N. The new footprint on SES' replacement fleet has been designed to meet the requirements of UK and Irish broadcasters who target their channels for distribution in the UK and/or Ireland. UK and Irish broadcasters hold broadcasting rights only for the UK and/or Ireland but not for other countries."
Astra 2E was successfully launched into space in September following a two month delay at the Baikonur launch site. It is currently orbiting at a test position and will shortly move to the 28.2 degrees East orbital position, where it will be positioned alongside other satellites serving the UK and Ireland.
Last year, the transfer of services to Astra 2F knocked out reception of some UK free-to-air TV and radio services outside of the British Isles, thanks to the introduction of a much tighter spot-beam focused on the British Isles. Today's announcement by SES indicates that the same will occur from February, when remaining BBC, ITV and Channel 4 services make the switch from Astra 1N's much broader spot-beam.
The Winter Olympics takes place between 7th and 23rd February 2014, covered by the BBC on BBC Two, BBC Two HD and BBC Red Button. It is unclear at this stage if the transponders carrying BBC Two or BBC Red Button would transfer during this time. The Winter Olympics is a listed event under section 97 of the Broadcasting Act 1996. Although there's nothing in the law that would prohibit changes in transmission, other major sports events covered under that legislation are often accompanied by technical lock-downs, when no major changes to transmission infrastructure are made.
The switch is usually very brief, with just a short break in service as channels move from one satellite to another.
Geoff Burns 12 December 2013 at 08:36
This report is not quite accurate..
There are NO Irish channels that are Free to air on the Astra platform.
a516digital 12 December 2013 at 08:59
Puzzled. The article does not specifically mention Irish free-to-air channels. SES's Facebook comment mentions Irish broadcasters, which WILL be affected by the move, and the satellite move will affect RTÉ's free-to-air radio stations who are currently on Astra 1N.
Depending on your definition of "Irish", some may count UTV.
But even after this change, RTE radio will still be available in England... So, no real arguement for Irish copyright etc...
RTĖ's radio stations are on the Freesat EPG: UK coverage is not the issue for the radio stations. However, reception in Europe may be hindered if the transponder involved switches to the new spot beam. Equally FTA channels on the Irish Sky EPG including BBC Northern Ireland may be affected. As SES stated in the quote above nothing changes adversely within the British Isles.
Heinz 18 January 2014 at 16:50
Relatives in Menorca waiting with baited breath .........
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DNA sheds light on European upheaval during the Ice Age
By Genelle Weule
The skull of an ancient European found in the Czech Republic
(Martin Frouz)
Martin Frouz
The population of Stone Age Europe underwent a radical transformation toward the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study of ancient DNA.
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DNA was analysed from European fossils aged between 35,000 and 7,000 years
Three people belonged to a genetic group not found in modern Europeans
Presence of this group in Europe suggests humans dispersed from Africa in single wave
"We uncovered a completely unknown chapter of human history: a major population turnover in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age," said Dr Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute, one of the study's authors.
The discovery, reported in the journal Current Biology, also suggested that non-Africans rapidly dispersed across the world in a single wave around 50,000 years ago — not in multiple waves as previously thought.
An international team of scientists reconstructed the mitochondrial genomes — genetic material passed down the maternal line — of 35 hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe between 35,000 and 7,000 years ago.
Genetic studies show that mitochondrial DNA in all non-African people today belong to two major groups — haplogroup N and haplogroup M.
Haplogroup M is very common in modern Asian, Australasian and Native American people but is not found at all in Europeans.
The major post-glacial turnover that was induced by warming events came as a surprise.
Dr Wolfgang Haak
But the genome of three of the hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now France and Belgium before the Ice Age peaked belonged to the M haplogroup, the analysis revealed.
Then, at some stage, people with the M haplogroup disappeared from Europe.
Demographic modelling by the team suggested that when the population retreated south as the Ice Age began around 25,000 years ago, a genetic bottleneck probably resulted in the loss of the M haplogroup.
This was then followed by a major turnover of the population around 14,500 years ago, as the climate began to warm.
"It might have been expected that the Last Glacial Maximum had left a mark in human diversity, but the major post-glacial turnover that was induced by warming events came as a surprise," said study co-author Dr Wolfgang Haak of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA and the Max Planck Institute.
Single versus multiple exodus from Africa
Ancient European skeleton found in France
(L. Lang)
L. Lang
The absence of haplogroup M in Europeans had previously led to the argument that people had dispersed multiple times to spread across Eurasia and Australasia.
"The fact we now observe both major clades M and N in Europe — just like everywhere else outside of Africa — makes a single wave model much more plausible," said Dr Haak.
We're pretty confident that modern humans were out of Africa earlier, but this new study suggests those people made no contribution to the living population across Europe and Asia today.
Associate Professor Darren Curnoe
Associate Professor Darren Curnoe of the University of New South Wales agreed the new study supported the idea of a single wave leaving Africa.
"What this work really implies is that there is unlikely to have been these two major discrete events that led to the peopling of Eurasia," said Dr Curnoe, who was not involved in the study.
"In fact it could have been one large group of people who were genetically diverse and that diversity was certainly seen across Europe and Asia until the end of the Ice Age."
But he said we need to be cautious about the estimate of when the migration occurred, pointing to the discovery of modern human remains in China that are at least 80,000 years old.
"We're pretty confident that modern humans were out of Africa earlier, but this new study suggests those people made no contribution to the living population across Europe and Asia today."
He said dating of the exodus based on a molecular clock is controversial.
"The problem with a molecular clock is that there is still a lot of debate about some fundamental aspects of the clock such as the rate of ticking of the clock — what geneticists call the mutation rate," said Dr Curnoe.
"We've got to explain these older examples we have — these fossils we have that are clearly modern humans that are 80,000 to 120,000 years old."
"Wouldn't it be wonderful to get some DNA from them," he said.
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Charges against 7 who protested pipeline dropped
LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) – Charges have been dropped against seven people arrested for protesting the construction of a natural gas pipeline in Lancaster County.
Police in 2017 arrested 23 people who had gathered on land owned by Adorers of the Blood of Christ in West Hempfield Township. They were trying to stop the building of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline through the property.
The seven protesters were expected to go on trial Monday but reached a deal to perform community service instead.
All others arrested for protesting previously pleaded guilty.
The pipeline was built through on the property and is in operation.
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Kenneth Greenly III, 36, and Jodie Hudson-Greenly, 43, were found guilty Friday of felony counts of endangering the welfare of a child, conspiracy, and simple assault.
Lancaster pool temporarily closed after fecal contamination
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LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) -- Lancaster County's Department of Parks and Recreation announced the temporary closure of a pool after fecal contamination.
The Central Park Pool will be closed Wednesday while workers follow Pennsylvania Department of Health sanitizing protocols.
Amateur space cadets pay tribute to Apollo 11 launch
by Andrew Forgotch / Jul 16, 2019
LANCASTER, Pa. (WHTM) - Ellen Kim and her 1-year-old son Hugo built a rocket and named it "SSS Hugo."
The pair was impressed when their rocket, made with an old soda bottle and construction paper, launched into the air at the North Museum of Science and Nature.
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Intimate Italy Like You've Never Seen It!
11/14/2012 — By Melinda Page
Aya Brackett
How one Budget Travel writer turned a dream—experiencing Italy like an Italian—into a reality with an affordable, completely doable walking tour of Tuscany.
Our waiter, Giado, covered his eyes in dismay when we told him we were setting off the next day on a weeklong walking tour of Tuscany. "You really want to walk? It's sometimes 16 kilometers [about 10 miles] from one town to the next, with nothing in the middle to eat or drink." His concern seemed genuine, and given that we'd just demolished two of Osteria le Logge's most amazing desserts—a mascarpone terrine with port granita and a chocolate panna cotta with lavender cream—somewhat justified. Nearly every window in the city of Siena displayed something I wanted to eat: biscotti, lardo, wheels of pecorino, bresaola, cones of gelato. I knew we wouldn't find much of that while footing it through hay fields.
TOUR TUSCANY'S GLORIOUS CAPITAL, FLORENCE!
But my mom, my sister, and I had come here to start a seven-day trek through Italy's villages—we wanted to really experience the countryside, not just drive by it. Everyone has a fantasy of what Tuscany looks like: old stone farmhouses, rolling fields, lines of cypress trees. (Admit it: You've seen Under the Tuscan Sun at least once.) That was certainly our terra cotta-colored vision, and we were convinced that a self-guided tour was the only way to live the dream. Countless companies offer walking tours in Tuscany; we chose an outfit called Girosole because it was run by locals passionate about their homeland and intimately familiar with the best walking routes. The company allowed us to start our trip on any day and add extra nights in a given location, in the event that we couldn't tear ourselves away from a favorite sliver of la bella vita. For $1,390 per person for eight days (in high season), the company booked our hotels, provided walking directions (and a cell phone in case we got lost), and supplied a driver who transported our luggage—and sometimes us—from hotel to hotel. The self-guided option left us free to start our days whenever we pleased and walk at our own pace without contending with anyone else's schedule or group dynamics. Neither my mom nor I are regular hikers, but my sister is a marathon runner, so having the services of a driver gave Mom and me an out: If we were too lazy-or worn out-to walk one day, we could always hitch a ride with the bags.
Our driver turned out to be not one person, but two: Paolo Forti and his son, Giacomo. Giacomo, 27, wore oversize Ray-Bans and was exceedingly (and adorably) polite when he picked us up in Siena. He opened doors, carried our bags, and on the way to Montalcino, where we started our trip, he narrated the scenery, pointing out the small town where he grew up, offering advice on his favorite wines, and telling us to look for rosebushes planted at the end of every vineyard row. "The rose and the grape, they take the same element from the ground, so the farmer, he can know if the land is good for the grape," he said, in charmingly accented English.
When we reached Montalcino, Giacomo handed over a set of maps and customized directions, and then we were off and walking. For us, a typical day started at 9 A.M., and we often set out right from the front door of our hotel-in this case, Hotel dei Capitani. We'd wind our way down from one of the jewel-like hilltop towns we stayed in, looking back to see the fortified castle of Rocca d'Orcia recede behind us on one day, the walled town of Montalcino the next. Then we were crossing fields of hay that waved in the wind, fording rivers next to stone bridges destroyed during World War II, and passing row after row of heavily pruned grapevines, all while following our endearingly quirky walking directions: You arrive at another open meadow. Keep right through the next fork just past the small ruined church. The trail bends into a gap in the brush. They seemed cryptic out of context, but on the trail they made perfect sense. One leisurely walk led to Bagno Vignoni, a spa town where people have taken the waters since Roman times-thermal pools still bubble and boil there. We scrambled across cliffs that spewed hot, sulfurous water into turquoise pools, dined at a restaurant beneath a fragrant acacia tree, then soaked our feet in the warm mineral water that flowed through channels carved into the rock. Heaven.
We'd usually make it to the next town for lunch, but twice we stopped at a grocery store before setting out and bought picnic provisions: prosciutto, pecorino made from local sheeps' milk, Sicilian blood oranges, fresh-baked bread, and a thermos of red Brunello-we were, after all, in wine country. One day we waded through knee-high grass into an olive orchard and sat beneath the trees, our jackets serving as a picnic blanket. I picked a tiny stalk of wild onion sprouting delicate purple flowers and presented it to my mom, who wore it in her buttonhole.
Mom was almost giddy from all the gorgeousness. She couldn't stop hugging us and saying "I'm so lucky!" My sister and I rolled our eyes, but secretly we agreed. Girosole sent us on a path through the Orcia River valley (Val d'Orcia). It's an area of such well-preserved agrarian beauty-where cypress trees and crop rows trace the same lines they did when this land was first farmed-that it's been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It's the place where the concept of man-made landscape began, when the wealthy merchants of Siena laid out plots of land in the 14th and 15th centuries with the aim of making them not just manageable, but also aesthetically pleasing. We felt like we were walking through a 600-year-old period set piece, where every field, tree, and house was placed just so, and around every corner was another equally cinematic view. Let's just say we took a lot of photos.
Throughout the trip, we were in daily contact with Giacomo or his father, and when they came to collect our bags, we'd pepper them with questions. One morning, we asked Giacomo about a massive building we'd seen in the distance, which he explained was a hotel dating back to the Middle Ages built to house religious pilgrims. During Caesar's time, the main north-south byway cut through the Val d'Orcia. Later, in the 7th century, Christians traveled by foot on their way to Rome, and it remained a pilgrimage route for a thousand years. Monasteries and inns sprang up to serve the travelers, but by the 17th century, the road fell out of fashion. But those earlier journeyers left behind a province perfect for strolling, where scenic lowlands were punctuated with hilltop fortified settlements, most of which were located less than 10 miles-a manageable day's walk-from another town.
Remnants of this once-illustrious route are sprinkled throughout the Val d'Orcia. Just after passing through the hamlet of Villa a Tolli (which was so deserted I had to use my camera's self timer to photograph the three of us in front of a dreamy stone house covered in climbing roses), we rounded a corner and saw the Abbey of Sant'Antimo, its bell tower peering above the countryside. The abbey was built and rebuilt many times, first in the 700s by Lombard kings to house pilgrims. Its current form is gracefully curved in a rare French-Romanesque style, dotted with prehistoric-looking carvings of monsters and oxen and men. Close up, its massive building blocks seemed to glow from within.
There were other visitors at Sant'Antimo, but we spent most days in splendid isolation, encountering almost no one-just us and fields of poppies, thorny brambles of wild roses, stone walls blooming with irises, and clumps of rosemary as big as bushes. We walked right up to the iconic Cappella di Vitaleta. Flanked by two rows of towering 40-foot cypress trees, this tiny chapel is reportedly the most photographed church in Tuscany, but it's reachable only on foot. We had it all to ourselves for almost an hour; to celebrate our private tour, my sister and I turned cartwheels right on the lawn. Similarly deserted was the Collegiata church, in the slumbering town of San Quirico d'Orcia. Its entrance is flanked by delicately knotted columns resting on the backs of fantastical lions while scaly monsters tangle in battle above the door. Though it was designed to make 13th century pilgrims cower before the power of the church, we modern-day travelers were just as awed, dwarfed and alone before those spectacular stone beasts. When we saw Giacomo again, we asked him where everyone was. "The Italians, they don't walk," he said. "They come by car, they have lunch, they have a coffee, then they get back in the car."
The under-populated countryside stood out in blissful contrast to the teeming villages where we spent our nights. One day, as we lingered outside a ceramics shop, surveying the valley we'd just walked through, we overheard another tourist. "Okay, this is our third town today. Are we done yet?" While they rushed on to Florence or back to Rome, we spent leisurely afternoons and evenings poking around in boutiques, gaping at medieval architecture, and strolling the narrow lanes. In Pienza, we saw a group of little old ladies gathered at the end of a cobbled street, knitting. In Montepulciano we sat outside drinking glasses of the famous Vino Nobile in a piazza and slept in a hotel, L'Agnolo, that felt more like a cathedral, with glorious frescoes painted on the ceiling of our room. And we happened to be in Montalcino on the day the town celebrates its patron saint, Maria SS del Soccorso, so we were treated to July 4th-worthy fireworks bursting over a fortress; afterward, a DJ blasted tunes in the square, and we found ourselves dancing in the streets to "Another One Bites the Dust."
In truth, our appreciation for these towns was heightened because of the effort it took to get to them. Which is another way of saying that touring Tuscany by foot wasn't always a walk in il parco. Take, for example, our march to Montepulciano; the hike took longer than expected, and after five hours without food, we could hear one another's stomachs growling. We were so hot and tired that when we skirted an olive orchard and the Temple of San Biagio suddenly rose above us, we thought we were seeing a mirage, conjured up to give strength to hungry passersby. Glowing golden in the sunlight, drawing us in, its dome looked like something out of a Renaissance masterpiece.
And yet, despite our grumbling bellies, it was impossible not to stop. Inside, the church's cool air and silent beauty seemed to cure our weariness. A diffuse light fell from the dome in a perfect circle, and we were surrounded by arches and rosettes and Greek columns, all carved out of the same linen-colored stone. As our eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw an automated tour guide called an ArtPhone. I dropped a 1 Euro coin into the slot and learned that in 1518, a fresco of the Virgin painted on this spot suddenly seemed to smile. Many people witnessed the miracle, and public funds were collected to build a commemorative temple. San Biagio, one of the world's finest examples of Renaissance architecture, has been providing refuge for religious pilgrims-and weary hikers-ever since.
When we headed back outside, our empty stomachs were filled thanks to another miracle. Directly across from the church, far from the city center, where we least expected to find a restaurant, I spotted La Grotta, reportedly home to the best food in Montepulciano. We weren't exactly dressed for a fancy lunch. Yet when the maitre'd, impeccable in his tailored navy suit, heard that we'd walked all the way from Monticchiello-five miles, uphill all the way-his eyes widened and he ushered us (shorts, hiking boots, and all) to a prime table in the back garden. He brought an extra chair for our hiking gear, recommended a bottle of the house red, and let us order dessert long after the restaurant had closed. We were several paces down the road when he came running after us with a half-empty bottle of water we'd left behind. "You will need it for your walk!" he said, sending us on our way with a wave and a "Ciao!"
Bustling Montepulciano was full of trattorias and wine shops, but our favorite town was the emptiest: Rocca d'Orcia. There we found a crumbling castle looming over stone streets barely wide enough for cars (not that we cared about that!). When we arrived, an elderly man, navigating rocky steps worn smooth by the footfalls of several centuries, greeted us with a "Buon giorno." Otherwise, all was silent. We were staying at Cisterna nel Borgo, a three-room hotel above the town's only restaurant, where owner Marta Catani also gives cooking lessons, though she herself has no formal training. "Italians don't go to cooking school," she explained. "You just watch your grandmother." At dinner, we stuffed ourselves with tender, tangy wild boar cooked in yogurt and sauteed pork in a honey sauce that was salty and just a bit sweet. Since we were the only guests, we each got our own room; mine had a wood-beamed ceiling and windows overlooking the town square, which was dominated by a massive well. Marta told us that until the late 1950s, the city gates were locked against intruders every night, and today just 26 souls live within the town's walls. For two glorious nights, we were happy to push the population to 29.
On our last morning, we were feeling lazy and not up to the challenge of a nine-mile walk. When Giacomo's father, Paolo, came to collect our luggage in the morning, we asked if he would drop us off at the halfway point. "Si, si," he said. That morning, instead of huffing up hills, we strolled through Monticchiello, a beautifully preserved walled town. We craned our necks to get a look at the top of the thick defensive tower at the town's entrance, then passed beneath a stone archway and into the winding medieval streets, flanked by the high walls of houses made of uniformly honey-colored stone. We walked down lanes no wider than a horse, took photos of laundry hanging from shuttered windows, admired a vintage red Fiat parked by a church with a vaulted interior covered in flaking frescoes, and read the plaque on an obelisk-shaped World War I memorial. On the way out of town, we encountered a crew of maintenance men. They waved. We waved back. "Ciao bella!" they exclaimed. Yes, we thought. It was beautiful.
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The Army and Navy want to put ground-based weapons on ships
Kris Osborn,
Warrior Maven
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) pulls away from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) after a refueling at sea, June 13, 2009.
The Army and the Navy are investigating the benefits to putting land-based weapon systems like artillery and multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) on naval ships.
The equipment that could be deployed on ships also includes air defenses and cyber warfare units.
The Navy is looking at ways to increase its lethality as Russia modernizes its navy, and as China is expected to have the world's second-largest navy.
The Army and Navy are operating together in the Pacific to fire Army artillery from Navy ships, send targeting data to land weapons from Navy sensors and use coastal land rockets to destroy enemy ships at sea, service leaders said.
"The Army is looking at shooting artillery off of Navy ships. Innovation is taking existing things and modifying them to do something new," Maj. Gen. John Ferrari, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation, G-8, told Warrior Maven in an interview.
Ongoing explorations of the now heavily emphasized Pentagon "cross-domain fires" strategy are currently taking on new applications through combined combat experiments in the Pacific theater.
Ferrari explained that these experimental "teams" are combining air defense units, ground combat units, cyber units and artillery units and putting them together in operations.
"Part of what we do is integrate with the Navy. The Naval threat for the Pacific is one of the major threats, so the Army is doing multi-domain battle. The Pacific is inherently Joint. There is very little that we do that is not done with other services," Ferrari said.
Much of the ongoing work involves integrating combat units which have historically operated in a more separated or "single-focused" fashion.
Combing field artillery, a brigade headquarters, air defense, Navy assets and ISR units into a single operation, for instance, represents the kind of experiments now underway.
Paratroopers with A Battery, 4th Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, fire an M777A2 cannon during a firing demonstration for visiting Command Sgt. Maj. William Johnson, the command sergeant major for ISAF Joint Command, July 12, 2012.
"Instead of having three battalions of artillery, you will have pieces of these things - then go out and use it," Ferrari said.
Tactically speaking, firing precision artillery from surface ships could possibly introduce some interesting advantages.
The Navy is now exploring weapons such as long-range precision-guided ammunition for its deck-mounted 5-inch guns, ship-fired offensive weapons such as the advanced Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM), Maritime Tomahawk and an over-the-horizon weapon for the Littoral Combat Ship and Frigate.
Something like an Army Tactical Missile Systems rocket, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems or GPS-guided Excalibur 155m artillery does bring the possibility to supplement existing ship-fired Navy weapons systems.
Tomahawk and LRASM, for instance, can fly lower and somewhat parallel to the surface to elude enemy defensive systems.
One senior US military official explained that bringing Army artillery to surface ships to compliment existing Navy weapons could bring new dimensions to the surface attack options available to commanders.
Artillery could also lend combat support to extensive layered defensive weapons on Navy ships such as SeaRAM, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile and Rolling Airframe Missile, among others.
These interceptors, it seems, could be strengthened by the potential use of land-fired weapons on Navy ships.
U.S. Army Soldiers with 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Field Artillery Brigade fire an M-777 howitzer during a training exercise on Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan, February 28, 2008.
"Mixing all presents multiple dilemmas for the enemy," a senior official told Warrior.
Much of this kind of experimentation will take the next step this coming summer at the upcoming Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, a joint, multi-national combat and interoperability exploration.
Navy commanders have been "all in" on this as well, previously using F-18s to identify targets for land weapons in exercises in recent years such as Noble Eagle in Alaska, senior military officials have described.
Along these lines, US Pacific Commander Adm. Harry Harris has consistently emphasized multi-domain operations in public speeches.
"I'd like to see the Army's land forces sink a ship, shoot down a missile, and shoot down the aircraft that fired that missile - near simultaneously - in a complex environment where our joint and combined forces are operating in each other's domains," Commander, US Pacific Command, said last year at the Association of the United States Army LANPAC Symposium and Exposition.
During this same speech, Harris also said the Army will fire a Naval Strike Missile from land as part of the upcoming RIMPAC exercise.
Harris underscored the urgency of the US need for stronger multi-domain battle technology and tactics by telling the House Armed Services Committee earlier this year "China will surpass Russia as the world's second largest Navy by 2020, when measured in terms of submarines and frigate-class ships.
Japanese and American ships at the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise.
As part of the cross-domain effort, the Army and Navy are looking at improving ways to connect their respective networks; Adm. Harris said "joint effects" in combat can be challenged by a lack of integration between different services' "tactical ISR, target acquisition and fire control systems."
For example the Navy's integrated sensor network known as Cooperative Engagement Capability connects targeting and ISR nodes across the force.
The emphasis now is to connect these kinds of systems with, for instance, Army weapons such as ground-fired Patriot missiles and Theater High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense weapons.
In addition, the Army's Integrated Battle Command Systems is itself a comparable combat theater sensor network where various radar, command and control and weapons "nodes" are networked to expedite real-time data sharing.
Part of the maturation of this system, according to Army and Northrop Grumman developers, is to further extend IBCS to cue Air Force and Navy assets operating in a given theater of operations.
One senior Army weapons developer told Warrior - "it's about target acquisition and ranges. Maybe target acquisition comes from a ship and I do surface fires on land. We need to experiment with sensors."
The advent of long-range sensors and precision fires on the part of potential near-peer adversaries has reinforced the need for the US military to operate in real time across air, sea and land domains.
Furthermore, the emergence of converging newer domains, such as cyber, space and the electromagnetic sphere are naturally an indispensable element of cross-domain fires.
Kenan O’Connor/US Navy
In an Army paper titled "Multi-Domain Battle: Evolution of Combined Arms for the 21st Century 2025-2040," former TRADOC Commander Gen. David Perkins writes:
"It (Multi-Domain Battle) expands the targeting landscape based on the extended ranges and lethality delivered at range by integrated air defenses, cross-domain fire support, and cyber/electronic warfare systems.
We must solve the physics of this expanded battlespace and understand the capabilities that each domain can provide in terms of echelon, speed, and reach."
Perkins and other senior Pentagon strategists have explained Multi-Domain Battle as a modern extension of the Cold War AirLand Battle Strategy which sought to integrate air and ground attacks to counter a Soviet attack in Europe.
"AirLand Battle started developing the concept of 'extended battlefield.' Multi-Domain battle endeavors to integrate capabilities in such a way that to counteract one, the enemy must become more vulnerable to another, creating and exploiting temporary windows of advantage,' Perkins writes in "Multi-Domain Battle: Joint Combined Arms Concept for the 21st Century."
Army - Air Force
The Army and the Air Force are also launching a new, collaborative war-gaming operation to assess future combat scenarios and, ultimately, co-author a new inter-service cross-domain combat doctrine.
Operating within this concept, Perkins and Air Force Air Combat Command Commanding General James Holmes are launching a new series of tabletop exercises to replicate and explore future warfare scenarios - the kind of conflicts expected to require technologically advanced Army-Air Force integration.
In a Pentagon report, Holmes said the joint wargaming effort will "turn into a doctrine and concept that we can agree on."
The F-35 is doing ISR and could possibly deliver a weapon on the same flight. We can then use what they can generate on the ground, fusing sensors and target acquisition with things that can deliver effects," a senior defense official told Warrior. -- (stay tuned for an upcoming F-35 air-ground coordination story from Warrior)
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HomeMembersMembers BlogHead of cities at Uber reveals how intrapreneurship is the driving force behind sustainable cities & driverless cars
Head of cities at Uber reveals how intrapreneurship is the driving force behind sustainable cities & driverless cars
Sarah Atkinson
Stakeholder Engagement Manager | University of the West of England
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Fred Jones speaks about how a culture of intrapreneurship at Uber is behind innovations such as driverless cars which are helping to make our cities sustainable before his Bristol Distinguished Address lecture:
What is the one characteristic every leader should have?
I would say leaders need to be optimistic for 3 reasons.
The first is simply this: negative people are no fun to be around!
Second: optimism is really important for problem solving and to be able to convey a really inspiring image and a can-do attitude to overcoming problems.
Third: if you’re optimistic it indicates to the people around you that it’s OK to come to you with their problems because you’re going to be receptive.
I think what inspires me is a bias to action.
I’m inspired by people who see a problem, think about how they’re going to best solve it, and then get on and do it and see tangible results.
What do you do to ensure you continue to grow as a leader?
I think it’s really important to put yourself out there in situations that you’re not necessarily comfortable with and get feedback on how you’re doing.
At Uber (for example) we have a really strong feedback culture.
Sometimes it’s hard to hear feedback, particularly on your weaknesses and how you need to develop, but I think that’s really important to keep you grounded and help you focus on how to improve.
Do you have a pivotal moment when you decided to pursue this career?
I was a management consultant for about 10 years before joining Uber and in the last 18 months of my time there I spent time working in our innovation lab with start-ups; mentoring them and helping them grow and scale their businesses.
It was through that process I became really inspired by these people, who were out there giving it a go.
We’d meet every week, they’d listen, we’d chat about the problems that they had, and come up with ideas to solve it.
And they would come back a week later and they’d done something about it and made a tangible difference.
I found that really inspiring and that’s when I thought I really need to work for a start-up, then I joined Uber and the rest is history.
What characteristics would you look for in a graduate employee?
There’s obviously a set of competencies and skills that you want, but I think the real differentiators are around attitude, particularly in a start-up environment - there’s a lot of ambiguity
At Uber we’re growing so fast that the roles and our focus that we have today will not be the same in 6-12 months time, so I think having an attitude where you’re comfortable with ambiguity; you’re comfortable with change and you’re really willing to adapt yourself to any need/problem and do your best is really important.
I think that really differentiates the good from the great.
If you could go back, what advice would you give yourself as a new graduate?
When I left university I was quite caught up in thinking about ‘what I should do?’.
What is a good employer to go and join? What is the right graduate scheme to be part of? I perhaps didn’t spend much time thinking about what I really enjoy and what really motivates me.
It’s an old cliché but if you enjoy what you’re doing it doesn’t feel like work. I think that’s something that took me about 10 years to learn and understand, so if I was having that conversation with myself I’d try and make that point.
What’s the secret behind Uber’s success?
The secret to our growth is focussing on providing a really good experience to our customers, and at Uber we’ve got 2 customers.
We’ve got the passengers that use the app to go around their city and we’ve got the drivers that partner with us, who want a flexible and autonomous way to make money.
The status quo had a lot of problems on both sides of that.
What Uber has done is to really focus on how we can give a excellent experience to both those customers.
And when you get it right your popularity grows. I think that’s the core of our success.
How does Uber keep innovation going as an organisation?
I think over time Uber has been really good at disrupting itself.
When we launched Uber in the UK in 2012 just before the London Olympics we were a luxury limousine service called UberLux. Then we kind of realised that actually you could provide that premium experience to the mass market, so we launched Uber X, which is our entry level 4-seater product.
Over time we realised that actually we could provide a more reliable and affordable service by getting people to share their car and that’s when we launched Uber Pool, which is about 25% cheaper than Uber X.
I think now we realise that autonomous vehicles are going to play a really important part in how people move around our cities in the future, so we’re going to invest (and are investing) heavily in that technology - even flying cars!
I think it’s really important to understand what’s going to disrupt your business model in the future and try and be part of that trend and conversation rather than being reactive.
How would Uber contribute to sustainable mobility in the future?
We can contribute to sustainable cities in the future in 3 ways.
The first is we can encourage people to leave their cars at home or not even buy a car, and we can do that by providing a really reliable and affordable alternative to car ownership.
We’re seeing that already in many of the cities that we operate in.
The second thing that we can do is reduce congestion by getting more people in fewer cars and encouraging them to share their ride, like we are with our Uber Pool product. In the first year of Uber Pool in London we managed to take 1.3m miles off the road.
The third thing we can do is help with pollution. Not only by reducing cars on the road and congestion, but one of our big priorities for 2017 is around electric vehicles and that is something that I’m leading for Uber at the moment.
I think we can play a really pivotal role in taking that technology mainstream and really making a difference to the air pollution and air quality issues that we’re facing many cities today.
What’s the key factors to create a successful digital company?
At Uber we’re pretty relentless at finding problems and trying to solve them.
We’ve hired some fantastic engineering talent in San Francisco and around the world to help us do that.
Whilst the experience of using Uber as a partner driver or rider might seem simple and seemless it’s incredible the effort and investment that goes on behind the scenes to optimise that experience.
One of these is how we can make drivers on our platform earn more, and you do that by keeping them much busier when they’re on the platform.
We’ve built a lot of features which enables a driver to accept and confirm a booking before they’ve completed one. The beauty of this means there’s less time waiting around between trips, there’s less dead mileage and therefore you can be much more efficient and make more money.
I think the real focus of getting the best to solve these small problems by using cutting edge technology is one of the keys to our success.
UWE Bristol is taking part in developing driverless cars, how important are these kind of researches to Uber?
I think it’s critical. It’s critical not just to Uber but also to the cities we serve.
A recent OECD study said that an autonomous shared self-driving service could reduce the number of vehicles on our roads by 90%, which is pretty phenomenal.
So we see this technology as playing an important role not just for us but for our cities so we’re investing heavily in trying to make it work.
It’s really hard to do so but it’s one of the things we’re really committing to.
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Kyle Blaine
Kyle Blaine is the deputy politics editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact this reporter at kyle.blaine@buzzfeed.com
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Holt appeared to approach his role mostly as a facilitator of debate and discussion, disappearing from the screen for lengthy periods of time after asking a question.
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The best of the worst.
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Woman charged with arson takes heat for showing up late to court
By Crimesider Staff
December 14, 2015 / 8:20 AM / CBS News
SOUTHFIELD -- A Detroit woman learned the hard way that tardiness can have consequences, CBS Detroit reports.
Rashidah Muhammad was free on bond after being charged with setting a house on fire. She was due to appear in Judge David Groner's courtroom Thursday morning, but was an hour-and-a-half late.
When Groner asked her why, Muhammad said she left her house around 8:45 a.m. -- 15 minutes after court started -- and then she said she got stuck in traffic after arranging the ride at the last minute, according to the station.
Judge Groner was clearly unmoved by all the excuses. He asked Muhammad if she won a hypothetical $1,000 cash prize would she be late to pick that up -- and she responded that she did not know, according to CBS Detroit.
At that point, the frustrated judge told Muhammad that she wasn't taking the matter seriously enough and revoked her bond, ordering her to jail. She was ordered to spend at least 48 hours behind bars before her next court hearing.
"If court starts at 8:30, you better be there at 8:30 -- especially if you're charged with arson," said a CBS Detroit legal analyst.
First published on December 14, 2015 / 8:20 AM
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Cyber Security for Banks - Risks and Controls
By Finacle Client Advisory Board’s (FCAB) Working Group (WG)
igitalization is changing the face of banking. Regulatory mandates such as Open Banking, and new business models such as the platform business model in banking are setting unprecedented transformation in motion, a transformation which is not only about embracing new ways of doing business, but also about aligning internal processes and operations to ensure success in the new digital future. Technology is the bedrock of this transformation since a large proportion of it is buoyed by evolution of technology and the new possibilities it enables, such as the free movement of data for innovation and collaboration. But these new possibilities are bringing some existing concerns into greater focus. With the rise in cases of data theft, unethical exposure of records, and sophistication of methods of attack, Cyber Security has become a strategic priority for banks.Moreover data privacy regulations such as GDPR puts the onus on banks to ensure customer data held by the bank is securely managed by them under the threat of punitive action by regulators. This trend of strict data privacy is catching-up on other geographies as well.Hacks and system vulnerabilities cost millions of dollars of revenue* to banks worldwide. The cost of irreversible loss of reputation such incidents inflict, is worth more than the millions of dollars lost in revenue. The stakes are higher than ever before.
With this as the backdrop, the Working Group (WG) of Finacle Client Advisory Board (FCAB) has come up with a set of recommendations to mitigate critical vulnerabilities and risks. The FCAB WG first set out to identify the crucial vulnerabilities modern banks have to deal with, in order
to make the apposite recommendation for controlling or mitigating each such risk identified.
The FCAB WG classifies Cyber Security related risks into seven sub-tracks. The WG has followed industry best practices to come up with its recommendations.
The group is confident that these guidelines will serve as
a good reference point for the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) of Banks embarking on new Cyber Security initiatives or looking to enhance existing Cyber Security controls.
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Melancholy replied to Binge's topic in Gaming Discussion
What Remains of Edith Finch is such a great game! It has such a well-told narrative, and even though it's a story-driven game, it doesn't feel like a walking simulator at all! I'd recommend it to anybody and everybody. It's one of those games you should play at least once.
Favorite Indie game?
Melancholy posted a topic in Gaming Discussion
I've kind of moved away a little from the usual triple-A franchises and instead turned to Steam (so I could buy games and never get round to playing them =_=). I've had a lot of faves, but I think the best so far would be a mix between Prison Architect, Stonehearth and Mini Metro. What little-known game do you like the most?
Melancholy replied to jeniffer26's topic in Gaming Discussion
Super Mario! That takes me back to the days I'd spend with my family, all of us crowded around playing games on our bad TV, laughing and fighting over controllers. I think the most favourite part of it was fighting bosses and using strategies to get through the level and defeat the boss. It was super fun to beat a hard level after hours of struggling through it.
Are you a hardcore gamer or just enough?
Melancholy replied to mitan143's topic in Gaming Discussion
I'm definitely a filthy casual I usually only play strategy and adventure games, and only really to kill time. When I was younger I had so much time to play games and have fun but now I've got so many things to do. Though I suppose 'hardcore' gamers typically play FPS games and multiplayer (Overwatch and PUBG come to mind), whereas I'm more into offline games since I'm not always at home with an internet connection.
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Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA – Panel Chair
Embracing True Diversity in the Events Industry
Some might say the events sector is more diverse than any other, this could be true, however, you really need to look more carefully.
Women in the events Industry are not getting past middle management, they’re not in the boardroom or on boards.
The people of colour, on the other hand, are nowhere near middle management. They are not the negotiators, deal makers, primary hosts, venue owners, on Boards or in senior management but serving the drinks, door security or ensuring the hospitality areas are clean and tidy. That’s where some of the elevated diversity stats come from when submitted.
The decision makers have to be diverse, it doesn’t just happen, a conversation about race is difficult, at times uncomfortable; but the reality is, if we don’t talk about it, we’ll never make the progress that’s necessary, there is a global shift be brave and have let’s have that courageous conversation.
The benefit of attending: Hear the experiences of the panel, listen to case studies and suggestions
Take away: Ideas for improving diversity, suggested help, contacts for in-house support
Olyainka Seiriki – UK Together
Leigh Cowlishaw – Winning Edges
Aaron Hornback – Horizon Health and the Lighthouse
Holly Gaffney – Lloyds Banking Group
PANEL CHAIR BIO:
The Zebra Partnership publishing, campaign and events agency is headed by Carol Ann Whitehead. A Royal Society of Arts Fellow and award-winning magazine publisher Carol Ann is a communications expert with experience organising a variety of events from 8 to 8000, U.K. and overseas, plus organising five royal visits since 2004.
A former Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and Trustee of Walk the Plank Outdoor Events and Arts Charity, Carol Ann is also an advocate for equality and diversity she has organised International Women’s Day events since 2013. She is the co-founder of the Ada Lovelace Day Zebra Wikieditathon, which aims to increase women’s global presence on Wikipedia from 17% and contributors from 10%. This took place in 6 different countries and is also logged on History Pin. Carol Ann collaborated with feminist charity FiLiA to bring their globally recognised annual conference to Manchester for 2018. She joined 300 MPs and fellow potential MPs at the historic #AskHerToStand event at the Palace of Westminster the campaign is striving for 50% representation of women in Parliament.
Carol Ann is a Northern Power Women ‘Person with Purpose’ finalist and proud to be a 50:50 Parliament Ambassador.
As part of ‘The People’s Hub’ campaign team, she delivered a lecture at the United Nations Youth Association in Denmark. The team is now working to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and planning a workshop for the UN Festival in 2019.
Carol Ann is married to Dan Whitehead, author, editor, film and games reviewer and voting member of BAFTA. They have two children, a cockatiel called Rocky and a Shih Tzu called Milo. In her spare time she loves to attend graphic novel conventions, the cinema and theatre and enjoys traveling with her family and experiencing different cultures.
What does Carol Ann love the most about working within the events industry?
“I love to channel my experience in organising eclectic events and playing to my networking strengths to create the ultimate unforgettable experiences for clients. Every day is different and exciting and gives me the opportunity to explore new challenges and develop cutting-edge ideas that culminate in a positive outcome for all.”
Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Zebra Partnership
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K-Pop Power Hour 12/17/18
In this episode, we take a look back on the music, life, and legacy of Shinee’s Kim Jonghyun, who died one year ago today. Even though none of you were able to actually hear the show live due to some streaming issues, these songs (and their lyrics, assuming you don’t speak Korean) are definitely worth checking out.
All songs listed in song title-artist-album order, and with notes about why they were chosen
Replay- Shinee- Replay- Jonghyun’s debut song, as part of Shinee in 2008
Y Si Fuera Ella (Jonghyun solo)- Shinee- The Shinee World- Jonghyun’s first solo release, as part of Shinee’s first album
Juliette- Shinee- Romeo- The first of many songs written by Jonghyun, in 2009
Crazy (Guilty Pleasure) feat. Iron- Jonghyun- Base- Jonghyun’s first release as a solo artist in 2015
Deja-Boo feat. Zion. T- Jonghyun- Base- A groovy B-side from Jonghyun’s debut solo EP
Playboy- Exo- Exodus- Written for Exo by Jonghyun, who also performed the song himself at his concerts
View- Shinee- Odd- After 6 years, the first Shinee single written by Jonghyun since Juliette
Breathe- Lee Hi- Seoulite- Written for Lee Hi by Jonghyun. One of the few instances of artists from the “Big Three” K-Pop record labels working together (Jonghyun was under SM Entertainment, Lee Hi is under YG Entertainment)
She Is- Jonghyun- She Is- The lead single from Jonghyun’s first full-length solo album
White T-Shirt- Jonghyun- She Is- A fun, dance-y B-side from the same album
Moon- Jonghyun- She Is- Another B-side from the She Is album, showcasing Jonghyun’s composition abilities and smooth falsetto
Tell Me What To Do- Shinee- 1 and 1- The last Shinee single released during Jonghyun’s life, prominently featuring his powerful vocals
Lonely feat. Taeyeon (Girls’ Generation)- Jonghyun- The Collection: Story Op.2- Jonghyun’s last single released during his life, from his second compilation album of songs originally composed for his radio show
Shinin’- Jonghyun- Poet/Artist- The lead single from Jonghyun’s posthumously released second album
Our Page- Shinee- The Story of Light- The third single from Shinee’s 10th anniversary album, their first album recorded without Jonghyun. The lyrics, written by the members, reference him and his memory
I Will Fight- Key- Face- A B-side from Shinee member Key’s debut solo album, the lyrics reference Key’s struggle following Jonghyun’s death
previous post: The Indie Underground – 12/16/18
next post: Impromptu Radio with Mitch
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The Vancouver Giants celebrate James Malm's first period goal during Friday's WHL game against the Portland WInterhawks at the Langley Events Centre. The game was Teddy Bear Toss night.
Giants double up Winterhawks
Three goals in both first and third periods help Vancouver win on Teddy Bear Toss Night at Langley Events Centre
Gary Ahuja
The fans didn’t have to wait long to litter the ice during Friday’s Teddy Bear Toss Night at the Langley Events Centre, but they did so to celebrate, not protest.
It took just 3:34 as James Malm took a pass from Hunor Torzsok and wired home the game’s first goal for the Vancouver Giants.
It was a sign of good things to come as the Giants defeated the Portland Winterhawks 6-3 in front of 4,328 fans at the LEC in Western Hockey League action.
It marked the Giants first win this season against a U.S. Division foe as they entered the contest with a dismal record of 0-8-1-1.
Friday’s victory improved Vancouver to 12-18-1-2 while Portland — which had won eight of its last 10 games — fell to 19-15-1-0.
“I have said from day one, we need everyone in our lineup to give a complete effort if we want to have success (and) I thought our guys competed,” said Giants coach Jason McKee, adding that his players fed off the home crowd’s energy.
After a 20-minute delay while the players and volunteers collected the teddy bears following Malm’s goal, it didn’t take long for the home fans to cheer again as Owen Hardy stole the puck behind the net from Portland goalie Cole Kehler and deposited the puck into the open cage.
It was Hardy’s first goal of the season.
The Winterhawks would get one back as Evan Weinger took a cross-ice feed to beat Ryan Kubic.
But before the period let out, Thomas Foster deflected a Tyler Benson shot during a two-man advantage for the 3-1 lead.
Neither team would score in the second period.
The Giants got goals from Matt Barberis and Foster with his second, 2:18 apart early in the third.
Defenceman Jeff Rayman made it 6-1 with his first of the season at the 12-minute mark, but 16 seconds later, Portland’s Alex Overhardt scored off a scramble in front of Kubic, poking home the loose puck in a pile of bodies.
Portland would cut the lead in half with a power-play goal from Skyler McKenzie with just over five minutes remaining. The Winterhawks pulled the goalie with just less than three minutes remaining but could not get another puck past Kubic.
Foster was the first star, while Malm was the second star and Vancouver captain Tyler Benson, who led the team with three assists, was the third star.
Ty Ronning finished the game with a pair of helpers.
Kubic made 31 saves as Portland outshot Vancouver 34-31.
Eighteen of those shots came in the third period and the majority of them were in the final 10 minutes, which wasn’t lost on McKee.
“I thought we controlled the game for the first 50 minutes,” he said.
“And then I thought we showed some immaturity. We started to bring pucks back into our own zone rather than going north with them.”
“At times we took way too much risk in my opinion.”
The team got away with them but it could have been a different story had they not had a five-goal cushion, the coach warned.
The Giants play their final game before the holiday break on Saturday night in Victoria against the Royals.
Hawks rally for two wins
Back-to-back wins for Giants
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by BroadwayWorld TV - Dec 12, 2008
DreamWorks Theatricals and Neal Street Productions, Ltd. are pleased to announce that SHREK THE MUSICAL will open at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway @ 53rd St) on Sunday, December 14, 2008. Preview performances began on Saturday, November 8, 2008. SHREK THE MUSICAL debuted a fun new television commercial that they shared with BWW TV, so click below and get your 'Ogre' on! (more...)
BWW TV: Broadway Beat Sneak Peek at SHREK
by Broadway Beat - Dec 15, 2008
One of the most eagerly awaited musicals of the season - Shrek The Musical - opened up on Sunday, December 14th and BroadwayWorld and Broadway Beat were at Opening Night to capture all the excitement! (more...)
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by BroadwayWorld TV - Mar 18, 2009
The talented cast came together to bring the magic of the stage show to the recording studio, BWW TV is excited to bring you 'behind the swamp' as the fairy tale score comes to life right here on BroadwayWorld.com! (more...)
'This Is Our Story: Swamp to Stage' SHREK Launches Online Video Series
by BWW News Desk - Apr 10, 2009
SHREK THE MUSICAL takes you behind-the-scenes with the launch of 'This Is Our Story: Swamp to Stage,' the 10 part online video series that follows the cast and creative team of Broadway's newest hit musical on their journey to bring this story to life on stage. (more...)
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by BroadwayWorld TV - Apr 20, 2009
SHREK THE MUSICAL takes you behind-the-scenes with the launch of This Is Our Story: Swamp to Stage, the 10 part online video series that follows the cast and creative team of Broadway's newest hit musical on their journey to bring this story to life on stage. (more...)
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STAGE TUBE: Regis Philbin Brings 'SHREK' to Late Show!
'SHREK' stopped the LATE SHOW with David Letterman last night when a costumed Regis Philbin drops by for a surprise visit with Dave! You can watch a clip right here on Stage Tube. (more...)
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by BroadwayWorld TV - May 2, 2009
During the week of April 27- May 1, 2009, top-rated morning program 'Live with Regis and Kelly' gave the show's nationwide TV audience a vicarious thrill when America's favorite co-hosts jumped into the roles of some of the best Broadway characters during 'On Broadway Week.' (more...)
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On Tuesday, June 2nd, The Cast of the Tony-nominated Best Musical SHREK THE MUSICAL performed live on CBS 'The Early Show.' Daniel Breaker with Jennifer Cody, Sarah Jane Everman and Lisa Ho sang 'Make a Move' in the 8:30-9:00 a.m. half hour. Tony-nominee Brian d'Arcy James also appeared on the show. 'The Early Show' airs nationally on CBS (channel 2, WCBS in the tri-state area). (more...)
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This morning, Tuesday, August 11th, the cast of SHREK THE MUSICAL performed live on NBC's 'The Today Show.' Sutton Foster and cast members performed 'Morning Person' in the 8:30-9:00 a.m. half hour. You can watch the segment right here on STAGE TUBE! (more...)
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SHREK THE MUSICAL announced the winners in the 'Not Your Ordinary Princess' competition, hosted by Nick.com. Laura Laureano (age 14) from Ronkonkoma, NY won the opportunity to play 'Teen Fiona' and Hannah Beatt (age 9) from Sarasota, FL won the opportunity to play 'Young Fiona' on Saturday, September 19th at 8 p.m. alongside Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster in a performance of the award-winning SHREK THE MUSICAL. (more...)
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The Kennedys with Ray Mason
SANDYWOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Tiverton, RI
THE KENNEDYS WITH opening act RAY MASON
7:30pm, doors open at 7pm
BYOB and BYOF
$15 in advance/$20 at the door
For information: sandywoodsmusic@gmail.com
sandywoodsmusic.com
The Kennedys:
Pete and Maura Kennedy, both East Coast natives, met in Austin, Texas, joined forces with Nanci Griffiths Blue Moon Orchestra for a couple of years, and set out on a road that, for two decades, has led them not only west but all over the US and the UK many times. This year, they celebrate their twentieth anniversary both as a band and a married couple. Rather than indulge in a nostalgic look backward, theyve taken Dylans dictum dont look back to heart; writing and recording forty new songs.
2015 sees a Maura solo CD, a Pete solo CD, and the release of West, an instant classic Kennedys duo set that seamlessly weaves their influences over the last two decades; Buddy Holly style roots, the tuneful cadences of the Everly Brothers, and the ringing 12-string jangle of the early Byrds, interspersed with darker moments that recall British folk rock a la Fairport Convention.
Ultimately, Pete and Maura knit these disparate threads into a coat of many colors that sounds like a best of The Kennedys, but is in reality an all-new collection of songs. The road west is central to the American mythos; its the search for musical roots and the fulfillment of a personal American dream that takes shape in songs. Two decades on, The Kennedys are hitting a songwriting high point, and from that point they follow the well-worn American path West.
Ray Mason:
Ray and his road-worn 1965 Silvertone guitar have been tirelessly touring since 1982. Starting his first band in 1966 and averaging over 100 shows a year, he's like a teenager with forty-plus years of experience! Between 1983-1990 Ray released five critically-acclaimed (cassette only) albums. He followed them with a single on his own Captivating Music label and has appeared on numerous compilations from such labels as Signature Sounds, East Side Digital, Shimmy Disc, Sound Asleep (Sweden), Dren Records, and Paisley Pop.
Throughout the years he has opened shows for NRBQ, The Band, Fountains of Wayne, the Flatlanders, Laura Cantrell, Amy Rigby, Marshall Crenshaw, Bill Morrissey, Graham Parker, Robbie Fulks, Yo La Tengo, They Might Be Giants, Steve Forbert, Chris Whitley, Nils Lofgren, Warren Zevon, Joan Osborne, Freedy Johnston, Alejandro Escovedo, Geoff Muldaur, Joan Jett, Blue Mountain, the Bottle Rockets, Junior Brown, Marah, Ass Ponys, and James McMurtry-and that's the short list!
Ray's tunes follow no trend while keeping an upward slide on the songwriting scale. It's rock with the roll! One man with his Silvertone!! Kick back and enjoy!!!
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Thank You & Farewell to Amy Author: Ned Y
Date: 6th June 2016
As many of you will know, our very dear colleague (and the original Charityworks Programme Manager) Amy Pettipher has decided to finally leave us to fend for ourselves after 6 years at Vanilla/Charityworks.
Given the typically understated manner of her departure, and the depth of affection we and many of you have for her after so many years together, I wanted to share the news (in case you hadn’t heard it) and a thank you.
Having worked with her on a desk not much bigger than our laptops while Vanilla & Charityworks as they are today were still a twinkle in Rachel’s eye, I can confirm that her glowing reputation is no accident, and that even at such close quarters she is the kindest, warmest, most generous colleague you could wish for. She also has infamously good skin, a loose grip on French, and a clip-on bungee cord for her iPhone, none of which have ever failed to astonish me.
Most of you will have known her as a key part of the programme team here, and anyone who’s been involved in Charityworks will know all about the thought, care and sheer hard work she put into making the programme as successful as possible for everyone involved with it. She’s had a consistently big impact on trainees, colleagues, mentors, clients, assessors, and trustees alike. Quite simply, the programme wouldn’t have been the same without her.
The same is true of everyone who’s worked with her here. She’s had a profound influence on our culture and our work, and I know everyone at Vanilla/Charityworks will miss her terribly. But mostly, we all know we’ve been incredibly lucky to work with her for this long, and we wish her loads of luck in whatever’s next.
She will continue to work with us on some projects, so won’t disappear entirely, but if you want to send her a message you can do so on Twitter, Linkedin or Facebook. I’m also totally happy to pass things on by email via ned@charity-works.co.uk if you need a go-between.
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3 Positions Of Need For The Patriots In The 1st Round Of The 2018 NFL Draft
By Mitchell Renz April 4, 2018
The New England Patriots dominated the regular season but came up short in the Super Bowl, showing that they still have a few chinks in their armor they need to strengthen to continue to dominate the AFC. With two first-round picks following a trade with the Rams, the Patriots are hoping to land two impact players to address those needs - or will trade up to draft a major impact player. Here are three positions of need for the Patriots in the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
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1.) Safety
New England's secondary did not live up to the expectations set at the beginning of the season when the team signed cornerback Stephon Gilmore. Last year, the Patriots allowed the fourth-most passing yards in the league with 366 per game. Devin McCourty and Patrick Chung both turn 31 in August, so drafting a safety early would be smart.
2.) Quarterback
Tom Brady is 41 years old and will no longer be the man under center for the Patriots at some point. New England traded Jimmy Garoppolo to the San Fransisco 49ers and Jacoby Brissett to the Indianapolis Colts last season, stripping them of any depth. In essence, New England went from having two solid backups to having an old veteran in Brian Hoyer.
Drafting a young and talented quarterback that can learn from Brady will benefit this team down the road and could be why they acquired another first-round pick. If they trade up, it will be to draft a signal-caller.
3.) Cornerback
The Patriots must find a starter opposite Stephon Gilmore after the Malcolm Butler fiasco. Trading for Jason McCourty gives them needed depth at the position, but he'll be 31 years old at the start of next season and isn't a viable long-term option. The cornerback class in this year's draft is very balanced with a ton of depth, which means solid options will be available to the Patriots at the end of round one.
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Emanuel tries again to start produce bus in food deserts
By Bill Ruthhart
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Angela Dejun, 33, shops for produce onboard the Fresh Moves bus parked outside the Lawndale Christian Health Center in 2012. Now the project is back. (Jose M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune)
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday took another crack at launching a produce bus project that aims to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to parts of Chicago that lack them after a similar city-backed initiative failed two years ago.
Standing on the grounds of an old Bridgeport trucking depot that has been converted into an urban agriculture farm, Emanuel re-upped one of the aspects of his effort to decrease the city's so-called food deserts.
"That used to be a book mobile," said Emanuel, pointing his thumb toward the bus as an artist spray-painted trees on the bright vehicle. "Now that bus has been rehabbed to serve and make sure communities that do not presently have access to fresh fruits and vegetables at a store, doesn't mean they don't have access to fresh fruits and vegetables in their neighborhood, in their community."
It's not the first time Emanuel has held a news conference on the issue.
In June 2012, the mayor stood with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in front of a shiny red bus to announce a federal grant for two produce buses operating under the "Fresh Moves" moniker while promising to secure funds for four more of the vehicles.
Instead, a year and a half later the two Fresh Moves buses were permanently parked with the foundation that ran them, Food Desert Action, reporting a loss of $51,502 on produce sales in 2011 and a loss of $185,520 in 2012.
This time, the mayor predicted, the new Fresh Moves venture will be more successful.
The program now is being run by Erika Allen, an Emanuel appointee to the Chicago Park District board and the director of Growing Power Chicago, an urban farming nonprofit that grows fruits and vegetables year round on 12 acres in the city. Allen will run Fresh Moves, with its first bus debuting July 18 and plans for a second bus to start up this fall.
In 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture provided a one-year grant of $45,000 to help Fresh Moves to begin operating a second bus. This year, Emanuel said Vilsack agreed to a one-year grant to serve as the seed money for the latest produce bus model. Allen said the grant is for $100,000, but she believes ultimately the bus program will largely fund itself through sales.
Asked what's different about the program this time around, Allen didn't hesitate: "We grow our own food."
Under Food Desert Action's previous business model, the foundation purchased produce and turned around and sold it on the buses, operating on thin price margins. Allen argued she has far less overhead than that previous setup since her nonprofit Growing Power, which started and still operates farms in Milwaukee, provides much of the food the bus will sell.
Allen said 90 percent of what is sold on the buses will be grown in Chicago or within 200 miles of the city, with the exception being more tropical fruits such as bananas and oranges. She said the bus also will sell salads and healthy drinks and snacks that will help generate revenue.
"The other model didn't work. I think this partnership, which is locally grown, gives you a cost advantage that I think will be significant," Emanuel said. "It doesn't mean that because one thing didn't work that you give up on the idea of making sure all neighborhoods have access to fresh fruits and vegetables."
As with the previous Fresh Moves model, Emanuel contributed an old city bus to the initiative. Previously, he sold retired CTA buses to Food Desert Action for a dollar. This time, he contributed a bus from the Chicago Public Library, but the city also is chipping in up to $110,000 in fuel and maintenance costs for the program in its first year.
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"I'm betting on Erika. I'm serious about that," Emanuel said. "At a certain point, you bet on the entrepreneur, and the other model was run by a foundation and was done different. I think Erika's business model, her determination and her leadership is a significant difference that will go from what didn't work to what will be a success that will be copied."
The Fresh Moves Mobile Market will operate year-round, Tuesday through Sunday. The first bus will start out by stopping at 13 locations on the South and West Sides with a goal of expanding to 22 stops per week. The schedule can be found at http://www.growingpower.org under "News."
bruthhart@tribpub.com
Twitter @BillRuthhart
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Final salute
By NICK BONHAM THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
It wasn't a knife, bullet or any other danger that got the best of Pueblo police officer Nicholas Heine.
In the end it was the weapon the seven-year veteran was skilled in using, not just in the line of duty, but in life: his heart.
The 30-year-old died on duty early Saturday of a congenital heart defect that neither he or his family knew about. He was running between bar disturbances Downtown when he collapsed on Victoria Street.
On Thursday at his funeral, Heine's badge-wearing brethren came from around the state to pay him a final salute.
Those who knew Heine well described him as loyal, loving, a good cop and an even better friend, husband, son and father.
For the first officer to die on duty since 1973, Pueblo gave a grand farewell to one of its finest.
An estimated crowd of 900 officers, family, friends, community leaders and citizens who Heine touched on the job attended services.
"We were not ready for him to go, but we are so thankful, Heavenly Father, to be blessed with Nick's presence and influence in our lives," Police Chief Jim Billings said in prayer. Billings, who also is an ordained minister, officiated the service held at Praise Assembly of God Church in Belmont.
Several officers close to Heine shared memories and fond words of the man they watched grow up, or whom they grew up with on the police force.
None knew him better, however, than mom. She, too is a cop.
"To my son, be my guardian angel, help me find peace. I love you very much. We will always be the mother and son police . . . team," said Detective Pat Heine, a 19-year veteran of the force.
Occasionally blending humor into her comments, Pat Heine expressed thanks and appreciation to everyone who has aided her and family since her son died.
Nick Heine leaves behind a wife of seven years, Melissa; and daughters Nichole, 7, and Rebecca, 4. He also is survived by a younger brother, Jason Heine, 28.
Pat Heine asked her fellow officers to help her, Melissa and Jason in telling younger generations of their family about their lost loved one.
"Make sure you never forget the children who need to know what a good man Nicholas was," she said. "Nichole, Rebecca and Jason Jr., need to hear all the Nicholas stories - although I would prefer that some of them be censored until they are old enough."
Detectives James Martin, Kevin Buck and Dave Beshany knew Nick Heine. Primarily a graveyard officer assigned to the East Side, Heine spent a stint working with the three detectives in investigations while he recovered from a job-related knee injury.
The group were friends long before, though. Together they went on hunting trips, coached in a youth football league, hosted barbecues, hung out together with their families on the holidays.
"Nick Heine was a gentleman, a good, decent, honorable man, husband, father, son and a fine police officer," Buck said. "It was a privilege having him as a friend and colleague. "It's impossible to summarize a life in a few pages, but Nick's life was one well lived. Good men must die, but death cannot kill their name. We love you, Nick."
Heine liked working with kids. He was set to coach his first season with the Roncalli Shamrocks in the Runyon Football League.
A music lover, Nick Heine never played football at Central High School, where he graduated in 1995. He went to the University of Northern Colorado and majored in music, but while he was there he managed to walk on to the Bears football team. He played special teams for a year.
Heine was going to help his close friend, Martin, coach the Shamrocks this season.
"He will be with us on the field for every practice and game. We're dedicating our season to him," Martin said.
Football may have been new in his life, but music was still bigger. Heine enjoyed punk rock and telling co-workers about the guitar skills of his younger brother.
"I was pretty shocked today when we pulled up (to the church) and saw way too many cop cars," Jason Heine said to laughter. "I'm just glad (Nick Heine) affected so many people. I always said I want to be tough like my older brother. Now, things are a little different, but it's OK, we're all in this together."
Being a graveyard officer, it was fitting that members of his crew - the North Crew on Watch 3, as it's called - were honorary pallbearers.
One of those officers is Cpl. Kenny Rhodes. A former partner of Pat Heine, Rhodes knew Nick since his childhood. With long, red hair and tons of freckles, the young Heine resembled Opie, a character on "The Andy Griffith Show," Rhodes said.
"Nick seemed interested in becoming a police officer, but he still reminded me of Opie," Rhodes said jokingly. "Little did I know that he would become one of the best officers on the department. Nick never backed down from a fight. He never left one of us hanging on a call. Nick always had our backs."
He added: "He'll never back down from loving us and he'll always, always, watch our backs."
After the funeral, officer Heine hit the streets with his fellow officers one last time.
An estimated 200 police cars, motorcycle units, fire trucks, ambulances and other rescue equipment with flashing overhead lights paraded through Pueblo to Roselawn Cemetery in Blende.
The procession stretched for miles. The route was dotted with onlookers, some who displayed American flags, some who wiped tears from their eyes.
From Belmont the procession snaked through town and past police headquarters on Main Street, where an American flag waved from the extended ladders of two fire trucks.
Citizens and officers lined both sides of the arch and saluted or covered their heart as Heine's hearse and the motorcade rolled through.
At the cemetery, American flags were presented to Heine's mother and widow.
With the presentation of the flags, Billings told the two women: "This is presented on behalf of the men and women of the Pueblo Police Department and a grateful community in honor of Nick."
Officers stood at attention for a 21-gun salute, the playing of taps and the bagpipe-rendition of "Amazing Grace," which managed to move even the most grizzled Pueblo cops in attendance.
Then came the final call.
"Unit 322 is 10-42," a police dispatcher said over an intercom.
Heine's call sign was Unit 322. The code "10-42" signals when an officer finishes a shift or has finished a tour of duty.
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