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Senate notes
Max Baucus is new ambassador to China
Montana Sen. Max Baucus was elevated to ambassador to China Thursday by his Senate colleagues. They confirmed his nomination by President Obama on a vote of 96-0. Nebraska Sens. Deb Fischer and Mike Johanns voted for Baucus, a Democrat who served nearly 36 years in the Senate. Baucus voted “present” on his nomination. Not voting were Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, and Kansas Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran.
Unemployment extension fails again, Johanns and Fischer opposed
The Senate fell one vote shy Thursday of moving ahead on legislation that would have renewed extended unemployment benefits for 1.7 million Americans. Nebraska Sens. Mike Johanns and Deb Fischer, both Republicans, voted against the extension.
S. 1845 picked up four “yes” votes from Republicans, but failed 58-40. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the 59th vote, changed his “yes” vote to “no” to preserve the bill’s procedural status as eligible for reconsideration.
It was the Senate’s second failed attempt to renew extended unemployment benefits since they expired Dec. 28.
The $6.4 billion extension was negotiated between Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Dean Heller of Nevada. Heller, Collins, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska provided the extension’s only Republican “yes” votes.
The latest extension attempt would have been paid for through changes in the federal retirement programs, known as “pension smoothing.” Republicans have no objection to pension smoothing, but would rather use the money to restore small cuts in cost of living adjustments in military retiree benefits.
An attempt to pass a three-month extension that would not be paid for also failed Thursday, 55-43. It was also opposed by Sens. Johanns and Fischer.
States individually determine the length and amount of unemployment benefits, but Congress commonly extends unemployment benefits in period of high unemployment. These extensions are paid for by the federal government.
Nebraska Senate candidate Dinsdale would be third richest member of Congress
Using data from Roll Call and financial disclosure forms, the Omaha World-Herald is reporting that banking executive and Republican Senate candidate Sid Dinsdale would be at least the third wealthiest member of Congress if elected today. His competitors in the race for Sen. Mike Johanns’ seat are far from poor, but none has wealth even approaching that level.
Dinsdale, chairman of the Pinnacle bank holding company started by his family, is worth at least $110 million, according to the World-Herald, but could be worth much more because assets are reported in broad categories. He would rank third in Congress behind Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican from California, who is worth at least $335 million, and might surpass Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who is worth at least $114 million. Issa made his fortune in car alarms. McCaul married into one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies.
February 7, 2014 NebraskANN Deb Fischer, Mike Johanns, Nebraska politics, Nebraska Senate race, Sid Dinsdale
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The clown car arrived in town. Not surprised our senators popped out of the car when it stopped.
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HomeENTERTAINMENT.‘Why I Chose Seyi Shay To Play The Role Of Delilah’ – Adekunle Gold
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‘Why I Chose Seyi Shay To Play The Role Of Delilah’ – Adekunle Gold
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posted on Sep. 08, 2018 at 5:17 pm
Nigerian Singer, Adekunle Gold finally speaks on his choice of seyi shay playing the role of delilah in his new music video.
RELATED: [VIDEO] Adekunle Gold – Damn Delilah
In the video for the song, ‘Damn Delilah,’ one of the tracks on Gold’s About 30 album and which depicts the situation of a cheating spouse, Shay is featured as the love interest of Gold.
In a message to fans, Gold said the choice of Seyi Shay was tied to her stature as a “strong, beautiful, independent woman.”
According to him, “since I love strong, beautiful independent women, there was no one else better than Seyi Shay to ask to create this for you.
“I am so grateful to her.
She is undeniably the most receptive, down to earth and exciting people to work with.
“Delilah was meant to empower men (everyone really) to speak about their heartbreak, something that taboo with us.
“I hope this treat inspires women (everyone too) to end the chase quickly if they aren’t into each other.”
Following the release of the video, Shay has put out a response-song titled ‘Delilah’s Tale’ which has lyrics like: “I never said I was looking for love, in your head we were a thing but it was only a fling.”
According to her, ‘Delilah’s Tale’ is an opportunity to tell the same story from a second perspective.
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About We Make Places
We Make Places is a Community Interest Company, based in Liverpool, UK which is writing, living and delivering a manifesto for change across the built environment.
We help communities of interest and locality to develop sustainable projects. These projects are about reconsidering ignored, underused or condemned places in a new light, allowing them to rise again becoming healthy, happy, active and loved.
As Designers, Communicators and Makers we make long-term change happen with speed and passion
We also help commercial and third sector clients to identify and communicate with their stakeholders regarding public space projects, public art and capital investments.
We Make Places CIC
Community Build at WECC
July 31, 2017 Things We Want to Talk About, We Make Places Projectscommunity build, We Make Places, WECC
The day after The Maverick City symposium was an important one for We Make Places and West Everton Community Council……we had decided that this year, our symposium would give something back to one of the communities we work with in Liverpool.
We invited the speakers and the audience from The Maverick City to join us for a day of community building at WECC and during the weeks before we asked local businesses to donate pallets that we could strip and use to make furniture on site.
Our team was very international as it included most of our speakers and during the day a few of the audience joined in too. We had people from Chicago, Rio, Latvia, Italy, The Netherlands and Liverpool involved.
It was one of the most moving projects we have worked on – at some point during the day everyone cried, with humility, compassion and joy. This was about so many things…….individuals making new connections, learning new skills they could take back to their own communities, leaving a gift for a community that felt neglected and the rebirth of ambition and hope.
Read a couple of accounts of the day from participants below and have a look at some of our favourite photos.
1st task – breaking pallets
There’s lots of materials to strip
Tiago and Jurrien working on their Drilling skills
Carron perfecting her Sawing technique
There’s a sofa emerging
Time for lunch and music
Afternoon Design Review
We need a roof
Sometimes the client needs a hug
A Playground of Activity
Where shall we put this Sofa?
It’s ace inside this hut we refurbished
One of the finished sofas
Happy Team and Client
A happy Ann with our after work treat
Community Build project reflections by Chiara Organtini
On the Saturday we packed all our energy and headed as early birds to West Everton, where We Make Places recently opened a workshop to support their brand new Urban Workbench project led Angelo Madonna, a multidisciplinary artist. This project is a learning hub for communities and people that can gain the skills and ability to reshape their own spaces by learning DIY skills and collaborative attitudes.
As I directly experienced, Urban Workbench is a way to empower people, enable the grass roots process of urban regeneration or the reclaiming of spaces by changing peoples thoughts, skills and the way they see things and relate to one another.
We spent the day at West Everton Community Council with a group of community members and stakeholders to make outdoor benches for their courtyard so to make the space alive, visible and enjoyable for elderly people, children and others visiting the centre. West Everton Community Council is a resident led organisation that advocates for residents to ensure they have a voice at all levels, also identifying and responding to all issues that directly affect the whole community.
While there, the community members told us about the story of the place and the recent fire that damaged part of the building and the story of Everton also in regards to the new project in Great Homer Street (Project Jennifer) that will create a new hub of activity in North Liverpool and will act as a catalyst for the wider redevelopment of this part of the city. Their role as a community organisation is to ensure a balanced regeneration process where bricks are not more important that people and where quality of life and community relationships are equally taken into account.
I felt enriched by the idea we could give a small contribution to the improvement of the future of this valuable organisation.
The whole day was a collective creative workshop, teaming up according to tasks and projects in-between excitement, release of energies and ideas, frustrations also for not being perfectly able to do all the work. This doing affected of course also my thinking and I realized the importance of creating infrastructure for participation, leaving spaces for the people, and giving tools to people to make their own spaces.
During the day I found my self hammering, sawing, breaking pallets: I wanted to achieve results without knowing how, I wanted to get the final result without observing listening to the shape of the object the material and the group as I was so anxious to make a big contribution to this community centre.
Then I started to be more in flow, streaming with the group, listening and observing what was around me and in the object we were creating. This adjustable navigation is indeed one of the principles I try to apply in my daily work in project management and this level of openness is crucial to inject oxygen and keep our action alive and in tune with the surrounding situation. Making together is really a way to reset minds and bodies, shifting the focus on a common goal, sharing reponsibilities and forgetting our egos and assumptions: we entered a land where collaboration, creativity and reactions where the keywords and a perfect receipt for new ideas.
This afternoon, besides giving new benches to the community, above all gave me confidence and changed how I think about me and the possibility I have to impact being a reflective practicionner, acting thinking and adjusting the navigation beyond the simple planning.
Afterwards
My experience in Liverpool still resonates in my body and in my head, and is more a patchwork of diverse areas of the city that speak about a complexity that merge opposites stories from gentrification to regeneration. But above all I still have a gallery of voices and faces that feed me with inspirations: Kate makes magic happen, she creates a perfect mix of people and then let the process goes.
There is a precise moment I remember: when I was taught how to use a handsaw; in that movement I felt like I was playing the violin, not as gently as Tiago does but in the effort of learning: in that moment it was like I was cutting away my fears and the limits I imposed myself.
Some people are like stars: what keeps them alive is the balance between the energy they get while releasing their own light.
My adventure started thinking about sky and close dreaming about Space this has been one of those adventure that can really open up horizons.
Chiara Organtini is an art worker active in project management and creative processes facilitation currently based in Terni, Italy. With her organisation Indisciplinarte she is engaged in the organisation of Terni international performing arts festival and in the curation of CAOS centro arti opificio siri, a multidisciplinary arts center and creative hub born from the renovation of an industrial space. Her mission is to activate and enable uncanny connections pursuing a vision of arts as generator of change
Community Build Reflections by Evija Taurene
West Everton Community Council waited for us to get our hands dirty in action. We gathered, had a quick coffee and 10 minutes of planning, and jumped straight to work. The initial idea was to create whatever furniture they needed to liven up a large asphalt area in front of the former neighbourhood school from pallet’s donated by local businesses. Basically, we were the first group launching the “Urban Workbench” open community build session, and we loved it!
The asphalt field was filled with drilling and sawing noises, conversations and laughs all through the day. Some had their first ever experience of taking a drill or a saw in hand, some were more experienced and were happy to share skills, some had the best design ideas and others were just happily observing or taking photos, which is an equally important job. In the end, thanks to Angelo’s thoughtful mentoring process, we managed to make two wonderful benches and restore and improve a children’s seating pod which we are truly proud of.
The highlight of the day though was the lunch break, when violinist Tiago wanted to share his music with us, so he played “Imagine” by John Lennon. I must say, there was no person in the room who would not feel lifted.
Leaving Liverpool
Now I can say, that the opportunity to experience Liverpool, The Maverick City Symposium, the community build project and to meet Kate and “We Make Places” in their own environment, has not only widened my understanding of local contexts and given a real interaction opportunity with the local change actors, but it has also taught me practical skills to use later in my own work in Latvia, Cēsis. However, the most valuable thing about the visit, was the ablility to leave something behind for the city and the local community.
So, in what way is Liverpool maverick? The question is easy to answer, as behind every blooming, dynamic, bold and different city stands its people and its communities. And Liverpool can certainly be proud of its people, especially those behind “We Make Places”, who are willing to put in time and resources to work for the mission of strengthening communities. But most importantly – they do it in an inclusive, integrated and their-own-kind-of-crazy-creative way, which makes them…well, maverick.
Evija Taurene is an urban planner and activist with a passion for creative cities, urban regeneration, citizen engagement, & digital economy. She currently works as a project manager and citizen engagemet officer in Cēsis municipality administration, in Latvia.
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An illustrated history
West System International has been working in partnership with Gougeon Brothers for more than 30 years, manufacturing and distributing WEST SYSTEM® and PRO-SET® epoxy products throughout Europe, Africa and parts of Asia. With Gougeon Brothers extensive knowledge going back over 50 years we know that we have the most complete database and knowledge on the use of epoxy available on the market today. Now, the WEST SYSTEM and PRO-SET ranges developed by the Gougeon Brothers, are the epoxies of choice for naval engineers, boat manufacturers, chandlers and private boat owners throughout the world. Follow their journey in epoxy innovation right from the early days in their Michigan boatyard in this illustrated history.
The Gougeon brothers – Meade, Joel and Jan – grew up building and racing wooden boats on Lake Huron, Michigan, in the United States. They raced on water in the summer and on ice in the winter. In the 1960s they began building boats professionally and experimented with practical, low-cost and versatile methods of construction.
Fast and strong
They wanted to build fast, lightweight boats that were tough and strong enough to survive the high loads of hard racing. With limited time and money, their methods couldn’t be fussy or expensive.
The power of epoxy
The answer lay in a recent development of epoxide resins and hardeners. These were solvent-free and – crucially for boatbuilding – formed an exceptionally good barrier against both water and oxygen, which cause wood rot.
Puncturing myths
As if to prove a point, here is a photo of ‘Adagio’: built in wood epoxy composite by Meade Gougeon, this catamaran is lighter today than it was when Meade built it in 1968, providing first hand proof of the exceptional qualities and benefits of using WEST SYSTEM epoxy.
Flexibility and strength
Realising that a boat’s ability to withstand a single impact was not as important as its long-term resistance to the daily assaults of wind and water, the brothers set about the task of modifying the epoxy formulations until they found the best balance between many crucial factors including flexibility, moisture resistance and high strength.
Safe working practices
The brothers honed their techniques to reduce labour and, at the same time, to establish safe handling procedures for the new epoxy system. Just as they aimed for a balance between cured physical properties, so they looked for – and found – formulations that were effective and low in toxicity.
Extreme testing
We began marketing WEST SYSTEM® epoxy and associated products in 1982; Gougeon Brothers began 10 years earlier. Since then, we have continued to improve our methods and materials. WEST SYSTEM epoxy has always been strong, but it was only through intensive test programmes that we discovered the true extent of its physical properties, and in particular the ability to withstand repeated loads.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, It was not long before boatbuilding techniques were applied to volume production of high-quality aerofoils in other industries. By the 1980s, Gougeon Brothers had become a leading manufacturer of laminated wind turbine blades, thus gaining further invaluable experience and knowledge on the performance of WEST SYSTEM epoxy.
The industry standard
The methods first developed by the Gougeon brothers using WEST SYSTEM® epoxy have become the standard techniques taught in colleges the world over for building boats with epoxy.
Introducing PRO-SET
Half a century on, our product lines have all the epoxide resins, hardeners and associated ancillary products to produce strong, moisture and fatigue-resistant epoxies suitable for an extremely wide range of common and specialist applications. Our continuous commitment to research and development has led to the development of improved high-density fillers for gaps and low-density fillers for simple sanding. The epoxy formulations have been fine-tuned to work well in different conditions and climates. And our PRO-SET® range has set the bar for the world’s most demanding, high-tolerance professional composite applications.
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Athletes recommit to fitness with summer training
Libby Arnosti
For nine months of the year, groups of sweaty varsity athletes can be spotted frequenting the weight room, pool and gym as they build strength for their athletic seasons. But as the school year ends, these teammates will scatter into internships and jobs everywhere from Seattle to South Africa, and each will take on the responsibility of maintaining their fitness over the summer.
For some athletes, playing or coaching their sport will be the entire focus of their summer.
“Summer is by no means the end of baseball for us,” said first-year baseball pitcher Dakota Matherly, who will be playing for the Utah Baseball Academy near his home in Park City, Utah. Many of these teams are coached by DI or professional coaches, which gives the players a chance to make significant improvements in their technique over the summer.
“Almost all of the players in our program will be taking part in one of these summer teams,” Matherly said.
Athletes like sophomore golfer Caitlin Holland, who plans to return to her summer job at a local golf course in Puyallup, Wash., have the benefit of daily access to the facilities necessary to train for their sport.
“I will be practicing before or after my shifts, and taking a lesson here and there from the pros at the golf course, which will keep my swing finely tuned,” said Holland.
For others, athletics will be put on the back burner as they pursue other interests over the summer.
“This summer is going to be the first time since I was six that I will not be swimming competitively,” said sophomore swimmer Charlotte Graham, who will be interning at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand for the entirety of the summer.
“Last year I went home and trained with my club team 21 hours a week,” she said. “But this year I am going to have virtually no pool access.”
Graham plans to keep herself fit by running and doing core strength work alongside her twin sister, a swimmer at Claremont McKenna College, while in Chiang Mai.
Coaches take on different roles in monitoring their athletes’ training during these summer months. Head cross country coach Scott Shields will be testing the effectiveness of Training Peaks, an online mileage tracker, which will be able to give individual feedback and workout plans to his runners throughout the summer. Other coaches allow individual players to determine the training style that benefits them most.
“At our end of season meetings people really determine what’s best for them to meet their goals for next year. For some people that’s absolutely getting a total break, or doing just fitness, not tennis. For other people it’s playing a lot of tennis,” said head women’s tennis coach John Hein.
However, maintaining some kind of fitness is essential for improvement in the coming year.
“The hours that I put in or don’t put in will directly affect the results of my season next year,” summed up junior basketball player David Michaels, who will be working this summer for the Walla Walla Sweets baseball team and training in his spare time.
For student athletes who are interested in other extracurriculars, sports cannot always be a number-one priority. Nevertheless, they are prepared to work hard in the fall to compensate for lower intensity summer training.
“When I return to Whitman [from a summer study abroad program in South Africa], I am prepared to work very hard to get back into shape by getting on a weight-lifting program and playing tennis as much as possible,” said sophomore Alyssa Roberg, Whitman’s top women’s tennis player.
“I think with the right training it’s definitely manageable,” said Graham of getting in shape for the start of the swim season.
Athletes are ultimately responsible for keeping up their fitness during the off-season, when coaches are not allowed to hold mandatory practices; this is something that head swim coach Jenn Blomme tries to impress upon her swimmers to motivate them for off-season training.
“We can’t just take six months off and then show up in September and expect to be where we were,” she said.
“I see the summer as a continuation of what is essentially a year-round deal,” said sophomore cross-country runner Taylor Mesojednik, who will be interning at the Swedish Hospital’s Cardiology department in his home city of Seattle, and taking advantage of the many hills in the area to further his fitness. “The intensity ebbs and flows but the running never stops.”
Blomme echoes Mesojednik’s point:
“So much of the potential for success in the coming season is going to hinge on what happens between March and September.”
Tags: Blomme, Grad Issue, Graham, Hein, holland, Matherly, Mesojednik, Michaels, Roberg, shields, Whitman Varsity Athletics
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Revision as of 13:50, 22 June 2016 by Zcorpan (talk | contribs) (→What happens with WHATWG mailing list discussions?: Update for discussions at GitHub)
1 The WHATWG
1.1 What is the WHATWG?
1.2 What is the WHATWG working on?
1.3 How can I get involved?
1.4 Is participation free?
1.5 Is there a Code of Conduct?
2 The WHATWG Process
2.1 How does the WHATWG work?
2.2 What happens with WHATWG mailing list/GitHub issue discussions?
2.3 How should tool developers, screen reader developers, browser vendors, search engine vendors, and other implementors interact with the WHATWG?
2.4 Is there a process for removing bad ideas from a specification?
2.5 Is there a process for adding new features to a specification?
2.6 Should I send new proposed text when I have a suggestion?
2.7 What does "Living Standard" mean?
2.8 Does that mean the specifications can change at any time?
2.9 What's the patent story for WHATWG standards?
2.10 What is the process for translating WHATWG standards?
3.1 What is HTML?
3.2 What is HTML5?
3.3 How do I validate my pages?
3.4 What parts of the specification are stable?
3.5 Will future browsers have any idea what older HTML documents mean?
3.6 How are developers to determine when certain parts of their pages will become invalid?
3.7 How can I keep track of changes to the spec?
3.8 What are the various versions of the HTML spec?
3.9 Are there versions of the HTML specification aimed specifically at authors/implementors?
3.10 When will we be able to start using these new features?
3.11 When will HTML5 be finished?
3.12 What's this I hear about 2022?
3.13 What about Microsoft and Internet Explorer?
3.14 Is design rationale documented?
4 HTML syntax issues
4.1 Will HTML finally put an end to the XHTML as text/html debate?
4.2 What is the DOCTYPE for modern HTML documents?
4.3 Under what conditions should a DOCTYPE be used in XHTML?
4.4 How are documents from HTML4 and earlier versions parsed?
4.5 If there is no DTD, how can I validate my page?
4.6 What is an HTML Serialization?
4.7 What is an XML (or XHTML) Serialization?
4.8 What MIME type does HTML use?
4.9 Should I close empty elements with /> or >?
4.10 If I’m careful with the syntax I use in my HTML document, can I process it with an XML parser?
4.11 What is the namespace declaration?
4.12 Will there be support for namespaces in HTML?
4.13 How do I specify the character encoding?
4.14 What are the differences between HTML and XHTML?
4.15 What are best practices to be compatible with HTML DOM and XHTML DOM?
4.16 Why does this new HTML spec legitimise tag soup?
5 HTML feature proposals
5.1 HTML should support href on any element!
5.2 HTML should support list headers!
5.3 HTML should support a way for anyone to invent new elements!
5.4 HTML should group <dt>s and <dd>s together in <di>s!
5.5 Why are some presentational elements like <b>, <i> and <small> still included?
5.5.1 But they are PRESENTATIONAL!
5.6 The <cite> element should allow names of people to be marked up
5.7 Where's the harm in adding—
6 WHATWG and the W3C HTML WG
6.1 Are there plans to merge the groups?
6.2 Which group has authority in the event of a dispute?
6.3 Isn't it bad that the specs have forked?
6.4 What is the history of HTML?
7 Using HTML
7.1 Do you have any hints on how to use <section> and <article> and so on?
8 Other specifications
8.1 What ever happened to...?
9.1 +1
9.2 Making Outlook quote email messages properly
9.3 Should I top-post or reply inline?
The WHATWG
What is the WHATWG?
The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a growing community of people interested in evolving the Web. It focuses primarily on the development of HTML and APIs needed for Web applications.
The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors. So, in response, these organisations set out with a mission to address these concerns and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group was born.
What is the WHATWG working on?
The WHATWG's main focus is Web standards, specifically:
HTML, which also includes Web Workers, Web Storage, the Web Sockets API, Server-Sent Events, Microdata, and the 2D Canvas.
Fetch, including the fetch() API
DOM, including DOM Events, DOM range, and mutation observers
URLs, including an API for URLs
...and a number of other specs.
There are lots of ways you can get involved, take a look and see What you can do!
This video from Domenic Denicola is a good introduction to working with standards bodies.
Is participation free?
Yes, everyone can contribute. There are no memberships fees involved, it's an open process. You may easily participate on GitHub or subscribe to the WHATWG mailing lists. There are no meetings, since meetings prevent people with limited time or money from participating.
Is there a Code of Conduct?
Yes, see Code of Conduct. Please read it and respect it.
The WHATWG Process
How does the WHATWG work?
People collaborate on GitHub or send email to the mailing list.
Each standard has one or more editors, who are responsible for dealing with feedback for that document. Those editors read all the feedback, and, taking it into account along with research, studies, and feedback from many other sources (blogs, forums, IRC, etc.) make language design decisions intended to address everyone's needs as well as possible while keeping the languages and APIs consistent.
This continues, with people sending more feedback, until nobody is able to convince the relevant editor to change the spec any more (e.g., because two people want opposite things, and the editor has considered all the information available and decided that one of the two proposals is the better one).
For new features, or significant changes to the processing models, the relevant editor will typically describe the intended changes in the relevant bug or mailing list thread to give people a chance to point out problems with it before the spec is updated. Implementors, especially, are urged to indicate on such threads whether they approve of the suggested changes or new feature, so that we can avoid the spec containing material which implementors are later found to disagree with.
This is not a consensus-based approach — there's no guarantee that everyone will be happy! There is also no voting. There is a small oversight committee (known historically as the "WHATWG members", from the name that the original charter used, though that terminology is misleading) who have the authority to override or replace editors if they start making bad decisions, but so far that has never happened in over ten years. This committee has a private mailing list, but it receives very few messages, usually going years with no emails at all. Discussions on that list are summarized and described on the public list, to make sure everyone is kept up to date.
What happens with WHATWG mailing list/GitHub issue discussions?
On the WHATWG list and in WHATWG issues on GitHub, the burden is on the spec editors to evaluate the various positions that have been put forward in a discussion, and figure out which one is strongest (or find another position that strikes a better balance between all of them).
The purpose of debate at the WHATWG therefore isn't to convince everyone; it is to put forward the arguments that exist, so that the relevant editor can make a well-informed decision. As a corollary: If some points are made, rebutted, and not further defended, then maybe the person making the arguments is hoping that the relevant editor will consider the rebuttals weak, or thinks that the argument they have presented is strong despite the rebuttals. If you find someone is not making good arguments, or is ignoring your arguments, your best bet is to stop responding. Repeating previously-stated arguments doesn't help, since the editors will see all the arguments when they look at the thread. Similarly, as soon as threads start being meta-threads about people's argumentation behaviour, we stop making any kind of useful progress, since that isn't input that can help the decision-making process later.
How should tool developers, screen reader developers, browser vendors, search engine vendors, and other implementors interact with the WHATWG?
File an issue on the relevant standard as indicated at the top of that standard. All feedback is supposed to be addressed in due course. You are also welcome to take a stab at addressing the problem yourself through a GitHub pull request.
If you want feedback to be dealt with faster than "eventually", e.g., because you are about to work on that feature and need the spec to be updated to take into account all previous feedback, let the editors know by either emailing them, or contacting them on IRC. Requests for priority feedback handling are handled confidentially if desired so other implementers won't know that you are working on that feature.
Is there a process for removing bad ideas from a specification?
There are several processes by which we trim weeds from the specifications.
Occasionally, we go through every section and mark areas as being considered for removal. This happened early in 2008 with the data templates, repetition blocks, and DFN-element cross references, for example. If no feedback is received to give us strong reasons to keep such features, then they eventually are removed altogether.
Anyone can ask for a feature to be removed; such feedback is considered like all other feedback and is based on the merits of the arguments put forward. If it's been a few years and there's no implementation, and no vendor is showing any interest in eventually implementing that section; or if it's a section that browsers previously implemented but where the momentum shows that browsers are actually removing support, then it is highly likely that the request to remove the section will be honoured. (Sometimes, a warning is first placed in the spec, as with showModalDialog().)
If browsers don't widely implement a feature, or if authors don't use a feature, or if the uses of the feature are inconsequential or fundamentally wrong or damaging, then, after due consideration, features will be removed.
Removing features is a critical part of spec development.
Is there a process for adding new features to a specification?
The process is rather informal, but basically boils down to this:
Forget about the particular solution you have in mind! Solution time is later!
Write down a description of the underlying problem you're trying to solve. What are the use cases? A use case is an actual user wanting to do something. Then list requirements for each use case. For a good example of how to do this, see this email.
Get more people involved. Open a new issue in whatwg/html on GitHub that describes the use cases and their requirements. Ask fellow Web developers about their opinions (but remind them of step 1 above). Adjust the list of use cases and requirements as appropriate. Say which use cases are important and which are just nice to have.
Optionally, your work is done at this point. If you have done a good job of the above steps and convinced other people that your use case is an important one to solve, they can do the remaining steps. (On the flip side, if nobody else cares about the use case, chances are solutions for it will not succeed despite being awesome.)
Research existing solutions. Come up with new solutions. Try to keep the solutions as simple as possible, maybe only addressing the important use cases and leaving the nice to have use cases for later (when there's implementation experience). Send this list of solutions, old and new, as a comment on the feature's issue. Ask browser vendors for feedback. Maybe some particular solutions don't fit with the browser's architecture, optimizations, etc., and just are not going to be implemented no matter how much you like them. Strike those solutions and don't grieve about the loss!
Evaluate how well each of the remaining solutions address each use case and how well they meet the requirements. This step should show which solution is the technically best fit (might turn out to be someone else's solution).
Ask the spec's editor to put that solution in the spec, or create a pull request on GitHub yourself. Possibly your text won't be taken verbatim but will be written in a style that is more suitable for implementors or better hooks in to the rest of the spec, etc.
Ask browser vendors to implement the newly specified solution, even if it's just an experimental implementation. This implementation experience usually means that new problems are found with the solution that need to be addressed, or that a different solution is actually better.
Write a test suite for the feature to see if the implementations match the spec. This usually highlights bugs in the implementations and also bugs in the spec.
Participate in subsequent design discussions. When there are two or more mature implementations, it may be time to extend the feature to address the nice to have use cases (but this whole process should be repeated even for such extensions).
If the idea survives the above design process, the spec will be eventually updated to reflect the new design. Implementations will then be updated to reflect the new design (if they aren't, that indicates the new design is not good, and it will be reworked or removed). The spec will be updated to fix the many problems discovered by authors and implementors, over a period of several years, as more authors and implementors are exposed to the design. Eventually, a number of provably interoperable implementations are deployed. At this point development of the feature is somewhat frozen.
Writing a comprehensive test suite is also an important step, which can even start before implementations start being written to the spec. Cross-browser tests for HTML are maintained in w3c/web-platform-tests/html on GitHub.
Should I send new proposed text when I have a suggestion?
Please do not suggest new text, instead, say what is wrong with the current text. Just proposing new text makes it impossible for the editor to determine if the problem is endemic (requiring more changes than you realise), or whether what the editor thinks of as mistakes in the new proposed text are intentional or not (and should be fixed or not), or whether stylistic differences are intentional or not, etc.
What does "Living Standard" mean?
The WHATWG specifications are described as Living Standards. This means that they are standards that are continuously updated as they receive feedback, either from Web designers, browser vendors, tool vendors, or indeed any other interested party. It also means that new features get added to them over time, at a rate intended to keep the specifications a little ahead of the implementations but not so far ahead that the implementations give up.
Despite the continuous maintenance, or maybe we should say as part of the continuing maintenance, a significant effort is placed on getting the specifications and the implementations to converge — the parts of the specification that are mature and stable are not changed willy nilly. Maintenance means that the days where the specifications are brought down from the mountain and remain forever locked, even if it turns out that all the browsers do something else, or even if it turns out that the specification left some detail out and the browsers all disagree on how to implement it, are gone. Instead, we now make sure to update the specifications to be detailed enough that all the implementations (not just browsers, of course) can do the same thing. Instead of ignoring what the browsers do, we fix the spec to match what the browsers do. Instead of leaving the specification ambiguous, we fix the the specification to define how things work.
Does that mean the specifications can change at any time?
The specifications do not change arbitrarily: we are extremely careful! As parts of a specification mature, and implementations ship, the spec cannot be changed in backwards-incompatible ways (because the implementors would never agree to break compatibility unless for security reasons). The specifications are never complete, since the Web is continuously evolving. The last time HTML was described as "complete" was after HTML4, when development stopped for several years, leading to stagnation. (If the Web is replaced by something better and dies, the HTML spec will die with it.)
What's the patent story for WHATWG standards?
The WHATWG operates as a W3C Community Group and thus uses the W3C Community Group patent policies. So far we have published one FSA with patent commitments from Google, Mozilla, and others covering the URL standard. You can make patent commitments too! Some of our specifications have also been forked and republished by the W3C with patent commitments from certain companies.
What is the process for translating WHATWG standards?
Many WHATWG standards have been translated into other languages by the WHATWG community. This is great, and highly encouraged!
In general, if you translate a WHATWG Standard, please communicate with the maintainers of the standard (e.g. via a GitHub issue) letting them know about your work. In general this will lead to adding a link to your translation to the top of the original specification, to allow interested readers to view it. You can see examples of this in many WHATWG standards, e.g. https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/.
Such translations are not normative (i.e., implementations should be sure to consult the original). Due to the nature of living standards, which can change often, it's possible for translations to become out of date compared to the original standard. If the translation shows signs of no longer being maintained, or has other quality problems, community members are encouraged to provide feedback to the maintainers of the standard, so that any links to the translation can be removed in order to avoid confusing readers.
Note that WHATWG specifications are always licensed under liberal licenses that allow the creation of derivative works like translations.
What is HTML?
HTML is one of the standards being worked on by the WHATWG community. It is a new version of HTML4, XHTML1, and DOM Level 2 HTML addressing many of the issues of those specifications while at the same time enhancing (X)HTML to more adequately address Web applications. Besides defining a markup language that can be written in both HTML and XML (XHTML) it also defines many APIs that form the basis of the Web architecture. Some of these APIs were known as "DOM Level 0" and were never documented before, yet are extremely important for browser vendors to support existing Web content and for authors to be able to build Web applications.
What is HTML5?
Going forward, the WHATWG is just working on "HTML", without worrying about version numbers. When people talk about HTML5 in the context of the WHATWG, they usually mean just "the latest work on HTML", not necessarily a specific version. For more details, see the section called "Is this HTML5?" in the specification.
How do I validate my pages?
Use a validator.
What parts of the specification are stable?
The whole specification is more or less stable except where there are big messages pointing out some unresolved issue. (These are pretty rare.) There are some parts of the spec that describe new technology that has not yet been implemented, but at this point these additions are only added after the design itself is pretty stable.
(In practice, implementations all follow the latest specification drafts anyway, not so-called "finished" snapshots. The problem with following a snapshot is that you end up following something that is known to be wrong. That's obviously not the way to get interoperability! This has in fact been a real problem at the W3C, where mistakes are found and fixed in the editors' drafts of specifications, but implementors who aren't fully engaged in the process go and implement obsolete snapshots instead, including those bugs, without realising the problems, and resulting in differences between the browsers.)
Will future browsers have any idea what older HTML documents mean?
Browsers do not implement HTML+, HTML2, HTML3.2 HTML4, HTML4.01, etc, as separate versions. They all just have a single implementation that covers all these versions at once. That is what the WHATWG HTML specification defines: how to write a browser (or other implementation) that handles all previous versions of HTML, as well as all the latest features.
One of the main goals of the HTML specification and the WHATWG effort as a whole is to make it possible for archeologists hundreds of years from now to write a browser and view HTML content, regardless of when it was written. Making sure that we handle all documents is one of our most important goals. Not having versions does not preclude this; indeed it makes it significantly easier.
How are developers to determine when certain parts of their pages will become invalid?
It shouldn't matter if and when old pages become invalid.
Validity (more often referred to as document conformance in the WHATWG) is a quality assurance tool to help authors avoid mistakes. We don't make things non-conforming (invalid) for the sake of it, we use conformance as a guide for developers to help them avoid bad practices or mistakes (like typos). So there's not really any need to worry about whether old pages are conforming or not, it's only helpful when you're writing a new page, and it's always most helpful to have the latest advice. It wouldn't be useful to check for compliance against last week's rules, for instance. After all, we fixed mistakes in those rules this week! For more details, see part of the introduction of the specification.
How can I keep track of changes to the spec?
There are a number of ways to track changes to the spec:
The Twitter feed: @htmlstandard
The GitHub commits log
The specification is available in the Git repository. You may use any Git client to check out the latest version and use your client’s diff tools to compare revisions and see what has been changed.
At a broader level, Anne and Simon once wrote a document that gave a high-level overview of changes to HTML over the last decade or so: https://html-differences.whatwg.org/
What are the various versions of the HTML spec?
The HTML Standard is available in two forms: single-page (very large) and multi-page.
The WHATWG also works on other standards, such as the DOM, URL, and XMLHttpRequest standards.
The W3C publishes some forked versions of these specifications. We have requested that they stop publishing these but they have refused. They copy most of our fixes into their forks, but their forks are usually weeks to months behind. They also make intentional changes, and sometimes even unintentional changes, to their versions. We highly recommend not paying any attention to the W3C forks of WHATWG standards.
Are there versions of the HTML specification aimed specifically at authors/implementors?
Yes! developers.whatwg.org
When will we be able to start using these new features?
You can use some of them now. Others might take a few more years to get widely implemented. Here are some sites to help you work out what you can use:
http://diveintohtml5.info/
http://caniuse.com/
http://html5doctor.com/
https://developer.mozilla.org/
If you know of any more (or if you have some yourself) then add them to the list! If there are some on the list that aren't very useful compared to the rest, then remove them!
When will HTML5 be finished?
The WHATWG is now using a Living Standard development model, so this question is no longer really pertinent. See above, under "What is HTML5?". The real question is, when can you use new features? For an answer to 'that' question, see "When will we be able to start using these new features?".
What's this I hear about 2022?
Before the WHATWG transitioned to an unversioned model for HTML, when we were still working on HTML5 and still thought in terms of snapshot drafts reaching milestones as a whole rather than on a per-section basis, the editor estimated that we'd reach Last Call in October 2009, Candidate Recommendation in the year 2012, and Recommendation in the year 2022 or later. This would be approximately 18-20 years of development, since beginning in mid-2004, which is on par with the amount of work that other specs of similar size and similar maturity receive to get to the same level of quality. For instance, it's in line with the timeline of CSS2/2.1. Compared to HTML4's timetable it may seem long, but consider: work on HTML4 started in the mid 90s, and HTML4 still, more than ten years later, hadn't reached the level that we want to reach with HTML now. There was no real test suite, there are many parts of the HTML4 spec that are lacking real implementations, there are big parts of HTML4 that aren't interoperable, and the HTML4 spec has hundreds if not thousands of known errors that haven't been fixed. When HTML4 came out, REC meant something much less exciting than the WHATWG is aiming for. We now look for two 100% complete and fully interoperable implementations, which is proven by each successfully passing literally thousands of test cases (20,000 tests for the whole spec would probably be a conservative estimate). When you consider how long it takes to write that many test cases and how long it takes to implement each feature, you’ll begin to understand why the time frame seems so long.
Now that we've moved to a more incremental model without macro-level milestones, the 2022 date is no longer relevant.
What about Microsoft and Internet Explorer?
Microsoft started implementing new parts of the contemporary HTML standard in IE8 and has been adding more to IE since.
HTML is being developed with compatibility with existing browsers in mind, though (including IE). Support for many features can be simulated using JavaScript.
Is design rationale documented?
Sort of. Often the documentation can be found in the mailing list or IRC channel archives. Sometimes an issue was raised formally, and resolution is recorded in the issue tracker. Sometimes, there is an explanation in the specification, but doing that everywhere would make the specification huge.
For a few cases that someone did take the time document, the information can be found at the following locations:
Rationale — a page that documents some reasons behind decisions in the spec, originally written and maintained by Variable. If anyone wants to help him out, try to grab someone on IRC (e.g. Hixie), we're always looking for more contributors and this is a good place to start.
Why no namespaces
Why no script implements
Why not reuse legend or another mini-header element.
Also see HTML feature proposals below.
HTML syntax issues
Will HTML finally put an end to the XHTML as text/html debate?
Yes. Unlike HTML4 and XHTML1, the choice of HTML or XHTML is solely dependent upon the choice of the media type, rather than the DOCTYPE. See HTML vs. XHTML
What is the DOCTYPE for modern HTML documents?
In HTML:
In XHTML: no DOCTYPE is required and its use is generally unnecessary. However, you may use one if you want (see the following question). Note that the above is well-formed XML and so it may also appear in XHTML documents.
For compatibility with legacy producers designed for outputting HTML, but which are unable to easily output the above DOCTYPE, this alternative legacy-compat version may be used instead.
<!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat">
Note that this is not intended for dealing with any compatibility issues with legacy browsers. It is meant for legacy authoring tools only.
Excluding the string "about:legacy-compat", the DOCTYPE is case insensitive in HTML. In XHTML, it is case sensitive and must be either of the two variants given above. For this reason, the DOCTYPEs given above are recommended to be used over other case variants, such as <!DOCTYPE HTML> or <!doctype html>.
These alternatives were chosen because they meet the following criteria:
They trigger standards mode in all current and all relevant legacy browsers.
They are well-formed in XML and can appear in XHTML documents.
It is possible to output at least one of the alternatives, if not both, with extant markup generators.
They intentionally contain no language version identifier so the DOCTYPE will remain usable for all future revisions of HTML.
The first is short and memorable to encourage its use.
The legacy-compat DOCTYPE is intentionally unattractive and self descriptive of purpose to discourage unnecessary use.
Under what conditions should a DOCTYPE be used in XHTML?
Generally, the use of a DOCTYPE in XHTML is unnecessary. However, there are cases where inclusion of a DOCTYPE is a reasonable thing to do:
The document is intended to be a polyglot document that may be served as both HTML or XHTML.
You wish to declare entity references for use within the document. Note that most browsers only read the internal subset and do not retrieve external entities. (This is not compatible with HTML, and thus not suitable for polyglot documents.)
You wish to use a custom DTD for DTD-based validation. But take note of what's wrong with DTDs.
Fundamentally, this is an XML issue, and is not specific to XHTML.
How are documents from HTML4 and earlier versions parsed?
All documents with a text/html media type (that is, including those without or with an HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, HTML4, or XHTML1 DOCTYPE) will be parsed using the same parser algorithm as defined by the HTML spec. This matches what Web browsers have done for HTML documents so far and keeps code complexity down. That in turn is good for security, maintainability, and in general keeping the amount of bugs down. The HTML syntax as now defined therefore does not require a new parser and documents with an HTML4 DOCTYPE for example will be parsed as described by the new HTML specification.
Validators are allowed to have different code paths for previous levels of HTML.
If there is no DTD, how can I validate my page?
With an HTML validator that follows the latest specification.
What is an HTML Serialization?
The HTML serialization refers to the syntax of an HTML document defined in the HTML specification. The syntax is inspired by the SGML syntax from earlier versions of HTML, bits of XML (e.g. allowing a trailing slash on void elements, xmlns attributes), and reality of deployed content on the Web.
Any document whose MIME type is determined to be text/html is considered to be an HTML serialization and must be parsed using an HTML parser.
What is an XML (or XHTML) Serialization?
The XML Serialization refers to the syntax defined by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.0. A resource that has an XML MIME type, such as application/xhtml+xml or application/xml, is an XML document and if it uses elements in the HTML namespace, it contains XHTML. If the root element is “html” in the HTML namespace, the document is referred to as an XHTML document.
What MIME type does HTML use?
The HTML serialization must be served using the text/html MIME type.
The XHTML serialization must be served using an XML MIME type, such as application/xhtml+xml or application/xml. Unlike the situation as of XHTML1, the HTML specification says that XHTML must no longer be served as text/html.
Using the incorrect MIME type (text/html) for XHTML will cause the document to be parsed according to parsing requirements for HTML. In other words, it will be treated as tag soup. Ensuring the use of an XML MIME type is the only way to ensure that browsers handle the document as XML.
Should I close empty elements with /> or >?
Void elements in HTML (e.g. the br, img and input elements) do not require a trailing slash. e.g. Instead of writing <br />, you only need to write <br>. This is the same as in HTML4. However, due to the widespread attempts to use XHTML1, there are a significant number of pages using the trailing slash. Because of this, the trailing slash syntax has been permitted on void elements in HTML in order to ease migration from XHTML1 back to HTML.
The new HTML specification also introduces the ability to embed MathML elements. On elements inside a math element the trailing slash works just like it does in XML. I.e. it closes the element. This is only inside that context however, it does not work for normal HTML elements.
If I’m careful with the syntax I use in my HTML document, can I process it with an XML parser?
Yes. Find guidance in HTML vs. XHTML and Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents.
A word of warning though. You have to be really careful for this to work, and it's almost certainly not worth it. You'd be better off just using an HTML-to-XML parser. That way you can just use HTML normally while still using XML pipeline tools.
What is the namespace declaration?
In XHTML, you are required to specify the namespace.
In HTML, the xmlns attribute is currently allowed on any HTML element, but only if it has the value “http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“. It doesn’t do anything at all, it is merely allowed to ease migration from XHTML1. It is not actually a namespace declaration in HTML, because HTML doesn’t yet support namespaces. See the question will there be support for namespaces in HTML.
Will there be support for namespaces in HTML?
HTML is being defined in terms of the DOM and during parsing of a text/html all HTML elements will be automatically put in the HTML namespace, http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. However, unlike the XHTML serialization, there is no real namespace syntax available in the HTML serialization (see previous question). In other words, you do not need to declare the namespace in your HTML markup, as you do in XHTML. However, you are permitted to put an xmlns attribute on each HTML element as long as the namespace is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.
In addition, the HTML syntax provides for a way to embed elements from MathML and SVG. Elements placed inside the container element math or svg will automatically be put in the MathML namespace or the SVG namespace, respectively, by the parser. Namespace syntax is not required, but again an xmlns attribute is allowed if its value is the right namespace.
In conclusion, while HTML does not allow the XML namespace syntax, there is a way to embed MathML and SVG and the xmlns attribute can be used on any element under the given constraints, in a way that is reasonably compatible on the DOM level.
How do I specify the character encoding?
For HTML, it is strongly recommended that you specify the encoding using the HTTP Content-Type header. If you are unable to configure your server to send the correct headers, then you may use the meta element:
The following restrictions apply to character encoding declarations:
The character encoding name given must be the name of the character encoding used to serialize the file.
The value must be a valid character encoding name, and must be the preferred name for that encoding.
The character encoding declaration must be serialized without the use of character references or character escapes of any kind.
The meta element used for this purpose must occur within the first 512 bytes of the file. It is considered good practice for this to be the first child of the head element so that it is as close to the beginning of the file as possible.
Note that this meta element is different from HTML 4, though it is compatible with many browsers because of the way encoding detection has been implemented.
For polyglot documents, which may be served as either HTML or XHTML, you may also include that in XHTML documents, but only if the encoding is "UTF-8".
To ease transition from HTML4 to the latest HTML specification, although the former is the recommended syntax, you may also use the following. (This does not apply to XHTML or polyglot documents)
In XHTML, XML rules for determining the character encoding apply. The meta element is never used for determining the encoding of an XHTML document (although it may appear in UTF-8 encoded XHTML documents). You should use either the HTTP Content-Type header or the XML declaration to specify the encoding.
Otherwise, you must use the default of UTF-8 or UTF-16. It is recommended that you use UTF-8.
What are the differences between HTML and XHTML?
See the list of differences between HTML and XHTML in the wiki.
What are best practices to be compatible with HTML DOM and XHTML DOM?
Though the intent is that HTML and XHTML can both produce identical DOMs, there still are some differences between working with an HTML DOM and an XHTML one.
Case sensitivity :
Whenever possible, avoid testing Element.tagName and Node.nodeName (or do toLowerCase() before testing).
Namespaces:
Use the namespace-aware version for creating elements: Document.createElementNS(ns, elementName)
Why does this new HTML spec legitimise tag soup?
Actually it doesn’t. This is a misconception that comes from the confusion between conformance requirements for documents, and the requirements for user agents.
Due to the fundamental design principle of supporting existing content, the spec must define how to handle all HTML, regardless of whether documents are conforming or not. Therefore, the spec defines (or will define) precisely how to handle and recover from erroneous markup, much of which would be considered tag soup.
For example, the spec defines algorithms for dealing with syntax errors such as incorrectly nested tags, which will ensure that a well structured DOM tree can be produced.
Defining that is essential for one day achieving interoperability between browsers and reducing the dependence upon reverse engineering each other.
However, the conformance requirements for authors are defined separately from the processing requirements. Just because browsers are required to handle erroneous content, it does not make such markup conforming.
For example, user agents will be required to support the marquee element, but authors must not use the marquee element in conforming documents.
It is important to make the distinction between the rules that apply to user agents and the rules that apply to authors for producing conforming documents. They are completely orthogonal.
HTML feature proposals
HTML should support href on any element!
The spec allows <a> to contain blocks. It doesn't support putting href="" on any element, though.
Supporting href on any element has several problems associated with it that make it difficult to support in HTML. The main reason this isn't in HTML is that browser vendors have reported that implementing it would be extremely complex. Browser vendors get to decide what they implement, and there's no point to us telling them to do something they aren't going to do. In addition:
It isn’t backwards compatible with existing browsers.
It adds no new functionality that can’t already be achieved using the a element and a little script.
It doesn’t make sense for all elements, such as interactive elements like input and button, where the use of href would interfere with their normal function.
The only advantage it seems to add is that it reduces typing for authors in some cases, but that is not a strong enough reason to support it in light of the other reasons.
Wrapping <a> elements around blocks solves most use cases. It doesn't handle making rows in tables into links, though; for those just do something like this instead:
<tr onclick="location = this.getElementsByTagName('a')[0]"> ... </tr>
HTML should support list headers!
You can give a header to a list using the <figure> and <figcaption> elements:
<figcaption>Apples</figcaption>
<li>Granny Smith</li>
<li>Evil Apple of Knowledge</li>
<li>Apple, Inc</li>
You can also label a group of lists using a definition list:
<dt>Dry:</dt>
<li>1c flour</li>
<li>1/4c sugar</li>
<li>1tsp baking soda</li>
</dd>
<dt>Wet:</dt>
<li>1 egg </li>
<li>1/2c milk</li>
<li>1tsp vanilla extract</li>
These techniques are preferred over adding an <lh> element as proposed in the old HTML3 draft, mostly because of thorny issues with parsing near <li> elements.
HTML should support a way for anyone to invent new elements!
There are actually quite a number of ways for people to invent their own extensions to HTML:
Authors can use the class attribute to extend elements, effectively creating their own elements, while using the most applicable existing "real" HTML element, so that browsers and other tools that don't know of the extension can still support it somewhat well. This is the tack used by Microformats, for example.
Authors can include data for scripts to process using the data-*="" attributes. These are guaranteed to never be touched by browsers, and allow scripts to include data on HTML elements that scripts can then look for and process.
Authors can use the <meta name="" content=""> mechanism to include page-wide metadata. Names should be registered on the wiki's MetaExtensions page.
Authors can use the rel="" mechanism to annotate links with specific meanings. This is also used by Microformats. Names should be registered on the wiki's RelExtensions page.
Authors can embed raw data using the <script type=""> mechanism with a custom type, for further handling by a script.
Authors can create plugins and invoke them using the <embed> element. This is how Flash works.
Authors can extend APIs using the JS prototyping mechanism. This is widely used by script libraries, for instance.
Authors can use the microdata feature (the item="" and itemprop="" attributes) to embed nested name-value pairs of data to be shared with other applications and sites.
Authors can propose new elements and attributes to the working group and, if the wider community agrees that they are worth the effort, they are added to the language. (If an addition is urgent, please let us know when proposing it, and we will try to address it quickly.)
There is currently no mechanism for introducing new proprietary features in HTML documents (i.e. for introducing new elements and attributes) without discussing the extension with user agent vendors and the wider Web community. This is intentional; we don't want user agents inventing their own proprietary elements and attributes like in the "bad old days" without working with interested parties to make sure their feature is well designed.
We request that people not invent new elements and attributes to add to HTML without first contacting the working group and getting a proposal discussed with interested parties.
HTML should group <dt>s and <dd>s together in <di>s!
This is a styling problem and should be fixed in CSS. There's no reason to add a grouping element to HTML, as the semantics are already unambiguous.
There are multiple problems with adding something like <di>:
It would require parsing changes. These are relatively expensive.
It would have a poor backwards-compatibility story until the parsers were all updated.
It would have a poor backwards-compatibility story with legacy code that handles <dl>s, since they're not expecting <di>s.
The cost just doesn't seem worth it, given that a CSS solution would also solve a bunch of other problems (like styling implied sections).
Why are some presentational elements like <b>, <i> and <small> still included?
The inclusion of these elements is a largely pragmatic decision based upon their widespread usage, and their usefulness for use cases which are not covered by more specific elements.
While there are a number of common use cases for italics which are covered by more specific elements, such as emphasis (em), citations (cite), definitions (dfn) and variables (var), there are many other use cases which are not covered well by these elements. For example, a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, or a ship name.
Similarly, although a number of common use cases for bold text are also covered by more specific elements such as strong emphasis (strong), headings (h1-h6) or table headers (th); there are others which are not, such as key words in a document abstract or product names in a review.
Some people argue that in such cases, the span element should be used with an appropriate class name and associated stylesheet. However, the b and i elements provide for a reasonable fallback styling in environments that don't support stylesheets or which do not render visually, such as screen readers, and they also provide some indication that the text is somehow distinct from its surrounding content.
In essence, they convey distinct, though non-specific, semantics, which are to be determined by the reader in the context of their use. In other words, although they don’t convey specific semantics by themselves, they indicate that that the content is somehow distinct from its surroundings and leaves the interpretation of the semantics up to the reader.
This is further explained in the article The <b> and <i> Elements
Similarly, the small element is defined for content that is commonly typographically rendered in small print, and which often referred to as fine print. This could include copyright statements, disclaimers and other legal text commonly found at the end of a document.
But they are PRESENTATIONAL!
The problem with elements like <font> isn't that they are presentational per se, it's that they are media-dependent (they apply to visual browsers but not to speech browsers). While <b>, <i> and <small> historically have been presentational, they are defined in a media-independent manner in HTML5. For example, <small> corresponds to the really quickly spoken part at the end of radio advertisements.
The <cite> element should allow names of people to be marked up
From what some have seen, <cite> is almost always used to mean "italics". More careful authors have used the element to mark up names and titles, and some people have gone out of their way to only mark up citations.
So, we can't really decide what the element should be based on past practice, like we usually do.
This leaves the question of what is the most useful use we can put the element to, if we keep it. The conclusion so far has been that the most useful use for <cite> is as an element to allow typographic control over titles, since those are often made italics, and that semantic is roughly close to what it meant in previous versions, and happens to match at least one of the common uses for the element. Generally, however, names and titles aren't typeset the same way, so making the element apply to both would lead to confusing typography.
There are already many ways of marking up names already (e.g. the hCard microformat, the microdata vCard vocabulary, <span> and class names, etc), if you really need it.
Where's the harm in adding—
Every feature we add to the Web platform has a cost:
Implementation: someone has to write code for it in each browser
Testing: someone has to write the tests to check the features is working
QA: someone has to regularly run the tests to make sure the feature doesn't regress
Code maintenance: when browser vendors refactor code, they have to refactor more code if there's more features
Tutorials: people who write tutorials have to include the feature, or handle feedback asking for them to do so
Cognitive load: authors learning the platform have more documentation to wade through even if they don't care about the feature
Extra features discourage exploration: Having more features means less overall feature usage.
Page maintenance: authors have to know how to maintain the feature if other people have used it in pages they now maintain
Spec writing: someone has to write the spec for the feature and ensure it's maintained
Bug fixing: when bugs are found in the spec or implementations, someone has to figure out a fix, implement it, test it, ship it, tests have to be fixed, documentation has to be updated, etc
Code size: each feature increases the size of browsers (both on-disk binaries and in-memory resident size)
WHATWG and the W3C HTML WG
Are there plans to merge the groups?
No. The two groups have different goals. The WHATWG spec is intended to describe what browsers should aim for, introducing new features and describing reality in as much, and as accurate, detail as possible. The W3C spec is intended to follow the W3C process to REC.
On the WHATWG side, the editors read the feedback sent to both groups and take all input into account — and indeed there are far more places where input on HTML is sent than just these two mailing lists (e.g. blogs, www-html@w3.org, forums, direct mail, meetings, etc). (In particular, the editors do not look at the source of technical arguments when attempting to determine what path to take on an issue or other.)
Which group has authority in the event of a dispute?
The two groups have different specs, so each has authority over its spec. The specs can and have diverged on some topics; unfortunately, these differences are not documented anywhere.
Isn't it bad that the specs have forked?
Yes. The WHATWG originally committed to remaining consistent with the W3C spec unless the W3C working group showed a lapse in judgement. When that (in Hixie's opinion) occurred, there was little choice left but to let the specs diverge.
The plan to get the specs to converge again, such as it is, is to just do a better job with the WHATWG spec, such that it becomes the logical and obvious choice for anyone wanting to figure out which spec they should use.
What is the history of HTML?
Here are some documents that detail the history of HTML:
HTML's timeline on the ESW wiki
The history section in the HTML standard itself
Do you have any hints on how to use <section> and <article> and so on?
Some hopefully helpful hints:
One way to look at it is how would you draw the page outline/table-of-contents? Each entry in the table of contents should be a <section>/<article>/<aside>/<nav>, and if it's not in the table of contents and doesn't have an <h1>, it should probably not be a <section>/<article>/<aside>/<nav>.
You can still use <div>. It's the right element if you need a styling hook because CSS can't give you enough to do what you want.
Generally, <section>s should start with an <h1> and the section title. It's not a hard-and-fast rule, but if you find yourself in a situation where an <h1> would be inappropriate, you probably want <div> rather than <section>.
Sections can contain Articles, and vice versa. e.g. you can have a section that is news, a section that is editorials, a section that is sports, each with many articles, and each of those can have subsections, and each section can have comments, which are marked up using <article>, and each comment could be big enough that it has separate <section>s, and so on.
What ever happened to...?
The Web Forms 2.0 specification was folded into what is now the HTML specification.
The Web Controls 1.0 specification was overtaken by events and has been abandoned. Its problem space is mostly handled by ARIA and Web Components now.
The DOM Parsing specification was abandoned by the WHATWG because the W3C was doing a better job of maintaining that specification. We do not want to cause confusion in the market place, so when another organisation writes a specification that covers the same technology as one of ours, we only continue to publish it if our version is technically superior.
Please note that content-free agreement (such as +1s) have no effect on the WHATWG list and are therefore discouraged. Editors of specs discussed in the WHATWG only consider the quality of the arguments presented, and not the volume of agreement.
You should therefore only post to the list if you have a substantive new point to make, for example if you have seen a flaw in an argument presented so far, or have a new idea to contribute, or have some information that has not yet been brought to the table.
Making Outlook quote email messages properly
If you use Outlook or Outlook Express, you can use either Outlook-QuoteFix or OE-QuoteFix. These plugins fix several of Outlook's problems with sending properly formatted emails.
Should I top-post or reply inline?
Please reply inline or make the reply self-contained, and trim extraneous quotes from previous emails in your replies.
Basically, please remove anything after the last line you have written, so that people don't have to scroll down to find out what else you wrote, and make sure that your email makes sense on its own, as it will probably be read out of context years later.
That is, you should reply like this:
Ian wrote:
> What do you want?
I want cats!
> When do you want it?
You should definitely not reply like this (because this requires people to read your email backwards):
> Is this a good example of how to post emails?
You should also not reply like this (because this leaves people to wonder if there is any text lower down that you have written):
This is a bad way to write email.
> Is this a good way to write email?
> Lorem ipsum foo bar baz.
> Unrelated other bits that aren't replied to.
> Yet more text
You should also not reply like this (with no context at all), because the reader will not know what you are referring to:
No, I think that's a bad idea. It wouldn't be good for the readers, for instance.
Quote enough original text or provide an introduction yourself.
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Full Thread: National Socialism and the Church
Alex Linder
National Socialism and the Church
On the Church and the German Reich
MIT BRENNENDER SORGE
ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICH MARCH 14, 1937
To the Venerable Brethren the Archbishops and Bishops of Germany and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See.
Venerable Brethren, Greetings, and Apostolic Blessing.
It is with deep anxiety and growing surprise that We have long been following the painful trials of the Church and the increasing vexations which afflict those who have remained loyal in heart and action in the midst of a people that once received from St. Boniface the bright message and the Gospel of Christ and God's Kingdom.
2. And what the representatives of the venerable episcopate, who visited Us in Our sick room, had to tell Us, in truth and duty bound, has not modified Our feelings. To consoling and edifying information on the stand the Faithful are making for their Faith, they considered themselves bound, in spite of efforts to judge with moderation and in spite of their own patriotic love, to add reports of things hard and unpleasant. After hearing their account, We could, in grateful acknowledgment to God, exclaim with the Apostle of love: "I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth" (John iii. 4). But the frankness indifferent in Our Apostolic charge and the determination to place before the Christian world the truth in all its reality, prompt Us to add: "Our pastoral heart knows no deeper pain, no disappointment more bitter, than to learn that many are straying from the path of truth."
3. When, in 1933, We consented, Venerable Brethren, to open negotiations for a concordat, which the Reich Government proposed on the basis of a scheme of several years' standing; and when, to your unanimous satisfaction, We concluded the negotiations by a solemn treaty, We were prompted by the desire, as it behooved Us, to secure for Germany the freedom of the Church's beneficent mission and the salvation of the souls in her care, as well as by the sincere wish to render the German people a service essential for its peaceful development and prosperity. Hence, despite many and grave misgivings, We then decided not to withhold Our consent for We wished to spare the Faithful of Germany, as far as it was humanly possible, the trials and difficulties they would have had to face, given the circumstances, had the negotiations fallen through. It was by acts that We wished to make it plain, Christ's interests being Our sole object, that the pacific and maternal hand of the Church would be extended to anyone who did not actually refuse it.
4. If, then, the tree of peace, which we planted on German soil with the purest intention, has not brought forth the fruit, which in the interest of your people, We had fondly hoped, no one in the world who has eyes to see and ears to hear will be able to lay the blame on the Church and on her Head. The experiences of these last years have fixed responsibilities and laid bare intrigues, which from the outset only aimed at a war of extermination. In the furrows, where We tried to sow the seed of a sincere peace, other men -- the "enemy" of Holy Scripture -- oversowed the cockle of distrust, unrest, hatred, defamation, of a determined hostility overt or veiled, fed from many sources and wielding many tools, against Christ and His Church. They, and they alone with their accomplices, silent or vociferous, are today responsible, should the storm of religious war, instead of the rainbow of peace, blacken the German skies.
5. We have never ceased, Venerable Brethren, to represent to the responsible rulers of your country's destiny, the consequences which would inevitably follow the protection and even the favor, extended to such a policy. We have done everything in Our power to defend the sacred pledge of the given word of honor against theories and practices, which it officially endorsed, would wreck every faith in treaties and make every signature worthless. Should the day ever come to place before the world the account of Our efforts, every honest mind will see on which side are to be found the promoters of peace, and on which side its disturbers. Whoever had left in his soul an atom of love for truth, and in his heart a shadow of a sense of justice, must admit that, in the course of these anxious and trying years following upon the conclusion of the concordat, every one of Our words, every one of Our acts, has been inspired by the binding law of treaties. At the same time, anyone must acknowledge, not without surprise and reprobation, how the other contracting party emasculated the terms of the treaty, distorted their meaning, and eventually considered its more or less official violation as a normal policy. The moderation We showed in spite of all this was not inspired by motives of worldly interest, still less by unwarranted weakness, but merely by Our anxiety not to draw out the wheat with the cockle; not to pronounce open judgment, before the public was ready to see its force; not to impeach other people's honesty, before the evidence of events should have torn the mask off the systematic hostility leveled at the Church. Even now that a campaign against the confessional schools, which are guaranteed by the concordat, and the destruction of free election, where Catholics have a right to their children's Catholic education, afford evidence, in a matter so essential to the life of the Church, of the extreme gravity of the situation and the anxiety of every Christian conscience; even now Our responsibility for Christian souls induces Us not to overlook the last possibilities, however slight, of a return to fidelity to treaties, and to any arrangement that may be acceptable to the episcopate. We shall continue without failing, to stand before the rulers of your people as the defender of violated rights, and in obedience to Our Conscience and Our pastoral mission, whether We be successful or not, to oppose the policy which seeks, by open or secret means, to strangle rights guaranteed by a treaty.
6. Different, however, Venerable Brethren, is the purpose of this letter. As you affectionately visited Us in Our illness, so also We turn to you, and through you, the German Catholics, who, like all suffering and afflicted children, are nearer to their Father's heart. At a time when your faith, like gold, is being tested in the fire of tribulation and persecution, when your religious freedom is beset on all sides, when the lack of religious teaching and of normal defense is heavily weighing on you, you have every right to words of truth and spiritual comfort from him whose first predecessor heard these words from the Lord: "I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not: and thou being once converted, confirm thy brethren" (Luke xxii. 32).
7. Take care, Venerable Brethren, that above all, faith in God, the first and irreplaceable foundation of all religion, be preserved in Germany pure and unstained. The believer in God is not he who utters the name in his speech, but he for whom this sacred word stands for a true and worthy concept of the Divinity. Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe, by either lowering God to the dimensions of the world, or raising the world to the dimensions of God, is not a believer in God. Whoever follows that so-called pre-Christian Germanic conception of substituting a dark and impersonal destiny for the personal God, denies thereby the Wisdom and Providence of God who "Reacheth from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly" (Wisdom viii. 1). Neither is he a believer in God.
8. Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community -- however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things -- whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds.
9. Beware, Venerable Brethren, of that growing abuse, in speech as in writing, of the name of God as though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to any creation, more or less arbitrary, of human speculation. Use your influence on the Faithful, that they refuse to yield to this aberration. Our God is the Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all existence. Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world, who will not, and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side.
10. This God, this Sovereign Master, has issued commandments whose value is independent of time and space, country and race. As God's sun shines on every human face so His law knows neither privilege nor exception. Rulers and subjects, crowned and uncrowned, rich and poor are equally subject to His word. From the fullness of the Creators' right there naturally arises the fullness of His right to be obeyed by individuals and communities, whoever they are. This obedience permeates all branches of activity in which moral values claim harmony with the law of God, and pervades all integration of the ever-changing laws of man into the immutable laws of God.
11. None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are "as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah xI, 15).
12. The Bishops of the Church of Christ, "ordained in the things that appertain to God (Heb. v, 1) must watch that pernicious errors of this sort, and consequent practices more pernicious still, shall not gain a footing among their flock. It is part of their sacred obligations to do whatever is in their power to enforce respect for, and obedience to, the commandments of God, as these are the necessary foundation of all private life and public morality; to see that the rights of His Divine Majesty, His name and His word be not profaned; to put a stop to the blasphemies, which, in words and pictures, are multiplying like the sands of the desert; to encounter the obstinacy and provocations of those who deny, despise and hate God, by the never-failing reparatory prayers of the Faithful, hourly rising like incense to the All-Highest and staying His vengeance.
13. We thank you, Venerable Brethren, your priests and Faithful, who have persisted in their Christian duty and in the defense of God's rights in the teeth of an aggressive paganism. Our gratitude, warmer still and admiring, goes out to those who, in fulfillment of their duty, have been deemed worthy of sacrifice and suffering for the love of God.
14. No faith in God can for long survive pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in Christ. "No one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke x. 22). "Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent" (John xvii. 3). Nobody, therefore, can say: "I believe in God, and that is enough religion for me," for the Savior's words brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also" (1 John ii. 23).
15. In Jesus Christ, Son of God made Man, there shone the plentitude of divine revelation. "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets last of all, in these days hath spoken to us by His Son" (Heb. i. 1). The sacred books of the Old Testament are exclusively the word of God, and constitute a substantial part of his revelation; they are penetrated by a subdued light, harmonizing with the slow development of revelation, the dawn of the bright day of the redemption. As should be expected in historical and didactic books, they reflect in many particulars the imperfection, the weakness and sinfulness of man. But side by side with innumerable touches of greatness and nobleness, they also record the story of the chosen people, bearers of the Revelation and the Promise, repeatedly straying from God and turning to the world. Eyes not blinded by prejudice or passion will see in this prevarication, as reported by the Biblical history, the luminous splendor of the divine light revealing the saving plan which finally triumphs over every fault and sin. It is precisely in the twilight of this background that one perceives the striking perspective of the divine tutorship of salvation, as it warms, admonishes, strikes, raises and beautifies its elect. Nothing but ignorance and pride could blind one to the treasures hoarded in the Old Testament.
16. Whoever wishes to see banished from church and school the Biblical history and the wise doctrines of the Old Testament, blasphemes the name of God, blasphemes the Almighty's plan of salvation, and makes limited and narrow human thought the judge of God's designs over the history of the world: he denies his faith in the true Christ, such as He appeared in the flesh, the Christ who took His human nature from a people that was to crucify Him; and he understands nothing of that universal tragedy of the Son of God who to His torturer's sacrilege opposed the divine and priestly sacrifice of His redeeming death, and made the new alliance the goal of the old alliance, its realization and its crown.
17. The peak of the revelation as reached in the Gospel of Christ is final and permanent. It knows no retouches by human hand; it admits no substitutes or arbitrary alternatives such as certain leaders pretend to draw from the so-called myth of race and blood. Since Christ, the Lord's Anointed, finished the task of Redemption, and by breaking up the reign of sin deserved for us the grace of being the children God, since that day no other name under heaven has been given to men, whereby we must be saved (Acts iv. 12). No man, were every science, power and worldly strength incarnated in him, can lay any other foundation but that which is laid: which is Christ Jesus (1 Cor. iii 11). Should any man dare, in sacrilegious disregard of the essential differences between God and His creature, between the God-man and the children of man, to place a mortal, were he the greatest of all times, by the side of, or over, or against, Christ, he would deserve to be called prophet of nothingness, to whom the terrifying words of Scripture would be applicable: "He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them" (Psalms ii. 3).
18. Faith in Christ cannot maintain itself pure and unalloyed without the support of faith in the Church, "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim. iii. 15); for Christ Himself, God eternally blessed, raised this pillar of the Faith. His command tO hear the Church (Matt. xviii. 15), to welcome in the words and commands of the Church His own words and His own commands (Luke x. 16), is addressed to all men, of all times and of all countries. The Church founded by the Redeemer is one, the same for all races and all nations. Beneath her dome, as beneath the vault of heaven, there is but one country for all nations and tongues; there is room for the development of every quality, advantage, task and vocation which God the Creator and Savior has allotted to individuals as well as to ethnical communities. The Church's maternal heart is big enough to see in the God-appointed development of individual characteristics and gifts, more than a mere danger of divergency. She rejoices at the spiritual superiorities among individuals and nations. In their successes she sees with maternal joy and pride fruits of education and progress, which she can only bless and encourage, whenever she can conscientiously do so. But she also knows that tO this freedom limits have been set by the majesty of the divine command, which founded that Church one and indivisible. Whoever tampers with that unity and that indivisibility wrenches from the Spouse of Christ one of the diadems with which God Himself crowned her; he subjects a divine structure, which stands on eternal foundations, tO criticism and transformation by architects whom the Father of Heaven never authorized to interfere.
19. The Church, whose work lies among men and operates through men, may see her divine mission obscured by human, too human, combination, persistently growing and developing like the cockle among the wheat of the Kingdom of God. Those who know the Savior's words on scandal and the giver of scandals, know, too, the judgment which the Church and all her sons must pronounce on what was and what is sin. But if, besides these reprehensible discrepancies be between faith and life, acts and words, exterior conduct and interior feelings, however numerous they be, anyone overlooks the overwhelming sum of authentic virtues, of spirit of sacrifice, fraternal love, heroic efforts of sanctity, he gives evidence of deplorable blindness and injustice. If later he forgets to apply the standard of severity, by which he measures the Church he hates, to other organizations in which he happens to be interested, then his appeal to an offended sense of purity identifies him with those who, for seeing the mote in their brother's eye, according to the Savior's incisive words, cannot see the beam in their own. But however suspicious the intention of those who make it their task, nay their vile profession, to scrutinize what is human in the Church, and although the priestly powers conferred by God are independent of the priest's human value, it yet remains true that at no moment of history, no individual, in no organization can dispense himself from the duty of loyally examining his conscience, of mercilessly purifying himself, and energetically renewing himself in spirit and in action. In Our Encyclical on the priesthood We have urged attention to the sacred duty of all those who belong to the Church, chiefly the members of the priestly and religious profession and of the lay apostolate, to square their faith and their conduct with the claims of the law of God and of the Church. And today we again repeat with all the insistency We can command: it is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance. If the Apostle of the nations, the vase of election, chastised his body and brought it into subjection: lest perhaps, when he had preached to others, he himself should become a castaway (1 Cor. ix. 27), could anybody responsible for the extension of the Kingdom of God claim any other method but personal sanctification? Only thus can we show to the present generation, and to the critics of the Church that "the salt of the earth," the leaven of Christianity has not decayed, but is ready to give the men of today -- prisoners of doubt and error, victims of indifference, tired of their Faith and straying from God -- the spiritual renewal they so much need. A Christianity which keeps a grip on itself, refuses every compromise with the world, takes the commands of God and the Church seriously, preserves its love of God and of men in all its freshness, such a Christianity can be, and will be, a model and a guide to a world which is sick to death and clamors for directions, unless it be condemned to a catastrophe that would baffle the imagination.
20. Every true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from the sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of men. Generous, ready to stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident in themselves because confident in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light, destruction instead of construction, and more than once set up evils worse than those it was out to remedy. No doubt "the Spirit breatheth where he will" (John iii. 8): "of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs" (Matt. iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will according to His own plans, not those of men. But the Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid them. Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this sacred fruit from the tree of the cross, this gift from the Spirit of God, bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world.
21. In your country, Venerable Brethren, voices are swelling into a chorus urging people to leave the Church, and among the leaders there is more than one whose official position is intended to create the impression that this infidelity to Christ the King constitutes a signal and meritorious act of loyalty to the modern State. Secret and open measures of intimidation, the threat of economic and civic disabilities, bear on the loyalty of certain classes of Catholic functionaries, a pressure which violates every human right and dignity. Our wholehearted paternal sympathy goes out to those who must pay so dearly for their loyalty to Christ and the Church; but directly the highest interests are at stake, with the alternative of spiritual loss, there is but one alternative left, that of heroism. If the oppressor offers one the Judas bargain of apostasy he can only, at the cost of every worldly sacrifice, answer with Our Lord: "Begone, Satan! For it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and Him only shalt thou serve" (Matt. iv. 10). And turning to the Church, he shall say: "Thou, my mother since my infancy, the solace of my life and advocate at my death, may my tongue cleave to my palate if, yielding to worldly promises or threats, I betray the vows of my baptism." As to those who imagine that they can reconcile exterior infidelity tO one and the same Church, let them hear Our Lord's warning: -- "He that shall deny me before men shall be denied before the angels of God" (Luke xii. 9).
22. Faith in the Church cannot stand pure and true without the support of faith in the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. The same moment when Peter, in the presence of all the Apostles and disciples, confesses his faith in Christ, Son of the Living God, the answer he received in reward for his faith and his confession was the word that built the Church, the only Church of Christ, on the rock of Peter (Matt. xvi. 18). Thus was sealed the connection between the faith in Christ, the Church and the Primacy. True and lawful authority is invariably a bond of unity, a source of strength, a guarantee against division and ruin, a pledge for the future: and this is verified in the deepest and sublimest sense, when that authority, as in the case of the Church, and the Church alone, is sealed by the promise and the guidance of the Holy Ghost and His irresistible support. Should men, who are not even united by faith in Christ, come and offer you the seduction of a national German Church, be convinced that it is nothing but a denial of the one Church of Christ and the evident betrayal of that universal evangelical mission, for which a world Church alone is qualified and competent. The live history of other national churches with their paralysis, their domestication and subjection to worldly powers, is sufficient evidence of the sterility to which is condemned every branch that is severed from the trunk of the living Church. Whoever counters these erroneous developments with an uncompromising No from the very outset, not only serves the purity of his faith in Christ, but also the welfare and the vitality of his own people.
23. You will need to watch carefully, Venerable Brethren, that religious fundamental concepts be not emptied of their content and distorted to profane use. "Revelation" in its Christian sense, means the word of God addressed to man. The use of this word for the "suggestions" of race and blood, for the irradiations of a people's history, is mere equivocation. False coins of this sort do not deserve Christian currency. "Faith" consists in holding as true what God has revealed and proposes through His Church to man's acceptance. It is "the evidence of things that appear not" (Heb. ii. 1). The joyful and proud confidence in the future of one's people, instinct in every heart, is quite a different thing from faith in a religious sense. To substitute the one for the other, and demand on the strength of this, to be numbered among the faithful followers of Christ, is a senseless play on words, if it does not conceal a confusion of concepts, or worse.
24. "Immortality" in a Christian sense means the survival of man after his terrestrial death, for the purpose of eternal reward or punishment. Whoever only means by the term, the collective survival here on earth of his people for an indefinite length of time, distorts one of the fundamental notions of the Christian Faith and tampers with the very foundations of the religious concept of the universe, which requires a moral order.
25. "Original sin" is the hereditary but impersonal fault of Adam's descendants, who have sinned in him (Rom. v. 12). It is the loss of grace, and therefore of eternal life, together with a propensity to evil, which everybody must, with the assistance of grace, penance, resistance and moral effort, repress and conquer. The passion and death of the Son of God has redeemed the world from the hereditary curse of sin and death. Faith in these truths, which in your country are today the butt of the cheap derision of Christ's enemies, belongs to the inalienable treasury of Christian revelation.
26. The cross of Christ, though it has become to many a stumbling block and foolishness (1 Cor. i. 23) remains for the believer the holy sign of his redemption, the emblem of moral strength and greatness. We live in its shadow and die in its embrace. It will stand on our grave as a pledge of our faith and our hope in the eternal light.
27. Humility in the spirit of the Gospel and prayer for the assistance of grace are perfectly compatible with self-confidence and heroism. The Church of Christ, which throughout the ages and to the present day numbers more confessors and voluntary martyrs than any other moral collectivity, needs lessons from no one in heroism of feeling and action. The odious pride of reformers only covers itself with ridicule when it rails at Christian humility as though it were but a cowardly pose of self-degradation.
28. "Grace," in a wide sense, may stand for any of the Creator's gifts to His creature; but in its Christian designation, it means all the supernatural tokens of God's love; God's intervention which raises man to that intimate communion of life with Himself, called by the Gospel "adoption of the children of God." "Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God" (1 John iii. 1). To discard this gratuitous and free elevation in the name of a so-called German type amounts to repudiating openly a fundamental truth of Christianity. It would be an abuse of our religious vocabulary to place on the same level supernatural grace and natural gifts. Pastors and guardians of the people of God will do well to resist this plunder of sacred things and this confusion of ideas.
29. It is on faith in God, preserved pure and stainless, that man's morality is based. All efforts to remove from under morality and the moral order the granite foundation of faith and to substitute for it the shifting sands of human regulations, sooner or later lead these individuals or societies to moral degradation. The fool who has said in his heart "there is no God" goes straight to moral corruption (Psalms xiii. 1), and the number of these fools who today are out to sever morality from religion, is legion. They either do not see or refuse to see that the banishment of confessional Christianity, i.e., the clear and precise notion of Christianity, from teaching and education, from the organization of social and political life, spells spiritual spoliation and degradation. No coercive power of the State, no purely human ideal, however noble and lofty it be, will ever be able to make shift of the supreme and decisive impulses generated by faith in God and Christ. If the man, who is called to the hard sacrifice of his own ego to the common good, loses the support of the eternal and the divine, that comforting and consoling faith in a God who rewards all good and punishes all evil, then the result of the majority will be, not the acceptance, but the refusal of their duty. The conscientious observation of the ten commandments of God and the precepts of the Church (which are nothing but practical specifications of rules of the Gospels) is for every one an unrivaled school of personal discipline, moral education and formation of character, a school that is exacting, but not to excess. A merciful God, who as Legislator, says -- Thou must! -- also gives by His grace the power to will and to do. To let forces of moral formation of such efficacy lie fallow, or to exclude them positively from public education, would spell religious under-feeding of a nation. To hand over the moral law to man's subjective opinion, which changes with the times, instead of anchoring it in the holy will of the eternal God and His commandments, is to open wide every door to the forces of destruction. The resulting dereliction of the eternal principles of an objective morality, which educates conscience and ennobles every department and organization of life, is a sin against the destiny of a nation, a sin whose bitter fruit will poison future generations.
30. Such is the rush of present-day life that it severs from the divine foundation of Revelation, not only morality, but also the theoretical and practical rights. We are especially referring to what is called the natural law, written by the Creator's hand on the tablet of the heart (Rom. ii. 14) and which reason, not blinded by sin or passion, can easily read. It is in the light of the commands of this natural law, that all positive law, whoever be the lawgiver, can be gauged in its moral content, and hence, in the authority it wields over conscience. Human laws in flagrant contradiction with the natural law are vitiated with a taint which no force, no power can mend. In the light of this principle one must judge the axiom, that "right is common utility," a proposition which may be given a correct significance, it means that what is morally indefensible, can never contribute to the good of the people. But ancient paganism acknowledged that the axiom, to be entirely true, must be reversed and be made to say: "Nothing can be useful, if it is not at the same time morally good" (Cicero, De Off. ii. 30). Emancipated from this oral rule, the principle would in international law carry a perpetual state of war between nations; for it ignores in national life, by confusion of right and utility, the basic fact that man as a person possesses rights he holds from God, and which any collectivity must protect against denial, suppression or neglect. To overlook this truth is to forget that the real common good ultimately takes its measure from man's nature, which balances personal rights and social obligations, and from the purpose of society, established for the benefit of human nature. Society, was intended by the Creator for the full development of individual possibilities, and for the social benefits, which by a give and take process, every one can claim for his own sake and that of others. Higher and more general values, which collectivity alone can provide, also derive from the Creator for the good of man, and for the full development, natural and supernatural, and the realization of his perfection. To neglect this order is to shake the pillars on which society rests, and to compromise social tranquillity, security and existence.
31. The believer has an absolute right to profess his Faith and live according to its dictates. Laws which impede this profession and practice of Faith are against natural law.
Parents who are earnest and conscious of their educative duties, have a primary right to the education of the children God has given them in the spirit of their Faith, and according to its prescriptions. Laws and measures which in school questions fail to respect this freedom of the parents go against natural law, and are immoral. The Church, whose mission it is to preserve and explain the natural law, as it is divine in its origin, cannot but declare that the recent enrollment into schools organized without a semblance of freedom, is the result of unjust pressure, and is a violation of every common right.
32. As the Vicar of Him who said to the young man of the Gospel: "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt. xix. 17), We address a few paternal words to the young.
33. Thousands of voices ring into your ears a Gospel which has not been revealed by the Father of Heaven. Thousands of pens are wielded in the service of a Christianity, which is not of Christ. Press and wireless daily force on you productions hostile to the Faith and to the Church, impudently aggressive against whatever you should hold venerable and sacred. Many of you, clinging to your Faith and to your Church, as a result of your affiliation with religious associations guaranteed by the concordat, have often to face the tragic trial of seeing your loyalty to your country misunderstood, suspected, or even denied, and of being hurt in your professional and social life. We are well aware that there is many a humble soldier of Christ in your ranks, who with torn feelings, but a determined heart, accepts his fate, finding his one consolation in the thought of suffering insults for the name of Jesus (Acts v. 41). Today,
as We see you threatened with new dangers and new molestations, We say to you: If any one should preach to you a Gospel other than the one you received on the knees of a pious mother, from the lips of a believing father, or through teaching faithful to God and His Church, "let him be anathema" (Gal. i. 9). If the State organizes a national youth, and makes this organization obligatory to all, then, without prejudice to rights of religious associations, it is the absolute right of youths as well as of parents to see to it that this organization is purged of all manifestations hostile to the Church and Christianity. These manifestations are even today placing Christian parents in a painful alternative, as they cannot give to the State what they owe to God alone.
34. No one would think of preventing young Germans establishing a true ethnical community in a noble love of freedom and loyalty to their country. What We object to is the voluntary and systematic antagonism raised between national education and religious duty. That is why we tell the young: Sing your hymns to freedom, but do not forget the freedom of the children of God. Do not drag the nobility of that freedom in the mud of sin and sensuality. He who sings hymns of loyalty to this terrestrial country should not, for that reason, become unfaithful to God and His Church, or a deserter and traitor to His heavenly country. You are often told about heroic greatness, in Iying opposition to evangelical humility and patience. Why conceal the fact that there are heroisms in moral life? That the preservation of baptismal innocence is an act of heroism which deserves credit? You are often told about the human deficiencies which mar the history of the Church: why ignore the exploits which fill her history, the saints she begot, the blessing that came upon Western civilization from the union between that Church and your people? You are told about sports. Indulged in with moderation and within limits, physical education is a boon for youth. But so much time is now devoted to sporting activities, that the harmonious development of body and mind is disregarded, that duties to one's family, and the observation of the Lord's Day are neglected. With an indifference bordering on contempt the day of the Lord is divested of its sacred character, against the best of German traditions. But We expect the Catholic youth, in the more favorable organizations of the State, to uphold its right tO a Christian sanctification of the Sunday, not tO exercise the body at the expense of the immortal soul, not to be overcome by evil, but to aim at the triumph of good over evil (Rom. xii. 21) as its highest achievement will be the gaining of the crown in the stadium of eternal life (1 Cor. ix. 24).
35. We address a special word of congratulation, encouragement and exhortation to the priests of Germany, who, in difficult times and delicate situations, have, under the direction of their Bishops, to guide the flocks of Christ along the straight road, by word and example, by their daily devotion and apostolic patience. Beloved sons, who participate with Us in the sacred mysteries, never tire of exercising, after the Sovereign and eternal Priest, Jesus Christ, the charity and solicitude of the Good Samaritan. Let your daily conduct remain stainless before God and the incessant pursuit of your perfection and sanctification, in merciful charity towards all those who are confided to your care, especially those who are more exposed, who are weak and stumbling. Be the guides of the faithful, the support of those who fail, the doctors of the doubting, the consolers of the afflicted, the disinterested counselors and assistants of all. The trials and sufferings which your people have undergone in post-War days have not passed over its soul without leaving painful marks. They have left bitterness and anxiety which are slow to cure, except by charity. This charity is the apostle's indispensable weapon, in a world torn by hatred. It will make you forget, or at least forgive, many an undeserved insult now more frequent than ever.
36. This charity, intelligent and sympathetic towards those even who offend you, does by no means imply a renunciation of the right of proclaiming, vindicating and defending the truth and its implications. The priest's first loving gift to his neighbors is to serve truth and refute error in any of its forms. Failure on this score would be not only a betrayal of God and your vocation, but also an offense against the real welfare of your people and country. To all those who have kept their promised fidelity to their Bishops on the day of their ordination; to all those who in the exercise of their priestly function are called upon to suffer persecution; to all those imprisoned in jail and concentration camps, the Father of the Christian world sends his words of gratitude and commendation.
37. Our paternal gratitude also goes out to Religious and nuns, as well as Our sympathy for so many who, as a result of administrative measures hostile to Religious Orders, have been wrenched from the work of their vocation. If some have fallen and shown themselves unworthy of their vocation, their fault, which the Church punishes, in no way detracts from the merit of the immense majority, who, in voluntary abnegation and poverty, have tried to serve their God and their country. By their zeal, their fidelity, their virtue, their active charity, their devotion, the Orders devoted to the care of souls, the service of the sick and education, are greatly contributing to private and public welfare. No doubt better days will come to do them better justice than the present troublous times have done. We trust that the heads of religious communities will profit by their trials and difficulties tO renew their zeal, their spirit of prayer, the austerity of their lives and their perfect discipline, in order to draw down God's blessing upon their difficult work.
38. We visualize the immense multitudes of Our faithful children, Our sons and daughters, for whom the sufferings of the Church in Germany and their own have left intact their devotion to the cause of God, their tender love for the Father of Christendom, their obedience to their pastors, their joyous resolution to remain ever faithful, happen what may, to the sacred inheritance of their ancestors. To all of them We send Our paternal greetings. And first to the members of those religious associations which, bravely and at the cost of untold sacrifices, have remained faithful to Christ, and have stood by the rights which a solemn treaty had guaranteed to the Church and to themselves according to the rules of loyalty and good faith.
39. We address Our special greetings to the Catholic parents. Their rights and duties as educators, conferred on them by God, are at present the stake of a campaign pregnant with consequences. The Church cannot wait to deplore the devastation of its altars, the destruction of its temples, if an education, hostile to Christ, is to profane the temple of the child's soul consecrated by baptism, and extinguish the eternal light of the faith in Christ for the sake of counterfeit light alien to the Cross. Then the violation of temples is nigh, and it will be every one's duty to sever his responsibility from the opposite camp, and free his conscience from guilty cooperation with such corruption. The more the enemies attempt to disguise their designs, the more a distrustful vigilance will be needed, in the light of bitter experience. Religious lessons maintained for the sake of appearances, controlled by unauthorized men, within the frame of an educational system which systematically works against religion, do not justify a vote in favor of non-confessional schools. We know, dear Catholic parents, that your vote was not free, for a free and secret vote would have meant the triumph of the Catholic schools. Therefore, we shall never cease frankly to represent to the responsible authorities the iniquity of the pressure brought to bear on you and the duty of respecting the freedom of education. Yet do not forget this: none can free you from the responsibility God has placed on you over your children. None of your oppressors, who pretend to relieve you of your duties can answer for you to the eternal Judge, when he will ask: "Where are those I confided to you?" May every one of you be able to answer: "Of them whom thou hast given me, I have not lost any one" (John xviii. 9).
40. Venerable Brethren, We are convinced that the words which in this solemn moment We address to you, and to the Catholics of the German Empire, will find in the hearts and in the acts of Our Faithful, the echo responding to the solicitude of the common Father. If there is one thing We implore the Lord to grant, it is this, that Our words may reach the ears and the hearts of those who have begun to yield to the threats and enticements of the enemies of Christ and His Church.
41. We have weighed every word of this letter in the balance of truth and love. We wished neither to be an accomplice to equivocation by an untimely silence, nor by excessive severity to harden the hearts of those who live under Our pastoral responsibility; for Our pastoral love pursues them none the less for all their infidelity. Should those who are trying to adapt their mentality to their new surroundings, have for the paternal home they have left and for the Father Himself, nothing but words of distrust, in gratitude or insult, should they even forget whatever they forsook, the day will come when their anguish will fall on the children they have lost, when nostalgia will bring them back to "God
who was the joy of their youth," to the Church whose paternal hand has directed them on the road that leads to the Father of Heaven.
42. Like other periods of the history of the Church, the present has ushered in a new ascension of interior purification, on the sole condition that the faithful show themselves proud enough in the confession of their faith in Christ, generous enough in suffering to face the oppressors of the Church with the strength of their faith and charity. May the holy time of Lent and Easter, which preaches interior renovation and penance, turn Christian eyes towards the Cross and the risen Christ; be for all of you the joyful occasion that will fill your souls with heroism, patience and victory. Then We are sure, the enemies of the Church, who think that their time has come, will see that their joy was premature, and that they may close the grave they had dug. The day will come when the Te Deum of liberation will succeed to the premature hymns of the enemies of Christ: Te Deum of triumph and joy and gratitude, as the German people return to religion, bend the knee before Christ, and arming themselves against the enemies of God, again resume the task God has laid upon them.
43. He who searches the hearts and reins (Psalm vii. 10) is Our witness that We have no greater desire than to see in Germany the restoration of a true peace between Church and State. But if, without any fault of Ours, this peace is not to come, then the Church of God will defend her rights and her freedom in the name of the Almighty whose arm has not shortened. Trusting in Him, "We cease not to pray and to beg" (Col. i. 9) for you, children of the Church, that the days of tribulation may end and that you may be found faithful in the day of judgment; for the persecutors and oppressors, that the Father of light and mercy may enlighten them as He enlightened Saul on the road of Damascus. With this prayer in Our heart and on Our lips We grant to you, as a pledge of Divine help, as a support in your difficult resolutions, as a comfort in the struggle, as a consolation in all trials, to You, Bishops and Pastors of the Faithful, priests, Religious, lay apostles of Catholic Action, to all your diocesans, and specially to the sick and the prisoners, in paternal love, Our Apostolic Benediction.
Given at the Vatican on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937.
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Photo: World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons.
The biggest challenge facing the Middle East is the “potential domination of the region by an Iran that is both imperial and jihadist,” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said at a New York City gathering on Thursday.
“[America must] make it clear that we are opposed to a further territorial expansion of Iran and what we are asking of the Iranians is to act like a nation, and not like crusaders,” Kissinger stated in remarks made at the America-Israel Friendship League’s 2016 Partners for Democracy Awards Dinner, where the 93-year-old statesman was the guest of honor. “What we have to see to is that Iran does not achieve such a dominant position that the whole region explodes.”
Referring to the results of Tuesday’s presidential election, Kissinger described Republican Donald Trump’s poll-defying victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton a “revolution against conventional wisdom.”
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Living with Down's syndrome in Kinshasa, DRC
In Democratic Republic of Congo, those living with the condition are challenging misunderstandings about it.
by Kait Bolongaro
Solange Mampia, right, has struggled to raise her daughter Elvine Misiombo in Kinshasa [Al Jazeera]
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo - In a suburb of Kinshasa, a tightknit community gathers for lunch in a backyard. It is one of the few spaces in the city where its members go unnoticed and their families enjoy a short reprieve from daily discrimination.
Traditionally believed to be evil spirits, people living with Down's syndrome are excluded from Congolese society, taunted by their peers.
"We are in Africa. We have beliefs - mystical and religious - that go against what science tells us," says Dr Gerrye Mubungu, a geneticist in Kinshasa.
"We say that if someone is born with a disability, it is either witchcraft or a spiritual issue that's the root of the problem."
Educating the public about Down's syndrome is a priority for activists such as Aimee Luzayadio, the founder of Jean V Espoir et Compassion (Jesco), the first association in DRC dedicated to supporting people with Down's syndrome and their families.
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"For Jesco, it's very important to explain that it's not the parents' fault, it's not the child's fault - it's just an extra chromosome," she says.
"The biggest difficulty is to get these people out of isolation and change society."
Now, individuals with Down's syndrome and their supporters - family, doctors, and activists - are pushing for a shift in how they are seen in the country.
Dressed in bright colours, Solange Mampia smiles as she tells the story of raising her daughter, Elvine Misiombo. Her positivity hides the discrimination she and 22-year-old Elvine have faced.
"When I was in the hospital, nobody [from my family] came to visit," she tells Al Jazeera. "It still breaks my heart."
Convinced that Solange couldn't have healthy babies, Elvine's father left her to raise their two daughters alone.
"[Elvine's birth] is the reason we divorced," Solange explains. "According to her father, she is useless so she had to be abandoned."
Dr Claude Kayembe, another genetics specialist, says that many couples separate after the birth of a disabled child and the mothers are often blamed for the condition.
"Even if the literature says an older mother is at fault, a man can also cause [Down's syndrome]," he explains. "In information campaigns, we have to make sure that we don't say that it is only the woman who is the cause since men are also responsible."
As the condition is misunderstood, raising a child with Down's syndrome in Kinshasa is an uphill battle. From curious onlookers to bullies who call Elvine a "witch" and "cursed", and throw stones at her, it is hard to live a normal, anonymous life.
"Wherever we pass, people look at her and ask what kind of person she is," explains Solange.
Elvine keeps busy at a special education school where she has learned how to sew and make dolls.
"I like fashion," says Elvine. "I choose what I wear and my favourite outfit is a dress with a belt."
She also helps her mother at her stall in the market. When Solange has small errands to run, she can leave Elvine alone to manage it.
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"If there is a client who comes, the other vendors are next to her, but she knows the prices - as long as the exchanges are small," says Solange.
While some customers might try to cheat her daughter, Solange isn't too worried.
"She has a strong character and will get angry," she laughs.
"I like to sell at the market," adds Elvine.
Solange credits prayer with strengthening her resolve to empower her daughter and ensure her independence.
"It's a heavy burden I have to bear until the end. When I will no longer be alive, she will know how to take care of herself. This is the most important [thing]."
Overcoming medical problems
While life expectancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is 60 years, local physicians agree that many Down's syndrome patients die before their second birthday owing to heart problems. At 45, Blaise Kanza is an anomaly.
"He is healthy, but he has headaches and stomach problems. With the little [income] that we have, we are usually able to afford his medication," says Raymond Mafuala, Blaise's brother.
"But we prefer to die of hunger [if necessary] to protect his health."
Before attending one of Jesco's information sessions, Blaise's family didn't know that he had Down's syndrome.
"Since his birth, there have been clues," explains Raymond. "We were worried, but we didn't know where we could go to for an explanation."
Raymond Mafuala, left, watches his brother Blaise Kanza draw. The family is supportive of Blaise's passion for art [Kait Bolongaro/Al Jazeera]
Diagnosing Down's syndrome costs about $500 in Kinshasa and DNA tests are processed in Belgium because of a lack of equipment in Kinshasa. Such examinations are expensive for most Congolese families, who earned a yearly average income of $410 in 2015.
"Exams cost a minimum of $500 and if you include educational and other medical support, I can't see how a parent with a Congolese income would be able to pay for this," says Dr Kayembe.
Blaise hasn't let his late diagnosis interfere with his development. He enjoys drawing - earning him the nickname "the artist" at home. His family hopes he will continue to excel in art.
"The entire house is happy when my brother succeeds," says Raymond, glancing over at Blaise.
The 45-year-old is also an avid football fan and plays the sport with his brother, who coaches a local team.
"My brother is my coach," says Blaise in Lingala, a national language. "My favourite team is Simba [from Kinshasa] and my favourite player is Cristiano Ronaldo."
However, his love for the game has to be kept within the confines of his neighbourhood. The brothers once attended a match, but the crowd became hostile towards Blaise so they had to leave.
"Considering the lack of security at the stadium, we are afraid to bring him there," Raymond explains.
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When they are seated side by side, one can see that Thierry and Mami Mayamona are siblings. They grew up together in Kinshasa but Mami wasn't accepted by everyone in the community.
"Living with someone with a disability isn't easy," says Thierry about his experience growing up with his sister. "The term Down's syndrome - we haven't used these words for long. At the time, they were called Mongols."
After their father's death, Thierry Mayamona, left, became his sister Mami's guardian [Kait Bolongaro/Al Jazeera]
Mami's father was her biggest advocate. Unlike many people living with Down's syndrome in DRC, Mami attended a mainstream primary school where she learned basic literacy skills.
"I like to read, draw, and write," says Mami in a mixture of French and Lingala.
She has also taught herself how to sew, a pastime that has grown into a passion.
"I use a [sewing] machine and take [people's] measurements," explains the 35-year-old.
After their father's death, Thierry became her guardian. Mami discontinued her formal education due to the family's difficult financial situation.
"My father had integrity," Thierry says. "He supported [Mami] so that she could be prepared to overcome everything that could be thrown at her, including insults and bad names."
Determined to help Mami find her place in society, Thierry became the general secretary at Jesco. He hopes his sister will achieve her long-term goals.
"I would like to see my sister become a seamstress or manage a shop, doing what she sees as a priority in her life," he says.
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Pushing for change
At first, Marie Ampioje hesitates to speak about her youngest child, Djames Elonza, who hides behind his mother's chair. Grabbing her purse, she brandishes a photo of her son as an infant, taken after he was diagnosed with Down's syndrome and her words begin flowing.
"I am happy every moment I am with [Djames]," she says. "He is the child that is most attached to me."
Djames plays a central role in his family, which includes his father. Ampioje and her husband have stayed together, raising Djames with their other six children.
"When I was at the hospital with my husband, we were given information [about Down's syndrome] and he took responsibility," she explains.
Marie Ampioje, left, stands with her son Djames Elonza, holding a photo from shortly after his diagnosis with Down syndrome [ Kait Bolongaro/ Al Jazeera]
Despite a supportive family, growing up in Kinshasa isn't easy for Djames. The 11-year-old plays with friends in his community, but he is still taunted for being different.
"In the neighbourhood, everyone knows him. But if someone mocks him, I go and speak to [the person] and I explain why this child is different," she says.
Accepting Djames was an emotional journey for Marie, who is proactive in advocating for her son's rights.
"As soon as I understood, I accepted my child. So I ask other parents to try to understand, to love their child, and to help [their children] integrate into society," she tells Al Jazeera.
Teaming up with parents such as Marie, Jesco is also lobbying the government to bring about policy change.
"Our goal is to raise awareness about Down's syndrome to attract our leaders' attention so that they find a solution for these people," says founder Aimee Luzayadio.
"My priority is that they can find a place in Congolese society. These individuals aren't 'Mongols' - they are Congolese."
Kait Bolongaro is a 2016 fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation's Africa Great Lakes Reporting Initiative.
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Whether it’s early in the morning, during the school day or after school, at least two thirds of the boys at Allen-Stevenson participate in orchestra and instrumental lessons.
Early morning rehearsals provide more than just the obvious chance for the musicians to play their instruments. Boys arrive excited to be at school connecting and catching up on the latest before the rehearsal begins. What is striking is the responsibility these boys take for arriving early, having their instrument and music with them, undertaking their own warm up and being ready when Orchestra Director Randy Schrade officially begins the rehearsal.
At the Middle School orchestra rehearsal, Mr. Schrade talked to the fifth and sixth graders about how they are still growing as a group. He encouraged them to take risks and to be willing to make mistakes, rather than not playing a more challenging section. "I want to hear your mistakes. That way we can address them sooner!" He talked about the upcoming performance for the children who would be visiting from PS 83 and how wonderful it was for them to have the opportunity to share the vision of music with their little guests.
Watching the boys work together, carefully listening and watching each other to create the desired sound was powerful.
After practice, a few boys, some of whom play instruments outside of school as well, shared why they joined the orchestra and what they have learned by being a part of the music program.
Julian Cohen ’22, violinist, said, “My brother played the violin and I heard him play a song that I thought, ’if I can create that it would be amazing’.” I tried the guitar and drums too. What I like about orchestra is that it’s not just a solo you are playing, it’s part of a group…you’re blending with others. You can’t be too loud or too quiet.
Philip Negrin ’23, cellist, said “My older brother plays in the orchestra, so I wanted to too. You really have to concentrate and watch the conductor. It’s also a nice way to start the school day.”
Nick Hutfilz ’22, cellist, said, “I wanted to play Harry Potter and Star Wars, both of which I love. Being a part of the orchestra is cool, because you are with other people, while working out your part by listening. I’ve made friends from other grades too.
"These boys often are not content to play just one instrument but branch into two or three," observes Mr. Schrade. “The piano and guitar complement the single line instrument very well. I grew up playing the cello and piano until I started having to reallocate time later in life. We have some composer/conductors here in our student body who have played more than three instruments.”
The science is established. Music helps the brain to develop and to organize multiple activities, and to multitask eventually. It can provide the "sticky factor" when learning in other disciplines. It motivates when you’re working, and it can power your dream world.
Mr. Schrade likes to throw analogies and metaphors in his rehearsals. "Music is skiing down a mountain! You look for the "plumb line" to optimize the thrill, but you look for the detours to make it beautiful and memorable!" Music is water-skiing: You’re hanging out there until the boat suddenly pulls you up and off you go! It’s "sound math"! Liquid language! It’s your happy place that you can design and shape! You can meet with your friends and do something that galvanizes and synergizes your energies. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but the quality of the parts matters! The perfect chord is a state of peace and tranquility, a safe haven for any young growing man. Music is fortiter et recte embodied. It is also an emotional hug when you need one, or better, one that you can give to others who are seeking to engage.”
Mr. Schrade knows this experience from several perspectives, as a student of Allen-Stevenson, a member of a performing family and as a teacher/director who came back to Allen-Stevenson after seeing the world and earning his MA in music theory and performance at Yale. Perhaps he knows something about finding the inner line!
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[Update: Video drawing too] WhatsApp Beta adds image drawing and stickers, bigger emojis, front-facing flash, one-finger video zoom
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In version 2.16.269 beta of WhatsApp, the ability to draw and add stickers has been added to videos as well. Record a video with WhatsApp's built-in camera (again, this is
1 Front-facing flash and One-finger video zoom
2 Image drawing and Stickers
3 Bigger emojis
4 Telegram links
WhatsApp's developers suffer from a bit of a delay when it comes to updating their changelogs on the Play Store. Yesterday, they pushed version 2.16.262 (followed by 2.16.263) to the beta channel on the Play Store, but the changelog mentioned features we've seen in v2.16.230 like forwarding to multiple contacts and frequent chats, but didn't say anything about the new feature that was really newly implemented in 2.16.262: image drawing, nor did it say anything about the big emojis we've been seeing since 2.16.256. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's start with the official changelog.
• When sharing or forwarding messages, you can now send to multiple chats at once
• Chats you frequently contact now appear when forwarding or sharing messages
• While recording videos, slide your finger up or down to zoom in and out
• A new front-facing flash helps you capture selfies in the dark
Front-facing flash and One-finger video zoom
From the changelog, we've already talked about forwarding or sharing with multiple contacts as well as frequent chats when they rolled out in 2.16.230. We're not sure when exactly the other two were added, they might have been there since 230 too, or they may be more recent. The important part though is that they're now there in 2.16.262 (and 263).
For the front-facing flash, the screen will light up white when taking a selfie, acting thus as a make-shift flash to better illuminate your face in dark environments. And when you're holding the record button to capture a video, you just need to slide your finger up and down to zoom in and out. This may sound familiar to all of you Snapchat users, but everyone is now copying this gesture, including Instagram and WhatsApp.
Keep in mind though that both features only work in WhatsApp's camera, ie you will need to tap the camera icon in the text entry box at the bottom of the chat and not the attachment icon from the top and then the camera. I know that's confusing, but the latter launches your phone's default camera app while the former is the one that goes into the WhatsApp cam interface.
Image drawing and Stickers
We've known WhatsApp was going to add image drawing and stickers for a while now (you could even turn on the option by installing a third-party app if your phone was rooted). But it was enabled for all without any hacks in 2.16.262.
After you take a photo with the WhatsApp camera (check the section above for the camera distinction), you will be able to not only crop said image like before, but also add a sticker to it, type text, and even annotate and draw on top of it.
Stickers are all the rage now and WhatsApp isn't reinventing the wheel here, but it's all well done, with lots of stickers and text that you can resize, move, and rotate, and a full RGB spectrum of colors for text and drawings. There's an Undo option too, should you want to go back one or several steps.
Bigger emojis
WhatsApp has added one small bonus that all you emoji lovers will sure appreciate — I know I dig it. Remember how sending a red heart results in a big emoji that's significantly larger than the others? This is basically the same idea, but just not as large as the red heart.
Single emojis in messages used to appear the same way as all emojis (see the laughing face with tears in the left screenshot below). But in 2.16.256, bigger emojis were implemented so that these single ones would appear a little larger (see the same emoji in the middle screenshot). Cool, eh?
Left: Before 2.16.256 Middle and Right: 2.16.256
Even better, there are now a few different sizes, which appear with one emoji (large), two emojis (medium), three emojis (small), and then 4 and above (regular size, same as emojis within text messages). Obviously, this works whether you're sending the same emoji or a combination of different ones.
And for those of you lovers, the single red heart is now even bigger than the bigger emojis, you could say it's biggerer or the biggerest.
Telegram links
Do you remember that big story last year about WhatsApp blocking Telegram links? Well, I'm not exactly sure when, but WhatsApp has started allowing Telegram links back again inside messages. Maybe these were allowed back months ago, maybe it's only recently.
All of these changes are live in the latest WhatsApp betas that you can grab either by joining the official Play Store program then letting the app update by its own on the Play Store, or by grabbing the APK for v2.16.263 directly from APK Mirror.
In version 2.16.269 beta of WhatsApp, the ability to draw and add stickers has been added to videos as well. Record a video with WhatsApp's built-in camera (again, this is the one you get from the camera icon in the text box at the bottom of each chat) by holding the capture the button. Then when you're done, WhatsApp will serve the same interface to draw and insert text and stickers on top of the video as it does with images. Anything you add is static though, so keep that in mind if your hand moved a lot while recording.
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India’s stricken Jet Airways suspends all operations
Business > India > India’s stricken Jet Airways suspends all operations
By Peter HUTCHISON, published 17 April 2019 at 15h29 BST, updated on 17 April 2019 at 21h42 BST.
Indian passengers at the Jet Airways counter check the status of their trips, at the international airport in Mumbai on April 17, 2019, the day of the carrier's last flight© AFP PUNIT PARANJPE
India’s debt-stricken Jet Airways halted all of its operations Wednesday after failing to secure emergency funding from lenders, leaving it teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
“Jet Airways is compelled to cancel all its international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,” it said in statement.
Jet had asked a consortium of lenders led by the State Bank of India to urgently provide four billion rupees ($57.5 million) but said that this had not been forthcoming.
“This has been a very difficult decision but without interim funding, the airline is simply unable to conduct flight operations in a manner that delivers to the very reasonable expectations of its guests, employees, partners and service providers,” it added.
The airline was once India’s second-biggest by market share but is on the brink of collapse with debts of more than $1 billion.
Jet was operating just five planes on Wednesday because it could not pay its bills, down from a fleet of more than 120 at its peak.
The carrier has cancelled hundreds of flights in recent weeks, stranding thousands of passengers.
It has repeatedly defaulted on loans and failed to pay staff in recent months.
The consortium took control of Jet in March, pledging to give $218 million in “immediate funding support” as part of a debt resolution plan.
But they have failed to release most of the money and the banks also failed to agree how to proceed after a meeting of several hours on Monday.
The SBI-led consortium is looking for a buyer for Jet and a deadline passed on Friday for prospective bidders to express an interest in acquiring a 75 percent stake in the carrier.
The SBI is yet to announce a shortlist of prospective bidders but Indian media said four were in the running including Etihad Airways, which already owns a 24 percent stake.
“Jet Airways will now await the bid finalisation process by SBI and the consortium of Indian Lenders,” the airline said, adding that it hoped to resume services “as soon as possible”.
A collapse of Jet, and the loss of more than 20,000 jobs, would deal a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pro-business reputation as he seeks a second term in ongoing national elections.
Jet CEO Vinay Dube paid tribute to staff in an email to employees and said the airline “must be given another chance” to fly.
But analysts said buyers would be reluctant to buy a grounded airline that had lost most of its airport slots.
“Is someone willing to take the risk to give this comatose body an electric jolt? I don’t see it happening. At best it might come back in a smaller role,” said Devesh Agarwal, editor of Bangalore Aviation.
Jet’s downfall
Bad investments, competition from several low-cost carriers, high oil prices and a weak rupee have led to Jet’s current financial predicament, experts say.
Mismanagement has also plagued the airline.
Analysts trace the start of Jet’s financial problems to its 2006 purchase of Air Sahara for $500 million in cash.
Founder Naresh Goyal reportedly ignored the advice of associates who said the cost was too much.
Goyal, 69, launched Jet in 1993 after the Indian government passed a series of reforms designed to make the economy more market-driven.
The Mumbai-based carrier quickly gained a reputation for introducing new initiatives — Jet was the first Indian airline to offer a frequent flyer programme and in-flight entertainment.
But it began to take a battering from new, well-run budget airlines including IndiGo, GoAir and SpiceJet, which were founded between 2005 and 2006.
Alarm bells about Jet’s financial predicament started to ring loudly in August when it failed to report its quarterly earnings or pay staff, including pilots.
It later reported a loss of $85 million.
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Lingering questions still exist
By Sydney Mayhew
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The 2008 San Francisco 49ers ended their season with a dramatic finish in front of their home crowd this past December against the Washington Redskins 27-24, and ended their season with an exclamation point with a 7-9 record under Mike Singletary.
The entire season following Mike Nolan's departure in October was one of hope, optimism and reinvention in my opinion. No one assistant coach other than our Mike Singletary could have pulled off what he did with the morale of the team at a season low and literally saved it from a cardiac arrest.
His old fashioned approach and steel like demeanor on the field and within the locker room compelled the players to reach for new strengths and exercise the penned-up aggression that had been regulated under Mike Nolan.
Singletary injected simplicity back into the defense and the offense with granting defensive coordinator Greg Manusky autonomy to run it with the basic 3-4 alignment scheme in mind. Mike then exerted his influence over then offensive coordinator Mike Martz by insisting that the team run the ball more and change the tempo to fit a more of a hybrid West-Coast type scheme.
So we begin the first year of the Mike Singletary regime. It will be a season that is filled with immense optimism as we look ahead with immediate accomplishments achieved from the remnants of 2008; the new 49ers are poised to breakout and challenge the emboldened Arizona Cardinals for the rights of this division.
Saying goodbye to Mike Martz was a little interesting two days following the end of the 49er regular season. If at all anything he did improve the offense immensely as it ranked dead last in every conceivable statistical category the year before. The 49ers averaged nearly 74 yards more net per game, improved from being last in passing yardage to 18th and increased their scoring by 120 points over the previous season.
So the search began with Mike Singletary indicating that although Mike Martz was an exceptional offensive coordinator, he didn't share the same philosophies and vision to be more intoned smash-mouth physicality he was enamored with. As you witnessed during the season the changing of the quarterback from J.T O'Sullivan at Singletary's request to Shaun Hill indicated the sudden shift in this renowned philosophy. Out with Martz, Singletary also let go running backs coach Tony Nathan and quarterback's coach Ted Tollner.
Mike was determined to set the tone for a refreshing look on offense that complimented his mindset. He started that with hiring former Super Bowl 49er alumni fullback Tom Rathman as our new running backs coach a position he held earlier in San Francisco under then head coach Steve Mariucci. In (1998-99), Rathman had the 49ers leading the NFL in rushing and finished second in 2001 and two other top-(eight) finishes.
Tom was just cleaning out his desk as an Oakland Raider coach when he got the call and accepted. I couldn't agree more on this pick as our new running backs coach and possibly even as a coordinator someday down the road. This is a professional player turned legendary coach that has a long consistent history of success. His articulate record as being both for the 49ers indicates that it will continue and he will bring about a positive influence on our main offensive weapon in Frank Gore.
Mike Singletary continues to add to his staff in a peculiar move that involved his nephew as Vantz Singletary was hired as the new inside linebacker's coach, which moves Jason Tarver over to coach the outside linebackers. In effect his nephew assumes Mike's old position while he assisted Mike Nolan. Vantz has been a successful collegiate coach over the past 17 seasons and helped lead Buffalo to it's first ever bowl appearance and a 2008 Mid-American Conference, now he has hopes of making the transition to the NFL.
Former teammate of Mike Singletary, Al Harris was also added. Harris was once a defensive lineman who co-stared with Singletary on the Chicago Bears and now has the title of pass rush specialist coach. This will be his first debut as a coach, and Mike believes his teaching and mentoring abilities will add spice to our beleaguered pass rush.
The quest for the right offensive coordinator seemed like it would go on forever. What started with former St. Louis Rams head coach Scott Linehan turning down the offer after a series of interviews fueled even more hype when others were considered. From the failure to land Linehan, the 49ers gave interviews and interest to Dan Reeves, Rob Chudzinski, Rick Dennison, Hue Jackson, Clyde Christenson and finally Jeff Jagodzinski.
So what turned out to be something Singletary wanted done within a week turned into a month. The process began to look like the 49ers were settling for anyone that appeared out of the bargain basement. It was as if the candidates were reluctant to sign on to a team with such a troubled history and even more of a franchise now under the supervision of a very young executive in Jed York. When all the dust had settled the announcement of the hiring of Jimmy Raye reached the NFL Network and beyond.
The San Francisco 49ers made a three-year deal with the former New York Jets running backs coach to be the trigger man on our impoverished offense. The 62-year old well traveled coach has been within the framework of this great league for 32 years, having been an assistant with the 49ers way back in 1977. He has been employed among 10 different teams, in various coaching positions, including 11 seasons as an offensive coordinator for six of those teams. The most recent coordinator position was with the Oakland Raiders under our very own Norv Turner in 2004-05.
He strikes a balance in Mike Singletary's mind. He is someone that is always thinking about running the ball and allowing it to help set up the pass. Some are critical of Raye as not being an upgrade over the fired Mike Martz and have even made predictions that their decision to do so would cost them dearly. Raye does not share the same successes as Martz has had and has never coached an offense that ranked even in the top 10, suggesting that we may see an offense on the scale of Jim Hostler all over again?
Even in his most recent tenure as an offensive coordinator with the Oakland Raiders he was not allowed to call the plays because of Norv Turner wearing the headset. Had the 49ers wanted experience why not just settle with Ted Tollner as your offensive coordinator? Be it anything Singletary is under the impression that Jimmy Raye is a duplicate of his ideologies and principles of power running football.
Surely Mike Singletary comes from a time where defense wins Super Bowls and he is assembling a staff that is tutored in that direction. Having hired two personal assistants already and looking at reconfiguring an offense that stresses on time of possession in moving the chains in a methodical manner.
Can we afford to be just one-dimensional as some within the NFL are thinking we are moving towards? With a passing attack far improved over 2007, we have young talent abundant in making big plays and finishing games with high-scoring. Jimmy Raye is a coach mired in relative mediocrity as he hasn't led anything that can be labeled as electrifying on offense.
Mike Johnson was hired as the new quarterback's coach, having served as the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver's coach from 2006-07.Prior to that he was the quarterback's coach in Atlanta for three years and coached the likes of Michael Vick and has even called the offensive plays from time to time there. Prior to that quarterback's coach to the San Diego Chargers where he coached Doug Flutie. A positive pick on Singletary's part in my opinion and one that is going to help sort the differences between Shaun Hill and Alex Smith once and for all.
Still lingering questions abound as to how the 49ers will remain a constant threat on offense with someone that has lots of experience but not quite enough championships and top rated rankings to talk about of. Jimmy Raye is a coach full of personal convictions and beliefs like Mike Singletary is, but is that enough to make us competitive within our division against juggernauts like Arizona and Seattle?
The endless carousel that has been this coordinator position needs to come to a stop. We have to find someone that is creative, definitive and sharp. Jimmy Raye has many years of expertise and knowledge of concepts and schemes. Is he the man that strikes that perfect balance though? And if he can't do that on more than an occasion can he shift gears in mid-form and keep the pressure on with third down conversion successes. We will have to wait and see.
Sources of Information: Mercury News.com, SF Gate.com, Inside Bay Area.com, NFL.com and my own personal analysis and opinion.
The views within this article are those of the writer and, while just as important, are not necessarily those of the site as a whole.
By: jim
Date: Mar 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Comment: I really think mikes taken this team under his wing and if we get player like percy harvin out of florida we could line either him or gore at wr for twwenty to twenty five play and use them both for another 20 to 25 at running back.
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Study Identifies Low-dose Aspirin’s Mechanisms of Action in Reducing Cancer Mortality
NEW ORLEANS —Low-dose aspirin may lower the risk for cancer metastasis and mortality by inhibiting both COX-1 and COX-2 pathways, according to data presented at the 13th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Sept. 28–Oct. 1.
The involvement of the COX-2 pathway is new, as prior studies suggested that low-dose aspirin lowers cancer risk only by inhibiting the COX-1 pathway.
"Studies have shown that aspirin administration for five or more years reduces the incidence of all cancers by 38 percent. This benefit is seen even at the low doses of aspirin [e.g., 81 mg daily] required to inhibit platelet aggregation via inhibiting the COX-1 pathway, a finding consistent with the known participation of platelets in the metastatic process," said Pierre Massion, MD, professor of medicine and cancer biology in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.
In this study, Massion and his colleagues Oates and Boutaud, sought to determine whether low-dose aspirin, in addition to blocking platelet function by inhibiting the COX-1 pathway, also reduced levels of the pro-metastatic molecule prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) through inhibition of the COX-2 pathway.
"We found that the potency of low-dose aspirin in inhibiting COX-2 in the tumor cells is as great or greater than its potency as an inhibitor of COX-1 in the platelet," Massion said. "This indicates that at a cellular level, aspirin is not selective for the platelet, but could also block COX-2 in cancers.
"The conventional wisdom held that at low doses, aspirin is selective for the platelet and that it does not block extra-platelet COXs. Thus, the finding that it blocked PGE2 production is likely surprising to most investigators in the field," said Massion. "Our findings may explain how even a very low dose of aspirin taken daily can produce such a substantial reduction in cancer deaths and metastasis."
Using three lung adenocarcinoma cell lines, the researchers first found that the doses of aspirin required to inhibit COX-2-dependent PGE2 production were equal to or less than the doses required for the inhibition of COX-1-dependent platelet aggregation.
Next, using urine samples of 54 subjects who took the low-dose 81 mg aspirin tablets for two weeks, the researchers demonstrated that aspirin inhibited PGE2 production by 45 percent and reduced the levels of a metabolite of PGE2, prostacyclin, by 37 percent.
The researchers also found that by blocking platelet COX-1, aspirin inhibits the adherence of platelets to the cancer cells to prevent metastasis, suggesting that the two mechanisms described act in concert to reduce the risk for cancer mortality.
This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health. Massion declares no conflicts of interest.
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Colorado is quickly being discovered as America’s gem of the interior. While cities like Denver and Boulder are evolving to welcome tech giants and make room for an influx of young professionals and microbreweries, Colorado Springs remains largely unchanged. With a more “down home” feeling and access to some of the most striking scenery in the country, Colorado Springs could be your perfect getaway. Colorado Springs has a variety of pet-friendly options from fine resorts to affordable hotels.
Note: Pets left unattended at these Colorado Springs hotels will promptly be given belly-rubs and excessive amounts of treats.
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A five-diamond award-winning hotel, The Broadmoor is arguably the most well-known luxury hotel in the state. While The Broadmoor has multiple “campuses”, the main and original building is the only one with a pro-pet policy. It’s worth noting they do have a pet fee and only allow for a maximum of two pets per room. There are regulations, but that shouldn’t be discouraging as guests have praised the treatment their four-legged friends receive. Much like a kid’s club, The Broadmoor also has a Pet Club to take care of your furry friends while human guests enjoy The Broadmoor’s numerous adventures, pools, spa, and golf course. The Broadmoor also owns the largest events center in Colorado Springs, named the World Arena, which welcomes singers, comedians, and educational speakers each month.
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Fairfield Inn and Suites Colorado Springs North
Equipped with a fitness center, guests and their pooches can work off the free breakfast offered at this dog-friendly hotel.
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The Drury Inn Suites Colorado Springs, southeast of the Air Force Academy, does have a weight limit on pets (a common but unfortunate policy, big dogs need love too) but their pet per night fee is very reasonable.
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A Wyndham Grand Hotel, The Mining Exchange is located inside of a redesigned historic building right in the heart of downtown Colorado Springs — the name coming from it being a former stock exchange for mining companies. The polished granite front steps lead into the grand lobby packed with weathered leather furniture and a refurbished grand-piano that seems like it may have had a past life in a Western saloon. When not inside one of the tasteful pet-friendly rooms, guests and their pups can grab a drink from one of the two bars and sip the night away on the outdoor courtyard.
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Shutterstock wound up buying both companies.
As company founder-CEO Jon Oringer explained today on Bloomberg TV, his firm initially approached music licensing service PremiumBeat and European photo agency Rex Features only for potential partnerships. But at this early stage of the new year, he now owns both.
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White House explored demoting Fed's Powell
Washington | The White House explored the legality of demoting Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell in February, soon after President Donald Trump talked about firing him, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House counsel's office weighed the legal implications of stripping Mr Powell of his chairmanship and leaving him as a Fed governor, the people said, in what would be an unprecedented move. A successor would have to be nominated by Mr Trump and confirmed by the Senate.
Mr Trump's team conducted the legal analysis and came to a conclusion that has remained closely held within the White House, the people said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. It isn't clear whether Mr Trump directed the legal review, and the people didn't describe the outcome.
A White House official who declined to be identified said he wouldn't comment on what he called alleged discussions from months ago. Mr Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said demoting Mr Powell isn't currently under consideration.
Fed spokeswoman Michelle Smith said in an email: "Under the law, a Federal Reserve Board chair can only be removed for cause."
While Mr Trump still regularly expresses his displeasure with the Fed in tweets, talk of removing Mr Powell has subsided. Mr Trump told Mr Powell in a March phone call, "I guess I'm stuck with you," according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Federal Reserve Act provides explicit protection for all Fed governors against removal by the president except "for cause.'' Courts have interpreted the phrase to require proof of some form of legal misconduct or neglect of basic duties. A disagreement over monetary policy wouldn't meet that bar.
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However, it's less clear whether the president can demote a chair, removing him or her from the top position while leaving the person as a Fed governor.
Scott Alvarez, who served as the Fed's general counsel for more than a decade until 2017, said Mr Powell may be protected thanks to changes Congress made to the law four decades ago.
Up to that point, the president simply named the Fed chairman from among governors already confirmed by the Senate. But in 1977, lawmakers amended the act, requiring the Senate to confirm chair and vice chair nominees for four-year terms separately from the confirmation of their governorships, which run as long as 14 years.
Mr Alvarez said the courts would likely interpret the 1977 change as removing not only the president's unilateral authority to name the chair, but also the ability to dismiss him or her without cause. There is, however, no precedent for such a move and no way to know how the courts would rule if the Fed, or Mr Powell himself, challenged the demotion.
The White House legal team developed its analysis after Mr Trump in December privately discussed firing Mr Powell following an interest rate increase that roiled global financial markets. The Fed has raised rates seven times since Mr Trump took office.
Fed policy makers are meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. No rate move is expected immediately, though economists and investors generally agree the central bank will cut borrowing costs this year.
'I disagree with him entirely'
Mr Powell, who became chairman in February 2018, has drawn Mr Trump's ire for not being more accommodating of his trade war with China. The president has repeatedly complained that the Fed, under Mr Powell, has stymied growth and financial markets by raising rates.
"He's my pick -- and I disagree with him entirely," Mr Trump said last week in an interview with ABC News. "Frankly, if we had a different person in the Federal Reserve that wouldn't have raised interest rates so much we would have been at least a point and a half higher."
Mr Trump had a casual dinner with Mr Powell and Fed vice chairman Richard Clarida in February, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the time. The Fed released a statement shortly after the meeting saying that the group discussed the US economy's performance and outlook, but that Mr Powell didn't share his expectations for monetary policy.
Mr Powell told the CBS News program 60 Minutes in March that he didn't think it was appropriate to comment on Mr Trump. But Mr Powell also said he doesn't think the president has the authority to fire him. "The law is clear that I have a four-year term. And I fully intend to serve it," he said.
Even if he could demote Mr Powell, Mr Trump can't choose the chair of the Fed's rate-setting panel, the Federal Open Market Committee. By tradition, committee members select the Fed chair as their chairman, but they are free to choose anyone on the panel. In the absence of a chair, the committee's vice chair -- traditionally the president of the New York Fed -- would run the meetings.
Currently, five of the Fed's seven seats are filled, and Mr Trump is weighing candidates for the other two seats. Mr Trump has named four people since last year for those two seats, none of whom made it through Senate confirmation.
Campaign against central bankers
By voicing his frustrations with the Fed, Mr Trump breaks with at least two decades of tradition of presidents refraining from publicly commenting on monetary policy. Presidents, however, have reportedly applied pressure on rates.
Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker recounted in a recent memoir that in 1984, President Ronald Reagan ordered him not to raise rates before elections. Former President George Bush urged Alan Greenspan to lower interest rates in a June 1992 interview with the New York Times.
Mr Trump on Tuesday took his pressure campaign against central bankers to the European Central Bank. The president accused the euro area and China of weakening their currencies to gain an economic advantage, calling out ECB president Mario Draghi for pledging monetary stimulus just before the Fed meeting this week.
Mr Draghi said at the institution's annual forum in Sintra, Portugal, that "additional stimulus will be required" if the economic outlook for the 19-nation euro area doesn't improve.
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Eragon (2006) (part 7 of 13)
by Arya · September 16, 2007
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Now it’s back to Gil’ead, famous site of the King’s personal Camp Gitmo. There’s a totally plagiarised shot of the Urgals (snort) making and sharpening their weapons. And man, how I wish I were watching The Two Towers right about now.
Durza teleports into the room (literally—he uses magic), and gives us an utterly pointless scene where he stabs one of the Urgals (chuckle) through the foot with his own weapon. He reveals that “the farmboy” escaped from the Ra’zac, and tells them to go get him. Look, Durza, the Ra’zac failed, and it’s pretty obvious that the Urgals are nowhere near as powerful as them. So why aren’t you doing this yourself? Do you want this new rider to win, or something?
“But my Lord, there are too many! They cannot all be armed in time!”
Cut to Brom, who’s apparently psychic, because he tells Eragon that Durza will send his Urgals (giggle) after them. He says they have to go to a place called Daret. From there, they can get to the mountains where the Varden are hiding out.
He wants Eragon to instruct Saphira—not ask, instruct—to fly overhead and watch out for danger, which he does. So… she can’t understand English, then? As she takes off, we see the Ra’zac watching her from a nearby clifftop. What? How in the hell did they get here? It must be that offscreen teleportation again. Everyone in this movie can do it.
“Wait, how did we get here? You gotta admit it defies all logic.”
Eragon and Brom ride off at high speed, which is followed by a brief montage of them travelling. (In the book, the horses could gallop all night without resting, and that didn’t kill them because fantasy horses are basically just machines.) Next up, they’re riding through a misty field. Brom suddenly pulls Eragon close and tells him something’s wrong. They ride off the path, where suddenly it’s bright and sunny. Continuity is for losers!
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I did. I turned my brain off, looked at the pretty graphic flying scenes, and drooled. I hated Arya, I hated Eragon, and come to think of it, I hated Murgtagh as well for butchering the whole character. And then I suddenly hated the frankly immature source material, but I did like the graphics. Saphira is… well… okay, you know what? I just realized I didn’t like anything about this movie except for a flying scene.
Quick nitpick with Page 9 of this review. The arrow continuity error is not in fact an error. If you look closely, those are clearly the fletchings and not the point, so it is facing the right way.
Not quite sure of the reason for the hate on the books, they are quite well written. Simply because the general plot arc shares similarities to Star Wars doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to read. Paolini is a rare and talented author, in my opinion on the level of or exceeding JK Rowling. The depth and background of his characters is so much more than you get with other series, and his style of writing is sophisticated and descriptive. Quite frankly, if you can’t enjoy these books, then you aren’t capable of understanding them. The movie on the other hand, is an utter disgrace. I too had high hopes for this so long ago, and now I am hoping (but not expecting) a redo for this. It has so much potential to be up there with the classics, but it will require a much longer movie. The story line is too deep to have so much cut off of it, there are subtleties that seem insignificant but turn out to play central roles. It saddens me to think that such potential could be ruined by this movie, and we may not get to see what it could have been.
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I’d argue for exceeding Rowling. While she too created a complex universe and a magnificent story, her actual writing skills were generally pretty lacking.
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/Not quite sure of the reason for the hate on the books, they are quite well written. /
/Paolini is a rare and talented author, in my opinion on the level of or exceeding JK Rowling./
Bwahahahahaha. Seriously? Here’s a question for you. How many books have you read? Any classics? Any books on writer’s craft? How many fantasy books have you read from decent authors (George RR Martin, JR Tolkien, Raymond Feist, Ursula Leguin, Diane Duane, etc.) Have you ever written anything yourself that has been put out there (not necessarily published, but at least read by more than your family & friends)? Have you ever been critiqued at all (like in a class)?
I could point out all of Eragon and Paolini’s horrible writing, over-used cliches, shallow characters, purple prose, plotless nonsense, plot holes, bad continuity, downright plagarism, lack of imagination, and examples of piss-poor author’s craft, but I doubt you could even see it for yourself, since your fan-boy glasses are on too thick.
If you ever do actually get into writing and learn a few things about the craft, try reading Eragon again. You’ll be amazed how quickly you’ll be able to look back at these two comments and be embarassed. But I can tell you, you WILL be proud of how far you’ve come.
I’ll give Eragon one point though: for the most part it’s grammar is semi-decent even if muddled into the best example of purple prose I’ve read. That alone puts it a whole league ahead of Twilight (which has all of the issues of Eragon multiplied by 10).
Yes, but the later books were really good. I loved Roran’s story arc in particular. Once he left his fan-fantasy there was a lot of creativity and the characters were much more likeable.
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I saw the movie first and had no inclination whatsoever to read the book, but as it was gifted to me by a family member I felt obligated to at least give it a try. After having read several fantasy series like Lord of The Rings (The Hobbit included), The Chronicles of Narnia, The Chronicles of Amber, The Harry Potter Series, I have also read The Hunger Games and following books(I am not sure what the trilogy is called), I found the Inheritance Cycle to be a very fresh way of writing. I have no delusions about the originality of the story, for at this point one can’t expect there to be any original stories, so someone like me enjoys books because of the way of writing. The fact that Paolini made the rough draft of Eragon when he was only fifteen makes it all the more amazing of what it became. The series as a whole showed a very intelligent way of writing with very good descriptive skills, and what seemed to me like a very thorough job of creating the fantasy world to be something believable, leaving only the most redundant details unexplained, and even those Ina believable way. I understand your “frustration” over the movie, but to bash the books is a little unfair. I challenge you to find any work that has come out in the last five years that is truly original, I guarantee you will not find any. Those of us who do enjoy movies and books have to hope that writers and directors keep making movies and writing books with new writing styles and methods of delivery that will draw attention away from the similarity of the story to another.
Ah, “there’s no such thing as originality,” a proclamation of the nonexistence of imagination made by those who can’t imagine having it. Themes and ideas might recur in fiction, but that’s vastly different to stealing characters, concepts and story arcs wholesale from other people’s stories.
Also Paolini’s excessive, florid prose is ridiculous. At one point Eragon spends a paragraph describing HIS OWN THUMBS. If you think that’s good writing, try reading some of the things he ripped off.
I’d argue that Tolkien’s prose is just as if not more ridiculous. I struggled to finish Fellowship, let alone the rest of the LOTR. Dickens also was pretty damn wordy, spending pages on unnecessary details just to get an extra penny out of his paid-by-the-word deal.
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I’m not sure if this point was addressed in the recap at all, but just in case it wasn’t, I’ve been perpetually pissed by the choice (both in the book and the film) to call the egg a ‘stone’ in an attempt to create some kind of mystery and surprise. Even Durza, Arya, and Galbatorix, characters who know what the ‘stone’ is, still call it ‘a stone’, and then suddenly switch to ‘egg’ once the audience finds out (cos we totally couldn’t guess before that. The cunning plan succeeded oh so well). Just smacks of the kind of lazy writing that Paolini’s books are rife with.
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Despite the issues with the books, I still enjoyed them. I felt Paolini did a good job ending the series with “Inheritance”. Sadly, this movie was crap, with a bad adaptation, atrocious acting, horrible special effects, and the pace of a child with ADD.
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I know this recap was posted forever ago and no one cares about Eragon anymore, but I just wanted to point out that Gilead is where Roland was from in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. So, yeah…another ripoff by Paolini.
BuddyPup
Except that Roland flat out states that it was named after the city in the Bible…so I doubt it counts as a “rip-off” from Stephen King here. I think the Lord gets first billing on that reference, such as it is
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Nice recap, was fun to read, but I have a few criticisms:
– What’s wrong with feathered dragons? :P A bit of imagination here..
– What’s wrong with peasants that wear leather vests, and other historical inaccuracies? Who cares, this is fantasy. (Now, if it causes genuine plot holes, like the butcher without fridges, okay. But then again, are you sure he couldn’t just store ice collected in winter?)
– I agree a lot is ripped off, but to say Durza is a Darth Vader Ripoff is a bit exaggerated…he fulfills the basic role of “the dragon”, (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon), which is a common trope not unique to SW.
– Isn’t Gilead a city in the bible? So your assumption that it’s copied from Gilgalad in LOTR is pretty off.
Shuvcat
Zion and Trinity (The Matrix) are from the Bible too. So is Endor (the Ewoks planet) and Zoar (the Sorceress from Masters Of The Universe). Books are fun. Try reading them.
Was that aimed at me? Why are you pretending I don’t read books?
Historical inaccuracies not directly *caused* by it being fantasy show the creators didn’t give a damn about what they were creating, and insults the audience’s intelligence. You might as well ask why people mock Patton: Lust for Glory for thinking the audience so stupid they’d mistake an American Patton tank for a German Tiger.
Re: the vests- It’s not the idea they had vests itself, but more that, like a lot of the costumes in the movie, they were very obviously made with modern materials and methods. It gave things a cheap and fake looking TV production sort of veneer*, which was all the more glaring given the contrast with the more subtle, natural, and livid-in look of the costumes in the recent (at the time) LOTR and Harry Potter movies.
While magic could in theory be used to explain some of that, in this particular world magic use/ability is too rare to be a part of daily life. In some fantasy universes magic is widespread enough to play an industrial or street-level role in civilization, but not in this world. Eragon or Durza’s fancy armor at the end might’ve plausibly had magical methods in it’s construction, but otherwise not even high-class armor or clothes (save Galbotrix or Durza’s), much less peasant clothes.
*Costumes can be made with modern materials and methods and still look good & realistic for the setting, but here no effort was made at all. They just flat out look like fake stage clothes instead of real clothes.
Mangraa
Ugh. This movie…
Ghost of Ravenstar
I actually rather enjoyed the books. Sure, they aren’t very original, but they score in enough areas to be considered at least decent pulp fantasy. What actually impresses me is how young the author is, yet how good his books are. Have any of you ever read/heard of the Maradonia Saga? That was written by somebody about the same age as Paolini, and it is easily one of the worst novels of ALL TIME. No, seriously, go look it up, you’ll see that this isn’t hyperbole. That Paolini actually hammered out an at least enjoyable series of novels that got modest critical reception at his age is really, really impressive.
Eragon was published when Paolini was nineteen, he wrote the first rough outline when he was fifteen. He was not as young as this tiresome and patently false argument makes out. His first draft was probably every bit as bad as Tesch’s work, Paolini’s parents just weren’t stupid enough to publish it in that state.
Amtension
I actually am a fan of the book series and I have to say… the movie was horrible. I don’t even care that much about half the things you point out here, and as far as ripoffs go, at this point, it becomes difficult to be original. It’s impressive enough to be able to rearrange already used ideas in an entertaining way. What I mainly hate about the movie is them ripping out dozens of core points crucial to the storyline later on, and…well basically EVERYTHING after they met up with The Varden. Half of what I was looking forward to with this movie was seeing the dwarven city, but apparently that was out of the budget.
Though I will admit the final battle was a bit of a cop-out, even if it was original. They defeat Galbatorix (who, if Eragon was a demigod, would be an entire pantheon of gods packed together) by making him feel empathy for everyone he has affected, thereby causing him to subsequently kill himself. Basically, he hadn’t managed to actually show that the king was really that bad, so he decided on a way to blatantly say “No, really! He was a bad guy!” at the last second.
… Why do I feel like that the whole ’empathy’ thing is just like how (spoilers for those few that haven’t read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yet) Harry made Voldemort feel remorse for all those he killed?
Agreed. The cop-out ending of the fourth book soured the whole thing for me. It’d be one thing if he’d always been planning on taking the empathy route but it feels more like he was struggling to find an ending that wouldn’t involve Eragon having to resort to killing.
Fun fact: far from working on a construction site, Speleers is now a producer (!). So maybe Irons set him straight after all.
I tried to finish the first book. I really did. I got up to the part–it was after they’d ran away from Gil’ead– where Eragon’s sitting being gormless before suddenly deciding to turn SAND into WATER. Of course he fails and then turns to Saphira and goes “Know how you turned all that rock into diamond? Do it again, but with water!” Don’t know if Saphira actually did it or not.
It wasn’t just the obvious and blatant theft of other fantasy series. That in itself is not always terrible. I own a game called Okami which is clearly a rip-off of Zelda: Twilight Princess and yet is extremely enjoyable to play. In this case, though, I’ve never read a book where the author does the equivalent of flipping the bird to the people who wrote the stuff he stole. My friend tells me that there’s actually a Doctor Who reference in the third book.
It’s not just the historical errors of fact, either. Most fantasy authors don’t spend much time researching the times their story is supposed to be set in. The one time I read a book where the author did get some hands-on experience of her scenes, her acknowledgments were as long as some of her chapters. But unless you’re a history freak, you can safely ignore the errors in the works of Tamora Pierce, etc. It wasn’t even the little tiny niggling details that stuck in my craw, either, though usually they make me want to bang my head against the walls. Stuff like referring to Brom’s horse as a “white” stallion who can supposedly run all night (hint: the only true white horses, albinos, would barely be able to gallop for ten minutes). Or the complete lack of grammar and consistency (there are two words for fire!) in Paolini’s “language” which is basically just a mixture of Latin and Old Norse. Or Eragon’s miraculously swift healing.No, the thing that annoyed me most was the characters. As you have pointed out in your very fine and amusing review, Eragon is little more than a whiny spoiled child who is told repeatedly how important he is and how much depends on him and yet still manages to get himself in a deadly situation every second or third chapter. He is so utterly dependent on the people around him that he forces them into situations where they can’t do anything *except* help him. Point in such: Eragon forcing Murtagh into saving Arya. There was no need for it. And it seemed so out of character for Eragon to do it. All I’d read before that suggests he had no empathy whatsoever.Saphira’s just as bad, if not worse. One thing that continually stumped me throughout the book was WHY the dragons would want to weaken themselves by binding to humans. Elves maybe I could understand; they’re extremely strong and magical and what-not. But they didn’t have to make humans Riders as well. What do the dragons get out of it? In Saphira’s case, nothing at all. Eragon is openly dismissive and arrogant towards her. “Don’t feel bad. We all screwed up. Now go carry Brom, despite the fact that I could just tie him to the saddle of his horse.” Her sickly-sweet fawning on him reminds me of a teenage girl with the hots for the school bully. The one time she shows a little bit of spine is when she’s begging him to ride her. Ugh. Her ‘wisdom’ is nothing more than a few shallow meaningless statements on fate, the future, and how lowly and pathetic humans are. Bit rich coming from a dragon who does nothing in the entire plotline except talk, fly, smash a ceiling, and turn a tomb into diamond.
Murtagh is the only person in the entire story that has any form of consistent personality and the only one who seems to realize what a dumb story he’s in. Eragon:”You killed Durza!” Murtagh: “I really, really doubt it.” Yet he too suffers from the one-dimensionalness of the other characters and is described as ‘perfectly matched to Eragon in swordplay’ despite the fact that he’s been training his entire life as opposed to Eragon’s few months. OK, rant over. Have a good day, folks.
Well, Murtagh DID smash Eragon every time they fought for real; be it magic or sword combat; so one can simply ignore that scene from Eragon or imagine that he was just screwing Eragon around – he probably realized Eragon is addicted to daily ego boosts.
“I own a game called Okami which is clearly a rip-off of Zelda: Twilight Princess”
That would be pretty clever considering that Okami was released before Twilight Princess.
dihdj
*** u
Arya wasn’t using spell in book to transport egg because, apparently, teleportation is imprecise.
Aydenkinchla
Uhhg, I hated this movie, and looking back the first book wasn’t that good either. Thankfully the sequels were got better as he got older ( hmmmmmm) and they were less “inspired by” certain works. Anyway I enjoyed your review, and thank god this movie won’t be getting a sequel.
Your worst Nightmare
Books were good, movie was terrible. Whoever wrote this recap doesn’t know what they’re talking about. People think its like Star Wars/ LOTR because they need something to pick at. What you’re saying is all fantasy movies are alike. That’s like saying all guns are alike because they shoot bullets. Very intelligent. Next time, read the book before you criticize the movie. The book was way better.
123Akamaru321
I really don’t think this webpage is really being serious.
CDiehl
First of all, this piece is specifically about the movie, because this website is about movies, and not books. It doesn’t matter how good the book was. The book could be a work of genius and it doesn’t make a lick of difference, because this is about the movie, which really did suck. Also, I’m pretty sure the author of this read the book too, and disliked it also.
Second, this movie blatantly ripped off Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. I’ll assume the book ripped off Star Wars far more than LotR, because the plot is almost an exact replica of the plot of A New Hope. I don’t believe it’s accidental or because Paolini was trying to write a “hero’s journey” type of story. It’s a “hero’s journey” story because Star Wars was one. The movie rips off LotR in terms of some of the imagery, probably because the movie was made in the hope of cashing in on the fantasy trend LotR started a few years earlier.
You’re right, the book rips off Star Wars and had similarity to LOTR too. But I wouldn’t say it ripped off LOTR. Tolkien started a whole new genre of fantasy, and there are now many Middleearth-like fantasy worlds in countless books and video games and probably movies (whose characteristics are e.g. that elves are tall beautiful humanoids rather than little fairies or goblinlike creatures, that the world is like the middle-ages plus magic, etc.). So saying it ripped of LOTR is kinda like saying it ripped off whatever the first ancient myths about dragons are.
The book was nothing like the movie the plot was extremely different and nothing like star wars
Andrew Stookey
The “Urgals”? Seriously? That brings to mind an army of nerds in big glasses and bright colors.
That awkward moment when some of the dwarves are taller than the humans.
GrandAdmiraloftheWastes
I’m sad that the most annoying line in the movie wasn’t mentioned. In the Two-Towers rip-off scene, Mr. Shade says that his urgal slaves should be like their swords “Simple and to the Point”(As he stabs the henchmen in the foot). But the swords that are being made are the least pratical fantasy bullshit weapons in the entire movie. They basically look like 7-foot bat-e-rangs complete with giganticly wide serration that serve no point with a center grip with no hand guard, and like everything else in the movie, is clearly plastic. I vomit in my mouth everytime I hear that line when I watched the Rifftrax-ed version of this movie. And, for some odd reason probably relating to the fact that if you tried to swing it you’d hit yourself 98% of the time, the stupid fantasy geek swords are never used.
The Inheritance Cycle, for all the unoriginal concepts it does have, is not a bad series. The first book IS the worst one though, and where most of the complaints lie. Paolini does fix the series by the end. Is it as good as Lotr or Harry Potter? No, it’s not. Is Paolini a child prodigy of writing? No. But its a decent series with MUCH better characters than what the movies portrays them as. Eragon, though they did get his whiney factor in, is not as stupid and does learn. Saphira is not a doormat she is in the movie, as she is much more independent and thoughtful, even in the first book she was much smarter than how she’s portrayed in the movie. I will though, the one thing they did better was Brom. They changed him from a gandalf clone to somewhat original persona, though his dialogue is much worse than in the book. So the fact that they made a bullshit movie based on the worst book of the series? Yeah, recipe for disaster.
Bookworm14.0
I completely agree w/ what was said about the movie. But how dare she critisize the books?! They’re soooo much better than Star Wars, it’s not even comparable. And besides, I think Paolini is an artist to have combined so many things together and it worked. It takes talent to invent something new, it takes even more talent to take what was done and make it better. The mix of LotR and Star Wars actually compliment each other. So Inheritance Cycle haters, SHUT THE HELL UP!! And I dare U to write a best-seller at 15. Let’s see how u fare *smirks*.
Sorry, but 1) he did NOT write a better story than the books/movies he stole from, and 2), he stole from so many people and so frequently that it defeats the point of even reading the book.
He clearly stole from people such as LeGuin, Tolkin, Eddings, Lucas, and
It is a matter of opinion whether or not he made the plagiarized material better. However, whether or not his writing is well-done is not the point. You can’t just steal from everyone else, mix it together, and claim it’s yours. I see him as a greedy little boy in a candy shop, stuffing candy into his pocket. Then he decides to buy something to cover up the fact that he was in the shop to steal candy, and –
He’s the store’s thousandth customer, and he gets five hundred bucks.
Oh yeah, and it seems to be a common belief in the fan circle that people who dislike the series do it because they’re jealous, and they need something to hate. Sorry, but for the most part, it isn’t like that. I, for one, enjoy good books. I give books that I like a good rating. Paolini’s age has nothing to do with the fact that his books are terrible. He’s not a bad writer, it’s just – plagiarism, purple prose, stilted + horribly unrealistic dialogue, and 2d characters don’t make for a good series. If it was a good series, I would say so.
Oh, and also, Paolini is incredibly arrogant. He compares himself to Tolkien.
NO ONE can do that. Well, except for Brandon Sanderson. Although I doubt you’ve read books by him. Otherwise you’d say screw Paolini and start reading books that are worth your time.
Really? What did he say comparing himself to Tolkien?
By the way, I don’t think his plagiarism has to do with greed. More a sort of naivete of not realizing that what he was doing was unoriginal.
He did compare himself to Tolkien:
“In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.”
Dont forget he stole from McCaffery too.
“He compares himself to Tolkien.”
Okay, WTF? He’s nowhere close, only parts of Eragon that I found interesting a) had Murtag (an Aragorn / Darth Vader crossover) in it and b) were inspired (which in most cases meant “directly lifted from”) Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
And for those who ask, I got interested and found this quote from Paolini:
You can just google it if you don’t believe me.
The book was exellent but the movie was a piece of ****
Dark_Messiah
The movie was terrible, yes, but you cant call a book a star wars ripoff just because it has 1 or 2 similar element to it or even a lotr ripoff for that matter, because tolkien did a great job and its quite hard not to write something that wasnt really covered in his books. I think that the inheritance cycle is a great book series, but saying it ripped off stuff is stupid, and you are no different than the 12yo world of warcraft fans that call all other mmo’s a wow ripoff. Also going by your logic, star wars was a ripoff of (or took elements from) star trek coz both played in space. If you guys keep comparing it to other books ofc it’ll seem bad to you, but if u look at its story without always comparing it to other stories its a very good and enjoyable one.
I mentioned before that it can’t be called a LOTR ripoff. But you can’t deny it copied a bit too many plot points from Star Wars, at least at the beginning (wether you want to go so far as to call it a “ripoff” or use a nicer word I don’t know): the way Eragon’s uncle is slaughtered while Eragon is away, giving him a good reason to go on a journey with his new mentor without any ties holding him back home, that’s EXACTLY like in Star Wars. Paolini could have been more original there.
The the Varden are like the resistance, and captured Arya like Leia.
But I wouldn’t call the “Luke I am your father” trope a ripoff from Star Wars, cause that’s just a classical motif if you like.
It’s not the same thing as comparing Star Wars with Star Trek cause mostly the only thing they have in common is the location (space). What was copied here was a lot more specific.
CaptainCalvinCat
Ah, the movie is quite decent – it has nothing to do with the books, but in the end… it is an adaptation and the point of an adaptation is to ADAPT something, to change it to a more convenient source of entertainment for those, who didn’t have the nerve to read the book or listen to the audio-book.
Are there changes? Yes.
Do I feel embarrassed watching the movie?
Nope, not really – I quite liked it.
Is it a bad movie? Depends on how you describe a “bad movie”. To me, a movie has two jobs: 1) to entertain 2) to make people think about a certain fact.
While it clearly lagged in the second part (basically: the movie is a no-brainer), it did not lag in the first part.
I WAS entertained.
The acting was quite allright, the animation was good, the music evoked an atmosphere…
So – no, the movie is an entertaining flick.
There are others, that even cannot bother to be entertaining.
Example? Oh of course: What about Superman returns? I’ll call this movie the biggest disappointment, because it didn’t bring new stuff to the table. the biiiiiig evil Plot of Lex was nothing more and nothing less than an inversed redo of his plot in the first movie, the “saving Lois for the first time” was basically a redo from the first meeting between Lois and Supes in the first movie – complete with “over the top and ‘comical'” eyecrossing passing out from Lois and “statistically, flying is still the safest way to travel”. WOW – how original. Where did I see that before? Ah, right, in 1990, when they aired the first Superman-Movie in television – and the joke was not even funny back then.
So, compared to Superman returns Eragon is a good movie.
Personally, I consider it a failure as an adaptation because there was no way that the sequels could have come after this, even if it hadn’t been a flop. The exclusion of elves and dwarves alone pretty much scuppers a large portion of the story. And the exclusion of the Katrina/Roran storyline. And the depiction of the Ra’zac. And the death of Sloan.
For instance, fans were rightly up in arms about Faramir’s depiction in “The Two Towers.” But the depiction did not derail the entire plot of the story the way, say, having the Nazguls be normal humans would. Or if Eowyn never sneaked along with her uncle’s army.
Jason Withrow
You raise an interesting thought experiment. What would they have done to fit those things in? Forced them in despite their previous absense, ala the mirror from Deathly Hallows Part 1 and 2? Continue to adapt them out of play, either tactfully or more likely straight into a wall? We’ll never really know, but given the attitudes that were on display in this particular production, I’m sure we can take a guess or two.
My guess is they could have still added the elves in and just made it so elves don’t have pointed ears in that universe (kinda boring), or they could have made Arya reveal that she changed her appearance via magic to look human…for…some reason.
Zaron
Well, the film already has a lot of some reasons. One more couldn’t hurt.
Hannoie
I agree about everything you wrote about the movie, but I can’t agree about the book.
It’s a good book. It makes far more sense than the movie (when Fäolin and Glenwing died in the beginning of the book, they rode peacefully through the forest, and because of du Weldenvarden’s wards, not expecting an ambush) and those things that didn’t make sense, was almost always explained in later books. For example, you thought it weird how Galbatorix and the forsworn could defeat all the powerful riders in the beginning. After all, they were only foruteen all-together against all the other riders. It was confusing in the first two books, but then it gets explained; eldunarí.
Was it the best-written book in the world? No, of course not. He was fifteen. Was it such a huge rip-off of Star Wars as the movie? No, actually, it wasn’t. And as the books go on, the story gets more and more original, Paolini’s writing skills get better and better, and the reading over-all gets more enjoyable. It isn’t right to call the last book a bad read, it actually isn’t. It’s a great book that stands out from other fantasy novels, with it’s interesting characters (You must admit Angela grows on you in the last book) and original end.
I mean, when in the history of fantasy does it not end with: Boy gets girl, everybody is happy forver after?
Um, you’ve read the last two books since you wrote this, right? I don’t want to spoil. Then again, if you haven’t read them yet, you probably have no intention to do so in the future.
If you have read them, I really hope you liked them :)
Not a three year old
You’re all talking about how eragon is just a rip-off of things like lord of the rings and Star Wars. GROW UP. It’s impossible in this day and age to write something completely original, alien is jaws in space, does anyone complain about that? No. If you look at the book as grown up instead of three year olds it’s decent, not brilliant, but decent. The movie is different to the book, again GET OVER IT, movies are always different to the books.
“Alien is Jaws in space”… wat? The only commonality between those two movies is a non-human attacking humans.
So? That is the core element, which everything else builds upon.
A creature attacking humans. That is the basic principle.
the build-up is different, granted, but when push comes to shove, it is about a creature attacking humans and the humans try to survive that.
Considering that Alien is actually a haunted house in space and the humans in Jaws actually have to HUNT the shark (and are perfectly safe on the land), the argument does not stick.
No – what is the core element of this movie?
Movie a) Creature attacks humans.
Movie B) Creature attacks humans.
the why, how, and what the frak, are not part of the core-element.
In Alien the Creature attacks the humans and kills them one by one.
In Jaws the shark attacks the humans and kills them one by one.
You’re missing the point. The point is not whether or not they have this element in common. The point is that this element is so vague and broadly applicable as to make the comparison useless for this argument. It’s like saying fish are just “cats in water” because they’re both chordates.
If Alien is “Jaws in space” by that measure alone, then at least 1/3 (and that’s a conservative estimate) of all horror and suspense films ever made are also Jaws… including those made before Jaws. In the same vein, you can pick out any other isolated core plot element and use it to make similarly meaningless comparisons to other films. “I’ll take ‘Final Girls’ for 500, Alex.”
This is why people above are saying the who, what, when, how etc matters. Movies (stories in general, really) only become comparable when you look at how multiple elements are combined. If you have to aggressively reduce your examples to a single bone in order to equate them, you’ve done a rubbish job picking examples. If your argument requires such overreduction in order to function (as not-a-3-year-old’s does), then you’ve made an irrelevant argument.
As you can read all over the internet (a quick google-search: https://www.google.de/#q=Tagline+for+alien+%22Jaws+in+space%22&start=50) you can see, that “jaws in space” was the pitch for the movie and – all in all – as already pointed out, it shares certain commonalities, the difference is that in movie a) people actively hunt for the beast and in movie b) the people are passively hunted from the beast.
Pitches in general mean nothing. They are BS soundbites told to execs to secure funding, and are routinely fudged to that end. Judging a movie by it’s pitch is at best like holding the modern definition of a 1000 year old loan word to it’s original etymology.
In the specific case of Alien, the conceptual process that went into the film, from the first gleam in O’bannon’s eye, is extremely well documented, and had nothing to do with Jaws. If you’re curious, it was originally a mash up of two unfinished script stories: one about astronauts receiving a distress call and having a dilemma about answering it, and another about gremlins on a WW2 bomber. The Jaws pitch was, as above, just a line fed to a producer to get a foot in the door.
In fact, many of the links that show up for a “jaws in space” search go into detail about this, both deconstructing the film’s actual influences, and talking about pitches as marketing devices. So, good job showing you didn’t read your own references by citing them so I could.
As to the rest: you keep cranking on as if anyone’s denying those basic commonalities exist. I’m starting to think you’re not actually reading what people are saying before you reply either.
Once again (if you are actually reading any of this): the commonalities you cite are far, far too general to have any relevance. They are so vague and so common that the other movies that fit the same criteria number in the thousands and date back to the begging of film as a media. Go ahead: try making a mental list of all the movies you’ve seen which by those elements alone can just as legitimately be described as “Jaws in X” or “Jaws with an X”. If you have to water down your comparison to the point where literally an entire third of a genre (a the very least) also qualifies, then you’re not saying anything meaningful.
Fantasy Mission Force
The humans are perfectly safe on the land in Alien, as well. The alien is in the ship.
In Alien, the haunted house is a spaceship, in Jaws, it’s the ocean.
Muthsarah
Except that getting off the ship is impossible for them. The Nostromo IS the world as far as the film is concerned, the water and the land. They’re stuck. They can’t run. They can’t hide. It’s kill or be killed. They’re not even safe on the land, as the “land” is the planet where they picked up the alien to begin with.
With Jaws, Brody et all CHOOSE to go after the shark, each for their own reasons. Very important distiction. It’s a hunt. Alien is pure survival. Nobody CHOSE to hunt the Alien; they were civilians entirely forced to do it. Same with a haunted house – two of the first things that tend to be established in these films are: a) that most of them had no idea whatsoever what they’re getting into and b) for some reason, they don’t have the option of just leaving. Aliens is actually a little closer to Jaws in that respect; not in terms of the numbers of the monsters, but in the theme of how the hunters realize they got in over their heads. With Alien, it might as well be a home invasion movie; though the Nostromo crew technically went into the aliens’ home, emotionally, the monster is coming into theirs.
Them! and Godzilla are both about giant monsters attacking humanity in response to nuclear weapons. However, Godzilla is not Them! in Tokyo.
Yes, but it’s also possible to come up with a story that doesn’t directly copy most of its elements from one or two specific sources.
It’s one thing to have some similar points, but to be a direct mash-up of Madonna and Marilyn Manson is something much worse and far from original.
I think I jumped topics back there, for some reason.
F you stop talking about the books so terribly unless you read all of them there my child hood
$36060516
Your argument might be more convincing if you explained why you liked them.
okay well the way they change your view on dragons they aren’t hertless monsters it isin’t harypoter it pulls you in and just alltogether a great bookseris ps. read it yourself harrd to describe
You can get the same thing with much better writing and read The Dragon Riders Of Pern books.
or the 1st few Dragon Lance Trilogies
and get worse dragon and human persinality also less feeling and eragon has to learn he deals with his dad before he knows it dieing
I’m really enjoying this recap, but I can see why some commenters think it’s too harsh (even so, minus 50 karma points for abuse of the phrase “Grow up”, which is over-used, meaningless and obnoxious). I like the nit-picking about facts like rats not squeaking constantly to attract the predators for which they’d be a meal, or peasants who own a horse being anything but poor.
Some other stuff is a bit like finding faults for the heck of it – the village loses young men on a regular basis so it makes sense that there’s no lack of empty buildings. Eragon’s uncle / family could have been a lot richer one or two generations ago, which would explain the big house. As for assuming that a peon who found a dragon won’t use that to support a hated ruler is pretty realistic, all the more coming from someone who’s power-hungry himself and will likely expect others to be so, too. Either way, just sitting back and waiting what that dear boy will do with his new super-weapon and super-powers? No, not a good idea.
The thing about what peasants would live like – it doesn’t have to be European medieval, so the clothing styles are a bit up for grabs. But some things are just unlikely in preindustrial societies, like for example peasants with several changes of clothing or wasting a candle when there’s no pressing need for it. It’s not just that you have to trade for the candle – there’s no guarantee that next time you need some, there will be candles to be had. And plowing a field by hand if there’s a horse available? Why? It’s like having a functioning lawn-mower and cutting the grass with your kitchen scissors.
The costumes? I re-watched a bit of “Dungeons and Dragons”, so I have a high tolerance right now. They don’t look too bad as long as you don’t use “Lord of the Rings” as a yardstick.
A dragon growing to full size in a matter of seconds? Okay, magical creature, so you can’t really say it’s impossible, but it’s just too obviously a cheap cop-out from showing the events of Saphira (good gods) growing up.
The “rip-off” thing… Some things don’t have to be a rip-off, like the fight against a hated ruler or an old mentor who dies half-way through the story. But the names are really painfully blatant; I remember seeing the map in the book the first time and there was hardly one name in ten that wasn’t obviously copied.
Having a few parallels, consciously or unconsciously, to other stories? Okay, can happen. If it’s used creatively and there is stuff of it’s own added, it can be okay. But this? There seems to be nothing redeeming about it, nothing creative or well-crafted. Find a dragon, turn into a super-hero without any training, learning or other effort. I’m really feeling sorry for the poor actors who had to suffer through this movie and now have it on their CV.
… I just can’t resist …
I had to re-watch this movie to go with the recap, and that sourceress’es hut! I could swear those are red christmas lights outside of the hut. Not to mention the glass pearls &mirror curtain for that authentic wall mart feeling. It’s all in the details.
> Brom rides beneath them, and clearly, he has only one horse now.
Well, he had to quick-stitch that saddle out of _something_.
Okay, you see Brom leading a rider-less horse later on.
Still, this movie makes me realize how much work and love and attention went into “How to Train Your Dragon”. It’s the exact opposite of this _a huge powerful animal lives only to help you become a big hero_ shtick; Hiccup had to work for everything. A dragon didn’t just drop out of the sky by itself, the saddle had to be constructed and improved again and again, and there’s a very clear reason why a powerful beast like that gives a puny little two-legged thing a ride.
Here? Stuff turns up when needed, and disappears when the heroes are finished with it. By the way, is there one scene where Eragon actually does work? As in, field work? Cleaning stuff? Building something? He is by preindustrial standards a young man who’d be working all the sunlight hours, like every other peasant over the age of six. Instead, he seems to have all the time in the world to lounge around.
As for underlit prisons: come on, you know the rules. Bad light, lots of shadowy corners to hide in, and a stupid fat guard who falls asleep easily and keeps the big keyring on a hook at his belt where it can easily be lifted away with a stick or by a dog, monkey or trained Klatchian spider. But it is a good thing that this movie comes with off-screen teleportation, because the shot of Gilgalad shows that a circle of about half a mile surrounding the fortress is deserted, barren rock – not even bushes. No chance of missing the one person walking towards the gate.
All in all, this movie has three redeeming qualities: Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle and Garrett Hedlund. And I’m absolutely certain that someone watched Robert Carlyle in this movie, they way he can be all focused and quiet, and thought to him/herself: without the horrible hair and writing, this could be really something. Cue Once Upon a Time and Mr. Gold.
I remember falling in love with the books as a young kid and they still hold a soft spot in my heart. Their failings and inconsistencies are almost the most endearing features and I would defend it as the story it is to my grave. It’s not a perfect series, and I know that if I reread it now with a serious intent to nitpick, I’d end up frustrated with all the things I’d most definitely find. Whether or not Paolini took a couple things or even most things off of LOTR and Star Wars, I still love it. His work creating the world of Alagaësia was pretty damn impressive for a 19 year old and I doubt any one of us would have the dedication to do the same, not to mention it was well-written for what it was. Because I can’t stay awake through (nor have the large amounts of time for) anything Tolkien wrote, I’m satisfied with Eragon and his adventures and will treasure my original paperbacks wrapped in colorful duct tape to prevent more pages being lost from so many rereads.
That being said, the movie was absolutely atrocious and this recap summed it up perfectly in excellent deadpan humor. I’m not lying when I say that I snorted and nearly spat out my drink twice reading it. The first book is generally regarded as the worst written of the four (though I’d argue that the last one made for a pretty infuriating read), which means that a movie based off of it is a recipe for disaster no matter whom you cast or who directs it. Not to mention, they set it up so that there could be no sequel! Disappointing doesn’t cover it.
Heya guys – just popping in to say hi! I have to say I’m very happy to see my recap is still so popular after all these years!
To the fans complaining about my criticisms of the Best Book Ever: if I have to publish a bestselling novel in order to say a book is bad, then you have to publish one in order to say it’s good. If I’m not qualified to say a popular novel isn’t very good, then you’re not qualified to say I’m wrong. QED.
In any case, irony alert – I actually DID publish a novel as a teenager. My parents aren’t publishers; I wrote a novel and sold it to a large publishing house – who didn’t know I was a kid because I didn’t tell them. They bought it because they thought it was good. Since then I’ve published a few other things, some of which were bestsellers. Guess that means I’m free to criticise Eragon all I like, since I have the necessary qualifications. :p
Yes, Eragon is a ripoff. The author even admitted as such. I don’t blame him for that. He wrote a cute, harmless piece of fanfiction which, yes, is pretty decent given that it was his first effort. It just shouldn’t have been published, because it’s not up to professional standards. Not that the industry cares much about that sort of thing.
Reminds me of Roger Ebert’s response to Rob Schneider when he complained about a critic not having a Pulitzer Prize and not being in any position to criticize his work: “As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I
am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize
winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.”
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Fabricated by The Herrick Corporation (AISC Member, AISC Certified), 181 Fremont is the tallest mixed-use building in San Francisco and a new landmark in the city's skyline. The 56-story, 802-foot-tall tower features 67 luxury residences above 435,000 square feet of office space in one of the city's most accessible neighborhoods. After recognizing that the seismic performance objectives in modern building codes did not align with its goals, the building owner chose to pursue an innovative, resilience-based design to deliver "beyond code" seismic resilience. The resulting multi-disciplinary effort produced a state of the art building that achieved both LEED Platinum and the world’s first REDi Gold rating.
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The Liar
Written by: Stephen Fry
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Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.
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Jolly good
A splendid book - it has its twists and its turns, and although at times you notice with a knowing smile its rather formulaic, traditional narrative structure/devices, it nonetheless charms you with its marvellous language, deliciously humorous anecdotes, and intriguing plot. And the way Stephen reads it, oh my, oh my.
English delights and so much cocks
What did you like best about this story?
British comedian Stephen Fry's first novel is a witty love letter to English philology and the author's semi- and pseudo-autobiographical experiences in Britain's elitist and—if the author, who kindly begins his novel with the line “Not one word of the following is true”, is to be believed—highly homoerotic public schools.
Written in a series of jump-forwards and flashbacks the story follows Adrian Healey, a flamboyant gay intellectual growing up in Thatcherian period England, whose excel in wittiness is only bested by his remarkable ability to deceive. This trait eventually captures the interest of his Cambridge tutor Professor Donald Trefusis, through whom Healey becomes intertwined with a sort of daffy albeit singular Cold War spy adventure.
Fry's dapper treatment of the English language is certainly the most enjoyable part of this light-hearted fiction filled with juvenile but clever and high-brow but stinging jokes and fables, and this delight is only heightened when the book is listened to narrated by the author himself (audiobook available on Audible, for example). The constant jumps between three different periods in the protagonist's life can, however, make the story strenuous to follow and, frankly, fail (at times) to keep up the suspense and/or mystery that the author probably intended for these jumps to convey.
Apart from all the churlish (but funny) sexual affections of the protagonist (or the narrator) the novel does also have a deeper theme of questioning what is the meaning of lies, fictions and untruths in the formation of anything that is truly human, and for that I would recommend it not only as light summer reading but serious food for thought for anyone interested in the humanistic sciences.
A Great Disappointment
Firstly, I am a huge fan of Stephen Fry. I sat down to listen to this story with great excitment. Perhaps my expectations were too high. The story was leaden and Mr Fry seemed less than thrilled to be reading it. I confess to falling asleep at times and having to rewind. So I suppose if you are having trouble sleeping this may be a good buy, otherwise stick to other titles with Stephen Fry as narrator/presenter.
MrY
Fantastic Listen
Loved this from start to finish, very intimate detail in places, so maybe not for a prude, but very very entertaining. The characters develop well and you really start to get to know them. Being read by the author (Esp when it is Stephen Fry) is always a bonus.
Funny, witty and very well acted
If you could sum up The Liar in three words, what would they be?
Funny, Witty, interesting
What other book might you compare The Liar to, and why?
I've honestly got nothing to compare this to. It is very stange with a winding plot that still remains interesting. The individulal scenes are excellantly written and acted. Especially near the end.
What does Stephen Fry bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
He is the greatest voice actor in the world. I think that is understood. The book wouldn't be half as good without him and he's the reason i bought the book.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The epilogue.
If you like Stephen Fry in both his writing and voice acting then buy this book. If you don't like him then you won't like this. It is Stephen to the core.
As always the soothing tones of Stephen Fry make this audiobook a pleasure to listen to. Fry adds unique voices and the correct level of tone, pitch and intention into the text, working hard to really bring it alive.
I would have given this 5*'s but the book was let down by the bizarre ending! A fault of the story line and not the audio reading!
Great story
Great story. Takes a bit of following as it jumps around different timelines. Plenty of twists and turns to leave you guessing what's around the corner.
Listened to it twice now, excellent book. Can't get enough of Stephen Fry's publications, there's alway a twist at the end
It is probably what you'd expect....
...which means if you are a fan of the man you will enjoy this. I am and did but would understand others finding it a little impenetrable; if not odd, blending as it does the Worlds of public schools, Cambridge, cricket, Piccadilly rent boys and espionage!
...and playful Stephen teases with the reader throughout to work out the semi-autobiographical bits....and those bits that are lies!
absolutely wonderful reading, fry is totatly on point ,but very unappetising story and ridiculous ending.
An engaging and entertaining listen
I've read The Liar a couple of times, but it's the first time I've listened to it. Not surprisingly Stephen Fry is excellent at interpreting his own work and it is a pleasure to hear Donald Trefusis again over thirty years after I used to listen to him on Radio Four on Saturday mornings. The conclusion of the story has always been a bit frustrating but the set up is so entertaining I can forgive it a slight dip. This, along with the early stages of his memoirs, is Fry's best work.
LawrieBlaz
What the damn hell?
Terrible story telling. All over the place. Stuck on because I enjoy Mr Fry's writing & I had nothing else to listen to. What?
Incredible characters imaginative story
I have fallen in ... lib with both Adrian Healey and Donald Trefuses.
Mr mendacious and Doctor duplicitous are two of the most roguishly likeable characters I have had the pleasure of reading about and thus imagining.
I urge anyone to purchase, listen then listen again and perhaps again.
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HMAS Anzac comes alongside Port Moresby, PNG. Defence
Defence upgrades Manus Island as China approaches
Australia is continuing its commitment to regional maritime security through an upgrade of wharf and shore-based infrastructure by Fletcher Morobe Constructions at PNG’s Lombrum Naval Base on Manus Island.
The move comes amid fears that China is seeking to gain a regional naval base through ‘debt-book’ diplomacy efforts with Pacific island states.
Minister for Defence Christopher Pyne said the $5 million contract is part of the government’s Pacific Maritime Security Program.
“The Lombrum upgrades will support the safe and secure berthing of PNG’s four new Guardian-class Patrol Boats,” Minister Pyne said.
The Lombrum upgrades will support the safe and secure berthing of PNG’s four new Guardian-class Patrol Boats
“The infrastructure works build upon existing security cooperation between Defence and the PNG Defence Force, including the recently established $2 million communications centre at Lombrum.”
“Australia is proud to support the PNG Defence Force in strengthening their maritime security capability, and remains committed to our longstanding partnership.”
21 Guardian-class Patrol Boats are being gifted to 12 Pacific nations and Timor‑Leste from 2018-2023 under the Pacific Maritime Security Program.
“The Pacific Maritime Security Program, which is also providing a regional aerial surveillance capability, is the cornerstone of Defence’s engagement in the Pacific, and strengthens partner capacity and regional maritime security,” Minister Pyne concluded.
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Pappu Ki Jhappi: PM Modi’s Hug Diplomacy Comes Full Circle
Illustration: Akshita Monga
By Dushyant Shekhawat Jul. 21, 2018
Given the BJP’s overwhelming strength of numbers in the Lok Sabha, the no-confidence vote was always a losing battle for Rahul Gandhi. However, by turning Modi’s hugplomacy onto himself, RaGa pulled off a Baazigar and snatched a sliver of victory from what could have been a complete defeat.
ormally, Indian Parliament sessions are as action-packed as an episode of WWE RAW, and usually even more aggressive. However, during Friday’s proceedings in the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha’s Monsoon Session, there was one moment when the world stood still, and the usual mudslinging was replaced by a warm embrace. It was the jadoo ki jhappi that rocked the nation, causing even more excitement than the time Shah Rukh and Salman hugged it out at Baba Siddique’s iftar party. Sometimes I wonder why we bother with Bollywood at all, when all the entertainment you need is available for cheap on Lok Sabha TV.
I’m talking about Rahul Gandhi’s now-infamous (Or was it famous? Jury’s out yet?) act of crossing the Parliament floor and hugging PM Modi, right after concluding a lengthy speech targeting the government of several wrongdoings. While the Opposition’s many grievances and the Centre’s responses are worthy of another piece, let’s dwell on how unpredictable Rahul’s actions were following his fiery diatribe – like a teacher who beats a student with a ruler only to give them a Melody chocolate afterward.
The NaGa Hug, as it shall now be known, was completely unexpected, and therefore memorable – the most important quality any act performed in our political theatre can hope to possess. It grabbed national headlines almost immediately, with #BhukampAaGaya and #PappuKiJhappi trending simultaneously, propped up by Rahul’s supporters and detractors respectively. But crucially, the NaGa Hug attempted to position Rahul as a maverick speaker capable of holding his own in the chaotic environment of the Indian Parliament. Because can you even politics bro, if you can’t use the opposition’s most potent weapon against them?
History is littered with sad stories of inventors undone by their own creations. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, died from radiation exposure. The Titanic’s chief naval architect was lauded for constructing a marvellous vessel, and then he went down with the ship on its fateful maiden voyage. Similarly, the NaGa Hug has ensured that PM Modi joins this list.
Nobody knows what Modi said to Rahul after the hug, when the PM pulled the younger politician close and whispered something in his ear. I can’t be certain, but I’d like to think it was something along the lines of, “Meri billi, mujhe meow?”
That thought must have crossed Mr Modi’s mind when Rahul was bearing down on him with a license to clinch. After all, Modi has elevated the humble hug from an introvert’s least-favourite greeting to a powerful tool of international diplomacy. The list of world leaders who have been caught up in Modi’s powerful embrace is longer than the list of press conferences he’s given since taking office, and includes political heavyweights like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Barack Obama. Hell, he even expanded his scope to include tech moguls and swept up Mark Zuckerberg in one of his trademark acts of hugplomacy during a visit to Facebook’s California headquarters. No word on whether Mark “liked” this.
Just like Rahul and the notorious NaGa Hug, Modi’s hugplomacy has had its share of fans and critics. However, the PM has never let any negative feedback get in his way. There are now galleries across the internet, containing frame after frame of our PM channelling his inner bear and putting the squeeze on a hapless foreign leader. There are think pieces arguing for and against Modi’s hugplomacy, because when the PM does not speak up in time on issues like women’s safety and lynchings, columnists have to work with what they can get.
But because he can’t even eat breakfast in the morning without a Twitter troll telling him he fucked up by putting too much milk in the cereal, the NaGa Hug has led to some very predictable brickbats being thrown at Rahul Gandhi. In an incident sure to go down in the “pot calling the kettle black” Hall of Fame, Modi called out Rahul for his childish antics in his rebuttal speech later in the day. Rahul had also been chided by the House’s Speaker, and was caught winking to his fellow Congress MPs after detonating the bomb. This led to admonishments from various NDA MPs, and after Modi’s lengthy speech, the government comfortably won the ongoing no-confidence vote.
Given the BJP’s overwhelming strength of numbers in the Lok Sabha, the no-confidence vote was always a losing battle for Rahul and the Opposition. However, by taking a strong stand and using the NaGa Hug to turn Modi’s hugplomacy onto himself, Rahul pulled off a Baazigar and snatched a sliver of victory from what could have been a complete defeat.
Dushyant Shekhawat
Dushyant Shekhawat really likes his mustache. He grew it himself. You can find him somewhere between "Here" and "Now".
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The Electronic Voting Machine is back in the spotlight after claims of EVMs malfunctioning on the first day of the Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh. But it's about time that the EVM deserves recognition as Indian politics’ MVP.
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Two weeks after the Pulwama attack, India carried out an air strike on terror camps across the LoC. If Imran Khan is to be believed Pakistan will strike back. But can we afford a war with our neighbours?
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Since October, the CBI has been embroiled in an intra-agency squabble between its two top officers, Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana, over the Bureau's independence. The SC verdict reinstating Verma is a huge setback to the government, which had sent him on forced leave.
Politics State Assembly Elections: Long Before the BJP, the Congress Had Perfected the Art of Communal Politics
It is easy to consider the BJP a communal force, but public memory is short. It would serve us well to remember that a series of communal riots – in Hasanpura, in Muzaffarnagar, and in Delhi in 1984 – took place even under the Congress regime. In fact, Rajiv Gandhi had a key role in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
Politics Now That the State Assembly Elections are Over, What’s the Grand Alliance’s Grand Plan for 2019?
As the euphoria of the Modi wave was tempered by the results of the state assembly elections, the BJP has lost its invincible aura. We’ve had signs of an Opposition-led Mahagathbandhan – but can all the parties finally get their act together before the Lok Sabha elections of 2019?
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Physical Violence and the Fault with Our Folks
Illustration: Akshita Monga/ Arré
By Shruti Sunderraman Sep. 26, 2017
The women students of Banaras Hindu University have put up a spirited resistance against an administration that polices their timings and thinks nothing of physical violence. It is easy to resist a university, but what happens when our parents are the aggressors and abusers?
arlier this week, I watched the horror at Banaras Hindu University unfold with mounting dread. Women students who were protesting the molestation of a fellow student were being lathi-charged, even as a paternalistic vice chancellor decided to victim-shame them. Now, news reports tell us that the women students were cosseted by the university for a long time. Their timings were policed, they were not allowed to consume non-vegetarian food, and they were denied the use of the 24X7 library – privileges that were extended to their male counterparts without hesitation.
But it is easy to outrage at a university that places such restrictions on their students and beats them up for “overstepping their boundaries”. It is also easy to criticise the physical, emotional, and sexual violence that women undergo in their marital houses, often at the hands of their husbands. But there is an aspect of violence that often goes unaddressed, and which even the victims tend to brush over. What happens when our homes turn into violent spaces and the aggressors are our parents? Is it possible for us to rebel against them with the same vehemence, with the force of the same liberal attitudes that we apply to other aspects of our public lives?
Not really, as I found out a few weeks ago, when I discovered that a very “woke” friend had been physically and mentally abused by her parents for her entire life.
At first, Neha’s life resembled no part of mine. She never hung out, never went out drinking, never stayed over, never attended music gigs. Not once in the seven years that I had known her, had Neha even come out for dinner with me once. Her Cinderella alarm rang promptly at 7.30 pm. Without even a slight trace of peer-pressured embarrassment, she would head straight home to her mother. Even on my birthday a few years ago, she left earlier than everybody else. I admired her assertiveness. She knew what she wanted and stood by her priorities – her family.
Four months ago, we met at a coffee shop in Mumbai and lost all track of time. When we discovered it was 9.30 pm. Neha completely panicked. My dad is going to beat me tonight, she cried. I thought she was joking, but she was dead serious.
It wasn’t just the occasional thappad for disobedience, but the skin-you-alive-for-breathing-without-permission abuse. She was hit with a belt for disobeying her father’s command. Slapped for not doing chores or for complaining that her brother never had to do any. Slut-shamed for wearing a lipstick or for suggesting that she’d stay out beyond 8 pm.
She was hit for losing an eraser or a water bottle in school. She was hit for coming home after 9 pm at the age of 25.
All those dinner refusals weren’t out of choice but a result of conditioned fear. The movies she watched, the clothes she wore, how she behaved – everything was decided by her parents. And yet she thought nothing of blindly following their diktat, because she didn’t know it was okay to stand up to them.
Which is baffling for me – I just could not understand how an assertive political science graduate with an endearing kindness could not realise how questionable her own reality was. Outside her home, Neha debated world politics and gender like a pro, read Proust and poetry, attended feminist talks and environmental discussions. At home though, her parents were her Achilles heel. So judgemental was I with all my liberalism, that I’d forgotten the subtle nature of abuse. Neha had no measure of what a normal childhood looked like. As a teenager, her rebellious phase never happened. So when she noticed how other kids behaved in college, she’d feel like they were wrong to rebel against their parents.
Neha’s gradual exposure to the world, however, did have an impact on her. A post-graduate degree in media studies in a different city, surrounded by wokebros quoting Kate Millet, was like waking up to a whole new world. The eventual comprehension of being puppeteered by her parents had violent psychological consequences on her – all of which was directed inwards. Somehow, anyone except her parents could become the target of her anger.
Neha was yet another reminder that the parental discipline trap follows Indians deep into their 20s and even later. No matter how old we grow and are responsible enough to elect the government of this country, our parents continue to wield emotional and mental rods to direct our lives. I could hardly find someone who hasn’t heard the anguished lament, “How can you decide things without asking us?”, when choosing a career or a romantic partner.
And physical violence from our parents is often excused: Remember the recent, harrowing video that showed a crying child being slapped for not reciting numbers correctly, that was widely shared? But even more alarming than parental abuse is our acceptance of it. The deep reverence and acceptance of parental authority in our adult lives is hardly questioned.
At some level, we all suffer from the Simran syndrome – the girl who was brave enough to travel around Europe on her own, but still allowed herself to be dragged to India to marry a Punjabi bird-shooter dudebro selected by daddy. Yes, even the men.
For so many of us, our parents are our immediate support system. We don’t have a “moving out” culture. We live with the unspoken social contract that we’ll take care of our parents when we’re older – just the way they will take care of us even when we don’t need them to. Our sense of duty and obedience is so deeply rooted that we can’t let go of this support system we’ve learnt to fall back on our entire adult lives. If we do tear away, just enough to gain some breathing space from the enforced community, the price we pay is guilt.
I’d asked Neha to speak to her parents, but when she tried it, her father hit her again and her mother burst into tears as though she had advanced on them with a sword. When I tried talking to Neha’s parents, they were insulted at my suggestions and dismissed me for trying to “influence” Neha with my “’modern” way of life.
Is it any surprise then, that our universities borrow this outlook and have such hidebound ideas about how students, especially women, should conduct themselves? Neha’s might be an extreme case, but when we rarely resist this behaviour within our homes, we legitimise it in our public lives too.
Neha is currently learning to undo years of conditioning by seeking therapy and figuring out ways to deal with the backlog of rage she feels towards her parents. She’s built financial muscle, but she is working on the emotional one. Everyday, she tries one act of assertion, one act of resistance, toward her parents. I am hoping there will be a breakthrough in Neha’s life soon – just the way I am certain the brave women of BHU will be able to.
Shruti Sunderraman
Shruti Sunderraman writes about culture, music, and the human condition. She performs her songs for those who listen and spoken word for those who don't. Say hello at @sundermanbegins on Twitter.
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Social Commentary Sabarimala Woman Hit by Mother-in-Law: Who Gives Indian Elders the Authority to Beat Family Members?
Kanaka Durga, the 39-year-old woman who made history by entering the Sabarimala temple, is now in hospital after being hit by her mother-in-law. But when does punishment go from an act of disciplining to a gross violation of someone's rights?
Social Commentary Eid in the Time of Adityanath
My hometown Allahabad was a city of education and open political debates. Now it is overrun by saffron-gamcha-wearing bikers, where to live as a Muslim is to live in subterfuge.
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When you are at the brink, caught between trudging on and ending it all, an understanding look or reassuring hand – or even the memory of a dead uncle – can make all the difference.
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Susan Cianciolo
Susan Cianciolo: RUN Book 4 - 8
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 40 pgs / 40 color. | 3/22/2016 | In stock
Published by MoMA PS1.
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York. begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artists who engaged the margins of the city.
In conjunction with the exhibition, MoMA PS1 is publishing a series of readers that will be released throughout the run of the exhibition. These short volumes revisit older histories of New York while also inviting speculation about its future, highlighting certain works in the exhibition and engaging a range of subjects including disco, performance anxiety, real estate and newly unearthed historical documents. The series features contributions from Fia Backström, Mark Beasley, Gregg Bordowitz, Susan Cianciolo, Douglas Crimp, Catherine Damman, David Grubbs, Angie Keefer, Aidan Koch, Glenn Ligon, Gordon Matta-Clark, Claudia Rankine, Collier Schorr, and Sukhdev Sandhu, concluding with a round-table conversation with exhibition curators Peter Eleey, Douglas Crimp, Thomas J. Lax and Mia Locks. The series is edited by Jocelyn Miller, Curatorial Associate, MoMA PS1.
MoMA PS1
Paperback, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 40 pgs / 40 color.
List Price: $10.00 CDN $14.95 GBP £8.50
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Howard runs for Starship
12 September 2016 / Published in Your Community
Meet Howard. He’s a hardworking, dedicated, big hearted member of the ASB Sponsorship team. And, by his own admission, he is not a runner!
Like many of us, he had ‘Run a marathon’ on his bucket list as something he might do ‘one day’. Well that day is coming because this year Howard is tackling his bucket list and running the 42.2km ASB Auckland Marathon for a very special cause – Starship Children’s Hospital.
Meet Isabel, Howard’s daughter. Isabel (7) was diagnosed in utero with a rare genetic condition called Conradi-Hunermann Syndrome (CDPX2). This is a disorder characterised by bone, skin and eye abnormalities, is linked to the X chromosome and occurs almost exclusively in girls. It’s estimated that in her seven years, Isabel has spent more than 500 hours at Starship, undergone six general anaesthetics, and met ten specialists across more than 100 appointments. You might be able to spot Isabel in this adorable 2016 ASB Auckland Marathon video made for Starship.
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Because of this personal connection to Starship and having seen first-hand the work the Starship teams do for young kids, Howard is running the ASB Auckland Marathon to raise money for the children’s hospital. Already he has amassed over $4,500 towards his marathon $5,000+ goal. That’s over $100 for every kilometre he runs! And Isabel has also decided to participate by entering the Kids Marathon event herself.
And because Howard is the kind of guy that does everything at maximum effort, he is not only raising money for one of ASB’s key sponsorship partners, he is also involving many of the ASB teams in his journey. While some people might choose to train by pounding on the treadmill for hours or running around the back streets of their neighbourhood, Howard is out there visiting ASB branches as part of his runs and inspiring others to either join him or donate to his fundraiser page. So on Wednesday 14th September, Howard is embarking on an epic 26.4km run as part of his marathon training programme, visiting 14 ASB branches in central Auckland, including hopping on the ferry to Waiheke.
We’ll be cheering Howard along the way and you can too by following his run on ASB’s Snapchat or by making a donation on his fundraising page.
Or, if you want to run the ASB Auckland Marathon yourself, sign up and run as part of Team Starship.
Thanks to Howard and Isabel who set themselves a challenge, inspired others, and are giving back to a charity that has looked after them in the past.
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10. Gregory Peck as Joe Bradley in Roman Holiday
Joe Bradley plays the most chivalrous reporter ever on film, deciding to be honorable instead of greedy and loyal instead of double-faced. Kissing and telling is definitely the most gentlemanly trait to have and Joe shows us how it's done. When confronted with the possibility of glory and fame in his career, he instead follows his heart and falls in love.
Choice line: "And that will be the end of the fairy tale."
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Abrams & Bayliss
20 Montchanin Road, Suite 200
Wilmington DE, 19807, United States
Website: www.abramsbayliss.com
Contact: Kevin G Abrams
Number of partners: 5
Number of attorneys: 8
Abrams & Bayliss LLP is a business litigation and advisory boutique that focuses on high stakes controversies and transactions carrying a high risk of litigation.
The firm’s Litigation Practice primarily involves actions in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the nation’s preeminent corporate and commercial law court, and the Delaware Supreme Court. The firm’s litigators have extensive experience representing public and private companies, stockholders, directors and executives in a wide range of business, corporate and alternative entity litigation matters at the trial and appellate level. The firm regularly litigates actions involving corporate control disputes, rights of equity holders, large public and private company controversies, complex transactions, and significant valuation and appraisal proceedings. Unlike many other firms, Abrams & Bayliss represents plaintiffs and defendants, giving their attorneys an added measure of insight on strategic and tactical issues in transactions and litigation. The firm has a proven track record of offensive and defensive litigation, including successfully pursuing and defeating injunction applications, conducting expedited trials and prosecuting and defending claims for significant monetary, declaratory or equitable relief. In addition to their Delaware practice, Abrams & Bayliss frequently represents clients in other jurisdictions on matters involving Delaware law, corporate or business organization issues or other commercial disputes.
The firm’s Transactional Practice primarily involves matters where there is a high risk of litigation or which raise complex or novel issues of Delaware law, such as contests for corporate control, private equity and portfolio company matters, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, refinancings and stockholder or board level disputes. Abrams & Bayliss also advises business entities and their constituents on Delaware issues relating to all phases of their life cycle, ranging from formation questions to continuing issues involving the payment of dividends and asset sales to end-of-life matters such as dissolution and receiverships. The firm regularly provides advice on the preparation and interpretation of certificates of incorporation and bylaws, whether for newly formed entities, initial public offerings, operating companies with internal disputes, reincorporations, restructurings or corporations seeking to amend their existing governance documents.
Abrams & Bayliss similarly advises business entities, directors, officers and stockholders
on contracts relating to their governance structure and commercial relationships, including stockholder rights plans, stockholder agreements, and indemnification or advancement rights.
As a result of the firm’s expertise on fiduciary duty matters, Abrams & Bayliss regularly represents trust beneficiaries in claims against corporate and individual trustees for significant damages, the replacement of trustees and the amendment of trust instruments.
Abrams & Bayliss represents a broad array of clients including national and international corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, stockholders, directors, equity investors and executives.
All of the firm’s lawyers have distinguished academic records and the firm’s attorneys are regular authors and speakers at national programs regarding Delaware business law matters.
Last Updated October 2018
While a relative newcomer as a firm, having formed in 2005 as Abrams & Laster, the 16-lawyer Wil-mington boutique Abrams & Bayliss has staked a firm claim in the community and it is seeing its profile rise in the eyes of peers. “They have a dominant position in Delaware, they regularly kick the crap out of bigger firms,” asserts one community peer, “including some of the big ‘titan’ firms you have listed. And yet, some big national firms have all been repeat providers of work to them. They have important legal issues to come to them - they have wisely avoided cookie-cutter bullshit that other firms have come to rely on to stay alive - and would actually try cases if it came to it.” Of recent note, the firm acted as lead litigation counsel to Paul Jacobs, the former CEO and former chairman of Qualcomm, in novel, extremely expedited and high-profile governance, disclosure and proxy contest matters relating to the Qualcomm Board’s response to Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt and proxy contest. Along with counsel from Quinn Emanuel, the firm also represented private equity fund Crestview Partners in litigation against Ox-bow Carbon. After more than a year of very intensive and expedited litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery, the team succeeded in compelling the sale of Oxbow and potentially securing $500 million for Crestview.
Firm co-founder Kevin Abrams remains the firm’s figurehead and most visible litigator. “Cli-ents think the world of him. He can have sharp elbows but that’s what it takes sometimes, especially when you’re at the helm of a boutique surrounded by all of these megafirms. Kevin has taken risks to build his firm, he gets the work done and doesn’t suffer fools.” Another peer confirms, “Kevin has been and is very entrepreneurial. Although the firm gets a lot of referrals, Kevin can also generate his own work - he doesn’t need other firms to necessarily hand him clients.”
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Motivation Theory Essay
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MOTIVATION AND MOTIVATION THEORY
The term motivation is derived from the Latin word movere, meaning "to move." Motivation can be broadly defined as the forces acting on or within a person that cause the arousal, direction, and persistence of goal-directed, voluntary effort. Motivation theory is thus concerned with the processes that explain why and how human behavior is activated.
The broad rubric of motivation and motivation theory is one of the most frequently studied and written-about topics in the organizational sciences, and is considered one of the most important areas of study in the field of organizational behavior. Despite the magnitude of the effort that has been devoted ...view middle of the document...
Still others examined the influence of individuals' cognitive processes, such as the beliefs they have about future events. Over time, these major theoretical streams of research in motivation were classified into two major schools: the content theories of motivation and the process theories of motivation.
MAJOR CONTENT THEORIES
Content (or need) theories of motivation focus on factors internal to the individual that energize and direct behavior. In general, such theories regard motivation as the product of internal drives that compel an individual to act or move (hence, "motivate") toward the satisfaction of individual needs. The content theories of motivation are based in large part on early theories of motivation that traced the paths of action backward to their perceived origin in internal drives. Major content theories of motivation are Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Alderfer's ERG theory, Herzberg's motivator-hygiene theory, and McClelland's learned needs or three-needs theory.
MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS.
Abraham Maslow developed the hierarchy of needs, which suggests that individual needs exist in a hierarchy consisting of physiological needs, security needs, belongingness needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. Physiological needs are the most basic needs for food, water, and other factors necessary for survival. Security needs include needs for safety in one's physical environment, stability, and freedom from emotional distress. Belongingness needs relate to desires for friendship, love, and acceptance within a given community of individuals. Esteem needs are those associated with obtaining the respect of one's self and others. Finally, self-actualization needs are those corresponding to the achievement one's own potential, the exercising and testing of one's creative capacities, and, in general, to becoming the best person one can possibly be. Unsatisfied needs motivate behavior; thus, lower-level needs such as the physiological and security needs must be met before upper-level needs such as belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization can be motivational.
Applications of the hierarchy of needs to management and the workplace are obvious. According to the implications of the hierarchy, individuals must have their lower level needs met by, for example, safe working conditions, adequate pay to take care of one's self and one's family, and job security before they will be motivated by increased job responsibilities, status, and challenging work assignments. Despite the ease of application of this theory to a work setting, this theory has received little research support and therefore is not very useful in practice.
ALDERFER'S ERG THEORY.
The ERG theory is an extension of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Alderfer suggested that needs could be classified into three categories, rather than five. These three types of needs are existence, relatedness, and growth. Existence needs are similar to Maslow's physiological...
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What are the most popular and useful big data programming languages? Maybe, it is the most pertaining question for any aspiring big data programmer to begin with big data languages. Not to mention, there are many big data programming languages for data science in the list. Before we give our opinion on the best programming language for Big Data, it is good to know about the market survey a little bit.
Top 3 Big Data Programming Languages
However, based on the market survey and user experience we have shortlisted top 3 big data programming languages from the list as the most used programming languages for data science. Let’s go through this blog and know the power of these big data programming languages.
Java – The Ultimate Big Data Programming Language
According to the industry report, since its inception in the mid 90’s Java has ranked itself as the number one or two most popular open source programming language. There are many factors which play vital roles to make Java popular.
Java Features
The important features of Java that make it suitable for data scientists are:
Java is platform-agnostic with Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Hence, Java can run on almost every system. Being portable, investing in Java is long-term beneficial for developers.
Scalability is the backbone of Java which makes it popular for enterprises as well as small applications.
Java is a statically-typed language. Hence, it is faster and easier to maintain with fewer bugs.
Java is backward compatible, which means you can use old versions of Java perfectly even after it releases new versions. This helps organizations or individuals to get rid of rework.
Java has vast communities support like Stack Overflow and GitHub. It is another reason for its popularity.
Now if we consider from the big data perspective, JVM is the backbone for big data analysis tools like Hadoop MapReduce. Not only Hadoop, many other big data analysis tools like Storm, Spark, and Kafka are written in Java and run on the JVM (in Clojure and Scala). Another big data related technology Apache Beam which was previously known as Google Cloud Dataflow supports Java only.
Hence, Java is essential for any Hadoop developer who wants to take a dig deep into Hadoop code. To understand the code functionality and troubleshooting, knowledge of core and advance Java is essential. So, Java is a must for the big data development.
From data science perspective for iterative development, Java 8 has the new lambda support which helps in reducing the verbosity. Also with Java 9 release, users will get the REPL support. These two big enhancements in the new releases make Java almost similar compatible like other popular data science languages R, Python or Scala.
Python – The Importance is on the Rise
Python has gained its popularity as a major language in some of the most trending technologies of the decade like Data Science, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence(AI), Robotics, Big data and Cyber Security.
Python is a simple, open-source, general-purpose language. Hence, it is easy to learn Python for anyone. This is the most important reason behind its success among the big data programming languages. With its rich set of utilities and libraries and easy-to-use features, it works wonder for big data processing and analysis.
Unlike R, Python is a traditional object-oriented language; hence most developers feel relatively easy working with it. On the other hand, first exposure to R or Scala can prove to be a steep learning curve for beginners.
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The following features make python a perfect fit for rapid data science application development.
Python is an interpreted language. Hence, the coded program does not need any compilation.
Python dynamically defines variable types.
Python is unique in its way with less coding which makes it more acceptable for the users.
Python is strongly typed which needs manual typecasting.
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The second hour of last night's "American Idol" was full of dramatic pauses and sweaty palms, as Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez began deciding who was going into the Top 24. Fortunately, the first hour of the episode let the contestants stretch out their vocal talents a bit by showcasing some classic Beatles songs, and a few singers (Paul McDonald, Naima Adedapo) won us over with killer performances before making the final cut. Tell us how you would rank last night's most memorable performances, and check out the videos of last night's highlights below.
1) Paul McDonald and Kendra Chantelle
Song: "Blackbird"
We say: Before Paul punched his ticket into the top 24, the Nashville native showed off his buttery-smooth voice in this duet with Kendra, who has a more overstated approach to "Blackbird" but nonetheless holds her own. "The power of a soft, beautiful tone -- there's nothing like it," Jennifer told Paul. This wasn't the flashiest Beatles interpretation of the night, but it just might have been the strongest.
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2) Haley Reinhart, Naima Adedapo and Jacob Lusk
Song: "The Long and Winding Road"
We say: Sure, this group ignored Jimmy Iovine's advice to avoid oversinging, but that doesn't mean they sounded bad. All three judges loved the way that nothing was held back from the trio, especially Jacob, who effortlessly gave "Long and Winding Road" a radiant gospel feel.
3) Casey Abrams and Chris Medina
Song: "A Hard Day's Night"
We say: In a quickly shown performance that could have been subtitled "boy will be boys," Casey and Chris leap around on a bed while rocking out with acoustic guitars to "A Hard Day's Night." Steven calls the pair "freaks," but we wished the memorably raucous performance had featured some freaking vocal talent; that last note, punctuated by Casey and Chris collapsing on the bed in back of them, was especially off-key.
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4) Tim Halperin and Julie Zorrilla
Songs: "Something"
We say: "Love him," Jennifer told Steven as Tim dove into a restrained yet emotional rendition of "Something" alongside Julie, and we can't help but agree: with performances like these, the 23-year-old Texas native appears to possess the whole package. Julie also sounded strong as she played the keyboard opposite Tim before joining him center stage to cap off the spirited duet.
5) Lauren Alaina, Scotty McCreery and Denise Jackson
Song: "Hello Goodbye"
We say: The threesome had a little trouble preparing for this performance, and the reliance on physical hijinks (the trio ended up chasing each other around a telephone booth) made the song a little scattershot. For as much trouble as Lauren, Scotty and Denise had finding the right presentation for a difficult number, each singer's talent shone through: Scotty proved he can register at a (very slightly) higher octave, and Lauren continued to showcase her charm in the song's nuances.
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The Epidemiology and Transmissibility of Zika Virus in Girardot and San Andres Island, Colombia
Diana Patricia Rojas, Natalie E. Dean, Yang Yang, Eben Kenah, Juliana Quintero, Simon Tomasi, Erika L. Ramirez, Yendy Kelly, Carolina Castro, Gabriel Carrasquilla, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr.
Diana Patricia Rojas
Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Natalie E. Dean
Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Eben Kenah
Juliana Quintero
Centro de Estudios e Investigaciãn en Salud, Fundaciãn Santa Fé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
Simon Tomasi
Erika L. Ramirez
Secretaria Municipal de Salud, Girardot, Colombia
Yendy Kelly
IPS Universitaria, San Andrés, Colombia
Carolina Castro
Secretaria Departamental de Salud, San Andrés, Colombia
Gabriel Carrasquilla
M. Elizabeth Halloran
Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USAVaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Ira M. Longini
Background Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus in the same genus as dengue virus and yellow fever virus. ZIKV transmission was first detected in Colombia in September 2015. The virus has spread rapidly across the country in areas infested with the vector Aedes aegypti. As of March 2016, Colombia has reported over 50,000 cases of Zika virus disease (ZVD).
Methods We analyzed surveillance data of ZVD cases reported to the local health authorities of San Andres, Colombia, and Girardot, Colombia, between September 2015 and January 2016. Standardized case definitions used in both areas were determined by the Ministry of Health and Colombian National Institute of Health at the beginning of the ZIKV epidemic. ZVD was laboratory-confirmed by a finding of Zika virus RNA in the serum of acute cases. We report epidemiological summaries of the two outbreaks. We also use daily incidence data to estimate the basic reproductive number R0 in each population.
Findings We identified 928 and 1,936 laboratory or clinically confirmed cases in San Andres and Girardot, respectively. The overall attack rate for reported ZVD detected by healthcare local surveillance was 12·13 cases per 1,000 residents of San Andres and 18·43 cases per 1,000 residents of Girardot. Attack rates were significantly higher in females in both municipalities. Cases occurred in all age groups but the most affected group was 20 to 49 year olds. The estimated R0 for the Zika outbreak in San Andres was 1·41 (95% CI 1·15 to 1·74), and in Girardot was 4·61 (95% CI 4·11 to 5·16).
Interpretation Transmission of ZIKV is ongoing and spreading throughout the Americas rapidly. The observed rapid spread is supported by the relatively high basic reproductive numbers calculated from these two outbreaks in Colombia.
Funding This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) U54 GM111274, NIH R37 AI032042 and the Colombian Department of Science and Technology (Fulbright-Colciencias scholarship to D.P.R). The funding source had no role in the preparation of this manuscript or in the decision to publish this study.
Evidence before this study The ongoing outbreak of Zika virus disease in the Americas is the largest ever recorded. Since its first detection in April 2015 in Brazil, around 500,000 cases have been estimated, and the virus is spreading rapidly in the Americas region. There are many unanswered questions about the transmissibility and pathogenicity of the virus. Limited data are available from recent outbreaks occurring in islands in the Pacific, and little epidemiological data is available on the current outbreak.
We searched PubMed on March 12, 2016, for epidemiological reports on Zika virus outbreaks using the search terms “Zika” AND “Basic reproductive number”. We applied no date or language restrictions. Our search identified one previous paper assessing the basic reproductive number, R0 of Zika virus in Yap Island, Federal State of Micronesia and in French Polynesia, but no papers estimating R0 using data from the Latin American Zika outbreak. Because of the sparsity of the data, we could not do a detailed systematic review at this point in time.
Added value of this study We report detailed epidemiological data on outbreaks in San Andres and Girardot, Colombia. Because such reports are currently unavailable, we provide early information on age and gender effects and the functioning of local and national surveillance in the second-most affected country in this epidemic. We provide early estimates of R0. Our results can be used by mathematical modelers to understand the future impact of the disease and potential spread.
Implications of all the available evidence We report attack rates similar to those reported in the Yap Island outbreak. We find that Zika impacts individuals of all ages, though the most affected age group is 20 to 49 years of age. The surveillance system detected more cases among women in both areas, though this finding may be attributable to reporting bias. Our estimates of R0 imply that Zika has the capacity for widespread transmission in areas with the vector.
The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license.
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Tag Archives: international millinery and feather trades 1800s 1900s
October 22, 2018 · 12:47 pm
Book Review: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism — Women’s Fight for Change, by Tessa Boase
Note: the accompanying images are not from this book, but much of what I learned, is. Any reflections about parallels with current events are mine, and mine alone. This book made me think.
The millinery and feather trades were a huge international business in 1910. Ad from Delineator.
I’m sorry I took so long to review this book; I loved reading it, and I’ve raved about it to friends, but it is so jam-packed with fascinating information that I was tempted to quote something from every other page — which would not be fair to other readers; it’s too much fun to discover surprising facts for yourself! [Even so, I couldn’t resist sharing a few. My enthusiasm carries me away. A shorter review can be found at The Vintage Traveler 🙂 ]
In her previous book, The Housekeeper’s Tale, Tessa Boase poured through old account books, legal proceedings, letters and diaries, and used her research to unearth the life stories of several women servants over a period of nearly two centuries. I confess that history was the class that bored me the most in high school — although I was a good student, I hated “history.” But history vividly told though the lives of ordinary women — that is fascinating, and suspenseful, reading.
This teenaged girl wears entire bird wings on her hat. Delineator, March 1910. In 1892, 800,000 pairs of wings were imported by one London dealer. [Boase, p. 87]
In Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Feather, the women central to her story are not ordinary — most of them are women who achieved great things: They changed the laws of England in the early twentieth century. And they did it against all odds:
“Right up until the First World War, the idea of bird protection was as laughable to the general population as the concept of female emancipation.” — Boase, p. xiii
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst was the very vocal leader of the movement for women’s suffrage, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU.) Mrs. Etta Lemon was the primary founder of the Society for the Preservation of Birds (SPB,) seeking to prevent the extinction of birds which were being hunted for women’s hat trimmings. Both of them were up against an all-male parliament, male voters, and a public perception that women should stay home and keep their opinions to themselves.
But, surprisingly, the crusading Mrs. Lemon, — like many of her supporters — was an “Anti:” she was opposed to women getting the vote.
Did you know? In 1913, the Antis had 33,000 members; “the Pankhurst’s WSPU just 2,000.” [Boase, p. 237.]
It’s very hard for a modern woman to identify with Etta Lemon, — and this conflict between two successful, activist women is the paradox that shapes Boase’s book. It twines together two stories about women: the campaign for wildlife conservation and the campaign for voting rights. [The large cast of characters is helpfully listed and described early in the book — a very good idea!]
Wisely, Boase uses the gripping story of working woman Alice Battershall, ” a lowly feather washer,” to plunge us into the very big business of millinery and the feather trade in late Victorian and Edwardian England (and the world.) Alice was tried for the crime of stealing two ostrich plumes from her employer.
The trade in feathers was world wide. Ad for South African ostrich, Delineator, April 1910.
Alice Battershall earned 5 shillings a week — not a living wage even by the sweatshop standards of 1885. Her employer would have sold the feathers for 7 shillings each. Alice sold them to a “fence” for 1 shilling apiece. I had to stop and think about these figures: one ostrich plume was worth more than a week’s wages. Even by selling them to so cheaply, Alice increased her starvation wages by 40% — a powerful temptation.
And ostrich plumes were not the most valuable; ostrich were farmed, and the ostrich didn’t have to be killed for its feathers.
A family of Snowy egrets. Photo By AdA Durden from Jacksonville, USA Uploaded by Snowmanradio, CC , via wikipedia.
The bird that faced rapid extinction was the snowy egret. (Milliners called its feathers “Osprey.”) In 1903, a single ounce of Osprey feathers cost almost twice as much as an ounce of gold. [Boase, p.124] But snowy egrets only sported these long, delicate feathers (their nuptial plumage) while mating and raising their young. Egret nestlings need to be fed by both parents over a long period of time; whenever a plume hunter shot and skinned the parent birds, the next generation of snowy egrets died of starvation. When a colony was hunted two or three years in a row, it became extinct.
One famous hunter, David “Egret” Bennett, first wiped out egret colonies in Central America, then moved on to the colonies in Mexico and Baja California. He, too gets a chapter. He was aware that he was driving the species to extinction, but “I have never found any occupation as profitable,” he explained.
[Personally, I see a parallel with the fossil fuel industry today. For me, history — brought to life in Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Hat — keeps informing and illuminating the present.]
Mrs. Lemon and her friends began a campaign against the wearing of osprey; they sent letters to newspapers all over England; they wrote to parish newsletters and to clergymen citing biblical passages in support of their views; they wrote (and spoke) to other women and of course, to members of Parliament. But, while Mrs. Pankhurst was leading demonstrations and being arrested (repeatedly) for advocating votes for women — always while elegantly dressed and wearing hats bedecked with feathers, the anti-suffrage ladies of the [eventually Royal] Society for the Protection of Birds hired men to carry the placards in their most effective education campaign. And, although Mrs. Lemon actually ran the SPB until she was forced out in 1939, on paper her husband Frank was its “honorary secretary.” She did not assume its leadership — officially — until he died.
Exotic birds, like the bird of paradise, were especially valued. This “Paradise Bird” was sold by Sears.
If you couldn’t afford the real thing, parts of many birds might be combined to make one. Sears catalog, 1910.
The sheer numbers of birds killed and skinned and transported to auction in New York and London boggles the mind. An undercover reporter from the American Ornithologists Union slipped into a plumage sale in London in 1888.
“Here were birds by the shipload,” writes Boase, listing about 7,000 parrots, 1,000 woodpeckers, 14,000 quail, grouse and partridge, 4000 snipes and plovers and other domestic birds like the 7,000 starlings, jays, and magpies. There were 5000 tanagers; hundreds (each) of birds of paradise, gulls, finches, orioles, larks, toucans; and 12,000 hummingbirds from all over the world. [It’s a mercy that my mind simply cannot picture a pile of 12,000 dead hummingbirds.]
Until I read this book I knew very little about Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst; I didn’t realize that she was a widow who had to support herself and her daughters, while trying to maintain the appearance of a respectable and “womanly” woman of the upper classes. Cartoonists often depicted suffragettes as mannish women with ties and cigars or as frustrated spinsters. Mrs. Pankhurst was determined to break that stereotype. As in all things British, social class came into it. She didn’t believe that the exclusively male Members of Parliament, who were middle class by virtue of inheritance and/or wealth, would pay attention to the pleas of working class women. This led to a painful break with her socialist daughter Sylvia, who championed “equal pay for equal work” and an end to the “sweating trades” (e.g., ostrich feather curlers) in 1918. [That was 100 years ago….]
The women who worked in the millinery and feather trades were exploited in wretched, health-destroying working conditions, and often reduced to prostitution during the regularly occurring months when their trades were dormant.
A child might have worked for days to “willow” this plume. Peckham’s ad in Delineator, June 1910.
This is an ostrich plume that has been “willowed.” An ordinary ostrich feather has been made longer, fluffier and more luxurious by having extensions tied to every flue — a job which the small and nimble fingers of children were good at.
“One women and two children might labour for a day and a third on a single ostrich plume — whose preparation required as many as 8,613 knots…. In 1910, this earned them 3 cents….” — Boase, p. 13.
“Pulmonary tuberculosis was a slow and steady killer of women in the feather trade.” [Boase, p. 13] Nevertheless, abolishing the trade was a political hot potato: workers often preferred the risk of slow death to unemployment and starvation. (Hunger was already part of their lives.)
[This is another dilemma we face today. Although Boase never mentions these parallels, this book offers plenty of food for thought. Silicosis and pneumoconiosis kill coal miners, and mesothelioma kills asbestos workers; nevertheless, eliminating these trades means eliminating jobs — a problem in 1910 and in 2018.]
As the new century progressed, some women — like Etta Lemon; Eliza Phillips; Emily Williamson; Virginia Woolf; and Winifred, Duchess of Portland — campaigned against the extinction of entire species for hat trimmings. Mrs Pankhurst, immaculately dressed but debilitated from her frequent protest fasts, saw her supporters’ demonstrations become increasingly violent. Then came World War I, and a great change in women’s lives….
As I have mentioned, Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Feather is history told by a scholar with a novelist’s touch, focusing on the small detail and the personal story to bring its events vividly to life. And, although the author does not mention their relevance to modern life, I can’t help being stimulated by many of the facts she shares.
Over 100 years ago, American Ornithologist Henry Oldys addressed the U.S. Congress on the topic of wildlife conservation, urging legislation to prevent the extinction of species:
The spirit of the age, was, he said, marked by ignorance, cupidity and supineness — a toxic combination that was steadily exterminating creation. “History will not listen to the plea, ‘It was not my business,’ ” he cried. ‘It will answer: “You were there and could have prevented it; therefore it was your business. You failed to do your duty. The only explanation is that you were corrupt, ignorant, or weak.” ‘ — from Boase, p. 226.
[In the light of my country’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, and the U.N.’s recent report that irreversible climate change is happening more rapidly than predicted, someone needs to say that to Congress again.]
Nevertheless, I also found hope from the fact that women, working together, can accomplish the near-impossible. Even the story of the troubling Mrs. Lemon gives me hope:
The RSPB began with a letter writing campaign organized by a few Victorian ladies — bird-lovers excluded from all-male ornithological societies because they were women.
“Within six months… this little ‘bird and bonnet’ society [grew] from 1,000 to 5,000 members.” In two years, it had almost 10,000, “most of them women.” [p. 74.] Today, “The RSPB is a behemoth — a charity with 1.2 million members, 200 nature reserves…, 2000 staff and 14,000 volunteers. It has an annual income of 100 million pounds and it wields great political power. Its business today is international nature conservation.” (p. xi.)
Reading that makes me feel a lot better about our chances.
Summary: By focusing her complex story on the lives of individual women, Tessa Boase has turned an extraordinary mass of scholarly research into a memorable and fascinating book, filled with surprises and startling details. I used to think history was boring. Not this one.
The publishers deserve praise, especially for the footnotes (actually endnotes) which are printed in two-column format. They never intrude, but if you want to check a source, they are easy to read without constant page flipping. Full index and bibliography; color plates; and Ms. Boase herself collected the illustrations for the end papers from period magazines. Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review.
Mrs. Pankhurst wore a purple feather because the Suffragette colors were purple (for freedom and dignity,) white (for purity,) and green (for hope.) Click here to see the (faded) feather that inspired this book.
Tessa Boase blogs at tessaboase.com/blog, where you can see more Edwardian feathered hats in full color (including eyes and beaks….)
Fashion sketch of a chic Parisienne; Delineator, May 1910. She is wearing a glorified chicken.
Four feathered hats. Delineator, February 1910.
Filed under 1870s to 1900s fashions, 1900s to 1920s, 1910s and WW I era, A Costumers' Bookshelf, Edwardian fashions, Hats, Musings, Old Advertisements & Popular Culture, Vintage Accessories, World War I
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Watch Now: Newswatch 16 The News Station TV Schedule
As Remnants of Florence Approach, Flooding Fears in New Albany
Posted 4:58 pm, September 17, 2018, by Nikki Krize, Updated at 04:57PM, September 17, 2018
NEW ALBANY, Pa. -- The remnants of Tropical Storm Florence continue to climb up the east coast, and the rain from that storm has already started in Pennsylvania.
Some spots in our area could see a few inches of rain. That includes one part of Bradford County that has been dealing with flooding for much of the summer.
The rain started Monday afternoon in New Albany and has been steady ever since. According to the National Weather Service, it will only take about an inch and a half of rain to flood Ladd's Creek, and New Albany is expected to get more than that.
Residents of New Albany are on high alert. In anticipation of Florence, crews cleaned ditches and put out sandbags.
People who live in New Albany are especially nervous and scared because of all the flood damage they've dealt with this summer.
"It is such a helpless feeling when there is absolutely nothing you can do," said Carl Green.
Green had four feet of water in his basement last month after the creek flooded. His pool and deck washed away.
"It doesn't take much for it to go from where it's at to where you don't want it," said Jennifer Henderson.
"Any amount of rain in Bradford County at this point is detrimental to so many," said Sarah Neely, Bradford County Emergency Management coordinator.
People here tell Newswatch 16 they feel helpless.
"All I can do is watch and wait and pray to God that nothing happens," Green added.
"What can you do but sit and wait and watch and hope for the best?" Henderson said.
New Albany and other parts of our area are expected to get about two inches of rain and it's expected to keep raining all night.
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Shutdown frustration mounting for Albany air traffic controllers
COLONIE - The partial government shutdown has a huge impact on air traffic controllers across the country and right here in Albany. One of them, who is also the National Air Traffic Controller Association's facility representative local president at the Albany International Airport's Air Traffic Control Center, is speaking exclusively to NewsChannel 13.
That national organization filed a federal lawsuit in Washington D.C. on Friday against several government officials, demanding air traffic controllers -- who are considered essential FAA employees and must come to work during the shutdown -- get paid.
Andrew Pegler shared a copy of his paystub with NewsChannel 13. It's for less than $35 for two weeks' worth of work. He says his members are dealing with the same thing, which has affected them professionally at work and personally at home in being able to provide for their families.
The Albany tower is considered fully staffed at 28 certified air traffic controllers. Currently, Pegler says they only have 16 certified controllers, and 16 others currently in training -- with three of them not able to report to work at all because of the shutdown's restrictions on training.
For reference, there were just shy of 70,000 flights in and out of Albany in 2018, according to Pegler.
Pegler says he has an emergency fund, which should last him through a couple of paychecks. However, he added that other people aren't as lucky.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the House passed a bill guaranteeing back pay to federal workers missing paychecks. The bill sailed to passage, with only seven voting in opposition - all Republicans.
A similar bill passed the Senate on Thursday by voice vote, meaning it will be forwarded to President Trump.
Knox farmers deliver lots of food to unpaid TSA workers at Albany airport
Airline safety on passengers' minds during government shutdown
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Albany eatery offers free food for furloughed federal workers
Air traffic controller resigns in Albany due to government shutdown
Next month's SNAP benefits arriving earlier due to government shutdown
TSA workers on the job without pay treated to breakfast at Albany Airport
Jill Konopka
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Women 50:50
50% women in our parliament, our council chambers and public boards
Press Release – The Campaign For A Fairer Parliament Carries On
Written by talatyaq
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Women 5050 disappointed in Westminster decision to reject devolution of political quotas
Last night MPs debated 2 amendments to the Scotland Bill which would have devolved the ability to introduce “gender balancing” or quotas to the Scottish Parliament. Both amendments fell.
Amendment 123, submitted by Ian Murray MP would have allowed the Scottish Parliament to fully debate the issue of the under-representation of women and devolved the power to implement legislative candidate quotas. Amendment 162 submitted by Angus Robertson MP would have allowed for quotas on public boards.
Talat Yaqoob, Chair of Women 5050 said:
“We’re disappointed that these amendments has been voted down. The inclusion of just a few sentences in the Scotland Bill could have changed Scotland’s political landscape for the better and could have been the first step to a more inclusive and representative Scottish Parliament. Tackling the inequality and discrimination women face is the job of our parliaments. Introducing quotas are a fair and effective way for us to address the political imbalance in our politics. Women in Scotland deserve better than a glass ceiling on their leadership ambitions.
These amendments may have fallen, but the campaign for fair representation has never been stronger, especially with four out of five party leaders in the Scottish Parliament, including the First Minister, backing the campaign.
We will continue to pursue every avenue to make a fairer parliament and fairer public life a reality for women in Scotland and we will succeed.”
July 7, 2015 July 7, 2015 ·
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Police & Fire: Police seeking man after vandalism at Battle Creek church
Battle Creek police are searching for a man who kicked over flower pots and damaged a statute at St. Philip Catholic Church Sunday.
Police & Fire: Police seeking man after vandalism at Battle Creek church Battle Creek police are searching for a man who kicked over flower pots and damaged a statute at St. Philip Catholic Church Sunday. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2019/05/07/police-fire-police-seeking-man-after-battle-creek-church-vandalism/1129966001/
Trace Christenson, Battle Creek Enquirer Published 2:13 p.m. ET May 7, 2019 | Updated 1:17 p.m. ET May 8, 2019
The statue of Saint Bernadette outside St. Philip Catholic Church was damaged Sunday. (Photo: Trace Christenson/The Enquirer)
CHURCH VANDALISM: Battle Creek police are searching for a man who kicked over flower pots and damaged a statute at St. Philip Catholic Church at 112 Capital Ave. N.E. on Sunday. A couple passing on their motorcycle saw the man and called Battle Creek police at 9:03 p.m. but arriving officers were not able to find the man. Police said the flower pots were knocked over and the left arm and hand of the three-foot tall statue was damaged. Rev. John Fleckenstein said the statue is of Saint Bernadette and dates to the 1940s and depicts her kneeling to look at the Virgin Mary. He said the statue was placed at the rebuilt Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto about 12 years ago. The vandal was described as a white man about 30 years old and wearing grey pants, black jacket, blue shirt and black shoes. He had short hair and was wearing headphones.
SCHOOL FIRE: A fire was contained to an oven Monday at the Child Development Center at 55 Arbor St. Battle Creek firefighters were called at 12:46 p.m. and said the oven was used for art projects and caught fire. The Calhoun County Health Department was called because the fire was in the kitchen. No injuries were reported.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Battle Creek police have reported the following cases:
• A woman, 40, was arrested after she pushed a man, 38, after officers arrived to investigate a report of domestic violence. Officers were called to the 100 block of Cliff Street at 11:17 p.m. Monday.
• A warrant is being sought for a man, 20, for violation of a personal protection order after his girlfriend said he called her more than a dozen times while she was a patient at Bronson Battle Creek, 300 North Ave. Police were called at 5:21 p.m. Monday.
Call Silent Observer at 269-964-3888 or text CRIMES (274637) SOTIP or see www.crimereports.com with information about crimes.
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Brexit: DUP hold out prospect of customs union
Media captionCustoms union 'temporary staging post'
The DUP has held out the prospect of supporting a customs union as talks continue between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn to break the Brexit deadlock.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson made the suggestion to BBC News NI on Wednesday evening.
It came as the Tory and Labour leaders agreed a "programme of work" to try to find a way forward to put to MPs.
Earlier, the DUP called the prime minister's handling of the overall Brexit negotiations "lamentable".
Late on Wednesday, MPs voted by a majority of one to force the prime minister to ask for an extension to the Brexit process, in a bid to avoid any no-deal scenario.
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Earlier on Wednesday evening, Sir Jeffrey said his party would have preferred a form of Brexit that enables the UK to negotiate new trade agreements with other countries.
"That's part of the reason for Brexit and maybe a customs union might be a temporary staging post towards that objective," he told BBC Newsline.
"We will wait to see what the prime minister brings before Parliament but we are very clear, we want a Brexit that delivers for all of the United Kingdom and that keeps the United Kingdom together - that is our objective."
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The DUP MP earlier told BBC Radio Ulster that regardless of what emerges in the coming days, the DUP's stance on the union was "un-persuadable" and they remained in an "influential position" because of the government's fragile working majority in Parliament.
MPs have been debating legislation which would require Mrs May to seek an extension to Article 50 and give the Commons the power to approve or amend whatever was agreed.
Wednesday's knife-edge parliamentary vote to ask the EU for a longer Brexit extension was on a bill brought by Labour's Yvette Cooper.
It was fast-tracked through all Commons stages - a process that can take months - in one day and is now going through the Lords.
It will still be up to the EU to decide whether to grant an extension.
If the UK joined a customs union with the EU, this would lessen the need for the Irish border backstop, but would not remove it altogether.
On its own, a customs union would unequivocally not eliminate the potential for border checks in Ireland.
Customs are not the only things which could be enforced at the border - checks on food products to see if they meet EU standards would still remain an outstanding issue.
That is a matter that only some sort of continued single market access would grant.
On Monday, the DUP voted against an indicative vote proposing a customs union, but it was not binding.
If Mrs May and Mr Corbyn cannot agree a compromise, the government will put forward its own series of indicative votes - which will be binding - and could include Mrs May's own deal versus a series of other options.
Analysis: Enda McClafferty, BBC News NI political correspondent
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First, Nigel Dodds said he would rather remain in the EU than risk the union.
Now the party whip is saying a customs union "could be a temporary staging post" to the "preferred form of Brexit".
On the same day, the Attorney General Geoffrey Cox suggested he, too, could live with a customs union if it helped deliver Brexit.
For the DUP, it's about preserving the union first, delivering Brexit second.
But supporting a customs union in the political declaration, which is not legally binding, may just be a negotiating tactic.
And as a "staging post" it may disappear when Theresa May's replacement takes over the negotiation.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said it was an "article of faith" that the UK must leave the EU to honour the referendum result.
He told the BBC a customs union was "not desirable" but if that was the only way of leaving the EU, he would take it.
The comments come a day after Mrs May said that she will ask the EU for a further extension to Brexit.
Talks between the prime minister and Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday were said to be "constructive".
Media captionJeremy Corbyn: "I recognise that she has made a move... I recognise my responsibility"
It is understood that each party has appointed a negotiating team, and they are meeting before a full day of discussions on Thursday.
Mr Corbyn had said he was "very happy" to meet Mrs May, and would ensure plans for a customs union and protection of workers' rights were on the table.
The DUP has supported the government in a confidence-and-supply pact since June 2017, after a snap general election.
But it is at odds with the prime minister and her Brexit deal, because of the Irish border backstop in the withdrawal agreement.
The party opposes the plan because if it took effect, it would lead to trade differences between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, which the DUP said poses a risk to the integrity of the union.
Media captionThe DUP: Partners in government
The UK is still scheduled to leave the EU on 12 April, unless the EU agrees to another extension.
But it is likely to demand that the UK takes part in European elections, which are due to take place on 23 May.
However, Mrs May said she wanted any further extension to be "as short as possible" - before 22 May so the UK does not have to take part in the elections.
Both the UK and EU have continued preparations for a no deal, in the event that a breakthrough cannot be reached in time.
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Teachers' pay rise a con-trick, says Carwyn Jones
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Image caption The increase for higher-paid teachers, senior staff and head teachers is below inflation
Pay rises for teachers announced by UK ministers are a "con-trick", First Minister Carwyn Jones has said.
Lower-paid teachers in Wales are set to receive an increase of up to 3.5%, alongside their English counterparts.
But as the pay rises are being paid for out of existing budgets in England, it is not expected there will be extra cash coming to Wales to pay for them.
UK ministers said they were delivering "pay rises for public sector workers while being fair to the tax payer".
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated that about 60% of teachers, senior staff and head teachers will get below-inflation increases of 1.5% or 2%.
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Teachers' pay is in the process of being devolved - but that does not come into effect until next year, and currently the UK government sets pay rates for teachers in England and Wales.
That is despite control over education in Wales being centred in Cardiff since the opening of the assembly in 1999.
On Tuesday the UK government said that a million public sector workers would be receiving their biggest pay rise in nearly 10 years - with members of the armed forces also set to benefit.
Half a billion pounds has been set aside in England over two years to fund the extra pay for teachers, but out of the existing Department for Education budget.
The 3.5% rises - worth between £800 and £1,366 per year - will go to many classroom teachers on the main pay range.
Image caption Carwyn Jones says that without extra money the pay rises means fewer teachers
First Minister Carwyn Jones told BBC Wales without extra money to accompany the pay rises it would just mean fewer teachers and less money in schools.
"It's a con-trick," he said.
"The only way to do this is for the UK Treasury to say we'll make the money available in England and as a result Wales will get a consequential so we can do the same in Wales."
Education in Wales is paid for from local authority budgets, which are funded by the Welsh Government.
Any pay-rises therefore need to be paid for by Welsh ministers.
'Bleating'
But Rex Phillips, NASUWT National Official, said it was "no good the Welsh Government bleating about where the money is coming from to fund the pay uplift for teachers pay this year, as the award applies across England and Wales".
The UK government also announced pay rises of 2% for junior doctors, specialist doctors, GPs and dentists, with consultants getting a pay rise of 1.5%.
But NHS pay is devolved, the rise only applies in England. The Welsh Government is yet to decide whether to follow the decision.
Welsh Conservatives education spokesman Darren Millar said ministers in Wales received "£1.20 from the UK government for every £1 spent on schools in England, yet spend hundreds less per pupil each year".
"So instead of crying crocodile tears and making excuses the first minister should get his wallet out and give teachers in Wales the pay rise that they deserve," he said.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are considering the recommendations made by the Doctors and Dentists' Review Body in their 2018 report. The Health Secretary will make an announcement in due course."
A UK Government spokesperson responded: "Today's awards deliver pay rises for public sector workers while being fair to the tax payer.
"The multi-billion NHS staff pay deal announced in March will deliver more money for Wales through the Barnett Formula, while we've always been clear that final pay awards for other workforces would come out of existing departmental budgets.
"The Welsh Government's block grant from the UK government has increased in real terms since 2015, including an extra £1.2bn at the budget in Autumn 2017."
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Vietnam to deport US student Will Nguyen for 'public disorder'
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Image caption William Nguyen's family fled to the US in 1975
A court in Vietnam has ordered the deportation of a US student arrested at a recent demonstration that turned violent.
William Nguyen was found guilty of "causing public disorder".
He was detained in June at a protest in Ho Chi Minh City against new economic zones that some fear will be dominated by Chinese investors.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had raised Mr Nguyen's case with Vietnamese officials.
Authorities detained more than 100 people as the demonstrations turned violent with rocks and petrol bombs. Six Vietnamese nationals have been jailed.
Mr Nguyen was to be deported immediately after the one-day trial on Friday. The US embassy in Hanoi has said it is pleased with the outcome.
"We understand from the court's decision that he will be deported after paying a fine," spokesman James Thrower told the Reuters news agency.
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The maximum sentence for the 32-year old would have been seven years in prison.
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"The jury acknowledged that the defendant admitted his illegal activities. Considering his sincerity, the court did not hand him a prison sentence," a state newspaper report of the court proceedings says.
Mr Nguyen, a Yale graduate from the state of Texas, was visiting Vietnam when he began documenting the demonstrations.
He joined protesters in Ho Chi Minh City on 10 June, tweeting "how enormous of an achievement" the demonstrations were for the Vietnamese people.
Image caption Protesters like those who marched in Ho Chi Minh City have said they will demonstrate again
According to his family and friends, Mr Nguyen was "beaten over the head and dragged into the back of a police truck". State media said he was "causing trouble" but the government has denied using force against him.
Mr Nguyen's family fled South Vietnam after its collapse in 1975.
The proposed economic law would give foreign investors 99-year leases on land in three designated special economic zones across the country.
Protesters believe the bill - the passage of which has been delayed - will allow Chinese companies to take control of Vietnamese land.
Demonstrators gathered in various parts of the country, including the major urban centres of Hanoi, the capital, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Some carried anti-China banners, including one reading: "No leasing land to China even for one day."
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South Korea offers aid to flooded North
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Image caption North Korea has relied on foreign aid for years
South Korea has made its first offer of aid to North Korea since it accused Pyongyang of sinking one of its warships in March.
South Korea's Red Cross has offered 10bn won ($8.3m, £5.3m) worth of flood aid to its impoverished neighbour.
The offer came hours after the United States imposed new sanctions on the North in response to the sinking.
South Korea blames North Korea for sinking the Cheonan on 26 March with a torpedo, killing 46 crew.
North Korea denies any role in the incident and has demanded its own investigation.
North Korea has relied on food aid from China, South Korea and aid agencies to feed millions of its people since a famine in the 1990s resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
But the communist country has been hard hit by floods caused by heavy rains in July and August, especially in its northern areas, bordering China.
"The aid includes medical kits, emergency food and supplies," a Unification Ministry official said, quoting the Red Cross message sent to North Korea.
The offer has yet to be accepted by the North.
Under President Lee Myung-bak, the South has stepped back from its earlier "sunshine" policy of unconditional aid and has linked the provision of aid to progress from the North on ending its nuclear programme.
A South Korean offer of about 10,000 tonnes of corn to North Korea in October 2009 was the first official aid to its hungry neighbour for almost two years.
The year before, the South had offered 50,000 tons of corn but the North rejected the shipment amid high tensions.
'Too early'
The offer came after North Korea reportedly indicated it was ready to return to six-party talks over ending its nuclear ambitions.
Image caption Parts of North Korea have been badly affected by severe flooding
Leader Kim Jong-il told the Chinese president that he wanted to see negotiations resumed during a visit to China last week, Chinese state media said.
The talks - which involve the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the US - have been stalled since December 2008 over Pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests.
But South Korea is demanding an apology for the warship sinking before any return to the negotiations.
Japan also says the time is not right to resume talks.
On Tuesday its foreign minister, Katsuya Okada, told China's visiting nuclear envoy, Wu Dawei, that it was still "too early" to think about a return to talks.
On Monday the US imposed additional sanctions on North Korea, targeting trade in arms, luxury goods and narcotics.
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Sex and death: are...
Sex and death: are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly cohort study
BMJ 1997; 315 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.315.7123.1641 (Published 20 December 1997) Cite this as: BMJ 1997;315:1641
George Davey Smith (zetkin{at}bristol.ac.uk), professor of clinical epidemiologya,
Stephen Frankel, professor of epidemiology and public health medicinea,
John Yarnell, senior lecturerb
a Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PR
b Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT12 6BJ
Correspondence to: Professor Davey Smith
Objective: To examine the relation between frequency of orgasm and mortality.
Study design: Cohort study with a 10 year follow up.
Setting: The town of Caerphilly, South Wales, and five adjacent villages.
Subjects: 918 men aged 45–59 at time of recruitment between 1979 and 1983.
Main outcome measures: All deaths and deaths from coronary heart disease.
Result: Mortality risk was 50% lower in the group with high orgasmic frequency than in the group with low orgasmic frequency, with evidence of a dose-response relation across the groups. Age adjusted odds ratio for all cause mortality was 2.0 for the group with low frequency of orgasm (95% confidence interval 1.1 to 3.5, test for trend P=0.02). With adjustment for risk factors this became 1.9 (1.0 to 3.4, test for trend P=0.04). Death from coronary heart disease and from other causes showed similar associations with frequency of orgasm, although the gradient was most marked for deaths from coronary heart disease. Analysed in terms of actual frequency of orgasm, the odds ratio for total mortality associated with an increase in 100 orgasms per year was 0.64 (0.44 to 0.95).
Conclusion: Sexual activity seems to have a protective effect on men's health.
Sex and death are common variables in epidemiology, but the relation between them has been little studied
In this cohort study, mortality risk was 50% lower in men with high frequency of orgasm than in men with low frequency of orgasm; there was evidence of a dose-response relation across the groups
The question of causation is complex, as with all observational epidemiological findings; several explanations are possible, but the evidence for causation is as convincing here as in many areas where causation is assumed
These findings contrast with the view common to many cultures that the pleasure of sexual intercourse may be secured at the cost of vigour and wellbeing
If these findings are replicated, there are implications for health promotion programmes
Even for a group not especially known for humour, the epidemiologist's standard joke about “being broken down by age and sex” is rather tired. It is also conceptually colourless, for the non-epidemiologist takes more interest in sex as an activity than as a stratification variable. Sexual behaviour as an exposure has been little investigated, outside its capacity for transmitting communicable disease. Few data exist on the association between patterns of sexual behaviour and later mortality, despite sex and death—the joint obsessions of adolescence1 2—being frequently linked in youthful interpretations of the human condition.3 4 5 6 One barrier to the study of frequency of sexual intercourse as an exposure may be that observational epidemiology tends to be conducted on middle aged and ageing populations by middle aged or ageing researchers. The fading imaginations of researchers—assumed to be shared by their subjects—renders the whole area apparently uninteresting. This is an instance of a more general phenomenon of epidemiologists studying what interests other epidemiologists, and not always being drawn to areas of more general public concern. There may be more exciting issues for the public than determining exactly how many servings of fruit and vegetables a day may confer enhanced health, or discovering that smoking is even worse for people than was once thought.
Once the action moved into the bedchamber, a cry of “I die, I die!” signalled the desired outcome
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A few exceptions to the general epidemiological silence on the association between sexual behaviour and later mortality exist. In the Duke first longitudinal study of ageing, frequency of sexual intercourse was inversely associated with mortality in men, and enjoyment of intercourse was inversely related to mortality among women.7 This finding is compatible with a perception that the quantity of sexual activity is of more importance to men, while a greater concern with quality is seen among women.8 9 In a Swedish study early cessation of sexual intercourse was found to be associated with an increased mortality risk among men over a 5 year follow up.10 Sexual dissatisfaction was found to be a risk factor for myocardial infarction in a case-control study of women, with premature ejaculation and impotence in husbands being the major underlying factor.11 From a different perspective, the assumption that Catholic priests and nuns are celibate renders another epidemiological design relevant here. A retrospective cohort analysis involving 10 026 priests in the United States revealed a marginally increased overall standardised mortality ratio of 103 (95% confidence interval 100 to 106), though mortality for arteriosclerotic heart disease was more substantially raised (118, 113 to 122).12 Interestingly, mortality for cirrhosis of the liver was greatly increased, with a standardised mortality ratio of 147 (122 to 173). A study of nuns found opposite findings, with lower overall mortality than in the general population.13 Low rates of smoking among the nuns was considered to be key in this case.
Unfortunately all of these studies have contained only limited data on potential confounding factors and could thus say little about whether the observed associations were causal. In view of the dearth of evidence on this question we have examined the association between sexual behaviour and mortality in a cohort of men for whom data on health related behaviours, existing coronary disease at baseline, social class, and physiological risk factors are available.
Participants and methods
The Caerphilly study is based upon a 100% sample of men selected from the town of Caerphilly and five adjacent villages. The men were chosen by date of birth so that they were aged 45–59 years when examined between 1979 and 1983. A total of 2512 men were seen—89% of the 2818 who were found to be eligible. At recruitment the men were invited to a clinic at which a standard medical history was obtained and a detailed questionnaire administered. At examination, height was measured with a Holtain stadiometer, blood pressure was measured, and a 12-lead electrocardiogram was recorded. Existing coronary heart disease at baseline was defined as either probable ischaemia detected by electrocardiogram or angina on the Rose questionnaire. The subjects were then asked to return, after an overnight fast, to an early morning clinic where a blood sample was taken with minimal venous stasis. Total cholesterol was assayed on these samples. Full details of the procedures used in the Caerphilly study have been reported previously.1415
Following a brief explanation of the purpose of the question, men at each clinic were asked about frequency of sexual intercourse by a medical interviewer. The responses were classified into categories ranging from never through to daily. These were reduced to three categories: less than monthly; twice a week or more; and an intermediate category. Recalled number of orgasms has been shown previously to offer a reliable measure of male sexual activity.16 The question was asked only in the first period of the survey; it was abandoned, after discussions with local general practitioners, because of a possible effect on the overall response rate. Responses were provided by 918 of the 1222 men who were interviewed before the question was removed from the questionnaire. Plasma testosterone and oestradiol were measured in the whole cohort of men; their predictive value for subsequent coronary heart disease has been reported elsewhere.17
The records of all men at the NHS central registry were flagged so that notification of death was automatic and a copy of the death certificate was received. Ten year follow up data for mortality are reported here. All death certificates were coded according to ICD-9 (international classification of diseases, ninth revision). Deaths due to coronary heart disease are those coded ICD 410-414.
Age adjustment for risk factors was to the age structure of the population with usable data on frequency of orgasm. Multiple logistic regression was used to explore the effects of other risk factors on the association between mortality and frequency of orgasm. In these models age, systolic blood pressure, and cholesterol were entered as continuous variables, and social class (manual or non-manual), coronary heart disease at baseline, and smoking behaviour as categorical variables.
Data regarding frequency of orgasm were available on 918 men (response rate 75%). Differences between the men for whom responses were and were not obtained during the period the question was asked were considerable; those who gave responses that could be coded were younger, taller, had less evidence of coronary heart disease at screening, and were more likely to be in non-manual occupations than the men who refused to, or could not, answer the question. The odds ratio for all cause mortality for the men from whom data on frequency of orgasm were not obtained compared to those from whom they were was 2.05 (1.51 to 2.78). Adjusting for age, coronary heart disease at baseline, social class, and height reduced this to 1.73 (1.24 to 2.39).
Characteristics of the respondents according to reported frequency of orgasm are presented in Table 1. The reported frequency decreased with age and was higher among men in non-manual occupations. No other risk factor was significantly related to frequency of orgasm, although the tendency was for blood pressure and cholesterol concentrations to be more favourable among those reporting lower frequency, whereas smoking history and prevalent coronary heart disease at baseline showed an opposite pattern. Over 10 years of follow up 150 of the respondents died: 67 from coronary heart disease and 83 from other causes. Age adjusted odds ratios for deaths from all causes, coronary heart disease, and other causes according to frequency of orgasm group are given in Table 2. Mortality risk in the group with high frequency of orgasm was less than half of that of the group with low frequency, with evidence of a dose-response relation across the groups. The patterns for deaths from all causes, coronary heart disease, and other causes were similar, although the gradient was steepest for deaths from coronary heart disease. Adjusting for social class, smoking, blood pressure, and coronary heart disease at baseline (and for cholesterol in the case of death from coronary heart disease) attenuated the associations to a relatively small degree (Table 2).
Characteristics of men (with standard error) in relation to frequency of orgasm
Odds ratios (95% confidence intervals) for mortality adjusted for age and risk factors
The association between frequency or orgasm and all cause mortality was also examined using the midpoint of each response category recoded as number of orgasms per year. The age adjusted odds ratio for an increase of 100 orgasms per year was 0.64 (0.44 to 0.95).
Sex and death: is the association causal?
This study reveals an inverse relation between orgasmic frequency and mortality and is consistent with most,7 101112 but not all,13 previously published work. Before this finding can be considered as suggesting a causal relation, several aspects of the data must be considered. Relevant data were available on 75% of the original sample examined before the question about frequency of orgasm was dropped from the study. The men with full data were younger, taller, had less coronary heart disease at baseline, were more likely to be in non-manual occupations, and had an overall lower mortality than those for whom frequency of orgasm was not known. The possibility of bias must therefore be considered, though there is no reason to suspect that the subset of men without full data included a disproportionate number with either a high frequency of orgasm and high mortality risk or a low frequency of orgasm and a low mortality risk. The relation between frequency of orgasm and mortality is clearly confounded by age and social class, and to a lesser extent by smoking habit and health status at baseline. The association between frequency of orgasm and mortality was, as expected, attenuated somewhat when these variables were entered into the models. Nevertheless a strong and statistically significant association remains in the adjusted models. Reverse causation must also be considered. Although this is likely to have strengthened the association found here, with early signs of later serious disease leading to a decreased frequency of orgasm, existing coronary heart disease at baseline was adjusted for. We found an inverse association between death from coronary heart disease and frequency of orgasm even though myocardial ischaemia and myocardial infarction can be triggered by sexual activity.18 19
Despite this, confounding may well account for our findings. Multivariable models are seriously limited in their ability to control for confounding, especially with covariates that are imprecisely measured.2021 Furthermore, unmeasured or unknown confounders can create strong, apparently “independent,” associations between risk factors and mortality.22 However, the association between frequency of orgasm and mortality in the present study is at least—if not more—convincing on epidemiological and biological grounds than many of the associations reported in other studies232425 and deserves further investigation to the same extent. Intervention programmes could also be considered, perhaps based on the exciting “At least five a day” campaign aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption26—although the numerical imperative may have to be adjusted. The disappointing results observed in health promotion programmes in other domains27 may not be seen when potentially pleasurable activities are promoted.
Sex and death in other times and other places
This epidemiological indifference to the question of whether patterns of sexual behaviour influence general wellbeing contrasts with wider interest in this issue. Longstanding expressions of such concerns are codified in ritual practices and religious texts. Within the Christian tradition Paul's assertion that “It is good for a man not to touch a woman” 28 is in continuity with one tradition of the Hellenistic world, where celibacy offered the opportunity to pursue philosophy and achieve virtue and wellbeing.29 The view that the male pleasure of sexual intercourse is secured at the cost of vigour and wellbeing is common in a wide range of cultures. One of the extreme expressions of this idea is found among the Huli people of Papua New Guinea. Here young men were sent to secret bachelor houses hidden in the forest and taught by celibate specialists of the mortal dangers of succumbing to women's desires; if sexual contact had to occur at all, it should be restricted to the needs of procreation.30 In North India any loss of semen is considered to be debilitating, leading to skin problems, lack of concentration, anxiety, painful joints, palpitations, headaches, pains in the chest, swollen gums, and halitosis.31 The biological mechanism considered to be involved is that the production of one tablespoon of semen requires 40 kilograms of food.
The entropic idea that sexual restraint retains vigour also has a strong scientific tradition. This reached its most forceful expression in the work of Eugen Steinach, who became “Professor Extraordinarius” in Prague in 1895, before returning to Vienna as professor of physiology.32 The key outcome of his work in this context was the acceptance in surgical practice of the view that ligation of the vas deferens led to rejuvenating increases in the output of male sex hormones. Surgery thus produced a physiological form of celibacy that was compatible with, and was understood to stimulate, sexual performance. It is not surprising that such a powerful, and for surgeons lucrative,33 placebo became very popular in the days before evidence based surgery became the norm. Even some rather publicly unfavourable evidence did not dissuade hopeful and desperate old men in their search for “rejuvenation.” A celebrated case was a certain Mr Wilson, one of Steinach's own patients, who died on the day before he was to have delivered a public lecture at the Albert Hall entitled “How I was made twenty years younger.”34 One of the most famous recipients of the Steinach operation was W B Yeats. Stephen Lock's account of this suggested that, at least in Yeats' case, the operation was highly successful.35 Indeed, Yeats became known to Dubliners as “the gland old man.”
Contradictory notions of how sexual activity should be related to health exist in the popular domain. Our finding that sexual activity may be protective of middle aged men's health contrasts with some of the strictures dominant in a wide range of current and historical cultures. What may be regarded as good for societies may be bad for individuals. For example, it seems that the changes in living conditions that followed the first agricultural revolution disadvantaged the new farmers and resulted in deteriorating nutrition, however much it advantaged their rulers.36 Sexual behaviour and social structures are closely intertwined. We do not know whether the public position promoting relative continence accords with people's actual views in this or other societies, and as far as we are aware this question has not been researched. In an earlier study that examined public ideas about the prevention of coronary heart disease we described a lay epidemiology that is in some ways closer to the true epidemiology of risk than to the strictures that are disseminated through health education.37 38 It remains for other epidemiologists to offer supportive or contrasting findings on the issue considered here, though the likely absence of randomised controlled trial data will make the matter difficult to resolve. If these findings are replicated and confirm that sexual activity is indeed protective for middle aged men, it is for anthropologists to judge whether the lay epidemiology supports the true epidemiology. It would be interesting to know whether people are privately convinced that the conventional case for relative abstinence is in their own interest as well as that of an ordered society.
We are grateful to Peter Sweetnam for his general role in the Caerphilly study, as well as for assistance with the dataset, and to Alun Evans for his concern with the issues raised in this paper and his insights into Yeats.
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Karan Kundra Interview: For me, life is never a destination, it's a journey!
Popular actor Karan Kundra speaks to BollywoodMDB about his forthcoming film 1921 and much more.
By Mohnish Singh - January 9, 2018
Last seen in Anees Bazmee's successful comic-caper Mubarkan, handsome actor Karan Kundra is now gearing up for the release of his forthcoming movie, 1921. Starring the gorgeous actress Zareen Khan as the female lead, the film is directed by the king of horror films, Vikram Bhatt. Kundra, who made his Bollywood debut with a horror movie, Horror Story, is back to the genre which, despite being around for decades, has not been presented well in Hindi cinema. In an interaction with BollywoodMDB correspondent, Mohnish Singh, Karan opens up about his film, character and future projects. Excerpts...
Karan Kundra
Q. Your first and third films belong to the genre of horror. So, was it a sheer coincidence or a planned move?
A. I don't know. To be honest, it's all about being at the right place at the right time. When Vikram sir had called me in 2012, I was doing a lot of TV. I had just got into the phase where people knew me and were looking at working with me. So, that time Vikram sir said to me that, 'I am making a small film. I am not directing it, and it is not going to be your launch. It is a psychological thriller about these young kids who get into a hotel and don't survive the night.' I immediately said yes because, for me, life is never a destination, it's a journey. You keep moving ahead and the sum of your experiences makes your life. Vikram sir had liked my work in Horror Story and when he was planning 1921 last year, he remembered me and my work. That worked in my favour and I bagged the film.
Q. You started your career from television and then forayed into films? How do you see your journey over the years?
A. It's been extremely amazing since I started out from television. It has been a satisfactory experience for me. My association with television shows like Gumraah and Roadies left a positive impression on the young audience. So, I am really happy and proud of the kind of work I have done over the years.
Q. Tell us something about your character in 1921?
A. I play a character called Ayush in the film. He is a small town boy from the 1920’s who lands up an opportunity to learn piano and make a living out of it in London. The film is an unbelievable magical love story against the backdrop of a supernatural theme.
Q: What attracted you towards this film?
A. The script of the film is the king. It is an amazing script. My last film Mubarakan grew exceptionally well because of the positive word of mouth. Similarly, I hope 1921 too will do well because the script is very well written. In fact, the film is a total horror story and does not belong to the genre of horrex. So, I really believe that the film will have good word of mouth publicity.
Q. How was the experience of working with Zarine Khan?
A. Zarine is a very sweet girl. She is very honest and I really enjoyed working with her. It was my first film with her and the experience was very good.
Q. How was the experience of working with Vikram Bhatt?
A. Vikram sir is amazing. I really feel fortunate that I got an opportunity to work with him. He has a very good understanding of a film like this. I learnt a lot from him while working on this film.
Q. What are your upcoming projects?
A. I am working on a project which is very close to my heart. It is about our Indian mythological stories like Ramayana and Mahabharata. It is for the kids and will be made in such a way which shall appeal to our kids.
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Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery (Obama Biden Mysteries #2) (Paperback)
By Andrew Shaffer
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In the sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Hope Never Dies, Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama's stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago--and right into a vast conspiracy.
Following a long but successful book tour, Joe Biden has one more stop before he can return home: Chicago. His old pal Barack Obama has invited him to meet a wealthy benefactor whose endorsement could turn the tide for Joe if he decides to run for president.
The two friends barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps: Obama’s prized Blackberry is stolen. When their number-one suspect winds up full of lead on the South Side, the police are content to write it off as just another gangland shooting. But Joe and Obama smell a rat...
Set against the backdrop of a raucous city on St. Patrick’s Day, Joe and Obama race to find the shooter, only to uncover a vast conspiracy that goes deeper than the waters of Lake Michigan—which is exactly where they’ll spend the rest of their retirement if they’re not careful.
Andrew Shaffer is the New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen books, including the national best seller Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tiffany Reisz, in Kentucky.
“This spirited, cheeky tale is everything you want from the Obama Biden Mystery series.”—B&N Reads
"The game is afoot for Joe and Barry. This is fun, escapist fiction with enough details...to stay grounded in a kind of reality."—Booklist
"Once again, Shaffer convincingly portrays his unusual leads as action heroes."—Publishers Weekly
“If you want to take a break from the nonstop coverage of all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Joe Biden, let us recommend a crime thriller that stars...Joe Biden.”—Clearing Out the Clutter
Praise for Hope Never Dies:
An Official Summer Read of Publishers Weekly and The Interrobang
A 2018 Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
“[Hope Never Dies is] a roughly 300-page work of political fanfiction, an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from political retirement as action heroes. But it’s also at times a surprisingly earnest story about estranged friends who are reunited under strange circumstances.”—Alexandra Alter, New York Times
“It’s a giddy premise, a bit of Resistance wish-fulfillment for those who’d like to see Biden and Obama trading one-liners and cracking skulls.”—New Yorker
“While readers are sure to get a kick out of the codenames and inside jokes used playfully throughout, Hope Never Dies is an intriguing saga that doesn’t sacrifice momentum for winks and nods.”—Entertainment Weekly
“It’s easy to imagine that if these fist-bumping brothers were ever to become a modern Sherlock and Watson, the world might be a better, more interesting place.”—USA Today, ★★★ out of four
“Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in Hope Never Dies.”—Washington Post
“An ambitious and completely successful novel.”—Booklist
“Deeply weird and very funny.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Step aside Holmes and Watson; back off Poirot and Hastings. A new pair of amateur sleuths are hitting town this month: Barack Obama and Joe Biden.”—The Guardian (UK)
“Shaffer has sublimated liberal grief, nostalgia, and fantasy into a sort of allegorical potboiler.”—Slate
“A novel nostalgic for a feel-good moment in US politics—one that now seems far in the past.”—Quartz
Publisher: Quirk Books
Series: Obama Biden Mysteries
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was released, music video channels weren't all the rage that they eventually came to be. Beyoncé , Usher or Lady Gaga 's choreography is what the kids of today are mimicking. Not popping, dipping and spinning from actors in their twenties playing teens.
Directed by the man who was behind Hustle & Flow , Craig Brewer , Footloose had its struggles from the start. It was once supposed to be directed by Kenny Ortega , but he left and the script went through various incarnations once Brewer signed on. Zac Effron was the original star, but he bailed, and newcomer Kenny Wormald landed the lead role as McCormack. These production issues might be why the flick felt like a muddier version of the original. At times, the remake was similar to 1984 right down to the dialogue. Then, a random scene popped in, or tokens of diversity appeared, to make the film seem "relevant."
Wormald is a talented young man, but I doubt Footloose will have the impact it did for the original male lead, Kevin Bacon . The choreography was at times embarrassing and failed to highlight the skills we have seen from Wormald when he was on the reality show, Dancelife .
The female lead is Julianne Hough , also known as Ryan Seacrest 's girlfriend. Consistently shaking in daisy dukes, Hough is regulated to random gyrations and stripper-like moves. Again, this must be the stretch to be “modern.”
Another odd piece to Footloose is the stamp of diversity. There are random Black actors who exist for casual urban slang. However, I do hope Footloose helps the newcomers like Ser'Darius Blain and Enisha Brewster get a chance at more work. Outside of the actors, there are the odd racial overtones. An older Black character works at a cotton gin (huh?), racial jokes like "The rap music people!" and "Country line dancing is a white man's wet dream," were uncomfortable, especially with the setting being a small town in Georgia. Clearly a harmless stretch to be diverse, but it wasn't authentic.
Footloose clocked in at just under a tedious two hours. The prancing feet, flailing arms, hip thrusts and bland script made me wish boogieing was outlawed across America so Hollywood would stop giving dance movies the green light.
Footloose is in theaters today.
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3T's Arx II is a subtle refresh of the well-liked Arx alloy stem, which has found a place on every sort of bicycle since its launch in 2007. The faceplate is drawn in tighter at top and bottom for a more ovalized frontal appearance, while retaining the cutout 3T logo. The sides of the extension are slightly flattened for a more sculpted look by comparison with the tubular section of the first-generation Arx. A single M7 bolt clamps the stem to the fork steerer, instead of the twin M5 bolts previously used, and the Allen bolts used on the original Arx have been replaced by no-strip Torx bolts.
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The foundation of every good search: Market mapping
by Marty Jaynes on 25 Feb 2019
Recently, we discussed how executive search is a research-led approach, with search firms mapping the market and benchmarking for particular skills, roles, and salaries.
In this post, we aim to help both organisations and candidates alike, understand the fundamental role market mapping plays in executive search. As well as covering the fundamentals of market mapping, I spoke to Sheira Schoeman, Research Manager at BIE Executive, for her insight into market mapping in practice.
Market mapping explained
Market mapping plays a vital role in the executive search strategy. The first stage of the search process is to determine the skills and attributes of the ideal person for the role and conducting targeted research to pull together a long list of people who meet the requirements.
Mapping the market sets the foundation for a search firm to gain a good understanding of the spread of talent. It involves an in-depth competitive analysis to identify the positions, employers, salaries, skills, and experience of key individuals in the market. This allows an executive search firm to identify the level of skill to look for in potential candidates as well as where to find the people who meet that criteria. For example, who are their employers? And where are they located geographically?
Future-proofing
Market mapping can also be a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to talent acquisition. Working with a search firm to assess the market on an ongoing basis. This means that if a senior executive leaves unexpectedly, instead of scrambling around for a replacement, they’ll have already done the groundwork needed to identify suitable candidates. You’ll save time, disruption will be kept to a minimum, and most importantly, you won’t have to make a rushed decision.
A proactive market mapping approach also means you can choose from the best talent across all relevant industries who are passive candidates, rather than just those people who happen to be looking for a new role at the time.
Through market mapping, an executive search firm can help an organisation to build talent pipelines for the future. This usually involves assessing the future talent needs of the company, whether current employees meet these needs, and devising a talent strategy to identify high potential future talent who can fill skills gaps.
Ultimately, market mapping allows organisations to identify the potential senior managers and executives of the future so that they already have a pool of candidates they can draw from alongside the full search.
Insights from a BIE Researcher
As a researcher at BIE, Sheira Schoeman supports consultants in identifying and attracting highly skilled candidates against aggressive timelines. Sheira shares her insights on the typical market mapping process.
“Market mapping is essentially an in-depth look at the market with the aim of engaging the best talent. It’s not just about finding people who are actively looking for work, but about finding the best people from passive candidates as well.”
“We’ll pull together a long list that will be made up of people who we might already know from previous searches or placements, but mainly, we do a full candidate search. We go out in the market, generally using tools such as LinkedIn to find people we believe could be suitable for the role."
“It usually depends on the position in question, but generally, I tend to start by looking at people who are in similar roles, industries, and locations, and then widen out from there. For example, a client may want someone from specific locations, let’s say we’re working on a role in Germany, I’ll also look for people all over Europe who would be prepared to relocate. Then we try and look for the right people who meet the criteria.”
“We will aim to talk to as many of these people that are interested as we can. At this point, as part of the conversation, I will get their salary breakdown. This is how we get a good understanding of what kind of salaries and benefits people are receiving in different industries and regions.”
“As a researcher, I enter all the information I obtain into a report, which is then shared with the client usually on a weekly basis. We aim to pull together a list of between 90-150, but every role is slightly different. This list will then be narrowed down to about 12-15 people who the consultant will then interview. And again, that list will be narrowed down to 4-6 candidates who the client will then meet. This whole process can typically take between 6-8 weeks ”
Market mapping is a critical part of the executive search process. To identify the best talent in the market, search firms need to have done their research. Through market mapping, a search firm can obtain an in-depth knowledge of the most successful individuals and their experience, skills, and salaries. All this builds a solid picture about what the ideal candidate should look like, enabling the search firm to identify and then engage them.
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2017-04-25T20:09:34-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/8ec/20170425201519002_hd.jpgPresident Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and several other women leaders took part in a conference in Berlin on female entrepreneurship and empowerment. Ms. Trump was pressed about President Trump’s attitude toward women after she described her father as “a champion of supporting families.” The panelists, which included International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, talked about access to capital, feminism, and mentorship opportunities for women in business.
President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and several other women leaders took part in a… read more
President Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and several other women leaders took part in a conference in Berlin on female entrepreneurship and empowerment. Ms. Trump was pressed about President Trump’s attitude toward women after she described her father as “a champion of supporting families.” The panelists, which included International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, talked about access to capital, feminism, and mentorship opportunities for women in business. close
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The most important thing to know about charging an electric vehicle, be it a BEV or a PHEV, is that it is as easy as plugging in your smartphone or laptop. Inductive charging, commonly referred to as wireless charging, is under development right now. When that technology is ready, charging your car will be as simple as parking on top of a wireless charging pad installed beneath the floor of your garage.
Levels of Charging
Using a 110/120 volt outlet, which is a regular three-prong household socket, most plug-in electric vehicles can be fully recharged overnight.
Using a 220/240 volt electric vehicle charging station outlet, most electric vehicle models will fully charge in 5-10 hours.
Charging stations can be easily installed in most homes. These level 2 stations all have a standard wand that plugs into all electric vehicles (J1772), except for Tesla which has its own.
Fast chargers, typically 400 volts, will charge your car’s battery from empty to 80% in 30-45 minutes. These chargers can be foudn along major highways and travel routes throughout Canada.
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Found on the Nissan LEAF, the Kia Soul Electric and the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. Tesla drivers can also purchase a CHAdeMO adapter.
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Used by almost all American and European manufacturers. Found on the BMW i3, Chevrolet BOLT, Ford Focus Electric, Hyundai Ioniq Electric, Hyundai Kona Electric, Jaguar I-PACE and Volkswagen e-Golf.
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Vista Verde Welcomes Homebuyers Ahead of Schedule
Ho Chi Minh City, 15th December 2017 – First launched in 2014, Vista Verde is developed by CapitaLand Vietnam and its joint venture partner Thien Duc Trading Construction Co., Ltd with two phases: Tower 1 & 2 (Phase 1) and Lotus & Orchid Towers (Phase 2). Since July 2017, more than 80% of Phase 1 have been handed over to homebuyers.
Currently, Phase 2 of Vista Verde is ready for handover ahead of schedule. Lotus and Orchid Towers are the most premium towers where majority of units have a spectacular view of the Saigon River and panoramic views of District 1, 2 and 7. In addition, each Tower enjoy exclusive facilities such as Observation Deck and Picnic Lawn.
In addition, Vista Verde’s retail mall, Faifo Lane has key tenants such as Genshai supermarket, Family Mart convenience store and Masstige café already moved in. More tenants are expected to open in early 2018, including food & beverage and spa & wellness (such as Tea4U, Korean restaurant, True Spa, Clean & Clear, SHS, Childcare Center, etc.)
Mr. Chen Lian Pang, CEO of CapitaLand Vietnam, said, “CapitaLand Vietnam is committed to timely completion and handover to our homebuyers. With the handing over of residential units at Vista Verde and completion of Faifo Lane, we believe that we can build a vibrant community in the Thanh My Loi area, similar to how we have transformed the An Phu area in District 2 with our project The Vista and Oxygen Mall.”
Comprising 1,152 high-end apartments across four 35-storey residential towers with spectacular views of the Saigon River, Phu My Bridge and the surrounding city, Vista Verde showcases lush green landscaping and features designed to bring a symphony of nature to residents. Strategically located in the heart of District 2’s administrative centre, it is five minutes away from essential amenities
It is also 10 minutes away from District 1 and 7. Vista Verde provides residents with more than 50 state-of-the-art recreational facilities and design features. In addition, Faifo Lane, a shopping town at the ground floor provides residents with essential retail shopping at their convenience. Designed for modern living, apartments at Vista Verde include spacious living and dining areas, natural ventilation and loggia.
Vista Verde has also won the prestigious “Best Condominium in Vietnam” award at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2015 and the “Best Landscape Architectural Design” award at the Vietnam Property Awards 2015. The two awards recognize CapitaLand’s efforts to incorporate internationally good design principles and practices at Vista Verde.
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Hyundai Nexo: First Look Review
Hyundai Nexo: Quick Spin
One good looking crossover
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June 18, 2019, 10:35 AM IST by Abhishek Nigam
Car Tested: Kona Electric
The world is going green and car manufacturers are trying everything to offer a viable technology when it comes to cars.
Now Hydrogen fuel cell technology isn’t really new and most manufacturers including Hyundai have been dabbling with it for a while now. So what’s new about the Nexo?
Let’s start with the way it looks. If you google hydrogen fuel-cell cars, you will find that the mandate is to look…unusual. Well, thankfully Hyundai doesn’t think so. The Nexo is a smart looking crossover that looks futuristic but still manages to look like a conventional car. Also, an SUV-ish design also means it will be well accepted in most markets thanks to SUVs being the trend everywhere around the world.
On the insides, it’s a nice driver-oriented cockpit with a gazillion buttons that control the driving modes, transmission and then some. Taking the centre place is a wide 12.3-inch screen which shows the navigation, media and the energy flow information. It’s also pretty spacious and makes for a very comfortable four-seater.
So, in the Nexo or any other fuel-cell car, pumps force hydrogen from the fuel tank and oxygen from the outside air into a special device called the fuel-cell stack, where chemical reactions convert those gasses into electricity and water. That electricity, in turn, goes to an electric motor that drives the car. The Nexo also has a 1.56-kilowatt-hour battery to store excess energy from the fuel cell and to allow for recouping some via regenerative braking.
The Nexo can store about 6.35kg of hydrogen in its 52-litre fuel tank and depending on the variant you get a range between 570 to 600 km. Now, this is way more than an EV can manage on a single charge. Another upside to it is that refuelling with hydrogen takes just about five minutes or so as compared to the lengthy charging time of an EV.
We drove the Nexo on Hyundai’s test track. Right from the time you shift into Drive, the Nexo feels just like an EV. It’s smooth and silent and the 161bhp and 395Nm mean it’s no slouch. Hyundai claims a time of 9.5 seconds to 100kmph which is pretty brisk. Power to front wheels is either from the battery or the fuel cell stack.
We got a very short stint behind the wheel. The Nexo feels pretty similar to the full-fledged EVs. Acceleration is nippy and even post 100 kmph slamming on the accelerator, the Nexo surges ahead. We got to drive it only on the straight on the test track so the driving opinion is quite limited but I’m sure driving the Nexo on the streets should be an interesting experience.
Let’s make it clear about the Nexo not coming to India first. Hydrogen fuel-cell technology is a long way off for India and it’s pretty clear that it is going to be EVs that will fill in the Indian market space first. Even in International markets, Hydrogen filling stations aren’t exactly a dime a dozen.
So until that happens, the Nexo on its own shows tremendous promise, but the technology itself will still take a while to get accepted entirely. Hyundai, however, believes this is the technology for the future and is going all gung-ho by investing more in technology and hydrogen filling stations and they’re hoping other countries will recognize this too. How that works out remains to be seen.
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Case’s three-pronged strategy to develop its business in the region – which involves strengthening its dealer network, building the brand, and developing its product offering – is paying rich dividends, according to a senior official at CNH, its parent company.
Speaking to Gulf Construction, Franco Invernizzi, CNH’s senior director for Africa and Middle East, said: “We are now among the leaders in construction equipment in the region and we have an aggressive plan to grow further.”
According to him, the company’s strategies are hinged on three main pillars. “The first one is aimed at strengthening our Case dealer network. Over the last three years, we focused on scouting for new partners to cover the remaining territories in the region. We are also focusing on quality through a partnership programme we launched last year. The Pinnacle Excellence programme aims to develop our dealers and work with them to achieve the highest standards in customer service in the industry,” he explains.
The second pillar is brand building which, according to Invernizzi, was best showcased at the recent Intermat construction equipment show in Paris, France, where the company’s stand was one of the biggest, making a strong statement about the extent of its commitment to the brand and investment in its future.
“We will carry this strong message to all the major shows in the Middle East as well as numerous open house and local events that will take place across the region,” he reveals. And finally the third pillar is developing Case’s offering for customers in the Middle East.
“We are extending our offering to include new products specifically designed and engineered to match the requirements of our customers in this region. Just to mention a couple, we recently launched the 570 backhoe loader and 1107DX compactor.
Case demonstrated these machines alongside the range offered in the Gulf at its customer care centre located a few kilometres from the exhibition ground during Intermat. “More products will come as we go forward. Our approach is to introduce products that are complementary to our current range in order to cover better other segments of the market that have been growing in the Gulf,” Invernizzi said.
According to him, Case’s product offering is complemented by its services, which it continues to enhance by introducing maintenance packages, retail financing, and telematics to better fit the business needs of its customers in the Gulf.
Invernizzi said the potential for growth in the Gulf region is huge. “The Gulf region has become increasingly important for CNH Industrial. In the last few years, we have further developed our Dubai office, and today it hosts our sales, service, parts teams, CNH Capital and our financial branch.
“Local presence in the region is key, and Dubai is a good hub to reach every part of the Middle East and most of Africa. We have a plan to move more and more operations and people to our facilities in Dubai.
“All the main CNHI businesses – from trucks to agricultural and construction equipment – are committed to investing further to build their presence in the region,” he added. “Gulf customers always prefer to see the machines operating in real conditions, and at our Customer Centre they have also been able to test them,” Invernizzi said.
Invernizzi hailed the role of Case Construction’s partners and distributors in the Gulf, which have helped the company penetrate the market.
The mix of established and new partners in the network is turning out to be a “winning formula” for Case in the region, he added.
“Both Roots in Saudi Arabia and Al Shirawi in the UAE have achieved the ‘Pinnacle dealer’ status in 2014. They are benchmark and a source of inspiration for the rest of the Case dealer body,” he said. Roots is a relatively new partner for Case but it has already acquired a stable position among market leaders in the Saudi equipment market, he said.
“There is room to grow further, and we will help Roots to deploy the full potential of its organisation and of the Case brand in Saudi Arabia,” Invernizzi remarked. Al Shirawi has been Case’s partner in the emirates for almost 20 years now, and the collaboration is going from strength to strength, he stated. NBK Group in Qatar is Case’s oldest partner in the region. “We are working together to grow our presence in this booming market,” said Invernizzi.
The company is also aiming to strengthen its presence in other areas of the region like Oman, where it is now looking to select a partner for Case who, according to Invernizzi, must possess financial strength, excellent connections in the local market, construction equipment expertise and, most importantly, quality people.
Case Construction supports its agents and partners in the region by helping train and develop their teams through web-based or face-to-face sessions.
“Our help desk is available 24/7 to provide answers to technical or commercial queries. The fact that the Case brand is backed by a powerhouse such as CNH Industrial gives us and our partners a clear competitive advantage,” he said.
Case machines have remained popular in the region, thanks to their proven abilities to overcome challenges posed by the harsh climatic conditions.
“All our new machines are extensively tested in this region to ensure they can deal with some of the harshest conditions on the planet in terms of temperature, sand and remoteness. This is our testing ground – we have to be sure that our machines work perfectly here and can easily cope with the rigours of this region before we launch them anywhere else in the world,” Invernizzi pointed out.
While strengthening its foothold in its traditional market sectors, Case is now looking at penetrating the heavier machines sector. He elaborated: “Case is a full liner and we are leveraging our historical strength in backhoe loaders and skid-steer loaders to increase our penetration in the heavier machines, such as wheel loaders and excavators.”
Case Construction will continue to strengthen its business growth in the region through key events such as Case Eagle Days. “Later in the year, we’ll hold the first Eagle Days event in the Gulf. It will be a mix of training and customer presentations,” Invernizzi concluded.
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Seizing Destiny
The Army of the Potomac’s “Valley Forge” and the Civil War Winter that Saved the Union
Albert Z. Conner Jr., Chris Mackowski
Depression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the Potomac faced a trio of unrelenting enemies during the winter of 1863. Following the catastrophic defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg in December of 1862, the army settled into winter quarters—and despair settled into the army.
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Depression. Desertion. Disease. The Army of the Potomac faced a trio of unrelenting enemies during the winter of 1863. Following the catastrophic defeat at the battle of Fredericksburg in December of 1862, the army settled into winter quarters—and despair settled into the army. Morale sank to its lowest level of the war while desertions reached an all-time high. Illness packed the hospitals. Political intrigues, careerist schemes, and harsh winter weather demoralised everyone.
Major General Joseph Hooker, a pugnacious tactician aptly nicknamed"Fighting Joe,” took command of the army. And then a remarkable thing happened: a man known for his hardscrabble battlefield tenacity showed an amazing brilliance for organisation and leadership. With Chief of Staff Dan Butterfield working alongside him, Hooker literally rebuilt the army from the bottom up. In addition to instituting vital logistical, ordnance, and administrative reforms, he insisted on proper troop care and rigourous inspections and battle drills. Hooker doled out promotions and furloughs by merit, conducted large-scale raids, streamlined the army's command and control, and fielded a new cavalry corps and military intelligence organisation.
Hooker's war on poor discipline and harsh conditions revitalised a dying army and instilled individual and unit pride. During this 93-day resurgence, the Army of the Potomac reversed its fortunes and set itself on the path to ultimate victory. No other American citizen-army at war has engineered a more complete turnaround in the field. Hooker's achievement represents nothing less than the greatest non-battle turning point since Valley Forge in the American Revolution—a linkage recognised by hundreds of contemporary soldiers.
Seizing Destiny: The Army of the Potomac's"Valley Forge” is the first in-depth examination of one of the war's true crucial turning points, a time when the army nearly dissolved from its own despair. The result is a rich and satisfying portrait of an overlooked success story that made Appomattox Court House in 1865 possible. Here, finally, is the full story of how the citizen-soldiers of the Army of the Potomac overcame adversity, seized their destiny, and saved the nation through leadership, perseverance, patriotism, and faith.
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HP Layoffs 2018: Staff Headcount Cuts May Reach 5,000 Positions
HP Inc. layoffs will trigger 4,500 to 5,000 staff cuts by the end of the PC & printer maker's fiscal 2019. That's up from an earlier estimate of up to 4,000 job cuts.
by Joe Panettieri • Jun 6, 2018
HP Inc. layoffs will trigger 4,500 to 5,000 staff cuts by the end of the PC and printer maker’s fiscal 2019. That’s up from an earlier estimate of up to 4,000 job cuts as part of a long-term headcount plan announced in 2016.
Indeed, HP Inc. back in October 2016 confirmed plans to cut 3,000 to 4,000 positions from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2019. At the time, HP Inc. said the cuts will save the company about $200 million to $300 million starting in fiscal 2020.
Fast forward to present day, and HP Inc. now says the layoffs could impact 5,000 employees. The company employed 49,000 people as of October 31, according to Reuters. The company expects pretax charges of about $700 million related to the layoffs, up from the previous forecast of $500 million, Reuters adds.
HP Inc.’s PC, Printer Businesses Are Growing
Despite the layoff chatter, HP Inc. has been performing well in the intensely competitive PC and printer markets. For its Q2, overall revenues rose 13 percent to $14 billion — with PC revenues jumping 14 percent and printing revenues climbing 11 percent.
HP Inc.’s channel partner strategy has been particularly well-received ever since the company split from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2015.
Layoffs within the hardware and legacy software markets have been commonplace amid the ongoing shift to cloud and mobile services, coupled with subscription revenue models. HP Inc. has responded with aggressive device-as-a-service strategies for partners.
The updated HP Inc. layoff announcement comes roughly two weeks after IBM quietly cut Watson Healthcare employees without disclosing specific headcount figures to the media.
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The Best Athletes In The World — And Seth Meyers — Gather To Celebrate Sports
July 26, 2010 Mike Frey Magazine Archive, Sports Comments Off on The Best Athletes In The World — And Seth Meyers — Gather To Celebrate Sports
The last time Seth Meyers took the stage at the ESPY Awards, things could have gone better. “Last year I gave out the ESPY for Best Play to Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes, and that was a big old jinx,” says the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor, who also happens to be a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. A year later, former Super Bowl MVP Holmes has been traded away for a 5th-round draft pick and, well, let’s just say that Big Ben has had some issues of his own. But the experience didn’t sour Meyers on the event. In fact, he’s hosting The 2010 ESPYs, which premieres July 14 on ESPN.
When it was announced that you would be hosting the ESPYs, you said, “If you asked anyone I played sports with as a kid, they would tell you the only way Seth was making it to the ESPYs was as a host or presenter.” Is that false modesty or are you really not an athlete?
Seth Meyers: No, I’m really not an athlete. The problem is that I look like I actually might be OK at sports, and that’s the real burn. There’s a real fall-off when you put a ball in my hands. … I will say that anyone who picks me for any position [on their team] has made a mistake.
When you do play, what are your sports?
I’m a runner. I can pretty much only do sports that don’t require turning or reaction time. … It was a bummer, too, because I was very covetous of the idea of being an athlete. It was tough because, sport by sport, they rejected me.
How about fantasy sports, though?
Huge fantasy football player. I played two years of fantasy baseball, but I stopped because I wanted my life back. … For me, what I love most about fantasy sports is that it’s a great way to stay in touch with friends. I’m in two leagues with college friends and one league with old Chicago improvised friends.
Is there anyone you’re especially hoping to meet at the ESPYs?
I have been very lucky — you know, I’m a huge Red Sox fan and I’ve done some stuff for the Red Sox over the years, like some charity events, so I’ve gotten a chance to meet a lot of the 2004 Red Sox, which is as good as it gets for somebody like me. … I just have so much respect for athletes who get invited to the ESPYs because that’s sort of the top of their game. I’m a big soccer fan, but I think because of the World Cup, there’s probably not going to be a lot of soccer players there.
One of the categories at the ESPYs is Best Moment. What are some of the sports moments that have stood out to you in the past year?
Well, I went to my first Olympics. I went to Vancouver and it was really outstanding. I saw speedskating and I saw Apolo Ohno. … And I was there with my girlfriend, so we went and watched pairs figure skating. I kind of went in with my arms crossed, and was so impressed. … She left the day before me, so we went to the short program together. Then the next day I went without her to see the long program. I was sold.
A lot of sports stars have crossed over into your world and hosted SNL. Who have been some of the best?
Well, first place sort of all alone — Peyton Manning. We kind of had high hopes for him because he’s so funny, and he was really good. The question is, do you consider The Rock an athlete? Maybe it’s not fair, but he’s great. [Charles] Barkley, for me, was just fantastic. He’s not the actor that Peyton is, but he certainly a giant, oversized personality which is always fun for our show, and he’s more than willing to make fun of himself, which is great. And I would also put Tom Brady pretty high on the list. And LeBron [James] was really fun.
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“American Horror Story: Asylum” promises to bring the crazy
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A quote like this could only come from talking about a show like American Horror Story. “Last year we were a sweet little family drama — albeit in which we killed off the entire family.” So says writer/producer Tim Minear of the FX series that captivated audiences with its edgy mix of scares and sex (hel-lo, Rubber Man) that got people talking about what had just happened and what could possibly come next. “This year couldn’t be more different,” Minear says. Oh, the creepiness will still be there, but instead of following the doomed Harmon family further into their afterlife […]
AMC’s genre-bending “Into the Badlands” lives by the sword
November 12, 2015 Ryan Berenz Action, Drama, Fall TV 2015, Interview, Magazine Archive, Preview, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, TV News & Program Updates Comments Off on AMC’s genre-bending “Into the Badlands” lives by the sword
It’s hard to pin a label on AMC’s new six-part action drama series Into the Badlands, premiering Sunday, Nov. 15, at 10pm ET/PT. It has the dystopian future politics of The Hunger Games. It has the antiheroes of Westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It has the warrior’s spiritual journey of Kung Fu. It has themes of family bloodlines and ambition like in Game of Thrones or Shakespeare’s history plays. It has the moral codes of classic samurai films, and fight sequences reminiscent of The Matrix and Hong Kong martial arts movies. Into the Badlands fuses together […]
Wrecked — Lost Meets Laughs in New TBS Comedy
June 9, 2016 Lori Acken Comedy, Magazine Archive, Preview Comments Off on Wrecked — Lost Meets Laughs in New TBS Comedy
Wrecked premieres with back-to-back episodes Tuesday, June 14, at 10/9CT on TBS. Sure, Lost was some seriously iconic television, but it was also just so … earnest. For their new TBS comedy Wrecked, creators Jordan and Justin Shipley also bring down a plane on a deserted isle, but swap out the supernatural navel-gazing for a whole bunch of funny. In the half-hour laugher, which filmed in Puerto Rico, a goofy batch of Thailand-bound travelers must learn to live with one another — and without modern comforts — post-plane crash. Among your companions on this ill-fated trip: • About A Boy‘s Zach Cregger […]
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"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . "
From the award-winning author of Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, and Landline comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel about love in the workplace.
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.
Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now- reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.
When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.
By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself.
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Semi-Known Egg Donation allows you and intended parents to mutually agree on some contact to determine what type of relationship will be best for all parties. Despite the fact that you communicate through Skype, a phone call, email or an in-person meeting, there's no exchange of identifying information. This type of egg donation simply allows intended parents to connect with you to hear your story and helps both parties confirm it's the right match.
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Although we highly suggest Known Egg Donation or Semi-Known Egg Donation, we also offer anonymous egg donation for those who wish to keep their names and identities confidential. To ensure your privacy and anonymity, you won't have to meet the intended parents you've matched with unless you show interest and that interest is reciprocated, in which case we can arrange a meeting.
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People choose egg donation for different reasons—some are struggling with infertility, others are same-sex couples or single individuals. Circle’s intended parents come from different backgrounds around the world. Our egg donors share this diversity.
How long does the whole process take?
It’s important to understand that egg donation timelines vary. While there is no guarantee you will be chosen as an egg donor, it is possible to be chosen within days of being accepted into our program. Some intended parents at Circle Egg Donation also require a gestational surrogate. This means that even after you are matched, there can be a waiting period while your intended parents are being matched with a surrogate. Although the donation itself lasts only 3-4 weeks, commitment to the process is typically 3-4 months. Please keep in mind that these are average timelines and that no two egg donation arrangements are the same. Timelines are often determined by factors particular to your egg donation arrangement.
What is the screening process like to become an egg donor?
When you apply to join our egg donor program, we’ll first have you take a standardized psychological evaluation along. The purpose of this test is simply to make sure that you’re mentally and emotionally stable. It’s very important to us that donating your eggs won’t compromise your long-term health.
We’ll also coordinate a meeting between you and a licensed clinical social worker. This discussion will ensure that you fully understand the medical procedure and any potential long-term effects, and that your interest in donating eggs is grounded in a healthy, stable outlook. Again, our screening process is built to protect the donor and recipient alike from any possible health risks. Egg donation should bring joy to everyone involved, and Circle is deeply committed to ensuring that’s exactly what happens.
How will I get matched with prospective parents?
After you fill out your donor application and complete our screening, you’ll be accepted into Circle’s egg donor program. This means that intended parents will be able to find your profile as they search our egg donor database for the right potential donor. You’ll be able to include pictures and a detailed questionnaire in your egg donor profile so intended parents can really get to know you. (Note that these forms are fairly extensive. Most of the information we ask is requested by the fertility clinics we work with, but it’s just as helpful for intended parents!)
After reviewing your egg donor profile, the intended parent(s) can ask to be connected with you. We’ll give you a redacted version of their profile, so you can get a sense of the family you’ll be helping. If both the donor and recipient sides are happy with the potential match, you can move on to a Skype call, and potentially an in-person meeting. In the end, we hope you’ll be donating your eggs to intended parent(s) with whom you feel a strong bond and connection.
What is the actual medical procedure like?
To prepare for donating eggs, you’ll give yourself hormone injections to suppress your menstrual cycle. You’ll also take ovarian stimulating medications to encourage more egg production. The egg retrieval itself takes about 20 minutes (with an hour afterwards for recovery), and is performed in a clinic under a mild IV sedation.
Don’t worry - donating eggs doesn’t meaningfully reduce the number of eggs you have left. The average woman in her 20s has hundreds of thousands of viable eggs.
How many times can I donate with Circle Egg Donation?
Most of our clinics will only allow an egg donor to participate in an egg donation five to six times. However, we can only rematch you if the previous donation resulted in a pregnancy or a successful retrieval.
What kind of emotional issues are there with donating?
Emotional experiences vary throughout the process. The decision to donate should be well thought-out before you proceed with screening and matching. You are welcome to talk with the social workers who conduct your screening about any specific concerns or questions. You may experience moodiness from the medications; however after the donation, most of our egg donors enjoy the extreme pride and joy of having given such an incredible gift.
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A Study to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of Different Doses of AG019 Administered Alone or in Combination With Teplizumab in Participants With Recently Diagnosed Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D)
Diabetes, Diabetes
Therapuetic Areas:
Healthy:
Contact: Sven Blomme
Email: sblomme@actobio.com
Phone: +32 9 277 11 77
Trial Summary
Trial Overview
A Prospective, Multi-center, Phase 1b/2a Study to Assess the Safety and Tolerability of Different Doses of AG019 Administered Alone or in Association With Teplizumab in Patients With Clinical Recent-onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D)
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of different doses of
AG019 administered alone or in combination with teplizumab in participants who recently
developed Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D).
This Phase 1b/2a, multi-center study will be conducted in participants with clinical
recent-onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1D).
The primary objective of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of different
doses of AG019 alone as well as AG019 in association with teplizumab. The secondary
objectives of this study are: to obtain pharmacodynamic (PD) data of AG019 alone as well as
AG019 in association with teplizumab; and to determine the potential presence of AG019 in
systemic circulation (safety - systemic exposure) and the presence of L. lactis bacteria in
fecal excretion (local exposure): Pharmacokinetic (PK) profile.
This study consists of 2 phases:
Phase 1b: this open-label part of the study will investigate the safety and tolerability of 2
different doses of AG019 in 2 age groups (18-40 years of age and 12-17 years of age).
Phase 2a: this randomized, double-blind part of the study will investigate the safety and
tolerability of AG019, in association with teplizumab, in 2 age groups (18-40 years of age
and 12-17 years of age).
- Male or non-pregnant, non-lactating females, 18 - 40 years of age (both inclusive) or
12-17 years of age (both inclusive)
- Diagnosis of diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended
- Evidence of auto-antibodies to at least 1 β-cell autoantigen
- Stimulated C-peptide measured during 4h Mixed Meal tolerance Test (MMTT) > 0.2 nmol/L
- The first administration of AG019 should occur no later than 150 days post diagnosis
of diabetes
- Body weight ≥ 33kg
- Written informed consent obtained and documented (participant, parent, guardian as
- Previous history of serious cytokine release syndrome to teplizumab or other humanized
anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies with no or minimal capacity to bind Fc receptors.
(Participants enrolled in the second phase of the trial in either Combination Cohort 1
or Combination Cohort 2, only)
- Use of immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory therapies, including systemic steroids
within 1 month prior to randomization
- Participation in another investigational drug trial within 12 weeks prior to the first
study drug intake and during participation in this study
- History of recurrent infections, other autoimmune diseases, cardiac disease,
malignancy, or any other (chronic) medical condition which, in the investigator's
opinion, could compromise participant safety
- Documented history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis Virus Type C (HCV)
- Evidence of active infection with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) or cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- Evidence of active or latent tuberculosis (TB)
- Administration of anti-CD3 antibody in past year
- Current therapy with any other anti-diabetic agents other than insulin (MDI, CSII or
analogue). Current or planned therapy with experimental (i.e., unapproved) insulin.
Patients on therapy for type 2 diabetes (e.g. metformin) should stop their therapy in
order to be eligible for study participation.
- Use of medications known to influence glucose tolerance
- Daily use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents
- Compromised GI mucosal integrity or motility, not attributable to T1D (i.e., recent
diarrhea, gluten sensitive enteropathy, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel
syndrome), or current use of medications known to influence GI motility
We found this trial at
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Principal Investigator: Bart Keymeulen, MD
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Principal Investigator: David M Huffman, MD
Research Institute of Dallas
Principal Investigator: Stephen Louis Aronoff, MD
Riley Hospital for Childen at IU Health
Principal Investigator: Hebatullah Ismail, MB BCh,MSc,PHD
University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Wayne Moore, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota Health
Principal Investigator: Antoinette Moran, MD
Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Principal Investigator: Kevan Herold, M.D.
University of California at San Francisco
Principal Investigator: Steve Gitelman, MD
Benaroya Research Institute
Principal Investigator: Carla Greenbaum, MD
Sanford Children's Specialty Clinic
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Principal Investigator: Kurt Griffin, MD
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Principal Investigator: Ronald H Chochinov, MD
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Budget Wishlist: Cut GST rate, cover auto dealers under MSME Act, says FADA
Kale said FADA would like to see GST rates for used cars to come down to 5 percent which currently at 12-18 percent
Overall the economy is going through a downturn and liquidity is a concern for the past 7-8 months
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As the auto sector crisis continues, the Federation of Auto Dealers Association (FADA) has appealed to the government to make some announcements in the budget to ease their troubles.
Ashish Harsharaj Kale, president of FADA, said that inventory levels have come down in passenger vehicles. “Not to the comfort level that we want but at least the downward trajectory has started, but 2-wheelers continue to be a worry for the dealers and it still remains so,” he added.
Taking about dealer funding, Kale said, “Overall the economy is going through a downturn and liquidity is a concern for the past 7-8 months. So easy liquidity which was available to dealerships for getting stocks is becoming much more stringent. We are required to give higher collateral norms.”
Mindtree Q1 net profit down 41.4% to Rs 92.7 crore, confident of growing higher than industry in FY20
“However, it is part of the overall banking sector becoming cautious, not just with auto," he added.
Speaking about GST, he said, “We have requested the government that the overall affordability of the product goes up, the industry will face a brunt in terms of the level of growth that it was getting and therefore the taxes should be regulated to ensure that growth continues.”
The auto sector today still contributes 7-8 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and 41 percent of the manufacturing GDP, he said. "So it is necessary for the government also to ensure that this continues to grow and therefore we have requested for regulation in the GST just like all the industry has," Kale added.
On budget expectation front, the president said, “We have requested that auto dealers be covered under the micro, small and medium enterprises development (MSMED) through a circular in 2017 specifically auto dealers were kept out of it despite having all qualifications under MSMED qualifications. We have requested the finance minister to ensure that auto dealers are also included in that.”
Kale said FADA would like to see GST rates for used cars to come down to 5 percent which currently at 12-18 percent. "I think this will help the industry become much more formal and it will also increase the revenues of the government,” said Kale.
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The Sony A6500 offers what the A6300 should have
With built-in image stabilization and touch focus for video, the A6500 addresses two of the biggest complaints about the A6300, plus a performance boost.
Lori Grunin
October 6, 2016 12:57 PM PDT
Sony A6500 and RX100 V cameras are mostly different on the inside
When Sony debuted the A6300 prosumer mirrorless camera in March, it delivered a much-needed boost to autofocus performance with the company's Fast Hybrid AF system. But the lack of built-in image stabilization -- which most other mirrorless cameras have -- earned the company a big, fat demerit. And despite its excellent video cred with 4K and support for professional profiles, it didn't have the now-essential touchscreen for smooth and easy autofocus.
The A6500 rectifies those mistakes, plus incorporates a new processor, which Sony says provides a much more responsive shooting and playback experience, and a bigger memory buffer to increase the number of shots during continuous shooting.
But the awful battery life? That's gotten worse, dropping to a rated 310 shots via viewfinder shooting and 350 with the LCD. In the A6300 those are 350 and 400, respectively. Sigh.
You'll be able to get it in the US starting in November for $1,400 (body) or in Europe in December for 1,700 euros, or 2,800 euros for a kit with the 16-70mm power zoom lens. (The price in euros directly converts to about £1,500 and £2,470. I don't have information about Australian price or availability -- it is on Sony Australia's site, though. The US price converts directly to about AU$1,850.)
The autofocus system itself hasn't changed, nor has the sensor or image processor or many of the specifications: 11 frame per second burst with autofocus and autoexposure, same sensitivity ranges and same 4K video capabilities. The body is almost unchanged, with the exception of a third programmable function button, and you can now configure a wireless connection via QR code.
But Sony boosts the existing components with more memory and a secondary processor to increase the speed with which the image data moves through the camera and between the memory card and the camera. That provides faster image review -- yay! -- and the ability to shoot 233 best-quality JPEGs or 107 raw images. (Though the A6300's 44 and 21 shots, respectively, are just fine.) Attracting action photographers seems to be the big trend in these prosumer mirrorless models, such as the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II announced at Photokina.
As for the image stabilization, the A6500 incorporates five-axis sensor shift, which will work intelligently with optically stabilized lenses for optimal compensation. At its best (which depends on the lens), the system is rated for 5 stops of compensation -- just like many other mirrorless five-axis systems.
The touchscreen capability seems to be limited solely to autofocus, and Sony adds the touchpad capability first offered by Olympus -- when looking through the viewfinder, you can use the LCD to control the focus point. The touchscreen seems intended primarily for rack focusing (sliding focus from one point to another in video), and the camera now includes the ability to set the autofocus drive speed and sensitivity.
While the battery life still gives one pause, and it's not fully weather-sealed like some competitors, the A6500 otherwise has all the right updates.
The Fujifilm X-T2 is more expensive, especially since it requires an extra-cost battery grip to achive the same 11 frames per second burst, but it seems better for complex flash photography (a much higher sync speed at 1/250 sec compared with the A6500's 1/160 sec), has a sensor without a blurring antialiasing filter, weather resistance and possibly a comparable autofocus system. The E-M1 M2 doesn't have a price or availability date, but it sounds like it has a comparable autofocus system and an 18 fps continuous shooting speed and weather sealing as well. But it uses a smaller Four Thirds sensor.
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Judge Orders New Review of Cloud Peak’s Spring Creek
U.S. District Judge Susan Watters in Billings said in a ruling handed down January 22 that the Department of the Interior (DOI) now has nine months to re-examine CPE’s permit, reportedly saying that it “failed to take a hard look” at the expansion initially, according to the Associated Press. She also said the agency violated public notice provisions in its handling of the mine’s application.
Judge Watters’ decision parallels previous recommendations of U.S. Magistrate Carolyn Ostby, who was tasked with reviewing the case against CPE filed last year by environmentalists including WildEarth Guardians. The groups’ complaint, based on claims of contributions to climate change, also includes 10 other mines in a total of five U.S. states.
However, despite recommendations of a six-month extension by Ostby, Watters has offered more time for the DOI’s review after department officials said it would need it to complete the work. At the same time, she has ordered monthly progress reports, The Missoulian reported.
Should the Spring Creek expansion be canceled, CPE has already said most of its 275 workers would be laid off. The project was set to keep the operation producing through 2022, perhaps longer.
Spring Creek, a thermal surface complex located near Decker, extracts from the 80-ft-thick Anderson-Dietz seam. It shipped about 17.4 million tons in 2014.
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Flood damage costly to roads
The Curry County Board of Commissioners voted in a special meeting Tuesday to declare an emergency after last weekend’s torrential storm, asking the state Office of Emergency Management and FEMA to help with costs associated with the damage, which could top $1 million.
It is the second emergency declaration the county has requested in less than a month, after a storm Feb. 25 took out a quarter-mile of U.S. 101 at Hooskanaden Slide, 12 miles north of Brookings. Repairs there are expected to last all summer.
“We had a ‘Pineapple Express’ weather event with a substantial quantity of rain from Hawaii,” County Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Jeremy Dumire told the board. “It was pointed right at us, and we bore the brunt of it.”
Some areas reported up to 10 inches of rain in a 24-hour period Saturday — and that rain on Friday “primed the system,” he said.
The southern and northern ends of the county suffered the most damage, with flooded homes, overtopped rivers, downed trees and landslides.
Expensive fixes
The two worst incidents occurred on Gardner Ridge off North Bank Chetco River Road, where the roadway fell straight down the hillside near Cate Road, he said. The road runs through the scar of the 2017 Chetco Bar Fire and is more prone to landslides than forested areas.
“This will be a very costly situation for us,” Dumire reported. “We basically lost the road. It dropped straight down the canyon on the eastbound lane and undercut into the westbound lane of travel. It’s not repairable; you can’t put any fill under it. It did drop straight down.”
Repair, which County Roadmaster Richard Christensen estimates will cost at least several hundreds of thousands of dollars, will involve a complete replacement and possibly a rerouting of the road, he said. Crews are trying to cut into the hillside above to give residents a route to get home.
Langlois Mountain Road suffered road failures, too, at mile markers 5.5 and 6, where the road also fell and will need substantial work to repair.
The Chetco and Winchuck rivers overtopped their banks, flooding ranchland and homes, and Hunter Creek was flooded three times, concurrent with high tides. That, too, prevented some county employees living upriver to get to work in Gold Beach.
“The road crews were overtaxed,” Dumire said, adding that workers from the city of Gold Beach chipped in to help on a landslide a mile down Jerry’s Flat Road. “They worked 20 hours straight. The road department was taxed beyond its capabilities.”
The Chetco River’s water rise made it into the top 10 of historic flood events, cresting at 22.18 feet, Dumire said. By comparison, the flood of November 2012 crested at 22.9 and 22.08 feet during two high tides.
It might also be a record-setting rainfall for the month.
“This is a rather unusual event for us, especially in April,” Dumire said. “We’re used to seeing high rain events in December and January. This may prove to be a record setter for the month in Curry County.”
About 5 miles up the Winchuck River, crews had just finished removing debris from the road when another slide a half-mile farther upriver let loose, trapping a school bus headed back to town. Because of the consistency of the slide and its location, it was for a time too unsafe for road crews to address, Dumire said. The road there was to remain closed through Wednesday night to allow water to subside.
In town ...
The cities emerged virtually unscathed, Dumire noted.
The new gravel road built after the February storm at Hookanaden Slide is holding steady — so far.
“One thing have to watch for as the ground desaturates, I expect that will destabilize,” Dumire said. “This rain is acting like a glue until it dries out and we will see more slides. We will see more work in the future because of this event.”
Commissioners — Sue Gold and Court Boice attended the meeting via phone — lauded the county crews risking their lives to address the numerous situations throughout the county.
“People in this county need to realize the extent our employees go to t dot all their I’s and cross all the T’s to make sure people are safe,” Commissioner Chris Paasch said. “To see the danger some of the crews are under — slides are coming at them as they’re trying to move debris out of the way. … It gives you pause for the situation they’re in to do their jobs.”
Boice, who has been in Salem all week at the statehouse, said he would relay the emergency declaration to the governor’s office so legislators know the extent of damage Curry County has incurred in the past month and enable it to get assistance at the state and federal levels.
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It's a step too VAR: Premier League won't use new rule on goalkeeper's position at penalties that sent Scotland out of Women's World Cup
Premier League referees will not refer goalkeeper's position at penalties to VAR
Controversial directive saw Scotland knocked out of Women's World Cup
Scotland goalkeeper Lee Alexander saved a penalty but it had to be retaken
New law requires goalkeepers to have at least one foot on the line
Premier League will leave decision on goalkeeper's position to on-field officials
By Sami Mokbel for the Daily Mail and Ian Herbert For The Daily Mail
Premier League officials will not refer the goalkeeper’s position at penalties to VAR next season despite the controversial directive being implemented at the Women’s World Cup.
A new law which requires keepers to have a least one foot on the line was introduced by FIFA before the women’s tournament in France and has proved contentious.
Amid growing unease that the women are being used as guinea pigs for a stringent new regime, England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley described the rules as ‘cruel’ and ‘pedantic’.
Premier League referees will not refer the goalkeeper's position at penalties to VAR
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But fears that almost every saved penalty in the Premier League next season would be reviewed and re-taken were eased on Thursday.
Sportsmail understands Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) have decided not to initially involve VAR to check the goalkeeper’s position during penalty kicks and will instead leave it to the on-field officials.
Scotland were knocked out of the Women’s World Cup on Wednesday following a 3-3 draw with Argentina. Scotland keeper Lee Alexander saved a penalty, only for the VAR to order the kick to be re-taken on the basis that Alexander did not have a foot on the line at the point of impact.
Hosts France also benefited thanks to a VAR intervention in their 1-0 win over Nigeria, after Wendie Renard had put her original penalty wide.
The Premier League will leave the decision on the goalkeeper's position to on-field officials
Scotland admitted on Thursday that they had been fully briefed on the new VAR rules, but the nation still feel the decision was desperately harsh and went against the spirit of the game.
Men’s senior international teams will also be warned about all the relevant changes.
Sportsmail understands England boss Gareth Southgate and goalkeeping coach Martyn Margetson will change their training sessions to reflect how the laws about penalties are being implemented in the international arena.
PGMOL representatives will also visit Premier League clubs in pre-season to discuss the nuances of how VAR will be used during the 2019-20 campaign.
Scotland were knocked out of the Women's World Cup as a consequence of the new rule
It will only be used in the top flight to review a goalkeeper’s position during a spot-kick if he takes a huge move forward that is somehow missed by on-field officials.
VAR will also be used during penalties if a player double-hits the ball, if the kicker feigns at the point of the kick or if there is an encroachment into the area that has a direct impact on the outcome of the penalty.
PGMOL’s stance will be reviewed during the season, particularly if it becomes clear goalkeepers are regularly trying to give themselves an advantage by taking significant steps forward during penalties.
Alexander was punished for not being on her line when the penalty was taken
England’s Bardsley, who made a string of fine saves in England’s 2-0 win over Japan, said she found it strange that such a major rule change had been introduced just before a World Cup. The 34-year-old said: ‘I don’t really have an opinion on VAR because, fingers crossed, nothing has really happened to us. But it just seems cruel. And so pedantic.
‘We were briefed by the referees and they did mention that if we do move off the line (the kick could be retaken) — but what if it’s a toenail?
‘For something so new to be introduced on such a big stage —it’s kind of hard to get your head around it in terms of changing habits.
Former USA goalkeeper Hope Solo says there needs to be more discussion on the subject
‘We’ve always been able to move laterally, but it’s strange to crack down on it. We were having a discussion about what happens if the taker misses the target. Should it be retaken? But I’m no referee and I don’t make the rules. I just try not to break them.’
Former USA goalkeeper Hope Solo said more discussion was needed on the subject.
‘We need to talk about this rule and the way it’s impacting matches,’ tweeted Solo in the aftermath of Scotland’s late heartbreak.
‘Stepping off your line does not do enough to cut down the angle during a penalty to justify a retake. There’s not enough time during a penalty kick for any goalkeeper to get close enough to shut down the angle. Moving a few inches off the line can actually hurt a keeper’s reaction time during a penalty kick!’
VARs in Premier League will not order penalty re-take if goalkeeper comes off line next season | Sport | The Times
It's a step too VAR: Premier League won't use new rule that sent Scotland out of Women's World Cup
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Articles tagged 'zimbabwe electoral commission'
MP trial exposes MDC squabbles 23 January 2019 HARARE - The trial of Mt Pleasant MDC Member of Parliament Samuel Banda who is accused of giving false address to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has exposed squabbles within the party and the Thokozani Khupe-led faction. Banda’s trial commenced on Monday, with the State calling its fi...
MDC MP's trial deferred to January 4 December 2018 HARARE - The trial of Mount Pleasant MDC Member of Parliament Samuel Banda — who stands accused of presenting a false residential address to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) — has been rolled over to January after his defence counsel requested more time to go through the docket. Using t...
MDC MP arrested for providing false address to Zec 13 November 2018 HARARE - Mount Pleasant MDC Member of Parliament Samuel Banda was yesterday arraigned in court over allegations of presenting a false residential address to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). Banda allegedly provided the false address during the National Biometric Voter Registration (BVR...
Chigumba disowns Twitter account 21 August 2018 HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has distanced herself from a bogus Twitter account that is posting controversial updates in her name. In a statement Chigumba said the Twitter account was bogus and created by individuals who sought to create confusion...
Zec gaffe draws brickbats 19 August 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) came under heavy fire yesterday after it admitted to errors in its calculation of the presidential poll result, won by President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa. While Zec had declared the Zanu PF leader as the winner with 50,8 percent of the president...
Door shut on Chamisa 24 July 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) slammed the door on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday, saying there was no going back on poll preparations even as the main opposition party is attempting to put spanners into the works. At its meeting with observers yesterday, Zec vi...
Chamisa in all-out war with Chigumba 18 July 2018 HARARE - MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has laid the grounds for an all-out war with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) which he has given a week to agree to negotiations. Chamisa also blasted the electoral body's chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba, at a press conference in Harare yester...
Chigumba must talk to Chamisa 16 July 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is right to agree to participate in talks with Nelson Chamisa over how to resolve the serious threat posed by failure to iron out a raft of administrative electoral reforms the opposition leader has said are vital for a credible vote on July 30. ...
Zec must go the extra mile 13 July 2018 HARARE - Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba and her entire team have a huge task at their hands of running a credible poll on July 30. Zec risks failing this mandate because of the way they have batted away demands from the opposition parties, particularly the M...
Opposition hammers Chigumba over ballots 13 July 2018 HARARE - Opposition parties yesterday came out guns blazing, accusing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, of acting in bad faith after announcing that the printing of presidential ballot papers for the July 30 harmonised elections had been completed. Zec sai...
'Zec owes it to nation to deliver undisputed poll' 5 July 2018 HARARE - Zimbabwe cannot afford another disputed election given its perilous state of the economy, analysts have said. The country's economy has been on a free-fall, with analysts saying its long history of disputed polls was a major contributing factor. To break the vicious cycle of disput...
Chamisa drags ED to court 30 June 2018 HARARE - MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has taken his battle for State House a notch higher by dragging his main rival in next month's crunch national elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to court for remarks that the Zanu PF.......
Zec excludes voters' pics from roll 26 June 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced yesterday that it will exclude pictures of voters from the voters' roll after the national elections management body received unspecified threats from aggrieved political parties at the weekend. This comes as Zec chairperson and High C...
Zec, Khupe, Zanu PF plotting to rig vote: Chamisa 26 June 2018 HARARE - MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has threatened to demonstrate against an alleged plot by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Zanu PF and opposition leader Thokozani Khupe to rig the forthcoming elections. Addressing party supporters in Kadoma on Sunday, Chamisa...
Knives out for Chigumba 24 June 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) faces its sternest test to date as opposition political parties contesting next month's polls have temporarily shelved their differences to demand a raft of reforms aimed at levelling the electoral playing field currently tilted in favour of Zanu P...
Opposition weighs election options 20 June 2018 HARARE - Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and other principals in the MDC Alliance have not ruled out boycotting next month's crucial national elections but for now, they will continue dialogue with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over their demands for reforms. This is despite Zec sla...
MDC to deploy polling agents 20 June 2018 HARARE - The MDC plans to field agents in all polling stations during next month's election, the party's organising secretary Amos Chibaya said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chibaya said the move was targeted at ensuring that the ruling Zanu PF will not “rig” the elections. “Like a...
UK, Zec nexus triggers uproar 19 June 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) triggered a fresh storm yesterday after it availed the voters' roll to the British Embassy while denying same to candidates participating in the forthcoming general elections. In a tweet posted yesterday, the embassy revealed receiving the conte...
Zec reeling from multiple lawsuits 18 June 2018 HARARE - As the eagerly-awaited July 30 polls beckon, the national elections management body, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), is reeling from multiple lawsuits — with the High Court set to hear the latest legal action today in which lawyers are demanding that it reveals the names of “sus...
Legal costs drown Zec. . . a cold winter for the commission 5 June 2018 HARARE - With the clock ticking towards make-or-break harmonised polls on July 30, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is stewing in massive legal bills following an increase in the number of election-related lawsuits brought against the country's under-fire elections management body. Over...
Zanu drags Zec to High Court over ballot papers 5 June 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has been hauled before the High Court by the little known Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), which is seeking to force the electoral body to use ordinary bond paper for printing of ballot papers. In an urgent chamber application filed at ...
Pay $1 000 to stand for top office 5 June 2018 HARARE - An aspiring presidential candidate must be nominated by at least 100 voters, as well as pay a nomination fee of $1 000. This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday. Zec said the 100 nominations must be drawn from the country country's 10 political provinc...
Legal costs drown Zimbabwe Electoral Commission 5 June 2018 HARARE - With the clock ticking towards make-or-break harmonised polls on July 30, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is stewing in massive legal bills following an increase in the number of election-related lawsuits brought against the country's under-fire elections management body. See ...
Zec sued for gerrymandering 1 June 2018 HARARE - Mount Pleasant Heights residents have dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its chairperson, Justice Priscillah Chigumba, to the High Court, accusing the electoral body of clandestinely transferring them to Mazowe South Constituency. According to the urgent chamber appli...
Zec allays fears of dead people on voters' roll 30 May 2018 HARARE - The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is working round the clock to cleanse the voters' roll of any ghost voters. As part of efforts to keep a clean voters' roll, Zec has asked the Registrar General (RG)'s office to submit to the elections management body a list of dead people every...
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Updating Firmware in CUE
By Chris Stolze, on 1 de noviembre de 2017
Firmware can be thought of as the operating system of a device and in the world of components and peripherals, firmware is everywhere! Sometimes firmware updates are introduced to improve the performance or squash bugs that may pop up, so today we're going to take a look at how to check to see if your peripherals are updated completely in the CORSAIR UTILITY ENGINE.
If a firmware update is available for one of your peripherals in CUE, you'll notice a yellow notice in the bottom left corner of the window. In this case, we're wanting to manually check/update our firmware so we're going to go to the global settings menu by clicking the gear icon at the top.
Once in the global settings menu, you'll see a download icon next to each peripheral you have plugged in, this is the firmware update menu. Go ahead and click it to proceed with the update process.
Once you've clicked on the download icon, you'll see the firmware version your device currently has installed, click update to continue.
Once you click update, you'll be given an option to force update to the current latest version available on our servers.
Alternatively, if you're trying to roll back to an older version of the firmware in order to troubleshoot an issue, you can select firmware image to update from a file that's saved locally on your computer. Once you've made your selection, click on update to proceed.
Once you've started the update process, you'll see a progress bar, once this is complete, the device will disconnect from CUE and reconnect automatically. Do not disconnect the device during this process!
And it's as easy as that! Hopefully this helps to clarify the update process in CUE. For additional resources, check out our CUE 2 Overview Blog.
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Two southern resident orcas missing as experts fear for the population
Centre for Whale Research says one whale each is missing from the J and K pods
Jul. 12, 2019 12:18 p.m.
Two southern resident killer whales haven’t been seen for a few months leaving experts worried, not just about the fates of both creatures, but for the future of the entire family of orcas.
Just over 70 southern resident killer whales form the single group of exclusively salmon-eating orcas identified as J clan and the family is further divided into three groups, or pods, known as J, K and L.
The Centre for Whale Research said in a post that while all other killer whales from the J and K pods have been seen, one member from each pod is missing.
“We will continue to look for J17 and K25 in upcoming encounters but the chances of finding them are starting to look a little grim,” the post said.
J17 is a female born in 1977 and K25 is a male born in 1991.
Martin Haulena, head veterinarian at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre, worries that the failure to spot the two whales underscores the challenges facing all southern resident orcas.
“I haven’t lost all hope but things are not looking good right now,” he said.
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States released photos in May taken by a drone that showed J17 had deteriorated in health since she was assessed last fall.
She was showing the condition known as “peanut-head,” which indicates a significant loss of fat, or blubber, around the head, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
Haulena agreed the population is in “huge trouble.”
“We’ve been working for a long time now with a number of different partners trying to figure out how we can turn around some of this.”
Researchers understand the basic threats to the killer whale population, which include lack of chinook salmon that they depend on, boat noise and noise in general that interferes with their ability to forage, as well as pollution that interferes with their ability to reproduce and fight off disease, Haulena said.
“But the actual individual causes of death are probably quite complicated and we’re down to the point where each of these individuals is so, so important. This population is in big trouble for sure.”
The possible loss of J17, a 42-year-old female, is especially devastating because females are crucial in the “matriarchal kind” of killer whale society where pods depend on older females for foraging, Haulena said.
“A whale from 1977 would be approaching the latter third of a normal, long life. They probably live 60-80 years if things are ideal but still, to lose one of those females that’s older like that would mean a whole lot to younger females,” he said.
A new female calf, J56, was reported a few weeks ago, but right now there are more animals being lost than being born, he said, adding that calf mortality for cetaceans can be as high as 50 per cent.
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The killer whale population stands at 73 or 74 because of a couple of births, Haulena said.
Hina Alam, The Canadian Press
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5 Amazing Performances Hiding in Terrible Movies
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J.F. Sargent ·
I like to think of myself as a psychoanalytical cinema analyst, because "I drink kratom and watch Netflix in my underwear all day" looks s****y on a resume. For the most part, it's a thankless job, and I've wasted so much of my life at this point that achieving true love or happiness is the most hopeless endeavor since the last time someone tried to discover what really makes Toaster Strudels so delicious.
But occasionally I'll discover something totally secret and totally great. I've talked before about how some terrible movies have amazing hidden meanings in them that will completely change the way you never, ever rewatch them, but now I'm talking about something more specific: a great performance, by a great actor, hiding in sea of cinematic travesty. These are actors who showed up on an ugly set, read a script written in poop by a deranged monkey, and decided to do a hell of a job anyway.
They never got the recognition they deserved. So today, we salute you, you brave, brave soldiers of cinematic quality.
Kate Beckinsale in Total Recall
The Cinematic War Crime Against Sci-Fi
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time in the late '80s, a man named Paul Verhoeven had a dream: he wanted to tell an adventure story about a wacky foreigner named Quaid with a broken brain and a robot mask who battles a government conspiracy and saves Mars. The result was the movie Total Recall, and it is mankind's finest achievement aside from Xanax.
This happens too. It's a really good movie.
Meanwhile, back in reality: 22 years later, some guy who's name I didn't bother to look up decided to remake that movie, but he cut out literally every element (there's no f*****g Mars) except the broken brain. They almost kept the "wacky foreigner" detail by casting Irishman Colin Farrell, but unfortunately they made him do an American accent. In case you don't know this about Farrell, the energy required for him to fake an American accent uses up all his acting points, leaving nothing left.
Did I mention there's no Mars in this movie? f**k that, you guys.
The Glorious Majesty Buried Within
Kate Beckinsale plays Quaid's "wife," who turns out to be an assassin -- and she f*****g crushes it. The only thing that works in this whole movie is the action sequences. And the only reason the action sequences work is because I'm pretty sure Beckinsale was actually trying to kill people.
Part of why she's so cool is, aside from the very last scene, she doesn't make any stupid-movie-character mistakes: for example, when the good guys are shooting at her, she takes cover behind her army of robots.
Also, she uses her army of robots.
Because this is a movie about fake memories and deception, quite a few characters have alternate identities. Beckinsale changes her attitude and demeanor so much that it's almost like seeing two different actors:
For Farrell all they could think to do was give him a goatee, since he either only knows one facial expression or someone off camera is violently electrocuting him every time he lowers his eyebrows.
Beckinsale carries so much menace in each fight scene that she single-handedly does the job that the writers failed at: she's so cool she'll make you care what happens next. The problem here is that her best scenes aren't available on YouTube, and they don't really hold up when I type them out. Like this one:
BECKINSALE punches SOME GUY in the NECK
BECKINSALE: When you get your breath back, you're going to tell me everything that man said to you, starting from the beginning.
SOME GUY: Who are you?
BECKINSALE: I'm his wife.
Idiotic, right? But it's so goddamn cool the way she does it, and I'm not even sure why, because I'm not very smart or even qualified to have this job writing jokes for you fine people. My point is that Beckinsale injects cocky menace into a boring, cookie-cutter character, and it's allllllllllllmost but not quite worth watching the movie for.
Karl Urban in Priest
The Cinematic Atrocity Against World-Building
Let me tell you another story. In 2014, I spent a solid hour with my head in my hands, staring blankly at the keyboard, trying to think of how I could describe this f*****g movie to you. I rewatched Priest last night, and I honestly haven't felt quite right in my heart since.
The basic premise is that vampires are f*****g everywhere, and only ninja-priests can save them, and also it's the Old West for some reason but only sometimes, because people also have rocket-powered motorcycles. It's The Searchers with ancient warriors of god and rocket-bikes in the desert. There's a character named Hicks. Now you see the problem, right? Every detail in this movie, taken on its own, is awesome, and yet the movie itself is bad.
But one thing stands out as extra awesome, which is ...
The Glorious Redemption
... Karl Urban, the vampire cowboy.
And yet, this movie is bad.
This is where I admit that I have a little bit of a man-crush on Urban. But in my defense, f*****g look at the guy. It's like raditude and badical had a baby.
Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
Some say that his Dredd frown looks funny without the Dredd helmet. They are correct.
When an actor is given a role like "evil vampire cowboy," the only thing he's legally allowed to do is have all the fun he possibly can. And that's exactly what The Urbs does. He spends his entire 17-or-so minutes of screen-time going more whole-hog than a drunk frat boy at an all-you-can-bro-grab competition.
He's conducting music in his head while buildings explode behind him. And yet this movie is bad.
Again, there's not a ton of depth or complexity to this role. He's a vampire and he's mad at people who aren't vampires, which tends to be a thing vampires get up to. But man, does it work. The best part is when he punches into a kung-fu priest's chest and rips his heart out, right in the middle of a fight.
I don't even think that was in the script, I think he just got caught up in the role and went a little overboard. But it's fine; that guy died for a good cause, because the explosion of coolness gives us the strength to sit through another 45 minutes of J.A.R.V.I.S. and The Bad Guy From Twilight whining at each other over ... who cares? You don't. I don't. Next entry.
Ben Foster in 30 Days of Night
The Slow Bleed Against Horror
30 Days of Night is a dumb movie about Josh Hartnett battling a bunch of vampires whose defining trait seems to be a stubborn refusal to ever wipe blood off their faces. The movie takes place over 30 days -- that's 720 hours -- and at no point does even one of the bad guys take a minute to wipe their chin on their sleeve. It drives me f*****g crazy.
Have you guys just not figured out napkins, or ...
In this movie, vampires go to Barrow, Alaska, in the dead of winter to hunt people with impunity. They do this because in the middle of winter the sun sets for roughly an entire month. It's 30 days, you see. Of night.
The good guys, led by sheriff Josh Hartnett, hole up in an attic and are killed off in increasingly stupid ways until, finally, Josh Hartnett.
Josh Hartnett.
I dunno. It's all right, I guess.
The Warm, Beating Heart of Genius
But buried in the barely tolerable nonsense is a performance by Ben Foster that is just captivating. He plays the vampire pack's pet human who sneaks into town, destroys all their cellphones, murders all their dogs, and then wanders into a diner to order a bowl of raw ground beef and just freaks the hell out of everyone.
Mainly with his bad teeth.
Between his gross teeth, totally unexplained backstory, and weirdly accented, high-pitched voice, I'm pretty sure he's creepier than any of the vampires -- who, and I don't feel this can be stressed enough, are just sloppy as hell.
Is that not getting itchy? You're gonna get the worst acne.
The best part is when the vampires finally arrive at the prison where Foster is being held -- and where he's been expecting a rescue -- only to leave him locked up. The poor guy thinks that the vampires are going to "take him" (turn him into a vampire? Again, it's not super clear), and his disappointment when this doesn't happen is the only emotional reaction any villain has that makes any sense.
Cockroaches, the most loathsome creature on the planet, meticulously clean themselves after eating.
Just ... do whatever you want with that information.
Michael Keaton in RoboCop
The Cinematic Hate Crime Against Satire
Let me tell you another story, and this is the last one, I promise.
"Hey, ya know RoboCop, one of the best satires ever made?" asked the well-dressed man in the Columbia Pictures office. "What if we remake it, only we cut out the blood and wit and heart and meaning and intelligence, then replace all that with a bunch of references to the original that don't make any sense in the new context we've created?"
Before him, four studio executives sat in stunned silence, their faces frozen in the blank, soulless expression that afflicts all who choose their path in life. Then, slowly and with great majesty, they began to vibrate. The intensity increased, and just as they were beginning to blur, hundreds of thousands of slimy, bloody dollar bills exploded from every one of their orifices in a horrifying display of sexual capitalism so great that, well ... in Hollywood, they say, the cops beat the homeless just a little harder that day.
What, you need a plot summary? RoboCop is about a robocop. Get it together, man.
The Glimmering Spark of Redemption
Putting Michael Keaton in front of a camera and letting him do stuff was the best decision the RoboCop remake made. He takes what is essentially Miguel Ferrer's role from the original (though not directly, and I'm sure the commenters will explain why this description is horribly wrong) -- and though he's not as awesomely hateable as that guy, he's still a hell of a modern douchebag CEO -- and manages to inject some clever satire into what is otherwise a completely pointless and stupid movie. For example, watch this bit, where he jumps around like a coked-up lunatic:
And that's not even his best scene. In the "designing RoboCop" part, his R&D people present him with a bunch of data based on research and focus testing, he considers it, and then decides, "Eh, f**k it, let's just go with my gut and make RoboCop all black." Not only is that a brilliant satire of how corporations and every CEO thinks, it inadvertently mocks itself because making RoboCop all black is actually a stupid decision the filmmakers made too. See? It works on multiple levels.
It may not be up to the standards of the original, or even, ya know, intentional, but some satire manages to sneak its way into the RoboCop remake. Is it as beautiful as shooting a mugger in the dick? No. But it's something ...
Ashton Kutcher in Jobs
The ... f****n' ... Movie
Jobs sucks. I hate it so goddamn much. To call it a two-hour ad for Apple products is an insult to the relatively subtle art of product placement:
This movie opens with Ashton Kutcher introducing the iPod to the company, and ends with him crying -- f*****g crying -- as he reads the voiceover to the I-guess-kinda-iconic ad with the inspirational voiceover. You know the one I'm talking about: "Here's to the crazy ones," and so on.
The ad where they compare their computers to the civil rights movement.
The Part Where I Tell You What I Like About the Movie
As the movie collapses around him into a pile of butts, Kutcher stands triumphantly among the shapely wreckage, like a kingly paragon of derrieres. He looks like Steve Jobs, sounds like him, even walks like him. That's not just raw talent or charisma -- he clearly put a ton of time, effort, and thought into getting this character perfect.
There's not a lot else to say here, because he still comes nowhere close to saving the movie. The crappy script and nonsensical editing turns his performance into a competent novelty, like a dog who knows how to do a backflip or a cat with a perfect impression of Winston Churchill. But maybe it's enough to forgive him for keeping Two and a Half Men alive.
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Exclusive access to Batman and Spider-Man logo creator's workspace
By Creative Bloq Staff (Computer Arts) 2014-12-24T09:41:56.357Z Graphic design
Iconic comic artist Rian Hughes throws open the doors to his ex-car workshop studio space.
It's fair to say that the British comic scene would look very different today had Rian Hughes not begun his artistic career working for 2000AD in the 1980s. Hughes' bold illustrative style was influential among fellow comics artists, and also provided the canvas for his early lettering experiments.
These days, Hughes pours that expertise into his illustration and type company Device, housed in a converted stables in the heart of Kew Gardens.
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"We've been here for 12 years," says Hughes. "It was used as a car workshop before we moved in. There are other units with creative types around, and in the summer we have barbecues with them outside."
Inside meanwhile, the vibe is distinctly Hughesian. Comic-like character illustrations and logo work adorn the walls, but a copy of Paris Hollywood magazine vies equally for attention (1).
Rian Hughes at Device HQ in London
"It purports to be a classy French 'artist's model' magazine," says Hughes, "but is actually thinly disguised erotica for overexcitable 1940s English gents who think anything French must be wildly exciting."
The issue in question has a shoot on a Parisian burlesque theme that inspired some of the images in Hughes' Soho Dives, Soho Divas book (2). "I've been taking life drawing lessons for the last few years," he reveals.
"Burlesque dancers know how to pose! The drawings were intended as a personal project, but Image Comics saw them and offered to publish them as a book." A sequel is almost finished, and prints of its most popular images can be purchased on Hughes' website.
The curvaceous theme continues in the studio catalogue for Device Fonts Collection 15, which focuses solely on numbers (3). It's a self-publishing effort through digital print-to-order site Blurb that Hughes considers an experiment.
"I'll be interested to see how self-publishing develops," he says. "The quality has certainly improved dramatically, and in some cases is as good as lithography."
Quality is clearly in abundance where The Chaps Magazine is concerned (4). Each of its covers are designed by Device, setting the high standard for trouser creases, pocket squares and facial hair grooming within.
Hughes' thoughts are never far from comics however, as the prized Harley Quinn statue on his desk proves (5). "It's a prototype, given to me by DC Comics," he beams. "The design is based on Bruce Timm's animation style. The elegance of his work reminds me of Eisenberg's clean lines and direct storytelling."
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Home Calgary Real Estate News Completion of East Village’s first purpose-built rental project approaches
Completion of East Village’s first purpose-built rental project approaches
Karen Durrie
Courtesy Calgary Municipal Land Corp.
The redevelopment of the East Village has brought new life to an area that was once a no man’s land of unsightly industrial buildings and decaying historic landmarks.
An influx of new residents has breathed life into the area, but as modern condo towers rose and filled up with buyers, one thing was lacking: rental options.
The Hat @ East Village will help fill that niche, as the community’s first purpose-built rental project, and it’s something the East Village Neighbourhood Association (EVNA) wholeheartedly supports.
“EVNA is supportive of developments and land-use changes within the community that enable mixed use, mixed income and increased diversity among its residents and businesses,” said Tom Jenson, director of the planning committee for EVNA.
“With the Hat nearing its completion, we are excited to have a rental tower in the area to help welcome new residents who may not otherwise have an opportunity to live in our exciting and growing community.”
Diverse housing options will help foster a sustainable community where residents can live, work and play.
“EVNA wants to ensure there are affordable places to live in our community for everyone, from the retail clerks in our local shops and cafes to the oil executives working in our neighbouring office towers.” – Tom Jensen, East Village Neighbourhood Association (EVNA)
The area has struggled to fill retail spaces, Jenson says, so new demographics would add more potential patrons and broaden the range of suitable business and employment opportunities.
The area currently has several seniors who pre-date the redevelopment, while new residents tend to be young professionals.
“EVNA wants to ensure there are affordable places to live in our community for everyone, from the retail clerks in our local shops and cafes to the oil executives working in our neighbouring office towers,” said Jenson.
Calgary Municipal Land Corp. (CMLC), the agency behind the East Village redevelopment, sold the land package at Fifth Street and Seventh Avenue S.E. to Cidex Developments, builder of other successful residential projects around the city.
The Hat is a 28-storey, mixed-use tower with 221 units, (66 studios and one-bedroom units, 123 two-bedroom units, and 32 three-bedroom units), a daycare and a retail component.
Jensen says a surprising number of families have moved into East Village, which was not expected when CMLC commissioned the Rivers District master plan. The community is now trying to add family infrastructure and the daycare will be a welcome addition.
CMLC’s ambition for residential in the area was to call for developers to provide varied multi-family offerings, says Clare LePan, CMLC’s vice-president of marketing and communications.
“We’re looking at partners with different price points and square footage to provide different opportunities for people at different stages in their life cycles,” she said.
The Hat @ East Village will have show suites and leasing information ready and available by this summer.
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Delany delight as Leinster secure finals day slot
Leinster skipper Gareth Delany overjoyed as Leinster secured their T20 finals days slot with an emphatic 43-run win over North County at Inch.
The Rathmines side may be having a disappointing season in the Premier League, but broke the shackles on Wednesday night with a free-flowing batting performance which set up the win.
"I'm naturally delighted with the win and the chance to be involved in the T20 finals day in Pembroke," Delany told CricketEurope.
"I was really impressed with our batting display, particularly the intent and positivity that we showed, especially Saqib, who’s 25 ball 50 really put us in a good position at the break.
"We did exactly what we wanted in the first six overs of their reply, taking three big wickets and never really allowed them a chance.
"It was also really good to see the young guys step up in the game as well."
Leinster join defending champions Clontarf, Merrion and YMCA in the finals day at Sydney Parade on Sunday August 4th.
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Afghanistan beat Ireland by 28 runs
T20 International, Noida, 12 March 2017
Scorecard Report Audio Ireland Team
Afghanistan beat a spirited Ireland by 28 runs in their third and final T20I match in a game dominated by batsmen on both sides.
The hosts piled up an imposing 233 for 8 in their 20 overs - the most Ireland have conceded in the format - with Mohammed Nabi and Shahzad the destroyers-in-chief.
Shahzad smashed 6 fours and 5 sixes as he set the perfect platform for his team making 72 from just 43 balls.
Kevin O'Brien took four wickets as Ireland edged back into the game, but Nabi's brutal assault was to be a match winning effort.
He hit no fewer than 9 sixes and 6 fours in a top score of 89 from just 30 deliveries, as 104 runs came in the last six overs.
The Irish though were unfazed by such a challenging total, and with openers Paul Stirling and Stuart Thompson in belligerent mood, the target soon looked possible.
Stirling smashed 49 from 20 balls (6 fours, 3 sixes), while Thompson cleared the ropes five times in his whirlwind 43 from 18 balls.
Ireland had scored 91 runs in the power play- their best ever - but Stirling had departed, and when Thompson fell soon after, the momentum stalled.
Gary Wilson (59) kept the Irish hopes alive with a fine half-century (5 fours, 2 sixes) but with 35 needed from the last two overs, Rashid Khan yet again extinguished Ireland's hopes.
He took three wickets in an over for the second match in succession, as five wickets fell for six runs - the Irish being dismissed for 205.
"It was a fantastic game of cricket to have both teams score over 200, so credit to the ground staff and to how the teams played," said Ireland captain William Porterfield.
"It's been a deserved series win for Afghanistan but there hasn't been that much between the teams really, just five balls either way in the games. You cut down a few boundaries and you score a few more. You have to give it to them though as they've come hard at us and won the matches. You know in these games it's going to come down to the last over or so. I was pleased with the way we kept coming and kept fighting to the end."
Ireland now take on Afghanistan in a five-match ODI series which gets under way at the same venue on Wednesday and Porterfield is looking for his team to bounce back in the 50-over format.
"I'm really looking forward to the series. We've played some excellent cricket at times on what have been good pitches and great crowds. It's a wonderful place to play cricket and the lads are fired up. We have a few players to come back into the squad and that will bring some freshness and experience."
William Porterfield after Ireland lost the series 3-0
Afghanistan captain Ashgar Stanikzai
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Crime Bulletin — August 2018
Crimes Investigated
During the month of August, there were no reports of vehicle burglaries. Five vehicles were reported stolen or embezzled. Two stolen vehicles were recovered within the Town limits in August.
Thefts
During the month of August, the Colma Police Department received thirty (30) reports of theft related crimes and made twenty-two (22) arrests ranging from petty theft, grand theft, shoplifting and embezzlement.
Alcohol/Drugs
During the month of August, patrol officers made a total of twenty-five (25) arrests for drug and alcohol related charges, which included three (3) arrests for driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
Stolen Vehicle/Gun Recovery
On 08/03/18, a Colma Police Officer, while assigned to the San Mateo County Gang Task Force was involved in conducting a vehicle enforcement stop on a stolen motor scooter located in Daly City. During a search of the male suspect a stolen handgun was found in the waist area of his pants. The suspect was found to be a convicted felon and was booked into County Jail for multiple felony charges.
Grand Theft/Conspiracy/Obstructing Officers
On 08/22/18, Colma Police Officers responded to the 100 block of Colma Boulevard on a report of a grand theft that had just occurred. The victim advised that the two suspects had stolen approximately $5,300.00 worth of power tools and fled the area in a dark colored BMW with paper plates. A Colma Officer located the suspect vehicle and attempted to conduct an investigative stop. The vehicle fled at a high rate of speed, failing to obey traffic laws to evade the officer. The officer disengaged in this pursuit of the BMW due to the risk to the public.
An additional Colma Officer who was behind the pursuing officer noticed a blue Ford Mustang that was known to be involved in 10 other similar crimes throughout Northern California. The Ford was observed attempting to interfere with the traffic stop of the BMW to assist in evading arrest. The Ford Mustang was stopped on an investigative vehicle stop and the driver was arrested for multiple crimes.
Vehicle Pursuit
On 08/06/18 at approximately 10:00 pm, a Colma Policer Officer attempted to conduct a traffic enforcement stop in the area of San Pedro Road and Washington Street in Daly City, after observing a vehicle code violation. The driver failed to stop and fled at a high rate of speed, attempting to evade the officer and failing to obey traffic signals. The fleeing vehicle entered onto north bound I-280 reaching speeds of 100 miles per hour. Due to the reckless nature of the suspect’s actions and concern for the public’s safety, the pursuit was discontinued. The identity of the driver is unknown.
County-Wide Efforts
Officer Guerrero participated in one San Mateo County Saturation Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) detail.
Officer McKenna participated in the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, phase 3 deployment.
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August Statistics
Arrests 81
Reports Taken 140
Traffic Citations 160
Parking Citations 178
Automobile Collisions 19
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PHOTOS: Jabaal Sheard Receives Colts 2018 Walter Payton Man Of The Year Award
Jabaal Sheard is the Colts Nominee for the NFL's 2018 Walter Payton Man of the Year Award. The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award recognizes NFL players who have not only exhibited excellence on-the-field, but whose passion to impact lives extends beyond the game and has led them to leave a positive legacy in their communities.
Hope To Dream 2019
The Indianapolis Colts and Ashley Homestore teamed up to give 100 kids brand new beds.
PHOTOS: Wild Card Week With Holcomb And Hogsett
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PHOTOS: Community Monday-Riley Caroling
Colts players, cheerleaders and Blue visited Riley Children's Hospital to spread some Christmas cheer! They sang carols, visited with patients and their families and delivered some gifts.
PHOTOS: Community Monday - Shop With a Colt
With the support of Meijer, 30 youth from the Indianapolis Police Athletic League had the opportunity to Shop With A Colt last night to purchase toys, clothes and other items needed around the holiday time.
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PHOTOS: My Cause My Cleats - UNBOXING DAY
Here is a behind the scenes look at the players seeing their custom cleats for the first time! This is the third consecutive season, the NFL and its 32 clubs will celebrate the _My Cause, My Cleats _campaign, which gives players the opportunity to wear customized cleats to provide awareness and support for the charitable organization of their choice. Here is a behind the scenes look at the players seeing their custom cleats for the first time!
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Congress, Treasury take swings at Facebook’s Libra plan
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Welcome Mat: Detroit-based Floyd opens retail space
The Junior League of Detroit will host tours at the 18,000 square foot Charles T. Fisher mansion before designers turn it into the group's 2018 Designers' Show House
Welcome Mat: Detroit-based Floyd opens retail space The Junior League of Detroit will host tours at the 18,000 square foot Charles T. Fisher mansion before designers turn it into the group's 2018 Designers' Show House Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://detne.ws/2GEywgA
Maureen Feighan, The Detroit News Published 6:39 p.m. ET March 29, 2018 | Updated 6:59 p.m. ET March 29, 2018
Oosterhouse(Photo: TLC)
‘Trading Spaces’ returns to TLC
It’s back. After a 10-year hiatus, the OG of home improvement shows — TLC’s long-running “Trading Spaces” — officially returns to TV with many of the sames faces fans came to know and love, including designers Doug Wilson, Hildi Santo-Tomas and Vern Yip. And yes, Traverse City’s own Carter Oosterhouse also is back as one of the carpenters along with Ty Pennington. The concept is the same: Neighbors will trade houses for two days and work with a designer to transform one room on a limited budget. Host Paige Davis also is back. The show premieres at 8 p.m. April 7 on TLC.
Remodeled home (Photo: NARI)
Ten homes on Remodeled Homes Tour
Need some inspiration before you start a big home remodeling job? Check out the 2018 Tour of Remodeled Homes, presented by the National Association of Remodeling Industry of Southeast Michigan. Ten homes in Plymouth and Ann Arbor are on this year’s tour, each of which has undergone some kind of makeover, from a new kitchen to an entire overhaul. Two of the houses on this year’s tour, which runs from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. April 21 and 12-6 p.m. April 22, have been completely remodeled. At each project, designers and remodelers who worked on the project will be on site to answer questions. Tickets are $10; kids 5 and under are free. For ticket information, go to www.narisemich.org/.
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2018 Garden Guide now available
The Old Farmer’s Almanac was a staple in my husband’s family, a go-to guide for tips on weather, events and other fun miscellaneous information. For gardeners, there’s another guide from the same editors: “The Garden Guide.” This year’s 2018 Garden Guide, which is available now, offers a host of tips on everything from perennial vegetables to creating a garden path. Several articles offer tips on one of the hottest trends in gardening, especially among millennials: vegetable gardening. It’s $4.99 and available at several local retailers, including Books A Million, Ace Hardware and Kroger.
The Floyd Shop opens Saturday in Detroit’s Eastern Market. (Photo: Liz Kuball)
Floyd opens new headquarters, retail space
Floyd is all about versatility. The online furniture company, based in Detroit, makes a table, platform bed and now a side table, all of which can be put together in a matter of minutes, but are built to last a lifetime. Now co-owners Kyle Hoff and Alex O’Dell have opened a brick-and-mortar headquarters and retail space, called The Floyd Shop (pictured), in Eastern Market to give customers a better sense of what they’re all about. Officially open to the public on Saturday, the new space at 1948 Division will feature a table station where customers can try to put together their own Floyd table in record time. Facts about waste in the furniture industry also cover the walls. Hoff and O’Dell also will use their space for events and talks throughout the year. “We started Floyd as a reaction to disposable furniture and poor furniture purchasing experiences,” said the duo on their website. “...We believe furniture should not be difficult to purchase, assemble, or move. It should be beautifully designed and built to last.” Go to floyddetroit.com.
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Using Your iPhone 4 Internationally
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You can use iPhone 4’s 3G phone network to make calls (and do more) while traveling abroad. iPhone 4 gives you the freedom to call internationally — to anywhere from anywhere:
International roaming: You’ll have to have AT&T turn on something called international roaming (unless, of course, you live in a foreign land and have a local carrier). Contact AT&T or check out their International Calling Web page for the latest rates.
International Assist: If you’re calling the United States while overseas, you can take advantage of International Assist. This feature automatically adds the proper prefix to U.S. numbers dialed from abroad. Tap Settings→Phone→International Assist. (Make sure you see the blue On button rather than the white Off button.)
Apple has managed to cram a bunch of radios into the latest iPhone, the iPhone 4, as a part of the 3G (third-generation) phone network, allowing for this international call capability:
Four GSM/Edge radios (850, 900, 1,800, 1,900 MHz)
Four UMTS/HSDPAHSUPA radios
Radios for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS
Although iPhone started out as a United States–only proposition, Apple has now launched versions in dozens of countries.
And here’s a bit of trivia: Apple has built antennas into the stainless steel band on the edge of the iPhone 4. Actually, those antennas were anything but trivial in the days following the iPhone 4’s launch. Some people who gripped the lower-left corner of the device so that they made contact with the notch in that location actually lost reception.
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White Manna
White Manna plays space rock using a scorched-earth policy. The Arcata, California, quartet may telegraph where they’re coming from and where they’re going to take you with their track titles, but knowing the itinerary doesn’t dampen the thrill of their excursion into stellar depths.
Opening track “Acid Head” is not false advertising. It begins with an amiable boogie-rock amble before tumescing into stentorian, Loop-like riffing. You know that you can count on White Manna enveloping your head in the Asheton brothers’ genius string thuggery and convulsing you with the primordial throb harnessed by the Stooges (and, later, Hawkwind), before sonic irony was invented.
For most of White Manna, the group focuses on mantric riffs that accelerate into speed-freak, headbanging frenzies. But on “Don’t Gun Us Down,” they throw a change-up, setting the science-fictional scene with billowing solar winds before shifting into a mantric cruiser over which a wah-wah guitar articulates a hedonist manifesto—something along the lines of “fire all of your guns at once and explode into space.”
White Manna don’t dazzle with eclecticism; instead, they’re monomaniacs with the irrepressible ability to soar out of the mundane and into the unknown via tried-and-true methods upgraded to modern 21st century specs.
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A. C. Murali Mohan
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About the Mississippi River headwaters
The mighty Mississippi River begins its winding journey to the Gulf of Mexico as a mere 18-foot wide knee-deep river in Itasca State Park. From here the river flows north to Bemidji, where it turns east, and then south near Grand Rapids. It will flow a total of 694 miles before working its way out of Minnesota.
Within the park, people enjoy walking or floating on inner tubes the first half mile of the river, which meanders at a slow 1.2 miles per hour during the warm summer months. In the winter, you can still see the water flowing over the rocks, as warmer spring water keeps the area ice free.
Taking your picture next to the iconic headwaters post is a must when you visit the park! The historic marker dates back to the 1930s, and indicates the Mississippi River's total mileage at 2,552 miles. Since then the river's course has been shortened and altered by flooding and channeling. Every summer canoeists leave Lake Itasca to begin their river adventures, with hopes of reaching the Gulf of Mexico over 2,318 miles away.
Visitors also enjoy wading across the shallow 18-inch deep water, crossing from the east side to the west side, where a rock dam indicates the end of Lake Itasca and the beginning of this mighty river.
The river's channel appears much as it did when Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovered the source in 1832. Water ripples across a sandy gravel bottom through a channel lined with cattails, tamarack trees, and sedge. Wildflowers bloom throughout the summer, including the tiny blossoms of sweet bedstraw, the pinkish-purple clusters of Joe-Pye weed, and the orange trumpet-shaped flowers of Spotted-touch-me-not. A variety of birds such as warblers, kingfishers, and waterfowl can be seen and heard as you follow a wooden boardwalk along the first section of the river.
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Bruce Anthony
Bruce Anthony is stealing the spotlight on Friday, July 19 from 5-8 p.m. Stop on by to enjoy a myriad of smooth jazz melodies by this local favorite!
Vandoliers with Jason Hawk Harris
An alt-country band with punk roots, Vandoliers put a rough-edged spin on Texas music. It's twang and tattoos, grit and guitars, honky-tonk and horns, Tejano and Telecasters. It's Vandoliers.
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Show starts at 10 p.m.
Jazz y Bossa
Guitarist David Aman, having temporarily relocated to Delaware from South Texas, performs with a noticeable Latin influence in his musical stylings. Jazz y Bossa is the toned down and downsized version of his spicy band Hot Sauce, which has been turning venues on their heads in Southern Delaware. Come on out and give them a listen on Saturday, July 20 from 6-9 p.m.
Bruce Anthony & Sam Nobles
Bruce Anthony & Sam Nobles are a Delaware duo that performs jazz, blues, folk and everything in between. Well-known in the local music scene, you don’t want to miss out on their smooth set!
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Meredith Rounsley
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on July 24, Meredith Rounsley takes the stage!
Nashville transplant Meredith Rounsley combines a warm, soulful voice and rhythmic, acoustic guitar with singer-songwriter sensibilities to craft songs about love, distance and heartbreak. Her debut release, Weapon, was recorded in her home state of Maryland after a few years spent making music in Sydney, Australia. Since then, she has toured the east coast consistently, with residences at favorite local venues, house concerts stretching from Canada to Georgia, and sets at esteemed singer-songwriter venues (Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, Jammin’ Java, Gyspy Sally’s, Burlap and Bean). Her original music has been featured as a “New and Notable” release on Noisetrade and showcased at The Freeman Stage’s “Locals Under The Lights” event.
A psychedelic, soul-based duo out of Austin, Texas, Black Pumas are making their way to the Dogfish Head Brewpub stage! Led by singer Eric Burton, they travel the country (and the world) to share their music with fans near and far … and back in June, they released their self-titled, debut album, featuring songs like “Black Moon Rising,” “Fire,” and “Colors.”
Guitarist David Aman, having temporarily relocated to Delaware from South Texas, performs with a noticeable Latin influence in his musical stylings. Jazz y Bossa is the toned down and downsized version of his spicy band Hot Sauce, which has been turning venues on their heads in Southern Delaware. Come on out and give them a listen on Friday, July 26 from 5-8 p.m.
Afrobear
AfroBear is a four piece soul-ternative rock band, infusing elements of Reggae, Hip Hop and Blues music. The band moved in together a little less than a year ago with the sole purpose of creating new original music. AfroBear is known for its tight grooves and electric live shows. Come out for a listen!
Nancy Curry
Armed with just a single guitar and trusty vocal cords, Nancy Curry will bring a room to a standstill. A singer-songwriter from Millsboro, Delaware, she offers poetic, spirit-filled originals AND can drop a mean, sing-along cover that will get any crowd grooving. Stop by Chesapeake & Maine on Saturday, July 27 from 6-9 p.m. to check out her set!
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Seth Reynolds
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on July 31, Seth Reynolds takes the stage!
Seth entered school this year as a freshman at Cape Henlopen High School. He began performing earlier this year at a few local venues and looks forward to bringing his repertoire of classic rock and pop covers to Dogfish Head. Come out and support a local artist that has a bright future ahead of him!
Bruce Anthony is stealing the spotlight on Friday, August 2 from 5-8 p.m. Stop on by to enjoy a myriad of smooth jazz melodies by this local favorite!
Matt Lafferty
The front man for the ‘Pros from Dover,’ Matt Lafferty is a local guitarist and singer that entertains with a mellow, acoustic mix of covers … playing everything from 60s and 70s tunes to today’s top hits! Check out his solo set on Saturday, August 3 from 6-9 p.m. You won’t be disappointed!
Nothin' But Trouble
This group’s got the blues … or at least sings them. An Americana original blues band, Nothin’ But Trouble’s versatile set will, no doubt, keep your feet moving!
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Together in July
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on August 7, Together in July takes the stage!
Together in July is an acoustic duo from the 'Lower Slower' peninsula. They love their home and playing locally, and yield a vast song list covering many genres, including folk, Rock 'n Roll and blues. Strong harmonies and tasty acoustic tunes is what they’re all about!
Trio Blue
Trio Blue features guitarist and vocalist Jay Brown, bassist Rick Nelson and drummer Greg Schneider. Blending the uptown sophistication of jazz swing with Latin rhythms, some great soul classics and that down-home blues style, this group plays a medley of jazz, blues and R&B tunes that’s sure to please! Stop by Saturday, August 10 from 6-9 p.m. for a listen!
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Mike Garvilla
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on August 14, Mike Garvilla takes the stage!
Mike "Captin Mike" Garvilla plays guitar and sings acoustic versions of your favorite classic rock, oldies, country and top hits tunes! Mike plays music you want to sing along with or tap your feet to while enhancing your dining experience!
Bruce Anthony is stealing the spotlight on Friday, August 16 from 5-8 p.m. Stop on by to enjoy a myriad of smooth jazz melodies by this local favorite!
Meredith Rounsley
With a warm, soulful voice and an easygoing stage presence, Meredith Rounsley has been captivating audiences near and far for years. Unflinchingly honest, Rounsley’s songs explore love, heartbreak and distance, and range from rhythmic pop tunes to sweet, sincere ballads. Come on by and check out her set on Saturday, August 17 from 6-9 p.m.
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Andrew Maglione
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on August 21, Andrew Maglione takes the stage!
Andrew Maglione is a local singer and songwriter that lives with his wife in Georgetown, Delaware. A graduate of Cape High School, Andrew is a solo artist and is also part of the band Defining Parallel. Andrew’s love of music has led him to perform locally, and he is currently recording and producing his first album with his brother-in-law, owner of Bennett Sounds. Andrew’s style consists mainly of smooth vocals and has an indie folk vibe, and a lot of his songs reflect the heart and soul of what life is like when you love and lose someone. The rich notes and haunting melodies within Andrew’s music will stir your soul and allow you to be part of the journey found within his songs.
Guitarist David Aman, having temporarily relocated to Delaware from South Texas, performs with a noticeable Latin influence in his musical stylings. Jazz y Bossa is the toned down and downsized version of his spicy band Hot Sauce, which has been turning venues on their heads in Southern Delaware. Come on out and give them a listen on Friday, August 23 from 5-8 p.m.
Eastern Electric
Based in the heart of the mid-Atlantic, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Eastern Electric is a roots/Americana band that puts their own twangy twist on classic rock and blues tunes. Combining pedal steel guitar, piano and organ with a gritty, layered rhythm section, their sound is both classic and progressive … and they put on a pretty great show! See you there!
Delmarva Spotlight - Live Local Music by Roy and Maddie Voshell
From up and coming young artists to more experienced musicians, we'll be featuring local music every Wednesday night from 7-9 p.m. ... and on August 28, Roy and Maddie Voshell takes the stage!
A bond formed in 1994, Roy and Madeline Voshell have been living through music since Madeline, the daughter in this father-daughter duo, was born. Roy, a lifelong musician, began his career as a trumpeter for James Madison University’s marching band. From humble beginnings in Dover, Delaware, he began traveling with multiple elite musical groups. After meeting his wife, both employed at Disney World, Roy furthered his passion for music by performing with multiple bands and traveling across the west. Most recently known for his part in Giant Steps, a local Delaware band, Roy continues to appreciate the ability to share his talents with friends, family and strangers alike.
With a similar background, Madeline began her music career by playing the trumpet and piano during middle school and high school. It wasn’t until college that she realized her real passion was in acoustic guitar and vocals. The duo has performed in bars from Dover to Milton, and are always anxious for another chance to share their love of performing and collaborating with others. Their music ranges from the styles of Credence Clearwater, Avett Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and many more. From old rock to bluegrass-y tunes, Roy and Madeline bring a warm, fun, easy-listening father-daughter duet to each performance.
This duo uses a unique blend of acoustic guitars, percussion and uplifting vocals to transform familiar, chart-topping tunes. Taking the stage on Saturday, August 31 from 6-9 p.m., they’re sure to have you dancing and feeling good! See you there!
Surfer Blood have just finished recording their 5th album, which will be out in early 2020. Their music is renowned for catchy hooks and sonic detail. One of the best indie guitar bands around, founding members John Paul Pitts and Tyler Schwarz are joined by guitarist Michael McCleary and bassist Lindsey Mills, all four alumni of the same high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. Surfer Blood get better and better with each album, and we're betting that they'll be making great records for many years to come.
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COMMENT: Lyn of Littleport by Lyn Guest de Swarte
PUBLISHED: 11:45 04 May 2016
Lyn Guest de Swarte
Flashback to a previous community market in Littleport
Last week we were talking about how those writers of murder mysteries set in rural communities didn't have much of an inkling about real village life or the actual people who live in them.
One thing that does have the ring of truth about it is the toffee nosed attitudes of the characters that live in the big houses, remote from the villages, always similarly pretty accurately described, towards the locals.
One writer caused such a character to opine, ”You’re turning into a village drab woman. You’ll be joining the WI next.”
That author, reflecting perhaps her own ignorance, like many town-dwellers, obviously didn’t know enough about the Women’s Institute as an organisation, or the fact that the rather far from drab monarch, Her Majesty the Queen, is the WI Honorary President and a member since 1943 of the Sandringham WI.
Littleport WI are an extremely friendly, fun and welcoming group. The next meeting, which is open for all women of all ages, is on Tuesday May 10 at 7.15pm in the Village Hall, when they will be entertained by Sara Copsey-Batts who will talk about why and how she trained to give facials and hand treatments.
Two lucky members whose names were drawn from all who had put their names in the hat at last month’s meeting, will be the models, as Sara, who is WI treasurer Iris Copsey’s daughter, demonstrates a ‘mini’ facial and ‘mini’ manicure. There is always a competition linked to the speaker, and this month is ‘a pretty bracelet’.
Somewhat more energetic pursuits are on offer at Littleport Leisure Centre. It has a squash court and a gym with picture windows so you can see the huffing and puffing as it goes on from the car park. Or to gaze through from the inside of course.
If you’re a roller skating aficionado there’s no end of activity. Grade 4 coach Brian Paddington teaches Thursdays from 4-8pm and on Saturdays during the youngsters’ fun skate session from 10am until noon with music.
The excellent skater and well-liked Russ Place is also on hand to supervise proceedings.
If all that’s made you tired, you can always take time out in the bar upstairs, with a terrace that overlooks the field where there may be a dog show, football or a cricket match going on.
While the cricket season has just begun for Littleport’s Cricket Club, Littleport Town FC has just concluded its end of season double cup battle, winning one and losing one.
I bumped into goal-scoring mid-fielder Jamie Gayfer in Erika’s barber shop in Main Street getting the traditional sharp haircut before that second cup match of the season.
He’d already put in a day’s hard work like most of his team mates. You could say that’s a warm-up in itself!
As reported in the Standard they put up a fine performance only to be denied the double in a penalty shoot-out. Happens to the best teams in the country so Littleport Town are in good company.
This weekend kicks off with the Farmers Market at Adams Heritage Centre opening 9am to 1pm. And those charity events that Littleport is famous for are not to be missed.
This Saturday evening the Ex-Servicemen’s Club is hosting a dance raising funds for PULSE, Littleport based, ‘Patients and Users Lenders of Special Equipment’, that’s Chaired by Councillor Geoff Norman.
Tickets are £6 on the door and the music (60s to 80s) is supplied by the popular band Catch 22. You can boogie on down from 8.45pm until midnight.
The annual Littleport bikers club bash for charity moves into top gear this Saturday. The 363MCC commemorates the 1816 Littleport Rioters and five hanged men in its name and logo. So 200 years on the ‘Crowning Around’ event has even more significance.
There’s all day music and refreshments, both in the Crown Inn where it’s being held and in the road outside, Crown Lane, that’s cordoned off for the bike show as usual.
A multitude of stalls sell everything any self-respecting lover of all things motorbiking could wish for plus the ever popular great prizes raffle.
Their committee, headed by Mark Robinson, have secured a flypast at approximately 12.20pm by a Battle of Britain Spitfire. Well you can’t top that can you?
Littleport Town
Littleport
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England seniors win Euro bronze for third successive year
England’s senior men collected the bronze medals for the third successive year after overcoming Scotland 4-1 on the final day of the European Senior Men’s Team Championships in Poland.
Having lost narrowly to Ireland in the semi-finals, England went into the third place playoff at the Sierra Golf Club knowing they had to beat the Scots to finish in the top three and they duly did so without losing a game.
The powerful foursomes partnership of Alan Mew and Tony McLure (Image © Leaderboard Photography) came out on top again, winning their third successive game by beating Robert Stewart and Malcolm Reid 2 and 1.
Stephen East then beat John Fraser 4 and 3 while Richard Latham completed a similar scoreline over Barry Brooks.
The other two contests resulted in halves, England’s Andrew Stracey with David Gardner and Clive Jones with Ian Brotherston.
Now England will hope to go one better in the forthcoming Senior Home Internationals at North Berwick which start on 16th September.
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BART fare to SFO may rise $1
By Laura Ernde | Bay Area News Group
Starting in January, it could cost San Mateo County residents $1 more to ride BART trains to and from San Francisco International Airport.
SamTrans has proposed ending a subsidy, designed to encourage ridership, which has been in place since the airport rail extension opened two years ago. The $1 fare increase would only affect BART riders going between the airport and stations in San Mateo County, not San Francisco or the East Bay.
The public will have a chance to comment on the plan Aug. 10, along with the proposed September elimination of BART service to the South San Francisco and San Bruno stations.
The changes will save SamTrans more than $2 million a year, officials said Wednesday.SamTrans, which runs the county’s bus service, has come under tight budget constraints.
There aren’t enough people riding the BART extension to cover its operating costs, and SamTrans is obligated by contract to make up that difference, which is estimated at $10 million next year.
On top of that, revenue from fares is down $730,000 for the budget year, while fuel costs have soared, said Chief Financial Officer Virginia Harrington.
Adding $1 to the cost of a trip between San Mateo County stations and the airport shouldn’t be too much of a hardship to BART travelers when it is compared to the high cost of an airline ticket, said SamTrans General Manager and CEO Michael Scanlon.
As an example, the cost of a one-way ticket to the airport from Daly City would go from $3.30 to $4.30 in January. That does not count a separate 3.7 percent general fare increase by BART, which is scheduled to go into effect at the same time.
The weekend service at the South San Francisco and San Bruno BART stations is proposed to end on
Sept. 12.
Weekend ridership at those stations is fairly low, and those riders still will be able to use the Colma or Millbrae BART stations, Scanlon said.
In addition to setting a public hearing on the money-saving changes Wednesday, SamTrans board members voted to move forward with refinancing the agency’s $326 million debt, about one-third of which is from building the BART extension.
Extending the length of the loan and lowering the interest rate from about
5 percent to about 4 percent would save about $10 million a year, Harrington said.
Ridership on BART’s airport extension is up about 1.2 percent over last year, but it’s still not breaking even as BART had projected, said Rita Haskin, chief communications officer at SamTrans.
BART spokesman Linton Johnson said those projections were made well in advance, before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“The main draw to that extension was SFO. With 9/11, that would have killed any ridership projection,” he said.
The public hearing is set for 2 p.m. on Aug. 10 at the SamTrans Administrative Office, 1250 San Carlos Ave., San Carlos.
Staff writer Laura Ernde covers county government and health issues. She can be reached at (650) 306-2428 or by e-mail at lernde@sanmateocountytimes.com.
Laura Ernde
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House votes to hold Barr, Ross in contempt
The president has pledged to "fight all the subpoenas" issued by Congress and says he won't work on legislative priorities, such as infrastructure, until Congress halts investigations of his administration.
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Protest ruling costs Union City National
By Matt Schwab and William Love Correspondent | Bay Area News Group
UNION CITY — The Union City National Senior All-Stars won the game on the field against Tracy American on Thursday evening, but they lost the fight with the rulebook.
After celebrating an apparent 2-1 victory at Seabreeze Park in the championship round of the Section 3 tournament, Union City National had the result wiped out when Tracy American manager Robert Furtado’s protest was upheld by Little League officials.
Thus the official final score was Tracy American 7, Union City National 0. Tracy advances to the Division tournament at James Logan High and begins play at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Furtado protested after one Union City player failed to have an at-bat: Little League rules indicate that each player in uniform must play at least one inning in the field and have one at-bat. Unfortunately for Union City, which dressed 14 players, the one player who didn’t come to the plate was left in the on-deck circle when the side was retired in the seventh inning.
Section 3 officials made a call to San Bernardino headquarters shortly after Union City reliever Alex Murillo — with the potential tying and go-ahead runners in scoring position in the bottom of the seventh — retired back-to-back hitters to apparently end the game. San Bernardino officials relayed the information to Williamsport, Pa., which made the final ruling.
While Union City manager Jeff Perry appeared to take things in stride, his players were understandably bitter. A Union City win would have forced a rematch between the teams in the championship round. Union City had already lost once in the double-elimination event, and Tracy entered the game unbeaten.
“I put the kid (who didn’t bat) in in the top of the fifth inning; he played three innings,” Perry said. “He didn’t hit. He was on deck. I had an expectation when I put him in in the fifth that he would be able to make his turn at bat.
Union City received strong pitching from starter Joseph Del Toro, who allowed one unearned run and two hits over three innings, and Murillo, who allowed four hits in four shutout innings of relief.
Ryan Hinojosa’s two-run homer to right-center in the he fourth put Union City ahead 2-1, but that only set the stage for a spectacular defensive play in the sixth that made the lead hold up.
With one out and runners on first and second, Tracy’s Michael Donato lashed a single to center, but Union City’s Del Toro, who had been moved to center field, fielded the ball cleanly and threw a strike to catcher Kevin Perry, who tagged out a hard-sliding Vinny Devencenzi before throwing a strike to third baseman Franky Haro to get a sliding Matt Furtado for the final out of the inning.
At any level of baseball, it was a defensive play to behold.
Devencenzi certainly did his job on the mound for Tracy. He went the distance and allowed four hits, none in the first three innings. He struck out 10. It was Devencenzi’s second stellar start of the tournament.
Robert Furtado, said he could be second-guessed for some of his aggressive baserunning late in the game, but defended his decision to file the protest.
“I tried to play aggressive baseball, tried to play as fair as I could, but I believe that green book (rule book) is (there) for a reason,” he said. “They had 14 guys, I had 14 guys, we both played fair, but they just missed by not batting their one batter, and that’s the way the ball bounces, but I respect Union City. They’re a good team, but we’re looking forward to going to the divisionals.”
Matt Schwab
William Love Correspondent
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Posted on August 21, 2016 April 20, 2019 by Ed Parsons
Concorde 208 G-BOAB, Heathrow, England
If aircraft had feelings…. Alpha Bravo would be pissed off !
While other Concorde aircraft are preserved in specially designed hangars and have become tourist attractions Alpha Bravo the third Concorde to be delivered to British Airways is parked in a disused car park at Heathrow Airport only really visible to departing passengers on Runway 27L.
Following the Paris Crash of F-BTSC in July 2000, Alpha Bravo made its final flight back to Heathrow from New York on August 15th just hours before the types Certificate of Airworthiness was temporarily withdrawn. Alpha Bravo was subsequently not modified along with the other British Airways in 2001 and never returned to service.
Since 2000 then Alpha Bravo has skulked around Heathrow, plans to properly display the Aircraft at Terminal 5 (much like the Concorde at Paris CGG) never materialised.
In 2004 British Airways donated the aircraft to BAA the owners of Heathrow Airport, but it seems that Heathrow have no interest in displaying the aircraft. Rumours of the aircraft’s poor condition and outlandish plans of moves to Dubai or a barge on the Thames or even return the aircraft to flight have come and gone over the past few years, while Alpha Bravo sits unloved in a car park.
Alpha Bravo’s current location is not really accessible, I took this photo below from a BA staff Car Park, but clearly this is not recommended and may attract the attention of Heathrow’s charming Police Constables (no really they are very professional !)
The current state of Alpha Bravo is in my view a disgrace which reflects poorly on both Heathrow Airport and British Airways, although to their credit they have recently carried out some minor maintenance to the airframe.
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Concorde G-BOAB ( Alpha Bravo ) needs to be on proper display or in a ‘special glass hangar’ or on display like all the other Concorde’s and not parked in that disused car park at Heathrow Airport
Very sorry to read this. In July 1994 I took a subsonic flight on Alpha Bravo, Heathrow to Glasgow. It was one of David Gladwin’s operations. The only Concorde flight I had (or could afford!) AB developed a fault before take off when one of the three computers failed. Departure was delayed while special permission was sought (from BA?), to continue, not easy to get on a Sunday.. During take off at the point of rotation a warning light appeared in the cockpit and an emergency stop was performed. As a result the brakes overheated and AB sat at the end of the runway for some time while the cooling fans did their job on the pads, discs (and tyres??). The flight to Glasgow then continued without a hitch (apparently) at 660mph. I sat at Glasgow airport waiting for my British Midland return flight, expecting to see AB take off on its scheduled 2 hour supersonic flight (also by David G) but it did not move because of the afore-mentioned computer problem. AB landed at Heathrow soon after my BM plane did. A memorable experience never to be repeated! The thrill of what was described as a “sporting take off” as there was no luggage on board. The thrill of hearing the co-pilot announce “100, 150, 200, 250 rotation” and that speed came up PDQ! Luckily cockpit visits were still allowed and there was a stream of passengers in and out. Not a lot of room though, and the plane was full!
what a fantastic memory.. it was the “Sporting Take off” that i really remember as well in my case fully loaded turning over Jamaica Bay departing JFK – Thanks for the Post Mike !
Thanks Ed but I cannot let your comment about LHR’s “grasshoppers” (cue Cockney Rhyming slang!) go without a remark from me! I live 150 miles from LGW and LHR and in years gone by often took my children to both to “plane watch”, before viewing at both was stopped. I often wondered why and would it return? I wonder if the Herald is still up top at Gatwick, and the facilities at the Queens Building roof were great – saw Concorde several times from there n the 80s. Surely it was nothing to do with terrorism?
Subsequently I made a habit of stopping briefly at a small parking place next to a sub-station by a dual carriageway off the eastern end of the runway. Often other cars were parked there or opposite. Last time was 5 years ago when returning from a visit to Portsmouth, my wife and I had our 5 yr old granddaugher Amy with us. We are an elderly couple having exceeded our three score years and ten. We watched the air activity for a while (which Amy loved) from outside before piling back in the car to continue our journey. About to pull out with indicator flashing when I heard a loud beeping noise from behind and what I can only describe as an old van containing two policemen who gesticulated that I should stop. Not knowing who they were, I often wonder what would have happened had I driven off at speed in my ancient Mondeo diesel!
Two youthful coppers (I presumed them to be Transport Police) approached me in an aggressive manner, demanding to know who we were and what we were doing there (as if it was not obvious.) Amy was a bit alarmed as you can imagine. I was able to provide evidence of my identity and, knowing a bit about police procedures, I pointed out that my identity would tally with PNC. This was met with sarcasm. Why were we there? Plane watching did not seem to impress for some reason nor did it when I explained we do not see much air activity where we live in Suffolk. I enquired if parking was permitted at that spot. The reply was “if you park here, you will be checked!”. There was a dropped kerb, no yellow lines or restrictions and shortly before they arrived there had been others parked nearby. Eventually I was told I could leave. I refrained from asking “have you nothing better to do” as clearly they had not!
We have not been back since. I would go again but my wife will not hear of it! This frightened the life out of her!
Mike, thats horrible I’m afraid the real villains are Heathrow Airport who shut the Queens Building (also many happy childhood memories) and who really don’t like plane spotters – It’s very different in Amsterdam or Zurich Airports I know well who welcome visitors with dedicated facilities..
Stephen Skinner says:
I don’t think it is understood that plane spotters contribute to general surveillance particularly as they can have a heightened sense of observation. After 911 I recall train spotters being removed London terminal stations because such activity was considered suspicious by our US cousins. On one occasion a young lad had his camera confiscated for taking pictures of trains.
However, 100% of the blame for creating this suspicious environment must go towards those who have carried out murderous acts (or intent to).
Jaffa says:
Hi in my younger years in the 1980’s & 90’s I used to be able to wonder Anywhere within reason including anywhere on the perimiter road of London Heathrow Airport & the Concorde hanger at Hatton Cross as there was a underground station close by so I would travel up whenever I could & loved to stand at the perimeter fence behind runway 27R & watch Concorde’s four Rolls Royce/Bristol Olympus 593 Snecma afterburners light up & shower me with massive thrust & kerosene & watch her belt down the runway & the noise just went right through me, it was so wonderful that I thought one day the next step was to get to fly on one of them, but alas I missed out as I left London in 2003 in October as was in the middle of moving house, so regret very much not to have been able to purchase one of the last tickets Big Sob
But I like so many enthusiasts including people who built her & travel the country as volunteers bringing these Marvels of the air back to life to prove that they were built so well that a full refurb will be very expensive, but I believe that it’s possible to make the parts again that Concorde needs to get her airworthy & although Alpha Bravo is an older Concorde it’s still possible to restore her to Flight Airworthyness as so many people would like to see her flying again like the Battle of Britain Memmorial Flight!!!
Because Concorde Represents something more than the sum of her parts & all 2 billion pounds of her was paid for by the British& French Tax Payer & ultimately if British Airways or Air France won’t facilitate either Aircraft being restored for historical flight purposes then legal force should be bought about to compel them to release Concorde subject to strict CAA regulations, people are crying out to see Concorde again & I’m sure there’s lots of Companies out there who would fall over themselves to see there Logo on her & Flying!!! God Bless England & The Queen & God Save Concorde!!!
Hello Jafffa, thanks so much for you comment. I fully agree with your sentiments but I fear we will never see Concorde flying again, the complexity of the aircraft and cost to bring it back into service would be just too much… especially in a country where aviation is not the national obsession it was for you and I. Alpha Bravo is I’m afraid a lost cause from an airworthiness point of view, I just wish she could be displayed in a location that reflects her historical significance.
James Willmott says:
I have a birds-eye photo of Alpha Bravo from a video I took while departing Heathrow on a Virgin Atlantic flight to LA in December 2015. She looks so unloved surrounded by airport detritus.
I flew on Alpha Charlie on 20th June 2003 from Heathrow to New York with my dad. It was a fantastic once-in-a-life-time experience for both of us. We visited her again exactly 10 years later (June 2013) at the Aviation Park in Manchester. At least G-BOAC has a permanent covered home.
I have my name in the back of the pre-production aircraft G-BBDG at Brooklands (I donated some money towards her restoration). It wasn’t a big donation, so I was really surprised to see my name on display when I visited her.
My dad is now 92. He worked in British aviation (jet engines, fixed-wing and helicopters) all of his career. He worked on pioneering aircraft such as the prototype de Havilland Vampire when Britain proudly lead the world.
He also performed flight tests on Lancaster Bombers after the end of WWII, which were used to test early jet engines. In the 1950s, he accompanied jet aircraft performing the very first carrier landing tests on the HMS Albion (R07) and worked on flight tests at Boscombe Down. He also worked on the original Comet airliner and the Buccaneer. It makes him very sad to see the sorry state of the British aircraft industry today. Even Filton hasn’t survived as an operational airfield.
American’s celebrate their own aviation heritage (and ours) far more than we do.
thanks for your comments james I feel very much the same.
Was really supriced when I was onboard taxiing toward runway 27L. Seeing the concorde sitting outside forgotten like that is really a shame.
Got a few pictures thru my aircraft window of the concorde and a BA A380 lining up to takeoff in the same frame.
I so regrett not taking the special offer to fly concorde oneway NYC for airline staff. This when I worked at Scandinavian Airlines.
Some of these comments bring back fond memories of Heathrow & plane spotting. In my younger days you could actually step across the perimeter ‘fence’, (single bar wooden type) and walk onto the runway. After school, I used to meet up with like-minded souls and just walk into the Pan Am maintenance area, South side, and use the staff canteen for a meal. No security problems at all.
Getting back to Concorde, I worked on telemetry modules for the pre-production type whilst an apprentice at one of the many sub-contractor firms and in1992-94 I found myself back with Concorde, working for BA security. I have been in every Concorde numerous times, unfortunately never flown! I met so many famous people while guarding the aircraft, searching passenger bags and in the Concorde lounge. However, the one thing that sticks in my mind is on 25th October 1993 at about 18:00 hours, when I received a call to go to a sector at the Western end of the South runway, where I came across Concorde Alpha Bravo, with fuel pouring out of the port wing. The fire brigade had foamed the entire underside of the aircraft, all the pax were off BUT all of their personal belongings were still in the overheads and in their seat pockets. There was a police officer at the catering door (starboard side front), which is how the pax disembarked and an engineer in the cockpit. I was joined by other security members and our task was to systematically ‘search’ the aircraft for all personal belongings. You may think this was easy, but two things made it very hazardous. On the ground, Concorde can become tail heavy if it isn’t loaded/unloaded correctly, and can tip up! With fuel pouring uncontrolled out of the wing tank, the C of G can change rapidly and with us walking through the cabin, this would add to the problem. The engineer was frantically pumping fuel around various tanks and to a bowser to take fuel off. He gave us his commands to follow if the need arose. They were ‘Stop’, meaning stand exactly where you are; ‘Run to front’, to shift the weight back to the front and ‘Evacuate’ meaning get off by any means. Obviously if the aircraft tipped there was a good chance of a fire. This whole event was caused by a seized brake causing a tyre to burst and breaking the rain deflector, parts of which hit the underside of the wing and ruptured the tank. I don’t think the pax knew how lucky they were that this happened whilst taxiing to the runway and not at ‘Rotate’. This came so very close to being a Paris accident, particularly as it was about to go out over London. What is really annoying is the fact that wing tanks had been ruptured 6 times before the Paris crash, and that was therefore wholly preventable. Someone individually and/or corporate should have been prosecuted for negligence. Once I had completed the Concorde search and repatriated the pax with their belongings, I spent 3 hours in the BA Tel Aviv lounge searching pax and bags whilst reeking of aviation fuel until 23:30 hours. Fond memories!
What an amazing story thanks for sharing it
I flew with David Gladwin Concorde in 1993 anyway I can trace which Concorde I was on? I took photos but none with the registration visable! It was Heathrow to Birmingham September 26th 1993 …
Regards …
Hi Chris, it may be worth contacting Heathrow/Birmingham Airport as they are almost certainly going to have that information logged somewhere.
Christopher donald says:
Look at concorde park up it look stunning would be loveley to see it fly agian
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Three Dusty Beauties
19 Dicembre 2003: Not so long ago, the real nature of the "spiral nebulae", spiral-shaped objects observed in the sky through telescopes, was still unknown. This long-standing issue was finally settled in 1924 when the famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble provided conclusive evidence that they are located outside our own galaxy and are in fact "island universes" of their own. Nowadays, we know that the Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies in the Universe. They come in vastly different shapes - spiral, elliptical, irregular - and many of them are simply beautiful, especially the spiral ones. Astronomers Mark Neeser from the Universitäts-Sternwarte München (Germany) and Peter Barthel from the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen (The Netherlands) were clearly not insensitive to this when they obtained images of three beautiful spiral galaxies with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). They did this in twilight during the early morning when they had to stop their normal observing programme, searching for very distant and faint quasars.
OECD Global Science Forum's Astronomy Workshop to take place in Munich
27 Novembre 2003: On December 1 to 3, the city of Munich (Bavaria, Germany) will be the venue for a "Workshop on Large Scale Programmes and Projects in Astronomy and Astrophysics" organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Global Science Forum in co-operation with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The Workshop will be chaired by Ian Corbett (ESO).
Biggest Star in Our Galaxy Sits within a Rugby-Ball Shaped Cocoon
18 Novembre 2003: Ever since 1841, when the until then inconspicuous southern star Eta Carinae underwent a spectacular outburst, astronomers have wondered what exactly is going on in this unstable giant star. However, due to its considerable distance - 7,500 light-years - details of the star itself were beyond observation. This star is known to be surrounded by the Homunculus Nebula , two mushroom-shaped clouds ejected by the star, each of which is hundreds of times larger than our solar system. Now, for the first time, infrared interferometry with the VINCI instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) enabled an international team of astronomers [1] to zoom-in on the inner part of its stellar wind. For Roy van Boekel , leader of the team, these results indicate that " the wind of Eta Carinae turns out to be extremely elongated and the star itself is highly unstable because of its fast rotation."
Observing a Burst with Sunglasses
12 Novembre 2003: New observations of a Gamma-Ray Burst in polarised light, performed with the FORS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, reveal for the first time a significant variation in time of the polarisation properties. This behaviour is unpredicted by major existing thoeries.
Astronomers Break Ground on Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
06 Novembre 2003: Scientists and dignitaries from Europe, North America and Chile are breaking ground today (Thursday, November 6, 2003) on what will be the world's largest, most sensitive radio telescope operating at millimeter wavelengths. ALMA - the "Atacama Large Millimeter Array" - will be a single instrument composed of 64 high-precision antennas located in the II Region of Chile, in the District of San Pedro de Atacama, at the Chajnantor altiplano, 5,000 metres above sea level. ALMA 's primary function will be to observe and image with unprecedented clarity the enigmatic cold regions of the Universe, which are optically dark, yet shine brightly in the millimetre portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"Physics and Life" - Teachers Meet Scientists at Major EIROforum Event
05 Novembre 2003: More than 400 selected delegates from 22 European countries will take part in "Physics on Stage 3" , organised by the EIROforum [1] research organisations (CERN, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ILL) at the ESA ESTEC site (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). It is the culmination of a year-long educational programme and is a central event during the EC-sponsored European Science and Technology Week (November 8-15, 2003).
Roses in the Southern Sky
03 Novembre 2003: The two best known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, are located in the southern sky at a distance of about 170,000 light-years. They host many giant nebular complexes with very hot and luminous stars whose intense ultraviolet radiation causes the surrounding interstellar gas to glow.
South America Delegation of the European Parliament Visits ESO's Paranal Observatory
30 Ottobre 2003: Chaired by Dr. Rolf Linkohr , Members of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Countries of South America and MERCOSUR visited ESO's Paranal Observatory on October 29-30, 2003.
Messages from the Abyss
29 Ottobre 2003: An international team of astronomers led by researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching (Germany) [2] has discovered powerful infrared flares from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. The signals, rapidly flickering on a scale of minutes, must come from hot gas falling into the black hole, just before it disappears below the "event horizon" of the monster. The new observations strongly suggest that the Galactic Centre black hole rotates rapidly. Never before have scientists been able to study phenomena in the immediate neighbourhood of a black hole in such a detail. The new result is based on observations obtained with the NACO Adaptive Optics instrument on the 8.2-m VLT YEPUN telescope and is published in this week's edition of the research journal Nature.
Optical Detection of Anomalous Nitrogen in Comets
12 Settembre 2003: A team of European astronomers [1] has used the UVES spectrograph on the 8.2-m VLT KUEYEN telescope to perform a uniquely detailed study of Comet LINEAR (C/2000 WM1) . This is the first time that this powerful instrument has been employed to obtain high-resolution spectra of a comet. At the time of the observations in mid-March 2002, Comet LINEAR was about 180 million km from the Sun, moving outwards after its perihelion passage in January. As comets are believed to carry "pristine" material - left-overs from the formation of the solar system, about 4,600 million years ago - studies of these objects are important to obtain clues about the origins of the solar system and the Earth in particular. The high quality of the data obtained of this moving 9th-magnitude object has permitted a determination of the cometary abundance of various elements and their isotopes [2]. Of particular interest is the unambiguous detection and measurement of the nitrogen-15 isotope. The only other comet in which this isotope has been observed is famous Comet Hale-Bopp - this was during the passage in 1997, when it was much brighter than Comet LINEAR. Most interestingly, Comet LINEAR and Comet Hale-Bopp display the same isotopic abundance ratio, about 1 nitrogen-15 atom for each 140 nitrogen-14 atoms ( 14 N/ 15 N = 140 ± 30) . That is about half of the terrestrial value (272). It is also very different from the result obtained by means of radio measurements of Comet Hale-Bopp ( 14 N/ 15 N = 330 ± 75). Optical and radio measurements concern different molecules (CN and HCN, respectively), and this isotopic anomaly must be explained by some differentiation mechanism. The astronomers conclude that part of the cometary nitrogen is trapped in macromolecules attached to dust particles.
New Image of Comet Halley in the Cold
01 Settembre 2003: Seventeen years after the last passage of Comet Halley, the ESO Very Large Telescope at Paranal (Chile) has captured a unique image of this famous object as it cruises through the outer solar system. It is completely inactive in this cold environment. No other comet has ever been observed this far - 4200 million km from the Sun - or that faint - nearly 1000 million times fainter than what can be perceived with the unaided eye. This observation is a byproduct of a dedicated search [1] for small Trans-Neptunian Objects, a population of icy bodies of which more than 600 have been found during the past decade.
Infrared Halo Frames a Newborn Star
28 Agosto 2003: Observations with the VLT of a star-forming cloud have revealed, for the first time, a ring of infrared light around a nascent star. The images also show the presence of jets that emanate from the young object and collide with the surrounding cloud.
New Insight into the Cosmic Renaissance Epoch
21 Agosto 2003: Using the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) , two astronomers from Germany and the UK [2] have discovered some of the most distant galaxies ever seen. They are located about 12,600 million light-years away. It has taken the light now recorded by the VLT about nine-tenths of the age of the Universe to traverse this huge distance. We therefore observe those galaxies as they were at a time when the Universe was very young, less than about 10% of its present age . At this time, the Universe was emerging from a long period known as the "Dark Ages," entering the luminous "Cosmic Renaissance" epoch. Unlike previous studies which resulted in the discovery of a few, widely dispersed galaxies at this early epoch, the present study found at least six remote citizens within a small sky area, less than five per cent the size of the full moon! This allowed understanding the evolution of these galaxies and how they affect the state of the Universe in its youth. In particular, the astronomers conclude on the basis of their unique data that there were considerably fewer luminous galaxies in the Universe at this early stage than 500 million years later. There must therefore be many less luminous galaxies in the region of space that they studied, too faint to be detected in this study. It must be those still unidentified galaxies that emit the majority of the energetic photons needed to ionise the hydrogen in the Universe at that particularly epoch.
The VLT Measures the Shape of a Type Ia Supernova
06 Agosto 2003: An international team of astronomers [2] has performed new and very detailed observations of a supernova in a distant galaxy with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory (Chile). They show for the first time that a particular type of supernova, caused by the explosion of a "white dwarf", a dense star with a mass around that of the Sun, is asymmetric during the initial phases of expansion. The significance of this observation is much larger than may seem at a first glance . This particular kind of supernova, designated "Type Ia", plays a very important role in the current attempts to map the Universe. It has for long been assumed that Type Ia supernovae all have the same intrinsic brightness , earning them a nickname as "standard candles." If so, differences in the observed brightness between individual supernovae of this type simply reflect their different distances. This, and the fact that the peak brightness of these supernovae rivals that of their parent galaxy, has allowed to measure distances of even very remote galaxies . Some apparent discrepancies that were recently found have led to the discovery of cosmic acceleration. However, this first clearcut observation of explosion asymmetry in a Type Ia supernova means that the exact brightness of such an object will depend on the angle from which it is seen. Since this angle is unknown for any particular supernova, this obviously introduces an amount of uncertainty into this kind of basic distance measurements in the Universe which must be taken into account in the future. Fortunately, the VLT data also show that if you wait a little - which in observational terms makes it possible to look deeper into the expanding fireball - then it becomes more spherical. Distance determinations of supernovae that are performed at this later stage will therefore be more accurate.
Philippe Busquin Visits Paranal
30 Luglio 2003: The European Commissioner for Research, Mr. Philippe Busquin, who is currently visiting the Republic of Chile, arrived at the ESO Paranal Observatory on Tuesday afternoon, July 29, 2003. The Commissioner was accompanied, among others, by the EU Ambassador to Chile, Mr. Wolfgang Plasa, and Ms. Christina Lazo, Executive Director of the Chilean Science and Technology Agency (CONICYT).
Catherine Cesarsky
24 Luglio 2003: The General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), meeting in Sydney (Australia), has appointed the ESO Director General, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, as President Elect for a three-year period (2003-2006). The IAU is the world's foremost organisation for astronomy, uniting almost 9000 professional scientists on all continents. The IAU General Assembly also elected Prof. Ron Ekers (Australia) as President (2003 - 2006). Dr. Cesarsky will then become President of the IAU in 2006, when the General Assembly next meets in Prague (The Czech Republic). Dr. Cesarsky is the first woman scientist to receive this high distinction.
Revealing the Beast Within
22 Luglio 2003: Peering into a giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy - known as W49 - astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a whole new population of very massive newborn stars . This research is being presented today at the International Astronomical Union's 25th General Assembly held in Sydney, Australia, by ESO-scientist João Alves. With the help of infrared images obtained during a period of excellent observing conditions with the ESO 3.5-m New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory (Chile), the astronomers looked deep into this molecular cloud and discovered four massive stellar clusters, with hot and energetic stars as massive as 120 solar masses. The exceedingly strong radiation from the stars in the largest of these clusters is "powering" a 20 light-year diameter region of mostly ionized hydrogen gas (a "giant HII region"). W49 is one of the most energetic regions of star formation in the Milky Way. With the present discovery, the true sources of the enormous energy have now been revealed for the first time, finally bringing to an end some decades of astronomical speculations and hypotheses.
Nearest Cosmic Mirage
16 Luglio 2003: Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope at La Silla (Chile), an international team of astronomers [1] has discovered a complex cosmic mirage in the southern constellation Crater (The Cup). This "gravitational lens" system consists of (at least) four images of the same quasar as well as a ring-shaped image of the galaxy in which the quasar resides - known as an "Einstein ring." The more nearby lensing galaxy that causes this intriguing optical illusion is also well visible. The team obtained spectra of these objects with the new EMMI camera mounted on the ESO 3.5-m New Technology Telescope (NTT), also at the La Silla observatory. They find that the lensed quasar [2] is located at a distance of 6,300 million light-years (its "redshift" is z = 0.66 [3]) while the lensing elliptical galaxy is rougly halfway between the quasar and us, at a distance of 3,500 million light-years (z = 0.3). The system has been designated RXS J1131-1231 - it is the closest gravitationally lensed quasar discovered so far.
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Grier, Crawford help No. 23 Mountaineers beat K-State 28-23
West Virginia wins in unusual fashion (2:06)
Mike Golic Jr. and Anish Shroff talk about how West Virginia keeps their Big 12 title hopes alive with 28-23 win over Kansas State. (2:06)
MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Will Grier scrambled to his right and then retreated to his left, time ticking off the clock in the first half and No. 23 West Virginia seemingly content to take a one-point lead over Kansas State into halftime.
Then Grier unloaded a pass toward the end zone.
Ka'Raun White never had to move to haul in his second touchdown reception.
The half-ending score, after a crippling interception thrown by Skylar Thompson, gave the Mountaineers a lift going into the break. And their defense did the rest in the second half, holding on to escape with a 28-23 victory and their Big 12 title hopes intact.
"It was a weird game," Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said. "I don't quite know how we won it other than our defense playing their tail off. The offense was hot and cold. But we made some big plays."
Few bigger than that 30-yard TD pass for a 28-20 halftime lead.
Grier finished with 372 yards and four touchdowns passing for the Mountaineers (7-3, 5-2), while White had eight catches for 168 yards. David Sills V had the other two TD receptions, one a tip-toe job in the corner of the end zone, and Justin Crawford added 113 yards on the ground.
"It was a big game," Mountaineers linebacker David Long said, "and they were going to make plays."
Indeed, the Wildcats closed to 28-23 on Matt McCrane's field goal early in the fourth quarter, but an offense down to its third-string QB in Thompson couldn't get all the way back.
Thompson threw for 159 yards with two interceptions in his first career start for the Wildcats (5-5, 3-4), who still need a win to become bowl-eligible for the eighth consecutive year. Dalvin Warmack added 96 yards rushing and bruising fullback Winston Dimel reached the end zone twice.
"It was in our hands," Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said. "It was ours to win or lose."
The nip-and-tuck game was indicative of the series: The last three meetings had been decided by eight points total, including the Mountaineers' 17-16 comeback win in Morgantown last year.
They tried to fumble this one away early, coughing it up twice in the damp, cold weather. Grier also threw a pair of first-half interceptions, one of which was returned inside their 5.
But Kansas State kept stumbling while trying to take advantage of the mistakes.
The Wildcats had to settle for a pair of early field goals, which West Virginia wiped out with a 75-yard touchdown pass from Grier to White, and Sills added his two TD catches to extend the lead.
Still, Kansas State got within 21-20 and had the ball in the closing seconds of the first half when Thompson was picked off on a poorly designed screen play. West Virginia had time for one play, and Grier scrambled long enough to find White in the end zone.
"Will is very good at extending plays," Sills said. "He always keeps his eyes downfield. He can run, but when he scrambles he is looking to throw downfield. It resulted in a lot of big plays."
The Wildcats' defense stiffened in the second half, but their offense still couldn't do much. McCrane missed a 32-yard field goal -- Snyder argued in vain that it went through the uprights -- before hitting from 29 yards to make it 28-23 with 12:44 to go.
Kansas State was trying to take the lead when Thompson was picked off by Kenny Robinson deep in West Virginia territory. And even though the Wildcats' defense forced a quick punt, the turnover flipped the field with about 6 minutes remaining, emboldening the Mountaineers' defense.
They forced a punt of their own, and Grier converted on fourth down with 2:29 left, allowing West Virginia to run out the clock at the Kansas State goal line.
"This one will hurt us for a while," said McCrane, who broke Martin Gramatica's school record of 54 career field goals. "We know we need to get some wins."
West Virginia overcame four turnovers and some uncharacteristic dropped passes. Gary Jennings was a big part of the success, catching 13 passes for 115 yards as the Wildcats bottled up the run early and tried to take White and Sills away in the passing game.
Kansas State's defense, which had surrendered at least 400 yards passing in three straight games, was good enough to keep it close. But the offense struggled behind an inexperienced quarterback who made several poor decisions and often held onto the ball too long.
West Virginia heads home to face Texas on Saturday before a trip to No. 5 Oklahoma.
Kansas State plays its road finale against No. 12 Oklahoma State on Saturday.
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Ex-Wazzu QB, No. 2 pick Leaf hired by ESPN
Ryan Leaf has been hired by ESPN to be a college football analyst, another step in the remarkable comeback of the former Washington State star and No. 2 overall draft pick who has battled drug addiction and served time in prison.
EWU players Hayes, Moore injured in shooting
Eastern Washington football players Dehonta Hayes and Keith Moore reportedly were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in Spokane early Saturday morning, police said.
The petty, wonderful and delightfully weird rise of Horns Down
The anti-Texas sign that unites the Big 12 and rivals beyond has been around for more than 60 years but really took on a life of its own over the past 12 months.
ACC adds Holiday, Boston; guaranteed 10 bowls
The ACC, as part of a new six-year deal beginning in 2020, will add the Holiday Bowl and a new bowl game in Boston to its postseason tie-ins, guaranteeing the league 10 bowl spots through 2025.
Ex-Baylor player's conviction again overturned
Former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu again had his sexual assault conviction overturned, this time by the 10th Court of Appeals.
How a small Texas town has reacted to the hiring of Art Briles
Residents of Mount Vernon (population 2,650) have largely shrugged off the national controversy following the town's hire of the disgraced former Baylor coach to lead its football program. But vocal critics remain.
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Oklahoma 8-1 12-2
Texas 7-2 10-4
Iowa State 6-3 8-5
West Virginia 6-3 8-4
TCU 4-5 7-6
Baylor 4-5 7-6
Kansas State 3-6 5-7
Texas Tech 3-6 5-7
Oklahoma State 3-6 7-6
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Regional Recap, October 21, 2011
EOA Staff | October 21, 2011, 09:05 AM | 0 Comments
Ellicott City Teen Charged In ‘Jihad Jane’ Terror Plot. A Maryland woman has been indicted on federal terrorism charges that accuse him of helping the American terror suspect dubbed “Jihad Jane” with her plot to kill a Swedish artist. Mohammad Hassan Khalid, a legal immigrant from Pakistan who turned 18 this month, allegedly helped recruit women with passports to further the plot of Colleen LaRose of Pennsylvania and others. The indictment released Thursday also names Ali Charaf Damache, 46, an Algerian who lived in Ireland and married another suspect in the case, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado. Paulin-Ramirez pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists, the same charge now facing Khalid. Khalid had been the rare juvenile in federal custody since his July 6 arrest at his family’s Ellicott City home.
Howard County Giving Up Soda. Health officials in Howard County want you to give up soda for at least a month — for fun.WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Rob Roblin said health officials are promoting the “Soda-Free 30” pledge as “a fun, first step for people to live a healthier lifestyle.” The campaign encourages all county residents to go without soda for the next month. Health officials hope to raise awareness of obesity and related chronic diseases and health problems affecting children and adults.
Maryland Seeks School Superintendent Suggestions Online. Maryland education leaders have turned to the Internet to find a new state school superintendent.Almost three months ago, Nancy Grasmick announced her retirement as state superintendent, closing a tenure as the longest-serving state school superintendent in Maryland and the nation. Former Queen Anne’s County superintendent Bernard Sadusky is serving as interim superintendent until a national search for Grasmick’s replacement is completed.
Maryland In Running For $50M Of Federal Funds. Maryland education leaders hope to cash in on some $50 million to help improve early childhood education.Maryland is among more than 30 states applying for funding from the U.S. Department of Education, and it comes down to who can make the best pitch.Maryland already has a track record as one of only a handful of states to bring home $250 million in Race to the Top funds. For years, Maryland has connected middle and high school student success to early childhood education, in which students learn the basics even before they start school.
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