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wizkid accussed of scamming UK Show Agency. Here is what the Managers have to say.
By Linjust On May 31, 2016
Humble Entertainment, a show promoting agency in London, UK, has criticised Nigerian pop singer, Wizkid, for failing to perform at their concert after he has been booked for the event.
The agency, who are the organisers of Safari Night gigs, released a statement online, apologising to fans for Wizkid’s failure to perform at the concert.
The statement released on May 26th, 2016, reads, “HumbeEnts first and foremost would like to express our sincere apologies for any inconvenience and disappointment caused by Wizkid being unable to attend our event. We worked tirelessly to rectify this issue but unfortunately it was beyond our control. Despite going through all the necessary procedure to book Wizkid, which included signing a contract and paying the required fee, we have been let down by the booking/management parties.”
Sunday Are, the owner of List Entertainment, which represents Wizkid in Nigeria has however denied any knowledge of the cancelled performance.
Are made this known on his posts on Twitter, where he reacted to the accusation made by Humble Entertainment.
He wrote, “please always get your facts right. I don’t know about this. Nobody discussed this with me”.
Sunday Are @sundayaree
@Lilkankz please always get your facts right. I don’t know about this. Nobody discussed this with mehttps://twitter.com/Lilkankz/status/735618201858527232 …
3:44 PM – 30 May 2016
Ok thank you. Just to clear myself once again. I don’t anything about that booking.https://twitter.com/Lilkankz/status/737293882019483649 …
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Wizkid is already fixed to join American singer, Chris Brown, as a special guest on his “One Hell of a Nite” tour in Denmark, Germany and Holland.
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MERCY JOHNSON LOOKING GORGEOUS IN NEW FAMILY PHOTOS. DEDICATES THIRD BABY
Skales Manage accused of stealing 13.3M Naira. Now in Police custody
Hmm that’s really bad and disappointing…
A breach of contracts usually go with backlash.
Mr Talkless
What a disappointment
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Mountsorrel
Bomb scare at Mountsorrel
At 11.55am Leicestershire County Council stated Mountsorrel Recycling and Household Waste Site, of Granite Way, had temporarily closed.
Megan Cox
Liam Coleman
A BOMB disposal squad has been called to a site in Mountsorrel after a suspect item was discovered.
The Echo contacted Leicestershire Police and was told the EOD (the Government’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit) had been contacted.
Pictured is the Mountsorrel Recycling and Household Waste Site. Image courtesy of Google Maps.
A spokesperson said: “We received a report of what someone perceived to be a ‘shell’ at 11.26am.
“We have contacted the EOD. The tip currently remains closed.”
Woodhouse Eaves resident Andrew Lamb has told the Echo of how he arrived at the site to dispose of some garden waste but was turned away by staff at the gate.
Pictured is an officer outside of the site on Granite Way. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lamb.
He said: “I just wanted to drop some stuff off but I got there and it was closed.
“It looked like everyone had been evacuated and then, when I was waiting around, I heard someone who looked like a manager on the phone and he said the words “bomb squad”, so I just didn't have a clue what was going on.
“A policeman has been dropped off at the gate now and a closed sign has been put at the end of Granite Way.”
A closed sign outside of the site. Photo courtesy of Andrew Lamb.
Phil Crossland, director of environment and transport for Leicestershire County Council, said: “Mountsorrel recycling centre is currently closed until further notice after police received a report of a possible shell.
“Apologies if this has caused any inconvenience. In the meantime, residents wishing to get rid of their waste can do so by visiting the Shepshed Recycling Centre or any other site within the county.”
More information waste sites across the county can be found here.
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SportHorsham District League
sport, horsham-district-league, harrow balmoral, kalkee, horsham district league
A DOMINANT fourth quarter performance has ensured Harrow-Balmoral will feature in its third consecutive Horsham District league grand final. With on and off rain during Saturday’s game at Natimuk, the first quarter was a scrappy one as neither side was able to settle on the football. Harrow-Balmoral found its feet in the closing stages of the first term, scoring four goals in a row while keeping the Kees goalless. The Southern Roos were dealt a blow, with key forward Simon Close suffering what looked to be a knee injury in the first term. He sat out the rest of the game. With a slight breeze, all the goals in the first half were scored down the one end, as Kalkee scored three goals in the second term to get back into the game. Kalkee found a way to score against the breeze in the third term but again Harrow-Balmoral scored late and held a 20-point lead heading into the final term. Kicking towards the scoring end in the last term, Kalkee would have felt the 20-point lead to be within reach, but Harrow-Balmoral was rampant. Southern Roo tall forward James Staude was unplayable in the final term, taking contested marks and kicking a couple of big goals. Harrow-Balmoral kicked five goals in the space of roughly 10 minutes to book itself a spot in the grand final in two weeks. Kalkee could only manage one behind in a disappointing last term, with Harrow-Balmoral kicking 6.3. RELATED: Re-live the game through our rolling coverage of the senior football game The final scoreline was 15.11 (101) to 6.7 (43). Southern Roos coach Nick Pekin said his side showed a lot of character to grind out the win and bury the Kees in the final term. The side did it without Simon Close, while Pekin was far from his best. “The way the boys finished was really character building; it gives us huge belief that we can run out games,” Pekin said. “I thought we were fairly average in the first half. The conditions weren’t great but they just came out and wanted it more.” Pekin praised the efforts of James Staude, who was named best on ground with a game-high six majors. “I thought that was Jimmy’s best game for the year, personally, I reckon he might have had two opponents at some stages,” he said. Pekin said he was unsure at this stage what Simon Close had done to his leg. “We will know the extent of his injury moving forward and we will adjust our game plan to suit, but we have young Hamish McCrae who can fill a spot there and other blokes too who are pretty versatile,” he said. After losing two consecutive grand finals, Pekin said the players who had featured in those games would set the tone across the following two weeks. “My assistant Hamish Ellis has lost five grand finals, and he doesn’t want to lose another one. You need to have those guys to help blood the juniors going into their first grand final,” he said. Kalkee co-coach Stuart Farr said his side dropped off in crucial moments throughout the game. “They scored most of their goals in the last five minutes of the first and third quarters,” he said. “We were back to within a few points and then they kicked some late goals in the third term, and that was costly. We started to zone off and guessed where the ball was.” Farr said there were still some positives to take away. “We have earned the double chance and we will take it and use it and go back on the track this week,” he said. “We played three really good quarters and one really disappointing one. We will reload and hopefully get another crack at them.”
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September 1 2018 - 6:00PM
Harrow-Balmoral defeats Kalkee | Horsham District league
Sean Wales
BIG WIN: Harrow-Balmoral's Peter Staude moves the ball forward against Kalkee. Picture: SEAN WALES
A DOMINANT fourth quarter performance has ensured Harrow-Balmoral will feature in its third consecutive Horsham District league grand final.
With on and off rain during Saturday’s game at Natimuk, the first quarter was a scrappy one as neither side was able to settle on the football.
Harrow-Balmoral found its feet in the closing stages of the first term, scoring four goals in a row while keeping the Kees goalless.
The Southern Roos were dealt a blow, with key forward Simon Close suffering what looked to be a knee injury in the first term. He sat out the rest of the game.
With a slight breeze, all the goals in the first half were scored down the one end, as Kalkee scored three goals in the second term to get back into the game.
Kalkee found a way to score against the breeze in the third term but again Harrow-Balmoral scored late and held a 20-point lead heading into the final term.
Kicking towards the scoring end in the last term, Kalkee would have felt the 20-point lead to be within reach, but Harrow-Balmoral was rampant.
Southern Roo tall forward James Staude was unplayable in the final term, taking contested marks and kicking a couple of big goals.
Harrow-Balmoral kicked five goals in the space of roughly 10 minutes to book itself a spot in the grand final in two weeks. Kalkee could only manage one behind in a disappointing last term, with Harrow-Balmoral kicking 6.3.
RELATED: Re-live the game through our rolling coverage of the senior football game
The final scoreline was 15.11 (101) to 6.7 (43).
Southern Roos coach Nick Pekin said his side showed a lot of character to grind out the win and bury the Kees in the final term. The side did it without Simon Close, while Pekin was far from his best.
“The way the boys finished was really character building; it gives us huge belief that we can run out games,” Pekin said.
“I thought we were fairly average in the first half. The conditions weren’t great but they just came out and wanted it more.”
Pekin praised the efforts of James Staude, who was named best on ground with a game-high six majors.
Stuart Farr addresses the lads @AFL_WMpic.twitter.com/hguafdCuzA
— Sean Wales (@seanwales01) September 1, 2018
“I thought that was Jimmy’s best game for the year, personally, I reckon he might have had two opponents at some stages,” he said.
Pekin said he was unsure at this stage what Simon Close had done to his leg.
“We will know the extent of his injury moving forward and we will adjust our game plan to suit, but we have young Hamish McCrae who can fill a spot there and other blokes too who are pretty versatile,” he said.
After losing two consecutive grand finals, Pekin said the players who had featured in those games would set the tone across the following two weeks.
“My assistant Hamish Ellis has lost five grand finals, and he doesn’t want to lose another one. You need to have those guys to help blood the juniors going into their first grand final,” he said.
Kalkee co-coach Stuart Farr said his side dropped off in crucial moments throughout the game.
“They scored most of their goals in the last five minutes of the first and third quarters,” he said.
“We were back to within a few points and then they kicked some late goals in the third term, and that was costly. We started to zone off and guessed where the ball was.”
Southern Roos getting fired up @AFL_WMpic.twitter.com/uHcyzkr4RK
Farr said there were still some positives to take away.
“We have earned the double chance and we will take it and use it and go back on the track this week,” he said.
“We played three really good quarters and one really disappointing one. We will reload and hopefully get another crack at them.”
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Harbour Space
Master of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management
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A Harbour.Space is a unique blend of academics program, a start-up accelerator, venture builder, and real-world experience designed to prepare students to become the next generation of successful high tech entrepreneurs.
The Master of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management program methodology combines the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley, with the processes developed by leading technology entrepreneurs and accelerators, such as Y Combinator and company builders such as Rocket Internet to quickly start and accelerate technology companies. To gain practical experience alongside the theory, students form teams and work on real-world startup companies within those teams. Students should be prepared to work in a highly competitive environment that will challenge their skills and perseverance every day. Teams will be matched with mentors, and the best teams will be selected to pitch their ideas to investors.
This intensive programme is designed for graduate students interested in starting and sustaining a technology business. The programme combines real-world experiences with courses on the fundamentals of finance, people management and creative thinking within entrepreneurial environments.
Startup Team Project Management
Digital Marketing Concepts 1.0
The opportunity called FinTech/InsurTech
Corporate Communications, PR & Storytelling
Limitless Human Becoming
Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs
Data-Driven & Email Marketing
Building perfect-SEO digital platforms
Digital Analytics using the Google Marketing Platform
Digital Marketing Masterclass
The Opportunity Called FinTech / InsurTech 2.0
Building Scalable Organization
Startup Storytelling, Public speaking skills & negotiation masterclass
Demo Day Bootcamp
PROGRAMME LEADERSHIP
Kamran Elahian
Chairman of BIT-AMENA Center at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business/ Global Innovation Advisor at 500 Startups
Kamran Elahian, a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, and a "Global Instigator for Good" will take you on a journey as he shares his successes and failures, “celebrating the art of failure” and studying in-depth the critical elements of iTechpreneurship™, investment in high-tech, and the effects of positive change that shape society’s future.
Experienced and reputable entrepreneur Kamran Elahian is currently chair and co-founder of Global Catalyst Partners (GCP), an international technology-oriented venture capital firm. He is co-chair of UNGAID, The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) - a United Nations global forum that comprehensively addresses cross-cutting issues related to ICT in development.
He founded Schools- Online in 1996 (now part of humanitarian charity Relief International) a charity that works to bring the Internet to underprivileged schools in over 36 countries. In almost 3 decades as a high-tech entrepreneur, Kamran has co-founded 10 companies: CAE Systems (acquired by Tektronix for $75M) Cirrus Logic (IPO at $150M) Momenta, NeoMagic (IPO at $300M) PlanetWeb (acquired by MTI in 2009) Centillium Communications (IPO at $700M) Actelis Networks (a broadband communications systems company) Informative, Entopia, Greenfield Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2006).
Kamran is also a board member of Actelis Networks, Beceem Communications, iKoa and SoundHound. Kamran has an educational background in science, having first achieved his BSc Computer Science and Mathematics and then an MSc in Computer Graphics from the University of Utah. In 2013, Kamran was a mentor for Unreasonable at Sea, a tech accelerator for social entrepreneurs founded by Unreasonable Group, Semester at Sea, and Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
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Home > Arizona > Penrose Academy
Penrose Academy
13402 North Scottsdale Road; Suite B160, Scottsdale, AZ
Penrose Academy offers a career oriented education in the beauty industry. The school is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is in a predominantly metropolitan area. Penrose Academy is accredited by the Council on Occupational Education, and has done so for the last three years. The main program offered by this school is in cosmetology, which prepares individuals with the skills and abilities necessary to obtain licensure and seek out gainful employment after graduation. In addition to cosmetology, this school also offers a cosmetology instructor training program for students who want to become educators and an esthetics program, for individuals who wish to specialize in skin care.
Penrose Academy provides student services such as cosmetology career guidance to help students and job placement options for graduates looking for work. Students are advised to look up state licensing requirements to determine whether programs meet current standards. For additional information regarding consumer disclosures, interested individuals may visit the school's website.
The list below shows all the programs that may be offered at Penrose Academy. Actual programs may differ from the list below, to get an official list of programs offered please visit the school's website or by phone at (480) 222-9540.
Cosmetology (1,600 Hours)
Cosmetology program takes usually twelve months to complete. Students who complete this program may be eligible to pursue licensing.
Tuition costs are estimated to be $18,000*
Cost of required supplies: $4,800*
76 students completed the cosmetology program last year
Takes about 12 months to complete
Get more information about cosmetology and browse other schools listed by visiting our cosmetology schools profile page.
The esthetician programs listed below are broken down by the number of contact hours offered.
600 Contact Hours
Estimated tuition and fees: $12,000 per year*
Takes about 6 months to complete
Estimated tuition and fees: $8,000 per year*
Cost of required supplies: $500*
Takes about 1 month to complete
Cosmetology, Barber and Nail Instructor (500 Hours)
Cosmetology, barber and nail instructor program takes usually five months to complete. Students who complete this program may be eligible to pursue licensing.
Tuition costs are estimated to be $5,000*
The estimated cost of supplies that may be required is $300*
The length of the cosmetology, barber and nail instructor program is usually 5 months
*Amounts for tuition, fees, and supplies are an estimate which are calculated based on historical data and should be solely used for informational purposes only.
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Note: Financial aid is only available for those who qualify, check with the school for details.
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Other Cosmetology Schools Nearby
The list of nearby cosmetology schools below offer beauty and cosmetology programs similar to Penrose Academy. Click the links below to get a detailed profile for each school.
Empire Beauty School - Avondale in Avondale, AZ (6 miles away)
Avalon School of Cosmetology - Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ (8 miles away)
Empire Beauty School - NW Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ (12 miles away)
Paul Mitchell the School - Phoenix in Phoenix, AZ (13 miles away)
Carsten Aveda Institute of Arizona in Tempe, AZ (15 miles away)
Regency Beauty Institute - Mesa in Mesa, AZ (15 miles away)
Avalon School of Cosmetology - Mesa in Mesa, AZ (16 miles away)
International Academy of Hair Design in Tempe, AZ (18 miles away)
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Du Iz Tak? by Carson Ellis: Satie and Time
July 9, 2019 Matthew Roy
I’m starting a new series of posts dedicated to exploring references to and uses of music within children’s literature, specifically picture books. Music functions richly within the intermedial dynamics of picture books, which Perry Nodelman describes as an art form demanding constant alteration between two modes of communication—visual and textual— and “as a result of these unusual features, [they] have unique rhythms, unique conventions of shape and structure, a unique body of narrative techniques” (Nodelman, 1988, viii). Adding music to this unique textual and visual genre provides yet another mode of communication, which both compliments and complicates an already wonderful genre. Let us begin!
Du Is Tak?
by Carson Ellis
Candlewick Press (2016)
Picture: This is a visually gorgeous picture book. Ellis frames up an insect-sized scene of an old log, and lingers there for the entirety of the book while seasons shift, adventures ensue, life is lived. The passage and cyclicality of time are of foremost importance: a single green plant provides the dapperly dressed invertebrate characters with many opportunities to experience the gamut of life’s emotions (puzzlement, excitement, leisure, horror, joy, letting go); a flamboyant caterpillar disappears into a cocoon in the first pages, metamorphosing near the end, and is followed by a second caterpillar at the close; and shifting seasons bring about changes to the foliage and landscape, most dramatically in the cleansing blankness of a winter’s snow.
Text: Ellis pairs these pictures with a delightfully innovative conlang (constructed language) of her own devising. (It appears to be nominally Germanic in syntax and phonology.) Readers are invited to speak “nonsense words” that are given meaning by the pictures. This technique highlights the nonverbal (shall I say “musical”?) power of communication through such things as gesture, intonation, addressee, and context.
Music: The bulk of the action happens in scenes of daylight. Yet three panels present us with a nocturnal version of the world: muted and dark colors, a starry night sky, and an absence of all characters apart from a single grasshopper perched upon a branch of the log directly over the caterpillar’s cocoon. In his [four] arms he holds a violin, which he plays introspectively, head bowed, eyes closed. Ellis employs a common technique: a string of musical notes emanates from the instrument and into the air. Remarkably, the notation symbols are not random (most examples are!). In the first two night scenes Ellis uses an eight-note rhythmic pattern made up of grace notes, eighth notes, quarter notes, and half notes that then repeats. Additionally, she provides a general melodic contour that gives enough information to show us that the notes are a quotation of a real piece of music: Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie.
The second night scene with grasshopper and Gnossienne No. 1.
Erik Satie (1866–1925) was a French composer who was influential for his avant-garde experiments that modernistically challenged musical tradition and expectations. (He wrote minimalist background music which he termed musique d’ameublement (“furniture music”), included cheeky/ironic/impossible/overly dramatic narrations (in-score texts) in his music, and took as his programmatic subjects such things as the social lives and adventures of sea cucumbers.) Satie constructed his own cryptic term “Gnossienne” in three (perhaps seven?) compositions that share several generic characteristics: slow tempos, no barlines (known as “free time”), unconventional forms/melodies/harmonies, and strange in-score texts.
In the first two night scenes, Ellis’ grasshopper plays the opening theme of Gnossienne No. 1. I find the music hovering, yet heavy, improvisatory, as though playing with and reacting to half-remembered fragments. Follow along to a recording with sheet music performed by Klara Kormendi.
The third night scene directly follows the second. In the face of the decaying flower, we witness the dramatic release of the transformed caterpillar, which bursts out of its cocoon as a dancing moth. Eyes closed, she is the introspective one now, absorbed in the soaring exuberance of her dance. The grasshopper is on his feet, leaning forward eagerly, eyes wide and fixed upon this wonderful sight. He continues to play, but his tune has changed to match the sweeping gestures of the moth: twenty-five eighth-notes concluded by a dotted quarter note.
The third night scene with grasshopper/moth and Gnossienne No. 3.
Again, Ellis quotes Satie, this time Gnossienne No. 3. The third theme (fragment?) of this piece builds up momentum in a cascading sort of way, and bears the mysterious in-score text “Munissez-vous de clairvoyance” (“Acquire clairvoyance”). The grasshopper seems to be in the process of “seeing clearly”, standing as it were upon the overlap between life and death, gazing at the resurrected Muse, reifying the power of the moment with music that is both free of time and full of repetition. Listen to the performance by Daniel Versano starting at 0:35.
Ellis masterfully communicates through the richness of the picture book genre. Her static frame allows us to notice fine details and dwell upon growth and decay, life and death. Her invented language prompts us to find significance within/beyond/despite words. Music is hidden in this picture book, frozen as a string of symbols leaping from a grasshopper’s violin, yet the quotations of Satie’s haunting compositions, once deciphered, invite us to imagine unheard melodies that bind together memories, emotions, and meanings in new ways. May we all have eyes to see clearly and the courage to play our song in all of life’s seasons.
In Music, Childhood, Books, Language Tags picture books, Carson Ellis, Erik Satie
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Bulman's Blog
America’s Cup enthusiasts could learn from powerboat racing
Ray Bulman
Boats built purely for speed aren't necessarily the answer for exciting yacht racing
TAGS: Racing
We’ve just had the most exciting America’s Cup for decades, no doubt due to the skill of British Olympic gold medal yachtsman Sir Ben Ainslie whose tactics turned the tables at the last minute in favour of his US employers.
The fact that Ainslie was significant in this extremely expensive contest gave the event a huge amount of publicity in the UK, far more than any previous America’s Cup contest since the famous races of the 1930s. It is this publicity and the eventual winner’s success against all odds which has got a lot of people thinking.
The yachts taking part were nothing like the type of craft that competed when the first race took place in 1851. Later challenges were competed aboard large monohulls before the rules were altered after WWII to allow smaller, less costly 12-metre class yachts.
This remained much the same until 2010 when the Cup was fought between large multihulls and it’s this which seems to have resulted in new thinking when it comes to high performance under sail.
It now appears that ultimate speed rather than seagoing prowess has become the attraction and if this is so then such enthusiasts only need to look at offshore powerboat racing to see where they could be making a huge mistake.
No one knows more than I about the early days of the racing powerboat catamaran. Many thought it was a touch of insanity on my part to be so enthusiastic about multihulls, but the Americans dominated offshore racing powerboat design in those days and we needed to break their position at the top.
US-designed and built monohulls won all major races and anyone wanting to chase the Class 1 (16 litre) world offshore championship title, then known as the Sam Griffith Trophy, was forced to purchase their monohulls, the Italians being one of the biggest customers.
Meanwhile, Italian Angelo Molinari had designed and built an inshore, circuit-racing catamaran in which his son, Renato, dominated the 1966 Paris 6 Hour race. From then on it was the racing catamaran that took over circuit sport but although several tried their hand with a seagoing version none had any luck until 1969 when James Beard and Clive Curtis came up with their first successful multihull (pictured), brushing aside all monohulled challengers.
Cougar dominated the market and slowly moved up the scale to Class 1 but others soon followed with boats built in timber, then aluminium and finally carbon-fibre reinforced plastic. But my early backing of racing multihulls backfired somewhat, as these new craft were incredibly expensive, in many cases costing over twice that of the equivalent monohull, making the sport even more exclusive.
As a result, offshore powerboat racing in the big league is now completely out of touch with regular boating and is the domain of the wealthy competitor and while this obviously applies to the current sailing world with its America’s Cup-type hydrofoil, the big difference are the sea conditions where they race.
Many yachtsmen must be eyeing the America’s Cup hydrofoil with a certain envy, and some may even find the money to mount a challenge. If so they could eventually face similar problems to their powerboating counterparts when it comes to the actual race itself.
Powercats can no longer be called offshore because when it comes to being seaworthy they are anything but. The powerboat racing cat beat all other craft almost overnight as regards speed and outright performance but only in moderate sea conditions.
When facing more lumpy weather they become overwhelmed, forcing a serious reduction in speed and leading to potential hull damage due to the stresses involved. With conditions anything bar flat calm race organisers are forced to arrange short inshore rough-weather courses or cancel events altogether.
This gives little opportunity for conventional monohulls to feature. It becomes the fastest boat that wins rather than the first boat to finish. Hence the sport has slowly declined to a level where today most so-called offshore championship heats are little more than short multi-lap affairs along the shoreline.
Such boring contests leave little room for media coverage and its loss has tended to accelerate the decline of the sport still further. As a result, some British powerboat racing clubs began outlawing what had initially been a British creation.
The 2008 Round Britain had no multihulls in the line-up while the world-renowned Cowes-Torquay-Cowes also banned catamarans three years ago and returned to a genuine offshore format.
The most exciting proposition in modern powerboat racing is the forthcoming Venture Cup, to be raced between London and Monte Carlo in June 2014, where organisers have again wisely decided to limit the event to monohulls.
There’s undoubtedly a renewed enthusiasm for genuine offshore racing because of this, and sailing enthusiasts should take heed.
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Chartering in the Seychelles
Motor Boat & Yachting and Hugo Andreae
Hugo Andreae discovers bath-warm seas, glorious weather and excellent fishing trips when he charters a Ferretti 690 Altura in the Seychelles
TAGS: Charter
Life doesn’t get any better than this. We are anchored off a tropical islet in the Seychelles, sitting on the hydraulic bathing platform of our chartered Ferretti 690 Altura. My son Ned flashes me a killer smile through his mask as one of our smartly dressed crew lowers us into the bath-warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
The sea is so clear I can see a pair of bat fish swimming lazily in the shadow of our hull and the delicate branches of coral sprouting from the sea bed beneath. A few metres off, another crew member is readying the Williams jet-tender for a spot of waterskiing, while a third is prepping some fresh mangoes for a mid-afternoon snack and stocking the fridge with the local Seybrew beer for this evening’s sundowners. No wonder the Seychelles have often been described as the original Garden of Eden.
Cut off from the rest of the world by 1,000nm of Indian Ocean and blessed with a dizzying abundance of beautiful beaches, lush landscapes and impossibly blue water, this tropical archipelago is as close to most people’s idea of paradise as you’re ever likely to get.
If there is a more perfect boating location, I’ve yet to find it. The only irony is that the very remoteness which makes these islands so unique, has also kept them off limits to all but the longest of long-range explorer yachts. They didn’t even have an airport until 1972 let alone a fully serviced marina. But in the last few years the picture has started to change.
Becca relaxes on the bow of the Altura
Charter yachts in the Seychelles
It started with the opening of Eden Island Marina in 2007 and has come to fruition with the launch of a number of new boating businesses. Sunsail and The Moorings have had a base here for several years, and more recently both Sunseeker and Ferretti have got in on the act with local sales and charter agents. The Altura 690 we’re on is the flagship of Ferretti dealer Radek Masin’s fleet of charter vessels as well as the boss’ personal boat, which he shipped over from its previous home berth in Croatia. In the saloon there’s a photograph of it covered in snow with the immortal legend ‘There’s a reason we moved to the Seychelles,’ printed underneath.
Now it’s based at Eden Island Marina, spearheading Radek’s drive to open this extraordinarily rich cruising ground to a worldwide audience of customers blinkered by the usual Med or Caribbean charter options. The man has a point. Every time I come here (my wife’s Aunt is a resident of more than 40 years), I keep asking myself why a place as idyllic as this isn’t already heaving with boats?
We meet at Radek’s smart new office on Eden Island to find our three crew busily laying out sunpads and removing the sun covers as part of their daily battle to stave off UV damage. The main island group is only 3¬∞ off the equator and well clear of the main hurricane zones so the biggest threat to a boat’s health is the heat of the midday sun.
On a regular charter there would usually just be a skipper and chef/boat hand on board, leaving the three main cabins for guests, but since we’re only occupying the two VIP suites this is an opportunity for one of the newer crew members to gain some experience too. Not that I’m complaining, three crew to three guests is the kind of ratio I could get used to.
Yellowfin tuna fishing off the Seychelles
Fishing in the Seychelles
Having explored the main island of Mahe at length by beach buggy and tourist vessel in the days before our charter starts (there are a number of diving schools, glass-bottomed boats and game fishing trips on offer from Beau Vallon beach), we decide to head straight across to Praslin (pronounced Prarlan), the second largest island in the group. Praslin is only 27nm from Mahe’s main port of Victoria so although it’s tempting to open up the Altura’s mighty engines and blast across in an hour or so, we opt to take things a little easier and enjoy some fishing en route.
The Seychelles is home to some of the best game fishing in the world with marlin, sailfish, dorado and tuna all frequenting these waters. Ned is still high from a previous fishing trip a few days earlier when his favourite great aunt treated us all to a day charter on board an outboard-powered sportsfisher. We returned to Beau Vallon beach arms aching and cool boxes bulging with half a dozen yellowfin tuna. But the legendary Seychelles sailfish eluded us and Ned is keen to make amends. Besides, our skipper Francis has promised fresh sailfish sashimi for lunch, provided we can catch him the main ingredient. That’s all the invitation Ned needs to strap on the fighting harness while new boy Steven sets about rigging the lines with lures.
My wife, Rebecca, is more intent on exploring the foredeck sunpads with a holiday read in one hand and an ice-cold Coke in the other. And I’m happier taking refuge under the flybridge canopy, lapping in the sight of Mahe’s 1,000m peaks receding into the distance and feeling the sea breeze on my face. I can’t tell you how good it feels to be afloat in paradise at last.
Ned isn’t having much luck in the cockpit. The sun is already high in the sky, driving the fish to seek respite in the cool of the depths. Only the flying fish remain near the surface, exploding from the water in a blur of flashing fins and silver scales as the Altura’s bow wave threatens to engulf them. Our third crew member, Fred, knows these waters like the back of his hand and is busy pointing out an uninhabited island shaped like a pair of breasts known as Les Mamelles. The local language is Creole, a form of French patois that has evolved over the years from the Seychelles’ early years as a French outpost. I can’t understand a word of Creole but I think I can guess the origins of this island’s name.
Another perfect day in paradise
Beautiful islands of the Seychelles
An hour or so later and we’re pulling into a small anchorage on the north side of a pair of islands know as Cousin and Cousine. The occasional cotton wool puff of cloud drifts lazily overhead, providing a splash of contrast against the vast expanse of azure sky. Beneath us the Indian Ocean is gradually changing from a royal blue to turquoise to cyan as the depth drops off towards the crescent of white beach beyond. It’s so picture perfect I’m itching to drop anchor and dive into the sea for a refreshing dip but two sailing catamarans have got here first and Francis sees no reason why we have to share this corner of paradise when there are hundreds of other pretty but less congested spots to sling our hook. I’m about to protest that he doesn’t know the meaning of congested but he’s been plying these waters since he was a boy so I settle back and enjoy a glass of mango juice instead.
A few minutes later and we’re nosing into another spectacular bay on Praslin itself. Anse Lazio is famous for being one of the world’s prettiest beaches, although its reputation has been unfairly tarnished by a freak shark attack in 2011, the first such incident in the Seychelles for more than 40 years. The bay faces the open ocean and a buoyed net now protects the beach but the appearance of a pair of fins on the far side of the bay does little to calm our nerves, until it becomes apparent it’s just a pair of playful dolphins.
As the afternoon sun warms our backs we motor round into the channel separating Praslin from Curieuse and drop anchor in the lee of Curieuse. The water is so clear I can see the chain running all the way down to the sea bed below. I can’t resist clambering over the side deck guardrails and plunging in, swiftly followed by Ned and Becca. The water is heavenly. Cool enough to be refreshing but warm enough to stay in it all day. It’s only the sight of Francis laying out lunch on the cockpit table that tempts us back on board. With no fresh fish to fillet he’s served up smoked sailfish salad instead that makes our pallid supermarket smoked salmon seem drab and oily.
After lunch we’re ferried ashore in the Williams jet-tender to visit this former leper colony turned nature reserve. The old doctor’s house has been restored as a museum to the island’s turbulent history but now its primary residents are giant tortoises, which roam freely amongst the ruins. We follow a nature trail through the island’s mountainous interior while Francis points out the copious flora and fauna, much of which is unique to this tiny island archipelago. Foremost among these is the Coco de Mer palm, whose vast nut resembles a woman’s backside. A raised wooden walkway winds through the mangrove swamp. Land crabs and electric green geckos scuttle through the twisted roots as we make our way down to the old turtle pond where the tender is waiting to pick us up.
Safely back on board we up anchor and motor across to the tiny islet of St Pierre. Surrounded by pink granite rocks, sculpted into alien shapes by years of erosion and crowned by a handful of palm trees, it’s every child’s vision of a pirate’s hideaway. In fact its true treasures lie under the water, where brightly coloured tropical fish flit among the coral maze, oblivious to the three of us snorkelling overhead. I’ll never forget the look on Ned’s face the first time he donned a mask aged four and discovered this whole new world beneath him and six years later the wonderment is just as real.
Under-water splendour of the Seychelles
Watersports in the Seychelles
The toy cupboard set into the Altura’s bathing platform seems to have an inexhaustible supply of fins, masks, snorkels and fishing gear. We even dig out a pair of skis and zip across to Anse Volbert on Praslin in the tender for some high-speed adrenaline thrills. The Williams struggles to pull me up on a mono-ski so we call it a day before I break it or it breaks me, and head back to mothership so we can potter the five miles across the channel to our night stop on the neighbouring island of La Digue. Two of our crew grew up here and have managed to secure us a spot on the harbour’s small stone quay.
I had half hoped we’d anchor up in some remote bay with nothing but the sound of waves lapping gently against the hull to lull us to sleep but soon change my mind at the sight of a string of beach-side bars and restaurants. Cocktail in hand we watch the sun dip down over Praslin, lighting up the evening sky with a fiery red glow as it finally sank beneath the horizon.
Bellies heaving with octopus curry and eyelids drooping we stagger back to the boat for a final round of drinks and cards on the flybridge before turning in for the night. Becca and I head down to our luxurious suite in the stern (I’d forgotten just how spacious these aft-cabin Alturas are) while Ned revels in his king-sized VIP in the bow.
The next thing we know the sun is peaking through the transom window and the engines are burbling away beneath us. By the time we’ve dragged ourselves out of bed, we’re already anchored up in another stunning bay and a breakfast of mangoes, bananas, passion fruit and freshly baked rolls is on the table. It sounds absurd but a Seychelles banana is quite unlike the dull, pappy items we’re accustomed to eating in the UK. Every bite of these tangy little wonders is worth the price of the plane ticket alone.
Crystal blue waters in the bays of the Seychelles
Anchoring in Paradise bays
After breakfast we hop into the tender to explore Ile Cocos, which we’ve anchored next to. This has to be the prettiest of all the islands we’ve visited. Huge granite monoliths sprout from the pearly white sand while tropic birds wheel overhead, their long white tail feathers piercing the sky like the vapour trails of a plane. Ned wanders among the boulders scanning the sand for shells while Becca is happy to sit in the shallows letting the waves wash over her feet.
I can see why the crew were keen to get us here early though, by the time we’ve had our fill of sun, sea and sand, the tourist boats have started to arrive in their droves from La Digue dissipating the magic that comes from having the island to ourselves. This ability to up sticks and find a new corner of paradise is one of the joys of having your own charter boat and in the Seychelles there is always another island to explore. We enjoy a gentle cruise around Les Soeurs, Felicite and La Digue stopping to admire the spectacular rock formations that cut off the remote but heavenly Anse Marron beach from the rest of the island.
Sadly we don’t have time to visit the low-lying Bird Island where over a million sooty terns come to roost each night and hawksbill turtles return year after year to lay their eggs in the soft white sand. Or Silhouette where a French pirate is rumoured to have buried his treasure somewhere on its tall wooded slopes. Next time, perhaps.
That’s the beauty of the Seychelles, with over 100 islands to explore, each with its own distinct character, there’s enough to keep charter guests busy for weeks on end, yet remarkably Radek Masin says most of his clients prefer to book day charters and stay in one of the islands many five-star hotels. More fool them. Waking up in a deserted bay with nothing but the fish for company is one of the great joys of chartering and the Altura even has a gyroscopic stabiliser to prevent any roll at anchor. One day the rest of the world will wake up and smell the coffee, in the meantime I suggest you take advantage of their lassitude. Why share paradise, when you can keep it all to yourself?
Ned prepares to anchor off at one of the many blissful beaches
Try the Seychelles for yourself
Radek Masin is the official dealer for the Ferretti Group, Chris-Craft, Boston Whaler and Sea Ray and has a number of boats for sale, fractional ownership or charter including the Ferretti 690 Altura shown here. A week on board the Altura costs from €25,700 to €34,170 for six people excluding flights, fuel and drinks, or you can opt for four days in one of Eden Island’s luxury apartments and three days on board the Altura from €3,320 per person.
The Seychelles enjoys a year-round boating season with average temperatures of 24-32°C but the best time to visit is between October and March when the winds are lightest.
Contact Radek Masin directly at info@radekmasin.cz or via charter agents Exclusive Yacht Services at info@exclusive-yacht-services.com
First published in Motor Boat & Yachting, issue February 2014.
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Understanding the Potential Impact of Executive Action on Immigration Enforcement
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While much of the attention to the Obama administration's announcement of executive actions on immigration in November 2014 has focused on key deferred action programs, two changes that have not faced legal challenge are in the process of being implemented and may substantially affect the U.S. immigration enforcement system. These changes include the adoption by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of new policy guidance on which categories of unauthorized immigrants and other potentially removable noncitizens are priorities for enforcement, and the replacement of the controversial Secure Communities information-sharing program with a new, more tailored Priority Enforcement Program (PEP).
The new policy guidance, which builds on previous memoranda published by the Obama administration in 2010 and 2011, further targets enforcement to noncitizens who have been convicted of serious crimes, are threats to public safety, are recent illegal entrants, or have violated recent deportation orders. MPI estimates that about 13 percent of unauthorized immigrants in the United States would be considered enforcement priorities under these policies, compared to 27 percent under the 2010-11 enforcement guidelines. The net effect of this new guidance will likely be a reduction in deportations from within the interior of the United States as DHS detention and deportation resources are increasingly allocated to more explicitly defined priorities.
By comparing the new enforcement priorities to earlier DHS removal data, this report estimates that the 2014 policy guidance, if strictly adhered to, is likely to reduce deportations from within the United States by about 25,000 cases annually—bringing interior removals below the 100,000 mark. Removals at the U.S.-Mexico border remain a top priority under the 2014 guidelines, so falling interior removals may be offset to some extent by increases at the border.
Taking the enforcement focus off settled unauthorized immigrants who do not meet the November 2014 enforcement priorities would effectively offer a degree of protection to the vast majority—87 percent—of unauthorized immigrants now residing in the United States, thus affecting a substantially larger share of this population than the announced deferred action programs (9.6 million compared to as many as 5.2 million unauthorized immigrants).
This report analyzes how many unauthorized immigrants fall within each of the new priority categories and how implementation of these priorities could affect the number of deportations from the United States, as well as what the termination of Secure Communities and launch of PEP could mean for federal cooperation with state and local authorities on immigration.
II. DHS Enforcement Priorities and Prosecutorial Discretion
A. The History of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement
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III. Projected Impact of the 2014 Changes to Enforcement
A. Estimated Numbers of Priority and Nonpriority Cases
B. Projected Effects of Revised Enforcement Priorities on Removals
C. Characteristics of Noncitizens Potentially Benefiting from Prosecutorial Discretion under New Guidelines
D. Policy Implementation and Prosecutorial Discretion
IV. Termination and Replacement of the Secure Communities Program
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V. Projected Impact of the Change to the Priority Enforcement Program
VI. Conclusion
Appendices: Explanation of Estimates
Appendix 1. Estimates of the Priority Status of Resident Unauthorized Population
Appendix 2. Assignment of Priority Status to Previous Deportees
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New shipping route seen to increase PH-Indonesia trade
Antonio L. Colina IV
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 April) – The launch on Sunday (April 30) of a new shipping route that will link the cities of Davao and General Santos in Mindanao to Bitung in Indonesia is seen to open up more market opportunities for both countries.
President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Indonesian President Jokoko Widodo, who will fly to Davao City from Manila after the three-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit on April 26 to 29, will grace the event.
In a text message on Tuesday, Mindanao Business Council chair Vicente Lao said the weekly Davao-General Santos-Bitung roll on/roll off Shipping Service is a good development because it will strengthen trade between the Philippines and Indonesia.
“This will increase the volume of trade between our two countries now that there will be a regular carrier of goods across these two destinations,” he said.
Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (DCCCII) president Ronald Go said the new route will provide more opportunities to establish new markets for goods and source out cheaper inputs for companies in Mindanao.
“Overall it will be a win-win situation for both countries,” he said.
DCCCII chair Antonio Dela Cruz lauded the “strong political will” of Duterte for realizing the new route, which is set to make trading much easier with a shorter shipment period.
“This did not materialize during the last (Aquino) administration,” he said.
He said he believes it will boost Mindanao’s economy “since we have now a direct link to this part of Indonesia.”
During the Davao-Gensan-Bitung, Indonesia Business Forum at the SMX Convention Center Davao on Feb. 24, Trade Assistant Secretary Arturo Boncato said the shipment of goods under the current Davao-Manila-Jakarta-Bitung sea route takes about three to five weeks and 1.5 days for the Davao-Gensan-Bitung route.
“This will cut time in moving goods from certain parts of the Philippines to parts of Indonesia. This is a very good route to move products from the Philippines to Indonesia, China, (South) Korea, and the rest of the world because it is very strategic and great for our local producers,” he said.
The route will be serviced by Asian Marine Transport Corporation of businessman Paul Rodriguez whose vessel can hold up to 100 20-footer vans.
Romeo Montenegro, director of investment promotion and public affairs of Mindanao Development Authority, said the route will improve business in two ways.
“One, it will make Davao-Gensan-Bitung as transshipment points. Second, it will engage all of our producers in the Philippines, especially Mindanao and Palawan, as part of our effort in BIMP (Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines) to broaden and link with markets in Bitung and the rest of Indonesia and vice versa.” (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)
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New Elder Spotlight: Julio Delgado
Sticky Post By Julio Delgado On February 29, 2016
How did you know you were called?
I do not think I can pinpoint to one moment in which I felt called, but rather there were multiple factors that contributed to my calling. First off, the community welcomed me with such warmth that I had no problem connecting with various people, especially during dinner time. Second, the quirkiness of the church environment put me at ease. From the way people are casually dressed to the Hawaiian bread used for communion, MBCC has its unique flavor. Third, the way the church is set up helps invite change. The way we are allowed to have a dialogue with the pastor during sermon keeps me engaged, the various community events spearheaded by its community members inspires me, and the church’s mission for social justice empowers me. This leads me to the strongest source of my calling- Doubts and Stouts. The fact that we get to hang out in a bar to talk about religion is already fascinating enough, but the way people are challenged to grow stronger in their faith through tough questions moved me to be an elder. It was a great example of how our community has the foundation to grow and I wanted to help its growth in any way possible. Being an elder seemed like the right fit.
What are you most excited about in joining leadership?
Where to begin?! To start, I am looking forward to the collaboration and enthusiasm for new ideas and change. The leadership team is full of some of the most caring and genuine people I know. Their passion to help MBCC prosper will undoubtedly inspire me to come up with ideas that will foster community in our church. I am honored to have a platform where I can make an impact on the MBCC community. I look forward to talking to everyone at MBCC and listen to their stories and ideas in order to furthers MBCC’s faith mission. I am excited to see the administrative side of the church and see how all the gears work together to make MBCC such a wonderful church. I already have a great respect to those in leadership like Marc and Dawn who do a lot of the little things behind the scenes that may not get its full recognition. Finally, I am just excited to be part of an amazing team that challenges me to maximize my gifts and see the best in me.
What did the ordination experience feel like for you?
So overwhelming! I could not stop smiling! I was filled with so much joy. It was truly one of the most special moments in my life. To have a community support me and encourage me to take on this role is truly humbling. That kind of strong support gave me goosebumps. It is a bit crazy to be given such a big responsibility in less than 2 years of first setting foot in the church. Though, what put me at peace was how the community members stood up and laid a hand on my shoulder to rejoice with me in that moment. It was a fitting scene- my community right there behind me in my next big step in my faith journey.
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High school roundup: Tahjee Williams comes up…
High school roundup: Tahjee Williams comes up big as McClymonds wins Oakland Section championship
By Jimmy Durkin | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: February 28, 2013 at 2:51 pm | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 7:51 pm
With the crowd chanting M-V-P, McClymonds High’s Tahjee Williams lived up to his billing.
The Oakland Athletic League’s Most Valuable Player made several big plays down the stretch as the Warriors rallied past Oakland 52-49 to win the Oakland Section boys basketball championship game Thursday at Merritt College.
“It gave me that extra push to get my team the victory,” Williams said of the chants from the standing-room only crowd.
Williams, a senior guard who scored a game-high 21 points, made his biggest plays when the Warriors (20-7) were trailing 49-44 with less than 2½ minutes to play. He picked up a steal and went coast to coast for a layup. He was fouled and made the free throw to cut the deficit to two.
Moments later, Williams picked off another pass and that led to a 3-pointer by Mike Walker to give Mack a 50-49 lead with 1:59 to go.
“Tahjee’s been big for us all year,” Mack coach Brandon Brooks said. “This is his first year playing varsity basketball. He’s still in the learning stages, but he’s so talented and athletic, I’m just blessed to have him on the floor.”
Oakland (17-11) still had opportunities. On two occasions, the Wildcats were fouled and went to the line to shoot a one-and-one, but missed the front end.
Mack also missed the front end of a one-and-one with 30 seconds left and Oakland secured the ball. The Wildcats called a timeout with eight seconds to go, still trailing by a point.
Meshawn Beard got the ball at the top of the key and drove, but his high-arcing shot missed. Walker secured the rebound with two seconds left and made two free throws to ice the game.
Oakland now must beat KIPP King, champion of the Bay Area Charter School Athletic Conference, Saturday at 2 p.m. at Oakland Tech to earn a berth to the CIF Northern Regional playoffs. Mack has secured its NorCal bid and will find out Sunday if it will be selected to the Open Division or remain in Division I.
McClymonds 47, Oakland Tech 40: The Warriors used long-range shooting to gain a first-quarter lead and never trailed to make history in the Oakland Section title game at Merritt College.
Warriors coach Dennis Flannery said it had been at least 37 years since the McClymonds girls squad had won a section title.
“We’re part of history,” said McClymonds senior Ahjahna Coleman, who had two 3-pointers in a key first-quarter run and finished with 11 points.
The Warriors (25-3) had four 3-pointers in the first quarter, with the last of them by Gabby Gaines giving them a 16-8 lead in the final minute of the quarter. McClymonds had eight 3-pointers in the game, three each by Gaines and Coleman.
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Vol. 17 No. 7 · 6 April 1995
Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the Nineties by Sarah Kent
Zwemmer, 270 pp, £19.95, November 1994, ISBN 0 302 00648 6
The Reviews that Caused the Rumpus, and Other Pieces by Brian Sewell
Bloomsbury, 365 pp, £12.99, November 1994, ISBN 0 7475 1872 6
Last autumn, at the award ceremony of the 1994 Turner Prize, Charles Saatchi took the podium at the Tate Gallery. It was a very rare public appearance by Britain’s leading private collector of contemporary art. His words were awaited with interest. Since it opened to the public in 1985, the Saatchi collection in St John’s Wood has become a focus of what’s called the contemporary art debate. With every purchase, names are made and names are called. But Saatchi’s taste, his collecting policy, is eclectic and elusive. So much art, of so many kinds, has passed into and sometimes out of his hands: British, American, German, minimal, Neo-Expressionist, Neo-Geo, new object, photographic, installation, trad fig. Since 1992 he’s been prominently showcasing young British artists, the objects of much attention and controversy lately. Surely some kind of indicative statement might have been expected. And this is what (ìn part) he said: ‘I’m not sure what today’s young artists are putting in their porridge in the mornings, but it seems to be working. They are producing the most striking new art being made anywhere in the universe. And it seems every museum from Nebraska to Alaska is ringing up trying to organise shows of their work ... And if sometimes that work is tasteless and cynical and uncouth it’s because sometimes we all are.’
Porridge. The British art debate is no such thing. The Turner Prize, especially since 1991 when it has been geared towards younger artists, provides an annual flashpoint in a conflict where neither the arguments nor the battle-lines are clear. Shortly before the 1993 Prize, an actual dispute about contemporary art was staged at the Tate – defending, Michael Craig-Martin, leading light at Goldsmiths’ College; prosecuting, Hilton Kramer, editor of the New Criterion (it’s telling that there was no obvious British champion on this side). It was made a condition that the speakers should not address each other. Afterwards I went to look at Rachel Whiteread’s House by floodlight. A member of the public had joined the debate and smashed the floodlight in. On the night Whiteread won the Prize, the Bow Lib-Dems decided to knock House down. No argument there either.
Everyone knows what the issue is, broadly speaking. As Modern Painters magazine – leading voice in the campaign for real painting – put it in an editorial last year: ‘it is a dispute between adherents of all modes [of painting], up to and including Greenbergian abstraction, versus true believers in the conceptual revolution,’ the latter represented specifically by that new wave of porridge-eaters, sometimes called the Goldsmiths’ Generation, sometimes called ‘neo-conceptualists’, who first appeared at the very end of the Eighties. Some had come out of Goldsmiths’. Some were later bought by Saatchi. Some have been up for the Turner Prize. They’ve featured in many public exhibitions, in the papers, on TV. (There’s a sort of house mag, called Frieze.) Their emblematic figure is of course Damien Hirst.
They present a pretty clear target. They raise suspicions of a ‘programme’. Their work doesn’t look at all the same – it isn’t a visual thing – but it’s informed by a keen and knowing awareness of the art of the (recent) past, and of the ideas around it. Vocabularies, references, discourses are to hand and to be used. No patient, authentic struggling. They know the game. Many of these were artists consciously on the make, worldly about the art-world and its ways, who organised themselves, curated their own shows, got themselves noticed and taken up by dealers. By 1989, one of them could write with justified confidence of ‘a new trend in British art’. Not since the Pop explosion at the start of the Sixties has there been such a rapid and spectacular coup.
That’s what, for many, fills the category ‘contemporary art’ just now. On the other side, there’s no clear stable of real painters to oppose to them, but the general idea is that there are plenty of perfectly decent and interesting young limners around, if anyone paid attention. (Modern Painters offered a shortlist last year.) Of course, it’s a standard irony of controversies like this that heavy opposition only throws the enemy into the headlines. But the publicity isn’t founded only on shock or mockery. The press, pursuing new sensations quite neutrally, finds in Hirst a reliable hotshot: his Shark-in-a-Tank looks good in photos, and provides material for cartoons-and journalistic metaphors, which few new paintings can ever do.
The battle isn’t principally between artists, but between critics and curators, and the battle-lines are not too clearly drawn. You can make lists. In favour of ‘contemporary art’: Nicholas Serota (at the Tate), Charles Saatchi, Sarah Kent (Time Out), Richard Dorment (Daily Telegraph, oddly enough). Against: Modern Painters, Brian Sewell (Evening Standard), Giles Auty (Spectator), Glynn Williams (at the RCA) and any number of Johnsonian or Waugh-like commentators who throw themselves into the breach on wet afternoons. But it’s no neat line-up. Auty is too reactionary for practically everyone. Serota pleases all of the people at one time or another. Saatchi’s taste is bizarrely catholic. Both Sewell and Kent can spring the odd surprise. Modern Painters offers one ne plus ultra – Greenbergian abstraction – but not everyone on their ‘side’ would go along with that. And do the acceptable ‘modes’ go right back to Lascaux?
It’s the ‘real painting’ tendency that makes the argumentative going in this confrontation. The ‘contemporary art’ lobby can sometimes be goaded into a response or a counter-attack, but mostly their case is assumed. They shrug in bewilderment: ‘Do we seriously have to go over this old ground yet again?’ They make blankly positive assertions – ‘this is what is happening now’; or talk of ‘cultural fascism’; they say that the critic’s duty is to be positive and informative. And despite Po-Mo doubts about Progress, an appeal to the irreversible advance of history – ‘Christ, it’s as if Du-champ and Pop never happened!’ – usually proves unavoidable.
But the case of real painting isn’t too clear either. What is ‘the cause’ of painting, as such? Granted, in art you can never say what you want, before you see it. And if those young hopeful painters listed don’t in fact give much cause for passionate celebration? (‘But the art-schools just aren’t teaching them now, you can’t be choosy.’) So the argument moves beyond questions of individual merit, and onto the offensive. It’s not just that most Neo-Conceptualists happen to be inferior to most painters; the ‘conceptual revolution’ is inherently no good. You must back painting whatever, because the other thing is wrong at root. And what are the roots of the objection? Some firm aesthetic lines would have to be drawn. They seldom are. Is the problem in the use of found objects and readymades per se? The loss of handiwork? Some of the Goldsmiths’ Generation are painters; at least they use painting, knowingly: does that count them out? Where does it all go wrong?
The crucial point is that this isn’t a struggle over the true course of art in the abstract. It never is. It’s over public institutions: about what’s taught in art schools, promoted abroad, what gets bought by public collections, exhibited in public galleries and put up for public prizes. And the prosecution’s energies come from a perception that the art they’re against is now in, and the art they’re for is out. If it wasn’t for what the Hayward and the Serpentine show, what the Tate and the Arts Council collect and the British Council sends to Biennales, what’s shortlisted for the Turner Prize, no ‘conspiracy’ in little magazines and private galleries would matter. The Saatchi Gallery, just because it seems so influential in these areas, has acquired a quasi-public status.
True, the ‘contemporary art’ camp can be extremely touchy too. There was outrage in 1991, when a student at the relatively conservative RCA was refused his degree for not doing anything his teachers considered proper work. His degree show was an empty studio with a simulacrum of a GLC Blue Plaque on the wall, inscribed ‘Gavin Turk, Sculptor, Worked Here.’ But Turk did fine. He joined the gang. His work is now in the Saatchi Collection. Yet further confirmation of the whole worrying trend – and for the conservatives this was a development that came at exactly the wrong moment.
For much of the Eighties it looked as if British painting was on the up. A School of London had been vaguely but vigorously identified, and compared in importance to the New York School of the Forties and Fifties. The personnel weren’t new (Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Kitaj et al), but the identification was, and such identifications are almost everything: in art everyone thinks in history-book chapter headings. At the same time, a group of young figurative artists emerged from Glasgow (Curry, Howson, Campbell, Conroy) and commanded headlines. And these two groups could be co-ordinated with an array of other individual painters, some new, some long-striving, into a resurgence.
The turning point was 1990. The first major signal that things might be moving another way was the British Art Show 1990. This five-yearly exhibition was, by convention, a broad and pluralistic survey of current British art. The 1985 version had included a bit of everything, all ages and genres, and had duly acknowledged a revival of figuration. In 1990 it was very different. The selection was not ‘representative’. No artist over forty was chosen; most were around thirty; only a few were much heard of outside the art press. Not that the show made the careers of all its artists by any means; it wasn’t Goldsmiths’-dominated; and the curators were careful to say they detected no overall tendencies. But it staked a claim. This was British art now, and no hand-on-heart painting of any kind was included, which meant – provocatively for a show which opened at the start of the year in Glasgow – that the New Glasgow Boys were, to a lad, left out. In the summer the British Art Show arrived in London. In the meantime, Peter Fuller had died in a car crash.
Fuller never lived to type out the words ‘Damien Hirst’. He died before the Turner Prize began to favour younger artists, before Saatchi started collecting the new art of the Nineties. But his is still a spectral presence in the arguments. His polemical campaigns of the Eighties set a tone and an agenda which have survived him. Though I hardly think that he could have significantly stalled recent trends, one knows pretty well where he would stood. Indeed, his name should remind us that art wars were already raging well before the present round, and in not so different terms.
Leaving the columns of Art Monthly, Fuller started Modern Painters in 1987, as a firmer platform for his attacks on the ‘anaesthetic’, the ‘megavisual’, the ‘pornography of despair’, art-internationalism, on Serota and Saatchi and Norman Rosenthal and the Turner Prize, on new hyped foreign painting (Schnabel and the Italian Transavantgardia), on the so-called ‘Neo-Geo’ movement from New York (being collected by Saatchi), on the British ‘new object’ sculptors (also collected by Saatchi), on established Turner-winning Brits like Richard Long and Gilbert and George, on old bugbears like Warhol and Richard Hamilton. Shortly before Fuller’s death, he thought the tide was turning: Serota seemed to be coming into line, even Saatchi was investing in the School of London. Then it turned right back.
In his last completed book, Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace, Fuller worked his arguments and advocacies into a general theory – something that might have provided an overall party line for the traditionalists. Drawing on some ideas of Ruskin’s, he told a story of how things went wrong, while tracing a native ‘spiritual’ tradition of British art, much beleaguered but still surviving to be nurtured. Like most tendentious histories of art, it ended up impossibly Procrustean. It did for its immediate targets, but on grounds that condemned or excluded from interest a whole lot more; and as a strategic position it was unworkable, because no one could follow it all the way back to its premises – namely, that the rot set in with the loss of belief in the world as God’s visible handiwork. It wasn’t even clear how the argument made room for quite a few of the artists it was supposed to favour. No other thorough-going statement from this side has been produced, and Theoria is a warning against the attempt.
But it also points to a lack on the other side. America has had Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Hal Foster and Craig Owens setting up positions, rationalising developments; in Britain there’s very little general pro-contemporary art theory. But then in New York the battle-lines and the historical stopping-off points were always far clearer. The cause of ‘formalist’ Modernism was firmly established there, as it never was here: consecrated in MoMA, justified by Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried. It was more obvious what, at any stage, was to be overcome and where attacks, when they came, were coming from. Thus Hilton Kramer, who counts as an arch-conservative, is identifiable as a solid mid-century Modernist; for him, things go off around Pop. Fuller stood for nothing so straightforward.
The British debate takes place more tactically, in the everyday practice of art criticism. And – unco-ordinated and underarticulated – a vague sense of ‘encampment’ exerts a pressure from which perhaps no one’s mind is quite free. Except perhaps that of the weather-vane, export-drive critic, who has sacrificed any idea of discrimination to the afflatus of promotion, for whom it makes no difference what it is: Freud, Long, Hirst – if it’s on the Turner shortlist, if it’s big in Kassel, big in Venice, big in São Paulo, let’s just celebrate. But where there’s any pretence to judgment, the pressures of encampment are felt. There is the problem of not wanting to sound like x or y, or conversely of not wanting to be seen to sit on the fence. Or there’s the case of supporting (or being reluctant to knock) the work of certain artists, for the good of a cause – because the work is on the right side, on the right lines.
Ever since Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg glad-handed Abstract Expressionism, some critics have dreamt of being champion-advocate or house-interpreter to a burgeoning movement. And since a movement must seem strong, they tend not to be too picky about what gets the seal of approval. Could Fuller really have admired all of the work he ‘believed in’? Didn’t the cause of British painting, and the need to find living representatives, hijack his powers of discrimination? I’m not sure. It might simply be that while his arguments were often strong, his taste, whenever it took off on its own – the early enthusiasms for Robert Natkin, the later advocacy of Arthur Boyd – was unerringly awful. Either way, it hardly strengthened his cause.
Take another critical position, more independent but more desperate. This critic is not encamped. There is one sort of art to which he responds, and in that sense he backs it; but he is willing and eager to discriminate here, he doesn’t in particular examples bend his judgment to a general cause. However, there’s a whole category of art which, prior to any particular discriminations, is lost on him: try as he may, or may not, he can’t see much in it. This is a generic portrait of a critic who ‘doesn’t like contemporary art’, drawn to clarify a professional dilemma. What is this critic to do? Or what’s to be done with him? Should you establish a fairly clear exclusion zone around the art this critic is unfit to like or to dislike because he’s categorically out of sympathy with it?
Now it would be possible to sort that out. A paper could have two art critics on the go: the division of spoils would be quite easy to agree on, and the system might well appeal to both of them. But the art-world itself doesn’t make this demarcation. Both kinds of art are competing for exactly the same exhibition space. Any exclusion zone would be editorial censorship – not censorship of individual opinion so much as censorship of an important subject. Each critic would happily discriminate on his own patch, and the issue of whether the Tate, say, was right to showcase art of the other kind wouldn’t arise. I don’t deny that the one-critic system can have tedious results, because where a critic’s categorically out of sympathy he just sounds grumpy or repeats the same general objections, but the alternative isn’t good either.
In her introduction to Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the Nineties, Sarah Kent, keen to avoid both argument and discrimination, proposes a third solution. ‘It seems more appropriate to elucidate ideas than to confer brownie points. I have become increasingly reluctant to award medals and throw brickbats; passing judgment does not seem a relevant or an adequate response.’ The critic, she says, should make no value judgments, but rather take on ‘the rewarding task of investigation, analysis, interpretation and comparison’.
But even if you maintain a neutral, expository tone in your writing, value judgments won’t be avoided. To devote five hundred or a thousand words of attentive, interested exposition to an artist counts inevitably as a plug; the value judgment consists in deciding who you give this treatment to. Even if you take your task as writing art history in the present tense, you still must judge which artists are important (and ‘importance’ is all), or accept someone else’s judgment about it.
It’s not really a critical principle that’s being offered, and I haven’t noticed Kent conferring fewer brownie points than formerly in her Time Out pieces. It’s a response to the tricky position she finds herself in. She’s fallen into an aggravated form of ‘encampment’ – that is, she’s contracted to write a multiple catalogue essay. Of the 35 artists dealt with here, I’m not sure which Kent would have retained if she’d been writing an independent survey of her own choice (and since she’s been working with the Saatchi Collection for several years, writing its exhibition notes, her Time Out pieces on these same artists, usually saying much the same thing, don’t provide a reliable, independent ‘control’). As it is, Saatchi’s taste is eclectic. It’s not all Goldsmiths’: the 35 artists are no more than one man’s pleasure – and one woman’s duty.
No one could credibly admire all these 35 varied artists or admire them equally: 35 bursts of unqualified enthusiasm would sound ridiculous. On the other hand, clear discriminations are clearly out. So a non-judgmental tone does seem the best policy for the occasion. But then of course – and this is the perfect tweak of her double-bind – Kent can’t openly say that she’s adopting this method just for the occasion: she must present it as her constant critical principle – which it’s not. What a job.
Having stated the principle, Kent does let a few evaluations through, and a close reader would detect that with several of Saatchi’s artists – he’s bought some pretty rum painters – Kent’s commentaries are distinctly low-temperature. (Incidentally, those who see Saatchi as puppet-master of a vast art-world conspiracy may reflect that he’d have real difficulty flogging some of this stuff at a decent price.) And the sheer variety brings her to the verge of contradiction: one artist’s work reflects the fact that ‘painterly painting is now an exhausted genre’ – a fact that is quietly forgotten when she comes to the manifestly painterly work of Simon English.
In a way, the intended state of perfect indifference is what she achieves. The text reads like the digest of a consumer survey or a piece of party literature, nerveless, unblinking, heavily printed-out, without pause or flicker: official! The elucidation of ideas is made in terms of a bluffer’s guide mulch of several shelves of critical theory, studded with quotations which are cited only for authority, never for further reflection, and with no sense that Foucault, Lacan, Irigaray, Baudrillard and Barthes might not all be saying basically the same thing. For instance, on the question of authentic painterly expression:
Arguments against Rosenberg are legion. ‘Unmediated expression is a philosophical impossibility,’ insists Paul de Man. According to Jacques Lacan, the unconscious is structured like a language, so there can be no unmediated inner life and no expression innocent of its cultural context. If these caveats are right, no claims can be made for paintings on the grounds of emotional authenticity.
He insists, does he? But – among other things – the conclusion doesn’t follow. These ‘caveats’ only challenge a false, transcendental account of authentic expression, which may well have been advanced in talk about Abstract Expressionism, but they leave the possibility of authentic expression itself, culture-relative as it must be, unaffected. It also seriously weakens Kent’s claim that this art is not ‘merely a repository for existing beliefs, the illustration of ideas’, that she must place it so squarely in existing discourses. I should say that her elucidations seem by and large quite true to the work – but that this is not at all the whole story.
Kent was one of the 35 signatories to the famous letter to the Evening Standard in January 1994, referring to Brian Sewell’s ‘virulent homophobia and misogyny’, and demanding his dismissal as the paper’s regular art critic.
Although, very occasionally, he has something perceptive to say on subjects where he has some expertise, he is deeply hostile to and ignorant about contemporary art. In place of an informed critique, week in and week out he serves up the same menu of formulaic insults and predictable scurrilities – the easiest and cheapest form of demagogy. We believe that the capital deserves better than Sewell’s dire mix of sexual and class hypocrisy, intellectual posturing and artistic prejudice.
Among other ‘members of the art world’, the letter was signed by Marina Warner, Michael Craig-Martin, Christopher Frayling and George Melly, also several artists and dealers, and as with all round-robins it wasn’t perhaps the letter any one of them would have written individually. Still, as a tactic, it showed blessed unworldliness, as surprising as it is creditable. Nothing could have been more guaranteed to secure Sewell’s position at the Standard for many years to come.
This incident – one of the most visible flash-points in the contemporary art debate recently – was the ‘rumpus’ that inspired Sewell to collect some of his art-writing from the last seven years into The Reviews that Caused the Rumpus. In the introduction he defends himself with characteristic glee, and in many pieces vigorously pleads for critical independence. No one ever explained quite what was meant by ‘class and sexual hypocrisy’, though I would guess that ‘sexual’ means that Sewell seems to be gay, but pays fascinated and severe attention to homosexuality wherever possible (an ‘affliction’ he calls it at one point). And ‘class hypocrisy’ means perhaps that he’s a populist who pretends to be an élitist, that his manner dignifies philistinism with connoisseurship; or perhaps vice versa, an élitist who pretends to populism, a covert acknowledgment that Sewell is not quite as ‘ignorant’ about contemporary art as, for demagogic purposes, he’s willing to let on. Meant or not, that last would be near the truth.
The Sewell act needs no introduction: the vile schoolboy, the giddy aunt, the fruity gadfly, the hanging judge, the man of words – ‘the panjandrums of contemporary art’ occurs I don’t know how many times, one of those diminishing returns that beset unedited collections. Well, ‘Grimes is at his exercise’; he’s working something out in public, some troublesome gay-and-not-gay thing. His writing is such a textbook case of ‘fear of the other’ that I almost believe in the idea. But take away the act (on a second reading you stop noticing it), and what have you? On his patch, excellent. The qualified adulation of Bacon, the unqualified dismissal of Hodgkin, hit their marks. I don’t agree with either, but one’s not asking to agree. There are some dodgy soft spots (like Minton) and excoriations whose energy far exceeds their stated grounds (a violent ad feminam attack on Gwen John). And then there are fondnesses that make it harder to speak of a patch at all – a sneaking admiration for Joseph Beuys, a distinct penchant for Meret Oppenheim. Sewell is by no means ‘encamped’. His savagings know no distinction of genre, though savagings do predominate here. I don’t think there’s much he doesn’t understand: I can imagine him, in a locked room, at gunpoint, writing perfectly serviceable ‘elucidations’ of the work in the Saatchi Collection. But when his objections are categorical, he’s not too keen on seeing the argument through.
There is a damning piece on the 1993 exhibition of Italian Arte Povera (mainly) at the Hayward, which ends, roundly: ‘the apotheosis of rubbish on a baroque scale with baroque pretensions – but whatever was done in the Swinging Sixties, Bernini did it better.’ What is the ‘it’ Bernini did better than these objet-trouveurs? Where’s the comparison? Bernini did it better than Canova, if you like. It may be tiresome that what Bernini and Canova did, and what Povera did, are both called ‘sculpture’; family resemblance between the two activities is stretched beyond sense. But what Sewell surely means is that even someone who can fashion a birdbath has more hope – because Arte Povera, doing something utterly different, is beneath artistic consideration. But he needs to show why.
So back to the debate. Let me look at some of the big objections to the new British art of the Nineties and all its kind, and how they can be met. One common line of attack is that it’s all been done before. Here is Sewell on that Hayward show again: ‘Attendance at this exhibition should be compulsory for all students in all art schools; they will learn from it that nothing they do is new and fresh, that their work is no longer outrageous or inventive or exploratory, and that it is nothing but the stale and forlorn repetition of formulae laid down in the Sixties.’ It will always be a question for any art, at any time, whether it has all been done already. The advocates of true painting are happy enough to appeal to the maintenance of a tradition; don’t mind a bit of water-treading even while denying this line to the other lot.
The objection has therefore to be made more specific, as it usually is. This art has all been done before because it is something that can only be done once. It is about breaking down artistic barriers, and this may be worth doing once to show where the barriers are, but it isn’t worth doing again and again. But there’s no reason to think that today’s ‘new’ art is about breaking down artistic barriers. Similarly, it’s no good saying: ‘this so-called avant-garde is no avant-garde at all.’ Quite so, but it’s not so called. This work is not formally innovative: it is a consolidating fusion of a lot of old things – Duchamp, Dada, Surrealism, Pop, Povera, Conceptual Art. An academicism, if you will (do we oppose academies absolutely?) An orthodoxy of the unorthodox (but for whom is it unorthodox?) A tradition (why not?) But let’s not talk of forlorn repetition. What must be proved is that this tradition of art is flawed or limited fundamentally.
Take another line of attack: that this art is part of a critical, curatorial conspiracy. The artist exhibits any old piece of nonsense, and the critic comes along and free-associates; interpretation consists in saying the most pretentious thing possible about the work, and declaring that this is its meaning. One may call the art offensively obscure; or one may say rather that it’s an art entirely dependent on its ‘elucidation’. Very nice for the critics, they can ballsache away without let or hindrance, and they’re plugged into the process, they’re more important than the art, just what critics always wanted, no wonder they keep the racket up. And I agree of course that art critics often talk nonsense – ‘a steady iron-hard jet of absolutely total nonsense as if under great pressure from a hose’, as William Empson put it.
Coming on the attack here, though, you need to get beyond the blank stare and the affectless inventory that ‘speaks for itself’, that declares: ‘and this is literally all there is to it.’ (‘We are presented with a piece of invaginated tupperware and a bale of hay etc.’) When we say ‘free association’, what we’re registering is that this work bears meaning in ways that are traditionally thought irrelevant in visual art. It is an art of meanings and conceits, thoroughly anti-formalist, and almost every aspect of a work may contribute: the image, the words in the title or in the work, the styles, materials and objects used, and where they come from, the life of these things in other contexts, what’s been done to them, the process by which the work was made, where it is placed, and so on. All these factors, which might elsewhere be seen as aesthetically extraneous, extrinsic, not visual, background information, merely associative, are here used to create the work’s meaning. In Mark Quinn’s Self, a Saatchi example, the fact that the frozen head is a cast of his own, and is made of solid blood, and his own blood, and a full nine pints of it – none of this visually evident – are important points of attention. You have to have them. And this is simply a convention, consciously employed by some artists, accepted by some critics and viewers. The genre breaks various aesthetic laws. It has its own. This much is old hat. The question is: does it work?
With so many possible sources of meaning, and no control on which are relevant, where almost anything you could think or feel or know about the work might be meaningful, cacophony is a likely result. The floodgates are opened for elucidation, and for bullshit, error and bewilderment. Is it also important to reflect that Self has been purchased at a particular price? Should we bear in mind that the artist’s head-cast was moulded specifically in dental plaster? Is the head meant to look a little ancient and hieratic, or is that just what frozen blood does? Things will go wild or blank unless we know the kind of thing a work’s likely to be about. Consequently this work needs to be anchored in some fairly definite and agreed ways of thinking, to control its meaning; so that once you pick up a clue, you can roughly know where you are – I’m in a work about ‘the social construction of identity’, say – and can pick up more clues, and refinements and penumbrae. You must know what the going conversations are. Only then can you clearly read it and fully sound it out.
The work relies, so to speak, on this understanding between artist and audience. In this case, meaning is controlled, not by a fixed system of symbols, but simply by agreed – and sometimes common enough – topics. It can lead to difficulties for the ‘uninitiated’, when the discourses are unfamiliar, when we’re in the depths of ‘the gaze’, or ‘body theory’ or a Foucauldian ‘politics of architecture’. Not that the artists are necessarily great readers, though some are, but these things are in the air, and may take shape in a work almost unconsciously. Self, on the other hand, you’d pick up without much priming, given the facts. Life, death, self and preservation are always current topics, and are cued quite naturally by blood, ice, a human head, and their complex inter-relations here. But once Self has gelled for you, it may then seem all too bleeding obvious. Work of this kind teeters between being a tabula rasa, and a textbook illustration.
Of course, you may also find some of the going conversations particularly depressing or incoherent. And then you’re likely to find them weary and slavish too – heigh ho, one more artist who seems only just to have read the usual bit by Walter Benjamin. (What would a work by a reader of Simone Weil be like?) I certainly feel this about the obsession with the fine art tradition that fuels a lot of contemporary art: oh no, not another work that exposes the maleness of Abstract Expressionism, or the political neutrality (not) of Minimalism (I mean, who cares about Minimalism?) Take Mark Wallinger’s Race, Sex, Class, a series of neat portraits of race horses in oils, the use of oil paint standing for the tradition of oil painting. And then we build up themes around oil painting: portraiture, property, breeding, hierarchy, competition, betting, capitalism – in short, a deftly compact illustration to the argument of Ways of Seeing, Chapter Five.
To make matters trickier, when a body of ideas gets up and running, artists can afford to become very laconic or whimsical, and still rely on the same critical treatment, which then appears increasingly pretentious; the artist knows the score, starts playing-up or out-cooling the standard conversations, stretches relations of meaning to the limit, half-plays the old Modernist card (‘I do not mean, I am’), flirts with blank vacuity, the smallest hints, the largest gaps. And this itself becomes another point of attention. As Hirst – who always seems very open about these things – has said: ‘I like these long, clumsy titles which try to explain something but end up making matters worse, leaving huge holes for interpretation.’ Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding would be one. I like them too. I think they’re often the best bit.
But when people talk of conspiracy, you need to see exactly where this conspiracy is taking place. It’s not as a rule that critics are arbitrarily extracting meanings from nothing. It’s rather that certain intellectual climates prevail. If your work is clearly not dealing with the accepted kinds of question – Sarah Kent is a pretty good guide to what these are currently – then probably no show at the ICA. A party line, certainly; but remember that Poussin’s intellectual world had a party line too, and one equally obscure to most viewers then and now. (I’m not making a comparison: just showing this objection isn’t decisive.)
There’s another limitation that’s inherent to the genre. Whatever ideas a work declares, it can only declare them. It can’t inflect or further articulate them. Without the painter’s expressive handiwork or the poet’s power of speech, the work’s thoughts and part-thoughts lie stuck in resonating apposition. You have this, and this, and this: let them interreact. They may be built up into finely dissonant or resolved chords, and this is a real aesthetic effect. But it is a static one. Meanings are only set going, initiated, can’t be followed through or made substantial. (A common symptom: the work ‘asks questions’.) It is, so to speak, a concatenation of the verbal and the visual – visual means, verbal meanings – which puts the possibilities of both media in deadlock. The traditionalist plea for expression and embodiment, for the creative mediation of a human touch, has a strong claim here.
It must, however, meet a counter-argument about power and directness of effect, sheer realness. Art which uses things taken from the world, relatively unmediated, works on and with real-world feelings. And don’t just say: ‘it’s not art then.’ Recognise that sometimes – sometimes – it’s hard to imagine how any handiwork or representation could ever compete. Whatever ideas it may leave hanging in the air around it, could there be a more direct and precise communication of habitat than Rachel Whiteread’s Ghost – the negative plaster life-cast of the inside space of a small room from an old home? It’s a pity Saatchi doesn’t have it out always. Among this body of work, Whiteread’s is in a class apart. None of my general reservations apply to it.
But any categorical aesthetic gib – any argument about a whole kind of art just not working – is very weak. I have my doubts about specifically ideas-based work, but it takes only one convincing counter-instance to overturn them – the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, for example. (The fact that the world of Finlay’s thought is all his own is part of it; one may not normally ask artists to be original thinkers, but in this kind of work it seems more important.) I say, ‘for example’ – but there aren’t many. It is a genre very exhaustive of invention, and something like genius is needed to bring it off at all. Very little of the British Art of the Nineties comes anywhere near it. Nor is this where its real appeal lies.
It’s not the ideas, the conceits, the discourses around these works that swing it. They are there. The readings made out by Sarah Kent are true enough, these works are mostly thinking in the ways she says they are. But at another level, nobody cares much about all this. It’s taken as read. The audience is out for kicks, and the kicks are elsewhere, and not so easy to admit. And if it seems to you that this kind of work doesn’t take you long to look at, you’re not actually being asked to take long. (Brisk gallery habits are something this generation has clocked onto.) But an attitude is being struck. To give a blatant example: Kent, doing the critical job, looks at the really rough page-three stuff done by Sarah Lucas, and tries her best to read it like the eminently responsible work of older feminist artists such as Helen Chadwick or Mary Kelly. She finds an analysis, one that is definitely behind the work. But what is staring her in the face is sex and violence. That’s where the kick is.
To put it another way – a little bit of politics – what about Saatchi and his Collection? The obvious thing is to point to a contradiction. Here are works which reflect badly on private property, which ‘deal with the encroachments of advertising’, which ‘reveal the ideologies embedded in the heart of buildings’ – housed in the very heart of the beast. Kent is, broadly speaking, on the Left. She expects that the art she favours will be on the Left: advanced art is, isn’t it? And the art she’s writing about here is too, in a sense. And Saatchi? This game has been played before. When, years ago, Kent attacked Modern Painters for being neo-conservative, Fuller had no trouble coming back: look at you, you support Thatcher’s ad-man! But this is a contradiction Kent has long learned to live with. As she wrote back then, ‘the Saatchis’ politics may be repellently right-wing ... Their patronage does not exonerate their politics, but nor do their unsavoury beliefs in any way vitiate their courage as collectors.’ But it’s easier to hold onto this ‘anomaly’ than admit that Saatchi is quite at home.
Think of Pop Art and the people who found in it a critique of consumerism. Maybe it was there, but it wasn’t what got people going. Saatchi knew just what he was talking about, and just what he liked, when he said: ‘tasteless and cynical and vulgar ... sometimes we all are.’ Attitude. Dead cool, dead crass, smart-dumb, flip, flash. If you compare these artists with a lot of recent New York art – multi-culti, self-therapeutic, health-conscious, threatened, concerned – they’re an unbroody, enterprising, immensely self-assertive bunch, full of the sauve-qui-peut energies of social chaos and disorientation. As Kent half-recognises, ‘at a time of rapid change, only those fighting a rearguard action cling to aesthetic or moral positions.’ It sounds a bit like Dylan, which makes it easier to say, but we’re not talking about the Fall of the Wall, or New Labour, or the Internet. We’re talking about the backwash of the Eighties. And ‘from Nebraska to Alaska’ this work no doubt offers a more accurate vision of Britain than the gleam of heritage or the glooms of social realism.
What I’m writing about is the past. Any knowing person must have blinked hard at my references to New Art or a Goldsmiths’ Generation, as if it was still the thriving thing. This only reflects the relative slowness of the art-machine. Exhibition, celebration and controversy are always subject to a few years’ delay. As Stuart Morgan – not a critic much involved in the central controversy, more in internal debates on the contemporary side of the fence – wrote in Frieze’s very first issue (1991), ‘Goldsmiths’ is over’; we’re already into a second generation of clones and real shysters. And other voices on that side of the fence have been worrying about flim-flammery, one-liners and disappearance-up-arse as much as anyone else (though with a disarming sense of surprise). Maybe Saatchi won’t be buying it any more either. His last big intake of young British artists, remember, were painters: pretty much real painters, two of them on that Modern Painters list. A sign?
Saatchi’s movements are utterly mysterious. One doesn’t know why, with the young artists he was buying just before that, he chose some but not others. One doesn’t know whether artists of that generation will keep their names much longer, or even stay in art (White-read I guess will). One remembers, or rather one doesn’t remember, Robyn Denny, who had a solo retrospective at the Tate in l970, aged 30, and then ... As for painting, it may not be dead – how could anyone know? – but it doesn’t look too lively. It seems obvious to me that a conceptual component in art is here to stay; or rather, it was always there, and that with the bifurcation of art into the symbolic/conceptual and the visual/carnal (Duchamp v. Greenberg, for short) both sides feel the loss of the other, and one can desire the triumph of neither. But I don’t find that there are any artists of my own age or younger whom I absolutely admire – and that is a hopeless position. You need some actual lodes to look to. You can’t make your own standards for ever. Imaginary, ideal criticism becomes either a lonely lost cause or worse, a self-fulfilling prophecy, seeing what it seeks. I’d better stop.
Vol. 17 No. 7 · 6 April 1995 » Tom Lubbock » What’s It All About?
Vol. 17 No. 9 · 11 May 1995
Tom Lubbock’s article on the current situation in the British art world seems to be about right (LRB, 6 April), but it raises two or more questions. Why would British champions of painting continue to identify themselves wholeheartedly with the ideas of Clement Greenberg? A great deal has gone on since the mighty Clem first put forward a theory for meaning-production in painting which could, in retrospect at least, be compared in its fundamentals to Jakobson’s idea about the literariness of language. I know lots of non-representational painters who don’t spend much time thinking about Greenberg, not least because they don’t agree with what he said about painting. Aren’t there any in Britain?
There’s something revealing and, in that, distressing about the British seeing the conflict as one between Duchamp and Greenberg rather than between Duchamp and Matisse. This, to my mind, suggests that the most profound disabilities of the British tradition in painting are still alive and well – they still won’t let it be about anything but a good idea. One must simultaneously be struck by the absence of any interest in revising, or otherwise expressing scepticism towards, Duchamp-Warhol. After twenty-five years of the hegemony of Pop-Conceptual historicism, which has culminated in an international style whose British version Lubbock describes, I think, pretty accurately, is there no stirring, in Newcastle or Notting Hill, of any scepticism towards the present dogma which is not itself a return to an earlier one?
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
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Long trip worth it for ABC Rodeo saddle bronc winner
By Don WilliamsA-J Media
Mar 31, 2018 at 6:55 PM Apr 1, 2018 at 12:02 AM
Jade Blackwell drove 800 miles by himself from South Dakota to Lubbock, all for that eight-second window in rodeo that determines whether the trip was worth it.
Finding money at the end of that rainbow makes it especially gratifying.
Blackwell scored 85 points Friday on Beutler & Son Rodeo's Manhattan Flash, and that stood up for the win in saddle bronc riding after Saturday's last performances of the 76th annual ABC Rodeo at Municipal Coliseum.
"That was awesome," Blackwell said. "That horse is pretty fresh. He jumped out of there and felt pretty darn good, really, bailing in the air and giving you something to work with. Darn sure gives a guy an opportunity to do his job."
Blackwell, 25, came to Lubbock 21st in the world rankings with season earnings of a little more than $15,000. Now he'll pocket another $1,535.
He loaded up and left South Dakota at 2 p.m. Thursday, drove halfway, pulled over for a nap and headed on to the South Plains early Friday.
"This is my first trip to Lubbock," he said. "Actually, I was trying to remember. I thought I’d been down here before but once I got down here, I realized I'd never been here before."
Going to the pay window after a 13-hour trip's enjoyable, because Blackwell experienced the other side just last week. In a good humor, Blackwell described driving nearly 500 miles through snowy weather to a rodeo in Fargo, North Dakota, driving all night through more snowy weather to reach Omaha, Nebraska, then boarding a plane for a rodeo in Beaumont.
And he didn't win a thing.
"So I had about two days of traveling, three hours of sleep and over a thousand dollars into it," he said. "So I had to come back for redemption this week."
A slew of tie-down ropers with National Finals credentials showed up at Municipal Coliseum the past few days, and a college roper who just turned 20 topped them all. Canadian Shane Smith tied his calf in 7.8 seconds Friday night, and that stood up through Saturday's shows.
Tie-down ropers routinely tout a quality horse as an essential component, and Smith spoke highly of his roping horse, Duck.
"He fits me really good," Smith said. "I don't know what I'd do without him. He’s 14 now and we got him when he was young and started and finished him. I’ve been hauling him the last two or three years, and it's been going pretty good lately."
Smith's victory was good for $2,017.
The competition included defending world champion Marcos Costa and past world champions Fred Whitfield, Tyson Durfey and Monty Lewis. Also in the field of 64 ropers were NFR veterans Reese Riemer, Marty Yates, Adam Gray and Sterling Smith. Riemer's 8.1-second run was second.
Shane Smith, who turned 20 just last week, is from Wimborne, Alberta, but competes now at Western Oklahoma State in Altus.
"I just try and go to the pro rodeos I can, just kind of focus on the college rodeos this year," he said. "Next year I’ll probably try and go harder to the pro rodeos."
The ABC Rodeo team roping title wasn't decided until the end Saturday night. The next to last pair to go, Chris Francis and Cade Passig, stopped the clock in 4.7 seconds. With two events left, they were the only contestants to take over the lead during Saturday's performances.
"We drove a long way," Francis said, "so it was good to catch one and win something."
Francis, 40, and Passig, 23, live in Las Vegas, New Mexico, but skipping Lubbock wasn't a thought.
"We usually do pretty good here," Passig said, "so we always make dang sure we come. We've placed here probably three or four times in the past few years."
The 4.7 earned them $1,164 apiece and bumped two teams with 5.6s into second place: opening-night pacesetters Brock Hanson and Ryan Motes, and Munday ropers Chace Thompson and Tyson Thompson, who went right before Francis and Passig.
ABC RODEO
Wednesday-Saturday
at Municipal Coliseum
Bareback riding: 1. Jake Brown, 87 points on Beutler & Son Rodeo's Sure Motion, $1,256; 2. Luke Creasy, 86, $952; 3. Trenten Montero, 82, $685; 4. (tie) Will Lowe and Jared Green, 78, $362 each; 6. Leighton Berry, 77, $190.
Steer wrestling: 1. Matt Reeves, 3.8 seconds, $1,322; 2. (tie) Mitchell Gardner, Justin Wilson and Levi Rudd, 4.5, $866 each; 5. Dustin Duhon, 4.6, $410; 6. Stan Branco, 4.7, $228.
Team roping: 1. Chris Francis/Cade Passig, 4.7 seconds, $1,164 each; 2. (tie) Chace Thompson/Tyson Thompson and Brock Hanson/Ryan Motes, 5.6, $728 each; 4. Brenten Hall/Chase Tryan, 6.0, $291.
Saddle bronc riding: 1. Jade Blackwell, 85 points on Beutler & Son Rodeo's Manhattan Flash, $1,535; 2. Colt Gordon, 83.5, $1,163; 3. Taos Muncy, 81, $838; 4. Heith DeMoss, 80, $558; 5. Jay Joaquin, 79, $326; 6. (tie) Tate Owens and Shade Etbauer, 78, $116 each.
Tie-down roping: 1. Shane Smith, 7.8 seconds, $2,017; 2. Reese Riemer, 8.1, $1,669; 3. (tie) J.D. McCuistion and Ty Baker, 8.4, $1,148 each; 5. Jesse Clark, 8.7, $626; 6. Tyson Durfey, 8.8, $348.
Barrel racing: 1. Andrea Busby, 14.03 seconds, $1,929; 2. Jackie Ganter, 14.16, $1,653; 3. Jana Bean, 14.17, $1,378; 4. Kylie Weast, 14.19, $1,194; 5. (tie) Shali Lord and Stevi Hillman, 14.20, $827 each; 7. Stephanie Collum, 14.22, $551; 8. TK Lawrence, 14.24, $367; 9. Ashley Day, 14.29, $276; 10. Tami Semas, 14.31, $184.
Bull riding: 1. Tristan Mize, 83 points on Beutler & Son Rodeo's Record Rack's Hat Trick, $1,753; 2. (tie) Jesse Petri and Joseph McConnel, 80, $1,142 each; 4. (tie) Cole Melancon and Tyler Taylor, 79, $505 each; 6. (tie) Kyle Zeigler and Tyler McVay, 74, $133 each.
Total payoff: $46,190. Stock contractor: Beutler & Son Rodeo. Rodeo secretary: Dollie Riddle. Officials: Cliff Overstreet and Travis Howe. Timers: Dollie Riddle and Jeri Stockton. Announcer: Greg Simas. Bullfighters: Wacey Munsell and Evan Allard. Clown/barrelman: Andy Burelle. Flankmen: Matt Scott and Bennie Beutler. Chute bosses: Bennie Beutler and Will O'Connell. Pickup men: Shandon Stalls and Will O'Connell. Photographer: David Seymore.
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Who's Who: Luis Paulo Gatti
Luis Paulo Gatti is an ACD/ART based at Saatchi & Saatchi Dubai, leading creative development for brands like Cadillac, Merci, Isuzu, and Dubai Tourism.
How did you get into advertising?
When we’re younger, we’re bombarded with so many different options on what to study and where to work, but my decision was made a little easier when I won a scholarship to study Communications. In Brazil, we study Journalism and Advertising together until the second year, where we are then faced with the choice of what to specialize in. In the beginning, I considered becoming a journalist, but changed my mind and dived head first into advertising. Through my college journey, I developed a passion for the advertising profession as I was surrounded by the most creative brains from the most creative agencies and was exposed to the wonders of creativity that advertising brings out.
Can you give us a rundown of the most recent campaign you worked on?
National Geographic Abu Dhabi invited us to participate in a pitch for the Planet or Plastic? Project. The global campaign was a success in 2018, with the iconic magazine cover, and in 2019 we approached them with a different route using the power of strong creative graphics. The brief asked to present an idea for a 12-month long campaign. We invited 12 artist-activists, all engaged in the cause against single-use of plastic, from the 12 countries that suffer the most from pollution in the oceans and created an art piece that represented each of their own countries. These pieces of art were inspired by their personal experiences, as well as issues that are depicted in both local and international news from the countries. It was an intense research process before even starting the art pieces. In addition to all the material for the brief and signing on only artists engaged in the cause, we had to take into account that the 12 works of art have varied styles that give a visual richness to the project. I had the pleasure of coordinating the project and brainstorming with each one of the artists. We had detailed discussions on what direction to follow so that no topic would look alike. As there are 12 different countries and I am in Dubai, every meeting that took place happened at completely different times across different time zones. I put a lot of energy and effort into the project and many sleepless nights, but when the result began to appear, I could not be happier. In addition to the artwork, we also did interviews with each artist giving them the opportunity to talk more about their work and the issues they wish to solve.
In parallel to the production of the art pieces and interviews I briefed two copywriters, Daniel Bensusan and Rafael Bornacina, on writing headlines for each country and when we received the images, I asked them to give even more life to the work by inserting powerful messages onto each image. In the end, I and another art director, Ivan Montebello, developed the typography together. I also received a lot of support from my CCO, Komal Bedi Sohal, who pushed me in the right direction throughout the process, and from two creative directors, William Mathovani and Raja Rizkallah, who helped me give a regional touch to the campaign. Another very important factor was the partnership we developed with the client, Rajdeep Chatterjee, Nicole Auon and Rami Abu Arja. They gave us a lot of creative freedom and in return, we did our best to make the campaign really relevant to them and to the project. The result so far has been incredible. After launching this on Natgeo’s social networks, we got coverage in region's leading newspapers which resulted in thousands of shares, views, and likes, 8.6+ million media impressions and USD 320,000 free media and PR coverage. Very soon we will launch an art exhibition for the project in Dubai, which will be promoted on Natgeo's social networks to invite the public.
The best piece of creative work around at the moment is?
I will give my answer based on the region that I currently work in and one that is very personal to me. There are a series of incredible films made by Leo Burnett Dubai for DU TELECOM. The films question the behavior of some people who film a tragedy and share it on social networks, in which they end up exploiting the terrible situations faced by the victims for viral fame. A very sad but true reality.
Another campaign that I like from the region, especially Dubai, is a series of films by IKEA. Through humor, the films reflect everyday mundane problems in a very dramatic tone of voice. And of course, presenting the solution with IKEA products.
Finally, I will comment on a FOX campaign for the Simpsons. I found it very smart that the campaign works on the insight familiar to fans of the show, a running joke that implies that the Simpsons foresee the future. Simply brilliant!
All these campaigns have the common denominator of targeting the audience in smart ways. In the case of Du – trying to change a behavior, with IKEA it's selling products with everyday drama in our daily routine, while at FOX it's listening to what the fans have been saying about the brand. BRAVO!
What do you think the next big advertising trend is going to be?
I am seeing a new direction of communications from brands but I would like to see more of this — brands communicating messages and their stance on human relations such as combating societal issues like homophobia and racism, promoting social inclusion and also encouraging environmental causes. A recent example of this is the Gillette ad on toxic masculinity that had its share of dislikes, which only proves how much more we need to talk about these topics. Brands must take a side, a stand and be true in what they are communicating. A great example was when Colin Kaepernick's Nike Campaign Keeps N.F.L. Anthem Kneeling in Spotlight.
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By Christopher Breen, Macworld | PT
HandBrake remains a rockin' rippin' application
HandBrake Developers HandBrake 0.9.4
[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to override its copy protection to make a backup copy or to convert its content for viewing on other devices. Currently, the law isn’t entirely clear one way or the other. So our advice is: If you don’t own it, don’t do it. If you do own it, think before you rip.]
When, back in late 2006, we last looked at the free DVD-ripping tool HandBrake, it had just turned 0.9.0. And for its 0.9.0 birthday it gained greater ease of use, better picture quality, conversion presets, and advanced encoding features. In the several years since, HandBrake’s version number has advanced only to 0.9.4, but that seemingly small version increment actually reflects big changes.
In the interest of filling in the gaps between HandBrake 0.9.0 and the current version, I should mention what versions 0.9.1 through 0.9.3 brought to the table. Version 0.9.1 provided mostly bug fixes, while 0.9.2 introduced support for Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in MP4 files, iPhone-compatible anamorphic video, variable frame-rate encoding, and greater stability.
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Version 0.9.3 brought a much more significant change: the loss of HandBrake's built-in DVD-decryption code, as HandBrake’s developers got out of the copy-protection-stripping business. However, they made no secret of the fact that if you installed a copy of VLC Media Player, HandBrake would take advantage of VLC's ability to skirt DVD copy-protection schemes, and thus allow you to rip commercial DVDs. (Such is the case today—you still need VLC to remove copy-protection from commercial DVDs when using HandBrake.)
Improvements in 0.9.3 included the capability to choose other video sources, including VIDEO_TS folders. Video quality was improved, as was audio-video synchronization. And Handbrake 0.9.3 tackled its fair share of bugs.
Back to the present: HandBrake 0.9.4 is speedier than previous versions. This is partly due to improvements made to the free x264 video encoder that works much of HandBrake’s magic. According to HandBrake’s development team, these improvements result in smaller, better, and faster encoding.
HandBrake is also now available in 32- and 64-bit versions, with the 64-bit version promoted as offering a speed boost of up to 10 percent. And you don’t need Snow Leopard to take advantage of the 64-bit version—it works under Leopard on any Intel Mac with a Core 2 Duo or better processor. (Those with Core Duo or Core Solo processors should use the 32-bit Intel release. A Power PC version is available, as well.)
I tested the 64-bit version under Leopard on a 2.66GHz quad-core Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM. Using the Apple TV preset, HandBrake encoded the 1-hour, 2-minute premiere episode of HBO’s Six Feet Under in 31 minutes and 41 seconds; the 32-bit version took 34 minutes and 53 seconds to do the same job. Not quite a 10-percent difference, but close.
I didn’t see a remarkable change in encoding times when running these same tests under Snow Leopard on the same Mac Pro, and you'll see little difference on a slow Mac—if you have a Power PC Mac, an older Intel iMac, or a pre-2009 Mac mini, you should still be prepared to wait hours to rip a feature-length DVD. If you have such a Mac and are in a hurry, the Little App Factory’s $20 RipIt will do the job more quickly (though it rips the entire disc rather than just a TV episode or main feature, and it doesn't convert the resulting video to an iPod-, iPhone-, or Apple TV-compatible format).
The new version also improves previews: Whereas older versions could display still frames to show how a to-be-encoded video would look with the current settings, version 0.9.4 lets you view video clips, as well, giving you a far better idea of the finished video’s quality. The Preview window also lets you navigate to other areas of the video, and choose to view clips up to 60 seconds in length.
HandBrake and its Preview window
A new Picture Settings window lets you adjust the height, width, and cropping of your video, as well as tinker with deinterlace, decomb, and deblock settings. These latter settings are still for advanced users, but they’re more obvious than they were in the past.
When HandBrake first appeared, a key focus was on creating videos that looked good at smaller file sizes. The latest HandBrake still lets you create small files, but it also makes it easy, thanks to a new Constant Quality slider, to create great-looking (or, at least, consistent-looking) videos when file size isn’t a big concern. This feature keeps the converted video's quality consistent across the duration of the video. (When using this option, the 2-pass Encoding option is disabled, as it’s unnecessary.) By default, many of HandBrake’s presets are set at a constant quality of just over 60-percent.
HandBrake 0.9.4 finally allows you to include subtitles in your converted video without burning them into the video track: When using the new Forced Only option, subtitles appear during playback only when you ask for them (via a command in your video player).
Finally, HandBrake 0.9.4 loses some baggage from the past, such as the AVI, XviD, and OGG/OGM encoding options, as well as a number of outdated presets—you can still encode video for PSP, PS3, and Xbox 360, but the specific presets for them have been removed, along with the Film, Animation, and Television presets. These seem like perfectly reasonable omissions, particularly given the popularity of devices that suffer not one bit from a steady diet of H.264 video.
For those who wish to convert the DVDs they own for the purpose of archiving their content, carrying it on a laptop, or making it compatible with a device such as an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV, HandBrake is a godsend. It’s approachable enough for those new to DVD ripping, but has enough features for more-demanding users who want to tweak their videos to the nth degree. And who can argue with free?
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2012 Kia Cee'd
European C-Segmenter Gets A Refresh
Kia Hatchback News
by motortrendauthor February 15, 2012
Kia's reasonably priced Cee'd is getting quite the makeover for the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The compact car serves Europeans where U.S. customers get the Forte Koup, sedan, and four-door hatchback.
The latest Kia Cee'd -- which is likely to remain a European exclusive -- remains a hatchback, but shares only its daylight opening shape with its forebear. The new Cee'd packs plenty of Kia's latest design DNA into a compact vehicle: the corporate "tiger nose" grille is more prominent than ever, and flanked by long, tapered headlamps and a dramatically flared hood. As usual, the car also receives LED running lamps placed along the lower edges of the headlamp housings.
Further back, the new Cee'd shares a number of cues with the smaller Rio: taillights are mounted high up the curvaceous rear end, although the bumper cut echoes the shape of the hatch stamping itself. The lower diffuser is also a little more sophisticated, with raised accents surrounding the rear reflectors, license plate, and lower diffuser.
Inside, the interior is anything but drab. Like the Optima, the Cee'd's instrument panel wraps into the center stack. Grey plastic materials used on the dashboard itself are broken up with strips of glossy piano black trim. Door panels are two-toned, and the leather seats shown here feature contrast stitching. The look is refreshingly high-end -- which is welcome, considering the C-segment continues to move upmarket in around the globe.
As for the mechanicals, it's still anyone's guess: Kia has been tight-lipped about the car's selection of engines. Currently, European models feature a range of gasoline and diesel engines that make anywhere between 89 and 126 horsepower, but it's been rumored that the Procee'd, the three-door version of the Cee'd, could make use of the the same 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine used in the new Hyundai Veloster Turbo.
Also unknown at the moment is whether this car will make it to the United States. We wouldn't be surprised if it didn't: after all, the previous Cee'd was designed expressly for the European market, which left North America with the Forte. We may not see a Cee'd on our shores, but we can only hope the next Kia C-segment offering for North America looks this good.
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Dana White impressed by Urijah Faber, but wants Henry Cejudo to defend UFC flyweight title next (July 16)
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Despite Beef, TJ Dillashaw Says Urijah Faber Deserves UFC Hall of Fame
Pioneer to the lighter weight classes in mixed martial arts Urijah Faber will be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in July.
“The California Kid” put the featherweight division on the map. During a time when the UFC cut the 155-pound division from its roster, Faber was laying the groundwork for the bantamweight and featherweight divisions in King of the Cage and World Extreme Cagefighting. From 2006 to 2008, Faber was the 145-pound world champion.
Faber made the lighter weight classes relevant. He fought for the UFC bantamweight title four times, but the belt eluded him. Faber, who founded Team Alpha Male, was unable to bring his team a UFC title. The first fighter training out of the Sacramento, Calif. gym to win UFC gold was TJ Dillashaw in 2014. He left the camp after his second title defense and sparked a bitter rivalry with his former team.
Despite the animosity between the two, Dillashaw believes Faber is well deserving of his upcoming UFC Hall of Fame induction.
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“When I was in wrestling in college, he was a guy that I looked up to when he was fighting – someone that had made it from a wrestling background. He wrestled at University of California, Davis,” Dillashaw said during an appearance on the UFC Unfiltered podcast.
“He paved the way for us. He was a very popular small guy; the first one. He’s been around for a long time, so he definitely deserves it.”
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Ex-NFL player comments on lawsuit against Houston Texans
Former Philadelphia Eagles and Texans linebacker DeMeco Ryans requested a Texas federal court to send his tort claims against the Houston Texans back to state court on Friday, December 30. Ryans claims the case does not implicate the National Football League’s collective bargaining agreement.
The Texans said the personal injury claims are preempted by the collective bargaining agreement under the Labor Management Relations Act.
In his motions to remand, Ryans argued that, “In fact, the only reference Ryans makes to the CBA in his first amended petition is by way of an express disclaimer providing that none of his claims ‘based on any provision of the [CBA] governing the terms and conditions of employment of [NFL] players.’ Furthermore, Ryans expressly states that the CBA is not the source of any claim asserted herein and expressly disclaims any potential remedy or cause of action that could be brought under the CBA for the injury and/or occurrence in question.”
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General Characteristics: Awarded: September 15, 1977
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Decommissioned: 2006
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by John Denton
Posted: Jan 13, 2019
ORLANDO – Orlando Magic reserve Khem Birch knows the reality of his situation and he is well aware that in a matter of time he will almost assuredly return to his role as the team’s third-string center behind standout Nikola Vucevic and prized rookie Mo Bamba.
But Birch, now 26 and the married father of a newborn baby girl, says he is better equipped to handle being in a position where he might only play occasionally than earlier in his career. The 6-foot-9, 233-pound center was one of the heroes in Orlando’s 105-103 defeat of Boston on Saturday when he scored four points, grabbed 10 rebounds and swatted four shots in the place of Bamba (sore left foot).
Birch, a Canadian who attended high school in America and was a McDonald’s All-American, also has the benefit of some perspective provided by an experience early in his basketball career.
``I take a lot of pride in this,’’ Birch said of keeping himself ready to contribute when called upon. ``Also, I feel like it’s karma from when I was 19 years old transferring from (the University of) Pitt midway through the season and that’s some sort of karma right there (not playing full-time with the Magic). I’m just trying to stay ready when my number is called and do the best that I can do.
``I transferred first semester to UNLV, and I had to sit out until the second semester of the next year and that was probably one of the most immature moves ever,’’ Birch added. ``From now on, when something like that happens, I’m going to stay ready regardless of what happens.’’
Birch came into Sunday’s game against Houston having played just 8.3 minutes over 18 games – mostly in mop-up duty. The Magic are hopeful that Bamba, the No. 6 pick in last June’s NBA Draft, will be able to return by Wednesday after an MRI showed no structural damage in his left foot. That means Birch, who made it to the NBA after stints in the G League, Turkey and Greece, will most likely slide back into his break-glass-if-necessary role as the team’s third-string center.
``I told (head coach Steve Clifford) that I understand reality,’’ Birch said. ``Mo’s going to play and Vooch is going to play and those guys are so talented. I feel like in life, you’ve got to understand the reality of situations. Like I said, I think learning from (transferring) from Pitt has helped me with coping. I’m always going to stay ready.’’
AUSTIN (ORLANDO) CITY LIMITS: When point guard Austin Rivers was traded by Washington to Phoenix on Dec. 17 and later released by the Suns, the Orlando native admitted that he felt the tug of potentially playing for the Magic, the franchise he grew up rooting for while his father, Doc, was the coach of from 1999-2003.
The Magic have been in search of a point guard to backup starter D.J. Augustin for most of the season, experimenting with Jerian Grant, Jonathon Simmons and Isaiah Briscoe. While it might have seemed that Rivers would have been a perfect fit, he said the lure of playing for the championship-contending Rockets commanded his attention.
``It’s been amazing (with the Rockets) – maybe even a lot better than I thought it would be,’’ said Rivers, who came into Sunday averaging 12.2 points and 3.1 assists in nine games and six starts for a Houston team playing without Chris Paul (hamstring strain), Eric Gordon (knee bruise) and Brandon Knight (sore knee). ``I knew I could fit in here, but I didn’t think it was going to be like this. It hasn’t even been a transition. It’s as if I’ve been playing here for years, that’s what it feels like.’’
Rivers, 26, said his representation had brief talks with the Magic about playing for them, but it was the draw of potentially playing for a championship that landed him in Houston.
``I think so, I think a little bit, but I just saw the way Houston played,’’ Rivers said, referring to the interest from Orlando. ``(They Rockets) emphasize threes, layups and getting to the basket, which is what I like to do and they needed a defender. I was just like, `the thing they needed and what I do well (fit his game).’ And this is a team that is close and is a Finals’ caliber team.’’
Rivers, who will be a free agent in July, said he’s dreamed of playing for the Magic since his days of growing up in Orlando and starring at Winter Park High School. He had approximately 15 family and friends at Sunday’s game at Orlando’s Amway Center, led, of course, by his mother, Kris, who still lives in suburban Orlando.
``I’ve always had a dream, as kid, of playing for the hometown team,’’ Rivers said. ``Any kid who says they don’t want to play for their hometown team is lying.
``I’ll never claim I’m from L.A. or that’s my home; my home is always going to be Orlando. It’s my favorite place in the world,’’ Rivers said. ``That will never change.’’
BAMBA RECOVERING: Clifford said that Bamba is making progress from the sore left foot that knocked him out of the past two games, and the team is confident that he is still on track to make his return to action on Wednesday.
The 7-footer felt soreness in his left foot following last Monday’s loss in Sacramento and was held out of the Magic’s final game of their road trip in Utah. After tests revealed no structural damage in his foot, Bamba was allowed to resume some non-weight-bearing conditioning drills so that he is ready to play later in the week.
``I think that he’s feeling better and he’s been very diligent,’’ Clifford said of Bamba’s rehabilitation of his injury. ``He’s doing a ton of stuff – conditioning and in the pool and all that stuff that they do. The big thing is when it’s (an injury to) the feet and there’s pain there, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense to rush him back in Game 43.’’
For the season, Bamba has averaged 6.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and a team-best 1.38 blocked shots in 16.6 minutes a game. He scored a career-best 15 points in his hometown of New York on Nov. 11 and he grabbed 12 rebounds at Charlotte on Dec. 31 at Charlotte. He’s blocked a shot in 30 of the 39 games he’s played in and has had two or more blocks 16 times.
UP NEXT: After playing a difficult back-to-back set of games against Boston and Houston, the Magic are scheduled to be off on Monday.
Orlando will be back on the practice court on Tuesday prior to flying to Detroit to face the Pistons on Wednesday night. Orlando and Detroit have split the season series, 1-1 so far and Wednesday’s game could go a long way toward determining the tiebreaker between two teams expected to battle for a playoff spot all season.
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Ryan Murphy Talks Possible Boyfriends For 'Glee's' Kurt
By AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff
Published Oct 2, 2010 at 9:20 PM | Updated at 9:30 PM EDT on Oct 2, 2010
Chris Colfer, right, and Mike O'Malley are shown in an episode of "Glee."
Ryan Murphy is shooting down recent reports that gay "Glee" clubber Kurt Hummel played by Chris Colfer will find love with McKinley High's handsome blond newcomer played by Chord Overstreet, according to E!'s Kristin Dos Santos.
"It's definitely not Chord," the "Glee" co-creator/executive producer reportedly told Kristin on Thursday, of Kurt's love interest. "The new character Darren Criss is certainly an option. I'm not sure how soon I want to reveal that information because it's such a big storyline of the year—I want there to be some surprises."
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Darren Criss, best known for his small screen stint on ABC's witch drama "Eastwick," will reportedly join the hit FOX show as "Kurt's mentor and then maybe love."
In "Glee's" upcoming episode, entitled "Grilled Cheesus," Kurt struggles to understand the beliefs and values of those around him. However, it's also become a timely subject matter due to the recent reported suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers University student, Tyler Clementi, after his roommate and another student allegedly videotaped him having sex with another man.
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"Last year the throughline was about teenage pregnancy. And the throughline this year is really about Kurt and his feelings about tolerance," Ryan revealed. "… This week alone three gay teenagers have killed themselves and committed suicide, and we just got asked today to do a PSA on it because it's becoming such an epidemic because of the bullying."
"Grilled Cheesus" - which will reportedly feature religious-themed songs including Joan Osbourne's 90's hit, "One of Us," and R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" --will air on Tuesday, October 5, at 8 PM on FOX.
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The Five Best Free Desktop Mail Clients
Web-based email services have come a long way over the past decade, and many of them are feature-rich enough to be on par with desktop-based alternatives. But there are several valid reasons to keep using desktop email software. Postbox and Outlook are the two main options, but they’re expensive. If you only need an email client to handle one or two personal accounts, then a free email client will likely serve you just fine — just be aware that you may run into feature restrictions as a free user.
1. Thunderbird
Available for Windows, Mac, Linux.
Though Thunderbird development was discontinued in 2012, it still receives maintenance updates so don’t write it off as dead just yet. In fact, a stable version update was released earlier this year. The client won’t be getting any new features going forward, but it’s absolutely still usable.
And, as sad as it is to say, Thunderbird is the only free and open source desktop email client that’s actually worth using. Other open source clients exist, but they’re riddled with issues like clunky interfaces, glitchy performance, and lack of advanced features.
If you’re adamant about never spending a penny and never switching to a web-based client, then Thunderbird is your best bet. It can do pretty much anything you need, including setting up message filters and autoresponding to emails, among other nifty tips and tweaks.
Download: Thunderbird (Free)
2. Mailspring
Back in 2016, Nylas Mail hit the scene and looked as if it’d be the desktop email client to put all other desktop email clients to shame. But then in August 2017, the team announced that they’d no longer be working on Nylas Mail and opened up the source to the public.
One of the original authors then forked the project and relaunched Nylas Mail as Mailspring. In addition to keeping the project alive, he optimized and improved many of the internal components, resulting in quicker syncing, less RAM usage, faster launch times, and more.
Thunderbird may be the client of choice for those who want reliability and time-tested staying power, but Mailspring is the client to use if you want something fresh, new, exciting, and full of future potential. It’s free to use indefinitely with some advanced features locked behind a subscription.
Notable Free Version Features
Syncs with Gmail, Office 365, Yahoo, iCloud, FastMail, and IMAP.
Unlimited email accounts and unified inbox.
Undo sent emails within a given period of time.
Support for pre-built themes, layouts, and emojis.
Notable Pro Version Features
Powerful template support for productivity.
Track whether emails are opened and links are clicked.
Schedule emails to be sent at a future time.
Snooze emails and create follow-up reminders.
Share email threads with others using a web link.
Download: Mailspring (Free, $8/mo for Pro)
3. Sylpheed
Sylpheed is an email client that’s been around since 2001. While it does feel dated when compared to modern email clients, it’s not bad by any stretch. In fact, its old-school interface and approach to email management may actually prove helpful if your email habits are causing undue stress.
The best thing about Sylpheed is that it knows what it is: an email client. It doesn’t concern itself with tons of extraneous features that do nothing but bloat the installation and clutter the interface. Sylpheed is simple, lightweight, and full-featured.
Notable features include fast launch and overall performance, advanced email search and filters, effective junk mail control, encryption, and extensibility through plugins.
Download: Sylpheed (Free)
4. Mailbird
Available for Windows.
If you’ve never used desktop email before, then you’ll probably love Mailbird. If you’re migrating from another client, it will be hit or miss — some parts will feel familiar, other bits will impress you, but you’ll undoubtedly find aspects that you hate as well.
All we can recommend is giving it a try. It’s definitely slick and modern, and there’s a lot to like about it. Note that it’s a freemium app so the free version is restricted in some ways.
Beautifully sleek and minimal interface.
Syncs with any IMAP or POP email service.
Lightning fast search and indexing.
Integration with Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs, and more.
Supports up to 3 email accounts.
Snooze emails and set up reminders.
Speed reader for emails.
Quick preview for email attachments.
Download: Mailbird (Free, $18/yr or $59 one-time for Pro)
5. eM Client
eM Client aims to be an all-in-one solution for dealing with office tasks and communications. It’s primarily designed for email, but also has nifty calendar integration, task management, contacts organization, and even chat support — and the free version only has one (albeit major) limitation, as you can see below.
Slick Modern UI interface that fits well with Microsoft apps.
Syncs with Gmail, Exchange, iCloud, Office 365, and Outlook.com.
Conversational view for email threads.
Integration with all common chat services, including Jabber.
Supports an unlimited number of email accounts.
Can be used for commercial purposes (e.g. business office use).
VIP support and troubleshooting.
Download: eM Client (Free, $50 one-time purchase)
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Rebel Riders
The Banda Journal
Bridge of the Nation
Return to Aceh
Persian Spring
Topography of Haze
The Kosovo Ballet
The Mentawai
MUHAMMAD FADLI
Photographer, Jakarta, Indonesia
Carbon Credit for The Wall Street Journal
January 08, 2019 in Editorial, Documentary, Tearsheet, Publication
Images (including outtakes) from recent assignment about Carbon Credit for The Wall Street Journal in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).
Exceprt from original text by Jon Emont.
Eleven years ago Dharsono Hartono, a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. banker, spotted what he thought was a new way to make a fortune: climate change. The plan was to snap up rain forest in Borneo, preserve it from logging and sell carbon credits to big polluting companies in the developed world. The earth’s temperature was rising, and this was a way to profit by confronting the problem.
His bet has been on what some investors hope will be the most profitable outcome of a warming climate: government regulation of carbon emissions. Those who correctly anticipate future government responses to climate change are likely to reap profits.
Mr. Hartono went in big. His company’s rain forest, a humid and swampy expanse home to orangutans and clouded leopards, is twice the size of New York City and has one of the largest carbon stores of any such project in the world.
But the carbon windfall never arrived.
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News and updates from Muhammad Fadli, Indonesian Photographer, Jakarta Indonesia.
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Paul Pogba Injury Update
Manchester United are back to the track of bad performances and results after falling to win against the shaky Newcastle United in the Premier League Matchday 27 away from home, and the bad news keeps on coming with the news of Paul Pogba, Manchester United’s midfielder, being injured.
Manchester United lost 1-0 against Rafa Benitez side, Newcastle United, away from home, at the Saint James Park, where Manchester United were playing one of their worst games again this season with plenty of missed chances by several players such as Anthony Martial, Jesse Lingard, Alexis Sanchez, Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba, and others which cost Manchester United the three points.
Moreover, the defensive mistakes as well cost Manchester United the three points where the only goal came from a defensive mistake from Chris Smalling who cleared the ball in the wrong direction and Phil Jones who failed to mark and defend properly.
On the other hand, Paul Pogba played one of his worst matches as well where he got subbed off on the 65th minute for Manchester United’s captain, Michael Carrick, where Paul Pogba is suspected injured.
According to Manchester Evening News, the Frenchman, Paul Pogba, left the pitch while limping and he seemed as if he is in pain and injured while not being able to walk properly when Jose Mourinho, Manchester United’s manager, subbed him off, which could mean an extra trouble for Manchester United ahead of the crucial Champions League clashes.
However, Paul Pogba was able to continue being on the bench until the end of the match and pictured with some ball boys and fans after the match, but an official confirmation still not released whether the French midfielder is injured or he will be available for the next matches for Manchester United.
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Shorthanded Cavs fall to Pacers, 90-105
A slow start proved to be the fatal flaw in the Cleveland Cavaliers attempt to upset the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night, with the Cavs falling behind 17-30 in the first quarter but staying close for the rest of the contest, only being outscored 75-72.
Rookie point guard Collin Sexton was the standout player for Cleveland, tallying 16 points (6-14 shooting from the field), five rebounds, four assists and hitting all three of his attempts from deep. Sexton continued to show an improved understanding of the game, consistently setting teammates and himself up with clean looks. Unfortunately for the Cavs, the Pacers got off to a hot start behind center Myles Turner, who had 10 points and two threes in just the first quarter.
Had he been able to play more than 22 minutes, leaving the game after bumping knees with Cavs center Larry Nance Jr., the final deficit may have been larger.
However, Cleveland battled hard in the second half, cutting Indiana’s 21-point lead to as few as 11 points but the Pacers defense held firm against the Cavs ragtag group.
Cleveland will face the New York Knicks on Monday at Quicken Loans Arena, in what’ll a more evenly matched game for the Cavs.
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John P. Weiss
John paints quiet scenes of nature, draws whimsical cartoons and writes about life. He studied landscape painting extensively with American artist Scott L. Christensen.
A former editorial cartoonist, John's work appears in editions of Charles Brooks's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.
An accomplished writer with 24K followers on Medium.com, Weiss is the author of An Artful Life- Inspirational Stories and Essays for the Artist in Everyone.
John writes about the creative arts and life lessons. His work can be found on the following sites:
Becomingminimalist.com
The Unmistakable Creative
FineArtViews
GoinsWriter.com
Your Creative Push Podcast
The Ladders
A former police chief and 26-year law enforcement veteran, John retired early to pursue a creative life.
He lives in Southern Nevada with his wife, son and two studio dogs.
Read John's full biography here.
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ATV - All Terrain Vehicle
IC - Incident Command
Ropes/Rough Terrain
THE K9 TEAM
Nevada County hosts the largest Search and Rescue Dog Team in California, equipped with more than 20 search dogs, whose speed, agility and impeccable scent detection assist in locating missing persons and evidence. On a typical search for a lost person, search and rescue dogs are deployed to seek out human scent and immediately alert their handlers of a find. They act as the “nose” while their handlers take on the role of interpreter, navigator and radio operator. Certified handlers and their dogs on the K9 Team respond to searches within Nevada County, as well as mutual aid requests anywhere in the state. They train extensively in various disciplines, including area scent, trailing, cadaver, water, avalanche, firearms and evidence.
K-9 TRAINING INFORMATION
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WHAT IT TAKES...
The K9 Team searches both in wilderness settings and throughout Nevada County’s developed areas, often at night and in adverse weather conditions. Dog handlers must be dedicated to the ongoing commitment of training their K9s in agility, obedience and search skills. They should also be physically fit, comfortable working in rough terrain and achieve a minimum first responder level of medical training. Search and rescue dogs are high energy and well socialized with people and other dogs. Handlers and their dogs accomplish the complex K9 Team training through a California Rescue Dog Association (CARDA) apprenticeship program, which usually takes about two years to complete.
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The Skylight banquet facility to open downtown
The former school administration building at 85 E. Main St. will be The Skylight banquet facility
The Skylight banquet facility to open downtown The former school administration building at 85 E. Main St. will be The Skylight banquet facility Check out this story on newarkadvocate.com: http://ohne.ws/VqAG7K
Kent Mallett, Reporter Published 8:34 p.m. ET Aug. 14, 2014 | Updated 6:23 a.m. ET Aug. 15, 2014
Old post office to reveal its 1916 appeal as new banquet venue
Willie Ramey, foreman for the renovation of the old post office in downtown Newark, explains how he will be restoring the buildings original features as it is repurposed as the Skylight banquet venue. The massive skylight, marble walls and floors, woodwork, and large hopper windows are just some of the features being restored. Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Deconstruction of recent additions to the old post office building reveal features from the post office such as these gold leaf windows. Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Removal of walls and carpet reveals the original marble floor. Some restoration is required because of the fasteners used to attach the walls. Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
The old post office at the corner of East Main and South First streets, most recently home to the Newark City Schools administration, is being restored to its original beauty and repurposed as the Skylight banquet venue. Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
The Skylight banquet venue Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Original gas lighting fixtures still are visible on the marble walls. Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Woodwork above the entrance in the lobby Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Hopper windows Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate
Willie Ramey, foreman for the renovation of the old post office in downtown Newark, explains how he will be restoring the building’s original features as it is repurposed as the Skylight banquet venue. The massive skylight, marble walls and floors, woodwork, and large hopper windows are just some of the features being restored. (Photo: Michael Lehmkuhle/The Advocate )Buy Photo
Brides and grooms will have their first dances in the room where post office workers sorted mail almost 100 years ago.
Wedding guests will enter into a reception area where residents picked up the their mail and stamps in 1916.
The downtown building at the corner of East Main and First streets, used as a post office for more than 50 years and school administration building for more than 40 years, will soon become The Skylight banquet facility.
Bentley Austin, a Buckeye Lake resident who turned a former bank building into The Vault, a banquet venue in downtown Columbus, signed a 10-year lease for Newark's landmark at 85 E. Main St.
"When I walked into this space, I just said 'I'll take it,' " Austin said. "This has everything going for it. This just has a great feel as you come in.
"I want to get it open as quickly as I can. It won't be as nice as it will be in a year or two years."
The building, vacated by Newark City Schools a year ago, is owned by commercial Realtor Park Shai and real estate investor James Vanwinkle, who purchased the building in October with a $90,000 bid.
The facility should be open in October, although improvements will continue long after the opening, Austin said.
The front cocktail area, with a marble floor, will hold 150 to 200 guests, and the main room in the back can serve about 350 to 400 people, he said. There also will be a bride's room, catering preparation area and storage room.
The facility will not have a kitchen and will rely on outside caterers, Austin said.
A large open room is critical, but a large front reception area is important as well, he said.
"It's the brides that need to have some nice space," Austin said. "The Vault has a balcony, but brides are unhappy it lacks the area to hold people until they (enter) the big room.
"It's going to be great. I'm a guy that loves historic banquet facilities. We've already uncovered the stamp window. We'll preserve anything we can."
Austin said he realized there was an opportunity in Newark after learning that many Newark people have their wedding receptions at the Buckeye Lake Yacht Club.
The facility also will be available for fundraisers, company parties, proms, college formals and public events, but will make its money mostly from weddings on the weekends.
During the week, The Skylight will offer discounted rental rates for school, church, dance academies and nonprofit events. On the weekend, it will offer competitive weekend rates, according to its website.
"We're trying to keep this really community-oriented and keep costs down," Austin said.
Bill Mason, former Newark City Schools assistant superintendent, said it's great to hear there are plans for the building, built in 1916.
"I am just elated the building is going to be put to some positive use," Mason said. "It's a great old building. It has character and history and an ambiance to it."
Mason arranged for the school district to purchase the building in the early 1970s after the post office moved to its location at Church and First streets.
"It's a great old building," Mason said. "It'll be there for years and years. It's solid rock. It's good stuff. That lobby was ornate. It was a gorgeous lobby area."
The venue's website states, "What was mostly hidden by offices for the past 40 years is now being opened up to expose the breathtaking 30-foot ceilings and incredible turn of the century architecture."
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Trump says he’s not thrilled with GOP-backed border deal
Shutdown watch: Bipartisan push for deal
By ABC7 Staff | February 11, 2019 at 7:45 PM CST - Updated February 12 at 9:34 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say he wouldn’t sign the measure. GOP congressional leaders swung behind the proposed deal, selling it as a necessary compromise.
Trump said he doesn’t believe there will be a shutdown, which could have hit hundreds of thousands of federal workers again this weekend. “Everything” is on the table, he said at the White House, but “we certainly don’t want to see a shutdown.”
He said he needs to look further at the agreement, which would grant far less than the $5.7 billion he wants for a long wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled,” he said. But one way or another, he said, “the wall’s getting built.”
Top Republicans Mitch McConnell in the Senate and Kevin McCarthy in the House both claimed victory, crowing about Democratic concessions on new border barriers and a late-stage battle over the ability of federal authorities to arrest and detain immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
“You’ve got to remember where Nancy Pelosi was. She has said, ‘No money for a wall.’ That’s not the case,” McCarthy said on CNBC Tuesday morning. “The Democrats have now agreed to more than 55 miles of new barrier.”
However, negotiators said it’s pretty much the deal that Trump could have gotten in December. Aides revealed details under condition of anonymity because the agreement is tentative.
Republicans and the White House were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. They tentatively agreed Monday night to far less money for Trump’s border wall than the White House’s $5.7 billion wish list, settling for a figure of nearly $1.4 billion, according to congressional aides. The huge funding measure, which combines seven spending bills into one, runs through the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.
Details might not be released until Wednesday, but the pact came in time to alleviate any threat of a second partial government shutdown this weekend.
At the White House on Tuesday, spokesman Hogan Gidley was noncommittal: “We want to focus on what’s actually in the document. Until we see that, it’s going to be very difficult to have a conversation about what we will and won’t accept.
The agreement means 55 miles (88 kilometers) of new fencing — constructed through existing designs such as metal slats instead of a concrete wall — but far less than the 215 miles (345 kilometers) the White House demanded in December. The fencing would be built in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. It closely mirrors Trump’s original budget request from last winter.
The split-the-differences compromise contains plenty to anger lawmakers on the right and left — more border fencing than many Democrats would like and too little for conservative Republicans — but its authors praised it as a genuine compromise that would keep the government open and allow everyone to move on.
“With the government being shut down, the specter of another shutdown this close, what brought us back together I thought tonight was we didn’t want that to happen” again, said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
“Our staffs are just working out the details,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.
The pact also includes increases for new technologies such as advanced screening at border entry points, humanitarian aid sought by Democrats and additional customs officers.
This weekend, Shelby pulled the plug on the talks over Democratic demands to limit immigrant detentions by federal authorities, frustrating some of his fellow negotiators, but Democrats yielded ground on that issue in a fresh round of talks on Monday.
Asked if Trump would back the deal, Shelby said: “We believe from our dealings with them and the latitude they’ve given us, they will support it. We certainly hope so.”
But Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, a Trump ally, said the barrier money in the agreement was inadequate. He warned late Monday that “any Republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain.” Conservatives like Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who has the ear of Trump, also came out in opposition.
“I would hope that Sean Hannity and all the other people you mentioned aren’t running this government. This was a bipartisan deal, Senate and House, Republican and Democrat,” Democrat Lowey said on CNN.
Trump traveled to El Paso, Texas, for a campaign-style rally Monday night focused on immigration and border issues. He has been adamant that Congress approve money for a wall along the Mexican border, though he no longer repeats his 2016 mantra that Mexico will pay for it, and he took to the stage as lawmakers back in Washington were announcing their breakthrough.
“They said that progress is being made with this committee,” Trump told his audience, referring to the congressional bargainers. “Just so you know, we’re building the wall anyway.”
Trump aides are discussing using executive action to access other pots of money to build the wall without Congress, even if Trump backs the compromise.
“We’ll take as much money as you can give us, and then we will go off and find the money someplace else - legally - in order to secure that southern barrier,” acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told Fox News Friday. He said more than $5.7 billon had been identified that Trump could tap.
Democrats carried more leverage into the talks after besting Trump on the 35-day shutdown but showed flexibility in hopes of winning Trump’s signature. After yielding on border barriers, Democrats focused on reducing funding for detention beds to curb what they see as unnecessarily harsh enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
The agreement yielded curbed funding, overall, for ICE detention beds, which Democrats promised would mean the agency would hold fewer detainees than the roughly 49,000 detainees held on Feb. 10, the most recent date for which figures were available. Democrats said the number of beds would be ratcheted down to 40,520 by year’s end.
But a proposal to cap at 16,500 the number of detainees caught in areas away from the border — a limit Democrats say was aimed at preventing overreach by the agency — ran into its own Republican wall.
Democrats dropped the demand in the Monday round of talks, and the mood in the Capitol improved markedly.
The recent shutdown left more than 800,000 government workers without paychecks, forced postponement of the State of the Union address and sent Trump’s poll numbers tumbling. As support in his own party began to splinter, Trump surrendered after the shutdown hit 35 days, agreeing to the current temporary reopening without getting money for the wall.
The president’s supporters have suggested that Trump could use executive powers to divert money from the federal budget for wall construction, though he could face challenges in Congress or the courts.
“The president still has a few more tools in his toolbox,” GOP Leader McCarthy said.
The negotiations hit a rough patch Sunday amid a dispute over curbing ICE, the federal agency that Republicans see as an emblem of tough immigration policies and Democrats accuse of often going too far.
The border debate got most of the attention, but it’s just part of a major spending measure to fund a bevy of Cabinet departments. A collapse of the negotiations would have imperiled another upcoming round of budget talks that are required to prevent steep spending cuts to the Pentagon and domestic agencies.
Associated Press writers Catherine Lucey, Darlene Superville and Lisa Mascaro in Washington and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.
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Law allows police, military to detain suspects without court orders
Image Credits: ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images.
By Reuters Monday, April 22, 2019
Sri Lanka said on Monday it was invoking emergency powers in the aftermath of devastating bomb attacks on hotels and churches, blamed on militants with foreign links, in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded.
The emergency law, which gives police and the military extensive powers to detain and interrogate suspects without court orders, will go into effect at midnight on Monday, the president’s office said.
MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images
Colombo, the seaside capital of the Indian Ocean island, was jittery on Monday. Police said 87 bomb detonators were found at the city’s main bus station, while an explosive went off near a church where scores were killed on Sunday when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse it.
Alex Jones presents video of Lou Dobbs warning his viewers that the investigation into what exactly started the Notre Dame fire may be covering up the very realistic possibility of arson.
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High school graduates construct 150 houses for the needy
Jean de Dieu Nsabimana
Published : June 24, 2019 | Updated : June 26, 2019
Thousands of fresh high school graduates returned home over the weekend after completing six weeks of Urugerero, or national service, during which they constructed a total of 147 houses for vulnerable citizens across the country.
During the post-high school exercise, participants pitched camp at different sites across all districts, and officials have put the worth of their voluntary work to an estimated Rwf800 million.
Besides building new residential units, the youths, known as Intore in the course of the national service, also refurbished 199 houses, built 1,129 toilets, helped initiate kitchen gardens for 3,049 households to enhance nutrition, and set up two fruit tree nurseries.
According to the National Itorero Commission, which is in charge of organising the annual exercise, up to 8,221 youths took part in this year’s Urugerero, 3,814 of whom were girls.
The idea is to deploy young people who have completed their secondary school education – and are about to join tertiary institutions – to communities around the country to particular help improve the living conditions of vulnerable households.
Participants are selected at the village and cell levels across the country.
During the course of Urugerero, participants are also deployed to communities to help to raise public awareness on such important issues as drug abuse and malnutrition.
In Rwamagana District, Urugerego participants pitched camp in Nyakariro Sector. From this site, which hosted 250 Intore (134 of them girls), participants were able to construct four houses in nearby communities, which were subsequently inaugurated on Friday.
An emotional Theogene Nsabimana, one of the beneficiaries, said: “I never thought that one day I would have my own house.”
His brand new home is complete with a toilet and a ‘kitchen garden’.
Speaking at the occasion, the Governor of Eastern Province, Fred Mufulukye, lauded the youths, urging them to keep working hard and espousing the values of patriotism, volunteerism and community service.
Speaking during the launch of the 2019 Urugerero in Kayonza District last month, Local Government minister Prof. Anastase Shyaka described the Urugerero as “a home-grown practice” that must be preserved.
Urugerero, he said, is “a catalyst for accelerated development and a self-sustaining, wealthy and dignified nation.”
Urugerero, an ages-old Rwandan tradition, was first reintroduced in modern Rwanda for secondary school leavers in 2013.
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'The Vagabonds' Details The Publicity-Encouraged Road Trips Of Thomas Edison And Henry Ford Jeff Guinn weaves in a portrait of America's burgeoning love affair with the automobile. But his book rests heavy on the men's positive attributes, while shying away from their "unfortunate flaws."
'The Vagabonds' Details The Publicity-Encouraged Road Trips Of Edison And Ford
July 9, 201912:14 PM ET
Camila Domonoske
The Vagabonds
The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
by Jeff Guinn
Hardcover, 306 pages |
Jeff Guinn
Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Henry Ford invented the affordable automobile.
And, together, the brilliant best friends also invented the great American road trip!
OK, yes, that's a stretch. But it's the kind of puffed-up exaggeration the two publicity hounds would have delighted in, as author Jeff Guinn makes clear in his new book The Vagabonds.
The truth? Edison and Ford were friends, for sure, although they were the kind of pals who communicate mostly through their secretaries. And between 1914 to 1924, the two men — along with tire magnate Harvey Firestone and the crotchety naturalist John Burroughs — went on a series of vacations by car.
They weren't the first to take a recreational road trip. But at the time their holiday jaunts began, it was definitely unusual.
Roads were terrible. Accommodations for motorists were nonexistent. Breakdowns were frequent. And garages for repairs? Good luck. Some of the most striking anecdotes in the book come when Henry Ford, captain of industry, borrows tools on roadsides to repair their fleet of cars himself.
In short, any long drive was still an adventure. So road trips starring two of America's most famous business leaders made headlines across the country — which was, in fact, the point.
These were holidays, yes, but they were also carefully planned publicity stunts, carried out before a press corps that followed the men from stop to stop. Ford and Edison on their own were famous enough to command headlines. And like modern Instagram tourists, the "Vagabonds," as they were dubbed, calculated their trips to look great in photographs. Scenes of the men "roughing it," chopping wood or drinking water from a dipper, were posed for the media. (The wealthy Vagabonds received much admiration for their love for the rustic life, while enjoying hot meals prepared by the chef in their entourage and stopping at luxe hotels when weather turned foul.)
The Vagabonds is ostensibly a book about these vacations. But the road trips themselves, alas, are not very compelling. They were exhaustively documented by that army of reporters, and exhaustively researched by Guinn, but all the pandering to the watching press starts to feel a little redundant after a while. The appearance of two sitting presidents barely livens up events.
The trips also don't sound like much fun. Crotchety Burroughs wrote in his journals of landscapes that "offend my eye" and rough drives that left him frequently and painfully "unseated." Thomas' wife Mina Edison describes one trip as "so elaborate and so fussy that there is no charm in it" — a reasonable assessment, given Edison and Ford's determination to tote as many modern conveniences as possible on the road. The preoccupation with performing with the press certainly doesn't sound relaxing.
Guinn waves away those complaints, dismissing Mina Edison as "moping," and asserts again and again that the men enjoyed themselves mightily. Well, maybe so.
But for readers to enjoy themselves, Guinn must focus the bulk of his story around those trips. He considers the merits and failings of the media at the time, with many obliging reporters all too eager to fawn over the celebrity vacationers. He offers a fascinating snapshot of some of the less-famous years of American history, including the xenophobic turmoil of 1919 and the depression of 1920.
Woven into the backdrop of the story is a portrait of America's burgeoning love affair with the automobile. Gasoline goes from being sold by the bucket to offered in roadside service stations. Towns struggle to accommodate legions of vacationers before the rise of the motor hotel (better known now as the motel). And facing an acute parking shortage, downtowns across America rip out the trees that line their main streets and replace them with pavement.
Those threads are all well worth the read. But Guinn himself seems most interested in charting the rising and falling personal and business fortunes — and in the case of Ford, political ambitions — of the two men.
And it's here that the book falls short. The Vagabonds portrays all Ford and Edison's flaws, from minor peccadilloes to monstrous bigotry, in the warmest possible light.
A prominent example, of course, is Ford's anti-semitism, advanced ceaselessly not only in person, but through a newspaper he used as a mouthpiece for spreading anti-Jewish propaganda. When Guinn finally addresses it, he waves it away, hastening to note that at least Ford was not actively opposed to women's suffrage, and willing to hire "some" black men in management roles. As for Jews, Guinn writes that Ford was "typical of his times" — even as the book describes friends and colleagues recoiling at the virulence of Ford's anti-semitic tirades.
On one road trip, Guinn writes, as Ford and Edison were companionably chatting about the evil Jewish conspiracy behind all the world's evils, Firestone protested and left. He and Burroughs, Guinn speculates, must have "accepted that antisemitism was an unfortunate flaw among the many positive attributes of their two famous friends."
The entire book lays those positive attributes on heavily, and shies away from "unfortunate flaws." Guinn is blasé about Edison's eagerness to claim credit for the inventions of his underlings, and seems set to make episodes of out-and-out rudeness seem like great fun for all involved. His book is filled with riveting accounts of megalomania and hypocrisy, but always explained away or promptly countered by some glowing description.
It's the kind of laudatory coverage you'd expect from the adulatory press of the Vagabonds' own era. But it's a century later. Can't we admit that "great men" are far more interesting with their baggage than without?
Camila Flamiano Domonoske covers cars, energy and the future of mobility for NPR.
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A trio of researchers — a publicity-seeking oncologist, an exacting scientist driven by a love of research, and an ambitious young lab technician — becomes caught up in the desperate quest for a financial grant from the Philpott, a prestigious research laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., a campaign that has a profound impact on all their lives.
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Allegra Goodman's 'Intuition'
March 6, 2006 Allegra Goodman's new novel is Intuition.
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Excerpt: Intuition
January 1, 201012:00 AM ET
All day the snow had been falling. Snow muffled every store and church; drifts erased streets and sidewalks. The punks at the new Harvard Square T stop had tramped off, bright as winter cardinals with their purple tufted hair and orange Mohawks. The sober Vietnam vet on Mass Ave had retreated to Au Bon Pain for coffee. Harvard Yard was quiet with snow. The undergraduates camping there for Harvard's divestment from South Africa had packed up their cardboard boxes, tents, and sleeping bags and begun building snow people. Cambridge schools were closed, but the Philpott Institute was open as usual. In the Mendelssohn-Glass lab, four postdocs and a couple of lab techs were working.
Two to a bench, like cooks crammed into a restaurant kitchen, the postdocs were extracting DNA in solution, examining cells, washing cells with chemicals, bursting cells open, changing cells forever by inserting new genetic material. They were operating sinks with foot pedals, measuring and moving solutions milliliter by milliliter with pipettes, their exacting eyedroppers. They were preparing liquids, ices, gels.
There was scarcely an inch of counter space. Lab benches were covered with ruled notebooks and plastic trays, some blue, some green, some red, each holding dozens of test tubes. Glass beakers stood above on shelves, each beaker filled with red medium for growing cells. The glass beakers were foil topped, like milk bottles sealed for home delivery. Peeling walls and undercounter incubators were covered with postcards, yellowing Doonesbury cartoons, photographs from a long-ago lab picnic at Walden Pond. The laminar flow hood was shared, as was the good microscope. In 1985, the Philpott was famous, but it was full of old instruments. Dials and needle indicators looked like stereo components from the early sixties. The centrifuge, designed for spinning down cells in solution, was clunky as an ancient washing machine. There wasn't enough money to buy new equipment. There was scarcely enough to pay the postdocs.
On ordinary days, the researchers darted into and out of the lab to the common areas on the floor. The cold room, warm room, and stockroom were shared with the other third-floor labs, as was the small conference room with its cheap chrome and wood-grain furniture, good for meetings and naps. But this Friday no one left the lab, not even the lab techs, Aidan and Natalya. Gofers and factotums for the postdocs, these two belonged to a scientific service class, but no one dared treat them like servants. They were strong-willed and politically aware, attuned to every power struggle. They kept darting looks at each other, as if to say "It's time to go downstairs," but they delayed going to the animal facility for fear of missing something. The lab directors, Marion Mendelssohn and Sandy Glass, were meeting in the office down the hall. They had been conferring for half an hour, and this did not bode well. One of the postdocs was in trouble.
How bad was it? No one spoke. Prithwish kept his head down over a tray of plastic tubes, eyes almost level with the avocado plant he'd grown from seed. "My most successful experiment," he often said ruefully. Robin ducked out to look up and down the hall, then brushed past Feng as she hurried back inside. The black and white clock on the wall was ticking past three, but like the clocks in grade school, this one was always slow. Natalya glared at Aidan, as if to say "I went downstairs last time; it's really your turn now," but Aidan turned airily away. It might have been funny, but no one joked at the techs' pantomime.
"Cliff." Suddenly, Marion Mendelssohn was standing in the doorway. She stood there, fearsome, implacable, dark eyes glowering. "Could we have a word with you?" Cliff smiled tightly and shrugged, a desperate little show of nonchalance.
The others looked everywhere else, as their lab director led Cliff away to the office she shared with Sandy Glass.
Cliff's cheeks were already burning as he followed Marion down the corridor. At six foot three, he was more than a foot taller than Marion. Still, he was entirely in her power, and he dreaded what she and Glass were about to say. For years he'd been developing a variant of Respiratory Syncytial Virus and had dreamed of using his modified RSV to transform cancer cells into normal cells. His experiments were not working; Sandy and Marion had ordered him to give them up, and he had disobeyed.
The door closed behind him, and Cliff was standing in the tight, cluttered office.
"Now, Cliff," said Glass, "did we or did we not have a discussion about your continuing trials with RSV?"
Cliff stood silent.
"Maybe you don't remember our conversation," said Glass, smiling.
Cliff did remember, and he knew better than to smile back. Always cheerful, brimming with the irrepressible joy of his own intelligence, Sandy Glass smiled most when he was angry.
"I said you had to stop using RSV," Sandy reminded Cliff. "You said you understood."
Cliff nodded.
"We established RSV has some effect in vitro," Glass said. "Congratulations. You're on your way to curing cancer in a petri dish. But what have we established when we try injecting RSV into living mice?"
Cliff looked away.
"You've established nothing. You injected fifty-six mice with RSV, with no effect on tumors whatsoever. Therefore, Marion and I asked you to stop. We asked you nicely to move on. What did you do next?"
"I tried again," Cliff said, staring down at the floor.
"Yes, you did. You tried again."
Sandy ignored this. "We told you to stop wasting resources on RSV."
"I didn't want to give up," Cliff said.
"Look, I realize RSV was your baby," Sandy said. "I realize this was two years' work developing the virus."
Two and a half years, Cliff amended silently.
"We understand you put your heart and soul into this project." Sandy glanced at Marion, who looked anything but understanding. "The point is, RSV does not work. And now, yet another set of experiments--against all advice, against our specific instructions. What were you thinking, Cliff? Don't say anything. Perseverance can be a valuable trait, particularly when you're right. But we see now that this third trial is showing every sign of failing spectacularly. No, don't apologize. Just tell us what you were thinking. Tell us your thoughts, because we really want to know."
Why had he tried twice more with the virus after it had failed? They were expecting an answer, but Cliff could not speak. The truth shamed him; it was so simple: he could not bear to jettison work that had taken so much time. The hours, the thousands of hours he'd spent, sickened him. How could he confess to that? The scientific method was precise and calibrated. A scientist was, by definition, impassive. He cut his losses and moved on to something else; he was exhausted, perhaps, but never defiant with exhaustion. A scientist did not allow emotion to govern his experiments.
And yet Cliff had been emotional and unrealistic about his work. He had behaved unprofessionally, taking his long shot again, and yet again. How could he explain that? There was only one reasonable explanation: he was not a scientist. This was what Mendelssohn and Glass were driving at.
"Did we or did we not agree," said Glass, "that you would end the wholesale extermination of our lab animals?"
"We don't have the money," said Mendelssohn, and she didn't mean funds for the mice themselves, which cost about fifteen dollars each, but the money for the infinite care the delicate animals required. "You'll recall we asked you to work with Robin."
"She could still use another pair of hands," Glass said, and Cliff hated him for that, and for the patronizing, slightly prurient tone in Glass's voice.
"I deserve my own project," Cliff said, raising his eyes.
"There is no such thing as your own project in this lab," Mendelssohn declared.
"Look, this is a team," Glass said, "and you need to pull your weight, not drag everyone else down with your personal flights of fancy."
Down the hall, in the lab, the others gathered like near relations at a funeral.
"They wouldn't fire him," Prithwish said loyally. He was Cliff's roommate, after all.
"They will not fire him," Feng agreed.
Natalya thought about this. "My feeling is Mendelssohn would not, but Glass would." She was Russian and had been a doctor herself, before coming to America. Natalya had never taken to Glass.
"They'll be arguing, then," said Prithwish.
"They'll let him stay," Aidan predicted, "and make him so miserable he'll leave by himself."
"He was miserable before," Prithwish pointed out, but the others hushed him. Cliff was coming back down the corridor.
Instantly his friends scattered, vanishing into the clutter of glassware and instruments like rabbits in the brush. All but Robin, who pulled at Cliff's sleeve. Silently they slipped into the adjoining stockroom, the lab's poisonous pharmacological pantry.
She closed the door behind her. "Are you all right?"
His cheeks were flushed, his eyes unusually bright. "I'm fine."
She drew closer, but he turned away.
"What are you going to do?"
"I don't know," he said. "They've already tried to pawn me off on you."
"They suggested that you work with me?"
"Six months ago, but I said no."
She was surprised, and hurt. "You never told me that."
"What was the point? I didn't want to work on your stuff."
She folded her arms. "What's wrong with my stuff?"
"Nothing!" he lied.
She had spent five years working on what had once been considered a dazzling project, an analysis of frozen samples of blood, collected over the years from cancer patients who had died of various forms of the disease. Sandy Glass had been convinced that somewhere in these samples was a common marker, a significant tag that would suddenly reveal a unifying syndrome underlying his patients' tragic and diverse conditions. Glass had presented the project to Robin in her first year with a flourish, as if he were bestowing upon her a great gift. He'd told Robin he was convinced there was a Nobel Prize in this work; that this above all was the research he himself had hoped to do if his clinical duties had allowed. Then, having bestowed his blood collection along with a great deal of disorganized documentation about each donor's illness and death, he'd left her to work alone.
He'd chosen her for her fierce intelligence, her passion for discovery, her ambition--and, of course, Glass had always liked a beautiful postdoc. Robin's eyes were a warm brown, brilliant under pale lashes, her blond hair silken, although she tied it back unceremoniously with any old rubber band she happened to find. Her features were delicate and easily flushed, her teeth were small and almost, but not quite, straight. On the upper right side, one tooth overlapped another slightly, like a page turned down in a book. With her fine eyes and shining hair, she'd always seemed to Cliff like a girl out of a fairy tale. Still, even she could not spin Glass's dross into gold.
"So there's nothing wrong with my work, but it's not good enough for you," she challenged Cliff.
"No, I didn't say that."
"That's what you were thinking."
"Look, if I ever thought that, I'm sorry. Just, please . . ."
Gravely, she turned on him. "But you aren't sorry."
"Stop!"
"I just thought . . ." she began.
"Don't think anything. Just leave me alone."
He strode back through the lab and out into the hall. How could Robin expect him to talk to her? What did she want from him? To beg her to let him work on her dismal black hole of a project? To break down sobbing on her shoulder so she could comfort him? He still heard the humorous disdain in Glass's voice. He saw the hard disappointment in Mendelssohn's eyes. They had not ordered him to leave; they'd even allowed that he might stay, but they had made him suffer. They had held up the evidence of his disobedience and failure, then tossed whatever scrap of a scientist he'd been upon the garbage heap and all but called out "Next!" There was Prithwish coming after him down the corridor. Cliff was not going to suffer his condolences. He escaped into the stairwell and bolted down the stairs.
Outside the institute, the snow had stopped. The December sun was setting, and the world was strangely still. He'd run down four flights of stairs, and stood for a moment, breathing hard. Then he caught his breath and his anger flared again. He kicked his way through the snow, mouthing retorts. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am?
He walked without noticing distance or direction. Startled, he saw a red neon sign, LIBBY'S IQUORS, and realized he was in Central Square. A bus swept past, but there were scarcely any cars on the road. Stores were closed, and clean snow blew over the empty taxi stands. All alone, Cliff walked on.
He walked over a mile, as far as MIT, and then turned around and started back again past shuttered Victorian factories converted into warehouses, redbrick ramparts lowering in the shadows of taller office buildings. He thought about calling his parents, but what could they say to him? They owned a stationery store in West Los Angeles. They'd always encouraged Cliff. He'd attended University High School, gone to science camp in summers, practiced triangulation on sunbaked tennis courts, built his own weather station, cooked homemade versions of Silly Putty, toothpaste, and glue. His parents had paid for chemistry sets, and student microscopes, and even Stanford. They were well educated; both had gone to college, but Cliff was the first person in his family to earn a PhD. His parents knew nothing about bench work or lab politics. He thought of his thesis advisor, now dead. What would Professor Oppenheimer have said? He'd have laughed, of course, showing off his yellow teeth. He'd say, "What do you expect? You don't listen to the lab director, you get busted. You screw around with someone in the lab; of course you're gonna end up fighting later. You get what you deserve. How many times do I have to tell you? Don't shit where you eat."
His hands were cold, even in his pockets. He walked and walked up Mass Ave, and then along the Charles River, and his heart began to calm. The cold air began to smooth and smother his angry pride; numb despair overtook indignation.
He imagined he would keep walking forever in ever-widening circles, but as the river curved, he came upon the Weeks Footbridge, and there on the bridge he stopped. The Charles stretched out in the dark; pure, white, frosted with snow, like an ancient road now forgotten.
Cliff was overcome with a profound idea. He would walk across the river. Invisibly he would walk across the invisible river and leave his own footprints in the white snow on the frozen water. In the middle of the city, he would wander alone as if in the country, the slight crunch of the ice under his feet. He would walk to the other side.
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Screening Matters, Issue 47, August 2014
New appointments for BreastScreen Aotearoa
New Zealand’s approach to equity in screening interests NHS
September is Cervical Screening Awareness Month!
Innovative approach increases cervical screening numbers
New breast screening provider in the south
Keeping ahead of advances in screening
Declining a smear or withdrawal from the NCSP
New framework for equitable health care for Māori
Loud Shirt Day
Chrystal O’Connor, Adele Knowles, Niki Penberthy.
Welcome to three new members of the BreastScreen Aotearoa (BSA) team.
Chrystal O’Connor, Senior Portfolio Manager
Chrystal has recently returned to New Zealand after five years working in the UK’s National Health Service where her roles included health promotion coordinator for a breast screening service provider, project officer implementing a national cardiovascular risk assessment programme for a primary care trust and public health lead for long-term conditions for a local authority in London. Prior to her time in the UK, Chrystal worked for Public Health South after completing her Master’s in Public Health. Chrystal is based in Auckland and her BSA role is managing relationships and contracts with BSA service providers, including independent service providers targeting priority women.
Adele Knowles, Senior Portfolio Manager
Adele comes to BSA from the Ministry of Health’s Primary Care team, where she worked as a senior advisor. Prior to that she was primary and community care portfolio manager, planning and funding at Southern District Health Board (DHB). She is a former nurse, midwife, nurse director and regional manager in DHB and private laboratory environments. Adele is based in Wellington and, like Chrystal, her BSA role is managing relationships and contracts with BSA service providers, including independent service providers targeting priority women.
Niki Penberthy, Senior Portfolio Manager
Niki is with the BSA team for a short time to complete a review of the BSA audit approach in time for the 2015 provider audits. Niki has worked in the National Health Board operational arm, Sector Services, for a number of years as manager of the contact centre and in various payment and processing teams over the years. With a move to Wellington 18 months ago, Niki joined the Rheumatic Fever Prevention Programme as business and contracts manager. In addition to the BSA audit work, Niki will be building relationships and managing contracts with BSA service providers, including independent service providers targeting priority women.
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Reaction: NCAA looks to curb young recruiting
By Dan Guttenplan April 22, 2019
Holy Cross coach Dave Berard has experienced recruiting as a head coach, and also as the father of two teenage sons. (Gil Talbot)
College hockey recruiting is one of the hot-button topics in the sport at the moment. Friday’s announcement that the NCAA had passed legislation to curb the recruitment of young players was met with positivity, skepticism, cynicism, and condemnation from various people across the hockey landscape.
According to College Hockey Inc., the “rule changes approved by the NCAA’s Division I Council (Friday) will significantly alter the recruiting timeline for Division I men’s hockey prospects with the goal of slowing down and improving the recruiting experience.
”The new rules eliminate all recruiting conversations (whether initiated by the coach or the prospect) prior to Jan. 1 of a prospect’s sophomore year. Also, the new legislation aims to establish Aug. 1 prior to a prospect’s junior year as the earliest a coach can make a verbal offer to a prospect.“
The changes are really positive step forward for college hockey because it had gotten out of control,” said Holy Cross head coach Dave Berard, speaking to the amount of deferments and stockpiling of recruits.
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Los Altos cafe expanding to Palo Alto
Green Bakery & Cafe in Los Altos is opening a second location in downtown Palo Alto, partner Son Vo confirmed Wednesday.
Green Bakery & Cafe will open at 405 University Ave., where Cafe Epi closed earlier this year.
The Los Altos cafe opened at the Rancho Shopping Center at 692 Fremont Ave. in 2017, revamping the former Los Altos Bakery Cafe space. Green Bakery & Cafe has a diverse menu with many Vietnamese items -- banh mi, spring rolls, Vietnamese iced coffee and pho -- as well as salads, sandwiches, baked goods and boba tea.
Vo said the Palo Alto location will be "a little bit different," including with the addition of wine.
He said they plan to open in 2019.
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Judge outlaws warrantless use of phone-seeking…
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Judge outlaws warrantless use of phone-seeking device
PUBLISHED: July 12, 2016 at 7:30 pm | UPDATED: May 18, 2018 at 12:10 pm
NEW YORK (AP) The warrantless use of a controversial cellphone tracking device in a criminal investigation is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he tossed out evidence seized during an international drug investigation.
U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III in Manhattan said in a written ruling that using devices known as a “Stingray,” ”Hailstorm,” or “TriggerFish” to locate a suspect’s phone is unconstitutional without a warrant.
Pauley rejected the discovery of narcotics, three digital scales, empty zip lock bags and other drug paraphernalia that was seized from a Manhattan apartment during an international drug-trafficking organization probe by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The judge said the search violated the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee that people shall be secure in their homes from unreasonable searches and seizures.
“Absent a search warrant, the government may not turn a citizen’s cell phone into a tracking device,” Pauley wrote.
He noted that the DEA had obtained other search warrants in connection with the investigation and could have obtained one for the cell phone tracking device, as well. And he said the Department of Justice has since changed its internal policies and now requires that government agents obtain a warrant before utilizing such a device.
The ruling was praised by the American Civil Liberties Union, including attorney Nathan Freed Wessler.
“After decades of secret and warrantless use of Stingray technology by federal law enforcement to track phones, a federal court has finally held the authorities to account,” Wessler said in a statement. “The feds are now firmly on notice that when they hide their intent to use invasive surveillance technology from courts and fail to get a warrant, their evidence will be suppressed. This opinion strongly reinforces the strength of our constitutional privacy rights in the digital age.”
A message left with federal prosecutors was not immediately returned.
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Bountiful Eagle Scout candidate chooses project benefitting Summit County
Walker Gentry builds puppet stand, donates children’s items
Walker Gentry, who is 17 years old and lives in Bountiful, stands next to the puppet stand he built as part of his service project to earn his Eagle Scout award on Monday at the Summit County Childrens Justice Center.
(Angelique McNaughton/Park Record)
When Bountiful teenager Walker Gentry began exploring ideas for a service project to earn his Eagle Scout award, a family friend suggested he consider selecting a project to benefit children in Summit County.
Gentry, who is 17 years old and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said a member of his ward knew local Det. Christina Sally, of the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. Sally is the lead investigator with the Summit County Children’s Justice Center and creator of the Camp Safety program.
“I decided that this was the project I wanted to do because I felt like it was a good cause to help out with,” Gentry said.
With the help of several church members and his scout troop, Gentry collected stuffed animals, toys, books and fleece blankets to donate to the Justice Center, one of 22 centers across the state that provide child-focused programs in a safe setting for child abuse victims who are referred for services.
Gentry also constructed a new puppet stand for the Camp Safety program, which is a weeklong camp that promotes safety awareness, anti-bullying, and bicycle and fire safety. The camp includes puppet shows and other engaging activities.
“It’s phenomenal because we do have so many kids that come through our center and these donations are tremendous for the children and the families,” Sally said. “It’s not so much about giving them something, it’s about comfort.
“The puppet stand is also huge because it will help us engage the children during the camp,” Sally said.
On Monday, Gentry dropped off the items and puppet stand to the Justice Center. He said he still needs to complete his paperwork and board review before he officially earns his Eagle Scout award.
“This is a thing that a lot of people struggle with and it makes me feel better knowing that I was able to help out these kids and make their lives easier,” Gentry said.
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Apple Signs Overall Deal with Oprah Winfrey
By Aaliyah Weathers | June 15, 2018 | 4:28pm
Photo by John Phillips/Getty TV News Oprah Winfrey
Apple has been working hard at creating a space for itself in the streaming entertainment business over the last few months, but the tech giant has just proved it will be giving other streaming services a run for their money by signing a multi-year content partnership with none other than Oprah Winfrey, per THR.
Although the partnership is not exclusive, as the media mogul will still maintain her roles as chairman and CEO at her cable network OWN, the deal is expected to result in content ranging from film and TV to books and apps.
Winfrey is a big win for Apple. Through OWN and her Harpo Production banner, she has served as executive producer of Queen Sugar and producer of Selma, as well as having a hand in the development of shows like Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray. We wouldn’t be surprised if the deal led to a future project from Winfrey’s frequent collaborator Ava DuVernay making its way to the upcoming platform.
Still, this isn’t the only deal that Apple has to boast about. According to the New York Times, Apple began its foray into television and film development with a budget of $1 billion. Since then, Reese Witherspoon’s production company has gone into development on three projects: a morning show drama starring Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, a Kristen Wiig-led half-hour comedy and a star-studded true-crime series led by Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul. The roster also includes an M. Night Shyamalan psychological-thriller series, a Damien Chazelle-helmed drama, and an Amazing Stories reboot from Steve Spielberg, among other projects.
They have surely hit the ground running, which is understandable as the streaming industry continues to get more and more competitive. Last year, TV titan Shonda Rhimes left ABC for an exclusive deal at Netflix, followed by American Horror Story’s Ryan Murphy, who inked a deal with Netflix earlier this year.
While we still don’t have many details about the streaming platform itself, Apple is expected to start rolling out this impressive slate of content in the spring of 2019.
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Oxfordshire History Centre
Collections, archives and records
Church of England records
Diocesan records, wills and inventories, parish records and poor law records
When record offices first opened their doors to accept deposits from outside organisations, one of the first to take advantage was the Church of England.
Archive services around the country were designated Diocesan Record Offices, with the function of taking in church records and maintaining them, while making them available to the public.
Oxfordshire Record Office
Oxfordshire Record Office was one of the last to be given Diocesan Record Office status. In the 19th century the Bodleian Library had taken on looking after church records in the county, and this continued until its policy decision to withdraw from collecting purely local history in 1984. At this point the records were transferred to the Record Office, and are now part of the Oxfordshire History Centre.
The records consist of the following:
Diocesan records
The diocese is the administrative area ruled over by the Bishop of Oxford. The diocesan records are the administrative records of the bishop, created in the running of the diocese.
Oxford Diocese was formed in 1542, when the Archdeaconry of Oxford was split from the huge Diocese of Lincoln.
Download the fact sheet on diocesan records (pdf format, 18Kb).
The following are the major classes of diocesan records:
Bishop's registers and act books (pdf format, 12Kb)
Example 1 (pdf format, 279Kb)
Clergy records (pdf format, 16Kb)
Records of benefices (pdf format, 16Kb)
Diocesan parish boxes (pdf format, 18Kb)
Records of churches (pdf format, 12Kb)
Papers relating to parishioners (pdf format, 16Kb)
Church courts (pdf format, 18Kb)
Visitation records(pdf format, 16Kb)
Letters and memoranda (pdf format, 16Kb)
Property records (pdf format, 14Kb)
Care of churches (pdf format, 12Kb).
Diocesan Council of Education (pdf format, 14Kb)
Where to find these records
The diocesan records are all with the Oxfordshire History Centre, including those after 1836 relating to Berkshire and those after 1845 relating to Buckinghamshire. The records cannot be found online.
An overview catalogue exists on Discovery. Search for 'DIOC Oxford'
You will need to visit the Oxfordshire History Centre to look at the full catalogue in printed form.
Archdeaconry records
The collection contains the records for the Archdeaconry of Oxford and also for peculiar jurisdictions in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.
Archdeaconry records (pdf format, 71KB).
Wills and inventories
Wills and related documents are held at the History Centre. All of them have been digitised, and are available online through the FindMyPast website. Access is by subscription and/or pay-per-view, but free online access is available at the History Centre.
Copies of wills are also available to order on paper or as an electronic file from the History Centre.
Wills and inventories (pdf format, 100KB).
Deanery records
The records for the following Oxfordshire deaneries are at the Oxfordshire History Centre.
Aston and Cuddesdon, 1864-1993
Bicester, 1832-1978
Chipping Norton, 1883-1993
Deddington, 1918-1966
Henley, 1932-1972
Islip, 1848-1978
Witney, 1847-1969
Woodstock, 1832-1939
Deanery records (pdf format, 12 Kb)
Copies of register entries are also available to order on paper or as an electronic file from the History Centre.
Within each archdeaconry of the diocese are the individual parishes. The community gathered around each individual church.
The church was the great record keeper of the community, and most of the surviving records of any town or village before the nineteenth century are the parish records. These are both records of the activities of the church itself (for example, the parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial) and records of civil administration through the church (for example, the Poor Law records).
Oxfordshire History Centre holds the parish records for the Archdeaconry of Oxfordshire, roughly the same area as the old, pre-1974 county of Oxfordshire, before the Vale of White Horse was transferred to it from Berkshire. Parish records for the Vale of White Horse are part of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire, and are held by the Berkshire Record Office
These are the main types of document found in the parish records:
Parish registers (pdf format, 24Kb)
Minutes and accounts (pdf format, 12Kb)
Poor Law papers (pdf format, 17Kb)
Miscellaneous papers (pdf format, 14.5Kb)
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Iraq president says parliament to decide PM fate-paper
| Published: Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 16:08 [IST]
RIYADH, Apr 5 (Reuters) Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's fate will be decided in parliament if he does not voluntarily step down, President Jalal Talabani said in remarks published today.
''Consultations are taking place and quickly. We hope they will not take any longer and if the (Shi'ite) Alliance insists on its stance, to nominate Ibrahim Jaafari, then we will resort to parliament,'' Saudi Arabia's Al Madina newspaper quoted Talabani as saying.
Jaafari has come under growing pressure from Iraqi and Western officials to step down to break an impasse over forming a government, four months after parliamentary elections.
Jaafari's appointment has yet to be confirmed.
The Alliance, as the biggest bloc in parliament, has the right to nominate the prime minister, but if the presidency council, which consists of Talabani and his two vice presidents, fails to agree on the candidate, parliament must elect another by a two thirds majority.
Jaafari's critics and some allies have called for him to step aside, saying the Shi'ite leader cannot bring the needed unity and security. The United States and Britain say Iraq's failure to appoint a new government four months after elections is undermining security.
Talks over forming a new government after parliamentary elections in December have stalled on the uncertainty over Jaafari's future.
Jaafari, who won nomination to keep the top job in a vote in February, has previously condemned U.S. ''interference'' in Iraq's REUTERS CH KP1600
Story first published: Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 16:08 [IST]
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Brett Young Admires His Dad’s ‘Genuine Excitement’
Chapman Baehler
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Pulse of Radio
Brett Young is hoping to inherit one of his dad's best traits when it comes to raising his baby girl. He tells us: ["I think the one thing about my dad aside from being supportive of everything that I've ever done no matter what it was is his genuine excitement. There are people you're going to meet in your lives where they're excited and pleasant all the time and it feels really fake and kind of contrived, and my dad borders on that. He's so excited and pleasant all the time but it's genuine every single time. He's uplifting and encouraging and so that trait in him is what always made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do because he always told me I could and it seemed like he believed it so it made me believe it, so I hope that that's something that I have for her."] SOUNDCUE (:33 OC: . . . have for her.)
Brett and his wife, Taylor, will welcome their new daughter this fall. She will be the couple's first child.
In the meantime, Brett is climbing the charts with his new single, 'Catch."
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Microsoft's retro Windows teasers emerge as a Stranger Things promo: the Windows 1.11 app
Between Windows 1.1, two retro theme packs, and a Stranger Things 3 game, Microsoft is really going all out on nostalgia.
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Finally, we know what Microsoft’s teasing Twitter posts have all been about: the release of Windows 1.11, an app that mimics the look and feel of an early version of Windows in conjunction with the Netflix show, Stranger Things.
Microsoft’s Windows 1.11 app opens a Windows 1.0-like shell where users can dig through file trees and open up clips and teaser stills from the show. The app warns of “glitches” that you’ll experience, which manifest almost immediately; clicking on a file opens a cascade of images that indicates something is very wrong.
A file tree is just one of the entry points into the Upside Down inside Windows 1.11.
Microsoft touts the app as “1985 nostalgia with a special edition Windows 10 PC app inspired by Windows 1.0, but one that’s been taken over by the Upside Down from Stranger Things.” Microsoft makes no attempt to hide that it’s cashing in on some sweet nostalgia: the Netflix tie-in is apparent on the splash screen that opens the game.
[ Further reading: Our best Windows 10 tricks, tips and tweaks ]
The trail leads through a number of classic Windows apps, such as Paint, where the “glitches” open up promotional materials from the show. (Small warning: These promotional materials appear to include some spoilers and a bit of language, though nothing really beyond what you might expect in a trailer.)
All in all, it’s a well-done little experience that’s worth a minute or two of your time, especially if you yourself invested in an early Windows PC. Unlike the fairly compact Windows 1.1, however, the download is a fairly hefty 400MB or so.
Something has gone quite wrong in Paint.
If you don’t have time for the Windows 1.11 app itself, Microsoft has also made available a 4K theme pack of stylized images from the Stranger Things show, complete with creepy arms reaching toward the characters or their local mall. Want more? How about the Windows Throwback theme pack instead? On the other hand, if you can’t get enough of the Stranger Things experience, clicking About in of the Windows 1.11 app will open up a link to the $19.99 Stranger Things 3 game, a much deeper expedition into the Stranger Things world. No, it doesn't stop here: Microsoft is featuring Stranger Things 3 in Camp Know Where: two programs for students 13+ at Microsoft Stores in the United States, with tutorials in coding and mixed reality. And yes, (enough already!) there's a custom Xbox and even an arcade cabinet, too.
Can we be a little disappointed that there's not a (literal?) Blue Screen of Death, though?
Updated at 10:07 AM with additional details.
As PCWorld's senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats.
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Carrie Prejean's Loss of Crown Means Miss Arizona Could Become Miss USA, Say Pageant Officials
Ray Stern | June 11, 2009 | 10:35am
Chance may crown her.
Thanks to missteps by Carrie Prejean that led to her firing by Donald Trump, Miss Arizona 2009, Alicia-Monique Blanco, could become Miss USA by default -- as we suspected.
It's a longshot that depends on what happens to the current Miss USA, Kristen Dalton, say Miss Universe pageant officials.
Blanco was 2nd runner-up in the April 19 Miss USA pageant, edged out by Carrie Prejean -- the 1st runner-up -- and Dalton. Prejean has been replaced by Tami Farrell as Miss California, but Farrell doesn't automatically slip into the 1st-runner-up position for Miss USA, explains Tricia Langa, director of domestic licensing for Miss Universe.
Blanco doesn't get to be 1st runner-up, either -- that position is sort of dormant now, with Prejean gone, Langa says.
However, being 2nd runner-up still puts Blanco in position for a shot at the Miss USA crown. If Dalton was, for some reason, unable to perform her duties as Miss USA, the crown goes to Blanco.
Better for all involved would be if Dalton gets crowned Miss Universe on August 23. In that case, says Langa, Miss Arizona would be Miss USA until next year's national pageant.
As they say, it ain't over till it's over.
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Chinese scholar masters English, American culture to succeed
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Jing Ma, known and referred to as Joy, spoke little English when she arrived from China to begin her Purdue University Calumet education.
But at the university’s Commencement Exercises Sunday (5/22, 6 p.m.) at the Radisson Star Plaza Theater, she will deliver the traditional Student Response on behalf of her graduating classmates.
The 21-year-old finance and accounting major was selected based on her accomplishments and service contributions. During her Response, she plans to discuss the unlimited opportunities available to those who make the effort and work hard. Working hard indeed has defined Joy’s years at Purdue Calumet.
It all started three years ago when her mother, Xian Zhao, a professor in the School of Management at The Inner Mongolia University of Technology, came to Purdue Calumet as a visiting scholar in the School of Technology. As a college foreign exchange student, Joy accompanied her mother to Northwest Indiana and enjoyed the experience so much that she decided to enroll at Purdue Calumet.
As a transfer student from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, Joy had to overcome many challenges—notably, language and custom barriers—to succeed as an American university student. Though she began reading and writing English in middle school, her English speaking skills were lacking when she came to Purdue Calumet.
“I remember my first class here,” she said. “The only three words or phrases I understood were, ‘hi,’ ‘thank you,’ and ‘good-bye.”’
To keep up with her studies, she had to accelerate her learning curve of English—and she did so through sheer will. She said she slept just three to four hours a night during her first year, reading textbook assignments repeatedly.
Her dedication and perseverance allowed her to succeed with a 3.96 grade point average and a list of honors that includes: Outstanding Student in the School of Management, Dean’s List, the Swan Citizenship Award, the Above and Beyond Award, the Management Award for Student-Faculty Research Engagement and selection to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.
Joy said that unlike the Chinese educational system, which demands a seven-day school week and instruction based solely on book knowledge, she prefers the American educational system and its focus on application and training students to think critically, creatively and, most importantly, individually.
“In America, you have to find your own way to succeed,” she said. “I like the challenge.”
While the cultural obstacles also proved to be difficult to overcome at first, she said her experiences have broadened her horizons. Take food, for instance.
“Everything here has cheese in it,” Joy said. “I am used to it now and have grown to like it, but it isn’t very good for your waistline.”
It was Purdue Calumet Professor of Organizational Leadership and Supervision Carl Jenks who introduced to Joy a resume of a well-rounded university student who was involved in campus and community activities while achieving top grades. He told her that is what her resume should look like upon graduation.
“I told her ‘college is what you make of it,’” Jenks said, “and I thought she should get more out of her experience here than just good grades.”
Joy took that advice and ran with it. Subsequently, she became involved with several campus student activities and organizations, including the Finance and Accounting Club, the Indiana CPA Society, the Honors Program and the Career Services Advisory Board. She also has participated in volunteer programs such as the African American Leadership Conference, the Hispanic Leadership Conference, College Goal Sunday, the Chancellor’s Scholars Reception, International Tax Day and Spring Break-thru, during which she performed clean-up and other service at the Indiana Dunes.
Additionally, she applied her love of research to initiate the Student Research and Development Association, which connects other research-aspiring students with university opportunities.
It was through all of her activities that she has developed many friendships and established an American life for herself—a life she looks forward to continuing in graduate school.
“I have found the first necessary skill to learn in America is time management,” she said. “It is the only way to succeed with studies, research, volunteer work and a social life.”
According to Ed Furticella, faculty member and acting head of Purdue Calumet’s Department of Accounting, Joy “will be successful in whatever she does because of her work ethic and passion to learn. She takes pride in all she does. She is honest, self-motivated and certainly understands the value of education.”
After graduate school, Joy hopes to work for a global consulting company that would allow her to travel between China and America. She also eventually wants to teach at a university.
“Her hard work has paid off, and I know she has a very bright future ahead of her,” Jenks said. “She has proven what a valuable asset international students are for our campus.”
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Nestlé protest doesn’t hold water
Online petition against Hope bottling plant based on Stephen Colbert's 'truthiness': premise is false, but it 'feels' true
Nestle water bottling plant is a convenient target for an international protest organization that doesn't have the slightest idea what's going on in B.C.
VICTORIA – Have you noticed the latest degradation of standards on TV news? In addition to sensational depictions of crime, accidents and celebrities, the lineup now incorporates any nonsense that is momentarily “viral” on the Internet.
So it was with an online petition singling out Swiss food corporation Nestlé, which operates a water bottling plant near Hope. It’s the largest in B.C., one of many that bottle the province’s water and sell it back to a gullible public.
This petition is courtesy of SumOfUs, one of those self-appointed environmental watchdogs that seem to pop up like mushrooms overnight. “Fighting for people over profits,” they claim, pitching for donations.
The story has what U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert calls “truthiness.” That’s when something is false, but it “feels” true.
“Nestlé is about to suck B.C. dry – for $2.25 per million litres to be exact,” says the SumOfUs headline.
Using her keen sense of what’s superficially popular, Premier Christy Clark instantly called for a review of these low rates for selling the people’s water.
It then fell to Environment Minister Mary Polak to explain what’s really going on.
“People keep saying there’s a deal with Nestlé,” Polak told reporters. “There isn’t. They pay the same as any other industrial user, in fact the highest industrial rate, and it goes for anything from hydraulic fracturing to bottled water, those involved in mining for example, any of those heavy industrial uses.”
And why is that rate so low? It’s because the province takes great pains not to “sell” water, which would make it a commodity under trade agreements, like oil or minerals. That would surrender provincial control, and allow the U.S. to press for equal access to Canadian water.
“You’re buying the right to use the water,” Polak said. “I know it sounds crazy to the public, but we call it a rental – a water rental. There’s a reason we use that language, because we are very careful to avoid any suggestion that by paying this amount, you therefore own that water.
“That reserves for us the right at any time, for a compelling public need, to say stop. It doesn’t matter if you have a licence.”
As for the brazenly false claim that Nestlé is sucking B.C. dry, I’m indebted to a real environmental professional named Blair King for explaining this. (His blog offers useful technical explanations of issues in the news, many of which contradict so-called environmentalists.)
King notes that the bottling plant uses less than one per cent of the flow through Kawkawa Lake:
“If Nestlé stopped operating (and put its 75 employees out of work and stopped paying municipal taxes) would there be more water for the rest of us?” he writes.
“Absolutely not. Kawkawa Lake drains its excess water into the Fraser River, which drains into the Strait of Georgia. Neither the Fraser River at Hope nor the Strait of Georgia is particularly short of water, even in the driest of years.”
Clark made one useful contribution, when asked about this urgent non-issue by those seeking to further sensationalize the current drought and forest fires.
She correctly noted that most B.C. residents have access to the best tap water in the world, and have no need for bottled water.
Nestlé, Perrier, Coke, Pepsi and other companies have done a fantastic job of convincing people that their drinking water has to be delivered in bottles from some mythical pure source.
Here’s a tip, Nestlé critics: Fill a jug with water and stick it in the fridge. Fight the corporations.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc
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Laura Vanderkam
Author of Off the Clock, 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think and I Know How She Does It
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A nationally recognized journalist and speaker who helps her audiences maximize each hour of the day and rediscover their true passions and beliefs in pursuit of more meaningful lives.
About Laura Vanderkam
Laura Vanderkam, a Philadelphia-area journalist, in an expert on time management who shares her techniques for getting the most out of each day to audiences of busy people everywhere. She’s written numerous books on the subject of productivity, including 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Portfolio, 2010), and What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (Portfolio, 2013). She is also the author of I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time (Portfolio, 2015), which is a time diary study of 1000 days in the lives of professional women and their families.
Her latest book, Juliet’s School of Possibilities, brings Vanderkam’s invaluable lessons on productivity and time management to a new audience in the form of a fable. Laura’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, City Journal, Fortune, and Fast Company.
Vanderkam started the popular Before Breakfast, a podcast developed in partnership with How Stuff Works and PRH’s Author Platforms team. In bite-sized episodes that air daily, Monday through Friday, Vanderkam shares time management strategies and advice to help listeners “take their day from great to awesome.” Her mission is to offer practical tools that will make people feel less busy and accomplish more of what they want to do, thereby helping listeners “make the most of their time, both at work and at home.”
Before Breakfast was conceived as a complement to Vanderkam’s books—which include What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, 168 Hours, Off the Clock, and I Know How She Does It. Drawing on her deep expertise in the fields of productivity and time management, Vanderkam delivers a different tip or tactic in each episode. Her advice ranges from how to watch TV wisely, avoid the 2pm slump, and exercise during the workday, to why you should go to happy hour, how to plan your weeks on Fridays, and why you should quit the snooze button.
She has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Today Show and Fox & Friends, hundreds of radio segments, and has spoken about time and productivity to audiences of all sizes. Her TED talk, “How to gain control of your free time,” has been viewed more than 5 million times. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds.
Discover how you can find balance within your organization. Visit Laura Vanderkam’s Company Reads page to learn more.
168 Hours: Succeeding at Work and Life, 24/7
Drawing on the themes from her time management books, Laura talks about how to manage the 168 hours we all have each week to get the most out of your professional and personal life. In addition to sharing her top 10 time management tips, Laura can work with a few audience members beforehand to tweak their schedules, and incorporate the results into her talk.
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Praise for Juliet’s School of Possibilities
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Amicus Curiae Brief in the US Supreme Court for Civil Rights Organizations
Petitioner,
SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,
Respondent.
On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United
States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
BRIEF OF CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION
AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER PRISON
LEGAL NEWS’ PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
Joseph E. Bringman
Counsel of Record
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4900
JBringman@perkinscoie.com
Attorneys for Civil Rights
Advocacy Organization Amici
Curiae
130938-0001/LEGAL141488766.1
-iTABLE OF CONTENTS
STATEMENT OF INTEREST................................ 1
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT................................. 3
ARGUMENT ........................................................... 7
The Court Should Grant PLN’s
Petition to Clarify or, if
Necessary, Reconsider the
Turner Test, to Require
Evidence and Not Speculation
to Support Prison Censorship
Decisions, and to Align Turner’s
Standards with the Minimal
Requirements for Pleading a
Claim.................................................. 7
The Eleventh Circuit’s Decision
Is Inconsistent with This
Court’s Decisions Recognizing
the Constitutional Right of
Incarcerated Persons to
Meaningful Court Access ................ 12
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Conflicts with This Court’s
Recognition of the Substantial
Penological and Societal
Interest in Rehabilitation of
Incarcerated Persons ....................... 16
Court’s Precedents Which
Require that FDOC
Demonstrate a “Reasonable”
Relation Between Purported
Security Concerns and the
Regulations that Resulted in a
Blanket Ban of Prison Legal
News................................................. 22
A Decision Not to Review this
Case Could Signal that Extreme
Deference to Corrections
Officials Is Appropriate and
that Bans on a Publication
Solely Because of Its
Advertisements Is Defensible ......... 25
CONCLUSION...................................................... 26
-iiiTABLE OF CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION OF AMICI CURIAE ........ 1a
-ivTABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Abdul Wali v. Coughlin,
754 F.2d 1015 (2d Cir. 1985),
abrogated on other grounds by
O’Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482
U.S. 342 (1987).................................................. 18
Beard v. Banks,
548 U.S. 521 (2006)........................................... 22
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly,
Bounds v. Smith,
430 U.S. 817 (1977)......................................13, 14
Bradley v. Hall,
64 F.3d 1276 (9th Cir. 1995),
overruled on other grounds by
Shaw v. Murphy, 532 U.S. 223
(2001)................................................................. 13
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Conley v. Gibson,
355 U.S. 41 (1957), overrruled by
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550
Graham v. Florida,
560 U.S. 48 (2010)............................................. 16
Human Rights Def. Ctr. v. Bd. of Cty.
Comm’rs,
No. 18 CV 00355, 2018 WL
3972922 (D.N.M. Aug. 20, 2018) .................15, 21
Kleindienst v. Mandel,
408 U.S. 753 (1972)............................................. 2
Lewis v. Casey,
Morrison v. Hall,
261 F.3d 896 (9th Cir. 2001) .......................17, 18
Pell v. Procunier,
-viTABLE OF CONTENTS
Prison Legal News v. Cook,
238 F.3d 1145 (9th Cir. 2001) .......................... 12
Prison Legal News v. Lehman,
397 F.3d 692 (9th Cir. 2005) ............................ 24
Prison Legal News v. Lindsey,
No. 3:07-CV-0367-P, 2007 WL
9717318 (N.D. Tex. June 18, 2007).................. 15
Prison Legal News v. McDonough,
200 F. App’x 873 (11th Cir. 2006) .................... 21
Prison Legal News v. Stolle,
Civ. No. 2:13cv424, 2014 WL
6982470 (E.D. Va. Dec. 8, 2014)..................15, 21
Procunier v. Martinez,
416 U.S. 396 (1974), overruled in
part on other grounds by
Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S. 401
Thornburgh v. Abbott,
-viiTABLE OF CONTENTS
Turner v. Safley,
482 U.S. 78 (1987)......................................passim
OTHER AUTHORITIES
Alicia Bianco, Prisoners’ Fundamental
Right to Read: Courts Should
Ensure that Rational Basis Is
Truly Rational, 21 ROGER
WILLIAMS U. L. REV. 1 (2016) ................20, 21, 22
Alphonse A. Gerhardstein, False
Teeth? Thornburgh’s Claim that
Turner’s Standard for Determining
a Prisoner’s First Amendment
Rights Is Not “Toothless,” 17 N. Ky.
L. Rev. 527 (1990) ............................................. 11
David M. Shapiro, Lenient in Theory,
Dumb in Fact: Prison, Speech and
Scrutiny, 84 GEO. WASH. L. REV.
972 (2016).....................................................11, 12
-viiiTABLE OF CONTENTS
Giovanna Shay, Response, One Market
We Do Not Need, 160 U. PA. L. REV.
PENNUMBRA 319 (2012),
http://www.pennumbra.com/respon
ses/3-2012/Shay. pdf. ........................................ 16
James S. Vacca, Educated Prisoners
Are Less Likely to Return to Prison,
55 J. CORRECTIONAL EDUC. 297
(2004)............................................................19, 20
John M. Sands, Book Review, FED.
LAW., Oct. 2011, at 70 (reviewing
AVI STEINBERG, RUNNING THE
BOOKS: THE ADVENTURES OF AN
ACCIDENTAL PRISON LIBRARIAN
(2010)) ............................................................... 20
-1STATEMENT OF INTEREST
Amici Citizens United for Rehabilitation of
Errants (“CURE”); the Civil Rights Clinic, Michigan
State University College of Law; the Corrections
Accountability Project of the Urban Justice Center;
Equal Justice Under Law; the Florida Institutional
Legal Services Project of Florida Legal Services;
Just Detention International; JustLeadershipUSA;
Morningside Heights Legal Services, Inc.; the
National Incarceration Association; the National
Police Accountability Project; The Prison Law Office;
the Prison Policy Initiative; Prisoners’ Legal
Services of New York; The Sentencing Project; the
Southern Center for Human Rights; the Southern
Poverty Law Center; the U.C. Davis School of Law
Immigration Law Clinic; the Uptown People’s Law
Center; the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights and Urban Affairs; and Working
Narratives respectfully submit this brief in support
of the petition for writ of certiorari filed by Petitioner
Prison Legal News (“PLN”).1 Amici do so with the
consent of all parties.2
In its petition PLN, from a publisher’s
perspective, discusses application of the four-part
1 No party or counsel to a party has authored this brief
in whole or in part. Furthermore, other than Amici and their
counsel, no person or entity has made any monetary
contribution toward the preparation or submission of this brief.
2 PLN filed a blanket consent to the filing of amicus
curiae briefs on September 27, 2018. Respondent Secretary,
Florida Department of Corrections (“FDOC”) filed a blanket
consent on October 5, 2018.
-2test established in Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78
(1987), to the First Amendment issues raised by
FDOC’s suppression of Prison Legal News. Amici —
nonprofit organizations who, among other things,
advocate in support of civil rights and access to
justice for incarcerated persons, including persons
convicted of crimes and persons held in detention
while awaiting trial or completion of immigrationrelated processes — submit this brief because
incarcerated persons also have First Amendment
rights and interests that the Court should consider.3
Just as publishers have a First Amendment right
to communicate with incarcerated persons by mail,
incarcerated persons have a First Amendment right
to receive that mail. Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S.
401, 408 (1989); see Kleindienst v. Mandel, 408 U.S.
753, 762 (1972) (holding that the Constitution
“protects the rights to receive information and
ideas”). Amici believe that courts should be
especially protective of First Amendment rights in
the case of a publication like Prison Legal News,
which “teaches inmates their rights and informs
them of unconstitutional prison practices.” Pet. App.
As civil rights advocates, Amici have a significant
interest in ensuring, among other things, that
incarcerated persons are treated fairly and
humanely, that their constitutional rights are
protected and enforced, that their right to access the
3 A description of each of the Amici is set out in the
Appendix to this Brief.
-3courts is not impeded, that they receive appropriate
programming and education — including access to
appropriate reading materials — and that they are
adequately prepared for reintegration into their
communities. In carrying out their missions, Amici
assist incarcerated persons to enforce their
constitutional rights or otherwise work to protect or
advocate for the constitutional rights of incarcerated
persons and/or their loved ones.
Amici recognize Prison Legal News as one of the
leading publications that provides to incarcerated
persons the most informative updates on prisonrelated litigation and other matters of direct interest
to them. They understand the vital role that Prison
Legal News plays in assisting incarcerated persons
to understand their constitutional and other rights,
to recognize when those rights have been violated,
and to appreciate the administrative and judicial
processes through which they can seek relief for
those violations. Accordingly, consistent with their
central missions and core values, Amici have a
strong interest in seeing that incarcerated persons
throughout the United States who desire to receive
Prison Legal News and similar publications may do
so unimpeded by correctional policies that directly or
indirectly preclude their access to the important and
relevant information published therein.
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
This case presents issues of national and
constitutional importance requiring this Court’s
-41. The Eleventh Circuit’s decision highlights a
conflict between the judicial approach to censorship
in the prison context, as permitted by decisions of
this Court dating from the 1980s, and more recent
decisions of the Court regarding the pleading of civil
claims. Specifically, the highly deferential approach
to corrections officials’ mail censorship decisions
permitted by the Court’s existing First Amendment
jurisprudence, including Turner, allows corrections
officials to justify their censorship of mail based on
little more than speculation — as happened here —
even though speculation would not be sufficient to
state a claim for relief under Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 8(a). Prison officials should not be able to
defend their decisions to deprive incarcerated
persons of their First Amendment rights with the
kind of speculation that would not be sufficient to
support a claim in a civil complaint. The Court
should use this case to clarify and, if necessary,
modify the approach to be taken in prison censorship
cases and thereby reconcile that approach with the
approach required by its more recent pleading
jurisprudence.
2. Elements of the Eleventh Circuit’s decision
conflict with, are at odds with, or ignore important
considerations discussed in decisions of this Court.
First, the Eleventh Circuit did not account for the
negative impact that the ban on Prison Legal News
has on the right and ability of incarcerated persons
to access the courts in order to obtain redress for
violations by corrections officials of their
constitutional and other rights pertaining to
conditions of their confinement. Indeed, without
-5access to Prison Legal News or similar publications,
persons in prison face significant hurdles even to
know what rights they possess and how they may
access the courts to protect, vindicate and enforce
those rights when they have been violated. Second,
the Eleventh Circuit did not consider the positive
impact that reading Prison Legal News has on the
penological
concomitantly, the negative impact on rehabilitation
of cutting off access by incarcerated persons to
Prison Legal News. The Eleventh Circuit’s failure to
take these matters into consideration makes suspect
that court’s evaluation of the reasonableness of the
FDOC regulation at issue.
3. Even if the Court does not clarify or modify
the Turner test, it should conclude under that test
that the ban on Prison Legal News due to some of its
advertising is unconstitutional, and that FDOC is
liable to PLN, because there is no reasonable
relationship between any legitimate governmental
interest and the advertising regulation that resulted
in the blanket exclusion of Prison Legal News from
Florida correctional institutions. FDOC could
present no evidence that advertisements in Prison
Legal News had ever influenced incarcerated
persons to use the services or products that are the
subject of those advertisements. To the contrary,
evidence admitted in the trial court showed that
thousands of attempted uses of prohibited services
and products have occurred despite the absence of
Prison Legal News and its advertisements from
Florida prisons. Under the circumstances, including
the availability of alternatives available to FDOC
-6that would not impinge on First Amendment and
other rights and the fact that no other correctional
system in the United States prohibits receipt of
Prison Legal News based solely on the content of its
FDOC’s
advertising-related
blanket ban of Prison Legal News can only be viewed
as an exaggerated response.
4. The Court should further hear this case
because of the potential impact on incarcerated
persons in jurisdictions outside Florida if the
Eleventh Circuit decision is allowed to stand.
Jurisdictions across the country may interpret a
denial of PLN’s petition as a tacit approval of both
FDOC’s advertising-based restriction on access to
publications such as Prison Legal News and the
extreme deference granted to FDOC officials by the
Eleventh Circuit. The result, potentially, is more
widespread violations of First Amendment rights
that will impede the ability of incarcerated persons
to access the judicial system to enforce and vindicate
their constitutional and other legal rights.
-7ARGUMENT
The Court Should Grant PLN’s Petition
to Clarify or, if Necessary, Reconsider
the Turner Test, to Require Evidence
and Not Speculation to Support Prison
Censorship Decisions, and to Align
Turner’s Standards with the Minimal
Requirements for Pleading a Claim
As PLN explains, in considering the Turner test’s
first factor — the rational connection component —
the Eleventh Circuit placed substantial reliance on
speculation by FDOC’s inhouse expert regarding the
“possibility” of negative impacts on prison security if
Prison Legal News and the advertisements it
contains were allowed into Florida prisons. Pet. 13,
14, 23; see Pet. App. 27, 29. In other respects as well,
the Eleventh Circuit’s decision emphasized
conjecture, free of experiential or other evidentiary
support, that certain types of advertisements justify
FDOC’s blanket ban of Prison Legal News. See, e.g.,
Pet. App. 33 (describing FDOC’s expert’s testimony
regarding what prisoners “could” do if allowed to
view advertisements for concierge or people-locator
services); Pet. App. 38 (referencing “opportunity to
use prohibited services”). Indeed, there was nothing
other than speculation that FDOC could offer to
justify its ban of Prison Legal News, given (1) the
absence of evidence that, in the years before Prison
Legal News was banned, similar advertisements had
caused the adverse consequences to security about
which FDOC officials hypothesize, and (2) evidence
-8that substantial numbers of attempts to use banned
products and services during the years that Prison
Legal News and its advertisements were not allowed
inside Florida prisons. Pet. 21, 30; Pet. App. 8, 26,
30, 32-33.4
But FDOC can hardly be blamed for turning to
speculation, in an effort to establish a connection
between the advertisements in Prison Legal News
and purported security concerns, in order to justify
its decision to ban Prison Legal News, given the
absence of evidence of an actual tie between those
advertisements and instances where the purported
security concerns were implicated. Similarly, the
Eleventh Circuit and the District Court cannot be
blamed for showing deference to the speculation
engaged in by FDOC. As Justice Stevens’ dissent in
Turner pointed out, the Turner factors lend
themselves to this kind of speculative assessment.
482 U.S. at 101 n.1 (Stevens, J., dissenting in part)
(“The Court’s rather open-ended ‘reasonableness’
standard makes it much too easy to uphold
restrictions on prisoners’ First Amendment rights on
the basis of administrative concerns and speculation
about possible security risks rather than on the
Curiously, while the District Court and Eleventh
Circuit accepted FDOC’s speculation, the District Court
rejected as “conjecture” PLN’s theory that the multiple changes
to the FDOC censorship rule from 2005 to 2009 were a façade
to hide “institutional bias against a publication that informs
prisoners of their rights.” Pet. App. 65.
-9basis of evidence that the restrictions are needed to
further an important governmental interest.”).5
More recent decisions of this Court cast doubt on
the continued validity of the Turner test to the
extent it allows corrections officials to rely on
speculation to support decisions to censor or ban a
publication like Prison Legal News. Ironically, the
type of speculation in which FDOC officials engaged
to justify their blanket prohibition of Prison Legal
News would not be sufficient to get past a Rule
12(b)(6) motion if FDOC were a plaintiff asserting a
claim to enjoin PLN from mailing Prison Legal News
to persons in Florida detention facilities
When Turner was decided in 1987, a complaint
would survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion “unless it
appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no
set of facts in support of his claim which would
5 See also Turner, 482 U.S. at 100-01 (Stevens, J.,
dissenting in part) (“But if the [majority’s] standard can be
satisfied by nothing more than a ‘logical connection’ between
the regulation and any legitimate penological concern
perceived by a cautious warden, it is virtually meaningless.
Application of the standard would seem to permit disregard for
inmates’ constitutional rights whenever the imagination of the
warden produces a plausible security concern and a deferential
trial court is able to discern a logical connection between that
concern and the challenged regulation. Indeed, there is a
logical connection between prison discipline and the use of
bullwhips on prisoners; and security is logically furthered by a
total ban on inmate communication, not only with other
inmates but also with outsiders who conceivably might be
interested in arranging an attack within the prison or an
escape from it.” (emphasis omitted) (citations omitted)).
-10entitle him to relief.” Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41,
45-46 (1957). But the Court “retire[d]” this pleading
standard more than ten years ago, Bell Atlantic
Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 563 (2007), and in
its place held that to survive a motion to dismiss, a
complaint must present a claim that is plausible and
not merely “conceivable” or “consistent with”
wrongful conduct. Id. at 557, 570. A complaint’s
allegations accordingly must raise a right to relief
“above the speculative level” and show more than a
“possibility” that the plaintiff may later discover
facts that will support liability. Id. at 555, 557, 561.
If speculation and conjecture are not enough for a
claim to survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, they should
not be enough to uphold a decision by corrections
officials to deprive incarcerated persons of their
constitutional right under the First Amendment to
receive information and ideas from third parties,
especially when the information and ideas are vital
for incarcerated persons to understand the rights
that they possess in the prison context and to seek
relief from the courts to enforce and protect those
rights. Thus, although this case does not come before
the Court in the pleading context, the standard
established in Twombly is probative as to the
reasonableness of FDOC’s speculation-laden
decision to preclude incarcerated persons from
receiving Prison Legal News.
Twombly and the decisions that have followed it
counsel the Court to modify the Turner test — at the
least, to require that corrections officials establish
with real evidence more than a possibility that
-11incarcerated persons might engage in prohibited
activity if they obtain access to reading material that
those officials find objectionable. See Alphonse A.
Gerhardstein, False Teeth? Thornburgh’s Claim that
Turner’s Standard for Determining a Prisoner’s
First Amendment Rights Is Not “Toothless,” 17 N.
Ky. L. Rev. 527, 529 (1990) (arguing “that deference
to prison administrators should not cause courts to
accept watered-down evidence in support of
challenged regulations”); id. at 545-46 (“[I]t is
evident that the Turner factors and the
reasonableness test are merely false teeth unless a
solid evidentiary record is presented. Trial courts
must insist on such a record to ensure that First
Amendment challenges to prison regulations receive
the greatest scrutiny possible.”).
The great deference that Turner grants to
corrections officials, including the ability to rely on
speculation to justify censorship decisions, long has
been a source of criticism of the Turner test and has
led to calls for its modification or even its
abandonment. See generally David M. Shapiro,
Lenient in Theory, Dumb in Fact: Prison, Speech and
Scrutiny, 84 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 972, 977 (2016)
(“What this Article shows, through numerous
examples of unjustified prison speech restrictions
imposed throughout the country, is that prison and
jail officials often act as if unconstrained by judicial
review and impose arbitrary (indeed, nonsensical)
restrictions on speech.”); id. at 972 (“Exercising their
discretion under Turner, correctional officials have
saddled prisoners’ expressive rights with a host of
arbitrary restrictions — including prohibiting
-12President Obama’s book as a national security
threat; using hobby knives to excise Bible passages
letters;
non-religious
publications; banning Ulysses, John Updike,
Maimonides, case law, and cat pictures.”); id. at 976
n.20 (cataloging articles in which other legal
commentators have critically assessed the Turner
standard).
The Eleventh Circuit’s (and the District Court’s)
broad deference to the speculative assertions of
FDOC’s inhouse expert is inconsistent with the
requirement of Twombly that, even at the pleading
stage, a claim must have some basis in nonspeculative fact, and demonstrates how easily the
reasonableness requirement of Turner can be turned
on its head. This alone is reason for the Court to
grant PLN’s petition. Doing so will give the Court
the opportunity to clarify that the Turner
reasonableness test cannot be satisfied by conjecture
that is not based on experience or, if necessary, to
modify the Turner test to ensure that it is consistent
with the requirements of Twombly and its progeny.
The Eleventh Circuit’s Decision Is
Inconsistent with This Court’s Decisions
Recognizing the Constitutional Right of
Incarcerated Persons to Meaningful
Court Access
Prison Legal News contains “core protected
speech, not commercial speech or speech whose
content is objectionable on security or other
grounds.” Prison Legal News v. Cook, 238 F.3d 1145,
-131149 (9th Cir. 2001). Indeed, even as it objects to
some of its advertising content, FDOC purports not
to object to the substantive content of Prison Legal
News. And because Prison Legal News facilitates
incarcerated persons’ access to the courts, any
decision to censor or ban the receipt of Prison Legal
News should receive more than the highly
deferential and perfunctory review that the
Eleventh Circuit employed when it found prison
officials’ speculation sufficient to uphold censorship
As this Court stated in Bounds v. Smith, it is
“established beyond doubt that prisoners have a
constitutional right of access to the courts.” 430 U.S.
817, 821 (1977); accord Bradley v. Hall, 64 F.3d
1276, 1280 (9th Cir. 1995) (“The reality and
substance of any of a prisoner’s protected rights are
only as strong as his ability to seek relief from the
courts or otherwise to petition the government for
redress of the deprivation of his rights.”), overruled
on other grounds by Shaw v. Murphy, 532 U.S. 223,
230 n.2 (2001). That access must be “adequate,
effective, and meaningful.” Bounds, 430 U.S. at 822.
Access is meaningful only if a potential plaintiff
knows the basis for potential claims:
Most importantly, of course, a
lawyer must know what the law
is in order to determine whether
a colorable claim exists, and if
so, what facts are necessary to
state a cause of action.
If a lawyer must perform such
-14preliminary research, it is no
less vital for a pro se prisoner.
Id. at 825-26.
Particularly important to incarcerated persons is
“[a] source of current information . . . so that
prisoners could learn whether they have claims at
all . . . .” Id. at 826 n.14.6 As the District Court in
this case found, Prison Legal News fills this critical
The Supreme Court has made it
clear that “[p]rison walls do not
form a barrier separating prison
inmates from the protections of
the Constitution.” Turner, 482
U.S. at 84. Yet these protections
mean little if inmates do not
understand them. Cue PLN.
Through its publications PLN
6 Although the Court later “disclaim[ed]” some of this
language from Bounds, it did so only with respect to
information that supported claims unrelated to an
incarcerated person’s conviction or constitutional issues
pertaining to conditions of confinement. See Lewis v. Casey, 518
U.S. 343, 354-55 (1996). As discussed below, articles in Prison
Legal News focus on issues that are directly relevant to an
incarcerated person’s circumstances, including articles
concerning convictions and conditions of confinement, and not
on matters that might lead to the filing of “shareholder
derivative actions” or “slip-and-fall claims.” See Lewis, 518 U.S.
at 355. It is, in the words of Lewis, a tool that incarcerated
persons “need in order to attack their sentences, directly or
collaterally, and in order to challenge the conditions of their
confinement.” Id.
-15teaches inmates their rights and
practices. With this knowledge
inmates become another check
to government encroachment on
constitutional rights. This in
turn helps prison administrators
practices,
ensuring long-term stability.
Everyone ultimately benefits
when knowledge grows from
more to more.
Pet. App. 106-07 (footnote omitted). Other courts
likewise recognize Prison Legal News’ vital role in
delivering news about current matters of interest to
incarcerated persons. E.g., Human Rights Def. Ctr.
v. Bd. of Cty. Comm’rs, No. 18 CV 00355 JAP/SCY,
2018 WL 3972922, at *2 (D.N.M. Aug. 20, 2018)
(Prison Legal News “contains news and analysis
about prisons, jails and other detention facilities,
prisoners’ rights, court opinions, management of
prison facilities, prison conditions, and other
matters pertaining to the rights and/or interests of
incarcerated individuals”); Prison Legal News v.
Stolle, Civ. No. 2:13cv424, 2014 WL 6982470, at *1
(E.D. Va. Dec. 8, 2014) (Prison Legal News “includes
articles and news about various legal issues, access
to courts, prison conditions, mail censorship,
prisoner litigation, visitation rights, religious
freedom, and prison rape, among other things”);
Prison Legal News v. Lindsey, No. 3:07-CV-0367-P,
2007 WL 9717318, at *1 (N.D. Tex. June 18, 2007)
-16(“The magazine contains information of interest to
prison inmates concerning access to courts, prison
conditions, mail censorship, jail litigation, prisoners’
rights, and related subjects.”); see also Giovanna
Shay, Response, One Market We Do Not Need, 160
U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 319, 326 (2012),
http://www.pennumbra.com/responses/3-2012/Shay.
pdf. (describing Prison Legal News as the “leading
publication for prisoner rights”).
The Eleventh Circuit’s omission to take into
account this Court’s rulings regarding incarcerated
persons’ right of access to the courts, and the impact
of the blanket ban of Prison Legal News on that
right, provides substantial reason to grant review.
Conflicts with This Court’s Recognition
of the Substantial Penological and
Societal Interest in Rehabilitation of
The Court long has recognized that rehabilitation
of incarcerated persons is a “substantial
governmental interest[ ].” Procunier v. Martinez, 416
U.S. 396, 413 (1974), overruled in part on other
grounds by Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S. 401, 41314 (1989); accord Graham v. Florida, 560 U.S. 48, 71
(2010) (recognizing rehabilitation as one of the
“goals of penal sanctions that have been recognized
as legitimate”); Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817, 823
(1974) (identifying “rehabilitation of those
committed to its custody” as a “paramount objective
of the corrections system”).
-17The relationship of reading to rehabilitation is
also well established. Thus, in Morrison v. Hall, 261
F.3d 896, 904 (9th Cir. 2001), the Ninth Circuit
rejected the argument of corrections officials that
allowing incarcerated persons to watch television or
listen to the radio was an adequate substitute for
reading newspapers and magazines. Recognizing
that neither television nor radio will improve
literacy within prisons, the court cited studies
showing the beneficial effect of reading on
rehabilitation:
According to The Los Angeles
Times, the 1992 National Adult
Literacy Survey “found that twothirds of adult prisoners were
not able to write a letter
explaining a billing error or
extract information from the
sports-page
Richard Lee Colvin, Reading by
9 Young Offenders Learn ABCs
the Hard Way: Caged, L.A.
Times, Nov. 8, 1998, at A1. The
Los Angeles Times also noted the
link between higher rates of
literacy and lower rates of
recidivism. See id. (discussing
the fact that “literacy programs
reduce recidivism”); see also
Willoughby Mariano, Reading
Books Behind Bars Reading
Programs for State Prison
Inmates and Juvenile Hall
-18Wards are Critical to Helping
Offenders Develop Literacy and
Avoid Return to Crime, Experts
Say, L.A. Times, Jan. 30, 2000,
at B2 (discussing illiteracy rates
among inmates and citing
“correlation between reading,
rehabilitation”).
Id. at 904 n.7; see also Abdul Wali v. Coughlin, 754
F.2d 1015, 1034 (2d Cir. 1985) (“The rehabilitative
goals for which we strive are furthered by efforts to
inform and educate inmates, and foster their
involvement in the world outside the prison gates.
Although committing an illegal act may require the
physical segregation of an individual from the
society at large, it does not dictate that the prisoner’s
mind be similarly locked away to atrophy during the
period of his incarceration.”), abrogated on other
grounds by O’Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, 482 U.S. 342
Commentators likewise have noted the
connection between reading and rehabilitation. For
example, in extolling the benefits of education on
incarcerated persons, Professor James Vacca stated:
Inmates who are released from
prison are frequently unable to
find jobs because they either
lack experience and/or literacy
skills. With the high cost of
incarceration and the large
-19population, it seems that
mastery of literacy skills may be
a proactive way to address the
reincarceration.
Literacy skills are important to
Inmates need these skills to fill
out forms, to make requests and
to write letters to others in the
outside world. In addition, some
prison jobs require literacy skills
and inmates can use reading as
a way to pass their time while
they are behind bars (Paul,
1991). Thus, education programs
initially should stress practical
applications of literacy so that
prisoners can use newly gained
skills and insights.
James S. Vacca, Educated Prisoners Are Less Likely
to Return to Prison, 55 J. CORRECTIONAL EDUC. 297,
301-02 (2004).7 Professor Vacca noted the
importance of providing incarcerated persons with
reading materials that are of interest to them,
including materials written by persons in a similar
III. Prison literacy programs
emphasize
7 At the time of the article, the author was the Chair of
Special Education and Literacy at C.W. Post College in New
York. See James S. Vacca, supra, 55 J. CORRECTIONAL EDUC. at
-20instruction that includes
motivate and sustain the
inmates’ interest.
The programs should use
literature that deals with
subject matter that is
relevant to the academic
needs of the inmates.
The programs should be
taught, when possible,
with literature that is
written by inmates to
serve as effective models
for reading and writing
skills development.
Id. at 303, fig. 1; see also Alicia Bianco, Prisoners’
Fundamental Right to Read: Courts Should Ensure
that Rational Basis Is Truly Rational, 21 ROGER
WILLIAMS U. L. REV. 1, 34 (2016) (“Reading habits
correlate with being an active participant in one’s
community and foster the free flow of ideas. These
benefits are key to democratic functioning and can
aid in the penological objective of rehabilitation by
keeping a prisoner’s mind engaged.” (footnote
omitted)); John M. Sands, Book Review, FED. LAW.,
Oct. 2011, at 70 (reviewing AVI STEINBERG, RUNNING
THE BOOKS: THE ADVENTURES OF AN ACCIDENTAL
PRISON LIBRARIAN (2010)) (“Th[e] tradition of inmate
rehabilitation and transformation through libraries
and of turning a new page in one’s life by reading
worn copies of books is a venerable one. Malcolm X
-21is the most famous prisoner who did so; Wilbert
Rideau is a more recent example of an inmate who
was changed by books.”).
Prison Legal News meets many of the
requirements identified by Professor Vacca for
effective rehabilitation. It is written in large part by
persons who themselves are incarcerated. See Prison
Legal News v. McDonough, 200 F. App’x 873, 875
(11th Cir. 2006) (“PLN is a not-for-profit charitable
corporation that publishes a monthly magazine
containing articles about prison legal issues written
mostly by prison inmates.”). More important, it
discusses topics that are of special interest to
persons in prison. E.g., Human Rights Def. Ctr. v.
Bd. of Cty. Comm’rs, 2018 WL 3972922, at *2; Prison
Legal News v. Stolle, 2014 WL 6982470, at *1; see
Alicia Bianco, supra, 21 ROGER WILLIAMS U. L. REV.
at 13 (“The goal of PLN is to increase political
awareness and inform prisoners of their rights.”).
When corrections officials bar incarcerated persons
from access to Prison Legal News, they effectively
work against “one of the paramount objective[s] of
the corrections system,” Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S.
at 823. As Ms. Bianco states:
Informing prisoners of their
rights and transforming them
into more engaged citizens is a
step toward their rehabilitation.
. . . Banning informative
publications such as PLN can
actually threaten the same goal
that institutions are seeking to
-22accomplish.
21 ROGER WILLIAMS U. L. REV. at 13-14.
The Eleventh Circuit did not consider the
negative impact on rehabilitation caused by FDOC’s
blanket ban of Prison Legal News, nor did it balance
that impact against the “possible” security concerns
that it stressed. This raises additional concerns
about the Turner test and its application, further
warranting review by the Court.
Inconsistent
Precedents Which Require that FDOC
Demonstrate a “Reasonable” Relation
Between Purported Security Concerns
and the Regulations that Resulted in a
Blanket Ban of Prison Legal News
In Beard v. Banks, the plurality opinion
emphasized that a penal institution’s regulations
that impinge on constitutional rights must bear
more than a “logical” relation to the justifications
asserted for the regulation. 548 U.S. 521, 533 (2006).
Rather, the regulation must bear a “reasonable”
relation to the purported justifications. Id. This
requirement is stated in Turner itself. 482 U.S. at
Despite the Eleventh Circuit’s lip service to
following the reasonable-relationship standard, Pet.
App. 43, the evidence it considered shows that
FDOC’s blanket ban on Prison Legal News does not
bear a reasonable relation, and is an exaggerated
-23response to, its expressed concerns about prison
security. That ban began in September 2009. Pet.
App. 16. Thus, for the past nine years not a single
advertisement for three-way calling, pen-pal
solicitation, cash-for-stamps exchange, or concierge
or people-locator services has entered a Florida
correctional facility through Prison Legal News. Yet
despite the ban on Prison Legal News and its
advertisements, incarcerated persons in Florida
attempt 700,000 three-way calls each year, “succeed
in posting online profiles with the same [pen-pal]
companies that advertise in Prison Legal News,”
received over $50,000 in deposits to their accounts
from just one cash-for-stamps exchange company
over a several-year period, and, in one instance, sent
threatening letters to a judge. Pet. App. 6, 8, 30, 32,
33, 34.8 These facts demonstrate the absence of any
reasonable relation between advertisements in
Prison Legal News and the likelihood that
incarcerated persons will engage in the prohibited
practices that FDOC cites to support its ban. It is
pure speculation that reintroducing Prison Legal
News would exacerbate this problem beyond, at
most, a de minimis amount. That no other state or
local corrections department in this country has
seen fit to institute a ban on Prison Legal News due
8 The Eleventh Circuit does not say that the threatened
judge was located through a concierge or people-locator service,
suggesting they were not at issue in that case. Pet. App. 34.
The only other indication presented regarding potential ill
effects of access to a concierge or people-locator service, besides
speculation, concerned a person in Colorado who committed a
murder following his release. Id.
-24to the content of its advertising, and that other
corrections departments have found reasonable
alternatives that do not adversely impact First
Amendment rights and do not cut off incarcerated
persons from a unique source of information that is
of particular relevance to them, shows that FDOC’s
blanket ban of Prison Legal News is not reasonable,
but rather an exaggerated response to a situation
that Prison Legal News did not create and does not
contribute to. Pet. App. 39.
When you add this evidence, including the
absence of any evidence of actual — as opposed to
hypothetical — wrongdoing tied to the advertising in
Prison Legal News at issue here, and the Eleventh
Circuit’s need to rely on speculation to justify
FDOC’s ban of Prison Legal News, it is evident that
FDOC has failed the reasonable-relationship test.
Even if the Court determines that there is no need
to clarify or modify the four-part Turner test, this
factor should be dispositive. See Turner, 482 U.S. at
89-90 (“a regulation cannot be sustained where the
logical connection between the regulation and the
asserted goal is so remote as to render the policy
arbitrary or irrational”); Prison Legal News v.
Lehman, 397 F.3d 692, 699 (9th Cir. 2005) (because
the first Turner factor is sine qua non, “if a
regulation is not rationally related to a legitimate
and neutral governmental objective, a court need not
reach the remaining three factors”). Consequently,
FDOC’s inability to satisfy this factor should have
required both the District Court and the Eleventh
Circuit to conclude that FDOC is liable for violating
PLN’s First Amendment rights (not to mention, the
-25First Amendment rights of those Florida subscribers
who for nine years have been denied access to Prison
Legal News).
A Decision Not to Review this Case
Could Signal that Extreme Deference to
Corrections Officials Is Appropriate and
that Bans on a Publication Solely
Because of Its Advertisements Is
The First Amendment concerns raised by this
case are not limited to Florida. There is risk that
once restrictions on access by incarcerated persons
to certain types of mail are upheld in one
jurisdiction, other jurisdictions interested in
restricting access to the same types of mail — in this
instance, publications like Prison Legal News — will
jump on the bandwagon, follow the newly
established precedent, and implement similar
restrictions. See Pet. 32-33. To leave the Eleventh
Circuit’s decision unreviewed and undisturbed may
also inadvertently signal to prison officials and
courts throughout the United States that the
Eleventh Circuit’s broadly deferential approach to
FDOC’s advertising-related ban of Prison Legal
News, and its willingness to accept FDOC’s
speculative reasons in defense of the advertising
restriction, are both reasonable and a correct
application of Turner. As such, unless reviewed and
reversed, the Eleventh Circuit’s decision could be
the launching pad of an ill-advised direction for First
Amendment law in the prison context.
-26CONCLUSION
The petition for a writ of certiorari should be
granted.
-1aDESCRIPTION OF AMICI CURIAE
The following private, nonprofit civil rights
advocacy organizations join in the filing of this
amicus curiae brief:
Citizens United for Rehabilitation of
Errants (“CURE”) has made access to the courts a
top priority throughout its almost 50-year history.
From working during its early years with jailhouse
lawyers in Texas to obtain basic reforms to the
criminal justice system, to working now with
persons throughout the country who are serving life
sentences or convicted of sex offenses, CURE has
turned to the courts for initial reform, as the first
step toward broader reform by the legislature and
the executive. Today, CURE’s operations are
international in scope, and it has received
consultative status by the United Nations.
The Civil Rights Clinic, Michigan State
University College of Law (the “Clinic”), was
created at the request of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Michigan, which
had not been able to find lawyers willing to handle
the large volume of pro se cases that survived
dispositive motions and were ready to be tried. The
Clinic accepts appointment to some of these cases
and provides representation through settlement or
trial. The Director of the Clinic, Daniel E. Manville,
is an ex-offender who has dedicated his life to
litigating and lobbying on behalf of those who are
incarcerated.
-2aThe Corrections Accountability Project of
the Urban Justice Center is dedicated to
eliminating the influence of commercial interests on
our criminal legal system and ending the
exploitation of those that system touches. It does so
by exposing the harms caused by the
commercialization of justice and empowering and
equipping change agents with the tools to challenge
the system’s exploitation of vulnerable communities.
Equal Justice Under Law (“EJUL”) works to
eliminate wealth-based discrimination in the
criminal justice system through litigation and
advocacy. EJUL recognizes that most incarcerated
persons cannot afford ongoing legal representation,
and that cutting them off from access to the best
source of free and up-to-date information on how
they may know and vindicate their rights will
disadvantage them vis-à-vis wealthier prisoners,
epitomizing how access to the justice system is
restricted for those lacking financial resources.
The Florida Institutional Legal Services
Project of Florida Legal Services (“FLS”) uses
impact litigation, community lawyering, and policy
advocacy to defend and advance the civil rights of
adults and children who are incarcerated in prisons,
jails, juvenile justice facilities, civil commitment,
and immigration detention throughout Florida. FLS
also provides self-help materials to incarcerated
persons so they may better understand and advocate
for their rights.
Just Detention International (“JDI”) is the
world’s only organization dedicated exclusively to
-3aending sexual abuse behind bars. JDI works to hold
government officials accountable for prisoner rape,
to promote public attitudes that value the dignity
and safety of people in detention, and to ensure that
survivors of this violence receive the crisis services
and other help they need and deserve to heal. JDI’s
activities in support of these objectives include
educating incarcerated persons about their rights
and formulating policies to increase safety for LGBT
and other especially vulnerable persons.
JustLeadershipUSA (“JLUSA”) seeks to cut in
half the number of people under correctional control
in the United States by 2030 by empowering and
elevating the voices of leaders who have been
directly impacted by the criminal justice system —
people who best understand how the system works
and what must be done to transform it — so that
they can drive criminal justice reform at all levels of
government. JLUSA recognizes that few things are
as vital to empowering reform and the preservation
of humanity as providing accurate and accessible
information, something that Prison Legal News does
for thousands of incarcerated people.
Morningside Heights Legal Services, Inc.
(“MHLS”) is the legal body under which clinics at the
Columbia University School of Law operate.
Lawyers and law-student interns at MHLS perform
legal services in the public interest, provide legal
assistance, and assist legal services programs in
representation of their clients. MHLS has regularly
incarcerated at state and federal prisons and jails for
-4amore than 25 years. MHLS lawyers accept
appointment by federal courts in civil cases
challenging conditions of confinement.
The National Incarceration Association
(“NIA”) focuses on the impact of incarceration on the
families of persons in prison and works to support
them in their difficult journey. Through the lens and
perspective of these families, NIA fervently supports
freedom of speech and press and is devoted to
allowing incarcerated persons access to the valuable
news and analysis of legal developments that
directly affect them and their families, about which
Prison Legal News reports.
The National Police Accountability Project
(“NPAP”), founded by members of the National
Lawyers Guild, coordinates with and assists civilrights lawyers to represent victims of misconduct by
law-enforcement and detention-facility officials.
NPAP also supports legislative efforts to increase
accountability of law-enforcement and detentionfacility officials and appears regularly as an amicus
curiae to present issues important to its member
lawyers and their clients, who include persons
whose constitutional rights have been infringed by
detention-facility officials.
The Prison Law Office (“PLO”) engages in class
action impact litigation to improve conditions in
prisons, jails, and juvenile halls for adults and
children, represents individual prisoners, educates
the public about prison conditions, and provides
technical assistance to advocates across the country.
PLO has litigated numerous large-scale prisoner
-5aand parolee class actions in the last 40 years,
including Brown v. Plata, 563 U.S. 493 (2011)
(holding that court-mandated population limits for
California prisons were necessary to ensure
incarcerated persons’ constitutional right to
adequate medical and mental health care), and
Pennsylvania Dep’t of Corrections v. Yeskey, 524 U.S.
206 (1998) (unanimously holding that the
Americans with Disabilities Act applies to state
prisoners).
The Prison Policy Initiative (“PPI”) challenges
over-criminalization and mass incarceration
through research, advocacy, and organizing. PPI
shows how the United States’ excessive and unequal
use of punishment and institutional control harms
individuals and undermines our communities and
national well-being. PPI’s research includes the
individuals and communities, recognizing that
contact with the outside world, including access to
publications, is an important component of reducing
mass incarceration.
Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York
(“PLS”) has provided civil legal services for over 40
years to indigent persons incarcerated in New York
on claims concerning conditions of confinement,
including First Amendment claims. PLS also
publishes over 75 educational form memos and a bimonthly newsletter (“Pro Se”) which it sends to all
New York State prisons for placement in their law
libraries and to over 7,500 individual prisoners who
asked to be placed on its mailing list. Like Prison
-6aLegal News, Pro Se educates incarcerated persons
about changes in the law, statutory and regulatory
requirements, and legal-practice issues relating to
incarceration so that they may understand and
navigate the legal system.
The Sentencing Project conducts research and
advocacy on criminal justice and juvenile justice
reform. The organization is recognized for its policy
research documenting trends and racial disparities
within the justice system and for developing
recommendations for policy and practice to
ameliorate those problems. The Sentencing Project
has produced policy analyses documenting the
increasing use of sentences of life without parole for
both juveniles and adults and has assessed the
impact of such policies on public safety, fiscal
priorities, and prospects for rehabilitation.
Organization staff frequently testify in Congress
and before various policymaking bodies and
practitioner audiences.
The Southern Center for Human Rights
(“SCHR”) is committed to upholding the
constitutional rights of incarcerated people and
works for equality, justice, and dignity in the
criminal justice system. Its mission is to end capital
punishment, mass incarceration, and other criminal
justice practices used to control the lives of poor
people, people of color, and other marginalized
groups in the southern United States. SCHR does
this through death penalty representation, impact
litigation, policy advocacy, and public education.
-7aThe Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) is
one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations
and is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to
seeking justice for vulnerable members of our
society. In addition, SPLC has a 40-year history of
protecting the rights of prisoners, with SPLC
attorneys serving as lead or co-counsel in dozens of
major prison cases, including significant First
Amendment cases.
The U.C. Davis School of Law Immigration
Law Clinic (“The Clinic”) is an academic institution
dedicated to defending the rights of detained
noncitizens in the United States. The Clinic provides
direct representation to detained immigrants who
are placed in removal proceedings. In addition, the
Clinic screens unrepresented individuals to
facilitate placement with pro bono attorneys and
presents legal orientation programs for detained
individuals in removal proceedings who are unable
to obtain direct representation.
The Uptown People’s Law Center (“UPLC”)
provides legal representation, advocacy, and
education for poor and working people in Chicago,
and legal assistance to people housed in Illinois
prisons in cases related to their confinement. UPLC
has provided direct representation to over 100
persons confined in Illinois prisons pertaining to
their civil rights, including in seven class-action or
putative class-action cases that are currently
pending. UPLC has litigated several cases involving
the First Amendment, censorship of publications,
-8aand similar issues, including one pending case
regarding censorship of Prison Legal News.
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (“WLC”) was
founded 50 years ago to provide pro bono legal
services to address issues of discrimination and
entrenched poverty, and has successfully handled
thousands of civil rights cases on behalf of
individuals and groups, including incarcerated
persons. WLC engages in extensive individual
advocacy and class-action litigation on behalf of
individuals held in custody in local jails and state
and federal prisons. WLC has litigated at least one
case involving First Amendment censorship of
publications by the federal Bureau of Prisons and
similar issues in federal and state prisons.
Working Narratives is an arts and social justice
organization that works with prisoners, formerly
incarcerated persons, their families, and policy
makers to advance positive criminal justice reform.
Each year arts and education programming reaches
thousands of prisoners working with them through
the humanities. Working Narrative’s work focuses
on building connections with those inside prisons
and working to create community driven solutions.
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Supervisors slam grand jury report, deny jury’s…
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Special report released in March called for changes at Lampson Field airport.
By Aidan Freeman | afreeman@record-bee.com | Record-Bee
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: June 14, 2019 at 4:56 pm
LAKEPORT — The Lake County Board of Supervisors this week responded to a special report by the Lake County Civil Grand Jury and denied the grand jury’s request for money to cover over-budget expenditures.
The grand jury’s special report, entitled “How can we safely land?” was submitted March 14 in advance of the jury’s upcoming full 2018-2019 report. The report pertained exclusively to the Lampson Field Airport—Lake County’s only operating public airport—and identified areas of concern with the facility, also noting an opportunity for the county to apply for federal grant money to perform needed improvements.
A civil grand jury is made up of local residents, and is tasked with investigating the operations of the local government under which it operates, and making recommendations as to how those governments can improve. This work is referred to by the State of California as a “watchdog” function.
In Lake County, recent reports from the grand jury have been met with sharp criticism from the board of supervisors.
In 2018, District 5 Supervisor Rob Brown called the 2017-2018 grand jury report “nonsense.” On Tuesday, Brown referred to the recent special report’s title as “idiotic,” and claimed the grand jury is “taking credit for the sun coming up” by making recommendations about the Lampson Field Airport.
County Administrative Officer Carol Huchingson and supervisors Moke Simon and Bruno Sabatier joined Brown in jabbing the report’s title. “It essentially implies that it’s not safe to land at Lampson Field,” Huchingson said.
“We all get affected by the negative remarks that are put out there,” said Sabatier.
In legally required written responses to the grand jury report, the board of supervisors disagreed with every recommendation made by the grand jury. Lake County Public Works Director Scott De Leon, who also responded, disagreed with most of the jury’s findings.
The board of supervisors also denied the grand jury’s request for $5,000 in contingency funds to make up for over-budget per diem and travel costs incurred by the jury members. The entity’s total budget is roughly $65,000 annually.
In an interview with this newspaper, civil grand jury foreman Mark Rothrock suggested he was not surprised by the county’s reaction to the report.
“I understand their response,” Rothrock said. “Whether they liked it or not, I think (the report) brought attention to the airport.”
Asked whether he agreed with the county about the title of the report, Rothrock said he believed the title had had no negative effect, but had contributed toward raising awareness of the airport’s needs.
“It’s been out for a couple of months,” Rothrock said of the report, “and nobody has called us” with concerns about the title. “I’m glad it came out the way it did and I haven’t heard anything negative from the public at all,” he added.
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Regarding the denial of the grand jury’s request for $5,000 to cover additional expenses incurred in the past fiscal year, Rothrock remarked that most of that money would have been used to print the final report. He noted that costs had been higher this year because much of the work done by the grand jury was “far-flung,” making travel costs rise.
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CNN’s John Avlon rains hell on ‘princeling’ Jared Kushner for blowing off Russian meddling
CNN’s John Avlon on Wednesday took Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to the woodshed for blowing off Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
After watching a clip of Kushner dismissing Russia’s meddling as merely buying Facebook ads — while also suggesting that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian efforts was more damaging than the meddling itself — Avlon called out Kushner for so obviously not caring about the integrity of American elections.
“They still don’t get it, and it’s willful ignorance,” he said. “The Princeling of Trumplandia and that cozy little bubble, where everything’s about Donald Trump, can’t see the primary issue is that America was attacked by a foreign adversary. The elections were undercut. It is not about Facebook ads.”
Avlon then quoted from the Mueller report, which found that Russian efforts included hacks into the Democratic National Committee and into Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails. What’s more, Avlon said, these hacks were done with the explicit goal of making Trump president.
“It shows a contempt for the facts and a total unwillingness to get it,” he said. “They’re going to put their own interests ahead of national interests.”
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January Shortcuts: 5 January Readers Theater Ideas and Tips for Enjoying Readers Theater All Year
publication date: Jan 4, 2018
author/source: Carol Montgomery
A little girl I knew had a dream of being a teacher. The summer after she finished fifth grade she decided to launch a neighborhood newspaper: the "Sunset Telegram–Every Other Day News." A few neighbors agreed to subscribe to the newspaper for a nickel for each edition. So, the "Sunset Telegram" quietly launched with about six subscribers and a couple of helpers–including mom.
Mom brought home mimeograph masters to her daughter, occasionally helping print the articles by hand. Copies were mimeographed (i.e., printed) at mom's work. The newspaper was ad-free and didn't make much money. But, a child's dream was nurtured.
The girl didn't care much about the money because people looked forward to reading what she had written. She was helping others get to know their neighbors and inspiring smiles. The little neighborhood newspaper included 4-5 pages of handwritten articles and came out once a week all summer.
"The Sunset Telegram" quietly died when school started. But, a child's dream had been nurtured.
Well, the girl has been in "school" almost 60 years now and she's still dreaming. Only now she's dreaming about helping more teachers and parents champion their learners into leaders with Readers Theater. She's dreaming about changing lives by building lifelong skills with Readers Theater. And, she's dreaming about building leaders and creators with weekly Readers Theater. Yes, I'm still that girl writing to help others.
Your students may have dreams to nurture and explore, too. And, January is a perfect time to talk about new beginnings and big dreams.
Here are five January ideas and tips for enjoying Readers Theater:
1. New Year: Dream Big
Many people think about January as a new year–an opportunity for new dreams, new goals, and new habits. Readers Theater makes a great classroom habit, but it can be so much more. Use Readers Theater to inspire your students with positive role models in our adventures and biographies. And, if you choose appropriate scripts, your students may even learn to dream big.
Our script "Turkey Dreams" tells the story of Turkey, who had a dream that many others thought was foolish. Turkey pursues his dream in spite of the discouraging comments.
"Turkey Dreams" is adapted from a true story of our friend, an accountant, who dreamed of doing something else. Although "Turkey Dreams" is available only in the Script Buffet for paying members, others may purchase "Turkey Dreams–with Flexi-Curric™" (i.e., shortcuts for cross-curricular lessons) from our little store.
Look for other scripts online or in the Script Buffet to inspire your students to dream big. To inspire scientific explorations consider enjoying the NASA transcripts, "Moon Talk," in our free Readers Theater scripts section. (Scroll down to Science and you'll find three "Moon Talk" options.)
Or, to inspire environmental heroes look at the other titles in the Science section (e.g., "Kids Save Shad," "Students Save Shad"). Sometimes students need to know that they can make a difference in the world through their own actions. Readers Theater can help inspire your students.
2. Character Building
Who teaches positive character building lessons these days? Do you?
January is the perfect time to refresh your student's memories (or teach them) about character. Positive character traits will benefit your students for the rest of their lives. We have an entire category in the Script Buffet for character building Readers Theater scripts–scripts that exemplify courage, diligence, faithfulness, gratefulness, helpfulness, honesty, humility, joy, kindness, love, respect, and/or wisdom. In fact, many of our scripts overlap the character building category as part of an adventure, biography, fable, or historical story. Just click on the readability level you need (i.e., K-2, 3-5, 6-8) on the Script Buffet Table.
Even if you're not a Script Buffet Club member yet we have a few trustworthy free scripts listed in the character building section. But, don't limit yourself to thinking you can only have character building discussions with the free scripts in the character building section. You'll find other free Readers Theater scripts that can be used for character building lessons in other sections of our website or online, too (e.g., Harriet Tubman's story in Black History).
I remember reading a Readers Theater script once about a little girl who was begging her mom to buy something. The little girl had a terrible attitude. She badgered her mother over and over again about buying the item. The mother always replied, "No..." But, the little girl didn't give up. She continued to express her horrible attitude.
Finally, mother said, "Yes...". The little girl won. And, the students reading the script over and over again had a fine lesson in how to have a poor attitude and get your way. I was horrified. Please, consider discussing the attitudes and character traits of the characters in your Readers Theater scripts. And, choose your scripts wisely. With repeated readings of Readers Theater scripts you want to instill positive character in your students, right?
3. Dr. Martin luther King, Jr.–"I Have a Dream"
In the United States Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored with a holiday in January. He was a wise man with a big dream. Years ago I adapted the famous part of Dr.King's "I Have a Dream" speech to Readers Theater–the part where he put down his notes and began to speak from his heart.
After I adapted that part of his speech to Readers Theater I found out that his speech was NOT in public domain. I tried to get permission to use the speech, but never heard back from "the powers that be." So, in order to avoid potential legal issues I just wrote an article to help you or your students adapt his powerful speech to Readers Theater–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream."
Dr. King built a legacy of influence. But, what stories influenced him? As you honor Dr. King you could also consider scripts from our Black History section, including several scripts on the Underground Railroad. Most of the Underground Railroad scripts are free. Maybe they could carry you into February (Black History Month in the United States).
4. Seasons/Winter
Did you know that I was born and raised in Southern California? We didn't have winter in Southern California. It snowed once when I was in sixth grade, but usually the snow was just in the mountains. Anyway, when I was 26 Prince Charming showed up, became my best friend, we married and moved to his home state of Maryland–where you have REAL winter with beautiful snow. I've decided you can take the girl out of California, but you can't take California out of the girl. I still love the Maryland green and the California sun.
One of our loyal Script Buffet Club members requested a script related to a famous winter sled-dog race. So, I wrote several cold winter stories including "The Great Race of Mercy 1925," "Togo Tales," "Togo–Sled Dog Hero," and more.
Most of the scripts are based on the historical Great Serum Race of 1925 to save the children in Alaska. It's an exciting adventure that gave me GREAT appreciation for the sacrifices of the mushers who endured hostile weather, sacrificing their own comfort for the lives of others. Many of the mushers were First Nations people (often called Native Americans). Everyone came together as one to save the children. The story made national headlines in the newspapers of the day.
Script Buffet Club members may find the collection of winter sled dog Readers Theater scripts in our Script Buffet Table under Holidays, Seasons, and Events or on one of the Seasons category pages: grades K-2, grades 3-5, or grades 6-8. But, non-members may also purchase some of them in our little store.
5. Science Topics
Our first-born used to help do the dishes when his siblings were too little to help much. It seemed to take a long time for him. Then, I discovered he was experimenting with the water, bubbles, buoyancy and more. Now he's a physicist who STILL does experiments!
In the science category of the Script Buffet Table we have a growing series of scripts for our Script Buffet Club members on inventors and their inventions (e.g., Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, The Wright Brothers...). "The Talking Dog" is one of my favorite stories of the young Alexander Graham Bell. (You'll find the story in all of the scripts about Bell's childhood.)
You can probably find more stories of childhood and adult inventors online or in books. Encourage your students to write their own Readers Theater scripts for cross-curricular fun. You could even use a Readers Theater script to introduce your unit study. Who knows? You may inspire some future scientists and creative thinkers!
6. BONUS: Super Bowl
I played powder puff flag football in high school. We played once a year, the juniors vs. the seniors. (I was usually a right guard.) Playing football helped me understand it more. Although I'm not a football fan, I do know that some of your students come from homes where football is important. In fact, January is Super Bowl month in the U.S. where the two top teams compete.
If you want to take advantage of football talk in January, check out our free script "Super Bowl Students vs. Salamander Sly." The Super Bowl Students don't exactly play football, but it is important to win against the opposing team, The Distractions. Maybe we all need to win against The Distractions?
Once The Distractions are defeated we're guaranteed success with Readers Theater. Readers Theater builds several key life skills in one delightful activity (e.g., reading, writing, listening, thinking, speaking). And, if you choose Readers Theater in a core subject area (e.g., health, science, history, social studies, literature...) you and your students will discover the joy of cross-curricular or integrated learning. How can you and your students enjoy Readers Theater in January and all year? You'll build knowledge, skills, and character while you make great memories! Where will YOU start?
Students and teachers love Readers Theater! But, how can teachers integrate Readers Theater into the busy curriculum? Many teachers enjoy successful Readers Theater lessons throughout the week (e.g., history, health, social studies, literature, writing...). You can motivate students by incorporating Readers Theater into a unit study or holiday celebration. Some teachers use Readers Theater for character building lessons in school clubs or as optional homework. Since Readers Theater builds so many life-long skills in one fun activity, no matter when you do Readers Theater you and your students will win. Check out this "Shortcut" article: 5 January Readers Theater Ideas for Enjoying Readers Theater All Year. You'll discover plenty of links to simplify your life and lesson planning.
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Banks shave customers accounts through hidden charges
September 15, 2009 3355 VIEWS
IKECHUKWU OMEIFE
Weighed down with stinking toxic assets and gnawing monetary policies, which abruptly shut down sundry income streams of commercial banks, most banks have now devised strategies to meet revenue projections.
A core revenue window forced open for exploitation by most banks in order to shore up revenue base and meet shareholders expectation at the end of the financial year, is the shaving of customers accounts through a cocktail of charges.
Since the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Lamido Sanusi, shut the Expanded Discount Window (EDW) and directed that all commercial banks move all contingent liabilities to the books from below the line, most banks heavily exposed to the capital market and the downstream oil sector, and, now chewing over non performing loans, have shut lending, beefed up deposit mobilisation and intensified loan recovery drive.
As financial inter-mediators, banks, traditionally create money by extending credit facilities to investors at an interest rate slightly above the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR). But the ripple effects of the global financial meltdown and the venomous monetary policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has ignited a response shock in the financial services sub-sector that have put the treasury of most banks under intense pressure to balance their assets and liabilities.
Although the policies of Sanusi has obscured or distorted revenue forecasts for the banks, industry watchers, had, at the end of last year, predicted that most banks will not make profits, and therefore, no dividend for shareholders investments at the end of the business year.
So, to meet revenue projections, most customers are now being ripped off as their accounts are debited of sundry nebulous charges and interests, that ordinarily mocks banking ethics.
A customer of First Bank of Nigeria Plc, narrated to Business Hallmark how the bank deducts GBP35 each time money is remitted into his account by his relation in the UK. “I have received two tranches of pound sterling from my brother in the UK, each of these transactions is less than GBP1000, the bank deducted GBP35 on each of the transactions. My brother also paid commission to the remitting bank, and this excludes withdrawal charges, and account handling charges. It was not like this at the beginning of the year,” he stated.
Also, a customer of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, who opened a savings account with its Oba Akran branch in 2005, and has over N100,000.00 (one hundred thousand naira) in the account had wanted to operate the account last month when he visited, but was told that the account has been closed by the bank. He was advised to open another savings account with the branch and formally write for the deposit to be transferred to the new account, but all efforts to open the new account was frustrated by the bank.
“What it means is that the money is gone, since they refused me opening another account for the money to be transferred. They didn't even want me to reactivate the account closed by the bank without my consent. To be sincere, this is banking with a different face,” he lamented. A staff of the bank who spoke to Business Hallmark under identity protection, stated that there are thousands of accounts like that that have been closed and the deposits reverted to the headquarters. “Even if this customer you talked about wants the money credited into a new account, this branch where his account is domiciled does not have much hand in it. It would be done from UBA house, but I doubt whether it is possible,” the UBA staff said.
In the last half decade, the banking industry in Nigeria enjoyed a phenomenal growth in almost all parameters. A critical analysis of this tremendous growth reveal a major financial services nightmare that has sagged the confidence of Nigeria's banking public.
A cursory look at the Annual Reports of some quoted banks from the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, and the printed Statements of Accounts of some account holders reveal that banks annual turnover have continued to rise with increasing profit margin, whilst individual and corporate account holders are becoming poorer as their accounts are put in the red through deductions of sundry hidden charges. Although this business year will throw open a huge deep in the income profile of the banks following the mess in the sector, which has led to the sack of the Chief Executives and Boards of five banks, but the banks are bent on making as much as they can through their customers.
These rip-offs by banks are mostly catalogue of charges disguised in scattered forms as interests on loan facilities, nebulous administrative charges, distortion of interests on deposits plus sundry other charges that are regularly shaved off from customers accounts without disclosure. At the end of every financial year, these little but regular amounts chopped off from various account holders run into billions of naira and form a major source of revenue for most of the banks in Nigeria today.
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Interrogate Prospero
In this video Jonathan Slinger talks about how old Prospero is and what might happen to him when he returns to Milan and David Farr, who directed the production in 2012, talks about the theme of reconciliation.
One of the key questions for this character is:
Why does Prospero choose to forgive his enemies?
We’ve started to think about some of the reasons why Prospero forgives his enemies. See if you can complete the grid to make four points that could answer this question. It doesn’t matter if you agree or not, as long as you can back it up! Looking at the following scenes might also help to collect evidence:
Act 5 Scene 1: Look at the dialogue between Ariel and Prospero at the start of this scene. How much do you think Prospero is affected by Ariel’s words? Had he already decided to forgive the nobles or does he decide in this moment?
Act 5 Scene 1: Explore how Prospero speaks to the nobles and to Caliban. What do his words suggest about how he feels towards each of them? Do you think he is more forgiving to some than others?
Act 4 Scene 1: In this scene Prospero’s celebration of his daughter’s betrothal to Ferdinand is interrupted as he remembers that Caliban is plotting against his life. Look at how Miranda and Ferdinand describe his anger and what Prospero says himself. How justified do you think Prospero would be in wanting to destroy Caliban?
Prospero believes it is the right thing to forgive rather than to take revenge on his enemies.
‘Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick / Yet with my nobler reason ‘gainst my fury / Do I take part. The rarer action is / In virtue than in vengeance’ (Prospero, 5:1)
When Ariel suggests that he would feel sorry for the nobles ‘were I human’, he prompts Prospero to say that he also has sympathy for them. Prospero says that although they have done him harm, his sense of humanity, his ‘nobler reason’, means that he should take the moral high ground and do the right thing in allowing the nobles to go free - providing they are sorry for hurting him.
Prospero has achieved what he set out to achieve and has nothing more to gain from punishing his enemies further.
Evidence Select an option
‘Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour / Lies at my mercy all mine enemies’ (Prospero, 4:1) ‘Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat / Thou pardon me my wrongs’ (Alonso, 5:1) ‘Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue / Should become kings of Naples?’ (Gonzalo, 5:1)
Explanation Click text to edit
Enter your explanation here.
Prospero wants his daughter to be happy in her marriage to Ferdinand.
Evidence Click text to edit
Enter your evidence here.
Point Click text to edit
Enter your point here.
As you explore Prospero’s language, you’ll find even more evidence to back up your case and more arguments for why he does what he does. We have pulled together some advice to help you explore Prospero’s language in the Language Analysis section.
Interrogate Miranda
Miranda is fifteen years old and has led a very unusual life. She left Milan when she was three years old and has only a few distant memories of her time there. She has lived on the island for twelve years with only her father and Caliban for company. Her father has been her tutor and has taught her using the books he has.
One of the key questions for her is:
How has growing up on the island affected Miranda?
We’ve started to think below about some of the ways growing up on the island may have affected Miranda. See if you can complete the grid to make four points that could answer this question. It doesn’t matter if you agree or not, as long as you can back it up! Looking at the following scenes might also help to collect evidence:
Act 1 Scene 2: Explore Miranda’s responses to the story her father tells her about how they arrived on the island. What do you think this scene suggests about what she might have lost and gained by growing up on the island?
Act 1 Scene 2: This is the only scene that gives us clues about Miranda’s relationship with Caliban. From what Miranda and Caliban say in this scene, what sense do you get of what their relationship might have been before Caliban attacked Miranda? How might that relationship have affected her as she grew up?
Act 3 Scene 1: Explore Miranda’s dialogue with Ferdinand. How do you think her words and actions have been influenced by her unusual upbringing? What do you think they suggest about her relationship with her father?
Miranda has not seen another woman since she was three years old and so she has no female role models and no one to compare herself with.
‘I do not know one of my sex, no woman’s face remember / Save from my glass mine own’ (Miranda, 3:1)
Miranda has no one to compare herself to and so does not know whether her appearance would be considered normal. Also, because she has no other women around to influence her behaviour, she only knows what her father teaches her about how young ladies should behave.
Miranda is very close to her father.
‘O my heart bleeds / To think o’th’teen that I have turned you to’ (Miranda, 1:2) ‘...here / Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit / Than other princes can that have more time / For vainer hours’ (Prospero, 1:2) ‘Miranda – O, my father / I have broke your hest to say so’ (Miranda, 3:1)
Miranda has not learned how to behave with people and so is quite direct in the way that she talks to people.
As you explore Miranda’s language, you’ll find even more evidence to back up your case and more arguments for why she does what she does. Have a look at the Log Scene, Act 3 Scene 1, in Investigate Language to find out more.
Interrogate Ariel
As director Gregory Doran discusses with the actors in this video, there are different possibilities for the relationship between Prospero and Ariel. Ariel may hate Prospero and only serve him because he has to, or Ariel may feel gratitude and loyalty towards Prospero, or something in between. One of the key questions for this character is:
How does Ariel feel about Prospero?
We’ve started to think about how Ariel might feel about Prospero below. See if you can complete the grid to make four points that could answer this question. It doesn’t matter if you agree or not, as long as you have evidence! Looking at the following scenes might also help to collect evidence:
Act 1 Scene 2: Explore the dialogue between Ariel and Prospero in this scene. Consider how they respond to each other and what this might suggest about their relationship.
Act 3 Scene 2: In this scene, Ariel’s interjections seem in support of Prospero. To what extent do you think Ariel acts to protect Prospero, ensure his own freedom, or make fun of the drunkards?
Act 5 Scene 1: Look at the dialogue at the start of the scene where Ariel suggests Prospero should forgive the nobles. What do you think Ariel’s lines might suggest about how he feels about Prospero? Notice the few lines Ariel has in the rest of the scene. Do you think these lines suggest he wants praise for his good work or does he want to remind Prospero to set him free? When Ariel is set free, Shakespeare does not give him anything to say. What do you think he might do?
Ariel resents the power that Prospero holds over him and just wants to be free.
‘Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains / Let me remember thee what thou hast promised / Which is not yet performed me’ (Ariel, 1:2)
Ariel feels that he does everything Prospero asks of him and yet Prospero always asks for more. Prospero promised to grant him his freedom as a reward for creating the storm but now there is more work to do.
Ariel seems to value the work that he does with Prospero.
‘Sometime I’d divide / And burn in many places, on the topmast, / The yards and bowsprit would I flame distinctly,’ (Ariel, 1:2) ‘My master through his art forsees the danger / That you his friends are in and sends me forth’ (Ariel, 2:1) ‘This will I tell my master’ (Ariel, 3:2)
Ariel enjoys the praise he gets from Prospero and wants Prospero to think he has done well.
As you explore Ariel’s language, you’ll find even more evidence to back up your case and more arguments for why he does what he does. If you want to find out more, have a look at Act 1 Scene 2 in Key Scenes and Analysing the Imagery and Analysing Prospero and Ariel’s Duologue in Language Analysis.
Interrogate Caliban
Caliban is the only human inhabitant of the island when Prospero and Miranda arrive and yet he is often described in ways that make him seem less than human. These descriptions tell us about Caliban, but they may tell us more about the characters who choose to describe him in the way that they do. Is Caliban a ‘monster’, the sub-human child of a witch and a devil, or is he just different – an outsider to how the Italian nobles and their servants behave? One of the key questions for this character is:
How human is Caliban?
We’ve started to think about who Caliban is below. See if you can complete the grid to make four points that could answer this question. It doesn’t matter if you agree or not, as long as you have evidence! Looking at the following scenes might also help to collect evidence:
Act 1 Scene 2: Look at how Prospero describes Caliban when he is talking to Ariel and, later in this scene, how he talks to Caliban. It is clear that Prospero’s attitude towards Caliban has changed. Do you think Prospero’s descriptions of Caliban as subhuman are accurate or do you think his changed attitude suggests otherwise?
Act 2 Scene 2: Explore how Trinculo and Stephano talk to and about Caliban. What do their words and actions suggest about him?
Act 3 Scene 2: In this scene Caliban has two longer speeches, both in verse: one uses violent imagery and the other uses peaceful imagery. What do you think these two speeches suggest about how human Caliban is?
Prospero often insults Caliban, calling him names that make him seem sub-human.
‘Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam’ (Prospero, 4:1)
Prospero believes Caliban is bad because his mother was a witch. He thinks that Caliban’s father was the devil and that because Caliban behaves like a ‘beast’, he does not deserve to be treated any better than a slave.
The characters in the play do not see Caliban as one of them and describe him as non-human in various ways.
‘When thou didst not, savage / Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like / A thing most brutish’ (Miranda, 1:2) ‘What have we here, a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish, he smells like a fish.’ (Trinculo, 2:2) ‘That is a strange thing as e’er I looked on’ (Alonso, 5:1)
Although he can be aggressive, Caliban also shows a sensitive side to his nature and appreciates the beauty of the island.
As you explore Caliban’s language, you’ll find even more evidence to back up your case and more arguments for why he does what he does. Have a look at The Four-legged Monster, Act 2 Scene 2, and Caliban’s Return, Act 5 Scene 1, in Key Scenes, and Analysing Verse and Prose in Language Analysis.
For each of the characters on this page we’ve asked some central questions. These are great questions to explore with students in mind maps, or as class debates.
The following activity will also help you explore the character of Caliban even further with students.
What is Caliban? (2016)
This activity can be found on page 7 and takes approximately 30 minutes.
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Ivanka Trump stumps for Dean Heller in Reno, days ahead of his clash with Jacky Rosen
President Donald Trump's daughter made a rare appearance on the campaign trail ahead of a tight election for Heller.
Ivanka Trump stumps for Dean Heller in Reno, days ahead of his clash with Jacky Rosen President Donald Trump's daughter made a rare appearance on the campaign trail ahead of a tight election for Heller. Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/01/ivanka-trump-stumps-dean-heller-reno-amid-close-race/1852610002/
Scott Sonner, Associated Press Published 4:42 p.m. PT Nov. 1, 2018
Ivanka Trump and Senator Dean Heller meet with Heller campaign volunteers at the RNC field office in Reno, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018.(Photo: Tom Smedes/Special to RGJ, Tom Smedes/Special to RGJ)Buy Photo
Ivanka Trump praised Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller on Thursday for the role he played in passing the 2017 GOP tax bill and the doubling of the child tax credit that came with it.
Making a rare appearance this year on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser predicted Heller win his tight battle for re-election against Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen.
"I don't do a lot of campaigning," Ivanka Trump told about 80 supporters at the GOP field office in Reno during an appearance with Heller.
"But I really wanted to do it for him. This is our first stop and our most important stop," she said. "I know he's going to win."
Heller, considered perhaps the most vulnerable incumbent GOP senator as the only one running for re-election in a state Hillary Clinton won in 2016, cautioned the faithful against becoming complacent in the final days of the campaign.
"Let me assure you this is a close race," Heller said. But he said he believes the 2,000 GOP volunteers knocking on doors and making calls on his behalf will make the difference.
"I've never seen the state of Nevada this well organized, especially in a non-presidential year," he said.
Ivanka Trump meets with Heller campaign volunteers at the RNC field office in Reno, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (Photo: Tom Smedes/Special to RGJ, Tom Smedes/Special to RGJ)
Donald Trump Jr. scheduled appearances with Heller and others in Nevada on Friday, underscoring the importance of Heller's race as well as what are considered toss-ups in two key open House districts in the western swing state.
Nevada Democratic spokeswoman Sarah Abel said Thursday Nevadans won't forget that Heller flip-flopped on health care under pressure from the president.
"Dean Heller continues to get political rewards from the Trump administration and a parade of visits from Trump family members after he broke his promise last year to protect Nevadans' health care and sold out our state," she said in an email to The Associated Press.
Ivanka Trump said there were some who wanted to compromise somewhere between the previous $1,000-per-child tax credit and the $2,000 the administration pushed, but Heller insisted on the full amount.
"It was this man who made it happen," Ivanka Trump said. "He's doing a tremendous job in the Senate."
"In politics, I've learned there are talkers and there are doers," she said. "He is definitely a doer."
Heller said Nevada leads the nation in job creation after posting the worst unemployment rate in the country under the Obama administration.
"All that has changed with this administration and with President Trump," Heller said. "We're No. 1 in job growth in the nation now because of that tax bill your father signed."
"This isn't a blip on the screen," he added, predicting economic growth will continue for the next five to 10 years.
Heller said he is especially pleased with his support in northern Nevada, where he'll need significant numbers in Reno, Sparks, Carson City and the rural counties to overcome the huge voter registration Democrats enjoy in Las Vegas.
"The Democratic candidates are doing all their campaigning in the southern end of the state," Heller said. "They've written you off."
Ren. Jacky Rosen talks with supporters who are getting ready to go out and knock on doors in Sparks on Nov. 1, 2018. (Photo: Andy Barron/RGJ)
Rosen was campaigning later Thursday in Reno and Sparks with California Sen. Kamala Harris, one of several Democrats considering challenging President Trump in 2020. They also scheduled an appearance Friday in Las Vegas with talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Donald Trump Jr. planned campaign stops Friday in Carson City and Reno with Heller, Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt — who is running against Democrat Steve Sisolak — and conservative broadcaster Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle also scheduled stops Friday in rural Pahrump with Laxalt, Guilfoyle and former Republican Rep. Cresent Hardy, who's in a 4th District rematch with former Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford, and in Las Vegas with GOP congressional candidate Danny Tarkanian, who faces Democrat Susie Lee for another seat left open by a departing incumbent Democrat in the 3rd District including suburban Las Vegas.
Rosen left that seat to challenge Heller. Tarkanian abandoned a bid to unseat Heller in the GOP primary to enter that race, under pressure from President Trump and others.
The president's son, Eric Trump, campaigned for Hardy and other Republicans in Las Vegas on Monday, and Vice President Mike Pence stumped for Nevada Republicans in Las Vegas on Saturday.
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Sean Quinton
Sean Quinton is an assistant sports editor at The Seattle Times.
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Fear, resentment — and more demand for vaccines as one Washington county grapples with measles outbreak
March 30, 2019 at 6:00 am Updated April 1, 2019 at 11:24 am
Nina Shapiro
For a solid month, Ashley Matzie took her newborn almost nowhere. Not to the grocery store, or to the park or even for a walk on her block in Camas, Washington, just east of Vancouver.
What if someone came over to admire the baby? What if that someone had measles or was carrying the virus on their body or clothes?
As dozens of measles cases broke out in Clark County, totaling 73 by late March and prompting a visit from the U.S. surgeon general, Matzie and her partner took every precaution. As soon as he walked in the door from work, he changed his clothes and washed his hands.
“For someone as little as him,” Matzie said of 3-month-old Paxton, “that illness can be deadly.”
Measles outbreaks in this state and elsewhere have alarmed parents, doctors and public officials about a highly contagious disease that had been deemed eliminated in 2000. Rockland County, New York, this past week declared a state of emergency after confirming more than 150 cases there, barred unvaccinated children from public places and said those in violation could be charged with a misdemeanor.
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Clark County, the center of this state’s outbreak, now waning, has not gone to that extreme. But the cases have shaken up the county in all sorts of ways — from challenging health-care workers to contain an unusually contagious virus, to stirring tensions between parents who vaccinate their children and those who don’t, to sharply curtailing how families and schools conduct themselves.
Parents of children like Paxton — too young to receive the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, typically given when a child is about 1 year old — have felt trapped inside their homes — “terrified,” according to Dr. Luke Voytas of Evergreen Pediatric Clinic in Vancouver.
Schools with confirmed measles cases sent home hundreds of students who couldn’t prove they were vaccinated, and canceled or postponed events.
“There were a lot of tears,” said Angie Waudby, president of the parent teacher organization at Burton Elementary School in Vancouver. Disappointment ran especially high when the annual school dance, a highlight of the year, had to be put off.
Waudby couldn’t even get into the school for weeks to check her PTO mailbox. The school’s doors were locked, and only those with proof of vaccination could get in. “Who really carries that with them?” she said. Not her. Her immunization records were buried somewhere at her parents’ house.
“C’mon, just immunize your kid so this doesn’t spread,” she said was the prevailing sentiment among frustrated parents.
Tensions have run both ways. Parents who fear more from vaccines than the diseases they prevent — despite widespread reassurance from doctors and scientists — resent the backlash for a choice they feel is theirs alone to make.
The PeaceHealth system has set up a special clinic in Vancouver for those exposed to the measles. The clinic, which gives immunity-boosting shots, has a separate entrance to ensure patients don’t expose others coming to the facility. Staffers meet patients at their cars and escort them in. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)
One Clark County parent declined to be named for this article because she worried her unvaccinated young children would be shunned.
Another, Katie Williams, said the day care where she takes her unvaccinated 2-year-old daughter treats the family like “outcasts.”
“They’re literally afraid of my child,” she said, adding staffers call to have the girl picked up when she has a runny nose or the slightest fever.
The toddler has a heart condition that prompted her cardiologist to warn that vaccines with a live virus, like the MMR, could be dangerous, Williams said. But the 29-year-old, a telecommunication sales manager, has refrained from giving her daughter other immunizations as well.
Williams said she might eventually give her daughter some vaccines, but not all. She therefore worries about proposed immunization mandates in Olympia, which would remove the current right to philosophical exemptions for students attending public schools.
“My family can’t afford private school,” she said.
About 15 percent of Clark County kindergartners were not immunized for measles, and roughly 23 percent were not up to date on all vaccines in 2017, according to state Department of Health statistics. That’s considerably higher than in the state as a whole, where the figures are 9 and 14 percent, respectively.
Located within the greater Portland area, Clark County’s “crunchiness” and interest in holistic living has something to do with it, surmised pediatrician Voytas. So does a rugged individualism that resists being told what to do, compounded by wariness toward authorities among local immigrants from former Soviet republics, where immunization campaigns were conducted by a coercive state.
The measles outbreak changed the risk-benefit analysis for many parents, according to Voytas — especially those who are not dead-set against vaccines but are spacing them out over a longer stretch of time than the schedule recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“Before, measles was so theoretical. Nobody had ever seen it,” the pediatrician said. “All of a sudden, it became tangible.”
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In January and February, Evergreen Pediatric immunized three times more children — 750 — than it did during the same period last year.
“Putting my child in danger”
Matzie, a 29-year-old tax preparer, is choosing to vaccinate her child on a delayed schedule. She’s concerned simultaneous shots will overwhelm babies with side effects.
She doesn’t, however, believe in a once-suggested connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, widely debunked, leading the scientific journal Lancet to retract the paper that once claimed a link. Living in fear for months has made her especially eager to give her child the vaccine when the time comes.
She feels torn about parents who choose otherwise. They have that right, Matzie said. At the same time, “their unvaccinated children are putting my child in danger.”
Wynne Hurly, another mother of a newborn kept inside for months, said she was surprised recently to learn that a neighbor’s child was unvaccinated. Now she finds herself looking at every child and wondering about their vaccination status.
“It’s a really icky feeling,” she said, seeming to her almost discriminatory, and all the more unsettling because she’s a teacher.
The dreaded event happened for new mom Kristin Cheatley in late January: Her 10½-month-old son, Steel, was exposed to the virus when they walked into a Vancouver clinic. Just minutes before, an infected child had arrived for treatment.
Ironically, Steel had been due to get the MMR vaccine within days. Cheatley had called the pediatrician to ask whether her son could get it early because of an upcoming family trip that involved flying, with all the recycled air and dense configuration of passengers that involves. The measles virus hangs in the air for up to two hours.
Now, Steel had to get another shot — actually two shots of immunoglobulin, a substance that boosts the immune system and, in the best-case scenario, wards off measles.
“It was horrible,” Cheatley said. “He cried and screamed.”
It also took a while. Thick and syrupy, immunoglobulin moves slowly through needles. The amount needed varies by weight and age, and sometimes requires four shots.
“We have to go in with five people,” said Ryan Cole, a nurse manager instrumental in setting up a special clinic for those exposed, run by the PeaceHealth system in collaboration with the county health department.
The Vancouver clinic has seen mostly babies too young to be vaccinated. One staffer is needed to help hold the child. Four others deliver shots simultaneously to get the pain over as quickly as possible.
In the early days of the outbreak, PeaceHealth staff spent hours planning the clinic. To keep possibly infected children away from others, they created a special entrance. Masks and gloves are kept by the door, used by staffers who greet patients at their cars when they arrive.
Cheatley, 36, lives and works as a real estate agent in Longview, about 45 minutes away, and went to a Kaiser clinic there to get Steel’s shots. Even Cheatley and her partner, both immunized, were asked to wear masks.
The ordeal wasn’t over. The immune-boosting shots are not foolproof, so health officials, following up on each case, told the family to keep Steel indoors — for 28 days, seven longer than usual after someone has been exposed, because immunoglobulin prolongs the potential incubation period.
Her normally easygoing son would try to escape by crawling out the door with the dog.
Wary of vaccination
The mother of 11- and 17-year-olds — the oldest vaccinated, the youngest not — Lisa Packard said she and her children have been going about their business as usual. They go to stores and the mall.
The 52-year-old Vancouverite said measles is not as scary as health officials and the media have been making out. She’s immunized but her older sisters were not. They got measles and survived, she said.
Millions of people every year did the same decades ago, acknowledged Dr. Jason Hanley in a Facebook Live Q&A put on by PeaceHealth, where he serves as an emergency department’s medical director. The disease, however, proves fatal for one or two out of a thousand, he said. Especially vulnerable: children under 5, pregnant women and those with immune systems compromised by cancer or other illnesses.
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Packard, who thought she had no choice when she immunized her oldest, but realized she did by the time her second was born, is not completely blasé about the outbreaks. She keeps a close eye on her unvaccinated daughter for symptoms, and checks the county health department’s running list of exposure sites daily.
If she were to see a site where her daughter recently visited, Packard said, she would keep the girl home so as not to infect others.
She said she’s been dropped as a Facebook friend by some people, including relatives, for her stand on vaccination. She’s seen online comments like; “If you don’t vaccinate your child, you should have CPS at your door.”
She feels disrespected, and it doesn’t change her mind. “I’m a special-education teacher. I think autistic kids are amazing,” she said, alluding to fears some still have about the MMR. “I just don’t want my child to be dead.”
A lot of stories about vaccine injuries circulate among so-called anti-vaxxers, and she doesn’t trust the government or pharmaceutical companies to tell the truth.
She’s not close-minded, she added. She’d like to see more scientific studies.
It’s possible they could persuade her to immunize, though likely not until her daughter is 12. A naturopath she knows said that’s when children’s immune systems are fully developed.
Voytas, the pediatrician, calls that idea “completely false,” saying immune systems are strong even in infants and toddlers, which is why a 12-month-old develops almost complete resistance to the measles after vaccination.
Outbreak or no outbreak, Packard said, “I’m still doing a wait and see.”
Nina Shapiro: nshapiro@seattletimes.com;
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Articles from the November 1, 2017 edition
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Older Persons Action Group annual meeting is Nov. 30
Older Persons Action Group, Inc. will hold its annual membership meeting Nov. 30 in Anchorage, in the conference room at Access Alaska, 1217 E. 10th Ave. The board business meeting starts at 11 a.m., followed immediately by the membership meeting....
Tax-Aide volunteers needed
Alaska AARP Foundation Tax-Aide needs new volunteers for the up-coming tax season. Tax volunteers must complete 40 hours of tax preparation classes that are taught by IRS-certified instructors. Lack of experience should not stop anyone from...
By Ken Stephens Columns November 1, 2017
Rationing forced sacrifice, resourcefulness
To author Studs Terkel, World War II was The Good War. And to Tom Brokaw, those who lived through it were The Greatest Generation. Sacrifice was the order of the day. And, as Betty Curtis and Carmen S...
By Alan M. Schlein News November 1, 2017
Nursing home storms come in many forms
The Trump administration is planning to end another Obama-era regulation involving nursing homes, which was designed to shield the elderly from unscrupulous, abusive or bad nursing home practices. At the end of the Obama administration, the Centers f...
By Lawrence D. Weiss Columns November 1, 2017
The contentious history of Social Security
In 1935 the National Association of Manufacturers testified before Congress that Social Security would represent “ultimate socialist control of life and industry.” Other opponents argued that the initial Social Security registration process was...
By Marsha Aizumi Columns November 1, 2017
New York trip inspires renewed hope and resolve
This is an article in an ongoing series by the Diverse Elders Coalition, focusing on different ethnic and demographic senior groups. Last month, I was in New York City to celebrate reaching another...
By Jim Miller Health November 1, 2017
That limp may be peripheral artery disease
Dear Savvy Senior: For the last six months or so, I’ve been having problems with my hips and legs cramping when I walk, although they feel better once I stop. I thought it was just because I’m getting old, but my friend was telling me about a...
By Suzy Cohen Health November 1, 2017
Reality check – do B vitamins cause cancer?
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By Nila Morgan Health November 1, 2017
Part D Open Enrollment Period is underway
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November is fall season finale for health fairs
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By Lorraine Guyer Health November 1, 2017
An update on care coordination for seniors
Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska is pleased to announce the expansion of our Care Coordination Program to include individuals of any age with a disability. Moving forward, our program Care Coordination Resource of Alaska (CCRA) will continue to be...
Providing Five Wishes in celebration of National Hospice Month
In recognition of how difficult it is for people to think about and discuss health care decisions, Hospice of Anchorage is distributing free copies of the nation’s most popular advance care planning resource, “Five Wishes”. Five Wishes allows...
By Major Mike Dryden USAR Retired Health November 1, 2017
Service-related brain injuries
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Research news on blindness, breast cancer, diabetes
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Free training and support for family caregivers
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By Kris Capps People & Places November 1, 2017
Twins and their tales draw large following
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Holiday bazaars and craft fairs
Soldotna Senior Center Fall Bazaar and Art Show, Nov. 3-4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Peruse arts and crafts from various vendors and enjoy refreshments for purchase from our kitchen. Call 262-2322 for more information. Chugiak-Eagle River Senior Center...
By Maraley McMichael People & Places November 1, 2017
Food stains and memories
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Networking for Anchorage area providers
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Veterans Week returns to Anchorage senior center
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Homer citizens save coupons for fire truck
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By Nick Thomas Columns November 1, 2017
Valerie Harper stars in new film about Alzheimer's
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By Teresa Ambord News November 1, 2017
Shopping online for the holidays? Protect your security
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By Kenneth Kirk Finance & Legal November 1, 2017
Come not between the dragon and his Roth
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By Bob DeLaurentis Columns November 1, 2017
Using technology to improve travel experiences
Q. What do you think of using a service like Airbnb or HomeAway instead of a hotel? A. My family has used various websites to find daily rental lodging for over 10 years. When everything goes according to plan, they are fantastic. But a bad...
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QC Games is shuttering action-RPG Breach and company
QC Games is shutting down, and taking its action-RPG Breach down along with it.
QC Games, the developer of Breach, is closing down, along with the action-RPG itself.
QC Games took to its official Breach blog today with the news, thanking the community for being a part of both the Technical Alpha and Early Access stages of the game, but noting that the studio and the game will be closing down, with today being the "last official day" for QC Games.
"Unfortunately, today is the last official day for QC Games, as we begin winding down internal operations on Breach. We’re sure you have a lot of questions about Breach, your accounts, and the future of the game. Our team is still working on defining what this means for Breach and for our community, and we’ll post an updated article soon with answers to as many questions as we can cover," the statement reads.
For now, the game's servers will remain online, though the ability to buy the Breach Starter Pack or in-game QC Points will be turned off on April 4 during a brief maintenance period, while the severs will be offline. The game will be brought back online after that, and the company will work to provide more information on this shutdown soon.
Breach is a co-op action RPG with a 4v1 element. You fight through short, 15-minute dungeons where you fight against other players and a "Veil Demon," which acts as something of a dungeon master. It's all about choosing to play the hero or villain, which plays a large role in the grander scheme of things. It seemed as though it had a bright future, especially given recent developments and PR efforts.
Shacknews just spoke to Dallas Dickinson of QC Games about Breach during GDC 2019 only a month or so ago, and there was no indication that the studio would be closing down at that time, so the news definitely comes as a shock. There are more details coming soon, the QC Games farewell post notes, so we'll keep you updated as we learn more about the situation and what's prompted the studio's closure.
Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, Brittany is a Senior Editor at Shacknews who thrives on surrealism and ultraviolence. Follow her on Twitter @MolotovCupcake and check out her portfolio for more. Like a fabulous shooter once said, get psyched!
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deathofrats
That sucks. Going to be a lot of folks looking for work here in Austin
vertdang
Cloud Imperium Games: Austin is still hiring I believe.
not for art unfortunately.
I'm honestly in shock. I just interviewed the CEO at GDC 2 weeks ago.
winterface
Bummer, I dont know anything about the game but I hope everyone can find work soon.
Zek
Making multiplayer games is rough, it's a cutthroat market. You're competing with some heavy hitters for players' time, and if they don't bite then your game is nothing. There is no middle ground, either you find a healthy playerbase or you're dead.
Carstman
They were using iesnare, which apparently has some pretty big privacy issues. I got it from a buddy and it wouldn't even let me create an account without turning off my ad blockers, which is how I found out about it.
Pretty shady crap.
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Jets' Josh Morrissey Fined, Not Suspended, for Slamming T.J. Oshie
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Morrissey threw Oshie to the ice late in the Jets' victory over the Capitals on Wednesday night. The Capitals did not provide an immediate update on Oshie's condition.
NEW YORK — Winnipeg Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey has been fined $8,468 but not suspended for unsportsmanlike conduct against Washington Capitals forward T.J. Oshie.
The NHL's department of player safety announced the punishment Thursday after a disciplinary hearing with Morrissey. The fine is the maximum allowable under the collective bargaining agreement.
The play was similar to when Florida's Mike Matheson threw Vancouver's Elias Petterson to the ice in October, but it wasn't punished to the same degree. Matheson was suspended two games for interference and unsportsmanlike conduct.
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Gothenburg, Sweden’s Maze of Singletrack Is a Technical Mountain Biking Playground
By Greg Heil
I first learned of the mountain biking around Gothenburg, Sweden via Hillside Cycling’s amazing photos, which we’ve featured as Photos of the Day many times here on Singletracks. I saw that there was great technical riding and entertaining trails to be found there, but when I started doing more research on it and realized that Gothenburg was a port town… on the coast… with no mountains nearby, I was a little skeptical. Leo Ranta of Hillside Cycling assured me that the trails there were black-diamond singletrack, but still my skepticism remained. “Technical singletrack? Really?”
But as soon as my airplane began descending into Landvetter Airport, I knew that I was in for a treat. While the land was relatively flat, it was visibly rugged: lakes and forests covered the landscape, and rocky outcrops regularly protruded from the dense vegetation. Technical, indeed.
A classic slimy, technical Gothenburg descent. Photo: Greg Heil.
As Sweden week on Singletracks goes on you’ll read in detail about the trails that I experienced while riding in the Gothenburg region, but I quickly learned that technical is the name of the game. And unlike some places in the US where technical means gnarly descents, Gothenburg’s trails are techy and difficult in both directions. The best of riders in Gothenburg—aka Leo Ranta, my guide for the week—are skilled technical climbers with quads of steel and fast, fluid descenders. If you want to ride these trails without getting off to walk every 10 feet (which I did at times), you have to be good at absolutely everything: the hills are short but steep, with transitions from descending to climbing assaulting your senses fast and furious
As for the trails themselves, all of the rock protruding from the landscape makes for very rocky trails—both rock gardens, and riding on rippled slickrock balds of exposed bedrock. Twisted around the rocks are the roots: sinuous webs of tree tendrils claw at the ground, looking for purchase in the rocky soil in a desperate attempt to ingest the few nutrients available.
Who says you need to go to Moab for slickrock? There’s a “Slickrocks” trail right here in Gothenburg. Photo: Greg Heil.
And then there’s the mud.
Living in Colorado, I’ve grown used to riding trails that are bone-dry and dusty, or so rocky that water just rolls right off. And even when I lived in Georgia, we’d try to stay off the trails if they’d been wet. But in Sweden, mud is just a way of life.
Boggy areas catch the rainwater that rolls off of the slickrock, trapping it in slimy, dark pits that are just waiting to leap out and lock onto your front wheel. Some of these pits have sketchy, skinny wooden bridges across them, and others… others, you just have to do your best.
Riding a skinny over one of many boggy areas. Rider: Leo Ranta. Photo: Greg Heil
Trail System
But technical terrain alone isn’t enough… there needs to be a trail network to truly make a location a destination. And man, does Gothenburg have trails! Very few of these trails are signed (more on that in a minute), but by local expert Leo Ranta’s best guess there’s about 300-400 kilometers (180-250 miles) of mountain bike trails in the immediate Gothenburg area… and that means rideable from downtown Gothenburg.
Check out the map below for a visual overview of all the different riding areas located around Gothenburg. These aren’t just single trails… rather, each shaded area is its own web of singletrack:
Credit: Leo Ranta
When you get out into this vast maze of singletrack, you’ll find trails branching off at angles every few feet, with more intersections and ride variants than I can even begin to wrap my head around even after riding there for a week straight. But all of them—save for maybe one very short section of trail—are open to mountain bikes.
Everyman’s Right
This amazingly open access, which is a totally foreign concept here in the United States, is a result of a law that was recently passed in Sweden that can be translated as “Everyman’s Right.” In essence, this law states that any human powered activity is allowed anywhere on non-developed land. This includes biking, hiking, walking, and running, but does not extend to horseback riding, or motorized travel (including ebikes).
When I heard of this law, a bunch of questions instantly sprang into my head: “does this mean you can ride across private land?” Answer: yes, as long as you don’t damage the land, don’t disturb the land owner, and the land isn’t fenced off and there are no signs saying you can’t be there.
But the big question: “Does this mean you can build trails anywhere you want?”
Well… it depends how you define “build.” Technically, you still need permission to put tools or machines to ground to dig in a trail. So in general, instead of building trails, mountain bikers in Gothenburg “find” trails.
“Dropping!” Rider: Greg Heil. Photo: Leo Ranta.
The Finding of the Blueberry Trail
Here’s the story of how the Blueberry trail was “found”… but almost all of the trails around here came about in this way.
One day a mountain biker was out for a ride, and he saw a game trail branching off of a well-worn path, heading off into the woods. The trail looked pretty well traveled by local deer and moose, so he decided to give it a try. As he explored the trail, he realized that it traversed through some pretty cool areas and had some decent flow. So, he started clearing away downed branches and brush that was lying over the trail.
About halfway through the trail, it seemed to disappear. So, another mountain biker followed a game trail from the other side of the ridge until it met up with the previous game trail. And thus, the continuous Blueberry Trail was born.
Life is good on the Blueberry Trail. Rider: Greg Heil. Photo: Leo Ranta.
However, even after clearing away downed branches, the trail wasn’t riding all that great on their mountain bikes, so the mountain bikers didn’t ride it for about a year.
Then, a year or two later, the mountain bikers decided to give the Blueberry Trail another chance, and lo and behold! The route was developing a good singletrack trail tread! Local trail runners, hikers, and dog walkers had started using the trail, and it had begun to widen out.
The mountain bikers quickly realized that this was one of the best trails in the area, so they began riding it on almost every ride. More and more runners and hikers also began using the trail.
Technical challenge on the Blueberry Trail. Rider: Leo Ranta. Photo: Greg Heil
Pretty soon, the mountain bikers noticed that there were spray painted blazes added to the trail, and wonder of wonders—it now appeared on the official trail map for the natural preserve.
Over the course of a few years and with minimal effort involved aside from riding and hiking, an old deer trail became one of the best singletrack trails in the area, and an official, designated trail!
Embracing the Natural
While the Blueberry Trail was well-used enough to become a part of the official trail system, the beauty of Everyman’s Right is that for all of the other trails that haven’t been blazed, signed, or recognized, it’s still totally legal to ride them, even if it’s just a deer trail.
Gothenburg is home to a passionate community of outdoors enthusiasts, from mountain bikers to trail runners to hikers and bird watchers. All of these people heading out of the city and into the forests have created a vast network of interconnected trails, and their constant and repeated use keeps these trails open, even with little additional maintenance.
Here in the US there’s a growing vocal contingent in the mountain bike community that decries flow trails and anything built by IMBA, and just wants trails to be gnarly, technical, and to have a “natural” feel. If you’re one of those people, you will love what most of Sweden has to offer, as this is exactly what the trails here are like: natural, gnarly, challenging, and oh-so-sweet.
Bring on the gnar! Photo: Leo Ranta.
I spent over a week riding and exploring the greater Gothenburg area, and I have so many cool experiences to share with you! This article is really just the tip of the iceberg.
As the series progresses, I’ll update this list with links to all of the articles:
Gothenburg, Sweden Series Articles
Ground Zero for Gothenburg Mountain Biking: The Skatas Area and Hillside Cycling
Adventures in the Swedish Interior: Kinnekulle Mountain
10 Gothenburg Attractions to Entertain Your Family While You Ride Sweet Swedish Singletrack
Review: Canyon Spectral CF Mountain Bike
Riding Seaside Slickrock in the Shadow of a Castle on Marstrand Island
Beginnings Interview: Leo Ranta, Hillside Cycling
Slickrocks and Skyscrapers: Molndal Area, Gothenburg, Sweden
Singletrack, History, Burgers, and Bike Shops in Gothenburg, Sweden
Greg Heil
My name is Greg Heil (also known as mtbgreg in many places on the interwebs. I've been mountain biking seriously since 2005, and I love to travel and ride new trails. My travels have taken me across the United States multiple times, and now, around the world. To date (April 2017), I have ridden well over 650 different trail systems in 20 different US States and 6 foreign countries, and am adding more singletrack to my trail resume every year! I enjoy all types of mountain biking, from ultra endurance cross country all the way up to chair lift-accessed downhill runs.Read more...
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Photo Essay: Mountain Biking Magical Marstrand Island in Sweden
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mongwolf
Very cool to hear about the situation in Sweden. Nice to see a little less regulation by government and more common sense practice by the people.
See also: Singletrack, History, Burgers, and Bike Shops in Gothenburg, Sweden
See also: Riding Seaside Slickrock in the Shadow of a Castle on Marstrand Island
Tags: Trails | destination, gothenburg, sweden, Trail, trails
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DJ Bobby Bones Cries Like Little Girl with a Skinned Knee After CMA Snub
Trigger Down with Pop Country 37 Comments
Why doesn’t this asshat move on to hosting game shows already?
On Wednesday morning (9-3) the nominations for the 2014 CMA Awards were unveiled, including the nominees for the CMA’s National Broadcast Media Personality, of which apparently Bobby Bones though he was a shoe-in for. And when his name didn’t show up on the ballot, he took to Twitter to bitch like the spoiled, self-entitled, self-centered prick he is.
Of course he began by putting the onus on his fans, like he always does. “Everyone calm down. I dont have to win every award. Getting 1000, ‘how are you not up for CMA personality of the year’.” he said.
Bullshit. The only people paying attention to the broadcaster awards yesterday were broadcasters and media. The broadcast nominees were not published by any major media outlet. Bobby is trying to shield himself by using his fans. He was butt hurt when he wasn’t nominated, and proved this as time went on. Bobby Bones continued,
“its not an ‘injustice’. I simply don’t play the political games the format is known for. Also Jason Aldean got screwed too! Id like to thank the almost 500 radio stations Im on & you the listener for the millions of $$$ we’ve raised for charity this year,”
This charity card is another indolent, insulting, and misrepresenting card Bobby Bones overplays predictably. Just because you give to charity doesn’t absolve you of all your sins. Why doesn’t Bobby Bones set up a charity for the hundreds of local DJ’s he’s put out of work, or the thousands of people laid off by Clear Channel in the most historic and sweeping homogenization and nationalization of a cultural institution since the dawn of American media? Give all the money to charity you want. It will never make up for the damage of poisoning people with the cultural filth broadcast on the Bobby Bones Show to millions every morning.
Bobby Bones continues, “going to need a lot of old people in this industry to retire or die before the Nashville “guard” lets something new get recognized.” And then he caps off what appears to be a threat. “Im going to find out who you are. Don’t worry.“
On this final thread, Bobby Bones does have a point. The CMA oligarchy is a cloistered and inbred bunch who is generally non-conducive to letting outsiders in. But in the case of Bobby Bones, they’re just trying to protect their own. The reason the CMA is not showering Bobby Bones with accolades is because he’s put so many of their own out of work, and out of business. The reason the CMA is seen as the most important governing body in country music is because it is tied deeply to radio, not just labels, making it the widest representation of the country music body. If Clear Channel and Bobby Bones had their way, there would be no other country music morning DJ in the entire nation other than Bobby Bones, and this dream is quickly becoming a reality as more local DJ’s who have very personal relationships with their communities and do many great charitable services for their locales are being lost to national syndication.
“I somewhat expected it,” Bones told The Tennessean. “But I have to voice my displeasure. We’re the biggest morning show in the country, killing the other stations in Nashville.” That’s right, “killing” is the optimum word there. There’s no competition when it comes to Bobby Bones. Bobby Bones has no respect for the cultural institutions of country music, including its legendary stations and DJ’s. They’re all just a bunch of old farts that need to get out of his way because he’s so awesome. And that’s the reason he wasn’t nominated, and shouldn’t have been nominated.
And then Bobby Bones really showed his ass by saying, “Awards in the end aren’t anything but dust collectors.”
But wait a second. If they’re just “dust collectors,” why all the hubub? Why even address the situation? Why does it even matter? Why did Bobby Bones make such a huge deal about winning the Academy of Country Music Country Music On-Air Personality of the Year in April? In fact, Bobby Bones shoved his ACM trophy in Saving Country Music’s face in April. If you have so little respect for the CMA’s distinction to call it a “dust collector,” why would the CMA ever consider bestowing it to you?
Bobby Bones is the single-most driver of cultural homogenization in America, and is the scourge of the airwaves. Hats off to the CMA for recognizing this, and not giving him a distinction he doesn’t deserve, and admittedly, doesn’t respect. A CMA Award is supposed to be about quality, not quantity. And that’s something Bobby Bones, and Clear Channel don’t get.
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September 4, 2014 @ 9:55 am
Why doesn”™t Bobby Bones set up a charity for the hundreds of local DJ”™s he”™s put out of work
SO. MUCH. WIN.
September 4, 2014 @ 10:06 am
“Manhood is the defeat of childhood narcissism.” ”“David Gilmore
Windmills Country
Little boys also cry after getting skinned knees, do they not? 😉
Bobby Bones: Awards in the end aren”™t anything but dust collectors.”
This is especially rich after Bones tried to wave his ACM in Trigger’s face earlier this year, as if that was somehow supposed to change anybody’s mind about him:
@The_Triggerman whats up bud? Im here just polishing my ACM for best national country radio personality. haha.
link to tweet
Ha! I’d totally forgotten about that.
Yes, once again Bobby Bones wants it both ways.
Hunter Morrow
Yeah, he does like to go both ways, doesn’t he?
I listened to Bobby Bones interview Garth Brooks and I was appalled at the outright misinformation and lack of history that Bones displayed during the interview. Garth was nice enough, but had to correct him a few times.
If you aren’t prepared when you are conducting interviews, you don’t deserve to win any awards for your show. And I’ve never heard a radio interviewer quite as unprepared as Bobby Bones was during that interview.
Bobby Bones is like that kid in high school who somehow starts hanging out with the cool kids and must make sure everybody knows that he is, indeed, now hanging out with the cool kids. Of course, it’s not until later on in life that he realizes those kids weren’t actually as cool as they seemed.
Noah Eaton
It still baffles me why so many prominent recording artists feel the need not solely to suck up to him (Jake Owen and Brad Paisley, I’m looking at you)…………but enthusiastically so like he’s the Dan Sullivan of this generation.
Another impression I get is that Bones thinks of himself as a trailblazer of this listening generation in his aggressive efforts to debut remixes of commercial country songs in particular and being a place where brand new singles are often debuted. Still, his efforts haven’t exactly taken the format by storm. The country re-mix of “Hey Brother” petered out pretty fast. The remix of “River Bank” went mostly unnoticed. If anything, he seems to be best-known for not leaving Kacey Musgraves alone.
To everyone their own I suppose, but the appeal of Bones is beyond me. He’s hardly likeable and doesn’t even try to be. He’s not exciting unless you count inflammatory Tweets about Musgraves and Chris Young’s weight as exciting. Nothing seems to stand out in his program, at least as far as features are concerned, for more than five minutes afterward in the memory. And I’m no fan of Limbaugh, but I can at least acknowledge Limbaugh knows his audience and is undeniably a masterful communicator. Bones just got lucky to me and I hardly see those same traits in him.
It still baffles me why so many prominent recording artists feel the need not solely to suck up to him (Jake Owen and Brad Paisley, I”™m looking at you)
Well, judging from Brad Paisley’s recent commentary to the Associated Press, he and Bones are two peas in a pod…
Bobby Bones is like the Big Mac of broadcasting. Not healthy, not even particularly tasty. But it’s there and available, so people consume it. And just like if you eat Big Macs every day, eventually you’ll crave them.
And yes, the allure of the remix seems to be wearing off in country. Everybody tried to replicate the success of the “Cruise” remix, but so far the public has been unimpressed. “Cruise” was an iconic song in the first place (whether we like that fact or not), so it worked. But you can’t do that with every garbage single.
Steve Isaacs
September 4, 2014 @ 12:26 pm
I’ve only been frequenting this site for a couple months now, and I don’t have enough knowledge of all this to disagree, and I agree he’s whining like a baby in this instance. But, I have listened to his morning show quite a bit and I don’t remember hearing anything I would consider…”the damage of poisoning people with the cultural filth”. Am I missing something or is there some hyperbole here?
Maybe a little bit of hyperbole, but have you heard Jason Aldean’s “Burnin’ It Down”? Tyler Farr’s “Redneck Crazy”? Or dozens of other songs of cultural filth that he plays? Bobby Bones is the country music equivalent of a big corporation closing their American factory and moving it to China to spit out an inferior product. Hundreds of DJ’s who were like family to their listeners have lost their local jobs because of Bobby Bones syndication.
Scotty J
Hey Trigger, did you see that Ed Sheeran’s ‘Don’t” debuted at #59 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart this week just based on plays from the Bobby Bones Show? If that doesn’t sum up the problem with these types of national shows then I don’t know what does.
This song is in no way country or remotely close but for some reason this assclown plays it a few dozen times and, voila, it’s a charting ‘country’ hit.
mystery stu
I outta start my own radio show and I’ll play Sturgill Simpson so much that he’ll go all the way to #1 on the country chart!
Lotek307
Bobby Bones is twat. Plain and simple. If these clowns want to (and are) change the country music landscape so bad, why don’t they just start their own genre. Leave country music to the dinosaurs and start anew. That’d be the real evolution, same as when metal started, punk started, when every other genre started.
Maybe I’ve been on Willie’s Roadhouse and Outlaw Country too long but who is this ass tool???
He is the biggest country music DJ in the history of the format 20x over, and he’s only been on the air for 18 months. He’s basically taken over every major country music station in every major market. And soon he will become one of the biggest host personalities in American culture, unless he’s stopped. Think of Dick Clark, but if he was country, not pop, and was an arrogant unapologetic prick.
Trigger, why did you edit my comment? You seriously need to post some rules man. One day, you’re going on profane, cussing tyrades about someone, the next day, you delete me calling Bobby Bones a weeping, little vagina. Seriously man, please explain this to me. Please!
Clint,
At one point there were specific comment rules posted, but it was located on the message board that was a casualty to the numerous hacks the site was getting hit with a couple of years ago. We’re hoping to salvage the message board and other stuff in a redesign set for the future. If that doesn’t happen, maybe I will post the set of rules somewhere else.
The main issue is this gender stuff dealing with “vagina” and other such derogatory comments. I have made such comments in the past as well, and I know this can even be inferred by me here by comparing Bobby Bones with a “little girl.” But I think we have to be very careful as a community to make sure we are not offending people with such comments. The implication is that females are inferior. I know that may have not been how you meant it, but that is how some people can take it. Many the comment was fine, but when in doubt, I am going to use caution. I do need to be more clear on the rules, and I will work on that.
I really hate to see you go the political correctness route, but thank you for the explanation. I sincerely appreciate it. By the way, a few comments above this one, Lotek307 called Bobby Bones a “twat”, and you didn’t edit it. Why?
He picks and chooses who’s comments he wants to post based on his personal feelings of that person. I’m living proof of that.
Preaching about how much you are against censorship doesn’t mean shit when you don’t follow through.
Please. It is an extremely difficult task to try and cultivate a comment environment that everyone feels welcomed in, yet is still open for spirited debate and expression. You will never see me claim that I do a perfect job, and you also have to appreciate that I do it while trying to write new articles, keep an eye on news feeds for new stories, fields an incredible volume of emails, respond to comments, and God forbid, try to live a normal life. Nobody is shown favoritism or singled out, though some repeat offenders may be dealt with differently. I do the best job I can, and anyone who claims that Saving Country Music censors dissent will simply be refuted by a simple perusal of the comments section.
Powderfinger
“Bobby Bones: Programming for the Country Metrosexual”
Ah…thanks Kyle. It doesn’t sound as though I have missed much over the last 10 years. DJ’s like him are the reason I switched to satellite radio from FM years ago. The ability to pick and choose the music I want to listen to without having to hear clowns like this, along with commercials, is money well spent as far as I am concerned.
The whole show is a meaningless fraud anyway. There’s nothing Country about the CMA. So why does it matter who they nominate. The local DJ’s that lost their jobs, and the ones that were nominated for this award are all pop-“country” homers just like Bones is, so who freakin cares?
The new meaning of CMA is: Country My Ass.
I do not understand why more people don’t convene en masse and take to the streets over shit like this. I mean, OK it’s not some government crap, but hell we don’t even take to the street over THEIR wrongdoings.
BTW Trigger have you ever considered doing radio? I know it isn’t the best place to be right now but I’d love to hear your disdain over the airwaves. I’m also surprised his fans haven’t risen up en masse to send you h8 mail because you are a h8r. Ugh I don’t even really know of him but he REEKS of immaturity and privilege. He’s no Rea; Don Steele that’s for sure. Apologies to Mr. Steele for mentioning him in the same comment as this talentless hack.
I hate this douchebag with the fiery passion of a thousand hells.
Phineas
I’d like to see that billboard turn into stickers / posters which would then be plastered throughout Nashville, I’d definitely by a T-shirt of it! Did they ever figure out who exactly paid for it / put it up?
I’ve heard numerous theories of who paid for it, including that it was Clear Channel surreptitiously promoting the show. So far I’ve seen nothing definitive.
Trigger –
My own dislike of Bobby bones is well documented on my own timeline. I laughed when he actually responded to something I said, because he have me instant credibility in calling out his mindless pandering to the horseshit sounds of current pop-country music. “consumption is King” was his mantra. Simply put, if people buy it, that’s all that matters. To him, people are nothing but pocketbooks.
He’s a first-ballot Douchebag Hall-Of-Famer no doubt.
Yeahcomeon
JacobB
How did things get this bad?
jdavid
Just think of all the real country DJ’s… the one’s who knew the format, the one hit wonders of the 80’s & 90’s … the one’s who woke up each morning excited to play real country … the one’s who knew every face and voice that called them in the request line. The one’s who loved the slide of the steel guitar, fiddle and good lyrics and a song with substance. Now, sadly, the majority of those people have been let go with this freak. Knows nothing about real country, yet claims he’s the best. He couldn’t even make it through an interview with one of the biggest names in Country (Garth) without being corrected. He thinks he know’s it all, but he surely doesn’t. I’ve been preaching lately… why is it that people that know nothing about country music have to ruin it for those of us that do? … He must be stopped. I know no one that enjoys his show, not a single one.
He looks like a city boy who decided to DJ country because that’s where he could make the money
Troy Turner
October 23, 2014 @ 4:19 am
I know I’m late to the party here, but is this guy THAT bad?
Putting people out of work is never ever a good thing, but good grief…this dude sounds like people I used to associate with back in the day: a gigantic, whiny, bratty, amoral, übersensitive, narcissistic egomaniac. I’ve been told I can be a evil asshole at times, but he sounds like he’s a whole another level of douchebaggery.
He’s not that bad. I love the zhow, people just like to take everything out of proportion. They just don’t like him and the show because they are real. They don’t try to be fake for the show or for ratings. That’s been the best thing about the show from the start, they are just a bunch of friends on the radio.
David Fowler
July 2, 2019 @ 1:28 am
I agree with everything you said but don’t post the go away Bobby bones billboards because if you did your homework you’d know when his show was floundering in the verge of being cut he paid 13000 of his personal money to pay for the billboard campaign saying go away Bobby bones or whatever. Funny thing is it worked extremely well and the rest is history sad sad history. He got the idea from Brian bosworth sellingi hate the boz t shirts at away Games. Guy made a killing. Publicity is publicity. Death to the bones show
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Turnpike Troubadours Ring In 6th Annual Dia Del Gallo at Floore’s Country Store
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For six years straight, the Turnpike Troubadours have celebrated a self-appointed holidays each Spring called Dia Del Gallo at the historic Floore’s Country Store on the outskirts of San Antonio. The city has always been a crossroads of cultures, and the rooster (“gallo” in Spanish) has always been the band’s official mascot. As the Turnpike Troubadours have grown in stature, so has the annual celebration, this year swelling Floore’s outside venue to capacity, and welcoming Charley Crockett, and Grammy-nominated John Fullbright to open the show.
Another interesting observance people have been taking from recent Turnpike shows is the addition of “Hammering” Hank Early as a full time steel guitar player in the band. In previous years, lead guitarist Ryan Engleman was playing behind the steel guitar more and more, but this new lineup addition allows Englemen to focus more on Telecaster duties, while adding more steel to the Turnpike sound. Hank Early, who also played with Raised Right Men and filled in initially when Engleman was injured, also plays accordion on certain songs, giving a little Louisiana to the sound that was more present on the band’s first record.
The Turnpike Troubadours have recently been in the studio, and fans can expect a new record potentially in the fall.
Photographer Brad Coolidge was on hand at Floore’s Country Store to shoot some photos of Dia Del Gallo for Saving Country Music that can be seen below. You can find Brad Coolidge on Instagram and Twitter.
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Dangus
Cool story, riveting
They finally stopped in Asheville for the first time a few weeks back. One of the best shows I’ve seen lately.
MY GRANDSON WAS THERE. DID YOU SEE HIM? HE ONLY CAME TO SEE THE HAMMER CHILDHOOD FRIENDS.
Broncaho
I have certainly seen him hammered.
Jim Bob
God fucking damn it..that’s the 2nd story in last 2 days starting with “Turnpike Troubadours” and not ending with release date for next album. God damn it…
Man, a new TT album and another Boland album would just make this whole year for me music-wise.
I’m glad the fans got a good show. I’m still smarting from the terrible one they tanked in Knoxville. 3 weeks later and I still can’t listen to their music. How bad was it? After playing almost an hour and a half, they ended the night on a new song – “Something To Hold On To.” Who does that?
The show was poorly sold (about 1/3 capacity), their bus broke down that day, and the weather was terrible (we had to buy jackets!). They clearly didn’t want to be there. Was Evan drunk? IDK. I asked three people on the way out: 2 said yes, 1 said no. But, clearly off – very high pitched; kept starring at the ceiling.
Unfortunately, we drove from Pittsburgh (1k miles round trip) to see them for the first time. It will be awhile before I can listen to them again.
Or, you could just see them the next time they come through. I saw them 3x last year in Columbia and KC Missouri. Unbelievable every single time! And all 3 were sold out way before the show. Sounds like you either caught an anomaly or you’re just full of shit. Or you’re at least exaggerating a great deal, cause 1/3 capacity at a turnpike show just doesn’t make sense. At least not in my experience, where they’re sold out weeks/months in advance
I couldn’t believe they weren’t sold out either! It was at a newer venue – The Mill & Mine – that is having major sound issues (it also serves as a wedding and upscale mess hall). Maybe the locals caught on to the sound issues – check Yelp.
Also, I totally gave way too much credit to the city of Knoxville. I used to regard it as a great college town, but it may not be. Since this occurred, I talked to a couple artists who say they don’t tour Knoxville because the people don’t come out. On top of that, it was a Sunday night (there are a lot of Jesus billboards in Knoxville).
I’ve been to thousands of concerts in the past 25 years and I used to work in the industry and I’ve never said an ill word about an artist prior to this show. It was bad.
Must’ve just been bad luck/timing. Last time I saw them in Columbia, MO the crowd was singing so loud Evan just said, “shit, you guys’ve got this” and stopped singing at one point. Place was beyond capacity and everyone knew every word.
In KC, MO in November sound was so bad I couldn’t understand a single word Sturgill sang. And I knew the fucking songs. It sucks when bad shit happens, especially when it’s at a show for artists you love.
Man, that’s a shame, I remember on an earlier post how pumped you were to go. Understand your being bitter.
If I had your experience Hoptowntiger, I would be very frustrated too. I saw video from that show, and it looked like maybe Evan was a little bit off or something, but not anything like we saw at Music Fest a couple of years ago. Without being there it’s really hard to know what happened. One thing I’ll say is that Turnpike is trying to branch out into new markets, which can be hard for a Texas country band when regional shows are so lucrative. That means there’s going to be some smaller shows. Bad sound could have factored into the equation as well. Just like all of us, sometimes we have an off night. Not saying that’s what happened but it could have been. Really sucks for the people that traveled long distances, but every time I’ve seen them, they’ve been spot on.
I hope this isn’t a trend with their shows far away from TX/OK, I’m driving 6 hours down from WI to IL in order to see them this summer.
I have seen them in Iowa City, IA and it was a great show! Good crowd and sound was great. Luckily I was shooting pool with a buddy after the show at the local pool hall and Turnpike walked in to play. Place was dead it was just the band and me and my buddy. Got to talk to them for a while and got a picture as well. They’re great guys! I bet the show in IL will be good!
Good! I actually considered driving down to Des Moines but am going to a Cody Jinks concert in Milwaukee instead.
I’ve seen them a couple times in Springfield IL, they tore the shit out of it. No worries, Illinois is Turnpike territory! BTW, is it the Tall Boys series in Peoria you’re going to? If so, look for me!
Yes it is! For every day I’m working on the Illinois River…
Well, I got me a gal in Pekin…Hell, me too!
It being on a Sunday night did not help the crowd numbers any, I was going to go but had class the next morning. I watched them on a Sunday last summer, but a Sunday in July is a little different than one in April.
Old Brett
Saw them for the first time a couple of weeks ago in suburban DC. Two things struck me: how young the crowd skewed, and how into it they were. I’m so used to getting blank stares from people when I mention bands like TT that it completely took me by surprise. They’ve definitely made major inroads beyond their home region.
Shoot, cool
Beer thirty
Saw them last month in a small town in South Georgia – outside venue. It sold out. Large crowd and we all sang along with every word. Sound and performance were incredible. The only bad part was the beer vendors couldn’t move the lines fast enough. Can’t wait for new material and the next show I can catch them at!
They came over to UK on a short tour and on last night they played in the smallest downstairs club imaginable in a non music city Chelmsford. They couldn’t even stand up straight across the whole of the stage it was so low and small. It was sold out but reckon there was only around 150 crowd squeezed in.
I was wondering if they would bother putting on much of a show but wow they were unbelievable, played for around 2 hours and were just fantastic. They hung around and chatted after. Was fantastic to see such a real deal band putting it in for such a small audience. Hard to believe its the same band you’re talking about. They certainly impressed me, played every song I ever knew by them ! Actually except for Funeral which is probably my favourite.
Mountaineer Mike
Caught my second TT show when they came to the Grey Eagle in Asheville last month and they absolutely killed it. Will definitely be going to see them again when they come through Charlotte in June, the Neighborhood Theatre is an awesome venue.
I love Turnpike’s music and hate to hear stories of folks who have seen them on a night when Evan is ‘off’, for whatever reason. I’d be sadly disappointed as well but that has not been my experience. They’ve put on some of the best live shows I’ve seen recently.
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About six months ago when I was running on Union Turnpike around four in the morning, an ambulance driver asked me if I could tell him how to get to a particular place. He was drinking something — beer, I think — and going against a red light. Perhaps he was late. I thought to myself, “What is the matter with that fellow?”
I could not tell him how to get to his destination. There was also a truck driver nearby, but instead of asking the truck driver, he started saying bad words. Finally he said, “Hell with you!” I replied, “Heaven with you.”
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MSU upgrades Bobcat Stadium
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Montana State University is retaining the services of FieldTurf to replace the existing field at Bobcat Stadium.
“We are excited to continue our partnership with FieldTurf,” said Montana state director of athletics Leon M Castello. “With a focus on safety and performance, this new surface emphasizes our commitment to Bobcat student-athletes and all who use it.”
University officials opted for FieldTurf’s Revolution 360 system to replace the current playing surface. The Bobcats’ current field is planned to be donated to a local soccer club.
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World Cup Favorites 2018: Germany Top Bet For FIFA Russia With Argentina, Brazil, Spain
The World Cup is now over and the page is turned to 2018 in Russia and the favorite for that tournament is the winner of this one, with Germany coming in as the top bet over Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France and the Netherlands, while the host nation has 20-1 odds and the United States is back at 50-1 despite their fantastic performance in Brazil.
Lionel Messi Wins World Cup Golden Ball Over Thomas Muller, James Rodriguez
The World Cup 2014 tournament has Germany as the champions, but Argentina star Lionel Messi was crowned as its best player over Thomas Muller and James Rodriguez, as he won the FIFA Golden Ball award despite not scoring in the knockout stage and while he was very impressive, something feels off about a German player not winning and Diego Maradona came out to blast FIFA, saying the award was a marketing ploy.
Germany Wins World Cup Over Argentina After Mario Goetze Goal
The World Cup 2014 tournament was won by Germany after a goal late from sub Mario Goetze in extra time and that came as Argentina nearly got the game to penalty kicks and now the Germans are champions once again and they are the first European team to win the World Cup in South America and now Brazil ends their job hosting the tournament after wasting billions.
Germany vs. Argentina Live Stream: Watch Online Streaming World Cup Finals
The World Cup 2014 final has a live stream on Univision for Argentina and Germany from Estádio Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro at 3 pm ET and on TV from ABC and this matchup has Lionel Messi and Thomas Muller matching up for the finals and this is a matchup many expected and this could be a very tight match and could end up as one of the most exciting ever in Brazil after the host nation lost to the Netherlands.
World Cup Final Radio Stream Live: Listen Online Streaming Argentina vs. Germany
The World Cup final is live with Argentina and Germany on Sunday on ABC at 3 pm ET from the WatchESPN website and ESPN Radio and the game from Estádio Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro has two teams that everyone expected to be in contention for the final in Brazil and now the best player in the world in Lionel Messi takes on the German side that is favored to win and this is the third time these teams have played in the finals for the tourney.
World Cup Radio Stream Live: Listen Online Streaming Germany vs. Argentina Final
The World Cup 2014 final is live on Sunday with Germany and Argentina on ABC and the live stream is from WatchESPN and comes after the third place game is live on Saturday with Brazil taking on the Netherlands live on ESPN, streaming from ESPN Radio and also on Univision at 4 pm ET and the match from Estádio Nacional de Brasilia will have the host nation trying to forget about their awful defeat against Germany as they finish up this tournament and the country now will have to deal with hosting this major event and not even winning it.
World Cup 2014 Final Schedule: Start Time and Channel For Argentina vs. Germany
The World Cup 2014 final schedule has the Argentina and Germany matchup on Sunday, July 13 on ABC on TV and the start time comes at 3 pm ET from Rio de Janeiro after the Brazil and Netherlands third place game on Saturday and this matchup has Lionel Messi taking on a very talented Germany team with Thomas Muller to see who will win the 2014 title.
World Cup Final 2014 Schedule: Argentina and Germany Match Sunday
The World Cup 2014 Finals is set with Argentina and Germany playing for the tournament championship after Lionel Messi led his nation past the Netherlands, while the German side won over Brazil, who now plays against the Dutch in the third place game on Sunday before the final matchup on Sunday and that game is at 3 pm ET from Rio de Janeiro.
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Argentina and the Netherlands are playing live on the World Cup semifinals schedule on Wednesday and the game comes after Brazil's harsh defeat against Germany and this game is on ESPN, WatchESPN and ESPN Radio from Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo and Lionel Messi leads his nation against Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben for the Dutch side at 4 pm ET.
World Cup TV Schedule 2014: Start Time and Channel For Argentina vs. Netherlands In Brazil
The World Cup 2014 is back on the TV schedule and the TV start time and channel for Argentina against the Netherlands is at 4 pm ET on ESPN, WatchESPN and ESPN Radio and the game has Lionel Messi trying to get his team into the final over the Dutch after Brazil was demolished by the Germany team 7-1 without Neymar playing.
World Cup Univision Live Stream: Watch Online Streaming Germany vs. Brazil
The World Cup semifinals are live with Brazil and Germany on the schedule Tuesday and the game is live from Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte on Univision, ESPN Radio and WatchESPN online starting at 4 pm ET and the host nation will be without Neymar as they try to win their fifth title and this matchup has the two overall favorites from the beginning of the tourney.
Brazil vs. Germany Live Stream: Watch Online Streaming World Cup
The World Cup 2014 semifinals are live with Brazil and Germany on Tuesday and the game on ESPN starts at 4 pm ET and has a live stream on WatchESPN and comes from Estádio Mineirão in Belo Horizonte as the host nation tries to stay alive and they are hoping to play Argentina or the Netherlands and Brazil will be without Neymar after his injury and Thiago Silva after his second yellow card.
Neymar Trying Medical Treatment For Recovery In Final If Brazil Advances Over Germany
The World Cup 2014 tournament is into the semifinals and Brazil is set to take on Germany on Tuesday and they will be without Neymar in that game after he suffered a stress fracture in his back against Colombia and according to ESPN and other rumors, reports say Neymar could be trying some "heavy medical treatments" to try and come back if the host nation makes it to the final.
World Cup 2014 Bracket: Brazil Final and Semifinals Schedule For Tournament
The World Cup 2014 bracket has four teams left and the schedule picks up on Tuesday with Brazil against Germany and the game will be on ESPN and WatchESPN with a live stream at 4 pm ET and comes from Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte ahead of the Argentina and Netherlands matchup to see who will play in the final.
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Ipswich solicitors expands with the appointment of four solicitors
Leading law firm, Ellisons Solicitors, is proudly announcing a period of further growth at its Ipswich office. Both Ellisons’ employment and property teams have expanded with the appointments of their first Residential Solicitor for the Ipswich office, two solicitors and one solicitor advocate.
This news comes after the Ipswich office was recognised in three prestigious categories in the 2018 ACQ5 Global Awards. Ellisons was named the UK’s Personal Injury Advisory Firm of the Year, the UK’s Regional Employment Advisory Firm of the Year and the UK’s Regional Corporate and Commercial Advisory Firm of the Year.
Matthew Preston-Bloom has joined the property team as Ellisons’ first Ipswich Residential Solicitor. A highly-trained and experienced professional, Matthew specialises in residential property including freehold, leasehold, registered, and unregistered property.
Matthew said: “I am very excited to be joining Ellisons. It is a firm with an established good reputation, has superior infrastructure and support, and an atmosphere that’s far more positive than anything I’ve ever encountered before. I’m looking forward to working with such an exciting firm, and to providing a high level of client service."
In the Commercial Property team, Anna Mulholland has joined as a newly-qualified solicitor, assisting with all types of commercial property matters. Completing her LPC (Legal Practice Course) and MSc in Business, Law and Management at the University of Law, Moorgate, Anna brings Ellisons’ established Commercial Property team in Ipswich to four members.
Anna said: “I am delighted to be starting my career as a solicitor at Ellisons. I’m very excited to be joining a hugely-experienced and highly-regarded team of solicitors, and look forward to providing clients with strong results.”
In the award-winning Employment team, Ellisons has welcomed Tina Maxey and Zoe Parker to the Ipswich office. Tina is a very experienced employment solicitor, advising principally employers on all areas of employment law. Zoe joins the team as a solicitor advocate with Civil Higher Rights of Audience, and acts principally for employees, including representation in the Employment Tribunal.
Julian Outen, Partner and Head of Employment said: “2019 will be a milestone year for the Ipswich office, and I’m delighted to welcome Matthew, Anna, Tina and Zoe to the team. It is a great way to start the year and it is a sign of good things to come for Ellisons as we continue to expand in Ipswich and beyond.”
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Devoted to Love by Shayla Black
He was sent to guard her body… he didn’t expect her to steal his heart.
Her sister’s wedding was hardly the place to find a hook up, but after one look at friend-of-the-groom and special operative Josiah Grant, small-town Texas beauty Magnolia West immediately fell in lust. After a stunningly sensual night together, Maggie is prepared for the two of them to go their separate ways. After all, she’s not a happily-ever-after kind of girl. But Josiah—and danger—change her plans.
Josiah isn’t looking for love…but Maggie rouses his body and stirs his heart like no other woman. She’s got a rocky romantic past, and a smart man would steer clear. But when the murder quotient in Kendall County rises and all signs point to a mysterious group nearby who have been harassing Maggie’s family, he can’t leave her unprotected—especially when he realizes he’s fallen hard for her.
As tension mounts and the menace closes in, Josiah will do anything to prove to Maggie that their love is real…but can they stay alive long enough to share it?
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Maggie was shocked to feel her hand tremble when she put her fingers in Josiah Grant’s massive palm. He’d been more than nice to look at, and she’d already entertained more than one fantasy about how hot he might look out of that sharp charcoal-gray suit. But now that she was actually going to touch him, her brain felt in eminent danger of short-circuiting. How the devil would she manage if he actually kissed her? Peeled off her clothes? Thrust his hard cock—which should be large, given the size of his hands—inside her?
She’d combust on the spot.
“Sure,” she managed to murmur while seeming somewhere between cool and detached. It was her signature move.
As they reached the dance floor, the party tune faded away, replaced by Ed Sheeran crooning that he’d love the woman in his arms until he was seventy. As Josiah pulled her close and began to sway to the slow beat, she peered up at him. Her lashes fluttered, along with her heart. She sucked in a breath. God, she had to stop being such a nervous idiot. He was a man. She was a woman. This would probably be nothing more than a fling she’d enjoy the hell out of.
But looking into his eyes, she wasn’t so sure. They weren’t blue or green or brown or even hazel. They were more unusual. They were a glinting gray with a thick fringe of lashes against tanned skin. That gaze, along with the buzz of his brown hair, made him look somewhere between exotic and dangerous. And he was staring right at her, looking entirely serious.
Mercy, what was it about this man?
He swallowed like maybe she got to him, too.
“So . . .” She searched for a conversational topic to cut her nerves.
“So . . .” He smirked in return.
“You actually can dance. I’m impressed.”
He let loose a laugh. “See? I’m a lot of things, but a liar isn’t one of them.”
Josiah glided them around the floor effortlessly, turning her under his arm, reeling her in closer, then settling his hot fingertips in the middle of her bare back before he caressed his way down her spine and placed his palm close to her ass.
Lord, he felt good. Maggie tried not to imagine how his fingers would feel skimming her whole body with that soft, unhurried stroke. “Tell me . . . Were you in the service, like Cutter?”
Josiah shook his head. “CIA.”
Wow. “That sounds dangerous.”
“The mortality rate was higher than, say, for an accountant.”
“Why do I get the feeling that’s an understatement?”
He simply shrugged. Okay, he didn’t want to talk about it. Or couldn’t. She respected that.
“How long have you worked for EM Security?”
“About a year. I signed on because I wanted to learn from the best. Then a few months later, Caleb Edgington retired. Thankfully, his sons have proven anything but amateur. What about you?”
Since he’d done important things like save the world, he would laugh a million times at what she’d chosen to do with her life. At least he’d never guess. It wasn’t as if a guy like him would ever read an Azalea North novel. In fact, no one had figured her secret out yet, not even her sister.
“I’m . . . on hold right now. Shealyn has this big life to lead, and now she’s married. My grandparents are needing more help as they get older. Papa fell last week. Thankfully, he wasn’t hurt, but Granna can’t lift him. I barely can. And she can’t remember to take her medicine half the time. They’re little issues, at least right now. But they’re going to require more care in the coming years.”
“What about your mom? Can she help?”
Maggie bit back something pointless he wouldn’t understand and she’d probably regret. “She lives in Costa Rica with her husband and my ten-year-old half brother. Up until the last few months, she really hasn’t been in my life. We’re, um . . . getting to know each other.”
“You didn’t grow up with her?”
She shook her head. “Long story.”
Hopefully, he’d read between the lines. In her book, it was a closed subject. She still wasn’t entirely sure how she felt about her mom. A few conversations didn’t erase a whole childhood of resentment, but Maggie wasn’t the sort to hold on to hate. And it wasn’t as if her youth in Comfort had been terrible.
“What about your parents?” she said to fill what could become an awkward silence.
“Long story, as well.”
In other words, he had secrets he’d rather keep, too. Fine by her.
The silence she’d been trying to avoid fell between them. Surprisingly, it wasn’t awkward at all. But it was tight, full of awareness. She could feel herself yearning to be closer to him. But what blindsided her was his desire for her. It hung so thick in the air it was almost tangible. Like a blanket, it wrapped around her, warmed her from the January chill that blew in under the tent. It left her no doubt what he thought or wanted.
The song ended. Neither one of them moved, simply stared. Those wicked fingertips of his prowled their way up her bare back again, making her shiver, before gliding down in a barely there caress.
“Josiah?”
“How much longer do you have to stay at the reception?”
Half dazed, she scanned the room. Her sister was wrapped in her husband’s arms on the opposite corner of the dance floor. Granna and Papa had already retired. Brea, bless her, had finally managed to calm her stomach enough to enjoy the festivities. The rest of the guests had either left or kicked off their shoes, started their third drink, and gotten ready to party.
“Not another minute. Are you planning to take me to bed?”
He cupped her cheek, looking like he wanted to kiss her. Instead, he backed away, teeth gritted in restraint—for now. She had a feeling that moderation wouldn’t last.
Josiah took her hand. “Yes, I am.”
Shayla Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than sixty novels. For nearly twenty years, she’s written contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances via traditional, independent, foreign, and audio publishers. Her books have sold millions of copies and been published in a dozen languages.
Raised an only child, Shayla occupied herself with lots of daydreaming, much to the chagrin of her teachers. In college, she found her love for reading and realized that she could have a career publishing the stories spinning in her imagination. Though she graduated with a degree in Marketing/Advertising and embarked on a stint in corporate America to pay the bills, her heart has always been with her characters. She’s thrilled that she’s been living her dream as a full-time author for the past eight years.
Shayla currently lives in North Texas with her wonderfully supportive husband, her daughter, and two spoiled tabbies. In her “free” time, she enjoys reality TV, reading, and listening to an eclectic blend of music.
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Announcing Our Newest Affiliate: Gamesplosions!
This is almost like a running gag now. No, I don't mean gaining new affiliates, but seeing how many new affiliates get added to my list of friendly sites and how often "Announcing Our Newest Affiliate" posts pop up. Regardless, I'm proud to announce that SuperPhillip Central has a new friend and it is none other than Gamesplosion, a British video game blog. The site is run by a man named Ian who has a snazzy interface, reviews without scores (I think the industry could use this and shy away from Metacritic and Gamerankings), insightful impressions on upcoming games, and much more. I believe the site is just starting out, so I not only loved what I saw from Ian's opening attempt at making something special, I wanted to spread the word on his blog to my readers. Maybe you'll find Gamesplosions to be something special, too.
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Top Ten Anime Soundtracks
Two top tens within the same week? Have I gone mad?! Well, as longtime readers of SuperPhillip Central very well know I have always been mad. Despite this, we are trekking forward and capping off the week with a non-video game related entry into SPC history. As you may or may not know, I love imposing my taste in music on my readers and forcing them to adhere to my tastes. Part of that previous statement is not true. Can you guess which? Anyway, today's list is all about anime soundtracks and the best of the best that I have heard. Of course, I have not listened to every anime soundtrack there is, and even I will admit my bouts of anime fandom are limited at best. That won't stop me from making this list, though! Each anime soundtrack listed is accompanied by six songs. I felt that was the right number to show off the better themes and songs of each soundtrack. I hope through listening to these pieces that you expand your musical tastes outside of your comfort zone. Enjoy!
10) Macross Frontier
Starring a popular pop star, a rising pop star, and a military pilot, Macross Frontier is the latest in the long-running franchise. This go around Yoko Kanno lends her compositional talents and leads the musical crusade to craft an epic-sounding score to accompany all of the onscreen action. Since there's a duo of pop stars to work with, Kanno needed to create some pop-ish sounding tunes, and she delivered with songs like "What 'bout my star" and "Welcome to My Fan Club's Night!" Her other efforts add to the buffet of musical tastiness Kanno dished up for fans of her work and of the Macross Frontier anime. Especially listen to Zero Hour, her best work on the soundtrack.
What 'bout my star?@Formo
Innocent Green
9) Brain Powerd
Just to get this out of the way, you will most likely notice that half of the soundtracks on this list are composed by Yoko Kanno. With that mentioned, her work on Brain Powerd (no, I did not leave out a letter) is full of mellow melodies and gentle tunes. The majority of the soundtrack is orchestrated with a sensational use of strings and Kanno pounding away on the keys of her piano as shown in Power of the Light. One of her vocalist staples, Steve Conte, appears in True Love and once again delivers a stunning performance.
Power of the Light
8) Darker Than Black
After delving deep into jazz with her Cowboy Bebop soundtrack (posted later on this list), Yoko Kanno returned to the genre with Darker Than Black. Full of tunes reminiscent of her work on Bebop, Kanno shines like a shooting star with tracks like GO Dark, Highheel Runaway, and Guy. Then there's non-jazz tracks to complete the soundtrack, rounding it out, and give it even more amazing music. There's no doubt that Yoko Kanno knows her stuff, and Darker Than Black is yet another piece of evidence to prove just that.
Highheel Runaway
No One's Home
Deadly Work
7) Fullmetal Alchemist
Is Michiru Oshima a name that rings any bells for you? Perhaps some of her works would shed some light on her. She has written music for several anime, video games, movies, and television shows. Her works spread from Godzilla movies to even having a hand in crafting one of The Legend of Zelda themes in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Her compositional creations in Fullmetal Alchemist are not to be taken lightly either. Gentle melodies at one time, powerful at others, Mrs. Oshima really knows how to tug at the heartstrings with her music.
Favorite Daughter
Heavenly Spirit
Butou
6) Wolf's Rain
Yoko Kanno takes a more subdued approach with her Wolf's Rain soundtrack. Unlike Darker Than Black and Macross Frontier, there's little if any in the way of loud rock or peppy jazz pieces. Instead we get more rustic flavors of music and orchestra cacophonies. Wolf's Rain follows the story of a pack of wolves who can shape-shift into human forms to fit in with society while struggling to survive. I caught the show on Adult Swim back when anime was still relatively popular in North America. Scope out some of the sounds with the links below.
Could You Bite the Hand
Shiro, Long Tails
5) The Big O
Toshihiko Sahashi penned one doozy of a score with his The Big O soundtrack, made up of a rich range of styles like electronica and jazz. The entire score sounds like something from a combination spy film/film noir/sci-fi epic. What else could it be when you're concerning a show about a negotiator who dabbles in being a detective, has an android, a butler, and a big giant mecha known as Big O? Then you have several of the battle themes with bombastic brass and strings which come off as compositions for some kind of monster movie or something. See... er... hear what I mean by listening to these six fine examples.
Stand a Chance
Sure Promise
Apologine (Breecker Street)
4) Outlaw Star
Koh Otani is the man behind the music for this anime and the next one on my list. Outlaw Star is heavily made up between rock and orchestral pieces. A great soundtrack is one that can be heard outside of the anime and you still enjoy it. Outlaw Star is just that. I loved the score so much that I "borrowed" some of the themes for my RPG Maker 2003 game, SuperPhillip RPG: The Crystal Quest (Away for the battle theme and Power for the boss theme; see below examples). What I consider to be the main theme of the series, Flight, is an exceptional piece that you can imagine Gene Starwind and the gang taking off into the great unknown. A tremendous soundtrack for a tremendous anime.
3) Gundam Wing
The other soundtrack on this list from Koh Otani (he also did the music for the PlayStation 2 classic Shadow of the Colossus), Gundam Wing takes both real instruments and synthesized instruments to create a soundtrack that is both rocking and harmonious. Taking cues from Outlaw Star (or was it the other way around?), Gundam Wing is mostly built upon rock and orchestral themes, sometimes even a combination of the two. One of the better themes is To Beauty, To Elegance, and To Noble-Mindedness which is a waltz version (played in 3/4 time as is customary of waltzes) of Relena Peacecraft's theme. This 50+ episode series is my personal favorite form of Gundam even though it is a spinoff. Regardless, enjoy these following samples.
The Wings of a Boy That Killed Adolescence
When the Dragon Swims, Everything Ends
Eternity & Infinity Are in These Hands
To Beauty, To Elegance, and To Noble-Mindedness
Swinging Target
Gundam Attack
2) Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
If you are in desperate search for a soundtrack that encompasses the genres of techno, rock, rap, jazz, symphonic pieces, and a plethora of others, then look no further than Yoko Kanno's Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex soundtrack. Full of memorable themes, catchy riffs, and toe-tapping tunes, Kanno's masterpiece knows no bounds. Whether you're rocking out to Yakitori, listening to the female vocals of Gabriel Robin in Cyberbird, or bopping your had to the jazzy wonders of 3tops, you cannot deny the impressive amount of content Yoko Kanno dished out for this 52 episode series.
Run Rabbit Junk
Lithium Flower
Cyberbird
From the Rooftop ~ Somewhere in the Silence (Sniper's Theme)
Smooth in the Shell - Part Six
Smooth in the Shell - Part Thirteen
1) Cowboy Bebop
Yoko Kanno was listed as my number one favorite composer, beating out Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears). She even got a top five (one of the most popular posts in SPC history) devoted to her. The reason for this is that her range is impossibly incredible with her work on Cowboy Bebop being a testament to this. Yoko Kanno and her band The Seatbelts comprised the majority of tracks with several vocal themes from singers like Mai Yamane, Steve Conte, and Gabriel Robin. Whether you like jazz, funk, heavy metal, country, or anything else, there is most definitely a song or theme on the soundtrack that has your name on it. Cowboy Bebop doesn't just stand as the anime with my favorite score, but it's also the anime that I admire the most.
Tank!
Space Lion
Bad Dog No Biscuits
The EGG and YOU
This concludes our dip into the deep, expansive ocean that is anime music. Did you find a song or soundtrack that you especially enjoyed? Great! Let me know about it in the comments section. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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Rank Up! - Nintendo Consoles
Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo, announced a worldwide launch for the company's upcoming Wii U. Rumors say the console could be anywhere between 2X-5X the power of the Xbox 360, and that Nintendo is possibly considering a name change. Regardless, you should always take any rumor with a grain of salt.
It seems like an opportune time to play Rank Up! This segment is where I take a series of games (or in this case consoles) and rank them from least favorite to most favorite. Our subject this go around is a different specimen entirely. Instead of ranking games, I'll be ranking consoles-- Nintendo's five to be exact. Let's see what five they are for those unaware:
Nintendo GameCube (GCN)
Nintendo Wii (Wii)
Nintendo is pretty much synonymous with gaming, and the public knows that. Many competitors have attempted to oust the company out of the industry with rivaling products, but Nintendo rolls on. Even when they were in a far and away third place in the GameCube era, they still made money (they only took a loss late in the gen). This is a company that knows how to do well for itself, and they have a crazy fanbase that backs them up through thick and thin. I truly believe that without Nintendo, their competitors would have no one to imitate.
5) Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
The system that brought an industry back from the grave, the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES (aka the Famicom in Japan) was originally bundled with R.O.B the robot in the states because retailers would not carry full-fledged game systems after the infamous video game crash. Nintendo got around this by saying the NES was a toy, thus including R.O.B. I have a few fond memories of the system, but I never cared for 8-bit sprites or music. Games in this era gave me constant headaches, and apart from the birth of many popular franchises that go on to this day such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior/Quest, and Castlevania, the NES pales in comparison to Nintendo's future efforts. Some NES games held the moniker of being "Nintendo hard;" they were quite difficult with some being obtuse in how you had to come at them. That notwithstanding, the NES is still a wonderful console that many share loving memories for.
4) Nintendo 64 (N64)
It may have been the most powerful platform of its generation, but it was also the beginning of Nintendo well-known struggles with third-parties. The decision to persist on using cartridges instead of the new compact disc format that the up and coming PlayStation used made many companies jump ship like Squaresoft and Capcom who took their Final Fantasy and Mega Man franchises to Sony's gray box. Despite this, the Nintendo 64 had Rare in their prime, releasing such incredible titles like Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, GoldenEye 007, Jet Force Gemini, Donkey Kong 64, Blast Corps, and Killer Instinct Gold, to name the majority of them. Then you had Nintendo's output which was quite good, too. Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Wave Race 64, Star Fox 64, Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart 64, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Party 1-3, Paper Mario, and many more. Unfortunately, this gen also introduced Nintendo fans to the infamous software droughts that Nintendo systems are now known all too well for. All in all, the Nintendo 64 may have started the downward spiral of the company's system successes, but the quality content, the introduction of an analog stick, rumble, four control ports, and the then excellent graphics might have made up for it.
3) Nintendo GameCube (GCN)
Last place (not counting the Dreamcast) in sales but number one in Nintendo fans' hearts, the GameCube was Nintendo's first attempt at optical media. Using mini DVDs instead of traditional DVDs (which peeved some developers), the GameCube received the fair share of third-party content, even getting some nice exclusives like the still gorgeous Resident Evil remake and Resident Evil 0, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, Tales of Symphonia (in the West at least) and Gotcha Force. Nintendo produced and developed some of their best games in this gen and some decent software, too, like Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, F-Zero GX (developed by Amusement Vision), Animal Crossing, Wave Race: Blue Storm, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, Custom Robo, Chibi Robo, Star Fox Assault, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin 1 and 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and a lot more. However, the mantra that "third-party games don't sell on Nintendo systems" began with the GameCube. By the end of its life cycle, the Cube got little in the way of third-party support. This would continue to haunt Nintendo all the way through to their next console and onto the current day.
2) Nintendo Wii (Wii)
Nintendo struck gaming gold with their Wii, and the competition struggled to keep up for years. It sold record-breaking amounts of both hardware and software, and it elevated Nintendo to heaven. When the Wii remote was initially revealed at the Tokyo Game Show (where they seldom attend) to be the controller for the system and its various uses were shown, message boards all over exploded with comments berating it or wondering if Ashton Kutcher punk'd them (that's still a popular show, right? Ah, I don't care). At the following E3, crowds stormed through Sony's booth just to try out the controller for themselves. With titles for both the core and the casual, an intuitive control method, and a low price, the Wii had a blitzkrieg in sales. Games like Wii Sports, Wii Play, Wii Party, Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl., Mario Kart Wii, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Excite Truck, Excitebots: Trick Racing, Wario Land: Shake It!, Just Dance 1-3, Zumba Fitness, the Rabbids games, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, and Kirby's Epic Yarn either sold well and/or were critically acclaimed. The Wii showcases Nintendo's best first-party output since the next console on my Rank Up! list.
1) Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
The king is here. Nintendo's best console (known as the Super Famicom in Japan) comes from the 16-bit era where they were pitted against a worthy adversary in Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive system. The phrase "Sega does what Nintendon't" was popular in ads, but Nintendo prevailed regardless. Nintendo added shoulder buttons and two more face buttons to create the SNES controller. Having a robust line of first-party software like Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country 1-3, Kirby Super Star, Super Metroid, Star Fox, Pilotwings, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, among others and a plentiful amount of third-party content from past and present storied series such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior/Quest, Mega Man, Castlevania, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, and more, the Super Nintendo is only rivaled by the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's own DS as having the greatest library of titles in the albeit brief history of video games.
What are your favorite consoles that Nintendo has released? Are you excited for the Wii U? Feel free to answer these questions or add your own thoughts on this piece in the comments section.
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MotorStorm RC (PS3, PSV) New Trailer
MotorStorm RC, a spinoff to the mildly successful MotorStorm franchise, is set to hit both PSN and the PlayStation Vita in a few weeks. Both games offer cross-platform play, a playground to mess about in, and several interesting online features. This video showcases but a small sampling of said features. I liked Super Off-Road back in the day on the Super Nintendo, so this spiritual successor has me intrigued.
Check out the direct link right here.
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Top Ten Third-Party Exclusives on Wii
The third-party exclusive, at least on consoles, is going the way of the dodo, but the Wii differentiated itself from the competition immediately through having motion controls. Now, with Microsoft and Sony frantically playing catchup with Kinect and Move respectively (to different degrees of success), the Wii is now coasting as it most likely lies down and dies this year while the PS3 and 360 keep on chugging. Let's look back on the underrated (at least when it comes to the highly fickle gamer market) console this gen by taking a glimpse at the system's best third-party exclusives.
Since the Wii was so underpowered, many games from the HD consoles weren't ported to it. Instead, what the Wii received were exclusives. Some were great (but didn't make the list like A Boy and His Blob, Blast Works, Rabbids Go Home and Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure) while others were not so great (see: awful) like Ninjabread Man and Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire. This list is of the best Wii third-party exclusives, so titles that were previously exclusive but are not anymore like GoldenEye 007, the duo of Resident Evil rail-shooters, and The House of the Dead: Overkill are disqualified from this list.
10) MadWorld
Platinum Games' only Wii title, MadWorld was decidedly not for the family-friendly Wii audience, but for those in the mood for some macabre fun found something to enjoy about the game. Slamming signposts through the skulls of opponents, revving one's chainsaw and carving a foe in half, and throwing a baddie into a wall of spikes were just a few activities one could participate in the Deathwatch competition. The black and white aesthetic of the game was heightened by the trail of blood "protagonist" Jack left behind of his victims. Then throw in a kick-ass soundtrack of rap and rock, and you have a solid action game on your hands.
9) Kororinpa: Marble Mania
It's marble madness up in here! I was not pleased with Sega's attempt at bringing Super Monkey Ball to the Wii with its Banana Blitz launch title (though the music was awesome, I'll give it that). Then a little-known game from the soon-to-be defunct Hudson Soft came the Wii's way in Kororinpa: Marble Mania. The game had players tilting the Wii remote to tilt the Kororinpa, or labyrinth, around. In doing so you guided a marble from the start of the level to the goal. Along the way you could pick up gems which unlocked new marbles like a soccer ball or a pig and locked levels. You could also compete against the clock to beat the target time set for each level. Kororinpa: Marble Mania is most likely out-of-print by now, but if you somehow track down a copy either in a secondhand store or online, do not hesitate to roll up a copy.
8) No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
The original No More Heroes was a breath of fresh air on Wii, and it was later ported to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with limited success there, too. The much better sequel, however, remains a Wii exclusive. Travis Touchdown is in the market for revenge after one of his friends is mercilessly murdered in cold blood. Touchdown might have made it to number one in the United Assassins Association rankings last time, but he'll have to start the climb anew this go around. The whole getting around Santa Destroy has been streamlined. Gone is the relatively empty open world from the first game. Instead there's a map that you choose locations from. Aside from slicing up enemies with Touchdown's beam katana, you can also opt to partake in 8-bit mini-games to earn mad cash. While not perfect, No More Heroes 2 is a modern marvel from the twisted mind of director Suda 51.
7) Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon
I had a hard time choosing between this game and The Crystal Bearers, but I made my decision with some trepidation. The Final Fantasy series appeared for the first time on the Nintendo Wii with Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon. This beginner roguelike featured Chocobo as the main character on its journey to restore the memories of a broken town. A young boy named Rafaello has the ability to create dungeons out of the townspeople's memories for Chocobo to enter and hopefully reach the end to restore what the villagers forgot. Chocobo can learn different jobs like Black Mage, White Mage, Thief, and Dragoon in his quest to resolve the town's problems. The difficulty is just right for even the worst roguelike player to enjoy Chocobo's Dungeon, the remixes are some of the series's best, and the gameplay rewards forward-thinking and smart planning. It's the perfect Final Fantasy game for not only fans of the series but fans of the genre.
6) Red Steel 2
One of the first games to put Nintendo's should-have-been-there-at-the-Wii's-launch MotionPlus peripheral to great use, Red Steel 2 was a completely different beast from the launch title original. Unlike the original, Red Steel 2 didn't rely on launch day hype and bullshots to trick people into buying it. In fact, no one really bought Red Steel 2. Perhaps the foul taste of the original permeated in people's mouths and made them avoid the much superior sequel. Regardless, you were the wild west swordsman in Red Steel 2. You could deflect attacks (this was indeed necessary to survive), switch between your gun and your sword on the fly, and take down a swarm of foes effortlessly. Red Steel 2 is an underrated, overlooked gem in the Wii's library, and it is a shame that more of the gaming masses did not get the opportunity to try the game out.
5) We Love Golf!
There's no denying that the PlayStation 3's mainline installment of Hot Shots Golf disappointed me with its lack of features, content, and courses when compared to the PlayStation 2 entries. I did not know what to expect when it came to Camelot's We Love Golf!, but the developer knows how to make a good golf game. Who was I question them? Thus, I took the proverbial plunge and picked up a copy of the game. Armed with eight unique courses spanning the globe and consisting of various environments, multiple characters (including a dead ringer for both President Barack Obama and the woman that wouldn't go away Sarah Palin), unlockable Capcom costumes like Ryu of Street Fighter fame, Arthur from Ghost 'n Goblins, and Apollo Justice, online play that is unfortunately empty as the vegetable aisle on Super Bowl Sunday, and an intuitive swing system that actually works for once, We Love Golf! amazed and astonished with its entertaining gameplay and charm.
4) Boom Blox Bash Party
EA's partnership with director and producer Steven Spielberg rolls on with Boom Blox Bash Party, a game that somehow eclipsed the original. There are over 400 levels to enjoy, and with the ability to create your own and share them with your friends, it's a real Boom Blox boon. There's multiple styles of play that I enjoyed from simple chucking balls to topple towers of blocks worth varying amounts of points to carefully pulling blocks out of tower Jenga-style. New environments and gravity elements like space and underwater meant new physics entirely to take into consideration. While online play would have put this game into a whole 'nother stratosphere, what EA has in Boom Blox Bash Party is one sensational multiplayer game perfect for the Wii audience.
3) Sonic Colors
The daytime stages of Sonic Unleashed started a trend with 3D Sonic games. Who knew that they could be considered great? Then Sonic Colors came out for Wii, and it was truly an excellent game-- not just an excellent Sonic game, mind you, but an excellent game in general. Exploring Eggman's interstellar amusement park, hearing his quips over the various loudspeakers, speeding through levels in both 2D and 3D, bashing baddies, battling bosses, collecting red rings, and listening to the outstanding soundtrack were all parts of Sonic Colors that when added together made for one of Sonic the Hedgehog's best 3D excursions. Sonic Team went with an old-school mindset by having the story be as unobtrusive as possible. In fact, when you started a game, instead of seeing an intro cinematic, you were plopped right into the first level, ready to roar. Sonic Colors wasn't a one-time bout of greatness either as Sonic Generations showed that perhaps Sonic Team is learning a lesson about attractive game design.
2) Tatsunoko VS. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
Many said that the day where Tatsunoko VS. Capcom wouldn't come over to the West. What are these people to say now? In a gaming miracle, Tatsunoko VS. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars released on Wii with minimal changes save for the replacement of a character. The two-on-two team fighting was fast and fun no matter which controller you chose to use. The cast of familiar Capcom characters like Ryu, Chun-li, Roll, Zero, and Viewtiful Joe and not-so-familiar characters from the Tatsunoko side like Ken the Eagle, Jun the Swan, Polimar, and Ippatsuman made for a diverse and entertaining roster. The combat system was easy to use and made for some intense battles. Yes, it is in Japanese arcades, but it is console-exclusive to Wii. Throw in lots of items to buy in the shop, an unlockable shooter mini-game, and online play, and you have the Wii's best third-party fighter (though that isn't that difficult of a title to take).
1) Monster Hunter Tri
When Capcom announced that Monster Hunter Tri was going to the Wii, many fans of the series were bewildered. Why on Wii? Why now? The game had been said to have been in development of the PlayStation 3, but then it was for some reason transferred over to the Wii. Nonetheless, Monster Hunter Tri has players either going it alone in the wild or teaming up online with friends or total strangers to take down behemoth-sized monsters. The fun is farming for rare items that can be turned into new and more powerful armor for your character. The game isn't simply about hacking and slashing. You'll get nowhere fast with that kind of attitude. Monster Hunter Tri is about waiting for an opening and then taking advantage of it to attack. Starting off taming wild Jaggis is fine and all, but when the Royal Ludroth starts breathing down your neck, you best be ready to do battle... or flee. Whichever is considered saner to do. The multiplayer entertainment, 100+ hours of content, and numerous quests make Monster Hunter Tri the ultimate Wii third-party exclusive.
Just from telling by this list you can see that third-parties definitely bet on the wrong pair of horses this gen, and they suffered for it through studio closures and mass layoffs. They were so stubborn and set in their ways that most did little to rectify their mistake. They still put their B, C, and even D teams on Wii exclusives. This might be one of the biggest wastes of potential of a system considering how badly third-parties dropped the ball when it concerned the Wii. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. "Our games don't sell because we didn't put much effort into them, so that means that third-party games obviously don't sell on Nintendo systems." I cannot wait for third-party excuses as to why they won't put their games on Nintendo's next console. What a silly industry this is.
What are your favorite third-party Wii exclusives?
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The Last Story (Wii) First English Trailer
Final Fantasy creator Hironobu "The Gooch" Sakaguchi is behind the latest JRPG that has yet to be announced for North America, The Last Story. This trailer is the first to be shown entirely in English, and it dabbles in the numerous characters that players will meet on their journey. No doubt North American gamers will cry and moan that The Last Story isn't being localized even though they're lucky Xenoblade Chronicles is. Gamers are greedy little savages, aren't they? I want it, too, but I'm not going to be annoying about it.
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Review Round-Up - January
A slap happy adventure awaits you in
Rayman Origins, SPC's new Game of January.
The first month of the year is kaput, and we had a grand total of nine new reviews to celebrate. We started off with three retro reviews of Game Boy Advance/3DS Ambassador games with The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (9.5), Mario Kart: Super Circuit (8.5), and Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (8.0). We then drove into Steelport with Saints Row: The Third which earned not only street cred, but also a terrific 9.0. However, it couldn't beat out the platforming bonanza that was Rayman Origins that leaped into a 9.25. Then we hit the slopes with 1080: Avalanche (7.5), rolled the die with Mario and company with Mario Party 6 (8.0), played with puppies and kittens in Nintendogs + Cats that got talked down to the lowest score of the month (5.25), and finally painted the town with Disney Epic Mickey which received an admirable 7.5. February is set to be exciting, too, with reviews of Resident Evil: Revelations and possibly Final Fantasy XII-2! And that's just the tip of our iceberg here at SuperPhillip Central!
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA) - 9.5
Mario Kart: Super Circuit (GBA) - 8.5
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror (GBA) - 8.0
Saints Row: The Third (PS3, 360) - 9.0
Rayman Origins (PS3, 360, Wii) - 9.25
1080: Avalanche (GCN) - 7.5
Mario Party 6 (GCN) - 8.0
Nintendogs + Cats (3DS) - 5.25
Disney Epic Mickey (Wii) - 7.5
The Saints went marching in, explosions, guns, sex toys, and all.
Labels: 2012, january, review, round-up
Central City Census - February
Are you familiar with the Central City Census? It's a poll that is opened all month long and just begs for readers both faithful and one-timer to vote, expressing their opinion on it. Since February has the least amount of days in its month, even in a leap year like 2012, there's even less time to vote. Why am I wasting your time with formalities?! Let's get to last month's results-- quickly!
How many games are in your backlog (collection of games not yet played)?
Less than five.
6-10 games
11-20 games
More than 30 games
Votes so far: 52
Christmas and other holidays must have been kind to our readers as their backlogs are overflowing with games. The majority of voters have at least thirty games to play through and possibly counting. On the other end of the spectrum, twenty voters have anywhere between 0-10 titles in their backlog. How I sort of envy and don't sort of envy them. Nonetheless, that wraps up the results from the first month of 2012. What question will be asked by the Central City Census for February?
The PlayStation Vita launches in North America and Europe this month. Perhaps you already have one imported from Japan (or even live in the Land of the Rising Sun-- hi from America!)... February's census asks if you are going to purchase a PlayStation Vita at any time. The launch titles are certainly there, but will anybody be biting?
Labels: 2012, ccc, central city census, february
Disney Epic Mickey (Wii) Review
Just in time for the end of the month, I have a new review to share. With this Wii release I did not pull the trigger immediately and purchase it on release. Instead I waited a couple of years and found the game at the low price of $19.99. It's one of the Wii's biggest exclusives, Disney Epic Mickey. Should the Wii be proud to have this game in its ever-growing library?
Disney and Junction Point Paint a Pretty Pleasant Picture
Disney is synonymous with family-friendly characters such as Goofy, Donald, and of course, Mickey Mouse. In pop culture, Disney's mouse is still as popular as ever, but in the video game industry, Mickey has few cameos outside of the Kingdom Hearts series of games. Disney and Junction Point are looking to change that with the release of the Wii-exclusive Disney Epic Mickey. In an industry where dull, brown and gray shooters are the catch of the day and draw in both kids who shouldn't be playing M-rated games in the first place and adults, does a 3D platformer still have enough pull to draw in a grand crowd?
Epic Mickey begins with our hero being awoken in his bed by the sounds of sorcerer Yen Sid's magic. The magician spends his time painting over what appears to be a theme park as Mickey hides just out of his sight. When Yen Sid leaves, Mickey cannot help but try his hand at painting. He picks up the brush, dips it in the azure liquid, and begins painting over the figurines and buildings of the park. When Yen Sid hears a commotion coming from his lair, he begins to march toward Mickey's location. Knowing this, Mickey quickly attempts to return everything back to order, but in his rush to exit he knocks over a bottle of thinner into the model of the park. The mouse moves back through the mirror and into his room. Days, weeks, and months pass until one evening a giant blob's hand grabs Mickey, pulls him through the mirror, and jerks him into the model of the theme park. Mickey must right his wrong and help the forgotten characters of Walt Disney including Walt's first big creation, Oswald the Rabbit, who doesn't take kindly to Mickey at first. The story is told through beautifully rendered 2D animated cutscenes that each look like works of art.
These nicely done cutscenes tell the intriguing story.
Epic Mickey is a three-dimensional platformer that has the player running, [double] jumping, spinning to knock enemies away and to gain more air from a jump via a flick of the Wii remote a la Super Mario Galaxy, and using painter and thinner to create and remove platforms and other objects for Mickey to traverse upon. The game is controlled with the Wii remote and nunchuk. By using thinner on certain platforms by pointing at the screen and holding down the Z button on the nunchuk, obstacles and walls that stand in Mickey's way are removed. With paint (used by also pointing at the screen but this time pressing B on the Wii remote), Mickey can color in translucent platforms and objects and use them to his benefit.
Add some color to a drab world with the brush's paint.
The blotlings and Beetleworx are the baddies of Epic Mickey with the blotlings being the easier of the two to defeat. You can either unleash a continuous spray of thinner to dilute them or opt to turn them friendly through spraying them with paint. There's blotlings that explode when you're nearby them, blotlings that chuck harmful balls of thinner at you, and blotlings that call other creatures to your location. Beetleworx, however, take a more hands-on approach, usually taking multiple direct hits after dousing them with thinner to defeat.
Epic Mickey's formula has Mickey going through various 3D areas connected by 2D platforming segments. Through entering Mickey's past cartoons like Steamboat Willie, Fantasia, Thru the Mirror, The Mad Doctor, and Jungle Rhythm, you jump and traverse through 2D fairly short 2D segments. In each cartoon there is a hidden film reel to nab located in either a precarious position or a secret location. These can be viewed in the extras menu of the game and can also be traded for bonuses by the character in front of the movie theater of Mean Street, the main hub of the game.
Take a trip back in time with Mickey's classic cartoon escapades.
Meanwhile, the 3D sections have characters of note that give Mickey quests to accomplish, most mandatory to move on, but some are in fact optional. These can be as simple as finding a way across a pool of hazardous thinner to repairing a ride with paint. Optional quests such as finding all of the parts of an animatronic Goofy, Daisy, and Donald Duck add to the fun. The only problem with these is that once you leave an area in the game, most of the time you are unable to return back to it. Since the game autosaves after each area and after completing quests and seeing certain events, once the game saves, you can't go back and retry an area unless you beat the game and start the New Game+ feature. This makes missing special items such as secret pins from beating quests and finding them in treasure chests (there's over 100 to collect), parts of the animatronic trio, behind-the-scenes content, and film reels very easy to accomplish. And when you do backtrack to a previously visited area such as the hub world of Epic Mickey, Main Street (where you can accept side quests, buy goodies with E-tickets like health upgrades, item upgrades, and other helpful things), you have to play through the connecting 2D level over and over again. This is quite annoying and time-consuming.
Lonesome Manor is home to ghosts,
ghouls, and one dastardly doctor.
Then there is the camera which is a pain to deal with. It can get caught on objects, stuck in a specific direction, and just act all wonky in general. Yes, you can control it occasionally with the Wii remote's d-pad or call the camera behind Mickey with a press of the C button, but it doesn't always work. If the game has the camera programmed to be in a certain spot, you cannot control the camera at all. I can't say it caused me many deaths, but it did mess up plenty of jumps.
Moving on from the camera, at certain times in Mickey's adventure, you'll come up against junction points. These are pivotal moments in Epic Mickey where you'll have to choose between performing one action over another. One example is when you are facing off against a robotic Captain Hook. You can choose to battle and beat Hook or save Pete Pan's fairy who is trapped at the top of the pirate ship. Not only does your choice affect what happens short-term, but it also affects the story at the conclusion of the game and what ending you receive. To see the best endings, you'll have to play through Epic Mickey at least three times total, and as the game takes at least fifteen hours to beat, you'll be playing this game for a long time if you so desire.
Saving Gremlins from their prisons is also an optional task.
Mickey's Wii platformer is a particularly dark game, and I don't mean in tone. Most areas are devoid of bright colors and look quite forlorn, a result of Mickey's mess-up with the jug of thinner. This can make some levels difficult to actually see. Environments themselves are interesting enough to look at and have intriguing geometry. Textures aren't too shabby, but the Wii has seen much better. Characters animate well, especially Mickey who waves his paintbrush around proudly. On the sound side of the game, Epic Mickey has a sensational, whimsical score that will most likely stay with you long after you turn off your Wii. Character voices are well done, even though the only speaking part is by Yen Sid in the opening and ending cutscenes. Otherwise, characters just grunt and holler. All in all, the presentation is pretty nice.
One of the earliest areas in Mickey's 3D platformer.
Epic Mickey is a valiant effort by Junction Point, but it suffers from the inability to revisit old areas to collect forgotten items. If you want to get 100% in this game, you will have to be extremely careful to gather everything before you leave a given area as the autosave feature is both nice and damning at the same time. While the platforming is decent enough, the camera is PlayStation One-era awful on some occasions. Meanwhile, the presentation is fair for the hardware, but after seeing the brilliant concept art for this game, it's a shame the developers chose the incapable Wii to place their vision on. The graphics just do not do the art justice. Regardless, if you are in the mood for an above average platforming romp that for once doesn't star a portly plumber, Disney Epic Mickey might make for an enjoyable ride.
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Kid Icarus: Uprising (3DS) Intensity Trailer
Just when you thought that more secrets couldn't be revealed from the upcoming Kid Icarus: Uprising, Nintendo pulls the curtain up a little more again. This time we're dealing with the concept of betting more hearts for a higher difficulty level. If you succeed in your mission on a higher difficulty, you earn a rarer weapon than you would have if you played the mission on a lower intensity level. Check the fairly brief new trailer below, or click the creatively titled direct link!
Don't fly too close to the direct link!
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SuperPhillip's Favorite VGMs - A Rare Treat Edition
Ever since Microsoft purchased developer Rare for an exorbitant amount of money, the company behind Windows slowly squeezed all life out of the house of Banjo, Jet Force Gemini, and Perfect Dark. You know when former staff are extremely bitter about the takeover and result from said takeover that there's a problem. Regardless, while Rare may be a shell of its former self and a company in name only, we can look back fondly on the company's past library and smile. That is the point of this week's installment of SuperPhillip's Favorite VGMs.
v21. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (360) - Banjoland (Daytime)
An orchestrated medley of some of the best Banjo-Kazooie themes of the series? Where do I sign up? ...NO! Forget signing up. Just hook it directly into my veins! All kidding aside, this medley plays during the daytime in the criminally overlooked Xbox 360 game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. Banjoland was made up of old parts of past Banjo-Kazooie stages, and the medley consisted of such themes like Click Clock Wood, Freezeey Peak, Mad Monster Mansion, Gobi's Valley, Cloud Cuckooland, Mayahem Temple, and Rusty Bucket Bay. It was the perfect way to take a loving look back at one of the greatest 3D platformers of all time. I'm talking about the original Banjo-Kazooie, of course.
v22. Starfox Adventures (GCN) - Thorntail Hollow
The last game from Rare that would appear on a Nintendo console (console, mind you, not portable), Starfox Adventures was initially a Nintendo 64 project called Dinosaur Planet. When famed game developer, director, and producer Shigeru Miyamoto asked the team to throw in Fox McCloud, Rare opted to follow his guidance and do just that. Many gameplay elements and battles would be carried over to this Gamecube title. The final product was a Zelda clone with tons of collecting items. Collect this, collect that, etc. Not the note that Nintendo fans wanted Rare to leave on, but it was an admirable effort nonetheless. This theme, Thorntail Hollow, sounds like something taken directly from The Lion King, doesn't it? It's rather soothing if I do say so myself.
v23. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES) - Snakey Chantey
Taking the melody from Donkey Kong Country's Gang Plank Galleon, Snakey Chantey plays in only one level of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, and that's Rattle Battle, a stage where Diddy and Dixie get transformed into Rattler the Snake. The snake can bounce high into the air, leap off of enemies (even the usually dreaded Zingers), and reach unheard of heights. This toe-tapping tune gets you filled with excitement as you traverse through and aboard one of the Kremlings' many pirate ships. What is your favorite theme from Donkey Kong Country 2?
v24. Kameo: Elements of Power (360) - Thorn's Pass
Performed by the Prague Philharmonic, Thorn's Pass from the Xbox 360 launch title Kameo: Elements of Power is one sensational theme. Imagine yourself on horseback as you control Kameo through a variable battlefield of ogres and trolls. For a launch game from 2005, Kameo: Elements of Power is still one excellent looking game. Kameo was originally planned as a Gamecube title, but when Microsoft bought Rare, the game turned into an Xbox title. Once it was figured that the game wouldn't make it to the Xbox, it was transferred over to the 360 to be a launch title. Aren't game development stories fascinating?
v25. Viva Pinata (360) - Night 3
Viva Pinata was Rare's chance to make an ultra-popular series. It had all the elements: a collectible aspect, cute and cuddly characters, a TV series, and three video games (Viva Pinata, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, and Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise). Unfortunately, Xbox 360 gamers tend to skew towards teenagers and young adults who prefer the drab, gray and brown worlds of Call of Duty and Gears of War as opposed to Rare's colorful output of titles. Night 3 is a gentle, flowing piece beginning with a comforting piano and then followed with pleasing strings and a poignant clarinet (which I used to play in middle school) that crescendo into something special.
Another Monday in the books which means another installment of SuperPhillip's Favorite VGMs is complete. Stay tuned next week when the favorite VGMs expand to ten for a special Mario & Sonic edition. There will be five Mario tracks and five Sonic tracks to listen to and enjoy. I hope to see you then!
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November 16, 2018 - By Daniel Hill
Revisiting 4 corporate sustainability trends all business leaders should be watching in 2018
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Earlier this year, I identified 4 corporate sustainability trends that all business leaders should be watching in 2018. Those trends were: growth in companies setting Science-Based Targets, greater attention towards reducing supply chain emissions, tech and internet companies stepping up on sustainability, and increased innovation.
I’m revisiting those trends to give an update on where they stand six months later, using real-world examples of how this is playing out by highlighting projects from this past summer’s cohort of nearly 100 EDF Climate Corps host companies.
Trend 1: Rapid growth of companies setting Science-Based Targets
In April of this year, 250 companies had either set or committed to set a Science-Based Target. Today, that number is up to 498 companies – nearly doubling in six months. With 2020 around the corner, many companies are setting new reduction goals, and Science-Based Targets have emerged as the new industry standard. Here’s why: They are not a marketing claim, they are in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement, they ensure accountability and they give companies a competitive advantage.
Case in point: Williams-Sonoma hired an EDF Climate Corps fellow to develop an energy-climate strategy that integrated its already-existing CSR goals with industry best practices, including the possibility of setting Science-Based Targets. The result was an analysis of the business drivers and benefits of setting Science-Based Targets, and a roadmap for Scope 1, 2 and 3 target-setting. The roadmap provides a multi-staged implementation plan to maximize alignment across all business units and will serve as a guide to join the Science-Based Target Initiative.
Trend 2: Companies will increasingly look to tackle their supply chain emissions.
‘Scope 3’ has become one of the most popular buzzwords this year. Companies are either finding ways to reduce emissions across their entire value chain, or are working to better understand, and quantify, their impact. It’s now an essential component for any company that wants to have a truly comprehensive greenhouse gas management plan. But calculating, much less reducing, Scope 3 emissions remains to be a challenge.
Case in point: Novartis hired an EDF Climate Corps fellow to create an interactive dashboard for visualizing both its upstream and downstream activities. Using this tool, Novartis can now track total carbon emissions, identify potential emission hotspots and take action by increasing supplier engagement initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
Trend 3: Tech and internet companies will show that they’re serious about sustainability.
Tech and internet companies have the power to make our lives easier while also reducing our impact on the planet. From Lyft announcing that all emissions from their riders will be offset (an EDF Climate Corps fellow developed the methodology to measure those emissions) to Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all committing to 100% renewable energy, tech and internet companies are stepping up to reduce the footprint of their platforms. But what’s even more exciting are those companies that are empowering their users to reduce emissions.
Case in point: Kickstarter, the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects – nearly 340,000 projects – hired an EDF Climate Corps fellow to develop an online environmental resource center for early-stage entrepreneurs. The resource center provides production-specific environmental tools to help reduce the environmental impact associated with the manufacturing and shipping of projects. But more importantly, it integrates sustainability into the design from the very start.
Trend 4: Environmental innovation will transform corporate sustainability
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to corporate sustainability. That’s not a 2018 trend, just a universal truth. From industry to industry, company to company, going beyond the low-hanging fruit requires finding solutions that are unique to a business. This year, we’re seeing that when companies are faced with challenges in reducing their carbon footprint, it can breed innovation and creativity.
Case in point: Best Buy publicly committed to establishing a Science-Based Target and was interested in finding opportunities to improve efficiencies required to meet both new and existing goals. To do so, the company had to take into account its Scope 3 category “use of sold products”, the largest contributor of GHG emissions and one of the trickiest to tackle. So, Best Buy came at it from a unique approach: reduce the impact of the products they sell. Best Buy is developing a plan to work with manufacturers, vendors and merchants to improve product efficiencies, and educate its employees and sales consultants so they can help consumers purchase the most efficient, electronics and appliances.
In the past six months, we’ve seen that these trends are not fads, but in fact the future of corporate sustainability.
If you’re interested in learning more about EDF Climate Corps, click here. This column was originally posted on the EDF+Business blog.
Daniel Hill, project manager, EDF Climate Corps, creates lasting relationships with companies and organizations looking to advance their sustainability goals by advising them on the strategies and resources available to implement solutions and helping them become leaders in their industry.
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Bachelorette takes on one of the 'mean girls' - and gets eliminated
By Genevieve Rota
All's fair in love and war - unless you're on a reality TV show, in which case the battle is usually a war of words, and the fairest of them all tends to get sent home.
That's certainly the case in Wednesday night's episode of The Bachelor, when down-to-earth bachelorette Blair was eliminated just after being confronted by one of the resident "mean girls", Romy.
But, we digress. Before we get to the big blow up of the episode, we must tick off the requisite Single Date, Group Date, Controversy and Cass Catch-up (Cass-up?).
Wednesday's single date goes to Sophie, the likeable blonde Bachelor Nick "Honey Badger" Cummins hit it off with quickly in the first couple of episodes of the show.
They go for a spin in a hydrofoil boat on Sydney Harbour and for the most part it looks windy as all hell - but adventurous, which is good because both Sophie and Honey Badger love themselves some adventure.
After the boat ride, it's time for serious chats to see if that all-important romantic connection is there. Cummins dials up the romance by... asking Sophie why she seemed awkward on the group date in week one.
Sophie got up close and personal with Bachelor Nick Cummins in Wednesday night's episode. Credit:Network Ten
Mate, come on. Considering the pair had to hold a series of yoga moves and stare deeply into each other's eyes, while a photographer took pictures and a gaggle of hungry-eyed bachelorettes watched on, it's lucky Sophie didn't spontaneously combust on said group date.
Good sport Sophie tells Cummins she's sorry - "I do apologise," she says, sounding more like she's in the principal's office than on a date - and makes it clear that she's very interested in him. All is clearly forgiven, because soon they're kissing and Sophie's holding a rose firmly in her lap.
Next, it's the group date - and it's a doozy this week. Cummins' dad, sister and brother are paying a visit to the bachelorettes, to try and discern who might be best suited to their beloved Nick. (Cass nearly melts into the ground when she recognises his brother, Jacob, whom she's met before.)
Cummins' sister Bernadette knows how to ask all the right questions, and she makes quick work of getting the real story out of the bachelorettes.
Cass when she recognises the Bachelor's brother, Jacob. Credit:Network Ten
She builds a rapport with Brittany and Brooke (two of the season's frontrunners), and then gets down to business with two of the show's "mean girls", asking Cat about her jewellery business to ascertain if she's on the show for the right reasons, and listening to Romy mouth off about Cass.
"Nick actually knows Cass from before," Romy tells Bernadette. "She plays at the same rugby club as Nick and she was already in love with him coming into this.
"Age certainly comes into it a little bit as well. She's 23 - and a very young 23."
She sticks the boot in when Bernadette asks if Cass would be a good match for her brother.
"No," Romy replies. "No. She's really struggling. I feel like she's desperate. And I think that's the emotional immaturity."
"Is she struggling because there are other women here and she's already hook, line and sinker?" Bernadette asks.
"Oh, yeah. Yep," Romy replies. "I can't imagine being in love with someone when I'm 23 and being in this [situation]. It's hard to watch, to be honest."
You know what's hard to watch? Women sabotaging women for their own personal gains.
Blair overhears everything, and she's unhappy with Romy's attempt to play God - so she fills Cass in. Later in the evening, in the mansion's loungeroom, Romy goes off like a firecracker.
"I'm a little bit annoyed Blair, because you overheard my conversation with Bernadette," she starts. "You said that I was dissing the 23-year-olds in the house, which proves to me that you actually didn't overhear it because it's absolutely not what I said.
"Tell me why you were listening to my private conversation with Bernadette. Can you answer that?"
"Yes, I was in my bedroom getting dressed," Blair answers.
Romy is not pleased. Credit:Network Ten
"Blair, it's really rude to eavesdrop on a conversation," says Romy.
"I'm not eavesdropping," Blair fires back.
"You have no class and this angers me," Romy tells Blair. "Like, don't f--- with me. Don't ever put words in my mouth again. Come to me like an adult."
"I just repeated what you said," Blair replies.
"You didn't repeat what I said!" Romy yells.
Blair tells Romy she's sorry if she's made a mistake (spoiler alert: she hasn't) and asks Cass if she's happy about what Romy told Bernadette. Cass urges everyone to just stop talking behind each other's backs, displaying plenty of that emotional maturity she supposedly doesn't have.
"But it's not behind each other's backs when you're asked a question and you answer it truthfully," Romy argues. "I'm not going to lie to Bernadette, and I don't like that I've been targeted in this way."
"That's fine, you just need to tell Cass next time - before," Blair says.
"No, you've got nothing to do with this," Romy says. "Mind your own business."
A few TV minutes later, we're at the rose ceremony. Blair, who admittedly didn't seem to have any connection with the Bachelor, is left without a rose.
"Bye, don't come back," Romy says to the camera, and it's hard not to imagine how smug she felt at this exact moment in time. Seems nice girls finish last - at least at this stage of the war.
Genevieve Rota
Genevieve Rota is the PM Digital Editor for Entertainment at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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Preschoolers Who Sleep Late May End Up As Obese Teens
15 July 2016, 7:16 am EDT By Rhodi Lee Tech Times
Findings of a new study have revealed another reason why parents should send their preschoolers off to bed early. Researchers from the Ohio State University College of Public Health have found that children who sleep early have lesser chances of growing up as obese teens compared with their peers who sleep late at night.
By comparing preschoolers who sleep at 8 p.m. or earlier and kids of the same age with later bedtimes, the researchers found evidence suggesting that sleeping an hour later doubles the risk of young children to become obese teens.
Epidemiology associate professor Sarah Anderson and colleagues looked at the data of almost 1,000 children. At age 4, the participants were divided into three groups, those who slept by 8 p.m. or earlier., those who slept between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., and those who have later bedtimes.
The researchers found that by the time the kids were about 15 years old, only 10 percent of the kids with the earliest bedtimes were obese. In those who slept between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., 16 percent became obese teens, while 23 percent of those who slept after 9 p.m. had obesity problems.
The researchers said that the findings highlight the importance of having a bedtime routine, something that families can do to reduce their child's risk for weight problems later in life.
Studies have found that being obese in late teens can elevate a person's risk for colorectal cancer and even sudden death in midlife.
Excess weight among kids is a major health problem that the U.S. currently faces. Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that about 17 percent of children and adolescents in the country are obese.
"Preschool-aged children with early weekday bedtimes were one-half as likely as children with late bedtimes to be obese as adolescents. Bedtimes are a modifiable routine that may help to prevent obesity," the researchers wrote in their study, which was published in The Journal of Pediatrics on July 14.
The researchers also observed that the kids who turned obese tend to have mothers whose interactions with them were less supportive and more hostile and that later bedtimes tend to be more prevalent among nonwhite children in lower income households with less educated mothers.
Besides being linked to the likelihood of youngsters to become obese later in life, the researchers said that earlier bedtimes can also benefit the social and emotional development, as well as the brain development of the children.
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2019 Dream Car Art Contest Entries
At the start of the school year we teamed up with five schools in our local areas. Classes from Mango Hill State School, Albany Hills State School, Holy Spirit School, The Lakes College and Good Shepherd Christian School to participate to the 13th edition of the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. The contest is a great opportunity for children up to 15 years to express their creativity by drawing their “Dream Car” for a chance...
Entries Now Open for the 2019 Toyota Dream Car Art Contest
Toyota Australia is calling on budding, young artists to let their imaginations run wild and draw or paint their own imaginary car as part of the 2019 Dream Car Art Contest. Entries are now open for the Australian round of the global Toyota contest with submissions closing March 1, 2019. The annual contest, now in its 13th year, calls on artists in three age categories – under 8 years, 8-11 years, and 12-15 years – to...
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Supporting Smiling for Smiddy
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Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) Position Raised by GYL Financial Synergies LLC
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GYL Financial Synergies LLC boosted its stake in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) by 60.8% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 2,404 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 909 shares during the quarter. GYL Financial Synergies LLC’s holdings in Vanguard S&P 500 ETF were worth $624,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.
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The media is not the problem
Transparency, rather than crackdowns on the nation's media like this week's raid on the ABC and News Ltd, would better serve the national interest Bill Hoffman argues.
Opinion - by Bill Hoffman
THE Australian Federal Police can claim all it likes that the timing of raids on a News Ltd journalist's home and the ABC's Sydney headquarters had nothing to with the federal election.
But it's a claim that won't pass the pub test.
Both matters are historic, dating back one and two years.
If the raids had occurred the week before the election or in fact any other time this year they would have become the election issue they rightly should have been.
Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick has proposed an amendment to enshrine free speech in the constitution.
Whether the wording of that is ultimately the right way to go remains to be seen. What is certain though is that any deliberation by Parliament and the Senate on freedom of the Press should be a conscious vote driven by community representations to individual Members and Senators rather than the dictate of political parties.
The failure of politicians in a democracy to speak unambiguously about intent and to provide transparency in their deliberations is at the heart of distrust in the political process at all levels of government.
It is present in federal issues of border security, was the reason the ABC and News Ltd journalists had to rely on sources for information an honest government would have declared and lingers over everything from the allocation of contracts to run offshore detention centres to the payments for water made to a Cayman Island company to which a Federal Minister had close ties.
Matters of national security were rightly respected by the Press through two world wars.
We are not in a state of continuous war, regardless of rhetoric around low-level terrorism acts and nor should they be used to justify state censorship.
Two weeks after the national vote the true parlous state of the economy is only now being acknowledged with the Treasurer still trying to slate problems home to a Labor Party that hasn't been in power for six years now and won't be for at least another three.
Journalists spend their every day trying to discern truth from spin while taxpayer-funded media advisors provide responses rather than answers to direct questions.
The limitation of political damage rather than a commitment to being open and honest with the people they represent has become increasingly the norm over the past two decades at least.
Yet it is the media, controlled by the principles of balance in its reporting, that's accused of fake news.
When mayors begin using that language as a form of defence, it should be a matter for all our concern.
Government at state, federal and local levels has become increasingly closed and corporate in culture and action, treating community consultation with contempt and embracing process as justification for outcomes never fully explained.
Rather than offering transparency, they have become increasingly opaque.
Is there little wonder that public servants become whistleblowers reaching out to the media with hidden truths that need to be spoken in the public interest. Those that do so aren't criminals or traitors to be demonised, but patriots who should be celebrated.
In a democracy government should act in the service of the people. What they do is in all our names and needs explanation beyond the three-yearly dance with the outer edges of truth that now represent our election campaigns.
At a state level every new data set that's released comes with a government statement placing it in the best possible light while the opposition either responds or gets in first with a twist that presents exactly the opposite.
This happens daily, spewing into the in-boxes of journalists around the nation.
Where the truth lies is another matter.
The State Government, through its SEQ Regional Plan, dictates growth patterns and numbers to local authorities unsustained by infrastructure delivery and funding time lines.
Locally Sunshine Coast Council goes behind closed doors to discuss any and every thing, shields transparency with claims of commercial in-confidence and internally berates councillors who speak outside "the team".
Politicians bemoaning the drift of voters to minor parties should consider just why they reach out to some who appear barely intelligible. Is it perhaps because their own behaviour has cost them all trust?
The public has a right to know about plans by security forces to spy on them. They have a right to know if Australian soldiers have been charged with unlawful killing.
Hiding those things from the public view pose far greater threats to the security of our democracy, than the truth ever will.
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LIZ BRAUN: Stop driving like a jackass
Liz Braun, Postmedia News (lbraun@postmedia.com)
Updated: Jul 05 at 12:13 p.m.
An Ontario Provincial Police photo of a fatal vehicle crash in December.
With Canada Day weekend coming up, police warn drivers there are consequences for reckless behaviour behind the wheel
TORONTO, Ont. —
Looking for a list of stupid, dangerous people?
Look no further than the Twitter feed of OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt.
Schmidt has been spending his Mondays naming and shaming the people charged by the OPP for various idiocies behind the wheel: impaired driving, speeding, street racing, driving with a suspended licence, driving with open liquor and marijuana at hand, failing to stop after an accident, dangerous driving, driving without insurance, driving without a licence, driving without a number plate, driving without a brain.
Over the last seven days, Ontario Provincial Police officers have laid 47 impaired and dangerous driving charges and 38 street racing charges in the GTA alone.
Schmidt makes his list weekly, because it gets overwhelming if he doesn’t.
How can there be so many?
“That’s par for the course,” Schmidt tells us over phone.
“Sometimes it’s more.”
And those are just the GTA numbers.
“Across the province, there will be many more charges laid by the OPP for aggressive driving, impaired driving, dangerous driving.”
How do the police catch as many as they do?
“The more you look, the more you find,” says Schmidt. “As for street racing, one officer can get 10 people during a shift, if they set up in a local area.”
Reminder: As soon as you’re stopped doing 50 km/h or more over the limit, that’s street racing.
You’ll get a seven-day licence suspension, a seven-day vehicle impound (you pay towing and impound charges, chump) and if you’re convicted for breaking the street racing laws you’re facing a ticket of between $2,000 and $10,000.
You may also go to jail, and you could lose your licence for up to two years.
As for impaired driving, the police have a whole tool kit at their disposal to check if you’re using alcohol, drugs, or both.
If you can’t keep it together during standard field sobriety tests (tests that pass muster with medical and judicial experts, FYI) the police can put you in front of a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE); that person will put you through a battery of physical and mental tests. You may be required to give a blood sample.
The DRE will determine whether you’re impaired on drugs, and what’s more, which drug(s) is involved.
Schmidt says he is frustrated and disappointed by the large numbers of driving arrests. “It is far higher than it should be.”
Canada Day is coming up and Schmidt wants people to know that the highways will be well policed.
“Our specific focus this weekend will be aggressive driving.”
As always, the police will be looking for impaired or distracted drivers, for speeders and for people without seatbelts, but they’ll be especially hunting the people driving like maniacs — tailgating, making unsafe lane changes and racing along the roads.
“People are in a big hurry to get to the cottage, ripping it up even on local streets,” says Schmidt.
“And people are dying.”
47 #ImpairedDriving and Dangerous driving charges and 38 #StreetRacing charges laid by the #OPP in the #GTA in the past 7 days.
Maurice PILON – 52 – Cambridge ON - #ImpairedDriving – 80 plus
Jesse EMOND – 19 – St. Catharines ON – Dangerous operation #OPPStats pic.twitter.com/hnaNcoFBHt
— Sgt Kerry Schmidt (@OPP_HSD) June 24, 2019
MEANWHILE, HERE IN TORONTO
Toronto Police have announced new summer safety traffic initiatives in support of the city’s Vision Zero Road Safety Plan.
As of July, Vision Zero goes with zero tolerance on our city streets for impaired or distracted driving, aggressive driving and speeding, according to Traffic Services’ Sergeant Brett Moore, who spoke at a press conference Monday.
Initiatives will be put in place with extra officers who will police key areas of the city.
Impaired driving will be a particular focus on the weekends.
Last year, 66 people were killed on city streets, and 54 of them were vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists, kids and the elderly.
That trend has continued into 2019. In the first six months of 2019, police have arrested more than 500 people for impaired driving — including the man who killed a pedestrian in Regent Park last Thursday.
Said Moore in a statement, “Research clearly shows that drivers who speed, drive distracted, drive aggressively or drive impaired cause collisions that injure people.”
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death and consequences June 18, 2013
Talking Famous Female Suicide: The Right, Wrong, and Vice Way
By Michelle Dean
Photo: Joyce Carol Oates/Vice
When the poet Anne Sexton committed suicide in 1974, a memorial service was held for her at the City College of New York, where her contemporary Adrienne Rich happened to be teaching. Rich didn’t know Sexton very well, but something about the death made her very angry. She had known Sylvia Plath at Radcliffe and watched the reactions of young female poets to Plath’s death, which amounted, she later recalled, to “an imaginative obsession with victimization and death, unfair to Plath herself and her own struggle for survival.” Seeing the writing on that wall, Rich produced an incandescent eulogy for this woman she didn’t know. The key part of it, the ranting part, begins, “We have had enough suicidal women poets, enough suicidal women, enough of self-destructiveness as the sole form of violence permitted to women.”
Her argument came to mind yesterday, when a Vice photo spread by Annabel Mehran crossed my social media feeds. Entitled “Last Words,” it’s terrible work, not simply for its depiction of suicide proper, but rather for the sheer laziness of it, its failure to engage the subject matter fully. The seven photographs show models playing women writers, some more famous than others, in the act of killing themselves. Sexton herself mercifully escapes this treatment, but Virginia Woolf, Iris Chang, Dorothy Parker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (whose last name is carelessly snipped off), Sylvia Plath, Sanmao, and Elise Cowen do not. You may know some of these names better than others — Sanmao, for example, is virtually unknown outside her native Taiwan. There are varying levels of bad taste involved, the most egregious being Chang, who is not even ten years dead. But what am I saying, the purpose here is clearly not to think about their work. It’s to, you know, get you to think about fashion.
At this last task, by the way, the photographs fail utterly. The images are not particularly shocking or revealing. Probably the best compliment you can give them is that they don’t “glamorize” anything. They are bland, anesthetized, boring. The clothes in them are equally drab, and appear to be randomly chosen, without connection to the horror the photographer indifferently depicts. It looks like they took all of ten minutes to set and style the entire project.
Regardless, the Internet exploded in essays damning the photographs as “disturbing,” making suicide “cool.” The hearts of such critics are in the right place, but their argument is not. Much of the best feminist art asks questions about self-destruction and might not survive this test. The truth is that feelings of self-destructiveness are messy and disturbing. Take a look at the work of someone like Ana Mendieta, who often involved blood and gore directly. “She wants to feel the spray of blood on her skin,” a critic remarked of her retrospective. Or the imagery of Francesca Woodman, who would commit suicide at just 22 after creating these startling, haunting images of herself fading into wallpaper, the floor, the window. Taste had no dominion there, and perhaps it shouldn’t, since taste for a long time has meant that women should be quiet, demure, and obedient.
Breaking the social codes about depression and self-destructiveness is an enduring theme of women’s writing, including the women purportedly depicted here. Many of them wrote extensively about their own wishes for self-annihilation, whatever their eventual ends came to be. Thirty years before she died, Virginia Woolf was asking herself in marginalia, “Why do I write all about suicide and mad people?” Sylvia Plath answered that very question in her own way in The Bell Jar, “It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn’t in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.” Elise Cowen, who is barely known outside the small circle of those obsessed with the Beat Generation, left this behind, in a notebook: “Alone / Weeping / I woke weeping / Alone / In black park of bed.” And the truth is that women have long poured over this work, obsessed with it, because they identified with it. As Dorothy Parker put it in one of her best (autobiographical) short stories:
She pounced upon all the accounts of suicides in the newspapers. There was an epidemic of self-killings — or maybe it was just that she searched for the stories of them so eagerly that she found many. To read of them roused reassurance in her; she felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.
Please, everyone, resist the temptation to call that “cozy solidarity” morbid and wrap it up there. Of course, suicide is a frightening, terrible, unacceptable thing. But to be silent about it, to make it in bad taste to represent and speak about it, is not to address that too closely. As the writer Andrew Solomon once put it about a friend’s suicide, “Depression is a disease of loneliness, and the privacy of a depressed person is not a dignity; it is a prison.” Like it or not as a matter of taste, this recognition of predecessors is an attempt to break out of a very lonesome jail. Why do you think, after all, that these writers left these writings behind?
It wasn’t, after all, only Adrienne Rich’s frustration with suicide that made her speech so powerful. It was the way she managed to turn anyone’s identification with Sexton into a reason not to die.
Her poetry is a guide to the ruins, from which we learn what women have lived and what we must refuse to live any longer. Her death is an arrest: In its moment we have all been held, momentarily, in the grip of a policeman who tells us we are guilty of being female, and powerless.
Finding that sort of redemption in the dark does of course require groundbreaking work in the first place, though. So try a bit harder, will you, next time, Vice? Suicide is fair game for commentary — regardless how many others on the Internet cry otherwise when seeing this spread — but slouching indifference and sloppiness do not a real sensation make. To address these women’s life and pain, the work should at least be as smart as those featured.
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Talking Female Suicide: Right, Wrong, & Vice Way
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Farm sector boost: MSP for kharif crops to be 1.5 times input cost Arun Jaitley says
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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for notified kharif crops would be 1.5 times of the cost incurred by farmers for production.
NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday announced that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for notified kharif crops would be 1.5 times of the cost incurred by farmers for production.
Presenting the Budget in Lok Sabha, Jaitley said: "I am feeling very happy the government has decided to announce to make the MSP for all notified crops in the upcoming kharif season at least 1.5 times of the input cost."
Arun Jaitley said this measure would go a long way to realise the government's goal of doubling farmers' income by 2022.The BJP had promised before the 2014 election that agriculture commodities would be set with 50 per cent profit margin for farmers.
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Post Tagged with: "affirmative action"
EDITORIAL: Expel Frauds, Recognize Privilege in Admissions
On March 12, the United States Department of Justice charged 50 people across eight universities in the largest college admissions scam in history. Five Georgetown University parents and two current students were implicated in the indictment, shocking and breaching the trust of the university community. These two students were complicit[Read More…]
by Opinion Editor — March 22, 2019 — 3 comments — Editorial, Opinion
VIEWPOINT: Upholding Affirmative Action
Race remains a factor for mobility in the present-day United States. Willful ignorance of that reality harms members of the Asian-American community, in addition to other communities of color. The current anti-affirmative action debate paints the dynamic and diverse Asian-American community as a monolithic entity, thereby using a narrow image[Read More…]
by Opinion Editor — September 7, 2018 — 2 comments — Opinion, Opinion - Top
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A More Comprehensive Understanding of Merit
An editorial in The Hoya from Oct. 20 urges Georgetown to cease “the practice of race-based affirmative action” and “evaluate applicants on their merit alone.” The editorial board claims that Georgetown admissions “discriminates against particular demographics” and “specifically against fully qualified Asian students,” while also perpetuating “racist attitudes towards Asians.”[Read More…]
by Opinion Editor — October 24, 2017 — 11 comments — Opinion, Opinion - Top
EDITORIAL: Refocus Admissions on Merit
As admissions season gets underway, nearly 20,000 hopeful students will vie for a spot in the Georgetown University Class of 2022. Last year, a mere 15.4 percent of the 21,465 applicants were accepted. In this admissions cycle, Georgetown should evaluate applicants on their merit alone by ceasing the practice of[Read More…]
by Opinion Editor — October 20, 2017 — 61 comments — Editorial
Legacy Status Tips Admission Scales
Amid recent challenges to affirmative action in Texas, California and Michigan, the common practice of legacy preference, which advantages the children of alumni during the university admissions process, has also been called into question, prompting debate over its benefits and potential concerns. Georgetown’s admissions office does consider legacy preference: In[Read More…]
by City News Editor — March 20, 2015 — 5 comments — City News, News, News - Top
College Admissions Look to Socioeconomic Factors
On April 22, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Michigan’s 2006 decision — which was supported by 58 percent of voters — to ban consideration of race or sex in public education and employment, a victory for states’ rights. In a 6-2 vote, the justices ruled in Schuette v. Coalition[Read More…]
by Campus News Editor — May 16, 2014 — 0 comments — City News, News
Howard’s Historic Roots
Howard University sits on a Hilltop of its own, some 35 blocks north and east of Georgetown. Long emblematic of academic achievement in the black community, Howard has seen recent difficulties attracting a pool of strong undergraduate applicants and funding students’ educations without excessive debt. These trends illustrate that the[Read More…]
by Online Editor — February 14, 2014 — 0 comments — Opinion, Opinion - Top
Affirmative Action Can Effect Better Change
Affirmative action admissions decisions have come under scrutiny from the public and the press, resulting in a number of higher-level judicial decisions. Some institutions, such as those in the University of California system, have done away with affirmative action altogether, rekindling an age-old debate. Simply put, affirmative action policies seek[Read More…]
by Online Editor — January 17, 2014 — 0 comments — Opinion
DAVIS: A Level College Playing Field
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by Guide Editor — October 19, 2012 — 0 comments — Commentary, Opinion
Supreme Court Hears Affirmative Action Case
Affirmative action admission policies came under fire as the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin Wednesday. The case originated in 2009 when Abigail Fisher, a white applicant, was denied admission to the University of Texas at[Read More…]
by Guide Editor — October 12, 2012 — 0 comments — City News, News
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Injured RSS leader succumbs, army carries flag march in Kishtwar
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The Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sangh (RSS) leader who was critically injured in an attack in which his PSO was killed inside Kishtwar hospital, succumbed to injuries at Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu on Tuesday afternoon.
Deputy Commissioner, Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana told GNS that Chandrakant Sharma (RSS leader) succumbed to his injuries at GMC Jammu where he was airlifted in a special chopper arranged by the district administration.
Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh said that Chandrakant died at GMC Jammu while curfew is in place in Kishtwar town and some other areas of the district.
DGP said the situation is under control and investigations into the incident are underway.
Chandrakant was critically injured when suspected militants attacked him and his PSO, leading to on the spot death of the later while the former was airlifted to GMC. The RSS leader had been working as a medical assistant in the hospital and was provided a security cover being a leader of the RSS.
Meanwhile, the army which was called in by the district administration has carried a flag march amid curfew in Kishtwar town and its adjoining parts.
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Jadhav Case: ICJ suspends death sentence, grants consular access to India
The International Court of Justice on Wednesday announced its ruling in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case.
Ruling in India’s favour, the ICJ affirmed Jadhav’s right to consular access and notification, news agency ANI reported, citing Reema Omer, international legal advisor, South Asia.
The court has also directed Pakistan to provide effective review and reconsideration of his conviction and sentences, the agency added.
Sushma Swaraj, India’s former Indian minister of external affairs, called it a “great victory for India”.
“I thank the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for our initiative to take Jadhav’s case before International Court of Justice. I thank Mr. Harish Salve for presenting India’s case before ICJ very effectively and successfully. I hope the verdict will provide the much needed solace to the family members of Kulbhushan Jadhav,” she said in a series of tweets.
Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a former Indian navy officer, was arrested in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan in March 2016 on charges of espionage.
The 48-year-old was then sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court in 2017, sparking outrage in India.
India insists that Jadhav was not a spy and says he was kidnapped in Pakistan. New Delhi is asking the ICJ to order Islamabad to annul the sentence.
India’s lawyers told the court in February that it was a “farcical case” based on “malicious propaganda”, while Pakistan’s lawyers hit back by accusing Jadhav of “terrorism”.
The last hearing coincided with a sharp spike in tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours after a suicide bombing in restive Kashmir, although relations have since improved.
The ICJ was set up in 1946 to rule in disputes between countries.
India, China exercising restraint in Doklam: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
New Delhi: Speaking in Lok Sabha on the current state of relations with China, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that both the nations are committed to uphold existing agreements to maintain peace and tranquillity at the border.
Defence minister added, “Infrastructure like roads, tunnels, railway lines and airfields are being developed on the border of India & China to ensure the sovereignty & security of the nation.” Giving an account of the situation at border, Rajnath Singh ensured that both the nations are exercising restraint in Doklam.
Recently, Army Chief Bipin Rawat reacting on Chinese troops’ movement in Jammu and Kashmir’s Demchok had denied that any intrusion from Chinese side saying, “Celebrations were underway in our side and just to see what was happening, the Chinese troops came.”
Moreover, Chinese president Xi Jinping is set to visit India later this year in October. PM Modi and Xi Jinping will hold second ‘informal summit’ at Varanasi on October 12, reported The Hindu. Earlier in April 2018, the first informal meet had taken place in Wuhan. It is expected that both leaders will take a boat ride in ancient city of Varanasi. The meeting marks the completion of 70 years of diplomatic relations between India and China.
In June this year, PM Modi and Jinping met on the sidelines of SCO Summit is Bishkek. Calling his meeting with Jinping ‘extremely fruitful’ PM Modi had said, ‘We shall continue working together to improve economic and cultural ties between our nations.’ Xi reciprocated Modi’s gesture as he said, “China is ready to work with India to continuously advance the closer development partnership between the two countries.”
Moreover, China has for long been derailing India’s efforts to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group which widened the rift between both the countries. India, on the other hand, has been apprehensive of China’s Belt and Road initiative.
Baramulla, July 17 : A militant was killed after a gunfight broke out between militants and government forces in Gund Brath area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday morning.
SSP Sopore Javeed Iqbal said that one militant body along with one weapon has been recovered from the encounter site.
The SSP further said that searches at encounter site is still underway.
As per the sources the slain militant has been identified as Adnan Channa resident of Old town Baramulla.
According to the sources, the slain militant had joined LeT outfit in April 2019.
Meanwhile, the partial shutdown is being observed in the old town area of Barmulla after reports of slain militant who is believed to be resident of old town Baramulla spread in the area.
Earlier in wake of gunfight authorities had suspended mobile internet services in Sopore parts, also to prevent any law and order problem Additional Deputy Commissioner Sopore Ashiq Hussain Lily in a statement ordered the closure of Degree College as a precautionary measure.
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Free Concert! Jazz with Spoken Word with STL Jazz Collective
The Link Auditorium (map)
Come join the Saint Louis Jazz Collective to experience the marriage of jazz music and the spoken word. As the band performs, the mic will be open to members of the audience, who can share their own spoken word compositions along side the music. Together, writers and musicians will feel their way through the moods and emotions of the piece, making art in real time!
Annual Dinner at Brennan's
Join us at Brennan's, the gastronomical and leisure hub of the Central West End, for the second annual Link Auditorium Benefit Dinner. Enjoy four courses handpicked for the event and an optional list of drink pairings which are included. Brennan's will donate all proceeds to the non-profit Link Auditorium at Taylor and Westminster Place to support their effort to promote ideals of civic activism and open expression.
Tickets are available via EventBrite.
St. Louis History Series: Streetcar City
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis in the early 20th century. Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
St. Louis History Series: The World's Fair and Early Aviation
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis. Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
St. Louis History Series: Railroad Empires
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis in the railroad age. Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
St. Louis History Series: St. Louis During the Civil War
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis during the Civil War. Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
St. Louis History Series: Antebellum St. Louis
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis before the Civil War. Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
St. Louis History Series: the Steamboat Era
Join the Rebel Professor, Brian Elsesser, for a presentation on St. Louis in the early 19th century. We will cover commerce, transportation and the emergence of the 'peculiar institution.' Lecture starts at 7 p.m. and is FREE to the public.
Three Flags: the Territorial Period
Don't miss the third installment of Brian Elsesser's lecture series "St. Louis History in the Summer." This event is free; refreshments will be served. For more info call (314) 495-6520.
St. Louis History: French Colonial St. Louis
This is the second installment of Brian Elsesser's lecture series "St. Louis History in the Summer." This event is free; refreshments will be served. For more info call (314) 495-6520.
St. Louis History: First People at the Confluence
Join us for the first installment of Brian Elsesser's lecture series "St. Louis History in the Summer." This event is free; refreshments will be served. For more info call (314) 495-6520.
Art Link
Join us on May 19, 2018 at the Link Auditorium for an evening dedicated to art and artists. Sip wine, beer and/or soda, and enjoy hors d’oeuvres while walking around five artists working live doing a pastel portrait and clay bust of live models, figure drawing and sketching. Dance to (or just enjoy) the music of The Riverside Wanderers.
Tickets are $15 at the door; beer and wine will be available for purchase.
Special thanks to the talented artists who have donated their time and skills:
Mary O’Reilly (pastel portrait)
Justin King (drawing)
Jane Saunders (sculpture, working with model Joyce Phillips)
Phil Jarvis (sketching)
A silent auction will include the completed art works, as well as a work by Zack Smithey.
Visioning Session
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Family, Guest Posts
By Kathleen Siddell
The air conditioning hummed white noise throughout our 15th floor apartment. My boys zoomed cars on the slick marble floor. “We’re going to move back to Connecticut,” I announced to everyone and no one. One cannot make such an announcement to a four and five year old who are busy driving in an imaginary world. I asked them to put down their toys and sit with me on the couch.
“We’re going to be moving from Singapore back to Connecticut.” I tried to read their faces.
“Oh, to our home country,” my five year said. “Jens’ home country is Denmark.”
“Connecticut is where we go for Christmas, right?” My four year was trying to read my face.
“So it will be snowing,” they cheered.
In the next few weeks, I fielded many questions about the logistics of toys traveling halfway around the world (what if they get broken), the realities of seasons (it won’t snow in July), and the abstract concept of time (will we live there forever).
I didn’t grow up traveling to faraway lands. My parents always chose the roads well traveled. When we left our Southern Connecticut home, we’d drive up I-95 through New Haven, cross through Rhode Island and land in Southern Massachusetts to “the homeland.” (My mother’s homeland, to be exact.) “Going West” meant a trip to my other grandparents, up I-91, through Hartford, landing in Springfield. Once a year we’d make our way up the familiar eastern route out to the elbow of Massachusetts on Cape Cod.
My parents always kept several maps in our coffee table drawers. None of these tangled roads reached further than the New England states. Even then, I could find our usual spots by the way the map folded, almost instinctively, into well-worn creases. Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine made up the untouched, barren abyss of places we might go.
I liked to unfold the maps and spread them out on the floor. I’d trace my finger along the snaking highways and byways and guess how long it might take to cross each state border all the way to the grey of Canada. I liked to read the names of towns I’d never visit. The web of lines, colors and various symbols felt like a secret key, even if I had no idea what it might open.
For almost the entirety of their lives, my kids had lived in Asia. My husband and I struggled to know when was the right time to tell them we would be moving. I spent weeks worrying how to answer questions about when they might see their friends again, what their new school would be like and what would happen to our Singapore home. Those questions never came. Instead, I packed my unspoken worries and the memories my kids were too little to carry.
We settled back in Connecticut like leaves drifting through an autumn sky. We landed softly but I was unsure if we’d till back into the soil or blow away to another season.
We found a preschool for my youngest that appealed to my belief that preschool shouldn’t be much like school. They placed a heavy emphasis on nature so when we were invited to an outdoor ceremony for the Winter Solstice, I wasn’t surprised.
While the kids prepared inside, the parents stood in two parallel lines. We stretched our arms overhead and joined them with the hands across the aisle to make a human tunnel. Barren trees clawed into the dusk.
Our children emerged from the glow at the entryway to the school, each carrying lit lanterns. They followed a path around the yard, illuminated by even more lanterns, crunching their way through leaves and under our arms. The teachers recited poems.
It was all deeply symbolic I’m sure — darkness, lightness, and the slumber of life in the coming winter — but I was too focused on the cold air and impending inferno. The early winter chill rippled down my spine into my limbs while candle flames bounced. I seemed to be the only one ready to shout, “Four year olds walking with fire?! We’re all going to go up in a blaze of tragic irony!” We didn’t.
Our parting gift was a bulb, to be planted as a reminder of life that returns in Spring. As we walked hand in hand to the car, my boy and I talked about planting it. I thought we might put it in the pot that boasted a wig of disintegrating mums.
I intended to, but the bulb sat, slowly dying on our kitchen sill, as good intentions are wont to do. For a while, I thought the hearty bulb might still blossom even after all the weeks that passed. Then one day, in a rare fit of Marie Kondo organizing, I rolled the bulb, slightly brown with peeling skin, around my palm. Did it bring me joy? It did not.
My son has never asked about it. If this should bring me comforting reassurance or a questionable lack of attachment, I am not certain. At 4 years old, how can I know if a more nomadic life will suit my son or if he’ll want to feel rooted.
By all measures, a nomadic life is not one that should appeal to me.
“China? Who the hell would want to go to China?” My grandfather’s voice echoed from behind his newspaper.
My mother’s friend was planning a once in a lifetime trip to China. I think what followed was a conversation about how long, expensive, useless, tiring, inconvenient such a trip would be. What if you couldn’t communicate? What if you didn’t like the food? What if you got lost?
Even though she had not lived in Massachusetts for decades, in her distinct Boston accent, she often talked of places outside of the greater Boston area as foreign lands. There was the dismay of ordering a lobster roll only to have it appear warm and buttered, the wonder of touring Pennsylvania Dutch country or the confusion when asking if someone was going “down Maine.” Whether her attachment was more for old New England or for a bygone era, I was never really sure. The two seemed to easily conflated for her.
My grandmother instilled much of this kind of nostalgic thinking. As a young girl, my grandmother had outlived all her siblings and became an unplanned only child. As a result she was completely devoted to her parents. Whether she felt grateful or burdened or some combination of both, she never said. For me, this legacy manifest into a deep attachment to staying close to home. The measure between love for family was directly proportional to distance one strayed from home. Closeness begets closeness.
These are the legends I use to navigate the map of my family’s history.
My parents are delighted to have us living back in Connecticut. We visit them on a Saturday morning. They live a few towns away, in the same house where I grew up.
My eldest loves that our regular FaceTime calls have been replaced with regular visits to their house. He asks if we can move into their neighborhood. He loves riding his bike up and down our winding driveway and running outside in our suburban playground. When prodded he says that he misses living in Asia, but without saying it, I know he is happy here. I know it in the same way I know, without him saying, he still fears dark rooms and too much attention.
Sitting in my parent’s living room, I’m struck by how small this house I know so well feels. The rocking chair I once wasn’t able to rock with my feet, the shelves that once seemed so high, the room itself feels like a miniature version of where I grew up. Im unable to settle snuggly here.
My kids find the familiar yellow Lego carrying case. It clicks open to reveal a sea of battered mini bricks. These relics from the past dot my parent’s raised ranch. “You played with these when you were little?” I can’t tell if my son is more surprised that I was little, or that we have the same toys. “I wish we had these flowers in our Lego cases,” he whines. I remember building miniature houses, making sure the colors were evenly matched and the windows were symmetrical. The flowers were always the last detail.
My parents planted. I flew.
I was 20 when I first traveled abroad to France. While most of my peers were in their junior year, I was a senior. Shy and uncertain, I had listened to friends talk about their study abroad trips in a way that made me feel not only like I could do it, but like I had to do it. It was the first time I’d associated risk with reward.
My parents drove me to Newark airport. We wandered the international departure gate and filled the mindless noise with more noise. We used small words to try to quell big emotions. I’d never been that far from home. On the wings of a Boeing 767, I flew into the cloudy unknown.
“You are very quiet,” my host father said at dinner one nights, “do you not like it here?” My French was not good enough to explain that he was right, and he was wrong.
I walked barefoot in the cool grass of a Parisian park, saw a bullet hole in the wall of a cement building in East Berlin, and breathed the thick air in the Sistine Chapel feeling that though billions of molecules separated me and Michelangelo, we are all connected.
I wrote letters to my parents and grandparents. Partly I wanted to assure them that flying across the ocean hadn’t severed any familial ties. Partly I wanted them to know It was precisely because I had gotten lost, had trouble communicating and sometimes didn’t love the food that made me love the experience.
Distance hadn’t pulled me away, it helped to give me perspective so that I could see myself more clearly. Six months later, I flew back feeling like home is everywhere and nowhere.
I met my parents at the arrival gate amid halls decked in holiday greens and reds. “You look different,” my mom said. I was 21 and just beginning to understand traveling was an inevitable character trait. I’m sure I shrugged sheepishly though I wish I had responded, “so do you.” It was the first time I’d see my parents as the North Star.
Traveling hadn’t made me feel lost, it made me feel found.
We’re entering the Spring thaw — one last icy cool breath in before a warm exhale out. There will be no sturdy stems sprouting from buried buds in our pots (still prickly with dead stems). Instead, in this seasonal shift, new worries sprout. I worry I would have killed the bud from that December ceremony regardless, but I didn’t even give it a chance. I worry that my reluctance to plant it is a not-so-subtle metaphor. I worry that my oldest son will never want to leave. I worry that I will never want to stay. I worry we might not share the same view of the world.
And yet the earth softens, like it’s made to do.
It is in the softness of Spring that I watch my son playing on a grassy field with his friends. We are at a birthday party. The host gives us a small gift to thank us for coming. My son holds it up. It looks like a plant without soil. It is tagged with instructions on how to care for an “air plant.” The instructions are minimal: once a week submerge in water for 15 minutes.
It’s growing long and sturdy, with leaves like thick blades of grass. It currently sits in a small jar where the skinny green fingers reach upward.
I think back to that December ceremony. I can still feel the way my son’s tiny fingers intertwined with mine, rooting us together with the North Star shining above.
Kathleen Siddell is a teacher and writer living (for now) in Connecticut. She and her family have returned from Asia but are feeling ready for the next adventure. You can find her drowning in the Twitterverse @kathleensiddell.
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Family, Guest Posts, Home
I’m Not from Here
By April Vazquez
I can’t tell if my husband’s unmarried cousins are lesbians. Three or four of them put pictures of themselves on Facebook with other girls, faces pressed together, with posts about their undying love. But in this country, where women friends hold hands in public and dance together at parties, I’m not sure what it means.
I’m the only one angry that the house is in a state of perpetual dust and chaos because the builder, Raúl, doesn’t work on Mondays… or other days, sporadically and without notice.
I can’t understand why to get residency here I’m required to provide a letter from the Consulate verifying my citizenship when, at this very moment, the Immigration official making the request is holding my United States passport in his hands.
I can’t make out why my two-year-old’s shoe was stolen within five minutes of falling out of the stroller outside the the park. I know the shoe was stolen because when I went back for it, the lady who sells food there told me she saw another woman pick it up, but what I don’t understand is why, what she thought she could do with it. Or is the impulse not to let anything–anything–go to waste so strong that it extends even to one tiny shoe? Continue Reading…
By Pam Munter
It takes some planning to get into the correct lane for the right turn off busy Sunset Boulevard to Hartzell Street in Pacific Palisades but I’ve been doing it since I was 16 so it’s automatic for me – even now. Hartzell is one of the “alphabet streets,” part of a grid developed early in the history of the Palisades, all of which were named after the founding Protestant missionaries.
I haven’t lived there in more than a half century. But whenever I’m in the area, I feel an irresistible cosmic pull to make the pilgrimage to the house where so much of my childhood and adolescence unfolded, the repository of my earliest self. Now when I drive the four blocks up Hartzell to the house, I hardly recognize the street. Almost all the cute little bungalows in this formerly working class neighborhood have been converted into multi-story McMansions. Luxury cars are parked on both sides of the street, allowing only one car to move through at a time. Gone are most of the prolific eucalyptus trees that proudly stood guard, no longer flooding the area with their rich, herbal redolence.
The house has been updated over the years but many of the external changes were accomplished much earlier by my handyman father – filling in the front porch to create a dining room, adding a large wing with a bedroom, bath, laundry room and garage. Subsequent owners have had a better eye for landscaping, which was an area that never interested my father.
Whenever I make that right turn on to Hartzell, I feel my heart start to race. It unfailingly takes me by surprise. When I was coming home to visit from college, it was due to hungry anticipation for a square meal. After I married and drove cross-country from Nebraska for vacations, it was longed-for relief from the fatigue. But even now I feel that jittery twinge of – what could it be – anxiety? Apparitional dread? Continue Reading…
Guest Posts, Letting Go, Surviving
*Image courtesy of Tiffany Lucero
By Wendy Wisner
Sometimes California goes drifting through my mind as I’m falling asleep. It looks like it’s detaching itself from the rest of the continent, as I’d always heard it would, the sea levels rising, the land sinking.
Or I see it suspended in air, tilting back and forth, the way it did during the ’89 earthquake, my mother and sister in the living room, me standing in the doorway, the chandelier slowly swaying.
I think I want it to erode, break up and get washed away.
Or I want it never to have existed.
Mostly, I want it to come back to me. I want it to fill the odd-shaped hole in my gut that started opening all those years ago when my father left us—when he left us for California. Continue Reading…
Guest Posts, Life, memories
By Andrew Bertaina
The world cares little for our departures. It spins and spins in the dark unaware that we are even here, spinning in that same dark. We are left to construct our own signs then, spin our own yarns about the moments that have marked us. We tell ourselves stories about first loves, parents, home, in order to give our lives structure, a foundation on which to build the architecture of the self. The meaning of our departures comes in hindsight, a postscript, leaving is not the car going down the driveway, the hand waving goodbye, it is considering, days, months, years later, what the leaving meant, trying to remember if you held your hand against the cold glass and what it meant that your mother didn’t cry. This essay is already a failure, an attempt to send myself a postcard from the future. I doubt I’ll have the sense to read it.
The last summer I spent in Chico, CA before leaving home was like any other: blazingly, soul-scorchingly, hot. It was the sort of heat about which people out east say, “It’s a dry heat though,” which is why I dislike almost everyone out east. The observation is made no less obnoxious by its veracity. The summer days in Washington D.C. are sauna-like, something to be endured, like watching golf on television. These relentless days always leave me longing for the cool California nights of my youth—crickets chirping and a light breeze prickling night’s skin.
Departing for college was the first of many adult severances. It felt like a pin prick at the time, an inevitable retracing of the steps taken by siblings and friends. They returned in the summers, strangers in a familiar land, stopping for a visit with the natives before returning to their new home. And yet, as the years have passed and college friendships and memories have faded, I realize that leaving Chico was a severance, an end to the era of a childhood and a farewell to my home, and to the idea of any place being home. Continue Reading…
Anxiety, Grief, Guest Posts, healing
By Liane Kupferberg Carter
The summer after graduate school, I accepted a job as a copywriter at a well known publishing firm. I had been recruited and hired by a woman named Serena, a blonde, cooly professional woman, who praised my work lavishly. I loved my job. But two months later, Serena was inexplicably fired. They replaced her with a shrill, sarcastic woman named Crystal, who’d once worked for – and been fired by – Serena, and so she took an instant dislike to anyone Serena had hired. Especially me. I believed my work was good; I was dilligent, always met deadlines, and the editors consistently praised me. Yet each week Crystal would summon me to her office, and catalog what she labeled as my professional failings. Some nights, weary and ready to weep, I would finally pry myself from the vise-hold of that office, and Crystal would look pointedly at the clock. “Running out early again?” she would say.
I couldn’t wait to get home. My cat would meow plaintively as soon as she heard my key in the door. Some nights, when I was just too tired to cook dinner, I’d go to the freezer, shave off a slice of frozen Sarah Lee chocolate cake, sit by the window and listen to a scratchy recording of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. I was dismal that winter. I had just lost my beloved Aunt Jeanette, and Dvorak’s sonorous second movement, a beautifully melancholy melody based on an old spiritual called “Going Home,” spoke to my sadness. Continue Reading…
Binders, death, Guest Posts
Gone To Feed The Roses
By Katherine Vaz
The home I share with Christopher Cerf, on Gerard Drive in Springs, was not spared Hurricane Sandy. We were residing in our main residence in New York City when the water rose over the spindly, mile-and-a-half long cape bounded by Gardiners Bay and Accabonac Harbor. Police cars blocked the entrance to Gerard, we read in the Times. It was not safe to enter.
Aerial views made the spit of land look like the Loch Ness Monster surfacing—humps of spine, the creature mostly submerged. A friend reported that our yard and patio were ravaged, but our house was unharmed. After a spell came the news that my eighty-seven-year-old father had collapsed in northern California. A day later, for the first time, I entered my childhood home without him greeting me with a blessing and kiss. Content with his history books, his painting and gardening, he was a homebody; I sensed the vacancy as a prelude to loss. At Eden Hospital, he cried out my name when he saw me, the daughter from far away. Continue Reading…
Binders, Guest Posts, love, Marriage
By Maia Morgan.
Summer was over, and my apartment was still a maze of boxes. My bed frame leaned against a wall; I slept on the mattress on the floor. I hadn’t figured out how to turn on the oven. I ate dinner in front of the TV, (read: ice cream straight from the carton). This wasn’t how I’d pictured things when I’d envisioned a place of my own.
I’d been tired of my surly landlord. Of living with a roommate whose girlfriend insisted on sneaking plug-in air fresheners into every room until our apartment smelled like a taxicab. It was time for me to strike out on my own. At thirty-four, I was officially in my mid-thirties, and I had certain ideas about what that meant: a husband, a baby, a house. But there was no sign of a relationship on the horizon. I didn’t have a fancy job. I decided at the very least I should have my own apartment. So I threw myself into the search, daydreaming about paint colors and estate sales.
I found a sunny, third floor one bedroom, slightly rough around the edges but with beautiful bones, not too far west for me to walk my dog to the lake. Yes, it was mere blocks from the northernmost boundary of the city and yes, it was in a very residential area with no cafés or bookstores and yes, I’d probably have to get in my car if I wanted to go anywhere, but still, it would be mine. I’d write there and have dinner parties and a container garden on the roof. That spring I sat in an office at Chicago Title and Trust, signing papers and trying to absorb it all: escrow, closing costs, title insurance. Finally the seller handed me the keys, and the ground dropped away. In the midst of attaining this joyful milestone, it dawned on me that I was really alone.
I didn’t want to want a boyfriend, let alone a husband. I wanted to be all, a woman needs a man like a fish, bicycle, blahblahblah. But I wasn’t. And I did. It bothered me. I mistrusted it like I mistrusted wanting to be model thin–something suburban girls learn early on they’re supposed to want. I didn’t idealize marriage. I didn’t think it was the answer to all my problems. And though I scoffed at romantic comedies, I secretly longed for someone to forsake all others and choose me. And buying a condo suddenly brought it all home. I was on my own. This was life. It was happening now. It wasn’t about to start. I was in the thick of it. And I was alone.
When I was thirteen, my mother woke my sisters and me up before dawn to watch coverage of Charles’ and Diana’s wedding. We sat on the pastel plaid sofa and matching loveseat in our family room and watched Lady Diana arrive at St. Paul’s in a gleaming, horse-drawn coach.
“It’s just like Cinderella,” my mother exclaimed.
“Really?” I said, “Did mice sew her dress? Do birds land on her finger and sing?”
“That’s the ‘feed the birds’ cathedral from Mary Poppins,” my mother said. “Do you remember? Tuppence a bag. I so wanted to take you girls to Europe when you were little.”
“Why didn’t you?” I asked her.
“Your father nixed the idea,” my mother said. “Like everything else.”
Lady Di peeked from beneath a filmy, white veil pinned with a glittering tiara and slowly ascended the red-carpeted steps smoothing her taffeta explosion of a skirt while the crowd cheered and waved from across the street.
As the Trumpet Voluntary began and Diana took her first steps down the aisle, tears streamed down my mother’s face.
“Such beautiful flowers in the little girls’ hair,” she exclaimed. She turned to my sister who had jelly on her cheek and at least three days worth of knots in her hair. “Wouldn’t you like to wear a dress like that, Sam?” Then, catching sight of Prince Charles, my mother cried, “Oh, does he see her? Do you think he sees her?”
It’s a moment, I admit, I look for at a wedding–the moment the groom first sees the bride. I want to catch that instant of revelation. I want the groom to be overcome with emotion. I want him to cry. At one of the first weddings I went to as an adult, a few years after college, the groom was beside himself, reading e.e. cummings with tears streaming down his face whereas the bride was almost alarmingly stoic, and it was actually a bit like, uh oh, but I guess everyone handles their emotions differently, and those friends are still married with two kids, so who knows?
I did love Diana’s dress, being enamored of the flounced Laura Ashley look popular at the time. In the footage shot inside the cathedral you could hear the muffled sound of the crowd lining the street cheering when Charles and Diana said, “I will.” Even during the long singing parts when we went to get refills on our Swiss Miss, my mother remained, entranced by the beauty of St. Paul’s and the boys’ choir’s heavenly voices. First Corinthians 13. Love suffereth long and is kind. My mother marveled at how wonderfully Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones coped with Diana’s magnificent train, and praised the decorum of the other young attendants in their old-fashioned naval uniforms and ivory dresses with butter colored sashes. A little after eight a.m. Diana kissed Prince Charles on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, my sisters and I licked mini marshmallow foam from our cocoa mugs and my mother wept. She cried, she said, because it was beautiful and because she always cried at weddings. Continue Reading…
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The uncertain future of games like Deus Ex and Dishonored
Thread: The uncertain future of games like Deus Ex and Dishonored
17th Aug 2017 07:35 #26
Malf
Thing What Kicks
Sorry, I should have been more clear; that post was specifically regarding the directly comparable systems in the two games. Such as stealth, or NPC reactivity. Hitman's equivalent systems just feel significantly more robust and flexible. Dishonored 2's have noticeable bugs and janky outcomes, such as upon release, being unable to get non-lethal in the museum level due to a bug where an NPC would unavoidably die after knocking out the main target.
I think it's the finessing of the point where scripting interleaves with systems, and IO just seem better at this than Arkane, who in turn are better than Eidos Montreal.
And at it's core, I think that's one of the most important factors when making an immersive sim. That transition between scripted behaviour and behaviour governed by systems needs to be as seamless and bug-free as possible.
icemann
I'd argue that many of the "immersive sim" elements have been incorporated into other games to a degree. Like stealth, RPG elements, some level of inventory management (not necessarily via a viewable backpack / storage container).
If you were to compare a FPS game of now, compared to say 15 years ago, there is QUITE the difference.
CrossTrix: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003690/CrossTrix/
Yeah, I think the Ubi template in particular has nicked a lot from immersive sims. Stuff like Far Cry 2 onwards, the recent Tomb Raider games, Assassin's Creed for the RPG elements, the Batman games, they've all implemented elements of immersive sims, but usually without the sim bits (Far Cry is better then most in this respect). All these progression systems you see in a huge swathe of modern games owe a lot to the immersive sim.
One thing I will give the recent Deus Ex games credit for however; they're probably the only modern takes on the genre that include varied and meaningful dialogue interactions (or any interactive dialogue at all outside of full-on RPGs). The social aug is great fun in both games. More of this kind of thing!
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Originally Posted by henke
It's more of a straight up stealth-game than an immersive sim, isn't it? Gotta say I'm not entirely sure why Thief 1 & 2 gets included in the ImmSim category either, other than coming out at the right time by the right developer.
Totally disagree. Wide open levels, minimal UI, open ended/emergent gameplay with multiple paths to victory. Very minimal scripted events (conversation are the only thing I can think of). Think of levels like The Haunted Cathedral or Shipping and Receiving, they're just big gaming playgrounds where you can proceed however you choose.
Thief 2014 really didn't have much of any of that. Just the fact that you could only use rope arrows in very specific, designated spots kind of tell you everything you need to know.
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There's loads of games incorporating eventually elements on a purely mechanical level. Environmental storytelling is all over the place, as are RPG elements, physics simulations, weapons that can be upgraded. In itself those are means to a bigger end to me. The core of the general idea, the spark that spawned these initial games in the first place, that's something hardly ever fully pursued. Sometimes that's done for commercial reasons -- there were "elements" found even in the original Shock/Underworld games that were deemed annoying by a few back then (every time I see an Alien:Isolation complaint about the back-tracking in a supposed-to-be persistent realistic game space such as the Sevastopol makes my heart sink). Sometimes that's because it's a demanding task. Any garage developer can make an adventure game via AGS, at least on a technical level (rumour has it even Yahtzee did a few), however as soon as simulation rather than scripts come into play, artificial intelligence rather than breadcrumbs, object interaction rather than pre-determined "hot spots" as the only scripted things to "interact with", it's getting increasingly tougher.
Originally Posted by Malf
One thing I am certain of, and probably won't go down well here, but I think we need less RPG-like ability and stat progression in immersive sims, and more unlockable tools that open up new potential play-styles on subsequent play-throughs.
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/darkproj/manifesto.html I love those guys. [Nothing against RPG trappings as such at all... I bought all more recent Obsidian oldschool isometric RPGs for instance. But that ability to think outside of those boxes is/was phenomenal]. Btw, not do go into a semantic argument what is and what isn't a sim, to me that's pointless exercise. To bring that on the topic of the article, I think it is quite right that it isn't just these games that "failed" to hit hard, or not as hard as what hoped. It's the game's market as a whole. With that said, if Arkane et all couldn't creach their core markets, that'd be troublesome [perhaps even amongst the diehards there probably is only so many spiritual successors to System Shock / Deus Ex you can take at a time... in a sense, it's becoming a formula all itself, fantastic as it still may be!].
Originally Posted by dishes
Core 2 Duo E6850, 8 GB DDR2, GTX 750 Ti. (Factory OC'd, and I believe 2 GB GDDR5.) The game is mostly CPU bound; Afterburner says both cores are pegged but the GPU is only half used.
Game settings were set to all Very Low 720p with 50% adaptive resolution, so the game will switch to 360p before dropping frames. It can sometimes look ugly but the art style is pretty enough that it compensates for PS2-level graphics, and it stays between 30 and 60 as a result. Unless you're a PCMR übermensch, this is completely fine by me.
Cheers, personally not that demanding too, but a better experience is desirable (30 fps minimum at a decent resolution). My 2011/2012ish Intel system is still fine for this, however a 750 seems stretching it as it reaches its limits quickly. Prey overall seems a far less demanding game overall, maybe should try the free trial when finished on Prey (didn't even know they had put one up). By the way, Prey has one too now.
Only real complaints I had about Alien - Isolation were:
* The Alien(s) invulnerability, which clashes with pretty much every other Alien game ever.
* The Alien nearly always finding you at some locations. The rest it was completely fine.
Rest of the game was great. Games a masterpiece imo. The DLC was average, but good whilst going for the length that it goes.
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We've got Otherside working on Underworld Ascendant + System Shock 3 and Night Dive making System Shock 1. Even though Prey, Deus Ex 5 and Dishonoured 2 all flopped I'd say that the Immersive Sim genre is in good hands. All we need is for Otherside to make a Thief spiritual successor then we'll have come full circle.
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Thief 1/2 still focus on player agency within a simulation. There are big differences to other immersive sim games, but I think it absolutely counts as a sim.
A typical moment of player agency in DX, say, will have the player setting of multiple interacting effects which are all going to coming together at the same time and make something cool happen, which is the payoff. In thief there would be a more drawn out period during which the player takes stock of all the interacting elements in some situation and handles them probably one or two elements at a time. The payoff is more about the buildup and release of tension over time. But both are different flavours of giving the player agency within a simulation.
(BTW, someone mentioned Yahtzee's games. Completely off topic but Art of Theft is rather good IMO. Maybe less impressive nowadays in light of all the other indie stealth games that have come out.)
If you have problem with narrowing down what ImSim is, it all boils down to multiple, non-level-scripted systems "listening" to each other and allowing emergent gameplay, in ways often not anticipated by developers. Thief 1-3 games meet these requirements perfectly.
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Hey, look, another thread devolving into a semantic discussion about what does and does not count as an immersive sim. There's a reason the title eschewed the term...
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Traditionally, I'd be all over this and yell 'LET'S DO THIS' because I feel like I'm a minority of the population wired that way. But, as all past discussions have been inconclusive, we've shown a certain tenacity and stamina for it. I think imposing a moratorium on the topic in a forum dedicated to it is going to last as long as the average male refractory period.
Which is to say, 15 minutes.
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I always thought there isn’t much point in discussing what ImSim is “to me”, that's why I'm merely stating what's been said or written by guys like Smith or Spector. It’s not really up to players, fans, or anyone except developers. They make games, they coined up the term, and it’s interesting to see what they mean by that, just by playing their games. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but I’d argue whether it’s interesting to get into that, just for the sake of the discussion. I prefer playing games.
Aaaaaanyway, I think we can safely say that the immediate future of the immersive sim is looking okay, but that the future of triple-A efforts is looking shaky.
I think if you're an immersive sim developer dependent on a publisher funding your games, you're going to be pushed into developing games in other genres. Bethesda seem to have fostered Arkane's efforts, but they'll only be patient for so long, and I really wouldn't be surprised to see them looking to drop Arkane or at the very least, re-direct them.
The future does seem to be with indies and crowd-funding at the moment.
IOI thankfully appear to have landed on their feet and should hopefully be able to provide more Hitman, but I'm worried about exactly how big the audience is for their games. While every gamer knows about Hitman, I'm not sure that many of them have played a Hitman game comparatively speaking.
I also wonder if CDPR might get involved in making immersive sims if they see there's a gap in the triple-A market.
Here's hoping Underworld Ascendant and System Shock 3 pan out and are a success for Otherside, but even there, it'll be a niche catering to enthusiasts rather than widespread commercial success.
The developers who formed the genre can't really agree on it, either.
Back around the time of Deus Ex's release, I read an interview with Doug Church and Warren Spector in some gaming magazine, and the point of the interview was basically how they respectfully disagreed with each other on what constituted a more immersive simulated experience (I'm not sure they were using the term immersive sim yet).
Doug Church -- who Spector frequently refers to as big influence on him -- was the Project Director on the first System Shock. He though game abstractions should be minimal and unobtrusive, so he favored minimal to no HUD, no inventory systems and no character stats. His philosophy on that was partially what led to Thief being the way it was (minimal HUD, no RPG stats, no separate inventory screen).
On the other hand, Warren Spector saw immersive simulation more like putting the player in a flight simulator, but as a, um, people simulator, and argued that these abstractions were necessary to fully simulate a wide range of verbs in the game world.
I think they both made great points and I respect them both, so I don't feel strongly about favoring one side or the other. Like in the original Deus Ex and Thief games, both philosophies can work if executed well.
I've come up with the best name: these are all post-FPSes.
I joke, but like most post- genres, there's a degree of shakiness to what it can and can't encompass, and the genre set of games that belong to this idea of the ImSim don't always completely lie within the boundaries set by Spector et al. -- in fact, we're better off talking about the genre gradient here instead of lines to colour within.
Anyhoo, I echo Malf's concern for Arkane under a big, maximal-profit focused publisher. It's the same fear I have for Relic with SEGA, and CD with Squeenix. The solution as I see it is simple: go smaller. Stop wasting so much time on photoreal art assets and do something with stylised art direction that is easier to iterate upon, as the games aren't meant to be easily marketed blockbuster action extravaganzas anyway. Go wild and experiment with the priority being on strong gameplay and design first.
Originally Posted by icemann
Yeah the second one oft spoilt it a bit. When I first heard about this my head went wild and my thoughts approached this from a more realistic/simulation perspective as well. The Alien freely traveling the station, and you being able to evade it for significant portions of the game, in essence, less scripts, more simulations. Of course in retrospect the game's story justifies it all somewhat that it nearly always hangs around, but in line with the actual (first) movie this is based upon, the Alien wasn't actually on-screen for very long. It's that tension of knowing it's there somewhere, and it could pop up anytime. Problem is that such a design probably could not carry a 10-20 hours game, just getting teased and teased, but I'm that sort of weirdo that would still completely buy in to that. (Probably one of the few, sigh). As for the first point, there is still a game based on Aliens to be made here where that balance could be struck, whilst being more faithful to that movie's fiction as well. Without turning to the running and gunning you get from Aliens inspired games typically (last time I saw that movie, it wasn't about Marines kicking butt, but getting their butts kicked, the games miss that completely). Unfortunately, the prospect of any kind of follow-up are slim.
Originally Posted by Sulphur
Ithe games aren't meant to be easily marketed blockbuster action extravaganzas anyway. Go wild and experiment with the priority being on strong gameplay and design first.
Seeing those oft misleading trailers too makes you cringe, because they make the games look just like that. Kill counts, explosions and over the top stuff everywhere... it's so juvenile. It's the ultimate gaming paradoxon perhaps, it's only the big loud and "dumb" games that oft really justify significant budgets and those which tend to fall somewhere in between are being sold like it. You don't have that anywhere else to this degree in my opinion. The entire crowd funding movement seems to have slowed down a bit, but maybe same as Obsidian there is space for doing different projects of different scope... they are doing their big stuff whilst doing their crowd funded games at the same time, and oft there is a bit of an overlap between audiences, such as when guys who'd never played a "Baldur's Gate"-like get to experience something a bit different, and enjoy it. Does Arkane even have a proper "community" by the way?
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Anyhoo, I echo Malf's concern for Arkane under a big, maximal-profit focused publisher. It's the same fear I have for Relic with SEGA ...
Totally off-topic, but I feel like Relic are already past it, considering the huge flop that was Dawn of War 3.
Originally Posted by Abysmal
Any new developer trying to design a new game around those original 1990s LGS principles would end up with a dated-feeling game anyways.
Looking forward to it, because that looks like a pretty bright future. The lesser developers or those holding onto nostalgia would naturally ape every single element for all the wrong reasons, never understanding the original intent. Like the majority of adventure game developers, for which making a Point and Click™ has trumped being awesome, partying like it's 1990s whilst forgetting that the standouts of the day such as the first King's Quest were in the context of their time (!!!) perhaps amongst some of the first graphical "3d" open world exploration games ever conceived, etc. Only if you go fully-on retro charming would a successor to Police Quest still play 1:1 like back in the day, rather than perhaps similar to L.A. Noire with a few more brains. It speaks to reason that early 1990s tech placed quite a few limitationsalso on LGS. If you mean "character interaction" with "social interaction", that's perhaps a good example. One of the core reasons why LGS did away with much of dialogue to begin with post Underworld was that they felt dialogue trees of that era wouldn't cut it as far as character/social interaction was concerned, so for System Shock they killed all the guys you could meet off before the game had even started.
Out of that was born the now infamous audio log, which (slightly adjusted) still holds together quite a few nuts and bolts in "Prey" -- some 25 years later (and it still works well in particular on that scenario, but it's still threatening to become formula, and the challenge of possibly better systems not getting tackled.) [If that sounds like criticism, play PREY, because that future isn't here yet, it really isn't, it's also a really good game worth playing]. If there's a lesson to learn here it's that you never repeat, always surprise, think out of the box and don't shoehorn all the ideas to tightly fit into some "stupid-ass labeled" box before you even start -- in particular if that box is that tiny it barely managed to hold your grandfather's 80386 DX/33 and is attracting increasingly more cob webs rather than still being much relevant. With that mindset, games like Thief or Shock would have never been conceived, turning the world of gaming upside down as they went along. For studios such as Arkane, one day marketing games as the "spiritual successor to X" may lose meaning or pulling power, as even back in the day, those games were neither Doom nor Half Life, as influential as they were also for a generation of then to come developers.
Last edited by samIamsad; 18th Aug 2017 at 17:48.
Originally Posted by samIamsad
One of the core reasons why LGS did away with much of dialogue to begin with post Underworld was that they felt dialogue trees of that era wouldn't cut it as far as character/social interaction was concerned
And yet, that hasn't changed - no one has been able to come up with anything better than dialogue trees.
I thought Fallout's system (not counting Fallout 4) was quite good, where you have a general selection of dialog + extras that would only be available if you met certain requirements (eg having a certain perk, having a skill level of something etc etc).
Shadowrun Returns also used this style of conversation system to good effect.
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Fallout 3's was kinda crap too, everything was basically checks against your speech skill with a percentage of failure for some reason.
I think my favorite dialog system is in New Vegas, because it lets you know if a dialog line is the result of a skill check (I can see why some would prefer the way 1 & 2 just give you different dialog options without telling you why, though) and if you don't have the skill to pass a check, you get a joke failure option that is usually genuinely funny. Oh, and almost every attribute and skill has a dialog check somewhere in the game. It made me smile when I met the one vendor who refuses to sell you any of his good stock unless your character has a high enough gun skill and is like "I know a thing or two about guns, buddy".
Is that really anything other than "dialog tree with a extraordinarily terrible way of picking your option"? The old text parser dialogs certainly worked that way (ref Ultima IV+).
Originally Posted by Jason Moyer
In NV's case it lead to completely different outcomes being possible. When it's the "illusion of choice" (aka Fallout 4's system) then it's just stupid and pointless.
Last edited by icemann; 20th Aug 2017 at 00:15.
I think Pyrian was referring to microphone-based conversations, not to the improved conversation trees that FO:NV and V:TM:B use.
I think icemann was replying to Jason Moyer instead of Abysmal or me?
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Is unfriending a work colleague on Facebook actually workplace bullying?
› Blog Articles › Is unfriending a work colleague on Facebook actually workplace bullying?
18 November 2015 | Written by Andrew Bull | Business, Employment
In a recent ruling by the Fair Work Commission (FWC), a real-estate agent (Lisa Bird) who unfriended a colleague (Rachel Roberts) on Facebook after an argument was found to have displayed “a lack of emotional maturity” and that unfriending her colleague was “indicative of unreasonable behaviour.”
As a result, Mrs Bird was found guilty of workplace bullying and the employer was told to issue an anti-bullying order.
The unfriending incident occurred on 29 January 2015 when Ms Roberts made a formal complaint to management that her properties were not being displayed adequately in the real-estate agency’s front window and that Mrs Bird was the one responsible. Mrs Bird, who is the wife of the real-estate agency’s principle, heard the complaint and, while facing Ms Roberts, commented that Ms Roberts was like a “naughty little school girl running to the teacher”. This resulted in Ms Roberts running away crying. Following this, Ms Roberts checked Facebook to see if Mrs Bird had commented about her crying only to find that Mrs Bird had unfriended her.
While unfriending might sound like something that would happen in the school yard, it was quite serious and left Ms Roberts battling with depression, anxiety and a sleep disorder. After seeing a psychologist, she was diagnosed as being unfit for work, which is when she decided to take the matter to the FWC.
So, is unfriending a work colleague on Facebook now considered to be workplace bullying?
No; not by itself. It all depends on context.
In this particular matter, the FWC did not consider unfriending as an isolated incident, instead they saw it as a tipping point that led Ms Roberts to suffer from serious mental health issues.
The FWC took into consideration the fact that Mrs Bird had actually been engaging in unreasonable, hostile and belittling behaviour towards Ms Roberts over a two-year period. Over this period it was found that Ms Roberts had made 18 allegations of workplace bullying against Mrs Bird and that these incidents had compounded over time. These incidents included:
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Mrs Bird failing to distribute printing to Ms Roberts, but distributing it to everyone else.
Mrs Bird forcing Ms Roberts to wear an uncomfortable and ill-fitting uniform, but allowing everyone else to wear something comfortable.
What is the lesson for employers?
Allegations of workplace bullying and harassment generally stem from a pattern of repeated behaviour rather than an isolated incident.
Employers should monitor the interactions of their employees, particularly in situations where there might have been a disagreement, to ensure a pattern of hostile or bullying behaviour does not exist or develop. To that end, it is often helpful to consider the dynamics that exist within the workplace which often provide the catalyst for bullying and/or discrimination to occur. For example:
A new or junior employee resisting pressure to conform to the ideals or practices of longer serving/senior employees.
Employees with little or no positional power being pressured or threatened by those with positional authority.
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If you are concerned that a bullying or discrimination issue might exist or be developing in your workplace, then take steps to deal with it or seek guidance from your lawyer or HR professional.
If you are an employer who is facing such an issue, it may be worth considering conducting a formal workplace investigation.
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Stakeholders Oppose OPTN/UNOS Policy that Maintains Vast Disparities in Access to Lifesaving Transplants
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Why Internet Routing Affects Digital Sovereignty
We examine the nature of internet routing and see how it may be in conflict with border-specific regulations.
By Natasha Hellberg, Trend Micro Research
What Does The Internet Look Like?
While the internet is an integral and pervasive part of society — cloud based services are making the internet a homogenized experience no matter where you go, whether at home, at work, or even on the other side of the globe — many don’t understand the structure upon which it’s built. The internet was built in a similar manner to a house, with architects and engineers who design, shape, and create its structure. However, while we expect the internet to be built securely and solidly, we keep encountering security issues that make us shake our heads, often forgetting that the backbone of the internet is constructed primarily on technology that's more than 30 years old. Forget zero-days — the internet has enough existing holes to last a lifetime.
Ideally, an outward network connection should look similar to the diagram on the left, but the reality is that after a while, most data centers (where the actual physical wired connections are made), often look like the image on the right.
The Way Data Travels
Because of the way routing works, data does not generally move in a straight line. Although protocols exist to allow for direct connectivity, it is unwieldy at scale. The reality is that the internet is a collection of networks that each connect to one another, and packets of data bounce around each of these until they find the network to deliver the data. The bulk of internet traffic is routed by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is designed to allow routers to create relationships with each other that that tells them how to pass along data — effectively the largest of all peer-to-peer networks.
Basically, the internet addresses that computer or mobile devices use (IPs, both v4 and v6) are put together in aggregated address blocks called prefixes (sometimes also called CIDRs), and assigned to different organizations. Organizations then create bundles of their IP address space, referred to as an Autonomous System, which is then assigned a number (ASN), then use a method like BGP to send data between ASNs. In layman’s terms, think of ASN as your city, the prefix as your postal/ZIP code, the IP address as your house address, and the BGP as the in-car navigation system that tells you how to drive from Point A to Point B.
There exists a variety of protocols on how to transmit data between IPs and between ASNs, including international guidelines and standards on how all this interaction should happen. Not only might the data bounce between many ASN points in its path to go from the source to the destination, most protocols break the data into small chunks, called packets, each of which might take its own path between the source and destination. The transmission protocols then have to re-assemble them at the opposite end.
The issue is that none of the standards on interoperating or routing data are legally binding. So as long as two AS network operators are willing to connect their networks, neither of them has to follow any of the international guidelines on how to do so.
The challenge then is in knowing where your data has been with all this bouncing around going on.
Visualizations by Country
When it comes to internet routing, geopolitical awareness does not exist. When the internet was first designed, there was nothing within the protocols to enforce geolocation identification. As data routes across various AS network clouds, it does so without consideration of the geographic location it is routing through. Neither does it care about the country of origin its AS network operator is incorporated in. In an era of growing concerns regarding data privacy, data access, and data localization, we decided to do some internet traffic routing cartography to visualize how much routing stays within a given country, and how many network connections route out of the country.
We achieved this by collecting data on BGP announcements from a variety of sources, then creating a peer relationship table from these via inbound and outbound route advertisements. Because the routers can only “see” the announcements occurring within its own proximity, BGP route announcement collections are only as good as the number of routes being passed through them. Hence, data was collected from around the world, and then compared to one another to create an understanding of the quality and delta value-add that each data source provided.
As one can expect, this data set became rather large, so we created subsets using the country assignment based on the whois registration for each ASN in order to create lists of ASNs per country. Finally, we created visualizations for each country based on a snapshot in time, showing all ASNs identified for that particular country and each of their BGP peers, regardless of whether the BGP peer was identified as part of that country. All the ASNs local to the country are represented in red, while all the ASNs that were not local to that country because of peership are indicated in black. ASNs for the country that had no peers were shown as single dots around the central visualization.
These visualizations, where the red parts refer to the local country and the black parts are operated by a foreign ASN, show how impossible it is to keep data within one’s own country. As an example, we adjusted the US cartography to indicate how many ASNs were based in the US (green) and how many were in Europe (red). The results show a lot of overlap:
Country by Country Observations
Some of the observations we noted when looking at the routing landscapes for each country is that one can see some distinct differences in their approach.
In the US, the peering seems to cluster on three main ASNs, and many of the “blooms” in the visualization show large clusters of ASNs that only have a single BGP peership. These cases leave the country vulnerable to BGP attacks. If the single point to which any of the larger blooms connect to is BGP-hijacked, all the single ASN nodes behind it will lose their routing to the rest of the globe. Ultimately, their upstream ASN will also fall victim to the BGP hijack. Canada also has these same kinds of clustering and single peer blooms, but not to the same extent of tight clustering as the US.
We observed the exact opposite In Russia. ASN peering is highly distributed, thus making the internet space in that region highly stable. However, it also will make data localization particularly challenging so long as the bulk of the ASNs in Russia have non-Russian ASN peering.
Interestingly enough, despite the perception that China is segregated from the rest of the world’s infrastructure, China-based ASNs can be observed to have a number of foreign ASN peers. The assumption is that the country uses network-based traffic filtering rather than a BGP based one to enforce the data wall put in place. Additionally, China can be observed as having ASNs—that are not otherwise part of the core China-based internet—that have direct peering to foreign based ASNs. In all of these cases, the foreign-based ASNs appear to be subsidiaries or partners of China-based companies and likely received special approval for such connections.
Japan’s infrastructure is elegant in its simplicity. Despite the large number of users and IPs in the country, these all appear to use only a few ASNs that then connect to the rest of the world. The one weakness is that, like in countries other than Russia, there appears to be a susceptibility to BGP hijacking given how few active ASNs there are.
The German infrastructure was particularly interesting to observe, especially in light of the GDPR’s data in transit regulations. It has heavy peering with non-German-based ASNs, and if these ASN are not European-based, they may have GDPR regulatory requirements that they’re unaware of.
Globally, there are thousands of ASNs not in use. When studying the day over day data, we could observe that occasionally these ASNs that have long been abandoned would start to announce IP space and have peers for a short period of time -- and then stop again. In many cases, this is due to the use of the ASN as part of a criminal scheme to do xx announcements of IP space.
The visualizations immediately raised a number of data regulatory and localization questions.
How is the Internet Standardized and Regulated?
The majority of specifications and guidelines for the engineering of the internet were (and continue to be) developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF.org). The IETF is a non-profit organization formed in 1986 that allows anyone (without specific membership requirements) to join to get more participation in standards development and maintenance. Through a variety of Special Interest Working Groups, the IETF has published a series of voluntary standards over the years; these generally are one of three types: RFCs (Request for Comments), BCPs (Best Current Practices), and STDs (Standards). The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), whose role is to ensure consistency across the Working Groups and develop long term planning for voluntary standards development, oversees the IETF.
However, the IETF's standards are not legally binding. These are voluntary adoption standards that may or may not be followed; although successful integration with the rest of the internet is fairly dependent on compliance.
Relevant Laws and Regulations
If the IETF standards are not legally binding regulations for internet routing, then what is? The issue of laws, regulations, and jurisdictions become complicated when put into the context of cyberspace. Long gone are the days of “my data is stored on this disk” — can anyone even say for sure where their data has been, let alone attest to it for compliancy audits? Do people know for sure that those who handle their data are compliant to various regulations on privacy and data protection? Are they even subject to regulations by countries not their own?
Privacy, law enforcement access, and data localization — these three concepts all focus on the same thing, but from different perspectives. How do we protect, or gain access to, data on individuals’ activities online, when “online” could mean anywhere around the globe? This makes matters even more complex. Multiple factors make it a challenge to determine where your data resides and where it is during transit, whether due to the fact that organizations are moving to cloud based systems, or because of the way the internet's building blocks connect (via routing / BGP) in a completely geopolitically agnostic way.
After 9/11, global concerns on safety and security moved many countries to increase their surveillance laws in order to provide law enforcement and other investigative bodies easier access to information that can better assist them with their case. This is especially true in the US, where the first of these types of laws — the Patriot Act — was enacted. The Patriot Act granted law enforcement greater authority in tracking and intercepting communications — with the caveat that it was limited for the most part to data and communications within the US. More recently, the US passed the Cloud Act, a law that has caused apprehension amongst privacy advocates. The Cloud Act was meant to address inabilities to access data on US citizens stored outside of the US or data held by companies with a US presence stored outside of the US. The latter concept raises concerns because of the range of possible interpretations of the concept of “presence” in a digital world. In other words, this could be applied to just about any data stored or traversing the internet anywhere around the world, if one can make the case for the need to access it.
In response to privacy concerns raised by these new access laws, many countries enacted stronger privacy regulations to protect its citizens from these types of unreasonable intrusions into their digital lives. Perhaps the biggest and most notable one is the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR was intended to ensure that personal data is handled with data protection by design — aka the highest level of protection — by default. Data on and about the individual must be stored separately, and can only be retained with informed consent. The GDPR takes the approach that it is sufficient for the data to pertain to its citizens in order for it to be applicable, rather than just being physically stored within a European country. It contains specific articles (Articles 44-50) on the transfer of data outside of the country. Specifically:
Article 44 outlines that any transfer of personal data must be done with the highest levels of protection, and can only be done in a manner that does not undermine any of the protections outlined in GDPR.
Article 48 states that a third party country cannot access data protected under GDPR unless it’s under an international agreement such as MLAT or it constitutes a violation of GDPR.
Clearly, the regulations of GDPR and similar privacy protection laws are in direct opposition to those in access laws, creating a confusing situation where one set of regulations is non-compliant with the other. And although GDPR and the Cloud Act are used here as examples, many countries have enacted similar kinds of regulations. Mapping which regulations are applicable to your organization should be a top priority given the high cost of fines for non-compliance.
In response to the growing schism between data privacy and data access, some countries have attempted to implement what has become known as data localization regulations. Bret Cohen, Britanie Hall, and Charlie Wood’s paper, "Data Localization Laws and Their Impact on Privacy, Data Security and the Global Economy," published in the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Magazine in the fall of 2017, summarizes various data localization laws regulations. In 2015, Albright Stonebridge Group’s paper entitled Data Localization: A Challenge to Global Commerce and the Free Flow of Information identified 23 countries that have had various forms of regulations attempting to stipulate that data relating to their citizens must stay within the country. The paper also illustrates the various strengths of each country's localization laws:
Color Strength of measures Country
Explicit requirements that data must be stored on servers within the country. Brunei, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Russia, Vietnam
Laws that create such large barriers to the transfer of data across borders that they effectively act as data localization requirements. European Union
Wide range of measures, including regulations applyingonly to certain domain names and regulations requiring the consent of an individual before data about them is transferred internationally. Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, South Korea
Restrictions on international data transfer under certain conditions. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay
Sector-specific
Tailored to specific sectors, including healthcare, telecom, finance, and national security. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Taiwan, Turkey, Venezuela
No known data localization laws. Remaining Countries
Are Regulations Consistent With the Way the Internet Operates?
The problem with many data privacy and localization laws and regulations is that they do not take into account how internet routing actually works.
In the case of data privacy regulations, there appears to be a tendency in most of these to treat data routing with a client/server application layer mentality. Most treat the concept of “data goes from point A, the server, to Point B, the client” as if there were three boxes – data stored at one location, data stored at the end location, and then “the middle bit.” There seems to be a misunderstanding of what happens between Point A and Point B, ranging from privacy standards that treat it as if it is a local data store as well, to treating it as if data is transported in a straight and direct path between the two, with no intersections or stops in between. The technical reality is “the middle bit” is a series of data transportations then data stores (when it hits the next hop router in the path it is traveling, similar to a red light at a road traffic intersection), then another set of data transportations and data stores until it makes all the necessary hops to the final destination. Most global privacy standards do not take into account the geopolitical-agnostic nature of routing, and often do not truly understand how frequently data crosses various international borders. And those few that do take into account how data bounces around require textbook high-end encryption, without understanding that implementing it to be compliant at this scale would become so cost prohibitive that it would prohibit its adoption and implementation.
Turning to data localization laws, or in other words, laws that have been implemented to avoid the multijurisdictional data transversal issues raised above, there have been many famous cases where countries attempted to cut itself off from the internet in an attempt to control its citizens' data traffic:
Syria: Internet connectivity between Syria and the outside world was shut down in late November 2011 and again in early May 2013 in order to control information regarding the ongoing civil war at the time., However, news of the ongoing events was still able to flow in and out of the country.
Pakistan: In one of the best examples of issues arising from network route manipulation, an attempt to control its citizens' access to YouTube resulted in Pakistan inadvertently disabling access for most of the globe to the popular web service.
Yemen: Rebels managed to disrupt nearly 80% of all internet traffic to the country in July 2017 when they cut one of largest fiber cables into the country. Single points of failure in the design of the country’s infrastructure led to what could have been a very serious national security threat.
Additionally, some countries have heavily segregated the internet infrastructures within the country from outside connections by design. These include countries such as:
These countries have implemented strict technical and legislative controls within their borders in order to limit their citizens and the content of other countries. However, China’s internet map, for example, shows that digital segregation does not completely cut off access from outside connections (shown in black).
Ironically, our research found that it seems the more robust a network a country has, the harder it is to enact data localization and geographic network segregation. Russia, by far, has one of the most robust routing maps of all countries we have investigated thus far:
The visualization above shows that the number of peering points within its network minimizes the risk of national internet outages. Unfortunately, this works against their attempt to implement Federal Law No 242-FW, which requires that all Russian citizens’ personal data be collected, stored, and processed fully within Russian borders. This regulation also applies to multinational companies that operate in Russia, even if they have no current physical presence but are used by or contain information about Russian citizens. This has forced many large organizations such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook to set up data centers in Russia in order to continue their operations there. Additionally, Russia has been experimenting with models that disconnect it from the internet for several years now, and, based on the global routes, this was attempted again earlier this year. While not a complete success, Russia is now publicly stating that its attempts at localization have been successful enough to allow itself to lock out the West should political tensions rise sufficiently.
In an era so fraught with political tensions, these regulations are only going to become more complex. It would behoove any organization to carefully consider which of these many various global regulations it must adhere to when designing its network architecture and outbound connection points. This includes considering what types of data will be flowing across its network peering points, as well as understanding where its own data goes and the data path it will take across the internet. Any mistake could be costly; The GDPR includes fines of up to 4% of global revenues, or up to €20 million, whichever is higher, for such omissions, and it’s been shown that data breaches can irreparably damage the reputation of a brand or organization.
There is a mismatch between the nature of the internet and the ways we regulate it. We are making a call to action for both governments and organizations to recognize that this is a global issue that cannot be solved by any one government or organization, as each plays a vital role in the solution. It will take a global united effort to address the issues raised by our current routing infrastructure:
International routing guidelines are not legally binding, but routing does not adhere to geopolitical boundaries.
Despite various regulations, data is still prone to theft when misrouted to unintended destinations via BGP hijacking.
Threat actors are realizing flaws in the foundational components of internet infrastructure as shown by a marked increase in BGP-based attacks (BGP Hijacking, IP spoofing, etc).
Governments should have a better understanding of the nuances of data routing across the globe, including the realization that internet cabling and routing does not allow for geopolitical distinction. They should also understand the complicated interrelationships between internet engineering, data privacy considerations, and cross-geopolitical impacts of regulations — especially since the nature of data routing means that legislation from one country will also apply to others outside of that country.
For organizations, there is a need to understand how regulations affect them, and to recognize that poor network engineering on their part contributes to global security and privacy issues.
The issue of digital sovereignty is still far from polished — organizations and individuals that create laws and regulations need to collaborate with those that design and implement how the internet works in their respective countries.
For governments, there is a need for a more realistic approach to data protection, both for privacy and localization. In an ideal scenario, they would implement regulations that consider several factors:
Realizing that it will cost billions to retrofit the internet so be aware that this is not possible, nor enforceable.
Realizing that it will be near impossible to implement true data localization, so truly private information must be encryption encapsulated in some form.
Enforcing thorough policy standards like the IETF’s regulations BCP38 Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing and BCP84 Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks will aid in limiting the impact of address spoofing.
Requiring ISPs and Telcos to have stronger identification and request authentications standards for IP space reassignments.
Funding national CIRTs to do BGP monitoring for the ASNs within their country to see when routes are being hijacked such that alerting and mitigation can be done on these.
As the operators of the bulk of the ASNs within a given country, the role of private sector enterprises is even more important. In this case, the private sector can play an even bigger role than governments in protecting their country’s national interests, thus they should keep in mind the following:
Ensuring that organization peers directly (or no more than one) hop between the organization and the outsourced data cloud service providers. This will help promote transparency in data transmission.
Implementing systems so that there are at least two or more outbound peers, in order to minimize the potential damage should one peering point become unavailable.
Assessing the transmission path for data to determine the geographic paths the data will traverse.
Ensuring that the network has BCP38 and 82 enabled, to limit the potential of spoofed IP addresses traversing the network.
Building strong network route monitoring. This will help organizations quickly detect if data is being routed – accidentally or maliciously to places not intended, which can lead to serious consequences (a quick look at the website BGPMon.net will show how prevalent this issue is).
Ensuring that peering partners have BPC38 and 82 implemented as part of an organization’s peering agreements.
Levering influence throughout the supply chain and include these same requirements contractually of the suppliers.
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While a current resident of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the anonymous donor grew up in Tacoma and is familiar with the Puyallup area, she said in a phone interview with The Puyallup Herald. Her friends and family still live in the South Sound, and she just so happened to be visiting them in October while professional art restorer Sally Hopkins was also working on restoring the ceiling of the Meeker Mansion billiard room.
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“I really think that the restoration is essential,” she said. “You have to preserve your culture because (if you don’t) there will be nothing to pass on to the next generation. Whoever decided to build (the mansion), they were inspired to bring European tradition to Ezra (Meeker)’s home in a little town on a river.”
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“I actually walk on the land that the pilgrims walked on and it’s given me such a different sense of history,” she said.
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I had (the article) on my desk for a while and thought, I’d like to see that decorative work continue and that I’d make a donation.
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China’s Tiangong-1 space station could crash into Europe on April 1 with ‘toxic’ chemical on board – but scientists don’t know where it’ll hit
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The out-of-control spacecraft launched back in 2011, but has since lost connection with China's space agency and is now falling out of orbit.
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Despite a consensus from experts around the world, China hasn't actually admitted that the spacecraft's descent is uncontrolled.
Zhu Congpeng, from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporate said: "We have been continuously monitoring Tiangong-1 and expect to allow it to fall within the first half of this year."
"It will burn up on entering the atmosphere and the remaining wreckage will fall into a designated area of the sea, without endangering the surface."
The Tiangong-1 station carries toxic material, but experts say it's unlikely anyone will be hitCredit: AFP
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Tiangong-1, which means 'heavenly palace' in Chinese, is carrying a highly toxic chemical called hydrazine.
The material is used as rocket fuel, but exposure to humans is believed to cause symptoms like nausea and seizures, with long-term contact said to cause cancer.
The good news is that it's very unlikely that anyone will actually get hit by the spacecraft, which is expected to break up into debris upon re-entry.
A statement from the non-profit Aerospace Corporation explains: "When considering the worst-case location, the probability that a specific person will be struck by Tiangong-1 debris is about one million times smaller than the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot."
The crash is now likely to happen in early April, give or take a dayCredit: Getty - Contributor
"In the history of spaceflight, no known person has ever been harmed by re-entering space debris."
"Only one person has ever been recorded as being hit by a piece of space debris and, fortunately, she was not injured."
The ESA's Holger Krag told Newsweek: "Owing to the geometry of the station's orbit, we can already exclude the possibility that any fragments will fall over any spot further north than 43°N or further south than 43°S."
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"This means that re-entry may take place over any spot on Earth between these latitudes, which includes several European countries, for example."
"The date, time and geographic footprint of the re-entry can only be predicted with large uncertainties."
"Even shortly before re-entry, only a very large time and geographical window can be estimated."
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