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Horizon Inc. v Wolkowicki
2008 NY Slip Op 07577 [55 AD3d 337]
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Horizon Inc. et al., Respondents-Appellants,
Shimon Wolkowicki, Also Known as Sam Wolkowicki, et al., Appellants-Respondents.
—[*1] Friedman, Harfenist, Kraut & Perlstein, Lake Success (Steven Jay Harfenist of counsel), for appellants-respondents.
Bohmart & Sacks, P.C., New York (Joel K. Bohmart of counsel), for respondents-appellants.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard B. Lowe, III, J.), entered January 25, 2008, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the first through fourth causes of action (except as to Wolkowicki's and S & R Medallion Corp.'s alleged guaranty of repayment of funds transferred by plaintiffs to New York Real Estate Group, Inc. [NYREG]), and sixth through eighth causes of action and granted plaintiffs' cross motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 to preclude defendants from offering evidence on piercing the corporate veil, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to grant the cross motion only to the extent of directing an adverse inference charge against defendants on the issue of piercing the corporate veil, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiffs seek to recover $1.8 million paid to defendant NYREG pursuant to alleged oral loan agreements. As a preliminary matter, the court correctly found that factual issues preclude summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs' claim that NYREG's corporate veil should be pierced and its principal, defendant Wolkowicki, held personally liable for the corporation's obligations. Wolkowicki ignored the corporate form by transferring monies in and out of NYREG without any documentation or formalities; this allegedly injured plaintiffs by creating a labyrinth of persons and entities through which to pursue their funds (see Matter of Morris v New York State Dept. of Taxation & Fin., 82 NY2d 135, 141 [1993]; Forum Ins. Co. v Texarkoma Transp. Co., 229 AD2d 341 [1996]). In any event, we agree that a discovery sanction was warranted, given defendants' failure, despite four orders, to produce checks and other financial documents essential to proving the claim for piercing the veil. Contrary to defendants' argument that the motion for sanctions was untimely, plaintiffs preserved their objection to the failure to produce in their note of issue (see Magee v City of New York, 242 AD2d 239 [1997]; cf. Escourse v City of New York, 27 AD3d 319 [2006]). However, because the party seeking discovery is also the party bearing the burden of proof on the issue, and because the evidence is peculiarly within defendants' custody, we find that an adverse inference charge is a more appropriate sanction.
The motion court erroneously found issues of fact as to Bezpalco's apparent authority to bind Wolkowicki based upon the overheard telephone conversation between them. However, [*2]there is a triable issue of fact as to whether Wolkowicki was the alter ego of NYREG and there is ample evidence that Bezpalco was NYREG's agent. Therefore, in the event NYREG's corporate veil is pierced, Wolkowicki will be personally liable for NYREG's debt and plaintiff's argument that Bezpalco was also Wolkowicki's agent is beside the point. Thus, plaintiff's claims for breach of contract and implied contract, money had and received and unjust enrichment were correctly sustained. Further, because there are still viable claims against Wolkowicki, and because the transfer of 50% of the stock in S & R was made to his wife, for nominal consideration, while Wolkowicki faced a conviction for insurance fraud and a $1 million penalty, the claims under the Debtor and Creditor Law were correctly sustained (see Matter of Shelly v Doe, 249 AD2d 756 [1998]).
Finally, plaintiffs' claim that other defendants guaranteed the loan to NYREG is unsupported by a writing (see General Obligations Law § 5-701). Plaintiffs allege that the promissory notes reflecting the guaranty were stolen, and offer the testimony of their agent, Oleg Pogrebnoy, as to the contents thereof. The court properly refused to consider this parol evidence (see generally Schozer v William Penn Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 84 NY2d 639 [1994]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Friedman and Acosta, JJ. [See 2008 NY Slip Op 30207(U).]
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HomeNewsStalled PA-Israel Talks Strain Further
Stalled PA-Israel Talks Strain Further
January 6, 2011 News
Tensions are running high over stalled direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority especially after recent remarks by hawkish Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
The controversial Israeli minister told AFP on Tuesday that he does not foresee any agreement with the Palestinians for "at least a decade".
He said there was an "overdoing, overspeaking and over involvement" on the part of the "whole international community," including the United States, in the Middle East negotiations.
"What we need today is a long-term intermediate agreement," he claimed.
Lieberman also repeated Israeli objections to Palestinian attempts to declare independence unilaterally.
"I think they will lose much more than they can gain in establishing a unilateral independent country," he proclaimed.
The recent remarks by the hard-line leader of the Yisrael Beitenu party demonstrate the ill-will of Tel Aviv officials towards any solution to the Middle East conflict.
“Avigdor Lieberman is a figure who has constantly called for the expulsion of the Palestinian people who still reside within occupied Palestine,” said Ralph Schoenman, author of ”Hidden History of Zionism” in a Press TV interview on Wednesday.
Talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel began in Washington on September 2 after nearly two years of deadlock. They quickly collapsed when a 10-month Israeli settlements freeze expired on September 26.
The United States subsequently called for a return to talks. The Palestinian Authority rejected the request, insisting on a halt to settlement construction.
Palestinians say both demolitions and settlement construction undermine their efforts to establish a state on the territory that the Israeli regime captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
Tel Aviv adamantly proceeds with the construction of the settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The United Nation has criticized the regime for defying international calls to halt its settlement construction activity in the occupied West Bank.
Oscar Fernandez Taranco, assistant UN secretary general for political affairs, criticized Tel Aviv in October for jeopardizing international efforts to resolve the impasse in Israeli talks with the Palestinian Authority.
"We have a brief and crucial window to overcome the current impasse. The UN secretary general continues to believe that if the door to peace closes, it will be very hard to reopen," Taranco told the UN Security Council.
Carroll Bogert, representative of the New York-based Human Rights Watch, said recently that "Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads."
"While Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in a time warp — not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even pushed off their lands and out of their homes," Bogert said.
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Tag Archives: editors
What Comes Back to Haunt Us
I was just reading a report from NBCnews.com on how the New York Times was caught in a couple errors it made one hundred sixty-one years ago. According to the article,
More than 160 years after misspelling a now famous subject’s name, a reader’s tweet has led The New York Times [sic] to set the record straight.
An article first published on Jan. 20, 1853, about Solomon Northup — the free black man whose memoir is immortalized in the Oscar-winning film, “12 Years a Slave” — incorrectly referred to him as “Northrop.” The headline also identified him as “Northrup.”
Author Rebecca Skloot tweeted a link to the story Monday, which caught attention online. A correction was then published in Tuesday’s Times.
While none of us is immune from error, even our small corruptions can come back to haunt us — even when we are no longer around to correct our mistakes. We might draw from this tale the lesson that a competent editor and a sharp-eyed proofreader are both invaluable, but perhaps doing so would seem crass and self-serving, so we shall let that observation pass.
(Despite the misspellings, the original article is still worth reading. And for the other editors out there, note that the title of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel is encased in quotation marks rather than rendered in italics. How drastically editing practice has changed!)
Posted in "I was reading …", Editing, Reading, Writing Tagged 12 Years a Slave, editors, errors, Harriet Beecher Stowe, haunting, history, mistakes, newspapers, proofreaders, Solomon Northup, The New York Times, Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Word Dropped Careless: Emily Dickinson and Internal Editing
I was reading through some of Emily Dickinson’s poetry the other day and rediscovered her brief treatise on the necessity of editing:
A Word Dropped careless on a Page
May stimulate an eye
When folded in perpetual seam
The Wrinkled Maker lie
Infection in the sentence breeds
We may inhale Despair
At distances of Centuries
From the Malaria —
(Poem 1261, c. 1873, pub. 1947)[i]
Emily Dickinson had a complex relationship — much of it posthumous — with her editors. Let us acknowledge so much and move on.
But let us also acknowledge that Dickinson understood the importance of editing (several of her poems exist in more than one version: see “Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”), of carrying within our selves an editor whose work begins even before the ink hits the page. Dickinson reminds us of the power of language — and of the dangers of a word dropped careless on a page. The overall message of the poem above is clear:[ii] we must write with care and intent, always aware that what we commit to the page may outlast us and affect — or infect — those who read our words long after (as John Donne would have it) our scattered leaves are bound-up in “that library where every book shall lie open to one another” (Meditation XVII). Dickinson’s poem is more about self-editing than it is about hiring a proofreader, but since most of us read in our own words what we mean to convey, it often takes an unfamiliar reader to notice the nuances and connotations, the physic and the affliction in our writing.
[i] Amazon.com Review of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson (Author), Thomas H. Johnson (Editor). Back Bay Books (January 30, 1976)
“Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre–all 1,775 poems–available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume.”
http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Poems-Emily-Dickinson/dp/0316184136
[ii] Truth to say, though, the bit of the poem that I find the most interesting comprises the relatively obscure contortions of lines three and four. The picture of the dropped word lying on a page in a bound book or fascicle comes through well enough, but why is the word in the seam? Books are usually fashioned to avoid just that. But “seam” also means an indentation or scar and so refers back to the sense of careless marring we get in the opening line while looking forward to the “Wrinkled” in line four. The word may lie not in the seam of the volume, but in the folding mentioned three words earlier — another possible carelessness, like dog-earing a page. And who is “The Wrinkled Maker”? The author of the poem? The printer/publisher? If we remember the New Testament verse that asserts that in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, how much more does that increase our responsibility to avoid careless words? Or is God the careless Wrinkled Maker who dropped the word into perpetuity? Why is the seam perpetual? Does it run on forever or will it always exist? And “lie” isn’t a word we should treat like a sleeping dog. What or who is lying? The word lies passively on the page, but particularly because we know the speaker is concerned for the deleterious effects this word might have, the word may be untrue, false, misleading. The Wrinkled Maker may be a liar, or “Wrinkled Maker” may modify “lie,” in which case the lines hint at the uncertain nature of the Maker.
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Aeon Zen – Engima
By Conor Fynes on March 14, 2013
In 2009, a band called Aeon Zen came out with “A Mind’s Portrait”, an album that, while rooted in what detractors may call ‘Dream Theater clone territory’- was impressive enough to put them on the radar for those who heard it. Alongside bands like Haken and To-Mera, Aeon Zen are at the forefront of a British wave to revitalize the progressive metal style into something fresh, exciting and relevant. In what is undoubtedly the band’s most consistent work to date, “Enigma” lives up to the promise of their debut. Although they have not yet broken free from the shackles of the progressive metal old guard, Aeon Zen’s fantastic blend of musicianship and composition sees them flying leagues above much of what the genre has recently produced. Progressive metallers take note- this is one of the most impressive albums bound to come out this year.
Aeon Zen are part of what I might call (without wanting to sound too clichéd or the least bit pretentious) part of the New Wave of British Progressive Metal. If you’ve heard the way Haken or Threshold seamlessly blend melody with technical flair, Aeon Zen aren’t too far off. Led by multi-instrumentalist Rich Hinks, Aeon Zen are a firm indicator of where the scene is at. The infamously overused conventions of Dream Theater have their place in Aeon Zen’s sound, but there is a great attention paid to what’s been happening since then. If you look past the breathtaking musical flow, melodies and spacious production, the band’s capacity to mix so many sounds together may be their most impressive trait. “Enter the Enigma” is a very fitting overture for the album, seamlessly flowing from the rhythmic pulse of ‘djent’, to symphonic metal and progressive synth arrangements. From there on, the album flows as would a single forty-five minute epic. Although the Kamelot-esque “Artificial Soul” and single-worthy “Divinity” both function quite well on their own as self-contained pieces, “Enigma” is graced with a number of pleasantly recurring themes and a near-perfect sense of flow.
Aeon Zen also take care to acknowledge the more extreme side of metal that has played such an important role in prog in recent years. When “Divinity” isn’t conjuring the cinematic quality of symphonic metal, it is basking in technical death metal territory, although the growls come and ago fairly quickly, so as not to put off the less-acclimated listeners. The album’s most triumphant moment comes with “Warning”, a slow build up that gives a not- so-subtle nod to the style of a Mr. Devin Townsend. Complete with wall-of-sound production and a soaring lead melody, it’s difficult not to think of Townsend’s “Terria” or “Synchestra” when hearing it. These nods to the styles of other bands certainly don’t end with that either. “Divinity” features a chug and pick slide straight out of the Gojira canon, and there’s a guitar solo on the album that I could swear I’ve heard to some extent before on a Blind Guardian album. Add in some overt Between the Buried and Me influences, and you have a a molten pot of progressive metal with something to offer to virtually every fan of the genre. Most times, I would accuse a band so closely emulating the styles of others of unoriginality at best (or plagiarism at worst), but in the case of Aeon Zen, the way all of these different sounds come together is something in itself. While they may not win any prizes for uniqueness with “Enigma”, the composition is what gives the album wings. I would have had doubts if I had heard so many sounds within prog metal could come together into something half-decent. In Aeon Zen’s case, they’ve gone much farther; although the year is young, I’m not sure 2013 will produce another album with such a solid flow.
Lyrically, Aeon Zen do not excel nearly as much as they do on the musical end. Although there is the vague impression of a concept tying the record together, “Enigma” follows a tired trend of modern progressive albums aiming for a more abstract sense of narrative. Although this ‘idea-over-action’ style of revealing a concept may have worked well for To- Mera last year on “Exile”, Aeon Zen do not have the same such luck. Simply said, the lyrics on “Enigma” do not feel particularly relevant, instead feeding off of the genre’s ‘thinking man’ clichés. Fortunately, the vocal standard is held to an incredibly high standard throughout the album. Andi Kravljaca is one of the modern progressive metal scene’s most impressive singers, and the inclusion of other singers (most notably Atte Pettersen of Above Symmetry and Rich himself) gives the album a greater vocal range, although none of them sound wildly different from one another. In the end however, Aeon Zen is a band all about the guitar, and reverence of the progressive riff. Despite his youth, Rich Hinks is a monster with the guitar. Contrary to many youngblood virtuosos, Rich’s talent with the instrument is multi- faceted; although he is very likely to impress you with his burstfire lead playing, he is just as skilled with the rhythms, and mellower end of his playing. The musicianship is excellent throughout, with Steve Burton’s dynamic drumwork standing out alongside Rich for his richly dramatic performance.
In short, “Enigma” is a satisfying progressive metal epic that trims off alot of its genre’s fat without losing any of the magic. Really, it was the sense of bombast-for-bombast’s-sake that had prog metal floating in rough water for some time. Although Aeon Zen are still well- rooted in the sounds of many of the more innovative prog metal acts, it’s rare that I get such a satisfying impression from an album. Originality regardless, “Enigma” is a near-perfect mesh of thoughtful riffs, dynamic musicianship and conscious homages to their influences. Especially considering the band’s relative youth, I think we can only expect greater things from them in the future.
1. Enter The Enigma (3:03)
2. Artificial Soul (5:55)
3. Divinity (4:04)
4. Seven Hills (3:38)
5. Warning (7:06)
6. Turned To Ash (4:30)
7. Still Human (5:03)
8. Eternal Snow (6:17)
9. Downfall (7:03)
10. Survival*
11. Time Divine 2.0
* Rich Hinks – guitar, bass, vocals
* Andi Kravljaca – vocals
* Matt Shepherd – guitar
* Shaz – keyboards
* Steve Burton – drums
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* Nate Loosemore
* Atle Pettersen
* Jonny Tatum
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Planting Tool
Video Library - Planting Tulips & Daffodil Bulbs
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Planting Tulips & Daffodil Bulbs
Today we'll be planting daffodils and tulips to demonstrate just how easy planting our fall and spring bulbs can be with the right tool. The rule of thumb for planting bulbs is that they should be planted 2 - 3 times as deep as they are tall. So for these tulips we'll be planting, they need to go 4 to 6 inches deep, while these larger daffodils will need to go 6 to 10 inches deep, which if we were planting the old-fashioned way, would mean some serious work and a lot of bending over. But not for us.
We'll be using the 5-IN-1 Landscape Plugger from ProPlugger, which comes with these adapter plate to help gauge the depth of the holes that we dig. We'll start with this one that has a "4" stamped on it because our tulips will need to go 4 inches deep. This will set the depth perfectly. There's also a 2 inch adapter plate that comes with it. It's used for planting smaller bulbs and for some other applications around the landscape which we'll touch on later.
Now this planting area that we're going to be using has not been cultivated in the last ten years or so, so we're likely to run into some roots and rocks. That's ok. If we hit one, we'll simply move over and dig our hole. One other note before we begin: we've had very little rain recently and the soil was pretty dry, so I ran a sprinkler over this area a couple of days ago to moisten the soil, which makes a huge difference when dealing with any tool.
For a more natural look, I'll just drop these tulip bulbs on the ground and plant them more or less where they land. Next, we dig our planting holes. Notice how my body weight and gravity do most of the work, allowing me to stay in a more comfortable upright position. The soil plugs get stored while i work and when it's time to empty, I simply turn the plugger upside down and they slide right out.
We'll screen any rocks and debris from the soil and mix in some organic compost to give our bulbs plenty of nutrients to feed on. We're adding some bulb fertilizer and we're using the 5-IN-1 as a planting guide so we don't have to bend over to do it. We're also adding a pinch of soil so that the bulb doesn't rest directly on the fertilizer, dropping the bulb with the pointy side or the eye to the sky.
We're ready to move on to the larger daffodils which will need to be planted a little bit deeper. We'll remove the adapter plate from the ProPlugger which now lets us dig a full 6 inch deep hole. And for the extra depth needed for these larger daffodils, we'll first loosen a few inches of this topsoil and skim it out using a flat shovel. This top layer is usually pretty loose and easy to remove. Now that we've skimmed down several inches, we're ready to dig down the remaining 6 inches with the 5-IN-1, and just like before, we'll let our body weight and gravity do most of the work.
This time we'll push down until the foot pegs touch the soil. Okay I think we've got our deeper planting holes finished. Now we'll repeat the steps we used earlier with the bulb fertilizer and pinch of soil and we'll drop in the bulbs. The last step is to backfill all of the planting holes with the screened and amended soil and we're done!
The new 5-IN-1 XL takes most of the work out of planting our spring and fall bulbs, but that's just the beginning. It also makes a great planting tool for year-round annuals. It makes quick work as a lawn plugger for either cutting and planting sod plugs that you purchased or transplanting your own lawn grass to repair damaged areas around the yard. A great weeding tool for those hard to kill weeds like dandelions and wild onions and thistle.
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Art Art & Culture
Claude-Joseph Vernet – French Landscape and Marine Painter
July 9, 2019 July 9, 2019 renegade 1 Comment
Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 – 1789 was a French painter who was well-renowned for his marine paintings and expansive landscapes. Many of the scenes feature dramatic action, brilliant lighting, and a sense of nostalgic magic within the realism.
According to Brittanica:
The son of a decorative painter, Vernet worked in Rome (1734–53), finding inspiration both in the expansive, luminous art of the 17th-century French master Claude Lorrain and in the dramatic and picturesque work of the 17th-century Italian painter Salvator Rosa. Vernet’s shipwrecks, sunsets, and conflagrations reveal an unusually subtle observation of light and atmosphere. With his compatriot Hubert Robert, he catered to a new taste for idealized, somewhat sentimentalized landscapes. After returning to Paris he became a member of the French Royal Academy and was commissioned by King Louis XV to paint the port series. The decline in his later work is attributed to overproduction. The family tradition of painting was maintained by his son Carle Vernet and his grandson Horace Vernet.
The National Gallery of Art writes:
Vernet continued a large production of imaginary landscape and marine paintings until his death on the eve of the French Revolution in 1789. He was one of the most acclaimed and successful artists in France, and he received commissions from every corner of Europe. The public and critics alike admired his art, and the great writer and critic Denis Diderot (1713-1784) eulogized him. Diderot especially admired Vernet’s dramatic scenes of shipwrecks, which perfectly illustrate the contemporary concept of the Sublime, expressing with horror the ephemeral quality of human endeavor before the immutable power of nature.
A Mountain Landscape With An Approaching Storm
Draughtsmen in front of a Waterfall at the Foot of the Tivoli
A Harbor in Moonlight
A Mediterranean seaport
View of the Villa Ludovisi Park in Rome
Fire on the Tiber
Tivoli landscapes
The Waterfalls at Tivoli
The waterfalls at Tivoli with the villa of Maecenas
The Laundresses
This invented landscape is a recomposition of various real elements: the bridge of Saint-Cloud, the Carthusian monastery of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Mont Ventoux.
The shepherdess of the Alps
Carpentras Fire
Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm
Seascape, View of Sorrento
Harbor Scene with a Grotto and Fishermen Hauling in Nets
A rowing race on the river Tiber, Rome
Marine Shore
Morning in Castellammare
Villa at Caprarola
Sea Storm, The Dangers of the Sea
Sea storm with castaways
Seaport at sunset
Landscape with Waterfall and Figures
A Shipwreck
Mountain landscape with a river
An Italian harbor in stormy weather.
Mediterranean Port
View of Bayonne, taken halfway up the Glacis of the Citadel
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Why The Triangle
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SAS Story of Innovation
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Eliminating Unplanned Downtime
Nearly 100 days a year, the Arizona Valley desert reaches highs of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or more. While the region bakes, power companies ramp up to meet the demand of the harsh environment – and of one of the fastest-growing populations in the US.
Fortunately, the Salt River Project (SRP) power district, one of the nation’s largest public power utilities serving approximately 1 million retail customers in the Phoenix area, knows the answer to keeping everyone cool on even the hottest days. It analyzes data from production equipment sensors, customer usage – and even about the weather itself – to anticipate demand and optimize the production of its generating resources.
SRP owns and operates multiple generating sources, and keeping track of them and scheduling generator maintenance is a highly complex process. Manufacturers have exacting specifications for when the turbines that generate power re-quire maintenance. Maintenance schedules are based on the amount of time the resource has been producing power. Typically, a generating resource must be scheduled for maintenance on or before a manufacturer’s required maintenance schedule to ensure the unit operates properly.
“If we don’t perform scheduled maintenance as required, we’d be out of compliance with the manufacturer’s warranty and would risk having an unplanned outage on a critical resource,” says Steve Petruso, Senior Software Developer at SRP’s Supply and Trading Group.
SRP uses SAS Analytics to prevent unplanned downtime by accurately determining when combustion turbines are running in order to schedule required maintenance. SRP also employs SAS to predict power supply and demand, allowing its Supply and Trading Group to use a variety of data, including weather, supply, demand and outage, to accurately purchase energy to meet customer demand – or sell excess power to keep costs in line. Understanding future needs requires SRP to consider many factors. It uses current and historical data about customers’ energy use and generation information from their power sources. Although SRP generates much of its own power, it also uses energy purchased from renewable resources, such as solar and hydrothermal.
Accurate Trading Balances Supply and Demand
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Network Working Group G. Pall
Request for Comments: 2097 Microsoft Corp.
Category: Standards Track January 1997
The PPP NetBIOS Frames Control Protocol (NBFCP)
The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) [1] provides a standard method for
transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. PPP
defines an extensible Link Control Protocol, and proposes a family of
Network Control Protocols for establishing and configuring different
network-layer protocols.
The NBF protocol [3] was originally called the NetBEUI protocol. This
document defines the Network Control Protocol for establishing and
configuring the NBF protocol over PPP.
The NBFCP protocol is only applicable for an end system to connect to
a peer system or the LAN that peer system is connected to. It is not
applicable for connecting two LANs together due to NetBIOS name
limitations and NetBIOS name defense mechanisms.
1. Introduction .......................................... 2
1.1 Specification of Requirements ................... 2
1.2 Terminology ..................................... 3
2. A PPP Network Control Protocol for NBF ................ 3
2.1 Sending NBF Datagrams ........................... 4
2.2 Bridging NBF Datagrams........................... 5
2.3 NetBIOS Name Defense............................. 5
3. NBFCP Configuration Options ........................... 6
3.1 Name-Projection.................................. 6
3.2 Peer-Information................................. 8
3.3 Multicast-Filtering.............................. 10
3.4 IEEE-MAC-Address-Required........................ 11
SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS ...................................... 12
REFERENCES ................................................... 12
Pall Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 2097 NBFCP January 1997
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................. 13
CHAIR'S ADDRESS .............................................. 13
AUTHOR'S ADDRESS ............................................. 13
PPP has three main components:
1. A method for encapsulating multi-protocol datagrams.
2. A Link Control Protocol (LCP) for establishing, configuring,
and testing the data-link connection.
3. A family of Network Control Protocols for establishing and
configuring different network-layer protocols.
In order to establish communications over a point-to-point link, each
end of the PPP link must first send LCP packets to configure and test
the data link. After the link has been established and optional
facilities have been negotiated as needed by the LCP, PPP must send
NBFCP packets to choose and configure the NBF network-layer protocol.
Once NBFCP has reached the Opened state, NBF datagrams can be sent
over the link.
The link will remain configured for communications until explicit LCP
or NBFCP packets close the link down, or until some external event
occurs (an inactivity timer expires or network administrator
intervention).
1.1. Specification of Requirements
In this document, several words are used to signify the requirements
of the specification. These words are often capitalized.
MUST This word, or the adjective "required", means that the
definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.
MUST NOT This phrase means that the definition is an absolute
prohibition of the specification.
SHOULD This word, or the adjective "recommended", means that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to
ignore this item, but the full implications should be
understood and carefully weighed before choosing a
different course.
MAY This word, or the adjective "optional", means that this
item is one of an allowed set of alternatives. An
implementation which does not include this option MUST be
prepared to interoperate with another implementation which
does include the option.
This document frequently uses the following terms:
peer The other end of the point-to-point link.
silently discard
This means the implementation discards the packet without
further processing. The implementation SHOULD provide the
capability of logging the error, including the contents of
the silently discarded packet, and SHOULD record the event
in a statistics counter.
end-system
A user's machine. It only sends packets to servers and
other end-systems. It doesn't pass any packets through
router Allows packets to pass through, usually from one ethernet
segment to another. Sometimes these are called
"intermediate-systems".
bridge Allows packets to pass through with the data field
unmodified. Usually from one ethernet segment to another
or from one ethernet segment to a token-ring segment.
gateway Allows packets to be sent from one network protocol to
the same or different network protocol. For example,
NetBIOS packets from an NBF network to a TCP/IP network
which has implemented RFC 1001 and RFC 1002.
local access only server A server which does not pass any packets
through itself to other servers.
2. A PPP Network Control Protocol for NBF
The NBF Control Protocol (NBFCP) is responsible for configuring,
enabling, and disabling the NBF protocol modules on both ends of the
point-to-point link. NBFCP uses the same packet exchange mechanism
as the Link Control Protocol. NBFCP packets MUST NOT be exchanged
until PPP has reached the Network-Layer Protocol phase. NBFCP
packets received before this phase is reached should be silently
The NBF Control Protocol is exactly the same as the Link Control
Protocol [1] with the following exceptions:
Frame Modifications
The packet may utilize any modifications to the basic frame format
which have been negotiated during the Link Establishment phase.
Data Link Layer Protocol Field
Exactly one NBFCP packet is encapsulated in the Information field
of a PPP Data Link Layer frame where the Protocol field indicates
type hex 803f (NBF Control Protocol).
Code field
Only Codes 1 through 7 (Configure-Request, Configure-Ack,
Configure-Nak, Configure-Reject, Terminate-Request, Terminate-Ack
and Code-Reject) are used. Other Codes should be treated as
unrecognized and should result in Code-Rejects.
Timeouts
NBFCP packets MUST NOT be exchanged until PPP has reached the
Network-Layer Protocol phase. An implementation should be
prepared to wait for Authentication and Link Quality Determination
to finish before timing out waiting for a Configure-Ack or other
response. It is suggested that an implementation give up only
after user intervention or a configurable amount of time. Also,
because NetBIOS name defense takes time (typically a minimum of
3 seconds if names are added in parallel), it is suggested that
if Name-Projection is negotiated, the timeouts are increased to 10
Configuration Option Types
NBFCP has a distinct set of Configuration Options.
2.1. Sending NBF Datagrams
Before any NBF packets may be communicated, PPP must reach the
Network-Layer Protocol phase, and the NBF Control Protocol must reach
the Opened state.
Unless otherwise negotiated, exactly one NBF packet is encapsulated
in the Information field of a PPP Data Link Layer frame where the
Protocol field indicates type hex 003f (NBF datagram).
Since NBF datagrams for PPP do not contain a datagram length field,
the encapsulated NBF packet MUST NOT contain any extra octet padding
except when Self-Defining-Padding is negotiated.
The maximum length of an NBF datagram transmitted over a PPP link is
the same as the maximum length of the Information field of a PPP data
link layer frame. Since there is no standard method for fragmenting
and reassembling NBF datagrams, PPP links supporting NBF MUST allow
at least 576 octets in the information field of a data link layer
frame. It is recommended that an implementation allow 1500 octets in
the information field unless the IEEE-MAC-Address-Required boolean
option is negotiated (see below).
2.2 Bridging NBF Datagrams
There exist at least four different MAC header implementations for
NBF packets: 802.3 Ethernet, 802.5 Token-Ring, DIX Ethernet, and
FDDI. Because NBF is not a routable protocol, some PPP
implementations may require IEEE MAC addresses to properly route or
bridge NBF packets. Some PPP implementations may require the entire
MAC media header in order to properly route or bridge NBF packets.
Other smarter implementations may only require the IEEE MAC addreses,
and still other implementations (such as NetBIOS gateways) may not
require any MAC address fields. NBFCP implementations which require
IEEE Addresses should negotiate the NBFCP IEEE-MAC-Address-Required
boolean configuartion option so that the MAC header can be provided
in the NBF packet.
If IEEE-MAC-Address-Required boolean configuration option is
negotiated, all NBF datagrams MUST be sent with the specified 12
octet IEEE MAC address header. Since negotiation of this option
occurs after the LCP phase, NBF packets MAY exceed the negotiated PPP
MRU size. A PPP implementation which negotiates this option MUST
allow reception of PPP NBF packets 12 octets larger than the
negotiated MRU size.
2.3 NetBIOS Name Defense
In order to guarantee uniqueness of NetBIOS Names on the network,
NBFCP requires that end-system implementations MUST negotiate the
Name-Projection configuration option.
3. NBFCP Configuration Options
NBFCP Configuration Options allow modifications to the standard
characteristics of the network-layer protocol to be negotiated. If a
Configuration Option is not included in a Configure-Request packet,
the default value for that Configuration Option is assumed.
NBFCP uses the same Configuration Option format defined for LCP [1],
with a separate set of Options.
Up-to-date values of the NBFCP Option Type field are specified in the
most recent "Assigned Numbers" RFC [2]. Current values are assigned
1 Name-Projection
2 Peer-Information
3 Multicast-Filtering
4 IEEE-MAC-Address-Required
3.1. Name-Projection
This Configuration Option provides a method for the peer to
provide the NetBIOS names registered on its network. The sender
of the Configure-Request states which NetBIOS names should be
added by the remote peer. More than one Name-Projection option
MAY appear in a single Configure-Request.
Implementations which do not attempt to add any NetBIOS names MUST
Configure-Reject the Name-Projection Configuration Option.
If the Name-Projection Configuration Option is not offered by the
remote peer, but is required by the local peer, the local peer
should Configure-Nak the request and indicate that it wishes the
remote peer to add zero NetBIOS names because it is the only known
acceptable value. The remote peer may then terminate NBFCP,
attempt to add zero NetBIOS names, or attempt add one or more
NetBIOS names.
When the receiving peer cannot add all the requested names, it
MUST Configure-Nak with the complete list of names requested.
Those names which could be added should have the Added field set
to zero. Those names which could not be added should have the
Added field set to an appropriate non-zero return code. The
sender of this Configuration Option SHOULD then resend the
Configure-Request with the successfully added names.
The implementation may choose to fail configuration if the
complete list of NetBIOS names is not accepted. By failing, the
implementation should terminate NBFCP by sending a Terminate-
Request packet.
Because adding NetBIOS names can take time (usually 3 seconds) and
because PPP may default the restart timer to 3 seconds, the
restart timer SHOULD default to 10 seconds when configuring
A summary of the Name-Projection Configuration Option format is shown
below. The fields are transmitted from left to right.
| Type | Length | 1st NetBIOS-Name
| 1st NetBIOS-Name (cont.)
| 1st NetBIOS-Name (cont.) | Added |2nd NetBIOS Name...
2 + (Number of NetBIOS names * 17)
NetBIOS-Names
This group of zero or more sixteen octet NetBIOS-Name fields
contains a list of all the NetBIOS names the peer wishes to add to
the remote network if the packet is Configure-Request. If the
packet is Configure-Reject, the peer does not support this
configuration option and it can be assumed that no NetBIOS names
were added.
Because the length field is only one octet, only 14 NetBIOS names
can be added per Name-Projection option. If more than 14 NetBIOS
names should be added, then more than one Name-Projection option
packet will have to be sent in the Configure-Request packet.
This is a one octet field which plays a dual role. The Added
field in the Name-Projection Request packet contains the type of
NetBIOS name added. A summary of name types is listed below.
01 Unique Name.
02 Group Name.
If the packet is a Configure-Reject the Added field should contain
the NetBIOS return code for the NetBIOS Add Name or NetBIOS Add
Group Name command as defined in the NetBIOS 3.0 specification =
[3].
A summary of common result codes is listed below in type hex.
00 Name successfully added.
0D Duplicate name in local name table.
0E Name table full.
15 Name not found or cannot specify "*" or null.
16 Name in use on remote NetBIOS.
19 Name conflict detected.
30 Name defined by another environment.
35 Required system resources exhausted.
3.2. Peer-Information
This Configuration Option provides a way for the peer to
communicate NetBIOS pertinent configuration information. Although
negotiation of this option is not mandatory, it is suggested.
A summary of the Peer-Information Option format is shown below. The
fields are transmitted from left to right.
| Type | Length | Peer-class |
| Peer-version (major) | Peer-version(minor) |
| Peer-name ....
>=3D8
If the length is 8, there is no Peer-name. If the length is
greater than 8, the Peer-name's length is Length - 8.
Peer-class
The Peer-class field is one octet. It identifies the sender's
implementation type.
Initial values are assigned as follows:
Value Class
1 Reserved for legacy implementations.
2 PPP NetBIOS Gateway Server.
4 PPP Local Access Only Server.
6 PPP NBF Bridge.
8 PPP End-System.
Peer-version
The Peer-version field is four octets and indicates the version of
the communication peer providing one side of the PPP connection.
The first two octets are the major version number and the last two
octets are the minor version number. The major and minor version
represent a 16 bit unsigned number sent with the most significant
octet first.
Peer-name
The name of the peer. A suggested name is the NetBIOS workstation
name of the peer. If the length field is 8, no peer name is
provided. The peer-name may not be greater than 32 octets in
length.
3.3. Multicast-Filtering
This Configuration Option provides a way to negotiate the use of
the Multicast-Forward-Period and the Multicast-Priority. This
Configuration Option provides a way to negotiate how to handle
mulicast packets. It allows the sender of the Configure-Request
to state the current handling of multicast packets. The peer can
request parameters by NAKing the option, and returning valid
Multicast-Filtering parameters.
If negotiation about the remote Multicast-Filtering is required,
and the peer did not provide the option in its Configure-Request,
the option SHOULD be appended to a Configure-Nak.
Controlling the multicast rate is important because some NetBIOS
applications use multicasts to communicate and withholding
multicasts may prevent these applications from working. It is
also true that other NetBIOS applications do not need to receive
any multicast packets and therefore it is best to quench the rate
at which the peer will send multicast packets.
By default, the peer is pre-configured to an administrator
assigned Multicast-Forward-Period and Priority. A Multicast-
Forward-Period specified as hex type FFFF in a Configure-Request
is interpreted as requesting the receiving peer to specify a value
in its Configure-Nak. A Multicast-Forward-Period value specified
as hex type FFFF in a Configure-Nak is interpreted as agreement
that no value exists. A Multicast-Forward-Period of zero indicates
that all multicast packets SHOULD be forwarded.
Peers that rely on all multicast packets being forwarded SHOULD
request a Multicast-Forward-Period of zero and a Multicast-
Priority of one by NAKing the Configure-Request option and
appending the proper parameters to a Configure-Nak.
A summary of the Multicast-Filtering Configuration Option format is
shown below. The fields are transmitted from left to right.
| Type | Length | Multicast-Forward-Period |
| Priority |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Pall Standards Track [Page 10]
Multicast-Forward-Period
The Multicast-Forward-Period field is two octets and indicates
the maximum period in seconds at which multicast packets can
be sent. The maximum value for this field is 60 (one minute).
A value of zero indicates that there is no maximum period at
which multicast packets can be sent. A value of hex type FFFF
indicates that the Multicast-Forward-Period is unknown. A value
of five indicates that multicast packets will not be sent at a
rate more frequent than once every five seconds. This two
octet value represents a 16 bit unsigned number sent with
the most significant octet first.
The Priority field is one octet long and indicates if multicast
packets have priority over other packets when being sent. A value
of 0 indicates that directed packets have priority. A value of 1
indicates that multicast packets have priority.
3.4. IEEE-MAC-Address-Required
This boolean Configuration Option provides a method for the peer
to require that all NBF datagrams be sent with a 12 octet IEEE MAC
Address header. By default, it is assumed that no MAC header is
A summary of the IEEE-MAC-Address-Required Boolean Configuration
Option format is shown below. The fields are transmitted from left
to right.
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
By default the NBF datagram is sent without any MAC header
information. The NBF datagram information field is equivalent to
the data field in 802.3, 802.5, and FDDI frames.
If this option is negotiated successfully, each NBF datagram is
sent with a 12 octet IEEE MAC Address header prepended to the
information field. A summary of the information field when using
12 octet IEEE MAC Headers is shown below. The fields are
transmitted from left to right. The MAC Address is in non-
canonical form. This means that the first bit to be transmitted in
every byte is the most significant bit.
| Destination MAC Address |
| Destination MAC Address | Source MAC Address |
| Source MAC Address |
| 802.3/802.5/FDDI data field...
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
[1] Simpson, W., Editor, "The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)",
STD 51, RFC 1661, July 1994.
[2] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2,
RFC 1700, October 1994.
[3] IBM Corp., "IBM Local Area Network Technical Reference",
Third Edition, Document Number SC30-3383-2, November 4, 1988.
[4] Baker, F., and R. Bowen "PPP Bridging Control Protocol (BCP)",
Some of the text in this document is taken from previous documents
produced by the Point-to-Point Protocol Working Group of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Thomas J. Dimitri (previously at Microsoft Corporation) authored the
original draft.
Special thanks go to coworkers at Microsoft, Bill Simpson
(Daydreamer), Tom Coradetti (DigiBoard), Marty Del Vecchio (Shiva),
Russ Gocht (Shiva) and several members of the IETF PPP Working Group.
Chair's Address
The working group can be contacted via the current chair:
Karl Fox
Ascend Communications
3518 Riverside Drive, Suite 101
karl@MorningStar.com
karl@Ascend.com
Author's Address
Questions about this memo can also be directed to:
Gurdeep Singh Pall
1 Microsoft Way
EMail: gurdeep@microsoft.com
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Dolphins Claim WR Chris Hannon Off Waivers From 49ers
Two days after placing guard Justin Smiley on injured reserve with a broken leg, the Dolphins have filled their vacant roster spot by claiming wide receiver Chris Hannon off waivers from the San Francisco 49ers. Undrafted in 2006 out of Tennessee, the 49ers waived Hannon on Dec. 2 after he spent one game on the active roster.
A Sarasota native, Hannon was a four-year letterman for the University of Tennessee from 2002–2005. His most productive season came as a sophomore in 2004 when he caught 21 passes for 319 yards and seven touchdowns. He finished his collegiate career with 69 receptions for 850 yards and 12 touchdowns.
On his pre-draft measurables, I'll just turn it over to KFFL.com:
"...Tennessee WR Chris Hannon measured a height of 6-3 and a weight of 207 pounds at his Pro Day. He ran the 40-yard dash with times of 4.38 seconds and 4.37 seconds. He was able to complete the short shuttle in 4.29 seconds and the three-cone drill in 7.24 seconds. He finished with a 36 1/2 inch vertical jump and a 10-foot-7 long jump."
Hannon went undrafted in the 2006 NFL Draft and was subsequently signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent. He caught two passes for 54 yards in the 2006 preseason and split the regular season between the practice squad and the active roster, but did not see any game action. He caught seven passes for 71 yards and a touchdown in the 2007 preseason but was waived by the Chiefs during final cuts on Sept. 1.
Hannon spent the 2007 regular season on the practice squad of the Carolina Panthers and was signed to a future contract in 2008. He caught three passes for 75 yards and a touchdown during the 2008 preseason but was waived on Aug. 30.
The San Francisco 49ers signed Hannon to their practice squad the following day. He was promoted to the active roster on Nov. 29 after the team waived linebacker Ahmad Brooks but was inactive for the team's No. 30 contest against the Buffalo Bills. The team waived Hannon and re-signed Brooks on Dec. 2.
Hannon was claimed off waivers by the Dolphins on Dec. 3 and assigned No. 14, which was previously worn by undrafted rookie receiver Jayson Foster in camp. The Dolphins play Hannon's old team, the 49ers, on Dec. 14.
As I mentioned in my article on the Smiley injury, the Dolphins replaced Greg Camarillo with an offensive lineman last week so it was possible the Dolphins might add a fifth receiver to fill Smiley's spot. Being the genius I am, it appears I was right on the money.
It's hard to know at this point if there's any hidden motivation behind Miami's claiming of Hannon. It's a coincidence to say the least that the Dolphins play Hannon's former team in only 10 days, though not being an NFL player I'm not exactly sure how much of an advantage can be gained from adding a team's former player and picking his brain.
The first publication to report the claiming, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, points out this coincidence but fails to realize the Dolphins only had four receivers and had carried five all season until Greg Camarillo went on injured reserve last week.
Whatever the reason, practice squad receiver Anthony Armstrong has to be disappointed he has yet to get the call to the active roster. The former arena league speedster showed some deep-play ability in the preseason and has been on the practice squad since the regular season began.
Still, it's not hard to see Hannon's appeal and the Dolphins' interest could very well be legitimate. He's sort of out of the Brandon London mold with good size (6-3, 205) and has very good speed. He wasn't hugely productive in college but has gained valuable experience in the NFL over the past few years on practice squads and on the preseason.
Nevertheless, Hannon's impact on the team in the immediate future might be near-nonexistent. The team usually only dresses four receivers on game days so he's not likely to play against Buffalo. Beyond that, he might start out on special teams and is probably not close to seeing game action on offense.
Finally, in a fact that may only interest me, the Dolphins currently have no receiver on the active roster or practice squad with a number in the eighties. Greg Camarillo is the only player under contract with such a number, while every other receiver has a number in the teens.
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GOP tax plan could impact LC students
December 1, 2017 Gelsey Plaza News 0
Illustration by Sarah Bradbury
By Gelsey Plaza
On Nov. 16, members of the Republican Party proposed a federal tax plan that, if passed, would impact students in colleges and universities across the country. The proposed tax plan would affect loan repayment, college savings and tuition benefits for graduate students. The bill passed through the House of Representatives in a 227 to 205 vote, with 13 Republicans voting against the plan; it did not receive support from any Democrats. On Nov. 29, The Senate voted along party lines, 52-48, to begin further debate on the tax plan.
According to the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), the bill will eliminate deductions for student-loan interest payments and education expenses, repeal deductions that help part-time students and target private schools by taxing more of their investments and ending their use of tax-free bonds for construction projects––assuming serious amendments are not made
A North Carolina college administrator called it would be a “tax on education.”
According to The Associated Press, millions of Americans would lose the ability to deduct up to $2,500 in student loan interest under the tax bill.
Education advocates are highly concerned that this bill will make college less affordable.
President of the American Council on Education Ted Mitchell wrote a letter to Republican and Democratic leaders in the House stating that the bill would “discourage participation in postsecondary education, make college more expensive for those who do enroll and undermine the financial stability of public and private, two-year and four-year colleges and universities.”
However, supportive Republicans argue that their tax cuts would create tremendous growth. Companies and individuals would have more to spend and invest, stimulating economic expansion and job creation. According to the New York Times, the Republicans are “aggressively marketing their plan as a ‘middle-class tax cut’ that would benefit everyone.”
Lewis & Clark Director of Financial Aid Anastacia Dillon said that of the proposed changes, the elimination of the student loan interest deduction could have the greatest impact on students at LC and across the nation. If passed, it would impact recent alums as well as current students once they start repaying student loans. Dillon thinks that another negative impact could be the taxing of endowment earnings.
“We currently use the earnings on scholarship endowments to help fund the financial aid grants and scholarships we offer to students,” Dillon said via email. “It would be difficult if we needed to pay a portion of that in taxes because that would leave less to help fund grants and scholarships.”
Dillon said that another possible issue involves education tax credits, and that this could financially burden families.
“There are some proposals that would eliminate or change education tax credits for families,” Dillon said. “Many of their parents may be using these tax programs to reduce their taxes and therefore have more money available to pay toward the cost of school.”
According to Lisa Meyer, LC Dean for Enrollment and Communications, a more apparent effect will be the elimination of a current provision that allows low and middle-income student debtors to deduct up to $2,500 annually in student loan interest.
“Additionally, people whose employers cover a portion of their college costs would now see this benefit as taxable income,” Meyer said via email. “For graduate students who provide research or teaching in exchange for tuition, the cost of tuition would now be considered taxable income. The cost of college will increase for many students.”
ASLC Chief Justice Natalie Souders ’19 thinks that there will be a huge variation in outcomes, and students will be affected differently. Unfortunately, lower income students will face the most difficulty. Souders hopes that LC will be able to take proactive measures to help low-income students.
“Because low income students are a vital aspect of our campus community, I hope LC will be able to offer additional financial aid to those who will be most negatively affected,” Souders said. “Our campus must recognize that the goal of this tax plan is to limit the opportunities of low-income people, and that, if left unchecked, could lead to less diversity at LC.”
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California Primaries Spell Political Upheaval
Posted Jun 4, 2012 2:53 PM
Kyle Trygstad
@KyleTrygstad
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At least 10 California House Members elected or re-elected in 2010 won’t return to Capitol Hill in 2013, with today’s primary results offering fresh clues about others who might not make it back in a year of upheaval in the Golden State.
A nonpartisan redistricting commission’s remap of district lines mixed with an aging delegation and a rush of ambition is resulting in an unusually competitive election cycle in a state largely uncontested at the presidential or Senate levels.
The state is holding its first-ever “jungle” primaries in a federal election cycle, and there is no shortage of races to watch tonight — especially the 31st district, where Rep. Gary Miller (R) could be the first incumbent to lose. Under a new primary format approved by voters in 2010, all candidates will appear on a single primary ballot, and the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election, regardless of party preference.
The unconventional process adds another layer of intrigue to California, where the Congressional delegation, once a model of stasis, will see more turnover than any other state this cycle. Just one seat changed party hands in the past decade. At the start of the 112th Congress, the average tenure for a delegation Member was eight terms.
California is vital to Democrats’ efforts to win back the House, and the party hopes to net as many as a half-dozen pickups. Although the Democrats controlled redistricting 10 years ago, the lines drawn by the nonpartisan commission following the latest census are set to put more seats in play than did the 2002 remap.
However, Republicans have pickup opportunities of their own. The GOP is targeting several Democratic incumbents and could potentially keep Democratic gains to a single seat.
Among the highlights of primary day are a pair of Member-vs.-Member races; a Democrat-targeted district where the party could have no candidate on the general election ballot; and an incumbent, Miller, who could be the first California Congressman of 2012 to be ousted.
After being drawn into the 39th district with Rep. Ed Royce (R), Miller decided to run in the new 31st district — Democratic-leaning territory and none of which he currently represents. With Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar (D) expected to advance, it will come down to Miller and state Sen. Bob Dutton (R), whose state legislative district overlaps considerably with the 31st.
In Ventura County, the Democrats’ preferred candidate, state Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, might not make it out of the primary thanks to Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks’ independent bid and the potential for a splintered Democratic vote. State Sen. Tony Strickland is the only Republican running and will face either Parks or Brownley in the general.
There are two pairs of Democratic incumbents facing each other in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday: Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman, and Reps. Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson. All four are likely to advance to the general election, where two are sure to lose.
The Members elected in 2010 who have already resigned or are retiring are: former Rep. Jane Harman (D) and Reps. Dennis Cardoza (D), David Dreier (R), Elton Gallegly (R), Wally Herger (R), Jerry Lewis (R) and Lynn Woolsey (D). Rep. Bob Filner (D) is running for San Diego mayor.
California Primary Races
Retiring Rep. Wally Herger’s (R) successor in this rural, Republican-leaning Northern California district will likely be decided today. The heavy favorite is state Sen. Doug LaMalfa (R), whom Herger endorsed on the day of his retirement announcement in early January. LaMalfa’s biggest challenge is to make sure he finishes ahead of former state Sen. Sam Aanestad (R). There are enough Democrats here that Herger’s 2010 opponent, Jim Reed (D), will likely advance and possibly even finish with the most votes, but a Republican will win in November.
It’s a race for second place in this coastal, heavily Democratic district. Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D), a leader in the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is retiring, opening perhaps the most liberal district in the country. State Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D) will likely finish first and is favored to win in November, followed by one of a handful of other Democrats: activist Norman Solomon, former tech executive Stacey Lawson and Marin County Supervisor Susan Adams. However, it’s possible investment firm adviser Dan Roberts (R) will take enough Republican votes to advance.
A Republican will represent this open High Desert district, which stretches from inland Southern California near Los Angeles all the way to the Nevada border. But with so many candidates, it’s impossible to call which two will emerge from the primary and from which party. Ten of the 13 candidates vying for this safe Republican seat are Republican. The top GOP contenders are state Assemblyman Paul Cook, San Bernardino County Commissioner Brad Mitzelfelt, Victorville Mayor Ryan McEachron, anti-immigration activist Gregg Imus and accountant Phil Liberatore, who loaned his campaign $250,000.
It’s unlikely there will be any general election scenario here other than freshman Rep. Jeff Denham (R), an Air Force veteran, versus former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez (D). The intrigue comes from the independent bid of Chad Condit, the son of former Rep. Gary Condit (D). Condit would have to overcome any remaining scars from the scandal that led to his father’s primary defeat in 2002. This Modesto-area district, among the most competitive in the state, includes much of Gary Condit’s former territory.
Rep. Pete Stark (D) is not in danger of losing in the primary in this Northern California seat southeast of San Francisco. But a poor showing against Dublin City Councilman Eric Swalwell (D) on Tuesday could portend trouble in November. The 80-year-old recently announced the endorsement of President Barack Obama, which he hopes will overshadow a string of embarrassing gaffes that breathed life into Swalwell’s challenge, once seen as a long shot.
21st district
It’s unclear how competitive Democrats will be here in November even if the national party’s preferred candidate, Fresno City Councilman Blong Xiong, is able to advance in the three-
candidate primary field. State Assemblyman David Valadao (R) will be the favorite to win this open seat against Xiong or John Hernandez (D), the CEO of the Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. But a Xiong primary loss could take this district off the map completely for Democrats. If Xiong pulled off an upset, he would be the first Hmong-American elected to Congress.
Rep. Lois Capps (D) is waiting to see which of two Republicans makes it out of the primary in this competitive Santa Barbara-area district. Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado and actor Chris Mitchum, the son of actor Robert Mitchum, are both in the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns candidate program. But Maldonado, who is not a favorite of conservatives, has had to weather some recent bad press, including a Los Angeles Times report that he and his family business owe the IRS more than $4 million.
A splintered Democratic vote could result in no Democrat advancing to the general in a top pickup opportunity for the party. Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks, most recently a Republican, opted to run as an Independent, potentially helping her win votes from across the spectrum. National Democratic groups have spent heavily to boost the profile of state Assemblywoman Julia Brownley. State Sen. Tony Strickland is the lone Republican and is assured of advancing.
Known simply as Berman-Sherman — or Sherman-Berman — this is the race to which all other Member-vs.-Member contests are compared. But unlike most others, this one is highly likely to continue until November. Longtime Democratic Reps. Howard Berman and Brad Sherman are facing off in the San Fernando Valley and have spent heavily ahead of the primary. Both campaigns want the momentum a first-place finish would offer. Sherman currently represents about 60 percent of the district.
This primary offers the best chance for a California incumbent to lose before November. That possibility led the National Association of Realtors to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on behalf of Rep. Gary Miller (R), who opted to run here after being drawn into the 39th district with Rep. Ed Royce (R). Miller doesn’t currently represent any of the district. State Sen. Bob Dutton (R) does, and he could prevent Miller from returning to Congress. Highly touted Democratic recruit and Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar will advance.
Both parties expect a general election matchup between Riverside Community College Board Trustee Mark Takano (D) and Riverside County Supervisor John Tavaglione (R). Both men heavily outraised their three opponents for this seat, situated in Southern California’s Inland Empire. This will likely be one of the most competitive races in the state, and it’s one that Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), are focused on picking up.
There are only two candidates here, so the primary will act as a dry run for November. But there is still plenty of interest in the primary results of Democratic Reps. Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson, one of two Member-vs.-Member races in the state. Hahn, whose family name is synonymous with Southern California politics, was endorsed by the state party and is heavily favored over Richardson, who is under investigation by the Ethics Committee.
This is one of the odder primaries, in that it includes a husband and wife, Jay and Usha Shah, both running as Democrats. Seven candidates are running in this Democratic-leaning district in Long Beach. State Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D) is likely to advance. Long Beach City Councilman Gary DeLong, who is in the NRCC’s Young Guns candidate program, and former Rep. Steve Kuykendall (R) are vying for the second spot. Both boast big-name endorsements, but DeLong has spent more than twice as much.
Rep. Bob Filner’s (D) decision to run for San Diego mayor opened a safe Democratic seat. There is no love lost between the two leading Democratic contenders, state Sen. Juan Vargas and former state Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny, whom Vargas succeeded when he was elected in 2010. They’ll likely advance and keep the slugfest going for another five months.
52nd district
Redistricting forced Rep. Brian Bilbray (R) into a Democratic-leaning district. The two leading Democrats vying to take him on are San Diego Port Commission Chairman Scott Peters and former state Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña. Peters loaned his campaign $1.25 million in May and spent about half that on mail and TV. Saldaña spent a total of $163,000 in the preprimary fundraising period, but Progressive Kick, a liberal super PAC, ran a late TV ad opposing Peters.
California Races To Watch in November
There are four competitive districts to watch in the general election that aren’t among the top primaries today. All four involve incumbents who are near the top of national party target lists.
John Garamendi (D) vs. Kim Vann (R)
Ami Bera (D) vs. Dan Lungren (R)
Jerry McNerney (D) vs. Ricky Gill (R)
Raul Ruiz (D) vs. Mary Bono Mack (R)
Other Primaries to Watch
Montana At-Large
Businessman Steve Daines (R) is the frontrunner in the race to succeed Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is running for Senate. Daines has nominal competition in today’s primary and has far outraised anyone in the highly competitive Democratic race. The top Democratic contenders include state Senate Minority Whip Kim Gillan, state Rep. Franke Wilmer, tech executive Diane Smith and Missoula City Councilman Dave Strohmaier.
New Mexico's 1st
The winner of the heated, three-way Democratic primary will emerge as the heavy favorite in November. It’s been a true horse race over the past year, as the long-perceived frontrunner, centrist former Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chávez, could end up running third against two more liberal opponents. State Sen. Eric Griego and Bernalillo County Commissioner Michelle Lujan Grisham ran neck and neck in recent private and independent polls, and both ran attack ads against each other in the past week. The primary victor will take on former state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones (R) in the general election.
New Jersey's 9th
Thanks to redistricting, Democratic Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steven Rothman are locked in a dead-heat primary. The entire delegation and many Garden State operatives have remained unaligned in this contest. But President Bill Clinton endorsed Pascrell, and President Barack Obama is supporting Rothman. Rothman has numbers on his side, but Pascrell has fire in his belly. This could go either way.
New Jersey's 10th
All eyes are on Newark City Council President Donald Payne Jr. today in the Democratic primary to succeed his late father, Rep. Donald Payne (D). The younger Payne is seen as having the edge over state Sen. Nia Gill and Newark Councilman Ron Rice Jr. because of his name identification and establishment support. But with such low turnout and complicated circumstances, anything can happen. Names will appear on the ballot twice today, once for the full two-year term beginning in 2013 and once for the special election to serve out the remainder of the late Congressman’s term after the November election.
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OOTN: Ellie Goulding Concert
A quick outfit of the night post from last night.
I went to see Ellie Goulding in concert at the Capital FM arena. I was really excited as she’s been one of my favourite singers for ages. I saw her a few years ago in a very small venue, so it was amazing to see how she’s progressed to being this big star that sells out arena venues. The place was heaving!
I was lucky enough to be invited into a VIP box and it was so cool (how the other half live!) We had our own little suite with a viewing balcony and free food and drinks, which was lovely. I must admit I haven’t been to a big tour like this in many a year, most of the artists I like are normally on a much smaller scale. It was sold out and rammed to the rafters with Ellie fans!
Grey boyfriend t-shirt - Primark
Marble patterned pencil skirt – Zara
Black, white and gold rope necklace – Primark
Black, white and gold snakechain necklace – TopshopBlack suede wedge ankle boots – Primark
I did my hair with the Diva Big Waves, which gives really pretty mermaid style waves, a bit like oversized crimps! You can also use it as a jumbo barrelled curler, and the ceramic plates are infused with argan oil, so it’s a pretty good tool.
The lighting isn't great in these pictures to see my make-up, but I just had black smokey cat-eyes, done with the Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette and 24/7 Liner in 'Crave', Chanel Vitalumiere base and Mac Huggable Lipstick in 'Fresh and Frisky', which is like a nude peach shade.
I had such a nightmare getting there though. I stupidly decided to drive in and park at the nearest car park- huge mistake!
I had to queue for 40 minutes to get to the entrance and just as I pulled up to the barrier the guard said ‘Sorry, we’re full!’. There were cars circling around in there that they shouldn’t have let in. The guard must have taken pity on how frazzled I looked, because when someone who had been parked came out, he said I could go in anyway and take a chance to see if I could find her space before anyone else circling around….and I did!
Unfortunately, I was in such a rush to get parked up I pulled too far forward and hit the front of my car against the wall of the car park! It made a huge ‘bang’ and I thought I’d written the thing off - but luckily when I went to check there was no damage and the bumper must have taken the shock….phew!
After all that, I’ll be taking the bus next time! But the concert was really good and Ellie looked and sounded amazing. My favourites were ‘Animal’. ‘Starry Eyed’ and ‘Lights’ where everyone was stood up dancing. We licensed one of her songs to use in an advert I produced recently so of course when that she sang that track we all went a bit crazy!
in fashion, OOTN
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Irish Art Gallery Ireland, selling irish paintings by irish artists. Gallery is situated in Lisburn, 8 miles from Belfast
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Planet Connections Interview - Lenny Schwartz of "Subject 62"
Name: Lenny Schwartz
Show: "Subject 62"
Relationship to production: Writer/director
Website: http://planetconnections.org/subject-62/
How did you first get involved in theatre?
I first got involved with theatre as an actor in my first year of high school. I was in the musical "Anything Goes." My theatre teacher, Phillip Brown, wanted me in it because he said I was funny to look at, that he started laughing just by looking at me. (This trend also continued into my high school dating life ironically.) It was my first time acting and I loved it. I was the character of Ling of the two part duo in "Anything Goes," Ching and Ling. I was a white kid who they made into an old Chinese man. (These were the days before political correctness really made it's way into the schools.)
Later on, I began writing my first play in college called "Lost in a Daydream," because I was bored in a math class. At the end of the semester, I had a play and an A in the class.
Who are your biggest influences?
My influences are whoever the people I am working with at the moment. So in this case it would be the cast of "Subject 62." Brad Kirton, for his unwavering dedication to dig deeper and ask hard questions each go round, Missy Marine for her joy of acting, her charm, and her natural likability on stage, Elyssa Baldassarri for her determination, her, talent, her fierce portrayals and honesty in anything I write, Mat Clerrico for his heart and his natural ability to make everything better on the stage, David Adams Murphy for his original, alive performances which grab me every time, Julian Trilling for her lovely characters and being genuine, Ama Appiah for her energy and her strong characterizations, Melissa Corbett for her strength onstage and readings of characters which make it different than what they sounded n my head, but better than I could ever think up, Dan Martin for his dark humor and his striking characters, Samantha Lee Preston for her original ways or looking at things and portraying them, Dave Almeida for his heart as well as his thoughts, Dave is a talent and a unique wonderful person, Geoff Monti for his verve and his unique amazing spirit, Jim Belanger for his crazy yet amazing ideas that constantly surprise and exhilarate me, Lloyd Felix for his artistry and his views both amazing, and my wife Sara Hutchings-Schwartz for her creativity, her spirit, and for being the one person in my life I never stop loving or learning from . And my daughter Callie who is my everything,
These are the people who inspire me and they all deserve mention and are of note. I couldn't ask for a better cast. These people are wonderful.
My only word would be for people to come and see these performers. And if you like what you see then hire them. And you'll never regret your decision.
What is your show about?
"Subject 62" is a surreal dramas about an artist, Chris, who is afflicted with a degenerative disease called Huntington's. When he is signed up for a unique experiment to find a cure, he finds himself trapped in his memories, losing them as he tries to hold onto a single one to take with him.
What inspired you to write "Subject 62?"
This play was written because Huntington's is a disease that hasn't been seen too much in the media. I also wanted to write a play where a man's memories fall away from him, almost disintegrating in front of him from scene to scene. I decided to combine the two ideas. As the disease advances in the show, the main character loses memories right in front of his eyes. At that point I had to write the script as I could not get it out of my head. I'm still having trouble actually shaking it from my head... so I have no choice but to do it.
Planet Connections donates a portion of the box office for each show to a charity. What charity has your production chosen and why?
Huntington's Disease Society of America. It fit pretty well with the show! (laughs)
And please read up on the things they do at their website. Wonderful organization, worth contributing to.
What's next for you after Planet Connections?
Rest! But then a ton of things after that.
November I will be directing a play I wrote in RI about Lucille Ball. It is a biography-play and the script is done ready to go. Very excited about that one.
In December, Scorpio Film Releasing will be premiering their new film which I wrote called “Normal” It stars Michael Reed, Sarah Nicklin, Nay Sylva and an incredible group of actors directed by Richard Marr-Griffin. More on that as it gets closer, but it's been shot and what I've seen of it looks amazing. Also, the film I wrote for them previously called “Murder University” has received worldwide distribution for DVD and PPV, etc., this October! Very excited about that as well. Details forthcoming. I have also completed a draft of the film version of “Accidental Incest” for Richard as well, the pay I directed and wrote for last year's Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
I also have two other film projects coming up from Breaking Branches Pictures: one is a film script I have been writing with them called “Rhodyopolis” and the other is an adaptation of this play, “Subject 62” We have a draft we like of it, just needs a rewrite or two but the that should be ready as well!
And more to come beyond that as well!
Finally, what was your best “theatre moment” - that one moment, either onstage or off, that was so sublime that it stayed with you?
The one moment I can never forget, that is so sublime, was that my wife came to the very first show that I wrote and directed in 1996. She made her dad drive 5 hours to get down to see it (we weren't even dating at the time) and she saw the show. We had talked a few times before that, but that night was special and I'll never forget it. The first time I saw her I knew she would be my wife. But that night confirmed to me how good the ride was going to be.
"Subject 62"
Venue: The Gene Frankel (24 Bond Street)
Friday 6/14/13 – 7:00pm
Saturday 6/15/13 – 2:30pm
Sunday 6/16/13 – 12:30pm
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Kerryn Phelps ousts Liberal Party in historic Wentworth by-election victory
"It was said if we won the seat of Wentworth, it would make history, and, my friends, we have made history."
Image: Dr Kerryn Phelps AM for Wentworth / Facebook.
Independent Kerryn Phelps has wrested control of the electorate of Wentworth from the Liberal Party in an historic by-election win over the weekend.
Phelps claimed victory early on Saturday night, with pre-polling and postal votes drawing the results closer but nevertheless marking Phelps the member elect.
A 19 per cent swing against Liberal candidate Dave Sharma was enough to unseat the Liberal party from the previously safe Liberal electorate.
1,650 votes separate Sharma and Phelps, resulting in a 48.88 per cent to 51.12 per cent result on a two party-preferred basis.
“Just a few short weeks ago I was told this was an impossible task and if we actually managed to win the seat of Wentworth, that it would be a miracle,” Phelps said in her victory speech.
“It was said if we won the seat of Wentworth, it would make history, and, my friends, we have made history.”
Wentworth has been held by the Liberal Party and its predecessors since federation.
“I would like to say any young people, any women, any aspiring independents out there, if you are thinking of running for parliament or running for public office: yes, it can be tough, yes, the road can be hard, but it is so worthwhile that we have the right people stepping up to represent Australia,” Phelps said.
Phelps praised the young people who got involved in her campaign, saying it was heartening that people as young as 13 and 14 years old wanted to “come onto the polling stations with their parents, talk to people, hand out flyers and really understand what the Australian democratic process is all about at grassroots level.”
“People have been concerned about the direction of government for a very long time and we’ve seen a lack of decency, a lack of integrity and we have to look at what the House of Representatives is about, it is about representing the people and the people have spoken loud and clear,” she said.
“I’m sorry I wasn’t able to earn the trust of the voters of Wentworth tonight,” Sharma said in his concession speech.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison also spoke, saying that while it was “not an unexpected outcome for us, they have looked at Canberra and the Liberal party has paid a big price tonight for the events of several months ago.”
“But as a party, we will continue to rise again,” Morrison said.
Sharma later pointed to the ousting of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as the key reason for the Liberals’ loss.
“The big headwind here, the macro picture, was really the manner in which Malcolm Turnbull lost the prime ministership,” Sharma said on Sky News.
“I think Australians have very little tolerance for changing leaders mid-cycle and they certainly had intolerance for the frequency with which we have been doing [that].
“Australians are sick of this, I am sick of this,” Sharma said.
Last week, Phelps lodged a complaint with the Australian Electoral Commission over a fake email which falsely stated she was withdrawing from campaign.
Phelps’ win pushes the Coalition into a minority government, with Australia once again having a hung parliament.
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Was the Cutting edge war more a revolutionary or civil conflict Essay Instance
Was the Cutting edge war more a revolutionary or civil conflict Essay Instance Was the Pioneering War considerably more a “Revolutionary” or “Civil” War The brand new War was a result of the main British famille in America fixing together along with revolting towards a tyrannical government. While about half with the colonial public remained loyal to the English, the conservative people of their time, and also country was divided if you’re considering how the unique country could be structured, a good civil war between the colonial never split out. The divide basically helped establish then contact form the new state. The British isles had to bring tranquillity the Loyalists, the conservative people of their time, simply by not making use of brutal or simply intimidating methods against the revolutionaries, the liberals of their time, do you know ideological part was bridged by reducing your expectations, which eventually improved you possibly can of the Structure. A educado war could possibly have doomed typically the Revolution, your war begun predominantly as a result of financial explanations.
Britain acquired ruled within the thirteen colonies in America exceeding 200 yrs prior to the War. The settlers had zero industry, when mandated by British laws, so to build a fortune. Farmers ended up forced to sell crops that include tobacco and also corn solely to the British isles government at less than low cost rates. Typically the ‘Mother Country’ in turn manufactured huge profitable trades by selling these products. This unique loss of product sales began in earnest often the widespread grumblings demanding flexibility from Great britain. By the addition of the Revolution, the exact wars next to France battled on both isn’t stable of the Ocean had mired Britain by using a massive nationwide debt. To relieve the national personal debt, Parliament charged taxes over the colonists bearing in mind it only good that they endure part of the costs incurred from the British armed service in protecting them with Indian disorders and This particular language invasions. The exact Stamp Take action taxed document goods brought to the colonies. It was the earliest of these legislation while, while using tea income tax, was essentially the most infamous. The particular colonists thought taxation without having representation within the British government to be unjust and brazenly protested these laws of which led to hostilities between English troops and also Massachusetts Minutemen in 1775. This and various other conflicts with the ‘Red Coats’ led to settlers forming the main Continental Congress which instantaneously created the Continental Army because 1776, brought in the Proclamation of Freedom (The Usa Revolution, 2006).
Many settlers were, of course , British sometimes by delivery or traditions and a good deal percentage stayed at loyal for the Crown. Apart from being mired by far-off supply wrinkles and combating a terrain war with guerilla approaches, the Mediterranean had to calm the Loyalists who were undistinguishable from the enemy. Ensuring Loyalist support was basically crucial with the British as the objective with fighting the particular far-off struggle was to support the colonies. The proper local help support they had, the easier the task. In cases where support in North america vanished, the very war could well be lost with no firing a further shot as well as the British were definitely very aware of this. The actual Loyalists experienced friends and also relatives among the ranks in the rebels in addition to objected in order to oppressive approaches for which the British had been historically known. Having to keep an alliance with Loyalists came at a heavy price; the British isles were ‘handcuffed’ militarily speaking. ‘The have to retain Loyalist allegiance additionally meant that this British were not able to use the cruel methods of controlling rebellion utilized for Ireland as well as Scotland. Despite these boundaries, many possibly neutral settlers were however driven on the ranks on the Revolutionaries because of the war’ (Kruschandl, 2007). The particular Loyalists vehemently objected if your British used Germans (Hessians) as mercenaries against Travelers. British killing Americans ended up being one thing although Germans eliminating Americans were being another entirely. The Uk considered getting Native People in america and slaves to aid inside the war attempt fight though the Loyalists may likely have been angered to the point involving defecting.
In all of the of the 12 colonies, differing interests along with groups together supported plus opposed a federal constitution, sparking an intense people debate. Often the disagreement in Continental The nation’s lawmakers was a rendering of the part. The Federalists, being affluent land plus business owners, considered that a formidable centralized authorities operated by simply learned, influential persons would likely encourage commerce which was thus to their own and then the country’s profit. The Anti-federalists feared the actual powers for centralized authorities dominating the will of the claims. The Federalists gave caractere that this is not their idea; that they are not trying to produce a tyrannical regulating system much like the one in England which the groupe had basically fought your war to flee. This is how the Bill of Privileges was formed. It turned out a skimp on forged between the two conflicting viewpoints (‘A Dangerous Plan’, 1787).
The ultra-modern War has been fought considering that the colonists considered they were not being treated quite. Being less than British management was a strain on the financial state and the settlers were becoming more and more independent-minded, being such a sizeable distance off their governing region. Many overtly asked exactly why a area should be dominated by the island 1000s of miles away, a months-long excursion at this time. Had it not been with the financial elements of the controversies between The united kingdom and the Groupe, the War may do not have https://www.tigeressay.com happened not really for a while after it did. Often the disagreements relating to the colonists couldn’t escalate towards a civil fight and actually proved helpful to the advantage of the growing, fledgling location.
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Audrey Magee: The Undertaking
Another view of WWII from the German side
Audrey Magee has chosen a very challenging subject for her first book, a "love" story between two very different lonely and ordinary people caught up in the tide of WWII in Germany - soldier and ex-elementary school teacher, Peter Faber and Katharina Spiller, a single woman living with her parents in Berlin . The story of the Peter's war covers the early days of the Eastern Front in Russia to the terrible days of the siege of Stalingrad. Katharina's war takes her through the hardships of war-torn Berlin and the consequences of the Russian siege and occupation of the city.
Peter Faber is now a soldier and to protect himself has become a callous killer. Exhausted from war on the Eastern Front he selects Katharina as a wife from a marriage bureau catalogue so he can get three weeks leave from the front for the honeymoon. In exchange Katharina gets the "status" of married woman, the respect of the Fatherland for the possibility of producing children for the Reich and the promise of a widow's pension should Peter be killed. After a proxy wedding, Peter goes to Berlin to meet his new wife. A new life begins for both of them giving them memories that help to sustain them as the war gets worse.
Most of the book is written in dialogue style which is surprisingly gripping and page-turning and brings you very close to the terrible worlds they both live in. Peter gets caught up in the cruelty and devastation of the Russian campaign, and the brutal fighting and freezing and eventually starving conditions at Stalingrad. Katharina cultivates friends with good connections to the Reich to survive the increasing difficulties of living in a rapidly deteriorating Berlin.
The book highlights the concept of duty to the Reich when the family are faced with the prospect of sending Katharina 's brother, still suffering from shell-shock, back to the Eastern Front to face almost certain death. It also stresses the importance to the German people of support for the Fatherland where it was considered better for a soldier to have died as a hero than surrender as a coward to save his life.
It isn't possible to say that you will enjoy this book because of the dreadful subject matter. What I can say is that when I had started the book it was hard to put in down. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading another view of the time but also to anyone interested in something much more that just a simple love story. I congratulate Audrey Magee on an excellent and memorable début novel.
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Amtrak has just announced the sale of some “Surplus Rolling Stock”, most of which has been assembled at Amtrak’s huge repair and maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana. There are baggage cars, Horizon coaches, more than 20 diesel locomotives and, it pains me to report, all five of the Pacific Parlour Cars.
For those who have not experienced the look back into the Golden Age, one of these cars was part of the Coast Starlight’s consist, coupled between the first sleeper and the dining car.
One section of the car featured eight overstuffed swiveling armchairs.
Next came some sofa-style seating with small permanent tables each large enough to accommodate several beverage glasses. It was in this area that wine tastings were held as the train passed through the California wine country.
Continuing along the length of the car, one came upon several booths in which passengers could take their meals instead of heading for the dining car. Next to these booths was a large bar from whence an attendant would dispense beverages, including wine, beer and mixed drinks. A Bloody Mary was my choice when, as was my usual habit, I would board the southbound Coast Starlight at about 7:00 a.m. in Davis, California, and enjoy the 14-hour ride down to Los Angeles, spending most of that time in one of those wonderful, classic cars.
Oh, yes … there was also a small theater on the lower level where, for a time, movies were shown for any children traveling in a sleeper.
On the grounds that these beauties were too expensive to operate, one of Richard Anderson’s first publicized cost-cutting acts after taking over as Amtrak’s president and CEO was to take these wonderful cars out of service.
Also this week, VIA Rail Canada has announced the awarding of a $12.6 million (US) contract to refurbish four dining cars which are used on their marvelous transcontinental train, the Canadian. The refurbished dining cars will all be in service by mid-2020.
So did that bit of positive news make you feel any better? No? Me either.
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Jim, one potentially mollifying ointment would be if VIA Rail would just buy the Pacific Parlour Cars. Here’s a chance for them to prove Amtrak wrong – and it appears there may be other opportunities as well. It doesn’t seem like “The Canadian” lacks for passengers.
Jim Loomis
Lovely idea, but the Pacific Parlour Cars are bi-level, while all the VIA equipment is single level. Damn!!
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Saturday 11th August
The small village of Wallangarra, where we spent last night, straddles Queensland/New South Wales with Jennings being the village abutting the border to the south. The railway station is on the actual line of the border. On one side the track is the narrow gauge of Queensland, on the other side it is the wider New South Wales gauge. Even the design of the two sides of the platform are different. Passengers and goods travelling between the two states had to disembark here and change trains!
We made a service stop at Tenterfield. The helpful local tourist office was a good place to gather information ready for our exploration of the state of New South Wales.
From Tenterfield we headed east along the very scenic Bruxner Highway. Although the speed limit was 100 km/hr, the road twisted and turned, rose and dipped as it crossed the Great Dividing Range to the extent that our speed barely rose above 50. It was an incredibly beautiful drive through thick forests and deep gorges. At one point we crossed a very wide river on a single track wooden bridge!
Tonight we stayed next to the rugby pitch in the small village of Mallaganee where time seemed to have stood still for the past fifty years.
Sunday 12th August
Today we continued our scenic drive across the Great Dividing Range towards the coast. The parched landscapes that we had come so used to seeing were definitely greener now.
We drove through the tiny village of Bexhill. I lived in Bexhill, East Sussex. John and I were married there and our eldest daughter was christened there!
We stopped in the little town of Casino as there was a motorhome service area. Our fresh water tank was getting low so we were relieved to find a filling point. Our search for wifi was not so successful as we couldn't get on line even in McDonald's.
New South Wales doesn't appear to have many 24 hour stop overs on its main roads so tonight we ended up at the showgound campsite in the small inland town of Mulumbimby.
A short drive this morning brought us back to the Pacific coast at Byron Bay. We had last seen the coast at Hervey Bay in Queensland some two weeks ago. We are now noticing a real increase of traffic on the Pacific Highway.
Byron Bay is an upmarket seaside resort with miles of golden beaches, but it was Cape Byron, the most easterly point of Australia that had drawn us there. Unfortunately, but not entirely unexpectedly, it was busy there. The road up to the lighthouse on the tip of the cape was narrow, twisting and congested. Parking at the top was impossible so John hovered whilst I took a few photos - not good ones as the sun was right behind the lighthouse - before we headed back down into the town. We would have waited forever if we had wanted to park at the top.
A few miles further south than Byron Bay and at the other end of a gorgeous stretch of beach known as Seven Mile Beach was the pretty and far less busy little resort of Lennox Head. Below the headland itself is one of the best rated surfing spots in the world. We parked near the top of the headland and were treated not only to some top quality surfing but also the antics of a pod of whales close inshore. Evidently they had been there for a number of hours.
We continued south along the coast to Ballina an old port situated at the mouth of the Richmond River. Fish and chips for lunch were on our menu but it was Monday and the harbourside cafe was closed! However the fascinating Maritime Museum was open with its prize exhibit being Las Balsas, a raft constructed out of balsa wood. In 1973 three rafts set out from Ecuador to sail across the Pacific Ocean. One was abandoned at sea but the other two made it to make landfall at Ballina, the world's longest recorded raft voyage at 8000 miles.
Our rather noisy halt for the night was by a museum in Little Italy, located on the main road south.
Tuesday 14th August
Our route today took us south along the very busy Route 1 - the Pacific Highway. As this section was being realigned and upgraded to a motorway, there were constant changes of speed limits, some as low as 40km. All very frustrating at times.
We stopped at Grafton for shopping. The town is well known for its jacaranda and flame trees, but it was not yet Spring so none were in flower.
After a stop for lunch at Coffs Harbour we headed inland to pick up the route of the 200km long Waterfall Way, but that will be for tomorrow as we found a lovely quiet overnight rest area and decided to stop there for the night. It is so peaceful compared to last night's stop with its constant road noise.
Wednesday 15th August
A short, very steep drive along the Waterfall Way took us up the eastern escarpment of the Great Dividing Range to Dorrigo National Park, an area of primeval rain forest dating back to before the Australian land mass drifted apart from Gondwana. Because of this, the park has been given UNESCO World Heritage status.
We decided to walk the 6.6km Wong Walk which took us along the escarpment following successive flows of basalt and deep down into the river cut ravines. We passed two spectacular waterfalls - Tristania and Bridal Showers - on route. The path was steep and narrow in places but to walk through these ancient, lush and tall forests was a real experience despite our aching legs.
From the rainforest centre we walked along a high tree top walk over the edge of the escarpment where the view was incredible although a little hazy. A second broadwalk at the mid-forest level gave us a chance to listen to birdsong even though we couldn't spot the birds!
As a reward for our strenuous walk, we treated ourselves to an excellent lunch, all home cooked in the Canopy Cafe at the National Park Centre.
The short drive to the hamlet of Ebor, where we stayed for the night, was a delight. Rolling pasture land, forested slopes and distant views made it a fitting end to a perfect day.
Thursday 16th August
No driving today as we were in need of a rest day. As the rest area where we spent last night was pleasant and quiet, it was the perfect spot to stay another night.
We spent the morning cleaning Nicolle, both inside and out, and doing some hand washing. The afternoon was spent relaxing in the sunshine.
It is definitely much cooler at night now that we are heading further south. Minus 2 was recorded on our thermometer last night.
Very close to our overnight stop were Ebor Falls, a beautiful two-tier waterfall. Despite the ongoing drought in this area of New South Wales the water continued to flow. The upper tier, consisting of a double fall, was spectacular as the water plunged over the escarpment edge, whilst the lower tier of the falls was a single but longer drop.
We walked from the upper viewing platform along a path through the eucalyptus forest to the lower viewing platform. There were far reaching views across the gorge and escarpment.
Further along the Waterfalls Way were the Wollomombi Falls and Gorge. The Wollomombi Falls at 260 metres are one of Australia's highest waterfalls. Unfortunately there was no water at all but the view of the deep gorge was impressive.
We passed signs to other waterfalls but these were all located down dirt roads which we were not prepared to attempt to drive. We stopped relatively early in the afternoon as there were no other 24 hour rest areas for many a mile
Last night the temperature dropped to minus 5 deg C but by the time we were up and about it was up to 20.
This morning was spent in Armidale, a historic university town. The tourist office ran a free bus tour around the town but unfortunately it was fully booked for today. We also had hoped to visit Saumarez Homestead, a beautiful National Trust property on the outskirts of the town, but it is not open at this time of year.
We had decided to take the Thunderbolts Way south rather than the busy New England Highway. Soon after leaving Uralla - an unusual town as many buildings were made of brick, we passed Homeleigh at Irish Town near Walcha. This homestead was built in the 1850s and is still the original building.
Our overnight halt was on a rather windy and exposed rest area. According to the weather forecast tonight's low is expected to be minus 8!
We woke to a cold and very windy morning so we're glad that we hadn't parked under a tree last night. There always seems to be a lot of dead branches under many trees!
Our plan had been to follow the Thunderbolt Way south towards Sydney, but after half an hour of driving along it, with the road surface deteriorating fast, we made the decision to re-trace our tracks back to Walcha and then head to the New England Highway and hopefully a better road south.
We stopped for lunch by the Tourist Information Centre in Tamworth, the home of the Golden Guitar which symbolises the town's self proclaimed title of being the country music capital of Australia. Inside is a collection of guitars autographed by Australian and international country music icons. Elsewhere in the town were further links to country music including a town trail incorporating plaques set in the pavement to commemorate the winners of the Golden Guitar Award.
New South Wales is proving difficult to find over-night rest areas, so like yesterday we had to stop early.
Monday 20th August
We woke to sub zero temperatures and ice on the inside of the windscreen. These past few days it has certainly felt like it is winter here. At least it warms up during the day, although with dusk around 5.30pm, the evenings are chilly.
The drive today was stunning - rolling hills dotted with stately trees but little green pasture as this is very much a drought stricken area. Many areas were used for rearing cattle or merino sheep. (There were signs on the roads warning of kangaroos. John was worried that the kangaroos might breed with the sheep and produce "Woolly Jumpers"!)
Around the town of Mudgee, vines are very much the master crop. Within the area there are more than thirty wineries. The wealth from the sheep and wine is certainly reflected in the many very fine buildings on display in Mudgee. The town dates back to 1800 and a number of its stately heritage buildings hold National Trust classification. We enjoyed a fascinating town trail round the centre.
We drove about 50 miles further on, still in the beautiful foothills of the Blue Mountains before stopping for the night at the rest area beside Ilford Village Hall.
Tuesday 21st August
Following another even colder night and with the temperature inside Nicolle hovering just above zero, we wasted no time in getting up and setting off. We followed the highway south through beautiful countryside that soon became the northern edge of the blue mountains. We stopped at Pearson's Lookout from where the Capertee Canyon could be viewed. This is an enclosed canyon said to be 1 km wider than the Grand Canyon but not as deep. It certainly was an impressive viewpoint.
At the town of Lirhgow we took the Bells Line of Road which climbed steeply up to a spectacular hog's back ridge cutting across the Blue Mountains. This route was first undertaken in 1823 and to this day remains one of the most scenic routes into the mountains. Unfortunately, because of the very nature of the landscape, they were no proper stopping places to admire the incredible panoramas.
We had chosen to stop in the small country town of Richmond tonight as the Wanderest Camping area of the Richmond Club ($10 membership, free camping) was only a five minute walk to the railway station where there is a direct line into the centre of Sidney.
Wednesday 22nd August
Today's destination was Sidney - a must see place despite neither of us being a fan of big cities.
We took the very slow, stopping at every station, train into Sidney Central Rail Terminus. Yesterday we had bought a NSW Opal Card each so all we had to do was to "tap on" at the start of each journey, then "tap off" when you got off. The card could be used on trains, buses and ferries and a day's travel is capped at $15.80.
Our first visit of the day was to Circular Quay, the busy hub of the harbour area. As the railway station platform was elevated we had our first glimpse of Sydney's two most famous sights - the harbour bridge (with people climbing along it) and the opera house. On leaving the station viewpoint we walked the short distance to the iconic opera house then through a small part of the Botanical Gardens within which Government House is located.
We then took a bus out to the famous Bondi Beach, a mecca for all surfing enthusiasts. The one and a half kilometre sweep of sand and surf had a few surfers in the water but basically the whole place had that out of season, closed down for the winter feeling.
Returning to the heart of the city, again by bus, we passed many of its other sights - St. Andrew's Cathedral, the site of the original governor's house, they cenotaph and the ultra modern Sydney Tower Eye.
To complete our day in the city, we decided to take the fast ferry up river to the suburb of Parramatta. This was an incredible ride up the river from the main harbour. We passed close by the opera house, under the harbour bridge and past many skyscrapers. Sailing up stream we went by some very large expensive houses with riverside frontage and boats parked alongside. Towards the end of the journey the river was only about the width of the ferry as it meandered through the swamps. A shuttle bus took us from the ferry terminal to the railway station from where, tired but exhilarated after our day in Sydney, we caught the train back to the end of the line at Richmond.
Thursday 23rd August
A very different day from yesterday was planned for today as we were both tired from the hustle and bustle of Sydney.
A short drive took us north through gently rolling countryside to the Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry, a small hamlet on the southern shore of the river. Before reaching the ferry terminal we stopped high above the river at Hawkins Lookout where the view was amazing.
We crossed the river using the free car/passenger ferry, then walked uphill until we reached the turn onto Devines Hill, a UNESCO listed, preserved stretch of the Old Great North Road which was built to link Sydney with Newcastle and the Upper Hunter Valley. The road was built by convicts, many of whom were forced to work in leg irons.
We walked the 1.8km stretch of this road. It was a very informative walk as interpretive plaques gave a real insight into the construction of the road as well as details on the lives of the road engineers and the prisoner themselves, many of them having committed very minor crimes. The original Great North Road was 240km long and was built between 1826 and 1826. The life of the road however was short lived as shipping traffic developed establishing a more reliable route north.
We returned to Richmond via the small, beautiful heritage town of Windsor, having spent a fascinating day exploring some of the rich heritage of how the convicts who had been sentenced to transportation to the new lands now known as Australia, had helped to open up this vast land.
Friday 24th August
Our challenge today was to work our way across Sydney from Richmond, where we had been based for the last three nights, to Botany Bay, south east of the city. We wanted to avoid going anywhere near the centre and also avoid the motorways. Quite a challenge but we managed to do it although at times we were very confused. Richmond, Windsor, Liverpool, Penrith, Padstow, Menai, Canterbury, Chipping Norton and Scarborough, all within 20 miles of each other!
Still, we made it to Botany Bay and the spot where James Cook made his first landfall on 1770. Surprisingly, little has been made of this historic landing site, just a flagpole and a tall cairn with a faded plaque.
From there we continued driving south along Princes Highway until we reached the turn off for Stanwelll Park and the Great Pacific Drive. We had lunch at the incredibly situated Lawrence Hargrave Memorial Lookout. From here the coastal views were fantastic and far reaching despite the inclement weather. We next stopped by the iconic 665metre Sea Cliff Bridge which was constructed out over the wave cut sea platforms as the cliffs were too unstable for a road to be viable. A real jaw dropping bridge which we drove over first and then parked so that we could walk over it.
South of Wollongong we turned inland to climb over the narrow, many hairpinned Macquarie Pass to reach the Hoghlands and join the main road south to Canberra. The pass was a real feat of engineering and today, with the mist down it felt really eerie as it twisted and turned through the beautiful rainforest. Sheer drops, narrow bends and fog are not a good mix but we made it safely over. We reached the Canberra highway before stopping for the night.
After yesterday's long, difficult drive we left the Kingsbury VC rest area and drove the relatively short distance towards Canberra.
We took a short detour off the motorway at Goulburn to fill up with diesel and to access wifi. MacDonald's was right next door to the filling station so we went there and had a coffee whilst we downloaded emails and uploaded the blog. It poured with rain whilst we were inside, the first heavy downpour we've had since we were in Western Australia in April, touring the south west corner of the state before Nicolle arrived.
Just before we reached the Australian Capital Territory, we drove along the shoreline of Lake George which strangely is not a lake. Due to drought the whole lake has dried out completely.
We stopped just short of Canberra at the Hughie Edwards VC rest area where there is the Royal Australian Air Force Memorial Grove. The Hume Highway has been dedicated as a Memorial highway and the rest areas are named after Australians who were awarded the Victoria Cross.
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Saga Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Image, 2012. 9781607066019.
Link to this review in the form of a comic strip by geneambaum tagged fantasy • graphic novel • science fiction
Velveteen by Daniel Marks
Delacorte, 2012. 9780307974327.
Link to this review by danritchie tagged paranormal
Before she died, Velvet was a goth teen with an attitude. Now she haunts the serial killer who murdered her and tries to save his potential victims. But haunting is against the rules of Purgatory.
Purgatory is a dark and primitive world made up of districts each ruled by a Station Agent. Velvet works and “lives” in the Latin Quarter. When not sneaking back into the world of the living, Velvet is a salvager: She and her team free souls trapped by banshees. When she is sent to free a soul, Violet returns with Nick, a hot jock murdered by a thug.
Unrest is growing because of a group of souls determined to leave Purgatory on their own terms. As these rebels ramp up their efforts, Violet finds herself torn between her need to haunt, her will to stop the rebels, and a relationship with Nick.
Why I picked it up: I saw a press release about it and wondered just how a world of Purgatory would work. Also, the author is local for me (I live near Seattle).
Why I finished it: Velvet is an exceptionally complex soul. She’s remorseful for her haunting -- it’s not only against the rules, it causes other problems in Purgatory, too. But these feelings are in conflict with her need to save her killer's next victim from what she went through. Fiercely independent, she finds a relationship with Nick daunting. Romance is forbidden; it could affect both her ability to do her job and to move on from Purgatory to her final destination, whatever that might be.
I'd give it to: Kyle, who is fascinated by poltergeists. He will find Marks’ portrayal of Purgatory captivating; it’s a world made up of humanity’s cast-offs where the dark skies are occasionally lit by the glow of souls moving on.
Little Elvises Junior Bender #2 by Timothy Hallinan
Soho Press, 2013. 9781616952778.
LA burglar Junior Bender has (unfortunately) developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someone dangerous is going to be unhappy with him, either his suspect or his employer.
Now Junior is being bullied into proving aging music industry mogul Vinnie DiGaudio is innocent of the murder of a nasty tabloid journalist he'd threatened to kill a couple times. It doesn’t help that the dead journalist’s widow is one pretty lady, and she’s trying to get Junior to mix pleasure with business. Just as the investigation is spiraling out of control, Junior's hard-drinking landlady begs him to solve the disappearance of her daughter, who got involved with a very questionable character. And, worst news of all, both Junior's ex-wife and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Rina, seem to have new boyfriends. What a mess.
"Hugely,splendidly entertaining... Full of delightful characters, and dialogue that provides at least one good laugh on every page, the book is so hard to put down you’ll swear it’s been glued to your hands." —Booklist, STARRED Review
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What Caesar Did for My Salad The Curious Stories Behind Our Favorite Foods by Albert Jack
Perigee Press, 2011. 9780399536908.
Link to this review by sharonlevin tagged nonfiction
Did you know that Lea and Perrins were chemists in Worcester, and the invention of Worcestershire Sauce was a (very) lucky accident? This book is full of stories about common and not so common foods and spices. Jack blends history, food origins, and politics.
Why I picked it up: There is no fact too trivial that I don’t want to know it. Plus I love to eat.
Why I finished it: I learned about everything from haggis to hollandaise, which is actually French. (I ways thought it was Dutch, since Hollandaise means “Dutch” or “from the Dutch” in French.) “Freedom fries” wasn’t the first time the U.S. changed the name of a food because of politics; the terms “Salisbury steak” for hamburger and “hot dog” for frankfurter were used during WWII so that purveyors of these foods wouldn’t be considered pro-German.
Every page made me a more delightful or irritating dinner companion, depending on your point-of-view.
I'd give it to: Matteo, who consumes more beef jerky than anyone else I’ve ever met. He’d like the facts about his favorite snack. The word “charqui” comes from the Quechua tribes of the Andes and means “dried meat.”
The Legend Of Zelda Hyrule Historia
Dark Horse Books, 2013. 9781616550417.
Dark Horse Books and Nintendo® bring you The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, containing an unparalleled collection of historical information on The Legend of Zelda™ franchise. This handsome hardcover contains never-before-seen concept art, the full history of Hyrule, the official chronology of the games, and much more! Starting with an insightful introduction by the legendary producer and video-game designer of Donkey Kong™, Mario™, and The Legend of Zelda™, Shigeru Miyamoto, this book is crammed full of information about the storied history of Link’s adventures from the creators themselves! As a bonus, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia includes an exclusive comic by the foremost creator of The Legend of Zelda manga—Akira Himekawa!
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate by Rick Bowers
National Geographic, 2012. 9781426309151.
Link to this review by sarahhunt tagged nonfiction • superhero
The Superman radio show, hugely popular with kids and their parents, aired a series of episodes where Superman battled (and defeated) a racist secret society, a thinly disguised reference to the KKK. This was a surprising and lauded early attempt to have a message of racial and religious tolerance in a national entertainment show. How did it happen?
Why I picked it up: I loved Bowers' The Spies of Mississippi.
Why I finished it: Bowers does an incredible job of giving the historical background of both the KKK (it had many interrupted incarnations and was very much a for-profit operation) and Superman (not just how the character was in the first wave of comic book popularity but also how he was a new sort of hero who defended the weak and had many values in common with the Jewish culture of his creators). The threads of intolerance and a new kind of tolerant hero coming together make for a great, true-life adventure.
I'd give it to: Michael, for the section that dispels the legend, repeated in Freakonomics, that the radio show gave away the secret code words and ceremonies of the Klan. (Stetson Kennedy, who went undercover in the Klan, overstated how much he helped provide information for the show and how effective the show was in slowing down Klan recruiting.)
Future Games by Paula Guran
Prime Books, 2013. 9781607013815.
Human competition is eternal. No matter what the future brings, sports will be a part of it. But what forms will these games take? Who will be the spectator, who will play? Will aliens be our opponents or machines? What rules will we play by? What will be at stake? What rewards will be reaped by the victors? What fates await the defeated? Will the entire universe be our arena or will our world be smaller than today? Visionary authors speculate on what swifter, higher, stronger will mean in the near and distant future.
CONTENTS (alphabetical order)
“Distance” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
“Anda’s Game” by Cory Doctorow
“Breakaway” by George Alec Effinger
“Pawn” by Timons Esaias
“Will the Chill” by John Shirley
“Diamond Girls” by Louise Marley
“Run to Starlight” by George R.R. Martin
“The Fate of Nations” by James Morrow
“The Survivor” by Walter F. Moudy
“Listen” by Joel Richards
“Name That Planet!” by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
“Man-Mountain Gentian” by Howard Waldrop
“Unsportsmanlike Conduct” by Scott Westerfeld
“Ladies and Gentlemen, This Is Your Crisis!” by Kate Wilhelm
“Kip Running” by Genevieve Williams
Gods of Mischief My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by George Rowe
Touchstone, 2013. 9781451667349.
Link to this review by flemtastic tagged nonfiction
George Rowe never thought of himself as a rat. He grew up hard; he ran away from home as a teen (he returned years later, but only to beat up his stepfather). He became one of Hemet, California’s biggest meth cooks and drug dealers. At twenty-seven he got a wake up call when his eight-year-old stepson asked him if he was a drug dealer. Rowe was shocked. He said no. Then he immediately went cold turkey, walked away from both the drugs and the money he made selling them, and started a landscaping company. He didn’t instantly become an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but his new life, with its hard drinking, womanizing and cage-fighting for cash at underground events was arguably better than dealing drugs. He also continued to hang out at bars where the motorcycle gangs congregated, drinking with them and admiring their bikes.
Years later, bikers from the local Vagos gang beat up a friend of Rowe's for refusing to give up his position at a pool table. The man, who had two small children and a third on the way, was beaten badly by the bikers. Two days later he disappeared. The bikers smugly bragged about "taking care of the problem." Rowe was disturbed; he knew the bikers felt that they were above the law and that they needed to be taken down. A local cop put Rowe in contact with the ATF, where Rowe made the difficult decision to go undercover as a gang member. Rowe swore that the men involved in his friend's killing would have a day of reckoning and that he would be there to see it.
Rowe joined the Vagos. But to be accepted as a full member he had to earn his patch. It was a stylized picture of Loki, the Norse god of mischief, and symbolized the members’ decision to live at the margins of society. Even though he was known by many Vagos members, he still had to endure several months as a prospect. He was expected to do whatever patched brothers wanted: he cleaned bikes, ran errands, bought beers, and even beat up a guy because he was told to. Rowe collected intel on local members and the national leadership of the Vagos, including several murderers who had evaded justice to that point. Rowe spent three years undercover, fearing for his life. He told no one else about going undercover, not even his girlfriend, who rode on the back of his bike at all the rallies.
In the end, when seventy-two carefully coordinated raids on the Vagos took place, over 700 agents simultaneously arrested and charged forty-two members.
Why I picked it up: I wanted to hear how these despicable men were brought to justice.
Why I finished it: George Rowe is brutally honest. He tells what a douchebag he was back in the day, a self-proclaimed racist who constantly called a coworker the N-word every time he saw him. (That same coworker later saved his life when Rowe had a cardiac arrest at work because of his drug use.) He talks extensively of the hard work it took for him to overcome a lifetime of ingrained racism instilled in him by his father and associates. There were also many tense moments in the three years Rowe was undercover, like when the chapter president came by while his house was being wired by ATF agents. Rowe pretended it was no big deal, that he was just having a burglar alarm installed, and the agents continued while he swigged beers with one of their primary targets.
I'd give it to: Jeff, my friend that moved up from California a few years ago. He told me stories about how nerve wracking it was to have a large pack of bikers with super-loud exhaust pipes pass him on the freeway. After reading this, he’d be glad he never flipped them the bird (or at least that no one ever noticed if he did).
Steamwork Chronicles 3 Steel Dominance by Cari Silverwood
Loose Id, 2013. 9781623001018.
A brilliant researcher, Sofia must unravel the ancient puzzle of the Clockwork Warrior or her career will be in tatters. Yet the tomb of the warrior is in the dangerous city of Byzantium, inside the harem of the Emperor. She knew she'd have to pose as a slave--but not that her “owner” would be the incredibly bossy, gorgeous bodyguard she's been assigned.
A life of military duty has left Dankyo unprepared for Sophia. He's never met a woman quite like this. She's smart and beautiful, and she's something that he's finding almost irresistible--despite the way she fights against masquerading as his slave, she's submissive right down to the bottom of her soul. And that's bringing out every dominant instinct in his body.
But even as he realizes she's captured his heart, the city explodes into madness. Surviving seems impossible. Can love and a Dom who will never give up overcome sheer bloody-minded evil?
How the SEC Became Goliath The Making of College Football's Most Dominant Conference by Ray Glier
Howard Books, 2012. 9781476703237.
Ray Glier is a freelance journalist based in Atlanta, GA. He has spent the last twenty-six years covering SouthEastern Conference (SEC) football. Teams from that conference have won the last six national championship games and have had the most players drafted into the National Football League over that same period.
With methodical documentation and statistics, Glier shows how player personnel directors (a position normally found only in NFL franchises) have used advanced metrics and strategies to identify and analyze players for recruitment. Potential players size and speed are noted, and their stats are tracked at summer camps and during high school games so college coaches know what to expect. The SEC also leads the nation in the quality of its facilities, the spending per athlete, the number of coaches, and pay for the coaches as well.
Glier busts a few myths about the SEC, like their reputation for rampant cheating. In terms of the number of major investigations by the NCAA, the SEC trails the Big 10, the Pac-12, and the ACC, lending credence to the SEC’s view that the frequent complaints about cheating are nothing but sour grapes by losing teams.
Why I picked it up: I am a college football fan who has watched my UW Huskies get shelled by Louisiana State University and the Mad Hatter (LSU Coach Les Miles) two years running. Plus had to live with the SEC’s stranglehold on the national title. I wanted to know if this would give me any ammunition to accuse them of cheating, or to find hope for the future of other conferences.
Why I finished it: Glier relates the SEC’s intense desire to win to the South’s losing the Civil War. He says it is a pride issue because the South still resents the Northerners for interference. Football provides a surrogate battlefield where the South can be victorious. They have stepped up the intensity in every aspect of football so much that every moment is precious, so much so that several SEC coaches travel via their universities’ private jets and helicopters to see potential recruits in action.
The SEC’s graduation rate for players (relative to regular student graduation rates) is better than in the Big Ten, which complains the loudest about SEC cheating. But the conference schools’ focus on football has hurt other sports. SEC schools average twenty varsity sports whereas other conferences’ schools have twenty-five or more. Department money is used to pay exorbitant coaching salaries, and not just for head coaches -- several offensive coordinators make over a million dollars per year. While Glier often compliments the SEC and its commissioner, Mike Slive, for other decisions and leadership, he also criticizes its handling of athletes accused of criminal misconduct. When former University of Florida running back Chris Rainey was arrested for threatening to harm a woman, he played in the next game like nothing had happened off-field.
I'd give it to: Ken, a diehard Oregon Ducks fan. They lost two years ago to Auburn and Cam Newton in the national championship game, a loss that has plagued Ken daily since then. He would appreciate having some ammunition against the SEC for his next bar-room argument. This is not a book for newcomers to college football, but Ken could definitely handle it.
Larf by Ashley Spires
Kids Can Press, 2012. 9781554537013.
Link to this review by ang tagged picture book
Larf is a sasquatch. He is a vegetarian, has a pet bunny, and no one believes in him (he likes it that way).
Life is quiet and solitary. So when Larf reads in the newspaper that a sasquatch will be making a public appearance, he is confused. He hasn’t scheduled an appearance. Even if he had it certainly wouldn’t be on a Wednesday -- that’s laundry day!
Is it possible that he isn’t the only sasquatch in the world? With his bunny, Larf heads into the city, determined to find the answers.
Why I picked it up: A big fan of Binky the Space Cat, I will read anything that Ashley Spires writes or illustrates.
Why I finished it: The illustrations are charming and make the story’s deadpan humor even sillier. Eric (Larf’s bunny) has a perpetually stupefied expression that gives me the giggles.
I'd give it to: Sarah, who is always amused (and slightly frightened) by the giant sign in our city that reads, “Intergalactic Headquarters of Bigfoot.” She’ll hope the sasquatches in our backyards are as quirky as Larf.
Broxo by Zack Giallongo
First Second, 2012. 9781596435513.
Link to this review by geneambaum tagged fantasy • graphic novel
Zora of Tethede, Princess of the Granitewing Clan, arrives at Peryton Peak expecting a royal welcome from the local clan. Instead she’s attacked by a zombie then rescued by the young Broxo and his friend, Migo (picture a large, white, one-horned polar bear with bat ears).
Why I picked it up: The only hint of Broxo’s enemy on the cover -- the creatures are reflected in his sword.
Why I finished it: It’s not a typical post-apocalyptic tale. The undead were members of Broxo’s clan and they don’t die when their heads are chopped off. They don’t die at all, at least not in a fight. (Of course, they need Broxo’s help to be set free.)
There’s also just the right amount of potty humor, like when Broxo tells Zora to come quick to see Migo’s giant poop.
I'd give it to: Ben, who would recognize (and appreciate) the resemblance between Migo and the classic Star Trek monster Mugato.
Prison Pit Book Four by Johnny Ryan
Fantagraphics, 2012. 9781606995914.
Link to this review by geneambaum tagged graphic novel • science fiction
A gore-splattered, noseless, fanged, foul-mouthed professional wrestler named Cannibal F*ckface is thrown onto a prison planet and kills everyone he meet. He soon replaces his left arm with a fanged leech-thing that’s holding his arm (it was torn off). The leech-thing spits out the arm and swallows CF’s head. Black gunk erupts out it and joins with the arm, spawning a gooey, lumpy, vein-covered, brain-like creature that helps CF smash out of the Caligulon, the crystal prison where he’s trapped. And that’s just the first few pages.
Why I picked it up: I read the first three graphic novels in this series. Can’t stop now.
Why I finished it: Stabbing. Rending. Black blood everywhere. But it was the knife thrown into a grotesque creature’s spurting urethra and out its back that really sold me on this quick read.
I'd give it to: My daughter. This reminds me of nothing as much as the violent, disturbed drawings I’ve seen in some middle-school boys’ notebooks. Next year, I’m going to tell her it’s like a mind-map for her male classmates. If she believes me, I hope we can put off conversations about her dating for a few extra years.
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President Trump Calls Migrant Caravan A ‘National Emergency,’ Blames Democrats
President Trump on Monday called the caravan of as many as 10,000 migrants from Honduras and other Central American countries heading for the U.S.-Mexican border a “national emergency” and blamed Democrats for the march, which comes just weeks before the midterm elections.
“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emerg[enc]y. Must change laws!” the president wrote on Twitter.
Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2018
Trump said the Democrats are to blame if the massive mob crosses into the U.S.
“Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally,” he wrote.
Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally.
Trump also threatened to cut off U.S. aid to the countries involved.
“Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them.”
The three countries Trump mentioned received more than $500 million in funding combined in 2017.
Over the weekend, hundreds of Central American migrants scrambled over a bridge wall and jumped into a river below as they battled to get past authorities stopping them at the Guatemala-Mexico border.
The mob swelled to at least 5,000 people — some estimates go as high as 10,000 — and once past police dressed in riot gear, they resumed their trek to the U.S.-Mexico border. The throng is currently marching toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, “10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile,” the Associated Press reported.
At the Suchiate River, some 700 federal police officers from Mexico made no attempt to intervene as hundreds of young men dropped off the bridge into the water, then swam, floated or rafted to Mexico. They are still nearly 1,800 miles from El Paso, Texas, and Google Maps says that would take 573 hours on foot.
A day earlier, Mexican authorities halted entry to migrants on the bridge, but did allow women with small children in. By evening, the frustrated mob swept over the bridge fence and into Mexico. None were detained when they made it to land.
U.S. officials — and Trump — warned the migrants when they started the march earlier this month in Honduras.
“We are seriously concerned about the caravan of migrants traveling north from Honduras, with false promises of entering the United States by those who seek to exploit their compatriots,” the U.S. Embassy in Honduras said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Trump threatened to cut off aid to Honduras if they allow the march to continue.
“The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to the U.S. is not stopped and brought back to Honduras, no more money or aid will be given to Honduras, effective immediately!” Trump said on Twitter.
But Trump is taking a more pragmatic view of late and said on Saturday that he may have a solution. “We’re going to figure it out,” he said during a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada, suggesting his administration has a solution, but planned to keep that information “low key until the election.”
Still, Trump reiterated, “They’re not coming into this country.”
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10 things you might not know about IRON MAN 3
. at Monday, March 16, 2015
Geek Dave enters Phase Two...
1. In Drew Pearce's early script for Iron Man 3 Maya Hansen was the movie's main antagonist, and at this time Jude Law was approached to play Aldrich Killian. But after Shane Black came on board and much of the story was rewritten and restructured, Black wasn't so keen on the idea of Law as the film's big bad and self proclaimed Mandarin, leaving the door open for Guy Pearce.
2. Another change in script saw a different character downgraded. Originally Radioactive Man was included in the story, and Andy Lau offered the part. He dropped out upon the birth of his first child. Several other actors where then considered for the role including Daoming Chen and Wu Xiubowere, before legendary Chinese actor Wang Xueqi was cast. However the new script change meant his role was significantly adapted and the name changed to the unrelated Doctor Wu.
3. Sometimes being second choice is not such a bad thing, just ask Rebecca Hall. Along with Gemma Arterton, Isla Fisher, Jessica Chastain and Diane Kruger she was amongst the short list of actresses considered for the role of Maya Hansen. It was Chastain who was actually offered and accepted the part, but was forced to drop out due to a scheduling conflict with Zero Dark Thirty. Rebecca Hall then got the call.
4. The ring on Trevor Slattery's/Mandarin's right pinkie finger is the same one Raza wears in the first Iron Man film, and on the back of his neck you can spot a tattoo of Captain America's shield with an anarchist "A" symbol in the center instead of a star.
5. During the scene where there is an attack at the Chinese Theater, Firepower is sitting directly next to Robert Downey Jr.’s hand-prints and signature.
6. Originally Maya Hansen had a much more elaborate death scene. After Killian shoots her and leaves she was supposed to drag herself to a computer terminal to erase all Extremis data, and then, as if to atone for her sins, touch one of her plants, causing it to explode and kill her instantly. This scene was actually filmed, and is available amongst the bonus material in the Iron Man 3 BluRay edition.
7. Another alternate exit was set to take place for Trevor Slattery. He was to take Extremis, believing it was a new drug, and then explode from it. Marvel decided they'd like to keep him around, so it was changed to having him get arrested at the end of the film.
8. In the script the final line of the movie was originally written as "I am Tony Stark" to mirror the first Iron Man movie's ending. This was changed to "I am Iron Man" to enhance the characters mythical qualities.
9. Ever noticed that the end credits for Iron Man 3 seem to go on forever? Well this was a bit of a joke played on us all by the producers. Knowing we'd all sit and wait for the post-credits sequence, which we were all used to by the time this film was released, they decided to make the credits as long as they could, 10 minutes long!!! Even going so far as to thank The New Zealand Post (the movie was filmed in North Carolina), and making up names. Reportedly a Gweneth Waltrow is also in there amongst the masses of Special Effects Department credits!
10. Finally, when that post-credits scene did arrive it wasn't the one that was originally planned. That was to feature Tony Stark blasting off into space to meet the Guardians of the Galaxy. For reals! Reason being is that Iron Man was going to have a cameo role in Guardians of the Galaxy. But when negotiations with Robert Downey Jr over reprising his role for subsequent movies did not go smoothly, that idea was scrapped. Downey Jr himself came up with the alternative, which featured Mark Ruffalo in cameo as Dr. Bruce Banner ("not that kind of Doctor!"). This short scene marked the first time an actor had played Dr. Banner in more than one theatrical film, after Edward Norton and Eric Bana only had single outings, and Bill Bixby's portrayals were all in made for television productions.
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Ghost Light, Joseph O'Connor
Molly Allgood O’Neill is a cranky old woman, weakened by extreme poverty and loneliness. An aging actress, she makes her way across London to one of the few jobs she can find-as a voice actress. Throughout her journey, she spends her time remembering the long ago affair she carried on with the Irish playwright, John Synge. In her memory Synge as well as the legendary Yeats come to life, and through her memories she gains a bit of vitality-all while so malnourished she can barely walk.
Her memory is detailed, and with equal parts humor and bitterness, she reflects on aging, competing with her sister, and the complicated socially-unbalanced relationship she had with Synge. His being of wealth and fame, and her poor urban upbringing, dooms their affair from the start. His mother will not consider him marrying her as beneath their social level. Molly’s sister too objects to the relationship, denying its reality. The Dublin theatre, and everything made up and false, becomes a key to understanding their attraction to each other as well as their eventual distance.
Molly is at her best when she’s thinking aloud. The author, Joseph O’Connor, presents her as a tough old bird who dismisses those beneath her, yet still partaking of their charity towards her. Especially touching is a local bartender who spots her a free drink on occasion, as well as a bit of food. They both keep up the pretense that she's a wealthy old actress, when without him she'd likely starve. In her small apartment, she’s down to living with that which can’t be burnt for warmth. Hunger grates at her, and makes her memories that much more painful.
She laments aging and her habit of talking to herself: “And getting up earlier. Another symptom, that. What young person ever got up at dawn out of choice? And talking to the wireless. And talking to the rain. And talking to dogs and to flowers in people’s gardens. And talking to clothes that don’t fit you any more and to dishes that need washing but haven’t been washed….and whoever puts the zips in the back of women’s dresses, a presumption, if ever there was one, that every woman is married…”
Her observations of the London neighborhood are sardonic and ‘cheeky’. One man that looks at her a bit too long gets her riled: “So turn the other cheek if you don’t like the look of me, and kiss my arse like it owes you the rent.”
The name of the novel comes from a theatre tradition: “An ancient superstition among people of the stage. One lamp must always be left burning when the theatre is dark, so the ghosts can perform their own plays.” The significance is obvious: she’s still alive while her peers are dead, yet who remain as alive in her memories.
As a character study, it’s fascinating. Seeing the character change as she observes Synge’s illness, and her reaction to the gossip about her is subtle-the author doesn’t tell us how she’s changed but shows us instead. A few times I thought the theatre scenes, where Synge and Yeats interact, ran a bit long (I sort of scanned those pages). Perhaps if I knew more of their actual history I’d have been more interested. The other thing that unsettled me was the ending. The book proceeded to a point that I expected it to end, it would have been perfect (to me), yet a new development occurred that continued it a short while longer. That put me off-track a bit, and it was hard to reconnect after what seemed like the obvious ending.
I could actually see this becoming a movie-there's enough action and drama that would go well with the Dublin and London period costumes. I'd actually like to cast it: Cate Blanchett as Molly, Viggo Mortensen as Synge, and Liam Neeson as Yeats. That'd work.
Special thanks to Katie Freeman of Farrar, Straus & Giroux for the Review Copy.
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Sometimes, It's Okay to Shoot People in a Movie Theater
American hero Curtis Reeves, a man who was driven mad by movie theater texting.
Do you ever go to the movies sometimes?
And you’ve just spent $79 on two movie tickets, a large bucket of radioactive, um, it looks like popcorn, and a slightly smaller, but really not much smaller bucket of dark brown corn syrup and fizzy water? And some Chiklets?
You’ve sat through 45 minutes of infomercials and coming attractions, and now you’re just settling in to watch Markey Mark wave the American flag around and slaughter some brown people from a foreign country because of how much they hate us for our Freedom.
Or because, you know, soldiers are like brothers. Or because we need to get out of this alive. Some reason like that. There's always a pretty good reason to kill brown people with advanced weaponry.
You know that feeling. It’s one of anticipation and excitement, because in a sense, it’s almost like you’re going to slaughter those brown people.
Except really you’re just going to sit there in the flickering, booming dark, and Markey Mark is actually too old to fight in a war, and no brown people are going to be harmed, because we’re all God’s children anyway.
So things are kind of pleasant.
But then here’s this guy sitting nearby, and of course he’s playing with his phone. He’s sending texts, and giggling to himself, and every couple of minutes, he’s getting a text back, and his phone goes “Ringy Dingy Ding Dong!” every time he gets a text. And it’s loud.
You’re thinking, “Is this guy going to keep doing this right through the movie?” It sure looks like he is, even though roughly 15 minutes of the 45 minutes of infomercials were instructional in nature, about how you should TURN YOUR PHONE OFF NOW.
The thought occurs to you: “Never mind all that God’s children crap. If I had a gun right now, I’d blow that guy’s head off.”
But the better angels of your nature take hold, and you think, well, I’ll just politely ask him to stop.
“Hey dickhead!" you say. "Do you mind cutting that bullshit out? I’m trying to watch a movie here.”
He glances at you, and it seems he is not even remotely concerned by what he sees. In fact, he’s dismissive of you.
“Whaaat?" he says. "Go fuck yourself.”
Then he goes right back to texting. And his girlfriend sits there next to him sort of simpering and chortling because she’s glad he hasn’t smacked her upside the head so far today. In fact, she’s glad you spoke up, because if you play your cards right, he might be smacking you in another minute, instead of her. He’s gotta smack somebody.
Fun, isn’t it? Going to the movies is a nice break from your normal day to day stress.
And now your heart is beating in a noticeable way, which wasn't the case just a minute ago, and you think, “Boy, I'd really love to blow that fucking guy’s brains all over his girlfriend’s lap.”
Well, this past weekend just outside of Tampa, a man did exactly that. More or less.
In Wesley Chapel, Florida, 71-year-old retired Tampa cop Curtis Reeves apparently came to blows with 43-year-old Chad Oulson over Oulson’s unwillingness to stop texting during the movie “Lone Survivor.”
Chad Oulson, who died because he was rude and wouldn't stop texting. Now his little daughter is going to grow up without Daddy, which is sad. But Chad himself? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for him.
After Oulson threw his radioactive popcorn in Reeves’s face, Reeves took out a .380 caliber pistol and shot Oulson through the chest, killing him dead.
So what’s my point here?
Well, Reeves is probably a little nutty. Maybe he has a little bit of an anger management problem, and he’s gonna need some counseling for that. He should probably think about leaving his gun at home next time.
When I go to the movies, or anywhere, I usually bring things I’m gonna need. Keys? Check. Money? Check.
Gun? Uh...
You really don’t need to bring your gun to the movies, even if you think people are going to be texting. Especially if you think people are going to be texting. Guns are funny things. They’re heavy, and you can feel them there, and they send you a quiet little message over and over, which goes like this:
“Use me. Use me. Use me.”
But what about Oulson? The guy was TEXTING DURING A MOVIE. You’re not supposed to do that. It’s rude. It’s obnoxious. Do you really want to be that person? Then, when some old man called him on it, he attacked the guy. Now Oulson is dead, but I have trouble feeling sorry for him.
When I was a young man, I was taught that the only people you’re allowed to attack are other young men. Now that I’m middle-aged, I kind of rely on the idea that young men are still taught this.
I would never, ever attack an old man for any reason. Especially not here in Florida, where apparently, everybody but me and Chad Oulson is carrying a concealed weapon.
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The Garden Club of Los Altos
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PATRICIA (PATTI) HIRSCHBEK
It is with great sadness that we share news that our dear friend, Pat Hirschbek, passed away on April 21. Pat joined the Garden Club in 1997. She became an active member who served in many important roles, including Greeter, Scholarship Co-Chairman, Recording Secretary and President. We will truly miss her. The Club will make a donation in her memory to the Sempervirens Fund. The donation will purchase and plant new trees as well as preserve existing forest lands.
For full obituary, please see:
https://www.losaltosonline.com/people/sections/obituaries/59963-patricia-patti-hirschbek
SUSAN SCHUMANN
Our beloved garden club member and dear friend, Susan Schumann, passed away on New Year’s Day. Susan joined our club in 2003 and was an active member. Her significant contributions include:
Historian/Photographer 2012-13
Flower Arrangements Chair 2004-07 and again in 2017
Her garden was on our annual Member’s Garden Tour in 2010 - she was always willing to jump in and do whatever was needed. She was a special person and we will treasure our fond memories of her.
The Club has made a donation in Susan’s memory to the Sempervirens Fund - donations are used to purchase and preserve existing forest in our coastal areas as well as to plant new redwood trees.
For full obituary and guest book, please see:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=187773208
LIANA CAUZ
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Liana Cauz, our fellow Garden Club member and beloved friend. Shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Liana passed away on July 12, 2017.
Liana was a delightful lady who loved the Garden Club; joining us in 1987. She was Treasurer in 2004-2005; co-chair (with Millicent Bishop) of the Member Garden Tour in 2008-2009. And for many years, 2009-2016, Liana was the Foothill College Scholarship Chair; she always developed a special rapport with each recipient. Liana also ran our annual “Garden Treasures” sale, benefiting the scholarship fund. She was also in charge of our Plant Give-Away.
Liana was special to each of us ; we will miss her so much. The Club will make a donation in Liana’s memory to the Sempervirens Fund - donations are used to purchase and preserve existing forests in our coastal areas as well as to plant new redwood trees.
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New Pop Roundup
There's plenty of new music around at the moment, least of all the return of Jessie Ware on her sublime Tough Love. Here's the best of the rest:
Broods – Mother & Father
New Zealand’s brooding Broods are back to brood in their new single – and it’s an absolute stunner. A meditation on life on the road, vocalist Georgia Nott sighs “ever since I left my mother it’s much harder to know how to make my own life here, how to make my own home” before soaring into the sad-pop chorus “I don’t wanna wake up lonely, I don’t wanna just be fine”. Production-wise this is part Lorde (the duo share producer Joel Little) and part CHVRCHES: melancholic synths and clattering beats with a clear pop sensibility. Full album ‘Evergreen’, due later this year, can’t come soon enough.
Listen: Mother & Father is available now, with album ‘Evergreen’ due later this year.
Chloe Howl – Disappointed
Another hot new act with an album due this year is Chloe Howl. Disappointed is another of her signature synth pop gems fuelled by honest lyrics – disappointment is always a more difficult emotion to deal with than anger or frustration. It doesn’t hit quite as hard as the bitter sounds of No Strings or Rumour, but at least Howl is getting some proper videos now. This one sees a roller skating team turning against their male coach: hoorah for feminism.
Listen: Disappointed is released on 27th July.
Little Daylight – Mona Lisa
Brooklyn’s Little Daylight are yet to make much of an impact here in the UK, but Mona Lisa is their most accessible track to date. The opening builds layers of syncopation, the synthy middle eight hypnotises and the chorus sparkles even more than previous single Glitter & Gold. This is bright, breezy indie pop that’s perfect for the summer weather.
Listen: The band’s debut album ‘Hello Memory’ is due out on July 15th.
Nicole Scherzinger – Your Love
TV personality Nicole Scherzinger has finally returned to what she does best – being Nicole Scherzinger the popstar. Thankfully Your Love is not your typical EDM pop banger. It’s percussive, with little electronic sparkles and it all breaks down in the final third for a very danceable change of pace. It’s in drastic need of some bass though, and the “do do do” chorus hook is more annoying than catchy. It’s no Don’t Hold Your Breath, but it’s a hell of an improvement on Boomerang.
Listen: Your Love is released on July 13th.
Alt-J – Hunger Of The Pine
Alt-J have done little since winning the Mercury Prize in 2012, besides selling a lot more albums than anyone expected and losing a band member. But sampling a Miley Cyrus track? That’s something nobody could have predicted. “I’m a female rebel” she chants, taken from her track 4x4, amidst meditative electronica and falsetto vocals. It’s a far cry from her own work and the injected sample feels a little forced, but it’ll be interesting to see if the band pursue a greater pop focus in their forthcoming second album.
Listen: Hunger Of The Pine is available now, whilst album 'This Is All Yours' arrives on September 22nd.
Indiana - Heart On Fire
It's fair to say that the success of Indiana's debut Solo Dancing took everyone by surprise. Heart On Fire is more than a worthy follow-up. Where the former track was a quiet slow-burner, this new track is a slice of melancholic disco perfection - you can cry to it ("don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge") or you can dance to it. Basically Indiana's on the verge of out-Robyning Robyn and there's nothing wrong with a bit of healthy competition.
Listen: Indiana's debut album is due on August 11th.
Ferras - Legends Never Die (feat. Katy Perry)
So Katy Perry has started her own record label. Whilst this may come as a shock, what's no surprise is that her first signing has a slushy debut single that might as well be one of her offcuts. In fact, she even sings on it herself - and it sounds far better when she joins in. That's not to say Ferras is a bad singer, but he's got a ways ahead if he's going to differentiate himself from the pack rather than jumping on Perry's success.
Listen: Legends Never Die is available now.
Psy - Hangover feat. Snoop Dogg
This is a thing. HOW IS THIS A THING?
Listen: Only if you must.
Labels: Alt-J, Broods, Chloe Howl, Ferras, Indiana, Katy Perry, Little Daylight, Music, Nicole Scherzinger, Psy, Snoop Dogg
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Name: Danny Caporaletti
Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
Current City: Richmond, Virginia
Occupation: Film Professor, Filmmaker, Writer, Camera Assistant, MFA in Fiction from University of New Orleans
Compelling poetry distorts as much as it clarifies, and it expands the boundaries of language. A great poem, to me, explores a central idea or feeling by rendering a moment “still” with words, syntax, and structure.
Favorite Poet/Poem:
Richard Brautigan’s “I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone.” This is a bit of cheat, since most consider this a short story, but it reads like a prose poem to me, existing somewhere between poetry and flash fiction.
Why do you like this poet/poem?
The piece is one big nostalgic wormhole. The language is playful (I love the line “I think I was seven or eight or six”), and the tone is conversational, yet precise. Brautigan likens electricity with romance to explore the difficulty of describing love to another person. The lights turn on and off, the same way love can turn on and off.
Runner-Up Favorite Poem: Charles Bukowski’s “Young In New Orleans” because it’s hilarious and dark and true. Too true.
Tags danny caporaletti, richmond, virginia, film, professor, writer, MFA, Fiction, University of New Orleans, mfa, poetry, richard brautigan, prose poem, flash fiction, Charles Bukowski, New Orleans
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RE: The First (was: Refuting Aristotle et al (was Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record))
From: Dehler, Bernie <bernie.dehler@intel.com>
"Frozen embryos are either dead or alive. They may well be in a suspended state, but a frozen embryo or a frozen frog that dies during the freezing step cannot be resuscitated."
Just a quick clarification- are you not aware that there is a frog that can freeze, and it's heart and brain functions will stop; then thaw and it's heart will re-start? Was it dead when it was frozen? Did it come back to life after being dead? Please answer. How can you define "life" and then make it apply to a frozen frog with no heart or brain wave activity?
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/tlc/28588-understanding-frozen-wood-frogs-video.htm
See the video- it is only 2 min.
...Bernie
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Terry M. Gray
To: AmericanScientificAffiliation
Subject: Re: The First (was: Refuting Aristotle et al (was Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record))
Bernie,
You're just proving the point in your previous post that engineers don't know much biology.
Life comes from life--there are no known exceptions (other than the miraculous and the original origin of life as I told you yesterday). What you think about "life" doesn't matter. There are well recognized characteristics in the biology world. Check any high school or college textbook.
Frozen embryos are either dead or alive. They may well be in a suspended state, but a frozen embryo or a frozen frog that dies during the freezing step cannot be resuscitated.
You're also confusing "soul" with "living". Cells don't have souls. Sperm don't have souls. In my theology, dogs don't even have souls. Humans have souls. Conception is a convenient marking point for deciding when God gives the soul, but even there it's debatable (for example, twinning happens later than conception, so if both individuals are ensoulated, it must occur later).
Your example of proto-life is also irrelevant. That transition happened once on earth. There's no evidence that it keeps happening. I.e. all of life seems to be derived from the same primordial cell/proto-cell/pre-biotic bush.
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Dehler, Bernie wrote:
> Terry and Moorad,
> Suppose a sperm cell is alive. Where did it come from? Was it created 'de novo?' Of course not. Wasn't it built by using non-living parts?
> Basically I'm saying look at the mechanics of how a cell comes to be.
> See, part of the issue is determining 'what is life.' And I don't think there's a clear and crisp definition of what life is... consider "proto-life":
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n4_v146/ai_15657614/
> (If you can find a clear and crisp scientific definition of 'life' on the web, please provide a link... then see if it applies to sperm.)
> I think 'life' is also grey-scale. A sperm cell doesn't reproduce, as we think living creatures usually do in their life-cycle. I think sperm is more a 'component' of life than a 'creature' that is alive. It becomes a creature when joined with an egg. So then you can ask "when does the thing first become a "creature?" One could say as soon as the egg and sperm unite. But that is not a human as we know it. It emerges into a human. It will always emerge into a human as long as things go right, but it is not a human at the moment of conception... just like it is not a human when just a sperm. You can say at the point of egg/sperm joining all the DNA is there. True. That's one step on the continuum. But there are many more steps yet to be made, such as making vital organs and turning them on (brain, heart, etc.).
> Consider also the frog that can be frozen and it's heart will stop. It will then thaw and its heart will restart. Was it dead when the heart was stopped? Did it come back from death to life?
> Consider also the frozen embryos. Are they dead or alive? Not alive, since they aren't changing at al. Not dead, because how could they be brought back to life?
> RE: http://www.sharedjourney.com/ivf/fet.html
> If a sperm is alive, is it then murder or death of a bunch of souls when the innumerable multitude are released and never used (likely daily for a man, voluntary or otherwise)? At the last ASA conference, a Catholic Priest in the audience even said it was NOT a Catholic position to say that a soul is granted at conception. They are pro-life for other reasons, not because a soul is imparted at that point theologically.
> ...Bernie
> From: Terry M. Gray [mailto:grayt2@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Terry M. Gray
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:39 PM
> To: Dehler, Bernie
> Subject: Re: The First (was: Refuting Aristotle et al (was Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record))
> Bernie,
> Sperm and egg cells are already alive in the cell biological sense. The embryo may not be a viable separate organism, but all of the pieces are living cells that derived from other living cells.
> There are no known instances of life from non-life other than miraculous resurrections or the original origin of life itself.
> TG
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>> Moorad said:
>> "Needless to say, the same would also apply to life itself. How do you go from dead matter to a living being continuously?"
>> Can you tell me when a baby becomes 'alive' (heartbeat, brain waves, both, other criteria, etc.). Is there a specific dividing line between where one second it is not viable on its own, and a second later it is viable on it's own?
>> Let's answer your question with embryology. It starts with a sperm and egg. Where do they come from? The body manufactures it from energy and nutrients of things eaten (dead things). So these dead things bring forth life. First making sperm/egg, then when joined, activated for cell division and growth. Sooner or later you get heart beat, brain waves, etc... it's alive! But it doesn't just 'become alive' at one point. As for the first heart beat or brain wave, I don't think science knows yet. Does it just turn on and stay on, or have a sputtering start? It would be really hard to measure and monitor, I suppose.
>> ...Bernie
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alexanian, Moorad [mailto:alexanian@uncw.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:35 AM
>> To: Dehler, Bernie; ASA
>> Subject: RE: Refuting Aristotle et al (was Re: [asa] Dawkins on the fossil record)
>> Bernie,
>> In thermodynamics, the transition from a gas to a liquid can be accomplished by means of continuous changes in temperature and density owing to the existence of a critical point, viz. a critical temperature. For this reason, liquid and gases are referred by a single term, fluids. However, to go from a fluid phase to the crystal phase, one has to go though a phase transition, viz. there is no critical point. There is a broken symmetry in the crystal as contrasted to a continuous symmetry in the fluid. I find it hard to understand how consciousness can arise continuously. Needless to say, the same would also apply to life itself. How do you go from dead matter to a living being continuously?
>> Moorad
>> ________________________________
>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Dehler, Bernie [bernie.dehler@intel.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:27 PM
>> To: ASA
>> Gregory said:
>> "Are you seriously suggesting that a 'first' is unnecessary?"
>> Try looking at a baby as it develops, and then try to tell me exactly when the nose "first" appears. It happens so gradual that you can't tell. Same with human evolution. There is no biological 'first man' as it is so gradual. In both cases, you start from something very simple and build piecewise until you have a very complex product. The embryo analogy is classic and very illustrative; I may have first heard it from Lamoureux.
>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Arago
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:05 PM
>> To: Murray Hogg; ASA
>> Murray,
>> Time is not at issue. 10,000 or a million years could pass. Neverthess, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A FIRST.
>> Deal with this directly please for what it is.
>> You are not, it seems, arguing with me or with Schwarzwald. You are arguing with someone else or with a straw man. You are arguing against the history of philosophy.
>> You have already said you agree with the logic of Aristotle (and I prefer not to have to dig this up in archives). I am not asking you to agree with his or with Descartes' or with Darwin's science. But with LOGIC, Murray!
>> Who said the main issue here was in 'difference of scientific perspective'? It is not.
>> I said the problem is with Dennis' philosophy. Do you disagree?
>> There is no problem at all, and I would be surprised if you said otherwise, in appealing to the LOGIC of the Church Fathers.
>> Some post-modern geneticists (i.e. there really aren't *any* modern geneticists) MAY (e.g. human rights) seek to try to 'refute' ancient logic. But that is their problem, which most scholars around the world of various religions reject. It sounds like you are debating with 'primatives' that 'A' might not equal 'A'. Some social constructivists and relativists in our time actually believe this. But I don't imagine this is your position!
>> No, let's get serious Murray. Do you seek to refute Aristotle or not? Have you/we 'evolved' beyond Aristotle's philosophy? Are you seriously suggesting that a 'first' is unnecessary?
>> Gregory
>> From: Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au>
>> To: ASA <asa@calvin.edu>
>> Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 1:32:28 AM
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>>> Not nearly enough, Murray. And I'll bluntly say that the tactic of refutation by referring to the date is the stuff of glaring intellectual weakness. It can be deployed for just about any position, even contrary ones.
>> The difference in scientific perspective between the ancient world and today makes any appeal to Aristotle and the Church Fathers problematic in the extreme - particularly when their opinion (as it is on the question of the "first" human) is so markedly a product of their particular view of the created order.
>> Simply citing those authorities as if they can be considered determinative in any theological debate is PRECISELY to attempt to do theology in a pre-modern intellectual context.
>> Let me note, further, that I purposefully used quote marks on "refutation." I am aware that simply pointing to a calendar doesn't disprove Greg's argument - but it DOES introduce a major consideration that has to be addressed.
>> So the fundamental point is that our conceptual world is fundamentally different from that of Aristotle and the Fathers. The only "glaring intellectual weakness" is on the part of those who pretend otherwise.
>> In that respect, pointing out that there's been 2000 years of intervening scientific progress since Aristotle (and 1500 years of same since the Church Fathers) is not quite irrelevant.
>> Blessings,
>> Murray
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4th album from '88 and first with Phil Anselmo on vocals, a powerful Heavy Metal that was getting shape for what would come later on "Cowboys From Hell".
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Re-issue of the only EP (6 songs) from '86 plus 4 bonus from their demos, by this US band of pure Heavy Metal for lovers of bands like OBSESSION, MALICE, DIO, AXEL RUDI PELL, Q5, FIFTH ANGEL...
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3rd album from '85 by one of Spains pioneer Heavy Metal bands, one of their best works!
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Re-issue of the 7-song demo "Tierras Devastadas" ('94) plus 2 songs from a compilatio from '95 and 2 live tracks from their reunion show from '14, one of them being a cover of ANGELES DEL INFIERNO. A powerful Heavy/ Speed Metal sung in spanish pretty much in the vein of MURO.
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Democrats hold edge in Senate; GOP easily retains House control
By DONNA CASSATA ~ Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Democrats won a narrow majority in the Senate on Tuesday, snatching Republican-held seats in Massachusetts and Indiana and turning back fierce, expensive challenges in Virginia, Ohio and Connecticut to maintain the control they've held since 2007.
With a third of the Senate up for election, Republicans were undone by candidate stumbles, with GOP hopefuls in Missouri and Indiana uttering clumsy statements about rape and abortion that damaged their chances and the party's hopes of taking over.
Losses of Senate seats in Massachusetts and Indiana, combined with independent Angus King's victory in the Republican-held Maine seat, put the GOP too far down in their already uphill climb.
Democrats held open seats in Virginia and were leading in New Mexico, North Dakota and Wisconsin shortly before midnight. Republicans took the Nebraska seat as GOP candidate Deb Fischer denied former Sen. Bob Kerrey's bid to return to the Capitol.
Republicans drove toward recapturing control of the House for two more years on Tuesday as the two parties traded gains from the Eastern Seaboard to the Southwest.
With almost two thirds of the chamber's 435 races called by The Associated Press, Republicans had won 173 seats and were leading in 58 others. There were about 20 other seats in Western states, where polls had just closed and voting was beginning, where GOP incumbents were not facing serious challenges.
A party needs 218 seats to control the House.
By late evening in the East, Democrats had ousted five incumbent GOP House members to just two Democrats who were defeated by Republicans. But Republicans also picked up three open seats that had been held by Democrats who are leaving Congress.
In an Election Day that was producing little net change in the parties' numbers overall, Republicans responded by ousting one Democrat from Kentucky and another from North Carolina. They also picked up an open House Democratic seat in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
Only around 60 House matchups were truly competitive races.
Democrats targeted many of the 87 members of the GOP's tea party-backed freshman class of 2010 that swept the party to House control. Only about two dozen faced threatening challenges.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke of conciliation.
"Now that the election is over, it's time to put politics aside and work together to find solutions," Reid said in a statement. "The strategy of obstruction, gridlock and delay was soundly rejected by the American people. Now they are looking to us for solutions."
Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly edged out tea party-backed Indiana state treasurer Richard Mourdock in a race rocked by the Republican candidate's awkward remark that pregnancy resulting from rape is "something God intended."
Mourdock also upset some Indiana voters for his decision to sue to stop the federal auto bailout of Chrysler, which means jobs building transmissions to thousands in Kokomo. And he alienated some in his own party with his divisive win over six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in the May GOP primary. Lugar refused to campaign for him.
In Massachusetts, Democrat Elizabeth Warren knocked out Republican Sen. Scott Brown, who had stunned the political world in January 2010 when he won the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat. The strong Democratic tilt in the state and President Barack Obama's easy win over former Gov. Mitt Romney in Massachusetts helped the consumer advocate in her bid.
The race was one of the most expensive in the country -- $68 million. Both candidates agreed to bar outside spending.
In Virginia, Democrat Tim Kaine edged out Republican George Allen in a battle of former governors. The contest attracted millions of dollars in outside spending.
Democrats currently hold a 53-47 edge in the Senate, including the two independents who caucus with them. Republicans needed a net gain of four seats to grab the majority. Shortly, after 11 p.m., Democrats gained a lock on 50 seats, enough to keep control once President Barack Obama won re-election.
In Maine, independent Angus King prevailed over Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill in the race to replace Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe, who blamed partisan gridlock in Washington for her unexpected decision to retire after 18 years in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wasted no time, reaching out to King, according to a Senate aide.
In Ohio, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown survived an onslaught of outside spending, some $30 million, to defeat state treasurer Josh Mandel. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey survived a late scare from businessman Tom Smith, who invested more than $17 million of his own money in the race.
Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy won the Connecticut Senate seat held by Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent who was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2000. Murphy's win marked the second straight defeat for former wrestling executive Linda McMahon, who spent $50 million of her own wealth in a failed effort against Sen. Richard Blumenthal in 2010 and more than $42 million this election cycle.
Texas sent tea party-backed Ted Cruz to the Senate as the Republican won the seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Cruz will become the third Hispanic in the Senate, joining Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
In Florida, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson triumphed in his bid for a third term, holding off a challenge from Republican Rep. Connie Mack. Republican groups had spent heavily against Nelson early in the race, but the moderate Democrat was a prolific fundraiser with wide appeal among Democrats and some Republicans in the Panhandle.
Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders won a second term in Vermont. Democratic Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse in Rhode Island, Ben Cardin in Maryland and Tom Carper in Delaware were all re-elected. Cruising to another term were Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow in Michigan, Kirsten Gillibrand in New York, Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota and Menendez in New Jersey..
In West Virginia, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin won a full term even though his state went heavily for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Tennesseans gave Republican Sen. Bob Corker a second term. Wyoming voters did the same for Sen. John Barrasso, and Republican Roger Wicker captured another term in Mississippi.
Republicans had to deal with retirements in Arizona and Texas in addition to Maine.
Democrats and Republicans in a dozen states faced an onslaught of outside money that financed endless negative commercials and ugly mailings that left voters exasperated.
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♪ ♪ manus: foil arises -- oil rises. saudi arabia says it will maintain near-record output and any freeze must include iran. rishaad: middle eastern governments are stepping back from remaining reserves by reopening access to bond markets. manus: and a glimmer of hope for india's rural economy. forecasters say the monsoon should be above normal this
year. it is 8:00 a.m. across the emirates, 5:00 in london. i am manus cranny in dubai. salamat inam rishaad hong kong. welcome to "bloomberg markets middle east." manus: no-show would be complete without the news over the they have decided to change directions a little bit in what is happening to the oil markets. that's pretty much where we will kick off "bloomberg markets middle east." put it in context for you. what happens? a number of factors in play in deciding production. saudi arabian oil production is trending higher. will they go for more, as we go towards the next opec meeting? hale producers are rising, but it is on leverage and not
profit. brent crude is rising. traders are cutting net long positions and short bets are rising. net long positions are dropping over 4%. re: at an inflection -- are we at an inflection point in oil markets? rishaad: there are so many unknowns here. what happens? we are not seeing any freeze in production. suddenly iran does not want to play ball here. they are just one element amongst many things which could oilupporting a lower prices moving head. we have problems with the shale oil fields in canada, on fire at the moment, one million barrels a day in production being lost. and libya not able to export oil. what about iraq? can they ramp up production? there could be more supply coming on board. let's look at what's happening, with about 20 minutes of trading
in mumbai. this is the situation right now. x, one of the first gains in seven sessions. in hong kong a 0.5% moved to the upsidfe. dubai coming online at 10:00 a.m. local time. dubai, abu dhabi, doha, with the watar market -- qatar market on the way down. manus: thank you. let's check in on other stories making headlines around the world. shery ahn is with us this morning. aramco is planning a listing in london, new york, and hong kong. they are hoping exxon mobil, sinopec, and bp will take strategic stakes.
that would turn the world's biggest oil exporter into the largest public we traded company, with a valuation that could reach $2.5 trillion. in touch withet bondholders to explain why they failed to make an interest payment last month. the malaysian state oil company has -- will have a call scheduled to him take place on may 23. defaulted on a $1.75 billion bond last month after a dispute with a co-guarantor. the greek government says it has enough support among lawmakers to approve pension and income tax reforms as part of a $6.2 billion package to secure further aid from the imf. parliament debated the issue that day before -- the day before eu funded ministers will review status of the bailout. they will consider whether to
release the second installment of the $98 billion rescue package after a six-month delay. the outgoing philippine president benigno aquino cast his vote in six sessions his successor and for national and local lawmakers. more than 50 million people are eligible to cast ballots. the presidential favorite is the city mayor, with recent polls giving him 33% of the vote. powered by 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world, this is bloomberg news. i am shery ahn. rishaad: wildfires raging through canada's oilsands region , shutting down an estimated $1 million of -- one million barrels of production a day. joining us from alberta -- rebecca, how quickly will these companies get production back up , and where are we with these fires right now?
rebecca: it's interesting, because today even as companies including suncor and conoco phillips were shutting down production, they were talking about getting it back up again. the massive fire that has extended to double the size of new york city in northern alberta continues to spread, but it is moving east, away from the oilsands facilities, which is giving them some comfort they can start the process of getting production back online. today, with mckenzie they were saying it could be about a week before they get things back up. it could take a wild longer to get production back up to full capacity, but about a week from when the immediate risk subsides. rishaad: some workers in the oilsands have lost their homes. entire neighborhoods in fort mcmurray were incinerated. what are you hearing from these people, and will they return and rebuild?
rebecca: it is quite amazing, the result of this community. it is a very tightknit community, and most people are involved in oil and gas, connected in some way. extremely well to. people from around the world. i was interviewing a lot of them south of fort mcmurray, who escaped the fires earlier this week, and all most everyone said they will go back and rebuild if their home burned down. there is another element to it, in that oil prices have fallen and some of these people are unemployed, without work, so some will not go back. it resoundingly i am hearing for the most part they intend to rebuild. let's talk about the fire itself. have officials worked out what started it? rebecca: they do now believe , it was as caused by human cause, but they are not elaborating on why. beyond that, alberta has been suffering from very dry
conditions heading into what is normally a wildfire season. fort mcmurray and the oilsands ,re surrounded by boreal forest and every year we see wildfires. a combination of el niño, lower rainfall, and some would say, , inge also added to what issue that may have started with throught spread tinder-dry conditions. rishaad: rebecca, thanks very much. rebecca penty, live from edmonton. manus: saudi arabia is expected to keep pumping crude at near-record levels. the new oil minister will maintain policy. with ourcuss the guest, robert mills, who joins us in the studio. we have the word "continuity" established early. my question is, the upcoming -faliheetings, will al
drive a harder bargain? has taken a much more prominent media role in defending this policy, being clear that the saudis would not cut production, and if there was a deal on production, a freeze of production, it would have to include iran. vocal in defending the line of the prince. manus: market share is a parody and iran needs to get on board, he has made it clear. is there a question of accepting a mid-first quarter production level for iran, is that the stumping block? robin: iran is coming back after sanctions, so the iranians say not unreasonably, well, we cannot freeze productions at the sanction level because we are not under sanction ourselves, so we need to see iran get back to a sustainable level, whatever that is, and that is probably later this year, third quarter or fourth quarter, we will know
if iran is at a sustainable level, and then they can have a level they can talk about freezing from. rishaad: robin, the thing is here, what do we, do we expect any change in policy? as you have been alluding to, no change in the idea of a freeze that iran must be included in, but will we see any change of direction after 20 years of having ali al-naimi? robin: not so much a change of direction, but a change of emphasis. we saw the opec meeting in doha iast month, and ali al-naim thought he was close to a deal on freezing production that did not clued iran, and they decided at the last moment to change position. falih said that will be the direction from now on, definitely sticking to this line, a line they were already sticking to much more clearly. manus: robin, in the best bloomberg style, we have a chart
for you. this is fair value. it says you will get oil transcending all these issues, breaking above the $50 mark, up to $62 by 2023. where are we at the moment -- do you believe this rally? is it a sustainable rally? what needs to happen to keep it there and break higher? robin: we have seen a strong rally already this year, driven partly by the opec talk about the freezing, but more by lossning production, with of in canada with the fires we have seen, losing production from nigeria, from iraq, which has been supportive to the market. u.s. oil production is falling, and at some places prices have to go higher to encourage u.s. production to come back, or at least not false on much, and to rebound later this year. manus: the question is when we
balance. stay with us, robin, qamar energy's robin mills. rishaad: i will get some action of what is going on market-wise. a mixed bag. japan is having a better time of it. picture bit of a mixed to start the trading week here in asia. we are seeing good gains on the 0.7%, with the weaker yen helping sentiment. we were also boosted by the from wall street on friday, the weaker than expected nonfarm payroll numbers, boosting expectations we will not see another left off in june from the fed. likely moving out to september. in hong kong we are seeing good gains after a terrible week last week for hong kong equities. the hang seng is up 0.5%, with five sessions in a row of losses. you can look at some gains we're seeing here, but also a lot of
those energy producers. talking about oil all morning on this program, but we have been seeing a lot of those energy producers moving higher in hong kong as well. here is where things start to get a little interesting, though. the trade data out of china over the weekend has really put a downward pressure on sentiment in shanghai. so actually holding at a seven-we glow. korea is also -- seven-week low. korea is also trading down, as is new zealand. pretty mixed around southeast asia. having a quick look at some of the other things we are watching. we have been talking about oil all morning, but i want to show you what the japanese yen is doing as well, because that weakness in the yen is really what is driving the sentiment in japan. rishaad: thanks, juliette. more on that and all our news at
the new digital destination tailor-made for the middle east, with reports and market data region. and all of our reports and special content available only online. manus: coming up later in the hour, voting continues in the philippines, where more than 50 million people are choosing a new president. we will cross live to our correspondent in manila a little later. next, a reprieve for oilsands facilities in canada. more from our guest robin mills when we return. this is "bloomberg markets middle east." ♪
rishaad: welcome back. you are watching "bloomberg markets middle east." its, arabia is shaking up ending the -- shaking up its
cabinet, ending the worst week for gulf stocks in two months. is markets finally see saudi making a move to reduce dependence on oil. bute had a lot of rhetoric, it certainly appears investors are judging this to be a turning point of sorts, giving much needed optimism when it comes to saudi arabia and stocks. they ended the longest losing streak since march. have a look at this function, bcg200 to bring up this chart. the top 200 equities in the market value.n in terms of the top gainers, saudi electricity, saudi basic p, the biggest gainers in the session. ising as much as 1.2% in the
session. let's see if we can bring up that chart for you. we did also see strong gains regionally. in terms of the tadawul session we lost some momentum, closing 0.8% higher, but a second session of gains. 112 stocks closing higher. you can see why investors are feeling happier about the session in terms of this turning point, in terms of really putting the money where their mouth is in terms of the blueprint, that saudi arabia appears to be walking the walk, not just talking the talk when it comes to reducing dependence on crude. this next chart really shows how much saudi stocks correlate with oil. it is very obvious. the white line here is the l index index -- tadaqu index and the blue
line is brent crude. new oils saying the minister will likely cause them to tap more into other mineral resources, not just oil. haidi, thanks for a much indeed for that. haidi lun there. manus: still with us here in the energy ceoo is qamar robin mills. you are watching that and we were chatting about correlation between oil and stocks. it is inextricable at the moment. you can't break it. robin: this is the challenge could we had the prince saying they need to break that link, so you don't see the saudi economy completely dependent on what is going on in the oil market. manus: integral to that piece on the chessboard is the ipo of aramco. you talk to many companies in the gulf region. what is the most pressing issue,
when they re-envision 2030, when they hear from the crown prince. what is the most pressing issue? robin: they are all concerned about what this means for the saudi economy. simply, is it going to work? because the saudi economy is the biggest in the region, and affects everything else, all of its neighbors, the oil markets as well. ofus: there is a level fiscal constraint here. we saw a blue dobby pullback and -- abu dhabi pull back and now the saudis are pulling back. past, in the diversification was largely about putting oil money into new projects, and now they say they have to have other sources of financing for the project i have new growth that is driving itself and driving foreign investment. manus: when we look at the plan, when we look at vision 2030, where is the biggest opportunity
as you sift through the news that keeps coming in waves and waves? is it the execution by the saudi s? are they going to come as it were, spread the good news around, spread the goodwill around in terms of reaching it international companies coming into saudi in terms of military spending, in terms of the actual program? robin: it's a great opportunity for the saudis' neighbors to get involved in the program, and for international companies as well. bey the based in the -- will based in the uae. for me it is really about the diversification process, non-oil companies to get established. we hear noise about the ipo of story, butcinating maybe not so relevant for the small investor. but a critical strategic move. if you said that a year ago you
would be booted out of riyadh, and now it is part of the plan. manus: robin, thank you for your insight and context. robin mills, ceo at qamar energy. a glimmer of hope for india after back-to-back damaging droughts. the forecast for the monsoon and fect on the economy is next. this is "bloomberg markets middle east." ♪
rishaad: back with "bluebird markets middle east." 9:54 in india, where farmers have endured back-to-back droughts. there is hope on the horizon, with the forecast of an above average monsoon. how bad are things, especially where you are in maharashtra? rish, very bad indeed.
india has been suffering from back-to-back droughts for the last couple years. the situation is so grim in maharashtra, no incomes, no debt have been e forcing farmers to commit suicide. but this is a glimmer of hope, with average rainfall expected to be the highest since 1994. if that happens, it could provide much-needed relief. more importantly, this is significant for two reasons. 70% of indians depend on agriculture for sustenance, and more importantly the timeframe between june and september, the first phase of the monsoon, ir rigates nearly half of india's farmland. so if this forecast translates to reality, it would provide a lot of succor for the large farm land of india. rishaad: the thing is here. it
is really all about firing up a huge engine of the indian economy, which has been kind of idling, hasn't it? how does it affect india's projections for growth, and inflation? two important consequences to this. if indeed india has a good monsoon, which is widely expected, that will help both demand and supply. side, good crops means good income for the farmers, meaning higher disposable income and health for the economy. on the supply side, india has been facing extraordinary high inflation that has gradually come down, but you do expect if theon to be tamed supply-side situation improves. on the overall headline gdp number, the survey done by bloomberg, 32 economists on the
median expect gdp to grow 7.75%. the finance minister said he expects india to grow 8.5%. but take all i say with a pinch of salt. this is just a forecast at this point in time. as i am standing today in mumbai, it is sweltering hot outside and there is no sign of rainfall yet. rishaad: it is a bit early for the monsoon. in aoes a good monsoon perverse way not help india? because it masks all these problems of infrastructure, the amount of food actually wasted in the country? a: you have no choice but to look at that, don't you? this is a classic problem india faces every year. large parts of india's population looks up to the rain gods because of the complete absence of policy response from the government, consistently
over decades. so much is dependent on the rain. rishaad: in manus: it is 12:30 in hong kong,
just 30 minutes before the afternoon trading session kicks off after lunch. ♪ oil is on the rise today as canada's wildfire spread, knocking out one million barrels of oil production a day. middle eastern governments will step back from rating reserves by -- r
aiding reserves by opening the door to bond markets. manus: drought-ravaged india welcomes a forecast for better-than-average monsoons. rishaad: we have an hour and a half to go before markets -- we have just half an hour before markets resume. 12:30 in hong kong. manus: 8:30 a.m. in dubai. >> and 5:30 a.m. in london. i am anna edwards. we continue to count towards the start of the european trading day. good morning. a bit of a heads up of what's coming up in europe today. we will focus, as ever, on the brexit debate gripping the united kingdom. david cameron will appeal to britain's patriotism by of evoking imagery of wartime leader winston churchill later on today, saying in a speech around 8:00 u.k. time that the european union has helped
reconcile countries which were at each other's throats for decades. so politics is very much at the fore in this particular installment of the brexit debate, but that doesn't mean that the country is anymore decided than it was. 42%latest poll i have seen, for remain and 40% for leaving. i have the chart next to me on bloomberg, showing the exactly how the end these two are running in the polling, and how many undecideds we have. 19% to 20% undecided in many polls coming through. they can names will be speaking on the subject, manus. mark carney, christine lagarde, and george osborne, and boris johnson, of course, for the leave side. grexiti thought brexit, was back on the horizon -- we have contingency measures. the imf demanding contingency measures. this is just a never-ending story, isn't it? anna: the never-ending greek saga.
greeks are fighting to unlock the next tranche of aid money. ministers will be gathering in brussels today, putting this back on the radar. at issue is contingency measures the imf demanded greeks implement worth 3.5 billion euros, about 3% of the greek gdp, a politically thorny issue for a prime minister who came into power by promising he would oppose extra austerity. he only has a three-c parliamentary -- three-seat ary majority.re manus: anna, denmark warned -- what is that about? many asnmark is seen by a test case for the negative interest rate phenomenon that has swept much of the developed world. they had it for four years, and
at the imf is warning about asset bubbles in the housing market. another reminder of the, of how much of a frontier of the latest thinking by central banks on policy denmark is in europe. we will be watching closely. inus: anna, we will see you just under 25 minutes. can't wait. rish? rishaad: middle eastern companies and governments are o pening to the bond market. gcc members have been sounding out opportunities. our economy editor joins us. what's going on here exactly? >> well, these governments are going from surpluses into a trillionith nearly dollars projected in deficit in the gcc by 2021.
qatar is talking about tapping the market. saudi arabia said they will do their first international bond issuance by the end of the year, possibly a program over two to three years. this is something we will continue to see as they try to tap domestic deposits and the international bond market. rishaad: thank you very much. manus: also with us to discuss the bond market stories, our guest --welcome to "bloomberg markets middle east." there is a big demand for bonds in the region. abu dhabi, a $17 billion demand. this market is hot. >> i think, you know, you said it earlier. if you are getting zero on treasuries, negative interest rates, whatever it is globally,
if you can get 3% or more for double-a credit, why not? we have had a strong rally. on the jpmorgan index. down about 60 to 75 basis points. a lot of it is because we did not see a lot of supply, but in april the floodgates opened, with $5 billion, and now you have a pretty active pattern going. that should have some impact on spreads. demand will be pretty strong. manus: let's talk about the spreads. i have a chart set up for you here. we are down to 4.79%. my question is, is there more compression to come with this issuance? how much more compression could there be? this has,: a lot of the back of a rebounding oil
price, and a more stable oil environment, with less volatility. i think, like i said, relatively low supply up until april -- with newer supply, i don't think there will be a huge amount of further compression, at least not to the extent we have seen. i don't think we are going to int what we did way back january, february. we probably are going to be 4.7%, between 4.5% and 4.9%, but i don't think there will be breaking much wider than 5%, or much better than 4.5%. when you look a little bit deeper, and i'm curious to get your thoughts on this, the s&p cut three levels on saudi. did they go too far? abdul kadr: you have to look at the rate saudi was burning through reserves. they went through $146 billion in no time at all. i think that sort of scared a
lot of people, including the rating agencies. that has slowed down significantly now, and i think that has stabilized. oil is stable, subsidies have kicked in. the reduction of subsidies kicked in. i think the rating agencies are feeling a little better now. manus: they action got ahead of the curve? dr: they have, at least one of them. i think we are probably stable as far as ratings are concerned in the short-term. it will depend, i think, because a lot of this vision 2030 stuff, how it is starting to get executed, i think some of this will determine the direction of of ratings going forward, as will obviously oil prices. manus: the s&p cuts three levels. moody's goes negative on qatar. bahrain is already junk. my question is, where do i want to be in the region in terms of a little security and a moderately good deal? kadr: the one country you
did not mention is the uae, so obviously -- manus: i will get e-mails on that. [laughter] abdul kadr: that is more stable credit. a rating isdouble not under threat. having said that, i think saudi will be a first-time issuer and there will be some rarity value around that. qatar has not issued in a long time, so there will be some interest around that issue. i think in general, you know, investors, one of the things investors like about this region, despite the fact it is, has always negative headlines about geopolitics and oil, is that this region never had an issue with willingness to repay debt, and as an emerging market investor that is a positive going into a position. so there clearly is some benefit to that. indeed, there is still outsidebhara -- outside bahrain
furtively strong -- fairly strong investment-graded countries. the show to talk credit at any time. at maastrichter capital. rishaad: let's get more on the to be she making headlines. juliette: we saw mitsubishi heavy shares rise on the nikkei, lifting the nikkei even higher than it was earlier. the second-best-performing stock at the moment, up 7%. it was up 9% couple minutes ago as we got the news coming through on the wire. mitsubishi has forecast a full-year profit gain, a very nice pickup coming through in share prices, as we see on the screen in the intraday. it was up almost 10%. we are seeing those gains coming through in japan. a weaker yen helping things out
there. australia just turning positive now, up 0.1%. new zealand, a bit of mixed movement. have a look at the divergence between what we see in hong kong and shanghai, both on their lunch breaks. the shanghai h sharemarket down 2.2%, a hefty fall today, really to do with the fact that we have had the trade data coming through out of the weekend which has disappointed investors. in hong kong, though, we see good moves from the likes of the energy players, and a number of other stocks moving higher. index up 1.5%. good moves in japan and the mixed moves in hong kong are helping the regional index out, which is slightly higher. defensive health care stocks are doing quite well. seeing a switch out of basic material players. oil and gas is up 0.3% as we continue to see brent and new york contracts rising in futures trading.
having a look at other players we have been watching in the region, we see singapore iron ore futures tumbled significantly early today. fortis skew -- fortescue under pressure. raised topgrade, neutral. and a little commentary on the hong kong property market today, saying they expect house prices in hong kong to drop 25%, saying you should be buying into the developers as they see a little stabilization coming through in the hong kong poverty market -- property market. most of the focus is on japan, leading the region higher. shanghai very much dragging today. rishaad: thanks, juliette. coming up, the world's most secretive state, but over the
weekend pyongyang went public with economic plans for the next five years. a report from pyongyang is coming your way next. ♪
manus: welcome back. you are watching "bloomberg markets middle east." 10 to get you up to speed with other stories around the world. shery ahn is here. shery: donald trump has been speaking about taxes, saying his biggest concern is giving the middle class a sizable break. he said he is less worried about helping the rich. trump outlined his strategy last september, but acknowledged things will change if he wins and has to discuss plans in greater detail. he has frequently shifted his economic proposals, including suggesting he would not eliminate the national debt because he can renegotiate it. the new mayor of london has promised to work for all communities in the city, saying he not only tolerates, but
celebrates adversity. khan sees the election as a challenge to rising right-wing rhetoric, including from marine le pen and donald trump. khan was sworn in on saturday after beating conservative zac goldsmith. the governor general has formally dissolve parliament in australia after the prime minister announced a call for an election. the economy is front and center. malcolm turnbull wants to end a cycle of six prime ministers in eight years. the odds are close, with the opposition labor party polling 50-50. reports from india say authorities have asked interpol to issue a red notice for the arrest of a tycoon. the drinks and aviation mogul is living in the u k, and is set to
owe $1.4 billion connected to his defunct kingfisher airline. india has asked the british forrnment to arrest him to address his creditors. he has said he intends to pay up. powered by 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world, this is lumbered news. i am -- this is bloomberg news. i am shery ahn. rishaad: voting is underway in the philippines, where more than 50 million people are choosing a new president as well as lawmakers on the national and local levels. some suggest this election could be the most important in 30 years. our southeast asia correspondent has haslinda amin is in manila. there is quite a bit at stake here. he has said he intends to pay up. powered by 2400 journalists in 150 bureaus around the world, this is lumbered news. ihaslinda: well, a lot is at stake. the future of the economy is at stake. we are looking at an economy growing 6% on average.
it is no longer the sick man of asia. ihs says the philippine economy could be a $1 trillion economy by 2030. but that cannot be taken for granted. the next president will decide if the momentum continues, or if the country takes two steps back. if you take a look at the list of candidates, it is a dense list of people. leading the popularity poll is rodgrigo duterte, who is seen as a renegade leader. he is a man who is a self-confessed womanizer, and says that in order to bring the crime rate around the country down he will kill 100,000 criminals. the comments have spooked community of investors. if you look at how the peso has been doing in april, it has been declining.
well for the leading candidate of the presidential race here in the philippines. rishaad: we all know how hawkish he is, the front runner. is he hawkish when it comes to geopolitics? what are the indications there? well, when it comes to geopolitics, i think you are referring to relationships with the likes of the u.s. and china. if you take a look at the u.s., the philippines increasingly have relied on the u.s. to help it respond to china in the south china sea. duterte being the front runner is making things unbalanced. when the u.s. complains about a comment he made, he challenges the bilateral
relationship between the countries. geopolitics plays a huge role, and the u.s. is reliant on the philippines to strike the balance with china. following the moment in the philippines closely, and who emerges who will leave the country for the next six years -- lead the country for the next six years. rishaad: haslinda amin, our southeast asia correspondent. manus: the north korean leader kim and has announced a five-year plan, the first since the 1980's. he put the focus on energy, agriculture, and light manufacturing. our china correspondent tom mackenzie was in pyongyang for the party congress, looking at how north korea has changed under can's -- kim's rule. tom: the old economy still dominates in north korea. vast factories churning out basic products, like this copper cable maker in pyongyang. the country exports some
commodities, so far fewer now that its biggest trading partner, china, has banned most imports in line with u.n. sanctions. it makes money by sending laborers abroad and relies heavily on agriculture. but in pyongyang, there have been some notable changes. new buildings have sprung up. there are more cars on the road. there is a growing choice of shops and restaurants. we got to ride in a city taxi, operated by one of the country's multiple government controlled cab firms. even the public transfer system has seen some minor upgrades. we are inside the pyongyang metro. it is big, grand, and lots of people are using it. but they are still relying on these very old german trains. -madehave introduced dprk trains, and they say that is a sign of economic development here. passengers can also now swipe in
rather than rely on paper tickets. back on the city streets, there is evidence of a more significant technological upgrade. pyongyang residents are avid smartphone users, and can now choose from a number of different brands. we visited this store, selling one make reportedly produced here in north korea. $400op model cost around and comes preloaded with an android operating system and a host of apps, including five versions of "angry birds." but as is often the case in north korea, things are not always what they seem. blockedional calls are on cell phones here, and the only surfing you can do is on the government controlled intranet. for bloomberg news, i am tom mackenzie in pyongyang. manus: great reporting from tom mackenzie and the team. ow, say it for long enough and it is bound to come true. the prediction from the 1990's
on the yen's weakness comes to pass. se look at the so-called "soro chart." ♪
rishaad: you are back with "bloomberg markets middle east." just one hour before markets open across the emirates. what do you have in mind here? manus: i just wonder, are we going to keep the trend intact? we have oil rocking a little bit higher this morning. nymex up, and brent on the rally. the gcc stocks have broken trend, the longest losing streak . the bloomberg gcc 200 index. there is a belief in this new accession to power in the saudi oil ministry.
we jumped the most in over two weeks in our market here. 65% of companies rallied yesterday in the uae. volume is a little bit light, 65% of average volume. abu dhabi volumes were just a little higher. the relation between oil and markets is inextricably linked, though they would say it is not about oil driving the credit market. you are channeling george soros. rishaad: george soros, looking at what is going on with the yen. he predicted a weaker yen, comparing what's going on in terms of the size of the monetary base. the size of the monetary base, that has gotten wider and wider, nearly 100% of that of the u.s.. you see that in the white line.
the orange one, showing a recent depreciation of the yen. this will eventually make itself felt, and we will have the yen turning weaker. we have japan, europe, the united states, who have widened balance sheets, and we have not seen much in terms of liquidity injected into the system. china has an advantage in all that. when they introduce more stimulus, more credit, it works, and that works because sometimes it is good to have a command economy. so they are able to turn the taps on much easier than the japanese or indeed mario draghi or janet yellen as well. so that's really what's going on. soros is printing a weaker yen because of the size of the monetary base, nearly the size of that of the united states. manus? manus: thank you very much. anna edwards and i will be back
in just under a couple minutes. the dollar -- what happens next? our guest joins us for "countdown." stay with
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frederick douglass academy, young students are walking out because failed about the teachers and their system is the story for me. >> will, get to you next time. we are out of time. >> will cain, good morning! >> he gets plenty of time. >> he does! he is going to be on my show at 9:30 eastern. >> i know. >> see you later, carol. good morning. i'm carol costello. stories we are watching right now in the newsroom. this isn't the madness of the ncaa or university of kentucky had in mind. if fans did this after the semifinal what will they do tonight? cops in lexington and lawrence are getting ready. authorities have not charged george zimmerman with a crime but if they do a gun rights
group is ready to defend him. the widows of osama bin laden have learned what the penalty is for being so close to the most wanted man on earth. sarah palin is hosting tooed show tomorrow. it's already getting interesting. >> what are you doing to prepare? are you reading some newspapers? >> oh! >> and it begins! >> you can still turn that plate around. >> that's a fine how do you? a great start. here we go! >> debit card debacle. if you had problems with your visa card, more details coming up. as people head back to work, three lucky people possibly sleeping late and staying at home from work today. after the multimillion dollar jackpot find out what we do know
about the winners. taylor swift does it again. >> country entertainer of the year goes to taylor swift, everybody! >> if you win the top honor at the cma awards again, can we go ahead and plug her the new queen of country? we start this morning in kentucky. police are bracing for more violence. understandable after what happened this weekend after the university of kentucky beat louisville. yes, it took the fun right out of march madness. just a few hours from now, police in lexington, kentucky, will discuss how they will try to prevent a replay of this if kentucky wins or loses tonight. rowdy kentucky fans poured into the streets of lexington and torched couches and trash and cars. more than 50 fires and 20 some arrests. somehow no one was seriously
hurt. kentucky fans went berserk after their team advanced to the ncaa finals by beating instate rival louisville. tonight, kentucky squares off against kansas. win or lose, both towns are bracing for the tlethreat of violence. carlos diaz is in new orleans tonight and how the police are preparing for the aftermath there and also in lexington. >> lexington police are taking precautions so not a repeat of saturday night's violence. they will hold a press conference at 1:30 eastern time to outline what they are going to do. we know they plan to increase. no parking zones and tow away zones are around campus and there will be a bigger police presence on campus. saturday's fan behavior did not impress. kentucky head coach john calipari. >> the state of kentucky is so connected to this program. it's a commonwealth's team.
they go overboard sometimes and i think we twittered some things. i had duane twitter some things out, calm down and relax and, you know, come on, let's use common sense. but i was disappointed to hear it. >> reporter: let's talk hoops. tonight a matchup of basketball royalty when kentucky takes on kansas. these two teams are the two most winningest basketball programs in the history of college hoops! now kentucky is a huge favorite tonight and, carol, tonight's basketball game in the louisiana superdome will be watched by 75,000 fans. that's a record for a national championship game. >> thank you, carlos. now on to new developments in the fatal shooting of trayvon martin. the florida teenager whose case has ignited nationwide outrage. later today, the family will formally ask the united states justice department to review the conduct of the state's attorney who initially reviewed the case. according to reports the prosecutor overruled the police effort to file charged against
the gunman zimmerman and new doubts cast on zimmerman's description of the deadly struggle. audio experts have analyzed the 911 tapes and say the calls for help was coming from the teenager, not george zimmerman. the community watch volunteer says the teen was brutally beating him and he finally fired his gun after no attempts for help. the family has reached out to the justice department. what do they want? >> reporter: good morning, carol. they are reaching out to the justice department to seek an investigation into whether the state attorney had an inappropriate sort of interference with the investigator who handled this case, chris serino and want to determine whether he somehow interfered with the case so they say that they will file that request today and the attorney says that he expects to hear back from the department of justice. but keep in mind, carol, this is
on top of the veinvestigation tt is already happen. the justice department looking into this case and even looking into the police department to determine if problems the way the police department works spaelve with the african-american community here in sanford. >> so, george, i just wanted to turn to the audiotapes for a second. experts are saying it was the teenager shouting out for help. give us the latest on that. >> reporter: that's a new report coming out from the "sentinel." one thing, we also had those experts on "starting point" this morning. it's important to point out that that information cannot be determined with certainty. it's not 100% accurate. keep in mind, george zimmerman's family and his brother and father believe it's his voice on the tape. two audio experts listened to audio from the 911 tape and believe it's trayvon martin's
voice on the tape. take a listen what they had to say this morning on "starting point." >> we know this is not an exact science here but, in your opinion, what -- is there a chance here this is not zimmerman's voice? >> a huge chance this is not zimmerman's voice. as a matter of fact after 28 years of doing this, i would put my reputation on the line and say this is not george zimmerman screaming. >> can you put a percentage on that? >> boy, that's a tough question. i'm going to say about 95. >> reporter: so, again, he can't determine with certainty, but audio experts, two at least that we had on this morning and that were in the "orlando sentinel" believe it was trayvon march tip's voice on the audio. >> george howell, reporting from sanford, florida, this morning. a legal defense fund is being formed for george
zimmerman should he be charged. chris kossmann is saying he is getting overwhelming public support. crew members recovering after coast guard rescued them off the florida coast. two seriously hurt sailors are flown to san francisco for treatment after placed on a coast guard cutter. they and the rest of the crew were competing in the clipper around the world race. nasty storm hit and high seas damaged the yard hundreds of miles off the california coast. two other crewmembers were hurt but they are staying on board as the yacht heads for oakland. hackers may have tapped into people's account and a little while yesterday some visa card holders found their plastic wasn't working so well. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. should they still be worried today? >> fars being able to use your vooes a card, no. you shouldn't be worried today. what happened were two separate events that were not related.
so let's take the first event where over the weekend, some visa credit cards and debit cards didn't work for 45 minutes. visa put out a statement saying they were updating their system during the 45 minutes so there were glitches and visa said it's been fixed, the system is operating as normal, despite the fact some of these transactions were not completed. the hacking case. we first told you about this on friday. we got new details here for you. we found out that 1.5 million account numbers were stolen from global payments. now, what these hackers did not get were people's names, addresses, and social security numbers. global payments is this middle man when you swipe your credit card, global payments processes it aends send the information to credit card companies. it looks like so far visa and mast mastercard were affected but other credit card companies like american express and discover say they are investigating to
see if they were affected as well. >> alison kosik reporting from new york stock exchange. at least three lucky people hit the megamillions jackpot winning tickets were bought in three states. kansas, illinois and maryland. that means more than 100 million losers! and it only took a buck for the winners to cash in and get their share of the record-breaking jackpot. but we may never know who won because in at least two of the states they don't require the winners to come forward. >> kansas is one of the few states that allows them to be anonymous and we leave that up to them. >> i know many of you who played were hoping not to go to work today. check out the reaction and frustration from people on twitter. one user said, oh, megamillions, why do youion me? another said, i hope everyone that did not hit the megamillions jackpot has a great week. tos of you who did, you really don't need my well wishes. another tweet. jokingly said greece buys the megamillions ticket. i know. sad news for those who did not
win. tuesday's jackpot stands at $12 million in case you want to try again. viva las vegas rolled out the red carpets for some of country music's biggest names this weekend. stars hit the stage for the 47th annual academy of country music awards. carrie underwood hit things off ♪ so good girl why can't you see take a heart breaking listen to me ♪ >> wow! blake shelton made news of his own when he decided to, you know, poke a little. and take a little joking jab at the rumor taylor swift and tim tebow went out on a date! >> i guess the broncos were so anxious to win another super bowl, they were actually willing to sacrifice a virgin. >> shelton went on to say, now we know what he has been praying for!
awkward! taylor swift didn't let that ruin her night. she won the night's biggest award for the second year in a row, entertainer of the year. we're about to find out if sarah palin is a morning person. she is already a politician and political commentator and author. tomorrow she becomes a morning co-host. more on that is coming up. why many people called for george zimmerman to be arrested for shooting trayvon martin, one group is raising money to help defend him. we will talk to the person behind that effort next. according to the signs, ford is having some sort of big tire event. i just want to confirm a w things with fiona. how would you describe the event? it's big. no,i mean in terms of savings how would you sum it up? big in your own words, with respect to selection,
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a woman who has a political prisoner for nearly 20 years has been voted into myanmar's parliament. >> we hope this will be the beginning of a new era. right now emphasis on the rule of the people. >> officials predict aung san suu kyi and members of her party won 43 of the 44 seats up for election. this weekend's vote is considered the first legitimate election here in decades. the country has been transitioning from a military regime to a democracy. a russian passenger plane crashed during take out of and killing all 41 people on board including four crewmembers. it burst into flames and broke into pieces. 12 survivors remain in intensive care. the plane's data recorders have
been recovered and experts from britain, france and kraen canada will represent russian officials in the crash investigation. talk about a slap on the wrist. here is one. five of osama bin laden's relatives were sentenced by a pakistani judge for living illegally in pakistan. three of those people were osama bin laden's widows. zain verjee is in london with more details. face values it sounds like not much of a punishment. >> reporter: no, it really is. just kind of a little whack, a slil slap on the wrist here. the maximum sentence that these women were facing up were to ten years in jail and, instead, what they got was 45 days staying in the house that they have been staying in in islamabad under house arrest. basically, they have to pay a fine of 10,000 -- that translates to like $110, that's it! some have already paid that to
the courts. what is supposed to happen is they go back home to their countries of origin. a lot of people are asking why was this so light and no sufficient explanation from the authorities saying why it was so light. but that's what has been decided. >> well, they did give authorities a lot of interesting information, more details are pouring out from their interrogations. do you have anything more from them? >> reporter: yeah. the youngest of the three wives amle and gave a bunch of colorful details in a deposition she had given and basically what she said was that she lived with osama bin laden, along with two other wives, up until 9/11 happened and then after 9/11, everyone just kind of scattered so she wasn't with him for a long time like seven or eight years and then, finally, they hooked back up when osama bin laden was in that abbottabad compound. she says he had four other kids
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a group of gun rights advocates want you to help to pay for george zimmerman's
defense should he ever be charged in the death of trayvon martin. legal book.org is taking donations for zimmerman's defense fund. they want to defend florida' stand your ground law and make sure zimmerman has a fair chance and adds it's gotten overwhelming support. christopher kossmann is joining us via skype and in the tampa bay area. welcome. >> hi. >> you've spoken with george zimmerman's attorney craig saurn saunders about your fund-raising effort. how about he react? >> i can't comment too much about it. i have spoken to him on two occasions and working together and consolidating our efforts and about the most i can comment on it. >> to clarify, you're working with zimmerman's attorney? >> we are in the preliminary stages right now. and we are working together. >> did he tell you anything about the need for funds for
zimmerman's defense? >> no. he has not. >> how much money have you raised? >> i can't really comment on that at the moment, but it has been overwhelming. it's a lot more than we had originally anticipated. >> when you say overwhelming, can you give us an idea of what that means? >> again, i can't really comment on specifics, but when we originally released this, we weren't expecting what has come in thus far. >> so just tell me what you expected. >> not nearly as much as as we have. >> okay. we will move on. you said your group has gotten death threats because of this. tell us about that. >> we expected it from the get go. unfortunately, i think that anybody that is associated with zimmerman or zimmerman's defense has now become a social pariah. i think it's unfortunate because the people are crying for justice and i really don't think they understand what justice is. it's certainly not death
threats. it's not bounties on people's heads. it's a fair trial and a fair shake and that is what we want for zimmerman. >> your group is focused on defending the so-called stand your ground law. but people like jeb bush and even sunder say it doesn't apply in this case. why do you think it does? >> well, i can't really speak to that. i don't know any more specifics than what the public. knows. but what i can say is that the stand your ground law is there to defend people and their right to defend themselves. and so this law doesn't really need to be changed because of one isolated incident. it's a good law and no matter where you are or who you are and what your racial ethnicity is, you have the right to defend yourself if you feel threatened. >> well, of course, we don't know exactly what happened that night. we don't know if george zimmerman was in the act of defending himself. does that bother you? >> it doesn't really bother me. the reason it doesn't is because
we don't know. what bothers me is the public outcry, what has come out of it so far. we bleble zimmerman hasn't gotten a fair shake and that is what brothers others us. if it needs to go to try for justice to be served, so about it but judging him guilty in the court of public opinion is not the way to go about it and so far nobody stepped up to the plate and said these things and been willing to defend zimmerman and that is what we are here today. >> i'm curious. how do you feel about the other side, trayvon martin? a lot of people on trayvon martin side of the story would say some of the things you're saying now. >> right. i would like to say this is a tragedy. a teenager is dead. parents have to bury their son and zimmerman's life is irreversibly changed. we are ganting know ryity for donating to mr. zimmerman but what we are trying to do is raise awareness the doubt in his guilt. it hasn't been asserted yet. i feel when the facts come out
to this case, it's going to change everybody's perception. >> is it fair, though, that some are trying to portray trayvon martin in what some call a bad light? >> absolutely not. i don't agree with that or condone that at all, nor does our organization. i feel what happened prior to the shooting is irrelevant. zimmerman's background and trayvon's background shouldn't have a part to flay in it, because really all it boils down is in those critical seconds what happened. >> just a final question for you. i know you got to go and answer your phone. some people believe like to bring the issue of gun rights into this argument now, it just clouds the picket. it makes justice harder to find. i mean, why concentrate on gun rights when really investigators have to figure out what happened that night. >> right. i don't believe that we're necessarily concentrating on gun rights but what i do believe the stand your ground law will come into question whether it's proven that zimmerman is
innocent or not and we really don't think that it should. what matters is what happened that night between zimmerman and martin. the law plays a part in it and it really shouldn't be challenged just because of one isolated incident. the stand your ground law has been used for hundreds of justifiable homicide in the state of florida and it should be continued to be used, because people, again, no matter where you are, who you are and what your racial ethnicity you have a right to defend yourself if you feel threatened. >> well, others might say and i'll ask you this last question, i swear. others might say that is totally wrong. like what better time to review the law because maybe that law gave george zimmerman the courage to follow trayvon martin that night. i mean, what better time to examine the law than now? to find out if it really did play a part in trayvon martin's death? >> absolutely. and i think if there is a gaping hole in the legislator, that, you know, allowed him to do that, then it probably should be
looked at. but what i challenge people to do is look up the law. there's a specific part under the justifiable use of force, under the use of force by an aggressor that would allow anybody, even this fthey provoked the fight to use deadly force against somebody provided they used every reasonable means to escape the danger and still were being assaulted and in fear of eminent death or great bodily harm. >> christopher kossmann, thank you for joining us. sarah palin is setting her alarm comrork for early wake-up time. she will be on the "today" show tomorrow as not just a guest but a co-host. that story is next. it's clinically proven to give 10 years back to the look of skin. now for maximum results... the power of roc® retinol is intensified with a serum to create retinol correxion® max. it's proven to be 4x better at smoothing lines and deep wrinkles than professional treatments.
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deca decade. the dow is down a few points this morning. police in lexington, kentucky, will outline their plans to prevent a replay of this weekend free for all. rowdy basketball fans swarmed into the streets and fired on cars and couches over kentucky's win over in-state rival louisville. as kentucky gets ready to meet kansas in the national title game, its coaching is condemning the violent celebrations. >> the state of kentucky is so connected to this program. it's a commonwealth's team. they go overboard sometimes and i think we twittered some things. i had duane twitter some things out, calm down and relax and, you know, come o let's go. use common sense. but i was disappointed to hear it. visa blames a technical glitch for temporarily slowing its networks for about 45 minutes yesterday. the disruption was caused by a recent enhancement the company made to its system. visa says the system is operating normally now and was not related to a recent data
breach. still waiting to find out who holds the three winning tickets in that $656 million megamillion jackpot. each get $2 million apiece under annuity option. two of the winning tickets sold in kansas and maryland where winners are not required to come forward publicly. the third ticket was sold in illinois. sarah palin will be on nbc's "today" show tomorrow morning. nbc says palin will reveal a side of her you have never seen before. >> what are you doing to prepare? are you reading some newspapers? >> oh! >> and it begins! >> you can still turn that plane around, governor! >> great. okay. that's a fine how do you do? what is a great start. here we go! >> for at least an hour. in will compete with katie couric who is hosting "good morning america" all week.
the two have a history dating back to 2008. couric was was cbs news and palin was the gop candidate for vice president. >> i'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation. >> i'll try to find you some and i'll bring them to you. >> it was an interview for the ages and countless comedy skits. >> but, again, and not to belabor the point, one specific thing. katie, i'd like to use one of my life lines. >> you don't have any life lines. >> well, in that case, i'm just going to have to get back to you! >> it looks like sarah palin is getting the last laugh, miss fey.
lz and will are here to discuss. >> good morning, carol. >> good morning. >> hi. >> i've been trying to find a deeper meaning to this story but i have failed. so allhow about you, le? >> i don't think much of a deeper meaning besides this is what maybe sarah palin may have been doing all along instead of toying away in national politics. she is charismatic. i read her book and she is engaging in the book and pretty and smart enough in pop culture. i think this is great and probably something she should have been doing instead of running for vice president. >> will cain, you said she is smart enough? that is cold! >> it is. i have a little bit deeper meaning. as this presidential election drags on we see herman cain come in and say what is herman cain really a proponent of?
long past what is logically available for them to win what are they sticking around for? i think sarah palin answers that question. when she comes on and gets the co-host of "today" or her own reality show there are benefits from running to president than perhaps winning the presidency. >> you're saying in the future we will see a whole lot more people using our election process to get themselves a show? >> it's a shocker, isn't it? >> it's just sad to me! isn't it sad, lz? if it's true, it's sad. >> it's sad but, i mean, we treat the election process like a reality game show any way so why not let the contestants be contestants instead of candidate. what is hilarious to me about herman cain he runs and says all of these horrible and divisive things and he drops out and he starts singing on the stage with
stephen colbert. like no harm, no foul. i'm just like, dude! did you take any of this seriously at all? >> i just remember back when barack obama was running and there was actually a campaign ad that came out accusing him of being a rock star and that was a bad thing during 2008. and, somehow, it's an okay thing now, will. >> well, look. i mean, i don't begrudge sarah palin this opportunity at stardom, this chance to co-host "today". i think it's great. i will be on tv hopefully, until the morning but were i not, i probably would watch this and i will predict sarah palin will get the last laugh on katie couric and she will outrate her tomorrow morning. what it means is when they are running for president or vice president, when they are on the ticket, we need to pay a little closer attention, you know, analyze them a little more specifically to see if they have what it takes and if they
actually won, what the outcome suggest they would be, holding office. >> just made me a lot more cynical and i thought i was already at my cynical level, like the highest level, but no! interestingly, lz the last thing i'll say about this, like i've been reading a lot of blogs about this and they are sort of setting up this contest between katie couric and sarah palin as this battle between women. almost like -- i hate to say it -- a cat fight! it's kind of gross. >> you know, i don't think there is going to be much of a fight at all. i just think, you know, people who follow sarah palin are a lot more passionate about her than people who follow katie couric. no not on katie's career. in fact, it should be considered a compliment because she is such a well-established journalist. the deep of people that gravitate to her are looking for something a bit more media. sarah palin is a one-liner and people tune in to see if she gets her digs in and see if she will do something quirky and
stupid. i think that is kind of funny. i just think what sarah palin should have been doing all along, like i said. >> don't set your meter so high to offend it. i don't think it's a cat fight thing. we have rivalries men versus men and women versus women and men versus women. >> we are bigger than that! >> thank you for the discussion this morning, guys. >> taylor swift was flying solo for country music's biggest night but did not take her from taking home the biggest award. need any help?
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♪ ♪ ♪ you remember we were sitting there by the water ♪ >> so cute. one of the big hits that propelled taylor swift to the top of the charts. today she is sitting on top again as country music's entertainer of the year. . the 22-year-old is the only second woman to win that award
and the second time she has won. sho showbiz correspondent michelle turner is in los angeles. she is laengs. >> she is. two was the theme last night. her solo status came up twice during the academy of country music awards in vegas. she was supposed to go to the school with kevin mcgwire. his sister started a facebook campaign to have taylor swift be his prom date and she couldn't go to the prom but she invited him to go to the awards instead. well, he had to be hospitalized at the last minute on friday and he couldn't make it. so taylor swift said hello to him from the stage after she won entertainer of the year. i hope that made him feel good. her dating status, though, was also brought up when it was joked on stage about tim tebow and the rumors and he swift could be a couple. when she cut away to swift during the joke, she gave a
price priceless confusion. the rumor is they are not dating and just had dinner together. >> i think that joke fell flat. >> i think so, too. the look was like this. >> i know. okay. so vegas was rocking and los angeles was rolling because los angeles had the razzy awards. who was the big winner there? >> i don't know if you would call him a winner but i do think we can now crown adam sandler the king of the razzies. his film "jack and jill" swept the awards. he won for worst actor and worse actress for his dual roles in "jack and jill." in which he plays a family man and his twin sister. it won ten awards. it swept every single category. i think we can clearly say this
may have been the worst movie of the year last year. >> will there ever come a time a man dressing up as a woman is not funny? i just don't find it funny. >> reporter: we are going to fight about this. i'm just the goofball. every time i see a man in a wig, it cracks me up! >> you're so easy! >> reporter: it is! it is. i'm an easy laugh, carol. i'm an easy laugh. >> that's why we love you. thank you! is ashton kutcher trying to punk everyone? reports say he has been cast as steve jobs. nichelle is back next hour with more showbiz headlines. we are used to airport delays but not like this. something caused a scare and part of love field airport in dallas to evacuate. we will tell you what happened coming up. arrival. with hertz gold plus rewards, you skip the counters, the lines, and the paperwork. zap. it's our fastest and easiest way to get you into your car. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz.
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in police handcuffs. in oakland, middle school students cleaning a local lake found more than just trash. they found two bags full of jewelry and watches and candle sticks. on early start today, the kids talked about what is next. >> i think it will be great if the owners were found because i know what it's like to like lose something. probably not that valuable. >> yeah. >> and it's great when it's returned to you. so it would be really nice if the owners were found, but if they weren't found, then if it went to the school, that would be also cool. >> library books! >> if no one claims the stuff in 90 days the kids and their school might be able to keep it. the so-called three amigos meet later this morning in washington for the north america leader summit. the what, you ask? president obama will be joined at the white house by the canadian prime minister and the mexican president. cnn's athena jones is in washington with more details. tell us more about it.
>> good morning. this is the first time these three leaders are holding a summit like like this since 2009 when the president traveled to mexico. expect economy, trade, trade and energy and security will top the agenda. canada and mexico the two biggest trading partners of the u.s. and getting a third of our products last year sorting according to the secensus. we know the president of mexico plans to bring up issue of transpacific partnership, a trade deal the obama administration is trying to negotiate with countries on both sides of the pacific from chile and peru and vietnam and australia but right now mexico and canada are not party to the discussions. in statement the mexican government released yesterday as the president cal deron was headed here they said he planned to take advantage of this opportunity to take about this trade deal which mexico feel it can benefit from. >> let's talk about canada's pa.
you know the keystone pipeline, i bet it comes up. >> absolutely. certainly energy and climate changes are on the agenda, and that is the big outstanding issue right now between canada and the u.s. we know that the obama administration denied a permit to transcanada, the company constructing the pipeline, because of some environmental concerns in nebraska and so that company is now looking at an alternative route. this is one of those topics the obama administration has been under fire from from republicans so it could come up. they're going to have a, woing launch and then a press conference, and i bet you the leaders get asked about keystone if journalists get an attorney. >> athena jones. thanks. or hires another employee, it's not just good for business, it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact
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injuries are. state police say it was a single vehicle accident near fayetteville. he is the former coach of the atlanta falcons. jeremy lin, linsanity and the guy that probably inspired more puns than any other player could be out for the rest of the season. he hurt his knee and will need surgery. recovery could take six weeks. he is a free algt after the season so his career as a new york knicks might be over. 12-year-old tom char landing the first ever 1080 while skating the mega ramp, the world's largest skating ramp in california. he pulled it off on his fifth try of the day and then he did it again, a 1080 is three complete spins on the skateboard. he said it was easier than i thought. he is in the sixth grade and under five feet tall and weighs just 80 pounds, and he is fearless.
good morning to you. i am carol costello. stories we're watching new in t newsroom, this isn't the madness they had in mind. fans did this after the semifinal, look what they did tonight. cops in lexington and lawrence are getting ready. mega mystery. there are three very lucky people, possibly sleeping in late and staying home from work today after hitting the multi-million dollar jackpot. ahead, find out what we know about the winners. the "real housewives" of osama bin laden are learning what the penalty is for being so close to the most wanted men on effort. sarah palin co-hosting the today show tomorrow and it is already getting interesting. >> what are you doing to prepare? are you reading newspapers? >> oh, whoa. >> and it begins.
>> you can still turn that plate around. >> great. okay. that's a fine how do you do. that's great start. here we go. >> if you had problems with your visa this weekend, we'll tell you what was behind the holdup and if your car will work this morning. taylor swift does it again. >> the entertainment of the year goes to taylor swift, everybody. ♪ >> if you win the top honor at the cma awards again, can we just go ahead and call you the new queen of country? i think we can. we begin this morning, though, with a mystery. who are the three lucky winners that matched every single winning number in the largest jackpot in american history? it turns out we may never know. >> kansas, one of the few states that allows them to be anonymous and we leave that up to them. >> winning tickets were bought
in three states, kansas, illinois and maryland. took only a buck for the winners to cash in and get their share of the record-breaking jackpot, a billion tickets sold, and a lot of you that played, i know, were hoping not to go to work today. alass. joining me to talk more about the winning jack pot, neysa thomas, the executive direct for for the kansas lottery. how many calls have you gotten from the media in the past couple of days? >> i can't count them, too many. it has been so exciting. >> do you know who the winner is? you must know in kansas. >> we don't know who the winner is. they have not come forward yet. we know it was sold in the northeast region which is comprised of 21 counties. >> really? is that unusual that someone wouldn't tell you or come forward and tell you, the loiry commission people, that they won? >> i think that they have some things to do before they come in. we hope they will seek legal counsel and financial advice
before they come into the lottery offices. >> they don't have to reveal themselves in kansas, right? >> that's correct. >> why? >> just the way our kansas statutes were written. i think all the states are a little different, and kansas allows our winner to remain anonymous. >> when you deal with the big jackpots, are you seeing more and more people don't really want to come forward? >> well, in kansas we have had a couple of jackpots, and we did have one winner that went, that did seek publicity, and so it is just going to depend on the individual. >> okay. so what exactly can you -- you told us where the lottery ticket was sold. is there anything else you can tell us about the winner? >> not at this time. >> we're dying to know. >> i know. >> the new york post had the story that said this woman named melandi wilson in maryland won the lottery and they're going who? do you find that strange?
>> no. i think there is going to be all sorts of stories floating in all the states. >> this one as far as you know is not true? >> i wouldn't have any knowledge about anything in any other state. >> okay. we do know the maryland lottery officials don't know anything about this lady. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. police in kentucky are bracing for more violence, understandable after what happened this weekend at the university of kentucky beat louisville. yes, it took the fun right out of march madness. just a few hours from now police in lexington will discuss how they will try to prevent a replay of that. rowdy fans tearing into the streets and torching cars and couches and trash and 50 fires and 20 arrests. somehow, no one was seriously hurt. kentucky fans bent we second quarter after their team advanced by beating instate rival louisville. tonight they square off against
kansas and win or lose they're bracing for the threat of more violence. carlos diaz is in new orleans for the national title game. tell us about the police prep, what they're doing to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> it is unusual to talk about the fact that saturday's game was probably the bigger game for fans in lexington because they wanted to leet louisville, but tonight they're talking about having further no parking zones and also want to have a bigger police presence. they're going to basically blanket the campus. they might even have to blanket the campus of louisville, kentucky, because of the fact if the wildcats lose tonight the fans in louisville might be happy and riot there. basically, john, the head coach of the kentucky wildcats said he was not pleased with the fan performance after the game. >> the state of kentucky is so connected to this program. it is the commonwealth's team. they go overboard sometimes.
i think we twittered some things and ids duane twitter things out, calm down, and relax, and come on, let's go use common sense, but i was disappointed to hear it. >> reporter: so let's talk college basketball. tonight you have a matchup of basketball royalty when you have kentucky taking on kansas because these are the two winningest teams in the history of college basketball. no two programs have won more games than these two programs. it is a lot different than last year when you had uconn and butler. this year kentucky is the heavy favorite and a record-breaking 75,000 fans will be in the louisiana super dome to watch the matchup. it will be a very big game. >> you will be one of them. carlos, thanks so much. now, new developments in the fatal shooting of trayvon martin, the florida teenager whose case ignited nationwide
outrage. later today the martin family will formally ask the u.s. justice department to review the conduct of the state's attorney who initially reviewed the case. according to reports the prosecutor overruled the police department's efforts to file charges against the gunman, george zimmerman and there are new doubts cast on his description of the deadly struggle. auto experts analyze the 91 is tapes and say the calls for help were from the teenager and not zimmerman. they say the teen was brutally beating him and fired his gun only after neighbors ignored his desperate pleas for help. let's head to sanford where george is covering the story from there. we know the family reached out to the justice department. what do they want to hear? >> reporter: carol, at this point they want to see whether the department of justice will look into this. the attorney said he does not know how or when the doj will look into this but we know the request will be written and
filed today what they're looking into is the state prosecutor, norm wolfinger, they want to determine whether he somehow interfered with the investigator, the lead investigator, chris soreno in this case. they're waiting to hear back from the department of justice so see if they will move forward on this. >> turn to the audio tapes, the experts are coming out saying that it wasn't george zimmerman's voice shouting for help. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: two experts who spoke to the orlando sentinel and in fact we had them on our air this morning, and we actually heard from them, their thoughts on this. keep in mind with these audio experts, the analysis is not 100% accurate. it can't be determined with certainty. when you look back at the police report, the police report does say according to the investigator that the investigator believed that it was george zimmerman who was yelling for help and in fact his brother, his father, they say that it was his voice but take a listen to what the audio expert
had to say this morning. >> we know this is not an exact science here, but in your opinion is there a chance here this is not zimmerman's voice? >> there is a huge chance this is not zimmerman's voice. as a matter of fact, after 28 years of doing this, i would put my reputation on the line and say this is not george zimmerman screaming. >> can you put a percentage on that? >> that's a tough question. i am going to say about 95. >> reporter: at this point the audio experts, that's their belief as to the yell for help on that 911 audio. again, that can't be determined with certainty, carol. >> george howell reporting from sanford, florida. we're just about an hour away from a meeting at the white house with the canadian prime minister and the mechanics an president and they will talk about lots of things, issues on
the agenda for the north america leader summit including the economy, trade, and energy. hillary clinton, 2016? despite the secretary of state's repeated insistence they will not run for president again, her husband reopened the door. former president bill clinton says he will be happy either way. >> i believe that she is being absolutely honest with you when she says she doesn't think they will go back into politics. if she comes home and we do the foundation things the rest of our lives, i will be happy f she changes our mind and decides to run, i will be happy. >> during his interview this morning with good morning america, the former two-term president predicted president obama would win re-election by a significant margin. i bet you are really surprised by that prediction. republican leaders are back out on the campaign trail today drumming up last minute votes before tomorrow's big primary. voters in maryland, d.c. and wisconsin cast ballots tomorrow.
our political director is here. wisconsin is the big surprise this time around. >> it is. if mitt romney can win in wisconsin, he can help erase the idea that he can't connect with working class voters which rick santorum has done so well, carol, in this election so far. >> what are the polls saying. >> it is mitt romney's race to lose but the polls have been wrong in the past and we have be to careful. right now mitt romney is up in double-digits in some and single digits in others and does have the wisconsin republican establishment pinned him. >> he is expected to take all three races and for obvious reasons, maryland and d.c., tell us why. >> because maryland and d.c., if you are a republican and you live in maryland or you live in the district of columbia, your views are probably a little more centrist than they are say in alabama or mississippi. you might be a government worker. you might be somebody who works for a company that works with the federal government. your views don't tend to be as
socially conservative. they tend to be more fiscally conservative. if romney is able to pick up wisconsin, an incredible amount of pressure will be thrust on rick santorum if there already hasn't been to get out of the race. >> if mitt romney wins wisconsin and maryland and d.c., is it safe to say that he is going to get the nomination? >> no. i will tell you the reason why. yes, okay, if i am a betting man, i would say he is going to get the nomination. look, stranger things have happened and the fact is rick santorum and newt gingrich have both said they are going to stay in the race until mitt romney gets 1,144 delegates which is what you need to clinch the nomination. stranger things have happened. until they get out i think we have to play it out. >> mark preston, thank you. viva las vegas rolled out the red carpet for some of country music's biggest names. stars hit the stage for the 47th annual academy of country music awards. carrie underwood kicked things
off. ♪ ♪ why can't you see he will take your heart and break it ♪ >> wow. veteran co-host blake shelton even made a little news of his own when he decided to joke at the rumor that taylor swift and tim tebow had been out on a date. >> and now i guess the broncos were so anxious to win another super bowl they were actually willing to sacrifice a virgin. >> oh, man. shelton went on to say now we know what he has been praying for. the joke choked. we see taylor swift's face, like you didn't go there. that did not ruin her night. they won the biggest award are to the second year in a row, entertainer of the year. just ahead, a new embarrassment for president obama's rey lekds campaign. a volunteer fundraiser is accused of fraud.
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trayvon martin, we can all agree what happened that february night was a tragedy, but that's about it because the martin case has become about so much more than just a case of injustice or not. i am sure none of you are surprised by this. it hypotheses that become a political shrug fest. on one side msnbc's al sharpton has become the did he fact owe public voice for the martin family. >> what is messing them up is when they see young, beautiful
sisters and young strong brothers walking with their heads held high, with dignity, walking with pride and walking with integrity in tact demanding justice. >> sharpton's call for a boycott of businesses in sanford, florida, so alarmed some of the local branch of the ncaap they felt they had to set the record trait. politicians are wearing hoodies to show sympathy. on the other side rush rim bau, newt gingrich and rick santorum blasted the president for saying if he had a son he would look like trey gone. gingrich called the comments disgraceful. the conservative website the daily caller published trayvon martin's tweets, complete with rap-laced slang, and then there are the defending gun rights. ann colter says who matter whose story you believe the stand your ground law is innocent. >> the stand-your-ground law
only applies, only is relevant if someone had an opportunity to retreat and the law says you don't have to retreat. in neither narrative is retre retreating an option. it has nothing to do with the stand-your-ground law. this is simple self-defense. >> even with the state's attorney and the if i know the trayvon martin has has become less what actually happened and more about partisan politics. to top that question, why can't we have a rational conversation about what happened to trayvon martin? facebook.com/carolcnn and i will read your comments later this hour. also this morning president obama's re-election campaign is facing embarrassing claims against one of its own volunteer fundraisers. the washington post is reporting one of the 400 people holding the trusted position is accused of big time fraud. they say she accused of bilking a businessman out of more than
$650,000. athena jones is at the white house. what's the obama campaign saying? >> reporter: you know, i spoke with the campaign spokesman this morning and they're not commenting specifically on this case of this woman, this new yorker, who has been accused of these crimes, but they say that more than 1.3 million americans have donated to the campaign and we constantly review those contributions for any issues. this is from the campaign spoekz man ben la bolt. he said that some issues are easy to identify and others more difficult. once an issue has been raised we address it promptly as we will do in this case, and so he wasn't able to say what exactly they will do to address this and couldn't answer at the time whether or not they will be returning this money but they're certainly looking into it. we have confirmed according to the campaign website that this woman has raised between 50,000 and $100,000 as a bundler for the obama came pain. we know that last year they
donated $5,000 to the campaign and $35,000 to the obama victory fund last year. that's what we know so far. we're still following this, carol. >> i am sure you are still digging. athena jones live at the white house. the 22nd airline quality rating report is out this morning. when it comes to issues like your lost luggage, late arrivals and fare increases the report gives us a look at the best and worst of the 15 largest airlines. let's head back to washington and check in with lizzy o'leary. what can we learn from this report. >> it is about as you pointed out being on time, bags, customer complaints, things like that and we can tell you the top three year, airtran comes in at number one, getting the best overall rating followed by hawaiian airlines and jetblue. they have been in the news for other reasons and as far as customers go over the past year or so they are coming in in the top and when you look at the other side of this, this is kind
of the regional carriers, the folks who do smaller routes for the big airlines, so that's atlantic, southeast, mesa, and american eagle. they scored at the bottom for all of these things. that of course is on time performance, baggage, customer complaints. it isn't about safety. it is about how people feel about their airline. >> gotcha. overall what are we seeing in the industry? >> well, it might not feel like it, but they're getting better. the trend has been toward an improvement, and actually things have been ticking up over the past decade or so. one interesting thing to note, none of the big legacy carriers have been at the top number one in almost ten years. that shows you that a lot of the newer airlines, smaller airlines, more niche airlines tend to get better feedback from the customers according to this group of experts that get surveyed every year. >> thanks as always. early spring feels more like mid-summer in atlanta. the temperature today could hit
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going to stick around for today and in fact take a look at what we have in terms of our numbers. here you go, warmest march on record for chicago, washington, d.c., even minneapolis and also atlanta, detroit, and cleveland folded in and it is the second warmest march on record for new york city, philadelphia, and denver. in fact, that's march. april started off pretty much the same way. tallahassee yesterday was 90 degrees, one degree shy of 90 in sioux falls and joplin and let's see in rapid city 86. new orleans 86. one thing to focus is just because you have the temperatures in the city, there is some places in surrounding areas that may indeed have gotten into the low 90s and we expect the warm temperatures to be right back up and we may see them drop back down a bit in the coming days and on the east coast. good news, certainly in atlanta by the time we get to friday and saturday. should be back into the 70s. a little cooldown. not quite hard summer yet. a pop up of warm temperatures.
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political buzz is your rapid fire look at the best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. playing with us are contributors on the left, maria cardona. will cain in the middle and dana lesh. welcome to all of you. thanks, carol. >> you're on the right more than
the middle, aren't you? >> yeah. >> i knew when i said that i was wrong. you're right to correct me, will. first question, plit co-'s big heads line mentions a romney the democrats here and it ain't mitt, no, it is ann romney, the mrs. could she not one that ep hads her husband connect with voters? dana? >> well, i look at it like this. if mitt romney is going to be pose a successful challenge to barack obama going into the general election because mathematically you have to look at who the nominee will be at this point, ann romney, i like ann romney. she seems like a very nice load and he will have to lean upon her. he is going to have to rely on his wife to make up some of the gaps. i think she is going to be a formidable force going forward in the general. wives usually are. aren't they? >> maria. >> i wouldn't use fear to
describe what democrats feel about anybody in the romney campaign right now, carol. if you look at her as somebody who will be more apeeling to women, i would say yes. if you look at her as somebody that can make daper dan robotic like romney seem more human, i would say yes. i think she is his best asset. she is not on the ticket. unfortunately, he will not one pushing the policies that aantiwomen, antimiddle class and antiworkers and that will be a detriment. >> will? >> it is true, where mitt romney is cold and calculated and not terribly full of personality, ann romney seems warm and authentic and somebody everyone likes. with that being said, everyone talks about how little the vice presidential pick means. do you ever really analyze the vice presidential pick and let that influence your president you vote for? i would offer the first lady is even less import or influence.
no one decides which president they will vote for based on who the first lady is. >> wow. that's surprising. okay. onto the second question. sarah palin speaking of vice presidential picks co-hosting the today show tomorrow. matt lauer called her and could not resist asking sarah palin this question. >> what are you doing to prepare? are you reading some newspapers? >> oh. >> whoa. >> and it begins. >> you can still turn that plate around, governor. >> that's a fine how do you do. that's a great start. here we go. >> of course the reference her interview with katie couric in 2008 because katie couric will be co-hosting good morning america tomorrow. they're competing. will you watch palin, maria? >> i think i will watch her in between when i actually watch katie couric for real insight into the news and i think we're still awaiting with baited
breath to see if she can answer that question about what newspapers she reads. i think everybody that will be watching will be watching because of that. she hasn't answered the question yet. i don't think katie has anything to worry about in terms of ratings when you are actually looking at who you trust for the news. i don't think that will be sarah palin. >> oh, i beg to differ. i think katie does have something to worry about with the ratings. i bet you we could make a bet here that katie will lose that ratings race tomorrow to sarah palin and if you want to take me up on that bet? >> i don't know, will, last time you were betting you bet that rick perry will be the president of the united states. i don't know if you want to take that bet. >> there is no tape of that. there is no tape of that. she is charming. she can do high brow, low brow, she is attractive. she will be great on the today show, i would say better as a vice presidential candidate.
>> dana? >> i think katie couric is going to lose the ratings game just like she lost the ratings game the last anchor job and the reason she is hop scotching around. i think sarah palin is going to best her yet and this is the real war on women right here, the war on palin, the war on people like rebecca clayfish, and that's exactly what it is tax reform. i will be watching sarah palin to tune in to see how she does and i agree with will. she is versatile. you can hold her own and co-host and i was waiting for matt lauer to ask something like that, and he did not disappoint. >> he did not. time for the buzzer beater. 20 seconds each. md&a men dised mitt romney's father. it is set in the 1960s and referenced george rick santorum noi who was the governor at the time. listen. >> francis, tell jim he is not going to michigan. romney is a clown. i don't want him standing next to him. >> oh, guys, is this another
case of liberal hollywood striking again? will? >> not really. let me explain something about bias. bias ain't given to you overtly. this guy, i watch mad men, he is a political operator active. would it be a praise that a political would say something like that? this has no pretense so i am not offended whatsoever. >> that was deep. dana? >> i agree with will, but i don't agree with him. i can argue both sides of this. they didn't say george romney. they said romney. it is so surprise at all whatsoever that matthew weiner, the executive producer of mad men is a big time liberal. he was on realtime with bill maher discussing this the other day. you're going to expect something like this. of course the timing here during the end of the gop primary. >> tomorrow is the wisconsin
primary. maria? >> i sort of agree with both will and dana on this. it is no surprise. i think it would be interesting to see is any reruns of boston law or any other shows running when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts to see if any of those lines actually come out in terms of how foolish people may have thought he was. that should be interesting. >> we will dig through theault and see. >> maria agreed with us. we got her on record. change is happening. >> see, i know, i know. people coming together. >> a meeting of the minds. >> exactly. >> i am going to sing like what am i going to see? kumbaya, yeah, on the break. thanks for playing today. we appreciate it. >> thanks, carol. >> thank you. >> here is a great headline for monday morning. more college grads are finding jobs. allison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. does that mean mom and dad can say get out of the basement? >> they can only hope. yeah, if you have a college
degree, looks like hiring is making a comeback here. it is nts as good as last year. it is still double-digit improvement. there was a survey showing that employers planned to hire 10% more college grads this year. this survey came from the national association of colleges and employers and so it is yet another look at a more optimistic outlook than just a few months ago. if you put it in real numbers, almost 16,000 entry level positions have been listed for the class of 2012. you compare that to the class of 2010 which only had about 5,000 job hostings, so what we're also seeing are bigger job fairs at several colleges since these companies are scouting for more of these college grads. carol. >> what about the salaries of these new jobs? >> it looks like the paychecks are getting fatter. the median entry level is up 4.5% from last year. if you put that in real dollars it is almost $43,000 a year. not bad. don't rest on your laurels. kpeg will be darn tough.
employers are getting more than 30 applications per posting and because you also have to remember beside the folks just graduating, a lot of graduates that settle for a low-paying job during the recession or didn't find work at all so they're trying to sort of make their comeback and they're eyeing for the entry level jobs that are better than the ones they settle for. tough competition out there and the job openings are happening if you're a college grad and a better chance of landing one. carol. >> live at the new york stock exchange. something that looks suspicious cost the tsa to evacuate a dozen gates at love field in dallas. we'll tell you what it was coming up. and pepperoni breath? fight both fast with new tums freshers! concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. ♪ ♪
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tailor swift is just 22 years old and boy did she have a great night at the country music awards and she won awards, i guess the same award two times in a row. it was quite a fete for anyone but she is 22. michelle turner is here, in los angeles, actually, and taylor swift won the entertainer of the year award two times in a row. there was a really bad joke told during the ceremony. awkward. >> it was awkward, carol. it still has fans buzzing this moment, this morning. host blake shelton and reba mcentire joked on stage about tim tebow and the rumors they could be a couple and when they cutaway to taylor swift during the joke she gave them like a priceless confused reaction and the consensus seems to be that taylor swift and tim tebow are not dating and they just had dinner together. that wasn't the only time her single status came up at the show. she was supposed to go to the show with high school student
and cancer patient kevin mcguire. you may remember the story. his sister started a facebook campaign to have taylor swift be his prom date. she couldn't go to the prom but invited him to the awards show. he had to be hospitaled at the last minimum on it friday and couldn't make it. taylor swift said hello from the stage after she won entertainer of the year. i hope he was watching and made him feel better. >> i hope so. that's really sweet. ashton kutcher, talk about him now. has he really been cast to play steve jobs? >> it seems so, carol. he is reportedly ready to play the late steve jobs in an upcoming bio-pick creatively titled "jobs". i like the casting but some people may they he is not the right guy because it is not a comedy but there is a physical resemblance between ashton cusper and steve jobs when he was younger and "variety" says it will chronicle jobs rise from
hip i to ko founder of apple, and this is not the only jobs biopick in the works. i mean, listen, ashton kutcher is that hippy, that very smart guy, so i think he can channel that and do a good job with this. >> maybe so. we'll see. thanks very much, michelle. we appreciate it. some middle school kids came across an unusual and possibly valuable find while they were doing a good deed. we'll tell you where they discovered this treasure and what happens to it now. as more children are diagnosed with autism, the cost to care for them is also rising. we'll hear about the emotional and financial toll from a family living with autism. [ artis brown ] america is facing some tough challenges right now.
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checking stories across the country. the tsa shut down dallas love field for a short time after a suspicious device was near the cockpit of a southwest airlines plane. security evacuated a dozen gates as precaution and turned out the device was a student's science project and it included a small robot. a man who said he had a gun in his pocket picked the wrong store in grand rapids to try to rob. this is surveillance video of what happened late last month. customer who happens to be an iraq war veteran and knows martial arts wrestled the gunman
to the ground and holding him in a choke hold. he passed out and woke up in police handcuffs. in oakland middle school students cleaning up a lake cleaned up in a big way. they found two canvas bags full of watches, silver, antique jewelry and candlesticks. on early start they talked about what's next. >> i think it would be great if the owners were found because i know what it is like to lose something, probably not that valuable, but it is great when it is returned to you. it would be really nice if the owners were found, but if they aren't found, then if it went to the school, that would be also cool. >> more library books. >> yeah. >> more library books. as the kids said, if no one claims the stuff in 90 days, the school might be able to keep it. today is world autism day. the cdc now estimate that is 1 in 88 children have autism. that is a 23% increase since 2009. as more children are diagnosed with the disorder, the cost for
caring for those children is also rising. poppy harlow is in new york and we're talking billions of dollars here. >> reporter: billions of dollars. this number just came out late last week. we were shocked, $137 billion a year in the united states. that is what autism costs society according to a new study by autism speaks. the lifetime cost for an individual, a family, raising someone with autism can be up to $2.3 million. that's for someone on the severe end of the spectrum. 29 states do have laws right now requiring insurance to cover autism treatment. those are the states in yellow on your screen. still what, we found out in researching this, carol, is so many families still struggle to pay for the costs that aren't covered by insurance. i want to show you one, this adorable little boy, colton, you see him there on the plaza. we spent the day with his family. he is three years old, but eight months ago he was diagnosed with autism and first for his parents
came the emotional shock and then the financial shock. take a look. >> it is approximately $1,000 out of pocket a month. between everything, all of the therapy. >> it is not all covered? >> no, no, oh, no, it is not all covered. we still have co-pays. right now i have been fighting with insurance since like august to get him occupational therapy. we want to give him everything, every fighting chance that we can give him he is going to be something special. we just know it. >> they're doing an incredible job raising him, and they have better health insurance than a lot of other families do out there. they're still struggling. they have put off their dreams of buying a home with a yard. they live in a condo. they also tell me we're not sure if we can afford to have a second child right now. that's how much you have to put in after the emotional shock, how hard it is for families especially in this economy. >> it is not like their financial burden will go away because they still have to deal with colton when he grows up. >> that's the reality. that's what we take a look at in
the second part of this piece. we have it online. what do you do when your child gets out of the education system? we met a young man named clinton, 21 years old, graduating from high school in june, and what happens to him then? that's what his parents are worried about. also, what they didn't expect is when he turned into a teenager, some other things happened. he became more aggressive with the disease. he started breaking windows, over turning furniture, so he needs 24 hour care. parents are worried what happens when we're gone and this is, i couldn't believe this number, his mother told me he is 3,000 on the waiting list to get into a group home for adults with awe sichl tichl. it shows you the struggles the parents face from a young age all through adulthood, carol. >> poppy harlow live in new york. thanks. ahead, a high school basketball player says he is focused on staying modest even though he is being recruited by every top college basketball program in the country. ♪
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recruited players in america. the 6'9" center is a local celebrity at miller grove high school in georgia and those that know him well say he is unaffected by all the attention. >> he is so humble. >> he is really humble. >> he is a better person than a basketball player, and that's saying a lot. >> the guy is bad, it is bad on the team but if you have good character you can go farther. >> good character and staying grounded, not an easy task considering the number of high proceed tile schools pursuing parker. >> have you narrowed it down. >> duke, ohio state, georgetown, kansas, and kentucky, that's it. >> he started playing basketball when he was four years old. his father says he became a standout performer in seventh grate. >> went to the junior all american camp up in virginia, and he really did good, and he had good write ups. >> the next year before he even
started high school, the college scouts started calling. >> how have you seen things change from your eighth grade year to our present time now? >> the phone calls sparingly and now it is every day. it is a different coach. >> if we can fast forward and you can say something to the university to let them know what kind of young man they're getting, what would you say to that university? >> i would tell them they're getting a very, very, very special young man, somebody they can put the face of the program and put the trust in the faith of their program in, and he won't let you down. >> he hopes to study business management and journalism and he is the very interest of the a renaissance man in the making. >> he loves to cook. >> the hardest part now, making the decision. >> when you are in theym
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(backgrounds parade noise). >> and we want to welcome you, and thank you for joining our coverage. this is fox5 news at 5:00. our coverage of the inauguration of donald trump continues. you're watching right now the united states marine corps staff element coming in. the bands is playing right now. we are the parade is now in full swing. right here, we are waiting for the arrival of president trump and vice president pence in the viewing stand to actually view all of the groups in the parade. >> we will transition now into fox5 news at 5:00 and continue with our inaugural parade coverage. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >>
>> little more information here. the officers are wearing what they call their dress blue uniforms with their dress blue trousers, scarlet, hats are white, black trim, gold band. this is the home of the commandants, by the way, the longest occupied building in washington, d.c., united states marine corps by declaration of the second continental congress in 1975. excuse me. >> let's go to holly more which is more on the parade. holey? >> reporter: i can go back and forth with you all about the different elements you're seeing, good news about seeing the marines, is that officially, marks the second division of the parade. so, we've got one division done. we're on to the second. there is five total. of course, when you talk about the marines here, in washington, d.c. you talk about the marine barracks, it is extremely storied. and it is an
honor for a marine to be stationed therefore sure. as you all well know. that exact location, i believe, picked out by thomas jefferson themselves when they were planning the city of dc. after the marines, we're going to see several different parts of the marines come through. there is going to be the color guard. there is going to be active duty, and then you're going to see, it looks like, you're going to have members of the reserve. now you have the navajo coal toppers association, so guys, when we talk about diversity, go from the rains to the navajo, by border patrol, pipes and drums, here in d.c. >> that's right. we know the pipes and drums, the us board pear troll pipes and drums marching band, here in the district. their uniforms reminiscent of the us
uniforms of 1924. official us border -- i did not know it was official. >> did i not know that either. >> it always amazes me, i don't know it strikes you, all these military groups, their precision is so impressive. always so impressive. >> it is impressive indeed. i believe this might be the united states customs and border protection office of field operations and air marine operations. >> it is, it does look like who we've got going through now. and they are in part honoring fallen agent, the horses we are are told, are are work horses, assigned to perform in the rio grand sector of the state of texas. >> and following them the indianapolis metropolitan
i believe. >> shout out to the indianapolis police department. welcome to the nation's capitol. yes it, looks like indeed little hard to see it from where we r but it looks like that's what they're spelling out there. >> this drill team actually performs at the parade across the country, schools, children's hospitals, nursing homes, and the like. >> standing here on the riser watching the parade. >> okay, well, we heard paul wagner there. if paul would like to chime in, we certainly can go to paul wagner. paul, you there? >> hey there, tony, yes, i'm down here at the archives. we're on the south side of pennsylvania avenue. and i can tell you that this is the biggest cheer that we've heard so far since trump went
indianapolis, and it is quite a site. it is really fun to watch. >> paul, let me give this lilted bid, since i'm from indianapolis. the governor's mansion is actually in indianapolis. it is actually not too far away from my parent's home in indianapolis. that's probably why folks there were so excited, all of the folks that may be fans of the vice president coming in from indianna today. maybe many of those folks are from indianapolis, indianna. >> sorry, paul, go ahead. >> i was just going to chime in here a lot of fun to watch these guys come through here. i've never seen motorcycles with big red letters on them like that. so it is pretty fun to watch. >> pretty cool. >> yes, it is. >> twenty motorcycle officers overall, 12 of them spelling out indianapolis. and i should mention the travel expenses funded privately by individuals and businesses in indianapolis and around the country to get them here. >> this is not
they've performed in seven presidenal to them. >> all right, coming up. >> other thing i would just chime in with, guys, although it is colds and damp here, the crowd has stayed for the most part here along the parade route. but one thing did i want to point out is that all of the protesters that we had seen over at the navy memorial, there were thousands of them. they all disappeared, as soon as trump and pence went by. there is nobody over there at the navy memorial right now. so these are the hard core group, the people that wanted to see the parade. and they're really enjoying it, having a lot of fun down here. >> hopefully that will mean things will be peaceful for the rest of the night. we'll keep our fingers crossed about that. >> what you are looking at now the request tree al from culver, indianna, another indianna connection no doubt here because of vice president mike pence, who is from indianna. culver
they're wearing their uniform of blue coat, black writing helmets, black riding belts. >> they have participated in 16 inaugural parades overall, a favorite for inaugural parade watchers, particularly with the horses as they come through. and, you know, it is something that you don't see as much of as you did in years past, equestrian groups coming through, but always very popular. >> absolutely. all right, they're following with another indianna connection, columbus indianna. this is the columbus north high school marching bands from columbus, indianna. one of their well known columbus 9/11 ifs is race car driver, tony stewart, a member of the bands and was one of several major contributors to help with the fundraising to get them to be able t participate in this inaugural celebration. >> they actually come from the vice president high school alma
the columbus north is a ten time indianna marching band state finalist and a 19 time indianna concert band state finalist. let's listen in. (music playing) (band playing) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i imagine this has to be pretty exciting for a high school marching band to participate on such a grand stage like this, with so many people watching nationwide, and not only that, but to also be representing the high school of the vice president. >> and any parade appearance, you know, when these bands get the travel, they're always very excited. i know the m
big thrill for people. but his is something completely unique. something that literally the whole world is watching, this peaceful transition of power is something that does not occur in a lot of places around the world, and to take part in this is something that these folks are awfully proud of. >> this is marching unit from arlington, virginia. >> we know them as the tragedies assistance program for survivors, made up of widows, mothers, father, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and battle buddies of military fallen heroes. >> it is a hon tore have them here. i'm sure an honor for them to participate today. >> apparently many of them are caring photographs of the fallen heroes that they're honoring. >> they're followed now by the regimen band and drill team from north field, vermont. the teamma
from across the country. by the way the oldest private military college in america, also the birth place of the rotc. >> university is very proud of their drill team. it is considered a show piece of the university. and their team also perennial power house and us college and university drill competition. >> i think a favorite of many will be coming up here in just a moment. >> oh, here you go. not every day. usually the tractors. this by the way the rural track or brigade from he will elkorn
of american made tractors commu. those are some big wheels. >> they are. they are the world's premiere youth organization. believe it or not. holly morris. holly? >> around your neighborhood all the time here? >> these are some cool tractors. >> those are big wheels, babe. >> i my question: do they drive those from nebraska or are those loaded up on a truck, i hope? >> they actually left before the reelection was decided, hole. >> i they didn't even know who would be president, but they would be a part of this parade, by god. you know, something struck me that you said, tony, when were you like you know there are a lot of big parades out there obviously, the macy day parade. rose bowl parade. always an honor to be part of those iconic events. but those events do happen every year. this parade only happens every four years. and so, you
it all that much more special t. and, sean, i have to say, for awhile i thought i was actually in indianapolis perhaps watching the parade. there were so many groups from indianna, which is awesome, you're right, i can't imagine not only the thrill of being part of this, but then also having that personal connection. we actually, from our viewing spot here, have been near an anchor team that has been here all morning and evening from indianapolis, field anchoring all of their shows from here. and you can obviously see their sense of pride and being a part of such a great event, as well. but so far, i think that most of the people along the route here have really enjoyed the parade. it has been moving along nicely. and, you know, they're just taking it all in. >> i think they might be a little overwelmed with the tractors if i'm being honest. >> you know, they do stand out. dow want to mention, just because i like this name, there
represent many different rural associations, among the drivers is zip i due paul. he is the president of the american farm bureau federation and their 6.1 million members. >> they're slow moving tractors. >> and did not know they came in that many colors, right? trying to think of green john deer, but i've learned something new today. >> guys, i've got little breaking news here. we are seeing report now that the senate has approved the first member of the donald trump's cabinet, retired general james mattis as secretary of defense. again, is reporting that senate approved the first member of trump cabinet, james mattis secretary of defense. >> so zombies being done on this inauguration day, as well.
capitol hill. >> you are seeing now the university of tennessee marching band, making their way through. they're marching in their 13th presidential inaugural parade. they're known as the pride of the southland. >> and appropriately i think they're playing rocky -- >> i think that's what they're playing, at least that's what the script says. so i'm going with it. >> you know what? i think if everybody starts singing along as they go by then, then we'll know for sure. >> i'm feeling right about now, certainly not dressed for the weather, but it is what it is, right? >> at least they're moving. that's good. >> that is true, keeping it moving out there. and they're doing a great job. i know my hands are cold with no gloves on. so for them to be able to twirl and catch and keep their fingers moving, oh, that's a lot. little cold out here. >> by the way as we joke about rocky top, i did just read that it was recently named the pop
>> oh,. >> who knew? >> there go. >> i certainly did not know that. >> for those of how are just joining us or who have been with us all afternoon, but aren't quite sure what's going on here, we, tony and i, are right in front of what the sez stands, see the field right there, right behind us where shortly we are awaiting president trump, vice president mike pence, and both of their families, they'll come and they'll sit here and they'll review all of the different marching bands and the act and the parade as they come by. >> one thing that's changed during the last couple of moments, everybody is on their feet standing, so any moment now the expect the president to come through, the first family, vice president mike penned, and his family, as well. we have some military honor guard folks standing right at the door there, as well. so, momentarily we should see them make their way down to the front of the reviewing stand. >> absolutely. and just to gave you a idea for what's going on in there, they have blankets, they put out blankets with the official presidential seal on all of
stay warm and comfy when e are. i would guess they might give some heat to the president, wouldn't you? >> i would think so. hey, holly, let me know, is this still tennessee we're seeing? we turned away. >> yes. no, no, no, you know, a lot of volunteers there, right? the tennessee volunteer marching band, obviously, and looks like -- >> hey, holly, let us just jump in for a second. looking at video of the first family as they're walking from the white house. they'll come out into the viewing stand. you can certainly see ivanka trump right there, her husband, jared kushner. you can see eric trump. you can see donald trump. you can see tiffany trump. you can see barron trump there. they are all right now, the doors are open in the presidential viewing stand from our stand point. so we are waiting right now for the president to officially walk in, which technically signals, you know, us guys have been watching for long time it, signals the official start of the parade, once the presi
the box. >> literally, literally, you can't see the wide shot, but they are walking a path has been set there, blue carpet where they are walking from the white house, into the reviewing stand, and we can see them now, as they make their way in. >> all right. >> first family. as they make their way into the reviewing stand. >> there is trump with his wife, barron trump, followed by tiffany trump. here comes ivanka trump and her husband, jared kushner. you can see them walking in. they are being greeted by some members of congress, also, members of or hopeful members of president trump's cabinet. >> this is the fun part of the day. after they've -- here comes the vice president and his wife, karen. >> this is the first fun part of the
second fun are all of the inaugura but you've done -- you've taken the oats of offers. you've find some paperwork inside the capitol. and now you have come and you get to watch a parade in your honor. and then make your way to the inaugural ball later tonight. >> there you see vice president mike pence and his wife karen pence making their way inside. and i would assume that once they are all in, we will then see the president himself and first lady melania trump making their way into the viewing stand, last but not least. >> just want to let holly and paul know, we will come back to you shortly, we just want to see these pictures of the trump and pence families as they make their way into the reviewing stand. lots of waves here. everybody in the stands, the spectators here standing, hoping to see a glimpse, because a lot of
are standing at the very top of the stand, the bleachers if you will, hoping to see the president as he walks from the white house to the reviewing stand. once he walks into the reviewing stand, they won't have a very clearview of him. >> right. and the doors are opening. and they will announce vice president mike pence. can you hear the music playing from our vantage point? >> (music playing). >> vice president mike pence and his wife karen pence walking in right now. everyone is standing up, welcoming them.
>> as the pence's make their way to the front of the reviewing stand, here is president donald trump and the first lady melania, making their way from the white house, as they head to the reviewing stand. >> i will tell you what's fascinating, as we are watching the first couple now, watch them walk into the reviewing stand, as a mom, my eye is drawn to the young children who are already seated there. i am looking at their son, baron. he was peaking out of the window a minute ago, looking at the drummers. i'm looking at what are donald trump, their grandchildren. this is a long day for little kids. they're just taking in all of the excitement. barron trump right now looking out, trying to see what's going on. >> president trump giving a thumbs to up someone who shouted out a question at him. thanking folks, someone asked how it feels to be president of the united state. he gave a
behind us now. they a so chant usa, usa. they can actually see donald trump as he is making his way down this pathway into the viewing stand. >> well, he will, as they do, as they did with vice president, he will hold there at the door for a moment and then the announcement as he makes his way. vice president and his family waiting, first family waiving. a lot of protocol. you know, you learn on day one, a lot of protocol. >> a lot of things that they're going to have to go through. (music
>> ladies and gentlemen, the 45th president of the united state, donald j trump. and the first lady of the united states, melania trump. (music playing). >> hail to the chief. will get used to that. >> donald trump coming down to the front row. donald and melania trump, they will sit inbetween baron, and evan a trump, and her husband, and to the right of your screen there, vice president mike
in the front row. >> i don't know. >> and it will officially begin. >> i don't know if you can hear, but very loud cheers from those here in the reviewing or in the bleachers. very loud cheers for the new president. >> donald trump is waiving to the crowd, waving to the glass. directly across from him, we are in what we have said earlier the best seat in the house, directly across from him. but there are people who are sitting in the stands, in bleachers directly across from him. and he was waiving at them short time ago. giving them the thumbs-up. baron is now waving at them. every someone sort of moving into place. and even though we've been showing you many of the groups that are marching in this parade, the crowd, they'll be marching right down here in front of this viewing stand. the president will get to review
>> the parade itself continues. it is going on. there is a nice wave there. >> the crowd is now chanting baron, baron. >> are they chanting baron? >> they're chanting baron, yes. that was a chant for baron. >> time to enjoy this long awaited inaugural parade. now to tell you more about our units, our dod announcer corporal alex smith. >> the united states army unit today's parade is the army staff. the army staff is comprised of oscars from the active and reserve component. national guard, united state military academy, at west point. fog them closely w
united states army field band from our nation's capitol, united states army steel band known as the musical ambassadors of the army. the band was found in the 1946 with a mission to take the story of the army and its soldiers to the grass root of america. >> hearing the official -- more than 1 million people, they are the military's most traveled band. (music playing). >> i am keeping my eye right now on the reviewing stand and i am watching barron trump. his eyes lit up. he's tapping on his father's arm, dad, lockdown
they come. he was moving his arms like he was marching with them. so it is truly, through the eyes after child. >> so, you know, parades, i don't know if anyone ends joyce a parade more than a child does. i remember the first few times i ever saw a parade. i remember seeing the thanksgiving parade in new york. and it is just bewildering, amazing to see. >> well -- >> certainly the pom and circumstance of this one, got to leave him floored. >> and to be watching the parade as the son of the president is even more exciting. so commander in chief right now is saluting as first group passes by. you can see right now from where you are, there you see. now this is where i will tell you, the members of the military are told not to look over at
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(music playing). >> and the next group every fine young men and women of the united states army reserve, third transportation brigade, expedicious area command marching in today's parade represent the 205,000 soldiers who currently serve in the army reserve. upon hearing their nation's goal, these warrier citizens have served in overseas con ten jen is he operations in afghanistan, iraq, and throughout the globe. let's hear it for our united states army unit. (cheers). >> there is a look at the
president. >> approaching the review stand, the nypd emerald society pipes and drums. they have performed internationally in ireland, canada, australia, germany and switzer lands. they've had the discontinuing honor to perform at the 75th commemoration, the attack on pearl harbor, hawaii. ladies and gentlemen, the nypd emerald society, pipes and drums. >> the city of new york police department coming through right now. certainly this is where donald trump calls home. it is actually where his wife melania and son baron will return to because baron will finish out his school year in new york before moving to the white house. (music playing)
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(music playing). >> the first volunteer firefighters pipe band in the united states. organized since 1985. (music playing). >> firefighters also from new york. (music playing)
>> ladies and gentlemen, we are honored to have representing the project marching in the parade today. wounded warrier project is to honor our wounded warriors, wounding warriors and their families. (music playing). >> and right here in washington, d.c., disable american veterans instrumental in the creation of the american veterans disable for life memorial. they've been serving disable veterans for nearly a century, helping 1 million veterans and their families each year. let's hear it for the dav. >> this is the dav, supporting victories for veterans, as they walk by the review stand right now. guys are out and about, all about the city, whether along
else, we encourage to you share your pictures and your videos with us. use the hashtag fox5, sends it to us on twitter, post it on facebook, where ever you have. sometimes you help us see things where we aren't. we want to see your stories, we want to see your pictures, we want to see your videos, again, use the hashtag fox5. 5. >> certainly we've been seeing number of different groups from new york, which of course is where donald trump is from. where he is home, at the trump tower. he was raised in new york, military academy going by right now. donald trump is saluting everyone, as they walk by. up next, the maris marching york theme
>> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ (music playing). >> all right, right now in front of the presidential reviewing stand, we have been seeing the new york military academy come through. and they're being qualified the maris college band from new york. >> ♪ ♪ >> this is the maris college band and spirit team. the conductor and founder of this band is art kimmelburying is her his name, recipient of the us army legion of merit medal. >> ♪ ♪ (music playing) ♪ ♪ >> you can see right there, the first family standing,
watching, as each one of these go by. right now you are looking at the boone county 4-h equestrian drill team from arlington, kentucky. >> maids up of young people, well, young people, a wide range of people, from nine to 61 years old. now, we see the west monroe high school marching band, from louisianna. >> ♪ ♪ >> that's quite a large bands for a high school marching band. my goodness, a lot of, a lot of students out there.
. >> inside the reviewing stand the first family, clapping as the bands goes by. this is a very large band, i will tell you. (music playing). >> all right, next up, we have the texas state university strutters, we saw them earlier on pennsylvania avenue, absolutely fantastic. >> to perform in the people's republic of china. and these strut verse also represented texas state university and the city of san
marcos. >> giving them one right back. >> you see, tiffany trump, taking in the ceremony. >> all right, coming up next, taladayga great tornado band. >> from alabama. >> now, of course, this is the bands that we heard so much about leading up to this inaugural parade. after they were invited, there was a lot of back and forth, because they're from historically black college. many alumni who said they would not support them, go they decided to participate in this
there were positions to boycott the parade there. were petitions to support the parade. ultimately, the school and the band director decided they wanted to be here. they started a large fundraising campaign, to be able to bring their band here. and they're here marching today, in this inaugural parade. >> well, we are the beneficiaries of it, because they are absolutely fabulous, and, in fact, they've been rated in the top five of historically black college and university bands. they've received many awards, let's list never for a couple of moments. >> ♪ ♪ (music playing) ♪ ♪ >> watch a lot of the historical band, these guys are no exception. >> ♪ ♪
>> saw it a short time ago. >> (music playing). >> (music playing). >> arousing reception. you see the president clapping along. >> one more time, for the talladega band. >> i think you're right, tony. we are the
the band. >> yes. >> they're outstanding. >> yes. >> (music playing). >> this has got to be one of the biggest bands in the parade. a lot of members of this group walking through. >> section one, bow scouts of america -- >> all right. finishing out division one, and you're going to see this throughout the
scouts of america, th the natioa boy scouts of america from bethesda, they're caring state flags, from delaware, pennsylvania, new jersey, georgia, connecticut, and elsewhere. and you're going to see boy scout divisions wrapping up four of the five divisions of the parade. >> announcer corporal alex smith. >> coming up next the united states marine corps staff element. united states marine corps was created by declaration of the second continental congress. >> second division of this parade. and to start you'll see members of the united states marine corps. you'll see the staff element, the marine band, the marine corps color guard, and the marine corps reserve.
>> established in 1798. marinend made its inaugural debut in 1801. >> we mentioned earlier first stop is the president's own, is the name of the marine band, they're performing in their 54th inaugural appearance. they were established in 1798. they made their inaugural debut in 1801, president thomas jefferson. >> (music playing). >> their commanding in chief, and he's saluted them right back.
(music playing). >> each time they play for every inauguration, they're such a pleasure to hear. >> in fact, members of this band performed at the white house more than 300 times a year, and at 500 performances annually nationwide. >> the marines ... >> up next here, the navajo association, hailing fro arizona, they represent the navajo tow truck ers, world war ii veterans. >> all right. >> the navajo coat tuckers are up next. you can see them, as they're coming in right now. you just heard a little bit about that. they come from arizona, and they represent the navajo pro
representing the brave service members who serve vital roll in achieving victory during world war ii. >> we are proud to welcome the us board pear troll. >> of course great with native americans taking part in this great inaugural tradition. the small group, but they're very, very proud, very excited to be here. the director is hope mcdonald. >> they're followed now by the united states boards err patrol. the pipes and drums were right here at washington, d.c. the us board pear troll pipes and drums, honoring falling nations, the horses are work horses, assigned to work in the rio grand, valley sector of the state of texas. (music playing)
>> this group also received arousing welcome from those attending this parade just a short time ago. again, any group that is representative of some of the themes of president trump's campaign, board pear troll, increasing our presence on the border, veterans, as you'll see throughout the parade, receiving extra special cheers from the crowd. >> now talking about the united states custom and border protection honor guard. comprised of members of the field operations and air and marine operations honor guard. >> all right, i must say now, i just saw a big smile common vice president mike pence's face, and it might have a little something to do with
this is the united states customsd on. wait just a second. this is the indianapolis police department motorcycle drill team. as we saw them earlier, they're quite creative on those motorcycles. they, as you can see, they've spelled out the name of the capitol of indianna, indianapolis, mike pence the former governor of indianna. the governor's mansion in indianapolis, indianna. so this has a little special place in the heart of vice president mike pence. >> you saw there, he gave them a very big smile. obviously very please today see them here. they're actually, they're riding motorcycles that they actually use every day in their work, in their service. >> i was trying to get a picture there, but i missed it, for those of how don't know, this is my indianapolis. so i have to give them a little love, too, little shout out to the folks from my hometown o
indianna. >> i did mention earlier that the travels and the expenses for this group funded privately by individuals and businesses in indianapolis, and indeed from around the country. >> now it is time to welcome the academy group and equestrians from culver, indianna. >> you saw these guys, a little bit earlier tonight. this is the culver academy. it is equestrian group, from culver, indianna, also from indianna. >> they've actually participate in the 16 different inaugural parades. and look at the reviewing stand. vice president elect mike pence, not elect, excuse me, vice president mike penned, has a big smile on his face. as he is welcoming and saluting these groups from indianna. you can see the big smiles on their faces, too. they're looking into the reviewing
mike pence just gave them the two thumbs-up. got a big wave from the president, donald trump, as well. you can see the smiles on their face, as each of them look to the left, to say hello. >> and i'm getting the sense that some in the crowd are also from indianna. because every time these indianna groups go by, a very loud cheer. so perhaps -- >> the indianna people are just entheusiastic. >> there you go. (laughing). >> four thumbs-up from vice president mike pence. >> awe. >> (music playing). >> i'm sure hopeful, i'm sure you heard the announcer there, they said this one, mr. vice president is for you, the columbus north high school marching band from columbus, indianna. that is the vice president as
>> so you can certainly understanded the entheusiasm from him, and his wife, karen, as they welcome the sound of north band, from indianna. what a special moment this has to be for the vice president, to see his alma matter, the band from his old high school participating in the parade, as he's now the vice president of the united states. >> get this, not just here because they're from indianna. they're from this high school. they're fantastic band. they have ten time indianna marching band state finalist, and a 19-time indianna concert band state finals. absolutely fantastic. (music playing)
>> race car driver tony stewart actually a member of this bands at one point. >> those of how don't know, we are talking about indy cars, of course, the big thing in indianna, the indianapolis 500. playing america the beautiful. (music playing). >> from arlington, virginia. mother, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunt, daughters, battle buddies of military fallen heroes. >> we're now seeing representatives from taps, a group near and dear to many of our hearts, the tragedy assistance program for survivors. >> this bands is an unite every widows, mothers, fathers, brother
sons, daughters, aiends are caring photographs of fallen heroes that they're honoring today. photographs there in their hands. many of them waiving at the president and the vice president, as they walk by the reviewing stand. >> caring for the families of america's fallen heroes. they do that well. >> up next, the drill team from vermont. >> the talented drill team, considered a show piece of the university. the team is what they call a perennial powerhouse. and the us
university drill competition, and certainly they're showing off their skills and their talents today. (music playing). >> ♪ ♪ >> the hard lands of america is represented in this year's inaugural parade. by a combination -- >> oh, as we saw these guys earlier today, certainly, they -- certainly can understand that. tractor brigade from nebraska. rolling through with their big wheels. >> i love these guys. >> look at all of the beautiful colors. red, green, orange, usually, oh, wait, and the tractors wheels are shining, too. >> i told you,
everybody's all cleaned up and stepped up for today. >> look at barron trump's face right now. >> look at that. >> amazement. he grins so big just a second time ago. always a big hit with the kids. and the grown up kids, as well. >> these folks are caring the banner for the rural trang tore brigade members of the national future farmers of america, the world's premiere youth organization, very popular here. >> by the way america's farmers and ranchers crib nearly $180 billion to the u.s. economy each year. >> talk about the nation's heartland, and that is what these folks represent. and, you know, donald trump made a big deal, in fact, part of his inaugural address today about people who feel like they weren't being heard, that washington has forgotten about. and to a great extent, these
talking about, rural america, what some people rather dismissly call the fly-over state. you know, when you're going from the east coast to the west coast. that's what these folks represent. >> well, they are well represented here today. and certainly a big hit, especially with barron trump. >> i've never seen tractors in this many colors. >> there we go. the university of tennessee marching band. >> they call themselves the pride of the southland. they're from knoxville, tennessee. they wear as they march in their 13th presidential inaugural parade. >> quite a feat for them. >> than is a large group, if were you with us earlier, when we saw them elsewhere on the
here, let's listen to some of them. (music playing) (music playing) (music playing). >> to see these folks come through, and they look over at donald trump, and mike pence, you know a lot of the band directors, just performance, don'
seen on tv in an't h turn around and look. i mean, not only that, they have learned so much about the first family, as well. so they're trying to get a glimpse at ivanka trump, melania trump, anbar on trump. >> yes, yes.
it was marine personnel and for the first one, army personnel. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
they sound absolutely fantastic. participated in many, many, inaugural parades, of course. absolutely wonderful. following the band, representatives from the united states naval academy. yes. you're seeing here many talented young man and women from each company within the brigade of mid ship men since 1845, the united states naval academy served as the undergraduate college of the navy and marine corp and prepares mid ship men morally mentally and physically >> marching unit has 91 members representing the companies in the brigade. spring of 16 is representing the shipment and the marching
is led by midshipman first class george sigalo. >> members of the united states navy color guard as we make their way past the stand. >> you heard it the sheriff's department from california. >> 2400 miles to washington, dc for this parade. first organized in 1948. won significant awards and appearances over the many years. >> if their uniforms was a little different to you, that's because they are, they're vintage western style with
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whether it's a paul ryan or mitt romney from the outside. i think its hard for us to imagine, but that is happened in the past, and it could certainly happen this time around if they cannot coalesce behind one of these candidates after that second ballot. >> now trump and his supporters are warning that there could be unrest if he does not get the nomination. professor said that they need understand and respect the rules of the party. >>> well, after tuesday the next contest will be the democratic caucus in wyoming on saturday, april 9th. then comes one of the biggest primaries of the season in new york tuesday april 19th. that will be followed by more primaries the following week in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, another big one, and rhode island. and an accident involving an amtrak train has claimed two lives in philadelphia. two construction workers died and two passengers were injured. the crash is once again raising questions about the safety of america's railway system. >> amtrak train 89 started in new york city and was bound for savannah, georgia, carrying 341 p
whether it's a paul ryan or mitt romney from the outside. i think its hard for us to imagine, but that is happened in the past, and it could certainly happen this time around if they cannot coalesce behind one of these candidates after that second ballot. >> now trump and his supporters are warning that there could be unrest if he does not get the nomination. professor said that they need understand and respect the rules of the party. >>> well, after tuesday the next contest...
Your World This Morning : ALJAZAM : April 6, 2016 7:00am-9:01am EDT
there are no brokering thighs are not trump loyalists. it could be john kasich paul ryan. >> the centerpiece is i am deal maker. everyone is government is stupid and makes bad deals. i wrote a book on how to make a deal let me try to make this deal. i know how though make the deal. if he can't go to cleveland and make a deal where he walks in with more delegates and support than anybody else and some deal with somebody to put him on a ticket, it's not a deal maker. >> let's talk about, speaking deal making because we are hearing more about the toe pencial super delegate strategy in the sanders cam feign, he is lag as far as tell gas. do the super delegates look more tenuous for hillary clinton, especially if he goes in and how pulls off an upset in new york? it's doable. super delegates are in place. the question of why they would support bernie sappeders. et cete he's not a democrat. eats done nothing to build this party. we may agree super delegates seem weird, undemocratic, leaves a bad taste in our mouths but they are the party leadership. that's who they are. for them to tur
there are no brokering thighs are not trump loyalists. it could be john kasich paul ryan. >> the centerpiece is i am deal maker. everyone is government is stupid and makes bad deals. i wrote a book on how to make a deal let me try to make this deal. i know how though make the deal. if he can't go to cleveland and make a deal where he walks in with more delegates and support than anybody else and some deal with somebody to put him on a ticket, it's not a deal maker. >> let's talk...
Viewpoint : ALJAZAM : April 5, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm EDT
was running against scott walker and paul ryan. the hashtag of never trump has been working against him for quite a while in this state. he got out of here because the pollsn't have been good, but his message is still resinates. the polls do have ted cruz up with the exception of one outlier. what donald trump has to do is try to win some of the congressional districts. but this is a lot different than what we thought after the michigan primary where he did so well. another thing to watch, john, before marco rubio got out of this race, donald trump was polling at 33%. if he doesn't get above 33%, that means he wasn't able to get any of the rubio support he thought he would get. >> ted cruz and donald trump spent a lot of time trying this week trying to get john kasich to get out of the race. why do they care so much? >> reporter: well, it's a really interesting thing that is going on. everybody is looking to july in cleveland, john, and the convention. what they want john kasich to get for is different reasons. donald trump sees him as a impediment to getting enough delegates. but t
was running against scott walker and paul ryan. the hashtag of never trump has been working against him for quite a while in this state. he got out of here because the pollsn't have been good, but his message is still resinates. the polls do have ted cruz up with the exception of one outlier. what donald trump has to do is try to win some of the congressional districts. but this is a lot different than what we thought after the michigan primary where he did so well. another thing to watch,...
Fault Lines : ALJAZAM : April 8, 2016 4:30am-5:01am EDT
crystal's claims to gene ryan, the president of baltimore's police union, just after a membership meeting. >> do you think there's accountability for police misconduct in baltimore? >> there's investigations. there's been almost 300 officers that have been terminated in the last 12-15 years, and that doesn't count the officers resigned in lieu of termination or the ones that have been punished. there's a system in place, things are happening, investigations are done. >> is there a blue wall of silence? >> no. can i finish up now guys? >> what happens to police officers who are still on the force? we're following a couple of cases, where a couple of officers are involved. >> i can't make a comment without knowing the facts, if you wanna call here and leave the information in the morning. >> does this culture of silence make people safer? mr ryan? >> back in sandtown, freddie's god-brother brandon says the gap between police and locals is wider than ever. >> yeah we on! thank y'all! >> people trust the police? >> trust? nah, is there a reason we should trust them? they can't even give us a
crystal's claims to gene ryan, the president of baltimore's police union, just after a membership meeting. >> do you think there's accountability for police misconduct in baltimore? >> there's investigations. there's been almost 300 officers that have been terminated in the last 12-15 years, and that doesn't count the officers resigned in lieu of termination or the ones that have been punished. there's a system in place, things are happening, investigations are done. >> is...
The Young Turks With Cenk Uygur : ALJAZAM : April 4, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
talk in washington about paul ryan, the speaker of the house perhaps being a savior at the republican convention. are you hearing about people from wisconsin about ryan possibly pursuing that. >> reporter: last week i was in the hometown of paul ryan. we went to a trump rally there. his name was brought up at the event, boos throughout the hall. i think even donald trump was surprised at that. when you speak to republicans, people say, yeah, paul ryan is somebody we in wisconsin would be very proud of. paul ryan has said over and over, that he does not want to run, or be nominated at the convention, but he also said he did not want to be speaker of the house, so i think when it gets to cleveland in july that will be part of the conversation. the house of representatives may have a bigger role than paul ryan, if trump doesn't get the nomination, none get the majority, who gets to decide it? well, the house of representatives gets to decide it. >> and joe watkins as a republican strategist, can republicans win the general election if donald trump goes into the convention with the most d
talk in washington about paul ryan, the speaker of the house perhaps being a savior at the republican convention. are you hearing about people from wisconsin about ryan possibly pursuing that. >> reporter: last week i was in the hometown of paul ryan. we went to a trump rally there. his name was brought up at the event, boos throughout the hall. i think even donald trump was surprised at that. when you speak to republicans, people say, yeah, paul ryan is somebody we in wisconsin would be...
someone where it's paul ryan or mitt romney from the outside. it's hard to imagine but it has happened in the past and it could happen this time around if they cannot coalesce behind one of these candidates after that second ballot. >> meanwhile you have supporters of trump saying there are going to be days of rage if you go against the plurality of donald trump. and donald trump is saying there could be riots. that's a concern, possibly here. >> this is a concern and also a misunderstanding of the rules. these are the long-standing rules of the republican party. and donald trump's camp of course they want to say that the people picked the nominee. that's not the case. the delegates elected to the convention pick the nominee. if they're going to talk about violence in cleveland, that is a huge, huge problem. and of course paul ryan and others in the party have come out and made that case. they've got to look at the rules. i think they understand them, and they need to stop making these statements which really, really are so unfortunate. >> meanwhile, it seems that rules seem t
someone where it's paul ryan or mitt romney from the outside. it's hard to imagine but it has happened in the past and it could happen this time around if they cannot coalesce behind one of these candidates after that second ballot. >> meanwhile you have supporters of trump saying there are going to be days of rage if you go against the plurality of donald trump. and donald trump is saying there could be riots. that's a concern, possibly here. >> this is a concern and also a...
Ali Velshi on Target : ALJAZAM : April 12, 2016 5:30am-6:01am EDT
get off the street, i'm ready to make these choice, you need to respond to that moment. >> ryan runs "steps forward," the organization in charge of the city's effort. >> sometimes when we have systems that cause them to wait, you can lose that moment of hope. >> at last count, sacramento had 3,000 homeless veterans, they have housed hundreds by january, but likely won't meet the year end deadline. he said bureaucratic delays and lack of affordable housing have made it a challenge. >> it's not cheap, and it's difficult to acquire those units, and there's a certain stigma that's attached to this population. >> i enjoy the time i stay at a laundromat or somebody, i wouldn't let nobody know what my situation was. >> former staff sergeant, edward, quickly found out how crippling the va bureaucracy could be when he turned to them for housing help. >> it's not going to happen. >> honorably discharged in 2014, after 16 years of active duty and three tours in iraq, 39-year-old fach moved to california to pursue his dreams of being an nfl coach. he found work as an assistant coach at a local h
get off the street, i'm ready to make these choice, you need to respond to that moment. >> ryan runs "steps forward," the organization in charge of the city's effort. >> sometimes when we have systems that cause them to wait, you can lose that moment of hope. >> at last count, sacramento had 3,000 homeless veterans, they have housed hundreds by january, but likely won't meet the year end deadline. he said bureaucratic delays and lack of affordable housing have made...
Weekend News : ALJAZAM : April 3, 2016 11:00pm-12:01am EDT
are behind anyone of the candidates. and bring in someone like a paul ryan. if they can't coalesce behind one of these candidates after the first few ballots. >> zeino says they need to reason the party. cause of action on wyoming on saturday, april 9th, then comes the delegate be-rich primary. the following week primaries in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania and rhode island. >>> an amtrak train accident claimed two lives in pennsylvania, two railroad workers died and several passengers injured. the crash is once again raising questions about the safety of america's railway system. >> amtrak carter, accident involving a train. >> reporter: amtrak train 89 was bound for savannah sunday morning, around 8:00 a.m., as the train past through chester, pennsylvania, something went really wrong. >> there were big bangs and threw us off the chairs. >> the train hit a backhoe ha tt was on the tracks. >> the window got blown out right beside me and there was a fire ball, kind of a frightening few seconds. didn't know what to do. >> there was an explosion, a loud bang and the trai
are behind anyone of the candidates. and bring in someone like a paul ryan. if they can't coalesce behind one of these candidates after the first few ballots. >> zeino says they need to reason the party. cause of action on wyoming on saturday, april 9th, then comes the delegate be-rich primary. the following week primaries in connecticut, delaware, maryland, pennsylvania and rhode island. >>> an amtrak train accident claimed two lives in pennsylvania, two railroad workers died...
News : ALJAZAM : April 6, 2016 12:30pm-1:01pm EDT
thursday and friday. some good chances for ryan in the southwest where it is deaf per rately needed. >>> a huge pharmaceutical merger is off, pfizer is scrapping its deal with allergen after the treasury department rolled out new rules to crack down on tax inversions, corporate mergers designed to get around paying higher u.s. taxes. president obama championed the move. >>> more bad news for residents of california, the town there that has had a massive gas leak. up next how thousands of people in and around los angeles could be impacted. >>> and the havana connection, how the city of new orleans hope to rebuild a trading partnership with cuba. inform >> the only live national news show at 11:00 eastern. >> we start with breaking news. >> let's take a closer look. >> ali velshi, getting to the heart of the matter. >> what if there were no cameras here, would be the best solution? >> this goes to the heart of the argument. >> people out here are struggling and just trying to get by with whatever they can. >> new york city has a higher level of inequality of wealth than honduras and india. >
thursday and friday. some good chances for ryan in the southwest where it is deaf per rately needed. >>> a huge pharmaceutical merger is off, pfizer is scrapping its deal with allergen after the treasury department rolled out new rules to crack down on tax inversions, corporate mergers designed to get around paying higher u.s. taxes. president obama championed the move. >>> more bad news for residents of california, the town there that has had a massive gas leak. up next how...
county has lost half as many manufacturing jobs in 20 years. >> paul ryan, where's playing one way or the other. >> i'm not sure that he is playing a role. he has stayed out of it. and he said i want to be being switzerland and be neutral. he has criticized trump on occasion, and donald trump, when he was doing the rally in janesville, he brought up trump, and there was a chorus of boos. but when you talk to trump supporters, they're not happy with paul ryan over the budget. but paul ryan has a huge favorability among republicans in the state. and he's a rock star. >> . >> the new i do, how will it affect the voters? >> it has clearly made voting harder. people have to remember, they have to have some kind of annual i.d. and the hours for early voting were shortened as well. our editorial boards argued against that. but turnout is going to be very high. so at the university of wisconsin and other campuses and clearly in the city of milwaukee, there has been a real effort to get people out. >> schuster, donald trump and ted cruz are both telling john kasich, what are you still doing he
county has lost half as many manufacturing jobs in 20 years. >> paul ryan, where's playing one way or the other. >> i'm not sure that he is playing a role. he has stayed out of it. and he said i want to be being switzerland and be neutral. he has criticized trump on occasion, and donald trump, when he was doing the rally in janesville, he brought up trump, and there was a chorus of boos. but when you talk to trump supporters, they're not happy with paul ryan over the budget. but...
News : ALJAZAM : April 1, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
issue is economy and jobs. we have lost thousands of manufacturing jobs. if you look at paul ryan's home country, 18,000 manufacturing jobs in 1993. only 8,000 jobs today. what we've replaced those jobs is jobs that don't pay as well >>> your editorial board, the national security in jobs there, your editorial board has endorsed john kasich in the republican primary. >> that's correct >>> he has no math mat kal path to a primary-- mathematical path to a win. can you explain to me the endorsement. i wonder are you advocating in making this kind of an endorsement for an open brokered contested convention? >> i think any journalist would love to see that, right. but in all seriousness, we think john kasich is a thoughtful, smart politician, certainly conservative, and for republicans that matters. there is no way you can say he is not conservative. he is also thoughtful and independent. what we liked about him is that over 18 years in congress and two terms as governor of ohio, he has learnt how to work with the other side, and we think that's important. we also have concerns about, obvious
issue is economy and jobs. we have lost thousands of manufacturing jobs. if you look at paul ryan's home country, 18,000 manufacturing jobs in 1993. only 8,000 jobs today. what we've replaced those jobs is jobs that don't pay as well >>> your editorial board, the national security in jobs there, your editorial board has endorsed john kasich in the republican primary. >> that's correct >>> he has no math mat kal path to a primary-- mathematical path to a win. can you...
, more on this story. let's talk with ryan grimm from the washington bureau chief. ted cruz has told us that winning in wisconsin is a turning point. is that likely to be the case in your view? >> um, no. it depends. in behind site you can say that this was a turning point, but there is no guarantee of that. you know, trump has very favorable terrain all throughout the rest of april. not only is new york extremely favorable to him. but after that you've got maryland nearby, which are favorable to him. you've got connecticut and rhode island. intuitively they're similar to states where he has reported in the past. even though he's fading a little bit, if his supreme court in new york carries over, that's running the next five states. that's, you know, that gets him that much closer to the critical major that he needs. >> he has managed to including off any candidates. >> he faded a little bit in wisconsin. certainly you're finally starting to see a coalescing of the anti-trump position. that had always been one of his big advantages. that the people against him were not aligned togeth
, more on this story. let's talk with ryan grimm from the washington bureau chief. ted cruz has told us that winning in wisconsin is a turning point. is that likely to be the case in your view? >> um, no. it depends. in behind site you can say that this was a turning point, but there is no guarantee of that. you know, trump has very favorable terrain all throughout the rest of april. not only is new york extremely favorable to him. but after that you've got maryland nearby, which are...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : April 29, 2016 2:00pm-3:01pm EDT
on that. david: the focus has been on washington for so long jack lew has spoke about it. paul ryan spoke about it as recently as this week. emphasizing this would not be a bailout. what has happened here, why has congress been unable to come up with a plan? >> it is so complicated and so they are looking into this in realizing this is a spider web. everything is so interconnected and so that is part of the put order how best to back on track when there is so many different cuts of debt, so legal backings and repayment pledges for these hugerent securities and a collection of different types of bondholders, hedge funds, mutual funds, folks on the island. individuals. this: who is going to get hurt the worst? fundsis a combo of hedge but there are local credit unions that hold some of this debt and individuals, retirees that hold it individually through a broker on island. basic: thank you for joining us. still ahead. delta airlines welcomes a new ceo. what is his plan going forward as airline stocks continue to get crushed across the board. delta and all. ♪ david: this is bloomber
on that. david: the focus has been on washington for so long jack lew has spoke about it. paul ryan spoke about it as recently as this week. emphasizing this would not be a bailout. what has happened here, why has congress been unable to come up with a plan? >> it is so complicated and so they are looking into this in realizing this is a spider web. everything is so interconnected and so that is part of the put order how best to back on track when there is so many different cuts of debt,...
The Pulse : BLOOMBERG : April 13, 2016 4:00am-5:01am EDT
and get morbid thoughts on ecb. stay with the pulse. plenty coming up. count me out says paul ryan. he insists he will not run for president. we talked geopolitical risks. it is going to be bad news for jpmorgan and berkeley's -- barclays. what to expect. why a failure to freeze and -- what a bigger deal to expect in delhi. what a that's wife very to freeze .rancine: welcome back let's get straight to the bloomberg business flash with nejra cehic. nejra: shares and tesco are trading lower this morning despite reports of its animal -- annual earnings that beat analysts estimates. it rose to 1.1%. that compared with estimates of 936 million pounds it the uk's biggest grocer said profit will be held back by the cost of crude. jpmorgan has cut about 5% of jobs at its asia-pacific wealth management unit and refocused staff on serving clients with high investment rush holt spirit -- investment thresholds. it is involved mostly relationship managers based in hong kong and singapore. the bank is due to announce first-quarter earnings this morning at 11:45 u.k. time. usual. that is your bloombe
and get morbid thoughts on ecb. stay with the pulse. plenty coming up. count me out says paul ryan. he insists he will not run for president. we talked geopolitical risks. it is going to be bad news for jpmorgan and berkeley's -- barclays. what to expect. why a failure to freeze and -- what a bigger deal to expect in delhi. what a that's wife very to freeze .rancine: welcome back let's get straight to the bloomberg business flash with nejra cehic. nejra: shares and tesco are trading lower this...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : April 19, 2016 12:00pm-2:01pm EDT
by individuals in other countries. mark c.: house speaker paul ryan is refusing to endorse the bipartisan bill. saudient obama visits arabia tomorrow. you can see more of the interview with charlie rose and president obama tomorrow night on charlie rose on bloomberg. raleigh, of p brought north carolina has lost $3 million, according to the agency that promotes tourism. pearl jam joins a list of performers who have canceled performances in the state. boston, bruce springsteen, and regal start are among those refusing to perform in the city. global news 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. i am mark crumpton. back to you. scarlet: thank you so much. let's get to the intersection of market and politics, and talk about performances in the state. boston, bruce springsteen, and regal start are among those oil.ing to joining us now is bloomberg's chief energy correspondent. when you look at the strike on kuwait in its third day, what is the impact on the oil market? g. it is quite bi production is down about 50%. normally, th
by individuals in other countries. mark c.: house speaker paul ryan is refusing to endorse the bipartisan bill. saudient obama visits arabia tomorrow. you can see more of the interview with charlie rose and president obama tomorrow night on charlie rose on bloomberg. raleigh, of p brought north carolina has lost $3 million, according to the agency that promotes tourism. pearl jam joins a list of performers who have canceled performances in the state. boston, bruce springsteen, and regal start...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : April 14, 2016 7:00pm-8:01pm EDT
are not aligned with tax cuts to the rich, shrinking entitlements. all these things paul ryan talks about, these people don't support. but they vote republican. of somehow, the genius ronald reagan, was to bring everybody under this big tent and somehow bridge that gap during i think it is no longer bridge about. what form that takes, whether it is a third-party, fighting within the party, the party tearing itself apart, i do not know. but we are in a different world politically at the end of this election cycle than we were at the beginning. jeff: anybody from the other side of the aisle? jacob: four democrats it is different. now i feel the parties have traded places. when i first started writing about politics in the 1980's, the cliche was that the republican party looks for converts, and the democratic party looks for heretics. it was true. the democratic convention in 1984 straight from the union line, on a lot of issues. the party is more interested in vilifying you, then the november election. --ehow, hillary clinton was able to compromise around policies in the interests of
are not aligned with tax cuts to the rich, shrinking entitlements. all these things paul ryan talks about, these people don't support. but they vote republican. of somehow, the genius ronald reagan, was to bring everybody under this big tent and somehow bridge that gap during i think it is no longer bridge about. what form that takes, whether it is a third-party, fighting within the party, the party tearing itself apart, i do not know. but we are in a different world politically at the end of...
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : April 28, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EDT
the shortlist for donald trump? he has suggested paul ryan. michael: i would be pretty shocked if paul ryan said yes to him. charlie: i would, too. they were pretty much washington establishment types? bob: when we interviewed him weeks ago, he made it very clear he is going to go for somebody who is washington establishment. he specifically said somebody who has been around for 25 years, who can go to the senate and who knows senators, knows the players. if he sticks to that, as we know, he doesn't necessarily stick to things he says. i suspect in his mind he has got a short list of one for who he would like to pick as his running mate. he may blurt it out someday. they may actually hold it close and actually go through a rigorous process. i suspect everything we know about trump, he is kind of instinctive. as george bush said about himself, he is a gut player, and trump definitely is. charlie: is it a specific person, or the idea of one person? bob: i don't know, obviously. he thinks in terms of personality. you were asking the question about him. what struck bob costas and myself is
the shortlist for donald trump? he has suggested paul ryan. michael: i would be pretty shocked if paul ryan said yes to him. charlie: i would, too. they were pretty much washington establishment types? bob: when we interviewed him weeks ago, he made it very clear he is going to go for somebody who is washington establishment. he specifically said somebody who has been around for 25 years, who can go to the senate and who knows senators, knows the players. if he sticks to that, as we know, he...
said yesterday? paul ryan saying he in no way wants to run for president this time around. around, right?e paul ryan is not stupid. he can see this cataclysmic fault line developing in the party and knows that perhaps this time to sit out is the best possible option for him. moved -- effectively removed himself from the process. you hear speculation about all sorts of names as a compromise candidate if we go to a convention with donald true cruz. or ted paul ryan was this name always the last chance, the last straw for this establishment. they have three options available to them. they may have to settle on one of them. . lisa: megan murphy, thank you so much. more on the race for the white house later today with "with all due respect" 5:00 p.m. eastern time bloomberg television. david: facebook banking on virtual reality and its messenger service. francisco for more. ♪ lisa: this is "bloomberg markets ." let's head to the markets desk julie hyman is looking at consumer tech, wearable and otherwise. julie: looking at go pro first of all because it's having a big gain in today's
said yesterday? paul ryan saying he in no way wants to run for president this time around. around, right?e paul ryan is not stupid. he can see this cataclysmic fault line developing in the party and knows that perhaps this time to sit out is the best possible option for him. moved -- effectively removed himself from the process. you hear speculation about all sorts of names as a compromise candidate if we go to a convention with donald true cruz. or ted paul ryan was this name always the last...
Countdown : BLOOMBERG : April 15, 2016 1:00am-2:31am EDT
test says he expects more. amidst the russian ruble exchange route, he spoke especially to ryan chilcote, who joins us now great tell us the details. ryan: russian banks have become pretty accustomed to the fact that the ruble is volatile. time last year when it moved by 50% in four minutes. one russian bank said something is strange. and we think we are involved. they contacted a cyber security country. said, yes, you were hacked. and they placed half $1 billion worth of trades on your system. what caused the ruble to move. what we are seeing is a real rise and i think cyber crimes committed extent that one the biggest experts says that it is now getting the point where cybercrime, on occasion, equates to cyber terrorism. have a listen. i am afraid that this will be leading to more wars. they are criminals. they understood that they are able to attack even very well protected networks. i am afraid that the next step is the attack. availableology is because the criminals, they work for money. i'm afraid about the bad guys, that they will employ professional criminals to hack fin
test says he expects more. amidst the russian ruble exchange route, he spoke especially to ryan chilcote, who joins us now great tell us the details. ryan: russian banks have become pretty accustomed to the fact that the ruble is volatile. time last year when it moved by 50% in four minutes. one russian bank said something is strange. and we think we are involved. they contacted a cyber security country. said, yes, you were hacked. and they placed half $1 billion worth of trades on your...
With All Due Respect : BLOOMBERG : April 19, 2016 5:00pm-6:01pm EDT
on the day paul ryan announced he was not going to run. if either one of them picks up meaningful delegates, it will be a success for them. john: i will say john weaver had some secret master plans. upstate anywhere. say i had aoff and plan. bernie sanders a big win, his sixth straight victory was seen as a big setback for a frustrated clinton campaign that would have much rather been pivoting to the general election message. on what hasesher happened in the two weeks since then. >> how do you get on the subway? for clinton, big apple sites. or sanders, big apple crowds. 28,000 supporters. >> a debate about qualification. >> she has a technique for being unqualified. the transcript of the speeches with goldman sachs. >> bernie sanders did get to meet with the pope. democratic -- >> time to vote. prise of the questions, assuming hillary clinton wins, what has gone right? mike: a campaign senator moving for reelection, lots of symbolic events and had surrogates galore from all parts of the beautiful mosaic that is new york on her behalf. john: the point i made yesterday, bernie sand
on the day paul ryan announced he was not going to run. if either one of them picks up meaningful delegates, it will be a success for them. john: i will say john weaver had some secret master plans. upstate anywhere. say i had aoff and plan. bernie sanders a big win, his sixth straight victory was seen as a big setback for a frustrated clinton campaign that would have much rather been pivoting to the general election message. on what hasesher happened in the two weeks since then. >> how...
. house speaker paul ryan ruled out a 2016 presidential bid at a press conference today. the announcement comes after weeks of speculation he would accept the nomination at a contested republican convention. addressing the republican national committee, speaker ryan said delegates should choose someone who participated in the primaries. >> count me out. i simply believe that, if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president, you should actually run for it. i chose not to do this. therefore, i should not be considered. period. end of story. charlie: joining me now from washington is al hunt of bloomberg view. here in new york, dan senor, an advisor to mitt romney and paul ryan's campaign. he and paul ryan are good friends. i am pleased to have both of them here. al, i go with this one question. one, why did he say that today? and, b, does he mean it? if in fact, the republican party came to him and said, you have to do this for the sake of the party and for the sake of the country? al: he does mean it. he did it today not as news but as a confirmation of what h
. house speaker paul ryan ruled out a 2016 presidential bid at a press conference today. the announcement comes after weeks of speculation he would accept the nomination at a contested republican convention. addressing the republican national committee, speaker ryan said delegates should choose someone who participated in the primaries. >> count me out. i simply believe that, if you want to be the nominee for our party, to be the president, you should actually run for it. i chose not to...
house. in this case, the titular head of the party is either mitt romney, the past nominee, or paul ryan, the ranking republican in the country, or perhaps it could be reince priebus. or it could be a combination of priebus, ryan, and mitt romney's saying that donald trump will be the nominee of the republican party. mark: is it possible that any of those three guys could or would say that, or would send that kind of signal, until trump goes mathematically over? guest: i think reince priebus and speaker ryan, i don't think they would unnecessarily damage the person who would be the nominee of the party. piling on the obvious when he is on the precipice of hitting that magic number of 1237 serves nobody's purpose. mark: so he wins indiana, can you imagine a world where trump calls priebus and says, i'm getting this. you and i should meet, and you should send a signal that says this things over. guest: it would be totally appropriate for him to do so. i think priebus would check with the republican national committee. but if you check where trump is today, roughly 1000 delegates, he is goi
house. in this case, the titular head of the party is either mitt romney, the past nominee, or paul ryan, the ranking republican in the country, or perhaps it could be reince priebus. or it could be a combination of priebus, ryan, and mitt romney's saying that donald trump will be the nominee of the republican party. mark: is it possible that any of those three guys could or would say that, or would send that kind of signal, until trump goes mathematically over? guest: i think reince priebus...
performance last year. the carmaker is holding a press conference right now. ryan chilcote has been monitoring it all. they put a figure, but it is not a -- recalls are going as planned. ryan: we get the vw group numbers for fourth quarter for the year. what we are getting insight into that investors will be interested in. today is the figures of the vw brand itself. volkswagen cars within the stable of the 12 brands that the volkswagen group has has been in particular -- a particular focus for investors here it it is always had pre-emissions prices, a probability problem. raising the operating profit margin to 6%. it was 2.5% in 2014. they just announced it fell in 2015 to 2%. that is because of the emissions scandal. they are selling more cars, revenue figures are doing well, but obviously this has cost them a whole lot. investors thought the number might come in sub 3%. 2% has been very upsetting. a lot of people think they could've handled the crisis better. ryan: absolutely. this has not gone very swimmingly for them. you can see that when i was at the press conference last wee
performance last year. the carmaker is holding a press conference right now. ryan chilcote has been monitoring it all. they put a figure, but it is not a -- recalls are going as planned. ryan: we get the vw group numbers for fourth quarter for the year. what we are getting insight into that investors will be interested in. today is the figures of the vw brand itself. volkswagen cars within the stable of the 12 brands that the volkswagen group has has been in particular -- a particular focus...
Bloomberg Best : BLOOMBERG : April 30, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm EDT
longer-term? ryan: one of the big takeaways from bp is they are repositioning their business to keep cash flow positive at a price range between $50 and $55 a barrel for oil. that is on the back of the company preparing for oil. $60 in order for to be profitable, they were anticipating $60 a barrel next year. to be able to pay the dividend without having to borrow money. what they are doing in this earnings statement is saying, we are recalibrating the company so we can make sure we can ensure the dividend for you, even if the oil price is as low as $50 a barrel. emily: t-mobile earnings out, beating estimates for earnings and revenue. you summed up verizon's earnings in a call and a wrap. how would you wrap t-mobile's takeaways? john: 12 quarters in a row, we grew customers. the model is working. we are now generating huge service revenue. it is leading to cash flow growth. this machine is working, stay out of the way as we will not stop. emily: amazon shares popping over 12% in extended training. the e-commerce giant reported just over $29 billion, up 28% year-over-year. operating profi
longer-term? ryan: one of the big takeaways from bp is they are repositioning their business to keep cash flow positive at a price range between $50 and $55 a barrel for oil. that is on the back of the company preparing for oil. $60 in order for to be profitable, they were anticipating $60 a barrel next year. to be able to pay the dividend without having to borrow money. what they are doing in this earnings statement is saying, we are recalibrating the company so we can make sure we can ensure...
will perform. ryan chilcote is our oil reporter. let's talk about the oil price. the oil story is not entirely new. why is the market expecting such poor numbers? ryan: the drop in the oil prices are starting to get born out for the oil producers. that is what we are likely to see this quarter. no-brainer part of looking at bps earnings -- we have seen the crude price dropped erratically. the first quarter, the average price for a barrel, was $35 of there'll. the lowest we have seen in 12 years. to you have the graft there you're right that demonstrates that. that is also a drop year on year from first quarter of last year to the first quarter of this year. $35 a barrel.o repeat share price follows the share price-- bp follows the price of crude pretty closely. refining margins. they have been the safety net and the natural hedge for the crude producers. they tend to do well when oil prices are low. in the first quarter of this year, many think we had an imperfect storm when we had mild weather in the u.s., not as cold as it could have been in the same thing in europe and less demand
will perform. ryan chilcote is our oil reporter. let's talk about the oil price. the oil story is not entirely new. why is the market expecting such poor numbers? ryan: the drop in the oil prices are starting to get born out for the oil producers. that is what we are likely to see this quarter. no-brainer part of looking at bps earnings -- we have seen the crude price dropped erratically. the first quarter, the average price for a barrel, was $35 of there'll. the lowest we have seen in 12...
Bloomberg Go : BLOOMBERG : April 29, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EDT
ryan is in support of having some sort of responsible solution, the obama administration and the treasury department are in favor of this. we don't think it is a bailout. it is not injecting money into puerto rico, but talking about some kind of fiscal oversight. jonathan: managing of moody's finance. thank you. battle of the the charts coming up, how oil companies performed in the decline of oil prices. ♪ david: the battle of the chart is an old country, new country about. >> is he from the old country? [indiscernible] david: mark, you go first. matt: -- experiencingecb reaping the required fruit? this is a wonderful chart. look at the white line. this is the expansion of the ecb balance sheet since 2014. it has gone up by a whopping 3 trillion euros to 3 trillion more. what is happening to inflation? it is lifting inflation. check out the yellow line. inflation and the euro declined by 2.4%, and since it settled by 6% in january last year, it has become a negative number on this occasion. it hasn't been at the 2% dotted line since the beginning of 2013. can i give draghi some
ryan is in support of having some sort of responsible solution, the obama administration and the treasury department are in favor of this. we don't think it is a bailout. it is not injecting money into puerto rico, but talking about some kind of fiscal oversight. jonathan: managing of moody's finance. thank you. battle of the the charts coming up, how oil companies performed in the decline of oil prices. ♪ david: the battle of the chart is an old country, new country about. >> is he...
Bloomberg Best : BLOOMBERG : April 16, 2016 8:00am-9:01am EDT
floated names as a potential running mate and paul ryan said count him out. bernie sanders had a huge rally in new york washington square park and the democrats held the debate in brooklyn. the new york state primary on tuesday, donald trump and hillary clinton beginning commanding leads in the public polling, not just in the empire state but in the other northeastern states voting next. new polls from the ps university and emerson
Charlie Rose : BLOOMBERG : April 5, 2016 10:00pm-11:01pm EDT
the floor and you have alienated summary people, it could turn into a paul ryan or a mitt romney because the relationships are not there. charlie: would he support paul ryan? robert: probably not. he threatened to do a third-party bid. charlie: very late in the game to do that. robert: very late in the game to do that. his campaign says they will have an argument to make, if they are 30 delegates away, 50 delegates. it is, in effect, their nomination. charlie: do think he will destroy the republican party because they will be threatened at the house and the senate level? robert: he could create sweeping change in the house. how are they going to win? you look at trump's members -- numbers in the philadelphia suburbs. charlie: could he entertain the idea that he might destroy the republican party? in other words, does he sit down and say, are they right, mi i perhaps notm good for this? robert: no, that is not his way. charlie: his way is to be overly confident. he did say he would select someone from washington, a washington insider. robert: if you want to go he was telling me he
the floor and you have alienated summary people, it could turn into a paul ryan or a mitt romney because the relationships are not there. charlie: would he support paul ryan? robert: probably not. he threatened to do a third-party bid. charlie: very late in the game to do that. robert: very late in the game to do that. his campaign says they will have an argument to make, if they are 30 delegates away, 50 delegates. it is, in effect, their nomination. charlie: do think he will destroy the...
With All Due Respect : BLOOMBERG : April 6, 2016 8:00pm-9:01pm EDT
of people, that was laughed at. bush 41. to me, it's ryan. john: you said bush 41? mark: yeah, he's constitutionally eligible, he has one more term. [laughter] ryan is one, but he's complicated as heck. john: i think ryan is the likely answer, the only answer. mark: the ryan people beat me up on tv and say it's not going to happen. by the same reason he was a consensus choice for speaker. he has moderate positions on immigration, etc. john: the dude is really conservative. he's really conservative. mark: and paul ryan would go into a general election ready, picking up from a standing start at the convention. john: not only that, he has run a national campaign as mitt romney's running mate. for a lot of conservatives, he was reassuring when mitt romney put him on the ticket. he is tested in that sense. he could have a fresh start without having to be totally green, in terms of a national campaign. i think he is the ideal answer. mark: he has to say that. ryan has to say he's not interested, just like he said he wasn't interested in the speaker until the moment when, if there is a dea
of people, that was laughed at. bush 41. to me, it's ryan. john: you said bush 41? mark: yeah, he's constitutionally eligible, he has one more term. [laughter] ryan is one, but he's complicated as heck. john: i think ryan is the likely answer, the only answer. mark: the ryan people beat me up on tv and say it's not going to happen. by the same reason he was a consensus choice for speaker. he has moderate positions on immigration, etc. john: the dude is really conservative. he's really...
appears the focus now to iran is sending print is that good news this morning? ryan: it is good news, but i am not sure how relevant it is. in the end, we have learned that the iranians are going to send their opec governor. that is effectively the oil minister's number two. at the end of the day, the iranians have been clear that they are not reaching a cap on production until they reach pre-sanction levels. they are nowhere near pretension levels right now. number two has no ability or power to negotiate. it just sends a message that our position is nonnegotiable. i am not sure how important it is that the iranians are there in a capacity to make decisions. overhange possible from iran has been affecting the oil market for some time. do you have any sense of how realistic it is for iran to ramp up investors? a fair amount of investment has to be done, doesn't their? aboutthey are producing 3.3 million barrels right now. that leaves them about half a billion barrels shy of where they want to be by the middle of the year, and upping their production by that much, most analysts would
appears the focus now to iran is sending print is that good news this morning? ryan: it is good news, but i am not sure how relevant it is. in the end, we have learned that the iranians are going to send their opec governor. that is effectively the oil minister's number two. at the end of the day, the iranians have been clear that they are not reaching a cap on production until they reach pre-sanction levels. they are nowhere near pretension levels right now. number two has no ability or power...
volatility and weakness. david: does that put it all on the shoulders of the iphone 7? ryan: you have massive volatility around the world. you also have a smartphone market that is maturing. the incremental's people did not know the impact of the iphone 6s, but7 is around the corner. iphone units year-over-year bottom this quarter. the year-over-year changes the worst point. -- is the worst point. , there is a chance they could be cannibalizing -- brian: overseas, it is when they cannot quite reach for the 6 or 6s. it will lower the afp moving forward. david: it seems you may be more optimistic than apple's. they gave up forward guidance saying we will be somewhat below what we are talking about, too. lower --were a lot brian: we were a lot lower, but still cut our numbers. inventory -- they said that the environment is tough. we don't know what will happen at the end of this cycle. we will work on inventories. that is why the stock is down. point, we had the disappointment in sales, we had the disappointment in earnings, but we had a beat in actual unit sales of iphones. this is a ch
volatility and weakness. david: does that put it all on the shoulders of the iphone 7? ryan: you have massive volatility around the world. you also have a smartphone market that is maturing. the incremental's people did not know the impact of the iphone 6s, but7 is around the corner. iphone units year-over-year bottom this quarter. the year-over-year changes the worst point. -- is the worst point. , there is a chance they could be cannibalizing -- brian: overseas, it is when they cannot quite...
, paul ryan is right. he should have gone through the process of voters. we had lots of choices, lots of time. john: all right, tim, if trump is less than or fewer than 100 delegates shy of 1237, he will then claim the republican nomination. tim: disagree. john: kelly ann? tim: he needs all 1237. kelly anne: will he be able to claim the nomination? john: will be the nominee. if he enters the convention with fewer than 100 short, will he eventually end up being the nominee? kelly anne: he could be, but you need 1237. john: tim, prince was greater than michael jackson. tim: agree. absolutely. he was greater and less influence. depends on how you look at it. john: kelly anne, prince greater than the beatles? kelly anne: they are talented in different ways, and it's a huge loss. mark: kelly ann, there are 15 contests left. donald trump lost the contest badly. what are states coming up in those 15 where you think there could be conditions that are wisconsin-like, where trump faces real problems from your efforts? kelly anne: certainly indiana on may 3. but even next senator cruz is tuesday
, paul ryan is right. he should have gone through the process of voters. we had lots of choices, lots of time. john: all right, tim, if trump is less than or fewer than 100 delegates shy of 1237, he will then claim the republican nomination. tim: disagree. john: kelly ann? tim: he needs all 1237. kelly anne: will he be able to claim the nomination? john: will be the nominee. if he enters the convention with fewer than 100 short, will he eventually end up being the nominee? kelly anne: he could...
Bloomberg West : BLOOMBERG : April 12, 2016 11:00pm-12:01am EDT
♪ mark: you are watching "bloomberg west." let's take a look at the news. paul ryan ruled out any bid for the presidency even if his name was placed in nomination at the republican convention this summer. paul ryan: let me speak to the delegates. if no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, i believe they should only choose a person that has participated in the primary. count me out. mark: the comments come as a contested gop convention appears likely. front runners donald trump and a hillary clinton have double-digit leads according to a new wall street journal nbc news poll. trump leads john kasich 54% to 21%. ted cruz has 18%. on the democratic side, mrs. clinton leads bernie sanders 55%-40 1%. the new york primary is next tuesday. accusing the vice president of attempting to overthrow the government days before the full house is expected to start voting on her impeachment. without directly naming the vice president, they said a leak of a recording where he discussed a potential administration amounted to treason. global news 24 hours a day powered by 2400 journalists in
♪ mark: you are watching "bloomberg west." let's take a look at the news. paul ryan ruled out any bid for the presidency even if his name was placed in nomination at the republican convention this summer. paul ryan: let me speak to the delegates. if no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, i believe they should only choose a person that has participated in the primary. count me out. mark: the comments come as a contested gop convention appears likely. front runners donald...
On the Move : BLOOMBERG : April 21, 2016 2:30am-4:01am EDT
to its lowest levels since october, 2014. ryan chilcote joins us with details. ryan: people want oil to go up, so it is going up. guy: i think the "i don't know" bit is really quite important. all the guys in the market have different ideas about what is going on here. ryan: the other thing that is interesting is, we see this drop in u.s. production. you thought yesterday when we got the production numbers out of the department of -- we saw it yesterday when we got the numbers out of the department of production. the white line is u.s. production. on your terminal you have the crud. you can see on the bottom of that graph, u.s. production is just below 9 million barrels. it fell all of 24,000 barrels, which is nothing, but it is about the direction of travel. guy: what is the give a line? -- what is the yellow line. ryan: the yellow line is our brent price. the head of the iaea was in tokyo yesterday and he was asked, "with will going from $28 to $46, what about u.s. crude coming back online and increasing?" he said, even at $45 a barrel, shale production in the u.s. is not profitabl
to its lowest levels since october, 2014. ryan chilcote joins us with details. ryan: people want oil to go up, so it is going up. guy: i think the "i don't know" bit is really quite important. all the guys in the market have different ideas about what is going on here. ryan: the other thing that is interesting is, we see this drop in u.s. production. you thought yesterday when we got the production numbers out of the department of -- we saw it yesterday when we got the numbers out of...
On the Move : BLOOMBERG : April 1, 2016 2:30am-4:01am EDT
world. manus: the future of the world. let's talk about it with ryan ch icolte. it looks beautiful. the device thousand dollars, that makes it very real. ryan: that does make it very real. onprobably has a few options that. is going to be a less expensive car. it is still $35,000 in the u.s. and therefore, is still classified as a luxury car. then, you get the extra battery. the price can easily be doubled. but there is quite a buzz over this car already. manus: who is the competition against? they are all grazing to create efficient, affordable, and durable battery solutions. ford, bmw, i mean, where are we in terms of the competition? ryan: five years ago, there were just four electric cars in the united states. i the end of next year, there will be 60. there are a lot of competitors. the first one is the chevy. that will come out next year and it is roughly the same price. it is actually a bit cheaper. they say it is a mark practical car, -- they say it is a more practical car, gm does. gm is focused on getting this car out early in the year, ahead of the model 3. we don't know
world. manus: the future of the world. let's talk about it with ryan ch icolte. it looks beautiful. the device thousand dollars, that makes it very real. ryan: that does make it very real. onprobably has a few options that. is going to be a less expensive car. it is still $35,000 in the u.s. and therefore, is still classified as a luxury car. then, you get the extra battery. the price can easily be doubled. but there is quite a buzz over this car already. manus: who is the competition against?...
Bloomberg West : BLOOMBERG : April 4, 2016 11:00pm-12:01am EDT
have before. cory: ryan, you saw this market really grow. do investors understand what they are buying when they buy this paper that can be created by companies like lending club and others? >> this is institutionalization of the space. people are looking for other things. once you get comfortable with portfolio construction and the actual risk, these are great tools that will allow bigger and bigger amounts to be deployed. cory: how big of investment are we talking about? >> there are all different types. you can have a small family office or a large hold on purchases. some can get larger than $150 million. in the fall the credit market shut entirely. people are still finding very attractive risk adjusted yields. cory: are your folks in a certain niche of borrower or the people who will buy the paper ultimately? >> our focus is on main street business owners, landscapers, dry cleaners, who are looking for financing to grow their business. the average loan size is $30,000-$40,000. they go as small as $5,000, up to a couple million dollars depending on the lender they work with.
have before. cory: ryan, you saw this market really grow. do investors understand what they are buying when they buy this paper that can be created by companies like lending club and others? >> this is institutionalization of the space. people are looking for other things. once you get comfortable with portfolio construction and the actual risk, these are great tools that will allow bigger and bigger amounts to be deployed. cory: how big of investment are we talking about? >> there...
kasich or paul ryan. for now the person in the best position to keep donald trump from the majority before the convention is ted cruz. you see some support going to him for that reason. he joked the other day, that was good enough for him. as long as people were doing it for that reason. >> vice president biden in an interview with mike spoke about the latest in the race. he talked about how he was very happy to see -- he was very happy to see a womb a -- womb a president. is this a endorcement of hillary clinton >> no, i think the vice president saying what he thinks. which is he likes a woman president. i don't think it's an endorcement. i think he like, president obama wants to remain neutral. the worst thing that clinton supporters could do is to try to force an end to this before the sanders people and senator sanders is ready. >> we were talking last week about the sanders campaign. ahead of your interview with the campaign manager. you're hearing them talking about philadelphia sort of a live convention. they plan to challenge hillary clinton if she is the woman in the lead t
kasich or paul ryan. for now the person in the best position to keep donald trump from the majority before the convention is ted cruz. you see some support going to him for that reason. he joked the other day, that was good enough for him. as long as people were doing it for that reason. >> vice president biden in an interview with mike spoke about the latest in the race. he talked about how he was very happy to see -- he was very happy to see a womb a -- womb a president. is this a...
buy back cars and compensate u.s. customers in a deal that will cost at least $10 billion. ryan chilcote is at volkswagen headquarters in germany. good to see you. to what extent this morning, draw a line under the scandal, perhaps talking about that? well, you know, i guess it draws a little bit of a line. under the financial results, we should get at least some kind of ego as to what the scandal means for volkswagen's financial results in 2050. remember, a slave not reported those. but remember, it is a framework deal. we just got the beginning, does information.ketchy the judge yesterday, when he announced that volkswagen was set aside at least $10 billion, said that those the details remain confidential until the three sides -- the judge and the two sides, the u.s. getting together on january 21 -- there is the criminal case in the u.s. there are private suits, europe where there was a lot more affected cars. i think it is fair to say and a, this is really just the beginning. but it gives us a little bit of clarity as to, you know, this find performance last year. anna: what
buy back cars and compensate u.s. customers in a deal that will cost at least $10 billion. ryan chilcote is at volkswagen headquarters in germany. good to see you. to what extent this morning, draw a line under the scandal, perhaps talking about that? well, you know, i guess it draws a little bit of a line. under the financial results, we should get at least some kind of ego as to what the scandal means for volkswagen's financial results in 2050. remember, a slave not reported those. but...
years. at the time, we were not talking about omissions, but fuel efficiency. ryan: i would describe it as miles per gallon. how many miles do you get for every gallon you purchase at the pump with your car going all the way back to 1991? that is in distinction from the fuel omissions, i would say, scandal that has enveloped many other carmakers. volkswagen, but there have been probes elsewhere. effectively admitted that they manipulated the tests that they were using, that they were inconsistent, if you will, with what the government was expecting of them as they self regulated the fuel economy of their cars for the past quarter century. francine: what does it tell us about the car industry? are we more concerned than we were 24 hours ago because this dates back so long ago? ryan: i think what we should see this as is another black eye for the car industry after the scandal that info, that enveloped volkswagen when it came to cheating on diesel omissions in united states and around the world. what it is likely to harold is more scrutiny and what would worry carmakers is mor
years. at the time, we were not talking about omissions, but fuel efficiency. ryan: i would describe it as miles per gallon. how many miles do you get for every gallon you purchase at the pump with your car going all the way back to 1991? that is in distinction from the fuel omissions, i would say, scandal that has enveloped many other carmakers. volkswagen, but there have been probes elsewhere. effectively admitted that they manipulated the tests that they were using, that they were...
. guy: we know that you have to go beyond the radio. we will let you do that. ryan chilcote, if you want to listen to him, go to the radio. but i urge you to stay here for the time being. one thing that you should also be doing if you are on the bloomberg and interested in what is happening with barclays, go to top line. you will get a list of things and you can select what is happening with barclays. the call is now on. we have senior management addressing the call no. this is a live blog. we can follow it. great information and analysis. tliv. hans? hans: it is witty, it is fun, it's a lot like this show. up next, smartphone sales take a bite out of apple. we break with that means for the company.iggest coming up next in newtonian physics. ♪ hans: welcome back to "on the move." i am hans nichols here in berlin. we're looking at the dax. it is basically flat this morning. the streak is over. apple's run of 51 consecutive quarters of uninterrupted hans: sales growth ended due to waiting smartphone sales. tim cook addressed the iphone slowdown on the earnings call. challenges, ther
. guy: we know that you have to go beyond the radio. we will let you do that. ryan chilcote, if you want to listen to him, go to the radio. but i urge you to stay here for the time being. one thing that you should also be doing if you are on the bloomberg and interested in what is happening with barclays, go to top line. you will get a list of things and you can select what is happening with barclays. the call is now on. we have senior management addressing the call no. this is a live blog. we...
john: and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to house speaker paul ryan -- mr. ryan: i do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. count me out. let me say again, i am not going to be our party's nominee. i should not be considered, period, end of story. john: so you're saying there's a chance. ♪ mark: happy just say no day, sports fan. on the show tonight, my conversation with ice cube. but first, the biggest conversation in the presidential race today came from someone who is not in the presidential race, and now, emphatically, he will not be. paul ryan held a surprise press conference among rampant speculation that he might potentially be a white knight running to the rescue should the republican convention in cleveland be terminally deadlocked. his resounding message today, not going to happen. mr. ryan: i want to put this to rest once and for all. i have remained neutral. my job is to ensure that there is integrity in the process, that the rules are followed by the rulebook. that means it is not my job to tell delegates what they should do. but i hav
john: and i'm john heilemann. and with all due respect to house speaker paul ryan -- mr. ryan: i do not want nor will i accept the nomination for our party. count me out. let me say again, i am not going to be our party's nominee. i should not be considered, period, end of story. john: so you're saying there's a chance. ♪ mark: happy just say no day, sports fan. on the show tonight, my conversation with ice cube. but first, the biggest conversation in the presidential race today came from...
house speaker paul ryan is expected to speak at any moment. he is planning to officially ruled out any it for the presidency. the highlights on bloomberg television, and you can watch that event on the bloomberg at live go. this is "bloomberg markets. while ♪ ♪ you are watching "bloomberg markets." i am carol massar. americahe voyage from to cuba, missing from that is cuban-american, and that is because raul castro prohibits people from returning by sea. joining us is the carnival ceo arnold donald. asked them to reconsider. what was their response? donald: thank you, carol p we are honored and privileged to be the first to receive both u.s. and cuba approval to cuba with our ship, and the situation is there is a transport policy. -- existed for decades and affects any cuban born person whether on the island or anywhere else in the world, and that policy simply's rates that you are not allowed to travel to or from cuba by sea. you can fly, and so for us, we think that is and i'm even playing field, and with all of our discussions, we have asked permission for cuban born people to b
house speaker paul ryan is expected to speak at any moment. he is planning to officially ruled out any it for the presidency. the highlights on bloomberg television, and you can watch that event on the bloomberg at live go. this is "bloomberg markets. while ♪ ♪ you are watching "bloomberg markets." i am carol massar. americahe voyage from to cuba, missing from that is cuban-american, and that is because raul castro prohibits people from returning by sea. joining us is the...
favor of democrats and if i was mitch mcconnell or paul ryan, i would be very concerned. if these numbers hold, you have a down ballot the backbone if you are a republican. mark: thank you very much. a full write up of this poll on our website. a great day to look at this extraordinarily important group of voters. we will be right back. ♪ mark: our things to jane sanders and steve mcmahon for joining us as to our friends, the birds. check out our poll, the latest slice whole with a great look at married women. coming up, emily chang to the founder of boehner media. the new york riemer he is one week away. anybody campaigning in your neighborhood? campbell: no. the donald trump vote in tribeca or the ted cruz vote in tribeca? mark: john will be back tomorrow. we thank campbell for joining us. we will see tomorrow. thank you for watching. sayonara. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton and you are watching "bloomberg west." u.s. secretary of state john the memorial to the atomic bombing seven decades after the u.s. use the weapon. 140,000 japanese were killed. the trip makes secretary kerry
favor of democrats and if i was mitch mcconnell or paul ryan, i would be very concerned. if these numbers hold, you have a down ballot the backbone if you are a republican. mark: thank you very much. a full write up of this poll on our website. a great day to look at this extraordinarily important group of voters. we will be right back. ♪ mark: our things to jane sanders and steve mcmahon for joining us as to our friends, the birds. check out our poll, the latest slice whole with a great...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : April 22, 2016 10:00am-11:01am EDT
. >> volkswagen's message is they can solve the crisis. >> we have ryan chilcott the board right now. he is our reporter on the ground. >> we would have to ask the american authorities that, as the schedule is out of our hands. we are available 20 47 for any questions we do. we cannot estimate how long this will be. >> that is the ceo responding. this is like reassuring the market they have a handle on it. the dividend took a smack as well. did dropicantly, it 90% since 2000. theives you the scale of crisis and how volkswagen is reacting. today they more than doubled the provisions they set aside for the crisis. it compares to 6.7 before. aside four.they set pre-of thefore financial impact of the crisis's now quantifiable, that is what the ceo said today. that is an important -- their underlying business is robust and manageable. financinghey have the in place to survive the crisis and that is the important message out of volkswagen today. >> there are more reports set to come out. >> today is getting their hands around the crisis. we don't know how this cheating came about. they are not go
. >> volkswagen's message is they can solve the crisis. >> we have ryan chilcott the board right now. he is our reporter on the ground. >> we would have to ask the american authorities that, as the schedule is out of our hands. we are available 20 47 for any questions we do. we cannot estimate how long this will be. >> that is the ceo responding. this is like reassuring the market they have a handle on it. the dividend took a smack as well. did dropicantly, it 90% since...
pimco. it would not trigger higher borrowing costs. house speaker paul ryan address the situation. >> >> we need to do something to help our fellow citizens and puerto rico. there will not be a taxpayer bailout for puerto rico. mark: congressional delays arrigo without federal help and faces a potential default. the federal reserve is likely to keep its options open for an interest rate increase in june. policymakers finishing up a two-day meeting today. economists believe the fed will keep the federal funds rate unchanged for a third straight meeting. the fed raised rates in december for the first time since 2008. joining us today from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. new york time, special coverage, the fed decides. abdelslam is accused of renting cars and hotel rooms for the attackers. elgin investigators say that led other members of his cell to launch terror attacks in brussels four days later. global news 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists in more than 150 news bureaus around the world. i am mark crumpton. david, tracy, back to you. facebook reports earnings after the bell. in
pimco. it would not trigger higher borrowing costs. house speaker paul ryan address the situation. >> >> we need to do something to help our fellow citizens and puerto rico. there will not be a taxpayer bailout for puerto rico. mark: congressional delays arrigo without federal help and faces a potential default. the federal reserve is likely to keep its options open for an interest rate increase in june. policymakers finishing up a two-day meeting today. economists believe the fed...
see that paul ryan candidacy -- i've got to think that republicans are not content with cruz. if that does happen, as a clinton supporter, i think we would be more encouraged to face ted cruz and someone else. but to your question, i don't think his geographical disadvantage will hurt him. i think his ideological positions will probably hurt him more. i think donald trump is known in this part of the country more. he would naturally be a stronger candidate, particularly in the republican primary. >> i think cruz has a big night tonight. i think you'll probably win all of the statewide delegates, and half of them divvied up by congressional district -- i think he wins most of the congressional district. i think kasich could win madison. he'll win most of them. he'll have a big night, which is great for the stop trump effort; it will create negative momentum against trump. which will last for about 15 seconds. as we have seen, the race resets after every state. this is an inflection point. this is a moment where the due chapter is written for a new cash a few days. trump will come storm
see that paul ryan candidacy -- i've got to think that republicans are not content with cruz. if that does happen, as a clinton supporter, i think we would be more encouraged to face ted cruz and someone else. but to your question, i don't think his geographical disadvantage will hurt him. i think his ideological positions will probably hurt him more. i think donald trump is known in this part of the country more. he would naturally be a stronger candidate, particularly in the republican...
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TED-Ed (videos of April 2017)
source: TED-Ed
5:10 Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"? - Brendan Pelsue View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-should-you-read-tolstoy-s-w...
"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fa...
5:15 Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-sloths-so-slow-kenny-co...
Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies jus...
5:36 The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evolution-of-animal-genital...
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. But why is this so? And what’s the...
5:06 How did Dracula become the world's most famous vampire? - Stanley Stepanic View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-dracula-become-the-worl...
Over a hundred years after his creator was laid to rest, Dracula lives on as the...
5:06 Secrets of the X chromosome - Robin Ball View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/secrets-of-the-x-chromosome-rob...
The sequence of DNA that we inherit from our parents encodes directions for making our cells and giving us specif...
4:50 The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-three-different-ways-mammal...
All mammals share certain characteristics, like warm blood and backbones. But despite their si...
5:10 Oxygen’s surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/oxygen-s-surprisingly-complex-j...
Oxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role...
4:44 Why do we itch? - Emma Bryce View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-we-itch-emma-bryce
The average person experiences dozens of individual itches each day. We’ve all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient it...
4:47 How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-focus-groups-work-hector...
Focus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their products and ideas will b...
1:57 How blue jeans were invented | Moments of Vision 10 - Jessica Oreck View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blue-jeans-were-invented-mo...
Today, 96% of American consumers own at least one pair of jeans. But where did these dur...
4:57 Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-animals-have-such-differ...
For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on ...
5:13 Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-virus-riddle-...
Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After ...
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Frank Madden on the Bucks future
Frank Madden from Locked on Bucks joins Chuck & Winkler to preview a big offseason for the Bucks. Who will return and who will go elsewhere in Free Agency?
Nehm: We haven’t seen a team gameplan for Giannis like the Raptors did
Eric Nehm, Milwaukee basketball insider for The Athletic, joins us to give a quick recap of how Toronto was able to shut down Giannis in the playoffs. Then he takes an in-depth look forward at which free agents make the most sense for the Bucks this season!
Was this Bucks season a success?
The Bucks won an NBA-best 60 regular season games. They advanced beyond the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, and made it to the Conference Finals, for the first time since 2001. Giannis emerged as an MVP favorite, Mike Budenholzer as a Coach of the Year candidate, and Khris Middleton...
Frank Madden: The Bucks have big decisions to make
Frank Madden joins Chuck and Bart to preview the Bucks offseason and their salary cap situation.
Where did it go wrong for the Bucks?
One of the most historic seasons in Bucks' franchise history was cut short in the Eastern Conference Finals. Despite having an MVP contender, a coach of the year nominee, and the most wins in the league, the team was just two wins shy of contending for a championship. Where did it go wrong for the...
Novak: The Bucks were so good all year that we all wanted more
Steve Novak, Bucks TV analyst for Fox Sports Wisconsin, joins the show to break down the disappointing end of this season’s playoff run for the Milwaukee Bucks. What went wrong for them in the Eastern Conference Finals? What’s next for the Bucks?
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Andrews: Giannis' future in Milwaukee in doubt?
I'll never leave the team and the city of Milwaukee till we build the team to a championship level team.. — Giannis Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) July 17, 2014 A tweet (now deemed cryptic) from the Milwaukee Bucks' then most promising young talent and current superstar and leader. Well, the results...
Bucks drop ECF to the Raptors
05/25/19 MIL 94, TOR 100 -- The Pick 'n Save Milwaukee Pro Hoops Post Game Show presented by Palermo's Screamin' Sicilian frozen pizza. Anthony Mandella and Ryan Horvat break down the Bucks 100-94 loss to the Raptors, take your calls, hear from Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton, Coach...
Freimund: Have the Bucks gotten exposed in this series?
Chuck Freimund, host of Chuck & Winkler on 105.7 FM The Fan, calls us on his way to Toronto for Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals. He recaps last night’s loss and gives his predictions for Saturday.
Giannis named to All NBA Team
Giannis named to the All NBA Team Read Full Story Here:
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Tennessee TV weatherman shot by crossbow
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The Johnson City Press reports that police say 53-year-old Gerald D. Taylor was arrested in the Monday morning attack on Rob Williams, a weatherman at WJHL-TV.
Williams told police he ran from his Johnson City home after the 4 a.m. attack and said Taylor also fired a pistol at him, but missed.
Police said they found Taylor at a boat dock near Williams' house with a pistol in his hand and arrested him.
Williams says he and Taylor had been living together until recently, and an order of protection had been served.
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Nyad pulled from the water, ending historic swim
Vaness Linsley, a member of Nyad's support team in Key West, says the 62-year-old athlete was taken on to a support boat early Tuesday.
Linsely said they'll know more in a little while. They are discussing with Diana as to how they want to proceed.
She said the swimmer had run into multiple problems including jellyfish stings and storms at sea.
Nyad left Havana on Saturday in her third attempt to be the first person to swim the Florida Straits without a shark cage.
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Arte e musica -
The European Talent Center of Genoa (AISTAP) and the César Franck Association, in cooperation with the International pianistic Academy of Imola, are supporting three young very talented pianists who participated in the XXXV Edition of the Festival delle Cinque Terre.
André Gallo
André is a 26 years old pianist, who was a student of Maestro Franco Scala, Artistic Director of the Imola Academy. He is invited to perform in many different famous Theaters, as the Teatro Olimpico of Rome, Knzerthaus of Berlin, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, The Gran theater La Fenice of Venice, the theater Al Bustin of Beirut, the Sala Verdi of Milan, the Regio Theater of Turin and many others.
He performed as a soloist with the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Orchestra of the Regio of Turin, the Wurttembergische Philharmonie, the North Czech Philarmonic, the Mozart Orchestra directed by the Maestro Claudio Abbado, the ICO Chamber Orchestra and many others.
His repertoire include classic music including also the XIX° Century, with a particular interest to the French composers, as Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Claude Debussy. He cooperates regularly with the singer Ada Caiello and with the pianist Alessandro Tardino. In the near past he also performed with the famous violinist Pierre Amoyal.
In 2006 he had a grant from the Bayreuth of the Association Richard Wagner. In the same year he also received the Galarate prize.
Since 2013 he is the Director of the Imola Piano Academy "Talent Development" of Eindhoven and teacher at the Pianistic Academy of Imola.
His performance at the Festival Cinque Terre can be listened here: André Gallo
Michelle Candotti
Michelle Candotti is a 20 years old pianist, who took the Conservatory degree with the highest grade when she was 14 years old, with Prof. Laura Palmieri.
She is a winner of many National and International pianistic contest as the "Best Chopin and Scriabin" (International contest Ibla Foundation in Ragusa) and the XV° Rassegna Migliori Diplomati di Italia in the academic year 2010-2011. She received others important recognition at the Madesimo International Piano Competition, at the “XV Premio Pianistico Internazionale A. Scriabin”, at the “Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition” and during the XXIII° Chopin International Pianistic competition in Rome.
When she was just 17 years old, she reached the final as a soloist at the 59° International Pianistic Competition "Ferruccio Busoni".
She has been invited to perform with many Orchestras: the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau, directed by Ovidius Balan; with the Royal Philharmonic Concerto Orchestra directed by Brian Wright; the Foundation Orchestra directed by Mario Menicagli.
She has taken during these last years many masterclass with Petrushansky, Delle Vigne, Plano, Cappello, Soriano, Scott, Pollack and Ashkenazy
Actually, she is studying with Carlo Palese in Livorno and with Enrico Pace of the Imola Pianistic Academy.
Her performance at the Festival Cinque Terre can be found here: Michelle Condotti
Alberto Dalgo
Alberto Dalgo is a 27 years old pianist who is now enrolled in the Imola Pianistic International Academy for three years of specialization with M° Leonid Margarius.
He has taken a degree as a pianist with honneurs and special mention at the Superior Musical Institute of Pavia with the M° Andrea Turini.
He followed many masterclasses and courses of specialization with Maestri at International level, as François-Joel Thiollier, Roberto Cappello, Humberto Quagliata, Andrea Turini, Maria Grazia Petrali, Maurizio Zanini, Samuele Amidei, Massimiliano Damerini.
In 2016 he won the first prize at the Grand Prix CMF at the Concours Musical International de France; the first prize at the International Competition of Bellagio, and at the Acerbi International Music Competition. He also took the second prize at the Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition and he was finalist at the International Competition Franz Schubert.
He is invited to many international and national theatres like Madrid, the Robinson College og Cambridge, l’Auditorium Berlioz of Courbevoie (Paris), the Sala Eutherpe of Léon in Spain.
He is a professor of piano at the Casteggio Music school.
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RCWs > Title 13 > Chapter 13.32A > Section 13.32A.150
13.32A.140 << 13.32A.150 >> 13.32A.152
RCW 13.32A.150
Out-of-home placement—Child in need of services petition by child or parent.
*** CHANGE IN 2019 *** (SEE 5290-S2.SL) ***
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the juvenile court shall not accept the filing of a child in need of services petition by the child or the parents or the filing of an at-risk youth petition by the parent, unless verification is provided that the department has completed a family assessment. The family assessment shall involve the multidisciplinary team if one exists. The family assessment or plan of services developed by the multidisciplinary team shall be aimed at family reconciliation, reunification, and avoidance of the out-of-home placement of the child. If the department is unable to complete an assessment within two working days following a request for assessment the child or the parents may proceed under subsection (2) of this section or the parent may proceed under RCW 13.32A.191.
(2) A child or a child's parent may file with the juvenile court a child in need of services petition to approve an out-of-home placement for the child. The department shall, when requested, assist either a parent or child in the filing of the petition. The petition must be filed in the county where the parent resides. The petition shall allege that the child is a child in need of services and shall ask only that the placement of a child outside the home of his or her parent be approved. The filing of a petition to approve the placement is not dependent upon the court's having obtained any prior jurisdiction over the child or his or her parent, and confers upon the court a special jurisdiction to approve or disapprove an out-of-home placement under this chapter.
(3) A petition may not be filed if the child is the subject of a proceeding under chapter 13.34 RCW.
[ 2000 c 123 § 17; 1996 c 133 § 20; 1995 c 312 § 16; 1992 c 205 § 208; 1990 c 276 § 10; 1989 c 269 § 1; 1981 c 298 § 11; 1979 c 155 § 29.]
Findings—Short title—Intent—Construction—1996 c 133: See notes following RCW 13.32A.197.
Short title—1995 c 312: See note following RCW 13.32A.010.
Part headings not law—Severability—1992 c 205: See notes following RCW 13.40.010.
Intent—1990 c 276: See RCW 13.32A.015.
Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—1990 c 276: See notes following RCW 13.32A.020.
Severability—1981 c 298: See note following RCW 13.32A.040.
Effective date—Severability—1979 c 155: See notes following RCW 13.04.011.
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Power Copying
(Redirected from Mega Manning)
Playing With
Kirby copies various Nintendo characters.
"Now I've got your power!"
—Mega Man, Ruby-Spears animated series (1995)
Ordinarily, someone could be severely challenged when facing off against an opponent of a different fighting style, requiring hard work and training to beat them.
On the other hand, some heroes merely have to see a special ability or attack being used a few times, and will pretty much learn it instantaneously, or be able to copy it. Most of the time, this is explicitly defined as an innate ability of the hero in question. In the name of balance, such powers may only work as long as the original power-wielder is in the hero's vicinity, or he can only keep them temporarily. If he can keep them permanently, he'll only be able to copy one or a few powers at a time, the new one overwriting the old. If no restrictions are in place, this character has a good chance of degenerating into God Mode Sue. However it goes, expect such a hero to be an Instant Expert, never having to actually train in the ability (this doesn't apply to team members with this power, who presumably have practiced using their teammates' abilities).
Contrast with Ditto Fighter, where the copying of the opponent's moveset (among other things) only lasts for a single battle/match involving that opponent.
See also Powers as Programs where powers are 'installed' and Awesomeness By Analysis where observation can grant the steps needed to initiate the power or moveset. Compare All Your Powers Combined, Adaptive Ability and The Assimilator. Supertrope of Victor Gains Loser's Powers where the character gets powers after he's defeated the enemy, and Cannibalism Superpower, where the character gets powers after he's eaten the enemy.
Examples of Power Copying include:
1 Anime & Manga
3 Fanfic
7 Real Life
8 Tabletop Games
10 Video Games
11 Web Animation
12 Webcomics
Anime & Manga[edit | hide | hide all]
In Dragon Ball, the Kamehameha is a powerful attack that took decades for Kamesennin (a.k.a. Master Roshi) to perfect. Goku saw Kamesennin perform the attack once, and pretty much got the hang of it after only a few times. A number of other characters, including Tenshinhan and Majin Buu, use this trope inconsistently.
Buu seems to be pretty consistent about it actually. He doesn't always throw the attack right back at the one who used it but he copies a number of powerful moves after seeing one of the Z-Fighters use it; including Vegeta's suicide explosion attack (which Buu can just regenerate from after using) and Goku's Instant Transmission Technique (which Kid Buu uses to chase the heroes across the universe when they try to perform a strategic retreat near the end of the arc).
Cell had this ability as his schtick, being able to copy anything he sees just once. Thanks to his trait of assimilating DNA as well, he gains everyone's secondary powers as well, including Namekian super regeneration, Saiyan's intense resilience, and Frieza's ability to survive without an atmosphere.
Claude in Star Ocean EX has this ability, though notably absent in the games.
While on a Not a Date, Maki in Airmaster gets the idea for a new attack move simply from watching a samurai movie. She later uses it without any practice, even though the samurai is using a sword and Maki is strictly legs and punches.
Ranma of Ranma ½ is able to master the most esoteric combat moves within days, if not hours.
Ranma's ability is more about analysis and breaking down attacks to principle and vulnerability. Copycat Ken from the anime is more of an example of Mega-Manning.
Angelic Layer prodigy Suzuhara Misaki is able to pick up her opponents' moves on the layer after seeing them only a few times, and she picks up moves performed by real people as well.
Kazuo Kiriyama in Battle Royale. He can mimic the skilled martial artist Sugimura after seeing him use the moves in combat a couple of times. Even when Sugimura gains the ability to use ki attacks, Kiriyama quickly copies this as well.
In Naruto, Kakashi Hatake and the Uchiha clan have an explicit ability to copy other ninjas' moves with their Sharingan. Kakashi is known to screw with his opponents' minds by subtly hypnotising them into using techniques he already knows, making it look like he can copy their techniques before they even finish using them.
One of the definitive powers of Ifurita, the "Demon God" android from El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, who can copy and improve on any attack used against her. (That she's pretty much indestructible just helps her pick up things.)
How Urahara trained Ichigo in Bleach. Knowing he didn't have time to actually learn to fight, he just pummeled him until he learned the moves that were being used against him.
There's also the ninth Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie, who has the ability to obtain the power of any Hollow he eats. At some point, he ate the hollow that absorbed Kaien Shiba, which allows him to use that Hollow's shapeshifting powers and Kaien's shinigami powers.
Several characters from The Prince of Tennis have an ability referred to as State of Self-Actualisation (Muga no Kyouchi), which allows them to subconsciously replicate any techniques ever witnessed. Some other characters, while not possessing Muga, can also duplicate their opponents' moves, giving them a mental edge.
While this doesn't sound like much, considering this is tennis, after all, well, it's probably better if you look into it yourself.
While it didn't exactly happen overnight, Kid Samurai Yahiko from Rurouni Kenshin nonetheless managed to duplicate one of Kenshin's signature techniques solely from observation—which is still fairly impressive, since Kenshin apparently went through several years of Training from Hell to master his Hiten Mitsurugi style.
Shishio does 'learn' moves he sees to an extent, but only to be able to perform a perfect counter rather than executing the move itself.
Massively subverted at the end of the manga. Aoshi fights a member of a Quirky Miniboss Squad who specializes in copying the sword techniques of his enemies. It appears to be working and the guy seems to have an edge on Aoshi until Aoshi suddenly kicks him right in the face, informs him that as a martial arts master using swords is only a part of his technique. (And the copycat can't copy his kenpo skills). The angry copycat tries to kill Aoshi with his own techniques, but Aoshi correctly anticipates the moves, comments on how dumb it is trying to kill him with moves he knows inside and out, and then promptly breaks the copycat's swords and beats the crap out of him.
Several of the villains in Inuyasha, most notably series Big Bad Naraku, are able to consume other demons to steal their body parts and abilities.
Mahou Sensei Negima gives us Ku Nel. His Pactio card allows him to become anyone he's met for a few minutes, complete with all their abilities. However, he can't maintain someone stronger than him for more than that.
As of Chapters 239-241, Negi gets his own Pactio card via a Pactio with Princess Theodora (if you're confused, Negi is the partner, and Theo is the mage). Activating his card gives him a pocketbook with a copy of all of his Pactio partners' cards. Negi can use any of these copy cards to mimic his partners' abilities.
Jack Rakan demonstrates this ability too. He can use high-level Shinmeiryuu techniques from simply having seen Eishun perform them.
Tiger and Bunny Kaede can imitate the power of the last NEXT she touched, a very very important plot twist.
In the Yu Yu Hakusho movie, Bonds of Fire, Kuwabara encounters a demon who can mimic any technique his opponent uses. After being matched move-for-move, Kuwabara tricks his enemy into copying a move that throws every single bit of spiritual energy at the target. The demon swiftly realizes he's just doomed himself, as while he can copy energy attacks, he can't copy his opponent's physical strength... and Kuwabara is far stronger than he is. Cue asskicking.
Gourmet, an enemy from the third season, had a Cannibalism Superpower. This unfortunately proved to be his downfall when he ate the Elder Toguro, who regenerated and took over Gourmet's body from within in the most horrible way possible.
According to Decepticon rumor, Thrust of Transformers Armada can copy his opponent's fighting style just by watching him. He's never actually done this in canon, but since everyone's fighting styles seem to be either "run at enemy and grab his fists forcefully", "swing sword like baseball bat" or "shoot from a distance", he doesn't seem to have a reason to.
In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, the final challenge—the manifested form of the Book of Darkness—not only has her own suite of nasty-sounding attacks, she's also got the ability to copy and enhance the attacks of anyone whose magic has been used to fuel her. Which, unfortunately, includes both Nanoha and Fate. Cue our heroes bravely running like hell to escape the blast-range of Nanoha's trademark Starlight Breaker.
Hayate also makes use of this same power shortly thereafter to become an Instant Expert in magical combat.
Takeshi Yoshida, from the baseball manga Touch is able to imitate a pitcher's style perfectly just by watching them. He develops an impressive repertoire but is undone in the end by a lack of endurance.
In Baki the Grappler the protagonist's Axe Crazy Blood Knight father encourages him to steal and copy his opponent's moves and techniques in part because "It really pisses them off".
In NEEDLESS, the protagonist and Big Bad, through the Zero Fragment, can memorize the series' huge amount of skills just by seeing it used or headbutting them.
In Fist of the North Star, Kenshiro reveals a martial arts ability that allows him to learn any special attack after witnessing it the first time.
Clare from Claymore is fairly adept at this, typically copying her allies rather than enemies.
Roxanne of Love and Hate did it as well, but in a much more sinister way.
In One Piece, Luffy is able to replicate CP9's Shave technique after watching the technique a couple of times and adapting his Rubber Man powers to allow his body to perform the task. Much later Sanji successfully discovers how to perform their Moon Walk.
Blackbeard was revealed as being able to do this when he took the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit from the recently deceased Whitebeard. How he does it is unknown. He has another fruit power that allows him to absorb things, but the dialog implies that it may have something to do with having a unique body structure. This became a more literal example of Mega Manning later on, as it was revealed that he can take the Devil Fruit powers of anyone that he's killed, seemingly without any limit to the amount of powers he can hold.
In Hunter X Hunter the leader of the Phantom Troupe can steal the Nen abilities of others by learning about them, asking questions, and knowing its name. The original user of that ability can then no longer use that ability again.
In Guyver, the zoanoid Aptom has a particularly terrifying version of this power. At first he could only poorly mimic other forms: admittedly he could do this after only looking at them, but his imitations were far inferior to the originals. Once he's reworked by one of the series' Big Bads, he gains the ability to perfectly replicate any form just by getting a sample of their DNA. Except he gathers samples by melding genetic matter with his own body, and he can do this while the target is still alive. This becomes Aptom's favored method of killing, and it is lethal to amazing degrees: at one point he has contact with another character for roughly 3 seconds before being turned into shreds of skin, then atomized. In that time, his DNA-merging trick had already seeped into the other character enough to let Aptom take over with all his abilities intact, plus those of the character. Oh, and if he wants he can just let the DNA replicating system seep into someone and overwrite them without absorbing their body, meaning he can replicate himself without limit so long as there are bodies around to infect. He can even do this to corpses.
In Gakuen Alice, Mikan and her mother Yuka both have the ability to turn other peoples abilities into gems and then absorb said gems into their body, gaining those powers.
Nanami from Katanagatari can learn any technique she sees once, and master it if she's seen it twice.
In Rozen Maiden when one doll defeats another, they not only gain the defeated doll's Rosa Mystica, but can also use their powers.
In the manga chapters of Saki set after the Prefecture finals, Yumeno Maho, one of the two Kohai's from Nodoka's previous school (she's the one with the ribbon), is revealed to have the power to copy any mahjong player, but she can only do it once per round per day each. She demonstrates this by using the styles of all the Kiyosumi players, culminating with her out-Rinshan Kaihoing Saki herself.
The protagonist of Medaka Box initially comes off as Always Someone Better, but it becomes apparent that every time she does lose to someone at something, she starts mimicking and equaling them. Post-Genre Shift, this turns out to be an actual superpower.
A rather strange example in Shingeki no Kyojin. Humans are decidedly weaker than the giants they fight, but much smarter. This gets turned on its head when the protagonist, Erin gains the opposite ability of Kirby; by being eaten, he can control the giant that ate him from the inside. When this first presents itself, everyone believes him to be a giant that has gone insane. Being both insanely strong and a specialist in hand-to-hand combat allows him to kill at fifteen other giants before the giant he was controlling died.
Actually, what happened was he generated a giant version of himself from within the giant that ate him, causing said giant to explode. He then proceeded to beat the hell out of the other giants with the giant version of himself. He is capable to generating all or part of his giant form whenever he bleeds (which is why he bites down on his thumb to transform from that point onward), though he can't really control it all that well. The reason why he first transformed after getting eaten was because the giant that ate him caused one of his arms to be severed as his arm was still outside the giant's mouth when the giant bit down.
Wandering Warrior Reina enters the Queens Blade competition after dueling (and losing too) several of the other Queen's Blade competitors and incorporating their moves into her repertoire, taking her from rank amateur to world champion, and later defeats her friends and allies in the competition by taking on their goals and making them her own. As a finishing move.
In Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas, Leo Regulus can fully understand how a technique works, copy it and execute it better than the original user just by seeing it.
Mega Man Megamix: Not as prominent as other versions, but Mega Man DOES copy powers here.
Kise of Kuroko no Basuke has the ability to copy any basketball technique he's seen and make it his own.
In Kinnikuman Stecasse King, a giant cassette player, inserts tapes from the Choujin Encyclopedia into his chest, gaining the abilities of whichever wrestler the tape covers. This proves his downfall when he tries to copy Kinnikuman—the tape he has is outdated, from back in the days when the big guy was a cowardly wimp.
Tachimukai from Inazuma Eleven is able to copy Endou's Hisatsu Techniques just by watching him, on TV!
Hana from Gate 7 is described as "Not" and therefore "Everything is taken in" meaning that zhe can adopt opponents's techniques as offense or deffense as zhe likes. This serves to differentiate hir as much as associate hir to Chikahito who is "Not" as well
Several enemies in the Sailor Moon anime had this ability, including the Gemini Warriors (copying Sailor Mars and Mercury), Techniclon (copying Sailor Jupiter), and Malachite (copying Sailor Jupiter, Venus, and Mars).
Rogue from X-Men is possibly the best-known example in the world of comics. However, her power works on bare skin contact and works whether she wants it to or not, and sucks the life out of the victim. This has been a constant source of angst, but recently she has gained better control so that touching people isn't always a near death sentance. There have been other X-Men examples over the years:
Synch from Generation X, though he possibly had the second-lamest power out of the group. As he couldn't keep any borrowed powers once their owner left his radius, there wasn't much he could do by himself and couldn't even fend off a pair of human bullies.
Several characters said he had the potential to be extremely powerful, more than once he was shown using borrowed powers better than their original owners, and he could use his power for lots of secondary effects like identifying and tracking other mutants. It's just that none of that helps him when faced with an entirely mundane threat like a bomb.
Gen-X's archenemy Emplate could this too, by feeding on a mutant's marrow via the mouths in his hands. Unlike most others, however, he must do this to survive. Basically, he's a mutant vampire. His victims gain the same mouths on their hands he has, and the same compulsion to feed, also similar to certain vampire stories.
Mimic, on the other hand, need only be in the proximity of another mutant. He gets a bonus, too: The main Marvel Universe Mimic has permanently taken on the powers of the original five X-Men in addition to this, and his Parallel Universe double, the Exiles version, can hold any five powers at a time (though at half the original power level each).
Pandemic injected himself with a virus that would copy mutant powers. He is defeated when Sabretooth has him gain his Healing Factor.
Hope Summers, mutant messiah, has this power along with the ability to influence the mutants around her.
Taskmaster, of Marvel Comics, possesses photographic reflexes. He can do anything after seeing it performed once, with exactly as much skill as the person he watched had in the task. Up to and including Chow Yun-Fat. However, he gains the ability to use it, not their powers. Meaning he can do the same flips as Spider-man, but he'll never be able to leap off a sheer wall. However, he can watch a scene in fast-forward and perform it at double-speed for a (very) limited time.
Even more so, he uses his ability of reflecting an enemy's moves to predict what they would do next. Which got him absolutely nothing when Deadpool kicked his ass with the power of dance and randomness.
Echo, also of Marvel, has the same ability.
Cassandra Cain from DC Comics does as well as an extension of her ability to read body language. It's not so much a superpower as she's just so good at reading enemies and martial arts in general that one look is all it takes, and she can learn entire styles perfectly in minutes.
As does Ryan Tabbot, from Gold Digger, though his version is a bit worse in that while he can copy any move he sees, he still has to figure out how best to use it, so some highly specialized moves would get him in more trouble than they're worth if he used them.
The Super-Adaptoid can copy the powers of any superhuman it fights. In the Marvel Adventures series, it could also think like its target - which meant once it had copied the Avengers, it no longer wanted to fight, seeing them as the good guys now.
In the Guardians of the Galaxy future of the Marvel Universe, The Protege has this ability for all inherent abilities, with no restrictions and can combine them. Needless to say, she quickly becomes the most powerful being in her universe. Eventually, she tries to use these to become the new One-Above-All before getting smacked down by the Living Tribunal.
Over in the DCU, we have the android Amazo (created 6 years before the Super-Adaptoid), who has this ability. Just to make things tougher for the heroes, sometimes he comes with powers pre-programmed, and then copies some more. Amazo's power is taken to the ultimate level in the DCAU.
Also in the DCU, we have Libra. Who first appeared as a minor Justice League villain in the 70's, before Grant Morrison got hold of him and had him as one of the main villains of Final Crisis, being pretty much responsible for all the evil not committed by Darkseid personally, including for the almost death of Lois Lane.
Also also in the DCU, the Parasitic Teutons of Assimilation, or PTA. WASPs engineered with the ability to copy any superpower they see in action. Their exact origin is a mystery, but be honest: would you really want to know?
Mega Man of Archie Comics. It's pretty accurate to games, though also a source of angst as Rock is inherently a pacifist who is gaining ever more powerful weapons.
Fanfic[edit | hide]
Road Roller Extreme from Super Milestone Wars, a Super Robot Genre that can assume the power or Mecha Expansion Pack of any other super robot in fiction.
In the Alternate Universe Twilight fic Luminosity, Addy can, upon physical contact, perfectly replicate the powers of any person with special abilities (called "witches"). She can only hold one at a time, however.
In the Touhou Fanfic Imperfect Metamorphosis, Rin Satsuki can absorb other people. By doing so, she becomes able to replicate their powers and appearances.
The gloriously bonkers Neon Genesis Evangelion Crack Fic A Little Angel On My Shoulder has the Instrumemory system, which is a bit different from most examples of this trope since it involves the Shoulder Angels (basically pint-sized ghosts of the canon Angels) temporarily merging with the Eva to allow it to borrow the Angel in question's abilities.
Alice in A Nightmare on Elm Street IV: Dream Master is an interesting example. She is the one mega manning even though Freddy is the one doing the killing.
Po from Kung Fu Panda learns the Wuxia finger hold, and a technique to manipulate water droplets after watching them once. His master Shifu is a little bit jealous.
All of the competent channelers in The Wheel of Time series do this on a regular basis. Some of them even do it to each other when they intuitively leap to new things (specific example: when Egwene ties off a weave but can't figure out how she did it, then Elayne learns from her, and Egwene watches Elayne do it so that she can repeat it).
Protagonist Lire of Deadly Remains lives in a world where magic and Psychic Powers are real and publicly known. She normally has the power of Psychometry (read the thoughts of a person who handled an object). By touching the remains of three psychic murder victims (to read them), she gains the powers of telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and cryokinesis. With practice, she gains the ability to combine the abilities.
Unique among the Thirteen Orphans in Breaking the Wall, Albert Yu, representing the Cat, is able to temporarily mimic the status and abilities of any one of the other twelve traditional places on the Eastern Zodiac.
Sylar and Peter Petrelli from Heroes both are able to acquire new powers from other evolved humans. Peter just has to remember how that hero made him feel; Sylar's method is... a little messier.
In the graphic novels, one character, Linda, has a power that allows her to see the auras of people around her, and seemingly absorb them. Not only does it happen to absorb superhuman powers, but it allows her to kill them as well. Nifty. Unfortunately, she got a bridge dropped on her in her very first appearance, and didn't do anything too spectacular in the two other comics she appeared in (thanks to Anachronic Order). Ah, well.
Like Taskmaster, Monica Dawson's power is to be able to perform any physical feat she sees, from cutting a tomato into a rose like the TV chef to pulling wirework-style Kung Fu from action flicks. She receives a Blackberry with videos of various skills (plumbing, fighting, flying airplanes, etc) that she can watch to copy any time she needs to.
And now Arthur Petrelli, the Big Bad of Season 3: Villains, is revealed to have the ability to steal powers via touch, acquiring new abilities while depowering the original owners. It seems the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree in the Petrelli family.
As of Volume 4, they've significantly nerfed Peter's ability to where he can only keep one power at a time so as to cancel out his Story-Breaker Power.
This Left Handed Toons strip about Sylar comes ever so close to referencing the trope by name.
A number of examples from Charmed.
This was the main ability of Warlocks, the Monster of the Week enemies from the show's early seasons, which was their primary motive for hunting and killing witches. Despite their potential for leveling up, they were pretty much at the bottom of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil because they were mostly too weak to kill anything with substantial power (such as a demon).
Zankou, the second-most-powerful demon in existence and the Big Bad of Season 7, demonstrated the ability to absorb the powers of those he kills, but only really used this ability once.
Cole, after being sent to the demon afterlife, managed to avoid disintegration and found he could absorb the lingering powers left behind by all the demons sent there to be destroyed. Eventually he absorbed enough powers to kill the serpent that devoured the souls sent there and was able to return to earth, with a ridiculously large array of random abilities.
In Kamen Rider Decade, the eponymous hero possesses the ability to transform into one of his nine predecessors (Kuuga through Kiva), gaining all the abilities and equipment that comes with them. The only difference is that he retains his own Transformation Trinket belt, since his powers operate by using a card reader in the buckle.
The new Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider OOO, uses a similar concept, with the main character having to take Core Medals from the Big Bads this series, the Greed, in order to use the powers contained in them. Most Kamen Riders have some element of Phlebotinum Rebel, but OOO is probably the only one whose powers are chunks of his villains instead of merely made by them.
And then Super Sentai got in on the act. In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the heroes have a stash of Ranger Keys, which unlock the powers of previous Sentai teams. Exactly like Decade and his cards.
And of course, when both franchises had a Big Dang Crossover, one of the main selling points was Decade and GokaiRed using their copied powers against each other.
Star Trek: The Borg have the ability to assimilate technology and knowledge from other species. It is at the very core of their philosophy.
Resistance is futile.
In one episode of Stargate SG-1, the planet of the week features a civilization with nanites in their brain. They have child prodigies learn everything they can about a certain subject (one character is an 11-year-old expert on Naquadah reactors). When they reach a certain age, the nanites are harvested and distributed to the other members of the species, and suddenly everyone with a nanite has that knowledge. The downside is that removing the nanites causes their original possessor to regress to an infantile state and adding new nanites doesn't work.
The villain in the Haven episode "Fear and Loathing" stole powers via contact with their owners' blood. He could only keep one power at a time, so if he took a new one, his previous victim would get their powers back. But if he still has their power when he dies, the power loss is permanent.
The title character of the short-lived 80s show Automan could duplicate any skill he'd seen used at least once.
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The nudibranch, a type of mollusk sometimes called the "sea slug," feeds on jellyfish and other stinging sea creatures. It is capable of taking the "stinging" cells from the creatures it eats and incorporating them into its own body, sometimes becoming more deadly than the animals it preys on.
Photuris fireflies first learn and mimic the blinking pattern of a different genus' females, then devour the attracted males. They can then absorb the devoured male's defensive toxins and use them for themselves.
It was believed by some cannibalistic tribes that eating a dead person's brain allowed you to learn their life's experiences. This unfortunately meant you could also gain the exact same disease they probably died from.
The most common version of this was when warriors would eat the brains or hearts of vanquished enemies to gain their strength or energy.
The Belgian beer industry is home to several strange and exotic beers but is fully capable of mass-producing less bizarre styles that originated abroad, like porters, stouts, etc.
The concept of sympathetic magic can work like this: the Bimana of Africa decorate their hunting shirts with mouse skins for speed, animal claws and teeth for ferocity, and so on.
Rabies. A deadly example but the trope still works. Rabies does not just spread via bites but also from eating something with rabies. Without treatment, this can be fatal but before death hits, "Rabid" strength, speed, ferocity and foaming at the mouth can be enjoyed.
Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do works on the idea of "absorbing what is useful". Lee's personal style combined his best moves from Wing Chun, Tae Kwon Do, western boxing, fencing, and escrima. Anyone adhering to this concept of martial philosophy can build their own style by learning from different ones.
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In Vampire: The Masquerade, a vampire can steal another vampire's power by devouring the vampire's soul. The game considers this act, called Diablerie, to be a Very, Very Bad Thing, especially in the eyes of the Camarilla... Though they mostly dislike it for the precedent it sets.
In Exalted, Eclipse Caste Solars and Moonshadow Caste Abyssals can learn the Charms of other types of Exalted, as well as Charms unique to spirits. The catch is they have to be taught the Charm by an Exalt of that type (or Spirit) who knows it.
In the Dungeons & Dragons book Serpent Kingdoms, the Sarrukh has an ability called "Manipulate Form" which can permanently imbue any reptilian creature with its own physical features and powers. This forms the basis of the infamous Game Breaker character "Pun-Pun", which can copy everything in the universe at the same time, with the power increased as much as he wants. By some interpretations of the rules he can even make up things to copy.
Oh, and this can be done at 1st level (although only in the Forgotten Realms universe). It is an important lesson in what happens when you take the rules literally.
There is also the Spellthief Prestige Class in edition 3.5, which has a temporary, disposable version of this trope
The Tyranids of Warhammer 40,000 do something similar to Power Copying. When they turn their opponents into the raw materials to make more Tyranids, they also absorb their information and occasionally their traits; these are then used by the hive fleet to make it easier to counter those tactics and abilities. Some sources also hint that some varieties of Tyranid were "invented" using the DNA of certain foes, such as the psychic Zoanthropes (believed to have come from Eldar DNA) and the durable Tyrant Guard (supposedly created with Space Marine DNA).
The Kroot also do something like this. They consume their slain enemies, and any useful traits are incorporated into the Kroot's DNA (which is mostly blank apart from their natural traits). Over a few generations, the traits gained from consumed enemies become a natural part of the Kroot's biology.
The Kroot Shapers are shamans within tribes that direct what they eat, to ensure only good traits are retained and not detrimental ones. This came after one section of kroot decided it would be good to assimilate canine DNA, and getting trapped in an evolutionary dead end. The current Kroot themselves are actually not the base race, they use to be a type of scavenging bird before consuming a humanoid race.
The chess variant Plunder Chess allows pieces that capture other pieces to use the captured piece's move once.
There's also the gruesome Pathfinder spell, Blood Transcription, which requires you to "consume" a pint of blood from a dead spellcaster, allowing you to learn one of their spells, provided your class can learn it. Needless to say, this spell comes with an 'evil' descriptor.
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The Mask of Kindred in Bionicle. It allows the wearer to copy the abilities of ocean animals.
Also, the Mask of Emulation, which allows the wearer to use any power he can watch someone else using.
One minor character has the ability to become the master of any activity he sees being performed. This doesn't encompass powers, but it does let him, say, become proficient in the melee fighting style of his opponent. And be better at it.
Vezok can absorb powers used against him. He can also combine them, though it's unclear how long he can keep one power.
The Mega Man action figures (based on the Ruby-Spears animated series,) has this as its main feature. Every robot figure in the line can replace one hand with a spring loaded arm cannon (though only a couple actually COME with an arm cannon) and all the various weapons are completely interchangeable, which not only allows Mega Man himself to do his thing, but many other wild combinations—like having Cut Man fire plasma shots, bombs, or even Guts Man's fire hydrant from his head.
Former Trope Namer Mega Man has the ability to utilize the weapons of the various Robot Masters that serve as the bosses for the series—though there is some occasional alteration for the sake of gameplay or other compatibility issues. Almost all his Expies and Alternate Universe counterparts either have this ability direct or use something based off the same concept.
Taken up to the extreme in Mega Man Zero 4, where you can take each and every one of the mook's weapon using your Z-Knuckle.
Bass.EXE has his Get ability, which he uses to absorb data to gain more power and abilities, not unlike his Classic counterpart. Which is inherited in Mega Man Star Force by the Geo Stelar/Omega Xis fusion Mega Man. If you curbstomp mooks with sufficient skill, you gain a battle card representing their attack. Usually you can use it better than they can - in 2, the Mettenna's GrndWave1, for example, does a lot more damage in Geo's hands and can hit multiple targets.
Some games in the Heroes of Might and Magic series feature the skill Eagle Eye, which allows the hero to learn spells by watching the enemy hero cast them in battle.
Considering that since you learn them from enemy heroes and are likely to conquer the towns they learned them from, skilled players more or less ignore it for better skills such as Wisdom, which is needed to learn the higher level spells to begin with. And generally the highest level spells you could get was level 4.
In V, this also works against spellcaster creatures, as they use the same spells. However, in neither case Eagle Eye allows heroes to learn spells that require the respective magic skill (3rd to 5th cycle) or abilities unique to the hero class (Barbarian heroes, who use War Cries instead of magic, can learn War Cries but not magic with a similar skill).
Metroid:
In Metroid Prime, Samus gets her Plasma Beam by copying what was apparently originally a beam used by the Space Pirates for mining.
Samus gets a missile expansion from the Dark Missile Trooper in Metroid Prime 2. The Ing item guardians are a double example; after they steal your equipment at the beginning, you can see them using it when they fight you, then you kill them to get it back.
In the third Prime, the Nova Beam is collected after destroying a mining platform that was using it.
Metroid Fusion has this trope with nearly every boss. You get the Morph Ball from the first boss that can curl up into a ball and charge at you, the Gravity Suit comes from an enemy that can manipulate gravity, the Plasma Beam is acquired after you kill a plant that shoots lasers at you...
In the Disgaea series, characters are able to learn magic, weapon skills, and abilities from others on their team through different methods, depending on the game.
In the first two games, only magic could be learned via the master and student system, which allows a character to use the spells of an adjacent unit if they were the ones who created them. The spell would be learned permanently with enough uses.
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice introduces the Class World, where a character who's leading a school club can learn the magic, weapon skills, and abilities (Or "evilities", as they're called in-game) possessed by any characters in the same club, albeit for a much higher price then what they purchased them for. It also gives Yukimaru a unique primary evility that makes her to copy the primary evility of a target she kills.
Dark Hero Days adds the Magichange 2 ability, which allows a humanoid character to use the special attacks of the monster who performs it on them.
Many variations on the Blue Mage from the Final Fantasy series of games work like this. The precise variant varies from game to game—sometimes, they have to be hit by the ability, and in others they merely have to be in the party when the ability is used, and some have to do something special related to killing the enemy to do it (Final Fantasy X has you use an Absorb-like spell, while Final Fantasy IX has you eating and cooking enemies). Final Fantasy VI specifies that the Blue Mage has to see the spell being cast, so he can't learn anything if he's Blinded. In a variation on the theme, Summoners in the series often must defeat prospective summons in combat before being allowed to summon them.
Another variant is the Mime, who can repeat the last action taken by an ally, no matter what it was, with no MP or item cost.
Blue Mages in Aht Urhgan are able to use monster abilities because monster parts are grafted onto their body. Story-wise, becoming a Blue Mage is akin to selling your soul.
This is how Ramza learns the Ultima spell in Final Fantasy Tactics, having to get hit first. You need to be a Squire for that battle, and be careful not to be turned into a frog or charmed instead.
Likewise, summoners learn the hidden ultimate summon in this manner. There are some other spells that can work like this (the level 4 spells, most high end summons), but those can be learned normally, which is generally less troublesome.
Enemy Skill materia in Final Fantasy VII also lets you learn a, well, enemy's skill that is used on you.
Also the Mime materia, which when equipped lets you copy what ever move was just used. This included summons and Limit Breaks.
Also inverted by a boss in Final Fantasy V, he can learn Blue Magic from your party. Including Self-Destruct.
Final Fantasy X's Blitzball mini game allows the players of your team to mark and learn new abilities from the players of the opponent team.
Kirby, the eponymous star of his own Nintendo video game series and the anime Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, copies the power of any enemy he can successfully eat, except for in the first game.
This also carried over to Super Smash Bros., although he can't really eat his enemies. He also only copies one move of the inhaled opponent, which replaces his Inhale move until you decide to drop the ability by taunting or if you take enough damage from the opponent(s).
In Kirby Super Star, he can even use the ability to create a "Helper", an ally with similar abilities to the enemy that commonly has the skill (often a Palette Swap). The helpers themselves has a bit of Mega Manning; if one's health is reduced to zero, they begin to glow before exploding. In this state, they simply need to touch an enemy to turn into that enemy's respective helper and completely restore their health to boot. One of the abilities also allows Kirby to copy powers by scanning the enemy rather than inhaling them. This is rather pointless for Kirby, but gives the Helper even more freedom.
Said ability can actually be used on Scarfies to get Crash (as they can't be enhaled).
Played with in Milky Way Wishes, where Kirby cannot copy enemies by eating them. Kirby has to find them in capsules hidden throughout the levels, which lets Kirby can select that ability at any time from the pause screen, much like Mega Man. The "scanning" version of Copy still works, which makes it much more useful - if you know where to find it.
Shanoa in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia is able to perform power-copying feats by absorbing magical glyphs. In several cases, she can steal a monster's magic in the middle of battle. She even kills a boss this way.
Don't forget Dimitrii from Dawn of Sorrow, who can copy Soma's magic souls by being hurt by them... However, it makes him a pathetically easy boss if you know what soul to use on him - he will copy that attack, no matter what it is, so making him use a weak and easily avoidable attack makes the battle a cakewalk.
In X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Rogue's power-stealing abilities are represented as a special move that allows her to copy one of her opponents' special moves by kissing them. In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, this power couldn't work because there were 56 characters total, so instead it gives Rogue a bonus to various stats like Attack, Defense, Speed, or Health.
She can also steal the Shun Goku Satsu and use it.
Musashi: Samurai Legend allowed you to copy the moves of any enemy by completing a button-press sequence.
The game to which Samurai Legend is a Spiritual Sequel, Brave Fencer Musashi, also allowed Musashi to copy enemy moves by absorbing the enemies into his shortsword, the aptly-named Fusion. He could only hold one at once, though, as opposed to Samurai Legend's version being able to learn as many as he pleases.
The Pokémon series has a number of examples:
Mirror Move and Copycat mimic the last move used by an opponent, while Me First can mimic an opponent's move before they use it.
Mimic teaches the user one of the opponent's moves for the duration of the current battle, allowing them to use it up to five times.
Sketch teaches the user one of the opponent's moves permanently, and is exclusive to the Pokemon Smeargle, who learns a new Sketch every ten levels. With enough time and effort, a player can potentially teach Smeargle any move in the game, although Smeargle is by no means a strong fighter. A male Smeargle can thus be used to breed any desirable move onto any baby Pokemon in a compatible breeding group.
In Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic is able to use Shadow's ability of Chaos Control after seeing him use it just once. Though it's implied that he always has had that power. That moment was the time he found out about it.
Sonic Chronicles gives us the Gizoids, of which Emerl was the most powerful. Though unlike Emerl, who doesn't seem to have a limit in what he can copy, the Gizoid Mooks are only capable of copying one or two special attacks from the main characters.
The final boss of Sonic Heroes copies Chaos Control from Shadow, Chaos' ability to manipulate water (Though in this case, he uses metal) from Froggy and Cheese and everyone elses' own powers.
To a lesser extent, the Chao. They can absorb the power and some physical traits of any tiny animal presented to them. They can mimic the physical traits of their owners, to some extent- the Sonic and Shadow chao being the prime offenders.
Jade Empire seems to teach new fighting styles to the player character this way.
Knights of the Old Republic II, does essentially the same thing. On the dark side path, the player character can learn complex lightsaber techniques and Force forms from Jedi Masters while fighting them. To be fair, the Jedi Masters do protest that this is impossible... it turns out to be part of your character's unique abilities
Revolver Ocelot from the Metal Gear Solid series falls squarely into this trope. According to the supplemental material, after merely witnessing a tactic on the battlefield, he can them use said tactic thereafter. This certainly explains his ludicrous skills with revolvers, but he is noticably clumsier as his younger self in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, where Snake calls him out on using a tactic he's only just seen in battle.
At the end of the game he fights Snake hand-to-hand, and uses CQC moves seconds after Snake uses them on him.
In the Legacy of Kain series, Raziel and Kain steal their enemies' abilities by devouring their souls/blood in Soul Reaver and Blood Omen 2, respectively. One review of Soul Reaver actually referred to Raziel as "a sort of demonic Mega Man" for this reason. Interestingly, Raziel actually keeps almost all of the abilities he gains this way in his first appearance through his next two.
Shirou of Fate Stay Night ( and by extension, Archer) is a rather Inept Mage in most aspects, but he eventually discovers that he excels in a special brand of Projection magic, able to reconstruct any sword-type weapon he sees as well as the original's owner's skill in using it. In the final route of the game, True Assassin seems to exhibit a form of this, as well, gaining form and intelligence by eating the hearts/bodies of his opponents.
In the obscure Cyberpunk FPS game Cyber Mage by Origin, one of the ways the titular character can gain new Darklight spells is by allowing them to hit him, so that the crystal implanted in his forehead can replicate the spell. You can do this either by letting enemies cast the spell on you, or by finding Icons that cast the spell and shooting one into a nearby wall.
The only way to learn new attacks in Digimon World for the PSX is to get hit by an attack your current Digimon can use.
Additionally, you can also train their Brain stat with the Classroom, but that takes much longer and is less likely to happen.
One of the characters in Live a Live is a professional fighter who is determined to become the best in the world. He learns new techniques from his enemies by having them done to him.
The King of Fighters's Rugal Bernstein was apparently originally supposed to be able to do this, taking your attacks and turning them back upon you, but due to memory constraints, he was given Geese's Reppuu Ken and Krauser's Kaiser Wave, with the explanation that he had fought those men before. He also has his own version of Athena's Psycho Reflector, called Dark Barrier.
Kingdom Hearts II has that and the Drive Forms. Each form's fighting style is a reflection of the person from whom the form is derived:
Valor Form: Reflects Goofy's all-physical, up-close-and-personal fighting style
Wisdom Form: Reflects Donald's all-magic, distance-oriented fighting style
Master Form: Reflects Mickey's fighting style, using physical, magical, up-close, and distance attacks
Final Form: Reflects Roxas's fighting style, using lightning-fast attacks and both Keyblade and Nobody-style attacks
The Final Mix-exclusive Limit Form reflects how Sora fought in the first game, using some of the special moves that were usable in Kingdom Hearts 1, but not the original sequel.
Clive Barker's Jericho sees The Firstborn use this when you fight it. It attacks by launching bolts of lightning at members of the team. When it lands a hit, it temporarily absorbs the powers of the victim, and the only way to damage it is to possess that team member and use their powers against The Firstborn. Makes for some awesome animations; most notably the aerial duel between The Firstborn's version of Ababinili and Delgado's and the beatdown handed to it by Church.
Devil May Cry 2 employs a variation of this. The penultimate boss, Argosax the Chaos, is a twisted amalgamation of bosses from all through the game and its prequel; those bosses being Phantom, Griffon, Furiataurus, Nefasturris, Jokatgulm and Oranguerra. Each has its own health bar and the player must kill them all, one at a time, before going on to face the Despair Embodied.
SaGa Frontier has a single instance of this in Alkaiser's story. In the fight against the Affably Evil robot version of himself, upon using the move Dark Phoenix, Alkaiser can use his own special move in response to seeing his in order to learn his ultimate ability, Re-Al-Phoenix.
Also Monsters, and Riki in particular, are based entirely around absorbing enemies and mix-and-matching their moves.
Mystics can seal monsters into their "mystic" weapons to learn moves as well gain a stat bonus.
The Breath of Fire series. In many of the titles, you can copy specific enemy abilities by simply witnessing them (in III it was a Examine command, and in IV you merely had to be Defending.).
If Anastasia Romanov (yes, that Anastasia Romanov) of Shadow Hearts: Covenant takes a photo of certain enemies, she can "cast" a spell of theirs by "summoning" them with a photo.
Marisa Kirisame of Touhou has a variation on this, where she actually steals the spells or spellbooks of others. She has only a small few spells that are actually of her own design (and rarely even uses them), even her own signature move was stolen from Yuuka (although since Master Spark seems to be an innate ability, it seems to be a more 'pure' example of this trope than spellbook-based Non-Directional Laser.) Since spellbooks are specifically stated in canon to be illegible to anyone who is not at least as great a mage as the one who wrote the spellbook when they wrote it, the fact that "mere" human Marisa can swipe powers from Patchouli, much less Yuuka, however, implies she has at least in some way earned her powers.
It is worth noting that Marisa's versions of the spells she copies are often weaker than the originals in some way. Her Master Spark is smaller than Yuuka's, her Non-Directional Laser requires more power to cast, and her Orreries Sun cannot be thrown. She makes up for this by developing new spells which use the copied one as a base, often turning them Up to Eleven (Final Spark/Final Master Spark/Blazing Star, Starlight Typhoon and Orreries Solar System respectively).
Humorously, in the Windows era Marisa is something of a Composite Character of her prior incarnation and various other PC-98 characters. She has copied her appearance and personality.
One of the official supplementals, "Grimoire of Marisa", uses this as its framing device. Marisa compiles a list of other people's spell cards, and ranks them according to how useful it would be to copy them (rejecting many based on her inability to copy the Required Secondary Powers, her doubts on her ability to control them, or... well... because they're not worth the trouble to steal).
Also from Touhou, Satori Komeiji of Subterranean Animism is able to copy your partner's spellcards with her mind-reading powers, making her stage a Nostalgia Level.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor has a system in which your characters can "crack" the skills of demons or other demon tamers, gaining the skill to equip for later or immediate use.
The Maw features the titular character as an Extreme Omnivore. When it eats certain unique enemies, it can also gain their powers, such as fire, flight, or shooting laser beams from its multiple eyes.
Marivel of Wild ARMs 2 and Emma of the Wild ARMs 1 remake build up their skill set by stealing/downloading the abilities of the monsters they meet.
As a Mega Man homage, Rosenkreuzstilette has Spiritia plays it straight, Grolla averts it, and Freudia uses an odd variation by retooling the attacks to fit her Ice Person status.
One of the most popular skill builds of Ragnarok Online's rogues (and stalkers) involves using their Intimidate ability to copy the most recent skill they've been hit with, from player or monster alike. Only stalkers have an ability to preserve the copied skill, however.
Guild Wars has the mesmer profession which has access to a selection of "steal" skills, which enable them to use a random skill from the enemy's bar for 20 seconds.
Not entirely random : depending on the skill that is used, a certain type of skill (spell or non-spell, for instance) can be copied. There's also a skill that allows to copy an ally's Elite skill, potentially allowing the Mesmer to have two Elite skills at once for a limited duration. And the Echo skills that copy one of the Mesmer's own spells.
Defeating anyone in Blood Storm would give the player a designated move.
Spellsteal in World of Warcraft pretty much works like this, although only for abilities that create a magic effect aka buff on the caster, which the spell transfers to the mage as the name implies.
A more straight example with the Death Knight "Dark Simulacrum" ability, which, when cast on a target, allows the death knight to instantly cast the next of the target's spells that uses mana without losing any effectiveness (For one cast, at least).
In Warcraft 3, the same spell could also be used to steal summoned creatures from the enemy.
The sneak preview at the upcoming expansion's talents gives us the Druid's Symbiosis ability which will copy one spell from the targeted player. That player will receive a druid spell.
Command & Conquer: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 features the Hammer Tank, which steals the weapons from the vehicles it destroys.
Each time you defeat one of the five evil pigs in Tomba 2, you get a special robe that will let you use the elemental magic of the evil pig that you beat.
A darker version in Myth. As part of the Vicious Cycle, the Leveler, a dark god that destroys the world every thousand years, reincarnates the last hero who defeated him and turns them into the next Leveler.
Viewtiful Joe has Joker, a recurring King Mook Mini Boss. In your first encounter with him, his combat skills are limited to the standard Bianky punches and kicks, but in subsequent encounters, he adds additional abilities used by other Mooks to his repertoire until your last encounter with him where he has learned most of them.
In the Roguelike Brogue, your Monster Allies can study (or consume) the corpses of monsters to gain their abilities: things like teleportation, being immune to fire, or flying. Yes, you can have permanently flying Tentacle Horrors following you around.
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the player, as the Dragonborn, has the power to absorb the souls of slain dragons, which can be used to unlock shouts, the incantations that give dragons their powers.
Bravely Default, which is a Spiritual Successor to Final Fantasy, has the Vampire class, who learns certain spells by being hit just like in most Final Fantasy games.
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The magical Crystal of Absorb from Unforgotten Realms gives one the power to take on the powers of a dead opponent. Rob instantly equates this to being "like Mega Man".
Red Mage of Eight Bit Theater can copy the last action he's seen, though only once. This is because his class was changed to Mime—a real class from the Final Fantasy series—but the author uses it for occasional references to Marvel's Taskmaster as well.
Also on 8-Bit Theater, Black Mage has the blue magic ability to learn attacks from others. Naturally, since he's the official Butt Monkey, he has the most inconvenient form of blue magic - he needs to get hit with an attack to learn it. One of the only three that he's learned actually keeps him as the target when he uses it.
Black Mage: When Sarda casts a spell to hurt you and you learn that spell, you learn to cast a spell that hurts you.
Chocolate Milkmaid can absorb the powers of anyone she "takes in a part of". Bodily fluids count. All of them. But it only works when she's in Milkmaid mode.
Max from Asperchu can copy an enemy's abilities by swallowing them, due to being an Expy of Kirby.
The Big Bad of Akuma TH is The Undertaker, a demon with the ability to copy and absorb a person's soul, gaining that person's strength, techniques, and knowldge. He can copy inanimate objects, too, as long as they have energy. Gemel from Tony TH learns any move that he personally sees. When the two meet during a crossover, The Undertaker briefly discusses the different methods that can be used to perform this trope. 'Taker then proposes that they copy each others' ability to copy, allowing them both to copy a person's entire moveset just by looking at them.
Bob and George only lets Mega Man copy powers during the parodies of the games themselves. Given the nature of the series, what he can actually do with the powers is often extreme.
Chaka, at the Super-Hero School Whateley Academy in the Whateley Universe, has the ability to manipulate Ki and see it flow. When attacked by a ninja using a secret "paralyzing nerve strike", she watches him as he tries it on her. She blocks it, so he never finished the move. She promptly uses it on him before he can react, having learned it in less time than it takes to execute the complete move once.
The second time she meets that ninja, she witnesses him finish off another student beforehand with a Kamehame Hadoken. When she fights him shortly after, she takes him out in a Quick Draw battle, using the blast back against him. She names it the "Chaka Chaka Bang Bang". Chaka stealing Daikon's moves seems like it's one instance away from being a Running Gag.
Also, 'mimic' abilities are one possible subcategory of mutant powers in that setting, though the copy isn't usually quite as good as the original. For example, Sahar has the ability to 'collect' other people's specific psychic knacks, and Counterpoint is a school bully who deliberately tries to goad other students into fighting him so he can copy their powers and beat them up even worse next time.
Jasmine, from Trinton Chronicles, has the ability to copy all the other superpowers she is with-in range of. This being said her power is kind of useless against others with the same or similar ability. Jasmine has copied so many powers at once she seems to have no limit, she also tends to use them like 'toys' in some cases including copying the power of a transmuter to transform junk into gemstones and the power of mentally interfacing with technologies in order to turn on her apartment's electronics and dial the phone without ever touching it.
Taltos does this also only using his own power of Nemesis against several of the heroes in Hallow's Eve
In the crossover of Smash Bros Lawl, The Irate Gamer has this as a signature move, but with the twist that the powers he copies are very underpowered versions of the originals.
Ben 10 later gained the ability to turn into any alien the Omnitrix got a DNA sample from in the third season, allowing him to transform himself into slightly-altered versions of a small handful of that season's Aliens and Monsters. To date, each of these three forms has been used exactly once, and the plot point seems to have been dropped, although it was picked up again in Ultimate Alien.
Ben's nemesis Kevin 11 started out with a similar ability, which he used to copy Ben's powers. After getting Ben's powers, his original ability was never seen again (except in an "alternate future" episode where he had used his ability absorption to steal traits of thousands of aliens, basically becoming a cross between Naraku and Sylar).
More recent seasons have Kevin as a sidekick, having found a way to return to human form. His power is the absorption ability he originally possessed, although he only uses it to absorb matter instead of copying powers. It's explained in a much later season that his power copying is a Dangerous Forbidden Technique that turns members of his species evil and insane.
The Big Bad of MIB: The Series was Alpha, the human founder of MIB, who merged with an alien artifact that allowed him to absorb the body-parts of aliens into his own, allowing him to cheat death and also resulting in him turning into a rather grotesque patchwork lifeform (with the abilities and attributes of all his alien body parts).
Blackarachnia from Transformers Animated can drain powers with a touch, similar to Rogue (except she can turn it off). Back when she was Elita-1, she could copy without draining. Lockdown, similar to Alpha, steals body parts from other Transformers, and is essentially a Frankenstein's monster-like assembly of parts.
The already unstoppable, unyielding Beast Planet in Shadow Raiders is implied to be able to do this when it creates a duplicate of a planet it previously ate... and at the very end, when it may have copied the Prison Planet's teleportation technology...
Twilight Sparkle of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is capable of this. While most unicorns are capable of a little magic that helps them in their special talent, Twilight's talent IS magic so this allows her to easily copy spells used by other unicorns.
The Shushu Anathar from Wakfu can copy the magic of anyone he touches. He can even those use their magic better than they can. When he copied Yugo's power he could create dozens of portals at once while Yugo is only able to create one pair of portals at a time.
Mega Man again. In the cartoon he could seemingly only keep the power for a few minutes/shots, but he stole a Robot Master's power at least Once an Episode, usually with stock footage.
As evidenced by Mega Man's most (in)famous utterage of the page quote, this didn't alway work out for him.
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Noah Devereaux
American / Italian in West Village
Katherine Lewin
Perfect For: Birthdays Brunch Date Night Literally Everyone Private Dining See And Be Seen
The West Village is full of places that are always going to be packed. Some of them will be packed because they were featured on a TV show 20 years ago, or because tourists like cupcakes. Others will be packed because they show sports on TV or offer bottomless brunch or have tables where you can play shuffleboard or ping pong while listening to live jazz in a basement, which is a thing people apparently like to do.
But many of the best places in the West Village will be packed because they serve good wine and pasta in exceptionally pleasant spaces on cobblestone streets. Places like Barbuto.
Barbuto has become a West Village institution. Open for years, it’s still hard to get a reservation or walk in without a wait. They’ve threatened to close multiple times, but we have a hard time seeing that happen any time soon. Even if they just reheated frozen pizza and put it on their menu, people would still come here for one of the best restaurant spaces in the neighborhood.
If we had to venture a guess, we’d say that for as long as this place is open, it’s going to keep serving roast chicken and kale salad - the two dishes Barbuto is best known for. The menu is seasonal, kind-of-Italian, kind-of-American, and almost everyone you bring here is going to be very happy with it.
We will say that if you’ve eaten here many times over the years, or if you eat in a lot of seasonal Italian restaurants, you might not be as excited about Barbuto as you were a few years back. Maybe that’s because Barbuto’s roast chicken and pasta isn’t quite good as it used to be, or maybe it’s because other restaurants keep getting better at making roast chicken and pasta - although it’s probably a bit of both. The food here is still good, even if it’s just not quite in that class of NYC’s greatest Italian restaurants.
That said, unless you’re setting out to eat something you’ve never tried before, or to eat the best Italian food in the city, you’re not going to be disappointed. Barbuto is still one of the first places we think of when the weather gets good and we want to pretend like we’re on vacation. The big, industrial corner space has garage doors for walls, and when they open them, the whole place feels like it’s outside. When you’re sitting here, drinking wine, eating pasta, and enjoying a noticeably clean-smelling breeze, you won’t want to be anywhere else in the West Village. Even if you really do enjoy listening to live jazz while playing ping pong.
Pollo Al Forno
On any given night at Barbuto, we’d put the chicken-to-human ratio at 1:2. It’s a good thing to share, but the last time we tried it, it wasn’t as crispy or flavorful as it had been in the past.
Insalata di Cavolo
This is also on every table, and it should be on yours. It’s basically cheese and breadcrumbs with kale, and it’s perfect.
The pastas change seasonally, but there’s always a gnocchi dish on the menu. Order it. They pan-fry the pasta so it gets a little crispy on the outside, and it will make you wish you had come up with this idea yourself.
Technically only on the brunch menu, this is one of the best Carbonara dishes we’ve had in NYC. Even better news: they’ll make it for you at dinner if you ask (nicely).
Pizzas are another thing Barbuto only does at brunch. We’re not in the business of ranking NYC’s best breakfast pizzas, but if we were, Barbuto’s would be in the top of the class.
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An anticancer drug suppresses the primary nucleation reaction that initiates the production of the toxic Aβ42 aggregates linked with Alzheimer’s disease
Johnny Habchi1,
Paolo Arosio1,
Michele Perni1,
Ana Rita Costa1,
Maho Yagi-Utsumi1,
Priyanka Joshi1,
Sean Chia1,
Samuel I. A. Cohen1,
Martin B. D. Müller2,
Sara Linse3,
Ellen A. A. Nollen2,
Christopher M. Dobson1,*,
Tuomas P. J. Knowles1,* and
Michele Vendruscolo1,*
1Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.
2University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging, 9700 AD Groningen, Netherlands.
3Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Molecular Protein Science, Lund University, PO Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: mv245{at}cam.ac.uk (M.V.); tpjk2{at}cam.ac.uk (T.P.J.K.); cmd44{at}cam.ac.uk (C.M.D.)
Science Advances 12 Feb 2016:
Johnny Habchi
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK.
Paolo Arosio
Michele Perni
Ana Rita Costa
Maho Yagi-Utsumi
Priyanka Joshi
ORCID record for Priyanka Joshi
Sean Chia
Samuel I. A. Cohen
Martin B. D. Müller
University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, European Research Institute for the Biology of Aging, 9700 AD Groningen, Netherlands.
Sara Linse
Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Center for Molecular Protein Science, Lund University, PO Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden.
ORCID record for Sara Linse
Ellen A. A. Nollen
Christopher M. Dobson
For correspondence: mv245@cam.ac.uk tpjk2@cam.ac.uk cmd44@cam.ac.uk
Tuomas P. J. Knowles
Michele Vendruscolo
The conversion of the β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide into pathogenic aggregates is linked to the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Although this observation has prompted an extensive search for therapeutic agents to modulate the concentration of Aβ or inhibit its aggregation, all clinical trials with these objectives have so far failed, at least in part because of a lack of understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the process of aggregation and its inhibition. To address this problem, we describe a chemical kinetics approach for rational drug discovery, in which the effects of small molecules on the rates of specific microscopic steps in the self-assembly of Aβ42, the most aggregation-prone variant of Aβ, are analyzed quantitatively. By applying this approach, we report that bexarotene, an anticancer drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, selectively targets the primary nucleation step in Aβ42 aggregation, delays the formation of toxic species in neuroblastoma cells, and completely suppresses Aβ42 deposition and its consequences in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Aβ42-mediated toxicity. These results suggest that the prevention of the primary nucleation of Aβ42 by compounds such as bexarotene could potentially reduce the risk of onset of Alzheimer’s disease and, more generally, that our strategy provides a general framework for the rational identification of a range of candidate drugs directed against neurodegenerative disorders.
molecular mechanisms
protein misfolding
neurodegeneration
The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is increasing rapidly as the global population ages. It is estimated that 44 million people currently suffer from AD and that this number will exceed 135 million by 2050 (1). AD is one of more than 40 related disorders (2) characterized by the misfolding of soluble proteins and their subsequent conversion into amyloid fibrils (3–9).
A key molecular pathway that underlies AD involves the aggregation of Aβ42, the 42-residue form of the β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide, which is a fragment produced by the proteolytic cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (3–5, 8, 9). Aβ42 is an intrinsically disordered peptide (10) that self-assembles into fibrillar aggregates observed in the brains of AD patients (5, 9). Inhibiting the self-assembly of Aβ42 has, therefore, emerged as a major potential therapeutic strategy against AD (11–20), although no small molecule designed to achieve this effect has yet shown clinical efficacy (21). Such clinical failures are caused at least in part by the incomplete knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of toxic species and of the processes by which small molecules are able to interfere with the aggregation pathway of Aβ42. In addition, it is increasingly evident that prefibrillar oligomeric species, rather than mature amyloid fibrils and plaques, represent the main pathogenic agents in AD and other neurodegenerative conditions (3, 22–27). Accordingly, effective therapeutic strategies are unlikely to consist of a nonspecific suppression of Aβ42 fibril formation but involve the targeting of specific species in a controlled intervention at precise microscopic steps during the complex aggregation process of Aβ42 (28).
A therapeutic strategy of this type can now be proposed by exploiting recent major advances in our understanding of the molecular processes underlying amyloid formation. These advances are the result of the innovative application of chemical kinetics to the study of protein aggregation (29, 30). The availability of highly reproducible data obtained from kinetic measurements based on thioflavin T (ThT) fluorescence (31) has recently allowed us to define the Aβ42 aggregation mechanism in terms of its underlying molecular events (30). We observed that once a small but critical concentration of Aβ42 aggregates has been generated through primary nucleation of monomers, surface-catalyzed secondary nucleation becomes the dominant process, whereby the surfaces of the fibrils once formed serve as catalytic sites for the generation of toxic oligomeric species (30). These oligomers can then grow and convert into additional fibrils, thus further promoting the formation of additional toxic species in a highly effective catalytic cycle (30).
These results can now be taken further as they offer the possibility of investigating the mechanism of inhibition of the Aβ42 aggregation process by therapeutic molecules (28, 29, 32). Approaches using chemical kinetics, which do not require prior knowledge of the elusive structures of the toxic species and are not limited by the need for very tight binding of small molecules to the aggregation-prone proteins, provide highly sensitive methods for the quantitative detection of the effects of potential therapeutic molecules on the aggregation process. By adopting this strategy, we show here that bexarotene, which is an anticancer drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), selectively targets the primary nucleation step in the self-assembly of Aβ, delays the formation of toxic species in neuroblastoma cells, and completely suppresses Aβ aggregation and its consequence in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Aβ-mediated toxicity.
Chemical kinetics-based therapeutic strategies allow to combat Aβ aggregation
The drug discovery strategy that we describe in this work to target the aggregation of Aβ42 consists of four main steps (Fig. 1). First, a fragment-based approach is applied to identify small molecules that could interfere with Aβ aggregation (Fig. 1, step 1). Fragment-based drug design approaches are based on the screening of a limited number of small molecules to identify fragments with low binding affinities, typically with KD values in the high micromolar to millimolar range (33, 34). When combined together, some of these fragments result in molecules containing multiple favorable interactions that bind more tightly than the initial fragments to the target of interest. To implement this strategy, we generated a set of 164 fragments derived from 88 compounds reported in the literature to interact with Aβ. These fragments were then screened for chemically related compounds in four small-molecule databases (ChEMBL, PubChem, ZINC, and DrugBank), resulting in the identification of 16,850 molecules. This fragment-based library contains 386 FDA-approved drugs, which have the potential to be effective candidates for preclinical lead development. Indeed, such an approach offers exciting opportunities to repurpose existing licensed therapeutic compounds for use in AD with the benefit of providing a more rapid route to the clinic than through novel drug discovery approaches (35, 36).
Fig. 1 Schematic illustration of the drug discovery strategy described in this work.
The strategy consists of four steps: (1) A fragment-based approach that allows the identification of small molecules that interact with the aggregation-prone system, here Aβ42, including FDA-approved molecules for drug repurposing. (2) An in vitro kinetic analysis that identifies the specific molecular steps in the Aβ42 aggregation mechanism responsible for the generation of toxic species. (3) A further kinetic analysis to determine the mechanism of inhibition associated with the molecules identified in step 1. (4) An evaluation of the effects of these molecules on the formation of toxic species in vivo. In particular, the inhibition of primary nucleation is predicted to delay the aggregation without affecting the total number of oligomers generated by the aggregation process, whereas inhibiting elongation or secondary nucleation is predicted either to increase or to decrease the number of toxic oligomers, respectively (see text).
To test this strategy, we selected two compounds from this library with different chemical scaffolds, bexarotene and tramiprosate (Fig. 1, step 1). Tramiprosate, which has been unsuccessful in phase 3 AD clinical trials (identifier: NCT0088673), was reported in preclinical development to bind soluble Aβ species, to maintain them in a nonfibrillar form, to decrease Aβ-induced neurotoxicity, and to reduce amyloid plaques and cerebral levels of Aβ in mice (37). By contrast, bexarotene is still in phase 2 AD clinical trials (identifier: NCT01782742). This small molecule is a retinoid X receptor agonist approved by the FDA for the treatment of cutaneous T cell lymphoma and has shown an ability to restore cognitive function to some degree in AD (38–44). Although this activity has been reported to be associated with an enhancement of apolipoprotein E levels, and thus of Aβ42 clearance, conflicting reports have been published and the detailed mechanism of action remains uncertain (38–44). Indeed, this molecule has also been reported to compete with cholesterol for binding to Aβ42, thus inhibiting its cholesterol-induced oligomerization (45).
The next step in our general strategy is to apply chemical kinetics to elucidate the mechanism of aggregation of the protein of interest (Fig. 1, step 2). In the specific case of Aβ42, as mentioned in the Introduction, we have recently provided a comprehensive description of the mechanism (32). The kinetic analysis is then repeated in the presence of selected compounds to identify the microscopic events that are specifically inhibited and hence to define the species with which the compound interacts (Fig. 1, step 3). Indeed, a potential drug candidate could bind to monomers, oligomers, or fibril surface or ends, and therefore different microscopic steps could be affected. Sequestration of monomers could result in a decrease in the rates of all microscopic events shown in Fig. 1 (that is, kn for primary nucleation, k2 for secondary nucleation, and k+ for elongation), whereas sequestering oligomers is expected to affect kn and k2. On the other hand, targeting fibrils could decrease either k+ or k2 depending on whether inhibitors bind to fibril ends or surfaces, respectively (28).
Finally, we evaluate the observed effect of the molecules on the formation of toxic species in vivo (Fig. 1, step 4). The inhibition of specific microscopic steps in Aβ42 aggregation is expected to have different effects on the generation of toxic oligomers (28). More specifically, inhibiting primary nucleation will strongly delay the aggregation reaction and should not affect the total load of toxic oligomers generated during the reaction. However, an increase or a decrease in the number of toxic oligomers is anticipated to be the result of the suppression of either elongation or secondary nucleation, respectively (28). These two latter processes represent interchangeable pathways as inhibiting elongation is expected to redirect the aggregation reaction toward secondary nucleation, which will consequently increase the number of toxic oligomers, and vice versa (28).
Bexarotene, but not tramiprosate, delays Aβ42 fibril formation
To investigate the effects of the two small molecules selected for this study on the individual microscopic steps underlying the aggregation process of Aβ42, we carried out a global analysis of the aggregation profiles acquired at different concentrations of both Aβ42 and each of the two compounds in turn (Fig. 2). We monitored Aβ42 fibril formation in vitro in the absence and in the presence of tramiprosate and of bexarotene using a highly reproducible ThT-based protocol described previously (31). Unlike earlier reports (37), we observed no effects of tramiprosate on Aβ42 aggregation even when present in 20-fold excess (Fig. 2A and fig. S1A). By contrast, we observed a progressive delay in Aβ42 aggregation with increasing concentrations of bexarotene (Fig. 2, B and C, and fig. S1B). The scaling of the half-times in such reaction profiles as a function of the total protein concentration follows a power law whose exponent contains important information about the microscopic events underlying the macroscopic aggregation behavior (32). In the presence of bexarotene, although the lag times of the aggregation reaction increase as the concentration is increased, the scaling exponent remains unaffected. This result suggests that, under these conditions, bexarotene delays the aggregation reaction by inhibiting primary nucleation but does not affect the relative contributions of primary and secondary nucleation to the overall aggregation reaction.
Fig. 2 Bexarotene, but not tramiprosate, delays the formation of Aβ42 fibril formation.
(A) Kinetic profiles of Aβ42 aggregation under quiescent conditions at a concentration of 3 μM (open circles) and 4 μM (open squares) in the absence or in the presence of a fourfold excess of tramiprosate. (B) Kinetic profiles of Aβ42 aggregation under quiescent conditions at a concentration of 3 μM (open circles) and 4 μM (open squares) in the absence or in the presence of a fourfold excess of bexarotene. (C) Average half-time of the aggregation reaction as a function of the initial monomer concentration in the absence or in the presence of fourfold excess of bexarotene.
These experiments show that the effect of bexarotene on Aβ42 aggregation is substantial. The addition of a fourfold excess of bexarotene to a 2 μM sample of Aβ42 increased the time to half-completion of the aggregation reaction compared to that of Aβ42 alone by a factor of 2 (that is, 2.30 ± 0.02 hours for Aβ42 alone and 4.50 ± 0.06 hours for Aβ42 in the presence of bexarotene) (Fig. 3A). To further probe this effect, and to exclude any possible interference of bexarotene on ThT binding to Aβ42 fibrils and hence on the resulting fluorescence, we monitored fibril formation under conditions where ThT was not present by removing aliquots of solution at a series of different time points and measuring the extent of fibril formation using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and immunochemistry (Fig. 3, B to D). Fractions were collected throughout the entire reaction to monitor the events during the three phases of Aβ42 aggregation (that is, lag, growth, and saturation) as completely as possible. AFM images show that after 2.1 hours, fibrillar structures are visible in the absence of bexarotene but not in its presence, thus providing independent evidence for a bexarotene-induced delay of fibril formation (Fig. 3B). These results were extended (Fig. 3C) by probing the quantities of Aβ42 at nine different time points during the aggregation using either sequence-sensitive W0-2 or fibril-sensitive OC primary antibodies (see Materials and Methods). W0-2 antibodies recognize the sequence spanning residues 4 to 10 (that is, the N terminus) that is not likely to be involved in the hydrophobic core of any aggregated species and thus bind to all types of Aβ species. W0-2 antibodies indicated the presence of similar quantities of Aβ42 at the different time points during its aggregation reaction (Fig. 3C, upper panel), whereas fibril-specific OC antibodies that recognize only fibrillar species (Fig. 3C, lower panel) showed, in agreement with the kinetic analysis and the AFM images, a delay of 2 hours in the time required for half-completion of the aggregation process.
Fig. 3 Bexarotene delays Aβ42 fibril formation in a label-free environment.
(A) Kinetic profiles of the aggregation of 2 μM Aβ42 under quiescent conditions in the absence and in the presence of a fourfold excess of bexarotene; the table below the graph shows the equivalent of the different time points in hours (represented in black solid lines in the graph) at which aliquots of Aβ42 were removed from a solution of 2 μM peptide undergoing aggregation. (B) AFM images of Aβ42 species in the absence and in the presence of a fourfold excess of bexarotene. Images were acquired with tapping mode in air on aliquots of the Aβ42 solutions that were removed from the aggregation reaction at the 1.2- and 2.1-hour time points. Fibrillar structures can be observed after 2.1 hours only in the absence of bexarotene. (C) Time course of the formation of 2 μM Aβ42 fibrils as assessed by antibody binding. The quantity of Aβ42 that was detected by the sequence-specific W0-2 antibody (upper panel) remained unchanged during the complete time course of the reaction on the total quantity of Aβ42 (in solution or as aggregates). The fibril-specific OC antibody (lower panel), however, probes only fibrillar structures that can be seen to have formed earlier in the absence of bexarotene than in its presence. The extent of the observed delay (highlighted in red) is in complete accord with the aggregation profiles shown in (A). (D) Calibration of the dependence of Aβ42 fibril mass concentration to the dot-blot intensity of the fibril-specific OC antibody. (Top) Kinetic profile of 4 μM Aβ42 by means of ThT fluorescence. AFM image of typical mature Aβ42 fibrils acquired with tapping mode in air, formed at pH 8. (Bottom) Dot-blot intensities obtained from binding of the fibril-specific OC antibody to a serial dilution of Aβ42 fibrils that were collected after 3 hours of incubation of a fresh 4 μM Aβ42 monomer. Fibril concentrations were in the range of 4 to 0.1 μM.
We further probed the quantity of Aβ42 converted into fibrils by comparing the intensities of the dots to a dot-blot assay that was performed on a range of concentrations between 4 and 0.1 μM Aβ42 fibrils using the OC fibril antibodies (Fig. 3D). Fibrils were collected after incubation for 3 hours of a freshly prepared 4 μM solution of monomeric Aβ42 (Fig. 3D, lower panel), and then the solution was diluted to yield 12 samples with concentrations ranging from 4 to 0.1 μM (Fig. 3D, lower panel). Analysis of the dot-blot data indicated that the quantities of fibrils formed at the reaction half-times of the 2 μM Aβ42 sample in the absence and in the presence of bexarotene (Fig. 3C, lower panel, time points 6 and 7) were indeed closely similar to those formed during the aggregation reaction of an Aβ42 sample of 1 μM concentration, consistent with no interference from ThT on the aggregation reaction (Fig. 3D, lower panel).
Bexarotene specifically inhibits the primary nucleation of Aβ42 aggregation
We then carried out a quantitative analysis of the effects of bexarotene by matching the aggregation profiles on the basis of the rate laws derived from a master equation that relates the macroscopic time evolution of the quantity of fibrils to the rate constants of the different microscopic events (28, 29). In this approach, the aggregation profiles in the presence of the inhibitor are described by introducing into the rate laws suitable perturbations to each of the microscopic rate constants evaluated in the absence of the inhibitor. The modifications of the rate constants required to describe the aggregation profiles in the presence of different inhibitor concentrations are then indicative of the specific process affected by the presence of the compound. The aggregation profiles of 5 μM Aβ42 in the presence of concentrations of bexarotene in the range of 5 to 25 μM show that the experimental data are extremely well described when the primary nucleation rate constant, kn, is specifically decreased. By contrast, the experimental data are not consistent with predictions made by altering the rate constants of secondary nucleation or of elongation, k2 and k+, respectively (Fig. 4, A to C). The data therefore reveal that, under these conditions, bexarotene specifically modifies the primary nucleation pathway (that is, knk+) with no (or very little) detectable effect on secondary pathways in the aggregation reaction (that is, k2k+) (Fig. 4D). Similar results were obtained at different Aβ42 concentrations (fig. S2).
Fig. 4 Bexarotene selectively targets the primary nucleation of Aβ42.
(A to C) Kinetic profiles of the aggregation reaction of 5 μM Aβ42 in the absence or in the presence of a 1:1 or 5:1 concentration ratio of bexarotene to Aβ42 (represented by different colors). The solid lines show predictions for the resulting reaction profiles when secondary nucleation (A), fibril elongation (B), or primary nucleation (C) is inhibited by bexarotene. Only the prediction for the case where primary nucleation alone is inhibited closely fits the experimental data. (D) Evolution of the apparent reaction rate constants with increasing concentration ratios of bexarotene (kn is the rate of primary nucleation, k+ is the rate of elongation, and k2 is the rate of secondary nucleation; K represents in each case either knk+ or k2k+). Note the significant decrease in primary pathways, knk+, when compared to secondary pathways, k2k+, as the concentration of bexarotene is increased. (E) Kinetic profiles of 2 μM Aβ42 without (blue) and with the addition of 10% of preformed seed fibrils in the absence or in the presence of a 2-, 5-, 7-, and 10-fold excess of bexarotene (represented by different colors). Note the rapid increase in theslope of the aggregation reaction in the presence of preformed seed fibrils compared to that of the reaction without the addition of preformed fibrils. (F) Simulations showing identical curves for the aggregation profile of a 2 μM Aβ42 sample in the presence of 5% of preformed fibril seeds where primary nucleation events either contribute (gray) or are negligible (brown). (G) Effect of 0.5- and 5-fold excess of bexarotene on the aggregation kinetics of a 2 μM Aβ42 sample in the presence of 5% of preformed fibril seeds. (H) Effect of 0.5- and 5-fold excess of bexarotene on the rates of surface-catalyzed secondary nucleation (k2) as obtained from the aggregation kinetics in (G).
To further strengthen these conclusions, we carried out an additional series of measurements of the aggregation kinetics of Aβ42 under conditions where the primary nucleation step was bypassed by the introduction of preformed fibrils (that is, seeds) to the reaction mixture. In such a situation, the contribution of primary nucleation to the reaction kinetics is negligible, as the conversion of soluble peptide into mature fibrils is greatly accelerated by secondary nucleation and elongation reactions promoted by the seeds (22). In the presence of 10% fibril seeds, where elongation of the preformed fibril seeds is the dominant mechanism, no effect was observed on the aggregation kinetics of 2 μM Aβ42 even at a 10-fold excess of bexarotene (Fig. 4E), whereas the corresponding aggregation process under unseeded conditions was completely inhibited for 15 hours (fig. S2A). Furthermore, we also measured the aggregation kinetics of a 2 μM sample of Aβ42 in the presence of 5% of preformed fibril seeds. Under these conditions, primary nucleation is completely bypassed, whereas both surface-catalyzed secondary nucleation and elongation significantly contribute to the overall kinetics (Fig. 4F). These experiments show a concentration-dependent bexarotene-induced delay that corresponds to a decrease in the rate of surface-catalyzed secondary nucleation (Fig. 4, G and H). These findings show that, although the elongation of fibrils is essentially unaffected by bexarotene, this compound has a large and highly selective effect on the nucleation of Aβ42, with the effect being more selective toward primary rather than secondary nucleation.
The observation that bexarotene inhibits Aβ42 aggregation by specifically perturbing both primary and secondary nucleation could, in principle, result from the interaction of bexarotene with Aβ42 monomers, with primary and secondary oligomers, or indeed with both monomers and oligomers (Fig. 4F). However, binding to monomers would affect the rates of all the microscopic steps in the overall reaction under the conditions studied here (28), enabling us to conclude that bexarotene specifically interacts primarily with Aβ42 oligomers. This conclusion is further supported by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy measurements, where no significant perturbations of the chemical shifts could be observed in the heteronuclear single-quantum correlation (HSQC) spectra of 25 μM 15N-labeled monomeric Aβ42 before and after the addition of a fivefold excess of bexarotene, indicating that binding to the monomeric form of Aβ42 is likely to be negligible (figs. S3 and S4). Furthermore, these findings provide novel insights into the structural features of primary and secondary oligomers of Aβ42, suggesting that primary and secondary nuclei may have similar structural features, and hence can interact with bexarotene in a similar manner, and that the same residues of Aβ42 may be involved in both primary and secondary nucleation events.
Targeting primary nucleation delays the formation of toxic species of Aβ42
We next explored whether the delay in Aβ42 fibril formation resulting from inhibiting primary nucleation by bexarotene could be associated with a delay in the formation of neurotoxic species, as the perturbation of different microscopic steps in Aβ42 aggregation has different effects on the rate of generation of toxic oligomers (28). Thus, for example, decreasing the primary nucleation rate is expected to delay the overall aggregation reaction but not to affect the total number of toxic oligomers generated during the reaction (28). An increase or decrease in the number of toxic oligomers is, however, likely to result from the suppression of elongation or secondary nucleation, respectively (28).
To examine this issue, we performed numerical simulations of the total rate of formation of oligomers, from both primary and secondary processes in the aggregation reaction of a 0.5 μM solution of Aβ42 in the absence and presence of a 20-fold excess of bexarotene (see Materials and Methods). Because bexarotene preferentially targets primary nucleation, it is expected to delay the entire aggregation process, that is, to delay the generation of toxic species without necessarily decreasing the amount of the toxic species. On the basis of our previous findings, primary nucleation is a very rapid process that is directly bypassed by secondary nucleation once a small but critical concentration of seeds has been formed (22). We have therefore used the lowest concentration of Aβ42 at which aggregation can be observed (31) and monitored its aggregation in the presence of high concentrations of bexarotene to inhibit the primary nucleation step as strongly as possible. The simulations show that by delaying the primary nucleation of Aβ42 in the presence of bexarotene, a delay in the formation of Aβ42 oligomers occurs but without decreasing the total amount of oligomers formed over the time course of the aggregation process (Fig. 5, A and B). Indeed, the formation of oligomers follows a parabolic evolution in that the number of oligomers formed during the aggregation of Aβ42 alone starts to decrease at the point where the number in the presence of bexarotene started to increase.
Fig. 5 Bexarotene delays the formation of Aβ42 toxic species in neuroblastoma cells.
(A and B) Numerical simulations of the reaction profiles (A) and nucleation rates (B) for a solution of 0.5 μM Aβ42 in the absence and presence of a 20-fold excess of bexarotene. Blue lines correspond to a control aggregation reaction in the absence of bexarotene, with reaction rate constants k2 = 1 × 106 M−2 s−1, k+ = 3 × 106 M−1 s−1, and kn = 1 × 104 M−1 s−1. Dotted red lines show the behavior in the presence of bexarotene, where the nucleation rate constant, kn, has been decreased to 1 × 102 1 M−1 s−1. A delay in the evolution of the total nucleation rate (that is, of both primary and secondary nucleation) is observed. (C to F) Levels of activated caspase-3 as an indicator of the cytotoxic effects of Aβ42 species on a human neuroblastoma cell line (SH-SY5Y); the fluorescence values have been normalized (see Materials and Methods). Aliquots of 0.5 μM Aβ42, in the absence and in the presence of 10 μM bexarotene, were removed from the aggregation reaction at 0 hour (C), 0.3 hour (D), 4 hours (E), and 7 hours (F). A.U., arbitrary units. Percentage differences between the fluorescence values of Aβ42 in the absence or in the presence of bexarotene (gray circles). These results show that detectable quantities of toxic Aβ42 species are formed in the presence of bexarotene only after 7 hours of incubation at 37°C, in agreement with a bexarotene delay of the formation of Aβ42 toxic species.
To verify these predictions, we measured the cytotoxicity in human neuroblastoma cells (SH-SY5Y) resulting from the aggregation of 0.5 μM Aβ42 in the absence and presence of a 20-fold excess (that is, 10 μM) of bexarotene by evaluating the levels of caspase-3, an early marker of apoptosis (see Materials and Methods). Indeed, caspase-9 is an initiator enzyme that mediates apoptotic pathways after mitochondrial damage and activates effector caspases, such as caspase-3, by cleaving their inactive proforms and initiating the apoptotic cascade. Staurosporine, which is a broad-spectrum kinase inhibitor known to activate the apoptosis pathway, was used as a positive control (see Materials and Methods). Aliquots of Aβ42 solutions were removed at different time points during the lag phase of the aggregation reaction in the absence and presence of bexarotene and incubated with SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. In its monomeric form (before incubation, Fig. 5C), Aβ42 showed no detectable toxicity irrespective of the presence of bexarotene. In the absence of bexarotene, the species formed after incubation for 0.3 hours (Fig. 5D) and 4 hours (Fig. 5E) exhibited a level of toxicity 65 ± 5% higher than that in the presence of bexarotene. However, for the samples incubated for 7 hours, the level of toxicity generated in the presence of bexarotene increased to a value similar to that observed in its absence whereas the toxicity of Aβ alone decreased. This further supports a bexarotene-induced delay of the formation of Aβ42 toxic species in cell (Fig. 5F).
Bexarotene rescues Aβ42-mediated dysfunction in C. elegans models
We further evaluated the effects of bexarotene on the formation of toxic Aβ42 species in a C. elegans model of Aβ42-mediated dysfunction, denoted GMC101 (termed the Aβ worm model) (46), and compared the resulting effects of the addition of bexarotene to those observed in a control worm model, CL2122, which is free of Aβ42 (see Materials and Methods). In the GMC101 model, Aβ42 is expressed in body wall muscle cells where it forms aggregates and results in severe age-progressive paralysis (46). We exposed the worms to increasing concentrations of bexarotene ranging from 5 to 10 μM and measured the frequency of body bends, which is indicative of the state of the muscle cells, and also the quantity of Aβ42 aggregates within the body of the worms (Fig. 6) (see Materials and Methods). In the absence of bexarotene, the frequency of the body bends of the Aβ worm model decreased significantly after just 2 days compared to the situation in the control worm model where a similar decrease in the motility was observed only after 9 days (Fig. 6B). In agreement with such a difference, the levels of aggregates monitored using the fluorescence intensity of the amyloid-specific dye NIAD-4 (47) differ significantly between the two models, with essentially no aggregates being detected on the same day the worms reached adulthood in the Aβ worm model in the presence of bexarotene (Fig. 6, C and D).
Fig. 6 Bexarotene restores the motility of C. elegans models of Aβ42-mediated toxicity by preventing Aβ42 aggregation.
(A) Experimental procedure for the measurement of the effects of bexarotene on the frequency of body bends and on the quantity of aggregates in C. elegans GMC101 (that is, the Aβ worm model) and CL2122 (that is, the control worm model) models. Bexarotene was given to the worms at larval stages L1 and L4. (B) Measurements of the effect of increasing concentrations of bexarotene ranging from 5 to 10 μM on the frequency of body bends in the Aβ worm model. Normalized values with respect to day 0 are shown. The experimental data are shown for a single experiment but are representative in each case of three independent experiments. Complete recovery of the motility of the Aβ worm model can be observed at 10 μM bexarotene; the inset shows the dose dependence of the effects of bexarotene on Aβ worms at day 3 of adulthood. (C) In vivo imaging of aggregates stained using the amyloid-specific dye NIAD-4 in the absence and in the presence of 10 μM bexarotene; images from days 6 and 9 only are shown for clarity. (D) Time course of the reaction of amyloid aggregates formed in the Aβ worms in the absence and in the presence of 1 μM bexarotene. Quantification of fluorescence intensity was performed using ImageJ software (see Materials and Methods). In all panels, error bars represent the SEM. (E) Insoluble fraction of the protein extracts from C. elegans in the presence and in the absence of bexarotene with immunodetection of Aβ and α-tubulin (see Materials and Methods).
We then explored the effect of increasing concentrations of bexarotene added at the larval stages of the C. elegans life cycle (Fig. 6A) and observed a concentration-dependent maintenance of the motility of the Aβ worm model. Indeed, the motility of the Aβ worms was maintained completely upon addition of 10 μM bexarotene in two bursts at the L1 and L4 larval stages, that is, reached the level observed in the control worms (Fig. 4, A and B). In addition, imaging studies (see Materials and Methods) showed that the addition of 10 μM bexarotene to the Aβ worms suppressed the formation of Aβ42 fibrils for 9 days of adulthood (Fig. 6D). The level of Aβ42 expression in the Aβ worms in the absence and in the presence of bexarotene was found to be closely similar (Fig. 6E). This result indicates that maintaining the level of motility in the Aβ worms could be achieved by preventing the aggregation of Aβ42 by bexarotene. In accord with this conclusion, the addition of bexarotene did not show any effects in the control worm model (fig. S5A). The normal motility observed for the Aβ worms in the presence of bexarotene could be consistent with two distinct scenarios. One possibility could be a strong delay in primary nucleation, which would substantially delay the aggregation of Aβ42 and hence maintain the motility of the Aβ worms to values similar to those of the control worms. Alternatively, these results could arise from a combination of effects on primary and secondary nucleation. This latter possibility is particularly relevant because although bexarotene preferentially inhibits primary nucleation, it could also affect secondary nucleation when present in excess. Indeed, our experiments using 5% seeds show that bexarotene is capable of acting on surface-catalyzed secondary nucleation as well as on primary nucleation (Fig. 4, F to H). Furthermore, we also observed that adding bexarotene only at day 2 did not show any detectable effect on the motility of the Aβ worms (fig. S5, B and C), suggesting that the finding from the in vitro studies that bexarotene specifically affects nucleation events in Aβ42 aggregation is also the case in vivo.
We have described a drug discovery strategy that aims at targeting Aβ42 aggregation with small molecules. This strategy involves the identification of compounds from an Aβ-specific fragment-based library and the subsequent application of chemical kinetics for gaining a fundamental understanding of the molecular mechanism of inhibition (Fig. 1). We have found that although tramiprosate has no effect on Aβ42 aggregation, bexarotene interferes selectively with the earliest stage of Aβ42 aggregation by reducing the rate of primary nucleation. We have also observed that this effect significantly inhibits the rate of the overall aggregation reaction not only in vitro but also in cells and in vivo, as bexarotene was found to suppress the formation of toxic species both in cells and in C. elegans. Furthermore, we have shown that a sufficient concentration of bexarotene given at the earliest stages of the C. elegans life cycle can maintain the motility of the worms expressing Aβ42 at a level comparable to those in which Aβ42 is not expressed, thus further supporting the preventive effect of this molecule (48–50).
We anticipate that the strategy that we have described in this paper will enable the identification of further compounds capable of inhibiting Aβ42 aggregation and the definition of the specific microscopic steps affected by each compound (that is, primary or secondary nucleation or elongation). These results should enable a range of compounds to be identified to control and modulate the onset of aggregation and the rate of its progression first in vitro and then in vivo. In addition, the results described in the present work indicate that bexarotene and other inhibitors of primary nucleation have the potential to be efficient means of delaying aggregation by reducing the probability that primary nuclei are formed and proliferate, such that our natural protection mechanisms could remain effective to more advanced ages. Indeed, we draw an analogy between the strategy presented here and that of using statins, which reduce the level of cholesterol and thus the risk of heart conditions, and suggest that such molecules could effectively act as “neurostatins.” In addition to the use of molecules such as bexarotene for preventive purposes, it is possible to speculate that targeting secondary nucleation, which is largely responsible for the production of toxic species (30), would form the basis to developing treatments to reduce the rate of progression of AD.
We have described in this study the development and application of a comprehensive strategy for the identification of potent anti-AD drugs. This strategy is based on understanding the molecular details of the inhibition processes, creating opportunities to identify effective therapeutic agents in a rational manner that could eventually lead to successful drugs to combat AD. Finally, given the generality of the phenomenon of protein aggregation, the present strategy offers a framework for the rational design and evaluation of novel therapeutics to target other forms of neurodegenerative disorders.
Preparation of Aβ peptides
The recombinant Aβ (M1-42) peptide (MDAEFRHDSGY EVHHQKLVFF AEDVGSNKGA IIGLMVGGVV IA), here called Aβ42, was expressed in the Escherichia coli BL21 Gold (DE3) strain (Stratagene) and purified as described previously with slight modifications (51). Briefly, the purification procedure involved sonication of E. coli cells, dissolution of inclusion bodies in 8 M urea, ion exchange in batch mode on diethylaminoethyl cellulose resin, and lyophilization. The lyophilized fractions were further purified using a Superdex 75 HR 26/60 column (GE Healthcare), and eluates were analyzed using SDS–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for the presence of the desired protein product. The fractions containing the recombinant protein were combined, frozen using liquid nitrogen, and lyophilized again.
Isotopically labeled 15N-Aβ42 was prepared by growing transformed E. coli BL21 Gold (DE3) strain (Stratagene) in 1-liter flasks at 37°C with 500 ml of minimal M9 batch medium. Briefly, a 20-ml preculture grown overnight to saturation in LB medium containing ampicilin (100 μg/liter) was diluted 1:25 in 2YT medium supplemented with ampicilin (100 μg/liter) and grown at 37°C. When the optical density at 600 nm reached 0.5, the cells were harvested, washed in minimal medium, and inoculated in one-quarter of the initial culture volume of minimal M9 medium containing ampicilin (100 μg/liter) and supplemented with 15NH4Cl (2 g/liter) (Cambridge Isotope Laboratories). Cells were grown at 37°C for 2 hours before induction. Isopropyl-β-d-thiogalactopyranoside was then added to a final concentration of 1 mM, and cells were grown at 37°C overnight. Purification of 15N-Aβ42 was performed as described above. Chemicals, including bexarotene and tramiprosate, were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich and were of the highest purity available.
Preparation of samples for kinetic experiments
Solutions of monomeric peptides were prepared by dissolving the lyophilized Aβ42 peptide in 6 M GuHCl. Monomeric forms were purified from potential oligomeric species and salt using a Superdex 75 10/300 GL column (GE Healthcare) at a flow rate of 0.5 ml/min and were eluted in 20 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 8) supplemented with 200 μM EDTA and 0.02% NaN3. The center of the peak was collected, and the peptide concentration was determined from the absorbance of the integrated peak area using ε280 = 1400 liter mol−1 cm−1. The obtained monomer was diluted with buffer to the desired concentration and supplemented with 20 μM ThT from a 1 mM stock. All samples were prepared in low-binding Eppendorf tubes on ice using careful pipetting to avoid introduction of air bubbles. Each sample was then pipetted into multiple wells of a 96-well half-area, low-binding polyethylene glycol coating plate (Corning 3881) with a clear bottom, at 80 μl per well.
For the seeded experiments, preformed fibrils were prepared just before the experiment. Kinetic experiments were set up just as above for a 4 μM Aβ42 sample in 20 mM sodium phosphate buffer (pH 8) with 200 μM EDTA, 0.02% NaN3, and 20 μM ThT. The ThT fluorescence was monitored for 3 hours to verify the formation of fibrils. Samples were then collected from the wells into low-binding tubes and sonicated for 2 min in a sonicator bath at room temperature. Under the conditions used here (4 μM Aβ42), the monomer concentration is negligible at equilibrium (31). The final concentration of fibrils, in monomer equivalents, was considered equal to the initial concentration of the monomer. Fibrils were then added to the freshly prepared monomer to reach either 5 or 10% final concentration of fibrils.
In all cases, bexarotene was first solubilized in 100% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to a concentration of 5 mM and then diluted in the peptide solution to reach a final DMSO concentration of maximum 1%. We verified that the addition of 1% DMSO in the reaction mixture has no effect on Aβ42 aggregation (fig. S6).
Kinetic assays
Assays were initiated by placing the 96-well plate at 37°C under quiescent conditions in a plate reader (Fluostar Omega, Fluostar Optima, or Fluostar Galaxy; BMG Labtech). The ThT fluorescence was measured through the bottom of the plate with a 440-nm excitation filter and a 480-nm emission filter. The ThT fluorescence was followed for three repeats of each sample.
Theoretical analysis
The time evolution of the total fibril mass concentration, M(t), is described by the following integrated rate law (30, 32)
(1)where the kinetic parameters B±, C±, k, k∞, and
are functions of the two combinations of the microscopic rate constants k+k2 and knk2, where kn, k+, and k2 are the primary nucleation, elongation, and secondary nucleation rate constants, respectively.
Bexarotene can interfere with the aggregation process by inhibiting one or more of the individual microscopic reactions. We can identify the microscopic events that are inhibited by the chemical compound by applying the above equation to describe the macroscopic aggregation profiles shown in Fig. 4 and fig. S2 and comparing the set of microscopic rate constants k+k2 and knk2 required to describe the time evolution of the fibril formation in the absence and presence of bexarotene. As shown in Fig. 4 and fig. S2, in unseeded aggregation reactions, the presence of the chemical compound mainly perturbs the primary nucleation rate.
The numerical simulations reported in Fig. 5 (A and B) show the reaction profiles in the presence and absence of bexarotene simulated according to Eq. 1. The time evolution of the nucleation rate, r(t), was simulated according to the equation
Model simulations in Fig. 4F were performed by fixing the k+ and k2 parameters for a 2 μM Aβ42 solution seeded with 5% of preformed seed fibrils. The kn parameter was then decreased to very negligible values (~0). This showed insignificant perturbation to the reaction profile when the primary nucleation process does not occur.
AFM imaging
Aβ42 samples were removed from the aggregation reaction and were directly deposited onto freshly cleaved mica surfaces and allowed to dry for 30 min. Samples were then washed with Milli-Q water and then dried with nitrogen. AFM images were acquired using a VEECO Dimension 3100 atomic force microscope (Bruker) and JPK Nanowizard software. The instrument was operated in tapping mode in air using n-type silicon cantilevers with resonant frequencies between 65 and 130 kHz.
Dot-blot assay
Blotting was performed using either Aβ42 fibril-specific antibody (OC, Millipore) or Aβ42 sequence-specific antibody (W0-2, Millipore). During the time course of the aggregation of 2 μM Aβ42 in the absence and in the presence of fourfold excess of bexarotene (Fig. 3), 4- and 2-μl Aβ42 aliquots were removed from the mixture at different time points for blotting with either OC or W0-2, respectively. Aβ42 aliquots were spotted onto a nitrocellulose membrane (0.2 μm; Whatman), and then the membranes were dried and then blocked with Blocking One (Nacalai Tesque) before immunodetection. OC and W0-2 were used according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Alexa Fluor 488–conjugated secondary antibodies (Life Technologies) were subsequently added, and fluorescence detection was performed using Typhoon Trio Imager (GE Healthcare). DMSO-solubilized bexarotene was added to Aβ42 with a final concentration of 1% DMSO. For the calibration curve (Fig. 3D), a series of dilutions between 4 and 0.1 μM were performed on freshly prepared Aβ42 fibrils and 4-μl aliquots were deposited onto the same nitrocellulose membrane (0.2 μm; Whatman) as the one used for OC fibril-specific antibody. An oligomer-specific A11 antibody was also used to detect the evolution of the formation of Aβ42 oligomers in the absence and in the presence of bexarotene. However, under these conditions, we could not detect oligomers because of their very low concentration during Aβ42 aggregation even when depositing on the membrane volumes as high as 20 μl.
NMR experiments
For NMR analyses, 15N-Aβ42 was purified as described above except that the buffer of the gel filtration was 50 mM ammonium acetate (pH 8.5). Lyophilized powder of 15N-Aβ42 was dissolved at an approximate concentration of 1 mM in 0.2% (v/v) ammonium solution and then collected and stored in aliquots at −80°C until use. NMR samples were prepared by dissolving the lyophilized powder in 20 mM potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) at a concentration of 25 μM containing 10% (v/v) 2H2O in the presence and absence of a fivefold excess of bexarotene in 2.5% DMSO. The pH of the mixture was checked for possible pH variations that could occur from the addition of bexarotene and was found to be unchanged. NMR spectral measurements were made on a Bruker AVANCE-500 spectrometer equipped with a cryogenic probe. The probe temperature was set to 278 K. 1H-15N HSQC spectra were recorded at a 1H observation frequency of 500 MHz with 128 (t1) × 1024 (t2) complex points and 32 scans per t1 increment. The spectral width was 1216 Hz for the 15N dimension and 6010 Hz for the 1H dimension. Chemical shift perturbation (CSP) and intensity changes were monitored using 1H-15N HSQC spectra at increasing molar ratios of bexarotene to monomeric Aβ42. A reference sample of DMSO without compound was also titrated into Aβ42 samples. CSP and intensity ratio due to the addition of DMSO was subtracted from those observed during titrations with compound. CSP was calculated as Δδ = ((ΔδN/5)2 + (ΔδH)2)1/2. NMR spectra were processed by TopSpin 2.1 (Bruker). Resonance assignment and intensity calculations were performed using the program Sparky (www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/sparky/). The sample preparation protocol and the low NMR probe temperature (5°C) were chosen to ensure that the Aβ42 peptide remained monomeric during the entire data acquisition. The HSQC spectra are typical of intrinsically disordered peptides with a very low dispersion of resonant frequencies (figs. S3 and S4).
Caspase-3 cytotoxicity assay
Aβ42 oligomers are known to be toxic to cells leading to apoptosis and to cellular death. Cytotoxicity assays were performed by measuring the activity of caspase-3, an earlier marker of apoptosis, in a neuroblastoma cell line when incubated with Aβ42 either in the presence or in the absence of bexarotene (52). SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells were cultured under standard conditions, at 37°C in a humidified incubator with 5% CO2. Cells were seeded at a density of 25,000 per well in a white-walled, clear-bottomed 96-well plate and cultured for 24 hours in minimum essential medium–F12 (1:1)/10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Gibco). The culture medium was then replaced with prewarmed phenol red–free Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium without FBS into which the peptide samples or NaPO4 buffer were diluted 1:1. Aβ samples at roughly 0.5 μM, either alone or in the presence of 20-fold excess of bexarotene in 1% DMSO final concentration, were removed from an ongoing aggregation reaction at different time points (0, 0.3, 4, and 7 hours) and were followed in parallel by means of ThT fluorescence. The aggregation reaction was set up as above except for the buffer from which NaN3 was removed because of its toxicity. At 10 μM, DMSO-solubilized bexarotene did not show any toxicity and thus was comparable to the control values (fig. S7). All the specified time points correspond to Aβ42 in the lag phase to monitor inhibition at the early stage of the aggregation. We used one separate plate for each time point with 25 replicates of Aβ either alone or in the presence of bexarotene. The cells were cultured in the presence of the peptides, buffer, and media for an additional 24 hours before the cytotoxic effect was measured. Cell medium diluted with the same buffer that was used in these experiments was included in some wells to evaluate the intrinsic fluorescence of the media and bexarotene.
As a negative control, we added to the cells the cell media diluted with the buffer that was used to prepare bexarotene (phosphate buffer with 1% DMSO). For the positive control, staurosporine (1 μM) was added to the cells for 2 hours. Caspase-3/7 activity was measured using the Apo-ONE Homogeneous Caspase-3/7 Assay (Promega). The fluorogenic caspase-3/7 substrate rhodamine 110 bis-(N-CBZ-l-aspartyl-l-glutamyl-l-valyl-aspartic acid amide) was diluted 1:100 in the lysis buffer provided and added to the cell medium at a 1:1 ratio. The fluorescence was measured at an excitation of 480 nm and an emission of 520 nm in an Optima Fluostar plate reader. In each of the used plates, the toxicity was assessed according to a negative and a positive control.
For comparative purposes between different plates, we normalized the fluorescence values using a parabolic equation (y = axb), which corresponds to the evolution of the oligomers as a function of time. Negative and positive controls were set to 1 and 10, respectively. According to these calculations, the toxicity of Aβ42 in the absence and in the presence of bexarotene has normalized values between 1 and 10 and hence could be compared between different plates. Statistical analyses were performed using GraphPad Prism 6.0. Results are expressed as means ± SEM. Statistical analyses were performed using Student t test or one-way analysis of variance followed by Tukey’s post hoc test.
C. elegans experiments
Standard conditions were used for C. elegans propagation at 20°C (53). Briefly, animals were synchronized by hypochlorite bleaching, hatched overnight in M9 buffer, and subsequently cultured on nematode growth medium (NGM; USP agar) plates seeded with the E. coli strain OP50. Saturated cultures of OP50 were grown by inoculating 50 ml of LB medium with OP50 and incubating the culture for 16 hours at 37°C. NGM plates were seeded with bacteria by adding 350 μl of saturated OP50 to each plate and leaving the plates at room temperature for 2 to 3 days. On day 3 after synchronization, animals were placed on NGM plates containing 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine (75 mM, unless stated otherwise) to inhibit growth of offspring.
The following strains were used: dvIs100[unc-54p::A-beta-1-42::unc-54 3′UTR + mtl-2p::GFP] (GMC101). mtl-2p::GFP produces constitutive expression of GFP in intestinal cells. unc-54p::A-beta-1-42 expresses full-length human Aβ42 peptide in body wall muscle cells that aggregates in vivo. Shifting L4 or young adult animals from 20° to 25°C causes paralysis (46). dvIs15[pPD30.38 (unc-54 vector) + mtl-2::GFP (pCL26)] (CL2122) is the control strain for GMC101 (46). C. elegans var. Bristol (N2) was isolated from the mushroom compost near Bristol, England. Generation time is about 3 days and mean brood size is about 350 progeny (53).
Bexarotene stock (5 mM in 100% DMSO) was used at an appropriate concentration to seed 9-cm NGM plates. Plates were placed in a laminar flow hood at room temperature (22°C) for 1 hour to dry. C. elegans cultures were transferred onto media with compound as L1 larvae for 64 to 72 hours at 20°C. Cultures were then transferred to freshly seeded 9-cm plates as young adults and incubated at 23° or 25°C for the whole experiment. Experiments were carried out at different bexarotene concentrations ranging from 5 to 10 μM in 1% DMSO. As controls, plates seeded only with 1% DMSO were used.
C. elegans motility assay
All populations were cultured at 20°C and developmentally synchronized from a 4-hour egg lay. At 64 to 72 hours after egg lay (time 0), individuals were shifted to 23° or 25°C, and body movement was assessed over time as indicated. At different ages, animals were washed out of the plates with M9 and spread over an unseeded 6-cm plate, after which their movements were recorded at 30 frames per second using a homemade microscopic setup, at ×0.75 magnification, for 30 s or 1 min. Two hundred animals were counted per experiment unless stated otherwise. All experiments were carried out in triplicate and the data from one representative experiment are shown. Statistical analyses were performed using the GraphPad Prism software (GraphPad Software).
Videos were elaborated using ImageJ (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MA), and body bends were quantified using the wrMTrck plug-in (www.phage.dk/plugins/wrmtrck.html), developed by Jesper Søndergaard Pedersen.
Staining and microscopy in living C. elegans
Live transgenic animals were incubated with NIAD-4 over a range of concentrations and times, and it was empirically determined that incubation of living animals with 1 μM NIAD-4 (0.1% DMSO in M9 buffer) for 4 hours at room temperature gave robust and reproducible staining. After staining, animals were allowed to recover on NGM plates for about 24 hours to allow destaining via normal metabolism. Stained animals were mounted on 2% agarose pads containing 40 mM NaN3 as anesthetic on glass microscope slides for imaging. Images were captured with a Zeiss Axio Observer D1 fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH) with a 20× objective and a 49004 ET-CY3/TRITC filter (Chroma Technology Corp). Fluorescence intensity was calculated using ImageJ software (National Institutes of Health) and then normalized as the corrected total cell fluorescence. Only the head region was considered because of the high background signal in the guts. All experiments were carried out in triplicate, and the data from one representative experiment are shown. Statistical significance was determined using t tests.
For comparison of the Aβ42 expression level in the absence and in the presence of bexarotene, ~3000 adults were collected in S-basal (53) in triplicate and then frozen in liquid N2. Samples were then extracted in radioimmunoprecipitation assay buffer [50 mM tris (pH 8), 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 0.5% SDS, 1% NP-40, 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, Roche Complete inhibitors 1×; Roche Holding AG], disrupted via sonication, and then centrifuged at 16,000 rpm for 10 min at 4°C. Pellets and supernatants were then separated. Pellets were solubilized using urea/SDS buffer (8 M urea, 2% SDS, 50 mM tris). Samples at the appropriate concentration were added to NuPAGE LDS Sample Buffer (1×) and NuPAGE Sample Reducing Agent (1×) (Life Technologies) and heated at 70°C for 10 min. Material was resolved via NuPAGE Novex 4 to 12% Bis-Tris Protein Gels (Life Technologies), transferred to nitrocellulose membranes using an iBlot Dry Blotting System (Life Technologies), and blocked overnight at 4°C in 5% bovine serum albumin. Membranes were then probed at room temperature with MABN10 anti-Aβ antibody, clone W0-2 (Millipore) diluted to 1:500. Blots were reprobed with anti–α-tubulin, clone B-5-1-2 (Sigma-Aldrich) diluted to 1:5000, to standardize total protein loading. Alexa 488–conjugated secondary antibody was used for detection.
Supplementary material for this article is available at http://advances.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2/2/e1501244/DC1
Fig. S1. Comparison of the effects of bexarotene and tramiprosate on Aβ42 aggregation.
Fig. S2. Quantitative evaluation of the effect of bexarotene on the rate constants of Aβ42 aggregation.
Fig. S3. HSQC spectra of 15N-Aβ42 in the absence and in the presence of fivefold excess of bexarotene.
Fig. S4. Interaction between 15N-Aβ42 and bexarotene.
Fig. S5. Effect of bexarotene on Aβ42 aggregation in C. elegans.
Fig. S6. Effect of DMSO on Aβ42 aggregation.
Fig. S7. Toxicity induced by bexarotene in SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells.
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An approved anticancer drug selectively targets the first step in the molecular cascade resulting in Alzheimer’s disease.
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Connoisseur of Connection
Twitter for Business
March 30, 2015 April 9, 2015 Social Media, Social Media Best Practice, Twitter for Business 8 Comments how to use twitter to networknetworking with twitterretweetingsocial media best practicessocial media for techtwitter best practice
The Art of Retweeting: How, When, & Why
In last week’s blog, I highlighted ways to use Twitter to effectively network at events.
After sharing that piece with the Twitterverse, I received a warm response from Carol Willing (whom I first interacted with via Twitter at Write/Speak/Code), asking specific questions about retweeting. Thanks for the call to action, Carol! I hope you enjoy these tips for retweeting.
The Native Retweet
Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
This is the instant RT, which many people utilize frequently. Simply select this button, which is located under every tweet, and allow Twitter to do the work for you.
You may choose this method because:
You respect the author of this valuable statement and agree entirely
This person is an influencer, and their tweet carries more weight than something you could write on this topic
You feel the information provided should reach an audience of magnitude
The original tweet pertains to you or relates to your industry
If you’d like to add your own comment, you can write “RT” before the original content, to identify it as a retweet, and add something unique, like – “Great article!” This will encourage the author whose tweet you shared to engage with you and further show your endorsement of the tweet.
Be careful with characters here – try to stay ≤ 120, as someone may want to RT your RT. Any more characters, and your tweet may be cut off. Shorter tweets are shared more often.
Choosing Your Audience
Twitter assumes tweets that begin with “@” are intended just for you and the person at whom you tweet, and the people who happen to follow you both. To maximize audience, many people place “.” before the “@” to ensure that their followers see the communication in their own feed. The “.” seems to solve the issue of limited visibility while only using one character of the precious 120 characters you should use.
If you’re attempting to engage with someone via tweet in a respectful dialogue, take care to put some thought into a kind greeting instead of a lazy “.” Far too often, people interact on social media in ways that are not acceptable in real life, and depending on the “.” to include your followers on what could otherwise be a private conversation is not best practice, depending on your goals and brand.
When I first saw the placement of “.” in front of someone’s handle referred to as a “dickdot,” it made immediate sense! It’s a bit rude in practice, as any character preceding one’s Twitter name works just as well. A simple salutation will do, and though it might take up a few more characters, it’s far more polite for the recipient, and mirrors how we speak in the real world.
One of my favorite people to follow is Jake Boxer. I’m thrilled to share this tweet, which made me laugh for days, and coined a now often-used phrase:
jk rowling dickdotted someone last week and you were all too busy talking about stupid new iPhones to notice https://t.co/UJ0mNWntEJ — Jake Boxer (@jakeboxer) September 17, 2014
.@aboymadeofsky No, Jonathan, I’ve never made a single decision in my life on the basis of whether it was cool.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 9, 2014
There are some situations that warrant the dot, and J.K. Rowling’s use of it is a prime example. She doesn’t need to have friendly conversation with someone who passive aggressively insults her. Her response successfully asserts her position and, instead of limiting her response to that extremely narrow pool of people who follow both of them (he has less than 300, while she has 4,000,000 plus), she adjusts her tweet so that all of her followers can be privy to the exchange.
(To be clear, I think she’s entirely justified in responding this way, and it is not “dick” at all, but on par with the tone previously used to address her.)
Modified Tweets
Let’s say there’s a tweet you want to shout from the mountains! Unfortunately, its author is maxing out on characters and pushing the 120 best practice limit. There might be some unnecessary prepositions or a repeated word. Or, you want to grab someone’s attention with this awesome tweet by mentioning them, maybe add an appropriate hashtag.
There’s good news!
Write “MT” before the tweet so that readers know you’ve modified it. This way, you’re still providing the credibility to an influencer or expert, keeping the bulk of the message in tact, and making it best suit your purposes and intent.
The Advanced Tweet
You know what you’re doing and this isn’t your first twitter-thon. There’s a breaking news article, which was tweeted out from a very trustworthy source. You can write your own message, give the author of the article acknowledgement, AND give credit to your original Twitter source.
Here’s an example from my own timeline:
This article about @twitter is a MUST read http://t.co/V0BWQKRLAW Great piece @stonetemple! via @HubSpot
— angie hilem (@AngieHilem) February 25, 2015
These are some tips to effectively retweet.
Did you find this helpful? Is there another form of retweeting you prefer?
Let me know & happy tweeting!
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Clare Bronfman leaves court with Mark Geragos about an hour after fainting in court
Village Diane: I was there at court today and this is what I observed – Don’t think Clare was faking her faint
[Editor’s note: I interviewed Village Diane by phone today. She attended the court hearing and this is what she told me.]
By Village Diane
Clare and her attorneys did not arrive until less than 10 minutes before the start of the hearing. The hearing didn’t start right away.
Mark Geragos was fairly jovial, but not as much as he was at the last hearing. But he did not look worried.
Before the proceeding began, Clare left the courtroom for about 20 minutes. I don’t know if she was already feeling unwell. I thought at first she was going for a bathroom break, but it took longer than what a bathroom break would normally take.
Keith was there in court. He had shoulder-length hair. I thought he looked quite feminine.
At the hearing, one of Bronfman’s attorneys read a letter asking the judge to clear the courtroom for the hearing. When Clare’s attorney stopped reading, the judge asked one of the reporters in the courtroom, John Riley from Newsday, if he had an objection.
Riley said he objected, adding that it was important for the public; transparency was important. And there’s a compelling interest in this remaining open to the public.
The judge asked if any other journalists wanted to say anything. A few of them did. They basically said they wanted to consult with legal counsel before making a response on the record. Other journalists there were from the New York Post, Bloomberg, Courthouse News and also there was Vanessa Grigoriadis who previously had written a lengthy article about Nxivm for New York Times Magazine.
The judge decided not to clear the courtroom and said if there was something he felt didn’t need to be public, he would make a sidebar. He said that all previous Curcio hearings were public without any problem.
He said his concern was to get the truth and get full answers.
In the previous Curcio hearing, Clare Bronfman said she found Marc Geragos through searching online. Apparently, the judge had been told that Geragos had a previous relationship with the Bronfman family.
Garaufis also wanted to know if there was another attorney involved in the case.
He was very angry. He said, “I want the truth.”
It came out that Michael Avenatti was also representing Clare. That was what the judge wanted to know about. Avenatti had not made a notice of appearance in the case.
The judge asked for a sidebar. At first, Clare was sitting and a woman [an attorney] was touching her back and comforting her. Clare got up. She and her attorneys went up to the bench. They were standing.
I couldn’t hear what they were saying but the judge looked angry.
I think Judge Garaufis did say to Clare, “I want the truth. I want you to tell me the truth.”
When they were escorting her back to her seat at the defense table; someone was holding her to walk back slowly. The judge was yelling. He was angry.
Clare looked like she was having a little trouble. At some point, Clare’s body became rigid. She sort of collapsed into her chair. Something was definitely wrong. It wasn’t a fake, I don’t think. It was something medical.
Her attorneys surrounded her, and it was hard to see her. When the attorneys kind of parted, I could see that she was talking to them.
I doubt she was faking her fainting. She’s very thin. I got a chance to look at her in lighter clothing. She barely has hips. She does not have a mature woman’s body anymore.
About half an hour later, a stretcher came and a retinue from the fire department and EMT came and they put Clare in a side room and covered the window of the room with paper so that no one could see in.
It was quite a wait before we found out what was to happen. I believe Keith was not in the courtroom during that time.
When things got started again, Keith reappeared.
A woman told the court that it had been recommended to Clare that she go to the hospital, but she did not want to, she just wanted to go home and that she was unable to continue today.
They postponed the Curcio hearings. One is going to be rescheduled for 2 pm tomorrow and the other for 3 pm on Friday. I believe Clare’s Curcio is for 2 pm tomorrow.
At that point, the judge addressed the attorneys and said there was no privilege with regard to who is counsel for defendants and he expected answers tomorrow.
I think he was kind of telling the lawyers how he felt about not knowing about this other attorney [Avenatti] and that they tried to avoid telling him.
He was angry because he felt nobody had told him that Avenatti was involved in this case.
There’s no privilege the judge said with regard to who counsel is. He was angry at that.
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correction? says:
Frank, you wrote: *Geragos* also wanted to know if there was another attorney involved in the case.
I think you meant *Judge Garaufis* wanted to know…..
Perhaps Geragos wants to know, too, because he’s about to be fired.
Maybe, just maybe, Clare finally sees how dark her fate is.
Frankly I feel no compassion for Clare. She used her inhetitance to destroy so called “enemies” and those who left the fold.
I hope I live long enough to see her in prison.
Thanks for publishing this, Frank. Small clarification. The judge was not yelling at Clare in the interval after the sidebar, when she was being helped back to the defense table just before she fainted.
Also, I did not hear anything the judge said at the sidebar. YouTuber Roberta Glass says a noise machine was turned on in order to muffle the sidebar.
Glass also said that Clare looked “very sick and very very thin.”
SC says:
Loved the shout out you got from Roberta. Sounds like it was an exciting day to be in the courtroom.
Thanks for the reporting.
As I tried to post on the earlier piece, but may not have gone through, the TimesUnion reported that she appeared pale at the time, which is consistent with a real vasovagal episode. It’s a stress reaction that can come on rapidly, and resolve relatively quickly.
Another article said that she looked like she had lost a lot of weight since her first appearance in court.
The moment of Truth. Clare’s world is crashing down all around her.
My question: who are her OTHER attorneys?
Go to the Library. A good library.
There should be a big reference book called Martindale-Hubbell that will list all of the attorneys in New York state.
Turn to the New York section and that will be a full list of all of Clare Bronfman’s attorneys.
Before this NXIVM case is finished all these attorneys will be on Clare”s payroll.
Or go to this website
https://www.martindale.com/
Even Bronfman can’t afford that many lawyers.
Last year we thought Ben Szemkus’ story about a NXIVM mixer near Yale University was crazy.
This mixer included everyone from Stormy Daniels to Allison Mack.
Well now the NXIVM case features the hilarious comedy of Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ attorney and alleged extortionist, working for Clare Bronfman.
NXIVM is like a surreal Fellini film featuring a cast of all kinds of characters.
Can the NXIVM case get any weirder?
We thought Ben’s story was crazy because it is crazy. NXIVM is crazy. The question is whether Ben’s story is true. I believe the NXIVM case can, and will, get weirder. This is especially true if any of defendants go to trial.
Did ur buddy Ben mention Avenatti being at that Yale party.
Somehow, I just knew you or some lying “Retard” on here was going to say this makes Ben’s story true, Schlock.
Guess what? It doesn’t.
soccermom1245 says:
Bronfman appeared to have lost weight since her first court appearance in July 2018, and her face was a ghastly yellowish white.
(from Court News Service)
niceguy says:
At times like these I wish CourtTV was still around….
CourtTV was never in a federal court, they don’t allow it.
Wow thanks…. I am talking about the of reporting the trial….
rumour has it MAY 2019 court tv returns {there must be a reason}
Greasepaint stage makeup. Lol. Seriously, Raniere was a stage actor for RPI Players, mebbe just to scam local kids in the group but he knows/taught all these actor tricks.
Thanks, Dianne but I still believe Clare’s little spell was more of a FEINT than an authentic FAINT based on her classic NXIVM training, other eye witness accounts and Clare Bronfman’s long record of deceit, attempted bribery and other “entitlement” tyranny over the U.S. justice system.
What an affront to the Court for Clare to secretly hire “pimp” Avenetti in a farcical attempt to politically influence the outcome of this case to begin with, much less to have bald faced lied about her representation to the court at recent hearings even as the Court attempted to protect her and other defendants from potential conflicts of interests Clare herself caused in her corrupt belief that she can buy her and KAR’s way out of their culpability in even these most heinous crimes against innocent children.
The sympathy should go first to KAR and Bronfman’s long list of victims, then to the Court itself in light of this and many prior NX attempts to mock the Court throughout these proceedings.
It was and is Judge Gaurifus’ duty to defend his court and, thereby, the entire American justice system itself from such a scourge as KAR, Clare Bronfman and NXIVM have deliberately attempted to wreck upon it since the company’s inception.
Judge Gaurufis has given plenty of warning that his patience is wearing thin.
If Clare’s highly vaunted, corrupt counsel didn’t prepare her for the “shock” that maybe this time she won’t get away with perjury and might face some rebuke, that’s her problem too.
But, again, I say they knew it was coming and planned the distraction according to KAR’s mentoring.
Just look at those ate-the-canary, Cheshire Cat grins on she and Geragos faces as they exit the Courthouse!
Power to Gaurufis. Next time give Clare a Twinkie to suck on…and sanctions!
Shadow: Allison Mack may be easy to manipulate but that does not absolve her of her many crimes
Did Bronfman really faint?
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Asha’s Football team play a refugee team from Rotherham
30th May 2019 30th May 2019 by Alvin Bampton
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Representingthe Potteries, Asha won two games against Rotherham at Power Leaguebefore watching Stoke FC play Rotherham which was a READ MORE
2 – 2 drawer. Used to playing in mixed teams, it was Asha’s coach, Guigui, whotold our players that they must play to win and they did! Congratulations Guigui and Asha’s team.
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A Walk over the Roaches
Saturday30 March 2019
Misbah,Tamba, Kirill and Asha supporters and Tasha attended their first walkon the way to becoming Community Champions for the South West PeakDistrict.
Women’s Craft Group
Congratulationsto the group for raising £173 to support Asha’s Food Store.
Thiswas achieved by selling a variety of handiwork. Godefroidcomplimented and thanked Eva, Pauline and the group for theircommitment before Angela presented a Certificate of Appreciation.
A Surprise Visit from Tesco!
Thursday28 March 2019
LizLocker and a colleague swept into Asha bearing some sanitary productsand two breast pumps. One of these was immediately given to a newMum and the other to a young woman expecting in a very few days. Bothwere delighted.
Thankyou Tesco
Itwas Liz who last year turned up with a large quantity of freshlybaked baps for the Refugee Week Barbecue. She reminded us that sheis ready to do the same this year!
Hartshill International Festival
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Angela, Tamba and Misbah and later Salma and Zara represented Asha at this annual event at the North Staffordshire Medical Institute. Asha was given READ MORE
a prominent table and there were already bags of donated food and by the end of the 13 to take back to Asha. Thank you HAHO for appealing on Asha’s behalf and for your donation.
There were many stalls representing different cultures as well as musical entertainment, singing and drumming and free food. Tamba and Misbah did an excellent job promoting Asha and I feel sure we have recruited some more supporters and possibly a new volunteer or befriender.
Canal and River Trust Work Party
7th May 2019 8th April 2019 by Asha
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April 8th was a warm, sunny day so we enjoyed our walk down to the canal from Asha, ably led a clever back route by Matt, one of the volunteers. We were met at the headquarters in Etruria by John Keaveny, the volunteer coordinator at the Canal and River Trust who kitted us out in high vis jackets and armed us with sacks and litter pickers. We walked along the canal, picking up litter as we went. There wasn’t a huge amount but there were some bad patches. We were a little concerned for Matt who found a very littered corner on a very steep bank down to the canal. We were relieved when he rejoined the group and impressed by his bulging sack! After an hour or so we found a grassy patch to sit and enjoy refreshment and a fascinating chat before getting back to work. Lots of people passed us as we worked and some colourful canal boats went by. It was an enjoyable and companionable afternoon and we felt glad that we were contributing to the environment of the canals and the wellbeing of those who enjoy them in Stoke on Trent. Most of the volunteers registered, so that they are now on the mailing for the Trust. We hope to do another work afternoon soon.
Concert in aid of Asha at Trinity Church Leek
30th May 2019 6th November 2018 by Asha
For some time now Trinity Church and the Methodist churches in the Staffordshire Moorlands Circuit have committed to supporting Asha in various ways as part of their mission plan (awareness raising, volunteering, fundraising, befriending, donating money, food, clothes and bicycles)
On Saturday 20thOctober Hannah Turner and Young Phoenix singers combined forces to put on a concert of varied vocal and instrumental music in aid of the ongoing work of Asha, which receives no permanent funding and relies on small grants and donations.
Hannah performed a variety of solo pieces, some new and others well known and Young Phoenix chose a selection of mainly unaccompanied songs from their growing repertoire. Their programme was very much enjoyed and Trinity is grateful for their willingness to come along and help raise money in such a good cause.
The event attracted a good audience from local churches, the Methodist circuit as well as the wider local community. A group of volunteers and asylum seekers from Asha also attended, which included a trio of drummers form various parts of Africa who welcomed folk as they came into church with a burst of drumming .They also performed three pieces half way through the programme .Their enthusiastic drumming and singing complemented the typical English programme really well and afterwards everyone from Asha enjoyed meeting with folk from Leek which they don’t get much of an opportunity to meet.
One of the asylum seekers had brought for sale a number of his paintings evoking scenes from his home country, which were sold in aid of Asha. It is hoped that more of these will be available on Eva Massey’s craft stall at Wednesday Coffee mornings at Trinity.
In the absence of Angela Glendenning a Trustee at Asha, who was feeling under the weather that day ,Godefroid Seminega concluded the evening by explaining what Asha is all about and the huge gratitude felt for the moral and financial support that evenings such as this provided.
A total of £419 was raised
Maureen Wisken
LIFT THE BAN CAMPAIGN
Progress Report from Paul, Refugee Action
[campaign@refugee-action.org.uk] 5 November 2018
It’s only three weeks since the launch of our #LiftTheBan campaign to give people seeking asylum the right to work.
With your help, we’ve shown millions of people – including senior politicians – that the case for lifting the ban is undeniable.
Thanks to our supporters, and the more than 100 organisations backing the campaign, here are some of the things we’ve achieved in such a short space of time:
Media coverage including The Guardian, Times, Telegraph, Financial Times and New Statesman
A growing coalition of campaign partners as varied as the TUC, Ben & Jerry’s, Crisis, the Church of England and Amnesty International
The Labour Party has officially shifted its position to back our campaign
Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes said she was ‘listening carefully’ to the arguments for lifting the ban, during a parliamentary debate on the campaign
Home Secretary Sajid Javid said ‘we are looking to see what more we can do’ in response to an Oral Question in the House of Commons
More than 16,000 people have signed our petition to give people seeking asylum the right to work
We’re overwhelmed by how strongly the public has come out in support of the rights of people seeking safety in the UK. Research shows that 71% of the public are behind us on this issue, but to see that put into practice is something else entirely.
There is still a long way to go, but we’re now more confident than ever that we can transform the lives of people seeking asylum by winning their right to work.
We could not do it without your help.
There’s a lot more to come from the #LiftTheBan campaign, so please keep helping us push to turn cross-party backing and public support into real change.
Bicycle Donation
13th November 2018 6th November 2018 by Asha
Photo of Asha’s footballers playing and their bicycles donated by Asha to help them moving and to come to play.
Thank you for all of the donations. The bikes donated are regularly being used to help a number of refugees to access both programmes to improve health and wellbeing, socialisation and employment and volunteering opportunities.
The West End Methodist Church
30th May 2019 3rd November 2018 by Asha
The West End Methodist Church hosted a three day Christian Aid exhibition and invited Asha to display our Women’s Group Craft Work on the final day Those who don’t know the church and its community centre and café won’t know that not many moons ago it was the very dilapidated West End Pub! It is now a superb community hub with a whole variety of activities to engage every age group.
Asha was delighted to attend and pleased to report that the craft work raised £33.
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'La Vision de Voisin' exhibit extended to June
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Two more months to see Voisins and pick your jaw up from the floor.
If you were perhaps enamored with our report from the Mullin Automotive Museum but haven't gotten a chance to venture forth to Oxnard, Calif., then some good news: "La Vision de Voisin" has been extended to June 24.
Peter Mullin's painstakingly assembled collection of 17 Voisin cars and motorcycles has been a hit: The Mullin museum claims to have hosted more than 6,500 visitors since the exhibit opened in November. Hence, the exhibit was originally scheduled to close in April but has now been extended for two months.
"The success the Voisin exhibit experienced over the past six months has been amazing," said Mullin, founder and chairman of the Mullin Automotive Museum. "We are glad that the increasing public interest has enabled us to extend the exhibit's initial run."
You'll still have to make reservations, however, as the museum is open for just a handful of days. The museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on select Fridays and Saturdays; the website recommends around two hours to fully take in the collection. The place can also be a bit tricky to find, buried in a nondescript warehouse park surrounded by equally gray buildings. But the drab walls don't convey the great cars within, including a Talbot-Lago T26C Grand Prix factory racer; a Pebble Beach-winning Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic at center stage; Autoweek's favorite car, the Biscúter; enough Delahayes to annoy the Pasha of Marrakech; and the astonishing Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H6C "Xenia," which is the sort of car that Jay Gatsby would drive if he decided to become a vigilante after the murder of his parents.
Plus, there's a 1907 Voisin biplane hanging from the ceiling. How cool is that?
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100 Scariest Movie Moments 2004
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30 Even Scarier Movie Moments 2007
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Moguls and Movie Stars 2010
Each installment focus on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.
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We decided to give our resident goof-ball and so-called security guard a show. He’s known simply as the Night WatchMan (we don’t know his real name because HR won’t release his employee file) … so if dissecting movies and gawking at his hottie sidekick sounds like fun… you don’t wanna miss the Movie Underground.
Movie 4 was a television program that aired at various times, but predominantly weekday afternoons, on WNBC-TV in New York City from 1956 to 1974. The program aired top-rank first-run movies and other future classics from Hollywood, as well as foreign films. As with other movie shows of 90-minute length, films that ran longer were often divided into two parts. Though it achieved a degree of success, for most of its run the show usually ran in the shadow of rival WCBS-TV's The Early Show on weekdays and The Late Show on weekends. Despite its being a major player among the local movie shows for nearly 18 years, the program today is largely forgotten in relation to WABC-TV's better-known The 4:30 Movie. The Movie 4 title was also used at varying times until the 1970s by NBC's two other owned-and-operated stations on channel 4, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. and KNBC in Los Angeles. The network's Chicago outlet, WMAQ-TV, used the title Movie 5 for its movie shows from the late 1950s up to the 1980s; and during NBC's ownership of Philadelphia station WRCV-TV, their movie umbrella was known as Movie 3.
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About Savannah:
I should have been wary.
I (Barbara) should have known that when I put out a call for writers to send me material they’d deleted from their work — or descriptions of characters who’d been axed because they’d got out of control — that Savannah would be listening. That she’d take it as an invitation to burst out of the file folder where I thought I had her safely locked away.
That she’d post her name here, among the writers even, as if she’d invented herself.
Savannah Carr.
A character who not only got out of control, but actually succeeded in taking over an entire novel for a draft or two, twisting everything around, convinced — though she was a secondary character — that the whole story was really about her.
And the thing was, I adored her.
Still, even without Dr. Johnson’s stern eye upon her, in the end it was clear she had to be struck out. It became a completely different story then, of course.
But I should have known that going down for the final count means nothing to the likes of Savannah Carr:
“April 29th. Very late at night, in the bloody freezing downstairs of a Tuscan farm house, a room that was once a cattle shed….”
Savannah Carr looked narrow-eyed at that, then crossed it out.
She closed her eyes. What she needed was to breath in the atmosphere of this Tuscan night and then let it flow out in the descriptive phrases her readers adored her for.
She began a new page.
Musings of a Flower Artist
Among the Mysterious Etruscans
If she felt a familiar twinge at presenting herself this way, she took a deep breath and let the sensation settle. The self-made self was not an easy load to carry. Surely it was a small detail that the botanical illustrations for her book about the Amazon, signed by her, were actually done by Kate Carswell — in whose newly-inherited farm house Savannah was now damn well freezing.
Still, she could feel the soft breath of the Tuscan night, the Etruscan night, the darkness the centuries had pulled across a civilization that she, Savannah Carr, would bring into public awareness as had not been done heretofore, yes, mystery and all.
Mystery. That suspect denigrated word.
Mystery was just going to have to lie back and let itself be burrowed to its golden core.
(And next day: from Kate’s point of view.)
When Kate got back to the house, Savannah had the look of someone pummelled by her own good nature into trying not throw a snit. “Katie, I called and called. It’s after five — we have to be heading for that party.”
Kate laid the painting of the anemone on the table. Savannah leaned close, and Kate couldn’t help but hold her breath, waiting for the curious thing that could happen when Savannah inspected something she had done, a look of discomposure that could come over Savannah almost as if she were feeling ill; and Kate would feel as if she herself was being swallowed by that look. How curiously warm and syrupy and powerful that sensation was: that she, Kate, was able to make her employer lose herself in this way – before Savannah nodded curtly, as she did now.
“Good girl.” Pretending she had hardly looked. “But scurry along and get dressed.” She sized Kate up: the rumpled shirt, the jeans. “Or maybe you can go like that; Luke said everyone is coming just as they are, after the horse-thing, though I thought I’d dress up just a little. What do you think?”
She twirled. Many silky levels shimmered. In addition there were strappy Roman sandals and a straw matador hat with a big red rose. She looked great. Unless the aim was blending in.
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The Trussell Trust runs the largest network of foodbanks in the UK, giving emergency food and support to people in crisis. Thirteen million people live below the poverty line and in the last year we gave 1,583,668 three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis.
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Barrow Foodbank has been set up by Barrow Churches to respond to the need to help those we know who are struggling in our community, showing God's love with practical help through food, support and advice.
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Cornel West vs. Barack Obama
August 5, 2010 Staff Leave a comment
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, Syracuse University
Dr. Cornel West apparently has a bone to pick with President Barack Obama. Over time, the good Dr. West has become increasingly vocal in his critique of Obama, and even went as far as to say that Obama treated him "like a cub scout," when refusing to address his concerns about the administration’s behavior.
"Well, I’ll tell you, I had not talked to my dear brother since the Martin Luther King gathering in South Carolina, and very briefly Super Tuesday. But he did come and make a beeline to me after his speech on I think it was Thursday morning in Washington, D.C. I hadn’t seen him for two and a half weeks, and he made a beeline to me, though, brother, and he was deeply upset. He talked to me like I was a Cub Scout, and he was a pack master, you know what I mean?
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The Latest in Black Voices – 3/9/10
March 9, 2010 Staff Leave a comment
Roger Ross Williams Has Second Chance At Speech After Being ‘Kanye’d’ At The Oscars
Oscar-Winning Beauty: Get Mo’Nique’s Academy Awards Hairstyle
Oscars Red Carpet: Look for Less
Oscars Red Carpet: BV’s Best in Beauty Awards
Inner City School Gets 100% of Its Black Men Into College
Ed Gordon: Returning To BET News
Black Market Booty Injections Hospitalize Six Women
Tiger Woods Reportedly Preparing for a Comeback
Black Professor Becomes Major Media Entrepreneur
Parents Pimped Out 14-Year-Old Daughter to Used Car Salesman to Avoid Monthly Minivan Payments
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Black News from TheGrio – 3/4/10
In DC, blacks were crucial to gay marriage debate
By theGrio
6:14 PM on 03/04/2010
.WASHINGTON (AP) – Gay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over same-sex marriage has sounded different here…
Campbell’s driver regrets calling police on model
NEW YORK (AP) – The driver who accused British supermodel Naomi Campbell of assaulting him said Thursday through his lawyer that he "got angry and overreacted"…
Burglary suspect flees crime scene on child’s pink bike
VIDEO – A 12-year-old girl is being credited with stopping a burglary suspect from coming into her Missouri City, Texas home…
Oscar winner Gossett, Jr. addresses prostate cancer stigma before Congress
VIDEO – As health care reform continues to dominate the agenda in Washington, a hearing today focused on prostate cancer…
Paterson’s spokesman quits amid scandal
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The top spokesman for New York Gov. David Paterson is resigning and says he can’t in good conscience continue to serve…
Closing of Ebony Fashion Fair means end of an era
ATLANTA (AP) – Long before the nation obsessed over the sleeves of its black first lady, Eunice Johnson was shining a spotlight on black beauty and style…
Pet owner’s pitbulls mistakenly euthanized
12:25 PM on 03/04/2010
VIDEO – Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control, in North Carolina, mistakenly euthanized a family’s dogs and is now conducting an internal investigation to figure out what went wrong…
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Your Black News: So What’s the Big Deal About Talking to School Kids?
September 6, 2009 Staff 2 comments
On April 15, 1907, Republican president Theodore Roosevelt issued a strong "Message to School Children" addressing the need for conservation and the importance of our environment. At the end of his message, President Roosevelt asked the youngest citizens to go out and help the president – by planting trees. Here’s an excerpt:
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted… Source: New York Times Archives – Roosevelt to Children
Can you imagine what the right’s reaction would be if President Obama said something even remotely similar? "He’s turning our kids against our Constitutional right to consume at will!!!" "He’s trying to make our kids green Commies!!!" Yeah, right.
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Obama Comments on Gates arrest
July 23, 2009 nyshiat 2 comments
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted "stupidly" in the arrest of prominent black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and that despite racial progress blacks and Hispanics are still singled out unfairly for arrest.
"This still haunts us," Obama said.
Obama called Gates a friend, and said he doesn’t know all the facts of the case. Nonetheless, Obama said, anyone would have been angry if treated the way Gates claims police in Cambridge, Mass., treated him. Gates claims he was arrested in his own home after showing ID to police who responded to a report of a possible burglary.
"Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home," Obama said during a prime-time news conference that otherwise focused on the health care debate.
"What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," Obama said. "That’s just a fact."
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Michael Steele Criticizes Obama healthcare plan
July 21, 2009 nyshiat Leave a comment
The chairman of the Republican Party on Monday called President Barack Obama’s plan to overhaul health care "socialism," accusing the president of conducting a risky experiment that will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage.
Michael Steele, in remarks at the National Press Club, also said the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and key congressional committee chairmen are part of a "cabal" that wants to implement government-run health care.
"Obama-Pelosi want to start building a colossal, closed health care system where Washington decides. Republicans want and support an open health care system where patients and doctors make the decisions," Steele said.
Asked if Obama’s health care plan represented socialism, Steele responded: "Yes. Next question."
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Dr Boyce Watkins Talks Obama Policy on NPR
March 11, 2009 Staff Leave a comment
Dr Boyce Watkins, Finance Professor at Syracuse University, discusses foreign policy, The Obama Administration and the Economy. Click the image to listen!
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Tai Thompson was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Tai had a passion for music at a young age. At 12 years old he freestyled going to basketball practice everyday. Tai didn’t take music seriously in regards of recording and actually creating songs. He used to hang out with friends and freestyle in ciphers and battle other rappers. In high school he played football and basketball, and got into a rap group called NOM. Within the group they used to go in Tai’s mother’s basement to master their craft rapping upon each other. The group thing didn’t work, and everybody went there separate ways. Attending college he performed in rap battles and talent shows to get his name Tai Theory known. In 2003 Theory graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Johnson C Smith College in North Carolina. From the repsonce in college, Theory started to take his music career more serious.Tai moved back to Baltimore to find a job and to pursue his music.. He started listening to his favorite emcee’s who grew up on such artists as 2pac, Biggie,Jay-Z, Nas, KRS 1, Snoop and Dre, Scarface, Ice Cube, Outcast, Wu Tang, Mobb deep, Big L, and the Lox for inspiration to work on a mixtape. Theory taught himself how to count bars and write songs by studying his favorite artist’s. He also taught himself how to write a little R&B. Theory also co wrote some songs for local R&B artists. In 2004 Tai put out a mixtape and gave out 4,000 copies free just to see what the people would say. Theory got back a fifty/fifty response on his mixtape. Some people said the mixtape was hot, and some said the mixtape was ok. With a fifty/fifty response Theory worked on mastering his flow and punch line wordplay to put out another mixtape, and come ten times harder. In 2005 he dropped another mixtape, and got a better response. He sold about 3,000 copies and gave out 2,000 for promotional marketing. It wasn’t all about the money Tai just wanted to get his name out. He got a way better response on the 2005 mixtape he put out. In 06 he dropped another mixtape and sold 4,000 copies in the streets and online. Then Theory started doing shows at 5 seasons(local hip hop spot in Baltimore), and other hip hop spots in Baltimore. He started opening up for Huli Shallone (Baltimore’s well known local artist) which he has worked with many fresh and opened up for various rappers in the game that performed in Baltimore. Theory started making a name for himself as a well respected local artist. Now he feels that he is at his full potential to take his place in the game of hip hop. Theory has singles such as Fresher, Let’s talk money, and too late, which he thinks can give him mainstream notification, and worldwide be respected as a creative emcee. For more info about Tai Theory go to http://blockworkz.com/taitheory/
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Research Article | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 09 December 2016
Evaluation of the Home Environment Assessment for the Visually Impaired (HEAVI): an instrument designed to quantify fall-related hazards in the visually impaired
Bonnielin K. Swenor1,
Andrea V. Yonge1,
Victoria Goldhammer2,
Rhonda Miller1,
Laura N. Gitlin2 &
Pradeep Ramulu1
To (1) develop and refine the Home Environment Assessment for the Visually Impaired (HEAVI), and (2) determine the interrater reliability of this instrument, which was designed to quantify the number of fall-related hazards in the homes of individuals with visual impairment.
Twenty homes of community-dwelling adults were included in this study. Each home was graded by an occupational therapist (OT) and two non-expert (NE) graders. Seventy-three HEAVI items were evaluated in eight rooms, for a total of 185 potential hazards per home (some items were assessed in multiple rooms). Pairwise and three-way agreement between graders was evaluated at the item, room, and home level using Krippendorff’s alpha and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). Additionally, the most hazardous home locations and items were determined by comparing the mean and standard deviation of the number of hazards by room and grader.
Of the 73 items, 45 (62%) demonstrated at least moderate agreement overall and for each OT/NE pair (Krippendorff’s alpha >0.4), and remained in the final instrument (a total of 119 potential hazards per home as some items were assessed in multiple rooms). Of these 119 potential hazards, an average of 35.7, 33.2, and 33.3 hazards per home were identified by the OT and NE graders, respectively. Moderate to almost perfect agreement on the number of hazards per home and number of hazards per room, except the dining room, was found (ICCs of 0.58 to 0.93). Bathroom items were most often classified as hazards (>40% of items for all graders). The item classes most commonly graded as hazardous were handrails and lighting (>30% of items).
Our results indicate that NE graders can accurately administer the HEAVI tool to identify fall-related hazards. Items in the bathroom and those related to handrails and lighting were most often identified as hazards, making these areas and items important targets for interventions when addressing falls.
Falls affect one third of adults over the age of 65 annually [1] and are the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries in this age group [2]. Many older adults who fall develop fear of falling, and up to 40% will restrict their activities of daily living, leading to a decline in physical activity and social interactions [3]. Fall risk factors can include features of the home environment such as loose rugs, floor clutter, and poor lighting [4, 5], which are possible targets for fall interventions. The majority of falls occur in or near the home [6–8], highlighting the importance of developing and evaluating tools that assess fall risk in the home environment. As studies have shown that home modifications are effective in reducing falls, a reliable tool is important to inform such interventions [9–13].
The home environment may pose particular risk for older adults with visual impairments given difficulty with hazard perception. Impaired vision can manifest as visual field loss, decreased visual acuity, and/or decreased contrast sensitivity, and each is associated with increased fall risk [14–24]. In the United States, 2.4 million adults have low vision, and an additional 937,000 are blind; these numbers are projected to increase to 3.9 and 1.6 million, respectively, by the year 2020 [18]. The high prevalence of visual impairment, along with the important role that environmental hazards may play with regard to falls, point to a need for home assessment tools that detect hazards that are specifically problematic for older adults with vision loss.
Multiple home assessments have been developed to evaluate the home safety and fall risk of older individuals, though none have focused on individuals with visual impairments [25–29]. Many of these home assessments evaluate general indoor and outdoor lighting but do not adequately assess home hazards that are likely to be problematic for individuals with poor vision, such as lighting (wattage, placement, switch access, window coverings), color contrast, visual distractions, and glare [30]. There has also been an overreliance on subjective assessments of home environmental conditions in previous tools [30], as well as required grading by experts such as occupational therapists. Low vision rehabilitation has increasingly focused on home-based services, including evaluation and modification of the home environment; however, the lack of a standardized assessment for this population makes it impossible to compare outcomes of evaluations and interventions across practices. This represents an unmet need for a vision-centric home assessment tool that can be easily and reliably administered by individuals with varied training and areas of expertise [31].
This study reports on a novel tool, the Home Environment Assessment for the Visually Impaired (HEAVI), designed to identify specific hazardous items that may contribute to fall risk in persons with poor vision. The aim of this work was to: (1) develop and refine the HEAVI, and (2) determine the interrater reliability of this instrument. Items for the tool and the approach to measurement were derived from the literature and based on the Home Environmental Assessment Protocol (HEAP), an assessment for persons with dementia living at home that has been shown previously to have adequate content validity and interrater reliability [25]. Here, we assess the interrater reliability of HEAVI items based on agreement between an expert grader (a licensed occupational therapist with a clinical practice focused on assessing homes for safety) and two non-expert graders (non-occupational therapists without specialized training in environmental assessments). The goal of creating this tool is to support further research to identify which home hazards contribute most to falls, predict who is at greatest risk of falling, and develop targeted interventions for this population.
Study participants
The study protocol was approved by the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institutional Review Board. A convenience sample of 20 participants was recruited from the Baltimore/DC area from various sources including home- and clinic-based patients and word-of-mouth referrals, and informed consent was obtained from each participant. These participants were not recruited based on visual impairment status or overall health status.
Development of the HEAVI
This home assessment tool adapted many items from the HEAP [25], but excluded items specific to individuals with dementia and caregivers (e.g., lack of safety latches on cabinet doors, lack of safety adaptations to oven/stove). A total of 18 items related to poor vision were initially added based on a literature review and the professional experience of an occupational therapist (OT) with expertise working with individuals with vision loss (VG). The literature review used search terms related to lighting, object contrast, stairs, and visual impairment; was conducted in PubMed and Google Scholar; and included literature from the past 30 years that was published in English. The references from sentinel work and conference proceedings in environmental modification, falls, and occupational therapy related to lighting, contrast, stairs, and visual impairment were reviewed for citations not captured by the original review. Additionally, relevant government documents were reviewed to identify safety guidelines for hazard classification cut points, such as stair riser height.
Items added to the HEAVI included 12 items assessing lighting and six assessing contrast between objects, which are particularly important for those with vision loss, as lack of appropriate lighting and contrast may make those with visual impairment at greater risk of falling .[32, 33]. Items were chosen and worded such that no specific training would be needed to complete the home assessment. Items were reviewed and refined twice based on review and discussion within the research team.
The 73 distinct items in the initial instrument were subcategorized into five classes: 1) handrails, 2) lighting, 3) floors, 4) furniture, and 5) other. These items were graded in up to eight rooms of the home: 1) entryway, 2) living room, 3) dining room, 4) kitchen, 5) bedroom, 6) bathroom, 7) stairs, and 8) hallways. Of the 73 distinct items, several (such as ambient lighting) were graded in multiple rooms, for a total of 185 possible hazards per home. Table 2 summarizes the items, shows the item subcategorization, defines the threshold for classifying items as hazardous, and outlines the potential rooms where each item was assessed.
Training of graders
Prior to grading, the two non-expert graders received instruction on how to complete the home assessment from the OT expert grader (VG). The non-expert graders were both ophthalmic research technicians familiar with interacting with visually impaired patients, but with no prior experience in home assessment. This group was chosen, as we wanted to be able to assess a non-expert group of graders. The expert grader reviewed the home assessment tool with both non-expert graders, explained how each item should be assessed, and provided basic definitions of items on the form (e.g. what constitutes a threshold), as well as training on measuring items such as ambient lighting. This training lasted approximately 2 h. The OT confirmed with each non-expert grader that the assessment process was understood. All three graders independently assessed each room of the first test house. After the first home was assessed, all three graders discussed and compared their results. The OT discussed and explained the proper procedure(s) for each discrepancy grading between the two non-expert graders and the OT. A second house was assessed, and the same process was repeated, with each session lasting approximately 2 h. Neither of the homes used for training were included in these analyses. During the data collection of the 20 homes included in these analyses, the graders did not discuss or compare results.
Home assessment procedures
A single home visit was scheduled for each study participant. Participants were instructed to arrange all rooms, including lighting, as they normally would, and asked not to clean or tidy prior to evaluation of the home. Study participants were typically in the home at the time of the visit, but not necessarily in the individual rooms being evaluated. For each home assessment, all three graders independently assessed the home and agreed on the specific entrances and rooms to evaluate, but each grader evaluated rooms independently and in separate rooms. There was no discussion to address whether each grader evaluated the same items within each room.
For each categorical item, answer choices included “Yes,” “No,” or “Not Assessed,” and items graded as “Yes” were classified as hazards. Clutter was defined as items on the floor, excluding furniture, that cover potential walkable space and was categorized as “None,” “1–25%,” “26–50%,” “51–75%,” or “76–100%.” Light intensity indoors and outdoors was measured in lux using a digital light meter (Dr. Meter model LX1330B). All size and distance measurements were rounded to the nearest half-inch. These continuous measures were then reclassified as hazardous or non-hazardous based on guidelines from the Americans with Disabilities Act [34], International Residential Code [35], Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [36], and Illuminating Engineering Society of North America [37]. Demographic information such as age (in years), race (white or African-American), years of education completed, cohabitation status (living alone or with others), marital status (married or single/divorced/widowed), and employment status (employed or retired/disabled/unemployed) were collected from all participants. Participants also provided information on their homes, including dwelling type (apartment or house), ownership status (rent or own), number of floors, and total number of rooms in the home. Home square footage was obtained from Zillow, an online real estate database (http://www.zillow.com), to characterize the size of the homes being graded.
Refinement of the HEAVI
Item grading was aggregated to calculate: 1) the total number of rooms per home with each type of hazard (for example, the number of rooms with an ambient lighting hazard), 2) the total number of hazards in each room, and 3) the total number of hazards in the entire home. Interrater agreement was calculated for each of these variables by comparing responses from each of the non-expert graders with the expert grader, responses between the non-expert graders, and responses across all three graders as a three-way comparison. Agreement on the grading of each item was calculated using Krippendorff’s alpha, a standard measure of agreement that accommodates missing data [38]. Based on these results, the HEAVI was refined by removing items with poor agreement using criteria from Landis and Koch [39]: 1) poor agreement (<0.00), 2) slight agreement (0.00 – 0.20), 3) fair agreement (0.21 – 0.40), 4) moderate agreement (0.41 – 0.60), 5) substantial agreement (0.61 – 0.80), and 6) almost perfect agreement (0.81 – 1.00). Items with less than moderate agreement (≤0.40) were removed from the instrument prior to further analyses.
Assessment of interrater agreement
Using the refined tool described above, we aimed to determine if individuals without specialized occupational therapy training can reliably use this instrument. To do so, intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC(2,1)) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to calculate the absolute interrater agreement for each of the 20 homes. To do so, we aggregated the number of rooms with each hazard and number of hazards per room and home. Intraclass correlation coefficients were qualitatively evaluated using criteria from Landis and Koch [39], described above.
Bland-Altman plots were constructed to determine if agreement was constant across the number of noted hazards. [40] Lastly, the most hazardous home locations and item classes were determined by comparing the mean and standard deviation (SD) of the number of hazards by room and grader. All data were analyzed using Stata 14.0 (StataCorp, LP, College Station, TX).
This study includes 20 participants and their homes. The average age of study participants was 63.1 years (SD = 18.8). Approximately 25% were male, and 90% were white (Table 1). Most participants lived in a home (65%) as opposed to an apartment (35%), with a mean of 2.1 floors (SD = 0.9), 4.4 rooms (SD = 1.2), and 2,202 sq. ft. across residences.
Table 1 Demographics of participants and their homes. (n = 20 homes)
Krippendorff’s alpha values were calculated for each item across all rooms to determine agreement between all three graders (Table 2). Levels of three-way agreement ranged from low levels of agreement (−0.06) to perfect agreement (1.00). Among the 73 items graded, 48 (66%) demonstrated moderate to perfect agreement (three-way Krippendorff’s alpha >0.4) [39], while 25 (34%) demonstrated fair to poor agreement and were not included in the final instrument. Among the 48 items showing moderate to perfect agreement, five (10%) failed to demonstrated moderate to perfect agreement in one or both pairwise expert/non-expert values. Two of these five (uneven dirt path on public sidewalk, no light source in bathtub/shower with curtains closed) demonstrated a Krippendorff’s alpha of at least 0.3 in each expert/non-expert comparison and were included in the final item list, while the remaining three (cracked pavement on private path, sloped ground on private path, stair nosing >1.5 inches) did not meet this standard and were excluded, leaving 45 of the original 73 items in the final instrument, for a total of 119 possible hazards per home (reduced from the original instrument that contained 185 total possible hazards). Based on these results, the HEAVI was refined such that 12 of the original 16 objective measures (75%) and 33 of the 57 subjective measures (58%) comprised the final instrument (p = 0.22).
Table 2 Agreement between graders identifying home hazards: Krippendorff’s alpha (n = 20 homes)
Using this final instrument, the average number of hazards identified per home did not differ by grader. Out of a total of 119 possible hazards per home, an average of 35.7 (SD = 9.1) were identified by the expert grader, and 33.2 (SD = 9.5) and 32.3 (SD = 8.9) for the two non-expert graders (p >0.20 for each pair-wise comparison of expert and non-expert graders) (Table 3). There were no significant differences in the number of hazards identified in each of the eight rooms by the expert and each non-expert grader (p >0.20 for all comparisons).
Table 3 Mean and standard deviation of the number of hazards by room and grader (n = 20 homes)
Agreement on the total number of hazards per room and per home was evaluated using the final instrument. Agreement on the total number of hazards per home was 0.83 across all three graders; pairwise agreement between the expert and each non-expert grader were 0.84 and 0.81, and agreement between the two non-expert graders was 0.85, indicating almost perfect agreement for each comparison (ICC >0.81) (Table 4). Likewise, agreement on the number of hazards per room was substantial to almost perfect (ICC >0.61) for all three-way comparisons (Table 4). In pairwise comparisons of the number of hazards per room, moderate to perfect agreement (>0.40) was observed for all rooms, except for pairwise comparisons between each of the non-expert graders to the expert grader for dining room, where agreement was fair (<0.41).
Table 4 Consistency of number of hazards by room and home after removing hazards with poor agreement (n = 20 homes)
Differences in the number of hazards identified by the expert and each non-expert grader are shown in Bland-Altman plots (Fig. 1a and b). On average, there was no significant difference between the number of hazards identified by the expert grader as compared to the non-expert graders (non-expert 1 vs. expert: +2.5, 95% CI =−7.1 – 12.1, p = 0.40; non-expert 2 vs. expert: +3.5, 95% CI =−5.8 – 12.7, p = 0.23). Additionally, the difference in the number of hazards identified by the non-expert and expert graders did not vary across the observed range for average number of hazards identified by each expert/non-expert pair (p = 0.73 for Fig. 1a and p = 0.91 for Fig. 1b).
a Bland Altman plot comparing the expert grader and non-expert grader 1. b Bland Altman plot comparing the expert grader and non-expert grader 2
Home assessment results
We also examined our data to identify which home locations and item classes were most hazardous. Of the rooms graded, the bathroom was found to be the most hazardous as judged by the total number of hazardous items and the percentage of items graded as hazardous (Table 3). There was a total of 16 items graded in the bathroom for each home, and the mean number classified as hazardous ranged from 6.6 to 7.4 for all three graders. Of the five types of hazards (handrails, floors, lighting, furniture, and other, as shown in Table 2), all three graders most often identified items related to handrails and lighting as hazardous. There were 10 handrail items graded per home, and the mean number graded as hazardous was ≥3.1 (>30%) for all three graders. Of the 37 lighting items graded per home, the mean number identified as hazardous was ≥11.5 (>30%) by all three graders. Additionally, all three graders reported that ≥60% of rooms had less than 300 lux of ambient light (the classification of ambient lighting hazard). All three graders also found that most rooms had an average ambient lighting level below 300 lux across the whole home, with the bathroom serving as an exception (where average lighting was measured as >321 lux by all three graders).
Here, we develop and refine the HEAVI tool, a novel instrument designed to: (1) assess fall-related hazards specific to older adults with visual impairments; (2) be administered by a non-expert grader evaluating the home environment; (3) incorporate several elements regarding lighting, contrast, and changes in elevation which may be particularly hazardous for persons with poor vision; and (4) objectively measure home features when possible. While 73 items were initially evaluated as part of this screening tool, only 45 of these demonstrated acceptable agreement between an expert and two non-expert graders. Many of these items were graded in multiple rooms, and therefore the original instrument, which included a total of 185 potential hazards, was reduced to 119 in this final instrument. When these final 45 items were assessed, good agreement was noted between the expert and non-expert grader with regard to overall number of home hazards and the number of hazards in each of the eight rooms graded. A larger proportion of objective items was retained in the final instrument as compared to subjective items, but this difference was not significant (p = 0.22) suggesting a trend towards objective measures being more reliably graded.
Several other home assessments have been previously validated,[25–29] though the current instrument was designed to fill a specific niche. First, it was primarily geared towards the visually impaired, with an emphasis on lighting, contrast, and other items which could generate particular problems for those with visual impairment. It is quite possible that these same hazards would pose risks to persons without visual impairment as well – a point which requires further study. It is unclear which specific types of visual impairment would be best served by the HEAVI, though multiple visual measures including visual field loss, contrast sensitivity, stereo acuity, and visual acuity have all been associated with higher rates of falls,[14–24] suggesting that most eye diseases will produce higher rates of falls which could potentially be modified via a safer home environment. Second, the instrument was designed to be geared specifically to fall-related hazards and did not evaluate other home hazards that may also be relevant to the visually impaired (i.e. dangers related to food preparation). Finally, the assessment tool was designed to be administered by a person without specific skills in home assessments, as most low vision services are delivered by persons without expertise in modifying homes to reduce fall risk.
Our results indicate that non-expert graders can reliably administer this home assessment tool, as we observed good interrater agreement. We observed substantial to almost perfect agreement (>0.60) between all three graders for the number of hazards found in all rooms, with the exception of the dining room where agreement was moderate (0.41 – 0.60) (Table 4). Agreement on the number of hazards in dining rooms was almost perfect between the two non-expert graders, which suggests that while the non-expert graders had a low level of agreement with the expert grader, their ratings were consistent with each other. The items graded in the dining room that had fair to poor agreement between the expert and each non-expert grader (ICCs ranging from −0.13 to 0.36), but moderate agreement between the two non-expert graders (ICCs ranging from 0.47 to 0.54) were assessments of windows without sheer coverings and exposed light bulbs. High agreement (>0.80) was observed for the number of bathroom, entrance, and total home hazards found by the three graders (Table 4). This high level of agreement between graders may reflect the inclusion of objectively graded items (such as stair riser height and number of handrails) not present in other existing home assessments. Additionally, the non-expert graders received training from the same expert grader to whom they were being compared. Only two homes (not included in this study) were used for training, though it is possible that some degree of training from a home-assessment professional may be needed to achieve the high level of interrater agreement in future use of the tool.
We did not find a difference between the total number of hazards rated between the expert and the two non-expert graders (Fig. 1a and b). Additionally, differences in the number of graded hazards were not influenced by the presence of high or low number of hazards within a given home. Over the eight rooms graded, the observed differences amount to less than one hazard per room. While this difference was not statistically significant, it is difficult to determine the practical implications of this difference from these analyses, as each potential hazard may pose a different level of fall risk. It is possible that additional training, for example increasing training to three or more homes, may reduce this difference.
In addition to creating a final instrument, we examined the types and location of hazards found in this study population. The room with the highest percentage of items graded as hazardous was the bathroom (Table 3), while handrail and lighting items were most often hazardous in the entire home. These results suggest that these areas/classes of items may be particularly important when addressing falls. Poor ambient room lighting (<300 lux) was among the most commonly reported hazards, and only lighting in the bathroom was, on average, greater than 300 lux. This suggests that inadequate lighting is a pervasive in-home factor contributing to falls, especially among those with vision loss. As lighting is an easily modifiable environmental condition, this study provides preliminary evidence that home lighting is an important intervention target.
There are limitations to this study that need to be considered. First, assessments were only made at one time point, and therefore our reliability analyses do not assess parameters of individual grader repeatability. Second, a convenience sample of participants that included those with and without visual impairment was used to evaluate this instrument. While we do not expect the performance of the in-home assessment tool to differ by degree and type of vision loss, this will need to be explored further in a larger study population. Third, this instrument does not include an assessment of the individual’s physical or mental abilities, and therefore does not assess the individual’s interaction with their environment. It is possible that some identified hazards may not be hazardous for a particular individual, or vice versa. Fourth, we compared two non-expert graders to one expert for these analyses. To determine the clinical utility of this instrument, further comparisons with a broader group of graders (both expert and non-expert) will be required. Fifth, we only focused on one owner/occupant of the home given the logistical challenges of getting consent from all occupants, which may bias the demographic data that was collected. However, the intent of this work was not to characterize the owners of the home, but to see if the graders could grade homes similarly. Sixth, the items added to the HEAP were added largely based on the experience of the OT (VG), though additions were supported by a systematic review of the literature. Additionally, the expert grader who helped to develop the HEAVI also trained the non-expert graders. It is possible that this could introduce bias, but it is unknown if our expert grader is superior to other OTs in getting non-expert graders to produce the same grading. Lastly, this study does not determine how the number of hazards relates to fall risk; however, this work is currently underway, and prior studies have found a relationship between home hazards and risk of home injury [12, 41].
While the developed home assessment tool was based on a prior instrument, the HEAP, this assessment tool is unique. The final assessment includes 10 items assessing lighting and two items assessing contrast between objects. Both are particularly important for those with vision loss,[32, 33] and lack of appropriate lighting and contrast places those with visual impairment at greater risk of falling. Additionally, this tool includes a greater emphasis on objective measurements, which are typically not evaluated in existing home assessments. Inclusion of objective measures was shown to facilitate agreement and repeatability between graders, which in turn may reduce the need for specialized expertise to accurately administer this in-home assessment tool. Lastly, this instrument is intended to grade the home, and not the person within the home. To that extent, it may be relevant when setting up residences for older adults (where the person living there may not be known) and for common spaces where multiple people will be living.
The development of this tool has important clinical implications. While multiple in-home fall hazard assessments have been developed, none have specifically included items that assess fall risk among those with vision loss. Both the high rate of falls and the increasing number of visually impaired older adults highlight the need for home assessment tools to better capture fall hazards that are specifically problematic for individuals with vision impairment. Additionally, risk factors important for those with vision loss may also impact older adults with normal or near-normal vision, such as poor visual perception due to cognitive decline.[42, 43] Further research will explore if this assessment is associated with greater risk of in-home falls in a visually impaired population and help determine which specific home features increase fall risk in older adults.
HEAP:
Home environmental assessment protocol
HEAVI:
Home environment assessment for the visually impaired
ICC:
Intraclass correlation coefficients
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This research was supported by the National Eye Institute, NEI Grant Number EY022976. The sponsor had no role in any aspect of the analyses or preparation of this manuscript.
The datasets supporting the conclusions of this manuscript are available upon request to the corresponding author.
Study concept and design: PYR, LNG, VG, RM; Acquisition of data: RM, VG, LNG; Analysis and interpretation: BKS, AVY, PYR, LNG; Drafting of manuscript: BKS, AVY, PYR; Critical revision: RM, LNG, VG; All authors read and approved the final version of this manuscript.
The study was approved the Johns Hopkins Medicine Institutional Review Board (NA_00088377). All participants gave consent to participate.
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Ranking the best conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplements of 2019
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Though it sells well, Nature’s Design is pretty mediocre when it comes to CLA content. Each capsule delivers 780 mg of CLA, alongside some other fatty acids like oleic aid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid. Even at this dosage, however, there are higher-quality supplements out there that are a better call.
Nature’s Design claims it’s “100% natural” but this isn’t a strict or regulated term like “non-GMO” or “organic.” It also claims that it guarantees its purity, but it doesn’t back this up with any independent laboratory testing.
9. Evlution Leanmode
This CLA supplement takes the unique approach of combining CLA with several other weight-loss and fat-burning supplements. Whether this is right for you depends entirely on your supplementation philosophy and your degree of trust in the company’s chemists and nutritionists.
Evlution Leanmode combines CLA with garcinia cambogia, green tea extract, green coffee bean extract, and acetyl-L-carnitine. These ingredients have a wide variation in their projected efficacy, from very good (green tea extract) to more up-in-the-air (garcinia cambogia).
10. MusclePharm CLA Core
MusclePharm’s CLA supplement is clearly marketed for the bodybuilding crowd. With a target of reducing fat mass without reducing muscle mass, CLA is a bodybuilder’s dream.
The CLA supplement from MusclePharm combines conjugated linoleic acid, olive oil, and avocado oil. Each capsule delivers 1000 mg of oils, but because this is a “proprietary blend,” we can’t actually see what the proportion of each ingredient is.
CLA is listed first, meaning it’s the highest-concentration ingredient, but for all we know, each capsule could contain as little as 400 mg of actual CL. This lack of transparency makes it hard to tell what you’re getting, so if you want to monitor your supplement routine, it’s tricky with this supplement.
11. PuraVida Organique CLA 1200
Dock points from this one for being doubly deceptive: despite the name, Pura Vida Organique doesn’t use organic oils to derive its CLA. On top of that, it uses the “proprietary blend” trick to obsure how much CLA is actually included in the supplement. There’s 1200 mg of oils, but how much of that is actually CLA? Your guess is as good as mine.
Conjugated linoleic acid benefits and side effects
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a fatty acid naturally occurring in dairy products and beef that has powerful positive health benefits. (1)
Among the most popular weight loss supplements used worldwide, CLA may also reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cancer. (2, 3, 4)
Large amounts of linoleic acid can be found in vegetable oils, and smaller amounts are found in other foods. Linoleic acid is a polyunsaturated fatty acid, and the most common of the omega-6 fatty acids.
But CLA has a different molecular structure: “conjugated” refers to the way the double bonds are arranged. For those of us who aren’t chemists, understanding how molecular bonds affect the way our bodies react to a substance can be a tough call, but just like with words, colors and facial features, arrangement is everything.
There are two different kinds of double bonds in CLA on the fatty acid chain. The placement of one of these types of bonds is structured in a way that classifies CLA as a trans fat, although it’s natural, and therefore not dangerous like industrially created trans fats that can cause damage in our bodies. (5, 6, 7)
Dietary CLA comes from the meat and dairy products of ruminant animals such as cattle, sheep and goats. The amount of CLA contained in these foods depends entirely on what the animals consumed. (8)
Keep in mind that the majority of animals meeting modern commercial demand for these foods are born and raised in industrial settings, eating mostly grains and soy products. In contrast, dairy animals of past times grazed and foraged, eating what they could find in their environment, including dried grasses and small amounts of grain during cold seasons.
There is a huge difference between the amount of natural CLA found in commercially raised animals and dairy products and grass-fed animals. The CLA content of products from grass-fed cows, including the meat after butchering, delivers between 300% and 500% more CLA than products from animals eating grains. (9)
The estimated average amount of CLA in a typical American diet today is about 150 mg for women and 200 mg for men. (10)
Supplemental CLA is chemically created by altering the molecular bonds in sunflower and safflower oils. This process distorts the ratio of different CLA forms found in natural sources (11, 12), so supplements won’t have the same beneficial effects.
Natural CLA can support weight Loss – Researchers playing around with mice and CLA in 1987 found it helped fight cancer, (13) and years later, other scientists discovered it also contributed to the reduction of body fat in animals. (14)
Here are some of the ways CLA can affect weight in animals: (15, 16, 17, 18)
Reduces the amount of calories consumed
Increases the amount of calories burned
Stimulates the breakdown of stored fat
Inhibits the production of fat cells
Subsequent human studies indicate CLA may have anti-obesity properties. (19, 20)
Controlled randomized trials on the effects of CLA on weight loss show mixed results. Some indicate CLA can play a role in modifying body composition, reducing fat mass and sometimes even increasing muscle mass. (21, 22, 23)
Other trials didn’t show any effect on participants’ weight. (24, 25, 26)
When researchers correlated data from 18 controlled trials, the results for participants added up to between anywhere between .02 and 3 pounds weight loss per week over a six-month period. (27)
Some side effects were reported, including soft stools, diarrhea and constipation. With the range of different results, it’s possible CLA may have more pronounced effects on some people than others.
Observational studies can’t deliver the same level of evidence-based proof than randomized, controlled trials because of variable factors; that being noted, a number of observational studies indicate people who eat foods containing high levels of natural CLA may enjoy a reduced risk of developing chronic diseases.
Type 2 diabetes appears to develop less frequently when the diet is rich in CLA, as well as a lower incidence of cancer. (28, 29, 30)
People living in countries where cows are grass-fed have higher levels of CLA in their bodies; observational studies confirm their chances of suffering from heart disease are significantly lower. (31)
Whether or not the difference in the incidence of chronic disease is due to adequate levels of CLA has not been established. Grass-fed animal products are also rich in other nutrients with proven health benefits, such as vitamin K2, which affects the distribution of calcium in the body and may prevent heart disease by protecting the arteries.
Evidence shows naturally-occurring CLA can provide health benefits ranging from supporting weight control to protecting against the development of chronic disease.
If you’re considering using supplemental CLA, remember that products are made from chemically altered CLA originating in unhealthy vegetable oils; these supplements have skewed ratios of the natural CLA components found in the meat and products of dairy animals and won’t deliver the benefits of the CLA you’ll get eating grass-fed meat and full-fat dairy products.
Studies show taking large doses of synthetic CLA can contribute to increased accumulation of fat in the liver, known as fatty liver disease. This may lead to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. (32, 33, 34)
Human and animal studies suggest that even though body fat levels decrease when higher CLA levels are achieved through supplementation, undesirable effects can also occur, including lower HDL cholesterol (the “good” kind), insulin resistance, and increased inflammation. (35, 36)
While the dosage levels in most of these studies were considerably higher than most people might use in a CLA supplement, some followed the recommended amount, so it’s something to consider.
A number of participants in the studies experienced side effects including stomach pain, flatulence, diarrhea and nausea. (37) The chances you’ll experience similar side effects are higher when you take more CLA.
The daily dose used in most studies ranged between 3.2 and 6.4 grams.
Summary: If you want to increase CLA intake and enjoy the potential benefits of regulating weight preventing chronic disease, the safest and most natural way to accomplish this is to buy meat and full-fat dairy products from grass-fed animals.
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Kat Candler
Kat Candler's award winning short films Hellion and Black Metal have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival and more. Her feature film, Hellion starring Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released in theaters and on VOD through IFC and Sundance Selects Hellion was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab participant and San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant recipient. Candler was a recent recipient of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grant for her upcoming feature script Black Metal. Candler is a film production Lecturer at the University of Texas.
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After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan create a chain reaction for the lead singer of a black metal band.
After a career spent mining his music from the shadows, the actions of one fan create a chain reaction for...
All hell breaks loose when little Petey Wilson and his two hell-raising brothers are left home alone. But can the boys suffer the consequences of their reckless behavior? HELLION takes us through the eyes of a seven year old dreading the ultimate fear: punishment. The short film that inspired the...
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Moving Content between Virtual Worlds
Posted on June 30, 2018 by bat
This article is published as: Tate, A. (2018) Moving Content from Second Life/OpenSimulator via Unity3D to new Social Virtual Reality Platforms, Virtual Education Journal (VEJ), Summer 2018, Special Issue on “What if…”, pp.30-35, (ed. Roseanne Vojtek). Published by Edovation. [Online via ISSUU: VEJ in ISSUU, Summer 2018 Issue via ISSUU] [PDF Format]
Moving Content from Second Life/OpenSimulator via Unity3D to new Social Virtual Reality Platforms
Vue Experiments with other Virtual Worlds Platforms
Even before Second Life began to be used across the University of Edinburgh, groups in Business Studies, Education and Artificial Intelligence had been exploring virtual worlds platforms for a range of educational and research project uses.
Platforms (now long gone) such as “There” and commercial virtual world simulators such as “Forterra” had been in use, and Second Life itself had been used even in its very earliest incarnation.
When we began using Second Life for Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) purposes back in 2007 we could not have imagined the platform would remain stable for such a long period (over a decade and it is still available and being actively developed).
Even at the earliest stages we envisaged moving onto new platforms as they arose and experiments have taken place with quite a lot of potential platforms, Many we were involved in at closed alpha and open beta testing stages. Not all of the platforms tried made it to full open public release. A number of these experiments are documented in my blog posts at http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/
Current platforms under investigation include:
High Fidelity (http://highfidelity.com)
Sansar (http://sansar.com)
Sinespace (http://sine.space)
Moving Content to New Virtual Worlds Platforms
We have used or been involved in the creation of a number of tools to assist in moving content across various virtual world platforms…
Where possible content was originated in tools such as Paint, Paint Shop Pro and PhotoShop and more recently in 3D mesh modelling tools such as 3D Studio Max or the open-source Blender to create Collada DAE or FBX meshes.
Second Inventory – was a useful tool to back up Second Life and OpenSimulator inventory items owned fully by a specific avatar. This tool is no longer available, but at the time was helpful to archive and reload builds (e.g. of the Vue buildings).
OpenSimulator Archives (OARs) and Inventory Archives (IARs) have been a very useful aid to preserve regions and inventory content.
The OAR Converter tool has provided a route to export content from OpenSimulator into Collada DAE (a portable 3D model format) and via that to allow its import to Unity3D. See http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/oar-conv/
Unity3D is a widely used development platform and a useful conduit to transferring content into newly emerging virtual worlds and social virtual reality platforms. Unity has add-on tools available to export FBX format meshes even when the original content is in other 3D formats. See http://unity3d.com
Virtual Worlds Development Paths
OpenSimulator to Unity3D Conversions
Tokyo University of Information Sciences and Virtual University of Edinburgh OpenVCE
Appearance in OpenSim
Appearance in Unity3D Editor
Appearance in Sinespace
Issues in Moving Content between Platforms
One of the biggest issues in making content portable (even when full permissions are available and content is built by teams working together) is that unless one avatar owns all the content and the various textures archiving and externalizing content can be a problem).
2D image formats and the ways in which transparency handling works may vary between different platforms.
The 3D model formats used in transferring content between platforms, such as Collada DAE and Autodesk FBX do have many variants and some platforms may limit the number of vertices or polygons that can be included in models, or the ways in which sub-meshes can be hierarchically included.
Ways in which 3D meshes are textured, or limits on the number or type of textures that can be used may be imposed.
Dynamic and scripted behaviours need to be recreated in the new environment.
More information at http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/ and http://vue.ed.ac.uk
One Response to Moving Content between Virtual Worlds
Robert Adams (@Misterblue) has created the “Convoar” tool to convert OpenSim OAR files into glTF™ (GL Transmission Format).
http://blog.misterblue.com/2018/2018-07-01-Convoar-and-Converting-OARS
Example converted regions are listed and available at
http://blog.misterblue.com/2018/2018-07-17-Convoared-region
http://misterblue.com/oars/
That OARs page includes links to view the 3D content via the “Simple Basil” viewer intended to act as a wewb viewer for virtual world content including from OpenSimulator.
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Gettin’ arty at Target Free Family Day THIS SATURDAY!
June 8, 2011 June 8, 2011 Lynn Yamasaki Leave a comment
Saturday (June 11th) is Target Free Family Saturday from 11 am – 4 pm! This month we join our neighbors at MOCA in celebrating Street Art. We have a full schedule of painting demonstrations, sketching workshops, and art making activities. Our friends from the Mixed Roots Festival will be taking part in the fun with some art making too.
I always have so much fun thinking about art activities for Family Day but, sometimes, something seems like a good idea at first but it needs to be tested and tweaked before putting it into action at Family Day.
Yesterday I tried things out and made a few samples of our poster making and sticker printing activities for Saturday. Fortunately, everything worked out pretty well so, come on over! We’re ready! I can’t wait to see what the creative minds of our Family Day visitors will come up with. Hope you’ll join us!
Drawing from Memory
May 21, 2011 May 21, 2011 Maria Kwong Leave a comment
I received my preview copy of Allen Say’s upcoming book yesterday and can’t wait to carry it in the Store. Drawing from Memory is based on his 1979 novel, The Ink-Keeper’s Apprentice, which was essentially a biographical account of the defining moments of an artist as a young boy. I read Ink-Keeper’s Apprentice after buying El Chino for my four-year-old child. (I really bought it for myself, because I was blown away by the story of a Chinese American bullfighter!) I wanted to know more about the author and to find other books by him. The story captivated me in its stark, straight-forward examination of life of a pre-adolescent living in post war Japan. It was a story that was at once very extraordinary, yet surprisingly familiar.
Drawing from Memory, the new book, is a fleshing out of Say’s story with the the talent which he has become best known for—his achingly beautiful paintings. He tells the real stories behind the novel, shares pictures and details of his friends and beloved sensei, Noro Shinpei, and also frames a picture of life in post-war Japan.
The visual look of this book shows the versatility of Say’s art—his command of color, line, framing, and storytelling—along with his keen sense of zen spareness. He knows how much is enough.
Here’s a link to the promotion Scholastic is doing with 65,000 librarians. Click on non-fiction. You’ll have to wait through two other promos, but you’ll be rewarded with a sneak peak at Drawing from Memory.
And mark your calendars because Allen Say will be here on September 17 for a Public Program and booksigning. (We will also have some of the original artwork on display that weekend!)
Nikkei community newspapers
May 20, 2011 May 20, 2011 Vicky Murakami-Tsuda Leave a comment
Miss Kato, Canadian Rodeo Queen, Los Angeles, California, 1955. Japanese American National Museum Toyo Miyatake/Rafu Shimpo Collection, photograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, gift of the Alan Miyatake Family. (96.267.316)
Nikkei newspapers like The Rafu Shimpo in Los Angeles and the Nichi Bei up in San Francisco have served important roles since the early Issei immigrants began establishing communities across the United States.
Last spring, our Discover Nikkei team began working on a project to share stories about some of these publications and organize a public program. On April 2, 2011, we presented “From Newsprint to New Media: The Evolving Role of Nikkei Newspaper” in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum in partnership with The Rafu Shimpo, Nichi Bei Foundation/Nichi Bei Weekly, Cultural News, and Nikkei Nation.
The program included a historical overview by Gil Asakawa and presentations by panelists Gwen Muranaka (Rafu Shimpo), Kenji Taguma, (Nichi Bei Foundation/Nichi Bei Weekly), Shigeharu Higashi (Cultural News), and George Johnston (Nikkei Nation). The presentations were followed by a moderated discussion and questions from the audience covering topics such as the coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as local relief efforts; the viability of Nikkei media and the closing of some longtime newspapers in recent years; how can Nikkei media change to be relevant to younger demographics without alienating older generations; and the use and role of social media.
For those who missed the program, we now have video footage from the program online on Discover Nikkei:
From Newsprint to New Media: The Evolving Role of Nikkei Newspapers, April 2, 2011
View articles about Nikkei community newspapers on Discover Nikkei >>
View photos from Museum’s Toyo Miyatake Studio / Rafu Shimpo Collection >>
50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides
May 3, 2011 January 27, 2015 Allyson Nakamoto 1 Comment
Panelists (L to R): Robert Singleton, Helen Singleton, Sybil Jordan Hampton (moderator), Tamio Wakayama
Student with his artwork inspired by the Freedom Rides
I often take for granted how easy it is to follow breaking news. To find out what happened during a raid on a compound in Pakistan, I can turn on a 24-hours news channel or click on a few links to get caught up.
But 50 years ago the medium of television was new. And 50 years ago today, the first buses of Freedom Riders (and three reporters) left Washington, D.C. and headed South to test Boynton v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that had desegregated interstate travel. What followed changed the course of the United States history.
The Freedom Rides have been on our minds a lot this year. On February 9, 2011 the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History organized a Web cast and National Youth Summit that brought together Freedom Riders in D.C. and engaged five Smithsonian Affiliates from across the nation to discuss the meaning of the Freedom Rides and the role of young people in shaping America’s past and future.
Student with Dr. Robert Singleton
JANM was honored to have been selected as the West Coast venue for this program and streamed the Webcast to a live audience of students from LAUSD’s Civitas School of Leadership and Ribet Academy. Following the Webcast, Dr. Robert and Mrs. Helen Singleton, two Los Angeles-based Freedom Riders, and Mr. Tamio Wakayama, a Japanese Canadian member of SNCC, were on a panel moderated by Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton, a member of JANM’s Board of Trustees and herself an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement. We were star struck!!!
This has gotten us thinking about how the Freedom Rides impacted Japanese Americans, and especially how it may have emboldened those in the Redress Movement. What were the Issei, Nisei, and Sansei who watched these images broadcast on national television (just as that medium was becoming commonplace) thinking and feeling as they watched the buses burning, the cruel racism, and brave individuals standing up for what was right?
What would you have been thinking if you had been watching those Freedom Riders make their way South under the “protection” of Boynton v. Virginia?
P.S. To learn more about the Freedom Rides, tune into your PBS station on May 16 and also we highly recommend The Children by David Halberstam. Learn more about new generation of young people who are about to retrace the path of the Freedom Riders. And, maybe you can catch a glimpse of the Singletons when Oprah Winfrey reunites the Freedom Riders on May 4.
Photographer: Tracy Kumono
April 14, 2011 April 15, 2011 Koji Steven Sakai Leave a comment
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#Transparency update: Twitter shares more national security letters
By Angela Sherrer
At Twitter, we work every day to advance our longstanding commitment to transparency. We believe that reporting national security requests in government-mandated bands does not provide meaningful transparency to the public or those using our service, and curtails speech on issues of public importance. Today, we are able to share information about some of our recent efforts.
As explained in our last blog post on this topic, Twitter is using a process created by the USA FREEDOM ACT to ask the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to lift -- or, alternatively, justify in court -- non-disclosure obligations in connection with National Security Letter (“NSL”) requests. We have been doing this since the process became available in 2015, and today we are able to share an encouraging (and now unsealed) court order.
The case at issue involved the court’s review of a gag order that the DOJ argued should be kept in place indefinitely. While the court agreed with the DOJ that national security interests justified the gag order remaining in place, the court also agreed with Twitter that “[t]here are important First Amendment concerns at stake”. To that end, the court ultimately held that while the gag order may be appropriate now, it should not stay in place indefinitely. The court ordered the DOJ to review the gag order every three years, making clear that any non-disclosure obligation must be narrowly tailored to a finite time period for review.
In addition to sharing this ruling, we can now publish and provide user notice to the affected account-holders for seven more NSLs (10-271500, 10-276879, 10-287342, 10-291339, 10-293548, 10-302279, 10-315095) where the gag orders have been lifted in response to our petitions, as well as publish and provide user notice to the affected account-holders for two additional NSLs (15-419074, 10-320727) where the DOJ has lifted any non-disclosure requirement. This brings the total number of NSLs that we have been able to publish since 2010 to 15. We will update the numbers in our US Report when we publish our next Transparency Report later this year.
Lastly, while we are pleased to share these details with you today, there is no mechanism by which we could ask that gag orders for any requests received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) be reviewed or lifted. Nor are we able to publish the numbers of such requests, to the extent we had received them, except in bands. Our ongoing litigation in pursuit of greater transparency in this regard, Twitter v. Sessions, is continuing. We remain steadfast, in Sessions, in asserting that the restrictions on our ability to share information related to FISA requests (to the extent we had received them) with our users and the public are unconstitutional.
We will continue to take practical steps to promote meaningful transparency, and look forward to sharing more updates about these efforts as they become available. As always, you can learn more about our commitment to protecting free expression in our Help Center.
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ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediapolitics
radical orthodoxies, left & right. . .
November 13, 2009 by Adrian J Ivakhiv
Slavoj Zizek’s engagement with theologians like radical orthodoxist John Milbank continues to perplex me a little bit, but having heard him speak a few days ago with death-of-God theologian Thomas Altizer at the American Academy of Religion meeting in Montreal left me reassured me that Zizek is far from the wildest (and zaniest) mind out there. Altizer’s voice thundered through the Palais des Congres conference room as he corralled Hegel and William Blake into a kind of ecstatic rave-up on Satan and the self-annihilation of God. I’m not familiar enough with Altizer’s thinking to judge it, but it sounded a little to me like taking two parts X (in this case, Hegel), one part Y (Blake), and sprinkling in some N and M (Nietzsche and Jung?) just to see what will come of it (something, I think, about spirit’s immanence in the world through the self-annihilation of God via Christ). [sentence deleted out of respect]*
But Zizek’s big argument was the same as ever: that the relativists, postmodernists, multiculturalists, holists, pagans, buddhists, relationalists, Deleuzians, and even deconstructive theologians like John Caputo (addressed directly) are all wrong, and are really just propping up the illusory Big Other instead of releasing us into the revolutionary moment, and that what we need instead is a Leninist revolutionary force to bring about, I guess, an egalitarian utopia on Earth.
I like watching Zizek perform and enjoy his post-Yugoslav sense of humor, and I think his big Lacanian thought is a very good one to have around — on ecological matters no less than on others (though there’s an incoherent desperation in his writing on ecology that makes me glad Tim Morton is around to tell us more clearly what Zizek would like to say). But I can’t help wondering if there’s a kind of continuity — not of ideas, but of sensibility — developing between his (and Alain Badiou’s) ultra-Left neo-Orthodoxy and other orthodoxies, like the Radical Orthodoxy of Milbank and of Philip Blond, spiritual gurus for some of the “red Tories” among David Cameron’s soon-to-be-ruling Conservatives in the UK, and maybe even the Radical Traditionalists that have influenced the European New Right (including the neo-‘Pagans’ among them such as Russia’s Aleksandr Dugin and France’s Alain de Benoist). I haven’t read Zizek’s/Milbank’s Monstrosity of Christ (being, quite honestly, a little afraid of it), only reviews of it; but it does seem to me that all of these neo-orthodoxies are fervently anti-liberal, both in liberalism’s economic (neoliberal) and its cultural variants, and are either sour on democracy, or at least merely utilitarian in their approach to it.
Of course they disagree on what should replace liberalism — Christian solidarity, Leninist Communism, ethno-nationalism, or something else — which makes them incompatible on the most obvious level. But isn’t the shared sensibility — which seems to me to be an overheated desire for something more direct, more clean and pure, and more abstract, than mere, messy democracy — a little troubling, or at least analytically interesting? I know this accusation goes against Zizek’s own love of messiness, but there’s a creeping aggression in his tone that has been rubbing me the wrong way. (In his review of the Zizek/Milbank book, Caputo, who is more my style, fixes his gaze exactly on this weird, and epistemological, aggressiveness in both thinkers.)
Thinking out loud here. . . Could it be that the left-right political axis is losing its salience and being replaced by something new — not quite the ‘authoritarian-libertarian’ axis that anarchists/libertarians on the left and right like to talk about, since that doesn’t cover enough of what I’m getting at, but something more like ‘liberalism-solidarism‘, where ‘liberalism‘ is more atomistic and individualist, but also process oriented, and therefore more committed to democratic practice and dialogue, while ‘solidarism‘ is collectivist, decisionist and ‘Event’-oriented (in Badiou’s terms), and epistemologically authoritarian, though not necessarily politically authoritarian? (I mean something a little broader than von Mises’ definition of solidarism, based on the early 20th century French example. And note that I’m avoiding the word ‘fascism’ since it’s both too loaded and too limited; but it would certainly fit at one end of the ‘solidarism’ umbrella.)
On the — unproven, but hopefully intellectually productive — hypothesis that sensibilities can begin to merge even when ideologies differ, could we see some sort of convergence of radical orthodoxies or ‘solidarisms’ developing internationally in the near future? What might be the terms of such a convergence?
For instance, I think that a certain subset of ecological politics could easily find itself on the solidarism side of the axis, to the extent that it bases its claims on a substantive account of what ‘nature’ is and what it demands of us (see my posts on Teddy Goldsmith and Derrick Jensen). The blending of eco-solidarism with other solidarisms (as we’ve already seen in some of the European New Right) is then only a matter of time.
And as for Islam, while the more fundamentalist mullahs of Iran and elsewhere clearly fall on the solidarism side but show little interest in ideological dialogue with the non-Muslim world, might the Tariq Ramadans and Fethullah Gulens (the “most influential intellectual alive“), who are more dialogical and moderate, serve as a Muslim advance-guard for an emerging cross-confessional solidarist convergence? Gulen’s followers may seem too liberal and capitalist for that — the Protestants of the Muslim world — but isn’t Chinese communo-capitalism a form of solidarism, too (or am I starting to lose the distinction between solidarism and authoritarianism here)?
Would the process of such a dialogue, by the very fact of its being a dialogue, render their positions more plural and open? If such a shift were developing — a growing dialogue among ideologically divergent but commonly anti-liberal solidarisms — how could we inject a Jamesian/Connollian ‘ethos of pluralization‘ into the discussion, not so much to slow down their convergence as to radically open up the terms on which it might be occurring?
Maybe this difference is the one that one finds in rival accounts of the Paris Commune: there are those, like Marx, who thought the Communards failed in forming the revolutionary kernel that could have stormed the barricades and taken over Versailles when they had the momentum, instead of forming parliamentary committees, engaging in debate, and respecting the process of change; and then there are those who think the means should justify the ends, and that a failed good revolution is better than a successful sham (like the Soviet Union’s). Whatever he means by it, Zizek’s “egalitarian terror” — his concluding offering in “Nature and its discontents” and In Defense of Lost Causes — is hardly the way I would want to bring about an ecological revolution.
*I had originally made a comment here about Zizek’s mannerisms, but I’ve decided that it is irrelevant to the substance of what he says. It’s true that Zizek himself has commented about Lacan’s mannerisms, and that psychoanalysis lends itself to this kind of analysis of one’s gestures, bodily movements, etc., but that’s also the point at which psychoanalysis becomes a bit of a caricature of itself, and I’m not sure that it’s very helpful to go there when one is interested in dialogue rather than mere critique…
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on November 13, 2009 at 10:26 pm | Reply kvond
As to your guilty afterthought, I’m sure that you saw the documentary “Žižek!” which includes that remarkable scene where Zizek is watching an old televized clip of Lacan, and says as Lacan gestures wildly with his hands, “I find these gestures absoultely ridiculous…”.
As an aside, the audio lecture I linked in the comments section on ontology addresses specifically Zizek’s Ideological critique of Ecology.
on November 13, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Reply adrian
Yes, thanks for reminding me of that scene. One wonders if Zizek is aware of his own ridiculousness (I can’t imagine him not having watched himself on video) and, if so, whether he simply goes along with it out of a submission to the symptom (or its jouissance), or if he consciously performs it out of a respect to the master. Either way, it’s funny.
Thanks for letting me know about the audio lecture – I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I will.
on November 14, 2009 at 8:08 am | Reply Paul Ennis
Someone needs to write on book on Žižek’s gestures. On a side note in the ‘Examined Life’ documentary he seemed relatively calm (and in some of the outtakes from the Žižek documentary, especially in Slovenia, he seems much more relaxed). I suspect it’s something to do with being under all those gazes. In the old footage when he is running for President there is little evidence of his nervous tics.
Adrian: “Thanks for letting me know about the audio lecture – I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I will.”
Kvond: I think you will enjoy it (its about 30 minutes). The author takes on Zizek’s critique of ecology as having reduced it to a kind of “greenwashing”, and in a sense agrees from a Spinozist direction that ecology through guilt is mis-aligned. Instead he proposes that ecology can and should function via a study of affects which condition and urban envirnoment, and via a kind of small question “resistance of systems” thinking that characterizes urban ecological projects…just to give you a sum, if intersted.
At the very least the first 10 minutes does a good job of characterizing Zizek’s protest, and showing why it is mis-aimed.
on November 15, 2009 at 9:17 pm | Reply adrian
kvond –
I listened to Smith’s audio lecture, and found it interesting. I agree, of course, with his critique of Zizek’s ‘ecology’, and with his approval of urban ecology, etc. There’s a lot of work among geographers on affect, urban political ecology, and that sort of thing – I wonder to what degree Smith is familiar with it. The Spinozan spin would probably also find a welcoming audience among environmentalists.
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It’s budget-cutting time at the University of Minnesota, so I suppose it’s perfectly natural for everyone to start indicating how important their positions are.
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This article in the Grand Forks Herald got my interest, because it mentions a University of Minnesota Extension report that is more detailed than what I’m used to seeing in the news. The full report is here.
The gist: The Crookston campus generates about $50 million a year for its community. I called a couple of the university men behind the study, who broke it down to the following ratio:
For every dollar that the state spends on that branch, it generates about $1.66 in economic gains to the surrounding area — mainly Polk and Grand Forks counties.
The two men, Arthur Nash and David Nelson, say it’s indeed the first such detailed report to appear in the state (at least in quite a while), and one of just a few of its type around the country.
Is that true? Does anyone know of other reports, especially for other campuses, the U of M system or MnSCU? How significant is that $1-to-$1.66 ratio that the report authors mention?
A passing look does lead one to think such colleges are the last place the state would want to make cuts. But I could use some context here.
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TV Good Morning: Cycling advocates say 'us vs them' attitude needs to go
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The call follows the sentencing yesterday of Morrinsville woman Kristy King, whose car ploughed into a group of cyclists last year, killing three.
Cycling Advocates Network spokesman Patrick Morgan wants all drivers to be re-tested every 10 years.
Mr Morgan says it is not good enough that people can get their licence in their teens, and then not be re-tested for decades.
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"I think it's far too easy to get a driver's licence in New Zealand and I think the crash in Morrinsville really underlines what a serious responsibility it is," he says.
Mr Morgan says there is no silver bullet to prevent this sort of incident, but better roads will also help.
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Against the current: essays in the history of ideas
Isaiah Berlin
Hogarth Press, Jun 7, 1979 - Political Science - 394 pages
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Philosopher, political theorist, and essayist, Isaiah Berlin was born in 1909 to Russian-speaking Jewish parents in Latvia. Reared in Latvia and later in Russia, Berlin developed a strong Russian-Jewish identity, having witnessed both the Social-Democratic and the Bolshevik Revolutions. At the age of 12, Berlin moved with his family to England, where he attended prep school and then St. Paul's. In 1928, he went up as a scholar to Corpus Christi College in Oxford. After an unsuccessful attempt at the Manchester Guardian, Berlin was offered a position as lecturer in philosophy at New College. Almost immediately, he was elected to a fellowship at All Souls. During this time at All Souls, Berlin wrote his brilliant biographical study of Marx, titled Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939), for the Home University Library. Berlin continued to teach through early World War II, and was then sent to New York by the Ministry of Information, and subsequently to the Foreign Office in Washington, D.C. It was during these years that he drafted several fine works regarding the changing political mood of the United States, collected in Washington Despatches 1941-1945 (1981). By the end of the war, Berlin had shifted his focus from philosophy to the history of ideas, and in 1950 he returned to All Souls. In 1957, he was elected to the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory, delivering his influential and best-known inaugural lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty. Berlin died in Oxford on November 5, 1997.
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Hooters Has Nothing on Chile’s Sexy Coffee Shops
Sadly photography is forbidden within Café Alibaba – a café con piernas, or literally ‘coffee with legs’ – so you’ll have to allow the blackened windows and heeled half-women to inspire the imagination.
Life has a funny way of working out. One day you’re befriending a large group of Chileans at a boutique kitesurfing resort in northern Peru, and the next you’re standing in a dingy hole-in-the-wall with them, deep in Santiago’s underbelly, being caressed softly by the scantily-clad server delivering the worst espresso you’ve ever tasted. But then again, one doesn’t go to a café con piernas (literally, ‘coffee with legs’) for the crema.
To be fair, my friends didn’t want to bring me here; in fact leading their visiting American friend to the seedy dives on her only day in their city made them highly uncomfortable. But I had requested a coffee and in return – half-jokingly – was asked: a normal coffee or an illegal one? Once I found out that these cafés con piernas not only existed, but thrived in – and only in – Santiago, there was no way we were not delving in to see what all the fuss was about. A little bit of grit in South America’s most conservative capital? Sí, porfa.
So a special shoutout goes to Rodrigo and Jorge, who against their best judgement, helped me discover the highly ridiculous but somehow totally logical strip club meets coffee shop during my 24 hours in the Chilean capital. These are the discoveries worth traveling for. The completo hot dogs found everywhere there, that absolutely drown in pools of mayonesa y aguacate, don’t hurt either.
This story was published here in Roads & Kingdoms; one of my favorite sites for alternative travel stories from around the globe – of which the late and great Anthony Bourdain was a primary sponsor and Editor at Large.
WE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU PEOPLE DON’T GO THERE FOR THE COFFEE
It was 11 a.m. when the pounding in my head seemed to sync with the thumping techno and strobe lights illuminating an otherwise dark room. I had a flashback of the previous night’s dance club until a server, who delivered my piping hot espresso in a blacklight-activated thong and soaring platform boots, snapped me back to reality.
We were in Café Alibaba, a café con piernas—or “coffee with legs,” a Chilean institution where revealingly dressed waitresses serve cortados in establishments ranging from classy to clandestine, wearing skin-tight miniskirts or scandalous lingerie. (They don’t serve alcohol.) These joints, as prevalent as Starbucks in other cities, may seem at odds with Chile’s reputation as one of Latin America’s most socially conservative countries, but then again, perhaps they make perfect sense for that reason.
I had just 24 hours to explore the city and my two local hosts, Rodrigo and Jorge, had promised a whirlwind tour. That morning, after an obligatory stroll by the impressive Palacio de La Moneda and a breakfast of the city’s ubiquitous completo hot dogs, piled high with smashed avocado and swimming in pools of mayonnaise, I begged for caffeine to help me recover from the night before.
Rodrigo suggested heading to a café con piernas. Café Caribe, around the corner from us, was one of the more upscale options. I lingered at the brightly lit bar watching women in thigh-baring uniforms sling caffeinated beverages to a predominantly male clientele. Intrigued, I suggested we head somewhere less upmarket. Five minutes later, we escaped the weekday hustle of downtown Santiago and beelined for the tinted windows of Café Alibaba.
The original, and more wholesome, cafés con piernas date back to the 1960s. The story goes that servers in short skirts were meant to attract customers into the new Italian-style espresso shops springing up in downtown Santiago, in a country fond of instant coffee. It wasn’t until after Chile’s military dictatorship ended in 1990 that the tinted windows and skimpier clothing appeared. Café Barón Rojo, which opened in 1994, is credited with setting the standard for the more risqué versions. (It closed down in 2005.)
Inside Café Alibaba, black walls danced with neon lights like an adults-only laser tag arena. I shouted my order over the raging dance music before settling into the last free nook in a cramped room.
Servers strutted about in barely-there bikinis and heels so high my feet ached at the sight of them. The place resembled a daytime strip club, but with caffeine instead of cocktails, and flirting rather than dancing. I surveyed the businessmen on coffee breaks, and wondered aloud if they weren’t nervous about being caught here during work hours. The server who brought me my coffee laughed, and told me the men were likely to run into their bosses inside one.
I took a sip of my espresso, and immediately spit it out. But people probably don’t come here for the coffee.
Café Alibaba (Local 151)
Galería Santiago Centro
Avenida Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins 949, Santiago, Chile
On a side note: I received a comment when this came out about how sad it is that commercializing women’s bodies is such a lucrative industry. While I wouldn’t argue this statement generally speaking, when it comes to café con piernas culture,the issue a bit more complex. When speaking candidly with my server in the café, and through various interviews I have read, the jobs appear to be highly-coveted – opening up job opportunities where women make a healthy income on a more or less regular daytime schedule, and without the less desirable effects of working in a strip club; they do not remove their clothes entirely and there are strict rules in place about touching and propositioning the servers beyond their duties of delivering caffeine with a side of light flirtation. Just some café for thought.
July 19, 2018 July 23, 2018 by Nina Boys Categories: food, travel, UncategorizedTags: cafeconpiernas, chile, coffee, coffeeshop, roads&kingdoms, santiago, travel, travelwriting Leave a comment
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CrazyWizard Well-Known Member
Because it's not in game you cannot compare them, that why in my calculations I used a different chapter.
Once we are to the race after the dragons, we can compare the lvl 23's. and if properly designed the rate will be about the same.
thats why I named 1:2:4 , it's slightly "unfair" according to the calculations I made, but it are whole numbers, and because new factories are introduces in a tier 1, 2,3 manner, it somewhat compensates for the fact the other 2 "run ahead"
In my opinion it's the closest you can get to a "fair" distribution.
CrazyWizard, Feb 24, 2017
Dhurrin Well-Known Member
Whether you compare lvl 19 to lvl 19 or 23 to 23 doesnt matter.
I still feel 4-2-1 would make the tier3 goods too cheap. A bit of an extra value shouldnt be a problem, which is why I feel more for 9-3-1.
This already nearly halves the value of the present ratio.
Dhurrin, Feb 26, 2017
SoggyShorts Well-Known Member
9:3:1 is still too high imo, the 9:1 portion still makes an all T3 player twice as efficient as a T1 player (better than 4x I guess)
When I imagine seeing a bunch of 9:1 trades, I cannot see myself taking any of them.
SoggyShorts, Feb 27, 2017
*grins*...right now I just might. But then again, I don't take cross-tier trades at all at this moment, as a matter of principle, with the only exception of a few players who are just entering into needing the next tier goods and just don't have enough of a production yet.
But 4-2-1 seems far too cheap for me, even 5-2-1 seems rather cheap.
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You can't balance stuff on gut feelings. balance is essentialy a boring math equasion.
Right now the math used in the system uses the coins/supplies equasion
I propose a space based equasion instead since I consider the current equasion more than flawed.. the math will then tell what the numbers should be.
As long as the math is flawed or flain wrong the "fair" part wont be reached.
Just like people now are using plain math to determine that cross tier trades are more favorable.
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Everyone agrees that the present system is hopelessly flawed...except Inno I guess
Mykan Well-Known Member
Actually I don't agree its flawed, they have just used a different measure, one based on coins/supplies rather than space. If they switch to space there will still be people complaining how it is unfair but then for those to post "fair" trade they will be forced into 0/1 star trades and ridiculed for it rather than as now they just adjust to a 3 star trade and appear generous.
One of the reason there are so many cross tier trades even at the current 2 star ratio is there is obviously a supply for them that people are willing to meet so a lot of people are happy with the way it works otherwise they would not be accepting the trades.
I think a button default on the trader tab so you can select the current ratio or an alternate as your default for posting trades would be handy. Then a person can post based on their preference of coin/supply cost or on space cost. They also need to add more filter options too.
Edit: The 1:4:16 ratio is integrated in other areas of the game like production which is why the cost ratio used there is used in trading. Be extremely careful for what we are asking as one way of viewing this request is to fix the ratios of production so support usage is the same and then suddenly we have less output of tier 2 and 3 goods but for the same people, culture, goods and supplies. This is a fairly core fundamental to the game that I suspect many things are balanced on. Tweaking only one small part of that could have large consequences many of which we may not like. The more I look at this the more I am convinced the only safe request is to have more functionality in the trading system rather than change the star rating.
Mykan, Feb 27, 2017
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I doubt so many people are happy to take the trades. I can see trades from the same players day in-day out until they expire.
And considering the very low number of active people on the map who are also able to take trades, giving 32K tier1 goods for 2K tier3 goods on a regular basis it's safe to say that there just isn't a lot of such trades being accepted.
Even more so since I've been getting messages with the question to take some of them since I used to take some at times, but I've quit doing that since its just not possible to keep up.
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ketjatekos Well-Known Member
I highly agree with adjusting the numbers, I have calculated the amount of place required to produce x steel, scrolls and magic dust in the beginning of fairies. (That means possibility for lvl 19 steel but no scrolls, but possibility for fairy residence and workshop.
(As a note, it does NOT worth to upgrade from lvl 16 steel to higher until a much later point in game in term of production/square)
So i used lvl 15/16 steel (15 optimal, but 16 needs less road), 14 scroll, 13 dust, as these were the OPTIMAL ones. The compared values are 1 : 1,7 : 4,3.
I took in calculation: culture, residences, squares to produce the needed supplies, squares to produce the leftover coins witch do not come from the residences already built.
ketjatekos, Feb 28, 2017
Mykan said: ↑
This is a fairly core fundamental to the game that I suspect many things are balanced on. Tweaking only one small part of that could have large consequences many of which we may not like. The more I look at this the more I am convinced the only safe request is to have more functionality in the trading system rather than change the star rating.
I'm not sure this is the case. Remember when we had to explain to the mods why it is impossible for a player to produce 16 times as much T1 as T3?
They had no idea that cross tier trades weren't completly fair to both parties. Granted, mods aren't coders, but I truly believe the 16:1 default was an oversight, and not a standard that other aspects of the game are balanced around.
I suppose it is possible that the developers would change the actual output of the buildings to reflect the 16:1 ratio, but that seems like a lot more work, and the outcry would be intense.
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SoggyShorts said: ↑
The game already reflects this in its costs to produce. While I have not yet taken every single factory and every single level the ones I have done have a clear pattern. Regardless of factory level it costs
2 supplies and 20 coins for 1 basic good
8 supplies and 80 coins for 1 crafted good
32 supplies and 320 coins for 1 magic good
They can change the output without changing that ratio. What would change is whatever ratios they have used in terms of people/culture for buildings and goods. If they turned down the amount of output of a magic factory so it is equal in space to a basic factory they could still keep the coin/supply ratio but your magic factory then produces 1/3 of what it does now (guessing I haven't done the maths).
Not saying the devs will do this but they have stated and for good reason they look to see the cause of a problem that we raise and try to address it not its effect (symptom). While we say the solution is X we may yet find they fix it with Y but we don't like Y. They may not have used X because they believe it won't solve the problem just a symptom while they feel Y solves the problem.
eformo Active Member
The most efficient means for producing dust is not a L19 dust factory though. Has anyone done this with max efficiency level factories yet? I know that optimal level of manufactory especially is different for humans and elves, but also that it is never later than 15th level. Sorry I don't have my spreadsheet on efficiency here to look up specifics though
eformo, Mar 7, 2017
Gandolfus Well-Known Member
Eformo - interesting statement, and I am not in a position to dispute it. Rather, I'd like to hear more as to what you mean. Would you expand on it please?
Gandolfus, Mar 7, 2017
eformo said: ↑
level 19 makes the most dust per square, do you mean dust per population or culture? Those would be interesting comparisons.
SoggyShorts, Mar 8, 2017
Buttrflwr Well-Known Member
I know I haven't been on forum much lately, but did ANYTHING ever come out of this? Have the devs ever mentioned this again since Muf-muf was schooled in the mathematics of how asinine the current ratio system is? (I have that post bookmarked, LOVED @SoggyShorts visuals.)
Buttrflwr, Jun 18, 2017
Buttrflwr said: ↑
I know I haven't been on forum much lately, but did ANYTHING ever come out of this?
AFAIK, nothing.
I believe that all of the evidence has been dismissed, and the devs are holding onto the idea that space and time to produce goods is not relevant, only supplies are.
(I have that post bookmarked, LOVED @SoggyShorts visuals.)
Lol link pls?
SoggyShorts, Jun 19, 2017
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Its possible they consider other things the root cause of the problem. Many people have little issue with cross tier trades in certain circumstances. Most have big problems with players who put a heavy or complete reliance on it.
You also have to realise that changing the basis of a fair trade from cost to produce to something else would have significant ramifications on different parts of the game. The game has been balanced, as far as I can tell, based on the cost to produce and rates of production, etc. It is by no means as simple as change the formula in the trader.
Your best bet would be to request a way to flip the star rating based on player choice between cost to produce to something else. Ether way the trader needs more filtering options to help it be easier to use. Especially if Timmon gets his wish and those 200 people start posting trades.
Mykan, Jun 20, 2017
https://beta.forum.elvenar.com/index.php?threads/discussion-release-notes-version-1-17.6402/page-7
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Sir Squirrel Well-Known Member
I think I am with Mykan on this one, as much as I would like to see it changed, I am very afraid about how they might decide to do that. I agree they would not likely just change the ratios in the trader (that would be too easy). Not to mention all the players that have built their cities to take advantage of the cross-tier trades would freak out and quit the game (just like when they tried to get rid of the quest cycling)!!
It's not a big deal to me, I would say glad to see you go, but the Dev's might not want to see any more players leave.
Sir Squirrel, Jun 20, 2017
Sir Squirrel said: ↑
I think I am with Mykan on this one, as much as I would like to see it changed, I am very afraid about how they might decide to do that. I agree they would not likely just change the ratios in the trader (that would be to easy). Not to mention all the players that have built their cities to take advantage of the cross-tier trades would freak out and quit the game (just like when they tried to get rid of the quest cycling)!!
I think you are at the heart of the real problem several of us have with the devs, if we ask something as simple as a viaual change to what a fair trade is, the devs always find a way to screw up everything by starting from scratch and make it even worse. unfortunatly that seems to be there trademark for a while.
My main problem with the current rating system for trades it that it gives some players a sense of fairness in there trade when in reality it just ain't. we even had fights with players who demanded from us we cross downtraded because the trader said it was fair so it was fair. even if we explained it wasnt.
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Report: Apple iPad mini to be aimed at educational sector
A lower price and updated iBooks may attract more schools to adopt the tablet.
Chris Foresman - Oct 22, 2012 4:56 pm UTC
Students at UK public school Flitch Green Academy use iPads to enhance classroom activities.
Tomorrow, Apple is expected to announce an iPad mini, and it's expected to be heavily marketed for its educational value, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Educators have already glommed on to iOS devices in the classroom, as I learned when I attended the biennial Connected Summit at Abilene Christian University last year. The iPad, with its 9.7" screen and sub-$500 price, quickly became a popular device for one-to-one technology initiatives in K-12 classrooms. And Apple encouraged that adoption late last year when it introduced a revamped iTunes U app, iBooks Author, and affordable, iPad-optimized digital textbooks.
When Apple released the third-generation iPad in March of this year, it retained the 16GB iPad 2 at a lower, $399 entry-level price. That price drop made the already attractive tablet a better deal for cash-strapped schools, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. For instance, San Diego's Unified School District bought the tablets once the price dropped to under $400, and the McAllen Independent School District in southern Texas recently inked a $3.5 million per year deal to outfit its students with about 25,000 iPads.
The iPad mini is widely rumored to start at around $299, perhaps even as low as $249. That price could be a tipping point for many schools to consider adopting tablets like the iPad mini in greater numbers.
"Once these tablets get in to the $200 to $300 range we are going to see a real aggressive uptake in the K-12 market," Vineet Madan, a senior vice president at McGraw-Hill Companies education unit, told Bloomberg Businessweek.
Apple plans to emphasize the new iPad mini's educational value tomorrow, according to Bloomberg Businessweek's sources. In addition to its low cost, smaller size, and compatibility with educational and creative apps, Apple may also unveil an updated, 3.0 version of its iBooks e-reader app. The existence of the update has already been leaked via iTunes Store descriptions for updated e-book titles which require the new version. The app will have improved support for ePub 3 standards, according to The Digital Reader.
As another part of tomorrow's announcements, Apple is expected to begin offering a revised iPad 3, which is believed to include Apple's new Lightning connector and possibly updated LTE hardware—the same Qualcomm MDM9615 chip used in the iPhone 5—that is compatible with more 4G networks around the world. With the iPad mini effectively taking its place as the budget tablet geared towards education, Apple could also discontinue the $399 iPad 2.
Senior Apple Editor Jacqui Cheng will be covering Apple's announcements live as they happen beginning at 10am PDT tomorrow (see it in your timezone).
Chris Foresman Chris is an Associate Writer at Ars Technica, where he has spent the last five years writing about Apple, smartphones, digital photography, and patent litigation, among other topics.
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studentrights Ars Praetorian
I wonder how much Apple's eco-system (halo effect) plays into this?
mrbreaker101 Seniorius Lurkius
8GB iPad 2. Might want to change that.
The success of this device really depends on two things. Its price and its weight.
After using Android based sub-10inch tablets I need no convincing of their utility. A full iPad is too darned heavy to be used instead of a book. This on the other hand should be usable in one hand without your arm aching.
$249 just for the educational market?
Robusticus Seniorius Lurkius
The current iPod touch starts at $299, this is going to be a problem for much of Apple's lower end product line, which typically didn't come with low end pricing. I can't see how the iPod touch could not be completely cannibalized by this minature iPad.
Tom Brossman Seniorius Lurkius
studentrights wrote:
The play here is vendor lock-in, which should be very profitable, especially long-term.
wrests Seniorius Lurkius
I can't help but wonder if the educational push is any sort of reaction to Amazon's fledgling Whispercast technology?
bangoperator Seniorius Lurkius
Robusticus wrote:
I can't see how the iPod touch could not be completely cannibalized by this minature iPad.
To paraphrase John Gruber, smaller is cheaper, but miniaturized is expensive. You can't stick a 7.85" iPad in your pocket, or strap it on your wrist to go jogging. The $299 iPod also starts at 32GB, where the iPad will start at 16 (maybe 8? But unlikely - no iPad has ever had just 8GB storage). They aren't the same product segment.
Besides, so what if the iPod is cannibalized by a different Apple product? Better to have it cannibalized by a smaller iPad than a Nexus 7.
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Tom Brossman wrote:
Also the idea of a "walled garden" being seen in a positive light by school administrators.
But, the app & support eco-system must also have an effect on potential buyers. Its not like they are buying Android tablets directly from Samsung, or taking the gamble that buying a bunch of Surface tablets from Microsoft might work out better in the long run...
killing_time Ars Praefectus
wrests wrote:
education has always been a push for apple.
icrf Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
If this is really targeted at education, and education is price and size sensitive with no currently entrenched vendor, why hadn't education picked up one of the many Android tablets that has been out a year out more already? What is Apple doing that Android hasn't?
killing_time wrote:
That may be fair to say but the execution has been less-than from my experience. Students at my tech-focused college seethe when forced to use our "Mac Lab", and iTunes U suffers from some silly oversights and usability issues, in my opinion
brainychimp Ars Centurion
I think this makes sense, though apple's product lines are mostly immune to cannibalization. a more likely reason is that the ipad mini would be marked up as a result of apple's ability to price "low enough". so as much as I'd like the much-rumored $299 pricing, I get the feeling that it'd be closer to $349 at launch – especially with the holiday season rapidly approaching. it seems a given that the masses will want the latest and greatest from apple to be under the tree, no matter the price. and a $349 pricepoint would seem like a bargain in comparison to $499.
then, 6 months from now when manufacturing has ramped up, apple drops prices across the board by $50, and another wave of people rush in.
charleski Ars Praefectus
The educational market is exactly the place where you want the larger real-estate of a 10" tablet. Interactive books with expansive layouts just don't work that well on smaller-sized screens.
Aelrik Ars Centurion
icrf wrote:
Tightly integrated library of eTextbooks and educational apps, plus long-standing reputation for partnerships with school districts. Vertical marketing has always been Apple's approach and they are pretty good at it, particularly in the education sector.
aengblom Ars Praefectus
The current iPod touch starts at $299, this is going to be a problem for much of Apple's lower end product line, which typically didn't come with low end pricing. I can't see how the iPod touch could not be completely cannibalized by this miniature iPad.
The iPad with 3G starts at $529 for 16 GB, while the unsubsidized cost of the iPhone 5 is probably about $650. Building a computer to fit into a pocket is expensive, so getting bigger probably helps Apple's margins in this case. The only additional costs are screensize, the power to drive that screen and a bit more battery.
Plus, I doubt Apple cares which one you buy, just that you buy one (or both). Honestly, the bigger issue for Apple is it likely doesn't want to cannibalize its more expensive iPad. That's revenue it already has and isn't going to want to lose.
foresmac108 Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
mrbreaker101 wrote:
gandalfSVG Ars Scholae Palatinae
GAAAA!! So now not only do we know about the form-factor, the specs, the price, the release date, the screen resolution, all before the announcement, we're also pontificating about some long-game education-bent to this thing! Stop yer pontificating!
aaronb1138 Ars Praefectus
charleski wrote:
Came to say exactly this.
Smaller tablets are unusable in a classroom especially once you start taking notes or annotations. I can dock a PDF or PowerPoint next to my notes on a 10" tablet. Couldn't do it half as effectively on a 8" tablet. Add in the lack of stylus / ink support in iOS and the onscreen keyboard wipes out even more space.
Frankly, Samsung has a vastly better product for the use case in the Galaxy Note Tab. They should start marketing there.
Also, current studies have already shown that teachers at least prefer their laptops over iPads as work tools in pilot programs.
School equipment needs to be a tool, not a consumption device.
If one just needs a replacement for books in electronic form, Amazon, B&N, and OLPC have it covered at superior price points. Any interactive materials being developed by education interests needs to be platform independent via HTML and similar.
marc7654 Seniorius Lurkius
How is "ePub 3 standards" vendor lock-in? Also what other device works as well and offers as many features at this price point? The Fire is a good device and offers a good alternative at a lower price, the competition in this market will make both better in the long run.
That's a possibility. The $499 iPads were being sold to schools for as low as $420 each in quantities; I don't have information on the $399 iPad 2, but there are likely small discounts for quantity purchases. If Apple planned a $249 price for EDU from the get go, that seems very likely. Then massive consumer purchases at $299 effectively subsidize the "lost" margin on EDU sales.
aaronb1138 wrote:
This is exactly where iOS largely excels over the alternatives. I have talked with educators from all over the world that use iOS devices, including iPod touches and iPads, in classroom work. Students are using Keynote to make presentations, shooting and editing video using iMovie, and all sorts of other creative, "creation" activities using these devices. It's not simply reading iBooks and playing Math Blaster or Oregon Trail, though iOS devices can do that, too.
Scud Ars Legatus Legionis
Always nice to launch a push into education months after the school year started.
OrangeCream Ars Legatus Legionis
Walled garden immediately springs to mind.
Locked down OS is another thought.
Having a long, reliable, and consistent update/patch track record probably helps too.
The only thing Apple doesn't do better is price, but then the argument is that all of the above "features" are what the institutions are paying for.
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zelannii Ars Praefectus
The idea that pricing a 7+" device at the same or lower price than the iPod touch would be an issue for apple is in fact NOT a conflict. Apple's 13" Air is priced below the 13" pro, minis cost less than iMacs with near identical specs, this is common in product lines. The iPod serves the extremely portable market, the iPad the lass portable market. Also the iPad runs 150,000 apps the touch can't.
It's not a value choice between the iPod and iPad, it;s a use choice. It;s also the idea that, yes, they could canibilize a few of their own sales, but they'll also have some people buying BOTH. Far more improtantly however are the millions of people who want a tablet, not a phone-sized device, who won;t pay over $300 that will instantly become apple customers, cannibilizing android many units for each one apple cannibilizes of its own.
Profit is profit. In fact, given the miniturization and complex build requirements of the iPad vs iPod, I doubt these two products have more than a $40 difference in bill of materials. The iPad 8GB might even come out cheaper than an iPod 16GB.
But, I believe the real option here is this: the 8GB model iPad at $249 I'd expect to be an education-only model. I would see a 16GB at $299 or $329, and there would become even less of a value choice between the iPod and iPad. At the same price, you buy one or the other, and the profit to apple is about the same either way, and it means less android sales. Android can have the sub-200 market, apple doesn;t do loss leaders or bargain basement machines, they'll let their competition cannibilize each other for the 3% of all profits that exists in that market space, Appel will take the 80% of the profits it already has and add to it with a more diversified lineup.
Quiet Desperation Ars Praefectus
foresmac108 wrote:
Oh, stop. The geekerati have decreed that a mobile device must have full root access and seven Python interpreters to be useful. You are spouting blasphemy. Doctorow decreed that the iPad was the death of innovation. Stallman stated that the iPad was a threat to our freedom and our precious bodily fluids. The high geek potentates have issued their fatwas. How dare you go against them!
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itsbenaltogether Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
OK so what do you do with an iPad in the classroom?
Scud wrote:
Yeah, there will be other school years. Just sayin. Unless, you know, the Mayans...
Seeing as it would take a school a while to get these and figure out the best way to use them, and different schools would take different amounts of time, there probably is no best time to release relative to that noise.
A lot of school districts these days have no clue what they are doing anyway, but that's a different can of worms.
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- IT management and deployment tools
- Extremely easy to completely lock down using profiles
- Easy backup and restore of devices en-masse, not just for a single user
- iBooks, iTunesU, HEAVY backing by almost every major publisher, something nearly non-existant for android. Other than generic text ebooks, no major education publishing house is releasing app-style internactive content for schools on Android.
- in-house app hosting, easily, with great direct support from Apple to do it
- LOCAL shops for support/repair.
- HIPAA secured devices, no removable media to worry about, no sideloading, remotely configured VPN.
- Every device in the district, whether bought this year, last year, etc, runs the same exact OS. (This alone is HUGE!) Supporting 4-5 different makes/models with variances in OS, Skin, etc, woudl be a nightmare for a district).
- Doesn;t require any other infrastructure than ann exchange server for management, and a single $999 server from apple for hosting internal apps. no 3rd party per-device licenses for remote managment as android requires, no expinsive Windows server custer required to support it either. (This is exactly why my firm, though seriously anti-apple from the top down, just dropped android for iOS now that iPhopne 4s are available free on enterprise contracts, we love android, but supporting 1300 of them was an extreme cost in licensing and talent, and iOS basically manages itself, no more MAAS360, no more additional servers, no more IT calls, hell IT doesn't even setup the phones anymore personally they're shipped direct to the user with a single piece of paper telling them how to associate their email and then exchange does everything else)
Android is basically devoid of any logical enterprise support model. Lack of consitant updates, lack of consistant user experience, lack of direct vendor support, lack of free central management tools, and lack of educational content. Apple got it right with school sand enterprise, and if Android doesn;t get it;s game together, Google is going to learn the same lesson apple did in the 80s, without enterprise, you lose.
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We've been using Kuno (Android ICS) tablets for students. We tried the iPad route with the iPad 1 about 2 years back when everyone in my tech dept thought it was the greatest thing in the world, but they soon found out that managing them was nothing short of a horrible headache. With the Kuno's we can tailor the tablet to the grade level and manage permissions. The only complaint that I would have is that even though they are capacitive touch tablets, their sensitivity is decent at best. Still, managing them is much simpler than our iPads.
http://mykuno.com/index.html
jplayer01 Seniorius Lurkius
They can label it an education device all they want. As long as it doesn't have a pen to make "on-page" notes and markings, it's just a wannabe.
BuckG Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
Honestly, from a strictly education standpoint... a Nexus 7" would be much more suited
1) It would have a good long term update schedule as a nexus device
2) Most importantly, it's significantly cheaper. The launch price for the 8 GB model is under $200
By the time the holidays roll around and the Mini iPad releases, you could probably get an 8 GB N7 for $150.
Carbon Fibre Ars Scholae Palatinae
iPad mini at less than $300 is impossible, minimally $350 if that. Education sector in the United States is quite below standards because of society surrounding them, yet they think by buying mass numbers of an overpriced tablet is the solution? I'm all for tech on education as a science major student but throwing money at a company dealing with the gov. under the table is not the solution. There are other tablets far more useful if there has to be a tech gadget in class.
jplayer01 wrote:
It wouldn't replace a notebook, it would replace text books. Grade School and High School doesn't need to mark up and highlight text books at all. And even if you do, you can do that digitally.
itsbenaltogether wrote:
- Use interactive books from McGrawhill, Pearson, etc that do not exist at all for android
- Allow students to run presentations themselves without requiring the transfer of the presentation file itself to a teacher's PC (virus risks involved are high).
- tens of thousands of visually interactive educational apps
- interactive quizzes run from an app on the teacher's workstation.
- classroom attentive management (realtime course material presentation that requires the student to interact with the iPad, and which provides feedback to the instructor as to who is paying attention, and as a whole is the class understanding the material)
- paperless testing, quizzes, and more
- far easier to transport than a bag full of heavy textbooks
- being able to ask the teacher a question about material anonymously (many kids WOULD ask for help, but don't want to be seen as not getting it, so they won't ask, with a tablet they can do just that using any number of interactive edication apps)
- Kids can see in real time questions from OTHER students, either on the main classroom screen/smartboard, or on their own pads
- digital notes are more easily shared in study groups than those written in books, or worse, written on ruled paper in a binder further seperated from the actual book content (since most kids can;t write in the books at all).
This is just a short list of some of the thing's i've seen being done. The educational possibilities of digital devices in the classroom are endless. Fears about students "drifting" (running other apps) are also unfounded as most internactive education apps will actually notify a teacher if they're existed, so the students literally can't just be browsing the ewb instead of paying attention as they could readily do on a normal PC. They're cheaper than PCs, don;t require ABV tools, are more secure than PCs, are easier to roll out and support than PCs, and the apps/software costs a LOT less as well.
Can android do all this? Well, yes, but "could" is very much the operative word here. Google itself is promoting near zero central support, manufacturer differences and OS differences make IT support complex and expensive, Publisher support is virtually non-existand for android, and because of that developer support for classroom management apps is also extremely light. Android is extremely hard to manage centrally as well, requiring purchase and support of 3rd party tools, which often don't work one OS to the next, and which are also for enterprising kids to bypass. iOS includes CORE OS level controls android simply lacks that make central supprot, management, distribution, and control extremely easy, and apple has put tens of millions behind an involved community and given away free and simple tools to specifically encourage educational development on the platform.
Yea, Android "could" do this, easy, but since they DIDN'T, ipad is the go-to platform.
Since I clearly don't have iPads in my child's classes, but both my kids have grown up with iOS devices, including an iPad:
1) You learn how to count
2) You learn how to add
3) You learn colors
4) You learn how to read
5) You learn how different shapes have different properties
6) You learn how physics works (mass, momentum, pendulums, velocity, parabolas, slope, vectors, kinectic energy, potential energy)
7) You learn how to write
8) You learn how to read time
9) You learn how to estimate size
10) You learn how hyperlinks work
Maybe you had a more specific question in mind, though; "What does an iPad do better than waiting until a child is 6 years old and has the manual dexterity to manipulate the physical world, especially a pen, paper, crayons, paints, scissors, clay, books, and other esoteric materials?"
The answer is simple, it allows a 4 year old to do and learn what a 6 year old can do with the real world.
Likewise I suspect it allows my 6 year old to do/learn/access what an 8 year old can do, and up along the curve the entire school system.
Meaning that a 6 year old that is learning how to read hasn't figured out how to properly look up something in the library, while that same 6 year old can figure out how to use a search engine to find something (if barely). Of course the problem goes away if the library has a computer, a map of the library, a reasonably good search engine, and a touch/mouse interface that a 6 year old can use.
Essentially think of the iPad (like any tablet) as a portable library filled with video, audio, interactive demonstrations, tutorials, and text, and thus the same reason people like you might value a computer, a child might value an iPad.
Carbon Fibre wrote:
Be fair; if a $300 iPad is wasteful then your solution of using "far more useful" tablets is equally wasteful.
Your criticism is two faced. Either the iPad, as an exemplar for tablets, is good, or tablets are bad.
Emperor_Sigmar wrote:
The original iPad, with iOS 4, and before some of apple's newer tools for OS X, yep, they were a bit much to manage if you deployed them in very large numbers. If you had an exchange server it was easier, more still if you deployed but a single OS X server, but the tools really came out with iOS 5 for enterprise management.
Because of these tools, my highly anti-apple company has now ditched android for iOS. management is dirt simple now. managed VPN, scheduled app deployment, auto-configuring tablets, patch rollouts, all extremely to do via simple GUI tools on a Mac mini, and 90% of the config other than pushed content is a profile in Exchange. No 3rd party tools, no per-device licenses. Combine that with the classroom content available, and iOS is an instant win decision over even what JB has to offer in enterprise.
You're asking schools not just to invest in a major manufacturer readily supported and simple platform with iPad, and to change to android, but to a SPECIFIC model based on customized software? Yes, maybe its easy to manayge, but that's putting the school in a position of dealing with (and depending explicitly on) a small 3rd party. Kuno is limited to the MLS software and content sold through them, iOS is limited to the curriculum and management apps of thousands of compnaies. Apple seperated management operations into it;s own subset, and lets ANYTHING run on top of it.
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My comment applies to Android and iOS tablets alike, but I've been stunned at how easily the nieces and nephew figured out how to use an iPad. Much more intuitive than a computer. The classroom experience, as well, could be completely different than a computer. These things are portable. Kids can bring them to the reading group in the corner. Or carry them up to the teacher to ask a question. The possibilities of real interaction with tablets is so much broader than with that bigger object (computer) that essentially has to sit still on a desk.
No technology is an educational panacea, I just think tablets have much more potential for integrating into the classroom in a natural way than computers ever did.
What would be really interesting for educational use is if Apple ruggedized the iPad Mini more than iPhone and iPad currently are. Rubberize the edges of the case. Or even more importantly, don't use the thinnest-possible piece of glass. That could really make a big difference for educational use. No tablet will be 100% kid-proof, but there are things they could do to make iPad MIni less delicate than either an iPhone or an iPad. And iPad Mini might be just the right size for that. Big enough that an extra millimeter here or there wouldn't be noticed much. Small enough that the tablet's own weight/size isn't it's own worst enemy in a fall.
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Columbine boys basketball earns share of 5A Jeffco League title
Dennis Pleuss February 16, 2018, 10:39 PM
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LITTLETON — Columbine junior Cameron Dean admitted he made the biggest 3-pointers of his life Friday night.
Dean, who had only scored double-digit points once this season, poured in a dozen points that included a pair of 3-pointers in the final quarter as the Rebels pulled away for a 64-48 home victory over rival Chatfield.
“Those looked amazing,” Columbine sophomore Justin Lohrenz said of Dean’s 3-pointers midway through the fourth quarter that pushed the Rebels to a double-digit lead. “Right when they left his fingers I knew they were going in.”
The victory gave Columbine its first Class 5A Jeffco League boys basketball title since the 2011-12 season.
Andrew Lauritzen (2) came off the bench to help Columbine dominate the inside. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
“It’s great. This was the goal these guys have set,” Columbine coach Clay Thielking said. “They fought through a lot of adversity all year long. It’s such a resilient group of guys. I’m just really, really happy for them.”
The Rebels started the season 1-4 and even got off to a 1-2 conference mark before winning 9-of-11 to close the regular season as the hottest team in 5A Jeffco.
“It feels amazing. It feels just great,” Lohrenz said as the Rebels cut down the nets to celebrate the league title.
Columbine (13-10, 10-4 in 5A Jeffco) are co-league champs with Arvada West (15-8, 10-4). However, the Rebels will officially go in as the automatic qualifier for the 48-team 5A state tournament that begins next week.
“We will definitely be an underdog,” Dean said about the playoffs. “We are just going to go, fight and play our best.”
Columbine won the tiebreaker of point differential between the Rebels and Wildcats over their two head-to-head meetings. Columbine is guaranteed a top-32 seed and first-round home game for the state tournament.
Chatfield's Isaiah Reed (3) soars to the basket for a layup. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
There was no guarantee for the Rebels when they took the court against Chatfield (11-12, 7-7). The Chargers defeated the Rebels in their first meeting.
The rivals were tied at 41-41 early in the fourth quarter, but Columbine outscored Chatfield 23-9 in the final quarter to win going away. Sophomore Luke O’Brien (13 points) was held under his season average, but Lohrenz (14 points) and sophomore Andrew Lauritzen had a monster game off the bench for 12 points.
“I thought their role players really stepped up and played great,” Chatfield coach Stephen Schimpeler said after the Chargers’ third straight loss.
Chatfield senior Liam Mann led the way for the Chargers with 12 points. The loss officially ended Chatfield remarkable run of back-to-back conference titles that included a 30-game league winning streak over that period.
“Chatfield has had a really great run. That’s a really great team with a very good coach that we have a lot of respect for,” Thielking said. “We try not to make this game bigger than it really is, but games against your rivals are more meaningful. When you throw a league title in there it’s a pretty special night.”
Chatfield and Columbine will both have to wait until Sunday, Feb. 18, for the 5A state brackets to be released on CHSAANow.com to see who their first-round opponents will be.
While 5A Jeffco is looked at for having a down year on the state level, anything is possible in the postseason. Columbine is a good example of how to battle through the tough times to make the best of an opportunity.
“That’s just Columbine, we are resilient,” Dean said. “We have been through so much, but we stick together. It’s a brotherhood. I love this group of guys.”
Columbine's Justin Lohrenz, middle, is double-teamed by Chatfield's Keland Rumsey (4) and Liam Mann. (Dennis Pleuss/Jeffco Athletics)
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Here's how graphene will transform your smartphones
Bendable mobile phones, quick-charge batteries and unbreakable touch screens -- technology firms are racing to harness the potential of graphene, a wonder material which scientists say could transform consumer electronics.AFP | Updated: February 28, 2016, 10:44 IST
BARCELONA: Bendable mobile phones, quick-charge batteries and unbreakable touch screens -- technology firms are racing to harness the potential of graphene, a wonder material which scientists say could transform consumer electronics.
A fine sheet of pure carbon, graphene is as thin as an atom, making it the skinniest material known.
At the same time though, it is 100 times stronger than steel, hugely pliable and can conduct electricity and heat better than anything else.
"There are other materials which do have one of those properties each," physicist Kostya Novoselov -- who first isolated graphene in 2004 -- said at the Mobile World Congress, the sector's biggest trade fair, in Barcelona.
"What is amazing here is that all those qualities are combined in one simple crystal.
"Of course that immediately leaves us with a number of possible applications."
Novoselov, a Russian-born British citizen, and his colleague at Manchester University Andre Geim won the Nobel Prize for their work with graphene, sparking a flurry of interest in the new material.
The number of patents involving graphene soared from under 50 in 2004 to around 9,000 in 2014, according to Andrew Garland of research firm Future Markets, who puts out a twice-yearly report on the material.
"Most are in electronics," he said.
Samsung, the world's number one smartphone maker, has taken out the most graphene patents -- over 490 -- followed by China's Ocean's King Lighting and IBM.
While its real-world uses so far remain modest, research into possible applications for the material picked up steam in Europe after the European Union set aside one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in 2013 to be spent over ten years to investigate.
"We believe we require another ten years to get to the point where a lot of devices will start being on the market," said Andrea Ferrari, director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre at the University of Cambridge.
The trade fair in Barcelona for the first time had a pavilion dedicated to graphene research centres and start-ups, a sign of the growing importance of the material to the mobile industry.
Graphene is so pliable scientists predict it will one day make flexible phones possible.
British firm FlexEnable showcased a smartwatch prototype made using graphene that wraps around a user's wrist and features a full colour LCD display that is capable of running video content.
"This sort of display technology is basically ushering in a completely new generation of mobile devices because we can start folding electronics," said the company's technical director, Mike Banach.
British tech firm Zap&Go, meanwhile, displayed a graphene charger for mobile phones and tablets that takes just five minutes to fully load with power.
The company is making 2,000 versions to give to journalists and to people who pre-order them, said the company's marketing director, Simon Harris.
"What we have here ultimately could replace the lithium-ion battery in billions of devices. It needs to come down in size and up in power," he added.
Graphene is so strong and thin that researchers believe they will one day be able to use it to make unbreakable screens for mobile devices.
"With just a few kilos you can replace all the touchscreens in the word. With just a few layers on top of each other you can support an elephant," said Vittorio Pellegrini, director of the Italian Institute of Technology's Graphene Labs.
"Graphene is really a material that allows our imagination to fly. There is no limit to what you can do," he added.
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DISPUTES RESOLVED BY A FOREIGN COURT AS PER CONTRACT OF PARTIES
Disputes resolved by a foreign court as per contract of parties choice., Jurisdiction to file suit as per agreement and contract., suit can be file where both the parties decided the jurisdiction as per contract.
Disputes resolved by a foreign court as per contract of parties choice.
Parties are bound to perform their choosen Jurisdiction to file/Initiate the proceeding at their chosen jurisdiction only.
Section20. Other suits to be instituted where defendants reside or cause of action arises.
Subject to the limitations aforesaid, every suit shall be instituted in Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction-
(a) the defendant, or each of the defendants where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit, actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain; or
(b) any of the defendants, where there are more than one, at the time of the commencement of the suit actually and voluntarily resides, or carries on business, or personally works for gain, provided that in such case either the leave of the Court is given, or the defendants who do not reside, or carry on business, or personally work for gain, as aforesaid, acquiesce in such institution; or
(c) the cause of action, wholly or in part, arises.
2[Explanation].-A corporation shall be deemed to carry on business at its sole or principal office in 3[India] or, in respect of any cause of action arising at any place where it has also a subordinate office, at such place.
“Whether parties to a contract may agree to have their disputes resolved
by a foreign court of their choice as a neutral forum according to law applicable to
that court ?
Here is the judgment passed by the Hon”ble High Court of Delhi:-
IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
SUBJECT : RECOVERY OF AMOUNT
Date of reserve : 03.10.2007
Date of decision : 09.10.2007
CRP No.95/2006
U.CAN Migrate Consultants Pvt. Ltd. …. Petitioner
Canadian Connections Groups Ltd. …. Respondent
Advocates who appeared in this case :
For the petitioner : Mr. V.K. Singh and Mr. L.B. Rai, Advocates.
For the respondent : None.
J.M. MALIK, J.
1. The controversy in the case in hand pivots around a very interesting
question, “Whether parties to a contract may agree to have their disputes resolved
that court”“ I have heard the counsel for the petitioner but it is unfortunate that the
counsel for the respondent did not appear to assist the court. This case was fixed
for 3rd October, 2007. Counsel for the respondent did not turn up despite second
call till 2.30 p.m. The respondent company was served vide notice dated
12.03.2007 on 15.03.2007 in this case. The order sheet dated, 17.05.2007, before
the Registrar, shows that Mr. Amrendra Singh appeared for the respondent. Again
on 06.08.2007 Mr. J.K. Chawdhary appeared on behalf of the respondent. On
06.09.2007 Mr. Amrendra Singh proxy counsel appeared on behalf of the
respondent. Today none has appeared on behalf of the respondent. Record reveals
that no vakalatnama was filed on behalf of the respondent. Since, the respondent
was served and represented by an advocate, therefore, the order is being passed in
respondent’s absentia.
2. The respondent filed a suit under Order XXXVII of the CPC for recovery of
Rs.4,90,000/- along with pendente lite and future interest before the trial court on
17.02.2003. The petitioner moved an application for leave to defend. In para 4 (B)
of the application they have taken a specific plea that the jurisdiction to try and
entertain the present suit vests with Ontario courts, as per provincial law of
Ontario, Canada and it was agreed between the parties that in case of dispute the
parties shall be governed by the above said court. However, the trial court presided
over by Mr. D.C. Anand, ADJ, did not find favour with this plea vide its order
dated 14.02.2006. It, however, granted leave to defend in favour of the petitioner
subject to its depositing Rs.1,45,000/-. Aggrieved by that order the instant petition
was filed in this court. 3. I have perused the copy of contract filed before me. Its
relevant portions are reproduced as hereunder:- “1. CONTRACT Canadian
Connections Group Ltd. having its office located at 245 Galloway Road Toronto
Ontario M1E 1X5 Canada. Hereinafter called the party of the first part and referred
to as the “CONSULTANT”. And Ucan Migration Consultants P. Ltd., having their
US office at 1240, I 85 south and Freedom Drive Charlotte, NC 28208 USA and
Registered Office in India. Hereinafter referred to as the party of the second part
and referred to as the “CLIENT”. Whereas The Client hereby retains the services
of the Consultant for the purposes of receiving follow up report from Canadian
Authorities with respect to prospective Twenty Eight (28) as per Annexure-A
permanent immigration cases/Client’s client already filed by the client. The follow
up on Application, on behalf of the client and their applicants / accompanying
family members, the Consultant hereby accept such mandate, subject to the
following terms and conditions. 2. DUTIES OF THE CONSULTANT The
Consultant shall : 1. Assess the Client’s referred applicant’s files for CANADIAN
permanent resident immigration. 2. Request the Client for the required information
from the applicants; 3. Submit the required information, application and supporting
documentation to the processing visa office; 4. Advice the Client for the selection
interview with the processing Visa office; 5. Effect all additional written and / or
verbal representations to the processing Visa office and related authorities
processing the application for permanent resident status of the applicant i.e.
immigration office/Embassy/ High Commission as is deemed necessary by the
Consultant, advice the client of the ongoing requirement by the Visa office with
respects the Client’s applications; 6. Never direct contact with the Applicants
referred by the Client.
3. x x x x NON REFUNDABLE FEE BY THE CONSULTANT The consultant
will not refund any fee to the clients for the reasons given below: 1. If the client
fail to make any of the payments as prescribed in the agreement, then the firm will
no longer act as my immigration services company and will cease the follow up
immediately. 2. If the applicant and their spouse fails medical, security or criminal
requirements and if it is determined that the applicant, and my spouse have
misrepresented or were untruthful about any material fact to the firm, or visa
officer, or immigration officer, or change the disposition regarding immigration to
Canada or abandon the application. 3. Where the application is rejected / revoked
by the Embassy due to false representation, submission of wrong documents by the
client, failing in personal technical /communication interview.
4. This Agreement will supercede all oral, written statements that may have been
given / communicated to the Clients by any and all employees of the Consultant on
signing this agreement by both the parties. 5. This Consultant shall be governed,
interpreted and enforced in accordance with the Provincial Laws of Ontario
Canada. All disputes will be subject to Ontario courts Jurisdiction and as per the
Provincial Laws of Ontario, Canada. 6. x x x x” 4. Counsel for the petitioner has
drawn my attention towards three authorities. First is reported in Shriram City
Union Finance Corporation Ltd. Vs. Rama Mishra, 2002 (9) SCC 613, wherein it
was held :- “In case parties under their own agreement expressly agree that their
dispute shall be tried by only one of them then the parties can only file the suit in
that court alone to which they have so agreed. In the present case, as we have said,
through clause 34 of the agreement, the parties have bound themselves that in any
matter arising between them under the said contract, it is the courts in Calcutta
alone which will have jurisdiction. Once parties bound themselves as such it is not
open for them to choose a different jurisdiction as in the present case by filing the
suit at Bhubaneshwar. Such a suit would be in violation of the said agreement.”
5. He has cited another authority of the Apex Court reported in Hakam Singh Vs.
M/s. Gammon (India) Ltd., 1971 (1) SCC 286, which goes to buttress his case.
6. He has also cited another authority reported in New Moga Transport Co. Vs.
United India Insurance Co. Ltd., (2004) 4 SCC 677, it was held that :- “By a long
series of decisions it has been held that where two courts or more have jurisdiction
under CPC to try a suit or proceeding, an agreement between the parties that the
dispute between them shall be tried in any one of such courts is not contrary to
public policy and in no way contravenes Section 28 of the Indian Contract Act,
1872. Therefore, if on the facts of a given case more than one court has
jurisdiction, parties by their consent may limit the jurisdiction to one of the two
courts. But by an agreement parties cannot confer jurisdiction on a court which
otherwise does not have jurisdiction to deal with a matter.”
7. I am also able to locate few authorities reported in Modi Entertainment Network
and another Vs. W.S.G. Cricket PTE. Ltd., (2003) 4 SCC 341, it was held :- “In
regard to jurisdiction of courts under the Code of Civil Procedure(CPC) over a
subject-matter one or more courts may have jurisdiction to deal with it having
regard to the location of immovable property, place of residence or work of a
defendant or place where cause of action has arisen. Where only one court has
jurisdiction it is said to have exclusive jurisdiction; where more courts than one
have jurisdiction over a subject-matter, they are called courts of available or
natural jurisdiction. The growing global commercial activities gave rise to the
practice of the parties to a contract agreeing beforehand to approach for resolution
of their disputes thereunder, to either any of the available courts of natural
jurisdiction and thereby create an exclusive or non-exclusive jurisdiction in one of
the available forums or to have the disputes resolved by a foreign court of their
choice as a neutral forum according to the law applicable to that court. It is a wellsettled
principle that by agreement the parties cannot confer jurisdiction, where
none exists, on a court to which CPC applies, but this principle does not apply
when the parties agree to submit to the exclusive or non-exclusive jurisdiction of a
foreign court; indeed in such cases the English courts do permit invoking their
jurisdiction. Thus, it is clear that the parties to a contract may agree to have their
disputes resolved by a foreign court termed as a “neutral court” or “court of
choice” creating exclusive or non-exclusive jurisdiction in it.” It was further held :-
“It is a question of interpretation, governed by the proper law of the contract,
whether a jurisdiction clause is exclusive or non-exclusive, or whether the claim
which is the subject-matter of the action falls within its terms. If there is no express
choice of the proper law of the contract, the law of the country of the chosen court
will usually, but not invariably, be the proper law.”
8. In Man Roland Druckimachinen AG Vs. Multicolour Offset Ltd. and another,
(2004) 7 SCC 447, it was held:- “9. Undoubtedly, when the parties have agreed on
a particular forum, the courts will enforce such agreement. This is not because of a
lack or ouster of its own jurisdiction by reason of consensual conferment of
jurisdiction on another court, but because the court will not be party to a breach of
an agreement. Such an agreement is not contrary to public policy nor does it
contravene Section 28 or Section 23 of the Contract Act. This has been held in
Hakam Singh Vs. Gammon (India) Ltd., AIR 1971 SC 740, A.B.C. Laminart (P)
Ltd. Vs. A.P. Agencies, (1989) 2 SCC 163 and Modi Entertainment Network Vs.
W.S.G. Cricket Pte. Ltd., (2003) 4 SCC 341, SCC at p.351. The decision of the
Delhi High Court in Rajendra Sethia Vs. Punjab National Bank, AIR 1991 Del 285
relied on by the Commission which holds to the contrary is, therefore, clearly
erroneous.”
9. In a recent authority reported in Harshad Chiman Lal Modi Vs. DLF Universal
and anr., AIR 2005 SC 4446 while quoting Halsbury’s Laws of England, (4th
edition), Reissue, Vol. 10; para 317; it was held:- “317. Consent and waiver.
Where, by reason of any limitation imposed by statute, charter or commission, a
court is without jurisdiction to entertain any particular claim or matter, neither the
acquiescence nor the express consent of the parties can confer jurisdiction upon the
court, nor can consent give a court jurisdiction if a condition which goes to the
jurisdiction has not been performed or fulfilled. Where the court has jurisdiction
over the particular subject matter of the claim or the particular parties and the only
objection is whether, in the circumstances of the case, the court ought to exercise
jurisdiction, the parties may agree to give jurisdiction in their particular case; or a
defendant by entering an appearance without protest, or by taking steps in the
proceedings, may waive his right to object to the court taking cognizance of the
proceedings. No appearance or answer, however, can give jurisdiction to a limited
court, nor can a private individual impose on a judge the jurisdiction or duty to
adjudicate on a matter. A statute limiting the jurisdiction of a court may contain
provisions enabling the parties to extend the jurisdiction by consent.” It was further
held:- “It is, no doubt true, as submitted by Ms. Malhotra that where two or more
courts have jurisdiction to entertain a suit, parties may be agreement submit to the
jurisdiction of one court to the exclusion of the other court or courts. Such
agreement is not hit by Section 28 of the Contract Act, 1872, nor such a contract
can be said to be against public policy. It is legal, valid and enforceable. Before
more than thirty years, such question came up for consideration before this court in
Hakam Singh Vs. Gammon (India) Ltd., 1971 (1) SCC 286. It was the first leading
decision of this court on the point. There, a contract was entered into by the parties
for construction of work. An agreement provided that notwithstanding where the
work was to be executed, the contract ‘shall be deemed to have been entered into at
Bombay’ and Bombay Court ‘alone shall have jurisdiction to adjudicate’ the dispute
between the parties. The question before this Court was whether the court at
Bombay alone had jurisdiction to resolve such dispute.”
10. In National Thermal Power Corporation Vs. Singer Company and others,
(1992) 3 SCC 551, it was held :- “13. Dicey and Morris in The Conflict of Laws,
11th edn., Vol. II (‘Dicey’) refer to the ‘proper law of a contract’ thus: “Rule 180 “
The term ‘proper law of a contract’ means the system of law by which the parties
intended the contract to be governed, or, where their intention is neither expressed
nor to be inferred from the circumstances, the system of law with which the
transaction has its closest and most real connection.” The expression ‘proper law of
a contract’ refers to the legal system by which the parties to the contract intended
their contract to be governed. If their intention is expressly stated or if it can be
clearly inferred from the contract itself or its surrounding circumstances, such
intention determines the proper law of the contract. In the words of Lord Herschell,
L.C.: “…..In this case, as in all such cases, the whole of the contract must be looked
at, and the contract must be regulated by the intention of the parties as appearing
from the contract. It is perfectly competent to those who, under such circumstances
as I have indicated, are entering into a contract, to indicate by the terms which they
employ which system of law they intend to be applied to the construction of the
contract, and to the determination of the rights arising out of the contract.”
11. In A.B.C. Laminart Pvt. Ltd. and another Vs. A.P. Agencies, Salem, (1989) 2
SCC 163, it was held :- “21. From the foregoing decisions it can be reasonably
deduced that where such an ouster clause occurs, it is pertinent to see whether
there is ouster of jurisdiction of other courts. When the clause is clear,
unambiguous and specific accepted notions of contract would bind the parties and
unless the absence of ad idem can be shown, the other courts should avoid
exercising jurisdiction. As regards construction of the ouster clause when words
like ‘alone’, ‘only’, ‘exclusive’ and the like have been used there may be no
difficulty. Even without such words in appropriate cases the maxim ‘expressio
unius est exclusio alterius’ “ expression of one is the exclusion of another “ may be
applied. What is an appropriate case shall depend on the facts of the case. In such a
case mention of one thing may imply exclusion of another. When certain
jurisdiction is specified in a contract an intention to exclude all others from its
operation may in such cases be inferred. It has therefore to be properly construed.”
12. In the light of the discussion, I hold that above said court in Canada has the
jurisdiction as per clause 5 of the above said Contract. Delhi courts have no
jurisdiction. I set aside the order passed by the trial court. The plaint be returned to
the respondent for filing it before the proper court. Revision petition stands
accepted and the case stands disposed of.
October 09, 2007 J.M. MALIK, J.
Warrant of Attachment Meaning in Civil Cases in India
warrant of attachment in civil suit., Warrant of Attachment Meaning in Civil Cases in India
Warrant of Attachment in Civil cases
Section 136 of Civil Procedure Code,1908, Procedure where person to be arrested or property to be attached.
(1) Where an application is made that any person shall be arrested or that any property shall be attached under any provision of this Code not relating to the execution of decrees, and such person resides or such property is situate outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court to which the application is made, the Court may, in its discretion, issue a warrant of arrest or make an order of attachment, and send to the District
Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction such person or property reside or is situate a copy of the warrant or order, together with the probable amount of the costs of the arrest or attachment.
(2) The District Court shall, on receipt of such copy and amount, cause the arrest or attachment to be made by its own officers, or by a Court subordinate to itself, and shall inform the Court which issued or made such warrant or order of the arrest or attachment.
(3) The Court making an arrest under this section shall send the person arrested to the Court by which the warrant of arrest was issued, unless he shows cause to the satisfaction of the former Court why he should not be sent to the later Court, or unless he furnishes sufficient security for his appearance before the later Court or for satisfying any decree that may be passed against him by that Court, in either of which cases the Court making the arrest shall release him.
(4) Where a person to be arrested or movable property to be attached under this section is within the local limits of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal or at Madras or at Bombay, 1[***] the copy of the warrant of arrest or of the order of attachment, and the probable amount of the costs of the arrest or attachment, shall be sent to the Court of Small Causes of Calcutta, Madras 2[or Bombay], as the case may be, and that Court, on receipt of the copy and amount, shall proceed as if it were the District Court.
Stay of Suit
Stay of Suit, Stay of Suit in India
Stay of Suit in India
Section 10 of Civil Procedure Code,1908,
Stay of Suit.
No Court shall proceed with the trial of any suit in which the matter in issue is also directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the same title where such suit is pending in the same or any other Court in [India] having jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed, or in any Court beyond the limits of [India] established or continued by [the Central Government] [***] and having like jurisdiction, or before [the Supreme Court].
Explanation- The pendency of a suit in a foreign Court does not preclude the Courts in [India] from trying a suit founded on the same cause of action.
RES-JUDICATA IN CIVIL SUIT
Res Judicata, Res-Judicata in Civil Cases in India
Res-Judicata in Civil Cases in India
Res Judicata
No Court shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim, litigating under the same title, in a Court competent to try such subsequent suit or the suit in which such issue has been subsequently raised, and has been heard and finally decided by such Court.
Explanation I- The expression “former suit” shall denote a suit which has been decided prior to the suit in question whether or not it was instituted prior thereto
TRANSFER OF DECREE
Section 39 of Civil procedure Code,1908.
Transfer of Decree :
(1) The Court which passed a decree may, on the application of the decree-holder, send it for execution to another Court 1[of competent jurisdiction],-
(a) if the person against whom the decree is passed actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business, or personally works for gain, within the local limits of the jurisdiction of such other Court, or
(b) if such person has not property within the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court which passed the decree sufficient to satisfy such decree and has property within the local limits of the jurisdiction of such other Court, or
(c) if the decree directs the sale or delivery of immovable property situate outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court which passed it, or
(d) if the Court which passed the decree considers for any other reason, which it shall record in writing, that the decree should be executed by such other Court.
(2) The Court which passed the decree may of its own motion send it for execution to any subordinate Court of competent jurisdiction.
1[(3) For the purposes of this section, a Court shall be deemed to be a Court of competent jurisdiction if, at the time of making the application for the transfer of decree to it, such Court would have jurisdiction to try the suit in which such decree was passed.]
2[(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise the Court which passed a decree to execute such decree against any person or property outside the local limits of its jurisdiction.]
Section 40 of Cpc,
Transfer of Decree to Court in another State.
Where a decree is sent for execution in another State, it shall be sent to such Court and executed in such manner as may be prescribed by rules in force in that State
PROCEDURE OF SERVICE OF FOREIGN SUMMONS IN INDIA
Procedure of Service of Foreign Summons in Civil cases in India, Procedure of Service of Foreign Summons in India
Procedure of Service of Foreign Summons in Civil cases in India.
Service of foreign summonses.
Summons and other processes issued by-
(a) any Civil or Revenue Court established in any part of India to which the provisions of this Code do not extent, or
(b) any Civil or Revenue Court established or continued by the authority of the Central Government outside India, or
(c) any other Civil or Revenue Court outside India to which the Central Government has, by notification in the Official Gazette, declared the provisions of this section to apply *†,,
may be sent to the Courts in the territories to which this Code extends, and served as if they were summonses issued by such Courts.]
WHEN A FOREIGN DECREE-JUDGMENT IS NOT CONCLUSIVE IN INDIA
When Foreign Judgments not Conclusive.
Section 13 of Civil Procedure Code 1908,
A foreign judgment shall be conclusive as to any matter thereby directly adjudicated upon between the same parties or between parties under whom they or any of them claim litigating under the same title except-
(a) where it has not been pronounced by a Court of competent jurisdiction;
(b) where it has not been given on the merits of the case;
(c) where it appears on the face of the proceedings to be founded on an incorrect view of international law or a refusal to recognise the law of
1[India] in cases in which such law is applicable;
(d) where the proceedings in which the judgment was obtained are opposed to natural justice;
(e) where it has been obtained by fraud;
(f) where it sustains a claim founded on a breach of any law in force in 1[India].
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Home Latest News Pregnancy and Infant Loss Couples Retreat Feb. 20
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Couples Retreat Feb. 20
Carl Peters
For three years, Elaina Judge of Williamstown has been thinking about her daughter, McKayla, who would be 3 years old on Feb. 22.
“They want me to get over it and move on, but it still hurts,” she says, remembering her daughter, who was stillborn.
Well-meaning people who have not lost a child don’t know what her grief is like, she says, and some don’t understand why her two healthy children, ages 5 and 7, don’t blot out the pain of the daughter she can’t watch grow up.
“A lot of times people don’t know what to say. They don’t mean to say things that hurt, but they do,” she says.
Judge’s grief drove her to the internet, to search for support from others who shared both her faith and her loss.
She eventually came in contact with Nathan and RyAnne Carr of Peoria, Ill., who started Immaculate Hope Ministries after the death of their first child in 2011.
The Carrs minister to grieving couples, and will be running a pregnancy and infant loss retreat on Saturday, Feb. 20, at Our Lady of Peace Parish, Williamstown. It is for any couple that has experienced any type of pregnancy or early infant loss.
Father Cadmus D. Mazzarella, pastor, will celebrate Mass for the group.
Judge said an anonymous donor sent her the funds to bring the Carrs to New Jersey.
Judge said that people who have lost children can be very angry and “consumed by grief.” The loss can also lead to marriage conflict, because partners can experience grief differently. She also said she struggles to accept McKayla’s death — and two other miscarriages — as God’s will, and she hopes that helping other struggling couples will give her losses meaning.
“Grief is love,” RyAnne Carr wrote in her blog on the Ministries of Hope website, three years after her son’s death. “The sadness, sorrow, anger, agony and despair I felt when Caleb died were all born out of intense love. To grieve him is to love him, and that is something I will do every day of my life.”
The Pregnancy and Infant Loss Couples Retreat will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Marian Hall, Our Lady of Peace Parish. The address is 32 Carroll Ave., Williamstown. To register, email immaculatehoperetreat@gmail.com
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Meet two local Garagistes: Ron Hill and Angela Soleno
Posted by lauriejervis in Faces Behind the Wine, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Winemaking
A-non-ah-mus Wines, Angela Soleno, Ballard Canyon Road American Viticultural Area, C2 Cellars, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Lompoc Rotary Club, Ron Hill, Turiya Wines
Let me introduce two of the winemakers participating in the March 29 and 30 Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure: Ron Hill, owner and winemaker of a-non-a-mus of Orcutt, and Angela Soleno, owner and winemaker of Turiya wines, based in Lompoc.
Hill pours during the grand tasting Sunday, and Solena on Saturday. This is his second trip to Southern Exposure, but her first.
Ron Hill, left, and friend Andrew, at the recent Rotary Winetasting event in Lompoc
First, I’ll let Hill tell his tale, outlined to me via e-mail:
“My case production in 2013 was 340 cases, and consists of small lots of rosé, viognier, syrah, grenache and pinot noir.
“I make my wines in a small corner at C2 Cellars in Orcutt, and I would like to give a big shout out to the Cuevas Brothers and crew for putting up with me these last three years.
“I live in Santa Maria and have two Rhodesian Ridgebacks — Jack and Lily — that have appeared in more wine-related publications than I have (how’s that for being anonymous!).
I asked Hill, a native of Kansas, how he came up with the name of his label, which, to be honest, is quite unusual.
“When I started the task of coming up with a name for label, back in 2008, I never thought that an original name would be so difficult to come up with,” he said. “I spent countless hours thumbing through dictionaries and thesauruses looking for a name that was “catchy” and wasn’t either trademarked or already in commerce, thus making it unusable.”
Like many others, Hill wanted his label to “be about the wine” and not simply the name on the bottle.
Choosing “a-non-ah-mus” turned out be “as close to ‘anonymous’ as I could get,” Hill reflected. With the help of a good trademark attorney, “now I own them both.”
Hill has started a wine club for a-non-ah-mus and hopes to grow slowly, with a goal of 500 cases by next year, he noted. In addition, he wants to start sourcing grapes from “unique little vineyards that aren’t that well known, and plans to bring grenache blanc, mourvèdre and a blend into his line up.
Without a tasting room, Hill offers tastings only by appointment.
Hill left a long-term career as a respiratory care practitioner, both in Kansas and — seeking a warmer climate — Arizona, followed by California. (Note: When you meet Hill, ask him about the incident involving a long scarf and a snow blower).
After about 20 years working in hospital ICUs, Hill, now 53, wanted a change.
He caught the winemaking bug “quite by accident” from a neighbor when he lived in San Jose.
“He ran with a group of five close friends, and they all made their own wines — which all were very different,” Hill recalled. “I actually learned a lot from observing them make their true “garage wines.”
Years later, Hill recalled, “I took a bottle of my neighbor’s garage wine and ran every test I could in the lab at the winery where I worked.
As is often the case with the tiniest of wine makers, who are meticulous in crafting wine, Hill’s friend’s “garage” wine had “perfect numbers” despite never having been tested with a pH meter or ebulometer, he said.
In 2001, Hill began his winemaking career in earnest as a harvest intern at Babcock Winery, where he worked his way up to associate winemaker. He remained at Babcock until 2011, when he left to focus on being, well, a-non-ah-mus.
Angela Soleno and a bottle of her “Perpetual Bliss,” a blend of cabernet sauvignon and syrah
I caught up with Angela Soleno at Corner House Coffee in Los Olivos early in March. Several years ago, I met Soleno in her previous life — working in marketing and shipping at Consilience Wines in Los Olivos, “wearing many hats,” she recalled. She worked there for about six years.
Now she wears just one hat — winemaker — and, in fact, has just left her “day job” of two years, as caretaker at Figueroa Mountain Ranch.
“I’ve found my calling! I’m done,” Soleno laughed, obviously excited about what lies ahead for her label.
Like Hill, Soleno, 34, made her first vintage in 2008, choosing to call it Turiya, which means “a state of consciousness wherein reality and truth are harmonious.”
Her first vintage was three different wines, all reds, with a total production of 96 cases. Soleno’s focus is “mostly Bordeauxs and some sangiovese,” made with grapes from one of the region’s best sangiovese sites, Stolpman Vineyard, on Ballard Canyon Road.
Because she started small and has stayed that way, Soleno still has some of her initial vintage left for tasting – and sales. Like her 60/40 cabernet sauvignon and syrah blend, “Perpetual Bliss,” with grapes sourced from Camp 4 Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley.
Again, like Hill, Soleno doesn’t have a tasting room, but is more than happy to allow by-appointment tastings inside the winery space she shares with Peter Scott of Scott Cellars on F Street in Lompoc.
A single mother of two children, Veronica, 17, and Trenton, 11, Soleno has a firm grip on her future:
When I ask, any future plans for a tasting room? “No, never!”
Do you plan to grow above 500 cases? “No, I only want to produce enough for an allocation list, so that I can sell out every vintage.”
And, while she likes white wines made by other winemakers (Tessa Marie Parker’s sparkling vermentino, for example), Soleno vows she’s “never gonna make a white wine” herself.
Soleno is a big fan of the natural acidity in wines, especially reds, especially Italian reds, and looks forward to getting her hands on some Aglianico, perhaps from French Camp Vineyards outside Santa Margarita in San Luis Obispo County, she said.
“The more obscure the varietals, the better.”
Before she releases them, Soleno ages her wines in barrel for 36 months, and then for an additional year in the bottle.
“I like ‘finished’ wines. I wait until the wine tells me it’s ready, and then I go from there.”
Copyright Central Coast Wine Press
Scenes from the Lompoc Rotary Club’s annual wine tasting and auction this afternoon
Posted by lauriejervis in Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking
Jalama Wines, Kessler-Haak Vineyard & Wines, La Montagne Winery, Lompoc Rotary Club, Turiya Wines
Winemaker Ron Hill. left, of a-non-ah-mus wines, with friend Andrew
I absolutely love this event, as while it has grown over the years, it’s still a great chance to meet new winemakers — and hug some winemaking friends I haven’t seen for a while.
Theron and Kimberly Smith of La Montagne Winery
And it really highlights the many superb wines crafted from grapes grown in the Sta. Rita Hills.
The crowd awaits the next item for bidding during the live auction
The live auction always raises thousands of dollars for community projects, and this year, the benefactor was the fire safety training trailer for the Lompoc Firefighters Foundation.
Auctioneer Jim Glines worked up the crowd and auctioned off 16 donated items, among them “Firefighter for a Day;” a vacation in Park City, Utah; a prime rib dinner for 10 prepared by the M&M Cooking Crew at the home of winemaker Mark Cargasacchi, in the Jalama Vineyard; and a guided backpacking tour to Big Sur.
Dan Kessler and Ellen Kessler-Hawk pour a selection of their wines, including their new sparkling wine. At right is Kenneth “Joey” Gummere, winemaker for Transcendence Winery
The smiling Karen Steinwachs, winemaker for Buttonwood Farm Winery, with Al Harry tasting, right
Angela Soleno with a bottle of her label, Turiya
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WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA - JULY 17: Actress Megan Fox arrives at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Sports Awards 2014 held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on July 17, 2014 in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Celebrity Monitor)
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Open Pit Coal Mines
Top 10 deep open-pit mines - Mining Technology
The deepest open pit mines are scattered geographically across the world unlike the deepest underground mines, which are mostly concentrated in South Africa. The majority of the deepest open pit operations in the world are copper producing mines. Mining-technology profiles the world's top ten deepest open pit mines currently active.
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estimating average total cost of open pit coal mines in australia F IG 5 - Capital and operating cost indexes f or the US and Canadian coal surface mine (source of data: CostMine, 2009).
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The Drummond International operation includes the Mina Pribbenow and El Descanso open-pit coal mines located in the Cesar Coal Basin near La Loma; Puerto Drummond, a deep-water ocean port on the Caribbean Sea near Santa Marta; and coal transportation and handling facilities. Drummond transports the coal from the mines 120 miles by railcar on .
Open-pit mining - SourceWatch
Open-pit mining or opencast mining refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. It is a form of surface mining. It is a form of surface mining.
Toxic black snow covers Siberian coalmining region .
Feb 15, 2019 · The coal dust that turns the snow black in the Kuzbass comes from numerous open pit mines that environmental activists say have had disastrous consequences for the health of the region's 2.6 .
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Cerrejón is one of the world's largest open-pit coal mines, owned by three of the world's largest mining multinationals, and operating in one of the planet's poorest and most marginalised .
Environmental Risks of Mining
Open pit mining. Open pit mining, where material is excavated from an open pit, is one of the most common forms of mining for strategic minerals. This type of mining is particularly damaging to the environment because strategic minerals are often only available in small concentrations, which increases the amount of ore needed to be mined.
North Antelope Rochelle Coal Mine, Wyoming
Open-pit strip mining is the technique that coal operators prefer for removing the sparsely vegetated surface (overburden in mining terminology) of northeastern Wyoming that covers the coal seams. One of the largest of these mines, Peabody Energy's North Antelope Rochelle Complex, is located at the center of this astronaut photograph.
Flying Over an Open Pit Coal Mine - YouTube
Apr 17, 2018 · The Stellarton mine is an open pit coal mine located in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. It is a truck and shovel operation owned and operated by Pioneer Coal Limited.
Open Pit Coal Mine Stock Photos and Images - alamy
Activity inside an open pit coal mine, machinery and operations to extracting coal from the earth, in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, USA. The 'Big Lou' drag-line at the coal mine near Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Active mines in British Columbia | Mining & Energy
Commodity: Coal. Mining Type: Open pit. Mine Life: To 2019. Teck's Line Creek operation is located approximately 25 kilometres north of Sparwood in southeastern British Columbia. Line Creek supplies steelmaking and thermal coal to a variety of international and domestic customers.
UP: Kemmerer Mine - Union Pacific
Kemmerer mine's "Big Pit"--one of three at the complex--was begun in 1971 and is the largest open pit coal mine in the United States. It measures 5,000 feet long, 4,000 feet wide and 1,000 feet deep. Coal is produced from the Adaville formation from multiple coal seams that dip from 17 to 23 degrees.
Protesters storm open-pit coal mine in western Germany .
A spokesman for German energy company RWE says several huge bucket-wheel excavators used at the open-pit mine had to be shut down for safety reasons. Spokesman Lothar Lambertz says RWE has canceled plans to bring employees onto the site to rally in favor of coal mining.
Controversial Alberta Open-Pit Coal Mine Project Faces .
The Cheviot open-pit mine is a project of Teck Cominco (TSX: TEK.A, TEK.B) and the Fording Canadian Coal Trust (TSX: FDG.UN, NYSE: FDG), through their Elk Valley Coal Partnership, which runs the Cardinal River Coals operation.
Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia
Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom is in decline. Output has fallen every year since 2010. In 2010, the United Kingdom was forecast to produce about ten million tonnes (9,800,000 long tons; 11,000,000 short tons) of coal a year from open-pit mines.
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MITHI: Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) on Sunday made history after successfully extracting coal from the first seam of the open-pit mine at Thar Coal Block II .
Open-pit mining | Britannica
mining: Open-pit mining Deposits mined by open-pit techniques are generally divided into horizontal layers called benches. The thickness (that is, the height) of the benches depends on the type of deposit, the mineral being mined, and the equipment being used; for large mines it.
Mine Planning For Open-Pit Coal Mine - group.rwe
SCCL is a coal mining company that owns and operates several open cast coal mines in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India and intended to expand its Ramagundam Opencast II Mine .
Mining | Britannica
Similar developments took place in surface mining, increasing the volume of production and lowering the cost of metallic and nonmetallic products drastically. Large stripping machines with excavating wheels used in surface coal mining are employed in other types of open-pit mines.
Biggest in the World Open-Pit Coal Mine and its Giant .
This open-pit mine was built from 1965 to 1979. It had been planned to produce 50 million tons of coal per year (wow!) and in 1985 it has reached this number for the first time bringing 56.8 million tons of coal in twelve months! Because it's so big and so productive they have even put it into the Guiness record book same year.
US coal's upturn favours open-pit mines in western states .
US coal's upturn favours open-pit mines in western states. . only one variety of the fuel is in demand — low-cost production from the large open-pit mines of western states such as Wyoming.
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Open-pit mining methods are applicable to mining ore deposits that apex at or near the surface. If the deposit apexes below the surface, the overburden and barren capping overlying the ore must be removed in advance of open-pit mining. The removal of this material is known as stripping.
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Open pit Mine (Photo by wikipedia) The biggest iron mine. The worlds biggest open pit iron mine can be found near Hibbing, Minnesota. At its maximum, the area covered by the Hull Rust open pit mine is five miles (8km) long, 2 miles (3,2km) wide and 535 feet (180m) deep. It looks like a man-made Grand Canyon of over 2,000 acres (8,1km²).
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Underground and Surface Mines . Coal was the fuel that stoked the Industrial Revolution in the 19 th century. Extracting coal from underground or open-pit mines continues to .
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More than half of the U.S. coal mines operating in 2008 .
Open-pit coal mining is a combination of contour and area mining methods and is used to mine thick, steeply inclined coalbeds. In contrast to other forms of mining, open pit mines increased in number from 2008 to 2017, but production levels still fell.
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Open-pit mining (also known as open-cut mining or opencast mining) is a type of strip mining in which the ore deposit extends very deep in the ground, necessitating the removal of layer upon layer of overburden and ore.
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Legion, scouts mark 9/11 anniversary
Groups retire flags after ceremony
Boy Scouts of America Troop 461 members help American Legion Post 321 members retire worn American flags Wednesday following the groups 9/11 observance ceremony near the Historic Midway Church. - photo by Photo by Randy C. Murray
Randy C.Murray
Updated: Sept. 16, 2013, 10 a.m.
American Legion Post 321 and the Boy Scouts of America Troop 461 partnered Wednesday evening to observe the 12th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Legion members and scouts also teamed up to conduct a formal flag-retirement ceremony.
Special guests attending the ceremonies were Midway Mayor Dr. Clemontine Washington, Midway City Councilman Leverne Clancy Jr. and Brooke Childers, field representative for Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. First responders and members of the community also were present.
Post 321 Commander Dennis Fitzgerald began the event by welcoming guests and first responders. He then commanded the color guard to post the colors. Post 321’s finance officer, Jeffery Bowen, and Sergeant at Arms Herbert Reed followed scouts Josh Glandon, Connor Jones and Ethan Schmeltzer as they marched forward with an American flag.
After the flag was posted, Reed led everyone in a salute and recitation the Pledge of Allegiance. Legion Chaplain Jason Childers offered the invocation.
“Just as some of us, when we were growing up, learned why it was important to remember Pearl Harbor Day on Dec. 7, 1941, it’s important that today’s youths learn why they need to remember the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001,” Fitzgerald said. “Those who were living when Pearl Harbor was attacked, when President (John) Kennedy was shot and when the World Trade Center was attacked need to tell the next generation what they were doing on that day, so Americans will always remember.”
Failing to teach each generation why certain dates and events are important to this country’s history just increases the risk that the same thing will happen again, he said.
The commemoration ceremony concluded, but one event flowed directly into the next. Fitzgerald asked the sergeant at arms if he had any worn or soiled American flags that needed to be retired. Reed’s affirmative response led to a command to have the flags inspected by the senior and junior vice commanders, Alvin Schmitt and Darryl Woodard, respectively. When it was confirmed the flags qualified for retirement, the ceremony moved to a large burning barrel near the old Midway church.
Jeff Allmond, Boy Scout unit commissioner for the Atlantic District, assisted Bowen in prepping the flags for burning. Full-size flags were unfolded then draped over a metal pole. The flags were drenched in lighter fluid and placed over the open fire to burn completely. The remaining flags all were small, like those placed on veterans’ graves. In fact, Bowen said, the 20 or more flags they were retiring
came from just two graveyards in Midway.
“A lot of people don’t know it, but there are over 750 veterans’ graves here in Midway, Riceboro and the surrounding area,” Fitzgerald said. “These smaller flags you see here marked the graves of veterans going back to the American Revolution.”
He said when the flags all were burned, the ashes would be collected and placed in a container. That container then would be buried next to a veteran’s grave, he said. He told guests that whenever they see an American flag that’s torn, worn or soiled, they should contact the American Legion. The flag will be replaced with a new one, and the old flag will be properly retired.
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The G-Man
From Combine OverWiki, the original Half-Life wiki and Portal wiki
Function(s) / Belongings
N/A (humanoid in appearance)
Male (in appearance)
Blue (HL and its expansions)
Green (HL2 and its episodes)
Chronological and political information
Modeled over
Frank Sheldon (HL2)[1]
Ken Birdwell (concept)[2]
Marc Laidlaw (background)[2]
Chuck Jones (HL1)[1]
Ted Backman (HL1 model)[3]
Bill Van Buren
(basic model) (HL2)[1]
Dhabih Eng
(details) (HL2)[1]
Doug Wood
(facial expressions) (HL2)[1]
monster_gman (GoldSrc)
npc_gman (Source)
Voice sample(s)
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/File:Gman_nasty.ogg
Half-Life 2:
https://combineoverwiki.net/wiki/File:Gman_exit06.ogg
"Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman."
― The G-Man[src]
The G-Man, or simply G-Man, is a key, yet mysterious and enigmatic character in the Half-Life series. Referred to as a "sinister interdimensional bureaucrat",[4] he is known to display peculiar behavior and capabilities beyond that of a human and his identity and motives remain almost completely unexplained. He plays the role of an overseer and eventual employer, watching over Gordon Freeman and other characters as the series progresses.
1.1 Appearances
1.1.1 Half-Life
1.1.2 Half-Life: Opposing Force
1.1.3 Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Decay
1.1.4 Half-Life 2
1.1.5 Half-Life 2: Episode One
1.1.6 Half-Life 2: Episode Two
1.3 Personality and skills
1.4 People aware of the G-Man
2.1 Briefcase
2.1.1 Gallery
2.2 Other objects
3 List of exact in-game locations
3.1 Half-Life
3.2 Half-Life: Uplink
3.3 Half-Life: Opposing Force
3.4 Half-Life: Blue Shift
3.5 Half-Life: Decay
3.6 Half-Life 2
3.7 Half-Life 2: Episode One
3.8 Half-Life 2: Episode Two
4 Related Achievements
7.1 Models
7.2 Miscellaneous
7.2.1 Half-Life and its expansions
7.2.2 Half-Life 2 (pre-release)
7.2.3 Half-Life 2 (retail)
7.2.4 Episode One
7.2.5 Episode Two
7.3 Frank Sheldon
8.1 Main games
Half-Life[edit]
The G-Man congratulating Gordon Freeman in an elevator on Xen.
The G-Man is first seen along the Sector C Line, standing in an electric tram frozen on the track opposite the tram that Freeman is traveling on during the Half-Life introduction sequence, but he somehow manages to arrive at the Test Labs and Control Facilities before Freeman. Before the experiment begins, the G-Man can be seen arguing heatedly with a scientist in a locked, sound-proof room of the Research section of the Anomalous Materials Lab where only mumbling can be heard. Following the catastrophic Resonance Cascade which commences the game's action through Black Mesa, the G-Man can be seen quietly observing Gordon Freeman in several out-of-reach areas as the game progresses.
After Gordon defeats the Half-Life final boss, Nihilanth, the ruler of Xen, G-Man brings the player to "safety" in an inexplicable, abstract sequence, appearing beside Gordon, having stripped him of his armaments, claiming that "most of them were government property" as being his excuse for having taken them from Gordon and showing him various areas of Xen. The G-Man tells Gordon that he has been observing him very carefully and praises him on his actions in Xen, which is now in his "employers'" control. As he says this, dead HECU Marines, destroyed tanks and a downed jet can be seen around this area of Xen, suggesting that U.S. military forces participated in capturing Xen for the G-Man's "employers", although this may merely be part of G-Man's illusions.
Eventually the scene changes into what appears to be a Black Mesa tram traveling through space at high speed. The G-Man then informs him that he has recommended Gordon's services to his "employers" and offers him a job. The player is given a Hobson's choice, the "illusion of free choice" being reminded by the G-Man in Half-Life 2. Regardless of the decision made, there was ultimately only one inevitable outcome.[5]
Half-Life: Opposing Force[edit]
The G-Man preventing Adrian Shephard from escaping from the Black Mesa Research Facility. The soldiers behind the G-Man appear oblivious to his presence.
In Opposing Force, the G-Man plays a slightly more direct role in the story, alternately hindering and aiding the player, Corporal Adrian Shephard, as well as simply observing.
During the boot camp training chapter, the G-Man can be spotted at a window speaking to an officer, and occasionally glancing at the player. Since the drill instructor mentions that Shephard's training has been mysteriously accelerated, the implication is that the G-Man had an interest in Shephard before the Black Mesa incident, for unknown reasons.
During the chapter Welcome to Black Mesa, Shephard is trapped on a small walkway, with deadly radioactive liquid rising steadily towards him. The G-Man opens a door allowing him to escape, saving his life. One chapter later, "We Are Pulling Out", as Shephard attempts to evacuate Black Mesa with the rest of the marines, the G-Man closes a hangar door, forcing him to remain on the base. Later on in the chapter "The Package", the G-Man is seen rearming the nuclear bomb that destroys Black Mesa, while Shephard had deactivated it moments prior.
After Shephard defeats the Gene Worm at the end of the game, G-Man appears again. On this occasion, Shephard finds himself on board one of the HECU's Osprey Heliplanes, facing the G-Man. The G-Man informs Shephard that, contrary to his employer's original wishes, Shephard is to be spared, but detained. The G-Man says that he has been impressed by Shephard's ability to "adapt and survive against all odds" in the Black Mesa facility, and comments that these are traits which remind him of himself. As the G-Man delivers this closing monologue, the plane carries them away from Black Mesa, shortly before a nuclear blast flashes outside confirming its destruction. The aircraft's location then suddenly switches to the skies of Xen, then finally to an emptiness similar to that encountered by the Black Mesa tram at the end of Half-Life. The G-Man then leaves Shephard via a portal in the cockpit, and the screen fades to the closing titles.
Half-Life: Blue Shift and Half-Life: Decay[edit]
In both Blue Shift and Decay, the main characters of each game, Barney Calhoun and Doctors Gina Cross and Colette Green, see the G-Man on one occasion near the beginning of each game, but he either doesn't seem to notice any of them, or he simply ignores them.
Half-Life 2[edit]
The G-Man in Half-Life 2, as he addresses Freeman at the beginning of the game.
Half-Life 2 begins with Gordon being greeted by the G-Man around 20 years after the Black Mesa Incident, while seeing a dream-like montage of images such as the Black Mesa test chamber, and interior areas of the Citadel. In his speech, the G-Man hints that he put Gordon into stasis for his own safety, and that an opportunity has now arisen which will allow Freeman to begin his campaign against the Combine forces on Earth. He continuously refers to Gordon Freeman as "Mister Freeman" throughout the introductory sequence, forgoing Gordon's proper title of doctor. However, during the ending sequence, he refers to Gordon as "Doctor Freeman".
The G-Man is briefly visible at various other points during the events of the game, including along the different vehicle sequences, but these are only from a great distance or as seen on video terminals until the game's finale. After an uphill battle in the Citadel, Gordon causes critical damage to the structure's Dark Energy reactor, resulting in an explosion that might have caused his death, had the G-Man not seemingly stopped time in order to extract Gordon to safety to await further "employment offers" (while apparently leaving Alyx to perish in the explosion). The game ends with travel through the same emptiness that was the Half-Life ending, and with the G-Man stepping through some sort of doorway portal, though not before fixing his tie.
The G-Man, at this point, makes it clear that he will once again be placing Freeman in stasis while he entertains some "interesting offers" for Gordon's services, this time making no mention of his "employers," as he had in Half-Life, justifying that the current situation is "extraordinary" enough to contemplate taking up any of these offers. Before their final showdown, Doctor Breen also asks Gordon, "Did you realize your contract was open to the highest bidder?", probably a reference to the "contract" Gordon has with the G-Man.
Half-Life 2: Episode One[edit]
The G-Man in his only appearance in Episode One, as he is held back by Vortigaunts. The scene also depicts, for the first time, the G-Man without his signature briefcase. The scene also mirrors the Vortigaunts seen during the Resonance Cascade in Half-Life.
The G-Man is only seen once in Episode One. At the beginning of the game, which begins at the point when Half-Life 2 ends, he walks back into the black void that he left Gordon in and opens his mouth to say something, but then notices a purple glowing Vortigaunt to his left. He appears to be slightly amused at the sight, but then notices another on his right, and the smile drops from his face. As more and more Vortigaunts appear, he begins to look irritated, and then, as he looks toward Gordon, he realizes what is happening. Irritation changes to anger. As two more Vortigaunts stand on either side of Gordon and grab his arms, the G-Man straightens his tie more violently than before and responds to their chant with a single sentence: "We'll see... about that!". Gordon is then immediately teleported away and found by Dog in a pile of rubble just outside the Citadel.
This incident shows the Vortigaunts have the ability to enter the G-Man's realm. This is also the first time any hindrance (definitive or temporary) is seen in the G-Man's plans.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two[edit]
The G-Man talking to Alyx.
The G-Man first appears to Gordon while a group of Vortigaunts are occupied healing the heavily wounded Alyx Vance. He explains that the reason for his absence is that the Vortigaunts have been preventing him from appearing to Gordon, thus he needed to wait for the Vortigaunts to be preoccupied so that he could contact him. Just like in Half Life 2, he appears in a surreal, dream-like sequence taking place in several locations: the rocket silo located at White Forest, the same corridor as the one seen in the message left by Judith Mossman, and what seems to be the entrance to the Anomalous Materials Test Labs in the Black Mesa Research Facility from Half-Life (it might also be another entrance, but this place being a striking Half-Life element, the differences seen are likely just aesthetic and related to the different game engine). He then explains that he was the one to "pluck" Alyx Vance from Black Mesa, despite objections from unidentified naysayers that she was "a mere child" and "of no practical use to anyone" (an image of Doctor Breen flashes in the background at this comment). He then instructs Gordon to safely escort Alyx to White Forest, as repayment for the G-Man's previous ensurance of his survival, stating he wished he could do more than simply monitor Gordon, but has agreed to "abide by certain restrictions." While Alyx is still unconscious, he then whispers into her ear to tell her father to "prepare for unforeseen consequences" when she sees him. During the sequence, he seems to be less rigid and more human-like, and is not seen carrying his briefcase.
Eli is noticeably disturbed by the words, to the point where he almost collapses in shock. After making up an excuse for Alyx to leave the room, Eli reveals to Gordon that he is aware of their "mutual friend" as well. He explains that the G-Man delivered sample GG-3883 which ultimately caused the Black Mesa Incident, and whispered in his ear to "prepare for unforeseen consequences" shortly before the Resonance Cascade. Eli then begins to express hope that he and Gordon will be able to take some unknown action, but is interrupted by Alyx's return. Shortly after, Eli tells Gordon he believes the message is a warning regarding the Borealis, and reiterates his belief that it should be destroyed lest the events of Black Mesa repeat themselves. Whatever Eli knew is left unsaid, as he is killed by a Combine Advisor before having the opportunity to elaborate further.
Appearance[edit]
The G-Man during his Episode Two monologue, here in Mossman's unnamed Arctic base.
Physically, the G-Man appears to be a middle-aged Caucasian male with a tall, thin physique, pale skin, a prominent widow's peak, black hair shaped in a military-style crew cut, and pale green eyes. Throughout the entire Half-Life series, he is seen dressed in a gray/blue suit and is almost always seen carrying a briefcase.
The G-Man speaks in a slow, raspy yet commanding manner, with a certain accentuated low-key moroseness to his tone, bordering on the cryptic. He also has an odd habit of placing unusual stress on syllables, stressing the wrong parts of words, making unneeded pauses and awkwardly changing the pitch of his voice. He also has a tendency to elongate consonants, especially the "S".
Personality and skills[edit]
The G-Man straightening his tie behind a closed door in Sector D.
The G-Man can best be described as an enigma. In the Half-Life Audio Script, he is referred to as follows: "The cryptical bureaucrat, mystery man with a briefcase. He appears in the shadows, disappears when you chase him down dead-end corridors. He leads you into danger and guides you to safety, as the whim strikes him. His motives remain mysterious, but at the end of the game, when you have extinguished an alien civilization, he offers you a job with whoever it is he works for."[6]
The G-Man possesses a calm, almost disinterested demeanor, particularly apparent in the ruined and alien-infested Black Mesa facility. He can often be seen calmly straightening his tie or brushing his suit lapels with his hands, regardless of whatever chaos may be going on around him. He also has a bit of a dry sense of humor.
He has stepped in directly and rescued Adrian Shephard and Alyx Vance before the destruction of Black Mesa, suggesting that he is capable of mercy, though it is more likely that he merely did this for his own interests.
The G-Man thus far seems to be a master of manipulation, having created pawns of Gordon, Alyx and Adrian thus far and perhaps countless others. It is also implied that he orchestrated the Black Mesa Incident, suggesting that Dr. Breen may also have been under his influence. He is also shown to be capable of forgiveness and not one to hold a grudge. Even when the Vortigaunts interfere he later seems confident of his planning once again when he appears in Episode Two; the mild level of ire he earlier displayed when the Vortigaunts abducted Gordon is gone, implying the Vortigaunts actions have not significantly derailed whatever he has planned and has let the earlier transgression go. The G-Man even shows a hint of amusement at the notion that Gordon and the Vortigaunts are now allies.
The G-Man shows respect for people who can survive against incredible odds, citing that such people remind him of himself. His message to Eli mentioning "unforeseen consequences" and the subsequent revelation about the threat to humanity posed by the Combine acquiring the technology on board the Borealis could imply that the G-Man might secretly be sympathetic to humanity and its fight for survival.
The G-Man on the phone at the Black Mesa dam.
He also appears quite technically skilled and is capable of operating a very wide range of machinery and technology, ranging from simple cell phones and sealed steel doors to complex nuclear weapons (although for the latter there are instructions inside the cap) and experimental teleports and portals.[7]
Throughout the entire Half-Life series, the G-Man has a tendency to appear in an out-of-the-way or hard to reach location and then walk away and vanish without a trace once the player arrives. He is seen twice using portals,[8] perhaps explaining his ability to appear and disappear apparently randomly. The G-Man also seems to be able to manipulate time to a degree, as he momentarily stops the dark fusion reactor's explosion at the end of Half-Life 2.
In most games featuring the G-Man, there are several sequences when the G-Man is talking at close range to the player, and various areas can be seen in the background, including areas from Black Mesa or even areas the player will visit later into the game. In these sequences, the G-Man talks to the player (the player's character never responds or reacts in any way) and can be seen quickly appearing in different portions of the screen, in dream-like sequences. He also appears on TV screens and "Breen Casts" dotted around the environment; G-Man also seems to have technopathic or telepathic abilities of some sort, as the player will occasionally see his face on things such as unplugged televisions.
People aware of the G-Man[edit]
The G-Man and his mysterious door.
The G-Man is seen talking to various people, and yet at times it seems that only the player is able to see him. However, a few characters other than Gordon Freeman seem to be aware of his existence or have interacted with him. Besides the many unnamed security, military, and science personnel in Black Mesa seen interacting with the G-Man, the characters include:
Adrian Shephard: He has many encounters with the G-Man during Opposing Force, from the training chapter to the ending sequence, mirroring that of the original game.
Barney Calhoun: Saw the G-Man at Black Mesa.
Colette Green: Saw the G-Man at Black Mesa.
Gina Cross: Saw the G-Man at Black Mesa.
Nihilanth: While Gordon Freeman was searching Xen for the Nihilanth, the creature could be heard transmitting various telepathic messages to him, including "You are man... he is not man... for you he waits, for you...". This seems to indicate that the Nihilanth was quite aware of the G-Man and forebodes Gordon's eventual "employment" by him, almost ironically "warning" Freeman.
Wallace Breen: From various statements given by Breen at the end of Half-Life 2, such as Gordon having "proven himself a fine pawn for those who control him" and his "contract is open to the highest bidder", it would appear that he was well aware of the G-Man's influence over Gordon Freeman. However, when Alyx questions this he whispers that Gordon does not want to discuss this in front of his friends, suggesting that at this point Alyx is not yet aware of the G-Man's existence.
The Vortigaunts: In Episode One, Vortigaunts are seen entering the G-Man's realm and liberating Gordon from his control, leading to an irritated "We'll see... about that!" from the G-Man. They also appear to be able to hold him back or force him away, since the G-Man later tells Gordon that he "had to wait until your friends were otherwise occupied" before being able to speak to him. G-Man does not seem to hold a grudge against Gordon or the Vortigaunts for this delay in his plans, even showing a hint of amusement at the notion of them being allies now.
Eli Vance: In Episode Two, being much more wary of him compared to other characters, Eli tells Gordon that the crystal sample for the test that would produce the Resonance Cascade was delivered by the G-Man, further referring to the character as "our mutual friend". He was about to issue a proposal to Gordon regarding the G-Man in some way, but he is interrupted before Gordon is told.
Joe: In the Half-Life 2 chapter Route Kanal, when Gordon drops down into a boxcar, the G-Man can be seen on a television screen being powered by a Vortigaunt. Both Joe, the Rebel, and the Vortigaunt are watching the television before Gordon arrives, and it can therefore be presumed that they are aware of the G-Man's existence. Moreover, before Gordon leaves the car, the Vortigaunt says, cryptically, "We serve the same mystery," again hinting of his awareness of the G-Man.
Odessa Cubbage: The G-Man can be witnessed speaking with the Colonel in the Half-Life 2 chapter Highway 17, by using Combine Binoculars. However, Odessa Cubbage never mentions him. His outpost is warned to expect a Combine Gunship by the time Gordon reaches the outpost, though, suggesting that G-Man may have warned Cubbage.
Alyx Vance: When she is still hurt, G-Man gives her a message to be delivered to her father. It is however unknown if she is actually aware of his existence. As an infant, she was also apparently directly rescued from the destruction of Black Mesa by the G-Man, which she does not seem to remember.
Objects[edit]
Briefcase[edit]
With the exception of the opening sequence in Episode One and the Episode Two sequence, the G-Man is always seen carrying a briefcase, and its contents have often been debated. In the original Half-Life, using the "noclip" cheat, or with the aid of a model/texture viewer, it is possible to see its contents. However, since the contents of the briefcase are never seen during the game, they may constitute nothing more than an Easter egg. These contents appear to be as follows: Three pencils, one sheet of paper, a handgun in a holster, an identity card. The inside of the briefcase is blank in all other versions.
Texture of the briefcase contents.
The Black Mesa logo as seen on the briefcase.
Other objects[edit]
Near the Gargantua dam in the Opposing Force chapter Foxtrot Uniform, G-Man is seen for a moment talking on a cellphone before disappearing in a portal.
List of exact in-game locations[edit]
"I wish I could do more than keep an eye on you, but I have agreed to abide by certain... restrictions."
The G-Man is notable for appearing several times in each game, often in out-of-the-way locations. It may be difficult for a first-time player to see him, and it is almost universally impossible to go directly to where he is standing. When it is possible, he always disappears from that place before the player is able to reach it. If fired upon, he is always unharmed and never reacts to the shot. In the Half-Life chapter Lambda Core, it is learned that the G-Man is able to suddenly disappear by using portals.
This list does not include introduction and ending sequences in which he speaks to the player character directly.
Black Mesa Inbound (c0a0d): When the tram Gordon is riding pauses briefly, the G-Man can be seen standing with a scientist in another tram frozen on the track.
Anomalous Materials (c1a0): The G-Man can be seen standing in an inaccessible room arguing with a scientist, where only a looping sound of mumbling can be heard (the words will still be impossible to hear even when noclipping inside the room).
Unforeseen Consequences (c1a1b): In his first appearance following the Resonance Cascade, he can be seen watching Gordon from a catwalk. When Gordon arrives at the same spot, it is revealed that the G-Man disappeared in an apparent dead end, where a Zombie is eating a dead scientist.
Office Complex (c1a2b): As Gordon battles his way out of the office complex, the G-Man can be seen behind a locked door, watching. As usual, he straightens his tie, brushes his suit with his hand, and walks off along a balcony over a corpse-filled cafeteria visited before by the player (he appears only when the player visits the map for the second time, after going through cold storage rooms).
We've Got Hostiles (c1a3d): Immediately before Gordon's first encounter with the HECU Marines, the G-Man is seen on a high catwalk, apparently heading towards the soldiers. However, when Gordon arrives at the same spot, the Marines have only just arrived, whilst a nearby scientist does not mention having seen him.
Power Up (c2a1): When Gordon arrives at Sector E Track Control, he sees the G-Man watching him from a control room. By the time Gordon gets there, though, the control room is boarded up from the outside, and a wounded security guard there indicates no sign of having seen him.
Apprehension (c2a3b): In a large room filled with industrial pistons, the G-Man can be seen at the far end of the room. He leaves in a direction which leads to several hostile aliens and soldiers.
Lambda Core (c3a2c): In the deserted Lambda Complex, Gordon watches through a window into a deserted room filled with Headcrabs. The G-Man, standing on a raised floor, briefly looks at Gordon before stepping into a glowing portal. This is the first time the player sees the G-Man using portals, explaining how he has been able to so quickly get around the complex and disappear (especially into the aforementioned dead ends) before the player was ever able to reach him.
In Black Mesa Inbound.
In Anomalous Materials.
In Unforeseen Consequences.
In Office Complex.
In We've Got Hostiles.
In Power Up.
In Apprehension.
In Lambda Core.
Half-Life: Uplink[edit]
Uplink (hldemo1): At the very end of the demo, Gordon arrives in a large room filled with computers. A Gargantua breaks in and begins killing the hiding personnel. As the monster wreaks havoc, the G-Man calmly watches from a corridor, straightens his tie, and, as the Gargantua approaches Gordon, slowly strolls away.
In Uplink.
Boot Camp (ofboot1): The G-Man and a soldier can be seen standing in a room in the Tactical Operations Command building.
Welcome to Black Mesa (of1a1): In a relatively undamaged area of Black Mesa, Shephard sees through a door the G-Man arguing with a security guard before walking away (using the same animation as in his Anomalous Materials appearance). After G-Man has left, the security guard won't come to the door to open it, and Shephard proceeds to upper levels.
Welcome to Black Mesa (of1a3): Shephard finds himself trapped in a room which is rapidly filling up with toxic waste. The G-Man can be seen through a window, opening a door after a moment of hesitation, which allows Shephard to escape. Even though Shephard is only meters behind him, the G-Man is nowhere to be found in the next room, which is filled with toxic waste and Xen creatures.
"We Are Pulling Out" (of1a6): Shephard races towards a transport aircraft as the marines evacuate Black Mesa. As he is sprinting down a corridor towards the plane, the G-Man calmly appears at the end of the corridor and closes a heavy door, trapping Shephard inside. He brushes his suit and strolls away as the evacuation plane takes off.
Pit Worm's Nest (of4a4): When Shephard finds himself in a large garbage compactor, the G-Man can be seen quietly observing him from an observation window. After a short time he opens the door and leaves.
Foxtrot Uniform (of5a4): After a battle with Race X aliens, Shephard arrives at the damaged Hydro-Electric Dam where HECU soldiers are firing at a trapped Gargantua. Standing in the intake tower where Gordon climbs into in Half-Life is the G-Man, who finishes a conversation on a cellphone and steps into a portal, where Sprites can also be seen rushing into.
"The Package" (of6a4): Shephard arrives in an underground car park and deactivates a nuclear bomb. After a security guard lets him through a locked door, Shephard sees the G-Man rearming the bomb. If the player attempts to backtrack to the bomb in order to deactivate it again, he will discover that the previously open chain link fence leading there is now locked, making it impossible.
In Boot Camp.
In Welcome to Black Mesa (1).
Ditto, from inside.
In "We Are Pulling Out".
In Pit Worm's Nest.
In Foxtrot Uniform.
In "The Package".
Half-Life: Blue Shift[edit]
Insecurity (ba_maint): Seen riding on a tram as Calhoun watches from a maintenance area between Sector C and Sector G. He does not seem to notice Barney, and is not seen later in the game. Strangely, the scientist seen before mentions that no trams in that area are in operation at the time.
In Insecurity.
Half-Life: Decay[edit]
Dual Access (dy_accident1): Riding up in a glass-walled elevator after participating in a security registration scan in Sector C, Gina Cross and Colette Green can see the G-Man pass, riding downward in an adjacent elevator.
In Dual Access.
Point Insertion (d1_trainstation_01): Vaguely seen in a large rectangular monitor that flickers his image along with other Breencasts right before Barney is met. This instance is not seen in the PC version.
Point Insertion (d1_trainstation_03) (cut): The version of that map found in the WC map pack folder "d1_trainstation" features the G-Man riding on front of a tram that flies above the street, mirroring his first appearance in Half-Life.[9]
"A Red Letter Day" (d1_trainstation_05): If the player flips through the main monitor in Kleiner's Lab a few times, eventually it will come across the G-Man staring at the other side of a fence, before walking away. The location can be accessed by noclipping. There, it appears that the G-Man can be killed, and that the area is a remainder of a small portion of the start of the trainstation found in d1_trainstation_01 in the playable leak, where the incoming train stops.
Route Kanal (d1_canals_01): In Joe's boxcar, a TV temporarily shows the G-Man, with a Vortigaunt watching and supplying television power. The G-Man appears to be in the same "studio" where Dr. Breen delivers his televised messages to City 17, complete with the Combine's logo. When Gordon falls into the boxcar and gets noticed, the Vortigaunt stops the transmission.
Water Hazard (d1_canals_06): He is seen standing on Station 7's walkway. As Gordon approaches, he disappears inside the barn, although it is filled with Zombies.
Water Hazard (d1_canals_06): Vaguely seen in a large rectangular monitor that flickers his image along with other Breencasts. This image based on G-Man's model was taken from Half-Life 2 leak textures files originally in the E3 2003 video "Psyche".[9]
Water Hazard (d1_canals_12): Seen overlooking a ledge as Gordon's Airboat passes under.
Water Hazard (d1_canals_13): Before Black Mesa East, the G-Man can be spotted on a concrete ledge near the gate controls. However, once Gordon turns the wheel to raise the gate blocking his progress, the G-Man is nowhere to be found. Coincidentally, there is a sign pointing to where the G-Man stood which states "Observation".
Black Mesa East (d1_eli_01): Not the G-Man himself, but an image of his face can be seen at the yellow end of one of the units manned by the Vortigaunt in Eli Vance's lab. Taking a screenshot or using the element's model texture and editing it is required to properly see the face.
"We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." (d1_town_01) (cut): The G-Man was originally to be seen in Ravenholm itself, as he can be glimpsed in the map d1_town_01, one of the original BSPs found in the playable Half-Life 2 leak maps folder. At the start of the map located inside a wooden building, the player has to face a Headcrab and Zombies, to be killed with the propeller trap. After breaking planks barring the way, the player, still in the wooden building, faces a fence and another building beyond it. There the G-Man can be seen through a window before disappearing very quickly.
"We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." (d1_town_05) (cut): The G-Man was to be seen in Ravenholm a second time in d1_town_05 (the equivalent of d1_town_03 in the final game), another map of the original BSPs found in the playable Half-Life 2 leak maps folder. There he can be seen again through a window, but he never leaves and cannot be killed. In his dimly lit room can be found a chair, a carpet, a Classic Headcrab (not attacking) and the shotgun with an ammo box (although the room cannot be accessed) on a bed (whose model is missing).
"We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." (d1_town_05): After leaving Ravenholm, he can barely be seen walking off into a tunnel behind a few train cars, right behind Shorepoint Base.
Highway 17 (d2_coast_03): Looking through the Combine Binoculars in the second house the player comes to after the Shorepoint tunnel, Gordon can spot the G-Man conversing with Colonel Odessa Cubbage at New Little Odessa. When the player arrives at the base, the G-Man is nowhere to be found.
Nova Prospekt (d2_prison_02): Seen walking up to and peering through a door window into a Lambda cache while adjusting his tie as Gordon flips through the monitors near the beginning of the chapter.
Anticitizen One (d3_c17_02): After Dog is taken away by a Dropship, Combine Walls start moving towards Gordon and some very discordant music starts playing at the same time in the ruined tenement building nearby. Gordon proceeds to the building and arrives in the same corridor featured at the very start of the map d1_trainstation_03. Instead of the door leading outside is rubble where can be seen the source of the music: an unplugged television, showing an image of the G-Man standing in a wooden boat with a crow on his shoulder. The television will shut off right after the G-Man straightens his tie, and the screen will break by itself when the player gets closer, although carrying it with the Gravity Gun will not break it. Later, one of the Rebel random sentences, "I can't get this tune out of my head!", seems to reference the strange tune heard on the television, since after talking the Rebel whistles similar notes. The sound file of this tune, "radio1.mp3", is located in "sound/music" in the Half-Life 2 sound files. Apparently consisting of loops of two different tracks, bundled with interferences and garbled human voices, it can also be heard in the film 28 Days Later (at 00:26).
Anticitizen One (d3_c17_03): Similar to the giant rectangular monitor seen in the Canals, the G-Man's image flickers on and off with Doctor Breen's image in the Trainstation Plaza Breencast, before the monitor is toppled by Resistance members, who show no sign of seeing him.
In Point Insertion (cut).
In "A Red Letter Day".
In Route Kanal.
In Water Hazard (1).
Ditto (detail of the image).
In "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." (1) (cut).
In "We Don't Go To Ravenholm..." (3).
In Highway 17.
Ditto, closeup.
In Nova Prospekt.
In Anticitizen One.
Ditto, viewed by noclipping.
In Anticitizen One (2).
There are no G-Man sightings in Episode One apart from his appearance in the introductory scene. This is because he lost track of Gordon[10] and the events of the game are not part of his plan, as suggested by the apparent Vortigaunt intervention in the opening sequence, and the G-Man's notable level of annoyance in the turn of events.
Freeman Pontifex (ep2_outland_06): The G-Man can be seen watching Freeman for the first time since the Vortigaunt intervention in Episode One, watching from a bridge before the player goes down to fetch the Muscle Car. He then walks towards a gate and disappears behind a wall.
Riding Shotgun (ep2_outland_08) (cut): A removed G-Man appearance would have involved him standing on top of the blocked off tunnel next to the helicopter fight arena, briefly watching over Gordon before walking away and disappearing.
Under the Radar (ep2_outland_10): Seen briefly near the White Forest Inn, at the spot where the Muscle Car gets blocked, before walking inside the building.
Our Mutual Fiend (ep2_outland_11b): The G-Man flickers ominously on the screen which previously showed Dr. Mossman's recording, right before Alyx relays the message to Eli. It should be noted that Alyx is watching the screen as the G-Man appears, implying that it might be the G-Man's reminder/trigger to relay his message.
In Freeman Pontifex.
In Under the Radar.
In Our Mutual Fiend.
Texture (a screenshot of his model, reversed in-game) used for the previous appearance.
Related Achievements[edit]
Two Orange Box Achievements related to the G-Man were cut from Half-Life 2 and Episode Two.
Half-Life 2 and Episode Two
Man of Mystery[11]
Find at least one G-Man.
Name unknown
Find all G-Men.
Behind the scenes[edit]
Picture of Frank Sheldon used as the G-Man's face texture.
Originally, all Black Mesa employees in Half-Life were to be hostile to the player. After several tests, allied NPCs showed their usefulness and testers grew fond of their (occasionally bumbling) behaviors. The Black Mesa security guards, as well as large parts of the story, and the main character itself, were rethought. Then, the team came to think about characters that were neither allies nor enemies to the player, leading to the creation of the G-Man.[1]
The idea behind the G-Man was proposed to Marc Laidlaw by Ken Birdwell, who was thinking about the different functionaries that would exist in an institution like Black Mesa, especially the administrators above the scientists, i.e. the tax guys and the government guys who are checking over the books and representing some other interests; people whose actual nature and function are not clearly determined. The G-Man was developed on that concept.[2]
The G-Man's name comes from "G-Man", an American slang term for "Government Man" or "FBI agent". However he is never identified or referred to by name in any of the Half-Life games, his name being merely a code name / nickname.[1] That name actually stems from his Half-Life model and entity name, reused in every subsequent games, and is not a fan-created name at all. It has been confirmed and referred to as such in documentaries featuring Valve employees, or the voice actor credits for Half-Life 2 or Raising the Bar. Furthermore, in the manual for Opposing Force, Shephard makes mention of him as "a G-man", although this seems to be as the generic slang term. Also, the pre-release Half-Life model featured the United States Department of Defense logo on the briefcase. Another explanation of the G-Man's nature is given in the comment section of the file "npc_gman.cpp" in the Source SDK file "sourcesdk.gcf", the following is written: "// Purpose: The G-Man, misunderstood servant of the people." In an interview with series writer Marc Laidlaw and in the official Half-Life audio script, the G-Man is referred to as the "Administrator", suggesting he is the one overseeing experiments.[6][12] This title was later retconned to refer to Wallace Breen.
The G-Man was to make a cameo in the canceled Team Fortress 2: Brotherhood of Arms.[13]
Frank Sheldon, an Alexander Technique practitioner and the person whom G-Man's Half-Life 2 model is based on, was originally slated to be the model for Dr. Breen. It was chosen for G-Man's appearance after Bill Van Buren presented a hastily Photoshopped image of Sheldon, with chopped-off hair and a scaled down face shape.[1]
Doug Wood, who designed the facial expressions of the Half-Life 2 G-Man model, wanted the player to never quite know what side the G-Man was on by giving him ambiguous facial expressions. For example, Wood would have the G-Man express an apologetic look toward Freeman as he 'regretted' to put the latter in this situation, but then have him give a slight smirk or smile at the end to keep the player guessing about his sincerity.[1]
The Half-Life 2 model originally had darker eyes and a blue tie instead of purple.[14]
The Half-Life 2 introductions went through two different versions before the final one. One version, proposed June 2, 2000 to the development team by Marc Laidlaw, has Gordon waking up in the midst of beautiful rolling hills, with a bright blue sky, singing birds, and a modern city below. Then the G-Man appears and the landscape starts to change to become the Combine-controlled City 17, with a wasteland around it, while G-Man does not talk much, preferring to show Gordon images instead of explaining in details. Then, Gordon climbs into a train and the people inside it starts moving, and he encounters Samuel. The second one is shorter but the G-Man is more specific, mentioning for example the time lapse between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, which is said to be 10 years, changed to 20 when Episode One was released. Then Gordon was to abruptly wake up on the train, and also encounter Samuel.[1]
The G-Man is featured in a surreal scene in the WC map pack map ickypop in which he is held in mid-air by a crow while a flying Ichthyosaur excretes gibs and crashes beyond the horizon.[9]
In the Episode Two trailer,[15] the G-Man is shown standing over Alyx, apparently talking to Gordon and telling him that he is "not supposed to be here" and that he should "forget about all this." This dialog can be found in its entirety in the Half-Life 2 leak sound files, as "Cleverly done, Mr. Freeman, but you're not supposed to be here. As a matter of fact, you're not. Get back where you belong, and forget all about this, until we meet again.".
The G-Man character seems to be inspired by The Cigarette Smoking Man (played by William B. Davis) from the television show The X-Files. The show is known as one of the inspirations for Half-Life. In the French localization of Half-Life, the voice for the G-Man is performed by Jacques Brunet, the same actor who performs the French dub for the Cigarette Smoking Man in The X-Files.[16]
In the cancelled add-on Half-Life: Hostile Takeover, the G-Man was planned to have a group of humans working for him directly and sharing his "MiB" aesthetic. The player character was supposed to be one of these lesser G-men.
In Day One, if the G-Man is attacked enough times, he will grab his suitcase and run away, as seen here.
The G-Man's "prepare for unforeseen consequences" message is a reference to the third chapter of Half-Life, Unforeseen Consequences, in which Gordon Freeman regains consciousness after the Resonance Cascade occurs.
The official Half-Life 2: Episode One website states that "In Half-Life, the G-Man made you. In Half-Life 2, he used you to defeat Dr. Breen and start the Resistance. In Episode One, he's lost control."[17]
One of the many bots in Team Fortress 2 is named after the G-Man.
Models[edit]
Hi-res render of the G-Man's first known model, with an DoD logo on the briefcase.
More recent model, still with a DoD logo on the briefcase.
Early face texture.
Early suit texture.
Half-Life model.
High Definition version.[i]
Opposing Force and Blue Shift High Definition version.
PlayStation 2 version.
Multiplayer model.
Early Half-Life 2 model.
Half-Life 2 leak model.
Half-Life 2 model, with brighter eyes and purple tie.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Half-Life and its expansions[edit]
The G-Man talking to Gordon Freeman on Xen, with Boids in the back.
The G-Man briefly stops talking to Adrian Shephard when Black Mesa is destroyed.
The G-Man talking to Adrian Shephard in an Osprey Heliplane.
The G-Man leaving Shephard through a portal.
Unpublished trading card.
Half-Life 2 (pre-release)[edit]
Ghostly Half-Life 2 leak texture based on the early G-Man model, used in the E3 2003 video "Psyche" and the ending sequences of the WC map pack maps e3_end and hazard01. It was reused for the Breencasts screen when flickering between Breen and the G-Man.
Half-Life 2 leak texture of the same G-Man model among numbers, also used in "Psyche".
Half-Life 2 leak texture based on G-Man's model, also used in "Psyche".
Appearance in the WC map pack map ickypop.
The G-Man in the E3 2003 demonstration "G-Man".
Half-Life 2 (retail)[edit]
The G-Man on an alternate cover of Half-Life 2.
Full cover art.
The G-Man putting Gordon back into stasis.
The G-Man leaves.
Steam emoticon of the G-Man.
Episode One[edit]
Official wallpaper.
The G-Man being halted by Vortigaunts at the start of Episode One.
Episode Two[edit]
The G-Man during his Episode Two monologue.
The G-Man during his Episode Two monologue, with Alyx and the Vortigaunts.
Ditto, here in Black Mesa.
Concept art for the Episode Two monologue.
Ditto, here with the White Forest rocket.
Addressing Alyx, Episode Two trailer version.
Frank Sheldon[edit]
Frank Sheldon performing facial expressions.
Main games[edit]
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Decay
Half-Life: Day One (First appearance)
Half-Life: Uplink (Non-canonical appearance)
Deathmatch Classic (Non-canonical appearance)
Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
Source Particle Benchmark (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
The Final Hours of Portal 2
Combine OverWiki has a list of quotes for The G-Man.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Interview with Marc Laidlaw on Computer and Video Games (December 23, 2006) (archived)
↑ Half-Life Multiplayer Content on Blue's News (January 28, 1999)
↑ Half-Life 2: Episode One: The story so far on Episode One's official website (archived)
↑ Marc Laidlaw Vault on the Steam Users' Forums
↑ 6.0 6.1 Half-Life Audio Script
↑ Half-Life: Opposing Force
↑ The Half-Life chapter Lambda Core, and the Opposing Force chapter Foxtrot Uniform
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 WC map pack
↑ Half-Life 2: Episode Two commentary
↑ ValveTestApp854 (Episode Two internal beta) achievements at eXophase.com
↑ Interview with Marc Laidlaw on PC Gamer Online (archived)
↑ Team Fortress II: Brotherhood of Arms promotional article
↑ Half-Life 2 leak
↑ Half-Life 2: Episode Two trailer on YouTube
↑ Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar, Yahn Bernier: "The original concept for Half-Life came from folks here thinking about Stephen King's short story The Mist, along with a healthy dose of X-Files style conspiracy thrown in."
↑ Half-Life 2: Episode One's official website (archived)
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Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Hydro-Treated Anthracene Oil (HAO61)
Michael J. Holmes
This thesis reports the equilibrium characteristics of the vapor and liquid phases of hydro-treated anthracene oil under conditions commonly used in coal liquefaction. These data should be useful in coal liquefaction studies and pro cess designs.
The experiments were performed using the UND EERC's Hot Charge, Time Sample, Batch Autoclave System. Samples could be taken at desired temperatures and pressures with minimal disturbance to the system. The automated system allowed samples to be taken in a consistent manner.
Tests were conducted in temperature and pressure ranges of 300 to 440 °C and 2000 to 4000 psia, respectively. Sam pling intervals were 20 °C for temperature and 500 psi for pressure.
Samples were analyzed to determine the fraction of the solvent present in the vapor state. The fraction of sol vent in the vapor phase increased with increasing tempera ture. This is the expected effect of temperature, since increased temperature typically increases the vapor pres sure of a solvent. The fraction of solvent in the vapor phase remained nearly constant as pressure was increased through the addition of nitrogen gas. The solvent behaved as could be expected, since changing the total pressure in this manner should have very little effect on the vapor pressure of a solvent.
The percentages of light, middle, and heavy oils pres ent in the samples were also determined. The data show that the percentage of heavy oils in the liquid phase was nearly constant over the range of conditions tested. These data did not follow the expected trend for an increase in temperature and therefore vapor fraction. The liquid phase of the system would be expected to become richer in heavy oils as the vapor fraction increases, since the lighter, more volatile oils are the first to vaporize.
The results suggest, instead, that thermal cracking of the heavier organics may have occurred, since an increase in the percent heavy oils in the liquid phase did not coin cide with increased vapor fraction. Additional analyses showed that for all of the autoclave runs, the mass per centage of heavy oils in the solvent decreased during test ing. This provides further evidence that cracking of the solvent occurred.
Holmes, Michael J., "Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Hydro-Treated Anthracene Oil (HAO61)" (1991). Theses and Dissertations. 987.
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The Apollo Foundation Knows How to Stop Hard Forks and Update Blockchains
The company has presented a solution that will enable the overhaul and update of a decentralized blockchain in a secure way.
The Apollo Foundation announced the release of its Updater solution, which is designed to securely update blockchains via transactions within the blockchain itself. This innovative approach allows hard forks to be avoided and guarantees that all nodes will continue working in a sustained way and contributing to the network.
Speaking about the new features and capabilities of the product, the Director of the Apollo Foundation, Victor Konovalov, explained:
"This update will allow us to quickly and efficiently integrate smart contracts, as well as add new features to the blockchain. For us, the Apollo Foundation Updater is something that will help us achieve our long-term goals without issues such as splitting the blockchain into old and new versions. The Updater will allow streamlined updates into the existing blockchain model."
The significance of the Apollo Foundation’s invention is hard to overestimate as it is poised to prevent hard forks associated with critical issues, including block size. Thus, had this Updated solution have been used in Bitcoin blockchain, it would have helped to have avoided its hard fork altogether. Updater’s secure update mechanism retains the blockchain integrity and prevents any issues associated with network functioning.
The Apollo Foundation's CTO, Sergey Rohvarg elaborated on the Updated development and the goals of the company:
"With the help of the Updater, we added digital signatures to our network. Thus, we prevent the network from being overloaded with fake signatures and transactions. Now we update critical parameters without hard forks, which speeds up the blockchain. The Updater allows us to avoid errors when launching the automatic update algorithm, which is included in the transaction from the nodes of the Apollo Foundation. Now we can check and compare versions of updates and configuration changes with a digital signature and see the history of changes. This protects us from hackers and any unauthorized updates from unauthorized sources,” he said.
The Apollo Foundation has released the first all-inclusive cryptocurrency that utilizes all the useful features of digital assets while retaining unparalleled privacy characteristics. Apollo has the ambitious goal to become the most comprehensive and multifunctional cryptocurrency, while the next major update, Hermes 1.0, will make it one of the fastest digital assets on the market.
If you are interested in the project, visit the official website, or subscribe to the updates on social network channels, including Twitter and Telegram.
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Category Archives: tragedy and sadness
by cupcakeonbooks | September 19, 2012 · 12:00 pm
Those We Love Most
by Lee Woodruff
Published by Voice
Genre: adult; literature; family
4.5 / 5 cupcakes
I will kick off this review by stating that I really liked this book, although I really did not like many of its characters.
Meet the Corrigans, a typical suburban Chicago family of five: mother Maura, father Pete, and three adorable children.
Cue foreboding music now.
One sunny morning, as Maura walks her sons to school, an accident takes the life of her oldest son, nine-year-old James. The circumstances behind this death are slowly revealed, just as the guilt Maura feels slowly attempts to undo her. How Maura and Pete react to the loss of their son is the central story of the novel. Pete disgusts his wife, whether by talking to the person ostensibly responsible for James’s death or by drinking too much. But Maura has her own issues, and we are not quick to forgive her.
The other story is that of Maura’s parents, Roger and Margaret. These two are a bit more stereotypical than Maura and Pete: Roger is an aging banking wizard who has enjoyed the company of a woman not his wife, largely due to Margaret’s flinty personality. She is not a demonstrative woman, preferring to let her caretaking actions speak for her. Roger, on the other hand, believes he is entitled his flings, and the way in which he treats his Florida lover wins him no fans. Roger and Margaret face their own crisis, and the way in which they approach it echoes the differences between Maura and Pete.
Lee Woodruff writes with compassion, but she does not shrink away from her characters. They say and do loathsome things, and Woodruff makes no apologies for them. She lets us see what motivates them, but she does not excuse them, nor does she ask us to do so. What would you do if you lost a child? What would happen to your marriage? Pete and Maura are not held up as an example of how to deal with a tragedy, yet we do cheer for them to find their way. That is a testament to Woodruff’s writing, because there are times that Pete and Maura seem to beg for unhappiness.
The same goes for Margaret and Roger. Try liking one of those two. Just try! Margaret bestows her affection with great reluctance, and Roger’s inner whinging makes us think Margaret has a point. But his treatment of her is unkind at best.
I hated having to put this book down, because I got so engrossed in the stories of its characters. It is not light reading in the least, but it is good reading.
Filed under adult, family, literature, tragedy and sadness
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Transfer News: Wenger Gives Latest Update On Alexis Sanchez’s Moves To Man
By admin 10 months ago
Arsenal boss, Arsene Wenger, has said “it’s very quiet”, as it concerns Alexis Sanchez’s proposed move to Manchester City.
Sanchez almost made the switch to the Etihad Stadium last summer, but a potential £60million deadline-day move fell through at the last minute, because the Gunners could not seal a deal for the Chilean’s replacement.
The 29-year-old’s current deal expires at the end of the season and Wenger could be tempted to move him on in the winter window.
The Frenchman, however, told reporters on Tuesday morning: “No. I expect nothing. I am focused on the game. When solicitations happen you respond to it. At the moment it’s very quiet”
City’s hierarchy believe that a deal in the region of £30m could be struck, although reports suggest the two clubs are still afar off in the player’s valuation.
Pep Guardiola is the market for reinforcements after losing Gabriel Jesus for two months with a knee ligament injury.
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Telstra launches 4G Lumia 920, HTC 8X on way
blog If you are one of those looking forward to the incoming wave of Windows Phone 8-based smartphones to Australia, you’re in for a treat. Telstra yesterday revealed it had started taking orders for Nokia’s incoming flagship Windows Phone 8-based device, the Lumia 920 (Delimiter’s preview here). And better yet: 4G support will be included and there’s even a bonus offer. The company’s Exchange blog reports:
“The release date for the Nokia Lumia 920 is 29 November 2012 and we’re excited to be launching this device in selected Telstra stores … Today we’ve announced a bonus offer if you pre-order online. Pre-order the Nokia Lumia 920 on on an Every Day Connect plan (details below) before November 26 we’ll throw in a portable JBL Playup speaker valued at $199 at no additional cost!”
Of course, although we expect the Lumia 920 to be one of the best, it’s not the only Windows Phone 8-based device launching in Australia. There’s also HTC’s Windows Phone 8X model (Delimiter preview here) — which Gizmodo reports will ship exclusively through Telstra in December, also supporting 4G (contrary to our initial expectations), and the Samsung Ativ S (Delimiter preview here), which iTWire reports will ship through Optus around the same time (although without 4G speeds). The 8X is also said to be launching through Vodafone, and the lesser HTC 8S device through Telstra and Optus.
All told, it’s looking like a very merry Windows Phone 8 Christmas in Australia. We’ve been quite happy with the Windows Phone 7 devices which have passed through our labs recently. It’ll be interesting to see how they perform in the testing process compared with the latest crop of Android and Apple devices.
Image credit: Nokia
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Jason Cartwright 14/11/2012 at 3:25 pm
Pre-ordered mine yesterday and scored one of the JBL docks. Am leaving the iPhone after owning every version released (sans the iPhone5). Going to where the innovation is happening. By the way, Telstra just tweeted, pre-order stock is gone.
https://twitter.com/Telstra_news/status/268569617704841216
Renai LeMay 14/11/2012 at 3:26 pm
Wow, they must not have had much pre-order stock.
James 15/11/2012 at 9:23 am
Seems to be a common thing to do with pre-orders and initial sales.
The MS Surface sold out within minutes of launching, as did the Nexus 4 & 10 this week.
No stock figures though, so perhaps they’re just stocking low volumes so news gets around that their devices have ‘sold out’.
stoffs 14/11/2012 at 3:34 pm
ordered a go faster red one for myself :)
Can’t wait to get off the iphone !
Simon 14/11/2012 at 3:39 pm
There’s been so much hype surrounding this phone, that it almost feels old before its release.
Karl 14/11/2012 at 7:45 pm
“There’s also HTC’s Windows Phone 8X model (Delimiter preview here) — which Gizmodo reports will ship exclusively through Telstra in December … The 8X is also said to be launching through Vodafone”
Um, have we changed the definition of exclusive?
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Leonardo DiCaprio attends the “Once Upon A Time In Hollywood” Press Conference in LA!
Leonardo DiCaprio supports the documentary he produced at Hollywood premiere event
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Gallery Updates:, Movie Productions, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Posters & Covers ♦ March 23, 2019
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Posters & Teaser Trailer
This was a very good week for all of us!! The trailer and new posters of Leo’s upcoming movie were released.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the footage features a montage of Tinseltown in the late 1960s. The duo play Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, a washed-up actor and his long-time stunt double.
“Actors are required to do a lot of dangerous stuff,” DiCaprio’s character trailer explains in the trailer. “Cliff, here, is meant to help carry the load.”
Pitt’s Cliff Booth seconds that notion. “What, carrying his load? Yeah, that’s about right.”
Tarantino, who wrote the script and will also direct and produce the movie, was inspired by his own upbringing in the midst of LA’s hippie-crazed counterculture. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is set in 1969 Hollywood, a year that saw the rise of Charles Manson’s cult. Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth live next door to Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), the pregnant actress killed in the Manson murders who catapulted the story into Hollywood news.
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