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Cover Reveal: War King by Eric Schumacher
WAR KING
BY ERIC SCHUMACHER
Publisher: Creativia Publishing
Series: Hakon’s Saga #3
Genre: Historical Fiction
It is 954 A.D. and a tempest is brewing in the North. Twenty summers before, Hakon Haraldsson wrested Norway’s throne from his murderous brother, Erik Bloodaxe, but he failed to rid himself of Erik’s family. Now the sons of Erik have come to reclaim Erik’s former throne and avenge the wrong done to their father and their kin. But they do not come alone. With them marches an army of sword-Danes sent by the Danish King, Harald Bluetooth, whose desire to expand his realm is as powerful as the lust for vengeance that pulses in the veins of Erik’s brood. Like storm-driven waves, the opposing forces collide in the thrilling finale of Hakon’s Saga, War King; and when they do, Hakon is left with no choice but to face the tempest and resist.
Review: The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
Title: The Clockmaker's Daughter
Author: Kate Morton
Genre: historical
Published: expected September 2018
Rating: 4.25/5
My real name, no one remembers.
The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?
Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter.
Kate Morton has long been a favorite, even amongst my top authors. As I have said before, her novels are masterpieces of narrative fiction. They are intricate and executed with aplomb. I know an author is highly-prized to me when my reaction to their work is anything less than five-stars because it feels like both a surprise and just intrinsically wrong, somehow. But I have to admit that while The Clockmaker's Daughter contains nearly all the classic Morton hallmarks of a great read, this particular set of interwoven stories didn't resonate with me as much as almost all of her previous novels did. I still fell into her intricate style of storytelling eventually, but it wasn't as complete of an immersion; for once, this is a Morton that could stand to use a bit of editing down. In a six hundred page book, especially one so dependent on the slow reveal of authorial sleight of hand, the underdeveloped aspects of the story stand out in retrospect.
The tale of Birdie and Leonard and Elodie and Tip and all the others connected to the manor at Birchwood is by no means a "bad" book -- Morton isn't even capable of that with her weakest effort to date, 2015's The Lake House -- but the beginning of this lags, one of the POVs is rather dull and underdeveloped each time it's visited, and the addition of the supernatural elements detracted from the novel's other various strongpoints. Dense and slow-moving as is the author's usual style, the plot to The Clockmaker's Daughter takes a long time to engage the reader and even Kate's undeniable and present talents for atmosphere and mystery can't entirely compensate for it.
The cast is a myriad of characters with tangential connections to one another across time and distance. Their slowly revealed relationships make the pages spent interesting for the most part; Morton's quite adept at uncovering the hidden facets of people, this time those related to the mysterious photograph whose discovery incited all the ensuing revelations. Leonard is the exception to the rule; his chapters have emotional resonance but his voice is dull and the events he narrated aren't the most pivotal. Despite his relevance to both plot and other characters, he is a charisma void on the page. The supernatural additions of <spoiler>the 'Night of the Following' (maybe??) and even Birdie herself, charming as she was</spoiler> didn't work and also felt unnecessary. One could have been excised completely and the other could have featured in a more mundane sense. They felt like a rare misfire from an experienced author.
The Clockmaker's Daughter is the author's sixth to be so centered on dual timelines across history and connected to a mysterious house/manor/castle and each is unique gothic tale of secrets, family, and how the past lives on in the present.Though not the complete Morton experience possible and not without a few missteps in its hundreds of pages and several rotating POVs, The Clockmaker's Daughter is still a solidly good novel and with well-rendered characters, an enveloping atmosphere, a intriguing set of mysteries, and creative plotting tying it all together. It's a decent idea of what this author is capable of doing even if it left me craving a reread for the more polished The Distant Hours and The House at Riverton.
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Review: The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
Title: The Storyteller's Secret
Author: Sejal Badani
Source: ARC received for review
From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.
Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.
A finely-tuned dual timeline novel centered on memorable women, both modernish America and India in the 1930s - 1940s. A rather dense book and one that can move the plot rather slowly, The Storyteller's Secret is very much character-driven in both its past and the present timelines. The two seemingly-disparate plots are intricately linked to one another, and though the reveal of how that is so is easily guessed, Badani's talent for characterization compensates for any lost surprise later on. She is able to evince genuine interest in the people involved, from Jaya and her "modern" problems, to Amisha's quiet determination in the rigid culture of the past, and that makes reading this historical fiction a satisfying experience.
The characters and world of her novels are where this author truly shines. Some of the novel's plotting is a bit blunt and predictable for anyone paying attention, but her characters are well-wrought and realistic and her settings are vibrantly realized. It's easy to envision both sets of plotlines but especially so when set in the lively, colorfully described India of Badani's pen. Likewise, the American Jaya is a character easy to understand and care for but it is Amisha that truly captures the heart of the novel. She lives a far different life than her modern counterpart but it's easy to see the echoes of one another across the decades that divide them.
There is perhaps just a shade too much perspective changing in The Storyteller's Secret. Each plotline has its merits and its problems, but jumping between first-person to third, so rapidly can highlight the artificiality of fiction. That, combined with the easily-predicted reveal, detract slightly from the story's conclusion. The Storyteller's Secret is a comprehensive, detailed novel, that does a lot right when it comes to character and setting. But though the good points outnumber the negative by a fair margin, it must be noted that overall, it was weighed down by a few too many chapters and a rather overt plot resolution.
arc, historical fiction, received for review, reviewed by jessie, reviews
Blog Tour Review: Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi
Title: Star-Touched Stories
Author: Roshani Chokshi
Series: The Star-Touched Queen #2.5
Published: August 7 2018
Source: ARC via publishers for review
Three lush and adventurous stories in the Star-Touched world.
Death and Night
He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance meeting, they wonder if, perhaps, they could be meant for more. But danger crouches in their paths, and the choices they make will set them on a journey that will span lifetimes.
Poison and Gold
Now that her wish for a choice has come true, Aasha struggles to control her powers. But when an opportunity to help Queen Gauri and King Vikram's new reign presents itself, she is thrown into the path of the fearsome yet enchanting Spy Mistress. To help her friends, Aasha will have to battle her insecurities and perhaps, along the way, find love.
Rose and Sword
There is a tale whispered in the dark of the Empire of Bharat-Jain. A tale of a bride who loses her bridegroom on the eve of her wedding. But is it a tale or a truth?
These three short stories, set in the same magical and dangerous world as the author's full-length novels The Star-Touched Queen and its successor A Court of Wishes, are another window into the fertile imagination of Roshani Chokshi. Each is replete with the vibrant imagery and vivid writing that readers have come to appreciate in Chokshi’s verbose style. The writing itself can approach purple prose at times, but without ever crossing over; this is a flowery book full of ornate writing and Chokshi has the talent to pull it off with aplomb.
Though all the additions to Star-Touched Stories are creative, well-written and plotted, it is the first,‘Death and Night’, that is the best, and the sole one rated at a full five stars. All three make for a solid selection but Chokshi's clever, and often darkly humorous or just plain silly, look at the courtship between the god of death and goddess of night is the standout. A familiar story, and a prequel for the first novel, played out in fresh hands and with fresh eyes, there's inventiveness from start to finish as Chokshi weaves her unlikely but impossible to resist love story. It doesn't follow the expected path or fall into overdone tropes; watching Amar and Maya is still genuinely fun and seeing them meet is satisfying.
The second, 'Poison and Gold', is another strong offering; one a bit shorter but focused on flawed and yet likeable characters, relatable despite their less-than-mundane situations and abilities. The writing itself remains a standout throughout the pages, but Aasha's struggle to control her gift, control her fate is vividly rendered and easily empathized. 'Rose and Sword' is a another good short story, but even with the talents of varied Roshani Chokshi, felt a bit shortchanged in comparison to the sweeping romance of the first and the heartfelt emotion of the second. It was too short, too rushed of an ending. The unexpected glimmers of humor, usually unexpected, were another highlight of the entire collection.
An anthology that further explores the world that Maya introduced us to and Gauri further expanded on her own adventures, Star-Touched Stories is a glimpse at smaller lives within a large world. Key figures are shown and feature into the plots, but even the newcomers and side characters make an impression. The author's vivid storytelling, which is often so descriptive it verges on tangible, is ably suited to short-form as well as full-length novels. It was fun to revisit such a fantastical and unique world, even for a short time.
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We’re helping to build a school in rural Zambia!
By Tom Lord on 22 May 2019
10 years after running IT workshops in an entrepreneurial program in Samfya District, we’re now working with one of the graduates to raise the roof in their school.
A training session in action, 2008. We would talk through the concepts to be taught in the morning, and the trainers would run sessions such as this one in the afternoon. They were fast learners!
Between 2008 and 2011, Aptivate was involved in a multi-year entrepreneurship training program run by CAMFED with young women in rural Zambia. We delivered a series of sessions on IT skills, and worked with a group of trainers who had themselves recently graduated from the program. It was a real privilege to be involved in an "on the ground" project, working directly with people and sharing our knowledge with trainers there. The participants and trainers were excited about the power of technology to transform their lives and their communities, and so were we!
The partly finished classroom at the start of our involvement
Recently, one of the trainers we worked with, Penelope Machipi, got in touch. While we were working with Penelope, we vividly remember her using the new internet connection to find colleges in the local area with relevant courses for her, and she has gone on to train as a teacher, working in a school with a head who was also involved in the training program. The school has managed to raise funds and voluntary effort from the local community to start building a new classroom. The economy of the local area is heavily dependent on fishing in the large nearby lakes, and when the building work was part way through, the local government declared a fishing ban due to declining fish stocks, which meant that the building project had stalled through lack of money. Penelope wondered if there was anything we could do to help.
We approached ARM's CSR department and they kindly agreed to fund our suggested project to complete the classroom building work. Much excitement ensued! We’ve been communicating with Penelope and her school team about the project over the last few weeks.
The school decided to use metal spider trusses rather than wooden beams to support the roof, to prevent termites from undoing our useful work. Here’s some spider trusses under construction.
One line of thought in the world of International Development is that “development” is a process and a relationship over time with growth and learnings on both sides, rather than a “quick fix” intervention. Some of the most satisfying projects we work on are where we have a relationship with a person or a project for several years, and it’s really great to be able to support Penelope and her school, years after we first worked together, and having supported Penelope in a small way in her teaching career. Also a first for us, in that we are channeling funding to useful projects, rather than being hired to supply the IT part of someone else’s project! And we now know what spider trusses are. We intend to use them generously in our next software project.
The iron sheeting is now going up on the roof, attached to the completed spider trusses.
We’re nearly there!
The classroom is now in use, but as you can see in the picture, there is no proper floor, windows, doors or any plaster on the walls. Learning will be very difficult come the rainy season which starts in November.
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Plastering the walls: £780
Cementing the floor: £530
Doors and windows: £1380
Bonus extra-stretch goal: £1100 for replacing the roof on another building which was damaged by storms
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The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
Winner 2013: Mir Mahfuz Ali
The Poetry Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2013 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is Mir Mahfuz Ali, for his poem, 'MIG-21 Raids at Shegontola'. The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is awarded to the best poem published in The Poetry Review written by a poet who hadn’t published a full collection at the time their work appeared in the magazine.
Mir Mahfuz Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He studied at Essex University. He dances, acts, and has worked as a male model and a tandoori chef. He has given readings and performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and other theatres in Britain and beyond. His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, London Magazine, Poetry London, Ambit and PN Review. Mahfuz was shortlisted for the New Writing Ventures Awards 2007 and the Picador Poetry Prize 2010. His poetry has been published in the anthology Ten: New Poets from Spread the Word (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra. His debut collection Midnight, Dhaka was published by Seren in May 2014..
In awarding the Prize, judge John Glenday said: "It’s always difficult choosing between the various strengths of different poems. Every effective poem works in a different way – each is a combination of craft, insight and imagination, but in Mir Mahfuz Ali’s poem there is another ingredient – necessity. And by necessity I mean that quality which allows the poem to take a moral stance, to act as a redemptive force, rescuing the individual from history. In this respect, it is a form of first aid for the soul, telling the world in us a little more about the world out there.
"The poem immediately draws us in to its heartbreaking narrative – as is always the case, big things need to be talked about in small ways. It begins with a small boy caught up in savagery, and ends with that same boy surviving, but transformed. Mahfuz uses striking imagery to build a visceral description of the attack, juxtaposing images of violence and astonishing beauty. There are no fancy tricks nor virtuoso flauntings here, just a vivid, enthralling, brutal account of aggression and its consequences. But remarkably, one of those consequences is quietly positive: this child survives, only just survives – but emerges “like an apprentice baker” – a subtle reference to sustenance and compassion, to life continuing." (from The Poetry Review 104:2)
Mir Mahfuz Ali's winning poem was first published in The Poetry Review, 103:4, Winter 2013, edited by Maurice Riordan. A new poem, ‘Bullet’, was published 104:2 in celebration of Mahfuz's prize.
Mir Mahfuz Ali
MIG-21 Raids at Shegontola
Only this boy moves
between the runes of trees
on his tricycle
when an eagle swoops,
releases two arrows
from its silver wings and melts
away faster than lightning.
Then a loud whistle
and a bang like dry thunder.
In a blink the boy sees
his house roof sink.
Feels his ears ripped off.
The blast puffs up a fawn smoke
bigger than a mountain cloud.
The slow begonias rattle
their scarlet like confetti.
Metal slashes
the trees and ricochets.
Wires and pipes snap
at the roots, quiver.
The whirling smoke packed
with bricks and cement,
chicken feathers and nigella seeds.
When the cloud begins
to settle on the ground,
the boy makes out buckled iron rods.
White soot descends
and he finds himself dressed
like an apprentice baker.
About the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize
The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize is awarded annually to the best poem in The Poetry Review by a poet who had not, before the issue in which their work appeared, published a collection. It is funded through the generosity of the Dearmer family in honour of the poet Geoffrey Dearmer, who was a Poetry Society member..
Read about the history of the prize.
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize Main
Email: poetryreview [@] poetrysociety.org.uk
National Poetry Competition
The Anne Born Prize
The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry
Foyle Young Poets of the Year
Popescu Prize
SLAMbassadors UK
Hamish Canham Prize
Stanza Poetry Competition
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Holiday foods -- Cakes made of glutinous rice are essential to Tet:
Round cakes (this one is topped with a meat patty) represent the universe.
Square cakes (this one still wrapped in banana leaves) represent Earth.
The cylindrical cake is stuffed with pork and yellow mung beans.
Candied fruits and vegetables -- carrots, coconut slices, ginger lotus root and lotus seeds -- are served with tea, as is traditional in China as well.
Seasonal symbolism -- Certain fruits are valued for their color, scent or because their names have double meanings.
Soursop, for example, is called mang cau. Cau by itself means 'to pray.'
Words for mango and papaya can also mean 'plentiful' and 'enough.'
This basket of fruit is meant as a prayer that the household will have enough in the new year.
Roasted watermelon seeds are valued for their red color, considered lucky.
The Vietnamese new year
is a time of symbolism,
celebration and plenty
Celebrate with Vietnamese stew
By Betty Shimabukuro
Star-Bulletin
To do it right, you must cook early and cook a lot. Once the Lunar New Year begins on Saturday, the household must be ready.
It is time for Tet, the most important of holidays among Vietnamese. It is time for banh chung and banh day, or sticky rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves; of the hearty pork stew with boiled eggs called thit kho; of stuffed bittermelon, candied fruits and special offerings such as papaya and soursop, valued for their symbolism.
By Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
The kitchen at Garden of Saigon is a busy place
as Tet approaches. Working together are owner
Xuan-Mai Pavey, right, and daughter Lalania Marion.
In Vietnam, where luxuries are hard-won and work is constant, Tet Nguyen Dan, the Lunar New Year Festival, is the one time of leisure and excess, a time to spend on costly foods, new clothes and other trappings of spring.
"In Vietnam people work for a whole year for Tet," says Xuan-Mai Pavey, owner of the new Garden of Saigon restaurant in Chinatown. "For the first three days, everybody has parties, everybody has food in the house."
To fulfill the traditions requires an investment of time as well as money, the idea being to be ready for New Year visitors, to feed the family for several days, to meet obligations to ancestors' spirits and the household gods.
Best example would be the sticky rice cakes made one or two weeks before the new year, dozens at a time. Traditionally, they were steamed outdoors, the entire family in attendance to feed the fire and keep water in the pot. "You cook all night long," recalls Thanh Lo Sananikone, originally from Hue in central Vietnam. "Family, friends and relatives sit there and watch because you have to add water all night."
Xuan-Mai Pavey, right, holds the menu for her new
restaurant, Garden of Saigon. Helping her in the
kitchen is her daughter, Lalania Marion. To their
right is a list of Vietnamese foods, numbered
according to the menu.
In her kitchen here, Sananikone maintains the tradition on her stovetop, where she'll make 25 or 30 cakes for gifts and to serve visitors. "It takes all Saturday and the evening and the night," she says. "Usually I start too late and I have to cook overnight. I have to get up three times."
Why all the bother? Because of King Hung-vuong, father of many sons, who decided to give his throne to the one who could bring him the most meaningful dish of food. The sons hunted, fished, brought back all manner of delicacies, but it was the youngest son, Tiet-Lieu, who won the kingdom. His gift of glutinous rice steamed into cakes deemed most significant because in their simplicity they honored the basic foodstuff of the people.
Tong Ma remembers Tet during his childhood in southern Vietnam as the one time he was given new clothes. He remembers a betting game played with dice marked with animal figures; collecting red-wrapped packets of money from his parents' friends; candied fruits, or mut -- especially the ginger, coconut, carrot and the rare lotus root and lotus seed.
In the old days the celebrating lasted 10 days, but now it is more likely to be a three-day break from work and school, Ma says. The candies were kept on hand to offer visitors who came and went throughout this time. "You sit down and eat this and drink tea and talk story."
Also essential: a collection of symbolic fruits. Here is where traditions vary some. Ma values mango, papaya, coconut and soursop. Chau Tran, a native of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), would add oranges, pomelo and pineapple, and subtract coconut as too common. "People save all year," Tran says, "for Tet, people want something expensive."
Traditional foods of Tet include, clockwise from top:
pork stew with hard-boiled eggs; bittermelon stuffed
with ground pork and fish, cooked in pork broth;
glutinous rice cake stuffed pork and mung beans;
roast pork; and an anchovy-flavored dipping sauce.
These foods were prepared at Garden of Saigon
in Chinatown.
The symbolism in some cases is a matter of wordplay: Du-du is the word for papaya; du in itself means "enough." Xoai, for mango, means "plentiful." Mang cau means soursop; cau is "to pray." To have these fruits in the home is to pray that your family will have enough in the new year. Oranges are valued for their lucky color, pineapples for their perfume.
"People believe that when you have all these things all together they will bring you good things for all the year," Tran says.
Watermelon, in season in Vietnam at this time of year, is the chosen dessert, she adds. "In every household you have to choose the biggest one. And the redder it is inside, the better luck you'll have."
Roasted watermelon seeds are a favorite snack, Sananikone says. "The mouth becomes red when you eat them. Young girls like to eat this because they aren't allowed to have lipstick yet."
The 23rd day of the 12th month of the lunar year is Le Tao Quan, Feast of the Household Gods -- this year it fell on Saturday. On this day families pray to the guardian spirit of the kitchen and make offerings of rice cakes and fruit. The kitchen god then goes to heaven to report on the family's behavior for the year, and a new god is assigned to look after the family in the year to come.
On the 30th day, prayers are said at the family altar to invite the ancestors to help close out the old year. Offerings are placed outside the home in honor of "wandering souls," people without homes, Sananikone says.
In the homes of many transplanted Vietnamese, these traditions remain strong, to the point that even the labor-intensive rice cakes are fixed at home, not purchased.
Sananikone has been away from her homeland since 1975 and remains mindful of the rituals of Tet. Her two grown children live in San Francisco and New York, but she mails them their homemade rice cakes each year. "I hope they keep the traditions."
Celebrate with
Vietnamese stew
Thanh Lo Sananikone will make Thit Kho, a stew of pork, hard-boiled eggs and coconut juice, to last through Tet.
By tradition, family and friends may visit at any time; "If they come at 11 o'clock, you eat lunch; if they come at 5, you eat dinner." A dish like this serves everyone for a long time.
When her children were still living at home, she'd make a huge pot. "They can eat it for a week."
The flavor improves, she says, as the dish ages.
Pickled vegetables are a traditional side dish served with the sticky rice cakes and other new year foods.
These are adaptations of Sananikone's recipes:
Thit Kho
Vietnamese New Year's Stew
1 pound pork butt, in 1-inch cubes
2 teaspoons fish sauce
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1/2 cup coconut juice (water from fresh coconut)
4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
Melt sugar over low heat, cooking until caramelized and slightly brown. Stir in pork butt in cubes; brown.
Stir in fish sauce, salt, pepper, garlic and coconut juice. Add eggs and water as needed to cover. Bring to a boil, then simmer until meat is cooked through and eggs turn brown. Taste and adjust seasonings.
Optional: Add cabbage if there is enough liquid. Serves 4.
Approximate nutritional information, per 1-cup serving: 260 calories, 11 g total fat, 4 g saturated fat, 270 mg cholesterol, 390 mg sodium.*
Dua Mon
Vegetables in Fish Sauce
Dried vegetables:
1 green papaya or 1 turnip
12 shallots, peeled
12 garlic cloves, peeled
12 small red chile peppers
3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons nuoc mom (Vietnamese fish sauce)
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
Peel carrots. Peel and seed papaya or peel turnip. Cut into 1-1/2-inch sticks (may also be cut into shapes of flowers). Dry vegetables in dehydrator, following manufacturer's directions, or in the oven: Rub 1 tablespoon salt into vegetables; let stand 30 minutes, then rinse, squeeze and pat dry. Dry in a 200 degree oven for 2 hours, turning every 30 minutes.
To make sauce: Heat fish sauce and add sugar; stir until melted. Add water and boil 2 minutes; cool.
Layer vegetables in a 1-quart jar. Pour sauce into jar. Marinate at least 2 weeks.
Variation: Dried pineapple pieces may also be added.
Approximate nutritional information per 2-tablespoon serving: 20 calories, no fat or cholesterol, greater than 200 mg sodium.*
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I’m an author, journalist, editor, mother and expat. I’m also through-and-through a sun-worshipper, happiest when floating in the sea with my face in the sun and absolutely nothing in my head. Though that last bit’s never true, is it?
In terms of career (‘Annabel, your ideal job would be tax accountant,’ said the school careers officer), I’ve worked as a non-fiction book editor, produced and presented radio shows, edited a glossy woman’s magazine, run a magazine publishing company, worked as the Telegraph’s Expat blogger and as a magazine columnist, given news anaylsis on the television, and written four published novels (to date – number five is currently in production).
Other jobs I’ve had over the years include perfume saleslady, sales assistant in various shops, child-minder, supermarket cashier, stable hand, German translator (I used to be able to speak at length in German about concrete injection systems, though, hand on heart, those days are gone) and of course I started out with the obligatory paper round, which earned me £3.33 a week for delivering 238 papers.
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I travelled behind the iron curtain when I was 16. This was definitely the biggest adventure of my life at that point. I saved up my wages from my Saturday job, flew to West Berlin, walked through the checkpoint to East Berlin and took the train down to Leipzig to see a penfriend, then I did it all in reverse. It was an absolutely incredible experience.
I played alto clarinet in a music competition on the television when I was at junior school. The day spent filming at the ITV studios was amazing: my ensemble didn’t win the competition, but I got in a lift with a man who, to this day, I believe was Tom Selleck!
The first book that ever had my name on as author was a baby record book, published in 1999. It was my first commission in Dubai and I knew nothing at all about babies so I had to crib all the key stages from text books. It’s called First Steps in Arabia and, amazingly, you can still buy it.
I hold a BSc Hons degree in psychology from the University of Warwick. It was a really interesting degree and I absolutely loved it, especially the clinical stuff. I still believe I’ll go back to uni one day to get my Masters degree.
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Eskimos Not Changing Name Anytime Soon
The Edmonton Eskimos have no immediate plans to change their name.
The CFL franchise has spent the past couple of years speaking with Inuit leaders and conducting research on the impact of the Eskimos name on the Inuit community.
And the club plans to do much more before being in a position to determine the final results of its efforts.
Despite a social media report Monday suggesting Edmonton would be changing its name to Empire, Allan Watt, a marketing and communications official with the Eskimos, said there's nothing imminent regarding a new team moniker.
"We've been doing many phases of research and been up north and done extensive research there," Watt said. "It was not about changing our name.
"It was asking (Inuit leaders) about how they feel about our name. And there's a big difference between the two."
Watt said the Edmonton club purposefully hired and international research company to help them gather information on the potential impact of the Eskimos' name on the Inuit community.
"When we embarked on this process, one of the things we wanted to do was make sure that we were getting answers from people without us in the room," he said. "There's only one way to do that and that's get somebody else asking.
"This is something that's been our name since 1910 . . . and we want to make the right decisions, not quick decisions.
We'd be remiss if we didn't do extensive research, if we didn't do it thoroughly and if we didn't do it in the north ... none of us should pretend to speak for people who are Inuit."
Watt said there's no timetable regarding when the research results will be compiled. Until that's done, it's unfair to
speculate whether the CFL club will or won't change its name.
"We don't have the research results so there's no point," he said. "We're not researching a name change, we're researching how people feel about our name."
The Eskimos name is near and dear to CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie's heart. The veteran offensive lineman finished his career in Edmonton (1989-93), winning a Grey Cup with the franchise in his final season before retiring.
Shortly after becoming commissioner, Ambrosie commended the Eskimos for the process they were taking regarding their team name.
But he also admitted a name change would be difficult to imagine, given all the memories he has as a former Eskimos player.
"When you've got jerseys tucked away that you'll want pass on to your kids and maybe grandkids one day because you're so proud of it ... the idea of that name going away is hard to fathom," Ambrosie told The Canadian Press.
"But I also know times change and so we have the conversation and we see where it takes us."
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Jason Gregor tweeted that they talked to some Inuit and they love the Eskies name (it's their team)
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E Ihowā Atua only to be sung at Tall Blacks match tonight
Posted on Monday, 17 September 2018
The New Zealand national anthem will be solely sung in Te Reo Māori at the Tall Blacks ‘top of the table’ clash with Lebanon in Rotorua tonight.
FIBA rules allow only one minute for a team’s pre-game ritual, with most teams meeting that requirement with their anthem. New Zealand is the only nation in the FIBA competition to be granted an additional minute for their haka, Tū Kaha O Pango Te Kahikatea. Yet the additional time is not enough for the Tall Blacks to complete both versions of the anthem and their haka, with proceedings running overtime and into the three minute countdown to tip-off.
Basketball New Zealand Chief Executive, Iain Potter, says the organisation was required by FIBA to reduce the team’s pre-game ritual to within the allocated two minutes.
“We understand where FIBA are coming from and the fact that we have one more minute than any other team in the world is a privilege, not a right. It’s important that we respect that rule and the opposition too.
“The last three minutes before tip-off are for the teams to complete their warm-ups. We agree that, although the opposition have been respectful of the haka, we should not be cutting into their warm-up time.
“Cutting Tū Kaha was not an option. We’re likely to alternate the English and Māori versions of the anthem at FIBA matches, and sing the full version when the rules allow. We feel this is the only way to honour both versions of our anthem, and our haka.
“It’s not ideal leaving one version silent as, of course, Kiwis are patriotic about both. Yet our haka and our team are also about respect for the opposition, we believe this way is our best solution to honour both our nation and the one we are facing,” said Mr Potter.
When asked why the version in Te Reo Māori got first pick, Potter said it felt right that way, but last week’s celebration of Māori language played a part too.
“It’s a fitting time with Māori Language Week just finishing. It’s wonderful how Kiwis have celebrated Te Reo Māori this last week and to see it used so regularly in the media,” said Potter.
The Tall Blacks face Lebanon tonight at the Energy Events Centre in Rotorua at 7pm. Tickets at www.ticketmaster.co.nz
The game will be broadcast live and free-to-air on Maori Television from 7pm on Channels 19 (Sky TV) and 5 (Freeview). It will also be livestreamed on www.maoritelevision.com
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Cats >
Does Your Cat Need Vaccines?
Created in Newsletter Library, Cats
In a word, yes.
“No other medical development has been as successful as vaccination in controlling deadly diseases in companion animals,” says feline veterinarian Dr. Arnold Plotnick.
Dr. Plotnick and other veterinarians acknowledge that, rarely, vaccinations in cats have been linked to the development of fibrosarcoma, a type of cancer that may occur at the site of injection. Studies of these sarcomas say the prevalence ranges from one in 3,000 to 10,000 cats.
Many groups are intensely studying this problem, including immunologists, vaccine manufacturers, and the American Association of Feline Practitioners. The Vaccine Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force has studied many factors: type of vaccine, location of vaccine, additives to the vaccine, and genetics of the cats. The most recent study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. This showed that the safest injectable vaccines were recombinant vaccines. These have newer technology and are much more purified. This paper also demonstrated that the sarcoma problem can happen with other injections such as antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, not just vaccinations.
Indoor Cats
Do your indoor cats, which have little to no contact with other animals, even need to be vaccinated?
According to Plotnick and other leading veterinarians, vaccinations are indeed essential to a pet’s well being as some infectious agents are airborne and do not need direct cat to cat exposure. “To not vaccinate our pets is not an option,” said Dr. Plotnick. Instead, veterinarians must work closely with pet owners to devise a vaccination schedule that best meets a cat's individual health needs. Vaccine manufacturers have also stopped putting aluminum salts into vaccines.
Kittens & Adult Cats
All kittens should receive a series of FVRCP core vaccinations. This immunization series begins at six to eight weeks of age and continues every three to four weeks until the kitten is 16-18 weeks old. The rabies vaccine is usually given at the last vaccine visit. The American Association of Feline Practitioners recommends that kittens receive leukemia vaccines whether they go outside or not.
If you have recently adopted a cat and do not know your cat’s immunization history, the cat will need to receive core vaccinations. A dose of the FVRCP vaccine should be given immediately and a second dose should be administered three to four weeks later. The American Association of Feline Practitioners recommends that adult cats have a FVRCP and rabies vaccinations every three years. Your veterinarian can help you decide if your cat needs any non-core vaccines.
Types of Vaccines
Vaccines for cats are divided into two categories: core vaccines that are essential for every cat, and non-core vaccines that may or may not be necessary based on a cat’s lifestyle. For example, vaccines against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) are non-core vaccines that may or may not be necessary based on a cat's lifestyle. For example, vaccines against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) are non-core vaccines that are generally not recommended for indoor adult cats. One core vaccine is called FVRCP, which protects against panleukopenia (feline distemper), rhino, and calici virus.
The rabies vaccine is also a core vaccination. There are two types of feline rabies vaccine: a killed vaccine that can be given every three years and a recombinant vaccine that is offered by one vaccine manufacturer. The findings of the recent AVMA article suggest the recombinant rabies may be safer, but it does need to be given annually.
If your cat is up to date on core vaccinations, then your cat may be able to receive boosters every three years, rather than every year. Check with your veterinarian to confirm whether your community requires annual rabies vaccination or permits the three-year vaccine. Also, ensure that your feline has a physical exam every year.
CatExperts
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JAVMA, Vol 241, No 5, September 1, 2012. Comparative vaccine- specific and other injectable- specific risks of injection site sarcomas in cats.
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Norveška 1. liga Arendal - Elverum
Total goals 54.5 tip: Under
Result: 26:30
Tipster Green
Stake: 5/10
Profit: -5
Min. odds: 1.70
Last margin: >53.5
Published: 12.05. 14:00
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Norveška 1. liga Arendal - Drammen
Profit: +3.75
Norveška 1. liga Baekkelaget - Falk Horten
Total goals 53.5 tip: Over
Norveška 1. liga Halden - Fyllingen
Norveška 1. liga Stabaek - Sola
Handicap +2.5 tip: 2
Last margin: >4.5
Norveška 1. liga Molde - Storhamar
Molde have done a great job so far. They used Gjerpen's lack od chemistry, Tertnes' weak rotation and slipped through against Oppsal, but they didn't stand a chance against against a serious team like the Vipers. They lost both games, by 15 and by 12. The most important thing is to stop at least one out of the three Obaidi sisters who are keeping the team together and who are the main threat. But today they are awaiting Storhamar. And this Storhamar are completely different than the one that ran out against Sola a month and a half ago. Heidi Loke finally decided she is fit, she played against Stabaek, scored 5/5 and said she wants to go to the European Championship. Suvdal, who is back after an injury, joined her. They both played against Gjerpen in the Cup, but that was not all, because Sundmoen is back, she is clearly motivated. Their captain returned and scored 8 goals, without pre-season. We have to add Riegelhuthm and Enkerud to them, and it is obvious how good they are on paper. The only downside is the form of the players who just returned, but I think their individual quality is enough for them to win by over 3 goals here. Besides, they covered this handicap in every game so far, even without the mentioned players. The away team's win can be seen as a safe bet. Details
Norveška 1. liga Sola - Gjerpen
Handicap -3.5 tip: 1
Last margin: >-4.5
The balance of power is missed here. Sola have a good team, several great players and when they fit that in the collective, lik they did against Larvik, then they can give any team a hard time, except the Vipers. The most important thing for them is to stay grounded mentally. For that they have Herrem and I believe that the win over Larvik will not get them carried away. As far as quality is concerned, they are much better than Gjerpen in all positions and there is nothing to explain there. Besides, Herrem is not at her top level, and when their game-play sets up so that she participates more, and gets enough good passes to the wing, Sola will be even stronger. Gjerpen are weaker, at least based on what they showed so far. They lost by 4 at Molde. at home to Larvik by 20 and at home to Tertnes, who are at Sola's level, also by 9. Their performances have been bad so far, and I don't believe anything changed in the last four days so much that they can hurt Sola away. In my opinion, this is missed by at least two to three goals. Details
Norway 1 Storhamar - Kristiansand
Storhamar lost their most important player. Sundmoen is the second best scorer of regular season and a key player both for offense and defense. Without her, the home team are significantly weaker. Enkerud got injured as well and she's important too. Their absence might be irrelevant against some of the weaker teams but they are to face the Vipers who want to win the playoffs, to reach CL and bring down Larvik. Last week they ruined my tip in a silly way after having +6 at half time but those are some things that cannot be predicted. That does not make them any less superior over the rest of the league, apart from Larvik and especially not against a team that lost the key player. We need to try and take advantage of that. The Vipers won both games convincingly this season and Storhamar had Sundmoen in both. GIven that, this two-goal difference is just not enough. For the more courageous among you, the sure win is well paid. Details
Norway 1 Kristiansand - Sola
Sola did as much as they were allowed by Vipers in the first game. That was too much, especially in the first half, which they won 13-12. The series away team stepped out on the floor in the second half to quickly get the lead we have offered today. Why am I convinced the Vipers will be more serious today? Simply because they had 21 technical errors and a bunch of missed shots in that game. That was one of those days when they did badly and yet again, trashed opponents by 6 goals. Coach Gabrielsen said they will be much more serious and disciplined today.
- I want us to go to 35 goals - he said. When he wants something, he usually gets it. Quality is well on their side as they proved in h2h games when Sola lost by 11 and 13 goals. I'm sure they will be serious today. When that is the case, this should not go under 10.
As for stats, Vipers are hot and cold but they are much better, they trashed GIF by 20 goals and destroyed Larvik's celebration.Expecting a convincing win from them is normal. As for Sola, they can lose by 10 goals but also put up a better fight when they want to. It seems they have come to terms with relegation and can't wait for the season to finish.
The first three h2h games, the big difference in quality, form and motivation, I'll go with Vipers handicap. Who can find it, great options are half time handicap but the over at the home team as well. Details
Norway 1 Storhamar - Glassverket
Match result tip: X2
There is no reason to consider Storhamar the favorites here and no reason for odds at GIF to be this high.
Storhamar finished regular season in spot 5. They had some good games, which is realistic considering the offensive quality. Sundmoen are the second best scorer in the league, some other good players are there but still, they didn't do well against better opponents. They lost both to GIF. The second one a bit closer but mostly because the home team started holding back after 19-11 at HT. Besides, coach Oustorp is known for fielding subs once the game is settled. As for other games with top teams, Storhamar recorded two defeats to Vipers, Byasen and Larvik. They lost to Tertens but also to Stabaek who is fighting to stay in additional qualification. They have good offense but defense is the problem. It will struggle to deal with the visiting offense.
GIF had a better team last season but in spite of that, they won the bronze. Vipers trashed them but Vipers also beat Larvik so that cannot be compared. They have two more defeats, to Larvik and Byasen.A draw with Oppsala is a slip as well but the point was all they needed but they didn't play that game at the top level.
GIF cannot afford to mess this up. It's a two-legged meeting and every goal counts. If they lose by 2-3, they could get nervous home. Because of that, I don't doubt they will go full throttle now. Injuries are a thing of past, and they cannot be underdogs here. Given the facts, I think they will not lose this game. I'll try with x2. Details
Norway 1 Drammen - Elverum
Handicap +3,5 tip: 2
Stake: 10/10
Profit: +8.5
Elverum ruined my bet a week ago, with their last offense. They had a shot for a six-goal difference, I saw the ball in the net, but it was on the outside after all. That's no reason not to pick them today. Everything I said then still stands true. It's not even forcing the team that is a much better one, proving it throughout the season and getting over this margin every time this season.
Elverum didn't play their best a week ago, and they know it. The first half was especially bad. They had a bad start, Drammen got swinging, Holm saving, and they were forced to keep on keeping up. Despite the bad game, they still had one-goal difference after the first half. They were messing it up in the second, playing at about 70% in the last 15 minutes or so. They they got to a five-goal difference in a few offenses, and the story was done, without Drammen even turning around. Anyway, they won by five by playing badly.
They're definitely going to be better today because they never played two games badly in a row this season. And this game is the key to pass through. What's especially important today is that story with the red cards against LTH. The Alliance still hasn't made a decision. Supposedly, Elverum could lose Apelgren on the bench for a month, and play without Bliznac, Overby, Poklar and Toft in the future games. In that case, time to get ready will be super important. If Elverum win this, they'll have a few days more to get ready for the possible opponents, unless Kolstad, Fyllingen and Bodo finish the job today. Either way, the best course of action for Elverum to take now is to solve the quarterfinal issue today, and be in peace and ready for the decision by the Alliance.
Statistically, Elverum played 23 league games and went over this margin in 16. They stayed under three times at the beginning of the season, in the first five games, that is, and were struggling against BSK, Haslum and Fyllingen, teams much better than Drammen.
In the regular part of the season, Elverum won the game here by nine goals. Haslum crushed them by 17, so the home floor isn't that important really. Considering everything, I think the three-goal difference is too little for the defending champion against the eight-ranked team of the national championship. Details
Norway 1 Elverum - Drammen
The difference between these teams is evident. Elverum got gold pretty easily. They lost one game to fatigue, the other one to approach. They won all the other ones. They are simply too powerful for the rest of the league and the most important thing for them is having motivation. Since they have been repeating that the playoffs are the main goal throughout the season, I don't see the reason for them hold back here, especially home.
The visitors have no ambition. Their main goal was to stay in the league but they ended up getting in the playoffs. They lost a total of 13 games but the most important ones are against top 4 teams. They lost both to Elverum quite easily. It was -6 and -9. There is also the cup game (-9). BSK beat them by one home (-4 at HT) and 10 away. They played to with OIF (lost by 9 and 8). The ones with Haslum were 4 and 17-goal defeats. So in 9 games against top 4 teams, they lost only two by less than 6.
Elverum were very strong in the second half of the season. They won 8 games, 6 of which by over 5 goals. They were under against much better teams Haslum and BSK. There is also the defeat to Fyllingen which just happened. Drammen are not that level, as their h2h games suggest. I expect an easy win for the home team.
Elbverum beat Bodo by 13 in the first game at this stage. Details
Norway 1 Baekkelaget - Fyllingen
BSK and Fyllingen are two teams of similar style, and that's clearly seen in their statistics. Here we're talking about two best offenses of the league. BSK on average record 30.8, Fyllingen 30.1, and when we mention defense, Fyllingen are a bit weaker with 27.1 allowed goals compared to BSK's 26.8. The statistic of the goal sum is: BSK at 57.5, Fyllingent at 57.1. So, it's clear how both teams play. The tempo is fast-paces, especially with BSK, while Fyllingen compensate that by playing with seven players, which brings results against most of the opponents. The first head-to-head was at 56, 29 was by half-time, even though Fyllingen recorded a single goal in the first five minutes. We have to mention that BSK had a black hole in the last 10 minutes, so that influenced the final total goal number, otherwise it would be closer to 60. Today we again have the 55 goals margin, but if BSK and Fyllingen play the way they know how, it's definitely going to be an over. As for the games against similar opponents, the fact is that there isn't many. Maybe we could take Haslum into consideration with whom BSK went to 60 and 61, and Fyllingen 65 and 65, and then there's OIF against whom both teams went well over the margin. Details
Norway 1 Fyllingen - Falk Horten
Handicap -4,5 tip: 1
It is not that I am insisting on betting against Falk, but what the bookmakers have offered us on their supposed chances is great. Again we got only 2.5 on their opponents and we must use that. This is actually a copy of the predictions I wrote so far. We had 3.5 on Baekkelaget, 2.5 Bodo, 4.5 Elverum and today we against have 2.5 against Fyllingen which is ridiculous, in my opinion. Just to say, this is profitable at least up to 5,5.
Fyllingen are currently 5th, and 7th Kolstad are only one point behind. Play-off and European competitions are important for them, and if they drop to 7th position, they will face difficult opponents in the play-off. Also, they can still win a medal. Third-placed Haslum are only 3 points ahead of them, OIF are 2 points ahead and they will play at LTH today, which they should win. So Fyllingen cannot slip up here. They have won 8 games this season, all 8 over this margin, and they defeated Haslum, OIF, Halden, Kolstad... all teams better than Falk. They won their first head-to-head by 13 and with a poor first half performance. They couldn't have done much against OIF, the defending champions were great, and their goalkeepers were not up for the task. They will have an easier job today, they lost at home only to Elverum and BSK, but that is not relevant. They will not lose this.
Falk defeated Hallvard and that is why we have this margin, but Hallvard are not a serious team, especially since they lost Vildalen. Their offense is weaker without him. I will not diminish Falk's win, but the fact is they used their opponents' bad performance. The second half finished 11-11. As far as their stats are concerned, they lost 12 games this eason, and went over this margin in 10 of them.
These 2.5 are absolutely too low. Coach Gjesdal wants a much better performance today at home, their win is a safe bet, and I am sure it will be convincing. After 13 goals from the first game, this cannot go under 6 or seven goals difference. Details
Norway 1 Elverum - Falk Horten
Profit: +4
I don't understand why the handicap at Elverum is set this low. It is not low generally but it is against opponents like Falk. Elverum beat stronger teams by more than 4 goals away. They won 4 out of 9 gamse by more than 4. They were under only against BSK and OIF, who are much better than Falk. They lost the game against Haslum anyway. I talked about Falk quality quite a lot. They are in the penultimate spot, they have a few good-quality players and they have been improving as the season advanced. But here we are talking about Elverum who won 12 league games here. They sailed through the league except in the Haslum game. Falk lost to all the top teams by more than 4 goals. BSK beat them by 12 away, Haslum by 5 and 9, OIF by 6, Fyllingen by 12. Drammen and Bodo were there too but they and Kolstad have ups and down. Finally, I have to remind you that Elverum won by 11 in Horten and that should be enough for them to think about this tip. One plus to it is the Kronekamp thing Elverum have today. There will be about 3000 fans, the record is expected to be broken. All of that is being done for Overby, Lindboe and coach Berge who are celebrating the silver medal. Elverum will be at 100 percent and when so, only Haslum can stand up to them. In any case, the handicap is off, both statistically and game-wise. Details
Norway 1 Glassverket - Storhamar
Match result tip: 1
Glassverket are definitely not at last season's level but they still cannot be compared to Storhamar, especially home.
They still have a good enough team, they played some good CL games, like the one against Buducnost and Thuringer. When it comes to the championship, they've been doing as expected until the slip against Tertnes. They lost only to Larvik and Byasen in the other 10 games. Of course, Storhamar cannot be compared to those teams.
They confirmed quality in the last EHF game when they beat Oppsal easily with substitutes. As for motivation, there is no great there. They are focused on the championship, especially home games. The results might not be that convincing since the coach rests stars when ever it's possible but they do not have problems controlling games. They also beat Kristiansand, who had it easy with Storhamar.
The visitors opened the second part of the season with 3 wins. Realistically, they played three of the weakest teams but it got them in the race for medals and they cannot be underestimated. Storhamar got even better when Sundomen got back. The offense is great but the defense will have problems since GIF's offense is very different than Raellingen, who them struggled with in the first half.
To sum up, Storhamar are dangerous and play well but they are still the team that came from the second league and do not have enough quality to stun the opponents. The odds suggest that this is a close game but it most certainly isn't. GIF are favorites for a reason as the first h2h proved. They won it by 4 goals despite the fact it was season start. GIF still have no defeats home and I'm sure that won't be changed today.
Norway 1 Sola - Kristiansand
I expected higher handicap on Kristiansand in this game, these three goal difference is a consequence of their defeats to Glassverket and Larvik. But I will start with Sola.
Sola have definitely improved from last season when they had 12 points after 22 games. Things are looking good, but they are still a team for the bottom half of the league table and they will have to work hard for play-off. They won three games so far, against Gjerpen, Halden and Tertnes, and took a point against Raellingen. They lost to favorites by 10, 11, 5, 6, 9 and by 11 goals in their first head-to-head. At home they lost by 10 to Byasen, by 5 to Storhama and by 9 to Glassverket at home.
Kristiansand talked about the title ahead of the season, but they are far from that, but they could win a medal, and they will fight for silver against Glassverker, Byasen and Storhamar. So far they fulfilled the expectations. Their only slip up was against Stabaek, they lost to Glass, who is close to them in quality, and they provided decent resistance against Larvik in the second half. As far as the games they have won are concerned, they were under this margin only against defensive teams of Byasen and Tertnes. More importantly, they have the tendency to demolish their opponents, they play counterattacks and fast pace, so they don't usually defend a result. As far as their head-to-heads are concerned, last season they were at 13 and 14 goals difference, Sola surprised the the season before that, but the Vipers fought back with +17. Every game the Kristiansand won, they won over this margin.
In favor of the bet is the fact that the away team had a week to prepare for this game, The difference between second placed Glass and fifth placed Storhamar is only three points, so they have to win both points here. Sola had only three days to prepare and rest so that's another downside for them.
The conclusion is that Kristiansand are a better team, Sola also improved, but if they play as they usually do away, then this should be over 5 goal difference. Another good option is halftime handicap, considering live, but with respect to Sola's half against Larvik, the overall handicap is a better option. Details
Norway 1 Kolstad - Elverum
Hats off to Kolstad for fierceness and character and the win over BSK but Elverum are a different level. Elverum have just one defeat in the championship - in the derby match to Haslum. They trashed Arendal away after that. They displayed top quality in that game to show how they play when they are not tired. In 12 games, Elverum have 11 wins, 8 over this margin. They stayed under against OIF and BSK, who are better than Kolstad, and against Bodo in a bad game. Defeat to Haslum aside, they are on a 6-game winning run by 3 or more goals. I went with the same tip last season. Elverum are even better now. The only down side is the fact they play Cup final in a week but there is enough time to rest for that.
Koldtad have no h2h wins in the champions. They met twice this season and Elverum won both easily. I expect the same today. Kolstad are always very motivated in these games but that is not good. Stats-wise, the opponents don't suit them but that's not so important because they can lose even by 12 goals, like to Fyllinger or by 3, like to LTH.
I believe Elverum's approach will decide this and that's what matters most because quality cannot be compared here. If they play at an usual level, Kolstad won't stand a chance. Details
Norway 1 Falk Horten - Bodo
I have no idea why Falk are so overestimated, and Bodo underestimaetd. This is similar to when Falk played BSK, this just has a better margin.
They improved their game, but are still second league quality, with a few players they depend on. Their score didn't change - they've beaten Hallvard and LTH who are their level, but are still losing to more experienced teams. They only got defeats at home, every time over this margin. The only reason they were evened out in the game against Kolstad was because Kolstad were trying out a new defense that they didn't practice much beforehand. Even then, they were losing.
Bodo are in a completely different mood - they're in a 4-game winning run, and that's not just any kind of a streak. They've beaten the tricky Drammen who want to get the title and to the CL, Haslum, Halden who are dangerous at home, and then the champion Arendal. All those wins ended over this margin. Their win against Arendal was especially impressive, even the Norwegian national team coach thinks so. To make things better, Bodo didn't have their captain Aga in the second half, one of the key players, and Lund who was leading the team from the bench. Even though OIF have one of the best defenses in the league, they still allowed 32 goals. Falk's defense is the worst besides Hallvard's, and physically weaker than Arendal's, so this should be easier. Also, Bodo brought a great back next to Aziz, Bielenberg, who scored nine goals against OIF.
Their defense was never an issue, and the goalie Christensen is one of the best four in the league.
This game is very important for Bodo, too, to get more ahead of Haslum, and catch up the fight for the bronze. So, there's absolutely no way Falk can play an evened out game today, in my opinion. Details
Norway 1 Falk Horten - Baekkelaget
There are no grounds at this point to underestimate BSK like this. I took a look at Falk in the last round, but also BSK against OIF. Falk are still on second-league level. They have a couple of good individuals, Ilic who is a solid goalkeeper, but that's still weak. Besides, the results prove it. They beat only Hallvard and LTH who know each other well from last season and the second league. The remaining five matches they lost. Out of that four were at home. In those four matches they remained at -5 against Haslum, -7 against OIF, -11 against Elverum, and -12 against Fyllingen. To draw a parallel, BSK left Haslum at 5, champions OIF at 8 points of difference. FALK won the match against LTH, but the too wide and too tall home defense suited them. Considering they're quite short, they had no trouble coming through. Today they won't have that possibility. BSK's back line is tall, their formation is either 5-1 or 6-0 and nothing will be smooth here. Even if they pass, Jugman and Saevaras are in excellent shape and that's another plus for the away team. BSK progressed a lot. They lost only a single game to Elverum, and it was tight. They failed against Kolstad and that was the only weaker match they had. They were better even in the defeat by Elverum. Still, beating Haslum, Halden and OIF is impressive. By half-time they were already at +7, and later then went to +14, after which they slowed down a bit. Considering they are a team with amazing counterattacks and semi-counterattacks, they won't go here under 5 points of difference. I think BSK are at least two steps above at this point, and I would be surprised if Falk passed better than in the matches against Elverum and Fyllingen. The pre-season match is no measurement since it was played at Haslum Cup tournament with colorful line-ups. Today's game of both teams is a whole different matter. Details
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Australija - Sweden
Handicap +29.5 T: 2
Goran • O: 1.75 • S: 5/10 • P: ?
Spain - Slovenia
Handicap (OT incl.) -18,5 T: 1
Ino • O: 1.76 • S: 5/10 • P: ?
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The Betprepare tipsters have a two-year experience of giving tips on regional betting website Dvoznak.com (the predecessor of Betprepare.com). You can see their overall stats and individual stats for each tipster here. *The number of complete or partial voids is shown in the brackets next to the number of winning tips
Success rate:
28 (2) / 50
Stake / Return:
239 / 231.69 (-7.31)
6127 (249) / 10613
51701 / 55522.35 (3821.35)
By months
2016/05 124 70 (1) 19.00 + 2.8
2016/04 157 84 (4) -32.17 -3.6
2016/03 177 112 (4) 138.70 + 13.6
2016/01 199 110 (3) 28.38 + 2.8
2015/06 149 88 (3) 86.40 + 12.3
2015/05 241 115 (8) -150.52 -13.1
2015/04 275 156 (10) 53.57 + 4.0
2015/02 313 195 (11) 230.50 + 15.5
2014/08 201 106 (7) -30.06 -3.4
2014/07 222 118 (3) -8.40 -0.8
2013/11 334 196 (13) 113.97 + 7.7
Bacos 608 376 (6) 454.60 + 16.0
Marko 683 421 (7) 442.12 + 12.9
Pedja16 1346 766 (23) 425.33 + 6.1
Ino 408 243 (3) 268.65 + 12.0
Goran 689 402 (8) 264.13 + 7.7
Juraj 296 177 (1) 172.53 + 10.9
Doublem 246 155 (14) 150.65 + 12.8
Spužva 262 161 (9) 147.84 + 11.9
Chacho 77 54 (1) 112.84 + 28.4
Green 153 91 (1) 109.49 + 14.3
Al Pacino 200 115 (1) 98.43 + 10.3
Seeker 540 300 (25) 74.52 + 2.9
Hans 115 71 (2) 60.24 + 9.9
Blaf 113 71 (5) 45.03 + 7.4
Chamakh 21 14 21.87 + 21.2
Agger 85 49 (2) 20.80 + 4.9
Hrvi 46 27 (1) 19.30 + 7.9
Nik24 29 19 (1) 15.55 + 9.4
Viking 23 15 13.30 + 9.5
Tim 9 6 8.84 + 21.0
Makas 76 42 (1) -3.30 -0.8
Matko 65 33 (3) -12.07 -4.2
Tomo 106 58 (2) -12.63 -2.2
HR 121 68 (5) -20.29 -3.5
HR 12 9 (1) 15.84 + 32.3
Goran 1 1 3.25 + 65.0
Bacos 1 1 3.10 + 62.0
Hrvi 1 1 (1) 0.00 0.0
Blaf 2 1 -1.90 -19.0
Seeker 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
Marko 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
Viking 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
Pedja16 3 1 -5.85 -39.0
Ino 3 1 -5.85 -39.0
Juraj 6 2 -11.70 -39.0
Inactive tipsters +
Kaziyski 493 276 230.27 + 10.1
Legolas17 410 243 (5) 206.29 + 10.5
Richardson 342 199 (4) 134.87 + 7.6
Nucky 243 139 (8) 101.41 + 8.7
Omar 236 130 (12) 98.06 + 10.7
SmaXy 172 93 (1) 91.30 + 10.6
Toni 197 110 (6) 62.26 + 7.1
Hpoirot 93 53 (2) 59.20 + 17.8
Kapetan 67 41 58.20 + 14.2
Tommy Haas 335 194 (14) 51.95 + 3.3
Medo 189 106 (2) 48.69 + 5.9
Absolution 52 33 (2) 40.71 + 18.8
Dompa 80 48 (4) 32.62 + 9.8
Parma 41 27 (3) 28.77 + 16.4
Ivan 119 72 (15) 19.33 + 3.7
Smaug 17 11 16.32 + 22.4
Damir 112 62 (7) 13.29 + 2.5
Aco 5 3 11.21 + 40.0
Ufo 9 6 7.74 + 22.1
Slaven 9 5 4.27 + 13.3
Fantaz 104 57 (3) 2.74 + 0.5
Jean 2 1 1.80 + 20.0
Tompa 2 1 0.55 + 6.1
Lovac 254 133 (9) -1.58 -0.1
Boris 18 9 -2.92 -4.2
Davor 20 10 (1) -5.09 -6.6
Jackie 3 1 -5.60 -43.1
Marin 3 1 -8.48 -53.0
Rujimir 17 8 -10.52 -14.8
King 7 2 -10.68 -42.7
Dado 3 0 -15.00 -100.0
Neco 29 15 (1) -15.77 -10.5
BlackMamba 5 1 -15.85 -63.4
Klara 19 9 -18.25 -16.6
Jayson 6 1 (1) -19.00 -82.6
Rosca 12 5 (2) -22.63 -39.0
Ceginho 35 17 (2) -26.36 -14.0
Hitman 12 2 -30.20 -65.7
Karabaja 172 92 (12) -40.35 -5.5
Iguodala 18 4 (1) -50.62 -58.9
BoleTop 148 74 (3) -53.95 -7.6
Hrvoje 113 55 (6) -62.71 -12.4
Football 1500 836 (77) 173.43 + 2.6
Basketball 3366 1937 (37) 1212.00 + 7.1
Handball 2238 1342 (35) 1206.89 + 10.5
Ice hockey 457 263 (16) 117.89 + 6.1
Water polo 75 44 39.60 + 10.5
Volleyball 1009 573 (1) 579.12 + 12.3
Tennis 1676 953 (74) 346.90 + 4.4
Futsal 115 72 (2) 67.59 + 11.2
American football 98 62 (4) 59.64 + 13.4
Baseball 6 1 (1) -19.00 -82.6
Football 15 10 (1) 8.94 + 14.0
Basketball 12 4 -23.40 -39.0
Handball 2 1 (1) -5.00 -50.0
Volleyball 1 1 3.10 + 62.0
Tennis 2 1 -1.75 -17.5
Top 15 competitions
Norway 1 97 65 134.00 + 26.7
Friendly Club 69 51 113.72 + 31.3
Denmark 1 108 70 (1) 108.29 + 19.1
Germany 1 210 126 (6) 99.37 + 9.2
Euroleague 317 181 (6) 98.86 + 5.9
France 1 129 76 (1) 96.95 + 14.7
Belgium 1 76 50 95.92 + 24.6
France 1 91 57 92.30 + 20.9
Greece 1 122 74 (2) 80.35 + 12.6
Croatia 1 27 21 72.78 + 49.5
NBA 165 98 (4) 71.88 + 9.0
Spain 1 244 139 71.77 + 5.6
Germany 1 73 47 70.37 + 20.0
Austria 1 40 29 70.02 + 33.0
NFL 98 62 (4) 59.64 + 13.4
Poland 1 83 52 54.12 + 13.2
Croatia 1 95 58 (1) 53.15 + 10.8
Austria 1 50 34 (3) 52.67 + 24.7
Netherlands 1 64 39 (2) 52.56 + 17.9
International Friendly 2 2 (1) 6.10 + 101.7
Friendly Club 7 5 5.64 + 17.6
Wimbledon 1 1 3.25 + 65.0
Liga nacija 1 1 3.10 + 62.0
Norway 2 1 1 2.75 + 55.0
Japan 1 1 1 2.55 + 51.0
European Championship 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
Norway Cup 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
Sweden 3 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
EC 2020 qualification 2 1 (1) -5.00 -50.0
Birmingham 1 0 -5.00 -100.0
European Championship U20 3 1 -5.85 -39.0
World Championship U19 8 3 -12.55 -31.4
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Nirav Modi’s first U.S. boutique in New York at 727 Madison Avenue, between 63rd and 64th Streets, opened in September.
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At a spring 2010 auction preview at Phillips de Pury in New York, a staff member approached Alexandra Mor and inquired about the jewelry she was wearing. When the elegant, raven-haired Mor replied that she had designed the pieces herself, the woman offered to introduce her to Nazgol Jahan, the auction house’s worldwide jewelry director. Suitably impressed, Nazgol featured her designs at a December 2010 auction. Jahan reaffirmed her support by selecting five pieces from Mor’s Signature collection for another auction last December. “Phillips de Pury gave me the confidence and boost to introduce the brand to a bigger audience,” says Mor, who has been designing and producing jewelry for private clients for five years. “Everything happened organically.” Her collection is now available at 1stdibs.com, and she continues to work with private clients on custom commissions.
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The bold, colorful jewels in the Marina B collection may look familiar. Established by Marina Bulgari in 1977, the label has been resurrected by its new owner Paul Lubetsky, owner and CEO of Windsor Jewelers in New York City. With the acquisition, Lubetsky took possession of more than 10,000 original hand-painted renderings and all the original moldings, which have allowed him to exactly reproduce Marina B classics in the same European ateliers that made them decades ago.
Dear Prudence: Sipsmith’s Blythe Spirits
Sipsmith London Dry Gin with botanicals.
Behind the bright blue door of a small white-washed garage in London’s Hammersmith neighborhood resides the first distiller’s license granted in the city for 190 years. Much to the disappointment of its recipients— Sam Galsworthy and Fairfax Hall—the 2008 document was not an elaborately rendered parchment, but a generic, computer-generated slip. Nevertheless, it marked a milestone for the lifelong, 30-something friends and founders of Sipsmith, which produces barley vodka and classic London dry gin in small batches of a few hundred bottles.
Time’s Up: Ikepod Rethinks The Hourglass
Marc Newson’s artistic oeuvre spans from furniture to cars to jets, but the visionary Australian designer has a particular fascination with time. His Ikepod watch collection stands apart for its organic forms, his sculptural Baccarat crystal-encased Atmos clocks for Jaeger-LeCoultre have revitalized a Deco-era technical wonder, and now he redefines the medieval hourglass with unabashed 21st-century sex appeal. Instead of using Baccarat, Newson commissioned an artisan glass blower in Basel, Switzerland, to form the hourglasses out of borosilicate, a high-tech durable glass used in labs and the aerospace industry. Newson then replaced the sand with millions of stainless steel nanoballs available in four shades. While The Hourglass’ materials are high-tech, the engineering is a refreshingly basic exercise in physics. But timekeeping still has its place—the small version runs for 10 minutes, while the larger tracks an hour. It all depends on how much time you have to waste, as once you flip The Hourglass, you’re sure to be transfixed until the final tiny ball falls.
Buckle Up: Siegelson Offers A Verdura Masterpiece
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Siegelson, a New York City dealer specializing in rare jewelry and objets d’art, possesses a number of precious masterpieces, including this circa 1935 treasure designed by Fulco, Duke of Verdura, and made by Paul Flato, both legends of 20th-century jewelry design. During Hollywood’s golden age in the 1930s and ’40s, tinsel town’s most glamorous starlets, including Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich, trusted Flato to make them sparkle.
A Safe Bet: Doettling’s Retro Colosimo
Colosimo with watch winder
Colosimo radial locking system
Doettling’s new Colosimo may be the world’s smallest high-security safe, as its German manufacturer claims, but from a design point of view, it’s anything but diminutive, despite dimensions of about 11 inches for height, width, and depth. Doettling spent three years developing its first decorative tabletop safe, which led the company to coin the term “haute safeology.” Named for gangster “Big Jim” Colosimo, who ruled the Windy City’s gangland before Al Capone took over, Colosimo’s bold stature is a nod to the hefty American bank vaults of the Prohibition era, which were built with thick, round steel doors and radially arranged locking bolts. The safe’s intricate and smooth locking mechanism, which features 16 radially arranged bolts and 32 gilded gearwheels, is also reminiscent of a mechanical watch movement, so Doettling offers it equipped with a watch winder (or a humidor if you prefer).
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Shining Stars: Royal Asscher’s Stars of Africa
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"Every human longs for peace and love."
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Topic(s): Peace
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"People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it." ― Lorna Luft
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Zanza Steinberg
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Zanza Steinberg is a NYC based Actor, Dancer, Educator and Artistic Director. She has appeared in regional, international, and touring productions, and has trained extensively in Fosse technique. Some of her favorite performance credits include Chicago the Musical (Mona), West Side Story (Graziella), and a featured commercial for V8 Energy. She is the Founding Artistic Director of ALMA NYC, a Not For Profit Artists' Collective, and GIFT, a sc...read more
Zanza Steinberg is a NYC based Actor, Dancer, Educator and Artistic Director. She has appeared in regional, international, and touring productions, and has trained extensively in Fosse technique. Some of her favorite performance credits include Chicago the Musical (Mona), West Side Story (Graziella), and a featured commercial for V8 Energy. She is the Founding Artistic Director of ALMA NYC, a Not For Profit Artists' Collective, and GIFT, a scholarship program that fights for equality for women to receive an education in Burkina Faso, Africa.
She has worked as an Associate Choreographer to Jim Cooney for The Time Machine at NYMF (Davenport Theatricals), and has choreographed and directed both WHET; An immersive theatrical experience at Norwood Club, and Homage; An ode to Jazz, music and dance at Symphony Space. Zanza has conceived and created many media projects, most notably ‘Rise’ created for the United Nations Sustainability Summit, and ‘Liberi’, in support of March For Our Lives.
Zanza is proud to be a founding teaching artist for TDF, working with young people without access to the arts, and Kaiser’s Room, working with individuals with a cognitive or developmental disability. Most recently, she lectured at Lincoln Center on their segment for Entrepreneurship in the Arts. She is proudly represented by LDC Artist Representation and is committed to creating storytelling work that is accessible for all.
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George’s Gall (Unmitigated Version)
One wonders what is bubbling up in George Jr.’s brain fluids and what makes the guy so blind he can’t see the huge, out-stretched, multi-layered hand about to slap his freakin’ face.
Either he’s so dumb to be believed, or he just don’t give a fat-rat’s ass.
Most-likely a strange, biological combination of both.
On Saturday, the former president (I write that with a heavy heart) told a leadership conference in New Delhi, India, the war in Afghanistan should be escalated beyond the boiling point as apparently the conflict is the linchpin for the freedom of the planet.
The boy hasn’t lost his touch for irony and unmitigated gall.
(Illustration found here).
Via Agence France-Presse:
“If the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and their extremist allies were allowed to take over Afghanistan again, they would have a safe haven and the Afghan people, particularly the Afghan women, would face a return to a brutal tyranny.”
“This region and the world would face serious threats,” he added.
The former buck-stops-here Big Decider guy steered clear of offering direct advice to President Obama, who is currently figuring out what to with George Jr.’s Afghan debacle — more troops and how many — but that didn’t plug his face-hole, however:
“…the work is hard and I hope we don’t abandon the people of Afghanistan.”
The asshole has a memory lapse — George Jr. abandoned the country in December 2001 when he started prep work on the Iraq invasion — and even after it became apparent the Taliban was re-emerging years later, denied a troop increase (due to the Iraqi front going to shit in a wire basket).
And he punked the Indians with the continuing line that extremists want to destroy us simply because they just plain loath our way of life.
Bush said both the United States and India were “involved in an ideological struggle against extremists who murder the innocent to advance a dark vision of extremism and control.”
“They attack political, financial and diplomatic targets because they hate our way of life and they hate our vision for freedom and human rights and human dignity and prosperity and peace,” Bush told the conference.
This is also the same George Jr. who waxed poetic nearly two years ago about the sweet-fiction of war: “I must say, I’m a little envious. If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed. It must be exciting for you … in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You’re really making history, and thanks.”
For what, you lying, freakin’ freak!
Posted by: Bruce Maulden // Just Plain War // Afghan election, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, History, war // November 1, 2009
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One thought on “George’s Gall (Unmitigated Version)”
right on Bruce….I here the dipwad is making ‘Motivational’ speeches…uhh!
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Plan to transform Dublin’s Dorset Street into ‘cosmopolitan destination village’ unveiled
Dorset Street in Dublin’s north inner city would be turned into a “vibrant cosmopolitan destination village” and “culinary hub” under plans put forward by local residents and business groups. Business group Dubhlinn, working with local residents and Dublin City Council, wants to end the dominance of traffic, fast food outlets, vacant buildings and adult shops, and restore the street to its “former glory” with renovated shop fronts and a pedestrian and cycle-friendly layout. Dorset Street, the principal traffic artery from Dublin Airport and the M1, was built as an upmarket residential area in the 18th century by the Gardiner family but became a thriving shopping district from the mid 19th century until the 1960s.
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Compiling Clojure to JavaScript, pt. 2 – Why No Eval?
Why no eval?
this is the second entry in an n-part series explaining the techniques and design principles of ClojureScript. translations: [日本語]
I was not expecting to talk about eval so soon in this series, but apparently its exclusion from ClojureScript was more controversial than I imagined. However, by excluding eval the Clojure/core team was not acting miserly, but instead had valid reasons for its exclusion. This post will go over why eval was excluded and why it may never see the light of day in the core distribution.
What is eval?
The first question you may have is “who cares?” but preceding that may be “what is eval?” Simply put, eval is a function that takes a data structure representing a program and executes it in the context of the dynamic environment. For example, in Clojure you can perform the follow:
(eval '(+ 1 2 3))
;=> 6
This takes the list: the symbol + and the numbers 1, 2, and 3 and executes it as if it was typed into the REPL. Let’s look at a more interesting example:
(def blip [\b \e \e \p])
(def buzz {:beep 42})
(eval (list* (keyword (reduce str blip))
[(symbol "buzz")]))
;=> 42
This fragment builds from pieces the list (:beep buzz) which is evaluated as a keyword lookup into a map. This is an interesting example not because the result is useful, but in that it demonstrates an interesting property of Clojure (and Lisp in general) — code is made of the same data structures that the language itself manipulates.
eval is Indeed Very Cool
One of the first games that programmers new to Lisp play is the eval game. That is, they build a bunch of data structures using the Lisp functions and pass them into eval. It’s great fun. Having eval in ClojureScript would also be a very useful tool. Indeed, I suspect it would be extremely useful to base an in-page REPL on eval. This REPL could then be made to operate within the context of the currently loaded ClojureScript-enabled page allowing direct manipulation of the page elements and even the runtime code itself. This is potentially a very powerful debugging and incremental development tool for ClojureScript in the same way that Firebug serves for JavaScript. However, the greatest part about this “fictional” REPL is that it doesn’t require that ClojureScript provide eval at all.1
But honestly, if ClojureScript programs are composed of data forms directly manipulable by the language itself then why not just provide eval anyway? The answer can be found, as many answers in life, in the tradeoffs.
FojureScript
Imagine a language named FojureScript that is exactly like ClojureScript in every way except that it contains eval (and has awesome error messages). FojureScript programs are compiled into JavaScript with a compiler written in another language named Fojure. FojureScript’s compiler also allows for differing levels of optimization from raw JavaScript emission, to advanced dead-code elimination. What happens when a call to eval is performed in FojureScript? In the first scenario the naive eval falls down:
;!! Unknown function +.
;!! Maybe you meant fojs.bore._PLUS_?
So clearly the problem is that during the compilation process the function named by + is munged into a JavaScript function fojs.bore._PLUS_. OK, no big deal. FojureScript can be made to resolve the properly munged names at evaluation time with (relatively) minimal fuss. However, what about the call to eval in the case of a maximally minified compilation?
;!! WTF dude!? I have no idea what + is!
:!! That function doesn't even exist.
If you looked in the FojureScript bore.fojs library you would see that + is clearly defined. However, in the production code a call to + never actually occured and therefore its implementation was removed completely from the runtime environment!
Blurring the Lines
Although Lisp programs are made up of data structures available in the language, there is a marked difference between the data composing the code, and the data flowing through the code. The data composing the language is subject to static analysis and a lot of information about it can be garnered at the time of compilation. The data running through the code is known only at the time of execution and therefore can only be known in very superficial ways. There is a stark line between what is known at compilation time and what is known at runtime. Therefore, compilation can and will eventually remove a function that is needed at runtime via eval.2 And therein lies the rub. The presence of eval blurs the line between runtime and compilation time requiring that everything available in the latter be present in the former. (or is it the other way around?)
A goal of the ClojureScript team is to provide maximally minified source code that maintains program semantics. The trade-off therefore is that it is much more important as a ClojureScript design principle that the runtime environment be available at dev time than the dev environment be available at runtime.3
The larger goal of Clojure (the family) is to generate high-performance code on every single platform and to support eval in ClojureScript is antithetical to that goal. It would be a fool’s errand to try and support eval in the face of aggressive code elimination — you can have one, but not the other. ClojureScript is designed to solve the types of big problems that are simply too difficult to fathom, much less achieve, using raw JavaScript or any number of JavaScript frameworks. It’s conceivable that these huge applications will require a bevy of libraries. You cannot effectively leverage these libraries without an optimizing compiler utilizing dead-code elimination. You cannot have the optimizing compiler if you wish to support eval. Q.E.D.
While you may not agree with all decisions made in the development of ClojureScript (especially regarding eval), I hope you will agree that it was not designed and developed by fools.
Bueller?
thanks to Chris Redinger and Brenton Ashworth for reading a draft of this post
I knew this would happen, just not this quickly. Great timing I’d say. ↩
And if you extrapolate from this point you’ll see why there is no runtime compilation. That is, if a macro builds a form containing functions that were optimized away at runtime, then bad things will happen. ↩
This principle is manifest in Chris Granger’s brepl. ↩
13 Comments, Comment or Ping
Yoav
I don’t really understand why anyone would want eval, and for that matter, any other bad part of JavaScript. As a new language ClojureScript has the privileged (and the common sense) to focus on the good parts of JavaScript. I haven’t checked it, but I hope that there’s no ‘with’ in ClojureScript.
Thanks for this great explanation. This decision certainly makes sense in the context that you laid out.
(B.)
Couldn’t you have both with different compilation modes? Then the developer could decide whether eval is worth the performance tradeoffs.
Nick Main
I imagine that there is no runtime support for user macro-expansion in the reader either.
Is that correct ?
Laurent Petit
I’m having a hard time to buy what I consider to be the “main argument” of your post, e.g. “look, when dead code is aggressively removed, eval cannot be used, so it’s not possible to write eval”. (it’s how I understood it the first time I read it).
For me the argument is “eval in prod would prevent us from being able to provide a ‘maximally minified source code’ option”.
And removing the need for eval has probably led to (or facilitated) the design decision of writing the ClojureScript compiler in Clojure instead of ClojureScript. Which decision totally sealed the fate of an eval in ClojureScript (and which I think is /now/ the real technical reason for not being able to change mind and e.g. provide eval for some development mode only).
Note: I’m fine with that, but the argumentation starts when wrong or partial explanations are given to people :-)
Jeff Rose
Ok, so the design decision makes sense for the deployment case, but just out of curiosity why couldn’t there be an eval for an everything included, non-optimized version? If the compiler is written in clojure and it emits javascript it seems like it should be able to load into a running environment. In his talk Rich said that the compiler has to generate closure-compiler friendly javascript. Can this be executed directly without using closure, or is it necessary to run the compiler? Would ClojureScript as it is now be sufficient to run its own compiler, or are there missing features that would preclude this anyway?
Thanks for an informative post.
Paul M Bauer
It seems a very pragmatic decision was made to effectively fork key parts of Clojure to make ClojureScript, as opposed to doing Clojure-in-Clojure first, then making JS a target.
Will there be a test suite comprehensive enough to guarantee a measure of semantic fidelity between the two versions? Interop, eval and macros are just the immediately visible differences (see binding semantics).
Brian Goslinga
I can see a world were all of the reflective features (including eval) are provided, but a pay-as-you-go system is in place. For the vast majority of programs, all of or almost all of the support for reflection is optimized out as it is not used by the program.
Granted, the increase in complexity of the compiler may make it not worth it (although the Closure compiler seems like it may be able to do most of the hard work) as only a minority of programs would need the extra features.
@Laurent
You’re right that writing the compiler in Clojure is a reason why eval is not provided, but that is a purely technical reason. That is, if eval was of the utmost utility and importance, then it would get in one way or another.
If you would, please let me know how my phrase and your rewording are different. I’m confused.
Aug 2nd, 2011
@fogus maybe it’s me which was confused. I thought that having the compiler written in Clojure was also driven by other reasons, such as not having to solve harder problems (*), which may have lead to releasing the project later, and that maybe this was not affordable.
So I had the feeling that not having eval was an acceptable trade-off, while I see it exposed as the main reason(**). But it’s just musings, after all!
(*) adding a bootstrap phase to ClojureScript. (**) because I keep thinking that there could have existed other ways to provide eval by having 2 different kinds of distributions : a compiler+runtime distrib, and a runtime-only distrib. Of course, I can imagine lib providers starting to rely too much on compiler+runtime distribs, thus locking their users … ==> but even by not providing the choice to embed the compiler at runtime, wouldn’t have written the compiler in ClojureScript enabled writing macros in ClojureScript ?
Pete F
I love the smell of premature optimization in the morning!
@Pete
It’s not as if this is untrodden ground.
Lyndon Tremblay
I am wishing for a Node.js based REPL. I am almost certain this requires eval — how about with no optimizations, say, just for development? ^_^
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Home Technology Nokia 9 appears in Geekbench listing, launch expected soon
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A leaked image of the soon to be launched Nokia 9 has emerged online. Nokia 9, the much-awaited flagship model from HMD Global is expected to be launched in the coming days.
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Crosswind Landings
Takeoff and Landing Topics
As pilots we learn to deal with crosswind landings from day one. Chances are this was in a primary flight trainer that weighed less than your car and was accomplished with what some call the "wing low" method, something more properly called a sideslip. This could very well be a valid technique for the jet you are flying now, but it may not be. There are three basic techniques to choose from:
Touchdown in a Sideslip — The classic wing low technique aligns the airplane with the runway centerline early but can risk engine or wing tip runway contact under high crosswinds and can delay activation of some items needed for stopping until both main gear legs make ground contact.
Touchdown in a Crab — Flying in a crab on short final, the flare, and touchdown is the simplest method but is prohibited as a method in many aircraft. Not all aircraft manufacturers have designed or tested their aircraft to accept the potential landing gear side loads during touchdown. For aircraft allowed to touchdown in a crab, alignment with runway centerline and the aircraft's initial movement toward the direction of the nose can be issues.
De-crab — Many aircraft call for flying in a crab on short final and the "decrabbing" at one of several points: (1) just prior to the flare, (2) the flare, (3) just prior to touchdown, or (4) at the moment of touchdown. The method used to align the aircraft varies with aircraft but each requires timing and experience to judge the proper control inputs.
Regardless of method, a common goal is to have the airplane aligned with the runway following touchdown. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. If your aircraft is allowed more than one method, you should know the pros and cons of each. If your aircraft manufacturer specifies a particular method, you should use that method and understand its limitations. I've flown aircraft that require landing in a crab (T-38), mandate landing only with the sideslip (B-707, T-37), allow you to use any method with limitations placed on the sideslip (B-747), or require a decrab just prior to touchdown (CL-604, GIII, GIV, GV, G450).
What follows comes from the references listed below, with my comments and techniques shown in orange. I don't think anyone explains the techniques better than Boeing, and most late model Boeings allow all three methods with a few limitations. I've used the Boeing 737 NG Flight Crew Training Manual to introduce each technique as a starting point, with other aircraft offered for another point of view. If your manuals are silent or sparse when discussing cross wind landings, perhaps what follows can fill in the gaps.
I've also included some other comments: Other Perspectives.
Photo: Crosswind landing sequence, from Bernal Saborio (Creative Commons).
Touchdown in a Sideslip
Figure: B-737 touchdown in a sideslip, from Eddie's notes.
The following 737 technique can be found in other Boeing manuals and may not apply, word-for-word, to other aircraft that allow touchdown in a sideslip. But if your manual doesn't offer any advice at all, or if you are looking for how "the big boys" do it, it gives you more information than you had.
[Boeing 737 NG (TM), page 6.46]
The sideslip crosswind technique aligns the airplane with the extended runway centerline so that main gear touchdown occurs on the runway centerline.
The initial phase of the approach to landing is flown using the crab method to correct for drift. Prior to the flare the airplane centerline is aligned on or parallel to the runway centerline. Downwind rudder is used to align the longitudinal axis to the desired track as aileron is used to lower the wing into the wind to prevent drift. A steady sideslip is established with opposite rudder and low wing into the wind to hold desired course.
Touchdown is accomplished with the upwind wheels touching just before the downwind wheels. Overcontrolling the roll axis must be avoided because overbanking could cause the engine nacelle or outboard wing flap to contact the runway.
Properly coordinated, this maneuver results in nearly fixed rudder and aileron control positions during the final phase of the approach, touchdown, and beginning of the landing roll. However, since turbulence is often associated with crosswinds, it is often difficult to maintain the cross control coordination through the final phase of approach to touchdown.
If the crew elects to fly the sideslip to touchdown, it may be necessary to add a crab during strong crosswinds. Main gear touchdown is made with the upwind wing low and crab angle applied. As the upwind wing touches first, a slight increase in downwind rudder is applied to align the airplane with the runway centerline. At touchdown, increased application of upwind aileron should be applied to maintain wings level.
[Boeing 737 NG (TM), page 6.45] Sideslip only (zero crab) landings are not recommended with crosswind components in excess of 26 knots. This recommendation ensures adequate ground clearance and is based on maintaining adequate control margin.
The sideslip technique tends to be restricted to aircraft with short, unswept wings . . .
[Pilatus POH, page 10-1] It is recommended to use the wing down technique. At approximately 100 to 200 ft on approach to the runway, apply rudder to align the longitudinal axis of the aircraft to the runway and put on bank in the opposite direction to maintain the runway centerline. The aircraft is the flown in a sideslip to touch down initially on one wheel. As soon as one wheel touches, lower the other two to the runway and immediately select either the condition lever to ground or the PCL to beta or reverse.
The Air Force Boeing 747-200 that I flew (E-4B) allowed touchdown in a sideslip and no crab angle up to 25 knots of crosswind. As crab angle is increased, the crosswind limit went up to 40 knots and higher. Why the limit? We were told we could actually hit the runway with an engine pod. Because of the swept wing, the chances of dragging an engine nacelle went up as the speed went down. Many business jets have highly swept wings that put the wing tips at risk, especially at high deck angles . . .
Sideslip Limits
Figure: GV wing tip clearance in a 3-point attitude versus 5° nose up, from Eddie's notes.
Looking at your aircraft in a three point attitude may lead you to believe it will take a lot of bank to get the wing tip in a sideslip landing. If you have a swept wing, the look of things can be deceiving. In a GV, for example, the wing tip is actually lowered 17" when the nose is raised to a normal flare attitude.
More about this: Flight Math / Wing Tip Hit Bank Angle on Landing.
Figure: GV bank angle to hit a wing tip in a 3-point attitude, from Eddie's notes.
In a 3-point attitude, if you were able to push the aircraft over on a wheel, the wing would contact the ground at 7° of bank:
Figure: GV bank angle to hit a wing tip in the landing attitude, from Eddie's notes.
In a normal landing attitude, the wing tip is lower to the ground and you would hit with only 5° of bank:
Note that with any yaw into the lower wing, the wing tip strike would happen even sooner.
Touchdown in a Crab
Figure: B-737 touchdown in a crab, from Eddie's notes.
The following 737 technique can be found in other Boeing manuals and may not apply, word-for-word, to other aircraft that allow touchdown in a crab. But if your manual doesn't offer any advice at all, or if you are looking for how "the big boys" do it, it gives you more information than you had.
The airplane can land using crab only (zero sideslip) up to the landing crosswind guideline speeds.
On dry runways, upon touchdown the airplane tracks toward the upwind edge of the runway while de-crabbing to align with the runway. Immediate upwind aileron is needed to ensure the wings remain level while rudder is needed to track the runway centerline. The greater amount of crab at touchdown, the larger the lateral deviation from the point of touchdown. For this reason, touchdown in a crab only condition is not recommended when landing on a dry runway in strong crosswinds.
On very slippery runways, landing the airplane using crab only reduces drift toward the downwind side at touchdown, permits rapid operation of spoilers and autobrakes because all main gears touchdown simultaneously, and may reduce pilot workload since the airplane does not have to be de-crabbed before touchdown. However, proper rudder and upwind aileron must be applied after touchdown to ensure directional control is maintained.
Longer aircraft, such as the Boeing 747, 757, and 767, must also consider the distance of the cockpit versus the main gear:
[Boeing 767 (TM), page 6.37]
Whenever a crab is maintained during a crosswind approach, offset the flight deck on the upwind side of centerline so that the main gear touches down in the center of the runway.
[Cessna Citation X Model 750 Airplane Flight Manual, page 3-205.]
While the Citation X calls their recommended crosswind landing technique a crab, it is actually a de-crab in the flare up to a point after which a crab is suggested at higher crosswinds.
Consistent crosswind landings should be accomplished using a "crab" technique. Due to its long span, and highly swept wing, the airplane should not be flown using the wing-down sideslip technique. Final approach should be flown in a crab with wings level. As the airplane is transitioned into a flare attitude, smoothly apply rudder to approximately align the airplane for touchdown while maintaining wings level with aileron control. Depending on the crosswind velocity, full runway alignment may not be practical due to resulting drift. Allow the airplane to touchdown in a crab. Do not attempt to hold it off the runway. As the airplane touches, deploy the speed brakes and smoothly apply and hold forward elevator control to lower the nose to the ground. Use nose wheel steering through the rudder pedals for directional control, transitioning to the tiller as speed reduces. After touchdown, it will be necessary to apply and maintain aileron control into the wind to keep the upwind wing from lifting during rollout.
Crab Angle Limits
Figure: Computing crosswind crab angle, from Eddie's notes.
If your aircraft allows you to land in a crab, the maximum (demonstrated or limiting) crosswind will determine just how much of side load the manufacturer anticipated from these types of landings.
If your aircraft requires a sideslip or a de-crab prior to touchdown, knowing how much crab is allowed prior to removal will give you an excellent gauge of how much crosswind you really have.
The angle is found by dividing the crosswind component by the approach speed, and then pulling out a scientific calculator and looking for the inverse sine function, seen usually as "arcsin" but sometimes "sin-1." I've done a few for you here:
X-W VAPP = 105 VAPP = 130
10 5° 4°
20 11° 9°
25 14° 11°
Crab Angle Cockpit Displacement
Figure: B-747-200 cockpit displacement example, from Eddie's notes.
Long aircraft have an additional challenge when landing in a crab: cockpit displacement. The aircraft will pivot around the main landing gear on touchdown so pilots must place their eyes upwind of the runway centerline. A Boeing 747-200, for example, has two sets of main landing gear. The furthest aft set, known as the body gear, will touch down first and the aircraft nose will tend to swing forward. Using our crab angle = sin-1 (XW / VAPP) formula, we see that the amount of displacement can be significant.
Reverse Thrust and Crosswinds
Figure: Reverse thrust and crosswind, from Eddie's notes.
[Boeing 767 FCT, page 6.35]
This figure shows a directional control problem during a landing rollout on a slippery runway with a crosswind. As the airplane starts to weather vane into the wind, the reverse thrust side force component adds to the crosswind component and drifts the airplane to the downwind side of the runway. Also, high braking forces reduce the capability of the tires to corner.
In the world of motorcycles we say the tires only have so much grip and if you use up grip to brake you have less to corner. With airplanes this also applies, you can do both at the same time but not as well as you can do one or the other.
To correct back to centerline, release the brakes and reduce reverse thrust to reverse idle. Releasing the brakes increases the tire-cornering capability and contributes to maintaining or regaining directional control. Setting reverse idle reduces reverse thrust side force component without the requirement to go through a full reverser actuation cycle. Use rudder pedal steering and differential braking as required, to prevent over correcting past the runway centerline. When directional control is regained and the airplane is correcting toward the runway centerline, apply maximum braking and symmetrical reverse thrust to stop the airplane.
Note: Use of this technique increases the required landing distance.
De-crab
Figure: Decrabbing a B-737, from Eddie's notes.
The following 737 technique can be found in other Boeing manuals and may not apply, word-for-word, to other aircraft that specify a de-crab of some sort. But if your manual doesn't offer any advice at all, or if you are looking for how "the big boys" do it, it gives you more information than you had.
The objective of this technique is to maintain wings level throughout the approach, flare, and touchdown. On final approach, a crab angle is established with wings level to maintain the desired track. Just prior to touchdown while flaring the airplane, downwind rudder is applied to eliminate the crab and align the airplane with the runway centerline.
As rudder is applied, the upwind wing sweeps forward developing roll. Hold wings level with simultaneous application of aileron into the wind. The touchdown is made with cross controls and both gear touching down simultaneously. Throughout the touchdown phase upwind aileron application is utilized to keep the wings level.
[Bombardier BD-700 Flight Crew Operating Manual, §04-08-15, ¶10.]
The recommended technique for approach is the wings level crab technique where the aircraft is pointed into the wind to control direction.
If a crosswind is present, as the flare is commenced, application of rudder is used to align the fuselage parallel with runway centerline.
As rudder is applied the aircraft will tend to roll in the direction of the rudder input. To counter this, simultaneous input of rudder and opposite aileron is required to keep the wings level. In this wings level condition there will be some sideways drift. A slight, into wind, wing down should control this sideways motion.
Excessive wing down can cause the wing tip to contact the runway. In order to minimize this possibility, the bank should be limited to less than 3 degrees and the touchdown should occur as soon as the aircraft is aligned with the runway. Prolonging the flare would increase the pitch attitude which brings the wing tip closer to the ground.
The aileron input is required throughout the landing roll and the input should be increased as the airspeed decreases.
Any lateral motion on final approach should be controlled using aileron inputs. The rudder should not be used to control lateral motion and should only be used in the flare to align the aircraft with the runway.
[Challenger 604 Operating Manual, pg. 06-13-5] In crosswind conditions, the crosswind crab angle should be maintained for as long as possible until prior to touchdown. Aim for the centerline or slightly on the upwind side and avoid touching down on the downwind side of the runway because of the possibility of the airplane weathervaning towards the wind after touchdown, and drifting toward the downwind side of the runway.
[Falcon 2000EX EASy CODDE, §03-15-40, page 1] Landing
During the final approach, maintain crab to follow the extended runway centerline,
During flare, apply rudder to decrease the crab,
Land on the runway centerline,
Immediately after touchdown, put the nose gear on the runway.
[G450 Aircraft Operating Manual, §06-05-10, ¶2.B.]
Gulfstream eliminated the entire section providing landing procedures and techniques a few years ago, what follows is from the September 2009 version of the operating manual. I am told they are leaving these discussions to the training centers. It is my experience that the training centers don't address the issue at all. So here is what the book used to say.
During the final approach phase of the crosswind landing the pilot should fly aligned with or slightly upwind of the runway center line utilizing crab into the wind sufficient to stabilize the aircraft in drift. Due to the varying crosswind components the pilot must change the amount of crab-angle as the airplane progresses down the approach path. Avoid excessive airspeeds during the approach. A prolonged float after flare will increase pilot work load during touchdown. Drift correction during touchdown is far easier when the pilot can control timing of the touchdown.
Approaching touchdown, the rudder is applied to align the aircraft fuselage with the runway and simultaneous opposite aileron is applied to achieve zero drift. This combination of wing down/opposite rudder will be coordinated throughout the last portion of the landing approach until touchdown. Touchdown with the upwind landing gear first, then set the other main wheel on the runway without delay. Use aileron into the wind as necessary on the initial landing to keep the upwind landing gear on the runway. Immediately on touchdown lower the nose wheel to the runway and supply sufficient forward fuselage pressure on the yoke to maintain nose wheel contact with the runway. As the roll out speed decreases, the pilot should shift directional control to nose wheel steering and normal braking.
[The following comes from a major airline's Airbus 300 pilot's manual]
The "crab" method is the preferred technique to use on final approach when landing in crosswind conditions.
In the flare, smoothly use rudder to align the aircraft fuselage to the runway centerline. Routine use of sidestick into the wind before touchdown is not recommended because sidestick deflection commands roll rate.
In strong crosswind conditions, a small amount of lateral control may be used to maintain wings level.
After touchdown, the control law transfers from the flight mode to the ground mode, and there is a direct relationship between the sidestick position and aileron position. In strong crosswinds, sidestick input may be required to both assist in directional control and keep the wings level during the initial stages of the landing rollout. Sidestick inputs should be removed progressively as the aircraft decelerates, with directional control maintained with the rudder.
De-Crab Timing and Follow Through
Photo: Aircraft wreckage, from NTSB AAR 0501, figure 2.
The first challenge in a de-crab is getting the timing just right. If you de-crab too early you will need more bank angle and risk a wing tip or engine pod strike. If you de-crab too late, you risk landing in a crab. The second challenge is to shift your mind from flying in a crab to flying aligned with the runway. Even if your flight manual calls for an early de-crab, you need to continue to fly the airplane aligned with the ruwnay.
In 2003 a FedEx MD-10 crash landed in Memphis when the first officer de-crabbed at the appropriate time and then removed all sideslip controls prior to touchdown. I believe the subsequent aircraft drift caused her to freeze at the controls and forget to flare. The very hard impact was made with the aircraft in a 6° crab, causing the right landing gear to collapse. The aircraft was destroyed, there were two injuries, no fatalities.
More about this: Federal Express 647.
Other Perspectives
A Boeing 707 Perspective from Barry Schiff
During my five years flying the Boeing 707, landing in anything but a sideslide was considered heresey. Of course that made for some sporting crosswind landings but my technique was to fly the airplane onto the runway and eliminate hovering over the runway while letting the wind drift me or risking an engine pod or flap. Barry Schiff's method is an optimal de-crab and looks brilliant. If, like me, you prefer to fly the airplane onto the runway rather than flare to zero inches, the method works very well so long as you err on the side to early rather than late.
Proficient Pilot
The kickout method
By Barry Schiff
Barry Schiff has been flying for 49 years. He retired as a captain from TWA in 1998.
The first jet airplane I flew was a TWA Boeing 707-100, an ancient model that was pure turbojet (not turbofan) with water injection to boost takeoff performance. We called it the Water Wagon.
Just looking at the airplane made me wonder how it was possible to make crosswind landings without dragging a pylon-mounted engine pod on the runway. (In reality, the first thing that would scrape the ground would be the aft, inboard corner of a wing flap.) Pilots probably have wondered the same about the Boeing 737. Its pods are so close to the ground that the bottoms of its nacelles are flattened on later models to increase ground clearance.
My curiosity was satisfied when I sat in a cockpit jump seat on a 707 flight to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1964. The captain had established a considerable crab angle while on final approach to compensate for the 29-knot left crosswind component, the maximum allowable for that airplane. We crossed the runway threshold while still crabbing, and I began to wonder when the captain would transition the airplane into a wing-low slip, the time-honored method of making a crosswind landing. But he held the Water Wagon in a crab even as he pulled the throttles back and began to flare. "Omigod," I thought. "We're going to land sideways and shear the tires from their wheels." I looked at the copilot, and he didn't appear concerned.
Just as the tires on both sides of the airplane were about to touch, the captain applied right rudder to straighten the airplane and simultaneously cranked the control wheel hard to the left. The airplane banked into the crosswind, and the left main landing-gear wheels kissed the concrete.
I had just witnessed a masterfully executed crosswind landing utilizing what I was to learn is called the kickout method.
Although it might seem at first blush that this method involves simply delaying the transition from crab to slip until the last second, there is much more to it than that. Instead of waiting to slip and then landing, this technique involves a transition to a slip that is interrupted by a landing. In other words, the airplane is so close to the ground while still crabbing that it is the act of lowering the wing that forces the upwind tires to touch down firmly and positively. It is the act of banking that causes touchdown. The goal is to plant the upwind gear on the ground and thus eliminate the need to enter the steeply banked slip that would otherwise be required to prevent drift.
In this manner, the pilot doesn't have to sit and wait for the aircraft to plop down while hovering in a flare above the runway in a steep, uncomfortable slip. By lowering the upwind wing while the aircraft is only inches above the runway, the upwind tire is forced down to make firm contact with the ground.
It is a simple matter to determine when the aircraft has been banked sufficiently; just listen or feel for ground contact. Simultaneous with the application of upwind aileron, it is necessary to kick the aircraft out of the crab with firm and opposite downwind rudder so that the wheels are aligned with the runway at the instant of touchdown.
Once the upwind tire is forced onto the ground, aileron pressure should be increased to keep it there. Rudder pressure continues to be applied as necessary to maintain runway heading.
The final step is the same as always. Allow the downwind tire to touch, followed by the nosewheel or tailwheel.
After I had learned to make this kind of a crosswind landing in the big jets, I had wondered if the same technique could be used in light airplanes. To my delight, I discovered that this somewhat unorthodox method of landing crosswind is equally useful in general aviation aircraft, even if they don't have engine pods slung under their wings.
I was heading home in a Piper Cherokee 140 on a day when the wind was gusting across Runway 3 at 30-plus kt. An attempt at a conventional crosswind landing failed because I could not slip steeply enough on short final to offset drift. I was about to divert to a nearby airport when I decided to try the kickout method for the first time in a general aviation airplane.
I held a tremendous crab angle on final and was grateful that there was no such thing as a maximum-allowable crab angle. There is, of course, a definite limit to the degree of slip that can be maintained in any given airplane.
I held the crab until only inches above the runway and checked the descent with a touch of back-pressure. When the tires were only seconds from scrubbing, I simultaneously kicked out of the crab and lowered the left wing. The left tire plunked onto the runway. The simple act of banking forced the landing. Because of the brutality of that crosswind, I pushed the aircraft over onto all three legs and braked to a stop.
The kickout method isn't for everyone. But for those who want to try something new and effective, wait for a day when the windsock points across the runway, hire a proficient instructor to ride shotgun, and give it a try. You'll probably have the airport to yourself (and the tower controllers thinking that there is a lunatic loose in the traffic pattern).
A Boeing 737 Perspective from John Laming
Dear Eddie,
Congratulations on your excellent article on cross-wind landings published in the June 2015 issue of B&CA. I plan on giving it to my students during their type rating training on the Boeing 737 Classic simulator where I am a simulator instructor on that type. I retired from active 737 flying many years ago but fortunately still instruct in the simulator and conduct instrument ratings.
I learned to fly in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1951 and went on to fly the P51 Mustang and single seat De Havilland Vampires plus the Hawker Sea Fury. During my 18 year military career I also instructed on the Avro Lincoln four engine heavy bomber (an advanced and heavier edition of the wartime Lancaster) and also on the DC3, Convair 440, Vickers Viscount and other military and civil types. I hold an Australian ATP as well as instrument rating and fly the Texan 600 LSA as a hobby. I also write occasional articles for the www.airfactsjournal.com website.
The main reason for writing to you is to offer some thoughts on crosswind landing techniques on the Boeing 737 Classics. I have about 8000 hours on the 737-200 to 500 series.
I have always thought that not enough attention is paid by instructors in the simulator on crosswind landing techniques. While accent on automation seems to be the priority during type rating training (rightly or wrongly in my view), this should not be at the expense of raw data manual flying skills. On many occasions I have seen pilots who are highly proficient at using the automatics, but seem hopeless at flying without the aids of the autopilot, autothrottle and flight director. This is because their companies discourage anything except full use of automation. I believe this is a world- wide problem particularly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East where many first officers are cadet pilots with very little manual flying experience.
This really shows out during crosswind handling which is probably why some airlines place a crosswind component limit for first officers. Instead of spending more simulator time on training for crosswind landings up to the aircraft limit, especially during initial type rating training, the tendency for instructors is to quickly tick the box after one or two crosswind landings and move on to something else. This causes lack of confidence in new pilots to type and captains therefore are often reluctant to allow first officers to land in even moderate crosswinds of 15-20 knots. The problem is exacerbated if the flight recorder is used as punitive device which is common in Asia. Air China, for example, applies fines to the pilot if the QAR shows a pilot is caught taxiing two knots over the limit for taking corners. Another Chinese operator, Hainan Airlines, mandates that first officers on the A330 are not permitted to take off or land until five years on type have elapsed. This was considered necessary after a series of rotation and landing flare tail strikes by very inexperienced 250 -500 hour first officers.
In the simulator when introducing normal dry runway crosswind landings, I find it common to witness pilots slow to correct for drift on final and finally edging in towards the extended runway centreline rather than make early corrections to track the centreline. Initially pilots often touch down with drift still on because they failed to allow for inertia as they attempt to remove drift. Some pilots cannot “see” drift and deny having drift on touch down. I find the fix for that is to freeze the simulator at the second the wheels hit the runway. I then point out to the student the obvious difference between aircraft heading as against runway direction. Eventually the student realises he has a problem and practice is needed. The quickest method is to re-position the simulator at one mile final and practicing the last part of the approach and touch down until the student gets the hang of it and can touch down with no drift. Usually several attempts are needed until the student is competent. Later, crosswind approaches on instruments should be practiced from a five mile final. It is quite possible that up to one hour of simulator time on crosswind landings are needed by the time frequent re-positioning takes place.
You made the point that landing with crab on slippery runways can pose problems with reverse thrust directional control. You also go on to say that pilots may have no choice but to return the reverse thrust to idle, return to the centreline, and re-attempt reverse thrust once the aircraft is aligned with the runway. The Boeing 737 FCTM adds that to correct back to the centreline the first thing is to release the brakes and then reduce reverse thrust to reverse idle.
As you well know, all this requires good handling skill and knowledge of the forces at work. This is where proper simulator instruction is needed and it has to be accepted by training managements it will be time consuming until the candidate can consistently display competent handling of slippery runway crosswind landings. In fact it is my experience that at least ten slippery runway crosswind landings are needed in the simulator before candidates become confident of a safe landing. It is best conducted raw data (no FD) and manual throttles and no autopilot.
Looking first at the Boeing FCTM technique of first releasing the brakes. The autobrakes will probably be selected on unless for some reason manual braking is to be used. In the 737 the autobrakes can be de-selected by three means at pilot discretion. 1. Lowering the speed brake lever. 2. Depressing the rudder pedal brakes until the autobrake disengages after a set pedal pressure. 3 Switching off the autobrake selector switch. It seems completely foreign in nature to deliberately release the brakes when they are most needed which is on a slippery runway surface. But that is the first action to prevent the crosswind slide. To place the speed brake lever down to release the brakes is counter-productive in that drag is immediately reduced and weight on the wheels is reduced.
Over-riding the autobrakes into manual braking by depressing the rudder pedals may be counter- productive, since that means applying harder brakes which has the potential for worsening the side- ways slide, albeit momentarily. That leaves actuation of the autobrake selector to off, which has none of the disadvantages of the previous two choices. For several seconds until the aircraft is aligned with the runway there is no wheel braking. The next step is to select reverse idle to prevent the tail from weathercocking because of reverse thrust vectors. These actions (brakes off and reverse idle selected) are done simultaneously.
Assuming full reverse had already been applied when the tail starts to slide sideways, it takes at least ten seconds from 90%N1 (typical full reverse) to reach 23% N1 which is reverse idle in the CFM 56 engine. This is typical spool down time. If the reverse idle detent on the throttle quadrant is not immediately apparent in the heat of the moment, then it can happen the pilot will inadvertently go too far down with the reverse levers and go into forward thrust; an obviously undesirable situation especially as the brakes are already released.
Then comes the next step which is to use rudder to steer towards the centreline. Nosewheel steering at high speed is inadvisable and may be prohibited in some aircraft, especially on a slippery runway. All this takes time. Once angling towards the centre line the pilot has to decide whether to re-apply full reverse again to obtain some retardation or should he have the aircraft straight down the centreline before applying full manual braking along with re-application of full reverse thrust.
In the CFM 56 engine to obtain full reverse from ground idle reverse of 23% N1, takes at least seven seconds. Meanwhile speed brakes and hard manual braking (with anti-skid working overtime on a slippery runway) are the only effective retarding force until full reverse winds up to maximum. As full reverse is ineffective below 80 knots, the long delay that occurs from first reaching idle reverse as the aircraft started to slide sideways, then reapplying full reverse once the aircraft has straightened up, means the primary retarding force is manual braking. I doubt if the autobrakes can be re-engaged once they are disabled.
The amount of runway used in all this will clearly be much longer than for a slippery no crosswind landing. Thus performance calculations for a slippery runway are invalid and the pilot is largely in no-man’s land re stopping distance. These factors need to be considered if faced with a crosswind landing on a slippery runway. It would be wiser to pick an into wind runway or divert.
All the above requires a thorough briefing before training starts in the simulator. This includes among other things, practicing (static in the simulator with brakes on) the technique of quickly applying reverse on touch down and then quickly reverting to idle reverse from full reverse. Timing of spool down and spool up times should be made so that pilots are aware of the long delays reaching idle reverse and full reverse from idle. Some pilots are used to slowly selecting reverse idle on a normal landing. In the case of a slippery crosswind landing the pilot must lower the reverse thrust levers very quickly to the idle detent to reach idle reverse promptly to prevent weather cocking due to high reverse.
But before the slippery runway with crosswind is introduced in simulator training, the pilot under training must be competent at normal max crosswind landings. That includes first officers who must be trained to be equally competent in aircraft handling in these conditions, as the captain. It brings up the question of priority during type rating or recurrent training; that is automatics training first Or learn to fly the aircraft manually until competent in all handling sequences with automatic pilot training being introduced later. I prefer the latter and have always trained my candidates that way.
John Laming.
Boeing 737 NG Flight Crew Training Manual, Revision 12, June 30, 2013
Boeing 767 Flight Crew Training (FCT) Manual, June 30, 2013
Bombardier Global Express BD-700-1A-10 Flight Crew Operating Manual (FCOM), CSP 700-6, Volume 1, Revision 78, Nov 19, 2013
Cessna Citation X Model 750 Airplane Flight Manual, Revision 2, 10 April 2012
Challenger 604 Operating Manual, Publication No. CH 604 OM, Rev 56, Jan 14/05.
Falcon 2000 EX EASy Crew Operational Documentation for Dassault EASy I (CODDE), Issue 9, November 30, 2013
Gulfstream G450 Aircraft Operating Manual, Revision 35, April 30, 2013.
NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, AAR-05/01, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003
Pilatus Pilot's Operating Handbook, 27 July 2010.
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Canada : Manitoba
16.8 km (10.4 miles) SSE of Dauphin, MB, Canada
#1: [21-Jul-02] (incomplete)
(visited by Mike Lafleur and Kilmeny Jones)
06-Oct-2002 -- This was our second attempt at this confluence. After examining our problems from the first visit, our thinking was to try in the autumn, once the leaves had fallen. This point on its own made bagging this so much easier.
We had an early morning and were able to arrive at the starting point by noon. Having a quick chat with the land owner, he was able to tell us of a path that was up farther than we had gone on our last trip. He didn't think it would take us to where we wanted but it was close enough to check out.
The path (an old horse trail) started northeast of the confluence, leading directly south before swinging east and on to parts unknown. We did follow it for a while but had to back track. From here, the bushwhacking started. This time it was a lot easier, due to the fact one could see more than 10 feet in front of him (no leaves). This allowed us to more accurately choose the clearest path and avoid the greatest tangles. It also helped in that our GPS was getting much stronger signals to follow. We did have the occasional loss of signal but this was no problem. Our compass came into play much more here, with shooting bearings that it made life much more manageable.
Another advantage of no leaves was being able to pick out animal trails more readily. These were a great help in getting through the brush while avoiding numerous scratches. We used these almost every chance we could.
If one should consider coming around here, be prepared for damp feet and bring lots of film. The country is really great with numerous birds around and plenty of signs of other wildlife. Our hilite of the day was spotting a black bear.
All in all, it was 1 hour 45 min in and, after a small detour around another beaver dam, 2 hours out. We had our pix and were on our way to supper and a warm drink.
#6: The trail home
In the Riding Mountain National Park.
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A functional STP required for Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake
April 6, 2014 Arathi Manay Yajaman Like a Lake
A well-functioning sewage treatment plant (STP) achieves two things – (1) it handles solid and liquid waste, which otherwise would pollute the earth, and enables its recycling (2) it is a source of usable water (effluent) and fertiliser (sludge).
Unfortunately, the STP at Yelahanka New Town 5th Phase, achieves neither. Built by the BWSSB about 10 years ago, spread across 5 acres of land, the STP was supposed to treat about 3MLD. The treated water was to be let into Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake. However, despite huge investment, the STP has never been operated to treat sewage. Instead, the “Waste Water Pumping Station” is used as a buffer, to pump about 1MLD to the Yelahanka Tertiary Sewage Plant. Residents in the area claim that the pumps are usually not operational and sewage is being let into the lake without any treatment.
STP at Yelahanka New Town 5th Phase
On 30th March 2014, while inspecting the Yelahanka Lakes, Upa Lokayukta Justice SB Majage also visited the defunct STP. Yelahanka residents, including members of the Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust (YPLBCT), a citizens’ group that is working to save Puttenahalli Lake, discussed the problems posed by the non-functional STP. Senior officials of BWSSB, Lake Development Authority (LDA) / Forest Department, environmentalists Dr Harish Bhat and Dr S Subramanya were also present. After listening to the officials, the Upa Lokayukta directed BWSSB to submit a plan for the revival of the STP by 21st May 2014.
While at Puttenahalli Lake, the Upa Lokayukta inspected the sewage entry points. Apart from the STP, sewage had been entering from Doddaballapur side. Residents noted that this had been stopped but instead of directing it to the STP, it was now being diverted into the Rajakaluve (main storm water drain) leading to another lake, Yelahanka Lake. The other sewage inflow, from a broken sewage line in Yelahanka 4th Phase, was still continuing, directly into the lake. BWSSB is yet to take action.
Upa Lokayukta Justice SB Majage (in brown coat) during his inspection of Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake
CEO of LDA, Mr Shivanna, indicated that that tenders for the preparation of DPR of the lake had already been called for. The DPR would be based on a bio-diversity model. He suggested that the lake activists get involved during the preparation of the DPR, so that their expertise could be utilised. Chief Conservator of Forests, Mr Ajay Misra was keen that the lake area be declared as a bird reserve. Contrary to this though, were recent pictures taken by YPLBCT trustees that showed the felling of trees abutting the lake, by the Forest Department.
Further action could be expected after the general elections were over.
Thanks to Commander (Retd.) CR Babu, Trustee YPLBCT, for the information and the photos
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Lows and highs of laving a lake full of water!
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All the chaos and disturbance of urban living quietly gets washed away when you stand in front of a lake and allow its spirit to engulf you. For some time now, Bhaskar and I have »
raju m.r. says:
I bet they may not follow the 21st May deadline fixed by Hon’ble Upa Lokayukta citing again election duty/model code of conduct or tender formalities and also a few showers of rain, Apart from Doddaballapur sewage water, New Town sewage water, the sewage water of big apartments surrounding these lakes may also be entering these lakes and the BWSSB engineers inaction are to be investigated.! The precious natures gift of water body and natural resource spoiled due to ineffective and corrupt system of governance! We are not managing the water supply and distribution properly. Morethan 40% unaccounted water distribution by BWSSB, most borewells dried up, open wells polluted due to seepage or blockage of sewage pipelines, etc!
Well done Arthi for yr active reporting. I support you. I donot know why the Hon’ble Upalokayuktha to kindly take suo motto action under his powers for allowing sewage water entering the lake. All our Bwssb engineers, officiers, forest officers, lake dev. authority officials know as to how the rain water and sewage water to flow and sewage water not to enter the lake and pollute. Several crores of amount spent on civil work to preserve the lake and water. Has everything gone n the DRAIN?
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About MND
More than 1,400 Australians are currently suffering from MND. There is currently no cure.
MND is a devastating illness that causes limb paralysis, leading to an inability to walk, speak and eat, and ultimately, to death. From diagnosis, people with MND have an average lifespan of one to five years. MND remains one of the most feared diagnoses in neurological practice because of its dismal prognosis.
There is currently no cure for the disease, and no effective therapeutic interventions. Tragically, there is little that can be done to help people with the disease.
Hereditary MND accounts for only about 5 to 10% of MND cases. The causes of MND are relatively unknown, however, research undertaken aims to identify genes linked to MND. The Deb Bailey Research Centre’s collaborative research Centre has identified a new approach to researching MND which is believed to lead to breakthrough discoveries in understanding the causes of MND.
Professor Stephen Hawking, the eminent British scientist who “is also a rare long-term survivor of MND, said: rare long-term survivor of MND, said: “I have had Motor Neurone Disease for practically all my adult life. I have been lucky, that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case.”
“The realisation that I had an incurable disease, that was likely to kill me in a few years, was a bit of a shock. How could something like that happen to me? MND doesn’t get the attention it deserves because it often kills its victims in two or three years and they aren’t around to be noticed.”
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Patient is asked whether sensation is felt during drilling. This assessment is crucial in to plan the most suitable endodontic treatment for the tooth. Our website service includes custom scripting. Our website development service includes consulting and assistance with your and other third party advertising campaigns. The large mass of pulp contained within the pulp chamber, which is contained in and mimics the overall shape of the crown of the tooth. If the pain continues, the procedure is repeated to the tooth mesial to it. Our website development service includes advanced video embedding which can automatically synchronize with your YouTube channel to display all of your videos on your website. It is continued until pain is gone.
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Liverpool Sound City 2015: Unknown Mortal Orchestra talk their new album’s “progression” ahead of Sound City
Ruban Neilson plays an evening set on the DIY Baltic Stage this weekend.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are a highlight on this weekend’s Sound City bill. Alongside Fucked Up, Swans and Peace, they’re amongst the big names playing DIY’s stage at the Liverpool fest.
Ahead of their appearance and the release of new album ‘Multi-Love’, Ruban Neilson spoke to DIY about the making of his new record. It was “definitely the longest I’ve spent making a record by far,” he says, describing a writing and recording process that spanned for ten months.
Part of this was prompted by a “hi-fi” change. Where songs might previously revel in their own rough edges, ‘Multi-Love’ sports a cleaner production, steeped in countless layers. “Rather than a change I’d just call it a progression,” Ruban says. “My method and philosophy was much the same, I just spent more time, money and effort on it. I’d been focussed on various records from the second half of the 70’s, Steely Dan’s ‘Aja’, Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall’, Bowie’s ‘Station to Station;. Those records were made during a high point of recording technology. I started getting excited about making a kind of diy hi-fi record. I started joking about it being ‘super-fi’, because it wasn’t made in a fancy studio, and my attitude was still the same as when I was making these so-called lo-fi records. I was thinking about this extremely DIY record that doesn’t sound the way people expect it to sound.”
One of the pieces of equipment he used was a Kaimaitron, a four-channel recording mixer made by a guy from New Zealand called Ekadek. “It sounds so beautiful and was custom and all hand-built by one guy in his workshop in the kaimais which is a mountain range in New Zealand. It has two different types of distortion built into it, so it can have this very clean, fat high fidelity sound or it can get crazy and blown up and gnarly. But it always sounds good. I had this idea that I wanted this record to sound more widescreen but I didn’t want it to be clean or sterile. I still wanted it to be dirty and have impact and not soften up too much. This box helped me to start to move in that direction. It sounds beautiful.”
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s ‘Multi-Love’ is out 25th May via Jajaguwar.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra will play Sound City (22nd-24th May), where DIY is an official media partner. Tickets are on sale now. Visit diymag.com/presents for more information.
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On 2015’s ‘Multi-Love’, Ruban Nielson saw his personal life laid out and analysed. Now, on fourth LP ‘Sex & Food’, he’s trying to keep it “dumb”. Or his version of dumb, at least.
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Android vs iOS: how they compare
TabTimes Jonathan Feist Apr 10, 2016
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Let me start with a simple truth, I am a fan of Android. I have such a passion for Google’s mobile operating system that I worked my way to a job where I get to play with Android all day, and share my experiences with you, our faithful readers. This has expanded into a really fun role here at TabTimes where I play almost exclusively with tablets, regardless who makes them.
Android and iOS are the clear leaders in mobile operating systems around the globe, with Windows tablets still coming in strong, the idea for each is to provide the fastest, smoothest and most robust performance and features as possible. With different approaches to these tasks, it is about time we did an official Android vs iOS comparison.
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The differences between these two operating systems goes well beyond the bits and bytes of it all, Android and Apple have both cultivated strong followers, please note that I said “Apple” on purpose, as “iOS” is not the term used with passion quite as much. This speaks to a larger difference in these two ecosystems, where Android users are loyal to the operating system, but iOS users are loyal to the company behind the OS, we’ll explain more in a bit.
These fans are people that are willing to camp out for days to get the next device, people that are willing to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to enjoy the latest and greatest phones and tablets with each OS. Unfortunately, this also means that there are users on both sides that are quick to belittle the other. We are glad to see a greatly reduced frequency of such outbursts, but there was a time that you could often find crude and indecent conversations between the fans of each OS.
The general dispute in days past is exactly what makes these two operating systems stand out from one another. On one hand, Android is a highly customizable system, with roots in Linux and code that can be found in the Open Source space for all to take and expand upon. On the flip side, iOS is a closed operating system. Without taking extreme actions, the average user will never know what tweaking the OS or alternate versions of the OS would look like.
Bringing it back to the core of the user experience, Android is an excellent OS for those that like to get down and dirty with their devices, where iOS is made for simplicity, turn on any Apple mobile device and enjoy the exact same experience. There is no right or wrong option for all, one must decide what they want and need for themselves, then read articles like this one to learn which system will suit them best.
Android’s double edged open source sword
The ability to take the base version of Android and expand upon it has resulted in wonderful and diverse device experiences. Sadly, this has also meant some seriously strange and problematic situations. At the core of it is what is called AOSP, the Android Open Source Project, built and maintained primarily by Google.
AOSP is, as the name implies, a free and open operating system that anyone is free to take and modify. This is most commonly performed by our favorite device manufacturers. Even Google develops the Nexus program, which is a fairly vanilla experience, just with the addition of Google’s own suite of apps and services, which are not built into AOSP.
In addition to the manufacturers creating unique skins for the OS, there is a vibrant community of smaller players making third-party (so to speak) ROMs for popular Android devices. For those unfamiliar, a ROM is what we typically refer to as the actual code for an Android OS, and it is possible to install this code to an Android device by a means called Flashing. Every one of these ROMs offers a unique and flexible set of design and features placed on top of the core layer of Android.
While I believe that having options is a good thing, there are those that feel that there are just too many options available under the Android banner. With something north of 5000 unique Android devices available for purchase, it is no wonder that there is some confusion for consumers. Sadly, there is also no surprise that more than a few of these devices and ROMs are utterly useless. But that’s why you are here, to learn the good from the bad, right?
The “iSheep” situation
A commonly used term, meant as a derogatory description of an Apple user, “iSheep” implies that a person blindly follows wherever they are told to go with their iOS powered mobile devices. In stark contrast to the plethora of options on Android, iOS users have just a few options in front of them. In fact, I could name each and every mobile device made by Apple right here, and you wouldn’t be overwhelmed.
With now three current generation smartphones and three sizes of their tablet, Apple’s latest and greatest offerings are easy to choose from. For many, there is no need for options or variables, they just want a simple device that gets the job done. More often than not, a person purchasing a newer iPhone or iPad will be found to already own an older version of the device. This is not to say that they are blindly following, just that they are comfortable with the type of device that they have, but need a newer version in a different size or with a little more horsepower.
Sometimes these folks “need” a new version of their iPhone or iPad because they’ve been told the new one is just better, but that holds true of flagship Android devices as well, doesn’t it? The main difference, at least in our little world of Android fandom here at Android Authority and TabTimes, is that us Android users care about the specs inside the devices, whereas, the average iOS user that I know personally just wants the device to be able to keep up with them, regardless if it has Intel, Snapdragon, Exynos, MediaTek, Kirin or Apple processor. Hint, your Apple product is likely to only contain one of these processors, can you guess which one?
Enough with the theory, let’s look at the actual software.
The basic software experience is actually fairly similar between Android and iOS. Aside from the initial setup, users are greeted by a lock screen, requiring a swipe gesture or authentication challenge to enter the system. Once inside, you get a Homescreen or two and some apps. Everything from your system settings to your favorite game or social media program is made available through individually installed and updateable programs, and each ecosystem has an attached store to install from a collection of over a million other apps.
Apps generally run in full screen mode and, for the most part, you can only really use one app at a time. That is not to say that you cannot multi-task, just that without the latest of iOS software and devices, specialized apps on Android or the latest beta preview of Android N, only one app displays on screen, your other ‘multi-tasking’ apps will need to run in the background. This is ideal for music players or file downloads, but means you cannot, generally speaking, have a spreadsheet and a text document on screen at the same time. Luckily, this is changing, as the latest versions of both operating systems are incorporating split screen app usage.
One can quickly view their recently used apps from a dedicated list. This recent apps list also allows one to effectively close an app by swiping the app off of the screen from the list.
Swipe down from the top of the screen to access what Android calls the Notification Shade. This is a drop down menu that houses current notifications from the apps and services on your device. Android includes a quick settings menu at the top, from a second downward swipe, and iOS put their quick settings panel at the bottom.
Do you get my point yet? In the big picture, things are very similar, much in the same way that most all cars on the road have four tires and a steering wheel. The differences are in the details, where one can find options for fuel efficient small cars all the way through to jet engine equipped monster trucks, literally, so too can one find many differences in Android and iOS devices.
Home screens
The default location for all of your computing is the homescreen. Both Android and iOS have Home screens, and on each you can place links to apps, folders and more. The largest difference, at least for now, is that most Android builds include an app drawer in which the OS stores all of your app icons, though there are exceptions, with the LG G5 going completely app drawer-less, for example. In contrast to ‘stock’ Android, iOS simply dumps all your apps onto the Home screen by default. Each operating system includes folders for better management and will add in extra screens as needed if you go over the default amount.
Advantage Android – Launchers. One key feature of Android, which goes well beyond the Homescreen, is the ability to install third-party Launchers. A Launcher is a full desktop environment for your device, you may have heard the term ‘skin’ as well, which is appropriately descriptive of how a Launcher works. Providing different and extra tools for controlling apps, icons, folders, number of screens on your Homescreen layout and more, Launchers open a whole new world to the Android experience.
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Advantage Android – Widgets. Admitting that iOS has made some strides in this department, Android is still king of customization, particularly homescreen customization and utilities through interactive elements called widgets. Perhaps the best examples of widgets are a clock widget and a music widget. Where there is a full fledged app in the back end for the clock and music playback, widgets put small interactive graphical windows on your homescreen for quick actions like viewing the time or simply controlling your music playback.
Related: Best Android widgets
The lock screen is pretty inconsequential place on a mobile device today. The basics of a lock screen is to provide a little bit of information, but ultimately to provide an authentication screen before accessing your phone or tablet. For some, this is an absolutely crucial aspect to their computing experience, and some devices now use biometrics, like fingerprint scanners, for authentication. For the less extreme, set up a pin, passcode, password or on Android you can set a pattern by connecting the dots on a grid.
Aside from keeping your data safe, the lock screen also prevents butt-dials on phones.
The experience is pretty straightforward on iOS, but Android allows third-party apps and more to change up the experience, adding new authentication techniques, extra functionality, such as music playback controls, and, well, widgets. Although, widgets are no longer supported by default on Android, so there again one must rely on the thriving modding community.
For our current mobile experience, we all but depend on notifications to keep us ticking along. Gone are the days of manually logging in and clicking a button to make your device check for new messages, we now get notifications across all of our devices, and some of them manage to stay in sync, so we can dismiss that new email notification on one device and it goes away on the others.
Apple and Google both employ a drop down notification tool, designed to group together current notifications until you can get around to checking them all. Android calls this the Notification Shade. Go ahead and try it on any of your devices, just swipe down from the top of the display. Aside from the notification drop down, both systems employ popup notifications the moment a new message or call arrives.
Google has implemented rich notifications, allowing the placement of actionable buttons on each notification. Enjoy quick replies to messages, music playback controls and more all without having to actually open the apps in question.
In addition to the main notifications, go ahead and pull down again on the notification shade on Android to access Quick Settings, a short list of toggles and sliders to control things like display brightness, volumes, turn on or off WiFi, Bluetooth and more.
iOS has split up this sort of functionality, while swiping down does give you your notifications, swipe up from the bottom instead to access the quick settings. We can’t deny that we like that the iOS quick settings bar includes dedicated media playback controls, but we do wish we could slide in from any part of the display, not just the dead center with the small indicator arrow.
Google Play Store vs the App Store
I hope you know by now that the true power of any mobile operating system is in the apps and services behind them. Around these parts you’ll be looking at the Google Play Store to install apps on your Android device. iOS has the Apple App Store. Made to provide the same safe place to find and install apps for your phones and tablets, there are a few major differences between the two, and in the operating systems themselves, to consider.
Let’s start with iOS. In terms of being truly mobile, Apple’s products have a few limitations. Now, it is possible to own and operate an iPhone or iPad without a PC, but you will never be able to get full functionality of services without an old program many have heard of, iTunes. Not just for buying music, iTunes is the program on your PC that will allow for full device backup and recovery, syncing of apps and songs and so much more. Without it, all you have is the Apple App Store on your device and the ability to do some basic backups and syncing through iCloud.
The Apple App Store contains, at last official recorded measure, 1.5 million apps. Many apps are free, but many more will run you at least $0.99. As mentioned, go ahead and install them directly from your mobile device and sync with iCloud, but there is not much more you can do without a connected PC.
See also: 7 reasons why you should develop apps for Android rather than iOS
The Google Play Store, at last measure, contains over 1.6 million apps. In addition to installing these apps directly from your device, you can actually install from the web. There is no need for the average user to ever connect their Android device to a PC, if they don’t want to. All app installs, backups and recoveries and so much more can all be handled from the phone or tablet in hand.
Perhaps the greatest advantage to the Android app situation is for the adventurous to easily side-load apps directly on their device. I’m not talking about the ability to root and ROM the devices, more basic than that, any one of us can write our own apps and install them on our devices. This is not so on iOS, there is no option in the settings, as there is on Android, to allow side-loading apps, at least not as easily.
We won’t get into the particulars, but the general idea is that, without jailbreaking your Apple product, you’ll need a paid developer account and to run your apps through the App Store to get them onto your device. Obviously the trouble was worth it for 1.5 million app developers.
On the other hand, the 1.6 million apps on Android is just the count from the Google Play Store. I alone have created about a dozen simple apps (that are not worth talking about, trust me) that will never count toward that total. Anyone following along our developer projects or are taking even the most basic of app development course will have some of their own as well. This side-loading process even allows you to add entirely different app stores to your device like Amazon’s AppStore, which contains its own library of apps.
Point is, when it comes to being free and open, with all the pros and cons that that entails, Android is king as compared to iOS.
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A dangerous topic for any computer related developer, user, tester or more, ‘what makes a device good?’ and ‘is yours good enough?’ Better yet, ‘who’s device is better?’ There are two very distinct theories at work when you compare Android and iOS for performance, with Apple’s tight control over all aspects of hardware and software differing greatly from Google’s approach of building an OS and just putting it out there for the hardware manufacturers to have fun with.
If you’ve spent any time on our sites, you know already that there are in the ballpark of 5000 unique Android devices on the market. But you probably also know that there are only a handful of great devices, the flagships that shape the generation, each year. Apple’s approach avoids the irrelevant devices, focusing only on the best phones and tablets that they can offer, but it is fair to say that Apple’s best and Android flagships are in the same league for performance.
When we put the average iOS powered device beside an average Android device, we still can’t truly compare them fairly. Android manufacturers, acting on their own, and not always in the best interest of Google and Android, have the freedom to install any version of Android they wish, update it as they wish, and add in their own sets of apps and features. There are a few rules to follow to be eligible for Google’s apps and services, but that takes this topic too deep for today’s comparison.
Truth is, for the average user who surfs the web, checks into social media a few times per day, pulls up a map and plays a small game or two, there is no point doing any performance battles. Your average iOS or Android device will work just fine.
Good thing we are not your average users around here, let’s dive in. First up, let’s talk hardware.
Looking for a 64-bit quad-core or larger processor, graphics processor capable of easily running full HD and beyond displays, 4GB of RAM, 64GB or maybe 128GB of internal storage space, fingprint scanners, a 12MP or greater camera sensor capable of 4K video capture? What about high-fidelity audio? Yup, Android and iOS have all that. Mostly, anyway.
You really have to start looking at some of the gimmicks and party tricks of each device to decide what is more important to you for overall performance, but the truth is, deep down where it counts, the hardware available to Android and iOS users is largely the same.
If the hardware is the same, the performance should also be equal, right? Nope! Don’t be fooled by the spec sheets, and all that junk I just told you, there is a difference in performance across the devices. Dramatic differences, actually.
We see this all the time just in Android devices, we’ll have a Snapdragon powered device side-by-side a Kirin or MediaTek device. On paper the processors may be ‘equal,’ but true usage of the processors tells an entirely different story.
iPhones have long been touted as the best phones for photography, while that may have been true for a while, Android devices are beginning to steal that thunder. However, the 12MP, 16MP and even 21MP or larger camera sensors on these competing Android devices could be considered overkill compared to the long running 5MP, 8MP and now 12MP sensors on the Apple devices. Let’s not get into it all, I just wanted to point out that Apple has figured out a trick, if only in the software side of things, that many Android manufacturers have either never bothered with or are only recently figuring out as well. The same specification does not mean you’ll see the same performance.
As you can see, for basic day-to-day tasks, our sample iOS and Android devices perform admirably. You need to get down and dirty, by loading heavy games or other large apps, before you really get a feel for the difference in performance here. Apple’s latest does outperform a one year old Kirin device and a brand new Intel powered device, but that margin is reduced greatly when flagship Android devices are considered.
Please do keep in mind that, although the speed tests above were performed as fair and accurate as we could, we did not account for many external factors such as network performance, device up-time or amount of other apps running and more. Point is: our tests are flawed in many ways, but they are great indicators of real world performance as calculated with no more than a basic stop watch. Also, the first 5 devices were tested by me, but the Note 5 and iPhone 6S were each tested by other members of our team, results may vary depending on how they performed these tests. Bottom line, we cannot definitively announce a best phone or OS here, please just use the data for some perspective.
As we have said time and time again, your preferred ecosystem for apps and services should be your deciding factor between an Android or an iOS device purchase. Obviously, we prefer Android around here. We’re assuming that most of you on our Android fan site are also Android fans, not that that matters. With two highly capable operating systems at your disposal, we truly feel the only reason to choose one over the other is out of personal preference, just please put in the time to figure out what will fit your needs best before you spend a ton of money on a device and accessories.
While we prefer Android mainly because of its ability to mold to our liking, we cannot discount the value in the simplicity of iOS. Admitting that there is still a learning curve, and that the average Android user may be frustrated with the lack of features and options, many users out there appreciate the familiarity and thoughtlessness of using iOS.
Let me say this again in one last way, this is something that I have been saying about Android vs iOS since the days of Froyo and is less true today that it was then, but I still stick with it: With iOS, you ask what your device can do and you stick with that, with Android, you ask yourself what you want to happen, then find out how Android can do it. Bottom line, iOS is a powerful tool, if you want to do what it wants to do, Android is a powerful tool no matter what you want to do.
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Final note: I hope that we’ve provided a thorough overview of the major similarities and differences between Android and iOS. We recognize that there is so much more to each ecosystem than what we talked about here today, we also recognize that we are fairly biased in favor of Android, we can’t help it, that’s our passion. Please remember these things as you ponder the differences in these operating systems, luckily it is as easy as ever to bounce back and forth between the two these days, so don’t be afraid to experiment.
It’s your turn, join us in the comments below for a thoughtful and polite conversation, even debate, over these two powerful operating systems. What do you think, Android vs iOS?
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My dream game would allow me to play for hours on end while sitting on my couch with a controller in my hands, the main character in this game would be a character that I built and was unique to me. I could spend hours exploring the world in order to acquire gear that would make my character more powerful and make him/her look even cooler. The game’s world would be interesting to exploring and the lore, but have enough things to do that when I only had an hour to waste I could easily find something to do.
I’ve been searching for this “Holy Grail” of videogames for years now. Unfortunately I have yet to find a game that meets all these criteria, but it’s possible that my search could be over come the release of Destiny on September 9th of this year. Luckily Bungie ran their beta version of the game this weekened and I eagerly partook.
Bungie hasn’t had much success in conveying what exactly Destiny is and all the trailers and demos I had seen up to the beta weren’t making me jump out of my seat with excitement, but there was something telling me to not give up on this game.
I spent the entire weekend playing the beta, trying all three classes and doing missions long after I had hit the level cap. If you don’t want to spend you’re whole day on beta versions, you should check out these awesome Casino Bonuses. Whenever I found myself bored I would fire up the beta just to waste time. After about 15 hours of playing the beta over this past weekend it is safe to say Destiny is one of if not my most anticipated release for the remainder of the year.
I walked away overly impressed with the small glimpse we were given, but I still have some skepticism and fears.
The Bungie quality
My experience with the beta was almost flawless. Aside from being disconnected from the game twice I never ran into any issues. There wasn’t lag or rubber banding, the shooting mechanics were smooth and responsive and the game seamlessly introduced other players into my surroundings.
There are finished games that don’t run as beautifully as the Destiny beta did. I can’t praise Bungie enough for the attention to detail. In an industry where the finished product isn’t always “finished” it was rather refreshing to play something of this quality and in beta form no less.
How impressive was the beta quality?
Bungie announced late in the week that if you were to log onto the beta at 2:00 PST on Saturday you would be given a reward for when the game came out and be able to play an additional story mission on the moon, but would only be made available for a two hour span.
For a lot of companies and games when an event like this happens the events play out as so:
2:00 PST rolls around and the mission isn’t available yet
It’s now 2:30 PST and for some reason you still don’t have access and are disconnected from the game.
Finally the mission is available and you try to start it, but you are stuck at a loading screen that eventually times out
You check twitter and the company apologizes stating “We know a lot of people are having issues and we are working on it. Thank you for your patience.”
After all this you finally get access to the mission about an hour after you were supposed to
But for Bungie it went like this.
2:00 PST I open my map and the moon has a blue exclamation point beckoning me to it. I click the mission and begin
2:15 I have finished the mission
As I said earlier I can’t praise Bungie enough. They did an amazing job the whole week-plus the beta was available. They were so efficient in their doings that the beta went back online a day prior to when it was supposed to.
Now to be fair I played the beta on the PS4 and have no personal experience of how it faired on other consoles. I did see there were reports that the beta was having some issues on the Xbox One. But my experience was outstanding.
This could be something special
People have been waiting years for a game to come along and revolutionize the first person shooter genre and I honestly can say Destiny might just be that game. Destiny has the potential to be a ground breaking and genre changing game.
The game implements so many new things into the genre and it does it all very well. The leveling system rivals any RPG, the character customization is outstanding, the gameplay is brilliant and top it all off this game has the cookie cutter team death match if you get bored with all the new stuff.
Bungie has created something that could be very special and something that will make a lot of companies pay attention. They are creating a game that is social but not forced social, a first person shooter where there is so much more to do than to hop online and play death match after playing through the six hour single player campaign. On top of that Destiny has the potential to have a very long life span.
We could be spending the next three to four years with Destiny. Bungie will have the ability release new content for the next few years and keep the game fresh, whether it be increasing the level cap or adding a new zone. Bungie has taken what Blizzard did with World of Warcraft and has packaged it into an FPS, the most popular genre in gaming right now… that’s scary.
Of course I have my fears
Not everything is perfect and although I can rave for hours about the beta the fact is it was just a beta. We were given a glimpse at a very small portion of the game and don’t be mistaken this was a very fine tuned presentation. Bungie used their alpha and betas as a marketing campaign and they weren’t going to leave anything to chance. With that here are my quick fears about Destiny:
Online launch:
Any game that relies heavily on online features seems to have a problem at launch. Whether it’s not enough servers or some unknown problem that seemed to slip through the beta not found, when midnight hits on launch day and eager fans are trying to play they are greeted with an error message and frustration.
Can Destiny break this mold? I really hope so but history says that the launch won’t go as smoothly as we all hope.
With the game Bungie is building players are going to need a lot of content to stay satisfied. Will it take me a week to get to max level? How long to get the best gear in the game? Is there end game content? Or is Destiny just a prettied up normal first person shooter where the single player campaign will take me 6-10 hours and then all I am left with is team death match?
Hopefully Bungie has done their job in creating a game that will reward the PvE player and PvP player for a long time to come.
My biggest fear is that I will have explored everything there is to explore in Destiny and have the best gear available in one week and have nothing but PvP to do for the remaining lifecycle of the game.
With Destiny Bungie has potentially created a genre changing and ground breaking game. There is the potential for Destiny to be not just the next big game but the next monster hit game. I have nothing but praise for Bungie and Destiny after playing hours of the beta, but still fear that Destiny will fall short of its true potential.
Only time will tell if Destiny can become the ground breaking game that it has the potential to be but one thing is for sure, September 9th cannot come soon enough.
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You are here: Department of Engineering Research Research projects Electrical and Computer Engineering - Research Projects Next generation social robots
Is it possible to transform robots into artificial agents that interact with human beings in accordance with socio-cultural norms? Nicolas Navarro Guerrero designs robots that can take part in meaningful social relationships with people. This requires advanced algorithms, but also a thorough understanding of psychological and philosophical dynamics in the user context. Photo: Lars Kruse.
Social robots are designed to engage humans in social interactions by presenting themselves—in appearance or behaviour—as intelligent social agents. However, the goal of building robots to participate in the space of human interaction raises new technological, empirical and normative questions.
In the intersection between technology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy, researchers across faculties and academic disciplines are working on an immensely ambitious project. They are creating a new methodology to develop artificial intelligence that will provide robots with situational awareness and make it possible for them to adapt to different contexts and users.
“Social robotics marks a new and very important relationship between engineering and the humanities. If we’re to succeed in creating robotic technology that can contribute positively to our future, it’s vital that we take our outset in what technology needs, but more importantly in the needs and values of people,” says Associate Professor Nicolas Navarro Guerrero.
He is coordinating activities in the university’s AU Social Robotics Lab, and he is also responsible for developing robots for several different social purposes.
New robots with situational awareness
Assistant Professor Navarro Guerrero has been working with robots and machine learning for most of his academic career, and his goal now is to design new algorithms that can add a degree of artificial intelligence to robots so that they can understand and respond to the dynamics between the environment, people and other robots.
“The problem with the robots we know today is basically that they behave very clumsily If we hope to integrate robots into our social lives positively, we’ll have to understand people’s needs and values and teach robots to decode human norms and how to adapt to them. This requires highly specialised knowledge about hardware and software development. But it also requires an equally deep knowledge of the human and societal implications of such technology,” he says.
Researchers at the AU Social Robotics Lab have developed and are refining a methodological and theoretical framework whereby they can experiment with giving robots social intelligence in different contexts, and in parallel with the technological development, they are investigating the psychological and ethical implications. They have named the multidisciplinary scientific discipline “Integrative Social Robotics”.
”Since we can’t anticipate the long-term effects of widespread use of social robots, we need to envisage new forms of research organisation that will enable us to regulate social robotics applications from the start, and not, as currently, after the fact. Integrative Social Robotics is a new strategy for developing social robotics applications that includes strong focus on human interaction and value-driven design,” says Nicolas Navarro Guerrero.
Robots and social cognition
Several of the interdisciplinary robot experiments involve recent research about the pre-conscious cognitive mechanisms. Our brain seems to process perceptual information about fellow human beings in special ways, creating the distinctive mode of “social cognition” which involves emotional evaluations. Robots give us a chance to explore these mechanisms of “implicit social cognition” in further detail, since the design and movement of a robot partly do trigger such mechanisms and partly don’t.
“Making the robot act autonomously and appropriately in a social interaction is an extremely complex technological challenge," says Nicolas Navarro Guerrero. “There are a number of elements in social interaction that can be exploited to create smooth social interactions while at the same time playing with our pre-conscious mechanisms of social cognition. For example, if a robot, like a child, follows the gaze of a person, the person will receive the impression that the robot tries to understand and collaborate with the human.” Such research matters given in the course of the next two decades all of us we may come to directly collaborate with robots.
"At the moment we’re working on refining the robot's tone of voice, and head and eye movements. Everyone knows how robots talk in a very monotonous tone and have a rigid, staring gaze without human characteristics. This is a really bad starting point for social interaction," says Nicolas Navarro Guerrero.
The team currently works with and on robots developed by other research teams as well as commercial robots; soon, however, the AU Social Robotics Lab will be building its own robots, based on its own sophisticated design principles that pursue the ambitious goal of using social robots in order to realize what matters in a human life.
INTEGRATIVE SOCIAL ROBOTICS
Integrative Social Robotics (INSOR)—A New Framework for Culturally Sustainable Technology Solutions
The production of robots with “social skills” or even “social intelligence”—drives a technological revolution of possibly unprecedented disruptive potential, both at the socio-economic and the socio-cultural level.
“Integrative Social Robotics” (ISR) is a new strategy for developing social robotics applications—it tightly integrates robotics research with a wide scope of research disciplines that investigate human social interactions, including empirical, conceptual and value-theoretical research in the Humanities,” Johanna Seibt, School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University.
INSOR – Integrative Social Robotics
Carlsberg Foundation
Hiroshi Ishiguro Lab
Technical University of Vienna
University of Helsinki and George Mason University
Nicolas Navarro Guerrero
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Mad Men: SEASON 1, EPISODE 8
Mad Men Watch: Love Child, Never Meant to Be
By James Poniewozik @poniewozikSept. 07, 2007
Season: 1, Episode: 8
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SPOILER ALERT: No reading this post until you’ve done an honest day’s work for it, you bum.
So who knew that Mad Men would also turn out to be Carnivale? I’m impressed that, within this already detailed period piece, there turns out to be another period piece (Don/Dick’s childhood in the Depression) that’s just as engrossing and detailed in its own way. As in the 1960 “present,” the detail is as much social and historical as it is about the sets–Dick’s stepmother, for instance, picking up on the cue that the hobo visitor worked in factories out East and asking him if he was a Communist. (Also, nice contrast between the off-the-grid, hand-to-mouth hobo Dick met as a child and the vapid, cliche-spouting faux-bos slumming it at Midge’s pot party.)
Working with relative freedom at AMC, which must be grateful as all hell to have it, Mad Men is taking its sweet time fleshing out its characters rather than (in the manner of many cable dramas) piling plot twist on plot twist to ratchet up the stakes. We found out that Dick Whitman was a “whore child” (which probably kills the Jew-passing-as-Gentile theory, no?) And we painted a few more layers on Salvatore and Peggy. I’ve been close to writing off Sal as a too-obvious period prop, but his storyline last night (as Alan Sepinwall writes at his blog) twisted our expectations by having him turn out to be much less experienced. Meanwhile, we got to see Peggy’s capacity to be confident and insecure, and to see how Pete–creep that he is–like insecure Peggy much better.
When basic cable dramas fail to measure up to HBO shows, it’s often in their peripheral characters: the lead antihero may be complex, but the supporting players are often much more narrowly cast. But Mad Men’s supporters are tough to figure out, and in a good way. Peggy is both quietly sharp and easily cowed. Joan is worldly yet strangely naive. (Really, of all people wouldn’t she have seen through Salvatore’s closet?) Pete is genuinely creepy–in fact, beginning to seem downright scary and damaged–and yet sometimes sympathetic, and smarter than people credit him for.
Mad Men is still a little inscrutable, in other words, and I’m OK with that. Sometimes it works a little too hard to establish its intellectual-historical bona fides; for instance, you could bring Ayn Rand into a conversation without giving us a tight shot of Atlas Shrugged. (Between that and Exodus, this is turning into BookTV.) But I really like how–usually in an organic way–Don is shown as being the product not only of his family history but of the ideas of his time: Cooper’s ethical egoism; the hobo’s rejection of social ties, born of the 1930s’ social upheaval; and the general nihilism that seems to stem from his experience in the war. All of this culminated in his cold dismissal of the hipsters’ conspiracy theories–“There is no system. The universe is indifferent”–which manages to bum even them out. Existentialist beats beatniks! Woo-hoo!
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#Radioactive Disaster Debris: Kitakyushu City Educates Kids How Safe It Is to Burn the Debris
I haven't written about the disaster debris disposal for a long time, as it has dwindled into a non-issue in most part of Japan now that the amount of the debris in Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures has turned out to be much, much less than what was predicted. EXCEPT in the cities whose mayors are more than ever determined to bring and burn the debris NO MATTER WHAT.
One such city is Tokyo under the 79-year-old governor Shintaro Ishihara. Another is Osaka City under the boy-wonder mayor Toru Hashimoto who would say and do anything to stay in the news.
Then there is Kitakyushu City, whose mayor Kenji Kitahashi has been on a relentless campaign to shove the debris on the residents. His latest antics: Educate elementary school children and junior high school pupils so that they will tell their parents how safe and wonderful it is to bring the disaster debris all the way to their city in Kyushu Island and burn it.
Some Kitakyushu City's parents were outraged when they found out about this education pamphlets. Here's a copy of the pamphlet for 4th to 6th graders in elementary schools, tweeted here:
The pamphlet is full of misleading information and half-truths.
What is "disaster debris disposal"?
More than one year has passed since the March 11, 2011 disaster but there are still large piles of debris in the disaster affected areas. [The picture shown is probably more than one year old.] People in the disaster-affected areas want the debris to be removed as soon as possible. [Not true. Iwate Prefecture officials are on record saying they are considering shipping the debris to Kitakyushu City because the city has asked for it; otherwise, they say, there is no problem disposing it in Iwate.] It is necessary for everyone to help in disposing the debris. Kitakyushu City has decided to help by accepting the flammable debris for the sake of people who are suffering in the disaster-affected areas.
In the middle segment titled "2. There is no effect on health or the environment even if the debris is burned" ("No immediate effect" perhaps? a la Mr. Yukio EdaNO):
We have been receiving the radiation, even if it is invisible, from the universe, soil, air, and food. This time, the city consulted with the experts and decided to accept the debris. The amount of radiation from the debris does not affect your health or environment.
And in fine print, as if to further impress the youngsters on the cleansing effect of burning the debris, it mentions numbers:
Air radiation levels before the debris test burning: Kokura Kita-ku 0.08 microsievert, Moji-ku 0.10 microsievert.
Air radiation levels after the debris test burning: 0.06 to 0.07 microsievert
Wow, burning the debris lowered the radiation levels! (Professor Hayakawa would be pleased.)
In the last segment titled "3. Let's prevent baseless rumors", it says:
What's worrisome in accepting the disaster debris is the baseless rumor against produce in Kitakyushu City, residents of Kitakyushu City, and against Kitakyushu City in general. In order to prevent the baseless rumor, Kitakyushu City is providing the correct facts. The safety of the debris and of the disposal process will be announced on the city's homepage and pamphlets. It is important to make a correct judgment, without distracted by the wrong information about the debris.
As residents of Kitakyushu City, let's learn more about the debris disposal, and let's pray that the towns and schools affected by the disaster will be back to normal as soon as possible.
And look at the cute little three boys. I could almost tell what they are saying. The middle boy is saying:
"But my parents say burning the debris is dangerous, because it's not just radioactive materials but also toxic industrial materials on the debris..."
The other two boys are telling the middle boy,
"Don't be absurd, that's called "baseless rumor"! We have to help those poor children up in Iwate who are suffering. We must tell our parents to shut up and do what the teachers and the mayor of the city say!"
Or it could be the other way around: The middle boy is telling the other two to calm down, and telling them there is no danger.
According to the togetter about Kitakyushu City's pamphlets, school principals were instructed by the mayor and the city's Board of Education to speak positively about accepting and burning the disaster debris in Kitakyushu City at the end-of-semester ceremony before the summer break (most likely it was on July 20). Here's one of the tweets in the togetter:
昨日、学校長に終業式で小４以上に「がれきの受け入れは良いことをしたのだと生徒に話すように」と繰り返し話すことと、北橋市長が伝達したと聞いた。我が家は中学生なので、どうかな？と思っていたが、やはり今日の終業式で、その話が出たそうだ。
The other day, I heard that school principals were instructed by Mayor Kitahashi to repeatedly tell pupils from 4th graders on at the end-of-semester ceremony that "to accept the disaster debris is to do a good thing". Our child is in junior high school, so I wondered if they do that in junior high school also. Sure enough, [my daughter] said the principal talked about that in the ceremony today [July 20].
Mayor Kitahashi has his own website where he posts his reasoning for accepting the debris in English. If you care to read it, it is here.
Why doesn't the mayor come outright and say "I want the disaster debris for the money it brings to the city, and the business concessions it will bring to the city"?
By the way, asbestos and mercury have been detected in municipal incineration plantｓ in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo that have been mixing the disaster debris from Onagawa City, Miyagi with the household garbage and burning the mixture. Hexavalent chromium and arsenic have also been detected in the disaster debris in the amount that exceeds the limit set by the regulations.
No matter. All is safe, and all to help "recovery" that is non-existent.
Labels: disaster debris, Kitakyushu City, radioactive debris
The Nazis had a similar "education" program during WWII. It encouraged children to turn on their parents.
I hope the outraged parents will do to Kitahashi what should have been done to Hitler before it's too late.
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Here comes the end of Japan, and it is being made closer by the Japanese politicians (plus the so-called higher education institutions that stay silent).
Admission officers of overseas colleges, please take a notice of this when you receive applications from Japanese universities. This proves taht Japan has no quality in science education and the exchange students from such a system would do no good to your institutional reputation.
"A Christchurch ute (SUV) with potentially dangerous radioactive material on board is still on the loose. The ute, clearly placarded with "Class 7 Radioactive" signs was carrying a nuclear density meter . The meter had two small radioactive sources and the radioactive material was encapsulated in stainless steel.
A police spokesman told The Press he understood the vehicle is owned by a private company.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7322892/Radioactive-ute-still-on-the-loose
What can I say? What a hammer! I am deeply shocked and disgusted...
Normally, I dislike such strong comparisons - but here I cannot help doing it myself. Like the first poster, I immediatly thought this is like Hitler-germany, when the nazis drilled and indoctrinated small children in order to use them as trojan horses to bring their murderous thoughts and plans into families' homes and to encourage them to spy on their parents to detect any "illegal" thoughts.
It speaks volumes that this pamphlet is not shy to deliver numbers that "prove" that burning debris lowers (!!!) radiation levels. Not a single teacher dares to detect this obvious lie? This is fascism, when no one can speak the obvious truth.
And, by the way, some intellectuals are already going into exile, as long as they can...
The Nazis wouldn't tolerate this sort of Nonsense!!!
If the Nazis were in charge, the reactors would have been cleaned up - and Japanese politicians, managers and fat cat TEPCO lunatics would have had to do the dirty work - themselves!
If only the Nazis were in charge!!
This wouldn't have happened!
aka Oceania
@Anonymous at 2:32
If the nazis were in charge, they would have forced anyone not thinking their thoughts - certainly me - to do the cleanup work. (New meaning of "death camp"!)
The tepgovs use anyone desperate for money and/or simple-minded and therefore fearless enough - not much better.
I am all for educating the children, the younger the better. However, education involves a discussion of the pros and cons, addressing concerns and answering questions. A pamphlet making a one-sided case for a government project for self-serving reasons has nothing to do with education. It is merely propaganda aimed to influence the most impressionable, i.e., the children. Despicable!
like Joshua replied I am inspired that anyone able to get paid $8579 in 4 weeks on the computer. did you read this webpage is.gd/sh8h2u
Wow this is blatant propoganda, straight out of 1984, get the kids to turn on their parents thought crimes..... Japan has become truly fascist again in the space of 70 years... where is the MSM ? fucking nowhere as usual..
The burning of radioactive debris all over the country itself is insane, add in the propaganda I've been seeing lately and it is too much. I've lived here for a number of years but can't stand it anymore. This country is taking turns I can't agree with or forgive. I used to love Japan, but now I give up on this country completely and am making my plans to leave.
The Nazi had "Arian physics" -- hard to beat, I thought, until I heard about the cleansing effetcs of burning debris.
So if burning debris lowers the radiation in the air, doesn't it make sense to burn it all in Fukushima? Then everyone can go back...or something.
We have this same mentality in Utah where greedy politicians allow radio active waste to be brought her from all over cause we have big wide open desert good for nothing else but hazardous waste disposal!
Well, at least Utah has big wide open desert. Kitakyushu City has crowded commercial, industrial, and residential areas in the middle which are the incineration plants.
Cristeen said...
fantastic post and Thanks for sharing this info. It's very helpful.
Be careful Nazi bashers, first of all this has nothing to do with them, and secondly, most of what we "learn" in "schools" and on the History Channel is a pile of BS.
http://zioncrimefactory.com/jew-world-order/
But we still don't know how much radiation is being released by the burning of the radioactive debris. Speculation = BS. WHERE IS THE ACTUAL DATA?
When they finish absorbing all the information they can head over here, smiling at the foresight of their elders.
http://www.47news.jp/CN/201207/CN2012072201001658.html
Criminal. They should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, with all the deaths they are sustaining. Only alien technology can save us, since we, on planet earth, cannot solve the radiation issue. Aliens, being more advanced scientifically have other technologies we have yet to discover. And if they come on earth, they are peaceful. rael.org
Greyhawk said...
Asbestos, arsenic and mercury are the spices in this toxic cocktail. And these politicians are forcing schools to teach children that all is safe. This is a nightmare that one cannot wake up from.
what is incredible is that they now have a huge region contaminated anyway, where they could find appropriate places to store or berry the debris. If you were trying to spread it everywhere, there is no better way. Chris Busby has his theory about it: by spreading the contamination you create a situation where there are no uncontaminated reference groups, therefore future epodemiological studies to measure the impact on health will not be possible conveniently allowing deniability and avoiding all sorts of liabilities. It makes sense.
MikeR said...
Now that we've added Fukushima Denial to the lo-o-o-ng list of stuff that never happened according to the Powers That Bloody Be, maybe one or two of my mates will at last live to see Climate Denial becoming acceptable along with Holocaust Denial likewise...
Even Dumb Dora admits that 9/11 Denial meanz No Planes. (but then she never could figure out why Dubya thought that kitchen kero could melt aluminum when her gas stove doesn't burn through her ally pan after it boiled dry....
MikeR, that's a very cheap trick, to tie "climate denial" (as called by warmers like you) with "holocaust denial". It's been tried, and laughed at, don't you know?
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Thread: Should I forget my married GF?
Hello evry1, i'm a 33+ yrs unmarried male. i was in a relationship for last 6 years with one of my friends. But she is married. Actually almost 7 years ago she was going through a vry bad time with her hubby & nothing was going right between them and she used to cry a lot. Being her most close friend she used to share evrything to me & also would before me. I used to console her & slowly we came close to each other. In 2010 i proposed her & she responded positively. After that we started to love each other & used to have sex quite frequently. She got job in another city & i used to go there & would spend useful time with each other. She loves me so much & i also love her. We spent over 5 yrs in this way. But the problem started in the last year. She underwent through galbladder stone surgery & i was there for only 4/5 days during her surgery as i had to join in my duty. Furthermore, my mom also does the job in her city & there were good relationship between them as my friend only. Oneday my mom told her something & she was hurt by that. She used to get angry with me evryday over my mom's saying & claiming that i didn't take care during her recovery period and would mumble the same thing evry time. I said sorry to her & did my evry responsibility. But she was not convinced. So i didn't talk to her for 3 months. She also didn't call me. Now for the last one & half years i'm trying to convince her but she doesn't want to talk to me. She blocked my contact no, from fb, whatsapp everything. I also went to meet with but was in vain. She hasn't yet got the divorce as her parents don't want it & her husband also doesn't want to give her divorce. But for the last 6 years there isn't any relationship between she & her husband as she was totally committed to me. I tried evry way to convince her. Even i talked to her & my moms that i want to marry her. Her mom responded positively but my mom was reluctant initially but i convinced her also. But she (my gf) isn't agree now as she was hurt by my behaviour & doesn't want to keep any relationship with me. But i really love her vry much & can't think my life without her. For the last one & half years i'm going through a vry tough time & told her sorry & to forgive me over thousand times. But she is stuck to her place. What should i do now? should i forget her which is vry tough for me. Please suggest.
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Look, she could be using the surgery as an excuse to get out of the relationship with you. maybe she's decided to stay in her marriage, in which case the wisest move on your part would be to call it quits and move on.
Sometimes, we have to come to the conclusion of letting things go. She has no contact with you, is not even trying- so maybe its time to take a reality check and understand that she may have made her choice.
Bottom line is she has chosen her husband over you... please try I to move on if possible..
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why dont you write her a letter saying that you have been trying to get her back for last 1.5 years. but because she has not responded, you are concluding that she does not need you. in such a case, you are moving out of her life and continue to love her and wait for her. do that and wait for a month or so. chances are she will come back. if she doesnt, then move on.
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I hope that she ends up with you eventually. You deserve someone who wastes your time, emotions and money. Because you are made that way. But she doesn't deserve a chipkoo guy, so I hope she makes a right choice.
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She also didn't call me. Now for the last one & half years i'm trying to convince her but she doesn't want to talk to me. She blocked my contact no, from fb, whatsapp everything. I also went to meet with but was in vain. She hasn't yet got the divorce as her parents don't want it & her husband also doesn't want to give her divorce.
you tried to be supportive. You did everything you could. Seriously, according to your post you did nothing to hurt her and she shouldn't be treating you like this. Its just girls. They always go for guys with better resume. May be she started to see hope in her marriage (as her husband was trying to win her back and was willing to accept all conditions) and she started to look away from you. It was (all the drama like blocking and all) was her big excuse for betraying you.
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Despite Known Conflicts, ACC/HRS Endorse MOC
The Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and American College of Cardiology (ACC), two organizations who stand to gain handsomely from their NCDR procedural registries, published a carefully-worded combined statement on "Lifelong Learning Requirements for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (CCEP) Specialists" in their respective journals this week.
In a glaring ommision, the publication concerned itself with how Relationships With Industry (RWI's) were handled by the authors, but failed to address the many known RWI's of the bodies that "approved" their statement, including the ACCME, ABMS and ABIM. These relationships include the known collusion of the ABIM with CECity, Inc (held by Premier, Inc, the largest hospital purchasing consortium), the Massachusetts Medical Society and its NEJM Group, the multibillion dollar Netherlands publisher and owner of UptoDate, Wolters Kluwer, PearsonVue, and the myriad of test security companies who benefit from the unproven MOC mandate.
These are not minor conflicts. They strike to the very core of the integrity of our profession and physicians who must place the interests of our patients before all else. Setting the "rules" for lifelong learning is not required, integrity and honesty in dealing with patients is what is needed instead. Those internal principles cannot be simply articulated in the form of a published "guideline."
This blog has carefully articulated the many civil liberties violations and ethical breaches perfomed by the ABIM (all sanctioned by the ABMS and perpetuated by the AMA) for the past four years. Financial cover-ups, tax fraud, HIPAA Business Associate Agreements that are not optional, and the use of a team comprised of a felonious "Director of Investigation", ABIM staff members, and members of the ABIM legal team to obtain physician emails covertly, so they could use that information to discredit and intimidate physicians, are our reality. Yet the ACC and HRS have decided to turn a blind eye to the corruption because it might disturb their business model.
Using hugely conflicted certifying bodies to certify a professional position statement document is a problem the ACC and HRS have chosen to ignore to their detriment and the detriment of our professional integrity.
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Thanksgiving 2017 and the Grooming of Physicians
"Fun, flexible, and refreshing way to earn your credit! Take a break from the bird and have your hand at a few."
So said the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Thanksgiving 2017 tweet seen here (now deleted).
As if family time and the true meaning of Thanksgiving mean nothing to the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). Rather, David G. Nichols, MD, the President and CEO of the ABP, must need to assure his Christmas bonus.
Boasting that "20,000 physicians enrolled in Question of the Week" (QOW), as if there was another option for pediatricians caught in the regulatory capture vice-grip of MOC®, speaks volumes about the motivation of this organization. In fact, the real world reality is that not signing up and paying for "QOW" risks a practicing pediatrician's ability to participate in insurance panels or to maintain their hospital privileges.
The Thanksgiving message from Richard Baron, MD, President and CEO of the American Board of
Internal Medicine, was equally troublesome given the reglatory capture realities of the ABIM's MOC® program, too:
"Thank you for all you do every day."
You're welcome, Rich.
Now tell us, given the spending, financial shenanigans, and legal fees incurred by the ABIM and ABIM Foundation lately, are the ABIM and ABIM Foundation insolvent as at least one accountant suggests?
Given the realities of the ABMS MOC® program that both organizations promote, placating physicians with such messages at Thanksgiving is akin to a child molester grooming his victims to earn their trust; it's about as ethically moribund as it gets.
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American Academy of Pediatrics "Sets Sail" to Track All US Children
The American Academy of Pediatrics, (aka, "Big Brother") wants to track your children. Physicians who support the program can earn MOC® credits, too:
The Academy has set sail to be the first entity to collect, store and analyze health data on all U.S. children. The board agreed to commit $583,000 in resources from the Tomorrow’s Children Endowment to begin development of a child health clinical data registry, which is expected to unfold over five years. This unprecedented initiative, called Clinical Health Information and Longitudinal Data Registry (CHILD), is the outgrowth of two strategic plan objectives:
Use data and metrics to develop and prioritize areas of need for child health policies. Provide state-of-the-art pediatric practice information in the context of a changing industry and professional landscape. Data would be captured through electronic health records, integrated health care systems, payers and existing pediatric disease registries. Data elements would include well-child and sick visits, chronic disease diagnosis and management, specialty care, and developmental and behavioral care. The registry also would include a patient portal to allow parents and patients to input data, while alleviating complications surrounding privacy laws.
Christoph U. Lehmann, M.D., FAAP, medical director of the AAP Child Health Informatics Center, and professor of pediatrics and biomedical informatics, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, presented project details to the board, including the following primary goals:
Create substantial improvements in child health and well-being. Accelerate advances in child health. Improve outcomes for children using data. Demonstrate the trajectory of child health through adulthood. Among the benefits of this registry, Dr. Lehmann said, are tracking childhood health and illness trends, which would help draw conclusions on a number of areas, including gaps in care, treatment options and regional variations in care. The data also will help inform the creation of AAP guidelines and policies, and provide guidance to payers.
Members could use the data to help create reports for quality improvement projects, as well as for meaningful use and Maintenance of Certification, Dr. Lehmann said.
The History of the ABIM Art Collection U.S. Physicians Have Never Seen
They were the glory days; a time when the ABIM was still respected; a time before the World Wide Web and moving diplomate testing fees from the ABIM to a secretly-created shadow "Foundation" could occur below the radar.
John A. Benson Jr., MD and Harry R Kimball, MD were the first two Presidents of the ABIM appointed after the bylaws were changed to pay officers salaries. Dr. Benson was the first President of the ABIM from 1975 through 1991 and ran the organization from his home in Portland, OR, leaving his academic and clinical practice for the administrative world of the ABIM save for one long-time physician-patient he kept while serving in that capacity.* Dr. Kimball, his all-too-willing successor from 1991 through 2003, understood the number of doctors being trained was finite and paying executives would be difficult without a new business model. It was Dr. Kimball who conceived of "maintaining" one's board certification through ABIM's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program to keep the money flowing. But the initially voluntary program flopped as doctors saw the program for what it was: an unnecessary distraction from their busy practices. So CPD would have to become mandatory. His like-minded colleagues at the American College of Physicians (who would also financially benefit) could see to that, and soon money flowed like honey. So much, in fact, that something had to be done with all that money earned by a so-called "non-profit."
It was under Dr. Kimball's direction as ABIM's Chairman of the board from 1989-1990, the ABIM Foundation was secretly created in 1989. Multiple money transfers from the ABIM to the Foundation were made to facilitate lucrative investments with (the now-defunct) 1838 Investment Advisors. For a while, it was a win-win for both corporations. So many trades were made that ABIM paid nearly a quarter of a million dollars annually for their services.
With that money flowing to the ABIM, nearly $90,000 of artwork was purchased for their Walnut Street offices in Philadelphia in 1997 and 1998. We know this because the ABIM offices were later renovated in fiscal year 2003 as the computerized testing age came to Philadelphia. At that time, the value of that art work was disclosed on ABIM's IRS tax forms (see here, here, and here).
In total, it appears $89,874 dollars worth of some kind of art adorns ABIM office walls, thanks to ABIM diplomates. No wonder they "surprised" Dr. Kimball with a black tie event and had the first "Kimball Lecture" in honor of him in August, 2004!
But then 2005 came.
The gravy train ended when 1838 Investment Advisors' fund lost 74% if its value and mysteriously disappeared:
"The silence has been deafening," said one money management executive in the region, who declined to be named. It's as if they "fell off the face of the earth," said a pension consultant, who asked to remain unidentified. One private equity veteran, who declined to be named, said it's unusual for a firm with such a long history to simply disappear. The firm traced its lineage back to Drexel and Co., a banking and investment management firm founded by Francis Drexel in Philadelphia in 1838.
Principles from 1838 Investment Advisors were holdovers from the Drexel Burham Lambert that came under investigation for illegal activities in the junk bond market for stock manipulation. Since that gravy train collapsed, another hopeful investment was made in real estate: a condominum puchase in December 2007.
The ABIM Foundation was never about "medical professionalism" or "Choosing Wisely®." It was a "get-rich-quick" scheme using diplomates' testing fees for the organization's own corporate benefit.
That is, until it wasn't.
* Interview with Dr John A Benson, Jr, MD, conducted April 27, 1999, page 18.
Combating MOC Abuses
Thanks to the Orlando Medical News for their comprehensive coverage Tuesday on the American Board of Medical Specialties' (ABMS) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) scandal.
Physicians' best approach to collapse the current ABMS monopoly on credentialing standards remains mass non-compliance.
Employed physicians (like myself) are finding noncompliance impossible without jeopardizing their employment, since many hospitals require their physicians to be "board certified" in their specialty. Since ABMS no longer "recognizes" lifetime certification as a valid credential (except for older "grandfathered" physicians who obtained their board certification before 1990), younger (more economically vulnerable) physicians risk the loss of employment if they do not participate in MOC and agree to the ABMS's "HIPAA Business Associate Agreement," becoming little more than data entry clerks for the lucrative insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital industries.
Is this really what our patient's want?
I don't think so. Most patients I know would like to see their doctor look them in the eye rather than at a computer screen. Most want to be viewed as humans rather than a data profit center. And all of them want to spend more than 8 minutes with their physician.
So how do physicians combat MOC? How do we preserve our ability to work without having to make extortion payments to the ABMS and their member boards just for their political and personal benefit?
The fight against MOC continues on many levels, but it is a long, difficult, and expensive David-vs.-Goliath battle:
The development of an alternate certification board that is affordable and does not require physicians to comply with the ABMS/ABIM HIPAA Business Associate Agreement and comprised of highly-respected unpaid members of the physician community who understad the conflicts of interest inherent to the ABMS member board construct and is gaining acceptance hy hospitals accross the country.
State-by-state legislation efforts outlawing the use of MOC as a condition of insurance panel participation, hospital privileges, or state licensure.
Persuing other legal avenues, including anti-trust and class action suits against members organizations of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, among others.
I would encourage employed physicians who are given a professional stipend from their hosptial systems for professional society memberships to seriously consider using some of those fees to join Practicing Physicians of America in lieu of other conflicted professional and subspecialty organizations as we continue to push back against the MOC mandate (an example of to testimony and evidence provided the Ohio Health Committee here). Other areas to contribute include becoming certified by NBPAS or contributing to their advocacy efforts. It costs nothing to join the Facebook group Physicians Working Together, too. That group offers lots of productive ideas on how we can work collectively to restore the integrity of our profession.
It is only through a corrodinated effort from a large portion of the working physician community that our freedom to truly work in our patient's best interest without unnecessary and unproven third party interference can be restored.
The Hidden Message Coming From the AMA
This morning I received a press release from the American Medical Association (AMA) that said "New AMA Research Finds One in Five Physicians Ready to Reduce Clinical Work Hours." The press release pointed to "new research" (sorry, it's behind a pay wall) that appeared in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings from "experts" from the AMA, Mayo Clinic and Stanford University. The lead author of the research was Christine A. Sinsky, MD of the AMA.
But what Dr. Sinsky fails to disclose in her article in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, is she is also a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and a member of the Board of Trustees of the ABIM Foundation, serving as the Vice Chair. This is not a minor lapse in disclosure, since the ABIM Foundation and the entire national Maintenance of Certification debacle may become one of the largest medical education corruption stories in modern medical history. Funneling over $78 million dollars for ABIM testing fees behind physicians' backs to fund the ABIM Foundation appears of little importance to Dr. Sinsky. She is more concerned about our psychologic well-being rather than the behavior of the Foundation she runs with our Maintenance of Certification (MOC) cash. This corruption renders Dr. Sinsky's arguments why physician burnout is at an all-time high mute moot. Turning a blind eye to the facts only deepens physician frustration with our current bureaucratic leadership.
If Dr. Sinsky is so concerned about physician burnout, why isn't she the leading spokesperson at the AMA insisting the leadership there end MOC as it was resolved by the AMA House of Delegates in 2016?
Perhaps it's because she's too conflicted to understand the problem.
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Super Mario Bros. - The Great Rescue of Princess Peach
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Carnivol
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Location: confirmed
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:07 pm�� �Post subject: Super Mario Bros. - The Great Rescue of Princess Peach
People who either know me or have been part of the same circles as me for a while probably know that I've been tinkering on and off with a restoration project of this old gaming history curiosity.
I believe I started it in like 2005 or something, when I acquired two VHS copies of the movie, and a bunch of random tie-in products, and ended up buying a workstation and digitizing equipment for the sole purpose of digitizing old analog stuff. At that point in time, I believe the only commonly available copy of this movie online was a really poor VHS transfer in the resolution of 320x288 or something, at roughly 300mb and encoded with the old DivX 3.11 codec or something.
These days, it's easier to stumble upon a more typical VHS quality transfer of it, in a typical 640x480 or anamorphic 720x480 resolution. While I'm sure others have done their own transfers of it since, I know that some of the more commonly circulated transfers that started popping up nearly a decade ago of this comes from an early stage of my own restoration efforts at the time. Sadly, the VHS transfer of this movie is absolutely god awful, even by VHS standards. So unless you've been planning on redrawing countless individual frames ... you can't really work wonders with that VHS source.
So... last year I ended up blowing a small fortune on an actual 16mm print of this movie. I comissioned a digital transfer of it from a studio that does commercial and preservational transfers for movie studios, distributors, libraries and museums. I moved all my notes and do-dads into a new project structured around a 250gb++ project size, rather than the old project which was roughly 10gb. Recently changed portions of my audio setup to soon do a new transfer of the movie's soundtrack from a vinyl record (already had one transfer done a decade ago, but wasn't quite happy with the limited range of the equipment used at the time)
As I've sort of had a small amount of hope of seeing this thing see a legit release at some point, Frank suggested I'd contact a guy he knew, but I don't really have high hopes of seeing the potential legal mess surrounding this movie ever getting sorted.
As far as technical specs goes,
the print itself was on two reels (30 min each), with god awful splicing at roughly each 15 min mark.
The transfer was done at a 2,7k resolution. As far as I've understood, 16mm, depending on the mastering process, can be good for anything between Full HD(1080) to UHD (4K), but in most cases lingers around a picture quality of 1,5k).
Idea was to take the 2,7k scan, work "down" to a 2K master that can be either used to upscale to 4k or downscale to Full HD. Utilize vinyl soundtrack to remaster the music score. Color correct things based on roughly on the cell based manga they released. Wrap it all up in a package consisting of 3 "variations" of the movie and include a small variety of different bonus junk;
1. Just all the assets as-is. No clean up, no fiddling. Just the straight up transfer. Archival purposes.
2. A typical restoration. Same as you'd expect from any other movie that gets some proper love and attention. For general viewing pleasure.
3. A sort of (horrible to purists) "fixed/modernized" version, where some of the obvious coloring and animation mistakes in the movie are fixed, ending credits are reconstructed in English, opening title cards done in English, etc. (with raw assets available for other languages to easily be done)
Anyway, click on pictures for horrifyingly re-compressed images (courtesy of imgur) taken of one of the two transfers that were comissioned for the reels.
Anyway, reason I'm breaking my own public silence on this is that I've been at this project for over a decade now, and motivation is always a bit of a rollercoaster (Mainly 'cause I work two jobs and lately have started to value my time off more than I ever did before). I'd like to get some general input on things, thoughts and wishes(?), maybe even someone knows someone who's able to make magic happen in terms of seeing this thing reach a first official international (and re-)release of some sort.
(And, oh, for anyone who've spoken to me about other VHS stuff; I'm still slaving my way through my pile of promo junk whenever I have the time to shuffle them in.)
Johnny Undaunted
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:07 pm�� �Post subject:
I wish you the best of luck on this endeavor. The restoration looks pretty promising thus far and seeing how Nintendo seems intend on leaving this buried in VHS-only limbo for some reason, someone's gonna do it.
togemet2
Location: ~Secret~
Great to see you've finally decided to reveal it! Now we need to get back to working away at it.
aoiahoy
Today i stumble upon this on twitter and was curious on how far you gotten and really impressed on how far you've gotten. Anyways, I was wonder if you could at least upload a snip it of the film. really excited on this. please reply back and thank you.
KingMike
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 7:29 am�� �Post subject:
Johnny Undaunted wrote:
So my friend tells me that movies were usually made with licensing agreements that give them permanent ownership of the content, rather than video games and TV shows usually made with limited-time content licensing.
(that is the infamous Mario movie can be re-released as much as the film studio wants to and Nintendo can't stop it)
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 4:02 pm�� �Post subject:
I doubt anyone other than Nintendo holds the rights to this movie, considering Grouper Production (the company who made this) went of business in 1996 and all of their other movies with Sanrio characters have been released on DVD by Sanrio themselves. I think Nintendo simply has no interest in re-releasing it. It's a nice curiosity for Mario fans, but as an anime by itself it's pretty unremarkable and it doesn't even fit in with the current Mario canon.
Seriously, what the hell were the writers thinking of pairing Peach with a random OC? I'm guessing they assumed Peach would just be a one-off character like Lady was in Donkey Kong at the time.
I kind of enjoy the film more because of this ending. It's sort of bittersweet, but at the same time carries the message that you can't always get what you want. A friend of mine found this about a year ago:
You know what really makes me feel like this wasn't the originally intended ending? In Japanese, besides Haru barely saying anything in that last scene when they're saying goodbye, Peach says very specifically that she will be lonely without Mario being there. (For those who don't know, 寂しい sabishii can mean sad, but it has a connotation of a feeling of being lonely). And yet Haru is there.
Another thing to note, in the original storyboards if I remember correctly, Haru can't even be seen anywhere. Infact, the ending in there is completely different.
Sgt Nate V
Location: World 3 of Mario 1
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 12:33 am�� �Post subject:
togemet2 wrote:
I was gonna say that, contributing to how they probably thought Peach would be a one-off, that the manual for Lost Levels literally stated it was an alternate universe version of Mario 1.
But then I saw that last paragraph in this post, which makes me think that either some asshole put that in there as a joke and it actually got animated and voice acted like my theory for the ending for the Transformers G1 episode "B.O.T.", or someone really didn't want Peach to be with Mario.
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2018 1:44 am�� �Post subject:
Sgt Nate V wrote:
Who really knows where they got Haru from. He wasn't even in the original game. His inclusion always felt strange.
Maybe Haru was one of the writer's self-insert. :P
ICEknight
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:54 am�� �Post subject:
Awesome! Just make sure that no DVNR is used, so that the quality won't go to waste!
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2018 1:31 pm�� �Post subject:
ICEknight wrote:
That stuff's poison. Some of the Disney HD releases bothers me to no end due to the way they've applied it. I think my biggest struggle so far is figuring out on a final solution to how to deal with the framing. I'm not doing any type forced widescreen cropping or anything like that, but some scenes utilize more frame space than others and some scenes for some reason have rounded off black corners, the latter which might explain why the VHS release has such a high amount of cropping for something that already was in the correct aspect ratio.
Probably just have to go on a scene-by-scene basis for these things. For point 1 and 2, I probably wont do anything about it, whilst in 3 I might see if I can "fill" the blank somehow. (But without it ending up like the Caprino Company's efforts for the weirdo widescreen HD re-release Flåklypa Grand Prix / Pinchcliffe Grand Prix -- Where widescreen was achieved through a mix of digital expansion of the frame in some scenes and pan&scan cropping in other shots)
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 5:44 pm�� �Post subject:
Hmmm... Maybe you should get in touch with Steve Stanchfield, from Cartoon Research and Thunderbean Animation.
He's a real expert in this kind of restorations, and may be able to give you a hint or two.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 8:42 pm�� �Post subject:
I'll see if I can shoot him a mail later on. Thanks! :)
Richter Belmont
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:05 am�� �Post subject: Re: Super Mario Bros. - The Great Rescue of Princess Peach
Carnivol, I just wanted to say, that's quite awesome of you. Especially the consideration going into remastering multiple versions of it.
I've never seen this movie, and I look forward to checking it out sometime. Thanks for all your hard work!
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Despite how revolting his online behavior was, Chuck Wendig gets backing from the usual bunch of baddies
Wendig may have been fired by Marvel from their new Star Wars adaptations for his obscenities on social media, but it means nothing to a familiar crowd of freaks whom the entertainment industry, comics or otherwise, would be better off without. Here are some sample tweets they wrote in support of a man who lacks chivalry:
Hey, @ChuckWendig! You’re delightful, a great writer, and I hope today is better than yesterday. This whole thing puts me in mind of the second thing Obi-Wan says to Vader during their fight in ANH - which you, obviously, will know without looking it up.
— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) October 13, 2018
Well said, Charles!
— Paul_Cornell (@Paul_Cornell) October 13, 2018
While it was indeed Marvel's call to make, it was a bad call. This was not how you respond to a harassment campaign. https://t.co/soIfY3NfTu
— The Igle of Doctor Moreau (@JAMALIGLE) October 12, 2018
You seem to only be concerned with Chuck’s comments and not the public available barrage of tweets and messages he received that had nothing to do with politics. And Fuck Donald Trump. Our economy is in a decline because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Well, unless Chuck totally screwed up deadlines (doubtful) or refused to take editorial direction (also doubtful) this is a very disheartening move by @Marvel https://t.co/xKcTHDSKO7
— Gerry Conway (@gerryconway) October 12, 2018
I am very sorry to hear what happened to @ChuckWendig.
— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) October 13, 2018
Or maybe it's because I muted that guy apparently and whatever he's saying isn't showing in my feed.
And now you're gone, too!
Hey, @ChuckWendig, I hope you know you’re not alone. Not in this community. We look out for our own. Always will. The rollercoaster goes up and down for us all. I’m sitting next to you, pal.
— Brad Meltzer (@bradmeltzer) October 13, 2018
That doubtless won't salve the anger many will feel about Chuck's situation. Let's just aim to draw a distinction, until more is known, between a great talent being UnHired, and any overt corporate antipathy towards LGBT. I don't think Chuck is accusing anyone of the latter.
— Simon "People Who Chew Noisily" Spurrier (@sispurrier) October 12, 2018
Anybody who studies Meltzer's resume under a magnifying glass will understand why it's hardly a surprise he'd join the bandwagon of Wendig backers. And look at how Simone not only refused to answer a guy's query whether she approves of Wendig's revolting comments, she even muted or blocked him altogether. Another Orwellian "ignorance is strength" approach that doesn't reflect well on her MO. Conway's no improvement either, nor is Soule.
And this is why any company employing these freaks could risk losing customers. Marvel and DC's managements might want to take a good look at what their other employees, freelance and interns, are saying as well, if they don't want anybody to think they're only booting out writers because they were assigned to write high profile movie material adaptations. Everything has to count, and not just at a time when a movie based on a comic is screening in film auditoriums.
And on that note, the news just came out that Wendig's planned SW miniseries has been canned altogether:
Marvel Entertainment released the official list of January 2019 comic book product this week, and one title was notable by its absence: Shadow of Vader, the five-issue comic book series written by Chuck Wendig, the writer Marvel fired last week because of his social media use.
[...] At the New York Comic Con panel, the series was officially announced as launching in January, with the series replacing the current Star Wars: Darth Vader title on the schedule; the latter series releases its final issue Dec. 19. However, the full list of Marvel’s planned January 2019 releases doesn’t include Shadow of Vader.
It’s unclear whether the series is on hold while Marvel addresses Wendig’s firing, or if it has been quietly killed altogether. In a blog post about his firing, Wendig expressed uncertainty about what was going to become of the work he’d already completed on the book.
He's written at least a few novel adaptations of SW as well, and after this scandal, it remains to be seen if Disney/Lucasfilm will continue to employ him to that extent. At this point, he'd be considered such a PR catastrophe, that to keep working with him could spell trouble for their finances. Who ever knew that the guy could be so much more influenced by Darth Vader's dark visions than by Luke Skywalker's?
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We have a record low unemployment rate, and economic growth that Obama claimed was impossible (though he is now trying to take credit for it), yet, "Our economy is in a decline because (Trump) doesn't know what he's doing."
Welcome to Leftist logic. AKA Bizarro World.
But maybe the limousine liberals in Bel Air and Beverly Hills consider the low unemployment rate (and common sense, reasonable enforcement of immigration laws) to be a problem because it reduces the supply of cheap labor.
Problems with the economy include increasing income inequality, with the rich having more and the poor even less; wage stagnation; a massively higher budget deficit; deteriorating infrastructure; trade wars which are just beginning and whose impact has not yet been felt; a return to the kind of financial deregulation that caused the 2008 recession; and worries about what will happen when the goosing of the economy caused by the tax cuts wears off and interest rates rise. We are not out of the woods and the signals are not good.
We an only wish for common sense reasonable enforcement of immigration laws. The administration has been breaking immigration law right and left, and has not been able to comply in full with court orders to fix the problems created by their failure to follow the law.
When did separating infant kids from their parents and putting them in detention camps become common sense?
Oh, for the days when writers were judged on their writing and not on their tweets.
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Elana K. Arnold (Fiction) | Huntington Beach, CA
elana elanakarnold.com
http://elanakarnold.com
Elana K. Arnold writes literary fiction for and about children and teens, with titles published and forthcoming in the picture book, chapter book, middle grade, and YA brackets. Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, and Publishers Weekly. She hold a Master’s degree in Creative Writing/Fiction from UC Davis, where she has returned to teach Adolescent Literature and Creative Writing. She is a frequent speaker at writers’ conferences, schools, and libraries.
Far From Fair (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2016). Fiction. Middle Grade Lit.
The Question of Miracles (HMH Books for Young Readers, 2015). Fiction. Middle Grade Lit.
Infandous (Carolrhoda Books, 2015). Fiction. YA/Teen.
Splendor (Delacorte Press, 2013). Fiction. YA/Teen.
Sacred (Delacorte Press, 2012). Fiction. YA/Teen.
Burning (Delacorte Press, 2013). Fiction. YA/Teen.
THE QUESTION OF MIRACLES:
“It is her realistic relationship with the matter-of-fact Boris, a most unlikely miracle, that will catch readers, and help pull them toward seeking answers of their own for the story’s very large questions.”
—Booklist, starred review
“Just as Iris finally embraces the rain, spinning round and round, readers, too, will recognize the circular patterns of love and loss, joy and grief, life and death. A quiet, affecting journey rendered with keen insight.”
“This is a realistic view of grief, with particular emphasis on the agonizing longing to know if a lost loved one is truly out there somewhere. Iris’s stay-at-home dad fills the story with great flavors and textures–from the baby chicks he hatches to his homemade bread, giving the story a cozy touch despite Iris’s impossible quest for answers.”
“Arnold’s heroine confronts her emotions honestly (even when she’s putting on a brave face to mask what she really thinks or feels), and her slow, difficult journey to understand the absence left in Sarah’s wake unfolds with heartbreaking believability.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Iris’ grief for Sarah is unusually well captured, touching on the huge importance of the best friend relationship and the amputation felt after such a loss. This is therefore a tender yet smart story that will resonate with readers who work through their emotions by brain as well as heart.”
“In a third-person narrative that remains fully in Iris’s range of understanding, Arnold explores the range of sorrow, anger and grief Iris undergoes…Her gentle explorations of faith, doubt and making a friend while still keeping Sarah close leave a powerful impression.”
—Shelf Awareness, starred review
INFANDOUS:
“Sephora Golding is the daughter of a beauty, and this mother-daughter relationship has informed most of her life. Throughout Sephora’s childhood in Venice Beach, it’s been just the two of them, and as she struggles now with the growing pains of new adulthood, a steadily shrinking future, and with a strange dark sexual secret, it is to that relationship that she continues to turn. It’s the secret, though, that influences her artwork, an ongoing project she calls Infandous: something so horrible it cannot be expressed aloud. Inspired by various fairy tales, Sephora crafts circles around what is hidden, always shying away from acknowledging the thing itself. Clocking in at just 200 pages, this is a story that packs no less of a punch for its brevity. Sephora’s grim reimaginings of fairy tales are the anti-Disney in the extreme (making this best suited for more mature readers). The strands are worked so surely into the narrative that they feel powerful instead of tired. Sephora herself is a narrator who defies convention, and her story, harsh and spare, is unforgettable.”
“The summer before senior year gives Sephora Golding time to surf, work on her found-object works of art and reflect on the turn her life has taken. Seph shares a low-rent apartment in Venice Beach, California, with her stunningly gorgeous mother, Rebecca, who Seph used to imagine was a mermaid. Left by Seph’s father and shunned by Rebecca’s family, the two have always been unusually close. Last year, Seph had a brief fling with an older man; now Rebecca’s having a summertime romance with a younger one. Seph relates her summer tale of self-discovery in a matter-of-fact, occasionally foulmouthed teen voice. She intersperses her account with hard-hitting yet sumptuous versions of fairy tales and myths, from ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ to ‘Demeter and Persephone.’ From her vantage as narrator and storyteller, she points out that ‘[t]hings don’t really turn out the way they do in fairy tales. I’m telling you that right up front, so you’re not disappointed later.’ She calls one of her sculptures Infandous, meaning ‘something that’s too terrible to be spoken aloud.” Hers is a world of raw physicality, underscoring the contrasts between beauty and ugliness, wealth and poverty, light and shadows that play out as secrets unfold. A coming-of-age story consciously reminiscent of Lolita, this multifaceted portrayal of family bonds surprises with its nuanced and sometimes-searing emotional gravity.”
—Kirkus, starred review
Elana K. Arnold
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Hundreds of United Kingdom schools receive emailed bomb threat, causing dozens to evacuate
Cardinal Road School in Feltham is one of the schools to have been evacuated. More
Patty Aguilar | 19 March, 2018, 15:48
The threats say that a bomb has been placed on school grounds and it will be detonated if demands for cash are not met.
"Schools have been visited by police to reassure them that the incident is being treated as a hoax and address any concerns".
The Community Security Trust (CST) urged Jewish schools to "continue as normal" after the threats from an unknown source, believed to be based in north America, were sent to schools around the country, demanding money.
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Boy Fatally Shoots 13-Year-Old Sister After Argument Over Video Game
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Lalu Prasad convicted in fourth fodder scam case; Jagannath Mishra acquitted
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"We take all incidents of this nature extremely seriously and an investigation into the emails in question is underway".
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'Rangasthalam' trailer out: Ram Charan gets into the skin of the character
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President Kovind releases Rs 10 & Rs 1000 commemorative coin on Lord Jagannath
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AFTER SALES AND SERVICES
Martin and Hyster Equipment
Cooper Chengshan Tyres
Davies Magnet Fifth Wheels
Trailer Equipment & Running Gear
Repairs, Servicing & Modifications
Trailer Repairs
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2nd Hand Trailers
From its humble beginnings in 1984 with only 10 employees and its loyal customers, Martin trailers have grown to be a market leader in heavy duty commercial trailers and tow-behind compaction equipment in the African market.
The History of the Martin trailers in South Africa dates back to the original imports from the USA in the 1960's. Hyster Company in the USA bought out Martin trailers and manufactured them under the Hyster name brand until 1989. Barlows in South Africa began manufacturing these trailers under licence from Hyster. In 1984, Grant Gore bought the Hyster trailer manufacturing licence from Barlows after years of successful manufacture and supply into sub-Saharan Africa. Grant Gore and Sons was established to manufacture new trailers and to service and repair existing trailers. Since then the company has expanded its market share in the heavy trailer market to become the market leader in lowbed and heavy duty commercial trailer manufacture in Africa. The company has also become the leading manufacturer of Grid Rollers and Pad-foot Rollers. In later years the company has taken on new products to complement its existing range.
In 1989, Hyster in the USA sold of its trailer manufacturing business. Since then, Martin trailers took over as the brand name for the equipment manufactured by Grant Gore and Sons.
At the end of 2008, a new company was formed under Grant Gore and Sons to achieve better brand awareness of the Martin brand of equipment, namely Martin Trailer Company. This company handles the marketing and manufacturing of the Martin brand of equipment while Grant Gore and Sons remain as a technology company focused on research and development of heavy duty and commercial trailers and related equipment and products.
With the introduction of the agency to supply Davis Magnet heavy duty 5th wheels and components into South Africa, and the distribution license for Hella lights for Africa, the company has been able to grow its range offered to clients with world class quality products. The most recent product added to complement our existing business is the well known and sought after COOPER-CHENGSHAN commercial and truck tyres. For more information on the products, please click on adjacent tabs under after sales and services.
AFTER SALES AND CUSTOMER SUPPORT
The core business of Martin trailers is manufacturing and marketing trailers but have recently expanded its focus into support in the after market with servicing, repairs and parts sales. In the past, the company relied heavily on parts dealers to distribute its parts but the company now focuses on dealing directly with the client so as to reduce costs for client, improve customer feedback on product performance as well as decrease down time on equipment.
PERSONAL TOUCH
With Martin Trailers being a family owned and controlled business, the company is able to offer superior service on all its products with a personal touch. The company is proudly a second generation family business with a good majority of the original employees who started with the company in 1984 still on the books. Through owner-management structures, Martin trailers have a hands on approach to dealing with clients enabling unrivalled technical sales consultation, as well as quick decision making.
DESIGN, QUALITY, DURABILITY AND EXPERIENCE
The main factors that have made MARTIN the most well known and sought after brand with in the lowbed and heavy duty trailer industry can be summarised as follows:
Innovation and Durability: Martin Trailers have a full in house design team consisting of engineers, draftsmen, and trailer builders with more than 30 years experience. Using the latest design and manufacturing techniques, the company is able to constantly improve and innovate. This innovation and design has resulted in many firsts within the industry such as the first hydraulic folding gooseneck lowbed, the first hydraulic removable gooseneck lowbed, as well as the first multi-axle hydraulic steering and suspension trailer. Equipment is built to last with the majority of the original trailers manufactured in the 1980's still in operation. This innovation and durability all culminates in a world class and leading product.
Quality and Experience: Quality for us is not just for aesthetic reasons. We understand the realities of breakdowns, whether a light fails and the rig can't move at night, or whether there has been major structural damage and the rig can't move at all. For this reason, we fit only the highest quality running gear and components, ranging from T-1 steel frames, heavy duty undercarriages to the most advanced air and braking systems. Quality also extends to the finishing off of the trailer. This quality control can only come with experience, and we pride ourselves on building high quality and durable trailers that have been tried and tested over more that 25 years.
The company has set out a list of core values to ensure its growth both locally and internationally.
The 2 main values of Respect and integrity have been outlined as a driving factor in daily operations as well as company growth. These values have helped entrench the Martin name within the market and have resulted in a good majority of the company's business being repeat customers.
Research and development is another core value of the company to ensure its growth and sustainability within the local as well as international market. Having one of the largest in-house design teams in the commercial trailer market, the company has innovated the majority of concepts within the heavy duty and mining trailer industry.
Quality and material traceability systems are implemented through the entire manufacturing process right up to pre-delivery inspection and testing. This QCP allows for a product that has excellent quality standards ensuring a reliable piece of equipment.
Fair price and after sales support are also driving factors within the company so as to support customers and remain highly competitive.
Martin Trailer Company is staffed with highly experienced people with years of experience and qualifications. These people are the driving force behind Martin equipment:
The company's managing director is Patrick Gore. Patrick took over this role after his father, Gant Gore retired. Patrick has been with the company for over 15 years where he started part-time while he studied a Bcom degree. He came back to the company after working in the Uk for 2 years. Patrick is soon to finish his MBA from Wits business school and has successfully lead the new company through the 2009 recession with impressive results. Patrick also manages the overseas growth of the company.
Frank Doherty is the general manager of the company. He started working with Grant in the late 1970's when they were both at Barlows. Frank joined Grant when the company began. Franks' history is well entrenched within the company and is the backbone behind production and after sales. Franks' history in manufacturing dates back to the early 1970's where he began his apprenticeship in Glasgow and due to his drive and passion for production worked his way up in the Hyster organization. He came to South Africa in 1970's where he worked for Barlows as a production manager for Hyster forklifts and trailers.
Kevin Gore heads up the design and engineering department. Kevin qualified as a mechanical engineer and worked on the mines for 2 years. He joined the company to head up the new design and engineering department. Kevin has completed his masters in engineering and is currently studying his MBA.
The Marketing side is managed by Kieron Gore. Kieron worked at the company part time while studying a BSc degree and started full time in the family business after completing a LLB postgraduate degree. He has been with the company for 8 years and currently heads up the African and Mining growth markets as well as Gauteng sales.
Also on the sales team is John Harding. John recently joined the company after working in the energy industry for many years. He is currently studying for a diploma in electrical engineering. His strong customer relationships and hard work ethic is a valued asset to the company.
Gabor Zakany heads up the Parts Department. Gabor's experience in sales has helped grow the company's after sales through his excellent customer support and hard work. Gabor also manages specialised products such as Hella lighting, truck and trailer tyres as well as fifth wheels.
Theo Steyn is parts manager for Kwa-Zulu Natal branch. Theo worked for many years in the automotive and commercial brake industry supplying manufactures and end users. Theo's excellent technical knowledge and customer support was the main reason for getting him on board with Martin trailers and is now based in Natal servicing customers on the east coast region.
Ryno Knight has recently taken over the repairs and servicing division. Ryno handles the administrative side of repairs.
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Film and Media
PhD in Film and Media
Students in the Film and Media PhD are encouraged to situate moving images within the larger theoretical and analytical frameworks of a range of other disciplines. They integrate the traditions of history, law, literature, religion, and political theory to the newer disciplines of film studies and digital media, applying the tools of post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, Frankfurt School, feminist theory, queer theory, post-colonialism, and deconstruction. Many combine their degree study with a campus designated emphasis (graduate “minor”) in New Media, in Critical Theory, or in Women, Gender and Sexuality.
Designated Emphasis in Film Studies
PhD students at Berkeley may add a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies to their major fields. The designated emphasis provides curricular and research resources for students who want to concentrate on film within their respective disciplines and have their work formally recognized. Designed to bring together faculty and students from different departments, the program provides a unique context for rigorous cross-disciplinary thinking and promotes innovative research in the theory and history of cinema.
Admission to the University
Minimum Requirements for Admission
The following minimum requirements apply to all graduate programs and will be verified by the Graduate Division:
A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited institution;
A grade point average of B or better (3.0);
If the applicant comes from a country or political entity (e.g., Quebec) where English is not the official language, adequate proficiency in English to do graduate work, as evidenced by a TOEFL score of at least 90 on the iBT test, 570 on the paper-and-pencil test, or an IELTS Band score of at least 7 on a 9-point scale (note that individual programs may set higher levels for any of these); and
Sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in the given field.
Applicants Who Already Hold a Graduate Degree
The Graduate Council views academic degrees not as vocational training certificates, but as evidence of broad training in research methods, independent study, and articulation of learning. Therefore, applicants who already have academic graduate degrees should be able to pursue new subject matter at an advanced level without the need to enroll in a related or similar graduate program.
Programs may consider students for an additional academic master’s or professional master’s degree only if the additional degree is in a distinctly different field.
Applicants admitted to a doctoral program that requires a master’s degree to be earned at Berkeley as a prerequisite (even though the applicant already has a master’s degree from another institution in the same or a closely allied field of study) will be permitted to undertake the second master’s degree, despite the overlap in field.
The Graduate Division will admit students for a second doctoral degree only if they meet the following guidelines:
Applicants with doctoral degrees may be admitted for an additional doctoral degree only if that degree program is in a general area of knowledge distinctly different from the field in which they earned their original degree. For example, a physics PhD could be admitted to a doctoral degree program in music or history; however, a student with a doctoral degree in mathematics would not be permitted to add a PhD in statistics.
Applicants who hold the PhD degree may be admitted to a professional doctorate or professional master’s degree program if there is no duplication of training involved.
Applicants may apply only to one single degree program or one concurrent degree program per admission cycle.
Required Documents for Applications
Transcripts: Applicants may upload unofficial transcripts with your application for the departmental initial review. If the applicant is admitted, then official transcripts of all college-level work will be required. Official transcripts must be in sealed envelopes as issued by the school(s) attended. If you have attended Berkeley, upload your unofficial transcript with your application for the departmental initial review. If you are admitted, an official transcript with evidence of degree conferral will not be required.
Letters of recommendation: Applicants may request online letters of recommendation through the online application system. Hard copies of recommendation letters must be sent directly to the program, not the Graduate Division.
Evidence of English language proficiency: All applicants from countries or political entities in which the official language is not English are required to submit official evidence of English language proficiency. This applies to applicants from Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America, the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, most European countries, and Quebec (Canada). However, applicants who, at the time of application, have already completed at least one year of full-time academic course work with grades of B or better at a US university may submit an official transcript from the US university to fulfill this requirement. The following courses will not fulfill this requirement:
courses in English as a Second Language,
courses conducted in a language other than English,
courses that will be completed after the application is submitted, and
courses of a non-academic nature.
If applicants have previously been denied admission to Berkeley on the basis of their English language proficiency, they must submit new test scores that meet the current minimum from one of the standardized tests. Official TOEFL score reports must be sent directly from Educational Test Services (ETS). The institution code for Berkeley is 4833. Official IELTS score reports must be mailed directly to our office from the British Council. TOEFL and IELTS score reports are only valid for two years.
Visit the Berkeley Graduate Division application page.
Admission to the Designated Emphasis Program
Applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral program at Berkeley and must have completed FILM 200, offered each fall semester.
Doctoral Degree Requirements
FILM 200 Graduate Film Theory Seminar 4
FILM 201 Graduate Film Historiography 4
FILM 203 Film Studies Proseminar 2-4
Film Elective: Graduate seminar 4
Outside Field Elective 2
Coursework/Curriculum
A minimum of three graduate seminars in Film Studies must be taken at Berkeley. Independent study courses are not acceptable to fulfill this requirement.
FILM 240 Graduate Topics in Film (or a graduate seminar cross-listed with Film and Media) 4
A member of the Graduate Group in Film Studies must be a formal member of the PhD qualifying examination committee. Under most circumstances, the Film Studies Graduate Group member in the student’s home department will serve in this function. A member of the Graduate Group may also serve as the outside member of the qualifying exam committee. A Film Studies topic must be included as a subject on the qualifying examination.
A member of the Graduate Group in Film Studies must be a formal member of the dissertation committee. The dissertation must contribute to the study of film and moving-image media.
Upon completion of these requirements and the dissertation, the student will receive a designation on their transcript to state that they have completed a “PhD in [major] with an Emphasis in Film Studies.”
FILM 200 Graduate Film Theory Seminar 4 Units
This seminar will examine both traditional and recent critical approaches to a systematic and historical study of film. Although we will emphasize contemporary structuralist-semiotic, psychoanalytical, and socio-critical methods, we will also study the classical debates in film theory about representation, filmic vs. literary signification, sexual difference, and the social function of images in modernism and postmodernism. Illustrations will be taken from film history from 1910 to 1980.
Graduate Film Theory Seminar: Read More [+]
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar and 1 hour of discussion per week
Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Graduate
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FILM 201 Graduate Film Historiography 4 Units
The theoretical and methodological issues raised by the recent practice of film history are the focus of this seminar. Intended primarily for first-year film studies graduate students and other students interested in starting work on film history, the seminar provides both a theoretical overview of film historiography and an introduction to the practice of historically oriented film research. The first part of the course uses both overtly historiographic readings and film history examples to raise historical questions of technology, institution-formation, exhibition, cultural history, and spectatorship.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar and 2 hours of laboratory per week
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FILM 203 Film Studies Proseminar 2 - 4 Units
A seminar introducing Film Studies graduate students to the field, the profession, and the faculty practicing film studies. Envisioned as a way for new students to learn what is expected of them and for more advanced students to pass through the all-important last years of their training in an atmosphere of helpful camaraderie. Introduces students to the intellectual and physical resources of the Berkeley campus as well as the Bay Area. By the end of the semester students should gain an understanding of the expectations of their performance in graduate school, have identified the major goals on the way towards getting a Ph.D., and, depending on where they are in their studies, have begun to achieve those goals.
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Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
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FILM 204 Compact Seminar 2 Units
A compact seminar features a distinguished, short-term visitor with expertise in Film and Media. During the stay, the visitor meets intensively with graduate students, who then continue to work on research topics for the remainder of the semester. The seminar meets eight times one hundred and twenty minutes, not including screening time, and a substantial (twenty-five page) research paper is required at the end of the semester.
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Fall and/or spring: 4 weeks - 4 hours of seminar per week
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FILM 220 Film Curating 4 Units
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2006
An introduction to the theory, history, and practice of film curating taught by Pacific Film Archive curators. What do curators do? How do they decide what to show? What is the role of film archives and film exhibition in the field of film and moving image study? Using the Pacific Film Archive and its programmers as a laboratory, students will go behind-the-scenes of the Archive's curatorial, print traffic, publicity, and editorial departments and learn how to program by doing. The course will culminate in a proposal for a comprehensive film series.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar and 1-4 hours of laboratory per week
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FILM 221 Film Curating Part 2 2 Units
Students will develop and present a film series for presentation at the Pacific Film Archive. Possibly refining a series proposed in 220. PFA curators will have final approval of the series topic and the film/video selection. Students will locate and book all films, write program notes, do outreach, and introduce programs. Guest speakers will include local press, writers, and artists. Local film and videomakers will trace the history of a work from production through exhibition.
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Prerequisites: 220
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FILM 230 Graduate Production Seminar 4 Units
Intensive study of the basic elements of film and digital video production and post-production. Graduate students will develop a working knowledge of film and video making through hands-on production experience that will enable them to film and edit their own productions. They will also acquire training to teach basic video and film production classes. The uses of specific technologies and formats will be discussed in relation to aesthetic and theoretical questions. Training includes pre-production-scripting and storyboarding, production elements including image capture, and post-production strategies and aesthetics for non-linear digital editing programs. The course will also introduce problems of how to format video/films for exhibition and approaches to distribution, exhibition, and funding. Classes will consist of technical lectures and hands-on workshops, creative exercises, seminar-style discussion and critique, film screenings, assigned readings, and visiting artists and speakers.
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Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 3-5 hours of laboratory per week
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FILM 240 Graduate Topics in Film 4 Units
Selected topics in the study of film.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week
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FILM 298 Special Study 1 - 4 Units
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session
Designed to allow students to do research in areas not covered by other courses. Requires regular discussions with the instructor and a final written report.
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Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Graduate standing
3 weeks - 5-20 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-7.5 hours of independent study per week
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FILM 299 Directed Research 1 - 12 Units
Open to graduate students who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying examinations.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 1.5-22.5 hours of independent study per week
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FILM 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 6 Units
Individual study in consultation with faculty director as preparation for degree examinations.
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Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Graduate examination preparation
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Weihong Bao, Associate Professor. Film theory and history, media archaeology, critical theory, visual and performance culture, Chinese language cinema, transnational genre cinema, comparative media history and theory.
Mark Berger, Adjunct Professor. Film studies, film production, film sound.
Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor. Photography, film, contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of Spanish America and Brazil .
Mary Ann Doane, Professor. Feminist theory, semiotics, cinema, media, cultural theory, archaeology of media technology, poststructuralism.
Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor. Digital media, visual culture, media archaeology, queer theory, 20th century histories of technology and computation, computer graphics, and the intersection of contemporary art and technology .
Russell L. Merritt, Adjunct Professor.
Anne Nesbet, Associate Professor. Culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature and Stalinism, the Soviet Union, American minority movements.
Mark Sandberg, Professor. Silent film, late nineteenth-century visual culture, theater history, comedy, Scandinavian design, serial television, film historiography, Scandinavian film history, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian literature, Nordic literary history.
Miryam Sas, Professor. Comparative literature, 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory.
Jeffrey A. Skoller, Associate Professor. Film history, theory and practice of documentary, avant-garde film, film as art, activist media, Third Cinema , film/video production.
Kristen Whissel, Professor. Cinema and technological change, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, silent American cinema, modernity and early cinema .
Damon R. Young, Assistant Professor. Digital media, global art cinema (with a focus on French and francophone), gender and sexuality studies, critical theory.
Emily Carpenter, Lecturer.
Eileen M. Jones, Lecturer.
J. Mira Kopell, Lecturer.
Department of Film and Media
rfa@berkeley.edu
Mark Sandberg
sandberg@berkeley.edu
Isabel Seneca
isabel.seneca@berkeley.edu
The Media Resources Center
Visit the Media Resources Center in Moffitt Library to access UC Berkeley's many collections of DVDs, videocassettes, streamed audio and video, and CDs.
The Free Speech Movement Café
This café commemorating the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley offers students a casual place to study, gather with friends, and grab a bite to eat.
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07 August 2017 – Possible UK National Investment Fund
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The government of the UK revealed it is considering the creation of a National Investment Fund to support startups that could become unicorns.
The Canadian government has announced it will make its visa scheme for entrepreneurs a permanent fixture.
Singapore-based venture capital firm Prestellar Ventures has raised $100m for a fund that counts Nepal-headquartered conglomerates CG Corp Global and NE Group as general partners.
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance, a subsidiary of Japan-based insurer Sompo, is committing at least $40m and possibly up to $80m, to venture capital firm TransLink Capital to manage its corporate venture capital fund.
India-based seed-grant impact fund Nudge Foundation, which targets poverty reduction, has collected capital from Tata Trusts, the philanthropic shareholder in conglomerate Tata and Sons, as well as motorcycle maker Maruti, networking technology producer Cisco, IT services firm Mphasis, conglomerate Godrej, retailer Target, bank Wells Fargo, Social Venture Partners and entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.
N/Core is one of a few programs launched or announced last week – others included Morgan Stanley launching an accelerator that will focus on startups with female or multicultural founders, co-founders or chief technology officers.
Meituan-Dianping, the Chinese local listing and services portal formed in late 2015 by the merger of unicorns Meituan and Dianping, is reportedly in talks with investors to raise between $3bn and $5bn in a round that will feature a $1bn investment by existing backer Tencent.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund is reportedly in talks to invest $1.5bn to $2bn in Flipkart, which was valued at $11.6bn as of its last round earlier this year, in a deal that would enable it to join an investor base that already includes eBay, Tencent, Intel Capital and Bennett Coleman & Co.
Digital marketing company Avazu spun out app developer DotC in 2015, but now the boot’s on the other foot. DotC has raised $350m in a series B round led by Avazu’s parent company Zeus that involved the ownership of Avazu being transferred to DotC in a deal that will give Zeus a stake of just over 30.6% in the company.
Online fresh produce retailer Yiguo has secured $300m in funding from Alibaba subsidiary Tmall as part of a partnership agreement that will involve Tmall integrating Yiguo’s product into its existing offering.
Online business lending platform Kabbage has received $250m in funding from existing investor SoftBank, roughly doubling its overall funding in the process. Past investors in Kabbage, which will use the SoftBank cash to further develop its technology and expand its service offering, include UPS, Santander, ING and Recruit, while SoftBank initially invested in the company as part of a $50m series D round in 2014.
Peer-to-peer lending platform Dianrong has secured $220m in a round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC, which was announced just after it agreed to acquire banking services provider Quark Finance’s asset generation operations in order to expand its physical presence in its home country of China.
E-commerce software and services provider ShopEx has secured $104m in a series D round led by venture firm Joy Capital.
Genetic therapeutics developer Homology Medicines has raised $83.5m in series B funding from investors including pharmaceutical firm Novartis, taking its overall equity financing to $127m across two rounds.
Impossible Foods has secured $75m in a round that will likely support the construction of a dedicated production facility for its plant-based burgers.
Novo has led cardiovascular therapy developer Milestone Pharmaceuticals’ $55m series C round, investing alongside Canadian state-owned BDC Capital, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, the development capital organisation for Quebec, as well as Forbion Capital Partners, Domain Associates, Pappas Capital, Go Capital and funds managed by Tekla Capital Management.
And on GlobalUniversityVenturing.com, we’ve had a few $20m deals. Among them: IonQ. GV, the corporate venturing unit of diversified conglomerate Alphabet, co-led a $20m series B round for quantum computing startup IonQ with New Enterprise Associates.
Another one was US-based car refuelling service provider Booster Fuels, which raised $20m in a series B round yesterday from investors including Stanford University’s StartX Fund. Booster allows drivers to park their car in work and request their tank be refilled through a mobile app.
And finally, US-based authentication technology developer UnifyID raised $20m in a series A round on Monday from investors including Stanford University’s StartX Fund. UnifyID has created an authentication platform that relies on sensors built into everyday devices and uses machine learning to identify users based on more than 100 unique characteristics such as the way they walk, sit and type. It requires no manual input from the user.
As mentioned earlier in the podcast, the long-running saga of Flipkart’s proposed acquisition of Snapdeal appears to have come to an unexpected end with news last Monday that Snapdeal has sensationally decided to call off the talks in favour of a restructuring process.
Twitter-backed music streaming platform Soundcloud is said to have entered talks with two private equity firms to raise funding in a deal that would give the as-yet undisclosed firms stakes that would jointly add up to a majority share.
Canada-based clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Clementia Pharmaceuticals has gone public in the US, floating at the top of its range and raising $120m.
Energy and oil producer China Titans Energy Technology Group has acquired Aquion Energy, a bankrupt US-based energy storage technology developer spun out from Carnegie Mellon University, for $9.16m, according to a regulatory filing.
GameSparks, an Ireland and UK-based platform for games developers backed by Irish state-owned export credit agency Enterprise Ireland, has been acquired by e-commerce company Amazon.
CarTrade, an India-based online automotive classifieds service backed by Temasek, is exploring a merger with its domestic competitor CarDekho, backed by diversified conglomerate Alphabet’s growth equity arm CapitalG, to create the country’s largest online car classifieds platform.
On GlobalUniversityVenturing.com, Intelesens, a UK-based wearable device maker to monitor patients’ vital signs that is based on Ulster University research, has been acquired by medical image management platform Ultralinq for an undisclosed amount.
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Unique Selling Points Of Poland
Poland – located in the centre of Europe and seventh biggest country in the continent.
Poland provides world class education at highly ranked universities at affordable cost.
Living expenses: Very cheap compared to many other European Countries. It costs around Rs.10, 000 per month.
Part-time job opportunities: International students are allowed to work for Part-time in the country for about 20 hours per week legally. They are also paid well.
Stay back option: Post graduation, the students are allowed to stay there in the Country for a minimum of 2 years. Graduates can stay back to find full time jobs.
Accommodation: Almost all the Universities have their own dormitories inside their campus and they provide Accommodation to the students with all the facilities built-in.
ERASMUS: European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students. The students can easily transfer their second year of studies to the other European country, with no additional cost.
Internship: Students are allowed to take part in the Internship inside or outside the Country; they are even paid well.
SCHENGEN Visa: The students are allowed to travel to the Schengen Countries [26 EU Countries] without an additional Visa.
Research opportunities: Excellent research opportunities are available to the students, post their graduation.
Easy Visa: The student is required to maintain a minimum of 3.5 Lakhs in his or his parents Savings account for at least 10 days and go for Visa.
Capital and largest city Warsaw
Official languages Polish
Government Parliamentary republic
Upper house
Lower house National Assembly
Total 312,679 km2[a] (69th)
120,696.41 sq mi
30 June 2014 estimate 38,483,957 [4] (34th)
Per capita 2016 estimate
$1.051 trillion[6] (21st)
$27,654 (49th)
Currency Zloty (PLN)
Summer (DST) CET (UTC+1)
Drives on the right
Calling code 48
Internet .pl
Student Visa Requirements
A filled-in visa application form
Official letter of acceptance to a school in Poland
A short CV
Your school certificates, diplomas and degrees
Evidence of proficiency in the language in which you wish to study
Confirmation of having the funds for studying and living in Poland
A photo
Poland prides on top-class medical universities. Their popularity is confirmed each year by thousands of students from countries like USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others, who take up the challenge and enroll for medical and paramedical studies. Thus, they are sure to get high quality education and a diploma recognized worldwide at the same time paying much less than in Western Europe, America or Australia.
Polish medical universities boast state-of-the-art facilities and expert staff that assure globally recognized research achievements in many scientific areas.
If you choose to study in a medical university in Poland you will not need to worry about your qualifications being recognized anywhere else. Being part of the Bologna process, Polish universities will offer you a degree recognized in whole Europe. What is more, Polish medical universities are listed and accredited by the most important institutions across the globe, like International Medical Education Directory (IMED), Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) or an American reputable organization National Board of Medical Examiners.
The Medical University of Warsaw is one of the oldest medical schools in Poland. For over 200 years it has provided education and training in medicine and pharmacy at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The university’s programs meet the highest international standards of university-level education and are based on the principles of good clinical and pharmaceutical practice.
The academic staff at the Medical University of Warsaw have gained national and international reputations for their contributions to the science and practice of medicine. Many of them hold the prestigious posts of National Consultants in different specialties.
The Medical University of Warsaw provides specialist referral tertiary and general services as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in its five affiliated teaching hospitals, which are also involved in scientific and clinical research. The University also holds a number of clinical academic departments located in other hospitals in Warsaw.
According Webometric Ranking of World Universities from January 2015, showing the involvement of academic institutions in existence on the Web, the university occupies the first place in Poland among medical universities, and 1826 in the world among all types of universities.
Medical University of Warsaw is a member of several international organizations: UNESCO, the European University Association (EUA), the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System – Medical Association (ECTS-MA).
Having completed the basic science part of the study programme, the students are eligible to sit for the USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) Step I and for the USMLE Step II on completion of the clinical part of the programme.
Medical University of Warsaw has:
9,147 students, including 600 foreigners
1,671 teachers, including 167 professors
Degree courses in 14 areas of study and 1 specialty.First-cycle undergraduate programs:
Audiophonology
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiography
Second-cycle degree programs (post-diploma):
Full-time degree programs:
The English Division
The English Division of the Second Faculty of Medicine was established in 1993 at the Medical University of Warsaw for students interested in studying medicine in English.
The Division offers two programmes: a 6-year programme for high school graduates and a 4-year programme for college/university graduates. At the end of each program the graduates are awarded the MD degree and receive a medical diploma recognized in the European Union, USA, Canada and most other countries of the world.
The Medical University of Warsaw Premed College offers a preparation programme for medical school prospective students. The Medical School Preparation Programme (MSPP) includes an intensive English language course and a Polish language course followed by biology, anatomy, physics and chemistry preparatory courses.
More detailed information: http://2wl.wum.edu.pl/en
The Annually Cost Of Books And Other Equipment For Medical Students
Aprons, caps, gloves for dissecting-room 200 PLN 49 EUR
Stethoscope 200 PLN 49 EUR
Books, notebooks 500-800 120-193 EUR
Photocopying 800 193 EUR
Stationery, pens, crayons 100 25 EUR
TOTAL 1800-2100 PLN 434-506 EUR
Warsaw University of Technology is a technical research institution with traditions in education dating back to the XIXth century. It was founded in 1915. It is a forward-thinking institution where high-quality education meets world-class research and innovation. The Warsaw University of Technology is an academic institution of higher learning and shapes the future social elites.
It is one of the largest and best technical universities in Poland as well as in Central and Eastern Europe, as presented by prestigious Polish press rankings (�Wprost�, �Rzeczpospolita�). Warsaw University of Technology also takes 1st place in Poland in the “Ranking of Universities” among the technical universities published by the magazine “Perspectives”.
According Webometric Ranking of World Universities from January 2015, the university is ranked 522 among all types of universities.
Some statistics:
19 faculties and 1 college
32 fields of study
2,185 academic teachers
37,020 students and graduate students
13 of halls of residence with 5,428 of places
1,131,706 volumes in WUT library; 4864 objects in WUT Digital Library
536 projects research national and foreign
Top 3 fields of study: Computer Science, Administration, Management
The list of courses conducted in English:
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL:
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Engineering
Computer Science at Electronics and Information Technology
Computer Science at Mathematics and Information Science
Mechatronics (spec. Photonics Engineering)
GRADUATE LEVEL:
Mechatronics (Photonics)
Management and Production Engineering
All the detailed information is available at: http://www.students.pw.edu.pl/#choices
The cost of living in Warsaw
The main costs Cost in PLN Cost in EURO
Dormitories 385-525 PLN for a month 93-127 EURO
Monthly pass for Warsaw public transport for students 55 PLN 13,3 EURO
The cost of rent a room or flat 800-1200 PLN for a room or a one-bedroom flat 193-289 EURO
The minimum cost of daily alimentation about 50 PLN a day 12 EURO
Lunch in the restaurant 20 – 30 PLN 4,8-7,2 EURO
Taxi 1,8 – 2,4 PLN for 1km +8 PLN flat fee 0,43-0,58 EURO +1,9 EURO flat fee
Mobile phone pre-paid 0,19-0,29 PLN per minute 0,05 – 0,07 EURO
Ticket to the cinema 18-25 PLN 4,3 – 6 EURO
The cost of basic food products bread (2 PLN), milk 1 l (2,5 PLN), mineral water 1,5 l � 2 PLN bread – 0,5 EURO, milk 1 l -0,6 EURO, mineral water 1,5 l – 0,5 EURO
Accommodation in a low budget hotel 109-199 PLN per night 26,3-48 EURO
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Journal of Public Health and Disease Prevention
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Science, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Mersin University Mersin, Turkey
Dr. Çelik A, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey, Tel: +903243610001/14594, E-mail: aylace67@gmail.com
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey
The Investigation of Genotoxicity and Oxidative Stress Potential of Luna Experience SC 400 Fungucide in Rat Liver and Blood Tissue
Aktaş C, Çelik A*, Yalın Sand Güler G,
Citation: Aktaş C, Çelik A, Yalın S, Güler G (2018) The Investigation of Genotoxicity and Oxidative Stress Potential of Luna Experience SC 400 Fungucide in Rat Liver and Blood Tissue.J Public Health Dis Prev 1: 101
Fungicide is a general term given to all chemicals used to take under control the fungus that infect on plants. Luna Experience SC-400 is a new generation fungicide that combinated with Fluopyram and Tebuconazole. In this study, micronucleus assay and single cell gel electrophoresis (comet assay) were usedin rat liver and blood tissues. To determine the oxidative stress potential of the Luna Experience SC 400, catalase level (CAT) which is one of the antioxidant enzymes were measured. To determine the lipid peroxidation, malondialdehyde (MDA) levels were measured. Doses of Luna Experience SC 400 given to rats were determined as 5 mg/kg, 10 mg/kg and 20 mg/kg. MMC was used for positive control. The results of this study show that Luna Experience SC 400 fungicide has genotoxic effect and on CAT-dependent oxidative stress potential, but doesn’t have MDA-dependent oxidative stress potential in rat liver and blood tissues.
Keywords: Single Gel Cell Electrophoresis, Fungucite (Luna Experience-EC 400), Micronucleus Assay, liver, Blood, Genotoxicity, Cytotoxicity
Pesticides have been used by humans since 2000 BC to protect their crops. Increasing environmental pollution due to the use of pesticides and the widespread use of industrial products has caused pollution of food, water and soil by the residues of these chemicals and their metabolites [1]. In the 19th century, rotenone obtained from the roots of Pyrethrum and tropical vegetables obtained from Chrysanthemum was used as two other naturally occurring pesticides. Pesticides, which are economically beneficial for food preservation, cause pollution of water, soil and air due to their ability to withstand natural degradation and disrupt the ecological system [2].
When toxicological studies of pesticides revealed harmful effects at different levels, these levels of exposure were classified according to the amount received by the World Health Organization (WHO) [3]. Pesticides are used in agriculture in range 75% and 80%. But they are also used as wood preservatives, in dyes, in fabrics other from agriculture [4-6,7]. Fungicides are biocidal chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill fungi or fungal spores. Luna Experience-SC 400 is a new generation fungicide with Fluopyram and Tebuconazole Combination. Luna Experience-SC 400 Luna Experience-SC 400 is a new broad spectrum, protective and therapeutic fungicide standard that combines different mechanisms with a mixture of tebuconazole, which has been proven by fluopyramine, one of the newest technological products produced by Bayer Crop Science. Luna Experience-SC 400 contains 200g/L tebuconazole and 200g/L fluoropyram as active substance [8].
Fluopyram is a pyridinyl-ethyl-benzamide fungicide developed by Bayer Crop Science in 2010. Has a structure that inhibits fluopyramine, succinate dehydrogenase enzyme, and fungal respiratory chain complex, which are effective in controlling the pathogens of more than 70 products. The kinetic behavior and metabolism of fluoropyram was investigated in rats. In subchronic studies, weight loss and nutritional problems were recorded. It has been determined that the liver is the target organ. Hepatotoxicity was evident due to dose increase. Another target organ has been found to have blood cells. Changes in the parameters of red blood cells and an increase in the platelet count were observed in studies performed [9]. In a chronic study in mice, 4 groups (0, 20, 60 and 180 ppm) were treated with 94.7% pure tebuconazole for 21 months and the results were reported. All doses have been reported to be the liver of the target organ due to fat accumulation in the liver [10].
In an in vitro study performed with tebuconazole in bovine lymphocyte cultures, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects have been studied and results have shown increased cytotoxicity and genotoxicity [11]. In a rat-based study in which 96.2% pure tebuconazole was used, it was stated that the liver is the target organ, the liver weight is increased and the serum enzyme levels are increased. Adenomas and carcinomas have been reported in the highest dose group (1500 ppm) [10]. As a result of study of Tebuconazole exposure, data obtained from Cyprinus carpio and Rhamdia quelen liver indicated that tebuconazole has been shown to be an effect of increasing oxidative damage potential [12,13]. The Comet assay, based on the principle of DNA (Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid) fractures at the gene level, has found widespread use in many DNA damage and repair determinations, biopsy studies and genetic toxicology [14,15]. Micronucleus (MN) is a small nucleus consisting of whole chromosomes that are not involved in the main nucleus, and which are visible in addition to the parent nucleus in the cytoplasm, due to fragments that have disappeared from the main chromosome or due to anaphase defects. Nowadays, as environmental pollution increases steadily due to rapid industrialization, living beings are exposed to more physical and chemical agents, so the need to detect and take measures to detect the adverse effects of strong toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic and teratogenic factors is inevitable [16]. Free radicals occur as intermediatesin the reactions that occur in the normal metabolic pathways of cells.These free radicals lead to lipid peroxidation, oxidative damage in proteins, mutation in DNA and the activation in cell death receptors [17]. Lipid peroxidation causes significant changes in the function and structural organization of the cell membrane. In many studies, it is determined that there is relationship between lipid peroxidation and pesticide exposureand CAT is an antioxidant enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of water and oxygen in H2O2 [12-18].
In this study, it was aimed to investigate the genotoxic effect and the potential of oxidative damage of Luna Experience SC 400 Fungicide in rat liver and blood. 1. Comet analysis and 2. Micronucleus analysis were performed for genotoxicity analysis. 3. CAT and MDA analysis were performed to determine the oxidative stress.
LUNA Experience SC-400 from produced by Bayer Crop Science (Tebuconazole CAS No.:107534-96-3, Fluopyram CAS No.: 658066-35-4, 619-797-7) was supplied as grade form and purchased from Sigma. NMA, LMA, PBS (Ca Mg free), Ethidium Bromide, NaOH and EDTA was supplied as grade form and purchased from Sigma. Acridine orange, MMC, DMSO, and RPMI 1640 purchased from Biochrom and was supplied as grade form and NaCl purchased from Merck Millipore.
Dose selection
In this study, doses were selected according to LD50 dose of Luna Experience SC 400 for rats. LD50 dose of Luna Experience SC 400 is 2000 mg/kg for rats (SAFETY DATA SHEET according to Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006, Revision Date: 15.08.2017 102000032925 Print Date: 16.08.2017). Therefore, in this study, the highest dose was set at 20 mg/kg body wt, i.e. 1% of the LD50 dose. The lowest dose was determined via pre-study as 5 mg/kg body wt because this dose did not affect the animals neurologically and behaviorally. Five groups were used in the study. For this purpose, dose groups prepared by means of gavage were applied to female rats weighing 400 g and 12 months old at Mersin University Experimental Animal Lab at intervals of 48 hours for 30 days.In this study, mitomycin C (MMC) (2mg/kg), a single i.p. dose was used as a positive control.
It is acceptable that a positive control is administered by a route different fromor the same as the test substance and that is only a single time [19]. The positive control and untreated control rats were treated identically with equal volumes of Normal saline.
Animals and diet programme
In this study, healthy adult female Swiss albino rats (Wistar rat) [6–8 weeks of age and average body weight (body wt) of 180– 200g] were used. Rats were obtained from the Experimental Animal Center, University of Mersin, Turkey. The study was approved by the research and ethical committee at theUniversity of Mersin. The rats were randomly selected andhoused in polycarbonate boxes (seven rats per box) with steelwire tops and rice husk bedding. They were maintained with 12 h dark/light cycle in a controlled atmosphere of 22± 2 ºC temperatures and 50–70% humidity with free access to pelleted feed and fresh tap water. The animals were allowed to acclimate for 14 d before treatment. In this study, rats were divided to five groups including seven rats (n=35). Therefore, this study was performed by five different diet programs one dose per 48 h for 4 weeks (≈30 d).
The rats were treated by gavage with (i) 5 mg/kg body wt Luna experience SC400 dissolved in saline. (ii) 10 mg/kg body wt Luna experience SC400dissolved in saline. (iii) 20 mg/kg body wt Luna experience SC400dissolved in saline. (iv) The untreated control rats were treated identically withequal volumes of normal saline only via gavage throughout the study (v) Since positive controls may be administered by adifferent route and treatment schedule than the testagent [19]. In this study, a single doseof MMC (2 mg/kg, i.p.) was administered at the 10th week.
Comet assay in peripheral blood
Blood samples were obtained from rat heart by venipunctureat the end of the 4th week. Isolated blood cell suspension was washed two times with RPMI supplemented with 10% FBS. A part of the isolated cells was used directly for the comet assay. Comet assay was performed under alkaline conditions according to the method of Singh, et al. with slight modifications [20]. Completely frosted microscopic slides werecovered by a thin layer of 0.5% normal melting agarose (NMA) dissolved in Ca2 and Mg2 free phosphate buffer saline (PBS) at about 50 ºC. Eppendorf tubes were placed in water bath at 40 ºC. One hundred microliters of blood suspension were diluted with 1ml of PBS in eppendorf tube. Then 30 μl mixtures were mixed with 250 μl of LMA (0.5%). One hundred microliters of this mixture was spread on the NMA-coated slides using micropipette and immediately was covered with coverslips. Slides were preserved in refrigerators at +4 ºC for 15 min. The coverslips were slowly removed from top of slides. Then slides were placed in chalets including lysis solution and preserved for 2 h inrefrigerator in dark. Slides were washed with chilled distilled water and placed on a horizontal gel electrophoresis unitfilled with fresh electrophoretic buffer (0.3M NaOH+1mMEDTA) to allow DNA unwinding before electrophoresis for 20 min. Electrophoresis was conducted at 20 ºC using 25V and 300mA for 20 min. The above steps should be carried out in dark to avoid DNA damage. After electrophoresis, slideswere washed with chilled distilled water and placed in neutralizing buffer (for 5 min). Then again slides were washed with chilled distilled water and placed in chilled ethanol for 10 min. DNA was stained with ethidium bromide (0.1 mg/ml, 1:4) and the slides were examined with a fluorescent microscope (BX51, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan). Each treatment is having seven replicates.
Two different parameters were evaluated for genetic damage in comet assay: • Genetic damage index was calculated as AU values. The ‘‘Arbitrary units (AU)’’ were used to express the extent of DNA damage and calculated following formula:
Ni is the number of scored cells in i level, i is the level of DNA damage (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4). Genetic damage index: [(0xType 0)+ (1xType 1)+(2xType 2)+(3xType 3)+(4xType 4)] AU values indicating the comet assay scores show levels of UD (undamaged, 0), Type 1 (low damaged, 1), Type 2 (moderate damaged, 2), Type 3 (high damaged, 3), and Type 4 (ultra high damaged, 4). • Damaged cell percent (DCP): Type 2+Type 3+Type 4
Comet assay in liver tissue
The experiment was terminated at the end of 30 days after completion of the diet program. Rats were anesthetized with Ketalar (Ketamine-HCl, Pfizer, Istanbul), sacrificed and their liver tissues were removed. For comet assay and micronucleus analysis, liver tissues were placed into falcon tubes. Liver samples (1 g) were transferred into dish and cut with scissors on the ice and wereminced, suspended at 1 ml/g chilled homogenizing buffer (0.075 MNaCl and 0.024 M EDTA, 10% DMSO) and gently homogenized onice for MN and comet assay analysis.
MN assay in Liver tissue
Liver homogenate was kept at +4 ºC for 24 h. Homogenate wasdiluted with Phosphate buffer saline (1:10) (PBS). 100 μl of diluted homogenate was dropped on to microscopy slides, air dried, fixedin methanol and stained with acridine orange (125 mg/ml in pH6.8 phosphate buffer) for 1 min just before the evaluation with afluorescence microscope using a 40× objective [22]. The number ofhepatocytes with MN was determined using 1000 hepatocyte peranimal. The method of the observation was barred in a blind wayduring which the observer had no knowledge of the identity of the slide.
Measurement of Catalase Enzyme Level in Blood and Liver Tissues
The catalase enzyme level was measured according to the method of Aebi, taking into account the reduction of hydrogen peroxide at 240 nm [23-24]. Samples were prepared in spectrophotometer cuvettes and examined at 240 nm and H2O2 was added last to the spectrophotometer bath and the bath was vortexed.
Measurement of Malondialdehyde Level in Blood and Liver Tissues
According to Ohkawa’s method, the amount of malondialdehyde present in the medium was measured by reading on a spectrophotometer at 532 nm [24-25]. Before attaching the TBA, the tubes were incubated for 15 minutes in a water bath at 95 oC. After the TBA was added, the tubes were incubated in a water bath at 95 0C for 60 minutes.
Shapiro-Wilk, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis, Pearson Correlation and Spearman Correlation methods were used in statistical analysis of the data obtained as a result of the test protocols. The doses applied to investigate whether there was a statistically significant difference between the results were compared between both the positive control values and the negative control values. When all analyzes were performed, the average of the data obtained from 35 individuals was used. When evaluations are made, p value (confidence interval) is taken as 0.05 and 0.001.
In this study, the oxidative DNA damage data obtained from studies on blood and liver tissues from rats exposed to the specified dose groups were determined by the comet test method. For each group, the results of the comet analysis are shown in Table 1.
Results of Damaged Cell Percentage and Genetic damage Index in Blood and liver Cells
DCP and GDI values obtained from the data given in Table 1. are given in Table 2. Figure 1a-b represents Cometviews in liver and blood tissues of the animals under diet regimens, respectively. In general, DCP and GDI increased with dose increase of Luna Experience SC 400. There is a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of values.
Results of MN analysis in blood and liver cells
There was an increase in MN values and a decrease in PCE values due to the dose increase of Luna Experience SC400 fungicide in blood cells (Table 3). In liver cells, there was an increase in MN values (Table 3). All doses varied according to negative control. Significant differences were also observed between the lowest dose group (5 mg / kg) and the largest dose group (20 mg / kg) in both blood and liver tissues. Figure 2c-d represents micronucleus image in liver and blood tissues of the animals under diet regimens.
0.04Results of Catalase (CAT) and Malondialdehyde (MDA)Measurement Assay Analysis in Liver and blood Cells
The data obtained from results of the MDA and CAT measurement test in blood and liver cells are shown in Table 4. There was no statistically significant difference between doses for MDA measurement in blood and liver cells. There was a significant difference between the highest dose group (20 mg / kg) and negative control (p <0.05) for CAT enzyme measurement.
In this study, it was found that there is a very high correlation between the results of the comet and MN tests performed on the liver, and a moderate correlation between CAT and MDA results in both liver and blood cells. Correlation coefficient is 0.99 between GHI and DCP for liver and blood cells. In the blood cells, it is found that correlation coefficient between MN-GHI values is 0.87 and MN-DCP is 0.84. In liver cells, it is found that correlation coefficient between MN-GHI values and MN-DCP values is 0.95.
In this study, Luna Experience SC 400, a commercial fungicide, was tested to determine the genotoxic damage and oxidative damage potential in liver and blood tissuesof rats. Genetic damage in the cells was determined using the Comet and MN methods. The CAT enzyme level was measured and lipid peroxidation was determined by measuring the oxidative damage potential and MDA level, respectively.
Luna Experience SC 400 fungicide showed a statistically significant genotoxic effect in rat liver and blood tissues due to the increase in the dose determined. The GDI and DCP values obtained as a result of the comet test increased with dose increase. When the administered doses are compared with the control group; P <0.001 for 5 mg / kg, p <0.001 for 10 mg / kg and p <0.001 for 20 mg / kg.
According to the results obtained from the MN test results, Luna Experience SC 400 showed statistically significant toxic effect on rat liver and blood tissues due to increase of doses of fungicide.
In our study, when comet and enzyme analyzes performed on liver and blood tissues were evaluated in general, a significant difference between measured CAT level and negative control indicated that genotoxic damage in DNA may be due to oxidative stress. No significance of the difference between the 5 mg / kg and 10 mg / kg dose groups and negative control suggests that the oxidative damage may be due to the dose increase.
An overall increase in MDA levels in the 5 mg / kg dose group was observed when the blood MDA measurements were generally evaluated, and the absence of this increase in other dose groups resulted in the rats being tolerant to lipid peroxidation.
There are similar in vivo and in vitro studies performed in different organism types, indicating the genotoxic effects of fungicides.
Sivikova, et al. have conducted an in vitro study to investigate whether a tebuconazole-based fungicide has an effect on bovine lymphocytes [11]. In the study, bovine lymphocytes were exposed to fungicide at doses of 3, 6, 15, 30 and 60 μL / mL for 24 and 48 hours. The study in the MN test was performed, an increase was noted due to the dose increase in MN frequency (p <0.05). The results of the study have shown that tebuconazole-based fungicide causes genotoxic and cytotoxic damage in bovine lymphocytes [11]. Although the organism used and the tests used in our study are different from this study, when the effect is evaluated in terms of genotoxicity; the two studies are parallel to each other. In our study, the decrease in blood PCE value due to the dose increase can be evaluated as a toxicity indicator. Bowen, et al. carried out a study including comet and MN tests [26]. In order to investigate the genotoxic effect of certain chemicals in rats. Doses of 1000 mg / kg, 1500 mg / kg and 2000 mg / kg were used in the study where benzimidazole group was used as a fungicide Carbendazim. As a result of comet test performed on the liver, there was a statistically significant increase due to dose increase (p <0,01). There was no statistically significant increase in blood test results. There was a statistically significant increase (p <0.001) due to the dose increase in the liver and blood MN test results. In this study, the experimental setup, the organism studied, the tests performed and the results of our study are similar. It has been shown that rats are susceptible to genotoxic damage, which is caused by fungicides.
Marques, et al. performed a study using Anguilla anguilla to determine whether the erythrocyte nuclear decay and comet analysis are complementary to each other in order to investigate the effect of Mancozan fungicide [27]. In this study, manzoceb, a fungicide as active substance, was applied to eel fish for 3 days at doses of 0.29 and 2.9 μg. As a result of this study with Comet test, statistically significant increase in GDI values was observed due to dose increase (p <0.001). Marques, et al. reported that Mancozan fungicide could cause genetic damage both at the DNA level and at the chromosomal level [27]. They stated that Comet and MN test systems would complement each other.In our study, two studies were parallel to each other, as we used the Comet test at the DNA level and the MN test at the chromosomal level to detect genetic damage. In our study as we used the comet test at the DNA level and the MN test at the chromosomal level to detect genetic damage, two studies are parallel to each other.
Sutiakova, et al. performed a study in sheep-derived lymphocyte cells in order to test the genotoxic effects of Euparin Multi fungicide.In the study, lymphocytes were exposed to fungus at a dose of 93 mg / kg for 28 days [28]. At the end of 28 days lymphocytes MN test was applied. It was found that the MN numbers of the experimental group were statistically significantly higher than the control group (p <0.05) in the result of 1000 binuclear cells test. This study shows that although the organisms used in our study are different, the increase in MN frequency indicates that the two studies are supportive of each other.
Early cell death was reported in 80% of cells in the highest dose group. In our study, the Comet and MN test data that we have done to measure genotoxic effects support each other.In a study conducted by Schwarzbacherova, et al [29]. İt is reported that Tango Super fungicide caused early cell death in bovine lymphocytes owerlapped indicating the apoptosis of Type 4 data from the Comet test in Colo 320 cells in study performed by Hao, et al. [30]. In our also study, increase in the frequency of type 4 data of the Comet results in the liver support each other with the results have put forward by Hao,et al. [30]. The fact that Schwarzbacherova, et al. showed that the increase in genotoxic damage and mitochondrial superoxide formation, which Tango Super fungus has brought to the table, is a consequence of oxidative stress, also coincides with the significant increases in liver catalase assays in our study [29].
Ku-Centurión, et al. conducted a study to investigate the genotoxic effect of monocene 250 SC fungicide [31]. Fungucide-exposed zebrafish (Danio rerio) was used at doses of 250 μg / ml, 350 μg / ml, 625 μg / ml, 850 μg / ml and 1250 μg / ml for 2.5 hours.According to the results obtained from the comet test, the fungicide showed statistically significant increase in genotoxicity due to the dose increase. The data we obtained from this study and from our study show that fungicides can be occur similar effects in different organisms.
According to Table 3 the values of heterosis in F2 registered for the primary and secondary branches are the highest in Desi x kabuli crosses and we noted a maximum of gain for ND1 (218%). For B1D2 a rate of 157% for the primary branches was registered and we noted 126%/134% for ND1, B1D2 respectively for secondary branches.
Jafari, et al. reported that Wistar rats were sensitive to pesticide exposure and that catalase levels decreased in this study when they investigated the oxidative damage potential of paraoxon pesticides [32]. Catalase is present in all major body organs, but is particularly concentrated in the liver. A decrease in liver catalase enzyme activity indicates oxidative damage to the liver.
In study conducted by Troudi, et al., rats exposed to 2,4 D showed a significant increase in malondialdehyde level and a decrease in non-enzymatic and enzymatic antioxidant system [33]. and also our study, the decrease in catalase enzyme activity in the enzymatic antioxidant system in fungucide-exposed rats results in the induction of oxidative stress by fungicide. To our knowledge, this study is the first report to investigate the genotoxic effect of Luna experience SC 400 fungicide and its relation to oxidative damage.
In conclusion, the present data showed that exposing adult rats to Luna Experience SC 400 fungucide led to increase in MN frequency and damage levels in Comet assay in both liver and blood tissues and decrease in catalase activity. This could be explained by oxidative stress induced by Luna Experience SC 400 in both blood and liver.The examination of the more detailed effects of fungicide tested in this study is important for the detection of harmful effects. For example, the investigation of the relationship with gene activity would provide clarity on the molecular basis.
Aknowledgement
The authors are indebted to Mersin University BAP-FBE 2015-TP2-1242 for their financial support to this work.
4. Material and Method
4-1.Chemicals
4-2. Dose selection
4-3. Animals and diet programme
5.Experimental design
5-1.Comet assay in peripheral blood
5-2.MN assay in peripheral blood
5-3. Comet assay in liver tissue
5-4.MN assay in Liver tissue
5-5.Measurement of Catalase Enzyme Level in Blood and Liver Tissues
5-6.Measurement of Malondialdehyde Level in Blood and Liver Tissues
6.Statistical Analysis
7-1. Results of Damaged Cell Percentage and Genetic damage Index in Blood and liver Cells
7-2. Results of MN analysis in blood and liver cells
7-3.Results of Catalase (CAT) and Malondialdehyde (MDA)Measurement Assay Analysis in Liver and blood Cells
9.Aknowledgement
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Admirable young Houstonian helps build a better future for teens
Twentysomething Trailblazers
Meet the winners in the first-ever Top Texans Under 30
By Lindsey Wilson, Megan Winkler
Andyshea Saberioon (left) and Ricky Johnson, PledgeCents Photo courtesy of PledgeCents
Adam Jacoby, Jacoby's Restaurant & Mercantile Photo courtesy of Jacoby's Restaurant & Mercantile
Adam Kraus, Dallas Autumn Ball Courtesy photo
Anne Gardner, Cilantro Lime Photo courtesy of Cilantro Lime
Zac Maurais (left) and Ben Doherty, Favor Photo courtesy of Favor
Ross McLauchlan, Austin Winery Photo courtesy of Ross McLauchlan
Dr. Dakota Carter, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Courtesy photo
Dominik Stein, Verts Mediterranean Grill Photo courtesy of Dominik Stein
Hunter Pond, East Hampton Sandwich Co. Photo by Joy Zhang
Jason Bornhorst, Patient IO Photo courtesy of Patient IO
Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation Photo courtesy of San Antonio Economic Development Foundation
Jon Alsup, OpenKey Photo courtesy of Jon Alsup
Kathleen Perley, Decode Digital Photo courtesy of Decode Digital
Katie Fang, SchooLinks Photo courtesy of Michael Discenza
Kelly Wynne Ferguson, Kelly Wynne Handbags Photo courtesy of Kelly Wynne
Lizzie Velasquez, author and motivational speaker Photo courtesy of Lizzie Velasquez
Mariame Aana, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Photo courtesy of Mariame Aana
Matt Alexander, Edition Collective Photo courtesy of Edition Collective
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Nick Marino Jr., TangoTab Courtesy photo
Paul Hedrick, Tecovas Photo courtesy of Tecovas
Stephanie Hansen, Bravelets Photo courtesy of Stephanie Hansen
Whitney Wolfe, Bumble Photo by Andrew Chan
Cooper Anderson, Austin Winery Photo courtesy of Cooper Anderson
For the first time, CultureMap celebrates twentysomething trailblazers in the Top Texans Under 30. These are the state’s budding power players.
We solicited nominations from the public, narrowed down the finalists, and put those impressive young professionals in front of a panel of expert judges — Trey Bowles, Felix Chevalier, Bryan DeLuca, Renee Rouleau, and Kendra Scott — to determine the winners.
The result? This list of 26 dynamic Texans, who impress with their innovation, dedication, and leadership, regardless of industry or cause.
Meet the Top Texans Under 30 for 2016 (and look for more in-depth profiles in the weeks to come):
Adam Jacoby, 29
Owner, Jacoby’s Restaurant & Mercantile
The man behind East Austin’s beloved ranch-to-table restaurant grew up with the business in his blood, thanks to his family’s indispensable feed and seed store. Jacoby decided to expand into the eatery realm after his freshman year at the University of Texas, and now eager diners enjoy a menu of Southern staples made with meats from his family’s ranch, then stay to shop the artisanal foods and vintage goods in the attached mercantile.
Adam Kraus, 29
Founder, Dallas Autumn Ball
With a vision of opening up charitable giving to more young professionals in Dallas, and a passion for education, Adam Kraus has helped raise more than $85,000 for North Texas education organizations. Although the fall event is a must-attend for many, Dallas Autumn Ball also connects people with volunteer opportunities throughout the year. His vision for the future is one that’s led by today’s young professionals, many of whom push boundaries like Kraus loves to do.
Andyshea Saberioon, 28, and Ricky Johnson, 28
Co-founders, PledgeCents
Driven by a passion for education and technology, Houstonians Andyshea Saberioon and Ricky Johnson founded PledgeCents in 2013 as a way for teachers to raise funds for their classrooms. Their enthusiasm is infectious, and their organization has already made a huge impact in the lives of kids across the nation. To date, PledgeCents has raised nearly $600,000 for more than 300,000 students.
Anne Gardner, 27
Owner, Cilantro Lime
With a background in plant physiology and a graduate degree in biology, Austinite Anne Gardner understands food on a molecular level. She also knows it should taste good, so she combined her expertise with a love of travel to create a meal delivery service that encourages culinary adventures. Together with her husband, James, Gardner sources sustainable ingredients and local meats and vegetables, then pairs them with recipes that pay homage to classic global cuisines.
Ben Doherty, 27, and Zac Maurais, 27
Co-founders, Favor
Like something out of Hollywood, Ben Doherty and Zac Maurais were working in Doherty’s parents’ basement when the idea for an on-demand delivery app struck. Armed with nothing but a book on basic web development and the determination to make their great plan work, the Austin pair built an app from scratch. Today Favor is available in 18 cities across the United States, significantly boosting the local economies in each.
Cooper Anderson, 29, and Ross McLauchlan, 27
Co-founders, Austin Winery
Cooper Anderson and Ross McLauchlan co-founded Austin Winery on the premise that it should be as relaxed and local as possible. The first of its kind within Austin city limits, the urban winery is distinctly Texan. Although the grapes are grown elsewhere, everything — from the fermentation and filtration to the bottling, serving, and enjoyment — takes place in town.
Dr. Dakota Carter, 28
Psychiatrist, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Democratic nominee for Texas State Board of Education
The first in his family to attend college, Dakota Carter went all in, earning a degree in political science with minors in biology, chemistry, and Spanish. Then he went on to medical school, focusing on adolescent psychiatry, and is now pursuing his doctorate in education. Carter is the first openly gay Democratic nominee to run for a State Board of Education seat, and one of the two nonprofits he’s founded in Houston serves troubled LGBT youth.
Dominik Stein, 29
Co-founder, Verts Mediterranean Grill
Looking to reimagine the Mediterranean food enjoyed in his native Europe, Dominik Stein, along with Michael Heyne, founded the fast-casual restaurant with the memorable name in 2011. (It was formerly known as Vertskebap.) At the build-it-yourself concept, diners choose from pitas, wraps, salads, and rice bowls, to which they add fresh meats and fillings. It began in Austin, and there are currently 30 Texas locations, with plans to expand soon to the East Coast.
Hunter Pond, 29
Founder, East Hampton Sandwich Co.
When Hunter Pond saw a gap in the restaurant industry, he set about filling it by providing customers with a menu stacked with sandwiches featuring meat and sauces prepared in-house, without all the hormones and chemicals of other sandwich shops. When East Hampton Sandwich Co. opened in 2012 at Dallas’ Snider Plaza, it was greeted by eager foodies. Today there are six locations throughout Dallas-Fort Worth.
Jason Bornhorst, 30
Founder, Patient IO
A serial entrepreneur with a passion for healthcare innovation, Bornhorst founded Patient IO, which engages patients and caregivers outside the clinic. Prior to that, the Austin mover and shaker was the director of product management at Mobiata, the company that built FlightTrack, one of the highest-grossing travel apps to hit the market. Mobiata was acquired by Expedia in 2010, and Bornhorst led the team who built the award-winning and user-friendly Expedia mobile app.
Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, 29
President and CEO, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation
When businesses are looking to relocate or expand to San Antonio, Jenna Saucedo-Herrera is their point person. She and her team at the private nonprofit work in conjunction with local businesses, gather all possible incentives, and even arrange analyses of the labor market, proving why Alamo City is right for their particular industry. In the last five years alone, SAEDF has brought in an economic impact of more than $5.5 billion.
Jon Alsup, 25
Vice president of technology, OpenKey; partner, Nuckols Real Estate
Some people claim they have a passion for travel, but Dallasite Jon Alsup is always on the go to a new locale. So it comes as no surprise that he made a business out of his hobby: OpenKey, a mobile key technology for hotel rooms, helps streamline guests’ experiences. The down-to-earth former college football player continually thinks up new ways to innovate.
Kathleen Perley, 28
Founder, Decode Digital
A self-described “closet nerd at heart,” Houstonian Kathleen Perley took her penchant for TED Talks and a fascination with the ever-changing world of digital marketing and created her own agency — despite warnings about entrepreneurship risks from others. But the Fulbright scholar was undeterred, and now her Decode Digital has grown into a go-to resource for B2B and B2C companies looking to improve their online presence.
Katie Fang, 25
Founder, SchooLinks
Founded by Austinite Katie Fang in 2014, SchooLinks takes the ambiguity and confusion out of the college application process by connecting students with colleges and academic advisors via an easy-to-use platform. It supports applicants through every step of the process, which starts by matching applicants with schools that best fit their academic goals and interests. The platform also provides space for open conversation between students and advisors.
Kelly Wynne Ferguson, 29
Founder, Kelly Wynne Handbags
Kelly Wynne Ferguson started her eponymous handbag line in 2012, at her parents’ kitchen table. By 2013, she had launched an online store, and soon after her accessories were picked up by exclusive boutiques around the state. Named a Rising Fashion Star in 2014 during Austin Fashion Week, Ferguson’s first storefront opens later this month at the Capital City’s Domain Northside. Her handbags are playful and bold, just like the designer, and they range from girl-about-town totes to cocktail party-worthy clutches.
Lizzie Velasquez, 27
YouTube sensation and motivational speaker
A small woman with a huge heart of gold, Lizzie Velasquez went from being the target of cyberbullying to one of the leading advocates for the first federal anti-bullying bill, the Safe Schools Improvement Act. Open and honest, the Austinite has amassed an impressive YouTube following and speaks at events around the nation. The documentary about her life, A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story, has garnered scores of awards, and she’s currently working on her first book.
Mariame Aana, 27
Supervising attorney, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
Driven to help immigrants live the life of their dreams, Mariame Aana oversees the St. Frances Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance’s pro bono program and coordinates the program’s outreach efforts. Proficient in French, Spanish, and Arabic, Aana also dabbles in Mandarin, and she has an MBA in addition to her law degree. She uses these skills and her passion for service to help DACA applicants, legal permanent residents seeking citizenship, and others make a life for themselves in the United States.
Matt Alexander, 28
Founder and CEO, Edition Collective
It’s hard to keep up with Dallasite Matt Alexander, as he seems to churn out e-commerce and media concepts almost without pause. He’s the founder of Edition Collective, the parent of Imprint (formerly Need), a curated retail concept for men; Foremost, an American-made clothing brand for men and women; and Unbranded, a shop that pops up over the holidays to give other indie brands a storefront. So that other creators can learn to follow in his footsteps, Alexander is a mentor and advisor for both Tech Wildcatters and REVTECH.
Mohamad Maarouf, 29
Principal, KIPP Houston High School
Driven to build a better future through providing kids with a quality education, Mohamad Maarouf serves as principal of KIPP Houston High School, where he is as much a mentor as an administrator. The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is designed for underserved students who might otherwise have limited access to empowering academic programs. As principal, Maarouf never misses a school sporting event, hangs out with the kids whenever he can, and has even tutored students on Saturdays when they need it.
Nick Marino Jr., 28
Director of social change, TangoTab
Founded in 2011, TangoTab has already fed more than a million people simply by connecting restaurants with local food charities. When diners use the app to reserve a table and then check in, the restaurant pays TangoTab a fee. A portion of that fee then goes to the charity, providing a meal for someone in need. In addition to promoting TangoTab daily, the purpose-driven Nick Marino Jr. started clothing line MISSION’D, which helps nonprofits and individuals raise money for mission trips.
Paul Hedrick, 28
Founder and CEO, Tecovas Boots
It shouldn’t break the bank to rock true Texan style, or at least that’s how Paul Hedrick saw it. The entry price point for a well-made pair of cowboy boots could sometimes be exorbitant, so the Austinite got to work building an online retailer that cut out the brick-and-mortar mark-up while still delivering quality leather boots meant to last a lifetime. He also aimed to make digital shopping a friendlier experience, earning lifelong loyalty from satisfied customers.
Stephanie Hansen, 29
Founder, Bravelets
When Stephanie Hansen’s mother was battling breast cancer, her family needed something to remind them all to be strong. That need manifested into bracelets bearing a triangle symbol and the phrase “be brave.” Each piece of Bravelets jewelry also comes attached to a cause, with 10 percent of each sales price going directly to it. To date, Hansen’s Bravelets team has raised more than $2.5 million to support groups ranging from the Lung Cancer Alliance to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Whitney Wolfe, 27
Founder, Bumble
The age of internet dating brought about its share of problems — including reinforcing antiquated dating norms — so Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe decided to make things less creepy. With the Bumble app, women make the first move, and only if there’s mutual interest. But Bumble isn’t just for romantic relationships: There’s also Bumble BFF, which helps users find new friends. The team running Bumble is also predominantly female, a rarity in the tech startup world.
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Earth Hour 2019: Eskom has all the jokes
Author: Marion Schneider ; Last update: 31 March , 2019 04:42:46
Cities around the world including in Pakistan observed Earth Hour on Saturday night by turning off the lights in a call for global action on climate change.
"Earth Hour is still is the world's largest grassroots movement for people to take action on climate change", WWF Australia CEO Dermot O'Gorman told the Agence France-Presse news agency.
Joining in is easy: simply turn off your lights at 8:30 p.m. local time on 30 March.
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In addition to switching off the electric lights to mark the Earth Hour, there are several fun activities that can be organised to spend the hour.
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Showcasing the Civic Media Project (3): From #Destroythejoint to Far reaching Digital Activism
April 10, 2015 / Henry Jenkins
This is the second in a series of three entires, cross-posted from the Civic Media Project website. Check out the site for many more examples of the ways groups around the world are using digital media to help foster civic change. The site was created by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis, the leaders of Emerson College's Engagement Lab, in anticipation of their forthcoming book for MIT Press, Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice.
FROM #DESTROYTHEJOINT TO FAR REACHING DIGITAL ACTIVISM:
FEMINIST REVITALISATION STEMMING FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND REACHING BEYOND
Jessica McLean and Sophia Maalsen
Civic engagement in digital activism involves diffuse yet powerful networks of individuals and organizations uniting, at least in some form, under a common interest. This case study of Destroy the Joint, a largely online group of over 52,000 people on Facebook and 14,800 on Twitter, shows how what began as a humorous turnaround of sexist comments on national talkback radio, is now a broad-based and effective unified but not uniform organization that aims to shine a light on sexism and misogyny. In analyzing its origins and accounting for its ongoing relevance nearly two years after the birth of #destroythejoint, we show how feminist activism in social media and elsewhere is growing in Australia, and other parts of the world.
The Origins of Destroy the Joint
The #destroythejoint movement began after a conservative Australian radio host, Alan Jones, declared on August 31st 2012 that several leading women in politics were ‘destroying the joint’ by their efforts to support gender equality and other miscellaneous acts. He had said:
"She [the Prime Minister] said that we know societies only reach their full potential if women are politically participating. Women are destroying the joint—Christine Nixon in Melbourne, Clover Moore here. Honestly."
Jill Tomlinson, a surgeon and writer, ignited the campaign in conversation with education activist and writer Jane Caro, with the following tweet exchange:
Tomlinson responded with an invitation for others to contribute and originated the new hashtag:
Within one day, thousands had tweeted their own versions of acts and intentions to quash sexism and misogyny and a new digital activism moment and movement had begun (McLean and Maalsen, 2013).
First Destroy the Joint Actions
Initially, the Destroy the Joint (DTJ) hashtag was an online meeting point for people reflecting on the absurdity of claims that women in political life were destructive forces because of their gender, but grew to encompass critiques of gender inequality and lampooned sexist and misogynistic acts.
Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, experienced frequent public sexism, from conservative commentators and politicians alike. In early October 2012, during a debate in parliament about the behavior and role of the then Speaker of the House, the leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, accused Gillard of sexism. This accusation prompted the renowned anti-misogyny speech where Gillard declared to Tony Abbott that “I will not be lectured on misogyny and sexism by this man… and the Leader of the Opposition should think seriously about the role of women in public life and in Australian society because we are entitled to a better standard than this.”
Being entitled to a better standard of gender equality is a key objective DTJ's activism. The first substantial intervention Destroy the Joint contributed to was against Alan Jones’ radio station, campaigning for advertisers to withdraw support for his show in response to his ongoing sexist behavior, particularly directed against Gillard. Over 100,000 people signed an online petition within a week and Jones’ radio station lost between AUD 1 and 1.5 million. The feminist campaign action enacted through social media thus affected a corporation in a material sense.
Micro-Campaigns under a Unified Anti-Sexism and Anti-Misogyny Collective
Multiple, micro-campaigns characterize the ongoing productive space that is Destroy the Joint, and extend its reach contributing to a feminist revitalization that operates in social media and beyond. While DTJ started as a hashtag, now there is also a Twitter andFacebook presence for this digital activist collective.
Some of the micro-campaigns DTJ organized are shown in Table 1:
Digital Activism in DTJ: Connections to Global Campaigns
Currently, feminist moments and movements are proliferating around the world, many emerging in digital spaces, such as #everydaysexism and #yesallwomen and often spring-boarding from these to other activist modes, including book publications, anti-corporate interventions, walks and gatherings. For the Facebook supporters of DTJ, a prominent campaign to stop violence against women presently focuses DTJ activity (see Figure 3).
Figure 3: Current Facebook home page for Destroy the Joint (March 2015)
Revitalizing Feminism?
Similarly to #destroythejoint, #everydaysexism and #yesallwomen provide meeting points for further engagement with feminist issues. The feminist revitalization has global reach and works to reinforce simultaneous campaigns and interventions. For instance, Destroy the Joint social media pages frequently cross-reference #everydaysexism and #yesallwomen and invite followers to contribute to these globally linked discursive feminist spaces. In this way they allow for distributed feminist networks to converge in online spaces to focus support on contemporary gender issues and create a community around this. Furthermore, despite being "online" their campaigns have physical and material effects as demonstrated in Table 1, suggesting that campaigns facilitated through new media are effective and useful ways of producing change.
McLean, Jessica and Sophia Maalsen. 2013. "Destroying the Joint and Dying of Shame? A Geography of Revitalised Feminism in Social Media and Beyond." Geographical Research 51: 243–256. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12023
For Destroy the Joint on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DestroyTheJoint
For Destroy the Joint on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jointdestroyer
April 10, 2015 / Henry Jenkins/
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SOURCE: NY Daily News Editorial: "Bullying Columbia professor does not deserve lifetime employment"
NY Daily News opposes tenure for Joseph Massad
There is a deeply disturbing report that Columbia University has granted tenure to a teacher who used his classroom as a platform for propagating offensive teachings about Jews - and bullied his students to boot.
Joseph Massad should have no place on the faculty of a world-class institution of higher learning, let alone a university located in New York. He showed himself to lack the quality of mind and temperament necessary to serve among the Columbia professoriate.
Massad is a Jordanian-born Palestinian who teaches in the department of Middle East and Asian languages and cultures. That he does not belong in Morningside Heights became clear in 2005, when a university investigation concluded he "exceeded commonly accepted bounds" of teaching.
How? By threatening to banish a student who had asked a question that challenged Massad's Israel-is-evil point of view. "If you're going to deny the atrocities being committed against Palestinians, then you can get out of my classroom," he said.
On another occasion, Massad demanded that a student, a former Israeli soldier, tell him how many Palestinians he had killed.
Said to be a scholar of contemporary Arab politics and culture, Massad crosses into lunacy regarding Jews. In one article, he proclaimed that Jews are infected by a mass psychosis that drives them to persecute Palestinians, put Israel's record on a par with Nazi mass murders and said Palestinians are the "real Jews" while Jews are the real anti-Semites.
Although Massad had grossly violated a student's academic freedom, Columbia chose to consider his fitness in its process for granting tenure, or lifetime appointment. Generally, professors leave if they don't get tenure.
In October, there was hope Columbia would dump Massad after Provost Alan Brinkley moved to block his tenure. But now, a crackpot California professor writes on a blog that the university gave Massad its blessings.
In a message addressed "to all the Zionist hoodlums out there," As'ad AbuKhalil wrote that "dear Joseph Massad deservedly received his tenure." This happened, he went on, despite "dirty tricks" and "sinister propaganda" by said Zionist hoodlums....
Read entire article at NY Daily News Editorial: "Bullying Columbia professor does not deserve lifetime employment"
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Randll Reese Besch - 4/16/2009
How? By threatening to banish a student who had asked a question that challenged Massad's Israel-is-evil point of view. "If you're going to deny the atrocities being committed against Palestinians, then you can get out of my classroom,"
Would you react any differently if it was about Turkey's atrocity against the Armenians? The Germans did to the Jews? If said student had denied it happened? I think this is the same territory.
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Thumb on the scale: correcting the CEA’s corrections re real wage growth.
By Jared Bernstein and Larry Mishel
President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers has a new piece out claiming to show that real wages are growing faster than has been widely reported. Their conclusion stems from numerous adjustments to Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data that otherwise show flat real earnings for most workers.
However, most of CEA’s adjustments, applied accurately, do not change the inconvenient fact that even amidst strong macroeconomic results and a tight labor market, real wage growth for middle-wage workers has been weak over the past two years. That may change, if falling unemployment triggers faster wage growth, but at this point, measurement tweaks make little difference to the conventional wisdom, at least over the short period covered by the CEA report. As former CEA chair Jason Furman tweeted yesterday, the report “does almost nothing to change our understanding of wage growth”
The CEA argues that by adjusting for the following factors, real wages grew at least 1.4 percent higher over the past year, as opposed to zero:
–adding fringe benefits;
–adjusting for the demographics of the job market;
–adjusting/reducing hours worked;
–using a slower growing price deflator.
We find that only the last point is valid, but that even with that adjustment, real compensation is still flat, largely because benefits, properly measured, have not been rising any faster than wages, contrary to CEA’s claims.
Fringe benefits: Even in the data used by CEA, the growth of benefits is hardly outpacing that of wages, so adding fringes doesn’t change the underlying trends. Their own Figure 2 (see their report) shows how benefits as a share of compensation have been flat at around 30 percent over the recent period of flat real wage growth.
The most commonly cited wage and compensation data come from the Employment Cost Index (ECI), and these data show, for example, that over the past two years, nominal wages (private sector workers) are up 5.4 percent while fringe benefits are up 5.1 percent. Thus, in these data, adding in benefits doesn’t change the wage growth story.
The CEA uses a related data series (ECEC data, which unlike the ECI does not keep the industry and occupation mix constant and provides detailed benefits data) that we analyzed to track two different ways of measuring the benefit share (see table below). The first column uses a “W-2 wages” concept, that includes earnings, paid leave, and supplemental pay in the wage category (the second column includes leave and supplemental pay as benefits, as in CEAs figure above). The W-2 measure corresponds more closely to the measures of wages most analysts and journalists track using household and establishment data. But either way, the share is clearly stable. As we show below, a stable benefit share cannot lead compensation to grow faster than wages.
In comparing compensation to wage trends, it is also germane to note that not all workers get key fringe benefits, yet CEA implicitly assigns them to everyone (and we follow this practice too, for comparability). Recent BLS data show that only 23 percent of workers in the bottom quartile participate in health plans and 25 percent participate in retirement plans. For those in the second quartile (25-50th percentile range), about half participate.
Demographic adjustments: Here again, the short time frame works against CEAs conclusions, as, barring a large shock, like a recession, the composition of the labor force doesn’t change that much year-to-year. Though they claim the entry of young workers taking low-wage jobs is dragging down the average, analysis by Heidi Shierholz and Elise Gould show that “since 2013, as the recovery has strengthened, the opposite has been true—low-wage jobs are actually declining on net while middle and high wage jobs are being added, which has the effect of raising average wages. In other words, the composition effect is currently putting upward pressure on wages.”
What about the other end of the age scale? CEA also claims the retirement of high-earning older persons is putting downward pressure on wages, though here again, for this to affect the trend, such retirements would have to be accelerating. As this interesting analysis by economist Adam Ozimek reveals, the opposite appears to be the case. He finds that “…the senior share of the workforce is growing, not shrinking; 2) seniors are not the highest-paid age group; and 3) to the extent the workforce age composition has affected wages over the last decade or even the last year, it’s not about seniors.”
A simple way to dispel the composition explanation is to look at Atlanta Fed’s wage growth tracker, which controls for demographic changes in the workforce by following the same workers over time. The nominal wage growth in the series accelerated steadily from around 2010 to 2016, it has been largely flat since then, hovering around an average annual growth rate of 3.2 percent (this series runs faster than others in part due to its inclusion of a one-year “experience premium,” the extra pay accruing to workers as the gain experience on the job). This suggests that composition is not a factor in the flattening of real wage growth, which has been a function of faster inflation and slow growth in nominal pay.
All this evidence suggests little to no role for a demographic or composition explanation of the flat real wage trends that have persisted over the past two years. CEA makes a bigger adjustment by applying the a “demographic composition correction…based on the average for the expansion from 2013 through 2018.” This very likely overestimates any near-term compositional shifts, and it is unclear to us why they use an average versus annual values. Moreover, CEA’s demographic adjustments still do not make the early Trump quarters look better than the period that preceded them.
Similarly, their rationale for their hours adjustment—they reduce hours in some series which raises hourly pay—based on the difference between hours worked and hours paid was unclear to us as the paid leave share of wages or compensation has been stable since at least 2014.
Price adjustments: This is the one place where the CEA has a point, though once again, given the short time frame in their final analysis, 2017q2-2018q2, this too doesn’t amount to much. The CEA argues for the use of chain-weighted deflators, which more accurately measure consumer price changes, as they better account for consumer behavior (specifically, chain-weighted deflators better account for changes in the contents of the consumer market basket driven by changes in relative prices). The CPI, which is used by the BLS in their monthly earnings reports, is not chain-weighted.
Therefore, the CEA adjusts wages using the PCE deflator. However, the problem with this choice, as Bivens and Mishel describe here, is that the PCE is considerably less representative of prices faced by consumers. A better choice would be the chained-CPI, which the BLS has produced since 2000. Though the two chain-weighted deflators track each other fairly closely, over the past year, the PCE deflator was up 2.3 percent compared to 2.7 percent for the chained CPI (and 2.9 percent for the standard CPI). In other word, moving to a chained CPI only raises real wage growth over the past year by 0.2 percent.
As a technical note, we find it curious how economists seemingly attentive to measurement details about inflation typically fail to account for the faster than average growth in health insurance prices (relative to the CPI, whatever version) when incorporating benefits data into a compensation measure. Recognizing this faster inflation in health insurance would yield a slower growth in compensation than the measures both here and in CEAs report.
Putting it all together, the table below shows the impact on real hourly compensation for middle-wage workers, using our benefit adjustment, which excludes wage benefits, such as overtime and shift premiums, from health and retirement benefits, along with the chained CPI (see data note for more details). Between 2017q2 and 2018q2, real hourly compensation adjusted by the CPI was essentially flat, down 0.2 percent. After the relevant adjustments, it’s still flat, essentially unchanged over the last quarter.
Sources: see data note below.
The chart below takes a slightly longer-term perspective, showing real hourly compensation for 2014-2018, second quarters. Compensation was growing, in real terms, in earlier years, driven largely by unusually low inflation and some nominal wage acceleration as the jobless rate fell in those years. But the last two years have been dry spells for the real hourly pay of middle-wage workers, a finding that holds when we include their benefits and shift to a slower-growing deflator.
In other words, there is no evidence of the CEA-suggested acceleration of compensation since Trump took office. To the contrary, the growth of real hourly pay of middle-wage workers has slowed to a crawl since then.
As we said, faster real wages and benefits may occur if the jobless rate continues to fall, giving less advantaged workers more of the bargaining clout they lack. But for now, hourly wage and benefit growth, inflation-adjusted, is close to flat in real terms and considerably less than the 1.3 percent productivity growth over the last four quarters. We’d thus urge CEA to spend less time with their thumb on the measurement scale and more time on policies to help working people benefit from the ongoing expansion.
Data note: Table 2 starts with the hourly wage of blue-collar factory workers and non-managers in services (this is the BLS production, non-supervisory wage, which covers 82 percent of the workforce). We then scale that up to include benefits using the ECEC benefits data as described in the text (W-2 measure). Finally, we adjust nominal compensation by both the regular and chain-weighted CPI. Note that since ECEC data are not yet out for 2018q2, we use the 2018q1 benefit share (as, apparently, does CEA).
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Cre8tive Clyde says:
This not a new issue. Capital has refused to share Productivity increases with Labor since 1975. They still are not doing it and won’t do it unless forced to do so. However, there is a second issue and that is the top 20% set up barriers preventing the bottom 80% from moving up the income ladder. See Richard Reeves: “Dream Hoarders”. They are aligned with government and get laws, rules and regulations that prevent competition from rising in middle wage fields.
Here is when and how Capital stopped sharing Productivity increases with Labor. Up to that time, all prospered and everyone saw opportunity. Then came Greed is Good and a CEO’s pay went from 70 times their average hourly employee’s pay to 350 times!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/inequality—x-marks-the_b_7881768.html?imm_mid=0f5cef&cmp=em-business-na-na-newsltr_econ_20170901
And, here is how the workplace has undergone a fundamental change in how people are treated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html
And here is what the uber-rich are worrying about:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014#ixzz49K7eu4iT
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/18/to-my-fellow-plutocrats-you-can-cure-trumpism-215347?imm_mid=0f5372&cmp=em-business-na-na-newsltr_econ_20170804
Until we get back to powerful organizations (unions?) that can push back against the power of Capital, nothing is going to change. Unfortunately, Unions have been given a very bad name because of a few egregious examples of their rigidity so maybe we need something different.
One different thing would be if it were a law that when a person is laid off because of automation (the big cause) or movement of the job to a low-wage country (in reality, a minor cause) the person laid off would be entitled to two years of half-pay PLUS unemployment compensation so they would not be suddenly thrown into a downward spiral into poverty and could get education or training in another field from accredited institutions. That education would be funded by the person and 50% would be reimbursed by the government. And perhaps training in fields like plumbing, electrician, mechanic, building methods, etc., could be rapidly established and supported like the GI Bill that transformed our workforce after WW II. This would help remove the whole burden of economic change from the working class people. Capital would have to bear some of the burden of their decisions. After the two years, the subsidies stop. Americans are resilient people, they just need to be given a chance to recover from job loss blows. They don’t get that now.
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Community Tools: Bioethics Seminar Series
The JCB offers a weekly seminar on a wide variety of bioethics topics. The speakers come from the local, national and international community in bioethics. These seminars are open to the public and free and do not require prior registration. All seminars take place every Wednesday from 4:10 - 5:30 pm.
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September 2013 - May 2014
JCB Seminar Series
Mt. Sinai Hospital, 600 University Ave., 18th Floor Auditorium
Stephen G. Post, PhD Founding Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University School of Medicine
14th Annual Alloway Lecture - Hope in Caring for the Deeply Forgetful: The Ethics of Enduring Selfhood
Archived Seminar
Karen Devon, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto; Endocrine Surgery, Women's College Hospital and University Health Network
The Doctor will Tweet you now: Ethics of social media in health care
This seminar was not webcast.
Shannon Buckley, BA, MA, PhD Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph
Why Bioethics Needs a Theory of Dignity
Ryan Peck, Barrister & Solicitor, Executive Director, HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario
The Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure
Kimberley Ibarra, MSc Health Services Research Student, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto; Program Evaluation Specialist & Ethics Consultant, Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre
Exploring Ethicists' Perspectives of Healthcare Ethics Program Evaluation
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Ave., 6th Floor Auditorium (Room 604)
Ross Upshur, MD, MSc, Canada Research Chair in Primary Care Research; Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
33rd Annual Philippa Harris Lecture on Bioethics Issues in Cancer - Does Cancer Prevention in an Aging Population Raise Unique Ethical Issues?
Dean Sharpe, PhD, Research Ethics Board Manager, Social Sciences and Humanities, Office of Research Ethics, University of Toronto
Conceptualizing Risk in Research Ethics
Tony Culyer, CBE, BA, Hon DEcon, Hon FRCP, FRSA, FmedSci, Professor, Full SGS Member, Research Chair, Health Policy and System Design, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
An Economist on Ethical Approaches to Social Policy
-Additional Commentary provided by Renata Axler, PhD Candidate, Cécile Bensimon, MA, PhD, and Maxwell Smith, PhD Candidate
Véronique Morin, Science Journalist, Webster McConnell Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
The Role of Journalists in Communicating Research
The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Room #1246 - Hollywood Theatre (Main Auditorium), Black Wing, 1st Floor
Pam Hubley, RN, MSc, Chief, Professional Practice and Nursing, The Hospital for Sick Children and Asst. Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
6th Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care - Listening to patients, finding strengths, and leveraging the power of relationships to improv health outcomes
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Elia Abi-Jaoude, MSc, MD, FRCPC, Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Medicine and How to Mitigate It
Irene Ying, MD, MHSc, CCFP, Division of Palliative Care, Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital
Therapeutic Doublethink: A Novel concept to Ethically Justify Unrealistic Optimism in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Rachel Zand, PhD, Director, Office of Research Ethics, University of Toronto
Research Ethics in the Information Age: New Challenges, New Perspectives
Maya Goldenberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph
The Placebo Orthodoxy and Multinational Clinical Trials
Lucie Leduc, LL.B, LL.M
Québec takes a distinct approach to end-of-life care: An overview and some critical observations of Québec's Bill 52 on Medical Aid to Die
Adrian Guta, MSW, RSW, PhD, CIHR Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Services/Population Health HIV/AIDS Research, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Carleton University, and Carol Strike, PhD, Associate Professor, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Reconciling 'Harm' and Care: A Critical Bioethics Analysis of the Imperative to Integrate Harm Reduction into Hospital-Based Care
Jennifer Bell, MA, PhD, Bioethicist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Scientist, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, University Health Network; Member, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
Cancer patient decision making and relational autonomy related to clinical trial participation
Mark Handelman, BA, LLB, MHSc, Barrister & Solicitor, Health Law Matters, and Michael Gordon, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Co-Director of Medical Ethics and Medical Program Director of Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Rasouli: What Doors Did the Chief Justice Leave Open?
NO SEMINAR - READING WEEK
Michael Szego, PhD, Centre for Clinical Ethics
Building trust in 21st century genomics: The story of the HeLa cell line and how Henrietta Lacks is still teaching us lessons in research ethics
Connie Williams, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University
Are Virtues Practical? Constructing a normative framework for approaching ethical issues at end-of-life in the neonatal intensive care unit
James A. Anderson, PhD, Bioethicist, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Research Bioethicist, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Laura Williams, MSW, RSW, Director, Client and Family Integrated Care Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Toronto, Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Building Perceptual Capacity: Family Engagement at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Chau Tran, PhD
The Disability Tax Credit: The Concerns and Challenges
Dr. Tia Pham, Physician, South East Toronto Family Health Team, JoAnne Hunter, Nurse Practitioner, Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre, Dr. Russell Goldman, Director of the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Barbara Mekinda, Care Coordinator, Urban Care Team
Facilitator: Stacey Daub, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre
Just like Home, Just like Family? Ethical Issues and the Importance of Ethical Decision-Making in Community-Based Care Settings
Rosalind Abdool, PhD(c), Academic Fellow in Clinical and Organizational Ethics, Centre for Clinical Ethics, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, and CHAC
The Ethics of Deception in Healthcare: Could There be a Duty to Deceive Patients?
Patricia Marino, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo
Dilemmas and Disagreement: Moral Coherence and Justification in Pluralistic Contexts
James Lavery, PhD, Research Scientist in the Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and Associate Professor, Dalla School of Public Health, University of Toronto
2nd Annual Upshur Lecture - Rethinking community engagement from theory to practice
Timothy Murphy, PhD, Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
The Ethics of Modifying Human Moral Psychology
Martin F. McKneally, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Surgical Ethics: Professional Oversight of Practice, Education, and Innovation
Heather Ross, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACC Ted Rogers and Family Chair in Heart Function, Professor of Medicine, Director of Heart Function, PMCC, Medical Director of Cardiac Transplant Program, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network
Heart Failure: End of Life Is Not End of Care
Erika Abner, LLB, LLM, PhD, Faculty Lead, Ethics and Professionalism Adjunct Lecturer, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Undergraduate Medical Education Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Bloom's 13: The Knowledge Dimension in Ethical Reasoning
Chris Sinding, Associate Professor, Department of Health, Aging & Society, School of Social Work, McMaster University
7th Annual Sue MacRae Lecture on Ethics and Patient-Centred Care - Vote, and Walk Me There: Patients' Images of Good Care
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Jealous Haters Book Club: Handbook For Mortals Chapter 9, Temperance, or “I’m sorry that people are jealous of me…but I can’t help it that I’m popular.”
We begin this week with Lani Sarem making some bold accusations against Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give.
It started in a Facebook group called Indie Author Support, where Sarem made this post:
For those who can’t read the image:
Okay so here it goes…My name is Lani Sarem. You may have heard of me. I wrote a book called Handbook for Mortals. It premiered #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and then I subsequently became the only person (and the book became the only book) to ever get kicked off the list. Mostly it was due to a lot of people misunderstanding about what actually happened. I was pre-selling the book at comic cons and doing well. I had some help, my friend who is a famous actor is helping turn it into a movie and he was helping promote it at the comic cons. These cons get 40,000-120,000 people each over a weekend and a lot of the people come to meet the celebrities that are there. While meeting with the celebrities they alway ask…So you got anything new coming out? My friend Thomas (he starred in all the American Pie movies and Rookie of the Year) etc would point to our project and we would offer to sell them the book. It actually made it pretty easy to sell the book. I wanted to make my sales count though cause sales that happen outside of a bookstore (and some that happen in a bookstore that doesn’t report) don’t count. It’s hard enough to get sales…they should all count. At least that’s my opinion. Anyway, I got accused of a lot of things that aren’t true and as an indie author really got pushed around cause I didn’t have a big publisher or agent to fight for me. I was wondering in a group like this…Does it frustrate you that your sales don’t count everywhere? The music industry has way to count them no matter where they happen. I’m also happy to answer any other questions you may have as to what happened to me so ask away…Sorry for the long-winded post as well.
As you can see, she continues to beat a horse that died back in August. The story still doesn’t make a lot of sense. Her “famous actor” friend isn’t famous. Booksellers have stated it would be unlikely for established, mega-famous authors like Neil Gaiman or George R.R. Martin to sell twenty-thousand copies at a single convention. She’s still lying, but now the lie is, “Yes, I scammed, but I scammed for justice!” and she’s trying to rally other authors in her defense.
Unfortunately, at least a few people took the bait:
The first comment in this thread, from Jesse James Durdel, sounds like the kind of leading question someone would plant:
For one, most of us here have only heard one side of the story, and it’s not your side at all. Do you suspect someone got jealous and started calling attention to the con sales as a way to besmirch your name in the media?
The key phrase is the “one side of the story” here. I have no proof that JJD knows Lani personally, but I’m a blogger, not a journalist, so I can make whatever wild leaps I’d like, right? I’m going to say that JJD probably is one of Lani’s friends and planted this question to give her the opportunity for this answer:
I can tell you the person that started it was friends with the author and the agent of the book that moved to second on the list and when I was removed the agent took out the two people that started it and toasted about it [winking smiley]
Record scratch. Here we have Lani Sarem accusing Angie Thomas and her agent of deliberately sinking Handbook For Mortals in a fit of jealous panic. After all, doesn’t Angie Thomas, whose book was #1 on the NYT list for most of 2017, has been nominated for multiple awards, was named one of Oprah’s “Favorite Things”, has been adapted for a wildly anticipated film by an acclaimed director, and who has met President Obama, have a reason to feel threatened by Lani Sarem’s successes? I mean, Lani is friends with the guy who jizzed in a beer in American Pie. Who wouldn’t envy that?
Thomas, who until now hasn’t addressed the controversy directly, had this to say in response:
I’ve been silent about this. I laugh about it, honestly. But how dare you even insinuate that me, @byobrooks, or anyone on my team targeted you. YOU messed up. YOU got called out. Own up to YOUR shit.
— Angie Thomas Knows Nothing About the THUG trailer (@angiecthomas) November 27, 2017
I highly recommend the entire thread, because after having been accused of jealousy toward Sarem more than once, Thomas has earned the right to hold Sarem accountable for her words. But Sarem will never allow herself to be held accountable:
I never said your name…what I did say is your agent took the guys that started the twitter hunt and toasted to what happened and posted it on twitter. #handbookforcocktails real nice of him. #checkhistwitterfeed
— Lani Sarem (@RockanRollGypsy) November 27, 2017
Her “I never said your name…” is tantamount to “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” between siblings in the back of their parents’ car.
There was no need to check the Twitter feed, however, as Brooks Sherman is completely uninvested in pretending to give a shit about Lani Sarem:
And so yes, once the entire story came out about how you and your partner tried to fix the list, I *did* take the people who uncovered the story out for a drink to toast their sleuthing skills.
— Brooks Sherman (@byobrooks) November 27, 2017
Having had her ass severely handed to her on Twitter, Sarem stepped out of the conversation. I guess she will never get the chance to tell her side of the story. You know, apart from the op-eds she wrote for Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post. Or the feature Vulture did on her. Or at the many Q and A’s she’s done at conventions and book signings. If only there were some way for this plucky young literary star of tomorrow, who’s been so unfairly maligned by the press, readers and evil, jealous, actually successful authors and their mean-spirited, hard-drinking agents, to tell her side of the story…
For example, a “How I Navigated The NYT Bestseller List” seminar that’ll run you $75.
The book industry is a mess. I didn’t realize how much until I put out my first novel and officially became the only person to ever get kicked off the New York Times bestseller list. Feel free to read the 769 articles that were written about me in the 9 days after I got kicked off. Not one reporter wrote what really happened, but I’ll tell you in person. I can help you navigate the book industry and the pitfalls and make sure you give making it your best shot.
Lani. Lani, Lani, Lani. The book industry is not a mess. Well, it is a mess, but not because of the way you were treated in the wake of your ham-fisted con falling through. You, my non-friend, are the mess. And now you want people to pay seventy-five bucks to hear “what really happened” and learn how to…what? Scam the list and get caught?
Successful, knowledgeable people should teach others how to do things. You’re not successful or knowledgeable. You’re an unlikeable, unwelcome hack who is only succeeding at slamming doors in your own face. Nobody wants to learn how to do that. If anything, you should be peddling yourself as a cautionary tale.
But of course, there’s always going to be someone in your corner, as evidenced by the last screenshot, where Richard Morgan said:
Dig into the articles and you’ll see there was a whole campaign against her and without anyone having read the damned book.
Well, Dick, I suppose that might be somewhat relevant if the entire “campaign” against her wasn’t based on her actions alone and not the quality of the book, but we agree on one thing: Handbook For Mortals is certainly damned.
On to the recap!
This entire chapter is written in italics, which, let me tell you, is a treat for a dyslexic. And while this entire chapter is mostly Zani free, there are eleven characters named in the first paragraph:
Tad, Mac, Cam, and Riley, along with Jackson and the whole band (Tom, Tim, Mike, Dave, and De’Mar)–and an audio tech named Drew–were all standing around the stage dealing with some work issues.
At least she managed to get De’Mar Hamilton’s name right in this chapter.
Drew had always gotten along with everyone and all in all was a decent guy. He was about as vanilla looking as someone can get, with brown hair and brown eyes. He led a pretty average existence overall, and no one ever had any problems with him.
Damn. This is like when that creepy kid told Mena Suvari’s character in American Beauty that she was boring and normal and ordinary.
The other guys tended to pick on Drew, though, because he was an easy target in a theater full of more-talented, more-experienced, and better-looking people, who all led far more exciting lives.
God damn, Lani Sarem, did a guy named Drew run over your fucking dog or something?
Even so, Drew always seemed to be pretty content and–compared to anyone from the small town in Iowa he was from–he was leading the best life by far.
Holy shit. Drew is Superman. He’s cleverly hiding in Las Vegas. And nobody would ever guess because he’s working with a guy named Clark Kent. It’s the perfect cover.
You might be wondering why we’re hearing so much information about Drew again. After all, we’ve already heard that he’s well-liked, as evidenced by how many people attended his birthday party. You may be thinking, “Well, with this level of detail, Drew must be a major character.” If so, how long have you been here? You know he’s not. In fact, he disappears from the book entirely after this chapter. But he serves a very important function to the story, as you will see.
“Drew, we need to have a rehearsal before the show rehearsal tomorrow,” Tom demanded. He had a way though of not sounding demanding, even when he was being that way. “We’ve gotta work this new song into part of the show,” he added, explaining why he was asking.
Some of you have wondered in the comments if this was a NaNoWriMo draft, which would explain the repetition of descriptions and actions and all the needless extras. So far, there’s been no evidence that it was. But the way she repeats and over-explains, it would have hit 50k on day two.
Lucky, lucky us.
Speaking of needless detail, this not-demanding-demand he demanded not-demandingly results in a conversation about whether or not they can have a pre-rehearsal tech rehearsal, including overtime concerns. I would include an excerpt here but it’s so thrilling that my insurance won’t cover it if you fall off the edges of your seats.
Mac turned to Drew. “Drew, Sofie was saying something about getting shocked by her handheld. You know anything about that?”
Drew’s face flushed and he frowned. “Man, there ain’t nothing wrong with her mic. I’m sure she just wants some more attention…or another new mic.”
“See, reader?” Lani Sarem’s writer brain gloats. “The avatar of every girl who’s ever been more successful than me is so terrible, even Superman hates her!”
As I said up top, Zani isn’t really present in this chapter, except when she’s off in the distance. Don’t be too disappointed, though; we still get to hear about how hot and special she is:
Zade walked by on her way to the main stage, moving too quickly to notice the group of men who had all stopped to stare at her.
“God, that girl is beautiful. It’s beyond that, there is something unique and special about her.” Drew said, nudging Mac with his elbow. “Wonder what my chances are. Is she dating anyone?”
So, this whole “Every man wants Zoltar” thing is really starting to get pathetic. Someone may have mentioned this in the comments and planted the seed in my head, but I’m thinking of other female characters who have magnetically powerful sexual charisma for one reason or another. In Laurell K. Hamilton’s first Merry Gentry book, there’s a potion that makes people crazed with lust. When some gets spilled on Merry, she goes berserk and almost has sex with a police officer at the station. The potion is regarded as incredibly dangerous, and from what I remember, the entire plot of the book revolves around trying to find out who has let it get out and who’s using it for nefarious purposes. Unlike in the Anita Blake series, where Anita’s sexually magnetic curse, the Ardeur, is stated to be a negative thing while really just being an excuse for Hamilton’s self-insert to surround herself with a harem of vampires and were-creatures, in that first Merry Gentry book it’s very much considered dangerous and a violation of consent. In the television show Misfits, the character Alisha gets the “superpower” of turning any man she touches into a crazed rapist set on violating her, seemingly dooming her to a life without any consensual relationships. Again, this is portrayed as a bad thing. There are so many supernatural and sci-fi television shows that feature some variation on how bad this is, from Xander’s love spell in Buffy The Vampire Slayer to Rick’s Cronenberg experiment in Rick And Morty. Having everyone be automatically attracted to you is not good.
But that’s the world Lani Sarem has created for her utterly transparent self-insert in the story she wrote to reflect a perfect version of her world. All snark aside, that’s very sad.
Anyway, Mac doesn’t like Drew asking about Zelda because he’s still trying to figure out his feelings for her:
No matter how much he saw her at work (and out of work) he never seemed to tire of her at all.
Really? ‘Cause she exhausts the hell out of me.
The one thing Mac and Zade were sure of was that they had an unspoken rule that they really didn’t talk about all the time they were spending together with anyone at the show.
You know what I’m not sure of? What the hell is going on in that sentence.
To Drew, the question had been completely random but it didn’t feel that way at the moment to Mac. You know that bible verse: “The wicked flee when no man pursueth.” In other words when you are guilty you think other people know–even when they don’t. Mac was definitely getting defensive for no actual reason.
I’m not sure why we had to drag God and the bible into this, but at least she credited the source.
Mac tells Drew that it’s possible Lanzo keeps her private life to herself, but Drew insists that if a woman is into someone, she just can’t help but blab about it. Obviously, he’s not aware that Latti ZuPone is Not Like Other Girls™.
“Wow, Drew, I didn’t know you were an expert on females,” Mac said sarcastically.
Females? Swoon.
No one was really paying attention to the awkward conversation except for Jackson, and maybe Tad, who kept looking up from time to time at Mac and Drew.
What’s with the “maybe”? We’re in third person omniscient here. Keyword: omniscient. There’s really no room for ambiguity vis-a-vis what characters are or are not doing.
Drew protests that he could be Zippy’s type, but the other guys–because obviously grown men stand around at work and chat about who their crushes are–tease him. After one particularly cutting remark about who has “game” and who does not, Jackson says:
“That was harsh,” Jackson said.
And hand to God, all I could think of was:
Mac had realized during the banter that he could redirect the attention to Jackson and find out how far things had gone with Zade and him without having to actually ask himself.
Because if any of them communicated directly, the romance element wouldn’t be fraught with needless drama and the entire book would collapse like a house of cards.
That was another thing Zade and Mac didn’t discuss: how much time Zade spent–and what Zade did–with Jackson. Mac knew if he gave her a hard time about it, she’d probably demand to define their relationship, which was something he wasn’t ready to do. Despite how much he knew he liked her.
With all these unspoken rules about what they will or won’t talk about, my assumption is that the bulk of Mac and Ziggy’s relationship is spent just staring wordlessly at each other.
Hey, remember how Mac’s heart got broken because he dated a performer and she strung him along? Isn’t that kind of what Mac’s doing to Lassie? He wants to keep her tied up for his use, but he’s not willing to actually commit to her?
“Yeah, I’ve been testing the waters a little. I’d definitely go swimming in that ocean.” Jackson grinned wide and nodded, making his position very clear.
God, even the euphemisms in this book are terrible. What kind of sex does Jackson have if it’s like swimming? Does he just flop around on top of you with his arms windmilling like he’s doing a dry-land butterfly stroke?
Mac asks if Jackson actually has swam the Zenglish Channel, but that’s a negatory because obviously, girls who would have sex with more than one guy are hoebags and sleezy skanks, and Zim is Not Like Other Girls™.
“Nah. She is quite a catch, but we’re keeping it light. She’s the kind you want to marry, not just use to get laid. Not sure if I’m ready to give up my freedom just yet, but she’d be the girl to do it for, that’s for sure,” Jackson surmised.
The fact that Jackson believes there are women out there who are okay for him to slake his animal lust upon without consideration of her feelings is pretty much a big, flashing neon red-flag. And on that red flag are the words, “I’M THE MOST BIGGEST DOUCHEBAG”. We know that Lydia is going to still be over the moon for her, and in any other story, I would think to myself, “Oh no. Poor Zydeco. She’s going to fall for this guy and it’s going to be like Julia picking Glen over Robbie in The Wedding Singer, but in this book? I’m laying my bets now that this isn’t meant to show us Jackson’s true character and what a terrible guy he is, but another chance to show how valuable a specimen of pure femininity Zatanna is.
What makes it even more difficult to tell if this is supposed to villanize Jackson or deify Linda is that Mac doesn’t think it’s a gross thing to say at all. He agrees with him.
“Yeah,” Mac affirmed, in a daze. He was processing what Jackson had said just as much as Jackon was: Zade was the kind of girl you marry.
Well, I guess we got our answer, didn’t we? It’s the market value of Lazlo’s precious womb that we’re talking about here.
Mac has had about enough of this tom foolery, so he’s like, back to work, doors are going to be open soon. And for some reason, Sarem decides this is a good place to try her hand at comedy writing.
SPOILER: She’s bad at it:
Tom commented: “You know I always feel like there is some joke there.”
(There isn’t, but it won’t stop her.)
“You know that doors being a saying about opening the doors to let patrons come in to see the show, and the fact that the theatre also gets called ‘the house’ and there is a band called the Doors and. . .”
How do you get this lost telling a joke? The house and the door go together, but what does it have to do with The Doors?
Mac shook his head. “And you live in a van down by the river? Kid, I have no idea what you are talking about.”
What a timely reference from twenty-four years ago. And the fact that it’s been introduced apropos of nothing in the style of lazy ’00s era “random” Fanfiction.net humor isn’t indicative of the author’s overestimation of her comedy skills at all.
“Yeah, I know. Like I said, I haven’t figured it out, yet. But there is a joke there.”
After everyone goes off to do their own things, Jackson approaches Mac and tells him that it’s cool if he asks Zumba out:
“[…] She’s still fair game, and I like a challenge. […]”
Every girl wants guys to talk about her like she’s a prize to fight for and not a human being deserving of a relationship that’s not a fucking contest.
Mac says Drew sounds like he’s going to ask her out and Jackson says:
“I said I lik a challenge, not a massacre,” Jackson laughed.
Again, I’m not sure if Jackson’s over-confidence is supposed to be interpreted as Gaston-esque or “sexy bad boy any woman would want to pursue her.”
Mac reminds Jackson that he doesn’t date performers and even goes so far to say that Lou isn’t his type, but Jackson blows that off because Lindsay is everyone’s type.
Then it’s off to the EDR for yet another explanation that the acronym stands for Employee Dining Room, and a description of how the place is set up and how repetitive the food is and how people felt about free food as a perk of the job even when it’s not great food, etc. You know, all the really important details.
Mac and Tad had already been through the line and piled everything that looked edible on their plates as they made their way to a table in the corner, away from prying ears.
How does one fuck up such a common colloquialism?
They were both slightly hunched over the table eating, their hands wrapped around the forks and treating them more like shovels than utentensils,
Two cavemen walk into a bar.
when Tad wasted no time asking Mac why he had gotten so weird and defensive with Drew.
They walked to the EDR together, went through the line together, got a table and had already started eating before he asked him, so I’m not sure “wasted no time” applies here.
Actually, no, I’m certain it doesn’t apply here. But there I go again, expecting too much from this book.
Mac tells Tad all about what’s going on and warns him not to tell anyone because he and Zoylent Leen are keeping things private for now. Tad points out that if that’s the case, Mac can’t run around getting all weird about guys wanting to ask her out.
Tad started laughing as a thought hit him. “Ha! I called it! Don’t forget that. But I’m glad. After all, it’s about time you spent some time with someone pretty, besides me. […]”
What is it with all the men in this book either describing themselves as pretty or being described as pretty? I’m not saying that the word must remain strictly gendered or that guys never use the word to describe themselves, but why is it happening so often? Is this more of Sarem thinking she’s absolutely hilarious?
Tad tells Mac to be careful trying to keep things secret because the show is a rumor mill and there are already things being said about Zarla. But who would ever spread malicious gossip about her?
Tad rolled his eyes. “Just friggin’ Sofie. She’s basically pissed Zade knocked her off her high horse–and sleeping with C.S. isn’t getting her the part back or her star spot on the billboard.”
She didn’t get knocked off her high horse. She got knocked off her pedestal. Plus, are we learning that Sofie was on the billboard for the show? But now Lee is on it? Is there a single billboard for a major show in Vegas right now that’s advertising unknown side performers, or are we learning that Zoobie is famous enough that David Copperfield is willing to share a billboard with her? I would have thought there would have been a scene where the billboard was unveiled and Lilly Zane spilled her coffee all over Sofphiea and lots of paparazzi took pictures.
“Well, that’s not a surprise. Most people in this place have nothing better to do than to worry about everyone else, especially Sofia,” Mac said, disgruntled.
“Yeah. Definitely. One thing’s for sure–she really hates Zade.”
Tad rolled his eyes and frowned, he didn’t understand why Sofia couldn’t just be a better person. It really wouldn’t be that hard, he thought to himself.
I don’t understand why the author doesn’t know the difference between a comma and a period, but whatever.
“You think she could be nicer to the girl that saved her life,” Mac asserted, annoyed by Sofia’s lack of ability to care about anything but herself.
DON’T YOU JUST HATE SOFIA?
“You’re saying that like Sofie could act like a regular human being,” Tad interjected with a smirk.
Mac nodded and remarked, “Yeah, well. One can always hope.”
And that’s the end of the chapter.
“Wait, Jenny!” you cry. “That can’t be the end of the chapter because that would mean that you just wasted precious hours of your life reading and recapping a scene that didn’t advance the narrative at all, and which only existed to reinforce how sexy and attractive all the male characters find the heroine and loathe the other female character!”
“Yes,” I whisper with a desperate laugh, a sound that indicates I’ve long ago forgotten what hope feels like. “Yes, that’s exactly what it means.”
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Zoylent Leen is my new favorite.
I still like Zit the best.
Jaycie
I remember that moment on Cleolinda’s blog where she pointed out how much of a girly fantasy it was to have Jacob and Edward discuss their mutual hopeless love for Bella while she wasn’t listening. Lani has kicked it up a notch by not only adding more guys to the scene, but also having them intertwine their discussion of their mutual love for Zoodle with a discussion of their mutual contempt for Szczowfphghee. While she wasn’t listening. For an entire chapter.
There are Trumps who are less self-absorbed than Lani.
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I miss Cleolinda Jones!
I just have a question and one question alone…
why they even have a job if working is the last thing they do? And is not a guess, one can see here that they are not working at all. Really, even without Larva, they care more for who fucks who that do their job.
Now that I mention that, probably the “accident” in chapter 3 or 4 was because of that.
That’s a good point. These people are on a schedule, so they don’t have time to sit around and gossip about who is dating who. Even more, why is someone’s love life so intriguing that it requires ELEVEN men to talk about it?? You know what type of conversations a group of white men usually have? Politics, sports, and news.
Even more, if I knew a group of men suddenly start having conversations like this about me, I’d get scared. I, the lone woman surrounded by a bunch of guys cracking jokes about who I sleep with are NOT people I want to be around.
easily the ugliest chapter.
Right?! Like, I work with almost all men (engineers, man). I’ve heard more conversations about sports in the last six months than I have in possibly my entire life. There’s one guy I work with and we ONLY talk about baseball (it’s the only sport I like, and our teams are natural enemies). That’s it. Just baseball. For six months.
We sit in cubicles so half the time they don’t realize I’m there, and I hear everything they say. It’s sports, politics, more sports, and work their doing on their houses/vehicles.
I agree, even in the first paragraph you could see it. They weren’t working, they “were dealing with some work issues”; which by the way we never really learn about because Zathura is always more important than anything else as far as this godforsaken collection of literal word-vomit is concerned.
And when you think about it, it actually is a pretty good alternate interpretation for why Sofia is the way she is. If you were surrounded by a bunch of idiotic slackers who spend more time gossiping about whatever chick they’d like to bone and showed zero concern for your well being (remember their nonchalance to Sofia almost drowning?) would you be so friendly?
Man, it’s amazing how much easier it is to paint the villains of this show as more sympathetic than the heroes. This type of nonsense is supposed to only be found in fanfic.
Good point. When that platform started moving, I thought it would be later revealed as a poltergeist or something. But no, Lani really had no plans for it beyond showing off how much of a badass Zaz is.
And then you have your own boyfriend and boss not giving two shits about you. All these professional men not caring if you were maimed or not.
Maybe in that moment where sofia “pushed zade away” it’s because sofia had a moment of clarity, realizing her emotions have been manipulated by zazu, and she’s trying to get a hold of herself and save the others before zazu’s powers take over again.
It just occurred to me that the nonchalance towards Sofia almost dying might have been a side effect of Zaphod’s powers messing with people’s heads.
I bet Drew is the name of the casting director who gave all the roles Lani auditioned for to other girls because they were more talented, experienced, and better looking.
I mean, there’s “girly fantasy” like having two handsome guys into you and talking about you, and then there’s “the creepy fantasy of having literally every man alive be into you, and also all other women are terrible and we hates them, preciousss”. I also remember, like, SOME other things happening in Twilight? Handbook for Mortals would be so much less annoying (even at the current writing level) if it was bad fiction where Zibby was having giant magic battles on the roof of a casino or something. But why have a witch shooting firebolts out of her hands when she could be passively wandering by a bunch of men discussing “swimming in that ocean”?. Ew. Also, juuuuust leaving this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmy9CTn6xMs
Exactly, like Twilight was a romance but Bella did worry about other things and other people, I mean in the first book she went to confront James bc she thought he had her mother, and when he and later Victoria were after her she did worry about that too. And she worried about other people than just Edward and Jacob and who to choose, for most of the action with the newborn vampires she was scared for her friends and for the entire werewolf pack and for Forks, like she was a blank slate but for goodness sake Mayer still had enough decency to give her more relationships and have her care about other stuff than just who to choose.
The Inconstant Gardener
My husband can mess up common colloquialisms, but then again he doesn’t write terrible prose or scam his way on to bestseller lists so I’m pretty ok with that.
Lani Not-Sarem
I love when Lani Sarem proves that she’s a horrible person because it means I feel less guilty about mocking her magnum opus mercilessly. But holy shit, why is she still throwing a tantrum about the NYT thing? Who does that?
Besides the currently president of the United States?
That could change pretty drastically, given Flynn’s plea-bargain.
Sunniegreen
From your mouth to God’s ears.
Or whoever.
Someone help.
I genuinely think Lani Sarem just wanted attention and false validation. I doubt that private community of mostly self-published authors could get her movie deal for her, so what else is there but some attempt to boost her self-esteem more? I think that’s why she’s giving out interviews too. But wow, she’s actually charging money to hear nothing useful? I pity anyone who actually pays her that $75.
(Also, sorry I haven’t responded to your comment on your blog yet! I’ve been busy.) XD
My lord, the misogynism in this chapter kicked it up about twenty notches. I thought Jackson was supposed to be our “soft boy” character, but he’s just as crude as the rest of them. This is easily the ugliest chapter so far.
…are there only TWO single women these guys can talk about??????
and lani, whatever. say what you will- your book sucks, you movie will suck, and angie thomas will go on to have a long successful career while your movie gets panned by youtube reviewers who have more fame, fans, and talent than you.
Cheryl Z
Yeah it’s not like Las Vegas is crawling with pretty single women…oh wait…
The CRB
I’ve lost count . How many chapters now have consisted of men standing around , discussing how special and beautiful Zade is ?
many bells down
It’s honestly just … sad. Entire chapters devoted to people talking about how attractive they find the author’s obvious self-insert character. Like, what even happened to her that she needs to boost her self-esteem THAT badly?
At this rate we’re going to have to rename the “Mary Sue” because she’s out-marysueing Mary Sue.
Since so many Adolescent Geekhood Survivors become quite successful in arts and media, I’m going to guess that she’s the sort of person who ENJOYED middle school. She even pulled the occasional Galinda, kindly offering to make less popular girls her “little project.”
It has all been downhill for her ever since.
Yeah, I’m betting she was always the popular girl in school and then when she graduated, she realized what an unskilled and talentless person she was. But instead of trying to improve herself, Lani Sarem cultivated a privileged, victimized persona and blamed everyone else for her lack of success. She preens herself while hanging onto the coattails of others, telling herself that she can find her own way and cut corners that make her smarter than everyone else. It’s downright sad. I could be wrong, of course, but that’s what her behavior suggests to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s been praised all her life, especially by her family, for everything that she’s ever done. Then she never gained enough critical analysis or concern for such that she can properly assess her own failures. I’m sure she only surrounds herself by Yes Men.
Warning and apologies: VERY long post:
Problem is, she was popular in MIDDLE school.
Girls who are popular in high school find out soon enough real life isn’t like that. Some times they grow, and sometimes they stay stuck, yearning for the Glory Days. But they know they HAD the glory days once.
Girls who did alright as kids but suddenly become outcasts as teens, if they are fortunate enough to have someone to warn them that adolescence blows, will have some perspective. It wasn’t always like this; it need not always be like this. If they can ride it out, they generally do well enough in college or professional life.
Girls who were miserable all through school move away and form a garage band or work in anime.
The girls who peaked in middle school, however, forever bear a grudge against the universe for letting them taste power and then snatching it away so early. Their prime involved not dazzling the guys and winning the envy of the girls at the prom or cheerleading, but bossing around other kids, with the tacit approval of lazy adults who believe in peer pressure. They thrive on Group Work, painting posters for the school dance, supervising the techies in the school play–all things that allow them to give orders to other people without possessing a speck of the creativity required to do a solo project, play the music at the dance, or design costumes or sets for the school play. Adults praise them for being Mature and Responsible, but the kids they try to Help with “your Uncooperative Attitude” are secretly seething.
In high school, that secret resentment comes back to bite them. The outcasts have banded together and got into gaming or alt-rock or whatever, rather than be coached on Fitting In by second-rung used-to-be’s like Galinda. The jocks want the cheerleaders, the bad boys want the bad girls, and the only dates Galinda gets are arranged by the mothers of Nice Boys who should get to know her because she’s a Nice Girl (They secretly can’t stand her either.) Meanwhile, the girls REALLY at the top never took her Self-Righteous crap seriously in the first place.
So there she is in high school, already sinking back into the primordial ooze from whence she came. It will never be so good again for her, unless she goes into Human Resources and can psychologically bully people who are desperate for jobs she could never do, or elementary education, so she can “Help” kids who don’t know any better.
No wonder she’s still wondering where the MagicK went–decades later.
That’s “Glinda,” not “Galinda.” (Sorry for nitpicking, but that kind of thing bugs me all day unless I point it out.)
Galinda is the spelling in the novel and musical “Wicked,” which contains the song “Popular,” which is what I was referencing in the previous post.
If you’re not familiar with it, look on YouTube or find the lyrics. You’ll understand why it’s relevant here.
Ah, now I get it. I never saw “Wicked,” so thanks for the explanation!
Haven’t seen it either yet, but a friend gave me the soundtrack. The minute I heard “Popular,” I knew that girl.
“Elphie, I’m going to make you my little project….”
(Quietly pukes.)
I don’t know if it’s been out there yet, but you should totally use Zanastasia Rose Leele or Zenesme Lullen.
Not a writer, not published, not in the scene, but it sounds really weird when Lani says “Does it frustrate you that your sales don’t count everywhere?”
Because, well, if you sold a book, that means you got money for it, and last time I checked, money counts! If I wrote a book, and sold 20,000 copies of it by going to conventions, I might not be on the NYT bestseller list, but I could probably cry myself to sleep at night on a big pillow stuffed with other people’s money.
Drea C
This is just more proof that she values recognition, not money. She’s probably well-off, considering that she’s mooching off semi-famous people. Also, there’s no way she made that kind of sell at conventions. Where are her huge legions of fans? Where are ship-wars over Mac vs Whoever-the-other-one is on tumblr?
So far the only “fans” I’ve seen are people who are upset that people are “bullying” her. If there are legit fans, they’re not going to stick around long enough to make ship names.
The lack of a fandom is a good point. Out of curiosity I did a search on Tumblr since even niche stuff can get a following there. But nope, there weren’t even many hits, and the posts that were there were all either about the publishing scandal or My Immortal.
Yeah, like even small niche things tend to have SOME content if they have a fandom, there is always SOMETHING…and as Drea pointed out if the sales went as good as Zani tells us then there DEFINITELY would be a fandom with gifsets, casts, arts ect and given it’s been 3 months I’d say there is little chance it will pick up. Fandoms in my expirience start up pretty early into things.
Even things that are so-bad-they’re-good like My Immortal and The Room gain followers fairly quickly. I know people who love to hate-quote from My Immortal, but H4M isn’t even that good. Can you think of one memorable quote from H4M? I can’t. It’s all just so below average. Jenny’s humor is the only thing that makes these recaps bearable.
The sad thing is that we’re probably the closest thing to fans Zani Saran-wrap will ever get (unless she has the most dramatic heel-face turn in history).
She has “perfectly cut bangs.”
Other than that…
I got nothin’.
I just wanna say…
That’s because when the book came out as #1, it literally COULD NOT be found in ANY bookstore in America! It was even available online yet! Even now you cannot find the book in any store, you have to order online. Besides, a LOT of people judge books within the first sentences! That’s why writers are taught to intrigue the reader the moment they open the page! Even if I didn’t know about the controversy, I wouldn’t have wasted my time going through pages of “sometimes the grass is just astro-turf” mumbo-jumbo pretentious bull. I would have put the book down and gone to something better.
Same, also content matters too, people read the recaps/summaries on the backs and when they are not interesting they put it away.
2nd cuz I forgot…and her giving out the whole plot to the book in summary not only is too long to be one, and I’d get bored reading it, it…well GIVES AWAY THE PLOT, why would I read the thing if I already know everything? Like ok, when you read full recap or summary of something(tho for me it goes more for movies) you might want to go for the whole thing, see how it’s executed by the author. Not in this case
And now that we have read the book…we know it’s trash…so…
Anyone else having a hard time believing Lani Sarem is really thirty-something? This is /exactly/ like every self-insert fanfic I wrote on FF.net when I was, like, twelve.
Not trying to rag on kids for having Mary Sue self-inserts or anything, but you’d think an actual adult would have outgrown it by now.
I personally don’t mind if adults do self-inserts- because hey, we sometimes want to see ourselves as the hero, but Lani really takes it to the next level.
Zade can’t have one love interest, she has to have two, including every male character she comes across. Everyone must sing her praises.
Zade can’t be one of many female characters, she has to be *the* female character, outranking every other woman in everything.
Lani can’t write a character who has features like her favorite celebrity, nope, her favorite celebrities are literally characters in the book and they’re all in love with her as well, even if they’re married.
Zade can’t be just attractive, she has to be so goddamn beautiful people will literally stop what they’re doing to talk about how hot she is.
Zade can’t be just be the star of the show, but the focus on every conversation everyone will ever have, because fuck personal problems and agency.
Zade can’t be just a talented witch, no, she has to be the prophesized chosen one.
The songs played in the book aren’t random coincidences, no, they were specifically chosen for Zade, written by her favorite band, the Plain White Ts.
Remember, Zade is not like other girls. And when you’re better than that SLUT Sofia, who cares if the plot falls sideways?
Self-inserts CAN be well done. I’m working on something (not for a book, but still) that’s sort of a self-insert, and I’m in my 30’s. But the entire point of my plot is about self-insert fantasies. Exploring escaping from reality by creating your own fantasy and dwelling in that to make yourself feel better about how little control you have over your real world. And as Amy said, there’s nothing wrong with people who want to be the hero in their own story. It’s just handled so goddamn poorly in Sarem’s ‘world’.
This is less self-insert fantasy and more just personal wish fulfillment fantasy that other people can’t insert themselves into. So this story is JUST for her. Since other people in the comments keep bringing it up, the Twilight books are actually a decent counter to this, whether you enjoy them or not. Meyer created a fantasy that SHE wanted, and Bella is definitely her avatar in the story, but she still INTENTIONALLY made her generic enough that the reader could still insert THEMSELVES into the story too. Where as Sarem has created a heroine that is far too specific, and could only possibly apply to herself and maybe like, 3 other people. It’s the difference between most of One Direction’s songs where they sing about a generic girl they like and The Best Song Ever, where they talk about a dentists daughter named Georgia Rose. One you can insert yourself into, another, it’s pretty damn clear it’s not about you.
Writing fiction is a skill. Learning how to create good characters is also a skill. If someone has very little experience, it doesn’t matter how old they are. She could be eighty years old and write the same terrible stuff. She could’ve started with something more creative but it would’ve had the same amateur pitfalls.
That said, Lani Sarem seems to be very immature and that also has nothing to do with age. You’d assume someone would learn better as they got older, but it’s not a given. People have to be taught politeness and responsibility before they start acting that way and they also have to take these lessons to heart. If someone doesn’t care, they’ll remain an asshole. Lani Sarem didn’t put in any effort and this was probably her first book ever, so of course, it’s garbage. She also hasn’t put any true effort into her PR. This is what happens when people never accept criticism and never try to improve on anything in their life.
What. In. The. Fresh. Hell. Is. This. I’ve said more coherent sentences drunk. Does Leesburg know there is a difference between telling a joke and babbling? It wouldn’t seem like it from this atrocity. And I thought I struggled with comedy, good God. Then again, Loni’s only redeeming quality is that her shitty writing makes anyone feel more confident in theirs.
Also, Lunacy is such a misogynist I wonder what she thinks about the women in her family, not to mention her friends. I’d bet a thousand dollars she’s that passive-agressive eternally jealous frenemy everyone has at one point in their lives.
She’s 100% that girl who doesn’t hang out with other girls because they’re all evil bitches.
Come to think of it, has she mentioned having any friends from home? It seems like most of her interactions are the dudes who want to bone her and the ladies she hates and/or gets into fights with. And then there’s not!David Copperfield and her mom.
You’re right, how could I be such a fool? Lineage obviously doesn’t have any female friends. The same applies to her equally insufferable self-insert, with the added “excuse” of girls not liking her because of her fucked up glamours.
Amatyultare
I truly do not have the energy to dig into Lani’s increasingly obnoxious attempts to justify herself. Nor do I think I’m equal to the task of dissecting her increasingly disturbing middle-school-esque “I’m the Popular One Now” fantasy.
What I do want to note, and I know I’m echoing other commenters from previous chapter recounts, is: Sarem *royally screwed* her story by having Mac & Zade kiss and by making their relationship explicitly romantic so early. By this chapter I can SEE the bones of the better story here.
Imagine a book where Mac does the motorcycle-ride thing with Zade, but when the rainstorm hits and they’re stranded, he begins a Very Serious Conversation with her about He Doesn’t Date Performers So Stop Flirting With Him.
But Zade, flustered and trying to save face, is all, don’t flatter yourself, I’m not actually interested in you.
And Mac goes, oh. You’re not – not romantically interested in me? That’s, um. That’s – good! Good. I’m – that’s good.
So they agree that they can still be friends and ride back to town, both a little unsettled by the conversation (cue metaphor about “rain in the desert sparks new life, but it’s fleeting” and/or “going back to Las Vegas, where nothing ever changes”). From here, you’ve got the love triangle of Zade casually dating Jackson – he asked her out, he’s…fine, he’s cute, she’s probably just still too invested in Mac and if she keeps seeing Jackson she might like him? – and Zade and Mac becoming really close friends and spending a ton of time together. (Both of them continue this intense friendship, two-thirds because “I do really like the other person’s company and since they’re not interested in me, if I keep pretending to just be their friend eventually I’ll believe it, right?” and one-third because “If I admit I need space because of unrequited feelings NOW, I will be SO EMBARRASSED.”)
But of course, the one topic Zade and Mac NEVER talk about is Jackson – way too awkward. So when Drew asks Mac, “Hey, you’re super close with Zade – is she single? I was thinking about asking her out” in Jackson’s hearing, Mac responds with a looooong awkward silence. First because he isn’t sure how to answer (he’s legit not 100% sure how serious Zade and Jackson are), and then because he’s hoping Jackson will step in and answer the question. Finally, Mac forces himself to say something like, “Jackson’s the better person to tell you, he and Zade have been dating,” and basically nopes out of the conversation. Which leads nicely into Tad, eating lunch with Mac later, being like – so, uh, what was that all about?
It’s! All! Right! There!
I know, right? Almost every chapter has something hiden that it could work and create A STORY. Is soooooo frustrating see the evidence and yet she rather her “the winner takes it all” fantasy.
RMH
Your version is one of 100+ ways to make this story more interesting – this story is. SO. BORING. that there are so many ways to make it better.
I know, right? The irony of finally getting a swift down to business kiss so soon is ruined because Lani Sarem still tries to drag the whole thing out so that it makes no sense. I blame this on two things, her inexperience as a writer and how lazy she was about including Jackson. Based on what Not-Lani Sarem (from Blandbook for Chortles) has pointed out in her essay, I think most of his roles were originally written for Charles, so the dynamic was different, and then the author did the bare minimum of changing these scenes. In fact, some of his responses probably weren’t even touched, so it ends up super weird, really uninteresting, and incredibly stupid.
But yeah, it’s so easy to fix. This whole book could’ve been rewritten in so many interesting and different ways, some of them so simple with very few changes, that it’s mindnumbing how she could’ve improved the writing by leaps and bounds if she’d just accepted criticism from any of her editors.
Wow, what a trash move. First, she cheat her way to the top, then implies that the author she cheated was jealous of Her? That is a new low. And she had the nerve to act coy after being called out. It’s not cute. It’s slander. This reinforces my idea that Lani is a privileged bully who probably wouldn’t know oppression if it slapped off her smarmy, “perfectly cut” bangs.
Drew is probably the first character I’ve read that I forgot about him as soon as I finished reading about him. Guess the endless parade of nonessential characters finally got to me. Sophia getting shocked by her mic? Sounds like another case of “totally not maggickkel” interference to me. Especially not suspicious after Zade’s little supernatural sharting at the Weenie Hut.
And here I thought Jackson was just your average whitbread boring handsome guy, but what a DOUCHEBAG. “Just use to get laid”? What a fucking charmer. Oh. Of course. It’s to show everyone what a purity non-hoe Zart is. All his dick-measuring about who deserves Zade is so sweet and totally not indicative of the harmful and unhealthy viewpoints this author has.
Yeah, I honestly think that Lani’s worst enemy is herself. Not only did she trash a well-liked author (whose work is respectable, holds up on its own and hasn’t made a whole online media circus out of her own ineptitude), but she also just exposed herself as the kind of person who’d point a finger at people if they happened to do something that she didn’t like and air it all out to people across the globe (which I’m sure multiple people who work in publishing houses, agencies, etc will notice).
I’m absolutely all for whistle-blowing (Are people being abused at your line of work? SAY IT. Is there so much nepotism in your company that it’s going to impact other people’s hard-earned work/job prospects? Bring.It. Up. But there is a whole procedure about doing it, and there is a reason why so many national hotlines are very strict about how to report certain wrongs (and it’s not to protect the 3VIL Corporations, it’s to make sure that when you DO report it/talk about it–it would make it less likely for other people to accuse you for doing it out of resentment/sour grapes)). Sure, the agent DID take out the sleuths for drinks–but it’s not even abusive behavior towards Lani (ESPECIALLY when for this whole time, Lani didn’t even prove the sleuth’s wrong with concrete proof or anything despite of being invited to endless interviews/platforms like conventions). All that Lani did was the equivalent of some kid going, “That eight-grader’s friend made fun of ME!!” in front of a huge crowd of people.
Like, I’ve had people talk bad about me behind my back—and I especially know people who would’ve laughed and insulted me on a get-together with other people (which was high-school in a nutshell for me). But I wouldn’t go on a very public online platform and tell about it (because not only would everybody know, but if anybody asked, “Well? ARE you exactly what [name] had said about you?”, I wouldn’t be even able to make a smart answer out of it). There’s a reason why the old saying: “ It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” is still relevant. If you’re revealed to be a cheater and also a bad author—the best thing you could do is to keep your damn head down and instead crank out good work than to ‘protest too much’.
cyevi
I mean, if the mic zapping were actually magical interference, we might have had some kind of plot happening here. But that would have gotten in the way of 49 million chapters gushing about how special and amazing and yookneeque Lagarade is. Pfft, it’s not as if magic, unexplained events, odd behaviors, or secret covens of powerful witches would be interesting to read about or anything.
If that random platform movement at the beginning of the book had actually been the result of Lonkey’s uncontrolled magic, then we would have a very twisted protagonist that causes problems around her but fails to recognize it. By the end of the book, everyone else would have caught on to her being the problem and leave her as an outcast, which could perfectly set up a second book of a trilogy. But alas. No, I’m sure that platform moved around because it thought Sofia was actually just a bitch who took away attention from Zirrafe.
Isn’t this supposed to be a story about a witch? WHERE THE FUCK IS ALL THE WITCHY MAGIC STUFF? Zippy had a single Palpatine moment and that was it.
The more she tries to set things straight, the deeper she digs herself in the hole.
Just. Unbelievable.
You know, if she’d just said straight out, “You’re damn right we gamed the NYT! The system is BS and this proves it!” people probably wouldn’t have been so angry with her. Jackie Susann’s husband gamed the bestseller system decades before Looney Loveself thought of it, but he wasn’t a hypocrite about it, plus “Valley of the Dolls” actually had a story and enough Hollywood dirt about thinly-disguised celebrities to sell itself after the initial publicity stunt.
But Lucy-in-the-Skank-With-Douchebag explains herself in more directions than Heath Ledger as the Joker. Well, she did buy the books herself, but she sold them at Cons. Well, it wasn’t fair that Con sales didn’t count. Well, she did make sure to buy them only from places that reported sales to the NYT, but it was so she could sell them at Cons. Well, she did TOO sell that many at Cons; they’re not all sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Well, she didn’t mean any harm to the #1 author or her agent, so there shouldn’t be a problem there. Well, they must be picking on her because they’re jealous of her success.; hey they could have gamed the system too, if they’d wanted, not that she deliberately gamed the system because she was naive and never realized all this would happen….
I haven’t even read the recrap proper yet, I’m so angry at how stupid she must think we are.
A Narcissist’s Prayer:
“That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did…
You deserved it.”
I don’t know who wrote it, but I see it quoted in response to Trump’s shenanigans, but it fits Lani Sarem, too.
I had not seen that before, but it’s perfect.
” What Kate said.
It almost hurts how accurate that is for both of them.
SofiaThatB*tch
I seriously believe that this drivel is like this because Lani sincerely believes the world revolves around her. Just like ZitCream. And if you don’t let her shit pass, you’re just jealous of her.
I thought the phrase “swimming in her ocean” sounded familiar and I did a Google search. It’s a reference to a hit by the Crash Test Dummies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgnPxA2mhBY
A 90’s reference. Of course. Sigh. Her YA readers wouldn’t get that one.
Also, it’s really gross that the guys discuss Zylaphone as if she were a piece of meat. Even grosser that this is presented as *flattering* her, evidence that she is beautiful and awesome. Such a terrible message to send to young girls.
Thought the Dummies’ only hit was “MM-MM-MM-MM.”
See, I’ve learned something! (And people think this book has no redeeming social value.)
Rachel O'Riley
Every permutation of L’occitane Serum’s name you come up with is funnier than the one before! Delicious.
Also, just watched the tarot reading video. It was magick! (I kid. Actually, I greatly enjoyed it).
One thing I keep wondering —- why do I find Tommy Wiseau kind of adorable for relentlessly pursuing his dreams despite lack of talent, but I’m disgusted by Lani Saruman who is doing the same thing? Is it because she lied and cheated and he (as far as I know) didn’t? Or am I just too blinded by the staggering Wiseau charm?
Lani Sarem is being super victim-complex-y about everything when she is the one who was caught in a lie. Wiseau (to the best of my knowledge) hasn’t acted as though the movie industry is out to get him (as far as I know), and he’s embraced his film’s notoriety.
There’s also the fact that THE ROOM is over 10 years old at this point, making it all nostalgic and endearing. I’ve read HfM a few times at this point (I did an inferior read-through myself), and I now find some of its awfulness endearing. After you get over the shock of how bad it is and forget that we only know about this book because of the misdeeds of its author, it becomes easier to laugh at it (as opposed to feeling rage every time some rando swoons at Zade).
That and save the pearls is so much worse
Yeah, I think that’s the main reason I have relatively warm feelings toward HfM at this point. But HfM also reads similarly to “My Immortal,” which I spent many hours reading aloud with friends, so some of my affection may have spilled over.
Save the Pearls is, like, truly infuriating. I thought I liked the pain. I wasn’t prepared.
the Room also has the “it’s so bad it’s good” quality to it. HFM doesn’t even have funny, quotable lines in it. And that’s what makes the book even more insulting: the fact Lani believes her generic magickal white girl novel was worth all the lies, the scamming, the finger pointing. Tommy Wiseau is also not blaming/raging against people who are watching the movie specifically to make fun of it, he’s not pulling the ol’ “woe is me, they’re only making fun because they don’t understand, it’s all that Nostalgia Critic’s fault!”
We will all produce shit one day, it’s inevitable, but how you handle your shit makes the difference. Tommy Wiseau is just like, “hey, people are watching my stuff! Yay!”
but Lani is like, “I’m the victim! I deserve praise! Angie Thomas is mean!”
Personally I see Wiseau as wanting to be in film because he’s genuinely passionate about film, where as Sarem wants to be in film because she’s genuinely passionate about being famous and getting back at everyone who’s better than her for being better than her. But that could be because I know a lot less about Wiseau.
Oooh, Mike, you got there first!
I was thinking about this when I read yesterday’s posts. Wiseau, like Ed Wood was, is passionate about his work. The passion comes through no matter how clumsily the work is done. You could say the same about the author of
“Eye of Argon,” a Con read-aloud classic. Even Ayn Rand, criticised for her clunky prose and wooden, Medieval Morality-Play-style characters, just wanted her message to go through. When someone asked her who could possibly enjoy the rape scene in “Fountainhead,” she said, “It’s MY fantasy.” Non-PC, but straightforward.
Sarem tossed her book together, and I suspect she tossed the script together too. Her contempt for potential readership or viewers was evident when she commented, shrugging, on some autographed Con sales that were likely memorabilia buys, “They probably won’t even read it.” She really didn’t care if anyone read it or liked it. If the book’s value went up years later because copies had become rare, that would be fine too, although it would irk her that she couldn’t play Zuddenly Zeymour at age 90.
Book suggestion for those who haven’t read it: The Disaster Artist.
To add to what others have said, I’m pretty sure Lani Sarem believes that she’ll trick us eventually. She’s only angry that people weren’t deceived and her goal is to fix her damaged image somehow. On the other hand, she’d never actually rewrite the book to make it better because she never cared how good it was. She wants her movie deal because she wants to be a famous movie star and she wrote the book sloppily, as fast as possible, purely to game the system in the hopes of getting that. It goes back into the passion angle, but Lani Sarem is also a jerk who only cares about herself. There’s nothing charming about that. The book always had potential in the right hands though, so it could’ve been more pleasant if we’d known nothing about the author herself. Still bad but just meh instead of grating.
Her plan is still so boggling tho. Even if she legit got to number one, there was never any guarantee she’ll get a movie deal within the year or the next five years. For goodness sakes, Game of Thrones came out in 1995, and the show was only produced what-? A couple of years ago? the first Harry Potter movie didn’t come out till after the fourth book came out. Getting movie deals and fame from it takes TIME. Even if HFM was a good book, the movie wouldn’t come out till Lani was well into her forties.
Let’s say nobody called out Lani on her cheating and stayed number one. Then what? It wouldn’t take long for another book to replace her. And if she ended up getting more readers due to her #1 status, that only means there would’ve been MORE people tearing her book apart, there would’ve been MORE people, more reviewers than the YA community calling her out on her shit.
No matter what would have happened, it’s a lose-lose situation. So what the hell was her plan?
I don’t think she thought that far ahead. Maybe she thought she could coast by, writing shitty books every year or every few years (or hiring a ghostwriter for subsequent books in the series, set to come out whenever), and then live on the royalties, using the same company to achieve #1 status for each book for several weeks in a row, until the movie deal was underway. Then, since all of her novels were bestsellers, that would make her script look more tantalizing to studios. I mean, yeah, she was just setting herself up to fail, but I’m sure she thought she was being clever. Maybe she thought she’d be willing to wait awhile if it simply guaranteed her movie being made and having tight control over how the movie was made? XD
Whoa, sorry for the mess that my comment turned into. I got sloppy because I was in a rush to finish. Hopefully, it made sense. o.o;
(No, I’m not being ironic… lol. I just need to go right now.)
Jamoche
Getting something set in modern times, with as simple an elevator pitch as “girl working in magic show has real magic”, isn’t as much of a challenge as an epic like GoT. It wouldn’t be a major motion picture, though, just one of those Lifetime C-list cookie cutter productions.
It could actually work…Just get Tommy Wiseau to direct it.
After all, we’ve all agreed that amo GST it’s many faults, what this project lacks most is PASSION.
if you break it down like that, nothing sounds interesting. like,
Harry potter- magical little boy and his prophesied destiny.
star wars- magical young boy and his prophesied destiny.
lord of the rings- evil ring and everybody wants it.
beauty and the beast- bestiality
heck, a lot of people praise Stephen King for taking simple concepts and turning them into wonderful stories. a haunted hotel room, a haunted motel, an evil clown, evil MIST. When a concept is put into the right hands, great things happen. put them in the wrong hands, and you get movies like Avatar the last airbender.
Lani had a good concept, and had it been written by someone who could write, was willing to take risks, and didn’t follow the FSG strategy, HFM could’ve been great.
I think Sarem needs to invest in a writing masterclass, learn how to handle alternating viewpoints. Personally she shouldn’t be including them in this book save the later chapters where she’s unconscious and still needs to convey the story (maybe. There’s probably a way around that too) as there’s so few perspective shifts that they’re too jarring and should be left out entirely. But if she’s going to insist on inserting them, having them in italics when they’re short snippets inside otherwise Zade-centric chapters, that’s… not ideal but an understandable choice, but when it’s its own chapter, that’s 100% from a different narrator, then the whole damn thing does not need to be in italics. That’s hard to read for MOST people, not just dyslexics!
This chapter was 100% here in the original draft of the screenplay. It may be edited, but this kind of perspective shift is something you WOULD see in a screenplay. Though if this were a competent story writer the shocking of Sofia would be foreshadowing that she’s actually being sabotaged by magic by either Zade herself or someone who intends to make her look bad, and someone would have raised an eyebrow about it before everyone brushing it off as her being a diva. It’s actually frustrating how many different ways this story could be altered to make a genuinely intriguing story.
If I were to do something called Handbook for Mortals, centered about a witch in a magic show trying to hide that she’s really magic, I would probably set it up as a TV show. The first season would be about her and a few other witches and wizards, and it would have a few lessons about tarot, visions, guides, go into some real wicca lore and history. Have lambo girl be the season antagonist, sabotaging things around Zade for whatever reason, and then after she’s defeated and a few chosen people are let in on the secret, set up the second season by having one of the last lines be Mac asking if witches are real, what else is? And then shift to whatever paranormal entity will headline the second season. As long as the actors and set was good enough it wouldn’t be as cheesy as it sounds.
In the first chapter, zanni describes herself as “not hot-girl skinny.” Later on in clark kent’s perspective, he describes zanni as “not hot-girl skinny.” Lani HAS to put Mac’s persepective in italics because he and Zade have the same voice, the same thought process. But who knows? Maybe the thoughts of a thirty year old man who’s been in working in the entertainment industry for nearly a decade would have the same voice as a twenty-five year old woman who has never left home before. I mean, their stories are just so interchangeable!
I honestly didn’t even notice that. It’s sad she is so trapped in her own head that she can’t even imagine someone thinking differently than she does… I mean, she had access to American Pie, if she struggled with a male perspective, just ask him how he would word things, or what he would think in that scenario.
Judging by my brother and his friends, if they talk about a girl openly, it’s usually in the crudest terms.
If a guy is actually serious about her, he won’t discuss his feelings with the others; he’ll just tell them to shut up. If they don’t, pretty soon they’re slugging each other.
Dickens does it in “Bleak House,” with omniscient narrative alternating with Esther’s diary. King does it in “Carrie,” with omniscient narrative alternating with news articles, personal letters, interviews, etc. And then of course there are Richardson’s novels, where it;s all done in letters, but those are way long unless you;re terribly patient. Laclos does it more succinctly in “Dangerous Liaisons.”
Writers need to avoid plagiarism or never developing their own style, but they are usually inspired and influenced by what they’ve read, especially at the beginning. One wonders what Sarem has been reading.
I stand by that entire chapters in italics is a terrible idea, no matter how many quality authors have done it. But even here there’s a very important difference between those works and this one. As you said, in Bleak house it’s not just a narrative shift, it’s a diary entry. In Carrie it’s letters and articles. Richardson uses letters. They aren’t JUST a perspective shift, it’s an indication of reading something that’s written in universe. Particularly, they’re narrative tools to reveal information that a first person narrator wouldn’t otherwise be able to give the reader. In particular, it’s a perspective shift without ACTUALLY shifting perspective, and the italics is meant to show that.
Sarem is just shifting to third person so she can include scenes she would have otherwise had to cut in the transition from screenplay to novel. A much better way to convey the new perspective would be to have the very first perspective be a thought of one of the non-Zade characters, to make it clear from line one. Then you don’t need the italics because the perspective is already established and as it’s there from go the reader knows this chapter is either this persons perspective or omniscient third person. Save the reader the italics eye strain and keep the clarity.
*have the very first line in the chapter be a thought from a non-zade character.
Quality authors Richardson, Laclos, and Dickens didn’t HAVE to use italics for perspective shifts, because they had headings with that info:
MISS ANNA HOWE, TO MISS CLARISSA HARLOWE JAN 10. – Richardson, “Clarissa”
CHAPTER XVII
Esther’s Narrative – Dickens, “Bleak House”
LETTER I.
CECILIA VOLANGES to SOPHIA CARNAY, at the Convent of the Ursulines of ——. – Laclos, “Dangerous Liaisons”
Richardson was , in fact, a printer, and while he used italics for emphasis and chapter summaries, there was no way he’d have an entire chapter in that font.
King uses them for brief snatches of thoughts in an omniscient narrative, but again, the separate entries have headings, not fonts, to indicate point of view.
As for children’s classic “Harriet the Spy,” her notebook is usually done in all caps. Again, not italics.
So once again–what has Sarum Cathedral been reading?
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. It’s been years since I’ve ready Carrie and I hadn’t read Bleak House or anything by Richardson, so I thought you were saying that those authors had done all italics chapters, and that’s probably where she got it, implying she was copying authors who pulled it off better than she did. My mistake!
Not quite sure why I thought that, so I’m gonna blame it on the fact that the landlords have control of the heater in my apt and have it on full blast despite that it’s not goddamn cold outside, so I’m sitting here melting.
Mike: If you live in NYC, you’ll have to open your window in January. Your super is from the DR.
Or maybe he’s just JEALOUS of you because you’re the kind of guy women marry….
No prob. My point was that there are plenty of examples of authors doing this sort of thing quite skillfully without relying on annoying fonts, which made me wonder–what was Saremthustra reading INSTEAD?
I’m a Canadian living in London, so as it is I am built to handle the cold much more than most people here. But my landlord is from Portugal I think, and a couple of the other tenants are from Spain. So, essentially the same thing (assuming DR means Dominican Republic?)
Your ACTUAL point makes much more sense. I have seen a lot of authors tackle perspective shifts, and they don’t have to use funky transitions like the triple moons, or italics. I can’t think of a single one I’ve seen that has done that for more than a paragraph. So if she did get it from another author maybe it was another of her ‘friends’ (see: people she is using to get ahead. I get the feeling she doesn’t have real friends, just people with some degree of fame or connection that she buddies up with for benefits) who has published some things that never really took off.
Or, more likely, she just assumed her readers were idiots and needed it to be made painfully obvious that this was a different perspective and didn’t know how to do that. She wrote the scenes in the screenplay, and was already scraping the bottom of the barrel to pad the word count to get it up to book length so she couldn’t cut the non-Zade centered scenes, but just outright lacked the knowledge and skill to make them fit properly, so just shoved them in in this inelegant messy way.
Actually having written that out it occurs to me that plagiarizing someone else’s style is definitely not what happened. I think she was too lazy to even put in THAT much effort. She would have had to have read an entire book written by someone that isn’t her.
One thing I have noticed is that the book is definitely still written like a movie. A bad movie, but definitely a movie. How she keeps cutting scenes short, fading out of conversations that in most books you would leave in, but in movies you’d just cut away from and maybe have her describe how it went to condense the information for run time. The constantly restating people’s names is clearly taken from a script format to state who’s present in the scene, etc. Reading a book to see how one might put those together in the alternate medium is probably more effort than she’d be willing to put in to getting this done. She wants instant fame. Reading would be work.
Reply to Mike: I live in Canada and my landlord is Australian. At one point, I had been telling him for weeks that there was something wrong with the thermostat because it should NOT be thirty degrees Celsius inside any house in January, even in Vancouver. He hadn’t noticed anything was wrong (he lives in the same house, in the basement suite). He finally fixed it when he looked at the heating bill and realized it was absurdly high.
Indigo: OMG 30 degrees would have killed me. I’d have had to sleep outside. Frankly I don’t like the cold (part of why I like living here so much. Lived in Edmonton before I came here. You never appreciate underground parking more than when it’s -40 and you still have to go outside) but I prefer being too cold over too hot. You can layer up to fight the cold, there’s only so many layers you can take off in the heat before all that’s left is skin.
Oh man, the dialogue in this thing is just painful. Try and get a male acquaintance to say this out loud and see how it sounds:
I mean, I’m pretty sure that is not how men really talk to each other.
Mydog'sPA
If Lazy should ever get a Small Press booth next to ours at San Diego ComicCon, the only way I’d think of to shut her up is to thank her for exposing a flaw in the NYT BSL reporting system that she helped correct with her antics. So in that regard, she has actually done a service to the rest of us by keeping all the fraudsters at bay.
Oh god, no. She’ll take that lead and bring it back to her being the victim and it’s so good of you to realize how intelligent she was for finding this ploy, but she never meant to raise a fuss. Everyone else just keeps slandering her constantly and acting like they’re the heroes when of course she is!
I mean, you can do it to see if I’m wrong, and I hope I am. Maybe she’d be a little stunned, but at this point, she might be used to dealing with that topic, and if she has legit narcissistic tendencies, then giving her attention is exactly what she’s after. She’ll talk your ear off instead, especially if there’s no one else standing there, ready to bask in her glow. ;P
Okay, I’m getting angry now. It’s not even that the book is terrible, trite and downright awful. It’s that the author herself is terrible, trite and downright awful.
How ARE she blame Angie for mess. This is just pathetic and disgusting.
Lanie, nobody likes you for a reason. Please go away so that we can pay attention to “real” authors.
Oh and there’s also this:
https://twitter.com/AnimeJune/status/937003433134997507
hoooooly shit. I have no words. Like, I kinda thought that LS was generally tonedeaf when it came to race issues, but anyone who acts like BLM isn’t a necessary movement/activist group gets a free pass to the “actually racist” pile.
Right? That person on Facebook straight up said a racist horrible thing and Lanie immediately wanted to friend her! Awww man I hate this woman.
Loved the recap and I don’t even know where to start with Lani’s self justifying BS. She got caught. As someone who read The Hate U Give, I can say I think it deserves to be on the NYT bestseller. Lovely book about a horrible situation and I can’t wait to see the movie. As for the HFM movie, I’d watch it on Netflix with friends and alcohol so we can laugh.
Never, unless Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo, and Crowwwwww can help me through it.
MrGBH
I think my favourite part of these recaps are all of the bizarro names you come up with.
And I’ve just realised that, when this movie comes out, people are going to expect me to review it.
And I thought Fifty Shades of Grey was painful to sit through.
You would think Lani would make some attempt at making her posts correct as far as punctuation and grammar. Calling herself a writer publicly while writing a senseless wall of text is ballsy.
Angie Thomas should just ignore this. Honestly. She’s proven her chops. Anyone with half a brain knows that. Her genuine success is all the “armor” she needs. Let Lani make a fool of herself all on her own.
When you call her “Zani,” I read it as “zany.” I hope that’s what you intend. Or really I don’t care because it’s funny.
The more of these I read, the more embarrassed I am for Lani. Her terrible writing, the pathetic self-insert-loved-by-all-men … And of course her closest friends are all men. I bet she’s one of those women who “prefers” male friends because “less drama” when actually she’s the one who causes all the drama and even though she’s actually a woman, she has no clue how women think or behave. It makes me sad that George RR Martin has more insight into female characters than most female authors do. 🙁
Hey anon, I know you were going for hyperbole here, but I’m pretty sure saying a man has more insight into female characters than most female authors do is quite insulting. Just because Serin Wrap can’t write a woman-or any character really- to save her life doesn’t mean the bulk of women who write are equally terrible at it.
It makes me sad that George RR Martin has more insight into female characters than some female authors do.
I think that’s what you meant to say. Otherwise, don’t lump us all in with Lani Sarem. There are plenty of good female authors out there too. XD
If Sarem has done an ounce of research into the YA scene since this debacle (doubtful though that might be), she’s probably kicking herself that she didn’t coincide the publication of HfM with John Green’s latest book.
For starters, Green was guaranteed to chart on NYT (as of this week, Turtles All the Way Down is still #1) due to his popularity. He’s an established (white/cis/straight/male) writer, so Sarem would have had even the slightest leg to stand on when she tried to pull her “The establishment wants to keep my sparkling new voice down!” argument.
For another, if anyone did a similar investigation and uncovered her scam, which is possible given his devoted fanbase who’d similarly wonder why a book they’d never heard of knocked their fave off the #1 spot, Green would likely be horrified to be accused of “bullying.” He would have led the charge to have her reinstated.
Sure, this is all conjecture, but the fact that Sarem keeps trying it with Angie Thomas is proof that she had no idea about the Young Adult market prior to her stunt and really doesn’t give a damn now. I feel for Thomas, who has to walk a very fine line to protect herself without being cast as an “angry black woman.” Her phenomenal success is the story Sarem wanted for herself, so I think there’s LOADS of projection going on every time Sarem insinuates that Thomas is actually super jealous and is conspiring to ruin everything for her.
Lexie Cenni
I almost want to pay the $75 to see what she says. But then I remember, I can use that $75 to buy a set of Angie’s books for some needy school or library. So instead I’ll do that, take a picture and send it to her with an apology that her seminar was kicked off my “Most Likely To Buy List” by Angie as well.
FWIW Lani and that Richard Morgan fella from the screen cap are friends on facebook.
FYI, the different names you use for Zinderella are the highlight of my day every time you post an update.
I have three blood brothers and multiple adopted brothers. I work in a field that is predominantly male and I’ve lived in several housing situations with multiple men. Never. Have I ever. Heard. Such stupid things come out of their mouths. If this weren’t a self incert it would be simply a painfully juvenile scene in which you’d assume a 14 year old was writing wish fulfillment on a grand scale. It might give your heart a tug and you’d grin with sympathy because ahhh we’ve all had silly daydreams… But this was written with a straight face by a thirty something female who should know better then to let her egotistical fantasy be published. We are back to the stark fact that this is only interesting BECAUSE it is so painful and stupid. Otherwise it is boring. Boring. Boring. The work conflict is no conflict, the random fluffing of male feathers over who is or is not going to take a dust bath in Zunko’s special ocean is clunky and gross. And the tension of “ooooooo will they discover that Mac likes her?” is something we don’t care about because honestly I don’t think they care about it. I also call bull on the whole “Zytgist was moving so fast as to not notice all the men watching her” no woman in history has not noticed a herd of man whipping their vision balls in her direction. No. Woman. Ever. Because either you are trying to decide if you need to run from rapists or you are flattered by the attention. She damn well knew that they were watching her and was faking not noticing, which is the second time she’s done that in this book. Blech. So boooorrring. I also would like to do a little fist pounding about how boring the magic is (not to mention nearly nonexistent.) I’m rereading A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E Schwab, this author has created a truly unique world of magic. It starts at the beginning and works it’s way through each page like a thread. It is so aggravating that she attempted to co-opt this genre that so many authors have worked hard to make their own. Laminated throws out the word magic (I refuse to write it with a K) and just assumes we are to dumb to realize she didn’t actually craft her own magical world. She just smashed things randomly together and pored canned icing on it and said “ta daaa!” before demanding in a high pitched screech that we all bow before her as the new master of writing. Get stuffed! We aren’t going to think that nor will we bow down to you queen of drivel, queen of filth, queen of putrescence….
Ugh this book is so boring. Of all the potentially cool stories to tell in this mess, she time and again takes the LEAST interesting path possible. You are a saint for reading these.
On the bright side, I have been inspired by the “it could’ve actually worked if she didn’t suck”. I’ve been looking for a super power for a female character in a short story I’m planning and decided to rip Lani’s men-love-me-women-hate me affliction, but make it actually interesting and bad. My character’s primary concern is the isolation from friends and family caused by this power, so the romantic effects are secondary, but she’s bi so there’s an added nuance of all the men she likes only reciprocating non-consensually and the women she likes being repulsed by her entirely.
Depending on how short a story you’re working with, I think it’d be awesome if your protagonist had a few friends (probably two or three at the absolute most) who are also magic and/or otherwise immune, for some reason, since everyone needs support or else it might get super depressing for her. Or perhaps it’s all visual, so she’s okay when she talks to people on the phone/over the internet? (I know someone’s snippet of fanfic in a prior chapter review, the one where Zazu gets attacked in the car park, suggested that option. I thought that was a great idea, although I forget who wrote that… It might’ve been you.) 😀
I went cross-eyed trying to work out that part about the doors. I still don’t get it but maybe I’m just not clever enough to understand Lani’s next level sense of humour.
Also, I’m convinced that Lani Sarem is a Cathy.
Um… did anyone else catch Lani Sarem’s twitter handle?
Cody Cromarty
I need to do a count of all your names for Zade to see if any repeat.
Lani Sarem twitter handle is @RockanRollGypsy. Oh my god. Just… oh my god… this could not get any worse
Never say that.
It can ALWAYS get worse.
lucyjekyll
OMWTFG i have been reading about this trainwreck for 20 hours straight is this real? am i here? i can’t stop please make it stop
P.S. I have 2 deadlines tomorrow omg not important stuff just gaming stuff but zac (made?) vs. zackson (jade?) help me
Also, is now a good time to dig out my Virginia Henley plagiarism rant again? No one listened to me back then, but who knows now?
They say sleep deprivation is like being drunk. i say yes to this, but just the not-fun parts like making words do the thing and fingers do the buttons to make the letters for the wards.
Sure! I don’t think I’ve heard about Virginia Henley, but I’m curious. You can wait to tell us after you’ve gotten some sleep though. We’ll be waiting patiently. XD
I was up for 24 hours, then slept for 24 hours. I am nuts.
I discovered in the late 90s that Virginia Henley had plagiarized huge chunks of her book Desired ( https://www.amazon.com/Desired-Virginia-Henley/dp/0440217032/ ) from the history book The Three Edwards by Thomas Costain ( https://www.amazon.com/three-Edwards-His-history-Plantagenets/dp/B0007DY4I4/ ), which was out of print at the time. I got it at the library because I was writing a research paper on the time period. I had picked that time period for my paper because I was a fan of Henley’s at the time, and Desired was the last book I had read. (I even met her at a book signing once, prior to this experience. My tastes have changed so, so much since then, I can’t even begin to tell you. Mainly I was a fan of whatever romance writer I could get a hold of at my library. Now I only read fan fic about shitty wizards and the smart girls who rule them.) Apparently Costain was well known in the history community for his way of writing history in prose form rather than essay form. Immediately I noticed the huge chunks of both identical and nearly identical text, since I had read the two books back to back. I told professors, both English and history, about it. I called up Chastain’s publisher, who didn’t care about their out of print books. I posted about it on some messageboards and left a review on Amazon. Nothing ever came of it. No one was interested. I never contacted anyone in Henley’s camp, or posted about it on any romance novel or Henley fan pages because I was a coward. I would love it if a real blogger would take the ball and blog about this. No credit needed, just link me to it so I can enjoy. I will dig up an old post of mine with the text.
*Obviously I meant Costain, not Chastain, in the above post.
I can’t find my old post with the text quotes. It was on the messageboard sheroescentral, which seems to be gone. I had it in a word doc that was on my old computer, but I don’t seem to have transferred it over, darn. I now own paperback copies of both, so I will have to dig them out and type it up, unless someone else has access to digital copies.
Looks like Google Books has large excerpts from both.
Ouch, sucks that you’d have to rewrite everything but it might be worth it for posterity. 😛 My best guess is since the book isn’t that popular or well-known (I guess? I don’t think I’d heard of her before, but you said she had fans…) that no one is too fussed, yeah. But I’m still curious and it’d be interesting to see how much she stole. (Kinda like that one site dedicated to Clare’s ancient fanfic plagiarism… although the fanfic was at least free.) Gimmie a link whenever you can.
I think in general, in the age of the internet, people are less concerned about plagiarism as long as it doesn’t go viral. ;P
She was a NYT bestselling author, but this was 20 years ago.
Credit for the term “shitty wizards” goes to Corseque on tumblr.
I’ll be posting the whole thing on my tumblr (same name as here). It’s going to be long. I’m having to retype the whole thing, because I can’t seem to access the text out of the online excerpts. Here’s the first bit:
Desired by Virginia Henley, p. 242
“King Edward forgot his need for revenge and called a strategy meeting. They decided to press on at dawn, but instead of following the coast, they would take Lisieux and the towns that lay inland on their way to Paris.
Twenty-eight days melted away before the English reached Poise. They were a mere dozen miles from Paris, but the great river Seine still had to be crossed. Suddenly they received different numbers regarding the French army. Some scouts reported fifty thousand, but others swore the French were sixty or seventy thousand strong. One thing was clear: Philip must have withdrawn all his forces from the south.
Against such vast numbers, King Edward concluded a siege of Paris would be folly. It was decided that Sir Walter Manny would take a small force south, away from the Seine, and circle back up to Paris in a deceptive tactic while a pontoon bridge was built across the river Seine.
It took them three days, and the leader heaved great sighs of relief to have this obstacle behind them. Only lightning speed could safeguard the English army now, for they were rumored to be outnumbered at least three to one.
This was the price they had to pay for their slow progress through Normandy while they searched out loot. The king and Warrick were aware of the danger. All the roads behind them were black with French troops. They drove their heavily laden soldiers at top speed through the Vexin of Normandy and covered an unbelievable sixty mile in four days. But the most serious obstacle to their progress still lay ahead.
The broad river Somme with marshy peat bogs on both sides was enough to spark terror in the bravest heart. The king ordered his two marshals to go ahead and secure a crossing. Warrick took both his sons, but made it clear they must follow Harcourt’s orders because of the French knight’s familiarity with the treacherous terrain.
They found all the bridges destroyed and the fords guarded by Picardy troops. Harcourt’s men failed in two attempts to seize fords. Then Warrick sent his son, Robert, who led the Duke of Clarence’s men, but they too failed.”
The Three Edwards by Thomas Costain, p. 334-335
“Each man in the ranks had his own booty—gold and silver flagons, crucifixes, silver candlesticks—which he suspended around his neck. Many of them had feather beds strapped on their backs. It was not strange that twenty-eight days were consumed from the landing until they came in sight of Poissy and knew that Paris lay only twelve miles ahead. Even though they knew that French forces were now gathering everywhere, there was an intense desire to push on. Reports were received that, behind the gates of Paris, Philip had fallen into a panic and was preparing the city to stand siege, tearing down all buildings which touched the walls. Later word reached them that Philip was also gathering a huge army on the plain of St. Denis, and this led to a wiser decision. A small force was sent on to threaten Paris while the main body set to work to build a pontoon bridge across the Seine. This was accomplished in three days and English leader sighed with relief to have this serious obstacle behind him.
Now the safety of the English army depended on the fleetness of their heels. Only desperate haste could undo the damage of that slow processional through Normandy and the isle-de-France, with everyone searching for loot. Edward was thoroughly sensitive to the danger and in four days he drove his heavily laden troops at top speed, covering nearly sixty miles through the Vexin of Normandy. All the roads behind them were black with French troops. Clouds of dust raised by cavalry seemed to fill the horizon. The most serious obstacle had still to be surmounted, the broad Somme which rolled sluggishly through peat bogs on both banks. Edward, in something approaching a panic, sent his two marshals, Warwick and Harcourt, to secure a crossing ahead. They found all the bridges down and the fords guarded by Picardy troops. Four attempts to seize fords were unsuccessful. To add to the jeopardy of the invaders, the French king now had a huge army in movement and was marching parallel to the English. French horsemen were already in Amiens, which meant that Edward was being shoved into a triangle formed by the seemingly impassable Somme, the waters of the Channel (where there would be no ships yet to take them off), and the French army. The French were so close on the English heels that at Airnes they found meat simmering on the spits. Edward’s men had left their dinner behind them in their haste.
The English king now found it necessary to change his plans. It was no longer possible to join forces with the allied troops from Flanders. Instead he must by some means get across the Somme into his own province of Ponthieu and maintain himself there until the fleet could arrive to get the army back to English soil. Edward summoned all his prisoners before him and offered liberty to anyone who would lead the way to a navigable spot, together with the release of twenty other prisoners. A peasant named Gobin Agace finally came forward and said he knew of a ford called the Blanche Taque close to the mouth of the Somme where it was possible to cross at low tide.
Darkness had fallen, but the order to march was given and by midnight the vanguard reached Blanche Taque. The tide was in and this necessitated a delay of several hours. The prospect seemed a grim one, for on the other side of the water was a body of two thousand Picards under the command of a resourceful knight named Godemar de Fay.”
If Google books has both…
https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-comparison-search
you could have the computer do the work for you.
Here’s the joke that Sarem was trying to tell:
“Doors: 8PM
Band: 9PM
Man, it must have been confusing whenever Jim Morrison’s group performed.”
It’s a joke I’ve actually told a few times before, and nobody’s ever laughed at, but at least it had some semblance of structure.
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Jewish Zionist Jane Harman Convenes a Sanhedrin in Congress in Order to Trick Americans into Clamoring for the Loss of Their Liberty
http://www.jewishracism.com
Jane Harman bashed Islam and promoted her witch hunt legislation H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. C-Span caught the spectacle on video:
Use of the Internet by Terrorists
Note that her experts reveal that their goals are to infiltrate and sow the seeds of discord in internet groups they would target. Note also that the claim is made that video rankings are artificially moved up and down to promote certain videos and to suppress the videos they want to suppress. Note further that shills are used to degrade people and points of view they wish to suppress. Note still further that Harman's legislation is already being used to degrade Moslems and to generate fear of Islam, especially when Jews like Adam Gadahn are the spokesmen for the forces she opposes. World Jewry creates terrorism and then proposes the loss of liberty and government intrusion as the solution to terrorism.
On 25 October 2007, I predicted this would happen:
Jewish Bolshevik Witch Hunt Laws
"The 8 Stages of Genocide" and Jewish Laws Which Stereotype Moslems as If Enemies of the State
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion states, in Protocol 1,
"Our government, following the line of peaceful conquest, has the right to substitute for the horrors of war less noticeable and more efficient executions, these being necessary to keep up terror, which induces blind submission. A just but inexorable strictness is the greatest factor of governmental power. We must follow a program of violence and hypocrisy, not only for the sake of profit, but also as a duty and for the sake of victory."
Protocol 3 states,
"The modern constitutional scales will soon tip over, for we have set them inaccurately, thus insuring an unsteady balance for the purpose of wearing out their holder. The Goys thought it had been sufficiently strongly made and hoped that the scales would regain their equilibrium, but the holder—the ruler—is screened from the people by his representatives, who fritter away their time, carried away by their uncontrolled and irresponsible authority. Their power, moreover, has been built up on terrorism spread through the palaces. Unable to reach the hearts of their people, the rulers cannot unite with them to gain strength against the usurpers of power. The visible power of royalty and the blind power of the masses, separated by us, have both lost significance, for separated, they are as helpless as the blind man without a stick.
To induce the lovers of authority to abuse their power, we have placed all the forces in opposition to each other, having developed their liberal tendencies towards independence. We have excited different forms of initiative in that direction; we have armed all the parties; we have made authority the target of all ambitions. We have opened the arenas in different states, where revolts are now occurring, and disorders and bankruptcy will shortly appear everywhere."
"In short, to sum up our system of shackling the Goy governments of Europe, we will show our power to one of them by assassination and terrorism, and should there be a possibility of all of them rising against us, we will answer them with American, Chinese, or Japanese guns."
"When we are enthroned we will substitute for the liberal words of our Masonic catchword, 'Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,' another group of words expressing simply ideas, namely, ‘the right of Liberty, the duty of Equality, the ideal of Fraternity.’ Thus we will speak and. . . we shall have the goat by the horns. . . . De facto, we have already destroyed all governments except our own, although de jure there are still many left. At present, if any of the governments raises a protest against us, it is done only as a matter of form, and at our desire, and by our order, because their anti-Semitism is necessary to enable us to control our smaller brothers. I will not further explain this, as it has already been the object of numerous discussions.
In reality there are no obstacles before us. Our supergovernment exists under such extra-legal conditions that it is common to designate it by an energetic and strong word—a Dictatorship.
I can honestly state that at the present time we are lawmakers; we are the judges and inflict punishment; we execute and pardon; we, as the chief of all our armies, ride the leader's horse. We rule by indomitable will because we hold in our hands the fragments of a once strong party now subject to us. We possess boundless ambition, burning greed for merciless revenge, and bitter hatred.
From us emanates an all-embracing terror. People of all opinions and of all doctrines are in our service; people who desire to restore monarchies, demagogues, socialists, communists, and other utopians. We have had to put all of them to work; every one of them is undermining the last remnant of authority, is trying to overthrow all existing order. All the governments have been tortured by this procedure; they beg for peace, and for the sake of peace are prepared to make any sacrifice, but we will not give them peace until they recognize our international super-government openly and with submission.
The masses have begun to demand the solution of the social problem by means of an international agreement. The division into parties has delivered all of them to us, because in order to conduct a party struggle money is required, and we have it all.
We might fear the union of the intelligent power of the Goys' rulers with the blind power of the masses, but we have taken all measures against such a possibility. Between the two powers we have raised a wall in the form of mutual terror; thus the blind power of the people continues to be our support, and we alone will act as its leader and, naturally, we will direct it towards our goal.
You may say that there will be an armed rising against us if our plans are discovered prematurely; but in anticipation of this we have such a terrorizing manoeuver in the West that even the bravest soul will shudder.
Underground passages will be established by that time in all capitals, from where they can be exploded, together with all their institutions and national documents."
Protocol 11 states,
"Any of these impressions would be detrimental to the prestige of the new constitution. It is necessary for us that, from the first moment of its proclamation, when the people are still dumbfounded by the accomplished revolution and are in a state of terror and surprise, they should realize we are so strong, so invulnerable, and so mighty that we shall in no case pay attention to them, and not only will we ignore their opinions and desires, but be ready to and capable of suppressing at any moment or place any sign of opposition with indisputable authority. We shall want the people to realize, that we have taken at once everything we wanted, and that we shall under no circumstances share our power with them. Then they will close their eyes to everything out of fear and will await further developments.
The Goys are like a flock of sheep—we are wolves.
Do you know what happens to sheep when wolves get into the fold?
They will also close their eyes to everything because we will promise to return to them all their liberties after the enemies of peace have been subjugated and all the parties pacified.
Is it necessary to say how long they would have to wait for the return of their liberties?"
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Five Mystery Ebooks For Earth Day
& Marilyn Meredith
This week in honor of Earth Day we are once again featuring mostly ebooks. Here are five more mystery ones-Murder in a Good Neighborhood By K.K. Chalmers, A Deadly Denial by Kathy Bennett, The Hollow House by Janis Patterson, Halloween Thirteen: A Collection of Mysteriously Macabre Tales by Bobbi A. Chukran, and The Case of the Murderous Mermaid and Others by Andrew MacRae.
Murder in a Good Neighborhood By K.K. Chalmers
Everyone knows where good intentions lead, and a favor for a friend has Roxanne “Roxi” and her husband Bud Flowers discovering the body of a naked young woman in Eastport, Virginia. Drafted into making a delivery for Forever Young Cosmetics, Roxi instead finds herself explaining to her homicide-detective son why his parents happen to be standing in the middle of a crime scene. As they soon learn, the young woman has no identity, the owner of the home is AWOL, and a clue found at the scene has huge implications.
Accustomed to a military lifestyle, Roxi finds herself enlisted by an intimidating and irresistible abbess. As a result, Roxi’s curious nature is put to use investigating the identity of the dead woman and how she met her fate.
Roxi and Bud’s longtime friend, Lucky Loveland, was an Apollo astronaut before his independent attitude cost him a promotion, but his loyalty and supportiveness to the Flowers has been unwavering. Their relationships have always had an underlying and unspoken tension though, so when Lucky becomes the focus of the Eastport Police Department’s investigation, Roxi feels both betrayed and defensive.
Despite its beginning, this is far from a formulaic meddling-retiree-amateur-detective mystery. Roxi is extremely smart, and Bud’s having been a navy jet pilot and Vietnam POW has led them to value every moment together. The couple may be retired, but their chemistry together is undeniable and sizzling.
Both Roxi and Bud have links to a dark and mysterious past, and I would love to see this explored in future books. The relationships between the Flowers, and their son and granddaughter, as well as with their friends, are surprisingly complex and slowly unfold in unexpected and dynamic directions. The humor is never over the top or unrealistic, and the writing grows stronger as the plot develops. This is a slow-burner of a mystery, and its extremely intelligent and likable characters never behave outlandishly or unrealistically. I will definitely be looking forward to reading more from this author and her very entertaining characters.
A Deadly Denial (A Detective Maddie Divine Novel Book 3) By Kathy Bennett
When a respected and much-liked Los Angeles Police Department sergeant is gunned down after responding to a burglary call, tensions are high within the department. The implication that another officer may have been involved further heightens stress levels, but what really proves explosive is that this is only the first of several killings. As officers are shot every few days, Detective Maddie Devine of the Robbery Homicide Division is tasked with helping investigate whether the target is the department itself or whether the murders are far more personal.
Since Maddie’s current partner is pregnant and on desk duty, Maddie is back working with her old partner, Darius Cutter. She’d prefer to be assigned with Detective Cash McCool, but he’s been out of touch for the past nine months, since his deployment as a Marine reservist. That relationship is definitely on hold, but what hasn’t been put behind her is the death of her husband and the secret psychic connection she shares with him.
Chapters alternate among many different narratives, with perspectives from a large cast that includes an incendiary radio DJ, a predatory and ambitious female deputy chief, and extorted victims. This keeps the pace moving along swiftly, and the officers’ personal machinations quickly become intertwined with the investigative plot.
With nearly three decades of working within the Los Angeles Police Department, author Bennett brings in her experience to add layers of realism to this tale of twisted characters. The continuous pressure placed on LAPD officers is clear, as their days begin with tedious meetings but may end with sudden threats of violence. That’s not to say that their stresses are not alleviated with moments of levity, as the black humor that allows police officers to endure their grim realities is sprinkled throughout this novel. The dynamic characters and a lightning-fast plot will appeal to fans of police procedurals.
The Hollow House By Janis Patterson
In 1919 Denver, the woman who has decided to call herself Geraldine Brunton is on the run and desperate. She’s overqualified for most positions but as a woman seems underqualified for everything else, so an ad for a companion to a semi-invalid may be her last chance at salvation.
Fortunately for Geraldine, those placing the ad have not had much luck filling the position. Emmaline Stubbs’ opulent mansion is certainly not a happy one. Her daughter has changed her name from Eula to Eustacia in a social-climbing bid, and Emmaline herself rules the household with a domineering hand. Her son-in-law is far too handsome with a wandering eye, and despite his pretense of being an ambitious businessman, he appears to have little success. Despite Emmaline’s general state of irritability and irascibility, she proves to be the most sensible and unpretentious of the bunch.
What Geraldine learns is that this very dysfunctional home hides as many secrets as she herself is hiding: Geraldine Brunton is certainly not her name, as her true one carries with it scandal and the trauma of abuse. She allies herself protectively with Mrs. Stubbs, but Geraldine fears that the elderly woman may be the target of threats from within the house.
Patterson creates an absolutely fascinating and extremely detailed world of 1919 Denver and the divisiveness between the “upstairs” and “downstairs” realms. We see the extremes through the eyes of Geraldine Brunton, who must adjust to the change from a high-pedigreed background. As sympathetic as she becomes to the working class, Geraldine also can’t help but feel a bit superior to the New Money’s attempt at social graces.
What is fun is watching her navigate through the elaborate social structure. The writing is continually compelling, and suspense builds within the close confines of the household. Patterson has crafted a highly engaging historical novel, full of illustrative details and realistic and engaging characters. The strongly written mystery is enough to please any reader, but the class warfare, social structures, and domestic drama add layers of enjoyment to this suspenseful novel.
Halloween Thirteen: A Collection of Mysteriously Macabre Tales By Bobbi A. Chukran
Despite what one might think, the title reflects the tone, not the theme of this collection of thirteen dark and darkly comical short stories. The first tale, “The Best Halloween Ever, 1965,” may be the only actual Halloween story, but it is the inspiration for both the author and the following stories of revenge, hauntings, and a history of family spookings.
It is the first story that reveals the author’s early affection for the fall holiday, as the narrator’s greatest fear is being unable to participate in her favorite day of monstrous pretense. It also indicates a possible history with overbearing female relatives, whether alive in “Little Window in the Door,” or deceased in “Phone Calls from Dead People.” Literary figures make an appearance as well, as the author images what life would be like living with a singularly-focused Edgar Allan Poe, as well as what it would be like to meet Count Dracula in “Vampire Fever! (Or, Hairum Scarum Vampire).” As one might guess from the titles, the interactions result in far more giggles than screams.
This collection ends on a high note with “Good Neighbors,” where anyone who has ever had an annoying neighbor will sympathize with the narrator’s intrusive, busy-body of a neighbor. Revenge is a dish best served cold, and retaliation is as meticulously researched as it is satisfyingly sweet.
Each of these thirteen tales, whether one of the short poems or longer stories, provides a glimpse into the offbeat, twisted, and often sentimental mind of the author. Introductions to each entry add to the appreciation of these charming tales, which never become too macabre. In truth, they succeed in delighting that little hidden side in each one of us, that wouldn’t mind taking a stab at revenge now and again.
The Case of the Murderous Mermaid and Others By Andrew MacRae
Review by Marilyn Meredith
In the first story, “The Case of the Murderous Mermaid”, we’re drawn into the strange world of a “mermaid” performance. Of course things don’t go well, hence the title.
“The Case of the Villainous Vaudevillian” is about old-time theater, the kind where the audience can boo the villain. I enjoyed the fact that not only was this a long-running performance, but also that the actors and actresses were aging. Best of all, there is a great twist at the end.
In “The Case of the Silver Suspect” the reader is given a peek into the life of street performers in general, plus a more intimate peek at mimes. Once again, nothing is as it seems, resulting in another surprise ending.
These tales are quick, fun reads.
To enter to win ebook copies of all of these books, simply email KRL at krlcontests@gmail[dot]com by replacing the [dot] with a period, and with the subject line “Earth Day,” or comment on this article. A winner will be chosen April 25, 2015. U.S. residents only. If entering via email please include your mailing address, and if via comment please include your email address.
Marilyn Meredith is a Springville, CA mystery author and an ongoing contributor to our Mystery section. Be sure to visit her website; fictionforyou.com
Tagged as: A Deadly Denial, Andrew MacRae, Bobbi A. Chukran, Earth Day, ebooks, Halloween Thirteen: A Collection of Mysteriously Macabre Tales, Janis Patterson, K.K. Chalmers, Kathy Bennett, Murder in a Good Neighborhood, mystery, The Case of the Murderous Mermaid and Others, The Hollow House
1 Lynn Demsky April 18, 2015 at 12:22pm
Wow! What a treasure of reading, — if I win I won’t have to sign up for any more of these until probably June! Thanks for such a wonderful opportunity!
2 Nancy Sorensen April 18, 2015 at 3:53pm
Kathy Bennett’s Deadly Denial is a fun and fast read. It’s the kind of book you can’t put down until the end and then has you wishing for more!
3 Bev Smith
Twitter: @CactuspareBev
I have read A Deadly Denial and loved it!!! I have not read the other books, but they do sound very interesting.
4 Henry "Bud" Johnson April 18, 2015 at 5:30pm
I am glad you reviewed a book from Kathy Bennett. I am a retired police officer from the Los Angeles area and truly enjoy reading a police thriller. I am also critical about these novels.
Kathy Bennett’s novels are outstanding. The crimes and characters are believable. Be prepared for many surprises and twist.
5 Jaimie Cox April 18, 2015 at 8:12pm
Loved, loved, loved A Deadly Denial! I think it’s Bennett’s best book so far. So excited for the great list of reads to check out, I’m always looking for new authors to read and follow! Thank you for posting them all!
6 Valerie Hoynacki April 19, 2015 at 7:59am
ebooks – what could be better for the Earth Day celebration. Keep trees green!!
7 Bobbi A. Chukran
Twitter: @bchukran
Thank you so much for the great review, Cynthia. And until you said it, I never noticed the connection between the stories and the overbearing female relatives. You got that one right! 😉
A recent post from Bobbi A. Chukran: Progress! On Writing the Macabre
8 Carolyn April 22, 2015 at 8:42am
What a great list of books. Fun contest.
9 Kaye Killgore
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I read Deadly Denial and loved it. I love Kathy Bennett’s police procedural’s because of the realistic way she portrays police, based on her experiences as a police officer.
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"Not enough rules"
Author Topic: "Not enough rules" (Read 4004 times)
Jack Spencer Jr
Over on the Elfs board I mention playing briefly w/ the wife. (The game. The game.) AFterwards I asked for her impressions and she said it could be fun but wouldn't work for an extended campaign. I asked why not and she said "Because it doesn't have enough rules."
This struck me since not too long ago I had read a thread here on on the Forge where someone (fergit who) posted their experience with Everyway and a friend who complained that the game didn't have enough rules.
This is a topic ripe for discussion.
Why do they say that?
When is enough too much?
joshua neff
I used to complain the opposite way--too many rules. I've since come to find that my problem isn't too many or not enough, but not enough appropriate rules. I want RPGs that facilitate the goal of the game--if the goal is too widespread (& yes, I'm talkin' GNS here), the rules get all confused & don't faciliate play effectively. Hero Wars is pretty rules-heavy, but the rules are all geared towards the goal of myth/legend-creation. Sorcerer, on the other hand, is rules-light(er), but again, the rules are directed towards its goal.
Of course, effectiveness of rules goes to other rarely-discussed subjects, like character currency & rewards, as well.
--josh
"You can't ignore a rain of toads!"--Mike Holmes
jburneko
While, I agree with Joshua that the REAL issue is not enough appropriate rules I have other ideas on this matter as well. As my own GMing style is slipping more and more towords narrativism, the first of my predicted conflicts is begining to arrise. My hardcore gamist is starting to have serious objections to my choice of game systems and my expectations of the players.
It took me a long time to figure out what the root of his problem is but I finally found it. When playing an RPG he simply doesn't see a reason to care about any other character (NPC or PC) but his own. As a result he feels that a 'party' with a common 'quest' is esscencial to a good a role-playing game because it gives you a REASON to care about another character. And it's a caring that arrises from utility NOT character or persona. "Dude, I'm worried about player x's character dying because then we won't have a divine spellcaster anymore."
It took me a while but I finally figured out what it was about D&D3E that reminded me of some other type of game. It reminds me of a CCG. The core books are your starter packs and each new sourcebook is a set of boosters. I find that people who need lots of rules have the exact same mentality as a CCG player. The only reason to continue playing is to improve my character (deck). "Oh, Dude, I so want to try out this combination of feats, skills and spells, but I won't be able to until I'm 10th level."
If a game doesn't have a detailed and customizable ruleset then some people see no incentive to play. They're interested in playing a GAME and trying to work out cool and unusual combinations of those rules. Just like a CCG player. Any sort of 'story' that results is completely a side issue. It's about the problems and overcoming those problems through interesting combinations of the rules.
GreatWolf
designer of Dirty Secrets
On 2001-07-23 09:48, joshua neff wrote:
I used to complain the opposite way--too many rules. I've since come to find that my problem isn't too many or not enough, but not enough appropriate rules
Quite agree. The issue ought not be rules-light vs. rules-heavy. Rather, it ought to be elegance of design, where the system functions well with sufficient structure.
Seth Ben-Ezra
Dark Omen Games
producing Legends of Alyria, Dirty Secrets, A Flower for Mara
coming soon: Showdown
Ron Edwards
Since Josh and Jesse have said all the good stuff already, I only have this to add:
I think that the connection made between "enough rules" and "long-term play" has to do with reward systems and the notion that LATER you can do something that you cannot do NOW.
We have a LOT to consider about reward systems, story creation through role-playing, and long-term play. As it stands, the shared in-culture view of these things is a mess of often-repeated platitudes ... maybe we can get a better foundation started.
On 2001-07-23 12:22, jburneko wrote:
...Any sort of 'story' that results is completely a side issue. It's about the problems and overcoming those problems through interesting combinations of the rules.
Interesting insight. This goes a long way towards remedying the "new narrativist convert zeal" that can and does happen. That is, being someone who has newly discovered narrativist gameplay, it's easy to think it's the One True Way to role-play since you find it so much better than what you were doing and since you're still excited about this new thing you're doing it's also easy to think everyone else will enjoy it, too.
Actually, storytelling has been around for centuries and I would put forth that anyone could enjoy a story orientated in the proper mindset. But then there would be items from the old style of games that would be missed. I know I'd miss the tactical combat of most RPG combat... at least the way my GM tended to handle it. It's not so much the nostalgia of it as play this was indeed actually fun.
But all of this belongs on the GNS forum, doesn't it?
Back to the Not Enough Rules topic.
I have asked my wife several times over the past week or so to explain what she meant by "not enough rules." Fact of the matter is she never did give me a solid answer. Many times she refused to answer. (Women, can't live with them, can't get them to strut around wearing nought but cowboy boots) The closest thing to a solid answer she gave was there were no skills or similar items. Therefore, not incentive for play due to character advancement.
This comes right from Kubasik's Interactive Toolkit about RPG designers and players being creatures of habit.
She didn't see anything to sustain an extended campaign in ELfs because there wasn't anything to spend your experience points on (besides raising Spunk, etc. but we didn't get that far w/ the game so she doesn't know about that). Now Elfs may not be the best game for extended play. (I'm sure milage may vary but there seems to be some weird bias out there that humorous games are not taken seriously.) But she was looking at it purely from an old school, D&D perspective.
The point was not getting your character into difficult situations and enjoying the story as it unfolded, but watching your character increase in ability.
This is odd because she is not the dyed-in-the-wool gamist type, you see. She isn't playing the game like a CCG as you've describe (a brilliant metaphor, BTW) She is into the stories and characters but she still carries this baggage.
Ron Edwards sid:
This is an interesting concept. While I have nothing, I suggest this.
Old school games deal with what a character can and can't do.
Maybe a new school of thought would be about what a character would or wouldn't do.
What wouldn't Jesus do?
I'm sure I got that idea from somewhere else.
I was thinking about my friend Ted. Those who frequent GO or used to may remember me ranting about the guy. Ted's not his real name but I always wanted a friend named Ted.
Anyway, without giving Ted the benefeit of actually trying one I am willing to predict that Ted will not like a narrativist game.
That is, it's not that he doesn't like stories. Like many he thinks he can write. But in the role-playing context, he likes games as the CCG-esque sort of thing. He enjoys the strategy of it but that's mostly because he's better at it than anyone else. (He's sure better at it than I am.) Some of the concept that can be found in narrativist structured games would put him on more-or-less equal footing with everyone else.
More-or-less, I say since it would depend on the game in question.
I believe Ted would indeed complain such games do not have "enough rules" so that he cannot build himself a better character with the same number of points or similar bits of one-upmanship.
To be fair, this may be a ficticious version of Ted in my mind.
But this may be another reason for this comment. Not that there's anything wrong with the way Ted plays either.
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Feminist Game Design [split from Religion in Role-Playing]
Author Topic: Feminist Game Design [split from Religion in Role-Playing] (Read 26500 times)
Thuringwaethiel
Quote from: pete_darby
LHoD: well, LeGuin managed to get at least one novel out of it, so there should be enough to get at least one session of a game ;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it all about the politics? (confession: I've been following the Guardian's recent UKL kick, so I'm better "externally informed" about her stuff than I have bene for a long time). In the novel, there's at least two big political situations: the slide into war, and the intervention of the Ekumen. Both of these are subtly informed and modified by the hermaphroditism of the Gethenians.
It's been a while since I read LHoD, but let's see.. Great text, BTW, although there was a couple of details that bugged me. But the big lines first: I don't remember the Ekumen stuff, but wasn't the coming war the first actual war in their history? Something to suggest that since there were no males, many reasons to war were absent, but also that not all wars are "male thing". Or something..
The two things that stuck out to my eyes (IIRC): lack of rape and presentation of homosexuality. First, it makes sense that there would be less sexual violence, but the total absence doesn't sound right. Of course in our world vast majority of abuse is by man and upon a woman, but all other variants exist too. And the homosexuality thingie.. Gethenians were represented as majorly "straight" but "gays" were also mentioned. Not very realistic since there was only one sex. That means everybody are homosexual by default (and if someone happens to be straight, they'd be in trouble since there is no opposite sex).
Ok, enough off-topic rant, I had something to say, also..
Next question: why is questioning gender roles necessarily feminist?
It's not, actually. Feminists tend to do it a lot and loudly, though, thus getting all the "credit". There are professions that study gender roles (historians, sociologists), and gender roles are big issue to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered and transsexed people, too. I'd guess people in job life and sports have to grab the bull by the horns every now and then. And let's not forget the RPG designers.... ;)
Of course we might think any gender role questioning drives the feminist agenda, but as declared, there are many different "schools" of feminism, several of them in semi-open war with each other. For example, I'm a feminist myself, but I despise some people who call themselves with same label. Their worldview differs vastly from my own. Then again, protestants and catholics are both christians, and look what that did to them..
When Light gets there, Darkness is already waiting
Acts of Evil Playtesters
student, second edition
Hey James:
First, it's really cool to see a thread where a bunch of guys are talking about feminist issues, and I think it's awesome of you to want to explore the stuff.
My take on feminism is that it has everything to do with empowerment. Who's making the decisions about women? Can women make all the same choices that men can? With the same ease?
To make a successful game that focused purely on that? I dunno. My fear is that it'd be too easy to rely on loud stereotypes and say, "that's not me," which would run contrary to the whole point.
Where I work, we have maybe 8 women in a company of about 60. How do you deal with something like that in a game? I'm sure nobody here thinks they're sexist, but there's still an imbalance and nobody really talks about it.
One other thought: MLwM is easy to "get" because we have a pretty solid understanding of what a healthy relationship is supposed to be. There are plenty of real-world examples. Where is there such an example regarding gender-equality?
Dog-eared Designs
Emily Care
My take on addressing gender issues and sexism in a game is one I'm developing called Breaking the Ice. It's a two person game where you play a character of the gender (or ethnicity, politics, sexual orientation etc), of the other player. Each person is a player and gm or guide in turn, and the goal is to create complex, satisfying characters. The setting is a series of dates that the characters go on.
I've been working on this for a good while, but finally it's in (at least alpha) playtestable form. I'll have to get it out on the indie game forum soon.
I have hopes for it being a good approach to create dialogue about gender expectations and roles, as well as to break them down. The funny thing to me about writing it is that I don't believe in gender except as a cultural construct. So here I am writing a game based on these differences as part of the premise!
Yrs,
Koti ei ole koti ilman saunaa.
Black & Green Games
clehrich
Quote from: Emily Care
The funny thing to me about writing it is that I don't believe in gender except as a cultural construct. So here I am writing a game based on these differences as part of the premise!
This makes perfect logical sense to me. By making such structures as gender explicitly constructed, i.e. by having each player work to build up such things within play, you reveal the constructed nature of gender and so forth.
Sounds cool -- I look forward to it on the Indie Games forum.
Chris Lehrich
lumpley
I've been privileged to see a little bit of Em's game, and it's going to be wicked cool.
I think that the "problem" of feminist games is very much like the problem of Christian games. To genuinely take on the issues, you have to take them on at the player level, not the in-game level. That means: you create gender-charged in-game situations for the players to pronounce judgement on. And that in turn means: you risk the players coming to the "wrong" conclusions. You can't have a game that both provokes actual thought about an issue and preconstrains which side you'll come down on.
Provoking actual thought about gender is what makes a feminist game, I'd say, at least according to my own feminism. For men, simply thinking about gender is a feminist act; discussing and examining it with other people is admirable and pretty hardcore.
Given that, My Life with Master is a feminist game for sure. I can't imagine how you'd play My Life with Master without making moral judgements about gender and gender-based relationships. Notice, for instance, that right there in the rules it says that Master isn't married. However that plays out in your game, it's a feminist issue you'll be addressing.
Trollbabe's another one. Gender issues you'll have to confront, right in the title of the game.
And Nicotine Girls!
-Vincent
Doctor Xero
Much to respond to . . .
Only because women were the first gender in modern history to question gender roles in an organized
fashion. For Anglo-Europeans, this questioning began centuries ago in England, when the oppressiveness
of male gender roles caused serious emotional problems but the oppressiveness of female gender roles
was literally life-threatening and therefore more immediately intolerable for its victims.
There is still a tremendous amount of political distrust of any focus on male gender oppression out of the
(not always unreasonable) fear that this will discount female gender oppression. It still frustrates me
that the paranoid hostility of a tiny but very loud minority of feminists destroyed the majority of profeminist
men's groups, leaving only chauvenist men's groups such as Promisekeepers around for men seeking
support groups. The result : the only remaining supportive groups for men reinforce sexist gender roles.
I find all this personally frustrating. I have faced a great deal of prejudice for being a male feminist and
gender scholar.
Quote from: Thuringwaethiel
That means everybody are homosexual by default (and if someone happens to be straight, they'd be in trouble
since there is no opposite sex)
If memory serves, the Gethenians were referencing people who remained one gender only as perverse -- in
their world the concept of homosexuality would have no meaning, but a refusal to be both genders would strike
them as a defiance of biology. Insisting on being always masculine or always feminine was seen as perverse on
that world.
Of course in our world vast majority of abuse is by man and upon a woman
Actually, that's a falsehood propagated by gender role blinders and ideological incredulity -- according to
gender roles, women must be the victims (this idea was popularized by the Matriarch Feminists in 1600s
England to evoke sympathy for the plight of women), so it's easier for most people to imagine women as
victims of abuse, and according to gender roles men must be empowered or lose all identity rights, so it's
easier for most people to imagine men as the force of authority (and therefore the victimizers) in such
situations.
However, the most accurate studies have shown that the majority of victims of non-lethal spouse abuse are
men not women. This is one of the tragedies of gender role stereotyping -- that people's intuitions are so
thoroughly filtered through gender roles that these studies are ignored, discounted, or as has occurred
many times, rebutted with the claim that "When a man injures a woman it is abusive but when a woman
injures a man he must have had it coming to him!"
I still recall one gender studies forum where a man admitted publically that he had been a victim of spouse
abuse. One of the women there told him that he must not be much of a man, then, and therefore his own
experiences were irrelevant.
Quote from: sirogit
I had this idea of a game that parodies WW and their typical caste systems, with the game based on the creature
Human with two separate castes, Man & Woman. Each having a written doctrine on how they view the other.
Guess it's a lot lighter than what people were aiming for in this thread but it's interesting as a different method.
< loud laughter! > I love it!
In general, the most admirable feminists and men's movement scholars and activists I have met all have
a good sense of humor about these things -- I suspect it is what enables them to keep their sanity!
My take on addressing gender issues and sexism in a game is one I'm developing called Breaking the Ice.
It's a two person game where you play a character of the gender (or ethnicity, politics, sexual orientation
etc), of the other player.
Is there any chance you might create a form of that which I could use with my associates and friends who are
not RPG people? I think such a game would be wonderfully useful in my work with various activist circles,
gender studies groups, etc., but not if I have to first school them in the notions of RPGs.
"The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth....virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds. We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind..." --Lewis Thomas
KingstonC
Quote from: Doctor Xero
reading this, It got me thinking about the archetype of the "warrior woman" in RPGs and fandom generally. The warrior woman archetype is pretty rare in pop culture before the 1960's and the sexually objectified "hot warrior woman" seems to be a very recent character indeed. But why are all these images appearing now?
Explanations range from the charitable, "Independent, super competent women are sexy!" to the uncharitable "All women are meat! Even you, tough girl!" I suspect that at least some of the appeal of the warrior woman is a direct result of the double standard Dr. Xero speaks of above.
Progressive, feminist friendly men, by definition, must see women as their equals. In the patriarchy, women are often victims of men's aggression, which the progressive feminist friendly man must oppose. This puts the progressive man in a bind whenever he is in conflict with a woman for he can neither condescend to her, and not treat her as an equal, but he must also handle her with kid gloves, otherwise he would embody the patriarchy.
But, the warrior woman is clearly not going to be the victim of male aggression, so in her the contradiction resolves itself. no wonder the warrior woman is so attractive to modern progressive, feminist friendly men.
For an example of all of this in action, check out Trollbabe comics "naked helpless sacrifice scene" in which only the naked applies.
Librisia
another $0.02 (U.S. currency)
sigroit, I think using humor is an excellent idea. It would allow people to explore the issues in a non-threatening way. This would address the concern Matt had about the "not me!" element.
abusive relationships are not always one-sided. Co-combative relationsips involve partners abusing *eachother*.
Doctor Xero wrote:
men not women.
I am skeptipal (to quote a recent breakfast cereal commercial). If you could send me the bibliographic information on those off the thread, Dr., I would appreciate it. I'm not saying you're a liar - it's just that your information doesn't jibe with my own experiences (my mother works in domestic abuse victim advocacy). It's one of those, "I want to check those sources myself" things. I know men who have been victims of domestic violence - so I'm not trying to diminish that reality either.
Vincent is right (and may yet become another member of my reserve husband list - sorry if you feel demeaned and objectified by that, Vincent) that a game of this sort has to let the players go where they're going to go with the conclusions. Exploring the issues is a big enough step to satisfy my feminist gaming sensibilities. Trying to railroad people into the "correct attitude" isn't going to help anything.
James' ideas are interesting. I would also suggest something like an 'empathy' stat to make you more or less prone to see the oppression of other characters. But then I also think an "intentions" dynamic of some kind would be useful, for those times when our well-meaning actions end up reinforcing the very stereotypes we think we are fighting. I stink at game design/mechanics, but these are thoughts that popped that might be useful to those of you out there who are doing the actual designing.
"Let me listen to me and not to them."
- Gertrude Stein
male abuse research findings
Quote from: Librisia
I am skeptical (to quote a recent breakfast cereal commercial).
I know that a number of people are skeptical about this, as it violates deeply ingrained gender role assumptions, Kristin, but most will simply find it easier to ignore it. Thank you for asking.
Answering you is not off-topic because it hopefully provides insight into how to handle such issues in feminist games.
Here are a few bits of scholarly research to whet your whistle. If you want more, yes, I'll look for my notes on this topic, but via e-mail then.
Keep in mind that research on abused men is harder to find because most researchers don't think about it, because there are no major grants for it, and because there is negative political capital in researching it (some professors who discuss domestic abuse have been censured for even mentioning that men are also victims of abuse!).
When a woman is hit in a cartoon, it's a crime, but when a husband is battered, it's a joke (for example, cartoons showing a woman chasing her husband with a rolling-pin for a laugh -- in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the audience is encouraged to laugh when a huge woman hits her tiny husband with a rolling pin). In a study in 1963, the researcher pointed out that wives committed 73% of all domestic violence in newspaper comic strips -- and the husband's suffering was depicted as a source of humor (Saenger).
It is similarly true about rape, with male anal rape victims constantly treated as jokes in television and film (just take a look at Mall Rats!) and female rape victims almost never treated as sources of humor.
A study of spousal murder between 1948 and 1952 found that wives and husbands are almost equally likely to murder the other (7.8% by wives, 8% by husbands) (Wolfgang 1958). A study of spousal murder between 1976 and 1985 found little change except that "Black husbands were at greater risk of spouse homicide victimization than Black wives or White spouses of either sex" (Mercy & Saltzman 1989).
"Nonfatal violence committed by women against men is less likely to be reported to the police than is violence by men against women; thus, women assaulters who come to the attention of the police are likely to be those who have produced a fatal result" (Wilt & Bannon, 1976).
In 1977, researcher Suzanne Steinmetz showed that a higher percentage of wives have used physical violence than the percentage of husbands; a number of studies showed that the wives' average violence score tended to be higher than did the husbands'. Steinmetz further found that women were no less likely to attack first than were men (Steinmetz 1977-78). Steinmetz wrote that "the most unreported crime is not wife beating -- it's husband beating" (Langley & Levy 1977).
The result of her studies? No increases in concerns about husband abuse. Instead, women alleging they were feminists issued a bomb threat against one of her public speaking engagements, threatened to murder her children, and embarked upon a campaign to have her tenure revoked.
In 1980, a nationally representative study of family violence determined that wives tended to be more abusive in almost all violence categories except pushing and shoving and that the total violence scores between husbands and wives were statistically even (Straus, Gelles & Steinmetz, 1980).
In 1985, Straus & Gelles found that domestic violence against women dropped from 12.1% to 11.3% while domestic violence against men rose from 11.6% to 12.1%, surpassing that of women. Straus & Gelles wrote that "violence by wives has not been an object of public concern... In fact, our 1975 study was criticized for presenting statistics on violence by wives."
In 1986, a report on violence in teen dating found that girls were violent more frequently than boys. (In Social Work, the journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Nov/Dec 1986)
Dave Gross writes, "The idea of women being violent is a hard thing for many people to believe. It goes against the stereotype of the passive and helpless female. This, in spite of the fact that women are known to be more likely than men to commit child abuse and child murder (Daly & Wilson 1988 report 54% of parent-child murders where the child is under 17 were committed by the mother in Canada between 1974 and 1983, for instance. The Statistical Abstract of the United States 1987 reports that of reported child maltreatment cases between 1980 and 1984 between 57.0% and 61.4% of these were perpetrated by the mother. Nagi 1977 found 53.1% of perpetrators were female, 21% male and 22.6% both. Note that because mothers tend to have more access to children than do fathers that these results should not be interpreted to mean that were things equal, women would still commit more abuse)."
"Husband abuse should not be viewed as merely the opposite side of the coin to wife abuse. Both are part of the same problem, which should be described as one ~person~ abusing another ~person~. The problem must be faced and dealt with not in terms of sex but in terms of humanity" (Langley & Levy, 1977).
Unfortunately, most people discount all the above findings. These findings violate ingrained gender role socialization. These findings threaten the still-strong Cult of Motherhood and the restrictive romanticization of women as "the fairer sex". Too many people are so obsessed with the fact that laws once sanctioned wife abuse that they view any tangent as a genuine threat. Or they don't want to share the status of victimhood because acknowledging male victims may dilute their political efforts to end wife abuse. And if a conventionally-socialized man acknowledges that men can be victimized by women around other conventionally-socialized men, they discount what he says and instead doubt his "manliness" because gender roles claim that victimization by women is a sign of weakness and therefore always deserved.
Maybe this explains why Ohio governor Richard F. Celeste felt free to grant clemency to 25 women who were in prison for murdering their husbands because of "battered woman syndrome", a defense which has been denied to men (Wilkerson 1990).
james_west
Doctor Xero's post is so filled with hooks to hang comments on, it's hard to resist ... but to attempt to stay focussed, I think that my take-home message is; distinguishing one's experience as an individual from one's experience as a member of a class is difficult, for any given individual. Or, perhaps, even our ideas about what gender issues are, are biased by our ideas about what gender issues are.
Emily's game is interesting, because I'd been thinking of a 'virtual experience' game design, whereas hers sounds like more of a 'collaborative storytelling' game design for exploring gender issues. Which is probably a superior design, or at least an easier way to make a design that reflects the players' priorities in this area, than injecting ones' own prejudices into the design by trying to make a decent simulation. This seems especially true given Doctor Xero et al's thread about mistaken ideas about gender issues.
While Lumpley's comments about many games inherently including gender issues is well taken, and probably true, they're not really front-and-center in either MLwM or Trollbabe.
- James
contracycle
There are some things missing, it seems to me, from the above analysis of spousal abuse. The violence legitmised by patriarchy against women is not limited only to the husband; it can apply to brothers and fathers too.
Obviously, violence by fathers against daughters is very underreported, sanctioned as it is by a general willingness to permit parents to use force against their children. But equally, as in the case of honour killings - in which, for example, a provocatively clothed daughter is murdered by her male relatives for "bringing shame upon the family" - they are often under-investigated too. The point here is that addressing only spousal abuse may obscure a much broader issue of male on female violence generally, rather than specifically within marriage.
I understand that women are substantially more likely to die at the hands of a man known to them than men, who are proportionately more likely to die at the hands of a stranger, although I cannot cite the reference for this claim.
In regards the commutig of sentences, I think it may be dangerous to presume that this occurred becuase of an unwillingness to accept female violebce as something that happens for the following reason. Maxine Carr, like Myra Hindley before her, has had her judicial tarif extended unilaterally by the home secretary; the reason for these extensions is that the crime (child murder) is somehow more grievous because it was committed by a woman (although Carr was only an accessory after the fact). This is in line with a stereotypical view of women as "natural" mothers and being "naturally" nonviolent; therefore such "dangerous women" are in violation of more than the law, but the "natural order", and the punishment reflects this outrage. Therefore I say it may be quite reasonable to cast doubt on a judge or juries decisions to impose a sentence if it is believed that they would NOT have imposed the same sentence for the same offence if it were perpetrated by a man for whom violence is "natural".
Impeach the bomber boys:
www.impeachblair.org
www.impeachbush.org
"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast."
Christopher Weeks
A few things:
This started with Krista's essay and has continued as these related discussions progress. I always thought misogyny was, as the dictionaries indicate, a hatred of women. But is seems that the folks around here believe that, as an example, old Star Trek is an example of misogyny.
Is misogyny now taken to mean any deviation from the belief that men and women are identical?
sex v. ethnicity
Does it matter, in game design/play or other life-interpretations of these issues, that there is a genuine difference between the sexes but not between the races? I mean, skin color and other physiological attribute associated with a race/breed can be interbred with, usually, many gradations of effect. But no amount of breeding is going to get a cross between males and females because of the inherently binary nature of the chromosome. (Well, OK, so maybe lots of time might do funny things to this genetic construct, but that's a silly point for this conversation, I think.)
The nature of predjudice
Am I the only one who thinks of me prejudices as useful psychological instruments? Sure, if I let them control me, that's bad, but otherwise they help me to sift through huge amounts of incoming data and make decisions much more quickly than I might otherwise. I judge people on the way they're acting, the way they dress, the company they keep, the care they take of their teeth, their grooming, their music, their skin tone, their sex, and everything else I can detect. And so do you. Why pretend it's a bad thing or that it's unique to "bad" individuals? I don't see how that helps anyone.
I feel like I have more to write, but I'm on my way out of town and late.
Quote from: Christopher Weeks
No, that Trek is using misogynist tropes which arrogate to wopmen a primary role as sex-objects and menial workers (even in the 23rd century, women are telephone operators in miniskirts)
But no amount of breeding is going to get a cross between males and females because of the inherently binary nature of the chromosome. (Well, OK, so maybe lots of time might do funny things to this genetic construct, but that's a silly point for this conversation, I think.)
Becuase th evariation between individuals is larger than the variation between sexes as a group. So priviliging such deviation in systematic terms requires explanantion.
Am I the only one who thinks of me prejudices as useful psychological instruments? Sure, if I let them control me, that's bad, but otherwise they help me to sift through huge amounts of incoming data and make decisions much more quickly than I might otherwise. .... . Why pretend it's a bad thing or that it's unique to "bad" individuals? I don't see how that helps anyone.
The question is not about "bad people"... the issue is why otherwise good people carry out these things. It is mistake to think that every racist is a bitter hate-filled loner - a mistake and an easy out.
It is a bad thing becuase decisions based on such assumptions are likely to be wrong. Generalisation and prejudice are not the same thing: of course you learn general cases to cut down the amount of analysis you have to do; no point continually reinventing the wheel. But a generalisation for its own sake, or ageneralisation which allows of no exceptions or modifications, is just plain dangerous.
An excellent example of recent vintage happened on the Channel 4 news a coupe of years ago; a rugby manager had refused to have a female player in his club. He was interviewed by phone, and expressed the view that girls are into frilly dresses and perfume and anything pink, and had neither the familiarity nor physique to handle rugby; it was not a sport for girlies (his term). However, the news ran his interview over a still photograph of the women in question, rippling with muscle, tall and broad, covered in mud from the pitch. She, individually, had both he grit and the grunt to play; but his prejudicial view of what women WERE, necessarily, meant he apparently had not even bothered to find if this INDIVIDUAL had what it took.
Cross-Post from "More on Religion and Gaming"
Sorry to digress from the current topic. I haven't figured out the cross-post functions yet, so bear with me.
I'll be posting revised statements regarding my hypothesis about the male dominance in rpgs tomorrow or the day after.
As veterans of the Forge's culture, can you please advise whether I should post here or the other thread?
Quote from: John Kim in 'religion and role-playing'
For example, a religious practice may include storytelling such as parables -- but that story has a goal in the real world beyond just being fun to hear.
I thought that line struck to the heart of the matter we're discussing here very well. It also made me think (not to belabor our jargon) that explicitly feminist game design is -necessarily- narrativist, since it is inherently attempting to address premise. We've already had a number of posts that claim that if you don't allow the players to think about the issues for themselves - if you force the premise - then you lose most of the value for the game.
To a certain extent - and, now that I think of it, someone's already brought this up - how to design games with addressing feminist or gender issues is a subset of the class of games specifically designed to address any moral issue.
Much narrativist design - sorceror for instance - is designed with the thought that it will be used to address moral issues (thus, Ron's focus on the topic), although it's my personal opinion that this is addressed far more through exhortation in Sorceror than in explicit design (at least until you hit the supplements). In Sorceror, however, more explicit premise is found in the supplements, which create specific settings which scream a particular moral issue.
Hum. Seems like a way to make a more 'virtual experience' game than Emilys, that addresses race/gender is to write a Sorceror supplement in which Humanity is defined in a fashion relevant to these issues.
Does it matter, in game design/play or other life-interpretations of these issues, that there is a genuine difference between the sexes but not between the races?
I think that's why it'd be easier for me to design a game about racism than sexism. When I hear minorities talk about ways in which the system f*cked with them, their responses seem pretty much identical to what mine would be under the circumstances - except that they generally seem better at controlling their anger than I think I would be (probably through long training). When I hear women talking, they seem like aliens.
So - I think it does make a difference. If I were to design a game premised on racism, I think the point I'd try to stress is how inherently reasonable even apparently odious behavior is, under the circumstances (contempt for the law, distrust of formal education, etc.) In order for a game on gender issues to make much sense, I think it'd be neccesary for me to understand better women's priorities. Which are, presumably, not identical to men's, although I recognize that there is a great degree of overlap.
Aside: I can say that women think like aliens with confidence because one of the valuable services my (female) techs provide is to tell me how to interact with my wife. I do what they tell me, although it never makes any sense to me, and they're always right. Strongly implies that gender substantially overrides individual differences in priorities. :-)[/i]
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Kavalek Annotates His Masterpiece
Kavalanche! Black to play.
In his article on The World Chess Hall of Fame at the Huffington Post, Lubomir Kavalek analyzes his own "hall of fame" game against Eduard Gufeld, featuring its famous pawn avalanche (or "Kavalanche" as some have called it). I looked briefly at the game when examining a similar Pawn Steamroller by a local player, and it has been very widely annotated. But, according to Kavalek, this is the first time he himself has ever annotated his "Mona Lisa." Even if you have played it over before, it is worth another look with notes by the master himself.
Xtreme Chess Is Cool
Who said chess is not cool enough for TV? I really enjoyed the first episode of the Xtreme Chess Championship on video. Afterward, I didn't feel too bad about having lost to Justus myself in last year's USATE.
The Bryntse-Faj Gambit
1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ne5!?
I have posted an article on the Bryntse-Faj Gambit: 1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Ne5!? (download PGN here). It is a very rare but interesting variant on the more familiar Bryntse Gambit with 4.Ng5 and might be considered a reversed Budapest Fajarowicz (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4, which I treated in a webliography): hence my calling it "Bryntse-Faj." The similarity with the Faj is especially highlighted where Black plays an eventual ...f5 in that opening, and I conclude my game collection with a couple of Faj games where this happens.
I started looking at this line when I developed an anti-Sicilian and anti-French repertoire built around the Grand Prix with 1.e4 c5 2.f4!? (see Grand Prix with Na3 for example) and the line 1.e4 e6 2.f4!? d5 3.e5 against the French (see The Labourdonais McDonnell Attack). Of course, the main problem with this repertoire is that Black can immediately equalize against the 2.f4 Grand Prix with 2....d5! The Bryntse-Faj offers at least an opening surprise for even the most booked-up opponent who plays this way.
Giving this opening a name has been difficult for me, and I've chosen "Bryntse-Faj" simply because it most succinctly communicates the idea, which is to play the traditional Bryntse Gambit more like a reversed Fajarowicz. Of course, it is hard to give a name to an opening that so few strong players have tried and almost no one else discusses in print. In his discussion of the Bryntse Gambit (2004), Thomas Johansson mentions that GM Henrik Danielsen had tried this reversed Faj idea on ICC, and I found two of his games (played as H-Danielsen) as evidence. But a couple games on ICC hardly constitute a strong argument for naming it the "Danielsen Gambit." I thought of naming it after Dana Mackenzie, who has played it on several occasions and was kind enough to annotate and share those games with me (they are the centerpiece of the article). But Dana is much better known for his play of the main line Bryntse with 5.Ng5, with which he famously beat a GM in Mackenzie - Pruess, Western States Open 2006 (a topic he has covered in a great ChessLectures.com video, a great Chess Life article, and on his blog, as I mention in The Nuclear Option in the Sicilian Grand Prix.) Calling 4.Ne5 "the Mackenzie Gambit" would be confusing to anyone familiar with his current preference for 5.Ng5. Dana himself had suggested the "Sicili-pest" (after the Budapest) and the "Sicili-wicz." But both names sound too si-silly to take seriously. Bryntse-Faj gets to the same idea and seems a little clearer.
In sharing his games, Dana explained that he mainly ended up preferring 4.Ng5 over 4.Ne5 because he "got seduced by the Bryntse Gambit queen sacrifice." He then elaborated: "There are two reasons I didn't stick with 4. Ne5. One, as I said, was the Bryntse Gambit [with 4.Ng5]. The other was that, playing against Fritz 7 set at its highest level, I found myself constantly fighting for a draw with 4. Ne5, but when I started playing the Bryntse Gambit [with 4.Ng5], all of a sudden I could *beat* Fritz 7 at its highest level. (And Fritz 9, too, after I upgraded.) You can imagine how intoxicating that was! So I switched to the Bryntse [with 4.Ng5] and never looked back." Food for thought. And if I revisit this repertoire, I may take a closer look at the 4.Ng5 line myself.
Like Dana, I have also moved on to other approaches against the Sicilian, but I welcome any reader games played with the line, which I would be glad to publish here.
Google vs. Brooklyn Castle
Justus Williams vs. Don Carrelli
On December 1st, Google NYC hosted the PS 318 chess team featured in the upcoming documentary Brooklyn Castle. At least 8 "Googlers" came and went, attracted to the chess boards and these exuberant kids. Highest rated on the Google team was our own Don Carrelli, former president of the Kenilworth Chess Club, who also sent me the picture above showing his game against NM Justus Williams. The kids, who included at least two masters, won almost all of the games. Don included the following comments:
"Justus and James went undefeated, even in bughouse! Seemed like all the games were 10 minutes or less. After skittles, we took lunch then a tour of the office. Followed by more skittles!"
"The kids had a blast, and so did I. It was fun to have everyone want to play against me. They probably just wanted to beat me....which for the most part, they did. Even their 1200 rated players gave me tough times in blitz. 2 wins 15 losses (give or take) and a draw. Justus even gave me 3-5 time odds."
A recent article in the NY Daily News emphasized the economic plight of this national championship team, which is greatly in need of your support. I hope some people at Google were reading that.
Nona Gaprindashvili's Epic Battles
There is an interesting ChessBase interview with Nona Gaprindashvili (see original here) at the recently completed Senior Championship. In it she discusses or alludes to several of her most memorable games, all slugfests:
Velimirovic - Gaprindashvili, Bela Crkva 1984 (unbelievable)
Gaprindashvili - Peters, Lone Pine 1977 (last round, both needed a win)
Gaprindashvili - Lein, Lone Pine 1977 (the tournament where she became a GM)
Gaprindashvili - Shamkovich, Lone Pine 1977
Gaprindashvili - Kapengut, Reggio Emilia 1991 (cannot confirm date)
Ceschia - Gaprindashvili, Reggio Emilia 1982-1983 (see crosstable)
I am sure you can find many more "epic battles of the chessboard" if you play through her games. Worth a look.
Fred Wilson Lectures at DoCA
Renowned chess author, bookseller, and trainer Fred Wilson will give a lecture titled “Simple Attacking Plans” at Dean of Chess Academy on December 10, 2011 at 6:00 pm. The lecture will showcase several unknown attacking “gems” from Nicholas Rossolimo and Peter Biyiasis. The games are featured in Fred’s forthcoming book entitled Simple Attacking Plans. Fred’s lectures are interactive and last for 90 minutes. Every attendee will receive a handout covering the material presented. The cost is $20. Please email noreen@deanofchess.com or call 908-595-0066 for more information.
Dean of Chess Academy is located at 3150 Route 22 West in Branchburg, NJ 08876.
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KHS (KHS) Class of 1951 Alumni List
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You Can Change Your Workplace, Here Are Four Ways To Start
By Claudia Chan, CEO of S.H.E. Summit & S.H.E. GLOBL, Author of This Is How We Rise
Aug 24, 2018 11:00 AM ET
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Originally published on LinkedIn
After 6 years of working with corporate partners on women’s and diversity initiatives as an outgrowth of S.H.E. Summit, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with internal talent spanning from senior leadership, marketing, HR, diversity, CSR to employment-resource-group heads. The seats at those tables have given me a unique perspective on what actually prevents strategies from having lasting change for both internal-culture and community impact. On the other hand, it’s also shown me the tremendous impact that one person can have in launching inclusive initiatives with the appropriate support.
I realized organizations are one of the most powerful vehicles for change because of their scale and their impact on stakeholders from their employees, suppliers, industry, customers to advertiser. A company that employs 2,000 to 200,000 can really impact millions if not billions of people when you realize who their policies, programs, products and advertising touch.
A company’s decision to remove plastic straws from their kitchen doesn’t just affect their kitchen, it encourages straw production companies to come up with more environmentally friendly options and it cuts down on the company’s own footprint. Bacardi, for instance, has committed to using its platform to impact change within its own company and outside of it. With the launch of its #TheFutureDoesntSuck campaign the company aims to remove one billion single-use plastic straws by 2020 through a personal commitment to ban plastic straws at any Bacardi sponsored event, as well as a larger promise to curb unnecessary use of plastic in its supply chains. The company has promised to use its platform to spark collaborations that will promote environmental efforts across all industries.
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Charles Goodnight
Goodnight Exhibition
Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker was chief of the Quahada Comanches. He was the oldest son of Cynthia Ann Parker, who was abducted by Comanches when she was 9 years old. He was the most celebrated Comanche chief of all time. The name Quanah meant odor or perfume because he was born among the flowers on the prairie.
The Comanche and confederated tribes had in the past camped in the Palo Duro Canyon. In 1878 Quanah and Charles Goodnight met in the Canyon to agree on a treaty stating that the band of renegade Indians with Quanah would stop killing the JA Ranch cattle. In return Charles, the ranch manager, offered 2 beeves (cattle) every other day until they could find buffalo for meat.
Quanah was born in 1845 and died Feb 23, 1911 in Cache, Oklahoma.
Preliminary working sketch.
Originally I had Quanah on a dark horse but read later that his favorite horse was white. I moved Quanah closer to the boulder to unify the two elements. I also made him and his horse larger to bring him closer to the foreground. This allowed me to put more detail in his face. I added more braves for interest and the canyon walls for more depth and a place for the boulder in its true environment.
The lance was added last to draw more attention to Quanah and to give him warrior status.
Return to Charles Goodnight Collection
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Karate Kid defeats a big pointy purple monster (PPM) on a mining asteroid. Lightning Lad is having leadership problems; he's letting details get away from him and sending Legionnaires out on missions unsuited to their talents. United Planets bureaucracy is hampering the Legion at every turn, including stopping their transmatter privileges and removing Projectra's diplomatic status as ruler of Orando. A team of Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Invisible Kid and Timber Wolf goes to Triton to prepare for another PPM attack, which comes on schedule, but the Legionnaires don't do so well and Timber Wolf is the only Legionnaire still standing when the issue ends. Plus the UP submits seven 'pre-approved candidates' for Legion membership.
Francis Manapul exceeds my wildest expectations with his art. He seems to be trying to pick up where Barry Kitson left off, although some of his faces remind me of... Georges Jeanty's fill-in issues, possibly? Not sure. A couple of points of note: the Phantom Girl panel on page 7 is very pretty but perhaps not the kind of thing that matches the tone of Legion comics, and Karate Kid's blasting the PPM's guts out through his spine on page 2 may have been a bit much, especially since, as far as he knew, the PPM was a sentient living thing.
We've only learned a little about where Shooter's going with all of this, long-term, but that's okay because we've got all the short-term information we need. There was a lot packed into this issue: Val's initial encounter, Lightning Lad's problems, the Triton mission, Projectra's subplot... We're being pitched right into the middle of things, which is something that should happen more often in comic books.
I counted how many single-panel pages there were in this issue. Just one, the first page. Action #860, also out this week and also starring the Legion, had seven of them. In fact, it had only six panels in those seven pages, because there was one two-page spread. So it looks like Shooter is giving us a bit of recompression here, and I appreciate it.
Whatever misgivings I had about Shooter writing this book have been mostly quelled. Of course, ending a story is not the same as beginning one, but this was as good as any Legion issue we've had since, oh, let's say the Lemnos arc. I did get a few Silver Age twinges from this issue, though. Some of the characters' names (Winch Boone, Nimra C. Lafong), some of the dialogue, some of the Legionnaires' nicknames (Phant?)... they would not be out of place in a 1970s comic. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
What's the 'Scattered Disk'? At first I thought it might have been some kind of Dominion diaspora thing...
Oh, and: take note, everyone, there's no sign of Mark Waid's generation gap theme. So can we stop talking about it? It hasn't been part of the comic for almost two years now...
I liked it! I think it'll work. More like this!
No sign of the quasi-Legionnaires like Theena, Dream Girl, Dream Boy, Wildfire, Tenzil Kem or Terror Firma. We'll be seeing seven new candidates next issue, and Shooter gives us a look at a Tritonian girl who seems promising, but according to Invisible Kid, she dies on the third-last page. Is she secretly alive, or did Shooter fake us out? I'm betting on 'alive'. She sure looked like someone who'd be sticking around for a while, and Lyle could have been fooled by her metabolic abilities. Think of this: if she became a Legionnaire, she'd be only the second Legionnaire native to someplace in our solar system that isn't Earth.
Action Comics: Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Part 3-#860)
The Just Not League has discovered Superman's arrival in the future, but decides to stay the course. Superman, Colossal Boy, Wildfire and Dawnstar raid an alien holding camp, rescue some people (including Polar Boy), and trace Brainy to Colu. Colu seems to be even more xenophobic than Earth these days. Then they go to the Legion's new clubhouse, an underground-railroad kinda place where the Legionnaires use stargates to evacuate aliens from Earth. They set up a stargate trip to Colu, but then the Justice League attacks, and Superman, Wildfire, Dawnstar, and possibly Colossal Boy and Polar Boy only just get away through the stargate. They crashland on Colu where some zombielike Coluans try to eat their brains. They're brought before the new Coluan leader, who is, unsurprisingly, Brainiac 5. Brainy sentences Superman and the other Legionnaires to death.
Not Quite a Review:
I'm falling more and more out of love with Gary Frank's art with each succeeding issue. Maybe it's unsophisticated of me to dwell on this, but I just can't get past how he depicts the characters' faces. Everybody has a bad case of the Manson Lamps, everyone's an unsettling veiny mix of pale and shadowy, and even the bodies often look awkward. I think it was the full-page shot of Shady and Lydda where I finally decided that Frank just wasn't doing it for me.
I'd have to check, but is there a resemblance between the Legion's new underground-railroad clubhouse, and Nightowl's Owlcave from Watchmen? Maybe it's just me.
The story advanced only a little this issue. Really, the only thing that happened worth mentioning was that they got to Colu and met Brainy. The rest is just more of what we already had. We've already had the setup; I hope there are actually some intriguing developments to come before the final resolution. We've got three issues to go, and I don't want the next two to be wasted.
Speaking of the final resolution, I hope we haven't met the main villain yet. 'Earth-Man' doesn't cut it. Polar Boy seems to agree with me that these Justice Leaguers aren't much of an opposition. Look at how Storm Boy is characterized--he's totally insecure about his position as a 'superhero'. Calling the Legionnaires 'bullies'. I don't object to characterizing him that way, but it's not going to be satisfying to have the Legion knock over these yutzes--they need a foeman worthy of their steel.
For now, though, they're the only real villains we've got in the story, which doesn't bode well for the Legionnaires and refugees Superman and crew left behind in the underground lair (Night Girl, Shadow Lass, Lightning Lass, Timber Wolf, at least); the JLA can't lose this fight or it lets a lot of the air out of the plot. I presume Earth-Man will be adding their powers to his own in short order.
I've run into the notion that this is the best Legion story since the Robotica story early in DnA's The Legion series. I have a couple of problems with that. First, this is primarily a Superman story. That doesn't mean it can't be a Legion story, but it does mean that it might not be. We'll know more about that once it's over, anyway. The other thing is... how much of this is really new? We've seen the Earth turned against the Legion before, we've seen Legion rejects banding together for revenge before... the Superman angle is kind of cute, though. I'm certainly willing to admit it's the best extended Legion story since the Lemnos arc, anyway.
Running Legion Count: We encounter Polar Boy, Shadow Lass, Night Girl, Lightning Lass and Timber Wolf this issue, and get news about Mon-El (back in the Phantom Zone), the White Witch (prisoner of Mordru), Chameleon Boy (back on Durla), the rest of the Subs (deep underground), and, not that he was ever a Legionnaire, Double-Header (dead). I'm going to assume that Night Girl is a Legionnaire now (Colossal Boy does hand her a flight ring), although I'd like it to have been said a little more explicitly.
(New entries this week in bold)
Bouncing Boy*, Blok*, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy*, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dawnstar, Dream Girl*, Element Lad*, Ferro Lad*, Invisible Kid I*, Invisible Kid II*, Karate Kid*, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad*, Mon-El*, Night Girl, Phantom Girl*, Polar Boy, Princess Projectra/Sensor Girl*, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet*, Spider Girl, Star Boy/Starman*, Storm Boy, Sun Boy*, Superman, Timber Wolf, Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel*, Ultra Boy*, Wildfire (33) (* only in brief flashback or non-speaking background appearance: 18)
Labels: Comic Book Reviews, Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman and the LSH
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LA Rapper G Perico Talks with Snoop About Sold Out Shows, Jheri Curl and Gang Life | GGN NEWS
MERRY JANE https://www.merryjane.com G Perico is coming for the West Coast crown. But instead of violence or intimidation, the new millenium G-funk genius is taking the Southland’s top spot with slick rhymes, catchy hooks and knocking beats. Born and raised in Los Angeles’ notorious gang culture, G Perico picked up music as a way to stay out of trouble after a couple jail bids and hasn’t stopped going hard since, dropping three full projects in 2017, including the masterful 2 Tha Left, released this past December. Now, G is selling out shows across the country, signing record deals and palling around with celebs, but that still doesn’t mean you’ll catch him outside without his patented Jheri Curl or blue flag. On the latest episode of GGN, G Perico joins Uncle Snoop in the studio to share stories from their kindred past and soak up game from the OG. The duo breaks down what it’s like to grow up inside of LA’s notorious gang scene, why Jheri Curl is so important to the culture and what it feels like to sell out shows from New York City to Sunset Boulevard. So grab your popcorn, fire up your favorite strain, and grab a seat alongside the Doggfather for a conversation with one of the Southland’s next to blow. And for more G Perico, be sure to download his latest album, 2 Tha Left, and keep your eyes peeled for more new music dropping this year. Follow MERRY JANE! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/merryjane Instagram: https://instagram.com/merryjane Twitter: https://twitter.com/merryjane Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/merryjanemedia Subscribe to MERRY JANE's channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/merryjane Follow Snoop Dogg! Facebook: http://facebook.com/snoopdogg Instagram: http://instagram.com/snoopdogg Twitter: http://twitter.com/snoopdogg Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/snoopdogg Subscribe to WestFestTV: http://www.youtube.com/snoopdogg
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Gov Docs: Tuskegee Airmen
Library Resources: Government Documents
Gov Docs: Tuskegee Airmen: Library Resources: Government Documents
The materials listed in this LibGuide are accessible to the University of South Alabama community. This LibGuide is not intended to be a definitive listing of all materials available on this subject.
Library Resources: Main Collection
Government Documents: Books
100 Years of Airpower [visual materials] by Air Force News Service
Call Number: D 301.2:AI 7/41
Marx Library Government Documents Bookshelves (2nd Floor South)
SEE print: "The Tuskegee Airmen: Pilots of the 'Red-Tailed Devils' 332nd Fighter Group never lost a bomber they escorted during World War II."
The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964 by Alan L. Gropman
Call Number: D 301.2:IN 8/2/ 945-64
America’s Black Air Pioneers, 1900-1939 by Maj. Robert J. Jakeman
Call Number: D 301.26/6:B 56 X
Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation by Dept. of Defense
Call Number: D 1.2:B 56/991
Blacks in the Army Air Forces during World War II: the Problem of Race Relations by Alan M. Osur
Call Number: D 301.2:B 56
Black Wings: Courageous Stories of African Americans in Aviation and Space History by Von Hardesty
Call Number: SI 9.2:B 56 X
SEE Chapter 4: "In the Shadow of War" and Chapter 5: "The Tuskegee Airmen"
A Century of Air Power Leadership : Past, Present, and Future : Proceedings of a Symposium by Air Force History and Museums Program
Call Number: D 301.82/7: L 46
SEE the Chapter: "Tuskegee Airmen: How the Red Tails Did It" by Lt. Gen. Daniel James III, (USAF)
Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen
Call Number: AE 2.110:109-213
Univ Lib Government Documents Bookshelves (2nd Floor South)
Employment of Negro Troops by Ulysses Lee
Call Number: D 114.7:N 31/994
Publication Date: 1966, reprinted 1994
From Cubs to Hawks: The Story of the Aircraft, Airfields and Training of the Tuskegee Airmen by Randy Johnson
Call Number: I 29.2:T 87 X
Interview #744 of Brigadier General Noel F. Parrish by James C. Hasdorff.
Call Number: D 301.26/3-3 X:P 24
(U.S. Air Force Oral History Interview)
Brig. Gen. Parrish was appointed as Director of Training at Tuskegee Army Flying School in 1941, and the next year assumed command of the Tuskegee Army Air Field. [see pgs. 88-168]
Negro Aviators (Negro Statistical Bulletin, No. 3)
Call Number: C 3.131:3/940
Publication Date: Sept. 1940
---Includes names & addresses of Tuskegee Institute student aviators.
Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903-2003 by Virginia P. Dawson and Mark D. Bowles (eds.)
Call Number: NAS 1.21:4112
See Chapter 6: "Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American Hero" (p. 109-126)
Separate and Unequal : Race Relations in the AAF during World War II by Alan M. Osur
Call Number: D 301.82/7:R 11
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Alabama by National Park Service
Call Number: I 29.6/6:T 87/2 [brochure]
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Alabama by National Park Service
Call Number: I 29.6/6:T 87/978 [brochure]
U.S. Air Force Art Collection. (Fine Art Series 3) [visual materials]
Call Number: D 301.76/4:3
Marx Library Government Documents Oversize Shelves (2nd Floor South)
SEE print C-6: "Men of the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group" by Roy LaGrone
Government Documents: Magazine Articles
"Air Force Heritage: The Tuskegee Example" by Gen. Merrill A. McPeak
AIRMAN, v. 37, no. 10 (Oct. 1993), pg. 2-5.
SUDOC: D 301.60:
"All Guts, Little Glory" by MSgt. Lorenzo D. Harris
AIRMAN, v. 29, no. 2 (Feb. 1985), pg. 27-31.
"In Defense of Dignity" by TSgt. Philip F. Rhodes
AIRMAN, v. 35, no. 12 (Dec. 1991), pg. 28-29.
“Remarks Honoring General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., of the Tuskegee Airmen” by Bill Clinton.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, v. 34, no. 50 (12/14/98), pg 2449-2452.
“Remarks on Presenting the Congressional Gold Medal to the Tuskegee Airmen” by George W. Bush.
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, v. 43, no 13, (4/2/2007), pg 387-388.
"Tuskegee Airmen's Legacy of Service for Youth Today" by Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman.
DEFENSE ISSUES, v. 10, no. 93 (Aug. 1995), pg. 1-4.
SUDOC: D 2.15/4:10/93
"Tuskegee: Runway to Victory" by Gene Harper.
SOLDIERS, v. 39, no. 2 (Feb. 1984), pg. 49-52.
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A letter sent from a gentleman in The Hague, to a noble and loyal earl in Scotland., (electronic resource)
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A royalist pamphlet on the enemies of the King and kingship, particularly in Scotland
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Malibu Chili Cook-Off Land Purchase
In addition to the undeveloped acres of the Malibu Chili Cook-Off property, there are three commercial buildings, including the Malibu Hardware and Animal Hospital structures at PCH and Cross Creek Road.
Chili Cook-Off Land Purchase in Malibu
Twenty acres of mostly open land in the center of Malibu -- between Cross Creek Road and Webb Way east to west, and between Civic Center Way and PCH north to south -- has been the site of the annual Labor Day Weekend Chile Cook-Off festival since 1982. Further back, it was agricultural land, planted in geraniums, other flowers and vegetables by the Takahashi family since 1924. Part of the rectangle is now separately owned, the site of the Malibu Country Mart and an office building, but the large, flat unoccupied area has been part of Malibu's community life for decades.
The Chili Cook-Off land is mostly undeveloped as of early 2006, with a few commercial buildings at the edges of the property.
The parcel is also part of the flood plain of Malibu Creek, historically agricultural land subject to periodic flooding. As with many other Malibu sites, the Chili Cook-Off land became the focus of controversy related to conflicting perceptions of community leaders, developers, and environmentalists.
Malibu Bay Company Development Plans
The history goes back to Reco Land Corp., headed by Roy E. Crummer whose family came early to Malibu. The land on the west side of the Civic Center area was known as Crummer's Field for many years when it was the site of horse shows. It was Reco that developed the Malibu Colony Plaza but in 1989 they sold the Plaza and 11 other Malibu properties to the newly formed Malibu Bay Company, formed by media tycoon and Colony resident Jerry Perenchio and the Konheim family for the purpose. (Perenchio bought out the Konheim's in 1999.) Crummer still owns Malibu land, including the Bluffs site which has its own controversial story.
The Malibu Bay Company (MBC) properties consisted of six mostly vacant commercially zoned sites in the Civic Center area, one vacant residentially zoned Point Dume property and four vacant residentially zoned lands in Trancas plus the Colony Plaza. From 1989 to 2000, MBC made numerous development proposals for their properties but nothing went forward due to Malibu's "slow growth - no growth" policies. After many attempts that failed to break the impasse, MBC and the City of Malibu came up with a proposal that would allow MBC to develop eight of its properties over a 20-year period, dedicate three for open space. In addition, and most significant, instead of development of the Chili Cook-Off Site, MBC would give the City an option to purchase the land for $25 million. Malibu planned to build a wastewater/stormwater treatment facility and possibly a park and lake on the site.
Although the City Council unanimously approved the agreement in late July 2003, city law required a referendum. Malibu split on the proposal with many residents favoring the arrangement as a reasonable way forward, while those who opposed development or who had environmental concerns were against it. Malibu Community Action Network (CAN) led opposition group to Measure M and filed a lawsuit just in case it passed. The vote on "Measure M" came on November 4, 2003 and it was defeated. Possibly it was too complex for voters to understand although some charged dishonest campaigning by Measure M opponents.
After Measure M
Although MBC President Jerry Perenchio had said they would never sell to the City if Measure M did not pass, in fact by the summer of 2004 discussions between MBC and the City were renewed and in September 2004 the deal was back on. Malibu had until December 31, 2005 to come up with the $25 million. There were a few strings attached including the proviso that the city could build the wastewater/stormwater treatment facility on the property, but nothing else.
The acquisition of the Chile Cook-Off site became a key focus of the Malibu City government. Putting that large tract in the center of town off-limits to development would have a permanent, positive impact on Malibu much as New York's Central Park. During 2005 the City formed alliances to facilitate funding, some of which came apart almost immediately, such as a brief arrangement with the Malibu Coastal Land Conservancy in January which collapsed in February. City officials scrambled to find sources of grants and loans to finance the acquisition finding allies in Santa Monica College, the State Water Resources Board and other sources.
Finally, at a special December 12 2005 City Council meeting, they approved the final wording of the purchase contract with Malibu Bay Company and set in motion the selling of special bonds called Certificates of Participation (COPs) to fund part of the purchase. Escrow opened on the property with a closing date of March 31, 2006 or earlier if a commercial lease is finalized for the vacant Malibu Lumber building.
In the end, the purchase was financed by:
$18 million worth of COPs
$2.5 million in Santa Monica College Measure S bond money,
$2.5 million grant from State Water Resources Control Board
$2.2 million raised through private donations
$1 million from the Malibu general fund
$700,000 grant from LA County
The Water Board funds were be delayed, but were covered by Malibu General Fund until available.
The Malibu Coastal Land Conservancy donated $500,000 toward the purchase, the largest donation given to the city from the private sector.
Malibu Legacy Park Project
After the land purchase was complete, the new 17-acre Malibu Legacy Park Project was constructed on the site bordered by Pacific Coast Highway on the south, Cross Creek Road on the east, Webb Way on the west, and Civic Center Way on the north, opening October 2, 2010. The retail property of the Malibu Lumber Yard was redeveloped into an upscale collection of stores and restaurants, opening March 27, 2009. In 2010, the Malibu Kiwanis Club's 29th Annual Chili Cook-Off and Carnival went on as usual, but moved to still-open land across Civic Center Way, on the Ioki property, at the corner of Civic Center Way and Stuart Ranch Road.
Other Malibu Properties for Public Use
In addition to the Chili Cook-Off site, the Crummer property adjacent to Malibu Bluffs Park (25 acres along Pacific Coast Highway) and the Yamaguchi properties (two sites totaling 17 acres located in the Civic Center) were in and out of negotiations. The Crummer Bluffs property is coveted by the City for recreation fields, to offset the loss of ball fields on land the State is taking over. To control further development in the Civic Center for public purposes, the City also hopes to acquire the land from the Yamaguchi Tokiye Trust.
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North Atlantic (2003)
In 2003, Maud rowed the North Atlantic from West to East, single-handedly and with no assistance. This was a female first and covered 6,700 km in 117 days.
The Pacific – barehanded (2005)
In 2005, she took up the same crazy challenge in the Pacific between Peru and the Marquesas Islands in 73 days – 7,000 km alone and without assistance. Time Magazine named her one of Europe’s Heroes of the Year.
Around the world against prevailing currents (2007)
In 2007, Maud became the first woman to sail around the world against prevailing currents, setting off from and returning to the island of Réunion. She completed her tour 150 days later, having survived a near-fatal dismasting in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
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Uber's Promises of Privacy Ring Hollow, Says Group
By turnercowles
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, says it is concerned about Uber’s privacy. The group says the app’s ability to track a user’s location – even when the app is closed – is a big concern. Uber says users will be in control of what data is shared with the company. Uber is a location-based app; the GPS signal in your phone is what tells a driver where to pick you up. EPIC is asking the FTC to stop Uber from rolling out its new policy and investigate the company for compliance with various privacy laws.
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New Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Roadster debuts at Geneva
The Lamborghini Aventador SVJ drop-top has been revealed at Geneva, powered by a 759bhp naturally-aspirated V12
Lamborghini has shown off its new Aventodor SVJ Roadster at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. Due to reach the UK market in the summer, each model will be priced from £323,323 (excluding tax). Production will be limited to 800 models worldwide.
Rather than an electrically-folding roof Lamborghini has opted to fit a quick-release carbon fibre roof panel that can be stored under the Aventador’s bonnet. Lamborghini claims the open-top Aventador’s structural rigidity remains uncompromised over the coupe but it does weigh an additional 50kg.
It’s powered by the same 6.5-litre naturally-aspirated V12 engine as the SVJ coupe, meaning power torque figures of 760bhp and 720Nm respectively.
Power is fed through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission to an all-wheel-drive system, allowing a claimed 0–62mph time of 2.9 seconds, a 0–124mph time of 8.8 seconds and a top speed of 217mph.
The Aventador SVJ Roadster is built around a carbon fibre monocoque with aluminium subframes front and rear. It features lightweight alloy wheels wrapped in Pirelli P Zero tyres, a re-tuned ABS system, adaptive dampers, carbon ceramic brakes and four wheel-steering.
Also featuring on the new SVJ Roadster is the latest version of Lamborghini’s patented active aerodynamics system. Consisting of a series of motorised flaps and air dams, the system claims to modify the amount air pressure on the front spoiler, rear diffuser and rear wing, providing either handling or top speed advantages when necessary.
Inside, the Aventador SVJ convertible gets customisable leather and Alcantara upholstery, a pair of bucket seats, a digital gauge cluster and a dash-mounted infotainments system with support for Apple CarPlay. The rear window can also be opened independently of the roof, allowing more engine noise to creep into the cabin.
Now read our review of the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ Coupe. Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below…
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Sir Elton John V&A donation earns singer his own gallery
Image copyright Dave Benett
The Victoria & Albert Museum is renaming one of its galleries after Sir Elton John following a “significant” donation from the singer.
The Rocket Man star and his husband David Furnish pledged the funds to the museum’s new photography centre.
Its gallery 101 will now be renamed the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Gallery. Sir Elton described it as “the perfect partnership”.
Sir Elton’s private photography collection will also go on display.
The singer-songwriter has a collection of more than 7,000 photographs, spanning the early 20th Century to the present day.
His collection includes images by Man Ray, Dorothea Lange, Andre Kertesz and Edward Steichen, as well as contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman, Alec Soth and Alex Prager.
Image caption The sign has already been prepared
A major co-curated temporary exhibition will be announced in due course.
Sir Elton added: “We are delighted to be part of this exciting moment and we hope that audiences will walk away with the same excitement and appreciation for photography as I did when I first started collecting.”
Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, said: “We are immensely grateful to Sir Elton John and David Furnish for their generosity in supporting our photography centre and mission to make historic and contemporary photography available to the widest possible audience.”
The donation from Sir Elton and Furnish will allow the V&A to showcase highlights from its extensive photography collection with a series of temporary displays, new acquisitions and annual contemporary commissions.
The V&A’s photography centre opened in October and an extension will be completed in 2022.
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Donald Trump hits China with $200 billion in new tariffs
By Phil Palmer
The trade dispute escalated on Tuesday after Washington said it would slap 10 per cent tariffs on an extra US$200 billion worth of Chinese imports.
Investor confidence started to return early this week amid a momentary lull in the trade war, following Beijing's retaliation tariffs on USA imports last week after Trump hit China with a 25 per cent tariff worth $34bn on imports.
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VeriLook Surveillance SDK Provides Real-Time Face Identification Using Video Surveillance Cameras
Detects Faces in Motion, Matches with Watch-list Databases and Reports Results in Real Time
Vilnius, Lithuania – March 9, 2009 – Neurotechnology, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, today announced the availability of VeriLook Surveillance SDK, a software development kit for biometric face identification using live video streams from high-resolution digital surveillance cameras. Unlike VeriLook 3.2 SDK and other facial recognition systems that require the user to actively look into a camera, VeriLook Surveillance SDK is intended for real-time identification of faces from high-resolution digital surveillance cameras, which can be mounted in airports, retail stores, on the street or in other locations where passers-by may not be looking into the camera. VeriLook Surveillance SDK can also be used for easy time-attendance control applications when a camera is mounted near an entrance, enabling fast, automatic counting and/or recognition of individuals as they pass through.
VeriLook Surveillance SDK processes face images in real-time video streams and matches them against an internal database – such as a watch-list of crime suspects or a list of authorized and un-authorized personnel. Recognized faces are immediately reported to the system. Once a face is detected, it is tracked in all successive frames of video until it disappears from camera view. Face appearance, tracking and disappearance events are reported to the system. The face tracking in VeriLook Surveillance SDK also enables automatic enrollment of faces from a video source and can add new biometric facial templates to the database or watch-list on the fly.
"VeriLook Surveillance SDK is a significant addition to our face identification technologies," said Dr. Algimantas Malickas, CEO of Neurotechnology. "The ability to use surveillance cameras to identify passive users provides a range of new applications for face identification, such as law enforcement, airport security, shops and other commercial uses."
VeriLook Surveillance SDK enables real-time face detection, extraction and matching by providing embedded parallelization of all VeriLook functions for improved performance on multi-core, multi-processor systems with up to eight logical processors. VeriLook Surveillance SDK supports a wide variety of programming languages and works with a range of high-resolution digital surveillance cameras, including Prosilica GigE Vision cameras. Support for additional cameras can be requested.
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Oscarilbo
the "What If" is killing me! [In reply to] Can't Post
What if the same had happened to the LOTR trilogy.
I mean, the same chances, thanks to a previous succes, of being truly expanded.
I of course love the idea of 3 Hobbit films, but I can't help but think is pretty unfair for our loved trilogy :(
It would be great if PJ takes the opportunity to add the little bits of moments he missed ten years ago, and wanted to be in the LOTR trilogy (like showing other realms from middle earth also in battle in ROTK for example)
"The World is Changed, I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air"
yeah. That's a money factor. [In reply to] Can't Post
With shorter films they can fit more showings in a day. I really wouldn't be surprised if the 3 films was really just the two cut into shorter films. Esp. if we get one during the summer.
Davy Jones could've been Bilbo...I mean he was a Brit with a sense for adventure, singing & dancing. And think of the costs it would've save with forced perspective: he was ACTUALLY 5'3. He also hung out with a grumpy tall dude in a hat (Mike Nesmith.) While we're at it let's just have Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork as Merry & Pippin.
Shelob'sAppetite
But this is only relevant if you thought the LOTR films were well-done as they were [In reply to] Can't Post
I, personally, don't. There were innumerable unsatisfying compressions, etc. that made the films feel less immersive than they otherwise could have been. The conversations were clipped, the narrative plotlines were painted with broad brush-strokes, the story felt rushed, and the peoples of Middle Earth got short shrift (for example, did anyone care at all about the plight of the people of Gondor?)
PJ, I imagine, sees the Hobbit as his opportunity to really flesh out a story set in Midd;e Earth, and not be forced to a compromise between nuanced narrative and action.
In that context, I am delighted that PJ will likely have at least an extra 1.5 hours to tell the story (if, indeed, we end up with three 2.5 hour films, rather than 2 three-hour films). If we can eliminate the choice between action scene and great scene of dialogue, a choice which usually favors the former, then we may all be the happier.
We shall see. There are lots of unknowns. But in general, I think more time gives PJ room to include more stuff that at least feels like Tolkien.
Yeah. I feel a little bad for LOTR [In reply to] Can't Post
It's younger brother is getting as much screen time as the mammoth novel.
Ah well. I do wonder if this will make LOTR seem less epic though.
Empedocles
It's a matter of not judging things before seeing them [In reply to] Can't Post
The way I see it, PJ has won at least the benefit of the doubt. So if he says that the story will work better if he can make 3 movies instead of 2, then he is right until proven otherwise (unless one of the complainers here is Jonathan/Chris Nolan, Joss Whedon or Aaron Sorkin or any other first class screenwriter posting under an alias).
I don't understand how people are saying now that it should be only 1 book, that's ridiculous, it shows a total lack of understanding of how a movie works.
A book can have 300 pages, it might be "lean", but it can still contain a lot of events than when put into the screen take a lot more time than an 800 pages book with multiple secondary insignificant stories and entire pages full of descriptions.
I'm not saying that 3 movies is the right way to go, I actually thought 2 was a perfect number of movies for The Hobbit. But I really don't know, I've been so wrong with movies before that if there's a director I like at the helm, I'm willing to shut my mouth and wait for the movie to be released before starting to complain about it.
And if this actually opens the door for the Hunt of Gollum, Thorongil (Viggo!!!), or even the Battle of Azanulbizar, the Death of Balin or some other significant event, it will be the best idea ever, and everybody here will agree come the summer of 2014
Please, give us back Glorfindel!!!
All I care about is the Hobbit being better than LOTR [In reply to] Can't Post
And if PJ feels that three films will allow him to tell a better, and perhaps more epic, story, than all power to him.
Agreed [In reply to] Can't Post
PJ has made tons and tons of money on his past projects and while there's something to be said for the rich wanting to get richer, I can't help but think he knows these films, along with the LOTR films, are going to be his legacy. I have faith that Peter believes he's making the right move here to tell the story(s) he wants to tell, and that the timing is right.
That having been said, I have little doubt that WB's motives revolve entirely around the almighty dollar. They have shareholders to answer to after all.
"Alas for Boromir! It was too sore a trial!"
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Arathorn
Of course [In reply to] Can't Post
First of all, if LOTR had plenty of poems and descriptions, the Hobbit has plenty of filler as well, but they're more the kind of humoristic dialogue or Tolkien's direct comments on what's going on.
Then, LOTR had a very consistent and complex story - though many side-stories as well. 2/3 of The Hobbit is, basically, a bunch of episodes put one after the other, without much rationale and grand plan that would sustain their sequence. You could change the order of some without losing much, you could even cut half of them when sending the Company to Laketown and the story wouldn't lose any cohesion. At the end of the day, cutting any Hobbit chapter would cut a larger share of the whole book but would be less harmful to the whole than cutting most of LOTR chapters.
I don't mean that stuff should be cut of course, just that any omission would be far less damaging.
So, all in all, I really don't think one could think the Hobbit deserves a ratio of screentime per word 3 times higher than LOTR. Unless we really want to have the trolls chatting for 30 minutes with PJ inventing plenty of bad puns and fart jokes :D (oh dear, and then he reads this comment and thinks to himself "That's it!" ) When we consider books that have a low words-signs / screentime ratio, we mostly deal with kids books like Dr Seuss's or Where the wild Things are - and we should keep in mind that these are vastly complemented by pictures, while we're speaking about the Hobbit, not about Father Christmas' Letters, here :)
Basically, the trick and one of issues here is that when you want to stretch things with the Hobbit, notably by giving more things to do and say to the numerous characters, it means that you have to invent it. And, frankly, the more you have to make stuff up to fill a Tolkien story, the less I expect the end result to be great.
"Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time may start to think."
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Son_of_Gondor74
Precisely! [In reply to] Can't Post
First, just read what PJ wants to intertwine with the narrative of The Hobbit, and you'll see there's plenty of stuff for 3 movies. I'd agree with all the negative nancy's if only The Hobbit novel storyline was diluted, but IT IS NOT SO!!!
Now what is in the appendices of LotR? Backgound and character development, such as Durin's Folk (Thrain and Azanulbizar), Gandalf and Thorin's encounter in Bree, Gandalf prevailing over Saruman in the White Council about Dol Guldur, Balin visiting Bilbo, and going to Moria, Saruman searching for the Ring near the Gladden Field, Sauron escaping in Mordor.
As for the Hobbit movies, they are adaptations; they never are exactly like the books, and I think we should all keep that in mind. Also that we know next to nothing about the scripts, and how they planned everything in the first place, so everyone should calm down a bit...
tiamy
Or... [In reply to] Can't Post
...it could be that PJ decided to use a lot of "slow motion" in the first two movies that it stretched the running time enough to fill in 3 movies. LOL
Remember the excessive use of slow mo in King Kong?
Defintely not. [In reply to] Can't Post
You're selling the filmmakers short. I'm just doubting there's enough material for a 9 hour movie essentially. But had PJ been able to pack all that he wants into 6 hours (2 x 3) he would have.
Let's play this game [In reply to] Can't Post
If Peter Jackson says next year, "you know what, I managed to convince Christopher Tolkien and he wants me to do the Fall of Gondolin and he has licensed the rights to me".
Would you say that that's a terrible idea just because the making of the movie will necessary involve a lot of invented material?
Mooseboy018
How would that work? [In reply to] Can't Post
Even with expanded material, I really don't think the first four chapters of the Hobbit would make a good standalone film.
If they're going to do that with any portion of the story it would make more sense to do it towards the end where they can do what they did with Rohan and Helm's Deep, and have a lot of buildup to the battle while giving the characters more of a chance to develop than they did in the book in some cases. Expanding on a few misadventures and a trip to Rivendell just wouldn't have the same impact.
the first movie would be:
-possible prologue/bookend stuff with Frodo
-dwarves arriving at Bag End
-the trolls
-Rivendell (and any White Council/Dol Guldur stuff)
-the mountain pass/Goblin Town
...it just doesn't seem like a cohesive movie. Especially considering that the first movie up until now was going to end with Barrels out of Bond. If they're going to change where the first movie ends (which sounds likely) then I think ending somewhere in Mirkwood (maybe after the spider battle or at the forest's entrance) would be the only thing that would make sense.
(This post was edited by Mooseboy018 on Jul 30 2012, 8:44pm)
Color me excited [In reply to] Can't Post
With what they can add in its going to make the hobbit better and make for one heck of a ride from the hobbit to the lord of the rings. This is going to be the ride of rides through middle-earth as far as movies go.
AinurOlorin
If The Hobbit is becoming Three full length films, then there will be significant pulling from Peter [In reply to] Can't Post
, Fran and Phillipa's collective asses, appendicies or no. You think we are going to get Three Hobbit movies and not get more Tauriel than you ever imagined? And this Business of The Dunedain trapping The Nazgul? And God knows how much other fan fic, and I would bet we STILL don't get a damned glimpse of Bombadil or Glorfindel or any other "left out" or "mostly left out" from LOTR.
At least Lucas was playing around with his own story. Love it or hate it, it was entirely his to do with as he pleased. But The Hobbit predates Jackson's birth by several decades. . . he might have legal rights to alter it, but the moral legitimacy is another matter altogether.
Why do you guys keep mentioning Star Wars? I don't see George Lucas who's writing the script out of his ass and casting Hayden Christiansen creating Jar Jar Binks. Hobbit, regardless of everything, has amazing story and amazing cast to portray amazing characters. Some thing we must be careful and hopeful about, but come on, saying that this looks like Star Wars prequels is an insult of highest order. What next, Avatar comparison?
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"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
Aragorn the Elfstone
Then they'd be very great indeed... [In reply to] Can't Post
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
- T.E. Lawrence
Hmm i think you are still linking [In reply to] Can't Post
source material volume to film length and comparing it to LOTR.
What I am saying is that, looking at a reasonably large number of examples, that link simply isn't in evidence.
For a very simple example take a look at the HP series. Despite the longest book being around 3.5 times the length of the shortest the length of the films bear absolutely no relationship to the length of the adapted texts.
The Order of the Phoenix is 260,000 words and has a run time of 134 minutes, yet Brokeback Mountain is 138 minutes and adapted from a story with only 5,000 words it it.
LOTR's ratio of words to screen-time meanwhile is more than three times that of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
I fully understand that it is intuitive to assume the to two factors should have a direct relationship but as far as I can see they don't.
A page of text, a paragraph or a sentence do not have any associated quantum of screen time which can be defined in and of itself outside how it happens to be portrayed in anything but the most extremely broad sense, it seems to me.
No Viggo. This is still the Hobbit. // [In reply to] Can't Post
Welsh hero
See the thread about titles [In reply to] Can't Post
sort of why I think that film 2 may contain riddles in the dark
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DesiringDragons
I can't believe I was offline when this news hit! [In reply to] Can't Post
Actually I was in the doctor's waiting room for an ear problem with ONE BAR of internet reception on my cell and going nuts trying to get stuff to load.
So far, I don't like the idea but now it's a done deal and I'm glad they are releasing the third in summer instead of December 2014. At least that's a little bit less of a wait.
...now off to catch up on all the threads I've missed.
Haha! [In reply to] Can't Post
That's hilarious.
And you say excessive use of slo-mo in King Kong? What about it's excessive use in the LOTR films?
PJ has loved slo-mo, for some odd and indecipherable reason, for much of his career. I hope he has come around to the reality that it is a device best used sparingly!
Are you saying [In reply to] Can't Post
that there wasn't any of that in LOTR?
Word! [In reply to] Can't Post
Precisely! The books are the books, and the movies are the movies, period. It's the same source of stories, on different medias. If some people think that the hobbit movies will fail, or are not very good, why watching, or following everything about the movies?
Very cliche, but also true...
How many licks would it take to get to the center of... [In reply to] Can't Post
To the nay-sayers:
How many extra movies would it have taken to film a version of LOTR that included all the parts that got cut?
Zero, assuming that the 33% bloat of poorly-contrived, introduced material was removed. Each theatrical release should have been roughly thirty minutes shorter to include everything essential to the story.
How many extra movies would it have taken to film a version of LOTR that included both the parts that were cut and relevant appendix material?
Zero. There is nothing essential to the narrative in the Appendices... That's why they're appendices.
Think about it ...
Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
Morok Cloudkeeper
Why would you want it to be better in the first place? [In reply to] Can't Post
PJ's filmmaking philosophy never changes.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
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A Rival Sons album showcases their take on rock – warranting comparisons to Led Zeppelin, the Doors, or contemporaries like The Raconteurs. But don’t worry about Rival Sons’ ability to set themselves apart – just catch one of their shows.
Kicking the night off with the first track on their latest release, Hollow Bones, Rival Sons wastes no time indulging their audience with fist-pounding, straight-forward rock anthems. It’s clear right from the gate that there is no drop-off in quality with their live performance. These guys are at the top of their game. “Hollow Bones Pt.1” is a great opener, and the energy stays high as they roll through Hollow Bones tracks “Thundering Voices” and “Tied Up”, followed by the 2014 single “Electric Man.”
The next song, “Secret”, instantly becomes one of the night’s many highlights. The swinging groove reminds me of Led Zeppelin’s fantastic rendition of “How Many More Times.” And as this happens to be my personal favorite Led Zeppelin song, I could not dig it more.
The comparisons don’t stop there. Rival Sons performs the song well past its 4:41 run time on the album, with striking Robert Plant-esque pause breaks from vocalist Jay Buchanan. The improvisational tradeoffs between Buchanan and guitarist Scott Holiday may be the closest I’ll ever get to witnessing what Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did on stage forty years ago.
Rival Sons takes it down a notch to play “Jordan”, the first ballad of the night. I was curious to see if the transition would unmask any sloppiness that may have been hiding within the heavier rock tunes, and was greatly impressed (though not surprised) when Rival Sons displays that they are just as tight on the ballads. With stand-out performances from bassist Dave Beste and drummer Mike Miley, the strong rhythm section patiently leads the band to a well-deserved crescendo, featuring stand out harmonies from Beste and keyboard player Todd Ögren-Brooks.
As the rest of the band leaves the stage, Holiday straps on his red Fender Jazzmaster, and joins Buchanan in a mournful, traditional blues piece that makes one think of Robert Johnson or Mississippi Fred McDowell. This break shows that Rival Sons’ influences go beyond classic rock, and into American music’s long-stretched roots.
“Torture” yanks the audience back into the action, complete with crowd sing-a-long parts and call-backs to the rock anthems that began the set. “Face of Light” is a song of reflection and resolve; and as Buchanan puts it, is about “your children making you want to be a better man.” “Tell Me Something” sounds like it should be featured in the latest action movie, so it comes as no surprise when I later find out that Rival Sons were on the soundtrack for the 2011 action movie Real Steel. And “Open My Eyes” is, without question, the kind of song you can imagine listening to while driving through a desert highway in Arizona.
Rival Sons set the stage for “Open My Eyes” with a insane guitar solo from Holiday. He cuts from blues shuffles into straight shredding and doesn’t skip a beat. And speaking of beat, “Open My Eyes” is followed by Miley getting his own shot at captivating the audience with a blistering six minute drum solo that would get John Bonham’s nod of approval.
Before playing “Hollow Bones Pt.2”, Buchanan pauses to explain that the song started out as a free form jam before becoming a “religious song of praise”, and is “about being lost and getting found.” The song begins slowly with a half-time groove which allows Buchanan’s vocals to rise above the music. And for the first time tonight, I find the music taking a backseat to the lyrics, as if to say, “Hey, pay attention to this part.” It’s a long song; complete with an extended period of improvised guitar soloing before exploding into badass “hallelujahs.”
With the crowd eager to join in on one last anthem, Buchanan takes a moment to thank the venue crew; their tour manager: the drum and guitar techs; the bus driver; and the house engineer before doing their own band introductions. It’s a great moment and gets rounds of applause at each recognition made. Rival Sons then lays into their closer, “Keep On Swinging”, and the crowd sings out “I keep my head down/But I keep on swingin’” as if it were their last words. So many songs could be great high points to end on – this was the perfect one.
It’s difficult to stand out in rock. A Rival Sons concert makes you listen to rock music with fresh ears. Their performance takes their excellent studio recordings, and makes them better; and isn’t that the sign of a great band? Rival Sons are a classic good time -a time not soon forgotten.
– review by Justin Christensen
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Tinker timeline
by Matt Patterson
Published: Mon, January 30, 2017 12:00 AM
Since it's early beginnings Tinker Air Force Base has been an important part of central Oklahoma. From World War II aircraft production, to presidential visits. Here's a look back at the base's history.
Twelve Oklahoma City civic leaders meet to establish the Industries Foundation, a trust through which the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce can buy land and facilities for an aircraft factory.
R.A. Singletary of the Chamber's Washington office learns that the Army Air Corps
plans an air depot in the Midwest and that the Corps is considering Oklahoma City a potential site.
11 Jan.
The Air Corps announce s a plan to build a training base near Yukon, Okla.
The Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce submits data to the War Department on two
air depot sites: one north of Norman on State Highway 74 and one on SE 29th Street.
8 Mar.
Air Corps site selection board arrive s in Oklahoma City. Industries Foundation and
Oklahoma City officials meet the board's specific requirements and obtain assurance that a depot
shall be built on SE 29th Street.
8 Apr.
Robert Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War, announces Oklahoma City will be the site of a new air materiel depot, which will cost $14 million, cover 1,500 acres, and employ 3,500 people.
Oklahoma City voters pass a $982,000 bond issue to purchase land for the military installation.
The depot is designated “Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City.”
The Oklahoma City, Ada & Atoka Railroad begins building a spur line to the depot site.
Construction of Midwest Air Depot begins
Formal groundbreaking ceremonies are conducted.
The Army announces the purchase of over 300 additional acres of land for the depot.
The Office of Production Management announces plans to manufacture 1,000 bombers
and a comparative number of other aircraft per month. Oklahoma City tops
the list of five possible plant sites.
The United States Senate approves nearly $7 million more for construction of the
Midwest Air Depot, raising the total to $21,036,215.
The Army Air Forces awards the Douglas assembly plant to Oklahoma City. The plant, adjacent to the Midwest City Air Depot, will employ 24,000 people, cost $20,000,000, and will
build C-47 cargo planes.
The depot receives a new name: Oklahoma City Air Depot. The base is officially activated.
The Chamber of Commerce suggests the War Department name the depot installation
Tinker Field in memory of Oklahoma native, Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, whose aircraft was
lost in the Pacific theater in June.
Civilian employees at the depot number 9,000.
Upon its completion, the Douglas aircraft plant begins production of cargo planes.
A tornado strikes west of Tinker. The base hospital helps 65 injured victims. Twenty
three people require hospitalization.
The Douglas aircraft plant ceases production. From March 1943 to August 1945, it
produces 5,354 C-47 cargo planes and spare parts for 500 more; and assembles 400 C-54 cargo
planes and 900 A-26 attack bombers.
8 Jan.
A fire in Building 230 kills 10 maintenance personnel.
Personnel cuts in 1946 reduce Tinker employment to 14,212.
13 Jan.Tinker Field becomes Tinker AFB.
A devastating tornado strikes the base in the late evening. It results in eight people injured and $10,000,000 in damage to aircraft and buildings. Fifty airplanes are destroyed and 50
others damaged.
The second tornado to strike within a week hits the base and damages 84 planes, 35
beyond repair. Projected damages reach $6,000,000 with one personal injury.
Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area's production line becomes a 100 percent jet engine
production line.
The base installs its first IBM 702 electronic data processing machine.
The first B-52 lands at Tinker AFB on the reconstructed north/south runway.
An F-89 aircraft crashes and kills the pilot during a landing attempt. The aircraft
canopy hits and damages a house on Red Bud Drive in Midwest City.
Tinker Diagonal ground breaking is held near the twin water towers of Area A.
Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area receives its first B-52G.
The Air Force Materiel Command becomes the Air Force Logistics Command.
|An F-100 jet fighter crashes in the Glenwood Addition, 300 block of Ferguson Street,
Midwest City. The crash kills two children and destroys several homes.
The Tinker Diagonal Highway is dedicated.
President John F. Kennedy visits Tinker to attend U.S . Sen. Robert S. Kerr’s funeral in
Oklahoma City.
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden of Great Britain visit Tinker AFB.
Tinker AFB employment reaches the highest point in its history. There are 24,778 civilians and 4,404 military members assigned to Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area and tenant
units.
A ribbon cutting ceremony takes place that opens 15 new military family housing buildings containing 50 units. These are the first of 162 new housing units.
Tinker and the Air Force donate a B-52 Stratofortress to the State Fair of Oklahoma for permanent display at the fairgrounds.
President Gerald Ford, on board Air Force One, lands at Tinker. Maj. Gen. James G. Randolph, OC-ALC commander, greets him. The President departs the next day.
The first Airborne Warning and Control System E-3A aircraft arrives at Tinker AFB.
President-elect and Mrs. Ronald Reagan make the first of three visits to Tinker AFB prior to Inauguration Day. As their presidential plane is refueled, they visit with Gen. and Mrs. Jay T. Edwards.
Gov. George Nigh, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and thousands of spectators celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tinker AFB's establishment at an open house.
The space shuttle “Columbia” lands at Tinker AFB for an overnight stopover following its first orbital mission and touchdown in the California desert. Over 200,000 sightseers greet the shuttle, which rides securely on the back of a Boeing 747.
A major 40-hour fire begins on the north end of Building 3001 when a spark from a welders cutting torch ignites roofing material.
1 Jul.
Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards announces that the U.S. Navy agrees to locate a new squadron of communications aircraft at Tinker AFB. He says the decision could mean as
many as 1,400 new military and civilian jobs for the Oklahoma City area.
A ribbon cutting ceremony officially welcomes the B-1B aircraft to Tinker AFB.
To avoid stormy weather, the space shuttle Discovery, attached atop a Boeing 747, makes an unscheduled overnight stop at Tinker AFB.
5 Jun.
Oklahoma Gov. David Walters and a congressional delegation of Representatives Ernest Istook, Dave McCurdy, Bill Brewster and Glenn English, and U.S. Sen. David Boren tour the base and meet with members of the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC).
7 Feb.
The Pentagon announces OC-ALC will continue to be the primary location for repairs on the B-52 bombers' engines, avionics and computer software.
Within hours of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Tinker AFB workers rush to the scene aiding in the response. Among those killed in the explosion are Tinker assignees Airman 1stm Class Lakesha Levy of the 72nd Medical Group and Airman 1st Class Cartney McRaven of the 32nd Combat Communications Squadron.
President and Mrs. Bill Clinton arrive at Tinker AFB to attend the nationally televised memorial service for the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Gen. Richard Hawley, Air Combat Command commander; Maj. Gen. Charles H. Perez, OC-ALC commander; U.S. Sen. James Inhofe and Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin help dedicate the Air Force's 11th B-2 bomber the “Spirit of Oklahoma,”during a special naming ceremony at Tinker AFB.
Nine Tinker entry gates are renamed for past aviation leaders and significant aircraft from Tinker AFB's history. Th e new names are Tinker Gate (1), Eaker Gate (2), Turnbull Gate (3), Hruskocy Gate (7), Gott Gate (34), Vance Gate (40), Lancer Gate (20), Liberator Gate (21),
and Marauder Gate (29).
The space shuttle “Atlantis,” riding atop a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 747, spends three days at Tinker AFB when rainstorms at Kelly AFB, Texas, divert its planned flight from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (AFS), Fla.,to Palmdale, Calif. for maintenance.
A tornado causes death and destruction as it wipes out parts of nearby Moore, Del City, and Midwest City. The extreme northwest corner of Tinker AFBis also hit.
President Bill Clinton lands at Tinker AFB to survey the destruction of the massive tornado.
A $50 million bond election to fund the removal of private homes adjacent to the northeast corner of Tinker AFB is passed by Oklahoma County voters.
8 Nov.
Tinker AFB’s new $16 million commissary opens near the southeast corner of Air Depot and Interstate 40.
President Barack Obama arrives at Tinker AFB aboard Air Force One to spend the night in Oklahoma City
The new 171,000 square-foot Tinker AFB Clinic, Building 1094, is dedicated. It is open
for business two weeks later.
The Civilian Furlough begins. Each DoD civilian employee takes one day of unpaid leave each week on average. The furlough continues through 6 August, when Secretary of Defense, Charles Hagel, reduces the impact from 11 to six furlough days for DoD civilian employees.
Source: Tinker Air Force Base Public Affairs
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $43.7 Billion
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2017-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016.
Operating cash flow increased 38% to $16.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $11.9 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow increased to $9.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $7.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less lease principal repayments increased to $5.7 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $4.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015. Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases increased to $3.9 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $2.5 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2015.
Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 497 million on December 31, 2016, compared with 490 million one year ago.
Fourth Quarter 2016
Net sales increased 22% to $43.7 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $35.7 billion in fourth quarter 2015. Excluding the $558 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 24% compared with fourth quarter 2015.
Operating income increased 13% to $1.3 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $1.1 billion in fourth quarter 2015.
Net income was $749 million in the fourth quarter, or $1.54 per diluted share, compared with net income of $482 million, or $1.00 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2015.
Full Year 2016
Net sales increased 27% to $136.0 billion, compared with $107.0 billion in 2015. Excluding the $550 million unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 28% compared with 2015.
Operating income was $4.2 billion, compared with operating income of $2.2 billion in 2015.
Net income was $2.4 billion, or $4.90 per diluted share, compared with net income of $596 million, or $1.25 per diluted share, in 2015.
“Our Prime team’s customer obsession kept them busy in 2016,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “Prime members can now choose from over 50 million items with free two-day shipping — up 73% since 2015. Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries and territories. Prime Now added 18 new cities, which means millions more members now get one and two hour delivery. New benefits were also added to the list, like Prime Reading, Audible Channels for Prime, Twitch Prime and more. And customers noticed — tens of millions of new paid members joined the program in just this past year.”
Amazon announced that it will create more than 100,000 new, full-time, full-benefit jobs in the U.S. over the next 18 months, and will include positions across the country for all types of experience, education, and skill levels.
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) delivered more than two billion units on behalf of sellers in 2016, and the number of active sellers using FBA grew more than 70%. Using the FBA service, Amazon sellers from more than 130 countries fulfilled orders to customers in 185 countries.
In 2016, there were over 100,000 sellers with sales of more than $100,000 selling on Amazon.
In the fourth quarter, FBA units represented more than 55% of total third-party units.
Amazon introduced Amazon Go in Seattle, a new kind of store with no checkout required. With Just Walk Out Shopping, customers simply take the products they want, and go. Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by the same types of technologies used in self-driving cars: computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning.
In 2016, the U.S. Prime program added Prime Reading, Twitch Prime, Audible Channels for Prime, and the Prime Photo Family Vault as new Prime-exclusive digital benefits.
Prime members engaged with the Prime digital benefits at a voracious rate, more than doubling the number of video, music, and reading activities compared to 2015.
Amazon introduced Prime Video to customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe, giving customers access to unlimited streaming of Amazon’s popular and award-winning Original Series, including The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle, and Transparent, as well as popular Hollywood movies and TV shows. Prime Video is now automatically available at no additional cost to Amazon Prime members in Belgium, Canada, France, India, Italy, and Spain.
Prime Video is now available on Amazon.in, offering Prime members in India the largest selection of new release Bollywood and regional Indian blockbusters, Hollywood movies, day-after-broadcast U.S. TV shows, kids’ programming, and award-winning Amazon Original Series. Amazon also announced the start of production of new Indian Amazon Original Series featuring top Indian talent and filmmakers, which will be available exclusively to Prime members in India.
The debut episode of The Grand Tour was the biggest show premiere ever on Prime Video, with millions of Prime members streaming the first episode in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria, and Japan over the opening weekend.
Amazon Studios released Manchester by the Sea, The Salesman, Paterson, and Gimme Danger in theaters nationwide.
Amazon Studios was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Manchester by the Sea), Best Director (Kenneth Lonergan), and Best Foreign Language Film (The Salesman).
Amazon Studios was nominated for 11 Golden Globes and received two awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath.
Amazon Music Unlimited expanded to Austria, Germany, and the U.K. with over 40 million songs, hand-curated playlists, and personalized stations. Prime members in those countries can access Amazon Music Unlimited at a breakthrough price (€7.99/£7.99 per month), while the exclusive “for Echo” subscription plan is available to all customers for only €3.99/£3.99 per month. All customers listening to Amazon Music Unlimited on Echo, Echo Dot, or Amazon Tap can access their favorite music with new natural language voice controls powered by Alexa.
Alexa-enabled devices were the top-selling products across all categories on Amazon.com this holiday season. Customers purchased and gifted a record-setting number of devices from the Amazon Echo family with sales up over 9x compared to last holiday season.
Customers purchased millions of Fire tablets this holiday season. Additionally, Amazon brought Alexa to Fire HD 10, Fire HD 8, and other Fire tablets via a free software update, making it easy for customers to enjoy endless entertainment at the touch of a button.
Amazon sold millions of Fire TV devices this holiday season. The new Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote has received over 25,000 5-star customer reviews in just three months, and Amazon released a free, over-the-air software update delivering a new user interface that makes finding what to watch next even easier and more enjoyable.
Third-party developers released more than 4,000 new Alexa Skills since October, including ADT, AT&T, CBS, Pizza Hut, and The Wall Street Journal. Tens of thousands of developers are building skills for Alexa.
Tens of thousands of developers are using the Alexa Voice Service to integrate Alexa into their products, including Dish DVRs, Ford and Volkswagen vehicles, GE C Lamp, Huawei Mate 9, LG Smart Instaview fridge, and Whirlpool appliances.
Amazon selected 12 teams to participate in the inaugural Alexa Prize, an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational artificial intelligence. The teams are building socialbots on Alexa that will converse with humans on popular topics and news events, and the winner will be announced at Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2017.
Dash Button is now available in a number of countries throughout Europe and Japan. Prime members can now order hundreds of products from dozens of popular brands with the press of a button.
Amazon launched Prime in China, offering Prime members unlimited, free cross-border shipping on millions of authentic international products from the Amazon Global Store and unlimited, free shipping with no minimum purchase on more than nine million domestic items.
Amazon Launchpad expanded to Canada, India, and Japan and has worked with over 100 leading venture capital firms, startup accelerators, and crowd-funding platforms to help startups launch products in China, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.
Amazon and Chase introduced the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card offering Prime members 5% back at Amazon.com, 2% back at restaurants, gas stations, and drugstores, and 1% back on every other purchase.
Amazon Prime Air, the service that uses drones to safely deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less, made its first delivery in December. The delivery marks the start of a limited, private trial for customers in a select area of the U.K.
Amazon announced six renewable energy projects during the quarter, including Amazon Wind Farm U.S. Central 2 in Ohio and five new solar farms across the Commonwealth of Virginia, which support the development of an additional 369 megawatts of renewable energy.
With millions of active customers, AWS continues to grow, and enterprise customers have committed to migrating tens of thousands of applications to AWS, including: Workday selected AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider for customer production workloads; Capital One selected AWS as its predominant cloud infrastructure provider; shipping carrier Matson has closed all of its data centers, completing an “all-in” migration to AWS; McDonald’s is transforming its digital-facing properties with AWS; the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is going “all-in” on AWS for their data analytics platform, which analyzes up to 75 billion market events daily; and Enel has already moved more than 5,000 servers to AWS as it transforms its technology infrastructure on AWS.
AWS hosted re:Invent 2016, its fifth annual customer and partner conference, with over 30,000 attendees and over 50,000 streaming participants.
AWS accelerated its infrastructure expansion in 2016, opening eleven Availability Zones across five geographic regions in the U.S., Korea, India, and most recently, Canada and the U.K. AWS now operates 42 Availability Zones across 16 infrastructure regions globally and plans to open an additional five Availability Zones in two regions (France and a second region in China) in the coming months.
AWS announced that customers migrated more than 18,000 databases using the AWS Database Migration Service in 2016.
AWS continues to accelerate its pace of innovation with the release of 308 significant new services and features in the fourth quarter, bringing the total number of launches in 2016 to 1,017.
AWS announced three Artificial Intelligence (AI) services that make it easy for any developer to build apps that can understand natural language, turn text into lifelike speech, have conversations using voice or text, analyze images and recognize faces, objects, and scenes. Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition are based on the same proven, highly scalable AI technology built by the thousands of deep learning and machine learning experts across Amazon. AWS also announced a significant investment in MXNet, an open source distributed deep learning framework. AWS will contribute code and improve the MXNet developer experience to enable machine learning scientists to build scalable deep learning models that can significantly reduce the training time for their applications.
AWS announced Amazon Athena, a pay-as-you-go, interactive query service that makes it easy for customers to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Amazon Athena at their data stored in Amazon S3 and begin using standard SQL to run queries and get results in seconds. With Amazon Athena there are no clusters to manage and tune, no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run.
AWS announced AWS Greengrass and AWS Snowball Edge, hybrid services that help customers extend the power of the AWS Cloud to connected devices and other environments that exist beyond the network edge.
AWS announced AWS Snowmobile, an Exabyte-scale data transfer service that customers can use to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. Each Snowmobile is a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck that is capable of moving up to 100 PB of data — from video libraries and image repositories to entire data centers — to the AWS Cloud in as little as a few weeks.
AWS announced seven new compute services and capabilities to support an even wider range of applications, introducing the next generations of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and High input/output (I/O) instances, adding a way for customers to get started quickly with virtual private servers (VPS) through Amazon Lightsail, and delivering hardware acceleration with Elastic GPUs and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-enabled F1 instances.
AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Aurora to include full PostgreSQL compatibility. With Amazon Aurora’s new PostgreSQL support, customers can get up to several times better performance than the typical PostgreSQL database and take advantage of the scalability, durability, and security capabilities of Amazon Aurora — all for one-tenth the cost of commercial grade databases.
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon QuickSight, a very fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy for all employees, regardless of their technical skill, to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data at one-tenth the cost of traditional solutions.
The following forward-looking statements reflect Amazon.com’s expectations as of February 2, 2017, and are subject to substantial uncertainty. Our results are inherently unpredictable and may be materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and customer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet, online commerce, and cloud services, and the various factors detailed below.
First Quarter 2017 Guidance
Net sales are expected to be between $33.25 billion and $35.75 billion, or to grow between 14% and 23% compared with first quarter 2016. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately $730 million or 250 basis points from foreign exchange rates.
Operating income is expected to be between $250 million and $900 million, compared with $1.1 billion in first quarter 2016.
This guidance assumes, among other things, that no additional business acquisitions, investments, restructurings, or legal settlements are concluded.
A conference call will be webcast live today at 2:30 p.m. PT/5:30 p.m. ET, and will be available for at least three months at www.amazon.com/ir. This call will contain forward-looking statements and other material information regarding the Company’s financial and operating results.
These forward-looking statements are inherently difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially for a variety of reasons, including, in addition to the factors discussed above, the amount that Amazon.com invests in new business opportunities and the timing of those investments, the mix of products and services sold to customers, the mix of net sales derived from products as compared with services, the extent to which we owe income or other taxes, competition, management of growth, potential fluctuations in operating results, international growth and expansion, the outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment, sortation, delivery, and data center optimization, risks of inventory management, seasonality, the degree to which the Company enters into, maintains, and develops commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, payments risks, and risks of fulfillment throughput and productivity. Other risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks related to new products, services, and technologies, system interruptions, government regulation and taxation, and fraud. In addition, the current global economic climate amplifies many of these risks. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
Our investor relations website is www.amazon.com/ir and we encourage investors to use it as a way of easily finding information about us. We promptly make available on this website, free of charge, the reports that we file or furnish with the SEC, corporate governance information (including our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics), and select press releases and social media postings, which may contain material information about us, and you may subscribe to be notified of new information posted to this site.
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit www.amazon.com/about.
Twelve Months Ended
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF PERIOD $ 10,709 $ 13,656 $ 14,557 $ 15,890
OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income 482 749 596 2,371
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash from operating activities:
Depreciation of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, and other amortization, including capitalized content costs 1,752 2,297 6,281 8,116
Stock-based compensation 606 887 2,119 2,975
Other operating expense, net 35 31 155 160
Other expense (income), net 80 21 250 (20 )
Deferred income taxes 190 (282 ) 81 (246 )
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation 93 (336 ) (119 ) (829 )
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Inventories (1,343 ) (1,043 ) (2,187 ) (1,426 )
Accounts receivable, net and other (1,178 ) (1,924 ) (1,755 ) (3,367 )
Accounts payable 6,140 7,283 4,294 5,030
Accrued expenses and other 1,836 2,254 913 1,724
Additions to unearned revenue 2,422 3,975 7,401 11,931
Amortization of previously unearned revenue (2,303 ) (3,261 ) (6,109 ) (9,976 )
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities 8,812 10,651 11,920 16,443
INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net (1,309 ) (2,005 ) (4,589 ) (6,737 )
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and other (317 ) (3 ) (795 ) (116 )
Sales and maturities of marketable securities 1,135 1,233 3,025 4,733
Purchases of marketable securities (1,359 ) (3,399 ) (4,091 ) (7,756 )
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (1,850 ) (4,174 ) (6,450 ) (9,876 )
FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation (93 ) 336 119 829
Proceeds from long-term debt and other 93 537 353 621
Repayments of long-term debt and other (940 ) (84 ) (1,652 ) (354 )
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations (724 ) (1,004 ) (2,462 ) (3,860 )
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations (26 ) (41 ) (121 ) (147 )
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities (1,690 ) (256 ) (3,763 ) (2,911 )
Foreign currency effect on cash and cash equivalents (91 ) (543 ) (374 ) (212 )
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 5,181 5,678 1,333 3,444
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF PERIOD $ 15,890 $ 19,334 $ 15,890 $ 19,334
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Cash paid for interest on long-term debt $ 148 $ 144 $ 325 $ 290
Cash paid for interest on capital and finance lease obligations 44 61 153 206
Cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds 73 95 273 412
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases 1,332 2,038 4,717 5,704
Property and equipment acquired under build-to-suit leases 163 416 544 1,209
December 31, Twelve Months Ended
Net product sales $ 26,618 $ 30,629 $ 79,268 $ 94,665
Net service sales 9,129 13,112 27,738 41,322
Total net sales 35,747 43,741 107,006 135,987
Cost of sales 24,341 28,958 71,651 88,265
Fulfillment 4,546 5,719 13,410 17,619
Marketing 1,755 2,513 5,254 7,233
Technology and content 3,571 4,545 12,540 16,085
General and administrative 390 717 1,747 2,432
Total operating expenses 34,639 42,486 104,773 131,801
Operating income 1,108 1,255 2,233 4,186
Interest income 13 30 50 100
Interest expense (115 ) (133 ) (459 ) (484 )
Other income (expense), net (68 ) 14 (256 ) 90
Total non-operating income (expense) (170 ) (89 ) (665 ) (294 )
Income before income taxes 938 1,166 1,568 3,892
Provision for income taxes (453 ) (414 ) (950 ) (1,425 )
Equity-method investment activity, net of tax (3 ) (3 ) (22 ) (96 )
Net income $ 482 $ 749 $ 596 $ 2,371
Basic earnings per share $ 1.03 $ 1.57 $ 1.28 $ 5.01
Diluted earnings per share $ 1.00 $ 1.54 $ 1.25 $ 4.90
Weighted-average shares used in computation of earnings per share:
Basic 470 476 467 474
Diluted 481 486 477 484
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustments, net of tax of $7, $(68), $10, and $(49) (40 ) (412 ) (210 ) (279 )
Net change in unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities:
Unrealized gains (losses), net of tax of $1, $22, $(5), and $(12) (9 ) (54 ) (7 ) 9
Reclassification adjustment for losses (gains) included in “Other income (expense), net,” net of tax of $0, $0, $0, and $0 1 3 5 8
Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities (8 ) (51 ) (2 ) 17
Total other comprehensive income (loss)
(48 ) (463 ) (212 ) (262 )
Comprehensive income (loss) $ 434 $ 286 $ 384 $ 2,109
Net sales $ 21,501 $ 26,240 $ 63,708 $ 79,785
Operating expenses 20,498 24,916 60,957 75,686
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other 1,003 1,324 2,751 4,099
Stock-based compensation and other 367 508 1,326 1,738
Operating income $ 636 $ 816 $ 1,425 $ 2,361
Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other 60 (254 ) (91 ) (477 )
Stock-based compensation and other 168 233 608 806
Operating income (loss) $ (108 ) $ (487 ) $ (699 ) $ (1,283 )
Net sales $ 2,405 $ 3,536 $ 7,880 $ 12,219
Operating expenses 1,718 2,430 6,017 8,513
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other 687 1,106 1,863 3,706
Net sales $ 35,747 $ 43,741 $ 107,006 $ 135,987
Operating expenses 33,997 41,565 102,483 128,659
Segment Highlights:
Y/Y net sales growth:
North America 24 % 22 % 25 % 25 %
International 12 18 6 24
AWS 69 47 70 55
Consolidated 22 22 20 27
Net sales mix:
International 33 32 33 32
AWS 7 8 7 9
Consolidated 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
Supplemental Net Sales Information
Net Sales:
Media $ 3,931 $ 4,208 $ 12,483 $ 13,580
Electronics and other general merchandise 17,325 21,590 50,401 64,887
Other (1) 245 442 824 1,318
Total North America $ 21,501 $ 26,240 $ 63,708 $ 79,785
Electronics and other general merchandise 8,491 10,514 25,196 33,107
Other (1) 58 74 196 245
Total International $ 11,841 $ 13,965 $ 35,418 $ 43,983
Year-over-year Percentage Growth:
Media 11 % 7 % 8 % 9 %
Electronics and other general merchandise 28 25 31 29
Other (6 ) 81 10 60
Total North America 24 22 25 25
Media (3 )% 3 % (8 )% 6 %
Other (3 ) 26 (3 ) 25
Total International 12 18 6 24
Year-over-year Percentage Growth, excluding the effect of foreign exchange rates:
Media 5 % 7 % 4 % 7 %
Other 5 36 10 30
Total International 22 23 21 26
(1) Includes sales from non-retail activities, such as certain advertising services and our co-branded credit card agreements.
Marketable securities 3,918 6,647
Inventories 10,243 11,461
Accounts receivable, net and other 5,654 8,339
Other assets 3,445 4,723
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Accounts payable $ 20,397 $ 25,309
Accrued expenses and other 10,372 13,739
Unearned revenue 3,118 4,768
Long-term debt 8,227 7,694
Other long-term liabilities 9,249 12,607
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value:
Authorized shares — 500
Issued and outstanding shares — none — —
Common stock, $0.01 par value:
Authorized shares — 5,000
Issued shares — 494 and 500
Outstanding shares — 471 and 477 5 5
Treasury stock, at cost (1,837 ) (1,837 )
Additional paid-in capital 13,394 17,186
Accumulated other comprehensive loss (723 ) (985 )
Retained earnings 2,545 4,916
Total stockholders’ equity 13,384 19,285
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity $ 64,747 $ 83,402
Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics
Q3 2015 Q4 2015 Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2016
Y/Y %
Cash Flows and Shares
Operating cash flow -- trailing twelve months (TTM) $ 9,823 $ 11,920 $ 11,258 $ 12,726 $ 14,603 $ 16,443 38 %
Operating cash flow -- TTM Y/Y growth 72 % 74 % 44 % 42 % 49 % 38 % N/A
Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net -- TTM $ 4,424 $ 4,589 $ 4,897 $ 5,395 $ 6,040 $ 6,737 47 %
Principal repayments of capital lease obligations -- TTM $ 2,144 $ 2,462 $ 2,761 $ 3,298 $ 3,579 $ 3,860 57 %
Principal repayments of finance lease obligations -- TTM $ 163 $ 121 $ 111 $ 108 $ 131 $ 147 21 %
Property and equipment acquired under capital leases -- TTM $ 4,599 $ 4,717 $ 4,638 $ 4,676 $ 4,998 $ 5,704 21 %
Free cash flow -- TTM (1) $ 5,399 $ 7,331 $ 6,361 $ 7,331 $ 8,563 $ 9,706 32 %
Free cash flow less lease principal repayments -- TTM (2) $ 3,092 $ 4,748 $ 3,489 $ 3,925 $ 4,853 $ 5,699 20 %
Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases -- TTM (3) $ 637 $ 2,493 $ 1,612 $ 2,547 $ 3,434 $ 3,855 55 %
Invested capital (4) $ 28,860 $ 31,393 $ 32,824 $ 34,695 $ 36,722 $ 39,126 25 %
Common shares and stock-based awards outstanding 489 490 490 495 496 497 1 %
Common shares outstanding 469 471 472 474 475 477 1 %
Stock-based awards outstanding 20 19 18 21 21 20 4 %
Stock-based awards outstanding -- % of common shares outstanding 4.3 % 4.1 % 3.9 % 4.4 % 4.4 % 4.2 % N/A
Results of Operations
Worldwide (WW) net sales $ 25,358 $ 35,747 $ 29,128 $ 30,404 $ 32,714 $ 43,741 22 %
WW net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 30 % 26 % 29 % 30 % 29 % 24 % N/A
WW net sales -- TTM $ 100,588 $ 107,006 $ 113,418 $ 120,637 $ 127,993 $ 135,987 27 %
WW net sales -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 24 % 26 % 28 % 29 % 28 % 28 % N/A
Operating income $ 406 $ 1,108 $ 1,071 $ 1,285 $ 575 $ 1,255 13 %
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 25 $ 20 $ 50 $ 45 $ 8 $ 7 N/A
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X N/A 84 % 300 % 168 % 40 % 13 % N/A
Operating margin -- % of WW net sales 1.6 % 3.1 % 3.7 % 4.2 % 1.8 % 2.9 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 1,715 $ 2,233 $ 3,049 $ 3,871 $ 4,040 $ 4,186 87 %
Operating income -- TTM Y/Y growth, excluding F/X N/A N/A 933 % 388 % 128 % 83 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of WW net sales 1.7 % 2.1 % 2.7 % 3.2 % 3.2 % 3.1 % N/A
Net income $ 79 $ 482 $ 513 $ 857 $ 252 $ 749 55 %
Net income per diluted share $ 0.17 $ 1.00 $ 1.07 $ 1.78 $ 0.52 $ 1.54 54 %
Net income -- TTM $ 328 $ 596 $ 1,166 $ 1,931 $ 2,105 $ 2,371 298 %
Net income per diluted share -- TTM $ 0.69 $ 1.25 $ 2.43 $ 4.02 $ 4.38 $ 4.90 292 %
(1) Free cash flow is cash flow from operations reduced by “Purchases of property and equipment, including internal-use software and website development, net,” which is included in cash flow from investing activities.
(2) Free cash flow less lease principal repayments is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of capital lease obligations,” and “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities.
(3) Free cash flow less finance lease principal repayments and assets acquired under capital leases is free cash flow reduced by “Principal repayments of finance lease obligations,” which are included in cash flow from financing activities, and property and equipment acquired under capital leases. In this measure, property and equipment acquired under capital leases is reflected as if these assets had been purchased with cash, which is not the case as these assets have been leased.
(4) Average Total Assets minus Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of Long-Term Debt and current portion of capital lease obligations and finance lease obligations) over five quarter ends.
North America Segment:
Net sales $ 15,006 $ 21,501 $ 16,996 $ 17,674 $ 18,874 $ 26,240 22 %
Net sales -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 29 % 24 % 27 % 28 % 26 % 22 % N/A
Net sales -- TTM $ 59,540 $ 63,708 $ 67,299 $ 71,176 $ 75,045 $ 79,785 25 %
Operating income before stock-based compensation and other:
Operating income $ 528 $ 1,003 $ 924 $ 1,157 $ 694 $ 1,324 32 %
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X N/A 36 % 78 % 64 % 30 % 30 % N/A
Operating margin -- % of North America net sales 3.5 % 4.7 % 5.4 % 6.6 % 3.7 % 5.0 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 4.2 % 4.3 % 4.7 % 5.1 % 5.0 % 5.1 % N/A
Operating Income:
Operating income $ 186 $ 636 $ 588 $ 702 $ 255 $ 816 28 %
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 11 $ 6 $ 5 $ 5 $ 6 $ 11 N/A
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 129 % 100 % 34 % 26 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 1,425 $ 1,759 $ 2,113 $ 2,182 $ 2,361 66 %
Operating margin -- TTM % of North America net sales 2.2 % 2.6 % 3.0 % 2.9 % 3.0 % N/A
International Segment:
Net sales $ 8,267 $ 11,841 $ 9,566 $ 9,844 $ 10,609 $ 13,965 18 %
Operating income (loss) before stock-based compensation and other:
Operating income (loss) $ (56 ) $ 60 $ 20 $ 88 $ (332 ) $ (254 ) N/A
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X N/A 65 % N/A N/A 539 % N/A N/A
Operating margin -- % of International net sales (0.7 )% 0.5 % 0.2 % 0.9 % (3.1 )% (1.8 )% N/A
Operating income (loss) -- TTM $ (86 ) $ (91 ) $ 6 $ 113 $ (163 ) $ (477 ) 426 %
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales (0.3 )% (0.3 )% — % 0.3 % (0.4 )% (1.1 )% N/A
Operating income (loss):
Operating income (loss) $ (208 ) $ (108 ) $ (121 ) $ (135 ) $ (541 ) $ (487 ) 349 %
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ (64 ) $ (47 ) $ 21 $ 40 $ 22 $ 5 N/A
Operating income/loss -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X (27 )% (8 )% 171 % 354 % N/A
Operating margin -- % of International net sales (2.5 )% (0.9 )% (1.3 )% (1.4 )% (5.1 )% (3.5 )% N/A
Operating income (loss) -- TTM $ (699 ) $ (626 ) $ (571 ) $ (905 ) $ (1,283 ) 83 %
Operating margin -- TTM % of International net sales (2.0 )% (1.7 )% (1.4 )% (2.2 )% (2.9 )% N/A
Q3 2015 Q4 2015 Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2016 Y/Y %
Segments (continued)
AWS Segment:
Net sales $ 2,085 $ 2,405 $ 2,566 $ 2,886 $ 3,231 $ 3,536 47 %
Net sales -- TTM $ 6,894 $ 7,880 $ 8,880 $ 9,943 $ 11,088 $ 12,219 55 %
Operating income $ 521 $ 687 $ 716 $ 863 $ 1,021 $ 1,106 61 %
Operating income -- Y/Y growth (decline), excluding F/X 353 % 161 % 161 % 121 % 100 % 62 % N/A
Operating margin -- % of AWS net sales 25.0 % 28.5 % 27.9 % 29.9 % 31.6 % 31.3 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales 20.6 % 23.6 % 26.1 % 28.0 % 29.6 % 30.3 % N/A
FX impact -- favorable (unfavorable) $ 78 $ 60 $ 24 $ — $ (20 ) $ (9 ) N/A
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 198 % 136 % 106 % 61 % N/A
Operating income -- TTM $ 1,507 $ 1,916 $ 2,329 $ 2,762 $ 3,108 106 %
Operating margin -- TTM % of AWS net sales 19.1 % 21.6 % 23.4 % 24.9 % 25.4 % N/A
Consolidated Segments Before Stock-Based Compensation and Other:
Operating income $ 993 $ 1,750 $ 1,660 $ 2,108 $ 1,383 $ 2,176 24 %
Operating income -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X N/A 67 % 128 % 92 % 38 % 23 % N/A
Operating margin -- % of Consolidated net sales 3.9 % 4.9 % 5.7 % 6.9 % 4.2 % 5.0 % N/A
Operating margin -- TTM % of Consolidated net sales 3.8 % 4.2 % 4.8 % 5.4 % 5.4 % 5.4 % N/A
(in millions, except employee data)
Supplemental North America Segment Net Sales:
Media $ 2,963 $ 3,931 $ 3,208 $ 2,928 $ 3,237 $ 4,208 7 %
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 9 % 12 % 8 % 12 % 9 % 7 % N/A
Media -- TTM $ 12,096 $ 12,483 $ 12,722 $ 13,030 $ 13,304 $ 13,580 9 %
Electronics and other general merchandise $ 11,840 $ 17,325 $ 13,511 $ 14,459 $ 15,327 $ 21,590 25 %
Electronics and other general merchandise -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 35 % 28 % 32 % 32 % 29 % 25 % N/A
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM $ 46,606 $ 50,401 $ 53,663 $ 57,134 $ 60,622 $ 64,887 29 %
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of North America net sales 78 % 79 % 80 % 80 % 81 % 81 % N/A
Other $ 203 $ 245 $ 277 $ 287 $ 310 $ 442 81 %
Supplemental International Segment Net Sales:
Media -- Y/Y growth, excluding F/X 6 % 5 % 9 % 7 % 7 % 7 % N/A
Electronics and other general merchandise $ 5,901 $ 8,491 $ 7,034 $ 7,504 $ 8,056 $ 10,514 24 %
Electronics and other general merchandise -- TTM % of International net sales 70 % 71 % 72 % 73 % 74 % 75 % N/A
Other $ 46 $ 58 $ 52 $ 57 $ 62 $ 74 26 %
Stock-based Compensation Expense
Cost of sales $ 7 $ 9 N/A
Fulfillment $ 122 $ 137 $ 116 $ 186 $ 165 $ 190 38 %
Marketing $ 48 $ 57 $ 56 $ 80 $ 85 $ 102 79 %
Technology and content $ 309 $ 364 $ 317 $ 419 $ 434 $ 493 36 %
General and administrative $ 65 $ 48 $ 55 $ 83 $ 85 $ 93 94 %
Total stock-based compensation expense $ 544 $ 606 $ 544 $ 768 $ 776 $ 887 46 %
WW shipping revenue $ 1,494 $ 2,328 $ 1,820 $ 2,000 2,154 $ 3,003 29 %
WW shipping revenue -- Y/Y growth 43 % 37 % 40 % 43 % 44 % 29 % N/A
WW shipping costs $ 2,720 $ 4,170 $ 3,275 $ 3,362 3,897 $ 5,634 35 %
WW shipping costs -- Y/Y growth 35 % 37 % 42 % 44 % 43 % 35 % N/A
WW net shipping costs $ 1,226 $ 1,842 $ 1,455 $ 1,362 $ 1,743 $ 2,631 43 %
WW net shipping costs -- Y/Y growth 26 % 37 % 44 % 45 % 42 % 43 % N/A
WW paid units -- Y/Y growth 26 % 26 % 27 % 28 % 28 % 24 % N/A
WW seller unit mix -- % of WW paid units 46 % 47 % 48 % 49 % 50 % 49 % N/A
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) 222,400 230,800 245,200 268,900 306,800 341,400 48 %
Employees (full-time and part-time; excludes contractors & temporary personnel) -- Y/Y growth 49 % 50 % 49 % 47 % 38 % 48 % N/A
Certain Definitions
References to customers mean customer accounts, which are unique e-mail addresses, established either when a customer places an order or when a customer orders from other sellers on our websites. Customer accounts exclude certain customers, including customers associated with certain of our acquisitions, Amazon Payments customers, AWS customers, and the customers of select companies with whom we have a technology alliance or marketing and promotional relationship. Customers are considered active when they have placed an order during the preceding twelve-month period.
References to sellers means seller accounts, which are established when a seller receives an order from a customer account. Sellers are considered active when they have received an order from a customer during the preceding twelve-month period.
AWS Customers
References to AWS customers mean unique AWS customer accounts, which are unique customer account IDs that are eligible to use AWS services. This includes AWS accounts in the AWS free tier. Multiple users accessing AWS services via one account ID are counted as a single account. Customers are considered active when they have had AWS usage activity during the preceding one-month period.
References to units mean physical and digital units sold (net of returns and cancellations) by us and sellers at Amazon domains worldwide — for example www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, www.amazon.es, www.amazon.com.br, www.amazon.in, www.amazon.com.mx, www.amazon.com.au, www.amazon.nl, www.diapers.com, www.shopbop.com, and www.zappos.com — as well as Amazon-owned items sold through non-Amazon domains. Units sold are paid units and do not include units associated with AWS, certain acquisitions, rental businesses, or advertising businesses, or Amazon gift cards.
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Top 3 Easy Fps Games for Beginners 2018
There are a lot of Fps Games available in the Market but the top 3 easy fps Games for beginners are discussed in this document. PS (First Person Shooter) is a generic action based video game Which is played from the protagonist point. A Single Person plays protagonist role and provides a different viewpoint that shows what an actual person do in this game. Apple also shared much more information about it.
The FPS Game usually shows the arms from the bottom of the Screen and also shows the Weapons equipped. The FPS Game Can Be Played in two Modes, multiple mode and quest mode missions are available in Fps games. The multiple modes includes many gamers connect with each other through the network and can be played in the shared game environment. The multiple player modes can take many positions including:
Deathmatches
Base (a.k.a assault or headquarters)
The last man standing
First Person shooter basically refers to the perspective of the Game. PS includes Racing games boxing and shooters. Now the Top 3 FPS Games for Beginners are listed below with their smart introduction which is so helpful for FPS Game lovers all over the world.
Fortnite Battle Royale is the battle based free Video Game developed by Epic Games. This Game can be played with each other and or in a team of two to four players with up to 100 players participating each around in this game. Epic Games has added many features in this game such as weapons, wending machine and the rocket powered shopping carts and many more impressive features. SoFortnite Battle Royale is one of the Best FPS Games for all beginners.
Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is the an multiplayer online royal game develop by PUBG Corporation. This is the Best Fps Battle Video Game which have many Modes and has many features such as Guns and Weapons which is used to kill others in the game. So the Fortnite Battle Royale
Is the 2nd Best FPS Game for all beginners in the gaming world.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the multi-Player First Person Shooter Game which is developed by the Valve Corporation. It is 3rd Best FPS Game for all beginners. There are many Mission available in this FPS Game. This Game is Pits between two team which are against each other. There are two different teams are against with each other and the two opposite team (Terrorists and Counter Territory) Compete in the Game to gain the objectives. Although this is the 3rd Best FPS for Beginners.
So these are the Top 3 EPS Games for all of the Beginners and there are many EPS Games are available in the market and online so the Gamers faces issues due the difficulty Level of EPS Game. Now with these 3 top easy FPS Games can be easily played and enjoyable for all Gamers.
In the end we hope that you like our Article about Top 3 Easy Fps Games for Beginners 2018. Feel Free to Ask any Question by Commenting in below Comment Box.
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Seven tons of trash taken from creek
Discussion about Plum Creek dominated the regular meeting of the Caldwell County Commissioners Court on Monday.
Along with newly-appointed GBRA director Oscar Fogle, Lee Gudgell approached the Court to talk about a major Plum Creek cleanup effort that began recently.
“Plum Creek was listed as an impaired water body
for contact water recreation in 2004,” Gudgell reported. “In an effort to address that, and working with [several other area agencies] we chose six cleanup sites, two in Lockhart, three in Luling and one in between.”
Gudgell said that the process was “stakeholder-driven,” meaning the sites were chosen by individuals and organizations that have a vested interest in the cleanliness of Plum Creek, including GBRA and the Plum Creek Water Conservation District.
During the three-day effort, Gudgell said, more than seven tons of refuse, including furniture, tires and car batteries were pulled from the six cleanup sites.
“One of the things that people don”t think about is that if you have car batteries, that”s a hazardous material in the creek,” Gudgell said. “We don”t know who did all of the dumping, but we”re going to try to make people more aware of the dumping problem, and hope that will help.”
GBRA is currently working not only with the Plum Creek conservation district, but also with the Lockhart and Luling Independent School Districts to continue educational and cleanup programs throughout Caldwell County.
In other business:
Commissioner Tom Bonn presented a public awareness proclamation to the Commissioners for their support.
The proclamation is designed to remind county residents that dumping is illegal in Caldwell County, and that those caught doing so will be ticketed.
“This was brought home to me last Saturday when someone, in the cover of darkness,” dumped about a dozen tires and several bags of trash about 100 feet inside CR 215,” Bonn said.
In this case, investigators hit a lucky spot and found paperwork with the individual”s name on it, but in most cases, illegal dumpers are difficult to find and fine. Therefore, Bonn introduced the slogan “Don”t Mess Up Caldwell County,” to remind residents to keep the County clean.
Although there have been some fires in southern Caldwell County that might have been avoided had a burn ban been in place, the Commissioners opted to leave the burn ban off for one more week.
“We”ve got some rain scheduled later in the week,” Emergency Management Coordinator Jim Parker told the Court. “And the eastern part of the county is “greening up.” But there are still parts that are in [the mid- to high-danger range, according to the Texas Forest Service].”
Although it is still legal to burn outdoors, Caldwell County residents are urged to use extreme caution when burning brush or trash.
In brief news:
Wright reported the county has spent $142,804.97 on indigent health care since the beginning of the fiscal year. He said spending is on target to meet the budgeted amount of $300,000 for 2007-2008,
The County received a letter of resignation from County AgriLife Extension Agent Sarah Stribling, who will leave her position in June.
The Commissioners received an invitation to a Countywide Appreciation Day for Commissioner Joe Roland, which will be held at Lockhart City Park on Saturday, May 3.
The County paid bills in the amount of $188,801.01, including $7,543.80 in indigent legal defense and $23,664.79 for indigent health care.
The Caldwell County Commissioners meet on the second, third and fourth Monday of each month at 9 a.m. in Room 100 of the Caldwell County Courthouse.
Letters – Softball coach thanks fans
Darlene L. Holloway
A ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Toy store, liquor store owner finds home, good fortune in Lockhart
Caldwell County lifts burn ban
Burglar steals $30k from fire department
LISD: We’re prepared for shootings
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Brief Description: Nafion membranes used in production of caustic soda and chlorine.
Re: Private Letter Ruling Request
Dear XXXXX:
Thank you for your recent inquiry into the tax status of certain tangible personal property used by XXXXXXXX (the Taxpayer) at its Wichita, Kansas facility. XXXXX contends that nafion membranes are used in its production process and as such are exempt pursuant to K.S.A. 79-3606(kk).
The Taxpayer states that the nafion membranes are used in its production of caustic soda and chlorine. The membranes are a divider unit used in the electrolytic cells that hold salt water. (See attached Exhibit “A”) The process involves the conversion of salt water into caustic soda and chlorine by use of electrolytic cells. The membranes are used as dividers in the electrolytic cells. As the electrolytic process proceeds, the process damages the membrane. The membrane is tested and monitored for erosion from the chemicals. Over time the chemicals eat enough away that the membrane must be replaced. The membranes do not totally dissipate. The Taxpayer states that the average life of the membranes is between one to two years, and then they are replaced when needed. There is no salvage value. The caustic soda, chlorine and other products produced using the nafion membranes are intended for resale.
K.S.A. 79-3606(kk) defines “manufacturing or processing business” as a business that utilizes an integrated production operation to manufacture, process, fabricate, finish, or assemble items for wholesale and retail distribution as part of what is commonly regarded as a industrial manufacturing or processing operation or a agricultural commodity processing operation.
An “integrated production operation” means an integrated series of operations engaged in at a manufacturing or processing plant to convert tangible personal property into a different product or form of product. Such operations generally include the machinery and equipment that makes up a production line along with adjunct machinery and equipment that function simultaneously with the production line as part of an interrelated operation. An integrated production operation also includes pre-production material-handling operations and post-production distribution operations done at the manufacturing or processing plant. Generally, how machinery or equipment is used determines whether it qualifies for this exemption.
Integrated production operations encompass machinery and equipment used at a plant or facility to:
Ø Receive, handle, treat, or store raw materials before production or processing;
Ø transport, handle, or store the property being manufactured or processed during production or processing operations;
Ø effect a physical change on the property;
Ø guide control, or direct the movement of the property during manufacturing or processing;
Ø test or measure raw materials and the product as part of the integrated operation;
Ø plan, manage, control, or record the production flow from receipt of raw materials to managing inventories of the finished product;
Ø produce energy for, lubricate, control, or enable the functioning of other production machinery at a continuous production operation;
Ø package the manufactured or processed product;
Ø transport electricity, gas, water, steam, or other items used in production (1) from the point of generation, if in the plant, to the production operation, or (2) from the point it is first metered at the plant site, if generated or produced outside the plant, to the production operation;
Ø cool, heat, filter, refine, or otherwise treat water, oil, solvents, acids, and other substances used in production operations;
Ø provide and control the environment in special and limited areas of the plant, such as clean rooms, painting areas, and freezing or cold storage areas;
Ø treat, transport, or store waste or other byproducts of the manufacturing or processing operation;
Ø control pollution caused by the production operation;
Ø when used at a mineral extraction site, to clean, separate, grind or otherwise treat or prepare the mineral or other product that has been extracted from its natural state before its transmission, distribution, or sale at retail; and
Ø transport, handle, or store property during warehousing or distribution operations.
For purposes of this exemption, exempt production equipment also includes repair and replacement parts and accessories. Exempt parts include, but are not limited to: belts, drill bits, grinding wheels, cutting bars, saws, dies, jigs, and molds. Refractory items used in production are also exempt.
It is the opinion of the Kansas Department of Revenue:
That the purchase of nafion membranes, which would be repair or replacement parts for use in the Taxpayer’s activities of producing chemicals as described herein, effect a physical change on tangible personal property and as such, are exempt from Kansas retailers’ sales tax. These activities constitute processing under subsection “kk.”
This is a private letter ruling pursuant to Kansas Administrative Regulation 92-19-59. It is based solely on the facts provided in your request. If it is determined that undisclosed facts were material or necessary to an accurate determination by the department, this ruling is null and void. This private letter ruling will be revoked in the future by operation of law without further department action if there is a change in the statutes, administrative regulations, or case law, or a published revenue ruling, that materially affects this ruling.
Richard Cram
Director, Office of Policy and Research
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Free De-Construction
De-Construction is the practice of disassembling a building in such a way that the materials (flooring, siding, fixtures, and more) can be reused for new construction. De-construction is a cost competitive alternative to conventional building demolition.
At ReUse Salvage, our licensed experienced staff remove the usable materials in most structures prior to renovation and demolition, for the purpose of product reuse.
Our demolition contracts contain a time frame for the De-Construction operation to carefully remove products that can be reused in their present state, rather than sending that material to the landfill to be processed as recycle waste. The De- Construction service labor is free. The shell and remains of a structure is then crushed and sent to a partner recycle processing facility.
Our contracts contain a salvage clause that states the contents and materials of the proposed project/structure, is property of ReUse Salvage. When a client makes a decision to demolish a building using our services, the contents become a component of the contract. Our demolition quotes may vary, based on the products we contract to deconstruct. The cost is usually the same price or less than traditional demolition contractors. If the original products are not present or destroyed the cost of the demolition price could increase prior to final demolition, once our proposal is accepted.
On average, fifty to sixty percent of a building becomes reuse products, while some projects produce nearly eighty percent usable materials. The combination of reuse and recycle is nearly ninety percent of a structure. Environmental LEED recycle reports are provided for each project.
It is estimated that nearly 300,000 buildings are traditionally demolished every year in the United States. Waste Management estimates that fifty six percent of our community landfill is building material waste produced by renovations and demolitions.
For more information, please call us at (772) 324-0140.
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Michael Korda's writes history in line with the new historiography that emphasizes people, personality, and psychological insight over dates, facts, and out-of-context events. Some mistake this for lack of depth or precision, but in doing so they miss Korda's point. "Ike: An American Hero" is a history of Ike the person who then influenced history out of his personality. In this sense, though Korda breaks no new "historical" ground, he does provide fresh historical perspective.What we have here is an enchanting, charming, flowing narrative of the man Ike. In a sense, we might call it "I Like Ike" for indeed, Korda like's Ike and expresses why millions of Americans did also.Especially compelling is the juxtaposition of Ike's self-effacing, team-building, understated leadership style with the likes of Patton, Montgomery, De Gaulle, and Churchill. In some ways, this biography is a "Good to Great" in personal, military, and presidential leadership. Ike evidences all the characteristics of Collins' "level-five leader" who is tenaciously concerned with the good of the "company" (nation) and could care less who gets the credit when the good occurs. One might gain just as much reading this work as an essay in leadership as by seeing it as a historical essay.Yet, history and biography it is. The "dirt-poor kid makes good" narrative is priceless. Though not ground-breaking, the fuller human dimensions of Ike from child, to military hero, to world leader is what makes this work distinctive.In many ways, this loan , coupled with the also just released "The Preacher and the Presidents" (about evangelist Billy Graham and his spiritual friendship with eleven American presidents, including Eisenhower) offer tremendous insight into the power of personality. Rather than being enraptured with power, both Graham and Eisenhower model the reality that focused vision flowing from a humble commitment to a larger-than-life cause and flowing out of character (rather than being a "character") is what true greatness is all about.Besides all that, "Ike" is just plain good writing. Crisp, fast-paced, filled with human interest, captivating story-telling--it's all here in Korda's telling of Ike's life.Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction , Soul Physicians, and Spiritual Friends.
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Archive for February 26th, 2014
Robot working on a new PC game. Gameforge to publish in Europe
Gameforge and Robot Entertainment have yesterday announced a publishing partnership in respect of a new upcoming game in European territories. This is good news as the partnership will allow Robot to expand its presence in European markets. The deal is a full publishing agreement and extends to marketing and support of the upcoming title.
Robot’s CEO Patrick Hudson said: “Robot is eager to expand its global reach. Gameforge is the strongest publisher in Europe, and we are excited they will help deliver our next game to even more players. We cannot wait to unveil this game to fans soon” Read more
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Former Kansas City Chiefs tight end Walter White has died
Falcons extend LB Jones 4 years, $57M
Broncos clear Sanders, Lindsay for camp
Cardinals cut OT Harrison after arrest
Falcons give DT Jarrett 4-year extension
49ers sign K Gould to 4-year contract
Titans LB-DL Morgan says he's retiring
QB Smith out of brace from grisly injury
Vikings backup RB Thomas gets 3-game ban
Giants S Moore punched, stepped on woman
Bengals G Boling retires after 8 seasons
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs say former tight end Walter White has died.
White was 67. The team said White's family said he died Wednesday of complications from pancreatic cancer.
He played his entire five-season pro career with the Chiefs, retiring after the 1979 season. In his second season, White finished among the top 10 in the NFL in receiving yards and touchdowns.
White also played at Mesa Junior College in Colorado and at Maryland.
In 1989, White became a founding member of the Kansas City Ambassadors, former players and team executives who represent the Chiefs in outreach and charity events. White was the group's inaugural president.
White was employed at Commerce Bank in Kansas City for 22 years and most recently served as vice president of the bank's investment group.
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Marca: Signing Man United’s Paul Pogba now ‘practically impossible’ for Real Madrid
Home Europe Newcastle United official spotted at same club again, seems to be something...
Newcastle United official spotted at same club again, seems to be something brewing
Newcastle United were one of the 22 clubs who had officials travelling to Portugal on Wednesday night so they could watch Porto’s Champions League clash against Liverpool.
This is not the first time the Magpies are represented in the North of Portugal, as they have already watched the Dragons in Cup games this season, so there’s definitely some interest for the club over there.
But although newspaper A Bola reports the scouts’ presence, there’s no information on who the officials were watching.
Newcastle have been linked to two Porto players, Iker Casillas and Vincent Aboubakar, but neither of them featured in yesterday’s match. One due to the manager’s decision, and the other because of an injury.
With a 5-0 defeat, it’s hard to think of a Porto player who could impress the Newcastle scouts. There was only one man who got a non-negative rating from the local press, and that was Tiquinho Soares, who did a decent job trying to keep the ball in attack.
Maybe another visit to the Estádio do Dragão would give the Magpies another impression from Porto’s team, especially because they are currently leading the local league and are definitely not that bad.
Only from the Premier League, Manchester United, Manchester City, Everton, Leicester City, Watford, Chelsea and Arsenal all sent scouts to this game as well.
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Dungen announce new album - Häxan - out 19. Nov on LP, CD and digital
In between the release of Dungen’s most recent two albums (2010’s Skit I Allt and 2015’s Allas Sak), the beloved Stockholm quartet was asked to create an original score to Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 touchstone The Adventures of Prince Achmed, understood to be the oldest surviving full-length animated feature film. Inspired by the work and the characters – Prince Achmed, Peri Banu, Aladdin, the Sorcerer, and most of all, the Witch – the members of Dungen immersed themselves into the groundbreaking visual language of this landmark film.
Häxan (translation: “The Witch”) is Dungen’s first all-instrumental album. Produced by Mathias Glavå, and recorded, mixed, and edited by hand to tape entirely in the analog domain, Häxan was sequenced away from the linear narrative of the film. This process helped to create a path of its own, fully capturing the rawness and spontaneity present in the sessions, as well as a loose, abstract, and fragmented collage feel. Dense with dissonant free-form rock-outs, haunting ambient passages, and gorgeously cinematic soundscapes present in the work, Häxan is a record that stands on its own outside of the presence of its primary inspiration. Moody, evocative, stormy, and brimming with life, Häxan provides both a tacit summation of the Dungen journey until now, and gives the beloved group a chance to stretch out like never before.
01 Peri Banu vid sjön
02 Jakten genom skogen
03 Wak-Wak's portar
04 Den fattige Aladdin
05 Trollkarlen och fågeldräkten
06 Grottan
07 Häxan
08 Aladdin's flykt över havet
09 Kalifen
10 Achmed flyger
11 Aladdin och lampan, del 1
13 Achmed och Peri Banu
14 Andarnas Krig
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SPA Women's Program
Women's World Pool Schedules/Results
Click Here to view Dalton Women's schedules!
Click here for Women's News and Editorials
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Women's 2018 Official Rulebook
"Get To Know Your Leaders"
Ridge Hooks, Executive Director
Judy Lee Schreiber, National Women's Director
Shelby Williams, Asst. National Women's Director
Mike DeSorbo, Tournament Director
(Scroll down for more info from these leaders)
Softball Players Association
Hello, I'm Ridge Hooks, Executive Director of Softball Players Association. I would like to take this opportunity, to personally introduce you to my wife, Ann, and myself. Though both native Texans, we met in Oklahoma in 1982. We have been married 26 years, and have 4 children (2 girls, 2 boys), and 7 grandchildren (2 girls, 5 boys).
We have owned and operated SPA for 14 years. Throughout those years, we have had the good fortune of getting to know hundreds of great people with whom we have become good friends.
Previously employed with M&M/Mars Candy Company for 25 years as a Sales Manager and Customer Relations Manager, I was known and referred to as "The Candy Man". Playing softball from the time I was 14 years old, I purchased SPA in 2000. I was previously involved with ASA, USSSA, and NSA in various positions, from Umpire to Director. I also coached several women's teams, so I can appreciate all the aspects of Women’s Senior Softball, and I truly enjoy the excitement and passion that the women bring to the Senior program.
My goal for SPA has been to maintain the Honesty and Integrity of the Senior Softball Game. We are not perfect, but we are trying, each tournament, to make the Women’s Program the best. "TO GOD BE THE GLORY"
Judy Schreiber,
National Women's Director
Email: spajudylee@msn.com
A little bit about myself……I love country music and have played the guitar and base fiddle for enjoyment as well as professionally. I began with music at age 14 and made recordings as well as playing at the Grand Ole Opry plus various television shows around the country.
Slow pitch softball came into my life about 1977. I played in the Senior Olympics 1995 and became hooked on senior softball. We knew there were other teams out there, just had to find them. So, I attended a softball convention and met Ridge Hooks. We had the first Senior Women’s World Tournament in 1998 in Nashville, TN and the rest is history. I teamed up with Ridge and SPA in 2007 as the SPA Women’s National Director. We have gone from zero to hero now hosting seven Women’s National Tournaments annually all over the Southeast Region from Pensacola, Florida to Hendersonville, TN.
My plan for the future is to keep expanding and improving all of our tournaments. With input from our players and support and advice from the coaching staff of all teams, I believe there is a BIGGER AND BRIGHTER future out there for all women interested in slow pitch softball.
I am always open to suggestions on how to improve the game and to help our senior women continue to play ball as long as they are able. You can email me or call me anytime with any suggestions. My door is always open to you.
I want to thank Ridge Hooks for believing in our women’s program.
Mike DeSorbo,
SPA Tournament Director
Email: mdesorbo37@gmail.com
Hi Ladies, I’m Mike DeSorbo one of the directors of SPA. Most of you know me from attending the Women’s SPA Spring Championship Tournament in Pensacola, Fl. Next year, 2017, will be our 8th year for the tournament. In our first year, 2009, we had a total of 12 teams participating, Over the next five years with your suggestions and support, I am proud to report 43 teams attended our tournament in 2015. Each year, you guys have done bigger and better things from pitching a perfect game to knocking the socks off that softball. I have been involved with softball as a player, manager, coach, and/or SPA director over the last 40 years and currently a member of the SPA Executive Board. Needless to say, I am totally committed to the SPA Women’s Program and will devote my efforts to advancing and growing this program in the future.
My wife, Millie, and I have been married for 58 years. We have two perfect (in our opinion) children and 4 grandchildren. We are excited about the SPA Women’s Program. Watch your email for up and coming news about next year’s SPA Women’s Spring Championship in Pensacola. Hope to see everyone there.
SPA Women's Tournament Schedule
Entry Dead Line
Women's Spring National 04/12/19 04/14/19 03/28/19 Michael J.Desorbo Exchange Park, 3200 East Lakeview Ave, Pensacola, FL, 32503 Mike DeSorbo (850) 572-4056 mdesorbo37@gmail.com Women 35+ - 60+ Pensacola FL $495 / $475
SPA Twitty Senior Women's NIT 05/15/19 05/19/18 05/01/19 Drakes Creek Park Complex Hendersonville, TN SPA OFFICE (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.net Womens 35+ - 75+ Mustang OK $425/$450
SPA WOMEN'S AWARDS EXPRESS SHOOTOUT 06/28/19 06/30/19 06/14/19 Frank Lise Park 4001 Strough RD Concord, NC 28027 Rick Tucker (704) 791-4973 rickstovepipe@yahoo.com WOMEN'S 35-60 425/450
Rocky Top Women's NIT 07/10/19 07/14/19 06/28/19 Casswell Softball Complex, 620 Winona Street, Knoxville, TN 37917 SPA (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.net Women's 35+ - 75+ *RING OPTION* KNOXVILLE TN $425/450
Columbus Womens NIT 08/14/19 08/18/19 07/31/19 Berliner Park, 325 Greenlawn Ave, Columbus, OH 43223 SPA Office (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.net Womens 35+ - 75+ Shelbyville IN 425-450
Women's SPA World Championship 09/18/19 09/22/19 09/04/19 Heritage Point Park, 1275 Cross Plains Trail, Dalton, GA 30721 SPA Nat'l Office (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.com Womens 50+ - 75+ Dalton GA $550
Women's Masters World Championship 09/21/19 09/22/19 09/07/19 Heritage Point Park, 1275 Cross Plains Trail, Dalton, GA 30721 SPA Nat'l Office (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.net Women's 35+,40+, 45+ Dalton GA $550
Womens SPA Inaugrual Ann Humble Memorial Winter World Series 10/30/19 11/03/19 10/16/19 Frank Brown Park Complex 16200 Panama City Beach Pwky SPA National Office (405) 376-7034 spaoffice@softballspa.net Women 35+ -- 75+ *RING OPTION* Panama City Beach FL $500/525
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This article in The Straits Times came as a surprise as dad thought all hotels will be filled to the brim due to the IMF/World Bank meet in Singapore in the next few days. Maybe the report is a bit premature. Dad bets all hotel rooms will be fully booked during the biggest-ever event to be staged in the tiny island.
The story didn't take into account the number of protesters that will be in Singapore during the convention although the number may not be that big. Sadly, Singapore doesn't allow people to protest freely in a civil manner.
Some rooms for delegates not taken up yet
Over 3,000 of 11,000 rooms set aside still available; last-minute rush not ruled out
By Lim Wei Chean
THEY were expecting full house, and had turned away guests in anticipation of a bonanza from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings.
Instead, with eight days to go, to the start of the meetings, some hotels here are dealing with the problem of empty hotel rooms.
That is because Singapore hotels seem to have confirmed bookings in only 70 per cent of the rooms that had been set aside for the meeting's delegates.
That is according to latest estimates from the organising committee for Singapore 2006, the official name for the high-profile event taking place from Sept 13 to 20.
In total, 11,000 rooms were set aside for the 16,000 delegates.
This is because some delegates are local and do not need rooms. Others could be sharing rooms. At a 70 per cent confirmation rate, there are more than 3,000 unfulfilled bookings islandwide.
Commenting on the issue, a spokesman for the Singapore 2006 organising committee said that it had always expected rooms in the Marina area to be snapped up first, and rooms outside the Marina area to fill up more slowly.
The meetings are being held in Suntec City which is in Marina Bay area.
He noted that the five-star hotels in the Marina area collectively have enough capacity to provide all 11,000 rooms to hold the 16,000 delegates.
But the Singapore Hotel Association (SHA), the agency in charge of accommodations for the event, have provided rooms spread across the island and over different price ranges.
So it may just be a case of full-house in the Marina hotels and empty rooms elsewhere, said the spokesman.
He added: 'Some of the delegates may have also booked their rooms directly with their preferred hotel without going through the association.' 'These are numbers that we don't track.'
The situation is a far cry from the rosy picture the industry was expecting just three months ago when five-star hotels spoke about how they planned to turn away disappointed guests, and budget hotels relished rate hikes to cash in on the room crunch.
Yesterday, The Straits Times called 20 hotels, ranging from three- to five-star, to book two rooms between Sept 9 and 23.
It was able to get rooms at all but four hotels. It was even possible to book rooms in Marina area hotels like Marina Mandarin, Pan Pacific Hotel and Swissotel The Stamford.
The unexpected shortfall in bookings has caused problems at some hotels.
A hotelier, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Straits Times: 'We expected to be chock-a-block full. The rest of the rooms reserved for delegates have been returned to the hotels.'
His hotel, which is outside the Marina area, is only 60 per cent full, far below its usual occupancy rate of over 90 per cent.
Inbound travel agents that The Straits Times spoke to said they have received e-mail and last-minute calls for help from hotels. But the agents, too, face an uphill task.
One, who asked not to be named, said September was traditionally a peak period for corporate travel.
'But because we were told that rooms would not be available, we told our clients to avoid coming to Singapore during this time, or to postpone their trips,' he said, adding that his company has seen a 20 per cent drop in business.
Another travel agent said that, after turning most of his customers away in the past few months, it would be difficult to make a U-turn and ask them to visit Singapore now. Many would have made alternative plans.
In any case, he added, few would be willing to pay the price difference. For instance, a premier deluxe room at Raffles The Plaza usually costs $330. Between Sept 15 and 20, the same room is priced at $550.
SHA said yesterday it is not ruling out a last-minute rush for accommodation, as bookings are still streaming in.
Posted by Sophie at 12:24 PM
Sin Thak said...
Wah, still got hotel rooms during IMF meet. I can go to Singapore again for another shopping trip before the Thai elections. And maybe I can ask Madam to buy another big company.
madam said...
knn, i hope that sin thak doesn't come knocking again during the imf meeting. i have to meet more important people from the US, UK and the oil-rich Middle East.
my mom-in-law still buay song with me over my thai shopping trip.
the trouble as i understand was STB and some government agencies like MFA went to block reserved many of the conference rooms and rooms and not they are being returned and some of these hotels are desperately come back to ask people to fill them up! it was the same phenomenon during HK handover when they tot whole world will turn up and it was bit of anti climax cos there will be lot of pple who didnt want to come cos of the expected crowds.
cakapayam
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British cyber expert pleads guilty to creating malware
A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017 has pleaded guilty in Wisconsin federal court to developing malware to steal banking information
MILWAUKEE — A British cybersecurity researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017 has pleaded guilty in Wisconsin federal court to developing malware to steal banking information.
Marcus Hutchins appeared in court Thursday after he agreed last month to plead guilty to developing a malware called Kronos and conspiring to distribute it from 2012 to 2015. Prosecutors dismissed eight more charges in exchange for his plea.
Sentencing for Hutchins is set for July 26. He faces up 10 years in prison but could receive a more lenient sentence for accepting responsibility.
Hutchins' arrest in Las Vegas in August 2017 came as a shock because months earlier he was hailed as a hero for finding a "kill switch" to the WannaCry virus that crippled computers worldwide.
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Daily Bow: Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Debuts in New York
7:00 am Nicholas Heinzmann
Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Debuts at Carnegie Hall
When we talk about classical music, we primarily think of the art form coming from the western tradition. But surely music is not just a European phenomenon; it has roots in all cultures, even if they haven’t risen to the same levels of fame as the symphonies of Beethoven or Mozart’s operas. In the global community of the 21st century, however, more musical interaction takes place each year, making the concert hall not just the home of western classical music, but many foreign visitors as well.
This was just the case last Sunday when the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra debuted at Carnegie Hall. The orchestra, which normally accompanies the famous Shen Yun Chinese dancers, gave its own independent concert, performing a program of traditional American and Chinese music, along with selections from Vivaldi and pieces specially written to evoke for the orchestra that evoke their eastern roots. One example was the piece Khata for the Gods:
This song opens with a duet for the clarinet and oboe, and whisks listeners to the vast blue sky of the Himalayas. The wind instruments emitted new sounds to convey the unique feeling of Tibetan tunes, while the trombone used an exotic sliding slur to do a stunning imitation of the Tibetan long horn.
The opening of the song set the scene for a ceremony where Tibetans expressed gratitude toward Buddha for a bountiful harvest. It was followed by a series of sixteenth notes from the strings. The strings’ clean, even notes built toward a climax that illustrated the pattering of feet as people gathered for the ceremony.
Hearing programs like this on a stage like Carnegie is a great opportunity for concert goers to sink their teeth into something out of their comfort zone. While still presenting the traditional format of a western philharmonic orchestra and pieces from the western canon like Vivaldi’s double trumpet concert, the audience has familiar component to help them feel comfortable in the concert. At the same time, however, orchestras like the Shen Yun present very different programs, featuring Chinese instruments such as the pipa,suona, dizi, guzhen, and a variety of Chinese percussion instruments. Furthermore, the pieces composed for these this ensemble utilizes these instruments and sounds to their full capacity, giving the listener a cultural experience beyond a mere show of virtuosity. Although this was Shen Yun’s first concert at Carnegie, they’re sure to be back for more, and hopefully with other similar ensembles and works along with it!
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Mount Aix - Mount Aix Trail, October 2013
Seemingly out of place for this part of the southern Washington Cascades, 7766-ft Mount Aix is a prominent peak well east of the Cascade Crest with excellent 360 degree views that include Rainier, Adams, Goat Rocks and the Stuart Range. Approached via the Mount Aix Trail, it’s just a 12-mile hike (round-trip) with only a short bit of class 2/3 scrambling to reach the top. About a third of the route is on high ridges which are often frequented by mountain goats. The trail’s southwestern exposure makes it a great late-season venue after the first snow has claimed the more shaded north and east aspects. The neighboring peaks and bowls, including Aix itself also appear to offer excellent ski touring potential, was it not for seasonal pass closures making for a long drive from Seattle.
Mount Angeles - Route 1 (via Klahhane Ridge), October 2013
Clearly visible from Highway 101 between Sequim and Port Angeles, and from Victoria, BC not 30 miles to the north across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Mount Angeles is a popular scrambling peak with impressive views of the Olympus massif, Bailey Range, and southern tip of Vancouver Island. Approached from the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center via the Klahhane Ridge Trail, it’s a mere 4 miles and ~2000 feet of absolute gain to reach the summit. Taking a left after about 2 miles onto the unsigned Mount Angeles Climbers' Trail, the route switchbacks to reach a talus bench and from where a final crappy chute leads to the top. For extra credit, I traversed the crest to the east summit before descending back to the Klahhane Ridge Trail at a broad saddle high above Lake Angeles. I had designs on the peak at the extreme east-end of Klahhane Ridge, but my desire for it quickly vanished upon reaching the end of the established ridge trail. All-in-all, Mt. Angeles makes for an enjoyably casual outing; the ideal venue for escaping the lowland fog that blanketed much of the Puget Sound basin for several weeks this past October.
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I have 5 siblings.
Yes…I am one of 6 children.
We do things BIG in our family.
None of my siblings are particularly sporty. Jennie was as a teenager, she was proper into Sport as a kid, trained as a lifeguard, did a sports course at college, even worked in a gym for a while…and then life took over and like many adult women kind of lost her mojo.
Lindsey is a bit of gym buddy sometimes, and has recently got a bike…but even she would admit that her fitness isn’t what it could be.
My two brothers though?
Well…watching West Ham from the stands with a pie in one hand and a pint in the other is the closest they get to being sporty…aside from a few brief periods of gym membership, they have never really been into sport.
Now I share this to give you some context, for what is to come next.
The conversation in a pub back in the spring went a bit like this,
“So what you doing for your birthday sis?”
“The big 40, you got to mark it somehow”
“Yeah you should do something exciting, something that you wouldn’t normally do”
“What like climb a mountain?…yeah, thats what I want…I reckon we should all go on some kind of family adventure”
And that’s when they all went a bit quiet.
Roll on 6 months later, and there we were packing our bags into the back of my brothers estate car and heading to Wales for the weekend to climb Mount Snowden.
I could hardly believe it was happening.
The youngest two, the twins couldn’t make it as they had family commitments they couldn’t get out of (yeah that old chestnut) but Gary, Jenny and Lindsey were super up for it and had thrown themselves into the planning and preparation with great gusto.
They had only told me a few weeks ago what we were doing, and I hadn’t really looked into the logistics.
It was all fun and laughter on the way up there as we took the micky out of each others new kit, and debated who was going to die of hyperthermia, and have to be airlifted off the mountain and how we would explain it all to Mum, who was actually sunning herself in Bulgaria with our Aunt for two weeks.
But as we neared the end of our 6 (or was it 7 hour) car journey reality started to sink in…we were going to climb the largest mountain in Wales…and I was the only one who had done any training over the last few months at all.
“How hard can it be” my sister Jennie kept saying, as there was a train that went up there so it couldn’t be that steep.
My brother hadn’t quite got round to buying hiking boots so would be going up in trainers and shorts…but he had protein bars so he’d be all right for fuel.
Whereas Lindsey was adamant that two bags of Haribo sweets would fuel her OK
What had I let us all in for?
Anyway, after a night in the pub (with only 2 drinks each which I think is a Creffield record) we got a good nights sleep and headed to the small village the next morning where we would be parking the car before making our ascent. It was a bit like the blind leading the blind, as we hadn’t really agreed on a route, and we didn’t realise we would need to get the Sherpa bus to the start.
And so we headed off on the Snowden Ranger route with great enthusiasm at around 11am.
5 minutes into the hike the laughter stopped as we all suddenly realised what we had let ourselves in for and it wasn’t exactly going to be a walk in the park. Like it wasn’t super difficult at this point, but let’s just say we wouldn’t be needing all of our clothing layers at this point, so coats started to come off and gloves were hastily shoved in pockets.
I had no idea how I would manage.
Training for the New York Marathon has been going well. I did a hilly 10 miler a couple of weeks ago, and 3 times a week CrossFit was doing wonders for my cardio fitness. But who knew how I would find it…I do have a tendancy of falling over on hikes.
The views were spectacular, and there were very few hikers on this route in the first hour or so.
I was using my Apple Watch to keep track of mileage and elevation, but I wasn’t 100% sure how far up it was. My brother had bought a map but none of us really knew how to read it. But we were having fun and taking lots of photos.
We stopped a few times to let people past, or to take on water…I had made up a trail mix bag with nuts, dried fruit, goji berries and some peanut m&ms…this was brilliant fuel.
The others had not really considered the fact our cooked breakfast was now approaching 5 hours ago.
About 3 miles in the weather started to change. The wind picked up and the fog started to head towards us.
The conversation between us had become less and less as we headed up the mountain…and we each took it in turns to go on ahead or trail behind. Not really talking much at all besides the occasional “You OK?” or “Careful” in regards to a slippery patch or steep incline.
At one point my brother simply sat on a rock and shook his head, and all of a sudden I got the giggles….although I couldn’t show him that.
It was physically tough no doubt. But now was where we had to dig deep with our mindset and not talk yourself out of finishing it.
“I can’t do it…I really can’t do it” came the call from Jennie, her head had been down low for a while, and her normal banter had disappeared.
Lindsey was soldiering on, but I was worried she was pushing too hard and all on just a few haribo. At one point I seriously thought she might get blown off the mountain altogether…her fake eyelashes were holding on for dear life thats for sure.
Gary was still in a pair of shorts and a white sports top, saying he couldn’t feel the cold.
Although it was all getting a bit difficult I wasn’t in completely unfamiliar territory, as I knew it was just a matter of putting one foot in front of another and going at the pace you can personally go at. I can’t imagine though how it must feel to be doing something of that magnitude for the first time.
I mean it’s not like we could turn round and just go back down.
A guy on the way down around the halfway point said he had been going for 3 hours and couldn’t find anything at the top. This wasn’t helpful and moral started to dip now, as we were cold, wet and starting to get hungry. Maybe those foil blankets we laughed about in the car on the way up would be making an appearance.
“Why can’t we just got to Ibiza for the weekend like normal people” my brother had said earlier on.
“This is worse than childbirth” Jennie said, as we waited to let some folks pass us, much to the amusement of some random man who overheard.
“Come on we can do this. We have come this far. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other”
“Surely its not much further” Jennie kept saying. I didn’t quite have the heart to tell her there was still at least a mile of climbing to go.
A lot goes through your mind when you are doing any endurance challenge, but when you do one with your siblings who have been in your life for 35+ years, this kind of goes to a whole new level. I thought about all the arguments we have had over the years, the crazy things we have got up to, the stuff we have endured together.
I wondered if my Mum would be proud of us (she’d probably have a fit, if she could have seen us, as she hates heights and is somewhat risk averse). I know my Grandad would have been proud though because this was right up his street….he loved the outdoors.
We stopped and asked a guy to help us understand the map at one point. I just needed to talk to someone other than my siblings, and he reckoned we were about another mile away (which I kind of knew). What didn’t help was the number of folks we saw almost skipping back down the mountain in short shorts, or with small children like it was nothing.
“Not long now” they would say with a smile.
In the distance, we could hear a sound a bit similar to a helicopter…we later found out it was the train, which we had agreed we would be taking back down the mountain if we ever reached the top. We were already exhausted, another 3 hours going down was too much to consider at this point.
We turned a corner though, quite literally and we knew we were nearing the top.
The weather was really bad now. Lots of rain. Strong winds and nearly no visibility at all. We lost my brother at one point and literally had to go back down another route to find him. By now the mountain was pretty congested with sheer drops that felt quite worrying…I love how we expect to have such places to ourselves at these key moments.
I think we had pictured reaching the summit with a great sense of achievement, and celebrating with a beer while talking cheesy selfies. The reality was it felt quite precarious up there, my phone had switched itself off due to the rain, and I felt quite vulnerable with so many people trying to get to the top to get a picture.
All I wanted was a cup of tea.
So literally after 20 seconds or so of touching the summit rock and agreeing we needed to get off the mountain ASAP, we headed towards the cafe (ha ha) even typing that makes me laugh. I still can’t believe there is such a big modern facility at the top of the mountain…are all summits like this?
It was heaving though. You couldn’t move. There was nowhere to sit or barely stand, and the queue for refreshments literally wound around the whole venue. Jennie looked like she might burst into tears. We had lost Gary who was still outside taking photos, and Lindsey was in the queue for the loo…and that’s when the announcement over the tannoy came.
“There will be no single train tickets available down the mountain due to high winds”
Jennie came across all white as tears filled her eyes.
“I can’t climb down, I just can’t” she said.
I knew she would be OK once she had something hot inside, and she warmed up again.
We ordered sausage rolls, welsh pasties, hot chocolates, tea and a beer (For Gary) and we stood by the bins trying to make sense of what we had just been through.
The last mile or so had been pretty scary.
But we had done it.
All we had to do was get down in one piece now.
After around 40 minutes of warming up, having a browse in the shop (I know right?) using the loos, and putting on our remaining dry layers we discussed the best option for going down.
I didn’t want to go back down the Snowden Ranger route as to me it felt really exposed and quite steep towards the end. A girl in the toilet queue suggested the Llanberis Path which was much wider and more gradual in its descent, so we decided we would go that way…regardless of where it brought us out at the end.
I think I underestimated how difficult the descent would be.
It was like climbing down a billion flights of uneven stairs. I lost my footing a few times, and almost ended up on my arse….and watching my brother try to negotiate the trail in his now drenched Adidas trainers kept making me laugh and lose my own concentration.
It seemed to be never-ending.
It had taken us 3 hours and 3 minutes to go up, and two and a half hours to go down…although there was no stopping for photos or snacks on the way down, so not sure there was much in it.
My neck was hurting from looking down at my footing for all that time, and my toes were starting to hurt from being pushed up the front of my hiking boots for all that time. But after the first 40 minutes or so the rain stopped, and the winds died down, although you still couldn’t see anything.
With about an hour to go the banter returned and we even took a few photos again.
We had done it.
4 Creffields had climbed a mountain and lived to tell the tale. We hadn’t even had a row…or call out “Right, I’m telling Mum”
We waited for our Sherpa bus from the warmth of a Youth Hostel with 4 Coronas to celebrate, and it was all fun and games again as we recalled the funny bits from the last 7 hours. Laughing at how underprepared we were and even talking about how we might do it differently next time.
Jennie was adamant there would be no next time though.
It was almost 8 pm time we got back to our B&B to shower and get ready for dinner, and we were all too tired really to celebrate properly. I couldn’t even finish my beer at dinner, which is saying something.
I fell asleep within moments of my head hitting the pillow.
The car journey back was more subdued than it had been just 2 days previous, but the sense of achievement was palpable.
Gary is super keen to do Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis in the next 12 months, and I am 100% up for it too.
I can’t tell you how proud I am of them for doing this, and how grateful I am for them helping me to fulfill one of my goals. I have been so lucky over the years to experience wonderful fitness related adventure, and it is always so difficult to share with them how incredible it can be.
I also realised over the weekend how much I miss spending quality time with my siblings.
I think it has opened up their eyes to the idea of adventure and being more active outdoors, and we are now discussing potential trips we can take in the future with and without our kids, so watch this space.
Next month I will be welcoming 30 women into my Living a Bigger Life Mastermind…climbing a mountain is not compulsory but taking yourself out of your comfort zone and ticking things off your “I’ve always wanted to do” list absolutely is. For more information and to see if this is something you would like to get involved in click here.
To get you in the mood and give you a sneak peek into my Life Coaching world look out over the next few weeks for some FREE lunch and learns and a FREE Webinar on “How to have an adventurous life” make sure you follow me over at www.facebook.com/thefatgirlsguidetorunning
In a few days time, my TEDx talk will go live all about how women are held back by their weight, their appearance and their fears about being judged. What I have realised is the more I challenge and test myself, the less I care about what others think. I simply love helping women get to this place too.
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Now displaying: August, 2015
Ep. 376: Overcoming Bias with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Human beings have a strange habit of trusting other humans, even when the trust isn’t warranted. Everywhere in mainstream media, statistics are used and misused to convey an agenda. All too often, people ignore the agenda and buy into this engineered information.
To be successful, both in life and in trading, a person must move beyond this behavior. You need to be a skeptic. You can’t put blind faith into a system that doesn’t make its agenda clear. You probably shouldn’t trust it even if the agenda does seem clear. This is just as true when considering pollsters like Frank Luntz as it is when listening to the sales pitches of discretionary traders on Wall Street.
In today’s episode Michael Covel discusses the biases we have as human beings that lead us to poor investing decisions. Most notably, it is a bias that prevents us from trusting algorithmic trading, even when a human alternative is demonstrably worse. Through entertaining and insightful clips, Michael demonstrates why algorithms deserve our trust: their accountability and their ability to be back tested through different market conditions.
The episode is full of interesting sound clips and passages from bright minds such as Penn Jillette, Leda Braga, Daniel Dennett, Lasse Pedersen, and David Harding.
The use and misuse of statistics
Using skepticism to your advantage
The advantages of algorithmic trading
Leda Braga on why ‘Black Box’ isn’t a fair term
Daniel Dennett’s simplifications of algorithms and computing
Trend following as simple agnostic rules that can easily be passed to a computer
Efficient market theory failure during surprises
Get a free Trend Following DVD here.
Ep. 375: Mark Sleeman Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Today’s guest is Mark Sleeman of MS Capital Management. Mark is a self-taught trend following trader who’s been trading since the late 80s.
Michael Covel asks Mark about the road that led him to trend following and his early experiences as an trader. Mark talks about how, in the beginning, he was only looking for a way to make money. But with his engineering background, when he happened upon systems trading, everything fell into place. So confident was Mark in both his system and his own abilities, in fact, that he was willing to sell his house to get started (to raise trading capital).
Mark points out that investing based on “bottoms and tops” alone is pointless since no one can predict where the market will turn. The key to smart investing is a diversified portfolio that can sustain small losses long enough to catch those big wins. Trend following is the only proven system with decades of empirical data to back it up, and it’s the only way to trade if you want to become a long term survivor.
Other areas of discussion include the psychology of trading, understanding that patience doesn’t come naturally (has to be learned), and the importance of maintaining a life outside the markets.
The fallacy of “buy low, sell high”
The psychology of trading
Keeping your losses small
The importance of maintaining a life
Focusing on the strategy, not the instrument
Understanding that patience has to be learned
Ep. 374: The Death Cross with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Today, Michael Covel reads a recent piece from Barry Ritholtz about the Death Cross: that foreboding moment when the 50 day MA falls below the 200 day MA. Then Michael looks at how a Twitter debate between Cliff Asness of AQR and Jerry Parker of Chesapeake Capital, sparked by the article, led to an examination of momentum v. trend following.
The so-called Death Cross is viewed by many to be an omen, a signal of dark days to come. And while that could be partly correct in the context of a complete system, the Death Cross is just a signal. It’s a mistake to think of it in apocalyptic terms that something will happen in 6 months time, etc. The Death Cross is the type of signal that can work for the investor with a robust, diversified portfolio within a system that doesn’t aim to predict the future. This is all about what’s happening in the present price, so you can take action now.
Michael also plays and comments on a Bloomberg interview with Barry Ritholtz, discusses the folly of predictive technical analysis, and hammers home the fact that trend following is the only proven form of quantitative trading.
The importance of ignoring old concepts
Trend Following is about taking action
Why no one can predict where the market is headed
Incorporating the Death Cross into a diversified portfolio
Understanding momentum trading
The idea of “heuristics”
Ep. 373: Lasse Pedersen interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Today’s guest is Lasse Pedersen, finance professor at Copenhagen Business School, principal at AQR Capital Management, and author of the new book “Efficiently Inefficient”. Pedersen earned his Ph.D. in finance from Stanford University and has over a decade of experience in the industry.
The conversation opens with an examination of the two opposing views on how markets operate. One view holds that markets are fully efficient and reflect real values, while the other contends that market prices are inefficient and tied more to investors’ emotions than anything else. Pedersen discusses his own interpretation — that markets are neither fully efficient nor fully inefficient, but rather a combination of the two — and that it’s this equilibrium that provides the stability needed for investors to make gains.
Michael Covel and Lasse Pedersen discuss the commonalities in the varied strategies of some of the most successful investors in the world, many of whom are interviewed in Lasse’s new book. One such commonality with these investors is their constant awareness of risk management, and the concept of gambler’s ruin. But at the same time, as Lasse is quick to point out, many of these financial legends freely admit that some of their greatest lessons were learned through their losing trades.
Other topics include the rise of quantitative investing, the role of hedge funds in the economy, and how leverage can effectively be used as an investment tool.
Discretionary vs. quantitative trading
The importance of sticking to your financial plan
The various investment styles of the successful
How reflexivity affects market prices
Backtesting to identify effective investment strategy
The role of hedge funds
Get a FREE Trend Following DVD by going here.
Ep. 372: Letting Your Systems Run with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 6
Many that aspire to be successful investors or traders look up to Warren Buffett as a role model. Yet the chances of anyone amassing that wealth by following the same path as Buffett are extremely unlikely. Debating survivorship bias seems perfectly appropriate, but that's never broached.
On the other hand, becoming the next Bill Dunn or Ed Seykota (or fill in the blank with the name of any trend follower) has much more possibility. In the trend following world there are many more successful traders, successful examples, which is much more motivational and inspiring.
In this episode, Michael Covel curates excerpts from Kevin Bruce, Jim Simons, and David Harding. All three talking about systems and or trend following. The important point about systems is not just selecting the right one, but also sticking to it once selected. Often people are tempted to make discretionary calls and override a system, defeating its original purpose. Instead, the potential rewards and risks inherent in a trend following system should be evaluated at the beginning, discretionary calls made at the outset, then let the system run without interference. That is the path to potential success.
The importance of practice and persistence in trading
Finding trends mathematically
The importance of not overriding systems
Being prepared for drawdowns
Looking at the S&P 500 as a trading system
Dispelling the myths of the mainstream financial world
Ep. 371: Alexander Ineichen Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Today’s guest is Alexander Ineichen founder of Ineichen Research and Management. He is the author of several books including “Absolute Returns” and “Asymmetric Returns”. Inehichen has been researching and writing about trend trading strategy for decades.
The conversation today focuses on the notion of simplicity as sophistication. Michael Covel and Alexander Ineichen discuss the habit of investors to get caught up in market forecasting fantasies. Often, as research shows, people are drawn toward the excitement of what they perceive as the financial industry dream. They get distracted by what could be the future when they should be directing their attention at what’s happening in the moment. This is also what trend following is all about.
Ineichen explains his particular method of nowcasting, which involves combining hard market trends with socio-economic data from other fields. The end goal is to create a far more robust and stable system for the vast majority of investors. He aims to eliminate the “show element” of forecasting and analyze what’s happening on the ground – now.
Michael and Alexander also discuss the difficulty of investing in tech – prediction doesn’t work there either.
Seeing through the market forecasting flash
The importance of “check box” methodology
Simplification as sophistication
The concept of nowcasting
Understanding the whole, so you know what can be eliminated
Learning to watch for trend reversals
Ep. 370: Instruments vs. Strategy with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
“Should I invest in X?” is a question often heard in the investment world. Coming from the general public it is an especially strong cry out. The answer to that question is simple, although not obvious to many.
What you invest in doesn’t matter; it’s the strategy that matters. Markets are instruments: you can choose the best market and instrument for your purpose, but ultimately it is your strategy for using that market/instrument that determines the outcome.
In this commentary Michael Covel curates several excerpts from Richard Feynman to Paul Samuelson and creates a narrative to illustrate the contrast between fundamental and technical traders. Covel also makes a case study of Commodities Corporation – the hedge fund/incubator that was founded and run by some of the biggest trend following heavyweights of our time.
One of the most notable aspects of Commodities Corporation’s success is their pivot from their original fundamental strategy to a trend following strategy. Though the company is not talked about much today (bought by Goldman Sachs years back), their trend following legacy still permeates the investing world.
Defining the exact risks involved in a trading strategy
The importance of liquidity: entering and exiting markets with ease
What we can learn from the history of Commodities Corporation
How the scientific method applies to trading logic
How Fundamental Analysis differs from Technical Analysis
The origins and basic principles of Trend Following Trading
The importance of accepting the risks and committing to your strategy
Ep. 369: Market Predictability with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
Just as shamans have been consulted throughout time to provide the desperate and gullible with prophecies, so too are financial shamans (often masquerading as experts) are looked up to for comforting myths about market direction.
Of course, we can and should prepare for the many possible market eventualities by looking at the data and trading trends, but to expect anyone to be able to provide absolute predictions for the future is absurd. The truth is that we do not know for sure, and anyone that tells you they do know might as well be gazing into a crystal ball.
Today’s episode looks at the various attitudes and beliefs concerning the falsehood of market predictability. Michael Covel runs the commentary, drawing a narrative thread through various excerpts from some of the most prominent economic and financial thinkers.
Recognizing when you are being misled by the experts
What to look for in trend analysis and what to be wary of
Considering bubbles and other unpredictable global factors in the markets
Finding an objective approach to investing based on quantifiable information
Considering timeless human investment psychology elements
Making investment decisions without being blinded by rigid economic processes or political ideologies
Ep. 368: Taylor Pearson Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio 0
The popular life scripts that were a surefire path to success in the 20th century no longer work today. “Go to college and get a steady job until you retire” is no longer the optimal choice. Yet many people still believe that if they push harder or work more within these old scripts, they will succeed. But much like in trend following, continuing to be mentally attached to a trend that is on the decline will only result in further losses.
In today’s world, the opportunities and rewards associated with entrepreneurship are many. As college tuition rises, the value of a degree decreases, and with many jobs going dinosaur, entrepreneurship is becoming a smarter choice for many – and a less risky choice than standard issue job thinking.
Today’s podcast guest Taylor Pearson is the 26-year old author of the #1 Amazon best selling book The End of Jobs. Pearson has spent the last several years researching and traveling the world and talking to successful entrepreneurs, which inspired him to write the book.
In this episode, Pearson and Covel talk about automation taking away jobs, how globalization and travel are making entrepreneurship more accessible, the difference in mindset between entrepreneurs and employees, and the search for meaning in life and work.
How entrepreneurship is becoming safer than jobs
Why college degrees are getting more expensive and less valuable
The importance of relationships and your network in business
Why the occupy movement was flawed from the start
Not seeking permission to do something you want to do
How the perceptions of risk in our society are wrong
Choosing a path in life that has meaning to you
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Town Board approves sale of water district property on Route 343
AMENIA — The Amenia Town Board opened its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17, with a public hearing for the sale of surplus property in the Amenia Water District No. 1, before moving forward with its sale.
Town Board approves resolutions: Train to Trail and solar moratorium OK’d
AMENIA — The Amenia Town Board approved various resolutions for a number of municipal projects at a meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17.
Learning that the emergency generator at Amenia Town Hall requires electrical work to be completed by a licensed electrician, the board awarded the contract to CDE Electric at a cost not to exceed $61,400.
Town abuzz over newly proposed noise ordinance
AMENIA — Continuing the public hearing on the new noise law, the Town Board discussed the ordinance at its meeting on Thursday, Jan. 17.
As one of the first attendees to speak, Wassaic resident Antonia Shoumatoff made some suggestions. Addressing Councilman Damien Gutierrez’s previous concerns about making sure noises created by firing guns during hunting season were exempt from complaint, she said she thought it would be good if that type of noise was an exception in the new law.
Town Board OKs firearm policy for constables and announces plans for 2019
AMENIA — Along with accepting official appointments for 2019, the Amenia Town Board approved several designations and stated its goals for the new year at its annual reorganization meeting on Thursday, Jan. 3. For more on town appointments, read the Jan. 10 edition of The Millerton News.
Amenia Town Board holds organizational meeting for 2019
AMENIA— The Amenia Town Board held its annual organizational meeting on Thursday, Jan. 3.
After establishing the salaries for the town’s elected and appointed officials, the board appointed Ian Lindars as town attorney at $200 an hour.
Working 22 hours a week for $26 an hour, Marge Arnold was appointed to the bookkeeper position; Lorna Sherman was appointed alternate per diem bookkeeper at $25 an hour. Working for a total of two hours per month, Diana McPadden was appointed bank reconciliation clerk for the bookkeeper at $15.97 an hour.
2018: Cricket Valley energy plant raises concerns here
Cynthia Hochswender
The construction of a gas-powered electric plant in nearby Dover, N.Y., was a source of anxiety for Northwest Corner residents. Two concerns in particular are the size of the plant and the possibility that air pollution from the plant will drift over the border into Connecticut towns including Kent.
The new plant is being built just off Route 22 in Dover, on an industrial site that was abandoned after a catastrophic fire there in 1996.
Winter Farmers Market ready for 2019
AMENIA — Throughout the year, the Amenia Farmers Market welcomes local farmers and vendors to sell their wares and goods, and enhance the local economy. While the summer farmers market featured a variety of vendors, as did last year’s winter market, original market co-founder Lynn Mordas said she remains in constant search of new merchants and participants.
Breakfast bounty
Just before they left for winter break, students and faculty members at Eugene Brooks Intermediate School embraced the holiday spirit at their annual holiday breakfast on Friday, Dec. 21. Students spent the morning mingling over a hot breakfast and enjoying each other’s company before the end of 2018. From left, students Kaylee Wheeler, Alexis Lovett, Angela Carrera, Adrianna Dean, Zachary Hood and Aaliyah Pfersick rang in the start of the holiday season with teacher Deanna Ambrosino.
Holiday festivities at Webutuck
Webutuck Elementary School students kicked off the start of their holiday vacation by taking part in the Webutuck Teachers’ Association’s annual Holiday Breakfast on Friday, Dec. 21. Coinciding with the school’s Pajama Day, students and faculty members gathered in the cafeteria at 8:20 a.m. to enjoy a delicious holiday breakfast in their pajamas. Along with singing a medley of holiday songs and watching holiday movies, the children delighted in a visit from Santa, who was assisted by Webutuck High School teacher Kevin Kleespies.
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