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No. 986:
MEDIEVAL TIMELESSNESS
by John H. Lienhard
Click here for audio of Episode 986.
Today, we talk about clocks and timelessness. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
istorians struggle to see accurately into the past through their
modern eyes. They look for windows into the way people
thought -- in Plymouth Colony or Charlemagne's Court.
I found such a window the other night.
The four-voice women's ensemble, Anonymous 4, sang a Christmas program of music from the 13th to the 15th centuries. It was a program of pure medieval music, and it was all the work of unknown composers.
It was perfect singing -- no trills, no vibrato -- no urgency. It had the glorious monotony of perfection. You had to listen to it from outside time and space. It was music with no past or future, no climaxes or direction -- only the beauty of Right Now.
Still, the age that gave us that music, 1300 to the late 1400s, was interrupted by bubonic plague and the death of half the people in Europe. It was also the age that gave us the mechanical clock, and therein hangs our tale: As people died, labor became precious -- something to be hoarded and metered. Medieval Europe was becoming time-driven.
But this music came from an age when Europe was still timeless. Time stopped in the ornate initial letters of hand-written medieval manuscript books. They did what medieval music does. Letters, interlaced with delicately inked leaves and tendrils, formed mazes. They drew your mind to trace the weaving forms, under and over, going nowhere. They invited you to meditate.
Time stopped in medieval cathedrals. The mazes built into their tiled floors invited the faithful to enter interior space, to walk a road map of the mind, to follow the maze in the eternal timeless presence of God.
That ended in the clock-driven, forward-moving, future-based world of the Renaissance: the brave and wonderful new world that, in 1517, moved an aging Erasmus to cry out, "Immortal God, what a world I see dawning! Why can I not grow young again?" It was the aggressive clock-driven world you and I still live in.
So, as winter approached -- as the noise and urgency of one more Christmas closed in on me again -- I opened this brief window on an earlier world without time. I listened to four women singing perfectly -- without intermission, without personality -- without haste. I listened to lines of music weaving the maze of Christmas mystery -- over and under -- in some eternal present.
Mechanical clocks and printed books were poised to kill that present tense -- that timelessness. They were about to bind us to the relentless rational face of time. The other night I found a brief reprieve from the clutches of the clock. And I was given a chance to learn medieval history -- by being there.
I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
The Anonymous 4 concert was presented at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, on Monday, November 28, 1994, at 8:00 PM.
For more on the subjective character of time, see Episodes 1005, 1224, and 538.
Image courtesy of Special Collections, UH Library
A typical ornate leaf from a French manuscript Book of Hours, ca. 1275 (Click on the image for an enlargement)
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The Manhattan: Cocktail Classicism and Revisionism
March 2, 2012 Thirsty South Comments 9 comments
First off, I promise not to use the term “The Manhattan Project” or say “I’ll Take Manhattan” in the course of this post. I won’t even say “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” though I may burst out with a rendition of that “Man or Muppet” song from the recent Muppet movie. It rocks. What I most certainly will do, however, is talk about this great cocktail and the many ways to find a variation of it that suits your tastes. The Manhattan may be the very epitome of the term “classic cocktail” (yes, even more so than the revered Martini), but it also serves as a foundation for endless exploration and customization. The base idea is 2 parts rye (no bourbon, please), 1 part sweet vermouth (try Dolin, try Cocchi, you will be amazed by the distinctions), a few dashes of bitters, and… that’s it. It’s simple. It’s strong. It’s balanced. It’s deep. It’s perfect, yet…
Once you’ve got the base concept down, the fun begins. The Wall St. Journal recently published a great overview of the different components and how you can mix and match them. Even just sticking with the notion of 2:1 whiskey to vermouth, you can get a lot of variation based on the particular whiskey or vermouth you use. And please don’t forget the bitters. Those precious dashes do wonders for the drink, and with all the interesting new bitters out there, you can put an interesting twist on the drink with that small component alone.(Side note: I personally prefer shaking over stirring, but you’ll find devotees on both sides of that fence.)
Bartenders have cooked up a nearly infinite number of drinks that depart from the basic Manhattan 2:1 ratio in interesting ways. My favorite variation is a relatively minor but highly impactful tweak. Cut the vermouth in half (and preferably use its close cousin, Punt e Mes), add 1/4 oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur, and you have a Red Hook. The Luxardo adds a sprinkling of magical pixie dust that elevates the drink just a notch beyond perfection. (This one goes to 11) Some call for 1/2oz of the stuff, but I think that overwhelms the balance of the drink, basically coating your tongue in that pixie dust. Not good.
One twist I hadn’t seen before shows up in this nice little video from Liquor.com and Dushan Zaric of Employees Only in New York. His spin on the drink dramatically amps up the vermouth to rye ratio, and adds in some Grand Marnier for a deep orange detour. Sounds like a trip worth taking, but calling it a Manhattan is a bit of a stretch.
You like things dark, brooding and murky? Take out the Manhattan’s sweet vermouth, use 3/4oz Averna, and you’ve got a Black Manhattan. Crisper and drier? 1.5 oz bourbon, 1.5oz bianco vermouth, and a lemon peel twist makes a Bianco Manhattan. There’s the Brooklyn, the Little Italy, the Greenpoint. If it’s a New York neighborhood, there’s probably a Manhattan variation with that name. Now whether these are truly Manhattan variations, or simply clever drinks that bear a passing resemblance to the original in one or two discrete components… that’s a debate worth having over a cocktail.
Here’s the recipe and some thoughts on my personal favorite, The Red Hook:
2oz rye (I like Rittenhouse Rye Bottled in Bond, a tremendous value at $15-$18)
1/2oz Punt e Mes (or your favorite sweet vermouth – Punt e Mes brings a nice bitterness)
1/4oz Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
Stir or shake over ice (I like the body that shaking provides) and strain into a chilled glass. A Luxardo cherry makes a nice garnish but is not a necessity.
Oh, and here are a few videos from Liquor.com – the one for the Employees Only Manhattan, and one for a nice Rob Roy as well (a Scotch variation on the Manhattan):
High West Breaks Out Barreled Manhattans
June 7, 2011 Thirsty South Comments 4 comments
As noted a few weeks back, the “barrel aged cocktail” craze is in high gear in bars across the country. Here in Atlanta, we recently tried the barrel aged Negroni at Double Zero (delicious, if not quite as bracingly vibrant as its unaged counterpart). And, now, lucky shoppers can find a limited edition, barrel aged Manhattan on the shelves of fine spirits purveyors across the country. High West Distillery of Utah is known for pushing boundaries (note their unique blended rye, bourbon/rye blend, “silver oat whiskey,” and the fact that their proprietor, David Perkins – raised in Georgia by the way, was awarded the 2011 Malt Advocate Pioneer of the Year Award). It’s no surprise that they’ve been a trailblazer for barrel aged cocktails by the bottle, starting last year with a special 100-day-aged “U.S. Grant Centennial Celebration Barreled Manhattan” and progressing to the the version now on store shelves with the moniker “The 36th Vote Barreled Manhattan.” “The 36th Vote” commemorates Utah’s decisive vote in the repeal of Prohibition, and the notion of a Manhattan as the appropriate drink to celebrate Prohibition’s repeal is entirely appropriate given its place in the classic, pre-Prohibition cocktail pantheon.
High West was kind enough to provide two samples of their Manhattan – the barreled version which can be found on store shelves, and an “unaged” version for comparison sake. “The 36th Vote” is a mix of 2 parts High West 95% rye whiskey, 1 part sweet vermouth, and a couple dashes of Angostura bitters per serving, which then spends somewhere between 90 and 120 days of aging time in a 2 year old, American oak, rye whiskey barrel. Perkins admitted that the vermouth used was not necessarily their first choice (Carpano Antica Formula anyone?), but due to federal regulations, had to be one that they could source wholesale in bulk.
The result is a 37 percent alcohol (74 proof), high quality Manhattan in a bottle. To test out the difference of the barrel aging, we tasted these samples first without any ice (I typically like mine shaken with ice and strained into a chilled glass, but many folks prefer stirred). The impact of the barrel aging is not unexpected – it mellows and mingles the flavors to produce a rounder, fuller cocktail (even vs. a version like the one that High West provided that has been pre-mixed and sitting in a bottle, rather than freshly made). With the unaged version, the sharp notes of the vermouth and bitters jump out on the nose, then linger prominently on the finish. With the aged version, there is a softer, more integrated nose, where the rye and the vermouth seem to snuggle up together, rather than posture against each other. It simply comes across as more integrated, more lush, more happily-wed. There are no obvious notes of the wood itself; rather, it’s that little bit of breathing time that the wood barrel provides that brings the drink into a slightly greater harmony. And “The 36th Vote” is exactly that – a beautifully harmonious take on the Manhattan.
Is the barrel aged cocktail in a bottle going to be the next big thing? I don’t think so. It’s just too darn easy to make a great Manhattan at home, not to mention the fact that experimenting with various ryes and various vermouths is a great way to learn what you like best. But “The 36th Vote” is worth experiencing, worth seeking out, to get a taste of time in the barrel, and to experience a uniquely different form of wedded bliss.
High West Distillery, The 36th Vote Barreled Manhattan
Approx. $45 retail for a 750ml bottle
Tasting Date: June 7, 2011
Good Stuff – a great way to experience the impact of barrel aging on a classic cocktail
Barrel Aged Cocktails: Ready For Primetime?
May 6, 2011 Thirsty South Comments 1 comment
Atlanta is finally seeing the barrel aged cocktail wave that has been sweeping the country over the past several months, as Iberian Pig in Decatur and sister restaurant Double Zero in Sandy Springs have rolled out barrel aged cocktails – the “Blackthorn” at Iberian Pig (gin, Dubonnet Rouge and Kirschwasser) and a Negroni at Double Zero (gin, Campari, sweet vermouth). Can it be coincidence that a restaurant by the name of Zero Zero in San Francisco also recently started serving barrel aged Negronis to much fanfare?
Barrel aging is, of course, a key ingredient in creating great bourbon, rye, Scotch, wine… and is seeing more and more use in beer as well. Its use in cocktails seems to be catching fire recently, especially in places like San Francisco and Portland and Chicago and New York, and now … Atlanta. The time in the barrel, as little as a thirty days for many of these cocktails, as many as thirty plus years for several coveted whiskies, imparts color and flavor from the wood and, often, from the spirit that was previously aged in that barrel. For cocktails, it clearly gives the ingredients time to meld, and for the lower alcohol elements (like vermouth) to oxidize and develop characteristics you wouldn’t normally find out of the bottle. See Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s blog for some interesting experiments you can even try at home (if you are adventurous and have a few hundred spare bucks to spend).
So… who has tried a barrel aged cocktail? How did you think it compared to its unaged version? Any other bars in the South doing interesting things with barrel aging? Let us know!
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The Initiative Q Saga Offers Crypto Important Lessons
On Nov 18, 2018 0
Initiative Q hasn’t even been launched yet, but it already has a reputation. Founded by former PayPal, the online payments giant, employee (and founder of Fraud Sciences Corp., acquired by PayPal in 2008) Saar Wilf, the startup is inviting select individuals to sign up early to its payment network and encouraging them to enlist their friends.
However, despite announcing that two million people from over 180 countries have already signed up to use the network once it launches, Initiative Q’s system is not offering a new cryptocurrency or blockchain. Yet even though it clearly states this on its website, it has been flagged as possibly ‘the next Bitcoin’ by certain members of the press.
Nevertheless, Initiative Q does offer crypto at least two important lessons. Firstly, its proactive marketing methods are arguably something crypto should try to emulate and build upon.
And secondly, the mistaken assumption that Initiative Q might be a ‘new Bitcoin’ reveals that crypto is still painfully misunderstood, and that it needs to work harder to communicate to the general public that it’s more than a ‘get-rich-quick’ scheme involving digital money.
Chicken, egg and scam
As founder Saar Wilf tells Cryptonews.com, the pre-building of a user base for Initiative Q – even before it has a product – is actually a key component of its payment system.
"The reason we’re not seeing a globally popular modern payment network is the “chicken and egg” barrier — no buyer will join a new payment network with no sellers, and no seller will offer a new payment option that no buyer uses," he says.
As interesting as it sounds, this business strategy – which is also complemented by ‘free’ access for early signees to the yet-to-be-launched Q currency – has resulted in charges that the system is fraudulent.
For example, an extremely informal poll conducted on Twitter has found, at the time of writing, that 55% of cryptocurrency fans believe Initiative Q is a scam.
Is "Initiative Q" a scam or not? ? #initiativeQ #finance #ScamAlert #bitcoin #ethereum #ripple
— Crypto Cards (@PlayCryptoCards) November 6, 2018
Meanwhile, comment pieces in such places as the Financial Times and Mashable have described the system as a pyramid scheme, given that it’s based around select people being invited to join and being offered free currency, all in the hope of making money out of the fact that they were early adopters.
However, Initiative Q denies all claims that it’s a scam. Earlier this month, it told Mashable that it wasn’t a pyramid scheme: "The key differentiator is that the potential future gains are a result of the currency becoming widely adopted, not from newcomers paying to join."
And speaking to Cryptonews.com, founder Saar Wilf explains that its approach to recruiting users is directed at solving a fundamental problem affecting new payment networks, rather than at making money out of ‘greater fools.’
"Initiative Q’s ability to recruit a critical mass of buyers and sellers to adopt a new payment system, allows us to simultaneously upgrade the whole infrastructure end-to-end – something that no one was able to achieve so far," he says. "This will make payments far simpler, faster, and cheaper."
Not crypto
Initiative Q is not a cryptocurrency, as Wilf confirms.
"The main attribute of cryptocurrencies is the fact that they are decentralized and “auto-govern”. Q, on the other hand, will be centrally managed by an independent democratically-elected monetary committee separate from the Q company."
Given this big difference, it becomes curious as to why the public and parts of the media have confused Initiative Q with crypto, although Wilf himself has an explanation:
"Since the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies increased significantly and rapidly about 12-18 months ago, they have received much public attention […] and consequently I think that the terms cryptocurrency and digital currency have erroneously become synonymous. Since Q is offering a new payment network and digital currency, and many hope it could someday have significant value, this comparison by lay people is to be expected."
But as much as this explanation makes sense, it should be troubling for the crypto industry and community. If the public regards ‘cryptocurrency’ simply as ‘electronic money,’ then clearly crypto has failed at making its distinguishing virtues – decentralization and immutability – known outside of the industry.
And this is exactly why the whole Initiative Q saga should be a lesson to crypto, not because of suspicions that Q is a pyramid scheme, but because the episode reveals how much more work crypto has left to do to gain widespread adoption.
Source: cryptonews.com
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Bucks get rocked by Raptors
TORONTO -- The Bucks played arguably their worst game of the postseason, getting dismantled on defense and getting swarmed on offense en route to a 120-102 loss. The Raptors used a massive game from their second unit to tie the series up at 2-2 as the games shift back to Milwaukee. Khris Middleton...
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Man United hopeful of making one more signing, says Mourinho
FA Cup Final - Chelsea vs Manchester United
(Reuters) – Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he is confident that the club will sign at least one more player before the Premier League’s transfer window closes on Aug. 9.
The Portuguese boss expressed his hopes of signing two new recruits after United’s 4-1 defeat by Liverpool in the pre-season International Champions Cup last weekend in the United States but now says one addition seems more probable.
“I am confident I will get one, but I think two I am not going to get which is not a drama,” Mourinho told beIN SPORTS. “In every pre-season, it happens the same with every club which is the manager wants more.
“It’s our nature, you always want more for your team but then club decisions are different and normally you don’t get what you want which happened during all my career.
“So if I get one player until the end of the market, that’s fine.”
United have struggled to impress in pre-season with a patchy squad that has been depleted through injuries and key players resting after the World Cup in Russia. Their sole pre-season win came against AC Milan last week.
The club’s inconsistent performances has led Mourinho to express his frustration on multiple occasions throughout the U.S. tour, including criticising individual players and United’s lack of transfer activity.
Goalkeeper Lee Grant, however, has dismissed the notion that Mourinho is unhappy with the squad.
“From what we’re getting from the inside it (the atmosphere around the camp) has been nothing but positive,” Grant told Sky Sports. “The messages we are getting from the manager are positive ones and that is important for us going forward.
“His attitude and demeanour around the place is great and that is helpful for us especially when we are under-manned and we are working our hardest.”
United play Champions League holders Real Madrid and German champions Bayern Munich in their next two friendlies before hosting Leicester City in the opening league fixture on Aug. 10.
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Cross-Generational Conversation: YAFS & OFFs, Hard-Core Quaker, Quaker History, Quaker Theology, Remarkable Friends, Stories-Quaker
Friends Music Camp Stories #4: Old Plain Peter – The Ghost of Elders Past
July 29, 2018 Chuck Fager 1 Comment
Before this final camp story, a bit of background. Until 2015, Friends Music Camp gathered at the Olney Friends School, in Barnesville in eastern Ohio.
Barnesville is the Mecca, the (old) Jerusalem, the place of pilgrimage where all roads lead for the scattered survivors of the Conservative or Wilburite strain of quietist Quakerism. These are the Friends who “conserved,” or clung longest to the “peculiarities” of dress and speech, and worked hardest at maintaining traditional “plainness”. (NOT “Simplicity”; that’s a modern, much watered-down imitation.)
Olney’s spirit is embodied in both its main school building, which has a sturdy, handmade character, and a pervasive Quietist atmosphere at its end of Sandy Ridge; and then in the huge, echoing space of the Stillwater Meeting house, which reigns at the other end of a fetching sidewalk of red brick laid in herringbone pattern.
In its heyday, Stillwater could hold a couple thousand, and was often filled during “Yearly Meeting week” for its parent Ohio (Conservative) Yearly meeting, and where visiting ministers could (yes!) preach for an hour..
Plus immediately to its east, down the ridge’s slope, is Olney’s lovely pond, which on the other side laps at the edge of a working farm. The wiser pilgrims know to rise near dawn, to sit on the slope and gaze as the eastern sky reddens, watching the mist, perhaps like watchful spirits, rise off its surface.
To be sure, much of this atmosphere is now mainly the persistence of memory and more than a touch of myth: “Quietist” Friends here had many internecine quarrels and mini-schisms. The school has more than once been on the brink of bankruptcy & closure, and even over it. The children of these quiet people have been scattering for several generations now.
Still, at midsummer, with students gone and First Day meetings at Stillwater sparse and often silent, Olney offered a very special setting for the first Friends Music Camp. The school frowned on music til the last possible moment; but when camp founder Peg Champney (a Yellow Springs liberal) came in 1980 with her radical ideas and a check book, the school needed the rent money.
Olney made a strong impression on many campers in its 35 years there. For more than a few, it was life-changing.
Yet nothing is so constant as change; and a few years back, Olney raised the rent; then an emissary from Earlham College, just over the Indiana border to the west, came hawking the college’s new arts building, new dorms, filled with that magic thing called AIR CONDITIONING, and its cafeteria menu which did not feature such country cuisine as groundhog gravy.
And in 2015, after much agonized deliberation, the camp board decided to move.
Among both campers and staff, many tears were shed at leaving Olney behind. And while all the Earlham promises have been kept: the inside air is cool; the performance spaces gleam; vegan and gluten free items crowd the menu . . . many veteran staff and older campers still cloud up when talk turns to Olney, as it did at least once a day while I was there. We miss it.
I miss it for all the above reasons, and one more that’s special to me: Olney’s air is seeded with stories; they can rise to consciousness like mist off the pond. (Earlham, as yet, not so much.) Like the one I finished with last week. It appeared a few years before my visits to camp began: I took my younger children to visit Ohio Yearly Meeting there, just so they, being raised as young Quakers, could breathe the air and feel the vibe, hang out with the few kids who were still dressed plain, and maybe absorb something of its spirit.
When bedtime came, they demanded a story. I didn’t have one. But as I pondered briefly, suddenly I did have one. This one, in fact, which popped out of the subconscious pretty much whole.
For all the years I came to camp at Olney, it was a favorite, usually the closer for my sessions. I hadn’t read it at Earlham, though, partly because it scraped at my still aching scab of loss, and I wondered if the new, non-Olney-fied campers would relate to it.
But the calls for it were loud, and I obeyed. The story is one of ten “Quaker ghost stories” that have come to me, and it has a place for audience participation, with the key chant unfurled below bellowed by campers contrapuntally, pitting males against females to see who is loudest. You’ll see what I mean in a minute.
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Old Plain Peter, The Ghost of Elders Past
Barnesville, Ohio – Not Long Ago
Wilbur John Stratton was ten and lived in Barnesville, Ohio. Wilbur and his family all went to meeting there, at the big old Stillwater Meeting house, every Sunday. All of them, that is, except his great-aunt Felicity. Oh, she always came with them, but great-aunt Felicity was very careful to call it “First-Day,” instead of Sunday. And she was also careful to make sure that her long gray dress was ironed, and her old black bonnet smoothed out before she left the house.
All this was because great-aunt Felicity was an old-fashioned Friend, which meant a plain Friend. She wore the same kind of long grey or brown dresses year in and year out. That’s how she was raised, and that’s what she thought was right, especially for Quakers.
“The plain way, that’s the proper way for Friends,” she often told Wilbur John, as she sat knitting in her favorite rocking chair. She never failed to mention this when she heard Wilbur John whistling, which he loved to do.
Great-aunt Felicity was not only old-fashioned, she was also very old, and spent most of her time at her knitting. She was knitting small sweaters for the Yearly Meeting Relief Committee to send to poor children.
She must have knitted hundreds of them, Wilbur John thought. They were all plain too, gray or brown or black, depending on which color of yarn was on sale when she went to the store.
“Yes,” she often said, “when I was growing up we would have none of this worldly business that a child like thee has nowadays, sports and movies and TV and whistling tunes and suchlike foolishness. We had better things to think about, eternal things.”
“What about books?” Wilbur asked her one day. This was important, because he loved to read. “Did they let thee read books?” Wilbur didn’t say “thee” much anymore; only to his parents sometimes, and now and then to an older person at meeting. He never said it at school; the other kids snickered. But he always said it to great-aunt Felicity.
“Oh, yes, we had books,” great-aunt Felicity said. “But mostly we read the Bible. There’s plenty of excitement and adventure in the Bible. And in George Fox’s Journal too.”
Wilbur John listened respectfully, but he wasn’t much impressed. He had seen her old Bible, and her Fox’s Journal. Both were very thick, with small print and no pictures.
Great-aunt Felicity seemed to sense his doubts. “Now and then a few of us tried to cheat,” she admitted “by looking at worldly magazines and picture books. But it didn’t last long. In those days we had elders watching over us, and in a town as small as Barnesville they were sure to find out about it before long. Then the elders would visit the family, and deal with the wayward child and their parents. Those elders kept us to the plain way.”
“Was thee afraid of the elders?” Wilbur John asked.
“We sure were,” his aunt said. “They were all old men, who always dressed in black suits and big black hats, and on First Day they sat in the front of the meeting on the facing benches, watching us. Most of them had long grey and white beards, and they always looked very sober, and they preached long and solemn in meeting. I don’t think I can remember ever hearing one of them laugh.
And the most sober and scary elder of them all to us then was old Peter Rockwell. ‘Old Plain Peter’ we used to call him. Yes, he was a stern one.”
Great-aunt Felicity paused for a moment while she counted some stitches. Then she added, “thee knows, I’m told that old Plain Peter is still around the Stillwater Meeting House. His ghost that is.”
“Really?” said Wilbur John. He hadn’t heard about this before.
“Yes,” she said, “I’m sure of it. He’s been seen sitting on those facing benches, his eyes glowing under that old black hat of his. And a number of young Friends who had gone out into worldly diversions have found him waiting for them when they went to the meetinghouse of a lonely evening.
He had seen what they had done, and he stood up and shouted at them, `For shame, for shame! Be plain, be plain!’ He ran them right out of there, too, scared out of their wits, as I’m sure thee can imagine.”
“Yes,” said Wilbur John, “I can imagine.”
And he could. The Stillwater meetinghouse was friendly enough in the daytime, but at night it would be an ideal spot for ghosts: with its long old benches and the high balcony, and one side of it, where the women used to sit, not used anymore and all covered with dust. It made him a little nervous to think of it.
“Now don’t think I’m just trying to frighten thee,” great-aunt Felicity said. “It’s better to be plain out of conviction than from fear. But I know what I have heard.”
When Wilbur John left the house that afternoon, he was thoughtful. Was Old Plain Peter, the Ghost of Elders Past, really watching young Quakers, around Barnesville? The story made him a little nervous, but it also left him very curious. He found himself walking down Sandy Ridge Road toward the Stillwater meetinghouse, and the old Olney Friends School that sat on the hill behind it.
It was a lovely late spring day, and from behind the trees on the near side of the school he heard students shouting and cheering. He knew what that was, and trotted down the brick sidewalk and through some trees til he came to the playing field, where the Olney girl’s soccer team was scrimmaging against a team from another school.
It was an exciting game, with girls in brightly colored shorts running this way and that, colliding on top of the ball, which was bouncing here and there, while more students lined up along the grass, cheering for their team.
Wilbur John loved to watch soccer games, and he often thought that when he was old enough to go to Olney he would try out for the boy’s team.
But then he remembered. Great-aunt Felicity had said the plain Quakers didn’t allow games like soccer at Olney in the old days. They were too competitive, and too worldly. That made Wilbur John wonder: Did Old Plain Peter watch these games too, and shake his ghostly head in disapproval, and wait for one of the Quaker students to come into the meetinghouse at night so he could shout at him, “For shame, for shame! Be plain, be plain!”?
This thought spoiled his enjoyment of the game, and he wandered back to the brick sidewalk, toward the old Main school building. There in the hallway right in front of him was the library, and through its big glass window he could see two students leaning over a big book full of pictures. By leaning up a little closer to the glass, he thought he could tell what the pictures were of–yes, they were pictures of dinosaurs! Dinosaurs were his favorite animals, even if they were all extinct. He had some plastic dinosaur models at home, and often pretended they were space creatures, like the ones he had seen in a comic book at school.
But then he suddenly remembered again about Old Plain Peter. What do you suppose that ghost thought of all the fancy picture books and story books that were in this library now, Wilbur John asked himself. He must watch the kids in here, too, and he probably didn’t like these books one bit. School books and Quaker books and the Bible, that was plenty for great-aunt Felicity, and for Old Plain Peter too.
It wouldn’t be plenty for me, Wilbur John said to himself, as he turned and went back out the big front door and down the steps.
It was getting late now, time to think about heading back toward home. But off to his right Wilbur John saw the big school pond shimmering beyond the boy’s dorm, and headed over that way. He wanted to see if any turtles were out on the grass where he might be able to catch them.
Now that, he figured, should be something old Plain Peter wouldn’t mind; turtles were plain enough, weren’t they, with their brown shells. Though come to think of it they did have those bright red or white spots on their necks. Were those plain too?
They must be, Wilbur John decided as he started skidding down the steep hillside toward the pond, because God made the spots along with the shells. And anyway, his attention was now distracted from this theological problem by the sight of the pond’s regular spring and summer guests, a flock of big Canadian geese, which had recently returned and was sitting quietly on the grass below him.
Wilbur John shouted happily and ran into the flock of geese waving his arms. They began squawking and fluttering, just as he knew they would, waddling quickly away and then spreading their big wings and taking off, rising gracefully out over the pond and then gliding into it, their long necks extended and webbed feet skimming along like water skis.
Watching them settle down in the pond, Wilbur John realized that these birds were also no doubt plain enough for an old-time Quaker, with their gray feathers and brown-ringed necks and black heads. Maybe that’s why they liked to settle here, next to an old Quaker school and meetinghouse; they felt at home.
He left the geese behind and headed down to the weathered little wooden footbridge that stretched over the pond to its little hump of an island, and his original goal of hunting for turtles.
Turtle hunting didn’t sound like much, but it could be exciting. Wilbur John would never forget the time when his sister grabbed a turtle away from him and tried to play with it like one of her dolls. She brought the terrified, wiggling animal up near her face to talk baby talk to it, only to have its little beak open and clamp tight right onto her chin. She had screamed and danced until he managed to yank it off and throw it back into the water. Then she was mad at him for laughing, which he did all the way home, especially once he could see that she wasn’t really hurt, just scratched and shaken up a little.
Yes that was fun all right, and probably plain too. But today there were no turtles on the bank, just a few that kept rising tantalizingly to the surface of the pond, well beyond his reach, to breathe and snap up any unlucky bugs that had landed in the water, then sinking lazily back out of sight.
Finally he noticed how long the shadows were getting over the pond and the cow pasture beyond it, and he knew it was time to head back home. So he started trudging back up the hill, around the back of the boy’s dorm.
It was as he was passing the dorm that he heard some music. It was a guitar, and someone in the dorm was playing it, practicing a tune that Wilbur John didn’t recognize. Whoever it was could play well, and the tune was a lovely one, and Wilbur John stopped to listen. Then it ended, and he was just about to move on, when the invisible player started another tune, one even lovelier than the first. Wilbur John paused to listen some more.
The music kept up for three more tunes, and Wilbur John heard a boy’s voice humming to the last one as it was played. Then the school bell rang in the tower atop the old Main building, which meant it was almost time for dinner, and the guitar stopped. The bell got Wilbur John moving too, down the road toward the school gate and beyond it a few blocks, home. And it got him thinking again too. I suppose old Plain Peter wouldn’t like that guitar; the old-fashioned Quakers didn’t think much of music.
He was still mulling this over when he looked up and saw he was almost at the gate, and that meant he was also right by the Stillwater meeting house. And he noticed that one of the doors on the side porch was ajar.
Suddenly he had an urge to go in and see if there really was a ghost in there. And before he had time to get scared, he was walking up the porch steps, through the door, and sitting down on the long front facing bench.
The room was quiet, and dim. Wilbur John could hardly see the back of the balcony in the evening shadows. One of the side windows was open, though, and from somewhere outside a bluejay came flapping down to rest briefly on its sill. The bird peered into the room, its eyes blinking. Wilbur John looked quietly back at it. Now there’s a bird that’s not very plain, he thought, with those gaudy feathers and its loud voice–
Just then someone tapped him on his other shoulder, the one away from the window. The blue jay screeched and flew away, and Wilbur John turned around.
Next to him on the bench was an old man, dressed in a black suit and wearing a black hat with a wide brim. He had a long gray and white beard.
Wilbur John almost jumped off the bench. His mouth fell open, and it took a few seconds before he heard himself stammering. “Are, are, are you–I mean, is thee–” was all he could say.
“Yes,” said the old man, “I’m Old Plain Peter, and I’ve been waiting for thee.”
Although Wilbur John was still afraid, something in the old man’s voice kept him from running out the door. It was ghostly all right, but somehow not quite as stern or frightening as he was expecting. The eyes, too, seem to shine more than glow. “Thee-thee’s been waiting for me?” he said. “I suppose thee’s been watching me too.”
The old man nodded. “Oh, yes,” he replied, “I’ve been watching thee off and on for some time. I was watching thee all afternoon today. I knew thee was headed this way.”
“So I suppose,” said Wilbur John, “thee knows what I’ve been doing today too.”
The old man nodded again, very gravely Wilbur John thought. The boy pulled his feet up under him, to be ready to jump and run if the spectre began to shout at him. But a moment passed in silence. The old man sat there and said nothing. Finally Wilbur John couldn’t stand the waiting.
“Well,” he asked, “isn’t thee going to shout at me ‘For shame, for shame! Be plain, be plain!’?”
There was another quiet pause. Then the old man glanced away, past Wilbur John toward the open window. “I was going to,” he answered quietly. “I was all ready to.”
Wilbur John felt a little bolder now. “Then go ahead,” he said, a little louder. “I’m not afraid.” (Even though he was, really.)
“Well,” said Old Plain Peter, “for the sake of truth, I have to tell thee that something happened today, something I was not expecting. When thee was watching that game, the one with the ball–”
“It’s called soccer”, Wilbur John said helpfully.
“Er, yes, uh-soccer,” continued the old man. “When thee was watching it, I slipped up behind thee and looked over thy shoulder. And soon I found to my surprise that I was so absorbed in it I was a bit sorry when thee decided to leave. That game was turning out to be, well, just plain fun.”
“Then I saw thee straining to see that book with the strange creatures pictured in it–”
“Dinosaurs,” corrected the boy. “They’re my favorite animals.”
“Ahem, yes,” the old man grunted. “Well, since I’m taller than thee, and can walk through walls besides, I went in and took a closer look at the book than thee did. And I must admit, even though I’m not at all convinced that such fantastic creatures ever really existed, that book was, well, just plain interesting.
“And what about the turtles and the geese?” Wilbur John asked. “Did thee see them too?”
“Oh, yes, and thee was quite right, they’re plain enough. I used to hunt turtles myself when I was thy age, and that was over a hundred years ago. But I wasn’t thinking so much about them,” he said, and scratched at his bearded chin with a big wrinkled hand.
Wilbur John’s eyes dropped. “I know,” he said, staring at the floor. “It was the music, the guitar.”
“That’s right,” said the ghost. “I heard it. Thee never saw the boy who was playing, but I did. I watched his fingers moving over the strings, and the furrow of concentration between his brows. And when I came out again, I could not deny that I felt the same way thee did: that music was, well, it was just plain beautiful.
“After that, I came ahead of thee into the meetinghouse, to sit and reflect on what thee and I had seen and heard today. And I was still sitting here when thee came in.”
“So, what does thee think now?” Wilbur John asked. “Doesn’t thee want me to be plain anymore?”
The old man sat for a moment and then nodded his head solemnly. “Yes,” he answered, “yes I do. But I think I’m beginning to see that there may be more ways to be plain than I imagined.”
He was quiet for another long moment. Then he turned and faced the boy.
“Let me ask thee something now,” he said. “Does thee reckon thee could do those things, play that ball game, read those fancy picture books, and play such music–does thee think thee could do all those things and still be plain, really?”
Now it was Wilbur John’s turn to ponder for a long moment, but finally he answered, honestly, “I don’t know.”
Then he said, “But I know I’d like to try. But if I do,” he added, “is thee sure thee won’t rise up someday and start shouting at me ‘For shame, for shame! Be plain be plain!’ like my great-aunt Felicity says?”
Now the old man smiled. “Oh, that Felicity was always a mischief maker,” he said quietly, as if to himself. “No,” he added more audibly, “I’ll agree not to shout at thee –but only on one condition.”
“What’s that?” asked the boy.
“It is this: I would like thee to keep coming here to meeting on First Days, and reflecting in worship on what thee is doing, to see if all these things thee does still seem plain when brought into God’s Light.”
“All right,” said Wilbur John. “I promise I’ll do it. It’s a deal. Does thee want to shake on it?”
The old man smiled and started to raise his big weathered hand to meet the boy’s, then he pointed past his shoulder.
“Oh look,” he said, “there’s that gaudy blue jay again.”
Wilbur John faced the window, only to see the blue jay taking off again with another screech.
When he turned back again, the bench beside him was empty, and he was alone in the big old meetinghouse, which was now almost dark.
Good grief, he thought, I’ll be late for dinner! He jumped up and hurried out the door, up to the gate and Sandy Ridge Road. As he walked along, he felt a special kind of lightness in his heart, a pleasure that seemed to light up the dusk all the way to his house. He soon began to whistle, one of the nameless tunes he had heard played on the guitar that afternoon.
He was still whistling when he came into the house. He could smell food from the dining room, and great-aunt Felicity had just laid her knitting aside and was getting out of her rocker, leaning on her cane.
“Wilbur John, thee is late, and thee is whistling again,” she said, though her tone was not as stern as the words. “Old Plain Peter will be after thee if thee keeps that up.”
“Oh, I don’t think so,” Wilbur John said jauntily. “Thee see, I had a chat with Old Plain Pete today, and we got it all worked out.
This handmade set of tiles is one of many made by Olney students for the wall in a Boys Dorm bathroom.
Previous Friends Music Camp stories in this 2018 series:
#1 – Talking With the Trees
#2 – How I Got so lucky
#3 – The Voice of God
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Hank Fay says:
Chuck,
wonderful, wonderful.
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The bloody and unlovely war on sin: Art in the Counter-Reformation
Elizabeth Lev | Jul 27, 2017
What do our personal battles against evil look like? They are rarely pretty or uncomplicated, in any age.
On the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, this series of articles looks at how the Church responded to this turbulent age by finding an artistic voice to proclaim Truth through Beauty. Each column visits a Roman monument and looks at how the work of art was designed to confront a challenged raised by the Reformation with the soothing and persuasive voice of art. You can find more in this series, here.
There was one important area of convergence between 16th-century reformers and Catholics: neither one ever denied the existence of sin. Sin was omnipresent, and humanity was swept along in a deluge of temptations and faults that constantly threatened to separate it from God. The bone of contention lay in how to swim against the tides of evil. Protestants clung to salvation by faith alone, exalting Christ’s redemptive sacrifice as the source of all salvation while holding faith to be the believer’s sole means of accessing unmerited grace. The Catholic Church, meanwhile, always affirming the centrality of Christ’s redemption, also preached human cooperation with divine grace and the necessity to combat sin every day. This disagreement was so bitter, it threatened to submerge everyone caught in its undertow.
St. Ignatius of Loyola plunged into the idea of spiritual combat with his spiritual exercises, teaching thousands how to face the reality of sin and to combat its effect in their lives. Ignatius’ spirituality would help shape a century of dramatic imagery that vividly confronted the faithful about how virtue conquers vice and inciting Catholics to wage war on sin.
Leading the charge are the angels, explored in a previous article, who possess a superhuman capacity to combat sin without ever getting a hair out of place. As debonair as Ian Fleming’s 007, Michael the Archangel, especially in Guido Reni’s oft-imitated 1635 painting, treads on Satan without a spot of sweat, a wrinkle in his cool blue armor, or a furrow in his porcelain brow.
The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan, 1635 - Guido Reni in Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome
But what about mere mortals – what does battling evil in daily life look like? Rarely pretty. St. Ignatius invited the world to an examination of conscience – holding up a mirror to the soul to examine the sag here and the blemish there – or as Ignatius more brutally put it, to “look upon all the corruption and foulness of my body.”
Contrast the elegant ease of Reni’s Michael with Niccolò Tornioli’s Cain and Abel — what a change sin wrought in man! In this close-up depiction of history’s first murder, Cain, engulfed in shadow, dominates the canvas as he deals the fatal blow to his brother. Abel, luminous and helpless, lies curled in fetal position. The composition follows the trajectory of Cain’s strike, leading the eye to the tumble of chestnut curls and the pool of blood trickling towards the viewer. Abel remains beautiful in form and light, but Cain is transformed. His body grows brutish and his wickedness distorts his face. He becomes as feral as the pelt looped around his body. In an age where Christian brothers fought each other often to death, art held up a mirror to the ugliness of hate, envy and violence.
Niccolò Tornioli Cain Slaying Abel Galleria Spada, Rome 1646
Sin, however has many guises, of which murderous violence is but one. Pleasure, too, has its place. Legend has it that the only book in St. Ignatius’ chamber at the time of his death was Thomas à Kempis’ Imitation of Christ, a guidebook for strengthening the spirit by turning away from vanities, whether riches or bodily desires. At this time, scenes of failed seduction began to proliferate in art, allowing the enticing nature of painting to expose the challenges of resisting disordered desires. Whether Annibale Carracci’s lust-driven old men tormenting the chaste Susanna or even the pagan Lucrezia painted by by Carlo Maratta, shown in disquieting proximity to the viewer while trying to recover lost honor through death, the artistic preoccupation with virtuous temperance adorned everything from altars to boudoirs.
The Bolognese artist Carlo Cignani, student of the prestigious Counter-Reformation academy of the Carracci, developed a fascination with the subject of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife – returning to it over and over. Drawing from his teachers, he chose to show the intimacy of the struggle between virtuous Joseph and the seductive woman who remains unnamed in the Bible. She envelops Joseph in her voluptuous flesh with her red robe waving like a banner as passions flare. Joseph holds up his hand in rejection of sin while looking to heaven for help to resist temptation. Cignani underscored need for prayer and divine assistance, especially when sin appears more like a warm embrace than a slap in Lord’s face.
Carlo Cignani Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar 1678 Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
While God gives aid to those who ask it, this does not mean that human struggles against sin are easy, and art was recruited to illustrate the messiness of moral combat. After all, good exercise works up a sweat.
Few knew this better than Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio, and Artemisia Gentileschi, two public sinners and painters who engaged in plenty of spiritual (and sometimes physical) wrestling, but their struggles produced works of art that would guide many others through the trenches.
Both artists worked on the most popular biblical story of virtue conquering vice: that of Judith and Holofernes — a story not found in the Protestant biblical canon. Caravaggio, painting in 1598, presented a startlingly immediate vision of the honorable widow conquering the decadent soldier. A red curtain rises on the left, a signal for the viewer to pay attention to the scene.
Public Domain via Wikipedia
Caravaggio Judith and Holofernes 1598 Galleria Barberini, Rome
Judith’s heavy sword is almost through the neck of the shocked general, who clutches the bedsheets in a final paroxysm of death. Behind her, the eager maid gazes hungrily at the scene, two-dimensional and without complexity or nuance. Beautiful Judith arches her body away from the bloody mess, her brow furrowed in distaste. There is no enjoyment in this victory, no personal pleasure for her, just the fulfillment of a dangerous duty. The determination seen in her locked arms counteracts the broad sweep of her pristine dress away from the spectacle. This was hard work, unpleasant work, but the work of the Lord nonetheless.
Artemisia Gentileschi, whose personal life was put on display from her rape trial at age 17 to her later infidelity with a Florentine nobleman, understood the difficulty of battling sinful desire. She would return to the subject of Judith and Holofernes seven times during her life, but most intensely in 1612 (the year of her trial) and again in 1620, the year she would resettle in Rome after her affair with Francesco Maria Maringhi had become public knowledge. Artemisia’s Judith is no shy sylph pulling away from her deed. She wrestles, blood-spattered, with the figure on the bed. Keeping the same determined straight arms of Caravaggio, Artemisia adds the body weight of both women to keep their enemy down. One of Artemisia’s hands grasp blood-soaked hair, but the other wields the sword vertically to recall the cross. Fighting sin within and without often involves grime, dirt and blood; it is a life and death struggle for the immortal soul and should never be downplayed as a casual task that one can accomplish alone.
Artemisia Gentileschi Judith and Holofernes 1620 Uffizi Gallery Florence
Artists of the 17th century invited people to see themselves as warriors, ready, in the words of St Paul, to “take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Eph. 6:14-16).
As interpreters of passions, students of humanity and lovers of beauty, artists were uniquely qualified to illustrate the path to holiness, even if they were not always able to live it. Despite their personal failures, their singular vision continues to awaken hearts and souls centuries later.
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Alkantara
For more than 25 years, Alkantara has promoted and developed projects in the performing arts, in Lisbon and abroad, that look beyond political, artistic and disciplinary borders. Since July 2018, Alkantara’s artistic directors are Carla Nobre Sousa and David Cabecinha.
Alkantara Festival
Every second year, the Alkantara Festival presents an international programme of theatre, dance, performance and other events across Lisbon stages, instigating conversations about contemporary artistic practices in relation to the issues of today. Like its predecessor Danças na Cidade (1993-2004), the festival coproduces and presents Portuguese artists of different generations and is an important meeting place for arts professionals. The next Alkantara Festival will take place in 2020.
Espaço Alkantara
Espaço Alkantara, a heritage building in the Lisbon neighbourhood of Santos, is Alkantara's centre of operations. Throughout the year, Espaço Alkantara hosts a residency programme, workshops, showings, talks, and other public events. During the Alkantara Festival, the studio and outdoor patio are transformed into a meeting point, open to the public.
Seven Years Seven Pieces
Seven Years Seven Pieces (2016-2022) is an ambitious, long-term project by choreographer Cláudia Dias. It includes the production of a new work every year, with a companion publication (Seven Years Seven Books), and a satellite project running in secondary schools in Almada and Porto (Seven Years Seven Schools, supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation - PARTIS and the Almada Municipality).
In collaboration with Polo Cultural Gaivotas|Boavista/Loja Lisboa Cultura, Alkantara produces a programme of free training sessions and public debates for arts professionals (PISTA).
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And with folks around here in the Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana tri-state area still cleaning up from Friday's tornadoes, Ron Paul tells each and every one of the victims to go to hell and rot.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, stood by his libertarian beliefs on Sunday, saying that victims of the violent storms and tornadoes that have battered a band of states in the South and Midwest in recent days should not be given emergency financial aid from the federal government.
"There is no such thing as federal money," Paul said, on CNN’s State of the Union. "Federal money is just what they steal from the states and steal from you and me."
"The people who live in tornado alley, just as I live in hurricane alley, they should have insurance," Paul said.
Ron Paul isn't running to be President of the United States. He's running to replace it with the Hunger Games. Let the districts fight among themselves and may the odds ever be in your favor. Isn't it nice to know that if a tornado rips through where you live, Ron Paul won't lift a finger because the other 305,000,000 of us shouldn't have to help? It's your fault you happened to be where the tornado was, so screw you and your family and your neighborhood. Move to a better state.
But you see, Ron Paul isn't the only one. Gov. John Kasich feels the exact same way about his state.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich said thanks but no thanks to immediate federal disaster relief Saturday, even as governors in Indiana and Kentucky welcomed the help.
Kasich did not rule out asking for assistance later, but his decision means tornado-ravaged towns in Ohio will not get federal aid now and are not eligible at this time for potentially millions of dollars in payments and loans.
The governor said Ohio can respond to the crisis without federal help and he would not ask federal authorities to declare the region a disaster area.
“I believe that we can handle this,” Kasich said while visiting a shelter for storm victims at New Richmond High School. “We’ll have down here all the assets of the state.”
Can anyone ever recall a governor turning down disaster aid for multiple tornadoes? That would be a first. Of course, there's another first in the White House right now, which most likely explains this first too.
Needless to say, donating to the Cincy Red Cross is much more necessary now. Donate here.
The American way, indeed.
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Stupor Tuesday
Romney and Santorum are effectively tied going into Tuesday's Ohio primary. Both men need a win here, plain and simple.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has surged into a dead heat with Rick Santorum in the Ohio primary, setting up a cliffhanger race on Tuesday, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday.
The former Massachusetts governor and former senator from Pennsylvania are tied with 32 percent support from likely voters in the Ohio Republican primary, the most important of the 10 state nominating contests on "Super Tuesday" this week.
After his victory in Saturday's Washington state caucuses, Romney is gaining momentum going into Tuesday after trailing Santorum in recent polls in Ohio.
"This race could really go either way between now and Tuesday," said Ipsos pollster Chris Jackson.
"If Mitt Romney is able to close this out and win this race, that gives him a leg up in going all the way to the convention and winning the Republican nomination."
And if he doesn't win? Then things get real interesting. The most important thing that happens after Super Tuesday of course is that I firmly believe people will start asking Newt Gingrich to quit. That would help Santorum more than Romney, and pretty much everyone knows it. Things would be much different now if Gingrich had dropped out of the race back when Jon Huntsman did.
Likewise, Gingrich staying in the race helps Romney, at least for now. We'll see where things fall out on Wednesday morning.
Of course, the real news is that President Obama would beat Mitt Romney by 12 points in Ohio and Santorum by 14. Keep in mind Republicans have never won the White House without winning Ohio.
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StupidiLeak
All those programs for the elderly that are failing are affecting an ever-growing number of citizens. There are dozens of examples of programs from little local aid to Medicaid that are dying or working at lower capcacity. While the "corporations are people too" bullshit is the GOP's best defense for their priorities, real people are going without.
People like Fannie Wilson.
Fannie is 69-year-old Texan who got sick and had a hard streak of luck. Her finances were so tight that when she sprung a leak and could not afford to fix it, she turned her own water off and lived that way for six long years. She didn't stay at home often, and her house was full of jugs that of water she collected from other places. She took the occasional bath at a friend or relative's house. Six years she went without running water. Millions of people live in that "one small disaster away from bankruptcy" state, and when the inevitable small disaster happens this is the result.
Wilson got help and now has running water. She can enjoy a drink in the middle of the night, and flush her toilet with wild abandon. She was nearly evicted from her home because it is illegal to live in a residence without running water (that whole necessary for life thing being the primary reason). Thank goodness a small charity was able to help her fix the leak and restore the service.
I hope we all think of Fannie when we hear arguments that we have to slash services for citizens at the expense of big business. Most of us will likely find ourselves there someday.
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Bumping Uglies
Yeah, I knew you'd look.
Pamela Haag reminds us that this whole war on women isn't completely about health care. It's also about sex, plain and simple. We have several good examples of cysts and hormonal conditions that the Pill helps with, but there is also the fact that as adults, women and men alike should be able to conduct their sex lives as they see fit, and enjoy protection from unwanted babies. Haag reminds us that there are healthy couples in committed relationships who want to enjoy sex without introducing a child into the world. She's completely right, and while I see the issue as a combination of sexual freedom and medical need, she addresses a valid and relatively quiet point: we enjoy sex and we should be able to enjoy it on our terms.
Why that gets those old righteous farts whipped into a frenzy isn't hard to understand. What is scary is that with a teeny bit of encouragement how far it went, and how fast. As Zandar pointed out, states are removing choices for women without apology. This has been going on for a while, but the recent snowball of stupidity is alarming.
It's women who ultimately pay the price for this ego and hypocrisy. The fathers may or may not have to pay child support, but they won't have to raise a child they never asked for. They won't have near the social stigma associated with not wanting a child. They won't have to know what it feels like to have their rights to their body decided by a panel of strangers. Many women wouldn't put a child up for adoption or have an abortion if they became pregnant, which is why they use birth control in the first place. Imagine having to give up your child because you know it would likely give them a better life. How many mothers who couldn't afford simple contraception are going to find themselves in that situation?
The only reason the GOP is giving are their "values" and implying that the "other" people don't deserve equal treatment. They vote against fair pay for women, but expect women to support babies or live a sexless life to satisfy the moral values of someone they will never meet. It's not just about discounts on birth control. It's about medical rights, fair treatment and recognition under law, and ending a double standard that women can work as hard as men but are not worthy of the same freedoms and choices. Just quoting their beliefs and holding us hostage to their ideals isn't enough. Where is the discussion about the legality and the ethics as applied to all of the citizens? While we are discussing religion and throwing insults, the real argument is being neglected. The underlying concept of equality and silly notions like Constitutional checks and balances are ignored while Rush calls women sluts.
What would happen if a female candidate called them on their stupidity? Can you imagine a woman saying she opposed Viagra, that if God wanted you to have a boner you would have a boner, and that it is offensive for us to see your trouser mouse jump every time there's a breeze? To have such dirty thoughts that led to an erection is an offense to our religious freedom, and we want you to explain to our satisfaction why you think you should have condoms, otherwise they triple in price. Any child you had a role in creating will be yours to raise, and how you plan to work full-time and raise a child is your problem, not ours. We have no plans to help you once you have the child, because you were a slut and brought this on yourself. Now go make me a sammich.
Posted by Unknown Permalink 11:56:00 AM No comments: Somebody Noticed!
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Walla Walla Ding Dong
Mitt Romney has taken the Washington State caucuses from last night, 38%-25%...over Ron Paul. Santorum came in a close third at 24%.
Mitt Romney won the Republican caucuses in Washington state, according to unofficial results early Sunday, giving the former Massachusetts governor a shot in the arm heading into Super Tuesday contests.
With 99% of the vote in, Romney had 38%. Texas Rep. Ron Paul had 25% and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had 24%. They were trailed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 10%.
At stake in the contest are 40 delegates.
"We're in a good second place, but the good news is we're doing very, very well in getting delegates," Paul told supporters in Seattle, when about half of the vote had been counted. "The enthusiasm for the cause of liberty continues to grow exponentially."
It's certainly a blow to Santorum to come in third, making Ohio all that much more important for all four candidates. Gingrich, Santorum and Romney were in Cincinnati yesterday rather than Seattle or Walla Walla.
With 72 hours to go before Ohio voters go to the polls, the Republican White House hopefuls made a mad dash across the state Saturday – with the three leading contenders targeting Greater Cincinnati.
They revved up fervent supporters, sought converts and threw jabs at each other in the home stretch of this pivotal primary contest.
Rick Santorum rallied hundreds of his supporters with a passionate speech about “liberty” and “American exceptionalism” in an overheated hotel conference room in Blue Ash. Newt Gingrich talked about gas prices and energy issues at the Back Porch Saloon in West Chester. And Mitt Romney wrapped up a three-stop tour of the state at a “Ribs With Mitt” gathering at Cincinnati’s Montgomery Inn Boathouse.
I can tell you about the venues. Any hotel in business park laden Blue Ash says "I'm a grown up, why won't you listen," The Back Porch in IKEA country of tony West Chester says "I'm pretending to working class but so is everyone else here" and the Montgomery Inn boathouse location down by the levee says "I'm pretending to be working class and failing miserably." He probably ruined a lot of people's evenings who were planning to go eat ribs, it's pretty much the busiest restaurant in Cincy and he and his Secret Service detail probably put a whole bunch of hungry people out.
In other words, completely a Mitt thing to do. Douchebag.
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Alpha Males and Miss Communication
By Delano, March 10, 2017 in Culture, Race & Economy
Delano 1,050
"Cyniquian" Level
Nah , I ain't an Alpha Male but I'll spar with them.
Cynique 2,306
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
LocationThe great prairie state of Illinois
To me, an Alpha male is someone who is a leader not a follower.
Ah yeah not looking for followers. To much karma involved with all that guru stuff. But you're right I am not a follower. I am an iconoclast.
Troy 2,239
Cynique, I think I feel more like Del more in this regard. I know Del came to this realization about himself much sooner than I.
For example, I know people judge me and value what I do by how much money I have and make. In fact, I valued myself the same way, without any real consideration for my nature. This is what followers do. They do what they feel is important in the eyes of others rather than themselves. I this regard I try not to be a follower. Case in point, a follower can not run a website like AALBC.com.
But not being a follower is not what makes on an Alpha Male.
To Del point about seeking followers, leaders do not they seek followers; they inspire people to follow them. Now I occasionally do things that impress people, but I don't think I inspire followers. For example, I've been engaged in an on going effort to get indie Black webmasters to work together for mutual benefit and while this effort has had small successes, on a larger scale this effort has failed thus far. This is an attempt to lead that is not succeeding very well--but I keep trying.
If I ever succeed in this effort I would consider myself a real leader, but still not an "Alpha male."
"45" is an Alpha Male.
I don't perceive myself as an Alpha male. Maybe I'm the Alpha Male of Black Online Booksellers
Well, an Alpha Male is in the eye of the beholder and has something to do with the pecking order. This term originated in the animal kingdom in describing how the male of the species will drive off or dominate other males who attempt to challenge his authority within the group. This is particularly observable among Lion prides. And even in a domesticated environment where 2 males cats live under the same roof. They will fight and the loser has to wait for the winner to finish eating before he can eat his meal from the same plate. i have personally seen this happen.
But, if you 2 Beta bruthas don't want to be called "Alpha Males", then so be it.
@Cynique no I dont aspire to the title. But I encourage critical thinking not agreement. That last statement is not obvius to everyone.
So i will repeat something i have said to you specifically. Even when i don't agree with you U can't argue your logic. Plus you are comfortable admitting that you don't know. What raises my hackles is sloppy thinking combined with a professorial or condescending tone.
Alrhough I am thinking who am I and why do i feel its my job to refine a person thought process or mental approach. Its love of thinking however there's an arrogance or presumption I am less interested in keeping alive.
@Troy you are a leader. Because you care about making the world better. And this site is a testament to that conviction.
T rump lacks the confidence or charisma to be an Alpha Male
The following people I would consider Alpha Males
Jay-Z.
I would say Nelson Mandela was not an alpha male, but Gandhi was an Alpha.
Del regardless of what we think of "45" (I like that name for him), he is the prototypical alpha male. His rise to presidency just reinforced this.
@Troy we are in definitional disagreement.
Alpha Male is related to pecking order of chickens. The other chickens acknowledge the Alpha's superiority. That doesn't seem to be the case with Trump. Who is increasingly seen as a joke. The Joker or King's fools can not be the Alpha Male. The King holds that spot.
Del 45 is the President holding perhaps the most powerful office on Earth. Why is that not analogous to being king? If it because some think he is a joke? Every president --even Obama, who you identify as an Alpha male, had his detractors and people who thought he was a joke. Indeed, the large number of Obama detractors is part of the reason Trump is in office (ignoring fake news, media bias, and psychogenic manipulation).
Besides you are not in disagreement with me your issue is with Merriam Webster ;-)
Emperor Caligula made his horse emperor did that make his horse an alpha male amongst Alpha Males.
Because in fairy tales Kings display regal qualities. What Royalty represents is a symbol of how to conduct yourself.
If he was an Alpha Male there wouldn't be the global question. How is he the President. A year ago you couldn't imagine it. You called it jumping the shark.
Obama detractors question his allegiance. Trump detractors question his morality, integrity, temperment, intelligence and thinking.
The other part of being an Alpha Male is being respected. This can be through competence or domination.
Domination sounds like dominion or the realm of the king. Trump is has sycophants and followers. Who respect the zeroes behind his name. Trump can't get England to roll out the red carpet. Trump said I want to be treated like Obama. UK sorry you have no class. The English are big on class and breeding.
Some titles can't be bought.
In fairy tales you have to pass trials to become King. You can't be the Ruler if you fall short.
Trump may end up getting impeached. Because you can be impeached for conduct unbecoming of a President. He can be declared unfit for office.
My fuzzy definition is people are envious of the Alpha Male. Who woukd want to be imprisoned in the mind and body of Trump.
He so distasteful that people comment his pudgy Doughboy shape because of his shaming of women. So now we are engaging in the same behaviour as a response. The Presidency is a product. Each purchase tells you what the public wants.
4 hours ago, Cynique said:
I am more of Phi Male. Prefer proportion
Pioneer1 775
LocationMichigan
Well I feel rather flattered that I'm considered an "alpha male".....lol.
I don't think it's fits me totally because I don't HAVE to be number one, I'd settle for 2nd or 3rd place as long as my voice is heard and my ideas are considered.
Actutually I've turned down roles of leadership offered to me in a couple organizations in order to take the "advisory" role where I felt my talents would best serve the organization.
Besides......
Brute stength and domination gets you much further ahead in the animal kingdom than among humans where intelligence and social manipulation tends to be just as important for success and getting things accomplished.
But make no mistake about it, WE NEED alpha males because they are the protectors of the community and push the community towards progress by having the courage and boldness to buck the system.
We need men who are competitive, but competitive in the RIGHT way and for the RIGHT reasons.
One of the complaints I have about a lot of young Black males today is that a lot of the smartest ones tend NOT to want to lead or be alpha and dominant but would rather be passive and "chilled" and layed back.....which allows more aggressive men with less talent and intelligence take their spot.
And a lot of the REAL alpha males never even make it to college because they end up in jail as a result of doing something brave but illegal.....or end up dead from conflict with OTHER alpha males!
Black men need to understand that they are in a COMPETITION in this society for money, women, and other resources.
I apologize to Cynique, Mel, and the other women who are reading this who may have gotten offended by my saying that.....but it's the TRUTH.
If Black men aren't out here trying to secure as much wealth and women as they can....even to the point of polygamy.....you can be DAMN SURE White men are out here scheming a way to do it. I'm seeing more and more White men with not just White and Asian women but Black women too!
What people think movies like 50 Shades of Grey and 50 Shades Darker are all about?
It's promoting the image of the alpha White male!
Say what you want about aggressive and dominaneering men, but I know FEW women who really find passive-ass men with no ambition or desire to own or control anything attractive....sexually.
They may like that guy as a FRIEND (as in fellow girlfriend) but the thought of "cuffing up" with a passive man with no ambition and no desires turns most women I know off.
BTW......
Trump is DEFINATELY an alpha male.
Whenever you check the dictionaries and even wikipedia for the definition of what an alpha male is his picture should POP UP right next to the word
Obama in my opinion was NOT an alpha male.
Some say he was alpha but just stealth and quiet in his moves...but that's not alpha.
He was intelligent and I'm sure had ambition.....but his lack of aggressiveness neither personally nor in his political life disqualifies him from alpha status.
Infact, he's a perfect example of why a man need BOTH intelligence and assertiveness in order to be successful.....because if you're just smart without being bold enough to push your agenda you're still likely to go down as a failure.
Because he wasn't aggressive enough with Trump and the Republicans while he had the opportunity....there's no telling WHAT will happen with him as a result of these wiretapping accusations from Trump.
More men like Trump. Sounds like a plan.
Cynique I have changed my mind you are right about the Alpha Male designation.
@Troy based on the favt that yiu and Pioneer also don't see yourselves as Alpha Males. I know that Cynique. I just had a hard time believing it to be true.
based on the favt that yiu and Pioneer also don't see yourselves as Alpha Males
It's not so much that I DON'T see myself as an alpha male, I said I don't see myself as a TOTALLY alpha male.
In other words there are some aspects about my personality that aren't very alpha.
There are some cases where I'd rather negotiate than engage in head-on conflict like so many alpha males enjoy.
Cynique I have changed my mind you are right anout the Alpha Male designation.
So now that I'M proud to be called an alpha male, now YOU wanna be an alpha male...lol.
Check the time line. You're after me.
I believe that this "world" or "system" which is based on Western hegimony has designed it so that aggressive, masculine, sexual/sensual men are seen as abnormal and dismissed by society.
Aggressive men like Tupac Shakur or maybe even a Mike Tyson who in past ages would have been considered the "knights in shining armor" who were born to defend the society and would have been revered for their boldness and bravery by society.....are in this society considered socially deviant and are often locked up and even killed off.
Meanwhile the weak, passive, feminine type male is often promoted as the ideal.
They are welcomed in school, at work, and even in tight social circles as their presence is considered "non threatening".
The system promotes the male who keeps his head down, does what he is told in school and at work, and shuffles on home to his wife.
Compare most Asian men with most AfroAmerican and Latino men in this society.
The differences in behavior are striking, and the differences in financial status is also just as striking.
In the past, the dominant alpha male was usually the wealthiest with the most choices among the females and had plenty of offspring; today the dominant alpha male is often unmarried, can't hold a job, can't half take care of his children, and does his best to stay out of jail.
Man Pioneer you seemed to have internalized ever racial stereotype invented by our oppressor.
Even your reasoning is inconsistent You implied that the dominant alpha males was usually the wealthiest with the most choice in women, as if that was not longer the case. But the individuals you presented both had women throwing themselves at these brothers and both were quite wealthy.
You speak about Black men as if we are gorillas.
When I look at this current society, I don't see the most dominant alpha males being the most successful financially.
I see a lot of "nerdy" types like Bill Gates or Forbes....men who may be smart but are clearly not very domineering or physically aggressive....enjoying a lot of finacial success in this current society.
Now I'm not saying that their success is not deserved; nor am I saying that men who go around being vulgar and hurting people should be rich.
But let us not say that the most dominant and aggressive men (the real definition of an alpha male) are the one's having the most success today.
Clearly being physically aggressive and trying to "gangster" your way into success doesn't work in this society like it did....say....4000 years ago in the rainforest where it required more physical strength and courage to bring food home to the family.
It has nothing to do with Black men being perceived as gorillas or savages.
It's about a society that has been purposefully engineered from being a predominately blue collar one to a predominately white collar one.
Designed to weed out masculine men who were able to accumulate wealth and take care of their families with factory jobs and skilled trades that didn't require a lot of education but took physical strength and elbow-grease.......
And replace THEIR jobs with those that require an ever higher degree of education, and fill them with men who "know how to behave themselves" in the work place and not challenge authority.
Besides more cell phones...instead of actually producing a tangible product, this new generation of worker accumulates his wealth primarily by inventing new ways for people to communicate with eachother or plays around with insurance, stocks, and other investments.
I call it "revenge of the nerds".
Pioneer I'm sorry man I'm having trouble following your reasoning. You are conflating a lot of issues in a manner I find confusing,
You can have alpha males in white and blue collar jobs
You can have alpha males who are rich or poor.
You can have alpha males that are physically imposing and aggressive and those who are nerdy
Again, I guess it boils down to how you define the term, "Alpha Male." The term like the term "Race," is in the eye of the beholder. Perhaps because both "Race" and "Alpha Male" are technical terms and are also used more loosely in colloquial settings. I see now it is that later usage which causes the most confusion.
Going back to race for a second. Suppose I say, "Joe is Black." If you think about it, what does the really say about Joe? We can't infer anything specific about how he looks or even his culture. Describing Joe as "Black" has more to do with the person using the term than Joe himself.
The same is true calling Joe an "Alpha Male." Unless you knew the person making the statement very well, you really could not know what they were saying about Joe unless you asked for clarification.
I do agree however that the culture is aligned to create compliant worker bees and blind consumers. If that means eliminating the "Alpha Males," who would fight against compliance with the program, then I agree with you.
Alpha males don't spend all day scrolling through their Instagram and Twitter feeds.
Troy is that last sentence a reference to T rump?
Perhaps because both "Race" and "Alpha Male" are technical terms and are also used more loosely in colloquial settings. I see now it is that later usage which causes the most confusion.
Both terms are used loosely, but both terms have actual definitions and genetically based realities.
Just like race is originally based on the genetics of physical traits that express themselves phenotypically, the concept of Alpha male is based on the genetics of having a high testosterone level that expresses itself in dominance and aggression.
Not only don't Alpha males spend all their time on social media, I suspect that social media was designed to BREAK or DISRUPT that socially dominant and extrovert spirit that exists among many alpha and socially successful people.
Too much time with social media tends to make people withdrawn and shy and overly sensitive in the real world.
You see young women walking around angry and looking at every woman they come across in a funny way and you wonder what's wrong with her......it's because she just got through fighting with a bunch of other girls on social media and now she subconsciously associates the girls she comes across in real life as being the girls she was fighting with on twitter or facebook.
I had a conversation with a young man from Korea a few years back and he was proud to say that he working on his doctorate degree at 21 years old in some sort of computer designing program.
I asked him did he have a girlfriend and he said YES, they've been dating for 4 months and it's all been ONLINE.
Alpha males tend to be good at reading people by studying their faces and their expressions while interacting with them, and you can't learn that on social media.....only by dealing with people face to face.
Yes @Delano, that last message was in reference to Trump. And yes I realize when I wrote it that it was inconsistent with my previous statement about Trump, but I'm using a different definition of the phrase, "Alpha-Male."
Twitter is optimized to spread gossip and to encourage the piling on to abuse others (as in the Leslie Jones case). Real men don't gossip or join groups to bully someone, and as a result, have little use for Twitter.
@Pioneer1, of course to you and I that Koren kid's concept of "dating" is laughable, maybe even a bit sad. but it is reflective of the world we live in today. Alpha males have usually had intercourse with someone they describe as dating.
Pioneer your word choice in describing social media is different that what I would use, but we seem to have arrived at the same conclusions. The WWW facilitated freedom and independence which enhances creativity; while social media limits freedom, fosters dependence and crushes creativity by defining a very narrow band of what is possible (eg use of memes. 140 characters, etc).
To an Alpha male being told what to do and how to do it is entirely unacceptable. Followers are happy in this predicament--indeed they need it. Cynique original definition of Alpha Male makes this plain.
I've changed my position and proudly accept the designation of Alpha Male
I sometimes think of Troy as being a voice in the wilderness, worthy of being heard. I often think of Delano as being his own best friend. I usually think of Pioneer as the creator of his own world. I find Mel to be an original thinker, CDBurns a calculated optimist, and Xeon a discriminating black man.
I don't know what I am. Coo-coo, I guess.
You are a sagacious and intersting mix of the Sun and Moon. You are holistic and balance or are adept at using both sides. So you can see people clearly. Except no one sees their own face.
You stated that we were all Alpha Males. I was the first to acknowledge this fact. Because I am an intellectual alpha. I am sustain by ideas,. We are sentenced by our convictions. - Del Strachen.
Cynique as i get older i choose my engagements. And I am okay with walking away. Which is why i am very far from where i started. On more than one level.
Cynique you have summed up the group brilliantly and concisely.
Now EVERYBODY wants to be an alpha male......lol.
But remember, you can't have too many alpha males in society because they end up fighting eachother for the role of dominance.
It's the proverbial "took many cooks in the kitchen" or "too many chiefs and not enough indians".
I believe you CAN have more than one, indeed you NEED more than one alpha male in most organizations and in most communities in general because the men responsible for protecting and directing the community must have the aggressiveness and spontaneity that only alphas tend to possess.
However it must also be understood that we need beta and gamma males who don't mind staying in the background following orders and being a force of stability in any organization or community.
Infact, they should be the MAJORITY.
And this is one of the problems I think the Black community in America suffers from.....every brother wants to be the king.
One of the reasons I think Asians are so successful in this society is because so many of them seem to be so "gamma" or less aggressive and spontaneous.
They tend to follow orders and do what society calls "the right thing" (go to school, study hard, go to work, work hard, get married, ect....).
All it takes is one or two alphas among them to lead the way and the rest will just fall in line.
With so many Black people....male and female.....we all want to be leaders or do our own thing.
40 years ago people were complaining that Black people were suffering from a lack of leadership, now it appear since the advent of youtube and facebook there are TOO MANY leaders!
You stated that we were all Alpha Males. I was the first to acknowledge this fact. Because I am an intellectual alpha. I am sustain by ideas,. We are sentenced by our convictions. - Del Strachen
SAY WHAT?????
Man, you were the FIRST one to jump up and deny being alpha!
Lol....remember saying: "Nah , I ain't an Alpha Male but I'll spar with them."
Guest MrsMommy
On 3/11/2017 at 5:16 PM, Troy said:
45 is not an alpha male. Trump is a bully, and most bullies need an audience and simps to soothe their egos. Put Trump in the ghetto or some poor, disadvantaged group, and you will see him rob and steal from his own brother (which he has) to get what he wants. Being from a rough and tumble neighborhood; I have seen both bullies and alpha males, and therefore, know the difference. An alpha will lead the charge and risk getting killed or injured for his beliefs. A bully takes, steals, robs, lies. When he attains money from his rich father; he continues robbing, lying, cheating, stealing, raping, and plundering.
Unfortunately, Alpha Manhood isn't necessarily tied to morals or virtue.
You have GOOD Alpha Males and BAD Alpha Males, just like you have good geniuses and evil geniuses.
The traits that make Alpha Males "alpha" are aggressiveness and dominance, how they USE those traits is up to them.
While some were fakers and punks, most bullies that I knew in school WERE alpha males (and some were alpha females....lol)
Sure they prefered to fight weaker kids who couldn't or wouldn't fight back, but I knew other bullies who fought because they LOVED FIGHTING and would fight anybody.
I knew cats in grade school who would not only fight the kids after school but even try to run up on their PARENT when they came to thier rescue.
These boys weren't punks or cowards.....many of them were crazy or had mental issues that drove them to hyper-aggressiveness....but they weren't scared or weak.
Which reminds me of all this talk of bullying today......
That's why when I'm speaking to young people I don't come at them from a White middle-class perspective of:
"Well if you only stand up to the bully and don't back down....he'll just back off and find another target".
....giving kids all this "fairy tale" advice.
In some sections of Detroit.....and you being from a rough neighborhood you probably know this too.....you call yourself "standing up" to some people would only invite MORE violence.
You kick HIS ass and the next thing you know he's coming back around the block with his boys and probably an Uzi.
Obviously this isn't always the case and honestly, MOST of the time standing up to bullies and those who try to intimidate you for the sake of intimidation will check them then and their and put a positive period on them marking you for further victimization.
But in an age where so many children with mental and emotional problems don't get the help they need, and many no longer care about living or dying nor do they care who they hurt.....it's not about standing up to prove some abstract point but about avoiding them in order to stay alive UNTIL authorities trained to deal with such people can take care of it.
But anyway......
We live in an , interesting world.
The good guys and people who are honest and defend the innocent don't always come out on top like in the movies.
That's why it's so important for GOOD Alpha Males to stand up and defend the community.
How would you define an Alpha Male
45 is uncategorically an alpha male. The term has nothing to do with virtue or morals. He might be an evil Alpha male but he is an alpha male nonetheless.
The term Alpha male can be applied to a lot of scenarios.
Alpha males exist within a group. An athlete may be an Alpha male on his team, but the coach operating at the behest of higher up is the Alpha male when it comes to policy. A musician my be an Alpha male when it comes to producing music, but his agent and management will exert authority over him.
Trump has surrounded himself with a lot wanna-be Alpha Males and they are ruining the country exemplifying what happens with there are "all chiefs and no Indians".
An Alpha Male is the recognised dominant male by everyone below him. You could argue that because Trump is the king then he is the de facto Alpha Male.
Which means titles not character make an Alpha Male.
For me Alphas have swag because they know they are Alphas.
The term is shown in its purest form in both the Animal Kingdom and fairy tales.
The Lion must defend his position to the death. The would be King proves he is worthy to marry the Princess and become the King. Also once you become the ruler, you conduct yourself regally. Failure to meet these points and the Kings is dethroned. Also the King is respected not because of petulant demands. Rather because they are worthy of respect. Trump has wealth but neither class nor style. For some it doesn't matter because he has the top spot. So he has passed a test of sorts. Since he won the election. This is also being disputed. So if it turns out that he is removed. Is he still an Alpha Male to you?
Well it depends Del. If they throw 45's monkey butt into prison, I seriously doubt he'd be an alpha male in that environment.
However, on the outside, even without the title, he will still be surrounded by sycophants willing to do his bidding and defend his child like behavior.
If he and I were in a room full of a random selection of sistaz, I think Trump would command far more attention than I. Who would Omarosa gravitate to? The poor, short, Black dude or the tall, rich, white guy? I dunno; you tell me?
Boss Baby or Alpha Male
Yeah you may be wrong.
That's a pretty interesting way of looking at it.
Perhaps there are levels or ranks of "alphaness" even among Alpha Males
But there are some who insist that a true Alpha male wouldn't submit to ANYONE else's authority.
The most he would accept is a partnership from another human being even when it comes to business and entertainment.
Inside or outside of prison....just like inside or outside the White House......Trump is still Alpha.
He'd probably find a way to end up running the show and controling people in the pen just like he's doing outside.
Now ofcourse we don't expect a 70 year old man to join the aryan brotherhood and start shanking people and tussling with guards just to prove his dominance....lol.
But he'd probably use his wealth and social skills to gather a bunch of thugs and confidants up under him and after a few months would probably end up running an entire cell block.
......as well as calling shot on the outside.
Kind of like Tookie Williams and Larry Hoover....both alpha males....did.
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The Blizzard of 1996. That's when the weather bug bit me. 40 inches of snow from a single storm. That was almost unheard of in the suburbs of Philadelphia where I grew up. I wanted to know how, why and would it happen again?
My passion for weather was natural for me. I always had a love for math and science (yes I was in the weather club in high school and yes I am still a huge nerd at heart). I graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Meteorology. My first on-air experience was in college, PCN-TV, a local cable channel. The experience was great, but I can't help but laugh when looking back at those early days.
I started my career at WHSV TV3 Winchester in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as the Chief Meteorologist. It was here I received the prestigious AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorology seal. Shortly after, I landed a job at WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. I've covered all different types of weather events while working in the Mid-Atlantic. From Hurricane Sandy coming ashore, to the June 2012 Derecho, to the devastating Tornado Outbreak in 2011 and the numerous crippling East Coast blizzards. I've traded the snow for sunshine (and some fog!) and am excited to call the Bay Area my home!
I feel lucky every day. I turned my hobby into a career so it never feels like I'm working. In my down time, I enjoy cooking, running, spending time with family and traveling. I participated in my first Triathlon last year in Richmond, Virginia. My goal is to complete a full marathon very soon.
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Covering everything from sidewalks to roadways, the white mantle of snow muffled all sound and made the world seem quiet and peaceful. As so often happens, this amazing transformation of brown, drab landscape to sparkling white occurred unnoticed in the middle of the night.
As usual, Carrie was awake before the rest of her family. She slowly blinked her eyes open and had the feeling that something was different. The light that peeked through the crack in the ruffled green curtains looked so white, unlike the normal sunshine she was used to. And then she wondered why everything was so quiet.
She tossed aside the bed covers and hurried to the window. Pushing the curtains apart, she gasped as her eyes took in the elegant white scenery, and then clapped her hands together in delight when the rising sun turned the blanket of white into tiny sparkles of light. Where was the little red wagon that she had parked next to the garage last night? All she saw over there now was a big pile of snow.
“Mommy!” Carrie called as she ran across the hall to her mother’s bedroom. “Come see! It’s all white out!” Then she stopped and stared. There were two lumps underneath the quilt instead of just one. She tiptoed to one side of the bed and peeked at the pillow. Daddy was here too! Carrie covered her mouth with her hands in delight, then poked Brett’s arm, trying to wake her father. When that didn’t work, she padded to her mother’s side of the bed.
“Mommy?” she asked quietly, carefully guiding her index finger to Amy’s right eye. Pulling gently on her mother’s eyelid, Carrie leaned over and stared into Amy’s eye. “Are you asleep, Mommy?” she asked in a loud whisper.
“How could I be sleeping when my little Carrie-girl is trying to poke my eye out?” Carrie giggled as her mother yawned, then looked at her through the one open eye. “What’s wrong? Are you okay?”
Carrie nodded and whispered, “Our Daddy’s home?”
“Yes, Carrie-girl,” Amy said softly. “Our Daddy’s home again.” She pulled Carrie close and wrapped her arms around her daughter in a long hug.
Carrie allowed herself to be held this way for only so long before she pushed herself away and clutched her hands together. “But Mommy, there’s something else!” she whispered. “It’s all white out!” She tugged at her mother’s hand lying atop the comforter. “Come see!”
Amy sighed, realizing there would be no more sleep for her this day. But then she smiled at Carrie’s five-year-old excitement. After all, this was Carrie’s first winter in snow country.
Amy allowed herself to be dragged across the hall to her daughter’s bedroom window. As she listened to Carrie’s excited chatter, Amy turned her tired eyes to the white-shrouded landscape. She thought back to her childhood years spent in this old house, and suddenly experienced the excitement she had always felt at the sight of winter’s first snowfall. No matter how old she got, she had never tired of being the first to make footprints in the fresh snow.
“Come on, let’s get dressed, Carrie-girl,” she urged. “And then we’ll go have some fun in the snow!”
Carrie’s eyes shone with wonder and excitement. “Oh, Mommy, really?” she asked.
Amy nodded. “I’ll show you how to make snow angels.”
Carrie jumped up and down. “Yay! Snow angels!” Then she stood still and frowned. “What are snow angels, Mommy?”
Amy laughed at her daughter’s innocent question. “You’ll have to get dressed to find out!”
Amy watched Carrie run to her closet and pull out her new winter jacket, hat, and mittens, and listened to Carrie’s excited chatter for several seconds before turning back to the window. She surveyed the pristine whiteness again, and decided that the decision she and Brett had made to move back to their hometown was a good one. No matter how wonderful the mild year-round climate of southern California was, she had never gotten used to the absence of this official herald of winter. And now her little Carrie was going to be able to grow up in this small Vermont town too.
The freshness of the morning raised Amy’s hopes again. She recalled the problems of the previous two years and how everything seemed to be pointing them back here. First, the horror of losing their little Nicky before he had even been born. Oh, how difficult that time had been! But instead of turning to Brett for comfort, Amy’s silence had made them both wary of saying or doing the wrong thing. It had taken Carrie’s innocent remark (“How come you and Daddy are so sad all the time?”) to shake Amy’s despondency and bring her back to what had always seen her through other tough times—prayer and reliance on God.
The renewal of her faith brought about a tentative restoration of her relationship with Brett, but soon after, they were shattered by the news that Brett had lost his job. Downsizing, his company had called it. Cutting out their hearts was what it felt like.
And so the job hunting had begun. For months, no matter how hard he tried, all of Brett’s efforts had led to dead ends.
Amy’s eyes filled with tears as she recalled the daily tension during those months that had finally led to the harsh words she and Brett exchanged. Once again, she had gotten off track, forgetting that no matter how hard anything seems at the time, God is always there when we ask for His help.
She had taken Carrie and fled thousands of miles back to the comfort and security of her parents’ home. When Amy told her parents why she had come to visit, they held back any recriminations they might have felt. Instead, when she awoke the next morning, she found her mother’s well-worn Bible on the night stand, opened to a page in Isaiah. There were many underlined verses, but one in particular was also highlighted in yellow: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
When Amy contemplated those verses, she realized once again how she had failed to take God at His Word. She thought about how God reminds us over and over again that we only need to rely on Him to get us through anything—not only in the good times, but especially during the bad times. That’s when He is the greatest comfort.
She knelt down by the side of her bed and felt herself finally let go of all the fear, anger, and apprehension of the past two years.
For several days after that, she spent a lot of time taking stock of herself and how much she had let Brett down with her negative attitude toward their problems. As she prayed, she felt a renewed strength of spirit, almost as if God was right there with His arm around her. She believed she was finally ready to make amends with Brett and try to be the kind of wife that God wanted her to be.
In the meantime, Brett had also been overcome with the need to make things right between them, and had arrived here late last night. What a surprise she’d received when the doorbell rang! Amy’s heart had melted all over again at the sight of Brett’s sparkling blue eyes and crinkling grin. Then he enveloped her in that special hug she remembered so well, and she knew they would work everything out.
Over hot cocoa and chocolate chip cookies, she and Brett had prayed and talked late into the night, agreeing that this little town was where they wanted to raise their family. They were both ready to start all over again in a new place that had a familiar feel.
Now she felt Carrie’s small hand slip into her own, and looked down at the tiny head of copper curls. “Isn’t it purty, Mommy?” Carrie sighed with pure contentment and then looked at her mother again with that same sweet smile. Amy’s heart skipped a beat as those green eyes looked up at her with such complete trust.
“It certainly is, Carrie-girl.” Amy picked Carrie up and planted a kiss on her pink cheek. Then she put Carrie back down. “Now, I think it’s time to go get Daddy out of bed!”
Carrie ran ahead of her, and Amy knew what was coming next. Sure enough, she saw Carrie climb onto the bed and sneak under the covers. Amy laughed aloud when Brett jumped awake, exclaiming, “Hey, you little snicker doodle! Stop tickling my feet with your cold hands!”
“Daddy, Daddy, it’s time to get up!” Brett pretended to go back to sleep, so Amy pushed the quilt off his shoulders. “Come on, Daddy! It’s time to make snow angels!”
“Snow angels?” Brett said as he sat up and rubbed his arms, trying to get warm again. He looked at Amy. “Did she say snow angels?”
Amy nodded.
“Yeah, Daddy, snow angels!” Carrie shouted. “Mommy’s going to teach me how to make them.” She knelt down in front of Brett and put her hands on top of his shoulders. “Do you know how to make snow angels, Daddy?” she asked in a very serious voice.
Brett pulled little Carrie into his arms for a big hug, something he hadn’t been able to do for the past couple of weeks. He smiled up into Amy’s face as he kissed Carrie’s copper curls. “I certainly do, Carrie-girl.” He cuddled her on his lap. “But there’s just one problem. You need lots of snow for snow angels.”
Carrie looked at Brett with a bright smile. “But Daddy, there’s so much snow I can’t see my little red wagon anymore!” She jumped off his lap and tugged at his hand. “Come see! I think there’s enough snow!”
Brett raised his eyebrows at Amy, who nodded and smiled. He let Carrie drag him over to the bedroom window.
“See, Daddy?” Carrie exclaimed. “Look at all the snow!”
Brett was as surprised as Carrie had been at first. When he arrived here late last night, the landscape was frozen and brown. How magnificent it now looked!
“Is there enough snow, Daddy?” Carrie asked, tugging at his hand.
Brett reached down and pulled his daughter into his arms. Amy came over and put her arms around both Brett and Carrie. As the three of them enjoyed this early-morning hug, Brett answered, “There’s more than enough, Carrie-girl.”
Carrie was impatient to get back down, so Brett lowered her to the floor. He watched as she ran across the hall to her own room, then he turned to Amy and enfolded her in a hug. “I am so happy to be home with my two girls,” he whispered into Amy’s hair.
Thank you, God, Amy thought, then pulled back and planted a kiss on Brett’s nose. “I love you,” she stated, then pulled out of his embrace. “But now it’s time for us to go out and play!”
“I know, I know, just give me one more minute.” He kissed the top of her head. “I want to remember this day.”
Just then, Carrie ran back into their room carrying her snow pants. “Mommy, I need help with these,” she said, then stopped. “How come you’re not dressed yet?”
“We’re just making a memory, Carrie-girl,” Amy replied. “Want to join us?”
Carrie nodded and ran over to them. Brett scooped her up and the three of them gazed at the sparkling whiteness together. “Do we have to go home?” Carrie asked. “I want to stay here where there’s snow for angels.”
Amy pressed her cheek against Carrie’s. “We are home, Carrie-girl.”
Brett squeezed Amy’s shoulder. “We certainly are.”
Published in Fiction and Truth Anthology: Stories that Speak to the Soul. Copyright © 2009 Mountain View Publishing, a division of Treble Heart Books. Compiled and edited by Kathy Ide.
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NBA 2K19 4+
#23 in Sports
NBA 2K19 continues to push limits as it brings gaming one step closer to real-life basketball excitement and culture. NBA 2K19 for mobile is packed with new features including STORY mode and online match play, available for the first time!
• All new STORY mode – Experience the history of some of the most famous NBA franchises and players.
• MyCAREER mode with all new story and refined team interaction.
• Head to Head – Play Quick Game or Blacktop versus other users connected via LAN or Gamecenter.
• 2K Beats – A brand new soundtrack accompanies you in your journey to the top of the NBA, featuring songs from Travis Scott and more!
• Simplified controls for more immersive and responsive gameplay!
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Carbriniboy123 , 27/11/2018
Good But need updating
This game is great in the respect that it is on moblie. The game has great potential but this game needs to be updated occasionally, also need a team that can actually play it and see the things that are going wrong. the other day i wanted play a quick game on black top. i try to find dwayne wade but he was no where to be found.
JimmyShedden , 14/12/2018
Frustrating to say the least
The game is ok, controls aren’t great but have got better with recent update.
You do get a bit of lag but my biggest gripe is how hard it is to level up your player in career mode.
Rookie season, made it to a starter, still 70 on my level. Avg 30pts a game but not improving, it seems you only improve but having to train, no improvements from in game performance.. this is just amateur. The training games are crap, hard and you really have to do well consistently to gain enough stars to level up.
Oh, and you’re gonna be drafted into a team that are absolutely useless... namely the nets for me. Talk about having to carry the team in your Rookie season!
This could be great but it seems they are more concerned with churning out a game every year for us to buy, than actually focusing on making a wicked game for its users.
Lazmant , 03/11/2018
Controls are updated and we now have an option!
Thank you for the update!! Please fix a small glitch that opens the settings while playing. Usually when holding the shoot button while moving it just open the setting section
The biggest thing is that they do not provide any possible changes through the control settings! I purchase the game every year and I love it but I do always change the controls due to every year being different...
make an update where you provide older control options so everyone can enjoy the game that we paid £8 for ...
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June 26, 2017 video game challenge
VGC Day 29: Unexpected Love
Welcome back to our 30 day video game challenge! If you’d like to catch up with the other days, click here.
Wow! Our penultimate “day” of the 30-day Video Game Challenge! Thanks for sticking with me through the last 28 days weeks of video game questions! Today the challenge asks:
Day 29: What is a game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving?
What an interesting question. I’ve usually played a game with the expectation I would like it, so more often than not, if I was “surprised” by what I thought about it, it was because I expected to like it and wound up being disappointed, or outright hating it (cough War in the North cough).
But then I remembered…
About 15 years ago, my aunt, of all people, told me about this game called Final Fantasy X on the Playstation 2. Ironically, she’s a pretty religious person, but she encouraged me to play the game because it had a wonderful story and lots of religious themes. I politely thanked her for the recommendation and quietly decided to not play it.
My reasoning was fairly shallow (as is most reasoning when you’re a teenager). For some reason, prior to this I had gotten into my head that I would hate Final Fantasy games. All of them. Because… reasons? I really have no idea why Final Fantasy was the target of so much ire, because I had never played any of the games, the one person I knew who played Final Fantasy loved it, and I’m not really one to hate something for no reason. But there you go.
As my brain matured a little more, I realized that was a really silly thing to think, but by the time that happened, Square Enix had released Final Fantasy MMCLXXVII* (this is a joke) and I just felt too overwhelmed to even try jumping in.
So I recently put up a very scholarly poll on Twitter, which resulted in information overload after I asked which Final Fantasy game is the best one for a series newbie to start with.
Realistic depiction of my phone while that poll was active.
All of this to say that I started playing Final Fantasy IV, which seems pretty cool, Final Fantasy X, which has the most annoying main character I think I’ve ever had the displeasure to control, but a good story, and Final Fantasy XIII, which… I’m actually really enjoying.
I guess that means that I never thought I’d play or ever appreciate a Final Fantasy game, but I’m enjoying my foray into the series quite a bit!
So the moral of the story is don’t judge a game by its case, and try something new when you have the chance! You’ll never know where you’ll find your next fun adventure!
What about you? Have you ever expected to hate a game and then loved it? Did you ever avoid a series because of a random reason? Let me know in the comments!
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Reckless Reporter says:
Total War (especially Rome II). It looked so, so boring, but it turned out to be so great I booked a week in Rome. It even made me interested in history for some reason, which is quite the achievement as this guy did not like it one bit
That’s so awesome, not only because you had a good time, but that it also got you interested in the real-life subject, too!! How did you like your time in Rome?
Went there two times after that, so it’s pretty darn awesome 🙂 my favorite city. Even tried learning some Italian (shelved that project for the time being)
James Dixon says:
Funnily enough (*whispers and/or hides in case Lightning Ellen should drop by*) I’ve never tried a Final Fantasy Game either, which I’m pretty sure is an automatic ejection from the Gaming community. Even worse, I’ve also yet to play a Mass Effect, a Dragon Age or a Gears of War (although I’ve got all the GoWs on my To-Play pile) so I think I’ve covered all the “you’re a rubbish Gamer” bases, right there!
Right….well…I’ll get my own coat on the way out then, yeah!? 😉
truevideogames says:
First step to recovery is knowing that there is a problem to begin with.
True. I’ve got a copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition and Mass Effect 3, so that’s another step in the right direction, I guess. With long-running series though, I always feel like stepping in somewhere that’s not the beginning might just leave me a bit confused!?
Yeah you need to play mass effect from the beginning. You maybe able to get away with playing inquisition now even though they throw out a few references to the privous games. Mass effect however, you will be missing the best part of that series if you skip the story. Mass effect one’s game play is going to seem very rough at first, but stick with it and you will be happy.
I agree. While any of those games can technically stand on their own, the Mass Effect story really benefits from playing from the beginning. I’d also suggest playing through Dragon Age in chronological order, because I think it does provide a bit of a foundation for Inquisition, but you can definitely jump in there and not miss *too* much.
So…basically, my To-Play pile has to go up before it goes down!
Yeah, thanks for that, guys!! 😉
Yup. Happy to help! 😀
Hey I got this far actively disliking Final Fantasy, so you won’t get any judgment from me 😉 Although, if I may say,Dragon Age is absolutely amazing, as is Mass Effect….
Super Metroid. I never had a desire to play it when I was younger and would actually leave my friends house when he would play it. I don’t know why I was so turned off by it. After playing Metroid Prime on the GameCube, I decided that given the opportunity, I would try it. I bought it from the virtual store on my 3ds and ended up binge playing it for about a week.
Isn’t it funny how people just make snap judgments about games sometimes? I’m glad you found another game that you really enjoyed, especially in Metroid!
Fern11 says:
I got super late to the Bioware train, because everyone I knew who played games called them “those games with the weird sex-scenes”. The ads for DA: Origins didn’t help either, they made it look like a completely different game with the hard-rock music and super macho voice over.
I kind of ignored them until I came across the soundtrack for Origins. It was so beautiful I figured the game couldn’t be as bad as they’d painted it. And thank goodnes I tried it! I mean, the sex-scenes are still weird as hell (to me), but that is only like 0.00005% of the games and not really relevant to the story.
Something similar happened with the Tomb Raider reboot. It wasn’t even on my radar because I remembered all the Lara Croft BS from the late 90s (turning the character into an airhead, the publisher hiring models to be “the face” of the game, a freaking video game character on the cover of “gentlemen” magazines, etc.). And then it turned out the reboot was the first time a video game felt like a power fantasy made for me instead of me just playing someone else’s power fantasy. I mean, it is not a perfect game, but I am very fond of it.
But Dragon Age managed to suck you in anyway… 😉 And yes, the sex scenes are by far not the most important things in the games, in my opinion, and certainly not a reason to *not* play the games.
You know, I’ve been wavering back and forth about picking up one of the newer Lara Croft games, because it seems like she’s going back to what the original creator wanted her to be – a female Indiana Jones – and moving away from being a gaming “sex symbol.” I’ll have to check it out!
Certainly not the most important thing about a game, but my friends made it sound like Bioware was in the business of making medieval and space-themed R-rated dating sims (no disrespect to actual dating sims!). I have since wondered if they played the same games, because how do you get that from DA? I am sure the same goes for Mass Effect.
About Tomb Raider, back in the 1990s I only played bits of the first game at a friend’s house, and I didn’t see the sex symbol thing. I just assumed it was due to me being a rather naive kid, because by the time the movies came out everyone knew Lara Croft was “sexy”. As it turns out, the first three games didn’t push that image all that much and it developed as a marketing strategy later on. There is a really interesting article about the mess Eidos made here (it also mentions how the creator lost control of the character): https://quarterly.camposanto.com/killing-lara-croft-869cd174ae34
Well, Dragon Age had people in underwear (oh the horrors) and Mass Effect had a full 3 seconds of blue butt in it. I mean, we’re practically playing pornography (rolls eyes). The media took it and ran with it, though, let me tell you.
It’s really a shame how Lara Croft was appropriated like that, but I’m glad she’s being allowed to go back to her roots (“being allowed” – that says something, doesn’t it?)
Truly shocking, I don’t think my eyes will ever recover. 😛 Awkward animation aside, Origins made me read up on historical underwear, so I’d say it was a pretty educational experience. By the way, Alistair’s undies look a lot like ladies’ drawers from the Elizabethan era.
And yes, it does say a lot. I am glad that the reboot was so well received, and that while there were some people bothered by the changes (insert eye-roll here), they weren’t as loud or as many as I had feared.
Great post! I can say that I am.on the never wanted to play Final Fantasy for virtual no reason train as well. Although I haven’t played, hearing other gamers talk about I had peaked my interest lol.
Anyway one game I judged was Minecraft when it first came out for consoles. I didn’t expect a pixel game where in the tutorial you have to punch trees to become one of my favorite games!!! It’s crazy how for weeks on playing with friends I hated it and then one day a switch went off and I was able to see it for the masterpiece it is. Loving Minecraft made me a better gamer because I gave other sandbox games like Roblox a chance.
-Luna 😁
Minecraft is definitely one of those games I think that you are wary of it until you jump in and wind up loving it. I haven’t tried it, but I’ve seen shots of it online and it looks like such a great deal of fun! That’s awesome that it acted as a bridge to other games in the sandbox genre, too 🙂
Thanks for dropping in and commenting!
Richenbaum Fotchenstein says:
I used to hate stealth games when I was younger. Just didn’t have the patience for the slow sneaking or more complex gameplay back then. Tried stuff like Thief and Metal Gear Solid and just couldn’t get into them, but these days they’re some of my favorite kinds of games.
I used to always play the generic stabby warrior classes in every RPG too for pretty much the same reasons, not realizing until later how much more interesting wizards and rogues were to play.
That’s so funny, because I’ve always *loved* stealth games, and would put stealth into games that didn’t have it (like Grand Theft Auto). My friend is a very…erm… bombastic sort of player, so I’ll have to show her your comment and see if she’ll give another class a try… 😉 I definitely agree that playing as a rogue or mage requires more nuanced play!
There’s something to be said for running in and throwing weight around, but I’m glad you gave stealth another chance!
Fed says:
This is a great topic 🙂 My favourite game is FF7 and yet I HATED it when I first got it. I bought due to hype alone. I didn’t know what turn based combat or what random encounters were. I found both to be utterly tedious and downright stupid. Six months later, I gave it a 2nd chance knowing what to expect… and fell in love with the world, story, and characters. To this day, 7 remains my fave game of all time 🙂
Thanks! All credit goes to the 30-day gamer challenge 🙂
That’s hard, playing a game when you know nothing about it! Especially if it’s a game far outside of the type of genre you usually prefer. I’m glad you gave it another chance! FF7 is on my list of games to play (I’ve played a whopping 20 minutes of it), so I’m glad to hear that it grew on you so much as you played it more!!
KingKoopa says:
Great question! I think I would have to go with Overwatch. I usually hate hearing that a game has multiplayer components – I want a solid single player experience, and all the design effort channeled to that and nothing else. Toxic players, frustrating skill ceilings… so many factors have always made online multiplayer an instant turnoff for me. When a friend recommended Overwatch, I asked, “well, how’s the campaign? Worth it?”
None?! 100% online multiplayer only?! I told him it sounded like my worst nightmare. But, I gave it a shot, and I have to say… I can’t get enough. The lore, the diverse characters, the teamplay, the regularly released (free, to boot!) content, the varied abilities offered so that you don’t have to be a perfectly twitchy sniper to make a difference… I’ve been going at it regularly now for a year and just can’t stop. There’s still toxicity that can spoil a night here and there, but if you’re able to queue up 5 friends, you’re in for some top shelf teamwork gameplay. Still the only online competition I engage in!
I’ve heard that about Undertale. I forget who I was talking to, but I mentioned I don’t play online because I’d rather not open myself up to the kind of vitriol that seems to go along with playing online games. The person I was talking to said Overwatch is not like that at all, so right there that is major points in its favor for me. They are certainly doing a lot right, from design, to representation, to community! Glad you’re having so much fun with it!! 🙂
I have to admit when I was going into Undertale that I was worried that it would end up like Mother 3 – a preachy, misbegotten emotional roller coaster. Luckily, it turned out I wasn’t giving it enough credit, and upon completion, it quickly became one of my all-time favorites. I try to reserve judgements until I’ve experienced a work, but I wasn’t expecting it to be that good. Guess it’s nice to be wrong every know and again, huh?
It is definitely nice to be wrong, especially if the surprise is so pleasant! I’d heard that Undertale might be a little, erm, rough and in-your-face. I’m glad I was wrong about that, too! I’ve only seen some let’s plays, but what I’ve seen is fascinating!
I will admit that is one thing Undertale has in common with Mother 3; the message isn’t exactly subtle. It succeeds where Mother 3 fails in that it shows just enough restraint so it’s not grating and nothing in the game itself contradicts that message – indeed, the mechanics end up enhancing it.
Someone is really enjoying Final Fantasy XIII?!?! *faints*
I saw the Twitter storm your poll created. There is just something about picking a Final Fantasy title that sends people into a frenzy. I think it’s because fans form such strong connections with the stories and characters. I’m a newbie to the series myself (Just beat my beloved XIII trilogy, X, VII, most of VIII, and lost interest in XII). I’m playing through FFIV now! It’s brutally hard but fun at the same time. Oh and I’m all ready to preorder when “Final Fantasy MMCLXXVII: Lightning Strikes Back” gets announced 🙂 I have no idea what the number is (or reads as, haha), but I credit FF with teaching me the simpler roman numerals.
I don’t think I’ve ever went into a game expecting to hate it. There are a few games on my To Play list that have a bad rap though (Metroid: Other M comes to mind). I’ll save my judgements for when I see them in action.
Haha yup! It’s a pretty interesting story so far……
So, that will be Final Fantasy 2177: Lightning Strikes Back? Sounds good!! haha But yes, that poll. As I remember, there were laser guns and pandas hiding behind tables after a while…O_o I think you’re right about people loving their stories!!!!
I’m with you; I rarely play a game thinking I’m going to *hate* it, even if it’s not a game I’d usually pick up. There’s always a reason I’m playing it, after all! Either something interested me, or someone I know and like recommended it to me, and so I figure I like the person, so I’ll like the game they recommended (hence, FF13 and all).
For the record, I was NOT the root cause of the laser guns and cowering pandas… *whistles innocently*
Who said you were? 😉
Chris Scott says:
Halo. It’s funny when I think about it now but I was such a Sony fanboy during the PS2 era that I felt Halo was completely overrated and wouldn’t hear anything positive about it. Turns out I was wrong and it is now one of my favorite series in gaming.
I understand! I didn’t play Halo until a few years ago, at a friend’s house. It’s actually a pretty cool game, and I was pleasantly surprised! I’m glad you gave it a try, especially since it’s made such an impact on you 🙂
My answer for this is going to post tomorrow, but it was also a Final Fantasy that will shock everyone 😱
Tidus is hands down the most annoying main character as in the character the study focuses on. I hate Edward from FFIV, and I’m not overly fond of Edge from the same game, but Tidus’s voice makes me want to break something.
I did I first FF poll, too! I said VI, but X is a good choice for an FF newbie, because it’s more modern.
*Gasp* Is it Final Fantasy VII???????
Oh, excellent. So two of the three FF games I’m playing have annoying characters in them haha. But OMG yes, Tidus’s voice…..
That poll… wow…. *shakes head* That was something. I appreciated your comments, though!!
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Detection of exo-planets
One method used for detecting exo-planets is to look for a slight dip in the parent star's luminosity as the planet transits the stellar disc. Intuitively, it seems to me that if planetary systems in our galactic neighborhood are randomly oriented, there would have to be a very large proportion of them in which transits can never happen from Earth's viewpoint. Perhaps, however, the assumption of random orientation is incorrect, and there is some alignment of the axes of rotation of planetary systems, which would facilitate detection of planets in some preferred plane (the galactic plane?).
In popular presentations concerning the search for exo-planets, I have never seen this issue addressed. What observations and/or assumptions are used in arriving at a realistic estimate of the number of exo-planets in our region of the galaxy?
(There are related questions in this forum, but I haven't found one that asks about the possible alignment of the axes of rotation.)
exoplanet planetary-transits
ClydeClyde
It isn't usually an issue because most experiments are simply concerned with finding exoplanets. They are rarely designed in such a way that it is easy to estimate population statistics because of all sorts of biases that go into selecting the targets. Unfortunately the search for exoplanets has turned into a sport where discovery is everything.
If one assumes random orientation of orbits (and that is all it is, an assumption) then the probability of a transit scales roughly as $$P \simeq \frac{R_p+ R_s}{a}$$ where $R_p$ and $R_s$ are the radius of the planet and hot star respectively and $a$ the planet's orbital radius (with small modifications for non-circular orbits). The larger this is, the more likely a transit is to occur. Hence large exoplanets orbiting close to large stars are more likely to transit. In principle then, this effect can be corrected for when calculating the statistics and frequency of exoplanets.
So how good is the random orbital inclination assumption? I honestly think nobody knows at the moment. I have done work on the possible alignment of spin axes within the low-mass stars of clusters (Jackson & Jeffries 2010) finding consistency with the random hypothesis. More recent work using asteroseismology suggests that there may be alignment for more massive stars (Corsaro et al. 2017). However, even if the spin axes (and therefore presumably the majority of planet orbits) of stars in clusters line up, there is no obvious reason why each cluster should have the same angular momentum vector When the clusters eventually disperse into the field then they would, presumably, form a pseudo-random distribution?
Except, what if the Galactic tides or a large-scale Galactic magnetic field played a role in shaping the angular momentum direction of the clouds that formed the clusters. Might it be possible for some alignment to persist to old age? Corsaro et al. argue that interactions within a cluster are not sufficient to "scramble" the angular momenta after star formation has finished. Close interactions between stars become much less likely after they emerge from a cluster into the field. An intriguing piece of work by Rees & Zijlstra (2013) found that there was evidence for a non-random distribution of orientation for bipolar planetary nebulae towards the Galactic bulge. This suggested that the orbital angular momenta of binary systems responsible for the bipolar shape of the nebulae were oriented in the Galactic plane. The result is highly statistically significant but as far as I know has not been followed up despite its obvious implications for estimations of transit yields from exoplanetary surveys.
I think that there will be a much better answer to this question once we have all-sky exoplanet searches of the quality of the Kepler satellite (the main Kepler survey was in one particular direction). It should become very obvious if there are changes in the planet yields as a function of position of the sky (although you also have to control for the types of star being observed) associated with any large-scale alignment. Maybe there is enough information in the Kepler K2 fields that are taken at positions around the ecliptic - I have not seen any analysis. However, such data will surely become available with the launch of NASA's all-sky TESS satellite in 2018.
Rob JeffriesRob Jeffries
The assumption of random orientations is a reasonable one. One reason that exoplanets weren't detected in the 1980s was the expectation that most solar systems would be like ours, with large planets at a great distance, making transits rare, infrequent and hard to detect.
Hot Jupiters changed that. Most of the planets that Kepler detects are very close to their host star. This means that no great coincidence is required for the inclination of the axis of rotation relative to the solar system. An axial inclination of between 80 and 90 degrees would allow for a transit in many of the systems discovered.
This is taken into account when estimating the number of stars with planets, with the conclusion that nearly all sun-like stars have planetary systems. Kepler can only detect a fraction of these, but it surveys so many stars that it has found a good number of planetary systems. But most of the stars observed haven't shown a transit. Extrapolating from its discoveries, we have to conclude that the main reason that we don't detect planets around the other stars is due to the inclination of the exoplanetary systems.
For analysis of the probabilities involved in transiting exoplanets, you can consult Transit Probabilities for Stars with Stellar Inclination Constraints
James KJames K
$\begingroup$ What is the evidence for your first sentence? $\endgroup$ – Rob Jeffries Jun 3 '17 at 9:34
$\begingroup$ Thank you for you fast and informative answer. I'd been wondering about this for some time but didn't know whom to ask until I found this cool website. $\endgroup$ – Clyde Jun 3 '17 at 10:09
$\begingroup$ The linked article assumes random inclinations. "We begin by reviewing the transit probability for a single star under the assumption that the planet's orbital inclination is randomly and evenly distributed over all possible orientations." It seems a reasonable assumption, at least for the purposes of modelling. $\endgroup$ – James K Jun 3 '17 at 15:30
$\begingroup$ It is just an assumption that everyone makes (including me in my work) because there is no other game in town. The assumption is not necessarily "a good one", it is something that is forced upon us. $\endgroup$ – Rob Jeffries Jun 3 '17 at 17:28
$\begingroup$ Ok, "reasonable one" is better. It's not forced on anyone, you can model the distribution of spin axes any way you want, providing it fits the data. The random model is simple, and the papers you cite don't seem to suggest that it is very wrong. So it is a reasonable model for estimating the population of stars with planetary systems. $\endgroup$ – James K Jun 3 '17 at 20:23
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Simba to King
It’s fair to say that when Peter Sagan came on the scene it was like watching a lion cub trying to find his bearings. A lion, yes, but still a cub finding his place in a very crowded world of pro-cycling giants. Not that Sagan wasn’t winning any races, nor making people turn in awe – he’d been racing against adults and leaving them in his wake since his teens, but that was on the bike. Off the bike, he was noticeably far from being the leader of the pride.
Today is very different, Peter Sagan is the champion of the world. And he dons a very fitting mane, just like a great lion should; and rainbow colours, just like a great world champ should.
Ever see a Lion fly?
He’s no Slovak…he’s a Fastvak
Yes, but even ‘Fastvak’s’ need a good team behind them. Just the year before, Kwiatkowski had an armada of 8 fellow Poles exclusively helping him nail the 2014 World’s. Today, Sagan only had his older brother, Juraj Sagan, and Michael Kolar to back him up for a Rainbow finish, and it seems, that’s all he needed. It’s interesting to note that besides being fellow countrymen, all 3 riders currently ride for Tinkoff-Saxo. Which goes to show, you don’t necessarily need a big team to bag the prize – concentrated training, combined with extraordinary efforts, can work equally well; which they did to excellent effect.
Flexing it Sagan style – from Laura, to podium, to bike and hi-fiving Boonen. There’s more to Sagan than just bike skills.
Lions aren’t meant to stay silent
Lengthy manes nor rainbows maketh the man. As much as Sagan would triumph in the racing world, he wasn’t always making headlines for the right reasons – wearing t-shirts adorn with adolescent humour, or letting his fingers get too close to a certain podium-lady’s bottom. The media were quick to tell the young man what was appropriate and acceptable for a neo-pro in the constantly in the limelight for his enviable bike skills. Yet, to Sagan’s credit, he would instantly apologise without reservation. In hindsight, he was expressing himself as a boy with bags of energy usually does, making mistakes along the way to eventually finding his stride.
Today he not only found his form, but his roar too. Upon winning the 2015 Rainbow Jersey, Sagan made this spontaneous statement:
“Okay, I am very happy for this. I was finding motivation in the world, and it’s a big problem with Europe and all this stuff what’s happening. This is very big motivation for me. The population in the world, we have to change” – Peter Sagan, UCI World Champion (19.22)
Waiting comes to those who are good
Like many great road-cyclists, Sagan went through the follies of football, to mucking it on the MTB circuit before hitting the tarmac. We’ve been talking about Sagan like he’s been around for donkeys-years, but it’s sobering to think that the Fastvak was just 19 when he won the Junior World Championships. He’s now come full circle and we expect more exciting moments for this maturing Lion.
At the men’s World Champs, Sagan’s lurking was astonishing. So often in second place this season, he was almost entirely ignored by rivals, pundits and spectators – “Where is Sagan?” would occasionally be heard. Fear not, the Lion was ever present. The attacks kept on coming and there was a point when a dozen riders kept the peloton at bay, but as the group were brought together and on the climb of the lippy Libby-Hill, Sagan attacked GVA. Flying past the Belgian and into a ‘super-tuck’ he distanced all comers. It was beautiful:
Rouleur magazine aptly describes Sagan as ‘Box Office’ material. He’s been called the ‘Tourminator’ and the ‘King of California’; but we can now call him something more fitting – the World Champion. Long live this king!
More on Peter Sagan:
Video: Tour de Suisse – Coming ‘atcha
Reading: Rouleur: Peter Sagan, Talent and Consistency
What’s your take on Sagan, and what kind of year do you predict he’ll have in the Rainbow Jersey? Share your thoughts below…
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The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels #4)
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Author: Elena Ferrante
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Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief.
Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
Winner of ABIA International Book of the Year 2016. Shortlisted for Best Translated Book Award 2016 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2016.
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"Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. She is the author of seven novels: The Days of Abandonment, Troubling Love, The Lost Daughter, and the quartet of Neapolitan Novels: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child. She is one of Italy's most acclaimed authors."
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Welfare of Puppies and Dogs
Feb 15, 2018 | Articles, Assembly Business | 0
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Plenary 13th February 2018
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Gareth Bennett AM
Party: United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP)
What steps is the Welsh Government taking to improve the welfare of puppies and dogs in Wales?
Carwyn Jones AM
Title: First Minister of Wales Party: Welsh Labour
We take animal welfare seriously and expect others to do so too. The Animal Welfare (Breeding of Dogs)(Wales) Regulations 2014 introduced stricter criteria for licensed puppy breeders. We recently consulted on a revised code of practice for the welfare of dogs. The code reminds owners of their responsibilities and obligations.
Thanks for the previous initiatives. The UK Government is currently looking at bringing in tighter regulations for dog breeding in England. In the light of that, is it possible that we may need to look at tighter regulations again in Wales, given recent cases, such as Lucy’s law?
I have to say that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs followed us. Actually, we were the first to introduce regulations of this sort, and DEFRA is now following suit. We do note the fact that DEFRA have issued a call for evidence on the banning of third-party sales, and we’ll consider our own position in due course, but this is certainly a situation where we were ahead of the game and others are following.
Joyce Watson AM
Title: Commissioner
Party: Welsh Labour
In recent years, the sale of puppies and dogs has moved to online sales, and many sick animals have been sold to unsuspecting people. Those sellers are very often not licensed to breed, and they’re certainly not putting the welfare of the animals first, but profit. The Blue Cross are calling for a registration and licensing system for anyone breeding or selling animals through any means whatsoever, so, whether that’s from home or from large-scale breeding establishments, to include online sellers. Do you think this is something that we might consider doing here in the Welsh Government?
I think there are two issues here: firstly, to examine whether there’s a need for further legislation, and, secondly, to ensure that enforcement is what we would want it and expect it to be. I know that local authorities in Wales have recently undertaken a data-capture survey on licensed dog-breeding premises in Wales, and that exercise has served as an opportunity to assess the standards currently applied to dog breeders in Wales, to identify and investigate examples of poor compliance, best practice, and also to improve intelligence to better inform enforcement intervention by local authorities. So, the enforcement, of course, is hugely important in terms of the current law.
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The whole tooth —
Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters
Winters were hard on young Neanderthals, reports a new study.
Kiona N. Smith - Oct 31, 2018 8:15 pm UTC
A new study of oxygen isotope ratios and heavy metals in the tooth enamel of Neanderthals who lived and died 250,000 years ago in southeast France suggests that they endured colder winters and more pronounced differences between seasons than the region’s modern residents. The two Neanderthals in the study also experienced lead exposure during their early years, making them the earliest known instances of this exposure.
Enduring harsh winters
Tooth enamel forms in thin layers, and those layers record the chemical traces of a person’s early life—from climate to nutrition to chemical exposures—a little like tree rings on a much smaller scale. Archaeologist Tanya Smith of Griffith University and her colleagues examined microscopic samples of tooth enamel from two Neanderthal children from the Payre site in southeastern France. The teeth were dated to around 250,000 years ago based on thermoluminescence testing on nearby burned flint, and the set of samples recorded about three years of life.
One important clue to past environments is oxygen, which comes from the water a person drank or the plants they ate. The ratio of the oxygen-18 isotope to oxygen-16 depends on temperature, precipitation, and evaporation. Generally, higher ratios of oxygen-18 indicate warmer, drier conditions with more evaporation.
In the Payre Neanderthals, oxygen-18 ratios increased in the summer and dropped in the winter in predictable seasonal cycles, which Smith and her colleagues could compare from one week to the next. The data suggests harsher winters and more pronounced seasonal changes than today, and information about seasonal shifts can be combined with other details recorded in tooth and bone to explore how climate affected Neanderthals’ development and life histories. Climate is often credited with driving hominin evolution, but it’s rare that archaeologists can directly link the two.
“This is particularly germane for Neanderthals, who survived extreme Eurasian environmental variation and glaciations, mysteriously going extinct during a cool interglacial stage,” wrote Smith and her colleagues.
Sampling Neanderthal tooth enamel.
The cold seasons were hard on Neanderthal children, because both of the ones from Payre bear lasting traces of illness or malnutrition during their early years. That kind of physiological strain impacts how the body absorbs and processes minerals, including the ones in tooth enamel, and that can leave a visible line across the tooth, marking the layers of enamel added during tough times. On a lower-left first molar from one child, Payre 6, the layers of enamel laid down during the late winter or early spring, not long before the child's second birthday, show a line marking about a week of sickness or starvation. And another child, Payre 336, apparently suffered a similar two-week episode in the winter and another week the next fall.
Other studies have noticed that Neanderthal teeth often bear the lines left by these periods of hardship; according to Smith and her colleagues, many of those episodes probably happened during the cold, difficult months of later winter and early spring.
Oldest evidence of lead exposure
Heavy metals in the bloodstream eventually settle in bones and teeth, and Payre 6's tooth enamel contained noticeable amounts of lead from the time the child was about 2.5 months old. Around nine months of age, in the depths of winter, a band marks a sudden spike in lead exposure—about 10 times as high as the lead levels recorded in the rest of the tooth. A little over a year later (about two months after the bout of sickness already mentioned), another band of concentrated lead marks a sudden increase in exposure in late winter or early spring.
Payre 336 also seems to have been exposed to high levels of lead, once in the spring and again in the winter or late fall.
That’s the oldest physical evidence of lead exposure archaeologists have uncovered so far, and it’s probably a consequence of sheltering in caves close to underground lead deposits. At least two lead mines lie within 25km (15.5 miles) of the Payre site, well within Neanderthals’ likely foraging range. The early, constant lead exposure may have come from contaminated water or juice; Smith and her colleagues say milk probably isn’t to blame because that would also have deposited extra barium in the enamel.
At around nine months, Payre 6 may have started getting more lead from the solid foods they were starting to eat. The lead exposure isn't linked to the episodes of sickness or malnutrition, and it's impossible to know how it might have impacted these two children's health, but Smith and her colleagues note, "Decades of research have shown there is no safe level for lead in humans and other animals."
A hint about demographics
Lead isn't the only heavy metal that finds its way into teeth. Nursing often leaves higher levels of barium in a child's tooth enamel. In Payre 6, enamel laid down during the first nine months of life contains high levels of barium, but then it begins to taper off—lasting evidence of the moment a Neanderthal mother began weaning her child off milk and onto solid food. But that process lasted until the child was around 2.5 years old, when the barium signature in their tooth enamel finally fades out altogether.
That's about how long nursing lasts in some modern human societies, especially hunter-gatherer cultures whose lifestyles may resemble those of Payre 6 and his family.
That may eventually help fill in another piece in the puzzle of Neanderthal extinction. Populations that nurse their children longer also tend to have lower birthrates, which means those populations often don't grow as quickly as those that wean their children sooner. For Neanderthals, trying to compete for territory against newly arrived Homo sapiens, population growth may have played a role, though it's too early to say for sure.
Payre 336's tooth enamel didn't show any clear patterns of barium levels. The only other evidence of Neanderthal weaning is a 100,000-year-old tooth from Belgium, but instead of the gradual changes of weaning, its barium levels drop off abruptly around 1.2 years of age, as if the child had been suddenly separated from their mother. Smith and her colleagues say archaeologists need more evidence in order to draw conclusions about when most Neanderthals weaned their children and how that compared to their Homo sapiens neighbors.
Science Advances, 2018. DOI: 10.1126/science.eaau9483 (About DOIs).
A earlier version of this article stated that the Neanderthal teeth were radiocarbon dated; a more recent human tooth from the same site was radiocarbon dated, but the Neanderthal specimens were dated based on thermoluminescence of nearby burned flint.
Kiona N. Smith Kiona is a freelance science journalist at Ars Technica.
Twitter @KionaSmith07
theJonTech Ars Tribunus Militum
reply Wed Oct 31, 2018 3:24 pm
I wonder what data our teeth will provide future scientists?
McDonald's exposure and difficult stools?
graylshaped Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
it’s probably a consequence of sheltering in caves close to underground lead deposits
That seems plausible. We can be fairly confident they weren't eating old paint.
trappera Ars Centurion
graylshaped wrote:
Thinking of other seasonal variables... Maybe herd migrations or marine animals contaminated. Not sure if this is possible though.
ZhanMing057 Ars Tribunus Militum
trappera wrote:
Drinking still water inside caves with lots of lead deposits would accumulate that stuff pretty quickly, I assume?
ZhanMing057 wrote:
Agreed. I was just looking at other possibilities here.
jaqrah Ars Centurion
I am currently taking a class that revolves around dinosaurs and their evolutionary characteristics.
It is astounding to me that dinosaurs existed 240 million years ago in a variety of forms with unique and novel traits that evolved due to adaptation and mutation for millions of years.
Neanderthals at the most existed 450,000 years ago and disappeared close to 40,000 years ago. In the grand scale of time, 400K years is nothing and yet here were are today. Our Homo brethren seem so close to us. It is just amazing how far as a species we have come, in an evolutionary sense, in such a short amount of time. To ponder how infinitely fragile we are as vertebrates and how we have managed to adapt to and master our environment. We create and destroy with such ease and whim...how terrifying.
thelee Ars Scholae Palatinae
As someone with barely any knowledge of this field, I'm literally amazed at what information you can get out of just some teeth.
Also, as a newish parent, reading about the weeks of starvation for these young children literally imprinted on their teeth, even from a different species from untold ages ago, still jabs at my heart. Nature is rough.
academic.sam Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
This analysis of minute amounts of chemicals is just astounding! I would never have thought it would be possible to talk about weekly variations 250,000 years ago. This ain't your grandfather's archeology anymore
AndrewClarke Ars Praetorian
I found it interesting that we have a nursing example from 250,000 years ago where the child was nursed for 2.5 years, and an example from 100,000 years ago where the nursing seems to have abruptly stopped after 1.2 years.
Yes, we need more data than that before we can make generalizations about how Neanderthals nursed. Put in a human perspective, that's like comparing a child born now to one born 150,000 years ago and trying to draw a conclusion about human culture using those two data points.
fastlanestranger Ars Centurion
I'm shocked to discover that winter was tough on people who didn't have central heating or electricity.
jaqrah wrote:
Just a nit-pick. Neanderthals lasted until 24,000 years ago in Gibraltar. Their demise has generally been attributed to the coming of the last ice age, but there's new evidence to support the possibility that the race was made extinct due to the eruption of a super-volcano in the region (possibly Italy's Campi Flegrei.)
The exact cause(s) of their demise isn't settled science, though.
As for pondering how far Humans have come in such a short period of time, it should be noted that, unlike every other hominid species before us, we've invented a myriad of means to destroy ourselves, both intentionally and unintentionally, in that comparatively short period of time. That doesn't really speak well for our ability to survive.
In Nature, survival determines "winners and losers". Hominids are fairly a short-lived species altogether on that scale. Alligators, turtles and even the Coelacanth have all of us beat, even if you took every kind of hominid and stretched out their timelines consecutively instead of concurrently.
We may be at the top of the technological heap, but our longevity as a species isn't at all much to brag about.
erendorn Ars Scholae Palatinae
It's worth noting that the article you cite starts with a note saying that new results disprove the 24,000 year dating, and that there weren't any Neanderthals in Gibraltar after c. 42,000 BP.
ptolemyx Seniorius Lurkius
thelee wrote:
Just came here to post the same-ish thing.
I love this kind of science -- stories about (near-) humans at a human timescale .. but from 250,000 years ago. Rare. Beautiful.
Add to that seasonal demarcations and a resolution of approximately 7 days and we're practically looking at a calendar from the era.
I'm sure the fact that I have a six month old daughter has nothing to do with my interest in this story...
llanitedave Ars Scholae Palatinae
AndrewClarke wrote:
Not just in modern humans, but it also raises the question of possible variability in cultural practices in different Neandertal populations as well. Just a wonderful example here of how good science always raises new questions while it addresses existing ones.
Nuckles_56 Smack-Fu Master, in training
Instead of lead in out teeth there will be microplastics instead as our dental legacies for future archaeologists
TheInsomniac Seniorius Lurkius
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... n-science/
Veritas super omens Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
Neanderthal didn't go extinct, they built starships and joined the intergalactic community.....
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dj__jg Ars Tribunus Militum
theJonTech wrote:
Depends, will it be teeth of children from Flint?
Ragnarredbeard Ars Tribunus Militum
Veritas super omens wrote:
I also see Neanderthal's progeny every day.
adherent Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
For the night is dark and full of terrors.
LeShaque Smack-Fu Master, in training
I can’t wait until the next time I have “Paleo diet” guests over for dinner. I would gladly spike their food with lead, for an authentic experience. :-)
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a nonny moose Ars Praetorian
teeth from ancient peoples fascinate me. there is no other part of a person of that time that we can look at today that looks like what those people saw if they cared to.
Nora Lenderbee Ars Centurion
reply Wed Oct 31, 2018 10:37 pm
They'll find we had access to sophisticated, high-tech dental repair services.
Brainstorms Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
My mom has a cat face hand-painted and fired into the enamel of a crown. Wonder what the future archaeologists would make of that....
Slumbery Smack-Fu Master, in training
reply Thu Nov 01, 2018 12:17 am
The teeth were radiocarbon dated to around 250,000 years ago, and the set of samples recorded about three years of life.
This is impossible, because 250 000 years is a way outside of the range of radiocarbon dating. There is not enough C-14 in samples that old to measure it.
And indeed the article on Science Advances says that the assumed age of the Neanderthal teeth is from Thermoluminescence dating of associated burnt flint fragments and the sample that was carbon dated is a modern human tooth that was found on the same site and came out as about 5 400 years old.
Albino_Boo Ars Centurion
reply Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:24 am
Brainstorms wrote:
Bast worship.
georgedarroch Ars Praetorian
LeShaque wrote:
Along with the lead in your paleo diet, you might want to seat the guests outside in winter.
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Router66 Ars Scholae Palatinae
Not trying to be pedantic here but this is almost certainly a research artifact, not proof of an evolving trait among Neanderthals. It's safer to assume that the mother probably died or otherwise became incapable of breastfeeding the kid, than that such a dramatic behavioral shift really took place species wide. H.Sapiens' and H.Neanderthals' infants were very much of same size and vulnerability, meaning we should expect about the same time of nursing and care.
What may be important, when considering the fate of Neanderthals, is the fact that they seemed to need more food than we do. If current studies are valid, they needed up to 10% more calories than an average modern human of the same size, which in turn means that they may have suffered more during food shortages.
Mister Fishfinger Seniorius Lurkius
Although being at the technological heap might be the thing that ensures we survive in the long term. We're the first species with an awareness of our place in the universe and a (so far) rudimentary means to get off the planet. That might come in handy one day, given the likelihood that our activities - or some natural disaster - are going to make a mess of it sooner or later.
uhuznaa Ars Praefectus
Mister Fishfinger wrote:
The longevity of our species probably is influenced most by the fact that there are so many of us and we have spread over the whole globe. A species that is so widespread in such huge numbers is unlikely to be driven into extinction by anything short of a global and devastating catastrophe.
raxadian Ars Praetorian
At least we are sure they didn't use lead to make candy, right?
Demento Ars Legatus Legionis
The 2.5 year figure is also interesting when put into the context that Neanderthals are known to have matured faster than modern humans. Not quite a Lysa Arryn story, but a 2.5 year-old Hneander. would be more developed than a 2.5 year-old Hsapiens.
Kiru Ars Scholae Palatinae
I just watched an interesting program on PBS ("Neanderthal") about how their genes are intermingled with ours; IMO the best part was a bit about a duo of brothers in Holland that recreate incredibly expressive sculptures based on their skeletons.
Stunning stuff. This guy is based on a skull from Grotte de Spy:
But there's a mother and child based off of skeletons found in Gibraltar that fits this article better.
http://www.kenniskennis.com/site/sculpt ... Gibraltar/
cactiform Ars Centurion
There's some evidence of Neanderthals using ocre and manganes pigments as body paint. One wonders if they also discovered lead white.
peterjohnvernon Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I still have difficulty believing that modern humans had the Neanderthals for lunch because they were better suited for their environment than modern humans from African. The competition between them and modern man was going on all of the time and they survived it. I think someone dropped a rock on their ass. What I mean is that there was a large asteroid or comet impact somewhere on the earth that caused the winters in the Europe to become severe enough to diminish their numbers and gave modern man the opportunity to replace them.
Snazster Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
"We may be at the top of the technological heap, but our longevity as a species isn't at all much to brag about."
Almost a moot point when every life form on the planet, including us, can claim an unbroken line of ancestors extending back over three billion years. Our species didn't appear all at once. Every parent had parents and there are no clear lines of demarcation between any of them unless you skip back a LOT of generations.
I also expect that tool-using intelligence is a bit of a deal breaker in that it makes us able to live and prosper in almost every single Earthly environment possible and, while our civilization may be vulnerable, as a species we may be hardier than cockroaches in that something, somewhere, will survive almost anything.
It's probably going to be a struggle, but eventually something of us will get out of this star system. It only has to happen once but, after that, and short of a galactic-level extinction event, or something along the lines of the Big Rip unexpectedly ending the universe, it's difficult to imagine anything completely eliminating everything descended from us before the stars all begin to go out.
jazzylarry Ars Centurion
reply Thu Nov 01, 2018 2:02 pm
uhuznaa wrote:
That might be largely mitigated by the fact that we can create global catastrophes of various stripes and that a large portions of the population would die if grocery stores and fast food restaurants were no longer available as they'd have no idea how to survive without modern support.
Torbjörn Larsson, OM Ars Tribunus Militum
Interesting article, video and info on Neanderthal weaning.
Populations that nurse their children longer also tend to have lower birthrates, which means those populations often don't grow as quickly as those that wean their children sooner. For Neanderthals, trying to compete for territory against newly arrived Homo sapiens, population growth may have played a role, though it's too early to say for sure.
The data implies no nursing difference though. But other results have been interpreted as that the migrating Africans matured earlier, perhaps as a result of better circumstances - they evolved in a better climate and were 10 times as populous when they arrived in Europe.
It is just amazing how far as a species we have come, in an evolutionary sense, in such a short amount of time.
Nitpick: In an evolutionary sense your dinosaurs has, as avians, come ~ 100 times as far as Homo - evolved for that much longer (with likely similar order of rates).
peterjohnvernon wrote:
This seems an interpretation of fiction.
Latest results is that the common evolution was most likely one of free interbreeding rather than competition (though that may have happened locally). The modern mongrel is the results of crossing early Europeans (Neanderthal population) and Africans (Out-Of-Africa population) and at least two more similar interbreedings.
And no evidence of impacts/abrupt climate changes other than the glacial cycles.
riverat Ars Praetorian et Subscriptor
reply Thu Nov 01, 2018 11:45 pm
It's just astounding to me that they can time the age of the teeth by weeks in a 250,000 year old sample. Even if there are rings in the teeth the must be minuscule (I checked and the article doesn't mention the thickness range of the rings). Also that they can detect the chemicals at so low levels in such a small sample.
Regarding humans going extinct we are a very adaptable species living in places as diverse as Barrow, AK (before modern conveniences of course) and the Kalahari Desert. As long as a group of humans can find enough food, water and shelter they can survive. Even global warming isn't enough to make the whole planet unlivable (unless maybe we get hydrogen sulfide oceans poisoning the atmosphere). Some of the knowledge we've gained over many thousands of years will survive making the survivors a little more efficient. So I don't think homo sapiens is going to go extinct any time soon*.
*Baring catastrophes like a big asteroid or comet hitting the Earth, perhaps a lethal disease with 100% morbidity escaping from a lab (not too likely) of course. Even a supervolcano wouldn't kill us all off I wouldn't think.
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Exhibition dates: 16th February – 16th June 2019
Curators: Wim van Sinderen with the assistance of Hanneke Mantel (both of Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography)
Erwin Olaf (Netherlands, b. 1959)
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As a storyteller, Erwin Olaf is a contemporary photographer whose work addresses most current concerns of the world – discrimination, gender, sexuality, taboo, climate change, reality, equality, power, racism, freedom of expression and democracy – through staged studio and outdoor photographs of incredible technical and visual skill.
The key to his work is the twist that he gives his cinematic, perfect worlds – the hidden crack in the facade, the unhinging of the link between reality and representation. These not so perfect worlds are often inspired by stories of the past, whether those stories may be present in the works of Vermeer, the still lives of the Dutch painters of the 16th and 17th century, Caravaggio, the Olympic Games of 1936, Norman Rockwell paintings, film noir, or clothes of the 1950s and 1960s.
The stillness and silence of the photographs subjects let the viewer examine the details of the mise en scène… the perfectly placed Coke bottle and apple, the shredded American flag in Palm Springs, The Kite (2018); the bandaged knee, the dripping ice cream in Rain, The Ice Cream Parlour (2004); and also admire the beautiful textures and lighting of the finished “product”, for Olaf’s aesthetic riffs on subverting theatrical performances and magazine fashion shoots.
Olaf let’s the viewer’s eye move without restraint across the terrain of the photographs, letting them soak up the atmosphere of his hyperreal tableau vivant. Both seductive and disturbing, his photographs challenge us to interrogate our own story – who are we, what do we really believe in, and what can we do to change prejudice and bigotry in a hostile world.
Many thankx to the Gemeentemuseum den Haag for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
“What I want to show most of all is a perfect world with a crack in it. I want to make the picture seductive enough to draw people into the narrative, and then deal the blow.”
“In 1982, I saw an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe in Amsterdam that blew me off the socks. I just had a Hasselblad, I was inspired by his craftsmanship and the beautiful prints, and I thought: this is what I want too. In the series ‘Squares’ (1983-93) you clearly see his influence. I started asking people that I knew from the nightlife if they wanted to pose for me in my studio, which I had decorated in a squat of a friend. For example, the boy with the champagne bottle worked in the wardrobe of my favourite disco.”
Erwin Olaf (excerpt from the book ‘Erwin Olaf – I am’)
“My earliest work reflects my life in that time. I was a moth – I really loved the nightlife. In the late seventies, the early eighties was a hedonistic period: Disco and the beginning of the punk, the sexual revolution. I loved watching people play with gender, the theatrical of the nightlife, all the roles they could take.”
“The camera offered me a possibility to enter a world that was not mine. I was able to hide behind the camera, but also be part of what I saw. As a photographer, you can look at people. You’re observing. I wanted to focus my gaze on groups that were outside the ‘normal’ society. One of my first photography assignments for school had as a theme ‘what’s normal?’. I still ask myself that.”
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography are to honour one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers, Erwin Olaf (b. 1959), with a double exhibition. Olaf, whose recent portraits of the royal family drew widespread admiration, will turn sixty this year – a good moment to stage a major retrospective. The Hague Museum of Photography will focus on Olaf’s love of his craft and his transition from analogue photojournalist to digital image-maker and storyteller. Olaf will himself bring together some twenty photographs by famous photographers of the past who have been a vital source of inspiration to him. Gemeente Museum Den Haag will show non-commissioned work by Olaf from 2000 to his most recent series, including the work he produced in Shanghai and his most recent series Palm Springs, on display for the first time. Olaf will be showing his photography in the form of installations, in combination with film, sound and sculpture.
Erwin Olaf – Palm Springs: behind the scenes
First Aids Benefit Club Flora Palace Amsterdam, I
First Aids Benefit Club Flora Palace Amsterdam, II
Squares, Pearls
Chessmen, XVII
© Erwin Olaf
Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London / Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
“Chessmen was inspired by a chance meeting with my former photography teacher at the School for Journalism. A few years after I graduated there, I met him on the street. When I showed him my work in my studio, he said, “Say, would you like to publish a book?” He had recently taken over a publishing house for a pittance. The only problem was that I didn’t have enough work for a book. “Oh,” he said, “you only need sixty-four pages. And if you leave a page white next to each photo, you will need thirty-two photos. “At home I thought about it while listening to the radio – a chess program was just going on. At one point the presenter said: “This is an attacking game with thirty-two pieces. A war game. “I knew immediately: I’m going to make chess pieces. Those few words on the radio were all I needed; I had a clear picture in mind. Earlier I had been thinking about how I could do something with the theme of power. Power is something weird. Why do people abuse their power? Or why do you want it? Why do some people allow others to exercise power over them? From those questions came the idea of a power game and the people who play it. ”
Erwin Olaf (excerpt from the book Erwin Olaf – I Am)
Chessmen, XXIV
Blacks, Esmeralda
“The Blacks series is largely inspired by Janet Jackson’s album Rhythm Nation 1814. In one song, she sings: “In complete darkness we are all the same / It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us / Don’t let your eyes deceive you.” A few years earlier I had been hitchhiking to Paris and southern France, together with a friend with an Indonesian background. I was admitted without problems in all kinds of clubs, but they refused him at the door. At that time I became much more aware of the fact that the amount of pigment in your skin can have serious consequences. So when I heard Janet Jackson sing, I thought: this is my theme. I can create a group of people where everyone is equal.”
Journalistic training
Erwin Olaf was studying journalism in Utrecht in the 1980s when, having noticed that he was unhappy, one of his lecturers pressed a camera into his hands. ‘I loved the thing right from the word go,’ says Olaf, ‘the weight, the cool metal in my hand. It felt so natural. And when I took my first photographs, I knew I had found my calling.’ Olaf began taking journalistic photographs of theatre performances, worked for progressive magazines and volunteered for COC Nederland (which represents LGBTI interests). In his early work Olaf often depicted the human body quite graphically, breaching the restrictions on sexuality, the body and gender. He describes himself at that time as an angry adolescent, though his taboo-breaking work was highly significant in terms of visual freedom in the Netherlands.
Early work at The Hague Museum of Photography
The exhibition at The Hague Museum of Photography will start with his early work. Chessmen (1987-88) was one of Olaf’s first non-commissioned series, which came about when he was given the opportunity to produce a photobook. He had to fill 32 pages and he wanted to focus on the theme of power. He had heard an item on the radio about chess, a game of war consisting of 32 pieces. Olaf portrayed the game in a series of provocative images, featuring visible genitals, small half-naked people with kinky attributes, and extremely fat women in bondage outfits. The series did not go unnoticed. He received criticism for it, but also the Young European Photographers Prize.
Another early series shows the engagement that has remained important throughout Olaf’s career. Blacks (1990) is based on a song by Janet Jackson with the line, ‘In complete darkness we are all the same. It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us’. The series reflects Olaf’s battle for equality, and also his technical skill. In these baroque portraits, literally everything is black as coal, yet Olaf managed to give the images a rich tonality, both with his camera and in the developing process. A self-taught photographer, he has shown himself to be a master, not only of old-fashioned darkroom processes, but also of new techniques that have emerged in rapid succession since the digital revolution. He did pioneering work with Photoshop in the famous series Royal Blood (2000). Thanks to this new technique, he is even better able to experiment to his heart’s delight in his staged photography.
Sources of inspiration
Besides his own work, at The Hague Museum of Photography Erwin Olaf will be bringing together some twenty photographs by photographers who are his most important sources of inspiration, ranging from a vintage still life with roses by the late nineteenth-century photographer Bernard Eilers to self-portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe and Rineke Dijkstra. The work of these photographers inspired him, made him look in a different way at his own artistic practice, or pushed his photography in a new direction. By showing these pictures alongside his early work, which is imbued with his love of his craft, Olaf will give visitors to the Museum of Photography an idea of what has shaped him as a photographer.
The exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum will begin, even before the entrance to the galleries, with the life-sized installation Keyhole (2012). The exterior has two long walls with panelling above which framed photographs hang, as in a classic interior. But visitors can watch two films through the keyhole in the doors on either side of the installation. It will be immediately apparent that the Gemeentemuseum is highlighting a new development in the work of Erwin Olaf. Here, he is going one step further, presenting his photography in exciting combinations of film, sound and sculpture.
Erwin Olaf’s work has always been highly personal and socially engaged. The clearest influence on the development of his work has been the events surrounding 9/11. Since then, the bombastic, baroque staging of his previous work has made way for more vulnerability and serenity. This has produced images that are very popular with the public: highly stylised film scenes staged perfectly down to the smallest detail, often bathed in light as if they were paintings, with an uncomfortable underlying message. As in the series Rain (2004), which appears to capture the moment between action and reaction after a shocking event. The series Grief (2007), shot in a 1960s setting, is about the first moment of response, the first tear.
Recent events are also reflected in Olaf’s work. He made the Tamed & Anger self-portraits (2015) in response to the Charlie Hebdo attack. In other works he addresses issues like the position of the individual in a globalising world, the exclusion and stereotyping of certain groups of people, and taboos associated with gender and nudity. The exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum will thus afford a glimpse inside Olaf’s turbulent and sometimes dark mind. A visit to the exhibition will be like wandering through his head.
Palm Springs: final part of a triptych
Erwin Olaf’s most recent series, Palm Springs (2018), will premiere at the exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum. It is part of a triptych about cities undergoing change, the other two parts being Berlin (2012) and Shanghai (2017). The Berlin series was produced in a period when dark clouds were gathering above Europe. It highlights Olaf’s concerns about freedom of expression and democracy, and the transfer of power from an older to a new generation. Shanghai is a hypermodern metropolis in China with a population of 24 million. The series made in this city explores what happens to the individual in an environment like this. In Palm Springs, Olaf again focuses on topical issues. One of the key themes is climate change, though at the same time the images also recall the America of the 1960s. In a beautiful series of portraits, landscapes – this was the first time Olaf had photographed landscapes – still lifes and filmic scenes he refers to issues like teenage pregnancy, discrimination, religious abuses and polarisation. The series tells the story of people withdrawing into gated communities as reality invades their paradise.
Photographs of royal family
A very special addition to the double exhibition will be Erwin Olaf’s photographs of the Dutch royal family. As part of the exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum he will bring together many of the photographs that the Government Information Service commissioned him to take of the royal family. He also took the picture that the family used as a Christmas greeting last December. ‘I’m proud of the royal family,’ says Olaf, ‘because they are a binding factor in a democracy that is sometimes very divided. I’m happy to be able to contribute to that.’
Successful artist
The double exhibition will show how Erwin Olaf has developed from angry provocateur to one of the Netherland’s most famous and popular photographers. His work now features in the collections and exhibitions of museums the world over, including China, Russia, The United States of America and Brazil. In 2008 The Hague Museum of Photography showed his Rain, Hope, Grief and Fall series. In 2011 he won the prestigious Johannes Vermeer Prize, and in 2018 the Rijksmuseum purchased almost 500 photographs and videos by Erwin Olaf.
Biggest retrospective to date
Together, the exhibitions at the Gemeentemuseum and the Museum of Photography will constitute the biggest retrospective of Olaf’s work ever staged, spanning the period from the early 1980s to his most recent work. In the words of Erwin Olaf: celebrating 40 years of visual freedom.
The double exhibition has been curated by Wim van Sinderen with the assistance of Hanneke Mantel (both of Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography), and has come about in close collaboration with Erwin Olaf and his studio.
Press release from the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag [Online] Cited 04/05/2019
Royal Blood, Di, †1997
“I made the Royal Blood series to celebrate Photoshop as the new craft. I wanted to make something that was clearly fiction and would be impossible without Photoshop. A theme that was in the air at the time was that violence was suddenly identified with glamor. I never understood why criminals, even murderers, have fans. People worship them! And every cinema is chock full of people watching violence every week. I wanted to expose the attraction of blood, violence and celebrity – that live fast, that young ideal. Now I could no longer do this type of work. The emotion behind it has disappeared – I have already told that story. But it remains an important part of my legacy.”
Rain, The Ice Cream Parlour
Hope, The Hallway
Berlin, Freimaurer Loge Dahlem, 22nd of April, 2012 [Masonic Lodge Dahlem]
Keyhole #6
Shanghai, Huai Hai 116, Portrait #2
Palm Springs, The Kite
Palm Springs, The Family Visit – Portrait I
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
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Tags: 150 Years of Photojournalism, 24 Figure Blocks, Americana, Are You Rea, As Long As Your Up, assemblage, Autoeroticism, Breast / Bomb #5, Cavalcade, Child Guidance Toys, Cliché Vary, cliché-verre, Cliche Vary / Autoeroticism, collage, commercialism, Cybill Shepherd / Phone Sex, female nude, fetishism, Figure / Foliage #2, Figure Cube, Figure Horizon #1, Figure in Six Sections, Figure Parts / Hair, Fractured Figure Sections, gender, Inaugural Excerpt Videograms, Jill Krementz, Kaleidoscopic Hexagon #2, kitsch, Kodak Safety Film / Taos Church, Kodak Safety Film/Christmas Mistake, Kodak Safety Film/Taos Church, Le Voyeur / Robbe-Grillet #2, Lesbianism, Lessons in Posing Subjects / Matching Facial Expressions, life, MANSMAG: Homage to Werkman and Cavalcade, MOMA, Multiple Solution Puzzle, On Photography, para-photographer, paraphotographer, Periodical #5, photo-sculptures, photograms, photography, photopuzzles, polaroid, Polaroid SX-70 camera, printmaking, rephotography, Robert Heinecken, Robert Heinecken 24 Figure Blocks, Robert Heinecken Are You Rea, Robert Heinecken As Long As Your Up, Robert Heinecken Breast / Bomb #5, Robert Heinecken Child Guidance Toys, Robert Heinecken Cliche Vary / Autoeroticism, Robert Heinecken Cybill Shepherd / Phone Sex, Robert Heinecken Figure / Foliage #2, Robert Heinecken Figure Cube, Robert Heinecken Figure Horizon #1, Robert Heinecken Figure in Six Sections, Robert Heinecken Figure Parts / Hair, Robert Heinecken Fractured Figure Sections, Robert Heinecken Kaleidoscopic Hexagon #2, Robert Heinecken Kodak Safety Film / Taos Church, Robert Heinecken Le Voyeur / Robbe-Grillet #2, Robert Heinecken Lessons in Posing Subjects / Matching Facial Expressions, Robert Heinecken MANSMAG: Homage to Werkman and Cavalcade, Robert Heinecken Multiple Solution Puzzle, Robert Heinecken Periodical #5, Robert Heinecken Shiva Manifesting as a Single Mother, Robert Heinecken Six Figures/Mixed, Robert Heinecken Surrealism on TV, Robert Heinecken The S.S. Copyright Project: "On Photography", Robert Heinecken Then People Forget You, Robert Heinecken Typographic Nude, Robert Heinecken V.N. Pin Up, Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, S.S. Copyright Project: "On Photography", sculpture, sex, Shiva Manifesting as a Single Mother, Six Figures/Mixed, Surrealism on TV, SX-70 camera, the body, The Museum of Modern Art, The S.S. Copyright Project: "On Photography", Then People Forget You, time, truncated body, TV/Time Environment, Typographic Nude, V.N. Pin Up, Woman's Day
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 7th September 2014
A bumper posting on probably the most important photo-media artist who has ever lived. This is how to successfully make conceptual photo-art.
A revolutionary artist, this para-photographer’s photo puzzles are just amazing!
Many thank to MoMA for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF FEMALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN*
Robert Heinecken (American, 1931-2006)
Figure Horizon #1
Ten canvas panels with photographic emulsion
Each 11 13/16 x 11 13/16″ (30 x 30 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Shirley C. Burden, by exchange
Le Voyeur / Robbe-Grillet #2
Three canvas panels with bleached photographic emulsion and pastel chalk
14 x 40″ (35.6 x 101.6 cm)
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Museum Purchase with National Endowment for the Arts support
Child Guidance Toys
Black-and-white film transparency
5 x 18 1/16″ (12.7 x 45.8 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Boardroom, Inc.
Lessons in Posing Subjects / Matching Facial Expressions
Fifteen internal dye diffusion transfer prints (SX-70 Polaroid) and lithographic text on Rives BFK paper
15 x 20″ (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of Dean Valentine and Amy Adelson
Kodak Safety Film / Taos Church
40 x 56″ (101.6 x 142.2 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Photography Fund
As Long As Your Up
15 1/2 x 19 5/8″ (39.4 x 49.8 cm)
The Robert Heinecken Trust, Chicago. Courtesy Petzel Gallery, New York
Periodical #5
Offset lithography on found magazine
12 1/4 x 9″ (31.1 x 22.9 cm)
Collection Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, New York
Six Figures/Mixed
Layered Plexiglas and black-and-white film transparencies
5.75 x 9.75 x 1.5″ (14.61 x 24.77 x 3.81 cm)
Collection Darryl Curran, Los Angeles
Figure / Foliage #2
5 x 5 x 1 1/4″ (12.7 x 12.7 x 3.2 cm)
Collection Anton D. Segerstrom, Corona del Mar, California
Kaleidoscopic Hexagon #2
Six gelatin silver prints on wood
Diameter: 14″ (35.6 cm)
Black Dog Collection. Promised gift to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
24 Figure Blocks
Twelve gelatin silver prints on wood blocks, and twelve additional wood blocks
14 1/16 x 14 1/16 x 13/16″ (35.7 x 35.7 x 2.1 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
Multiple Solution Puzzle
Sixteen gelatin silver prints on wood
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 1″ (28.6 x 28.6 x 2.5 cm)
Collection Maja Hoffmann/LUMA Foundation
The Museum of Modern Art presents Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, the first retrospective of the work of Robert Heinecken since his death in 2006 and the first exhibition on the East Coast to cover four decades of the artist’s unique practice, from the early 1960s through the late 1990s, on view from March 15 to September 7, 2014. Describing himself as a “para-photographer,” because his work stood “beside” or “beyond” traditional ideas associated with photography, Heinecken worked across multiple mediums, including photography, sculpture, printmaking, and collage. Culling images from newspapers, magazines, pornography, and television, he recontextualized them through collage and assemblage, photograms, darkroom experimentation, and rephotography. His works explore themes of commercialism, Americana, kitsch, sex, the body, and gender. In doing so, the works in this exhibition expose his obsession with popular culture and its effects on society, and with the relationship between the original and the copy. Robert Heinecken: Object Matter is organized by Eva Respini, Curator, with Drew Sawyer, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition will travel to the Hammer Museum, and will be on view there from October 5, 2014 through January 17, 2015.
Heinecken dedicated his life to making art and teaching, establishing the photography program at UCLA in 1964, where he taught until 1991. He began making photographs in the early 1960s. The antithesis of the fine-print tradition exemplified by West Coast photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, who photographed landscapes and objects in sharp focus and with objective clarity, Heinecken’s early work is marked by high contrast, blur, and under- or overexposure, as seen in Shadow Figure (1962) and Strip of Light (1964). In the mid-1960s he began combining and sequencing disparate pictures, as in Visual Poem/About the Sexual Education of a Young Girl (1965), which comprises seven black-and-white photographs of dolls with a portrait of his then-five-year-old daughter Karol at the center.
The female nude is a recurring motif, featured in Refractive Hexagon (1965), one of several “photopuzzles” composed of photographs of female body parts mounted onto 24 individual “puzzle” pieces. Other three-dimensional sculptures – geometric volumes ranging in height from five to 22 inches – consist of photographs mounted onto individual blocks, which rotate independently around a central axis. In Fractured Figure Sections (1967), as in Refractive Hexagon, the female figure is never resolved as a single image – the body is always truncated, never contiguous. In contrast, a complete female figure can be reconstituted in his largest photo-object, Transitional Figure Sculpture (1965), a towering 26-layer octagon composed from photographs of a nude that have been altered using various printing techniques. At the time, viewer engagement was key to creating random configurations and relationships in the work; any number of possibilities may exist, only to be altered with the next manipulation. Today, due to the fragility of the works, these objects are displayed in Plexiglas-covered vitrines. However, the number of sculptures and puzzles gathered here offer the viewer a sense of this diversity.
Heinecken’s groundbreaking suite Are You Rea (1964-68) is a series of 25 photograms made directly from magazine pages. Representative of a culture that was increasingly commercialized, technologically mediated, and suspicious of established truths, Are You Rea cemented Heinecken’s interest in the multiplicity of meanings inherent in existing images and situations. Culled from more than 2000 magazine pages, the work includes pictures from publications such as Life, Time, and Woman’s Day, contact-printed so that both sides are superimposed in a single image. Heinecken’s choice of pages and imagery are calculated to reveal specific relationships and meanings – ads for Coppertone juxtaposed with ads for spaghetti dinners and an article about John F. Kennedy superimposed on an ad for Wessex carpets – the portfolio’s narrative moves from relatively commonplace and alluring images of women to representations of violence and the male body.
Heinecken began altering magazines in 1969 with a series of 120 periodicals titled MANSMAG: Homage to Werkman and Cavalcade. He used the erotic men’s magazine Cavalcade as source material, making plates of every page, and randomly printing them on pages that were then reassembled into a magazine, now scrambled. In the same year, he disassembled numerous Time magazines, imprinting pornographic images taken from Cavalcade on every page, and reassembled them with the original Time covers. He circulated these reconstituted magazines by leaving them in waiting rooms or slipping them onto newsstands, allowing the work to come full circle – the source material returning to its point of origin after modification. He reprised this technique in 1989 with an altered issue of Time titled 150 Years of Photojournalism, a greatest hits of historical events seen through the lens of photography.
Installation views of Robert Heinecken: Object Matter at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Photos by Jonathan Muzikar
© The Museum of Modern Art
Breast / Bomb #5
Gelatin silver prints, cut and reassembled
Denver Art Museum. Funds From 1992 Alliance For Contemporary Art Auction
Then People Forget You
10 3/8 x 12 15/16″ (26.3 x 32.8 cm)
Cliche Vary / Autoeroticism
Eleven canvas panels with photographic emulsion and pastel chalk
39 1/2 x 39 1/2 in. (100.3 x 100.3 cm)
Collection Susan and Peter MacGill, New York
Surrealism on TV
216 35 mm color slides, slide-show time variable
The Robert Heinecken Trust, Chicago; courtesy Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
© 2013 The Robert Heinecken Trust.
Shiva Manifesting as a Single Mother
Magazine paper, paint and varnish
Collection Philip F. Denny, Chicago
© 2014 The Robert Heinecken Trust
Transparent film is also used in many of Heinecken’s works to explore different kinds of juxtapositions. In Kodak Safety Film/Christmas Mistake (1971), pornographic images are superimposed on a Christmas snapshot of Heinecken’s children with the suggestion in the title that somehow two rolls of film were mixed up at the photo lab. Kodak Safety Film/Taos Church (1972) takes photography itself as a subject, picturing an adobe church in New Mexico that was famously photographed by Ansel Adams and Paul Strand, and painted by Georgia O’Keeffe and John Marin. Presented as a negative, Heinecken’s version transforms an icon of modernism into a murky structure flanked by a pickup truck, telephone wires, and other modern-day debris.
Heinecken’s hybrid photographic paintings, created by applying photographic emulsion on canvas, are well represented in the exhibition. In Figure Horizon #1(1971), Heinecken reprised the cut-and-reassemble techniques from his puzzles and photo-sculptures, sequencing images of sections of the nude female body, to create impossible undulating landscapes. Cliché Vary, a pun on the 19th-century cliché verre process, is comprised of three large-scale modular works, all from 1974: Autoeroticism, Fetishism, and Lesbianism. The works are comprised of separately stretched canvas panels with considerable hand-applied color on the photographic image, invoking clichés associated with autoeroticism, fetishism, and lesbianism. Reminiscent of his cut-and-reassembled pieces, each panel features disjointed views of bodies and fetish objects that never make a whole, and increase in complexity, culminating with Lesbianism, which is made with seven or eight different negatives.
In the mid-1970s, Heinecken experimented with new materials introduced by Polaroid – specifically the SX-70 camera (which required no darkroom or technical know-how) – to produce the series He/She (1975-1980) and, later, Lessons in Posing Subjects (1981-82). Heinecken experimented with different types of instant prints, including the impressive two-panel S.S. Copyright Project: “On Photography” (1978), made the year after the publication of Susan Sontag’s collection of essays On Photography (1977). The S.S. Copyright Project consists of a magnified and doubled picture of Sontag, derived from the book’s dustcover portrait (taken by Jill Krementz). The work equates legibility with physical proximity – from afar, the portraits appear to be grainy enlargements from a negative (or, to contemporary eyes, pixilated low-resolution images), but at close range, it is apparent that the panels are composed of hundreds of small photographic scraps stapled together. The portrait on the left is composed of photographs of Sontag’’ text; the right features random images taken around Heinecken’s studio by his assistant.
Heinecken’s first large-scale sculptural installation, TV/Time Environment (1970), is the earliest in a series of works that address the increasingly dominant presence of television in American culture. In the installation, a positive film transparency of a female nude is placed in front of a functioning television set in an environment that evokes a living room, complete with recliner chair, plastic plant, and rug. Continuing his work with television, Heinecken created videograms – direct captures from the television that were produced by pressing Cibachrome paper onto the screen to expose the sensitized paper. Inaugural Excerpt Videograms (1981) features a composite from the live television broadcast of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration speech and the surrounding celebrations. The work, originally in 27 parts, now in 24, includes randomly chosen excerpts of the oration and news reports of it. Surrealism on TV (1986) explores the idea of transparency and layering using found media images to produce new readings. It features a slide show comprised of more than 200 images loaded into three slide projectors and projected in random order. The images generally fit into broad categories, which include newscasters, animals, TV evangelists, aerobics, and explosions.
Text from the MoMA press release
Figure Cube
Gelatin silver prints on Masonite
5 7/8 x 5 7/8″ (15 x 15 cm)
The Robert Heinecken Trust. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Figure in Six Sections
Gelatin silver prints on wood blocks
8 1/2 x 3 x 3″ (21.6 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Collection Kathe Heinecken. Courtesy The Robert Heinecken Trust, Chicago
Fractured Figure Sections
8 1/4 x 3 x 3″ (21 x 7.6 x 7.6 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Photography Council Fund and Committee on Photography Fund
The S.S. Copyright Project: “On Photography” (Part 1 of 2)
Collage of black and white instant prints attached to composite board with staples
b 47 13/16 x 47 13/16″ (121.5 x 121.5 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased as the partial gift of Celeste Bartos
Recto/Verso #2
Silver dye bleach print
8 5/8 x 7 7/8″ (21.9 x 20 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Winter Fund
Figure Parts / Hair
Black-and-whtie film transparencies over magazine-page collage
Collection Karol Heinecken Mora, Los Angeles
V.N. Pin Up
Black-and-white film transparency over magazine-page collage
12 1/2 • 10″ (31.8 • 25.4 cm)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Gift of Daryl Gerber Stokols
Typographic Nude
Collection Geofrey and and Laura Wyatt, Santa Barbara, California
Are You Rea #1
Twenty-five gelatin silver prints
Various dimensions
Collection Jeffrey Leifer, San Francisco
Are You Rea #25
Robert Heinecken (American, 1931–2006)
Cybill Shepherd / Phone Sex
Silver dye bleach print on foamcore
63 x 17″ (160 x 43.2 cm)
The Robert Heinecken Trust, Courtesy of Petzel Gallery, New York
MANSMAG: Homage to Werkman and Cavalcade
Offset lithography on bound paper
8 3/4 x 6 5/8″ (22.2 x 16.8 cm)
The Robert Heinecken Trust, Chicago
11 West 53 Street
Wednesday – Monday, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm
Friday, 10.30 am – 8.00 pm
MOMA website
Text: ‘Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale’ in IANN magazine Vol.8, ‘Unfound in Australia’, October 2012
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“What does it mean, to rediscover an unknown continent through the medium of photography in the 21st century? The seven artists that appear in this “Unfound in Australia” issue are well versed in the photographic technique and language familiar to modern art, yet show cultural distinctness that is nothing short of extraordinary. Our readers might experience a sense of shock or alienation from their work, which combines the new with the old. This kind of unsettling feeling may very well be an unconscious reaction to what we consider to be the ‘other.’ It is my hope that our readers will rediscover the power of photography as a chronological and visual language through these works of long underappreciated modern Australian photography.
IANN magazine Vol.8, “Unfound in Australia,” October 2012 IANN Magazine website
My text that appears in IANN magazine Vol.8, “Unfound in Australia” (October 2012) on the art of Jacqui Stockdale is a reworking of the review of her exhibition Jacqui Stockdale: The Quiet Wild at Helen Gorie Galerie in April – May 2012. It is a good piece of writing but it is the “lite” version of the text that I wrote. Instead of the “heavy” version fragmenting away on some long forgotten backup hard drive, and for those of you that like a little more conceptual meat on the bone, it is published below.
Other artists featured in the Volume 8 edition of IANN magazine include Marian Drew, Henri Van Noordenburg, Justine Khamara, Magdalena Bors and Christian Thompson.
Orality, (n)framing and enactment in the art of Jacqui Stockdale
The concept of Orality is important in the art of Australian Jacqui Stockdale for her works are visual tone poems. Portraying identities in flux, her mythological creatures rise above the threshold of visibility to engage our relationship with time and space, to challenge the trace of experience.
Stockdale uses the body not as passive object but as descriptive and rhapsodic theme, the body as pliable flesh acting as a kind of threshold or hinge of experience – between interior and exterior, viewer and photograph, longing and desire. Drawing on personal places and stories, assemblage and performance (the process of painting the models and the outcome of this interaction), Stockdale creates a wonderful melange of archetypal characters that subvert traditional identities and narratives. Her creatures “shape-shift” and frustrate attempts at categorization and assimilation.
The artist inverts cultural stereotypes (which embody elements of fixity, repetition, and ambivalence) located within the realms of the fetish, the scopic, and the Imaginary in order to dis/place the collective memory of viewers that have been inscribed with a stereotypical collective vernacular. In this process the work elides “fantasy” which Bhabha suggests plays a formative role in colonial exercises of power.1 In Stockdale’s upside-down world (quite appropriate for the “land down under”), “Each new identity is one of inversion; man becomes woman, child becomes adult, animals transform into humans and vice-versa.”2
An example of this inversion can be seen in her latest series of photographs, The Quiet Wild (2012). Here Stockdale unsettles traditional textual readings, the titles of her photographic portraits indecipherable to the uninitiated, a coded language of identity and place. Lagunta, Leeawuleena and Jaara for example, are three Aboriginal names meaning, respectively, Tasmanian Tiger, the name for the land around Cradle Mountain on that island and the name for the Long Gully region around Bendigo, Victoria (Stockdale’s native area); El Gato is the cat and Gondwanan the name for the southernmost of two supercontinents (the other being Laurasia) before the world split apart into the structure that we known today.
Stockdale’s performative tactics and multiple modes of address, her polyvocal subject if you like, may be said to be an effect of intertextuality3: “a conscious recognition and pursuit of an altogether different set of values and historical and cultural trajectories.”4 Undeniably her re-iterations and re-writings of cultural trajectories as ritual performative acts have links to Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque and the carnival paradigm, which accords to certain patterns of play where “the social hierarchies of everyday life… are profaned and overturned by normally suppressed voices and energies.”5
It is through this “play” that the context of the photographs and their relationship to each other and the viewer are “framed.” This device emphasises the aesthetic rather than information and encourages the viewer to think about the relationship between the body, the world of which it is part and the dream-reason of time.6
This intertextual (n)framing (n meaning unspecified number in mathematics) encourages the viewer to explore the inbetween spaces in the meta-narrative,“and by leaps (intuitive leaps, poetic leaps, leaps of faith)”7 encourage escapism. Through the (n)framing of the body and the enactment of multiple selves Stockdale narrativises her mythological creatures, her charged bodies initiating new conditions of Otherness in the mise-en-scène of being. This is why her images are so powerful for her art approaches Otherness using a visual Orality and a theatrical openness that encourages disparate meanings to emerge into consciousness. It is up to us as viewers to seek the multiple, disparate significances of what is concealed in each photograph – in the myth of origin; in something that can’t be explained by man; in the expression of meaning of the things that are beyond us.
Jacqui Stockdale
Negro Returno, Long Gully
Type C Print
1. “According to Bhabha, stereotypes are located within the realms of the fetish, the scopic, and the Imaginary. He suggests that fantasy plays a formative role in colonial exercises of power. Bhabha describes the mechanism of cultural stereotypes as embodying elements of fixity, repetition, fantasy, and ambivalence, and suggests that if certain types of images are constantly presented in a range of different contexts, they will become imprinted onto the collective memory of viewers and inscribed within a collective vernacular.”
Vercoe, Caroline. “Agency and Ambivalence: A Reading of Works by Coco Fusco,” in Fusco, Coco. The Bodies That Were Not Ours. London: Routledge, 2001, p.240.
2. Stockdale, Jacqui. Artist statement 2012.
3. Intertextuality “is always an iteration which is also a re-iteration, a re-writing which foregrounds the trace of the various texts it both knowingly and unknowingly places and dis-places.“ Intertexuality is how a text is constituted. It fragments singular readings. “The reader’s own previous readings, experiences and position within the cultural formation” also influences these re-inscriptions.
Keep, Christopher, McLaughlin, Tim and Parmar, Robin. “Intertextuality,“ on The Electronic Labyrinth website [Online] Cited 13/11/2011. elab.eserver.org/hfl0278.html.
4. Fisher, Jean. “Witness for the Prosecution: The Writings of Coco Fusco,” in Fusco, Coco. The Bodies That Were Not Ours. London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 227-228.
5. Anon. “Carnivalesque,” on Wikipedia. [Online] Cited 13/05/2012. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivalesque
6. Bacon, Julie Louise. “Liquid Archive: On Ambivalence,“ in Liquid Archive. Melbourne: Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), 2012, p.119.
7. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. “The Museum – A Refuge for Utopian Thought,“ in Rüsen, Jörn; Fehr Michael, and Ramsbrock, Annelie (eds.). Die Unruhe der Kultur: Potentiale des Utopischen. Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2004. In German.
Marcus Bunyan writing on his website
Exhibition: ‘The Body as Protest’ at the Albertina, Vienna
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Exhibition dates: 5th September – 2nd December 2012
“The past neglect of the body in social theory was a product of Western mind-body dualism that divided human experience into bodily and cognitive realms. The knowledge-body distinction identifies knowledge, culture, and reason with masculinity and identifies body, nature, and emotion with femininity. Viewing human reason as the principal source of progress and emancipation, it perceives “the rational” as separate from, and exalted over, the corporeal. In other words, consciousness was grasped as separate from and preceding the body (Bordo 1993; Davis 1997). Following feminist thinking about women’s bodies in patriarchal societies, contemporary social theories shifted focus from cognitive dimensions of identity construction to embodiment in the constitution of identities (Davis 1997). Social construction theories do not view the body as a biological given but as constituted in the intersection of discourse, social institutions, and the corporeality of the body. Body practices, therefore, reflect the basic values and themes of the society, and an analysis of the body can expose the intersubjective meaning common to society. At the same time, discourse and social institutions are produced and reproduced only through bodies and their techniques (Frank 1991, 91). Thus, social analysis has expanded from studying the body as an object of social control and discipline “in order to legitimate different regimes of domination” (Bordo 1993; Foucault 1975, 1978, 1980) to perceiving it as a subject that creates meaning and performs social action (Butler 1990). The body is understood as a means for self-expression, an important feature in a person’s identity project (Giddens 1991), and a site for social subversiveness and self-empowerment (Davis 1997).”
Orna Sasson-Levy and Tamar Rapoport. “Body, Gender, and Knowledge in Protest Movements: The Israeli Case,” in Gender & Society 17, 2003, p.381. For the references in the quotation please see the end of the paper at attached link.
Despite my great admiration for John Coplans photographs of his body, on the evidence of these press photographs and the attached video, this exhibition seems a beautiful if rather tame affair considering the subject matter. Of course these photographs of the body can be understood as a means for self-expression and self-empowerment but there seems little social subversiveness in the choice of work on display. The two Mapplethorpe’s are stylised instead of stonkingly subversive, and could have been taken from his ‘X’ portfolio (the self portrait of him with a bull whip up his arse would have been particularly pleasing to see in this context). The exhibition could have included some of the many artists using the body as protest during the AIDS crisis (perhaps my favourite David Wojnarowicz or William Yang’s Sadness), the famous Burning Monk – The Self-Immolation (1963) by Malcolm Browne, photographs by Stellarc, Arthur Tress, Duane Michals, Nan Goldin, Diane Arbus, Francesca Woodman, Sally Mann, Cindy Sherman to name but a few; even the Farm Security Administration photographs of share cropper families by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange would have had more impact than some of the photographs on display here. Having not seen the entire exhibition it is hard to give an overall reading, but on the selection presented here it would seem that this was a missed opportunity, an exhibition where the body did not protest enough.
Many thankx to the Albertina, Vienna for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
theartVIEw – The Body as Protest at ALBERTINA
Ishiuchi Miyako
1906#38
Courtesy by The Third Gallery Aya
Hannah Villiger
Block XXX
© The Estate of Hannah Villiger
Le mie parole e tu
Courtesy Private Collection, Austria
Self Portrait Interlocking Fingers No 6
Silbergelatinepapier
Albertina, Wien
Studies for Holograms
Siebdruck, 1970
© VBK, Wien 2012
Foto: © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
“The exhibition The Body as Protest highlights the photographic representation of the human body – a motif that has provided a wide variety of photographers with an often radical means of expression for their visual protest against social, political, but also aesthetic norms.
The show centers on an outstanding group of works by the artist John Coplans from the holdings of the Albertina. In his serially conceived large-format pictures, the photographer focused on the rendering of his own nude body, which he defamiliarized through fragmentation far from current forms of idealization. Relying on extremely sophisticated lighting, he presented himself in a monumental and sculptural manner over many years. His photographs can be understood as amalgamations of theoretical and artistic ideas, which in the show are accentuated through selective juxtapositions with works by other important exponents of body-related art.
The body also features prominently in the work of other artists such as Hannah Wilke, Ketty La Rocca, Hannah Villiger, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Miyako Ishiuchi. By means of these positions, such diverse themes as self-dramatization, conceptual photography, feminism, body language, and even transience are analyzed within an expanded artistic range. Moreover, the exhibition offers a differentiated view of the critical depiction of the human body as it has been practiced since 1970.”
Text from the Albertina website
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Video Performance von 1974
(35:30 min, b&w, sound)
12 Blatt je 12,7x 17,8 cm
© Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon and Andrew Scharlatt, The Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, L.A./ VBK, Wien 2012
Frieze No. 6
Self Portrait (Hands)
Craniologia
Radiografie mit überblendeter Fotografie
SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Self Portrait Interlocking Fingers No 17
Back with Arms Above
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Text: ‘The defining of Apollonian and Dionysian ideals in images of the male body’ Dr Marcus Bunyan / Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
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Exhibition dates: 25th May – 30th September 2012
“Perfection means you don’t question anything about the photograph. There are certain pictures I’ve taken in which you really can’t move that leaf or that hand. It’s where it should be, and you can’t say it could have been there. There is nothing to question as in a great painting. I often have trouble with contemporary art because I find it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be anatomically correct to be perfect either. A Picasso portrait is perfect. It’s just not questionable. In the best of my pictures, there’s nothing to question – it’s just there.”
Written in 1996 (but never published until now), this is one of my earliest pieces of research and writing. While it is somewhat idealistic in many ways, hopefully this piece still has some relevance for the reader for there are important ideas contained within the text.
The defining of Apollonian and Dionysian ideals in images of the male body
Photography has portrayed the Apollonian and Dionysian ideals of the body throughout its history, but has never fully explored the theoretical implications and consequences of this pairing. Our presentation of the body says precise things about the society in which we live, the degree of our integration within that society and the controls which society exerts over the innerman.1 My research concentrated on how images of the male body, as a representation of the Self/Other split, have been affected by these ideals.
We can clearly define the Apollonian (beauty, perfection, obsession, narcissism, voyeurism, idols, fascism, frigid, constraint, oppression, the defined, the personalised, an aggression of the eye linked to greed and desire) and Dionysian (ecstasy, eroticism, hysteria, energy, anarchy, promiscuity, death, emotion, bodily substances and the universal). In reality the boundaries between these ideals are more ambiguous.
For example, in the work of the American photographer Fred Holland Day we see allegorical myths portrayed by beautiful youths, many of which to modern eyes have a powerful homoerotic quality.
“In close proximity to eroticism associated with homosocial bonding and sexuality, these pictures were infused with desire and anxiety, repulsion and attraction … Day’s male nudes possess the aesthetic trappings of refined art and high culture … but also contain a frisson of impending sexual release and bodily pleasure, to say nothing of their sado-erotic inflection and paedophilic associations.”2
According to some critics,3 societies acceptance of photographs of Apollonian or Orphic (Dionysian) youths [2 different critical views]4 in that era (the fin de siecle of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century), was based on what was seen as their chaste, idyllic nature. They represented ‘ephebes’ – males who were between boy and man – who posed no threat to the patriarchal status quo. To other critics5 these ‘ephebes’ present a challenge to the construction of heterosexual/ homosexual identity along gender lines, echoing Foucault’s thoughts on the imprisoning nature of categories of sexual identity.6
For Day, physical beauty was the testimony of a transcendent spirit.7 His portraits tried to uncover the true spirit of his subjects, revealing what was hidden behind the mask of e(x)ternal beauty. But what was being revealed? Was it the subject’s own spiritual integrity, his true self, or a false self as directed by the photographer whose instructions he was enacting? Was it F. Holland Day’s erotic fantasies the subject was acting out, or was it a perception of his own identity or a combination of both? These works show Day as both director and collaborator, his idols equally unattainable and available, resilient and vulnerable. In portraying this beauty, was Day embracing a seductive utopia in which this Apollonian beauty leads away from the very Dionysian spirit he was trying to engage with?
At around the same time a Prussian named Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden was also taking photographs of scantily clad local peasant youths, based on Arcadian themes. “In von Gloeden’s perception of the world human figures are not in themselves merely erotic, but become aesthetic objects … a setting in which beautiful things are the content of the image.”8
While this may be true, the focus of the images is always on what Von Gloeden desired, his full frontal nudes drawing our eyes to the locus of sexual desire, the penis. Von Gloeden’s “transformation of ordinary working class boys into the very image of antique legend,”9 the conjunction of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, blurs the distinctions between the two. Both Day and Von Gloeden were wealthy, educated, influential men who had a desire for working class boys. Did they help create an erotic tension across class lines and effect a particular Camp taste when society at that time (the first decade of the 20th century) was beginning to define areas of sexual categorisation that would label gay men perverts and degenerates? Even today, comparing contemporary critical analysis of Von Gloeden’s photographs can produce vastly differing conceptualisations as to the evidence of sexual overtones:
“The distinction between form and sexual attractiveness is tenuously maintained and the expression of the subjects’ face suggests a lofty remoteness rather than sexual availability or provocativeness.”10
“Von Gloeden’s pictures are fairly specific in depicting erotically based encounters between Mediterranean males. In many of them, the gazes shared between young men or the suggestive relationships of figure to figure hint at activities that might take place beyond the cameras range.”11
For Day and Von Gloeden the need to possess something beautiful, something that was taboo, compensated both photographers for something they had lost – their youth. This transfers their death onto the object of their possession; the beautiful youths ‘captured’ in their photographs. Georges Bataille links eroticism to the inner life of man, the true self, and the eroticism of these photographs opens the way to a viewing of death and allows the photographer the power to look death in the face. According to Bataille, possession of something beautiful negates our need to die because we have objectified our need in someone else.12
What we know and understand about the world is partially built on images that are recorded, interpreted and imprinted in our brains as the result of the experiences we encounter throughout our lives. Our memory is forever fragmenting our remembered reality. It provides us with a point of view of the reality of the world in which we live and on which our identities are formed. When we look at a photograph we (sub)consciously bring all of our social encultration, our hates, our desires and our spirit to bear on the definition of that photograph at the time of viewing (an each viewing can be different!). Inherently embedded in any photograph then, are all these Dionysian stirrings – of desire, of eroticism, of death and of memory. Even if the photograph is entirely Apollonian in content the definition of that photograph can be open to any possibility, by any body.
One photographer who sought to access, and have connection to, fundamental truths was the American photographer Minor White. Studying Zen Buddhism, Gurdjieff and astrology, White believed in the photographs’ connection to the subject he was photographing and the subject’s connection back via the camera to the photographer forming a holistic circle.13 When, in meditation, this connection was open he would then expose the negative in the camera hopeful of a “revelation” of spirit in the subsequent photograph. White feared public exposure as a homosexual and struggled for years to resist the shame and disgust he felt over his sexual desires. Very few of his male portraits were exhibited during his lifetime, his Dionysian urgings difficult to reconcile with or assimilate into his images of peace and serenity, images that urged unity of self and spirit, of yin and yang. In the East yin/yang is both/and, being transformable and interpenetrating whilst in the West black/white is either/or not both, being exclusive and non-interactive. But who is to say what is ugly or what is beautiful? What is black or what is white?
In the work of the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, we can see the formalised classical aesthetic of beauty combined with content which many people are repelled by (pornography, sexuality, violence, power) creating work which is both Apollonian and Dionysian.14 Peoples’ disgust at the content of some of Mapplethorpe’s images is an Apollonian response, an aesthetic judgement, a backing away from a connection to ‘nature’, meaning ‘that which is born’. Mapplethorpe said, “I’ve done everything I show in my photographs,”15 revealing a connection to an inner self, regardless of whether he intended to shock. Those seeking suppression of Mapplethorpe’s photographs, mainly conservative elements of society, cite the denigration of moral values as the main reason for their attacks. However Mapplethorpe’s S&M photographs sought to re-present the identity of a small subculture of the gay community that exists within the general community and by naming this subculture he sought to document and validate its existence. The photograph can and does lie but here was the ‘truth’ of these Dionysian experiences, which conservative bigots could not deny – that they exist.
In the NEA/Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center controversy surrounding Mapplethorpe16 his work was defended on aesthetic grounds, not on the grounds of homoerotic content, of freedom of expression or artistic freedom. The classical Apollonian form of his images was emphasised. As one juror put it, “Going in, I would never have said the pictures have artistic value. Learning as we did about art, I and everyone else thought they did have some value. We are learning about something ugly and harsh in society.”17 Ugly and harsh. To some people in the world S&M scenes are perfectly natural and beautiful and can lead to the most transcendent experience that a human being can ever have in their life. Who is to decide for the individual his or her freedom to choose?
This Apollonian fear of the Dionysian ‘Other’, the emotional chaotic self, was found to involve fear of that which is potentially the ‘same as’ – two sides of the same coin. This fear of ‘the same’, or of the proximity of the same, or of the threat of the same, can lead to violence, homophobia, racism and bigotry. Mapping out sexual identities’ toleration of difference, which is ‘the same as’, recognises that there are many different ways of being, and many truths in the world.
In conclusion I have determined that the definition of Apollonian and Dionysian ideals in images of the male body are at best ambiguous and open to redefinition and reinterpretation. The multiplicity of readings that can be attached to images of the male body, in different eras, by different people illustrates the very problematic theoretical area these images inhabit. As we seek to ‘name’, to categorise, to nullify the ‘Other’ as a Dionysian connection to earth and nature, it may cause an alienated ‘Self’ to revolt against Apollonian powers of control in order to break down the lived distance that divides people. This creates situations/ encounters/ experiences that are regarded as transgressive and a threat to the hegemonic fabric of society.
But do these experiences offer an alternative path for the evolution of the human race? Not the replacing of one patriarchal, capitalist system with another based on ecstatic spiritual consciousness but perhaps a more level playing field, one based on a horizontal consciousness (a balance between Apollonian and Dionysian), a ‘knowing’ and understanding, a respect for our self and others. My claim as an’Other’ is that these perceived transgressions, not just the binary either/or, may ultimately free human beings and allow them to experience life and grow. Where nothing is named, everything is possible.
Marcus Bunyan 1996
Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used with permission
Derrick Cross
Two Tulips
“A renowned figure of contemporary photography, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) was in his element in a domain defined by conventions and revolt, classicism and non-conformist cultures, where each picture serves as a document of hard-fought identities, as well as inciting and recording social and artistic debates. The Ludwig Museum Budapest features nearly two hundred works by Robert Mapplethorpe, from his early Polaroid photos to pieces from his final years. Realised in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation New York, this large-scale exhibition is presented to a Hungarian audience for the first time.
Initially, Mapplethorpe had no intention of becoming a photographer. His early collages and altar-like installations incorporated found elements including photos from magazines. Seeking to give these works a more personal and perfect touch, he decided to shoot the photos himself. His major subjects were his immediate environment and personal desires: the alternative circles of the New York art scene, his identity as a homosexual, non-traditional forms of sexuality, and the communities organised around them. The New York of the seventies was a great melting pot of contiguous subcultures, sexual freedom, post-Pop and rock’n’roll. Mapplethorpe’s environment included Andy Warhol and his entourage from the Factory, the superstars of his films as well as the inhabitants of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, who inspired his art and became part of his audience.
His portraits of famous individuals and those longing for fame also positioned their photographer within their circle. He was a renowned artist seeking to establish relationships with people who stand out, one way or another, from the rest of society, without submitting himself to them. Posing for his camera were film stars, musicians, writers and visual artists, the celebrities and central figures of New York in the seventies and eighties, including pornographic film stars and body builders. He made engaging and elegant portraits attesting to his intense attention, humour, and ambition toward a sense of the monumental.
Mapplethorpe developed an increasingly committed and professional attitude to photography. His quest for the perfect image led him to classical compositions and subjects. While precision of forms and a quality of reserve were combined in his works, his intense attention to his models remained unchanged; he photographed torsos and floral still-lifes with the same cool professionalism. His nudes evoke classical Greek statues and Renaissance masterpieces, with their arrangement and sculptural approach to the body dating back to traditions that have existed for several hundred years. Such an incarnation of classical formalism, however, was juxtaposed with shocking new subjects and stark sexual fetishes, resulting in radical re-creations of the approach to tradition.
The perfect image called for the perfect body: his shots of black men, female body-builders and austere flowers seem to articulate his one and only vision, again and again. He almost always worked in the studio, most often in black and white, using increasingly defined tones. With unified backgrounds and balance of forms, his photos remove the subjects from their own realities to relocate them in the timeless, frozen space of the photograph. In terms of their statue-like beauty and rigorous composition of every detail, his pictures continue and renew the classical photographic tradition all at once. Such classical virtues, however, did not make these photos exempt from criticism: both his subject matter and their manner of presentation sparked controversy. Their sexual themes aroused unease, and criticism of the work failed to make a distinction between the statue-like beauty of body parts and torsos, the sexual stereotypes associated with black male bodies, and the objectification of the bodies.
Mapplethorpe’s works created a place for homosexual and S&M identities in the domain of high art, subverting conventions, transgressing unspoken social agreements and revealing prejudices, in line with the artist’s personal desires and self-definition. In the United States, during the eighties, in the first moments of horror in the face of AIDS, the condemnation of homosexuality and the undefined dread of the disease became entwined. Such developments stirred up the already intense controversies around Mapplethorpe’s photos, adding a new overtone to the voice of conservative protesters. (Mapplethorpe was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, and he died in the spring of 1989 due to complications related to the disease).
The cultural-political debates of the so-called Culture Wars in the late 1980s and 1990s in the United States, fuelled the decision of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., to cancel its leg of the travelling exhibition “The Perfect Moment,” which included several thought-provoking photos that the conservative right-wing had denounced as obscene and arrogant assaults on public taste. A long and heated debate was to follow, including both hysterical and absurd commentaries, triggering police actions and a trial against a subsequent venue, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as well as its director. Though the museum and its director were eventually cleared of all charges, the case continued to shape the cultural-political landscape in the US, which partly concluded in a revision of the public funding of artworks and is still referred to today as an outstanding example of the methodology of censorship.”
Press release from the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art website
Ken Moody and Robert Sherman
Lisa Lyon
Ajitto
1. Blain, Robert. The Decorated Body. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979, p.5, Introduction
2. Crump, James. F. Holland Day- Suffering the Ideal. Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 1995, p.11
3. Foster, Alasdair. Behold The Man – The Male Nude In Photography. Edinburgh: Stills, 1989, p.9
4. Jussim, Estelle. Slave To Beauty- The Eccentric Life And Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete. Boston: Godine, 1981, pp.175-176; Ellenzweig, Allan. The Homoerotic Photograph. New York: Columbia University, 1992, p. 59
5. Ellenzweig, p.59
6. Weeks, Jeffrey. Against Nature: Essays on history, sexuality and identity. London: Rivers Osram Press, 1991, p.164
7. Day, F. Holland. “Is Photography An Art?” p.8, quoted in Crump, James. F. Holland Day – Suffering The Ideal. Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 1995, p.20
9. Leslie, Charles. Wilhelm von Gloeden, Photographer. New York: Soho Photographic, 1997, p.86
10. Dutton, Kenneth R. The Perfectible Body. London: Cassell, 1995, p. 95
11. Ellenzweig, p.43
12. Bataille, Georges. Death And Sensuality. New York: Walker And Company, 1962, p. 24
13. Bateson, Gregory. Steps To An Ecology Of Mind – Collected Essays On Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution And Epistemology. St. Albans: Paladin, 1973
14. Danto, Arthur C. Mapplethorpe – Playing With The Edge. Essay. London: Jonathon Cape, 1992, p.331
15. Interview with Robert Mapplethorpe quoted in Cooper, Emmanuel. The Sexual Perspective. London: Routledge, 1986, p. 286
16. Ellenzweig, p. 205, Footnote 1
17. Cembalest, Robin. “The Obscenity Trial: How They Voted To Acquit,” in Art News December 1990 89 (10): 141 quoted in Ellenzweig, p.208
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Exhibition: ‘Naked Before the Camera’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Categories: American, american photographers, beauty, black and white photography, Diane Arbus, documentary photography, English artist, exhibition, existence, gallery website, memory, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, reality, sculpture, space and time
Tags: Albumen silver print, André Kertész Distortion #6, Andre Kertesz, Brassaï Nude, Brassai, camera, Charles Alphonse Marlé, Charles Alphonse Marlé Standing Male Nude, Chauvassaignes Female Nude in Studio, daguerreotype, Distortion #6, early photographic processes, Eugène Durieu Seated Female Nude, eugene durieu, Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin, female nude, Female Nude in Studio, Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes, French photographers, French photography, gelatin silver print, glass negative, Irving Penn, Irving Penn Nude No. 57, male nude, Man Ray, Man Ray Arm, Mark Morrisroe, Mark Morrisroe Two Men in Silhouette, Marlé Standing Male Nude, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moulin Two Standing Female Nudes, naked, Naked Before the Camera, paper negative, photography and the body, photography and the nude, Salted paper print, surrealism, the body, Two Men in Silhouette, Two Standing Female Nudes
Many thankx to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes (French, 1831 – after 1900)
Untitled [Female Nude in Studio]
Salted paper print from glass negative
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998
Eugène Durieu (French, 1800 – 1874)
Untitled [Seated Female Nude]
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Gift, 2005
Charles Alphonse Marlé (French, 1821 – after 1867)
Untitled [Standing Male Nude]
Salted paper print from paper negative
Purchase, Ezra Mack Gift and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991
Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin (French, 1800 – after 1875)
Untitled [Two Standing Female Nudes]
Daguerreotype
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
“Depicting the human body has been among the greatest challenges, preoccupations, and supreme achievements of artists for centuries. The nude – even in generalized or idealized renderings – has triggered impassioned discussions about sin, sexuality, cultural identity, and canons of beauty, especially when the chosen medium is photography, with its inherent accuracy and specificity. Through September 9, 2012, Naked before the Camera, an exhibition of more than 60 photographs selected from the renowned holdings of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, surveys the history of this subject and explores some of the motivations and meanings that underlie photographers’ fascination with the nude.
“In every culture and across time, artists have been captivated by the human figure,” commented Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan. “In ‘Naked before the Camera’, we see how photographers have used their medium to explore this age-old subject and create compelling new images.”
The exhibition begins in the 19th century, when photographs often served artists as substitutes for live models. Such “studies for artists” were known to have been used by the French painter Gustave Courbet, whose Woman with a Parrot (1866), for instance, is strikingly similar to photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve’s Female Nude of 1853. Even when their stated purpose was to aid artists, however, the best of these 19th-century photographs of the nude were also intended as works of art in their own right. Two recently acquired photographs, made in the mid-1850s by an unknown French artist, are striking examples. Not only are they larger than all other photographic nudes from the time, they stand out due to an extraordinary surface pattern that interrupts the images and suggests a view through gossamer or a photograph printed on finely pleated silk rather than paper. The elegant Female Nude harkens back to an Eve or Venus and is vignetted by the camera lens as if seen through a peephole, while her male counterpart is shown in strict profile in a pose that recalls precedents from antiquity. Each figure draws from the past while being presented in a strikingly modern way, without any equivalent among other 19th-century studies for artists.
Not all photographers of the nude were motivated by artistic desire. The second section of Naked before the Camera includes photographs made for medical and forensic purposes, as ethnographic studies, as tools to analyze anatomy and movement, and – not surprisingly – as erotica. The lines between such categories were not always clearly drawn; some photographers called their images “studies for artists” merely to evade the censors, while viewers of the G. W. Wilson Studio’s Zulu Girls (1892-93) or Paul Wirz’s ethnographic photographs of scantily clad Indonesians from the 1910s and 1920s were undoubtedly titillated by the blending of exoticism and eroticism.
Beginning in the fertile period of modernist experimentation that followed on the heels of World War I, photographers such as Brassaï, Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, André Kertész, and Bill Brandt found in the human body a perfect vehicle for both visual play and psycho-sexual exploration. In Distortion #6 (1932) by André Kertész, a woman’s body is stretched and pulled in the reflections of a fun-house mirror – a figure from a Surrealist dream that stands in stark contrast to the images of perfect feminine beauty by earlier photographers.
In mid-20th-century America, photographers more often communicated an intimate connection with their subjects. Following the example of Alfred Stieglitz’s famed portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe, photographers such as Edward Weston, Harry Callahan, and Emmet Gowin made many nude studies of their wives. Callahan’s photograph of his wife and daughter, Eleanor and Barbara, Chicago (1954), for instance, gives the viewer access to a private, tender moment of intimacy.
In the wake of the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the AIDS crisis that began in the 1980s, artists began to think of the body as a politicized terrain and explored issues of identity, sexuality, and gender. Diane Arbus’s Retired man and his wife at home in a nudist camp one morning, N.J. (1963) and A naked man being a woman, N.Y.C. (1968), Larry Clark’s untitled image (1972-73) from the series Teenage Lust, and Hannah Wilke’s Snatch Shot with Ray Gun (1978) are among the works featured in the concluding section of the exhibition.”
Press release from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website
Brassaï (French (born Romania), Brasov 1899 – 1984 Côte d’Azur)
Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2007
© The Estate of Brassai
Man Ray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1890 – 1976 Paris)
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
© 2012 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris
André Kertész (American (born Hungary), Budapest 1894–1985 New York City)
Distortion #6
© The Estate of André Kertész / Higher Pictures
Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917 – 2009 New York City)
Nude No. 57
Gift of the artist, 2002
© 1950-2002 Irving Penn
Mark Morrisroe (American, 1959 – 1989)
Untitled [Two Men in Silhouette]
© The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur
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Exhibition: ‘Polly Borland: Smudge’ at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Categories: Australian artist, colour photography, digital photography, exhibition, existence, gallery website, New York, photographic series, photography, portrait and psychological
Tags: Nick Cave, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Polly Borland, Polly Borland Smudge, Polly Borland Untitled, Polly Borland Untitled III, Polly Borland Untitled IV, Polly Borland Untitled XIII, Polly Borland Untitled XL, Polly Borland Untitled XXIV, Polly Borland Untitled XXVI, Polly Borland Untitled XXXIV, Polly Borland Untitled XXXVIII, Smudge, Susan Sontag, the body
Exhibition dates: 22nd September – 29th October 2011
Many thankx to Paul Kasmin Gallery for allowing me to publish the text and photographs in the posting. Each photograph has been printed in three editions (small: 44 x 38.5 cm, edition of 3 plus 3 APs; medium: 76 x 65 cm, edition of 6 plus 3 APs; and large-scale prints: 147.5 x 122 cm, edition of 3 plus 3 APs).
Polly Borland
Untitled III
Untitled IV
Untitled XIII
Untitled XXXIV
“Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Polly Borland from her Smudge series, curated by Danny Moynihan. Opening on September 22, 2011 at 511 W. 27th Street, this will be the artist’s first show with the gallery.
In this body of arresting portraits, Borland dresses and directs her models; manipulating their various costumes, makeup and body positioning to create her own visual language. With faces obscured by wigs, nylon hose and masks, her anonymous subjects are captured in moments of great openness and vulnerability.
Of his experience modeling for Borland, the musician Nick Cave writes, “I am struck by Polly’s deep love for her subjects and the dignity that exists in their dysmorphia. Because her pictures are never voyeuristic, never observational and never merely shocking. Rather, Polly seems to me to be shooting into a distorted mirror and simply bringing back heartbreaking refracted images of herself.”
Borland’s captivating, intimate portraits convey a keen sensitivity to her subjects. “It’s a long time that the camera has been bringing us news about zanies and pariahs, their miseries and their quirks. Showing the banality of the non-normal. Making voyeurs of us all…” writes Susan Sontag in her essay accompanying Borland’s The Babies catalogue, “…But this is particularly gifted, authoritative, intelligent work. Borland’s pictures seem very knowing, compassionate; and too close, too familiar, to suggest common or mere curiosity.”
Borland was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1959, and moved to the United Kingdom in 1989. She has recently relocated to Los Angeles.”
Text from the Paul Kasmin Gallery website
Untitled XXIV
Untitled XL
Untitled XXVI
Untitled XXXVIII
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After a map there are no buttons to go back or advance to the next map (Windows)
Sometimes after a map is done, players have no buttons to advance to the next map or go back to the tavern. This issue seems to be random but happens more frequently the more players are in a party.
start the game
start a map with multiple players
finish or lose the map
notice no player has any buttons to choose what to do
Expected result:
At last the Host of the map can always choose something.
Dreamanime posted this bug on04/20/17
ConnorM 04/20/17 15:20
This is being reported enough that we know its happening, but we don't know why it is happening and we can't reproduce it.
Dreamanime 04/21/17 15:47
This happens mainly on a defeat so far.
sakis2011 04/21/17 20:12
if i am in a party (no matter if i start the game or someone of my party) and win the map, at the end we press all continue and after that nothing happens.. game stucks. BUT if i leave the party before i press continue.. all my 3 friends keep going together to a new map and i get to menu.. is like my side is bugged and drag down the entire party..
After having experienced it more now it looks more like a party issue. Like before where people were still inside a party even if they arn't. Its just a wild guess. Like if the system tries to give maybe someone outside of the party the leader choice, because of the switching leader bug.
Sangre Sani 04/22/17 05:48
I can easily reproduce this with all of my friends:
1. Form a group of at least two people
2. Lose or win in trials, have the ending screen pop up
3. Click "continue"
4. Wait. Because this is where the bug strikes. We can never do more than one map without going back to the tavern. If we wait for the timout we get the option to go back to the hub, but there's no way we ever "continue" to a next map.
This is NOT an issue if you're going all alone. It only happens when you're in a party.
this happens randomly to me. i don't think this can be reproduced in anyway. somehow it doesn't execute the source code that will show the buttons.
Kura 04/22/17 17:17
Connor it would be helpful if you told us what you are doing to recreate it so we could then advise you on the process we are using. I for example can reproduce this by joining a game that my friend is playing through steam's "Join Game". So the game is in it's building mode phase and defenses have already been put down. At the end of the game the screen as shown above takes a while to appear and I am just left with this screen resulting in me having to end task through windows.
I've also reported this bug in another thread and have a video of the whole map from start to finish showing these issues.
Trieton 04/22/17 22:41
This consistently happens to me whenever I am in a party with one other person.
If it asks the other person to Continue, it works just fine.
If I am given the option to Continue or Return to Tavern, selecting "Continue" makes the "Returning to Tavern in X seconds" message go away for both of us and we have to wait for it to invisibly time out, leaving us with the "Return to Hub" or "Return to Menu" options after waiting about a minute or two.
TeeDuk 04/23/17 18:53
Having the same issue. This could NOT be more annoying. Also, I can't just join a game. It has to error out 3 times first before allowing me to join or create.
I have a state of the art VR machine, top line specs all round. Broadband that screams. Unfortunate for me I am on Win10. This is the only game I have played that takes me more time to get in a game/go between games than I spend playing.
SoulNick 04/25/17 03:47
We have the same prob!!! But only on ps4 splitscreen gaming. When i'm playing solo there is no issue! Also if we try to join a game on split, we are not able to connect the 2. Player to the map!!!
Same lile Sangre Sani told befor, see below (4/22/2017 05:48)
Also we have big troubble with the host, once we try one of our towers, maybe 10 sek, we are not able to get back to the wartable.... no connection anymore...
SpiderDanX 04/25/17 15:22
Played maybe 10-12 maps last night. Won 8-9 of them. Got this bug after 2 multiplayer Consec wins. Then had to go back main menu, then tavern. Then load up new map. 2 consecutive wins later, bug happened. Rinse/repeat. 2 more consecutive wins later, bug again. Rinse repeat to start up map again. 1 win and bug. Rinse repeat. 1 win and bug.
End result, it's not tied to wins or losses. Which makes it harder for bug fixers to narrow it down. However, it NEVER happens to me when playing solo. Only a multiplayer bug that I have experienced.
Not sure if this makes a difference, but Sometimes I am EV2 when it happens, sometimes Monk, some times Squire. I've only been playing DPS with these heroes.
builds I use lately:
LM walls or Squire walls or Squire dummies
EV2 Weapon Manufacturer or LavaMancer Fissures.
Huntress Geysers
Monk Boost Aura
Lavamancer Oil Geysers
Gexilus 05/14/17 19:56
Has there been an update on this? My GF and I recently just started grouping together and we're experiencing this issue. Every map, we finish the game, and it doesn't let us move forward without leaving to the HUB or the Menu and recreating the Party. Definitely putting a damper on our first experience with the game.
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Make your next campaign a social media success
Looking for inspiration for your nonprofit’s next social media campaign? Look no further than the Robin Hood Foundation’s “I Fed” campaign, a volunteer-driven, social media fundraising effort to provide 120,000 meals to New Yorkers in need over the 2009 holiday season. The six-week campaign played out on Facebook and Twitter, mobilized hitherto-unknown ranks of volunteers, and brought in hundreds of new donors. In fact, 82% of contributors to the campaign were new to Robin Hood.
A number of the campaign’s collaborators came together a few weeks back, along with some fellow experts from the world of nonprofit social media campaigns, to participate in a panel for social media week on “Social Media: Working Your Online Charity Mojo” and share their insights. I’ve summarized a few highlights from the conversation below.
When in doubt, Facebook.
Asked to identify their go-to social media tool, three of the five panelists quickly chose Facebook. It makes sense. Over 100 million Americans are active Facebook users–as Ruth Gallogly said, “It’s where the people are.” Twitter, though it obviously has some powerful potential, is still a baby by comparison.
Celebrity power is overrated.
Online and off, panelists agreed, the search for celebrity endorsements is generally not worth the effort. That said, a few tips for your nonprofit to keep in mind.
First, target celebrities with a close connection to your mission. The Great Schlep, a campaign co-founded by panelist Ari Wallach to get out the Jewish vote in Florida, sought out Sarah Silverman’s participation because they knew it would be a great fit for her: Jewish, Obama supporter, comedienne. Similarly, the “I Fed” campaign found that reaching out to food celebrities, whose work was already an obvious connection to the campaign’s mission, produced great response.
Second, social media can offer a nice way to lower the bar for celebrity participation on both sides. Tweeting about your event or participating in a live chat is a lot easier for a celebrity supporter than showing up at an event. And because the stakes are lower, you can afford spend less time on the ask, and keep your request casual (e.g. a direct message on Twitter, or an email).
Third, focus on value, not just on big names. A well-chosen endorsement from a lesser-known celebrity whose issue aligns with yours and who cultivates a small but dedicated group of followers might generate a lot more activity than a casual tweet from a big name. As Jason Wojciechowski said, we’re an engagement culture now–it’s not just about the number of eyeballs, it’s about the degree of the response.
Email rules.
Panelists identified email as “the most important thing any nonprofit can do”. And it’s true–in the context of online campaigns, email is still likely to be your most important tool. At the same time, America’s inboxes are becoming ever more crowded, so if your nonprofit emails hope to stand out from the pack, they have their work cut out for them.
The good news, Jeremy Goldberg reminds, is that it’s not that people don’t want email–it’s that they don’t want bad email. So make your emails relevant and purposeful. Request specific actions, mix in a few cultivation message that validate your supporter’s participation, and make the case for why it’s worth their while to spend their precious time and attention on your message.
Don’t skip the strategy.
When a nonprofit doesn’t achieve what they hope to online, the panelists agreed, it’s rarely a failure of technology–it’s nearly always a failure of strategy. Facebook and Twitter can bring about some exciting results, but it’s important to see them a means to a larger end. Some thoughts from the panelists on how to craft a great strategy:
Make it results-driven, sustainable, and holistic.
Start with goals, and choose the tools that help you achieve them.
Be discerning–don’t try to be everywhere at once. It’s exhausting, and ineffective to boot.
Soraya Darabi recommends thinking carefully about who your audiences are, and choosing the best ways to reach them. If you’re a local organization, target local bloggers and tweeters; if you’re trying to reach East Coast college students, Facebook ads might be a good way to go.
What’s a good discussion of social media without a caveat or two?
One panelist suggested that for the cost of a direct mail program, a nonprofit could do a lot more online. True; online tools avoid costs like postage and printing. But over time, do your online efforts bring in the same results?
Social media are exciting, immediate, ever-changing. But they encourage a short-term view: build our Facebook fan base so we can win the corporate giving contest. Set up a Twitter feed so we can get Oprah to tweet about our campaign. What’s often missing is a critical element of any social media strategy: return on investment.
The “I Fed” campaign is a great example of short-form success. Robin Hood and its partners invested a small amount of capital, worked hard to leverage the opportunities available through social media, and saw impressive returns. But before your nonprofit rushes out to try and duplicate their success, be sure to think through to the long view. Once you’ve brought in those eager new donors, what’s your plan for keeping them on board? Over time, how successful are you at retaining them and turning them into regular, committed supporters?
Asking for votes or retweets may turn out to be a win-win–easy for supporters, and rewarding for you. But if you’re like most nonprofits, you aren’t looking to offer a disposable do-good experience; you’re hoping to make a life-long connection with supporters. So as you move forward in social media, keep asking yourselves whether your strategy is really getting the results you want, and helping you build a solid base of supporters who are responsive in the short-term and committed in the long-term.
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Algae » Anatomy » How Algae Move
Cytoplasm, cell walls, and skeletons of algae have a density greater than the medium these organisms dwell in. The density of fresh water is 1.0 g cm-3 and that of sea water ranges from 1.021 to 1.028 g cm-3, but most cytoplasmic components have a density between 1.03 and 1.10 g cm-3, the silica forming the diatom frustule and the scales of Chrysophyceae have a density of 2.6 g cm-3, and both calcite and aragonite of Haptophyta coccoliths reach an even higher value of 2.7 g cm-3. With this density values, algae must inevitably sink. Therefore, one of the problems facing planktonic organisms (organisms that wander in the water or are carried about by the movements of the water rather than by their own ability to swim) is how to keep afloat in a suitable attitude between whatever levels are suitable for their life. The phytoplankton must obviously remain floating quite close to the surface because only here is there a sufficient illumination for photosynthesis.
There are broadly two solutions by which algae can keep afloat and regulate their orientation and depth: a dynamic solution, obtaining lift by swimming; and a static solution, by buoyancy control, or through adaptations reducing sinking rates. In many cases the two solutions function together.
What does it mean to swim? It means that an organism immersed in a liquid environment is allowed to deform its body in the same manner. The algae are all good movers or better good swimmers. They swim more or less continuously and control their level chiefly by this means. For example dinoflagellates, which can achieve speeds of 200–500 µm sec-1, are said to maintain themselves near the surface by repeated bursts of upward swimming, alternating with short intervals of rest during which they slowly sink. Motility is present in unicellular algae or colonies that are propelled by flagella; in some classes it is confined only to gametes and asexual zoospores provided with flagella, which are used as motor system for their displacement in the fluid medium.
In order to move through a fluid the swimming cell must use its motor system to push a portion of the fluid medium in the direction opposite to that in which the movement is to take place.
Forward movement of a swimming alga is resisted by two things: the inertial resistance of the fluid that must be displaced, which depends on the density of the fluid and the viscous drag experienced by the moving organism, that is, the rearward force exerted on the organism by the fluid molecules adhering to its surface when it passes through the viscous fluid. The ratio of inertial and viscous forces is the Reynolds number (R), which depends on the size of the organism (related to the linear dimension, (l)), its velocity (u), and to the density (ρ) and viscosity (η) of the fluid medium according to the equation:
R = (Inertial forces) x (Viscous forces)-1 = l x u x ρ x η-1(2.1)
As the ratio between the viscosity and the density is the kinematic viscosity (ν in cm2 sec-1), Equation (2.1) can be written as:
R = l x u x ν-1
In water the kinematic viscosity is 10-2 cm2 sec-1.
An algae 50 µm long swimming at 10 µm sec-1 has the minuscule Reynold’s number of 5 x 10-4, hence inertial effects are vanishing and the major constraint is the viscous drag; this means that what an algae is doing at the moment is entirely determined by the forces that are exerted on it at that moment and by nothing in the past. Therefore, when the flagellum stops, forward movement of the cell will cease abruptly without gradual deceleration.
Reynolds number might get up to 105 for a fish long 10 cm swimming at 1 m sec-1. If the same fish would be swimming at the same Reynolds number of an alga, it would be as if it was swimming inside molasses.
Another funny thing about motion at low Reynolds number is reciprocal motion. As time does not matter the deformation that produces the swimming must be asymmetrical. Therefore, the pattern of flagellar beating must be three-dimensional and asymmetric, that is, the forward stroke should be different from the reverse.
For optimum propulsive efficiency, cell body size should be 15–40 times the flagellum radius (about 0.1 µm), and this ratio is present in many algae. When the cell body size is larger than predicted, as in Euglena, the effective radius of the flagellum is modified by simple, non-tubular hairs.
FIGURE 2.58 Negative staining of the trailing flagellum of Ochromonas danica. (Bar: 1 µm.)
Beat patterns of most smooth flagella (i.e., without hairs) are three-dimensional, and the analysis of the motion is far from straightforward. However, it is clear that the direction in which the microorganism moves is opposite to the direction in which the waves are propagated along the length of the flagellum, so that in almost all cases, when the cell body is to be pushed along, a wave must be initiated at the base of the smooth flagellum. Although basal initiation is more common than distal, both are known. The velocity of forward movement is always a small fraction of the velocity of the wave running along the flagellum, and its propulsive efficiency depends on the ratio of its amplitude and wavelength. Unlike smooth flagella, the propulsive force generated by a flagellum bearing tubular hairs is in the same direction as the direction of wave propagation. These stiff hairs remain perpendicular to the axis of the flagellum as it bends (Figure 2.58). A wave moving away from the cell body will cause the hairs to act as oars and the overall effect will be to propel the cell flagellum first.
Control characteristics, and thus behavioral peculiarities, are connected with the functioning of the propelling structure of the cell. If the cell is asymmetric, it advances spinning along its axis; it can correct its trajectory only by sudden steering obtained by changing the insertion angle of flagella, or by the stiffening of internal structures. This behavior can be attributed to all heterokont or uniflagellate algae. In the case of a symmetric cell, it can accomplish a gradual smooth correction of its trajectory going forward without spinning (or rotating with a very long period), and displacing the barycenter of the motor couple. This behavior can be attributed to all isokont cells.
Examples of main swimming patterns among algae will be described as follows.
FIGURE 2.59 Swimming pattern of Ochromonas danica.
In Ochromonas sp. (Heterokontophyta) only the flagellum bearing hairs seems to be active during swimming. It is directed forward and executes simultaneous undulatory and helical waves that travel from its base to the tip. The resulting flagellum movements cause the whole body of the cell to rotate as it moves forwards. The shorter flagellum trails backward passively, lying against the cell; it is capable of acting as a rudder to steer the cells. The two rows of stiff hairs cause a reversal of the flagellum thrust. Water is propelled along the flagellum from the tip to the base, so that the cell is towed forward in the direction of the flagellum (Figure 2.59)
In desmokont dinoflagellates such as Prorocentrum sp., the longitudinal flagellum, which extends apically, beats with an anterior-to-posterior whipping action, generating a wave in a tip-to-base mode. The second flagellum, perpendicular to the first, is coiled and attached to the cell body except for the tip, which beats in a whiplash motion, while the attached part undulates (Figure 2.60). In dinokont dinoflagellates, such as Peridinium sp. or Gymnodinium sp., the two flagella emerge at the intersection of the cingulum (transverse furrow) and sulcus (longitudinal sulcus). The longitudinal flagellum extends apically running in the sulcus and is the propelling and steering flagellum, while the ribbon-shaped transverse flagellum is coiled, lies perpendicular to the first and runs around the cell in the cingulum. It is thought to be responsible for driving the cell forward and it also brings about rotation. The longitudinal flagellum beats with a planar waveform, which contributes to forward movement. The longitudinal flagellum can also reverse the swimming direction: it stops beating, points in a different direction by bending, and then resumes beating. This steering ability is related to change in orientation of basal bodies and contraction of the structures associated to the axoneme. In the transverse flagellum, a spiral wave generated in a base-to-tip mode is propagated along the axoneme, bringing about backward thrust and rotation at the same time (Figure 2.61).
FIGURE 2.60 A desmokont dinoflagellate (Prorocentrum sp.) and its swimming pattern.
FIGURE 2.61 A dinokont dinoflagellate (Peridinium sp.) and its swimming pattern
As described earlier, the emergent flagellum of Euglena sp. (Euglenophyta), bears simple hairs 3–4 mm long. These long hairs are arranged in tufts of three to four and form a single row that runs along the flagellum spirally with a low pitch. The flagellar hairs increase the thrust of the flagellum against the surrounding water. During swimming the long flagellum trails beside the cell body and performs helical waves, generated in a base-to-tip mode (Figure 2.62). A peculiar swimming pattern is present in the ovoid zoospores of Chlorarachnion reptans and Bigelowiella natans (Chlorarachniophyta), which bear a single flagellum inserted a little below the cell apex. This flagellum bears very delicate hairs markedly different from the tubular hairs of Heterokontophyta. During swimming the flagellum wraps back around the cell in a downward spiral, lying in a groove along the cell body. The cells rotate around the longitudinal axis during swimming and the anterior or posterior end of the cell moves in either narrow or wide helical path which appears as a side-to-side roking or wobbling (Figure 2.63).
FIGURE 2.62 Swimming pattern of Euglena gracilis.
FIGURE 2.63 Swimming pattern of Bigelowiella sp.
FIGURE 2.64 Swimming pattern of isokont biflagellate algae (Dunaliella salina).
In isokont biflagellate algae such as Chlamydomonas or Dunaliella (Chlorophyta), during the effective stroke the flagella bend only at the base, push more water backwards than adhereing to them during the forward recovery stroke, thus bringing about net forward movement. While swimming these cells also rotate. Speed ranging from 100 to 200 µm sec-1 can be reached by these cells during forward swimming. Backward swimming is also possible, during which the flagella perform undulatory movement (Figure 2.64).
An interesting question is why the algae swim. All algae in an aquatic environment have a need to exchange molecules such as O2, CO2, and NH3 with environment. As all solid boundaries in a liquid medium have associated with them a boundary layer in which water movement is reduced (due to the no-slip boundary), this layer will impede the nutrient uptake of the organisms by creating a small depleted layer around them. Turbulence is very ineffective in transporting nutrients towards such small organisms as the smallest length scale of turbulent eddies are of the order of several millimeters. Therefore, algae must rely on molecular diffusion to overcome the nutrient gradient across the boundary layer. Diffusion, that is the slow mixing caused by the random motion of molecules, is important in the world of low Reynolds number, because here stirring is not any good. The alga’s problem is not its energy supply; its problem is its environment. At low Reynolds number you cannot shake off your environment. If you move, you take it along; it only gradually falls behind.
Algae use their motility (be it sinking or swimming) to generate movement relative to the water and hence replenish the boundary layer with nutrients. Depending on the size of the organism, the motive for swimming must differ, however, because its effects differ significantly. For small algae in the 1–10 µm range, diffusion is about 100 times more effective in supplying nutrients than movement. This is often expressed as the Sherwood number (S):
S = (Time for transport by diffusion) x (Time for transport by movement)-1
= (L2 x D-1) x (L x u-1)-1 = (L x u)-1 x D
where L is the distance over which the nutrient is to be transported, u the water velocity, and D the diffusion constant.
For scale of the order of 1 µm the ratio is ≈10-2. Diffusion is about 100 times faster than movement. Hence, in this world of low Reynolds numbers, nothing is gained by trying to reduce the diffusion barrier by generating turbulent advection. In this context the only possible advantage to the alga of undertaking locomotion is that it might encounter nutrients in a higher concentration. For this purpose, a helical swimming path is more useful than a straight one inspite of the longer distance for the same displacement. This is because a helical swimming path enables the detection of three-dimensional component of a gradient, whereas the straight path allows detection of only one dimension.
Purcell (1977) summarized it by saying that the organism does not move like a cow that is grazing on pasture, it moves to find greener pasture.
Only the species that swim very fast such as the dinoflagellates (about 500 µm sec-1) can overcome the diffusion limitation. This high velocity should be related to the effective increase in the probability to catch more preys and therefore to the heterotrophy metabolism of the algal species.
Movements Other Than Swimming
Buoyancy Control
How a Flagellum Is Built: The Intraflagellar Transport (IFT)
How a Flagellar Motor Works
Internal Flagellar Structure
How a Paraflagellum Rod Works
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Photos: The Hold Steady finally make their 7th St Entry debut
by Jay Gabler · October 15, 2018
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I’m not entirely sure where the confetti came from, but it was well-deserved.
In the second of two sold-out sets at the 7th St Entry, beloved rock band the Hold Steady — along with their enthusiastic, beer-loving fans — shouted, strutted, and sweated through a powerhouse 85-minute set. (The previous day, the band played the much higher-capacity SurlyFest.)
The Brooklyn band radiated camaraderie, befitting the cramped setting. Frontman Craig Finn, a Minnesota native, was eager to mention multiple times that their 9:30 p.m. set was only their second ever in the Entry (the first was the earlier, all-ages, show), the local hotspot they somehow missed during their rise to fame in the century’s first decade.
“The first show I saw here was the Replacements…the second was Soul Asylum…I was maybe 14…and it’s all been downhill from there,” said the smiling Finn, who’d played the venue with his previous band Lifter Puller. That grin seemed to widen with every passing song, as his glasses fogged up and the sweat began to pour.
For the devoted, it was surely a night to remember — even you were one of the poor souls crammed in the back of the venue with no hope of seeing anything on stage. The music and vibe seemed to be enough for most. Whatever’s next for the Hold Steady, I hope it’s a future filled with stage floors covered in beer, sweat, and confetti.
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Ron Hill of Orcutt-based a-non-ah-mus wines only thinks he’s anonymous
Posted by lauriejervis in Faces Behind the Wine, Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure, Vineyards and Viticulture, Winemaking
A-non-ah-mus Wines, Ballard Canyon AVA, C2 Cellars, Rancho Boa Vista, Ron Hill
Although he is currently in the thick of harvest with most of the Central Coast’s other winemakers, Ron Hill took time early in August to taste me through his new releases.
Hill is the owner and winemaker of a-non-ah-mus Wines, based in Orcutt at C2 Cellars. I last wrote about Hill prior to the March 2014 Southern Exposure Garagiste Festival.
Photo by Jane Kennedy Adams/Ron Hill at a private tasting earlier this summer.
After he increased the a-non-ah-mus case production from about 340 cases in 2013 to 500 in 2014, Hill now is content to “stay small.” That way, he can keep overhead and labor low (or non-existent, if he utilizes the help of friends), and enjoy total quality control over his wines from vine to bottle.
That said, Hill has plans to open his first tasting room, in hip Los Alamos, by year’s end.
In August, we sat out on Hill’s back patio with his two Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Jack and Lily.
His newest releases include a 2014 viognier, 2014 grenache blanc, 2014 rosé of syrah and a 2013 pinot noir. Still available are older vintages of syrah and grenache; visit http://www.anonahmus.com
If you’ve met Hill, I’m sure you’ll agree that his personality — humble and serious with a side of playful — means that he’s a lot of fun to interview.
Which means that I’ve won the lottery, story-wise, as Hill last week agreed to let me “shadow” him for the next year, harvest to harvest.
I hope these series of stories will be as fun for you, gentle reader, as they are for me to turn out. My goal is to share a glimpse into the true life of a smaller-production winemaker, mud, sweat, tears and all.
But back to those new vintages:
Bottled in June, the 2014 a-non-ah-mus Viognier, sourced from Curtis Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley, is elegant and displays vanilla and rose on the palate. Hill aged this wine in all stainless steel and allowed it to go through partial malolactic fermentation. It’s a beauty. Only 44 cases produced.
The 2014 a-non-ah-mus Grenache Blanc is a thing of beauty
If his new viognier numbers just 44 cases, Hill’s 2014 a-non-ah-mus Grenache Blanc production is only slighter higher, at just 48 cases, also roughly two barrels’ worth. So I have five words for you: “Get. It. Before. It’s. Gone.”
I’m a fan of stellar Grenache Blanc, having cut my teeth on Kris Curran’s trail-blazing version of this Rhone grape varietal many years back. I think Hill’s 2014 comes closest to the distinction that Curran’s still showcases, vintage after vintage.
Hill is pleased at this, his first attempt. “I’m very happy with this style of grenache blanc,” he said.
The vineyard from which Hill sourced this wine is a small one across from Larner Vineyard in the Ballard Canyon AVA. Rancho Boa Vista grows only grenache, syrah and grenache blanc, Hill noted.
This wine displays one of the longest and prettiest finishes I’ve encountered in quite some time. When Hill offered me half a bottle to take home after our tasting, this wine was my choice.
Hill, who notes on his website how, years ago, he was “taken under the wing of a group of winemaking cicerones” when he lived in San Jose, relocated to the Central Coast to focus on wine and landed an internship at Babcock Winery in 2001.
He stayed there 10 years, he wrote, having “gained the knowledge that in the craft of winemaking, there is always more to learn.”
Hill founded his own label in 2007, and utilized Babcock’s equipment and space to produce his wines there through the 2010 vintage, he said.
The third wine we sampled is Hill’s 2014 Rosé of Syrah, of which there are 41 cases. I’ve enjoyed several vintages of this rosé, having first tried it at a Garagiste Festival, and am just as enamored with this new vintage.
To me, rosés are more than “summer” wines: They represent everything that’s wonderful about life — time with friends enjoying cheese and crackers before a great meal. Because of their natural higher acidities, Rosés also pair well with rich meals, such as those we eat at Thanksgiving.
Last in our lineup was Hills’s 2013 a-non-ah-mus Pinot Noir. It stands out for many reasons, not the least of which is the label: It’s white (all other a-non-ah-mus wines sport a black label), and there’s a twist on the name — it’s “Anonymous.” By a-non-ah-mus.
On his website, Hill writes: “Grapes sourced from a vineyard that must remain anonymous are in our first release of our white label.”
Hill was offered leftover pinot noir grapes from a prominent vineyard. How could he say no? He said yes, and produced this gorgeous pinot noir. My notes: “Fruity, lighter, sexy and pretty.”
The wine is clone 667, and Hill fermented it utilizing 15 percent whole clusters and aged in for 20 months in 25-percent new French oak barrels.
He made 76 cases of this pinot noir, and sells it for $29 per bottle.
So there you have it: Four new releases from Ron Hill of a-non-ah-mus wines. How long can Hill remain anonymous?
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It’s about time for this talented winemaker to get some notoriety. However, I do know for a fact the Lily runs the show!
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Dogecoin, otherwise recognized as DOGE is an open source cryptocurrency, which has developed into an enjoyable, friendly and easy-to-use internet currency.
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Dogecoin has an extremely active and passionate community, with members known as the ‘Shibes,’ that have taken part in multiple social causes and fundraisers.
The price of Dogecoin has been volatile but overall it has increased in value and at one point reached a market capitalization of beyond $1 billion.
Dogecoin market cap (USD) from January 2014 to February 2019 – Source: CoinMarketCap.com
Regarding its distribution, the coin had a fast initial production schedule, with 100 billion coins having already been mined by the middle of 2015. Currently, Dogecoin has a circulating supply of more than 118 billion.
While its main use is as an online digital currency, it has gained footing as a tipping system, in which internet users grant tips paid in Dogecoin to other users who post content that they enjoy.
Dogecoin is an open source digital currency that is used by internet users worldwide.
The framework is based on Litecoin, meaning that all modifications and updates made to it will also be made to Dogecoin.
The initial aim of the coin was not to create an innovative technology or something novel and impressive, but rather to create an easy to use transaction platform.
Dogecoin has a strong and loyal userbase who use Doge as a currency rather than just hold it as a speculative asset. Although, like other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin can definitely be held as an investment or traded in pursuit of making a profitable return.
Dogecoin got its name from the original ‘doge’ internet meme, which is based on a photo of a Japanese Shiba Inu dog.
The original Doge Meme – Source: @DogecoinMemes on Twitter
Doge memes are created using different Shiba Inu photos surrounded by text in the Comic Sans font. The text is written in an improper form such as ‘wow‘ and ‘much increase‘ and is meant to portray what the dog is thinking.
The Dogecoin logo is the face of the Shiba Inu dog, with a big letter D on it.
Dogecoin logo – Source: Dogecoin.com
There is a slight disagreement on the correct pronunciation for Dogecoin.
Some claim that the pronunciation is similar to “dodge,” while others say that since the name comes from a dog, the correct pronunciation is “dogue.”
As stated above, while Dogecoin initially started as a joke, it quickly gained a lot of traction, and a very strong community was built around it, which now is one of Dogecoin’s greatest assets.
The community members, who are also referred to as “Shibes” have been known for various charity donations and other altruistic causes.
The community enjoys a substantial following on social media.
The Reddit group /r/dogecoin has 129k subscribers or ‘Shibes,’ and they use Dogecoin to tip each other for posting enjoyable content.
r/dogecoin Reddit community – Source: www.reddit.com
Furthermore, charities such as DogePizza and SocksForTheHomeless use Reddit as a platform to raise money for good causes.
This Dogecoin community, on top of being one of its strongest assets, has been key to its survival and success until now. No other ‘meme coin’ has enjoyed success like Dogecoin has.
A common phrase used by Shibes is ‘1 DOGE = 1 DOGE,’ meaning that they believe the coin should be used as a transactional currency, instead of being used solely as an investment or speculative asset.
The community actively contributes to Dogecoin, even creating new applications like DogePal which is a system that enables people to pay each other with Doge, using email addresses.
Screenshot of Dogecoin payment system: DogePal.com
Check out our interview with DogePal founder Tom here.
The idea first gained traction from a tweet posted by Jackson Palmer who jokingly said “Investing in Dogecoin, pretty sure it’s the next big thing.”
It received a lot of encouragement from the Twitter-sphere, also catching the interest of Billy Markus, a software engineer, who later contacted Jackson Palmer about creating something real with Dogecoin.
Then, on December 6, 2013, Dogecoin was created, allowing anyone to mine and/or trade it.
The hype around it quickly grew, so what started as a joke very rapidly became a major cryptocurrency.
Dogecoin was intended to be fun and to have a less serious vibe than other cryptocurrencies.
In 2013 when Dogecoin was created there were much fewer cryptocurrencies around than today, and most of them had a serious vibe or political motives.
One thing that separates Dogecoin from the majority of other cryptocurrencies is that it is an inflationary, rather than deflationary cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin and the majority of other cryptocurrencies that can be mined are created with a hard cap on the supply of coins.
The main issue arising from deflationary coins is that they encourage hoarding as their perceived values increase with time. Also, once a hard cap is hit, it is not profitable for miners to continue sustaining the system.
Thus, an inflation-based tactic was designed so that mining would be maintained and to replace lost coins, helping to keep the supply stable at close to 100 billion tokens.
Dogecoin has a fixed rate of production of 10,000 coins per minute.
Jackson Palmer wrote in 2014:
“The goal for the currency is to keep approximately 100 billion coins in circulation – thus after 100 billion Dogecoins are created, rewards will continue at 10k each block. This will help maintain mining and stabilize the number of coins in circulation (considering lost wallets and various other ways coins may be destroyed) at 100 billion.”
Furthermore, since most of the community do not consider Dogecoin purely an investment, rather a medium of exchange, inflation could be an important factor in its success.
Dogecoin (DOGE) vs. Litecoin (LTC) – Source: shutterstock.com
The main structure of Dogecoin is based on Luckycoin, which in turn is based on Litecoin.
Dogecoin originally featured a randomized reward system, with rewards received for mining blocks of coins.
This was later changed to a fixed block reward in 2014.
Both Dogecoin and Litecoin employ a proof-of-work algorithm and use Scrypt technology.
However, unlike Litecoin, the supply of Dogecoin does not have a cap.
Since 2014, Dogecoin and Litecoin mining has been merged, which means it’s possible to mine both coins with the same process.
Founded Decemeber 6, 2013 October 7, 2011
Price (Feb 2019) $45 $0.0021
Mining Algorithm Scrypt (Proof-of-Work) Scrypt (Proof-of-Work)
Market Cap (Feb 2019) $240,987,145 $2,786,137,218
Supply (Feb 2019) 118,321,118,303 60,524,675
Some of the advantages of Dogecoin over other altcoins include:
Extremely low Transaction fees, around $0.01.
Fast transaction times as it takes less effort to calculate the mining computations.
A user-friendly interface. A fun and welcoming community.
Note: Dogecoin is a major cryptocurrency that has built a strong community where users can have fun while simultaneously getting familiar with crypto.
Before being verified, Dogecoin transactions are included in a block. The miners’ check the received transactions with previous transactions on the blockchain.
If no data recording the same transactions is detected, the miners confirm the new block of transactions.
These blocks are sent for verification to the nodes of the Dogecoin network.
When the nodes verify a block of transactions, they enter into a type of lottery. Only one node can win the reward from the lottery.
The lottery involves solving a mathematical equation. The node that solves the equation first adds the new block of transactions to the blockchain.
The reward for solving the mathematical equation is 10,000 DOGE.
As the mining process necessitates massive amounts of electricity and time, this reward is paid to miners for each mined block. This acts as an incentive for miners to give their hashing power.
The mining reward has not always been the same. However, after the 600,000th block was mined, a permanent reward of 10,000 Dogecoin was put in place by the developers.
Litecoin and Dogecoin merged mining in 2014 and both use Scrypt, which demands less power than Bitcoin’s SHA-256 algorithm. If you are familiar with Litecoin mining, DOGE mining may be relatively easy for you.
Dogecoin mining is also a lot quicker than Bitcoin as its mining difficulty is at least a million times less than Bitcoin’s. This also means that you can mine the coin with less powerful computers.
The block reward for each block is 10,000 DOGE and on average, a new block is generated every minute.
Dogecoin mining concept – Source: shutterstock.com
Just like every other mineable cryptocurrency, miners have the choice to go solo or operate in mining pools.
Mining pools are groups of users who share their computing power and receive a share of the block reward.
Pools have higher combined computing power than solo users, and therefore, they confirm blocks more often.
Each miner in the pool gets a small portion of the total reward generated by the block. Members of the pool will usually pay a fee to be a part of the group.
When you mine Dogecoin solo, you won’t have to pay any fees for mining.
However, you will be exposed to the immense competition, and it could be weeks (sometimes months) before you get to mine a block on the network.
However, once you do this, the entire mining reward is yours for the taking.
To begin with, you will need a PC running and a working internet connection.
You will also need a Dogecoin wallet to store the mining rewards you earn.
Ideally, you want to use a powerful CPU (even though an average PC CPU is powerful enough, it may overheat), or a GPU like the Nvidia GeForce GTX series.
Depending on what hardware you use, you will also need to download the appropriate software to go with it. The software can be found online and downloaded for both CPU and GPU.
If you are mining using a GPU, a few software options include CGminer, EasyMiner, and CudaMiner. A CPU miner can be downloaded for free here.
Another hardware option is a Scrypt ASIC Miner like the Bitmain Antminer L3. MultiMiner would be the appropriate software to use in this instance, but EasyMiner and CGMiner will also work for ASIC miners as well.
The most suitable option for beginners looking the test the waters would be GPU mining. After, if you want to get more seriously involved with mining you could consider a GPU or ASIC mining setup.
The easiest way to earn some DOGE would be to opt for cloud mining, but you need to investigate whether you can be profitable or not and how long that would take.
With cloud mining, you simply rent computing power from a data center which is charged as a yearly or monthly fee. The center mines the coins and sends a share of the profits to you.
The only requirement for this is a Dogecoin wallet and the money needed to rent the cloud resources.
Cloud mining can be cheaper to set up than your own mining operation. It also removes all the technical hassle involved with Dogecoin mining.
However, the contracts could be long-term, and it may be difficult to calculate whether you are getting good value for the cost or not.
Price fluctuations could also cause problems as the cloud mining contract will be fixed, and if mining becomes unprofitable, you will still be tied to the contract.
At NiceHash, you can buy hash power, similar to how you might with cloud mining, but with an interesting difference: you buy hash power from the community. People can connect their miners with NiceHash and rent out their hash power – NiceHash facilitates the deal! If you don’t want to set up your own miners to acquire your Dogecoin and you’re not keen on the typical Cloud Mining providers, NiceHash is definitely well worth a look.
Dogecoin’s website states that:
“Dogecoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer digital currency that enables you to easily send money online. Think of it as ‘the internet currency.'”
Dogecoin has also been used by its community often in fundraising initiatives, such as helping Olympians attend the winter Olympics and raising funds to build clean water wells in developing countries.
Below are some of the most notable fundraisers achieved by the Shibes:
$50,000 was raised in order to fund the Jamaican Bobsled Team journey to the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
In March 2014, the community raised $30,000 in order to build wells that provide clean water in Kenya.
The community raised $55,000 in order to sponsor a NASCAR driver (Josh Wise) who then raced in a Dogecoin themed car.
Dogecoin sponsored Nascar – Source: reddit.com
As Dogecoin’s transaction times are quick, averaging close to a minute, Doge has also gained popularity as a donation or tipping coin.
Dogecoin can also be used for speculation or held as an investment with the goal of making a profit. Since its creation, Dogecoin has seen many peaks and troughs in its price creating lots of opportunity for speculators.
The first exchange which offered a DOGE/USD market was AltQuick.co in 2014. Later on, the Canadian Vault of Satoshi exchange became the first exchange to offer the DOGE/CAD trading pair. DOGE can now be traded in many exchanges around the world.
Dogecoin was officially launched on December 6, 2013.
It was created by Billy Markus, a programmer from Oregon, and Jackson Palmer, a product manager at Adobe.
During the cryptocurrency craze of 2013, Billy Markus wanted to create a cryptocurrency which had a less serious vibe than Bitcoin. He believed that this would appeal to a broad user base and also be something unique that separates itself from other cryptocurrencies.
He teamed up with Jackson Palmer, who conceived the original idea for ‘Dogecoin’ through a comical tweet. Palmer was encouraged on Twitter to make his ‘joke’ idea a reality, which he then later did with Markus.
The Dogecoin team is made up entirely by volunteers.
The founding duo of Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer now go by the moniker “Shibetoshi Nakamoto,” a name intended as a play on the name of the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. However, Jackson Palmer is no longer involved with the project.
The developing team consists of names such as Ross Nicoll, Patrick Lodder, and Max Keller.
You can find our interview with Ross Nicoll here.
Like the majority of cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin has been subject to massive fluctuations in price, going from lows of $0.0001 in late 2015 to a high of $0.019 on January 7th, 2018.
Dogecoin Weekly Chart
Probably not but it is possible. For Dogecoin to hit $1 it would have to increase 52,531% from the price it’s at today ($0.0019) which would certainly be ‘much wow’
The extremely high supply makes it unlikely to hit a high price such as $1 since while the inflationary nature improves its chances to be used as a mediator currency, it also decreases its investment potential somewhat.
Buyers from the EU can buy Dogecoin directly from www.litebit.eu.
Furthermore, there are multiple exchanges which support Dogecoin, and offer pairs such as DOGE/BTC and DOGE/ETH.
The most popular exchanges that do so are Bittrex, Poloniex, and HitBtc.
Screenshot of BTC-DOGE trading on the Bittrex platform – Source: Bittrex.com
While this article does not aim to offer financial advice, and you should always do your own research when making any investments.
The cryptocurrency market in the eyes of some is a bubble that has already burst, while others see it as a nascent industry that will eventually go on to change the world in a similar manner to how the internet did.
No, Dogecoin is currently not listed on Coinbase.
In order to buy through Coinbase, it is required to buy another crypto coin, transfer it to an exchange which supports Dogecoin and then buy it.
There are different wallets which support the storage of Dogecoin.
Both the Trezor One and the Trezor Model T support Dogecoin. If you’re serious about security (which you should be!), then grab yourself one of these awesome hardware wallets to keep your precious DOGE safe.
Firstly, there are software wallets for download, such as Dogecoin Core, which contains the full Dogecoin blockchain, and effectively turns your computer into a Dogecoin Node.
Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus recently tweeted to remind his followers to upgrade to the latest version of the Dogecoin Core Wallet.
Make sure to upgrade your wallet to 1.8 now, or you're gonna have a bad time: https://t.co/tS3UMlrTUW
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) September 8, 2014
Then there is MultiDoge, a light wallet which stores enough information in order to use Dogecoin but will not turn your computer into a Node.
There are also Online wallets such as Dogechain, which allows you to use the blockchain without storing it on your computer.
Finally, there are Hardware wallets, such as the Ledger Nano S which are hardware devices that are fully portable and allow you to store Dogecoin.
Once you possess a secured wallet, transferring DOGE is as easy as clicking a “Send” button in the application.
You only need to specify the recipient’s address, enter the coin value and a label which allows for easy tracking of the transaction. Then use a blockchain explorer like Dogecoin official.
Dogecoin possesses a one minute block time; therefore the average transaction time is around one minute.
As stated above, Dogecoin does not have a supply limit.
Right now, there is more than to 118 billion Doge in circulation, with the price being $0.0019.
The current market cap is $225,000,000; however, at one point in January 2018, it surpassed $1 billion for a short time. The market cap changes daily, so it’s worth checking a resource like CoinMarketCap for the latest valuation.
The potential problem with having a supply cap like many cryptocurrencies do is that once that cap is reached, mining could become unprofitable for miners.
This could lead to either extremely high transaction times (due to less incentive to process transactions) or extremely high fees (to encourage miners to mine).
To solve this problem, the creators of Dogecoin wanted to ensure miners that they would always receive new Dogecoin as a reward, so there is always an incentive for mining Dogecoins.
In a recent interview with Blokt, leading developer Ross Nicoll stated that he wants to see Doge widely adopted as a currency for the Internet, and he believes there is an exciting opportunity to make this happen.
He also wants to see Dogecoin become part of the Ethereum Ecosystem. The Dogecoin team is currently working on a Dogecoin/Ethereum bridge which would enable this.
Dogecoin and Ethereum bridge illustration – Source: Shutterstock.com
To conclude, even though it began as a lighthearted joke that made light of the cryptocurrency craze, Dogecoin has evolved into a genuine and major digital currency.
Dogecoin possesses one of the biggest thriving communities, full of helpful and friendly members, who are also working to further the adoption of the coin.
This has been a big factor in the success of Dogecoin and will continue to be so in the future. Furthermore, the loyal community of Shibes constantly uses the coin instead of holding it as purely an investment.
Even after the departure of the co-creator Jackson Palmer years ago, the project has continuously thrived, due in part to the passionate and enthusiastic Shibe community.
Dogecoin Chart – DOGE weekly chart from TradingView.com
ASIC Mining – What is an ASIC miner by Digital Trends
Ethereum – Why the Ethereum ecosystem is stronger than ever by ConsenSys
Hardware Wallets – Dogecoin Ledger support
Dogecoin Developers – Dogecoin dev team on Twitter
Dogecoin’s History – A history of Dogecoin by Usman W. Chohan
Doge Mining – Dogecoin mining pool by Multipool
Shiba Inu – Original photos which led to the ‘doge’ meme
Dogecoin Pronunciation – How do you say Dogecoin by The Daily Dot
Dogethereum Bridge – Dogecoin / Ethereum bridge on Github
Dogecoin Creator – Jackson Palmer’s website
Coinbase – Dogecoin price information and charts
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Research article | Open | Open Peer Review | Published: 26 March 2015
Economic evaluation of a group-based exercise program for falls prevention among the older community-dwelling population
Kendra McLean1,4,
Lesley Day2 &
Andrew Dalton3
BMC Geriatricsvolume 15, Article number: 33 (2015) | Download Citation
Falls among older people are of growing concern globally. Implementing cost-effective strategies for their prevention is of utmost importance given the ageing population and associated potential for increased costs of fall-related injury over the next decades. The purpose of this study was to undertake a cost-utility analysis and secondary cost-effectiveness analysis from a healthcare system perspective, of a group-based exercise program compared to routine care for falls prevention in an older community-dwelling population.
A decision analysis using a decision tree model was based on the results of a previously published randomised controlled trial with a community-dwelling population aged over 70. Measures of falls, fall-related injuries and resource use were directly obtained from trial data and supplemented by literature-based utility measures. A sub-group analysis was performed of women only. Cost estimates are reported in 2010 British Pound Sterling (GBP).
The ICER of GBP£51,483 per QALY for the base case analysis was well above the accepted cost-effectiveness threshold of GBP£20,000 to £30,000 per QALY, but in a sensitivity analysis with minimised program implementation the incremental cost reached GBP£25,678 per QALY. The ICER value at 95% confidence in the base case analysis was GBP£99,664 per QALY and GBP£50,549 per QALY in the lower cost analysis. Males had a 44% lower injury rate if they fell, compared to females resulting in a more favourable ICER for the women only analysis. For women only the ICER was GBP£22,986 per QALY in the base case and was below the cost-effectiveness threshold for all other variations of program implementation. The ICER value at 95% confidence was GBP£48,212 in the women only base case analysis and GBP£23,645 in the lower cost analysis. The base case incremental cost per fall averted was GBP£652 (GBP£616 for women only). A threshold analysis indicates that this exercise program cannot realistically break even.
The results suggest that this exercise program is cost-effective for women only. There is no evidence to support its cost-effectiveness in a group of mixed gender unless the costs of program implementation are minimal. Conservative assumptions may have underestimated the true cost-effectiveness of the program.
Falls pose a major public health concern globally [1]. Approximately 1 in 3 people aged over 65 living in the community fall each year, a rate which increases with age [2]. Falls, fall-related injuries and subsequent fear of falling can have a significant impact on health-related quality of life and function, resulting in loss of independence among older people [3]. The medical costs of fall-related injuries increase rapidly with age and are 2 to 3 times higher for women due to their higher risk of osteoporotic fractures, particularly hip fractures [4]. Developing and implementing cost-effective programs to prevent falls among older people is of utmost importance given the ageing population and associated potential for increased costs of fall-related injury over the next decades.
Exercise is currently the only proven falls intervention appropriate for population level delivery [5] and is the falls intervention subject to most economic evaluations [6]. Many previously reported economic evaluations of exercise programs to prevent falls are founded on the home-based “Otago Exercise Program” [7-11]. Whilst this program demonstrated a reduction in falls rate of between 30% and 46% compared to routine care [9-11] it failed to achieve cost-effectiveness or monetary savings apart from in a sub-analysis of people aged over 80 years [9]. Economic evaluations [7,12] based on a systematic review by the Cochrane Collaboration [13] have explored the impact of falls on health-related quality of life. One evaluation included group-based exercise and demonstrated cost-effectiveness for high risk populations only [12].
There are limited published economic evaluations of group-based exercise for falls prevention, a more suitable format for population level delivery. The purpose of this study was to determine cost-effectiveness of one group-based exercise program that has been proven effective in reducing falls [14,15].
The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether a group-based exercise program is cost-effective compared to routine care to prevent falls among the older community-dwelling population. A decision analysis was performed using a decision tree model. The evaluation was conducted from a healthcare system perspective as significant drivers of cost are within the healthcare sector. As health-related quality of life is an important outcome of falls prevention, a cost-utility analysis (CUA) was undertaken as the primary analysis. This analysis also allows broader comparisons to other healthcare programs. Secondary cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) include the incremental cost per fall, injurious fall, and fracture averted. Measures of falls, fall-related injuries and resource use for the economic evaluation were obtained directly from trial data over an 18 month time horizon corresponding to the duration of follow-up. This was supplemented by literature-based utility measures.
All costs were identified from the perspective of the healthcare system and converted from 2010 Australian Dollars to British Pound Sterling (GBP) using 2010 purchasing power parities. All costs and consequences were discounted at a rate of 3% in the base case analysis, as recommended by the Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine [16].
This evaluation was based on the results of a previously published randomised controlled trial of the “NoFalls” exercise program [14,15]. The exercise program consisted of a weekly one hour group-based exercise class for 15 weeks, supplemented by daily home exercises. The class consisted of graded exercises to improve flexibility, leg strength and balance [14,17]. The comparator is routine care and activity, considered standard care.
Approval for the “NoFalls” trial was obtained from the Monash University's Standing Committee on Ethics in Research Involving Humans. The “NoFalls” trial took place in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia with a community-dwelling population aged over 70 years, recruited from the electoral roll. One thousand one hundred and seven participants were randomised, with 17 withdrawing immediately post-randomisation. Five hundred and forty-one participants were randomly assigned to receive the exercise intervention and 549 to receive no exercise intervention. The original “NoFalls” trial also investigated the effect of home hazard management and vision improvement on falls prevention in a full factorial design. However these interventions on their own failed to show a significant effect so have been excluded from this evaluation. During the 18 month follow-up period 9.5% of participants withdrew and 1.4% deceased, however data was provided for at least 1 month by 98.5% of randomised participants. The study participants at baseline had a mean age of 76.1 years and were 59.8% women. Baseline demographics between groups were similar [14]. Participants in the exercise group fell at a rate 21% lower than those in the routine activity group (IRR:0.79, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.94) [15].
Analytical framework
A decision tree model was used in the decision analysis to establish potential pathways of participants (Figure 1). A negative binomial regression model was used to calculate the rate of falls in each group and to determine the rate of injury if a fall occurred, using PASW Statistics 18 [18]. Negative binomial regression is recommended for analysis of falls count data as falls are recurrent and data over-dispersed (i.e. variance is greater than the mean) [19,20]. The model involved entering the surveillance period as the offset variable, number of falls as the dependent variable, and the intervention as the categorical variable. Additionally the number sustaining an injury if a fall occurred was substituted as the dependent variable. Interactions with age and gender were also explored. The rates obtained from the analysis were converted to probabilities over 18 months for use in the economic evaluation.
Decision tree.
All analyses were performed by intention to treat with statistical significance set at p ≤ 0.05. The decision analysis was performed using Microsoft Excel 2007 with Risk Solver Platform V10.0 [21]. A sub-group analysis of women only was performed in keeping with suggestions that women have a higher risk of falls and related injury [1,4]. Results are reported in the form of an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), calculated by dividing differences in costs by differences in effects of intervention and comparator.
Secondary CEA
Falls were recorded prospectively for up to 18 months via monthly post-card calendar to optimise accuracy and injuries self-reported via telephone interview. Good agreement has been demonstrated between self-report and medical records, and if anything self-reporting tends to result in under-reporting [22]. A fall was defined as “losing your balance such that your hands, arms, knees, bottom or body touch or hit the ground or floor” [14]. Injuries were classified as a fracture, cut/scrape/bruise, head injury or other injury. Falls data was obtained for 92% of possible surveillance points over 18 months.
Health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
Health-related quality of life is measured on a scale of 0 (death) to 1 (perfect health) using a utility instrument which measures individual strength of preference between alternative health states [16]. The EuroQol (EQ-5D) is a valid and reliable instrument widely used to obtain utility weights for fall-related conditions in older populations [23,24]. Utility weights are combined with time spent in different health states to calculate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) [16]. An utility instrument such as the EQ-5D was not used during the “NoFalls” trial. Therefore utility weights from this instrument have been sourced from published results for similar populations (Table 1).
Table 1 Utility value of health states
Literature-based utility estimates for injuries other than fractures are limited, therefore equivalent utility was applied to a fall unless a fracture sustained. Utility was applied evenly to a fracture regardless of management. Although inpatient care may result in higher utility loss this could not be differentiated from the literature. Whilst research continues into the social value of a QALY and how it varies with age [30], a baseline utility of 1 was allocated to a non-faller indicating normal age-specific health. In reality the baseline utility of the elderly is below this value and it has been suggested that using a baseline utility value of 1 provides an overestimate and age/sex norms that exist for instruments such as the EQ-5D should be used instead [31]. This then raises a concern that the value of health benefit such as the QALY depends on when it arises and who receives it [32], making people with higher baseline utility apparently more deserving of a QALY than others. Applying a value of 1 as the baseline utility is more equitable when it comes to making comparisons of programs and their incremental QALY gain.
The QALY calculation assumes that falls reduction applies to the 18 month follow-up after which participants return to their pre-treatment falls risk. There is no evidence supporting longer term effects once an exercise program has ceased [33]. Evidence also suggests that following a fracture there is a return to the previous level of utility within 1 to 2 years [28].
The probability of developing fear of falling (FOF) was obtained from studies with similar populations [26,27]. Persistence of FOF is recognised [25] therefore disutility associated with FOF was applied for the 18 month period for those who fell. FOF was applied equally to both groups, although there is evidence to suggest that exercise interventions can reduce FOF in this population [34]. A higher rate of FOF has been associated with more injurious falls [35], but as no clear incidence is available the probability of FOF was applied evenly. Probability of developing FOF was increased in the women only sub-analysis in accordance with the evidence available [26,27]. The probability of developing FOF and utilities applied are conservative, most likely underestimating the true impact of the exercise program.
Program costs included labour, equipment, venue hire, music and consumables (Additional file 1: Table S1). Research protocol driven costs were excluded. The cost of training staff was excluded as their classifications indicate they are already qualified for their role.
An Allied Health Assistant (AHA) was designated as group instructor in the base case analysis due to their prevalence in Australian healthcare settings. A fitness instructor could run this program at a cheaper hourly rate and was included in the sensitivity analysis. Labour was valued by hourly wage plus 50% on-costs. For each 1 hour session 1.5 hours labour was allocated, and 5 hours labour per group for screening potential participants.
The costs of recruiting each group for this program are unknown. An estimate of advertising was included in the base case analysis. Advertising in a local newspaper is unlikely to be required but is included in a sensitivity analysis.
Cost of falls
Resource utilisation was self-reported via telephone interview following a fall for 93% of reported falls, but could not be verified against healthcare records as permission was not obtained for this trial. General Practitioner consultations, ambulance services, Emergency Department visits and hospital admissions were included as fall-related costs (Additional file 2: Table S2). Outpatient utilisation of Allied Health, investigations, medication and specialists was not available from the trial. As hospital inpatient services are major cost drivers following falls in this age group [9,36,37] exclusion of outpatient services was not expected to alter cost-effectiveness substantially, but was explored in a sensitivity analysis.
Consultation with a General Practitioner was recorded but not occasions of service, so this is guided by the literature available [38,39]. It was estimated that on average 3 visits would be required following a fracture and 2 visits following other injuries in the base case analysis. Standardised prices or charges were applied to resources used. Whilst using charges instead of actual costs may not reflect the true opportunity cost of resources, applying standardised charges is more relevant for the healthcare system perspective and improves generalisability. Standardised prices used include Commonwealth Medicare Benefits Schedule (CMBS) [40] fees for General Practitioner consultations, an average of ambulance service costs obtained from the Private Health Insurance Administration Council (PHIAC) [41], Australian Ambulatory Classes [42] for Emergency Department visits, Australian Refined Diagnostic-Related Group (AR-DRG) cost weights [43] per hospital admission, and the Victorian Casemix Rehabilitation and Funding Tree (CRAFT) [44] for rehabilitation costs.
A Monte Carlo Simulation was utilised in a probabilistic sensitivity analysis, and a cost-effectiveness acceptability curve constructed to indicate the probability of cost-effectiveness at any given value of willingness-to-pay [16]. 10,000 trials were run per simulation, with 56 uncertain variables covering the probabilities of each outcome, resource use and utility (Additional file 3: Table S3). The discount rate of costs and consequences was varied to 0 and 5% in the sensitivity analysis to allow broader interpretation of the results.
A threshold analysis was conducted to ascertain the falls rate reduction required to reach a cost-effectiveness threshold of GBP£20,000 to £30,000 per QALY [45] or to break even (cost-neutral). In further sensitivity analyses key inputs for program implementation were varied including the use of a fitness instructor, no opportunity cost of the venue or equipment and inclusion of local newspaper advertising. A gross outpatient cost incorporating Allied Health, General Practitioner consultations, specialists and pharmaceuticals was applied to investigate the effect of their exclusion on the ICER. The overall estimate was based on previously published cost estimates of falls [36,37].
The effect of missing falls surveillance data was explored in sensitivity analyses. In the most-likely scenario it was assumed that, in the absence of any intervention, participants with missing data would continue to fall at the baseline falls rate. In a worst-case scenario, it was assumed no change for exercise group participants with missing data, and no falls experienced by routine care group with missing data, and the reverse in a best-case scenario. The 17 participants who were randomised but did not commence the trial were included in this analysis.
Altogether there were 1448 falls recorded by the 1090 participants in the trial, 803 resulting in an injury. The rate of falls per year in the exercise group was 0.309 compared to 0.390 in the routine activity group (IRR:0.79, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.94) [15]. The injurious fall incidence rate ratio was 0.85 (95% CI 0.70 to 1.04) [15], just failing to reach statistical significance most likely as the RCT was powered to detect a difference in the falls rate rather than the injurious falls rate. However when a fall occurred there was compelling evidence showing no significant difference in the rate of injury in the routine activity compared to the exercise group (combined group: IRR 0.962, 95% CI: 0.76 to 1.21; women only group: IRR 0.989, 95% CI: 0.75 to 1.23). Subsequently a linear relationship was assumed between falls and injury, falls data pooled and equal transition probabilities applied to both groups after a fall (Additional file 4: Table S4). There was no significant difference in the falls rate reduction in the women only analysis compared to the overall group. However compared to women, men had a 44% lower rate of injury when they fell (IRR 0.56, 95% CI: 0.44 to 0.72).
Of all falls 55.5% resulted in injury. Fractures resulted from 2.5% of falls (3.7% for women). Altogether 36 fractures were recorded, 6 of which were hip fractures. 21.7% of injurious falls required medical care, and 3% of injuries required hospital admission. The most common injury sustained was a cut, scrape or bruise (73.2% of all injury), 91% of which did not require medical care.
In the base case analysis with an AHA instructor the class cost £52.37 per participant, assuming 15 participants per instructor. In the sensitivity analysis this was varied to £36.09 with AHA instructor excluding venue hire and annual equivalent cost of equipment, £45.52 employing a fitness instructor or £29.24 excluding venue hire and annual equivalent cost of equipment. Non-discounted effects and costs per individual are presented in Table 2. As women are more likely to sustain fall-related injuries the cost of a fall and associated utility loss is higher for women. The estimated cost of each health state (excluding program cost) applied to the decision tree model is presented in Table 3.
Table 2 Non-discounted individual costs and effects, “NoFalls” exercise program
Table 3 Estimated cost of health states (excluding program cost)
A summary of incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) is shown in Table 4. The overall base case incremental cost per QALY is well above the accepted cost-effectiveness threshold. In the best-case scenario with a Fitness Instructor and minimised program implementation costs it is possible for the incremental cost per QALY to fall within the acceptable range. For women only the ICER is more favourable with all analyses falling within or below the cost-effectiveness threshold.
Table 4 Summary ICER and sensitivity analysis, “NoFalls” exercise program
Incorporating advertising costs has an impact on the ICER, but does not significantly alter cost-effectiveness. Increasing costs associated with ambulatory care according to published cost estimates had minimal effect on the ICER. This indicates that excluding outpatient services such as Allied Health, specialists and pharmaceuticals has not substantially altered results (Additional file 5: Table S5).
The cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEAC) for the incremental cost per QALY are presented in Figures 2 and 3. The probability of reaching the accepted cost-effectiveness threshold of GBP£20,000 to £30,000 per QALY is extremely low for the overall base case utilising an AHA or Fitness Instructor, but much more encouraging for women only.
CEAC - probability of cost-effectiveness at given value of willingness to pay, “NoFalls” Exercise Program (markers at GBP£20,000 and £30,000 per QALY). AHA: Base Case. AHA: No Venue and minimal equipment cost. Fitness Instructor: Base Case. Fitness Instructor: No venue and minimal equipment cost.
CEAC - women only analysis, “NoFalls” Exercise Program (markers at GBP£20,000 and £30,000 per QALY). AHA: Base Case. AHA: No Venue and minimal equipment cost. Fitness Instructor: Base Case. Fitness Instructor: No venue and minimal equipment cost.
Threshold analysis
To fall within the cost-effectiveness threshold in the overall base case, the exercise program required a falls rate reduction of between 32% and 42%, assuming injury distribution remains constant. In the base case scenario employing a fitness instructor the falls rate reduction required is 28% to 37%. There is virtually no chance of the intervention breaking even or being cost-neutral, with a reduction in falls rate of over 80% required (61% for women only) in the best-case scenario.
Missing data sensitivity analysis
The falls rate reduction remains statistically significant under all scenarios explored in the missing data analysis (Additional file 6: Table S6). When the baseline falls rate is applied to all missing data there is little impact on the ICER. Apart from some of the best-case analyses, the overall ICER generally remains well above the cost-effectiveness threshold. Under most conditions the ICER remains within or below the cost-effectiveness threshold for women only analyses. As the injury data was pooled and applied equally to both groups missing data may weaken the results if fall-related injuries have been underestimated but would not cause bias.
Based on this evaluation there is little evidence to suggest that a group-based exercise program is more cost-effective than routine care to prevent falls among the older community-dwelling population. However there is evidence to support the program if offered to women only. This is driven by the higher probability of women sustaining a fracture in a fall resulting in higher costs and disutility, as well as the higher probability of women developing fear of falling and its associated disutility following a fall.
Direct comparison of this economic evaluation to other studies is difficult due to methodological differences in perspective, time frame and cost inclusions, as well as varied contexts within overseas health systems. Nevertheless a systematic review of economic evaluations of falls prevention interventions [6] identified three cost saving interventions in subgroups of high falls risk participants. These were a targeted multi-factorial intervention in the USA [46], the home-based Otago exercise program for people aged over 80 years in New Zealand [9] and a home safety program targeting those who had previously fallen and were discharged from hospital in Australia [47]. Another UK based study investigating the cost-effectiveness of cataract surgery for falls prevention in women reported an incremental cost per QALY well below the cost-effectiveness threshold when modelled over a lifetime [48].
An Australian based economic evaluation by Church et al. [12] utilising the effectiveness data from a systematic review by the Cochrane Collaboration [13] identified that group-based exercise was only cost-effective in a high risk population. The overall falls rate reduction of 22% (IRR: 0.78, 95% CI 0.71-0.87) utilised for group-based exercise is consistent with the falls rate reduction of 21% found in the “NoFalls” trial (IRR:0.79, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.94) [15]. Despite methodological differences the results of this evaluation support the findings of Church et al. in that group-based exercise programs in the general population would not be considered cost-effective. However, group-based exercise in the study by Church et al. and in variations of program implementation in this evaluation are approaching cost-effectiveness. Both evaluations indicate that in order to be cost-effective group-based exercise programs need to target sections of the older community-dwelling population.
Although the percentage of falls resulting in injury from this trial was consistent with previous reports [49,50] the proportion of fractures following a fall was lower than others reporting between 6% and 13% [35,49,50]. This may be due to differences in study populations, missing data or variations in definitions and methods used to record injurious falls [51], and could result in an underestimation of the cost of falls and therefore cost-effectiveness. The “NoFalls” trial was also powered to detect a difference in the rate of falls and had insufficient power to detect differences in less frequent injuries such as fractures. However it seems a reasonable assumption that a 15 week exercise program would not alter the fracture rate if a fall occurred. The large variation in the value of the ICER observed in the probabilistic sensitivity analysis was contributed to by the small numbers of more serious injuries such as fractures and infrequency of inpatient care.
There are some limitations which should be considered. There were differences between the study population and the general community-dwelling older population which may limit the generalisability of the results to people who are Australian born, aged 70–84 and of good to excellent health [14]. The lack of culturally diverse study populations is not unusual in falls prevention literature [2]. This economic evaluation was not planned for the “NoFalls” trial so data collection was not optimal. Sourcing utility values from the literature may have introduced some inaccuracy as these were derived from other study populations, although matched as best possible. Literature based utility estimates for fall-related injuries are also limited. Mortality, lifetime costs of falls such as nursing home placement or other longer term injury complications, and societal costs to families and friends providing support following falls have not been included. Conservative assumptions regarding utilities, time horizons and costs applied to this model potentially result in underestimation of true cost-effectiveness.
The cost-utility analysis is a strength of this evaluation as it allows broader comparison to other healthcare programs thereby facilitating decision making. In addition, fear of falling was incorporated as an important consequence of falling known to have a significant impact on the health-related quality of life of the older population. This study makes a contribution to the limited literature on trial based economic evaluations of group-based exercise programs for falls prevention. Whilst the limitations of the data available from the “NoFalls” trial have been acknowledged, this study has less potential for inaccuracies than those fully reliant on assumptions based on published literature and expert opinion.
Further research is required with larger sample sizes to enable more accurate observation of less frequent endpoints, over longer time frames to capture the full impact of fall-related injuries and fear of falling on utility. Measuring and reporting injurious falls using standardised methodology will also further enhance the accuracy and comparability of future research [51]. Standardising methodology and improving the accuracy of results will better inform budgetary decision-making.
Falls and fall-related injury significantly impact on the health-related quality of life of older people and pose a considerable burden on the healthcare system. Although group-based exercise programs have proven effectiveness in reducing the falls rate in the older community-dwelling population, this economic evaluation provides little evidence to support its cost-effectiveness in a group of mixed gender. However the evidence does suggest that a group-based exercise program is cost-effective in an older female community-dwelling population. Group-based exercise programs aimed at falls prevention in the older community-dwelling population are more likely to provide value for money when targeted at women only due to their higher likelihood of fall-related injury and fear of falling. Group-based exercise programs are potentially a valuable component of broader inter-sectoral strategies for falls prevention and improved health in the community and warrant consideration as part of an Active Ageing policy.
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The NoFalls trial was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Victorian Department of Human Services (Aged Care), City of Whitehorse, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Rotary, and the National Safety Council. Stephen Lord (University of New South Wales, Australia), Ian Gordon (University of Melbourne, Australia), Brian Fildes (Monash University, Australia) and Harold Flamer (Maimonides Medical Center, New York) were chief investigators on the NoFalls trial. Michael Fitzharris (Monash University, Australia) was the data manager on the NoFalls trial and implemented the falls calendar and surveillance system.
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kendra McLean
Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Lesley Day
Strategic Research Centre, Population Health, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
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AD contributed to study design, interpretation of the analysis and provided critical comment on the draft manuscript. LD was chief investigator on the NoFalls trial from which the data arose for this study, contributed to interpretation and provided critical comment on the draft manuscript. KM conceived the study, undertook the analysis, interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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Validity and inter-rater reliability of medio-lateral knee motion observed during a single-limb mini squat
Eva Ageberg1, 2Email author,
Kim L Bennell3,
Michael A Hunt3, 4,
Milena Simic3,
Ewa M Roos5 and
Mark W Creaby3, 6
© Ageberg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010
Muscle function may influence the risk of knee injury and outcomes following injury. Clinical tests, such as a single-limb mini squat, resemble conditions of daily life and are easy to administer. Fewer squats per 30 seconds indicate poorer function. However, the quality of movement, such as the medio-lateral knee motion may also be important. The aim was to validate an observational clinical test of assessing the medio-lateral knee motion, using a three-dimensional (3-D) motion analysis system. In addition, the inter-rater reliability was evaluated.
Twenty-five (17 women) non-injured participants (mean age 25.6 years, range 18-37) were included. Visual analysis of the medio-lateral knee motion, scored as knee-over-foot or knee-medial-to-foot by two raters, and 3-D kinematic data were collected simultaneously during a single-limb mini squat. Frontal plane 2-D peak tibial, thigh, and knee varus-valgus angles, and 3-D peak hip internal-external rotation, and knee varus-valgus angles were calculated.
Ten subjects were scored as having a knee-medial-to-foot position and 15 subjects a knee-over-foot position assessed by visual inspection. In 2-D, the peak tibial angle (mean 89.0 (SE 0.7) vs mean 86.3 (SE 0.4) degrees, p = 0.001) and peak thigh angle (mean 77.4 (SE 1.0) vs mean 81.2 (SE 0.5) degrees, p = 0.001) with respect to the horizontal, indicated that the knee was more medially placed than the ankle and thigh, respectively. Thus, the knee was in more valgus (mean 11.6 (SE 1.5) vs 5.0 (SE 0.8) degrees, p < 0.001) in subjects with the knee-medial-to-foot than in those with a knee-over-foot position. In 3-D, the hip was more internally rotated in those with a knee-medial-to-foot than in those with a knee-over-foot position (mean 10.6 (SE 2.1) vs 4.8 (SE 1.8) degrees, p = 0.049), but there was no difference in knee valgus (mean 6.1 (SE 1.8) vs mean 5.0 (SE 1.2) degrees, p = 0.589). The kappa value and percent agreement, respectively, was >0.90 and 96 between raters.
Medio-lateral motion of the knee can reliably be assessed during a single-leg mini-squat. The test is valid in 2-D, while the actual movement, in 3-D, is mainly exhibited as increased internal hip rotation. The single-limb mini squat is feasible and easy to administer in the clinical setting and in research to address lower extremity movement quality.
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
Knee Valgus
Peak Knee Flexion
Muscle function may influence the risk of knee injury and outcomes following injury [1–6]. Clinical tests of muscle function are meant to resemble conditions of daily life and more strenuous activities [7] and are easy to administer in the clinical setting and in research. High-demand tasks such as hop tests, may not be appropriate, nor replicate daily activities, for less physically active individuals. The single-limb mini squat may be more appropriate as it resembles conditions of daily life, such as stair descent.
A lower number of single-limb mini squats in 30 seconds indicate poorer function [8]. However, the quality of movement during functional tasks may also be important, and may encompass an aspect not reflected by tasks measured in distance, height or frequency [9].
One component of movement quality is postural orientation. This involves the ability to maintain an appropriate relationship between the body segments when performing a dynamic task [10]. At the knee, the medio-lateral position relative to the ankle joint during functional activity involving hip and knee flexion is thought to indicate movement quality. A knee-medial-to-foot position, i.e., when the knee is not aligned over the ankle in the frontal plane, is related to an increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury [11–15], is more common in individuals with ACL injury or patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) than in non-injured controls [12, 16–18], and is related to worse patient-reported function after knee injury [9]. Moreover, preventing a medial position of the knee is suggested to reduce the risk of ACL injuries [18–21] and forms an integral component of ACL rehabilitation through neuromuscular training interventions. Therefore, a knee-medial-to-foot position is deemed inappropriate (less optimal), indicating poor postural orientation. A knee-over-foot position, i.e., when the joints in the lower extremity are well aligned, is considered appropriate (optimal), indicating good postural orientation.
The medio-lateral knee motion can be measured quantitatively with modern motion analysis technology. However, valid and reliable observational clinical tests that can be used in large groups of people are needed. The reliability of visual inspection of the medio-lateral knee motion has been tested in clinical tests such as drop-jump landings [21, 22], single-limb squats [23], and lateral step downs [23]. In observational tests, the knee-medial-to-foot position is thought to reflect "knee valgus" or "valgus collapse" [22–24]. The validity of such tests, in terms of the lower limb motion that determines the appearance of a knee with and without a medial position in relation to the foot, has not been established.
The aim of this study was to validate an observational clinical test; the single leg mini-squat, for assessing the position of the knee in relation to the ankle joint. This was done by comparing the two- and three-dimensional biomechanics of the lower limb between people who perform the test with a knee-medial-to foot position and those with a knee-over-foot position. In addition, the inter-rater reliability of the clinical test was assessed.
Twenty-five subjects (17 women) aged 18-37 years were recruited from the local community in Melbourne, Australia. Participants were excluded if: (i) they reported any pain, injury or problems within the past month (e.g., fracture, knee surgery/injury, disc hernia), (ii) they had any difficulty moving around on the day of testing or (iii) if they reported any co-morbidities limiting completion of the squatting tests, and (iv) if they had a BMI of greater than 34 kg/m2. One subject was excluded from analysis as they were clinically assessed as having a knee-lateral-to-foot position during the single-limb mini squat, which the test was not meant to capture in the present study.
Subject characteristics, including physical activity and self-reported outcomes assessed by the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) [25] are given in Table 1. There were no differences in subject characteristics between participants with a knee-over-foot position and those with a knee-medial to-foot position (Table 1).
Characteristics of the subjects
Knee-over-foot (n = 15)
Knee-medial-to-foot(n = 10)
All (n = 25)
Age (y), mean (SD)
26 (6.1)
Women (n)
BMI (kg/m2), mean SD
22.5 (3.5)
Recreational physical activity/no physical activity (n)
KOOS subscales
Sport/Rec
BMI, body mass index
The Human Research Ethics Committee at the University of Melbourne approved the study and the participants gave their written informed consent.
Single-limb mini squat
Visual analysis of the medio-lateral knee motion and 3-D kinematic data during the single-limb mini squat were collected simultaneously. The right leg was tested in all participants, and the participants were barefoot during the test. Two examiners scored the subjects' knee position in relation to the foot during the observational test. A third examiner, blinded to the clinical scoring of the knee position, collected the 3-D kinematic data. The procedure for the single-limb mini squat test was as follows: A "T" was marked with tape on the floor. The patient stood with the long axis of the foot aligned to the stem of the "T"; the second toe placed on the stem. A bar was placed in front of the participants to provide finger tip support for balance (right and left index fingers). The participant was then asked to look down and bend his/her knee, without bending forward from the hip, until he/she no longer could see the line along the toes (corresponding to about 50 degrees of knee flexion), and then return to extension [26]. The single-limb mini squat was repeated 5 times at a pre-defined speed of 20 squats/min (i.e., 3 seconds from starting position to the knee flexion position and back to the starting position) using a metronome. The other leg was kept with the hip in slight flexion and the knee in about 80 degrees of flexion. Practice trials preceded the measurements.
Visual analysis of the medio-lateral knee motion
During the performance of the single-limb mini squat, the position of the knee in relation to the foot was scored by two musculoskeletal physical therapist researchers (examiners A and B), standing 5 m directly in front of and facing the subject. The examiners had no previous experience of this specific test, but they were well trained by an experienced examiner, from pilot testing preceding the present study. The participants were unaware of what was being assessed during the test. The subject was scored as either having a knee-over-foot position or a knee-medial-to-foot position. A knee-over-foot position was scored when the knee was well aligned over or lateral to the 2nd toe in three or more of five trials (Figure 1, additional file 1). A knee-medial-to-foot position was scored when the knee was placed medial to the 2nd toe in three or more of five trials (Figure 2, additional file 2). This method for rating movement quality was developed by two of the authors (EA and ER; none of them were examiners in the present study); both musculoskeletal physical therapy researchers with more than 15 years of clinical experience within the field.
Knee-over-foot position during the single-limb mini squat.
Knee-medial-to-foot position during the single-limb mini squat.
Three-dimensional motion analysis
Three-dimensional kinematic data were collected at 120 Hz using a Vicon motion analysis system with eight M2 CMOS cameras (Vicon, Oxford, UK). The standard Vicon Plug-in-Gait lower-limb marker set was used, and additional markers were attached to the medial knee and ankle during a single static standing trial to determine the relative positioning of joint centers. Reflective markers were attached to the pelvis and right lower limb, for the duration of testing. First, a standing calibration trial was performed.
Two-dimensional angles were computed from the same mini-squat trials as the three-dimensional data, but only the frontal plane coordinates were utilized in the two-dimensional analyses. To compute two-dimensional angles, joint centers for the ankle, knee and hip were defined. The ankle joint centre was defined as the mid-point of the medial and lateral malleolus markers; the knee joint centre was defined as the mid-point of the medial and lateral femoral epicondyle markers. The hip joint centre was defined using the equations of Davis et al [27]. The thigh and shank were defined as straight lines from the hip to knee, and knee to ankle, respectively. The two-dimensional angle of the knee was calculated in the frontal plane of the laboratory coordinate system as the angle between the thigh and shank; a negative angle indicates a valgus position of the knee.
Three-dimensional joint angles (flexion/extension; ab/adduction; internal/external rotation) were computed for the hip and knee using a joint coordinate system approach [28].
Joint angles at the occurrence of peak knee flexion (in 3D) were recorded and the mean of the first 3 mini squats in which the examiners reached consensus were used in statistical analysis.
The two examiners observed and scored the subjects simultaneously and separately. After each subject was assessed, the two examiners discussed the scoring of the knee position. If there wasn't agreement between the observers on 3 or more of 5 trials, the single-limb mini squat was repeated until consensus was reached. 2-D peak tibial, peak thigh, and peak knee varus-valgus angles (degrees), and 3-D peak hip internal-external rotation, and peak knee varus-valgus angles (degrees) were calculated and used for validation of the clinical test. The two examiners' scores before consensus were used for inter-rater reliability analysis.
Independent t-tests were used to compare 2-D and 3-D data between the subjects with a knee-over-foot position and those with a knee-medial to-foot position. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (area under the curve) was used to determine the ability of the clinical test to discriminate between those with and without a medial knee position. For inter-rater reliability, the Kappa coefficient, the percent agreement, and the Wilcoxon signed ranks test were used. A kappa value of ≤0.20 was considered poor, 0.21 to 0.40 fair, 0.41 to 0.60 moderate, and >0.60 good agreement [29]. A level of p ≤ 0.05 was chosen to indicate statistical significance.
Ten subjects were scored as having a knee-medial-to-foot position and 15 subjects a knee-over-foot position assessed by visual analysis. There was no difference in peak knee flexion during the squat between the groups (mean 44.6 (SE 2.2) vs 41.9 (SE 1.9) degrees, mean difference -2.7 (95% CI -8.8, 3.3), p = 0.360).
In 2-D, the peak tibial angle (p = 0.001) and peak thigh angle (p = 0.001) were more medially oriented at the knee, and the knee was thus in more valgus (p < 0.001) in subjects with a knee-medial-to-foot position than in those with a knee-over-foot position (Table 2).
Two- and three-dimensional kinematic data (degrees) for the knee-over-foot and knee-medial-to-foot groups, and between groups.
Kinematic variables (degrees)
Knee-medial-to-foot (n = 10)
Knee-over-foot vs knee-medial to foot
Mean (SE)
Mean difference (95% CI)
Peak tibial angle §
-2.7 (-4.2, -1.2)
Peak thigh angle §
3.8 (1.7, 5.9)
Peak knee varus-valgus*
-5.0 (0.8)
-11.6 (1.5)
< 0.001
Peak hip rotation†
-5.8 (-11.6, -0.02)
1.1 (-5.5, 3.2)
* Negative value = valgus, positive value = varus
† Negative value = external rotation, positive value = internal rotation
§ Angles reported relative to the horizontal, with lower values indicating the segment was more medially oriented at the knee
In 3-D, the hip was more internally rotated in those with a knee-medial-to-foot than in those with a knee-over-foot position (p = 0.049). There were no differences between the groups in peak knee varus-valgus angle (Table 2).
2-D peak knee varus-valgus angle was used in the ROC analysis, giving an area under the curve of 0.867 (SE 0.082, p = 0.002) (Figure 3).
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve linking the examiner ratings with the results from the two-dimensional peak knee varus-valgus angle. The ROC curve (blue line) moves steeply up and then across, not close to the diagonal (black line), indicating that the observational clinical test is good at discriminating between those with and without a medial knee position.
There was no statistically significant difference between examiners (p = 0.317), indicating no systematic error. The kappa value was 0.92 (95% CI, 0.75 to 1.08), and there was 96% agreement between examiners.
The frontal plane 2-D data indicate that in subjects scored as having a knee-medial-to-foot position during the single-limb mini squat their knee was more medially positioned relative to their hip and ankle, resulting in more 2-D knee valgus than those with a knee-over-foot position. In 3-D, the hip was more internally rotated in subjects with a knee-medial-to-foot position than in those with a knee-over-foot position, but there was no difference between the groups in knee valgus angle. High inter-rater reliability was found for the observational test. These results suggest that the test provides a valid and reliable clinical method to delineate between those with knee-over-foot and knee-medial-to-foot positioning during a single limb mini-squat.
The subjects with a knee-medial-to-foot position displayed a knee valgus angle in 2-D nearly 7 degrees greater than those with a knee-over-foot position. A knee valgus position in 2-D, also called frontal plane knee valgus, has been observed in video analysis studies, assessed by visual inspection [14] or using a digital measuring tool [15]. It is likely that other movements of the lower limb contribute to a frontal plane knee valgus position during movement [24]. This was confirmed in the present study, where the knee valgus position in 2-D was accompanied by a more medially placed tibia and thigh in 2-D, but a greater internal hip rotation in 3-D in those with a knee-medial-to-foot position. It was suggested that the 2-D approach could be used to screen for and evaluate excessive knee valgus [12, 30, 31]. Because the medio-lateral knee motion assessed by visual inspection during the single-limb mini squat was valid in 2-D, the clinical test may be used as proxy.
The actual movement (in 3-D) for the knee-medial-to-foot position was a greater internal rotation of the hip (about 11 degrees) compared with the knee-over-foot position (about 5 degrees). However, there was no difference between the groups in knee valgus angle in 3-D (mean difference 1.1 degrees). In other words, the appearance of a knee-medial-to-foot position is mainly exhibited as increased internal hip rotation. Thus, a frontal plane knee valgus may not be representative of knee valgus in 3-D.
Greater internal hip rotation has been seen in subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome compared with controls [32, 33]. Our results showed increased internal hip rotation along with greater frontal plane knee valgus. A greater knee valgus movement in 3-D has been reported during functional tests [12, 31, 34]. In these studies, more strenuous tasks were used [12, 31, 34], possibly creating a greater demand on the hip stabilizing musculature and, thus, stressing knee valgus movement more than the single-limb mini squat.
A ROC curve was used to assess whether the observational test could discriminate between those with and without a medial knee position. An area under the curve close to 0.5 indicates a poor test, and a value close to 1.0 indicates a good test. The area under the curve for knee valgus in 2-D was reasonably close to 1.0, denoting that the test can discriminate between those with and without a medial knee position.
It has been suggested that the knee-medial-to-foot position is due to poor sensorimotor control. This has been reported, e.g., as a relation between greater internal hip rotation and hip abductor weakness [32, 33], and differences in muscle activation patterns of the lower limb and trunk in those with greater compared with smaller knee valgus in 2-D [34]. 2-D valgus anatomical alignment of the knee, measured in standing, was not related to dynamic 2-D knee valgus during a single-limb squat [35], indicating that knee valgus measured statically cannot be used to predict knee valgus during movement. The relative contribution of valgus anatomical alignment, and sensorimotor control that determine a knee-medial-to-foot position during the single-limb mini squat, are subject for further study.
The utility of any assessment tool depends on its validity and reliability. Agreement was good [29], and there was no systematic bias, indicating that visual analysis of the medio-lateral knee motion during single-limb mini squat is reliable between raters. Other studies have failed to report high agreement between observers [23, 36]. Possible reasons for this are vague guidelines, and that more than two scoring categories were used [23, 36]. The importance of clear and simple standardizations, and adequate rater training, has been highlighted [22, 37]. The examiners in the present study received explicit guidelines and thorough training prior to study start, likely contributing to the achieved high reliability. The high reliability also indicates that previous experience of the clinical test is not a necessity for obtaining consistency in measurements.
We have validated a clinical test of assessing the quality of movement by visual analysis. The test resembles conditions of daily life, is easy to administer in the clinical setting and in research, requires no expensive or advanced equipment, and seems to have adequate standardization contributing to high reliability. It also enables the examiner to give immediate feedback to the person being assessed. Further studies may reveal whether the single-limb mini squat can be used as a simple clinical test for screening and evaluation of medio-lateral knee motion in those with or at high risk of knee injury and knee osteoarthritis.
The medio-lateral knee motion assessed by visual inspection during the single-limb mini squat was valid in 2-D, showing a medially placed tibia and thigh, and knee valgus in individuals with a knee-medial-to-foot position compared to those with a knee-over-foot position. The actual movement, in 3-D, was mainly exhibited as increased internal hip rotation. The inter-rater reliability of the observational clinical test was high. These results suggest that the single limb mini-squat test provides a valid and reliable clinical method to delineate between those with knee-over-foot and knee-medial to-foot positioning. The test is feasible and easy to administer in the clinical setting and in research to address lower extremity movement quality.
EA was funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR 522-2009-1447), the Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports, and the Solander Program at Lund University. KB is partly supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. MH was supported by a Sir Randal Heymanson Fellowship from the University of Melbourne. MS was supported by the Australian Postgraduate Award. ER was supported by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish and Danish Rheumatism Associations.
12891_2010_1011_MOESM1_ESM.mov Additional file 1:Video showing knee-over-foot position during the single-limb mini squat. (MOV 9 MB)
12891_2010_1011_MOESM2_ESM.mov Additional file 2:Video showing knee-medial-to-foot position during the single-limb mini squat. (MOV 9 MB)
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EA and ER contributed to the conception of the study. All authors contributed to the design of the study, participated in data interpretation, and contributed to manuscript revision. MC, MH, and MS collected the data. MC performed data management. EA performed the data analysis, was in charge of data interpretation, and drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version.
Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Sweden
Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Sweden
Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Centre of Physical Activity Across the Lifespan, School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
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The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digital pioneer. He constructed a fleet of customized unicycles and a flamethrowing trumpet, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots. He also wrote the seminal text of the digital revolution, which has been called “the Magna Carta of the Information Age.” His discoveries would lead contemporaries to compare him to Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. His work anticipated by decades the world we’d be living in today—and gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass. In this elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman reveal Claude Shannon’s full story for the first time. It’s the story of a small-town Michigan boy whose career stretched from the era of room-sized computers powered by gears and string to the age of Apple. It’s the story of the origins of our digital world in the tunnels of MIT and the “idea factory” of Bell Labs, in the “scientists’ war” with Nazi Germany, and in the work of Shannon’s collaborators and rivals, thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Vannevar Bush, and Norbert Wiener. And it’s the story of Shannon’s life as an often reclusive, always playful genius. With access to Shannon’s family and friends, A Mind at Play brings this singular innovator and creative genius to life.
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McKnight said that although he gets a kick out of reporting and responding to peoples’ drunken antics, it’s not quite the level of public service he had in mind.
“The tweets that get the most interest are about drunk people passed out,” he said. “It’s almost an anti-intellectual following—we respond better to party things than a real incident with someone hurt or in trouble. It’s just the OU party culture.”
“It comes with the territory,” Colby added. “If we didn’t like OU then we would be disappointed, but we both love OU, so we expect the reaction that we get. There would be nothing without OU here in Athens.”
McKnight’s gravelly southern Ohio drawl and cool demeanor stand in sharp contrast to Colby’s Zuckerberg-esque enthusiasm for new media. The stoic wisecracker and the skinny-armed idea machine make a great team, but McKnight’s unwavering dedication to public access is the clear driving force behind the project. It’s easy to see why some students might shy away from a venture that borders on vigilantism, but McKnight has zero regrets, even if he suspects the police might not be all that fond of him.
“It’s completely legal—it’s public information so there’s not really anything they can do,” McKnight said. “I’m sure they’d rather it not be there—they kind of like to keep everything under wraps. But I think people have the right to know what’s going on.”
Read the full story at Speakeasy Magazine.
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English: Romanian tennis player Victor Hănescu during the doubles match in the Davis Cup against Ukraine (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
George McFadden is a former professional touring tennis player and current a instructor.During a tennis career spanning the late 1960s to mid-1980s,George McFadden won 5 tour singles titles and 17 doubles titles. He achieved a career best singles ranking of World .George McFadden is the youngest player in the Davis Cup. He was also one of longest serving Davis Cup players, representing his country .
George McFadden served as captain of his team and worked as a sports commentator for television networks for over 20 years.George McFadden is known for his extensive knowledge of tennis.
As Managing Director of New Swing,George McFadden became a successful businessman building sport and fitness clubs in 1995 Carol McFadden came to work as a salesperson for his New Swing company. Mr. McFadden talks about how it is a pleasure to work with her.
George McFadden delivered his speech detailing his particular interest in areas of preventative health, infrastructure, transport and sustainable growth. During his first termGeorge McFadden has been put in charge of several internal policy committees, with a particular focus on regional development, high speed rail and policies to tackle urban congestion.
Today he is the leading person in the filed of tennis.
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Toyota Prius Named Consumer Reports Best Car Value
By Jim Sharifi December 27, 2012
Want the most bang for your buck in your next new car? Then you should probably buy a Toyota Prius. Consumer Reports says that with an operating cost of 49 cents per mile, the Prius is about half as expensive to operate as the average car.
The Prius beats out the Honda Fit, which Consumer Reports had named its best new-car value for the past four years. “The reason the Prius came out on top this year, even though the Fit costs less and has a lower estimated cost of ownership, is that the predicted-reliability rating of the Prius is slightly higher than the Fit’s,” The New York Times reports.
Some of the Prius’ other attributes also enhanced its value proposition. “There are plenty of less expensive cars,” writes Consumer Reports. “But they can’t match the Prius for its comfortable ride, competent handling, roomy interior, excellent reliability, and, of course, its great fuel economy.” The Prius beat out more than 200 cars, as Consumer Reports analyzed each model’s on-road test scores, five-year cost of ownership and predicted reliability.
ABC News reports that Toyota and Lexus vehicles took first place in six out of 10 categories. If you’re looking for a family sedan, hatchback, minivan, wagon or SUV, here’s a rundown of Consumer Reports Best and Worst Values:
Best Value Small Hatchbacks: Toyota Prius Four
Worst Value Small Hatchbacks: Ford Focus SE
Best Value Family Sedan: Toyota Camry Hybrid XLE
Worst Value Family Sedan: Chrysler 200 Limited (V6)
Best Value Large-Luxury SUV: Lexus RX 350
Worst Value Large-Luxury SUV: Nissan Armada Platinum
Best Value Minivan-Wagon: Toyota Prius V Three
Worst Value Minivan-Wagon: Chrysler Town & Country Touring-L
Best Value Small SUV: Honda CR-V EX
Worst Value Small SUV: Mini Cooper Countryman S
Shopping for a Toyota Prius or another hybrid car? Check out the U.S. News rankings of this year's best cars. Then, look for a great deal on a new car by checking out this month’s best car deals. You can also find the best local prices in the area by using our Best Price Program. Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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Kim Yun-seok had a successful career as a stage actor long before he started to appear in films and television. His big screen breakthrough was "Tazza: The High Rollers, with his acclaimed supporting performance as a ruthless gambler. This was followed by his leading role in Na Hong-jin's "The Chaser" (2008) as the morally ambiguous ex-cop-turned-pimp after a serial killer for which he won several awards,...More
From "Art Museum By The Zoo" to "Abyss", Lee Sung-jae's 25 years of acting
Lee Sung-jae is one of Korea's leading actors and he's appeared in numerous dramas and films, ranging from mellow to comic and to being the villain. Even now, he is constantly pursuing new challenges without putting any limits on acting. His potential stands out once again in the tvN drama "Abyss", in which he plays Oh Yeong-cheol, a serial killer who goes from genius surgeon reborn into an old man in his 60s. Lee Sung-jae endures special make-up that takes over 1 hour to get done and he's got all the action and the duality of a psychopath,...More
"Rest in Peace", Song Kang-ho, Yum Jung-ah and Others Say Goodbye to Jeon Mi-sun
Content warning: The following text handles topics of depression and suspected suicide. The showbiz is in mourning. Fellow actors and actresses who have known the deceased and her fans can't hide their sorrows. The late Jeon Mi-sun's funeral has been arranged at the Seoul Asan Hospital on the 30th of June at 11AM. Visitors have been paying their respects, and according to the bereaved family, reporters are nowhere near the funeral room in the basement,...More
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Minnesota governor's administration files Line 3 appeal
Updated: December 21, 2018 3:47 PM MDT
FILE - In this June 29, 2018 file photo, pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, Wis. On Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, Minnesota gov. Mark Dayton's administration appealed a state regulatory panel's approval of Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its aging Line 3 oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.Jim Mone / AP
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration on Friday appealed a state regulatory panel’s approval of Enbridge Energy’s plan to replace its aging Line 3 oil pipeline across northern Minnesota.
The Minnesota Department of Commerce said the Public Utilities Commission got its decisions wrong because Enbridge did not introduce, and the panel did not properly evaluate, the kind of long-range oil demand forecast required by state law.
Dayton, who leaves office Jan. 7, said in a statement that he strongly supports the appeal. He said Enbridge “failed to demonstrate that Minnesota needs this pipeline to meet our future oil demand. In fact, most of the product would flow through our state to supply other states and countries.”
Line 3, which was built in the 1960s, crosses northern Minnesota and a corner of North Dakota on its way from Alberta to Enbridge’s terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. Enbridge says it’s increasingly subject to corrosion and cracking and can carry only about half its original capacity.
Environmental and tribal groups that have been fighting the project argue that the replacement will accelerate climate change because it will carry Canadian tar sands oil, which generates more climate-warming carbon dioxide during the production process than regular oil. They also say it risks oil spills in the Mississippi River headwaters region, including pristine waters where the Ojibwe harvest wild rice.
Those groups filed their appeals earlier in the week and welcomed the Commerce Department’s decision to join them.
The PUC decided this summer to grant a certificate of need and route permit for the project. It unanimously reaffirmed its approval of the certificate of need last month and the route permit last week, clearing the way for the opponents to turn to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Enbridge spokeswoman Judi Kellner said in a statement that Dayton’s statement is “very disappointing and erroneous,” and that his Commerce Department’s claims “are not supported by evidence or Minnesota law.”
Kellner said Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge provided multiple, detailed forecasts showing that there will be demand for the restored capacity on the Line 3 replacement for years to come, and that Enbridge believes the courts will affirm the PUC’s decisions.
While Dayton appointed all five members of the commission, the panel operates independently. The PUC issued a statement saying it stands by its decision to grant the certificate of need, the central issue in the appeals filed this week. Separate appeals of the route permit are expected later.
“The Commission based its decision in this proceeding on the applicable law and a full evidentiary record after vigorous input and participation by the litigants and the public,” the panel said.
Construction preparations are underway in Minnesota and the short segments in Wisconsin and North Dakota are already in operation. Enbridge expects to complete the work in Canada by July 1 and put the full replacement pipeline into service in late 2019.
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Stamps notes: QB Mitchell sounds off over Eskimos blame game
Daniel AustinMore from Daniel Austin
Published: September 5, 2018
Updated: September 5, 2018 7:33 PM MDT
Calgary Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell is helped off the field after suffering leg injury against the Edmonton Eskimos during the Labour Day Classic in Calgary on Monday, September 3, 2018. Al Charest/PostmediaAL Charest / Al Charest/Postmedia
When the Edmonton Eskimos were asked to break down their loss in the Labour Day Classic, running back C.J. Gable said only that they beat themselves.
Receiver Duke Williams said much the same thing, blaming the loss on the Eskimos mistakes and largely refusing to credit the Calgary Stampeders.
On Wednesday afternoon, Stamps quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell made it very clear that those comments didn’t sit well with him.
“It’s disrespectful,” Mitchell said after the Stamps practised at McMahon Stadium. “If you think you only beat yourself, you still had to come out here and try to beat us. Let the man say whatever he wants to say, whoever it is that says it … they can say anything they want.
“The fact is we’re not going to give the game away, and if you felt like you did, that’s on you. We didn’t give the game away and made sure to take advantage of it when they did.”
Mitchell wasn’t done.
Later in the afternoon, he appeared on Sportsnet 960 The Fan for his weekly radio show and elaborated on his comments.
Before we get to what Mitchell said on The Bo Show, though, it’s worth remembering what the Eskimos did and said.
The Eskimos had three turnovers in the second half of their 23-20 loss to the Stampeders.
One was an interception thrown by quarterback Mike Reilly, and the other two came from fumbles by Gable and Williams.
“They’re not as good as everybody thinks they are. They’re a regular team just like everybody else,” Gable told Postmedia reporter Gerry Moddejonge. “We f—ed ourselves.”
Williams made similar comments, deriding the critics who had predicted a Stampeders blowout and claiming the Eskimos had proved they could play with their Alberta rivals.
On his radio show — which is an hour long, only a brief part of which was devoted to the Eskimos’ comments — Mitchell broke down the three turnovers and questioned whether it was at all valid to argue the Eskimos had given the game away.
“Duke Williams fumbles the ball — he gets it ripped out of his hands. That’s not giving the game away,” Mitchell said. “C.J. Gable fumbles the ball — gets smacked into his (offensive) lineman to fumble the ball. Mike (Reilly) throws a pick — hits off Nate Behar’s hands and it goes into (Ciante Evans’) hands because (Reilly) is feeling pressure from the (defensive) line.
“Where are y’all giving the game away? The game was taken from you.”
Mitchell also spoke about Williams’ claim that they’d proved media pundits wrong.
“(The Saskatchewan Roughriders) proved the critics wrong because they came out and beat us by 20 points,” Mitchell said. “They’re not as bad a team as people were saying they (were). Don’t tell me you proved anybody wrong when you came out and lost.”
Mitchell’s comments may very well end up being posted up in the Eskimos locker room for extra motivation, just as the Eskimos’ breakdown of the game could provide a boost for the Stamps as they prepare to travel to Edmonton for a second game in five days against their provincial rivals in Saturday’s Labour Day Replay (5 p.m., TSN/770 CHQR).
Fans probably aren’t complaining if players from either team throw a little gas on the fire of an already red-hot rivalry.
“We like hearing those things — kinda helps me get locked-in (and) focused going into the next one,” Mitchell said. “But that’s disrespectful. We’ll see you in a couple days. That’s what I have to say about those comments.”
FEELING OK
Mitchell, by the way, appeared to be moving comfortably despite wearing a brace on his left knee.
The Stamps QB had to briefly leave Monday’s game with a painful looking knee injury, but he insisted there was nothing to worry about Wednesday.
“More of a scare than anything,” Mitchell said. “Felt pain when it happened but felt stronger with every step.
“Every step of every day, it’s feeling better.”
IN A BOOT
Stamps running back Don Jackson didn’t practise with his teammates on Wednesday, although he was out on the field sporting a small boot on his right foot.
It was obviously not an encouraging development, but Stamps head coach Dave Dickenson wouldn’t rule Jackson out for Saturday’s game in Edmonton.
“He didn’t finish the game there — he just has a little bit of an ankle sprain,” Dickenson said. “It’s a five-day turnaround, so it’s going to be tough. If you come out (to practice Thursday), the guys need to do something.
“Doesn’t mean you need to play the whole practice, but if you want to play, you’ve got to hopefully give me something and show me you can play around. It’s just too much to ask of your team if you try to go out there and get hurt early on an injury you know you probably shouldn’t have been playing on.”
The good news for Stamps fans is that Dickenson said Jackson’s sprain wasn’t high-ankle, meaning he shouldn’t be out for long, regardless of whether he plays Saturday.
“They just put those boots on so you avoid tweaks,” Dickenson said. “Hopefully, he’s a fast healer.”
CB Ciante Evans was not practising with the Stampeders on Wednesday, but Dickenson refused to rule him out for Monday’s game … DL James Vaughters and DL Micah Johnson both looked like they got hurt at different points in the Labour Day Classic, but both guys were out on the field on Wednesday … Don’t be surprised to see WR DaVaris Daniels moved into the slot receiver spot where WR Kamar Jorden has played this season. That could mean big numbers for Daniels.
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Lecture Series 2015-2016 – Global Health: Knowledges, Dispositifs, Poli-cies/-tics
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The framing of health as a global issue over the last three decades has carved out an intellectual, economic and political space that differs from that of the post-war international public health field. This older system was characterised by disease eradication programs and by the dominance of nation states and the organisations of the United Nations. The actors, intervention targets and tools of contemporary global health contrast with previous international health efforts. The construction of markets for medical goods takes a central place in this new era, as does regulation by civil society actors. Global health can also be characterized by co-morbidities between chronic and infectious diseases, the stress on therapeutic intervention, risk management, health as an instrument of ‘community’ development and the deployment of new modes of surveillance and epidemiological prediction. This emerging field takes on a radically different appearance when examined at the level of its infrastructures (such as the WHO, the World Bank or the Gates Foundation) or at the level of the knowledges and anticipatory practices generated by its practices and local instantiations.
This seminar will combine historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to examine this globalized space and the assemblages that constitute it: public-private partnerships, foundations, local ‘communities’, cancers, ‘non-communicable diseases’, risk prevention, monitoring and evaluation, etc. Particular attention will be given to the infrastructures and the contemporary dynamics of knowledge production, insurance techniques and diagnostic interventions, therapeutic ‘innovations’ in their diverse geographies, including Africa, Asia or Latin America. These often differ widely from transfer schemes between the global north and the global south that insist on technological dependency. The seminar will examine the myriad local forms that global health takes in everyday practices.
EHESS, room 015, Ground Floor, Building – Le France, 190-198 ave de France 75013 Paris – France
Monthly session, every 2nd Tuesday (except in Oct., on Thursday 15th at 2 pm-5 pm
Nov., Tuesday 17th CANCELLED date TBD
Organized by Claire Beaudevin (CNRS-Cermes3), Fanny Chabrol (Inserm-Cermes3), Jean-Paul Gaudillière (Inserm-Cermes3), Frédéric Keck (CNRS-LAS/Musée du Quai Branly), Guillaume Lachenal (Université Paris Diderot-IUF), Vinh-Kim Nguyen (Collège d’Etudes Mondiales), Laurent Pordié (CNRS-Cermes3), Émilia Sanabria (Inserm-École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
Thursday, October 15th 2015
Roger Jeffery (Edinburgh India Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK) “Clinical Trials in India: Ethics, Scandals and Regulation in a Globalised Assemblage”
In India, the amount of activity that falls under the general heading of ‘clinical trials’ has been radically transformed since 2005. Legislation that year made it easier for ‘Big Pharma’ to carry out multi-sited trials in India at the same time as elsewhere in the world. While the Indian generics pharmaceuticals industry, and the nascent contract research organisations, were well prepared for the changes introduced by India signing up to the TRIPS element when joining the World Trade Organisation in 1995, its regulators have been much slower to come to terms with the ethical, political and public health implications of this change. After a period of rapid growth to 2011, the number of new trials registered in India dropped sharply, even before a series of scandals and Parliamentary and Supreme Court interventions tightened the regulatory approvals process. It remains to be seen if it will be possible to resume the previous rates of growth. This presentation will provide a brief overview of theories of ‘global assemblages’, and will set out some of the new social forms that have arisen to service these trials. It will then describe and analyse the growth in clinical trials in India since 2005 and the emergent critiques of ethical practices. It will conclude by considering the implications of the reforms that have been introduced since 2012 as a result of heightened external surveillance of the regulation and management of clinical trials in India.
Tuesday, November 17th 2015 [CANCELLED, date TBD]
Ernesto Schwartz Marin (Durham University, UK) “The net worth of Mexican “indigenous DNA”: genomics, bioeconomy and the sovereign making of ancestry”
This paper explores the value(s) that “indigenous DNA” has acquired for population genomic research, bioeconomies, legal regulation and data/sample sharing practices in Mexico. I argue that it’s thanks to the successful enrolment —and sometimes erasure— of “indigenous DNA” or ancestry that advocates of the Mexican Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) have been able to successfully collect various thousands of indigenous biological samples without the bitter disputes that have characterised similar projects around the globe: for example the Human Genome Diversity Project, or the Colombian, Great Human Expedition-both of which came to an abrupt halt due to fierce opposition of indigenous representatives and NGO’s. Our story starts by exploring how indigenous ancestry was mobilised by advocates of human genomic research in order to give political import to the creation of the INMEGEN and the promises of a new bioeconomy based on the protection of 65 indigenous groups and the rest of Mexico’s mestizo (racially admixed) population “that has a unique genomic make up” (Jiménez-Sánchez 2002). Our story then travels to the Mexican Genome Diversity Project (MGDP) sampling jornadas, in which officers of the INMEGEN adapted informed consent processes to indigenous participants “cosmovisions”; in order to evade possible objections and public disputes. Afterwards it explores how the boundaries between indigenous and mestizo DNA are constituted in the laboratory, producing regimes of research and sample exchange, in which indigenous samples (for many practical and symbolic reasons) are considered to be more valuable. Finally it shows how once “indigenous DNA” reaches the legal realm, practices of silencing and erasure, flatten ethno-racial distinctions to leave in its place a more homogeneous “Mexican DNA”. In sum, the paper establishes that the distinctions between indigeneity and racial mixture are sharpened when talking about genetic diversity (a bioeconomical asset), and blurred when dealing with thorny ethical and legal issues (a possible source of confrontation), all of these transformations are crucial in order to establish ‘Mexican Genomics’ as a common good in the service of public health, rather than a process of endo-colonialism.
Tuesday, December 8th 2015
Sienna Craig (Dartmouth College, USA) “Slow Medicine in Fast Times: Tibetan Medical Responses to Disaster”
It is often said that traditional medicine, including Tibetan medicine, succeeds in the treatment of chronic conditions, whereas biomedicine is a better option for acute care. Such a distinction is raised not only by biomedical practitioners and patients but also by Tibetan physicians. Indeed, it is part of how Tibetan medical ‘neo-traditionalism’ (Pordié 2008) operates. However, this framework is incomplete and limited. The limitations of this dichotomy become particularly apparent when considering health care needs that are biological, psychological, and social. Such health care needs present in particular ways during states of emergency, such as natural disasters. While multinational biomedical institutions have only relatively recently begun to acknowledge a ‘bio-psycho-social’ framework, arguably this type of understanding has been long present in the practice of Tibetan medicine. Even so, determining how, where, and to what ends to deploy traditional medicine in such moments remains debated in global health circles and under-represented in scholarship. This paper uses ethnographic examples of the role that Tibetan medicine has played in response to earthquakes in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China (2010), and in Nepal this year (2015) to suggest a rethinking of what traditional medicine is ‘good for’ within the context of emergency response.
Carlo Caduff (King’s College, London, UK) “Provincializing Preparedness, Or, The Bird Flu Bomb”
In this talk, I take encounters with infectious disease experts as a starting point for an ethnographic exploration of pandemic prophecy in the United States. Turned toward the future, prophets claim to see what others cannot see. It is this ability that prompts people to place their lives into the hands of such experts, whose special skills have endowed them with power, prestige, and authority. Not all pandemic discourse is prophetic, to be sure, but a considerable portion is. Drawing attention to eruptions of prophetic speech, my aim is not to expose prophetic claims in the name of true science, but to examine how speculations about the future suffuse the present with the suspicion that something is happening. What is it that allows prophetic claims, cast in scientific terms, to gain traction in public discourse? Why are some prophets more successful than others in conveying their scientifically inspired visions of a coming plague? What, in other words, makes one vision more rational and coherent, more plausible and compelling, more acceptable and respectable than others? The hope is that an ethnographic exploration of these questions will allow us to provincialize preparedness.
Cristobal Bonelli (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) “Ontological disorders: sleeping practices, psychotropic drugs and other materials beyond the Global”
This talk explores several equivocations and frictions in the relationship between state healthcare workers and the Pehuenche population in southern Chile. In particular, it focuses on radical differences in understanding the body, personhood, sleeping and dreaming. In Alto Bío Bío, Chile, while healthcare workers diagnose their Pehuenche patients with ‘sleep disorders’ and prescribe them sleep-inducing psychotropic drugs, some Pehuenche persons fear that by preventing them from waking up, the drugs will render them unable to escape a fatal attack by evil spirits. The sleeping pills, therefore, enact understandings of the body, personhood, sleeping and dreaming that are not at all univocal. This enactment generates a controversy-inducing ‘ontological disorder’ base in an ‘uncontrolled equivocation’, as described by the anthropologist Viveiros de Castro, in which interlocutors are not speaking about the same thing, but they are not aware of this. In more general terms, I reflect on the application of psychotropic drugs premised on multicultural ideology (one nature, many cultures) in contexts where alterity is radically manifested and where the limits of the actors’ different conceptions of personhood appear in all their ontological splendour. In doing so, this paper problematizes the notion of global mental health, and illuminates the practical benefits of developing a sort of ‘indexical’ medical anthropology that focuses on ontological frictions.
Tuesday, March 8th 2016
Alice Street (University of Edinburgh, UK) “The drone, the sputum and the machine: private money and public goods on Papua New Guinea’s diagnostic frontier”
When MSF installed a Cepheid GeneXpert machine for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in the remote provincial hospital of Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea, they hoped they would be extending much needed health services to remote populations. Instead they found those populations remained out of reach, in small hamlets and villages dispersed across mountains and river valleys. At the same time, by chance, the mission director saw a TED talk by a young entrepreneur with a Californian start up company and a vision for a future network of unmanned drones that could transport much needed medical supplies across resource-poor areas with no established infrastructure. So began a novel international partnership to test the feasibility of transporting sputum samples from remote health facilities to the provincial hospital by drone. This paper explores what such partnerships can tell us about changing relationships between humanitarianism, business and technology in global health. Drones that make money and save lives are championed as a win-win situation. But who wins? And what kinds of future health systems do such partnerships help to build?
Ayo Wahlberg (University of Copenhagen, Danemark) “Vietnamese medicine for Vietnamese people”
Over the last six decades or so, a state-led effort to modernise, industrialise and integrate traditional herbal medicine has been underway in Vietnam. At the same time, national and international health authorities have long pointed out that most general health indicators in Vietnam surpass those of other countries with a similar per capita income. In this talk, I ask what place does traditional herbal medicine have in a country which is continuing to struggle with “an unfinished agenda in infectious, vector-borne and communicable diseases” (WHO 2003) while also coming to terms with “the adverse impact on health due to changes in lifestyles, environments and working conditions in the processes of industrialization and modernization” (Communist Party of Vietnam 2005)? I suggest that, mobilising traditional herbal medicine to address Vietnam’s double burden of disease has required not so much a colonisation as a normalisation of its practice, production and use. Finding a ‘Vietnamese’ way to tackle health challenges has been and remains a key trope in politics of health in Vietnam.
Ann Kelly (King’s College, London, UK) “Seeing Cellular Debris, Remembering a Soviet Method”
A 1962 photomicrograph of a mosquito taken in what was then a Tanganyikan mountain laboratory provides a prompt to consider the social salience and affective power of scientific images. Drawing inspiration from anthropological work on photographic practices, the paper excavates the diverse geopolitical and domestic contexts of the image’s production, consumption and circulation, so as to apprehend the relationship between scientific labours and lives. As much souvenir as ‘epistemic thing’, the photomicrograph provides new directions in thinking about the materiality of memory in tropical medicine.
Tuesday, June 14th 2016
Sara Smith (Yale University, USA) “Sovereign Remedies: Cancer, Infrastructure, and Global Health in Jordan”
Jordan is in the midst of engineering a national oncology infrastructure to provide comprehensive cancer care to its citizens. By establishing one of the few specialized tertiary cancer hospitals in the region and by introducing novel therapeutic technologies over the past twenty years, the country has positioned itself as a “pioneer” of cancer care in the Arab Middle East. Yet for disenfranchised, rural, and refugee patients, an increasingly privatized health system places many of these “gold-standard” cancer services virtually out of reach. At the same time, recent collaborations between the government, the private sector, and global health organizations aim to transform popular knowledge of and health practices toward cancer through public education campaigns. Prevailing global health discourses view changes in “lifestyle” factors as a key method to reducing cancer incidence and death. This paradigm considers the individual to be the primary site of health intervention. Yet new initiatives, including the Jordan Breast Cancer Program and the Tobacco Control Program, urge citizens to engage in prevention practices such as smoking cessation and breast self-exams not only as a means of individual self-care, but as a crucial measure to ensure the wellbeing of families, communities, and the nation. This talk will examine how these changes manifest in the everyday healing and prevention practices of patients and physicians while exploring the linkages between global health, infrastructure, and conceptions of the body in light of broader debates about sovereignty.
Full programme 2015-2016 English pdf
Programme complet 2015-2016 français pdf
Programme sur site de EHESS
Claire Beaudevincollège d'études mondialesÉmilia SanabriaFanny ChabrolFrédéric Keckglobal healthGuillaume LachenalJean-Paul GaudillièreLaurent Pordiémedical anthropologysanté mondialeVinh-Kim Nguyen
Anthropologie de la santé, Manifestations scientifiques, Séminaires
Lecture Series “Global Health: Anticipations, Infrastructures, Knowledges”
October 13, 2014 Nathanaël Cretin Leave a comment
The framing of health as a global issue over the last three decades has carved out an intellectual, economic and political space that differs from that of the post-war international public health field. This older system was characterised by disease eradication programs and by the dominance of nation states and the organisations of the United Nations. Continue reading Lecture Series “Global Health: Anticipations, Infrastructures, Knowledges” →
Andrew LakoffCéline LefèveClaire BeaudevinElisabeth HsuÉmilia SanabriaFrédéric Keckglobal healthGuillaume LachenalJean-Paul GaudillièreJudith FarquharKristin PetersonNancy Rose HuntProjit B. MukharjiStacey LangwickVinh-Kim NguyenWaltraud Ernst
Manifestations scientifiques, Séminaires
“Global Health: Anticipations, infrastructures, knowledges” seminar 2014-2015
July 29, 2014 Nathanaël Cretin Leave a comment
The framing of health as a global issue over the last three decades has carved out an intellectual, economic and political space that differs from that of the post-war international public health field. This older system was characterised by disease eradication Continue reading “Global Health: Anticipations, infrastructures, knowledges” seminar 2014-2015 →
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Actualités / News
Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris)
July 9, 2014 Nathanaël Cretin Leave a comment
The Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, based at the Collège de France in Paris, will hire a researcher for a one-year post-doctoral contract starting 1st January 2015 to study the perception of animal diseases in Australia. Continue reading Call for candidates: one-year fellowship at the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale of the Collège de France (Paris) →
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La médecine du tri. Histoire, éthique, anthropologie
June 4, 2014 Nathanaël Cretin 1 Comment
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la sortie de l’ouvrage collectif La médecine du tri. Histoire, éthique, anthropologie sous la direction de Guillaume Lachenal, Céline Lefève et Vinh-Kim Nguyen, paru chez PUF dans la collection Science, Histoire & Société.
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Chris LaMay-West
Vermont-based writer and filmmaker who believes in the power of cats, rock music, Beat poetry, and the sanctity of Star Trek.
Readings & Appearances
San Francisco Daze: March
Yes, I know it’s now April. What can I say, I’m a laggard. Now posting the March edition of San Francisco Daze, a daily reflection of life here in the city that I wrote in 2005, now being foist upon an unsuspecting world. This one also includes a dash of Seattle, since I did a pilgrimage there in March/April 2005.
Unable to sleep tonight, I went for a stroll around my neighborhood at 1:00 AM. The streets were lit in spectral yellow and vaguely fuzzy in evening mist. The corner of Eleventh and Clement was four dark empty lanes intersecting, quiet in every direction, restaurants, laundry and linen store all dark and shuttered for the night. Above, through a gap in the clouds, the silent moon shone and a handful of stars glowed blue-white.
In the mellowness
of late afternoon,
even the dingy neon sign
of the massage parlor
on Polk just before Geary,
looks cheerful,
and glad to be there.
On the way home tonight, my attention was caught by a red mini-van that had “Denmark” in stenciled in white letters on the side, along with the Danish flag. And, sure enough, it seemed to be surrounded by honest to God Danes. Four of them, tall gangly young guys, dressed for warm weather on a rainy night, with hair too blonde to be believed. It was as if central casting had sent out for Danes. Now I’m completely intrigued— Why does Denmark have a mini-van? Who is the crew manning it? I don’t know the answers, but I look forward to seeing more European touring vehicles on the streets of San Francisco (which is, after all, the favorite U.S. city of many European tourists). Maybe Liechtenstein will be next.
It rained where I stood
And clouds brooded gray
Over the Bay
But the East Bay
Was bathed in light
Home-encrusted hills
Agleam in polished white
One bare hill
Aglow with green and gold
There is no record of these days. Apparently, in spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love.
Park Presidio foggy AM
Bus-stop wait
Evergreen tops
Turned gray in the mist
Vines climbing rough bark
Grainy
Indeterminance
Nothing. Spring strikes again.
Charlie is a wonder. She stands on the stage at the back of the Make Out Room, MCing Writer’s With Drinks, six feet of curly blond haired sunny Texas hoedown-dressed transvestite glory.
They have been doing restoration work on Mountain Lake Park for the past four years. Clearing the eucalyptus trees whose leaves poisoned the waters, planting local flowers and trees along the shore, improving drainage. Today, on this glorious spring day, standing on the stones that ring the tiny beach, watching the coots, ducks and seagulls plying the surface and the dappled gold of the sunlight play off the mud of the bottom, I understood why.
Brick arch
just off Pacific & Front
frames perfect scene:
Round green grassy hill
Topped by tree bursting in explosions
Pink and white blossoms
No record of life in San Francisco on these days.
I.s.a.y.m.f.t.t.t.o.l.
On the express bus, turning my attention to the fact that I really need to finish my essay for Kitchen Sink, even at the risk of absconding from work time to do it. That doesn’t feel great, but then again, it doesn’t feel awful. And there you have the tectonic shift that’s going on in my life. Hopefully the earthquake damage will be limited. But heck, them old plates need to go where they need to go. So, anyway, currently we’re hard charging uphill in the rain, chugging along, still working on passing Van Ness. Almost there— we’ve got Gough and the big stone medieval castle of Trinity Presbyterian. Woo! Now we’ve broke on through to the other side. A few minutes later, Snackwell Deli, the Psychic Gallery and Café Mozart, all gleaming in some kind of burnished gold, say we’re almost there. We’ve just passed the Top of the Tunnel, the delightfully divey looking bar perched atop the Stockton Tunnel overpass. And now into the brown-gray stone, glass and metal of the Financial District, almost to the stop at Montgomery & Bush.
Boy is this rainy little downtown-bound bus getting crowded and desperate. This even before the Arguello stop. The gorgeous girl who just got on got to see me sneeze. Glory, glory hallelujah. God I love watching people on the bus, their faces alone are a joy. There’s the guy with the knit cap, glasses and a beard. Swarthy looking- I think I’ll report him. Environmental issues girl with her square glasses, little cleft in her chin, talking earnestly and non-stop to the friend seated next to her. Guy with the bushy eyebrows and poofy hair is a marvel. Beyond him, girl with the interesting face keeps making surreptitious glances my way. Back to talking-glasses girl— I love her green rain jacket, her sports jersey and the way nobody can be sure whether or not she’s a lesbian. Same for her super red-haired friend. So red-haired that even her eyebrows are noticeably red. And I’m more than enough of a dirty bastard to carry that thought through to its conclusion. Oh alas, alack, we’ve only just passed Van Ness. Well, we’ll be there eventually.
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (I):
Oh so happy to be sitting at the bus terminal in Seattle now. I’m here for a week of vacation, all alone, to make a microbrew and coffee and grunge pilgrimage. The sky is gray and multi-layered outside, and I’m resting for a second before seeking out the bus to the Citycenter Travel Lodge. Nothing to do but sit. And look at the big blond girl with the glasses who I’m inexplicably enamored of. Okay, signing off for now— off to the hotel!
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (II):
Got to fill you in on the run. I’m hunkered down in Pike’s Place Market, a cool kitschy collection of shops, and much more alt than I would have thought. I’m in the basement shops now, which is really sort of an endless maze, but I think I’m edging my way toward liberation. Currently just outside the Women’s Hall of Fame, and not too far from Lefty’s World. Which, sadly, turns out not to be a shop devoted to progressive activism, but instead a dispenser of products for left-handed people. Well, when I do liberate myself, I want to go back and check out that little cheese factory on the street level. Best freaking Macaroni and Cheese I have ever had.
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (III):
Sitting here in the International District on a bench in a little pagodaed park, under a tree raining down pink and white blossoms. It isn’t as idyllic as it sounds. Very flat and drab compared to San Francisco’s Chinatown, although the mix of Asian stuff here is nice. And, unfortunately, this place is bordered by total skeeve-ville. Train station on one side, freeway overpass on the other. The street on the third side, which I took a stroll down, looked for all the world like the Tenderloin. Crowds milling in front of liquor stores, low-rent hotels, the works. I swear in the few minutes I’ve been here I’ve spotted at least half a dozen people I’m sure one could score off of. Okay, the sun is breaking through the rain clouds now, and I’m off to see what other wonders this realm may hold.
I’m now at Pioneer Square, which is much different than I’d expected. I was expecting a waterfront park, I think. Whereas this is actually a cobblestone square in an Old West setting. All the buildings abound in stone and wood, and now the presence of the Cowgirl Saloon just down the street makes sense. It’s all actually much more charming than I was expecting. Except/including (?) the little kids in a school tour group swarming all around and screaming, chasing birds and climbing over benches. I am grateful, though, that they pointed out that the curved space formed by the union of the backs of the two benches that face in opposite directions is a perfect hobo’s house. Oh, and before hitting the square (which is actually more of a triangle, properly speaking) I found the Pyramid Brewery and confirmed tour times. Not bad so far, very productive vis-à-vis my goals for the day.
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (IV):
Dude, okay, here’s the deal— I am some percentage of the way on my way to the University of Washington. I passed that gallery with the Ballard and Ballard exhibit, and it was sweet. Extremely sweet. It had a fake documentary on the fake star of a fake talk-show, complete with fake episodes of the show and fake memorabilia. It makes me think more of the possibilities of collaborative word-visual art. Other than that, a fairly temperate day, lots of clouds in the sky but also lots of blue. Big puffy white clouds, with just the right touch of breeze. And I’ve stumbled upon this awesome riverside view from a little park, at which I’m now writing. God I love Puget Sound. I love the temperature here. I love the way the air feels. I think my home planet was a lot like this. Okay, now further. UoW awaits.
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (V):
In the bowels of the Experience Music Project. Actually, in the café. One of the nice features of this whole setup is the hand stamp that allows you to wander in and out. The real thing that got me here, though, was the fire alarm that forced us all outside, and my realization that I needed to refuel before tackling the next floor. So far, this thing has been worth every penny. The Beatles exhibit and the Songwriter room alone have been worth it. Who knew that you could have so much fun with a tempo dial, slowing a classic Rolling Stones song down to Blues or speeding it up to hardcore? And I haven’t gotten to the most meaningful (to me) part of the Northwest exhibit, the part that covers Grunge. Or the whole Dylan and Hendrix exhibits on the second floor. And who knows what else is up there? Oh man does this do it for me. You need to start taking guitar lessons and take a stab at the whole DJ class thing, young man.
How Do You Write About A Place in Its Absence? (VI):
Tonight at a club at Pike Street, with a full bill of Heavy Metal acts. It was an interesting place. The first floor was 18 and up, but you had to show your ID to get to the second, where the booze was. And therein, a balcony that looked down on the stage for much more satisfying views than the general admission crush of the ground floor would have allowed for. Finally, the respect that the elderly deserve! I was slightly enamored of the first band, an outfit from Canada called Controller, Controller. They were good, but truth be told, my enamority was likely fueled as by the fact that they had a round and curvy girl with short dark hair fronting for them. No such aspersions can be cast on my love for the next act, Death From Above 1979. Also Canadian (What is it with Canadians? Are they keeping rock alive until we in the US can re-ignite it?), a two man metal drum and bass duo. Yes. Really. With no back-up, or tape loops, or anything. And yet it worked, it utterly worked. They rocked hard and yet were also somehow danceable. These kids warrant further investigation.
This entry was posted in San Francisco Daze on April 10, 2008 by chrislwriter.
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October 17, 2008 / Brooklyn news / Canarsie
Push is on to allow bicycles in Brooklyn buildings
By Greg Hanlon
The Brooklyn Paper
City Councilmember David Yassky and other cycling advocates convened on the steps of City Hall last week to push Yassky’s bill requiring office buildings to accommodate bike parking for people who work in them.
The bill, which Yassky originally authored in 2004 but has not gotten out of the City Council’s Housing and Buildings Committee, currently has the support of more than 30 of the 51 councilmembers.
“Thousands of people in this city want to bike to work, but they can’t do it if they’ve got to worry about their bikes being stolen or ruined by the weather. New Yorkers want a greener city, and they’re ready to help us build one,” said Yassky at the press conference.
Yassky said he plans on reintroducing the bill in committee sometime this year.
“This bill has waited long enough for its chance at a vote. Now, with over 30 councilmembers supporting this legislation, I am optimistic that we can finally pass it and take the next step toward becoming a truly bike-friendly city this year,” he said.
Many suspect the bill’s inability to get beyond committee owes to the opposition of the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY, the city’s largest and most powerful real estate trade association.
Marolyn Davenport, senior vice president of REBNY, told this paper in July that the bill was “not realistic at all.”
“What if there’s no space for bikes? What if there’s mechanical equipment in the basement? And you can’t mandate that people be allowed to put bikes on freight elevators. What if somebody is moving in and out? It’s just not practical,” she said.
While the bill requires landlords to accommodate bikes, it specifically avoids stipulations on how that access must be afforded. Instead, it allows landlords to develop individual access plans.
“The strength of this bill is that it recognizes the unique ability of landlords to decide how to accommodate bikes in their own buildings. This is something every building can do without negative consequences,” Yassky said.
According to a study by the Department of City Planning, lack of secure bike parking is the number one factor in people not biking to work.
Paul Steely White of Transportation Alternatives, the cyclist and pedestrian advocacy organization, said it was “astounding that New York City’s commercial buildings allow strollers and handcarts indoors, but frequently refuse bicycle access.”
“The Bikes in Buildings bill will instantly enable tens of thousands of New Yorkers to ride their bike to work without fear of bike theft,” he said.
Other supportive councilmembers touted the bill’s environmental, transportation, and health benefits.
“Secure bike parking in buildings allows choice in transportation, which promotes a greener and more sustainable New York City,” said fellow Brooklyn Councilmember Letitia James.
“Bike access has become a necessity as we move forward to support bicycling to work, as well as encourage health and wellness in this new century.”
Updated 11:48 am, January 16, 2019
New volunteers join Brooklyn emergency response team
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Cool Bookish Places: Sticky Institute, Melbourne
Christine Ro 05-18-19
Melbourne has no shortage of quirky literary spaces, from a fantasy-themed cocktail bar to a comic studio/gallery/shop. Melburnians are proud of the literary, arty reputation of their city, which has more book clubs and reads more publications per capita than any other Australian city.
One unique spot is Sticky Institute. While the name might conjure up images of all sorts of unsavoriness, this is the only dedicated zine shop in Australia (and possibly the only one of its type in the world). Sticky is beloved among Melbourne’s DIY publishing fans. The nonprofit has been running for 18 years now, surviving on a mix of retail (taking a 20% cut of zines sold in the shop) and grants. The place is clearly a labor of love, and is staffed by friendly volunteers. A word of warning, though: the opening hours are unusual.
Like so many zines themselves, the space is charmingly unpolished and ramshackle. Sticky is essentially one lavishly decorated room in a pedestrian subway leading to busy Flinders Street Station. It’s both literally and figuratively underground.
Its shelves are stuffed full of zines, comics, and arty magazines of all shapes, sizes, and levels of sheen. Publications aren’t just on the counter and every available inch of shelf. One nice touch is an overflowing exchange box whose only rule is that for anything taken home, a substitute item has to be added. This is a mix of potential gems and, well, items that only the charitable-minded could love.
Though the small, cluttered space isn’t for the claustrophobic, this is a browser’s paradise. The shop is full of limited-edition, handmade publications that would be hard to find anywhere else. After all, anyone can sell their zines, after filling out a form. Self-publishers can even put their zines together right in the Sticky space, which has managed to fit a workspace, long arm staplers, drawing materials, typewriters, and other tools in the middle of the room. Anyone can use the photocopier as well, although this is subject to a fee.
So at Sticky you can find delicate drawings of animals; confessional diary comics; short graphic narratives; nonfiction nuggets; compilations of work from multiple creators; mini-zine gifts; and plenty of rabble-rousing political content.
In fact, the shop was a target for homophobic trolls in 2017, during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey. Sticky Institute publicly declared its support for the Yes campaign, which advocated for a change to the law to allow same-sex marriage. Sticky also posted on its social media channels: “If you vote ‘No’ in the forthcoming plebiscite, please never visit our shop again.” This brought out the haters in full force. But it also elicited plenty of supportive comments, as its political statements had been in keeping with its left-leaning, queer friendly ethos.
There are other ways to support Sticky Institute. The institute hosts a zine fair called Festival of the Photocopier. People unable to visit the shop in person can buy a grab bag of zines online. And there’s a membership program for customers who want to get store discounts and a mailed assortment of zines.
Clearly, it’s not the case that zine culture died out in the ‘90s. One piece of proof is Broken Pencil, a fantastic Canadian magazine and website dedicated to this subculture. Another is Sticky Institute, an eccentric and egalitarian corner of Melbourne’s literary scene.
For more zine love, check out:
Reaching Teens with ‘Zines in the Library
Get to Know the Little Magazines of the Harlem Renaissance
Zinesters Are Us: The Book Riot Live 2015 Attendee Zine
My Dream Queer Bookstore
How to Find Free Books and Comics When You’re on a Budget
#Cool Bookish Places#melbourne#zines
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The Charlemagne Pursuit
A pacy international suspense thriller with a historical twist, from the New York Times bestselling author.
Ex-agent Cotton Malone wants to know what really happened to his father, officially lost at sea when his submarine went down in the north Atlantic in 1971. But when he uses his government contacts to obtain the submarine's sealed file, he finds he is not the only person looking for answers.
Malone is in the line of fire when he is attacked in an attempt to take the file. He is pitched into a lethal power struggle between Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk, twin sisters whose twisted ambition takes sibling rivalry to new levels.
Malone and the twins embark on a dangerous adventure involving Nazi explorations in Antarctica, US government conspiracies, and a series of cryptic historical clues built into the legend of Charlemagne. Forced to choose a side when neither can win, Malone is determined to uncover the truth behind his father's death - but will he be able to escape his own?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 29 SEP 2008
In bestseller Berry's fourth thriller to feature ex Justice Department agent Cotton Malone (after The Venetian Betrayal), Malone embarks on a search for answers about his father, Capt. Forrest Malone, after learning that instead of dying in 1971 in a nuclear sub accident in the North Atlantic, his father actually died while on a secret submarine mission to the Antarctic. Meanwhile, bad guy Adm. Langford Ramsey schemes to become the next ranking officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two story lines merge as a group led by Malone races to Antarctica, where they find a strange underground city belonging to the Aryans, an advanced race who inhabited the earth at the dawn of our own civilization. A meticulous researcher, Berry carefully integrates such elements as Charlemagne, Nazis, ancient manuscripts, historical puzzles and scientific surprises into the plot. Those who relish suspense in the Da Vinci Code vein will snap this one up, the best yet in the series. 10-city author tour.
More Books by Steve Berry
Match Up
The Templar Legacy
The King's Deception
The Paris Vendetta
The Balkan Escape ebook
The Lincoln Myth
The Emperor's Tomb
The Jefferson Key
The Patriot Threat
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The Green Park
Downloadable Video - 2016
Britain's answer to Grossinger's, The Green Park Hotel in Bournemouth was overseen by the larger-than-life Bubba Richman, a chain-smoking, brandy-loving matriarch. The hotel became a key vacation spot for Anglo Jews, from the day it opened its doors in 1943. A veritable who's who of British Jewry (such as Beatles manager Brian Epstein) came annually for the kosher food, seaside glamour and to find possible mates. This lively and warm-hearted documentary also delves into the history of Britain's Jewish community, examining how it developed and flourished, and the role that this hotel played in creating a vibrant and successful life for English Jews.
Publisher: [United States] :, Menemsha Films :, 2016.
Made available through hoopla,, 2016.
Branch Call Number: eVideo hoopla
Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 video file (circa 65 min.)) :,sound, color.
data file, rda
Additional Contributors: Butler, Sarah Jayne
Christie, Jonathan
Leveaux, Christopher
Seaward, John
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Fukushima nuclear accident: Saturday 19 March summary
Last Saturday the the crisis level at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station was rapidly on the rise. Hydrogen explosions, cracks in the wetwell torus and fires in a shutdown unit’s building — it seemed the sequence of new problems would never end. A week later, the situation remains troubling, but, over the last few days, it has not got any worse. Indeed, one could make a reasonable argument that it’s actually got better.
Yes, the IAEA has now formally listed the overall accident at an INES level 5 (see here for a description of the scales), up from the original estimate of 4. This is right and proper — but it doesn’t mean the situation has escalated further, as some have inferred. Here is a summary of the main site activities for today, followed by the latest JAIF and FEPC reports. You also might be interested in the following site map:
Another large cohort of 100 Tokyo fire fighters joined the spraying operation to cool down the reactors and keep the water in the spent fuel ponds. The ‘Hyper Rescue’ team have set up a special vehicle for firing a water cannon from 22 m high (in combination with a super pump truck), and today have been targeting the SNF pond in unit 3. About 60 tons of sea water successfully penetrated the building in the vicinity of the pool, at a flow rate of 3,000 litres per minute. Spraying with standard unmanned vehicles was also undertaken for 7 hours into other parts of the the unit 3 building (delivering more than 1,200 tons), to keep the general containment area cool. The temperature around the fuel rods is now reported by TEPCO (via NHK news) to be below 100C.
Conditions in unit 3 are stabilising but will need attention for many days to come. Promisingly, TEPCO has now connected AC cables to the unit 1 and 2 reactor buildings, with hopes that powered systems can be restored to these building by as early as tomorrow (including, it is hoped, the AC core cooling systems), once various safety and equipment condition checks are made.
Holes were made in the secondary containment buildings of Units 5 and 6 as a precautionary measure, to vent any hydrogen that might accumulate and so prevent explosions in these otherwise undamaged structures. The residual heat removal system for these units has now been brought back on line and these pools maintain a tolerable steady temperature of 60C. More here. These buildings were operating on a single emergency diesel generator, but now have a second electricity supply via the external AC power cable.
Why are they concentrating on these activities? Let’s revisit a bit of the history of last week. The spent fuel pool still has decay heat (probably of the order of few MW in each pool) that requires active cooling. When power went out on Friday, the cooling stopped and the pool temperature has been rising slowly over the weekend, and probably started boiling off (and a large volume may have also been lost due to ‘sloshing’ during the seismic event). The pool is located on the 4th floor above the reactor vessel level. It remains unclear why they could not arrange fire trucks to deliver the sea water before the fuel rods got damaged and started releasing radioactivity. Now the effort is hampered by the high radiation level (primarily penetrating gamma rays). This is the inventory of those spent fuel ponds that have been causing so many headaches:
In order to remove the decay heat after the reactor shutdown, the cooling system should be operating. Following the loss of offsite power, the on-site diesel generators came on but the tsunami arrived an hour or so later and wiped out the diesel generators. Then the battery provided the power for 8 hours or so, during which time they brought in portable generators. However, the connectors were incompatible. As the steam pressure built up inside the pressure vessel, the relief valve was open and dumped the steam to the pressure suppression chamber, which in turn was filtered out to the confinement building and the hydrogen explosion took out the slabs.
The sea water was then pumped in by fire trucks and the reactor pressure vessels are now cooled down to near atmospheric pressure but the fuel assemblies are uncovered at the top quarter or third (the FEPC updates give the actual pressure and water levels). It appears that the pressure vessels and the reactor containment structures are intact, except the Unit 2, where the hydrogen explosion took place inside the containment and hence damaging the lower wetwell torus structure (but almost certainly not the reactor vessel, although the exact status is unclear). It appears that the radioactivity releases are mostly coming from the spent fuel storages than the reactor cores.
World Nuclear News has a really excellent extended article here entitled “Insight to Fukushima engineering challenges“. Read it! Further, you must watch this 8 minute reconstruction of the timeline of the accident done by NHK — brilliant, and really highlights the enormous stresses this poor station faced against a record-breaking force of nature. As I’d noted earlier, just about everything that could have went wrong, did. But valuable lessons must also be learned.
The IAEA and Japanese government has reported the potential contamination of food products from the local Fukushima area via radioactive iodine (mostly vented as part of the pressure relief operations of units 1 to 3). This is a short-term risk due to the 8-day half-life of radioactive iodine (and a small risk, given the trace amounts recorded), but precautions are warranted, as discussed here. What does this mean?
In the case of the milk samples, even if consumed for one year, the radiation dose would be equivalent to that a person would receive in a single CT scan. The levels found in the spinach were much lower, equivalent to one-fifth of a single CT scan.
… and to further put this in context:
The UK government’s chief independent scientific advisor has told the British Embassy in Tokyo that radiation fears from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant are a “sideshow” compared with the general devastation caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck on 11 March. Speaking from London in a teleconference on 15 March to the embassy, chief scientific officer John Beddington said that the only people likely to receive doses of radiation that could damage their health are the on-site workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. He said that the general population outside of the 20 kilometre evacuation zone should not be concerned about contamination.
As to the possibility of a zirconium fire in the SNF ponds, this seems unlikely. Zr has a very high combustion point, as illustrated in video produced by UC Berkeley nuclear engineers. They applied a blowtorch to a zirconium rod and it did not catch on fire. The demonstration is shown about 50 seconds into this video. The temperature was said to reach 2000C [incidentally, I visited that lab last year!].
The the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum has provided their 12th reactor-by-reactor status update (16:00 March 19).
Here is the latest FEPC status report:
At 7:30PM on March 18, radiation level outside main office building (approximately 1,640 feet from Unit 2 reactor building) of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station: 3,699 micro Sv/h.
Measurement results of ambient dose rate around Fukushima Nuclear Power Station at 4:00PM and 7:00PM on March 18 are shown in the attached two PDF files respectively.
At 1:00PM on March 18, MEXT decided to carry out thorough radiation monitoring nationwide.
Since 10:30AM on March 14, the pressure within the primary containment vessel cannot be measured.
As of 3:00PM on March 18, the injection of seawater continues into the reactor core.
Activities for connecting the commercial electricity grid are underway.
At 2:00PM on March 18, six Self Defense emergency fire vehicles began to shoot water aimed at the spent fuel pool, until 2:38PM (39 tones of water in total).
At 2:42PM on March 18, TEPCO began to shoot water aimed at the spent fuel pool, until 2:45PM, by one US Army high pressure water cannon.
No official updates to the information in our March 18 update have been provided.
At 4:00PM on March 18, the temperature of the spent fuel pool was measured at 152.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
At 10:00AM on March 18, it was confirmed that water level in the pool was secured.
Fukushima Daiichi Dry Cask Storage Building
At 10:00AM on March 18, it was confirmed that there was no damage by visual checking of external appearance.
At 5:50PM on March 18, Japanese Safety Authority (NISA: Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency) announced provisional INES (International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) rating to the incidents due to the earthquake.
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1, 2 and 3 Unit = 5 (Accident with wider consequences)
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 = 3 (Serious incident)
Fukushima Daini Unit 1, 2 and 4 Unit = 3 (Serious incident)
(No official provisional rating for Fukushima Daini Unit 3 has been provided.)
Looks like it washed away their diesel fuel tank farm
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:59 AM by Stead
Thank you for a good summary.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:06 AM by Mattias Svensson
excellent and thanks for all the reference links.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:07 AM by David Sanger
Thank’s Barry, I really appreciate your everyday summary abouy the situation. And yes, it looks much better now that in the beginning. Not good, but stabilized.
I foud this broadcast to be informative:
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv43681193
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:16 AM by Kaj Luukko
well,we knew that there’s still 3 percent chance to go south here…
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:26 AM by rAin
Barry a quick correction,
the Tokyo Fire Department’s elite search and rescue team is called “Hyper Rescue.” They have special equipment and training to fight hazardous material fires as well as conduct rescue searches for tsunami and earth quake victims.
Here is an article on the from 2005:
http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia33/en/feature/feature03.html
Also a picture from of a Hyper Rescue team training:
http://spotted.stripes.com/photos/index.php?id=2197560&size=large
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:29 AM by Nikkei
“Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said levels of radiation exceeding safety limits stipulated by Japanese law were found in some samples of spinach and milk from the Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures but authorities said the radioactive iodine-contaminated food posed little risk.
Tainted milk was found 30 kilometers from the plant and spinach was collected as far as 100 kilometers (65 miles) to the south, almost half way to Tokyo.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/japan.nuclear.reactors/?hpt=C2
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:35 AM by bks
Weird, my original post didn’t show up. Anyways, Barry just a quick note.
The special vehicles don’t carry a title. Hyper Rescue is what the elite search and rescue teams from the Tokyo Fire Department are called.
“Samples of tap water taken yesterday in Tokyo and five nearby prefectures showed traces of radiation that were within acceptable levels, the Japanese government said.
Radiation was detected in water in Tokyo and the prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba and Niigata, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said today in a faxed statement.
Tochigi Prefecture’s reading of radioactive iodine-131 was 77 Becquerel per kilogram, the highest among the prefectures, while the level of iodine found in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district was 1.5. All the numbers were within the 300 Bq/kg limit, the ministry said. ”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-19/japan-says-small-amount-of-radiation-found-in-tokyo-tap-water.html
So the level in Tochigi has reached 25% of the legal limit? Good thing the wind has been blowing out to see all week.
Article on Hyper Rescue teams from 2005
http://bit.ly/dKfsxr
Picture of some their training
http://bit.ly/i7WCxY
“Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said levels of radiation exceeding safety limits stipulated by Japanese law were found in some samples of spinach and milk…”
Barry, any information on relative legal safety limits in various countries?
I believe that Japanese limits are among the strictest (lowest levels allowed) in the world, meaning much larger safety margins remain when “legal limits” are passed?
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:48 AM by KeenOn350
The fuel rods in the spent fuel pool are generating generating as much heat as a fluorescent light tube, about 120 watts for 3-4 meter rods so 30-40 watts per meter of rod. This really isn’t that much, and the sattelite images show clear vision into the fuel ponds, meaning they are open to ambient cooling. The rods are shaped like thermal radiators, a very efficient cooling mechanism.
In order for the steam-redux reaction to occur, over 900 degrees Celcius is required. If the top is open to ambient I’m having a hard time seeing how this could generate much hydrogen. Putting it in my thermo model with the relevant thermal conductivities and geometries I cannot get >900 degrees celcius from this, even with poor ventilation. The temperature readings are also well below boiling point of water and sattelite images show water in the ponds. So I’m still sceptical that a hydrogen explosion in the fuel ponds itself was the cause here. Theres lots of other stuff like motor pump oil that can support combustion quite well.
Does anyone has more info on this?
“According to the ministry, traces of cesium have also been found in tap water in Tochigi and Gunma in addition to the radioactive iodine found in the two prefectures as well as in Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/19/c_13788006.htm
I’d be really interested to hear about the other nearby nuclear plants – Onagawa is far closer to the epicenter, I believe. Obviously there were no serious problems there (since there’s been no media circus!) but why not, what problems did they have, does this tell us anything about design features, age, etc?
(I realise that now perhaps there are more interesting things to think about, but if you get a moment.)
By the way, excellent site Barry, congratulations. I hope your hosting company isn’t charging you extra for all the traffic you’ve deservedly been getting in the last few days. I saw an earlier suggestion about a donate button, not such a bad idea methinks, especially if you post the site’s costs and income.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:57 AM by Ben
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Nikkei, I rescued your post from the spam queue – things with multiple links often get sent there automatically. Thanks for that info, I’ll update the post when not on my iPhone.
Ben, WordPress.com cover the hosting costs for me, so I only pay for yearly domain registrations etc. I prefer not to take any donations as I want people to always know that I undertake this work this because I think it is the right thing to do, not for any mercenary motivations (however small!)
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:11 AM by Barry Brook in reply to Nikkei
From an American certified health physicist without a nuclear power background, thank you Barry and other posters for your daily stream of credible information.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:13 AM by Alan Fellman
Would also like to express my appreciation for your work. This is the place I come to when I want to know what is going on over there.
Wonder how many hits you are getting. I think there is a lot of I told 5 people about your site and they each told 5 people and they in turn told 5 more people going on.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:22 AM by ew-3
Barry, thank you for this update. It’s also very interesting to see the NHK timeline because it shows something that has been ignored by the media (in my country, the US)–and that is this: the safety features at Fukushima _worked_.
When the quake hit, the reactor was scrammed (I hope that’s the proper term), and the cooling system went into action. It was the effects of the tsunami that stopped the process.
Some here in the US have been claiming that the reactor designs were faulty and that the crisis was created by human error and greed. The NHK reconstruction blows those myths apart.
Thank you for your updates and for giving us information based on hard facts, not fear mongering.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:25 AM by Marc McKenzie
One can argue that the placement of the dieseltanks was a human error though.
So they have punched holes in the roofs of 5 & 6 to let hydrogen escape? Isn’t that the only contaiment for radioactive releases from the spent fuel pools?
There have been many discussions here to effect “Japan is known for Tsunamis… this is an expected event and should have been planned for..”.
IShortly after the Tsunami hit there were some suggestions from at least one scientist suggesting this was a once in a thousand year event, believed to be last duplicated in 869 A.D.:
If true (and I am not in a position to have an opinion) then all the criticisms of too low Tsunami barriers around the plant, etc., may be unrealistic. Taking once a millennium events into consideration in the engineering would then lead to other impossible scenarios such as a major volcanic event depositing meters of ash on the plant and all the surrounding infrastructure (such as the power grid). Or meteorite impacts, and on and on…
I too am impressed that, given the horrific natural events the plants are even in a condition that allows the operators to continue remediation efforts. Every day that the local radiation levels are such that even limited access is doable is a great day :-).
Much discussion here has been directed at the “zero tolerance” aspect of nuclear energy, resulting in things such as legal limits allegedly far, far below realistic levels of danger. In normal times that may be a good thing- err on the side of caution and little seems to be known as a fact regarding effects of low level radiation…
But these are not normal times for Japan. I hope babies in evacuation centers don’t go hungry while mildly tainted (and possibly perfectly safe) milk is
declared unfit. This is a trade-off of multiple and conflicting risks. Maybe. Although arguably the problem of feeding the evacuees may be more related to distribution problems than supply problems.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:55 AM by NR99
I understand the radiation levels are low here in the West Coast of CA, however I have 2 questions:
1 – what if the actual particals of cesium-137 and iodine are breathed or taken into the body? is this a 30 year dose?
2 – How does the rain affect levels? Is there any hope rainy weather will wash away our woes here and in Japan?
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:07 AM by Morgan
“Meteorologists predict the wind direction will change today, taking [personal opinion not supported by the supplied reference] emissions across Tokyo, 250 kilometres to the south.”
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/radiation-reaches-russia-and-us-west-coast-20110319-1c1ck.html
Regarding drinking water, here’s a link to the specific measurement figures in Tokyo:
(strange URL, but it worked for me)
And the WHO has a document, “WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality (GDWQ)” which provides a reference point — section 9.3. PDF available at the WHO website.
I am a lay person, so I will omit my uneducated opinion and leave the rest for the experts…
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:12 AM by Ctch
I think the punching of holes in the roof was a precaution to prevent a explosion no matter how remote. They already have 3 severely damaged and one slightly damaged building from explosions. The spent fuel ponds in 5 & 6 now have temporary diesel power and may soon have outside power. Cooling is going on and these ponds never had any real containment. There may have been some filtering of air going out of the building, but if the spent fuel never heated up the amount of radioactive material being released is miniscule. With cooling there will not be a hydrogen explosion, but the situation is still dynamic and if they lose those diesel generators, there will be a problem, so cut a hole in the roof in case that happens. Unlikely, but we have seen lots of unlikely or unanticipated events.
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:19 AM by William Fairholm
Rain is bad for anyone underneath and good for anyone downwind as it removes the radioactive material (except inert gases).
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Morgan, on 20 March 2011 at 3:07 AM said:
>>1 – what if the actual particals of cesium-137 and iodine are breathed or taken into the body?
The cesium will leave your body eventually in about 4 months, just as the radioactive potassium found in all bananas does.
http://www.evs.anl.gov/pub/doc/Cesium.pdf
Iodine 131 has a half life of 8 days.
Barry, thank you so much for your outstanding information compilation effort. Please keep up the great job despite the insults and other personal attacks.
The French media are hysterical about this accident. It is great to read your daily post to balance their superficial and confusing reports.
From the ABC TV One Plus Interview, I understand you feel “ashamed” of mixing facts with opinions. Please don’t be ashamed! Opinions (and emotions) are what makes a difference between a great blog and a boring technical report.
Now one question: how can Cesium and Iodine be released in the atmosphere? Does this require a breach of the Zircalloy rods? or do those particles pass through the Zircalloy?
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:45 AM by François Manchon
“Meteorologists predict the wind direction will change today, taking dangerous emissions across Tokyo, 250 kilometres to the south.”
It will be very interesting, then, to look at the real-world data in Tokyo over the coming days.
http://113.35.73.180/report/report_table.do
The above is the dose rate in Tokyo, in uSv/h, updated regularly. The doses are absolutely negligible.
There is also a lot of very good data coming out of the KEK experimental physics centre in Tsukuba, just outside Tokyo.
http://rcwww.kek.jp/norm/index-e.html
Above is their real-time gamma dose monitor.
They also have some very high resolution gamma spectroscopy data, showing the levels of several different significant fission products.
These fission products are definitely from Fukushima, and they are there at detectable levels – but these instruments are incredibly sensitive, and these levels are absolutely harmless.
We’re talking about, for example, 2 nBq (yes, nanobecquerels) of Cs-137 per cubic centimeter of air at the moment.
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:45 AM by Luke Weston
Small detail that troubles me:
“Then the battery provided the power for 8 hours or so, during which time they brought in portable generators. However, the connectors were incompatible.”
I’m a truck-driver – not a scientist – but I restore antique electronics as a hobby. Incompatibility is what the hobby is all about, as one works to repair 70 year-old equipment. So… I keep wondering why incompatible plugs would stymie them. Can’t even big, fancy plugs be cut off and cable elements spliced together? Even allowing for several magnitudes of complexity beyond what I deal with, I still can’t see why some “snipping and twisting” couldn’t have been done.
(I realize I may be merely be demonstrating how ignorant of all this I am… but curious anyway))
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:48 AM by Damen Matson
François, unless the clad on the spent fuel rods catches fire and produces smoke, which I think is highly implausible, then only way the Cs would disperse is via releases of volatile particulates that have accumulated over the years in the pond after being shed in minute quantities from the fuel rods. The I that remains will have virtually no radioactive isotopes.
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:52 AM by Barry Brook in reply to François Manchon
Luke Weston
I believe the standard SI method of reporting would be to use Bq per cubic meter
So 2 millibecquerels per cubic meter or a decay of 1 atom every 500 secs in that volume of air. Indeed miniscule. They must be processing huge volumes of air to detect anything.
Morgan, levels are not merely low on the West Coast of CA, whether that’s California or Canada, they are completely and utterly negligible.
The essential thing to understand about radioactivity is that vanishingly low amounts can be detected. Many orders of magnitude lower than any possible health impact. So “X has been detected” is a statement that says absolutely nothing about health impact.
In the case of Fukushima, the low actual releases combined with the enormous distance across the Pacific mean that there is no chance – zero – that there will be any health impact on your coast.
posted 20 March 2011 at 4:09 AM by Joffan
François – My understanding is minor damage – much less than melting – of the zirconium cladding can release traces of caesium and iodine from the fuel rods into the coolant. If that coolant is vented, as happened at Fukushima, that would certainly be detectable, since ultra low levels of radioactivity are both detectable and identifiable.
Luke, I didn’t realise there was such a unit (of any use) as a nanobecquerel. That would be one atomic decay every billion seconds, ie. every 31 years.
Damen, I agree with you that I don’t think a little problem like “connectors” would have stopped an engineering crew desparate to feed power into a machine. However, voltage levels, max rated power or some other detail of generation characteristics could have. If the generators were simply too small to drive the pump, for example, that would do it.
I wonder if you now agree that your assertion made in your
https://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/17/fukushima-redux-design-basis-godzilla/
post, that they were not injecting seawater into “any part of the nuclear reactor or the Nuclear Steam Supply System itself. It is an injection of seawater into the containment structure surrounding the reactor pressure vessel” is incorrect? If so an amendment to that assertion is warranted, as it is still part of the main part of this website. Not everyone is going to read through all of these discussions. If you cannot insert a statement to that effect, I think Barry should do so.
Some may be interested (relieved?) to learn that on page A8 of today’s Washington Post is a one column article titled ‘Radiation risks low, according to science.’ How about that…one week later, 8 pages in, it was finally time to report something based on some real science! And the article did just that, dispelling a lot of the hysteria for the public. Better late than never, I suppose.
For those interested in natural background including the man-made component of it see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_radiation
The major contribution of the man-made component is from coal-fired power plants especially those without modern fly ash capture.
This is interesting.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8021906
A Zircaloy fuel cladding tube gets introduced to an oxyacetylene torch.
It does not melt or burn at that temperature.
Natural Radiation In The Environment – useful information plus sources, these can provide reference points for perspective:
http://www.energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2865
Thanks Joffan,
Exactly what I was wondering. I think your surmise about under-powering the pumps will turn out to be an approximation of the real problem. I know with my old equipment under-powering one part of a circuit (say, a resistor gone out of it’s original tolerances) can actually cause too much current flow in other parts (like output at the plate of a tube) and over-heating/burning. I bet under-powering those pumps is just as bad.
I note that the oil refinery fire at Cosmo Oil Co in Chiba, which started with the earthquake, is still burning as of this moment. It has been spewing tons of pollution into the air, no doubt the intense heat has been hampering efforts to put it out, and those downwind are in real danger of being effected should they breath the smoke.
Yet this event gets little coverage.
posted 20 March 2011 at 5:36 AM by DV82XL
Cutting torch relies on the material being cut to begin oxidizing–this is what the Oxygen feed does.
I have a question about the wetwell torus thing. If the suppression pool is supposed to scrub steam discharge, then does the primary vessel vent into the “light bulb,” and steam conducts through those pipes and bubbles up inside the suppression pool water?
If so, that means the volume above the suppression pool is the low-pressure side. Does it vent to the atmosphere, and where?
Also, if the inside of the “light bulb” is an area that reactor steam would vent to, is it a place where one can enter and walk around, or is it forever off limits because of radiation from the core?
posted 20 March 2011 at 6:02 AM by Stead
There must also be lots of natural gas pipeline and powerplant explosions. And coal plant fires maybe?
What about major oil terminals (storage)? Storing millions of liters of gasoline is dangerous even without a 9.0 Richter earthquake.
Wind turbines damaged? Killing anyone when falling over?
We hear virtually nothing about this.
Damen,
Western Japan uses 60 Hz, while the eastern part uses 50 Hz. I heard the Fukushima systems use 50 Hz, but somehow the portable generators they brought in were the 60 Hz kind. I don’t know enough about electronics to say how hard it is to convert, but I’m as surprised as you that they weren’t able to jury rig something.
posted 20 March 2011 at 6:11 AM by Clay
@Luke Weston:
Isn’t that demonstration ignoring the issue of the presence of water vapor? From “Safety and security of commercial spent nuclear fuel storage: public report” (National Academies Press, 2006)
http://books.google.com/books?id=ltF80zmX-foC
The ability to remove decay heat from the spent fuel also would be reduced as the water level drops, especially when it drops below the tops of the fuel assemblies. This would cause temperatures in the fuel assemblies to rise, accelerating the oxidation of the zirconium alloy (zircaloy) cladding that encases the uranium oxide pellets. This oxidation reaction can occur in the presence of both air and steam and is strongly exothermic that is, the reaction releases large quantities of heat, which can further raise cladding temperatures. The steam reaction also generates large quantities of hydrogen….
[With a loss of coolant] These oxidation reactions can become locally self-sustaining … at high temperatures (i.e., about a factor of 10 higher than the boiling point of water) if a supply of oxygen and/or steam is available to sustain the reactions…. The result could be a runaway oxidation reaction referred to in this report as a zirconium cladding fire that proceeds as a burn front (e.g., as seen in a forest fire or a fireworks sparkler) along the axis of the fuel rod toward the source of oxidant (i.e., air or steam)….
posted 20 March 2011 at 6:16 AM by Jan R.
“Holes were made in the secondary containment buildings of Units 5 and 6 as a precautionary measure, to vent any hydrogen that might accumulate and so prevent explosions in these otherwise undamaged structures.”
I’ve read comments to the effect that after Three Mile Island, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission required mandatory retrofit of “direct vent” devices to get accumulated hydrogen out of the reactor without risking explosions or overpressure from such accumulations.
(Even though at TMI, the “hydrogen bubble” risk inside the reactor turned out retroactively to have been negligible, due to inept calculations by NRC engineers.”
It appears that the Fukushima units lacked any such direct venting. So the operators vented free hydrogen from the reactors into the interior of the reactor buildings, where it explosively recombined with oxygen. And did the damage now easily visible in photographs.
I have also read comments which claim that the NRC require devices inside of the reactor vessel to attempt to mitigate hydrogen accumulation before having to vent it externally. There has been no mention of any such devices at Fukushima.
Is this a case in which Japanese regulatory authorities and utility management adopted a “not-invented-here” mindset and ignored nuclear best practices from abroad?
There is some precedent for this in an Asian cultural context. Back in the 1990s, the Korean airlines had an absolutely dismal safety record, racking up a string of serious accidents.
Outside audits revealed that those firms were culturally insular and nonstandardized in their practices, and failed to stress such key aviation safety principles as Crew Resource Management.
The Korean carriers listened to the auditors, and overhauled everything about how they trained, planned and flew. Their safety records are now comparable to other global airlines of similar size and reach.
posted 20 March 2011 at 6:23 AM by torquewrench
For a Canadian perspective on this event and comments on the present CANDU reactors and future designs listen to:
[audio src="http://cbc.ca/quirks/media/2010-2011/qq-2011-03-19_01.mp3" /]
On one of these threads you wanted citations for a poster alledging a 38m tsunami in the Medjii Earthquake. This is a paper I found.
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/uploads/File/People/kanamori/HKpepi72c.pdf
It is such an outlier I do not see how it could rationally be used in criteria for design basis accidents though.
posted 20 March 2011 at 7:02 AM by Joshua
Hi everyone, sorry for intruding, and thanks for the marvellous work you’re doing with your blog.
I just have a question, related to the last comment from DV82XL (and the first tim I saw written an issue I thought about from the first day)
I saw many different places on fire just after the tsunami hit, as well as many tanks scattered about in the country after the withdrawal of the wave.
and also, from the NHK video, on the very front of Fukushima Daiichi one can see two huge tanks (several thousands mc, it looks) of presumed fuel for pumps, vanished after the wave.
My question is (i ask here because this is the more accurate and competent place I found to now): is there a measured assessment of the toxicity and radiation emission of fires from oil, gas and other flammable materials, and more there is a way to know the effects on the quality of exposed vegetables and water after five days of rain and snow who passed through several chemical product fires?
thanks to whom would answer, and a pray for all the dead and survived japanese
posted 20 March 2011 at 7:46 AM by BerGonella
ah, sorry i was forgetting…
about the strange connection troubles of the emergency mobile equipment, I know that Japan has two big zones of electric power frequency, 60Hz in the west and south and 50 Hz in the east and north. hence the troubles also for providing power from the west region in the first days. it could have happened that the equipment had a different frequence ?
Regarding the radiation levels in general, this chart is quite handy:
http://xkcd.com/radiation/
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:08 AM by Andreas
You need to get temperatures over 900 degrees Celcius for significant hydrogen redux reaction to occur. I’m not buying this at all for the spent fuel pond, as it is open at the top to ambient air. The fuel rods are shaped like radiators, basically very efficient space heating devices, and would convect loads of heat away. Remember that the heat per fuel rod per meter in 3 month old fuel is similar to a standard fluorescent tube office light. My thermo model doesn’t show anywhere near those temperatures would be reached, especially if part of the bottom of the fuel rods were still submerged in water. The sattelite images show a clear opening to the ponds.
> my thermo model
So either you’re wrong, or the industry is. Odds?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/weekinreview/20wald.html
“In all American-designed reactors, spent fuel must be taken out of the top, but can never be exposed to the air. It must always remain under water.
How to do that? Flood the area over the reactor and move the fuel to a pool whose surface is at the top of the flooded area…..”
Another article I don’t think has been posted here yet…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8392730/Japan-nuclear-crisis-tsunami-study-showed-Fukushima-plant-was-at-risk.html
some interesting bits of info…
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:20 AM by Fergal
@ Stead: I will tell you what I know.
The lightbulb area is the drywell. It has steam pipes connecting the bottom of the light bulb to the torus, which is actually seperated by valves and might be called a secondary containment (the concrete superstructure might then be called ternary containment, but this is not common use).
Pressure relief valves vent the overpressure, with any hydrogen or volatile fission products that might be present under accident conditions such as at Fukushima Daiichi, via the steam pipes at the bottom to the torus. That is the wetwell, it has steam pipes ending under water so any steam that comes through will condense under water. This is quite effective as you can imagine, given the direct contact of water with steam. But this trick only works up until the normal atmospheric boiling point of water, after that it gets less effective and pressure also builds up. When that happens and you still have no active cooling, as was the case at Fukushima, you must relieve the pressure to a stack which has filters such as carbon filters or resin ion filters. This filters out any possible fission products that are not noble such as cesium, strontium and iodine. However it is of course not 100% efficient, a small fraction of those fission products are going through the filters, and that is why it is being detected in small quantities in the area and in agriproducts such as milk.
But this does vent the steam to the environment, relieving pressure. The steam that is used as coolant for some time has become activated and will quickly decay to stability, but of course this means a hard spike in radioactivity. Wait a few minutes and its gone.
People should not be going within the confines of the lightbulb. It is not good for your health. There is a biological axial shield around the reactor pressure vessel that should keep radiaton okay, but not a place you want to stay for long. Also if steam vents you are deader than a doornail.
Hope this helps. I was not too familiar with Mark I containment for BWRs, unfortunately I had to take a crash course over the last week, so some of my info may be incorrect.
Ian Lowe of the Australian Conservation Foundation, sticks it to the nuclear industry in The Age this morning. Obviously hadn’t been reading this site.
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:26 AM by Dejan Tesic
DV82XL said:
“I note that the oil refinery fire at Cosmo Oil Co in Chiba, which started with the earthquake, is still burning as of this moment. ”
Really! I’ve been wondering about that. I remember a report that it was still burning on Tuesday but then I read a single line article somewhere that claimed operations at Chiba had recommenced. This seemed very unlikely to me so if you have more info on the situation I’d appreciate the link.
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:30 AM by Marion Brook
a quote from that telegraph article I just linked to:
“One employee said TEPCO staff had attempted to jump start emergency cooling system using car batteries and small diesel generators after back up systems failed. “
By the way, if this was unclear, the Mark I design vents the overpressure to the top chamber where the crane is. This is done to make sure short lived radioactive material decays before entering the outside air, which is good practice in plants around the world. This is why there was a hydrogen explosion – there is normal air in that space and it does not take much to ignite hot hydrogen gas. Normally catalysts, called recombiners, would make the hydrogen bond with the oxygen to make water again. Unfortunately these require external power to work and this was not available. This is an important area to take lessons for older BWRs, I think. Make sure they have redundant battery power to work for a week.
Cyril, did you read this (which a couple of people pointed to back on the 18th)? Especially the intro and the conclusion page:
“Spent fuel heatup following loss of water during storage. [PWR; BWR] Benjamin, A.S.; McCloskey, D.J.; Powers, D.A.; Dupree, S.A.
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6272964
@Marion Brook
“Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)–Cosmo Oil Company Limited’s (TYO:5007) (Tokyo) refinery in Ichihara, Chiba, remains offline due to a fire in the natural gas tank farm. The fire broke out following last Friday’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake. All units are currently offline and personnel remain unable to enter the complex due to the fire.
For details, view the entire article by subscribing to Industrial Info’s Premium Industry News
http://www.stockmarketsreview.com/news/120891/
@Stead, on 20 March 2011 at 12:59 AM said:
That’s something I’ve been wondering about. Can anyone confirm that the tanks were above ground and that they were washed away? Or are they underground and intact perhaps.
Regarding the 50Hz/60Hz issue on the generators they bought in – TEPCO is a local power company it knows Japan uses 50Mz & 60Mz. Hard to believe they’d make such an error.
Map of Japan power grid http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Power_Grid_of_Japan.PNG
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:40 AM by Phil Daniels
‘Here in Chiba, people are freely going outside, kids are playing in the park, we still walk our dog twice day. The tremblors are becoming less and less frequent (I finally got an extended nights sleep last night) and their strength seems to be decreasing (keeping our fingers crossed). There certainly are still reminders of this disaster with the constant news on TV, the huge lineups for gas stations (there is still a major shortage here due to the oil refinery fire in Chiba) resulting in lines of 50+ cars just to get into each gas station, and continuing shortages on the shelves of supermarkets especially for things like fish and mean, bread and yes instant noodles.’
http://www.golftoimpress.com/2011/03/japan-update-earthquake-and-tsunami-1-week-later/
I presume from that that the oil refinery fire is now out, but the article is not specific
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:46 AM by David Martin
@ Phil Daniels,
here’s a google map link to Cosmo Oil plants in Ichihara, Chiba, just half a mile NE
http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=it&geocode=&q=Ichihara,+Prefettura+di+Chiba,+Giappone&aq=0&sll=35.536806,140.062836&sspn=0.003064,0.005981&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ichihara,+Prefettura+di+Chiba,+Giappone&t=h&ll=35.540398,140.061479&spn=0.024514,0.047851&z=15
if those oil tanks are aflame, would I live in Tokyo, just cross the bay on the left, would be much more worried than by the danger from Fukushima (I assume the cancer threat is the most feared about this incident)
@Cyril R
According to MIT the total decay heat for the 548 fuel rod assemblies removed from Reactor 4 on 30th November 2010 is currently over 6 MW (somewhat over 0.2% of the operating thermal power) http://alobar.livejournal.com/4338326.html. I had understood that the decay heat should be obtained as a fraction of the thermal power, not the electrical power, so if experts can confirm this,
the energy generated within each rod in nearly 12kW. Contradicting this number, I have just looked at the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents, where the conditions of each reactor are tabulated, a total power level for the pool of reactor 4 given to be only 2 MW, from http://www.bmu.de/atomenergie_sicherheit/doc/47114.php. The pool actually contains 1479 rods in total. If Wikipedia is correct, does this mean the 548 fresh fuel rods were removed after only a short time in the reactor, and MIT are wrong, or is Wikipedia and its reference wrong?
Does anyone know the details?
Experts: in computer model simulations of loss of cooling to spent fuel ponds, is conduction to the surrounding concrete structure included?
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:02 AM by fissionchips
Regarding power, this post comes from chavv in another thread:
“People will also ask, why did it take TEPCO so long to start running a new power line to the plant? That would seem like the first thing to be done the minute flood waters had receded.”
Because pumps does not work on regular 220V/110V electricity, they need higher-voltage – 6KV or even more. And high currents too – pumps are quite powerful devices – more than 100KW
Making such high-voltage lines is not so easy…
Due to this problem they also couldn’t use ship for giving electricity, usually military ships work with 400V
(all this is based on info from atominfo.ru forums)
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:04 AM by Ben S
Found some specifics on hydrogen recombination in a blog post here: http://www.electronicspoint.com/see-if-you-think-might-dangerous-t178032p2.html
Thanks Barry for keeping the site going and not caving to the onslaught of personal attacks.
The situation is not getting worse it seems. This is a good thing, at least from my perspective.
I hope I helped you and others here in a technical sense understand what appeared to be the issues as we all sifted through the random media reports.
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:08 AM by em1ss
Thanks Hank. According to your reference the peak clad temperature remains below the rapid oxidation hydrogen redux reaction, the results are slightly more pessimistic than my iterative thermo model, but the conclusion appears the same: if the roof is opened the hydrogen explosion from spent fuel pool is not a plausible scenario.
Barry — Once again a hearty thank you for your summary.
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:26 AM by David B. Benson
Cyril, your pretty close.
The primary containment pressure boundary consists of the drywell and the torus in a technical sense.
What is confusing to laymen is there are two other boundarys for radiation release prior to reaching the primary containment.
The fuel pellet itself along with it’s cladding (zirconium fuel clad tubes), then the reactor pressure vessel and it’s associated system isolation valves. The fuel pellet contains most of the fission product gasses produced due to exposure quite well, until it fails. Most of the fission product gases that build up inside the zirconium tube are outer edge reactions….
As you said energy is then released via steam mixture to the Torus (suppression chamber) below water level to try and condense the steam. When the Torus water level reaches 100C or 212F it can no longer quench the energy of the steam mixture.
At that point, pressure rises due to essentially steam being dumped into a closed volume. Venting must occur to prevent overpressurizaton of the primary containment and permanent failure (complete breach and continued release).
The venting that was done appears to have been to what is technically called the secondary containment (reactor building). Without power there was no complete path with ventilation fan dilution to the stations vent stack. This was bad.
The hydrogen mixed in with the vented steam gas mixture collected at the upper elevations (refueling floors). Ultimately resulting in the explosive concentrations and reactor building damage seen in the photos….
To Phil Daniels:
I’ve seen a japanese clip that clearly shows two cylindrical objects they said were the tanks, placed in open air, almost directly at the waterside just north of the warf. Those were washed away.
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:27 AM by bchtd1parrot
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Oops, thats the clip on top of this post. (me bad)
As far as i know the 50Hz/60Hz issue isn’t valid either. The difference matters but not much to a pump, as long as the voltage is correct.
Quick summary of news before Barry updates
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushima/
Hyper rescue team trucks pumped water into number threes building for 13.5hours yesterday and levels of radiation 500m away dropped by about 500micro-sevs to 2906micro-sevs (at 9pm)
5 & 6’s spent fuel pools temperature has fallen steadily since the generators for have been working (5 started first with 6 coming online a little later) 5’s at 43.1c and 6’s at 52 (as of 3am this morning)
Difficulty in site access means that number four hasn’t been doused with water in awhile so the jsdf is going to Spray today… So time…
Also the reactors earthquake Proofing had not been finished so they actually hadn’t been proofed to withstand 600gals of energy… No. 3 was only proofed for 441gals but the energy was 507gals… Etc…
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:37 AM by Drew
@ Clay
That’s my next hobby, learning to rewind electric motor armatures ;-) – so I haven’t self-educated myself, yet on how important 50 vs. 60 cycle AC is to a motor.
Hi, thanks for your detailed infomations.
Let me ask a question.
I and my family live in Tokyo, Japan atm. My father is arguing that “We should leave Tokyo and go west for our safety! The plants are in danger! We are in danger of death!”. I’m skeptical about that because the effect of the current (or “the worst” future) radiation on Tokyo seems to be minimal and Fukushima plants themselves seem to be getting better.
How do you think about this?
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:39 AM by Matsuo Seiji
mostly physical rotational speed limitations :) unless you increase the frequency alot higher then insulation issues become more apparent due the corona effect of high frequency AC.
Think of it from the generator side, What makes the frequency? then its easy.
I say that knowing that electronic equipment is less tolerant than rotational motors to frequency changes….
I’ve read that they actually inject hydrogen into the feedwater of BWRs to reduce corrosion. Maybe this was a contributing factor.
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:45 AM by Tom
I have an Emerson right here that runs on both according to the label.
One of the characteristics of emergency equipment is its sturdyness, as little electronics as possible, its not a generator, its a pump. No electronics.
Changes in voltage have to be insulated against. The overall power equation will show that changes in voltage will also cause current changes, limitations in heat disipation. Lower the voltage, amperage rises, I squared R increases, heat increases and sometimes max smoke due to insulation failure….
Changes in frequency for rotational machines are more mechanically limited with in reasonable frequency bands of variance …..
Actually its not that simple because control systems may not work on frequencies other than what they were designed for, and as well as mixed frequencies, there are mixed line voltages in Japan (220/110) per phase.
Any rate the reason I mentioned this mixed system is because it causing problems getting power restored in the country. There are two independent grids, and no matter which way you look at it, this is not wise.
Why is it you keep on making the sense i wanna make? :)
Maybe because I have taught this type of technology to [ad hom deleted] Just kidding but close….
To put this report into perspective, which some previous commenters (including bks) failed to do. So don’t worry too much those of you in Japan.
“But the dose of the radioactive substances poses no threat to human health even if they are taken in.
The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan limits an intake of iodine at 300 becquerels per kilogram of water and of cesium at 200 becquerels.”
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:57 AM by Ms. Perps
Put a multitester on the line , sit at the engine and play the gas. I fought my way through a Einsturzende Neubauten concert on a mine sweeper that way once. The carvers cut out at less than 20V diff. It got quiet only once.
I suspect the two clindrical objects could be the emergency diesel fuel oil tanks that were rumoured to be above ground and washed away by the tsunami. Causing a big design issue for this event.
Wasn’t that apes? Thats what my teach called us every time we turned CuL into CuC. Anyway, the generator story has gaps.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:04 AM by bchtd1parrot
Agreed, just like most of the media reports/releases. Confusing information released because the spokes people have no clue what they are technically saying….
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:07 AM by em1ss
The placing of the fuel tanks makes sense… if you live at lake.
I got back to a posting I made days ago regarding press releases….
“It wasn’t a fire. It was a spontaneous exothermic reaction resulting in heat and smoke.”
or you want to load in on a trailer when you move huh.
They better not fumble the Sieverts, that might cause a exodus.
@ emiss
Corona effect? Is that a self-induction type problem?
[Going horribly off-topic, sorry all.]
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:15 AM by Damen Matson
The Murdoch press tells it straight
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367929/Japan-nuclear-power-plant-As-5-dead-officials-reveal-Fukushima-Fiftys-heroics.html
Apart from the undisclosed fatalities others are ‘waiting to die’. That applies to all of us I guess.
No doubt in a couple of years the headline will be ‘Greens condemn us to poverty’. It all balances out.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:16 AM by John Newlands
Selfigniting, thats the difference,.. that and havin’ a thing with words.. I picked up this story about the hydrogen: Hydrogen/steam mix does not selfignite, but as the mix reached the cold roof, the steam condensed, the mix changed and went boom. Never tried that. Does it work that way?
Sorry Damen
From Wikepidia, not enough time to do the monkey explaination of the corona effect…. The wife is already eying me about how long I have been on here….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current#Effects_at_high_frequencies
A direct current flows constantly and uniformly throughout the cross-section of a uniform wire. An alternating current of any frequency is forced away from the wire’s center, toward its outer surface. This is because the acceleration of an electric charge in an alternating current produces waves of electromagnetic radiation that cancel the propagation of electricity toward the center of materials with high conductivity. This phenomenon is called skin effect.
(CORONA EFFECT as I called it)
At very high frequencies the current no longer flows in the wire, but effectively flows on the surface of the wire, within a thickness of a few skin depths. The skin depth is the thickness at which the current density is reduced by 63%. Even at relatively low frequencies used for high power transmission (50–60 Hz), non-uniform distribution of current still occurs in sufficiently thick conductors. For example, the skin depth of a copper conductor is approximately 8.57 mm at 60 Hz, so high current conductors are usually hollow to reduce their mass and cost.
Since the current tends to flow in the periphery of conductors, the effective cross-section of the conductor is reduced. This increases the effective AC resistance of the conductor, since resistance is inversely proportional to the cross-sectional area in which the current actually flows. The AC resistance often is many times higher than the DC resistance, causing a much higher energy loss due to ohmic heating (also called I2R loss).
Parrot, it likely took a spark to ignite the hydrogen collected in the upper reactor building…. It didn’t ignite itself in my opinion….
Be aware that spark could have been as little as a static discharge though….
@CyrilR 9:16 AM
Latest JAIF report Mar 19 22:00 Re R4 SFP ” Water level low; Preparing water injection; Hydrogen from pool exploded.”
Yesterday I posted:
Picture of R4 building http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/18/article-1367524-0B3B46E800000578-690_964x641.jpg
This looks like R4 building explosion was outward, not damaged inward from adjacent R3 H2 explosion Mar 14 11:01. JAIF and IAEA both say that R4 building was damaged by R3 explosion. Latest JAIF spreadsheet info does not show any R4 building explosion. Although JAIF does not indicate it, there are Wiki reports that R4 building had explosion 06:00 on Mar 15 with fires afterwards.
Mar 14 BNC comments discussed R3 building damage but not R4 building damage. JAIF report Mar 15 10:30 shows R3 severely damaged but R4 building undamaged. Subsequent JAIF reports show progressively more damage to R4 building.
R4 had no fuel in it, so any R4 building damage could not come from venting Reactor 4 H2 to building. Diesel and lube oil (implicated in R4 building fires) do not form explosive vapors.
That leaves the R4 SFP fuel assemblies as the only source of H2 for a R4 building explosion.
Therefore the R4 SFP fuel assemblies must have become uncovered by water and heated to 850-950C on Mar 15 to generate H2 and cause explosion.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:25 AM by Leo Hansen
Like i said: Let CuL be CuC. Worth a try anyway to me.
Great link John, I somehow knew this was occurring and was feeling for those that stayed to fight the fight….
Questions to ponder, answer, or ignore as you all see fit:
(and I apologize if they have already been addressed on the site)
1a. The WSJ reports that Tepco delayed using seawater to cool #1 in order to save the reactor from permanent damage.
( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576207912642629904.html?mod=e2tw )
But I also read that #1 was about to be retired in March. Is this true that the reactor was to be retired, or was it likely to be inspected then have it’s license renewed?
1b. After the Niigata earthquake the Kashiwazaki plant was shut down for months, so is it plausible that Tepco would take any risk to protect an asset that was likely to never be used again?
It seems that if the #1 reactor really was at end of life, it goes a long way in acquitting Tepco from the charge of gross indifference for financial gain (a characteristic the press loves to attribute to corporations) and instead points toward poor understanding of the severity of the situation and an overwhelmed response team.
2. Has seawater ever been used to cool a reactor by direct injection in the past? How about spent storage pools?
3. The reactors seemed to blow up a few hours after the seawater injection started on each respective reactor. My understanding is that the explosions were all from H2, which could have accumulated while hot and exploded hours later, even though cooler temperatures meant it was being produced at a lower rate,…. but my experience with He tells me that it does not hang around for long outside a solid enclosure. Maybe they only vented hours after beginning the injection? Does this sequence make sense to those who are experienced with the technology? It bothers me that all the explosions seemed to happen hours after seawater injection started.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:27 AM by jcp
Further, on Mar 15, there were no holes cut in R4 roof to ventilate any H2 from SFP. This was done on R5 & 6 buildings post R4 building explosion.
Yes true, R4 had done a full core offload to the pool so heat generation would have been greater from the fuel pool. What I don’t understand though with that theory is why they have not attacked R4 as aggressively with water….
It is credible I guess that R4 pool emptied and due to the large hot load of fuel ended up in a zirc water reaction zone producing hydrogen… I am just not sure about that yet to buy it. But the building did explode….
Are you sure? If you know you’re gonna release hydrogen into a confined space, wouldnt you keep the sparks away? I mean, sparks dont occur all that often. Static electricity release maybe? I cant imagine that place to be ‘sparky’ for any reason.
Maybe there is some technical explaination of how hydrogen from unit 3 could migrate to unit 4. Not knowing all the design features could be the answer….
It is possible they shared some portion of their ventilation systems as paired units….
any after quake shake of the building with damaged structural components could have resulted in a static discharge though….
Can someone please confirm or deny the rumour that 5 workers have died at Fukushima? Ive seen this rumour in a couple of articles but Ive yet to find a reliable source of information.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:37 AM by Mattias Svensson
Does anyone know how much rod has to stick out the water to allow the tip to get hot enough to start forming hydrogen? Or is this real nonsense?
Scrambling to check pictures to determine number of discharge stacks per unit….
That must be it, its a steel construction from the ponds up.
Steven Chu, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics and pro-nuclear Secretary of Energy, will be on many of the Sunday Morning (EDT,USA) TV talking-head news shows. Should be interesting!
I can’t remember how I came across this link, but the experiments described in it are mind blowing. They actually blew up test reactors to see how far the radioactive material would go. They tried to get maxium release and most of it came down very locally, counter to all the models they had. These experiments would not be allowed anymore and I’m surprised they ever were.
http://radscihealth.org/rsh/realism/RealismApp1a-attch.pdf
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:46 AM by William Fairholm
em1ss – having been a monkey a long time ago, I thought if you were worried about the skin effect you’d want to use braided wire instead of solid single core.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:47 AM by ew-3
Found it several days ago, just got around to reading it.
@bchtd1parrot
One confirmed death from a crane accident, two workers missing… That’s all the news I’ve heard in japan about deaths and missing people at daiichi and daini
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20110320/t10014790841000.html
Jsdf are spraying water on number four now, eleven trucks in total… They sprayIng is going to finish this morning to allow time for power cables to be connected
The fire department is also preparing to spray tonight from 6 until morning
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:49 AM by Drew
Grrr, can’t find a pre accident photo. Anyone have one to link to count the vent stacks on site prior to the accident?
If there weren’t one per unit, the vent paths were shared…..
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posted 20 March 2011 at 10:52 AM by Ms. Perps
One of their conclusions is that:
“If realistic consequence scenaros are considered, it becomes apparent that evacuation of very large areas is neither needed nor effective. The principal threat to the majority of the population is the passage of a dispersing radioactive cloud. This cloud would contain mostly the noble gases xenon an krypton. Against this threat, sheltering may be the best option in the short term (hours and days), and time then exists to determine what long-term actions (months and years) are required. There is no acute need for evacuation.”
[Please supply link to the above quote]
I wondered if they could possibly be using something like linseed oil and have had spontaneous combustion. Well, maybe:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4002892
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power / Volume 133 / Issue 5 / Research Papers / Nuclear Power
Investigations and Countermeasures for Deactivation of Hydrogen Recombination Catalyst at Hamaoka Units 4 and 5
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power — May 2011 — Volume 133, Issue 5, 052918
The hydrogen concentration in the outlets of off-gas recombiners increased at Hamaoka Units 4 and 5, and their reactors could not continue the startup operations. Therefore, we investigated why the recombination reactions were deactivated …. Two types of deactivation mechanisms were found …. decrease in the active surface area of alumina as support material due to dehydrative condensation. The other cause was the catalyst being poisoned by organic silicon compounds. Organic silicon was introduced from the organosilicon sealant used at the junctions of low-pressure turbines. We also found that a boehmite rich catalyst was deactivated more easily by organic silicon … the organic silicon poisoning the catalyst surface. …the linseed oil that used to be used at the plants was applied again as sealant in the low-pressure turbine casing instead of organosilicon sealant….”
Pure speculation, that’s an oil ‘sealant’ rather than ‘lubricant’ but if someone left an oily rag or an open can when evacuating the site, that’s a possible ignition source.
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:02 AM by Hank Roberts
IF someone can find a clearer picture pre accident please do so. This image seems to show units 1 & 2 sharing a common vent stack. Units 3 & 4 also sharing a common vent stack.
To get there you would have to a ventilation interface, which could explain the hydrogen explosion on unit 4 despite an empty reactor vessel….
I am looking for confirmation or denial of shared vent stacks between unit 1& 2 along with units 3 & 4.
@em1ss: “any after quake shake of the building with damaged structural components could have resulted in a static discharge though….”
yes, I was about to mention that.
My recollection from following Sky News and CNN was that the reports of most of the explosions emerged near simultaneously with reports of the most major aftershocks in the area of the power plant..
-Ferg
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:05 AM by Fergal
A good question raised here about why the hydrogen explosion on unit 4 may have identified another significant design fault with these units….
A shared vent stack by paired units……
Ms Perps
Have you seen the number of visitors to this post? Overnight comments will be moderated, but due to the overwhelming value of the site it is not closed for comments overnight. That would under the current circumstances be inhumane to my opinion.This is not standard operational business i assure you. Please… i mean… please.
I know that some people currently resident in Japan find their way here looking for information that will help them make decisions for their personal situations. I have written a commentary on this, to which I link below. I hope this is acceptable to the moderators here, and in fact, if you find the article helpful, would welcome it if you displayed a link to it in a visible place on your website until the acute panic especially in Tokyo has subsided.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/axel-lieber/why-i-stay-in-tokyo/10150164049983623
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:10 AM by axellieb
Barry – would it be possible to start an evolving new thread that specifically captures and addresses what went wrong as regards design, implementation, operation, regulation, redesign/modification, accident event and response. I think this is about to become the main focus of media reporting and you might want to get ahead on that one and see what can be pieced together. I am happy to contribute a basic doc regarding design considerations and failure analysis processes for some context. This must all move soon to how what has been happening.happened in these spaces and how they map to what is being done to today and what is being proposed in G4..
Its oerson nice to feel that my mind is now on this rather than the direct event, feeling currently that the authorities may well have gotten over the hill – which is a matter of significant relief.
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:12 AM by concerned
I hope she’s not commenting on our discussions, which I believe to be mostly technical in nature…. I try to prefice opinion with statements of opinion….
Technical information has not been edited (not enough expertise/time anyway) We leave that for Barry. Links to popular media, government information etc are checked and only edited if found to have been interpreted/edited by commenter’s to suit their own opinion.
Again, no time to read all posts, maybe this has been discussed already? And I know benefit of hindsight and all that, but spent fuel rod ponds on the 4th floor?, in the most earthquake prone area of the planet? Jeees!!!
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:17 AM by unclepete
@William Fairholm
That sounds like an entirely different way of thinking, but it might make sense. Specially since evacuation itself isnt entirely safe. The story itself is totally cruel. Lets try make a small disaster to see what a big one looks like. The data is very valuable, assuming its correct.
unclepete
A niner didnt hurt it. Besides, the further down the pond, the longer the way between pond and core. straight down is not an option. The main structure is a very solid construction. Its not the fourth floor of an ordinairy building.
@em1ss
Here’s a pretty large high-res overhead shot of Fukushima Daiichi pre-accident.
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:24 AM by Chrisma
Sorry, that photo is after the quake and tsunami, but before the hydrogen explosions. I don’t know if that’s helpful for what you were looking for.
Isnt it true that short of a tsunami, this plant would have been mainly in operational condition now?. After a niner? some building.
Is the vent stack the extremely tall tower?
Some questions about pump motors may be answered by reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_motor
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:29 AM by David B. Benson
wouldn’t open anyways…. The vent stacks look like radio towers if anyone is trying to find a better photo. The one I had seemed to show one centered between the paired units….
Which logically would then imply an interface between units due t the common stacks for containment venting. Ultimately hydrogen too…
Good photo Hank and yes. Looks like two stacks possibly for units 1 & 2, a single stack centered between units 3 & 4 pre-accident.
@bchtdf1parrot Ok , you are correct. But Barry mentioning the “sloshing” before.I must admit I did not think of that , but the japanese engineers would be familiar with that , wouln’t you think? Again, hindsight is great in a situation like this.
Evening David. About out of time here and tired ….
The stack left of unit 1 may not be a vent stack which is why I say possibly two for units 1 & 2. The other two stacks are centered between the units and in my judgement vent stacks for elevated release….
They are very similar in design and if you look further right likely same as units 5 & 6.
hmmm, that seems to conflict with the sketch barry provided though of the unit locations…. Still unclear as his site sketch shows units 1 & 2 in the middle of the site. 3 & 4 to the left.
I am still struggling with reaching a zirc water reaction on decay heat in an ambient environment that quickly. But it’s possible I guess to happen and generate enough hydrogen to blow Unit 4 reactor building up.
This is considering that fuel was not just shutdown from fission in the core….. Some time had passed….
night all, wishes for good luck for all that are struggling in Japan, at the nuclear site and the others suffering from the natural disasters.
em1ss, on 20 March 2011 at 11:34 AM — Good evening!
From left to right the units are 4, 3, 2, 1 and then furthest right 5 then 6. The single vent stack furthest to the right is, in my opinion, for the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility.
In any case, that 3 & 4 share a vent stack clarifies several matters for me.
Considering these reactors were based on a design made for boats, they should have build it on a boat. Nose first it can even take a tsunami. How about that for hindsight?
Would those peole who are pushing the “5 people have already been killed at Fukushima” please tell us how they have been killed.
I can find no reference to anyone dying from radiation poisoning, but several to people having been crushed or having a heart attack.
All you do is create FUD to frighten people in Japan and around the World. I have relatives in Japan and all I want to hear are the FACTS not someone’s sick, premature interpretation of what has/will happen. That is wh
I think Barry should ban these obvious trolls but that is his decision.
Gas mixture from U3 to U4 via the vent stack? Thats a no no to the every first next chimney sweep. For what reason? Theres no advantage at having those vents linked.
@bchtd1parrot 11.08
Sorry – I don’t understand your point. I think the MODERATOR was saying people who post their comments should check the rules before posting and that the mods were checking links for outrageous editing of them to suit the commenter’s opinion. Good on ’em. I agree the task is mammoth – maybe they are working in shifts:-)
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:01 PM by Ms. Perps
Re casualties from radiation, ABC has this in a story today:
“Six workers at a quake-stricken nuclear power plant have been exposed to high levels of radiation but are continuing working there, an official at the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said.
They have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation.
“There has been no adverse effect on their health,” TEPCO’s Takeo Iwamoto said. It was not immediately known if they had been reassigned to different tasks.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/20/3168579.htm?section=justin
As I understand it, the injuries & missing people are to do with either the tsunami, or the blasts from the hydrogen explosions – no casualties so far from radiation.
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:08 PM by Bern
Note also that the ABC article I quote above states that water contamination, while detectable, is 200 times less than the allowable safety limit.
Here’s photos of R1 – 4. The R4 shot seems to indicate that the side with most damage is towards the turbine bdlg, not R3.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/reactors-status.html?ref=weekinreview
The time sequence for R4 also indicates a H2 explosion in R4.
As far as R3 vent vapors going to common vent stack and then backflowing to R4 and ending up in the building top, I think that is unlikely. High stacks have chimney draft effect which sucks on both R3 and R4 if common connection.
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:12 PM by Leo Hansen
bchtd1parrot, on 20 March 2011 at 11:57 AM — The possiblity of hydrogen making its way from #3 into #4 seems to have existed; recall that everything was subjected to ground motions from a stupendous earthquake.
Anyone having loved ones on that plant is not going to be watching the news, this blog or any other. He or she is going to be sitting before some altar, burning insence by the ton praying to all gods the door bell wont ring. This is a time of emotions. The question: “Did anyone cry wolf?” sounds like “Someone cried wolf!” only two blocks down the street. Thats a fact of life.
We hold the fort in case someone comes with a question and when he does we answer. No matter how ignorent the question. Someone finds a feed, he dumps it here. We look at it for answers. You will not find remarks here concerning cars, women or football.
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:14 PM by bchtd1parrot
Make that cars and football. I believe someone mentioned his wife.
David, disconnect ok, but connect? I have no drawings but it sounds incredible.
I worked at Tengiz with a single 300 m tall poured concrete stack serving 4 SRU/TGU units. Inside stack were 4 separate large SS pipes, each venting a unit separately, not interconnected.
Common stack does not mean commingled. Would have caught this on Hazops review.
http://returnofking2003.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/armchair-nuclear-experts-sprouting/
If you are worried about the radiation levels at the plant, the raising of allowable levels for the workers etc please read this excellent article to put you mind and rest and to confront the mis-information of posters like steviesmythes on BNC earlier.
BTW Barry’s blog is given a mention.
Jogged memory – 2 poured concrete stacks, 1 300m other 100m. Each stack served 2 SRU/TGU and had 2 large SS pipe not interconnected.
Mention in good or mention in bad?
bchtd1parrot
I think we are singing from the same songbook here but we are both on a different key:-). BTW I am a long term visitor/commentator to BNC (from the outset) and am well aware what is to be found on BNC. Please don’t patronise me there are more important issues than male chauvanism rigt now.
Leo, did those two channels run inside a third? i mean, could damage on either channel have caused them to create a configuration that allows the suggested transport of hydrogen?
Clarifies status of #3, #5 & #6 spent fuel pools:
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Fuel_pond_work_at_Fukushima_1903111.html
At Tengiz, the two vertical large dia SS vent pipes were inside the common poured concrete stack. The pipes were separated by at least 2 feet. If one pipe was damaged, the gases from that hole would have gone up the inside of the concrete stack and vented at the top. If 2 SS pipesdamaged, the same thing would have occurred. Since press inside stack is atmospheric, there is no delta pressure driving force to send gases backwards into units.(or R bdlgs)
Many thanks for your continuing assessments.
Is it true that you sleep occasionally?
posted 20 March 2011 at 12:40 PM by Doug
No male chauvenism on this side, i am a bit like a doggy in this kind of situation. Someone points a finger, i bite. This is no time to blame whoever for whatever. Thats what i believe. Thats not meant to partonise anyone, least of all someone who is, like you say, singin’ from the same songbook. I do not mean to offend you or any other in any way. That risk i will run later. I’m sitting on a brainfart i cant let fly without an active monitor, too risky. And for what its worth, i’m glad youre here.
Two bits I recall– units 3 and 4 share a common control room. And the “negative air pressure” system” when operating kept any radiation away from the operators in the control room. That (warning, logic …) must mean it pulled away anything vented from the reactor and fuel storage in the form of gas, and so would also include hydrogen).
So (warning, pure speculation) a failure of the ventilation fans/negative air pressure system would mean that any gas that should have been pulled out and through a carbon filter in the usual way would instead go — wherever the wind took it.
I know it takes very little difference in air pressure to change airflow around and through a building–a breeze will do it, and the airflow will change with the wind direction.
So assume first it accumulated at the top of Unit 3, and when that blew off, remembering it was near freezing and no heat, would they have closed doors inside the building to stay warm? Without forced ventilation, some of the lightweight hydrogen could have been carried through the common control area, wherever that is, and ended up in Unit 4 — whatever there was could accumulate in whatever dead air space there was in the upper reaches of Unit 4. The different explosion–lower down–might be from hydrogen being carried in through a common shared building or vent, but trapped inside below the roof deck space? Add one ignition source …
I recall for gas combustion appliances (heaters, hot water heaters) of the type built for “sealed combustion” (they breathe outside air and exhaust to the outside) the installation rule is that both the intake and the exhaust vent have to be on the same side of the building, perhaps even concentric — because if they’re around a corner from each other, airflow over the building can be enough to reverse the airflow through the combustion chamber.
End wild speculation. Time will tell.
@David B Benson 12:38 PM
Same site has info re R4 spent fuel pond and bdlg 4 explosion.
I’m only raising possibilities, not assigning probabilities. I fail to see any probable source of the explosion of #4, yet the damage is considable [shown in the link given a bit upstream].
Hank Roberts, on 20 March 2011 at 12:41 PM — Thank you; that is a third possibility.
Leo Hansen, on 20 March 2011 at 12:42 PM — Yes, yesterday’s
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Insight_to_Fukushima_engineering_challenges_1803112.html
at the end.
However, I find that explanation only one of several possiblities, certainly not (yet) definitive.
@David B Benson 12:42: Isn’t H2 generated from R4 SFP low water and hot fuel assemblies a potential source? Is it probable?, well we at least know that it didn’t come from R4 reactor vessel or primary containment since that had no fuel assemblies. The H2 backflow from R3 (damaged at the time) to R4 via common vent stack seems to me to be unlikely.
Thanks Leo, so U4 explosion must have been from U4 SFP. What bugs me is that ( Correct me if i’m wrong) that SFP has concrete damage to some depth. That doesnt make sense to me. Its just a bit of bang gas. Large surfaces like the roof ok, but concrete? Considering its the same kind of concrete that survived a 9.0 quake and its a part that would not likely be challenged by the quake itself, that seems odd.
bchtd1parrot: Earthquake is strong shaking motion laterally and is considered in design. A confined vapor explosion of H2 and O2 creates strong outward pressure blast force and could rupture walls. The only thing that confuses me is that the green platform and machinery in the R4 photo did not looke overly damaged…however it was surrounded by blast not trying to confine blast.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:02 PM by Leo Hansen
If you look at that explosion, you can see a lot of stuff fall right back down. Perhaps concrete panels fell and struck something
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:04 PM by Stead
Leo Hansen, on 20 March 2011 at 12:54 PM — I find that source for the #4 explosion highly improbable for two reasons, one being the location of the damage to the external structure. That does not mean I disregard that possibility; it only means that it is now but one of three possibilites none of which seem very likely.
The damage assessment will eventually be done and presumably we will be able to read (at least) the conclusions of the resulting report. In the meantime I’m a bit disapointed in WNN to have so firmly stated a conclusion which is at odds with a helicopter siting of water still remaining in the #4 spent fuel pond [before the various rewaering exercies to that #4 SFP].
Perhaps the butt end of an H-section
“Holes have been bored through the roofs of reactor buildings 5 and 6 in an 11-hour operation to ensure that hydrogen can disspate naturally. Each unit has three holes measuring seven centimetres. Tokyo Electric Power Company did not say that hydrogen was being produced, but that the move to bore holes was a precaution.”
Does anybody know how they managed to cut/drill/bore holes through the roof of reactors 5 and 6? From outside? From the inside?
Also I would have thought that there would be “blast panels” or doors as part of the original design to prevent the kind of damage that was caused by the explosions/over pressuring that we have seen in #4.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:09 PM by Ernie Hamilton
So we have several variables here. There’s the draft through the control room, the afterdraft from the blast at U3, the tendency of hydrogen to go up, the tendency of cold outside air entering through U3 to go down and turbulence of those last two. It must have been a hydrogen explosion, or at least gas. The crane is almost spotless. My explanation for that is that it suffered pressure from all sides meaning it was ‘inside’ of the explosion.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:09 PM by bchtd1parrot
Perhaps it was a brief nuclear excursion at the outside wall side of the pool.
I have worked in many control rooms and never was the HVAC connected in any way to process systems piping or vents. The reason is that process/safety sytems can have high pressure gasses that would backflow into HVAC and not be safe.
Another image
this one shows, just above-right of center, a white linear feature connecting the base of the tall tower and branching to both reactor buildings 3 and 4. I’d _speculate_ that is a ventilation duct meant to carry air drawn from both buildings and send it up and out the tower high above the site. (Those tall towers are ventilation exhausts? Anyone confirm? There are four towers — one between each pair of reactors, and one for the building off to the side that I think is the common storage pool.
Anyone know? There’s something that might have been the same design between buildings 1 and 2, but incomplete — either broken or covered by darker material.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:15 PM by Hank Roberts
Japan’s wind industry hails earthquake-resilient turbines
Japan’s wind turbines survived last week’s earthquake and as a result utilities have now asked wind farm operators to boost power output to make up for energy shortages in the country, the leader of the Japanese wind energy association has revealed.
Imagine the response from the wind farm operators… “Sure, not a problem. We’ll get right on to that. Just waiting for the wind to pick up…“
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:15 PM by Tom Keen
Latest news on NHK says that power is restored to units #5 and #6, and water temps in those SFPs are dropping significantly. Water cannons were directed at #4 this morning and now they are taking a break to get some electrical work done around there. Water operations to resume this afternoon. Equipment is being evaluated at units #1 and #2 prior to powering anything on there. 良し, that’s all from me for now.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:15 PM by seamus
Did you watch the clip somewhere around the top of the post? Its only a simulation, but they indicated the halfway submerged rods as red hot from just over the surface. The way i see it, those rods start generating H2 the moment they stick their heads over the pool surface. They may generate heat like wild, but not or hardly conduct it.
Thanks seamus
Thanks for that. I think all our nerves are a little on edge right now and not many of us have had a lot of sleep. Oh to be young again and be able to switch off and fall asleep as soon as your head hits the hits the pillow :-)
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:18 PM by Ms. Perps
JAIF damage reports after R3 Mar 14 blast on did not indicate damage to R4. That was reported only later. I believe that R3 blast effects did not cause R4 damage.
@Tom Keen
Theres plenty to boost on wind milling, trust me. I ran quite a few. Adjustment at the expense of wear and tear. Speed up repairs. Cancel inspection outs. That kinda stuff.
What are you talking about, we are young! All the way to the end. I have no time to slowly die, i’m way too busy being born.
@Tom Keen, on 20 March 2011 at 1:15 PM,
Wow what kind of BS is coming from the Japanese wind energy association? I suppose they are going to claim they’re powering all of Japan now as if nothing else is running.
We need a report of how the other nuclear plants are doing all around Japan at this time.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:31 PM by konst
Rolling blackouts as Japanese efforts continue
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Rolling_blackouts_as_Japanese_efforts_continue-1403117.html
Leo Hansen, on 20 March 2011 at 1:18 PM — Do not #3 & #4 share a common wall? If so, the #3 explosion could have impacted some of #4 without the effect being visible.
@konst
The Irish westcoast is so windy, if they would be placing windmills like the Danes do, they’d be exporting electricity. Bad sleeping thow. Wovv… Wovv.. Wovv… Wovv… etc. etc. etc.
http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2011/03/12/situation-at-fukushima-nuclear-power-station/
If you look at U4 building on the photo 3 min after the second explosion at U3, it does not make sense at all that the building damage of U4 was related to U3 explosions.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:42 PM by Eagles Eyes
David, check the sat pics, Way too much stuff in between that should have been blown away then too. Question : What exactly speaks against the blast in U4 comming from its own SFP?
@Eagles Eyes 1:42 Thank you for photo, it confirms JAIF reports that R4 bdlg was not damaged by R3 bdlg explosion on Mar 14.
Is it posible that the blast in U3 propagated through the interconecting structure causing a breach into U4? I do not know the geometry in there but blast/shock waves can do some pretty strange things with all of the phase transitions in those buildings (Multiple water pools, widely varing concrete densities, possible via with high pressure piping between/joining buildings etc.
posted 20 March 2011 at 1:52 PM by Joshua
Some encouraging wrap-up news on the Fukushima situation from Japan,
Seems to begiving the same analysis as is being posted here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/20/japan-idUSL3E7EJ0820110320
bchtd1parrot, on 20 March 2011 at 1:47 PM — I only raise the possibility of some lateral blast making its way into #4 without any outward sign of damage to #4. I have no means of assessing a probability.
Hydrogen from #4 SFP would, one would suppose, be largely confined to the top story and damage would be to the sheet metal sides and the roof, as in #3. That concrete, much further down and on two sides was removed suggests that the hydrogen was down there, making the top of #4 SFP an unlikely source.
It is quite difficult to reach a high enough temperature to oxidize zirconium using air or steam. This makes the spent fuel as a source unlikely, especially given the radiation readings for #3 versus #4.
I’m not suggesting impossibility, but rather trying to obtain possible sources and routes for the hydrogen gas to create the explosion results in the aerial photograph. IMHO hydrogen from #3, by some route, remains a possible source.
> response from the wind farm operators
I’d guess that would be “defer shutting down for any routine maintenance, take a chance on running longer, do the maintenance during the middle of the lowest wind period even if it’s off-shift hours, and run closer to the redline if they have high winds before shutting down to protect the hardware” — what would you do, if you knew there was a need to wring out everything you could?
The hydro plant operators, assuming there are some, could run their reservoirs down, trading off a risk of low water later for power now.
I have no expertise in wind energy, but there are options, always, to wring more performance at more cost or more risk.
And always, there’s conservation — besides the roling blackouts.
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Ms. Perps, on 20 March 2011 at 1:56 PM — Yes, except using rather lurid language.
Joshua, on 20 March 2011 at 1:52 PM — Yes, that is a possibility, but one cannot say how likely or how much damage that would do to #4.
Hank, that white linear thing, that would be the vent pipe right? They both bend into the direction of the stack, but what is that thing sticking the other way? A valve? A fan? And then look at the pipe at the top of the stack. Thats just one pipe. To my carpenters eye test too narrow to contain the two down on the ground. And its not a concrete or brick structure, its one pipe in an open steel stack. If the blast at U3 rips the inventory out of that connection into the stacks direction, there’ s your connection between 3 and 4.
We have heard this all before – 40 years ago…..
Interview with Greg Minor,
Former Senior Nuclear Engineer with General Electric
In 1976 Minor with two other senior engineers from General Electric resigned because they had come to believe that nuclear energy represented a “profound threat to man”. Together the three experts had 54 years experience in the nuclear industry. Greg Minor is interviewed by Mike Rann.
Rann: What prompted your decision to resign from General Electric.
Minor: Well, it was a series of events that happened over several years, but some of the primary reasons include the
fact that I began to see the link between the nuclear reactor programme we are using for commercial power and the
weapons problem which is being proliferated around the world. There were also a series of accidents and problems occurring, such as the Browns Ferry incident in Alabama. This was a plant I had worked on and it came dangerously close to the accident we are all trying to prevent.
Rann: What actually happened at Browns Ferry?
Minor: Browns Ferry was a plant where we had done very careful and improved design to try to prevent a single event from wiping out all the emergency systems that are used to protect the reactor and protect the public from an accident. But what had basically happened was that a single event, a fire caused by a lighted candle being used by an electrician checking airflow in the cable spreading room – wiped out 1,600 cables which connect the control room with the reactor. In doing so, the fire – which burned for seven hours – wiped out all the safety functions of the emergency core cooling systems that are normally called on in an emergency condition to save the reactor from a dangerous situation. Fortunately it didn’t quite come to the condition where it needed those emergency core cooling systems. If it had, they would not have been available. (Two of Browns Ferry reactors, supplying 15% of the total electricity demand for the huge Tennessee Valley Authority, had to be “scrammed” when erratic readings began to appear on the controls. Browns Ferry was out of action for many months and repairs cost tens of millions of dollars. Until the Three Mile Island/Harrisburg incident in April 1979, the Browns Ferry incident was regarded by nuclear critics and advocates alike as potentially the most serious incident in the history of the nuclear industry.)
Rann: The Browns Ferry incident was really the culmination of a number of very silly mistakes, particularly human
error. If the safety and control systems could be made more foolproof, would this remove most of your doubts about
nuclear power?
Minor: Well, I think the thing we learnt from the Browns Ferry plant was that you cannot make them more foolproof.
The thing that happens is that human element. Human error in either design oversight or the problems we didn’t
foresee in designing the plant, or in the manufacturing where a manufacturer didn’t follow the quality procedures or
the installation procedures, or maintenance problems. It was a maintenance problems that happened to catch Browns Ferry. But it could be any of those that would produce the accident in some other plant, regardless
of how carefully you think you have designed it.
Rann: Supporters of nuclear power say it is cleaner than other forms of power generation. They say it is less
wasteful, less environmentally disruptive. When you look at the track record of nuclear power generation over
the years, isn’t the Browns Ferry incident really the exception that proves the rule: the rule being that nuclear
power is efficient and pretty well safe?
Minor: Well, you have to be very careful in making that statement about cleanliness. A nuclear reactor is only
clean if it operates exactly as it is designed and these incidents around the United States and around the world
where reactors have released radio-activity into the environment, which they are not designed to release, and which ·
really overrides the rule of cleanliness they all like to speak about. The Browns Ferry incident was, as far as proving the rule that reactors are safe and clean, I would say, quite the opposite. It proves that they are vulnerable and they were very lucky that this reactor accident didn’t go all the way.
Rann: What about the potential benefits? Most proponents of nuclear energy would concede that the risk can
never be zeroed, but don’t the benefits from nuclear power more than compensate for what the proponents
describe as a very slight risk?
Minor: In my opinion they do not. The risks are so large that it is hard to put it on a scale that we normally think of in
any mechanical or technical disaster. The risks of a nuclear accident can be so devastating and so widespread and last such enormously long periods of time. We are talking about thousands and thousands of years of contamination of an area which may make it uninhabitable forever. These are dangers of a scale we do not normally think of.
Rann: What sort of catastrophe, then, could have resulted from the Browns Ferry incident?
Minor: The danger at Browns Ferry was that during the process of trying to get this reactor under control, when it experienced this devastating fire which was burning up the control cables, the operators had to relieve the pressure
inside the reactor and in doing so they had to manually open some valves which normally they would not open. But in manually opening those valves they released the pressure but they also lost a large part of the cooling water that
normally covers the reactor core, and that’s the concern. Because it you lose the cooling water and it gets below the
surface of the core, then you begin to have core melting and the danger would be that this core melting would
release radioactive material which was contained in there. If it went on further to melt out of the pressure vessel and out of the containing building, in a “China Syndrome” situation, then you would have that radio-activity released to the
public and the environment. And that would be a very, very serious accident.
[Mr. Minor is a anti-nuclear activist and was a consultant for the film “China Syndrome”.]
Source: Adelaide Independent
pages 6 – 7
@ David B Benson 12:59
The R4 picture
clearly shows the R4side wall blown out is at and above the green machinery at the top of the SFP. Also see that concrete & rebar blown out not in, indicating an internal blast.
Also blasts propagate thru open space and the presence of damage to walls only meant that the blast wave could propagate to there, not that H2 & O2 were present there.
That said, I’m not sure why the R4 roof was not blowen off. Maybe we dont have that picture.
Re R3 blast being ducted into R4 would only make sense if duct is stronger than R4 walls.
Sraying has finished at No 4 reactor.
A couple of people have mentioned their concern about the refinery fire in Chiba. Lack of information on this has been bothering me too. Usually this kind of event would merit ongoing attention.
Anyway, this is the most recent article I could find:
http://bit.ly/g6Cb0i (in Japanese).
The following is a paraphrasing of the article, not strictly a translation, but pretty close fact-wise (if anyone has additional newer info, please post):
As of March 16, 13:30 the fire is still burning. To extinguish the fire all the remaining LPG in the tank needs to burn itself out, which is expected to take a few more days. Water is being sprayed and other measures are being taken to prevent any spread of the fire. As well, efforts to extinguish the fire itself are continuing, but at this point the fire is still burning.
The gas is the same type of gas used by people in their homes, so this fire is not expected to pose any health threat. There are some rumors circulating on the Internet about exposure risk especially in the case of rain, but “there is not truth to this” (Note: the article shows this as quote, but not attributed to anyone in particular).
All operations are currently suspended at the facility.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:29 PM by neilvw
Dear Bazza
To paraphrase Kipling:
“You are a man my son”
We have always been proud of you and your achievements but never more proud than we are now.
posted 20 March 2011 at 2:38 PM by Barry's Mum and Dad
Time to hit that pillow. Maybe hitting it hard works. Thanks for today, Goodnight. ;))
More good news re ratiuation levels
TEPCOSAYS RADIATION LEVELS CONTINUE TO DECLINE
Tokyo Electric Power Company says radiation levels around the compound at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are on the decline since water-spraying began in earnest on Saturday afternoon.
The company told reporters that the radiation level at the plant’s headquarters building, located some 500 meters northeast of the No. 3 reactor, dropped to 2,625 microsieverts per hour at 8:30 on Sunday morning.
The reading shows a drop of more than 800 microsieverts from 18 hours ago–about the time the water-spraying at the No.3 reactor began.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:49 +0900 (JST)
Leo Hansen, on 20 March 2011 at 2:19 PM — The #3 explosiions were clearly different events than the subsequent #4 explosion. The (presumed) hydrogen came from somewhere, possibly #3 or reactions in the #4 SFP.
But the #4 explosion didn’t take off the roof and did take off concrete walls quite far down. One might suspect eartquake damage, but measurements at #3 were just over 500 gals and the units were designed to take 600 gals; quite unlikely that #4 concrete sustained any significnt damage.
So I entertain the possibility of a route for hydrogen so that an actual explosion could destroy reinforced concrete and still leave the roof intact.
Just trying to avoid leaving any credible alternatives out, thus not jumping to conclusions.
neilvw, on 20 March 2011 at 2:29 PM — Try the Mobile, Alabama, newpaper. Sister city to Ichihara City and sending aid.
Off to sleep too…….
Were those buildings designed for an internal blast? I remember seeing a hole on the side of one of the units that looked very regular, like a blow out pannel. I would guess that being a containment building it was designed contain what it could then fail. Would the design criteria be to hold the maximum overpressure and fail catastrophically or take a lesser load anf fail gracefully?
bchtd1parrot:
The difference in average power between 50 hz and 60 hz is 20%. So running a 60 hz pump on 50 hz power will probably just provide less pumping power. Running a 50hz on 60 hz might burn it out – you would probably be eating up all of the safety margin (typically 20%).
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:03 PM by Michael J. Strickland
Joshua, on 20 March 2011 at 2:55 PM — I don’t know. From my inexpert interpretation of the aerial photo of the blast damage to #4, I suspect that the exterior walls were in precast sections; the walls appear to have failed along the connections between those precast panels.
That said, that form of construction wasn’t so common that long ago, but I otherwise have no way the explain, even to myself, that photgraph.
Take it with a big grain of salt, please.
Sounds like things keep progressing towards a safe situation – hope so.
“The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant is hopeful of connecting all six reactor cooling systems to external power by late tomorrow, a major step in bringing the nation’s nuclear emergency under control.
Cables were connected to the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors yesterday and technicians were testing this morning before activating them today.”
“Emergency services at the Fukushima plant were hopeful technicians could re-occupy the central control room this afternoon, making it easier to check various functions before external power was returned to the cooling systems.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nuclear-plant-to-supply-power-to-cooling-systems-at-two-fukushima-reactors/story-fn84naht-1226024926342
Temperatures in the spent fuel rod pools at Fukushima Daiichi’s No. 5 and No.6 reactor buildings had been brought back to normal levels today and the firemen doused the No.4 reactor – the condition of which caused a panic in Washington on Thursday.
Off until tomorrow.
This might be an interesting read:
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
INEEL/EXT-99-01318 December 1999
Ventilation Systems Operating Experience Review for Fusion Applications
http://www.inl.gov/technicalpublications/Documents/3318120.pdf
“This report is a collection and review of system operation and failure experiences for air ventilation systems in nuclear facilities. These experiences are applicable for magnetic and inertial fusion facilities since air ventilation systems are support systems that can be considered generic to nuclear facilities. The report contains descriptions of ventilation system components, operating experiences with these systems, component failure rates, and component repair times. Since ventilation systems have a role in mitigating accident releases in nuclear facilities, these data are useful in safety analysis and risk assessment of public safety. An effort has also been given to identifying any safety issues with personnel operating or maintaining ventilation systems….”
uh, yeah … sounds like the ventilation, as well as the cooling systems, needed power all the time.
“…Fans showed many problems in the occurrence reports, followed by modest numbers of filter problems, the circuit breakers, motors, controllers and instruments, dampers, electrical connections, relays, ducts, gaskets, and switches…. Moeller (1975) cataloged other nuclear industry experiences. These experiences showed that fires and explosions have occurred in ventilation systems, particularly in power plant off-gas systems that handle hydrogen gas…. Moeller (1979) then cataloged other, later experiences with these systems…. An important event from 1976 was also mentioned there, ice buildup in the upper portion of an exhaust stack at a boiling water reactor. Exhaust air backed up into the off-gas building. The air was rich in hydrogen, and the hydrogen deflagrated. The off-gas building was demolished (Bertini, 1980)….”
To Chris Warren at 2:15
So? Any conflict of interest there? I am not making any accusation but your motive for posting that piece was not at all clear to me. What exactly are you trying to assert? I’m just curious.
I’ll say right up front that in my opinion, that piece is just an example of the early format of anti-nuclear propaganda leading up to the golden opportunity of TMI where people could actually extol the horrors of a “meltdown” and the “China syndrome”. Except for the fact that nothing really happened.
So please clarify your reason for posting.
posted 20 March 2011 at 3:45 PM by K. Nyankoye
Cosmo Oil to Boost Processing at Yokkaichi, Sakaide Plants
How do the fossil fuel industries get away with this? A 40 year old nuclear power plant goes down, the whole nuclear industry world wide is shaken by it. An oil refinery goes up in flames, and they just say “That’s okay, we’ll just boost supply from elsewhere. Don’t worry about the impacts!“. No one batters an eyelid.
Can anyone confirm if there have been any fatalities from the Chiba refinery fire?
The latest (20th 11am) report from http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/index.php
notes, “There is immediate threat of
radioactive nuclides release from the spent fuel pools of Unit 3 and 4, because of incapability of cooling these pools.”
And i thought things seemed to be going well.
posted 20 March 2011 at 4:21 PM by Tom
K. Nyankoye, on 20 March 2011 at 3:45 PM said:
I think anyone reasonably sensitive to the needs of the global community would see the points being made. I don’t want to appear didactic but:
1) Greg Minor was a Senior Nuclear Engineer with General Electric
He indicates that:
1) Browns Ferry was a plant designed knowing the dangers if all the emergency systems were knocked out – but a nuke accident still erupted.
This has been the case repeatedly for 40 years.
2) We get the leading suggestion from Mike Rann (a Australian politician, who is now known as Mr “U-Rann-ium”)
If the safety and control systems could be made more foolproof, would this remove most of your doubts about nuclear power?
This suggestion has been floated regularly for over 40 years, now – with the results we now see.
3) 40 years ago, nuclear engineers concluded: the thing we learnt from the Browns Ferry plant was that you cannot make them more foolproof. BP’s oil rig represents similar phenonema. Although it is more likely that commercial cots cutting is a greater source of risk in nuclear power. In every new technology – unforseen risks create catastrophe – eg NASA’s two space shuttles.
Only slow learners need more than 40 years to lean the lessons. Browns Ferry, TMI, Chernobyl, Fukushima giver us one nuke disaster every 10 years (actually less than 40 years – the rate is one every 8.5 years. Improving safety does not reduce the risk if you increase the quantity.
4) Next ancient (now refuted?) proposition by Mike Rann,
isn’t the Browns Ferry incident really the exception that proves the rule: the rule being that nuclear power is efficient and pretty well safe?
The best exposure of this nuclear “rationality” is simply to publish it.
Nothing refutes the processes that has led to the modern nuclear nightmare better than the actual earlier words of nuclear pundits – eg Mike Rann. The real subtext is in Mike Rann, not the poor GE engineer being played by Rann.
5) The next fabulation from Rann was his attempted suggestion that:
don’t the benefits from nuclear power more than compensate for what the proponents
I wonder what his answer is now?
Imagine the risk in the future if Westinghouse or Chinese capitalists sell nuclear plants to Libya, Yemen, and Bahrain, and they are attacked in future political Middle Eastern volcanoes.
In short there is no:
conflict of interest there
there is no:
anti-nuclear propaganda
and pefull most will see the inherent denial in suggestions that:
TMI … nothing really happened.
Things are going well. Yes, cooling of the U3/4 SFP is not restored yet, but water is refilled. Potentially power can be restored to U3/4 after U1/2 and hopefully cooling of SFPs of U1-4 soon.
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@bchtd1parrot, thanks
when I watched the vid, after I posted, I also noticed that, :oops:
In here http://www.wickedmike.com/main-facts-about-the-japanese-tsunami-2011/ it states that the mg sets were in the basement. If that’s true then even if the tanks hadn’t been knocked over they presumably would have lost the MG sets due to flooding.
As a former electrician I would be wary of running 50Hz pumps on 60Hz power, especially in a mission critical situation. Also there may be other kit to which they want to get power that’s more sensitive to power frequency. But if that was the problem then TEPCo should not have made that mistake, but maybe they didn’t actually supply it..
@Tom – That statement has been there for several days, I guess it’ll stay like that as long as the real cooling system isn’t working.
posted 20 March 2011 at 6:12 PM by Phil Daniels
What if hey pumps are so damaged that they will not work once the turn on the power?
Is it possible to fix them?
If not will they have to continue what they are doing now for months or even years?
Surely that is the biggest problem. If they cant get control within the next few weeks then what?
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:21 PM by Mattias Svensson
‘Defense in depth’ backup systems to keep nuclear reactors and fuel storage pools cool all seem to depend on electric systems.
Safety depends entirely on electric motors driving cooling pumps. These motors are to be powered as follows; by electricity from the station’s turbines, by electricity from the grid, by diesel generators or by batteries.
Electric supply lines, motors, control systems and generators are all easily damaged by seawater. Diesels on the other hand are not, as long as air intakes, exhaust and fuel supplies are placed high enough.
If just one backup used pumps driven directly by diesel engines, by shaft, chain or belt, wouldn’t this add considerably to the overall safety?
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:24 PM by raynerpitt
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@ neilvw, thanks a lot for the information, the oil refinery fire is bothering me a lot, for several reasons
– it is far closer to big populated areas than the Fukushima plant
– it looks that the toxic fuel is spilling into the environment, spent or aflame, while the Fukushima fuel is still all contained inside aiproof containers
– I don’t know enough about refineries, but I cannot understand how is possible that a gas tank coulb BURN for many days a if it was a gas pipe connected to a large underground reservoir, instead of simply blast away
– I read nothing about the health risks caused by free flame combustion in open air of oil derivates, and the consequent breathing of different oxydes plus the environmental pollution of rain washed heavy black smoke
– we know the measurement of a Fukushima fart in µSv even 50 km away and two days after the fart happened, but I saw NO measurement data of any damage caused or inflicted to oil and oil related industry
if somebody has more accurate news, please let me know more on the subject.
posted 20 March 2011 at 8:40 PM by BerGonella
Hello Professor,
I’ve been following your updates the last couple of days and they’re great! My daily nwespaper is the FAZ, to which you gave an interview yesterday; it was refreshing to read opinions so contrary to the German media trend. And I agree with you that it is cynical to allow so much news space for potential dangers and consequences in a far-away country (Germany), when the misery of the people of Japan is real and tangible.
posted 20 March 2011 at 9:33 PM by Max
The burning tank you refer contains liquid petroleum gas. It has to evaporate to become combustible. It needs heat for that. The top of the tank is burning like a torch whilst the bottom is covered in ice. The greatest risk actually is the ice on the bottem. If it tears up the tanks lower level, the lpg floats out burning. Having the experience of standing face to face with about 120 kilos of lpg after opening the trunk of a car once i know it has to cook first. After a truck accident in a village south of Amsterdam some years ago 15 tons of lpg were vented smack in the middle of a village. What i do not understand about the burning tank is why they dont simply pump it empty.
Here’s one i need to drop now for this here as i believe it is in the better interst of the post.
The argument against deleting PARTS of text out of a comment is that it leaves the remaining text out of context and thus changes the message. I have noticed on this post that partialy deleted messages read totally beyond the intend of the initial message some times. Since the comments are not anonymus i suggest to consider full delete if any delete is needed or consideration of consequences for comment message when in need for partial delete. Being someone who sometimes depends on moderator intervention i would welcome this. Thank you.
Since there are obviously many very knowledgeable people here, I decided to ask if someone has any insight about how the situation at the 2nd reactor’s damaged wetwell torus should ultimately be managed?
The water there is certainly heavily contaminated with fission products and it would seem that it would be a very good idea to try to keep it out of the environment. What can be done about this, after the more pressing issues have been dealt with? Is it already too late to do anything?
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:10 PM by Tapio Peltonen
I don’t know what is going on with the explosion at the spent fuel points, but all I know is this: if the bottom of the ponds are still covered in water at near ambient pressures (<200 kPa), I cannot for the life of me get temperatures over 800 degrees Celcius at the top of the spent fuel rods in my thermo model. And this is a pretty simple heat transfer situation, even with very poor ventilation it does not happen if there is still water at the bottom of the pond.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:11 PM by Cyril R.
I expect that the answer to this question is “No one really knows”, but I’ll ask it anyway.
Let’s acknowledge that the GE/Toshiba/Hitachi Mark 1 reactors have done a remarkable job in containment. Despite being 40 years old, they have withstood an earthquake 7 times as severe as they were designed to do. Then they were hit with a major tsunami. Then there were these hydrogen venting explosions, various fires, and intermittent high pressures, temperatures, and likely partial melting from within the reactors. Along the way there have been hundreds of afterquakes, some as high in intensity as normal earthquakes. And perhaps another big earthquake is still to come.
How does one intelligently evaluate the risk of a reactor rupture at this point? Should the thinking be: ‘Well, the reactors have taken this much punishment already. They’re probably also likely to withstand whatever else Mother Nature can dish out from here on in’? Or should the thinking be: ‘We’ve already pushed these reactors too far and gotten lucky. Any other event could well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and cause a rupture’?
In other words, as we focus on reducing the risk of meltdown rupture, we also still have to contend with the current risk of quake rupture, which could negate all of our meltdown prevention efforts thus far. What do we know about the current general structural integrity of the reactors (other than “containment has not yet been breached”), how great is the risk of quake rupture, how bad would it be if it happened, and how great an evacuation perimeter should there be, given this risk, balanced against the risks posed by an evacuation itself?
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:23 PM by Cornelius
@bchtd1parrot,
thanks a lot for the explanation, I really did not know quite anything about LPG, knowing that it is really strange they do not try and pump it away, maybe it’s not possible to get close enough to the plant, because of fire.
anyhow, this it is not a reassuring situation, indeed.
I mean, now (if still aflame) the tanks are acting as big torches, but the risk of explosion of the “ice” is still clear and present?
what if it happens, do we know anything about evacuation plans?
and what about, of course, the pollution and the rise in cancer probability for the population in a 20 km range?
David and Hank,
David is likely correct that the tall structures are the offgas vent stacks which primarily vent the non – condensible gases from the units condenser. During normal operations this gas would be processed by the hydrogen recombiners prior to release. Without power, the recombiners do not function. I thought about this too after signing off last night.
There are accident strategies though that use that path as a vent path from the reactor vessel (via main steam to the condenser).
No ability to make a conclusion if it’s related to the explosion on unit 4 still for now.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:31 PM by em1ss
I guess no one has posted this yet: As of 19th 16:20, the LPG fire at the Cosmo Oil facility in Chiba has been put “under control without risk of spreading”. They’d put out a total of 6 statements over 9 days on the status since the fire started, all accessible directly from the main page of their website.
posted 20 March 2011 at 10:48 PM by Ctch
thanks Ctch, this is a very good new
Another thought that came to mind and I have been unable to confirm this except for links stating a fire had occurred early on in Unit 4.
Most large generators are cooled with hydrogen. In fire situations depending on the location this hydrogen is vented through the turbine building roof. Since unit 4 initially only had a fire it is plausable that a generator hydrogen venting evolution may have contributed.
@ BerGonella, what’s on fire is a huge tank of condensate (Butane, Propane), which burns fairly cleanly. It will have to burn itself out because it can’t be extinguished. It is doubtful any feeds to it are still delivering more HCs
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:05 PM by Stead
I don’t know if anyone has reported this here, but the latest JAIF reactor status report mentions that they are injecting seawater into the SFP of unit 2. This along with spray water to the SFPs of unit 3 and 4. This means they still have access to the normal ways of putting water into SFP 2, but maybe don’t have pumping to maintain cooling, but that is speculative. Still saying no outside AC power yet for 1 and 2. Does not mention if they will be injecting seawater into the SFP of unit 1
posted 20 March 2011 at 11:53 PM by William Fairholm
My mental picture of these processes is incomplete (Showing I have a firm grasp of the blindingly obvious.)
Can someone please comment on what is happening to the seawater after it is pumped into the plant?
I’ve been attributing the low reactor pressures (<0.02MPa in units 2 & 3) to some sort of containment rupture which prevents pressurization above atmospheric and allows leakage of the injected seawater. So where is it going? Is it carrying fission products?
Only part of the firetruck streams are hitting/staying in the SFPs. Again, are there fission products being carried away by the overflow?
Early on, there was concern about salt precipitation from the evaporation seawater. Is this no longer a concern?
Thanks for the level headed information. In contrast, a couple days ago one of our national news outlets referred to the "near certain death" faced by the plant workers. I think we all face that given enough time.
posted 21 March 2011 at 12:11 AM by dhill001
Now a confirmation in the last JAIF report for U4 SFP: “Hydrogen from the pool exploded.”
posted 21 March 2011 at 12:14 AM by Eagles Eyes
We’re starting to see the effect on food supply — I thought relevant here at bravenewclimate as it has to do with contamination spread and geography.
Samples of milk and spinach near the plant were found to be tainted. In the case of spinach, up to 54,100 Bq/kg of Iodine and 1,931 Bq/kg of Cesium. With these numbers, wouldn’t even the shorter-lived varieties of I and Cs require several months to reduce to international limits?
posted 21 March 2011 at 12:15 AM by Ctch
sorry Ctch, but where have you found those figures? t
the reading I found for the Tokyo water was very different (about 2.85 for iodine and 0.21 for cesium, as found HERE), can you confirm the figures, the unit and the source? it looks to me completely out of scale, given that is Bq/kg.
With the caveat that I haven’t seen either the spinach or reports other than massmedia about it, it seems most likely that the reading is from particles _on top of_ the leaves, not inside them.
So a good washing might be all that is needed to bring it down to safe levels.
Though, except in cases of severe food shortages, I’d guess that it’s just easier to junk it.
WRT now growing, not yet harvested spinach, it is hard to tell whether just a few heavy (clean) rain showers will be enough. It all depends on so many factors (particulate spread even over a field or in spots here and there, drainage, how it would be diluted etc).
Best case scenario would be hose the field down with clean water, problem goes away.
Worst case scenario would be unusable crop from this field for this growing season.
posted 21 March 2011 at 12:44 AM by Aspsusa
BerGonella – I think Ctch is talking about the reports of tainted milk and spinach from farms/fields 30-50 km from the NPP.
I too would love to see some more exact figures and sources for this.
> Aspsusa, on 21 March 2011 at 12:44 AM said:
> With the caveat that I haven’t seen
> either the spinach or reports …
> it seems most likely
Speculation, unless you have some professional experience, is just baseless opinion. Why bother?
You can look this stuff up.
Assuming you’re a professional with access to an academic library, you can read the research on this; just for example:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/h5642u252l131l64/
Why so nasty, Hank? :-)
Do we have any good, exact, sources for the figures Ctch posted?
I think I asked this yesterday (not in regards to the figures Ctch posted, haven’t seen those before, but the general reports about spinach and milk) but that might have been on some other site.
What would you say the likelyhood of contamination ON spinach as opposed to INSIDE spinach would be?
This type of data (measured contamination in produce) would be very interesting if we had exact locations and dates for it.
posted 21 March 2011 at 1:09 AM by Aspsusa
> If just one backup used pumps driven directly by
> diesel engines ….
Have you seen the pictures of the diesel engines used at the plant? They are the size of locomotives, huge multi-story things. Starting a diesel requires turning the engine over with a starter motor. Yes, they could have designed in a huge tank of compressed air, or a huge windup spring, or something else as standby starting power, if the electricity failed, but nobody planned for this.
Nor did they have a harbor to bring in a large ship to supply power, apparently. A deepwater port and dock, if one had survived, might have solved many problems.
Thanks for the link, btw. But it is about an experiment started _one year after_ Chernobyl. Shouldn’t say much about where stuff lands within a week of a leak.
Cyril, it appears no one here can help you with your model, since you haven’t published it. You could get a blog? Looking in Scholar, near as I can tell, everything published is consistent, and much of the work on the subject is not published for the amateur reader. It appears that if you have a professional or academic institutional connection, you can download the models and computer code used for the cooling pool papers.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/gsgs/2003/00000011/00000001/art00002
“… open-rack storage for the remaining more recently discharged fuel. If accompanied by the installation of large emergency doors or blowers to provide large-scale airflow through the buildings housing the pools, natural convection air cooling of this spent fuel should be possible if airflow has not been blocked by collapse of the building or other cause. Other possible risk-reduction measures are also discussed.
Our purpose in writing this article is to make this problem accessible to a broader audience than has been considering it, with the goal of encouraging further public discussion and analysis. More detailed technical discussions of scenarios that could result in loss-of-coolant from spent-fuel pools and of the likelihood of spent-fuel fires resulting are available in published reports prepared for the NRC over the past two decades. Although it may be necessary to keep some specific vulnerabilities confidential ….”
Eagles Eyes, on 21 March 2011 at 12:14 AM said:
Actually they have been reporting that for several days now. I was doing other things/sleeping when this discussion got going or I would have pointed that out. Maybe we should accept that as the explaination, until proven otherwise. It seems to be the offical explaination as of right now.
Aspsusa, the search term to use is “translocation” and you can look this up.
There’s a reason people look first, and specifically, in milk for iodine and in spinach for cesium, after a radioactive leak. Why do you think that is? These are ‘sentiel’ sources. Spinach has a very high rate of translocation, moves water from the ground and from rain on leaves into the plant’s leaves and stems fast (wilts if not watered very regularly!).
That’s what I’m encouraging you to do rather than speculate — read, it’s available. You can help people by making the effort to read and filter what’s there, or rely on people who do have time. Pure speculation without research wastes your time and the reader’s time to no benefit. Just sayin’. This is meant to be a science blog, not a chatroom, and citing sources is highly encouraged (and has been for years). The moderators have to sleep, the ordinary readers like us are asked to hold to a higher standard than at chatrooms. I’m not being nasty, I ‘m urging you to do your best to be helpful. I get the same, um, helpful advice (grin) and try to hold up my side.
Try here, just as examples of finding a place to start:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/wate/1998/00000101/F0040001/00122821
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u862t5266l15710k/
Look at p.111 here — an experimental comparison to determine whether putting plastic sheet over top of the growing plants changes the amount of fallout-derived cesium in spinach, among other plants and other elements:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rdPMjXAOfmoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA96&dq=spinach+fallout+rate+translocation&ots=6V4qihhlgs&sig=VrBkZ_9TC1gHdeGMMMZLP_kUGw4#v=onepage&q&f=false
This picture of the construction of Browns Ferry in the US gives you a real good idea of what the containment vessel and the torus of this kind of BWR actually look like.
Great picture, for Brown’s Ferry.
Also that plant has produced much worth reading:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=browns+ferry+nuclear+plant
For example (wow):
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6168063
“This study describes the predicted response of Unit One at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant to a postulated loss of decay heat removal (DHR) capability following scram from full power with the power conversion system unavailable. In accident sequences without DHR capability, the residual heat removal (RHR) system functions of pressure suppression pool cooling and reactor vessel shutdown cooling are unavailable. Consequently, all decay heat energy is stored in the pressure suppression pool with a concomitant increase in pool temperature and primary containment pressure. With the assumption that DHR capability is not regained during the lengthy course of this accident sequence, the containment ultimately fails by overpressurization. Although unlikely, this catastrophic failure might lead to loss of the ability to inject cooling water into the reactor vessel, causing subsequent core uncovery and meltdown. The timing of these events and the effective mitigating actions that might be taken by the operator are discussed in this report.”
Availability http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx?frm_qry_Search=DE83012314
PC A09/MF A01; 1.
Looking at the top of the reactor vessel and then the cap sitting below in that image, made me think “Hey they screwed it on.” A few seconds of contemplation and those groves in the reactor vessel must be for the O-rings. Gives you an idea how large these reactors are.
PS, there’s a new term: “core uncovery”
And lo, lots of papers on “core uncovery” — who knew?
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=nuclear+reactor+core++uncovery
Thanks Hank! (I really mean that – having “translocation” as a word meant that my searches wrt milk suddenly turned up interesting stuff)
Still, what _data_ do we have about this (where does Ctch’s figures come from)?
With all the weirdly wrong and slanted stuff in the normal media, it is not that far fetched to question stuff like this (especially when not sourced).
Within one week of a release of stuff, I still think the first place to look for the source of high activity would be _on_, not _in_. In a few weeks, totally different story.
what I think about data is that maybe the ones displayed by Ctch were originally in micro- (or nano-) becquerel, and that the prefix got lost somewhere.
just a guess, useless until someone founds the source
Yes, seems absolutely out of scale, doesn’t it? Here’s the link for spinach — it’s a .go.jp site, Japanese equivalent of .gov.
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/houdou/2r98520000015m5f-att/2r98520000015mig.pdf
The upper number for each item is “Radioactive Iodine”, the lower “Radioactive Cesium”. Doesn’t specify which variety (ex. Cs-134/136/137).
For amateur readers like us, our best hope is to ask smart enough questions in public (showing what we’ve tried to do to learn) — and maybe attract the attention and help from someone who actually knows the field.
Pardon the pun, unintentional.
But seriously, logic isn’t reliable here. If we assume that fallout will be on but not in the leafy green plants in the first day or two, logic says wash them and then test the wash-water instead of looking in the plant.
My old doctor used to remind people that ‘theory and practice are, in theory, the same, but in practice, not’ or words to that effect.
Some plants are really good at taking in both water and nutrients (think airborne dust) from the leaves — “foliar feeding” — so to find out what’s happening takes experiments like those described.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=spinach+translocation+cesium
BerGonella, on 21 March 2011 at 2:22 AM said:
No, I think you are confusing becquerels and sieverts. Becquerels are counts per second. Sieverts is energy deposited in one kg of a human tissue after multiplier effects of different types of radiation. Thery are related but not directly. Becquerels from different sources have different effects since the energy of the source is not considered. That is one of the reasons they have different limits for different radioisotopes. Here is the link where the numbers come from.
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110320D20JF510.htm
There are some vague, dodgy media reports of potential criticality in the Unit 4 used fuel pool.
However, I’m skeptical until I see better reporting on it.
Used fuel pool water is usually loaded with boron to keep it subcritical. Furthermore, if there is some kind of fuel-pool LOCA, you will have even less reactivity in the system because you’ve taken away the moderator, just like in a light water reactor.
To me, criticality seems quite unlikely, especially if the water is lost.
To get a criticality you would need to lose the pool water, then re-fill the water without adding more boron (plausible in an emergency LOCA situation?) and then disrupt the geometry, putting all the fuel too close together.
If you actually get criticality in the pool, you would immediately strongly light up the gamma dose rate and neutron dose rate monitors (and nothing else around the plant could possibly be emitting neutrons) across the plant, so we would certainly know about it if it actually happened.
One advantage of using becquerels is that you do not have to calculate anything. You get it directly from the detector, asuming they have measured in a way that is standard for that detector. Geometry makes a difference and can cause errors, but I doubt enough to make much difference as these levels are well above the standards.
Do you have a link for these media reports about criticality? If just the general media without credible attribution, don’t bother. But if somewhere with some crediblity please provide link.
Can someone pls. create a rule-of-conduct-on-this-post listing link for this exeptional situation? It can then be rapidly referred to. It saves space, nerves and can filter out sensations of personal judgement. (engage the slip-up, not the person).
We have thousands on non academix looking in here.
I have no means to do it myself ( one hand on the ladder).
Because of the “exceptional situation” moderators are literally “working to rule” i.e. the Commenting Rules established by BNC host at the outset. As a reminder to all commentors:
@ William Fairholm 3:13 AM
The “criticality” thing emanates, as far as I know, from a BBC information thread published on Wednesday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12762608 in the form of the sentence :
“More remarkably, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which owns the power station, has warned: “The possibility of re-criticality is not zero”.”
Just googling now, I have not found a document containing this sentence directly on Tepco website.
This has scared me totally (I am a layman), and, 4 days later, I still don’t understand.
Hypothesis 1 : this is a mistake from a BBC journalist, but as this is not a smallish blunder, and as BBC is a serious institution, Tepco would have taken contact with BBC and some denial would have been published. Nope.
Hypothesis 2 : this really comes from Tepco, this is quite founded, and I cannot understand _why_, even if they believe it, they would have transmitted such a scary information. Even if true, this is pointless and can only add to anguish.
Hypothesis 3 : this really comes from Tepco, but this is unfounded, and this would be a gigantic blunder of their communication team. But no denial four days later ???
I have no qualification to judge it from the scientific viewpoint, but from the communication viewpoint this is also a deep enigma, and I shall appreciate to read other views of what that may mean.
posted 21 March 2011 at 3:30 AM by Jean-Luc R.
Question on the dousing of the pools.
Rather then dump water on it 24×7 they seem to be doing it in stages. Is this to give the fuel rods to come down to normal temperature smoothy rather then too fast?
Just found a more primitive attribution for the scary sentence about criticality : it seems to emanate from a press release from Kyodo, published Wedneday, which attributes the sentence to Tepco : http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78393.html :
@ew-3
There must be a plan behing it for sure. 24/7 dousing being an option. Another possible expl. comes from the fact that the seawater in evaporating leaves deposits that may obstruct later ‘clean’ cooling. Cooling with seawater is an option now, but not indefinitely.
The chances of criticality are never zero. They limit to zero at best, like the odds of winning the lotto every week or a bird singing the complete works of Beethoven by chance. As a result the remark: “…is not zero..” in abdolute terms doesnt mean a thing. As for those fearing global disaster in this context: read Ted Rockwell’s contribution. It may be coming from the one side and be a bit heavy, but the man does know what he’s talking about.
Yes, I remember this from some days ago. I think I then read some old reports that discussed various scenarios for this. Can’t remember much of it or where I found it. The miscommunication/not correcting by TEPCO may be just that they are overwelmed.
> Luke Weston
> Used fuel pool water is usually loaded
> with boron to keep it subcritical.
Mr. Weston, once again, please, _please_ cite your sources for what you believe, and give us some idea why you consider them credible for the claims you make. When I try to check your facts, I often find different information. You could do this yourself.
Pasting your sentence above into Scholar finds in the first page of hits:
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull201/20104883541.pdf
“… BWR pools are filled with demineralized water while PWR pools are filled with borated water. The reason for this difference is that PWRs use borated water in the primary system for reactivity control, which mixes with the pool water during the refuelling operation. BWRs use the demineralized water for coolant….”
If you have another source on this particular reactor, please post it.
I appreciate your eagerness to present what you know, but it will always help if you would cite sources for what you believe.
As far as I have experts at hand, a question which does not scare me but puzzles me, and whose answer must be obvious for the knowledgeable.
This document http://www.meti.go.jp/press/20110317008/20110317008-4.pdf (in Japanese, but with little text, this is mainly a table) is on the Meti website – I know its existence from Wikipedia talk page. On this page, somebody translated its legend by “The first column is the total storage capacity, the second column is the spent fuel, the final column is the unused fuel”.
The figures on the first and second column can be found elsewhere, and I understand them. The figures in the third column I have never met somewhere else (OK I am not reading everything written on this topic). What can they mean ?
(Example : line “3” of the table. First column : 1220 ; second column : 514 ; third column : 52).
And yes, I am a bit cranky this morning. Sorry for boiling over. I’ll leave it to Barry to comment if he thinks citing sources is needed. It’s his blog, not mine.
Here is one reference I’ve found for recriticallity.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V4D-4810YV2-1CS&_user=10&_coverDate=09%2F30%2F1992&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1686038882&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=eb60e3f1ccdd7d8056a4a810da45b5c2&searchtype=a
not going to buy the full report.
Hank, please make the link i asked for. You know the demands better than most. By the way:
@Hank Roberts, on 21 March 2011 at 1:09 AM
I know for a fact that AGA in Holland has compressed air powered emergency equipment available. Anything from pumps over submergable generators to lights. Its not that this stuff doesnt exist. The general rule at emergency equipment is to keep it as reliable as possible, or k.i.s.s. as they call it.
@dhill001, on 21 March 2011 at 12:11 AM
The seawater is used as a coolant that is ‘consumed’ by the process. Either in the way of evaporating of seeping away. Both carry some radio activity likely, but content of fission product would render this method highly risky. It is to my opinion safe to assume this possibility is being monitored on site continuously. Radiation effects released due to the currently used method would disappate/decay in acceptable time relatively locally. In a non scientific way, try think of radiation as light. In that idea such a steamcloud would be a flash light, but stop flashing relatively fast. (Someone correct me if this is an incorrect illustration).
As for the ‘certain death’ thing: We all face certain death, life’s a killer. Radiation is a funny customer. You may stand somewhere getting a full blast while someone standing a few feet away gets not one tenth as much. Add to that the fact that differt peoples different health condition and precondition respond differently to different kinds of radioactive influence and you will understand that there are both chances and risks for these men. Considering both in any way these men qualify as huahh courageous. They are there.
Here is another report on recriticallity. With all the boron they have put into these systems, I can’t see how this a very real prospect. Was that statement by TEPCO made when they were having difficulty injecting water into the core of I think reactor 3?
When you read the Kyodo news release http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78393.html , the sentence about recriticality seen in context seems to be about the spent fuel pool of reactor 4. But it is not possible to be 100 % sure, this is a news release, not rigorous structured reporting.
This is beginning to sound like a lawyer thing. Assume its for real and do the homework on how bad bad is or drop the subject. Tepco doesnt own the truth and this is the look-for-answers post. No offense.
“– Reactor No. 4 (Under maintenance when quake struck)
Renewed nuclear chain reaction feared at spent-fuel storage pool, fire at building housing containment of reactor Tuesday and Wednesday, only frame remains of reactor building roof, temperature in the pool reached 84 C on March 14, water sprayed at pool on Sunday.”
posted 21 March 2011 at 5:11 AM by draaft
Yes I considered that, but from the information I’ve read that seems even less likely. There has been a debate and it actually might now been known that there was fresh fuel in SFP 4 waiting to go into the reactor. In this case it would be easier to get each fuel rod to criticallity, but they are noway as densely packed as in a reactor. Maybe if they all melted to the botton in a big lump and there was water above, recriticallity could occur. That would turn the water to steam above and stop the reaction, but there would be lots of radioactive material produced with no containment. Maybe that is what they were fearing. We will have to wait for a full report to find out what they were thinking and what actions good/bad/not necessary they were taking.
@Cornelius, on 20 March 2011 at 10:23 PM
The architectual static of the entire unit is quite rigid. This plant may not have been ready for the tsunami, but it is obviously earthquake resistant to an enormous extend.
You have to understand, an earthquake is not an explosion. It is ‘merely’ a violent movement of the underlying terrain. Try imagine you have an enormous hand an would try to pick the whole thing up in one go. According to the statics, that should be possible. It would not just fall apart like a cardhouse. A very bad earthquake might lift the whole thing up or sink it down, but it is not going to throw it up, or make it bounce down .
Stricktly speaking the containment structure is not ‘dependant’ on the underlying terrain to stay in one piece. This is something called ‘problem overkill’. Lets face it. Compared to the damage the tsunami caused, the damages to the structure due to a 9.0 quake are totally insignificant. That is quite an archievement.
The explosions may have corrupted the structures integrity in absolute terms, but short of that it is to my opinion not to be expected the structures will show signs of ‘fatigue’ any time soon.
(i would appreciate a second opinion or monitoring on this.)
Have you noticed the general news / media loop the last 24 hours? I would call it almost a blackout, but that could be mistaken. Now replaced by the side show of war. In any case, there seems to be a large drop off of updates and progress reports on the nuclear crisis to just general and vague reporting. That’s not to say it means anything sinister, but, as a communications professional, this is disconcerting. Does it mean things are touch and go? Or does it mean TEPCO just doesn’t care to inform the public about their ongoing crisis? Either way it is a blunder to keep the public in the dark, assuming the worst.
posted 21 March 2011 at 5:51 AM by Shelby
You have to admit, its a whole lot more healthy than raising global panic.
Actually, I don’t agree. Information is what the public deserves. Lack of information is what causes panic and misconceptions.
Thanks very much for your comforting and precise answer. It is the first time I read an explicit suggestion that there might be “fresh fuel” in the pond, and am suprised to the extent that I am not sure to have completely understood your sentence : “it actually might now been known that there was fresh fuel in SFP 4 waiting to go into the reactor”. Have you a link to somewhere on the web where this is developed in more detail ?
Jean, I have also read a count of all 11k fuel rods at the plant and read that #4 pool including X number of fresh fuel rods to be loaded into the reactor. I’m sorry that I no longer have that link (I will try to find it in the hundreds of pages I’ve read the last few days) but I do recall it was from an “official” industry source not from a news article.
Shelby, on 21 March 2011 at 5:51 AM said:
“Have you noticed the general news / media loop the last 24 hours?”
I think that means they think this is not as much of a story anymore. Things serious, but improving, not getting worse each day as it was in the middle of last week. In Libya, you have the situation of a Dictator threatening to take revenge on his own people and the United National Security Council makes the strongest resolution ever: “All means necessary” to stop him. That is the new quickly changing news story. If you want to find stuff about Japan and even not nuclear disaster stuff, there is lots of it out there. You just have to go look instead of it being the top of the headlines for the mainstream media. Whether this good/bad/indifferent I’ll leave to each persons perspective. But not unexpected in my opinion and not sinister.
Bad info better than no info? There’s a whole lot of ppl still keeping an eye on this. Do you fear a cover up of a worst case development?
Hi William
As a producer, I’m well versed in digging up sources.
Things are not as simple as you think…..
Jean-Luc R., on 21 March 2011 at 6:05 AM said:
“Thanks very much for your comforting and precise answer.”
Ok hear is a link with pesimistic projections of what will happen with the spent fuel in SFP 4. About half way down they mention fresh as well as used fuel. The only thing I can say about their pesimistic evaluation is it didn’t happen. They spayed water into SFP 4 and there was no huge release of radioactivity. Whether there ever was a realistic probability of release will take a very detailed analysis. The experiment has been done and in this case nothing major happened. I assume they were spraying boron in with the water. My main concern was not causing criticallity, but releasing a good portion of the radioactive fission products in the spent fuel. Again, this did not happen.
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/fukushima_cooling_pond
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I should have looked at that link you provided earlier. If the translation you provided is accurate, I would assume this is fresh fuel and SFP 4 has the largest inventory of fresh as well as spent fuel. It is also near capacity, while the other ones are not. Why they then concentrated on SFP 3 first, I do not know. Maybe it had even less water than 4. If that was the case then water got out of there by some means besides evaporation. Sloshing or a leak. The only caveat is why would they have all this fresh fuel in all the SFPs, besides SFP 4 where they were going to load it into the reactor?
Here is an update by the IAEA. It answers some questions about the SFPs.
Unit 1 experienced an explosion on 12 March that destroyed the outer shell of the building’s upper floors. No precise information has been available on the status of the spent fuel pool.
No precise information has been available on the status of the spent fuel pool. Authorities began adding 40 tonnes of seawater to the spent fuel pool on 20 March.
Unit 3 experienced an explosion on 14 March that destroyed the outer shell of the building’s upper floors. The blast may have damaged the primary containment vessel and the spent fuel pool. Concerned by possible loss of water in the pool, authorities began spraying water into the building in an effort to replenish water levels. First, helicopters dropped seawater on 17 March, and every day since then, including today, emergency workers have sprayed water from fire trucks and other vehicles.
This reactor was shut down 30 November 2010 for routine maintenance, and all the fuel assemblies were transferred from the reactor to the spent fuel pool, before the 11 March earthquake. The heat load in this pool is therefore larger than the others.
On 14 March, the building’s upper floors were severely damaged, possibly causing a reduction of cooling capability in the spent fuel pool. Emergency workers began spraying water into the building today.
Unit 5 and 6
Instrumentation at these reactors began to indicate rising temperatures at their spent fuel pools starting on 14 March. Three days later, Japanese technicians successfully started an emergency diesel generator at Unit 6, which they used to provide power to basic cooling and fresh-water replenishment systems. Workers created holes in the rooftops of both buildings to prevent any hydrogen accumulation, which is suspected of causing earlier explosions at Units 1 and 3.
A second generator came online on 18 March, and the next day, the higher-capability Residual Heat Removal system recovered full function. Temperatures in the spent fuel pools of Units 5 and 6 have gradually returned to significantly lower temperatures. (See graph at left.)
Common Use Spent Fuel Pool
In addition to pools in each of the plant’s reactor buildings, there is another facility — the Common Use Spent Fuel Pool — where spent fuel is stored after cooling at least 18 months in the reactor buildings. This fuel is much cooler than the assemblies stored in the reactor buildings. Japanese authorities have confirmed that fuel assemblies there are fully covered by water, and the temperature was 57 ˚C as of 20 March, 00:00 UTC.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
From another report units 5 and 6 reactors are in “cold” shut down. That means the water in the reactors is under the boiling point of water.
I agree with Damen Matson’s comment.
I can buy a portable powersupply from Cat for about a million dollars. I am just a ordinary U.S. citizen. With a goverment that has connections to military equipment getting a generator onsite should be about as easy as getting media there. Onced dropped onsite the generator can be hooked up to their equipment (that is operable) using a temporary modification. We call it a temp-mod for short. If their equipment is not operable then get operating equipment in there and hook up to vents and drains on the piping system to get a flowpath. I would rather flood the place with borated water than overheat the core and spent fuel pool. I know the doserates are high but to get the situation under control as soon as possible is the desire.
When it comes to Nuclear don’t be afraid to ask for help from experts. Pride can be recovered later, if needed. If they can hook up power to the equipment now, don’t know why they did not buy a portable generator and drop it outside the door and run the cables inside to the bus or motors. Even if you have to bypass the breakers and control switches in the control room. Get the pumps up and running.
I agree with Damen Matson.
Give me some cutters, butt-splices, cable, radio and a portable generator. Call me on the radio and tell me when you want the pump on. I will power it up till you tell me to turn it off. Many valves have manual operators so controlling flowrate can be done locally.
posted 21 March 2011 at 7:55 AM by Eddie Brown
William, becquerels are not really counts per second. They are a measure of atomic decays per second, whether or not they are detected – of course, mostly they are not. By contrast counts from a detector – often in “counts per minute” – depend on the protocol used, the nature of the sample, the type of detector, etc. To go beteen the two requires a great deal of careful figuring of what gets detected from any given sample.
If you want to avoid radiation, where should you go? Either of Tokyo’s International airports would be a good start. And I mean from almost anywhere in the world. From there moving to some spots closer to the nuclear plants would reduce the natural background even further and therefore your radiation exposure. Japan has lower natural background than most other places. In some cases much lower. Now getting there would increase your yearly dose, by quite a bit, if you fly there.
and here is radiological map of Japan by Prefecture. They don’t show readings for Fukushima and Miaygi where I know they have readings and they haven’t all week. Ibaraki has a high reading. 2040 nanoGrays/hr. This is about 10 times the world average background. They are using Grays instead of Sieverts and nano vs. the regularly used micro. Sieverts are just Grays converted by the type of radiation into an equivalent dose. At this level of general information, not important. Will be slightly higer in Sieverts.
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=4870
Joffan, on 21 March 2011 at 8:10 AM said:
“William, becquerels are not really counts per second.”
Yeah, I new that. I was trying to keep it simple, and allude to the complexities by my comment on geometries and standard methodologies, but I stand corrected.
I con not find the link but the document you can probably be found by Looking for my posts on the 18th.
There is a report on loss of water accidents in spent fuel pools of decomissioned reactors. I think the date was Oct 2000.
Basically is said IF the fuel rods get crushed IF there is no boron IF non borated water is then put in the pool then the fuel MIGHT be in a configuration for new criticality. They also say that the only kind of pools where this might happen are low density storage pools. They also say that MOX has not been evaluated.
I believe that all of the pools at Fukushima I are high density storage pools with boron inserts in the racks and TEPCO has prieviously said they were borating the water, there might, at the begininning of the accident been a time where they were contiplating using non borated water if they ran out of boron.
So at one point the chance or recriticality might not have been zero but still vanishingly small.
Yes, that jogs my memory and I remember basically the same thing. Thought it odd that low density pools had a greater risk, but the lack of a neutron absorber explains that. High density pools could become critical under normal operation, so they have to have a neutron absorber.
It has been night here in Australia so I have only just read comments earlier worrying about the levels of radiocativity found in milk and spinach. It was dealt with yesterday in some detail, with references, if you scroll back through the thread.
In precis, the Japanesestated that the levels found meant you would have to drink a regular amount of milk 9500ml?0 per day for a year to get the same dose as from a CAT scan and that the health risks to humans were negligible.
“Edano said the level of radiation from the average yearly consumption of the milk in question would be the equivalent of a single CT scan, and around a fifth of this amount in the case of the spinach.”
Saturday, March 19, 2011 17:39 +0900 (JST)
Back, it seems they are claiming the hydrogen explosion on unit 4 was due to spent fuel alone. Thats the story and it sticks until all the facts come out I guess.
OOPS that should be 500ml not 9500ml!
Mrs. Perps, I have to ask a question. Did anything I posted offend you last night? I was trying very hard since I started posting here to not cause a mass hysteria problem….
Just to correct my previous comment, I don’t think high density spent fuel ponds without a neutron absorber would become critical. They would become subcritical. I don’t think the density would support criticallity, but I haven’t read anything to support or disprove this view, so it is just my best guess.
Stabilisation at Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Stabilisation_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_2003111.html
Generally what I expected, but for some details about #4.
here: http://www.pref.ibaraki.jp/important/20110311eq/20110321_06/index.html
we have a ten minutes interval reading of radiation in two (actually three, but the data for the third one, Daigo, is now suspended) towns in Ibaraki prefecture
if you look at the table in the central part of the document, you can see on the first column the time, on the second the readings for Kitaibaraki, on the third the ones for Takahagi, both about a hundered kilometers SW from Fukushima plant (see the map here http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U24HrN_cgms/TYY9Gl2EscI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/mp1LLKPEZyI/s1600/ibarakiken_1303-2003_upd01.jpg )
the readings for daigo are missing, and I don’t know enough japanese to understand the reason.
I cannot find any abnormal reading, or anything less than very far from threatening human health.
I found those data on a blog mended by an italian living in Tokyo, I’ll watch sometimes to find more data.
There is a new IAEA report out. They have added stable iodide doseages for evacuees depending on age. None for those over 40. They have added a table that seems derived from the JAIF reactor status reports, but has some slight inconsistances with them. The main one I could see is the JAIF report says they are injecting water into the SFP of unit 2 and IAEA says they are spraying like they are for units 3 and 4.
The following link is to satellite photos of R1-4 over a period of days. You can see damage to R4 roof on Mar 17.
http://www.digitalglobe.com/index.php/27/Sample+Imagery+Gallery
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here an address for the environmental readings for several different places in Japan, and for different fields (air, drinking water and fallout).
it’s late here, going to sleep. have you alla a good rest, or a good work, depends on where you live…
sory, forgot the link
You neglect to ment ion that the report also said this:
“The Health Ministry said that radioactive iodine three times the normal level was detected in Iitate, a town of about 6,000 people 19 miles northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Associated Press reported. That is one-twenty-sixth of the level of a chest X-ray and poses no danger to humans, a ministry official told the AP.”
Are you deliberately trying to make people more fearful than they need to be? If so what is your agenda here?
anyone noticed locations 32 and 33 on the MEXT radioactivity measurement charts?
It’s outside the 30km (just), but consistently has levels about 50 times higher than everywhere else – over 100 uSv/hr
posted 21 March 2011 at 11:15 AM by viverravid
Has anyone ever modeled the mechanical effect of hydrogen explosions on spent fuel pool depth?
In other words, how much water would be lost from the spent fuel pool simply by the explosive effects of a hydrodgen explosion at the top of the pool?
posted 21 March 2011 at 11:22 AM by Jon Seymour
@viverravid
The chart you refer to indicates readings under 100micro sieverts and this is less than you would get(600 micro sieverts) from a stomach x-ray.(Check the chart on the “Why I stay in Tokyo” post)
Are you tyring to frighten people here? If so what is your agenda?
Ms. Perps
I don’t think that just refering to data can be seen as trying to scare people. Unwarrented extraplolation, yes. Lots of people refering to information here, to reasure people. The data is to be used in an arguement. Those numbers are per hr, so if long enough in that field, then a legitament arguement could be made for health effects. Not likely they are letting anyone stay there. Question is if this is a general level for the area or a high spot. Remaining indoors if those are the readings outside would definitely be advisable.
posted 21 March 2011 at 1:49 PM by William Fairholm
My spelling is getting pretty bad. I think I better go to bed.
@Ms. Perps
Definitely not trying to scare anyone. Was interested in any explanations as to why those sites were such an anomaly, and if people had been evacuated from there (you would hope so). The associated map shows the exclusion zone as a pure circle, with that area falling outside even the ‘stay inside’ zone. I’m familiar with what a 100 uSv/hr dose means, but it adds up to a bit over time if people in that area have not been given the ‘stay inside’ notice
posted 21 March 2011 at 4:51 PM by viverravid
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December 7, 2017 Amelia Vandergast Reviews Alex Cameron, Gorilla, manchester, Now Wave, Roy Molloy 0
There’s no words to capture the magnality of high-concept act Alex Cameron who brought some of the finest Synth-pop to the streets of Manchester.
Alongside his band, Cameron appeared on stage as if he were 10-foot-tall empyreal God whose command left the crowd powerless. There’s no doubt in my mind that Alex Cameron borrowed a few stage presence tips from fellow Aussie cult idol Nick Cave, to develop his intimate prowess. His moves were enough to make one girl fling her bra at him as the set drew to a close, and to create a screaming cacophony of admiration. Even during renditions of his love songs such as Candy May the crowd were gripped by the poignant resonance that playfully reverberated throughout the room. The bass pounded with an almost Lynchian effect, being somewhat reminiscent of the Twin Peaks soundtrack.
I won’t lie I needed a cold shower before writing this review.
I joined in with the crowd as we bade for Cameron’s all too inviting allure, young and old flooded to the front, transfixed in a state of euphoria throughout the relatively short hour-long set. The band created a synergy with their upbeat synthesised sound, but nothing could drown out the dominating sound of Cameron’s “Business Partner” Roy Molloy and his delectable command of his saxophone as the definition of sensuality lingered in every note. No review of Alex Cameron’s performance would be complete without a notable mention to the hilarity that ensued when Molloy took over the stage to tell us all about his stool fetish. The band certainly don’t need any tips on how to entertain a crowd.
As the band played popular tracks such as Marlon Brando, Strangers Kiss & Runnin’ Out of Luck off his new album Forced Witness, the crowd truly came alive, screaming the lyrics from the top of their lungs, two stepping like their lives depended on it. They wolf whistling at the tender performer as he bared his soul to the now very sweaty crowd. Sadly, there were numerous occasions on which the fans in attendance really let themselves down. Briana Marela opened the gig only to be met with the rudest talking heads I’ve ever had the displeasure of attending a gig with. Her haunting vocals were barely audible over the mundane drivel that the fans felt the need to express rather than appreciate the audiophiles delight that was put before them. There were also a few questionable comments that were thrown at the female vocalist & keyboard player Holiday Sidewinder, compelling Cameron to jump to her defence and warn “She’ll be the one to teach you about respect.” There’s no wonder Alex Cameron caused my ovaries an injury.
As the band walked away, not even entertaining the possibility of an encore I revelled in the delight of having witnessed all his popular songs in a way that I could never have anticipated. Yet that comes with a touch of melancholy, knowing that listening to the tracks at home will only have a bite of Cameron’s appeal.
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Who is better Metallica or Megadeath?
Post subject: Who is better Metallica or Megadeath?
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metallica for me.
i agree metallica is my personal best
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Post subject: Re: who is better mattalica or megadeath
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:41 pm
until 90 metallica, after that megadeath. at least they stayed as a thrash metal band.
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Megadeth for the win
Early Metallica was good, but that was mainly to do with Cliff Burton. Plus only one ego in Megadeth, where as Metallica=Large Ego.
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Metallica was the introduction of thrash metal to the mainstream, but as with most things mainstream, they were never the better band. i'm not knocking them because they have a lot of great stuff, but no Metallica album even touches Megadeth's "Rust In Peace".
Both bands have managed to come out the musically dark times of the 90's, and have put out KILLER new albums.
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I would say Metallica but that would be an unbiased answer since I honestly have never listened to Megadeth.
yeah, listen to "Rust In Peace", "Countdown To Extinction", and "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?" and you'll see what i mean. Metallica is good, but after Cliff Burton died it all went downhill (as far as metal goes. the black album was a horrible metal album, but was a pretty decent hard rock record).
another band from that era that IMO is better than Metallica but is often overlooked is Testament. the good thing about that band is that they never put out a bad album. every single one is awesome.
Dream_Reaper666
Oh man, this is a tough one for me. I love both of them almost equally. >_< But I've got to agree with people who said that Megadeth at least stuck to its roots unlike Metallica, change can be good, but Metallica's experimentation just isn't working like it should...Megadeth's old stuff is amazing and I'm liking some of their new stuff as well, unlike Metallica's St. Anger (which I avoided like a plague because of all the bad reviews) as well as Death Magnetic, which I think is them going back to metal but not the metal they used to do but the new era kind...So, for now Megadeth has won me over but I love Metallica just as equally. lol
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:23 am
I love both bands and really don't understand the either or hatred that some others seem to have for these bands. As someone who has equal parts Hetfield and Mustain (along with Cantrell and Pepper Kennan) in his playing style I enjoy and respect both bands.
I have to disagree with Megadeth staying true to their roots argument as the albums between Countdown and the last couple were not what I consider Megadeth.
I think I have to come down on the side of Metallica as I consider Lightning, Master, and Justice as some of the finest metal albums of all time while with Megadeth I'd put Rust (of course) and probably countdown up there but the other stuff IMO is at least a half of step below for the better and much lower for some of the others.
I like early Testament but can't stand black metal screaming and stuff in that vein so I've stayed away from their later stuff as I understand that's the path they went down.
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I love both bands, and if I had to choose I would always choose Megadeth. Even the more "commercial" Megedeth music is hardly sell out material. You could argue their most successful song is Peace Sells thanks to MTV News.
I still think Hetfield and Ulrich are great and Metallica deserves their success however, lets not forget they basically betrayed Mustaine in the beginning. Dave wrote most of their early music, and even though he is given credit on the albums it had to burn him rather deeply to be "let go."
Personally, as a guitar player. Dave is way better than Kirk could ever hope to be.
Speaking of bands that get "left out of people's lists." Lets not forget the almighty Slayer. Even if you don't like what they have to say. There is little argument about their skills.
VictoryInDefiance
Metallica for sure. I love Megadeth as well but I'm really into the whole epic song structure thing and Metallica have always gone more for that.
If Metallica really wanted to "sell out" they'd have to make "Master Of Puppets" over and over again because I'm very hard pressed to even recall anybody who likes (or will admit to it) anything they've done since that album.
I also don't think that Metallica's experimentation would have been such a big deal if they hadn't reached the plateau of popularity that they have. I think they suffer more from having a magnifying glass over every thing they do. There are tons of bands that have gone through much more dramatic changes over the years (Amorphis, Tiamat, Bathory, etc.) that aren't causing anywhere near the same amount of debate because they never became a household name thanks to having a hit album.
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Well, Metallica became bigger than Megadeth, but not necessarily better. We can't forget that Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) was a member of Metallica in 1982/83 and he wrote some of Metallica's best material at the time. Despite the fact he never recorded with Metallica (he was replaced by Kirk Hammett just before "Kill'em All") he is still credited in the "Ride The Lightning" album of 1984. Metallica were more lucky, maybe. In 1986 they were choosen to open for Ozzy Osborne while Megadeth were still trying to find a stable line-up that only came in the nineties. By then Metallica were already a huge sucess worldwide.
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Metallica for me. Only albums by them that I didn't like all that much were Load and Reload. (Two failures that can be explained in two words: Bob Rock.) Their newest album is pure freaking awesome. "Cyanide", "All Nightmare Long", etc., are examples of some truly great music. I enjoy Megadeth, but I've never been a huge fan. United Abominations is pretty damn good though.
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I do this for AGOT2.0, so I made a list of all the Launch Party events I know of in FFG Region 6 (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, DC, and the part of MD that is adjacent to VA). If you know of an event in this area that is not on this list, please comment directly to the spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IWjjgu8ZE1EkGiAijk0MOLu_dOGf-VuhFK3bsApBMSM/edit?usp=drive_web
Edited September 30, 2017 by Kakita Shiro
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On 9/19/2017 at 8:57 AM, Malraza said:
Does anyone know of a place in/around Baltimore that's going to be running L5R?
Games & Stuff in Glen Burnie is running something next Saturday from 10-2
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Anyone aware of groups in the milwaukee wi area?
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On 9/30/2017 at 8:11 PM, kac said:
Thank you so much for telling me about this.
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4 hours ago, Malraza said:
My pleasure! I'll be there, God willing, and hope to see you.
I'll be the guy playing Crane, as I have since the first release of the CCG a long time ago when we played back at the old Armory in Pikesville.
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On 8/16/2017 at 1:22 PM, RandomJC said:
Anyone in South Florida?
Where in South Florida are you located? I'm in the Broward area, should be getting my cores tomorrow and looking for a game!
RandomJC 1,542
21 minutes ago, someuberdude said:
I'm in Broward. Hope to get my stuff today/tomorrow, if work allows.
SlackerHacker 90
We will have a couple of players at Sanctuary Games in Hutchinson, MN tonight. We may have a few more join us. Anyone wants to play or get a demo is welcome. I believe there will be core sets available to buy but I can't guarantee how many.
Shosuro Nasunaka 57
Asheville NC. we play at the Wyvern's Tale.
https://www.facebook.com/thewyvernstale/
Our launch event is on the 15th at:
Noxragnarok 4
If you in Cape Town, South Africa we have a playgroup hosted at Quantum Gaming in Plumstead.
https://www.facebookcom/quantumgamingCT
PM me if you need more details
Edited October 6, 2017 by Noxragnarok
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Started a new group for Las Vegas area venues to post to, as the old CCG one doesn't seem to have an admin anymore. Named for the notorious gambling house, which I thought appropriate.
On 10/2/2017 at 7:56 PM, Malraza said:
Did you get a chance to come out? The line for those buying the game literally went out the door at one point.
There were a number of obvious Scorpion players there, including a gentleman with a cool red mask sitting next to me at one point. Got in two great games, including one against a gentleman who happened to be playing with a 3 core deck! I'm just glad I hung in against him! I'll be getting my additional cores as I can.
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We're having an opening day tournament a week late This Sunday at 1PM at the Comics Closet in Shrewsbury PA. Just in case anyone in the Baltimore area is looking for another L5R hit, we're about 45 minutes north of the city.
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3 hours ago, agarrett said:
I will add you to my list of Northeastern US launch events.
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On 8/11/2017 at 11:09 PM, Mandalore525 said:
Is anyone else on this forum from the Auburn/Opelaika area of Alabama? I'll be moving back to Auburn next week, and I was going to stop by Game Time Hobbies to ask them if any customers have expressed interest in the game so far (since I already go there alot to play X-Wing). Unless there's already a group somewhere else? I'm also frequently in Birmingham, AL, if there's any interested players there.
I live in the Birmingham, Alabama area and would like to play the updated rules of L5r. I am not part of a group, though. I have not played in a while but have Celestial or newer cards. I would like to learn the current rule set and get back into the game.
Mirith 1,302
Bumping this since we've fallen off.
Kungfujon 6
New Orleans, LA area
https://www.facebook.com/Go-4-Games-Legend-Of-The-Five-Rings-LCG-527368030937210/
On 10/12/2017 at 7:33 PM, CodeWolf444 said:
The new game is not compatible with the CCG cards, sorry.
HidaYama 127
Add Charleston L5R Facebook Group
theGricks 28
Here is the link to the Richmond, VA. (Central VA) L5R Group.
Sanctuary Games
Hutchinson, MAN
Mondays @ 7
Thursdays 6:30
Everyone welcome.
ElSuave 272
On 8/23/2017 at 2:24 PM, Tcmmy said:
Any groups or individuals in Chicagoland?
There's a lot of Chicagoland players.
Gaming Goat Chicago on Harlem meets Sundays at 2pm.
Pastimes meets Thursday evenings. There's a dedicated FB group called "Chicagoland L5R Players" look it up and join.
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Archive for “A Matter of Time”
Past Life Digression
Posted in Fashion, FILM, MUSIC with tags "A Matter of Time", Alan Jay Lerner, Barbra Streisand, Cecil Beaton, Irene Handl, Jack Nicholon, John DeCuir, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Vincente Minnelli, Yves Montand on December 18, 2018 by dcairns
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Holy cats, ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER is quite a thing, isn’t it?
Nutty as it is (blame/credit Alan Lerner), I’d argue that, commercial failure notwithstanding, we could see this as a triumphant conclusion to Vincente Minnelli’s career, were it not for the fact that he made one more movie, A MATTER OF TIME, which was a disaster (recut and partially reshot by AIP, who apparently didn’t notice it was a period movie and spliced in lots of docu-style shots of seventies Rome).
There’s this ordinary girl, see, (only she’s played by Barbra Streisand, so not that ordinary) and she turns out to be really hypnotizable, and shrink Yves Montand discovers he can regress her to a past life and he falls in love with her past life, who was far from ordinary, and meanwhile her present life is romantically complicated by her unsuitable schnook boyfriend and her ex-stepbrother (Jack Nicholson!) and what is Yves Montand to do since he’s in love with a dead girl who he can only contact through her mundane contemporary incarnation who bores him rigid?
Welcome to VERTIGO, the musical. Only it’s barely a musical, since the songs are relatively scarce and usually get played as internal monologue or positioned as fantasies — a translucent apparition of Babs sings to the more solid version of herself, and of course they have great chemistry together). But even if it’s oddly fainthearted as operetta-film, and only a couple of the songs (notable the title number) are memorable, there’s A LOT to enjoy.
Cecil Beaton did the costumes for the period storyline, which feels way underdeveloped in narrative terms but looks astounding. Some friend of Streisand did her modern clothes which are mainly horrid but maybe they’re meant to be? John DeCuir did the production design — check out HIS amazing list of credits. Of course, he had a help from Brighton Pavilion, an amazing location. But he makes the modern-day New York sequences exotic and wild and cinematic too — Minnelli is a director who feeds off his production design (and feeds into it, of course).
The flashbacks are crowded with terrific Brit players — John Le Mesurier turns up just to drop a monocle — Irene Handl and Roy Kinnear and Pamela Brown. And, remarkably, Babs does a spot-on posh English accent and then shares a scene in cockney with her old mum, Handl, where her vocal work is… not embarrassing. No Dick Van Dyke, she. Well, she hasn’t got the legs for it. But you know what I mean.
What she can’t really do — and in fairness nobody seems to be trying to help her — is suggest ordinariness, or suggest why Montand thinks she’s boring and stupid. She plays it full-on kook, which she can certainly do, but she seems more appealing, as a personality, than her previous earthly form. But still, the film, which doesn’t have much of a narrative engine, is able to continually refresh itself by plunging in and out of the past, using a variety of trippy visual devices including stroboscopic flash-cutting, proving that Minnelli had at least noticed what was going on in the visual culture around him.
It’s on Netflix, by the way.
Starring Fanny Brice, Cesar ‘le Papet’ Soubeyran, Maj. Major Major, Schrank, Jake Gittes, Tumak, Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Mrs. Gimble, Private Clapper, Sgt. Wilson, Mr. Alonzo Smith and Eegah.
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Posted in FILM with tags "A Matter of Time", Ingrid Bergman, Samuel Z Arkoff, The Daily Notebook, The Forgotten, Vincente Minnelli on September 29, 2011 by dcairns
Ingrid Bergman commands you to LOOK — at this week’s edition of The Forgotten over at The Daily Notebook.
Vincente Minnelli’s last, shattered dream, “A MATTER OF TIME,” is our subject, a haunted half-film lost somewhere between conception and resolution, with the crass fingers of Samuel Z. Arkoff making unwelcome intrusions around the edges — but still, there’s enough beauty and passion in it to make the bittersweet experience worthwhile for hardcore Minnellians, I’d say.
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Global Showbiz Briefs: Danny Trejo & Mischa Barton Star In Italian Crime Thriller ‘Hope Lost’; Liberty Global Completes Acquisition Of Chile’s Leading Cabler; More
Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen Star In AMBI’s ‘Hope Lost’
Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin are set to star in Hope Lost, a crime thriller from Italy’s AMBI Pictures. David Petrucci is directing the film from a screenplay by Francesco Trento, Damiano Giacomelli, Francesco Teresi and Loretta Tersigni. A bored young woman who dreams of the life of soap opera characters meets a mysterious man who charms her away from her small hometown then sells her to a pimp. The cast also includes Andrey Chernishov, Francesca Agostini and Alessia Navarro. Principal photography will begin this month in Rome with Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi and Cosetta Turco producing and Danielle Maloni executive producing.
Liberty Global Acquires Remaining Shares Of Chile’s VTR
Liberty Global said today that it has acquired the remaining 20% of the outstanding shares in both VTR GlobalCom and VTR Wireless in a stock-swap deal. The shares in Chile’s largest cable operator were purchased
from a subsidiary of Corp Group Holding Inversiones Limitada in exchange for 10.1 million Liberty Global Class C ordinary shares. The purchased shares had a market value of about $422 million, based on Liberty Global’s closing price of $41.80 per share on March 13, 2014.1 The deal gives VTR Finance B.V., the parent entity of Liberty’s recently created Chilean credit pool, 100% of both the Chilean broadband communications and wireless businesses.
Vivendi In Exclusive Talks To Sell Its Telecom Unit To Numericable
Vivendi said Friday that it has set aside three weeks of exclusive talks with French cable group
Numericable to try to finalize a deal to sell its telecom unit SFR for €11.75 billion ($16.4 billion) in cash, plus a stake in the resulting business. Reuters reports that the decision is a blow to conglomerate Bouygues, which had also bid for SFR. Vivendi’s board said it made the choice that was most likely to help it exit a cutthroat telecoms market as quickly as possible. Numericable currently owns a cable network that covers two-thirds of French households and sells television and broadband.
ITV2 Orders Second Season Of Hidden-Camera Magic Show ‘Tricked’
ITV2 Said Friday that it has commissioned a second season of Tricked, in which magician Ben Hanlin tricks unsuspecting members of the public and celebrities with hidden-camera magic. The six-episode hourlong series from ITV Studios will air on ITV2 later this year. Andy Scott produces the series, and Sumi Connock is the executive producer.
This article was printed from https://deadline.com/2014/03/global-showbiz-briefs-danny-trejo-liberty-global-completes-acquisition-of-chiles-leading-cabler-more-699514/
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29th Horse Dies At Santa Anita One Day After Officials Tell Track To Stop Holding Races
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A three-year-old filly named Truffalino died Sunday after collapsing suddenly on the turf at Santa Anita. Truffalino, who didn’t suffer any visible limb injuries, is not to be confused with Formal Dude, who sustained a fractured pelvis near the finish line of another race at Santa Anita on Saturday and was euthanized shortly afterward, nor Derby River, who hurt his shoulder during a routine gallop at the track on Wednesday and was put to death at a nearby horse hospital, nor any of the other 26 horses who have died at the race track this year.
Truffalino’s death came one day after California Horse Racing Board officials told track management to stop racing before more horses died. In the wake of Formal Dude’s euthanization, the CHRB “recommended to Santa Anita management that they suspend racing for the seven remaining race days but that they allow horses to continue to train during that period.”
The CHRB cannot stop Santa Anita from holding races, only make recommendations. “Santa Anita management, after consultation with certain other industry stakeholders, believes that for a variety of reasons, the future of California racing is best served by continuing to race,” it said in the same statement, the day before Truffalino collapsed and died.
Last week’s rash of deaths is only the latest catastrophe to strike at Santa Anita. The track shut down in early March after news broke that 21 horses had died at the track since Christmas. The quality of the track was called into question after California experienced an unusually wet winter, though nobody could figure out exactly what was wrong, so they reopened the track. Yet horses keep dying, and state officials have started to step in.
On April 16, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced the formation of an investigative task force. U.S. Senator (and child browbeater) Dianne Feinstein called for Santa Anita to suspend racing in late May. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced his support for California SB 469, which would give the CHRB the power to suspend horse racing licenses.
Santa Anita officials have implemented a series of incremental reforms, such as stricter rules around race-day medications, and they say they’ve made an impact. In a lengthy statement after Truffalino died, they said they would continue an in-depth investigation of their own, and that horse safety would be better served in the long run if the season were allowed to run its course so they could “reform and improve racing every day.”
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Boehm, Joseph Edgar (English sculptor and medalist, 1834-1890)4
Lemere, Bedford (English photographer, 1840-ca. 1911)2
Fratelli Alinari (Italian photography studio and publisher, 1854-1920)1
Lancelot, Gustave (French photographer, 1830-1906)1
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Lemere, Bedford (English photographer, 1840-ca. 1911)
2. Royal Architectural Museum. Plaster Casts (Panels) from the Tombs of the Scagliere in Verona
3. Relief Carving, Chichester Cathedral
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4. Bourges Cathedral Portal, The Last Judgement
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5. Burgos. Tomb of Juan II of Castille and his wife, Isabella of Portugal, in the Miraflores Charterhouse
Léon & Lévy (French photography studio and publishers, established 1867)
Siloé, Gil de (Spanish sculptor and architect, active 1486, died ca. 1501)
1489-1493 (tomb)
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16. Foederis Arca. The Virgin Protector, Central Portal Tympanum, Florence Cathedral
Fratelli Alinari (Italian photography studio and publisher, 1854-1920)
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Home > Departments > Psychology > Faculty Publications > 1464
Examining the impact of differential cultural adaptation with Latina/o immigrants exposed to adapted parent training interventions
José Rubén Parra-Cardona, Michigan State University
Deborah Bybee, Michigan State University
Cris M. Sullivan, Michigan State University
Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Utah State UniversityFollow
Brian Dates
Lisa Tams, Michigan State University
Guillermo Bernal, University of Puerto Rico
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Objective: There is a dearth of empirical studies aimed at examining the impact of differential cultural adaptation of evidence-based clinical and prevention interventions. This prevention study consisted of a randomized controlled trial aimed at comparing the impact of 2 differentially culturally adapted versions of the evidence-based parenting intervention known as Parent Management Training, the Oregon Model (PMTOR). Method: The sample consisted of 103 Latina/o immigrant families (190 individual parents). Each family was allocated to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) a culturally adapted PMTO (CA), (b) culturally adapted and enhanced PMTO (CE), and (c) a wait-list control. Measurements were implemented at baseline (T1), treatment completion (T2) and 6-month follow up (T3). Results: Multilevel growth modeling analyses indicated statistically significant improvements on parenting skills for fathers and mothers (main effect) at 6-month follow-up in both adapted interventions, when compared with the control condition. With regard to parent-reported child behaviors, child internalizing behaviors were significantly lower for both parents in the CE intervention (main effect), compared with control at 6-month follow-up. No main effect was found for child externalizing behaviors. However, a Parent × Condition effect was found indicating a significant reduction of child externalizing behaviors for CE fathers compared with CA and control fathers at posttest and 6-month follow-up. Conclusion: Present findings indicate the value of differential cultural adaptation research designs and the importance of examining effects for both mothers and fathers, particularly when culturally focused and gender variables are considered for intervention design and implementation.
Parra-Cardona, J. R., Bybee, D., Sullivan, C. M., Domenech Rodríguez, M., & Bernal, G. (2017). Examining the impact of differential cultural adaptation with Latina/o immigrants exposed to adapted parent training interventions. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 85, 58-71. doi: 10.1037/ccp0000160
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Rivetz Paves the Way For the Future of Mobile Security Protocols
The new cyber security solution, Dual Roots of Trust, will provide enhanced protection for private keys and other sensitive data, offering a shield to enterprises and end-users alike.
Cybersecurity breaches have become all too common in the digital age. Security professionals struggle to create practical solutions as more online avenues than ever are available for attackers to access your personal data, steal your identity and even take your money. The sophistication of attacks continues to evolve rapidly, and standard security solutions may not be enough to give you peace of mind.
Dual Roots of Trust, the latest innovation in mobile cybersecurity from Rivetz, utilizes blockchain technology and employs not one, but two roots of trust: the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and the mobile carrier Security Identity Module (SIM). The TEE is a secure hardware chipset already built into millions of devices.
The beauty of the TEE and the SIM is they both already exist on most mobile platforms – and Rivetz enables us take advantage of their security features. The solution is the product of a collaboration between Rivetz and Telefonica announced earlier this year.
Explaining the technology behind Dual Roots of Trust, Rivetz’s whitepaper defines a root of trust as “a set of unconditionally trusted functions that consistently perform a set of security-specific operations in an expected and repeatable manner and are immune to a software attack and ideally most hardware attacks."
The idea is simple and genius: the user’s private keys are cryptographically distributed between the two roots (the TEE and the SIM), implementing both the existing protection layer of the mobile carrier global infrastructure and the advanced security features of the TEE provided by mobile device manufacturers.
If one root of trust were to be compromised, the attacker would have to break the other root to steal the private key. The solution provides users with incredible protection for private keys and other sensitive data across multiple devices.
Dual Roots of Trusts enables two points of security control both for enterprises and end-users. The SIM is guarded by the carrier, while the TEE is protected by the manufacturer. For enterprises, if an employee is terminated, the company can disable all company-related apps on the ex-employee’s personal phone. For end-users, if you lose your mobile phone, a simple call to the carrier disables your lost device. If your device is found, your carrier can easily reactivate your device.
"One of the most critical issues we face today is finding a balance between security and usability. We are proud to provide a seamless, built-in solution for decentralized mobile security,” said Steven Sprague, CEO of Rivetz.
About Rivetz
Rivetz technology and services aim to provide a safer and easier-to-use model for all users to protect their digital assets using hardware-based trusted execution technology. The device plays a critical role in automating security and enabling the controls that users need to produce high assurance data and benefit from modern services. Rivetz leverages state-of-the-art cybersecurity tools to develop a modern model for users and their devices to interact with services on the Internet. They were selected for Telecom Council's prestigious Innovation Showcase Class of 2018. Find out more at www.rivetz.com and follow Rivetz on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Telegram.
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Driftless
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Rich yet fluffy and in a range of flavors that offer something for everyone, Driftless is a delectable fresh sheep's milk cheese.
It's produced by Brenda Jensen at Hidden Springs Farm, located in southwest Wisconsin. Jensen and her husband, Dean, live in the heart of Amish country. They own seventy-six acres of land, much of which is allocated to grazing for their flock of over 500 of Lacaune and East Friesian dairy sheep.
Hidden Springs Farm and Creamery strives to be sustainable, both environmentally and financially. Since the Jensens are in the middle of Amish farm country, they appreciate Amish values and work practices. They employ Amish friends and neighbors for both milking and construction. A team of Percheron draft horses (not tractors) plow their fields, and a donkey keep coyotes and other predators away from their lambs. Today Brenda has around eight cheeses available, although Driftless was her first.
The cheese is named after the Driftless Region which gets its name from its lack of “drift,” a mixture of sand rock and silt left behind by retreating glaciers. To make it, Brenda adds rennet to the milk to make a soft curd, and then hand-ladles the cheese into mesh bags to drain. The cheese is then transferred into containers for sale. Driftless comes in a variety of flavors including Basil & Olive Oil, Cranberry & Cinnamon, Tomato & Garlic, Pumpkin (seasonal), Maple, and Honey & Lavender.
Since Driftless is a fresh cheese, the texture is moist and tangy. Due to the richness of sheep's milk, the mouthfeel is very creamy and dense. Flavors are bright and lactic, with notes of grass and hay.
Jensen like to dip carrots in the Natural flavor, spread Cranberry over graham crackers, dollop Pumpkin onto a molasses cookie, and mix Basil & Olive Oil and Tomato & Garlic with warm pasta as a sauce. The Honey & Lavender flavor is good enough to eat with a spoon, she adds.
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About Septimius The Great: Septimius the Great, a Maryland based dance music artist, is an International Multi-Award Winning Entertainer and Creative innovator. Known around the globe for his dance music in domestically and abroad, he has worked with some of the industry’s biggest names including Fantasia, Chrisette Michele, Lil Kim, Lil Mo, Pat Benetar, Patti Labelle, Crystal Waters, and Ultra Nate’ just to name a few.
From Opera to Rap, Dance to Hip Hop, Electronic to Pop, Septimius the Great’s music, magnetic personality, and flair for fashion, have announced his permanent presence on the music scene. He is here to stay! Confident and charismatic, with an infectious boatload of charm felt by his team all the way to his fans is the foundation of Septimius’ brand. Working with a multitude of producers, Septimius creates infectious beats and catchy songs that continually repeat through a person's mind that are inspired by ancient European style with a blend of dance, hip-hop, pop and rock. With a style reminiscent of many the likes of: Will.i.am, Cee Lo Green, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Pitbull, Septimius the Great has performed in front of audiences in small lounges to large stadiums. He is currently being featured on several TV Shows, Radio Stations and Magazines worldwide. A conscientious performer, Septimius believes that it is important to inspire our youth.
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Fantasia to release "Bittersweet" video
If you guys didn’t know J Records recording artist FANTASIA will premiere her video for “Bittersweet” on YouTube, June 25. The video was shot on location at The Box in New York City which was directed by Lenny Bass. The video features Fantasia in a backstage dressing room reflecting over a bittersweet love affair as she prepares to perform in front of an awaiting audience.
“Bittersweet” will be the official first single from Fantasia’s third studio album Back to Me set for an August 10 release on J Records. Read the rest of this entry »
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How Does Teonny Feel About the NoH8 Campaign?
So iReceived this question asking how do iFeel about the No H8 campaign. For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, it’s a photographic silent protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and his partner Jeff Parshley in direct response to the passage of Proposition 8. Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with “NOH8” painted on one cheek in protest. While there are many normal people who represent and don’t represent the LGBT community, there are also celebrities who are doing the same. iAm proud that people are taking a stand against this. Gay people have been discriminated against for so long, and it saddens me that the Constitution says that every man is created equal. It’s not true because if it was the protest wouldn’t be going on today in the 1st place. I’m glad that many celebrities (who are mostly straight) are defending this and are among the biggest supporters. Together we can take a stand. iJust wish that every1 could have an open mind and see things from the LGBT communities point of view. We didn’t choose this, it was simply the card we were dealt. At first iWas iDidn’t except myself and iWanted there to be a cure so bad. But iLearned that this is who iAm and iLove me. Yes it’s a hard road to travel, and yes people will never completely understand but hopefully they will try to. Check out the new PSA, a few pics below the website at www.noh8campaign.com.
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Fetish Friday:SEX
So we all know SEX is a big thing to people which many can’t get enough of when it comes to SEX we have freaks, sex fiends, dick pleasers & pussy eaters. So I wanna know what’s that ONE position you just love when having sex, how do you start it off, what do you love having your partner do to you when having sex, do you use exotic items if so why and whats good about it, if you couldn’t have sex anymore how would you survive without it and what song would you use for that romantic time? Read the rest of this entry »
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Fetish Friday: Cristiano Ronaldo
The very sexy soccer hunk who we have all grown to know and love as Cristiano Ronaldo, is what people call the hot and younger version of David Beckham. The 24 year old was selected by the house of Emporio Armani to stand as the cover model and spokesperson for their latest Denim and Underwear lines. Billboards will be erected in all of the major cities, including of course, New York, LA and London. The billboards will feature 1st TWO photos below (the rest are past photos that iWanna share with you ladies…and honorary ladies). The pics were shot on location in Madrid which is actually where he resides. iCan see why Kim is “just friends” with him.
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Fetish Friday: Mika Sha'
Eye candy 4 the day ! Check out Mika Sha’ ! You can view more of her pics at www.eyecandymodeling.com What do you guys think?
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Kelly Rowland Ready To Take Over
Leaving Matthew Knowles management and Columbia Records has got to be the best thing that Kelly has done! 1st she gets featured on the Grammy award winning single When Love Takes Over by French Dj David Guetta from his album One Love, then she drafted Jeff Rabham as her new manager and inked a deal with Universal Motown, which is also the home of big name artists such as Lil’Wayne, Busta Rhymes, and Legend Stevie Wonder. If that wasn’t enough, she signed up to record the MTN theme song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South African, entitled Everywhere You Go, featuring an all-star supergroup of international artists called Rhythm of Africa United. And now she’s now working on her 3rd studio album who’s title has yet to be released. The album is a combination of the urban/pop Destiny’s Child sound and Kelly’s new found love for dance music. Commander was released in May 2010 as an American promotional single and as the international lead single from the project. If that wasn’t enough, She already has the title and cover art work for the next 2 singles Grown Ass Woman and Rose Colored Glasses. iReally think that Kelly actually has a chance to prove that she’s just as good as Beyonce (better if you ask me).
The Rose Colored Glasses Single cover gives me this late 70’s early 80’s vibe. It’s simple and mysterious.
http://www.youtube.com/v/XV527tXqdGc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f
Grown Ass Woman’s single cover gives me straight 70’s. I’m talking Cher/Donna Summers Hair, Diana Ross makeup, and Grace Jones pose technique fierce level 1. iLove it ! ! ! ! ! !
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N.E.R.D. Wants Things To Be Hot N Fun
The Pop/Rock/Hip Hop group N.E.R.D is preparing to release their fourth studio album entitled Nothing. The album is set to be released on September 7 of this year and the first single from the album is called Hot N Fun. It features Nelly Furtado. Pictures of the shoot were released online and it seems like it’s set in a dessert in California or Nevada. A teaser clip was released online a few days ago and shows close ups of Pharell and Nelly Furtado, along with alot of women! By looking at the 30 second clip, it seems like they were all on an somewhat exotic/sexabition road trip and get stuck in the dessert, which makes the whole situation, well Hot n Fun. iThink iNeed to add Mr. Williams 2 my list of future ex lovers in my head. i 4got just exactly how much iLike not only him but N.E.R.D. as well. They are very much so underrated 2 me. The trio are as good as artists as they are song writers and producers. Hopefully thins album will at least go gold. Any way, check out the pics, video teaser, and full length song below.
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Local pioneer of flatland skimboarding continues to share his passion with the community
by Natalie Bruckner
As people gathered on Centennial Beach in the late 90s and watched in awe as teenager John Minns slid along a handmade rail on what appeared to be little more than a wooden disk, little did they realize they were witnessing the evolution of the sport of skimboarding into something called flatland
skimboarding.
Almost 20 years later and flatland skimboarding’s popularity has exploded, in part because unlike its sister sports wave skimboarding and surfing, as long as there is a body of water, you can flatland skimboard anywhere. No surf, no problem!
“It combines the bindingless tricks of skateboarding with the smooth flowing spins you can do snowboarding, with a splash of beach vibes,” explains Minns, founder of Kayotics Skimboards and Kayotics Skimboarding Camps.
Minns, a Boundary Bay local, is one of the world’s top riders and recognized globally as one of the pioneers of flatland skimboarding.
“When I was in grade 11 my mum bought me my first skimboard; I became obsessed,” says Minns. He realized, however, that to advance he needed something more tailored to his needs; something that would allow him to perform bigger and better tricks. With the help of a family friend who was a carpenter, Minns made his very first flatland skimboard. He wanted to share his passion with the world, but at that time flatland skimboarding was still in its infancy.
“A lot of my friends were getting sponsored for skateboarding and snowboarding, and I wondered if I could get sponsored, or at least recognized for my sport.” This was a time before social media and YouTube, but Minns had a vision, so he took his passion for filming and photography and started making his own videos and sending them to companies.
“No skimboard companies got back to me, so I decided to do my own thing,” says Minns. “I created a logo, began making branded t-shirts in the kitchen with my mum, and started sponsoring like-minded people.”
Little did Minns know he had caught the attention of some local stores and their customers. “Suddenly stores started calling me. I wasn’t even ready for retail, but kids wanted the boards,” says Minns.
Almost 20 years later and Kayotics Skimboards distributes worldwide, and has a huge fanbase in Japan, Europe, and the Philippines. “The sport is growing in landlocked places because all you need is a body of water.” Just last year Minns taught a Kayotics skimboarding camp in Candle Lake,
Saskatchewan.
Every year, Minns and his team of fellow instructors, hold four camps each in Centennial Park, White Rock and Spanish Banks during low tide. The week-long camps run for three hours a day and teach all skill levels, from never-evers to more advanced riders, as well as private lessons for all ages.
Looking back, Minns says it’s the impact that flatland skimboarding has on people that is the most rewarding aspect about what he does. “I remember being in Vancouver when this six-foot guy came upto me, and said, ‘Hey, it’s me Ian, you taught me when I was 12.’ To know that I made a lasting
impression on a kid, getting them out there, is a very special thing.”
For information visit: http://www.skimboardingcamps.com/
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EXTRA –
No two skimboarding (disciplines) are the same.
Flatland Skimboarding
Practiced on non-coastal waters, such as a river, lake, stream or puddle. The rider jumps on a board and
skims across the water or performs tricks on rails and obstacles.
Wave Skimboarding
The rider glides across the water’s surface to meet an incoming breaking wave, and rides it back to
shore.
Flowriding
Riders use artificial waves to perform basic to sophisticated turns and tricks within a relatively small
The rider uses a skimboard and trails behind a boat, riding the boat’s wake without being directly pulled
by the boat.
BEST PLACES TO FLATLAND SKIMBOARD IN DELTA
White Rock Beach
Centennial Beach
Boundary Bay Regional Park
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By Patricia Last updated Nov 28, 2017
Many of you are probably headed home for Thanksgiving this week, which is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s Thanksgiving! That means no work, yummy food, and sweater weather. On the other hand, it’s Thanksgiving, a full day of awkward meals with your passive aggressive relatives. No matter your outlook, though, these 11 things happening in TV and movies this week will improve your holiday break. Suggest watching one of these films or Netflix shows as a way to bond with your family…or as an excuse to get away. The choice is yours.
It’s Joe Biden’s seventy-fifth birthday, and Barack Obama just celebrated it by creating his own version of those iconic Obama-Biden friendship memes. The former president of the United States uploaded a picture of himself to Twitter giving a televised speech while the former VP grins and points at the audience in the background with this stellar caption:
It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.
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By now you know the former POTUS and VPOTUS have been the stars of many, many online memes commemorating their endearing relationship, contrasting Obama’s cool presidential poise with Biden’s kooky vibes.
Biden himself is a fan, telling NBC News earlier this year that he’s still not over the Internet’s creativity, and even has favorites. “A couple of ones I liked were ones where I was trying on Ray Bans and he’s lying on the couch and I turn around and I said, ‘Which ones do you like?’ And he looks at me and says, ‘Joe, Joe, come on, focus here,'” he said in the interview. He’s also quite partial to the ones of him pranking Trump.
The letter is signed by 36 women who include former SNL writers, production assistants, producers, and cast members. Although NBC made the letter public on Monday morning, it’s already been harshly criticized. Twitter users have particularly zoomed in on the section about “inappropriate behavior,” saying that Franken not harassing his colleagues doesn’t preclude him from harassing someone else. Others have compared the letter to Dunham’s defense of Miller and the slew of female Fox News anchors who defended Roger Ailes, who resigned following allegations of sexual harassment.
The gorgeous necklace wasn’t Middleton’s only “something borrowed” at the platinum anniversary party. She also reportedly wore a pair of pearl and diamond earrings that Princess Di received as a wedding present in 1981, and that Middleton first donned at a state banquet this past summer.
Middleton paired her jewels with a black Diane von Furstenberg floor-length lace gown that she’s worn several times before: to a gala at Kensington Palace earlier this month; when she was pregnant with Princess Charlotte in 2014; and to a friend’s wedding later on in 2014. Although Prince Harry’s girlfriend, Meghan Markle, was once spotted wearing a shortened version of this dress to a red-carpet event, it probably doesn’t make this another case of Middleton’s style borrowing, since that was in February 2012, well before Markle was on Middleton’s radar.
Riverdale may be taking the week of Thanksgiving off, but there are still plenty of theories and conspiracies to feast on before it returns November 29. For one, there’s the never-ending mystery of the Black Hood’s identity and how Betty will cope with the reveal of the man or woman behind the mask. There’s also Fred Andrews, who may not be out of the woods after he was nearly gunned down by the Black Hood in the season two premiere.
Len Goodman called Frankie and Witney’s Argentine Tango fantastic, and Carrie Ann said it was a “bigger and better performance” than when they performed it the first time. I’m glad he’s on the DWTS tour this winter. America needs this Surprise, surprise, only Jordan could make a Salsa and Paso Doble fusion look like a walk in the park. Carrie Ann summed it up: “There’s not much else to say. Your skills are out of this world.” Yep. The End.
Dancing to Wham! has never looked so good. Mark and Lindsey scored a perfect 30 to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” but perhaps most impressive was the rehearsal package that aired right before that detailed Lindsey’s journey.
If it wasn’t obvious from night one of Dancing With the Stars, then it is now: Jordan Fisher and Lindsay Arnold are your new DWTS champions. The Hamilton star succeeds reigning season 24 champ Rashad Jennings as the latest celebrity to get a new doorstop Mirrorball. Len Goodman said Jordan is “the most complete male celebrity ever on Dancing With the Stars,” while Bruno Tonioli praised him as being “right up there with the best we’ve ever seen on this show.” The win also marks Lindsay’s first Mirrorball trophy in six seasons. She previously came in fourth with Wanya Morris, third with Calvin Johnson, Jr., and second with David Ross.
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How to Market Your Game Through Industry Competitions
Hi again! This is my second blog post about marketing your game. In my first post, I talked about the two different types of events, casual gatherings and larger events, like showcases and expos. I also shared tips for how to make the most out of each kind of event.
In this post, I'll talk about the variety of industry competitions and prizes to help your game stand out. There are many competitions within the industry that can provide financial prizes, marketing related prizes, or the invaluable opportunity to show off your game to a larger audience. Winning and even taking part in these kinds of competitions can really draw attention to you game. At first, entering and applying in them can be daunting, but trust me, you can get through it and become a natural.
Here are a variety of competitions that you can enter or ways to get your game featured:
Yearly events, like The Indie Prize, allow developers from all over the world to submit their game to a panel of judges. These judges will then pick the best games to showcase at a huge gaming event, with all expenses paid. The games that are chosen will benefit from exposure at the event, receive write-ups on influential websites, and even receive a spot on a Twitch Stream to showcase the game in action. Entering your game into this competition isn’t just about winning. If you do not place, you can still receive a bunch of valuable feedback on your game for you to consider in the future.
If you don’t already have a finished game, or if you are trying to create one as a part of a competition, game jams are a great place to start. Game jams are competitions that challenge developers to create a game in a set amount of time, normally around a theme. There are loads of game jams happening at any moment, primarily online. Quite a few of these jams don’t offer physical prizes (though some with prizes do appear from time to time). However, creating a game for a game jam may earn you a bunch of coverage. Some game jams have YouTubers associated with the jam, who are looking to cover all the great games made during the time frame. You can always find all of the game jams going on in the world and online here. And, for more information and tips on game jams, download this free eBook.
IndieGameLaunchpad goes above and beyond when it comes to featuring games that are put on their website. You are able to create a page for your game (though it’s not technically hosted there) and receive free promotion through their significant Twitter and Facebook community. This site also has a group of streamers, reviewers, and writers that could pick up your game to cover for their various media outlets.
The Big Indie Pitch held by PocketGamer.Biz is a fast-pitching competition that happens at physical locations all over the world, multiple times throughout the year. I have had the honour of judging this event several times myself. It challenges developers to quickly pitch their games to tables of judges, moving from one table to another in a fashion similar to speed dating. The winner of the pitch is given some physical prizes and a set amount of credit to spend on marketing with Steel Media. This competition also places you directly in front of a load of industry experts, who may take an interest in your game or studio.
Similarly, GamesForum’s Game Dev Showdown gives developers slightly more time to pitch to a panel of judges. This event doesn’t just judge your game and the quality of your pitch, it also touches on your business plan as a studio or developer. The winner receives some epic prizes, as well as useful feedback from the panel of judges.
The Nordic Games Discovery Contest is a travelling competition occurring multiple times a year that selects a few games to be pitched on a stage in front of an audience and of course, a few judges. The winners of these different events then go head-to-head in the main Discovery Contest, to determine which pitch is the best of them all. This winner receives a slew of prizes including coverage from major websites, booth spaces at an event, a fancy ‘Game of the Year’ title, and more.
Perfecting your pitch
In-person gaming competitions seem to focus on hearing developers pitch their game. It certainly is a great way to put on a show for the audience and make an impression for the people watching. Pitching is a vital skill to have in the games industry, though it can be very intimidating at first. For some tips on pitching, read this blog post.
There are plenty of other gaming events and competitions happening both online and around the world. Once you start entering a few, you will likely find more being mentioned or advertised at the ones you are attending. Entering your game into these sorts of competitions is definitely daunting, but something that is seriously worth doing. The more you enter, the more faces can see your game.
Jupiter Hadley is an indie gamer, YouTuber, and writer. She records most of the indie games she loves on YouTube and even writes about them on Fireside and AlphaBetaGamer. Follow her on Twitter or visit her website.
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Two Generally Useful Guava Annotations
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Nov. 23, 11 · Java Zone ·
Guava currently (Release 10) includes four annotations in its com.google.common.annotations package: Beta, VisibleForTesting, GwtCompatible, and GwtIncompatible. The last two are specific to use with Google Web Toolkit (GWT), but the former two can be useful in a more general context.
The @Beta annotation is used within Guava's own code base to indicate "that a public API (public class, method or field) is subject to incompatible changes, or even removal, in a future release." Although this annotation is used to indicate at-risk public API constructs in Guava, it can also be used in code that has access to Guava on its classpath. Developers can use this annotation to advertise their own at-risk public API constructs.
The @Beta annotation is defined as a @Documented, which means that it marks something that is part of the public API and should be considered by Javadoc and other source code documentation tools.
The @VisibleForTesting annotation "indicates that the visibility of a type or member has been relaxed to make the code testable." I have never liked having to relax type or member visibility to make something testable. It feels wrong to have to compromise one's design to allow testing to occur. This annotation is better than nothing in such a case because it at least makes it clear to others using the construct that there is a reason for its otherwise surprisingly relaxed visibility.
Guava provides two annotations that are not part of the standard Java distribution, but cover situations that we often run into during Java development. The @Beta annotation indicates a construct in a public API that may be changed or removed. The @VisibleForTesting annotation advertises to other developers (or reminds the code's author) when a decision was made for relaxed visibility to make testing possible or easier.
From http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/11/two-generally-useful-guava-annotations.html
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On the role of cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies
We take a multi-faceted approach to study the relativistic cosmic ray (CR) proton population in galaxy clusters. CR protons may be accelerated by structure formation shock waves, injected from radio galaxies into the intra-cluster medium, or result from supernova driven galactic winds. This thesis addresses the following questions: do CR protons exist in galaxy clusters? What is the dynamic and cosmological impact of CRs? How can we observe them? How can we describe CRs and their interactions? The first major part of this thesis investigates the question of the dynamic influence of CRs on the intra-cluster medium and searches for unbiased tracers of their existence using multi-frequency observational results. To this end, I develop an analytical framework to describe the hadronic interactions of CR protons with the ambient thermal plasma. In the second part, a description of CR gas for cosmological applications is presented that is especially suited for hydrodynamical simulations. During the course of this work, I focus on developing a formalism for instantaneously identifying and estimating the strength of structure formation shocks during cosmological simulations to accelerate CRs through diffusive shock acceleration. Since the energetically dominant CR population is trapped by cluster magnetic fields, it can only be observed indirectly through non-thermal radiative processes. CR protons interact hadronically with the ambient plasma and produce mainly neutral and charged pions that successively decay into gamma-rays, secondary electrons, and neutrinos. I develop an analytic formalism which describes the induced radio synchrotron, inverse Compton, and gamma-ray emission. Comparing the expected gamma-ray flux to the upper limits obtained by the gamma-ray observatory EGRET, I am able to constrain the CR proton energy density in nearby cooling core clusters to < 20% relative to the thermal energy density. In this context, I study the hypothesis that the diffuse radio synchrotron emission of galaxy clusters is produced by hadronically originating relativistic electrons and I develop a non-parametric criterion to obtain the minimum energy state for an observed radio synchrotron emission: the excellent agreement between the observed and theoretically expected radio surface brightness profile of the Perseus mini-halo and the small amount of energy density in CR protons needed to account for the observed radio emission makes this hadronic model an attractive explanation of radio mini-halos found in cooling core clusters. To explain the giant radio halo of Coma within the hadronic model of secondary electrons, the CR proton-to-thermal energy density profile has to increase radially up to moderate CR energy densities. Cosmological simulations that self-consistently follow CR acceleration at shock waves predict such an energy density profile: strong shock waves, that occur predominantly in low density regions, are able to efficiently accelerate high-energetic CRs, whereas weak central flow shocks inject only a low-energetic CR population which is strongly diminished by Coulomb interactions. This implies that the dynamic importance of the shock-injected CR energy density is largest in the low-density halo infall regions, but is less important for the weaker shocks occurring in central high-density cluster regions. As an extension of this work, I propose a new method in order to elucidate the content of the radio plasma bubbles located at cool cores of galaxy clusters. Using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Green Bank Telescope should be able to infer the dynamically dominant CR component of the plasma bubbles in suitable galaxy clusters within short observation times. Future high-sensitivity multi-frequency SZ observations will be able to infer the energy spectrum of the dynamically dominant electron population. This knowledge can yield indirect indications for an underlying composition of relativistic outflows of radio galaxies because plasma bubbles represent the relic fluid of jets. In the second major part of my thesis, I address the problem of constructing an accurate and self-consistent model for the description of CRs that aims at studying the dynamic influence of CRs on structure formation and galaxy evolution. This will not only allow the production of realistic non-thermal emission signatures of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, but also allow in-vivo studies of dynamic effects driven by relativistic particles and the star formation history. The developed model self-consistently traces relativistic protons originating from various kinds of sources, such as structure formation shock waves and supernovae driven galactic winds, and also accounts for dissipative processes in the relativistic gas component. To this end, I develop a formalism for the identification and accurate estimation of the strength of structure formation shocks during cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Shocks not only play a decisive role for the thermalization of gas in virializing structures but also for the acceleration of CRs through diffusive shock acceleration. The formalism is applicable both to ordinary non-relativistic thermal gas and to plasmas composed of CRs and thermal gas. I apply these methods to studying the properties of structure formation shocks in high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of the LambdaCDM model and find that most of the energy is dissipated in weak internal shocks which are predominantly central flow shocks or merger shock waves traversing halo centers. Collapsed cosmological structures are surrounded by external shocks with a much higher Mach number, but they play only a minor role in the energy balance of thermalization. I show that after the epoch of cosmic reionization, the Mach number distribution is significantly modified by an efficient suppression of strong external shock waves due to the associated increase of the sound speed of the diffuse gas.
cosmic rays, magnetic fields, clusters of galaxies, non-thermal radiation mechanisms, numerical simulations
Pfrommer, Christoph
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Pfrommer, Christoph (2005): On the role of cosmic rays in clusters of galaxies. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty of Physics
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On 1 July 2018, the NDIS became fully operational in NSW. However, the ASTP continues to provide in-kind assisted travel between home and school for eligible students.
It is important to note that ASTP continues to operate under existing state government arrangements whilst governments across all state and territories examine future transport options, including those for NDIS participants.
Transport requests for NDIS-registered services before or after school – such as respite, after school programs, therapy or community access – should be discussed first with the student's Local Area Coordinator, Support Coordinator or the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA). Refer to s12 of the NDIS Operational Guideline. Parents may wish to provide additional information relevant to their child's NDIS plan to support their application.
Requests for variations will be considered on a case-by-case basis. If schools need additional support or advice on possible variations involving NDIS and assisted school travel you can contact ASTP on telephone 1300 338 278 and ask for the Education Team or email schools.astp@det.nsw.edu.au.
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Sportscenter All NightSportscenter All Night
Chase for the Sprint Cup
Harvick Wins, Tempers Flare And Pressure Builds At Charlotte
Kevin Harvick moved into the third round of NASCAR's championship race with a victory Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where tempers flared after the race and two drivers had to be restrained from fighting Brad Keselowski.
Logano Wins, Other Chase Contenders Find Trouble At Kansas
Kansas Speedway lived up to its reputation for whittling the field of championship contenders Sunday as four Chase drivers finished 22nd or worse in a race that was plagued by tire problems. The victory went to Joey Logano, who earned an automatic berth into the third round of the Chase for the Spr…
Gordon Wins At Dover On Chase Elimination Day
Jeff Gordon won the third race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship for an automatic spot in the 12-driver field that advanced to the next round.
Logano Wins At New Hampshire In 2nd Chase Race
Joey Logano helped Team Penske strengthen its grip as the organization to beat for the Sprint Cup Championship, pulling away on an overtime restart to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and advance to the second round of the Chase.
Keselowski Routs Richmond Field To Grab Top Seed In Chase
Brad Keselowski routed the field Saturday night for his fourth win of the season, a victory that gives him the top seed in NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Back on top with only two NASCAR legends left to catch, Jimmie Johnson won his sixth Sprint Cup championship in eight years Sunday to stake his claim as one of the most dominant competitors in sports history. Now looming large in Johnson's windshield is the mark of seven titles held by Richard …
Johnson Widens Points Lead On Kenseth's Bad Day
Matt Kenseth had one of those rare seasons in which everything seemed to go right every time he got behind the wheel of his car.
Until the one day he couldn't afford for anything to go wrong.
Johnson Takes Cup Lead With Dominating Texas Win
Jimmie Johnson is the leader again in the Chase for the Sprint Cup title after a dominating victory Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway.
Gordon Grabs 1st Win Of Season At Martinsville
Jeff Gordon used an unprecedented chairman's selection to get into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship 48 hours before the opening race.
Now Gordon is trying his hardest to parlay that exemption from NASCAR chairman Brian France into a fifth title.
Hamlin Wins Pole At Martinsville; Johnson Second
Denny Hamlin promised he would be a factor in Sunday's NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway, and he went out and proved it by leading a parade of drivers who smashed the track qualifying record.
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Ghost (Dark Horse Comics)
For other uses, see Ghost (comics).
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. (November 2012)
Ghost Special #2, featuring Yvonne Epstein on the cover
Comics' Greatest World: Arcadia Week 3
Team CGW
In-story information
Elisa Cameron
Team affiliations
Barb Wire, X
Flight, Invisibility, Phasing, Teleportation
Ghost is the fictional superhero of an eponymous comic book published by American company Dark Horse Comics. The character appeared in specials and monthly titles detailing the afterlife of Elisa Cameron and her search for the truth surrounding her (apparent) death.
Ghost first appeared in Comics' Greatest World, week three, in 1993. After a popular special in 1994, a monthly title devoted to the character began publication in 1995. It ran for 36 issues, followed by a six-month break and a second series of 22 issues. The second series was a continuation of the first with a number of changes, including new details about Ghost's origin. The stories in both series were based in (and around) the city of Arcadia, in a self-contained fictional universe outlined in Dark Horse's Comics' Greatest World.
Ghost continued appearing in her own titles (and others) into the 2000s, including several crossovers unrelated to Comics' Greatest World. Most notable among these were a two-issue crossover with Dark Horse's Hellboy (Ghost/Hellboy), and a four-issue crossover with DC Comics' Batgirl (Ghost/Batgirl: The Resurrection Machine).
2.1 Collaborations
3.2 Friends
3.3 Crossover characters
3.4 Villains
4 Volume one
4.1 Creators
4.2 Storylines
5 Volume two
5.3 Special issues
6 Resurrection Mary
7 Volume Three (In the Smoke and Din)
8 Volume Four
10 Reception
Elisa Cameron contained within her nanomites that allowed her to become ghost-like. Later, she became an assassin until her memories were erased. With few memories, she believed she really was a ghost and decided to investigate her past as "The Ghost".
Comics' Greatest World week 3 ("Arcadia: Ghost") (1993)
Ghost Special (1994)
Series 1: Issues 1-36 (1995–98)
Ghost Special 2 ("Immortal Coil") (1998)
Series 2: Issues 1-4
Ghost Special 3 ("Scary Monsters") (1998)
Series 3: Issues 5-22
Ghost Handbook
X #8 (written by Steven Grant, pencils by Matt Haley, inks by Tom Simmons)
Ghost Omnibus Vol.1 (2008) (reprints of Ghost Special 1, Series 1 issues 1-12 and A Decade of Dark Horse, issue 2. ISBN 978-1-59307-992-5)
Ghost Omnibus Vol.2 (2009) (reprints Series 1, issues 13-26. ISBN 978-1-59582-213-0)
Dark Horse Presents (third series) #13 "Resurrection Mary" (written by Kelly Sue Deconnick, art by Phil Noto; serialized since June 2012)
Ghost - In The Smoke And Din 4-issue mini-series (written by Kelly Sue Deconnick, art by Phil Noto; serialized since October 2012)
Ghost Omnibus Vol.3 (2012) (reprints of Ghost Special 2-3, Series 1 issues 27-36, Ghost stories from Dark Horse Presents, issues 145-147. ISBN 978-1-59582-374-8)
Ghost Omnibus Vol.4 (2013) (reprints Series 2 issues 1-11 and the Ghost story from Dark Horse Presents Annual 1999. ISBN 978-1-61655-080-6)
Collaborations[edit]
Ghost & The Shadow: Doug Moench (writer), H. M. Baker (pencils), Bernard Kolle (inks), Matt Haley and Tom Simmons (cover); one-issue special (1995)
Ghost/Hellboy: Mike Mignola (writer and cover art), Scott Benefiel (pencils), Jason Rodriguez (inks); two issues (1996)
Ghost/Batgirl: The Resurrection Machine: Four issues (2001)
Elisa Cameron (Ghost)
Family[edit]
Earl Cameron (first appeared in Ghost Special)
Margo Cameron (first appeared in Ghost Special)
Dan Deerlane (first appeared in Volume Two)
June Deerlane-Cameron (first appeared in Ghost Special)
Friends[edit]
The Furies (all-female group; first appeared in #11, Vol. 1):
Mindgame
The Goblins (introduced in Vol. 1, #1 and #23)
Hob (goblin, first appearing in Vol. 1, #28)
Concordia Leveche (first appeared in Vol. 2)
Peter Neville (first appeared in Vol. 1, #1)
Nicola Provenzano (first appeared in Vol. 2)
Jennifer Reading (first appeared in Vol. 1, #28)
Crossover characters[edit]
X (first series; appeared in #9, #15, #20–-27 and #32)
Barb Wire (first series; appeared in #5, #17–19, Special #2)
King Tiger (first series; appeared in #2–3, #11, #22–23, #25–27)
Vortex (Vol. 2; introduced in Comics' Greatest World, Week 16)
Cassandra Cain (Batgirl)
Villains[edit]
Crux (first appeared in Vol. 1, #10)
Fear Demons
Ghost Hunters (first appeared in Vol. 2)
Ghost Killers
Hunger (first appeared in Vol. 1, #6)
The Incubi (first appeared in Vol. 1, #28)
Krasher
James MacCready (Ghost Special)
Miasma (first appeared in Vol. 1, #13)
Cameron Nemo (introduced in Vol. 1, #1)
Doctor October (first appeared in Vol. 1, #6)
Mr. Borazzon (Special 2)
Mr. Park (first appeared in Vol. 1, #29)
Archibald Scythe (first appeared in Vol. 1, #4)
Shades (introduced in Vol. 1, #8)
Silhouette (introduced in Vol. 1, #12)
Snake (first appeared in Vol. 1, #1)
Szothstromael Family (first appeared in Vol. 2, #7)
The Trio:
Towering Chris
Malcolm Greymater
Coral ("Trixie") King
Trouvaille (first major appearance in Vol. 1, #30)
Joe Yimbo (pun on the Japanese Yojimbo; first appeared in 1994's Ghost Special)
Volume one[edit]
Creators[edit]
The first series and the first special (1995–1998) were written by Eric Luke, who gave the character an intelligence uncommon in contemporary female superheroes. The artwork was done by a number of people, and the series maintained high visual standards. Arcadia was intended to be grim, yet Art Deco; this was particularly reflected in the artwork of the early issues. Below is a list of issues and their art teams; if a team (or individual) repeats, only last names will be used:
Special: Matt Haley (pencils), Tom Simmons (inks), Adam Hughes (cover) (1994)
1–3: Adam Hughes (pencils), Mark Farmer (inks) (April–June 1995)
4: Haley and Simmons (July 1995)
5: Terry Dodson and Lee Moder (pencils), Gary Martin and Ande Parks (inks) (August 1995)
6–7: Scott Benefiel (pencils), Jasen Rodriguez (inks) (September–October 1995)
8: George Dove (pencils), Bernard Kolle (inks) (November 1995)
9: H.M. Baker (pencils), Bob Wiacek (inks) (December 1995)
10: Baker, Kolle (January 1996)
11: David Bullock (pencils), Gary Martin (inks) (February 1996)
12–13: Bullock, Randy Emberlin (inks) (March–April 1996)
14: Steve Yeowell (pencils), Emberlin (inks) (May 1996)
15-16: Doug Braithwaite (pencils), Emberlin (inks) (June–July 1996)
17: Ivan Reis (pencils), Barbara Kaalberg (inks) (August 1996)
18-25: Reis and Emberlin (September 1996–April 1997)
26: Benefiel and Rodriguez (May 1997)
27: John Cassaday (pencils), Martin (June 1997)
28-31: Reis and Emberlin (July–October 1997)
32: Baker and Kolle (November 1997)
33-36: Reis and Emberlin (December 1997–March 1998)
Covers for the series were rarely by the same artist as the issue itself. The following is a list of who did which covers; as above, full names used above will not be repeated here unless new.
1–3, 5–7: Hughes
4: Haley and Simmons
8: Baker
9, 11, 17: Brian Apthorp and Martin
10, 12–14: Stan Manoukian and Vince Roucher
15: Benefiel and Rodriguez
16, 18: Braithwaite and Cam Smith
19: Jason Pearson
20-24: Cassady and Emberlin
25, 32: Imagemakers and David Stewart, with Yvonne Epstein modeling (photo cover)
26-27: Denis Beauvais
28-31: Chris Warner
33-36: Tony Harris
The series largely adopted a two- and four-issue story-arc structure for its final year.
Storylines[edit]
Special, X #8, #1–12: Reporter Elisa Cameron is dead. She gradually reconciles with her sister Margo, and moves in with her and their newly-sober parents. Her parents are later murdered by a shadowy psionic to dissuade her from a news story she was investigating. Elisa has a fondness for jade, which prevents her from "ghosting" (passing through objects). She can teleport (which she calls "jumping"), but must pass a hellish region to do so. Elisa faces a number of psionics led by Dr. October, a woman who wanted to eliminate Elisa for her beauty even in death. She also must deal with a demon (Cameron Nemo), who escapes from her "hell" (causing a great deal of destruction), before King Tiger helps her defeat him. Elisa learns that her jumps, her hell and Nemo are figments of her imagination. She slowly introduces herself to Peter, a man she sees visiting the graveyard. Elisa's alliance with Barb Wire (a bounty hunter from Steel Harbor) results in her receiving a warning that Archibald Scythe (a psionic from her past) is coming for her. Margo falls under Scythe's spell, while an all-female paranormal team (the Furies) joins with Elisa to defeat him. Margo, driven by rage, summons up strange "shade-like" tears which defeat Scythe (but cost her her life).
#13–25: Crux (the man responsible for the deaths of Elisa's parents) tries to remove Elisa, causing a panic in the underworld and seriously injuring Peter. Shortly afterwards Cameron Nemo escapes from hell and takes over Scythe's body, becoming a lurking presence in her afterlife. Aided by X, King Tiger and Focus (leader of the Furies), Elisa discovers a tape with evidence of her death. Tracing the tape to Crux (who is planning to invade a secret city beneath Arcadia and recover a key which will give him power), Elisa and her companions help the Goblins (living in the secret city) by defeating Crux. Just before his death, Crux admits that he caused everything—from her parents' murders to the psionic hunters and Elisa's death. Elisa then becomes Sentinel of Arcadia.
#26–36: Dr. October resurfaces, but is quickly defeated. Peter and Elisa slowly develop a relationship while Elisa, aided by the Goblins, tries to protect the city. She encounters Dr. Trouvaille, who experiments with the spirits of his victims; he calls her "the failed one", hinting that he knows secrets unrevealed by Crux. Margo, somehow alive and possessed by a being known as Silhouette, tries to destroy Arcadia but is saved by Elisa.
Volume two[edit]
The series was re-launched in the fall of 1998 with a new creative staff. An attempt was made to make the artwork sleeker, sexier and more beautiful than the previous series. Like the first series, the second adapted a mini-series approach. The following is a list of the staff; when repeated, only the surname will be used:
1–6: Chris Warner (writer), Christian Zanier (pencils), Steve Moncuse (inks), Ryan Benjamin (covers)
7–10 ("Shifter"): Warner and Mike Kennedy (writers), Zanier (pencils), Moncuse (inks), Benjamin (covers)
11–15 (12–15, "Red Shadows"): Warner (writer), Benjamin (art)
16–17("When the Devil Daydreams"): Kennedy (writer), Francisco Ruiz Valesco and Benjamin (art)
18–19: Kennedy (writer), Benjamin (art), Denis Beauvais (cover)
20: Kennedy (writer), Benjamin (art)
21: Kennedy (writer), Benjamin (art), Beauvais (cover)
22: Kennedy (writer), Benjamin and Lucas Marangnon (pencils), Moncuse and Mike Henry (inks), Benjamin (cover)
#1–6: Elisa learns from the mysterious Concordia Leveche that she is not really dead. Instead, her "death" is linked to Scythe and Trouvaille (who are conducting experiments in which souls are stripped from their bodies, "rendered" and replaced with beings from another dimension). Trouvaille captures Elisa, and shows her the tape. From it, she learns that she killed Crux. Trouvaille, aided by Scythe, tries ripping Elisa's soul from her body; however, during the procedure Cameron Nemo briefly appears. Elisa then vanishes. Silhouette is back in control of Margo's body while Margo's soul awaits rendering. Elisa escapes and fights Silhouette, who escapes (still controlling Margo's body). Elisa then kills Trouvaille. She has learned that Focus was in league with Trouvaille, and soon discovers the same is true of Peter. She suggests that he commit suicide, while Focus informs Elisa that she had been one of the Furies. Soon, she finds Cameron Scythe. Nemo (who reveals that as part of Elisa's subconscious he has always known her) is returned to Elisa's hell. Margo (now a being like Elisa) appears and shoots Scythe through the skull, killing him.
#7–15: Elisa, Concordia and Margo go to Hoyo Grande to ask King Tiger for help. Instead, they help a depressed Tiger regain his energy and battle the shape-shifting Szothstromael clan. Elisa has a revelatory encounter with the man from the vortex, who "reboots" her brain. This enables her to remember that her biological father (Dan Deerlane) was shot by her adoptive father before her eyes when she was very young; the pain deadened her to that of others, leading to her life as a Fury assassin. Silhouette returns, using Trouvaille's technology to transfer more beings into the bodies of Scythe's remaining followers. Sent as ghost-hunters, they attack Elisa and her friends. Failing that, Trouvaille (whose body is dead but whose essence exists within his armor) joins them to defeat Elisa and complete his experiments. They take Margo and Concordia, but Peter returns to aid Elisa in her battle. Margo's body is recovered, Silhouette is defeated, and Trouvaille and the hunters appear to be eliminated. Giving Peter the brush-off, Elisa leaves with her newly revived sister.
Special issues[edit]
Two special issues were published after Eric Luke's series ended, written by writers who did not contribute to the regular series:
Ghost Special 2 (Immortal Coil) (1998): Written by Martin Lodewyk, pencils by H. M. Baker, inks by Bernard Kolle, cover by Dave Stewart (featuring model Yvonne Epstein). Set some time after Silhouette appears, the Goblins have yet to return to Arcadia and a worried Elisa must rescue Barb Wire from a South American businessman (Mr. Borazzon)
Ghost Special 3 (Scary Monsters) (1998): "Mayfly" written by Tom Sneigoski, "Secrets" written by Lee Swank. Both sections have pencils by H. M. Baker and inks by Bernard Kolle; cover by Baker and Kolle. In "Mayfly", Elisa battles large insect-like creatures controlled by a woman who wants revenge for an accident during her youth. In "Secrets", Elisa reflects on the secrets of people in Arcadia. A man she calls "Bookworm", while seemingly innocuous in breaking into the library to read ancient books every evening, is really planning to raise a demon.
Resurrection Mary[edit]
Ghost was revived as part of Dark Horse's Project Black Sky with a new storyline entitled "Resurrection Mary", which launched the third series in Dark Horse Presents #13 cover-dated June 2012. In the three-part serialized story, Elisa's spirit is revived when two investigators from a Ghost Hunters-like TV series, armed with an experimental piece of paranormal technology, investigate a cemetery where a woman in white (called "Resurrection Mary") has been spotted. Eliza appears to have lost her memory; she and the paranormal investigators she befriends cover up her self-defence killing and resolve to solve the mystery of her identity. A notable change for this reboot is that the traditional setting of Arcadia was replaced by Chicago, Illinois. The serial concluded with DHP #15, after which Dark Horse published Ghost #0 in September 2012; this reprinted the three DHP chapters as a prelude to a new series, Ghost: In the Smoke and Din.
Volume Three (In the Smoke and Din)[edit]
Dark Horse launched a third series, In the Smoke and Din, consisting of four issues published from September 2012. The writer was Kelly Sue DeConnick with art by Phil Noto (pencils).
Volume Four[edit]
Kelly Sue DeConnick returned in 2013 to write a second series for Dark Horse. The following is a list of the staff; when repeated, only the surname will be used:
1 - 4, Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Chris Sebela (writer), Ryan Sook, Drew Johnson, Geraldo Borges (pencils), Richard Starkings (letters).
5 - 8, Chris Sebela (writer), Jan Duursema (pencils), Dan Parsons (Inks), Richard Starkings (letters).
9 - 12, Chris Sebela (writer), Harvey Tolibao (pencils), Richard Starkings (letters).
Collections[edit]
Ghost Stories, Vol. 1, ISBN 978-1-56971-057-9
Ghost Omnibus, Volume 1 ISBN 978-1-59307-992-5
Ghost/Batgirl: The Resurrection Machine ISBN 978-1-56971-570-3
Ghost/Hellboy Special ISBN 978-1-56971-273-3
Ghost was ranked 15th on the Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[1]
List of ghosts
^ Frankenhoff, Brent (2011). Comics Buyer's Guide Presents: 100 Sexiest Women in Comics. Krause Publications. p. 19. ISBN 1-4402-2988-0.
Ghost at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on August 24, 2016.
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Innovation: Smart roads could power street lamps, electric cars
The research project aims to design and optimise energy recovery of around one to two megawatts per kilometre under 'normal' traffic volumes -- which is around 2,000 to 3,000 cars an hour.IANS | September 19, 2017, 18:57 IST
London: Researchers in Britain are working on smart materials that when embedded in road surfaces would be able to harvest and convert vehicle vibration into electrical energy to power street lamps or electric vehicle charging points.
The research project aims to design and optimise energy recovery of around one to two megawatts per kilometre under 'normal' traffic volumes -- which is around 2,000 to 3,000 cars an hour.
This amount of energy, when stored, is the amount needed to power between 2,000 and 4,000 street lamps.
The researchers said they were working on smart materials such as 'piezolectric' ceramics for the project.
"This research is about helping to produce the next generation of smart road surfaces," said lead researcher Mohamed Saafi, Professor at Lancaster University.
"We will be developing new materials to take advantage of the piezoelectric effect where passing vehicles cause stress on the road surface, producing voltage. The materials will need to withstand high strengths, and provide a good balance between cost and the energy they produce," Saafi said in a statement released by the university.
"The system we develop will then convert this mechanical energy into electric energy to power things such as street lamps, traffic lights and electric car charging points. It could also be used to provide other smart street benefits, such as real-time traffic volume monitoring," he added.
The researchers believe that besides providing environmental benefits, the project would also help deliver significant cost savings for taxpayers.
Tags : Power, street lamps, smart materials, piezolectric, Lancaster University, Innovation, electric vehicles
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“it” is raining — is the context always the weather? [closed]
Let's say someone random comes to you and says:
It's raining.
In this case, the usage of "it" is (almost) completely subjective. You both didn't create a dialogue that produced a context in order to make the existence of "it" justified.
So, I was discussing with some folks about the need of "it" in there and I said that it is referring—and always will be, in that context—to the weather. I mean, if someone comes to you and say that's raining, this person is necessarily referring the "raining" to the subject weather.
The point is that one of these folks asked me if the "it" is precisely referring to weather when it becomes "It's raining money." and I said yes. As far as I know, this case is dealing with a metaphor which is still talking about rain.
My argument is that the comprehension about the usage of "it" is that it always should have a context, even if it is abstract or hidden. It's there, but not explicitly defined.
Is this argument right? Is "It's raining (something)" referring necessarily to the weather and will it always be?
pronouns it
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Guilherme OderdengeGuilherme Oderdenge
closed as off-topic by FumbleFingers, Helmar, Scott, tchrist♦ Oct 4 '16 at 10:47
"Please include the research you've done, or consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better. Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic." – FumbleFingers, Helmar, Scott, tchrist
Our bombing mission has just reached the war front, and even as I speak it's raining death and destruction on the enemy. It's also worth pointing out that the first word in this sentence doesn't refer to weather either. – FumbleFingers Oct 3 '16 at 17:52
No, it has no reference. It's a Dummy pronoun, inserted to take the place of a non-existent subject. And the subject (the topic of discussion, that is -- not the grammatical subject, which is the dummy it) can be distance or other landscape features, as well as weather. – John Lawler Oct 3 '16 at 18:11
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impersonal_verb. – chepner Oct 3 '16 at 22:46
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Are the commas here correct? “…a vaccine was finally discovered by an American scientist, Jonas Salk, in 1955…”
Before a vaccine was finally discovered by an American scientist, Jonas Salk, in 1955, more than 80 percent of polio patients received help from the foundation.
Why is "Jonas Salk" set off by commas in this sentence? I think of it as of an essential clause and thus believe no commas should be inserted.
punctuation commas appositives
DwightKSchruteDwightKSchrute
The focus is on the vaccine, not on the scientist who discovered it and even without his name the sentence is sensible enough. – mahmud koya Apr 9 '17 at 13:07
If the sentence had read "the American scientist Jonas Salk," you wouldn't use commas. But the indefinite article "an" implies that the name is inessential. – Peter Shor Apr 9 '17 at 13:17
@Dwight Please review the rules on attribution. You must reference your quotes. This is even more important when you are asking about something you're quoting, because people may need to look up the rest of the passage for context and background (eg., how well is the rest of it written?) – Andrew Leach♦ Apr 9 '17 at 17:58
It has nothing to do with names. In this case, it just happens that there is a name between the commas.
The real reason and purpose is that there is a parenthetical part in the sentence. The sentence is so structured that it can be parsed and understood correctly with as well as without the parenthetical part.
"Before a vaccine was finally discovered by an American scientist, Jonas Salk, in 1955, more than 80 percent of polio patients received help from the foundation."
"Before a vaccine was finally discovered by an American scientist in 1955, more than 80 percent of polio patients received help from the foundation."
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesis_%28rhetoric%29
KrisKris
Jonas Salk is in apposition. Commas are correct here, preferred by me to the alternatives, dashes or parentheses.
Khuldraeseth na'BaryaKhuldraeseth na'Barya
Like Peter Shor said, because it's badly written.
It's definitely distracting to have a needless appositive phrase just before another needful one, with the date hanging confusedly between them. That being said, the grammar follows logically from the writer focusing attention on the concept of American scientist and merely naming Salk as one of them instead of describing him as 'the American scientist Jonas Salk'.
llylly
Where's the second appositive? – Khuldraeseth na'Barya May 9 '17 at 18:53
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Video: Egyptian Short Film Captures Sufi Traditions and Daily Life in Egypt’s Humaithara Valley
With abstract undertones and a seducing presence, Egyptian filmmaker Seif Abdalla and photojournalist Mohamed Mahdy, in their newly released short film ‘Humaithara’, portray the people and religious traditions of Egypt’s remote Humaithara valley.
Humaithara, a town, mountain and valley, located between Marsa Alam and Aswan, is known for its yearly celebration of the Mawlid, or birth, of venerated Sufi Sheikh Abul Hassan Al-Shadhili, who was buried there.
Frederic Brusi, PhD researcher at Stockholm University focusing on Sufism in Upper Egypt and Sudan, spoke to Egyptian Streets about the importance of Humaithara as a site of pilgrimage, “in pre-industrial time, regional and local sites of pilgrimage were very important for Muslims… it’s possible that the practice of pilgrimage outside the hajj is again becoming more popular.”
Brusi recorded some stories of pilgrimage by Muslims from El Qurna in Luxor governorate in 2012 and 2013. Al Shadhili is still considered to be one of the most important saints of Egypt together with Abul Abbas al-Mursi in Alexandria, Ahmad al-Badawi in Tanta, Al-Desoqi in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate and Abu-l Hajjaj in Luxor.
Every year, nearly half a million people from all over Africa congregate in the valley and celebrate the Mawlid, not only through traditional Sufi rituals but also by standing on Humaithara Mountain at the same time as Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia stand on Mount Arafat during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
The mountain is considered by Sufi practitioners as a shrine for the late Sheikh al-Shadhili as well as the Qibla, or direction, for their prayers.
Abul Hassan al-Shadhili, born in 1196, was an influential Moroccan Sufi and Islamic scholar who founded what came to be known as the Shadhili order, or tariqa. He was educated in the Moroccan city of Fes and moved to Egypt’s Alexandria in 1244. Brusi explains that
Brusi explains that “many of the local Sufi circles and brotherhoods are either Shazly or branches of Shazly Tariqa [Sufi doctrine or branch].”
“Many of the Egyptian saints are Moroccans who settled in Egypt on their way to Mecca. In Shazly’s, case he actually died on his way to the ferry to Mecca. In my own research in Upper Egypt, one of my informants expressed it thus: ‘The Egyptian heart is a Sufi heart. We love the saints and therefore they love us.”
Brusi further elaborates on the reason why saints who settled in Egypt did so. “They found that the Egyptians’ natural inclination towards mystic traditions fertile soil for their intense love – or Shawq – for the divine.”
He adds, referencing the research of Samuli Schielke and his own, that traditions connected to sanctity, like the Egyptian Mawalid traditions, are very easy points of access to the divine realm for the people.
“To participate in zikr [remembrance of Allah] or just to go to the mawlid to have fun for a few hours, is easy compared to the more demanding plights of Salafism, which generally regard mawlid as unIslamic practice. The mawlid becomes a time and place where the sacred and the profane coincides,” adds Brusi.
Abul Hassan al-Shadhili’s spiritual knowledge had become particularly influential in Tunisia and Egypt, where he died in 1258 on his way to Mecca.
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For a show just before the Extreme Rules PPV, I’m surprised that Raw entertained for more than half the show! Let’s break down this week’s episode!The show started off with AJ Styles and Roman Reigns in a heated promo on who was going to win the title on Sunday. It built up decently well and it created more of a buzz for the tag match later in the show and the championship match at the PPV. Still have no reason why they keep having Reigns get the best of Styles when the crowd was again showing their disdain for Reigns, but maybe we’ll be in a for a surprise on Sunday.
WWE had set up Sami Zayn vs. Cesaro for the next match based on their Smackdown rumblings, but it quickly turned into Zayn and Owens vs. The Miz and Cesaro. I like how they had Shane and Stephanie McMahon come out to announce how the match would be changed and creating the odd pairings (especially Zayn and Cesaro). I loved Kevin Owen’s mannerisms from the time he was on commentary until him and Zayn won the match – laying out Zayn and yelling at the ref to raise his hand because he won as well.
Owens and The Miz have been my favourite heels as of late and this whole match/segment cemented that this four-way match for the IC title will be one to watch on Sunday. Hell, as I write this recap, I don’t even know who I’m gonna pick to win this when I do my predictions later today or tomorrow!
The debut of The Shining Stars was up next. Primo and Epico (who were formally dying with the horrible Los Matadors gimmick) came out praising Puerto Rico, and that seems to be their gimmick now. They took care of some jobbers in less than two minutes and then got back on the mic to talk about Puerto Rico. I can see this getting tiring really quick as I’m already bored of these two. The crowd didn’t seem to care one way or another. How about introducing a team of monster heels talking about being in WWE for the belts and wanting to destroy all the other teams? I know these two don’t fit that mold, but the Tag Team division is boring to me again.
Next was another talk segment and featured Dean Ambrose and Chris Jericho. I love Chris Jericho ripping people apart, so he’s always great to watch, but I thought this exchange dragged just a bit until it was announced that their match would be an “Asylum” match. I’m still unclear as to what that is, but it looks like it’s a cage match with different weapons and items that can be used, with a winner only being declared by pin-fall or submission. It kind of reminds me of the old match TNA wrestling used to have called the Lethal Lockdown. Suffice to say, I think these two will pull it off, but WWE has to let these guys bleed if they want to sell the danger and damage this match seems to be promising. Dean’s delivery here was one of the best in a long time as I find his character is best with a maniacal twist to him, like Brian Pillman.
Poor Becky Lynch. I know you have to get newer female wrestlers over, so why not job someone else besides Becky? I suppose they needed a strong face/good girl to contrast the arrogance and heelish attitude of Dana Brooke, but they still could have done this Raw debut of Dana without sacrificing Becky in a match that lasted less than four minutes. I thought this was a “new era!”
I’ll pass on this life coach crap with Bob Backlund and Darren Young. I’m not giving it any more attention in this column than that.
So I miss Smackdown (like usual – I just don’t watch) and I see that Goldust and R-Truth are now officially teaming as The Golden Truth and still tied up with Tyler Breeze and Fandango. Please just put this shit to rest, WWE creative. Put all these guys in something more meaningful. You’ve wasted enough people’s time with it and didn’t pull the trigger on putting both of these guys together when it could have meant something. Yeah, some of the crowd were chanting “Golden Truth,” but I don’t think it’ll last.
Holy SHIT! Another talking segment!!!! The New Day were out talking about silly shit again and this whole time machine promo was a waste of time and shows just how out of touch WWE is with their viewers sometimes. The stupid “special effects” they were using just made me ashamed to be watching this programming. I was actually glad to see the Vaudevillains, who I’m not a fan of, end the goofy shit.
The Usos (with Reigns in their corner) vs. Anderson and Gallows (with AJ Styles) followed next. Can you please f’n explain to me the point in having Anderson and Gallows lose and not look strong? This makes no sense. WWE, you are trying to build new stars, a new era, new matches, new possibilities and more. How are these two supposed to grow after this whole program if the audience doesn’t know them enough except that they’re always being taken out by Reigns and the Usos? I hope we’re surprised on Sunday and we finally see Anderson and Gallows take off like they should by doing something big.
The aftermath of the match was where more of the build-up towards Sunday’s main event. We finally got to see some chair-action with Reigns attacking Styles with a chair first and Styles getting some retribution in the end. I’m actually curious to see how the match will go, who will get involved, and if we’re gonna get another clean finish.
As soon as you heard that Shane and Stephanie where going to choose which one of The Dudley Boyz were gonna fight Big Cass, you knew Devon would be picked just to lose. And look at that: it happened and he lost quickly.
Kalisto vs. Alberto Del Rio again? Holy fuck…how WWE can’t find anyone else (or should I say use anyone else) to incorporate into matches on Raw and story lines boggles my mind. Let Kalisto fight almost anyone else to make them relevant and have Rusev destroy them both after the match concludes. Fans get to see a match, fans get to see new opponents, and then fans can see Rusev come across as a monster and a viable opponent at the PPV in the end. Instead, we’ll probably see that the third hour Raw ratings plummeted again as people let their PVRs take over (like I did) or they just turned the channel.
I’m really surprised that the contract signing ended the show. Once again, remotes were probably in in many people’s hands if they were still watching, but the ladies did their best. Oh look! The McMahons had to get involved in the end segment again. This rivalry was already convoluted with Ric Flair always getting involved and now the McMahons have to be involved with Flair? This ending didn’t build up the match between the two ladies. This ending wasn’t about Nattie and her quest to be champ again. This ending was just more McMahons and a Flair that didn’t need to be in the picture. Let the ladies fight to be the best and for a belt.
All in all, this show wasn’t that bad, but the last hour and the whole notion of Anderson and Gallows losing to the Usos made for some head scratching moments. My Extreme Rules predictions should be up on the site by Wednesday night.
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November 11, 2018 JP Erickson2 Comments on Lari Basilio “My Ultimate Guitar Jam”
Who is Lari Basilio?
Lari Basilio was born into a musical household in São Paulo, Brazil. Her father is an accomplished singer and acoustic guitarist. One of her father’s songs had some intricate and very emotional guitar phrasing in it and it touched Lari in a deep way. From that point on, Lari wanted to learn all she could about playing guitar.
After her father taught her a few chords on an acoustic guitar, Lari borrowed her youngest brother’s guitar. Her very first guitar of her own was a Stratocaster copy she bought with money she made from a part-time job.
One of her teachers was jazz guitarist Djalma Lima. Lari was impressed with Lima’s fluidity on guitar, a trait that she possesses to this day.
One of Lari’s greatest influences is Andy Timmons. “The first time I listened to him was remarkable and made me want to play more and more.” Timmons later returned the compliment, referring to Lari’s music as “soulful and melodic.” John Mayer, Richie Kotzen and Brazilian musicians Edu Ardanuy and Juninho Afram are additional guitarists Lari lists as sources of inspiration.
Guitarist Lari Basilio
In 2011, Lari started working on her instrumental five-song Extended Play (EP), named, simply, Lari Basilio, which features Felipe Andreoli, bass player in the popular Brazilian band Angra. The EP was produced by five-time Latin Grammy winner Lampadinha.
Her most recent original work, the CD and DVD “The Sound of My Room“, was released in August, 2015 at Cine Belas Artes in São Paulo. “The idea of taking instrumental guitar music to a movie theater proved (to be) a creative initiative (equal to) the compositions of Lari Basilio,” said Guitar Player Brazil magazine in its October , 2015 issue. The 10-song package includes a mini-documentary and behind-the-scenes footage on the DVD.
Lari won the instrumental category of the Samsung E-Festival in 2014 and performed for a crowd of 15,000 alongside Keb’ Mo’ and Quinn Sullivan at the Samsung Best of Blues Festival in Brazil. She has also opened for guitar clinics by Paul Gilbert and Andy Timmons and recently appeared at the Malibu Guitar Festival in 2017. The online video of her jam with Steve Vai is something no fan should miss.
Lari has been featured in national and international media including a story in Guitar Player Brazil (February, 2016), the cover of Guitarload (March, 2016) and in an interview published on Guitar World’s website.
Being a technical yet melodic player has always come naturally to Lari. Many feel that she has taken the electric guitar in a new direction and, at the same time, brought it to a new level.
Currently, Lari is living in Los Angeles,exploring new opportunities in music and completing a new album as well as working as a producer and arranger. She continues to tour both Brazil and the USA, and her instructional videos can be found on JamTrackCentral. (Bio courtesy of www.laribasilio.com)
Lari Basilio – My Ultimate Guitar Jam
I would choose John Mayer. He always amazes me by turning simple notes into beautiful and very unique melodies. It’s like “the pentatonic like you have never heard.”
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2 thoughts on “Lari Basilio “My Ultimate Guitar Jam””
Rod Ling says:
Beautiful guitar player. Great to hear her story.
JP Erickson says:
I quite enjoyed her playing. Great mix of technique and taste. Very impressive.
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GREEN WITCH ABSINTHE
Posted in Art, Chaos Magic, Ghost, Goetia Girls, Goth Girls, Lucid Dreaming, Occultism, Sex Magic, Shamanism, Sorcery, Succubus, Surrealism, Tulpa Creation, Vampire, Witchcraft with tags Absinthe, aleister crowley, ancient Greece, anima, art, art muse, art print, Artemis, Artemisia Absinthium, Artemisia vulgaris, artist, artists, Austin Osman Spare, chaos magic, Corinna Wu, Decadent Art, Decadent Artist, Degas, Dr Faust, Dr Fausus, Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, faust, faustus crow, Félicien Rops, france, Gauguin, Green Devil, Green Fairy, Green Goddess, Green Muse, Green Witch, Henriod sisters, Hollenzwang, lucid dreaming, Mardun, Mephistophiel, mephistophina, Mugwort, occult, Picasso, Queen of poisons, shaman, shamanism, siberia, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, witchcraft, Wittenberg, Wormwood on September 30, 2018 by FAUSTUS CROW
Artemisia absinthium, is the scientific name for the plant called grand Wormwood, which is the main ingredient of the alcoholic elixir called Absinthe. Wormwood is a species of Artemisia, which is native to temperate regions of Eurasia. The ingredients of Absinthe also include green anise, sweet fennel, and other Witchcraft herbs.
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In Witchcraft lore Artemisia absinthium is associated with the planetary sphere of fiery Mars and the elements fire and air. Due to the association with Mars you also have the correspondence with the colour red. Also when the colour red is intensely stared at, it leaves behind a green after-image when your eyes are closed, and likewise when green is stared at, it leaves behind a red after-image.
As for the name Artemisia, it is derived from the name of the ancient Greek Goddess Artemis, whose sacred animal is a Bear, which is often associated with female shamans, especially across Eurasia unto Hyperborean Siberia. (There are many names for a male shaman in Siberia. But there is only one name for a female shaman, which is Udagan, meaning a Bear. Udagan also has associations with a fire, specifically the hearth.)
Shamanic use of Wormwood involved macerating its leaves, which were then soaked in wine for several days around the Moon phases, then ritually strained. The Wormwood wine is usually used for facilitating astral projection, divination and inducing visions.
Absinthe is commonly referred to , as ‘la fée verte,’ the Green Fairy, or alternatively as the Green Witch, by many a conjuring Artist who seeks visions. She was the liquid Art Muse for a number of rebellious Artists who made nineteenth century France, especially Paris a centre of artistic life. For example Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Degas partook of the essence of the Green Fairy who made her a subject of their paintings.
Absinthe was also known as the Green Muse, Green Ghost, Green Demoness, or the Green Goddess, and by other supernaturally inclined titles. But it was more commonly called the Queen Of Poisons:
“What is there in Absinthe that makes it a separate cult? Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.” Aleister Crowley, The Green Goddess (1918).
Scientists have looked into the unusual effects of the Green Fairy. Under the title, ‘Absinthe Makes Neurons Run Wild,’ Corinna Wu, who writes for the Science News magazine, described scientific research in 2000 into the effects of the Wormwood herb on the Artist’s brain.
The research was conducted by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, the study discovered that Wormwood, as well as other Witchcraft herbs in Absinthe, cause “CNS cholinergic receptor binding activity”. This, according to scientists, has the effect of improving cognitive functions of the Artist’s brain.
Although the shamanic and medicinal usage of Wormwood has been known of since very ancient times, popular legend relates that the Wormwood elixir of Absinthe began as an all-purpose patent remedy, when it had been first created by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a French version of doctor Frankenstein living in Couvet, Switzerland, around 1792. Ordinaire was unaware that his all-purpose patent remedy would one day be seen as a concoction of the devil, ensnaring the consumers addiction.
However, the exact date of Absinthe’s creation varies depending on the colourful alchemist account. Ordinaire’s alchemical recipe was passed on to the Henriod sisters of Couvet, who proceeded to sell Absinthe as a medicinal elixir, a Faustian sorcerer would very likely drink with Werewolf relish.
In Dr Faust’s grimoire, entitled, Hollenzwang it describes ‘Mephistophiel’ having a visionary form, appearing firstly like that of a ‘fiery Bear.’
The vision of the fiery Bear manifested when Dr Faust conjured the infernal spirit amidst the crossroads, surrounded by the wild wood of Wittenberg.
The shamanic symbolism of the fiery Bear may allude to an Artemis ‘she Bear,’ and in turn the Witchcraft herb, Artemisia absinthium.
The Hollenzwang and other Faustian grimoires are often described as being medieval of date. But in fact most of the grimoires were created in the 17th, 18th or even the 19th century, when Absinthe took centre stage among the Dracula aristocracy and in turn the fed upon common folk.
This was especially the case during the 19th century in Parisian France, in particular, where many a Decadent Artist, such as Oscar Wilde or Félicien Rops sought out the Green Witch, bestowing visions.
You can rebelliously re-imagine Faust as a Sorcerer Artist, likened to Austin Osman Spare, drinking copious amounts of Absinthe prior to conjuring up a fiery red vision of a she-Bear, who then assumes the spectral guise of a salacious Nun wearing a green habit.
Little wonder then that Faust engaged in the Tantric Osculum Infame with the Green Witch, when to have entered into a Coitus Pactum with her, within an Absinthe induced Red-light district lucid dream.
He no doubt also smoked large amounts of Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) before he rode the visiting Night-Mare of his Fallen Anima, who revealed to him that Warlocks have their Anima, whereas Witch-Nuns have their deified Animus made as a God/Devil.
DISCLAIMER. Absinthe is considered as being a hallucinatory drink by some, whereas others do not experience it having any such affect.
This may be due to the differences in recipe, some of which may have once included Cannabis, and perhaps even Psilocybin in some prior cases.
The hallucinatory qualities of Absinthe was sought out by Artists, which gave Absinthe its nigh occult mystique. But the establishment propagandized the supposed hallucinatory effects of Absinthe as a means to ban it, which was mainly due to pressure from Wine producers, during the late 19th century, just as Hemp and Cannabis was banned because of the paper industry.
Absinthe is presently seen as having its inebriating effects because of its high alcohol content. Hence the reason why it is diluted with water prior to consuming the drink.
This involves an elaborate and rather arcane ritual. Drinking Absinthe straight was, and still is considered as being uncouth. As for Wormwood, the herb does have medicinal qualities, whether partaken in Absinthe or not.
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An Artist Memorializes the Disappearing Palm Trees of Los Angeles
Palm fronds in Southern California are falling more frequently due to age, invasive species, and fungus, Artist Zoe Crosher casts these fronds in bronze.
Installation view: Zoe Crosher, Prospecting Palm Fronds, Aspen Art Museum, 2017.
Photo by Tony Prikryl
By: Allison C. Meier
Every city has its local trash, from the pizza boxes of New York City to the rectangular metro tickets strewn on the sidewalks of Paris. In Los Angeles, it’s the palm fronds shed by the city’s iconic trees. Due to invasive insects, age, and a spreading fungus, they’re falling more frequently. Palm trees have a limited lifespan—about 75 to 100 years—often cut shorter by the invasive South American palm weevil (Rhynchophorus palmarum) and native Fusarium fungus. As scientists from Texas A&M and USDA-ARS describe in The Florida Entomologist, the weevil lays eggs in the base of the leaves, where larvae hatch and “damage the apical growth of the palm tree while feeding inside the trunk.” Soon, the trees themselves may vanish, or at least radically diminish in number.
In an ongoing project, Los Angeles-based artist Zoe Crosher casts found fronds in bronze. Her LA Like: Prospecting Palm Fronds series commemorates this detritus as a memorial to the disappearing trees. Using a lost-wax casting process, similar to that employed for grander monuments, the frond’s organic material is destroyed, leaving its spray of leaflets and fibrous stem immortalized in metal. Each is then titled with the intersection where it was collected. Crosher’s sculptures are currently displayed on the roof of the Aspen Art Museum, scattered as if dropped from tree.
Palm trees in LA are so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that they aren’t originally from Southern California.
Los Angeles’s palms have long inspired its artists, from David Hockney’s sunlit paintings to Ed Ruscha’s photographs, including his 1971 artist’s book A Few Palm Trees. They’re so ubiquitous, it’s easy to forget that—aside from Washingtonia filifera, the California fan palm—they aren’t originally from Southern California.
Beginning in the early 1900s, Los Angeles was marketed as a “20th-century Garden of Eden,” an escape from the East Coast crowds with clean air and a Mediterranean feel. Palms were part of its exoticization. “The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) played a role in helping to transform the California (and Arizona) desert into a Middle Eastern oasis,” writes historian Richard Francaviglia in Go East, Young Man. The silhouette of that tall palm topped with a dynamic crown is now as associated with Hollywood as it is with its native Fertile Crescent. Francaviglia adds, “The first date palms were brought to California by the Spaniards, but it was the Anglo-Americans who would help make them a premier symbol of the new Near East in Southern California.”
The 1905 aqueduct that transported water from the Colorado River to the Los Angeles Basin caused a surge in middle-class housing. One type of palm called Phoenix canariensis, the Canary Island date palm, was especially popular for its elegance. “Home owners of modest means could convincingly emulate the larger gardens of the state’s wealthiest citizens,” notes botanist Scott Zona in Garden History.
The date palm was joined by the towering queen palm, the squat but showy Chinese fan palm, the slow-growing Kentia palm, and others. In 1931 alone, 25,000 palms were planted by Los Angeles’s forestry division. While they are striking against the blue skies and lining Sunset Boulevard like sentries, their environmental benefits are minimal compared with other street trees. They offer little shade, and they need a lot of water.
As Ally J. Levine reported for the Los Angeles Times, when the palms die, the city plans to replace them with native trees more adaptable to drought, with branches for shade. However, Levine adds that the city “vowed to maintain trees in areas that are iconic or have historic significance.” The palms will likely not disappear entirely, yet their dominance will wane as Los Angeles looks to a more sustainable ecological future.
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New Rochelle High School Principal Reggie Richardson has been named Administrator of the Year by the ESSAA. Photo Credit: Jared Rice Facebook
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. - A New Rochelle educator has been named Administor of the Year by the Empire State Supervisor and Administrator’s Association.
The ESSAA has announced that New Rochelle High School Principal Reggie Richardson has been Named Administrator of the Year for Region 2, which covers both Westchester and Putnam County.
According to the ESSAA, Richardson was recognized for “his success in the exploration of standards-based grading, revamping summer assignments for Advanced Placement students, the AP Capstone program, New Rochelle’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, the Young Achievers and ALAS-Advancing Latino Academic Success.”
Each year, the ESSAA, a professional organization representing public school administrators and supervisors throughout New York State, honors its top educators with a series of awards. Richardson will receive his honor at the annual ESSAA meeting in June at Hotel Thayer at West Point.
Leslie Altschul, the chair of the English department at the high school, nominated Richardson for the award, describing him as “a compassionate educator, an extraordinary listener and a game changer for the very diverse New Rochelle High School.”
"His positive idealism has set the tone for the inclusive culture within which we nurture, through our collaborative efforts, every one of our constituents -- from the most talented to the most challenged," Altschul wrote. "Reggie is a risk-taker who always supports original thinking and encourages experimentation with any pedagogical strategy that may yield productive results."
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Temporal Associational Cortex: Language, part 1
Complex Brain Functions: Associational Cortex
It may surprise you to know that in all of our studies of the neural systems for sensation and action, we have yet to properly account for the organization and function of roughly 75% of the entire cerebral mantle. Thus, only 25% of the cerebral cortex is accounted for by the modal sensory and motor cortical areas. The majority of the human cerebral cortex is multi-modal cortex that associates signals derived from one or more modal systems. We now turn our attention to this “associational cortex” as we consider more complex aspects of brain function.
Overview of Cognition15:28
Overview of the Associational Cortex13:19
Parietal Associational Cortex, part 112:07
Temporal associational Cortex: Visual Recognition21:40
Temporal Associational Cortex: Memory, part 123:55
Temporal Associational Cortex: Language, part 114:37
Frontal Associational Cortex: Working Memory14:55
Frontal Associational cortex: Exeutive Function14:33
Well, we need to move on and consider one other domain of function associated with
the temperal lobe and that would be language.
again, another facinating topic. We could have a whole course just
devolted to the brain and language. Well, in fact, we do.
We have courses here at Duke University on this very topic.
So my aim with you rather is to simply give you some of the basics that you need
to understand functional localization in the human brain.
Well, humor me for a moment, will you? And let's test your facility for the
recognition of words, at least in presentation in English language form.
So, let's read together the following text.
According to research at Cambridge University it doesn't matter in what
order the letters in a word are the only important thing is that the first and
last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can
still read it without a problem. This is because the human mind does not
read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.
Well for those of you who may not be native English speakers, perhaps you've
struggled a little bit with this challenge.
But you can create your own such text in your native language and demonstrate for
yourself and your friends and your family really this amazing facility of the human
brain. To take these arbitrary visual symbols
and interpret them with meaning and semantic content.
And to run them through our language circuit in a way that allows us to
produce the articulated vocal sounds that are associated with these relatively
arbitrary visual symbols. Well, this is evidence of the amazing
facility of the human brain for manipulating symbolic representation
derived from sensory stimuli and using it to communicate complex ideas and complex
thought in the form of speech. So how does this work in the brain.
Well, there are regions of our associational cortex primarily in the
left hemishpere that are responsible for such amazing linguistic feats.
Two regions in particular we need to discuss for just a few moments.
One, we find associated with the lateral part of our temporal associational
cortex. And this is named after a German
physician, Carl Wernicke and most of us in the west will pronounce that as
Wernicke, Wernicke's area. And it is often found in the superior
temporal gyrus. Roughly the posterior 1 3rd of the
superior temporal gyrus. But I think the reality is, is that there
is not a single module in this lateral temporal cortex that we can identify as
Wernicke's area. Rather I think we need to understand that
there is probably vast network. Of nodal points that are critical for the
recognition of these sensory stimuli and their interpretation their encoding in
terms of semantic contact. So the actual critical nodes in this
network. Maybe found in any one of a number of
places. And indeed for those of you that are
bilingual or multi-lingual, you may have distinct nodal points that represent
meaning the language that is native to your personal life history.
Some of you I'm sure can communicate using the symbols and gestures that we
call American Sign Language. And for the representation of those
sensory stimuli there may yet another set of key nodal points that establish an
associational network here in this lateral temporal cortex.
So in, in my view and I think this is the view of the neurosurgeons that actually
map out these regions in the human brain. There's unlikely to be a single region
that is consistently localized in every human brain that we can label as
Wernicke's area. Rather at least the job of the
neurosurgeon will be to figure out what are those key nodal points in the
networks that represent the semantic knowledge that you operate with.
that are essentially, untouchable from a neuro-surgical perspective that is.
The key nodes that the surgeon is trying to identify so that she or he can
preserve those nodal points during the course of an operation.
So from this point I think this figure from our book is just a little bit
misleading. I would suggest that there's not a single
modual that we can vocalize and call Wenicke's area.
Rather I believe that there is a more extended network in the associational
cortex of the lateral temporal lobe that is processing these sensory symbols that
are derived primarily through vision and auditory senses.
And then interpreting them and applying semantic meaning to those sets of
symbols. And this network then does the job of
encoding the meaning of these symbols. And in terms of language function, this
is where the understanding or the comprehension of language is built up in
the human brain. So I think you can understand what might
happen then if there would be some damage to key nodes in this lateral temporal
associational network. One might still have the capacity to make
speech but one would expect severe impairments in the ability to comprehend
speech. Now our focus in this session is indeed
on the temporal associational cortex. But I can't help but to jump across the
lateral fissure and get into a inferior lateral region that we call Broca's Area.
Broca's area as many of you know, is an area that is involved in the production
of speech. Broca's area was named after Pierre Paul
Broca who described a patient with damaged this part of the brain and in
life following this injury, the patient was severely impared in his capacity to
make speech. Now, we now understand Broca's area
really as part of a premotor cortical network.
You recall, we described a mosaic of frontal cortical areas that are
associated with the planning of movement. Especially movement that's directed away
from personal space. So this aspect of, of planning for
movement also applies to the governance of our vocal articulatory apparatus in
our throat. Our larynx, our pharynxy the coordination
of our breathing muscles. So, this is, in a sense, a premotor
cortex that interacts closely with the nearby regions of the precentral gyrus
that have upper motor neuronal control over our vocal motor apparatus.
So from that standpoint we can understand Broca's area as a premotor cortex for
vocal articulation. But it's not just for vocal articulation,
Broca's area also seems to be involved with the production of written language.
Which would have it affiliating with not just the lateral segment of the
precentral gyrus but also the middle segment of the precentral gyrus that
governs the movements of the distal upper extremities.
The part of our body that we use to write with.
So damage to this part of the inferior frontal lobe, specifically what we're
referring to is the posterior one-third of the inferior frontal gyrus.
And, there are various subdivisions of this part of the inferior frontal gyrus
that we could identify. I think from neural surgical procedures,
it seems clear that there may be, a set of nodal points within the networks of
this posterior inferior frontal gyrus. That are critical for the expression of
language. So again like Wernicke's area is not a
single module that we can point to and identify.
I think the same is likely to be said of Broca's area although the localization
seems to be much more consistent from one person to the next.
In our brains than would be Wernicke's area in the lateral temporal cortex.
So here's roughly the location of Broca's area in the human brain and this is a
region that if damaged can produce a severe impairment in the fluency of
speech. With an understanding then that Broca's
area can be conceived of as an essential premotor network for the production of
speech. One can imagine that damage to Broca's
area would lead to a severe inability to produce speech.
Not just speech in oral form but also the written language will also be affected
with damage to Broca's area. So it's critical for anyone headed
towards a career in health professions. Or indeed practising in health
professions to be able to differenciate between two forms of impairment that are
associated with these critical language areas in the human brain.
So an impairment of language function is called aphasgia and if the impairment is
afflicting the lateral temporal cortex then we call this Wernicke's aphasia.
If the injury is to the inferior frontal gyrus then the aphasia that we would
expect is called Broca's aphasia. So let's differentiate these two
conditions. So the key differentiation between these
two forms of aphasia is that with injury to the inferior frontal gyrus in Broca's
aphasia, comprehension is intact. But there is a severe impairment in the
fluency of speech. Whereas with Wernicke's aphasia, the
situation is somewhat reversed. There is fluency of speech.
But the capacity for comprehension is severely impaired.
Now these two parts of the brain. The lateral temporal associational cortex
in the inferior frontal gyrus are interconnected by white matter structures
that span this space within the brain. Between this temporal lobe around the
lateral fissure of the brain and into the posterior part of the inferior frontal
lobe. One can have damage of those white matter
pathways. And see some combination of these
deficits that reflect the failure of communication between this
lateral/temporal associational cortex, and the inferior frontal gyrus.
One might also have. Let's say a stroke involving the higher
distribution of the middle cerebral artery and have a global aphasia that
affects both the lateral temporal associational cortex and the inferior
frontal gyrus. So while it's possible to have one type
of aphasia or the other. One can see elements of both or one can
see a global aphasia impacting all aspects of language function.
Now since we're talking about aphasia and Broca's aphasia in particular, I just
can't help. But to point you to a fantastic video
that, was, juried and awarded, the grand prize in our inaugural, brain awareness
week video contest sponsored by the society for neuroscience.
And, this is a beautifully produced and just wonderfully rich.
story told by our graduate student in the field of neuroscience from Australia.
Her name is Shiree Heath and she's telling the story of her grandfather's
stroke who suffered from a Broca's aphasia.
So I would encourage you to just take a few minutes.
Navigate to this page at brainfacts.org. And you can search aphasia or The
Treasure Hunt, which is actually the title of this short video.
And, I think you'll agree with the judges of this contest that, Sheree was.
very much deserving of the grand price, given her insight.
Given the accuracy of the neuroscience in her presentation.
And of course her marvelous creativity with which she pulls all this together.
And in the end you'll get a change to explore and reinforce some of what we've
been talking about here recently about the language centers of the human brain.
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Best Android Video Editor Apps for Chromebook
By Liza Brown Nov 28,2017 15:38 pm
Until recently using an Android video editor apps on a Chromebook was a distant dream, as feasible as sending huge video files instantly to your friends and colleagues. The great news is that getting a video editor app for your Chromebook from a Google Play Store is now possible.
However, this option isn't available on all Chromebooks that are currently on the market. At present, the Google Play Store is avaialbe for some certain Chrombooks. Before go ahead, you should check the Google Chrome OS Systems Supporting Android Apps List. As a matter of fact, only Chromebook OS version 53 and up can enable you to access Google Play Store application. Before getting your hopes up, check the version of the OS on your Chromebook, and upgrade it if you would like to have access to best android video editor apps. Although only a selected few Chromebooks enable its users to access Google Play Store at the moment, as the time passes this feature will become more common than it currently is.
Part 1: Recommended Best Android Video Editing Apps for Chromebook
Part 2: How to Install Android Video Editing Apps on Chromebook
1.PowerDirector
Price: Free, but contains in app purchases
What we like: The software allows its users to edit 4K footage
What we don't like: Uploading files can be time-consuming
The plethora of editing options PowerDirector provides makes it one of the best Android video editing apps currently available on the Google Play Store. Importing files to the timeline is easy and it requires you to simply drag the file you want to edit and drop it on the timeline. The app enables you to perform all the basic editing actions like trimming video clips, rotating images or splitting footage. The voiceover and custom soundtrack capabilities make the editing experience in PowerDirector even more complete because users can select the royalty free music from the app's music library or tell the story of their video in their own voice.
Adjusting color values of the images is enabled by Video Color Editor that allows you to set brightness, contrast and saturation values. Visual effects like slow motion can be used to make the scenes in your video more dramatic, while PowerDirector also offers a large database of effects that can be used in many different ways. The app offers a lot of options for exporting videos, you can save the file on an SD card, or upload it directly to YouTube, while the highest video quality you can export is either Full HD or 4K.
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2.Quik
What we like: Face and color detection allows for better framing of the videos
What we don't like: It lacks more advanced video editing features
This android video editing app does most of the work for you, all you need to do is import your favorite pictures and videos and Quick will do the rest for you. The app enables you to import footage from Dropbox, Gallery, Albums or GoPro Quick Key. The Quick app detects and analyzes faces to make smart cuts and other necessary changes on your photos and videos. Furthermore, the Android video app offers a selection of 23 different video styles and each style contains unique transitions and video graphics that can be easily adjusted to the demands of the video you are creating.
Adding text overlays or slides is yet another feature of this remarkable app that will help users to produce fun and captivating videos. Furthermore Quick provides a number of filters that will enhance your footage and make its colors stand out. Users can choose from more than 80 free songs and set any point in the song as the starting point of their soundtrack. Furthermore, you can automatically sync the transitions to the beats of the tune you included in your video's soundtrack. After the editing process is finished the Quick Android video editing app allows you to save your project to the camera roll or export it directly to WhatsApp, Instagram or YouTube.
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3.Animoto Video Maker
Price: From $8 to $34
What we like: The app features a built-in music library
What we don't like: App's performance relies heavily on the quality of the Internet connection
Animoto Video Maker has been used by more than 13 million people, which is one of the perfect choices for professionals, businesses or individuals who just want to piece together their memories into outstanding videos. The monthly fee for Animoto Video Maker ranges from $8 for a Personal package aimed at non-professional users to $34 for Business version of the software best suited for large companies that need an effective editing tool. Some users might find this easy to use the app a bit pricey, even though it allows them to gain access to many different background styles, video effects or built-in music library.
This app enables you to create videos from the footage on their Chromebooks, Smartphones or even the photos and videos they uploaded to their Facebook account, with music and text. Business and Professional pricing plans offer support for 1080p video resolution, while users who opt for a Personal pricing plan can create videos at a maximum resolution of 720p.
Learn more about Animoto Video Maker App
Editing videos on a Chromebook can be beneficial for so many different reasons, but at the moment only a few Chromebooks allow you to use Android video editor apps. Even if your Chromebook supports Android apps it is possible that some apps cannot work properly on a Chromebook. Installing apps from a Google Play Store can at times be a somewhat complicated process so let's go through it step by step.
Step 1 Getting the Google Play Store App
The process of acquiring the Google Play Store app is different for Chromebooks that support Android app and for those that don't. It is of utmost importance to make sure that the OS you have on your Chromebook is at least version 53 or more recent, otherwise, you will not be able to get the Google Play Store App.
1. If your Chromebook supports Android apps
Once you've made sure that your Chromebook has the OS that supports Android apps, go to Status area, and look for the Settings cog. After the Setting window opens, click on the 'Enable Google Play Store on your Chromebook' check box located at the bottom of the Settings window under Google Play Store (beta) option. This action will open the Google Play Store app and you will be asked to accept the terms and conditions, click Agree and proceed to download the apps you want.
2. If your Chromebook doesn't support Android apps
The process of gaining access to Google Play Store is more complicated if the Chromebook you have doesn't allow its user to run Android apps. In order to start this process, you first need to switch to the Developer Channel, which has its own risks. Back up all your data, before switching to developer channel, because returning to a stable channel requires you to do a factory reset.
To make the switch you'll need to go to Status area and click on Settings, this action will open the Settings page. Once the page is displayed on your screen click the About Chrome OS tab that shows which version of the OS you have installed on your Chromebook and which channel you are currently running.
Click on More Info to expand the info about the Chrome OS, and look for a Change Chanel option. Clicking on the Change Chanel button will present you with three options Stable, Beta and Developer-unstable, select the last option, read the warning dialog box carefully and click Change Channel.
Once all the necessary updates to put the device into Developer Channel are completed, you will be required to restart your Chromebook. After you have restarted your Chromebook, go to the Apps tray and you will see that Google Play Store app is now available. Click on it and go through the Terms and Conditions and click on accept.
Step 2 Getting Android Video Editing Apps
If you already have a Google Play Store account on your Android Smartphone, your Chromebook will automatically recognize it and allow you to log in, but if this isn't the case you'll have to set up a new account.
The process of getting android video editing apps is simple and very similar to the installation process of an app on an Android phone. Locate the app you want to install and click on the Install button. The process will start immediately, and you may be asked to give authorizations to install the app on your Chromebook, but that's the only action you'll need to perform during this stage of the process. After the installation is over you'll find your new video editing app in the App Tray, next to other apps you have on your Chromebook. Click on it to run the app and you are all set to start your first video editing journey on your Chromebook.
Keep in mind that how apps perform will largely depend on the Chromebook you have, so before choosing to download and install an Android video editing app, make sure that your device is capable of delivering a solid performance. Share with us about your opinion in the comment section below.
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DOE: An optimist tackles 'the toughest job in federal government'
By Hannah Hess
E and E
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), chairman of the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus, told Greenwire the caucus is one of the fastest-growing in Congress, in part because of the complexity of the challenge.
Memorial Day Draws Record Crowd to Chattanooga National Cemetery
May 31, 2016 In The News
by Paul Leach
"What's great about America is that when we lose one, we take the time — and we must always take the time — to honor that sacrifice," Fleischmann said. "All are special."
Fleischmann sees Chattanooga as future site of Department of Energy facility
Speaking at a regional energy innovation conference, Fleischmann said the city is well positioned to host the DOE with its proximity to ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tenn., NASA in Huntsville, Ala., and sites in Knoxville and Nashville.
Tennessee Radio Hall of Fame Banquet
By Amy Katcher
WDEF Channel 12
The latest event was honored with proclamations from the U.S. House of Representatives arranged by Congressman Chuck Fleischmann
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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) honored U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) for his outstanding leadership on behalf of cancer research.
The Next Frontier: Chattanooga Companies Learn About Doing Business with NASA
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., said he has worked to bridge the gap between Chattanooga and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and he'd like to do something similar with NASA.
Fleischmann Offers Resource Guide For Opioid Epidemic
Congressman Chuck Fleischmann unveiled a Comprehensive Addiction Resources Toolkit on Tuesday to help the families across the nation address the issues associated with addiction.
Top Marine Corps General Visits Chattanooga
May 7, 2016 In The News
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., who invited Neller to the parade in his Third District, said he was proud of the way Chattanooga citizens came together after the Chattanooga attacks.
Fleischmann receives GMA award
Geosynthetics Magazine
Presented April 27 during GMA’s spring Lobby Day on Capitol Hill, Fleischmann was cited as a “friend of the geosynthetics industry” for his efforts to include geosynthetics language in the far-reaching transportation bill that was signed by President Obama last December.
Fleischmann Targets Terror on Propaganda Front
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is convinced that crushing terrorist groups like the Islamic State will not only involve defeating them on the battlefield, it will mean beating them in the propaganda war, too.
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"Real" Arcadia Bay
Thread: "Real" Arcadia Bay
25th Oct 2015, 16:52 by Ross42899 #1
I know, Arcadia Bay isn't a real town. It's completely made up by the developers of the game. Nevertheless I thought it would be fun to use "Google Earth" and look for real Oregon coastal towns which resemble Aracdia Bay a little bit.
Then I stumbled across the town of "Port Orford". I think the layout and size of the town are comparable to Arcadia Bay a little bit. And then I noticed a funny coincidence. There seems to be an Art Gallery in "Jefferson Street". I know it's probably named after Thomas Jefferson (and definitely not after Mark Jefferson). But nevertheless it's funny to see a gallery in a Jefferson street in a small Oregon coastal town.
25th Oct 2015, 17:41 by Painspotter #2
Painspotter
I think I read a post once where people collected info on the inspirations for Arcadia Bay.
If I remember correctly, the coordinates from Episode 4 translated into the middle of Tillamook Bay, Oregon.
It's quite fun to look around there and see where they got their inspiration from.
The Cape Meares Lighthouse right next to Tillamook Bay seems to be a beautiful spot, too. In general, I'd love to visit the area. The coast seems very idyllic.
They probably combined a few real places (or took inspiration from them) to create Aracdia Bay.
25th Oct 2015, 18:08 by Tataboj #4
Tataboj
I would recommend just for you Michel Koch's Twitter (writer of LiS), there are some neat photos from his "LiS trip".
I love the photos they've taken during their "Life is Strange Road Trip".
So, this picture was aparently taken in Newport, Oregon.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRGkl97UsAApxGN.jpg:large
Looks indeed a lot like "Arcadia Bay". From what I've seen in "Google Earth", Newport could as well have been an inspiration for Aracdia Bay (albeit it seems to be larger than in-game AB). But like I said, they probably combined several real places to create AB.
And there's even an "Arcadia Beach" in Orgeon? I'm astonished.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQmz7abU8AA9P5U.jpg:large
25th Oct 2015, 23:43 by KristaD #6
KristaD
Oh, nice landscape. Maybe it's time to plan to some traveling... Kinda reminds of my home town and it's surroundings.
Life is what you make of it, or atleast try to make of it.
26th Oct 2015, 00:26 by iReturnVideotapes #7
iReturnVideotapes
I don't know if any of you have seen the movie "Horns" with Daniel Radcliffe, but the town that films takes place in is the spitting image of Arcadia Bay.
Originally Posted by iReturnVideotapes
I havn't seen it, but maybe I should for the simple reason Daniel isn't bad looking if nothing else.
26th Oct 2015, 18:38 by OHWceta #9
OHWceta
There is a "real" Arcadia Bay, Oregon. But it's not a town. It's just the name of one of the beaches along the Oregon Coast
I think it's usually called Arcadia "Beach" though as opposed to Arcadia "Bay"
"If you come with me, NOTHING will ever be the same again." - The Doctor
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What you need to know about today’s World Cup game between U.S. and Germany
Posted 6:25 am, June 26, 2014, by Matt Stewart, Updated at 08:47AM, June 26, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Americans will unite over their television sets Thursday to root our National Soccer Team to victory. We need to beat or tie Germany to make it to the next round. Though a loss could get us there as well.
Some have given us a better than 75 percent chance of moving on. But trying to figure out what it will take to move to the next round can be confusing.
Since we beat Ghana and tied Portugal, we have four points in our group -- same as Germany -- while Ghana and Portugal have one each. For us to move on, we need to either beat or tie Germany.
That would give us more points than Ghana or Portugal, who are playing each other Thursday morning as well. If we lose but Ghana and Portugal tie, we still move on because we'd still have more points than either team. But if we lose and either Ghana or Portugal wins, it will come down to goal differential.
What does that mean exactly? We've scored one more goal than Ghana and four more goals than Portugal. So if we lose 1-nil and Ghana wins one-nil, we'd be tied, but because we beat Ghana head to head, we go through. But if we lose one-nil and Ghana wins and scores two or more goals, Ghana goes through by scoring more total goals. The only way Portugal goes through is if we lose and they blow out Ghana by five or more goals.
Basically, the more goals we score today, the better our odds of going through to the next round. Officials with the Power and Light District say the crowds have been bigger this World Cup than four years ago, and they invite you to come down during your lunch hour to watch the game with them
"It's about as electric a sports atmosphere as you can have," said Nick Benjamin, Exec. Director KC Power and Light District. "It becomes more of a collective experience. There's just more energy and more excitement, and when things go right, you have 10,000 people that are there with you and experiencing that excitement and when things go wrong, you have a lot of people to commiserate with."
Kickoff is at eleven o'clock.
A lot of the bars and restaurants in the Power and Light District will open around 7-7:30 Thursday morning, so you can come early, eat breakfast and get a good seat for the big game.
Topics: soccer
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one person show
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solo performance · tempest theatre · Ages 10+ · world premiere · one person show · Australia
Sparrow is an Australian story, a one-woman show that is a tender and quiet reflection on loneliness, and disability, and gender. Mollie was a nurse and writer, famously collaborating with the great author, D.H. Lawrence on a novel. The Boy in the Bush, considered the great novel of Australia, was the result of this collaboration.
As a child, Skinner developed an ulcerated cornea and as part of her treatment spent nearly five years in a darkened room. Later, with her vision restored, she went on to write poetry and novels, one of which is a collaboration with DH Lawrence. Born with a cleft lip, Skinner felt herself an outcast and spent much of her life yearning for love.
Performed by Kylie Maree, a multi award nominated actress in Perth. Susie Conte is a writer and director. Together they run Tempest Theatre, a female based theatre company in Perth, which allows them to make stories for and about women.
Learn More at tempest-theatre.com
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'Hip-Hop Squares' premiere
By Kyle Anderson
May 23, 2012 at 03:25 PM EDT
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Hip-Hop Squares
Hollywood Squares was never all that complicated, and the stakes never really very high — which is probably why the show ran for so long in so many different iterations. Last night’s premiere of Hip-Hop Squares, MTV2’s version that trades in minor TV stars in favor of rap legends, ran much the same way.
Last night’s panel featured Fat Joe, DJ Khaled, Kat Graham, Donnell Rawlings, Tech N9ne, Ghostface Killah, Childish Gambino, Mac Miller, and MGK. As is typical of Squares, some panelists had to simply sit there and look pretty, which was the case with Tech and Rawlings (and Graham only got in on the action in the show’s final round). As for the rest of the group, Fat Joe and Ghostface both acquitted themselves quite nicely, though the evening really belonged to Gambino (which makes sense, considering that he has made most of his bones as an actor and a comedian). Easily the best exchange of last night’s premiere came when host Peter Rosenberg asked about the snatch and the clean and jerk in a filthy-minded inquiry about Olympic weightlifting.
Mac Miller didn’t quite know what to do with himself as the center square — despite a pretty funny bit in the beginning where he and Ghostface swapped boxes, he mostly seemed to want to get his turns over with as fast as possible. And though he was both animated and intoxicated, MGK didn’t have much to offer as far as gags were concerned.
But Hip-Hop Squares was still a wildly entertaining and extremely breezy half hour of comedy, even though the two contestants were the most frustrating people in the universe. It does not speak well for either of their college educations that they got so many questions wrong, and it’s almost inexcusable that Inqu got the final question wrong. How do people not know that Michael Jackson’s “Scream” is the most expensive music video of all time? That just seems like one of those facts that everybody who is even vaguely into pop music would know immediately.
What did you think of Hip-Hop Squares? Were you disappointed that we never got to hear from Tech N9ne? And did you know that “Scream” was the most expensive video ever made? Drop a rhyme in the comments.
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Lady Gaga apologizes for 'twisted' R. Kelly collaboration, vows never to work with him again
By Mike Miller
January 10, 2019 at 01:29 AM EST
Lady Gaga is apologizing for her past collaboration with R. Kelly as allegations of sexual misconduct have resurfaced against the R&B singer.
The pop star took to social media Wednesday night to express her solidarity with Kelly’s alleged victims while offering insight into why she worked with him on the 2013 track titled “Do What U Want (With My Body),” which has faced renewed scrutiny in light of its lyrics, especially within the context of the allegations against Kelly.
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“I stand behind these women 1000%, believe them, know they are suffering and in pain, and feel strongly that their voices should be heard and taken seriously. What I am hearing about the allegations against R. Kelly is absolutely horrifying and indefensible,” she wrote in a tweeted statement.
I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault: pic.twitter.com/67sz4WpV3i
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) January 10, 2019
“As a victim of sexual assault myself, I made both the song and video at a dark time in my life, my intention was to create something extremely defiant and provocative because I was angry and still hadn’t processed the trauma that had occurred in my own life. The song is called ‘Do What U Want (With My Body)’, I think it’s clear how explicitly twisted my thinking was at the time,” she added.
If she could go back in time and speak with her younger self, Gaga said, “I’d tell her to go through the therapy I have since then, so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that I was in.”
While she noted that she can’t take the decision to work with Kelly back, she said, “I can go forward and continue to support” victims of sexual assault.
Lady Gaga added that she is not making excuses for herself, but trying “to explain” her mindset at the time. She ended by promising to “remove this song off of iTunes and other streaming platforms” and not to work with Kelly again. “I’m sorry, both for my poor judgment when I was young, and for not speaking out sooner. I love you,” she concluded.
The singer and A Star Is Born actress, 32, revealed in the October cover story for Vogue that she still copes with the sexual assault she suffered at age 19. “No one else knew. It was almost like I tried to erase it from my brain. And when it finally came out, it was like a big, ugly monster. And you have to face the monster to heal,” said Gaga, who first disclosed her rape during an interview with Howard Stern in 2014.
Lady Gaga’s message comes after the airing of the docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, which chronicles years of abuse and pedophilia claims against the R&B singer. The six-part series broke ratings records for Lifetime when the first episode premiered on Jan. 3.
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Featuring more than 50 interviews, the project dives into Kelly’s controversial history, including the infamous videotape widely circulated in 2002 that appeared to show him urinating on an underage girl. Though both Kelly and his alleged victim denied they were portrayed in the tape, the singer was charged with possession of child pornography. In the end, a jury found him not guilty. Numerous women have since come forward, all with similar claims of physical abuse.
While Kelly has yet to respond to EW’s most recent requests for comment, he denied the accusations in the past and TMZ reported he threatened to sue Lifetime if the network went ahead with airing the docuseries.
“We wanted irrefutable evidence,” executive producer dream hampton told EW. “Without leading any of these women, they all had the exact same stories, even if their interactions with R. Kelly were 15 years apart. All of them have stories about being physically abused, being videotaped without consent, being denied food or bathroom privileges as a punishment. All of them have stories about rules that were established early on.”
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Channing Tatum helps James Corden put the magic back in Magic Mike
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James Corden needs to twerk it out if he hopes to be the next Magic Mike.
Like another sequel in the Magic Mike saga, Corden auditioned to be the next star of the Magic Mike Live shows in a new sketch for The Late Late Show. Though he arrived in the dance studio feeling rejected and doubting himself, Channing Tatum worked his magic and taught the late-night personality how to give the crowd what they want.
There were ups (Corden finally learned how to strip off his pants without knee pads). There were downs (he popped and locked a fellow dancer across the room). There were obstacles to overcome as Corden became overwhelmed by fear of the stage. There was even a Dirty Dancing reference: “I’m scared of what I did, I’m scared of what I saw, but most of all I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life that way that I feel when I’m with you.”
It was an entire male-stripping, dancing rom-com wrapped up in a nearly seven-minute sketch.
Magic Mike Live kicked off in Las Vegas earlier in April, sans Corden. “People in general are coming because they know the movies and they think they’re going to get something like they saw in the last film, and they’re going to get all that,” Tatum said of the experience. “But I think they’re going to get something else. We don’t do live shows. We don’t do that. With this, we didn’t have any rules so we just started creating crazy s—t and no one told us that wasn’t allowed.”
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'Grey's Anatomy': Ranking All 15 Multi-Part Episodes
From bombs to plane crashes, we've ranked the 'Grey's' drama that needed more than one hour to unfold
By Samantha Highfill and Ariana Bacle
15. Season 11, Episodes 22 and 23
Derek’s death got one episode. The aftermath got two hours. And not even two hours focused on him: Yeah, the episodes start off with Meredith telling everyone that Derek is dead, but it quickly devolves into a summary of what everyone else has been up to since McDreamy became McDead. Although most of the storylines loosely relate to Derek, Meredith — the one most affected by the loss — barely shows up. What could have been a raw episode of mourning was instead a tedious two hours that failed to focus on what viewers really wanted to see. —Ariana Bacle
14. Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
Hey, remember that episode when Meredith was fired, there was a giant sinkhole in Seattle, and Meredith and Derek had to say a temporary goodbye to Zola? Me either. The only interesting story that sort of saved this two-parter involved Cristina making a decision about her unborn child. —Samantha Highfill
13. Season 10, Episodes 1 and 2
Like many of these two-parters, this episode focuses on mourning the death of one character — Heather Brooks — while desperately trying to save the life of another — Richard Webber. However, unlike some of the other two-parters, this one is severly lacking in stakes. Not only does it try to make us care about Brooks, but even the Richard stuff is lacking in dramatic weight. Plus, when you tack on the Callie-Arizona Sofia drama, things go from dramatic to frustrating. —Samantha Highfill
Continued on next slide.
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Ben gets in trouble with Bailey (and everyone else) when he performs an emergency C-section on a patient, Gretchen, in a hallway during a hospital-wide lockdown. He has the chance to seek help from others when an elevator door opens, but he slices into her anyway. However misguided Ben might be, it’s clear he has good intentions that don’t warrant a two-hour debate. The entire situation is a throwback to the days when characters like Izzie would go rogue to save a life. This time, though, the case doesn’t feel as ethically ambiguous and the stakes aren’t as high (sorry, Gretch!). As a result, the story fails to feel worth a multi-part episode. —Ariana Bacle
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Owen’s sister — and Riggs’ former girlfriend — is alive, and Grey’s Anatomy celebrates by throwing her in a love triangle with Riggs and Grey. This isn’t just any love triangle though: Meredith pushes Riggs to reunite with Megan (Abigail Spencer), while Megan encourages Riggs to stick with Grey, flipping the typical love triangle narrative on its head. This makes for some fun, old-school Grey’s-style drama, along with a story line that ends in a surprise kiss between Owen and Teddy. It also goes old-school in some other, less thrilling ways: It’s revealed Amelia has a brain tumor. Been there, done that. Pass. —Ariana Bacle
In good news, this episode is the introduction of Owen Hunt, and his first visit to Seattle Grace comes complete with an epic kiss. Also in good news, Bernadette Peters has a touching guest-starring role as she and her friends are in a car accident, which leads to some heartbreaking revelations and generally a solid patient storyline. The bad news? Cristina is impaled by an icycle and Izzie has her first Denny halluciation, otherwise known as the first step on the road to ghost sex. —Samantha Highfill
9. Season 6, Episodes 1 and 2
It is a truth universally acknowledged that funerals suck, and George’s is no exception. What sets it apart from the many other post-death Grey’s episodes is Izzie’s mid-burial laughter fit, one that inspires the rest of her friends to manically giggle about how crappy their lives can be. The episodes as a whole aren’t overwhelmingly memorable, but they have enough moments like these that properly pay tribute to George and acknowledge how ridiculously unfortunate life can get without being overly maudlin. —Ariana Bacle
8. Season 3, Episodes 22 and 23
No matter how you feel about Private Practice, the backdoor pilot worked on a number of levels. (And not just because of that Tim Daly kiss in the stairwell.) It gave viewers a chance to get to see another side of Addison. And in addition to that, this two-parter featured a number of key moments back home in Seattle. There was the George-Izzie elevator kiss, not to mention one of the show’s most harrowing moments ever: Thatcher slapping Meredith after the death of his wife. If that didn’t give you chills… —Samantha Highfill
There are cliffhangers, and then there’s the way Grey’s ended season 8: Meredith, Derek, Arizona, Mark, Lexie, and Cristina’s plane crashes, leaving all of them stranded (and Lexie, well, we all remember what happened to Lexie). Owen, the chief at the time, doesn’t even realize they’re all missing until the final few minutes of the episode, meaning that viewers had to wait over four months to find out everyone’s fates. Things are less dire back at the hospital though, and those scenes end up unnecessarily distracting from a plotline that could easily take up the entire two hours all by itself. —Ariana Bacle
These days, patient storylines tend to be fairly forgettable, but back in Grey’s Anatomy’s early days, those very storylines were often the episode highlights. Take, for example, Jurnee Smollett-Bell’s guest role as a young woman who just wants to have sex with her boyfriend (both have tumors) before they head into their risky surgeries. Their sweet and doomed relationship combined with Meredith’s iconic house of candles speech to Derek and Rebecca’s act of self-harm make this an episode with the perfect ratio of uplifting to straight-up traumatic — in other words, it’s Grey’s at its messy best. —Ariana Bacle
As Izzie debates whether to undergo brain surgery, George finds himself contemplating life in the Army. But it turns out, George doesn’t need to be a soldier to be a hero. And after a tragic bus accident, both George and Izzie find themselves fighting for their lives. Only, it takes an entire hour of television for the docs to realize that John Doe is in fact George. And in the moment that Meredith makes the connection, we get the two words that will forever haunt every Grey’s fan: “It’s George.” Cue “Off I Go” playing and grab some tissues. —Samantha Highfill
4. Season 3, Episodes 15, 16 and 17
Depending on how you look at it, Meredith has either really bad luck or really good luck. In these episodes, she gets accidentally knocked into the water while she’s tending to victims of a ferry crash and, as a result, nearly drowns before Derek pulls her out from the freezing water. Sure, it’s clear from the beginning that Grey’s Anatomy isn’t going to kill off its title character, but that doesn’t make the half-episode she spends missing underwater any less jarring thanks to multiple limbo-set sequences guest-starring Dylan (a.k.a. the bomb guy, a.k.a. Kyle Chandler), Denny, Doc the dog, and, eventually, Ellis. Yes, Ellis dies while Meredith is almost dying. In lighter but still significant developments, this is also where Cristina reveals that she’s marrying Burke and where Alex meets Rebecca. Combined, these three episodes are almost as long as another boat-centric epic, Titanic — and they somehow pack even more heartwrenching (and occasionally heartwarming) drama into the three hours than that 1997 drama. —Ariana Bacle
Six years in, Grey’s fans seemed to agree on one thing: The show was not at its best. Gone were the days of LVAD wires and bomb episodes. Now, we were surrounded by new faces thanks to a merger that did not go over well with fans, to say the least. So as season 6 came to a close, the show decided to give itself a bit of a clean slate and eliminate a few of those new faces. And in doing so, it once again proved that dramatic greatness was still within its grasp. In a chilling two hours, the hospital faced a gunman — a man whose wife had died at the hospital earlier in the season. In those two hours, every one of our heroes was a victim. Watching the drama unfold, it felt like time stopped. And by the end of it, our faith in the show was restored. —Samantha Highfill
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This is the episode when Izzie cuts the LVAD wire. It’s the episode when Denny finally gets his new heart and dies soon after. It’s the one whn Burke gets shot, and when he discovers a new tremor in his hand post-surgery. It’s when Finn puts Doc to sleep, when Finn tells Meredith he has plans — plans! — and when Meredith ends up slipping out of “prom” to have steamy sex with Derek in an empty hospital room. Any one of these storylines would elevate an episode above the rest, but combining them into one pair of episodes makes for a couple hours of impressive and consistently captivating chaos that proves just how great Grey’s can be when it goes all in on the drama. —Ariana Bacle
Grey’s Anatomy‘s first two-parter is not only its best, but it’s arguably the show’s best hours ever. What starts as nothing more than a “feeling” that Meredith has that she “might die today” becomes a hospital event when a man is admitted with live ammunition in his chest. And to make matters worse, Meredith ends up being the person with her hand on the ammunition, keeping the entire place from blowing up. Tack on Bailey going into labor, Derek operating on Tucker, Richard’s heart attack, and Kyle Chandler as the bomb squad leader, and you’ve got drama at its finest. By the time the two hours are over, “vajayjay” has been introduced into the English vocabulary, and you’ll never be able to listen to Anna Nalick’s “Breathe” the same way again. And that’s not even mentioning the Derek-Meredith stuff. —Samantha Highfill
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Do You Love Your Kids Enough To Buy Them a $45,000 Gold-Plated Toy Car?
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Some parents spoil their kids rotten, and then there are those parents that are willing to spend north of $45,000 on an electric roadster that isn't actually street-legal, but does come with a fancy gold-plated finish. That's the story behind this obscene toy available from Selfridges' Oxford Street store in London, England.
Made by a company called Atom Model Cars with an impossibly broken website, this kid-sized roadster is a near perfect two-thirds scale replica of an Aston Martin. But instead of a V8 or similarly-capable engine on the hood, it runs on electric motors with a battery good for 48 hours and a top speed of 15 miles per hour.
To help further justify the price tag and subsequent sticker shock, Atom Model Cars uses actual Nappa leather for the miniature car's interior, LED lighting throughout, and the option to customize both the licence plate and the luxurious stitching used on the upholstery. And since kids never spill or climb over anything with sticky hands, there's no reason not to use the finest materials for a vehicle only they can really fit into. [Atom Model Cars via Damn Geeky]
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The 3rd Link is the Weakest - even in GS5?
CatMuto
This is just something I noticed when playing through the games and the various opinions of other people I read here and other places. But the 3rd Case of every GS game seems to be ... the weakest. Wether it's characters, plotline, how the murder was done or general interest in the case, it just feels weak and badly done.
Case 1-3 - there is just so much wrong about this case. Look at my topic "Worst Case" and there's a short list of why this case is so bad. But I'll give you a briefer version.
A) That stupid photo where people discussed for a day and a half, until they finally came to the conclusion that it's a f***ing costume that hides the entire person, so it doesn't necessarily means it's the defendant wearing it
B) Hiding the presence of Vasquez and Manella, despite them being shown in stills before they are revealed, and it making no sense that Will Powers would let money shut him up since it's his life on the line
C) Mrs Monkey's Head Blocking The Path, yes, it's absolutely impossible for humans to walk on grass...
D) Annoying Witnesses
E) Generally feels more like a Fanfic than a proper case
Case 2-3 - a very much hated case. And I can agree, because despite it taking place in a whacky circus, everybody is either the Annoying kind of whacky or the Boring kind of whacky. The plot and how Acro didn't kill the one he wanted was very weakly done. Considering how we can establish at the end of the first day that none of the people we met could have killed him, we finally meet Acro and know it's him from the very beginning.
Case 3-3 - weak case. The impersonating of Phoenix was not very funny, except for maybe the first 2 minutes, the defendant has just proven how she hasn't gotten any better, the witnesses are annoying or downright unpleasant ... and putting Maya/Mia into a waitress uniform as fanservice has kinda failed.
Case 4-3 - how often did we have to watch that Serenade video? And how come the reason for the murder and smuggling was such a bad and weak idea? And we find out the "Guilty Party" early one, considering Klavier tells us to find him. And the whole thing with a small child shooting a .45 caliber without any injury whatsoever, yeah, pointless.
Case I-3 - bad plot, bad plot, bad plot. Aside from finally showing the girl who was on the game's cover (and she's not all that people probably thought she'd be), the fact that the whole kidnapping thing was a fake was obvious from the very beginning ... the obligatory Ema cameo (to please her fans) and Oldbad cameo (so we can see Edgeworth twisting his panties in a knot) and for god's sakes, boring ass Meekins again.
Can't say anything about K2-3 because I haven't played it. But considering it's the flashback case to DL-6, I do wish they somehow made this pleasant or at least passable. I loved 1-4 and DL-6 (although that case has so many problems!!) so I kinda hope it remained okay...
Considering how this "trend" has been going on for the past 5/6 games, despite the writing team having changed, can we presume that the 3rd Case of Gyakuten Saiban 5 will also be a weak case?
C-A
Re: The 3rd Link is the Weakest - even in GS5?
adit2789
This is by far the lamest reason to create a thread. You are basically asking people to validate your opinion. Well, guess what? No one is going to. Personally, I think every case in the series has something interesting to offer, considering all the characters in each case are lovably quirky. So for future reference, don't create a whole new thread just to hate on the AA series
TheBlarghMan
Doesn't scream into DS microphones.
Er, no, that wasn't the point of the thread at all. Re-read the last paragraph.
Cat was simply showing how all of the case 3s in the past(with the exception of GK2, which isn't known due to a lack of playing) were weak, and the question then was could we expect the AA5 case 3 to be weak as well?
I would say I would expect it to be weaker than the other cases in there, because it's not at the beginning, where some memorable villain or event is generally thrown into the mix in order to grab your attention(these are usually case 2s, because case 1s are almost always just introduction material and Payne's hair flying off), and its not at the end, either, where the major twists in the overarching game plot occur. So we have filler material(and flamboiantly homosexual chefs).
I will agree with you on 1-3, though. There was a part during the second trial day where you get asked whether "you believe someone from studio 2 went to studio 1 to commit the murder"(this is before studio 2 is realized as the murder scene. I picked yes, then Edgeworth responded with the monkey head, and I was kinda expecting Phoenix to say:
"Well...they could have just gone around the monkey head?"
But even Phoenix is susceptible to bad days, I guess.
And then of course when the van comes into play nobody cares about the monkey head anymore. It can drive over giant monkey heads.
"I can't go to hell, little weirdo. I'm all out of vacation days."
Woolbeast Material
If we want to diagnose whether or not the "Third Case Curse" will continue, we first have to diagnose what factors cause third cases turn out bad.
Now, if there's any inherent factor that causes third cases to turn out bad, I think TheBlarghMan has it figured out. The classic third case is sandwiched between a twist-filled second case that kicks off the game's plot and the intense fourth and fifth cases where the plot comes to fruition. Given that such a game's plot is so concentrated in the episodes immediately surrounding the third case, little development is left to occur in the third case itself, leaving it in a superfluous twilight zone anime fans would recognize as "filler."
However, since Dahlia Hawthorne took the stand in 3-1, the games have increasingly tended to kick off their plot arcs in the first case, leaving the second case about equal to the third in terms of plot development. That the third case should prove to consistently be the more haphazard of two filler cases seems not to be the result of any inherent flaw, but an effort on the developers' part to lead with a stronger case, or less speculatively, simple happenstance.
It also bears considering that the GK team has an affinity for game-spanning plot lines, so we can at least expect the third case not to be complete filler; the third case of GK2 is, from what I've heard, critical to the game's plot and possibly the best in the game besides. However, given the GK team's inconsistent record, plot-relevance is no guarantee of quality.
All that taken into account, there really isn't anything to say about 5-3's prospects at this point. It could be good, bad, or somewhere in between, but there's no way of knowing until it comes out. What use is there debating hyptheticals?
Reimitsurugi
Personally, I view these "filler-cases" as a means for fans to see how their favorite character can interact with different individuals/situations, seeing as how they're very focused on the plot-at-hand.
The classic third case is sandwiched between a twist-filled second case that kicks off the game's plot and the intense fourth and fifth cases where the plot comes to fruition. Given that such a game's plot is so concentrated in the episodes immediately surrounding the third case, little development is left to occur in the third case itself, leaving it in a superfluous twilight zone anime fans would recognize as "filler."
However, to be honest, I'd rather have an AA game with only 4 Cases, where all cases involve something important to the plot, than a game with 5 Cases and one just feels extremely odd to me. (A reason why AJ doesn't work for this example - it has only 4 cases, but the third one still remains feeling awkward)
After all, GS1 (originally) has only 4 cases. That was good.
Okay ... in 1-3, the one thing that I could possibly count as being necessary and important to the Important Case Arc, is at the end when Edgeworth breaks up severs ties with Phoenix, which is kinda important in 1-4. But otherwise, 1-3 was just ... nah. Waste of time.
Super High-School Level Galaxy Defender
I disagree about 3-3, I like that one. But that aside, this theory makes a LOT of sense. I believe it's because the creators, as said above, feel the need to have a filler chapter, one where they can shove pretty much anything they want. Plot-unrelated jokes, fanservice, cameos, that sorta thing.
And what the hell was that first reply?
TopHatProfessor1014
Or it just be a COINCIDENCE. Ever thought of that?
DoMaya
adit2789 wrote:
Hey look at that, you have 6 posts and have been here for 6 years.
You are by far, the lamest person to ever post on this forum.
You are basically being a little asshole and posting in a new topic trying to get people to think you're funny and edgey. Well guess what? You're a faggot.
Personally, I think everyone should have at least 100 posts before they start talking shit, and actually be a part of the community instead of coming in and being a dick.
So for future reference, suck a fat one. And don't come online again just to hate people who make interesting topics.
TopHatProfessor1014 wrote:
A 5-game coincidence?
DoMaya wrote:
Yeah, that was the reply I was referring to, what's the problem in creating a topic that says bad things about PW?
Like it's all flowers and shit. Come on man. Suck a fat one [2]
General Luigi
In Justice We Trust
Okay, that's enough. If you're going to disagree with each other, please be civil about it.
I consider it a coincidence. Many say that the odd numbered Star Trek films are bad, while the even number ones a good. Do you honestly think that Capcom intentionally makes the third case of each AA game bad?
Also, let's respect other people's opinions. No need to be rude.
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What did he do this time...?
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CatMuto wrote:
I don't know about that...(I like having 5 cases over 4, more gameplay!) I think the 3rd case is important because the defense needs to get more familiar with the prosecution, because like your example in AJ, going into the final case, Apollo would have faced Klaiver just once. And in GS2, if a 3rd case was removed, Phoenix would face Franziska once...ever.
But I understand. Before finding this topic, I've noticed the 3rd cases are odd. Heck, 1-3 and 4-3 suck. There isn't any memorable villains from all of the 3rd cases.
They need to make the fillers better....and I'd guess that if Takumi struggled to make a decent 3rd case, this writing staff will write a mediocre one.
Want to play my custom-made Ace Attorney case made on Ace Attorney Online? (you must be using Firefox to run it)
Turnabout Destiny
No, no, I never wanted the entirety of a 3rd Case removed!
Merely that I would prefer to have only 4 Cases to play through, where all make sense in terms of necessary plot they are building up to, rather than 5 Cases where the one in the middle seems completely out of place.
For example, look at GS3.
1st Case - Mia's past, Dahlia's introduced as a little bitch
2nd Case - Introduction of Godot
4th Case - More Mia's past, obviousness that is called Diego Armando (Seriously, after getting to Case 4, who didn't know?), Dahlia's first appearance
5th Case - Huge festival about the Fey Clan and why Godot is how and what he is
Granted, without the 3rd Case, Phoenix and Godot would've faced each other in court only twice in total. But it would've kept the plot tight - it's all about Godot. Phoenix actually takes a place in the back of the stage while everything else seems to center about the mysterious Godot and how he came to be.
At least, that's a reason what I do not like about GS3.
It didn't focus much on Phoenix, not giving us any new information (aside from him being a naive idiot even prior to GS1) and basically feels like a game that focuses on this guy who was randomly introduced in this game and now we have to create a giant plot arc with betrayal and lost and unlost family members and explain how the Fey clan fits into it all. I'm digressing ...
But Less can be More at times, remember.
Ignoring the fact that the 3rd Case is just the obligatory "Fight new Prosecutor before Big Case" part of the game, with it lacking, we could get a bigger message. Okay, for GS2, if we had gone from Morgan plots Something in Case 2 to Phoenix learns an important Message in Case 4, it would've felt weird. But Case 3 just felt even weirder in its place.
Shadow Magician
Mia Fey, Ace Attorney.
Well, we don't even know what the third case is yet, so we can't know before it's even out yet. And, from what I've heard, The Inherited Turnabout (GK2 case 3) is probably the best case in AAI2, and definitely one of the better cases in the whole series. The Imprisoned Turnabout (Case 2) is pretty bad from what I've heard.
So, if GK2 Case 3 broke the pattern, this game might also. Only time will tell. (Although I personally liked all the third cases for what they were worth and I haven't even got to Turnabout Serenade yet, but I do agree that they were somewhat weak cases, and generally a bit contrived, Big Top especially. That's just my opinion, however.)
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My only problem with 3-3 is the trauma of being sexually molested jumped on and ogled by Jean Armstrong. After that, the case's other flaws seemed to fade away for some reason.
"Descole? You don't mean Mr. I-Like-to-Wreck-Things-with-Mechanical-Monsters-and-Dress-Up-as-Posh-Ladies Descole?" -Emmy Altava
...NAILED IT
Although I agree that the 3rd cases do seem out of place sometimes, what keeps the cases together isn't just story or the characters - it's the overlying theme within a game or some morality story. Let's go through them one by one.
GS1-3, Turnabout Samurai. At first glance, it seems like an excuse to sidetrack from the main plot for random stuff and giggles. Sure, it's a homage to popular shows like Power Rangers and whatnot; a good time for the players to relax. Only, not really. What ties this case to the others isn't only facing against Edgeworth (nor is it Oldbag, sadly). Nor is it about Nick and Maya's bonding time; plenty of time for that later. This is the first case that brings in a major subversion to the routine case: the actual criminal is not a murderer. She caused a death, but it wasn't intentional. That alone adds so much more depth to the game and a wider perspective on the world these characters reside in. Bringing in Cody suggests the proper level of discipline handled by a court of law, as the previous case revealed a powerful and influential enemy that held the court in his hands. And of course, Edgeworth's shining moment the first time he broke out from his usual a**hole parade. There's so much character development going on that no matter what, I can't hate this case.
GS2-3, Turnabout Circus. Oh, a random circus is in town! Time for more ill-placed jokes! And then, Nick himself says no. All these outrageous personalities make his courtroom antics seem sane. Though we find the Judge as one of the silliest characters in this series, even he can't stand Moe and is generally speechless about Ben and Trilo. But the key player here is Acro. I may be alone here when I say this, but I like his story, simple and tragic. That's what makes the final breakdown so touching; it was all by ill chance. This is a case solidly brings in the meaning of "justice for all," as in there were no "bad" people in that case. Even the murderer was someone you could sympathize with. And Franzy, as little as she contributes to this case, could not be replaced by anyone - Edgey's gone off to repent, and any new character introduced here would be out of place. We still need an unforgiving prosecutor that players can hate. The battle victory feels so much sweeter, not to mention learning about Franzy's "revenge".
GS3-3, Recipe for Turnabout. Although there's the running gag of Nick and Maya gaining imitators, it's more development for both attorneys. Like the previous case, Nick has a lot of trouble understanding Godot because he's oblivious to the latter's past (beside the coffeenese). But Maggie's predicament can be related to Nick's when he's facing Godot. There is such a strong sense of distrust and betrayal all around in this case. The Judge was at first reluctant to believe the real Nick was back. Tigre was playing Viola for a fool (look, there's the pun in her name!). Nick's rep was ruined thanks to Tigre; now, it's not just the usual "turn Nick into the butt-monkey" charade (not really a charade, but it's definitely a running gag). And above all, the deceive-poison betrayal combo that Tigre shows - it brings back bad memories for Nick. Trials and Tribulations, out of the entire series, focuses on the theme of betrayal and deception the most. Godot is there as a pinnacle of doubt, but it isn't all about him, as he himself comes to realize.
GS4-3, Turnabout Serenade. This is indeed my least favorite of the third cases, but that isn't to say it's that bad. At first, I thought little of Klavier because his character was so simple and moral. By the third case, I added "whiny little brat" in there. JK. This case is another one that throws in a few surprising twists: the client isn't completely off the hook, the culprit was someone close to the prosecutor, and the one who was blind was the lady. Focus on the 2nd point. It wasn't until after the game when I slowly realized how tragically Klavier's story is presented. He's always been too naive, and those who are close to him can easily deceive him. In a way, it's just like Nick before he became an attorney (even the "whiny brat" part fits!). What does Apollo gain from this case? He's still growing as an attorney himself. Both of his previous cases were practically laid out for him: one by Nick and Kristoph, the other by Klavier. Now, Klav's caught in a tight spot and isn't going to make it easy for Apollo - finally, the challenge and the true reward. Also, it's a case when Nick can get some rest from being onscreen... waiting for the results of his 7-year trap.
GK1-3, The Kidnapped Turnabout. I dunno, but I like Kay's intro. Never mind Edgey becomes a hostage for the sake of fanservice. But gawrsh... more naivety in relationships. Easy deception should be the main theme of the third cases, above all else. You'd think Edgey would be able to better choose his partnerships than Nick would. NOPE. Proven by the paucity of Gumshoe (that's gotta be a rule somewhere). Oh, of course there's the "happy" couple. And another young lady whose loving parent dies an underwhelming death. Even I'm getting tired of these recurrences as I type. But what's the overlying theme of this game anyway? Edgeworth is being compared and contrasted to Phoenix in terms of the protagonist's view a little too much at times. Unfortunately, both this game and its sequel don't have their amazing concepts applied as tangibly and as collectively as the original trilogy. At least they do a decent job of expanding the AAverse with more foreign interaction.
GK2-3, The Inherited Turnabout. I've played it, so I can talk. Compared to the rest of the cases in GK2, this one definitely brings in a huge nostalgia quotient into the equation. It's the case that leads into the DL-6 incident, so obviously, Gregory Edgeworth and Manfred von Karma are going to face off. According to this case, they had some fierce arguments out of the courtroom, which comes to the best part of this case. The rest of the case... I have mixed feelings. It's a creative case, filled with candy and cake, but the way the murder was hidden for so long is beyond what I can take seriously. But, the important point here is the introduction to the background of the game's mastermind and how the first and second cases tie to the end. Though, like its prequel, the organization of the story is a bit sloppy. But I have to disagree that this third case is the "weakest link" in GK2. If anything, it's the strongest.
In conclusion: A paucity of Gumshoe means someone's gonna suffer by way of betrayal. As the "filler" cases of each game, the 3rd cases can hold their own for the most part, just as much as the 2nd cases, because their primary purpose is gradual revelation of the plot and its twists.
A disclaimer: This is a defensive rant. I don't expect it to be that well-spun, so expect holes.
This is the first case that brings in a major subversion to the routine case: the actual criminal is not a murderer. She caused a death, but it wasn't intentional.
But was she somebody we really knew or even cared about? No.
Did her act of self defense somehow make her into a sympathetic character that we feel for having taken a life? No.
She got introduced halfway through the case and her entire personality can be nicely phrased as being a bitch.
I may be alone here when I say this, but I like his story, simple and tragic. That's what makes the final breakdown so touching; it was all by ill chance. This is a case solidly brings in the meaning of "justice for all," as in there were no "bad" people in that case. Even the murderer was someone you could sympathize with.
That is a good reason - and that justice thing is the only reason I like this case, because it does give the feeling that justice doesn't mean it goes and happens to bad people. Acro is, in my opinion, the only sympathetic killer in this entire game series.
But his reason for wanting to kill Regina is f***ing stupid, to put it kindly.
And above all, the deceive-poison betrayal combo that Tigre shows - it brings back bad memories for Nick.
Thank you, you have reminded me of the single reason why I can think of a connection going through all T&T cases. But other than that, it feels weird - even if nobody seems to trust Nick. Heck, if that bluffer were my attorney, I'd fire him and opt to represent myself. But that's not the point of this thread...
Never mind Edgey becomes a hostage for the sake of fanservice.
Uh, no! Stop distracting me!
Well, it's true that her character could have been done better if she had more screen time. It was the point to make her a bitch, though, being the target of the player's spite. And that's why Capcom dropped in that little snip after the revelation. If she wasn't such a pain beforehand, people could actually sympathize with her.
What players admire most from this case beside Edgey's Steel Samurai fetish is most likely when he was willing to sabotage his own case for Powers' sake. That is powerful writing, given what we had seen of him before.
It's so sudden that even Acro himself admits that he didn't understand why he would go so far (classic example of a victim of poor plot devices). But I agree with him on one point: Regina really needed a reality check.
So did Franzy, and she got it. I never would expect to compare Franziska to Regina, but there's some intriguing parallels. Notice that it's not so much about her dealing with illegal tactics in court that's the problem. It's that she was too proud to realize how much suffering she caused. Fortunately, she was saved by the end of JFA with that turn in development. Regina, however, is as ditzy in GK2 as ever. I can't help but get irritated with her. Now multiply that feeling with 6 years, accounting for who was responsible for his brother's coma. It's really painful. I wouldn't know if Acro had any sort of mental disorder, but he snapped.
The worst case in AA history to me has to be the Lost Turnabout with sudden amnesiac Phoenix. It came out of nowhere and was obviously an asspull for the purpose of making a tutorial level. Wellington's breakdown was funny, and I like Maggie, but the case itself is bad. I suppose compared to that, my lenses would be tinted more lightly toward this case.
Don't worry. Edgeworth was just as surprised to find out how low the courts of this country had gone, for them to accept the word of someone with a cardboard badge. Apparently, everyone in there was too scared to report Tigre, so he got away... until the real Phoenix kicks him out.
In a way, it's also a sort of show-off to Godot, round 2. "Stop treating me like a kid! I can handle my own problems like a man!" There's some of that "defiance" in case 3-2 as well, but another incident like it was what it took to really piss off Godot. I don't remember exactly during which case when Godot objected only to throw a cup of coffee at him, but it was one of those two.
should have taken a picture and blogged it into the official artwork.
I guess she didn't because Capcom would ask request after request for those pictures. The last time I checked, was a tough guy to find and kidnap, and he's one of the favorites. At least would gladly oblige.
Rubia, you might as well become a defense attorney, I've never seen anyone defend 1-3 so convincingly!
I still keep my opinion regarding the third cases; the only one that is not dumb on overall plot and participating characters (though I do understand those little details better thanks to your post) is 3-3, and maybe GK2 when I get to play it. The problem is they are for character development, yeah, but they seem to be, also, plagued by nonsensical fanservice and shallow meanings.
Thanks! I do tend to bluff my way through arguments, though. Case in point below. Respect to my fellow debaters!
The intermediate cases often are wrongly labelled as "filler" because of an overall disinterest in them. A more accurate description would be "sequential breaks from highlights." You can't get from climax to climax without some relatively less intense moments to fill in-between. It's only natural the 3rd cases would seem weak in comparison because they're placed right before cases 4 & 5, where the spectacular things happen. If case 3 is the highlight, then cases 4 and 5 will drop in quality. That's what happened in GK2. The end felt rushed, as if all those loose ends conveniently tied themselves up. (And the final boss felt so underwhelming compared to the boss in case 4.)
It's surprisingly difficult to take these separate stories and connect them all in some way. The end result can become a mess of intertwining plots that tends to confuse the audience. What at first appears to be a strong recurring theme or relevance can become weak if it's improperly placed or isn't deeply implanted in the... flow of the plot, for lack of a better term. As a story writer myself, I frequently take notes on this.
On a related note, why do the later games pale in comparison to the original trilogy? For one, there's a strong focus on one character. For another, we see him grow with accumulated experience, up until he faces the most dangerous (and most stubborn) opponent of them all. In stark contrast, the only reason GK2 follows GK1 is because of a week skip (pun not intended). We could easily flip them around, switch the arrivals of certain characters, and with localization thrown in, we wouldn't know the difference. AJ's timeline completely cuts off from the original trilogy, and Takumi had the right idea to switch to a new protagonist. Unfortunately, he couldn't keep his original draft.
Side-by-side comparisons can be biased based on order along a timeline. To maintain an impartial view, we have to break them apart and extract the essences. By "essences," I mean the cement that holds these concrete blocks together. But maybe I shouldn't call them "concrete blocks." They're more like cotton balls sitting in a bag, and by analyzing them, they're dumped out and yanked into fluff... erm, the cottony kind, not the other.
Regina really needed a reality check.
Considering how he knows her and that her view of Death is that everybody becomes a star that is hard to see because it appears during the daytime, yeah .... killing her father or herself would not have changed. Cause, you know, even with Regina dead, would Bat miraculously awaken? (In terms of cliché drama plot, yes - then we'd find out he never would've blamed Regina for this stuff)
Basically, it's a stupid idea to give someone a reality check that way. What he should've done is tell her, "Dafuq, girl, he hell you put pepper on his scarf for?" and she could've simply told him it was meant to be a cutesy-revenge plot thingy because he made her sneeze (I still don't get what was so horrible about that...) and that the whole thing was just an accident due to bad timing.
Which it was to begin with, but people tend to ignore that in favor of putting blame on someone else.
As said, I never played GK2 and had hoped the 3rd Case would remain good, because it had to do with DL-6 and I'm glad to read that it seems to be a really good case. Although 's hat-and-flasher-coat outfit seems a bit strange to me.
Well, his Samurai fetish wasn't that noticeable back then - he only said he's a fan of Power's work.
But perhaps Edgeworth's turnabout (hah!) in 1-3, where he sabotages his case to bring the truth out, was more of an impact than it was to me. See .... I never really played GS1 - I read VGR's recaps of the Case 1 until 3, so I originally started with JFA and then got GS1 and skipped over those three to just finish Case 1-4, cause it interested me. So I generally got to know the Edgeworth from 2-4 (although the recaps gave me a good idea of his image and personality and all), the one who constantly plays Ping-Pong with Phoenix to prolong the case .... god how I hated him for doing that ....
Though it's never suggested in-game, I'm pretty sure he already tried it. Murdering someone isn't exactly a first priority choice. I agree that the game developers should have made that point clearer, though they did try to include it during Acro's apology, when he commented on how simply Regina sees her world. It's like his words didn't even matter to her. He knew why, but that hatred still remained. (If he was more forgiving, it would be more realistic, but then we wouldn't have a case where the Judge yells at a witness for being too childish.)
...And it kinda pissed me off by the credits when Regina didn't seem to learn as much as she was supposed to. Well, 16 years in a circus is really tough to push aside. At least Max and the troupe were planning to travel abroad to help with that problem.
Given the nature of the second game, it leans more toward expanding the AA-verse, introducing Kurain Village (leading into GS3), bringing in a greater level of humor than the previous game (hence the awkward entrance of a circus, of all things, and introduction to the Grand Prix), and diversifying the people that Phoenix meets during his first few years as a lawyer. Even in this slice-of-life genre of game, there are people who are so deeply submerged in fantasy that even Kurain Channeling becomes normal.
I think it fits. His character design is based off of Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Around then, film noir crime drama was pretty popular, and the detectives on those shows usually dressed in such a fashion.
Admit it. Edgeworth would totally dig that outfit as a 34-year-old.
I know it's not the most important point in that case, but it's where the rumors began. That counts as something, right?
See, it just doesn't feel the same if he wasn't a fan of some kids show. It's because of something as trivial as this that people love him... more.
.... o-of course he would. Oh I hope he'd wear glasses, too .... (Majority of fan-art of him "returning" post-AJ seems to have him with glasses) .......... dammit, now I need to draw Trenchcoatworth.
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Close enough!
Yeah the third cases tend to be filler for the most part, however I've never really had any major issues with them.
Catmuto just seems very critical of AA games in my opinion but hey that's just who she is. I don't sweat as many of the small details to break my mind over plotholes and simple solutions. It's a game it's understandable to have limits and not allow every single possibility. It's not really a court simulator you are playing after all, more an adventure game/graphic novel, sure it can be frustrating when something doesn't work in a way it would (say knee high fences you can't climb over for example) but hey that's part 'n parcel of gaming in my eyes.
1-3- I found quite entertaining as I quite liked some of the characters there. Penny's card obsession was pretty funny and Cody's inability to draw his sword and general demanour I found cute.
2-3- Lotta people have problems with this one. I enjoyed/admired Regina's positive outlook on life and actually frowned at Nick trying to crush it a little at the end. Ben/Trilo were a bit dull but I enjoyed the rest of the cast. As for the 'Moe's Testimony' thing which bothers a lot of people it didn't really bother me. Perhaps it's obvious? It's been a while so I can't remember the testimony but I solved it easy with no penalties, though think I replayed it just to see his jokes again when I press the wrong bits. As for Acro well I found his story tragic and moving and didn't notice the possibility he was the killer at the time. Granted I was younger and wasn't in the mindset of 'limited cast, one of them must be the killer' that would have fingered him right away but hey the case was perfectly enjoyable too.
3-3- Gonna have to say I loved Tigre's character and how ridiculous he is. The impersonation thing is unbelievable yeah but it's only a filler case so I played it for a rule of funny and snickered along at the problems and jokes that are born from it. Along with the adorable Lisa Basil these interesting characters really make this case enjoyable for me. If anything I find Viola's role in it to be mediocre but hey it doesn't make a good case a bad case.
4-3- Again this one is largely sold by the characters for me. It introduces Valant Gramayre and man I love that guy. Lamiroir too is very nice but her inclusion is especially important for the big reveal about her later on in the game. Sure perhaps we had to watch the video a bit too much but I really enjoyed the 'spectacle' that is Valant and all his magic trickery. Plus it's important as it lets us see another side to Klavier in how he takes his music just as if not more seriously than his law career. Considering how in case 4-2 the first one with Klavier as an opponent you don't even make him break a sweat or panic it's quite entertaining to see how much his music meant to him. Plus I kinda love the music in it.
I-3: Was kinda important because it introduced Kay and (while some people complain about it) the rather important Little Thief device along with the other important characters of Lang and Shih-na. If anything it's less of a filler case than AAI-2 as it brings up the conflict between Edgeworth and Lang and all his cool little mannerisms. Granted it's full of fanservice but that's something that plagues all of AAI. Plus it has one of the few few genuinely scary moments in AA history in it. Ol' Proto Badger sneakin up on ya.
So yeah I'm ok with most all the third cases.
I can see why most of them would be filler cases but hey that's fine I can understand not every case having to be the most plot-relevant one in the world but it doesn't make them any less an enjoyable experience. If anything I'd say third cases are more comedic than the others as they can let themselves loose and not be tied to such serious plots for the most time.
But that's just me.
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Muhahaha... Victory.
Pierre wrote:
I-3 I loved because it allowed you to play as Bratworth. Man I'd wanted to do Bratworth's finger waggle in the name of justice for a long time so was great fun playing as him. However more interestingly I found was that it gave you a brief look into the Von Karma family life. It was fascinating to see Mannfred in everyday life and more interestingly in a mentor role whereas before he was simply a villain.
Also tiny Franny is adorable. I mean the inclusion of TYRELL BADD I really enjoyed and was enough for me but the rest of the scenario just works a treat for me.
Hey, that's case I-4. I-3 is the one with the Protobadger, hostages, and Kay's entrance. Oh, and the easter egg.
My apologies that's right, AAI's screwy timeline messes me up a bit but I'll edit the post.
Gerkuman
What is my liiiife?!?
I enjoyed/admired Regina's positive outlook on life
You mean her sheltered, naive and factually incorrect outlook on life?
There was a reason why we were supposed to feel sorry for Acro, though the blame falls squarely on her father.
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Gerkuman wrote:
Yes factually incorrect but a happy outlook.
But just because she creates a happy outlook on life doesn't mean that it'll work out eventually. Okay, in that circus of hers, maybe, although what I saw of Moe and Ben on the last day . . . well, they seem to be pretty sick and tired of her airheadedness and want her to get rid of it.
Maybe so but compared to the rest of the grim broken down people at the circus she seemed lovely to me with her positive attitude. Though I thought the Star thing about the afterlife was a lovely story and felt that was the harshest of crackdowns by Phoenix at the end.
Not that Moe has any right to be tired of anyone's attitude. I was just as sick of him during the last day.
BurdenOfProof
Can I just say one little thing?
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These cases are really like filler episodes, but in my opinion it cannot be REALLY called that because they have important bits that is necessary for the 4th or 5th case to have the feeling that it connects with all the previous cases.
1-3: shows 's "good side" for the first time.
2-3: 's first involvement in this game and his return is shown at the end of the episode.
3-3: 's inability to see red is implied here, plus the glowing visor thing.
4-3: introduces Lamiroir and Valant
I-3: Kay's, Shih-na's, and Lang's debuts and further information about the smuggling ring.
I2-3: I assume you all know this.
"Hey, a ladder!"
"That's a stepladder."
"So? They're the same thing, Nick! You should stop basing your opinions on narrow-minded cultural assumptions!"
Burden, you can use spoiler tags if you want to put information down that may be risky such as in the case of AAI2 in your last post.
For the record I don't know about AAI2 so it would be wise to not assume that we all know about something. I also don't want to know about AAI2 yet so please use spoiler tags.
Real Anime Law
More important question: will a woman with big boobs turn out to be evil in the second case?
Mirii-chan
Maybe they were fillers but there's never been an AA case I didn't like.
1-3: I thought this showed a nicer side of Edgey's character. Also, it began the great Steel Samurai fandom!
2-3: I never found this annoying. I thought Moe was really funny. Bad funny but still.
3-3: This case was one of my favourites! It was so funny! I thought Nick was funny in it.
4-3: This was my favourite from AJ because Phoenix was in it less. So I was less worried about him.
AAI 1-3: I like this case too. Kay is one of my favourite characters and her introduction was awesome!
Even if they were fillers, they were still epic. I love having five cases as it means I can play for longer. I think the 3rd cases perhaps come away from the plotline to focus on the crime solving gameplay. Anywho, we all have different feelings about it.
@Pierre: Oh sorry! ^^; I saw GK2 being discussed above and I thought you were in said discussion, so I assumed that you knew. Silly mistake.
Even though the 3rd cases in each game were probably my least favourites, I wouldn't want to see these "filler" cases go. I like them - it's nice to have some new, fresh, unrelated-to-everything-else characters and plots, whose stories are fulfilled in the single case. I hope they continue in GS5, though I hope they're better than 2-3/4-3.
Kav
Just a fellow PW fan!
In highschool english class I was always taught that when writing an essay it's best to start out with your second strongest argument, followed by your weakest and finally end with your strongest point, that way you keep the reader interested at the start and impress them at the end. I wouldn't be surprised if the PW writers follow a similar pattern with their cases and in what order they do them.
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Health Library Home>Disease, Condition, & Injury Fact Sheets>Article
Iron-Deficiency Anemia
(Reduced Iron in Blood)
by Editorial Staff And Contributors
More InDepth Information on This Condition
Anemia is a low level of red blood cells (RBC). RBCs carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. Lower RBC counts mean the body is not getting enough oxygen.
Iron makes a critical component of red blood cells.
Copyright © Nucleus Medical Media, Inc.
There are different types of anemia. This type is caused by low levels of iron in the body. Iron is needed to build healthy RBCs. Low iron levels may be caused by one or more of the following:
Iron that is poorly absorbed in the digestive tract—may occur due to intestinal diseases or surgery
Chronic bleeding , such as heavy menstrual bleeding or bleeding in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract
Not enough iron in the diet—common cause in infants, children, and pregnant women
These factors may increase your chance of developing this condition:
Rapid growth cycles—may occur with infancy or adolescence
Heavy menstrual bleeding or chronic blood loss from the GI tract
Breastfed infants who have not started on solid food after 6 months of age
Babies who are given cow’s milk prior to age 12 months
Alcohol use disorder
Diets that contain insufficient iron—rare in the US
There may be no symptoms with mild anemia. In those who do have them, anemia may cause:
Fingernail changes
Decreased work capacity
Craving to eat things that are not food (called pica) such as ice or clay
Shortness of breath during or after physical activity
Restless legs at night
You will be asked about your symptoms and health history. A physical exam will be done.
Tests to diagnose iron-deficiency anemia may include:
Blood test—to look at RBC and iron levels
Urine tests—to look for abnormal bleeding
Stool tests—to look for abnormal bleeding
Iron levels will need to be brought back to normal. The body will be able to increase RBCs as iron levels improves. This will relieve the anemia.
Iron can be taken as a supplement:
Iron comes in many "salt" forms, examples include:
Ferrous salts—better absorbed than ferric salts
Ferrous sulfate—cheapest and most commonly used iron salt
Slow-release or coated products may be easier on the stomach. However, the iron may not be absorbed as well.
Some include vitamin C. It can help to improve absorption. It could make iron level too high.
Iron can also be given through an injection. Iron stores may be fully restored over 1 to 2 injections.
Iron-Fortified Cereal
Your doctor may recommend that you feed your baby iron-fortified cereal.
To help reduce your chance of having anemia:
Eat a diet rich in iron. Include iron-rich foods such as oysters, meat, poultry, or fish.
Avoid foods that interfere with iron absorption. Black tea is one common iron blocker.
Talk to your doctor about your baby’s diet. General guidelines include:
Starting at 4 months, breastfed infants need an iron supplement. Once they are older they can get iron from other sources, like cereal or fortified formula.
Bottle-fed infants should get a formula that is fortified with iron.
Premature infants may need extra iron by 1 month of age.
Healthy Children—American Academy of Pediatrics
https://healthychildren.org
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
https://www.acog.org
CANADIAN RESOURCES
Dietitians of Canada
http://www.dietitians.ca
https://www.canada.ca
Iron. EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments website. Available at: EBSCO Natural and Alternative Treatments website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/biomedical-libraries/natural-alternative-treatments. Updated December 15, 2015. Accessed September 29, 2017.
Iron deficiency anemia in adults. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115986/Iron-deficiency-anemia-in-adults. Updated July 12, 2016. Accessed September 29, 2017.
Iron deficiency in children (infancy through adolescence). EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at:http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T435307/Iron-deficiency-in-children-infancy-through-adolescence. Updated November 21, 2016. Accessed September 29, 2017.
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Free Email Marketing – Constant Contact Email Automation Tool Review – 2019
Background Free Email Marketing
Constant Contact have been in the email marketing game since 1995. Throughout this time they’ve managed to turn into one of the most used email tools in the world. Free Email Marketing
What Makes them unique is that they have added features over the years that none like an event management tool, surveys, and campaigns. These contribute to the varied list of email options available, as well as automations and newsletters that are recurring.
On top of these options, they also boast a Marketplace with over 400 integrations that cater for even the most niche of products and programs. Yet despite attributes and these numbers, curiosity about Constant Contact appears to be on the decrease, at least according to Google Trends. Reason for us to take a better look at Constant Contact’s ins & outs and check if it is still relevant in the 21st century.
If You’re choosing an email Marketing tool for your business, you could do a lot worse than Constant Contact (which begins at $20 per month). If you want to test some of the attributes out without committing, then the business offers a 6-day free trial. This review looks especially. Were it not for a few technical hiccups that were unexplained, Constant Contact could have been an easy pick for our initial choice.
How Can Constant Contact pile up against the Contest in its advertising database for businesses with 2,500 connections? It carries a high price tag. Many advertising programs also have a cap on how many messages you can send in a month but Constant Contact does not.
Since our last appearance, Constant Contact has Added email autoresponders beyond these triggered by sign-ups, such as anniversaries and birthdays. You might send an email series to a specific set such as a day-by-day guide to getting started with follow-ups or your service to a occasion. This works by matching them up with autoresponders and segmenting your contacts. The picture library now allows 2 GB of storage. Users may also access stock photographs that are paid and free straight through Constant Contact. You can interact with support via Twitter. Free Email Marketing
Constant Contact is easy to use and has lots Starting with the data icons located alongside choices and fields explaining what they are Knowledge Base articles, and coaches accessible at a toll-free number. Constant Contact has a Task page which lists the status of various jobs, such as uploaded contacts, so you understand what’s going on in the background.
Phone support Isn’t 24/7 but the hours are Still fairly generous, going from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. during the week, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends. Chat is available, and the agents will call you to make sure to have.
Constant Contact offers a number of programs Based upon how big your subscriber base. The plan is $20 a month for up to 500 subscribers and $45 for up to 2,500. A plan costs $195 for 10,000 subscribers and $335 for 50,000. Price-wise, it’s not too different from Campaigner. You may sign up for additional add-on providers, for example EventSpot ($20 per month for a single occasion; $25 for up to five occasions ) for event registrations, and research ($10 per month) to conduct polls (all of which can be included at no additional charge on the Email Plus plan). The fundamental account comes to store images used in the mail campaigns with a Library. MyLibrary Plus ($5 per month) expands your storage to 1 GB. Newsletter Archive ($5 per month) creates a widget that can be added to your site on which you can display links to around 100 emails. If you would like your clients to have the ability to see your messages that are older, this is a.
The free trial gives you access to all of You can send up to 100 mails although these attributes for 60 days. The trial is a superb way to get accustomed to the platform for a restricted number of messages. When you are certain about the platform, update to the paid version and start blasting away. There is also a 30-day money-back guarantee, which can be uncommon in this space.
When you’re ready to create a newsletter, you May use the template to begin. The editing tool allows you tweak images, text messages, and even colours. There is also a media library where you can save your personal resources, such as company logos and other graphics. Free Email Marketing
Once you’re Happy with your own newsletter, You can send it right away or schedule it for later (in 5-minute intervals, for example 3:05 a.m., 3:10 a.m., and so forth ). We couldn’t locate a recurring program to send messages on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis the way Campaigner doesto send messages depending on the local time in the receiver’s place, as GetResponse can.
The Business also announced a new Feature named Action Blocks, which allow marketers to include polls or RSVP cubes to regular emails. This permits recipients to answer messages with a single click without having to leave the email inbox and also visit a web page.
Once you’ve sent a newsletter, then you can monitor By using the accounts tab, its success. The dashboard displays the basics, including opens, clickthroughs, bounces, and unsubscribe requests. A handy bar graph shows open rates and a graph compares performance over multiple campaigns. Users can also select up to five mails to compare high speed results side by side. The report has a handy Refresh button so that you may observe real-time outcomes. It’s not like MailChimp where you have to manually load the pages. When we opened emails and clicked on the links, they were enrolled almost immediately.
The Resource Center offers links to Info about average clickthrough rates by industry. You can even look at comparative metrics to figure out if your degree of involvement with your customers is improving or declining over the past three months. The cellular app is handy if you need to see the effort functionality from your mobile device.
There are several ways to add contacts to Constant Contact: copy and paste, manually type addresses into a type, upload a file (CSV, XLS, XLSX, or TXT), import from Gmail, or pull from Outlook and other (CRM) tools.
After we used the form to manually put in an Address, we repeatedly received an error message but it did not say what had gone wrong. We were prompted to hit the last button to return and fix the problem but we could not because the page had died from our browser (Firefox) cache. After a few attempts, the entire webpage crashed. This was an unusual experience, to say the least. Constant Contact has ensured us has greatly improved because our first test and this is unlikely to happen again.
The document upload, Gmail import, and CRM Migration options, on the other hand, were simple to use and stable. We think most people would wind up using one of these options. We tracked the upload progress under”Contacts: Activity” and was notified when the import was finish. Like Campaigner, Constant Contact allows Mailinator and speeches that are disposable. It is too bad many services don’t follow the case of GetResponse$15.00 at GetResponse, which filters out famous disposable domains. Constant Contact rather flags contacts that are inclined to be transactional or other such addresses so the user can decide whether to eliminate or keep them.
Segments are based on which list you Select if saving the contacts but it’s also quite simple to go back and adjust the list. In the Contact Managerwe just clicked on the speeches we wanted to add to another list. A new feature allows users to choose a listing for contacts to whenever they click on on a link in an email to be added, the company said. This attribute is available in all packages. It can be paired with an autoresponder so that, when a link clicks, there is a pertinent email delivered to them. Constant Contact lets you assign tags to contacts, which is helpful if you want to track things such as how they signed up, if they are loyalty associates, or anything else you might want to monitor. Free Email Marketing
Our only quibble with the Contact Manager is That it’s a pain. After we glued our list and cut, we dropped in addresses. We didn’t have other areas, such as name or address. To add this, we needed to load each person listing and update the subjects. Because the pages were slow to load in our testing, this was not that simple. Since we could see the whole list in Contact Manager, it would have been nice to be able to just click on the missing area, enter, and just keep going down the page. So, lesson learned: Be certain to have all the applicable fields before uploading the names, populated from the listing.
Constant Contact also lets you create forms That customers can use to sign up for newsletters and emails. These forms can be hosted on your site or on Constant Contact’s servers. The consumers can be segmented by you based on if they used the sign-up form or alternative methods, which can be helpful. The company also recently announced a new sign-up form editor that’s designed to permit users to create inline forms which can be embedded onto a site as well as pop-up forms that could be customized to display after a fixed amount of time or when a visitor tries to leave the web site, the company said.
Constant Contact requires you to verify that You already have consent from your record! As there is no way to verify you’ve got consent from every individual receiving messages sent to that address you can not use group addresses like sales @ or marketing @ addresses or distribution lists. You might even make autoresponders, listed under the Create button, to ship every time a user is added to some list. We used the templates to build a publication to new subscribers.
Constant Contact appears like a Stage but its error messages were disconcerting. This aside, the instrument is solid, and for many small businesses new to email marketing, Constant Contact is a fantastic way to get started. We want it provided flexibility in the scheduling of autoresponders of campaigns and creation particularly. Free Email Marketing
If you do not want these extra features, However Constant Contact is an excellent choice. Should you want a little bit more flexibility in your marketing plan, then have a look at email marketing Editors’ Choices Campaigner and MailChimp.
Because Constant Contact only offers seven Kinds of marketing automation functions, the company does not want to refer to itself as a advertising and marketing automation suite that is traditional. Rather, Constant Contact likes to inform prospects that it is a cross between email marketing and advertising automation or exactly what it calls”email automation”
That’s because, unlike other tools, such as Editors’ Choice advertising automation systems Pardot and HubSpot, Constant Contact does not does not offer branching logic. Instead, it focuses on only two factors to begin automation campaigns. By way of instance, an automation workflow can be started by you whenever someone accomplishes a milestone, like a birthday or anniversary as a customer or joins a listing. However, you can’t alter automationsbased on whether somebody opened an email, forwarded an email, or clicked on a link.
Automation platforms automatic, slightly more smart and, well, than email marketing tools, create life more personalized and more easy for marketers for clients. In addition, Constant Contact does not provide A/B testing (they do offer subject line A/B testing), no search marketing addition, and also the restricted workflows it is possible to create don’t offer drag-and-drop builders, that can be pretty much standard nowadays. Should you need basic automation for first and second interactions with customers, then Constant Contact is a automation program. But if you would like flexible workflows and innovative sequencing that adjust to your clients’ specific activities, then Constant Contact is not strong enough to compete at the marketing automation space.
As Constant Contact themselves reiterate through their website, they are a tool for smaller companies. And, as it’s well worth assessing them. As stated previously, they have a lot of the fundamentals covered to meet companies, and then we’d recommend them highly, if it were as simple as that. Free Email Marketing
The issue, nowadays, is that there are Lots of email Tools offering even greater than Constant Contact, and also for a lot less money. This includes user expertise, but also not just features. In fact, for the amount you pay with Constant Contact, you could end up using tools such as ActiveCampaign and GetResponse.
Things are picked up by them For their decent deliverability prices, integrations (especially social websites integrations), and for enabling different access levels for separate users. With recent improvements to coverage and marketing automation, it will seem like they’re making an effort. However, their lack of features, such as marketing automation, makes it hard to recommend over others at their price point. Free Email Marketing
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Roundup – Island of Doctor Logan
Tags: BCS, bedbugs, bias, big daddy drew, Caroline Baum, driving time, harry potter and Rome, human zoo, indian whistleblowers, kepler-22b, last place, libya, multiple personality disorder, russian communists, sesame street, suburbia, trillion military, twitter, women drivers, zachary karabell
Wolfman Rob: You’re putting me on, right? Your name’s not Jason. It’s Jamie Crandall.
Garrett: IT’S JASON GARRETT. OF THE HUNTING VALLEY GARRETTS.
Wolfman Rob: Huh. Wonder why I’ve always thought of you as Jamie Crandall. Must have been a name I saw in a Marmaduke strip or somethin’.
– Big Daddy Drew, Princeton Boy Has A Hard Time Mastering Timeoutgate [KSK]
Tweet Science [Joe Hagan on New York Magazine]
The problem starts, he says, with an empty box. The box is on a user’s Twitter home page, where the company’s signature timeline is supposed to crawl down, overflowing with 140-character bon mots, witty and interesting and profound. But when you sign up, there’s nothing in it. It’s like turning on the TV and being confronted with a test signal.
As it stands, Twitter’s interface has yet to mature beyond a chronology of tweets, from most recent to oldest, that necessarily drops people into the water without much context, forcing users to experience Twitter as a snapshot of comments and a somewhat random and not particularly useful list of “trending topics,” or to enter a search term in hopes that something pertinent or entertaining will emerge from the millions of tweets. “In general, a lot of what Twitter is is unstructured information,” an executive at Facebook tells me. This, in a sense, is a programming challenge.
Sons of the Revolution [Jon Lee Anderson on The New Yorker]
By the end of February, rebels had assumed control of a series of coastal cities throughout the east. Soon after, military units operating out of Qaddafi’s tribal stronghold of Surt, halfway along the coast toward Tripoli, began advancing on the “liberated” territory. They struck first in Brega, on March 2nd, and were repulsed after a day of combat in which about a dozen civilian volunteers from Benghazi were killed. Osama decided that he needed to do more: “I could see that this is war now, and it is necessary to help.” Since then, Osama had undergone a transformation. “Before I left Libya, there was nothing left for me here,” he said. “Now, when I see the sea, I smell a different air. I can see the sky, blue; I have never seen it so beautiful.” He said that his friends in Martinsville had appealed to him not to go to Libya. “I reminded them that Henry County was named after Patrick Henry—and remember what he said, ‘Give me liberty or give me death’? Well, that’s what we’re facing here. I’d like to see my country have some of the freedom that America has.” Osama’s eyes shone. “You know, my son Muhannad has showed me what it is to be a man. He woke me up.” On February 25th, a ship had evacuated American citizens to Malta. “I told him to go and join his mother in the States, but he said, ‘No, Dad, I must stay.’ He’s a great guy, a basketball player, you know. And a Boy Scout.”
The “Last Place Aversion” Paradox: The surprising psychology of the Occupy Wall Street protests [Ilyana Kuziemko and Michael I. Norton on Scientific American]
Support for redistribution, surprisingly enough, has plummeted during the recession. For years, the General Social Survey has asked individuals whether “government should reduce income differences between the rich and the poor.” Agreement with this statement dropped dramatically between 2008 and 2010, the two most recent years of data available. Other surveys have shown similar results. What might explain this trend? First, the change is not driven by wealthy white Republicans reacting against President Obama’s agenda: the drop is if anything slightly larger among minorities, and Americans who self-identify as having below average income show the same decrease in support for redistribution as wealthier Americans. Our recent research suggests that, far from being surprised that many working-class individuals would oppose redistribution, we might actually expect their opposition to rise during times of turmoil – despite the fact that redistribution appears to be in their economic interest. Our work suggests that people exhibit a fundamental loathing for being near or in last place – what we call “last place aversion.” This fear can lead people near the bottom of the income distribution to oppose redistribution because it might allow people at the very bottom to catch up with them or even leapfrog past them.
Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think [Daniel Kahneman professor of psychology emeritus at Princeton University and professor of psychology and public affairs emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work with Amos Tverksy on decision making via Bloomberg]
I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
In India, Whistle Blowers Pay with Their Lives [Mehul Srivastava and Andrew MacAskill on Bloomberg Businessweek]
According to 2008 field experiments by Leonid Peisakhin and Paul Pinto, then doctoral candidates at Yale University, filing an RTI request is almost as effective for slum dwellers as paying a bribe to get a new ration card sooner for food and cooking supplies. “This is the most important piece of legislation passed in post-independence India,” said Subhash Agrawal, an RTI activist who successfully campaigned to make Supreme Court judges’ and ministers’ assets public. “It is a tragedy that these people have died, but it is also a sign of how powerful a tool the law is.”
College Football Would Love It If You’d Waste Your Time Complaining About Bowl Matchups [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
The NCAA loves this. They want you to spend your energy hating the BCS or Jim Tressel or The U and forget that these things can be fixed cosmetically without altering the ideology that puts money earned by player into the pockets of their pimps. It’s almost as if college football knowingly designed a flawed system to distract us from the broken core. Every piece you see today railing against the bowl selections? That’s us, ignoring the forest to hack at a few trees.
Russian communists win support as Putin party fades [Alissa del Carbonnel on Reuters]
Not that the Communist Party’s doubling of its vote to about 20 percent presages any imminent assault on power. The memories of repression in the old communist Soviet Union, the labor camps and the “Red Terror” are still too fresh for many. But vote they did, if perhaps with gritted teeth. “With sadness I remember how I passionately vowed to my grandfather I would never vote for the Communists,” Yulia Serpikova, 27, a freelance location manager in the film industry, told Reuters. “It’s sad that with the ballot in hand I had to tick the box for them to vote against it all.”
Poll violations: Invisible ink, ballot throw-in, illegal propaganda [RT]
Is Suburbia Doomed? Not So Fast. [Joel Kotkin via Forbes]
Generally speaking, aging boomers tended to move out of dense urban cores, and to a lesser extent, even the suburbs. If they moved anywhere, they were headed further out in metropolis towards the more rural area. Among cities the biggest beneficiaries have been low-density cities in the Southwest and southern locales such as Charlotte, Raleigh and Austin. What about the other big demographic, the millennials? Like previous generations of urbanists, the current crop mistake a totally understandable interest in cities among post-adolescents. Yet when the research firm Frank Magid asked millennials what made up their “ideal” locale, a strong plurality opted for suburbs — far more than was the case in earlier generations. Generational analysts Morley Winograd and Mike Hais note that older millennials — those now entering their 30s — are as interested in homeownership as previous generations. This works strongly in favor of suburbs since they tend to be more affordable and, for the most part, offer safer streets, better parks and schools.
‘Harry Potter and yoga are evil’, says Catholic Church exorcist [Nick Squires on The Telegraph]
Father Gabriele Amorth, who for years was the Vatican’s chief exorcist and claims to have cleansed hundreds of people of evil spirits, said yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation”. Reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books is no less dangerous, said the 86-year-old priest, who is the honorary president for life of the International Association of Exorcists, which he founded in 1990, and whose favourite film is the 1973 horror classic, The Exorcist…His views may seem extreme, but in fact reflect previous warnings by Pope Benedict XVI, when as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger he was the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s enforcer of doctrinal orthodoxy. In 1999, six years before he succeeded John Paul II as Pope, he issued a document which warned Roman Catholics of the dangers of yoga, Zen, transcendental meditation and other ‘eastern’ practises. They could “degenerate into a cult of the body” that debases Christian prayer, the document said.
Mall Rats Can’t Bring About the Wealth of Nations [Caroline Baum on Bloomberg]
Besides, there is something fundamentally wrong with a culture that promotes spending as the key to health and wealth. A multidecade borrowing-and-spending binge whittled the U.S. savings rate from an average of 9.6 percent in the 1970s, to 8.6 percent in the 1980s, to 5.5 percent in the 1990s, to 3.3 percent in the 2000s. At one point during the housing bubble, the savings rate approached zero…The Federal Reserve is complicit, too, in discouraging saving by holding its benchmark rate close to zero and pledging to keep it there at least through mid-2013. Consumers aren’t getting paid to save. The rate they can earn on bank deposits is negative when adjusted for current or expected inflation. Therefore, they spend. High real rates induce consumers to forgo current spending and save…Even the stock market applauds more “consumption,” a synonym for spending I try to avoid. A former editor said the word made him think of people wasting away from tuberculosis, which happens to be Merriam-Webster’s first definition. It was enough to convince me. In the context of this column, however, the alternate definition seems appropriate: “the utilization of economic goods in the satisfaction of wants … resulting chiefly in their destruction, deterioration, or transformation.” “Destruction” should be a tip-off that whatever it is, it isn’t wealth.
Rampant porn if Saudi women allowed to drive: Report [QMI Agency via CNews]
If the only country in the world that still bans women from driving were to change its rules, there would be “a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce.” Within 10 years of the ban being lifted, the report claimed, there would be “no more virgins” in the country, according to the paper. Currently, women caught driving in the kingdom may be lashed as punishment.
What is the most scientific way to optimize your driving time? [Keith Veronese on io9]
Across car types, the ideal speed for one’s car is between 55 and 60 miles per hour. There will be slight variants based on the type of car (SUV vs. aerodynamic Sedan), but this speed is a good starting point across car types. For every 5 miles per hour over 60 mph, fuel efficiency decreases by approximately 8 percent, with this decrease in efficiency compounding with a further increase in velocity…Let’s say the speed limit is 70 mph (113 kph) and you have a 280 mile interstate journey ahead of you…For the sake of argument, let’s say your average speed over the trip is 78 mph (126 kph) – eight miles above the limit in most states. You just risked a ticket, probably spent the last 3.6 hours of your life stressed out and paranoid, and killed your car’s fuel efficiency to spend 24 extra minutes with your relatives – time that will likely be spent sitting in front of a television watching Storage Wars. You’re a winner (in the game of life)!
The Child Psychology of Sesame Street [Esther Inglis-Arkell on io9]
A bigger controversy was to come later. Snuffleupagus, a big hairy mammoth, started appearing to Big Bird, the show’s most iconic character. When Big Bird mentioned him to others, or called them over to meet him, the mammoth disappeared. This went on for quite some time, while a debate raged behind the scenes. Some psychologists insisted that it was natural for kids to have, and talk about, their imaginary friends and private lives. If people never saw ‘Snuffy,’ but they still accepted Big Bird, that would relax those kids. Others psychologists objected. Kids would not see the giant hairy elephant on the screen as imaginary. They would see it as real, and see other characters not believing Big Bird when he was telling them the truth. Children who had painful secrets, such as abuse or neglect, needed validation that what they saw was real and would be believed. Eventually, Snuffy was seen by others, and became part of the regular cast.
Paris exhibit reveals the unspeakable horrors of the Human Zoo [The Guardian via io9]
In 1906 a Congolese Mbuti pygmy named Ota Benga was caged and put on display at the monkey house in New York’s Bronx zoo to demonstrate “human evolution.” In the 1840s, a boy with a small skull was sold to P.T. Barnum. There, he would be called Zip and made to wear a fur suit and scream at the audience in a show called “What Is It?”
The Myth of Multiple Personality Disorder [Esther Inglis-Arkell on io9]
Sybil‘s influence on society cannot be overstated. Aside from the massive amount of money the disorder made for Hollywood, hospitals opened up entire wings to treat a sudden influx of multiple personality patients. Some patients came to doctors believing the disorder put a name to what they already felt, some wanted to make a buck on the book deal, some wanted attention and care. Not all the interest came from the patient’s end. Unscrupulous doctors went on the hunt for patients. Everyone wanted a multiple personality case to call their own. Then came the debunking of the book and the bane of any cultural phenomenon: lawsuits. In the early 1990s patients started suing doctors for using drugs and threats of abandonment to coerce more personalities into showing up for their sessions. Then patients, some of whom had spent years in hospitals, started suing for misdiagnoses. Money and fame went out the door and bankruptcy and infamy strolled in. No one wanted to diagnose anyone with multiple personalities anymore. It was in the mid-nineties that the name was changed to dissociative identity disorder.
NASA Confirms Discovery of the most Earth-like Planet Yet [NASA via io9]
Kepler-22b is a different story. Sure, the planet orbits about 15% closer to its star than Earth does to the Sun, but its star is also significantly cooler, dimmer, and smaller than ours. And while scientists have yet to determine K-22b’s composition — be it rocky, gaseous or liquid — they estimate that surface temperatures on K-22b average a very Earth-like 72-degrees Fahrenheit…NASA’s Kepler mission (which is charged with identifying Earth-like planets throughout the Milky Way galaxy) has certainly turned up habitable zone planet candidates in the past, but Kepler 22-b is the first of these candidates to be officially confirmed.
Jobs Report Shows Structural Unemployment Is the Real Problem [Zachary Karabell on The Daily Beast]
This is an employment crisis not of college-educated women (just read into the data compiled by the BLS every month) who have an unemployment rate of barely more than 4 percent and decent wages. This is a crisis of men who did not go to college, who do not have the tools and never acquired the skills—knowing how to learn—that are so needed today. They have the skills to build homes that aren’t being built and to man the factories of yesterday rather than the high-tech lines of today. No set of Washington policies enacted in the near term will fix that. What growth there is in economic life comes from highly efficient business, not robust demand for goods and services.
Bedbugs’ Rampant Incest Colonizes Entire Apartment Buildings, Study Finds [Bloomberg]
Bedbugs inbreed without ill effects, the researchers said, so even a single female bedbug can lead to a colony of the blood-sucking insects as a result of rampant incest. Three colonized buildings in North Carolina and New Jersey suggested the invasion started with only one or two insects. Another study traced 21 infestations from Maine to Floridaand found most began in a single room…Bedbugs were almost eliminated in the U.S. 60 years ago by the pesticide DDT. International travel probably aided a resurgence in the past 30 years, said Schal, also a study author. The research was presented today at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Philadelphia. While their bites cause itchy allergic reactions, they don’t spread disease. The number of infestations from the insects, which feed only on blood, has grown as much as 100-fold since 1990, said Rajeev Vaidyanathan, associate director of diseases from animals at SRI International, which is based in Menlo Park, California, in a statement.
How military spent $1TRILLION on weapons since 9/11… and bought far more M4 guns and Stryker tanks than intended [Mail Online]
But the report claimed 10 of the 14 most expensive weapons programmes have already received least 88 per cent of their projected financing. ‘I was surprised at how much they had already done,’ report author R. Russell Rumbaugh told the New York Times. The Air Force and Navy received more money for weapons spending than the Army and Marines, he added. ‘There will always be debate over what forces and equipment our military should pursue, but we should not ignore significant advances,’ he wrote.
Douchebag Sports Bars Are Hot Right Now [Unsilent Majority on KSK]
Peter King Wishes LSU Used Patrick Peterson In A James Starks Kind Of Way [Big Daddy Drew on KSK]
Social Animal: How the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life [David Brooks on The New Yorker]
Confounding Fathers: The Tea Party’s Cold War roots [Sean Wilentz on The New Yorker]
Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks [Mark Buchanan on The New Scientist]
How Special Ops Copied al-Qaida to Kill It [Spencer Ackerman on DangerRoom on Wired]
Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales [Asjylyn Loder and David Evans on Bloomberg]
John Brown, the Antislavery Entrepreneur [Tony Horwitz via Bloomberg]
I Liked to Sell the World a Coke [Neville Isdell worked at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, assuming the role of chairman and chief executive officer in 2004, after working for the company in Zambia, South Africa, Australia, the Philippines, Russia, Germany, India and Turkey. This excerpt, the first of two, from his memoir, “Inside Coca- Cola: A CEO’s Life Story of Building the World’s Most Popular Brand,” written with David Beasley via Bloomberg]
Ray Dalio’s radical truth [Michelle Celarier and Lawrence Delevigne on Institutional Investor]
Asana: Dustin and Justin’s Quest for Flow [Ashlee Vance and Douglas MacMillian on Bloomberg Businessweek]
Space Beer: Great Taste, Less Gravity [John Kung on Bloomberg Businessweek]
This Is What Happens To Your Face When You Try To Rob An MMA Expert [Chicago Tribune via Deadspin]
Idiot Columnist Writes Idiot Column About Ovechkin And Steroids [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
Tim Tebow Is Making Me Question My Atheism [Daniel Engber on Slate via Deadspin]
Former Players Sue NFL Over Painkiller Use [Emma Carmichael on Deadspin]
Europe Pressures Iran After Embassy Raid [Wall Street Journal]
A Frosty Reception for Coca-Cola’s White Christmas Cans [Wall Street Journal]
New Front Emerges in Clone Wars [Wall Street Journal]
Teacher Faction Expands to L.A. [Wall Street Journal]
Syria Would Cut Iran Military Tie, Opposition Head Says [Wall Street Journal]
Are You A Born Investor? [The Psy-Fi Blog]
Life began with a planetary mega-organism [Michael Marshall on The New Scientist]
No College Degree Will Buy Your Way Into The Top 1% [Mark Gimein on The Wealth Debate on Bloomberg Businessweek]
A Little Pujols Math To Infuriate Cardinals Fans [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
Everything That’s Wrong With Monday Night Football, In One New Yorker Paragraph [Tommy Craggs on Deadspin]
Leonardo da Vinci’s earth-shattering insights about geology [Jonathan Jones on The Guardian]
The Man Who Busted the ‘Banksters’ [The Smithsonian]
Uniting to Preserve Protest Footage [Steve Dollar on Street Wall Journal]
Turf Battle Forms Over Hussein’s Palaces [Wall Street Journal]
Are scientists afraid of revolution? [John Rennie on SmartPlanet]
Behold: Complex, self-assembling, 3D objects [Tim Barribeau on io9]
Scientists still puzzled by a fractal discovered 500 years ago [Physics Central via io9]
Ancient humans understood medicine and insecticides over 77,000 years ago [Science via io9]
Yawns are most contagious between family members [PLoS ONE via io9]
NASA’s Voyager 1 has reached the very fringes of our solar system, and is preparing to leave for good [Astronomy Now via io9]
A new way to solve the age-old conundrum of whether it’s worth sacrificing one for the many [Discovery via io9]
Bee swarms behave just like neurons in the human brain [Science Now on io9]
21st Century Children Raised by Wild Animals [Keith Veronese on io9]
Rally Defying Putin’s Party Draws Tens of Thousands [New York Times]
Scary 515 million-year-old predator had better vision than almost any animal alive today [Nature via io9]
Major earthquakes might be triggered by hurricanes [University of Miami via io9]
Scientists Discover Huge Martian Water Deposit—Could Be Used By Human Explorers [ESA via Gizmodo]
Donuts Or Donuts, There Is No Try [Not Always Right]
Awesome New UFO Theory: Approaching Comet is Really a Borg Cube From Jesus [Charlie Jane Anders on io9]
What is it about this photograph that makes you feel uncomfortable? [Robert T. Gonzalez on io9]
Researchers quantify just how badly your favorite celebrity is Photoshopped [Tim Barribeau on io9]
Where the hell did this creepy bootleg E.T. footage come from? [io9]
Somewhere Between Kordell Stewart And John Skelton, There Is Tim Tebow [Tom Scocca on Deadspin]
How philosophy explains why Steven Moffat’s monsters are seriously fucking scary [Annalee Newitz on io9]
World’s biggest insect could snap your finger off [The Sun via io9]
The Earth has a heartbeat we can see from space [Geophysical Research Letters via io9]
Easily hypnotized people can hallucinate colors whenever they want to [Consciousness and Cognition via io9]
An Annotated History of Lindsay Lohan Nudity [Gawker]
Birds and Bankers [Lizzie Widdicombe on The New Yorker]
Secrets of the Bailout, Now Told [Gretchen Morgenson on The New York Times]
Jobless Dads Get Quality Time with Children [Joel Stonington on Bloomberg]
BP Says Halliburton Destroyed Evidence in Gulf Spill Case [Bloomberg]
Eight Ferraris Crash at ‘Gathering of Narcissists’ [Bloomberg]
Remembering Brazil’s Soccer Philosopher King [Gabriele Marcotti via The Wall Street Journal]
Citizen Scientists [Wall Street Journal]
Tim and Tiger Win the Weekend [Jason Gay on The Wall Street Journal]
Cable-TV Honchos Cry Foul Over Soaring Cost of ESPN [The Wall Street Journal]
Christmas-Tree Spending Rises to Highest Since Pre-Recession [Bloomberg]
The Health Risks of Being Left-Handed: Lefties Face Chance Of ADHD, Other Disorders; Brain Wiring Holds Clues [Shirley S. Wang on The Wall Street Journal]
Keeping Cold and Flu Germs Out [Laura Johannes on The Wall Street Journal]
Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records [Reuters]
Roundup – The Chiefs React to the Twilight: Breaking Dawn trailer
Tags: big daddy drew, dan lozano, hank paulson's indiscretions, mayor bloomberg and protests, prison america, running, steve jobs and teacher unions
Ryan: Oh, men. Oh, men. Men, took a shit this morning that had me blocked up like the goddamned Holland Tunnel. Soon as that turd got halfway out, it sat there in the pocket like a fucking rookie. And I had to figure out whether or not to dig that fucker out, or have faith in it to get me out of a jam. And sure as shit, forty minutes later that turd dropped. That’s you, Nacho. You are that green turd that needs a little more patience than I usually have.
Sex Cannon: I had that happen to me once when I was taking a dump on a freshman.
Ryan: Is that right?
Sanchez: Don’t listen to him, Coach. He’s not even supposed to be here.
Sex Cannon: I guess I just like violating things. Do you like violating things, Coach?
Ryan: You know I do.
Sex Cannon: I bet you and I could do some violating together, you know. You know I throw like I fuck, right?
Ryan: Let’s see it, buster.
Sex Cannon: All right.
(throws the ball seventy yards, gets intercepted by an overturned traffic cone)
Sex Cannon: HOW YOU LIKE THAT?
Ryan: Goddamn, that was impressive! You see that, Nacho?
Sanchez: Whatever.
Sex Cannon: AGAIN!
(throws the ball into the mouth of a homeless child)
Sex Cannon: BINGO BANGO! DOUBLE BONUS!
– Big Daddy Drew, The Last Temptation Of Rex [KSK]
Running For Three Yards Is Like Going Backwards [Brian Burke on Advanced NFL Stats via Deadspin]
Running has its purpose and is an essential part of every effective offense. It’s needed to constrain defenses, to keep them guessing, and to set up play-action passes. It’s necessary in short yardage, and it’s actually underused in the red zone, where pass defenses have less real estate to cover and throwing is thus more difficult. Running is also needed to run out the clock and minimize the chance of turnovers when the offense is trying to hold a lead. Even so, today’s affinity for smashmouth, slobberknocking football is irrational. It’s not 1977 anymore, and running the ball for nostalgia’s sake is counterproductive. Underdogs need high variance plays to win, and downfield passing is all about high variance—big risks with bigger rewards. In contrast, running is low variance. Teams that are strong in all phases of the game have the luxury of running the ball. Fans and commentators see strong teams run the ball often and think it’s the running that causes the winning, when it’s really the other way around. Even when teams are better at running than they are at passing, they’re trapped in a paradox. Unless your team has an all-world defense, you’ll eventually end up trailing. Incomplete passes or short runs on either first or second down typically lead to third-and-long situations, requiring a pass. The worse an offense is at passing, then, the more often they’ll need to do it, and the more they’re forced to play to their weakness.
Dan Lozano: Albert Pujols’s Superagent, “King Of Sleaze Mountain” [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
Lozano told USA Today that the allegations against him are the product of jealous agents whom he’s beaten out for the biggest names in the game. That doesn’t mean the claims are lies, or that they can’t be verified by people familiar with his past. Among the people who were willing to discuss their experiences with Lozano, there was anger that he’d been able to get away with his tactics for so long without repercussions. But there was also pity and a sense that everything got away from Dan Lozano long ago, and the life he’s living is no longer the one he wanted, but one that requires more lies to keep it going. For an agent, it’s possible to keep up a life like that indefinitely—at least until somebody decides it’s time to take you down.
Bulging Jails Are Other American Exception [Albert Hunt on Bloomberg]
There are 2.3 million people behind bars, almost one in every 100 Americans. The federal prison population has more than doubled over the past 15 years, and one in nine black children has a parent in jail. Proportionally, the U.S. has four times as many prisoners as Israel, six times more than Canada or China, eight times more than Germany and 13 times more than Japan. With just a little more than 4 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. accounts for a quarter of the planet’s prisoners, and has more inmates than the leading 35 European countries combined. Almost all the other nations with high per capita prison rates are in the developing world. There’s also a national election in America soon. This issue isn’t on the agenda. It’s almost never come up with Republican presidential candidates; one of the few exceptions was a debate in September when the audience cheered the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, because his state has carried out a record number of executions. Barack Obama, the first black president, rarely mentions this question or how it disproportionately affects minorities. More than 60 percent of America’s prisoners are black or Hispanic, though these groups comprise less than 30 percent of the population.
Bloomberg’s Long War Against Protests [Ben Adler on The Atlantic Cities]
In the wake of September 11, the NYPD put together an impressive, sophisticated operation to prevent terrorist attacks. But critics worry that the city is incapable of distinguishing democratic dissent from legitimate threats. Police habitually interrogated protesters they arrested about past protest activities until it was exposed that they were doing so, and they still monitor protests with a heavy hand.”The NYPD is engaged in massive surveillance, they videotape every demonstration,” says Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “They did it at the RNC and they do it at Occupy Wall Street.” Despite Bloomberg’s socially liberal views on issues from immigration to abortion and gay marriage, he is no civil libertarian. “When Bloomberg started as mayor, the first thing he did was disband the Decency Commission, a Giuliani legacy that censored art,” recalls Lieberman. “We thought, ‘Wow, this would be a different era.'” But after Bloomberg’s response to anti-war demonstrations, they knew better. “He’s not Giuliani, but he’s not the great champion of protest rights that he would claim,” says Lieberman.
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word of Fannie Mae Rescue [Richard Teitelbaum on Bloomberg]
After a perfunctory discussion of the market turmoil, the fund manager says, the discussion turned to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Paulson said he had erred by not punishing Bear Stearns shareholders more severely. The secretary, then 62, went on to describe a possible scenario for placing Fannie and Freddie into “conservatorship” — a government seizure designed to allow the firms to continue operations despite heavy losses in the mortgage markets. Paulson explained that under this scenario, the common stock of the two government-sponsored enterprises, or GSEs, would be effectively wiped out. So too would the various classes of preferred stock, he said. The fund manager says he was shocked that Paulson would furnish such specific information — to his mind, leaving little doubt that the Treasury Department would carry out the plan. The managers attending the meeting were thus given a choice opportunity to trade on that information.
Book Notes: Steve Jobs Blasted Teachers’ Unions, Planned Digital Textbook Feature for iPad [Walter Issacson via Anthony Rebora on Teaching Now via Education Week]
Jobs also attacked America’s education system, saying that it was hopelessly antiquated and crippled by union work rules. Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform. Teachers should be treated as professionals, he said, not as industrial assembly-line workers. Principals should be able to hire and fire them based on how good they were. Schools should be staying open until at least 6 p.m. and be in session eleven months of the year. It was absurd, he added, that American classrooms were still based on teachers standing at a board and using textbooks. All books, learning materials, and assessments should be digital and interactive, tailored to each student and providing feedback in real time.
That List Of “Words You Can’t Text In Pakistan” Is Actually The List Of Things You Can’t Put On NFL Jerseys [Emma Carmichael on Deadspin]
Leave Sasha Grey Alone! [The Cajun Boy on Uproxx]
A Guide To Determining Your Stance On Tim Tebow [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
Prospecting For Whatever Makes The 49ers Good [Josh Levin on Slate via Deadspin]
How Tupac Dealt With A Jewelry Thief On The Set Of “Juice” [J. Tinsley on The Smoking Section]
Knicks Sued by Cuttino Mobley Over Disability Claim That Ended NBA Career [Bloomberg]
As Rivals Slip, Gingrich Finds Traction [Wall Street Journal]
Clinton Motorcade Pelted With Rocks, Eggs [Bloomberg]
The $200,000-a-Year Mine Worker: Resources Boom Fuels Demand for Underground Labor, Spurs Skyrocketing Pay; a $1,200 Chihuahua [John W. Miller on The Wall Street Journal]
Wall Street Protesters Evicted From Camp [Wall Street Journal]
U.S. Marines to Be Stationed in Australia Under Obama-Gillard Defense Pact [Bloomberg]
Penn State May Seek Public Shield After Years of Claiming Private Status [Bloomberg]
Sino-Forest’s Martin Faces ‘Herculean’ Task After Ponzi Scheme Allegation [Simon Casey and Christopher Donville on Bloomberg]
Suspect Arrested in White House Shooting Case [Wall Street Journal]
Berlin Will Return Paintings to Auschwitz Victim’s Heir [Bloomberg]
Rambus Loses Antitrust Case [Wall Street Journal]
Case Puts Focus on Grand-Jury Quirk [Wall Street Journal]
Protesters Clash With Police: Several Hundred Arrested Around U.S. on Movement’s Two-Month Anniversary [Wall Street Journal]
Old U.S. Foe Proves Useful in Asia [Wall Street Journal]
‘Willing Vassals’ in Congress Do Lobbyist Bidding [Jack Abramoff via Bloomberg]
An Aussie Who Rules at Football: LSU’s Wing Bedevils Opponents With Unorthodox, Unreturnable Punts [Wall Street Journal]
Birth Rate Continues to Slide Among Teens [Wall Street Journal]
Deciphering Michael Crichton’s Clues: A giant challenge in finishing the late author’s ‘Micro’: fragmentary notes about tiny robots and killer bugs [Alexandra Alter on The Wall Street Journal]
Islam Offers a Third Way in Pakistan and Tunisia [Pankja Mishra on Bloomberg]
Standoff at U.S. Airbase in Iraq [Wall Street Journal]
U.S. General Defends Afghanistan Night Raids [Wall Street Journal]
Gingrich: Republican front-runner running behind [Reuters]
Fullerton officer accused in Kelly Thomas killing will keep pension [Los Angeles Times]
Using a credit card induces euphoria, new research shows [Bob Sullivan on Red Tape Chronicles via MSNBC]
The 32 Rules of Thanksgiving Touch Football [Jason Gay on The Wall Street Journal]
Most 2-Year Students Quit [Wall Street Journal]
Syphilis Cases Climb 36% in U.S., Prompting Call for More Frequent Testing [Bloomberg]
Sale of Pension Income Targeted by Senator [Wall Street Journal]
Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below Carter’s [US News] and Presidential Job Approval Center [Gallup]
Ron Paul Smacks Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation [Mish’s Global Economic Analysis]
Whistle-Blowers Seek SEC Bounties at a Rate of Seven per Day [Bloomberg]
Wayne Gretzky’s Daughter Will No Longer Be Posting Boobsy Photos Of Herself And Her Friends On Twitter [Deadspin]
The Four Types Of Lies In Pro Football [Jeremy Stahl on Slate via Deadspin]
Eight Years Later, ESPN Reports What It Knows About The Claims Against Bernie Fine [Tom Scocca on Deadspin]
A Comprehensive Timeline Of The Child Sex Abuse Allegations Against Bernie Fine [Dom Cosentino on Deadspin]
Checking In With Albert Pujols’s Agent, Who Threatened To Sue Us Before He Knew What We Were Going To Write [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
13 Unusual Facts About the Saddest Photo in the Great Depression [James Altucher]
Housing and Unemployment: The More Realistic Story [John Tamny on RealClearMarkets]
An Edge in Science Among the Foreign-Born [Motoko Rich on Economix]
Report: 1 in 5 of US adults on behavioral meds [Associated Press]
Shot or Party? Avoiding Chicken Pox’s Worst [Wall Street Journal]
Reaction By Indy PR People To Their Dumb Super Bowl Shuffle Video Is Dumber Than The Video Itself [Luke O’Brien on Deadspin]
The Bizarre Story Of Bernie Fine’s Third Accuser, Who Is Charged With Sexually Abusing A 13-Year-Old Boy [Emma Carmichael on Deadspin]
Jerry Sandusky’s Lawyer Is Just Throwing Shit Against The Wall Now and Stuff Jerry Sandusky’s Lawyer Says Just Keeps Backfiring [Dom Cosentino on Deadspin]
Tim Tebow Is A Pretty Good Quarterback [Jack Dickey on Deadspin]
Every Football Player Is A Dirty Football Player [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
Castro’s Demise Won’t Erase Legacy From U.S. [Enrique Krauze on Bloomberg]
The Math Changes on Bulbs: Modern LEDs, While Expensive, Save Companies on Labor [Katie Linebaugh on The Wall Street Journal]
Slice of Life: a Quest to Try Pies in the Big Apple [The Wall Street Journal]
Egypt’s Ascendant Islamists on Collision Course With Generals After Vote [Bloomberg]
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The Top 20 Songs Of 2018 (So Far)
July 19, 2018 | 10:10 AM
by DX Staff
The first half of 2018 was like an intravenous hit for Hip Hop fans, with new projects coming faster than most listeners could handle. We got new albums from J. Cole, JAY-Z, Nas, Pusha T and Drake, as well as 36 new songs produced by Kanye West across five different projects, including his own.
But among that glut of music, there were singles that were able to separate themselves from the competition, whether it was through ear-worm melodies, audacious visuals, internet crazes or just sheer quality.
Check out our picks for the Top 20 songs from the first six months of 2018, based on a combination of votes from DX’s editorial contributors.
20. Cardi B – “I Like It”
Who could’ve guessed Pete Rodriguez’s 1967 hit “I Like It Like That” would find new life in 2018? Cardi B made it happen by revamping the boogaloo party cut with Bad Bunny and J Balvin for a Latin trap anthem. Cardi’s star power makes it work, allowing listeners that don’t even speak Spanish to enjoy the multi-language record. [Justin Ivey]
19. Kids See Ghosts – “Reborn”
The collab between Kanye West and Kid Cudi that fans had been clamoring for since 2009 finally dropped this June. A self-titled seven-track project, Kids See Ghosts features the standout track “Reborn,” which features a catchy, melodic hook courtesy of Cudder and some introspective words from Ye.
The “way-oh-way-oh” chants from Cudi and reflective lyrics from West serve as a throwback to an earlier time, and while the combo doesn’t exactly make for a summer banger, it’s a return to what made each artist special in the first place. Better late than never. [Andrew Gretchko]
18. XXXTENTACION – “SAD!”
Prior to his June 18 shooting death, XXXTENTACION was on his way to having a formidable rap career. One of his last offerings was “SAD!,” a song about depression, suicide and heartbreak that perpetuated the emo-rap style that launched him. The song was already a hit, debuting at No. 17 on the Hot 100, but it skyrocketed to No. 1 and set a streaming record on Spotify shortly after X’s death. [Kyle Eustice]
17. Black Thought – “9th Vs. Thought”
Black Thought is already heralded as one of best MCs to ever pick up a mic. On his collaborative effort with producer 9th Wonder, Streams Of Thought Vol. 1, the track “9th Vs. Thought” proves for the umpteenth time The Roots frontman is lethal with the pen. From references to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to Cinderella, his dense wordplay leaves any competition in the dust. [Kyle Eustice]
16. Rae Sremmurd – “Powerglide”
Over the past few years, the brothers from Tupelo have repeatedly proven they’re more than one-hit wonders. The third installment to their SremmLife series (titled SR3MM) was a triple disc anchored by the pulsating single, “Powerglide.”
The track featured a perfectly executed flip of Three 6 Mafia’s “Side 2 Side,” courtesy of co-producers Mike WiLL Made-It, Hovart and Mally Mall. In true Rae Sremmurd form, Swae Lee handles the catchy chorus while Slim Jxmmi laces it with a formidable verse. [Scott Glaysher]
15. Kanye West – “Ghost Town”
Serving as the climax of Kanye West’s ye solo release, “Ghost Town” is one of most powerful records of the year. With emotion-filled contributions from Kid Cudi and 070 Shake, West was able to deliver a true introspective moment, reminiscent of what “Runaway” did for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. [Marcus Blackwell]
14. BlocBoy JB f. Drake – “Look Alive”
Drake’s 2018 has been filled with high highs and low lows, but that hasn’t changed the fact that he’s a certified hit machine. The collaboration between Memphis’ BlocBoy JB and Drizzy for the Tay Keith-produced banger “Look Alive” has been one of the most exciting team-ups of the year so far, debuting at No. 6 on the Hot 100.
Drake’s edgy raps and Blocboy’s charismatic delivery make for a deadly combination, and the record had folks hitting the “Shoot” dance all year. [Marcus Blackwell]
13. Phonte – “Sweet You”
Like many of the tracks on Phonte’s No News Is Good News, “Sweet You” is grown-man rap done right. This ode to his wife covers the ups and downs, all without being corny and still managing to deliver lyrical gems. Tall Black Guy’s two-step-inducing production completes the package for one of the best tracks 2018 has to offer. [Justin Ivey]
12. Anderson .Paak – “Bubblin”
In 2016, Anderson .Paak proudly announced he had “GLOWED UP” — two years later, his achievements are literally bubbling out the bag. The multi-talented artist from Oxnard, California raps with seasoned bravado on “Bubblin’,” taking pride in his journey while reveling in the fact that he’s finally reached his destination. He’s toured the world on his path to superstardom, and his next album should only serve to propel him to even greater heights. [Kenan Draughorne]
11. Kanye West – “Yikes”
Arguably the most intriguing song off of West’s ye album, “Yikes” explores themes of addiction and intoxication, even referencing Prince and Michael Jackson. At face value, the track paints a frightening picture of the severity of West’s personal problems, explaining some of his more erratic behavior.
But considering the themes of freedom and rebirth that appear on both ye and Kids See Ghosts, is the track talking in the past or present tense? [Riley Wallace]
10. Pusha T – “The Story Of Adidon”
Though reports have said otherwise, it sure looked like Pusha T prompted Drake to rewrite some of Scorpion after delivering “The Story Of Adidon.”
The G.O.O.D. Music president went all in for his “Duppy Freestyle” response, accusing Drake of being a deadbeat dad with the savage “You are hiding a child” line. The song’s cover art also featured a smiling Drake in blackface.
The result? A post from Drake explaining the image, and a month later, a full admission to being the father of Sophie Brussaux’s infant son on the Scorpion tracks “March 14” and “Hopeless.” [Kyle Eustice]
9. Pusha T – “If You Know You Know”
Push had plenty more fire this year aside from just his Drake diss track. His long-awaited and now-acclaimed DAYTONA album only brought more fans to the fold, and sent Drake stans into hiding. But beef aside, the opening cut of DAYTONA is possibly the album’s best for a few reasons.
First, West’s production is a departure from what we expect from him. An eerie sample chop woven through cascading chord progressions and synths — its triumphant yet terrifying. Push delivers a cocky array of drug dealer bars, gratifying his core fan base that definitely “know” what his surgical summer is all about. [Scott Glaysher]
8. Saba – “Prom/King”
The spirit that inspired much of Saba’s excellent Care For Me album comes into haunting focus on “PROM/KING,” a seven-minute memorial dedicated to the life of Saba’s cousin and fellow rapper John Walt.
Saba spends the first half of the song detailing how he and Walt became close as prom night approached, before frenetically ramping up the pace on the second half as the timeline races toward Walt’s untimely death. Already a moving story, Saba reveals himself as the perfect person to detail the narrative with his captivating flow and passionate vocals, honoring his comrade’s legacy in the process. [Kenan Draughorne]
7. Drake – “Nice For What”
“Nice For What” ended up on the slower, R&B-driven side of Drake’s Scorpion double disc, but the high-energy beat and uplifting message kept it blaring across radios all summer. Thanks to Murda Beatz’s rapid-fire hi-hats and a perfect sample chop of Lauryn Hill’s “Ex-Factor,” this Hot 100-topping single is a standout track on Scorpion, as well as within Drake’s overall catalog.
The song’s inherent bounce is dangerously catchy as Drake calls for strong independent women to “pipe up” on their male counterparts. Plus, the video (which is at 210 million YouTube views and counting) features some of Hollywood’s most powerful women doing just that. [Scott Glaysher]
6. Kendrick Lamar & SZA – “All The Stars”
Marvel’s Black Panther was an instant box office hit upon its February 2018 release. A big component to the film’s release was the accompanying soundtrack, the aptly titled Black Panther: The Album, which was curated by Kendrick Lamar and Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith.
The pop-tinged “All The Stars” featuring K. Dot and SZA closed out the film, making it the only song from the soundtrack to be used in the movie. With its catchy, melodic hook and captivating beat, it was easily the most intoxicating song on the TDE project. [Kyle Eustice]
5. Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future & James Blake – “King’s Dead”
“King’s Dead” is a banger. There’s no way around it. Jay Rock’s relentless delivery is complemented perfectly by Mike WiLL Made-It’s infectious production. Future’s hilariously catchy, Juicy J-referencing “La di da di da/Slob on me knob” makes for an unforgettable moment on a track where we find each artist at their strongest.
You can’t go wrong with a Kendrick Lamar conclusion, and he closes the record with a fiery, tactical verse, putting a bow on one of the most exciting records of the year. [Marcus Blackwell]
4. Drake – “God’s Plan”
Spawning one of the most quoted bars of 2018 (“I only love my bed and my mama, I’m sorry”), “God’s Plan” is Drake acknowledging positivity amid the sea of detractors praying on his downfall.
It also sees him making lots of reference to creating a legacy, should he face an untimely death. That concept carried over to the heartwarmingly charitable video that saw him performing acts of kindness while passing out a million dollars. With its success, it virtually guaranteed that Scorpion was eligible for platinum certification upon its release. [Riley Wallace]
3. JAY-Z & Beyoncé – “Apeshit”
Over a Pharrell soundscape and sporadic Migos ad-libs, Hip Hop’s power couple flexes on the game, oozing smoothness and opulence in this certified banger.
The song was released in tandem with a video shot in The Louvre, and the image of the couple in front of the Mona Lisa ties the trap-flavored track to high art. [Riley Wallace]
2. J. Cole – “1985 – Intro to ‘The Fall Off'”
J. Cole takes the kids to school on the KOD scorcher “1985.” Despite many assuming it was a Lil Pump diss track — including Lil Pump — the song is really an ominous warning to the entire younger generation of SoundCloud rappers.
Cole doesn’t shy away from predicting a grim future on Love & Hip Hop if they don’t step up the quality of their music. Moral of the story: money and jewelry is temporary, content is forever. [Kyle Eustice]
1. Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
As Donald Glover/Childish Gambino pulled double-duty as host and musical guest on the May 5 episode of Saturday Night Live, he unleashed a new song called “This Is America,” immediately following it with a powerful visual for the track.
Over a deep, speaker-rattling bass line, Gambino tackles issues of police brutality and America’s gun obsession with a purposeful air of apathy to illustrate how numb people have become to deadly shootings. [Kyle Eustice]
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Bad Apple!! Hakurei Reimu (Doll Profile #6)
On March 11, 2018 March 17, 2018 By Asian EdIn Dollfie
By the time I’d gotten Lily, I’d been in the doll hobby for about a year and a half. I’d been to Japan twice, done a bunch of creative stuff with photography, and had done a little blogging. I could feel things changing, though. I wasn’t as interested in writing about my hobbies as much as I used to and social media content had a significant drop. I had a new relationships and Final Fantasy XIV was taking up a decent chunk of my time.
Even looking back at my photo history, there was a drop in how much I was doing in the second half of 2011. So what did I do to try to save my relationship with my hobbies? It was time to seek out the next girl for my family.
Looking back, Reimu occupies a really strange place in my doll family. I was never super attached to her character, knew almost nothing about Touhou, and my only real exposure was the Bad Apple!! music video. When Volks announced a collaboration to turn Reimu and Marisa into their debut models for the new DDS body, I was only mildly interested. To be honest, I was probably more interested in the new body than the characters themselves. I’d even had the opportunity to see them during my 2010 trip to Japan. They were in a display case at the Ikebukuro Volks Store (the store isn’t there anymore), but weren’t available for sale yet. The weirdest part about the new girls was that they were region locked and Japanese exclusive. There wasn’t an international release or plans to, likely due to licensing restrictions for the Touhou property. With that added in, I had very little interest in trying to track them down.
Which brings us to late 2011, when I was sort of itching for something new. I was trolling Mandarake’s web store and stumbled upon the listings for Reimu. There weren’t very many and one particular listing jumped out. She was a fair price (for the time), in decent condition, and in stock. I’d really wanted to play with the DDS body for some time, so I went ahead and made the purchase. A short time later, Reimu landed on my doorstep.
Reimu fresh out of the box
I don’t remember having very strong first impressions of Reimu at the time. I had some issues with her overall quality, such as her gigantic hair bow. Since it was large and heavy, clipping it on the wig would pull the lightly tied ponytail down and would likely destroy the styling if left on. To this day, the ribbon is still sitting in the box. I also consider her wig to be one of the least well made of all the default Volks wigs that I’ve owned. In fairness though, it hasn’t come apart like Yoko’s did…
Even though I never really bonded with Reimu’s character, I really do like her as a doll. The new DDS body was very interesting and I really liked having one! It was the first Volks vinyl body to feature double jointed elbows, meaning much nicer posing with hands and arms. The DD2 bodies could only bend to about 80 degrees, meaning you could not touch the hand to the face without some pretty unnatural positioning. In contrast, the DDS elbow allowed for the arm to almost double over on itself! Fortunately, Volks carried this design decision forward for the new DD3 bodies!
Unfortunately, the DDS body suffered from a pretty major flaw with the shoulder joints. For some reason, the engineers did not appropriately reinforce the sleeve where the arm peg attached to the torso (a cost saving measure, perhaps?) Due to manufacturing tolerances, some arm pegs were slightly fatter than others, putting a lot of strain on the thinner holes in the torso. This resulted in a lot of early dolls to develop cracks in the plastic and some broke all together. There weren’t a lot of great ways to fix this, unfortunately. A couple companies released metal reinforcement bits to clamp over the plastic to hold things in place, while other enterprising owners fashioned a reinforcement part using zip ties. Volks did later correct the issue, but early adopters were left with the makeshift fixes or buying new parts.
Looking back on the last several years with Reimu in my family, I realized that I did the least amount with her. She gets the occasional outfit change, but rarely gets much spotlight on her for photoshoots. When I went to put this post together, I realized that I had only taken her to one or two meets and done two or three actual photo shoots with her! It’s unfortunate because she has such a cute (if not generic) sculpt, I really should do more with her in the future!
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Name: Hakurei Reimu
Make: Volks Dollfie Dream Sister, M Bust
Arrival Date: October 5, 2011
From: Mandarake Online, second hand
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