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Adorable photos from Meghan Markle’s charity cookbook launch
by Laila Ijeoma September 20, 2018, 5:57 pm
Here are some adorable photos from Meghan Markle’s charity cookbook launch, which is her first solo royal project.
The event was attended by Meghan Markle’s mum who introduced herself in the most adorable way when she accompanied her daughter as she launched her first solo royal project.
The Duchess of Sussex took her mother Doria Ragland for the launch of the charity cookbook in Kensington Palace and while socializing with guests, Doria said: “I’m Meg’s mum.”
People thought it was so adorable that she didn’t just assume they should know her.
Prince Harry was also present to support his wife at the launch of the charity cookbook titled Together: Our Community Cookbook. The book is already a bestseller on Amazon and it’s not even out yet. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the victims of the Grenfell tower fire tragedy.
Meghan gave a 3-minute speech without notes thanking the women of the Hubb. It was a rather passionate speech that showed her love for her new community and the people in it.
As she spoke, Prince Harry and her mother Doria watched from the side and the pride in their expression could not be missed. Meghan said;
Working on this project for the past nine months has been a tremendous labor of love.
I had just recently moved to London, and I felt so immediately embraced by the women in the kitchen: Their warmth, their kindness, and also to be able to be in this city and to see in this one small room how multicultural it was.
On a personal level, I felt so proud to live in a city that can have so much diversity. It’s 12 countries represented in this one group of women! It’s pretty outstanding.
There’s so many people to thank. Of course, Penguin Random House, your support and belief in this from the very beginning has been just incredible. And Al-Manaar for the support and seeing this through for us, our team at Kensington Palace and the Royal Foundation.
On a personal note, I’m especially grateful to them because this is my first project, so I appreciate your support in the vision I had for this and seeing it come into fruition. And then everyone behind the scenes, I mean it truly took a village to see this through!
See photos below;
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Home > November 2009 - Volume 31 - Issue 11 > Hepatitis-associated Aplastic Anemia Presenting as a Familia...
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Hepatitis-associated Aplastic Anemia Presenting as a Familial Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome
Breakey, Vicky Rowena MD*; Meyn, Stephen MD, PhD†; Ng, Vicky MD‡; Allen, Christopher BSc†; Dokal, Inderjeet MD§; Lansdorp, Peter M. PhD∥; Abla, Oussama MD*; Dror, Yigal MD* †
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: November 2009 - Volume 31 - Issue 11 - p 884-887
doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3181b86ec3
Clinical and Laboratory Observations
Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia is a well-described entity after idiopathic fulminant hepatic failure. The hematologic disease ranges from mild-to-severe aplastic anemia and the cause of the disease is unknown. We describe 2 siblings with bone marrow failure. The older child presented with idiopathic fulminant hepatic failure and an early onset of rapidly progressive severe aplastic anemia that developed into myelodysplastic syndrome postliver transplantation. In the process of family screening to locate a donor for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the younger sibling was found to have hypocellular bone marrow and later developed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. These familial cases raise the possibility of an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome and suggest that severe hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia may not be always an acquired condition.
*Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
†Cell Biology Program, Research Institute, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto
‡Division of Genetics and Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Hospital for Sick Children
∥Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
§Centre for Paediatrics, Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
The Canadian Inherited Marrow Failure Registry was supported by grants from the C17 Research Network and Cancer Candlelighters Canada, the Fanconi Anemia Association of Canada, the Neutropenia Association of Canada and Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Canada.
Reprints: Yigal Dror, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Haematology and Oncology, Cell Biology Program, Research Institute, the Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G1×8, Canada (e-mail: yigal.dror@sickkids.ca).
Received for publication October 8, 2008
accepted July 18, 2009
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Peter M. Lansdorp is a founding shareholder in Repeat Diagnostics Inc, a company specializing in leukocyte telomere length measurements using flow FISH. All other authors declare no competing financial interests.
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology31(11):884-887, November 2009.
bone marrow failure syndrome, aplastic anemia, fulminant hepatic failure, myelodysplastic syndrome, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, inherited
Articles in PubMed by Vicky Rowena Breakey, MD
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Why does Yitzchak's blessing of Yaakov refer to Yaakov's mother's *sons*?
B'reishit 27:29 reads:
Let peoples serve thee, and nations bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be every one that blesseth thee.
Rivka only had two sons and Yitzchak didn't have any other wives or concubines. Why does he use the plural when referring to Yaakov's mother's (other) sons?
One possibility is that he was guarding against the possibility of future children. This seems to be inconsistent with Yitzchak's health at the time he gave the blessing.
Another possibility is that by sons he means descendants, meaning Eisav and all his children, but that's unbalanced -- if Eisav's sons are his mother's sons, then so are his own sons when he has them.
Someone fluent in Hebrew told me that we should read this as mothers' sons, meaning Rivka and Sarah rather than just Rivka. This person told me that the segol in imecha is plural, but I have never seen a translation that renders it plural.
Rashi doesn't comment on this, nor do the chumashim I checked (not an exhaustive search, I know). I don't have an Ibn Ezra (I know he often comments on grammar).
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Menachem
Ibn Ezra comments on the phrase "your mothers sons" and says "עשו ובניו" = "Esav and his sons". Sounds like he's going with your second version. – Double AA♦ Jan 22 '12 at 1:02
Radak, as well, says it refers to Esav's sons. Note that the same Q&A can be made on the plural 'brethren' a bit earlier in the verse. – josh waxman Jan 22 '12 at 1:36
The person fluent in Hebrew is not quite fluent enough: the word is singular (it lacks a yod before the chaf). The segol is because the word is pausal. – msh210♦ Jan 22 '12 at 2:08
@joshwaxman and DoubleAA, thanks for the info. Josh, "Brethren" is sometimes used metaphorically, but "your mother's sons" is pretty specific. – Monica Cellio♦ Jan 22 '12 at 2:16
@msh210, thanks -- I was expecting a yud in that case too but this person said not necessarily. (Speaker rather than grammarian, so he couldn't explain it to me.) – Monica Cellio♦ Jan 22 '12 at 2:17
Many say that this refers to Eisav's children (or, from Yitzchak's perspective, Yaakov's children).
Ralbag, though, doesn't have a problem with asserting that it refers to Eisav alone. (Or, of course, from Yitzchak's perspective, Yaakov alone.) Grammatically, one may refer to a single child as the "children of so-and-so". He points to "וּבְנֵי דָן חֻשִׁים" - "The children of Dan are Chushim." (Bereshis 46:23)
Also, Ralbag seems to believe that "thy mothers sons" implies people that are currently alive. Thus, if one were to say that it refers to grandchildren as well, then they would have to acknowledge either that Yitzchak knew he was speaking to Yaakov (and that Eisav had children at the time) or that Yaakov already had children to refer to (or at least Yitzchak thought he did).
An additional interpretation, suggested by Abarbanel, is that "בְּנֵי אִמֶּךָ" translates as "family of your mother", which would refer to Lavan and the rest of the descendants of Bethuel.
jakejake
Esav already had children. Eliphaz at least was already born by this point. – CashCow Nov 17 '14 at 11:00
Chizkuni says that Yitzchak is trying to include children Rivka may have if she remarries after he dies.
חזקוני בראשית פרק כז פסוק כט
בני אמך: אם היא תנשא עוד אחרי מותי.
Note: This deals with Yitzchak's health issues but assumes that Rivka's health was significantly better. If you take the Midrash's timeline, then Rivka was 37 years younger than Yitzchak and Yitzchak was 123 at the time of the blessing in question, so we do have to wonder about Rivka's capacity to give birth at the time.
Double AA♦Double AA
This is officially the first time I read an answer of my own and don't remember writing it. – Double AA♦ Oct 31 '13 at 0:17
DoubleAA, I've sometimes read an old question, thinking "I can answer that" and starting to outline an answer in my head, only to find that I did that already. – Monica Cellio♦ Oct 31 '13 at 1:11
@MonicaCellio Sometimes I'll think that I have something to say and find that I already said it. But this time I still have no recollection of this happening at all. – Double AA♦ Oct 31 '13 at 3:37
To add to the other answers: B'reishis Rabba (66:5) comments that לְאֻמִּים refers to the children of Yishma'el and the descendents of K'tura (Hagar), while "your brothers" (and seemingly also "the children of your mother") refers to Esav and his generals.
The Malbim, interpreting Yitzchak's blessing as intended for Esav, instead comments that "your brothers" refers to the children of Yishma'el and the descendents of K'tura, while "the children of your mother" refers to Ya'akov's children. The effect of the blessing was reflected, so "the children of your mother" presumably turned into a reference to Esav's children.
FredFred
The Gur Aryeh first brings and the Chizkuni's answer (brought by @DoubleAA), and then rejects it, since Yitzchok had no right to make other children his wife may have as slaves to Yaakov.
He then answers it says "Sons of your mother" to say that just like a wife is subservient to her husband, so too will they be subservient to you (Yaakov).
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Small Star Empires is a quick area control game for 2-4 players. In this game, players colonize the galaxy using their ships, which they move on a modular board containing hexagonal spaces (systems). The modular board is made up of seven different double-sided sector tiles, which allows for a different map and different experience each time you play the game. During a turn, a player must move one of their ships on the board. They can move the ship only in a straight line, as far away as they want, but they cannot go over systems controlled by other players. After moving the ship, the player has to choose whether to place a colony or a trade station in that system. Both of these mark control over the system until the end of the game, but the trade station gives the player bonus points for each adjacent system controlled by their opponents. The game ends when either all of the players have placed their colonies and trade stations on the board or until none of the players' ships can move (because they have become blocked by other players' systems). After the game ends, points are calculated. Each player gets one point for each planet that they have in their systems. (Systems have 1 to 3 planets on the board.) Players also earn points for Nebulae; the more they have from one color, the more points they earn, with bonus points from other special systems such as the Unexplored System Tiles, which are part of a variant in the game. After calculating the points, the player with the most points wins!
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By WarrenJanuary 5, 2012Practice
As we’re gearing up for 2012 and making plans, we can’t help but look back at the past year, reflect, and note a few milestones:
1. The year 2011 marked a time of working with existing space: every project completed during the past year was either a renovation or addition to an existing building or house. This may be a commentary on the recession and financing crunch of 2009-2010 where existing building projects had more luck finding financing than new construction. Or it may have just been the chance we had to work in some of Salt Lake’s more interesting historic neighborhoods and old buildings.
On Edison Avenue, one of downtown Salt Lake’s re-emerging mid-block streets, we had fun working on the adaptive reuse of an old warehouse space for the wildly creative Super Top Secret, an interactive ad agency based here in Salt Lake City. It’s not every office renovation program that includes a skateboard ramp and elevated work lounge…
In December we wrapped up work on the Keyser Building, a warehouse building in the Granary district that is the new home for a dynamic growing business relocating to Salt Lake City, the US Translation Company. The 24,000 s.f. three-story building is both a historic renovation and a sustainable re-use of an existing concrete frame and brick structure. I noted in an article published last fall on USGBC’s website: “Truly the greenest building is one that has already been built…. This building has a great history and we can return it to its original roots while adding all the amenities of a modern office space without the impact of constructing a whole new structure.”
2. Lloyd Architects headed to Seattle for its first ever full office retreat in April. For the Lloyd Architect team, this was more than a chance to see some buildings and catch a Mariners game. Aaron, Justin and Tom each selected a notable building type which we sketched, photographed or analyzed, (and we did spend a chilly evening at Safeco field).We also had a great visit with Bob Hull and David Miller at the office of Miller/Hull, where I worked while attending graduate school at the UW (now over 20 years ago). Their sustained passion for the power of architecture to communicate ideas and seeing the consistency of the tectonic quality of their work were inspiring. I was also reminded by Bob about their practice of more than 30 years of weekly scheduled design reviews within their office. I recommitted to make that happen at Lloyd Architects.
I also re-connected with my friend and mentor Tom Bosworth, who continues to guide the architecture studio Bosworth Hoedemaker, and remains a steady influence in the design dialog of residential architecture in the Pacific Northwest.
We did have our own design charette for a high bank waterfront patio with our hosts out at Richmond Beach. Many thanks to Rick & Julie Stevenson!
3. In May we headed to New Orleans and the National AIA Convention, where we reconnected with friends and colleagues of CRAN, the Custom Residential Architects Network, comparing notes on emerging practices of building information modelling (BIM) and design build practices…
and where Jennie & I logged a number of miles walking the city, noting neighborhood patterns and streetscapes of the Garden District. In December we were in Phoenix at Reinvention, Residential Architect Magazine’s annual conference. Visting and discussing design ideas with the best practicing residential architects was an encouraging reminder that the distressed US housing market remains a poignant backdrop for some very interesting design transformations taking place in cities and neighborhoods throughout the West and beyond.
Reviewing the extent and diversity of our experiences and projects as well as looking at what we have “on the boards” are cause enough for me to keep, if not starry eyed optimism, at least a sense of gratitude for the opportunity to be an architect and work with great clients, bright young architects in training, and contribute in some way to the quality of the built environment of the Wasatch Front and beyond.
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Two dimensional quantum gravity and random surfaces : 8th Jerusalem Winter school for Theoretical Physics. 27 Dec 90 - 4 Jan 91. by Gross, D. (David Jonathan) (ed) Publication: World Scientific 1992 Date: 1992 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03 JER] (1),
Particles and accelerators; translated [from the French] by W. F. G. Crozier. by Gouiran, Robert Publication: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967 . 254 p. front. (port.), illus., tables, diagrs. (some col.), bibliog. 19 cm. Date: 1967 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics John T. Lewis Special Collection (Room 306) [539.7 GOU] (1),
Physics beyond the light barrier : the source of parity violation, tachyons, and a derivation of standard model features by Blaha, Stephen Publication: Auburn, NH Pingree-Hill Pub. 2007 . vi, 101 p. , Rev. ed. of: A derivation of electro-weak theory based on an extension of special relativity, black hole tachyons & tachyons of any spin. 2006. ill Date: 2007 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 BLA] (1),
Supersymmetry and supergravity by Wess, Julius Publication: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 1992 . viii, 259 p. ill Date: 1992 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 WES] (1),
Collision theory by Goldberger, Marvin L. Publication: New York, Wiley 1964 . ix, 919 p. 24 cm. Date: 1964 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 GOL] (1),
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Rochester Conference on High Energy Physics, April 15-19, 1957. Prepared at the University of Wisconsin by Midwestern Universities Research Association. by Ascoli, G. Publication: New York Interscience Publs. 1957 Date: 1957 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Proceedings of the 1960 Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics at Rochester; The University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., August 25-September 1, 1960. by Sudarshan, E. C. G. Publication: New York University of Rochester 1960 Date: 1960 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Fundamental Particles. by Nishijima, K. Publication: New York W. A. Benjamin 1963 Date: 1963 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 NIS] (1), School of Theoretical Physics Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Special Collection Room 305 [539.7 LOR] (1),
High Energy Physics. Proceedings of the EPS International Conference, Palermo, Italy, 23-28 June 1975. 2 Volumes. Volume 1. by Zichichi, Antonino Publication: Bologna, Italy Editrice Compositori 1976 Date: 1976 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Proceedings of the VI Brazilian Symposium on Theoretical Physics. Rio de Janeiro, 1980. 3 Volumes. Volume 1. Nuclear Physics, Plasma Physics, and Statistical Mechanics. by Ferreira, Erasmo Publication: Brazil CNPq 1981 Date: 1981 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Elementary Particle Theory. Relativistic Groups and Analyticity. Proceedings of the Eighth Nobel Symposium, held May 19-25, 1968, at Aspenasgarden, Lerum, in the county of Alvsborg, Sweden. by Svartholm, Nils Publication: New York/Stockholm Wiley Interscience/Almqvist & Wiksell 1968 Date: 1968 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1), School of Theoretical Physics Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Special Collection Room 305 [539.03 LOR] (1),
Under the spell of the gauge principle. by G.'t, Hooft Publication: Singapore World Scientific 1994 Date: 1994 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7] (1),
Dispersion Relations and Causal Description: an introduction to dispersion relations in field theory. by Hilgevoord, Jan Publication: Amsterdam North-Holland 1960 Date: 1960 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.73] (1),
Collective Models of the Nucleus. by Davidson, J. P. Publication: New York Academic Press 1968 Date: 1968 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.8] (1),
Many Degrees of Freedom in Particle Theory. Proceedings of the International Summer Institute on Theoretical Physics, 1976, University of Bielefeld, Germany. 2 Volumes. Volume 2. by Satz, H. Publication: New York Plenum Press 1978 Date: 1978 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Pion-Nucleon Scattering. by Cence, Robert J. Publication: Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press 1969 Date: 1969 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.77] (1),
Current Algebras and Applications to Particle Physics. by Adler, Stephen L. Publication: New York W. A. Benjamin 1968 Date: 1968 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.72] (1),
FPCP 2003 : proceedings of the second International Conference on flavor physics and CP violation. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 2003. Available on CD-ROM. by Perret, Pascal Publication: , (PRI) Gift Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03 PAR] (1),
Monopoles in quantum field theory: proceedings of the monopole meeting, Trieste, 1981. by Craigie, N.S. Publication: Singapore World Scientific 1982 Date: 1982 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Special Collection Room 305 [539.03 LOR] (1),
Proceedings of the VI Brazilian Symposium on Theoretical Physics. Rio de Janeiro, 1980. 3 Volumes. Volume 2. Solid State, Biophysics, and Chemical Physics. by Ferreira, Erasmo Publication: Brazil CNPq 1981 Date: 1981 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
Cosmic rays, The International Series of Monographs on Physics by Janossy, L. Publication: Oxford Clarendon Press 1948 Date: 1948 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Fenian Street Stores [539.9 B] (1),
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics. by Marshak, R. E. Publication: New York Interscience Publs. 1961 Date: 1961 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics John T. Lewis Special Collection (Room 306) [539.7 MAR] (1), School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 MAR] (1),
Fourier analysis on groups and partial wave analysis. by Hermann, Robert Publication: New York W.A. Benjamin, Inc. 1969 Date: 1969 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics John T. Lewis Special Collection (Room 306) [539.71 LOR] (1), School of Theoretical Physics Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh Special Collection Room 305 [539.71 LOR] (1),
Lattice Gauge Theories. An Introduction. by Rothe, Heinz J. Publication: Singapore World Scientific 1992 Date: 1992 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 ROT] (1),
Topics in High Energy Physics. Lecture Notes of the 1977 Advanced School of Physics, Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios avanzados del I.P.N., Mexico. Publication: Mexico I.P.N. 1978 Date: 1978 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.03] (1),
An introduction to string theory and D-brane dynamics. by Szabo, Richard J. Publication: London Imperial College Press 2004 Date: 2004 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 SZA] (1),
International conference on high-energy accelerators and instrumentation - CERN 1959 by Kowarski, L. Publication: Geneva Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire 1959 Date: 1959 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Fenian Street Stores [539.2 B] (1),
Theory of scattering, 9 lectures delivered at the Joint Conference of the Canadian Mathematical Congress and the Theoretical Physics Division of the Canadian Association of Physicists, held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, August 12-31, 1957 by Wu, Ta-You Publication: Alberta Canadian Association of Physicists 1957 Date: 1957 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Fenian Street Stores [539.77 B] (1),
Mandelstam Theory and Regge Poles: an introduction for experimentalists. by Omnes, R. Publication: New York W. A. Benjamin 1963 Date: 1963 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.71] (1),
Gauge theories : Publication: Boston : Birkhäuser, 1982 . xv, 385 p. ; 24 cm. Date: 1982 Availability: Items available: School of Theoretical Physics Library [539.7 DIT] (1),
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Apple warns of potential ‘material’ financial damage from European tax probe
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:58 pm Thursday, April 30, 2015 24 Comments
“Apple has warned investors that it could face ‘material’ financial penalties from the European Commission’s investigation into its tax deals with Ireland — the first time it has disclosed the potential consequences of the probe,” Tim Bradshaw and Christian Oliver report for The Financial Times. “The warning came in Apple’s regular 10-Q filing.”
“Under US securities rules, a material event is usually defined as 5 per cent of a company’s average pre-tax earnings for the past three years,” Bradshaw and Oliver report. “For Apple, which reported the highest quarterly profit ever for a US company in January, that could exceed $2.5bn, according to FT calculations.”
“Apple said in the filing: ‘If the European Commission were to conclude against Ireland, it could require Ireland to recover from the company past taxes covering a period of up to 10 years reflective of the disallowed state aid, and such amount could be material,'” Bradshaw and Oliver report. “Apple did not have any further comment on its filings, but in an interview last year Apple finance chief Luca Maestri told the FT: ‘It’s very important that people understand that there was no special deal that we cut with Ireland. We simply followed the laws in the country over the 35 years that we have been in Ireland.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Apple has repeatedly and confidently stated that they didn’t do anything that was against the law. Therefore, unless the EC tries to change the law retroactively, if that’s even possible, or tries to collect taxes retroactively in some other fashion, Apple is in the clear. By U.S. law, companies have to warn investors of potential material events in the 10-Q.
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Robert Irvine
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Two and a half billion seconds equals about eighty years, just to add some perspective.
Sharon Sharalike
That’s good, I like it. It gives some extra meaning to large amounts that get so casually tossed around.
Thelonious Mac
Like any other group of people given unwarranted control over the affairs of private individuals and corporations, the EU can do whatever they want. Legality isn’t an issue for these maggots. They decide what is an isn’t legal, retroactively. I know it is popular to hate lawyers here, there are so many unscrupulous ones, but this is why Apple needs the best of the best working for them. Apple spells money to those who do not have it and have done nothing to earn it and they will be coming for it.
tknapen
This isn’t about retroactive taxation. It’s possible that Ireland’s tax regime for corporations amounted to illegal state aid under EU law, which, as someone below noted, has primacy. So, if Apple has received illegal state aid from Ireland in the form of illegal tax exemptions, these taxes should still be levied. Nothing out of the ordinary here.
EU money grabbing socialists. Looking for a way, any way.
Planetary Paul
Why single out socialists? All politicians from all parties are in schemes like this. Any quick buck that can be made is a good one to them. Money doesn’t stink etc……
And that’s why politicians want to take our SSI, and CALPERS… They see money and want it badly, for political and personal gain. If you let them take what they want, we will have nothing, working our whole lives for empty promises and nothing in return. But no they don’t take it themselves, they set up a system so their buddies take it, and they themselves get some sort of kick back.
Ahhh, Planetary, if only we could get rid of the government. Society would be so much better if run by the citizens, all of whom are noble and profoundly altruistic.
It’s easy to make negative remarks about the crap folks. Any infant can do that. What do you propose instead?
kaplanmike
We all know Ireland has been running an international tax scam. And tax shelters have been ruled bogus (unlawful) before.
If Ireland broke EU regulations with their tax policy, Iceland and the companies that benefitted need to pay. It’s that simple. Apple can afford it.
el Tritoma
hmm. i think that if ireland broke the e.u. regulations, then ireland needs to pay. apple adhered to irish law, not their fault. and btw i am mostly of irish extraction.
TomH
It took the EU long enough to do anything about it. It is no secret that Ireland has been a tax haven for a long time. Check out the pharmaceutical companies that _just happen_ to route a lot of valuable bulk chemicals, and even produce valuable finished goods, through Ireland where they get a huge (tax-advantaged) markup before trans-shipping to end markets. Keeps a lot of profits out of hihger-priced selling markets. Like I said, its been going on for a really long time in Ireland. Apple was not a special case. Anyone with valuable “IP” routed “the goods” through Ireland for a huge markup in a low-tax country.
KingMel
The tax situation in Ireland recently became much more important to the EU because of the EU’s increasing budget and monetary problems. Desperate circumstances breed desperate measures, such as repatriation tax holidays and other patches to a broken system for a one-time windfall.
also, just because apple can afford something doesn’t mean they should pay for it. apple can afford to buy dell, but i don’t think it is right to make them buy it.
Putting an end to the shelter is one thing. Looking for ways to go back in time and make what was legal, illegal is theft.
Let’s go truly retro. Let’s say they retroactively they decide that they want to take their funds from 1996/7… And retroactively bankrupt the company, justifying full takeover of 100% of Apple, today.
Ireland has been running this tax regime with US computer companies since before Gateway set up there.
If the Irish are forced to claim the taxes that should have been due – they should be given to the EU countries pro-rata with the sales / profits that they have not paid on earnings across the EU. We should not have Ireland ‘gaining’ from this situation which was perpertrated to avoid tax in other EU member states.
So, Europeans pay more. It’s good the that EU is looking out their consumers best interest.
The market price is what it is; EU consumers pay what the market will bear. It is not selling prices, but markups & taxes on profits (local or otherwise) that get “managed” as a result of routing goods through tax-advantaged places.
If it’s anything like the IRS, then backdating their own regs and laws is very possible and done all the time. I’ve seen cases where the IRS has retroactively (10 years later) decided that previously approved tax deferred investments were no longer valid. They then swooped in with a bill for past tax and 10 year’s worth of penalties and interests.
It’s not rectroactively making laws, it’s about whether the Irish were allowed under EU law ( which has primacy ) to make the deals it has done with Apple.
If the EU comes to that decision the ‘reduced’ payments will be void and ‘full’ payments will be due.
Apple should use their overseas financial holdings and just buy a country or two.
applecynic
Well maybe a third world country. Europe has been democratic for too long, that doesn’t fit well with Apple.
baldheadedjohn
I’m reminded of that scraggly, bug-eyed weasel on the Foghorn Leghorn episode, y’know, the one who licks his lips and says “yeah! yeah! yeah! yeah!”
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Living Soils Nutrient Cycle Game
At a touchscreen monitor, visitors learn how nutrients cycle through an ecosystem by playing against known and unforeseen nutrient flows in different scenarios. A large overhead screen encourages onlookers, who are exposed to the educational messaging even though they are not actively engaged in the game. The game includes photographs and videos to enhance the game experience and tie the concepts to the real world.
The game challenges players to manage the flow of nutrients in three different scenarios: a dairy farm, a soybean field and their own backyard, over the course of a single growing season Spring to Fall. Players encounter sudden outflows of nutrients, such as by harvesting of the field or mowing the lawn, and are challenged to choose the best options in order to outwit the persistent flow that removes nutrients from a given ecosystem and keep the Nutrient Cycle in balance.
macMonkey Digital Studios worked with the client to develop the game play and interface, including designing all the graphic elements. We then developed the game via the Unity game engine, and assembled the touchscreen system for final delivery and install. Game play included a brief game tutorial on level one and setting up an integrated analytics system to determine the number of players per hour and length of game play per player. The final system was installed using a Windows gaming PC, Windows 10 OS, and a dual graphics card to integrate with the Samsung Touchscreen display as well as drive a separate overhead monitor for audience viewing.
As with most of our installations, this exhibit was also remotely accessible to troubleshoot any issues and provide content updates as necessary.
Project Requirements
Create a large interactive touchscreen game to entertain and educate how different nutrients affect soil. Needed to be playable in under five minutes and also mirror the game play display to an overhead monitor for crowds to watch.
Windows PC and Windows 10, 42” Samsung Touchscreen display, Unity game development and user metrics.
Developed in four months.
First Place in International Association of Fairs & Expositions 2017 Agricultural Awards Program – New Exhibits division. It also took the Judge’s Choice Award—the highest honor bestowed in this competition.
Demo of Video Play
LOCATION: Raising Nebraska at the Nebraska State Fairgrounds
CLIENT: University of Nebraska
DEVELOPMENT PARTNER: David & Associates
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Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi Page
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi
Japanese Title: 鋼鉄天使くるみ
English Title: Steel Angel Kurumi
French Title: Kurumi, l'ange d'acier
Chinese Title: 鋼鐵天使
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi (Anime)
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During Japan's Taisho Era (1912–1926), a scientist named Ayanokoji developed the Steel Angel—an artificial humanoid with superhuman physical abilities. While the Imperial Army wanted to use the Steel Angel as a new means of modern warfare, Ayanokoji wanted his creation to be a new step in the future of mankind. Thus, he defied orders from the Army and secretly made the Steel Angel codenamed "Kurumi". Then one day, a young boy named Nakahito Kagura snuck into Ayanokoji's house as a dare by his friends and stumbled upon Kurumi's lifeless body. A sudden attack by the Imperial Army shook the house, causing Kurumi to fall on Nakahito. At that moment, their lips met, and Kurumi woke up from "the kiss that started a miracle".
Taking place 75 years after the first series, Steel Angel Kurumi 2 brings the Steel Angels in a new mis-adventure. High school student and aspiring cellist Nako Kagura accidentally discovers and kisses Kurumi Mk. II at her home, thus making her Kurumi's master. But things go awry as Nako's best friend Uruka gets jealous and tries anything - including her father's army of top-secret mecha - to destroy Kurumi and win back Nako. Things get more out of control when Saki Mk. II is awakened by Uruka, and Karinka Mk. II joins in to steal Nako away from Kurumi.
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi Encore
Four additional short stories of the Steel Angels: Saki becomes a film actress, Karinka goes on a blind date with Kamihito, Kurumi practices the art of becoming a traditional Japanese woman, and the rest of the Steel Angels engage in a contest to win Nakahito's heart.
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi Zero
Sometime in the distant future, Kurumi, Saki and Karinka share an apartment with another girl named Excelia. One day, after school, Kurumi tells everyone that she is in love with a man she met named Michihito Kagura, but she doesn't know when she will see him again.
Koutetsu Tenshi Kurumi (Live Action)
Because of great advancements in cybernetic technology, the Ayanokouji Group begin to create androids that can be used in hospitals as nurses, referred to as "kangoroids". After an incident causes the main character Nakahito Kagura to become a hikkimori, his uncle, the owner of Ayanakouji Corporation, sends him a kangoroid named "Kurumi". She is loyal and hyper, and if one of her weren't enough, soon two more kangoroids are sent to his apartment; Saki and Karinka. As if that weren't enough to deal with, a strange woman and the obscene deliveryboy of the company like to show up as well, causing even more chaos to this troubled otaku's life.
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Your journey starts by the Galgewater, opposite the mill in the centre of Leiden. Enjoy a delicious cappuccino at Del La Soul by the Morspoort city gate, before setting out. Cycle through the historical centre of Leiden famous for its Lakenfeesten, museums and students, before heading for the Kagerplassen lakes. In Oegstgeest, you will cycle past Poelgeest Castle with its breath-taking views!
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The Beginner's Guide to Your New iPad
By Adario Strange 2013-12-26 16:05:32 UTC
There’s nothing like that first euphoric moment just after unboxing your new iPad Air or Retina iPad mini.
What usually follows is five to 10 minutes of marveling over the care and consideration Apple design chief Jony Ive put into the packaging. That includes playing with those tiny plastic doodads you’ll inevitably have to discard at some point.
But that was all just a tease leading up to the good stuff. Finally, after all the highfalutin commercial spots, media hype about supply shortages and unsuccessful attempts by competitors to sully the iPad's image, you finally have one of your very own. Now you’re just wondering how to harness all that pencil-thin tablet power sitting in your hands.
Rest assured, we have several suggestions designed to get you successfully up and running with the most popular tablet on the market.
The good news: Aside from certain size-dependent apps, the setup and experience for the iPad Air and Retina iPad mini are almost identical. To keep things simple, we’ll focus on those with a Wi-Fi version of the device.
After selecting your language and country preferences, pick a Wi-Fi network and enable your location services. Then, you’ll be prompted to either sign up for iCloud (Apple’s online backup storage service) or sign into your existing iCloud account. Of course, you also have the option of simply ignoring this prompt, after which you can immediately begin using your iPad.
Apple’s iOS 7 comes with a wealth of preinstalled services, including iWork and iLife, which offer a wide array of productivity and communication tools. But when it comes to apps, everyone has a different idea of "essential." We suggest the following if you truly want to boost the functionality of your new tablet.
Google Maps: Yes, Apple has its own maps app, which is quite beautiful. But let’s be honest, when you’re on the go, you don’t have time for "good enough" — you want the best. Google Maps (free in the Apple app store) is one of the top mobile map solutions for iOS.
Twitter: Just a few years ago, it would have been a stretch to call Twitter an essential app. But with this free app, the 24/7 news cycle is just a tap away, and it's an easy way to share your story if you find yourself a witness to a major event. (Personally, I prefer Tweetbot ($2.99), which offers more functionality, but either will serve your tweeting needs just fine.)
GoodReader: Using the iPad like a traditional laptop or desktop can be frustrating due to its mobile-first operating system, which doesn’t offer a robust file management system. GoodReader ($4.99) stores PDFs, books, images and a wide range of text documents in a file system similar to that of a traditional desktop or laptop operating system. If you’re managing serious text and documents on the iPad, especially if you aren’t using a cloud service, GoodReader can be a lifesaver.
Lookout: Apple packed a lot of power into the iPad’s svelte design, making it one of the most powerful, light and thin tablets on the market. Unfortunately, that enhanced portability also means that the iPad is pretty easy to lose while traveling or commuting. Lookout is a free app that helps you find a lost device by sounding an alarm and automatically backing up your contacts.
Apple also offers Find My iPhone, another useful security app. However, Apple’s app requires the use of iCloud, a stipulation that could hold back users uninterested in opting into Apple’s cloud storage system.
Now that we have the essentials out of the way, it's time time to have some fun. Of the over 350,000 native iPad apps in Apple's App Store, you'll never run out new games, productivity tools and utility apps to try on your own, but before you dive in, we recommend that you give these popular apps a try first.
YouTube: Like Google Maps, YouTube is no longer a native part of iOS, but it's still one of the best ways to watch and share videos on your iPad. The iOS 7 version of the free app is extremely slick and shows off just how much work Google put into streamlining its suite of apps.
Skype: Walking around with the thin slab in your hands and talking to someone on the other side of the world is like holding a magic mirror. It’s a free download, so you have no excuse for not experimenting with the video messaging app.
Amazon Kindle App: Apple’s iBooks app is not good, it’s great. From the realistic page scrolling to its myriad interactive book features, iBooks is a winner. However, many of us have already spent a good deal of money buying e-books via Amazon's platform, so switching over might not be so easy. Thankfully, Amazon isn’t playing the walled garden game and has a well designed free Kindle app for the iPad that works well on Apple’s mobile operating system.
Tablet Swag
After a fair share of iPad accessory hunting, it’s still all about the cases and keyboards. Cases for the iPad generally fit into one of three distinct categories: cases built for productivity, toughness or style. A case that delivers all three is ideal, but like any accessory, you have to compromise somewhere and focus on the features most important to you. With that in mind, the following represent a few favorites among both iPad veterans and newbies.
Built for Productivity
The Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard cover ($99.99) for iPad Air not only protects your iPad, but also offers near laptop-like effectiveness for typing a message or document longer than a few sentences. Some may opt for the ZAGG Folio Keyboard because of its backlit keyboard, but at this point, the higher build quality of Logitech accessories is worth the tradeoff.
Sadly, not many similar options exist for the Retina iPad mini, largely due to the fact that the dimensions of the device were altered slightly from the original iPad mini. Furthermore, if you’ve ever used a keyboard cover on the original iPad mini, you know that the device isn’t a great option for those looking to touch-type on a keyboard integrated into a tablet. It's just too small.
If you must use a keyboard with an iPad mini, on either version, we’d recommend ponying up for Apple’s more-than-capable Bluetooth keyboard ($69.00).
Built for Toughness
Let’s face it: iPads can be delicate devices for daily use. Despite Apple’s videos, which argue the contrary, cracking the screen of an iPad is rather simple if you don’t handle it with care. Accessory makers are still scrambling to release products for Apple’s updated iPads, but a few solid early entries include the Griffin Survivor ($79.99) for iPad Air and the OtterBox Defender Series case ($69.95) for the Retina iPad mini.
Built for Style
Tablet cases designed more for looks than pure functionality immediately draw skeptical looks from those who have suffered through pretty yet ultimately inadequate mobile device cases. When looking to dress up your Apple tablet, we suggest Pad & Quill’s elegant handmade Contega cases for the iPad Air ($99.99) and the Retina iPad mini ($89.99).
It’s like having all the simplicity and style of a Moleskin notebook wrapped around one of the most powerful tablets in the world. Sure, you can find more ostentatious iPad cases to suit your tastes, but why ruin the wonderfully minimalist aesthetics of such a well-crafted device by wrapping it in neon zebra print plastic? You're better than that.
For the Crazy Ones
Certain outliers are looking to shake things up even while adopting a popular trend or technology. If that's you, see below for a bit of a cheat sheet to navigate some iPad add-ons to cater to your specific needs — or just set you apart from the average iPad crowd.
Last year, the popular Showtime series Weeds ended with a finale that included a futre in which we all type text messages via virtual keyboards. Well, that “future” has already arrived, thanks to Celluon’s Epic full-size virtual Bluetooth keyboard ($149.99) that lets you use any flat surface to type on your iPad.
3D Mapping
Lately, nearly every new technology involves viewing, mapping or printing in 3D. Following that trend in an incredibly original way, the Structure Sensor ($349) turns your iPad into a mobile 3D mapping tool, allowing you to create digitally rendered versions of nearly any room (and the objects inside it) instantly.
You probably never dreamed that your iPad could turn into a robot, but Double Robotics has already done so. The self-balancing device ($2,499) cradles the iPad and allows you to remotely move around a home or office space while communicating via video. We recently tested the invite in the Mashable office; it not only works as advertised, but also feels like a slice of science-fiction dropped right into reality.
We’ve only touched upon a few of the vast iPad software and hardware options currently available. But if you just opened up your new iPad and are looking to cut through a lot of the noise, these suggestions should be more than enough to put you on the road to iPad satisfaction.
Do you know of a cool or useful iPad app or accessory we didn’t cover here? Let us know in the comments.
Images: Homepage by Mashable, Twitter on iPad by Matt Cardy/Getty Images, Comic on iPad John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images
Topics: Apps and Software, Gadgets, Hardware, holidays 2013, iPad, iPad Air, iPad Mini, Mobile, software, tablets, Tech
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Extremely “hard” books (or handouts) for undergrad studies
Can you suggest me some REALLY hard books on calculus and analysis. By hard I don't mean difficult in explanations, but with extremely challenging exercises (all worked out if possible) and useful insights and tricks. Also, I would like you to share similarly defined books (or handouts) about other disciplines in an undergraduate course (that is to say, the subjects mentioned here).
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Joel Reyes Noche
$\begingroup$ Can you provide an example of something close to what you are looking for, either at around the right level of difficulty or around the right format, perhaps for a different subject? It would help to clarify the question by replacing the bolded "really" and "extremely" with "at the level of..." or "harder than...". $\endgroup$ – user173 Jul 10 '14 at 11:59
$\begingroup$ Let's see... lots of people consider Spivak's and Apostol's difficult. I'm looking for much more than that. $\endgroup$ – user10024 Jul 10 '14 at 13:02
$\begingroup$ Of possible interest might be this take-home test of mine that I gave several times in the late 1990s to a post-BC calculus high school class. At least a fourth of the students now have Ph.D.'s in a science or engineering field. In fact, I believe nearly 2/3 of the Fall 1998 class does, including one with a Ph.D. in math from Rice University. (See the 2nd paragraph of this post for more about that phenomenal class.) $\endgroup$ – Dave L Renfro Jul 10 '14 at 18:46
$\begingroup$ But is calculus supposed to be "hard"? I thought it's virtue was that it was "easy", and could do so many things... $\endgroup$ – paul garrett Jul 10 '14 at 21:52
$\begingroup$ Out of curiosity, when I got home yesterday I looked at my class rolls for the classes having that home test (or a similar one), and I should probably revise my earlier claim of "a fourth" to $15$% to $20$%, and $2/3$ should probably be changed to $1/2.$ On the other hand, if I include everyone with any (science or non-science) graduate or professional degree (Masters, MBA, law school), I would guess it's over $80$% of the students from all the classes that got a version of that take home exam. $\endgroup$ – Dave L Renfro Jul 11 '14 at 14:52
My pick would be Volume 1 of Richard Courant and Fritz John's Introduction to Calculus and Analysis. For discussions of how Courant/John compares with Spivak, Apostol, and other books, see the math StackExchange question Difficulty level of Courant's book.
Volume 1 of Courant/John does not have any solutions to the exercises, but complete solutions to all the problems were separately published by A. A. Blank:
Albert Abraham Blank, Problems in Calculus and Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 1966, x + 264 pages.
You might also want to look at the list of honors calculus books posted in the following math StackExchange question:
Joseph Kitchen's Calculus (reference)
(ADDED NEXT DAY) Regarding Joseph Malkevitch's answer, yesterday I was thinking of mentioning some books from roughly the 1880s to 1890s, when textbooks in algebra through calculus were, on average, pitched at the highest level, but I didn't get around to it. Throughout the 1800s there was a gradual overall trend towards more difficult texts until the end of the 1800s, at which time there were several "downward adjustments" (I'm mostly thinking of the U.S. and England) due to various reforms and the increasing percentages of students going to college. (This is discussed in Châteauneuf [1] for those wishing a reference.)
Off-hand, I can think of three authors from this time who wrote calculus treatises at a fairly high level (in the algebraic-manipulative-mechanical sense, not in the modern rigorous sense), and with the beauty of the internet now-a-days it only takes me a few minutes to track down freely available digital copies of their books. See [2] through [8] below. I think you'll find plenty of "extremely challenging exercises" in these books, and many will be on topics you are probably not familar with. The books by Edwards are probably the most extreme in this respect, and over the years I've read book reviews in old journals that pretty much say this (while also being very critical of Edwards' lack of rigor, especially in reviews written after the mid 1890s).
[1] Amy Olive Châteauneuf, Changes in the Content of Elementary Algebra Since the Beginning of the High School Movement as Revealed by the Textbooks of the Period, Ph.D. Dissertation (under John Harrison Minnick), University of Pennsylvania, 1929, x + 191 pages.
Also published by Westbrook Publishing Company in 1929, and reviewed by Lao Genevra Simons in Mathematics Teacher 24 #1 (January 1931), 58-59.
[2] Joseph Edwards, An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus
[3] Joseph Edwards, A Treatise on the Integral Calculus, Volume 1
[5] Isaac Todhunter, A Treatise on the Differential Calculus
[6] Isaac Todhunter, A Treatise on the Integral Calculus and Its Applications
[7] Benjamin Williamson, An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus
[8] Benjamin Williamson, An Elementary Treatise on the Integral Calculus
Incidentally, solutions manuals to older texts (in English) were often called Keys, and I'm sure some of the texts above have keys (typically prepared by someone other than the text's author), which I'll leave you to search for if you're interested. I did happen to come upon the following Key while looking up the books above, so I'll include it:
Hunter, Key to Todhunter's differential calculus
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$\begingroup$ Dave I've only managed to download the first three. How would you download the others? They have "PDF (Google.com)" but that's not quite downloadable. $\endgroup$ – Mark Fantini Jul 12 '14 at 0:45
$\begingroup$ Wow, I just scanned through a couple dozen pages in Edward's on integration... I am impressed. That would be an evil source to mine for homework problems :) $\endgroup$ – James S. Cook Jul 12 '14 at 4:54
$\begingroup$ @James S. Cook: FYI, some other comments I've made about the Edward's book on integration are here and here. Also, I cited Edwards several times in my answer to the math StackExchange question Solving this integral?. $\endgroup$ – Dave L Renfro Jul 14 '14 at 13:53
$\begingroup$ @Fantini: It may be that you need to establish a google account to read the others. If this isn't possible for some reason, I suggest simply googling the author's last name along with the title I gave in quotes (i.e. a google-phrase search). I suspect this will lead you to other digital copies, and you might have better luck with one of these other digital copies. $\endgroup$ – Dave L Renfro Jul 14 '14 at 13:59
$\begingroup$ @DaveLRenfro I love that your answer is not the accepted answer to that MSE question. Ha ha. Nice work. $\endgroup$ – James S. Cook Jul 14 '14 at 17:04
I learned calculus (by self-study) from the book by Granville, Longley, and Smith that Joseph Malkevitch mentioned in his answer. Later I had to work considerably harder on problems from Polya and Szegö's "Aufgaben und Lehrsätze aus der Analysis", which I believe now exists in English also.
Edit: The English translation is entitled Problems and Theorems in Analysis (links to one and two).
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Andreas BlassAndreas Blass
For Calculus, I suggest: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=calculus (which has an available solutions manual as well). Many of the problems in the book are collected contest problems. Also each chapter has a challenge problems section after the review problems.
Beyond that, although not limited to a particular discipline like a textbook, I recommend the Putnam Competition problems and solutions.
PurpleVermontPurpleVermont
$\begingroup$ Is there something prompting the downvotes on this response, other than just not agreeing with the suggestions in it? $\endgroup$ – PurpleVermont Jul 11 '14 at 0:06
$\begingroup$ Seemed like a perfectly fine answer to me. $\endgroup$ – James S. Cook Jul 11 '14 at 1:24
$\begingroup$ It's in a different vein than the other answers, but "contest math" goes a long way toward mitigating the compartmentalization otherwise often seen in math texts (as lamented here at the K-12 level matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/3938/…) $\endgroup$ – PurpleVermont Jul 12 '14 at 1:06
$\begingroup$ I have more concern for an over-emphasis of problem solving. I see many courses offered with the attitude that proofs don't matter, or, at a minimum, the students know they can ignore the proofs because what is tested is the homework more or less. I often tell a story about how I turned the table on the process as an undergraduate. I challenged a prof that a proof would not be on the exam. He said, why? I said, because we're not tested on proofs. Well, it wasn't on that test, but it was on the final. Imagine the shock of my classmates. I digress... $\endgroup$ – James S. Cook Jul 12 '14 at 5:02
$\begingroup$ I don't recommend problem solving at the expense of proofs at all. But solving "non-routine" problems such as the ones typically found on something like the Putnam is a great way to see whether students really understand and can apply what they've learned, and not just parrot back problems "just like" the ones they've seen so far. And it can make them combine skills from different "chapters" or courses, which IMO is the whole point of learning those things in the first place. $\endgroup$ – PurpleVermont Jul 12 '14 at 17:45
Richard Courant's Differential and Integral Calculus has both unusual "content" and exercises. Generally, speaking Calculus books from the turn of the century had mechanistic problems which were quite difficult. Many of these books survived into the 1960's including the Calculus book by Granville, Smith and Longley which appeared in 1904 with Granville as the only author.
Joseph MalkevitchJoseph Malkevitch
Some older diffyQ books may be of interest to you also (Boole, Taylor (Treatise, NOT Theory), Piaggio).
Note that older books were much more commonly containing answers. This is an area where modern practice has become LESS liberal, not more so.
You might look at Schaum's Outlines as they contain a lot of solved problems (sometimes answers, sometimes whole problem). I don't know they are "hard". But you can pick through them.
Thomas and Finney prior to early 80s had all the answers.
You may also consider to look on the web for old (prior to 1930) Cambridge Tripos exams.
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New Superscape Mobile Game Title Rolls Out on Rogers Network
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HOOK, England, February 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Superscape Group plc (LSE: SPS) Announces That one of its Newest Titles has Been Selected by Rogers Communications.
Burning Tires(TM) offers exciting 3D racing action in the most extreme and dangerous places on earth. Competitors take part in the breakneck car races from the icy plains of the Antarctic, via boiling volcanoes to the driest of deserts. Tournaments pit seven fun racers against the most aggressive computer opponents. The game uses authentic car physics to simulate hazardous jumps across deadly canyons, glaciers and boiling lava streams.
Kevin Roberts, CEO, Superscape Group plc said: "I am delighted that Rogers Communications is continuing to select our mobile games titles for their consumers and that they have chosen our new racing game, Burning Tires 3D. This has all the elements of a great mobile game, with stunning visuals, exciting gameplay and hugely compelling realism."
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Designed and developed by Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH, powered by Abyss(R) Game Engine. 'Burning Tires' and Abyss(R) are registered trademarks of Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Superscape is the world's leading publisher of 3D mobile games. The company was the first in the world to develop and launch international standard (JSR 184) compliant solutions for the delivery of innovative games on mass-market handsets. Superscape is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and has corporate offices in Hook, Hampshire (UK) and San Clemente, California (USA), together with development and production facilities in Moscow.
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Sisters Did It For Themselves At Brueton parkrun
Written by runABC Midlands on Thu 14 Jul 2016
It was a case of ‘here come the girls’ at Saturday’s (9 July) Brueton parkrun in Solihull. With top three finishes, a new PB and best age graded scores in one go and two milestones reached.
This friendly, welcoming parkrun will celebrate its 6th birthday on the 23 July and continues to be a firm favourite in the area. Its contribution to the local community was recognised in the annual Sport Solihull Awards on the 6 July, winning three categories that included ‘Young Volunteer’, ‘Services to Sport’ and the inaugural ‘Community’ Award.
The winning streak continues with an all-female victory at last Saturday’s event, claiming first, second and third place in an Amazonian display of stamina and speed.
Emily Whitmore of Charnwood AC won in a time of 17:13 with an age-graded score of 85.96%. She also achieved a new PB that equals the existing course record.
Rachel Doherty of Higham Harriers AC was narrowly beaten into second place, crossing the line in a time of 17:16. Her age-graded score was 85.71%. This was an impressive way to mark her Brueton parkrun debut.
Close behind her was Kati Hope of Kenilworth Runners who was also taking part for the first time. She was only two seconds behind Rachel Doherty, taking third place in a time of 17:18 with an age-graded score of 86.99%.
All three runners had the best age-graded scores.
Another lady who made her mark was Sally Anderson of Knowle and Dorridge Running Club. She completed the 5000th run that her club have officially recorded at Brueton.
Photo courtesy of Siobhan O’Donnell, Brueton parkrun.
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Aiming to disrupt building construction, Autodesk invests $1.15 billion in two startups
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Autodesk’s fast-paced acquisitions, totaling more than $1.1 billion dollars, of BuildingConnected and PlanGrid portend the company’s strong interest in dominating the future of the construction industry.
The San Rafael, California-headquartered company announced it is acquiring startup BuildingConnected for $275 million after paying $875 million for another construction tech startup PlanGrid in November.
Autodesk also acquired construction software company Assemble Systems in July.
“We are investing in digitizing and automating construction workflows. Autodesk’s goal is to connect construction processes across design, build and operations,” said Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost.
“BuildingConnected has proven to customers the tremendous value in moving from traditional Rolodexes, whiteboards, emails and spreadsheets to an easy-to-use digital bidding platform. We look forward to integrating our recent acquisitions and making construction Autodesk’s next billion-dollar business.”
With these hefty acquisitions, the company is poised to make its mark construction sector which is expected to reach nearly $8 trillion globally by 2030.
According to a new report, the volume of construction output will grow by 85% to $15.5 trillion worldwide by 2030, with China, US and India together accounting for 57% of all global growth.
The benchmark global study by Global Construction Perspectives and Oxford Economics shows average global construction growth of 3.9% annually outpacing that of global GDP by more than 1%.
Construction growth will be driven by developed countries recovering from economic instability and the continued emergence of industrialization globally the report stated.
While the Proptech investors have found value in digitizing workflows they have been slow to look at construction tech as an area for viable investment.
However, for Autodesk these acquisitions are a part a global plan to “digitize” the construction process.
PlanGrid, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) system focused on construction general contractors which enables construction workers and architects to share plans, markups, photos, and reports to be instantaneous will be integrated into Autodesk’s existing software platform Revit and BIM 360 systems to provide a stronger solution for all levels of the construction process, the company stated.
With its most recent acquisition of BuildingConnected, a platform that helps real estate owners and general contractors find and hire qualified contractors for their projects that has a network of more than 700,000 construction professionals the company says it is now better positioned to digitize the construction sector by creating a robust digital marketplace for construction goods and services.
“This acquisition provides an opportunity for Autodesk and BuildingConnected to connect every business in the construction industry, becoming the definitive source of information throughout the sector,” said Jim Lynch, vice president and general manager at Autodesk Construction Solutions.
During the recent Autodesk University 2018 event, the company announced that BIM 360, its design and construction management platform, will include support for the Cost Management workflow which enables users to manage budget items, contracts, change orders and other documents affecting project cost.
According to Lynch the ability to manage costs within BIM 360 can reduce risk by consolidating cost-related construction activities in a single software to provide real-time visibility into the financial health of the project.
This year, the company added 60 software integrations to its BIM 360 ecosystem, as a part of rapid development efforts to innovate the construction industry.
While Autodesk’s share price closed a scant 2% lower after the announcement, it has nearly tripled its stock price the last three years and has a $27 billion market value which is 13 times revenue.
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Is there community help available to families?
Published: 06-16-2009
Peggy Halliday from the Virginia Institute of Autism discusses options within the community for dealing with autism.
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Peggy Halliday is a board certified associate behavior analyst who has specialized in autism education for the past ten years. She is the Director of Outreach Services at the Virginia Institute of Autism (VIA) in Charlottesville, VA. VIA is a non-profit organization which provides a day school and other resources for families, educators, and other professionals seeking services, training or information about autism and evidence-based interventions. The Institute operates a year-round school for students ages 2-22, a 700-volume library, training workshops, internships for undergraduate and graduate students and teachers, and customized trainings for schools. Peggy supervises a wide range of outreach services, including development and supervision of comprehensive, home-based early intervention programs incorporating naturalistic, incidental, and structured teaching using the principles of applied behavior analysis; training for parents and home instructors; skills assessments, functional behavior assessments and intervention plans, and consultation on Individual Education Plan goals. She has presented trainings and workshops at state and national conferences.
Host: Is there community help available to families?
Peggy Halliday: There is and in fact the individuals with disabilities act has -- requires that there be Statewide services available and so, every State has an Early Intervention Agency which offers assessments and some kinds of therapies for children on the Autism Spectrum as well. Before the age of three you would seek your local Early Intervention Agency to do this, after the age of three you would look at your Public School Division.
What developmental milestones should parents usually notice?
If you are a first time parent, is it difficult to know what’s different?
Are there any physical symptoms or markers in autism?
At what point should parents take their child to be screened & where should they go?
Why don’t pediatricians screen all toddlers for autism?
What is involved in an autism screening?
Are there any checklists parents can fill out on their own?
If a child receives a diagnosis of autism, what should parents do?
How can parents determine which treatment options are best?
What are the most effective treatments for autism?
What does early intervention consist of?
Can families implement early intervention in their homes?
How helpful are biomedical and drug interventions?
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Forward, Adovcacy! Now With ECERS-R
That comment the other day about advocacy for public Montessori obviously caught my attention. More people should know about the outstanding advocacy work at Montessori Forward, a website, blog, Google group, and community of Montessorians which make up a crowd-sourced yet deeply researched source for the latest advocacy and public policy news.
Now the MForward community has come out with a tool that could be a huge boost for Montessori Primary programs engaging with QRIS (Quality Rating and Improvemt Systems) policies in their states. You may have heard of the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale, or ECERS-R, a widely used instrument for rating pre-school programs under QRIS. Montessori schools can do badly on the ECERS-R for lacking multiple sets of materials, plush toys, and dress-up.
MForward’s The Montessori Guide to ECERS-R, professionally written and incorporating successful work from several states, aligns Montessori practice with the goals of the ECERS-R standards and explains our developmental theory and pedagogy. It’s available on the site for anyone to use.
I can’t tell you how much I’ve learned from Montessori Forward. Here’s a sampling:
Montessori Forward was first on the scene with QRIS and keeps a running narrative of Montessori schools’ struggles, strategies, and successes. There’s a great page of resources here.
Ohio recently passed charter school legislation allowing children under 5, as well as providing state teacher credentials for AMI and AMS trained teachers.
The Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a multi-billion dollar piece of legislation will be revised this year for the first time since 1996 with huge implications for all of early childhood education. Here’s the post; here’s a deep dive. Amendments specifically mentioning Montessori were under consideration, but may not make into the final draft.
Follow the blog for so much more. It’s an incredible resource.
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Montessori and Google: Early Influences Count
Comes now an article (h/t Madmen) in The Guardian: How Google’s Larry Page became a responsible entrepreneur, by Carol Sanford (actually an excerpt from her new book The Responsible Entrepreneur). Excerpts from the excerpt:
To understand Google’s orientation toward creating global change, it’s helpful to know a bit about four influences that helped shape Larry Page’s world view: his grandfather’s history in the early labor movement, his education in Montessori schools, his admiration for the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, and his participation in the LeaderShape Institute … These helped build in Page the desire and confidence to take on large-scale systemic change. (emphasis added)
An unconventional education was a second significant influence in Page’s life. Like his Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, Page attended Montessori schools until he entered high school. They both cite the educational method of Maria Montessori as the major influence in how they designed Google’s work systems. (emphasis in the original!)
This we’ve heard before, although corroboration is always great. But what’s also great is how she gets Montessori:
The Montessori Method believes that it has a “duty to undertake, in the school of the future, to revolutionize the individual.” Montessori’s ultimate goal of education was to create individuals who could improve society and were unafraid to take on seemingly impossible tasks. In fact, Montessori spoke at length about education for peace. “Everything that concerns education assumes today an importance of a general kind, and must represent a protection and a practical aid to the development of man; that is to say, it must aim at improving the individual in order to improve society”
Sounds about right. (The first quote is from long out-of-print Pedagogical Anthropology, believe it or not. The second is in From Childhood to Adolescence, p. 59 in the Clio version.) Continuing on:
Maria Montessori believed that the liberty of the child was of utmost importance. For her it was imperative that the school allow a child’s activities to freely develop. Without this freedom, children could not grow the personal agency that would allow them to serve a social purpose as adults. Thus, Page’s childhood education promoted independence. It encouraged students to grow at their own rate. They were allowed large chunks of uninterrupted time to work on projects they created themselves. Students were encouraged to take on small-scale but real-world challenges and to invent ways to solve them.
It’s easy to see how Google’s well-known policy of encouraging all engineers to dedicate 20% of work time to projects of personal interest grew directly out of this educational history. And why collaboration without supervision is core to Google’s work culture. And why Page repeatedly exhorts his colleagues to generate “10x returns” with regard to the social benefits they are striving to create. He is recreating the inspiring learning environment he had as a child, where the focus was on growing free people with the capacity to transform society.
This nails it. It wasn’t about early literacy, clever and intuitive materials, or a comprehensive approach to the study of the universe—although Montessori has all that. It was liberty, freedom to develop, independence, uninterrupted work, and growing “the personal agency that would allow them to serve a social purpose as adults.”
Comments are open on the Guardian piece. More about Carol Sanford at her website. More about the book here.
Tagged Montessori, news
Montessori in the Public Sphere
So this is happening in St. Louis, once again thanks to the Montessori Madmen:
It’s an advertising collaboration among five St. Louis area schools—$4500 for the billboard, so $900 each. (The Madmen can help you put one up in your town, if you want.) A great investment if it brings in even one new student. Beyond that, it puts Montessori in the public eye.
Why is that so important? Private businesses join together to advertise their product to families who can pay the price—why is that news? On Facebook, someone asked if there was similar advocacy for Montessori in the public sector. Regular readers will know of many such efforts: the Madmen themselves, with their “Make it Montessori” campaign, the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector, Montessori Forward, the joint AMI-AMS Montessori Public Policy Committee, and more.
But it’s true-most Montessori teachers work in, and most Montessori children attend, private tuition-based programs. Why is that? It’s not a lack of motivation.You’ll hardly find a stronger advocates for children than Montessori teachers, who will be quick to remind you that the first Montessori Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo served 50 poor children from working families. “All children deserve Montessori,” my Facebook commenter said, and that’s what we want out movement to be about.
But there are significant challenges for public Montessori. People who work in these environments can no doubt say more about this than I can, but here’s what I see.
Before you start, there are challenges to even getting to implement public Montessori. First, there’s negotiating the bureaucracy and politics surrounding charter, magnet, or other alternative school programs where your Montessori model might happen. Beyond the red tape, there’s the enormous challenge of bringing in a huge change of culture for school systems and teachers. Montessori can be transformative—that’s what makes it so important to bring to children. But that’s also what makes it so threatening.
Once you get a program going, there’s the challenge of keeping it going and doing it well. The holistic nature of Montessori makes it hard to implement one grade at a time—but that might be all you get to start. Even if you can bring Montessori children up through the system, you may not have funding for 3 and 4 year olds, so you may be starting with kindergarten or 1st grade. You’ll face ongoing bureaucracy and politics, and school practices (such as testing) that get in the way of your work. Teachers can get demoralized, programs can go downhill, and before long you may have people saying, “see, Montessori doesn’t work.”
So lots of people are doing private Montessori because that’s what there is nearby. Lots of people doing it because they would rather do great Montessori now than fight like crazy to do something Montessori-like only to see it compromised out of existence. “Children of privilege deserve progressive education too,” we tell ourselves. And lots of people, in Hartford, in Milwaukee, in D.C., and all over (check the NCMPS for a comprehensive census), do great public Montessori against all odds.
But those outstanding, highly visible, private programs, with their NPR spots and their billboards serve another purpose. An indirect preparation, if you will. They put Montessori in the public eye, if not in the public sector. People see those billboards and visit those schools, and they say, “There is a better way. How can we have this in our school district, for our children”
John Dewey laid down the cornerstone for public education over a century ago when he said:
What the best and wisest parent wants for his child, that must we want for all the children of the community. Anything less is unlovely, and left unchecked, destroys our democracy.
But how can they know they want it if they don’t know it exists?
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Love Actually – 2003
source Abdul Salis, Adam Godley, Adrian Preater, Alan Barnes, Alan Rickman, Amanda Garwood, Andrew Lincoln, Anne Reid, Anthony McPartlin, Arturo Venegas, Bill Moody, Bill Nighy, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Campbell, Brian Bovell, Carla Vasconcelos, Carol Carey, Caroline John, Catia Duarte, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Clare Bennett, Claudia Schiffer, Colin Coull, Colin Firth, Dan Fredenburgh, Dave Fisher, Declan Donnelly, Denise Richards, Doraly Rosen, Edward Hardwicke, Elisabeth Margoni, Elisha Cuthbert, Elizabeth Margoni, Emma Buckley, Emma Thompson, Frances de la Tour, Frank Moorey, Gemma Aston, Georgia Flint, Gillian Barge, Glenn Conroy, Gregor Fisher, Heike Makatsch, Helder Costa, Helder Freire Costa, Helen Murton, Hugh Grant, Igor Urdenko, Ines Boughanmi, Ivana Milicevic, Jamie Edgell, January Jones, Jill Freud, Jo Whiley, Joanna Bacon, Joanna Page, Joanna Thaw, John Sharian, Jont Whittington, Julia Davis, Junior Simpson, Kate Bowes Renna, Kate Glover, Katharine Bailey, Katherine Poulton, Keir Charles, Keira Knightley, Kris Marshall, Laura Linney, Laura Rees, Lúcia Moniz, Liam Neeson, Lulu Popplewell, Lynden David Hall, Marcus Brigstocke, Margery Mason, Martin Freeman, Martine McCutcheon, Matt Harvey, Meg Wynn Owen, Meredith Ostrom, Michael Fitzgerald, Michael Parkinson, Nancy Sorrell, Nat Udom, Nicola McRoy, Nina Sosanya, Olivia Olson, Patrick Delaney, Paul Heasman, Paul Slack, Peter Marinker, Raul Atalaia, Rebecca Frayn, Richard Curtis, Richard Hawley, Richard Wills-Cotton, Rodrigo Santoro, Rory MacGregor, Rowan Atkinson, Ruby Turner, Sarah Atkinson, Sarah Holland, Sarah McDougall, Shannon Elizabeth, Shaughan Seymour, Sheila Allen, Sienna Guillory, Stewart Howson, Terry Reece, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Thomas Sangster, Tiffany Boysell, Tim Hatwell, Tony Lucken, Tuuli, Vicki Murdoch, Wes Butters, William Wadham, Wyllie Longmore, Yuk Sim Yau
Tagged Abdul Salis, Adam Godley, Adrian Preater, Alan Barnes, Alan Rickman, Amanda Garwood, Andrew Lincoln, Anne Reid, Anthony McPartlin, Arturo Venegas, Bill Moody, Bill Nighy, Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Campbell, Brian Bovell, Carla Vasconcelos, Carol Carey, Caroline John, Catia Duarte, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Clare Bennett, Claudia Schiffer, Colin Coull, Colin Firth, Dan Fredenburgh, Dave Fisher, Declan Donnelly, Denise Richards, Doraly Rosen, Edward Hardwicke, Elisabeth Margoni, Elisha Cuthbert, Elizabeth Margoni, Emma Buckley, Emma Thompson, Frances de la Tour, Frank Moorey, Gemma Aston, Georgia Flint, Gillian Barge, Glenn Conroy, Gregor Fisher, Heike Makatsch, Helder Costa, Helder Freire Costa, Helen Murton, Hugh Grant, Igor Urdenko, Ines Boughanmi, Ivana Milicevic, Jamie Edgell, January Jones, Jill Freud, Jo Whiley, Joanna Bacon, Joanna Page, Joanna Thaw, John Sharian, Jont Whittington, Julia Davis, Junior Simpson, Kate Bowes Renna, Kate Glover, Katharine Bailey, Katherine Poulton, Keir Charles, Keira Knightley, Kris Marshall, Laura Linney, Laura Rees, Lúcia Moniz, Liam Neeson, Lulu Popplewell, Lynden David Hall, Marcus Brigstocke, Margery Mason, Martin Freeman, Martine McCutcheon, Matt Harvey, Meg Wynn Owen, Meredith Ostrom, Michael Fitzgerald, Michael Parkinson, Nancy Sorrell, Nat Udom, Nicola McRoy, Nina Sosanya, Olivia Olson, Patrick Delaney, Paul Heasman, Paul Slack, Peter Marinker, Raul Atalaia, Rebecca Frayn, Richard Curtis, Richard Hawley, Richard Wills-Cotton, Rodrigo Santoro, Rory MacGregor, Rowan Atkinson, Ruby Turner, Sarah Atkinson, Sarah Holland, Sarah McDougall, Shannon Elizabeth, Shaughan Seymour, Sheila Allen, Sienna Guillory, Stewart Howson, Terry Reece, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Thomas Sangster, Tiffany Boysell, Tim Hatwell, Tony Lucken, Tuuli, Vicki Murdoch, Wes Butters, William Wadham, Wyllie Longmore, Yuk Sim Yau
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Blair hails islands’ important day
metrowebukmetroMonday 26 Mar 2007 2:15 pm
Tony Blair has hailed ‘an important day for these islands’
Prime Minister Tony Blair has hailed the DUP-Sinn Fein talks as an important day “for the people and the history of these islands”.
He described the meeting between the Rev Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams as “a remarkable coming together of people”.
And he said all the work of the last 10 years “has been a preparation for this moment”.
Mr Blair, speaking in his Commons office moments after talking by phone to his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern, said: “This is a very important day for the people of Northern Ireland, but also for the people and the history of these islands.
“In a sense, everything we have done over the last 10 years has been a preparation for this moment, because the people of Northern Ireland have spoken through the election.
“They have said we want peace and power-sharing and the political leadership has then come in behind that and said we will deliver what people want.”
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20 million race for Led Zeppelin tickets
metrowebukmetroThursday 13 Sep 2007 12:15 pm
Led Zeppelin tickets are the hottest in town
About 20 million fans have rushed to get tickets for Led Zeppelin’s comeback gig, promoters said.
The legendary rock group will perform for the first time in 19 years at a tribute concert for the late founder of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun.
Fans are attempting to register for tickets at a rate of 80,000 per minute, according to service provider Pipex.
Demand has also crashed the website for London’s O2 Arena, where the concert will take place on November 26.
Tickets will be allocated via a lottery and a spokesman for the gig said: “The message is to be patient. The website will be open until midday Monday September 17 for anyone wanting to register.
“It is not ‘first come, first served’ and all successful applicants will be entered into the ballot for tickets to be drawn at random.”
Led Zeppelin will headline the tribute gig which will also feature performances from Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman, Foreigner and Paolo Nutini.
The group’s three original members – singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones – will be joined by Jason Bonham, son of the late drummer John.
Led Zeppelin have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide and in 1995 the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Ertegun, who died last year aged 83, signed them in 1968.
Fans can register at http://www.ahmettribute.com.
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Irina Shayk adorably matches tie dye tops with daughter, 2, as Bradley Cooper dines with Anna Wintour
Chris Hemsworth’s anxiety got ‘worse and worse’ during low point of his career
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mm110: Grading Mayoral Control – City Journal
It’s a Michael Bloomberg post!
Tying together two of MUDGE’s persistent interests, education (I’ve got a kid in the biz, donchaknow) and the national aspirations of Michael Bloomberg, is this report from a new source for this observer, City Journal.
Lauded in the press, Bloomberg’s education reforms are proving more spin than substance. Parents are losing patience.
Sol Stern
Mayoral control, the hot new trend in urban school reform, began in Boston and Chicago in the 1990s. Now it’s the New York City school system, under the authority of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, that’s become the beacon for education-mayor wannabes like Adrian Fenty of Washington, D.C., and Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles. Influential philanthropic foundations, such as the Los Angeles–based Broad Foundation (headed by Bloomberg friend and fellow billionaire Eli Broad) and the Gates Foundation, are investing in Bloomberg as the model big-city mayor who uses his new executive powers over the schools to advance a daring reform agenda. Meanwhile, the national media’s positive coverage of mayoral control in Gotham is adding to the luster of a possible Bloomberg presidential run.
For New Yorkers, though, the original appeal of mayoral control was entirely parochial. The old Board of Education—with seven members, appointed by six elected city officials—offered a case study of the paralysis that sets in when fragmented political authority tries to direct a dysfunctional bureaucracy. New Yorkers arrived at a consensus that there was not much hope of lifting student achievement substantially under such a regime. The newly elected Bloomberg made an offer that they couldn’t refuse: Give me the authority to improve the schools, and then hold me accountable for the results.
So on June 12, 2002, Bloomberg appeared at the mayoral-control bill-signing ceremony alongside Governor George Pataki. The bill would “give the school system the one thing it fundamentally needs: accountability,” said Bloomberg. The new governance system won enthusiastic support across the political spectrum, from conservative think tanks to the New York Times and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), whose members got a huge pay raise.
Just five years later, that consensus has fractured. Some state legislators representing the city, including influential Assembly education-committee chair Catherine Nolan, promise a tough review process when reauthorization of mayoral control comes up in 2008. There’s also a significant demographic divide on the benefits of the reform. Business leaders, editorial boards, and many education experts remain enthusiastic. Constituents at the grass roots, however, feel increasingly frustrated. More than two dozen parent groups and district education councils have passed resolutions opposing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s latest school reorganization plans. According to the Quinnipiac poll of city residents, Klein’s favorability rating has fallen to just 37 percent, and a majority of New Yorkers want something like an independent board of education or a commission with oversight powers.
Gigantic urban school systems present a ferocious challenge. Chicago, Los Angeles (whose new supe is well known to Older Son, who worked directly for him in their prior lives), and NYC all face entrenched bureaucrats, intractable unions, and what may be the most dangerous of all, a generation of immigrant parents who, for the first time, don’t consider education their children’s highest priority.
That said, it always boils down to test scores, doesn’t it?
And of course, basing evaluations of school success on test scores all too often results only in the success of those who learn how to game the system, at the classroom, school, and district levels, leaving our children no better off.
Not trying to make excuses for Bloomberg, I’ve seen similar problems with mayoral control in Chicago, where one trusted Daley technocrat after another has foundered on the shoals itemized above. And watch out, Adm. Brewer of L.A., the aggressive new mayor is grasping after your turf, too.
No child left behind — is there an emptier, sadder symbol of the fruitlessness of the past 6½ years of George III’s reign? But, the good news, we can still afford to borrow from the Chinese the $10billion per month it’s taking to lose in Iraq!
Urban schools didn’t go bad in one generation — I’m afraid it’s going to take at least one if not more to fix them, if we have the will to do so.
And, Michael Bloomberg, is your vaunted education success another Potemkin Village? Independent minded Americans want to know!
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The Bike Playground celebrates first anniversary with a bang
The biking destination reshaping the sport in Manila marks its anniversary with a major qualifying event
Last April 7, The Bike Playground held the Red Bull Pump Track World Championships qualifier, a global race series that took local pump track racing to new heights, to coincide with their first anniversary.
This was one of the qualifier events undertaken in cities around the world, which will culminate with the grand finals on September 7 in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. This is set to coincide with the world-renowned Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Bike (UCI MTB) World Championships, where the official Pump Track World Champion will be named.
For the Philippine leg of the competition, Jericho Farr took the win in Manila for the men’s category, with Lea Denise Belgica taking the top spot in the women’s.
With bike exhibitions to thrill the crowd, The Bike Playground’s anniversary also featured Dutch professional mountain biker Joost Wichman, winner of the 2013 UCI Championship, World Cup racer, Radon Factory rider and team manager, and celebrity in the biking world was present as a participant in the Philippine leg of the qualifiers.
The global race series is being jointly undertaken by Red Bull and Velosolutions. Velosolutions is known for its pump track and bike park construction, and is also the team behind The Bike Playground’s facilities.
The Bike Playground offers bike rentals and assistance from skilled coaches from the Philippine National Team. It also houses the country’s first indoor asphalt pump track, which can be used even during the rainy season. An outdoor trail and a kids’ track expands the list of spaces that can be enjoyed within the park.
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Vidarbha pacer Aditya Thakare gets a place in the Indian ICC U-19 World Cup squad
Nation Next Newsroom | Jan 16, 2018 8:36
Aditya Thakare being felicitated by ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar and VCA (Vidarbha Cricket Association) President Anand Jaiswal at VCA Stadium, Civil Lines, Nagpur. (Photo by: Himanshu Pal/Nation Next)
Vidarbha fast bowler Aditya Thakare, who recently made his debut against Delhi in the Ranji Trophy final, which Vidarbha won, has made a place in Team India’s ICC U-19 World Cup Squad. As per reports, Thakare will be replacing injured Bengal bowler Ishan Porel. Thakare will fly to New Zealand soon to join the Indian U-19 cricket team. Porel apparently injured himself during a match against Australia in Sydney, which was won by India by 100 runs.
Though Aditya has played just one match in first-class cricket, he impressed with his line and length in the Ranji final against Delhi. Aditya Thakare is only the second player from Vidarbha to make it to the Indian ICC U-19 World Cup Squad, the other being Vidarbha captain Faiz Fazal. Fazal made it to the U-19 squad in 2004 but could not compete in the tournament due to an injury. He was replaced by Shikhar Dhawan, who eventually made it to the national side.
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Home > Islands > Cayman Islands > Sports > Swimming > Men's 50m Butterfly
- Men's 50m Butterfly
1st 4 Brett Fraser Cayman Islands 23.26 Gold
2nd 5 Shaune Fraser Cayman Islands 23.44 Silver
Last Result 17/07/2013 18:34:43 Status: Confirmed 17/07/2013 18:34:52
Heat: Prelims
1st Brett Fraser Cayman Islands 24.09
2nd Shaune Fraser Cayman Islands 24.37
Schedule for Men's 50m Butterfly:
Wed 17 Jul 09:00 - 11:00 Prelims National Sports Centre Pool
Wed 17 Jul 17:30 - 20:00 Final National Sports Centre Pool
Record/s for Men's 50m Butterfly:
Men's 50m Butterfly 24.79 Magnus Jakupsson Faroe Islands 2011
Men's 50m Butterfly 24.09 Brett Fraser Cayman Islands 2013
Previous Winners:
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Men's 50m Backstroke View View View View 15/07/2013 18:51:05
Women's 200m Freestyle View View View View 15/07/2013 19:06:08
Men's 200m Individual Medley View View View View 15/07/2013 19:09:53
Men's 4 x 50m Medley Relay View View View View 15/07/2013 19:37:33
Men's 100m Butterfly View View View View 16/07/2013 18:12:54
Women's 100m Backstroke View View View View 16/07/2013 18:22:04
Men's 200m Freestyle View View View View 16/07/2013 18:53:13
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Home / Blockchain / HSBC, StanChart, others launch the financing platform of HK blockchain business
HSBC, StanChart, others launch the financing platform of HK blockchain business
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A new blockchain-based commercial finance platform, developed by HSBC (HSBA.L), Standard Chartered (STAN.L) and 10 other banks, was launched in Hong Kong on Wednesday to increase the efficiency of multibillion-dollar international trade financing.
FILE PHOTO: The Bitcoin logo is seen on a pillow at the 2018 blockchain technology conference in New York, New York, USA, May 16, 2018. REUTERS / Mike Segar / File Photo
On Wednesday, the HSBC platform announced that the HSBC platform has enabled the British lender to focus on reducing the time it takes to approve four-hour commercial loan applications, compared to the usual one and a half days.
Other major banks that participated in the development of the platform – facilitated by the de facto central bank in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) – included the Agricultural Bank of China (1288.HK) and BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA).
Commercial finance transactions were worth more than $ 9 trillion in 2017, but the industry is strongly paper based and follows processes and procedures that have changed little in decades or even centuries.
It is expected that the use of blockchain technology in the banking sector will reduce the risk of fraud in letters of credit (LoC) and other transactions used in commercial financing, as well as reducing the number of passages used.
The technology of distributed ledger, or blockchain, can provide a means to streamline some of these processes, and a number of banking consortia around the world are working on how to do it.
The Hong Kong e-trade platform aims to improve efficiency and facilitate counterparties' ability to obtain financing, digitizing commercial documents and automating commercial finance processes using blockchain technology.
On Wednesday, HSBC stated that among the first transactions created, traded and confirmed on eTrade, it was the purchase of supplies from the Pricelite furniture and household goods retailer.
"Blockchain has transformed a complex and cumbersome process in a simpler but safer and more efficient way of conducting trade," said Pricerite President Bankee Kwan in a statement released by HSBC.
The eTrade platform will collaborate with the European digital trading platform We.Trade, which counts Deutsche Bank , UBS (UBSG.S), and HSBC as its participants, and uses similar technology, HKMA said in a statement.
Reporting by Alun John; Editing by Christopher Cushing
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A sampling of recent judicial ethics advisory opinions
Posted on January 9, 2018 by graycynthia
If a judge has an honest, reasonable, and articulable basis to conclude that he should recuse from a case, his recusal does not violate his obligation to hear and decide matters. Maryland Request 2017-28.
An appellate justice is not required to disqualify from a matter when she is an acquaintance of leading members of associations that have filed an amicus curiae brief. California Oral Advice 2017-21.
A judge is disqualified if an attorney from a law firm in which his brother-in-law is a partner appears as counsel in a case, subject to remittitur. A judge may enter an agreed order appointing her cousin as a mediator as long as the parties initiated the selection of her cousin. Florida Opinion 2017-20.
The administrative judge of a family law division may send letters of appreciation to attorneys who have served as volunteer pro bono guardians ad litem as long as the letters are general and are not signed by the judges who presided over the cases for which the representation was provided. The court may recognize attorneys who served as pro bono guardians ad litem as a group at a bar luncheon or similar function. Florida Opinion 2017-23.
A judge may attend a free public conference on human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children that will focus on identifying and assisting at-risk youth. New York Opinion 2017-146.
A judge may speak about landlord/tenant law at a free educational forum organized by elected officials, subject to general limitations on judicial speech. New York Opinion 2017-155.
A family court judge may personally solicit donations of artwork by children for display at the court from local teachers and/or children who have pending permanency hearings with the artist identified by first name or initials. New York Opinion 2017-152.
A judge should not use the internet to gather adjudicative facts or information about the activities or characteristics of a litigant or other participant in a matter unless the information is subject to proper judicial notice. ABA Opinion 478 (2017).
A judge’s repeated or unjustified tardiness in opening court sessions violates ethical rules and can lead to judicial discipline. If a recess is required to attend to other official business, a judge should as a best practice open court on time and communicate personally or through court staff to those in the courtroom when court will reconvene and the reasons for the recess. North Carolina Formal Opinion 2017-2.
A judge may participate in a community parade but should consider whether the participation will adversely reflect on her independence, integrity, or impartiality based on the sponsor and purpose of the parade, should not appear with non-judicial candidates or elected officials in the parade or on their floats/vehicles, and should not permit any banner or signage displaying her name and office to appear on floats or vehicles of political parties, candidates, or officeholders. Ohio Opinion 2017-8.
On behalf of a non-profit legal clinic, a judge may send to attorneys a letter that states, “I encourage you to consider contacting [the named attorney at the clinic] (contact information below) or another such agency to discuss taking just one case in the coming months.” Maryland Request 2017-35.
A judge may accept an award from a local voluntary bar association at an annual gala that raises funds for scholarships for law students. Florida Opinion 2017-22.
Judges and court employees may not, as part of a county fund-raising drive, conduct meetings to solicit donations to United Way or post fliers promoting such donations in the courthouse. New Mexico Opinion 2017-4.
A judge who immediately resigned after learning that an investment club he joined was a for-profit entity is not required to self-report. New York Opinion 2017-156.
A judge may not, in a “search for happiness and harmony,” write a newspaper article volunteering to travel anywhere in the state and, free of charge, “mediate any conflict, teach a law class, math or someone how to read, coach a sport, build or paint any fence, pull weeds, clean yards, or do anything that requires only time and effort to help a stranger.” New Mexico Opinion 2017-3.
An incumbent judge may appear in her robe in campaign photographs. A slate of judges may appear together in robes in a campaign photograph. Maryland Request 2017-37.
A judge may appear in a video that will be used in her brother’s congressional campaign as long as she is not identified as a judge. Kansas Opinion 185 (2017).
A judge may not contribute to his spouse’s campaign for political office, but his spouse may contribute to her own campaign even from community property funds in a joint checking account, although the judge should urge her to create a separate account from which to contribute. New Mexico Opinion 2017-1.
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Jon Lester, David Price Kick Off Three-Game Set as Red Sox Look to Close Gap
In many ways the playoffs begin Friday for the Red Sox, who venture to Tampa to take on the Rays in the first of three straight.
Boston enters its last visit to Tampa 5 1/2 games behind both the Rays and the New York Yankees. It completed a 6-3 homestand with a day-night doubleheader split against Seattle on Wednesday at Fenway Park.
Jon Lester opposes David Price in the opener, pitting a pair of All-Star left-handers against one another in a critical Friday night contest.
Red Sox (73-55) at Rays (78-49)
Friday, Aug. 27, 7:10 p.m. NESN
Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Fla.
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The Rays own an 8-4 season series advantage.
PITCHING MATCHUP
LHP Jon Lester (13-8, 3.26 ERA) vs. LHP David Price (15-5, 2.97 ERA)
Lester is coming off the worst start of his career, statistically speaking, and is pitching on extended rest due to the injury to Daisuke Matsuzaka, who was scratched from this one with a sore lower back.
The All-Star southpaw gave up a career-high nine runs in just two innings, the shortest start of his career, against Toronto exactly one week ago. Prior to the implosion he had thrown 14 1/3 scoreless innings against a pair of first-place teams.
Lester’s ERA on six or more days rest is 4.06, almost half of a run higher than his career average. He is 3-0 with a 3.60 ERA lifetime at Tropicana Field.
Using almost exclusively fastballs, Price threw 7 2/3 strong innings in a win over the Sox on July 7. He has not lasted that deep into a game, posting a 3.83 ERA in that span.
Price, who turned 25 on Thursday, is 2-1 with a 3.79 ERA vs. Boston.
Marco Scutaro, SS
Darnell McDonald, CF
Victor Martinez, C
Adrian Beltre, 3B
David Ortiz, DH
Mike Lowell, 1B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jed Lowrie, 2B
Bill Hall, LF
B.J. Upton, CF
Jason Barlett, SS
Carlos Pena, 1B
Evan Longoria, 3B
Willy Aybar, DH
Ben Zobrist, RF
Sean Rodriguez, 2B
Kelly Shoppach, C
Matt Joyce, LF
STAT SHEET
Boston is 53-29 in the first two games of a series this year, yet 20-26 in the last two.
Mike Lowell is 8-for-17 (.471) as a pinch hitter since joining the Red Sox.
J.D. Drew has five home runs this month, more than in any month since last August.
Tampa Bay has used the same lineup in consecutive games just four times this year.
Catcher John Jaso is 9-for-22 (.409) with a home run and six RBIs in his last six games.
Second baseman/outfielder Ben Zobrist hit .195 (15-for-77) in July and has produced a .154 (10-for-69) mark in August.
Second baseman Dustin Pedroia had his broken left foot put back in a boot Thursday, where it will stay for seven days. After one week, he will either continue his rehab or face season-ending surgery.
Outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury has another broken rib near where he was hurt earlier in the year, the result of a collision at first base in Texas. He is out four to six weeks at minimum and will likely miss the remainder of the season.
Center fielder Mike Cameron will have season-ending surgery Friday to repair an abdominal tear.
First baseman Kevin Youkilis had successful surgery to repair the torn right adductor muscle on his right hand. He will miss the remainder of the season.
Catcher Jason Varitek (broken right foot) continues to try to recover from a broken right foot. He has yet to be able to run at full speed, one of the last major obstacles before he can eye a rehab stint.
Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia is on the DL with an infection in his lower right leg. He has been released from the hospital and will begin a rehab assignment with Pawtucket at the end of the week.
Outfielder/second baseman Eric Patterson has also begun a rehab stint with Pawtucket. He is out with a neck strain.
Left-hander Hideki Okajima is on the DL with a right hamstring strain. He has given up five runs in 2 1/3 innings over three appearances at Pawtucket. Okajima was slated to be reevaluated prior to the flight to Tampa.
Right-hander Junichi Tazawa underwent Tommy John surgery in March. He is out for the year.
Outfielder Gabe Kapler (sprained right ankle) hopes to return Sept. 1.
Right-hander Grant Balfour also hopes to be back at the start of the month. He is on the DL with a rib cage strain.
Left-hander J.P. Howell had season-ending shoulder surgery May 19.
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Matthew 17:24-27 : The Temple Tax
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24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute?
25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
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'Money' relates to truth.
Peter – born Simon, son of Jonah – is certainly one of the Bible's most important figures, second only to Jesus in the New Testament....
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
'Simon, son of Jonah,' as in John 21:15, signifies faith from charity. 'Simon' signifies worship and obedience, and 'Jonah,' a dove, which also signifies charity.
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The kings of Media and Persia' represent people who are in faith separate from charity.
The human mind is composed of two parts, a will and an understanding, a seat of loves and affections, and a seat of wisdom and...
"Earth" in the Bible can mean a person or a group of like-minded people as in a church. But it refers specifically to the external...
In Ezekiel 28:7, 'strangers' signify falsities which destroy truths, and 'the terrible of the nations,' evils which destroy good.
In the physical world, the places we inhabit and the distances between them are physical realities, and we have to get our physical bodies through...
'The sea and the waves roaring' means heresy and controversies in the church and individual.
Fish signify sensual affections which are the ultimate affections of the natural man. Also, those who are in common truths, which are also ultimates of...
Why would it be insulting for a man to refer to his married partner as his “first wife”? Because it implies there will be a...
In most cases, "mouth" in the Bible represents thought and logic, especially the kind of active, concrete thought that is connected with speech. The reason...
To not to be found any more, signifies not to rise again.
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "give" in the Bible is affected by context: who is giving what to whom? In general, though, giving...
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There's an old saying that says, "When the student is ready the master will appear." The idea is that the student must incorporate everything they've already been taught into their life before the next master will come to teach them the next steps. We see something similar in the Word, where Jesus opens the eyes of Peter, James and John to a new spiritual reality, but now they have a difficult time trying to synthesize what they've just been taught with everything they've always believed. (note - Todd offers his apologies for an error; where he mistakenly says in this audio that the "spiritual serves the natural"... he meant to say, "natural serves the spiritual.")
(References: Arcana Coelestia 6394; Matthew 17:14-20, 17:24-27; The Apocalypse Explained 64, 405)
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1175. And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning.- That this signifies grief, and confession that by a life according to that religion and its doctrine they were damned, is evident from the signification of casting dust upon their heads, which denotes mourning on account of damnation. - That this is on account of life according to that religion and its doctrine, follows as a consequence; - and from the signification of crying out, weeping and mourning, which denotes a state of grief on account of those things, to cry out having reference to doctrine, while to weep and mourn signify grief of soul and heart, as above (n. 1164). The reason why casting dust upon the head denotes mourning on account of damnation, is, because by dust is signified what is damned, and head the man himself. Dust signifies what is damned, because the hells are beneath and the heavens above; and from the hells an exhalation of falsity from evil arises perpetually, consequently the dust over them signifies what is damned, concerning which see also above (n. 742). On account of this signification of dust it was usual in the representative church to cast dust upon the head, when any one had committed evil, and repented, for by that means they testified their repentance.
(References: Revelation 18:19; The Apocalypse Explained 742, 1164)
[2] That this was the case is evident from the following passages.
In Ezekiel:
"They shall cry out bitterly and shall cast dust upon their heads, they shall roll themselves in ashes" (xxvii. 30);
by casting dust upon their heads is signified mourning on account of damnation; and by rolling themselves in ashes is signified mourning yet deeper; for ashes signify what is damned, because the fire that produces them signifies infernal love.
In Lamentations:
"They sit upon the earth, the elders of the daughter of Zion keep silence, they have cast up dust upon their heads, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground" (ii. 10).
These things represented a state of grief and mourning, because of evils and falsities - of which they repented - and thus confession that they were accursed. The daughter of Zion signifies the church, and the virgins of Jerusalem signify the truths of doctrine. To sit upon the earth and keep silence signifies grief of mind; to cast up dust upon the head signifies confession that they were accursed, and to hang down the head to the earth, signifies confession that they were in hell.
In Job:
The friends of Job "rent their garments, and scattered dust upon their heads towards heaven" (ii. 12).
To scatter dust upon the head towards heaven signifies mourning, because Job appeared to be accursed. Mourning on account of the curse of evil is signified by dust upon the head, while by rending the garments is signified mourning on account of the curse of falsity. The signification of rolling themselves in the dust, in Micah i. 10, is similar.
That penitence was similarly represented, is clear also from Job:
"I repent upon dust and upon ashes" (xlii. 6).
Since dust signifies damnation, it was therefore said to the serpent,
"Upon thy belly shalt thou walk, and dust thou shalt eat, all the days of thy life" (Gen. iii. 14).
The serpent signifies infernal evil with those who pervert the truths of the Word, and by that means artfully and craftily deceive. Similarly in Isaiah:
"Dust shall be the serpent's bread" (lxv. 25).
It is evident from these things that dust signifies what is accursed; and that to cast dust upon the head means to testify to damnation.
(References: Acts of the Apostles 2:12; Ezekiel 27:30; Genesis 3:14; Isaiah 65:25; Job 2:12, 42:6; Lamentations 2:10; Micah 1:10)
[3] Continuation.- These things having been stated, an explanation shall be given of the nature of affection, and afterwards why man is led of the Lord by means of affections and not by means of thoughts, and lastly it shall be shown that a man cannot be saved in any other way.
(1). What is the nature of affection. The meaning of affection is similar to that of love, but love is, as it were, the fountain, and affections are, as it were, the streams which flow from it; they are thus also continuations of it. Love is like a fountain in man's will; his affections, which are its streams, flow by continuity into his understanding, and there by means of light from truths they produce thoughts, precisely as the influences of heat in a garden cause germinations by means of the rays of light. Love also, in its origin, is the heat of heaven, truths in their origin are the rays of the light of heaven, and thoughts are germinations from their union. From such a union spring all the societies of heaven, which are innumerable, and which in their essence are affections; for they are from the heat which is love, and from the wisdom which is light proceeding from the Lord as a sun. For this reason, those societies, in proportion as the heat in them is united to the light, and the light is united to the heat, are affections for good and truth. This is the origin of the thoughts of all who are in those societies. From this it is evident, that the societies of heaven are not thoughts, but affections; that, consequently, to be led by these societies is to be led by affections, or to be led by affections is to be led by societies, and therefore in what now follows, instead of societies the term affections shall be applied.
[4] (2). It shall now be shown why man is led of the Lord by means of his affections, and not by means of his thoughts. While man is led of the Lord by means of his affections, he is capable of being led according to all the laws of the Lord's Divine Providence; but not if he is led by means of his thoughts. Affections do not manifest themselves before a man, but thoughts do; affections again produce thoughts, but thoughts do not produce affections; it appears as if thoughts had this power, but it is a fallacy. And since affections produce thoughts, they also produce everything belonging to man, because they constitute his life. This is also well known in the world. For if you retain a man in his own affection, you have him in bonds, and can lead him where you please, and, in this case, one reason goes as far as a thousand; but if you do not retain him in his own affection, reasons are of no avail; for his affection, not being in harmony with these, perverts, rejects, or destroys them. The case would be similar if the Lord were to lead man by means of his thoughts immediately, and not by means of his affections. Also, when a man is led of the Lord by means of his affections, it appears to him as if he thought freely from himself, and as if he also spoke and acted in the same way. Hence, it is, that the Lord does not teach man without the use of means, but by the employment of them, such as the Word, doctrines, and preaching from the Word, and conversation, and intercourse with others; for from these things man thinks freely as if from himself.
[5] (3). That man can be saved in no other way, follows both from what has been said concerning the laws of the Divine Providence, and also from this fact, that thoughts do not give rise to affections in man. For if man knew the whole contents of the Word, and everything of doctrine, even to the arcana of wisdom which the angels possess, and moreover thought and spoke of them, while his affections were still concupiscences of evil, it would not nevertheless be possible for him to be led out of hell by the Lord. It is therefore evident, that if man were taught from heaven by influx into his thoughts, it would be like casting seed upon the highway, or into water, upon snow, or into fire.
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LNG industry has a strong safety record around the world
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Liquefied natural gas, or LNG, is natural gas chilled to -160 degrees Celsius so that it can be converted into a liquid form.
After it has been liquefied, natural gas compresses to approximately 1/600th of its normal volume, making it safe and economically efficient to transport overseas.
LNG is safe, on land and in transit as a result of detailed industry standards, strict regulations, and a commitment to risk management.
According to the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL), 350 carriers have completed more than 135,000 voyages, travelling more than 240 million kilometres at sea.
Industry estimates over 240 million tonnes of LNG were traded around the world last year.
There has never been a significant incident resulting in a loss of cargo at sea, or in port.
Globally, LNG vessels are specifically designed to contain liquefied natural gas for transport overseas:
Construction is supervised by third-party inspectors, and all ships must have international certification to carry liquefied natural gas.
All certified ships have double hulls, with an inner hull, outer hull and 5-8 feet of ballast water separating hulls. Additionally, the LNG is stored in a containment tank.
Cargo tanks are separated from the hull structure by thick insulation.
Vessels are inspected once a year, with a full dry-dock inspection every five years.
Vessels carrying LNG are built with proven safety standards. All ships have leak detection technology, emergency shutdown systems and advanced radar and positioning equipment.
Carriers transporting LNG to and from British Columbia will be escorted by power tug boats. These tugs will escort larger LNG vessels and be able to re-direct them if required.
Storage tanks are constructed with thermal insulation to prevent heat transfer and reduce evaporation.
Thermal insulators also protect storage tanks from the cryogenic temperatures required to store chilled natural gas, maintaining the structural integrity of the infrastructure.
Terminals and storage tanks on the ground are equipped with spill containment systems and alarms; with automatic and manual shut-down technology should a problem ever occur.
LNG is not explosive in open air, toxic, carcinogenic or chemically reactive. Igniting LNG is impossible because it is a liquid, and liquids do not contain enough oxygen to combust.
LNG is a fuel source, so it is flammable and it can burn - that's its value as an energy source. However; the conditions to ignite LNG are nearly impossible, on land or in transit, since the liquid would first need to vaporise and be mixed with the correct proportions of air to become flammable, and then ultimately come into contact with an ignition source.
If a leak or spill occurs, LNG vapours immediately absorb heat from ambient air and soil, become lighter than air, rise and dissipate. No residue is left; no environmental cleanup is required.
Emergency procedures and response plans are developed for every LNG operation. These plans are discussed with the local, fire, police and medical services.
All LNG operations are subject to video surveillance and on-site security personnel.
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Perk Up Your Portfolio With These Crazy Niche Investments
Esther Trattner
MoneyWise June 24, 2019
Thanks to lightning-fast advances in financial technology and the growth of easy-to-use investment apps, the world of investing is wildly different than it was a few years ago.
But it's not just the our methods of investing that changing rapidly. These days, our choices of what we put our money into can look very different, too -- going way beyond traditional blue-chip stocks.
Different can be profitable. From cutting-edge technologies to bizzare beverages, here are 10 fast-rising niche investments of 2019 that look like they’ll be around for the long haul.
1. Theme parks
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Theme parks stocks are yielding higher dividends as revenue skyrockets.
Theme parks are heating up in 2019.
Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida both raised ticket prices in advance of their hotly anticipated Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attractions. Disney World's most expensive one-day ticket is now an out-of-this-world $219.
Galaxy’s Edge is already open in California, and the Florida version debuts in late August. Meanwhile, Disney's stock price has been moving at warp speed, gaining more than 25% since the start of 2019.
The stocks of amusement park companies Six Flags and Cedar Fair are paying high dividends, over 6%. Wheeeee! Six Flags has reported nine years of record revenue and plans to expand in China, and Cedar Fair is expanding by buying two Texas water parks.
2. Electric vehicles (EVs)
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Electric cars are the American future, says Warren Buffett.
After several false starts (anybody remember the GM EV1?), electric cars may finally be taking hold in the U.S., thanks to Tesla’s runaway success. Even Warren Buffett is picking up on the electric vehicle vibe.
I think electric cars are very much in America’s future,” he recently told CNBC. “You’ll see American companies [getting] quite aggressive in that field.”
In fact, Ford and General Motors are making big-money bets on new electric models.
Only 2% of U.S. cars run on electricity today — which means there’s enormous growth potential. The International Energy Agency expects to see 125 million EVs on roads worldwide within the next 10 years, up from 3.1 million in 2017.
3. Fintech
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Mobile payment services and apps have permeated the financial industry.
Tech companies are revolutionizing finance with mobile payment services, peer-to-peer lending and automated investing — and investors and consumers are buying in.
Online payments giant PayPal has seen its stock price more than triple since it split off from eBay in 2015. Earnings, transactions and user numbers have all been growing at PayPal, which also owns the popular payments app Venmo.
Other fintech power performers include Intuit, the company behind the ever-growing TurboTax, and Square, the mobile payments processor whose card readers have quickly become ubiquitous.
Many celebrities have recognized the investing power of fintechs. Shaquille O'Neal put money into Steady, an app that connects workers with gig opportunities. And, Ashton Kutcher has invested in multiple fintech startups.
4. Virtual reality
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This could be the year that virtual reality goes mainstream, says Bernard Marr.
It's not hard to see signs that virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) technologies are finally going mainstream.
Immersive virtual reality headsets from Facebook and its Oculus division have long been popular with gamers, and now they're being used by Walmart to train employees.
The U.S. military has already deployed Microsoft’s HoloLens technology for tactical training — while Audi, Tesla, Toyota and others plan to add Nvidia’s DriveAR hazard-sensing platform into cars.
And, as you explore virtual reality investments, don't forget about Sony. The company announced earlier this year that it has sold more than 4.2 million of its PlayStation VR headsets.
5. Vegan stocks
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Beyond Meat and other protein alternatives are seeing unprecedented sales.
With 7.5 billion hungry humans sharing the planet, vegan foods could be a sustainable — and profitable — way to feed the world. Investors smell the aroma of opportunity.
Beyond Meat, maker of the plant-based Beyond Burger, went public earlier this year, and Wall Street has been eating it up.
The stock rose a whopping 163% in its first day of public trading, and since then the price has more than doubled.
As Burger King test-drives Impossible Foods' meatless Impossible Burger, traditional food and beverage companies like Nestle, Tyson Foods and Conagra are also looking to expand their current vegan and vegetarian offerings.
6. Professional wrestling
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Some investors are pinning their hopes on professional wrestling.
In a post-cable world, one thing hasn’t changed: You've gotta watch the game live! Sports programming is super valuable these days, and that includes pro wrestling.
WWE — World Wrestling Entertainment — reported revenue of $930 million for 2018, and analysts at Morgan Stanley say the company's profits could double by 2025.
WWE now charges higher content rights fees, runs international large-scale events and is expanding the reach of its popular WWE Network.
The company's stock price has been bulking up: It has more than quadrupled over the last three years. Want more MoneyWise? Sign up for our weekly email newsletter.
7. Renewable energy
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Wind power is growing.
In the energy business, change is in the wind. And the sun.
The share of U.S. electricity produced by wind and solar sources grew from 7% in 2017 to 8% in 2018 in spite of tariffs on solar cells, aluminum and steel, says Deloitte.
Solar stocks are sizzling: The share price of residential solar panel provider Sunrun has gone from about $5 in 2018 to the neighborhood of $20 in 2019.
Even oil and gas companies Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Total S.A. have bought stakes in solar developers, and big investments also are happening in onshore and offshore wind energy production in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
8. Pet products
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The pet industry is booming.
Over 60 million households own a dog and 47 million own at least one cat, according to the American Pet Products Association's National Pet Owners Survey.
That’s a lot of paws that get a lot of pampering.
The association is forecasting that Americans will spend more than $75 billion on pet products in 2019, including $31.7 billion on food and $16.4 billion on over-the-counter medicines and other supplies.
The industry is booming thanks to online shopping and innovative products — like Cytopoint anti-itch medication from pet meds giant Zoetis, and new cat litter made by Clorox that resists tracking around the house.
9. Cannabis
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The legalization of medicinal marijuana has skyrocketed its market value.
The cannabis industry is absolutely ablaze with investment thanks to growing legalization and high-profile backers.
Already, Martha Stewart has partnered with Canopy Growth to create non-psychoactive CBD-based products for pets, while Mike Tyson is building a 40-acre cannabis farm and cultivation school.
Worldwide spending on legal cannabis grew from $9.5 billion in 2017 to $12.2 billion last year — and is likely to hit $16.9 billion in 2019, according to the latest forecast from Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics.
The firms say pot has become "one of the largest industry-growth phenomena in history" thanks to the spread of legal weed in the U.S. and elsewhere. Marijuana has been approved for medical use in 33 states and for recreational use in 10 so far.
10. Kombucha
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It's an acquired taste, but the success of this healthy drink is easy to swallow.
Meet kombucha, the fizzy, fermented sweet-sour drink that combines tea with bacteria, sugar and yeast. Uh, yum?
But seriously, this funky drink’s health benefits include slowing carbohydrate digestion and lowering blood sugar, which may help manage Type 2 diabetes.
National retailers including Target and Amazon's Whole Foods now stock kombucha, and brewers across America are pumping out gluten-free kombucha beers flavored with hops, hibiscus and lime.
Invest while you can: The global kombucha market is expected to grow more than 20% a year and could be worth $5.45 billion by 2025, reports Grand View Research.
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"A man of the people!": Steve Kerr, coach of the Golden State Warriors, has ridden BART
Steve Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors, speaks at the end of season press conference on Friday, June 14, 2019 in Oakland. Kerr was spotted on a BART train for the second time in two months on Monday morning. less Steve Kerr, head coach of Golden State Warriors, speaks at the end of season press conference on Friday, …
Christian Sobrino, CFO of Puerto Rico, and Luis G. Rivera Marínoutage, Secretary of State, resign because of profane talks
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Kurt Bush wins Quaker State 400 in overtime – NASCAR Talk
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Inslee says he'll ask footballer Megan Rapinoe to become Secretary of State
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Under the new constitution of North Korea, Kim is named head of state, which is considered a step toward the US peace treaty
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Sudan: Government Council thwarted coup attempt: state television | news
Sudan's ruling military council (TMC) defeated an attempted military coup and at least 16 officers were arrested reported state television on late Thursday . The development of "Army and National Intelligence and Security officers and servicemen, some of whom retired, attempted to carry out a coup," said General Jamal Omar of the TMC said in a live broadcast on state …
Woodstock 50 refused approval in the state of New York
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A city in New York State has refused permission to host the Woodstock 50 Festival at a local racecourse. The application was too late and incomplete. The organizers can appeal the refusal of the permit within five days to the City Planning Department of the City, Vernon District Attorney Vincent Rossi said Tuesday. The organizers did not respond immediately to …
California is the first state to grant tax-financed health services to illegal immigrants
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California earthquake: No, the state is not thrown into the ocean – and other facts
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The quakes on Thursday and Friday were so violent that they rocked buildings, tore roads and foundations and led to fire and gas leaks. How could nobody see this coming? Well, scientists say that they have no safe way to predict earthquakes. The US Geological Survey says its scientists can only calculate the probability that a significant earthquake will occur …
CROWN Act: California is the first state to prohibit discrimination against natural hair
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Croatian journalist who wrote about war crimes gets renewed death threats
War veteran: This warning to Drago Held arrived a few days after he wrote articles, in the magazine Feral Tribune about a former Croatian general, Branimir Glavas (above), suspected of having killed Serbian civilians in Osijek in 1991. In one of the latest articles in Jutarnji List, he returned to the case of Branimir Glavas, who was elected a deputy in the November 2007 legislative elections. The journalist also gave evidence at the opening of the trial of Glavas in 2005.
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Renewed death threats have been made against Drago Held, a journalist with daily Jutamji List, a specialist in the recent history of Croatia, and particularly war crimes during the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia (1991-1995).
Drago Held, Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) reported, was put under permanent police protection after receiving a voice message on his mobile phone on November 27 warning him that he would be soon be “massacred”.
Held has worked for a long time investigating war crimes committed during the civil war from 1991 to 1995. He received an earlier death threat in February 2008 in the shape of a photo of a human skull accompanied by a letter advising “silence”.
This warning arrived a few days after he wrote articles, in the magazine Feral Tribune about a former Croatian general, Branimir Glavas, suspected of having killed Serbian civilians in Osijek in 1991. In one of the latest articles in Jutarnji List, he returned to the case of Branimir Glavas, who was elected a deputy in the November 2007 legislative elections. The journalist also gave evidence at the opening of the trial of Glavas in 2005.
This latest incident comes against a background of violence that has shaken the Croatian capital for several weeks. Ivo Pukanic, editor of the weekly Nacional, and his colleague Niko Franjic, marketing director of the NCL group, were killed in a car bombing on October 24.
Police bomb disposal services on November 21 found a dummy plastic bomb under the car of journalist Hrvoje Appelt, of the weekly Globus after it was parked outside the anti-corruption agency (USKOKO). Police put Appelt under protection. He said he had also received death threats since September 2008.
“It seems evident that journalists who report in war crimes have become the favourite targets of those who want to have their responsibilities in the conflict forgotten," RSF said. “It is essential that the press can do their work in the struggle against impunity and this should be supported beyond the country’s borders."
“We offer our support to our Croatian colleagues who are going through difficult times. We urge the authorities to redouble efforts to identify those who made these threats and to continue police protection if it is sought”.
Date posted: November 30, 2008 Last modified: May 23, 2018 Total views: 221
Police prevent staff of Azerbaijan newspaper from working
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Gag on Honduran media gets tighter in month since coup, critical media obstructed
Pushed on the backfoot, Sudan launches trenchant campaign against Darfur film
There are marked differences between countries in reporting on climate change
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Russian photojournalist Andrei Stenin killed in Ukraine
Education, language skills play big role in women and media in Africa
The press release is still a valid, and valued, tool
In Pakistan, ethnicity is a key indicator in predicting media credibility
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Suggestions by Securities and Exchange Board of India to Press Council of India
Paid News Report: Contents
Introduction and Summary
How editorial space was compromised by political "paid news"
The 'Medianet' and 'Private Treaties' phenomena
The Mint code of journalistic conduct
The late Shri Prabhash Joshi's last speech on "paid news"
Smt Mrinal Pande's views on "paid news"
Examples of "paid news" from the Hindi press
Rules and Regulations of the Election Commission of India
Dainik Jagran: Allegations and Counter-Allegations
Shri P. Sainath's findings on "paid news"
Maharashtra Chief Minister Shri Ashok Chavan's defence
More Allegations and Counter-Allegations
Evidence provided by the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists
The Editors Guild of India on "paid news"
"Paid news" at seminars and conferences
Views on "paid news" by political leaders, Press Council of India members and others
"Paid news" in Parliament
Curbing "paid news" using extant legal provisions: Dr Madabhushi Sridhar's suggestions
On July 15, 2009, Shri S. Ramann, Officer on Special Duty, Integrated Surveillance Department of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) wrote to the Chairman, Press Council of India, Justice G.N. Ray observing that many media companies were entering into agreements called “private treaties” with companies whose equity shares are listed on stock exchanges or companies that were coming out with a public offer of their shares. The media companies were picking up stakes in such companies and in return, were proving coverage through advertisements, news reports and editorials. The SEBI, which has been set up under the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, and is mandated to protect the interests of investors, felt that such promotional and brand building strategies in exchange for shares, “may give rise to conflict of interest and may, therefore, result in dilution of the independence of (the) press vis-à-vis the nature and content of the news/editorials relating to such companies”.
The SEBI pointed out that “private treaties” may “lead to commercialization of news reports since the same would be based on the subscription and advertising agreement entered into between the media group and the company”. Furthermore, “biased and imbalanced reporting may lead to inaccurate perceptions of the companies which are the beneficiaries of such private treaties”. Hence, the SEBI “felt that such brand building strategies of media groups, without appropriate and adequate disclosures, may not be in the interest of investors and financial markets as the same would impede in them taking a fair and well-informed decision. The SEBI suggested the following:
Disclosures regarding the stake held by the media company may be made mandatory in the news report/article/editorial in newspapers/television channels relating to the company in which the media group holds such a stake.
Disclosure on percentage of stake held by media groups in various companies under such “private treaties” on the website of media groups may be made mandatory.
Any such disclosures relating to such agreements such as any nominee of the media group on the board of directors of the company, any management control or other details which may be required to be disclosed and which may be a potential conflict of interest for the media group, may also be made mandatory.
The SEBI communication to the Press Council of India pointed out that a “free and unbiased press is crucial for the development of the securities market, particularly with respect to aiding small investors to take a well informed decision” and urged the Council to address this issue at the earliest.
In this context, the Council referred to the existing guidelines for financial journalists that had been framed in 1996, which include the following:
Financial journalists should not accept gifts, loans, trips, discounts, preferential shares or other considerations which compromise or are likely to compromise his position.
It should be mentioned prominently in a report about a company that the report has been based on information provided by the company or its financial sponsors.
When trips are sponsored for visiting establishments of a company and hospitality extended, the author of the report who has availed of such facilities must invariably state these in his report.
A reporter who exposes a scam or brings out a report for promotion of a good project should be encouraged and awarded.
A journalist who has a financial interest in a company (including holding of shares) should not report on that company.
The journalist should not use for his personal benefit or for the benefit of his relations or friends, information received by him in advance for publication.
No newspaper owner, editor or anybody connected with a newspaper should use his relationship with the newspaper to promote his other business interests.
Whenever there is an indictment of a particular advertising agency or advertiser by the Advertising Standards Council of India, the newspaper in which the advertisement was published must publish news of the indictment prominently.
After deliberating on the issue, the Press Council of India endorsed the views expressed by the SEBI and stated that the relevant guidelines should be made applicable and mandatory not only to financial journalists but to owners of media companies as well. This would be in the interests of transparency and fairness and would reduce the incidence of biased news about companies being published that is inimical to the interests of investors.
Date posted: August 8, 2010Last modified: May 23, 2018Total views: 21
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Social networking can help people lose weight
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Category: Quick Reviews
The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon Quick Review
The world of The Priory of the Orange Tree holds its breath for the return of an ancient enemy. Divided, the different lands hold tense and tenuous relationships. Something is stirring, the likes of which the world has not faced in a thousand years. Ead, Tané and Queen Sabran each must play a part to save civilization from falling into the clutches of the Nameless One.
Dragons, magic, politics, pirates and battles. The Priory of the Orange Tree was exactly the kind of epic fantasy world I was craving to sink into. I devoured the sizeable book (which literally hurt to hold up for extended periods of time) as quickly as I could read. Notes in tow. Pages of notes. It had been so long since I’d delved into a complicated world that I had to make notes to avoid constant confusion during the first third of the book.
Packed full of interesting depth and detailed world building, it certainly delivered. The magic was interesting. The history rich and the scope of the plot spanned across several characters, cultures and objectives, throughout a whole continent.
It was evident Shannon mixed and diverted from the classics with modern ideals.The characters were diverse, not just in appearance but in complexities of their personal lives, relationships and dilemmas. There was no shortage of strong capable characters with lots of girl power packed in which was a nice change to the typical setting. People didn’t feel constrained due to gender rather, if they were held back it was because of circumstance.
The characters were also quite well into adulthood which was another nice shift from other stories of the same kind. The roles typically kept for coming of age characters as if teenage years are the only point in time in which you experience significant growth. I appreciated the youthfulness displayed in these late 20 – early 30 somethings.
Ead and Sabran’s love story was an appreciated natural and complicated romance. Tané and Ead were favorites of mine in particular. I really rooted for their personal journeys.
The downsides? The pacing felt a little off at times. Too drawn out due to the scope of the plot which resulted in some lukewarm feelings about major events at times. Character deaths felt sudden, almost quickly brushed away which left me feeling unmoved by them though the impacts on connected characters were supposed to be deeply altering. It felt a bit like a culling of no longer plot necessary characters in a large cast.
I think perhaps the battles suffered a little from similar pacing issues. This resulted in the ending battle falling a little flat as it felt short and small compared to some other scenes.
Some of the plot twists unfortunately seemed not very well planned or perhaps given little setup in order for them to be surprising which, to me, felt a bit like cheating. Then came the lengthy explanations post big reveal. I personally prefer when twists are entwined and embedded through the story. When done well, even if they aren’t totally surprising, they’re satisfying.
The ending of the book was satisfying enough but left me with some lingering questions. I hope this world will be revisited. I’m not sure if this book will be serialized or extended but I would definitely love to read about it again.
– 4/5 To make short of a massive book, it was worth the read and time. Though lacking in some areas, the world building and detail was enough to mostly overlook its shortcomings.
Buy it – The Priory of the Orange Tree
An Anonymous Girl – Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen Quick Review
April 9, 2019 .Reading time 5 minutes.
Jessica Farris signs up for much more than she bargained for when she stumbles into Dr Shields psychological study on ethics and morality. She expects the transaction to be simple – questions answered and money received on the other end. But Dr Shields has another agenda altogether more twisted and Jess is in far too deep by the time the plans are revealed.
Told through two P.O.V’s, Jessica and Dr Shields. The former a personal first person and the latter in second person, giving an effect of clinical, coldness and watchful control. An anonymous girl is an unsettling, absorbing and addictive read throughout. Easy to get through and difficult to put down.
The premise of a psychological study turned cat and mouse game was what really enticed me to the book. The way it all slowly unravels piece by piece was riveting, feeling the sense of something being very off from the moment you read Dr Shields P.O.V.
Jess goes into the situation blind and unprepared. Understandably she’s nervous to answer personal questions but is assured by the legitimacy she thinks a psychological study holds and the promise of the compensation on the other side. The sense of the unbalanced power dynamic is unnerving as Jess sits vulnerably in front of a computer and is watched and analyzed.
The set up and even beyond that as Dr Shields pushes Jess into more vulnerable positions is palpable tension.
I will say though I that I did wish for bigger and better twists as I expected most of them and never really felt that surprise or shock I was looking for. At points the story could have done with being just a little faster paced though I did understand the need for that build up, it took away from the tight suspense.
Morality is a major theme throughout, brought up in many ways. Abuse of power, infidelity and withholding truths being some of the things the main characters exhibit and struggle with in different ways. Though it was a bit on the nose with little ways for the reader to interpret the subject or the questions brought up themselves.
The characters are intriguing and complicated though Dr Shields at times is a little too villainous villain. There are points later on as her P.O.V seems to shift into a more personal tone that you find yourself somewhat understanding her behavior and motivation more. But she mostly remains this kind of alluring, calculated and twisted, unrelatable person.
Jess is the relatable average young woman. Her flaws pave the way for a big portion of the trouble she gets herself into. Her motivation revolves around survival and she uses this as a means to pull through the things thrown at her rather than being particularly smart or skilled. I did kind of appreciate that. They didn’t pull back from making her a real person who does shitty things, makes mistakes and isn’t a perfect, mystery solving genius who can go toe to toe with an older psychology graduate with years of experience under her belt, money at her disposal and an esteemed reputation.
The books charm is mostly in the dynamic between the two women. Each capable and damaged in their own way. Each with their own kind of allure. The cat and mouse game between them creates a creepy atmosphere and suspense as you wait for characters to catch on, anticipating the reactions and consequences once it all really hits the fan.
The story is not as psychologically scary as I’d have liked. It’s twisted, dark at times and light on violence. But it’s definitely one of those easy to consume stories. Entertaining and short.
– 3/5 An alluring and engaging read about an average young woman caught in the web of a manipulative and twisted psychologist who pushes her slowly and surely down a calculated path of her own very personal study.
Buy it – An Anonymous Girl
The Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker Quick Review
People are falling asleep in the isolated town of Santa Lora. Falling asleep and not waking up. A virus is spreading, the town is locked down, and we follow the separate yet intertwined journey’s of a college student, two new parents, two little girls, a psychologist and a college professor through the unfolding events.
The dreamers is a thought provoking, insightful, dream like read with an edge of raw emotional dread.
The story, told in short chapters of third person, multiple P.O.V, is immediately reminiscent of Stephen King’s Sleeping Beauties though clearly not nearly as long. Its beautifully written prose and close inspection of characters in a chaotic setting lend it a surprising intimate quality.
What I expected before reading was a sort of short, sci-fi/thriller/horror. An outbreak in an unsuspecting town leading to mass chaos. A familiar concept. What I got was an easy to devour, melding of genres with a more tender and human take on that familiar concept. More tension and slow dread than horror. Though the pacing can lag in some places feeling a little slower when I wanted things to pick up and repetitive when I wanted things to move forward.
Curiosity regarding the sleeping sickness is definitely a driving mystery but the personal experiences are the main focus. It felt less like it was about the virus or events or even the specific characters but instead the different relatable experiences of characters from all different places in life. Within that intense setting, highlighted under that kind of panic and urgency, drawn out and caged in with few options and everything important to lose.
The virus provides this opportunity and insight. The meaning and value of things are questioned vulnerably; dreams, life, death, love, loss, how unstable and fragile normalcy and order can be and how easily pulled apart. The weight of these things when the threat of death is so close.
It’s the similarities in the personal experiences of characters, that on paper are so different, that reminds you of the connectedness of the human experience.
Though short, I felt quite a lot more for the characters than I thought I would. Walker did well pulling me closer much sooner than I usually would, using the seriousness of events to fully illuminate characters. Despite the fact that the book often read a little removed, a step away from the story like watching a movie. The experienced thoughts, fears and pains evoked will stay with me (more so than the characters).
You don’t get a whole lot of answers in the end though for me this was not an expectation. The virus and the events surrounding it in the end are left mysterious and dream like. Reality and delusion remain a little blurry throughout.
– 5/5 A beautiful discussion and exploration of the human experience, highlighted by the chaotic events following after a virus is unleashed on an unsuspecting town.
Buy it – The Dreamers
The Magic Order Vol. 1 – Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel Quick Review
March 25, 2019 .Reading time 2 minutes.
The magic order vol 1. – Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel Quick Review
A dark, graphic, adult fantasy/horror comic. The Magic Order Vol. 1 though a little derivative, gives enough to hold and entertain you.
A secret magic order that holds the monsters at bay from the world is threatened by a wronged villain. Madam Albany is out to take the magic order protected evil tome and turn the way of things on its head. Cue magic, graphic murders, monsters and an angsty family full of tropes. Set within beautifully dark art (that is kind of the biggest redeeming quality of the whole thing).
I won’t go into the frustration of that consequence erasing ending because ugh, that really ruined the magic for me.
But I loved the art, was interested in the world, the magic, artifacts, monsters, even some of the characters. Say what you want, I am always into the girls like Cordelia. Dark, self aware, powerful, slightly on the crazy side packed into a “fuck it” attitude. There was the making of something there that I could easily love. God, I just wish there was a little more detail put into it than what was given which was a little sparse and rushed, TBH.
– 2/5 I would totally read more (if there’s more – I never know with these things) but that ending…
I have received a copy of this book via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Crowded – Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Rachel Stott Quick Review
Crowded – Christopher Sebela Quick Review
In the future anyone with a grudge, money and backers can use the REAPR app to put a hit on anyone else. Average girl, Charlie Ellison finds herself targeted by a REAPR campaign with a million dollars on her head. She turns to the DFEND app to hire the lowest rated bodyguard, Vita. The campaign unfathomably climbs, assassination attempts fly out from every corner and Vita, the surprising badass, drags Charlie through, often times self imposed, danger to safety.
Action packed
Intriguing world, premise and characters
Colorful art and interesting character design
Diverse characters
Lowlights –
Charlie, while she has her charms, can be more than a little irritating.
After 6 issues both main characters are still somehow almost a complete mystery. We get to know the two main antagonists inner workings more than we do Charlie and Vita.
Speaking of Antagonists inner workings, from where it all ended, Trotters whole story line felt a bit pointless. Especially after going into so much detail about him (though I’m sure more will come out of it in future issues?).
The ending was sort of flat. I was expecting to learn more about Charlie than that one big reveal at the end after so many issues. I wanted a little more facts than she works a hundred jobs, has evidently self destructive and flaky behavior and, the almost understandable fact, that everyone she’s ever come in contact with hates her guts and she doesn’t feel great about it.
– 3/5 Crowded was a fun, intriguing, action packed and colorful read, full of diverse characters but left things, at the end of the first volume, at a kind of anticlimactic place.
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Eden Creamer
Eden Creamer was the Editor-in-Chief for the Niner Times from May 2013 through April 2015. She graduated from UNC Charlotte in May 2015, receiving her degree in Communication Studies with minors in English, Journalism and Women's Studies. She now does freelance proofing, copywriting and design in the Charlotte area, and can be reached at edencreamer@gmail.com
Hillel and Multicultural Resource Center come together for the Love Song Shabbat
By Eden Creamer -
The Multicultural Resource Center and UNC Charlotte’s Hillel (Jewish Student Association) have teamed up over the summer to plan, organize and launch the Love Song Shabbat, a nontraditional Jewish service that aims to make the traditional Jewish Shabbat service more inclusive.
On Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Student Union, Room 340 C-F, UNC Charlotte students regardless of religion, denomination or belief system are invited to learn more about their fellow Niners at this free event.
Rabbi Dr. Barbara Thiede, professor of Jewish Studies for the Department of Religious Studies, has been behind this event from the start, even modeling it after an event she led on campus years ago.
“Together with the Multicultural Resource Center, the idea has been to make certain that we are speaking to the larger group. We’re hoping to have a little dance group in the back that will be fun, and there is a student here who will be doing some of the singing,” said Thiede. “But we really hope people will have a good time. And afterward, you know, we’ll schmooze, we’ll eat, we’ll talk.”
Throughout the service, popular songs will connect with each of the traditional Shabbat prayers, ideally to help attendees understand the meaning behind the prayer. Thiede expects to project the words of the songs onto a screen during the event, and hopes to engage those who come out to participate.
“We’ll ask people to sing along, I don’t know if we’re going to have any kind of bema [raised area or stage], but I will encourage people to dance. Getting your body moving is also part of prayer. I also don’t have any problems with people asking me questions during the service, so that we can feel that we are in prayerful exploration,” said Thiede. “And I also want to make sure that this feels comfortable to people who are Atheist, or Agnostic, and they could still have a good time, and not feel in any way that they are separated because of the literature that might otherwise feel intimidating.”
The Beatles Service, as it was called when Thiede first led the service on campus years ago, used a mix of Beatles songs to help attendees connect to the traditional Shabbat prayers and understand why the prayer was important in ways they may not have previously understood. This year’s Love Song Service will be similar in conception, though it will use a wider selection of songs.
“People frequently will use melodies from popular culture, and then they’ll put Hebrew language prayers into those melodies. You will find that happening with Adon Olam [the final prayer of the service] all the time … that’s just a way to make it flirty and fun and all the rest,” said Thiede. “The kavannah [intention] behind this service was based on my awareness that the vast majority of people who are Jewish and walk into a synagogue have really no idea why the Shema precedes the Amidah … why we stand for the Amidah, but they don’t mostly stand for the Shema. The why of the prayer, the why of the service, has been, as it is in a lot of religious contexts, supplemented with the how.”
Thiede explains that the why behind a service may be the most important part because it is the part that gives the service meaning to the individual.
“So much of my work has been about unpacking what is the service about. What is the transcendent journey that you are supposed to take from the beginning to the end,” she said.
When Hillel first did the Beatles Service, there were two members of the association. At the time, 70 people came to attend the Beatles Service, which leaves Thiede hopeful that the turnout this year will be even greater now that Hillel has had time to grow at the university. Of those who attended, she says, some were Jewish, but many were not. This, she says, marked the event as a successful outreach attempt.
This year, while the songs are no longer all by The Beatles, the message remains the same. While on the service the songs are meant to help attendees connect with what happens at a Shabbat service, Thiede says she hopes to also address what happens at most religious services.
“What are the various ways in which people connect with the spiritual or the divine, and how do you open that door and make that easier for people to do? What is the importance of praying with a group, or even just being with a group, in a kind of soulful space?” Thiede says.
By using love songs with the traditional Shabbat prayers, Thiede hopes to connect with students on micro and macro levels; teaching them about Judaism, but also about love and unity.
“Given that all of these students have just been through a summer in which the terrible inability of human beings to inhabit the same places and the same spaces, I think in a way I’m wondering if there are certain people who really need a kind of healing from a summer of such devastation,” said Thiede. “One of the things about this service is that is consistently emphasizes the experience and the expression of love … Yes, we need a service around unity and love.”
West Deck staircase closed through next two weeks
Students, faculty and campus visitors parking in West Deck from July 28 through Aug. 11 will be unable to use the North-facing staircase.
A crack in the staircase that is weakening the stability of the steps needs to be repaired.
These stairs affect West Deck users, who are already impacted by the Belk Gym renovations. Contractors have agreed to leave open the access bridge available on Level 3 of the deck that connects to the Student Activity Center. A detour around Belk Gym will also be accessible from the open South-facing staircase on Level 4 as well.
The parking deck will otherwise remain open.
2014 Vans Warped Tour Ticket Giveaway
The 2014 Vans Warped Tour will visit Charlotte’s PNC Pavilion on Monday, July 28. The annual music festival features dozens of artists and bands representing a variety of musical genres.
This year’s lineup includes bands and artists such as Crizzly, All Time Low, Less Than Jake, Mayday Parade, We The Kings, 3OH!3, Tess Dunn and Yellowcard. For a full lineup, see here.
Artwork courtesy of Live Nation Carolinas.
To win two free tickets to the 2014 Vans Warped Tour at the PNC Pavilion on Monday, July 28, answer the following question. The first person to comment on this post with the correct answer will win two free tickets!
“How many artists and groups make up the 2014 lineup?”
For ticketing information to purchase tickets to the Charlotte show, see here.
Vegetarian Fourth of July options
The Fourth of July is a great day for family, friends and fun. Fireworks, cookouts and just good old American celebrating is a must. For vegetarians, though, it can be hard to find something other than cole slaw to eat, with burgers and hot dogs on the grill being a staple. Here are a couple of vegetarian-friendly ideas that nobody will stick their nose up at.
Grilled veggies are a perfect vegetarian and vegan option. Photo courtesy of MCT Campus
Grilled Fruits and Veggies
Have you ever had grilled watermelon? If not, give it a shot. A nice char on the generally sweet and juicy fruit can taste amazing. Tomatoes, peaches, zucchini, eggplant, mushrooms and peppers also all taste amazing on the grill and will leave the pickiest eater begging for more.
Avocado Potato Salad
Two delicious birds, one American stone! Potato salad is a must-have at a cookout, and by creaming in some avocado with the traditional mayonnaise base (or in lieu of the mayo to make the dish vegan) adds beautiful green color and a wonderful taste.
Grilled or Fried Tofu Fingers
I don’t want to hear anyone badmouth tofu. Tofu is like a sponge, and will absorb the flavor of just about anything you cover it in. A quick search online can help you find plenty of flavored dredges to use, and then depending on your preference either toss them on the grill or dunk them in a fryer. They’ll essentially be tasty, vegetarian-friendly chicken fingers.
Polenta, which is essentially a cornmeal mix, is a perfect vegetarian and vegan alternative that you can cook pretty much anyway you can think of. Polenta can even be pounded into a patty shape, thrown on the grill with some salt and pepper and eaten on a bun like a burger. Because polenta has a light flavor on it’s own, it’ll taste great with any burger fixings you can think to add.
Is your mouth watering yet? Get your cookout on, veggie lovers.
University Career Center prepares to launch new job search resource
The new Hire-A-Niner main page. Photo courtesy of the University Career Center.
The University Career Center (UCC) will launch their newest job search platform, Hire-A-Niner, on Tuesday, July 1. Students are advised to log into NinerJobNet and download any resumes they may have saved in the old system, as those will all be deleted when Hire-A-Niner launches.
The new system, which will replace NinerJobNet, will provide students with a more user-friendly job search experience and provide resources that its predecessor did not.
Brooke Brown, senior assistant director for publicity and outreach and the Education career advisor for the UCC, says Hire-A-Niner is a completely streamlined new resource that she believes students will enjoy using.
“The process is a lot easier. Students will be able to get onto the system for the first time right away, be able to go ahead and search and apply for positions,” said Brown. “We’ve really removed some barriers to getting students access to jobs and internships, so I think students will like the way the new system looks, and the way that it looks, and also it’ll just be more of a streamlined process for them to access all of these great opportunities.”
When using the system for the first time, students will log in using NinerNet credentials and will be automatically prompted to fill out profile information. From there, they will be able to immediately begin utilizing the resources on the page. Previous with NinerJobNet, students were required to go through an orientation process and await approval before using the system.
In addition to immediate access, Hire-A-Niner will have many new resources for students and alumni, including a resume builder built into the system.
“There are about 10 or so different templates that students can use, so they can use all of them, or one of them. It automatically pulls some of their information from their profile in the system into that template. And of course they can type information,” said Brown. “Then that is downloaded directly into Word, or they can upload it to the system when they are ready to apply to positions. It’s a very handy feature that was not part of NinerJobNet that we’re very excited about.”
In addition to the resume builder, users can now store an unlimited amount of resumes and cover letters on the system. NinerJobNet maxed out at 10 for each type of document.
“There are many students, especially thinking about cover letters, who do one for Bank of America, one of Wells Fargo, and you can see where 10 may become a little limited. This one has a lot more of a capacity,” said Brown.
Other resources, like access to the online international job search database Going Global, will be integrated directly into Hire-A-Niner for seamless use. Other external tools will easily be accessable on the left-hand column, under an organized resource category.
“We’ve really centralized those, so hopefully they’ll be easily accessible,” said Brown.
The system change has been in the UCC’s five-year plan, and the switch has been in motion since late April. After looking at a few systems and selecting the one that was hoped to be best for members of Niner Nation, the updated version was selected.
“We’re hoping to get a lot of that tweaked before July 1, but we certainly know that when students start really using it, and as our employers start using it, there will be things that we want to add to the system or some changes to make,” said Brown. “The new system we’re using for Hire-A-Niner will be a lot more robust … we’ll be excited to have people using it.”
Will you accept the final rose?
The Bachelor will be holding casting calls around the nation looking for women to date the next bachelor. Photo courtesy of the official ABC Bachelor Casting Call Twitter.
Charlotte women are invited to SUITE Charlotte at the EpiCentre on Thursday, June 26 to participate in a casting call for the 19th season of the ABC show The Bachelor.
“This will be the third year we have hosted The Bachelor Casting Call at SUITE and we have averaged around 125 ladies the past two years,” said Brett Carraway, operating partner for SUITE Charlotte. “We have been working hard to get the word to even more people this year.”
The casting call is free and open to any who would be eligible to appear on the ABC program. Registration will begin at 5 p.m. inside SUITE.
“When the ladies arrive, they are given a packet of paperwork to fill out with various questions and then have their picture taken before doing a filmed interview,” said Carraway. “Attendees do not need to bring anything but a smile and their story.”
ABC producers will be at SUITE conducting the interviews. Contestants who make it through to the next round will be contacted at a later point, and will go through another series of interviews to hopefully vie for the heart of the next bachelor.
For information about eligibility to participate in The Bachelor, click here.
ABC is currently airing the 10th season of The Bachelorette, which originally aired in 2003 as a spin-off of The Bachelor. Should the traditional model of the programs hold, the bachelor on the season this casting call is for will be one of the contestants of the current Bachelorette season, though this individual has not yet been announced.
ABC also recently announced another spin-off, Bachelor in Paradise. This program could be described as a mix between CBS’s Survivor and Bachelor Pad (2010-12 spin-off of The Bachelor) that, as described in an ABC press release, allows “contestants [to] live together in an isolated romantic paradise and, over the course of six episodes, we’ll follow these former bachelors and bachelorettes as they explore new romantic relationships.”
Homemade Soda Ice Cream Recipe
As someone lucky enough to have their own ice cream maker, summer is a magical time. After a few weeks making vanilla and chocolate though, I’m usually ready to break out and try something new.
I’m choosing to make an ice cream flavored with Mountain Dew Baja Blast today, before it becomes impossible to find bottles of the delicious drink in stores.
To make this recipe, I’m using the Cuisinart Automatic Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream and Sorbet Maker, which is available on Amazon for about $50.
1. A full 24 hours before making your ice cream, store the machine’s freezer bowl in the freezer. This bowl contains the cooling liquid that creates the actual frozen texture of your ice cream. The bowl must be completely frozen through before you begin to make your ice cream. You’ll know your bowl is frozen through if when you shake it, you don’t hear any liquid sloshing.
2. In a bowl, mix together your milk, sugar, salt, heavy cream and vanilla extract. For my recipe, I used a cup of almond milk instead of the whole milk suggested in the recipe. You can switch out the type of milk you use, but be wary of using skim or 1 percent milk. These will have a harder time solidifying into ice cream.
Ingredients for Baja Blast flavored ice cream. Photos by Eden Creamer
3. Once your base ingredients are mixed together, refrigerate for one to four hours. I allow my base to chill overnight, but that isn’t a necessity.
Cuisinart Automatic Frozen Yogurt-Ice Cream and Sorbet Maker.
4. Assemble your machine. Right before you are ready to begin making your ice cream, take the freezer bowl out of your freezer and attach to the machine’s base. Insert your mixing paddle, and lock on the lid.
5. Begin freezing the ice cream. Power on the machine, and pour in your ice cream base. Immediately after pouring in the base, pour in however much of your chosen soda you want to get the desired flavor. Some ice creams may require food coloring if you wish to have the color of the product visible.
6. Let the machine work its magic for 15-20 minutes, or until the ice cream is solidified in the bowl.
7. Transfer your ice cream to a freezer safe bowl and let chill for 20 minutes in the freezer. This step is optional, but definitely makes a difference in the texture of your ice cream.
Baja Blast flavored ice cream has a very mild color and a very light flavor.
Final verdict on flavor? For my ice cream, I probably could have added a little bit of food coloring. Since Baja Blast is such a pretty, light color, the actual color of the ice cream was never affected, even after I added over 20 ounces of soda. Because the flavor of Baja Blast is also relatively light, the flavor of the ice cream was also very mellow. It was still tasty, but seemed more like a carbonated vanilla than a Baja Blast flavor. Still pretty good though! This would probably be a really yummy recipe with Vanilla Coke, or maybe Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper.
If you try it, Instagram or tweet us pictures of your ice cream! Make sure to tag @niner_times!
Cone Deck changes add to visitor parking options
The top level of Cone Deck now has automated visitor parking stations. This changes the way visitors can park in the deck because instead of paying an attendant upon departure from the deck, visitors will pay at a pay-on-foot station.
This is the same type of station used in three other visitor decks on campus, East Deck 1, CRI Deck and South Village Deck. The pay station is under a shelter room to protect it from the elements on the top of the deck, and is equipped with an intercom system that connects it to the Parking and Transportation (PaTS) Cell Center for assistance with any problems campus guests may have.
For more information on pay-on-foot stations, visit pats.uncc.edu.
13 feelings of Orange is the New Black season two
We waited months, while Netflix advertised the heck out of the release of the next season of Orange is the New Black (OITNB). Months upon months we waited in suspense, still reeling from the finale of season one.
When the newest installment was finally made available for instant streaming, each episode was jam packed. Each of the 13 episodes left behind a distinct feeling, whether from the character backstory segments or from the real meat of life at Litchfield.
Broken up by episode, here are those feelings for those who binged the season this weekend, but still need more OITNB.
Warning! Spoilers may follow. Read at your own risk.
Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in Orange is the new Black season 2. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 1: ‘Thirsty Bird’
Feels: CONFUSION
Okay now Netflix, what is this nonsense? While each and every guard or correctional officer leaves Piper in the dark, this episode also completely leaves the viewer in suspense. And then once that mystery is cleared up, we just get smacked in the face with another cliffhanger. Where is Piper going, Netflix? What did you do, Alex?
Episode 2: ‘Looks Blue, Tastes Red’
Feels: Woo!
I was cheering for Taystee essentially this entire episode. That whole job fair thing was perfect, and showed just how wonderful and independent she is. This episode is especially important in light of the bomb dropped in the not too distant future. Why does her crazy drug dealing sort of adoptive mother Vee have to be a clearly manipulative witch? Because there wouldn’t be appropriate Taystee drama otherwise. This episode was just really good for some character development among the Litchfield ladies (new club softball team name maybe?).
Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza and Lorraine Toussaint as Vee Parker in OITNB. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 3: ‘Hugs Can Be Deceiving’
Feels: #Tears
I feel so bad for poor Crazy Eyes/Suzanne. Her adoptive family obviously had no idea how to deal with her, and it was just heartbreaking. Her backstory perfectly explained her pursuit of Piper in season one, and set the stage for Vee to completely take advantage of that poor girl this season. That begins unraveling this episode, and Crazy Eyes really goes for the woman who on the outside seems loving and mothering toward Crazy Eyes. But we know better, oh we know better. Also, Vee, that hair though. I dig it.
Episode 4: ‘A Whole Other Hole’
Feels: Shock
Please tell me I am not the only one who did NOT see Morello’s backstory coming. Please tell me I am not the only one shocked and left hurling into a dark, dark place. The hopeless romantic in me felt sad for Morello, yet the firm belief in protecting victims of stalking left me weirdly against Morello. Best backstory yet, in my opinion. It was exactly what her character needed. The reoccurring gag this episode about where women pee from was also hilarious and had me in stitches. You rock that lesson, Sophia.
Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset in OITNB. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 5: ‘Low Self Esteem City’
Feels: Nauseated
Let’s just talk about what is going on with the plumbing for a second, can we? That alone was enough to make me want to ralph while watching this episode. The perfectly portrayed abusive relationship with Gloria was just that, perfect, and left me with a tightly knotted feeling of disgust deep in my stomach.
Episode 6: ‘You Also Have A Pizza’
Feels: Awww
So much in this episode made me literally audibly say ‘awww,’ and I’m not too proud to admit that I cried. Poussey’s backstory is rivaling Morello’s in terms of complexity and perfection. And as corny as all of it was, the Valentine’s Day stuff was adorable. I loved hearing the different definitions of love from the inmates, even though I’m not really sure why that was necessary. Bennett’s was hilarious, and Maritza was spot on with her definition. Pizza is all you need.
Yael Stone as Lorna Morello and Uzo Aduba as Crazy Eyes in OITNB. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 7: ‘Comic Sans’
Feels: !@#$%
Yes, I know it isn’t an emotion, but GOOD GOSH. Larry, Polly…what the heck. Seriously? Seriously right now? Because that isn’t going to totally blow up in their face or anything. And what about Pete? I know he’s in Alaska, but come on people. I hope she ends up pregnant. I know she just had a kid and she seems miserable with that one, but she deserves another.
Jason Biggs as Larry Bloom and Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in OITNB. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 8: ‘Appropriately Sized Pots’
Feels: Bleh
This episode was kind of boring for me. I’m glad they brought back the furlough conversation from season one, but I don’t like the way this has tied up. I miss Fisher, she was the most relatable of the officers. They should have gotten rid of someone else…like O’Neil. Can’t stand him. As for the backstory this episode, it seemed very unreal to me, but I’m glad they gave Rosa a backstory. She won’t survive the season. They’re playing this cancer storyline a lot more this season than they did last.
Episode 9: ’40 OZ of Furlough’
Feels: Ugh
Can we not with this segment of the season? We hit such a high a few episodes ago with Morello, Gloria and Poussey. Why, why, why am I watching Cal get married at a funeral? I did like at the end of the episode Piper grabbed a 40 instead of the champagne – it showed she’s changing, and I think we can all agree that’s for the best. Pornstache coming back is definitely going to come back and bite somebody (cough, Fig, cough) in the butt.
Episode 10: ‘Little Mustachioed Sh*t’
Feels: Conflicted
I understand that the point of this episode is the seriously lame Alex and Piper drama, but it was completely overshadowed by the heartbreaking Christopher and Morello interaction. Why would they even let him come in to visit her? It was definitely implied that she was possibly in there for stalking him, so why on earth would he be allowed on her visitation list? Thank goodness for Nicky.
Episode 11: ‘Take a Break from Your Values’
Feels: Bored
My emotion is both a shout out to Poussey at the Safe Place meeting, and is also just how I felt. I’m done with this Vee storyline. Yes, she has Crazy Eyes wrapped around her finger, but soon that will be all she has. Other people I’m done with include Fig. I’m done with her sass, I’m done with her gay husband storyline, I’m done. The highlight of the episode was the elderly woman stabbing the wrong lady in an attempt to get Vee. I laughed, just because of the facial expressions during the whole scene.
Kate Mulgrew as Red and Lorraine Toussaint as Vee Parker in OITNB. Photo courtesy of Lionsgate
Episode 12: ‘It Was the Change’
Feels: Ha
I laughed a lot this episode, and it wasn’t because the usual banter was particularly funny. I feel like a lot of what happened in this episode was just so ridiculous and expected it had to be laughed at. Of course the inmates had to pee in a bucket. Of course Fig did not care that the prison was flooding. Of course Taystee and Poussey make up. Of course Piper gets caught coming out of Fig’s office. Of course Vee shaking on the truce meant nothing. Unimpressive, Netflix. Unimpressive.
Episode 13: ‘We Have Manners. We’re Polite”
Feels: SCATTER THE NUNS!
I understand that isn’t necessarily a feeling, but I think it sums up the episode pretty nicely. I’m mad at Caputo for not really caring about Bennett, I cried happy tears for Rosa’s escape (SCATTER THE NUNS!) and then cheered when she hit Vee…Seems like they tied things up pretty nicely, just in case there isn’t a third season, but I want one. The whole season was very back and forth for me, some episodes I loved and others were just really bland. Let’s be real though, there was enough perfectly seasoned meat to this episode to make us all want a season three.
Weekly Crime Blotter, May 6 – 13
The following reflects arrests, calls for service and incidents responded to by the UNC Charlotte campus Police and Public Safety Department. Incident dates run from Wednesday, May 6, through Tuesday, May 13.
For more information on Mecklenburg County arrests, visit the Mecklenburg County Arrest Inquiry.
– University Road, unknown subject removed property without permission.
– Barnhardt Lane, previously trespassed suspect found on campus.
Drug Violation
– University Road, subject was in possession of non-prescription drugs.
– Union Deck, subject reported that his vehicle was damaged while parked and unattended.
– Van Landingham Road, driver struck another driver.
– Union Deck, driver of vehicle collided with another vehicle.
– Mary Alexander Road, while attempting to back into a parking space, vehicle one struck vehicle two.
Call for Service
– Cameron Blvd., unknown subject pulled the fire alarm.
– University Road, unknown subject removed property that was left unattended and unsecured.
– University Road, subject reported damage to the rack located on the top of her vehicle.
– Mary Alexander Road, subject was arrested for an outstanding warrant.
– Library Lane, previously trespassed subject found on campus.
– Mary Alexander Road, unknown subject removed property without permission.
Clay Aiken suspends campaign after opponent’s accidental death
Clay Aiken, UNC Charlotte class of 2003, recently suspended his campaign for North Carolina Congressman after opponent for the Democratic nomination, Keith Crisco, passed away at his home on Monday, May 12.
In a released statement, Aiken said, “He was a gentleman, a good and honorable man and an extraordinary public servant. I was honored to know him. I am suspending all campaign activities as we pray for his family and friends.”
Crisco, 71, reportedly died when he accidentally tripped on a rug in his home and fell backward, hitting his head, according to statements made to WCNC by political consultant Brad Crone.
Crisco and Aiken were close in numbers vying for the Democratic nomination in the 2nd Congressional District, according to the results recorded in the unofficial statewide primary election results, most recently updated on May 6, 2014. Aiken reportedly had 11,669 votes, with Crisco not far behind with 11,280. A third candidate, Toni Morris, was credited with 5,607 votes.
A voter canvass was scheduled to occur Tuesday, May 13 by the North Carolina state Board of Elections. In a statement to ABC News Joshua Lawson, spokesman for the Board of Elections, said that Crisco’s death does not change the vote certification process. According to Lawson, should Crisco come out ahead after votes are tallied, the district executive committee of the Democratic Party would select a nominee.
Clay Aiken signing autographs for fans outside Colvard in Sept. 2003. NT File Photo
Student government swears in 2014-15 positions
On Thursday, April 10, at 5:15 p.m., the 2014-15 Student Body President, Vice President, Senators and Chief Justice will be sworn in. The inauguration will take place in the Student Union Rotunda and is open to the student body.
The election results were announced March 27, after a two-day voting period.
Among the winners were Steven Serio and Ruthie Schorr, student body president and vice president elect. The pair won with 49.6 percent of the vote.
For a complete list of election results, see here.
International Facility Management Association prepares for inaugural trade expo
UNC Charlotte’s International Facility Management Association (IFMA) will host their inaugural Innovation Trade Expo and Career Fair on Wednesday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Activity Center Third Floor Salons.
There are five speakers prepared for the event, each of which will discuss their areas of expertise, and give away raffle prizes. Vendor booths will also be set up during the event to allow participants to get to know the vendors more.
Speakers include Cindy Clayton, director of facilities for the Mint Museum, David Stephenson, senior associate with Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, Juanita Tackett, owner of LED Source, Ted Rademacher, president for Radco Roofing and Jonathan Mayhorn, lean six sigma black belt at AT&T and adjunct faculty instructor at UNC Charlotte.
The event is also sponsored by the IMFA Charlotte Chapter.
The expo itself, as well as listening to the speakers, is free of cost. Lunch is $5 and requires prior registration.
Francis Boafo, a UNC Charlotte graduate research assistant who also works with the IFMA Student Chapter at UNC Charlotte, says the event is a good opportunity for students who are interested in the facilities management, construction or engineering to come out and learn about careers in these fields.
For more information visit imfacharlotte.com.
Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine prepares for annual reception
Students have enjoyed viewing the Sanskrit Exhibition since March 12. Photo by Eden Creamer
The Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine will host their annual exhibition reception Wednesday, April 2, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., in the Student Union Art Gallery.
The reception, which in previous years was hosted on the first day of the exhibition, will this year close out the gallery show. All pieces in the show were featured in the magazine.
“The Sanskrit Gallery Reception is a celebration of artistic talent and a reflection of hard work,” said Athina Hinson, editor-in-chief for the 2014 Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine.
The Union Gallery has hosted the pieces featured in the magazine since March 12. The finished book has not been made available until the gallery exhibition and reception.
“This is also the first time the newest publication of Sanskrit will be available,” said Hinson.
The event is open to the public and is free.
“Students should come to the reception to support their fellow peers in their creative pursuits and to enjoy their awesome creations,” said Hinson.
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Radio Active
With Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Stevens, Helen Atkinson Wood
Presented by So Comedy & Broken Robot Productions.
Angus Deayton (Have I Got News For You, One Foot In The Grave, Nighty Night), Helen Atkinson Wood (Blackadder, The Young Ones, QI), Michael Fenton Stevens (Benidorm, My Family) and Philip Pope (Who Dares Wins, Chelmsford 123, Only Fools & Horses) reunite to take classic scripts from the award-winning BBC Radio 4 show on the road.
Among other classic characters expect to catch up with long suffering radio host Mike Channel, original foodie Anna Daptor and the accident-prone Martin Brown. Also featuring the cast’s original musical creations, responsible for such parody bands as The Hee Bee Gee Bees and Status Quid.
WHY? Heading to Maidenhead following a sell-out and critically acclaimed run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Presented by The HandleBards.
The world’s first cycling theatre company, The HandleBards present Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Join their all-female troupe for a bicycle-powered production like none other. A shipwreck washes the court of Milan up onto a mysterious desert island. Inhabited by magicians, sprites and monsters – nothing is as it seems.
WHY? Expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos and a great deal of laughter
£14 (£12 conc)
@HandleBards
The HandleBards' Website
Gary Delaney: Gagster's Paradise
Due to exceptional demand and an array of sold out dates all over the UK, Britain's leading one-liner comic extends his brand new 2018 tour with even more dates for 2019.
He returns to the road with another onslaught of lean, expertly crafted gaggery. A Mock The Week regular and recent star of the new Live At The Apollo series, Gary's shows are renowned in the business for a near unrivalled volume of high-class gags. You should expect no different from this highly acclaimed show. Please note Coolio will not be appearing.
WHY? ‘A cavalcade of brilliantly inventive puns’ ★★★★ The Guardian
‘More quality jokes in one hour than most comics have in their entire careers...Quite brilliant’ ★★★★ Scotsman
‘A master craftsman’ ★★★★ Times
‘One of Britain's grandmasters of the one-liner' ★★★★ Chortle
Suitable for ages 16+ years.
@GaryDelaney
Gary's Website
25 Oct SOLD OUT
Interactive storytelling in the magical story den.
Join in or unwind in the Café Bar with a latte and the Sunday papers, while your little ones get involved in telling stories from all over the world.
Age guidance 4 – 7 years.
WHY? A sociable, creative and entirely relaxed way to do Sundays for families with young children
The Story Den
£3.50 per person (45 mins)
29 Sep from £350
27 Oct from £350
Julian Dutton in Do You Think That's Wise? The Life and Times of John Le Mesurier
An affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
Leading impressionist Julian Dutton brings to life the man behind the wry smile and urbane English repartee that charmed millions and turned John Le Mesurier into a household name as Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army. Packed with glorious reminiscences and stories from the Golden Age of Classic British Comedy.
WHY? A joyful and moving celebration of one of the most popular comic actors of our era
George Egg: Movable Feast
Brand new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage.
In this show he’s on the road! It’s time for Planes, Trains and Automob-meals.
George demonstrates how to cook with an engine, procure items from the train buffet trolley and turn unexpected road-works into a picnic. Three plates of gourmet food cooked live in the most unconventional ways and with the opportunity to taste the results at the end, provided you can stop laughing.
WHY? 'Brilliantly funny' The Guardian
'Trust us, you won’t believe how good the food tastes' The Scotsman
Suitable for age 14+ years.
£14 (£12 conc )
23 Nov from £12
Stephen K Amos: Everyman
Stephen K Amos is on a mission to bring about world peace.
Or, to at least bring about an evening of peace, one venue at a time. In an age when arguments are started over everything from politics to bendy straws, Stephen is rising above the anger to remind us of what we have in common.
Bringing achingly funny anecdotes, hilarious takes on the everyday and his infectious charm, Stephen K Amos will warm your cold, stiffened hearts. Join together with your fellow man and experience the universal language of laughter.
WHY? 'Comedy at its purest and richest form' ★★★★★ The Advertiser
'Amos has the sort of commanding presence and confidence that could only have come from years of working the circuit' ★★★★ Arts Hub
'One of the most likable figures in British comedy' Radio Times
‘Much loved King of stand-up’ ★★★★ North West End
13 Dec from £18
Kai Samra & Matt Winning
An Avalon Edinburgh Festival preview.
Kai Samra combines an edgy stage presence and a confident delivery, talking frankly about the issues of today from an intelligent and fresh perspective.
‘Slick and confident’ Chortle
Matt Winning is a unique and imaginative stand up and character comedian. His eccentric and idiosyncratic act is a whirlwind of ideas.
'Charming and accomplished' ★★★★ The List
WHY? Two award winning comedians try out their latest material ahead of the Edinburgh Festival
Kai Samra's Website
Matt Winning's Website
Matt Richardson – Work in Progress
Virgin Radio presenter and comedian Matt Richardson is trying to navigate the world of adulthood, while feeling like an imposter. Join him for hour of unrestrained, raucous laughs where anything could happen.
As well as being the only comedian to host a show on Virgin Radio, Matt has hosted The Hangover Games (E4), The Xtra Factor (ITV2) and Just Tattoo Of Us (MTV), as well as appearing on Roast Battle (Comedy Central), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Drunk History (Comedy Central) and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Now! (ITV2).
WHY? 'High wattage charisma from a talented young comic whose star is on the rise' The Guardian
★★★★★ Voice Mag | ★★★★★ Theatre Weekly
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Computer Students Q
A conversation with David Grubbs
We spoke with David Grubbs about heavy fog, removing the shell of an egg, the fear of birds and growing a nightmarish second head.
We asked David what came to mind when we presented ten elements on the Periodic Table. He answered in the time that it took him to type his responses.
Not #MAGA.
Positive and negative magnetically charged poles.
Coolness to the touch.
Getting away with murder.
Celery.
Lex Luthor.
Eye-dropper. Foul smell.
KISS Alive II.
Superman.
I prefer to make writing music very different from the experience of writing prose. I want these two headspaces to be as distinct as possible.
Julien Fernandez
As a visual artist, I find memory and imagination to be intertwined concepts that create mental images and generate a creative flux. What’s your personal interpretation of memory & imagination? How do they influence your creative process?
David Grubbs
Oh, my. I feel like I could spend a few months answering this question. But I can start with a very simple type of memory – the muscle memory of playing an instrument. Intellectually, I have the sense that I should challenge myself to transcend the individual musical instrument – in my case, usually guitar or piano – but the fact is that I take so much pleasure in exploring the muscle memory of playing. In seeing where it will take me and in not interrupting the process through notation or through thinking too far ahead. I imagine that this also has to do with the fact that I spend a number of hours per day writing. So, I prefer to make writing music very different from the experience of writing prose. I want these two headspaces to be as distinct as possible.
I discovered your music through Gastr del Sol’s album Crookt, Crackt, or Fly. It’s still one of my favorites, and I feel that there’s something enigmatic and hermetic through your interplay with Jim O’Rourke on this recording. Can you tell us about your memories of these studio sessions? What the studio space itself was like? What was going through your mind at the time?
Thanks. My fondest single memory of this period has to do with being late to meet Jim to work on writing material for this album. I found him sitting in front of my apartment building, just off of a somewhat busy street in Chicago, playing guitar. He couldn’t wait to start the process, and I think that says a lot about how the two of us approached working together at that time.
In regard to the studio space, that was one of the few times that Gastr del Sol worked in a regular commercial studio, as opposed to Steam Room, which was the studio in Jim’s apartment. My recollection is that we came prepared to play and that we worked very quickly – which is quite different from the experience of writing in the studio.
I remember reading that Glenn Gould had to perform in an extremely warm room, while elevated to an extremely specific height at the piano while sitting in an old chair his father had made. What are your favorite physical or atmospheric conditions for you to make music in?
I once had a tour in Italy during springtime where I must have played outdoors for ten or twelve nights in a row. It never rained, and the weather was more or less impeccable. It ruined me! After that, I’ve had an ideal of playing out of doors, and any chance that I have to do a show outside makes me very happy and brings me back to recollections of that tour.
I know two people who suffer from the fear of birds.
I find myself drawn to physical spaces where heavy fog appears. How would you explain the apparition of fog – using your own imaginative explanation?
My experience of fog and clouds and the rest has everything to do with the rate of change of shape. Shape often implies solidity, permanence, etc. And as a writer, I’m drawn to the challenge of describing a sculptural volume that’s in flux, cf. the songs “Work from Smoke,” “Onrushing Cloud,” “Out with the Tide,” “An Optimist Declines” (which contains the line “smoke edged with glass / backlit”), etc., etc.
Please tell us about birds.
I think other people are better qualified to do so. I am intrigued by ornithophobia, the fear of birds. I know two people who suffer from this, and I’m always trying to figure out a way to subtly learn more about it.
We tend to ask many of our subjects about the concept of musical improvisation. But I feel that improvisation is a day-to-day activity – not just in art. What physical action did you most recently improvise?
Removing the shell from a hard-boiled egg.
An early horrific memory of mine was a nightmare, in which people I knew best had a second head that cruelly contradicted all of the sweet, affirming things that main head was inclined to say.
What’s your earliest memory? How often does it come back into your mind, and what influence does it have on your psychology?
An early horrific memory of mine was a nightmare, in which people I knew best had a second head – a little off-center – that cruelly contradicted all of the sweet, affirming things that main head was inclined to say. I am not sure that I would have embraced punk rock as I did without remembering this dream as one of my earliest memories.
In 1618, the English philosopher Robert Fludd conceptualized the Celestial Monochord. He aimed to use it to connect with the cosmos through sound waves. Do you think there’s a relationship between science and music? Would you consider yourself a scientist in your approach to sound?
I consider myself a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to science – like I never truly understood the function of testing a scientific hypothesis via experimentation. I get very cart-before-the-horse and then I’m lost in the language of describing it.
Conversation: 12
Curated by: Julien Fernandez
Conducted by: Email
Total questions: 8
Reading time: Four minutes
Hyperlinks: 11
Most used noun: Memory
Friends with ornithophobia: 2
Jim O’Rourke location: In front of apartment
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About the subject
David Grubbs is a poet, writer and songwriter. He is also a founding member of Gastr Del Sol, Bastro and Squirrel Bait.
About the curator
Julien Fernandez was born in Mayenne, France in 1976. He currently lives and works in Pescara, Italy with his wife, two kids and a dog, Lenny. He is captivated by structural relations between objects, animal behavior, contagion and magic, and is currently working on a mechanism that would classify mental images in the physical world. He also designs and envisions the day-to-day architecture of North of the Internet.
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Die Rolle des Internationalen Währungsfonds in der Finanzkrise
Maila Heck
The global economy with all its components is vulnerable and requires economic observation and coordinated operations. Crises need to be prevented or overcome to acquire a strong immune system as well as to repair existing harm and an eventual recession. The economy is headed by several divisions such as trade, social economy, government budget or financial institutions. International and national organizations which mainly observe, monitor and analyze the circumstances, exist as a supportive element. Among similar institutions the International Monetary Fond operates in the field of international monetary policy. Based on theoretical considerations of the arrangement and function of the IMF and an illustration of the financial crisis of 2007, this paper will expose with the role of the IMF in this present crisis. Its characteristics should turn evident by means of a closer consideration of the current example of the Greek government-debt crisis and in relation to this an analysis of the operations realized by the IMF. It is typical of the IMF that it is fiercely criticized for its particularely assertive interventions into the economies of its member states. Its methods are often queried by the public, foremost the efficiency of them. Whether this criticism is justified or whether the IMF achieves a strengthening of economies with the aid of its strict measures is also addressed in this paper. At the beginning it will be revealed that providing credits and demanding certain measures to be taken in return are the main activites of the IMF. This paper will lead to the recognition that the IMF's approach is indeed assertive but effective and that its role in the financial crisis is limited. It operates mostly in an observing and consulting way. Decisions are not made before a member state asks for help and therefore to intervene and influence economies.
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Reinhard Heyd, Robert Rieg
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Finanzkrise; internationaler Währungsfond
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Category: Extras
On November 1, 2017 April 15, 2018 By K. QuistorffIn ExtrasLeave a comment
My grandfather always told me to beware the fog. Superstitious I would call him. I’d ask why our lake would be haunted. All he would ever say, it’s not our lake, and never was. The ghosts were here before, and they would be after, lest I joined their number.
All stories, and foolishness. The fog was a terrible beast to be sure. One could get lost half a day out there, but there was nothing to sink a boat. Nothing more than the fish I wanted to catch beneath the waters. So fog or not, I strode down to the lake shore, I tipped down our old boat where it was leaned, and pushed it to the waters edge.
I shoved off, pulling my foot clear before it could sink into the mud. I’d done it a hundred times before, rarely got my foot wet any more. Almost as soon as I left the shore it vanished. I rolled my shoulders, and steadied myself. Just stories, just stupid stories of an old cranky man.
I set the oars, and gave a few pulls away from a shore I could no longer see, before bringing them up to rest. I baited an old hook with a worm, and cast it into the lake, closed my eyes, and dreamed of my betrothed who lived three miles down the shore. I’d take her my catch, and share, and my cranky old father could eat dry bread.
That was the dream any way. Its hard to judge time alone on the water, with nothing to keep you company but fancies of the one you love, the creak of an old boat adrift, and the fog. No sun in the sky, a wind so gentle it was hard to guess the direction. It was as bleak and dreary a day on the lake as I could recall.
I saw the old dead ash a mile down the shore peak its gangly branches through the fog for barely a moment. I thought perhaps my luck was improving, and the fog would lift, but those knotted limbs vanished again as quickly as they appeared. There was a dock near the tree, and having caught nothing I considered it might be a better place to fish from, rather than keep drifting towards the river that lead out of Avrale to the south east.
I pulled up my line, and brought down my oars. I turned the boat around, and towards shore. The more I thought about it, the more it didn’t seem likely I had drifted so far south. Even if it had been an hour of daydreaming with no catch, I shouldn’t have been half way to the ash by then.
I checked over my shoulder several times, but neither the ash, nor shore appeared. I kept rowing, and still nothing. The boat was coasting along, and if I dipped the oars in the water I could gage the speed. Not that the old boat could go far without a constant pull. I brought up the oars, stood carefully, and looked towards where shore should be. I tried very hard to make out anything, but there was nothing.
I wondered if I’d miss judged my turn, but I doubted it. Hundreds of times before I’d turned that boat around. I knew how to do it blind. I scratched my head, sat down, and stared at white nothingness. It wasn’t nothingness though. As still as the air was the fog seemed to roll, and shift, rise and fall. It was like something breathing, sleeping, about to wake.
I shook the idea from my head. It was just fog.
Giving up on the idea of reaching shore, I set back to fishing. The fog would clear, eventually, and then it would be an easy mater to row towards, or away from some landmark. There was nowhere on the lake that shore was out of sight once the fog cleared. Only a mile or two across at the widest, and there were islands amidst that widest part, and miles north. I was drifting south.
At the worst I would find myself at Helmsmoth, where the lake narrowed, and became a slow flowing river down into the forests of or eastern neighbor. It would be a nuisance to row back home, take a few hours, but that was the worst, and unlikely to say the least. I’d never drifted farther than half way there in a day.
I mulled that all over, and tossed my line back in the water. After all, if I started rowing again without knowing which way I faced, I could very well take myself all the way down to the river. I shook my head, and closed my eyes, and dreamed of my lovely Annae. I imagined an afternoon we’d spent beneath old Caster’s beech tree, kissing, and daydreaming of our wedding day. Falling asleep with my head on her shoulder.
I couldn’t say how long I drifted off from that thought, perhaps a moment before tipping over, and hitting my head hard on the side of the boat. I was seeing stars, and rubbing the spot I’d hit when I almost missed my fishing rod jerk, and barely caught hold of it before it could be pulled over.
It was the feistiest fish I think I ever caught, or I was just dazed. When I finally pulled the whopper up I wasn’t surprised it had fought so hard. A good foot long trout flailed and thrashed from the end of my line, but before I could get the fish into the boat I nearly jumped out of it myself.
For a moment she was beautiful, stepping from the fog, the water rippling around her feet. She was naked, thin threads of fog leaving some vestige of modesty. She was striding towards me, but I was clearly drifting rather fast towards her.
“Watch out!” I called, as it looked like my boat was going to hit her. A bit foolish maybe, to be telling someone walking on water towards you to watch out. I’d seen magic before, plenty of times, there was even an old shaman who lived on an island up north who had chased me off once with a tornado. All of that kind of vanished from my mind as I collided with the woman, and nothing but fog rolled over me.
I looked around, rubbed my eyes, and realized I’d lost my fish and pole. I turned full around and there she was, though she no longer looked young. Her skin was wrinkled, and hung from her bones. She turned back at me with a haggard old face, and glared with a singular hate before vanishing into the fog again.
I grabbed the oars, and started rowing. I didn’t care where I wound up, but not there, anywhere but there was all I could think. I hadn’t seen what I had seen. I hadn’t hit something that wasn’t there. None of this stopped my rowing. No reason, or sense slowed me for a moment.
I kept glancing over my shoulder as I rowed, watching for shore, for anything. Nothing, more nothing, just an endless expanse of white nothing. Then something, emerging fast out of the fog, a human form, her. I dug my oar into the water, and turned hard. She glowered at me as I avoided her with my turn, standing there leaned towards me. I dug my oars in again and rowed harder than before.
I didn’t check behind me a good minute after she vanished into the fog again. When I did, still nothing, and then suddenly the boat lurched violently, and the scraping sound of small rocks made me wince. I’d hit shore, though what shore I couldn’t guess, or see. Looking behind me was still just a pale gray world of fog.
I brought up the oars, and moved to the front of the boat. I could see the pebbles immediately below the bow, but not more than a foot inland from that. I jumped out, and pulled the boat up well onto shore, and tried to convince myself all of that had just happened. I flopped back, and tried to catch my breath, I had been rowing far to hard. I’d been seeing things, that had to be it.
There was a scraping sound suddenly, and I bolted up right. The boat was sliding back into the water. I jumped up, and tried to grab it, but it was gone. There was no way it had just slid back into the water on its own. No way, I had pulled it fully up onto shore. I backed away from the water, and the quickly vanishing boat. My heart was racing cold, sweat dripping down my brow.
I turned, and looked around, but there was nothing. I could barely see the pebbles beneath my feet. There was nothing, nothing anywhere. I panicked, and ran, that was foolish. I didn’t know where I was running, which way, where I was, but I ran any way. I felt the ground change to grass beneath my feet, and slowed. The shore was mostly clear around the whole lake, but once you were into the grass there were rabbit burrows, old logs, and other hazards.
I looked around again, a futile endeavor, everything looked the same. Everything was the same nothing, featureless gray. Everything but a dark spot, a tall wobbling dark spot that moved towards me. It shifted from a shapeless blob to the younger form of the woman. Her stare was cold, heartless, her eyes nothing but black, her skin seemed ashen, lacking color.
I stood there frozen, unable to think what to do. Running hadn’t worked, and running was no longer really an option. At best I would just run back to the shore, and she could walk on water. What ever she was.
“What do you want?” I demanded.
There was no answer, just a slow plodding step of bare feet through the grass towards me. She stepped up close, and the colorlessness of her skin became all the more daunting. Her skin was almost white, with something darker underneath. She loomed over me, seeming to grow taller. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t move.
“What do you want?” I demanded again as she seemed to breath cold fog down upon me.
There was a whisper on the wind, a voice but not words. They were harsh, and sharp, hissing, and spiteful. It was a voice, but not words, not words I knew at any rate. Forgotten words I guess, words of something that had been there long before me, that would be long after. Words that were not for mortals to know, but for us to fear.
Sense, or insanity finally took me. I spun on my heel, and dashed headless into the blank expanse. I tripped over something, what I don’t know, I didn’t see it before, or after. I tumbled, and fell, and felt water splash over my hand, then my face. I struggled upright, and coughed out a mouth full of water.
I looked around, as useless as it had ever been. Nothing, but I knew I hadn’t gotten away. Everywhere I went, there she was. I felt the water rise around my arm, and scrambled away from it. There were forms in the mist, a dozen, more. Whispers and swishes like whipping wind. The forms were closing in, but even as they started to take shape they fell away, just the impression of a face, and then they were gone.
I jumped up, and ran through a break in the figures approaching me, but more kept appearing as I ran along the shore. Their faces were agonized, weeping, melting into nothing. I felt fingers, or hands try to grab my arms, fingers slick, and slippery they fell away. The voice in the air seemed pleading, like wails begging for something. There were cries, terrible cries that stabbed at the soul like death. They were the unmistakable sounds of those dying horribly.
I stumbled over a log wedged in the pebbled shore, and failed to quite catch myself, the arm I’d thrown out skipping off wet stones, and my face meeting them. There was a flare of pain, and I quickly brought my hand to my face feeling the blood running form my nose. I pulled my feet under me, and began to weep like a child, holding my bleeding nose. The cries of death had stopped, but there was still an ill, unintelligible sound on the wind.
I felt water wash up around my legs, and looked down as water rose up to my waist. I tried to get up, to jump up, and move out of the rising water, but my feet were swept out from under me. I caught myself better that time as I fell, but it was all for naught as I felt myself pulled out into the lake like I was caught in a riptide.
I barely had time to grab a deep breath as I was pulled under the swirling water, down into inky blackness, down, down, sinking faster than a stone. I flailed, and struggled against the current, but as the light began to fade I could tell I was spinning, and tumbling. I didn’t know if I was swimming up, or down, which way the world went.
All I could see was blackness, all I could hear was a roar of something monstrous, all I could feel was wild eddies of freezing cold water that felt like they could cut my skin. Then suddenly there was light. I struggled towards the light, I swam harder than I have ever swam, as my breath was about to give out, as my lungs burned with an agony that demanded I exhale, but there would be no air, no air if I did, only water.
The light grew brighter, and dimmer, and the current swirled around me maddeningly, making it hard to swim in the same direction. Then suddenly I felt the water rush up past me, the light grew, and I gasped for air as I broke the surface, and still I was tumbling. I was tumbling through the air, lost in a void of absolute nothing. No water, no ground, no sky, nothing but a perfect unbroken expanse of the same featureless gray.
I’m sure it lasted but a moment, but it felt a life time, and then I felt the fall begin, I saw the dark water for barely a fleeting moment, just long enough to inhale once more before it crashed painfully across me, like being slapped with the force of a horse’s kick. It forced some of that precious air from my lungs as I trashed trying to upright myself again. The current still was trying to drag me down, but I got upright, I got to the surface, and tread water fiercely to stay afloat.
I panted, and gasped, and looked around frantically. I could see a few feet of water around me, the outline of an uneven stretch of the cursed fog. There were figures again walking towards me, footsteps disturbing the surface of the water, but never reaching me. Then a pair of legs emerged from the fog, crisp, clear, but wrinkled and old. I did not look up, I was too terrified to look up. The ankle bent, and a knee set before my face. Hands gripped my cheeks, and forced me to look up.
Her eyes were darker than before, hollow voids that opened onto the abyss itself. Her lips parted, and a hissed word reached my ears. I could not repeat it. It is not a word I could speak, that I have heard before, or will hear again. It was not a word I knew, but it was a word I understood only one possible meaning for. “Die.”
I gasped for air as I felt the current grab me again, I slipped helplessly beneath the waves despite every struggle. The light was vanishing quickly, darkness intruded, the cold had made me numb. It was over, I knew it was, it was the end. I’m sure I was crying, my tears joining the icy waters that had claimed me. My heart broke to think of my Annae, when she heard of my death, or when I was never found.
I felt something grab my wrist. I fought, and struggled against it. Futile as all other attempts had been I struggled, I would not give in to that dark oblivion. I turned to face what ever had grabbed me. A form barely a shadow of greater dark against the depths, a from set against the last glimmer of light from above. A form pulling me towards that light.
In a panicked moment I realized I was struggling down. I kicked then, kicked with all my might, and stopped fighting the hand pulling me towards the light. My lungs betrayed me though far before the surface. The air escaped, and water tried to rush in. The light came closer, but darkness clouded my vision. I kicked with the last of my strength, and then nothing.
That should have been it. That should have been my end. What happened next, so far as I know was my eyes snapping open, me rolling over, and coughing water from my lungs, and then throwing up what little breakfast I had eaten. I looked up, and saw the faint outline of a house shroud in the fog. I looked behind me, and saw a figure standing with their back to me.
It wasn’t the woman, not her old form, or her young, but the hair was long. He turned, and glanced at me, and gave me what I could not call a smile. He took one step towards the lake shore, and was gone. I lay there, just beyond the densest part of the fog. I lay there, and collapsed back, staring up at the faintest hint of sky, struggling to regain my breath. Still occasionally coughing up more water.
I heard footsteps, and tried to get up, and turn towards them. I doubt I did much more than flop like a beached fish. I tremblingly pushed myself up, ready for the next assault, particularly as I heard the footsteps hasten. I could barely raise my head, but hands, warm, gentle delicate hands helped me. They lifted my head, and for the first time I realized she was calling my name. My ears deafened from being full of water that was finally escaping.
“James, James, James, are you alright?” I grabbed her arms, and pulled my Annae to me with all the strength I could muster. I clung to her like life.
“That is your story?” the King asked.
I wiped away my tears.
“Yes, my King,” I answered.
“Seven people died that day,” he said sadly. “Seven people to the long list of legends of loss from that cursed lake. My advisors wish me to write it off as foolish people who got lost, fell in, drowned when they could not find their way out of the fog. Seven people, in one day. Who would you believe?”
“Your advisors, I am sure are wise, clever men who know a great deal more of the world than me,” I answered. “Yet I will tell you; seven people would not die on that lake by accident. All my life I have lived there, and even in the densest fog, it is safe. Yet something lurks, something kills there. Something dark, and evil makes it not safe on days like that one.”
The King stood up, marched down his dais, and knelt before me where I was on my knees, he grabbed my chin, and made me look up at him. His eyes were fierce things, the eyes of a mage in his thirteenth decade.
“When I was a boy,” the King said, “when I was not half your age, a man came before my father, just as you have. He told a story much as your own. My father did not believe him. My father sent him to work for the barons of South Rook as an indentured servant for a year, as punishment for wasting his time.”
“What will you do?” I asked nervously.
“What would you have me do?”
“The river that feeds the lake in the north splits down another channel to the west, into the Sylvan wood. Divert the river, and the lake will drain in time,” I answered.
“And do you think that will be enough to dissuade what haunts those waters? That it will be worth the cost. No more fish certainly.”
“What is a few fish, compared to seven lives, and almost eight?”
The King nodded. “Go home to your bride young man, and I will consider your tale.”
– Court Records of King Mathias of Avrale, 129 B.E.
On January 31, 2018 April 15, 2018 By K. QuistorffIn Extras, UncategorizedLeave a comment
A few things I must preface with:
This is not a part of O&E. So far from cannon it’s laughable, and yet deeply relevant to the world that came to pass. This occurs in a hevily polished idea of a MMO world I once took part in through my late teens and early twenties. That said this is best read after finishing the first book of The Storm Cycle.
I cannot say when this was written exactly. The file claims it was created early in 2005. This means it is likely a rewrite/edit in the wake of late 2003 first drafts of what would now be Book III’s opening. The original may be forever lost. Regardless, dates or drafts aside this is how it all began. With a girl, a dragon, and a plan so crazy it just might work.
I have done some very minor editing, but this will show some evolution of my writing over the years since it was written nearly 13 years ago.
I shall tell you now a tale from when I was a young wizardess, seeking adventure and fame amidst the lands of the first world. I have always been a proponent of seeking advantage in a fight, for there are only two kinds of fight in this world, the ones that you must win, or escape, and the ones that could have been avoided but for pride, ego, or a simple lack of skill. My mentor oft joked that perhaps I missed my true calling in life as a rogue, regardless this was a fight of ego, to which I am no more immune than any.
Now I mention this for it is at the heart of my tale, in every age there has always been one great and defining legendary deed. The slaying of a great and powerful dragon without assistance. I was young, impetuous, and determined to do what was claimed by any sane minded person impossible, to slay a dragon with nothing but wit, magic, and potions if need be, at a point in my training where even a fine magical robe could not save me from one slight nip by the fierce breed I had set my sights upon slaying.
I studied long and hard, every text, every tome on dragons which I could find. I traveled with many brave bands of adventurers seeking the glory of a group kill of the mighty beasts, some tales of which I might tell another time. All of it came to not, there was no protection great enough but one’s own training, strength, or the fine armor of a warrior to save one from the might of an angered red dragon.
It had been a late night reading on the steps of the great central bank, with foreigners about speaking in broken common of the age, and their own native tongues. My dear sister K’ia herself had slipped into a slumber amidst her night’s practice in the art of alchemy, and dear sweet K’it had long since sauntered off with some other young woman to discuss the finer points of the less applied uses of healing magics. I was feeling disheartened, I was a daft fool but by no means suicidal. I was not going into a fight I knew I could not win.
As I plucked a freshly corked bottle of some potion from beside my sister’s sleeping form, I gazed at the blue green liquid within and turned it contemplatively. It was labeled invisibility, and for a moment I simply stared through it at the moon, bits and pieces of thought slowly congealing into a mad plan, something no one had ever been so daft as to try, and I knew in a heart beat I must do it.
I quickly realized that while I might worm a few potions out of my dear sister without suspicion, to get as many as I needed I would have to turn else where, for I knew she would not approve. I believe it was a colleague of hers, well practiced and recently mastered in his arts of alchemy that provided a generous quantity of the potions, and for a few coins extra asked no questions, and told no tales.
My supplies gathered my plan was all but complete, but ambitious as my primary undertaking was, a single great beast is perhaps less dangerous than the darkness that may lurk about their lair. In those days the most reliable place to find dragons was deep within winding dank passages found to the east, infested with undead horrors and wild elementals. What gave rise to the twisted pit of hell known to some as the bone dungeon was a mystery, no doubt it had once been a dark shrine of ill worship and blackest magery, but it’s masters were long since walking dead, if not simply dust.
After their passing though, and this was more well documented, the main hall of the deepest levels – which opened through caves inaccessible to man in high mountains above – became nest to a red dragon and her children. To reach the main hall was no small feet but it had been done many a times, and many of her eldest children had fallen to groups of brave adventurers in the past. Yet there seemed no end to the progeny of the red dragon, so gathering by my side two fellow wizardesses, and a young rogue, who thought me daft, but was more than ready to amuse them self with my demise, I set forth to brave the forsaken depths.
We had reached the anti-chamber of that great hall that had been nicknamed the red dragon pit, and it was now that I set my plans into action. Knowing that nothing would protect me from one mistake I striped bare. It seemed a logical thing to do, if armor interferes with magic, then surely to be completely naked would only strengthen my magic. The rogue was most amused, and his stares a bit to appreciative for my taste, I considered frying him then and there, but I still needed him for my plan.
The idea was simple enough, the rogue would run in, nab some treasure, his payment for his services, and the dragon who’s attention was caught would be distracted by me, allowing him to slip away and count his cheaply gotten gold. That part went without a hitch, the rogue slipping into the shadows as I paralyzed then afflicted the dragon with a poison spell, and chugged the ready potion of invisibility, and sank to the floor next to my bag of potions and regents, careful not to jostle the bottles for fear of making a sound.
While dragons are intelligent you see, they are not geniuses, and most red dragons, it is my opinion, at their best barely give dogs a run for their money. A dragon’s greatest weakness is its temper, they are all as fiery in spirit as they are in breath, and red are by far the worst when it comes to this. To have been paralyzed, and then stung so impertently angered the beast beyond words, and it bellowed and belched small puffs of smoke. My plan had worked, the beast was too enraged to focus clearly, its enemy had simply disappeared, had I drawn the mother of the brood I wondered if I would have been so lucky.
Little damage as I had done it worked, time and again having rested to pool my magical energies I would paralyze then strike the beast, little by little weakening it. I could see the great beast begin to stager after nearly an hour of this trickery, once blinded by rage it was now badly staggering. Little did I know as I crouched, invisible and slick with sweat from my efforts, fearful that my fragrance would overpower the smell of sulfur in the air and give the stupid beast a clue, that my normal companions were no longer the only ones watching my fool stunt.
For another party of adventurers had come to seek fame for them selves, and having stumbled upon my friends joined them in quiet observation. In their number was a cleric, who’s name escapes me now, perhaps began with T, and far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but I do still question if he truly sought a better view of the fight, or my unclad body.
Regardless it all went quite awry, the dragon, though half dead heard the cleric’s footsteps and caught sight of him. Realizing his mistake he fled, and I, not yet composed for my next strike could do nothing to save him as the dragon crashed through the old weak wall and made short work of the poor man. Though revenge was taken upon the beast in due course, it was not to be by me alone for my stocks had run too short, and my body too weary to start from scratch, for the beast had replenished it’s health from the cleric’s own life.
By the time all parties could regroup, word it seemed had spread amongst the red dragons, and such trickery never worked again, for even they can learn a lesson aptly now and then. To you though I offer these lessons, the best laid plans of mortals and wizards may be set asunder by one fool, and no mater how attractive, a better view of a naked woman is not worth your life.
– a tale of K’at, Mage of Entropy
Elementals, Wisps, & Half-flesh
On April 30, 2018 April 26, 2018 By K. QuistorffIn ExtrasLeave a comment
One of the least understood phenomena in the world of Thaea are Elementals. They are rare to begin with, and generally exist in inaccessible places such as the far northern wastes. With few exception they do not appear near civilized areas of the world, which is extremely fortunate.
Elementals are temperamental, and exhibit erratic behavior that borders on aggressive, but seems to lack any indication of even animal intelligence, though there is clear response to stimuli. Druids highly practiced in elemental channeling have had mixed results controlling, or at least dissuading elementals away from exploratory expeditions. Druids claim that the forces exhibited by elementals are always present, but kept muted and in check by the presence of living things. A not unreasonable assertion given the nature of channeling practices, but with scarce solid proof. Even accepting this assertion what leads to, and provides the persistent energetic expression of elementals is hotly debated.
A few cores have survived the disruption of their surrounding effects or “body” of the elemental. These near priceless objects (only seven are confirmed to exist) are agreed to be comprised of attuned filaments, but their behaviors vary. It is also not clear whether the core represents a true source of the elemental manifestation or merely a side effect – the precipitate as it were of the effect crystalized at the center of the phenomena. No core has ever been observed to exhibit further responsive behavior after the disruption of the rest of the elemental. That being said cores can be used in any number of clever ways depending on their nature.
The two most well studied cores are the Wind Stone of Nohlend, and the Ice Core of ‘Norbert.’ An unfortunate name given to the original elemental, and never explained by the woman Amalia Grey, an intrepid and determined explorer who was also known for odd eccentricities. These two stones exhibit very different fundamental behaviors. The wind stone produces a continuous breeze in its vicinity in the direction, and intensity that light is cast on it. The Ice Core appears superficially to merely be a massive heat sink. Yet obeying conservation of energy the heat lost manifests in excessive filament concentrations in an area roughly fifty feet away.
The past few centuries (following the Dragon War) have offered more opportunities to study the phenomena of elementals, as to the worry of many scholars and laymen the Corinthian Scar exhibits the relatively frequent formation of elementals. Though these seem far less powerful, and aggressive than reports of those manifested in wild lands, and wastes.
For those not familiar with the Corinthian Scar one should perhaps not be surprised. Outside of scholarly circles, and those telling ghost stories, most like to forget its terrifying existence, and the great atrocity that created it. Largely centered on the formal capitol of Corinthia, the Scar in its original form was a ten mile area of scorched rubble that once housed some eight hundred thousand, though at the time of those terrible events more than half the population had fled the march of the Osyrean army, and their dragon tyrants.
Over the following century the scar expanded by nearly sixty times in land area, though significantly more along the primary ley line. This expansion was initially of terrifying concern, and caused the suburbs of the formal capital, and an even larger area beyond the scar to be utterly abandoned. Which given the nature of elementals to appear in uninhabited places almost certainly made the problem worse.
Though the exact area of the scar is currently debated, as is any possible continued expansion – it is almost universally agreed it is no larger than sixty by twenty miles. Some resettlement has occurred around the fringes in small outposts, and unaffiliated groupings – the later of which are highly disreputable, and of great concern to surrounding kingdoms.
Even with a known area of occurrence, and with the exception of wisps the initial formation of an elemental has never been observed. In fact there is heated debate if wisps are even technically elementals at all, or something more obtuse. Wisps exhibit several traits that many argue are contrary to elementals. They are ‘timid’ retreating from approaching observers, not advancing. The occur in forests, fields, near town and city borders, and other places elementals have almost never been reported. They are also vastly more common, though still generally rare. Lastly their initial formation has been observed, if at a distance.
The formation of a wisp is as best described, both odd, and less than special. Wisps appear to form out of an abundance of ambient filaments that gradually begin to coalesce into a luminous concentration. They generally maintain a distance of a few dozen feet from the observer, both retreating and advancing as the observer moves, though with some latency. Beyond this they bob, weave, and swirl about. They are almost always observed individually, but a few dozen accounts exist of two, three, or even eight.
Wisps only seem timid about humans, and larger animals. They ignore trees, and have even been observed to pass through them. Their luminance attracts many night insects, including fireflies, which can create the illusion to the uninformed that a number of smaller wisps are following the larger. Wisps are almost always blue in hue, and fire flies exhibit warmer colors.
Half-flesh are an even stranger phenomena. There are five recorded over the course of a thousand years, six or seven counting either the Avatar, or Lady of the Sands who many believe deserve each a class to themselves. The Lady of the Sands continued existence is also in debate – as she was always reclusive. The nomads north of Osyrae continue to vaguely worship her, and swear to her continued presence.
Half-flesh exhibit as (generally) intelligent pseudo-elemental ghosts – or possibly highly intricate spells. None have ever been overly willing to be closely examined, and most have eventually dissipated within a century or two of their formation. They bare traits of both elementals, and ghosts. None have ever observed the initial formation, though some come and go like ghosts. All were once (reportedly) living people who possessed exceptional affinities for an elemental pattern. All manifest in vaguely to fully human form, seem to experience sensation like humans, remain fully to mostly intelligent, but are made of elementally attuned filaments, or inorganic matter.
Here is a short list:
The Stone Man Cartith:
One of the only stone shamans recorded, Cartith was a disturbingly powerful gifted warrior who first fought against, and ultimately beside Emperor Corinth in his subjugation of the age of Kings. Cartith’s practice was incredibly detrimental to his health in ways that were not well understood. Though he did not generally engage in direct combat he was an almost grotesquely muscular man, and his bulk was largely scar tissue created by the straining he did while wielding his might. Cartith died in battle not from enemy action, but from his heart literally tearing itself apart beyond repair. The following day a human form made of shaped stones was found outside of camp. Though the Stone Man was incapable of speech he could communicate in other varied ways from gestures, to scratches in the dirt.
Cartith served the Emperor through many further campaigns before one day simply walking away. It is generally believed that Cartith’s mind slowly faded with time. He became a mercenary, and eventually was believed to be little more than a pet to his pay master until one day he simply stopped moving. Other than some trivial residual filament concentration nothing special was ever found about his remains.
Laset the Dancing Wave:
Laset’s existence is well enough documented through enough lands that her existance is almost certain, but she is more myth than fact. A woman of Tethes she lived sometime around 400 B.E. A water channeler of immense power she preferred the art of dance to war, but came none the less always to her peoples defense in times of conflict. This in spite of her near ostracization for her flagrant disregard for social norms around clothing, sexuality, or propriety. She was fond of seduction of lovers of either sex, regardless of their marital status, and hardly limited herself to individuals.
She was ultimately killed by the combined efforts of several mages in an invading Osyrean army. The following day the Osyrean occupiers were all found drowned at their posts, or in their beds. These are the only deaths attributed -strongly- to Laset, who was hence forth again known more for her former pass times. Though a scattering of stories say that her return to her former pastimes of dance and seduction lured unsuspecting fools to their doom these are considered false by most scholars.
As an ascended being Laset by most accounts was even less restrained than in her mortal life. So much so that records say that after a final falling out with the elders of her former tribe she left. Records place her wanderings through half the world there after. The seduction of princes and farm girls, great shows she put on for the amusements of Kings and Queens. Her defense of the innocent under cruel tyrants, and thieves. Long lived for a Half-flesh the last known report of Laset is from central Palentine along the North Sea. Where she is recorded to have lived roughly seven years around 130-123 B.E.
Sixteen surviving accounts refer to the “Final Wave” or the “Fairwell of the Sea” when during the high day of the summer solstice Laset put on a seven hour show in Palace Harbor during which ribbons of water were woven through the air hundreds of feet long, and high, intricately in intwined in complex dancing knots that numerous famous paintings attempt to recreate. At the end of her performance she gave a final bow, blew a kiss to her vast audience, and joined the sea. No credible tales are recorded after.
Soren the Unliving Cold:
No one knows precisely who Soren was before he appears in Napir folklore around 500 B.E. Even after he became a frozen corpse that still somehow moved he was reclusive. His touch was known to kill, or at least gravely wound. Weapons of any sort shattered against him like glass. By 450 B.E. several ill advised attempts to destroy him by local Lords and Ladies were well recorded. The Storm Queen of the day put a stop to this, and faced Soren personally.
Soren made no moves against the Queen, and the Queen after a few harmless shows of power decided instead to attempt to speak with him. He was not overly articulate at first, his dialect seemingly very old, but he was clearly intelligent when engaged at length. He expressed no interest in violence, only bewilderment at his own existence – and a sorrow of loneliness. He had vague memories of a lost wife, and child, and claims of cities in the sky.
When the Maji arrived in 423 B.E. Soren sought them out, and proved an adept student of magic – further he became a teacher himself, and was granted the title of Magus. A young woman of the Maji fell madly in love with him, and by all records concocted spells to protect herself from the intense cold Soren exuded. By all accounts she touched him by surprise, and to initial terror on his face. Then to his further bewilderment she kissed him. Yet unlike most half flesh records say he found that he could not feel even this. This stripped from him his last hope in life, broke his heart, and several days later a spell fire burst several hundred feet high was observed from an open rocky area. No one witnessed the event directly, but no credible record of Soren exists beyond this day.
Amir the Living Wind:
Amir is believed to have originally come from the lands north of Osyrae – though little more is known of his mortal life, for few tales claim he ever said. Amir is a strange sort among the Half-flesh. He had no tangible, or visible form, and some scholar try to write him off as a myth carried by the Maji in their travels. Dating however of many tales, all reporting the same name Amir, occur centuries before the track of the Maji reached many lands. Further while Amir is recorded in the oral histories of northern Osyrae, he does not appear in any early Maji writings, nor in any oral traditions of central Osyrae where the Maji originated.
Beyond this it is all but impossible to sort fact from fiction. Amir is recorded as benevolent, mischievous, clever, tender, and lustful. He is credited with saving people from terrible falls, and blowing about women’s clothes to their embarrassment. Stories have him playing spy against invading armies, leaving warnings written in the dirt of coming attacks, and intervening in critical battles. There are stories of the song on the wind, and numerous women who claimed to have a ghostly lover that came on the breeze.
Given the truly abstract nature of the tales around Amir it is no more clear when he stopped existing than when he started. Tall tales continue into the modern age, but their frequency dropped off some time around 350 E.R.
Geneve the Rapture of Light:
Geneve’s origin is somewhat well recorded. A witch of the wastes north of the modern area claimed by the Clarion Ascension she was already an outcast of sorts, but her skills were far too prized for the local tribes to stay away from her for long. By all accounts of her works, and unlike many historically recorded ‘witches,’ Geneve was more accurately an enchanter. As all witches her practice predated the path of the Maji, living some time around 750 B.E.
In life what Geneve was known more for than her spell bound wares, was her absolute distaste for men. Being a witch already marked her an outsider from any tribe, her intolerance for the presence of men more so, and lastly her well recorded affinity for women further. In addition to her enchantments, Geneve was known as an illusionist. Though she made her home in open land, near a lake that could be seen from half a mile away people would get lost trying to walk straight towards it.
Only a lone woman could pass her illusions, and reach her home. There they would be offered tea, sometimes a meal, and barter for her wares. Few claimed to have given in to her seductions, but few denied that they were made. After all, if the known lustful woman did not try, it would be an affront to one’s beauty.
Some would not return for days. Often offering excuses that they could not easily return through the same illusions that lead people astray approaching. This was a very necessary claim for fear of being shunned, though most considered the seductions of Geneve witchcraft of the highest order.
It varied under the leaders of the surrounding tribes if only virgin girls were sent in an attempt to sway her, or only widows to not sully the honor of some poor girl. All together the stories remained on average the same.
One day, in tales dated to circa 610 B.E. a young boy was dared to challenge the illusionary maze by his friends. He walked straight through. There in her bed was found an old woman, dead in likelihood of natural causes, and age. Though Geneve appeared in the tales of her life to always be young.
Over the following centuries begin the tales of the Rapture of Light. A seductive glowing woman who lured young women into the night, and whispered lustful thoughts in their ears. That her caress was warmth itself, and her voice a song that felt like bells of light ringing in the ear.
Were it not for records of the Magus Garlen, a respected member of the Maji troop that arrived in those lands in 223 B.E. Geneve might be written off as nothing more than a legend. Yet her two recorded works (one poetic, one scholarly,) each banned in devoutly Clarion lands are detailed, and often frank accounts of her long dealings with Geneve. What the troublesome spirit asked for her knowledge, and good humor, and also the powers observed.
There are further accounts by other Maji who observed her interactions with the glowing spirit, and also records of other young female Maji who interacted favorably, or otherwise with her.
The Lady of the Sands:
There are well documented encounters with the protector of the northern wastes all the way up to 150 E.R. and countless myths surrounding her. If she ever speaks is a mater for debate, but the most well recorded events were battles, all of which were lost by the side that faced her.
More is known about her powers than either her origins, or her personality. She commands both wind, and sand in raw physical form. She assumes the shape of a woman, sometimes seemingly naked, or draped in flowing gowns – though it can be hard to tell either apart as her feet rarely fully form, instead tapering into the sand bellow. She is far from limited to either human scale, or form. She can call up great waves of sand, from hands large enough to grab hold of a dunewalker, and strike with more than enough force to kill.
In addition to these powers of brute force she is able to whip up terrible whirlwinds, by some reports gale force storms, and scatter the shapes she makes of sand into the wind becoming deadly sandstorms. Her primary area of appearance is in the region above the North Sea, and her most recurring failed adversary kings of Osyrae, including by all reports Osir himself, who tried to spread their influence east.
There are seven recorded battles with the Lady over the thousand years since the reign of Osir. The last two decades before Osyrae relented to join the Empire rather than be an isolated power without hope of expansion, or trade.
Though the Lady of the Sands is amongst the most powerful beings ever recorded, and capable of devastating effects, she has generally been credited of using little more force than necessary. The most casualties recorded in a battle with her were during the determined campaign of King Omal the Mad in 342 B.E. who ordered his army to continue to fight until his own son slew him to end the madness. Even then only fifty soldiers died, though roughly three hundred were seriously wounded. Other encounters in spite of grand shows of force by the Lady never exceeded casualties of between seven, and twenty, though injuries were always vastly more plentiful.
Beyond records of battle only one well recorded treatise exists on the Lady of the Sands, among the many works of Joshua Caust, an Imperial Researcher who spent several years seeking out the Lady from 147-150 E.R. Joshua is generally well regarded, and the work is largely held up as genuine, though many besmirch a few thinly veiled passages that allude to her having been somewhat “amiable,” and an experience described as “corse, but not the least unpleasant.”
More over he does write at length about attempting to communicate with the Lady on the few occasions his shaman guide was able to lead him to her, or summon her. His writings indicate that while she never once spoke she seemed able to understanding meaning, and intent, if not words themselves. That she presented an air of intelligence, and behavior ranging from aloof, to curious, cautious and even “coy” and “playful” when called “beautiful.” A statement he writes to have, “said at first in all earnest awe at the majesty of a living spell more intricate than any mortal being, and more powerful than the beating sun above, but from the look on her face, and the amused shift in her stance, I knew she had little doubt other aspects of her beauty had struck me almost as profoundly.”
No one has challenged the northern wastes with military force in centuries, and no other researchers have been able to gain audience with the illusive being. As such it is hotly debated if she still exists, though unsubstantiated reports of her presence persist.
The Avatar:
Though baring no relation to any specific element precisely – some argue life, or throw out some sacrament about holy energy, aether, etc. The Avatar is something of a singular, and strange spectacle. Once a mortal Paladin who fell – or as it were ascended 0 in battle he is the exception that proves the rule about none witnessing the formation, or that he is not half flesh at all by other arguments.
The Ascension of the Avatar is one of the most well recorded events in history. When his shield gave out under the flame onslaught of the Black King of the Osyrean Dragons, shortly after the destruction of the city of Corinthia for a moment some new shield held against the fire. When that failed his flesh burned away.
Thinking his job done the Dragon King relented his assault, only to watch in bewilderment as flesh reknit with bone. As light swept across the battlefield of his fallen comrades, and by some accounts tendrils from as far away as the smoldering ruins of the city. The light consumed the frail form, and the man rose above the field of battle. The next jut of flame washed over him like nothing, a perfect sphere around him impenetrable.
With a sweep of his hand the Avatar tossed the mighty dragon back, though his claws found purchase, and his wings slowed him. He charged the Avatar again, only to be attacked by his own brother, another great black dragon who wounded his neck. His loyal followers drove back his brother who fled reluctantly, and for the first time in the Dragon War the Osyrean army retreated. The Avatar did not follow.
The Avatar appears to primarily work in pure kenetic energy, and sometimes light. A few mages claim that what he does most closely resembles magic, but at once far more delicate in construction, and brutish in power. His true nature is openly debated, but it is generally considered that he mostly likely is the amalgam of many lost souls from the battle of Corinthia, and possibly from the destruction of the city itself as well.
There are a few scarce reports of the voice of the Avatar, but these are fleeting at best, and not well recorded. It is said his voice is like that of thousands all speaking incoherently to some how form words from the way they overlap. That it is terrifying, unnerving – and yet oddly comforting in contrast to these things – that more readily describe the experience.
On June 9, 2018 May 31, 2018 By K. QuistorffIn Arcana, ExtrasLeave a comment
Shown also Inverted as it is part of the symbolism of the Arcana.
The 3rd card of the House of The Works of Men (aka Mortals); The Tower. The tower like many cards in the House can be quite literal. The world is full of towers. The walls and spires built to defend the insecure.
The tower stands between the night and the day, but when one looks closer dark clouds plague the bright dawn, and tranquility may be found in the night. Wars are brought most often upon the day, though schemes may lurk in the dark. In some older versions the moonward figure is a man wearing a mask, while the sunward figure is a soldier with a pike.
The tower is ultimately also iconic of home, city life, and royalty. All of the structures of society. The masked and helmeted figures of old tradition, and White and Red Sisters shown above, also implying masks, roles, and expectations.
Inverted the Tower can represent the loss of home, but also the rejection of the rigid structures of society. As with several other cards depicting a bisected sky the Inversion of the Tower can represent quite literally that which is upended, or backwards, or the overturning of things, as the sun sets, and moon rises.
On the differing iconography. As noted above the Red and White women pictured are a change in the traditional imagery that popularized around 200 E.R. In the wake of the works Sylvia Grey. Much has been written on the mater of ‘The Masks of Women and Men,’ in allusion to this change. Sylvia Grey particularly expounded upon the topic in one of her lesser known works, a treaties on the Arcana. The work focused heavily on the cultural symbolism, and history, and less on the actual art of divination. Though heavily explored the idea of perspectives in interpretation. It was thus that imagery from her writings found its way into many decks after her time.
Clearly this card was crafted some time after 200 E.R. The symbolism here of what is most likely a Red Sister in the night side, and a White Sister in the day. This betrays an eye to post Sylvian cultural influences. It is curious to see this symbolism and variation in the covering of the more common exposed chest of the moonward figure. Such juxtaposition of Lycian iconography and Clarion modesty places a likely origin of the card from Western Palantine, most likely after 250 E.R. Even in decks with such tamed aesthetics, such modesty is rarely extended to the Empress card, even in devoutly Clarion lands. More on this another time.
Commentary: Yeah, this is for pragmatic reasons a censored version of the card. Yet it provides some nice opportunity to catalogue lore of the Clarion Lycian dichotomy. Also an apt case of the contrary point of discomfort over a literal spattering of a few pixels. The implication of a few contours and shapes, rendering an image questionable.
I went a rather different way with my Tower relative to the interpretations of the tarot version. I just like this better. I did however keep an allusion to storm clouds in the distance, I think that fit well with my lore interpretations. Also perhaps a trace of the Babel like fall of the tower. The arrogance of mortals to defy the natural order. Yet as the question will be raised. What is of nature?
Also yes, this was intentionally designed to be evocative of the twins as pictured on the cover of Book II, while very clearly not being them. Too much literalism is destructive to symbolism. If there is a rhyme in the whims of prognosticating seers, who can say.
On June 10, 2018 June 17, 2018 By K. QuistorffIn ExtrasLeave a comment
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I currently have a few Interludes planned between Book II and Book III as filler while I get on track for the next. All extraneous content that might be of interest, but is not critical enough to the plot to make the cut where it belongs.
This scene would have been utterly indulgent to include, no matter how tame, and simply leading it is. Take that as you will. It wasn’t necessary, and another vignette is not something chapter 28 needed. I guess each of the interludes is about relationships, and the complicated places we can find ourselves in them. Particularly if one tries to square their feelings, with their bias. It’s a natural thing to ponder the emotions of being in such a situation, from all sides. Each bringing a different view.
When precisely this occurs is open for debate. Some time before the end of Book II. Likely late 650 or early 651. One needs to keep warm on those cold winter nights after all. A slice of life with some personal impact, but few dramatic consequences.
If the romantic negotiations of complex relationships are not your thing. Take it or leave it as you will.
To Rival All Others
Celia looked up after a knock at the door. She set her book aside, and strode across the chamber unsure who would be calling. She felt a presence as she set her hand to the handle. It was slight, familiar perhaps, but she wasn’t sure. She opened the door, and was greeted by Maeren’s insecure but far from timid eyes. Her arm across her chest, rubbing her left nervously, as each woman adopted hard to read expressions.
They stood there in silence a moment, each trying to find the measure of the other. One more conflicted, the other more hesitant.
“May I come in?” Maeren finally asked.
“Seems I already made such arrangement, didn’t I?” Celia offered somewhat dismissively. She stepped back, when she realized she still stood in the way, and Maeren walked in. Her manner notably sheepish.
Celia closed the door, and the other woman stood there, with her back to her. Clearly struggling to stop fidgeting.
“You do know she loves you? Don’t you?” Maeren asked, not turning around.
“Yes,” Celia answered, though her conviction was lacking.
Maeren turned, a sad smile on her lips. “But you are jealous,” she added.
“We all have our weaknesses,” Celia answered with a measured, almost embarrassed breath.
Maeren stepped closer, and Celia grew more rigid. “She loves me as well. Far more than is at all reasonable. Some silly errant maid. One who insists she share me with others, I just can’t let go of. Just as you insisted she share her boundless heart, if she found the inclination.”
“What,” Celia started, then swallowed, “is your point?”
“I will not steal her away from you. She would never choose, not between us. If either of us were to ask… I have little doubt it would completely break her heart.”
“So do you propose we choose for her?” Celia wagered uncomfortably.
“No.” Maeren laughed. “Quite the opposite.” She stepped closer again, and reached out her hand. Celia winced, but did not pull away, and Maeren set her palm to the other woman’s cheek.
“What do you want?” Celia asked, her eyes falling.
“I love her. Like I love few others,” Maeren said. “I saw that night how much you loved her. I saw,” she said, momentarily overcome, “when you asked me to stay, clearly in spite of your own uncertainty, how very much you love her.”
“That,” Celia started, closed her eyes, and took a breath. “That, with the woman we both love, on death’s door, I asked you to stay, does not mean… I…” She opened them again, and stared defiantly at the other woman.
“Why not?” Maeren pressed.
“You do know I am with someone else, right?” Celia protested a bemused look on her face.
“Hardly an argument against, I would think,” Maeren teased.
Celia glared at her.
“Whose rules are you playing by?” Maeren asked.
“Who said it’s a game?” Celia countered harshly.
“Isn’t it fun?” Maeren teased again. “Don’t you laugh, and giggle, and smile?”
“And cry, and cling, and worry, and worry,” Celia countered, but it felt hollow. However pained she clearly was. She knew why. She knew her argument wouldn’t win, not even in her own head.
“Didn’t we that night?” Maeren pressed, and leaned just a little closer. “Both with our hands on her heart, cling, and worry, and cry.”
Celia found nothing to answer that, and the presence of the other woman was completely disarming. To the point of being suspect. She had felt it before, asked a Red Sister what it felt like. How they could use their gift to nudge another’s desire.
“She’s lent me that book of your faith,” Maeren added. “I have found absolute solace in it. More than the spiteful rules I was raised in. So much more like the ones I follow in through the shadows of this court.” She hesitated. “Do you find me attractive?” she challenged suddenly.
“Even without your help,” Celia said tersely, using the admission to put Maeren off her guard by the coupled accusation. It worked, and Celia felt the change.
“What?” Maeren said surprised by the tone, but not quite understanding.
“You have a presence,” Celia said with clear frustration, but found herself leaning forward. “Presence, implies gift. Gift, that you have learned to use to your advantage in the most…” she let her breath go, and pulled away. “I’d call it clever, if I thought you had any idea you were doing it.”
“Doing, what?” Maeren demanded, as Celia broke free of her gravity, marched around her. She stopped and stewed in the middle of the room. “Has anyone ever told you no?” Celia demanded.
“Yes,” Maeren said almost bewildered by the question.
Celia spun, and stepped back towards her. A profound presence washing over the woman like a warm wonderful blanket. A soft silken sensation that slid over the skin delightfully. “And did even one stick to it?” she asked almost breathlessly.
Maeren bit her lip. “I…” she stammered, and tried to think back, but all she wanted was to kiss the woman in front of her, not think of others. It was slippery. She felt sure, maybe. So many on first brush had found her forward, or repovered her, and then some other day changed their mind. Offered, asked, often so nervously. Who, or which, wasn’t interesting. The moment she was in seemed all consuming. “I don’t know,” she answered nervously.
“It’s not control,” Celia said, her presence letting up, but not fully. “It is so the opposite of control, and it is the easiest of things to learn by instinct.” She stepped back, and turned away. “I shouldn’t have done that,” she muttered irritably.
“Why?” Maeren asked, flustered, and lacking any confidence.
“Because it isn’t one sided. I don’t even think it can be.”
Maeren followed, and put her hand on the other woman’s shoulder. “You said…implied that night,” Maeren started, and hesitated. “That gift…lets one convince the will, of what the body is already willing.” She huffed. “That is how it works, yes? And you have to feel it yourself, to impart it, at least something this complex.”
Celia pulled away. “If you think Katrisha did not tell me, in absolute detail, what you two have already shared, and how, you are very mistaken. I have read the Red Book as well,” Celia said avoiding a direct answer. “Read it, again, and again. It does not define my faith, but to say it does not align…” She turned, and stared with very mixed determination into the other woman’s eyes. “My mind, agrees. My body, agrees. My heart, remains unsettled. I love her. She, I think is closer to such faith than I may ever be. So much more like…” She grimaced a bit at that, tempted to derail the conversation in distraction, and mire it in awkward discomfort. “You, for all I want to be jealous…”
“Yes?” Maeren pressed.
“It’s funny,” she said nervously, turning, and pacing. “How small she makes me feel. Two years ago, she was taller than me, and now I am just a hair taller than her. She still makes me feel small. I love her like I could love no one. I promised her…everything that I am, and I have already broken that promise. Because I love her, and cannot tell her that I fear her, and fear for her. That what you offer appeals to me, and frustrates me. That I cannot own her, do not want to, and would give…almost anything in this world if I thought I could.”
“She,” Maeren hesitated. She caught Celia’s hand, and waited till she relented to look her in the eye. “She told me one morning. Pleaded with me to stay with her that day. Joked that…if a land can have two Queens, then why not three? It was a joke, I think only in what she would not do, to become Queen, with her two consorts. The rest I do not think a jest in the least. She loves us both, far more than I think either of us will ever know what to do with.”
“What do you want?” Celia pressed.
“You’ve said you know what she and I have shared,” Maeren said. “It was fun. It was a game. I want to give her something more than that. To etch myself onto her heart. To sear the memory of me – of us – onto her soul. As she has done to mine. Yet how does one outshine the sun?” Maeren laughed.
“Or a moon so much brighter than any star.” A funny smile crossed Celia’s lips. “Convince me, that I would not regret this. That together we could make her never forget us.”
Maeren pulled her closer, lay her hand on her cheek, and stood there, waiting, until Celia kissed her. It was quite some breathless time, till a door opened, and two sets of eyes turned nervously to an expected intruder. Each filled with hope, and fear.
Katrisha could never have quite answered – not in that moment – if her heart broke, or finally felt pieced back together. She put her hand to her chest. Made sure some effect of the poison had not returned. She found no such excuse, turned, bit her lip, then closed and sealed the door with a spell.
Commentary: It is tempting to go on at length about the mechanisms in play here. Everything from empathic mirroring to, differing social norms. Defense of position, respect, and rivalry. Inverse perspectives of faith, and challenges to that faith. Self aware dogma that to love defiantly of convention, is to offer singular love as defiance against that convention. Further to know those conventions, is to still be impacted by them. To be taught a path, and to be educated in the opposing view to recognize it, is to know that path is there. That it is convention.
I am trying to capture with subtlety that Celia’s upbringing makes her actually guilty that she is not the one pushing for this, let alone resistant. This implied offer aligns with what she feels she should believe. As arbitrary as the guilt of desire in one who has been trained to abstain.
Two points on a spectrum, one who was taught to be open to such ideas, but in her heart longs for a singular importance in her lovers eyes. One who was taught to be a proper Clarion girl, but found her solace in quite the opposite. When in a moment of tenderness she found joy again in her sometimes harsh life.
We only get a glimpse of Katrisha’s reaction, and I think I will leave the description as it stands. Particularly as Book II concludes, and it is revealed time marches on. Each section offering a lens through which to see the other. Things don’t always need to be simple.
I’ve imagined this scene for incredibly long time, but always kind of known it wouldn’t go in. It sets the stage for the begging of Book III, but that book has always begun one way, and just doesn’t leave room for this little encounter between old friends that were never quite more. If you will forgive ‘more’ in relation to friendship and romance. One can have a lover who is not really a friend. One can certainly have a friend who is not a lover. I don’t think though that it is unfair to imply that the combination is more than one or the other, without arguing too much about relativistic feelings on love and friendship. A complex topic to say the least. This occurs fairly soon before the start of Book III, sans some necessary travel time. I won’t give it a precise date to avoid sorting the logistics of that.
Fools May Tread
The Blight. It wasn’t always called this, and in all likelihood the name would pass again into obscurity. Seen from high above the world one might see some resemblance to a depiction of a complex mathematical set, plotted roughly in the dead trees of the once vibrant Evergrove. The spread had stopped. The damage done lingered. Quite in spite of the best efforts of some of the worlds greatest minds, who owed what success they found to the work, and peril of one young woman.
Kiannae Ashton. Raven haired, and a bit tall for a woman, or even a man of her native Avrale. Her sun touched skin could almost hide the freckles around her nose, and emerald eyes just the least bit off the mark from human. She had always had a tendency towards being a loner, and so to noone’s surprise sat on a marker stone, well apart from friend or foe.
Spellwork glowed around her, visible to even ungifted yes. Living grass spread, and sprouted beneath her chosen seat. A flower cropped up amidst it, and turned her eye. The presence approaching had not. Mostly out of indifference. She had thought he felt familiar. She looked up on the face of a young man who stood with trepidation at the edge of her freshly grown lawn.
“You’ve a lot of nerve,” she said. “Sneaking up on me again, after all these years.”
“As if I could ever sneak up on you,” Zale answered.
She stood up, and stepped through her spell work without a care. It dissolved, and swirled around her. The rapid growth ceased.
“You really did all that?” he asked, and noticed that she was maybe even a little taller than he remembered.
“All that?” she said with ill humor, gesturing behind her. “Oh yes, probably. You’d have seen it, if you stuck around.”
“I’m not here to fight,” Zale protested.
“Because someone asked – very nicely – that I please convince the crazy girl to stop antagonizing the Storm Queen. Sitting right on her border. I told Landri, that if she thought I could convince you of anything, she was out of her mind.”
“I’m not antagonizing the Storm Queen,” Kiannae said.
Zale gestured exasperatedly at the sky. “That’s a dragon! Up there! On the borders of Niven, for all the further trouble that makes. Don’t try and tell me it’s some coincidence.”
“Oh, what?” Kiannae looked up as though surprised. “Calista? Eh. She’s an old friend. Gentle as a kitten. She circles overhead on the border, while I sit here on a rock. We chat at least twice a day. Commiserate over all the unnecessary fuss everyone makes over it.”
“So you, just chat, with an ancient dragon?” Zale said incredulously. “Daily occurrence for you now. Is it? Do you think I’ve gone daft since we last met?”
Kiannae smirked. “I wouldn’t say gone, no. Fairly sure you started there.”
“Don’t flirt, or, whatever this is,” Zale said exasperatedly. “Nothing’s changed. Well, except, I’m sure you are sleeping with him now.”
“Not much sleeping,” Kiannae said. “Though, he did figure out how to, eventually. So I guess, now and then.” Her nonchalant facade held for a moment, before her gaze fell, and she brushed back her hair.
“What do you hope to gain?” Zale asked.
Kiannae just pointed towards the horizon.
Zale looked where eyes most often did not want to go. A massive tree that stood like a mountain over the low plain of the blight.
“It’s nearly a thousand feet tall,” Kiannae said. “Reportedly still growing. A little less than a foot a day since it sprouted. Since… Shadow gave his life for my mistakes.”
“You can’t possibly be taking credit, or blame, for that…thing,” Zale said. “I had heard the stories. I knew, you had to be involved, but, that’s not something a person does!”
“Who said I’m a person?” Kiannae challenged irritably.
“Me,” he said tersely, sighed, covered his face and shook his head.
Kiannae stared at him definitely, but when he did not meet her gaze, she turned away. “I think it’s all my fault.”
“All?” he asked, legitimately doubting the scope of her claim.
“Literally, everything,” Kiannae said. “I remember it. A world without Osyrae breathing down our necks. Growing up in the cloister…my…first kiss. Fates, I’m sure you would love to know about that, wouldn’t you? Not at all who you would expect. All these little things that didn’t play out the same, and all these horrors that never were. I don’t know how any of it fits, but I know it’s all my fault. Prophecy is one thing, but now I see pasts that never were. Tell me, is that a gifted practice, or just madness?”
“What happened?” Zale asked, and stepped a bit closer.
“I’m glad you left,” Kiannae said crossing her arms.
“Because, ‘A great many people would have to die around you,’” Zale quoted as best he could, not taking the bait of the obvious meaning. “Before anyone offered you a crown?”
“Maybe you do listen, after all,” Kiannae grumbled.
“And I hear too,” Zale said. “I hear you were offered one, and turned it down.” He took a breath. “I found that seer. When I went back through Thebes, after I left. I paid him back his two silver, for the rest of that reading. Not sure it was worth it, but, he told me what you wouldn’t have listened to. That your sister was alive. That I had walked in the circles of gods. He told me things I knew somehow in my heart, and yet still do not believe. Even now. I knew something far simpler. You had made up your mind.” He set his hand on her shoulder.
“Had I?” Kiannae said, and turned around, to stare him down. “I don’t trust prophecy, but that out there. That isn’t the future. It’s the past. I want to understand what happened. What is still happening, but the Storm Queen will permit no one, certainly not from outside Napir examine it. Least of all me. I offended her it seems, rejecting her son.”
“What happened,” Zale said rhetorically, ignoring her intractable implications, and focusing on her first challenge. “A man knew he could not compete, not with a living part of your own will.”
“Who said you had to compete?” Kiannae asked. “Seems my sister is fond enough of wandering fancy. Maybe, I should have just taken you all up. Let you all decide to stay, or go. Kept you like pets. That’s what you called Taloe, isn’t it?”
“You aren’t her though, are you?” Zale countered. Pushing past the distractions. He remembered how it worked. Focus on the detail in front of you, not the deflections around it.
She turned, and walked back to her rock in a huff. “This doesn’t end well,” Kiannae said.
“Nothing ever ends well,” Zale said. “The ends are all the same. It’s the living, that makes the story. What lies between the beginning, and the end. We begin in nothing, we end, in that which we did with our lives. We end, when we stop making those differences.”
“Fates,” Kiannae muttered, but kept staring south. “When did you get so verbose?”
“I’ve had a lot of time on the road. Working a few hours a day, traveling or waiting the rest. Not much else to do, but play with the wind, and read. I’ve found the writings of Sylvia get a man a long way, with, some women. She made a life out of loving them after all.”
“Some, women,” Kiannae stressed.
“I’m not here to fight,” Zale repeated, “and I can’t imagine being with you, as anything but a fight.”
“Then why – I ask again – are you here?”
“I met some druids coming south from Lundan, on the way into Niven. Quiet lot for the most part, but I heard them gossiping amongst themselves that the Archdruid is talking about doing rounds of the local kingdoms. It’s not…typical to make such visits. I saw my grandfather last year, and am not keen to indulge him on some final tour, but, that would mean he is visiting Avrale. I thought you might like to know.”
“Wouldn’t he have already done it?” Kiannae asked.
“It’s not usual, he wouldn’t rush something like this. You’ve at least till the spring.”
“Not like I’m getting anywhere here,” Kiannae said.
“The growth…” He hesitated. “You did that with a spell? Seems like somewhere to me. I didn’t even think that was possible”
“I knew the quote,” Kiannae said. “My sister gave me a copy of that book. That woman claimed to have done no less. She started on plants, when she burned herself trying the first time.”
“I hadn’t read that version,” Zale offered.
“I didn’t do much. Just followed the patterns already here. Someone did this. Whether it really is a spell as big as the world, or just this, I can’t tell. The Evergrove was built. It was a spell. It…made everything grow, and dire creatures sprang up, and learned what it had to teach.”
“What dire creatures?”
“Dryads. Not like near Lundan, but, I can’t say if they might have been intelligent, in some other way. The spell doesn’t go all that far, but the dryads cast it themselves. Much like the fungus we have almost wiped out. Were both in some sense intelligent? I raised dire wolves. Animals, who were, more like people. Or are we all more like animals than we admit. Just a fire, trying to burn out our fuel? All stories end the same. That’s the phrase, right? Spells and people, stars and worlds. We all end the same. At least in that we all end. Everything ends.”
“If the story does not end, then how does next begin?” Zale countered.
“That, doesn’t sound like Sylvia,” Kiannae said curiously, and half looked back over her shoulder.
“Clarion, Saint Darius of the Ascension,” he answered. “I had a lot of time to read.”
Kiannae flopped back onto the stone, and caught her head in a spell. She stared at him upside down. “I did love you,” she said. “You insufferable boy.” She sighed. “Fine. I’m not accomplishing anything further here. I’ll head to Avrale, see if I can’t get there ahead of your grandfather, and greet him properly. I leave it to you, to inform Landri she’s not out of her mind.”
She smiled a bit to broadly. “Oh, but first, I’m going to introduce you to a dragon.” She put her fingers between her lips, and made a sharp whistle.
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I’ve been very busy. Art, work, side gigs, PT. The cover for and reworking the early parts of Book III that I have. It’s weird how well the general structure still works, as new things intrude. Yet I knew long before, this was where I was going. I just arrived with unexpected company.
This week a glimpse at a book I might someday write, if I ever run out of more important things to do. Next week maybe a glimpse at a book I’m more dedicated to finding the time for, and introduce a character we will be getting to know a lot better in Book III.
For this week a glance backwards. I occasionally toy with the idea of a book starring Mercu as a young man trying to find his place. A man of secrets, and hidden talents. Blessed with a silver tongue, and a knack for getting in, and out of trouble. I’m not sure enough exactly what it would look like, so for now, have this. Which might even be an opening to such a book.
Allusions at Hand
“What’s your name boy?”
A young man with dusty brown hair stopped, cringed, but turned and stared the woman down. “Shouldn’t you know, seer?”
“I could pick your father from a crowd, even if I didn’t know him. Ferus. I can tell you your mother is not with us. Though, hmm. Yes, she thought your name should not be his. Though similar, she consented to. Mercu, because it sounded posh, and Palentian. It means swift flowing, his means iron. Oh the irony…” She sighed and smiled. “Soul of a poet, you like that, swift traveler, and a hand that captures the eye. I know what card I would draw from my deck for you. I know it would find its way to my grasp.”
“If you know my father, then you know he told me to stay away from you.”
“Oh, you don’t always do what he says, do you?” She plucked a card from the top of her deck, and set it before him. It was a woman, her chest exposed, a reversed bust more modest on the other end. The card was upside down. “Already been with a girl.”
“You are wrong about that,” Mercu snapped.
“So I am. Oh, who was it? Sorry, pretty enough to’ve been.” The old woman hummed, and closed her eyes. “Oh, that Red Sister’s son. Cheeky lad. They had to leave after that father came complaining. Well, at the next town.”
Mercu froze, his breath caught, and then he ran.
“You aren’t going to tell on me, are you?” Mercu asked sheepishly, as he approached the old woman absently shuffling her cards.
“Tell on you, is precisely what I propose to do,” she said wobbling her head with some amusement. “Tellers they sometimes call us, not seers. We see, whether we tell. One is what I am, the other what I do.”
“Please, don’t tell my father.”
“Then listen,” she said and offered him an imposing glance.
Mercu cringed, looked away, and then sat at the woman’s table.
She plucked a card again, and placed it before him. Again, the Queen was the card, but this time right side up.
“You don’t shuffle very well.”
She placed the card back on the pile, then picked it up again, it was a King. She set it before him reversed. “You are not what you appear.”
Mercu gave her an incredulous look. “And what do I appear?”
“A mask, that is honest. A lie that is true. You want nothing more than to please, and yet who you are will displease so many. You play games, because it is the only way you can be kind. You, are a seer, not a teller. A snoop, and a meddler. You know the ways people are broken, and love them anyway. You are not a man.”
“Are you trying to insult me?” he said sitting up more straight.
“Are you insulted?” she said with a knowing grin.
Mercu hesitated, and just stared at her defiantly, crossing his arms.
She shook her head, and took another card from the pile. It was again the Queen, face up. She set it atop the king. “Masks, you will always be a person of masks. Performances, both the ones you desire to give, and the ones you feel you must.”
“Name the next card,” the woman said, after a brief pause had begun to confuse him.
“I don’t know your stupid game!” Mercu said clenching his fists.
“Stop,” the woman said measuredly, “describe it,” she added through gritted teeth.
Mercu cringed at her intensity. “I don’t know, a star. You mystical types like stars, don’t you?”
She plucked a card from the deck, and placed it beneath the King and Queen. ‘The North Star,’ was printed across the bottom.
“You can draw whatever you please, I think you proved that already… However you do it.”
She quickly laid a card to the right, and to the left, one below the star, one each to the left, and right again. Seven placements, and five still face down.
“This card,” she said, to the right of The North Star.
“I don’t know, flip a coin,” Mercu said tersely.
She turned it over, and there was a coin, upside down.
Mercu stared at her. He had seen magic do a lot of things. He had even glimpsed something when the King had replaced the Queen, but there, he was almost sure, she had done nothing. No magic, and no sleight of hand. “How?”
“What is a prince without the gift?” the woman asked.
“An heir more likely to take the throne,” Mercu cut back.
“Oh, as if you want your father’s throne. You are jealous of your sister. A man jealous of a woman, because she is free of this weight on your shoulders. He would support her being an artist, a writer, a historian. Maybe even forgive her if she had the inclination to the occasion woman, she mostly doesn’t. You, are his heir. An heir to a line of Trade Princess, so old they fade into legend, not even history. Your very name given to birds who wander, not the other way about. Yet you, look in her eyes, and you see she wants to rule this world. You are jealous, even of her ambition, but yours are so much grander, aren’t they?”
“How?” Mercu muttered, her words cut like knives, but he could not pull away.
She indicated the next card.
“The Moon,” he said he said under his breath, not even sure why. No flippant answer, just, he knew it must be.
She turned up the card, and there it was.
“How literal. How figurative. The sun is power, and fury, but you would rather be the mirror. The moon endures by waxing, and waning. You know the true power in this world, that true change must come slowly. You know that rhythm, and story disarm. That clever words open ears, and other things. You even know that’s what I’m doing. That the mysticism, the rhymes are tools. Flirtations that make us take note. The cards are tools. I do not choose the card I draw, I know the card I must. It is a tool, a measuring stick, not what is measured. You know the stars do not tell our fate, but that they do align. That the moon’s wavering, is but the spiral of worlds, and yet she set the tide. You are reason, amidst flights of fancy.”
She pointed to another card.
“The Tree,” she said, turning over the card below The Star. “The Ash of Autumn.”
It was her turn to look at him strangely. “You are what is measured by. A fixed point. A landmark, the world changes around you, as the true travelers pass you by. You are shade, on a hot summer day. You are the canopy, that holds the winter snow at bay. Evergreen, and yet oh so ever mortal. Someone has built a castle beside you.”
She pointed to the next card.
“Why are you trying to make a fool of me?” he demanded. Feeling like he was under some spell, and trying to break free.
She smirked, and turned the card over. The Fool. Though it was reversed, a thing that took a moment given the figure stood at a crossroads, standing inverted, not upon the ground, but feet planted firmly on the precarious boards of the sign.
“You, are the one who plays the fool. You know the world is mad, and a sane man in such a world, is the fool in the eyes of of the blind. You see the world for what it is, but you keep your secrets, from those not ready to know. Always honest in your way, no matter how readily you mislead. The truth, will not always be heard. The inevitable accepted, only when it comes.”
She indicated the last card.
“The Tower,” Mercu said, and closed his eyes. “Like a rook. The chess piece.”
The woman nodded, and did not even turn the card over. “You will teach the Fates themselves to play. The unsung hero, the bard. In the structure of society, the fools know the truth. We are all fools. We all fool ourselves. Arrogance, will be your enemy, for confidence will be your friend. You will love a woman dearly. You will have her heart completely. She would marry you, and give you an heir and knight. Yet the confidence of your love, will be too much, and she will never believe she could love you so. Duty, and love. Each will choose the other. She is not your fate. You will love a man dearly, but you will never be only his. You will wear the masque, and make it true. A…”
“Leave him be, Cassandra!” a man said angrily marching up on them. “I told you boy, don’t mess with seers.” He huffed, and then looked up from Mercu to the woman. “Did he pay?” the man demanded, and slammed his fist down on the table.
Cassandra just smiled.
He slammed a gold coin on the table. “Don’t toy with my boy,” he said fiercely. “You were paid. Don’t meddle.”
She turned the last card upright. It was a hand with an eye emblazoned upon the back. It was reversed, with ‘The Hand’ written upside down.
“I want a contract,” the woman said. “Not a coin. A seat, not a salary. You know no caravan travels long without a seer. I will not make the boy a pawn, if you make me a Queen.”
“What? Are you proposing…” the man looked utterly bewildered.
“Fates, you are literal Ferus. No, you old bandit, not that. But it is a contract, all the same. I marry your caravan, not you. Seven years to start. I keep the flies away, I lure in those who want to see. I keep my hands off your boy, and theirs as well. I’ve already spoiled one love affair you wouldn’t have approved. Sure you wouldn’t like me to foil the other?” She tilted her head to the side in an unnerving way.
“I will have your contract in the morning,” Ferus said through gritted teeth.
The man took Mercu’s hand, and tried to pull him away.
She set her hand on his as he resisted just out of spite for his father’s behavior. “What you make of yourself, is your own affair.” Mercu stopped resisting in surprise.
“I’m watching you woman!” his father snapped, and spun around to point at her.
“Contract isn’t signed yet,” she said with a shrug. “Hurry, hurry.”
They walked in silence a good twenty paces before Ferus let his son’s hand go.
“If you hate seers so much, why do you let them in the caravan?” Mercu asked with irritation at his father.
“Better the pits† you know,” Ferus muttered. “They find their way in, one way or another. Like fleas on a dog.”
Commentary: †I originally wrote the line Abyss, to carry through with the mythos. but then took a step back and considered the possible derivations of the etymology of such use. Pitted roads to a caravan master might weight another synonym in for the Abyss, taking a step away from the Devil allegory, and looking to a more material, pragmatic expression.
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Ship Burial
‘To give kind heed to dead men’ is one of the Charges of the Odinic Rite as of other religious traditions. Jeremy Taylor stresses the need for proper disposal of the dead in his ‘Rules of Holy Dying'(1651):
‘When thou wept awhile, compose the body to burial: which that being done gravely, decently and charitably, we have the example of all ages of the world to warrant so that it is against common honesty and public reputation and fame not to do this office. Let it be interred after the manner of the country and the laws of the place, and the dignity of the person.’
In the Elder Days Odinists practised both earth burial and burning. The body of a high-ranking warrior often received special treatment. It was laid in a cairn with goods and arms and sometimes even a charger. The body was placed in a sitting posture, usually in a chamber formed of baulks of timber or blocks of stone, over which was piled earth or gravel. But the ceremonial disposal of the dead for which the old Odinists are most often remembered is what we know as ship-burial.
It is likely that the earliest form of this symbolic funeral was in fact the sending of the body to sea in the direction of the setting sun, on the deck of a blazing funeral ship. The symbolism is clear. The popular superstition encouraged by Christian writers, that the east-west orientation in burial has something to do with the hope of bodily resurrection is a late accretion, a somewhat feeble excuse for continuing into the Christian era an ancient pagan tradition. East-west burials were known to the worshippers of Odin long before the arrival in Europe of Christianity and the practice was widespread among the ancient North European peoples.
The explanation, still very much a living idea, is of the equation of sunrise and sunset with life and death, symbolised by the sun’s descent into the unknown and its daily rebirth. In this way the west became associated with death and cold and decay, the east with life and warmth and rebirth.
The popular saying that someone or something has ‘gone west’ may well be connected with this ancient belief. The suggestion of F T Nettlingham, editor of ‘Tommy’s Tunes’ 1917, that ‘gone west’ is ‘a war expression meaning lost destroyed or killed because the enemy fires at our troops from East to West’, can be disregarded. Nevertheless I sometimes wonder myself whether the familiar Hollywood picture of the cowboy hero disappearing into the sunset does not itself derive from some unconscious urge rather than a desire for photographic effect. The Odinist explanation for the symbolism connected with ship burial at sea is shared with many other pagan traditions. The disposal of the body of the Celtic King Arthur will most readily come to mind.
Procopius, in a notable passage, described the island of Britain before the Anglo-Saxon tribes introduced Odinism as ‘the land of the dead’. He describes how on the opposite coast, in Frankish territory, lived the seamen who, without ever seeing their passengers, ferry the dead across the Channel. Setting out with their heavily-loaded boats at midnight they reached Britain within the hour. There the souls were called out by name and the ferrymen went back home with empty boats. The fifth century CE historian Claudian also tells us that facing the coast of Britain ‘there is a spot where Gaul stretches out it’s furthermost shore opposite the wastes of the ocean where they say that Ullixes with a libation of blood stirred up the silent folk. There the mourning plaint, of shades flitting about with a gentle whir is heard. The natives see-the pallid forms and the figures of the dead depart’.
Ship burial is mentioned by poets and has been substantiated by many famous archaeological finds as a practice of our princely ancestors. Such burials seem to have been fairly common for chieftains and other men of importance. The Sutton Hoo ship burial in East Anglia, with its magnificent hoard of treasure, is the most celebrated example yet to be excavated by archaeologists. Most ship burials that have been uncovered so far are of the eighth or ninth centuries CE. The pattern was similar for all: a burial-chamber to contain the corpse with the ship’s mast severed at the height of the chamber roof. The body, dressed in fine clothes, was placed on a bed. The ship itself was provided with all the equipment that would be needed on a long journey: utensils such as kettles, plates, cups, barrels and candlesticks, perhaps a chess set. Horses and dogs were slaughtered and interred with the ship and there might also be, if there was room, small boats and a sled. Sometimes a peacock (symbol of immortality) was included. It is interesting to see illustrated in this way the Odinist belief that animals as well as men share the future life.
The burial-chamber was always athwart the vessel. There is still a strong superstition amongst sailors that if a body is carried at sea it must never lie in the direction of the ship’s progress because it is considered undesirable that the spirits of the dead should be thus encouraged to continue along the same path as the living crew-members.
It is fitting that the Odinic Rite has adapted and adopted a ceremony appropriate to the modern age, which incorporates many of the traditions of our ancient faith.
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9 Odisha districts achieve 100 pc coverage in IHHL
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By PTI Last updated Jun 26, 2019 - 9:21 AM
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Bhubaneswar: Nine districts of the state have achieved 100 per cent coverage in individual household latrine construction (IHHL) under the “Swachh Odisha, Sustha Odisha campaign”, an official said Tuesday.
Rampant stone quarrying giving sleepless nights to residents…
The campaign jointly launched by the Central and state governments is being funded by Central and state government on 60:40 sharing basis. Each beneficiary family is supported with an incentive of Rs 12,000 for construction of toilet.
Around 79 lakh households have been enlisted for this incentive, the official said.
“So far, nine districts in Odisha have achieved 100 per cent coverage in individual household latrine construction(IHHL),” an official said after chief secretary A P Padhi held a video conferencing with district collectors.
Similarly, four other districts have achieved 90 to 96 per cent target while construction of more than 84 per cent individual household latrines has been completed in 10 other districts.
According to the discussion at the meeting, the average IHHL coverage in the state has been stepped up from 12 per cent in the 2012-13 base year to 86 per cent in the current year.
During the video conferencing with district collectors, the chief secretary has fixed timeline for each district for 100 percent coverage within August 31, 2019.
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Manilla Road – Mysterium Review (2013)
Posted on April 3, 2013 by Old Disgruntled Bastard
Does a legend ever die? And if it does, what then survives? A flicker haunting the void to remind one of the flame that flourished, consuming always but not always divined? Is it nurtured by misty-eyed adherents, a ghost of simpler times when the earth dreamt of ideals and heroic rhymes, or is it consigned to ashes by the faithless?
‘The Battle Of Bonchester Bridge‘ is the only truly great song on ‘Mysterium’, in concert with past classics like ‘Metal ‘, ‘Necropolis‘, ‘Dreams Of Eschaton‘, ‘Astronomica‘, ‘Divine Victim ‘, ‘ Mystification‘, ‘Return Of The Old Ones‘, and so many, many others capable of reducing a grown man to tears in the dead of night when the world outside has ceased its incessant bullshit and all that remains is the thud of your fist beating against the hollow containing your heart. It is the most vivid harkback to the vibe Manilla Road had in the 80s, a vibe that has been sadly missing on more recent work, boasting the trademark, free flowing, layered and cascading soloing style all Shelton’s own. Mark Shelton’s voice has taken on a broken, whiskey-soaked, almost bardic quality with age, and he resembles nothing as much as a veteran of numerous wars, wounded of body, mind and soul, sitting around a fire at night in the fields, recounting his tales of valour and loss. Unable to reach the fury of younger days due to irreversible damage to his vocal chords, he now sings only on the softer songs and the occasional chorus, usually elevating them to the sublime.
Unfortunately, and this hurts, there is nothing else approaching the calibre we’ve come to expect from the band. The Road are caught in a stylistic rut; their output in the new century has been stubbornly epic, memorable and admirable too in its disregard for modern musical mores, but in the process they have lost out on some of the effervescence that was the hallmark of their early music. The songs are much shorter on ‘Mysterium‘ but the general writing style is the same as all their newer music, and it makes for a somewhat disjointed experience.
Hellroadie has covered for Shelton’s deteriorating voice for many years now, and while he does a fine impression of his idol, he is no Shark and I have never enjoyed his brand of nasality. ‘Only The Brave‘ and ‘Stand Your Ground’ are some of the thrashiest songs they have done since ‘Out Of The Abyss‘, with great riffs to boot, but unremarkable vocal melodies relegate them to insignificance. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s becoming increasingly harder to sing along with newer Manilla Road, and that is disappointing.
But I’m not going to make this an unmitigated dismissal of the album. I merely speak from the perspective of an old fanatic steeped in the band’s mythology. There is plenty to salvage here for the new listener; Shelton’s fluid guitar style, the band’s decidedly analog production, and just a generally different approach to heavy metal. Songs like ‘The Battle Of Bonchester Bridge‘, ‘ Hallowed Be Thy Grave‘, the title song, are all plain different for the uninitiated. More power if it urges them to rediscover the band’s extensive back catalog.
There is a ballad here called ‘The Fountain‘ . I’m not sure what to make of it; it is not Manilla Road, not something they’ve ever done. It’s not terribly offensive, but it could’ve been penned by countless AOR bands in the 80s. The band’s music has always been tinged with a certain melancholia but ‘The Fountain‘ is positively saccharine, perhaps a genuine mellowing with age – with Shelton, I doubt anything is but genuine, he is too battle-hardened to be seeking commercial laurels – in fact, this song had more chance of scoring big some twenty years ago, but such is the parallel universe the band has always inhabited. Then you look at the lyrics, and it starts making sense:
My destiny drives me to stay on this path
And seek out the fountain of life
I’ve come so far now, that there’s no turning back
I’ll find the fountain or die
And that’s just it, isn’t it? They aren’t just fancy, poetic words; Shelton and his cohorts have lived them to the fullest for longer than I have been alive. He is like Lemmy in many ways; we can bicker over the quality of their later music, but far more importantly, they represent the indefatigability of the human spirit, the constant ‘FUCK YOU’ to anything that threatens to compromise their integrity. John McEntee of Incantation was asked in a recent interview why he’s still playing death metal after 25 years with little to no financial rewards. I’m paraphrasing his reply: “..the way I see it, I made a decision to play death metal when I was 17 years old, when I could’ve chosen to go for a regular, well-paying day job like everyone else. I crossed that fork in the road a long time ago and to expect fame and fortune now would be stupid….at the end of the day, I’m just a death metal freak for life.”
Yes, John. Great heavy metal bands communicate the intangible, and Manilla Road are the greatest of them all. Not only for reasons solely music-related, for that is ethereal in its own right, but for everything that they have stood for over 35 years. They represent the purest child inside us, all wide-eyed wonder and innocence, the noblest dream that we rarely consummate except in fleeting instants. Of all the legendary bands from that era, only they, Riot, and Iron Maiden, off the top of my head, have stayed true to their chosen courses. Maiden are deservedly millionaires, but Mark Reale died mostly unacknowledged, his band but a post script in heavy metal lore. It behooves us to appreciate Manilla Road while they’re still around.
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4 Responses to Manilla Road – Mysterium Review (2013)
Aditya Mehta says:
You’re hitting really fast with them reviews! I got (downloaded) Degial, Diskord and Teitanblood yesterday. Keep ’em coming, yo!
Jayaprakash (@jayaprakash_s) says:
I waited until I could get this on CD. So far, my impressions are very close to yours. I thought Playground of the Damned was a lot more cohesive, there were several songs that leaped out on first listen. Not the case here. But MR albums are sometimes growers, so I’ll wait a few months before making up my mind.
Devdutt Nawalkar says:
It still is very honest, workmanlike music. And Bonchester Bridge is easily up their with their classics. Hard to dislike this band, really.
Riju Dasgupta says:
I didn’t find ‘The Fountain’ AOR at all, and actually quite like it. It’s in the vein of cheesy fairytailesque Manowar ballads, or say, ‘The Sea Wolf’ by Slough Feg. The lyrics are very dreamlike…much in line with classic MR.
But I agree with almost every other line of the review. Mark’s voice has got so much more character than Hellroadie, it’s not funny.
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Archaeology & Fossils
New species of dinosaur discovered lying forgotten in a museum
by University of Bath
Pentaceratops aquiloniua
(Phys.org) —A palaeontologist from our University studying fossils that were kept in a museum in Canada for over 75 years has discovered a new species of dinosaur.
Dr Nick Longrich from our University studied the fossilised bones of two horned dinosaurs from the ceratopsian family and found that they were in fact two previously unknown species. The findings reveal that the dinosaur species from this region were much more diverse than first thought.
"We thought we had discovered most of the species, but it seems there are many undiscovered dinosaurs left," said Dr Nick Longrich from the University's Department of Biology & Biochemistry. "There are lots of species out there. We've really only just scratched the surface."
One of the new species represents a new species of Pentaceratops, named Pentaceratops aquilonius. Pentaceratops, a smaller cousin of Triceratops, belong to the Chasmosaurinae, a group of large, horned dinosaurs characterised by long brow horns and elongate frills. Around the size of a buffalo, they were a major group of plant eating dinosaurs in western North America at the end of the Cretaceous Period, around 75 million years ago. The other appears to represent a new species of Kosmoceratops.
Western North America hosted a remarkable diversity of dinosaurs during the Campanian period. Among the most diverse clades was the Chasmosaurinae. Up until now, ten chasmosaur species have been recognised from the upper Campanian of western North America, with distinct species occurring in the northern and southern parts of the continent.
The fossils studied by Longrich were previously classified as Anchiceratops and Chasmosaurus, species known from Canada, but after re-analysing the skeletons, he realised they more closely resembled dinosaurs from the American Southwest. One was closely related to Pentaceratops sternbergii from New Mexico, but is a more primitive species, named Pentaceratops aquilonius. It was smaller, and differed in the shape of the frill and arrangement of the hornlets on the back. The other seems to be related to Kosmoceratops from Utah. It seems to be a new species as well, but more complete fossils are needed to be certain.
Published in the academic journal Cretaceous Research, Longrich proposes that distinct northern and southern provinces existed during the Campanian, but that there was exchange between them. The dinosaurs would spread from one part of the continent to the other and then diverge to form new species. Competition between the different species then prevented the dinosaurs from moving between the northern and southern regions.
Longrich added: "The distribution of dinosaur species was very different from the patterns seen in living mammals.
"In living mammals, there tend to be relatively few large species, and they have large ranges. With Cretaceous dinosaurs, we see a lot of large species in a single habitat. They also tend to be very regional – as you move from one habitat to another, you get a completely different set of species."
These patterns help explain why palaeontologists keep finding more species – when they sample different habitats, they find different species.
Longrich speculates that dinosaur biology may cause these patterns. He said: "In this sense dinosaur biology seems quite different from mammal biology. It could be that mammals are more intelligent and so they tend to have more flexible behaviour, and adapt their behaviour to their habitats.
"On the other hand, dinosaurs may have had to adapt themselves physically to survive in a different habitat, and evolved new species. Perhaps that's the reason why there are so many species."
Ancient cousin of Triceratops highlights turnover among horned dinosaurs
More information: Nicholas R. Longrich, "The horned dinosaurs Pentaceratops and Kosmoceratops from the upper Campanian of Alberta and implications for dinosaur biogeography," Cretaceous Research, Volume 51, September 2014, Pages 292-308, ISSN 0195-6671, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2014.06.011.
Journal information: Cretaceous Research
Provided by University of Bath
Citation: New species of dinosaur discovered lying forgotten in a museum (2014, November 26) retrieved 18 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2014-11-species-dinosaur-lying-forgotten-museum.html
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If an animal attacks you, pray to Grigorij "Novyj" Rasputin.
We need to k-i-l-l the dinosaurs before they eat us.
Meet me at Volga River soon.
First dinosaur will come out of Volga River in Russia.
According to Russian Orthodox Christian Vyatcheslav Krasheninnikov:
Humans were created about 7525 years ago.
Birds participate in time creation.
It's a sin to kill birds.
Dinosaurs live under our level.
They will get out through sinkholes and lakes.
To kill them, go for their nerves.
So, save the birds, but kill the dinosaurs.
Why do sinkholes happen?
Because people dig for resources
creating an imbalance underground.
Opinion; do you disagree?
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Luc Ferrari
Hétérozygote / Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps
Tinguely 1967
1 / 2 Albums
by Andy Beta
Two of the most famous pieces of musique concrète by French composer Luc Ferrari are reissued in all their aleatory and surrealist clamor.
“It’s a sculpture, it’s a picture, it’s an accompanist, it’s a poet, it’s decoration—this machine is a situation.” So Swiss artist Jean Tinguely described one of his large kinetic sculptures, art pieces that recycled metal scraps and mounted them in chunks of wood, cement blocks, or oil barrels. When triggered, these motorized sculptures shivered to life in art galleries, making a clamor not unlike musique concrète, the post-war sound conceived by French composer Pierre Schaeffer in a studio that during the war served as a center for the Resistance movement in French radio. It was a sound as malleable as Tinguely’s descriptor and none of the composers responsible for such music pushed the definition more than Luc Ferrari.
Ferrari encountered the likes of Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and John Cage in the early ’50s before joining Schaeffer at the newly established Groupe de Recherches Musicales near the end of that decade. Musique concrète could manipulate recorded sound, the human voice, musical instruments, or synthesizers, but while Schaeffer and his fellow composers favored a more academic approach, Ferrari’s music was impish. His most famous piece of musique concrète, 1970’s Presque Rien, replicated dawn in a Yugoslavian fishing village, which Matmos’ Drew Daniel once described as “a letting go of the standard purposes of musical sound…in favor of a quietly focused experience of listening to the sounds of the world on their own terms.” But he also did fidgety orchestral minimalism and a Sapphic encounter set to African drums and his own whispers.
Tinguely 1967 reveals two previously unreleased soundtracks from the first decade of Ferrari’s output, including one rendered from recordings made of Tinguely’s epileptic sculptures to soundtrack a 1966 television piece on the artist. “Tinguely” clangs to life, sussing out a rhythm from a sound like a screen door slamming against a bird cage over and over again. What scans as just an unorganized din, slowly reveals a peculiar sensibility making sense of it all. There are staccato outbursts of typewriters, looped voices, whirring motors, metallic scrapes like picking at a lock, and what might be a tuba burbling. At one point, Ferrari combines some of them in such a way so as to suggest strolling through Tinguely’s workshop, though a blast of heavy alien reverb reveals it to be a sonic construct.
“Dernier Matin d'Edgar-Allan Poe” dates from three years prior, a piece for a short 33mm black-and-white film. It’s the subtler of the two and rather than Ferrari’s telltale slyness with musique concrète, it sounds more like a free improv trio: a bow scratches against strings, a drumstick moves across a cymbal, a chord organ lurches. It grows even quieter to include the small sounds of a creaking chair and what might be the man himself humming into a kazoo. Both pieces reveal different iterations of Ferrari, but they aren’t the best entry points into the man’s peculiar sound-world.
A recent reissue on Mego’s vital Recollection GRM series is a better introduction to Ferrari, presenting two of his more important sound-works. “Hétérozygote” dates from around the same timeframe as “Dernier,” but it’s the more masterful piece, what Ferrari in the liner notes deems “anecdotal” music, wherein “the listener is then asked to imagine their own story.” Sounds arise, their source scarcely identifiable before changing and roaring past. Bell-like notes distort into something eerier. Whistles and brass are sounded, but Ferrari breaks them into small fragments and reconfigures them, not like a pique assiette. A woman whispers as she walks along the shore and flutes get stretched into coyote howls. A rocket roars across the stereo field. Party laughter and goat bays intermingle with electronics. Ferrari provides distinct scenes, though just what that story might actually be is evocative if inscrutable, a Donald Barthelme short story filmed by Luis Buñuel.
“Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps” comes a decade later and finds Ferrari seamless in his blending. He calls the piece an “imaginary soundscape” and it’s as luminous as anything in his catalog. An aural approximation of sunset in the Gorges du Tarn in southern France, Ferrari approximates a walk through the countryside: voices arise and move off, crickets, birds, and dogs sound, Ferrari placing some in the distance, some near the ear. All while a few flute loops around at the edges playfully, though over the course of its 25 minutes, it slowly takes over the piece. First encountering the piece many years ago, with its snippets of voices, hazy melody and increasing density, it struck me as what Boards of Canada might sound like had they ever made a sidelong track. Returning to it now, it feels more complex than that. For as alien as musique concrète can be, in the hands of Ferrari, he was able to render it into something that felt warmly familiar. Here he paints a stunning vista at dusk, capturing the expansive horizon with sound rather than sight.
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HomeMenlo ParkPharmacy robber gets 12 years in prison
Pharmacy robber gets 12 years in prison
Scott Davis, convicted of robbing a pharmacy
A man who stole prescription narcotics at gunpoint from a Menlo Park pharmacy was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday (Oct. 26), a prosecutor said.
Scott Davis, 51, of Menlo Park, was arrested on Oct. 28, 2017, after he walked into the CVS at 700 El Camino Real and demanded OxyContin and Xanax, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
The pharmacy employee dialed 911 as she pretended to look for the drugs, Wagstaffe said. The worker told Davis she only had OxyContin and when she asked for his prescription, he lifted his shirt to show he had a gun, Wagstaffe said. She handed over the drugs.
An officer found Davis a short distance away, along with a loaded Colt .45 and the drugs, Wagstaffe said.
Davis robbed the same CVS two days earlier, on Oct. 26, 2017, and got Xanax. He also attempted to rob the Walgreens at 643 Santa Cruz Ave. on Oct. 25, 2017.
During a search of Davis’ home, police found Xanax from the Oct. 26 robbery and the note from the attempted Walgreens robbery, Wagstaffe said.
Davis had pleaded no contest on June 26 to charges of attempted robbery and robbery with the use of a gun.
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On the hoof: exploring the supply of animals to the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon using strontium (87Sr/86Sr) isotope analysis
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Will Archer, Cornel M. Pop, Zeljko Rezek, et al.
Isotopes in archaeology
May 2017 | Ricardo Fernandes, Klervia Jaouen
Ricardo Fernandes, Klervia Jaouen
Animal husbandry in the Early and Middle Neolithic settlement at Kopydłowo in the Polish lowlands. A multi-isotope perspective
Apr 2017 | Arkadiusz Marciniak, Jane Evans, Elizabeth Henton, et al.
The aim of this article is to examine the isotopic characterisation of domestic animals as it relates to birthing location and seasonality, diet, pasturing pattern, foddering and climatic conditions of herding and to determine variation between these aspects of cattle and caprine husbandry of the Neolithic Linearbandkultur (LBK) and Trichterbecherkultur (TRB) communities from...
Arkadiusz Marciniak, Jane Evans, Elizabeth Henton, et al.
Cereals, calories and change: exploring approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany
Apr 2017 | J. Bates, C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh
Several major cereal groups have been identified as staples used by the pre-urban, urban and post-urban phase populations of the Indus Civilisation (3200–1500 BCE): wheat, barley, a range of small hulled millets and also rice, though their proportional exploitation is variable across space and over time. Traditional quantification methods examine the frequency, intensity and...
J. Bates, C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh
Geoarchaeology of ritual behavior and sacred places: an introduction
Mar 2017 | Christopher I. Roos, E. Christian Wells
Christopher I. Roos, E. Christian Wells
Who ate the birds: the taphonomy of Sarakenos Cave, Greece
Mar 2017 | Zbigniew M. Bochenski, Teresa Tomek, Krzysztof Wertz, et al.
The taphonomic analysis of avian remains from Sarakenos Cave reveals that, contrary to previous suggestions, many bird bones excavated there represent food remains of the Eagle Owls rather than humans. The conclusion is based on the presence of traces of digestion, beak and claw punctures, and indirect evidence that includes relative preservation of particular elements, species...
Zbigniew M. Bochenski, Teresa Tomek, Krzysztof Wertz, et al.
Erratum to: Colour in context. Pigments and other coloured residues from the Early-Middle Holocene site of Takarkori (SW Libya)
Feb 2017 | Savino di Lernia, Silvia Bruni, Irina Cislaghi, et al.
Savino di Lernia, Silvia Bruni, Irina Cislaghi, et al.
Egyptian sculptures from Imperial Rome. Non-destructive characterization of granitoid statues through macroscopic methodologies and in situ XRF analysis
Jan 2017 | Sander Müskens, Dennis Braekmans, Miguel John Versluys, et al.
Aegyptiaca-like Domitian’s obelisk is now decorating Bernini’s fountain on Piazza Navona or the Egyptian lions flanking Michelangelo’s stairs towards the Capitol figure prominently amidst Rome’s cultural heritage. Motivations for the import, contextualization, and copying of these objects during the Imperial Roman period are as heavily debated as they are ill understood...
Sander Müskens, Dennis Braekmans, Miguel John Versluys, et al.
Sourcing nonnative mammal remains from Dos Mosquises Island, Venezuela: new multiple isotope evidence
Dec 2016 | Jason E. Laffoon, Till F. Sonnemann, Marlena M. Antczak, et al.
Archeological excavations of Amerindian sites on Dos Mosquises Island, Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela, uncovered a wide range of evidence reflecting seasonal exploitation of local resources and multiple ritual depositions of large quantities of ceramic figurines, lithics, and faunal remains. Zooarchaeological analysis revealed the presence of modified and unmodified bones and...
Jason E. Laffoon, Till F. Sonnemann, Marlena M. Antczak, et al.
Glassmaking using natron from el-Barnugi (Egypt); Pliny and the Roman glass industry
Dec 2016 | C. M. Jackson, S. Paynter, M.-D. Nenna, et al.
Pliny the Elder describes the discovery of a process for making natron glass, which was widely used for much of the first millennium bc and ad. His account of glassmaking with natron has since been corroborated by analyses of archaeological glass and the discovery of large-scale glass production sites where natron glass was made and then exported. Analyses of Egyptian natron have...
C. M. Jackson, S. Paynter, M.-D. Nenna, et al.
Erratum to: Plant remains from Roman period town of Obulco (today Porcuna) in Andalusia (Spain)—distribution and domestication of olive in the west Mediterranean region
Dec 2016 | Inga Voropaeva, Hans-Peter Stika
Inga Voropaeva, Hans-Peter Stika
A bioarchaeological approach to the Iron Age in Switzerland: stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S) of human remains
Dec 2016 | Negahnaz Moghaddam, Felix Müller, Sandra Lösch
In Switzerland, a large number of Iron Age burial sites were found in the last century. Changes in living conditions and socio-cultural behavior may have occurred over time and space and could be reflected in the dietary habits, social stratigraphy within populations and migration patterns. This study attempts to shed light on these aspects with the application of stable isotope...
Negahnaz Moghaddam, Felix Müller, Sandra Lösch
Isotopic insights into diet and health at the site of Namu, Taumako Island, Southeast Solomon Islands
Nov 2016 | Rebecca L. Kinaston, Hallie R. Buckley
A relatively new development to the milieu of archaeological techniques routinely used in the Pacific Island region, the stable isotope analysis of human skeletal and dental remains has provided important insights into diet, methods of subsistence and also intra-population variation in diet that may be related to age, sex or status. This study is a stable isotope analysis of one...
Rebecca L. Kinaston, Hallie R. Buckley
Route persistence. Modelling and quantifying historical route-network stability from the Roman period to early-modern times (AD 100–1600): a case study from the Netherlands
Nov 2016 | Rowin J. van Lanen, Bert J. Groenewoudt, Theo Spek, et al.
Research on route-network stability is rare. In time, due to cultural and/or natural causes, settlement locations and route orientation shift. The nature of these spatial changes sheds light on the complex interaction between settlements and surrounding natural landscape conditions. This study investigates the stability of route networks in the Netherlands during the past two...
Rowin J. van Lanen, Bert J. Groenewoudt, Theo Spek, et al.
Erratum to: Unglazed pottery from the masjed-i jom’e of Isfahan (Iran): technology and provenance
Nov 2016 | Alberto De Bonis, Maria D’Angelo, Vincenza Guarino, et al.
Alberto De Bonis, Maria D’Angelo, Vincenza Guarino, et al.
Geochemistry, petrology and evolutionary computations in the service of archaeology: restoration of the historical smelting process at the Katowice–Szopienice site
Nov 2016 | Rafał Warchulski, Przemysław Juszczuk, Aleksandra Gawȩda
Activity at the smelting plant at Katowice–Szopienice dates back to the nineteenth century. Currently, the Museum of Zinc has been funded at the site. Unfortunately, as a result of unrest during both World Wars, all technological descriptions were lost. Three historically described samples were provided by Museum of Zinc and additional slag and lining samples were collected...
Rafał Warchulski, Przemysław Juszczuk, Aleksandra Gawȩda
Potential of non-traditional isotope studies for bioarchaeology
Nov 2016 | Klervia Jaouen, Marie-Laure Pons
As a consequence of recent developments in mass spectrometry, the application of non-traditional stable isotope systems (e.g. Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Sr, Zn) as well as radiogenic isotopes to archaeological materials is now possible. These techniques have opened new perspectives in bioarchaeology and can provide information on metabolism, diet and the mobility of past individuals. This...
Klervia Jaouen, Marie-Laure Pons
A lack of freshwater reservoir effects in human radiocarbon dates in the Eneolithic to Iron Age in the Minusinsk Basin
Oct 2016 | Svetlana V. Svyatko, Rick Schulting, Andrey Poliakov, et al.
A number of recent studies have highlighted the importance of freshwater reservoir effects (FRE) when dating human remains across large parts of Eurasia, including the Eurasian steppes. Here, we address this question in the context of the Early Bronze Age (Okunevo), Late Bronze Age (Karasuk) and Late Iron Age (Tashtyk culture) of the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia. The issue...
Svetlana V. Svyatko, Rick Schulting, Andrey Poliakov, et al.
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Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2041
27 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
See all articles by David Dollar
David Dollar
World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC)
University of Oxford - Blavatnik School of Government
Date Written: January 1, 1999
In the efficient allocation of aid, aid is targeted disproportionately to countries with severe poverty and adequate policies. For a given level of poverty, aid tapers in with policy reform. In the actual allocation of aid, aid tapers out with reform. Aid now lifts about 30 million people a year out of absolute poverty. With a poverty-efficient allocation, the same amount of aid would lift about 80 million people out of poverty. Collier and Dollar derive a poverty-efficient allocation of aid and compare it with actual aid allocations. They build the poverty-efficient allocation in two stages. First they use new World Bank ratings of 20 different aspects of national policy to establish the current relationship between aid, policies, and growth. Onto that, they add a mapping from growth to poverty reduction, which reflects the level and distribution of income. They compare the effects of using headcount and poverty-gap measures of poverty.
They find the actual allocation of aid to be radically different from the poverty-efficient allocation. In the efficient allocation, for a given level of poverty, aid tapers in with policy reform. In the actual allocation, aid tapers out with reform. In the efficient allocation, aid is targeted disproportionately to countries with severe poverty and adequate policies - the type of country where 74 percent of the world's poor live. In the actual allocation, such countries receive a much smaller share of aid (56 percent) than their share of the world's poor. With the present allocation, aid is effective in sustainably lifting about 30 million people a year out of absolute poverty. With a poverty-efficient allocation, this would increase to about 80 million people. Even with political constraints introduced to keep allocations for India and China constant, poverty reduction would increase to about 60 million. Reallocating aid is politically difficult, but it may be considerably less difficult than quadrupling aid budgets, which is what the authors estimate would be necessary to achieve the same impact on poverty reduction with existing aid allocations.
This paper - a joint product of the Office of the Director, and Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to examine aid effectiveness.
Dollar, David and Collier, Paul, Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction (January 1, 1999). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2041. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=629108
David Dollar (Contact Author)
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Live review: BIGSOUND Live – Fortitude Valley, Brisbane – September 2012
March 17, 2013 · by Paul McBride · in Live Music Reviews. ·
Those who fear commitment must love BIGSOUND Live; it’s the music festival equivalent of speed-dating. There’s barely enough time to get comfy with a band or venue before being whisked off to another to be overcome with a brand new feeling of admiration or excitement all over again. It’s also a festival that provides endless opportunities for good times. Got your schedule, wristband, and beer money? Then let the games begin…
The BIGSOUND timetable causes strange things to happen in the Valley’s entertainment precinct. Like unnatural tidal phenomena, waves of people wash in and out of the twelve venues every twenty minutes like clockwork, beaching themselves in a rush to get to the action before heading off to check in somewhere else. Doorways are crowded, stairwells filled, and alleyways transformed into heaving masses of humanity, eager to suck in the atmosphere before it dissipates for another year.
Ric’s bar is filled to bursting as Jeremy Neale kicks off proceedings, with punters scrambling for vantage points or watching from outside. Despite announcing to the audience that he has lost his voice, his vocals and indeed the entire band sound tight and focussed, as they bob their heads to the side in unison and knock out some bangin’ ’60s-flavoured pop, with plenty of wide grins from the man himself. Fifth track ‘Darlin’’ proves to the be the highlight of a jaunty and jumpin’ party-starting set.
A quick dash up the Black Bear Lodge stairs later and I am greeted with the ever-good voice of James Walsh, playing his band Starsailor’s ‘Good Souls’. “Welcome to BIGSOUND everyone!” he offers the growing audience in his deep Wigan brogue, before playing ‘Barcelona’; a new song in the talented vocalist’s arsenal. Starsailor classic ‘Silence Is Easy’ still sounds fantastic, before a charming cover of Springsteen’s ‘Hungry Heart’ provides a pleasant surprise.
Over at the Zoo in Ann Street, Sons of Rico are setting up to a sparse audience, before a sudden influx of wrist-banded people semi-fills the venue. As the band launch into the rocking ‘Miss Adventure’ and benefit from the quality of the venue’s sound system, sporadic dancing breaks out in front of the stage, and there are definite hints of head-nodding across the rest of the audience. Threatening to break into an all-out heavy-psych jam at one point, the quintet round off an impressive set with radio-staple ‘This Madness’, leaving me thinking that their album doesn’t do the band’s abilities justice.
Barely an hour has passed and it’s time for band number four: slacker-rockers Bearhug, who are tackling the awkward layout of the Press Club. It’s not the best venue for live music, given that a massive fan/propeller blocks out the stage, but the five Sydneysiders don’t seem worried, immediately kicking off a slow, groovy jam as the venue absorbs punters from the street. Fourth track, the West-Coast-flavoured ‘Angeline’, ups the pace and gives the dual guitars and military-precision drumming a chance to shine. Jesse Bayley can fire off a solo with the best of them, and he does so on ‘Over The Hill’, before the final tune, the Pavement-esque ‘Cinema West’ is introduced as being a “song that a 55 year-old woman told us was shit.” Shit it definitely isn’t, as the set finishes to ringing applause from all around.
Back at the Zoo, Sydney’s post-rock folkies Winter People are making a politely-ethereal noise. The girls’ dual violins add a touch of country to the band’s sound, and frontman Dylan Baskind is as humble a musician as you will find. “BIGSOUND is like being at a gourmet food buffet,” he announces. “So many options, and you chose us: minced cabbage.” If you haven’t caught them live yet, do so, and get your filthy paws on their Gallons EP while you’re at it – these guys are something special.
Déjà vu is setting in as Black Bear lodge beckons once again, this time for Melbourne’s bastards of blues-rock, The Delta Riggs. The energy reverberating around the small venue multiplies many-fold as the cocksure five-piece take the stage and roll out one of the rawk-iest performances of the evening. Frontman Elliott Hammond is all hair, hips, and swagger, as he leads his band in a one-two attack of high-tempo rockers, before breaking it back down for the disgustingly-groovy ‘Mary’. Introducing ‘Money’ as a “song for all you cunts out there”, Hammond proceeds to improvise the lyrics in an extended jam, coaxing the pumped audience into a giant sing-a-long of “holy guacamole, we got chips!” before announcing that everybody present is “now in the band”.
The luxury of staying in the same venue is a welcome relief as next up at Black Bear is Sydney quintet The Preatures. They again draw a large, energetic crowd, and it quickly becomes clear why. As the band take the stage and kick their blend of gothic rock ’n’ roll into gear, any semblance of journalistic professionalism I have floats out the door, as I’m too mesmerized by the performance of singers Isabella Manfredi and Gideon Bensen to take notes or even really care why I’m here; the performance is that damn good. Manfredi has an impressive range and works the crowd like a dream; flicking her hair and making eye contact with the front rows, before Bensen opens his mouth and lets out a sound that you would expect to hear from an old delta bluesman, not a 20-something bloke from New South Wales. I come back to my senses in time to realise ‘Take A Card’ is a fantastic track, and hear Bensen announce their last song ‘Hero’; a newly-written tune. The Preatures are my undisputed live highlight of day one; simply fantastic.
Maybe I’m still buzzing on a Preatures-induced high, but over at Winn Lane Velociraptor’s performance seems a little sub-par. That’s not to say they don’t still wipe the floor with most of the other acts on the bill, but maybe it’s frontman Jeremy Neale’s voice or the reduced crowd interaction from being on a raised stage, but the guys and girl aren’t as chaotically-brilliant as usual. Reduced to a ten-piece as the DZ guys are in the States, they nevertheless power through ‘Hey Suzanne’ and ‘Riot’, among others, and provide an interesting spectacle to look at, as always.
All that’s left for day one of BIGSOUND is to go through the airport levels of security into Oh Hello! and catch King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, who have no hesitation in cranking out an unholy racket from the get-go. The Melbourne eight-piece launch into a tangled, crunching mass of psychedelic punk with energy by the truckload, as songs like ‘Black Tooth’ and ‘Dead-Beat’ encourage the crowd-surfers and pogoing punks to bounce around like chimps on speed. Having just realised their debut album, the band are clearly riding high and full of confidence, as they provide an ear-drum-splitting finale to Wednesday night.
Thursday 13th September
The working day passed me by as if I was stuck in suspended animation between two zones of music festival awesomeness, punctuated only by a quick lunchtime blast of tunes at Jamie’s Espresso in James Street with Streamer Bendy, who put in a fine performance of shout-y pop-rock in the early-afternoon sun.
Eight o’clock comes around again, and I find myself at Magic City for the first time, to take in another band who have just released their debut record: Split Seconds. Looking lean and mean, the Perth boys put in a fine set filled with songs from You’ll Turn Into Me. The venue quickly fills up by the end of first track ‘Security Light’, despite the doors only being opened at 8pm on the dot (bad decision Magic City!) ‘Maiden Name’ follows, then the catchy-as-fuck ‘Top Floor’, followed by ‘She Makes Her Own Clothes’, which frontman Sean Pollard laughingly describes as being “about the joys of sewing”. The only way to finish is with the always-excellent ‘All You Gotta Do’; the band leaving the stage to well-deserved thunderous applause and satisfied smiles from the audience.
A quick duck into the Black Bear Lodge to hear the pop delights of former Go-Betweens members Adele & Glenn (Adele Pickvance and Glenn Thompson) is followed by a dash down to the Zoo to catch Hey Geronimo. A huge crowd is there to see the Brisbane indie-poppers, as they begin getting hips moving with the opening bass-line to The George Baker Selection’s ‘Little Green Bag’, before launching into their own ‘Carbon Affair’, followed quickly by ‘Dreamboat Jack’. At this point I’m considering chucking my beer away and jumping around like an idiot, the quirky ‘60s-flavoured pop tunes coming from the stage being so infectious, but I settle for tapping a foot and grinning from ear to ear. ‘Co-Op Bookshop’ follows next, as the boys put in one of the funnest and most upbeat performances of the night.
Next it’s into the depths of the sparsely filled Alhambra Lounge to catch a short burst of Sydney’s Underlights. As I arrive they are pumping out impressive waves of bluesy psychedelia, building the sound into a wall of noise that reverberates around the brick interior of the club. However, it’s at this point that my evening is temporarily derailed as my iPhone decides to fuck itself (thus losing my BIGSOUND schedule) and I have to go outside to make a call to fix it, and miss the rest of the set. Damn you, technology!
Back at the Bakery Lane stage, Dubmarine are making sure everybody is dancing frantically with a range of high-energy, pumping dub and dance tracks. Blasts of trombone and synths rain down on the energetic crowd as the energy levels remain high. The fact that they are late replacements for an unwell Owl Eyes has left a few confused people wondering what is going on. One guy sees me writing and we have the following exchange:
Guy: “Is this Owl Eyes, mate?
Me: “Umm… no.”
Guy: “Who is it?”
Me: “Dubmarine.”
Guy: “Who?”
Guy: “Oh, I was wondering why they didn’t look like Owl Eyes!”
I should probably try to be more friendly to strangers. Anyhow, a quick stretch of the legs back up Ann Street and Oh Hello! is the location, catching Courtney Barnett’s set the aim. But alas, the bouncer rules that my mate is too hammered and refuses him entry. We decide to take a punt on the Press Club – where the door staff are either much less diligent or much more accommodating, I’m not sure which – and have a look and a listen to the pixie-like Elizabeth Rose. The venue is packed with punters, musicians, and Triple J faces alike; all ready to hear the young Sydneysider’s synth and vocals solo show. If she is nervous it doesn’t show at all, as tune after tune of multi-layered electronica is reeled off, accompanied by her confident vocals. “It’s my first time at BIGSOUND and I’m loving it!” she tells the audience, before kicking into her remix of ‘Foreign Language’ by Flight Facilities, her eyes closed as she puts everything into the vocals, while twiddling several knobs and pushing buttons at the same time.
The only knobs that King Cannons twiddle at Winn Lane are the ones that turn their amps up to eleven. As straight-forward a rock show as you will see; theirs is also one of the most exciting. Striding onto stage like men (and woman) on a mission to be your favourite band, they start into ‘Stand Right Up’, peeling off the committed, everyman style of blue collar rock they have made their trademark. I already know this is going to be the highlight of the entire BIGSOUND Live festival.
“If you feel good, clap your hands!” yells singer Luke Yeoward, and the crowd respond in unison, before the music rolls over into ‘Call For Help’, with Lanae Eruera’s bongos setting off the dual-Fender and piano riffage nicely. ‘Take The Rock’ is next; the chorus part of “Blow it up! Tear shit up!” sounding like possibly one of the best drunken sing-along songs you’d ever want to hear at a festival. ‘Too Young’ follows, another rousing track from The Brightest Light, as sweat pours in rivers from Yeoward’s face and the energy of the audience shows no sign of lowering. ‘The Brightest Light’ and ‘Too Hot To Handle’ are next, without a drop in energy level; the latter morphing into a galloping cover of ‘Rockaway Beach’. Just when I think this set can’t get any better, they go and play a Ramones song. HELL YES.
The closer for King Cannons sweat-drenched set is ‘Teenage Dreams’, the reggae-influenced rhythms allowing the band to have a bit of a jam, chucking in a few bars of ‘Pressure Drop’ by Toots & The Maytals in a singularly epic finale. The appreciative roar from the audience is massive, and with ringing ears and in the knowledge that I’m unlikely to hear anything better tonight, I set off towards the Mustang Bar.
Mia Dyson’s band are setting up in the partially-full venue as the lady herself chats to fans by the pool table. Looking like an ‘80s Annie Lennox and carrying herself with the confident air of a well-travelled performer, Dyson grabs the audience’s attention with her bluesy, whisky-throated drawl and ability to shred with the best of them. Introducing ‘Jesse’ as a “song about adoption”, before summing up her BIGSOUND experience as “having no idea what to expect, but this is lovely,” she then counts in the first track from her new album The Moment, ‘When The Moment Comes’, which she makes sound effortlessly stylish.
Trudging back to the Press Club for one last set, I realise BIGSOUND Live is almost over. Tired but happy, I fight my way through the crowd waiting to see Drunk Mums. As they start to play in their raucous pseudo-anarchic style, I scribble the words ‘they look like a bunch of hyper, bogan speed-freaks, pissed off ‘cos they’ve had their hubcaps nicked,’ and that, to me, makes some kind of perfect sense. Their set is a glorious mess of scrappy garage-punk songs, mullets, and blood (the skinny, shirtless one covered in marker pen scrawl keeps punching himself in the mouth). As the sweaty, aggro-fuelled set is coming to an end, a scuffle breaks out to the side of the stage as a BIGSOUND bouncer jumps on a guy who was apparently going a bit too far with the argy-bargy on the dance floor, and they roll around, locked in a loving embrace on the floor for a while until the punter realises he‘s defeated. Girlfriends inevitably get involved, handbags come out, there is shoving and confusion, and I decide it’s time for me to call it a night and go home. To the taxi rank, home, and into bed with ringing ears I go, happy after a night of great music and good times.
So, what to say in summary about this fantastic festival? The first thing is that I had a damn good time. The second is that it was put together brilliantly. In fact, probably the only thing worth debating is which bands played the best sets (King Cannons and The Preatures in this writer’s opinion.) Kudos to the organisers, and the volunteers, and the venue staff who made it run so smoothly; you guys did a bang-up job. But most of all, thank you to the more than 120 bands who made us forget the world for a short, but glorious time. BIGSOUND 2013 can’t come soon enough.
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Alphaville's Jemima Kelly and Izabella Kaminska sat down with Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece and current organiser of a trans-European group of what he calls "radical Europeanists" — in favor of union, without deflation or austerity. Mr Varoufakis answers criticism from the left, pointing out that even if the euro or the EU ...…
Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea42:07
No matter what the British Parliament decides, for almost three years the UK, Ireland and the EU have been dealing with the reality of the Leave vote. Positions have hardened, investments have been foregone, and all the countries involved have become different places, in ways that cannot be undone. Brendan Greeley of FT Alphaville and Mark Blyt ...…
Immigration: comparing this wave to the last42:23
Leah Boustan of Princeton and Maggie Peters of UCLA look at the wave of migrants to the US from Central America and compare it to the last great wave, from Europe in the late 19th century. Some things are the same: immigrant families are adopting "American" names at the same rates as before, for example. Some things are different: the speed of ...…
Andrew Keen on the internet: misery is not the answer31:18
Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur and more recently How to Fix the Future, sits down with FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska. They both tell the history of their own disenchantment with the internet, and discuss why the Elon Musk story has turned into a Shakespearean tragedy, while Jeff Bezos is more of a Bond villain. "When you do away ...…
Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?39:48
Forget Brexit. Growth in the eurozone is slowing down, but not equally for all countries. Which leaves the continent with the same question it's had for a decade: is it capable of making policy flexible enough for all of its economies? Waltraud Schelkle of the London School of Economics argues that Europe's currencies always swung with the deut ...…
What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish45:08
Even if the trade talks are settled, long-term friction will remain between China and the United States. China has an industrial policy which will see it strive to make more advanced products, such as aircraft and medical devices. The US wants to keep selling these kinds of high-value manufactured goods to China. It remains a fundamental issue ...…
Germany's China shock37:30
Answering the question of whether Germany's export-driven model will ever change, and whether Germany's obsession with saving and budget surpluses will ever change. And how to say "Groundhog Day" in German. Wade Jacoby of Brigham Young University and Megan Greene of Manulife Investments join FTAlphaville's Brendan Greeley and Mark Blyth from th ...…
Peter Norton on the history of paying for big projects36:56
The United States may not have an infrastructure crisis. It may in fact have too much infrastructure. And what does that word "infrastructure" even mean, anyway? We talk about the history internal improvements, public works, and the power of a group that called itself The League of American Wheelmen. For information regarding your data privacy, ...…
Climate change is not a business cycle35:02
Armon Rezai of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and Lint Barrage of Brown University talk to Colby and Mark about how climate change will affect home values and retirement portfolios — you know, middle-class wealth. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Adam Tooze on Davos, econ 101 and the unexpected importance of China in the global economy50:09
Adam Tooze, economic historian and author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, joins the FT’s Brendan Greeley and Brown University’s Mark Blyth to discuss how our politics got us to where we are today, why our ideas about how the economy works may not be fit for purpose, and the key role that China played during the G ...…
The history of what we now call opportunity zones36:13
The 2017 tax cut in the US included a provision that would forgive capital gains taxes, if invested for ten years in an "opportunity zone" — a low-income area designated by a state governor. But the idea of encouraging investments in poor and mostly black areas has a long history. We talk to Mehrsa Baradaran, a law professor at the University o ...…
Olivier Blanchard on debt: “Relax. Don’t relax too much, but relax”30:39
Author of the standard textbook on macroeconomics, former head of research for the International Monetary Fund, currently at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Olivier Blanchard works in the place where economists and politicians attempt to talk to each other. He talked to us about how the financial crisis changed his thinking ...…
Adam Posen on central banks, China and the enduring power of the dollar35:08
The economist and president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics joins FT Alphaville’s Colby Smith and Brown University’s Mark Blyth to discuss the politicking of central banking, the hurdles to finding a US-China trade war resolution and how China can manage the financial risks building in its economy. They also touch on the e ...…
Robert Shiller: market narratives are 'like diseases'21:57
A bonus episode from the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta this past weekend. Brendan Greeley caught up with Yale economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, who argues that if you want to understand markets you have to understand stories — how they start and how they spread. They talked about the stories driving s ...…
What exactly is 'slack'?35:49
Economists like to talk about the "slack" in the labour market. But how can we measure it, and what does it mean? The FT's Brendan Greeley hosts with guests Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife Asset Management, Ioana Marinescu, economist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Mark Blyth, director of the William Rhodes Center ...…
Mariana Mazzucato on who creates value36:09
The economist and University College London professor joins Alphaville's Jemima Kelly to discuss the question of value: who creates it and who makes use of it. She also lays out her argument for a rethinking of the relationship between markets and governments. It's the subject of her recent book, The value of everything: making and taking in th ...…
The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru49:29
Economist Gary Loveman was teaching at Harvard Business School when he went to consult for the Harrah's casino chain in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. Despite knowing nothing about gambling, his insights on customer loyalty earned him a promotion to the chief executive job at the casino group. He took a company that traded at $14 a share and a de ...…
Bill Janeway revisits the 'three-player game'45:59
Academic and practicing capitalist Bill Janeway talks to the FT's Jamie Powell about the way government used to drive innovation, and his idea of the "three-player game" between government, capital and industry. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy…
David Autor on what we now know about trade43:12
Alphachat is back, and with a new host, Brendan Greeley. Brendan is the new US editor of Alphaville, and in this episode, he talks to MIT economics professor David Autor about what economics got wrong about trade, how the profession is fixing itself and why policy is still catching up. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your dat ...…
Introducing Behind The Money19:24
Alphachat is going on a brief hiatus. When we come back in a few weeks we're going to have some great new interviews. But before we take this short break, we wanted to share a new FT podcast called Behind The Money. Each week host (and Alphachat producer) Aimee Keane will take you inside the big business and financial stories of the moment, wit ...…
Sir Paul Tucker on the legitimacy of the central bank44:36
The economist and former deputy governor of the Bank of England joins the FT's John Authers to debate the power of government agencies and the unelected officials leading them, including those at the helm of institutions like the Federal Reserve. It's the subject of his recent book, Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking a ...…
Dan Drezner on the economics of ideas1:06:29
In this encore episode, Dan Drezner, writer and professor of international politics, discusses his book, "The Ideas Industry: how pessimists, partisans and plutocrats are transforming the marketplace of ideas" with former host Cardiff Garcia. They also talk about the global populist wave, identity-based politics, and how to resist the temptatio ...…
Jim Millstein on lessons from the financial crisis48:20
The former chief restructuring officer of the US joins Lex's Sujeet Indap to talk about the financialisation of American businesses, the causes of the 2008 crisis and the outcomes of the government response and reforms. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy…
An encore chat with Geoffrey West51:55
Physicist Geoffrey West joins FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska to discuss his work on a universal theory of growth - or scaling - that extends beyond human lifespans to encompass the sustainability of corporations, cities and more, as detailed in his latest book "Scale". Music by Podington Bear. This episode was originally published on June 9, ...…
Encore: Alice Rivlin on a career as an economic policymaker37:19
Economist Alice Rivlin discusses her storied Washington career, from roles in three different presidential administrations, to director of the Congressional Budget Office, Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve and to her current post at the Brookings Institution. This episode was originally published on May 26, 2017. Music by Podington Bear. For in ...…
Benn Steil on The Marshall Plan52:56
Economist and award-winning author Benn Steil talks to Matt Klein about the history of the post-World War II European recovery plan, implemented by then secretary of state George C Marshall as a means of defending against communist authoritarianism. It's the subject of Steil's new book, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War. Music by Podingto ...…
ENCORE: Andrew Lo on adaptive markets31:17
Economist Andrew Lo talks to the FT's John Authers about his adaptive markets hypothesis, the idea that markets develop and adapt over time and should be modelled using concepts from biology instead of physics. It's the subject of his recent book, Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. This interview was originally publi ...…
The downside of the German economy47:27
Germany is often considered an economic role model for the rest of the world, with low unemployment, a strong welfare state, first-class manufacturing and government budget surpluses. But there's another side to the German economy. Economist Marcel Fratzscher of the German Institute for Economics Research joins Matt Klein to explain. Music by P ...…
Emi Nakamura on the methods and madness of inflation48:18
Economist and Columbia University professor Emi Nakamura joins FT senior investment commentator John Authers to discuss the way inflation statistics are compiled, what the cost of inflation is to the economy and the current relationship between inflation and unemployment. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data privacy, vis ...…
Stephanie Kelton on budget deficits and student debt48:29
Economist Stephanie Kelton talks to Matt Klein about the way government budgets really work and what large-scale student debt forgiveness might do for the US economy. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Jonathan Knee on becoming the "accidental" investment banker50:15
Banker, business school professor and author Jonathan Knee joins Sujeet Indap to discuss his career, the evolution of modern investment banking and finding a way to be influential. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
ENCORE: 50 things that shaped the modern economy54:47
In this encore episode, Tim Harford joins Cardiff Garcia to talk about the way 50 different inventions have shaped the way the economy works today, from video games to the tally stick. It's the subject of his book, "Fifty things that made the modern economy", and a BBC audio series. Music by Podington Bear. For information regarding your data p ...…
Understanding the North Korean economy51:19
The North Korean economy was modeled off of Stalin's forced industrialisation of the 1930s. Many still think the country exists in a time warp -- a communist museum piece kept alive by Chinese subsidies. But the truth is more interesting. After the fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea's economy and society changed dramatically. Marcus Noland, ...…
Corporate tax and the trade balance33:59
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Thomas Wieser on his career in economic policy44:19
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Season preview 1898-99: Liverpool F.C. (Lancashire Evening Post)
August 27, 1898 kjehan
August 27, 1898 Liverpudlians are awaiting the forthcoming season with eagerness and confidence, and unless Tom Watson is a false prophet Liverpool will achieve fame
Next season’s players for Liverpool F.C.
May 11, 1898 kjehan
May 11, 1898 The Liverpool Club’s team for next season will be selected from the following: – Goal: Harry Storer; backs – Archie Goldie, Billy
Liverpool v Sheffield United 1-0 (Friendly: April 30, 1898)
April 30, 1898 kjehan
April 30, 1898 Match: Friendly, at Anfield, kick off: 16:00. Liverpool – Sheffield United 1-0 (0-0). Attendance: 500. Referee: Mr. J. Lewis (Blackburn). Liverpool (2-3-5):
Archie Goldie refuses to re-sign
Saturday, April 30 – 1898 The following players have signed on for Liverpool: – Harry Storer, Billy Dunlop, Tom Wilkie, Thomas Cleghorn, Barney Battles, William
Notts County v Liverpool 3-2 (League match: April 2, 1898)
April 2, 1898 kjehan
April 2, 1898 Match, Football League, First Division, at Trent Bridge, kick-off: 15:30. Notts County – Liverpool 3-2 (1-1). Attendance: 8,000. Notts County (2-3-5): George
Liverpool v Bury 2-2 (League match: March 31, 1898)
March 31, 1898 kjehan
March 31, 1898 Key note: “This return League game was played on the Liverpool ground yesterday in fine weather, and before some 5,000 spectators. On
Liverpool v Notts County 2-0 (League match: March 12, 1898)
March 12, 1898 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 15:30. Liverpool – Notts County 2-0 (1-0). Attendance: 8,000. Liverpool (2-3-5): Harry Storer, Archie
Liverpool v Newton Heath 2-1 (FA Cup: February 16, 1898)
February 16, 1898 kjehan
February 16, 1898 Match: FA Cup, Second Round reply, at Anfield, kick.off: 15:00. Liverpool – Newton Heath 2-1 (0-1). Attendance: 6,000. Referee: Mr.A.J. Barker. Liverpool
Liverpool v Hucknall St Johns 2-0 (FA Cup: January 29, 1898)
January 29, 1898 kjehan
January 29, 1898 Match: FA Cup, First Round, at Anfield, kick-off: 14:45. Liverpool – Hucknall St. John’s 2-0 (0-0). Attendance: 200. Referee: Mr. G.H. Dale
Sunderland v Liverpool 1-0 (League match: January 22, 1898)
January 22, 1898 Key note: “Liverpool are picking up somewhat. To run Sunderland to a goal on the banks of the Wear is no mean
Blackburn Rovers v Liverpool 2-1 (League match: January 8, 1898)
January 8, 1898 kjehan
January 8, 1898 Key note: “Dr Morley, who has for many years been connected with the Rovers, celebrated his 69th birthday on Saturday last, when
Hearts v Liverpool 3-1 (Friendly: January 3, 1898)
January 3, 1898 Match: Friendly, at Tynecastle. Heart of Midlothian – Liverpool 3-1 (0-1). Attendance: 4,500. Referee: Mr. McLaughlan. Hearts (2-3-5): Jock Fairbairn, Henry Allan,
Liverpool v West Bromwich 1-1 (League match: January 1, 1898)
January 1, 1898 Key note: “Liverpudlians would dearly like to see their club win a match upon their own ground. They can manage it away
The squad for the Scotland tour
January 1, 1898 Mr. Campbell states that Mr. Tom Watson sends the following as the probable Liverpool team against the Hearts on Monday: Willie Donnelly;
Sheffield United v Liverpool 1-2 (League match: December 29, 1897)
December 29, 1897 kjehan
December 29, 1897 Match: Football League, First Division, at Bramall Lane, kick off: 14:30. Sheffield United – Liverpool 1-2 (1-1). Attendance: 5,000. Referee: Mr. A.H.B.
Liverpool v Sunderland 0-2 (League match: December 27, 1897)
December 27, 1897 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick off: 14:10. Liverpool – Sunderland 0-2 (0-0). Attendance: 25,000.. Referee: Mr. J. H. Strawson.
Manchester City v Liverpool 3-1 (Lancashire Cup: December 4, 1897)
December 4, 1897 kjehan
December 4, 1897 Match: Lancashire Cup, First Round, at Hyde Road, kick off: 14:30. Manchester City – Liverpool 3-1 (2-1). Attendance: 4,000; gate receipt: £130.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool 2-3 (League match: November 27, 1897)
November 27, 1897 kjehan
November 27, 1897 Match: Football League, First Division, at City Ground, kick-off: 14:30. Nottingham Forest – Liverpool 2-3 (0-2). Attendance: 6,000. Referee: Mr. J.E. Carpenter.
Liverpool v Wolves 1-0 (League match: November 20, 1897)
November 20, 1897 Key note: “After the lapse of three weeks, with ne’er a victory to record, the success of Liverpool against the Wolves was
Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion
November 15, 1897 Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion. These teams met at Stoney Lane for the first time this season, but owing to the unpropitious
West Bromwich v Liverpool 2-1 (League match: November 13, 1897)
November 13, 1897 Match: Football League, First Division, at Stoney Lane, kick-off: 14:45. West Bromwich Albion – Liverpool 2-1 (1-1). Attendance: 1,500. West Bromwich (2-3-5):
Liverpool v Nottingham Forest
November 8, 1897 kjehan
November 8, 1897 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest. There was not a great attendance of spectators present on Saturday, when play in this match was commenced
November 8, 1897 These teams met at Anfield, on Saturday, for the first time this season. Liverpool were still without Archie Goldie, Frank Becton, and
Liverpool v Nottingham Forest 1-2 (League match: November 6, 1897)
November 6, 1897 Quick note: “Liverpool distinguished themselves in a somewhat surprising manner against Nottingham Forest, and, as a consequence, sustained their first defeat at
Aston Villa v Liverpool
November 1, 1897 Beautiful weather prevailed in Birmingham on Saturday, and fully 25,000 spectators put in an appearance at Villa Park to view this match.
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Mathematical moments: Katie Steckles
Mathematicians often say that being creative is hugely important in maths. But why? We asked mathematician Katie Steckles, who told us about her favourite mathematical moments and why imagination is everything.
Mathematical moments is a series of short interviews with mathematicians about their work and the role of creativity in maths. This is the first interview of the series — stay tuned for more! The video will also appear on our sister site Wild Maths, which encourages students to explore maths beyond the classroom and is designed to nurture mathematical creativity.
Happy pi day 2016!
It’s March 14th, which in the US is written as 3/14 — and since 3.14 are the first three digits of that most famous of mathematical constants, , today is celebrated internationally as pi day.
How many revolutions will the smaller circle make when rolling around the bigger one?
The number is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. To celebrate this lovely number, here’s a little puzzle to ponder. Imagine a circle with radius 1 cm rolling completely along the circumference of a circle with radius 4 cm. How many rotations does the smaller circle make?
The circumference of a circle with radius is , so the circumference of a circle with radius would be . Since
it seems the answer must be four revolutions. But that’s not true! The answer is actually 5! Can you figure out why?
We found out about this curious question from Yutaka Nishiyama, a mathematical friend in Japan. You can read about the answer in his article Circles rolling on circles. Happy puzzling!
Happy International Women's Day 2016!
The video above is one of our favourite talks from the last 12 months: it's by Sydney Padua, graphic artist, animator and creator of the wonderful Thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Padua's talk, part of the Ada Lovelace Symposium in December 2015, explains how she used historical newspaper reports, letters and mathematical text books, as well as her extraordinary skill and imagination, to create the comic series featuring mathematicians Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in a parallel universe where they built a giant calculating machine to fight crime and have adventures. The comics originally appeared online but now are also available in a beautiful book which we are currently savouring. Stay tuned for a review soon. As well as writing the thrilling adventures, Padua also built the first virtual analytical engine (essentially the first ever computer, conceived by Charles Baggage with lots if input from Lovelace) in 3D animation software — a beautiful sight to behold, which elicited gasps of admiration from the mathematicians, computer scientists and historians in the audience.
The Symposium featured many fascinating talks: you can read some highlights in Analysing Ada and watch many of them on the Symposium website. Our favourites include Judith Grabiner's talk on the radical changes in the 19th century that produced new ideas of space, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and helping create modernism, and the talk by June Barrow-Green about the fascinating stories you can find in mathematical archives.
One of our other favourite lectures of the last year was by Nina Snaith on her work on the fascinating connection between the Riemann Hypothesis, an unsolved problem about the distribution of prime numbers, and chaotic quantum systems. (You can find out more in her LMS popular lecture.) We saw Snaith's talk at It all adds up, the London Mathematical Society's 2015 Women in Maths conference. (You can read more about the conference here.)
It all adds up was co-organised by one of our favourite mathematical friends, Vicky Neale, herself a great mathematical speaker who can enthral audiences of all ages and backgrounds. To see how, watch her introduce 7 things you need to know about prime numbers.
Has LIGO detected gravitational waves?
Having spent the summer of 1993 on a student placement in a gravitational wave lab, I am finding it very hard to stay calm about the rumours that we may have finally detected gravitational waves. Whispers from a few months ago have built to excited headlines this week that LIGO may have detected gravitational waves produced by the merger of two black holes.
We've poked and prodded our contacts in the field but they don't want to comment at this stage – although it seems the rumours are solid and the scientists themselves are getting quite excited. We'll just have to be patient and wait for the LIGO team to analyse their data, which, to be fair, they only finished collecting yesterday. Stay tuned for an announcement over the coming months. And while you're waiting, you can read, watch and listen to some of our favourite physicists talking about black holes and gravitational waves.
What is a black hole? — One of the strangest prediction of general relativity is that the Universe contains black holes. We asked cosmologist Pau Figueras everything you've ever wanted to know about them. Read the articles (What is a black hole – physically? and What is a black hole – mathematically?), listen to the podcasts or watch the video!
How does gravity work? — We explore Newton's gravity, Einstein's gravity and the ripples in space-time called gravitational waves.
What is general relativity? — Physicist David Tong explains the theory and the equation that expresses it. Watch the video or read the article!
Catching waves with Kip Thorne — What happens when one black hole meets another? Kip Thorne shows us how to eavesdrop on these cosmic events by watching for telltale gravitational waves.
Plus Advent Calendar Door #24: Approaching midnight
We're there, we're there, we're nearly there!
Tomorrow is Christmas day! We know just how hard it is to pass those last 24 hours before the presents appear under the tree, so we have a little game for you to while away the time. Take turns in moving the hands of the clock, and the first person to reach midnight wins. You can play the game using this interactivity on Wild Maths. There you can also get some help to find a winning strategy, and find further questions to explore.
Wild Maths encourages students to explore maths beyond the classroom and is designed to nurture mathematical creativity. The site is aimed at 7 to 16 year-olds, but open to all. It provides games, investigations, stories and spaces to explore, where discoveries are to be made. Some have starting points, some a big question and others offer you a free space to investigate.
Return to the Plus Advent Calendar
Plus Advent Calendar Door #23: Fractal christmas trees!
A huge thank you to Emma Morgan for our favourite idea for Christmas cards – Sierpinski Christmas trees!
Creating these lovely cards is just a matter of simple folding and cutting – there's still time to make some for the big day! You can find out how in Emma's video. And you can find out many more creative things you can do with folding and cutting on Wild Maths.
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NFL Divisional Round preview, Pic's Picks for Divisional Round, reaction to All Elite Wrestling, and hoping Kenny Omega signs with WWE - 1/10/19
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On Thursday's podcast, I opened the show with a full preview of the Divisional Round of the NFL Playoffs, including "Pic's Picks" (20:23) and my DraftKings "Gotta Have Him" play for the four-game weekend slate. I also shared some thoughts on Clemson smashing Alabama in the National Championship, Trevor Lawrence possibly going to the XFL before he's eligible for the NFL, and Josh McDaniels staying in New England for now. Plus, I closed out the show with reaction to the creation of "All Elite Wrestling" and explained why I hope Kenny Omega signs with the WWE (36:15).
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Rob Gronkowski already misses football, MLB is intentionally juicing the baseballs, and the Red Sox should ask about Noah Syndergaard - 7/11/19
On Thursday's podcast, Danny Picard opened the show reacting to Rob Gronkowski participating in a private workout with Tom Brady in Los Angeles on Monday. Plus, Danny shared his thoughts on the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets talking trade (37:00). And he closed out the show discussing Justin Verlander's accusation that Major League Baseball is intentionally juicing the baseballs this season (48:11).
Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to LA, Kanter signs with Celtics, and some MLB All-Star break thoughts - 7/8/19
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Durant and Irving choose Brooklyn, and much more NBA free agency reaction - 7/1/19
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LG G Watch R Review
Kevin Krause Dec 9th, 2014 publishUpdated Jan 16th, 2015, 1:16 pm
While LG was quick to jump into the Android Wear ecosystem with the original G Watch, the G Watch R feels more like their first true attempt at an Android smartwatch. It refines much of what was introduced with the G Watch while opting for a circular form factor that serves to merge the traditional with the futuristic. Albeit for a few flaws inherent in nearly all Android Wear devices, the G Watch R is about as good as it gets for a smartwatch.
The LG G Watch R is the first piece of Android Wear hardware that, at least in terms of designs, recognizes it is a watch first and a smart computing device second. A lot of attention has been paid to the details of the design, from an analog-inspired bezel that serves to mask the issue of bulky screen-edge electronics to a genuine leather 22mm strap. If the latter doesn’t suit your taste, it can be swapped out for a nearly endless selection of watchbands currently available for your more run-of-the-mill (i.e. non-smart) watch offerings. A mock crown serves as a screen on/off switch and can also be used to power down the device or access system menus.
Going back to the bezel, it is one of the few instances where an Android Wear watch pays service to the more traditional form factor, but it also showcases a unique integration between hardware and software that hasn’t been explored with previous smartwatch offerings. The hands of the virtual watch faces sync up seamlessly with the physical markings on the bezel to great effect.
While the Moto 360 has won over plenty of fans with its round design, the G Watch R exploits the form factor to create perhaps the most complete Android Wear device to date. Its mix of flat black accents and quality leather for the strap imbue a refined classiness. This is a watch that looks sharp with any outfit, including a suit. On that note, the design of the watch is decidedly masculine, a trend all too common with the first crop of Android Wear devices. One can’t help but feel like the bulky, stark looks of many Android Wear devices completely ignore the female segment of the market.
And the G Watch R is indeed bulky, a chief complaint levied against the device in most early reviews. We would counter that at 46.4 x 53.6 mm, it is not quite as bulky as some would have us believe, but we can see how those with smaller wrists or an affinity toward a more subtle fashion might find it a turn off. In defense of LG, they did manage to cram quite a bit of hardware within, so we can be a bit forgiving of the watch’s girth.
The focal point of the G Watch R experience is a circular OLED display measuring 1.3 inches in diameter. It’s 320×320 resolution is far from HD (and at times noticeably grainy), but it does not lack for visibility in nearly any lighting condition. In fact, at higher brightness settings the light from the watch face has a tendency to drown out the physical markings on the bezel, making them difficult to read in some lighting conditions. It’s a minor annoyance that can be avoided by choosing a proper brightness setting, but one worth mentioning.
The G Watch R is one of the more powerful Android Wear devices on the market with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 SoC clocked at 1.2GHz and 512MB of on board RAM. The watch features 4GB of built-in storage, though since the device must be constantly synced with a a smartphone where much of its data will be streamed from it’s hard to imagine a case where all of that storage space will be needed.
Rounding out the hardware are features like IP67 resistance to dust and water and a built-in heart rate sensor position on the underside of the watch. As with much of the heart rate sensing technology that has made its way to mobile devices in recent months, it is not always the most cooperative, but it comes as a nice bonus for those planning to use their G Watch R to monitor fitness-related activities.
We’ve already mentioned how the G Watch R’s watch faces integrate nicely with the physical bezel of the device, and we won’t delve too deeply into the intricacies of Android Wear. For that, you might want to check out our Moto 360 review or our look at seven things we hated about Android Wear. It’s worth noting that Android Wear is a developing platform and looks to only get better with time; a Lollipop update that apparently addresses many of our concerns should arrive soon
Back to the G Watch R. While Google has promoted the circular watch face option alongside the more common square form factor found in watches like the original G Watch and Samsung Gear Live, the Android Wear software does not seem to support both equally. Info cards are cut off by the curving lower edges of the display, greatly reducing the amount of visible content when using the G Watch R. This is perhaps its biggest flaw. As a device designed for at-a-glance info, these display issues are a major hinderance to usability.
As with other Android Wear devices, the software experience is designed to act as a companion to and compliment an Android smartphone (we should point out that Android Wear devices are as of now only compatible with Android and not iOS or Windows Phone handsets). While the benefit of this is a platform that doesn’t attempt to do more than truly fits its form factor, it also amplifies its limitations. Far too often the Android Wear interface prompts the use to complete an action on their smartphone. Certain actions — music playback controls come to mind — possible through Android Wear end up feeling redundant.
We chalk most of this up to a platform still in its infancy. Some will argue that Android Wear launched before it was ready, and we can’t really say there isn’t some truth to that. How Android Wear matures will greatly influence the usefulness and longevity of devices like the G Watch R.
One thing the G Watch R has going for it is battery life. Depending on how you have your device set up (brightness, watch face always on, etc.), you can expect anywhere from a full day of use on a single charge to closer to two days. It features one of the larger power cells an Android Wear device has seen at 410mAh to help it achieve this goal (and a bit of additional design bulk).
Two days is impressive for an Android Wear watch, but it’s far from what many expect of such a device. Until manufacturers can replicate battery times of traditional watches on their smart counterparts, those looking for a truly watch-like experience will always be disappointed in the final result.
We’re not sure this a truly fair comparison given everything the G Watch R does beyond simply tell time, but it’s understandable that folks don’t want yet another device to charge at the very least every other day. Still, as we said the battery time is impressive for an Android Wear device of this class, especially considering its fairly powerful hardware.
The G Watch R gets so much right in terms of design and hardware that it’s hard not to call it the best Android Wear device on the market. It’s bulkiness won’t be for everybody, but aside from faltering in the software department slightly, which falls more on the side of Google, it is a well-rounded (no pun intended) smartwatch that provides an experience that melds our expectations of a traditional watch with the forward-thinking capabilities of wearable tech.
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England World Cup football. The loan stars
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Not all of England’s World Cup squad were always on top of their game
What I especially like about the composition of the current 23-man England World Cup squad is that is allows the supporters of numerous non-Premiership clubs to claim some share of the perceived “glory”.
The reason? In total, 16 of the players have, at one time or another, been loaned out to perform for other teams.
Loaning players has been going on since the game started and some of the loans could be more accurately described as “playing a ringer” but the system became a little more formalised and regulated back in 1966 – spookily the year England won the World Cup.
I don’t know about others, but that figure of 16 sounded high to me. Three or four, maybe but two-thirds of the squad? I would not have thought that.
My, perhaps prejudiced, impression is that players who go out on loan are not thought to be quite up to inclusion in the first team on a regular basis. Close, but no cigar. A subtle way of hinting to the player that they may not have what it takes to make it at the highest level of the game.
Still, I’m happy to note that the composition of the squad seems to prove me wrong. Obviously, the players did have what it takes. They had just been loaned out to improve their skills and get regular playing time to England’s benefit.
So, where did the players go on loan? Here is the list I’ve gleaned from research on Wikipedia. You will spot several non-league names among them.
In squad number order …
1 Jordan Pickford: While with home-town side Sunderland he was loaned to Darlington, Alfreton Town, Burton Albion, Carlisle United, Bradford City and Preston North End before joining Everton, making him the most travelled man in the squad with six loans (equal with fellow keeper Nick Pope).
2 Kyle Walker: When he was with Sheffield United he played for Northampton Town. Later, after joining Spurs, he was loaned back to Sheffield United, then QPR and Aston Villa.
3 Danny Rose: From Spurs he has been loaned to Watford, Peterborough United, Bristol City and Sunderland.
4 Eric Dier: While he was an academy player in Portugal with Sporting Clube de Portugal he was loaned to Everton.
5 John Stones: No loans.
6 Harry Maguire: During his time on Hull City’s books he was loaned to Wigan Athletic.
7 Jesse Lingard: Before finally breaking into Manchester United’s starting line-up he went to Leicester City, Birmingham City, Brighton & Hove Albion and Derby County.
8 Jordan Henderson: Another lad from the Sunderland area who played for the local team. From Sunderland he was loaned to Coventry City.
9 Harry Kane: Hard to believe, but the current leading scorer in the World Cup struggled to establish himself at Spurs in the early days. He was loaned out to Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich City and Leicester City. Didn’t turn out too bad, did he?
10 Raheem Sterling: No loans.
11 Jamie Vardy: Also, no loans, but he did play non-league football when Fleetwood Town were in the Conference.
12 Kieran Trippier: While on Manchester City’s books he was loaned to Barnsley and Burnley who he joined before ending up at Spurs.
13 Jack Butland: While with Birmingham City the keeper was loaned to Cheltenham Town; when at Stoke he also played for former side Birmingham City, Barnsley, Leeds United and Derby County. All of England’s keepers moved around a fair bit.
14 Danny Welbeck: While with Manchester United he went out on loan to both Preston North End and Sunderland.
15 Gary Cahill: When at Aston Villa he played for Burnley and Sheffield United.
16 Phil Jones: No loans.
17 Fabian Delph: While at Aston Villa he went out on loan to Leeds United.
18 Ashley Young: No loans.
19 Marcus Rashford: No loans.
20 Dele Alli: The Spurs player has also appeared for Milton Keynes Dons.
21 Ruben Loftus-Cheek: Registered with Chelsea but has just had a season on loan at Crystal Palace.
22 Trent Alexander-Arnold: No loans.
23 Nick Pope: While on Charlton Athletic’s books he was loaned to Harrow Borough, Welling United, Cambridge United, Aldershot Town, York City and Bury.
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AuthorBajic, Vladimir B. (8)Alam, Intikhab (5)Hirt, Heribert (5)Lafi, Feras Fawzi (5)Saad, Maged (5)View MoreDepartmentComputational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) (8)Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division (6)Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division (2)Pathogen Genomics Laboratory (1)SABIC - Corporate Research and Innovation Center (CRI) at KAUST (1)JournalGenome Announcements (4)Bioinformatics (1)BMC Genomics (1)Frontiers in Microbiology (1)Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science (1)KAUST Grant Number
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Draft Genome Sequence of Ochrobactrum intermedium Strain SA148, a Plant Growth-Promoting Desert Rhizobacterium
Lafi, Feras Fawzi; Alam, Intikhab; Geurts, Rene; Bisseling, Ton; Bajic, Vladimir B.; Hirt, Heribert; Saad, Maged (Genome Announcements, American Society for Microbiology, 2017-03-03) [Article]
Ochrobactrum intermedium strain SA148 is a plant growth-promoting bacterium isolated from sandy soil in the Jizan area of Saudi Arabia. Here, we report the 4.9-Mb draft genome sequence of this strain, highlighting different pathways characteristic of plant growth promotion activity and environmental adaptation of SA148.
Draft Genome Sequence of Enterobacter sp. Sa187, an Endophytic Bacterium Isolated from the Desert Plant Indigofera argentea
Enterobacter sp. Sa187 is a plant endophytic bacterium, isolated from root nodules of the desert plant Indigofera argentea, collected from the Jizan region of Saudi Arabia. Here, we report the genome sequence of Sa187, highlighting several genes involved in plant growth–promoting activity and environmental adaption.
Draft Genome Sequence of Plant Growth–Promoting Micrococcus luteus Strain K39 Isolated from Cyperus conglomeratus in Saudi Arabia
Lafi, Feras Fawzi; Ramirez Prado, Juan Sebastian; Alam, Intikhab; Bajic, Vladimir B.; Hirt, Heribert; Saad, Maged (Genome Announcements, American Society for Microbiology, 2017-01-27) [Article]
Micrococcus luteus strain K39 is an endophyte bacterium isolated from roots of the desert plant Cyperus conglomeratus collected from the Red Sea shore, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The draft genome sequence of strain K39 revealed a number of enzymes involved in salinity and oxidative stress tolerance or having herbicide-resistance activity.
Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth–Promoting Pseudomonas punonensis Strain D1-6 Isolated from the Desert Plant Erodium hirtum in Jordan
Lafi, Feras Fawzi; AL Bladi, Maha Lafi Saleh; Salem, Nida M.; Al-Banna, Luma; Alam, Intikhab; Bajic, Vladimir B.; Hirt, Heribert; Saad, Maged (Genome Announcements, American Society for Microbiology, 2017-01-13) [Article]
Pseudomonas punonensis strain D1-6 was isolated from roots of the desert plant Erodium hirtum, near the Dead Sea in Jordan. The genome of strain D1-6 reveals several key plant growth-promoting and herbicide-resistance genes, indicating a possible specialized role for this endophyte.
In silico screening for candidate chassis strains of free fatty acid-producing cyanobacteria
Motwalli, Olaa Amin; Essack, Magbubah; Jankovic, Boris R.; Ji, Boyang; Liu, Xinyao; Ansari, Hifzur Rahman; Hoehndorf, Robert; Gao, Xin; Arold, Stefan T.; Mineta, Katsuhiko; Archer, John A.C.; Gojobori, Takashi; Mijakovic, Ivan; Bajic, Vladimir B. (BMC Genomics, Springer Nature, 2017-01-05) [Article]
Background Finding a source from which high-energy-density biofuels can be derived at an industrial scale has become an urgent challenge for renewable energy production. Some microorganisms can produce free fatty acids (FFA) as precursors towards such high-energy-density biofuels. In particular, photosynthetic cyanobacteria are capable of directly converting carbon dioxide into FFA. However, current engineered strains need several rounds of engineering to reach the level of production of FFA to be commercially viable; thus new chassis strains that require less engineering are needed. Although more than 120 cyanobacterial genomes are sequenced, the natural potential of these strains for FFA production and excretion has not been systematically estimated. Results Here we present the FFA SC (FFASC), an in silico screening method that evaluates the potential for FFA production and excretion of cyanobacterial strains based on their proteomes. A literature search allowed for the compilation of 64 proteins, most of which influence FFA production and a few of which affect FFA excretion. The proteins are classified into 49 orthologous groups (OGs) that helped create rules used in the scoring/ranking of algorithms developed to estimate the potential for FFA production and excretion of an organism. Among 125 cyanobacterial strains, FFASC identified 20 candidate chassis strains that rank in their FFA producing and excreting potential above the specifically engineered reference strain, Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002. We further show that the top ranked cyanobacterial strains are unicellular and primarily include Prochlorococcus (order Prochlorales) and marine Synechococcus (order Chroococcales) that cluster phylogenetically. Moreover, two principal categories of enzymes were shown to influence FFA production the most: those ensuring precursor availability for the biosynthesis of lipids, and those involved in handling the oxidative stress associated to FFA synthesis. Conclusion To our knowledge FFASC is the first in silico method to screen cyanobacteria proteomes for their potential to produce and excrete FFA, as well as the first attempt to parameterize the criteria derived from genetic characteristics that are favorable/non-favorable for this purpose. Thus, FFASC helps focus experimental evaluation only on the most promising cyanobacteria.
DDR: Efficient computational method to predict drug–target interactions using graph mining and machine learning approaches
Olayan, Rawan S.; Ashoor, Haitham; Bajic, Vladimir B. (Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-11-23) [Article]
Motivation Finding computationally drug-target interactions (DTIs) is a convenient strategy to identify new DTIs at low cost with reasonable accuracy. However, the current DTI prediction methods suffer the high false positive prediction rate. Results We developed DDR, a novel method that improves the DTI prediction accuracy. DDR is based on the use of a heterogeneous graph that contains known DTIs with multiple similarities between drugs and multiple similarities between target proteins. DDR applies non-linear similarity fusion method to combine different similarities. Before fusion, DDR performs a pre-processing step where a subset of similarities is selected in a heuristic process to obtain an optimized combination of similarities. Then, DDR applies a random forest model using different graph-based features extracted from the DTI heterogeneous graph. Using five repeats of 10-fold cross-validation, three testing setups, and the weighted average of area under the precision-recall curve (AUPR) scores, we show that DDR significantly reduces the AUPR score error relative to the next best start-of-the-art method for predicting DTIs by 34% when the drugs are new, by 23% when targets are new, and by 34% when the drugs and the targets are known but not all DTIs between them are not known. Using independent sources of evidence, we verify as correct 22 out of the top 25 DDR novel predictions. This suggests that DDR can be used as an efficient method to identify correct DTIs.
Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of Enterobacter sp. SA187, a Plant Multi-Stress Tolerance Promoting Endophytic Bacterium
Andres-Barrao, Cristina; Lafi, Feras Fawzi; Alam, Intikhab; Zélicourt, Axel de; Eida, Abdul Aziz; Bokhari, Ameerah; Alzubaidy, Hanin S.; Bajic, Vladimir B.; Hirt, Heribert; Saad, Maged (Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media SA, 2017-10-20) [Article]
Enterobacter sp. SA187 is an endophytic bacterium that has been isolated from root nodules of the indigenous desert plant Indigofera argentea. SA187 could survive in the rhizosphere as well as in association with different plant species, and was able to provide abiotic stress tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana. The genome sequence of SA187 was obtained by using Pacific BioScience (PacBio) single-molecule sequencing technology, with average coverage of 275X. The genome of SA187 consists of one single 4,429,597 bp chromosome, with an average 56% GC content and 4,347 predicted protein coding DNA sequences (CDS), 153 ncRNA, 7 rRNA, and 84 tRNA. Functional analysis of the SA187 genome revealed a large number of genes involved in uptake and exchange of nutrients, chemotaxis, mobilization and plant colonization. A high number of genes were also found to be involved in survival, defense against oxidative stress and production of antimicrobial compounds and toxins. Moreover, different metabolic pathways were identified that potentially contribute to plant growth promotion. The information encoded in the genome of SA187 reveals the characteristics of a dualistic lifestyle of a bacterium that can adapt to different environments and promote the growth of plants. This information provides a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in plant-microbe interaction and could be further exploited to develop SA187 as a biological agent to improve agricultural practices in marginal and arid lands.
In silico toxicology: comprehensive benchmarking of multi-label classification methods applied to chemical toxicity data
Raies, Arwa B.; Bajic, Vladimir B. (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, Wiley, 2017-12-05) [Article]
One goal of toxicity testing, among others, is identifying harmful effects of chemicals. Given the high demand for toxicity tests, it is necessary to conduct these tests for multiple toxicity endpoints for the same compound. Current computational toxicology methods aim at developing models mainly to predict a single toxicity endpoint. When chemicals cause several toxicity effects, one model is generated to predict toxicity for each endpoint, which can be labor and computationally intensive when the number of toxicity endpoints is large. Additionally, this approach does not take into consideration possible correlation between the endpoints. Therefore, there has been a recent shift in computational toxicity studies toward generating predictive models able to predict several toxicity endpoints by utilizing correlations between these endpoints. Applying such correlations jointly with compounds' features may improve model's performance and reduce the number of required models. This can be achieved through multi-label classification methods. These methods have not undergone comprehensive benchmarking in the domain of predictive toxicology. Therefore, we performed extensive benchmarking and analysis of over 19,000 multi-label classification models generated using combinations of the state-of-the-art methods. The methods have been evaluated from different perspectives using various metrics to assess their effectiveness. We were able to illustrate variability in the performance of the methods under several conditions. This review will help researchers to select the most suitable method for the problem at hand and provide a baseline for evaluating new approaches. Based on this analysis, we provided recommendations for potential future directions in this area.
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Park, Kihong (4)Qaraqe, Khalid A. (3)Radaydeh, Redha Mahmoud Mesleh (3)Rezki, Zouheir (3)View MoreDepartment
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Low complexity transmit antenna selection with power balancing in OFDM systems
Park, Kihong; Ko, Youngchai; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2010-10) [Article]
In this paper, we consider multi-carrier systems with multiple transmit antennas under the power balancing constraint, which is defined as the constraint that the power on each antenna should be limited under a certain level due to the linearity of the power amplifier of the RF chain. Applying transmit antenna selection and fixed-power variable-rate transmission per subcarrier as a function of channel variations, we propose an implementation-friendly antenna selection method which offers a reduced complexity in comparison with the optimal antenna selection scheme. More specifically, in order to solve the subcarrier imbalance across the antennas, we operate a two-step reallocation procedure to minimize the loss of spectral efficiency. We also provide an analytic lower bound on the spectral efficiency for the proposed scheme. From selected numerical results, we show that our suboptimal scheme offers almost the same spectral efficiency as the optimal one. © 2010 IEEE.
Switched-based interference reduction scheme for open-access overlaid cellular networks
Radaydeh, Redha Mahmoud Mesleh; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-06) [Article]
Femtocells have been proposed to enhance the spatial coverage and system capacity of existing cellular networks. However, this technology may result in significant performance loss due to the increase in co-channel interference, particularly when coordination between access points is infeasible. This paper targets interference management in such overlaid networks. It is assumed that the femtocells employ the open-access strategy to reduce cross-tier interference, and can share resources concurrently. It is also assumed that each end user (EU) can access one channel at a time, and transfer limited feedback. To reduce the effect of co-tier interference in the absence of the desired EU channel state information (CSI) at the serving access point as well as coordination between active access points, a switched scheme based on the interference levels associated with available channels is proposed. Through the analysis, the scheme modes of operation in under-loaded and over-loaded channels are studied, from which the statistics of the resulting interference power are quantified. The impact of the proposed scheme on the received desired power is thoroughly discussed. In addition, the effect of the switching threshold on the achieved performance of the desired EU is investigated. The results clarify that the proposed scheme can improve the performance while reducing the number of examined channels and feedback load. © 2012 IEEE.
Accurate outage analysis of incremental decode-and-forward opportunistic relaying
Tourki, Kamel; Yang, Hongchuan; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-04) [Article]
In this paper, we investigate a dual-hop decode-and-forward opportunistic relaying scheme where the selected relay chooses to cooperate only if the source-destination channel is of an unacceptable quality. We first derive the exact statistics of received signal-to-noise (SNR) over each hop with co-located relays, in terms of probability density function (PDF). Then, the PDFs are used to determine very accurate closed-form expression for the outage probability for a transmission rate R. Furthermore, we perform asymptotic analysis and we deduce the diversity order of the scheme. We validate our analysis by showing that performance simulation results coincide with our analytical results over different network architectures. © 2011 IEEE.
Effect of primary user traffic on sensing-throughput tradeoff for cognitive radios
Tang, Liang; Chen, Yunfei; Hines, Evor L.; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-04) [Article]
The effect of the primary user traffic on the performance of the secondary network is investigated for the tradeoff between the sensing quality and the achievable throughput. Numerical results show that the actual secondary network performance when the random departure or arrival of the primary user is taken into account is worse than the predicted secondary network performance in the literature assuming constant occupancy state of the primary user. The degree of degradation depends on the traffic intensity as well as the received signal-to-noise ratio at the secondary user. Also, unlike the conventional model where the occupancy state of the primary user is assumed constant, the optimal sensing time in the new model varies for different primary channel conditions when the primary user traffic is considered. © 2011 IEEE.
Joint switched multi-spectrum and transmit antenna diversity for spectrum sharing systems
Sayed, Mostafa M.; Abdallah, Mohamed M.; Qaraqe, Khalid A.; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-10) [Article]
In spectrum sharing systems, a secondary user (SU) is allowed to share the spectrum with a primary (licensed) network under the condition that the interference observed at the receivers of the primary users (PU-Rxs) is below a predetermined level. In this paper, we consider a secondary network comprised of a secondary transmitter (SU-Tx) equipped with multiple antennas and a single-antenna secondary receiver (SU-Rx) sharing the same spectrum with multiple primary users (PUs), each with a distinct spectrum. We develop transmit antenna diversity schemes at the SU-Tx that exploit the multi-spectrum diversity provided by the existence of multiple PUs so as to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the SU-Rx. In particular, assuming bounded transmit power at the SU-Tx, we develop switched selection schemes that select the primary spectrum and the SU-Tx transmit antenna that maintain the SNR at the SU-Rx above a specific threshold. Assuming Rayleigh fading channels and binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) transmission, we derive the average bit-error-rate (BER) and average feedback load expressions for the proposed schemes. For the sake of comparison, we also derive a BER expression for the optimal selection scheme that selects the best antenna/spectrum pair that maximizes the SNR at the SU-Rx, in exchange of high feedback load and switching complexity. Finally, we show that our analytical results are in perfect agreement with the simulation results. © 2013 IEEE.
Impact of interference on the performance of selection based parallel multiuser scheduling
Nam, Sungsik; Yang, Hongchuan; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim; Kim, Dongik (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-02) [Article]
In conventional multiuser parallel scheduling schemes, every scheduled user is interfering with every other scheduled user, which limits the capacity and performance of multiuser systems, and the level of interference becomes substantial as the number of scheduled users increases. Based on the above observations, we investigate the trade-off between the system throughput and the number of scheduled users through the exact analysis of the total average sum rate capacity and the average spectral efficiency. Our analytical results can help the system designer to carefully select the appropriate number of scheduled users to maximize the overall throughput while maintaining an acceptable quality of service under certain channel conditions. © 2012 IEEE.
Ultrawide Bandwidth Receiver Based on a Multivariate Generalized Gaussian Distribution
Ahmed, Qasim Zeeshan; Park, Kihong; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-04) [Article]
Multivariate generalized Gaussian density (MGGD) is used to approximate the multiple access interference (MAI) and additive white Gaussian noise in pulse-based ultrawide bandwidth (UWB) system. The MGGD probability density function (pdf) is shown to be a better approximation of a UWB system as compared to multivariate Gaussian, multivariate Laplacian and multivariate Gaussian-Laplacian mixture (GLM). The similarity between the simulated and the approximated pdf is measured with the help of modified Kullback-Leibler distance (KLD). It is also shown that MGGD has the smallest KLD as compared to Gaussian, Laplacian and GLM densities. A receiver based on the principles of minimum bit error rate is designed for the MGGD pdf. As the requirement is stringent, the adaptive implementation of the receiver is also carried out in this paper. Training sequence of the desired user is the only requirement when implementing the detector adaptively. © 2002-2012 IEEE.
Linear transceiver design for nonorthogonal amplify-and-forward protocol using a bit error rate criterion
Ahmed, Qasim Zeeshan; Park, Kihong; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim; Aïssa, Sonia (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-04) [Article]
The ever growing demand of higher data rates can now be addressed by exploiting cooperative diversity. This form of diversity has become a fundamental technique for achieving spatial diversity by exploiting the presence of idle users in the network. This has led to new challenges in terms of designing new protocols and detectors for cooperative communications. Among various amplify-and-forward (AF) protocols, the half duplex non-orthogonal amplify-and-forward (NAF) protocol is superior to other AF schemes in terms of error performance and capacity. However, this superiority is achieved at the cost of higher receiver complexity. Furthermore, in order to exploit the full diversity of the system an optimal precoder is required. In this paper, an optimal joint linear transceiver is proposed for the NAF protocol. This transceiver operates on the principles of minimum bit error rate (BER), and is referred as joint bit error rate (JBER) detector. The BER performance of JBER detector is superior to all the proposed linear detectors such as channel inversion, the maximal ratio combining, the biased maximum likelihood detectors, and the minimum mean square error. The proposed transceiver also outperforms previous precoders designed for the NAF protocol. © 2002-2012 IEEE.
On the performance of hybrid-ARQ with incremental redundancy and with code combining over relay channels
Chelli, Ali; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-08) [Article]
In this paper, we consider a relay network consisting of a source, a relay, and a destination. The source transmits a message to the destination using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The relay overhears the transmitted messages over the different HARQ rounds and tries to decode the data packet. In case of successful decoding at the relay, both the relay and the source cooperate to transmit the message to the destination. The channel realizations are independent for different HARQ rounds. We assume that the transmitter has no channel state information (CSI). Under such conditions, power and rate adaptation are not possible. To overcome this problem, HARQ allows the implicit adaptation of the transmission rate to the channel conditions by the use of feedback. There are two major HARQ techniques, namely HARQ with incremental redundancy (IR) and HARQ with code combining (CC). We investigate the performance of HARQ-IR and HARQ-CC over a relay channel from an information theoretic perspective. Analytical expressions are derived for the information outage probability, the average number of transmissions, and the average transmission rate. We illustrate through our investigation the benefit of relaying. We also compare the performance of HARQ-IR and HARQ-CC and show that HARQ-IR outperforms HARQ-CC. © 2013 IEEE.
On the capacity of multiple access and broadcast fading channels with full channel state information at low SNR
Rezki, Zouheir; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-01) [Article]
We study the throughput capacity region of the Gaussian multi-access (MAC) fading channel with perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver and at the transmitters, at low power regime. We show that it has a multidimensional rectangle structure and thus is simply characterized by single user capacity points.More specifically, we show that at low power regime, the boundary surface of the capacity region shrinks to a single point corresponding to the sum rate maximizer and that the coordinates of this point coincide with single user capacity bounds. Inspired from this result, we propose an on-off scheme, compute its achievable rate, and show that this scheme achieves single user capacity bounds of the MAC channel for a wide class of fading channels at asymptotically low power regime. We argue that this class of fading encompasses all known wireless channels for which the capacity region of the MAC channel has even a simpler expression in terms of users' average power constraints only. Using the duality of Gaussian MAC and broadcast channels (BC), we deduce a simple characterization of the BC capacity region at low power regime and show that for a class of fading channels (including Rayleigh fading), time-sharing is asymptotically optimal. © 2014 IEEE.
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press release | March 12, 2019
Collins releases Lisa Page transcript
“I request the link www.dougcollins.house.gov/page be placed in the record so the American people can review the transcript of Lisa Page’s interviews. I will continue to work to release as many transcripts as possible. The American people deserve transparency.”
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, made the following statement on the House floor releasing the transcript of Lisa Page’s day one interview and day two interview by the Committee on the Judiciary, joint with the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Below are the remarks as prepared.
Rep. Doug Collins: Mr. Speaker, last week, on the floor of this chamber, I released the transcript of the interview of Bruce Ohr from our investigation into apparent wrongdoing at the FBI and DOJ. At that time I said I would make additional transcripts from the committee’s investigation public, and I am here today to keep that promise.
As I stated then, our interview transcripts were pertinent to a congressional investigation. But the 115th Congress ended, the investigation was closed, and copies were shared with certain members of Congress
Mr. Speaker, I request the link www.dougcollins.house.gov/page be placed in the record so the American people can review the transcript of Lisa Page’s interviews.
The American people deserve to know what transpired in the highest echelons of the FBI during that tumultuous time for the bureau.
Out of an abundance of caution, this transcript has a limited number of narrowly tailored redactions, relating only to confidential sources and methods, non-public information about ongoing investigations, and non-material personal information.
I will continue to work to release as many transcripts as possible. The American people deserve transparency.
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Metabolites predict lesion formation and severity in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Antoine M Klauser, Oliver T Wiebenga, Anand Jc Eijlers, Menno M Schoonheim, Bernard Mj Uitdehaag, Frederik Barkhof, Petra Jw Pouwels, Jeroen Jg Geurts
Radiology and nuclear medicine
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Brain Imaging
Amsterdam Neuroscience - Neuroinfection & -inflammation
Anatomy and neurosciences
BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis is characterized by white matter lesions, which are visualized with conventional T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Little is known about local metabolic processes preceding the appearance and during the pathological development of new lesions.
OBJECTIVE: To identify metabolite changes preceding white matter (WM) lesions and pathological severity of lesions over time.
METHODS: A total of 59 relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) patients were scanned four times, with 6-month intervals. Imaging included short-TE magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
RESULTS: A total of 16 new lesions appeared within the MRSI slab in 12 patients. Glutamate increased (+1.0 mM (+19%), p = 0.039) 12 and 6 months before new lesions appeared. In these areas, the increase in creatine and choline 6 months before until lesion appearance was negatively correlated with radial diffusivity (ρ = -0.73, p = 0.002 and ρ = -0.72, p = 0.002). Increase in creatine also correlated with the increase of axial diffusivity in the same period (ρ = -0.53, p = 0.034). When splitting the lesions into "mild" and "severe" based on radial diffusivity, only mild lesions showed an increase in creatine and choline during lesion formation ( p = 0.039 and p = 0.008, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Increased glutamate heralded the appearance of new T2-visible WM lesions. In pathologically "mild" lesions, an increase in creatine and choline was found during lesion formation.
Published - Apr 2018
Klauser, A. M., Wiebenga, O. T., Eijlers, A. J., Schoonheim, M. M., Uitdehaag, B. M., Barkhof, F., ... Geurts, J. J. (2018). Metabolites predict lesion formation and severity in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, 1352458517702534. https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458517702534
Klauser, Antoine M ; Wiebenga, Oliver T ; Eijlers, Anand Jc ; Schoonheim, Menno M ; Uitdehaag, Bernard Mj ; Barkhof, Frederik ; Pouwels, Petra Jw ; Geurts, Jeroen Jg. / Metabolites predict lesion formation and severity in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. In: Multiple Sclerosis. 2018 ; pp. 1352458517702534.
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Micro Computed Tomography: Measurement Demonstration
Nanotechnology: A Maker’s Course
Universidade Duke
4.8 (525 classificações) | 12K alunos inscritos
How can we create nano-structures that are 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair? How can we “see” at the nano-scale? Through instruction and lab demonstrations, in this course you will obtain a rich understanding of the capabilities of nanotechnology tools, and how to use this equipment for nano-scale fabrication and characterization. The nanoscale is the next frontier of the Maker culture, where designs become reality. To become a Nanotechnology Maker pioneer, we will introduce you to the practical knowledge, skills, and tools that can turn your nanotechnology ideas into physical form and that enable you to image objects at the nano-scale. This course has been developed by faculty and staff experts in nano-fabrication, electron beam microscopy, and nano-characterization through the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN). The RTNN offers training and use of the tools demonstrated in this course to schools and industry through the United States National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure program. The tools demonstrated in this course are available to the public through the RTNN.
4.8 (525 classificações)
It helped me a lot giving brief description of nanocharacterization and nanofabrication processes. It will definitely help me in further study and researches on nanotechnology.
Very informative, the structure of lectures were well-organised and nicely done. Fantastically, I was able to learn and gain so much from this course. Really appreciated :-)
Nano Measurement and Characterization Tools: X-ray and Optical Characterization
In this module, we will see demonstrations of micro-computed tomography, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and optical spectroscopy. You will learn the basic function of the equipment and how samples are prepared and measured.
Micro Computed Tomography: Basic Function4:41
Micro Computed Tomography: Sample Preparation Demonstration5:51
Micro Computed Tomography: Measurement Demonstration5:58
Nan M. Jokerst
J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carrie Donley
Director of CHANL (Chapel Hill Analytical and Nanofabrication Laboratory)
James Cahoon
Jacob Jones
Selecionar um idiomaInglêsVietnamita
Welcome to the image processing portion of the Micro CT video, I am Michelle Plue.
CT scans produce large data files that can be up to 20-30 gigabytes in size.
The first type of data that the Micro CT produces is the raw projection data.
This data is a series of thousands of
X-ray images taken around a single rotation of the specimen.
Shown here is a video of thousands of
X-ray projections for a honeybees scanned in the Micro CT. A computer then
uses the projection data to reconstruct a final set of
images that shows the three dimensional detail of the specimen.
The reconstruction data comes in the form of a stack of TIFF or DICOM
images that depict the sequential cross-sectional structures
of a sample from top to bottom.
This stack of images is also called a Z-stack.
The Z-stack of the bee shows not only the
external but also the internal anatomy of each cross-section.
The Z-stacks can be used to virtually inspect,
measure and illustrate the overall anatomy of the specimen.
The Z-stacks are loaded into software where they can be visualized in 3D and
specific ranges of gray values which
represent different densities or materials can be labeled.
These labels can then be turned into 3D models in animation.
Here, a 3D surface is made of the exterior of the bee.
If you were to digitally slice through this model you would
still find all the internal anatomy depicted in the Z-stack.
3D models can then be sent to a 3D printer to
create a physical representation of the original sample.
3D printed models can be scaled up for easy examination
of the specimen and put on display without worry of damage to the original.
Because of the nondestructive nature of the Micro CT and
its ability to visualize structures that are otherwise difficult or impossible to see,
it has become a popular tool in many fields of research.
You've already seen some examples of a USB and its internal circuitry being examined,
of animal muscles in skeleton's being scanned and fossils being digitized.
The Micro CT can be used to illuminate
delicate structures like the intrusions of roots in soil.
The less dense materials like the roots cutting through the core are colored in
blue while the more dense pebbles and dirt are in oranges and reds.
The roots can also be isolated and studied as if they were suspended in air.
The above examples are only a small slice of the types of research that use the Micro CT.
Some other interesting applications include work on mummies,
paintings, archaeological artifacts and much much more.
Arianna will now show you how these different kinds of
CT data are created for fossils samples.
I used the Micro CT scanner to study these fossils because they were very small animals.
Some of them were only the size of a mouse.
Small animals have very small bones that are
difficult to describe and measure using just a naked eye.
They're also more difficult to handle and easy to lose track
of which can be extremely stressful because fossils are irreplaceable.
Using Micro CT scanner lets us make
a digital copy of the fossil so that we can virtually manipulate it.
We can blow it up to any size on the computer so that
anatomical features can be more easily seen and measured.
And the CT scans help us preserve an archivist fossils
digitally in case a fossil is accidentally lost or broken in the future.
After a specimen has been scanned and reconstructed,
I use two programs to process and visualize the data.
The first program I use is a free program called
ImageJ where I crop the stack of scanned images to make the data set
smaller and more manageable and so that I can separate out and
better keep track of many fossils that I have included in the single scan.
I do this by opening the tiff stack in ImageJ,
selecting the area of interest until I think crop.
I then save this new image stack with the specimen number in the file name.
Next, I produce virtually reconstructed 3D surfaces
of the fossils in the 3D visualization program Avizo.
In Avizo, I open up the tiff stack to the images I just cropped in imageJ.
I select the volume of interest using a specific tool in
the program and do a smoothing steps to decrease the noisiness of
the 3D model and produce
high resolution surfaces for looking at on the computer or for 3D printing.
Ultimately, I'll upload the scans in online repository for such data morphosource.org
so that other researchers can look at the same specimens without
ever having to pull a fragile original out of the museum tour.
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Marquis of Granby, 2 Rathbone Street, Tottenham Court Road W1
St Pancras index
The address of this pub was formerly given as 38 Percy Street. ** The modern address is 2 Rathbone Street. *+
Historical London public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels.
Marquis of Granby, 2 Rathbone Street, W1
Marquis of Granby, 2 Rathbone Street, W1 - in May 2007
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Residents at this address.
1805/Thomas Holland and Co, wine merchants, 38 Percy street, Tottenham Court road/../../Holdens Directory
Nathaniel Fountain, married to Amelia Elizabeth nee Plowman (I think my great, great, great grandparents), occupied this address as Wine Merchants as far back as 1830. My ancestors appear to have been either coach proprietors or in the drinks industry. I suppose in those days drinking and driving was common-place. ***
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My Great great Grandfather ,John Joseph Mason, was ,I believe the publican of the Marquis of Granby pub in 1867. I obtained his daughter's birth certificate and it stated she was born at 38, Percy Street, St Pancras. The family moved to Vere Street , St Clements Danes the following year-in 1868, where they ran The Lamb. *
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1867/Miss Annie Sarah Mason/../../../Licensed Victuallers Association
1869/John Holford/../../../Post Office Directory
February 1872/John Holford/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era
February 1872/Robert Huggins/Incoming Licensee/../../Era
1881/Charles Thomas/Manager Licensed Victualler/27/Trule, Somerset/Census
1881/Elizabeth Thomas/Wife/25/Vauxhall, Surrey/Census
1881/Harry H Thomas/Potman & Barman/28/Coventry, Warwick/Census
1882/Frank Thomas/../../../Post Office Directory
1884/Geo Moore/../../../Post Office Directory
1891/Joseph Down/../../../Post Office Directory
1895/Michael Cohen/../../../Post Office Directory
1899/Wm Dower/../../../Post Office Directory
1910/Benno Goldstein/../../../Post Office Directory
1915/John Laurini/../../../Post Office Directory
1921/J. Laurini/../../../Hughes Directory *+
1938/Thomas Davies/../../../Post Office Directory *+
1944 - 1952/Copes Taverns/../../../Freehold
1959 - 1965/E Allsopp/../../../Freehold
1966/C S D Corkett/../../../Freehold
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Sample business plan overview
Effect of different concentrations of salt
Watt write around the toon
Wait, you can get arrested for being an idiot? One of the more subtle jokes of the show is how, as stupid and irresponsible as Beavis and Butt-Head are, the adults around them are even more irresponsible in dealing with them. So with watt write around the toon overpass being right around 50 feet in height also, the transmitter surpassed my judgement call on its signal.
Almost all of Beavis's dialogue as Cornholio. The use of power switch is unnecessary since the circuit consumes almost no power when not being used.
The irony is that the local dance at Fordell was held in a tin- roofed shack. Yeah, me and Snoop used to go to the Compton swap meet together.
Anderson's camper, pulls out a picture of the woman he was sent to "do" and then goes into the camper. What was I to do? Writing to a reference point register by software outside of the Vblank period does immediately copy the new value to the corresponding internal register, that means: In a much later episode he does the same thing, and reminds them that he told them not to leave their bikes lying around.
AM Radio There are not many AM transmitters that are easier to build than this one because the inductor is not tapped and has a single winding. I need TP for my bunghole!
You may not be able to run your house on it, but you can at least charge important electronics, run a well pump, run some lights, a security system, etc. FM Transmitters Powerful microtransmitter that can cover 3km range. It's rated for 1 Watt, so you can listen to it even from a few kilometers, with a good antenna and not too much obstacles in the way.
The way it is wound makes a big difference to its effectiveness, but when you are limited in space, you have to accept these limitations.
It's great for room monitoring, baby listening and nature research. No way, Butt-Head, you don't know, you weren't around then. I removed the time delay capacitor connected to MUTE pin, because it's better to use separate DC protection schematic which has similar functionality. This color is displayed if an area of the screen is not covered by any non-transparent BG or OBJ dots.
Q1 is biased with a 1MO resistor to give a high input impedance and this allows the use of a crystal ear piece as a low cost microphone.
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XML Production Workflows? Start with the Web
John W. Maxwell with Meghan MacDonald, Travis Nicholson, Jan Halpape, Sarah Taggart, and Heiko Binder
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Book publishers have struggled in recent years to find ways to adopt XML-based editorial and production workflows.[1] Complexity, unfamiliarity, and uncertainty about implementation details contribute to a kind of impasse among publishers—particularly small and medium-sized firms that lack the resources to maintain innovative IT departments that might push them into 21st-century processes. While the benefits of XML-based processes are trumpeted widely[2], and the general business case for adopting and investing in XML and related technology has existed for 20 years[3], gathering the energy and resources to move into an XML-based environment has eluded many. Could it be that XML-based workflows are simply too complicated to be readily adopted by smaller publishers? And if that is so, what are the implications as we move into the digital era?
We are not quite ready to give up. At Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing program, we have recently prototyped an approach to XML-based editorial and production workflows that employs existing tools and relies on skills and competencies already present within most publishing firms. This is an approach that leverages standard Web tools and techniques to manage content, and uses some simple conversions for integrating this Web-based content with professional print-production tools. It is a proof- of-concept that much of the value of XML-based workflows can be realized with inexpensive and already-existing tools. At the very least, we offer something good enough to critique.
XML Production Workflows
This article is not an argument for why you should have an XML workflow. Those exist, as well as excellent arguments for why you might not want one. One of the points made by Booknet Canada's Michael Tamblyn earlier this year[4] is that XML editorial and production workflows do exist—indeed, as SGML, they have done so since the 1980s—but that they tend to be technically or operationally complex and require a considerable amount of programmer support.
O’Reilly, the world’s leading computer publisher, has been making books using SGML and XML for decades. Their famous colophons, which also provide interesting tidbits about the animals that grace their covers, usually give some detail about the toolchains employed to produce the current volume. Here are two of my favourites:
The inside layout was designed by Mary Jane Walsh. The text was prepared by Jeffrey Friedl in a hybrid markup of his own design, mixing SGML, raw troff, raw PostScript, and his own markup. A home-grown filter translated the latter to the other, lower-level markups, the result of which was processed by a locally-modified version of O’Reilly’s SGML tools (this step requiring upwards of an hour of raw processing time, and over 75 megabytes of process space, just for Chapter 7!). That result was then processed by a locally-modified version of James Clark’s gtroff, producing camera-ready PostScript for O’Reilly. (from Mastering Regular Expressions)
Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. The authors’ text in POD was converted by Lenny Muellner into DocBook 3.1 SGML. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a Perl filter developed at O’Reilly & Associates by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU gtroff -ms macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.11 was used to generate PostScript output. Mike Sierra provided crucial help with the Chinese and Japanese Unicode characters in Chapter 15, Unicode. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. (from Programming Perl, 2nd ed.)
The systems described in these colophons are not for the faint of heart! Presumably, a technical publisher like O'Reilly has access to the technical talent to make such toolchains work for them. Big textbook publishers like Wiley and Pearson have XML toolchains that allow them to manage complex, multi-participant workflows too; they don’t typically publish the gory details on the last page, however.
Challenges: Some Ugly Truths
The challenges of building—and living with—an XML workflow are clear enough. The return on investment is a long-term proposition.
Regardless of the benefits XML may provide, the starting reality is that it represents a very different way of doing things than the one we are familiar with. The Word Processing and Desktop Publishing paradigm, based on the promise of onscreen, WYSIWYG layout, is so dominant as to be practically inescapable. It has proven really hard to get from here to there, no matter how attractive XML might be on paper.
A considerable amount of organizational effort and labour must be expended up front in order to realize the benefits. This is why XML is often referred to as an “investment”: you sink a bunch of time and money up front, and realize the benefits—greater flexibility, multiple output options, searching and indexing, and general futureproofing—later, over the long haul. It is not a short-term return proposition.
And, of course, the returns you are able to realize from your XML investment are commensurate with what you put in up front: fine-grained, semantically rich tagging is going to give you more potential for searchability and recombination than a looser, more general-purpose approach, but it sure costs more. For instance, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is the grand example of pouring enormous amounts of energy into the up-front tagging, with a very open-ended set of possibilities down the line. TEI helpfully defines a level to which most of us do not have to aspire.[5]
But understanding this on a theoretical level is only part of the challenge. There are many practical issues that must be addressed. Software and labour are two of the most critical. How do you get the content into XML in the first place? Unfortunately, despite two decades of people doing SGML and XML, this remains an ugly question.
Practical Challenges
In 2009, there is still no truly likeable—let alone standard—editing and authoring software for XML. For many (myself included), the high-water mark here was Adobe’s FrameMaker, substantially developed by the late 1990s. With no substantial market for it, it is relegated today mostly to the tech writing industry, unavailable for the Mac, and just far enough afield from the kinds of tools we use today that its adoption represents a significant hurdle. And FrameMaker was the best of the breed; most of the other software in decent circulation are programmers’ tools—the sort of things that, as Michael Tamblyn pointed out, encourage editors to drink at their desks.
The labour question represents a stumbling block as well. The skill-sets and mind-sets that effective XML editors need have limited overlap with those needed by literary and more traditional production editors. The need to think of documents as machine-readable databases is not something that comes naturally to folks steeped in literary culture. In combination with the sheer time and effort that rich tagging requires, many publishers simply outsource the tagging to India, drawing a division of labour that spans oceans, to put it mildly.
Once you have XML content, then what do you do with it? How do you produce books from it? Presumably, you need to be able to produce print output as well as digital formats. But while the latter are new enough to be generally XML-friendly (e-book formats being largely XML based, for instance), there aren’t any straightforward, standard ways of moving XML content into the kind of print production environments we are used to seeing. This isn’t to say that there aren’t ways of getting print—even very high-quality print—output from XML, just that most of them involve replacing your prepress staff with Java programmers.
Why does this have to be so hard?
It’s not that XML is new, or immature, or untested. Remember that the basics have been around, and in production, since the early 1980s at least. But we have to take account of a substantial and long-running cultural disconnect between traditional editorial and production processes (the ones most of us know intimately) and the ways computing people have approached things.
Interestingly, this cultural divide looked rather different in the 1970s, when publishers were looking at how to move to digital typesetting. Back then, printers and software developers could speak the same language. But that was before the ascendancy of the Desktop Publishing paradigm, which computerized the publishing industry while at the same time isolating it culturally. Those of us who learned how to do things the Quark way or the Adobe way had little in common with people who programmed databases or document-management systems. Desktop publishing technology isolated us in a smooth, self-contained universe of toolbars, grid lines, and laser proofs.
So, now that the reasons to get with this program, XML, loom large, how can we bridge this long-standing divide?
Using the Web as a Production Platform
The answer, I think, is right in front of you. The bridge is the Web, a technology and platform that is fundamentally based on XML, and which many publishers are by now comfortably familiar with. Perhaps not entirely comfortably, but at least most publishers are already working with the Web; they already either know or have on staff people who understand it and can work with it.
The foundation of our argument is this: rather than looking at jumping to XML in its full, industrial complexity, which seems to be what the O'Reilly-backed StartWithXML initiative[6] is suggesting, publishers instead leverage existing tools and technologies—starting with the Web—as a means of getting XML workflows in place. This means making small investments and working with known tools rather than spending tens of thousands of dollars on XML software and rarefied consultants. It means re-thinking how the existing pieces of the production toolchain fit together; re-thinking the existing roles of software components already in use. It means, fundamentally, taking the Web seriously as a content platform, rather than thinking of it as something you need to get content out to, somehow. If nothing else, the Web represents an opportunity to think about editorial and production from outside the shrink-wrapped Desktop Publishing paradigm.
Is the Web made of Real XML?
At this point some predictable objections can be heard: wait a moment, the Web isn’t really made out of XML; the HTML that makes up most of the Web is at best the bastard child of SGML, and it is far too flaky/unstructured/underpowered to be taken seriously.
We counter by arguing that although HTML on the Web exists in a staggering array of different incarnations, and that the majority of it is indeed an unstructured mess, this does not undermine the general principle that basic, ubiquitous Web technologies can make a solid platform for content management, editorial process, and production workflow.
With the advent of a published XML standard in the late 1990s came the W3C’s adoption of XHTML: the realization of the Web’s native content markup as a proper XML document type. Today, its acceptance is almost ubiquitous, even while the majority of actual content out there may not be strictly conforming. The more important point is that most contemporary Web software, from browsers to authoring tools to content management systems (from blogs to enterprise systems), are capable of working with clean, valid XHTML. Or, to put the argument the other way around, clean, valid XHTML content plays absolutely seamlessly with everything else on the Web.[7]
The objection which follows, then, will be that even if we grant that XHTML is a real XML document type, that it is underpowered for “serious” content because it is almost entirely presentation (formatting) oriented; it lacks any semantic depth. In XHTML, a paragraph is a paragraph is a paragraph, as opposed to a section or an epigraph or a summary. In contrast, more “serious” XML document types like DocBook[8] or DITA-derived schemas[9] are capable of making semantic distinctions about content chunks at a fine level of granularity and with a high degree of specificity.
This may be true, but this is precisely where we should be questioning the cost-benefit relationship of XML more generally. More semantic richness is of course a good thing—much like more apple pie is a good thing—but in order to achieve it you must make that much more of an investment up front. XHTML, though simple, is a mature and fairly comprehensive system for representing the basic building blocks of prose. So there is an argument for recalling the 80:20 rule here. If XHTML can provide 80% of the value with just 20% of the investment, then what exactly is the business case for spending the other 80% to achieve that last 20% of value? We suspect the ratio is actually quite a bit steeper than 80:20 for most publishers.
Furthermore, just to get technical for a moment, XHTML is extensible in a fairly straightforward way, through the common “class” attribute on each element. Web developers have long leveraged this kind of extensibility in the elaboration of “microformats” for semantic-web applications.[10] There is no reason why publishers shouldn’t think to use XHTML’s simple extensibility in a similar way for their own ends.
Finally, the best reason of all to take XHTML seriously is its unparalleled ubiquity. My quick glance at Wikipedia shows more than 180 different XML markup languages,[11] about 175 of which most of us have never heard of—and neither has the software we use daily. XHTML, on the other hand, is supported by a vast array of quotidian software, starting with the ubiquitous Web browser. For this very reason, XHTML is in fact employed as a component part of several more specialized document types (ONIX and ePub among them). Why re-invent a general-purpose prose representation when XHTML already does the job?
It is worth pausing for a moment to consider the role of XHTML in the ePub standard for ebook content. An ePub file is, anatomically, a simply disguised zip archive. Inside the zip archive are a few standard component parts: there are specialized files that declare metadata about the book, and about the format of the book. And then there is the book’s content, represented in XHTML. An ePub book is a Web page in a wrapper. This simple fact needs to be recognized, if only for the sake of demystification; this is not rocket science.
To sum up the general argument: the Web as it already exists presents incredible value to publishers, as a platform for doing XML content management with existing (and often free) tools, and without having to go blindly into the unknown. At this point, we can offer a few design guidelines:
prefer existing and/or ubiquitous tools over specialized ones wherever possible;
prefer free software over proprietary systems where possible;
prefer simple tools controlled and coordinated by human beings over fully automated (and therefore complex) systems;
play to our strengths: use Web software for storing and managing content, use layout software for layout, and keep editors and production people in charge of their own domains.
Putting the Pieces Together: A Prototype
At the SFU Master of Publishing Program, we have been chipping away at this general line of thinking for a few years. Over that time, Web content management systems have been getting more and more sophisticated, all the while getting more streamlined and easier to use. (NB: if you have a blog, you have a Web content management system.) The Web is beginning to be recognized as a writing and editing environment used by millions of people. And the ways in which content is represented, stored, and exchanged online have become increasingly robust and standardized.
The missing piece of the puzzle has been print production: how can we move content from its malleable, fluid form on line into the kind of high-quality print production environments we’ve come to expect after two decades of Desktop Publishing? Anyone who has tried to print Web content knows that the existing methods leave much to be desired (hyphenation and justification, for starters). In the absence of decent tools for this, most publishers quite naturally think of producing the print content first, and then think about how to get material onto the Web for various purposes. So we tend to export from Word, or from Adobe, as something of an afterthought.
While this sort of works, it isn’t elegant, and it completely ignores the considerable advantages of Web-based content management. Content managed online is stored in one central location, accessible simultaneously to everyone in your firm, available anywhere you have an Internet connection, and usually exists in a much more fluid format than Word files. If only we could manage the editorial flow online, and then go to print formats at the end, instead of the other way around. At SFU, we made several attempts to make this work by way of the supposed “XML import” capabilities of various Desktop Publishing tools, without much success.[12]
In the winter of 2009, Adobe solved this part of the problem for us with the introduction of its Creative Suite 4. What CS4 offers is the option of a complete XML representation of an InDesign document: what Adobe calls IDML (InDesign Markup Language).[13] It is available as both an export and an import in the CS4 version of InDesign. This means that content can be worked on in InDesign and/or in the XML-aware tools of your choice and moved seamlessly back and forth.[14] The IDML file format is—like ePub—a simply disguised zip archive that, when unpacked, reveals a cluster of XML files that represent all the different facets of an InDesign document: layout spreads, master pages, defined styles, colours, and of course, the content. IDML is a well thought-out XML standard that achieves two very different goals simultaneously: it preserves all of the information that InDesign needs to do what it does; and it is broken up in a way that makes it possible for mere mortals (or at least our Master of Publishing students) to work with it.
What this represented to us in concrete terms was the ability to take Web-based content and move it into InDesign in a straightforward way, thus bridging Web and print production environments using existing tools and skillsets, with a little added help from free software. We would take clean XHTML content, transform it to IDML-marked content, and merge that with nicely designed templates in InDesign. The result is an almost push-button publication workflow, which results in a nice, familiar InDesign document that fits straight into the way publishers actually do production.
The Simon Fraser’s Toggle Systems[15] project group (the people listed at the beginning of this paper) worked to demonstrate a proof of concept, using a real book as fodder: the CCSP’s anthology of our graduate student research, Book Publishing 1. [16] This book was produced in the normal way back in 2005, laid out using InDesign CS2. The book designer, Carol Aitken (another of our alumni), did us the favour of consistently applying a stylesheet throughout, so the formatting of the original was nice and consistent.
Tracing the steps
To begin with, we worked backwards, moving the book content back to clean XHTML. The simplest method for this conversion—and if you want to create Web content, this is an excellent route—was to use Adobe’s “Export to Digital Editions” option, which creates an ePub file. Recall that ePub is just XHTML in a wrapper, so within the ePub file was a relatively clean XHTML document. It was somewhat cleaner (that is, the XHTML tagging was simpler and less cluttered) than InDesign’s other Web-oriented exports, possibly because Digital Editions is a well understood target, compared with somebody’s website.
In order to achieve our target of clean XHTML, we needed to do some editing; the XHTML produced by InDesign’s “Digital Editions” export was presentation-oriented. For instance, bulleted list items were tagged as paragraphs, with a class attribute identifying them as list items. Using the search-and-replace function, we converted such structures to proper XHTML list and list-item elements. Our guiding principle was to make the XHTML as straightforward as possible, not dependent on any particular software to interpret it.
We broke the book’s content into individual chapter files; each chapter could then carry its own basic metadata, and the pages conveniently fit our Web content management system (which is actually just a wiki). We assembled a dynamically generated table of contents for the 12 chapters, and created a cover page. Essentially, the book was entirely Web-based at this point.
When the book chapters are viewed online, they are formatted via a CSS2 stylesheet that defines a main column for content as well as dedicating screen real estate for navigational elements. We then created a second template to render the content for exporting; this was essentially a bare-bones version of the book with no navigation and minimal styling. Pages (or even the entire book) can be exported (via the “Save As...” function in a Web browser) for use in either print production or ebook conversion. At this point, we required no skills beyond those of any decent Web designer.
Integrating with CS4 for Print
Adobe’s IDML language defines elements specific to InDesign; there is nothing in the language that looks remotely like XHTML. So a mechanical transformation step is needed to convert the XHTML content into something InDesign can use. This is not as hard as it might seem. Both XHTML and IDML are composed of straightforward, well-documented structures, and so transformation from one to the other is, as they say, “trivial.” We chose to use XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transforms) to do the work. XSLT is part of the overall XML specification, and thus is very well supported in a wide variety of tools. Our prototype used a scripting engine called xsltproc, a nearly ubiquitous piece of software that we found already installed as part of Mac OS X (contemporary Linux distributions also have this as a standard tool), though any XSLT processor would work.
Rather than create an entire IDML document, which specifies every facet of an InDesign file (spreads, masters, styles, etc.), we opted for a somewhat simpler route. InCopy, Adobe’s distributed editing extension for InDesign, allows a number of editors to feed stories into a single InDesign layout simultaneously (think of a newspaper production workflow, with different editors working on copy right up to the press deadline).[17] Prior to the release of CS4, working this way would require purchasing separate licences for the InCopy client software. But CS4 allows the creation of InCopy files as XML—in fact, InCopy CS4’s native file format is a subset of IDML called ICML, including only a story’s basic content and stylesheet components. In other words, we don’t need to buy InCopy, because we just replaced it with the Web. Our wiki is now plugged directly into our InDesign layout. It even automatically updates the InDesign document when the content changes. Credit is due at this point to Adobe: this integration is possible because of the open file format in the Creative Suite 4.
We wrote an XSLT transformation script[18] that converted the XHTML content from the Web into an InCopy ICML file. The script itself is less than 500 lines long, and was written and debugged over a period of about a week by amateurs (again, the people named at the start of this article). The script runs in a couple of seconds, and the resulting .icml file can then be “placed” directly into an InDesign template. The ICML file references an InDesign stylesheet, so the template file can be set up with a house-styled layout, master pages, and stylesheet definitions for paragraphs and character ranges.
The result is very simple and easy to use. Our demonstration requires that a production editor run the XSLT transformation script manually, but there is no reason why this couldn’t be built directly into the Web content management system so that exporting the content to print ran the transformation automatically. The resulting file would then be “placed” in InDesign and proofed.
Our project aimed to be a proof of concept, but is robust enough to handle embedded images and reasonably complex tables; in short, we were able to essentially duplicate the production of the entire Book Publishing 1 volume.
It should be noted that the Book Publishing 1 proof-of-concept was artificially complex; we began with a book laid out in InDesign and ended up with a look-alike book laid out in InDesign. But next time—for instance, when we publish Book Publishing 2—we can begin the process with the content on the Web, and keep it there throughout the editorial process. The book’s content could potentially be written and edited entirely online, as Web content, and then automatically poured into an InDesign template at proof time. “Just in time,” as they say.
This represents an entirely new way of thinking of book production. With a Web-first orientation, it makes little sense to think of the book as “in print” or “out of print”—the book is simply available, in the first place online; in the second place in derivative digital formats; and third, but really not much more difficult, in print-ready format, via the usual InDesign CS print production system publishers are already familiar with.
Creating Ebook Files
Creating electronic versions from XHTML source is vastly simpler than trying to generate these out of the existing print process. The ePub version is extremely easy to generate; so is online marketing copy or excerpts for the Web, since the content begins life Web-native.
Since an ePub file is essentially XHTML content in a special wrapper, all that is required is that we properly “wrap” our XHTML content. Ideally, the content in an ePub file is broken into chapters (as ours was) and a table of contents file is generated in order to allow easy navigation within an ebook reader. We used Julian Smart’s free tool eCub[19] to simply and automatically generate the ePub wrapper and the table of contents. The only custom development we did was to create a CSS stylesheet for the ebook so that headings and paragraph indents looked the way we wanted. Starting with XHTML content, creating ePub is almost too easy.
Possibilities and Implications
Interestingly, this production workflow is essentially the same as the one developed at Coach House Press in the late 1980s by Kate Hamilton and Nelson Adams.[20] Then, content was developed in SGML (the Coach House Press had early involvement in SGML editing software); a set of custom transformation scripts converted the content into a format usable directly by the QuarkXPress of the day. Hamilton and Adams remarked that their goal was to keep as much of the editorial process in the SGML format as possible, rather than making changes in the resulting Quark documents; this ensured that the source files, rather than the layout files, were the final, archival versions.
The basic components of the process are the same, but there is one profound difference: today, we are able to put the process together using nothing but standard, relatively ubiquitous Web tools: the Web itself as an editing and content management environment, standard Web scripting tools for the conversion process, and the well-documented IDML file format to integrate the layout tool. Hamilton and Adams were out on a limb, in comparison, building it entirely themselves, and having little or no support from the outside world. Still, they were able to make this work then; how much simpler and easier it is to accomplish today!
More generally, and more importantly, what this project means is that some large portion of what has traditionally been possible only with large investments in specialized technology and training is possible today using free and familiar tools and techniques. Our project demonstrates that Web technologies are indeed good enough to use in an XML-oriented workflow; more specialized and expensive options are not necessarily required. For massive-scale enterprise publishing, this approach may not offer enough flexibility, and the challenge of adding and extracting extra semantic richness may prove more trouble than it's worth. But for smaller firms who are looking at the straightforward benefits of XML-based processes—single source publishing, online content and workflow management, open and accessible archive formats, greater online discoverability—here is a way forward.
Our use of Web-based tools means that the skillsets required to make this work are probably already extant for many publishers—certainly if they have made investments in developing their Web presence to any degree. The system described here uses those same tools, but in a different orientation. Rather than a public-facing website, our system relies on the Web as a content management platform—of course a public face could easily be added. The final piece of our puzzle, the ability to integrate print production, was made possible by Adobe's release of InDesign with an open XML file format. Since the Web's XHTML is also XML, is can be easily and confidently transformed to the InDesign format.
Such a workflow—beginning with the Web and exporting to print—is surely more in line with the way we will do business in the 21st century, where the Web is the default platform for reaching audiences, developing content, and putting the pieces together. It is time, we suggest, for publishers to re-orient their operations and start with the Web.
Michael Tamblyn, “Six Projects That Could Change Publishing for the Better,” Booknet Canada Tech Forum. March 19, 2009. See http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/20/michael-tamblyns-six-good-ideas-for-the-future-of-publishing/
See http://toc.oreilly.com/startwithxml/
Charles Goldfarb. 1990 The SGML Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tamblyn, "Six Projects"
Text Encoding Initiative. See http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml. An example document is at http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/U16/U16.xml or http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/xmlchunk?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0029%3Atext%3Dcomm%3Apoem%3D23.
XHTML is a “reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0.” See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
DocBook is an XML schema and document type for technical manuals, though it is often used for a much wider variety of publications. See http://www.docbook.org/whatis
DITA is the “Darwin Information Typing Architecture, ... an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information.” See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/
Microformats “are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.” Microformats are based on existing Web technologies. See http://microformats.org/about/
Wikipedia’s “List of Markup Languages” page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_markup_languages
In 2006, the Master of Publishing project group “Beehive” prototyped a system for semi-automatically producing publishers’ catalogues directly from ONIX metadata. The system transformed ONIX to a much simpler data set, then used the rudimentary XML import in Adobe InDesign CS2 to flow the content into templated catalogue pages. See http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/TechProjects2006XMLCatalogProduction. In 2007, the “FunnelWeb” project group prototyped a system to import XHTML Web content into InDesign CS2. Both projects were limited by the constraints imposed by InDesign’s XML import feature; the catalogue production idea seems to have been a better fit with what Adobe had in mind here. See http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/funnelWeb/FunnelWeb
For a gentle introduction to CS4’s IDML language, see “Tim Cole’s InDesign BackChannel.” October 14, 2008. See http://blogs.adobe.com/indesignchannel/2008/10/the_most_important_new_feature.html
A more open-ended discussion of the programmability of the CS4 suite is provided by Adobe’s Gary Cosimini in a presentation titled “Dynamic Publishing Solutions” from the Booknet Canada Tech Forum. March 2009. See http://blip.tv/file/2042790
The “Toggle Systems” project culminated April 3, 2009. Project documentation can be found at http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/TechProjects2009StartWithWWWXMLWorkflow.
Rowland Lorimer, John W. Maxwell, and Gillian Shoichet, eds. 2005. Book Publishing 1. Vancouver: CCSP Press. See http://www.ccsppress.org/Titles/BookPublishing1 and, for the XHTML versions, http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/wikis/bp1
For more information about Adobe’s InCopy software, see http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy/
The XHTML-to-IDML script can be found at http://code.google.com/p/ickmull/. It will run in any standard xslt processor. Note that the script has not been extensively tested with content from different sources. Nevertheless, it is a working prototype that can serve as a first step toward developing production-ready systems.
Julian Smart’s eCub software is available here: http://www.juliansmart.com/ecub.
The Hamilton & Adams workflow at Coach House Press is described in Liora Alschuler. 1995. ABCD...SGML. A Users’ Guide to Structured Information. Boston: International Thomson Computer Press.
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15 Best Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids
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Looking to travel somewhere new for your next family vacation? Check out the 15 Best Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids, & why our family can’t wait to go back. This post is sponsored by Visit Pittsburgh. All travel-loving opinions are my own. #KidsBurgh
So where are you going on your family vacation this year? “I’m going to Pittsburgh!”
When I told everyone that we were taking our summer vacation in Pittsburgh, I had a lot of folks giving me the side eye. But the city of 446 bridges (yes, that’s a true fact) surprised me. REALLY surprised me. I absolutely love this city and I think your family will too. See why Pittsburgh was one of the best family vacations we’ve ever had and discover the 15 Best Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids. Is Pittsburgh really kid-friendly? What can families really explore together in this city? Let me count the ways.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
Who knew that when we visited Pittsburgh that we would stumble on one of the best children’s museums in the U.S.? Ranked in the top 10, this hands-on Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh features an amazing maze wall, a huge Waterplay area and lots of things that kids can actually touch!
Walkthrough exhibits of over 500 birds at the National Aviary. Kids will love feeding the birds and seeing penguins up close and personal! Bonus, everything is indoors, great for a rainy day!
Take the scenic ride up Mount Washington and experience of the most breathtaking views I have ever experienced! This cable car ride up the Duquesne Incline will give your family the perfect birds eye view of this historic city.
Explore the outdoors amidst lush greenery and beautiful flowers at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens! The Butterfly Forest is a great place for kids to see this wonderful insects up close.
There’s nothing like hands-on learning! The Carnegie Science Center has over 200 hands-on experiences for kids including a USS Requin Submarine, huge H2Oh water play area,
and currently houses the world famous The Art of the Brick exhibit, a huge LEGO sculpture collection made of over 1 million bricks! Make sure to see the huge T-Rex and sculptures of famous paintings all converted into LEGO masterpieces. My kids LOVED this museum.
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Over 8,000 animals over 77 acres of land, your family will love exploring all of nature’s creatures on land and in the sea at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. We definitely will be making a trip back for this place!
Kennywood Amusement Park
It’s a special place where 40 acres of attractions and a 120-year old National Historic Landmark combine! From modern day roller coasters to the oldest funhouse in the U.S. to kiddie rides and carnival games, Kennywood Amusement Park is a great place for families to have fun!
Surrounded by not one but 3 rivers, Pittsburgh is an ideal place for your family to take in a river cruise! Take a kid-friendly boat ride on one of the Gateway Clipper ships and enjoy discovering Pittsburgh in a whole new way.
Pirates Game at PNC Park
Take me out to the ballgame at one of the most beautiful baseball stadiums in America! PNC Park has amazing views of the city and great seats to take in America’s favorite pastime. If you have time to take a tour, definitely do it!
Take your Pittsburgh exploration by land and by sea in these fun amphibious vehicles aboard the Just Ducky Tours! Explore all 3 rivers by water and a full tour of Downtown Pittsburgh by land.
DINOSAURS! Do I have your attention now? See amazing dinosaur bones, collections of gems, animals and more in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This museum is also connected to the Carnegie Museum of Art – giving you 2 museums for the price of one!
Allegheny Observatory
Take a FREE tour of this astronomical research institution, located at the University of Pittsburgh. A perfect place to star gaze, the Allegheny Observatory is a great nighttime activity for kids too. Be sure to make a reservation ahead of time for your tour.
Penguins Game at the PPG Paints Arena
I loved that our hotel (Cambria Hotel Pittsburgh) was just steps away from this legend arena! See a fun NHL game with one of the best hockey teams at the PPG Paints Arena, go to a concert or many other fun family-friendly shows in town.
Steelers Game at Heinz Field
You didn’t think I forgot about football, right? Pittsburgh loves their sports, and Heinz Field is the perfect place to take in a Steelers game. The views of the city can’t be beat!
Best Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids Video
Ready to visit Pittsburgh with your kids? Check out this short Best Pittsburgh Things to Do video for all of the amazing things we did on our family vacation!
So maybe Pittsburgh isn’t at the top of your family destination list. Well, it should be. I was honestly shocked at how much there was to do for families in this city. And we didn’t even touch the surface. Visiting Pittsburgh was one of the best family vacations we’ve had in a long time. We’re already making plans to come back. Discover a new city to love in Pennsylvania and these 15 Best Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids. I can’t wait to visit the City of Bridges again soon. Looking for more Pittsburgh Things to Do? Head to the Visit Pittsburgh website for more top places to visit with your family.
Have you ever visited Pittsburgh? What are your favorite Pittsburgh Things to Do for Kids?
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About Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Volume 21, Number 3 (54)
Research Article|November 01 2017
Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community
Jossianna Arroyo
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203-208.
Jossianna Arroyo; Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community. Small Axe 1 November 2017; 21 (3 (54)): 203–208. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272094
This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what extent do exile and the condition of the living-dead reproduce distinct dynamics and re-interpretations of Burgos? Departing from Jean Luc Nancy's notion of community as “the excess that make[s] up finite being” and the Freudian notion of mourning in relation to diaspora communities, the author examines the ontological, diaspora, racial, and ethnic readings of Pérez-Rosario's work about Burgos and how these readings articulate contemporary notions of Puerto Ricanness and latinidad in the United States.
Julia de Burgos, community, diaspora, latinidad
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Book Discussion: Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People's Rebel Soul Poet
Inter-Asia Journal Work
The Sound of the Outside
Labor-Community Alliances in South Africa: Reclaiming (Some Of) the Past, Inventing the Future?
Julia de Burgos
latinidad
Figures in the World The Geopolitics of the Transcultural Queer
“I Am We” The Demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977–1982
Freshman Convocation The Ethic of Engagement
Epilogue There Is Only One World
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Tag Archives: Women’s Work
Centre for the Study of Education and Work – Update 18th April 2010
Posted in Academic Stuff, Activism, Education, Education Activism, Feminism, Higher Education, News and Politics, Politics, Radical Economics
Tagged ALLIES, Bankers, Barry Critchley, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Centre for the Study of Education and Work, Duncan Cameron, Education, Feminism, G20 Summit in Toronto, Higher Education, John Scheel, Ken Pankhurst, Labour movement, Laura Gee, OECD, OISE, People's Summit. G20, Politics, Sustainability, Toronto, Women's Work, Work
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EDUCATION AND WORK (CSEW) SEMINAR SERIES – ON UNDERSTANDING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
with Ken Pankhurst
12 – 2 pm
Room 12-274
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West
The paper will review the nature of human understanding, and consider the significance of uncertainty and ignorance as prolegomena for a discussion of the scientific method and, in particular, methods of investigating human abilities and the state of research in the social sciences.
Dr. K.V. Pankhurst is Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Studies in Education and Work. He recently retired from a career combining appointments in universities, government departments, and international institutions, and was for many years a senior official of the OECD.
About CSEW: http://www.csew.ca
ASSISTING LOCAL LEADERS WITH IMMIGRANT EMPLOYMENT STRATEGIES (ALLIES) LEARNING EXCHANGE: PUTTING IDEAS INTO ACTION
More than 150 participants from over 10 city regions across Canada will meet in Halifax to learn about and discuss issues and strategies on how to promote the employment of skilled immigrants. Building on last year’s success in Vancouver, this year’s ALLIES Learning Exchange will bring together local stakeholders, including businesses, civic leaders, universities and colleges, community agencies, and all levels of government from participating communities such as Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver.
Read more: http://www.maytree.com/integration/allies
G20 SUMMIT IN TORONTO IN JUNE – JOIN THE PEOPLE’S SUMMIT
Governments are planning for the Summit of the G20 leaders in Toronto. However, more interesting for many will be a People’s Summit on June 18/19/20 which will feature workshops, seminars and teach-ins about
globalization, decent work, social justice and the environment.
On June 26th the labour movement will host a major rally for good jobs and global justice. For more information, go to http://peoplessummit2010.ca/section/2 or contact Mehdi at the Canadian Labour Congress at (416) 441-2731.
CONVERSATION CAFE – NO MONEY. NO STATUS. NO POWER. MUST BE WOMEN’S WORK!
Seneca College at Yorkgate Mall
1 York Gate Blvd
North York, Ontario
Room 218-219
Historically women have received less pay for the work that they do and any work that is considered nurturing work is left to women.
Is that why we see so much community organizing being done by women? What roles are women taking and being given in community building?
– Light meal will be provided
– Child care available by reservation only
Please RSVP by phone to: (416) 231-5499 or by email to: torontocdi@gmail.com
CO-OPERATION AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE WAY FORWARD
The Westin Bayshore
The Canadian Co-operative Association and British Columbia Co-operative Association invite you to beautiful Vancouver for one of the foremost learning and networking events for the Canadian co-operative sector. Join leaders from co-operatives and credit unions across the country and around the world in exploring, learning and strategizing on co-operating for environmental, organizational and social sustainability.
Read more: http://www.coopscanada.coop/en/orphan/Congress2010
THE TEMPORARY ARMY THAT BATTLES FOR THE ECONOMY
by Duncan Cameron, rabble.ca
Economists often take the economy for an elevator. Are we going up or going down? With the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) arrow recently pointing up, instead of down, you might think the economy is improving. But output (which is what GDP measures) does not matter to people lives as much as employment and its evil twin unemployment.
Read more: http://rabble.ca/columnists/2010/04/temporary-army
BREAKING DOWN THE WELFARE WALL IN NEW BRUNSWICK
by The Caledon Institute
New Brunswick recently announced a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy that includes radical reform of its social assistance system. It aims to break down the welfare wall that traps thousands of residents… Far from an exit from poverty, welfare has become a social and economic ghetto that creates incentives for
dependence and disincentives for independence.
Read more: http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/868ENG.pdf
ONTARIO ENGINEER / BANKER DEBUNKS P3S (PRIVATE-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS)
by Barry Critchley, Financial Post
John Scheel, who trained as a chemical engineer and ended up as a merchant banker, has developed a new passion in retirement: dispelling the supposed advantages of private public partnerships, the P3 sector.
In a nutshell, he believes they are more expensive than they should be, both from an operational and financing point of view and that they generate excess returns to the consortium that builds and manages them. And they are not transparent.
Read more: http://bit.ly/bdiuYP
INCOME GAP BETWEEN ABORIGINALS IN CANADA AND OTHER GROUPS: ANALYSIS
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has just published an informative analysis on the income gaps between aboriginals in Canada and other groups in the country. At least, there is some positive news for
those aboriginals who have graduated from university, but the overall conclusion is that there is still a dramatic difference between most aboriginal groups and others in Canada.
The report is available at the CCPA’s Growing Gap section of its website at: http://www.policyalternatives.ca
BRIARPATCH LAUNCHES DEEPER ROOTS CAMPAIGN
Over the past year, Briarpatch has continued to break new ground in our provocative explorations of food politics, crime and punishment, education, global feminism and more.
And we’ve got lots more up our sleeves, with issues in the works on migration & borders, the politics of health and the soul of activism — to name just a few.
But while the content of the magazine has never been stronger, Briarpatch has not been immune to the consequences of the economic crisis. Facing rising costs and falling revenues, we’ve struggled recently with serious funding stability problems — a crisis/opportunity that has led us to rethink our entire funding model and propose something bold and dynamic in its place: the Deeper Roots campaign.
Read more: http://bit.ly/d6R16X
The nature of giving time to your child’s school
Laura K. Gee
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly published 13 April 2010
http://nvs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/0899764010362116v1
Building a climate for innovation through transformational leadership and organizational culture
James C. Sarros, Brian K. Cooper and Joseph C. Santora
Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 2008; 15; 145
http://jlo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/15/2/145
Making civil society work: Models of democracy and their impact on civic engagement
Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen and Markus Freitag
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly published 6 April 2010, 10.1177/0899764010362114
Can an opportunity to learn at work reduce stress?: A revisitation of the job demand-control model
Chiara Panari, Dina Guglielmi, Silvia Simbula, Marco Depolo
Journal of Workplace Learning, Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages: 166-179
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1852672
David Dubinsky, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the limits of social democratic trade unionism
Victor G. Devinatz
Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal Volume 22, Number 1 / March, 2010, Page 67 – 78
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January 16, 2017 By Baron Von Compos Mentis in Our Ungentle Politics Tags: culture, history, politics, Trump Leave a comment
“Humanity, you never had it to begin with,” a line from the poem Those Sons of Bitches, included in poet Charles Bukowski’s Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, has never seemed so salient as it does today, since its publication nearly fifty years ago.
Santayana’s “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” another nugget often unearthed these days, has always seemed close to the mark but still a little off. It’s not so much that history repeats itself one would think, but that humans are simply human, and that while they possess the capacity for progress and civilization, they never fully shed the traits that make them periodically susceptible to self-destruction and folly.
Wishful thinking, purposeful misdirection, a propensity for false nostalgia, a deepening befuddlement, helped along by those whose agenda is precisely such befuddlement, are not easily transcended it turns out.
You can lead an American to objective facts, reliable information, genuine knowledge and expertise, but you can’t make them take a sip. Indeed, these days, it is more likely than not their eyes would fail to recognize such treasures when placed directly in front of their face. The gold and the pyrite not only look the same, they share a similar value.
What else would one call this state of affairs but an approaching darkness? What else could it portend but even more darkness?
Am I just another elite, as a segment of my fellow citizens these days might be quick to accuse me of being? Well, my beginnings were humble enough, my current status little better. But I do have an addiction to reading, an abiding curiosity, a healthy skepticism, a wariness of being played, and contempt for those who would attempt to play me.
A fancy education isn’t required in order to be this kind of “elite.” Only a determination to be informed and educated. In fact, one arguably can learn as much, if not more about the human experience, though works of fiction and essays than from any data set.
Americans have taken a lot for granted. Some of the things some of them have taken for granted were bad things: white majoritarianism, omnipresent Christianity, the latter incorporating numerous taboos and irrational convictions pertaining to sexuality.
The post-war era, even with the Cold War, even with Vietnam, even with turmoil in many places across the globe, never anyone’s idea of tranquility, has at least for many in the West been a golden era of relative peace, prosperity and demonstrable progress.
But many contributing factors and institutions that have made such an era possible, are methodically being chipped away, their final dismantling the goal of an ideologically purist, extremist right, whose power for various systemic reasons, far exceeds its numbers and its support: the upward pressure on wages and the pension system that organized labor provided in furtherance of a broad American middle class; the social safety net that mitigated the inevitable hardships of aging and macroeconomic downturns; a public education system that created a broadly educated, basically competent, skilled and informed citizenry; acknowledgement of the simple concept of a public good.
Perhaps nothing has been so deleterious for the nation’s health and well being than the embrace on the American right, and in its principal vehicle the Republican Party, of the pseudo-philosophies and fanciful, eccentric economics and mythologies of Ayn Rand.
Rightly viewed as a kook in her own time, the Russian born Rand’s contempt for the Bolsheviks metastasized into something irrational if not demented. This mania took the form of her philosophy of unrestrained greed, the sanctification of unrestrained self-interest, the banal and evil classing of human beings as makers or takers, the valuable and the burdensome.
The counterpart of this neo-feudalist worldview, is that the mitigating of power and greed, the tempering of accumulated wealth and power, the including of compassion, equality and the notion of a shared and common good as governing principles should themselves be viewed as synonymous with evil.
Among the impacts of this upside down ethos on our present society are the reverence in conservative quarters for corporate big footing, and the broad dismissal of conventional morality in business and politics as mere hindrance to the necessary winning edge. Moral precepts, along with reality itself are defined by those who market best.
One can’t help but read the following observations from revered historical figures, and in light of our current period of defanged, disempowered government, and corporate suzerainty, our Ayn Rand informed Republican power holders, view the priorities enunciated and the values asserted therein as anything more than fondly quaint.
“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. Crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” -Thomas Jefferson
In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism. It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. -Abraham Lincoln
Centralization has already come in business. If this irresponsible outside power is to be controlled in the interest of the general public, it can be controlled in only one way–by giving adequate power of control to the one sovereignty capable of exercising such power–the National Government. -Theodore Roosevelt
Where Jefferson had feared the encroachment of political power on the lives of individuals, Wilson knew that the new power was financial. He saw, in the [concentration of wealth in the hands of a few], the despot of the twentieth century on whom great masses of individuals relied for their safety and their livelihood, and whose irresponsibility and greed (if not controlled) would reduce them to starvation and penury….” -Franklin Roosevelt
Those who promote life without the safety net, and the regulatory infrastructure as a return to a paradisiacal yesteryear, either are utterly unacquainted with the hardships and brutalities of earlier eras, or worse, have chosen to replace or look away from such historical realities in favor of a fanciful, ideologically convenient gloss of false nostalgia. There are those who accept these hardships, inequalities and unaddressed barbarities as a form of purity, a rough justice nature supposedly intends, and humans oughtn’t attempt to mitigate.
And really, what chance do simple facts, historical verities, objective truths and humane values retain against a powerful machinery of propaganda, against the Orwellian doublespeak practiced so effortlessly, shamelessly, and confidently by the incoming president, his minions, and his political party?
Not as much of one as we’d like to believe I think. Given that one of the strongest bulwarks against this Orwellianism, normally would be the fourth estate, the current health and effectiveness of America’s principal media doesn’t inspire optimism.
It is not the election of Donald Trump per se, and what it portends, that is evidence we have fallen over the cliff, but the very possibility of his election, the manifestation of an environment that would even make it possible. That alone put us past the tipping point.
But it isn’t just America. Another winner of the last world war, Russia, after the fall of communist authoritarianism, enjoyed a brief interlude of democracy in the Nineties, yet has slowly, but surely, guided by Mr. Putin, retreated into neo-fascist authoritarianism.
Throughout Europe the old nationalisms, the old prejudices, the old myths suddenly are new again. The instabilities, the extremities, the conflicts, the destruction, the displacement, the misery and the brutality are now too far away for anyone to fear now.
The structures and the institutions for so long keeping the modern, industrialized world relatively stable and relatively peaceful, relatively free and relatively democratic, NATO, The European Union, The United Nations, and the social welfare state, suddenly are under siege, described by some as antiquated and in the way.
So indeed history repeats itself. Or at the least, approximates itself. Another cycle of human self-destruction and misery on the cusp, humans once again helpless to restrain themselves.
Does this mean that for the majority of Americans who either didn’t vote for Trump, or do not support this manifestly extreme and absolutist Republican Party, there exists no possibility for correction, a restoration of progress? I hope not. While the stakes involved have been evident to those who cared to acknowledge them for quite a while, they are stark now.
The Orwellians have won. Whether they reign is another question, and up to all the rest of us.
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Reduced dose intravenous immunoglobulin does not decrease transplant-related complications in adults given related donor marrow allografts.
Graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD) and infection are major complications of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) given at a dose of 500 mg/kg/wk has been shown to decrease the risk of acute GVHD, interstitial pneumonia, and infection in adults early after allogeneic transplantation. The current study is a controlled trial to determine whether a lower total dose of IVIg given with pretransplant loading reduces the incidence of transplant-related complications. In a randomized trial of 241 patients > or =20 years of age who were given related donor marrow allografts, 121 individuals receiving Ig prophylaxis (500 mg/kg/d loading from day -6 to -1 and then 100 mg/kg every 3 days from day 3 to 90) were compared with 120 control patients who did not receive IVIg. Randomization was stratified by human leucocyte antigen-matching, remission status of malignancy, GVHD prophylaxis, and cytomegalovirus (CMV) serology. The study was powered to detect a reduction in acute GVHD by 18% and a decrease in transplant-related mortality by 17%. Pretransplant IVIg loading and posttransplant maintenance achieved median serum IgG levels >1350 mg/dL, which were approximately twofold greater than the untreated controls (p<0.01). White blood cell and platelet recoveries were similar for the two groups, although control patients required fewer units of platelets per day (2.5 vs. 3.3, p = 0.008). No significant differences in the incidence of CMV infection, interstitial pneumonia, or bacteremia were observed. The incidence of acute GVHD did not differ between the two groups; however, acute GVHD was less frequent among IVIg recipients achieving maximum serum IgG levels >3000 mg/dL (60 vs. 79%). Neither transplant-related mortality nor disease-free survival was significantly altered by Ig prophylaxis. However, the cumulative incidence of relapse of malignancy was higher in IVIg recipients than in controls (31 vs. 18%, p = 0.03). Multivariable regression analysis demonstrated a 1.89 increased relative risk of relapse for individuals given IVIg (p = 0.021). We conclude that pretransplant loading and a shorter course and lower total dose of IVIg prophylaxis did not appear to decrease the risk of acute GVHD or mortality among adults receiving related donor marrow transplants. Note, IVIg administration may be associated with an increased risk of recurrent malignancy, a finding that warrants further investigation.
Sullivan, Keith Michael
Feinstein, LC; Seidel, K; Jocum, J; Bowden, RA; Anasetti, C; Deeg, HJ; Flowers, ME; Kansu, E; Martin, PJ; Nash, RA; Storek, J; Etzioni, R; Applebaum, FR; Hansen, JA; Storb, R; Sullivan, KM
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation : Journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Acute Disease
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Graft vs Host Disease
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
Lung Diseases, Interstitial
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Can wizards create their own spells?
In the Harry Potter series, are wizards capable of creating their own spells, or are they limited to the spells that they're taught/learn? I seem to remember something about Snape creating sectumsempra, but I'm not sure if that really is the case.
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Should it say Sectum or Septum in the question? – AncientSwordRage♦ Jan 18 '12 at 19:13
I believe there's a line in OoTP when the group visit St. Mungo's, in reference to a wizarding portrait there, with a placard underneath explaining their relevance ("entrail-expelling curse", perhaps?). The phrasing there may be relevant. – Adam V Jul 31 '13 at 21:59
@Pureferret Sectum (Lat., 'having been cut') seems more plausible than Septum (Lat., 'seven'). The way I remember it, by the way, is with Sectum. – 11684 Jan 23 '14 at 18:07
As @OghmaOsiris has said, spells can certainly be created, though the means of doing so is unclear.
There's also quite a simple example as early as the first book: Harry vanishes a pane of glass for a few minutes, allowing a snake to escape.
We can also postulate a process for spell creation from the sixth book: Harry sees several words before Sectumsempra, all of which are crossed out. It's possible that the process of spell creation involves focusing on the effect you want, discovering a word tied to it (I'm unclear as to how this would work, except that Snape obviously knew the general sound of the word), and refining it until you find the most effective word.
This is borne out somewhat by the early books: casting the spell Wingardium Leviosa, slightly improper pronunciations (and slightly incorrect wand movements) still produce something like the intended effect.
The other problem is wand movements -- there must be some form of standard movements, which can be used to cast most spells. There must also be a form of notation for wand movements for when the standard ones aren't correct. We can assume that Snape's Sectumsempra spell used the standard movements (possibly the standard 'attack spell' movements).
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With regards to the wand movement, one has to wonder how wandless spells come into play here. Wandless spells are supposed to be much weaker, but can a powerful wizard create spells on the fly without worrying about wand movements at all? Maybe it comes naturally after some point. Just musing. – Reid Aug 16 '11 at 3:46
@jeff:Hmmm, would that process be called creating a spell? I would have labelled it discovering a spell, but it becomes a semantic question then. – apoorv020 Aug 16 '11 at 12:54
Re your example: Harry may have been using a spell that was already known (to temporarily remove the glass). Just because he did it without consciously knowing a spell and using it, doesn't mean he invented it - he didn't invent flying/translocation when he transported himself to the roof to avoid the bullies. (Thought - was this apparition? Must reread...) – NiceOrc Jul 12 '12 at 23:13
@trevor-e actually, a number of the spells given to have relations to latin routes as it is, although there are slight tweaks in spelling or word form. Of course there are a few exceptions such as Avada kedavra (Aramean), but the theory is completely plausible even given how Rowling seems to have constructed the spells she "discovered." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spells_in_Harry_Potter and hotword.dictionary.com/harry-potter-spells – balanced mama Jan 4 '13 at 3:53
Didn't Luna Lovegood say her mother died "rather horribly" while experimenting with making a new spell of some kind? – Joe L. Jun 16 '14 at 20:13
In the Half Blood Prince, Severus Snape created his own spell, Sectumsempra, which created invisible swords that cut the enemy.
Voldemort also created his own spells for his death eaters - the Dark Mark, for example: Morsmordre, as used in the 4th movie.
I imagine that wizards and witches at the level of competency as Voldemort and Dumbledore could come up with their own spells on the fly. The battle at the Ministry comes to mind. I doubt that those were already composed spells, but were the raw magic manipulated by Dumbledore and Voldemort.
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Also, why can't Big D's spells at the ministry be 'already composed' - it seems like throwing a chunk of magically-summoned kinetic energy at something or animating a statue should be a fairly common spell. If you recall, the suits of armor at Hogwarts are animated. – Jeff Aug 15 '11 at 21:08
@Jeff Since JK Rowling is the only one that would truely know this answer, its arguable that we're both right. There's no way to know. – OghmaOsiris Aug 16 '11 at 14:15
Isn't "Big D" Dudley? – trw Sep 29 '14 at 21:10
@trw I was wondering why Dudley was suddenly a wizard, too! ;) – Mikasa Jun 2 '15 at 16:21
I get the idea that spells can be created by wizards from Order of the Phoenix, when Luna tells Harry about her mother's death. When Harry asks her if she's known anyone who's died, she responds
"Yes, my mother. She was quite an extraordinary witch, you know, but she did like to experiment and one of her spells went rather badly wrong one day. I was nine."
This makes it sound as if Luna's mother was able to create her own spells, or at least attempt to do so with limited success.
Harry thinks at first that many spells in his copy of "Advanced Potion-making" were invented by the Prince because they've been crossed out and re-written, but then when he talks to Lupin about "Levicorpus" Lupin makes it sound as if that spell was merely popular during his time at Hogwarts, and wasn't invented then. However, when Harry attempts to use "Sectumsempra" against Snape, he says
"No, Potter! You dare use my own spells against me? It was I who invented them--I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you'd turn my inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you?"
So, clearly, Snape actually did manage to invent his own spells while he was at school.
We also learn from Mr. Ollivander that wizards are able to conduct their magic through many magical objects, and you will simply get the best results from a wand that has chosen you. Think of the sparks that Harry makes issue from his wand when he first tries it in Ollivander's shop; that wasn't a particular spell, because he hadn't learned to produce sparks with a spell yet. Magic doesn't always have to be in spell form, and the sort of magic that underage wizards and witches are able to produce before they come to Hogwarts is often individual to each person. I would think that with enough study of magical theory, individuals would be able to harness this sort of magic and recreate it with their own incantation.
We know that potions are invented over the years because the Wolfsbane potion is said to be a recent invention by Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban. The chocolate frog card about Dumbledore notes him for his work on alchemy with Nicolas Flamel. This gives the idea that there is new magical research and innovation within the wizarding world and people are always learning new ways to channel magic, so I think that spells can be created with enough work and trial and error.
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This is the best answer here IMHO. – Rand al'Thor♦ Sep 10 '15 at 8:26
The example with Luna's mother could be her just experimenting with already-discovered spells that she's reading out of a book or heard from a friend. – Brian Gordon Oct 7 '17 at 5:35
From the Harry Potter Wiki, on the article Unlocking Charm: (Alohomora)
J. K. Rowling stated that the word was from the West African Sidiki dialect used in geomancy and has the literal meaning Friendly to thieves.
Likewise, Accio comes from the Latin "I call" or "I summon". Almost every spell in the Harry Potter universe with an article on the Wiki has an Etymology section that explains the origin of the name.
For a third example, Sectumsempra was mentioned in the question, and is made from the Latin words sectum (cut) and semper (always).
From the examples, it is reasonable to assume that spells are actually just a subset of language, that are capable of achieving effects when combined with wand use by a witch or wizard. Achieving most of the desired effect even with a slight mispronunciation also gets explained away, as accents cause different pronunciations even with two people who speak the same language.
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Intent plays a role as well. Harry could not properly cruciate Bellatrix Lestrange because he did not have the complete intent. I think this should cover minor errors in pronunciation and wand movements. – pleurocoelus Jan 17 '14 at 21:45
If no one could create spells, then there wouldn't be spells.
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They could simply be discovered. Once a basic set of axioms is decided upon in mathematics then everything else just follows logically. People might not know that a certain theorem is true but that doesn't change the fact that it is even if we don't have proof of it yet. In a similar way spells could already 'exist' and are consequences of the magic in the world around us but they must be discovered first. – Dason Dec 21 '11 at 2:13
I don't think spells are actually created, they are discovered. But as other people have noted there's a dearth of details on this topic, so there's not much evidence either ways. But a possible scenario seems to be that spells are based on some core principles, and it's more a matter of people finding out what combination does what.
I do seem to recall that potions are 'invented' (instead of 'discovered'), but I can't say for sure.
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I think it has to do with the relationship between INTENTION and FUNCTION. The wands are clearly sentient/intelligent to some degree ("choosing the wizard" implies that they are capable of choice). As wandless magic can be done (demonstrated once or twice by Dumbledore, I believe) we can more or less rule out magic's "motive force" being based in the material of the wand. Instead, it stems somehow from the individual, and things like saying spells, wand movements, and even the wand ITSELF are just focusing devices, there to make you think in a certain way and with a certain intent.
Therefore, one can guess that the process of spell creation is quite similar to theatre, in a way. Movements and words that capture and create a certain emotion/ intent in those who perform them.
Yes, they can.
When Harry is trying to tell everyone about have gold fire spewed out of his wand at Voldemort, which saved him, they tried to tell him that sometimes wizards accidentally find new magic.
There was something in charms class about some wizard who mispronounced a spell and ended up with a buffalo on his chest.
In book six, after breaking up with Lavender, Ron accidentally makes it snow.
Harry one time got mad and sent sparks out of his wand (accidentally) and burned a hole in the carpet.
There are many more instances of things like this, but that just means that, yes, wizards can create spells. How do you think they got the ones they use now?
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In Harry Potter magic seems to be an extention of a wizards feelings. The words and motions are simply a way to bring forth the feelings which are then channeled out of the wizard. Once a wizard has deteremined how to bring about this feeling consistantly they can others. Thus some spells can actually be cast with out motions or words but evoking the feeling and channeling it out. This is hinted at in the first book pretty extensively and talked about in the Room of Requirement lessons in the OOP. While the book does not outright say this is how it works, all of the writings lead me to believe it.
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This doesn't really follow - Harry cast SectumSempra at Draco with no idea of what it did. They explicitly describe silent casting in one of the books, and it's mainly about saying the words mentally. Strong emotion being tied to magical effects is the sign of an untrained magician - like Harry and the glass at the zoo. – Jeff Aug 16 '11 at 18:13
Harry wanted to attack draco harry and cast a spell that was designed to bring about an effect when he wanted to attack. Follows to me. Patronus charm requires happiness the more happiness the stronger the spell. The book talks quite abit in the RoR about different emotions to enhance the spells. And the most powerful charm of all was simply love. – Chad Aug 16 '11 at 19:07
Also, as a response to @Jeff, Harry isn't fully trained. If spells can be emotive early on, than they can be made emotively later, they're probably just more dangerous when the related emotions aren't "controlled." Apparently, Lily cast an emotional spell as she died protecting Harry based solely upon her love. Practiced and standarized spells are probably magnified by emotion, not eliminated by it. – balanced mama Jan 4 '13 at 4:03
I always thought about spells as a junction of words + will power + runes (movements)
Simple words create simple commands, match words and create complex spells. (Like Snape's song-like incantation recovering Draco from sectumsempra)
Will power, and Focus, the intentions need to match with your words.
Runes for movements, the study and translations of runes to create the desired movement based on it's "writing on air" (I'm not sure about this, but I think Harry had to study runes to learn Accio, for the first task in book 4)
of course this is all fanfiction, but based on what we got from the books.
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I believe previous theories about using a different language, like for example Latin. I think the incantations are like a command to the wand, telling it what effect to invoke; I get this from whenever someone buys a wand - they don't choose the wand, the wand chooses them. You wouldn't necessarily need to be a Dumbledore-level wizard to come up with spells on the fly; as long as you spoke Latin or some other related language (do any of the spell names have Greek origin?) you could come up with anything really; for example, the spell 'Reducto' comes from the Latin word meaning "back," so say I wanted it to repel something faster the further it went, I might say "Auctificus reducto," meaning literally in Latin,"Increasing back." Several other incantations might work, for example "Propulso" may work as well as Reducto.
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Absolutely. Luna stated that her mom did this frequently. She screwed up at one point, which was how she died. "This is the abridged version"
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Probably not too different from computer programming. Putting together other spells (as subroutines) to create the desired effect. For example, to make a food spell you'd probably use spells like 'accio ingredients', 'aguamenti' and 'incendio'.
I imagine the incantation word as a pointer to the magical instructions. The actual word doesn't matter (the spell creator can choose it), but they're often Latin-like words by convention. The function to create a new process is CreateProcess on Windows, but it could be sggfafesojtg. It's just easier to remember that CreateProcess creates a process. In the C standard library the function naming convention is shortened English words, like strcat, strcpy, malloc.
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I don't think this is a good analogy - following this logic, wizards' spells would be like functions or commands. You can't just type a command on the terminal and expect it to work just because the word(s) you used make sense. It has to be defined previously. – The Fallen Sep 26 '12 at 16:16
I actually used this analogy with my daughter just last night. If you think of reality as the OS and "base" magic as a framework containing built-in functions, you can then write new magic that can combine framework functions to make more complex functions. Therefore, we have "discovered" (base framework functions) and "invented" (complex function chains) magic all used to hack reality (the OS). – vynsane Oct 5 '17 at 19:23
They are limited as all the spells that they learn are in every spell book
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sectumsempra, which Snape invented, doesn't really match your answer; and someone had to find or create these spells in the first place to write a spellbook. – Mac Cooper Jan 27 '15 at 8:08
Yes, spells must be created, or else if it is not created, no spells will ever exist. Spells cannot be discovered without being created.
I suspect, however, there may be an age limit on creating spells, any wizard who is under the age of seventeen cannot learn how to create their own spells, and believe it or not, once a spell is created, it cannot be reversed back to non existence. Just like disposable CD/DVDs, once you have burned data in there, you cannot wipe the CD/DVD blank. The worst part of Spell Creation is that if the wizard who creates the spell forgot the incantation or the movement, their effort of creating a spell is wasted. Therefore, when a wizard creates their own spell, they should first write it down, keeping a record of it, so if they forget, they can go back and check.
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New Gaming Centre to Open N.East England
Just in case anyone thought I had to much spare time on my hands since I've retired then here is just a short note for anyone living in the North East of England. From the 1st December a new gaming centre will be in open near Middlesbrough. I have teamed up with Brian Waugh of Waugh Games and convinced him of the value of such a place.
(http://www.waughgames.co.uk/)
We should be able to have around 12 tables (6x4) on the ground floor,
There is a shop on site which stocks a wide range of products and we can order anything that North Star etc. advertises.
There's a healthy discount on most items especially for callers or people who order for collection.
The shop is open 6 days a week and whilst the gaming centre will be advertised as being open 3 days a week any groups wanting to come through and game just get in touch and we will arrange for the place to be open.
Light refreshments will available on site and whilst a small charge is made for the hire of the table this will be redeemable in the shop.
That's enough of the plug - all I want is get more gaming in and what a better way than having my own place!!
Had to do something with all that spare time in retirement!!!!
If anybody wants more info then pm me. Will have pics etc etc. ready in time for Smoggycon on the 24th November.
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Battle is Joined
As many of you who have followed this blog it has takne me far longer to raise the forces to fight my first action. A refight of Charles Grants 'Sawmill Village' or Scierie Village as I have called it in my campaign.
So in the last blog we left Sir Harry marching over the border of the Duchy of Comyn, his orders to sweep Scierie Village in a demonstration of force in retaliation for raids that have been taking place along the border.
He had anticipated little or no opposition but as his troops had left Gysburgh a shadowy figure was seen riding off ahead of them bringing news of their departure to General Pomerol of Comyn who had happened to be visiting troops stationed in the border area.
Upon hereing the news of Sir Harry's intent General Pomerol mobilised what troops he could and set off towards Scierie Village to give those red coated devils of Albion a surprise they wouldn't forget.
As they approach the village Sir Harry's scouts report that a Comyn force of similar size to their own is heading for the village and is likely to arrive at the same time.
Sir Harry relished the thought of engaging enemy regular troops and at once issued orders to his Officers.
The Talisker Foot supported by the artillery were to move to the South of the Village and deploy and then sweep the area between the village and the wood.
The 25th Albion and the Royal Albion Lights were to move North, The 25th Albion moving to the centre of the village and deploy before advancing in support of the Talisker Regiment, the light Infantry were to move to the North of the Village and sweep the area clear to the sawmill there to meet up with the Line Infantry.
General Pomerol in the meantime issued his orders, the Regiment Nuilly-la-foret (les Lapins) were to advance South through the woods towards the village and engage any enemy found.
Pomerol would lead the two Regiments of foot de Grancy and Nuilley with artillery to the North of the Village, the artillery would depoly at the end of the stone wall to cover the open area in front of the wood and support Les Lapins.
Regt Grancy would move North round the village and Regt Nuilley would turn South past the stone wall and enter the village by force if necessary.
The picture above shows the Albion artillery depolying just as Les Lappins emerge from the woods, the Talisker foot are moving around the village ready to deploy in the North can be seen General Pomerol and the remainder of the Comyn forces.
Les Lapins and the Talisker foot exchange fire with Les Lapins gaining the upper hand, however the Albion artillery lends its support by firing cannister at the light infantry.
The 25th Albion can be seen deploying in the centre of the village whilst the Royal Albion and the Regt Grancy exchange fire, the Royal Albion swiftly exert their authority (lots of 6's tee hee).
The Duchys artillery has deployed at the end of the wall and has started firing cannister on the flank of the Talisker foot, fortunately Lee's dice rolls were not up to scratch and few casualties were caused.
The Regiment Nuilley can be seen marching in attack column ready to enter the village.
The 25th Albion deployed in the centre of the village ready to engage the Regt de Nuilley, at this time the Regiment Grancy had reached 50% casualties due to the contiued excellent shooting of the Albion Light Infantry and had started to fall back thus exposing the flank and rear of the Nuilley regiment.
Les Lappins and the Talisker foot with their respective Artillery support had almost fought each other to a standstill.
The Regiment Nuilley launches their assault on the Albion foot, they receive a weak volley and charge home but are held by the Albion troops to take the melee to a second round.
At the same time the Regiment Grancy were now in full retreat and the Albion Lights were follwoing up to keep the pressure on, General Pomerol was under threat as was his artillery.
A second round of melee was fought with both sides trading casualties like for like, however the Regiment Nuilley faltered and had to fall back. General Pomerol realised he had failed to stem the incursion and called for his men to leave the field.
General Pomerol can be seen sending his Courier to inform the Court of what had happened, Sir Harry was pleased to see the battle ended, the Talisker foot had lost 50% of its unit and the 25th Albion were badly mauled. However Rupert Gibb and his Light Infantry had suffered little and had caused grievous damage to the enemy ( lots and lots of high scores!!!!) His name will be highlighted to the King.
That night Sir Harry couldn't help but smile as he drank a small malt and watched as his troops loaded wagons with supplies and other small spoils of war from Scierie Village. Now could he convince his King to press their advantage and launch a stronger force deeper into enemy territory!.
Albion Forces March to do Battle!!
Following a series of Border Raids by forces from the Duchy of Comyn, King George has ordered Sir Harry 'Spitfire' Douglas to make a 'Demonstration of Force' against the intruders.
Sir Harry has determined that the likely centre of enemy activity is Scierie Village just a few miles over the Albion border.
He has ordered his Brigade to assemble and march on the village, there he will sweep the area for weapons, stores and signs of enemy armed activity!
A view from the rear of the column as the leave the border town of Gysburgh, at the head of the Column the Royal Albion Light Infantry can be seen deployed on the flanks.
The single piece of artillery in Sir Harry's brigade followed by the 25th Albion with Colonel Theakstone at their head.
The Talisker Foot lead the column as it leaves the village.
Rupert Gibb with one company of the Royal Albion deployed on the flank ready to scout ahead.
Sir Harry with his companion Sarah Farmer-Pilkington lead the troops, just behind them can be seen Colonel Whitbread of the Talisker foot.
Sir Harry is of the firm belief that the troops of the Duchy will have little time to react to his incursion and that his men will be safely back in Albion before they know whats hit them!!!!
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• Close Call for Warrior Trophy: 2019 Antigua Bermuda Race - Day Six
• Ignazio Bonanno's La Superba Controls J/24 European Championship
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• Solo Concarneau - Guy Cotten Trophy
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Close Call for Warrior Trophy: 2019 Antigua Bermuda Race - Day Six
Six yachts are expected to finish the 2019 Antigua Bermuda Race today, Monday 13 May. Afansay Isaev's Grand Mistral 80 Maxi Weddell (RUS) is expected to finish around midday taking second place in Line Honours, but Weddell will be outside the IRC corrected time set by SHK Scallywag.
Three yachts are in a thrilling battle to win the Warrior Trophy for the best elapsed time after IRC Correction. Pata Negra (GBR) skippered by Andy Liss, Peter Grueterich's Xpatriate (USA) and Kevin McLaughlin's Rye (USA) are all in contention with 114 miles or less to go.
At 0900 AST, Pata Negra was 83 miles from the finish and leading under IRC. Xpatriate has been really catching Pata Negra over the last 24 hours, cutting an eight hour lead down to just over one hour. Xpatriate was 114 miles from the finish and second in IRC. Rye was 93 miles from the St David's Lighthouse and estimated to be just over two hours behind Pata Negra after IRC time correction.
"We are a crew that has been sailing together on various boats for many years," commented Peter Grueterich, skipper of Xpatriate. "We know each other very well and get along great. We trust each other and have great respect for one another. When we finally got the seaweed off the rudder the boat sails pretty fast! Xpatriate is not in its lightest form as we are bringing lots of cruising stuff with us to our home port in Riverside, Connecticut, but we picked a good course on the left side of the rhumb line and stuck with it. We also have a good set of complementary skills across all watches which makes it so much easier. We are really looking forward to Bermuda. To enjoy rum , ice cold beers and a great dinner at my favourite pub, and of course stick our feet in the pink sands!!"
The 10 yachts still racing on the sixth day of the Antigua Bermuda Race are experiencing super downwind conditions with warm air and ocean and bright sunshine. Atlantic Rollers will be providing a sleigh ride towards Bermuda. However, there are still some holes in the breeze and with the overall win hanging in the balance, avoiding the light patches will be crucial to the competing teams.
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Ignazio Bonanno's La Superba Controls J/24 European Championship
Patras, Greece:Ignazio Bonanno's La Superba of Italy, with crew Simone Scontrino, Vincenzo Vano, Francesco Picaro and Alfredo Branciforte, only needed nine of 10 races to earn the title of J/24 European Champions for the second time. They also won in 2012 in their home country. The team logged scores of 1,3,4,3,2,3,1,2,3 for 22 net points, able to stay ashore for Friday's final duel which determined the runner-up positions. Anthimos Nikolaidis' Evniki of Greece secured the silver spot with the race win for 37 net points. Two fellow countrymen followed in third and fourth overall: Panagiotis Kampouridis' JMania (43 points) and Alexandros Tagaropoulos' Hellenic Police (46 points). German Stefan Karsunke's Schwere Jungs completed the top five with 51 points. Thirty J/24s competed May 7-10 from the Sailing Club of Patras in Greece.
Bonanno and the La Superba team from the Italian Navy race together regularly, and are working to come to Miami, Florida for the 2019 World Championship in October. Conditions in Patras were postcard-perfect every day, with winds generally starting near 10 knots and increasing throughout the day. Bonanno shared, "We prefer light breeze usually, but on the first day, we had a good day even when the wind increased to 15-18 knots." Of the venue, he added, "Really nice races and a good race area. We took the European Champion the day before, so we are really, really happy!"
Complete results may be found at j24europeans2019.gr
New clean yacht propulsion systems set to trial in Monaco
Around 40 teams are expected for the 6th Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge (2-6 July 2019), organised by the Yacht Club de Monaco in partnership with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and International Powerboating Federation (UIM).
Launched 2014, today the event unites boats in 3 classes - Solar, Offshore and Energy - the goal being to support the creativity of young engineers working with industry to develop alternative propulsion systems for yachts using only clean energy sources.
Present from the start, the Solar Class has 20 entrants, each boat as inventive as the other, with average speeds up to 20 knots. The Energy Class, introduced in 2018, compares solutions (electricity, hydrogen, etc.), the challenge being to design the most powerful, durable system for one-design catamaran hulls supplied by the YCM. Out of 8 boats registered to date, 3 are working on fuel cells; SBM Offshore E-Racing Team (Monaco), HEIG VDI (Switzerland) and Hydrogad'z from Arts et Métiers (France).
Proving by example is the Offshore Class, for boats able to take 3 people (driver and 2 passengers), in 2 offshore races from Monaco-Ventimiglia-Monaco (67km), an opportunity to put a new generation of electric tenders, developed by the yacht industry, through their paces in conditions they can expect to face in the future.
Students share progress on their projects via daily 'Tech Talks' on Open Source at the end of each day.
As its reputation has spread, the event is attracting teams beyond Europe, including the Hydros Team Universitas Indonesia competing in the Energy Class. Other teams are coming to observe with a view to taking part in 2020, such as the Sanya Visun Royal Yacht Club (China) and Dubai's Rochester Institute of Technology.
Finally, the YCM has thrown down the gauntlet to partners, locals and entrants to produce as near to zero emissions as possible for the week. Initiatives include; electric/hydrogen-powered bikes and cars, with recharging of electric vehicles courtesy of the Suncy vessel; eco-friendly gourdes and water fountains to reduce waste; solar ovens, etc.
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Sail GP: Two Down And What We Know?
The second of the five stages of the SailGP season ended up in San Francisco with the same podium as the first event in Sydney. Victory to the Australians (Tom Slingsby) ahead of the Japanese (Nathan Outterridge) and the visibly improving British (Dylan Fletcher). Tip & Shaft reviews the new circuit launched by Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts.
After two events there seems to be a bit of a hierarchy established, two teams Australia and Japan better than the rest. The British boat is improving as evidenced by winning the first of the fleet races on the Sunday in San Francisco. The results that do not really surprise Bruno Dubois, team principal of the Chinese team who were fourth in Sydney and fifth in San Francisco. Dubois, remember, was team manager for Team France in the last America's Cup and was CEO of the Volvo Ocean Race winning Dongfeng team. "The Australians are the Oracle team of the last Cup, the Japanese are really a mix between Team Japan and Artemis. The English are really strong, with Dylan Fletcher who is a good allrounder, Chris Draper, who also comes from Team Japan. These teams have a lot of people who were strong in the last Cup and they know these boats well."
The Finals have both been a duel between Australia and Japan. And each time the Final has been won by the Aussies. That may still be a surprise as the French coach Philippe Presti, who works with the Aussies acknowledges. "It would have been logical for Nathan (Outterridge) to be in front of the rankings because he sailed the last America's Cup as helmsman and he's really the guy who developed this new F50 along with the same group he had at Artemis, he's clearly the one with the most experience on this type of boat." Franck Citeau, coach of the French team, says of Outteridge the Australian skipper who sails for the Japanese team: "For me, the most talented is Nathan Outterridge who seems to do what he wants with the boat, but does it precisely , but he tends to do too much compared to Australians who are real metronomes, very regular, very consistent."
Behind this top two the British and the Americans made a good impression on the San Francisco waters, especially the Americans who, after finishing last in Sydney, took the fourth place in their home country.
From Tip & Shaft, full editorial here
Solo Concarneau - Guy Cotten Trophy
It's been 24 hours since the 16 Figaro Beneteau 3 fleet of the Solo Concarneau Trophy Guy Cotten has set sail on the 270-nautical mile course. The fleet, which is currently sailing off the Glenan Archipelago, is now heading south towards the Birvideaux lighthouse off Quiberon. Martin Le Pape (Skipper Macif 2017) is currently leading, a few short distances from Armel Le Cleac'h (Banque Populaire) and Eric Peron (French Touch). With 130 nautical miles remaining, the fleet is expected tomorrow morning at the finish line in front of Concarneau.
At 16:30, Cecile Laguette (Eclisse) and Michel Desjoyeaux (Lumibird) both indicated their abandonment to the race management of the and returned directly to the start port. information on the reasons for their abandonment at the arrival of the two figarists.
Current standings at Birvideaux:
1. Martin Pope, Macif Offshore Racing
2. Armel Le Cleac'h, Voile Banque Populaire
3. Eric Peron, FrenchTouch
4. Lois Berrehar - Navigator, Team Bretagne CMB
5. Pierre Leboucher, Guyot Sails
6. Will Harris, Will Harris Sailing powered by Hive Energy
7. Adrien Hardy, Without nature, no future
8 / Pierre Quiroga - Navigator, Macif Offshore Race
9. Sebastien Marsset - Navigator, Handicap Agir Ensemble
10. Gildas Morvan, Niji
11. Tom Laperche, Team Bretagne CMB
12. Clement Commagnac, Sand Grain
13. Matthew Dmrvl, Klaxoon M
14. Cassandra Blandin, Klaxoon C
Arrivals scheduled tomorrow around 6am
soloconcarneau.blogspot.com
Delayed start to Finn Europeans in Athens
The sailors at the 2019 Finn Open European Championship in Athens will have to wait another day before racing can commence after a long day waiting onshore Monday, with no racing possible in very light and unstable winds.
The fleet of 84 boats from 33 nations spent the day wishing for wind, but with several rain fronts passing over and often no more then 3-4 knots of wind, racing was eventually abandoned for the day shortly before 16.00.
On Tuesday, the morning conditions are expected to be similar, so racing has been put back to 13.30 on Tuesday with three races scheduled.
2019.finneuropeans.org
Kezenoy-Am-2019 Cup
The jury team of the international sailing regatta in the Chechen Republic, Kezenoy-Am-2019 Cup, will be headed by the famous Italian judge Luca Babini.
International Ampire and Judge, Ampire of the America's Cup and the 2012 Olympic Games, Luca Babini will come to Chechnya for the second time: "I am very proud to be part of the new regatta on Lake Kezenoy - Am. This is an incredible experience and a wonderful place of amazing beauty. I am very happy to be part of the organizing team. This is an unforgettable event, interesting for everyone! ".
The Kezenoy-Am - 2019 Cup will be held in Chechnya from July 23 to July 28, 2019. Competitions will be held on the lake of the same name at 1870 meters above sea level. Participants of the regatta will be Russian and foreign athletes. Currently, 15 teams are registered, some of them will represent the clubs of Germany, Italy and Estonia.
Sailing competitions will be held on SB20 class mono-type high-speed sailing boats.
The sailors will compete for the cash prize of 16 000 Euro, Kezenoy-Am Challenge Cup and a special prize from the partner Hamilton.
www.chyf.ru/en/regatta/cup-2019/
Faster Finishes Of Asymmetrical Gybes
This video shows two sprit boats gybing their asymmetrical spinnakers and is a good compare and contrast exercise to learn about the best way to gybe an asymmetrical spinnaker. Watch the video and listen to the commentary. The video ran on UK Sailmakers Facebook page on April 23rd and one of our Facebook followers, Long Island Sound Sailor Wes Bemus, added a lengthy but very informative and instructional comment to that post.
Wes' comments here
Transpac 50 Class Divisions and Start Dates Now Available
Los Angeles, CA - The Transpacific Yacht Club is pleased to announce that its record 100-boat fleet entered in the 2019 Transpac is now split into 12 divisions for this year's 50th edition of this biennial ocean race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. These groups will be racing against each other for perpetual trophies and take-home prizes within their divisions, as well as for historic overall awards.
Boats racing in Divisions 6, 7, 8, 9, the Cal 40's and the Multihulls in Class 0A - 41 boats in all - will cross the start line at Point Fermin in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 10th. Two days later on Friday July 12th the 28 boats in Divisions 3, 5 and the Santa Cruz 50/52's will start, and the following day on Saturday July 13th the 28 remaining monohull entries in Divisions 1 and 2, along with the 3 Multihull class 0 entries, will head towards the finish line 2225 miles away at Diamond Head in Honolulu.
Wherever possible, boats were assigned into divisions that represent similar size and type to keep the racing close and competitive, with about one-third of the entire fleet competing against peers. Division 2, for example, has ten ULDB Sleds, plus the Bill Lee-designed and built 68-foot Merlin, the boat that inspired the popular "Fast is Fun" yacht design craze based in Santa Cruz, California of the 1980's and '90's. Similarly the 11 boats racing in the Santa Cruz 50/52 class were from the same builder, albeit from different generations of design.
Seven Cal 40's, a classic Lapworth design regarded as a breakthrough design in its day, are also competing in their own class for this 50th Transpac. The first time Cal 40's competed in Transpac was soon after the design was introduced in 1964 - they won the race overall in 1965 and 1967.
And the three MOD 70's in Multihull Class 0 will be fun to follow as they make their high-speed chase for line honors.
The remainder of the fleet of monohulls and multihulls ranging in size and style from speedy Hobie 33's to the stately 70+ foot ketches in Division 5 will rely on handicap ratings generated by the ORR rating system.
For more information on the entries and class divisions in Transpac 50, see yachtscoring.com/emenu.cfm?eID=4758.
2019.transpacyc.com
Tahiti Pearl Regatta: an annual gem in the South Pacific
After four hard days of racing, partying and relaxing, the 16th edition of the annual Tahiti Pearl Regatta finished this year in Taha'a, in the Leewards Islands of Tahiti. The Raromatai (Tahitian name for the Leewards Islands) showed their beauty to the 300+ sailors from around the world racing on a record 52 entries, with all benefitting from exceptional weather conditions and world-class scenery throughout the event.
After 4 races within and between the islands of Raiatea and Huahine, the last two races in Taha'a were needed to determine the winners in most of the classes. In the Multihulls division, the local Diam 24 Team SCEAP, skippered by Didier Arnould, who was at the top of the standings after four races, had to bow to Diam Air Tahiti Nui from Rum Road Champion Armel Tripon. The Catana 55 Selika and her French-Russian crew took the third step of the podium – this boat is a tour de force for a 55 foot boat, with its heavy and deep draft, was an interesting match with the quick light boats like the Diam 24 or Pulse 600 designs.
In Division 1, the A35 Arearea owned by Jean-Pierre Basse, a regular entry at the TPR, returned to win his class, having reached the podium at each stage.
The Va'a Taie category was inaugurated this year thanks to the inscription of 8 sailing canoes, with Teiva Veronique and her rowers on Moana Explorer at the top of the rankings, ahead of Viper Va'a Axel Pelou and Vatea Quesnot's Terematai. In the Cruising category, which brings together boats without a racing handicap, the German World ARC member Nica took first place, ahead of the local crews Sea Shepherd and Nacira.
After ten years of exchanges with the Voiles de Saint-Tropez, the Tahiti Pearl Regatta is now twinned with the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. "This new partnership is first and foremost a crew exchange between the TPR and the Jack Tar Regatta," explains Stephanie Betz of Archipelagoes. "It also gives us the opportunity to promote the TPR and Tahiti at this famous yacht club, a world-class nautical destination which will organize the America's Cup in 2021."
The 2020 Transpac Los Angeles-Tahiti Race, which will take place next year at the end of May, is also part of this strategy to develop more competitive offshore racing in the Pacific Basin.
The 17th edition of the Tahiti Pearl Regatta would be held from May 5 to 9, 2020.
www.tahitipearlregatta.com
Swan 115-003 Highland Fling 15. 9,900,000 VAT Paid. Located in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Highland Fling 15 is Germán Frers design along with the demanding requirements of a highly experienced, serial Swan yacht owner.
See listing details in Nautors Swan Brokerage
Nautor's Swan Brokerage - Thomas Perry
Tel. +377 97 97 95 07
nautorswanbrokerage.com
2015 KER 56 Canting keel - VARUNA VI. 1,490,000 EUR. Located in North Germany.
Custom built in 2015 at Knierim Individual Yachts in Germany and design by Jason Ker. The ship is uncompromisingly optimized for IRC and competitive at the highest level for all international ocean races. "Varuna VI" is an ultra-light high-tech carbon racer of the latest generation with Canting Keel and Dagger boards with maximum speed potential. The ship is currently fully serviced and ready for transport to a new port of destination. It comes on own transport cradle incl. service container. Deck gear is dismounted for protection reason and quick transport.
Florian Kirchner
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Detailed specs at: www.kirchner-mares.com
2015 Mills 45. 480000 EUR. Located in Adelaide, Australia
CONCUBINE, is without question one of the stand out boats on the Australian circuit, both in terms of performance and presentation..... A full grand-prix build and meticulous management from start to finish has got the boat to where she is today, consistently challenging for top spot at every event
Sam Pearson - Ancasta Race Boats
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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African Studies1
British and Commonwealth History2
Journal/Periodical1
DT - Africa (History) 1
J - Political Science (Legislative & Executive papers) 1
JV - Colonies & Colonization, Emigration & Immigration 1
British colonies[remove]2
Diplomatic relations1
Economic history1
Emigration and immigration1
Great Britain. Colonial Office1
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Electronic reference sources1
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Australasia1
1. Migration to new worlds [2015 - ]
Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK : Adam Matthew Digital
British and Commonwealth History
Module I. The century of immigration
Module II. The modern era.
"Migration to New Worlds explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia. Split across two modules, and including collections from 26 archives, libraries and museums, Migration to New Worlds brings together the movement and memories of millions across two centuries of mass migration.... The Century of Immigration concentrates on the period 1800 to 1924 and covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement. To supplement this, the collection includes early material such as the first emigration 'round robin' from 1621 and letters from late eighteenth-century merchants and travellers in the United States. Some later material is also available, including ocean liner and immigration depot photographs from the mid-twentieth century .... The Modern Era begins with the activities of the New Zealand Company during the 1840s and presents thousands of unique original sources focusing on the growth of colonisation companies during the nineteenth century, the activities of immigration and welfare societies, and the plight of refugees and displaced persons throughout the twentieth century as migrants fled their homelands to escape global conflict ...."--Nature and Scope page, viewed August 4, 2017.
www.migration.amdigital.co.uk
2. Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953 : African blue books, 1821-1953 [2000 - ]
Wakefield, U.K. : Microform Academic Publishers.
Journal/Periodical — 1 online resource
African Studies; British and Commonwealth History
Contents as of January 29,
2016: Basutoland (Lesotho), 1926-1946
Cape of Good Hope, 1821-1909
Gambia, 1828-1945
Gold Coast, 1846-1939
Kenya, 1901-1946
Nigeria, 1862-1945
Northern Rhodesia, 1924-1948
Nyasaland, 1904-1938
Sierra Leone, 1824-1943
Southern Rhodesia, 1906-1953
Tanganyika, 1921-1948
Uganda, 1901-1945
Zanzibar, 1913-1947.
Digitized copies of some of the standardized annual Blue Books submitted by British colonial administrators in Africa to the British Colonial Office and containing statistics about the colony.
"The Blue Book was a key item of considerable standing in 19th century colonial administration, Colonial Regulations of the time state that: "The Annual Blue Book containing accounts of the Civil Establishment, of the Colonial Revenue and Expenditure and of various statistical particulars etc. must be completed as early as possible after the close of each year. The various returns which it comprises must be filled up with the greatest possible accuracy and the Statistical Tables must be full and complete, blank copies of the book in sheets will be annually transmitted to each Colony from the Colonial Office". The bare statistical material which the Blue Book provided was somewhat daunting, and the annual report was intended to present in a readable form the gist of the information which the book contained. The directions given in the Colonial Regulations referred to above to colonial governors as to the compilation of the annual report were somewhat terse: "The Governor, in transmitting the 'Blue Book' to this Department, must accompany it with a report which should be written on one side of the paper only, exhibiting generally the past and present state of the Colony and its prospects under the several heads specified in the Book ..." Not all governors, however, provided reports of the required standard, In 1887 governors were informed that, whereas hitherto it had been the practice to wait until a sufficient number of reports had been received, to form a volume, it was now proposed to publish reports separately as they arrived, but, it was added, "It has been decided only to publish the more interesting and important Reports, ..because in some cases the Reports contain too little to be worth producing separately". With the quality of the Annual Reports so variable, the more rigorously standardised Blue Books gain an increased significance through their increased level of, though certainly not absolute, reliability. In May, 1904 the Foreign Office decided that something must be done about the annual reports "to put the condition of our Protectorates more clearly before the House and the Public". The Indian "small Blue Book" was examined as a possible model and rejected as too detailed; in any case it was felt that it would "be preferable for our Protectorates, which must before long be handed over to the Colonial Office, to follow Colonial, rather than Indian, models. We have already in working order the annual Blue Book. All we do now is to assimilate our annual reports to the Colonial Report on the Blue Book. The Blue Book remains in manuscript. But the Colonial Office experience is the publication of the report on the Blue Book induces those people who genuinely desire information to go to the Office and consult the manuscript volume which is there open for such inspection. It is this system which we thought of introducing as otherwise we find that the information contained in the Blue Book is not made use of to its fullest extent." The Annual Reports, currently available on microfilm, do assist with the interpretation of the data in the Blue Books; however, data such as income and expenditure can be analysed and comparisons between countries can be made, through use of these books alone. This collection is a digital extraction from our existing microfilm series, Government publications relating to African countries prior to independence."--Collection metadata page.
With a particular focus on the latter nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the focus of these Blue Books is upon economic development; imports, exports and each territory's balance sheets are a recurring theme throughout. Ecclesiastical records, public works and population statistics are also common themes. The enforcement of the Blue Book structure upon various territories has resulted in some degree of standardisation where administrations were compliant. Analysis of the data within these documents and the different emphases as governments changed, reveals patterns of social change during a period for which limited other records are available.
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robintudge
About Robin Tudge
Robin Tudge
Winter is coming. Am I ready? I’m a lot better placed than I was last year, but even so.
Demoralising as Hell is this Brexit clusterfuck that’s only months away. The extent of our government’s incompetence, its vile intransigence towards the Brits in Europe who are making their own groups of expertise to work out what the fuck to do, the criminal paucity of the direction to the hundreds of thousands of businesses and jobs already under threat here just for sheer want of knowing what they’re supposed to do, and the investments, and contracts lost because of that. The stress. All of it is just disgusting, by a government that fucked off on holiday, leaving the country teetering off a cliff like the ending of The Italian Job, and now May’s gone to Africa to cobble together interest among a few Commonwealth states with a combined GDP less than that of Scotland.
The woman responsible for Windrush is in South Africa patronising the locals with her adoration of Mandela for his dreams of living in a country devoid of any colour bar. She promises £4bn for jobs for the young there. She says a no-deal won’t be a big deal.
All at the behest of a criminal cabal of far-right asset strippers, JRM, Farage, Boston Consulting. They know what’s going to happen, they’re preparing to short the market and steam in with their vastl, untaxed gains from crashing the Pound to buy up and asset strip what’s left of industry. They simply do not care, they never did. Rees-Mogg is actually prepared to have inspections of people crossing the hard border into Ireland. Are the locals prepared to put up with that? No. The GFA will die and people will die with it. He’ll have a punt on that outcome riding somewhere.
I’ve not written about this in great length, spending too much time on Twitter arguing the toss with bots. But I know the view from abroad is bafflement, incomprehension, humour, the Berliners simply don’t get it at all. More anon …
They’ve abandoned a million Brits in Europe, they’ve left 3 million fine friends and family here in complete limbo with the outcome possibly being ‘you have no right to stay’, and being drummed out, some leaving children, by total thugs. How is this conscionable to be so derelict, so negligent, so vile, on any level?
So what do I do?
Had our relatively regular Sunday coffee at Costa in Blaydon, although every time we go I remember it takes weeks to get served.
Loads of fat people in Blaydon, and loads of people sitting in their cars in the Morrisons’ car park. Not sure what the appeal is of the latter, while I’m not making much of a link between the two phenomena. We had a scan through the Heil on Sunday where following on from the Genoa bridge collapse they thought it in the public interest / good to wind the readers by reporting on the UK being home to thousands of bridges all about to collapse. I thought this the other day, adding to my fear every time we go under a motorway bridge some bastard kid is going to drop a brick through the windscreen that levels my forehead at 70 mph. Then talked about how many people died in the Japanese tsunami of 2011, Dawn said 200, I said 10,000, in fact it was 15,000 but mostly in the earthquake, not the flood, still though the waves hitting Chile and Alaska, thanks to Japan’s inability to keep its earthquakes under control! (sorry I went Heil on Sunday there), plus an obscenely stupid piece by Toby Young that I must now daub with excrement in the most intellectual of ways.
A bridge expert said on the radio how a great deal of the major infrastructure in Italy built in the 60s and 70s could be compromised by the influence of the mafia, who demanding cuts here there and everywhere hack at the quality of the materials used, sub-spec stuff gets used, the quality stuff is diverted elsewhere (over and over and over). Everyone takes their cut. We see similar stuff in China and North Korea (the latter suffering sanctions as well, which is interesting because for such a police state you’d think graft was unthinkable, whereas it’s the black economy reality of the place, it wouldn’t survive without it).
I did an evening’s extra work the other night, Friday night, me and this other nice chap put on balaclavas and burst out the back of a van to abduct this very nice young actor, who was game considering he couldn’t see and we could have smashed his head and shins bundling him into the van. It was a proper shoot as well, a lot of kit quickly deployed for this back-alley scene where you’d more likely find Hartlepoolists fucking and vomming on a Friday night (hopefully not at the same time). Proper stunt coordinator doing high kicks (aged 57, he was chuffed to say), while giving us contrary instructions about our scene (I think to wreck the first take for the sake of an out-takes vid, seeing how funny everyone found it). The director was this seriously obese American who seemed nice enough, but there’s a definite heirarchy, as if only certain people get to speak at a certain volume. The big jokes and joshing is all their preserve, basically, everyone else is on full-scurry mode.
Sitting with the extras for a couple of hours, the chat was slow at first, and a lot of resorting to staring at our phones, but it turned the chap I abducted with was a driving instructor, the older chap who had his own kidnapping scene spent 30 years on oil rigs (and had his own consultancy in Aberdeen for years), this burly dude from London was a former fireman. Really interesting people. The guy playing our mafia boss was very nice, came over and introduced himself, a few anecdotes, he seemed canny.
My opposite then saw going to queue for food this young blonde who he was sure was a hit off Children’s BBC, as his kids watched the prog (and no doubt so did he too many times for his own liking) and so she was! Later as we got into the minibus to take us all to town for various scenes, she came and sat next to us on the bus, and he got out his phone and showed her a pic of his kids, saying they were fans of hers. ‘Oh right, great’, she said, then turned to her friend and they had the most scintillating conversation about planning a Doritos’ party some time.
God’s Teeth. All she had to say was ‘great! What are their names? Would you like a selfie with me to show them?’ Would have cost nothing to her, and meant everything to them, instead she’s bloody rude and up herself. The bus driver attested to this later, drivers always have the inside track on this kind of shit, said she was a diva who’d spend two hours in make-up. (I was in make-up and was done in five minutes!)
Interesting contrast, the people who are the extras, the nobodies in the background, have others lives they lead, real lives, and that’s what makes them interesting, whereas the star of the show is a know-nothing self-obsessed child.
SHUN THE NON BELIEVERS
UKIP is an EVIL CULT, based on BLIND FAITH in its appeal to the old and senile for a return to PARADISE LOST, CASTING OUT the non-believers, a cult fomented by HATE PREACHERS Farage and Robinson, directed by the EVIL AYATOLLAH BANNON from his cave in Washington.
Goddamn
Beeped hello at the local racist as I drove past him walking his dog, or hobbling with his dog as he has a walking stick that he brandished aloft in response to my beep, only then I thought he could fall over, which I might remember for next time I beep him.
Our neighbours’ van for their co-owned business is still in the back lane. They must be at home, on a working day. They must be AT IT.
Then I see Crawcrook’s angriest tiler doing a paint job on Doreen’s iron fence. Maybe I should remind him to keep his temper, but conclude this might set him off. He is unstable after all. I choose to leave him be, and for that, I am grateful to my own better judgement.
Queue out the fucking door at the pie-shop, where I’d gone to get my ration plus some black pudding for the hounds, cos some old bat won’t stop nattering with the Womble-butcher, even then she forgets half her order so has to biddy back in ‘owwo wow wowo wow, biddy biddy biddy’ bollockery. What was the name of that helmet-headed robot off Buck Rogers, who is so alike Theresa May?
Point being, you’d think people circling the drain like this might spend their last days doing something better than pottering, not even pottering, faffing as if it’s a fine art. The end of the line is well and truly in sight, those buffers you see just ahead, you’re piling straight into them and it’s a one-sided collision, trust me, so all those incredible things you’ve put off, better get on it.
That said, maybe they’re all artists at heart and this semi-professional biddying/pottering/faffing is a prolonged piece of performance art.
Not that prolonged, mind. *ROFLCOPTER.
Just realised something else. I’ve got a load of work come in, editing, a bit of writing, an evening as an extra in Hartlepool, adds up to £1,200. Great. But this is averaged over weeks, months. It’s shit. I’m sick of being poor. I fucking hate being poor. Twelve years ago I was on, all things considered, over £40k – at the time. What the Hell did I spend it on? Where’s all my money gone? How the fuck do I get by now? Well shove it, frankly.
MISSION: I’m going to fuck off out of here and earn a stack doing great things. No biddy in a pie-shop will dare hold me up.
Everyone’s painting at the mo. Bill opposite is painting his back gate, what colour he doesn’t know as he’s colour blind, ‘mint green’ I told him, for what it’s worth, while that also galvanised me to put the undercoat on our back gate, a repaint that I’d put off for a while knowing the bastard at No. 7 would very likely dawb it with shit or something (they did as well, the infamous Shitgate, which got me waving down a police car to have them stop me go over and smash his face in). He and his poisonous alchie wife have since moved out, even taking their door number off their backgate when they moved. Did they take the light bulbs and floorboards as well?
Anyway, back to neighbourhood gate painting, and most spectacularly, the Finnish woman over the road and her bloke have spent days creosoting their 50-yard-long fence. Well, creosote colour, real creosote is hard to come by. Hughie has a secret supplier but it comes at a cost of several pounds a gallon, he’s told me. Creosote must rank with petrol and Swarfega for top shed smells. Ben the mechanic told me everyone who comes to the garage, they get a niff of Swarfega and get all excited as it throws them back to childhood Saturdays, with dad doing something DIY-ey.
Painting the Finn’s fence near black (she’s called Rikka, does she talk like Raikonnen, who talks like Key-op off Battle of the Planets?) reminded me of the episode of Huckleberry Finn when Aunt Polly demanded Tom whitewash their back fence, which he finds a deadly bore of a chore, but somehow enough passers-by thought it fun enough to want to have a go, which he allowed on commission of nickels, apples, a comic and wotnot, and they get it done in double-time for which Aunt Polly rewarded him all the more. Still funny 40 years later. I told Bill about this, then lo, an hour later, I saw him standing there as Helen Stupid from two doors down helped paint that gate – not sure what he got her to bribe him with though. Swarfega, painting fences, such things that do it for people.
The people opposite the front of the house, also recently painted their front gate, and so carefully rebuilt the fence, painting that plank by plank before assembly to ensure there was paint even where no-one could see. For such fastidiousness, the shame is the fence they’ve built looks OK only cos the paint’s fresh, but will shortly look very cack indeed. It is very DIY. They also had an interesting dilemma as horizontal planks from the neighbour’s fence crossed onto their side, with an ever so slightly different shade of green (see pics below). Would they leave the planks, paint them half-way, or paint full across? Someone suggested they paint half the planks but horizontally, which would be great. In the end they painted the next door gate and all the fence the same colour. Which is kind of cool of them, but in another way they must have gone to their neighbours’ and made some case for how it’d look better, i.e. currently it looks shit and most options to remedy it would look shit, too, except the option of the neighbour allowing them to paint his/her gate and fence their colour, which is both rude and expansionist.
Don’t know if I’d want to live next to people like that.
Glad I live opposite. Much easier for them to see me twitch my curtains at them.
It is curious how one person painting a gate could provoke so many others to do so, as I said to Bill, I’d been meaning to finish the back gate but was only spurred on to do so by him doing it, too.
Curiously, too, observed Her Indoors, we all live in the line, the fence annexers, us, Bill, then Rikka Raikkonen. A lay line? Curiously enough, I remember from a few years ago the story of a motorway in Germany where there was one particular black spot, accident after accident, and it didn’t matter what they did, speed restrictions, warning signs, alterations to the road, they kept happening, until a druid approached the authorities and said the road cut straight through some confluence of lay lines and too much energy was confounded on either side, but he had a solution, place quartz pillars either side and allow the energy to cross. What the Hell, thought the Big Guns, we’ve smashed up the kitchen enough times, might as well throw the sink. And … it worked.
Was zum Teufel.
Ha! Found it, from the days when The Telegraph was a proper paper and didn’t illustrate commemorations of the Battle of Britain with Luftwaffe propaganda photos (see earlier blog).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/1438473/Druids-cut-death-toll-with-divine-intervention.html
*Austria, not Germany. Ach.
Those aggressive Montenegrens
I was in Montenegro earlier this year, end of April, stopped off in Podgorica for one night then on to Kotor for one night. It was sunny and warm, while the flight to the capital we passed over many mountains still heavily cloaked in snow, and it looked like an amazing landscape for hiking and skiing.
There was a handful of small to medium sized jet at the capital airport, with proper farm tractors on hand to shunt them about. To get into town, with no Metro, train nor even a regular bus, you have to get a taxi, and I was picked up by the very nice young man I’d booked online before coming, who offered to take me to scenic spots around the city.
To be blunt, in Podgorica itself, there really isn’t a lot a to do. At my perfectly serviceable hotel, at which I was the only guest, one site I was pointed to was a clock tower up the road, so going via a very cheap cake shop I went and had a look, I found out the time, then strolled a few hundred yards to the bus station to buy my ticket to Kotor (again, cheap), the station itself was an interesting brutalist building, with an overhanging roof of curled up concrete, then I investigated a derelict hacienda-style building – a prison? – next to the station.
I stopped off back at the hotel, and learned some dialect off the staff as we watched local TV, which was all folk songs, then trundled into town, crossing the cable bridge over the shallow, lazy Moraca river, people hanging out on the stepped ravine and slopes of grass going down to the water, then on to the town centre, a non-descript square where folks milled back and forth or relaxed by its fountain.
That was it. The whole city had the ambience and charm of a sprawling, crusty cafe, a mosque here, a pretty church there, a large grey concrete government buildings and flats from the Yugoslavia days . Nice enough as a base to explore landscape sites around the area, a lake, waterfall, beautiful valley and a monastery, all most easily done on private tours, then move on. For a capital city, it makes Bratislava look like Hamburg. And the people were all chilled, and friendly, and most notably, not aggressive at all.
It’s a conspiracy
My trainers seem to have an bottomless stash of small stones to release under my feet, doesn’t matter how many times I take them off, bash them on a fence and see something fall out, another interloper appears seconds after putting them back on, like there’s some malevolent hamster’s cheek pouch within, deftly releasing these tiny mines to hinder my journey, a constant foray of Maquis attacks on my Panzer division as it proceeds home.
I’m sure there’s a Greek myth of someone being punished by the Gods with stones in their shoes. There’s one about a guy having to roll dice for ever with a small pot that has no bottom. And the bloke pushing the rock up the hill that rolls down again. Pretty unpleasant as deities go, for all the hanging around they do on chaise longue, eating grapes in Doric-columned gazebos surrounded by cloud, playing chess, watching the Mortals through the water of a bird bath. Why don’t they do nice shit?
Fucking Hotmail shit. I’ve been locked out of my Hotmail account for hours now, and they’ve blocked me again, seeking to filch email addresses and subject headings out of me by way of verification – which I don’t know because I’m not in the fucking email and I don’t carry this shit in my head, while the Microsoft site for shit like this says ‘send an email.’ You wankers. I used Hotmail more these days since Yahoo! went wank, and they did that in the teeth of so many complaints, people saying the meddling had bust up a working system.
Fucking dickheads. It’s a conspiracy, as my father might say.
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Ragnarok – The Last Viking
The Dog In The Race: An Open Letter To Mark Strong
Author: robmyles Published on: February 4, 2015 Published in: Acting
It was with considerable excitement that I read your recent vocal support for working class actors in The Stage. As we are so often talked about and not to, I wanted to share my experience with you.
I am a working class actor, you see – born in Barnsley, my father was a glazier and my mother was a saleswoman for new-build homes. They divorced when I was 7. I have no dynasty, no connections, not even a drama school credit from which to inherit some legitimacy. I’m just someone who has to do this, so I do.
I applied to Central the year the tuition fees were hiked. When the letter arrived, I was informed a two year course would cost me ~£18,000 a year in fees, not taking into account London living costs. Needless to say, drama school was not an option for me.
I’ve enrolled in as much training as I can afford over the years; I even earned enough to fund myself through Shakespeare and Screen Acting courses at LAMDA. It may have taken me five years instead of three, but I’m confident enough now to put myself on a level with drama school graduates.
But it sometimes feels like my doing what I can do instead of crying about what I can’t -clawing my way into more experience and training, producing my own work and committing to shows and short films for little or no pay- is meaningless to the industry, which still adopts a binary ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ attitude. As a result, I am one of many who are denied a rung on the ladder.
Owing to this, we are creatures now considered an endangered species. Famous stars are lining up to speak about the need to protect me, like they would a Panda or a Rhino.
I appreciate those voices; it’s flattering in a way. The only problem is that such commentary generally expects someone else to do something about it.
I don’t have the luxury of waiting to find out who that will be, so I simply try to help myself as best I can.
And that’s why I enjoyed reading your sentiments in The Stage. I am in complete agreement; we must do something about it.
So Mark, what shall we do?
Opportunities for those not well connected, not well supported, come few and far between. Even then, these tend to be taken by those that are. With the best will in the world -I have no doubt you spent your time in the trenches paying dues- but you no longer have a dog in the race. I am the dog the in the race. Perhaps working together with people like me is a way to get started.
Perhaps we need to connect and support working class actors. We aren’t as hard to find as the Panda or the Rhino, for those willing to look. Robin Williams famously had a clause in his contract to employ a homeless person on his film sets. Perhaps you could have a clause to employ a working class actor or two in smaller roles?
Falling short of such noble idealism, perhaps a campaign underpinned by your rich, dulcet voice would help raise awareness, in the vein of My Theatre Matters? I’m ready to throw my hat in if you are.
Robert Myles
p.s. Anyone with ideas as to what we can do, practically and without waiting for government legislation, to redress the balance and create a more supportive culture for working class actors, feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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Karl King says:
Hi Rob.
I am a Location manager in the TV world. From the world i see i dont think there is an issue, nor do i think it needs addressing in an idealist way.
I have worked on many productions, with working class actors and working class crew. There is a mix, I have seen millionaires stood next to Travellers. Working side by side. For me it is more about openong doors. This isnt a class war, this is an agent war. We need more open auditions, its a very closed shop irrespective of class. I know middle class actors having issues equally as much. Getting agents infront of them is their hardest challenge.
We alse need a decent real life film training programme. I dont believe (coming from a ‘disabled’ person) that positive discrimination is right. I hate this thing that we should have more ethnics, more disabled, more working class etc. No we should have more of the best people for the roles, best people for the job! The industry is insestuous regardless of class!
robmyles says:
It’s great that when you get there, that’s what you see. But too many never get there, too much of the time.
You can say it’s an agent war, but that’s when it gets difficult to untangle the mess we’re in.
You need an accredited three year drama school course at one of four or so very expensive institutions to have a hope of getting a shot at one of the few high profile agents capable of getting you the big jobs, the most meaningful, significant and impactful work (and even then, drama school is no guarantee of a good agent.)
But you could argue that’s only a problem because the casting director only sends their briefs to those few top agents.
But you could argue that’s only a problem because the production company only hires that casting director.
But you could argue that even if all those stars aligned, it’s the executives calling the shots picking the well connected and the well to do. Is that because American’s think British people must be from Downton Abbey, so the ones that conform to that expectation get jobs?
There are so many levels, and any change at any level would be an improvement. Real change at all levels would be a transformation.
I’m not asking for more working class actors for the sake of it. You’re right, the best people for the job should get the job. But you find more of the best people if you look in more places, and it seems that the system is increasingly disenfranchising a whole crop of potential.
It’s only because I’ve read five articles this week, it feels like, I felt compelled to challenge it. And ask someone who has challenged it themselves for help.
This is well written and a great point.
However I have an issue with the argument in hand. How we class working class actors.
I got in to Mountview on a full scholarship because I worked my butt off in a single parent family that earnt less a year than the fees cost. I had EMA funding in 6th form and we were on benefits. HOWEVER, I grew up in Sussex so my accent actually defies our class assumptions, so I still walk in to an audition room with a “posh” accent and it is assumed I come from a middle class upbringing where as my bestie Emily has a lanc accent with a gorgeous statistically pleasing family (who are also wonderfully kind and lovely and humble – I love them!) and yet with her accent she’s accustomed to going in for typically more working class roles.
So what’s not clear to me is that we should be classing working class actors in working class roles? Or is this purely a matter of accommodating people who cannot afford drama school (which I’m all for!). The debate has so many branches, how do we combat all of them respectfully.
Hear hear for writing this Rob! I’m so glad this sort of thing is being discussed!!
Lee Ravitz says:
I think it’s a good letter, making a solid point: I’ve no idea if it will generate any reply. Of course, I also think Mark Strong intended to raise awareness: raising awareness within the confines of an industry paper may not have much sway where it matters, however: it’s preaching to the converted . There is certainly a case to be made more generally that the industry might, indeed, be stronger as a whole if more vocal support for genuine change was raised at higher levels of the industry by e.g. dedicated members of Equity who have a platform and a heft that the ‘jobbing actors’ don’t.
The Equity initiative, ‘Professionally Paid, Professionally Made’, was recently very proud that they had messages of support offered by Julie Walters and David Morrissey. While I don’t think it costs them much to word a pledge, this could be a powerful tool in e.g. affecting court decisions over actor right to NMW. Even if these ‘names’ aren’t offering solutions themselves (and, in a sense, should they be expected to be?), having them give visible support to the need to find solutions that an organisation like Equity stands for does seem important to me.
Robert, I think that in your imagination Mark Strong has got a lot more influence than in reality. I can’t see that any production companies would allow him have altruistic Williamesque clauses inserted in his contract.
Sarah – This discussion has so many branches, and I tried to narrow it down purely to try and come up with actionable suggestions. I never want to just moan about things. While my suggestions are just a springboard to try and generate discussion, it’s clear that’s what they’re doing.
Your point on accents is great, for one, and for two, yes, I think it’s about having more equality of opportunity. I don’t want to be limited to working class roles – I can play high status characters just like I can play working class people – as did the great working class actors of the previous generation.
It’s more about allowing those from working class backgrounds like yourself, and the hundreds more, to get equal opportunities to work.
Whether it’s at the agent, casting, production or executive level, or a little bit from all, the industry is beginning to ignore a major resource. People like Mark Strong, Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Julie Walters, David Morrisey – all have proven that working class actors can be amazing investments for theatre, TV and film. The increasing apparent disequilibrium these days therefore doesn’t seem to make sound sense for anyone. Yet here we are.
Lee – I think Mark made his comments in an industry paper because it’s an industry matter. I also think he was definitely trying to raise awareness, but my question ultimately is will he put his money where his mouth is, so to speak? Someone who says ‘we must do something’ must do something, and anything will do. So what will he do? And can I get in on that?
Professionally Made, Professionally Paid is a great idea, in theory, and one that in an ideal world shouldn’t need campaigning about. National Minimum Wage is a legal requirement when you’re asking people to work. Simple as. That said, I’ve seen dissent from some around ‘attacking the skint fringe’, beggared for lack of funding, while major institutions attempt to employ performers way under the odds. There’re also concerns about normalising National Minimum Wage as opposed to Equity Minimum. I think their heart is in the right place, but it’s a different place to the one I’m addressing, which is at a much broader level of the well-established industry. Ultimately I chose to invest in those shows I did for low/no pay to gain experience and hone my skills. I could have sat at home. That said, if I could have been appropriately paid, I should have been.
Harry- I know the ‘Robin Williams Clause’ is fanciful at best, and not a practical solution. You’re right to point that out, but it addresses what I feel is a misconception. Too often it feels people decline to act thinking that taking a small action would just be ‘a drop in the bucket’ that doesn’t amount to real change. But it’s through those drops that we fill the bucket. There’s also an issue of scale there- what seems small to people at that level could be game-changing for people starting out.
YES ROB 😀
Claire Wyatt says:
Bravo Rob. Great letter. And can I also add how refreshing it is to see intelligent and reasoned comments and debates being posted below.
I too sound ‘posh’ cos I hail from the south but my career has suffered as I have no family connections to get me on the ladder and I simply couldn’t afford to work for free in the early years.
So, what can be done?
*Join Equity. Learn your rights, find a community and attend and improve your branch. The West and South West London branch have worked wonders by engaging with producers, directors and casting directors and showing them what a weath of talent is out there if they don’t just look to their usual places to cast.
* Challenge low pay and no pay when you see it. Sometimes there is a place for it, but mostly its a disrespectful race to the bottom. As Lee said, engage with the Professionally made, Professionally paid campaign.
*Challenge the Arts Council to encourage their funded bodies to do more to reflect and engage all aspects of society. For example, the National Theatre should be just that: a theatre of and for the nation. The stories they tell and the people who tell them (directors and performers) should reflect all aspects of society. At the moment the national can’t even make a good stab at gender and rece representation let alone income inequality.
*The BBC. As above. As a publicly funded body surely they should make the effort? Their right to charge the licence fee is up for renewal. Shall we all boycot paying them until they make more effort on equal representation and access?
There’s a few ideas to get the debate rolling!
My main point is about unionisation though. As a disperate group of freelancers we’ll never change anything. We need to band together and work for change. You make the difference! Join Equity.
Hi Claire,
Great, productive ideas!
I’ve been a member of Equity since, I think, 2008, and I have to say in that time I don’t think I’ve contributed anything to the union besides my membership fee. At the time, it was another way for me to try and appear legitimate in the face of a slight CV and as time went on, affordable Public Liability insurance. If it’s a matter of getting out what you’re putting in, I need to start putting in more, that’s for certain.
Moving away from your comments specifically, I’d like to clear up, with a few caveats, what I’m not saying with this letter:
1) Every audition should be an open audition. This couldn’t be further from the truth. However, let more agents see the brief, let more suitable candidates through the door, and ensure an adequate proportion of them have some kind of diversity when it comes to background. Even if you only have five spots when auditioning 20 for unknowns, take chances with those five spots. Maybe casting directors do this already- is there anyone out there who knows?
2) The acting business should be easy. Again, I’m not saying open the flood gates and let’s everybody be actors. The business is overcrowded and there’s a surplus of talent, for sure. This will always be the case, but that doesn’t mean we simply do nothing and accept the way things are. I understand that using economic statistics to devise proportional opportunities for the spread of the talent-base’s socio-economic background is a) going to be really boring and b) more than a bit silly. At the same time, more openness – with those holding key roles in the industry being viewed as facilitators rather than gatekeepers, can’t kill anyone.
Further to this, I don’t expect better equality of opportunity for working class actors to realistically result in me personally getting more work – though it would of course be nice. There are plenty of working class actors out there who would likely be cast ahead of me. Good for them if so.
3) Privilege means you don’t have to work hard. I don’t begrudge anyone their success. That success, I am certain, has come without it being at the expense of others’ success. There’s no conspiracy, and hard work is not some exclusive preserve of the working class, to be used as a badge of honour in the face of those who do bigger, better work. There’s simply a gap in the market opening up right now, and that may be due to a culture in the industry that no-one designed, but came into being. That gap now is big enough and has plenty of people to fill it, so I view this genuinely as more of an opportunity for the arts and entertainment industries to exploit for their advantage than a purely moral, soapboxing crusade.
4) This is how it is. This is the one I understand most people will assume to be what I’m saying. However, we are primarily dealing in perception here. I’ve shared one story, it’s my own, and that’s a narrow field of view. I haven’t done the research across the board. The fact it has resonated with many simply suggests I’m not alone. All the voices talking about it may be doing so because the gap between rich and poor is increasing in broader society so it’s an easy way for actors to hop an a hot-button issue that’s safe- no one but the fringes would criticise someone for being pro-equality, after all. But if titans of the acting business form what can be seen as a consensus on the issue, I have to assume they know what they’re talking about.
Finally, to close off this big bloom of ideas, the message at the heart of this letter is one of integrity. If the above is true, and these are just easy comments to make without fear of repercussions, with no intention of doing anything to change it, then that’s unacceptable. Any action (as distinct from speech) that is a positive action is to be commended. If you can take action and you don’t, I feel that should be challenged. If you say we must take action and you don’t, that then looks suspicious. If you’ve taken action and we don’t know, tell us. It’s not bragging.
I have faith in Mark Strong – I’m a fan of everything I’ve seen him do, and he was right to say what he said. But back it with action. Throw away such comments, and it undermines the very point being made. I understand this puts an onus on me to do what I can, too, and I think that starts with communicating with Equity on this. So thank you Claire for a sense of direction.
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Unamuno and Kierkegaard
Paths to Selfhood in Fiction
Jan E. Evans
Miguel de Unamuno was profoundly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works at a time when Kierkegaard was virtually unknown in Southern Europe. This book explores the scope and character of that influence, clarifies misconceptions in the relationship between the authors, and offers an original, Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno's best known novels: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Abel Sánchez. Both authors hold a "self as achievement" view in which the authentic self is seen as the result of the choices one makes over a lifetime. For Kierkegaard, the spheres of existence-the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious-are "stages on life's way" to becoming an authentic self before God. Unamuno, however, holds that the same spheres of existence offer equally valid modes of authentic existence as long as one chooses them freely and passionately. This book will be of great interest to scholars of existentialism, Unamuno, and Kierkegaard. « less more »
Pages: 136 Trim: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4
978-0-7391-1079-9 • Hardback • June 2005 • $92.00 • (£65.00)
Subjects: Literary Criticism / General, Philosophy / General, Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism
Jan E. Evans is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Division of Spanish and Portuguese, at Baylor University.
Chapter 2 The Importance of Indirect Communication
Chapter 3 The Formation of the Self in Kierkegaard and Unamuno
Chapter 4 Niebla: A Study in Kierkegaard's Esthetic Stage
Chapter 5 San Manuel Bueno, Mártit: A Study in the Ethical Life
Chapter 6 Abel Sánchez: A Study in the Possibilities for Religious Existence
Supported by archival research on what works by Kierkegaard Unamuno actually read, Jan Evans is the first scholar to take seriously the distinction between Kierkegaard and his pseudonyms in exploring similarities and differences between these two authors on the theme of becoming a self. The result is a fresh and more discerning look at three of Unamuno's most popular novels utilizing Kierkegaard's theory of the stages of existence to show how the Spaniard portrays multiple forms of authentic existence.
— Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University
A fascinating read, Jan Evans' unusual expertise in both authors gives us original insight into the amazing affinities and fundamental divergence between them, as well as into the extent and limits of Unamuno's use of Kierkegaard. Readers at all levels of familiarity with these authors can benefit.
— M. J. Ferreira, University of Virginia
This is the first study of Unamuno and Kierkegaard that focuses attention on the latter's writerly heteronyms, a focus with immense implications for the study of Unamuno's narratives with multiple internal writers, that is, for practically all of his fictional work. The book also corrects many well-traveled misconceptions about what Unamuno read in Kierkegaard and clarifies how Unamuno's major thought diverges—often significantly—from that of the Dane with whom he has been compared.
— Thomas R. Franz, Ohio University
Miguel de Unamuno was profoundly influenced by Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works at a time when Kierkegaard was virtually unknown in Southern Europe. This book explores the scope and character of that influence, clarifies misconceptions in the relationship between the authors, and offers an original, Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno's best known novels: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno, mártir, and Abel Sánchez. Both authors hold a "self as achievement" view in which the authentic self is seen as the result of the choices one makes over a lifetime. For Kierkegaard, the spheres of existence-the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious-are "stages on life's way" to becoming an authentic self before God. Unamuno, however, holds that the same spheres of existence offer equally valid modes of authentic existence as long as one chooses them freely and passionately. This book will be of great interest to scholars of existentialism, Unamuno, and Kierkegaard.
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In a statement released today, the 27-year-old fan-favorite told the MLB Player's Association:
My positive test was the result of my use of a substance I should not have used. I accept my suspension under the Joint Drug Program and I will try to move on with my life. I am deeply sorry for my mistake and I apologize to my teammates, to the San Francisco Giants organization and to the fans for letting them down.
The Giants won't be commenting further on the matter, per MLB protocol. Given that there are only 45 games left in the regular season it looks like we won't be seeing Melky back on the field at AT&T Park without going deep in to the postseason. The contract discussions he was having with the team after the All-Star break are apparently on hold until the end of the season as well.
Meanwhile, local baseball scribe Grant Brisbee at McCovey Chronicles expertly summed up those fan frustrations, saying:
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Retain some control. If you upload photos of yourself, or friends/family with consent, it's worth going for the 'rights managed' licence option – otherwise you'll have little to no control over how your images are used (eg, you could star in an ad for haemorrhoid cream). See Alamy's page on understanding stock image licensing for more on the different types of licences.
7. Conduct webinars. "Use webinars to build your list and generate leads," says Nicole Skuba, a partner at marketing firm Blue Tree Digital. "Webcast experts say some webinars see a 70 percent rebound effect comprising those who viewed the live broadcast as well as new individuals," she says. "Webinars are also more interactive and keep the attention of leads or potential clients."
The other option is to offer white label SEO services to web design agencies. What this means is they handle the web development side of things, and you take care of the search engine optimization work. The perk of this approach is you never have to deal with their clients. Most SEO consultants start here because all the client-finding work is already done. That leaves them to do what they're best at – ranking sites in Google.
From an institutional perspective, it's worth noting that most universities don't break even on their tech transfer operations. Patent prosecution and skilled staff are expensive and difficult to justify solely on the basis of economic return. It can be very difficult to determine which technologies are worth pursuing at the early stage at which they are disclosed in a university environment (WAY before VCs make their decisions, with typically a 1 in 10 hit rate for big returns), but even so, many investments need to be made with low hit rates for a financially successful outcomes. Less than 1 percent of university inventions generate more than $100k in licensing revenues (per analysis done at Stanford).
If you're at all scarcity-minded, it's important to understand how much abundance exists today. Considering that virtually every brick-and-mortar store has made the transition to an online business, there's certainly no shortage of competition. But there's also plenty of so-called blue ocean. While most might make it out to seem like Amazon is the only company reaping the benefits of the ecommerce boom here, the growth is widespread and across every single sector in business.
If you're at all scarcity-minded, it's important to understand how much abundance exists today. Considering that virtually every brick-and-mortar store has made the transition to an online business, there's certainly no shortage of competition. But there's also plenty of so-called blue ocean. While most might make it out to seem like Amazon is the only company reaping the benefits of the ecommerce boom here, the growth is widespread and across every single sector in business.
The quote above comes from a Tech in Asia article titled Twitter Story and Tips from @AskAaronLee. In the article, Aaron states that monitoring both your own brand and competitors online could provide insight on how to position your product in the future. He also says that businesses should never try to sell on Twitter, instead, they should focus on engaging and assisting their followers with relevant problems.
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My First Halloween
I remember so well the first time I ever went trick-or-treating. It was 1962 and I was five years old. My parents made my older brother schlep me around with him and his friends. (Boy, I bet he was thrilled, LOL!)
My costume consisted of a small plastic pointy clown hat secured under my chin with an elastic band and two large red dots of lipstick on my cheeks for clown makeup. Oh, and my winter parka and boots, of course. It's cold in Manitoba on October 31st.
My brother taught me how to go up to each door, hold out my bag and say "trick or treat!" I couldn't believe that people would just give us candy -- how great was that! In those days, most people handed out suckers, apples, peanuts in the shell or those godawful molasses Halloween Kisses in the orange and black wrappers. But if you scored big, you might get a homemade caramel popcorn ball!
It was soooo scary to be outside after dark! Dry leaves were blowing around in circles on the sidewalks, making an eerie rustling noise. Small groups of masked children ran from house to house, sometimes in pools of light, sometimes in darkness. Disembodied voices and giggles were heard on the wind. The occasional jack-o-lantern flickered and glowed in the night. What a thrilling experience it was!
The scariest thing for me now is realizing that those memories date from 50 years ago. Where oh where have all those years gone?
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Labels: Down Memory Lane, Halloween Samhain
Lahaina Keiki Halloween Parade
Last year on Halloween, My Rare One and I were in the town of Lahaina on the west coast of Maui. Every October 31st, Lahaina throws a huge Halloween party. The town's main drag, Front Street, is closed to traffic and opened to costumed revellers. Once school is out at 4:00 p.m., the Keiki (Kids) Halloween Parade begins. Here are some of my photos -- I hope you enjoy them!
What's a parade without a marching band? Nice banana, dude, but those drummers are a real Scream!
Here's the whole M & M family -- yum!
What a cute little blue fairy! But what the hell is her Mom wearing on her feet?
Who you gonna call? Jeez, the entire cast of Ghostbusters showed up.
Remember these two crazy aliens from Sesame Street? A ringing telephone would terrify them, if I recall correctly.
Some local witches and a small Count Dracula . . .
. . . and several bees with their beekeepers following close behind.
At night, Front Street turns into one huge adult street party. Lahaina swells to about 20-30,000 people for that big costume bash. But the Keiki Parade wore us out so we didn't stay longer, but drove back to our condo in Kihei instead. Gettin' old, eh?
[All photos by Debra She Who Seeks]
Labels: Halloween Samhain, Travel
Witchy Brooms
I have a real thing for witchy brooms and I'm always on the lookout for them when traveling. I saw these lovely brooms a few years ago when we were in Italy. They were lying about in Monterosso, one of the picturesque Cinque Terre villages on the Italian Riviera.
I'm convinced these brooms belonged to a local strega (witch) who was stockpiling them for a midnight ride with her sisters.
I saw some great witchy brooms this spring in Japan too. These beauties were spotted at the Asakusa Sensoji Temple in Tokyo. Perhaps a local witch was moonlighting as a groundskeeper?
And I found these in mountainous Takayama, tucked away behind historic government buildings dating from the Tokugawa Shogunate (Edo era). As you can see from the snow in this photo, local witches really needed those plastic snow shovels too!
Celebrating Hekate
Ancient crone of wisdom,
Hekate! Hekate!
Old One, come to us!
Since Samhain is in October, what better time is there to celebrate Hekate, the Queen of the Witches? The Greek goddess Hekate is so ancient that She existed long before the Olympian deities. Crone goddess of the crossroads, Hekate led the abducted maiden goddess Persephone back from the Underworld by torchlight to the waiting arms of the mother goddess Demeter. In the subsequent Christian era, Hekate's name was linked with magic and the occult. She then became characterized as the Queen of the Witches.
To honour Hekate at our October Drumming Circle, we wore our finest witches hats while drumming and singing. Here's some of the women showing off their various styles of pointy chapeaux! And see the little statue of Hekate sitting on a small djembe drum, peeking out of the middle of the Circle?
Many of the participants at that evening's Circle consented to pose for a photo especially for my blog. Thanks, all you wild and wonderful women! It was a fun gathering!
[The photo of Hekate comes from Sacred Source website, where I purchased my statue several years ago.]
Labels: All Things Goddess, Drumming
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Dead and Moaning in Las Vegas
What would Halloween be without zombies? NUTTIN, that's what. So how can you up your zombie quotient at this all-important time of year? SIMPLE! Read this fabulous new e-book written by Brandon Meyers and Bryan Pedas, those two crazy bastards behind the blog A Beer for the Shower.
Take one zombie army, throw in Las Vegas, gambling, an Elvis impersonator, a drunk janitor, Walmart, non-stop action with MAJOR laughs and you've got Dead and Moaning in Las Vegas. And best of all? This Kindle e-book is a mere $2.99 at Amazon.com -- click here to go right to the page.
And as Brandon and Bryan always say: "Cheers and stay classy, friends."
Labels: Reading
Halloween Goes to the Dogs
My cat doesn't usually let me post things about dogs. Her Royal Highness is kinda jealous and controlling that way. So I'd better take advantage of HRH's continued temporary absence from Canada to post some adorable doggy Halloween costumes while I still can . . . .
Isn't this one of the BEST costumes EVER? (And may I just add, Arrr!)
Look at this adorable MUTT-tini! Must be James Bond's dog. Shaken but not stirred.
And how about this scary ghost, LOL!
Hey, how did this photo get in here?
Labels: Halloween Samhain
HRH Has Been Sprung!
This morning I received wonderful news from my cat, Her Royal Highness. HRH's days in a Russian jail cell are finally over! But here, I'll let you read the email for yourself --
Hello human! Pussy Riot's appeal was heard a couple of weeks ago and guess what? The court released one Pussy Riot girl AND ME!!! However, the other two Pussy Riot girls must continue to serve their full two-year jail sentences. I feel bad for them, but woo hoo! I'm outta here! I have to work off a bit of parole time but that shouldn't take too long, hopefully.
Remember my old pal, Mr. Whiskervitch?
He's been SO helpful. I need a job while I'm on parole so he pulled a few strings and got one for me, the sweetie. The only downside is that the job is in Saint Petersburg rather than here in Moscow. Mr Whiskervitch arranged for his boss to take me along on one of his trips to Saint P so now I am here in that city. For obvious reasons, we had to travel incognito because his boss can't afford to be seen with a Pussy Riot compatriot. That's why I'm wearing a disguise in this photo.
And yes, Putin travels EVERYWHERE without his shirt on to prove how macho he is. MEN!
I'll write again once I've started my new job. Until then -- love, hugz and purrz from your LIBERATED kitty!
Labels: HRH's Adventures
Oh Godzilla, You So Silly!
Don't you just love Godzilla (or Gojira as he's called in Japan)? Sure, Godzilla is radioactive and has atomic laser breath, but isn't that true of everyone once in a while? And who hasn't occasionally stomped on a few cities while in a bad mood? Jeez, cut a poor monster some slack, willya?
Labels: General Craziness
Queenston Heights' Second Memorial
In distinct and pointed contrast to the Imperial British grandiosity of Brock's Monument, First Nations people have erected their own Memorial right at its base to honour their warriors of the Battle of Queenston Heights. After all, Brock died early on in the battle but they were there right to the bitter end, equally helping to save Upper Canada from American takeover.
The First Nations Memorial is made of wooden branches bound together with strips of red cloth to form a kind of tripod. A willow wreath rests at its centre in a manner reminiscent of Remembrance Day memorials. Laminated pictures of native leaders from the War of 1812 are displayed along with statements explaining the Memorial's significance.
I felt more moved by the First Nations Memorial than by Brock's Monument, actually, because "fair is fair," eh? Everyone's contribution to the history of Canada needs to be acknowledged, honoured and respected.
So, patient blog readers, this concludes my very long series of posts about the Battle of Queenston Heights. My War of 1812 series will resume in about six months time.
[All photos from the internet]
Labels: War of 1812
Memorializing Brock, Part 2
Later in the mid-1800s, the battlefield of Queenston Heights was transformed into a beautiful park and a huge stone monument was erected to honour Major-General Sir Isaac Brock. In fact, he is actually buried beneath it. A few years ago when My Rare One and I were in Ontario to visit Niagara Falls, we took a little detour and went to Queenston Heights to see Brock's Monument as well.
In typical 19th century style, Brock's Monument is intimidating in size, phallic in nature, rather grandiose and oh so very British. It reminded me a lot of Nelson's Column in London's Trafalgar Square. It is definitely worth seeing. I think every Canadian should visit Queenston Heights and Brock's Monument at least once, if possible. It is such an important site in Canadian history.
But we discovered that there is also another important Memorial on Queenston Heights!
Tomorrow: Queenston Heights' Second Memorial
Sir Isaac Brock's death while defending Upper Canada from invasion guaranteed him major hero status in Canadian history. Brock's military tunic and other artifacts from the Battle of Queenston Heights are on permanent display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. See the bullet hole right underneath the black lapel? That's where the fatal musket ball got him.
The city of Brockville in Eastern Ontario is named for him, as is Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, the largest city on the Niagara peninsula. There's a township in Ontario and a village in Saskatchewan which also bear his name, as do numerous schools across Canada.
When I was a kid, I learned to sing a Canadian folk song celebrating the Battle of Queenston Heights. Its romanticized lyrics were written in the 1800s but the melody was composed in the 1960s by Canadian folklorist Alan Mills. Here's the first verse:
Upon the heights of Queenston one dark October day,
Invading foes were marshalled in battle's dread array.
Brave Brock looked up the rugged steep and planned a bold attack;
"No foreign flag shall fly," said he, "above the Union Jack."
You can hear the melody in an excerpt of Alan Mills singing the second verse by going here, scrolling down to #19 and clicking on the little play button.
Tomorrow: Memorializing Brock, Part 2
The Battle of Queenston Heights
Two hundred years ago today on October 13, 1812, American forces invaded Canada at the tiny village of Queenston in Upper Canada. The village consisted of 20 houses, surrounding farms and a military barracks.
Under cover of darkness at 4:00 a.m., some of the many American troops led by Major-General Stephen Van Rensselaer were ferried in boats across the Niagara River to the Canadian side. Navigating through direct cannon fire from the British soldiers stationed at the barracks, the Americans landed and started to scale the Niagara escarpment in order to take the high ground of Queenston Heights.
But Van Rensselaer was unable to get the bulk of his invasion force across the river. Partly it was because of the heavy artillery fire. But mostly it was because his troops were undertrained and inexperienced militia who were reluctant to go into battle.
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock arrived at dawn with more British troops and the York Volunteers militia units. They proceeded to charge up the steep escarpment under American fire. On the way up, Brock was shot first in the wrist and then in the chest. He died almost instantly.
The battle nevertheless went on, of course. More British reinforcements arrived by noon, as did 300 Mohawk warriors, and they all fought their way up the escarpment. The fierce Indian war cries were yet another reason why the rest of the militiamen on the U.S. side of the river continued their refusal to cross.
Even so, the battle was actually going quite well for the Americans until about 4:00 p.m. That's when Brock's second-in-command, Major-General Roger Hale Sheaffe, arrived on Queenston Heights by a circuitous overland route, having detoured fresh British troops and more Mohawk warriors so as to arrive behind the American line.
And that made it pretty much game over. The American troops scattered but, with nowhere to go, had to surrender at the very edge of the precipice.
Upper Canada was saved, huzzah!
Monday: Memorializing Brock, Part 1
--First painting by James B. Dennis, 1866
--Second painting by John David Kelly, 1896
What Was the Upper Canada Militia?
Apart from Brock's trained British soldiers and Tecumseh's native warriors, Upper Canada was also defended by local militia units. These volunteer units were composed of men from 16 to 60 who were local farmers, tradespeople and merchants.
. . . [T]hese citizen soldiers were drilled about three days in a month. They were called up when needed, placed away from the centre of the line, on the flanks (when the line existed at all), and, after an engagement, sent back to their homes and farms until needed once more. *
Although the militia was certainly not intended to be, nor was used as, the first line of defence, a kind of "militia myth" soon developed that the militia was the real saviour of Upper Canada. The British actively encouraged this myth because it was good propaganda, promoted British values over American ones and fostered enthusiasm and loyalty among the citizenry of Upper Canada. After all, the vast majority of the populace were United Empire Loyalists born south of the border, now being expected to fight against former American countrymen. **
The most famous militia units were the York Volunteers who fought with Brock and Tecumseh at the Siege of Detroit and at the Battle of Queenston Heights. York (now Toronto) was the capital of Upper Canada.
Tomorrow: The Battle of Queenston Heights
* Pierre Berton, The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813, p. 22.
** Steven D. Bennett, "The Militia Myth in the War of 1812" found here.
--the photo of contemporary Upper Canada Militia re-enactors comes from the internet.
Who Was Tecumseh?
Tecumseh was a brilliant Shawnee chief, politician and warrior. The Shawnee, like other tribes, were driven off their traditional territory in what is now Ohio by the American military who brutally cleared the way for advancing American settlement. From childhood onwards, Tecumseh steadily engaged in warfare, violence and conflict with the United States.
Tecumseh spent his life trying to forge an Indian Confederacy strong enough to withstand white takeover of continental America. But the tribes were in crisis and in flux, traumatized and divided, inclined to fight among themselves rather than to unite against the larger enemy. Tecumseh did not succeed in creating a unified Confederacy. But he did lead a significant alliance of warriors drawn from various tribes. In the War of 1812, Tecumseh led his warriors north of the Great Lakes and teamed up with the British, who made big (but ultimately empty) promises of granting territory for an independent aboriginal nation.
Tomorrow: What Was the Upper Canada Militia?
Who Was Sir Isaac Brock?
Major-General Sir Isaac Brock commanded all the British troops in Upper Canada (now Ontario) and was Lieutenant-Governor of the province as well. A well-educated and cultivated 42-year-old Englishman, he chafed at his assignment to such a colonial backwater. But he was trained to put Duty above all else and so he did his job well in Canada. He had no use for American democracy and republicanism -- those concepts were "as treasonous in his lexicon as communism will be to a later generation of military authoritarians." *
Brock diligently and meticulously prepared for war and the expected invasion by American troops. He had the great foresight to align his forces with the aboriginal warriors of Tecumseh the Shawnee chief. That turned out to be the smartest and most crucial defensive manoeuvre of the entire war.
By July of 1812, the Americans had already tried to invade Canada at the town of Sandwich (now Windsor) but were successfully repelled. In August, Brock and Tecumseh joined forces and captured Detroit from the Americans. Actually, it was an easy victory because U.S. General William Hull was so terrified of Indians that he went completely to pieces and surrendered Detroit without a fight. Hull was later court-martialed for cowardice but was spared the death penalty because of his previous exemplary service in the Revolutionary War.
Tomorrow: Who Was Tecumseh?
--Posthumous portrait of Brock by George T. Berthon, c. 1883.
War of 1812: The Invasion of Canada
When President James Madison and Congress declared war on Great Britain in June of 1812, the Americans quite confidently assumed that it would be a very easy matter indeed to invade and conquer the British colony of Canada. As former President Thomas Jefferson wrote that summer:
The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next, and the final expulsion of England from the American continent.
The American government not only thought that the Canadian colony would be poorly defended by the British, but it also made the mistake of thinking that the people of Upper and Lower Canada would welcome the Americans as liberators and so would not put up much resistance.
Wrong on both counts, as it turned out.
Tomorrow: Who Was Sir Isaac Brock?
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
May the blessings and abundance of this season be available to all! Enjoy your turkey, tofurkey or whatever you're having for a Thanksgiving meal. And on this day above all others, remember -- "gratitude is the attitude!"
Labels: Thanksgiving
EPLC Fellowship Labyrinth
Last month I attended Edmonton's Pagan Pride Day which was held this year in Gazebo Park in Old Strathcona (for those of you who know the city). Whenever there's an outdoor pagan get-together, the Edmonton Pagan Learning Circle Fellowship hosts a temporary labyrinth for people to walk. The labyrinths are created by EPLC Fellowship leader, Kaldra.
If the venue is paved, Kaldra will draw the labyrinth using chalk. If the venue is grass, she uses spikes and brightly coloured nylon rope to form the labyrinth walls. Sometimes her labyrinths are round, sometimes square, depending on the type of space available. This year's labyrinth was a crazy quilt / spiders web kind of a path. I absolutely loved it and thought it was Kaldra's best creation yet!
An existing stone pillar on the lawn formed the labyrinth's centre. That's a smudge bowl with a basket of incense and other smudging material at the base of it.
The labyrinth was well used during the festivities -- you can see how the park's grass has been trampled down on the unicursal path!
Like the sacred life journey it represents, an EPLC Fellowship labyrinth exists only for a short while and then is gone again, reappearing when needed in a new form.
Blessed be, everyone!
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Fall Flag Football
Come grab some flags on the field and beverages in the bar
Sundays: September 8th to October 27th
Games will be played between 10:00am and 12:45pm
Specific team schedules will be sent out after registration closes
Caulkins Field
Crescent St
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Teams consist of a minimum of 10 players and you can sign up as a team, on your own, or with a small group of friends
Click here for Flag Football Rules
Each team plays at least 8 games during the season
Includes: T-shirt, a minimum of 8 games during the season, weekly bar specials, season opening and ending party.
Early Registration (by August 12th): $55 per person
Regular Registration (by August 27th): $65 per person
Late Registration (by August 29th): $70 per person
Each team makes the playoffs
The tournament winner receives a prize from the host bar
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Köln Messe/Deutz
Köln / Cologne / Koeln, (Germany)
The part of Messe/Deutz station used by the ICE trains, those heading south depart from gleis 11
Journeys from Köln / Cologne / Koeln
Köln Messe/Deutz is the secondary station in Köln/Cologne, it’s located away from the heart of the city.
It is on the opposite bank of the River Rhine to the city’s main station, Köln Hauptbahnhof.
Though Messe/Deutz lives up to its name as it located adjacent to Köln Messe, the city’s trade exhibition halls – the Laxness Arena is also close by.
All of the local S-Bahn trains that serve the city call at Köln Messe/Deutz, along with most of the Regio train services to and from Köln/Cologne.
Some ICE trains from and to Köln/Cologne call at Messe/Deutz station and NOT at Köln Hauptbahnhof/Köln Hauptbahnhof.
ICE trains trains travelling between the cities to the north of Köln (such as Dusseldorf and Essen) and the Seigburg/Bonn to Frankfurt high speed line, have to divert off of the direct route in order to call at Köln Hauptbahnhof.
So some ICE trains call instead at Koln Messe-Deutz.
These include the trains on this popular ICE route:
Essen – Duisburg – Dusseldorf - Köln Messe/Deutz – Frankfurt Flughafgen/Airport – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Wurzburg – Nurnberg – Munchen/Munich.
Due to this routing if you’ll be travelling from Köln/Cologne to Wurzburg and Nurnberg, then by far the most frequent and fastest trains to these cities depart from Messe/Deutz and not, Köln Hauptbahnhof.
Also if you want to travel from Köln/Cologne to Munchen/Munich by ICE trains in even hours, you’ll need to take trains from Messe/Deutz, the ICE trains to Munchen/Munich from Köln Hauptbahnhof only depart every other hour – odd hours.
The service of ICE trains between Köln/Cologne and both Frankfurt Flughafgen and Frankfurt (Main) Hbf is also split between trains departing from/arriving at Messe/Deutz and Köln Hauptbahnhof.
In some hours during the day, if you want to travel from Köln/Cologne to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, there will only be a train from Köln Messe/Deutz station.
A new development is that some ICE trains from Koln to Stuttgart also depart from Koln-Messe/Deutz.
Also at weekends trains can be diverted from Köln Hauptbahnhof to call at Köln Messe/Deutz.
If you can’t find the train you were expecting to take on the departure screens at Köln Hauptbahnhof, it’s worth checking to see whether it will instead be leaving from Messe/Deutz
Accessing Köln Messe/Deutz station:
(1) By S-Bahn local train:
If you will be commencing your journey in the area around Köln Hauptbahnhof/Hbf, or will be making a connection from a train arriving at Köln Hbf, then the easiest means of accessing Köln Messe/Deutz is to make the one station hop on a S-Bahn train.
You shouldn’t have to wait more than 10 mins at Köln Hbf for a train – take any train from gleis (platform/track) 10.
On arrival at Köln Messe/Deutz the access down to the gleis (platforms/tracks) which the ICE trains will depart from is at the rear of the train - you will have to use the stairs, there is no elevator access down to this part of the station
(1) By U-bahn:
U-Bahn lines 1, 3, 4 and 9 call at Köln Messe/Deutz - all four lines connect the area of the city centre south of Köln Hbf to Messe/Deutz.
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Edward Binns (1916–1990)
Gravel-voiced, authoritative American character actor, a reliable presence on screen for more than four decades.
Edward Thomas Binns was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Esther (Bracken) and ... read full biography
Known for 12 Angry Men (1957), The Verdict (1982), North by Northwest (1959), Patton (1970)
Sep 12, 1916 (died Dec 4, 1990) | 6' 0" (1.83m)
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
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Hawaii Five-O (1973)
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Jury of One (Mar 13, 1973) Season 5, Episode 24 - Mills Mills See fewer
(TV Movie) - Owen Larkdale Owen Larkdale See fewer
Fireball Forward (1972)
(TV Movie) - Corps Commander Corps Commander See fewer
The Sheriff (1971)
(TV Movie) - Paulsen Paulsen See fewer
Ironside (1971)
(TV Series) - Charlie Culver (1 episode, 1971) Charlie Culver (1 episode, 1971) See fewer
Accident (Mar 11, 1971) Season 4, Episode 23 - Charlie Culver Charlie Culver See fewer
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1971)
(TV Series) - Jim Lynch (1 episode, 1971) Jim Lynch (1 episode, 1971) See fewer
An Absence of Loneliness (Jan 24, 1971) Season 2, Episode 7 - Jim Lynch Jim Lynch See fewer
The Name of the Game (1970)
(TV Series) - Dan Borden (1 episode, 1970) Dan Borden (1 episode, 1970) See fewer
The Glory Shouter (Dec 18, 1970) Season 3, Episode 14 - Dan Borden Dan Borden See fewer
The Bold Ones: The Senator (1970)
(TV Series) - Arthur Beresford (2 episodes, 1970) Arthur Beresford (2 episodes, 1970) See fewer
A Continual Roar of Musketry: Part 2 (Nov 29, 1970) Season 1, Episode 5 - Arthur Beresford Arthur Beresford See fewer
(TV Series) - Dr. Benjamin Kinkaid / Pa McRae / Mike McCormick / Colonel John Briscoe (4 episodes, 1964) Dr. Benjamin Kinkaid / Pa McRae / Mike McCormick / Colonel John Briscoe (4 episodes, 1964) See fewer
The Price of the Hanging (Nov 11, 1970) Season 9, Episode 9 - Dr. Benjamin Kinkaid Dr. Benjamin Kinkaid See fewer
It Takes a Thief (1969–1970)
(TV Series) - Wally Powers (10 episodes, 1969) Wally Powers (10 episodes, 1969) See fewer
Project "X" (Mar 23, 1970) Season 3, Episode 24 - Wally Powers Wally Powers See fewer
NBC Experiment in Television (1969–1970)
This Is Al Capp (Mar 1, 1970) Season 4, Episode 2 - Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer
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(TV Series) - Barney Simms / Bill Hollis (2 episodes, 1968) Barney Simms / Bill Hollis (2 episodes, 1968) See fewer
The Dealer (Feb 22, 1970) Season 5, Episode 24 - Barney Simms Barney Simms See fewer
The Tunnel (Apr 21, 1968) Season 3, Episode 26 - Bill Hollis Bill Hollis See fewer
Bonanza (1970)
(TV Series) - John Flint (1 episode, 1970) John Flint (1 episode, 1970) See fewer
It's a Small World (Jan 4, 1970) Season 11, Episode 14 - John Flint John Flint See fewer
Judd for the Defense (1969)
(TV Series) - Ambrose Liston (2 episodes, 1969) Ambrose Liston (2 episodes, 1969) See fewer
The Holy Ground: The Killers - Part 2 (Feb 21, 1969) Season 2, Episode 20 - Ambrose Liston (as Ed Binns) Ambrose Liston (as Ed Binns) See fewer
The Holy Ground: The Killing - Part 1 (Feb 14, 1969) Season 2, Episode 19 - Ambrose Liston (as Ed Binns) Ambrose Liston (as Ed Binns) See fewer
The Wild Wild West (1969)
(TV Series) - Colonel Roper (1 episode, 1969) Colonel Roper (1 episode, 1969) See fewer
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Insight (1967–1968)
(TV Series) - Lou (3 episodes, 1967) Lou (3 episodes, 1967) See fewer
Confrontation (Sep 1, 1968) Actor Actor See fewer
Coronet Blue (1967)
(TV Series) - Lyle Sailer (1 episode, 1967) Lyle Sailer (1 episode, 1967) See fewer
The Assassins (Jun 12, 1967) Season 1, Episode 2 - Lyle Sailer Lyle Sailer See fewer
(TV Series) - Pedro (2 episodes, 1967) Pedro (2 episodes, 1967) See fewer
The Perils of Charity Jones: Part 2 (Mar 17, 1967) Season 1, Episode 27 - Pedro Pedro See fewer
The Perils of Charity Jones: Part 1 (Mar 10, 1967) Season 1, Episode 26 - Pedro (as Ed Binns) Pedro (as Ed Binns) See fewer
Laredo (1967)
(TV Series) - Sgt. Llewellyn Durgom (1 episode, 1967) Sgt. Llewellyn Durgom (1 episode, 1967) See fewer
The Small Chance Ghost (Mar 3, 1967) Season 2, Episode 22 - Sgt. Llewellyn Durgom Sgt. Llewellyn Durgom See fewer
Captain Nice (1967)
(TV Series) - Al Spencer (1 episode, 1967) Al Spencer (1 episode, 1967) See fewer
That Was the Bridge That Was (Feb 6, 1967) Season 1, Episode 4 - Al Spencer Al Spencer See fewer
Run for Your Life (1967)
(TV Series) - Colonel Delaney (1 episode, 1967) Colonel Delaney (1 episode, 1967) See fewer
A Rage for Justice: Part 2 (Jan 16, 1967) Season 2, Episode 17 - Colonel Delaney Colonel Delaney See fewer
Hawk (1966)
(TV Series) - Roger Zollner (1 episode, 1966) Roger Zollner (1 episode, 1966) See fewer
The Man Who Owned Everyone (Oct 20, 1966) Season 1, Episode 7 - Roger Zollner Roger Zollner See fewer
Dr. Kildare (1961–1966)
(TV Series) - Peter De Gravio / Ben Laney (5 episodes, 1961) Peter De Gravio / Ben Laney (5 episodes, 1961) See fewer
Strange Sort of Accident (Mar 29, 1966) Season 5, Episode 56 - Peter De Gravio Peter De Gravio See fewer
The Loner (1966)
(TV Series) - Manet (1 episode, 1966) Manet (1 episode, 1966) See fewer
The Trial in Paradise (Jan 22, 1966) Season 1, Episode 19 - Manet Manet See fewer
Blue Light (1966)
(TV Series) - Major Traynor (1 episode, 1966) Major Traynor (1 episode, 1966) See fewer
Target, David March (Jan 19, 1966) Season 1, Episode 2 - Major Traynor Major Traynor See fewer
Seaway (1965)
(TV Series) - Castle (1 episode, 1965) Castle (1 episode, 1965) See fewer
A Medal for Mirko (Dec 1965) Season 1, Episode 12 - Castle Castle See fewer
The Fugitive (1963–1965)
(TV Series) - George Savano / Josh Kovaks / Angstrom (3 episodes, 1963) George Savano / Josh Kovaks / Angstrom (3 episodes, 1963) See fewer
Set Fire to a Straw Man (Nov 30, 1965) Season 3, Episode 11 - George Savano George Savano See fewer
A Man Called Shenandoah (1965)
(TV Series) - Major Morrison (1 episode, 1965) Major Morrison (1 episode, 1965) See fewer
The Fort (Sep 27, 1965) Season 1, Episode 3 - Major Morrison Major Morrison See fewer
Daniel Boone (1965)
(TV Series) - Seth Jennings (1 episode, 1965) Seth Jennings (1 episode, 1965) See fewer
Doll of Sorrow (Apr 22, 1965) Season 1, Episode 28 - Seth Jennings Seth Jennings See fewer
Karen (1965)
(TV Series) - Mark (1 episode, 1965) Mark (1 episode, 1965) See fewer
Good Neighbor Policy (Jan 11, 1965) Season 1, Episode 13 - Mark Mark See fewer
12 O'Clock High (1964)
(TV Series) - Clifford Moran (1 episode, 1964) Clifford Moran (1 episode, 1964) See fewer
The Suspected (Dec 18, 1964) Season 1, Episode 13 - Clifford Moran Clifford Moran See fewer
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
(TV Series) - Walter Bryce (1 episode, 1964) Walter Bryce (1 episode, 1964) See fewer
The Ghost of Moby Dick (Dec 14, 1964) Season 1, Episode 14 - Walter Bryce Walter Bryce See fewer
Slattery's People (1964)
(TV Series) - Representative Paul Carlson (1 episode, 1964) Representative Paul Carlson (1 episode, 1964) See fewer
Question: Which One Has the Privilege? (Dec 7, 1964) Season 1, Episode 12 - Representative Paul Carlson (as Edwared Binns) Representative Paul Carlson (as Edwared Binns) See fewer
Brenner (1959–1964)
(TV Series) - Roy Brenner (19 episodes, 1959) Roy Brenner (19 episodes, 1959) See fewer
Charlie Paradise: The Tragic Flute (Jul 19, 1964) Season 2, Episode 10 - Roy Brenner Roy Brenner See fewer
Brother Lathrop (Jun 10, 1964) Season 1, Episode 12 - Actor Actor See fewer
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964)
(TV Series) - Captain Sloane (1 episode, 1964) Captain Sloane (1 episode, 1964) See fewer
The Command (May 22, 1964) Season 1, Episode 25 - Captain Sloane Captain Sloane See fewer
(TV Series) - Colonel Johnson (1 episode, 1964) Colonel Johnson (1 episode, 1964) See fewer
Rescue (Mar 31, 1964) Season 2, Episode 29 - Colonel Johnson Colonel Johnson See fewer
(TV Series) - Major Starbuck / Jud Steele / Sheriff Bill Strode (3 episodes, 1961) Major Starbuck / Jud Steele / Sheriff Bill Strode (3 episodes, 1961) See fewer
The Santiago Quesada Story (Mar 30, 1964) Season 7, Episode 28 - Major Starbuck Major Starbuck See fewer
The Defenders (1961–1964)
(TV Series) - District Attorney Wolf / Victor Fergusson (4 episodes, 1961) District Attorney Wolf / Victor Fergusson (4 episodes, 1961) See fewer
The Pill Man (Feb 22, 1964) Season 3, Episode 20 - District Attorney Wolf District Attorney Wolf See fewer
The Nurses (1963–1964)
(TV Series) - Dr. Anson Kiley / Dr. Anson Kelly (3 episodes, 1963) Dr. Anson Kiley / Dr. Anson Kelly (3 episodes, 1963) See fewer
The Intern Syndrome (Jan 23, 1964) Season 2, Episode 18 - Dr. Anson Kiley Dr. Anson Kiley See fewer
The Twilight Zone (1960–1964)
(TV Series) - General Walters / Col. Bob Donlin (2 episodes, 1960) General Walters / Col. Bob Donlin (2 episodes, 1960) See fewer
The Long Morrow (Jan 10, 1964) Season 5, Episode 15 - General Walters General Walters See fewer
I Shot an Arrow into the Air (Jan 15, 1960) Season 1, Episode 15 - Col. Bob Donlin Col. Bob Donlin See fewer
The Littlest Hobo (1963)
(TV Series) - Lt. Kimball (1 episode, 1963) Lt. Kimball (1 episode, 1963) See fewer
Stakeout (Jan 23, 1965) Season 1, Episode 9 - Lt. Kimball Lt. Kimball See fewer
Death Valley Days (1963)
(TV Series) - James Hawley (1 episode, 1963) James Hawley (1 episode, 1963) See fewer
Diamond Field Jack (Oct 1, 1963) Season 12, Episode 4 - James Hawley James Hawley See fewer
(TV Series) - Dr. Samuels / Steve Ballard (2 episodes, 1963) Dr. Samuels / Steve Ballard (2 episodes, 1963) See fewer
A Taste for Pineapple (May 21, 1963) Season 4, Episode 30 - Dr. Samuels Dr. Samuels See fewer
Junk Man (Feb 26, 1963) Season 4, Episode 20 - Steve Ballard Steve Ballard See fewer
The Dick Powell Show (1963)
(TV Series) - Deke Barron / Matthew Connors (2 episodes, 1963) Deke Barron / Matthew Connors (2 episodes, 1963) See fewer
The Old Man and the City (Apr 23, 1963) Season 2, Episode 29 - Deke Barron Deke Barron See fewer
The Judge (Feb 5, 1963) Season 2, Episode 19 - Matthew Connors Matthew Connors See fewer
Route 66 (1960–1963)
(TV Series) - Donald McTaggart / Fred Durant (2 episodes, 1960) Donald McTaggart / Fred Durant (2 episodes, 1960) See fewer
The Cruelest Sea of All (Apr 5, 1963) Season 3, Episode 25 - Donald McTaggart Donald McTaggart See fewer
The Beryllium Eater (Dec 9, 1960) Season 1, Episode 10 - Fred Durant Fred Durant See fewer
The Dakotas (1963)
(TV Series) - Arlie Gibbs (1 episode, 1963) Arlie Gibbs (1 episode, 1963) See fewer
Return to Dryrock (Jan 7, 1963) Season 1, Episode 1 - Arlie Gibbs Arlie Gibbs See fewer
Saints and Sinners (1962)
(TV Series) - George Hawley (1 episode, 1962) George Hawley (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
Luscious Lois (Nov 19, 1962) Season 1, Episode 9 - George Hawley George Hawley See fewer
Stoney Burke (1962)
(TV Series) - Joe Gullion (1 episode, 1962) Joe Gullion (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
Sidewinder (Nov 12, 1962) Season 1, Episode 7 - Joe Gullion Joe Gullion See fewer
The Law and Mr. Jones (1962)
(TV Series) - Rod Howell (1 episode, 1962) Rod Howell (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
Poor Eddie's Dead (Jul 12, 1962) Season 2, Episode 13 - Rod Howell Rod Howell See fewer
Checkmate (1962)
(TV Series) - Harl Stoner (1 episode, 1962) Harl Stoner (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
The Bold and the Tough (May 16, 1962) Season 2, Episode 31 - Harl Stoner Harl Stoner See fewer
Cain's Hundred (1962)
(TV Series) - Capt. Ernest Lemoyne (1 episode, 1962) Capt. Ernest Lemoyne (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
Quick Brown Fox (May 15, 1962) Season 1, Episode 30 - Capt. Ernest Lemoyne Capt. Ernest Lemoyne See fewer
General Electric Theater (1962)
(TV Series) - Harry Wilson (1 episode, 1962) Harry Wilson (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
A Very Special Girl (Mar 11, 1962) Season 10, Episode 24 - Harry Wilson Harry Wilson See fewer
The New Breed (1962)
(TV Series) - Crafts (1 episode, 1962) Crafts (1 episode, 1962) See fewer
The All-American Boy (Jan 2, 1962) Season 1, Episode 14 - Crafts (as Edwards Binns) Crafts (as Edwards Binns) See fewer
The Investigators (1961)
(TV Series) - Jim Corbin (1 episode, 1961) Jim Corbin (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
Style of Living (Nov 9, 1961) Season 1, Episode 6 - Jim Corbin Jim Corbin See fewer
Perry Mason (1961)
(TV Series) - Charles Griffin / Lloyd Castle (2 episodes, 1961) Charles Griffin / Lloyd Castle (2 episodes, 1961) See fewer
The Case of the Malicious Mariner (Oct 7, 1961) Season 5, Episode 4 - Charles Griffin Charles Griffin See fewer
The Case of the Angry Dead Man (Feb 25, 1961) Season 4, Episode 18 - Lloyd Castle Lloyd Castle See fewer
The Asphalt Jungle (1961)
(TV Series) - Sgt. George Costello (1 episode, 1961) Sgt. George Costello (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
The McMasters Story (May 14, 1961) Season 1, Episode 7 - Sgt. George Costello Sgt. George Costello See fewer
Stagecoach West (1961)
(TV Series) - Reverend Hallett (1 episode, 1961) Reverend Hallett (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
A Place of Still Waters (Apr 11, 1961) Season 1, Episode 27 - Reverend Hallett Reverend Hallett See fewer
Zane Grey Theater (1958–1961)
(TV Series) - Sam Tompkins / Abel McHugh (2 episodes, 1958) Sam Tompkins / Abel McHugh (2 episodes, 1958) See fewer
The Atoner (Apr 6, 1961) Season 5, Episode 25 - Sam Tompkins Sam Tompkins See fewer
Wire (Jan 31, 1958) Season 2, Episode 17 - Abel McHugh Abel McHugh See fewer
The Deputy (1961)
(TV Series) - Shad Billings (1 episode, 1961) Shad Billings (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
The Lonely Road (Feb 18, 1961) Season 2, Episode 21 - Shad Billings Shad Billings See fewer
(TV Series) - Lt. Giddeon (1 episode, 1961) Lt. Giddeon (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
The Merriweather File (Feb 14, 1961) Season 1, Episode 21 - Lt. Giddeon Lt. Giddeon See fewer
The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961)
(TV Series) - Colonel Baldwin (1 episode, 1961) Colonel Baldwin (1 episode, 1961) See fewer
Without Fear (Feb 6, 1961) Season 2, Episode 19 - Colonel Baldwin Colonel Baldwin See fewer
(TV Series) - Lt. Bert Walker (1 episode, 1960) Lt. Bert Walker (1 episode, 1960) See fewer
Big Poison (Dec 16, 1960) Season 2, Episode 12 - Lt. Bert Walker Lt. Bert Walker See fewer
Outlaws (1960)
(TV Series) - Sam Decker (1 episode, 1960) Sam Decker (1 episode, 1960) See fewer
Shorty (Nov 3, 1960) Season 1, Episode 5 - Sam Decker Sam Decker See fewer
The Aquanauts (1960)
(TV Series) - Ed Barron (1 episode, 1960) Ed Barron (1 episode, 1960) See fewer
Paradivers (Sep 14, 1960) Season 1, Episode 1 - Ed Barron Ed Barron See fewer
Armstrong Circle Theatre (1960)
(TV Series) - Ross (1 episode, 1960) Ross (1 episode, 1960) See fewer
Dishonor System (Apr 27, 1960) Season 10, Episode 14 - Ross Ross See fewer
(TV Series) - Fred Graham (1 episode, 1960) Fred Graham (1 episode, 1960) See fewer
Vanishing Point (Feb 23, 1960) Season 2, Episode 23 - Fred Graham Fred Graham See fewer
Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
(TV Series) - Major Robert Fielding / Captain Posen (2 episodes, 1957) Major Robert Fielding / Captain Posen (2 episodes, 1957) See fewer
The Last Flight Out (Jan 25, 1960) Season 3, Episode 9 - Major Robert Fielding Major Robert Fielding See fewer
On Edge (Nov 18, 1957) Season 1, Episode 4 - Captain Posen Captain Posen See fewer
Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
(TV Series) - Major Robert Fielding / Rangler (2 episodes, 1957) Major Robert Fielding / Rangler (2 episodes, 1957) See fewer
The Last Flight Out (Jan 25, 1960) Season 3, Episode 20 - Major Robert Fielding Major Robert Fielding See fewer
Lost and Found (Oct 14, 1957) Season 1, Episode 2 - Rangler Rangler See fewer
State Trooper (1959)
(TV Series) - Harley Bender / Frederick Walden (2 episodes, 1959) Harley Bender / Frederick Walden (2 episodes, 1959) See fewer
Prettiest Dress in Goldfield (Jan 1, 1959) Season 3, Episode 1 - Harley Bender Harley Bender See fewer
What's Mine Is Mine Frederick Walden Frederick Walden See fewer
Special Agent 7 (1959)
(TV Series) - Gruman (2 episodes, 1959) Gruman (2 episodes, 1959) See fewer
The Gold-Plated People (1959) Season 1, Episode 14 - Gruman Gruman See fewer
The Prussian Jewel Case (1959) Season 1, Episode 8 - Gruman Gruman See fewer
The Rifleman (1958)
(TV Series) - Keely Thompson (1 episode, 1958) Keely Thompson (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
The Apprentice Sheriff (Dec 9, 1958) Season 1, Episode 11 - Keely Thompson Keely Thompson See fewer
(TV Series) - Governor Jim Pierson (1 episode, 1958) Governor Jim Pierson (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
For Better or for Worse (Oct 12, 1958) Season 6, Episode 2 - Governor Jim Pierson Governor Jim Pierson See fewer
Kraft Television Theatre (1953–1958)
(TV Series) - Bull Maddox (7 episodes, 1953) Bull Maddox (7 episodes, 1953) See fewer
Cop Killer (Jul 9, 1958) Season 11, Episode 39 - Actor Actor See fewer
Matinee Theatre (1957–1958)
The Road to Recovery (Jun 5, 1958) Season 3, Episode 154 - Actor Actor See fewer
Ashes in the Wind (Apr 25, 1957) Season 2, Episode 146 - Actor Actor See fewer
Suspicion (1957–1958)
(TV Series) - Ben Silcox / Perry Slavins (2 episodes, 1957) Ben Silcox / Perry Slavins (2 episodes, 1957) See fewer
Death Watch (Jun 2, 1958) Season 1, Episode 34 - Ben Silcox Ben Silcox See fewer
Doomsday (Dec 16, 1957) Season 1, Episode 12 - Perry Slavins Perry Slavins See fewer
Target (1958)
(TV Series) - Cozden (1 episode, 1958) Cozden (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
Storm of Violence (Apr 28, 1958) Cozden Cozden See fewer
Whirlybirds (1957–1958)
(TV Series) - Doug Jessop / Lt. Ericson (2 episodes, 1957) Doug Jessop / Lt. Ericson (2 episodes, 1957) See fewer
Time Out of Mind (Apr 21, 1958) Season 2, Episode 12 - Doug Jessop Doug Jessop See fewer
Boy on the Roof (Jan 17, 1957) Season 1, Episode 3 - Lt. Ericson Lt. Ericson See fewer
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958)
(TV Series) - Lieutenant Larrabee (1 episode, 1958) Lieutenant Larrabee (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
Pension Plan (Mar 27, 1958) Season 2, Episode 12 - Lieutenant Larrabee (as Ed Binns) Lieutenant Larrabee (as Ed Binns) See fewer
Telephone Time (1958)
(TV Series) - Brazier (1 episode, 1958) Brazier (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
Man of Principle (Mar 25, 1958) Season 3, Episode 28 - Brazier Brazier See fewer
The Thin Man (1958)
(TV Series) - Harry Decker (1 episode, 1958) Harry Decker (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
Double Jeopardy (Mar 14, 1958) Season 1, Episode 25 - Harry Decker Harry Decker See fewer
The Court of Last Resort (1958)
(TV Series) - Melvin Cressler (1 episode, 1958) Melvin Cressler (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
The Peter Stevens Case (Feb 7, 1958) Season 1, Episode 17 - Melvin Cressler Melvin Cressler See fewer
Have Gun - Will Travel (1957)
(TV Series) - Nathaniel Beecher (1 episode, 1957) Nathaniel Beecher (1 episode, 1957) See fewer
The Hanging Cross (Dec 21, 1957) Season 1, Episode 15 - Nathaniel Beecher Nathaniel Beecher See fewer
M Squad (1957)
(TV Series) - Wally Gardner (1 episode, 1957) Wally Gardner (1 episode, 1957) See fewer
The Alibi Witness (Dec 6, 1957) Season 1, Episode 11 - Wally Gardner Wally Gardner See fewer
Navy Log (1955–1957)
(TV Series) - Robert J. Quinn / Zeke (2 episodes, 1955) Robert J. Quinn / Zeke (2 episodes, 1955) See fewer
Fire at Sea (Nov 7, 1957) Season 3, Episode 8 - Robert J. Quinn Robert J. Quinn See fewer
The Phantom of the Blue Angels (Oct 18, 1955) Season 1, Episode 5 - Zeke Zeke See fewer
(TV Series) - Mr. Brown (1 episode, 1957) Mr. Brown (1 episode, 1957) See fewer
Heart of Gold (Oct 27, 1957) Season 3, Episode 4 - Mr. Brown Mr. Brown See fewer
Gunsmoke (1957)
(TV Series) - Bill Stapp (1 episode, 1957) Bill Stapp (1 episode, 1957) See fewer
Jesse (Oct 19, 1957) Season 3, Episode 6 - Bill Stapp Bill Stapp See fewer
Conflict (1957)
Capital Punishment (Mar 5, 1957) Season 1, Episode 13 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Alcoa Hour (1956–1957)
(TV Series) - Lieutenant Marchese / Anderson (2 episodes, 1956) Lieutenant Marchese / Anderson (2 episodes, 1956) See fewer
No License to Kill (Feb 3, 1957) Season 2, Episode 10 - Lieutenant Marchese Lieutenant Marchese See fewer
Tragedy in a Temporary Town (Feb 19, 1956) Season 1, Episode 10 - Anderson Anderson See fewer
The Fisher Family (1956)
(TV Series) - Winters (1 episode, 1956) Winters (1 episode, 1956) See fewer
Pardon for the Penitent (Oct 21, 1956) Winters Winters See fewer
Front Row Center (1956)
Innocent Witness (Mar 4, 1956) Season 2, Episode 9 - Actor Actor See fewer
(TV Series) - Rankin (1 episode, 1956) Rankin (1 episode, 1956) See fewer
The Trapped (Jan 29, 1956) Season 3, Episode 16 - Rankin Rankin See fewer
Star Stage (1955–1956)
Articles of War (Jan 20, 1956) Season 1, Episode 20 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Knife (Dec 30, 1955) Season 1, Episode 17 - Actor Actor See fewer
Omnibus (1953–1955)
(TV Series) - (segment "Jack Be Normal") / Bitter ex-beau (segment "Glory in the Flower") / (segment "The Oyster and the Pearl") (3 episodes, 1953) (segment "Jack Be Normal") / Bitter ex-beau (segment "Glory in the Flower") / (segment "The Oyster and the Pearl") (3 episodes, 1953) See fewer
The Royal Game (Dec 11, 1955) Season 4, Episode 9 - (segment "Jack Be Normal") (segment "Jack Be Normal") See fewer
Goodyear Television Playhouse (1955)
The Trees (Dec 4, 1955) Season 5, Episode 7 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Mechanical Heart (Nov 6, 1955) Season 5, Episode 5 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Philco Television Playhouse (1953–1955)
The United States Steel Hour (1954–1955)
(TV Series) - Peters / Reporter / George Moffat / Charlie Ferber (4 episodes, 1954) Peters / Reporter / George Moffat / Charlie Ferber (4 episodes, 1954) See fewer
Incident in an Alley (Nov 23, 1955) Season 3, Episode 11 - Peters Peters See fewer
Studio One (1952–1955)
(TV Series) - Joe Doyle / Black Dog (2 episodes, 1952) Joe Doyle / Black Dog (2 episodes, 1952) See fewer
Uncle Ed and Circumstances (Oct 10, 1955) Season 8, Episode 4 - Joe Doyle Joe Doyle See fewer
Treasure Island (May 5, 1952) Season 4, Episode 34 - Black Dog (uncredited) Black Dog (uncredited) See fewer
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1953–1955)
(TV Series) - Daniels (2 episodes, 1953) Daniels (2 episodes, 1953) See fewer
The Last Out (Sep 30, 1955) Season 5, Episode 1 - Daniels Daniels See fewer
Manhattan Robin Hood (Feb 6, 1953) Season 2, Episode 23 - Actor Actor See fewer
Lux Video Theatre (1952–1955)
(TV Series) - Prosecutor / Silas (2 episodes, 1952) Prosecutor / Silas (2 episodes, 1952) See fewer
The Last Confession (Sep 1, 1955) Season 5, Episode 54 - Prosecutor Prosecutor See fewer
Gilia (Jun 16, 1952) Season 2, Episode 43 - Silas Silas See fewer
(TV Series) - Lieutenant Lewis (1 episode, 1955) Lieutenant Lewis (1 episode, 1955) See fewer
Edge of Terror (Aug 11, 1955) Season 1, Episode 36 - Lieutenant Lewis Lieutenant Lewis See fewer
Mr. Citizen (1955)
(TV Series) - Harley J. Lee (1 episode, 1955) Harley J. Lee (1 episode, 1955) See fewer
Terror on Jack Rabbit Hill (Jun 1, 1955) Season 1, Episode 7 - Harley J. Lee Harley J. Lee See fewer
(TV Series) - Colonel Hendricks (3 episodes, 1953) Colonel Hendricks (3 episodes, 1953) See fewer
The Ways of Courage (May 19, 1955) Season 2, Episode 34 - Colonel Hendricks Colonel Hendricks See fewer
Big Town (1955)
(TV Series) - Sam Blaine (1 episode, 1955) Sam Blaine (1 episode, 1955) See fewer
Coroner Probe Report (Apr 18, 1955) Season 5, Episode 28 - Sam Blaine Sam Blaine See fewer
Star Tonight (1955)
(TV Series) - Roy (1 episode, 1955) Roy (1 episode, 1955) See fewer
The Lavender Kite (Apr 14, 1955) Season 1, Episode 11 - Roy Roy See fewer
The Elgin Hour (1955)
(TV Series) - Tucker (1 episode, 1955) Tucker (1 episode, 1955) See fewer
Black Eagle Pass (Apr 5, 1955) Season 1, Episode 14 - Tucker Tucker See fewer
Robert Montgomery Presents (1952–1955)
(TV Series) - Dan Thompson (4 episodes, 1952) Dan Thompson (4 episodes, 1952) See fewer
N.Y. to L.A. (Mar 21, 1955) Season 6, Episode 27 - Dan Thompson Dan Thompson See fewer
You Are There (1953–1955)
(TV Series) - General Gerow / General McDougall (3 episodes, 1953) General Gerow / General McDougall (3 episodes, 1953) See fewer
D-Day (June 6, 1944) (Mar 6, 1955) Season 3, Episode 28 - General Gerow General Gerow See fewer
Inner Sanctum (1954)
(TV Series) - Uhl / Rocky / Lacey / Barney (4 episodes, 1954) Uhl / Rocky / Lacey / Barney (4 episodes, 1954) See fewer
The Lonely One (Aug 14, 1954) Season 1, Episode 32 - Uhl Uhl See fewer
Suspense (1950–1954)
North Side (Jun 8, 1954) Season 6, Episode 37 - Actor Actor See fewer
Danger (1951–1954)
(TV Series) - The Man (7 episodes, 1951) The Man (7 episodes, 1951) See fewer
The Bet (Mar 23, 1954) Season 4, Episode 26 - Actor Actor See fewer
Joseph Schildkraut Presents (1953)
Ring Around the Christmas Tree (Dec 23, 1953) Season 1, Episode 9 - Actor Actor See fewer
Pentagon U.S.A. (1953– )
(TV Series) - Army Investigator (1953) Army Investigator (1953) See fewer
The Doctor (1953)
The Dog Tag (Jun 14, 1953) Season 1, Episode 42 - Actor Actor See fewer
As the Twig Is Bent (Apr 5, 1953) Season 1, Episode 32 - Actor Actor See fewer
Horns of a Dilemma (1952)
The Boston Case (Jul 18, 1952) Season 1, Episode 15 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Real Glory (1952)
The Web (1951–1952)
Rx Death (Apr 16, 1952) Season 2, Episode 30 - Actor Actor See fewer
St. Petersburg Dilemma (Dec 5, 1951) Season 2, Episode 11 - Actor Actor See fewer
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951)
(a) The Pen, (b) You're Not the Type, (c) The Weak Spot (Jun 22, 1951) Season 1, Episode 38 - Actor Actor See fewer
The Big Story (1951)
(TV Series) - George Cleveland Bullette (1 episode, 1951) George Cleveland Bullette (1 episode, 1951) See fewer
Cleve Bullette, Reporter (Jun 8, 1951) Season 2, Episode 27 - George Cleveland Bullette George Cleveland Bullette See fewer
Portrait of a Madonna (Sep 26, 1948) Season 1, Episode 1 - The Doctor The Doctor See fewer
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Himself - Narrator (voice) Himself - Narrator (voice) See fewer
Episode #2.251 (Aug 23, 1962) Season 2, Episode 251 - Himself Himself See fewer
Strictly Courtroom (2008)
(TV Movie) - Juror #6 (archive footage) (uncredited) Juror #6 (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer
Fonda on Fonda (1992)
Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
(TV Movie) - Actor in '12 Angry Men' (archive footage) (uncredited) Actor in '12 Angry Men' (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones (1971)
Pedro (archive footage) Pedro (archive footage) See fewer
Frontier Justice (1958)
(TV Series) - Abel McHugh (1 episode, 1958) Abel McHugh (1 episode, 1958) See fewer
Wire (Sep 29, 1958) Season 1, Episode 12 - Abel McHugh (archive footage) Abel McHugh (archive footage) See fewer
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Allan Surtees (1924–2000)
Known for Erik the Viking (1989), Eye of the Needle (1981), Bill Brand (1976), Vanity Fair (1987)
Dec 31, 1924 (died Nov 1, 2000)
Erik the Viking (1989)
Thorfinn's Dad Thorfinn's Dad See fewer
Deadline (1989)
The First Kangaroos (1988)
George the Barman George the Barman See fewer
Eye of the Needle (1981)
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Black Island (1979)
George Moody George Moody See fewer
Bingo MC (uncredited) Bingo MC (uncredited) See fewer
Police Sergeant Police Sergeant See fewer
The Adding Machine (1969)
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997)
(TV Series) - Benskin (1 episode, 1997) Benskin (1 episode, 1997) See fewer
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The Bill (1989–1997)
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Juliet Bravo (1980)
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Minder (1980)
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Centre Play (1977)
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Bill Brand (1976)
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Z Cars (1967–1974)
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All Our Saturdays (1973)
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New Scotland Yard (1972)
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Owen, M.D. (1971)
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Dixon of Dock Green (1970)
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ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
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Driveway (1968)
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The First Lady (1968)
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Marlene Brehm
Actress | Writer | Producer
Known for The Rebound (I), Without a Trace (2002), That '70s Show (2002), A Noble Way (2008)
The Rebound
Chloe Wells, Producer, Writer Chloe Wells, Producer, Writer See fewer
Released Film and Video (1 title)
A Noble Way (2008)
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8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2002)
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That '70s Show (2002)
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Claire Geare
Known for No Escape (I) (2015), Inception (2010), Dream House (2011), 24 (2010)
No Escape: Deleted Scenes (2015)
(Video) - Beeze Dwyer Beeze Dwyer See fewer
No Escape (2015)
Beeze Dwyer Beeze Dwyer See fewer
Marza (2014)
(Short) - Marza Marza See fewer
Legend of Kung Fu Rabbit (2011)
Biggie (voice) Biggie (voice) See fewer
Dee Dee (as Claire Astin Geare) Dee Dee (as Claire Astin Geare) See fewer
Phillipa (3 Years Old) Phillipa (3 Years Old) See fewer
Wedding Band (2012)
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Sterling Jerins
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Olivia Dodson
Actress | Casting Department
In 2018, this actress is an LU School of Ed doctoral candidate and working actress/model. Olivia's main residence is in Amherst, VA, central to sets and clients in both NC, VA and MD, DC. In 2001, ... read full biography
Known for Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Copycat Killers (2017)
Casting Department (1)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
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Angels Within (2017)
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Altar Egos (2017)
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Naked (2017)
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)
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Nikeva Stapleton
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Category: Networks
6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet
The biggest threat to the Internet is the fact that it was never really designed. Instead, it evolved in fits and starts, thanks to various protocols that were cobbled together to fulfill the needs of the moment. Few of those protocols were designed with security in mind. Or if they were, they sported no more than was needed to keep out a nosy neighbor, not a malicious attacker.
The result is a welter of aging protocols susceptible to exploit on an Internet scale. Some of the attacks levied against these protocols have been mitigated with fixes, but it’s clear that the protocols themselves need more robust replacements. Here are six Internet protocols that could stand to be replaced sooner rather than later or are (mercifully) on the way out.
via 6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet | InfoWorld.
Author MichaelPosted on December 23, 2014 Categories Article, NetworksLeave a comment on 6 aging protocols that could cripple the Internet
Google wants you to help design the Internet of Things
Have an idea for how the much-anticipated Internet of Things should operate? If the idea is good enough, Google may pay you to see it to fruition.
As part of a new effort to generate more Internet of Things technologies, Google is planning to issue a number of grants to facilitate pioneering research in this nascent field of computing.
“While the Internet of Things (IoT) conjures a vision of ‘anytime, any place’ connectivity for all things, the realization is complex given the need to work across interconnected and heterogeneous systems, and the special considerations needed for security, privacy, and safety,” co-wrote Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, in a blog post announcing the research program.
via Google wants you to help design the Internet of Things | Computerworld.
Author MichaelPosted on December 21, 2014 December 21, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on Google wants you to help design the Internet of Things
Researchers quantify the S in HTTPS
Researchers from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, Polytechnic University di Torino in Italy, and the research and development arm of Spain’s Telefónica Group have published a paper investigating the impacts of HTTPS use for industry and web users.
The paper, The Cost of the “S” in HTTPS PDF, was presented at ACM CoNEXT in Sydney, and suggests that while the use of HTTPS is increasing due to mounting security concerns, it could result in more latency online, greater battery drain for some connected devices, and the loss of in-network value-added services.
The paper asserts that HTTPS “does not come for free”, with the researchers saying that HTTPS “may introduce overhead in terms of infrastructure costs, communication latency, data usage, and energy consumption”.
The encryption offered by an HTTPS address may protect information from “man-in-the-middle” attacks, but that same functionality can hamper the application of “middlebox” network appliances, such as firewalls.
via Researchers quantify the ‘S’ in HTTPS | ZDNet.
Author MichaelPosted on December 10, 2014 December 10, 2014 Categories Cybersecurity, NetworksLeave a comment on Researchers quantify the S in HTTPS
California Research and Education Network Gets 100-Gigabit Backbone
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) has upgraded the core backbone of the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) to 100 gigabits per second (Gbps).
CalREN is a 3,800-mile advanced fiber optic network serving the California K-12 system, California Community Colleges, California State University, University of California, Caltech, Stanford, University of Southern California and other institutions. The network has three tiers: CalREN-DC for daily network use such as e-mail and Web browsing, CalREN-HPR for high performance research and CalREN-DX for network-based experimentation and development.
The CalREN-DC and CalREN-HPR tiers have been subject to growing demand from “researchers in data-intensive disciplines, ongoing connectivity upgrades for CENIC members, and connectivity for new members such as public libraries and arts and cultural institutions,” according to a news release from CENIC. The new 100-gigabit Layer 2 backbone will ensure that the institutions using CalREN-DC and CalREN-HPR will have sufficient bandwidth to support research and education in the state.
via California Research and Education Network Gets 100-Gigabit Backbone — Campus Technology.
Author MichaelPosted on November 21, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on California Research and Education Network Gets 100-Gigabit Backbone
All the Devices on the Internet Pinged
This is what it looks like when you ping the entire internet
via All the Devices on the Internet Pinged.
Author MichaelPosted on August 31, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on All the Devices on the Internet Pinged
100-Gigabit Connectivity to Pacific Wave International Peering Exchange for ESnet
Today, Pacific Wave announced the completion of a 100-Gigabit connection for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), the high-speed computer network serving US Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and scientific facilities. With the completion of this new connection in Sunnyvale, CA, ESnet has upgraded its peering capabilities to research networks in 40 countries throughout the Pacific Rim and beyond.
CSU Channel Islands is a member of CENIC, which in turn peers with the Pacific Wave network.
via 100-Gigabit Connectivity to Pacific Wave International Peering Exchange for ESnet | Business Wire.
Author MichaelPosted on August 26, 2014 August 26, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on 100-Gigabit Connectivity to Pacific Wave International Peering Exchange for ESnet
As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer, sat in his small office at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva and started work on a new system called the World Wide Web.On Wednesday, that project, now simply called the web, will celebrate its 25th anniversary, and Mr. Berners-Lee is looking ahead at the next 25.
via As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future – NYTimes.com.
Author MichaelPosted on March 12, 2014 March 24, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on As the Web Turns 25, Its Creator Talks About Its Future
Twitter goes down for most users
Twitter crashed for “most users” Tuesday, in the longest and possibly largest outage for the company since its initial public offering.Twitter announced on its Status blog that the outage was caused by a planned change to its “core services,” which resulted in “unexpected complications that made Twitter unavailable for many users starting at 11:01 a.m.” Engineers spiked the planned change and service was fully recovered by 11:47 a.m. Pacific time.
via Twitter goes down for ‘most users’ in longest outage since IPO – San Jose Mercury News.
Author MichaelPosted on March 11, 2014 March 24, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on Twitter goes down for most users
ACM interview with Eugene H. Spafford
As a pioneering Internet security researcher and a well-known skeptic about achieving truly secure systems, are you optimistic about efforts to build a more secure network? No, I’m not. I see two problems associated with this approach. First, any significant network that is developed will need to accommodate existing (legacy) systems in some manner, and be operated by some of the same people we have now — there is simply too much invested in legacy systems. This will lead to participating organizations continuing to make poor choices about their priorities for security (and privacy). Many security problems come about because of user error, misconfiguration, poor patching, indirect attacks, and a failure to properly prioritize and fund appropriate safeguards — it isn’t only the design of the networks. A new set of network protocols and connections will not address the full range of issues.
via March 11, 2014: People of ACM: Eugene H. Spafford — Association for Computing Machinery.
Author MichaelPosted on March 11, 2014 March 24, 2014 Categories Cybersecurity, NetworksLeave a comment on ACM interview with Eugene H. Spafford
Google’s Project Loon: The gamble that’s so crazy it might work
Google’s Project Loon, in which high-altitude balloons circle the globe using wind currents and solar power to provide WiFi connectivity to remote locations in developing markets, officially launched this past week, with balloons headed out around the world from a remote location in New Zealand. If you’re so inclined, there’s even a way to follow along online in real-time as winds blow these balloons at 25 mph along the 40th parallel in the Southern Hemisphere.
via Google’s Project Loon: The gamble that’s so crazy it might work.
Author MichaelPosted on March 10, 2014 March 24, 2014 Categories NetworksLeave a comment on Google’s Project Loon: The gamble that’s so crazy it might work
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Category: First-Hand Story
Small Stones Interviews: LaQuisha Beckum
“Whether I’m working with the teens, or with the college students, I’m always trying to ensure they are kind to themselves in the process.”
We are thrilled to present the first in a series of Small Stones Interviews, a conversation with educator LaQuisha Beckum.
LaQuisha Beckum
LaQuisha (they/them) is a community college Psychology/Child Development instructor, currently at American River College, and a Program Coordinator with the Sacramento Youth Commission. They are also the president of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Generation Reformation. Full disclosure: LaQuisha and one of our editors, Emily, were colleagues for several years at De Anza College. We caught up with LaQuisha in April to find out what they’ve been up to since the election and how the new administration, and its policies, are impacting their students.
Small Stones: So, you are the first person we’re actually talking to–thanks so much! How did you get into education, if we can start from the very beginning?
LaQuisha Beckum: I began my career as a camp leader back in 1996. I worked my way up to assistant site director, then site director receiving certification to work with 5-9-year-olds and 10-14-year-olds. That work was with the YMCA and lasted 5 years. During this time, I was also working as a TA for a professor at SJSU. I spent one year working at a teen center after leaving the YMCA, then went into research. I didn’t start teaching college until winter 2006 at De Anza College.
SS: So what are things are like right now for you, as an educator? You’re at American River now? Teaching psychology?
LB: Yes, I’m at American River College now. Students are hanging in there. I think they feel similar to the rest of us, without them having the historical notes we have. They are feeling anxious, afraid at times, hopeful (one teen told me that he hopes this will be a phoenix phase…things crumble only to be reborn into something better). I work with youth ages fourteen to nineteen AND teach at the college. Nothing that either group has said is vastly different.
SS: What historical notes do you think are most important? Fourteen-year-olds in particular have only really known one administration…
LB: I think above everything, is understanding systems…that these things aren’t created by individuals, that it’s a group effort! We can talk about the idiocy of Drumpf all day, but it took a messed up system to even make it possible for him to reach this rank of government.
SS: I remember being afraid about what would come next if he weren’t elected, wondering what the system would spit at us the next time.
LB: Exactly…they are familiar with Obama, but they probably didn’t realize he dropped three bombs an hour on the Mid-East in 2016.
I have been quite numb since he [Trump] won.
SS: The optics were way better, but bombs are bombs.
LB: Precisely!
SS: How does it affect how you teach? I’ve been your student before in professional settings, so I know you connect with students well. Is that easier? Harder? More urgent? None of the above?
Continue reading “Small Stones Interviews: LaQuisha Beckum”
Author smallstoneseduPosted on May 24, 2017 June 19, 2017 Categories .smallstones. Interview, College, First-Hand Story, From the Trenches, High School, Social StudiesTags community college, interview, teaching3 Comments on Small Stones Interviews: LaQuisha Beckum
The Voices Behind Studs Terkel’s “Working”
If you’re like we are and you find oral histories fascinating, you’ve probably encountered Studs Terkel’s Working. If not, you have a major treat in store. Terkel went around the country in the early 1970s, interviewing people about what they did all day. The result was an incredible collection, one that gave insight into the lives of a wide range of ordinary people. We can attest that it’s excellent for high school or college classroom use, whether in full or as excerpts.
Radio Diaries, in partnership with Project&, has now done one better and made some of Terkel’s audio tapes (via available for online listening. Check them out if you’ve ever been interested in hearing the voices that Terkel preserved so well.
You can find the feature, Working: Then & Now, at Radio Diaries.
Author smallstoneseduPosted on April 30, 2017 June 19, 2017 Categories American History, College, First-Hand Story, High School, Primary Source, Resource, Social Studies, UncategorizedTags oral history, radio diaries, Studs Terkel, workingLeave a comment on The Voices Behind Studs Terkel’s “Working”
We’ve been musing about the direction Small Stones should take and one avenue we’re pursuing and deepening is storytelling. By that, we mean first-person narratives with a focus on the topics and themes we’ve been blogging about: discrimination, bias, racism, prejudice, and also the tools available to confront these.
Frequent readers will remember some of our oral history posts, including Oral History: An Introduction and Oral History: A Community College Assignment.
As we start developing interviews, we’ll share some resources pertaining to the storytelling process.
Today’s are from The Moth, a storytelling program that’s one of our favorite podcasts. First, three values The Moth promotes, which we offer in the spirit of “food for thought”.
We believe that processing experience through narrative can provide insight and agency
We believe that listening to stories can widen our perspective and help us realize what we have in common.
We believe that a community is strengthened when its members share stories with one another.
And next, some concrete tips for storytelling from The Moth. Keep in mind that The Moth is interested in oral story telling with a particular format, so some of the tips are specific to the genre.
“Have some stakes: Stakes are essential in live storytelling. What do you stand to gain or lose? Why is what happens in the story important to you? If you can’t answer this, then think of a different story. A story without stakes is an essay and is best experienced on the page, not the stage.
Start in the action.
“Have a great first line that sets up the stakes and grabs attention: No: “So I was thinking about climbing this mountain. But then I watched a little TV and made a snack and took a nap and my mom called and vented about her psoriasis then I did a little laundry (a whites load) (I lost another sock, darn it!) and then I thought about it again and decided I’d climb the mountain the next morning.” Yes: “The mountain loomed before me. I had my hunting knife, some trail mix and snow boots. I had to make it to the little cabin and start a fire before sundown or freeze to death for sure.”
“Know your story well enough so you can have fun!: Watching you panic to think of the next memorized line is harrowing for the audience. Make an outline, memorize your bullet points and play with the details. Enjoy yourself. Imagine you are at a dinner party, not a deposition.”
“…and what not to do
“Steer clear of meandering endings: They kill a story! Your last line should be clear in your head before you start. Yes, bring the audience along with you as you contemplate what transpires in your story, but remember, you are driving the story, and must know the final destination. Keep your hands on the wheel!
“No standup routines please: The Moth loves funny people but requires that all funny people tell funny stories.
“No rants: Take up this anger issue with your therapist, or skip therapy and shape your anger into a story with some sort of resolution. (Stories = therapy!)
“No essays: Your eloquent musings are beautiful and look pretty on the page but unless you can make them gripping and set up stakes, they won’t work on stage.
“About that (fake) accent: If your story doesn’t work in your own voice, or that of your people of origin, please consider another story. In our experience, imitating accents from another culture or race rarely works and often offends.”
By way of a bonus, here’s a recent broadcast from The Moth: Pam Burrell’s “My Unlikely Brothers“. Click the story name to re-direct to the story, which doesn’t have embed capability.
(P. Burrell image by Jessica Taves courtesy of The Moth; featured moth image from“[Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle” (1765) via Flickr.)
Author smallstoneseduPosted on April 19, 2017 April 19, 2017 Categories English Language Arts, First-Hand Story, Just for Fun, Performing Arts, Resource, UncategorizedTags storytelling, The Moth1 Comment on Storytelling
Real Warm Fuzzies: Tiny Paper Wins Pulitzer
It’s as good a day as any for a straight-up, feel-good (re)post.
From Poynter.org, here’s a backgrounder and interview with a small-town newspaper editorialist, Art Cullen, who just won a Pulitzer prize. Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business.
First, the background:
If you know Art Cullen, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn his initial words upon watching the livestream of the Pulitzer announcements and learning he’d won for editorial writing.
“Holy shit,” he yelled out to his brother, John, the publisher of the family-run, 10-person Storm Lake (Iowa) Times.
The only surprise was that there wasn’t a longer string of un-family-like adjectives or adverbs. …
[Cullen] won for editorials that confronted the state’s most powerful agricultural interests, which include the Koch Brothers, Cargill and Monsanto, and their secret funding of the government defense of a big environmental lawsuit. His “tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing” were quite self-evident if you’ve seen his labor (which actually spanned two years, though he won for last year’s efforts).
The paper in question is The Storm Lake Times, described in the Pulitzer citation as “a 3,000-circulation twice-weekly newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa, pop. 10,000, in rural Northwest Iowa.” Click here to link to the editorials for which the prize was awarded.
Here’s an excerpt of Poynter’s interview with Cullen, by James Warren. The take-away? Local journalism matters. It’s not a novel take, but the Pulitzer payoff drives it home. We hope it reminds you and your students that story-telling and journalism are worthwhile.
What would you like to think are the most important points you made in the editorials?
It’s all about transparency in the funding of the environmental lawsuit (defense). We took on the state’s biggest agricultural players and said their donations should be made public. The biggest players: the Koch brothers, Cargill, Monsanto were all conspiring to fund the defense of the (Buena Vista) county.
We found out they (elected officials) had met with Monsanto executives and Koch executives. My son, Tom, did most of the reporting. And he tracked down how the Agribusiness Association of Iowa was working with the Iowa Farm Bureau to funnel the secret donations to the country.
We cried foul and worked with the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. They wrote several letters saying these were public records under Iowa law. They wouldn’t release them, but they shut down the fund. It’s all a matter of transparency in government financing.
How has being in a small place fueled your passion? Is it easier or harder when arguably there’s greater accountability since, well, you may run into people whom you write about on the street?
I lost some friends, but some people don’t understand us, why we would badger county supervisors so that their sugar daddy went away. I said, “Because it wasn’t right.” We felt the public deserved to know who’s paying our bills. We did a lot of groundbreaking news reporting and my son (who’s 24) did most of the heavy lifting.
We’ve spoken before about your work on immigration, especially right after President Trump’s controversial executive order. Is the confusion and fear that we’ve talked about in the Storm Lake area when it comes to immigration still the same?
Things have calmed down. The police chief (Mark Prosser) has calmed things down. He arrives in his police uniform at public forums and says, “We’re not arresting you just because you are undocumented.” …
What, at first blush, does this recognition say about the people like you, laboring in more isolated environs, busting their asses to survive and believing as you do in journalism?
Journalism really matters, and good journalism is being done all across the country.
Any final thoughts?
Yes. Put in a plug for the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. They are broke and have little support.
(Lady Liberty image courtesy of Pulitzer.org website)
Author smallstoneseduPosted on April 13, 2017 April 13, 2017 Categories Current Events, First-Hand Story, Free Speech, From the Trenches, Just for FunTags Iowa, journalism, Poynter, Pulitzer prizes, Storm Lake Times1 Comment on Real Warm Fuzzies: Tiny Paper Wins Pulitzer
Migra Watch
Witness, Accompany, and Advocate During ICE Raids
This is a personal post. Yesterday, I, Eva, participated in the first post-election event that made me feel potentially useful — beyond marching, phoning, or attending a meeting. I am sharing in case you want to look for similar opportunities. The event was a 2-hour training to be a witness to ICE immigration raids.
Community groups in Santa Clara County, California, are setting up a rapid response network that will have its soft launch this week: a hotline for undocumented immigrants, and their family and friends, to call if ICE shows up at the door. A dispatcher will answer the phone, guide the caller through his/her rights, and text a network of citizen-witnesses who will come to the site of the raid to document it.
Here’s how my event was advertised:
Come learn how you can be a rapid responder so that we can respond to calls from community members concerned about immediate ICE actions throughout Santa Clara County.
The Rapid Response Network aims to expand the community’s capacity to monitor and document ICE operations in real time. We will support the process of gathering evidence used to free someone from ICE custody. We will expose the intimidating and unconstitutional tactics ICE uses to detain immigrants.
Please invite others to attend to help us build the Rapid Response Network we will launch very soon with many partners and volunteers, like you!
I’ve now been trained to be a citizen-witness, with basic knowledge of how to comply with ICE directives while recording the encounter on my phone and documenting the unfolding events. How many agents? What did they say? From which agencies did they come? Badge numbers. Vehicle license plates. And more.
The attorney who helped train us recommends US citizens serve as witnesses because we’re at lower legal risk than immigrants. It’s also something white people can usefully do, with more possible roles if you speak Spanish (I don’t).
I was trained through an event organized by PACT-San José. If you live in Santa Clara County, you can go to their events calendar to sign up for a training. In the event of a raid within 2-5 miles of your address, you’ll receive a text asking if you can come document it. Even if it takes you a while to arrive, it’s helpful. We learned that raids in the Bay Area have been 3 to 6 hours long.
I’m told San Mateo, San Francisco, and Alameda Counties have similar networks. I did some online searching and found the San Francisco Rapid Response Network and another in Brooklyn, NY. The PICO website appears to be a place to hunt for more area networks (I started on their press release page).
Author smallstoneseduPosted on April 3, 2017 Categories College, Current Events, Elementary School, First-Hand Story, Free Speech, High School, Middle School, Taking Action, UncategorizedTags ICE, immigration, PACT San Jose, solidarity, take action5 Comments on Migra Watch
Oral History: Students Are Historians Too!
Here at Small Stones, we LOVE hearing about students collecting oral histories from people in their communities. For this second installment in our Oral Histories Series, here’s a quick who/what/where/when/why/how explainer to help students understand to how powerful oral history can be–and to see themselves as historians.
Oral histories are simply stories people tell about their own lives and experiences. They can be about subjects we typically think about when we think about history, like experiences of war and conflict, political events, and famous people. But they can also be about everyday experiences, like moving from one place to another, raising a child, learning a new skill, or even going to school.
Our understanding of history is shaped by what we choose to record. If we only focus on typical “historical” events, we miss big chunks of what life was actually like for people in a particular time and place.
Anyone can take an oral history! And anyone can share their own experiences to be preserved. Some of the most fascinating stories that help us to understand the most about the past exist because somebody sat down with another person and simply asked her life.
One notable instance of people collecting oral histories in the United States came during The Great Depression in the 1930s, as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Writers were sent around the country to document the lives and folklore of everyday Americans. You can learn more about this project here.
Sometimes the best person to collect a story isn’t an official historian; it’s someone the subject knows well and feels comfortable speaking with.
You can record an oral history anywhere the subject feels comfortable. Some people conduct formal interviews in conference rooms or classrooms. Others meet at a coffee shop and find a quiet corner. Still others prefer to tell their stories in their own homes.
Technology makes taking oral histories even easier today than in the past; distance doesn’t have to stop you! While it’s best to be in the same place, it’s now possible to interview people over video chat, a phone call, email, text messages, or even social media.
The most important aspect of recording an oral history is making sure the subject feels comfortable. For some people, this may be at a specific time of day. For others, it might be over the weekend. Some people feel more comfortable talking after a major life event is over–for example, if they are busy working towards earning a college degree, they may want to talk to you about it after graduation.
Others, however, may want to share their stories even as they continue living them. Many people are presently taking oral histories from refugees, for example, who still have yet to find a more permanent home. It may also be the case that stories like these, that are still ongoing, are especially powerful to preserve and share to help shape the eventual outcome for those living in difficult situations.
It’s easy to think that history doesn’t have much of an impact on the present. But history is happening now, all around us, and it will be shaped by the stories that we choose to preserve and the voices we choose to amplify. The better we understand the stories of the people around us, the better we are able to work towards the kind of world that we ultimately want to have.
There are SO many tools available for taking oral histories right now. A pen and paper will work just fine to record interview notes. Most of us walk around with recording devices in our pockets; smartphones can allow us to quickly and easily capture stories, whether with video or just voice, and share them with the world. And as we mentioned before, distance doesn’t have to be an issue. We can take oral histories of people who aren’t able to meet in person.
More and more, people are interested in learning about the lives of those around them, stories that might usually remain hidden. You can help shape the history of your own community, draw attention to critical issues, and create tools that foster better human understanding–all through the simple act of listening.
Coming up next: more details about how to plan, prepare for, conduct, debrief, and share an oral history yourself.
Author smallstoneseduPosted on February 14, 2017 Categories American History, College, English Language Arts, First-Hand Story, High School, Middle School, Social Media, Social Studies, UncategorizedTags Curriculum, oral history, small stones3 Comments on Oral History: Students Are Historians Too!
Oral History: An Introduction
We often think of history as big events—think battles, coronations, explorations—that’s observed impartially, recorded faithfully, and carefully preserved in libraries and universities for later generations. But history is as much about the lives of every day people as so-called great events, and we all can play an important part in preserving our own, and our community’s, history.
And these days, it’s hard not to feel as though we are all in the process of making our own contributions to history.
Over several posts, we’re going to present materials for learning about oral history, great examples of oral history that students can easily access, and methods for incorporating oral histories into the classroom. We’ll even focus in on how students can take their own oral histories and preserve their communities’ stories.
To begin, two organizations doing incredible work in this field.
Storycorps, frequently featured on various NPR programs, has been helping people interview each other since the first story booth in New York City’s Grand Central Station in 2003.
Their mission is simple:
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
We do this to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build the connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. At the same time, we are creating an invaluable archive for future generations.
The site is beautifully organized, making it easy to find educational materials, locate a story booth and make a reservation to conduct your own interview, or simply listen to a curated selection of stories for the week. Right now the front page is filled with stories about love, and you can take your pick: two immigrant New Yorkers, one from the Dominican Republic, one from Pakistan, discussing how they first met twenty-five years ago while working together at a hotel; a woman who grew up in Georgia in the 1940s telling the story of her love for another woman that she could never fully experience; and two sets of identical twins reminiscing about how they met and fell in love, with each other.
There are also several thematic collections.
One of the things we love most about using Storycorps material in the classroom is the way students react to hearing people describing their own history, in their own voices. Since there are no visuals, listeners can focus in on the language people use and the way they describe their lives. There are few other ways we’ve found to make recent history so vivid.
Voice of Witness is another wonderful place to begin with oral histories. They seek out, record, and “amplify unheard voices” in a series of books that range from stories from a Chicago housing project to undocumented immigrants living in the United States to incarcerated women to survivors of Burma’s military regime.
Voice of Witness (VOW) is a non-profit that promotes human rights and dignity by amplifying the voices of people impacted by injustice. Through our oral history book series and education program, we foster a more nuanced, empathy-based understanding of human rights crises.
Our work is driven by a strong belief in the transformative power of the story, for both teller and listener.
Voice of Witness was cofounded by author Dave Eggers, writer & educator Mimi Lok, and physician Lola Vollen. Eggers originated the VOW book series with Vollen in 2005. In 2008, Lok transitioned Voice of Witness to a 501(c)(3) organization and established its education program.
For over ten years, VOW has illuminated human rights crises in the U.S. and globally. Our oral history book series has amplified hundreds of seldom-heard voices, including those of wrongfully convicted Americans, undocumented immigrants, and people in Burma, Zimbabwe, and Colombia.
Our education program serves over 20,000 people annually. Our oral history pedagogy has been used to train a broad range of advocates for human rights and dignity, including educators, writers, journalists, attorneys, and medical doctors.
Take it from an educator; I’ve used VOW material in the community college classroom myself, and I can’t speak too highly of how students respond. And if you’re going to be at AWP this year, check out their panel (and then tell me how it was!):
PANEL: AMPLIFYING UNHEARD VOICES
When/Where: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 from 4:30-5:45 pm in Room 202B, Level Two
Moderator: Dave Eggers
Speakers: Mimi Lok (Executive Director, Voice of Witness), Jennifer Lentfer (Director of Communications, Thousand Currents), Lorena (VOW narrator, Underground America)
Author smallstoneseduPosted on February 7, 2017 February 7, 2017 Categories American History, Current Events, First-Hand Story, UncategorizedTags Current Events, history, oral history, Social Studies, Storycorps, Voice of Witness4 Comments on Oral History: An Introduction
Dorothea Lange and Japanese Internment
Anchor Editions has some wonderful primary source photographs of the process of Japanese American Internment, taken by none other than the photographer Dorothea Lange. Unlike many of Lange’s other images, these works are not well known–by design. Until 2006, they were quietly kept in the National Archives, unpublished.
This material makes an excellent companion to the curricular material highlighted in our previous post.
Particularly chilling are these words from General DeWitt, justifying the internment action. Emphasis ours:
…It, therefore, follows that along the vital Pacific Coast over 112,000 potential enemies, of Japanese extraction, are at large today. There are indications that these are organized and ready for concerted action at a favorable opportunity.
The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”
— General John L. DeWitt, head of the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command
Author smallstoneseduPosted on December 9, 2016 December 23, 2016 Categories American History, First-Hand Story, High School, Japanese American Internment, Middle School, Primary Source, Social StudiesLeave a comment on Dorothea Lange and Japanese Internment
Tracking Hate Crimes
Unfortunately, since the election there’s been an increase in both incidents of hate crimes and, therefore, the need to track them. Several groups and publications are doing this in formats that can be useful for educators in various ways.
A general note with these resources: the content is intense. Assume that there will be offensive language and disturbing scenarios. They may potentially be more useful as background material for educators, or, with some screening, as sources of scenarios to use in Forum Theatre or other similar exercises.
Jezebel has a running hate crime and racist incident tracker, updated weekly and open to input.
Each week we will update this post with information about the most recent hate crimes, racist incidents and harassment reported around the country under Donald Trump’s presidency. If you have an incident to report, please email tips@jezebel.com and include in the subject line: “Hate Crime Tracking.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch has updates dating to November and a separate form, #ReportHate, for reporting an incident. Notable are the analyses of patterns, in particular that “nearly 40 percent of all incidents occurred in educational…settings.”
The SPLC collected reports from news articles, social media, and direct submissions from the #ReportHate intake page. The SPLC made efforts to verify each report but many included in the count remain anecdotal.
While the total number of incidents has risen, the trend line points to a steady drop-off. Around 65 percent of the incidents collected occurred in the first three days following the election.
Other patterns pointed out previously are holding too, notably that anti-immigrant incidents remain the top type of harassment reported and that nearly 40 percent of all incidents occurred in educational (K-12 schools and university/college) settings.
Author smallstoneseduPosted on December 6, 2016 December 23, 2016 Categories College, Current Events, First-Hand Story, High School, Primary Source, Social StudiesTags civil rights, hate crimes, JezebelLeave a comment on Tracking Hate Crimes
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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
Written by Robert Frank
Narrated by Dick Hill
Full of captivating profiles and expert insights into the lives and lifestyles of the nouveau riche, Richistan tells the real story of a new gilded age. The recent explosion of wealth has created a new breed of multimillionaires. Ed Bazinet, for example, who turned miniature ceramic villages into a $250 million fortune. Or Tim Blixseth, who became a billionaire by trading remote stretches of timberland. Richistan takes readers inside a rarified world to see how these blue-collar-workers-turned-billionaires are earning, spending, and living.
From "Butler School," where domestics are specially trained to serve the newly wealthy, to self-help groups for coping with the strains of $10 million incomes, you'll discover how the nouveaux riches learn to be riche. In addition, Frank investigates where their money is going. With so much in the hands of so few, the personal whims of the extremely wealthy can make or break charities and research foundations. Will they support cancer research or the arts? Supernatural exploration or archaeological digs? The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond their fashion choices or participation in reality TV shows.
Richistan looks behind the glitz to find the real story behind new money and its impact on the richest nation in the world.
Publisher: Tantor AudioReleased: Jun 19, 2007ISBN: 9781400104451Format: audiobook
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Victoria Doulos York is a writer and editor, graphite artist, runner, blogger, speaker, and sushi lover. She lives in Clarksville, TN, with her husband. Together, they founded Mann...view moreVictoria Doulos York is a writer and editor, graphite artist, runner, blogger, speaker, and sushi lover. She lives in Clarksville, TN, with her husband. Together, they founded Manna Café Ministries, a combination soup kitchen and food pantry. At DoulousChronicles.com, she writes about topics such as fearlessness, marriage, grace, holy romance, and the sanctity of life.view less
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The Last Hurrah!! is the project of Norwegian guitarist HP Gundersen plus a jamboree of international players and singers. Based in Bergen in western Norway, Gundersen has a long history in Norwegian music and beyond. As a producer he discovered and nurtured the career of Sondre Lerche, one of Norway’s most successful international exports. He has produced over 50 albums - including Tim Rose´s final album American Son.
An encounter with a Gambian kora-playing folk musician a few years ago was life-altering and, in his own words, took him to a new level of musical understanding. Afterwards he would sit with his guitar and play the same chord for hours, lost in a sonic whirl that induced deep meditation or even sleep. He disciplined himself to stay on one note, but found that it finally made him hear the note for the first time. ‘I shed twenty years of rust,’ he says.
In 2011, their cover of Pink Floyd’s “impossible” ‘The Great Gig In The Sky’ on the free Mojo tribute CD Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon drew high praise from readers. Their previous album, Spiritual Non-Believers, was voted album of the year in VG, Norway’s most popular newspaper; The Wire called it ‘maddeningly well executed’ and it received great reviews from all quarters.
HP Gundersen grew up in the 1960s, tuning in to European radio stations and having his mind blown by the sparkling melodies of the decade’s pop music, like The Byrds and The Beatles. Notably, these two groups were among the first to absorb Eastern influences, as Gundersen has done in The Last Hurrah!!. Chinese guzheng (zither) resonates with pastoral flutes, Hawaiian guitars and the plangent tones of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Listening to the repetitive pluckings of the opener, ‘The Rush’, you can’t help but think of Steve Reich’s solo guitar trance-out Electric Counterpoint; elsewhere you’ll hear echoes of Don Cherry’s multicultural visions, the soaring harmonies of Rubber Soul-era Beatles, and the magical open tunings of folk-rockers like David Crosby and Stephen Stills and Davy Graham. Country music meets raga meets psychedelic sugar rush.
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Arise, Ye Wretched!
by Luca Gattoni-Celli
August 22, 2013, 12:00 AM
Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language
By Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras
(Penguin, 214 pages, $15.00)
In 2010, 328,259 new books were published in the United States. Most of these, one imagines, were not very good, but probably not so bad either. For all the pallets of titles demanding neither praise nor execration, there are bound to have been a few hundred genuine clunkers. Negative criticism is as fun to write as it is to read, but most reviewers end up sinking their fangs into only one or two really bad books per publishing season. This is probably a good thing: vitriol, like vegetables, is no good canned, as it tends to be when it appears with any real frequency in the books sections of newspapers and magazines. Still, it’s undeniably the case that a lot of us—not just professional reviewers but unpaid readers of taste—enjoy reading bad writing.
Before last week it had been a while since my unusually strong appetite for rotten prose had been satisfied. Now, thanks to Ross and Kathryn Petras, I am stuffed. I have gorged myself, pigged out. In a single sitting I wolfed down 214 pages of overripe adjective, wormy dangling modifier, rancid anatomic euphemism, gamy circumlocution, and sour cliché. It was quite the feast, and now, like a pot-bellied French gastronome, all I can do is write about it.
Wretched Writing is organized along quasi-encyclopedic lines, from “adjectives, excessive use of” to “zoological sexual encounters, politician-writers and” (more on this later). Other entries include “art writing, inartistic (and often incomprehensible),” “dialogue, deadly unromantic,” “impossibilities,” “legalese,” “overwrought writing about minor things,” “prose, preposterously Proustian,” “‘said’ synonyms” (enough to drive the late Elmore Leonard to despair), “thesaurus addiction,” and “words, wrong.” There are also headings under which the Petrases collect unintentionally funny snippets from writers dead and gone. I should mention that I did not much care for these. Poor Jane Austen: how could she have foreseen the changes in denotation that would make a straightforward description of her heroine, young Catherine Morland, who at age 15 “began to curl her hair and long for balls,” ridiculous? And surely Bram Stoker should not be taken to task for writing, in 1897, that “Dr. Van Helsing rushed into the room, ejaculating furiously,” nor should Jerome K. Jerome, whose meaning in the following excerpt from Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886):
The only thing I can think about now is being hard up. I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think of this.
is surely plain even to readers of the 21st century.
Besides, even without these anachronistic cullings there is plenty here to delight readers who enjoy seeing made plain the reasons that body parts and the sexual act should probably never be described. The editors’ heading “breasts, strange” is a bit of an understatement: under it we see these organs compared to snakes, pastries, gymnastic equipment, and eyeballs; we find them behaving like flags and speakers, lungs, and grain elevators. A related section shows us a certain biological structure common to all male higher vertebrates being referred to as a salmon, a cucumber, a lump of excrement, and, in what must surely be the silliest bit of anatomical description I have ever read, a cashew, a banana, and a sweet potato—all in the course of a single John Updike sentence.
Much, much weirder than these mere culinary and agricultural metaphors is the fixation that certain politicians, pundits, and hangers-on seem to have with animal sex. If it were only a matter of Saddam Hussein rhapsodizing about female bears and their interspecies hankerings, I would be sleeping easier than I am. But Scooter Libby, in a novel written some 11 years before he was convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements to federal investigators (and reissued following his indictment), also treated the subject at some length:
At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.… “Is there feeling?” a bucktoothed man asked. “At least on the first night, after a bear?”
In the same novel, not long after this girl-on-bear incident, Libby apparently treats his readers to a passage—far too filthy for me to quote directly—involving hypothetical sexual congress with a deer. But Libby is arguably one-upped by David Brooks, whose (also hypothetical) description of “a man who buys a chicken from the grocery store, manages to bring himself to orgasm by penetrating it, then cooks and eats the chicken” in that 2011 New York Times bestseller The Social Animal went, so far as I recall, unquoted in numerous glowing reviews. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s involved description of equine mating seems tame by comparison.
Fortunately, most of Wretched Writing is given over to examples that are bad (“of poor quality”) without being bad (“morally depraved”). Plain old redundancy is funny (“To understand why the house makes money at the craps table, you have first to understand why”), as are bad logic (“Their range was, within limits, virtually unlimited”), absurd similes (“He stood trembling like a bladder of lard”), and hokey dialect (“We have ze Santa Claus een France / We see him when we get ze chance”). A cry that is “illegible” does not deserve to be heard, or rather read; and a “blue glow emancipating” from a basement probably should not be set free. The only fetish on display in the work of Irish Victorian novelist Amanda McKittrick Ros, author of, among others, Irene Iddesleigh, Delina Delaney, and Helen Huddleston, is one for the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds. A sentence like:
The living sometimes learn the touchy tricks of the traitor, the tardy and the tempted; the dead have evaded the flighty earthy future, and form to swell the retinue of retired flights, the righteous school of the invisible and the rebellious roar of the raging nothing.
might come halfway through Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada. Which brings me to an important point, namely, that, as the Petrases rightly note, wretched writing is not the exclusive province of obscure writers like the nameless shoe leather reporters quoted here or famously bad ones like Edward Bulwer-Lytton (he of “It was a dark and stormy night” fame). J.G. Ballard, William Safire, David Mitchell, Ian Fleming, Samuel Richardson, Camille Paglia, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Norman Mailer, John Ruskin, and Nabokov himself number among the otherwise well-regarded wretched writers quoted in these pages. Nor are the Petrases politically motivated: Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Sarah Palin are mocked here alongside the aforementioned Brooks, Thomas Friedman, and the anonymous Mariposa County, California bureaucrat who helpfully informed the Transportation Commission on Unmet Transit Needs that “No unmet needs exist and…current unmet needs that are being met will continue to be met.”
How any of us can possibly enjoy reading a book like Wretched Writing—to say nothing of the winning entries for the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award or the late Denis Dutton’s Bad Writing Contest—is a hard question to answer, but not, I think, as hard a question as how anyone could possibly write “The pain she felt was palpable” or “This was very significant and important,” which really is unanswerable. It may simply be that the worst prose, like the best prose—the Authorized Edition of the Bible, Gibbon, P.G. Wodehouse, Hugh Trevor-Roper—is exceedingly rare. Only Henry Adams could have written the final paragraph of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, and only Dan Brown could refer to eyebrows on every other page of Digital Fortress. As Ros herself wrote (in a rare assonance and alliteration-free sentence), “I expect that I will be talked about at the end of 1,000 years.”
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NASCAR confiscates Stewart Friesen truck before first practice
Jim Utter
Motorsport July 11, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC
NASCAR inspectors deemed the truck “unacceptable” when it was presented for inspection Thursday morning, noting there was a problem with the rear firewall placement in relation to the rear clip of the truck.
The Halmar Racing was allowed to remove the tires from the track and all driver comfort and safety equipment from the truck.
The truck has since been moved to alongside the Truck Series hauler, where it will remain until transported to NASCAR’s research and development center in Concord, N.C.
Per usual, NASCAR uncovered the vehicle-in-question for the garage to see.
51-crew chief Rudy Fugle came right over and took a picture on the interior pic.twitter.com/MdDCAZkLpG
— Alan Cavanna (@AlanCavanna) July 11, 2019
Any addition penalties regarding the truck will be announced next week.
to compete in Thursday night’s race. However, Friesen will have to start the race from the rear of the field regardless of where he qualifies.
Friesen is currently second in the series points standings with seven top-five and eight top-10 finishes in the first 12 races. He’s also won one pole. Friesen is still winless in 60 career starts.
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Buckingham Research set a $10.00 price objective on LSC Communications (NYSE:LKSD) in a research report sent to investors on Tuesday morning, TipRanks reports. The brokerage currently has a buy rating on the stock.
Other equities research analysts also recently issued reports about the company. Zacks Investment Research raised LSC Communications from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $7.25 price objective for the company in a research note on Thursday, March 21st. ValuEngine raised LSC Communications from a strong sell rating to a sell rating in a report on Thursday, May 23rd. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, two have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. The company currently has an average rating of Hold and a consensus target price of $10.56.
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LKSD stock traded down $0.14 during trading hours on Tuesday, hitting $3.67. 46,159 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 460,974. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $5.39. LSC Communications has a one year low of $3.81 and a one year high of $16.64. The firm has a market capitalization of $140.41 million, a P/E ratio of 2.98 and a beta of 1.64. The company has a current ratio of 1.13, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.24.
LSC Communications (NYSE:LKSD) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, April 30th. The company reported ($0.16) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of ($0.09) by ($0.07). LSC Communications had a negative net margin of 3.69% and a positive return on equity of 21.27%. The firm had revenue of $845.00 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $851.40 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.11 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue was down 9.0% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities research analysts anticipate that LSC Communications will post 1.21 earnings per share for the current year.
The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 4th. Investors of record on Wednesday, May 15th were given a dividend of $0.26 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, May 14th. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 28.34%. LSC Communications’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 84.55%.
Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of LKSD. Quantamental Technologies LLC acquired a new position in LSC Communications in the first quarter valued at about $48,000. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA grew its stake in LSC Communications by 75.3% in the first quarter. BNP Paribas Arbitrage SA now owns 9,229 shares of the company’s stock valued at $60,000 after acquiring an additional 3,963 shares during the period. Municipal Employees Retirement System of Michigan acquired a new position in LSC Communications in the fourth quarter valued at about $66,000. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. grew its stake in LSC Communications by 49.4% in the fourth quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 9,578 shares of the company’s stock valued at $68,000 after acquiring an additional 3,165 shares during the period. Finally, Magnus Financial Group LLC acquired a new position in LSC Communications in the fourth quarter valued at about $78,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 83.00% of the company’s stock.
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LSC Communications, Inc provides various traditional and digital print services, print-related services, and office products in the United States and internationally. It operates through Magazines, Catalogs and Logistics; Book; Office Products; and Other segments. The Magazines, Catalogs and Logistics segment produces magazines and catalogs, as well as provides logistics solutions to the company and other third parties.
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Why the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction should Oppose Oil Trains
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Thanks to Everyone who Voted for Our Campaign for Better Schools!
Recently, an oil train derailed and caught fire in northern Oregon. The train wreck occurred just 250 yards from the Mosier Community School forcing the evacuation of over 200 students. Thankfully, the train wreck occurred on a calm day with no wind. Had the train wreck occurred on a windy day, the health of over 200 students would have been placed at risk. Such "bomb trains" are a danger to anything within one mile of the train track. A study found that there are nearly 500 schools in Washington State that are within this one mile wide "blast zone" and that 158,364 students attend these schools. In this article, I will provide several reasons the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction should protect the health of our students by publicly opposing oil trains in Washington State. Please share this important article with other parents, teachers and concerned citizens. Here is an article about the Oregon train wreck.
Mosier District Fire Chief Jim Appleton said that had it been windier on the day of the derailment, "I have a high degree of confidence that the school building would have been at a minimum effected if not completely incinerated."Matt Krogh, Stand extreme oil campaign director stated: "It was luck and a windless day alone that kept the Mosier incident from turning tragic. The Union Pacific oil train that derailed and exploded in Mosier was 250 yards from a school filled with young students who heard and felt the explosion. No student, no family should have to live with that experience."
Given the immediate dangers as well as adverse health impacts of these oil trains, Stand is calling for an immediate ban on oil trains and a swift transition to clean energy. Here is a link to the study showing how many schools and students are placed at risk in Washington and Oregon by these oil bomb trains.
https://issuu.com/stand.earth/docs/schools-report-final-web
Here is a picture showing how close the school was to the burning train:
Here is a map of the bomb train routes and blast zones in Washington state:
Here is another map of the bomb train blast zone
Here is a close up of the bomb train blast zone in the Puget Sound Region
Here is the blast zone going through Seattle:
Adverse Health Effects of Oil and Coal Trains
Even if the oil trains do not actually blow up near schools, they still harm students in several ways mainly by leaking diesel and coal dust into the air. Here is a portion of a statement about these adverse health effects by a group of doctors in Whatcom County:
"The proposed coal shipping terminal at Cherry Point will mean eighteen or more one-and-a- half mile long trains traveling across the state and through our communities each day... This will result in the release of significant amounts of airborne pollutants from diesel engines and coal dust... As a group of local physicians, we are deeply concerned about the health and safety impacts of this proposal. Our careful review of the data published in peer-reviewed medical journals shows that:
Diesel particulate matter is associated with impaired pulmonary development in adolescents; increased cardiopulmonary mortality and all-cause mortality; pulmonary inflammation; increased severity and frequency of asthma attacks, ER visits, and hospital admissions in children; increased rates of heart attacks in adults; increased risk of cancer.
Coal dust is associated with chronic bronchitis; emphysema; pulmonary fibrosis; environmental contamination through the leaching of toxic heavy metals
Noise exposure causes cardiovascular disease, including increased blood pressure, arrhythmia, stroke, and heart disease; cognitive impairment in children; sleep disturbance and resultant fatigue, hypertension, arrhythmia, and increased rate of accidents and injuries; exacerbation of mental health disorders such as depression, stress and anxiety, and psychosis.
The effects of air pollution are not hypothetical, but real and measurable. Many of the reviewed studies, some of which were conducted in the Seattle area, show significant health effects of exposure to everyday airborne pollutant levels that are below national U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines. The data show a linear effect with no specific “safe threshold.” The conclusion that airborne pollutants pose a significant and measurable health risk was also found by the American Lung Association, in their review, “State of the Air 2011,”and by the American Heart Association, in their 2011 review, “Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease.” A study in 2010 by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency and the University of Washington showed that, “Diesel emissions remain the largest contributor to potential cancer risk in the Puget Sound area.”
As physicians, we feel the risks to human health from massive coal shipments across our state and through our communities are significant, and we call for a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment, in addition to an Environmental Impact Statement, addressing these issues along the entire rail corridor. While these studies are highly complex and require substantial resources and oversight, we feel they will, if done correctly, reveal that the potential for harm to human health and our environment are considerable and should not be ignored.
Key References:
American Heart Association statement
American Lung Association statement
Puget Sound Clear Air Agency document
With Respect, Whatcom Docs
Oil Trains, Coal Trains and Climate Change
Coal and oil trains will increase greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts harmful to ecosystems and biodiversity, both globally and locally. Coal exports alone would increase by 100 million tons annually. Both the coal and oil will eventually wind up in our atmosphere. The only solution to the climate change problem is to immediately end our dependence on coal and oil by moving to safer energy sources like solar power.
What you can do to stop these dangerous oil and coal trains
During the next month, hearings will be held in Vancouver and Olympia on a proposal to expand oil and coal trains. Since this is a trial like setting, no public comments will be allowed. However, the public can attend and protest at these hearings. Here are the dates and locations of the coming hearings:
June 27- 30 Vancouver, Clark College Conference Center, 18700 SE Mill Plain Blvd.
July 5-7; July 11-14; July 18-21 Olympia Red Lion Hotel, 2300 Evergreen Park Dr. SW
July 25-29 Vancouver Clark College Conference Center, 18700 SE Mill Plain Blvd.
Why the Superintendent of Public Instruction Should Oppose Oil Trains
Our one million kids are required by law to attend public school. It is essential that they be provided with a safe and health school environment. It is simply not safe to allow oil and coal trains within one mile of our public schools. We already have a huge problem in our schools with increasing asthma attacked. Deterioration of air quality from oil and coal trains would only make this problem worse.
Article 3, Section 22 of the Washington State Constitution states that the "Superintendent of Public Instruction shall supervise all matters pertaining to our public schools." Student health and safety is included in "all matters." I therefore ask not only our current superintendent but all candidates running for Superintendent to publicly oppose any oil or coal trains within one mile of any school in Washington state.
As always, I look forward to your questions and comments.
David Spring M. Ed.
Candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction
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