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Man Utd vs Chelsea
Tip: "BTTS - Yes" recomendada pelo odds 1.63
ENGLAND: Premier League
Man Utd vs Chelsea - Previsão
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Liga: ENGLAND: Premier League
Man Utd have won their last two EPL home matches against Chelsea â they've not beaten the Blues in three top-flight matches in a row at Old Trafford since January 1957 under manager Matt Busby.
Chelsea have won more EPL matches against Manchester United than any other side have in the competition (18).
Man Utd have won three of their last six meetings with Chelsea in all competitions (D1 L2), having failed to win any of the previous 12 against them (D5 L7).
Manchester United have lost three matches against London sides in the EPL this season (vs Tottenham, West Ham and Arsenal). They last lost against more different London sides in a single top-flight campaign back in 1989-90 (Arsenal, Charlton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace and Tottenham).
Chelsea have lost their last six EPL away matches against fellow âbig sixâ sides, including all four this season by an aggregate score of 1-13. Indeed, theyâre winless in eight such matches (D2 L6) since beating Tottenham 2-1 at Wembley in August 2017.
Chelsea haven't gone three EPL matches without a win since September 2016. Following that previous run, they went on a 13-match winning streak in the competition.
Anthony Martial scored twice in the reverse fixture against Chelsea this season. The only Manchester Utd players to score home and away EPL goals against Chelsea in the same season are Wayne Rooney in 2011-12 and Eric Cantona in 1992-93.
Chelsea's NâGolo Kante has scored nine goals in all competitions in his four seasons in England, with Manchester United the only side he's scored more than once against (2).
Gonzalo Higuain's four goals for Chelsea this season have been against teams currently in the bottom six. He's played five matches and 323 minutes against the top six sides in all competitions for the Blues, managing just one shot on target in those matches.
Eden Hazard has been directly involved in 10 of Chelsea's 23 EPL away league goals this season (5 goals, 5 assists), double that of any other player at the club (Ross Barkley 5).
Chelsea's six EPL wins at Old Trafford have come under six different managers (Hoddle, Gullit, Ranieri, Mourinho, Ancelotti, Benitez), with five of those victories being the manager's first such match at the ground with the Blues.
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Sea Level Rise: Human Portion is Small
31 mai 2018 Alain Préat
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D., May 25 2018 in GlobalWarming
There is a continuing debate over sea level rise, especially how much will occur in the future. The most annoying part of the news media reporting on the issue is that they imply sea level rise is all the fault of humans.
This is why the acceleration of sea level rise is what is usually debated, because sea level has been rising naturally, for at least 100 years before humans could be blamed. So, the two questions really are (1) Has sea level rise accelerated?, and (2) how much of the acceleration is due to humans?
Yesterday’s spat between Gavin Schmidt and Willis Eschenbach dealt with the question of whether sea level rise has accelerated or not. Gavin says it has. Willis says not, or at least not by a statistically significant amount. (…)
See also TOP 10 Climate Change Alarmist Myths Unearthed : #2 SEA LEVEL RISE
Fun?/DiscussionSea level
China’s CO2 Emissions Continue To Rise–Greenpeace Shocked!
by Paul Homewood, May 30, 2018 in NotaLotofPeopleknowThat
China’s carbon emissions growth has accelerated since the beginning of the year, leading to warnings that the country could be headed for its largest annual increase in climate pollution since 2011.
Led by increased demand for coal, oil and gas, China’s CO2 emissions for the first three months of 2018 were 4% higher than they were for the same period in 2017, according to an Unearthed analysis of new government figures.
Analysts have suggested the country’s carbon emissions could rise this year by 5% — the largest annual increase in seven years, back when the airpocalypse was at its peak (…)
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Coral marches to the poles
by Nicola Jones, January 11, 2011 in Nature
Corals around Japan are fleeing northwards, according to a new study. One type has been spotted ‘sprinting’ at 14 kilometres a year, thanks to a lift from ocean currents. That means ocean ecosystems could shift rapidly in the face of climate-change impacts such as warming seas, the authors say.
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When Eruptions Don’t
by Willis Essenbach, May 29, 2018 in WUWT
Inspired by Richard Keen’s interesting WUWT post on using eclipses to determine the clarity of the atmosphere, I went to the website of the Hawaiian Mauna Loa Observatory. They have some very fascinating datasets. One of them is a measurement of direct solar radiation, minute by minute, since about 1980.
I thought that I could use that dataset to determine the clarity of the atmosphere by looking at the maximum downwelling solar energy on a month by month basis. I’ve described my method of extracting the maximum solar energy from the minute by minute data in the appendix for those interested.
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Comparing the current and early 20th century warm periods in China
by Willie W.H. Soon et al., May 22, 2018 in EarthScienceReviews
Most estimates of Chinese regional Surface Air Temperatures since the late-19th century have identified two relatively warm periods – 1920s–40s and 1990s–present. However, there is considerable debate over how the two periods compare to each other. Some argue the current warm period is much warmer than the earlier warm period. Others argue the earlier warm period was comparable to the present. In this collaborative paper, including authors from both camps, the reasons for this ongoing debate are discussed. Several different estimates of Chinese temperature trends, both new and previously published, are considered. A study of the effects of urbanization bias on Chinese temperature trends was carried out using the new updated version of the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) – version 4 (currently in beta production)
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Rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
by University of Sydney, May 28, 2018 in ScienceDaily
Over millennia, the reef has adapted to sudden changes in environment by migrating across the sea floor as the oceans rose and fell.
The study published today in Nature Geoscience, led by University of Sydney’s Associate Professor Jody Webster, is the first of its kind to reconstruct the evolution of the reef over the past 30 millennia in response to major, abrupt environmental change.
The 10-year, multinational effort has shown the reef is more resilient to major environmental changes such as sea-level rise and sea-temperature change than previously thought but also showed a high sensitivity to increased sediment input and poor water quality. (…)
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Climate showdown of the decade?
by Anthony Watts, May 28, 2018 in WUWT
This manntastic event looms large. With the irascible Dr. Mann pitted against Moore and Curry, fireworks are almost guaranteed. Titley is a lightweight and he’ll be overshadowed by Mann’s huge ego and need to control the conversation. Their idea to hear a “collegial and balanced” discussion may very well be a pipe dream, especially after what happened the last time when Mann and Curry were testifying before congress.
The event is open to the public.
Fun?/DiscussionWrong Prediction(s)?
How They Sold ‘The Population Bomb’
by Donna Laframboise, May 2018 in BigPictureNews
POTLIGHT: Examining a mass market paperback.
BIG PICTURE: The Population Bomb was first published in May 1968 – 50 years ago this month. Page one of my copy, printed in 1970, describes its author as “a qualified scientist.” The back cover provides further detail: (…)
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100% Of Climate Models Prove that 97% of Climate Scientists Were Wrong!
by Eric Holthaus, May 2018 , in Climatism
Dr. Christy was 100% correct …
A landmark paper by warmist scientists in Nature Geoscience now concedes the world has indeed not warmed as predicted, thanks to a slowdown in the first 15 years of this century. One of its authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change at University College London, admits his past predictions of runaway warming were too alarmist.
“When the facts change, I change my mind. We are in a better place than I thought.”
ANOTHER author, Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at Oxford, confessed that too many of the mathematical models used by climate scientists to predict future warming “were on the hot side” — meaning they exaggerated.
“We haven’t seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models.”
Fun?/DiscussionModel(s)Wrong Prediction(s)?
2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #18
by John Harz, May 5, 2018 in SkepticalScience
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week.
Recent CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
CO2Fun?/Discussion
Solar Activity Drought: Now Only 28% Of What Is Normal…Arctic Sea Ice Volume Greater Than 2014!
by F. Bosse and F. Vahrenholt in P. Gosselin, May 25, 2018 NoTricksZone
The sun was inactive in April, as we currently find ourselves in the minimum between solar cycle (SC) 24 and the coming solar cycle 25.
The recorded mean sunspot number (SSN) for April was 8.9, which is only 28% of what is usual 113 months into a solar cycle. In April, 16 days were spotless. The following chart shows sunspot activity (…)
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Four Decades of Glacier Stability in East Antarctica
by Lovell, A.M. et al., 2017 in CO2Science, May 24, 2018
In describing their findings, Lovell et al. state that “between 1972 and 2013, 36% of glacier termini in the entire study area advanced and 25% of glacier termini retreated, with the remainder showing no discernible change outside of the measurement error (± 66 m or ± 1.6 m yr-1) and classified as ‘no change'” (see figure below). Although there were some regional differences in glacier termini changes, these regions over the last four decades were more closely linked to non-climatic drivers, such as terminus type and geometry, than any obvious climatic or oceanic forcing.”
See aslo : Terrifying Times For Climate Alarmists
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When the dinosaurs died, so did forests — and tree-dwelling birds
By Field Museum, May 24, 2018 in ScienceDaily (CurrentBiology)
Sixty-six million years ago, the world burned. An asteroid crashed to Earth with a force one million times larger than the largest atomic bomb, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. But dinosaurs weren’t the only ones that got hit hard — in a new study, scientists learned that the planet’s forests were decimated, leading to the extinction of tree-dwelling birds.
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Giant clams tell the story of past typhoons
by Hokkaido University, May 24, 2018 in ScienceDaily
A highly precise method to determine past typhoon occurrences from giant clam shells has been developed, with the hope of using this method to predict future cyclone activity.
A team of researchers led by Tsuyoshi Watanabe of Hokkaido University has discovered that giant clams record short-term environmental changes, such as those caused by typhoons, in their shells. Analyzing the shell’s microstructure and chemical composition could reveal data about typhoons that occurred before written records were available… (…)
The whole Tridacna maxima valve. The shell was cut in two sections along the maximum growth axis.
Credit: Komagoe T. et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, April 19, 2018
OrganismsStorms
biology+acidification
3 More New Papers Expose The Folly Of ‘Ocean Acidification’ Claims
by K. Richard, May 24, 2018 in NoTricksZone
Scientists claim that the ocean’s global mean surface pH may have declined (i.e., became less alkaline and thus more “acidic”) by -0.08 in the last 265 years — from 8.13 during pre-industrial times to 8.05 today. That’s an overall, long-term pH change rate of -0.0003 per year.
By way of comparison, from one season to the next, or over the course of less than a year, pH levels naturally change by twice that amount (±0.15 pH units). On a per-decade scale, oceanic pH can naturally fluctuate up and down by up to 0.6 units within a span of a decade (as shown in red below).
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Defending NCAA champion Virginia men’s basketball announced its 2019-20 non-conference schedule Wednesday (July 17). The non-conference slate features matchups versus Purdue and South Carolina, and seven games at John Paul Jones Arena…. 21 hours ago
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Virginia men’s lacrosse head coach Lars Tiffany announced that midfielder Dox Aitken, long-stick midfielder Jared Conners, midfielder John Fox and attackman Michael Kraus have been selected as captains for the 2020 season, as voted on by their peers…. 2019/07/15
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GWANGJU, South Korea – In her first-ever appearance at the FINA World Championships, NC State women’s swimming alumna Hannah Moore secured a bronze medal in the women’s open water 5K on Tuesday evening…. 2019/07/16
Chapman, Davis Set to Compete at 2019 Pan Am U20 Championships in Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — NC State will be represented by Timara Chapman and Jamar Davis as they compete for Team USA at the 2019 Pan Am U20 Championships July 18-21 in Costa Rica, while jumps coach Chris Coleman serves on the USATF men’s coaching staff…. 2019/07/16
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Championship season continues for the Wolfpack as NC State sends a group of current and former swimmers to the 18th FINA World Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. Open water competition runs July 13-19, and pool swimming events are set for July 21-28 at the Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center…. 2019/07/15
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Twitter launches advertising model
Microblogging site Twitter yesterday unveiled its long-awaited advertising program in a first step to turn the incredibly popular service into a profitable business. The ‘Promoted Tweets’ offering lets brands pay to have their tweets listed as the first result when a user conducts a search on Twitter.
Over time, Twitter plans to show the promoted tweets in the stream of messages people see when they log into the site and to allow partners from small developers to large Internet companies to display the sponsored messages as well. A handful of brands are already on board, including Starbucks, Virgin America and Best Buy, although Twitter is not yet charging for the Promoted Tweets service. The pricing model remains to be determined.
Despite being one of the most popular Internet services, Twitter has “frustrated some Twitter watchers” by its “stubborn insistence on a slow and thoughtful approach to monetisation.” In a blog posting this week, the company set standards for its new Promoted Tweets offering: “Promoted Tweets must meet a higher bar; they must resonate with users. That means if users don’t interact with a Promoted Tweet to allow us to know that the Promoted Tweet is resonating with them, such as replying to it, favouriting it, or Retweeting it, the Promoted Tweet will disappear.”
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New Political Thriller from Author Alan Weber Exposes Politicians’ Bag of Dirty Tricks
The next great American novel has arrived. In the footsteps of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “The Manchurian Candidate” comes “The Wedge,” a tale of political allegory, insight, and intrigue.
Steven Wellstone is a political scientist who is so frustrated with the way politicians use wedge issues, scapegoats, distractions, and lies to divide and manipulate the public to their benefit come election time, that he decides to do the unthinkable.
He becomes one. In a plan to expose just how vulnerable the electorate is to political manipulation, Wellstone intends to use every dirty trick in the politician’s magic bag, develop a following and then expose the truth. But as with many a ‘best laid plan’…things don’t quite work out according to said plan. Funny, infuriating, heart-wrenching, enlightening, poetic, thrilling, provocative and full of unexpected twists, The Wedge is a must-read, particularly as the pre-election madness begins to build.
About the Author: Alan M. Weber has been published under this, his real name, and under a pseudonym. His most recent published work is a children’s book on war titled “Not for Hurting”. He has also written and published a multimedia memoir with universal themes, an essay in Education Digest on “The Misdirection of Modern American Education,” and poetry. He has been a college professor for a quarter century, holding an undergraduate degree in political science and a graduate degree in education.
THE WEDGE (ISBN: 978-1-51163-127-3) is available for $10.99 and can be ordered through the publisher’s website: https://www.createspace.com or at Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com.
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9781511631273, $10.99 pbk / $4.99 Kindle, 132 pp
Synopsis: In the footsteps of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “The Manchurian Candidate” comes The Wedge, a novel of political allegory, insight and intrigue. It centers on Steven Wellstone, a political scientist who becomes so frustrated with his efforts to expose the deceit and corruption in the political system that he decides to do the unthinkable. Only things don’t quite work out as he had planned….
Critique: What extremes are necessary to break out of gridlock, or purge corruption from politics? To what lengths can one fight the system without perpetrating something even worse? A saga of high-stakes tension, unlikely gambits, and one man’s efforts to bring change at any cost, The Wedge will keep the reader guessing to the very end. Highly recommended.
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9781511631273, $10.99, 132 pp
Synopsis: “The Wedge,” by Alan M. Weber, is a deftly crafted novel of political allegory, insight and intrigue. It centers on Steven Wellstone, a political scientist who becomes so frustrated with his efforts to expose the deceit and corruption in the political system that he decides to do the unthinkable. Only things don’t quite work out as he had planned….
Critique: An absolutely absorbing read from beginning to end, “The Wedge” is a story that could be tomorrow’s headlines given the corporate corruption that is the hallmark of our congressional system today. Impressively well written with unexpected twists and turns, “The Wedge” is highly recommended for community library General Fiction collections. For personal reading lists it should be noted that “The Wedge” is also available in a Kindle edition ($4.99).
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A Great Read !!
Alan Weber is a very good writer as well as a thoughtful commentator on political matters. In The Wedge, he has tightly focused his attention on the absurd process by which we elect presidents here in the U.S. and has basically turned the process inside out. By the end I was hoping that someone in our upcoming presidential election will take the same approach as Alan’s main character.
This was a very enjoyable read, and I’m looking forward to more from this author.
By Amazon Customer on April 16, 2016
This book may awaken and expand your understanding and essential participation in an experience called Democracy.
“The Wedge” is a fascinating page turner, a must read that totally and brilliantly relates to the present political climate. I was always anxious to know the outcome until it was surprisingly revealed. I “feel the Bern” through this book and see that whatever he does will be continued in the hearts, minds and actions of each generation until we shall overcome. This book rises to the challenge.
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Another growth area in the drive for lower cost carbon fiber is the recycling option and one company pushing developments in the greater use of recycled material is UK-based ELG Carbon Fiber. ‘‘All of the recent market forecasts point to continued medium to high level growth in the carbon fiber market,’’ says managing director Frazer Barnes. ‘‘One of the main drivers for this growth is new applications in the automotive industry. This is a very cost sensitive market and we expect that the lower cost of recycled carbon fiber, combined with the supply chain security and environmental benefits, will make this an attractive option for some of these applications.
‘‘We generally see that using recycled carbon fiber has the potential to reduce the cost of the fiber by around 40 percent. In industries that use primarily carbon fiber tow, such as the compounding industry, this cost reduction is realized directly. Where there are further conversion steps required, such as producing a nonwoven fabric, the actual cost reduction can range from 20–40 percent. What we hear from the market is that these cost reductions, coupled with security of supply for high volumes of material with stable pricing, significantly increases the attractiveness of carbon fiber for the automotive and other transportation markets.’’
Regarding the main trends and influences driving further development of recycled carbon fiber, Frazer Barnes believes that continued product testing is key to demonstrate performance and the development of design and manufacturing guidelines, particularly for the composites industry. ‘‘In general, the composites industry is not yet aware enough of the potential for the use of recycled carbon fiber,’’ he says. ‘‘However, this is mainly because it is still a young part of the composites industry, and until recently there were not suitable product forms or design and manufacturing data available for the industry to be able to make good use of these materials.
‘‘There are significant challenges in handling recycled carbon fiber materials in downstream conversion processes, and this has been one of the main barriers to the development of suitable product forms. We have actually had a very robust process for recovering high quality fiber, with little degradation compared to virgin carbon fiber, for many years, but the challenge has been developing ways of getting this back to the market.’’
Carbon fiber reclamation firstly requires metal removal and the cutting of large composite structures to sizes suitable for downstream processing. In addition, shredding of laminates and prepreg enables efficient and consistent processing. Fiber recovery is via a modified pyrolysis process. Carbon fiber conversion is then through milling, nonwoven mat production and production of pellets.
Successful recycling of carbon fiber requires a number of hurdles to be overcome. ‘‘The major challenge is dealing with the complex nature of the waste streams,’’ Barnes explains. ‘‘Even relatively clean waste streams from composites manufacturing still contain resins of varying chemical composition and unwanted materials such as paper or plastic backing films, and the recycling process has to be optimized to ensure the complete removal of these unwanted materials without damaging the fibers. The second challenge is classification of the fibers. The composites industry has grown up with a wide variety of carbon fiber grades available from different manufacturers. Although the recycling process has only a small effect on the properties of the fiber, it is not desirable to retain the original fiber designation after fiber recovery. ELG has addressed this by introducing a generic classification system based on the Young’s modulus and tensile strength range of the recovered fibers.
‘‘The final challenge regarding carbon fiber recycling is to do with the development of the business. The major barrier that must be overcome is one faced by all new materials – lack of knowledge about mechanical properties and processing characteristics, and lack of large-scale demonstrators that prove the economic, technical and environmental justification for using these materials. Whilst there are a number of projects that are addressing these issues, the push from the manufacturing side of the supply chain to find a solution to its carbon fiber waste problem generally is not matched by a pull from the design side of the supply chain to find ways of using recycled carbon fiber products.’’
Frazer Barnes adds that the company now has a good under- standing of the performance of recycled carbon fiber materials in compounds and composites. He says that the next steps are to enhance performance further through product optimization, and to get an understanding of the long-term performance of recycled carbon fiber materials. ELG is undertaking this through internal R&D programmers, as well as working with UK universities including Warwick, Nottingham, Bristol and Oxford Brookes.
ELG Carbon Fiber has currently developed five products from reclaimed fibers. Carbiso TM MF is a milled random short length carbon fiber used to make thermoplastic and thermoset com- pounds and for additive manufacturing processes. The main benefits conferred by milled fibers are increased stiffness, higher electrical and thermal conductivity and reduced coefficient of thermal expansion. CarbisoTM CT chopped tow is a precision chopped virgin carbon fiber product with 6 mm and 12 mm fiber lengths that are claimed to be a good reinforcement for thermo- plastic injection molding compounds, cements, elastomers and coatings. Chopped tow offers higher structural and electrically
conductive properties than ELG’s milled fibers. The lightly sized fibers are compatible with most thermoset and thermoplastic matrices.
In 2017, the company is launching CT+. In comparison to the standard chopped tow CT product, this new plus version is characterized by improved flowability for ‘easy dosing’ in gravimetric feeding systems for plastic compounding. CarbisoTM MB carbon fiber masterbatch products will be fully commercialized in 2017. These pelletized products are made from chopped fibers that ELG Carbon Fiber converts for use in the compounding industry. These smaller sized pellets make them easy to dose, contain less dust when handled and are more consistent to work with.
CarbisoTM M nonwoven mats are produced from 100% recycled carbon fiber and can be processed by conventional composite techniques to manufacture structural and semi-structural parts. CarbisoTM TM hybrid nonwoven mats combine carbon fibers with thermoplastic fibers such as PP and PA. The company says that CarbisoTM M and CarbisoTM TM isotropic mats are easy to handle, drape able and compatible with most thermoset and thermoplastic polymers and deliver good mechanical properties. They are avail- able in standard 100–600 gsm weights and widths up to 2.7 m. To offer customers total flexibility and an entirely tailored solution, the mats can also be manufactured to bespoke pecifications.
‘‘ELG Carbon Fiber views high volume transportation applications as the key emerging market that could best benefit from the company’s products and services,’’ concludes Frazer Barnes. ‘‘If the vehicles of the future are manufactured from increased quantities of recycled carbon fibers, these lightweight structures will be more cost effective and in turn reduce CO2 emissions, increase compliance with fuel economy regulations and also support the European Union (EU) end-of-life-vehicle (ELV) directive.’’
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History of Papier Mache Dolls
Debbie Andrews, an avid doll collector and member of the Doll Club of Great Britain, shares her knowledge on the history of papier mache dolls.
Added: September 7, 2002
Papier mache dolls have been around for a few hundred years. They can be in the form of puppets, including hand, string and larger than life size, baby dolls, fashion dolls, boy dolls and the creche dolls made for the Christmas crib scenes. In doll language it is material of the head which defines the whole doll so a papier-mache doll need only have a head that is actually made from papier mache and the body can be made of cloth, leather, wood or composition.
Papier mache dolls come under the collective term of composition which also includes celluloid and numerous others. It is sometimes hard to know when a doll is made of papier mache or composition but in general terms papier mache dolls are basically made of paper pulp plus other substances whilst composition dolls are made from wood pulp plus other substances. Confusion still reigns as some dolls’ bodies are referred to as composition when in fact they are made from papier mache.
In a late 19th century dictionary papier mache is defined as “a tough plastic material made from paper pulp containing an admixture of size, paste, oil, resin or other substances or from
sheets of paper glued and pressed together”.
One of the first references to papier mache dolls can be found in the Histoire des Jouets et Jeux D’enfants by Fournier where it seems that from the time of Francis 1 of France (ca.1540) doll makers always used a mixture of clays, paper and plaster called carton-pierre (literally stone pasteboard). This mixture was worked together and pressed into molds, backed by coarse paper and dried by steam. By the 18th century German communities, including Sonneberg and Nurnberg, were making papier mache dolls alongside the towns of France.
Around 1810 it was discovered that papier-mache dolls could be mass produced cheaply in moulds by a pressure process. As the dolls were mainly made of waste materials they could be produced quite cheaply.
One account of the doll making process states that when released from the molds the papier mache heads were smoothed, the two halves joined with glue and then the whole was painted with a mixture of limewash and ground colours and allowed to dry. The eyes, lips and hair were then painted and a coat of varnish applied. Whilst the cheeks were still sticky they were painted with fine carmine or Florentine lacquer. Sometimes, to save money, the coat of varnish was left off. This made the dolls head almost impossible to clean.
By the 1820’s papier mache heads were used extensively on a body made of kid leather which had carved wooden limbs. These dolls were known as milliners models or coiffure dolls - in fact an early form of fashion doll and by the mid 19th century the papier mache dolls had reached the height of their popularity.
In 1858 Ludwig Greiner, a famous dollmaker, patented a doll’s head which used white paper, Spanish whiting, rye flour, glue and paste reinforced with linens and muslin.
Around 1870 papier mache began to be used for jointed bodies which were used well into the 20th century.
Below are some examples of early 20th Century papier mache dolls from my own collection:
Ralph - small baby doll
A small baby doll made entirely of papier mache with painted features. His jointed body is held in place with metal springs. He is unmarked so a maker cannot be identified. He is wearing the original shift in which he would have been sold. He was probably made in the 1930's or 40's. At the time he would have been an inexpensive doll.
A boy doll with the head and lower half of the arms and legs made of papier mache. He has moulded and painted features and his body is cloth stuffed with wood shavings. Again, he is unmarked and made about the 1930's. He is also wearing the underclothes he would have been sold in and would again have been a cheap doll to produce.
Jack - baby doll
Elsa - large baby doll
A large baby doll with just the head made out of papier mache. Her sleeping eyes are large and made of glass. She is attached to a cloth body. Once again she is unmarked and unidentifed. She was made in the 1930's or 40's. She has been dressed in an old christening gown but may originally have worn a simpler shift or gown.
Soon ceramic and other types of composition heads were to become more popular and the demand for papier-mache heads began to decline.
Papier-mache doll heads could have closed mouths or open mouths with teeth made form bamboo, painted eyes or inserted glass eyes, bald heads with wigs made from mohair or human hair or elaborately moulded hairstyles in the fashions of the day. Sometimes these hairstyles were so involved that they were made from 8-10 part molds all skilfully joined together. The doll’s heads themselves could be attached to wood, cloth, leather, papier-mache or composition bodies.
Many of these charming dolls survive today and make interesting additions to collections whether they are in doll, social history or papier-mache collections.
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Lee Enterprises' news release buries second quarter earnings number on second page, 17th paragraph
on Thu, 05/16/2019 - 21:26 by news
Lee Enterprises – owner of the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus – reported its second quarter earnings last week (5/10), but readers had to plow through 16 paragraphs of information to find the financial bottomline buried at end of page two of the news release.
The company lost $2.7 million, 5 cents a share, in the second quarter ended March 31, compared with a gain of $2.2 million, 4 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. When including re-valuation of company stock warrants, earnings totaled $75,000, compared with $1.7 million, 3 cents per share, a year ago.
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Lee Enterprises, Inc. touts 8 percent increase in digital revenue during first quarter, but total company revenues fell more than 5 percent from a year ago
on Sat, 02/09/2019 - 01:30 by news
Lee Enterprises, Inc. – owner of the Dispatch/Argus and QC Times newspapers – Thursday (2/7) reported first quarter earnings of $10.7 million, or 18 cents per cent share, while touting its 8 percent increase in digital advertising revenue from a year ago.
Despite the improved performance of digital advertising, Lee's total revenue fell 5.3 per cent to $136 million for the three-month period. Digital advertising now accounts for nearly 34 percent of the media company's total ad revenues, according to the Lee news release.
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Proxy battle heats up for three Lee board seats
on Wed, 01/30/2019 - 21:49 by news
An activist shareholder who owns nearly 5 percent of Lee Enterprises, Inc. stock has stepped up his proxy fight to oust three board members – including the board chairman and the CEO/president of the Davenport-based media company.
J. Cano Cannell who operates Cannell Capital LLC Monday (1/28) filed additional reasons his firm is seeking to replace Board Chairman Mary Junck, CEO/President Kenneth Mowbray and board member Herbert Maloney at Lee's February 20 board meeting.
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Activist investor seeks to remove three from Lee Enterprises' board, including chairman and CEO
A Wyoming-based activist investor – who has publicly feuded with James Cramer of CNBC's "Mad Money" – wants Lee Enterprises, Inc. shareholders to replace three members of the Davenport media company's board of directors, including chairman Mary Junck and President/CEO Kevin Mowbray.
J. Caro Cannell in a filing Wednesday (1/16/19) with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) labeled the Lee board "stale, lethargic and devoid of any skin in the game." He urged shareholders not to re-elect Junck, Mowbray and board member Herbert W. Maloney III at the upcoming Lee annual meeting in February. Lee owns 46 daily newspapers, including the QC Times and the Dispatch/Argus.
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Lee Enterprises' print circulation falls another 8 percent; company looks to future 'inflection point' where digital revenue will surpasses print ad dollars
Lee Enterprises, Inc. Executive Chairman Mary Junck told stock analysts last week the media company – owner of the Quad City Times and Dispatch/Argus – remains "steadfast in our optimism" with "a growth strategy aimed at achieving a digital inflection point when digital-related revenues exceed print-related revenues."
The company also reported higher earnings for the fourth quarter ($4.4 million versus $3.5 million a year ago) and for the full fiscal year ($28.6 million versus $18.4 million) ended Sept. 30.
The positive comments and financial results, though, weren't enough to lift the firm's stock price, which fell to a 52-week low of $1.87 Tuesday (12/18).
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Lee Enterprises operating revenue falls 4.8 percent in third quarter; per share earnings decline 27 percent
Despite gains in its digital advertising revenues, Lee Enterprises, Inc. today (8/3) reported overall operating revenues in the third quarter fell nearly 5 percent and net income per share was off 27 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
Lee – owner of the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus newspapers – had net income of $4.75 million (8 cents per share) for the three-month period ended June 24, compared with $6.29 million (11 cents per share) a year ago.
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Lee Enterprises signs deal to manage Berkshire Hathaway's newspaper, digital operations
on Tue, 06/26/2018 - 20:14 by news
Lee Enterprises – owner of the Quad City Times and 48 other media properties – today (6/26) announced it has agreed to a five-year deal to manage Berkshire Hathaway's newspapers and digital operations in 30 markets.
Davenport-based Lee would be paid $5 million a year by GH Media, plus "a significant percentage of profits over benchmarks," according to the company's news release.
Lee stocked jumped 62 cents, nearly 26 percent, to $3.03 per share in early morning trading.
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Lee reports lower revenues, earnings in 2nd quarter
Lee Enterprises – owner of the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus newspapers – today (5/3) reported lower revenues and earnings for the second quarter despite "strong performance in digital retail."
Second quarter earnings were $2.5 million, 4 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 25, compared with $6.4 million, 11 cents per share, for the same period a year ago, according to the company news release.
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Lee Enterprises reports earnings increase thanks to $19.7 boost from one-time income tax adjustment
Lee Enterprises – owner of the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus newspapers – today (2/1) reported higher net income and earnings for the first quarter ended Dec. 24, thanks primarily to a $19.7-million income tax adjustment stemming from the recently passed federal tax reform legislation.
The Davenport-based media company reported net income for the first quarter of $35.3 million with $19.7 million of that total coming from a one-time adjustment to its deferred tax assets and liabilities to reflect the lowering of the federal base tax rate from 35 to 21 percent.
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10 years of swimming against the digital currents leaves Lee Enterprises, Inc. at half its former self
Back in 2007, Lee Enterprises, Inc. – owner of the Quad City Times and now the Dispatch/Argus – reported daily circulation of just over 1.6 million at its 51 newspapers. Today, that number is down to 788,000 at 47 newspapers, according to the company's latest annual report filed Friday (12/8).
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Relearning Yourself - How photography and digital media changed my life
One of the most amazing parts of teaching is being constantly reminded why it is you do what you do.
As part of the Outside the Lens team, I am currently out of my traditional structured High School classroom element and over the past three weeks have been trekking throughout downtown La Jolla teaching multiple age ranges in multiple locations. The experience has had its challenges --lugging heavy equipment around in the San Diego summer heat, memorizing a new group of names and faces each week, balancing the brain from your high school vernacular and toning it down to your middle school speak --but nonetheless rewarding. It has proven to me that really in any circumstance as a teacher, no matter the type of student or the age range, that I can succeed and achieve rave reviews from students and parents. All this at the same time learning a completely new part of San Diego and finding a way to navigate through it (thank you NYC for conditioning me for this).This has lead me in some awesome spaces including the Coast Room of the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla and the La Jolla Historical Society.
This summer I have been teaching a little of everything - The Big Picture ( aNature and Architectural Photography class, to Street Photography, to a new class I created called #Trending. I have been able to collectively tap into the resources that inspired me as a youth, all the while learning to hone and perfect the craft myself. In the Big Picture it was the work of artists such as the famed Ansel Adams and Julius Schulman who inspired us me in films like Visual Acoustics where Schulman explains how elements like adding people to his work really helped it take off and showcase a time past. The trailer for Visual Acoustics below and the full movie can be found on Hulu for free at http://www.hulu.com/watch/678465 .
On the nature spectrum we visited the work of world renowned photographer, Peter Lik, and with the help of Krystal Lawler, the Gallery Director for the Peter Lik Gallery we were able to engage in our own personal tour of the collection.
As my work began in fashion and portraiture it was fun to become a tourist along with my students and document the sites here in San Diego. Heres a few shots I got that I really love.
For Street Photography it was artists like Scott Schuman aka The Satorialist (whom I've had the opportunity to meet several times during NYFW with IMG Models) where I learned the principles and building blocks of my own website and ideology, the work behind starting your own website, the hours behind the scenes, and the laborious task of making sure you are sticking to the script EVERY day. Intels video for Mr. Schuman has always been a source of inspiration for myself as I began learning the fashion and street landscape so it was none other than imperative that I showed the clip.
In #trending I was given the task of teaching the social media landscape to middle school students in a way that empowers them to create content and share, but with caution and with purpose. To question the students with things like filters for their photographs and challenge them to understand why we hashtag, if a filter is necessary or important to a photograph, and examine what items and elements make a video/photo successful via social media. For the answers I looked to brands that have dedicated themselves meticulously and with much success to their social efforts such as a formed company I had worked for like IMG models, and how they use the page to document of the moment information as well as the videos of Levi Maestro, a young entrepreneur I had the pleasure of meeting at Reed Space in New York City a few years ago. Levi also is a self made photographer/videographer who started from humble beginnings documenting moments with his friends which lead him to success in the digital field all through the promotion he put out there on platforms like vimeo, instagram, twitter etc. In this class I was able to put my extensive knowledge of social media marketing to the task with years of experience from both companies big and small, trial and error as an entrepreneur for my own sites and ideas, and studies from San Diego resources such as Immersive Youth, a youth marketing agency that regular publishes tips and tricks to reach young audience viewership.
Levi and Alex circa 2012 at Reed Space
Learning new things is one of my favorite things to do. But there is something to be said about revisiting a topic you have already learned. It can make it feel new; feel fresh. For me, having the opportunity to relearn photography and media and disect it on the stage for each age group has been a learning experience for me as well. Passion, even the strongest kind, can fade. But only if you let it. The secret is to discover and remember and find new reasons why you love doing something everyday. Hell I think thats the secret to life.
Tell everyone.
O ya and we had some fun in slowmo. Shout out to Hilary from Outside the Lens for the edit.
P.S. Special thank you to Outside the Lens for giving me the opportunity to teach what I want in these amazing locations, to MCASD and the La Jolla Historical Society for allowing us to use your facilities and show the students why La Jolla is so amazing!
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Posted January 21, 2017 by Dani in Convince Me To Read, Features, Reviews // 0 Comments
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While we all have fairly similar tastes, sometimes we need a little push to read a certain book. The Convince Me to Read Review will be a review of the novel plus a section on why we think the other would enjoy it.
This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.
Transcendence by Shay Savage
Published by CreateSpace on February 14th 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Historical Fiction
Amazon ♡ TBD
It’s said that women and men are from two different planets when it comes to communication, but how can they overcome the obstacles of prehistoric times when one of them simply doesn’t have the ability to comprehend language?
Ehd’s a caveman living on his own in a harsh wilderness. He’s strong and intelligent, but completely alone. When he finds a beautiful young woman in his pit trap, it’s obvious to him that she is meant to be his mate. He doesn’t know where she came from; she’s wearing some pretty odd clothing, and she makes a lot of noises with her mouth that give him a headache. Still, he’s determined to fulfill his purpose in life – provide for her, protect her, and put a baby in her.
Elizabeth doesn’t know where she is or exactly how she got there. She’s confused and distressed by her predicament, and there’s a caveman hauling her back to his cavehome. She’s not at all interested in Ehd’s primitive advances, and she just can’t seem to get him to listen. No matter what she tries, getting her point across to this primitive, but beautiful, man is a constant – and often hilarious – struggle.
With only each other for company, they must rely on one another to fight the dangers of the wild and prepare for the winter months. As they struggle to coexist, theirs becomes a love story that transcends language and time.
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I’m going to tell you all to read this now, not because this book is amazing, but because it’s so bizarre that it needs to be shared. And, despite being weird as hell, it wasn’t all that bad. The writing was good enough and the story crazy enough that I had to read it.
Let’s break it down, shall we? TRANSCENDENCE is about a girl that goes back in time accidentally to the days of hunter-gatherer cavemen. Ehd, the hero of the story, is a caveman. Beth, or Beh in ye olden days, is from now, or rather slightly in the future because, yo, time travel. Ehd is going about, minding his own business, trying to survive on his own after a tragedy struck his tribe, when lo and behold, there’s a girl covered in weird material and making lots of noise. What’s a guy to do other than to throw the girl over his shoulder and carry her home to his cave? Hmmmmmmm?
What does Beth do? She mopes about but then slowly gets her act together to survive. What doesn’t she do? Freak out enough. Sure, she freaks out on that first day, but then the most she does after that is cry. I’m sorry, but if I found myself back in that time, I would break down. Don’t tell me you guys wouldn’t do the same if you were suddenly the only Homo sapien around, surrounded by prehistoric people and animals and plants and no plumbing. Y’all know I’m right.
The whole book, aside from an epilogue, is told from Ehd’s point of view. Bear in mind that Ehd doesn’t understand language, so there’s no dialogue in this other than “Beh”, “Ehd” and “kiss” (because of course that’s the one word that Beth is able to teach him). It makes for an interesting and hilarious read, as Ehd is mostly concerned with getting food and wood, and, well, impregnating Beth. He’s obsessed with putting a baby in her. I almost went mad with how many times I had to read about him putting a baby in her.
But let’s think about this rationally. The carbon dating dates in the book are 164,230-164,235, and while I’m not entirely sure what that means (164,230BC? 162,214BC?), it goes back to before the Neolithic period (beginning around 10,000BC), as they’re not really doing the whole agriculture thing yet. Y’ALL, THIS AIN’T RIGHT. These two should not being hooking up. But Beh, instead of trying to figure out how she got stuck in the past, eventually warms to this caveman. THIS IS CRAZY. GUYS. CRAZY.
I mean, it was really cute at times, and I actually really loved reading a lot of it just because I have an interest in evolution and ancient history. BUT CRAZY. Depending on how far back in time this went, these two should not be hooking up or procreating or anything. Them children be wack.
Quickly touching on the fact that there is time travel on this… This is not science fiction. Yes, ok, time travel, you cry. Fine, there is that, but there is no real explanation for how it happened, and no one really tries to sort it out. This book is firmly in the romance category.
Overall, LOL. Read it.
I think Jamie, and everyone else, should read TRANSCENDENCE so we can all have a giant WTF party.
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When an earthquake shook Lisbon in 1755, the shock waves could be felt as far away as Loch Ness.
More than 25 per cent of the world’s forests are in Siberia.
Over 800 different languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Every day, 8.5 million tons of water evaporate from the Dead Sea.
The shoreline of the Dead Sea is the lowest place on Earth. If the Empire State Building were situated on the shore of the Dead Sea , only the top of its mast would actually be above sea level.
Bird droppings are the chief export of the Pacific island of Nauru.
Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. Its government offices are all in the Yaren District but no single place has been declared the capital.
The first municipal dump in the world was in Athens, around 500 BC.
New Zealand was the first country to give women the vote, in 1893.
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 10,000 square miles without a single tree.
In the Falkland Islands , there are 350 sheep for every person.
The city of Istanbul straddles two continents – Europe and Asia.
Tonga once issued a postage stamp in the shape of a banana.
Roads on the Pacific island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand, all the “sand” on the beaches being ground coral. So this coral sand is used for mixing concrete rather than going to the expense of importing real sand from other countries.
Only around 35 per cent of Iraqi women are literate.
The St Gotthard road tunnel under the Swiss Alps is almost twice as long as the height of Mt Everest.
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as people.
Bath water in Australia flows around the plug-gole in an anti-cloaackwise direction.
Mount Everest is 1ft higher than it was in 1900.
There is a law still on the books in Milan which requires citizens to smile at all times in public or risk a hefty fine. Exemptions include visiting patients in hospital or attending funerals.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Australia is the fifth largest country in the world but its population is smaller than that of Seiul, the capital of South Korea.
More capital cities begin with B than any other letter.
Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have access to a bomb shelter.
There is only one tractor in the entire country of Tuvalu in the Pacific Ocean.
As recently as 1974, more people went to East Germany for their holidays than to Greece.
The average depth of the North Sea is only 180 ft. The average depth of the Pacific is nearly 14,000ft.
An undersea river, the Cromwell Current, flows eastwards beneath the Pacific for 4000 miles along the equator. It is 190 miles wide and is 1300 ft deep in places. Its volume is 1,000 times that of the Mississippi.
The Berlin bunker where Hitler committed suicide is now a car park.
The principality of Monaco is smaller than New York City ’s Central Park.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
There are more post offices in India than anywhere else in the world.
You don’t have to pay to past letter in Andorra.
There are 158 verses in the Greek national anthem.
A gold nugget found in Australia in 1869 weighed over 150lb – as much as a grown man.
Internet access in Burma is restricted by anti-modem laws. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.
The Canary Islands were named after dogs, not birds. In Roman times, the islands were known for the wild dogs which roamed there. The Latin word for “dog” is “canis” and so they were christened the Canary Islands. When explorers visited the islands in the 16 th century, they brought home pretty little singing birds which they had found there and which they duly named “canaries”.
A church in the Czech republic houses a chandelier made of human bones.
An estimated 120 million cubic feet of snow fell in an avalanche in the Italian Alps in 1885.
In Bhutan , all citizens become a year older on new year’s Day.
Six million years ago, the Mediterranean was a desert. But then the Atlantic Ocean burst through the strip of land connecting Europe and Africa to form the new sea.
There are nearly 850 different dialects in India. Of the population of over 850 million, only around 160 million understand Hindi.
The first letter of every continent’s name is the sames as the last – Africa , America , Antartica, Asia , Australasia and Europe.
The only two countries, whose names start with an “A” but don’t end with an “A” are Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
There are more Maltese people in Melbourne , Australia , than there are in Malta.
In Bangladesh , pupils as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating in exams.
The smallest island in the world to have country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia. The main island measures just 1.75 sq miles.
New Zealand has more pipe bands per head than any other country in the world.
There are no turkeys in Turkey.
As a result of movement in the Continental plates, Iceland is getting bigger each year. And it’s estimated than in a million years’ time, the Atlantic will be 25 miles wider than it is today.
Until 1984 Belgians had to choose their children’s names from an official list of 1500 drawn up in the days on Napoleon.
The Maldives has the highest marriage rate per head in the world.
In most countries, if you nod your head it mean “yes”. But in Bulgaria and Albania it means “no”.
Estonia has more accidents per head than any other country.
New Zealand ins the only country which has every climate in the world.
In Turkey the colour if mourning is violet, not black.
There is a place in Norway called A… one in Japan called O … and one in France called Y.
There is also a town in Norway called Hell … and one is Newfoundland called Dildo.
Canada banned national beauty contests in 1992, saying they were degrading to women.
No woman or female animal is permitted to set foot on Mount Athos in Macedonian Greece.
Women in Iceland don’t change their surname when they get married.
The people of Liechtenstein once held a referendum to decide where a public toilet should be situated.
Chasing a chicken through town naked used to be the punishment for a Frenchwoman who had committed adultery.
For 2000 years, the distance a cow’s moo travelled was used as a unit of measurement in India.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
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9-9-12 (@ St. Louis)
Sunday was a 1:15 start and I got up at 9:30 to take advantage of the hot breakfast that is offered. It’s normally a $15 breakfast but the Hilton St. Louis Downtown gave me two vouchers for the mornings I was there. Thanks again for everything! I should’ve gotten the waffles on Saturday morning as well. Delicious.
After eating breakfast I started getting everything packed for the trip home. I put my suitcase in my car and then walked to Busch Stadium. I picked up my ticket from will call at noon and was inside two minutes later. I debated where I should get the game number picture taken. I normally try to get a picture taken from the outfield seats looking in towards home plate but this is sometimes a boring picture. With the sky as blue as it was I decided on another picture from the upper deck behind home plate. I had already gotten this for game photo number 21 but as you can see the top half was all washed out due to the overcast skies.
Sunday’s game photo number 140 turned out much better:
I walked around for a bit and talked to a camera guy on the field level about getting an interview during the broadcast. He said if he mentioned it to the producer he would get shot down but said there would be a lady stopping by that could talk to the announcers. She stopped by after the game started but said that she wouldn’t be able to influence Sunday’s broadcast because they already had everything planned; darn. She also said that I should’ve stopped by on Friday and they may have been able to do something; double darn.
Joe Kelly threw a strike to Aoki to get the series finale underway. This was the view from my seat in section 153, it was a perfect day for baseball.
Aoki doubled on the 5th pitch of his at bat and had thought about trying for a triple. He returned to second base but the cutoff man couldn’t handle the throw, meaning Aoki probably would’ve made it safely (hindsight is 20/20 though).
The Brewers failed to score in the 1st despite the leadoff double which was a problem all game. As a team the Brewers were 2 for 14 with runners in scoring position. In the bottom of the 1st the Cardinals scored three runs. Two on a home run from Matt Holliday and the other on a home run from Carlos Beltrán. Marcum was on the mound and here he is after letting go of a pitch in the 1st inning:
A wild pitch from Kelly in the top of the 2nd allowed Corey Hart to score and the game was now 3-1. The bottom of the second saw the Cardinals get that run right back when Matt Carpenter doubled home Kelly. In the top of the 4th Jean Segura batted with runners on first and second and two outs. The first pitch he saw was weakly hit to center but just out of the reach of the second baseman.
It sounded like Segura cracked his bat on the base hit, but I wasn’t sure. I zoomed in on the picture and it does look like it’s fractured just above his hands, no? Nonetheless it was a 4-2 game.
Marcum followed Segura and had a chance to do some damage with two men aboard. He lined the first pitch towards the right field line:
I like that the ball looks like it’s almost resting on Marcum’s head. The first baseman ranged to his left and made the catch before the ball could reach the outfield. At least one run would’ve scored and with Segura’s speed at first who knows, they may have been able to tie it up.
There were no more runs scored as the game entered the top of the 9th inning. I watched the top of the 9th from above the left field bleachers so that when the game ended I could use the exit right behind me and be on my way. I was still hoping the Brewers would score two or more runs in the 9th but I didn’t want to get stuck behind people as I made my way to my car.
With one out Segura doubled off the Cardinals’ closer, Jason Motte. With two outs Aoki stepped in and the count went to 2-2. Down to his (and the Brewers’) last strike Aoki hit the 99 MPH pitch from Motte over the wall in right for a game-tying 2-run home run. It either bounced on the top of the wall and over or hit the railing beyond the wall, but it was close. It was a line drive so I wasn’t sure if it was going to “get up, get up, get out of here” or not.
The Cardinals failed to score in the 9th and the game went to extras. Travis Ishikawa singled with two outs in the 10th and was pinch run for by Eric Farris, who is a recent September call-up. Farris stole second and put himself in scoring position.
Lucroy struck out on four pitches and another scoring opportunity was squandered. In the bottom of the 10th Matt Carpenter singled off Kameron Loe with one out. Loe got Adron Chambers to swing and miss at a 2-2 slider for the strikeout. Lucroy couldn’t coral the low pitch, however, and it got by him [scorer ruled it a wild pitch]. Instead of a guy on first and two outs there were now runners on first and second with only one out. Allan Craig came to the plate for the Cards and hit the 0-1 pitch to right field. Aoki fielded it cleanly and made a nice throw to the plate. Carpenter executed a perfect head-first slide and the Cardinals were walk-off winners. Ugh. Final Score: Cardinals 5 – Brewers 4. The Brewers would have been 4 back of the Cardinals with a win but instead are 6 back, ouch.
I hustled back to my car and left the parking garage just after 4:45. I had called my Aunt and Uncle who live in Springfield earlier in the day and said I could stop by for dinner. I was parked at 6:10 and was able to watch the last quarter of the Packers game, which they wound up losing 30-22. Besides the Brewers win on Saturday it was a tough two days for Wisconsin sports fans. Badgers loss + Packers loss + Brewers loss in a crucial game = a depressing drive home. Thanks Dave for making me a few burgers and some broccoli. I pulled into my parent’s driveway at 11:18 to complete the 7-day 7-game road trip. This means I’m down to my last trip, albeit a 10-day 10-game eastward swing.
It’s past 12:30 on Monday afternoon and I’ll be leaving in a few hours for the first game of a three game set with the wild card leading Braves.
Rootsports Pittsburgh sent me two DVDs with the interview that I did with Dan Potash on August 26th. I’ve included it below. It was a little awkward at the end there when the cameraman just stuck around and got footage of me waving (and smiling). I thought it all was a little close-up, but that also prevents people from photo-bombing in the background. Thanks again to Rootsports for having me on their broadcast. I’m not a big fan of what one of the announcers says about Miller Park, but to each his own.
Time inside Busch Stadium: 4 hours 37 minutes
Driving miles: 346.3
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A new blockchain-powered startup led by three physical scientists promises to paint the world in diamond dust.
DUST Identity’s service, known as DUST Ledger, allows users to enroll all manner of physical objects onto a blockchain, the founders claim. The system uses a product called the Diamond Unclonable Security Tag (DUST), a coating that uniquely identifies an object when it’s placed under a scanner. The coating is tagged to the specific object, be it a shipping container or transistor, allowing users to track the product’s provenance around the world, DUST Identity says.
The team announced Monday that it is now part of the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain, allowing that service’s enterprise users to paint their objects and enroll them on the ledger at will. Plans start at $3,600 a month for users who want to try the tech.
The company previously raised $2.3 million from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and also got cash from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, for its work in logistics and tracking.
One of the co-founders, Ophir Gaathon, has a deep background in diamond materials and received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University. His partners, MIT professor>Dirk Englund, and MIT Ph.D. Jonathan Hodges, have backgrounds in quantum photonics and optical system design, respectively.
Initially, they joined forces to figure out how to use diamonds in quantum computers.
“It was clear that there are several very interesting applications that can be greatly impacted by the use of diamonds,” said Gaathon. “However, we realized that, for any commercial application, there are three fundamental things that we need to tackle first: know how to make and nanoengineer diamonds at scale, how develop the hardware technology that can ‘talk’ to our diamonds, and how to build an intuitive software interface platform that will enable any user to extract value from our diamonds.”
For the third part, DUST turned to the blockchain – specifically, a private one built using the Hyperledger Fabric platform.
“We started to look at the security threats facing supply chains – specifically how electronic parts that can jeopardize defense platforms and critical assets,” said Gaathon. “We found that, in many cases, the issue (and cause of friction) is that the parts or the data about the parts (or both) are difficult or impossible to identify, link, and trust. Trusted physical identity was simply missing. So we decided to build it. And that’s how DUST was born.”
DUST competes with other, more-established products like near-field communication (NFC) tags and other nano-coatings. But if the blockchain lives up to its promises, perhaps in the near future diamonds will be a logistician’s best friend.
DUST scanner image via DUST Ledger
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2017 Hyundai Ioniq EV hybrid
written by Gabriel Forest September 23, 2016
The brand new electric model by Hyundai is a first in car manufacturing. The car is available as a hybrid, a plug-in hybrid or with an all-electric drivetrain. Even the most popular of eco-friendly vehicles, the Toyota Prius, only offers the hybrid and plug-in hybrid options. Now Hyundai goes as far as offering three engine options. This makes the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq the first ever production car to do so. Is this wider range of engine choices enough to lure some of the Prius drivers towards the new Ioniq? Or is it the friendlier price that needs to do the trick? Let’s find out in this review of the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq.
First of all, the end-product of the Ioniq is actually more similar to the Toyota Prius than to the Ioniq concept car. Of course, the concept car was quite aggressive and probably not so buyer-friendly. That’s why Hyundai decided to tone it down a little for the production vehicle and ended up with a decent but stylish car. The best global description of this vehicle is that it’s a combination of Hyundai’s recent styling cues and the useful design of the eco-friendly hybrid, the 2017 Prius Prime by Toyota.
It is quite difficult to design a car that is capable of housing three different drivetrains, without ending up with something large and bulky. In that case the Toyota Prius is a good example of how to achieve a balanced vehicle.
The rear, shape and size of the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq are the parts that are most reminiscent of the Prius. The nose and windshield differ the most from the Prius, since they’re longer, more conventional and don’t dip and dive like the Prius’.
The side and mostly the doors are also more traditional than the Prius’. Those doors follow a diagonal line upwards, whereas the doors on the Ioniq follow a straighter line. The rear is very similar to that of the Prius, with a big overhang. However, the Ioniq rear does look more sporty.
The all-electric Ioniq is recognizable by its grille. The hybrid and plug-in hybrid have a regular Hyundai grille with dark horizontal lines. The EV lacks this grille completely and only sports the Hyundai logo.
There are eight available exterior colours for the Ioniq hybrid, plug-in hybrid and EV. The 2017 Hyundai Ioniq EV is the only one that has Blazing Yellow as an option, but misses out on two metallic colours.
The Ioniq’s interior looks terrific. The center stack, gear shifter and instrument cluster look very modern and are complemented by a light blue hue and detailing. The EV gets copper-coloured detailing instead of blue, to distinguish it from the hybrid versions. The overall cabin is inspired by the interior and tech specs of the 2017 Hyundai Elantra.
The infotainment screen is a five, seven or eight inch touch screen and comes with a wireless inductive charging pad.
The digital instrument cluster is a high resolution TFT-screen and shows several customizable gauges and the speedometer. There’s also information about the fuel consumption, battery percentage and charging percentage.
Other noteworthy features are the efficient dual-zone climate control. It can be switched to driver-only mode, thus saving energy. It makes better use of the air inside the car when air conditioning and has Efficient Mode to save energy.
The interior and seats will be a black cloth, there are unfortunately no further options. The EV and the second and third trim of the hybrids get an Infinity Sound System with seven loudspeakers and a subwoofer.
Hybrid and Plug-in hybrid
The hybrid versions will both come with a 1.6 liter Kappa Gdi direct injection gasoline engine. It can make 104 horsepower and the additional electric motor can make 43 horsepower. According to Hyundai the total HP output of the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq hybrid is 139 horsepower.
The PHEV Ioniq will get the same gas engine, but a bigger electric motor with a more powerful battery. The electric motor makes 60 hp.
Both the hybrid and the PHEV come with a six speed dual-clutch transmission and front wheel drive.
It’s possible for both of the hybrids to drive solely on the electric motor up to speeds of 75 mph (120 kph).
Ioniq EV
The all-electric Ioniq is powered by a high capacity and highly efficient li-ion battery. The all-electric range is 180 miles (280 km) and horsepower lies at 118. A fast-charger can recharge the EV battery to 80% in only 24 minutes. The electric motor and 60 kWh battery of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV have an electric range of 200 miles, which is clearly better for an electric vehicle in the same price range.
The infotainment screen is compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The hybrid comes with some manually applicable driving modes, such as Eco and Sport. Also present in the car is Bluetooth Phone Connectivity and Advanced Cruise Control.
Rear parking sensors are standard on all 2017 Hyundai Ioniqs, front parking sensors are optional. Standard is Autonomous Emergency Braking with city/urban mode and pedestrian alert. Lane Keeping Assist and Emergency Stop are standard too. Optional safety features consist of: Blind Spot Detection and Rear Cross-Traffic Alert.
The Ioniq hybrid and PHEV are available for ordering in Europe. Prices start at €23,900 for the hybrid and €33,300 for the EV. The starting price of the Plug-in hybrid is not out yet, since this version is expected to arrive at dealerships in the summer of 2017.
US prices for the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq are not available yet. Since US prices always lie around the German price of the same car, we expect them to be somewhat similar. The hybrid and EV will arrive this fall. The PHEV will arrive next summer, just like in Europe.
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Halt And Catch Fire, Season 3, Episode 5: Who Is the Real Antihero Here?
Chelsea Spear / September 20, 2016 / Critic, Featured / 1 Comment
Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. – Tom Thaves, 1982
Every prestige nighttime drama needs an antihero at its center. The Sopranos had Tony; Breaking Bad had Walter White; Mad Men, Don Draper. When Halt and Catch Fire premiered in 2014, many people assumed that smooth-talking idea man Joe MacMillan would be the marquee antihero through whom audiences would vicariously experience the glamorous, coke-dusted world of early personal computers. As the series has progressed, however, Cameron Howe has become the morally ambiguous protagonist through whom the audience should experience the show. In “Yerba Buena”, the fifth episode of this season, we see Cameron teeter between sympathetic vulnerability and abrasive attitudes as Mutiny starts to crumble and an opportunity to escape opens up.
In the previous episode, Cameron’s stepfather contacted her about her mother’s plans to move out of her childhood home. As “Yerba Buena” opens, Cameron and Bos are heading back to Texas to reconvene with family—Bos with his infant grandson and Cam with her mother. The duo shares a series of tense car rides, and the tension comes to a head when Bos drives her to her childhood home to reconnect with her mother during a yard sale. When Bos encourages Cameron to get out of the car and buy her father’s old motorcycle, Cam unloads on him in a painful, personal way before disappearing in a huff.
Many fans of the series have written Cameron off as unlikeable, citing what they see as her petulant temper tantrums. I wouldn’t be surprised if sexism plays a role in this analysis, as many of them probably turned a blind eye on Tony Soprano’s virulent racism or the role Walter White played in Jane Margolis’s death. Those series took place in stylized universes where audiences were unlikely to have firsthand experience, where Mutiny’s open office plan probably looks like the offices where internet commenters hate on Cameron. When I watch Cameron, I am very aware of her history with anxiety, and her jittery presence and jerking gestures look the way my anxiety attacks feel. Mackenzie Davis believably grounds Cameron, and her rangy physicality and intense eye contact reminds me of Claire Danes’ early onscreen appearances.
Meanwhile, on the other side of San Francisco, Ryan’s presentation of his findings on ARPAnet gets cut short when Joe receives a guest with a bit of history. If the prescience of the scenes at Mutiny strains credulity—you mean people argued about the pronunciation of gif in 1986?—Joe’s story arc reminds us of the tragedy that AIDS wreaked on queer men in the 80s. While we don’t know whether Joe was diagnosed with the “gay flu” that took out so many of his peers, the scene in which he gets a fateful phone call casts an interesting light on his subsequent scenes with Ryan. The scenes involving Joe still feel like they’re part of another series, but watching his metamorphosis from smug salesman to “psychopath” to digital Cassandra has been fascinating.
The return of Tom Rendon and a surprising final scene suggests a painful, if true-to-history, conclusion to the season. Tonight’s episode of Halt and Catch Fire, with the prescient title “And She Was”, should point the way to an interesting midpoint in the season.
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Leave No Trace: Dispose of Waste Properly
The third principal of Leave No Trace is to Dispose of Waste Properly. When discussing LNT, most people immediately jump to human waste disposal when talking about this. But that's not the only consideration when it comes to disposing of waste properly.
First, it's important to make a plan to pack out all trash and waste. Occasionally there is waste that is difficult to pack out, think gray water or toothpaste, but there are ways to deal with that...
This is what is generated when you wash your dishes in the backcountry. There is almost universally bits of food waste left in your pots and pans. As such, there are a couple of ways to deal with this.
Drink It - The most extreme practitioners of LNT will drink their gray water. If you can do this without throwing up, you're a better person than I am.
Strain It - The more common technique is to strain your water to get all the food fragments out of it. You can easily pack these out after cleaning your dishes.
Scatter It - While straining or drinking the water is preferred, there are some areas where it is recommended that you scatter your dishwater in the gravel on the roadway. These are most commonly front-country campgrounds.
Most people don't like to swallow their toothpaste, though that is one option when it comes to this kind of waste. The other option is to "raspberry" it. In other words, spit with your mouth shut, allowing the toothpaste to scatter and speckle the ground.
Human Waste
So what about human waste disposal?
As we all know, human waste comes in two main forms: urine and fecal matter. However, occasionally it comes in other forms too. This may include sanitary napkins, condoms and vomit.
In a wooded area, urine can usually be left anywhere. However, in the alpine one should try to urinate on rocks away from fragile heather. Mountain goats like the salt in human urine and will tear up the ground to get at it.
Climbers should avoid peeing in cracks on multi-pitch climbs. It's better to pee out on the face of the rock so that the urine breaks down. When one pees in a crack, it often doesn't break down and makes everything stink.
There are several ways to deal with solid human waste. The two most commonly accepted techniques are to dig a cathole or to pack it all out.
Catholes
Catholes are the most commonly used method of human waste disposal in the backcountry. The idea is simple, you dig a hole and bury your poop. Once completed you pack out your toilet paper in a ziplock bag.
Following is a short description of catholes from the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics:
Catholes are the most widely accepted method of waste disposal. Locate catholes at least 200 feet (about 70 adult steps) from water, trails and camp. Select an inconspicuous site where other people will be unlikely to walk or camp. With a small garden trowel, dig a hole 6-8 inches deep and 4-6 inches in diameter. The cathole should be covered and disguised with natural materials when finished. If camping in the area for more than one night, or if camping with a large group, cathole sites should be widely dispersed.
These are commercial bags that are used to haul out human waste. Commonly used brands include the WAG Bag, Rest Stop and the Biffy Bag. The idea is simple.
You poop in the bag...
Most waste bags come with toilet paper, a wet wipe and a double bagging system.
In heavily used areas where it's hard to dig, waste bags are the best option for human waste disposal. These bags are also commonly used in alpine and winter environments. And finally, these can also be used to dispose of other human waste products like tampons and condoms. These types of items should always be packed out, no matter how far back you are...
Other Techniques and Thoughts
There is no question that catholes and waste bags are the most commonly used and likely the best option for the disposal of fecal matter. But there are a few other techniques that may be used in areas that are not popular where there are very few people.
When I think about these techniques, I think of extremely obscure mountains or big traverses that are uncommon and take too long (over four days) to carry all of the waste out. If any of these techniques were used in popular areas, they would have an immediate effect on visitor experiences and water quality; and would likely make it an unpleasant place to visit.
Smear Technique - With this technique, fecal matter is smeared thinly on a rock in the sun. The idea is that the waste will dry out and blow away. But for this to work, the waste has to be spread so thinly that it is no more thick than the width of the side of a coin.
The smear technique is overused. It is commonly employed in areas with too large a user group for the fecal matter to break down before others encounter it. And sometimes people use this technique in shady areas where the waste never breaks down.
Crevassing - In this technique, waste is thrown into a crevasse. Obviously, this eventually makes its way into the watershed below the glacier. On obscure glaciers, this isn't that big a deal. But if you see others on the glacier or you're following a bootpack, it's likely not a remote enough glacier to use this technique.
The Poop Bird - This one's pretty simple. You poop on a rock and throw it off a cliff or moraine, the idea being that it will splatter and spread everywhere so that it will break down quickly. It goes without saying that this is for extremely remote places.
Burning Toilet Paper - Some people like to burn their toilet paper and bury it in a cathole or allow the ashes to scatter. This is not a recommended technique as the toilet paper never really completely burns down, and it also creates a forest fire hazard. That said, if you are completely adverse to carrying out your toilet paper, this is likely a better option than leaving it lying around. If you choose to employ this technique, please please please make sure that the toilet paper has completely gone out and that there are no cinders or glowing bits left over.
And finally, I did mention vomit. In the event of a an incident where vomit is generated, it should be immediately buried. Vomit attracts all kinds of animals.
There is no doubt that the best way to keep the places where we recreate clean and beautiful, it is imperative that we Dispose of Waste Properly.
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the demon download
i rule on this throne by anarchy of circuitry
Cards on the table: I f--king love this show.
Even knowing that it's a product of the minds behind Panty and Stocking and Gurren Lagann, the energy, style and above all else the confidence exploding out of every frame is incredible; the fight choreography is a step above almost anything I've ever seen in animation, even if the budget doesn't quite do it justice.
But there's a lot of subtext to the story that makes me… not uncomfortable exactly, but unsure of my footing.
Ryuuko Matoi's father was killed by a woman wielding a giant pair of scissors. Taking one half of the weapon, left behind by the murderer, Ryuuko travels around from school to school attempting to track down the killer and avenge her father. When she arrives at Honnouji Academy, Matoi is quickly defeated by the unreasonably-loyal followers of the school's Student Council President, Satsuki Kiriyuin; retreating to her ruined former home, Ryuuko discovers a hidden basement containing a sentient "Kamui" school uniform that forcibly bonds with her1, granting her incredible power which allows her to face Satsuki and find out the truth about her father's murder.
Everything I love about the show - its visual flair, its swaggering confidence, the character designs, the voice acting and that music - is almost single-handedly defeated by the costume design for the Kamui uniforms. Requiring a blood bond with their wearer, the Kamui (神衣, literally "God's Clothing") transform their wearer into a fighter of incredible power, but also leave them literally exposed - something the camera never lets you forget while watching.
But at the same time, the arc of the first three episodes comes really close to almost justifying the skimpy appearance of the transformed Kamui.
There are several threads do you see what I did there running through the show - facism and the immutable power of the state (or any kind of government, even a student council); clothing as an indicator of status (and as a way to control the availability of that status)2; and accepting yourself regardless of the opinions of others. All wrapped up in a hyper-kinetic, highly stylized action show with more violence and fanservice than is probably healthy.
It's proved impossible, so far, for me to articulate why I think there's more to Kill la Kill's skimpy outfits than it first appears. Some defences - notably the "equal fanservice" argument referring to a particular male character's penchant for nudity - are so wide of the mark as to betray some worrying psychology in those making the argument. I don't buy the idea that the nudity required by Ryuko's fully-synchronised Kamui is empowering to her, either - the show makes it clear early on that, if there was any other option available to her, Ryuko would take that over the demon stripper outfit (that link, by the way: NSFW).
There's an interesting take on the empowerment thing (from a female author) and how the show might be useing (or negating) the male gaze, which I don't entirely agree with, but then there's a lot of interesting theories about what the different aspects of the show mean. I don't think it's the kind of show that has any real answers though - we're unlikely to ever hear the Word of God about any of the symbolism.
But for (almost) every shot that seems overly gratuitous, there seems to be a line or a shot or a hint that there's more to the fanservice than the surface level would have you believe.
Or maybe I'm trying to justify why I'm still watching, and reading more into the show than is really there to do it.
1 This is probably the only really indefensible part of the show; while nothing is shown, the dialogue is obviously referencing a particular kind of scene, but there's no possible reason for it except as a punchline - which misses the mark, for me.
2 Honnouji Academy's Student Council distributes special school uniforms with the capacity to augment the wearer's natural abilities. The Japanese word for "uniform" (制服) is pronounced "seifuku" - the same as the word for conquest (征服).
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Be Careful With Google Image Search
Tags: google image search, malware, scammers, security
Cybercrooks are exploiting security flaws in Google Image Search to try to frighten people into buying evil software.
If you’ve ever seen a flashing banner saying something like “CAUTION — YOUR COMPUTER IS AT RISK” then you are a click away from being led down the path of perdition.
According to the SANS Internet Storm Center (always worth checking when a friend sends you another shouty email telling you yet again that some new bug has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever) the villains have “compromised an unknown number of sites with malicious scripts that create Web pages filled with the top search terms from Google Trends.”
Click on an image, and there’s a possibility you’ll be routed to a page offering unverified anti-virus “scareware”, complete with misleading security alerts and warnings.
As far as we can tell, if you simply ignore the ads no harm will ensue. But of course we’re not experts, so we can’t be sure. Keep calm and shut your browser down. You can restart it straight away.
Apparently there are more than 5,000 hacked sites, injected on average with about 1,000 of these bogus pages. This means Google Images is referring about 15 million searches a month to these scam merchants — a mere drop in Google’s ocean, of course, but still a significant number.
There are free plug-ins available which will enable your browser to detect such evildoing. Check out Noscript for Firefox, and a chap called Denis Sinegubko is developing another Firefox plug-in that will flag malicious Google Image search results by placing a red box around images that appear to link to hostile sites, but I don’t think it’s ready yet.
Thanks to Netapplications.com for alerting me to this.
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Search is #1, the Internet Operating System & Killer App
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AutoGrid Establishes Subsidiary in Japan to Serve Utilities and Electricity Retailers Looking to Deploy Flexibility Management Solutions
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — AutoGrid, the leader in flexibility management software for the energy industry, announced today that it has established a wholly-owned subsidiary, AutoGrid Systems KK (AutoGrid KK), in Japan. AutoGrid KK will provide direct sales and technical support to better serve the company’s rapidly-expanding Japanese customer base.
“AutoGrid considers Japan one of our most important strategic regions in the world, with its swift deregulation and strong momentum toward adoption of new energy technologies,” said Dr. Amit Narayan, chief executive officer of AutoGrid. “The Japanese government has mandated a near doubling of renewable energy generation by 2030. Our direct presence there will better enable our customers to leverage the virtual power plant (VPP) capabilities of AutoGrid Flex® to integrate more renewables by aggregating, dispatching and marketing flexible energy from demand response (DR) and distributed energy resources (DERs).”
Leading AutoGrid’s strategy and growth initiatives for Japan and the broader APAC region is Frederick Pugh, Representative Director. Pugh will spearhead AutoGrid’s efforts to help the Japanese electricity industry incorporate new technologies in the renewable energy space, allowing it to leverage artificial intelligence to manage DERs and build new business models. Fluent in Japanese, Pugh comes to AutoGrid with leadership experience at multinational firms including Oracle, Dell EMC and TIBCO.
“Japan is one of the world’s most dynamic energy markets,” Pugh said. “The accelerating adoption of retail competition, deregulation, renewable energy, and behind-the-meter solar and energy storage is creating enormous opportunities along with immense technological and marketing challenges that our products solve.”
AutoGrid KK represents the latest in a series of AutoGrid investments in the Japanese market. It comes on the heels of AutoGrid’s partnership, announced in June, with Japanese energy services and trading company ENERES. AutoGrid software will help ENERES establish the world’s largest storage VPP by asset volume. In September 2018, AutoGrid announced a partnership with Macnica, a leading Japanese supplier of networking and software products to governments and enterprise customers, to deploy its suite of energy internet applications in the Japanese market. In addition to the establishment of AutoGrid KK and its partnerships with ENERES and Macnica, AutoGrid has previously announced projects with Mitsubishi in the energy storage and virtual power plant areas.
“As solar and storage costs continue to decline and new capacity markets open, DER and DR resources are becoming a key component of our daily operations,” said Masahiro Kobayashi, President & Representative Director of ENERES. “AutoGrid Flex gives us a proven, AI-driven comprehensive distributed energy management solution that allows us to fully leverage our own DER and DR resources and those of our customers in real time.”
About AutoGrid:
AutoGrid builds software applications that enable a smarter distributed energy world. The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows energy companies to deliver clean, affordable and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time and at scale. AutoGrid has contracted more than 5,000 megawatts of DERs and works with more than 50 leading energy companies around the world, including Schneider Electric, CLP Holdings, CPS Energy, National Grid, NextEra Energy, Shell, Total, Swell Energy, and Xcel Energy.
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Author contentenginellcPosted on July 18, 2019 November 30, -0001 Categories Press Releases
Free Tool Reveals the True Cost of ‘Free’ Online Services – Your Data and Identity
HELSINKI, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Cyber security provider F-Secure has released a free new online tool that helps expose the true cost of using some of the web’s most popular free services – the abundance of data that has been collected about them by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon Alexa, Twitter and Snapchat. F-Secure Data Discovery Portal sends users directly to the often hard-to-locate resources provided by each of these tech giants that allow users to review their data, securely and privately.
“What you do with the data collection is entirely between you and the service,” says F-Secure Chief Information Security Officer Erka Koivunen. “We don’t see – and don’t want to see – your settings or your data. Our only goal is to help you find out how much of your information is out there.”
More than half of adult Facebook users, 54%, adjusted how they use the site in the wake of the scandal that revealed Cambridge Analytica had collected data without users’ permission.* But the biggest social network in the world continues to grow, reporting 2.3 billion monthly users at the end of 2018.**
“You often hear, ‘if you’re not paying, you’re the product’. But your data is an asset to any company, whether you’re paying for a product or not,” Koivunen says. “Data enables tech companies to sell billions in ads and products, building some of the biggest businesses in the history of money.”
F-Secure is offering the tool as part of the company’s growing focus on identity protection that secures consumers before, during, and after data breaches. By spreading awareness of the potential costs of these ‘free’ services, the Data Discovery Portal aims to make users aware that securing their data and identity is more important than ever.
A recent F-Secure survey found that 54% of internet users over 25 worry about someone hacking into their social media accounts.*** Data is only as secure as the networks of the companies that collect it, and the passwords and tactics used to protect our accounts. While the settings these sites offer are useful, they cannot eliminate the collection of data.
“While consumers effectively volunteer this information, they should know the privacy and security implications of building accounts that hold more potential insight about our identities than we could possibly share with our family,” Koivunen says. “All of that information could be available to a hacker through a breach or an account takeover.”
However, there is no silver bullet for users when it comes to permanently locking down security or hiding it from the services they choose to use.
“Default privacy settings are typically quite loose, whether you’re using a social network, apps, browsers or any service,” Koivunen says. “Review your settings now, if you haven’t already, and periodically afterwards. And no matter what you can do, nothing stops these companies from knowing what you’re doing when you’re logged into their services.”
More information on what people can do to reduce their data footprint on Facebook, Twitter and Google, is available on F-Secure’s blog.
*Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/09/05/americans-are-changing-their-relationship-with-facebook/
**Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204186/facebook-q4-2018-earnings-user-growth-revenue-increase-privacy-scandals
***Source: F-Secure Identity Protection Consumer (B2C) Survey, May 2019, conducted in cooperation with survey partner Toluna, 9 countries (USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Brazil, Finland, Sweden, and Japan), 400 respondents per country = 3600 respondents (+25years)
About F-Secure
Nobody has better visibility into real-life cyber attacks than F-Secure. We’re closing the gap between detection and response, utilizing the unmatched threat intelligence of hundreds of our industry’s best technical consultants, millions of devices running our award-winning software, and ceaseless innovations in artificial intelligence. Top banks, airlines, and enterprises trust our commitment to beating the world’s most potent threats. Together with our network of the top channel partners and over 200 service providers, we’re on a mission to make sure everyone has the enterprise-grade cyber security we all need. Founded in 1988, F-Secure is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd.
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IXDen Launches New IoT Security Protection Solution Following Data Breach on Billions of Smart Home Devices
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — IXDen, the leading solution provider for securing IoT devices, today announced their new ‘IXDen Smart Homes’, a product which will protect billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices against cyberattacks, tampering, and data manipulation. The fully automated solution will for the first time utilize behavioural biometrics on endpoint devices and will include multifactor authentication driven by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The wide range of protected devices will include cameras, smart thermostats, smart routers, and baby sensors among many others.
The new software comes in response to recent reports in July of a massive data breach of a smart home device platform in which more than two billion records were exposed. The breach at a Chinese based company, stands to have compromised not only account details and personal information of consumers around the world, but also millions of cameras and listening devices in private homes.
Zion Harel, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of IXDen, said, “As more and more smart home devices hit the market place, consumers are increasingly opening themselves up to significant risk. These devices which offer users the greatest of convenience also offer unprecedented accessibility to hackers who are increasingly able to infiltrate homes, stealing data and personal information, and even recording and filming users in their homes. As this massive data breach highlighted, while there are many vendors providing home automation devices, there is a lack of accepted industry security standards to ensure that customers and their data are kept safe. Our innovative and unique solutions for securing IoT devices, enable our customers to secure their smart home devices, and gives them the peace of mind that their personal data and lives remains secured and private.”
According to Statista Research Department, by the year 2020 there will be 30 billion IoT devices in everyday use, including smart home devices, mobile phones, wearable technology, home appliances and cars.
“With the increased volume and sophistication of today’s cyberattacks, security in homes has become much more relevant,” Harel added. “In order for the next generation of smart home devices such as cameras, thermostats, and smart air conditioners to gain mass adoption, they must be completely secured. The ability to secure these products will literally make or break the IoT revolution. With today’s announcement, IXDen is taking a huge step forward to assure that this bright IoT future does not become a security nightmare.”
For more information on IXDEN Smart Homes email info@ixden.com and visit www.ixden.com.
About IX-Den:
IXDen was founded in 2017 by entrepreneurs and former senior figures at companies such as Amdocs, Microsoft, and Fundtech. IXDen’s IoT software solution introduces patent pending, security technology to protect businesses and organizations from IoT information tampering. IXDen creates a dynamic ‘biometric’ identity for any IoT device and performs multifactor authentication driven by proprietary topological mathematical models, statistics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
IXDen is a Labs/02 portfolio company, a seed stage fund backed by OurCrowd, Motorola Solutions International, Reliance Industries, as well as by Six Thirty VC, private investors and the Israeli Innovation Authority. For more information, visit labs02.com
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ForU Trucking CEO Shares How Big Data And AI Have Revolutionized Freight Transportation
HONG KONG, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — China’s freight transportation industry is undergoing a radical transformation fuelled by artificial intelligence and big data, according to a keynote speech delivered by Dandan Shan, CEO of ForU Trucking, at RISE 2019 in Hong Kong.
Shan—who founded China’s leading truckload service provider in 2015—shared her insights during the FullSTK and binate.io tracks, which examine how coding and data analysis are influencing modern businesses and society. During her keynote, Shan highlighted how technology had enabled the optimization of revenue and customer service in one of Asia’s fastest-growing industries.
Following the demand for freight transportation as a result of the eCommerce explosion in China, market share of the truckload services are worth over CNY 1.92 trillion. Truckload services currently represent almost two-thirds of China’s mammoth freight transportation market and this figure is predicted to reach CNY 2.42 trillion by 2020. Despite its rapid expansion, the industry is hugely fragmented with more than 20 million trucks on the road—70% of which are operated by individuals or small and medium-sized enterprises.
According to Shan, there are three pain points plaguing today’s industry: a lack of standardized pricing, inefficient dispatching and unreliable service quality. To address these, ForU Trucking developed its world-leading online truck logistics platform, which uses intelligent pricing, intelligent service and intelligent dispatch to handle fuel efficiency and customer experience.
Historically, the freight transportation industry has suffered from variable pricing and frequent cost fluctuations as a result of seasonal changes in supply and demand. In traditional operating models, it requires an average of ten calls and one hour to obtain and negotiate a quotation in China. To streamline and optimize pricing, ForU Trucking’s platform uses an algorithm that harnesses information collected from big data (such as truck capacity, distance, historical pricing, seasonality and existing demand versus supply, etc.) to provide an accurate and standardized quotation in under two minutes.
In addition, traditional dispatch modes are often inefficient, amounting to high operational costs and low-profit margins. Powered by artificial intelligence, ForU Trucking’s intelligent dispatch system optimizes routes for drivers, increasing a truck’s monthly operating mileage from 6,520 km to over 11,000, and reduced the transportation cost per load by 20%. These savings have also directly benefited drivers with a 12.5% increase in monthly revenue.
Finally, the platform’s real-time system monitoring delivers consistent service standards for enhanced customer experience. Freight transportation is often subject to significant service issues, including traffic delays, a lack of transparent tracking and damaged goods due to unpredictable road conditions. ForU Trucking harnesses real-time location-based services, big data and GIS, and predictions calculated by AI to automatically detect and report any abnormalities that occur throughout the transportation process. These systems reduce the number of calls received by customer service teams and allow for greater operational efficiency, resulting in a tenfold increase in the number of orders processed per day per person.
About ForU Trucking
ForU Trucking is a technology-driven logistics company that focuses on truckload transportation in China. It has received more than 7 rounds of investments from well-known VCs and institutions. ForU Trucking is the first Internet company in China to apply big data and artificial intelligence in the truckload logistics sector. It uses advanced technologies to refactor the end-to-end transportation process, aiming to provide best price and service to shippers. ForU Trucking is one of the first non-asset brokers in China, signing up leading customers in multiple industries since the platform was launched in March 2015. Currently its transportation network covers 30 provinces and municipalities, except Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Tibet. ForU Trucking organizes a huge number of different types of carriers, including leased fleet, contracted carriers, and owner operators, to service shippers’ different needs.
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Sales of Product Engineering Services Prompted by Demand for Smart Consumer Electronics, Reports Fact.MR Study
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Fact.MR has recently published a new study titled “Product Engineering Services Market Forecast, Trend Analysis & Competition Tracking: Global Market Insights 2019 to 2029“, which delivers a precise insight about the global product engineering services market and their anticipated emergence across diverse sectors. The report highpoints that advent of connected/smart technology along with the succeeding hike in sales of smart electronic devices, in-vehicle networking systems and smart homes, are marked as key factors stirring demand for product engineering services in the global market.
As per this smart Fact.MR, the global demand for product engineering services is predicted to account for revenues valued US$ 26 Bn by the end of 2019. It has been recorded that gains will be mainly underpinned by the surging demand for shorter product life cycles. In addition, myriad opportunities are expected to hit vendors of product engineering services, after the dramatic growth of new product launches across diverse industry verticals.
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IT & Telecom and Healthcare Together Acquire 3/5th Shares
With a stern look at the ongoing trends across the product engineering services market, budding need of organizations to improve the ‘time to market’ (TTM) cycle is becoming a prime determinant, thereby, delivering impetus to the development of the target market. In addition, the requirement for speed grows has motivated several verticals, such as IT and telecom and healthcare to extensively outsource their product engineering needs. Based on this study, the demand from IT & telecom and healthcare verticals would collectively account 60% revenue share in the product engineering services market during the coming years.
Demand for Smart Consumer Electronics Influencing Market for Product Engineering Services
The study discourses that the consumer electronics industry would provide lucrative prospects for product engineering services providers due to increasing importance of enterprises on improving customer satisfaction and expand competitiveness. Moreover, mounting demand for smarter consumer electronics, mostly in developed countries, is supporting market value of product engineering services in certain regions like North America and Europe.
Preview Analysis of Global Product Engineering Services Market Report Segmented By Service Type (New Product Development, Product Testing, Product Sustenance, Product Deployment, Product Support, Product Management), By Verticals (Aerospace & Defense, Automotive & Transportation, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Industrial Manufacturing, IT & Telecom, Media & Entertainment, Others), & by Region –
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Transforming Nature of Digital Technologies Proving Effective for Product Engineering Services
According to research insights, product engineering services are expected to witness significant transformation due to rapidly escalating digital technologies. Some of the advanced technology areas like DevOps, are influencing different sections of product engineering services for positive results. Furthermore, the count of companies renovating their product offerings is rising to align themselves with emerging digital technologies. Also, the growing focus of enterprises on structuring their personal digital platforms is very likely to outline the future technology landscape of software product engineering services.
The final section of the report talks about the competitive landscape, with further focus on company aspects such as product portfolio, sales footprint and strategy overview. Some of the prime players mentioned in the report are Persistent System, Mindtree, Tech Mahindra, Tieto, Wipro Accenture, Cognizant, Altran etc. This assessment is a rich data source for new entrants and existing players to draw useful conclusions.
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Dashmote secures $2.8M in funding to analyze the visual web using AI
NEW YORK, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The artificial intelligence (AI) technology company Dashmote has secured $2.8 million in funding from a group of American and Chinese investors. These resources will kick start a long term plan that will enable the Amsterdam-based company to scale-up and bring its data and image analytics solutions for enterprises to new and larger venues. The funding round includes investors from SP Investment Associates (SPIA), Three Curve Capital (TCC) and Gaomei Yunjing Investments.
Retrieving data from the visual web
Dashmote’s mission is to lead people and companies through an AI and data-driven world. Every day, around three billion images are uploaded to the internet. Dashmote’s A.I. technology is capable of analyzing these images and gain valuable insights. With its SaaS-solution, Dashmote is already helping companies such as Heineken, Coca Cola, Unilever, and L’Oréal to understand their audiences and the market they move into.
Large companies that operate in consumer electronics, food and beverage, and cosmetics use Dashmote’s AI tools and analysis to sharpen their marketing efforts and upsell capabilities. The tool is used to discover market trends, operate an effective segmentation of the offer, and measure the audience engagement and sentiment.
With the new funding, Dashmote heads towards a bright future. “We are very pleased with the international group of investors. They are a great fit to support our ambition to solidify our position in existing markets and to roll out to new markets,” said Dennis Tan, CEO and co-founder of Dashmote. “With SPIA and Three Curve Capital, we not only receive funds to grow our business, but we will also benefit from their experience as venture and growth investors and their vast network. It is important for us that Gaomei also joined this round, considering our current footprint and plans in the Chinese market.”
Experienced, international investors
For Gaomei, a Chinese VC, this is the first investment outside their home country of China. “Dennis and Stefan have proven even before we came along that they had a clear vision on how to enter Asian markets,” said Ning Gu, founder and general partner at Gaomei. “They have done so successfully with their own strategy of local culture and approach with an international push.”
Both SPIA and TCC have deep networks in the U.S., Europe and Asia and bring decades of experience in scaling fast-growing companies, including those with global ambitions similar to Dashmote’s.
Scaling up and expanding
Dashmote is already profitable and will use the funding exclusively to rapidly scale up. The company will double its number of employees from 45 to 90. The New York and Shanghai offices will increase in size, and new offices in the U.S. and Asia are planned to open in the near future.
The company will also use the fresh capital to expand its product portfolio. Dashmote’s AI technology is now predominantly serving image analytics for trend, brand, and location intelligence services. In the near future, the company intends to unlock information from online video material – another potentially inexhaustible source of insights for companies. Together with a new way to visualize the gathered information, this will offer companies even more possibilities to understand data and leverage it for marketing, strategy and sales purposes.
About Dashmote
Dashmote was founded in 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands by Dennis Tan (CEO), Matthäus Schreder (CPO), and Stefan Tan (CFO). The applied AI insight platform helps companies make complex decisions based on data gathered from images and text uploaded to the internet. The company headquarters is in Amsterdam with offices in New York, Vienna, and Shanghai.
Contact: Stefan Tan, stefan@dashmote.com, 646-233-3634
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Microsoft and Scope Technology Partner to Accelerate the Evolution of Connected Car Solutions
NEW YORK and PARIS, July 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Scope Technology announced their successful migration to Microsoft Azure today. The partnership includes Scope’s adoption of Azure to enhance their advanced enterprise solutions. It will also promote R&D collaboration on AI driven image recognition technology along with sales collaboration between the two companies.
Scope’s platform solutions feature connected car, IoT partner marketplace, and mobility platform solutions. This new offering will significantly enhance the adoption of innovations in connected car solutions.
“For twenty years Scope has been bringing innovation to the automotive, insurance, and fleet markets while maintaining our core values of improving driver safety and helping to prevent road fatalities. Today, we continue that tradition with new solutions that are powered by big data, machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, which requires highly robust, innovative, and secure solutions to serve our global customers. Microsoft Azure provides a powerful tool for us to accelerate the evolution of the next generation of connected car solutions,” said Jacob Hasson, CRO at Scope Technology.
Scope Technology processes billions of meaningful vehicle events every month from over 50 countries worldwide. While today’s systems capture vehicle, driver, and contextual information, the next generation of connected car solutions will expand the ecosystem beyond the vehicle.
“End customers have new expectations about their vehicle experiences and Scope’s solutions are helping the large enterprise companies transition to a more engaged and richer customer experience with actionable insights and advanced services. Scope is helping them to grow into new markets while offering new services,” said Hasson.
“We are entering a new era of services around connected cars. The partnership with Scope Technology will enable them to fuel their digital transformation, and accelerate innovation in their connected car and vehicle technologies to create solutions that are even more intelligent and data driven. Microsoft aims to enable our customers to focus on innovation and how they will continue in transforming their industries,” said Samer Abu Ltaif, President of Microsoft Middle East and Africa.
Microsoft Azure provides a powerful cloud platform that maximizes the evolution of Scope’s big data and artificial intelligence connected car solutions for customers in multiple verticals worldwide. Scope is helping companies better serve their customers while continuing to make roads safer.
About Scope Technology
Scope Technology is an innovative connected car company with a solid foundation of technology. From OEM, fleet, and insurance solutions to new computer vision AI solutions – Scope’s purpose is to help companies accelerate their business through the power of actionable insights from vehicle and driver data. For more information please visit: https://www.scopetechnology.com
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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BELLEVUE, Wash., July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Icertis, the leading provider of enterprise contract management in the cloud, today announced the closing of a $115 million Series E round. With this funding, Icertis becomes the first Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) company in the world to be valued at more than a billion dollars.
Icertis is recognized as the CLM category leader due to its groundbreaking AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform and unparalleled success in winning Global 2000 customers. It counts some of the most sophisticated enterprises across all major verticals, as well as 5 of the world’s top 10 most valuable companies, as its customers. Today, the ICM platform helps customers worldwide manage over 5.7 million contracts with an aggregate value of more than $1 trillion.
The round was co-led by Greycroft and Premji Invest with participation from existing institutional investors including B Capital Group, Cross Creek, Eight Roads, Ignition Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and PSP Growth.
“When Greycroft invests in a company, we commit to a long-term partnership and, since leading their Series A round in 2015, we’ve been proud to support Icertis as it transforms the foundation of commerce,” said Mark Terbeek, Partner, Greycroft. “Over that time, we’ve seen the company become the undisputed CLM leader, acquiring a huge stable of blue-chip customers and generating a return on capital that is among the best we’ve ever seen. We have no doubt they will become the next giant in the enterprise SaaS market.”
“As we run a long-term evergreen crossover fund, we look for companies with enduring growth prospects that can execute and thrive well beyond an initial public offering,” said Sandesh Patnam, Lead Partner for Premji Invest in the US. “Icertis has all the hallmarks of a company that will grow into a juggernaut – an innovative product that delivers substantial value for customers, deep cash reserves to develop the market and a track record of flawless execution.”
For the first time in history, contracts are being digitized, allowing enterprises to reimagine contract management and place it at the center of their commercial processes. The ICM platform, powered by artificial intelligence, unlocks the commercial value embedded in a company’s contracts. By transforming these static documents into strategic digital assets, enterprises can protect against risk, improve compliance, accelerate business velocity, and optimize commercial relationships over the entire life of the contract.
“Companies must re-imagine every business process to compete in today’s hyper-competitive global markets,” said Samir Bodas, CEO and Co-founder of Icertis. “Nothing is more foundational than contract management as every dollar in and every dollar out of a company is governed by a contract. As the CLM market takes off, we are thrilled to have Premji Invest join the Icertis family, Greycroft double down by co-leading this round, and all investors re-up their commitment as we execute on our mission to become the contract management platform of the world.”
The CLM market is massive and growing rapidly – MGI Research estimates the total addressable market (TAM) over $20 billion, with SaaS CLM growing at a 31% compound annual growth rate. “The growth in CLM adoption is fueled by digital transformation,” said Igor Stenmark, MGI Research Managing Director. “Companies are re-focusing technology investments away from traditional ERP/Financial suites towards automating and digitally instrumenting key processes like contract management. Enterprise contract management providers like Icertis are well-positioned to ride this wave.”
Icertis consistently garners high scores and strong reviews in analyst- and customer-driven assessments. The company “has continued to improve its CLM product and has acquired a series of Fortune 100 clients as a result,” writes Andrew Bartels, author of The Forrester Wave™: Contract Lifecycle Management for All Contracts, Q1 2019. In this comprehensive evaluation by Forrester, Icertis received the top score out of all vendors in the Current Offering category and the highest score possible in the Customer References category.
The new funds will be used to:
Increase investment in the industry-leading ICM platform and growing stable of verticalized business applications built on the platform to help customers increase revenue, reduce costs, improve cash flow, manage risk and ensure compliance.
Extend the Icertis Blockchain Framework, the world’s first blockchain framework integrated with an enterprise contract management platform, to create practical and transformative solutions to solve real-world business challenges including supply chain transparency, certification compliance, outcome-based pricing and more.
Accelerate the infusion of artificial intelligence and advanced cognitive services into the ICM platform to solve previously intractable enterprise contract management challenges that can be uniquely addressed only by these new technologies.
Scale sales and marketing efforts globally to reach every leading company in the world, and expand business development initiatives to grow the partner ecosystem.
Finance opportunistic acquisitions tied to commercial value generation in contracting.
Icertis has achieved a 125% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the past four years. To address this rapid expansion, Icertis opened offices in London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney and Sofia, Bulgaria in the last 18 months, bringing the company’s worldwide office count to 12. The company is experiencing more growth than ever and today has customers across all major industry verticals including ABB, Airbus, 3M, BASF, Bertelsmann, Cognizant, Daimler, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Qantas and more.
Icertis received the following industry, partner, customer, and employee recognition recently:
Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Contract Lifecycle Management for All Contracts, Q1 2019
AI Brave award for AI capabilities
Top Innovative Supplier for Daimler globally
IACCM EMEA Award for Excellence and Innovation
Top Company to Work For in Washington State
Microsoft US Manufacturing Partner of the Year Award
For more information about Icertis, visit our Series E press kit.
About Icertis
Icertis, the leading enterprise contract management platform in the cloud, solves the hardest contract management problems on the easiest to use platform. With Icertis, companies accelerate their business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize their commercial relationships by maximizing revenue and reducing costs. The AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform is used by companies like 3M, Airbus, Cognizant, Daimler, Microsoft and Sanofi to manage 5.7 million contracts in 40+ languages across 90+ countries.
Icertis Media Contact:
Haley Flanagan
CorpComm@icertis.com
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Janssen Korea Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation Announce Launch of Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge in Smart Healthcare in Collaboration with Seoul Metropolitan Government and Korea Health Industry Development Institute
SEOUL, South Korea, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Janssen Korea Ltd. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC today announced the launch of the Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge in Smart Healthcare in collaboration with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI). The challenge invites innovators from around the world – including start-ups, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists, and biotech researchers – to submit the best idea, technology, or solution that aims to address a health need for the world’s population.
Up to two awardees will receive up to KRW 150,000,000 (approximately US$134,000)1 in grant funding, one year of residency at the Seoul Bio Hub, one year of mentorship and coaching from experts in science, technology and commercialization at the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, and access to the JLABS global entrepreneurial community.
“The Asia Pacific region is a health tech powerhouse,” said Melinda Richter, Global Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS2. “Korea is an emerging leader in health tech innovation, and there is tremendous potential in the areas of AI, blockchain, and big data among others. The Smart Healthcare QuickFire Challenge is a global call for submissions with the aim to identify great, tech-enabled ideas that can make a long-lasting, positive impact on the health of individuals and communities worldwide.”
The QuickFire Challenges, managed by JLABS—the no-strings-attached incubators of Johnson & Johnson Innovation—seek to empower and enable groundbreaking science and health solutions by encouraging students, entrepreneurs, researchers, and start-up companies to apply. The Smart Healthcare QuickFire Challenge focuses on the following technology-enabled innovation areas:
Big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain
3D printing, Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, wearables
Personalized medicine, companion diagnostics
“In collaboration with local leaders, we are working to support the entrepreneurial community and enhance the life science ecosystem by fostering an environment that embraces novel scientific and technological approaches to improving the health and care of patients and consumers,” said Jenny Zheng, Area Managing Director, Janssen North Asia3. “We are interested in QuickFire Challenge applicants with ideas that leverage health tech to advance customized approaches to patient care, shared decision making, and efforts to lower barriers and improve access to care.”
The QuickFire Challenge aims to advance game-changing, early-stage innovations by combining Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s unique vision for collaboration in an open innovation model with the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s efforts to drive innovation and commercialize its research outcomes; KHIDI’s professional and systems-building support; and the Seoul Bio Hub’s ability to accelerate the development and commercialization of potential early-stage, life-science solutions.
This announcement marks the third QuickFire Challenge in Korea, following the launch of the previous Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenges in August 2017 and August 2018. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2019. For more information about the Smart Healthcare QuickFire Challenge (including the terms and conditions of entry), please visit: http://jlabs.buzz/SmartHealthcare
About Johnson & Johnson Innovation
Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC focuses on accelerating all stages of innovation worldwide and forming collaborations between entrepreneurs and Johnson & Johnson’s global healthcare businesses. Johnson & Johnson Innovation provides scientists, entrepreneurs and emerging companies with one-stop access to science and technology experts who can facilitate collaborations across the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer companies of Johnson & Johnson. Under the Johnson & Johnson Innovation umbrella of businesses, we connect with innovators through our regional Innovation Centers; Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS; Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc.; and our business development teams to create customized deals and novel collaborations that speed development of innovations to solve unmet needs in patients. JLABS provides the laboratories, expertise, education, tools and resources needed to help life science startups thrive, all with no strings attached. A Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center for Device Innovation at the Texas Medical Center (CDI @ TMC) has been established to accelerate the development of medical devices. For more information about Johnson & Johnson Innovation, please visit: www.jnjinnovation.com.
About Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS
Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS (JLABS) is a global network of open innovation ecosystems, enabling and empowering innovators across a broad healthcare spectrum including pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer and health tech sectors to create and accelerate the delivery of life-saving, life-enhancing health and wellness solutions to patients around the world. JLABS achieves this by providing the optimal environment for emerging companies to catalyze growth and optimize their research and development by opening them to vital industry connections, delivering entrepreneurial programs and providing a capital-efficient, flexible platform where they can transform the scientific discoveries of today into the breakthrough healthcare solutions of tomorrow. At JLABS, we value great ideas and are passionate about removing obstacles to success to help innovators unleash the potential of their early scientific discoveries. JLABS is a no-strings-attached model, which means entrepreneurs are free to develop their science while holding on to their intellectual property. JLABS also produces campaigns to seek out the best science called QuickFire Challenges. For more information, visit http://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/ or follow @JLABS.
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we’re creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Hypertension. Learn more at www.janssen.com. Follow us at www.twitter.com/JanssenGlobal. Janssen Korea Ltd. is one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
Cautions Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 related to the launch of the Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge in Smart Healthcare. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Korea Ltd., any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the potential that the expected benefits and opportunities related to the collaboration may not be realized or may take longer to realize than expected; challenges inherent in new product development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and obtaining regulatory approvals; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; uncertainty of commercial success for new products; the ability of the company to successfully execute strategic plans; impact of business combinations and divestitures; challenges to patents; changes in behavior and spending patterns or financial distress of purchasers of health care products and services; and global health care reforms and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2018, including in the sections captioned “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Item 1A. Risk Factors,” and in the company’s most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and the company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC and Johnson & Johnson do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
1 From the KRW 150 million grant, each awardee will receive a KRW 75 million grant including one-year mandatory residency, which must be used toward the rent and utilities at the Seoul Bio Hub for a year.
2 Melinda Richter is employed by Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC.
3 Jenny Zheng is employed by Janssen Korea Ltd.
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San Bernardino County, California Selects Aurigo Essentials Cloud Software To Streamline Its Capital Program Planning, Project Delivery And Right Of Way Processes.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — San Bernardino County, which is the largest county in the United States by area covers the areas of Los Angeles and Long beach of over 20,000 square miles. The Real Estate Services Department at San Bernardino completed over 108 capital improvement projects in 2018 for a total of $67M toward its infrastructure, bridge replacements, and right of way projects. The Project Management Division (PMD) has selected Aurigo Essentials Cloud to streamline the way it plans and delivers its capital projects in the future.
“The PMD division at San Bernardino county wanted to select a modern software that handled the entire capital project lifecycle over the cloud, and yet met our budget, and demand for a quick implementation cycle. After a thorough vetting process, we selected Aurigo Essentials as they checked all the boxes. We are looking forward to a strong technology partnership with Aurigo,” said Joel Garnica, Supervising Project Manager, San Bernardino County.
“Aurigo is excited to partner with the San Bernardino County and help the Real Estate Services Department to meet its capital project management needs with Aurigo Essentials. We see our entry into the small and medium government market place with Aurigo Essentials as a major game changer, that will help small and medium government agencies plan and deliver their capital projects using best in class cloud software at a very affordable price,” said Balaji Sreenivasan, CEO of Aurigo Software Technologies Inc.
About Aurigo
Aurigo Software is America’s leading provider of modern cloud software to help infrastructure owners plan, build, maintain and operate their multi-billion-dollar capital investments safely and efficiently.
Aurigo Masterworks Cloud is a comprehensive suite of enterprise software products that automates the entire lifecycle of capital programs, including planning, forecasting, budgeting, bid & estimation, project management, contract administration, scheduling, right of way, permitting, materials testing, field inspection, civil rights, and document control. The system has powerful reporting and dashboard capabilities, a native mobile application and is investing extensively to harness Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. Aurigo helps over 200 customers plan and deliver over $300 Billion of capital programs safely and efficiently. Aurigo is a privately held US corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas, with wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada and India.
Aurigo Essentials Cloud is an all-in-one construction project management software solution, built on the same powerful Aurigo Masterworks platform. Aurigo Essentials is catered to needs of Small and Medium Government agencies, to help them automate their capital planning and construction lifecycle processes at a very affordable price.
Visit www.aurigo.com/essentials for more information.
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NEH Training Programmes at Manipur
In collaboration with the National Association of Fishermen (NAF), Manipur State Unit, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Cochin conducted two training programmes from 29 May to 01 June, 2014. The first training programme was conducted at Thanga fishing village, Bishnupur district during 29–30 May, 2014 in the subjects of Responsible fishing and production of value added products. Shri H. Kangjamba Singh, President, NAF, Manipur State unit welcomed the gathering. Dr. S. Balasubramaniam, HOD, EIS Division, CIFT, Cochin explained about the technology transfer programmes of CIFT and specifically about the importance of responsible fishing techniques for protection of fishery resources in the Loktak lake, so as to ensure sustainable fishing. The unemployed fisherwomen members of the Self Help Groups (SHGs)/ NGO were motivated to start a fish processing unit for the production of value added fishery products such as fish pickles, fish cutlets, fish balls and salted dry fish products. Shri Umananda Singh, Fishery Officer (Extension), Directorate of Fisheries, Imphal was the Chief Guest. About 40 fisherfolk participated in the training programme. The responsible fishing techniques and the fabrication of improved gillnets were explained by Dr. M.S. Kumar, Chief Technical Officer, Vishakhapatinam Research Centre of CIFT. The second training programme on Production of value added fishery products was conducted by Kum. Jesmi Debbarma, Scientist and Shri B.K. Panda, Technical Officer, VisakhapatnamCentre of CIFTat the Community Hall of Tokpaching and SarikKonjin Fishing village, Thoubal District during 31 May - 1 June, 2014. Shri H. KangjambaSingh, President, NAF, Manipur State Unit, Dr. S. Balasubramaniam, HOD, EIS Division, CIFT, Cochin and Shri Umananda Singh, Fishery Officer (Extension), Directorate of Fisheries, Imphal addressed the audience. About 40 fisherfolk participated in the training programme. Input materials were also distributed on the occasion.
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20th Anniversary Boogie Nights Cemetery Screening!
For those in the Los Angeles area, Cinespia will be holding an outdoor 20th anniversary screening for Boogie Nights Saturday, May 20th at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. In their words:
P.T. Anderson’s tour-de-force about the porn industry in 1970s Los Angeles swept across screens and launched the career of one of our most brilliant filmmakers. Mark Wahlberg stars as the well endowed but naive dishwasher who became one of the biz’s greatest heroes. Discovered by a powerful producer, his fame grows as does his attachment to his new film family.
Pulsing disco, thrusting camera moves and a dream cast adorn this sparkling story that reveals the darkness at the edges of the glamor and dazzle of our most glittering era. Also stars Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C Reilly, Heather Graham and Don Cheadle.
The gates will open at 6:45 and the film will start at 8:30.
Tickets are $16 dollars and are available here.
Address: 6000 Santa Monica Blvd.
Transit: Metro Red Line Hollywood/Vine station
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New PTA Haim Video "Right Now!"
A new "slow rolling" live video from Haim has been released, shot by Paul Thomas Anderson. Pitchfork released a review of the track and had this to say:
“Right Now,” the first track from Haim’s upcoming album, Something to Tell You, is strictly for the heads. A live studio recording filmed in slow-rolling precision by Paul Thomas Anderson, the song is hardcore Haim, with its bashing drums, punk feedback, and pleading vocals. They sound tough as hell. “Gave you my love, you gave me nothing/Said what I gave wasn’t enough,” Danielle Haim spits out with ample venom. It builds from there, piece by piece, until her jerk of a lover wants her to come back, “right now.”
No way, dude! This is what Haim does best, create a small universe in a song, then soundtrack it with ample fire. Admittedly, it’s not a perfect take—Danielle sometimes sounds rushed, sometimes the levels are wonky—but that’s not really the point. It’s Haim at their most skeletal, giving you a taste, and this raw sound delivers their signature heebie-jeebies just fine!
Check out the video below and let us know what you thought!
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The Nationals are Boring
February 28, 2013 / David Huzzard
All winter long fans of the Washington Nationals set huddled in their hovels waiting for news for Spring Training to shake off the chill, but when spring arrived the news was slow. It was no sudden realization that the National roster was mostly set. That was known in January, but to see it play out was the surprise. The games that the Nationals have played have been filled with little to no news or notes. Nothing of interest has happened, but that is not a bad thing. Look at the Yankees camp where they are full of interesting stories as to whether or not Derek Jeter will be ready by Opening Day, and how do they replace Curtis Granderson. The Nats have no interesting stories. It isn't even March and Spring Training already feels like it has last too long.
No Nats fan is going to long for the days of Brian Bruney fighting for a closer's role or the 2007 collection of has-beens and never-weres fighting for five out of five spots in the starting rotation. Nobody misses that, but something of news or note would be interesting. Instead what we get are stories of how tightly nit the Washington Nationals are, how much team chemistry they have, and intimate details about what the pitchers are working on. Some of this is more interesting than the other, but none of it is all that entertaining. Less entertainment and drama now only means more later on.
The Nationals right now are a boring Spring Training team because they have no major players injured that they are struggling to replace. The Nationals do not have five or six open spots on the roster with players fighting tooth and nail to grab them. Instead what the Nationals have is a bunch of major league players working to get their bodies in shape for the regular season, and making a story out of that is difficult.
There is some slow news about who the Nationals view as their biggest rival, the Braves or the Phillies. It makes sense that the Nats players would pick the Phillies. It is mostly the same roster and names that beat up on the Nationals from 2007-2011. They still have Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Roy Halladay, and Carlos Ruiz. They have a lot of names and if all those players are healthy they should be a good team, but that doesn't make them better than the Braves. Kris Medlen and Andrelton Simmons were good for part of the year last year and the Nationals players have never seen Julio Teheran perform well, but those three players are going to be the most important to the Braves chances to catch the Nationals. It is youth and players that are unknown to the established major leaguers on the Nationals roster. Zimmerman is right to say the moves for the Uptons were lateral moves, but if the Braves improve it won't be because of those players. It will be because of Medlen, Simmons, and Teheran.
That was the longest paragraph I wrote. It is somewhat exciting and entertaining to wonder if the Braves or Phillies can chase down the Nats and who is the biggest threat, but the lion doesn't worry about the feelings of the water buffalo. The more boring Spring Training is for the Nationals the better the regular season will be. Teams have position battles because they don't have a player they are confident in to play the position. Teams have drama scrambling to find players to replace and injured star because that injury can upset all their plans. The less exciting and entertaining the Nationals are now the better they will be during the regular season.
Spring Training for the Nationals isn't about finding the 25 guys they will take north. They know who those will be, and Spring Training results aren't going to do much if anything to alter the decisions Mike Rizzo has probably already reached. Unless the result of a Spring Training game is a pulled hamstring or oblique then it doesn't matter. There are more missives on social media informing people not to take Spring Training results seriously than their are people taking the results seriously. The fans of the Washington Nationals know what this is, and as long as a line-up of Span, Werth, Harper, Zimmerman, LaRoche, Desmond, Espinosa, Ramzuki, and Strasburg takes the field on Opening Day then it is going to be a good season.
Citizens of Natstown Podcast Episode 43: The Return of Games
Ross Detwiler and First Pitch Strikes
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Sweetie Darling, ‘AbFab’ Is Back—But Is The Big Screen Too Big For It?
Edina and Patsy are back to their boozing, misbehaving best in ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.’
Tim Teeman
Senior Editor and Writer
If you miss, oh-so-very-much, the brilliance of the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, Season 1 (1992), then the just-released movie—starring Jennifer Saunders as Edina and Joanna Lumley as Patsy—will warm many cockles.
The film, best watched with hollering and whooping fellow fans who are as delighted as you to see old friends and reprobates reunited, harks back to the jokes and tropes of that first season—Edina’s fretting about her weight and mortality as filtered through wacky diets and hideous outfits; Patsy’s sheer outrageousness—her quaffing Chanel No. 5 when there is no booze available, or vainly licking the exterior of a champagne bottle, desolate there is none of the fizzy stuff left inside.
At the screening I attended, there was cheering to the credits, and mini-whoops when each returning character appeared—from poor sensible daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha), to Edina’s mother (June Whitfield), and Edina’s dippy assistant Bubble (Jane Horrocks).
When cameos—there are so many, from Kate Moss to Joan Collins—appear, there were more shrieks.
And depending on how much joy you possess to greet these old friends will govern how much you enjoy a film in which, even the most unalloyed fan of the show would have to accept, the plot is stretched almost fatally too thin.
The vacuity-embracing worlds of fashion and PR, so mercilessly skewered in the TV show, are presented ripe again here for satire. Over the years that satire has become pock-marked by celebration too, which would explain all the models and fashion figures who feature in the movie too.
Jerry Hall, now Mrs. Rupert Murdoch, sends herself up magnificently, relating how much she loves Chanel—in order, presumably, to purloin more Chanel—to a journalist chewing his knuckles with boredom on the red carpet.
As well as Stella McCartney—horrified by Eddie wearing a dress of hers—and models, whom Edina imagines fêteing her as cool—prime among the fashion luminaries here is Kate Moss, whom Edina accidentally shoves into the River Thames, while trying to court her as a client. The fallout of this is a 24-hour news event, as the supermodel is suspected of drowning and journalists the world over lose their minds over it.
Of course, Eddie—clueless about Twitter and hemorrhaging clients and status—and Patsy take off to the South of France, and what they hope is freedom.
The best thing about the film are the harkings-back to that golden first season: the return of the nurse (Llewella Gideon), who, with pursed lips, is always ready to tell Eddie how fat she is; Eddie’s nemesis Claudia Bing (Celia Imrie), slithering around and very keen to frame Eddie for murder. Patsy and Edina are a drunken disaster area themselves: in an extended scene in which they abuse as many substances as possible, they come up with the bright idea to float Bubble in the Thames to find Kate Moss, and think they have killed her too.
The humor, necessarily for the big screen, is broader with the movie. There’s a car chase scene, with Eddie and Patsy trying to evade capture in a tiny trader’s van. The “devastation” of the fashion world over Kate Moss’s death is neatly conveyed by people complaining over sore toes. Saffy and her daughter Lola (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness) are swept up in the madness. Booze is royally consumed. Insane clothes are proudly worn.
Saffy—the moral core of the film—finds herself at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, one of London’s oldest queer venues, singing to a room of drag queens for information of her mother’s whereabouts. Her scenes oddly don’t work as funny or not-funny. She’s also in love with a policeman (Robert Webb, playing it straight).
Always on trend, AbFab: The Movie also chews over transgender matters, in the rough-housing way it always has (fans will remember Patsy’s little operation from many years ago; and now Marshall, Eddie’s first husband, is transitioning). Patsy, as a man, finds love, in another gender-blurring moment with Lubliana (Marcia Warren), the richest woman in the world whose snail-slow journeys in a funicular are one of the film’s visual joys.
Lola is merely swept up in her grandmother’s crazy run from justice, but—and this is a general fault with the film—has nothing much to do or say. She is neither funny or serious, knowing or impressionable. She just sort of crops up in scenes.
The best parts of the movie are Eddie and Patsy being Eddie and Patsy, and just being mean or absurd, or chunnering on about life and their universe. The high-volume, frenzied padding around that left even the most devoted in our audience a little quiet. But a piercing zinger was always round the corner to make us cackle.
The demands of the big screen, the need to expand the scope and tone of a TV show, is to the show’s detriment. Edina and Patsy are big enough to not be super-sized by cinema, and no matter how fun and impressive cameos there are, it can’t quite offset the feeling that AbFab: The Movie, is, like its two heroines near the end, gasping for air.
But its mess, its fun, its outrageousness, proves ultimately winning enough. Jon Hamm gives a pained and muted turn as himself, still furious that Patsy took his virginity as a young man. Edina opens her heart, and confesses her love for Saffy, at the perfect moment; and is perfectly furious when she discovers she didn’t have to show genuine emotion after all.
For fans, the movie retreads other classic moments by, well repeating them—Patsy condemning Saffy as a “bitch troll,” for example—and, along with the feeling of déjà vu, the viewer is left feeling it may have been better the first time around.
It’s intriguing that in the movie, the warmth of Patsy and Edina’s friendship is emphasized, whereas the TV series configured the women’s friendship more trickily, with currents of hideous co-dependency and game-playing.
The satire of fashion and PR isn’t as sharp either—and this just because it is 24 years since AbFab made this satire original. AbFab ushered in a jokey knowingness of the excesses and chicanery of these worlds; other shows and movies followed and emulated it. So, the same joke tropes do not have the same bite.
But this fan, and all the fans around him, still loved spending time with Eddie and Patsy. Nobody does ridiculous pratfalls like them. Nobody drinks like them. Nobody abuses illegal substances like them. Nobody is better comically interrogating frailty, frustrated ambition, fat, mortality, love, and… well how to live well on the Riviera when you’re on the run for a supermodel’s alleged murder. It’s a shame things are resolved jolly abruptly, and a little too neatly.
But, as Edina tells Lola, this charabanc of boozing and misadventures is “living”—and, as such, should be relished. In that spirit, long may the ladies misbehave, wheels ragingly on fire.
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Celestial North
An irregular collection of thoughts, mostly about astronomy
Media & Public Appearances
Pythagorean Astronomy
Below are details of the books I’ve published. They’re available from both bookshops and online retailers
Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space
by Stuart Lowe and Chris North
published by Aurum Press (22 October 2015)
Life. The Universe. Everything. The human race has always revealed an insatiable hunger to search “to infinity and beyond”. In this truly mind-blowing book, partners in science Stuart Lowe and Chris North use cutting edge infographics to illuminate – in a new and unique way – the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare. Featuring innovative, inspirational and original designs by leading authors in their field, COSMOS: THE INFOGRAPHIC BOOK OF SPACE delves into a truly international subject and will appeal to stargazers and space enthusiasts of all ages.
The Sky at Night: How to Read the Solar System
by Chris North and Paul Abel
published by BBC Books (October 2013)
We’ve all learned the basics at school but how much can you remember? Expert astronomers and co-presenters of The Sky at Night Chris North and Paul Abel take a fascinating guided tour of our Solar System and explain its wonders. They look at all the major players, including our more familiar neighbours – the Sun, the planets and their moons – the occasional visitors to our planet – asteroids, meteors and comets – as well as distant stars and what might be beyond our Solar System – Earth Mark II? Chris and Paul recount the history of how everything came about and the myths that once shaped astronomy. They explain the latest science and discoveries, and reveal how any amateur astronomer can view and interpret the Solar System.
The Sky at Night: Answers to Questions from Across the Universe
by Patrick Moore and Chris North
published by BBC Books (April 2012)
Celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Sky at Night, this book collects and answers questions sent in by viewers. With sections on the solar system, the bizarre and unexplained, space missions, and more, this is an exciting journey into space for the novice astronomer and the lifelong stargazer alike. Discover how scientists work out the gravity of planets, what the ‘Great Attractor’ is and the basic principles of space navigation. Learn how to start observing the sky, what event inspired Patrick Moore to take up astronomy, and just how many of his cats are named after celestial bodies.
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chrisnorth
I am an Ogden Science Lecturer and STFC Public Engagement Fellow at Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy.
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Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform. Follow Rick on Twitter, and also follow AEI's Education Program.
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The 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings
By Rick Hess on January 4, 2012 7:46 AM
Today, RHSU unveils the 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings. The metrics, as explained yesterday, are designed to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling. The rankings offer a useful, if imperfect, gauge of the public impact edu-scholars had in 2011, factoring in both long-term and shorter-term contributions. The rubric reflects both a scholar's body of academic work--encompassing books, articles, and the degree to which these are cited--and their 2011 footprint on the public discourse. The following table reports the 2012 rankings.
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Rankings were restricted to university-based researchers and excluded think tankers (e.g. Checker Finn or Russ Whitehurst) whose job is more focused on influencing the public discourse. After all, the intent is to nudge what is rewarded and recognized at universities. (The term "university-based" provides a bit of useful flexibility. For instance, Tom Kane currently hangs his hat at Gates, and Tony Bryk his at Carnegie. However, both are established academics who retain a university affiliation and campus digs. So they're included.)
The scores reflect, in roughly equal parts, three things: articles and academic scholarship, book authorship and current book success, and presence in new and old media. (See yesterday's post for the specifics.) The point of measuring quotes and blog presence is not to tally sound bites but to harness a "wisdom of crowds" sense of a scholar's footprint on the public debate--whether that's due to their current scholarship, commentary, larger body of work, media presence, or whatnot. We worked hard to be careful and consistent, but there were inevitable challenges in determining search parameters, dealing with common names or quirky diminutives, and so forth. Bottom line: this is a serious but inevitably imperfect attempt to nudge universities, foundations, and professional associations to consider the merits of doing more to cultivate, encourage, and recognize contributions to the public debate.
The top scorers? All are familiar edu-names, with long careers featuring influential scholarship, track records of comment on public developments, and outsized public and professional roles. In order, the top five were Linda Darling-Hammond, Diane Ravitch, Eric Hanushek, Larry Cuban, and Richard Arum. Darling-Hammond and Ravitch lapped the field, cracking 200 points on a scale where only a handful of scholars topped 100. Rounding out the top ten were Terry Moe, Paul Peterson, Pedro Noguera, Daniel Koretz, and David Cohen. Notable, if not too surprising, is that the top ten are all veteran, accomplished scholars. This reflects the nature of the scoring, which heavily weights the influence of a scholar's body of work and not simply whether a scholar collected a bunch of press clippings or blog mentions in 2011.
Stanford University fared very well, claiming three of the top five scholars (and six of the top fifteen). Harvard University claimed four of the top fifteen, and NYU claimed another three.
By category: Darling-Hammond posted the top Google Scholar score, at 83; Cuban topped the books category at 37.5; Ravitch topped the Amazon rankings with a 19.7; she also posted the high score in the education press category, at 41.5; twelve scholars topped the blog mentions by maxing out at 50 points (although, without the cap, Hanushek would have taken the prize quite handily); and Arum topped the general press mentions with a 26.8.
A number of top scorers, like Ravitch, have books of recent vintage. For instance, among the top ten, just in the past two years, Moe published Special Interest, his unflinching critique of teacher unions; Darling-Hammond published The Flat World and Education; Peterson published Saving Schools; Cohen published Teaching and Its Predicaments; and Noguera published Creating the Opportunity to Learn. And Arum doubtless benefited from the continuing outsized impact of his oft-cited Academically Adrift.
As with any such ranking, this exercise ought to be interpreted with appropriate caveats and caution. That said, it's revealing that a number of sober, less-controversial scholars--like Arum, Cohen, Dan Koretz, and Bob Pianta--dotted the top twenty. Meanwhile, less senior scholars who punched above their weight included Roland Fryer, Sara Goldrick-Rab, and Patrick McGuinn.
Given that professional norms vary (note that few economists crack the top twenty), it's interesting to eyeball the results discipline by discipline (admittedly, there's a bit of fuzziness when it comes to pigeonholing some scholars). The top-ranked economists were Hanushek, Hoxby, Roland Fryer, Hank Levin, and Tom Kane. The top-ranked political scientists were Moe, Peterson, Richard Elmore, Mike Kirst, and Bruce Fuller. The top-scoring sociologists were Arum, Noguera, Gary Orfield, Adam Gamoran, and Tony Bryk. Top scorers in the area of teacher education and curriculum and instruction were Darling-Hammond, Gloria Ladson-Billings, David Berliner, Ken Zeichner, and Carol Tomlinson.
The emphasis accorded to an established body of work advantages senior scholars at the expense of junior academics. And, given that the ratings are a snapshot of 2011, the results obviously favor scholars who recently penned a successful book or big-impact study this year. But both of these also accurately reflect how thinkers can disproportionately impact public discussion--so I'm disinclined to see problems in such a "bias."
There's also the challenge posed by bloggers like Jay Greene, Goldrick-Rab, Bruce Baker, and Sherman Dorn, whose own blogging or think tank critiques mean that they are publishing with great frequency. The key: the aim was not to measure how much a scholar writes, but how much resonance their work has. Flagging blog entries and newspaper mentions in which a scholar is identified by university affiliation here serves a dual purpose: avoiding confusion caused by common names while also ensuring that scores aren't unduly padded by a scholar's own blogging (since those posts generally don't include an affiliation). If bloggers are provoking discussion, the figures will reflect that. If a scholar is mentioned sans affiliation, that mention is omitted here; but that's true across-the-board. If anything, that probably tamps down the scores of well-known scholars for whom university affiliation may seem unnecessary. C'est la vie.
If readers want to argue the relevance, construction, reliability, or validity of the metrics, I'll be happy as a clam. I'm not sure that I've got the measures right, that categories have been normed in the smartest ways, or even how much these results can or should tell us. That said, I think the same can be said about U.S. News college rankings, NFL quarterback ratings, or international scorecards of human rights. For all their imperfections, I think such efforts convey real information--and help to spark useful discussion. That's what I've sought to do here.
I'd welcome suggestions regarding possible improvements--whether that entails adding or subtracting metrics, devising smarter approaches to norming, or what have you. I'd welcome critiques, concerns, questions, and suggestions. Take a look, and have at it.
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Politics Politics Politics (also known as Politics^3), is a weekly podcast hosted by Justin Robert Young. The one-man show focuses on politics silly.
1 Show Format
2 JuRY Talks
3 Where to Watch the Show
Show Format
The show discusses the week's news in the realm of politics. Occasionally Justin will be joined by an in-studio guest. There are usually two or three main topics per show, usually lasting between 30 minutes to an hour.
JuRY Talks
The origin of the Politics Politics Politics podcast comes from the JuRY podcast where Justin would talk about politics frequently on the show, so much so, that he had an episode dedicated to filling his 2012 ballot out. On October 1, 2015 Justin officially separated the politics segment of the JuRY podcast into it's own podcast.
Where to Watch the Show
Politics Politics Politics is broadcast live on Diamondclub.tv. Justin will tweet out that he is going live about 10-20 minutes before hand, so make sure to follow him on Twitter.
If you missed the live broadcast, you can always subscribe on iTunes.
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